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University of Mohyla Academy U.S. envoy says Western governments has new library thanks to major donors concerned about rule of law in Ukraine by Zenon Zawada KYIV – The National University of States and Canada. The fundraising Kyiv Press Bureau Kyiv Mohyla Academy celebrated the project was supported by 302 donors, opening of its new baccalaureate a number which comprises 260 indi- KYIV – The spring political crisis in library on May 24. The renovated viduals (from Ukraine, the United Ukraine discredited key government historic 19th century building was States and Canada) and 42 corpora- institutions and gave Western govern- named in honor of its principal bene- tions (23 from Ukraine, 18 from the ments cause to worry about the nation’s factors, Tetiana and Omelian and one from Canada). commitment to the rule of law, U.S. Antonovych from the United States, Under the leadership of its director, Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor who donated $1 million to this impor- Tetiana Yaroshenko, the current priori- Jr. said on June 13. tant project. The opening of the new ty will be to complete the library’s col- The , the Procurator library was made possible by their lection of books, documents and elec- General’s Office, the National Security major donation plus another $1 mil- tronic resources. All individuals or and Defense Council, the Constitutional lion from donors in Ukraine, the firms who were not able to contribute Court and the Central Election United States and Canada. previously are being encouraged to Commission all need their credibility The renovated building has been participate in supporting this project. restored after they were politicized, dis- updated with state-of-the-art technical The official opening ceremony credited or disbanded, Mr. Taylor said. and electronic requirements. The new included numerous distinguished “The rule of law has taken a beating in library is housed in one of the many his- guests. Ms. Yaroshenko, who spear- this country over the last three months,” he toric buildings on the grounds of the headed the renovation project, led the said, addressing Ukraine’s Euroatlantic academy. These structures were proceedings. The program included Future International Forum held at the speeches and greetings by Kyiv Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine. Zenon Zawada reclaimed from national and city U.S. Ambassador William Taylor Jr. authorities and are in need of complete Mohyla Academy President “One cannot turn away from this issue renovation and preservation. Viacheslav Briukhovetsky, Co- and one cannot look in the other direc- Chairman of Kyiv Mohyla tion. Foreigners and Ukrainians must Western diplomats and policy experts at The Kyiv Mohyla Academy’s the forum in warning Ukrainians that abus- administration and the university’s Foundation and former U.S. acknowledge that there have been prob- Ambassador to Ukraine William lems with this country, in particular at the es of the rule of law threaten Ukraine’s Charitable Fund are committed to the progress toward integrating in Euro- ongoing preservation and renovation Green Miller, member of the political elite level, with the rule of law. Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and This needs to be fixed,” he underscored. Atlantic structures, particularly the North of these historic landmarks on its Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). campus, which will be restored as the Director of the Taras Shevchenko The forum was the 19th such event co- Institute of Literature Mykola Both President and Library-Archives-Museum Complex. organized by Walter Zaryckyj, executive Zhulynskyi, former Prime Minister of the coalition government led by Prime The new library is a symbol of the director of the New York-based Center for Canada Jean Chrétien and Kyiv Minister Viktor Yanukovych are culpable National University of Kyiv Mohyla U.S.-Ukrainian Relations. Among the 15 Mohyla Foundation of America in abusing the law and politicizing institu- Academy’s role in educating sponsors were Ukraine’s Embassy in the President Marta Farion. tions, Western observers said. The security Ukraine’s future leaders, in promoting U.S., the American Foreign Policy Present at the ceremonies were services sector demands the most reform legal and social reforms, and in Council and the Slovak Republic Ambassador Abina M. Dann of in the Ukrainian government, they said. restoring Ukraine’s leading academic Embassy in Ukraine. Canada and Ambassador Jacek Ambassador Taylor joined several (Continued on page 17) position in the world. Kluczkowksi of Poland, both strong The new library would not have supporters of the university. Also been possible without the generous attending the proceedings were the donation of the Antonovyches and donors from Ukraine, the United (Continued on page 10) Rada Chairman Moroz prevents dissolution of Ukraine’s Parliament by Zenon Zawada Mr. Yushchenko quipped. Kyiv Press Bureau The president and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko have repeatedly assured KYIV – “Give the country peace.” the public that more than enough deputies President Viktor Yushchenko offered have signed statements surrendering their such advice to Verkhovna Rada Speaker mandates to dissolve Parliament, in accor- Oleksander Moroz, who still maintains dance with Ukrainian law that stipulates a that not enough national deputies have parliamentary quorum of two-thirds. surrendered their mandates to dissolve The surrender of 151 mandates by the fifth convocation (151 are needed, or opposition deputies was a key provision of one-third of Parliament). the May 27 compromise reached by the “I don’t want us to find ourselves in a sit- president, the Verkhovna Rada chair and uation in which, if you recall, a Verkhovna Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych in end- Rada chairman was carried out with his ing the two-month crisis that brought the chair that was stuck to him,” the president government to the brink of armed conflict. said at a June 13 press conference, referring On June 2 the Our Ukraine and to how Communist Oleksander Tkachenko Tymoshenko blocs held congresses that was hauled out of Parliament in 2000. ratified the surrender of 169 deputy man- “But if someone likes that chair, I dates, while the Tymoshenko Bloc con- don’t think it would be a great loss to the fiscated an additional 26 mandates from Ukrainian nation to remove it now, put it A human chain of students and faculty passes books from hand to hand deputies who violated faction discipline. in a kitchen and let it sit there so that per- into the new library of the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. son can savor it for many, many years,” (Continued on page 22) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 No. 24 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS

Russia still sees the West President: Rada has no legitimacy lawmakers. However, Mr. Moroz subse- quently claimed that the pullout of law- as its primary enemy KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor makers could legally take place only if Yushchenko told foreign diplomats on he formally confirmed it at a session of June 6 that the Verkhovna Rada has by Pavel Felgenhauer tary exercises simulating such encoun- Parliament. On June 12 Mr. Moroz also ceased to exist and has no authority, the ters. In 1999, after the NATO bombard- reiterated that the seats vacated by oppo- Eurasia Daily Monitor website reported. ments of Yugoslavia over Kosovo, the sition lawmakers may be filled by candi- “From now on, national deputies of the During an extended interview with Russian military staged Zapad-99, a dates remaining on the election lists of fifth convocation may fulfill only those Western and Russian journalists before large-scale exercise with a scenario YTB and Our Ukraine. According to Mr. functions that are not directly related to this week’s Group of Eight summit in whereby NATO imposes an air/sea Moroz, the June 2 decisions of the two the Verkhovna Rada or any foreign agen- Germany, Russian President Vladimir blockade of the Kaliningrad enclave and parties to invalidate their complete elec- cies,” Mr. Yushchenko said. He also said Putin announced that if U.S. missile then begins an offensive with bombers tion lists are not legitimate, since they that his June 5 decree scheduling early defense elements are deployed in Europe, and cruise missiles. The Russian conven- have not been confirmed by the Central parliamentary elections for September 30 “We will be forced to take adequate steps tional defenses are breached and, to Election Commission. Meanwhile, was the result of an agreement between in response.” resolve the situation, Moscow carries out President Yushchenko, who has called the ruling coalition and the opposition. Mr. Putin elaborated: “New targets a “preventive” nuclear attack using four early elections for September 30, main- “It is the fifth Verkhovna Rada which will appear in Europe. The systems that long-range cruse missiles launched by tains that the Verkhovna Rada has should bear responsibility if the agree- may be used to destroy these targets our strategic bombers. Two nuclear warheads become an illegitimate body following ment is broken. It seems that certain military believe to be a potential threat to hit targets in Western Europe and two in the resignation of opposition legislators. politicians want to draw the whole coun- – by ballistic missiles, cruise mis- the United States. The decision to use air- (RFE/RL Newsline) try into turmoil again in order to protect siles or something else – is a technical launched nuclear cruise missiles is their posts. Ukrainian society and our Verkhovna Rada continues to work issue” (www.kremlin.ru, June 4). preferable, because even a limited launch international partners should know who This is the first time since the end of of intercontinental ballistic missiles KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on June is breaking agreements and impeding the the Cold War that a Russian leader has could trigger an immediate launch of 7 issued a statement to foreign diplomat- peaceful resolution of the clash,” he said. openly threatened to target Europe with U.S. ICBMs. ic missions accredited in Ukraine, Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor nukes. Previously, Mr. Putin and his The Zapad-99 exercise ended with informing them that the current Yanukovych said the same day that the predecessor Boris Yeltsin had proclaimed Russia victorious. Baffled by the limited Parliament is legitimate and continues to Ukrainian Parliament continues to be Russia to be an integral part of Europe. preventive nuclear strike and faced with function, Interfax reported. “Parliament legitimate, and “will exist until there is a In 1994, President Yeltsin and U.S. the choice to either begin an all-out glob- is working. Some [lawmakers] are not definitive decision or explanation from President Bill Clinton signed an agree- taking part in the session, but it does not al nuclear war or back down, NATO the Constitutional Court.” (RFE/RL ment to de-target ballistic missiles of mean that Parliament cannot function in stopped its attack on Kaliningrad. After Newsline) both countries away from each other. Zapad-99, Moscow accepted that preven- accordance with the ,” Later, a similar de-targeting agreement tive nuclear strikes would be the best Rada begins to discharge deputies Verkhovna Rada speaker Oleksander was signed with other nuclear states – way to stop a NATO attack that Russia’s Moroz said when opening the session. Great Britain, France and China. These weak conventional forces cannot repulse. KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman Mr. Moroz referred to the Constitutional agreements still stand, and Mr. Putin may In May 2003 a Russian naval task Oleksander Moroz announced the with- Court requirement that at least 226 have forgotten he must first legally force in the Indian Ocean conducted a drawal of 50 legislators from the Yulia deputies must be registered at any parlia- revoke them before targeting. war game that included the interception Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) and one legis- mentary session in order to hold debates In Russia, the Western fuss about the and sinking of a U.S. aircraft carrier lator from Our Ukraine during a session on legislation. A total of 264 lawmakers Russian president’s nuclear threats was group. Russian strategic bombers simul- of the Verkhovna Rada on June 12, were present at the latest session, Mr. received with some surprise. The chief of taneously simulated an attack with Ukrainian news agencies reported. The Moroz said. (RFE/RL Newsline) the Strategic Rocket Force, Gen. Nikolai opposition YTB and Our Ukraine held nuclear long-range cruse missiles on the PM: no legal basis for early elections Solovtsov, told journalists, “If a decision U.S. base at Diego Garcia. This exercise conventions on June 2 at which they is taken, we will be able to target U.S. was performed to demonstrate the capa- approved the previous day’s withdrawal KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor missile defenses in Poland and the Czech bility to stop a U.S.-led attack against a of nearly 170 lawmakers from the Yanukovych said on June 12 that, thus Republic” (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, Russian ally in the region. Verkhovna Rada and invalidated their far, there is no legal basis for pre-term February 21). Mr. Putin in fact said, Scenarios of a possible U.S. and lists of candidates for the 2006 parlia- parliamentary elections. He made his “New targets will appear in Europe.” NATO military invasion are not only rou- mentary elections. The withdrawal was statement during a meeting with former This clearly implies that other targets for tinely run during war games, but also part of last month’s deal on early elec- U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer nuclear strikes in Europe have been insti- constantly hotly discussed by Defense tions reached by President Viktor and current U.S. Ambassador William tuted before. Ministry-connected think-tanks and Yushchenko, Prime Minister Viktor Taylor. Mr. Yanukovych further stated The United States and NATO are defense analysts in Moscow (Voyenno Yanukovych, and the Parliament chair- that thus far the minimum 151 national indeed Russia’s prime enemies. The Promishlenny Kuriyer, April 14, 2004; man, who agreed that the Verkhovna deputies from the opposition had not sur- Russian military continues to prepare to Rada should be dissolved based on the fight the West and performs major mili- (Continued on page 18) resignation of more than 150 opposition (Continued on page 14)

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If it’s a random ... process of people on the web sort of doing things when The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com; e-mail: [email protected] Your country has had a lot of atten- they’re launching attacks, that’s some- tion recently, given this story about thing that goes on like white noise in the The Ukrainian Weekly, June 17, 2007 No. 24, Vol. LXXV moving the Soviet monument and then background. But a discrete, massive Copyright © 2007 The Ukrainian Weekly the cyberattacks on Estonian comput- attack must be organized. The question er systems. Can you tell us a little bit is, can we prove who bought the time on more about that? these illegal organized crime botnets? We ADMINISTRATION OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY AND SVOBODA I don’t know where to begin. can’t. But it’s probably not Uruguay. Certainly, we saw the use of massive So you’re saying it’s Russia. Walter Honcharyk, administrator (973) 292-9800, ext. 3041 cyberattacks against state institutions, as e-mail: [email protected] well as private sites, including banks. No, I’m saying it’s not Uruguay, prob- Maria Oscislawski, advertising manager (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 Initially, you could say it was sort of a ably. e-mail: [email protected] grassroots thing. But then it became a Are there any clues that can point Mariyka Pendzola, subscriptions (973) 292-9800, ext. 3042 matter of organized crime. e-mail: [email protected] What I can say is that every EU (Continued on page 14) No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 3 NEWS ANALYSIS: Gazprom hones its strategy on Ukraine by Roman Kupchinsky the gas price for Gazprom to $100 per Gazprom’s long-standing efforts to Ukraine crisis 1,000 cubic meters. obtain a controlling share in the RFE/RL Mr. Golubev’s remarks were by and Does Mr. Golubev’s statement reflect Ukrainian trunk gas pipeline by talking large ignored by the Ukrainian media, Valery Golubev, the deputy chairman the future of energy relations between about “economic closeness” in return for which was consumed with the current of Russia’s state-controlled gas monop- Ukraine and Russia? cheap gas. This was the tactic used in confrontation between President Viktor oly Gazprom’s Management Committee, As of 2007, Ukraine does not buy any Belarus and in Armenia, where Moscow Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor said in April that the price of gas Russian gas – it only imports 50 billion was intent on initially gaining a partial Yanukovych. charged by Gazprom to Ukraine will cubic meters of Turkmen gas. stake and, ultimately, a controlling stake Mr. Yanukovych, who favors close depend on how closely the economies of Turkmenistan sells this gas to a Gazprom in the pipelines. political and economic ties with Russia, both countries are prepared to cooper- subsidiary company, Gazeksport, for The question remains: Is Gazprom ate, the Ukrainian website proUA.com is seen as the beneficiary of Mr. $100 per 1,000 cubic meters. Gazeksport willing to sacrifice billions of dollars in reported. Golubev’s remarks. But does his business then resells it to RosUkrEnergo, a mid- subsidies in return for control over the “If politicians make a decision to constituency agree with this? dleman with headquarters in Switzerland, pipeline? establish closer economic ties between The Industrial Union of Donbas, one which resells it to a joint-venture compa- During his visit to Moscow in April, our countries, this will guarantee lower of the most powerful business groupings ny, UkrGazEnergo, at the Russian- according to the RIA Novosti news gas prices. However, if the politicians in Ukraine, has had a separate gas-pur- Ukrainian border. It is then sold on to agency, Turkmen President Gurbanguly decide to separate these ties, then the chasing agreement with Kazakhstan for Ukrainian domestic and industrial con- Berdymukhammedov said he would price of gas for Ukraine will be the same many years. sumers. honor the 25-year contract signed with as for Germany. Does Ukraine really Mr. Golubev has not been a visible If Gazprom should suddenly deter- Gazprom in 2003 to supply Russia with want this? I want to stress that Russia participant in the Ukrainian-Russian gas mine that the economies of the two the lion’s share of Turkmen gas. At the does not need this,” Mr. Golubev said. discussions until now, but given his back- countries are not “close enough,” it same time, however, Mr. This explanation of pricing for gas ground he seems to enjoy powerful sup- could raise prices. But buying Turkmen Berdymukhammedov was very vague sold to Ukraine is different from previous port from the Kremlin. gas for $100 and reselling it to Ukraine about the price he would charge explanations provided by Gazprom man- A former KGB officer, Mr. Golubev at the market price of $250-270 could be Gazprom for this gas. Why, many ask, agers and by Russian President Vladimir risky. worked in the St. Petersburg mayor’s Putin. Such explanations have empha- should Turkmenistan sell its gas to office when Mr. Putin and Aleksei Miller, Such price speculation could upset the Gazprom at prices far below world rates? sized that Russia is striving to stop subsi- Turkmen leadership, which traditionally the present head of Gazprom, worked dizing gas sales to Ukraine. At this time Kazakhstan, according to there. In February 2003 he became a has insisted that Gazprom not engage in RIA Novosti, began threatening to raise “We have subsidized the Ukrainian such deals. Turkmenistan would then member of Gazprom’s management com- its price for gas from $100 to $160 per economy with low gas prices for a most likely be forced to raise the price it mittee and in November 2006 became its 1,000 cubic meters and the Turkmen decade and we intend to end this prac- charges Gazprom to world market levels. deputy chairman, replacing Aleksandr tice,” Mr. Putin said in January. He didn’t leadership was reportedly contemplating Ryazanov who had been fired. mention, however, that Ukraine buys Trunk pipelines a similar price increase. Central Asian Mr. Golubev’s responsibility at gas producers have said that in two years mostly Turkmen, rather than Russian, Mr. Golubev’s comments raise another Gazprom is the CIS market for Russian they plan to charge world prices for their gas. question: Who is empowered to decide gas sales – one of the most sensitive jobs gas. when “closer economic ties” between in Gazprom. Gas basket If this were to take place, it would def- Ukraine and Russia reach the point of His pronouncements about a vague initely increase the price Ukraine pays The present price Ukraine pays for gas closeness that qualifies Ukraine for a gas-pricing scheme for Ukraine could be for gas – unless Mr. Golubev’s formula was negotiated in early 2007 and was substantial gas-price reduction? an indication that the Kremlin is intent on based upon the January 2006 agreement Any price reduction that Russia might for cheap gas is implemented. trying to use a scare tactic in order to whereby Gazprom agreed to a price for a give to Ukraine would be, in effect, a In mid-May when President Putin of bring Ukraine closer into the Russian “basket” of Turkmen, Kazakh and very expensive subsidy. Russian politi- Russia signed the agreement with fold at the same time helping to further Russian gas. cians and the Finance Ministry might be Central Asian leaders to build a new Mr. Putin’s long-standing support for Mr. Ukraine wound up paying $95 per hard-pressed to accept such an arrange- Caspian gas pipeline to export Central Yanukovych. 1,000 cubic meters of gas in 2006 and ment. Asian gas to the West, the price Mr. Golubev’s attempt to promote this $130 in 2007, when Turkmenistan raised Mr. Golubev could well be disguising Turkmenistan would charge for its gas new “carrot-stick” scheme, despite his was not mentioned. unrealistic arguments, could mean that “The price [for Turkmen gas] is to Gazprom is trying to both influence remain unchanged until the end of 2009, Ukrainians to support Mr. Yanukovych in Ukraine has new envoy to U.N. but talks are to be carried through before return for cheap gas and maneuver July 1, 2009, on changing it under long- Ukraine into abandoning or sharing its UNITED NATIONS – Ukraine’s new ing among the peoples so that new gener- term deals by bringing it into line with control over the largest single gas permanent representative to the United ations could move forward in harmony European prices,” Interfax reported on pipeline for Russian gas to the European Nations, Ambassador Yuriy A. Sergeyev, and good dialogue.” May 14. Union. presented his credentials to U.N. The new envoy went on to state: Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on May “Ukraine calls upon the United 15. Nations as the collective voice of the In one of his first acts as Ukraine’s international community to contribute to ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. the commemoration of the 75th anniver- Ukraine reacts to Putin’s depiction Sergeyev, previously Ukraine’s ambassa- sary of the Great Famine of 1932-1933 dor to France (2003-2007), called on the (), among other things, by of its government as tyrannical U.N., as the united voice of the interna- adopting a relevant document. tional community, to mark the 75th “We do not intend to establish respon- by Zenon Zawada itself, and we wouldn’t want for someone anniversary of the Holodomor, the Great sibility of my state for the acts committed Kyiv Press Bureau to allow himself to comment on domes- Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. on the territory of Ukraine in 1932-33. tic, as well as political life,” Mr. KYIV – Members of Ukraine’s Speaking in mid-May at the third We clearly emphasize that policies and Yushchenko said. allegedly tyrannical government are informal thematic debate of the General acts of the then totalitarian regime should It should be noted that Ukraine’s coali- responding to that description offered by Assembly’s session on “Civilization and be blamed for the man-made famine.” tion government agreed to the May 27 the Challenge for Peace: Obstacles and While serving as Ukraine’s ambassa- Russian Federation President Vladimir compromise only after the president Opportunities,” Ambassador Sergeyev dor to France (2003-2007), Mr. Sergeyev Putin when he spoke to foreign journal- mobilized 3,480 internal army troops noted that “The United Nations has been also was Ukraine’s representative to the ists in Moscow on June 4. towards Kyiv. “There was a single hope for the boys built on a solemn pledge by its member- United Nations Educational, Scientific Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ukraine, but they simply completely states to reaffirm faith in fundamental and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Spokesman Andrii Deschytsia said on discredited themselves, and matters there human rights and in the dignity and In 2001-2003 he was secretary of state June 5 that officials are carefully examin- are heading towards overall tyranny – a worth of the human being,” and argued at the Foreign Affairs Ministry of ing Mr. Putin’s statements “to understand “That pledge can hardly be fulfilled if we Ukraine, and prior to that, for five complete violation of the Constitution, all laws and so forth,” Mr. Putin said. whether they truly applied to Ukraine fail to remember and to acknowledge – months, he served as first vice minister and whether they truly applied to tyranny sometimes it takes courage to do [so] – of foreign affairs. In 2000-2001 he was President Viktor Yushchenko respond- in Ukraine.” the tragic events of the past, vast viola- the director general for foreign policy in ed on June 6 by pointing out that the tions of human rights and mass suffering the presidential administration. recent political crisis between the Verkhovna Rada Chair Oleksander of people.” Mr. Sergeyev also served as ambassa- Presidential Secretariat and coalition Moroz said on June 4 he is confident Mr. “It is important to remember the past dor to Greece and Albania (1997-2000) government demonstrated Ukrainian Putin’s remarks were not targeted in order to learn from it and to avoid and as minister counselor at the Embassy leaders are capable of resolving their towards the Parliament, “because it repeating it. We must use that knowledge of Ukraine in the conflicts by peaceful and democratic would be strange for a Parliament of 450 to strengthen the effectiveness of the rule (1997). He twice headed the Foreign means, without use of force. national deputies to implement tyranny.” of law and to enhance the respect for Affairs Ministry’s Directorate for He noted that 15 years earlier the While some leaders have dismissed human rights and fundamental freedoms Information (1993 to mid-1994, late Russian president had used military force Mr. Putin’s comments as sarcasm or in the world,” he continued. “It is 1994 to1997). against the Parliament to obtain the same hyperbole, the Russian Federation’s nonetheless important to properly recog- The new U.N. envoy holds a doctorate results gained in Ukraine through ambassador to Ukraine, Viktor nize the crimes against humanity and to from Taras Shevchenko State University “exceptionally complicated negotia- Chernomyrdin, told reporters on June 6 honor the memory of their victims for the in Kyiv (1981). He was born on February tions.” that his leader was serious. He did not sake of improving trust and understand- 5, 1956, in Leninakan, Armenia. “This is the Ukrainian approach to life elaborate. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 No. 24

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Young UNA’ers

Alice Olenchuk, the secretary of Ukrainian National Association Branch 112 in Parma, Ohio, enrolled 12 young members into her branch in May. What is extraordinary is that all 12 mem- bers are the grandchildren (the Romanovich, Lawson and Leibsla children) and great-grandchildren (the Hagerman and Sabino chil- dren) of Patricia and Paul Romanovich of Parma. The Romanovich family has been sup- porting the Ukrainian National Association since the early 1960s. The UNA Home Office expresses congratulations to Branch Secre- tary Olenchuk and thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Romanovich, proud grandparents and great-grandpar- Alexandria Marie, Alicia J. and Larissa Ann Romanovich, daughters of the late Jeffrey and Denise (née Haszyc) ents, for their loyalty to the UNA. Romanovich of North Royalton, Ohio.

Jaclyn Marie, Kathryn Mallory, Robert Paul and Steven James Lawson, children of Ward and Paula (née Romanovich) Lawson of Brunswick, Ohio.

Maxwell Douglas Leibsla, son of Cynthia (née Romano) Romanovich Evan Jeffrey and Matthew Kyle Romanovich, children of Gregory and Lisa and stepson of Martin Romanovich of (néeWainilko) Romanovich of Brunswick, Ohio. Medina, Ohio. Logan Matthew Hagerman, son of Matthew and Nicole (Lawson) Hagerman, and Courtney Nicole Do you have a young UNA’er, or potential young UNA’er in your family? Sabino, daughter of Mark Sabino and Call the UNA Home Office, 973-292-9800, to find out how to enroll. Nicole (Lawson Hagerman), of Frederick, Md.

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Step 1 in “Redesigning the UNA for the 21st Century” After long and careful consideration, the Ukrainian business and fraternal activities rather than the concerns on advancing initiatives critical to the UNA’s future. National Association has decided to capitalize on a strong that come with being the owner of a building that is These include the development of a strong sales network real estate market and to sell its corporate headquarters nearly 30 years old. with both a regional presence and a professional sales building in Parsippany, N.J. The UNA reached agree- The UNA leadership is committed to reinvigorating the force. This sales structure will complement the tradition- ment with an investor group and sold its building for $11 UNA, as was demonstrated by reports made to the UNA’s al branch network that, alone, is no longer capable of million cash; the closing took place on June 4, 2007. Chicago Convention in 2002 and in 2006 at the first UNA generating sufficient insurance and annuities sales to This sale will allow the UNA to repay its outstanding Convention held at Soyuzivka. UNA advisors and auditors financially sustain the UNA and its fraternal activities, debt on the property and will provide a cash infusion of have adopted a proactive role and have worked hand-in- as well as to secure their future. The newly gained funds about $4.4 million after all closing costs are paid. The hand with the Executive Committee to identify and imple- also will be used for a sorely needed professional mar- sale of the building is a milestone event that immediate- ment specific proposals designed to restore the UNA’s keting campaign and the expansion of targeted advertis- ly strengthens the UNA’s financial condition and will leading role in all facets of Ukrainian community life. ing to key critical markets. allow more productive utilization of funds previously The momentum to generate growth of the UNA is Such initiatives will allow the Ukrainian National tied up in the property. taking place on many levels and on a number of differ- Association to completely restructure its insurance sales As the landlord of the building at 2200 Route 10, the ent fronts. We call our strategic plan for the next five program and to provide UNA members with continued UNA had the responsibility for the rental, payment of years “Redesigning the UNA for the 21st Century.” We low-cost insurance and better-than-average benefits, as ever-rising holding costs, including taxes, and upkeep of will outline our overall strategic plan in upcoming arti- well as to retain the icons of our Ukrainian community – the entire building even though it occupied only a small cles to be published in the UNA’s official publications, our newspapers and the UNA estate, Soyuzivka – for gen- portion. As a tenant, the UNA has now entered into a Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. erations to come. long-term lease at a low price with the new landlord – a In the meantime, let us underscore that the funds move that allows the UNA to concentrate on its core gained from the sale of our office building will be spent – UNA Executive Committee

UNA is having $$$$$$$$$$$ a banner year by Christine Kozak UNA National Secretary The UNA’s sales efforts are being met with success as the WANT TO EARN contracting of independent agents is gaining momentum. The resulting sale of annuities is leading to a banner year. In January of this year the UNA began putting into place TOP COMMISSIONS? its new sales initiative, which has led to the recruitment of 60 independent agents in various states and has seen an increase in annuity income by 74 percent to date over the reported annuity income for the entire year of 2006. Earn $50,000* or more on a part-time basis This initiative, as part of the overall UNA strategic business plan, has been evolving and changing to keep abreast of our fast-paced world and the ever-increasing financial burden and sky-rocketing costs. The UNA as an The UNA offers excellent Sales Opportunities! insurance company must increase its revenue to sustain the level of community benefits desired by our membership, as well as the entire Ukrainian community. It is the sale of The UNA is expanding around the country and offers attractive sales opportunities. insurance policies and annuities that provides the UNA with the funds necessary to support the UNA’s publica- Most sales of permanent life insurance products provide tions, Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly, as well as our cultural jewel in upstate New York, the Soyuzivka Heritage Center. up to 85% commission The UNA is expanding its sales network to include pro- fessional agents, both captive (working exclusively for the plus residual income.Work from home selling whole life and term insurance, endowments UNA) and independent, who will concentrate on annuity and annuities. A few full time positions are available in our Parsippany office. sales. It has been proven and experienced by other frater- nal societies that annuity sales lead to ancillary life insur- ance sales. And life insurance sales have been the life sup- Looking for: port of UNA since 1894. Through this expanded sales force and an investment in • Licensed insurance agents: bilingual, experience preferable. If you are outgoing, advertising and marketing initiatives the UNA will build customer-focused and enjoy working with the public at your own pace, working for its assets, grow in membership and continue strengthening its surplus. the UNA as an independent agent may be the career for you. The UNA is also actively recruiting captive agents to concentrate on direct sales to the current membership and • This could be the ideal situation for individuals looking to supplement their income the Ukrainian community. Recent industry changes demonstrate that larger companies are no longer interested and/or individuals who want to choose insurance sales as a career path. in pursuing the small policyholder. This provides a unique Reimbursement available for the licensing process for qualified candidates. opportunity for the UNA to recruit these agents and have them work in conjunction with our branch network to develop sales. In the past year, the UNA expanded its annuity product Call Christine Kozak line and began increasing the interest rates to a very com- petitive level, which has led to increased sales. UNA annu- 1-800-253-9862 x 3018 ities are an excellent product in and of themselves, as they are straightforward, solid and understandable retirement * estimate based on historical performance of top part-time sales producers vehicles backed by 113 years of history and a concrete dollar-for-dollar reserve. Building revenue through sales is the UNA’s No. 1 pri- ority. Relying on our present loyal membership base as its foundation to build and expand, the Ukrainian National $$$$$$$$$$$ Association is and will remain the most significant insur- ance organization serving Ukrainians in North America.

THE UNA: 113 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 No. 24

IN THE PRESS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Russia: resurgent, regressive Re: Developments in Ukraine “The Question of Regime- work before polling time. They must not Russian President has been making big headlines lately, and Restoration in Ukraine,” commentary be distracted or confused by smoke, mostly for the wrong reasons. He’s ramped up his anti-Western rhetoric, accus- by Stephen Velychenko, University of lights, hairstyles and outright lies. ing the United States in particular of “imperialism” and likening it to Nazi Toronto, published in Action Ukraine The Party of the Regions is a neo- Germany. And he has voiced proposals threatening to his neighbors, most recent- Report, May 31: Soviet party and should it come to power ly when he said that Russia would re-target its missiles at Europe if the United in Ukraine only Russia and a small States proceeded with its plans to install a missile defense system in Poland and … In Ukraine, the neo-Soviet Party of minority will benefit. the Czech Republic. Is this a case of more bombast than bluster? the Regions/Communist Bloc lost the In Central and Eastern Europe, the threats are being taken seriously. In 2004 elections, despite widespread “On the edge,” editorial, Financial Ukraine, President Viktor Yushchenko said in a June 13 interview with The black-ops, fraud, bribery and blackmail. Times, May 30: Globe and Mail of Canada that such talk has increased Ukraine’s desire to join Had [Viktor] Yushchenko been more NATO. Citing the renewed belligerence of Russia, he said, “The recent events, I resolute at the time he would have arrest- The political peace deal struck in think, show to everyone that we have quite a creaky security balance. This really ed and tried the convicted felon [Viktor] Ukraine in last-minute talks between triggers some concerns ...” Furthermore, Mr. Yushchenko said Russia continues Yanukovych and all his top associates for Viktor Yushchenko, the president, and his to interfere in Ukraine’s domestic politics. “There are some political forces in what they did. As is known, that is not bitter rival Viktor Yanukovych, the prime Russia that want to keep the old political order in Ukraine,” he noted. what happened. minister, comes as a welcome relief. While speaking like a bully who wants complete control over things in his backyard, Consequently, within the year the dis- Their long-running conflict last week Mr. Putin has depicted himself as a true democrat. President Putin told the Western credited Kuchma-elite had returned from reached the point of violence, with offi- media earlier this month that he is “an absolute, pure democrat.” He added that the self-imposed exile or retirement. A man cials loyal to Mr. Yushchenko occupying “real tragedy” is “that I am the only one, there just aren’t any others in the world.” He who because of his criminal record could the public prosecutor’s office and Mr. also said, “After the death of Mahatma Gandhi there’s nobody to talk to.” not by law hold any government job Yanukovych’s men breaking windows And Mr. Putin has lessons to teach Ukraine. He attacked Ukraine for “complete- became prime minister, and, by May and doors to retake the building. … ly violating the Constitution and all its laws” and heading for “complete tyranny.” 2006, the Party of the However, the agreement to settle the U.S. President George W. Bush, speaking recently in at an internation- Regions/Communist coalition was able dispute by holding parliamentary elec- al conference on democracy that was organized by a group of former and current to take power again in what amounted to tions in late September will not, on its dissidents, said, “In Russia, reforms that once promised to empower citizens a coup-d’état. own, resolve Ukraine’s deep-rooted divi- have been derailed, with troubling implications for democratic development.” Within the year, resorting to dubious sions. The country is doomed to further At the same time, President Bush has invited his good friend Vladimir to visit methods and bribery, this coalition was instability, unless its leaders work much the Bush family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine, in July. There, he prom- harder at developing a genuine national ised, he would speak tête-à-tête with the Russian president (and presumably peer on the way to creating a majority in Parliament. The European Union still had consensus. … into his soul yet again). The trouble is that elections will do Mr. Bush should heed the warning of democracy advocate Garry Kasparov, a for- instability on its eastern border and Ukrainian citizens could not go about little to change the power balance mer chess champion who now leads the United Civil Front in Russia. “If Bush hopes between the two sides. Mr. Yanukovych to gain anything by having private discussions with Putin, he’s wrong. Putin thrives their business due to the uncertain domestic climate. will almost certainly return as head of the in an atmosphere of secrecy. He’s a KGB spy – anything behind closed doors gives largest party, followed by the fiery Yulia him an advantage.” In the spring of 2007 Yushchenko reacted and called for new elections. He Tymoshenko, Mr. Yushchenko’s erst- Mr. Putin needs to be told in no uncertain terms, publicly as well as privately, that while ally. The presi- that the USSR is dead, the Cold War is over and the time for Soviet-style policy is realized at last that neo-Soviet forces had no intention of compromising with his dent may well end up holding the bal- long gone. Repression, bullying and saber-rattling are not acceptable ways to treat ance of power, and they will be forced to one’s countrymen and to engage one’s neighbors and the international community. national democrats. They were not inter- ested in bringing Ukraine into the sit down and negotiate. English-language communications The outlines of a compromise exist. sphere, democratizing the country, or Most Ukrainians back closer ties with the preparing it for entry into the EU. EU, but they also have doubts about join- But because he foolishly failed to ing NATO. Almost all agree Russia will exploit his popular support in 2004-2005, continue to play a big role in Ukraine, JUNE Turning the pages back... the old neo-Soviet elite had entrenched above all in energy, although they are itself and the national democratic Orange divided about the merits of Moscow’s Coalition still faces the threat of restora- influence. … 17 tion. One thing must be clear, however: all parties must respect the legacy of the Four years ago, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the The neo-Soviet Regions leaders also Orange Revolution, which has created a Holodomor, Canadian Sen. Raynell Andreychuk proposed understand that if they fail to restore the 2003 more democratic political world. Any that the Canadian government recognize the Ukrainian old regime again, they are unlikely to get attempt to resolve political conflicts Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933. a third chance. … through non-democratic, let alone vio- The motion called for: the condemnation of any attempt to Those interested in the upcoming lent, means would split the country irrev- deny or distort this historical truth as being anything less than a genocide; the fourth Ukrainian election, therefore, should note ocably. Saturday of November to be designated as a day of remembrance for those who per- that Yanukovych’s fraudulent and manip- ished during the time of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide; and for all Canadians, partic- ulative electoral practices were similar “Ukraine’s Aspirations and Geo- ularly historians, educators and parliamentarians, to include true facts of the Ukrainian not only to Putin’s. political Role,” interview with Famine-Genocide in the records of Canada and in future educational material. U.S. Republicans also used dubious Zbigniew Brzezinski by Myroslava (The fourth Saturday in November was established as a National Day of and outright illegal methods to bring Gongadze of Voice of America, May Remembrance by President on November 26, 1998, and has been rec- George W. Bush into power. And since 22: ognized by Ukrainian communities throughout the world as a day of remembrance for they worked in the U.S., observers must the victims of the Holodomor.) realize that American advisors in Kyiv Ms. Gongadze: Ukraine is in a deep In her speech on the Senate floor on June 17, 2003, Sen. Andreychuk said: will want to add some of their inventions political crisis today. What do you think “Honorable senators, in proposing the motion under discussion, the Senate would seek to the Regions’ bag of tricks. went wrong and why, and do you see a to assign the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 its rightful place in the annals Thanks to this kind of “American way out of this situation? of history … to commemorate the lives of all those millions of people who were so cal- know-how” the Regions now not only Dr. Brzezinski: You know, it’s a huge, lously and cynically sacrificed in the name of an illusory ideal that could have known pay “political tourists” and “rent-a- huge issue as to what went wrong. It no greater betrayal than the means employed in trying to reach it.” crowds,” but also wear the “right” shoes could be a question of personalities, it “Canada has taken great strides to condemn all war crimes, crimes against humanity and and sport new hairstyles. The tricks, could be a question of conflict of person- genocides, and Canadians, as a society, cherish and defend human rights and value the diversi- sadly, work. alities, of some indecision, perhaps some ty and multicultural nature of Canadian society. We must also join with the many survivors of Naive journalists look at this and then miscalculations, but the past is past. the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide who have emigrated to Canada and contributed to its positive run articles in newspapers like the What has to be done now, it seems to development. The record is now emerging and Canada should share in acknowledging the Telegraph and the Observer explaining me, is to have an orderly election that Famine-Genocide and in correcting our knowledge of this horrific event by taking the step of how Yanukovych has become a “new perhaps will help to clarify the picture, approving this motion. I urge you, honorable senators, to do so,” Sen. Andreychuk stated. man.” … Approximately 10 million people died in the state-organized Famine-Genocide in and to also facilitate some constitutional A new Ukrainian election that still changes, which would eliminate massive Ukraine during 1932-1933 when, under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, the includes a restorationist party, therefore, sought to destroy all opposition to forced collectivization and crush the Ukrainian nation. areas of ambiguity and even internal con- obliges observers to remember that the tradictions in the existing constitutional Many survivors of the Holodomor, as it is known in Ukrainian, later emigrated to Canada. top and middle-level people in that party Sen. Andreychuk, a Progressive Conservative, hails from Saskatoon and was appoint- arrangements. … responsible for the dirty tricks in 2004, But at the same time, having acknowl- ed to the Senate of Canada in 1993. Additionally, she is a lawyer, a former judge and a and on a smaller scale in 2006, are still in former ambassador. At the time, Sen. Andreychuk served on the Senate committees on edged the reality of difficulties, confu- their offices and will do the same again. sion and conflict, one also has to Foreign Affairs; Legal and Constitutional Affairs; Rules and Procedures and the Rights Only this time they will probably do of Parliament; and Human Rights, which she chaired. acknowledge the fact that Ukrainians it better – which means observers must have shown also an admirable patience watch even closer. Observers must and prudence, which testifies to what Source: “Canadian senator introduces motion to recognize Famine,” The observe behind the scenes, in the Ukrainian Weekly, June 22, 2003. provinces and what goes on at places of (Continued on page 8) No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 7

NEWS AND VIEWS Canada’s D & D policy: The UPA’s just war by Lubomyr Luciuk Ukrainian patriots into concentration all about politics, not justice camps, despoiled the country’s resources, Their cache was exhumed on June 24, and press-ganged millions into slave by Marco Levytsky Germans face deportation. That leaves 1999, near the Hutsul village of Yavoriv, labor in the Third Reich. Ukraine suf- two ethnic Ukrainians hanging in the in western Ukraine’s Carpathian fered greater losses than any nation in Let’s get one thing straight: The select balance, although the Odynsky case por- Mountains. The Kischuk family was Nazi-occupied Europe, a fact still obfus- cabinet committee known as the tends well for them since both Jura restoring some outbuildings on a hilltop cated by those who refer to “20 million Governor in Council decided on May 17 Skomatchuk and Josef Furman were farm, formerly the property of Palii Soviet dead” in the “Great Patriotic War.” not to revoke the Canadian citizenship of “found” to have served as Trawniki Mytskaniuk. He disappeared after the Tellingly, Moscow’s rendition of when Wasyl Odynsky and Vladimir Katriuk. guards, as was Odynsky. The Furman Soviets discovered he supported the the war began dates only from the date That’s all. It did not “clear” them. case is particularly bizarre in that he Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists their perfidious partners attacked, by which As the decision reads: “Her maintains he served on a farm through- (OUN). Later his wife was deported. time Western Europe had been overrun, the Excellency the Governor in Council, out the war, not as a Trawniki guard, and Neither returned. Battle of Britain had been joined and the having considered the report of the had the documents to prove it. In a find- As Hanna removed remnants of a dry- gates of hell had opened at Auschwitz. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration ing that could only happen under the ing shed, leveling the surrounding turf, Confronted by two rogue states, Nazi made under section 10 of the Citizenship denaturalization and deportation (D & D) her hoe snagged two glass jars. The con- Germany and the USSR, whose contend- Act in relation to the person named in process, the judge in his case decided tents of one were decayed. The second ing ideologies barely masked their rapa- the annexed schedule, hereby declines to that those documents were faked but held 216 celluloid negatives. Her son, cious colonial designs on Ukraine, and exercise the power conferred by section some photocopies about a person with Petro, seeing the Ukrainian tryzub, a tri- having no government to protect them, 10 of the Citizenship Act in respect to another name altogether were the real dent, on the cap badges of soldiers visi- the Ukrainian nation exercised its inher- that person.” That’s the equivalent of a thing. ble on this developed film, identified ent right of self-defense. The UPA coa- suspended sentence in a criminal court. What appears to be happening, there- them as members of the Ukrainian lesced in late autumn 1942. Necessary, What is noteworthy is that this does fore, is that the government decided to go Insurgent Army (UPA). He had grown up measured and proportional military close the Odynsky and Katriuk files, after Messrs. Oberlander and Fast in order hearing stories about the UPA. Until actions were taken against the German unlike the Liberal Governor in Council’s to make the Canadian Jewish Congress 1991 those tales may have been whis- and, later, against the Soviet occupations. 2002 decision to simply put Mr. (which had made Mr. Oberlander their pered, but they were told and retold This legitimate struggle continued even Odynsky’s revocation on hold, which left No. 1 target) happy and drop the Odynsky nonetheless. after all of Ukraine fell under Soviet hege- his family in limbo. Now, at least, they and Katriuk cases in order to keep the Even more remarkable than their dis- mony. The resistance was finally reduced, can be grateful that their 10-year ordeal Ukrainians quiet. And since the Germans covery, after 50 years in the ground, was but only after the Communist secret is finally over. are unlikely to make much noise — who that these photographs were ever taken. police and internal security forces brutally But there is no acknowledgement that cares? And, if the Oberlander decision is UPA regulations generally prohibited depopulated the western Ukrainian coun- the men were innocent all along and that again overturned by a judicial review, photography, which needlessly exposed tryside, liquidating the insurgents’ civilian the government should never have gone well, at least they tried. soldiers and supporters to grave risk support networks, then hunted down the after them in the first place. That is not justice, and that is not the should their likenesses be captured. last surviving warriors. This counter- What’s more, that same committee right thing to do. While we will never know why these insurgency campaign lasted more than a decided to revoke Helmut Oberlander’s The right thing to do would be to admit pictures were made, it seems certain that decade after the war’s end. citizenship in direct contradiction to a that the government of the day should by the time they were buried those Whether the guerrillas had any serious 2004 Federal Appeals Court ruling spe- never have started D & D proceedings secreting them knew full well that their prospect of success can be debated. cific to that very case which very explic- against these people in the first place struggle was drawing to an end. So, Certainly many believed Soviet imperial- itly tells them: "The Governor in Council since there was no evidence of any indi- before they were finally undone, the last ism would be contained, perhaps even ... cannot apply the war criminals policy vidual crimes. The right thing to do would of Company No. 67’s men consigned rolled back by the West. For what proved to a person unless it first satisfies itself, be to apologize for putting them and their their negatives to the shelter of their to be a very mistaken intelligence they to use the very words of the policy, that families through this entire unjust prose- native soil, willfully preserving relics would suffer betrayal, disillusionment ‘there is evidence of direct involvement cution process and offer to negotiate com- they hoped would someday be found, to and what must have seemed like the in or complicity of war crimes or crimes pensation. And they could justifiably provide evidence of who they were and greatest indignity, being all but forgotten, against humanity.’ ” blame the Liberals for everything. what they fought for. spoken of in their homeland only out of After repeated attempts to get a The right thing to do then would be to “Fascist collaborators,” “bandits” and earshot of the regime’s minions. straight answer from Justice Minister change the Citizenship Act in order to “war criminals” – terms used to brand these In 1991 Ukraine re-emerged as a sov- Ron Nicholson’s office as to how they prevent such abuses in the future, as the partisans – do not usually seek to secure ereign and internationally recognized can revoke Mr. Oberlander’s citizenship Liberals had planned to do before the their record for posterity. UPA soldiers did state in Europe. Yet the memory of who in the face of this ruling, Ukrainian government fell and as the Conservatives because they understood their struggle for these nationalists were remains contest- News of Edmonton was finally told to promised to do during the election which Ukraine’s independence differently than ed. Those who served the Soviets, ferret- ask that question of the department followed. ing out insurgents, receive state pen- (meaning bureaucracy) itself. their enemies did – then, and since. Another right thing to do would be to Above all, they saw themselves sions. No such benefits are afforded Well, we’re sorry. It wasn’t the charge self-confessed Soviet war crimi- OUN and UPA veterans. This travesty bureaucracy that made the decision, it engaged in a national liberation move- nals under the Criminal Code of Canada. ment. They took up arms only after the persists because, as long as the USSR was a Cabinet committee and it was the But D & D never was about doing the existed, nationalists were portrayed as minister who announced it. The same state in which they lived, Poland, was right thing or about justice. It was always violently dismembered by Nazi Germany villains, a bias indoctrinated deeply. question was posed to Citizenship and about ethnic politics. That’s the way it And just as there are still insurgents Immigration Minister Dianne Finley by (September 1, 1939) aided by the Soviet was under the Liberals, and that’s the Union (September 17, 1939). Then they alive in Ukraine today so too there are Kitchener-Waterloo MP Andrew Telegdi way it remains under the Conservatives. those who continue reciting the propa- at a parliamentary committee meeting on witnessed their homeland incorporated As the French saying goes: Plus ça into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist ganda of the past, for doing so masks May 29. She also could not reply. Well, change. Plus ça même chose. their complicity in crimes against if both ministers responsible for the rev- Republic through a staged plebiscite, even as the organs of Soviet repression humanity. Ironically, these enablers, and ocation process can’t answer that ques- their fellow travelers in the West, remain tion, then something is definitely wrong. continued a relentless persecution of anyone – Ukrainian, Pole or Jew – more influential than those who fought So we have two ethnic Ukrainians Deadline extended for Ukraine’s independence. allowed to stay, while two ethnic deemed inimical to the Stalinist regime. Re: “Documenting the performances Deportations and mass murder continued This situation will not last because, for of Yevshan Zillia” (June 3), the author of even as Hitler’s legions attacked their over a decade, the people have taken it Marco Levytsky is editor-in-chief of the article, John Wasyluk, advises that Soviet ally on June 22, 1941. upon themselves to honor their partisans. Those best placed to know what the insur- Ukrainian News, based in Edmonton, the deadline for submitting artifacts The arrival of new overlords brought gency represented – family members, Alberta. The article above was published related to the Yevshan Zillia choir has little respite, for the Nazis proved no neighbors and descendents – have erected as an editorial in the newspaper’s May been extended to August 15. Materials more sympathetic to Ukrainian aspira- dozens of plaques and memorials to hal- 30-June 12 issue. It is reprinted here should be sent to: O. Wasyluk, P.O. Box tions than the Soviets. For Hitler and his low the victims of Nazi and Soviet with Mr. Levytsky’s permission. 34131, Washington, DC 20043. satraps, Ukrainians were subhumans oppression and to laud all who resisted (untermenschen), their land a future liv- foreign domination. This reshaping of the ing space (lebensraum) to be emptied, cultural landscape has sapped Soviet-era then resettled, by the Aryan master race. Quotable notes fabrications of much of their meaning, Toward that end, they herded giving strong evidence of how the people “…I think this decision [for Ukraine] to be the host for a major European understand Ukraine’s 20th century histo- event [soccer’s EuroCup in 2012] five years from now is going to be a very, very A professor at the Royal Military ry, and of how, someday, it will be writ- major transforming event giving Ukraine not a post-Soviet quasi-independent, College, Lubomyr Luciuk, Ph.D., is co- ten. still quasi-undefined self-identity, but a clearly identified national identity that is author, with Dr. Vasyl Humeniuk, of the Until that day comes, stories will be at the same time also a clearly European identity.” recently published book, “Their Just told about UPA heroes. One was Dmytro War: Images of the Ukrainian Insurgent Bilinchuk, nom de guerre Khmara. When – Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, in a May 22 interview with Voice of America corre- Army” (available from Kashtan Press, the Soviets deported his family to Siberia spondent . 22 Gretna Green, Kingston, ON, Canada, K7M 3J2, for $45). (Continued on page 16) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 No. 24 “The missing Canadians” in the heroic epic songs of the Ukrainian people by Thomas M. Prymak In his “Introduction to the Ukrainian- Canadian Immigrant Folksong Cycle,” Part I of two parts which was published in Ottawa in 1970 by The Ukrainian bookstore in Edmonton the National Museum of Canada, Dr recently had a large book sale which it Klymasz gives texts, translations and audio advertised widely. On the list of sale recordings of these “songs of emigration.” books that was sent to me in the mail, I He himself had collected these in the early noticed one titled “The Heroic Epic of 1960s from elderly survivors from among the Ukrainian People” (Heroichnyi Epos the pioneers in the rural districts of Ukrainskoho Naroda). I have long been Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. interested in Ukrainian historical songs Some of the songs in the Klymasz and immediately ordered this book along book might be called “songs of depar- with a whole crate of others. ture”; that is, they describe in mournful When the books arrived in the mail, I tones the sorrow of the first emigrants as excitedly looked them over and exam- they said good-bye to their native land, ined “The Heroic Epic of the Ukrainian their native village, church and family. People.” This book, it turned out, was a Others describe the difficult voyage from collection of historical songs, stories and the villages of Galicia through Poland legends compiled by the folklorists O. and Germany to the great port of M. Talanchuk and F. S. Kysly and pub- Hamburg, then the terrible crossing of lished in Kyiv in 1993. This was more or the North Atlantic to Halifax or less what I had been expecting to find. Montreal, then another train ride across However, not only did the book contain Canada to Manitoba or one of the other Ukrainian immigrants in Quebec before 1914. Reproduced from “Greater than historical “dumas” about the early Kozak Prairie Provinces, and finally a trip by Kings” by Zonia Keywan and Martin Coles. era, songs about the “Haidamak” revolts horse and wagon to the homestead. against the Poles, and songs of the These haunting songs, describing the dif- from his wife! the life of the settlers, such as the greetings Galician Ukrainian army during the World ficult first months and years in the “new Hey-yah-hey, a husband from his or “vivats” sung at the very popular War I era and the struggle for Ukrainian country” are filled with sorrow, distress wife! “Ukrainian wedding” celebrations. independence, but it also contained some- and awe. Of particular importance for our pur- thing that caught my special attention. In my opinion, the most stirring song In another song recorded in poses here are the songs of success and This was a group of songs about the in Dr. Klymasz’s book was recorded in Vegreville, Alberta, in 1965, the emo- praise of the new land. These generally emigration to Canada of the village folk of 1964 from a trio of women in Sheho, tional address to the personified Canada contrast the poverty and hunger of the western Ukraine before 1914, when war Saskatchewan. Its haunting refrains is amplified by the use of the intimate old country with the richness and pros- engulfed Europe and put a temporary stop describe the dismay of the newcomers at diminutive (“Kanadochko”) as well as perity of the new one. They mention the to the emigration. This mass movement of the boundless extent of their new coun- the vocative: political corruption and tyranny rampant villagers, generally referred to as “the Great try, of bedding down at night in a virgin in the old country, the oppression of the Economic Immigration” by various schol- forest, the pain of the immigrant at being Oi Kanado, Kanadochko, landlords and the hard work which the ars, is the one to which the vast majority of separated from his wife and children (a Ty neridna maty, common people had to do on their Canadians of Ukrainian background can great many immigrants came not as fam- Ne dai zhe nam bidnim liudiam estates. trace their ancestry. I, as a grandson of that ilies but as single young men who had V tobi zahybaty! In one of my favorite songs, which Dr. reluctantly left their loved ones in the Klymasz recorded from the voice of an economic immigration, found the inclusion My translation runs: of these heart-rending songs of emigration “old country”), the tearful joy at receiv- elderly pioneer named Oleksa Michaluk ing a letter from home, and the pain of in Dauphin, Manitoba, in 1963, all of in a book purporting to tell the epic story of Oh, Canada, Canada, waiting in vain for another. It ends with a these themes appear. He sings: the Ukrainian people to be quite touching, A stepmother you are, it’s true. indeed, even flattering. rhyming refrain emotionally addressing “Canada” in the vocative case peculiar to Do not allow us, poor folk, Pokynte, brattia, tu Galitseiu, I was not unfamiliar with these songs To perish now in you. Khot to myla ridna vitchyna, of emigration. Indeed, many years ago, the ; that is, with a final “o” rather than an “a”: Ya tam nakhodyvsia, vsiuda in fact, in the early 1970s, I first heard These very same themes are repeated nadyvyvsia, I odrobynky pravdy and read of these songs in a marvelous Kanado, Kanado, yaka ty zradlyva, down to the letter in the songs quoted in tam nema. little book by the premier Ukrainian Kanado, Kanado, yaka ty zradlyva, Talanchuk and Kysly’s “The Heroic Epic Canadian folklorist, Robert B. Klymasz. Ne odnoho muzha z zhinkov of the Ukrainian People.” Leave that Galicia, brothers, rozluchyla! Other themes, however, are not. In Dr. Though it be our homeland, not Thomas M. Prymak is research associate Hey-yah-hey, z zhinkov rozluchyla! Klymasz’s “Introduction to the Ukrainian- others’. at the Center for European, Russian and Canadian Immigrant Folksong Cycle,” I’ve been around, seen a lot, Eurasian Studies, Munk Center for I translate these lines thus: many other motifs appear. These include Not a speck of justice, has it got. International Studies, University of Toronto. songs of adaptation to the new country, He is the author of “Maple Leaf and Oh, Canada, Canada, how deceitful songs of success and praise of the new Rather, Mr. Michaluk advises: Trident: The Ukrainian Canadians During you are in life, land, “macaronic songs” mixing Ukrainian the Second World War” (1988) and other Oh, Canada, Canada, how deceitful and English in an attempt to describe life Idit do Kanady, ne vidkladaite. works on Ukrainian and Ukrainian you are in life. in Canada, and certain “ritual songs” Khot budete rik-dva bidyty, Canadian history. You have separated many a husband marking particularly important events in A potomu samy i dity vashi Vsi po pansky budety zhyty.

Go now to Canada; just don’t delay, Though you’ll surely suffer a while on the way, Later you, and your children, too, Will live like lords, it’s certainly true.

Mr. Michaluk goes on to say that in Canada everyone is equal, everyone is addressed by the title “sir,” taxes are low, and land is plentiful and cheap. In short, Canada is a very good place to live and is certainly much better than the old country. I recall that in the early 1970s, I played these recordings for my late grandmother’s sister, my elderly great aunt, who was the last survivor in our family from that pioneer generation, although she herself had come to Canada between the wars. She was deeply moved and could not help but weep. Turning to us, the younger generation of the day, she affirmed: “It’s true! It’s true, that’s the way it was.” Thus, it was with some surprise that when I examined “The Heroic Epic of the Ukrainian People” in 2006, I could (Continued on page 18) No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 9

REMEMBERING OUR VETERANS Clifton veterans recall fallen heroes Florida UAV post marks Memorial Day CLIFTON, N.J. – On May 27 at hun- A roadside bomb also killed Sgt. dreds of cemeteries across the nation, both Cadavero, 25, a combat medic with the civilian and military, grateful Americans 10th Mountain Division, on February 27 gathered to honor and pay homage to our during a convoy operation. Sgt. Cadavero’s nation’s fallen heroes. It was no different mother, Nadia Cadavero, attended the cere- at Cedar Lawn Cemetery where members mony to honor her son and the sons of the of Post 17 of the Ukrainian American fallen servicemen from Post 17. Veterans (UAV) gathered to remember fel- Commander Fedorko posted the flag- low community members who made the bearers and invited the special guests ultimate sacrifice for their country. from the Passaic branch of Plast At this Memorial Day service two new Ukrainian Scouting Organization, Borys names were added to the Ukrainian Hayda and his daughter, to stand with the American Veterans monument: Sgt. Jon post members. Cadavero and Sgt. Yevgeny Ryndych. The post chaplain read a prayer and Both soldiers were killed in Iraq within taps were played. The Rev. Ihor Royik of the last 12 months. Post commander St. Nicholas Parish in Passaic, N.J., and James Fedorko prepared an easel with the Rev. Oleh Zhownirovych of Holy photographs of the two young soldiers. Assention Orthodox Church in Clifton Sgt. Ryndych was born in Kyiv, of offered the panakhyda (memorial service). Ukraine, and immigrated to the United Clifton Councilman Peter Eagler, was States with his family in 1998. Sgt. present at the service as a sign of respect Ryndych was on his second tour in Iraq for the fallen heroes of the Ukrainian and assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division American community. when he was killed by a roadside bomb on Ms. Cadavero thanked the post for December 6, 2006. He was 24 years old. remembering her son and the sons of others.

Members of Ukrainian American Veterans Post 40 (from left): Jerry Zinycz, John Homick, Rostyslaw Ratycz, Julian Helbig, Orestes Lazor, Demetrius Yadzyn, Marian Bojsiuk, Nicholas Milanytch and Atanas Kobryn during a Memorial Day ceremony in North Port, Fla.

by Jerry Zinycz Kovalyshin, pastor, and the Rev. Andrew Marko, a visiting priest from Ohio. NORTH PORT, Fla. – Observing The post members, led by a color Memorial Day is an established tradition guard composed of Marian Bojsiuk, of Cpl. Roman G. Lazor of Post 40 of the Julian Helbig and Orestes Lazor, ceremo- Ukrainian American Veterans (UAV) in niously entered the church. During the North Port, Florida. This year, Memorial service, Atanas Kobryn, UAV past Day and the Ukrainian “Zeleni Sviata” national commander, and Jerry Zinycz, fell on the same weekend. post vice-commander, held lighted can- On Saturday, May 26, Post 40 deco- dles, while the other members stood at rated the graves of Ukrainian American attention. veterans and Ukrainian veterans of After the panakhyda, Luba World War II with appropriate flags – Dobrowolska Ingram, the choir director, American flags for Ukrainian American led the choir and the entire congregation veterans and blue-and-yellow flags for in a beautiful rendition of “God Bless Ukrainian veterans. There are six America.” Ukrainian American and 12 Ukrainian On Monday, May 28, the post, togeth- Nadia Cadavero, whose son, Sgt. Jon Cadavero, was killed by a roadside bomb in veterans interred at Venice Memorial er with a well-represented Ukrainian Iraq, with members of UAV Post 17 at the Ukrainian American Veterans Monument. Gardens. American community, took part in the To commemorate Memorial Day, annual observance of Memorial Day at before Sunday liturgy, members of Post Veterans Memorial Park in North Port, 40 gave out red, white and blue ribbons Fla. American Legion Post 254 was the Quotable notes to parishioners entering St. Mary’s and sponsor and host of this year’s cere- St. Andrew’s churches. Parishioners monies. from both congregations donated gener- The UAV post wreath was laid at the “I just care about my friends – this platoon, that everybody will come home.” ously to the UAV fund. Veterans Monument by three past com- Also on Sunday, May 27, the Post manders of the post – Messrs. Bojsiuk, – Pfc. Stanislav Mykhaylichenko, 20, of New York, a Ukrainian immigrant whose arranged for a “panakhyda” (memorial Zinycz and Kobryn. Among the many father fought in the Soviet army in Afghanistan in the 1980s, as quoted in a February service) for all veterans in St. Mary veterans’ groups, the UAV colors were 23 story in The Washington Post about a platoon of U.S. soldiers (from Alpha Ukrainian Catholic Church. The cele- prominently displayed by Rostyslaw Company, 1st Cavalry Division) embedded at the Iraqi police station in Baqubah. brants were the Rev. Severyn Ratycz, Mr. Lazor and Mr. Helbig.

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stimulate the development of a free, The program continued with the per- belonging to Hetman Mazepa. Then a University... democratic Ukraine. We are standing on formance of Kyiv Mohyla Academy’s human chain of students and faculty was (Continued from page 1) the same ground where hundreds of chamber choir, Pochaina, under the direc- formed in order to pass books from hand president of Selfreliance Ukrainian years ago its first donor, Halshka tion of Oleksander Zhyhun and later with to hand into the new library as a symbol American Federal Credit Union and Hulevychivna, and then Petro Mohyla, the music of the university’s folk ensem- of mutual commitment to the search for chairman of the Ukrainian National Hetman Ivan Mazepa, Hetman Petro ble, Bozhytsi. Exhibits of photographs knowledge and the passing of the univer- Credit Union Association, Bohdan Konashevych Sahaidachnyi, Hetman and art work by university students were sity’s academic legacy on to future gen- Watral, and renowned Ukrainian writers Ivan Skoropadskyi and others, inaugurat- displayed in the corridors of the new erations. Within an hour, close to 3,000 Alexander Motyl from the United States ed the tradition of supporting public library and throughout the campus. books were deposited into the library. and Vira Vowk from Brazil. causes in this university – a tradition The ceremony ended with the presen- The library’s collection will be available The absence of the library’s principal which we reinstated in post-Soviet times tation of the first two books to the for use in the new academic year. donor, Omelian Antonovych, was sadly by contributing to the university and library: a book belonging to noted. He was not able to travel to the making this library possible.” Metropolitan Mohyla and another –Kyiv Mohyla Academy Press Service opening due to health reasons. Mr. Antonovych currently lives in Lviv, where he returned to live after decades of making his home in the United States. At a separate ceremony held at the his- toric Research Library built by Hetman Ivan Mazepa in 1703, the Academic Council of the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy awarded an hon- orary doctoral degree to former Canadian Prime Minister Chrétien in recognition of his special role in the building and devel- opment of bilateral relations between Ukraine and Canada. In his inspiring acceptance speech, Mr. Chrétien said, “I am pleased to become part of your Kyiv Mohyla fami- ly. I have great faith in the wisdom of the Ukrainian people and in the country’s future.” Based on his dedicated 45 years of public service to Canada, the former prime minister called upon Kyiv Mohyla Academy to encourage its graduates to choose careers in government and to par- ticipate in building a stable and prosper- ous country for its people. On behalf of the Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America, Ms. Farion stat- ed: “The Kyiv Mohyla Academy contin- ues its historic mission in education, aca- demic research and publications by pro- At ceremonies marking the opening of NUKMA’s new library (from left): Library Director Tetiana Yaroshenko, former viding information, challenging dis- Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien, Kyiv Mohyla Academy President Viacheslav Briukhovetsky, unidentified woman course and an academic environment to and Co-Chairman of the Kyiv Mohyla Foundation and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Green Miller. No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 11 Scottish-Ukrainian artist Michael Murphenko speaks about his work ten about me talks about this ... But I real- art, music – are trying to find the mean- something very important ... ly liked Ukraine and to me, if there is only ing of human existence. But not external- So, for me, hilism is that desire or that one city that compares to Kyiv, it’s New ly, not saying, “this is how it should be” promise to oneself to do whatever they York. New York is enormous; but Kyiv – for this, we have laws, churches, reli- can, even if this will be a small thing but also has its identity, its individualism, gions and so forth – but something inter- positive in a sense of growth. Does this where people can do what they love ... nal. Since I’m doing visual art, my inter- all make sense? And so, I was a foreign artist in Kyiv ests are color, texture and form; how it Sure, it makes perfect sense. Hilism and everybody talked of this … I was effects the body. When I am creating a is against nihilism; and such double annoyed; I thought: Why don’t you just picture, I rather trust my own body, negation is positive. I’ve noticed you look at the pictures instead of talking of me which does not speak in words. speak of art as healing, but a healing being a foreign artist… So now, I am talked So, do you care to explain the mean- art is to no extent ironic. And yet, I about not as a foreign artist, but a Ukrainian ing of your works? know the critics refer to you as a post- artist born in a foreign country. I personally modern artist, which implies being sar- don’t understand what that means. Yes I do. After a piece is done, I can castic and ironic. How do you identify For me, it’s all confusing: the world is withdraw myself from this state into a or position yourself? changing so fast now that we don’t have more objective state and think about it, that many closed rooms any more. or attribute to it a certain meaning. Modernism is over. Everyone is a Ukrainians are in New York, new-york- Sometimes, the titles are not even given postmodernist; we all are, simply ers live in Ukraine; my daughter knows by me, as it happened to my painting because we live now. From what I know Michael Murphenko everything about Japanese cartoons, but she knows also about Russian literature The Ukrainian Institute of America and she knows what Ukrainian children (UIA) recently hosted the first U.S. exhi- say in the schoolroom. bition of the Ukrainian artist Michael So, am I right in saying that your Murphenko, “Hilism.” The opening took name change is your response to this place on Thursday, May 17, and the reception? exhibit ran through June 10. Michael Murphenko (Murphy) was Yes, that’s right. I do think I am born in Scotland, grew up in Australia, responding, because I am still a young studied art in Belgium and fell in love in artist and it takes time for artists to real- Germany. He fell in love with a Ukrainian ize what they are doing ... And when you girl, and later with Ukraine. He fell in appear to be in a certain culture, it’s like love so strongly, that he took the pseudo- a disease, so, you just get infected. nym “Murphenko,” opening his soul for- I’ve noticed you write the text that ever to the lively and generous meta- goes along with your works in your physics of the Ukrainian land. Combined catalogue, and so I wonder: How do “Ukraina,” 2007, (oil on canvas, 59.1) by 78.7 inches. with the European school of art, this you see the relationship between your added to Michael’s artistic style a unique visual and literary texts? “Ukraina.” My wife and my curator saw about postmodernism, it is that there are intonation – both intellectually convincing Ukraine on this canvas and they told me and sensual. Svitlana Matviyenko spoke I’m not afraid of philosophy or texts. thousands of theories flying around and about this, and I agreed. with the artist on May 22 at the UIA. Speaking about my art, the thing I con- nobody agrees with anybody. It’s all centrate on is light, but it’s human light. Do you see your work as a response quite confusing. From what I’ve read from other And for me, all texts – literature, visual to a certain philosophy, say to But how can you not be a postmod- reviews, I get the idea that the details of Nietzsche’s nihilism? How would you ernist if modernism is dead? But if you your identity provoke vivid interest explain the concept of “hilism,” which are a postmodernist, this does not mean among critics. Having become interested is yours, right? you immediately agree with Derrida, or in Ukraine, where you came to live, Lacan, or Foucault or anyone else ... So, along with changing of your name to Well, I came up with this concept to me, when critics write about me that sound more Ukrainian is quite intriguing because I don’t like to do things I’m a postmodernist, it does sound a lit- to me. How do you explain this identity “against”; for instance, I don’t like to game? How do you feel within the protest against war, because when people tle too old, it’s not my world. Ukrainian cultural milieu? protest they concentrate on the negative. Speaking about post-modern sarcasm With hilism, the idea is to concentrate on and irony, I think today it’s a big mistake I was born in Scotland, in Glasgow, to the positive – not excluding the negative to work within sarcasm and irony an Irish family, and then my family moved but making the positive as strong as pos- because the communication has to be to Australia, so I grew up in Australia and sible. Then you put it onto the negative, clear, and because sarcasm and irony I was Australian, but then I went to Europe and then you resolve it and move on. immediately weaken your communica- to see the galleries and museums because I Hilism is about doing small things. One tion and your influence. You are immedi- did not live in a big city. Then I met my person by themselves cannot do much in ately saying: “art is not strong enough to wife and moved to Ukraine. the world, but he can affect many others resolve politics” or “racism is stronger People kept saying: “How is that pos- “Portrait of the Son,” 2007, oil on canvas, 23.6 x 23.6 inches. and many small things may turn into than art.” I am trying to say the opposite. sible that all other artists are leaving Ukraine for Moscow, Europe and the U.S.A., but you came here, hoping to work in Ukraine and to enjoy it?” The Ukrainian Weekly announces a special section And it’s true, nearly every article writ- Congratulations,Graduates!Congratulations,Graduates! Every year tens of thousands of students throughout North America receive undergraduate and graduate degrees MAY WE HELP YOU? at colleges and universities, cresting a pinnacle of personal achievement. 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Armed with towels, sunscreen, var- end, May 26-28, at the Indiana Dunes State Park. ious assorted balls and, most importantly, Scouts from all over the Midwest, most stylish shades, the Plast scouts embarked on a notably Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland, strenuous hike to the beach. They climbed up attended the camporee, organized this and down the sandy dunes for which the park year by the Plast branch in Chicago. A is famous. The hikers were rewarded with a total of 104 “yunaky” and “yunachky” beautiful view of a vast lake, a pristine beach (boys and girls age 11-18) participated; and the Chicago skyline in the far distance. there were 22 young adult Plast members The day was spent at the beach with in the “komanda” and “bulava” (leader- youths building sandcastles, swimming, ship) of the weekend event. playing football, soccer, volleyball and Saturday looked promising, with the Frisbee, tanning and rocking out to some sun peeping out from behind the clouds, solid tunes. At the onset of nightfall, all

John Olshansky “Yunachky” and “yunaky” assemble at “Sviato Vesny.”

John Olshansky John Olshansky Members of the girls’ 6th Unit on the boardwalk at Indiana Dunes State Park. Scouts hike through the forest during “Sviato Vesny.” and the Plast scouts were overjoyed to returned to camp and, in true Plast fashion, see familiar faces, many of which they prepared a bonfire. At this bonfire, five had not seen since last summer. The Plast members, Roman J. Huwel, Mark youths set up tents at designated camp- Dzuik, Mark Wesolowsky, Damien sites, which were surrounded by a virgin Hrytziw, Andrea Kaziniwska and this forest and beautiful spring flowers. writer were sworn in as eagle scouts. The program opened with a moleben Monday was bittersweet, as Plast led by Father Paul Hayda, followed by members were reluctant to leave such an informative lecture by a ranger at the good times and such a beautiful place. Indiana Dunes State Park. However all were looking forward to the Unfortunately it began to rain soon next meeting with their friends and to after and almost everyone was thorough- making new friends at the world Plast ly drenched, several tents leaked, and a jamboree, which will be held in Canada couple of tents were even downed by the this summer on August 4-19. strong winds. But none of this hindered Thanks were extended to Father the Plast members from enjoying the Hayda, the Chicago branch leadership, evening dance held in a nearby rustic the komanda of “Sviato Vesny” (Damien cabin. The youths danced until midnight, Matusiak, Alex Hryhorczuk, Antin often shaking the floor with amazing Durbak and Roxy Kozyckij), counselors, dance moves performed in unison. chefs, administrators, and to all parents On Sunday the older scouts organized a Diana Iwanik and other volunteers who helped make series of “hydration games,” which left our The “bulava” and “komanda” (leadership) of “Sviato Vesny.” this weekend possible.

Diana Iwanik Plast youths and counselors on a dune at the beach. No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 13 Ukrainian American Youth Association holds its 48th annual “Zlet” by Orest Kozicky ELLENVILLE, N.Y. – The Ukrainian American Youth Association (UAYA) sponsored its 48th consecutive annual “Zlet” on May 26-27 here at the UAYA Youth Resort. Zlet is the annual spring youth rally for members ranging from 4- 17 years of age from East Coast CYM branches (“viddily”). Zlet presents the opportunity for UAYA member to engage in academic and athletic competitions and poetry recitations that demonstrate their knowledge about various aspects of Ukrainian history and cultural traditions and their usage of the Ukrainian lan- guage, and gives them the opportunity to perform with their dance, choral and drama ensembles within a talent contest- type concert. The athletic events include individual competitions in 50-,60- and 100-yard sprints, 440- 880-yard and mile runs, plus Bishop Paul Chomnycky with “Zlet” 2007 participants.

competitions in the long jump, shot put and relay races. The 13-17 age group also participated in a volleyball tournament. A highlight of this year’s Zlet was the visit of Bishop Paul Chomnycky of the Stamford Eparchy of the Ukrainian Catholic Church to celebrate liturgy on Sunday morning and to bless two new icons in the resort’s chapel before taking part in a UAYA group photo. The eparch was accompanied by Father Bohdan Danylo. This year’s Zlet included 286 partici- pants from 11 UAYA branches located on the Eastern Seaboard: Baltimore, Md.; New York; Binghamton, Goshen and Yonkers, N.Y.; Irvington, Jersey City, Whippany and Passaic, N.J.; Hartford, Conn.; and Philadelphia. This year the task for coordinating A view of the sprint during the sports competition. Zlet fell upon members from the of Yonkers, tied for the “Pershun” (cham- Hartford and Boston branches. The pion) trophy for the most points in the 6- “komandant” was Anna Pokora, and the 12 age group, while Natalia Surmachevska “bunchuznijhnyi” was Roman Kebalo, both from Hartford, while Michael Nosal of New York City was the “Pershun” for of Boston ran the sports events. Together the 13-17 age group. with their enthusiastic team of individual Bohdan Harhaj, the president of the event coordinators and computer techs, national executive board of UAYA, the group successfully coordinated the closed the awards ceremonies by multiple aspects of Zlet. expressing his gratitude to Ms. Pokora The Philadelphia branch took first place and to her entire Hartford-Boston contin- in overall points achieved. Goshen took gent of organizers, as well as to the Natalia Surmachevska, “Zlet” cham- second place, and Hartford came in third. youths for their participation in another pion in the 6-12 age group. David Rusyniak and Gregory Smith, both successful Zlet.

David Rusyniak and Gregory Smith, champions in the 6-12 age group.

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the natural-gas trade in the coming Russia supplies Ukraine with subsidized Polish publicist, historian, public figure NEWSBRIEFS months. “Ukraine and Russia should gas, Interfax reported. Mr. Chalyi said and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspa- (Continued from page 14) make this situation more transparent. [We that from 1992 to 2000, Russia sold per Gazeta Wyborcza, was recognized for than 60 days before the election date, that need to show] what the real prices are and Ukraine some 30 billion cubic meters of his contributions toward advocating free- is, on August 1. “I can say straightfor- what the real financial sources are here, gas annually at $80 per 1,000 cubic dom of expression in the world, courage wardly: The coalition and the govern- the flow of money, and the risks of dirty meters. Thus, Mr. Chalyi argued, Russia in asserting freedom’s ideals and develop- ment work within the framework of the money and money laundering. To know charged Ukraine more than it charged ment of Ukrainian-Polish Relations. law, while the president and the opposi- the real situation, the real operators, the European countries, which bought President Viktor Yushchenko conferred on tion work outside this framework,” Mr. real deal, is crucial,” Mr. Nalyvaichenko Russian gas in the same period at $67.5- him the Order of Yaroslav the Wise, third Moroz added. (RFE/RL Newsline) added. (RFE/RL Newsline) $80 per 1,000 cubic meters on average. degree. (Ukrinform) At the same time, Ukraine has been pro- Tsushko undergoes medical exam President to Moroz: leave the stage viding its gas transit and storage services Days of Ukrainian Culture in Poland KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko BERLIN – Ukraine’s Internal Affairs at rates that are far lower than those in WARSAW – The 11th Days of the called on Verkhovna Rada Chairman Minister Vasyl Tsushko has undergone a Europe, Mr. Chalyi added. President Ukrainian Culture festival was under way Oleksander Moroz to “leave the political medical examination at the St. Bernward Putin recently told Western media that in the Polish city of Szczecin, it was report- state with dignity,” it was reported on Hospital in Hildesheim, the hospital’s Russia’s supply of cheap energy resources ed on June 5. The festival was organized by June 12. The president urged Mr. Moroz, receptionist Claus Knauder said. Mr. to Ukraine for the past 15 years has the Ukrainian community in Poland and the who also is the leader of the Socialist Tsushko was taken to Hannover on May amounted to a subsidy of $3 billion to $5 Cultural-Information Department of the Party of Ukraine, to stop his destructive 31 and checked into the hospital the same billion each year. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ukrainian Embassy in Poland. The event day. According to Mr. Knauder, Mr. actions and adhere to the agreements he Bush: Russian reforms “derailed” saw the participation of Ukrainian has signed. Mr. Yushchenko laid the Tsushko was undergoing medical exami- Ambassador to Poland Oleksander Motsyk blame squarely on Mr. Moroz for the fact nation under supervision of the chief PRAGUE – U.S. President George W. and the acting head of the Cultural that the Parliament continues to function doctor of the cardiology department, Karl Bush said in Prague on June 5 that the Information Department within the Polish illegitimately. Not all politicians have Scholz, who has established no poison in planned missile-defense shield is directed Embassy in Ukraine, Nataliya Savina. enough wisdom and honesty to under- his blood. German physicians recom- against “a rogue regime” and not against Within the framework of the event, an stand that “you have to know how to mended physical training and complete Russia, adding that “Russia is not our exhibition by Ukrainian artist Oleksander leave the game graciously.” (Ukrinform) rest for Mr. Tsushko. They believe he enemy,” news agencies reported. Mr. Dobrodii was held in the castle where the will recover in three weeks. Mr. Tsushko Bush called on President Vladimir Putin festival’s kick-off was held. (Ukrinform) Yushchenko on Putin’s threat has recently switched hospitals after his to “cooperate with us on a missile- whereabouts were established and New flight between Lviv and Madrid KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko defense system.” Referring to Russian revealed by the press. (Ukrinform) after a meeting with his Russian counter- democratic reforms, Mr. Bush said on KYIV –Ukraine International Airlines part, Vladimir Putin, said in a June 13 Left wing parties blame president June 5 that “reforms that were once (UIA) has begun weekly international interview with The Globe and Mail of promised to empower citizens have been flights between Lviv and Madrid, it was Canada that he took seriously Russian KYIV – The Socialist Party and the derailed, with troubling implications for reported on June 5. Last year the airline President Vladimir Putin’s recent threat Communist Party on June 7 released a democratic development.” On June 6, saw an increase in passengers of 14.9 per- to target Europe with ballistic missiles, statement accusing Ukrainian President Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said cent or 130,000 passengers, reaching near- and said such talk has heightened his Viktor Yushchenko of blocking a peace- that “we cannot agree with ... Bush about ly 1 million passengers in 2006. The ful solution to the ongoing political cri- country’s desire to quickly join the North a rollback of reforms. Russia is a demo- UIA’s shareholders are the State Property sis, the Ukrayinska Pravda website Atlantic Treaty Organization. Mr. cratic state that shares world and Fund of Ukraine, with 61.6 percent of reported. According to the authors of the Yushchenko said the new belligerence of European values.” (RFE/RL Newsline) shares, Austrian Airlines with 22.5 per- statement, Mr. Yushchenko’s presidential Ukraine’s largest neighbor demonstrates cent, the Debis AerFinance with 6 percent decree scheduling early parliamentary Adam Michnik honored by Ukraine the need for the country to be swiftly and the European Bank for Reconstruction elections for September 30 is based on brought under NATO’s security umbrella. WARSAW – The Ukrainian Embassy and Development with 9.9 percent. In the “statements of several pro-presiden- “This is a policy that is not against some- in Poland on June 5 hosted a solemn cere- 2007 the company intends to serve 1.2 tial parties,” rather than on legal grounds. body. This is the policy that is most suit- mony at which Adam Michnik, noted million passengers. (Ukrinform) able for the security and defense of the The joint statement questions the legality nation.” He added, “The recent events, I of the resignations submitted by lawmak- think, show to everyone that we have ers of Our Ukraine. Mr. Yushchenko quite a creaky security balance. This real- argues that those resignations render the ly triggers some concerns and could be Verkhovna Rada illegitimate. The state- really painful. … It’s becoming more and ment argues that Our Ukraine comprises more apparent that the best response to representatives of many political parties, all the challenges regarding defense and and that all those parties must adopt a security policy can only be given through joint decision on their members’ resigna- a collective system of defense. … Our tions. The statement also accused the defense and security doctrine is formally president of “exerting pressure on the determined in law. And a key aspect of Constitutional Court” and “usurping this doctrine is to provide Ukraine’s power,” and stressed the need for interna- ілимося сумною вісткою з родиною й українською громадою, accession to the European Union and the tional mediators to help resolve the polit- що 9 травня 2007 р. відійшла у ожу вічність North Atlantic bloc.” (Ukrinform) ical crisis. (RFE/RL Newsline) на 83-му році життя наша найдорожча Opposition to unite for elections International military exercises slated АА і А!Я KYIV – Negotiations on the formation KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko, of an election bloc comprising Our taking into consideration Ukraine’s obli- св. п. Ukraine, the People’s Self-Defense and gation as a state-participant in the Ukrainian Right Wing are in the final Partnership for Peace program, on June 7 stage. The top five on the joint elections issued a decree to hold multinational for- $А%&'()А *УЯ list includes, Yurii Lutsenko, Viacheslav eign military exercises on the territory of нар. 25 лютого 1924 р. в Україні. Kyrylenko, Anatolii Hrytsenko, Arsenii Ukraine with participation of foreign Yatsenyuk and Mykola Katerynchuk, how- troops. According to the decree, the terri- /окійна була активною в українській громаді в церквах у <о- ever, the final composition of the list can tory of Ukraine will host Ukrainian- рейн, Огайо і >т. /ітерсбурґ, @льорида. ула активною членкою be altered by President Viktor Yushchenko. Russian exercises in air defense, The opposition has also distributed parlia- Ukrainian-Belgium tactical exercises, >оюзу Українок Америки та довголітнім членом Українського )а- mentary seats. Thus, 25, 21 and 54 per- command-staff maneuvers with Rapid родного >оюзу. cent, respectively, of seats are meant for Trident 2007 forces, common tactical the People’s Self-Defense, Ukrainian Right exercises of the Ukrainian Air Force and /ОAО'О))І CІ/'АC( відбулися в суботу, 12 травня 2007 р. в Wing and Our Ukraine. (Ukrinform) the U.S. Air Force Combined Effort 2007, as well as the tactical naval maneu- Українській католицькій церкві у >т. /ітерсбурґу, @ла. %лінні ос- SBU chief cites Russian interference vers Sea Breeze 2007. The Cabinet of танки поховано на Calvary Cemetery, St. Petersburg, FL. KYIV – Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, the Ministers is obliged to secure timely acting head of the Security Service of admission and withdrawal of armed У глибокому смутку залишені: Ukraine (SBU), said in an interview with forces units of other states to and from донька – О<Я з чоловіком ІCА)О і сином the territory of Ukraine, as well as to the Financial Times published on June 11 А'$О that Russian political interference and the secure citizens safety. The Verkhovna lack of transparency surrounding energy Rada authorized the foreign troops’ шваґер – CО<О((' *УЯ з дружиною GА)&% imports from Russia threaten Ukraine as admission to Ukraine for 2007 exercises та родиною on April 6. (Ukrinform) it strives to overcome the current political рідні – )А%А<$А *УЯ з чоловіком CА>(<& crisis. “We are a young country. For any Claim about gas subsidies rejected country it is dangerous when domestic і родиною. politics are interfered with by foreign KYIV – Oleksander Chalyi, the deputy та ближча і дальша родина. sources,” Mr. Nalyvaichenko said. The head of the Ukrainian Presidential SBU chief promised that Russia and Secretariat, on June 6 challenged Russian Cічна Hї пам'ять! Ukraine will provide greater clarity about President Vladimir Putin’s statement that 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 No. 24 Ukrainian National Foundation in support of Soyuzivka presents the

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to reform the nation’s law enforcement the crisis that unfolded. U.S. envoy... organs. “I would encourage Ukrainian Western observers are concerned that Former ambassador has politicians and officials and government the president’s two decrees to dismiss (Continued from page 1) to examine this roadmap, this concept of Parliament and call for pre-term elec- Of particular concern was the confu- reform for law enforcement and move for- tions may have been unlawful, Mr. Pifer suggestions for Ukraine sion in the chain of command of Internal ward,” Mr. Taylor said. said, along with the “attacks on the Affairs Ministry police, troops and spe- During the two years following the Constitutional Court” during the last by Zenon Zawada cial divisions, Mr. Taylor said, resulting Orange Revolution, Western leaders eight weeks. Kyiv Press Bureau in both sides employing separate forces noticed “really important progress” in Admittedly, the corruption and unfair- KYIV – Former U.S. Ambassador to in their favor. implementing democratic reforms and ness of the court’s judges can’t be chal- Ukraine Steven Pifer offered five sug- On May 25 Mr. Yushchenko issued a consolidating democratic institutions, lenged, he said. “I think the judges on gestions for Ukraine to redeem the posi- decree assuming command of internal former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine the court should be worried, they should tive image it had in the West before the troops to take them out of the control of Steven Pifer told the forum. be alarmed, quite frankly they should be spring political crisis brought the govern- Minister of Internal Affairs Vasyl The evidence was a flourishing press, a embarrassed by the fact that polls show ment to the brink of civil conflict. Tsushko and the coalition government. thriving non-governmental sector and free that less than 18 percent of the Ukrainian The September 30 elections have to be Mr. Tsushko had allegedly asked for and fair elections in which the opposition public trust them to make a fair and as good as, if not better than, the 2006 1,500 internal army soldiers, 500 Omega party won the most votes. At that point, impartial decision.” parliamentary election process, he said at special division troops, six snipers, a hel- Ukraine had demonstrated its commit- A very negative development during Ukraine’s Euroatlantic Future icopter and a landing pad in central ment to democratic ideals, Mr. Pifer said. the crisis was the politicization of not International Forum in Kyiv on June 12. Kyiv, Internal Army Commander Ukraine’s democratic progress began only the Constitutional Court, but also the “If that’s not the case, Ukraine may be to unravel in the fall, he said, which is Oleksander Kikhtenko said. Procurator General’s Office, the Ministry seen as backsliding on democracy, and when the coalition government took Verkhovna Rada Chair Oleksander of Internal Affairs and the Security that will not be good for Ukraine’s power under Mr. Yanukovych’s leader- Moroz accused the president of conduct- Service of Ukraine, Mr. Pifer said, which image,” said Mr. Pifer, who serves as the ship. Proof of that was the questionable ing a putsch, or a secretly plotted and “damaged Ukraine’s image in the West.” Russia and Eurasia Program senior advi- dismissal of Minister of Foreign Affairs suddenly executed attempt to overthrow “I suspect if NATO were to do the sor at the Center for Strategic and a government. Borys Tarasyuk, the January law on the scorecard now in terms of Ukraine’s International Studies in Washington. The next day, Mr. Yushchenko mobi- Cabinet of Ministers that may have had movement on democracy, the score would Any political leaders undermining free lized 3,480 of these troops to Kyiv. unconstitutional provisions and the be lower than was the case a year ago, and and fair elections that were an essential After Berkut Special Forces and traffic attempt to form a 300-vote constitutional that’s not good for Ukraine,” he noted. part of the May 27 political compromise police led by Mr. Tsushko blocked their majority in Parliament by attracting To their credit, Ukraine’s leaders will lose credibility in the West, he said. buses from driving into the capital, the opposition deputies. Ukrainian politicians must also draft troops began moving toward Kyiv by foot. The latter tactic “perhaps was not uncon- reached a very important compromise that pulled the country away from the amendments to the Constitution that would After the May 27 political compro- stitutional, but was certainly inconsistent remove the ambiguities that exacerbated mise had been reached, Mr. Yushchenko with the democratic model that Ukraine had brink, he said. But it’s just as critical for the compromise to stick and become the spring political crisis. “There needs to claimed he ordered the dispatch of only embraced in which the Parliament was be a clear delineation, a clear division in 2,000 internal army troops only to moni- based on party lists,” Mr. Pifer said. “So to implemented, added Mr. Pifer, who cur- rently serves as senior advisor of the power between the president and the prime tor the Dynamo Kyiv-Shakhtar Donetsk some extent, I think the perception in the minister, and between the president and the soccer match later that evening. West was that the crisis was triggered by Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Verkhovna Rada,” Mr. Pifer said. Decisions to send internal army troops this effort by the majority to expand its “And, if these ambiguities are not Studies in Washington. toward Kyiv “gave many of us pause, con- power at the expense of the president.” fixed, my concern is Ukraine can have “I’ve talked to lots of Ukrainians in cern and worry that security reform and Mr. Yushchenko’s response to defend the these elections in September, and in the last five days that I’ve been here, and the security situation may not be ready” to Ukrainian presidency was understandable, October and November be right back in nobody can give me a good explanation meet NATO standards, Mr. Taylor said. said the former U.S. envoy to Ukraine. the same situation,” he added. The National Security and Defense However, most Western observers or a good course for how Ukraine moves Ukraine also needs to de-politicize its Council led by close presidential ally Ivan believe both the president and the coali- forward politically if this compromise Pliusch is currently reviewing a blueprint tion government bear responsibility for becomes undone,” he said. (Continued on page 22) 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 No. 24

was the Khrushchev era, a time of signif- ing to allow Washington to deploy U.S. “The missing Canadians”... icant thaw in the Soviet system. Yet even Russia still sees... missile defense elements. In the same at this time of liberalizing “thaw” and in interview Mr. Putin proclaimed himself (Continued from page 8) (Continued from page 2) this massive collection of songs, which to be a “friend of the U.S.” Apparently, only find those sorrowful complaints contained nine texts with direct reference Arms Control Today, April 2004). At the Mr. Putin believes in friendship based on against Canada, those mournful refrains: to Canada (two with musical transcrip- same time, there is a problem in finding threats. “O Kanado, Kanadochko, Yaka ty zradly- tions), no positive reference to the new a delivery system to use in a nuclear Inside the Russian ruling elite open va!” But no trace of the songs of adapta- country was made. There were only attack on Europe. Russian ICBMs are threats or the actual use of limited force tion and success in the new land. laments, complaints and a desire to return designated primarily to hit far-off U.S. are the trump cards in any negotiations. Examples of Ukrainian Canadian folk to the European homeland. Indeed, the and Chinese targets. During the Cold But in dealings with the West, Mr. songs were there, but they were both very terms “old country” (staryi krai) and War intermediate ballistic missiles, like Putin’s natural political tendencies con- woefully incomplete and completely mis- “new country” (novyi krai), so basic to the Pioneer (SS-20), were deployed to stantly backfire, as do Mr. Putin’s jokes. leading. the language of the immigrants, seemed target Europe, but the 1987 INF treaty In his interview with Western journal- Of course, during the long hard years to have been banned from the Soviet destroyed all such weapons. ists, Mr. Putin announced that after the of Soviet rule in Ukraine, it would be vocabulary. This pattern of censorship Today’s war games use long-range death of Indian spiritual and political understandable that no kind words were was followed not only for Canada but strategic cruise missiles as a substitute leader Mahatma Gandhi, he “does not to be found there to describe the new also for the United States and Brazil, the weapon to hit Europe. Mr. Putin consid- have a person to speak with.” That, evi- country to which the immigrants came. two other major destinations of the ers the question of whether or not to use dently, was a joke, especially as Gandhi For the Soviet regime and Soviet folklore “Great Economic Emigration.” cruise missiles or something else in such was killed in 1948. In the same dispatch studies, Canada was nothing more than a Although this rigid ideological attacks to be a technical, not legal, prob- Mr. Putin also said, “Ukraine is sliding place of capitalist exploitation and impe- approach to Canadian immigrant folk lem. In the interview Mr. Putin stated into tyranny,” while in fact Ukrainians rialist reaction. Poor immigrants could song was understandable when displayed the intention to abrogate the INF treaty. have decided to settle their political cri- not do well there; therefore, their songs on the pages of a strictly censored Soviet This could solve the “technical problem” sis through national elections. Was this could contain nothing but laments and publication, I could not fathom why it of how to nuke Europe. Putin added, another joke? Or does Putin hate free complaints. In the 1960s and 1970s, Dr. would also be reflected in “The Heroic “The INF issue is not connected directly elections that much? Klymasz himself bemoaned this rigid Epic of the Ukrainian People,” published to U.S. plans to deploy MD [Missile Soviet interpretation and labeled it sim- in independent Ukraine in 1993, after Defense] in Europe, but we will find ply “tendentious.” several years of “glasnost” and “pere- responses to this threat and the other The UPA’s... That the Soviet censors strictly stroika” (perebudova in Ukrainian) and one” (www.kremlin.ru, June 4; EDM, enforced this interpretation is made two years of political independence and February 21). (Continued from page 7) amply clear in a monumental compilation intellectual freedom. The evidence that it Mr. Putin’s threats are probably aimed titled “Historical Songs” (Istorychni was incomplete and misleading was, in at Europeans – the Poles and Czechs in in 1941, he took up arms. After the pisni) published in Kyiv in 1961. This my estimation, simply overwhelming. particular – to frighten them into refus- Germans invaded he remained in the underground, offering the Nazis no wel- come. Captured by the Gestapo, he was rescued while being transported to a Kolomyia prison. Returning to the forests, Khmara would not be taken again until he was betrayed, in 1952. After interrogations in Kyiv’s Lukianivka prison he was shot on June 24, 1953. On the exact anniversary of his execu- tion the cached photographs of Company No. 67 were pulled from the very ground into which the insurgents entombed themselves every winter and from which they emerged each spring to take up their quarrel with the foe. They kept doing that until the last of them fell, faithful to their oath: “Attain a or die in battle for it.” Having spent the better part of a decade eradicating the OUN and the UPA, Khmara’s executioners probably believed they had erased the Ukrainian liberation movement from history. By consigning their images to Ukraine’s earth, UPA Company No. 67’s insurgents proved them wrong and so, in the end, won their just war. Re: Developments... (Continued from page 6) would generally be called a higher or generally democratic political culture. For all of the arguments between Yushchenko, Yanukovych or Tymoshenko, and people sleeping in tents in the center of Kyiv and so forth, nothing has happened in Kyiv that in any way is reminiscent of what happened in Moscow when there were political ten- sions involving [Boris] Yeltsin, [Mikhail] Gorbachev and the others – gunfire in the streets, Parliament shelled and so forth. So, the Ukrainians have reason to be proud of the fact that their political cul- ture is a relaxed political culture, which absorbs some of these more dramatic political conflicts. And if they can main- tain that, then eventually the chances are that there will be some compromise. Now, there is an element of frustra- tion in all of that, because when one deals with Ukrainian political leaders one also gets a lot of promises, commit- ments which are never fulfilled. But somehow or other it’s done in a manner that reduces the hostilities and tensions that this otherwise might have produced. No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 19 Ukrainian in the NBA: Viktor Khryapa of the Chicago Bulls by Ihor Stelmach Portland in exchange for the rights to top so I could help them.” pick Tyrus Thomas. Khryapa admitted the foot injury Viktor Khryapa isn’t merely trying to Khryapa did not expect to be any- affected him both mentally and physical- Player Profile: make a name for himself in the National where but in Portland after averaging 5.3 ly during his rookie NBA season. But Basketball Association. He needs to points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.3 assists in now that he’s fully recovered, he’s com- VIKTOR KHRYAPA make one for his Chicago Bulls team- 101 games over two seasons. fortable with the lessons he has learned. mates, too. “It was the first time [I was] traded “I can’t jump as well as I used to, so I Blazers Nickname: “Tayka” “It’s ‘Kree-apa’ with a ‘K,’ right?” and it was kind of surprising because I need to play smarter,” Khryapa said. “I young superstar Ben Gordon asked in an did a pretty good job last (2005-2006) think I’m a better all-round player now.” Position: Forward October 2006 article in the Chicago season,” he said in his chat with the Sun If this is indeed the case, perhaps his Tribune. Times. “The coaches told me they liked Bulls teammates will soon learn how to Height/Weight: 6-9/218 lbs. Wrong. The Ukraine native’s name is me and the styles I play and that I play pronounce his name. pronounced “Veek-tor Ha-Rap-ah,” hard all the time. They said they liked my “Did anybody else get it right?” Ben Born: August 3, 1982, Kyiv, although you don’t need to remind Bulls energy I bring to the game and said that’s Gordon asked. Ukraine Coach Scott Skiles or General Manager what they needed.” Well, Scott Skiles and John Paxson John Paxson. In this past 2006-2007 season, did. And that’s a good start. * Selected No. 22 overall in 2004 This third-year forward was on their Khryapa found himself battling Tyrus NBA draft by New Jersey Nets; radar screen since New Jersey selected Thomas – and several other Bulls – for Khryapa shares frustrations with coach rights traded to Portland Trail him with the 22nd pick in the 2004 NBA playing time in a crowded frontcourt pic- Blazers draft and promptly traded his draft rights Viktor Khryapa has followed Jay ture. to Portland. Williams as the only Chicago Bulls to “We thought he should’ve gotten Note: Originally an early entry Khryapa had worked out twice for inhabit the locker stall NBA legend picked higher than he did (in 2004),” candidate for the 2003 NBA draft Bulls officials before his selection in said Michael Jordan used. What Khryapa Skiles said. “Since then – he’s become a before withdrawing his name from draft. would give for, oh, one percent of very good all-around player. He’s a good consideration. Often compared to “I came from Russia through New Jordan’s minutes. post passer, a good ball-handler and an Russian Andrei Kirilenko of the Utah York, eleven hours of flight, for my first Inactive for 49 out of this past regular above-average shooter. He’s a very good Jazz for his competitive nature and workout,” Khryapa said in an October season’s 82 games, the third-year forward position defender. He has length, runs body type. 2006 interview with the Chicago Sun said it’s too early to ask for a change of well. He has steal potential. He can block Times. “It wasn’t one of my best ones scenery. But Khryapa, who also had way shots. He does a little of everything.” Career Highlights: Got a taste of because of the day-night difference. I got too many “did not play-coach’s deci- Khryapa suffered a left foot injury top international competition when he to Chicago in the middle of the night, but sion,” designations among those 49 during summer-league play which earned a spot on the Russian National it was early morning in Russia. My body games not played, and talked to coach required surgery before his rookie sea- Team which competed in the 2002 didn’t know what was going on. I was Scott Skiles about his perceived lack of a son. He averaged 4.2 points and 3.4 World Championship in Indianapolis, trying to sleep at 5 o’clock in the morn- role, isn’t happy. Indiana. The team’s youngest player, ing, but I couldn’t because my body rebounds in 32 games with Portland. “I’m frustrated, why not?” Khryapa In 2005-2006 he started 53 games for he saw action in all eight games as a clock felt like it was during the day. said in a conversation with the Chicago reserve, averaging 2.8 points, 1.8 “But nobody cares. They just want to a poor Trail Blazers squad and improved Tribune’s K.C. Johnson (December his stats to 5.8 points and 4.4 rebounds. rebounds and one assist in 10.8 min- see how good you are. It doesn’t matter 2006). “I’m surprised because I didn’t do utes per game. Previously was a mem- what the time on the clock is or what He shot an excellent 45.5 percent from anything wrong. I played good in presea- the floor, including 34 percent on three ber of the Russian Junior National countries you went through to get there.” son. I don’t understand why. Just because Team and played in the European Well, the Bulls cared enough to give pointers. there are too many guys? It’s ridiculous.” There were a few indications during Junior Championships in both 2000 Khryapa a second tryout, which was the Having been a starter for almost two- and 2002. first time Coach Skiles saw the 6’9” for- his first season as a Bull that Khryapa thirds of the 2005-2006 season for the may be a solid fit for Chicago – and not ward from Kyiv, Ukraine. Portland Trail Blazers, Khryapa figured 2003-2004: In his second season “Viktor was really skinny,” said because of his days living in Ukraine, he at least would crack a crowded front- being used to and preferring snow to the with CSKA Moscow, averaged 6.5 Skiles, who thought Khryapa would have court rotation. points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.1 blocks. been drafted even higher than No. 22. incessant rains of the Pacific Northwest. “It’s killing me inside,” Khryapa said His strong practice habits and ability Helped lead CSKA to the Euroleague “He’s totally different now. You can see in his chat with Mr. Johnson. “You do Final Four in Tel Aviv. Scored 11 him starting to fill out.” to disrupt passing lanes on defense are everything everybody else does. And why GM Paxson and Coach Skiles knew points in the consolation game against The added bulk – he tipped the scales then game time, everybody is playing Montepaschi Siena. at almost 220 pounds this past season – he would have little adjustment. Playing and you’re not. All the coaches and guys hard is something the coach insists upon, helped Khryapa become more versatile, say to keep working. I will stay in shape 2001-2002: In final season for to the point that Skiles would not hesitate but Khryapa readily admits this is noth- and wait my chance.” ing new for him. Autodor Saratov, averaged 32.3 min- to play him at power forward. That’s exactly what Skiles asked for utes, 13.1 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.1 “He’s got thickness to his body,” during their meeting. He also reminded blocked shots. Led the league in steals Skiles said. “You can already tell, much Plays hard all the time the young Ukrainian, 25, of such players and finished in top 10 in the league in like some of our other guys, he likes con- as former Bull Othella Harrington and rebounding, despite playing alongside tact. We front the post anyway, and he’s “I try to play hard all the time,” he Malik Allen, who played little early and league rebounding leader Kebu very good at that. And he can provide said. “It’s not like a surprise. In Portland, eventually were important contributors Stewart. spacing, much like (Andres) Nocioni everyone played hard, so it has made it on playoff teams. does when he plays the four. I have no much easier to play with these guys. It’s “I hope he stays with it because he’s a Scouting Report: A good athlete problem so far playing him anywhere.” just different players, coaches and philos- good player who works hard,” Skiles told with quickness and leaping ability. After one injury-plagued season fol- ophy.” the Tribune’s K.C. Johnson. “Tyrus Despite his lack of bulk and weight, he lowed by one solid one with the Portland “I know this is a young team and (Thomas) has gotten better. And the way is a good rebounder and a noted shot- Trail Blazers, Chicago acquired Khryapa plays hard all the time,” Khryapa contin- Luol (Deng) and (Andres) Nocioni are blocker. Has also played some minutes on the day of the 2006 NBA draft in a ued. “I play hard. So it wasn’t a problem playing there aren’t many minutes to go at guard due to his quickness. swap of draft rights. The Bulls shipped for me to come here and practice. They around. Those guys need to be on the the rights to LaMarcus Aldridge to just told me it’s a young defensive team floor. Viktor’s in a tough spot.”

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COMMUNITY CHRONICLE North Port religious/cultural center Ukrainian League of Philadelphia holds annual meeting, elects officers turns 90 and updates its by-laws by Vira Bodnaruk Center located at 4100 S. Biscayne Drive by Levko Strockyj chairman, “the Ukrainian League of in North Port, (telephone, 941-426- Philadelphia's mission is sui generis, as it NORHT PORT, Fla. – St. Andrew’s PHILADELPHIA – The Ukrainian 9745). has always focused on facilitating the Ukrainian Religious and Cultural Center League of Philadelphia celebrated a major Divine liturgy is celebrated in the transition of Ukrainian immigrants into held its annual meeting on March 28 and milestone on May 5. Nearly 90 years to the chapel every Sunday at a.m. Following becoming upstanding American citizens. elected a new slate of officers headed by day after it had been officially chartered in the service there is an opportunity to visit Whereas Ukraine’s independence in 1991 Volodymyr Borysenko, president. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as an sent many Ukrainian organizations Also elected were: Dr. Volodymyr with friends and family at the cultural official social fraternal organization, the center. During the week the center is scrambling for a new reason to exist, Korol, vice-president; Roman Swystun, membership gathered at the league’s hall ours has never been more relevant.” secretary; Maria Boyduy, treasurer; Vira open to members and friends on on 23rd and Brown Streets to cast their Mondays and Thursdays at 2-6 p.m. to The yearlong journey of updating the Bodnaruk, activities chair; Halyna votes on the newly revised version of the by-laws came to a head at a special gener- take advantage of its library, to play Cherin, library; Daria Tomashoski, mem- organization’s by-laws. al meeting called by the current president cards or chess, or just meet friends for bership chair; Lusia Harasymiv and The committee charged with revis- of the Ukrainian League of Philadelphia, Orysia Swystun, social services; Alex conversation. On Fridays at 4:30-6 p.m. ing the by-laws was formed at the Sofeeka Hasiuk. Each issue was answered Vlasenko, chapel liaison; Maria Chorna, Ukrainian dinners are available (borsch, league’s annual meeting in February of point by point by the by-laws committee kitchen head; Mykola Andrushko, Petro varenyky, holubtsi) for a very reasonable 2006. Over the course of more than a members. In an effort to streamline the Lobur, Ivan Popiwchak, Maria Hladka price. year the Ukrainian League’s statutes meeting, Leon Strockyj asked the com- and Halyna Korol, members-at-large; Activities at the center are in full were scrutinized and updated to accom- mittee to highlight the major changes Sydir Tymiak and Mykola Nenadkewych, swing from September through May. modate the vast changes that have which have been made to the statutes. auditing committee members. During the summer, when a lot of people occurred since 1966 – the last time the “In short,” explained Mr. Rudnytzky, Various events planned for the current go North, the pace at the center slows by-laws were revised. “we tried to keep as much as we could of year will take place at the Cultural down. On a nearly monthly basis, the com- the original. They have served to guide mittee of seven members, including a this organization, with minor modifica- vice-chairman and former president of tions, over the course of 90 years and we the League, Alex Wasiuta, along with did not feel it was our place to simply Yuri Szwabiuk, Anton Korotkov, Michael ignore that. We tried merely to clear Savage and Oles Prociuk, met, reviewed away some of the dust and superfluous and considered every line of text in the matter that had come to light since they 90-year-old document. were last changed over 40 years ago.” ”We wanted to leave as much alone as The changes included: stipulating we could,” said Nick Rudnytzky, By- when the membership could meet to Laws Committee chairman. “The found- make suggestions to the governing board ing fathers of the league had a very spe- or check on progress of matters pertain- cific purpose in mind when they initially ing to the League; more detailed instruc- drafted these by-laws and, frankly, that tion on what a “failure of confidence” purpose has not changed, only the man- vote means for the organization; clearing ner of implementing it has.” “In truth,” continued the committee (Continued on page 22)

Officers of St. Andrew’s Religious and Cultural Center (from left): Dr. Volodymyr Korol, Maria Boyduy, Maria Chorna, Volodymyr Borysenko, Vira Bodnaruk, Roman Swystun, Orysia Swystun and Halyna Korol. Tryzubivka hosts a wine-tasting by Ihor Shust Monosoff of Old Wines, LLC, a compa- ny associated with the University of HORSHAM, Pa. – Wine-tasting Delaware. A wine-tasting specialist was events at Tryzubivka have become popu- available to walk guests through the sam- lar among Ukrainians in the Philadelphia pling process and advise them on what area and have drawn crowds from as far ingredients in food influence the taste of as New York. Tryzubivka has been spon- wine and how wine can improve your soring wine-tasting events for a few meal. years and has sold out every year, includ- A guide to the process of wine selec- ing the latest such event on Saturday, tion was distributed to the participants. March 31. The guide also listed food affinities for The success of these events is credited particular wines, as well as offering to not only a growth in wine consump- objective evaluations of wines for sweet- tion among the general public, but the ness, acidity, dryness and flavors. upbeat social atmosphere they create. This writer’s advice: you don't want to Not to mention the prices are very afford- miss a wonderful wine-tasting dinner able as compared to most other wine tast- next year, you should mark your calen- ing events. dars early, because tickets will be hard to This year Tryzubivka sponsored a rep- come by as the event draws near. utable wine connoisseur Melissa 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 No. 24

“And Ukraine will no longer have this president’s third decree to dismiss parlia- the Central Election Commission (CEC). Rada Chairman... kind of Verkhovna Rada, and this kind of ment on June 5 was unconstitutional. Through the May 27 compromise, the (Continued from page 1) chairman,” she said. Mr. Yanukovych has steadfastly sup- coalition government appointed eight of However, Mr. Moroz had confirmed Opposition deputies had already started ported Mr. Moroz’s position, stating that the CEC’s 15 members, while the opposi- only 50 statements as of June 13, draw- caving in to Mr. Moroz’s demands, Ms. the Parliament will continue working tion was given seven appointments, ing accusations from the opposition that Tymoshenko said. “Moroz proposed a new until 151 surrendered mandates are con- including the chairmanship, for which it he was deliberately delaying the procedure in which deputies are supposed firmed, at which time deputies will begin selected Volodymyr Shapoval. Parliament’s inevitable liquidation. to approach him on their knees, bow before working in committees and in local dis- During the past week, however, the Unconvinced that signed statements Moroz and then Moroz will approve it tricts instead of plenary sessions. CEC hasn’t been able to hold a single received from resigning deputies are gen- (their surrendered mandate),” she said. Mr. Moroz also has support from the session because opposition-appointed uine, Mr. Moroz set the condition on “We are satisfying his caprice. Taking 26 deputies who were excluded from the commissioners have neglected to attend, June 13 that each national deputy con- into account that our deputies work in the Tymoshenko Bloc for abandoning the with Mr. Shapoval’s support, according opposition to join the ruling coalition. firm his or her statement of surrender in districts, 17 deputies have already arrived to a June 14 statement from the coalition- Since their mandates were confiscated person. Confirmation is also needed from in Kyiv, bowed their heads before him, appointed members released by the Party and not willingly surrendered, they insist the Central Election Commission, Mr. winked and waved their hand, and he of the Regions. Moroz said. approved them,” she added. they can remain as the Tymoshenko Bloc’s representation within Parliament, The coalition-appointed commissioners Most political players and observers By the end of that day, Mr. Moroz accused Mr. Shapoval of approving deci- suspect Mr. Moroz is using any possible confirmed 105 surrendered mandates. said National Deputy Oleksander Kovtunenko, who was excluded. sions on his own, denying access to journal- legal means to prevent the September 30 The Socialist leader continues to indicate A similar claim can arise from Party of ists and intentionally failing to call meet- parliamentary elections because it’s that Ms. Tymoshenko is overconfident in Industrialists and Entrepreneurs deputies ings. unlikely his party, the Socialist Party of her statements, insisting that the Verkhovna who once were members of the Our If Mr. Moroz’s claim that the CEC Ukraine, will win the necessary 3 percent Rada has the authority to continue working Ukraine bloc and its parliamentary fac- must give final confirmation for of votes to qualify. even without a two-thirds majority. tion before their leader, Anatolii Kinakh, Parliament’s liquidation is legally ground- The next day, Ms. Tymoshenko guar- He offered legal reasons, such as the abandoned the opposition to become min- ed, then its inability to meet, moreover the anteed Mr. Moroz will have confirmed need for the Central Election Commission ister of the economy. coalition-appointed majority, may provide the surrendered mandates of 167 national to confirm that no one will be available to Meanwhile, Mr. Moroz may have the Socialist leader with the means that he deputies by the week’s end, and the last replace the resigning deputies from their hope of subverting the elections through needs to undermine the pre-term elections. session of the Verkhovna Rada’s fifth respective party lists. Since this pre-con- convocation will be on June 15. dition wasn’t met, Mr. Moroz said, the Former ambassador... improving the investment climate. allowing an odd number of votes when American and European viewers are Ukrainian League... paired with the five executives. (Continued from page 17) starting to perceive Ukrainian leaders as (Continued from page 21) The by-laws passed with an over- key government institutions, he said, “so obsessed with this political internal whelming majority and went into effect namely the Constitutional Court, the fight” that they can’t form policies that away issues such as allowing for only the West can engage, he said. one candidate for office; setting up a sys- immediately. Copies of the newly ratified Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Procurator “The danger here is that Ukraine is tem of election by slates, as opposed to statutes will be distribued in November General’s Office and the Security Service beginning to slip off the radar screen in candidates for each office; adding restric- at the finale of the Ukrainian League of of Ukraine. tion of access to the club due to fire code Philadelphia's yearlong commemoration “It’s not going to be easy, but concepts Washington, in Brussels and elsewhere in regulations; allowing more leeway with of its 90th anniversary. do exist to make them non-political insti- Europe,” Mr. Pifer said. “And that’s not the acceptance of donations at the door A grand gala is planned with a formal tutions, and that should be in the interest good for Ukraine, and that’s not good for for special events; clarifying what type of dinner and dance, as well as the dedica- of parties across the political spectrum,” the Euro-Atlantic community.” identification for membership is needed tions and testimonials. Honoring 90 years Mr. Pifer said. Fifth, Mr. Yushchenko, Mr. Yanukovych in line with state regulations; and the of continued service to the Ukrainian Fourth, President Viktor Yushchenko and and Yulia Tymoshenko should lead their make-up of the governing body from community, the Ukrainian League indeed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych need to parliamentary campaigns with the knowl- seven directors to six, with three in has much to celebrate and, with its well- cooperate on policies that Western nations edge that they may have to cooperate with reserve in order to avoid stalemates and grounded traditions, it has a bright future. can engage in, whether energy security or each other after the elections. No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2007 23 OUT AND ABOUT

Current-September 15 Art exhibit featuring landscapes by Yurij June 29-July 1 Lemko Vatra, Organization for the Baltimore, MD and Viktor Savyuk, Selfreliance Baltimore Ellenville, NY Defense of Lemko Western Ukraine, Federal Credit Union,443-315-8873 Ukrainian American Youth Association resort, [email protected] or June 22 St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic 973-772-3344 Detroit Grade School reunion gala, St. Joseph at Banquet Center, 734-284-2159 June 29-July 1 “Ancestral Voices” directed by Nadia Cleveland, OH Tarnawsky wtih choreography by Natalie June 24 100th anniversary banquet for St. John Kapeluck and Mark Tomasic, Gordon Warren, MI the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, Square Theater, 216-269-7228 Ukrainian Cultural Center, 248-661-0099 June 30 Grazhda benefit concert, Music and Art June 24 27th annual festival, St. Anne Ukrainian Jewett, NY Center of Greene County, 518-263-4619 or Warrington, PA Catholic Church, 215-343-3948 or [email protected] 215-343-2714 June 30-July 28 Summer Intensive Program, Holy Spirit June 24-September 9 Art exhibit, “Yurij Trytiak: Photography, Ottawa Seminary, 613-236-1393 x 2332 New York 1965-2005,” The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS Friday, June 22 church of the Ukrainian Catholic parishes Soyuzivka’s Datebook in metropolitan Detroit. Banquet tickets WARREN, Mich.: All students who MONDAYS, June 25-August 27, 2007 are $50 per person. For more information attended St. John the Baptist Ukrainian contact Joseph Szafranski, 248-661-0099. Steak Night with Soyuzivka House band located on Veselka Patio Catholic Church in Detroit from the 1940s to the 1980s are invited to attend the gala NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of WEDNESDAYS, June 27-August 29, 2007 reunion at 6:30 p.m. at St. Josaphat America and Yara Arts Group present a spe- Hutsul Night with Soyuzivka House band located on Vorochta Lawn Banquet Center in Warren, Mich. Tickets cial art and poetry event. For the first time are $45 per person. For more information Yara’s ‘Round Us (Kolo Nas), which usual- FRIDAYS, June 29-August 31, 2007 contact Eugenia Tkacz, 734-284-2159. ly takes place in Kyiv, will take place in Odesa Seafood Night with Soyuzivka House band located on Veselka Patio New York. “Kolo Nas No. 15 – Blue Angel Sunday, June 24 6/24” will feature the poetry of Mariana SATURDAYS, June 30-September 1, 2007 Savka from Lviv, translated by Askold Ukrainian zabavas (dances) featuring a live Ukrainian band WARREN, Mich.: St. John the Baptist Melnyczuk and interpreted by Swiss con- Ukrainian Catholic Church in Detroit is ceptual artist Andrea Loux. The event June 21-24, 2007 Session #1 celebrating its 100th anniversary. A divine begins at 5 p.m. at the Ukrainian Institute of UMANA Convention liturgy will be celebrated at the church at America, 2 E. 79th St. at Fifth Avenue. July 27-29, 2007 11 a.m. followed by a jubilee banquet at Tickets are $10 and can be obtained at the June 24-July 1, 2007 Ukrainian Language Immersion the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Warren, door. For more information see Plast Camp – Tabir Ptashat Session #1 Weekend offered at SUNY Mich., at 2 p.m. St. John’s is the mother www.brama.com/yara or call 212-288-8660. New Paltz June 24-July 6, 2007 PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES Tennis Camp July 29-August 4, 2007 Sitch Sports Camp Session #2, Preview of Events is a listing of Ukrainian community events open to June 25-29, 2007 ages 6-18 the public. It is a service provided at minimal cost ($20 per listing) by Exploration Day Camp Session #1, The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. ages 7-10 August 4 Listings of no more than 100 words (written in Preview format) plus pay- Dance Camp Session #1, Recital July 1-8, 2007 Performance ment should be sent a week prior to desired date of publication to: Preview Plast Camp – Tabir Ptashat Session #2 of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, August 5 NJ 07054; fax, (973) 644-9510; e-mail [email protected]. July 1-15, 2007 UNWLA Day, featuring musical Roma Pryma Bohachecsky Ukrainian program - 2pm Dance Workshop, ages 16 and up PLEASE NOTE CORRECTED INFORMATION BELOW: August 5-18 July 2-6, 2007 Roma Pryma Bohachecsky Exploration Day Camp Session #2, Ukrainian Folk Dance Camp ages 7-10 Session #2

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