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INSIDE: • The campaign for Sheptytsky’s beatification — page 4. • New dance academy at Soyuzivka – page 5. • The Krawciw map collection at Harvard — page 11. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXXVI No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 $1/$2 in Ukraine Self Reliance New York donates $50,000 Rutgers conference examines to newspapers’ digital archives project the Holodomor of 1932-1933 PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Self Reliance New name ‘Samopomich’ (Self Reliance),” Mr. by Matthew Dubas of students, scholars and community York Federal Credit has donated $50,000 Kurczak explained. “In addition to offering leaders. for the digital archives project of Svoboda great rates on savings and loans, we demon- NEWARK, N.J. – A conference titled Dr. Alexander Hinton, associate pro- and The Ukrainian Weekly. An enormous strate that we give back to our community “The Ukrainian Famine-Genocide: fessor of anthropology and global affairs undertaking, the project will digitize the full through donations such as this.” Reflections after 75 Years,” examined the at Rutgers University-Newark and direc- complement of issues of these two newspa- “We donated back $5.4 million in the systematic starvation of Ukrainians by tor of the Center for the Study of pers released since their founding, respec- past five years to our community,” he the Soviet regime under Joseph Stalin in Genocide and Human Rights, in his tively, in 1893 and 1933, through the pres- added. “You’d be hard-pressed in our area 1932-1933 which claimed millions of opening remarks welcomed members of ent. to find an organization that has not benefit- lives. The conference, held on April 10 Ukraine’s diplomatic corps who were in The Self Reliance donation was made on ed from our donations.” here at Rutgers University-Newark, (Continued on page 28) Tuesday, April 15, at the newspapers’ edito- Self Reliance New York Federal Credit attracted a standing-room-only audience rial offices by Bohdan Kurczak, president Union is based in New York City and has and chief executive officer of the credit branches in Kerhonkson, Uniondale and union, and Bohdan S. Sawycky, treasurer Astoria, N.Y. In December 2007 it added a and chief financial officer. new branch in Lindenhurst, N.Y. The $50,000 check was gratefully It is the oldest and largest (in terms of accepted by Roma Hadzewycz, editor-in- assets), Ukrainian financial institution. The chief of The Ukrainian Weekly and credit union has $609 million in assets (as Svoboda. Also present was Stefan Kaczaraj, of March 31) and 15,000 members, and is president of the Ukrainian National in the top 10 percent of all American credit Association, the fraternal organization that unions in terms of financial results. publishes the two newspapers as a service Self Reliance New York has donated in to the Ukrainian community and a fraternal the past to the press funds of Svoboda and benefit to UNA members. The Ukrainian Weekly, as well as to The Mr. Kurczak stated: “This is a very Weekly’s Copies for Congress campaign, important project and, because we are a which helped to pay for subscriptions for Ukrainian American credit union, we want members of the U.S. Congress. to see this history of our community docu- Ms. Hadzewycz thanked the credit union’s officers for their longstanding sup- mented from the 1890s. We see this as an port and especially for Self Reliance’s opportunity to give back to the community.” princely donation of $50,000, which she Mr. Sawycky added, “The UNA can said will go a long way toward making the make these digital archives available to the full digitization of Svoboda and The general public. This is significant for schol- Ukrainian Weekly possible. ars and for history, as these archives – Markian Hadzewycz Currently, issues of Svoboda, published Profs. Alex Motyl and Taras Hunczak lead the discussion after presentations which will be easily accessible – will be in the Ukrainian language, and The viewed by Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians during a conference on the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor held at Rutgers Ukrainian Weekly, published in English, are University-Newark. alike.” available at the newspapers’ home office in “It is very important for us to stay ‘local’ Parsippany, N.J., in the form of bound – our credit union is based on our people helping ourselves, which is reflected in the (Continued on page 26) Inflation takes hold in Ukraine by Illya M. Labunka Particularly noticeable has been the Kyiv Press Bureau quick rise in food prices, equaling a 40.7 percent increase from March 2007 to KYIV – As food and energy prices March 2008. During this period, the cost continue to rise worldwide, accelerated of sunflower oil rose 116 percent (a inflation has taken a grip of Ukraine’s more than twofold increase), the price of economy, causing consumer prices to fruit increased 101 percent, the cost of increase by 3.8 percent in March com- vegetables rose 66 percent, and the price pared to the previous month – the highest of eggs rose 63 percent. Just in the last single-monthly jump in eight years. month the cost of sunflower oil jumped Higher government spending in the 10.6 percent, while the price of mar- first three months of 2008 spurred con- garine increased 13 percent and fruits sumer spending, which continues to drive rose 16.7 percent. inflation in Ukraine to dangerous levels. Most economists view Ukraine’s high Over a 12-month period from March inflation rate as the key macroeconomic 2007 to March 2008, inflation rose at a challenge for Ukraine, whose economy staggering rate of 26.2 percent, ultimate- has been growing steadily at an average ly putting pressure on the National Bank rate of 7.4 percent per year over the past of Ukraine (NBU) to intervene by hiking eight years. its key interest rates. Critics have cast the blame for the cur- rent rampant rate of inflation on Prime The Cabinet of Ministers had project- Matthew Dubas Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s policies, ed an annual rate of inflation of 9.6 per- During a meeting at The Ukrainian Weekly’s editorial offices (from left) are: although she has repeatedly insisted that cent for 2008, while the cumulative first- Treasurer and CFO Bohdan S. Sawycky and President and CEO Bohdan her government inherited a high rate of Kurczak of Self Reliance New York Federal Credit Union, The Ukrainian quarter rate of 9.7 percent for January- inflation from her predecessor, Viktor Weekly and Svoboda Editor-in-Chief Roma Hadzewycz and Ukrainian National March has already outpaced the govern- Association President Stefan Kaczaraj. ment’s forecasted rate for the entire year. (Continued on page 26) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 No. 16 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS

Pro-MAP faction succeeds at NATO summit Rada ratifies WTO accession protocol Presidential Secretarial head Viktor by Vladimir Socor ment to ultimate full membership of Baloha, Ukrainian news agencies reported. KYIV – With the overwhelming sup- “We dismiss this new portion of mud Eurasia Daily Monitor Ukraine and Georgia in NATO. Thus, the port of 411 votes, the 450-seat Verkhovna goal is irrevocably enshrined in NATO’s being poured from behind the Presidential April 8 Rada on April 10 ratified Ukraine’s proto- Secretariat’s walls,” Mr. Turchynov said. decisions. The MAPs to follow, probably col of accession to the World Trade “The ministers who have failed to cope NATO’s recently concluded summit in within a year, are a technical process Organization (WTO), which was agreed to with negative trends and who have not Bucharest highlighted the political weight toward that goal. by both sides in February, Ukrainian media come up with prompt market tools to of the new member-countries from Central This success protects the integrity of the reported. The Communist faction respond to them should leave their offices. and Eastern Europe in the alliance’s deci- alliance’s decision-making against an indi- abstained from voting. “I think that we are The Cabinet should open its doors to those sion-making processes. Aligned with the rect Russian say in that process. Moscow fully prepared to join the WTO, while who act professionally rather than think United States, Canada and two small tried a tactic in this case that it often those laws that still need to be adopted are about bolstering their personal ratings or a Western European countries, the new mem- employs toward the European Union, cosmetic laws [and] constituting norms,” bers formed the critical mass that opened mayoral office,” the presidential press namely, using special relations with indi- Vice Minister of the Economy Valerii service quoted Mr. Baloha as saying earlier NATO’s door to Ukraine and Georgia. vidual member-countries to frustrate collec- Piatnytskyi told lawmakers before the This combination prevailed over a strong the same day. Earlier this month Mr. tive decisions. In this case at NATO, the vote. Ukraine’s negotiations with the WTO Turchynov asked for leave to run in the group of old members – Germany, France, pro-MAP countries’ success averted a have lasted for over 14 years. It is expected Italy, Spain, the Benelux and other coun- mayoral elections in Kyiv scheduled for precedent whereby Moscow would have that Ukraine will become a full-fledged May 25. On April 16 the Yulia tries – that had opposed Membership member of the WTO in August. (RFE/RL manipulated Berlin into blocking a NATO Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) caucus in the Action Plans (MAPs) for Ukraine and Newsline, UNIAN) decision. Verkhovna Rada walked out of the session Georgia, playing into Russia’s hands. This Moscow takes the line that it seeks a Deputies try to preserve coalition hall in protest against what it claimed was controversy held center stage in the run-up voice, rather than a veto, in the alliance’s to the summit and during the event. a smear campaign orchestrated by presi- deliberations. Russian President Vladimir KYIV – Lawmakers from the Our The pro-MAP countries achieved a net dential aides and President Viktor Putin telephoned French President Nicolas Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense bloc gain that exceeded their own initial propos- Yushchenko against the Cabinet of Prime Sarkozy to say, “I don’t have a veto, but I (OU-PSD) and the Yulia Tymoshenko als or any party’s expectations. They gener- Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. “Seeing how have an opinion” on Ukraine and Georgia Bloc (YTB) met on April 14 in Kyiv to ated a dynamic at the summit that led to the president disgraced the government decisions (Le Monde, April 4). Berlin simi- discuss how to save their ruling majority in unanimous approval of a political commit- abroad within the past month, we deem it a larly tried to square the circle by claiming Parliament, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service sign of disregard not for the YTB or Yulia that a Russian say was unacceptable, but reported. OU-PSD leader Viacheslav Tymoshenko, but for Ukraine,” National The pro-MAP coun- that the Russian view should be taken into Kyrylenko told journalists that the coali- Deputy Mykola Tomenko (YTB) said in account. That distinction seemed tenuous tion will be preserved if the YTB gives up Parliament on April 16, urging Mr. tries achieved a net and risky. its plans to create an ad hoc parliamentary Yushchenko to either dismiss the Cabinet The new member-countries’ informal commission intended to prepare constitu- or make a public declaration of support for gain that exceeded alignment on this issue is a natural follow- tional changes. Prime Minister Yulia it. (RFE/RL Newsline) up to the Vilnius Ten process, in which Tymoshenko last week announced that her their own initial these countries had earlier joined forces as bloc wants to amend the Constitution of Two presidents meet in Warsaw aspirants to NATO membership. Launched Ukraine in order to “balance the branches proposals or any of power” in the country. Meanwhile, WARSAW – President Viktor in 1999, the Vilnius Ten process culminated Yushchenko met with his Polish counter- in the accession of seven countries to National Deputy Viktor Taran (YTB) told party’s expectations. journalists on April 14 that the coalition part, Lech Kaczynski, in Warsaw on April NATO as full members in 2004 (the Baltic 14 for talks on border cooperation, road They generated a states, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and meeting unanimously approved a decision to ask President Viktor Yushchenko to dis- construction projects and both countries’ Bulgaria). The group of earlier entrants – preparations to host the finals of the Euro dynamic at the Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary – miss Viktor Baloha, the head of the Presidential Secretariat. However, some 2012 Soccer Championship, Ukrainian was closely involved with the Vilnius Ten news agencies reported. Presidents summit that led all along. Two more participants in that OU-PSD lawmakers later that day asserted that there was no vote concerning Mr. Yushchenko and Kaczynski also attended process, Croatia and Albania, were invited the signing of a contract between Sarmatia, to unanimous to commence accession procedures at the Baloha during the coalition meeting. (RFE/RL Newsline) a company founded by the Polish and approval of a politi- Bucharest summit. Ukrainian governments, and the U.S.- The new-member countries regard Turchynov: no Cabinet dismissals owned Granherne Ltd. to conduct a feasi- cal commitment to Ukraine’s and Georgia’s future as a matter bility study on the Odesa-Brody oil of vital interest to themselves and to NATO. KYIV – First Vice Prime Minister pipeline. The pipeline, built by Ukraine in ultimate full mem- In the run-up to the summit they signed, Oleksander Turchynov said on April 15 2002, was originally intended as part of a alongside Canada (the United States that the Cabinet of Ministers is not plan- project to transport Caspian Sea crude to bership of Ukraine remained in the background), a joint decla- ning to dismiss its members who deal with ration urging approval of Ukrainian and economic issues, as suggested by (Continued on page 20) and Georgia in Georgian MAPs in Bucharest. Only the NATO. Socialist-led Hungarian government, (Continued on page 24) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FOUNDED 1933 An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Moscow’s furious but empty threats Yearly subscription rate: $55; for UNA members — $45. 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A proportion of PRU voters, with a Ukraine-wide average of 4.4 per- among voters in general; only 19 percent therefore, are susceptible to changing cent) considered it important, and it was of PRU voters supported the strategy. The Party of the Regions (PRU) their vote if an Orange political force can second to last in a list of 34 priorities. In Senior PRU member Andriy Kliuyev should be riding high in Ukrainian polls reach out to them and change their nega- Ukraine, as in most countries, foreign nevertheless claimed that “blocking as opposition parties traditionally have tive “nationalist” and “anti-Russian” affairs is not a high priority for voters, [Parliament’s] tribune was a reflection of golden opportunities to increase their stereotype. who vote on “bread and butter” issues. the real sentiments of our voters rather popularity. Instead, the PRU and its Ms. Tymoshenko and the YTB have Similarly, another issue that the PRU than an outcome of party propaganda.” leader, former Prime Minister Viktor been more successful than Mr. has focused on is the Russian language As Ihor Zhdanov, a Ukrainian consult- Yanukovych, have been declining in pop- Yushchenko and Our Ukraine in breaking question, which ranks only 19th out of ant, pointed out, the PRU’s aim in ularity and are in a crisis. On March 6 the down this stereotype and attracting “soft” the 34 issues. Only the PRU strongholds blockading Parliament had nothing to do PRU lost six mayoral elections in eastern PRU voters; and, in doing so, Ms. expressed a relatively high priority for with its declared opposition to NATO Ukraine to local independents and the Tymoshenko and her bloc have, for the tackling this question. membership. In reality, it aimed at disin- Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB). first time, reached first place in populari- Thirdly, there are poor tactics. tegrating the Orange coalition, which had President Viktor Yushchenko has only ty. A February poll gave the YTB 30 per- led in the polls in 2005. Since 2006 Mr. cent support, similar to its 2007 election Yushchenko has been in third place result, compared with 23 percent for the behind Mr. Yanukovych and Ms. PRU, a drop of 11 percent from its 2007 Quotable notes Tymoshenko. Mr. Yushchenko’s ratings result. temporarily increased to second place Four factors have led to a decline in Australia recognized that the Ukrainian Holodomor was a genocide. after he dissolved Parliament in April popularity for Mr. Yanukovych and the Russia is opposed to this fact. What would you say to those countries that 2007. PRU. have not yet recognized the Ukrainian Holodomor? The PRU is unlikely to change its Firstly, there are weak intellectual I would suggest that they look at what the Germans had done after the second leader ahead of the presidential elections resources and a paucity of intellectuals. world war. Germans understood that if they don’t recognize this terrible past it’s as he remains popular with rank-and-file Kyiv’s think-tanks continue to remain an encouragement to some elements who would like to repeat it. I do not want to members in Donetsk and, more impor- pro-Orange in a city that has always had say that anyone wants to repeat the Ukrainian Famine, but you are strong when tantly, there is no popular and well- national democratic sympathies and you face these kinds of issues, and try to resolve differences between people. known alternative. The paradox for the where today the YTB is the most popular It’s not strong to say that it does not happen. It’s weakness, mental weakness. PRU is that Mr. Yanukovych will be with 72 percent support. Ms. Strength is to say this was a terrible period, and apologize that it all happened. It unable to win the elections standing Tymoshenko will head the YTB list on was done by a different system. Why should people in Russia, just like young against either Ms. Tymoshenko or a the May 26 Kyiv City Council elections, Germans, be responsible for what KGB and Stalinist regime did? It’s not their Yushchenko-Tymoshenko alliance. The ensuring its first-place victory. Kyiv’s fault. But they should – and the other countries who do not recognize the past PRU therefore is looking favorably on an best-known think-tank, the Ukrainian events – look them in the eyes, to see what happened with the Ukrainian people. alliance with Mr. Yushchenko to block Center for Economic and Political It does not hurt anyone to admit the historical truth. the election of Ms. Tymoshenko, who is Studies (Razumkov Center), was the The Russian position is quite strong now in the world. Many countries share seen as a threat to the status quo. intellectual nerve center for Mr. [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s views. Coupled with a crisis in leadership, the Yushchenko’s 2004 campaign, while the I personally am a big admirer of the Russian culture and Russian history. But PRU has another problem it must deal PRU is poorly represented among schol- we think that our friends in Russia should not escape from the past. It’s very with. The PRU and Donetsk-Crimea vot- ars at conferences and press conferences good for them, for their own society to know what happened during the ers exhibit the strongest tendency of all inside and outside Ukraine. Communist period. After all, the Ukrainian Famine and starvation killed 1.5 mil- parties to vote negatively (23 percent). Secondly, there are issues. The PRU lion Communists, it is called Yezhovshchina. We should face these kind of Only 12.2 percent of western Ukrainians has chosen to focus on issues that are not things. It’s not only in support of Ukraine, but good relations with Ukraine. This and 27.4 percent of central Ukrainians a priority among its voters. Its ostensible is helpful for Russia as well. ... vote. In Donetsk and Crimea, two PRU reason for blockading Parliament was to strongholds, a striking 42.8 percent and oppose the January letter to NATO from – Interview by Oksana Romaniuk of the UNIAN news service with Michael 73 percent, respectively, vote negatively. three senior Ukrainian officials seeking a Danby, chairman of the Australian government’s Foreign Affairs Committee and Some 33 percent of voters in Donetsk Membership Action Plan (MAP) at a senior member of Parliament. Mr. Danby is the first member of the new vote for the PRU because they like the NATO’s Bucharest summit. Australian government to visit Ukraine. UNIAN’s release of the interview is party and its leader, while an equal NATO membership is not a priority, dated April 10. amount (33 percent) vote to block others though, for voters as a whole. Only 0.8

Two new parties to compete with each other and Tymoshenko by Pavel Korduban in February at the same time as the chief close to the Yushchenko team, said that suspects that Mr. Baloha may set up an Eurasia Daily Monitor of the Presidential Secretariat, Viktor YeTs was established because OU’s Mr. alliance with the PRU in order to defeat Baloha, and OU founder Roman Kyrylenko failed to set up a big pro- Ms. Tymoshenko in the upcoming elec- A new pro-presidential party has been Bezsmertnyi, who is the secretariat’s Yushchenko party. UC is also designed as tion. As one of the leaders of the 2004 set up in Ukraine, and another one is deputy chief. United Center is chaired by a counterweight to a new party which Orange Revolution, which saw the PRU about to be established. The two parties Ihor Kril, a fierce critic of Ms. Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Lutsenko and Mr. Yanukovych as the main enemies aim to replace Our Ukraine (OU), which Tymoshenko and a long-time ally of Mr. is going to set up, said Mr. Karasyov. of democracy and which brought Mr. President Viktor Yushchenko designed in Baloha. Mr. Lutsenko has announced that a Yushchenko and Ms. Tymoshenko to 2005 as the main right-of-center party Messrs. Baloha and Bezsmertnyi did new party will be established on the basis power, Mr. Lutsenko rejects any coopera- unifying all democratic pro-Western not attend the meeting and are not for- of his People’s Self-Defense (PSD) bloc. tion with the PRU behind Ms. forces. No unification, however, has mally members of UC. Mr. Kril told jour- PSD is the junior partner of OU in the Tymoshenko’s back. This, however, taken place, and OU lost both the regular nalists that Mr. Baloha had nothing to do Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense prompts pragmatists from the 2006 and the early 2007 parliamentary with establishing the party but that he OU-PSD. OU, which consists of three Presidential Secretariat to suspect that elections to the Party of the Regions would only be happy if “strong people” small parties, was set up ahead of the Mr. Lutsenko may eventually side with (PRU) and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc like Mr. Baloha joined later. It is widely 2007 election by Mr. Lutsenko and busi- Ms. Tymoshenko. (YTB). believed, however, that Mr. Baloha is nessman Davyd Zhvania. The rivalry between Mr. Baloha’s UC OU’s popularity, according to the most behind UC, which is based on Hart Mr. Lutsenko said that his new party and Mr. Lutsenko’s PSD weakens the recent public opinion polls, is currently (Hardness), a think-tank of Messrs. Kril would be a centrist force aimed at com- Yushchenko-Tymoshenko coalition, and lower than even the 13 to 14 percent that and Baloha. Hart was set up during the peting with the YTB. “I will call on those it may even kill it, some insiders believe. it scored in the two elections. What is 2007 parliamentary election campaign, who do not like our allies from the YTB more, OU under the leadership of when Mr. Baloha managed the OU head- to vote for a democratic alternative,” Mr. Taras Stetskiv, one of the leaders of PSD, Viacheslav Kyrylenko, who is young but quarters; and after the campaign Hart Lutsenko told Kommersant. He said that warned that those members of UC who probably too dogmatic and inflexible to reportedly recruited most of the analysts his aim was to unify his party with OU in are members of the OU-PSD caucus in rescue a party in crisis, has gradually who worked at OU headquarters. a strong single party “without traitors.” Parliament might quit the coalition. This been turning into a satellite of the senior Businessman Viktor Topolov, a former Unlike Mr. Baloha, Mr. Lutsenko could paralyze Parliament, as the coali- government coalition partner, the YTB. coal industry minister and a member of probably does not coordinate his activi- tion controls just two more seats than are Such a party is probably a liability rather UV, told Kommersant that the party was ties with President Yushchenko, and he needed for a simple majority. Mr. than an asset to its honorary chairman, set up because Our Ukraine leaders “have views UC as a nuisance rather than an Karasiov believes that OU-PSD may fall President Yushchenko, who is expected been thinking about their own goals, ally pursuing the same goal of helping apart into three or four parties, rather to run for re-election in January 2010 rather than about Ukraine, and they will Mr. Yushchenko win re-election. Mr. than just UC and Mr. Lutsenko’s new against PRU leader Viktor Yanukovych hardly change.” Mr. Kril told Segodnya Lutsenko believes that UC is not a party party. and Ms. Tymoshenko. that UC’s main task was “to help the but an “administrative tool” to back the On March 27 United Center (UC), a president implement his political pro- political initiatives of the Presidential Sources: February 15, March 28; newly established pro-Yushchenko party, gram and support him in everything that Secretariat. The teams of Mr. Lutsenko Ukrainska Pravda, March 17; Channel 5, held its first meeting in Kyiv. The party he does.” and Mr. Baloha do not trust each other. March 27; Interfax-Ukraine, included several lawmakers who quit OU Vadym Karasyiov, a commentator Mr. Lutsenko, like Mr. Kyrylenko, Kommersant Ukraine, March 28. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 No. 16 Ukrainian Catholic University supports campaign for Sheptytsky’s beatification by Mariana Karapinka and Taras Antoshevskyy LVIV – The Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) has lent its support to the popular initiative “Write a Letter to the Pope,” started by the Lviv Gazette, which hopes to expedite the beatification process of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. A March 19 press conference held at the UCU dealt with the important role of the laity in this process. Among those participating in the conference were Myroslav Marynovych, UCU’s vice-rector for university mission, and the Rev. Dr. Peter Galadza, a professor at the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at St. Paul University in Ottawa. During the conference, Archbishop Ihor Vozniak of Lviv stated that, during a recent visit to the Vatican, the Ukrainian Catholic Church’s bishops were informed by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints that the beatification process of Metropolitan Sheptytsky was practically complet- ed. All the necessary documents have been examined. “All that is left now is that people pray to God to perform a mira- cle through the intercession of Metropolitan Andrey,” said Archbishop Vozniak. Prayer is capable of realizing a miracle, but it is also important that the whole Church be motivated: the hierarchy, the clergy and the laity, said Oksana Haiova, director of the religious studies section of the Central State Historical Archive in Lviv. Ms. Haiova also works as an expert on the staff of the Postulation Center for the Beatification of Servant of God Andrey Sheptytsky and has researched the many Oksana Haiova of the Postulation Center for the Beatification of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (right) writings of Metropolitan Sheptytsky and all the documents speaks during a press conference at the Ukrainian Catholic University. The Rev. Peter Galadza of the related to his beatification process, which began back in Ottawa-based Metropolican Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies (left) and Ukrainian 1958. Catholic Archbishop Ihor Vozniak of Lviv also participated. The goal of “Write a Letter to the Pope,” explained Ms. Haiova, is a desire to make the laity active and to turn their “My doctoral dissertation concerned the theological contribu- Saint.’ ” attention to the figure of the metropolitan. She said it is a mis- tion of the metropolitan and I have read many of his writings The participants of the press conference emphasized that a take to think that the matter of the Church’s glorification of and the conviction has never left me that this is a holy man letter to the pope is not a simple formality. The laity should persons depends exclusively on clergy and religious. At such and a brilliant leader,” said the Rev. Galadza. unite in their prayerful request for the glorification of the moments, she said, the whole Church should become active UCU Vice-Rector Marynovych stated that the UCU metropolitan. Today the crypt at St. George Cathedral in – each according to his abilities should join in the matter. actively supports the initiative of the Lviv Gazette and said Lviv, where Metropolitan Sheptytsky is buried, is open for The Holy See “does not doubt [Sheptytsky’s] sanctity,” that a letter to the pope is, above all, a letter for one’s self, for prayer. one’s historical memory. He noted that this is not a narrowly said Ms. Haiova and “no one is artificially dragging on the *** process.” According to her, the laity have to show their inter- denominational act but for the glorification of a person who est in the matter and an active position. But she also noted belongs to Ukraine and the whole world. Orthodox Metropolitan Sheptytsky was head of the Ukrainian that the beatification process takes time and it is necessary to Ukrainians Nina Matviienko and Yevhen Sverstiuk were Catholic Church from 1901 until his death in 1944. The research a great amount of works and correspondence written among the first to sign such letters, noted Mr. Marynovych. decree about the start of the process for his beatification was by Metropolitan Sheptytsky. Unsupportive voices from vari- Mr. Marynovych added that it is worth paying attention to signed on January 28, 1955, and the process began directly ous sides that can be heard, said Ms. Haiova, only force us to the experience of people who lived at the same time as the on December 5, 1958. Since then, a great amount of works think and act. metropolitan. “Certainly, for people who were at the funeral and archival materials, including those in archives in Ukraine Even though the beatification process is taking a while, of Andrey Sheptytsky the thought ‘santo subito’ [Italian for and Russia, have been studied. Now the process is at the final noted the Rev. Galadza, there is no need to seek in such a “immediate sainthood”] was simply natural. Kurt Lewin, a stage when it is necessary to present the fact of the healing of drawn-out process some sort of political motives. History has Jew whom the metropolitan saved during the war, called the a person with an incurable disease after prayerful appeal to witnessed much longer processes that even lasted centuries. section of his memoirs that was devoted to Sheptytsky ‘The Metropolitan Sheptytsky.

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THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM INTERVIEW: The new dance academy at Soyuzivka As announced on March 12, the Roma the Ukrainian Dance Camps. Pryma Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance Participants of varying levels and ages Foundation and the Ukrainian National come to Soyuzivka from different areas of Association, through the Soyuzivka the United States, Canada and abroad to Heritage Foundation, have partnered to take part in our unique dance program. We establish the Roma Pryma Bohachevsky employ a formalized system of teaching Dance Academy at Soyuzivka. (Matthew developed by my mother. The intensive Dubas’ story about this new development program comprises daily ballet classes (the appeared in The Ukrainian Weekly on basis of all dance forms), character classes, March 23.) Ukrainian folk dance and repertory. Below, Roma Hadzewycz, editor-in-chief Emphasis is placed on improving technique of The Weekly, interviews Ania and performance abilities. Bohachevsky Lonkevych (whose answers At the end of each two-week session, the are indicated below by the initials ABL), participants showcase their newly acquired daughter of the renowned Roma Pryma and improved skills in a final performance, Bohachevsky who today heads the Roma which includes not only Ukrainian dance, Pryma Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance but also ballet, lyrical dance or jazz. Roma Foundation, and Stefan Kaczaraj (SK), Pryma Bohachevsky was a pioneer in styl- president of the Ukrainian National ized Ukrainian dance. She merged ballet, Association, about the ramifications of this lyrical and modern dance with Ukrainian new partnership and the significance of the themes. Her masterpieces such as “Ikona,” Matthew Dubas dance academy. “Fight for Freedom” and the “Ivasiuk Ania Bohachevsky Lonkevych (center), executive director of the Roma Pryma Suite” are perfect examples of her unique What is the significance of the estab- Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance Foundation, with Ukrainian National Association offi- style. We endeavor to carry on this tradi- lishment of the Roma Pryma cers and the Soyuzivka manager (from left), National Secretary Christine Kozak, tion. Bohachevsky Dance Academy? What President Stefan Kaczaraj, Soyuzivka Manager Nestor Paslawsky and Treasurer exactly does the term “dance academy” At the workshop, in addition to the Roma Lisovich. denote? Ukrainian dance repertoire, the program includes either a lyrical, jazz or contempo- ABL: In March, the Roma Pryma rary work. Workshop participants learn ABL: The new status ensures a perma- consist of a slide show honoring the life Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance Foundation classic works choreographed by Roma nent home at Soyuzivka for participants of and work of Roma Pryma Bohachevsky and the Soyuzivka Heritage Foundation Pryma Bohachevsky, as well as dances the workshop and camps for many years to and a performance by the Syzokryli Dance formed an official partnership creating the choreographed by the workshop staff. The come. By forming this partnership, the Ensemble. Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Dance staff comprises Kristine Izak, the artistic Soyuzivka Heritage Foundation shows its Academy at Soyuzivka. The Roma Pryma director; Orlando Pagan, instructor and commitment to the preservation of What does the establishment of the Bohachevsky Dance Academy provides choreographer; Stefan Calka, guest instruc- Ukrainian dance and to the dance academy Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Dance special instruction and training in the art of tor; with myself as director. by providing improved facilities. Academy mean for Soyuzivka? Ukrainian dance. The creation of the RPB The dance camps culminate in a final This year we will enjoy a new profes- Dance Academy honors the memory of my SK: As you know, the Ukrainian performance. Each year a different fairy sional state-of-the-art dance floor, and new mother, Roma Pryma Bohachevsky, and National Association has established a tale is performed. Ballet is interwoven with bathroom facilities and air conditioning ensures that her artistic vision and lifelong Soyuzivka Heritage Foundation and has traditional Ukrainian dances. The children system in the Veselka Hall. We can also work is preserved for future generations. look forward to future improvements and been migrating the operations of really enjoy entering into the world of The goal of the dance academy is to updated facilities. With time and funding, Soyuzivka to operate as a true heritage cen- make-believe. preserve and perpetuate the art of we are hoping for a costume room and, ter which promotes and preserves our Ukrainian dance and instill in our youth a What will this new “dance academy” someday, a secondary dance studio. Ukrainian culture. The emphasis is on love of Ukrainian culture and heritage status mean for students who attend the We are also in the process of establish- acquainting children with their unique her- through dance. The dance academy encom- dance camps and workshops at ing a UNA/Soyuzivka scholarship for the itage through expanded children’s camp passes the Ukrainian Dance Workshop and Soyuzivka? dance Academy participants. programs and developing new programs like a bandura camp, which provides an On a related matter, what does it opportunity to showcase and promote this mean that the Ukrainian National beautiful ancient Ukrainian instrument. Association’s heritage center at There is also the Ukrainian Cultural Young UNA’ers Soyuzivka will now be the summer home Festival that showcases the rich Ukrainian of the Syzokryli Dance Ensemble? traditions of art and music. These events ABL: Guests and audiences at will allow us to continue to try to obtain a Soyuzivka will have the pleasure of seeing 501 (c) (3) status, which would allow us to the Syzokryli Dance Ensemble perform at have access to grant money and enhance Soyuzivka more often. Syzokryli are very fund-raising capabilities. excited to become members of the As part of this program, partnering with Soyuzivka Heritage Foundation. Soyuzivka other organizations and groups can only is a place well loved by Syzokryli. enhance Soyuzivka’s role as a true heritage Having Soyuzivka as their summer center for the community. The dance acad- home also enables Syzokryli the opportuni- emy is the first partnership and we hope to ty to rehearse at Soyuzivka for upcoming develop other partnerships with other performances. We are extremely grateful to organizations with similar purposes – pre- the Ukrainian National Association and serving the Ukrainian culture and/or foster- Soyuzivka for sponsoring a special one- ing children’s programs. week workshop for Syzokryli in prepara- Together, the Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Zachary Roman Kachai, son of Dr. tion for Syzokryli’s 30th year anniversary Dance Academy and Soyuzivka will Olya Hevrych and Roman Kaczaj of Lukas Nynka, son of Mark and performance in the spring of 2009. fundraise for various facilities that will improve the camp experience. For example, Pittsgrove, N.J., is a new member of Mikolaya Nynka of Succasunna, N.J., How are you preparing for the official UNA Branch 269. He was enrolled by is a new member of UNA Branch 171. the new floor and Veselka air-conditioning ceremonies of the dance academy’s not only will be useful for the dancers, but his grandparents Dr. Jaroslaw and He was enrolled by his great-grand- opening to be held over Memorial Day Vera Kaczaj. mother Tamara Hordynsky. will be a benefit for all Soyuzivka activities. weekend? What can visitors expect at Future plans will included new children’s this event? barracks, and we hope that all organizations ABL: The Roma Pryma Bohachevsky that use Soyuzivka facilities will take part in Do you have a young UNA’er, or potential young Dance Academy’s formal opening will take the fundraising. In addition, the UNA’s place at Soyuzivka on the Saturday of Ukrainian National Foundation will provide UNA’er in your family? Memorial Day weekend. The official cere- a scholarship for a dance camp participant. Call the UNA Home Office, 973-292-9800, mony includes the blessing of the sign Why has the UNA decided to sup- announcing the dance academy, a ribbon to find out how to enroll. port this unique endeavor? cutting ceremony and a cocktail party, fol- lowed by a program. The program will (Continued on page 27)

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EASTER PASTORAL LETTER THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Solzhenitsyn and the Holodomor May the risen Christ be praised In his op-ed commentary “Ukrainian famine not a genocide” published by the Boston Globe on April 5, renowned Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn sup- by our words and deeds ported the Russian Parliament’s vote to deny the genocidal nature of the Holodomor. He wrote that the Famine of 1932-1933 was not “the planned anni- To the venerable clergy of all ranks power to share the Light, to be His wit- hilation of the Ukrainians” and argued that “The provocative outcry about ‘geno- and the devout laity of the Ukrainian nesses here at home and to the ends of cide’ only began to be take shape decades later – at first quietly, inside spiteful, Orthodox Church beyond the borders of the earth. May it never be said to us, that anti-Russian, chauvinistic minds – and now it has spun off into the government and within Ukraine. May the Peace of which our Lord says to these Pharisees the Risen Lord be with you all! circles of modern-day Ukraine.” He also called talk of the Famine as genocide a who were so turned in on themselves: “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hyp- “fairy tale”: “…defamation is easy to insinuate into Westerners’ minds. They Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen! ocrites, as it is written – ‘This people have never understood our history: You can sell them any old fairy tale, even one honors Me with their lips, but their heart as mindless as this.” During the past months we have all is far from Me; in vain do they worship The Nobel Prize laureate’s Boston commentary followed a similar piece pub- undertaken two 40-day spiritual pilgrim- Me’” (Mark. 7:6-7). lished a day earlier in Izvestia. There he wrote: “This provocative outcry about ages. The first led us to a shelter for ani- There is a real necessity for us on this ‘genocide’ started to germinate decades later – first secretly, in the musty chauvin- mals – a cave – from which emanated Pascha 2008 to return to our Ukrainian istic minds fiercely predisposed against the ‘Moskali’ and now it has been elevated the Love of God in the Newborn Christ Orthodox Christian roots, to living that to the top government level in contemporary Ukraine – does this mean that they Child, a Love which continues to fill and which we vocalize in prayer, to examine have outdone even the Bolshevik propaganda mongers with their rakish juggling?” guide each of our lives. The second pil- our lives in the Light of the Gospel of Ukrainians are outraged. Millions of our kinsmen died during the Holodomor. grimage brought us to another cave – this Life and to evangelize ourselves first And, Soviet authorities closed the borders of Ukraine both to prevent the starv- time an empty tomb – from which before we can ever hope to evangelize ing from leaving and to stop food from entering. How is that a fairy tale? As emanates the Light of our Risen Lord. others. more and more details emerge from previously closed Soviet archives, it “Unto you a child is born…” carried us To be Ukrainian Orthodox is to be becomes clearer and clearer that the Famine was indeed a genocide. “The evi- to a spiritual Bethlehem. “Christ is Risen obedient to Christ, to be disciplined and dence is there,” commented Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United Nations Yuriy from the dead, trampling down death by responsible members of the community – Sergeyev, speaking at a recent conference at Rutgers University. He added, “it’s death…” opens for us the gates to God’s not members of a secular religion or obe- a matter of people accepting the evidence.” Heavenly Kingdom. dient to our personal desires. To be At that same conference Dr. George Grabowicz of Harvard University cited In the last conversations recorded in Ukrainian Orthodox is to put Christ first ignorance around the world and “the lack of a historical memory” in Ukraine itself Luke’s Gospel, our Lord talks to the dis- in our lives and actions, to live our bap- as reasons the Holodomor is not widely known. Dr. Alexander Hinton, director of ciples about His Crucifixion and His tismal reality to the fullest as did mil- the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers-Newark, said Resurrection. He opens up for them a lions of our forefathers in the Faith. If we the academic community must speak out against denial of the Holodomor as geno- deep understanding of these events. He fail to live what we pray, we most cer- cide and Dr. Henry Huttenbach of the City College of New York argued that the tells them that, as a result of His tainly do not glorify God, nor honor our- Holodomor must be added as a subject in the genocide studies curriculum. Crucifixion and Resurrection, they will selves or our heritage, which is a pro- In a letter to the editor published in the Boston Globe, Dr. Serhii Plokhii, profes- be clothed with power from on high. found heritage that literally preserved sor of history at Harvard, cited “the loss of millions of innocent lives” during the They will be empowered to go out into Holy Orthodoxy at the most critical Famine, the Communist authorities’ “willingness to use hunger as a political tool the world and change the world. They moments of its history. to teach the rebellious peasantry a lesson” and policies that “turned the Famine into will be empowered to be His witnesses May the risen Christ, Who imparts to a Ukrainian national catastrophe.” He also pointed out: “Solzhenitsyn’s assertion in Judea and Samaria and to the ends of us His peace, open all our hearts to His that the treatment of the Famine of 1932-1933 as a genocide is the product of the earth. In the Gospel of John, as we Good News and those of our brethren in ‘spiteful, anti-Russian, chauvinistic minds’ can be understood only if one equates hear on Holy Thursday evening during Ukraine, who partake with us of “one the Communist government and the Russian people. Solzhenitsyn spent a good the Passion Gospels, our Lord promises Bread and one Cup” finding unity in the part of his life arguing that Communism and Russia were incompatible. His op-ed us that where He goes now, we will fol- fellowship of the Holy Spirit. May our raises the question of whether he still believes in this.” low later and that we will be one with risen Lord be praised and glorified by Prof. Grabowicz also wrote a letter to the Boston Globe, explaining that the God and one with each other. “Because I our words and deeds. Famine is “the central trauma of 20th century Ukrainian history” and “one of the live, you will live also. At that day you major genocides of the 20th century.” He underscored that “The historical evidence will know that I am in my Father, and Christ is risen! Indeed He is Risen! is clear that it was part of Stalin’s plans to break the back of specifically Ukrainian you in Me and I in you.” (John 14:19-20) political and cultural resistance to his policies.” The Resurrection – Pascha – of the In the abiding Love of our Risen Lord, All of the above counters Mr. Solzhenitsyn’s weak and Ukrainophobic op-ed. Son of God has made it possible for us to Perhaps Mr. Solzhenitsyn should stick to his strong suit: fiction. enter into the union with God that our + Constantine, Metropolitan Lord Jesus Christ spent His whole earth- Ukrainian Orthodox Church ly ministry explaining and modeling for of the U.S.A. and in Diaspora us. Pascha makes it possible for us to April know that God loves us and that, in our + John, Metropolitan Turning the pages back... response to God’s Love, we are clothed Ukrainian Orthodox Church with power. The same power that carried of Canada Him through the Crucifixion and through 18 the Resurrection is available to us now. + Antony, Archbishop Two years ago, on April 18, 2006, Greenpeace Most of us already are caught up in Ukrainian Orthodox Church 2006 International and associations of Chornobyl “liquidators” the quest for power. We want economic of the U.S.A. refuted a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency power; the power to possess things; the (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, which power to succeed – as success is meas- + Ioan, Archbishop claimed the 1986 nuclear catastrophe at Chornobyl would ured in our human terms; the power to Ukrainian Orthodox Church cause no more than 4,000 deaths worldwide. look good in the eyes of others; the in Diaspora, Eparchy of Australia/ A report released in September 2005 by the Chornobyl Forum, which included the power to satisfy our every desire – with- New Zealand IAEA, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Development Program, said out regard to the positive or negative fewer than 50 deaths so far could be directly attributed to Chornobyl. It also found no pro- morality of those desires; the power to + Yurij, Archbishop found negative health consequences to the rest of the population in the surrounding areas. say, “I’ve got it made.” The quest for this Ukrainian Orthodox Church The report took into account only the people most exposed: those sent to “liquidate” the kind of power has emerged as the No. 1 of Canada consequences of the explosion and those who lived in nearby towns at the time of the acci- priority in our society and almost every dent. The IAEA reported that its findings indicated that most radiation levels were returning + Jeremiah, Bishop to normal. It further claimed that poverty, disease and mental-health problems posed a far society throughout the world. Deep within us, however, we know Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Eparchy greater health threat than radiation exposure. in South America (UOC of U.S.A.) Bruno Rebelle, program director for Greenpeace International, said at a press conference that there is something wrong about this; that we are deluding ourselves. in Kyiv that from 1994 to 2000 some 200,000 people in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus may + Andriy, Bishop have already died as a result of the accident. God is calling us to life. God is offer- ing us the power to live as complete per- Ukrainian Orthodox Church The report, which was based on research from the Russian and Belarusian in Diaspora, Eparchy of Western Europe Academies of Sciences, indicated that the incidence of cancer in Belarus jumped over sons. But He cannot get through to us 40 percent between 1990 and 2000, and that children born after 1986 showed an 88.5- and we cannot be one with Him if we fold increase in thyroid cancers. clog up the channels of Grace with Lyudmilla Komogortseva, who lives in the Bryansk Oblast in the Russian immoral desires and false deities. All we Federation, where cancer is 10-15 percent higher than the national average, said, achieve, all we possess, all the things of “Today one can say with certainty that the Chornobyl catastrophe, even what’s called this world we seek to attain are lifeless low-radiation doses has a negative effect on the health of people living in the regions and of no value and of no importance – if exposed to radioactive pollution.” we are unwilling to place them under Ms. Komogortseva criticized the Russian government for failing to pay compensa- God’s Rule. It is a matter of priorities: tion to the people of the Bryansk region for health damage, and slashing ecological and “seek first the Kingdom of God,” Who is calling us into the Light of the (Continued on page 12) Resurrection. God is offering us the Jacques Hnizdovsky No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 7

COMMENTARY

Yushchenko and his coterie didn’t know tion changed everything, and nothing. Orange Obama what to do. That’s the trouble with Charisma is a quality, not a skill – and it change. You have to know how some- certainly isn’t governance. Change is not by Mary Mycio The Kyiv rallies seemed like a single thing works before you can fix it. If you always good, and it is never good for every- exuberant mass of Orange on TV, but it don’t, it can break. That’s also a type of one. Corruption grew even worse, as did The crowds roar and the air crackles was a mosaic of individuals on the with the energy and promise of the hand- change. So is disillusionment. public cynicism. Today, Mr. Yushchenko ground. Some truly thought Mr. Ukraine’s political process was soon stands little hope of re-election. some, young leader on the stage. After Yushchenko was their messiah. Others nearly a decade of incompetence and cor- paralyzed – as it remains to this day. Disillusionment is certain for a assuredly did not. What united them was President Yushchenko’s popularity plum- President Obama, too. His lofty, nebulous ruption, people are galvanized. Things the sense that things had to change. will be different, they think, because he’s meted to around 30 percent. His party rhetoric is like a Rorshack test. Each per- Tolerating brazenly falsified elections different. came in a dismal third in last spring’s pre- son projects what they want onto it, some- meant that they never would. No, I’m not describing Barack Obama term parliamentary elections. It was sad to times subconsciously. He will be unable – The thuggish cabbie who drove me rallies. But they do remind me of the last see so many hopes smashed. as would anyone – to satisfy all of those during the protests’ first snowfall was the time I saw such a massive outpouring of That’s my Obama problem. The disparate hopes and dreams, the more so last person from whom I expected a civics public hope to anoint a politician. “change” mantra is getting annoying, because people will also be suffering the lesson. But when I worried that the weath- Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution took like that South Park episode when the Bush administration’s dismal fallout. All er would discourage the protesters, he place just a block from my old Kyiv apart- town is invaded by homeless zombie that could come just in time for the 2012 ment. I was in its midst every day. shook a meaty fist in determination. “It panhandlers monotonously muttering presidential race. Of course, the massive street protests won’t,” he said. “People have had “change, change, change.” It is troubling Hillary Clinton is an unlikely genera- that overturned rigged elections and pro- enough.” also because the hopeful gazes I saw on tor of Obama-type emotions. She’s too pelled Viktor Yushchenko to the And he was right. Kyiv vibrated and the Orange streets of Kyiv are mirrored known a quantity to soar that high. And Ukrainian presidency differ from the the crowds swelled. The air was electric as in the Obama crowds. that’s precisely why I’ll cast my Obama rallies in what is, basically, a people cheered the politicians on the His charisma is undeniable. But, full Pennsylvania primary vote for her in conventional presidential campaign. But Orange Revolution’s central stage. disclosure here: I knew Mr. Yushchenko. April. the similarities are troubling. Politicians. The word seems jarring Not well, but I did. And his charisma also It isn’t only about Democrats winning under the exhilarating circumstances. But was undeniable. He drew people like a the presidency this time. It’s about keeping that’s what they were. Even when it took magnet. Though he was an opaque speak- it next time. I’ll vote for Obama if he’s the Mary Mycio is the author of courage to be on that stage, they were er whose circumlocutions often made no nominee. But having seen how high “Wormwood Forest: A Natural History there because they wanted power. sense whatsoever, his deep, reassuring Orange hopes led to dashed expectations, I of Chernobyl.” She covered Ukraine for The Orange Revolution wasn’t really voice and good looks made him the sym- think Democrats will stand a better chance a variety of publications, including the a revolution. Faces changed but the sys- bol of hope and change for many. of winning – and keeping – the White Los Angeles Times, during the 1990s. tem didn’t, mostly because Mr. Unfortunately, Mr. Yushchenko’s elec- House if Hillary gets the nomination.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

graduate student Leonid Heretz. She has the opportunity to improve her ism, and make Ukraine a hegemonic sys- Once more about With respect to the issue of keeping knowledge of the world, improve her tem, as is the norm in the region.” the identities of some of the oral history English speaking and interaction skills, The immediate outcome of the Orange oral history project interviewees confidential, that was never and experience teenage life in America. Revolution was the restoration of the free an issue. No one ever suggested that We were surprised how well she adapt- press and prevention of this autocratic sys- Dear Editor: their identities should be revealed pub- ed to our local high school and how well tem. We seem to forget that in early 2004 As I sit here reading Prof. Leonid licly. The issue was rather one that she was able to handle classes in 11th Ukraine was considered a “false democra- Heretz’s letter (March 16), I am scratch- might be mysterious to an academic, grade American history, literature and cre- cy,” as an article in The New York Times ing my head trying to figure out in what namely, the issue of accountability. In ative writing. I feel she was somewhat pointed out. alternative universe words don’t mean the real world, if someone hires you to surprised at how much regard there is for In Ken Burns’ documentary on the what they say. The article written about do a job, you do not get to decide unilat- Ukraine and Ukrainians among the American Civil War he points out that the the folks at Harvard and quoting Prof. erally, without consulting the persons American public. main result of the war was that the United Heretz stated that the Famine Oral who hired you and after the fact, that you The FLEX program will be looking for States finally became a nation and not just History project was “one of the greatest won’t turn the product of the job for host families for the 2008-2009 school a community of semi-independent states. successes of the pre-1991 Harvard which you were hired over to those who year. You can get information about the In early 2005 I remember thinking that Ukrainian Research Institute.” My hired you so that they could determine program through American Councils for also may be applicable to Ukraine. attempt to refresh the good professor’s that the job for which they had paid you International Education. Log on to ameri- I was very disappointed when the recollection that the Famine Oral History had been carried out according to agree- cancouncils.org. If I can help answer spe- Orange coalition fell apart some time after project was actually not a Harvard ment. In the real world, you get sued for cific questions, my telephone is 574-273- that, but in retrospect I realized that the Ukrainian Research Institute project but that and you then get slammed legally. 4431. United Sates did not become a nation a project of the Professionals and For the greater good, we didn’t sue. when Lee surrendered at Appamatox, end- Businesspersons prompts him to ques- Now we read that our project was ing the Civil War, and that it took years actually a Harvard Ukrainian Research Lesia Borszcz tion my ability to read and think clearly. Granger, Ind. before all the wounds of that war were So be it. Institute project and that we should be healed. So I think it is with Ukraine. Then unintentionally, or so I presume, grateful that we got acknowledged on the As Mr. Fedynsky pointed out, Ukraine he further misrepresents what happened introductory page of another project as finally became Ukraine and the slow but back in the 1980s by referring to the Ps “sponsors.” Fedynsky analysis difficult road toward independence contin- If the good professor now thinks that & Bs’ “sponsorship” of the oral history ues. setting the record straight constitutes pet- project and to said “sponsorship” being was right on target tiness, so be it. acknowledged on an introductory page Dear Editor: Oleh Kolodiy of the second, congressionally funded Bohdan Vitvitsky Maplewood, N.J. Famine Oral History project. Perhaps if Kyiv Andrew Fedynsky’s analysis of the we had merely been sponsors, we might Orange Revolution hits the nail right on be thrilled. But the Ps & Bs weren’t the the head. As an article in the Harvard We welcome your opinion “sponsors” of the initial Famine Oral The FLEX program International Review pointed out History Project – we weren’t like GE or (www.harvardir.org/articles/1704/) the The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters Budweiser who came in with the dollars importance of the Orange Revolution is to the editor and commentaries on a variety to fund something. The project was and our Oksana not so much in what it accomplished as in of topics of concern to the Ukrainian actually our idea and our initiative. what it prevented from happening. American and Ukrainian Canadian com- Dear Editor: munities. Opinions expressed by colum- It was not the idea or initiative of Since 1991 Ukraine has been on a Since 1992 the U.S. through its FLEX nists, commentators and letter-writers are some genius professor at Harvard. It rocky but steady road to independence and their own and do not necessarily reflect the was the Ps & Bs who realized that time program has been bringing high school democracy. In 2004 this road was in dan- opinions of either The Weekly editorial was passing and memories fading. It students to the U.S. for a year of study. ger of being diverted so that Ukraine was staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian was the Ps & Bs who reluctantly came to FLEX stands for Future Leaders heading toward beginning a totalitarian National Association. the conclusion that if no one else was Exchange and the students come from state, much like Russia and Belarus today, Letters should be typed and signed doing it, we had to. It was the Ps & Bs countries of the former Soviet Union. In perhaps even becoming a Russian vassal (anonymous letters are not published). who put together a budget and a plan to Ukraine, students are selected from differ- state and losing its independence. Letters are accepted also via e-mail at hire James Mace and a graduate student ent regions and from various high Our expectations were that Ukraine [email protected]. The daytime phone schools. The program is very competitive. number and address of the letter-writer must and a strategy for conducting an oral his- would suddenly become a thriving democ- be given for verification purposes. Please tory project. And, of course, it was the Our Oksana comes from Ivano- racy much like the United States but, as note that a daytime phone number is essen- Ps & Bs who then dug into their own Frankivsk and of course she is an excep- the Harvard article points out, “Ukraine tial in order for editors to contact letter-writ- pockets and hired Dr. Mace to draft the tionally gifted and talented young woman. has had pluralist politics – and a fractured ers regarding clarifications or questions. questionnaire and provide oversight, and For her to have the opportunity to spend array of ‘democratic’ forces – since 1991. Please note: THE LENGTH OF LETTERS he subsequently suggested hiring then- an entire year in the U.S. is life-changing. Leonid Kuchma tried to overturn plural- CANNOT EXCEED 500 WORDS. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 No. 16 Presentation marks 125th anniversary of the birth of Gen.Vsevolod Petriv Russian Naval Fleet based in Sevastopol In the waning days of World War II to raise the Ukrainian bicolor and declare the Petriv family moved to Germany and support for the Central Rada in Kyiv. He eventually was settled in a United freed Kyiv from the first Bolshevik occu- Nations camp for displaced persons near pation, thus giving the Ukrainian delega- Augsburg, where the general died in tion at Brest-Litovsk the opportunity to 1948. negotiate a treaty with the Central The 295-page book, “Vsevolod Powers. Petriv,” was written by Prof. Serhiichuk Gen. Petriv was named defense minis- in Ukrainian as the fourth book in his ter by the government of Symon Petliura series on Ukrainian nation-builders. It is and was also given the responsibility for part of an ongoing attempt to familiarize the training of officers. After the conclu- Ukrainians with their history. sion of an alliance with Poland, he led his Prof. Serhiichuk, 58, is a native of the troops west across the Zbruch River and Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. He holds spent several years with his troops in an degrees from Taras Shevchenko National internment camp in Kalisz. University and has been teaching history Moving to Prague, Petriv became an there after the completion of his compul- instructor at the Ukrainian Pedagogical sory military service. He is a prolific Institute, while his wife taught at the author with more than 30 titles to his Ukrainian Agricultural School. In addi- credit, including popular works on tion to being active with the Ukrainian Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Symon Petliura At the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences (front row, from left): Oksana community in Czechoslovakia, Petriv and the Catholic Church in contemporary Iwaszczenko, Oksana Radysh, Kateryna Petriv and Prof. Volodymyr Serhiichuk, wrote the first history of Ukraine’s armed Ukraine. (second row) Vsevolod Petriv, Bohdan Kachor, Anna Procyk, Yuri Petriv and forces and his own memoirs. He also Approximately 50 people gathered in Albert Kipa. wrote many articles for Ukrainian news- St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church papers and journals throughout Eastern Hall for the lecture on Sunday, March 30, by Peter T. Woloschuk Norwegian and Swedish officers taken Europe and this activity continued during the book signing and a reception, which World War II. was sponsored by Gen. Petriv’s daughter- captive after the battle of Poltava and With the establishment of the in-law, Kateryna Petriv, and grandsons BOSTON – The Boston Chapter of the who had intermarried with daughters of Ukrainian Committee in Krakow during Vsevolod and Yuri. Ukrainian Congress Committee of Kozak officials. World War II and the declaration of the The Boston-area event followed simi- America, Ukrainian American Veterans While serving on the Belarusian front Post 31 and the Harvard Ukrainian renewal of Ukrainian independence in lar events in New York City at the during World War I, he was the first Lviv in 1941, Petriv was called by both Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences Research Institute co-sponsored a talk by ranking officer of the Russian Army to Prof. Volodymyr Serhiichuk of the history to take command of Ukrainian armed (UVAN), which featured noted bandurist switch allegiance to the new Ukrainian forces. However, the Czech government Julian Kytasty playing songs of Petriv’s faculty of Kyiv’s Taras Shevchenko government forming in Kyiv and formed prevented him from going either to soldiers, and Washington, which was National University on the life of Gen. a new cavalry regiment, the Kost Krakow or Lviv. sponsored by the Embassy of Ukraine. Vsevolod Petriv to mark the release of his Hordienko Regiment, out of Ukrainian new book, “Vsevelod Petriv.” The book’s servicemen in the cavalry unit of the release was timed to coincide with the Third Siberian Regiment. 125th anniversary of the general’s birth. Petriv saw action throughout Ukraine Gen. Petriv was born in Kyiv in 1883 and was instrumental in establishing a to a family of officers in the Russian Ukrainian presence in Crimea, which Imperial Army who were descended from triggered the officers and sailors of the

Vsevolod Petriv Prof. Volodymyr Serhiichuk holds a copy of his new book about Gen. Vsevolod Petriv.

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The event was co-sponsored Poland and Germany in the first decade of by the Harvard Ukrainian Research the 21st century. Institute (HURI), the Boston Map Society “Krawciw thought of his work as a and Pusey Library, Harvard University’s project in preservation for future research map repository. The guests included mem- and, of course, a commemoration of bers of the extended Krawciw family who Ukraine as nation and state,” Prof. Seegal came from all over the country. continued. “Krawciw wanted to ground The project included the full cataloguing and publicize Ucrainica – all things of the collection of almost 900 maps, Ukrainian – to cement Ukraine’s past and books, research files and notebooks in nine present recognition in North America, and different languages that comprise the on the European international scene. The Bohdan and Neonila Krawciw Ucrainica Ukraine he visualized in maps naturally Map Collection and have an aggregate had a literary dimension as well – a point value estimated at almost $500,000; and exemplified not only by his poetry, love of the publication of the catalogue “Ukraine languages, encyclopedic and bibliographi- Under Western Eyes: The Bohdan and cal work, and study of folklore and mythol- Neonila Krawciw Ucrainica Map ogy, but by his attention to geography and Collection,” featuring a full description of the technical and aesthetic aspects of the the collection, as well as commentary on maps in his collection.” and illustrations of the rarest and most sig- “Krawciw’s principal motive as a nificant maps. The complete catalogue of Ukrainian poet, journalist and translator in the holdings of the collection and detailed gathering the maps,” Prof. Seegal pointed review of all of the items in it are the work out, “was to seek, maintain and promote of Assistant Prof. Stephen Seegal of the the integrity of Ukraine. To put it more history department of Worcester State bluntly, in the words of his daughter, ‘He College, who spent almost two years work- wanted to prevent Ukraine from being ing on the project. obliterated. That is why he collected any Prof. Seegel earned his Ph.D. in history book, any map, he could find on Ukraine.’” in 2005 at Brown University. After gradua- The Krawciw Collection was donated to tion, he was a lecturer at the University of the HURI and the Pusey Library in Tennessee. He spent the spring semester of November 2005 by the Krawciws’ daugh- 2007 as a Eugene and Daymel Shklar ter Maria Dzenyslawa Jawny and her hus- Research Fellow researching the topic band, Dr. Lubomyr Jawny, in fulfillment of David Cobb, curator of maps and head of the Harvard Map Collection, gives a “Cartography and the Representation of her parents’ wishes that the collection nei- tour of the exhibit at the reception. Modern Ukraine.” His work looked at the ther be sold nor remain private but be made strategic use of the discourse of available to students and scholars. The historical/geographic science and Krawciw donation increased Harvard’s cartography. He began his collection after as a territory caught amid shifting borders, racial/ethnolinguistic categorization to rep- Ucrainica holdings by more than twelve- his arrival in the United States in the old and provide a record of different ways in resent a modern Ukraine between the fold and has made them the largest single bookstalls and shops of Philadelphia, later which Ukrainian history might be concep- Russian and Habsburg empires, as well as collection of Ukrainian maps in the world. expanding his search to New York City. He tualized and display Ukraine’s many politi- the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian The donation of the map collection was started his collection to disprove Polish state cal trajectories. Commonwealth. actually the second donation of Krawciw’s claims to Galicia that had been enunciated Krawciw divided his collection into two He also received a special grant from material to HURI. In 1975, after the death in the 1920s and 30s and against the threat parts: maps produced in the years 1500- HURI for the period from August to of her husband, Neonila Krawciw donated of total Soviet amnesia after the annexation 1800 and organized by cartographer, and December 2007 to review the maps of the his personal archive and library of of western Ukraine in 1945. He attempted 19th and 20th century maps arranged by collection and prepare the text for the cata- Ucrainica which numbered some 12,000 to seek, maintain and promote the integrity geographical category. He intended to write logue that HURI would publish. volumes to the institute and the Harvard of Ukraine and he hoped to draw attention a general history of Ukraine in maps, to be In discussing the collection, Prof. Seegal University libraries. They covered the to the complexity of Ukraine’s cultural, lin- called “Monumenta Cartographica said, “In the context of other scholarship in fields of geography, cartography, history, guistic, political and religious traditions. He Ucrainae” (Cartographic Monuments of history, geography and the history of car- anthropology, literature, art history, ono- wanted to ensure recognition and debate Ukraine). However, at the time of his tography, the collection is one among sev- mastics and linguistics. about the history of its peoples. death, he had not even completed a cata- eral similar collections in a larger East- The papers included newspaper clip- For Krawciw, the maps verified the exis- logue of his map collection. His wife did Central European and international context. pings, correspondence, photographs of tence of Ukraine and Ukrainians, and con- so, using his notes. It parallels those of the three most famous artists and literary figures, materials on the stitute a monument in Ukrainian cultural independent Polish nation- and state-build- Ukrainian press and community organiza- preservation. They tell the story of Ukraine (Continued on page 12) ing gatherers of maps, that of the 19th-cen- tions since the late 1940s, and notes for an tury historian Joachim Lelewel, now intended bibliographical survey of major housed at the University of Vilnius, in and minor figures in modern Ukrainian lit- Lithuania; the Austro-Polish nobleman and erature. philanthropist Józef Maksymilian Krawciw was an amateur enthusiast of

The Krawciw Family and faculty of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute: (front row, from left) George Krawciw and his wife, Oksana Dragan, Steven Seegel, Maria Dzwenyslawa Jawny (daughter of Bohdan Krawciw), Lubomyr Hajda, George G. Grabowicz, (back row) Paul Krawciw (son of Gen. Nicholas Krawciw and grandson of Bohdan Krawciw), Tymish Holowinsky, Michael S. Steven Seegel delivers his lecture to the audience attending a celebration of the com- Flier, Lubomir Jawny (husband of Maria D. Jawny), Roman Jawny (son of pletion of the Bohdan and Neonila Holovatska Krawciw Map Project at Harvard. Lubomir and Maria) and Serhii Plokhii (HURI). 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 No. 16 Tymoshenko fires Ginzburg from Ukraine’s state archives PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Prime Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk to lead the state lishment of historical truth in Ukraine. made on a political basis,” Dr. Serbyn Yulia Tymoshenko has fired Olha archives; the position was one of the The next day, during an interview on underscored. Ginzburg from the post of director gener- posts promised to the CPU for its support Voice of America (VOA) about the con- He added, “Hennadii Boriak should be al of the State Committee on Archives of of the coalition led by then Prime ference, I had an opportunity to raise the returned to head the archives, unless he Ukraine. News media in Ukraine report- Minister Viktor Yanukovych of the Party issue once more, to inform listeners in no longer desires the position. His ed that the last Communist in a govern- of the Regions. The appointment and the Ukraine of our concern in the diaspora.” involvement with the documents on the ment position was now gone. appointee were severely criticized by “The appointment of Ms. Ginzburg to Holodomor leave him in a very good In her place, the Cabinet of Ministers Ukrainian scholars both in Ukraine and head a public service for which she had position to work on gathering and pub- appointed Dr. Oleksander Udod. abroad. absolutely no qualifications illustrates lishing in this field, and he should be The announcement of Ms. Ginzburg’s In protest against her policies, that such appointments should not be given an opportunity to do this.” firing on April 10 was made by the min- Hennadiy Boriak, a professional archivist ister of the Cabinet of Ministers, Petro who served as first deputy general of the Krupko, who said she was fired due to a state archives, resigned his post in late decision by the coalition government that March. Citing her “attempts to sabotage Turning the pages... reliable and safe source of energy. the post should be given to an appointee the gathering of archival materials on the Mr. Chuprov explained: “The question is of the Our Ukraine – People’s Self- Holodomor … and other topics that were (Continued from page 6) politicized. There is a powerful lobby, and Defense bloc. taboo to the Communists,” Dr. Boriak health programs. More than 50 percent of public opinion on Chornobyl is the last bar- President Viktor Yushchenko on April said in a letter to colleagues, “I refuse to the food products were contaminated by rier against the construction of new 3 called on Prime Minister Tymoshenko accept any further responsibility for what radiation, according to official figures, and [nuclear] reactors in Russia and in the to dismiss Ms. Ginzburg, stating that she she does.” Dr. Boriak underscored that local residents consumed mushrooms, world. This is part of a PR campaign aimed was “abusing her position [at the state the fact this was happening “under a berries and game from forests, where most at eliminating social disapproval because, archives] and hindering state policies democratic Ukrainian government makes of the radiation is concentrated. according to social polls, 78 percent of aimed at securing historical justice.” Ms. no sense.” The IAEA, however, claimed that there Russians are against the construction of Tymoshenko responded by saying that Reacting to Ms. Ginzburg’s firing, Dr. was no evidence that showed low radiation nuclear plants in their region.” she is against “witch hunts,” but believes Boriak said, “The outcome was worth it. doses increased the risk of cancer. appointments have to be made on the People need to know what was going on Vladimir Chuprov, the chief nuclear Source: “Greenpeace, others challenge basis of a person’s qualifications not pol- so that it will never happen again.” He expert at Greenpeace’s Moscow chapter, IAEA report on disaster’s consequences,” itics. has taken a job with the National said the report by the IAEA was part of a by Luke Allnutt and Claire Bigg (RFE/RL), The controversial director, a member Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. campaign to present nuclear energy as a The Ukrainian Weekly, April 30, 2006. of the Communist Party of Ukraine Dr. Roman Serbyn, professor emeritus (CPU), was reported to be a denier of the of modern history at Mc Gill University, genocidal nature of the Holodomor who who is an internationally recognized attempted to restrict access to historical researcher of the Holodomor, said: “The 1970 until his death in 1975 he served as documents of the CPU. Under Ms. issue of Ms. Ginzburg was raised at the Harvard celebrates... editor-in-chief of the monthly Ukrainian lit- Ginzburg’s leadership the State Holodomor conference organized by the (Continued from page 11) erary journal Suchasnist. Committee on Archives released a cof- Washington, D.C., branch of the Bohdan Jurij Krawciw, a member of a In addition to “Doroha,” Krawciw’s fee-table book celebrating the 90th Shevchenko Scientific Society and the poetry was published in numerous periodi- anniversary of the Ukrainian Soviet Ukrainian Embassy on April 5. The par- Ukrainian Catholic priestly family, was born in Lopianka, Dolynsky Region, cals and individual collections: “Promeni” Socialist Republic. ticipants expressed disappointment with (Rays, 1930), “Sonety I Strofy” (Sonnets Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in 1904. He com- Ms. Ginzburg, a mechanical engineer, the government of Ms. Tymoshenko in and Strophes, 1933), “Ostannia Osin” (The pleted his secondary education at the was not a professional archivist. She was keeping an unqualified person as head of Last Autumn, 1940), “Pid Chuzhymy Academic Gymnasium in Lviv and then named in August 2006 by then Vice the Ukrainian archives… a person who Zoriamy” (Under Foreign Stars, 1941), studied philosophy at the Lviv Ukrainian Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs has openly worked against the re-estab- “Korabli” (Ships, 1948), “Zymnozelen” Secret University. In 1925 he continued his (Wintergreen, 1951), “Dzvenyslava” study of philosophy with additional courses (1962), “Hlosarii” (Glossary, 1974), in literature, bibliography and archaeology “Kvitolit” (1974) and others. at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv and Krawciw regularly critiqued Soviet in 1928-1930 he studied law at the same attempts to censor and suppress Ukrainian university. writing. He translated Solomon’s “Song of While in school, Krawciw edited Plast’s Songs” in 1943 and Rainer Maria Rilke’s newspaper Molode Zhyttia and he served as poems titled “Rechy I Obrazy” (Objects both an editor and contributor to a number and Images, 1947) and edited several of Ukrainian newspapers and literary jour- anthologies of poetry, including “Obirvani nals published in Lviv and Peremyshl, Struny” (Broken Strings, 1955), “Poety including Visti, Holos Natsii, Holos, Chumatskoho Shliakhu” (Poets of the Dazhboh and Obrii. In 1929 his first vol- Milky Way, 1962), and “Shistdesiat Poetiv ume of poetry “Doroha” (The Road) was Shistdesiatykh Rokiv” (Sixty Poets of the published. Sixties, 1966). At the same time Krawciw became Krawciw also looked at Ukrainian folk- active in the Ukrainian national movement lore and mythology, the great Ukrainian and served as president of the Ukrainian authors Taras Shevchenko and Ivan Franko, Student Hromada, administrator of the Ukrainian literature of the 1920s and 1930s, Ukrainian Academic Home in Lviv and the and Ukrainian émigré literature. He head of the Union of Ukrainian Nationalist authored studies of contemporary Ukrainian Youth. He participated in the first confer- literature, published bibliographic guides ence of Ukrainian Nationalists in Berlin in and old maps of Ukraine and old Ukrainian 1927 and was one of the founders of the mythology, edited literary anthologies, pub- Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists lished works of literary criticism and com- (OUN) in 1929. piled an extensive bibliography of Because of his nationalistic activity, Ukrainian émigré literature. Three volumes Krawciw was arrested by the Polish police of his collected works were published in 1930 and sentenced to three years in jail. posthumously between 1978 and 1984. In 1934 he was re-arrested and sentenced to Work on the project was supported by the notorious Polish concentration camp for funds from the Iryna Wolynec Publication Ukrainian political prisoners at Bereza Fund in Ukrainian Studies, the Lubomyra Kartuzka. and Ihor Kocur Ukrainian Fund in memory During World War II Krawciw worked of Dr. Lubomyra S. Kocur-Zasula, the in Berlin. At the end of the war he and his Walter Bacad Endowment Fund, the family fled to West Germany, emigrating to Brothers Iwan and Wolodymyr the United States in 1949. He initially set- Smigurowskyj Fund, the Ihor and Oksana tled in Philadelphia and served as the editor Humeniuk Ukrainian Fund, the Ivan and of the Ukrainian daily newspaper Ameryka. Anastazia Jurkewych-Kocur and the Later he moved to Rutherford, N.J., and Wolodymyr and Osypa Rybchuk-Zazula became an editor of Svoboda, the Ukrainian Fund Ukrainian-language daily published by the The Bohdan and Neonila Krawciw Map Ukrainian National Association. Collection Exhibit will be on display at Krawciw also served as an editor of Harvard University’s Pusey library, which “Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia,” pub- is located in Harvard Yard, through May 7, lished by the University of Toronto Press, Monday - Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. For further and contributed to the large, multi-volume information see hcl.harvard.edu/ “Entsyklopedia Ukrainoznavstva.” From libraries/#hmc or call 617-495-2417. No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 13

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mocking and bullying the former, while NEWSBRIEFS flattering and offering lucrative business CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS (Continued from page 2) deals to the latter. On a visit to Helsinki on the Polish port of Gdansk and on to other April 10, Mr. Kaczynski appeared to mod- TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI, (973) 292-9800 x 3040 points in Europe, helping to break Russia’s erate his earlier stance, telling reporters that or e-mail: [email protected] sole control of Central Asian oil exports. In he did not link the Russia-EU talks with 2004 the Ukrainian government gave per- NATO expansion and was “misinterpreted” mission for the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline in the media, Reuters reported. He argued SERVICES Apon Video that he merely said that the EU should not P.O. Box 3082 to transport Russian oil in the opposite direction. Progress on the Odesa-Brody- “rush” into talks with Moscow. 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Mr. businesses, securities arbitration, Kaczynski noted that the Bucharest sum- “Ukraine has made its choice” divorce, wills and probate. mit gave Kyiv and Tbilisi a clear promise that they will eventually be admitted to KYIV – Ukrainian Foreign Minister (By Appointment Only) NATO. Alluding to Russia’s opposition to Volodymyr Ohryzko said in Moscow on NATO enlargement, Mr. Kaczynski argued April 15 that “Ukraine has made its choice” 157 SECOND AVENUE that Russia has nothing to fear from coun- to join NATO, news agencies reported. He NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10003 tries where it already has huge business added that “this choice is well -thought-out. (212) 477-3002 interests. He noted that “Europe certainly This is not only the political will of our wants to cooperate with Russia, but this leadership, but it is also Ukraine’s Euro- cooperation must be symmetrical. 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NO selling, Union that should give the North Atlantic approaches based on bloc thinking.” NO stress and NO initial investment. alliance the right to put a veto on the (RFE/RL Newsline) Send resume to European Union’s policy toward Russia. [email protected] So, this is probably another facet of how RosUkrEnergo to continue gas deliveries they understand the term ‘European soli- KYIV – Oleksander Shlapak, the first darity’ in some European capitals and how The Ukrainian Weekly is looking deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat, Run your advertisement here, they want to use it as a magic wand to run told journalists in Kyiv on April 11 that the world today.” Russia has frequently in The Ukrainian Weekly’s for advertising sales agents. Naftohaz Ukrayiny has concluded a con- (973) 292-9800, ext 3040 sought to split the newer members of the CLASSIFIEDS section. EU and NATO from the older ones by (Continued on page 21) No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 21

idential press service quoted Mr. Baloha as NEWSBRIEFS saying. Ms. Tymoshenko later said in (Continued from page 20) response to Mr. Baloha’s criticism: “I value tract with Swiss-registered firm the unity of the democratic coalition too RosUkrEnergo on natural gas deliveries to highly to let some bureaucrats and outsiders Ukraine, Interfax reported. According to destroy this unity.” The same day, the Mr. Shlapak, RosUkrEnergo, which is Cabinet of Ministers passed a new resolu- owned by Gazprom and two Ukrainian tion regulating the procedure for holding businessmen, will supply some 50 billion auctions of land not intended for farming. cubic meters of gas to Ukraine by the end Earlier that week President Viktor of 2008 at a price of $179.50 per 1,000 Yushchenko suspended a government reso- cubic meters, compared to $130 last year. lution of February 27 on such auctions. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia (RFE/RL Newsline) Tymoshenko has pledged to exclude Kravchuk’s new view of NATO RosUkrEnergo from the gas supply chain and described the company’s role as KYIV – The first president of the inde- “murky.” “This is a compromise, but a vic- pendent Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, who tory considering the circumstances,” Ms. is a member of the Social-Democratic Tymoshenko’s energy adviser Oleksander Party of Ukraine (United), was told that he Hudyma said on April 11. (RFE/RL might lose his No. 1 party membership Newsline) ticket for his latest statements on NATO, calling into question his opposition to the Baloha criticizes Tymoshenko alliance. Mr. Kravchuk’s reaction to the KYIV – Presidential Secretariat head statement to this effect, which was made Viktor Baloha said on April 10 that deci- by the SDPU press service, was rather sions on land sales by Prime Minister Yulia calm. “I have been long repeating one and Tymoshenko’s Cabinet give evidence to the same phrase, just being poorly heard. closer cooperation between the Yulia Ukraine must decide at a referendum Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) and the opposi- whether it should be with NATO or not,” tion Party of the Regions, as well as show he said in interview with the newspaper that the YTB is ruining the parliamentary Delo. He also noted one should acknowl- coalition and coming into an open conflict edge that “Russia is demonstrating aggres- with President Viktor Yushchenko, Interfax- sion vis-à-vis Ukraine.” “You hear what Ukraine reported on April 10. “The openly the Russian elite are talking about, includ- selfish and crudely pragmatic actions of the ing Solzhenitsyn, Luzhkov, politicians and team of Yulia Tymoshenko are being political scientists,” he said. “They say masked by pleasant and enthusiastic state- they will take our Crimea, target missiles ments about unity, democracy and fighting at us, that Sevastopol is Russian land. The corruption. However, in fact, political and situation has changed. We are permanently business schemes designed to give a staying under Russian pressure. One monopoly to the YTB and its bosses in the should realize that and think about tomor- political arena, in power and economics, are row.” A declaration by the SDPU, which being created. Shadow deals and secret twice lost parliamentary elections, reads agreements, which should ensure authorita- that Mr. Kravchuk’s position is his person- tive and financial assistance to this political al opinion and conflicts with the party’s force, are being made and signed,” the pres- official stand. (Ukrinform)

A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE Contemporary abstract artist Jurij of the infinitesimal moment - a glimpse of Solovij, who produced striking thought- a personality, capturing its most promi- provoking large canvasses, was also nent features, such as the portrait in prominently engaged in the New York bright, shining aluminum, covered with the Group, and is represented in the images of the women's brightly colored Ukrainian Museum's Fine Art collection. His lips - which literally eat up the observer. work was also displayed at the Ukrainian He worked on his church, a huge cylin- It is with deep sorrow that we share with family and friends that on Institute of America as well the Museum der in which we would raise up on a com- February 25, 2008, by the will of the Lord, our beloved mother, of Modern Art in Chicago. One of his mon platform and see visions of humanity "one man" shows was at the NJ State and stars. Maestro wrote a book of grandmother, and great grandmother Museum in Trenton. Most recently, his essays on "Things Greater Than Stars" dream of having his work on exhibit in his and reminded Ukrainians that though we native Ukraine was realized with the had no artistic renaissance, we had the Olga Bejger extensive exhibit of Maestro's work at the wooden spoon - a simple implement, often Arsenal in Kyiv. carved extensively - and used daily -- our passed into eternal rest. Jurij was born in 1921. After the sec- art was our life itself. She was born May 3, 1919, in Ladychyn, Ukraine. ond world war, a refugee, he found him- In 1993, Jurij suffered a head injury, self in the historic German city of which greatly limited his ability to travel Dinkelsbuhl, where he met the only beyond his home in Rutherford, New Funeral services were held on Saturday, March 1, 2008, at St. Nicholas daughter of the Town's wine merchant. It Jersey. There he sat, feeding his beloved Ukrainian Catholic Church in Buffalo, NY, followed by burial at Holy was love at first sight for her and evi- birds, but still holding conversations on Cross Cemetery in Lackawanna, NY. dently as well for him, for it did not take religion, history, philosophy, love and even long for this daughter of this very old and marriage with visitors. His own marriage distinguished German family to persuade to his wife, Liselotte ended forty days In profound sorrow: them to accept her poor refugee husband. before their 58th wedding anniversary, Despite his then impoverished state, his the day he died. Together they produced Sons Bohdan with wife Christina character and talent won them over. a son, Jurij, Junior, whose marriage to Peter Though the family pleaded for them to Irene Janowicz produced two children, remain in Germany, the young couple Alexis and Brandt (who evidently inherit- Walter went on to find its way to New York City. ed his grandfather's talent and uses it as There Solovij worked for a fabric compa- a web designer.) Grandchildren Renata Hanchuk with husband Walter ny, producing materials for the Lowenstein Despite her own physical limitations, it company, something he continued to do in was his wife, Lisa, who sat by his side Roman Bejger with wife Motryja his "retirement". His major personal inter- and nursed him, listened to him, and if one Christopher est, however, was focused on more serious examines the early oils of his youth, Kerri art. He produced large oils, often of reli- inspired him to produce such paintings as Alexandra gious icons, like the stoning of St. Steven, "Man's death by the arrow of his love" or the 5 breasted Madonna for the Masses. "Woman birthing" … Later, he concentrated on the production Even in pain, Jurij saw the glory of the Great grandchildren Deanna, Natalia and Andrea Hanchuk of a 1000 heads, a collection of paint- universe, of life, and he lived it fully. Stephan and Alexander Bejger ings/collages which the Maestro On April 23, 2008, we remember and described as "a moment in time, caught in celebrate that life on the first anniversary the reflection of a vitrina." These studies of his death. Bічна її пам’ять! 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 No. 16 No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 23 Major exhibition of antiquarian maps opens at The Ukrainian Museum NEW YORK – An exhibition of antiquarian maps showing the territory of present-day Ukraine over the course of three centuries will open at The Ukrainian Museum in New York City’s East Village on Sunday, April 20. “The Mapping of Ukraine: European Cartography and Maps of Early Modern Ukraine, 1550-1799,” includes 42 original maps published over a 250-year period by such noted European mapmakers as Joan Blaeu, Nicolas Sanson d’Abbeville, Johann Baptist Homann, Sebastian Munster, Moses Pitt, Matthew Seutter and Antonio Zatta. A majority of the maps in the exhibition are from the museum’s Marie Halun Bloch Collection, which con- sists of 52 maps donated to the museum by the estate of the Ukrainian American writer of children’s books fol- lowing her death in 1998. Dr. Bohdan Kordan, the curator of the exhibition, is professor of international relations and chair of the department of political studies at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon. He has curated several map exhibitions, including “Black Sea, Golden Steppes: Antiquarian Maps of the Black Sea Coast and the Steppes of Old Ukraine” (Kenderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, 2001); “Land of the Cossacks: Antiquarian Maps of Ukraine” (Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Center, Winnipeg, 1987); and “XVII and XVIII Century Maps of Ukraine” (Ring House Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1985). “The Mapping of Ukraine” “provides a fascinating portrait of map-making in Europe,” said Olha Hnateyko, president of The Ukrainian Museum’s board of trustees, “particularly in relation to the territories of

Ukrania quae et Terra Cosaccorum cum Vicinis Walachiae, Moldaviae, Minoris Tartariae provinciis (Ukraine and the Land of the Kozak with the Neighboring Provinces of Wallachia, Moldavia and Tatary Minor), Johann Baptist Homann/Homann’s Heirs, Nuremberg, 1729, from the Olha Dmytriw Collection at The Ukrainian Museum.

Ukraine.” Indeed, Dr. Kordan’s detailed descriptions what has become known as the Kozak Baroque: a peri- assess each map both for its cartographic/artistic ele- od of intense political, intellectual and cultural growth ments and for its historical narrative. The maps trace a manifested by societal stability, the expansion of educa- critical period in Ukraine’s history – a period that tional institutions, architectural innovation and a bur- includes the noted Kozak (Cossack) era – and establish geoning of the arts. the country’s place on the European continent. Both “The Mapping of Ukraine: European “With his extensive knowledge of the subject mat- Cartography and Maps of Early Modern Ukraine, 1550- ter,” notes the museum’s director, Maria Shust, “Dr. 1799” and “The Cossacks: Their Art and Style” will be Kordan was able to tell the story of these maps from the on view through October 5. point of view of the evolution of modern cartography, *** placing it within the historical context of the develop- ment of modern states, with Ukraine as one of the The Ukrainian Museum was founded in 1976 by the pawns and sometimes players in the struggle among Ukrainian National Women’s League of America as a various powers for control of the Ukrainian territory.” showcase for Ukrainian culture. Over the past 32 years, A fully illustrated, bilingual catalogue written by Dr. the museum has amassed extensive collections of folk Kordan and with a preface by Dr. Frank Sysyn of the art, fine art and archival material. It mounts several University of Alberta in Edmonton accompanies the exhibitions annually; publishes accompanying bilingual exhibition. catalogues; organizes courses, workshops and other “Portrait of Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovsky” by To coincide with “The Mapping of Ukraine,” the educational programs; and hosts a variety of public Wolodymyr Lukich Borowykowski (1757-1825), (oil museum is presenting an exhibition of some of the events. on canvas, 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches), from the museum in major cultural achievements of the Kozak era. “The In April 2005 the museum moved into a new, state- Memory of Patriarch Mstyslav I, Ukrainian Orthodox Cossacks: Their Art and Style” uses a variety of photo- of-the-art facility in New York’s East Village, funded Church of the U.S.A., South Bound Brook, N.J. graphs, portraits, artifacts and publications to focus on entirely by the Ukrainian American community. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 No. 16

MAP position to a pro-MAP one, depend- to Russia’s interests and purposes. Pro-MAP faction... ing on circumstances. Greece, another Moscow’s furious... Vyacheslav Nikonov (himself no stranger (Continued from page 2) naysayer, lost all credibility during the sum- (Continued from page 2) to questioning the territorial integrity of engaged in a mini-Ostpolitik of its own, mit by vetoing Macedonia’s accession to Crimea and eastern regions of Ukraine Russia’s neighbors) argues, for example, dropped out of that group and joined the the alliance. (Kommersant, April 7; Moscow Times, that Moscow’s rhetoric in the wake of anti-MAP countries at the summit. Thus the German-led anti-MAP group April 8). NATO’s summit can only strengthen the Denmark was set to sign the pro-MAP partly unraveled, its remaining members Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, resolve of governments in neighboring declaration ahead of the summit, but the now reluctant to stick closely to Berlin. who had accompanied Mr. Putin, subse- countries to seek protection from NATO German Ministry of Foreign Affairs per- Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter quently told journalists that he “did not (Interfax, April 11, 12). suaded its Danish counterpart to delay that Steinmeier overplayed his hand by suggest- hear” Mr. Putin’s remarks; but Mr. Sergei Karaganov, chairman of the gesture. Danish political leaders, however, ing that Russia deserved some compensa- Peskov did not disclaim those threats Council on Foreign and Defense Policy prevailed; and the country joined the pro- tion at the expense of Ukraine and Georgia, (Interfax, April 7). This response would (CFRS), a Kremlin advisory body, told MAP countries at the summit, as did in return for Moscow’s presumed “loss” in seem to reflect either a lack of plausible the CFRS’s conference just held in Iceland. Against this backdrop, the work of Kosovo. This suggestion triggered a back- deniability or a war-of-nerves tactic, Moscow that political measures would be U.S. President George W. Bush throughout lash in the German press, with Der Spiegel probably both. Minister of Foreign more effective than military measures the summit made the decisive difference for (April 3) characterizing Mr. Steinmeier as a Affairs Sergei Lavrov almost explicitly against Ukraine and Georgia if they opening the door to Ukraine and Georgia. leading appeaser, which contributed to confirmed Mr. Putin’s warnings, recount- moved closer to NATO. He recommend- Britain remained on the sidelines undermining Berlin’s position at the sum- ing them more diplomatically in a radio ed discretion and quiet planning for throughout the pre-summit and summit mit. interview: “Both in Bucharest and in deploying such measures at an appropri- debate. Prime Minister Gordon Brown told At that point, Germany risked isolation Sochi, Mr. Putin recalled how present- ate time (Interfax, April 12). U.S. President George W. Bush that his while Chancellor Angela Merkel faced day Ukraine, in its current borders, was The Georgian and Ukrainian govern- government was for the MAPs in principle, intense lobbying from the United States and formed, [recalled] the contradictions ments are not intimidated. but would not pursue the issue. Moreover, the Central-East European countries. There between western Ukraine and its eastern Georgia’s Parliament Chair Nino “We are agnostic – if there is a consensus, were moments during the summit when 10 and southeastern regions. He said that Burjanadze, Minister of Foreign Affairs we would agree, but we don’t support push- to 15 allied leaders were clustering around what was being done to draw Ukraine Davit Bakradze and other officials have ing for it now.” “Cautious to a fault,” an edi- Ms. Merkel to present arguments for the into NATO would not facilitate the rejected such “interstate blackmail” and torialist commented (The Times, London, Ukrainian and Georgian MAPs and, ulti- important task of helping Ukraine main- reaffirmed Georgia’s irreversible “nation- April 4). mately, for the more ambitious formula that tain its unity” (Ekho Moskvy, April 8). al choice” to join NATO. These and other The positions of most anti-MAP coun- committed NATO to approval of Ukrainian Mr. Lavrov proceeded to warn in his Georgian officials describe Moscow’s tries were softer or even fluid, compared and Georgian membership in due course. account that Russia would do everything threats to Georgia and Ukraine as added with Berlin’s position. French Prime The winning arguments turned out to be possible to prevent Georgia and Ukraine vindication of the two governments’ goal Minister Francois Fillon’s openly “Russia those defending NATO’s bedrock princi- from moving toward NATO. to join NATO (Civil Georgia, Rustavi-2 first” position on arrival at the summit ples: no outside say in internal decisions, Furthermore, he issued a three-tiered TV, April 8-12). turned out not to reflect President Sarkozy’s the open door and assessment of the aspi- warning that “NATO enlargement is turn- In statements on April 9 and 11, the policy. The negative Dutch position reflect- rant countries on their own merits. These ing into a systemic problem” in Russia- Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ed only the views of parts of the Dutch principles were at stake and were success- NATO overall relations, Russia’s bilater- said that Moscow’s questioning of coalition government. Italy had announced fully protected at this summit through the al relations with “those NATO countries Ukraine’s territorial integrity was “unac- in advance that it could switch from its anti- decision on Ukraine and Georgia. that are actually pushing the issue” and ceptable” under international law. It Russia’s policy toward the aspirant coun- asked the Russian government to observe tries (Interfax, April 9). the 1997 Russia-Ukraine interstate treaty, The Chief of the General Staff of which also stipulated refraining from Russian Armed Forces, Gen. Yuriy threats of using force (Interfax-Ukraine, Baluyevsky, warned on April 11 that April 12). Verkhovna Rada Chairman Russia would take military measures as Arseniy Yatsenyuk called those threats well as “other types of measures” against “inexcusable,” and the Rada’s National Georgia and Ukraine, if these countries Security and Defense Committee moved toward NATO membership Chairman Anatolii Hrytsenko (a leading (Interfax, April 11). proponent of NATO membership) noted The Duma’s CIS Affairs Committee that Gen. Baluyevski’s ideas merely Chairman Aleksei Ostrovsky warned in reflected those of Russia’s top political the wake of hearings that Russia “has leadership (Interfax-Ukraine, April 11). legal grounds for revising the agreements In Brussels, NATO spokesman James made by Khrushchev,” that is, reclaim Appathurai called for explanations about the Crimea from Ukraine (Nezavisimaya Moscow’s threatened “measures” and Gazeta, April 11). He and other Russian issued a reminder. “NATO allies have politicians have recently raised the possi- been very clear [at the summit]: I restate bility of denouncing or renegotiating the the policy that they will make their own 1997 Russia-Ukraine interstate treaty, decisions on enlargement, without out- which stipulates the inviolability of terri- side influence. Georgia and Ukraine have tory and borders. made it clear that they want membership. Some Kremlin consultants regard NATO’s door is open to them” (press those open threats as counterproductive release, April 11).

presidential elections could finish his Is the Party... political career. (Continued from page 3) The popularity of Mr. Yanukovych a slim majority, and replacing it with a personally and the PRU as a party are grand coalition. Messrs. Yushchenko and declining. Centrist parties in Ukraine Kolesnikov agreed on establishing a have never had long lives, as by their post-election grand coalition in May nature they are more fronts for business 2007 as a compromise to the constitu- and regional interests than ideological tional crisis that led to the PRU acquiesc- parties. It is too early to tell whether the ing to early elections. Party of the Regions will go the way of Fourthly, image. Donetsk voters are other centrist parties or whether it will turned off by the image of a loser. Mr. rebound from its crisis. Zhdanov pointed out that “in this region [Donetsk] they do not like those who Sources: Kyivsky Telegraf, March 21- lose” and the problem with Mr. 27, Politychnyi Portret Ukrayiny, Nos. Yanukovych is that he has lost twice, in 37-38, 2007, Ukrayinska Pravda, 2004 and 2007. A third defeat in the next February 19, March 25.

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lar. ings have also been accepted as inflation- restriction on grain export quotas is a Inflation.... Some experts claim the U.S. dollar’s ary stimulants, as the majority of the leftover decree from the previous admin- (Continued from page 1) steady 14-month decline against the euro recipients of the compensation program istration of Mr. Yanukovych. is one of the main causes of Ukraine’s were the elderly, who almost immediate- Yanukovych. “Inflation on the one hand and declin- inflation, as the euro is increasingly ly spent their earnings. At the same time, Ms. Tymoshenko ing growth in industrial output precede becoming the currency of choice in Similarly, when compared to the previ- admitted on March 27 that her govern- the onset of stagflation,” said Volodymyr Ukraine’s foreign trade and commerce. ous two years, the agricultural and ener- ment has failed to curb inflation, but put Stelmakh, head of the NBU. “Our policy Similarly, as the rate of the hryvnia con- gy sectors have produced less than antici- part of the blame on the “very controver- aims to avert stagflationary processes in tinues to be pegged to the dollar at a pated results. Sunflower production sial” monetary policy of the NBU. Ms. the economy. Stagflation usually occurs fixed rate of 5.05 hrv per dollar since decreased by 21.6 percent in comparison Tymoshenko said that she expects more when a contraction in industrial output is 2005, due to the global rise in energy and to the 2006 harvest. Grain production proactivity from the NBU and her minis- accompanied by rising unemployment food prices Ukraine, to some extent, is was down by 15.5 percent in comparison ters if consumer prices continue to and inflation.” to the same period, and milk production actually importing its own inflation as the “The key policy at the moment which increase. dollar’s value continues to slide. decreased by 8 percent compared to the we should undertake is one that would “All measures that the government Therefore, according to some econo- 2006 yield. stimulate the national manufacturer – implemented jointly with the National mists, the NBU should relax the band Another blow to the economy Bank of Ukraine have not produced any further in order to give the hryvnia the occurred on March 28 when the Cabinet this is the main anti-inflationary step impressive results,” admitted the prime opportunity to rise. of Ministers agreed to extend grain which should be taken when we talk minister. “It’s hard to stop these trends Other factors also have clearly con- export quotas for wheat, barley and rye about the consumer market,” said under very controversial monetary policy tributed to Ukraine’s current rampant rate until the end of April. According to President Viktor Yushchenko in response and the policy on the consumer market,” of inflation, namely an increase in the Volodymyr Klymenko, president of the to the economic crisis. added Ms. Tymoshenko. accessibility of capital to the average Ukrainian Grain Association, grain According to experts, the rate of infla- Prime Minister Tymoshenko under- consumer. In the period between export restrictions amounted to a loss of tion in 2008 will reach its peak during the scored her dissatisfaction with the February 2007 to February 2008, wages $1.3 billion for Ukraine’s grain producers months of April and May. Afterwards, NBU’s policy of pegging the hryvnia to increased by 44.3 percent. In addition, over the last eight-month period. As a prices should begin to decrease steadily the U.S. dollar. Both she and Finance an increase in pensions and Prime result, many farmers are reluctant to during the summer – provided a good Minister Viktor Pynzenyk have been Minister Tymoshenko’s first-quarter pro- grow crops due to the uncertainty of harvest alleviates the pressure on the cost calling for the appreciation of the hryv- gram of reimbursing lost Soviet-bloc sav- exporting their goods abroad. The of consumer goods. nia in order to slow the pace of inflation. As a result, the consensus is that the cur- rency band should be broadened. 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Viewers also meet many of the peculiar (AAUS) awards were announced sociology at Reed College, for part of ongoing efforts to educate the world inhabitants who never left this highly radioactive on Saturday, April 12, at the “Foundation Feminism and the about the lingering effects of the Chornobyl and somewhat surreal area inside the “zone.” AAUS meeting held during the Articulation of Hybrid Feminisms accident, the 17th international Conference on “Radiophobia” has been sold globally to chan- annual conference of the in Post-Socialist Ukraine,” East Health and Environment: Global Partner for nels such as: Spanish TVE, Al Jazeera Association for the Study of European Politics and Societies Global Solutions will be held at the United International, History Channel Italy, DR2 Nationalities (ASN) in New York 20.1 (2006): 69-100. Nations Secretariat Building (First Avenue and (Denmark), MTV3 (Finland), 1+1 (Ukraine), City. The AAUS honored five • Second prize: Natan M. 45th Street) on Wednesday and Thursday, April PTS Taiwan and TVR (National TV Romania). scholars for their recent contribu- Meir, lecturer, School of 23-24, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in Conference When it premiered at the 2006 ECU European tions to the field of Ukrainian Humanities, University of Room 4. Independent Film Festival in Paris, the film studies. Southampton, for “Jews, The overall theme of this year’s conference is received the Best Film, Best Documentary and The 2006-2007 AAUS Prize Ukrainians and Russians in Kiev: “Chornobyl Update and Youth Action. The con- Best Photography awards. It has already been for Best Book in the fields of Intergroup Relations in Late ference is organized by World Information selected for many festivals around the world. Ukrainian history, politics, lan- Imperial Associational Life,” Transfer and co-sponsored by the government of Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev, Ukraine’s per- guage, literature and culture was Slavic Review, Vol. 65, No. 3 awarded to the following co-win- (Autumn, 2006), pp. 475-501. Ukraine; it is being held in collaboration with the manent representative to the United Nations, as ners: • The AAUS 2006-2007 Prize U.N. Development Program, World Health well as health and environmental experts from • Vitaly Chernetsky, assistant for Best Translation from Organization, Non-Governmental Liaison Ukraine also will participate in the conference. professor, department of German, Ukrainian into English was Service and Stakeholder Forum. Among the topics to be discussed will be prob- Russian and East Asian languages awarded to Michael Naydan, pro- The conference program on April 23 includes lems of environmental health in Ukraine. at Miami University, for fessor of Slavic languages and lit- the film “Radiophobia” by producer/director The conference is free; however, registration “Mapping Postcommunist eratures at the Pennsylvania State Julio Soto. It is a touching documentary entirely is necessary for admission to the United Nations Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in University, for his forthcoming shot in Chornobyl’s “forbidden zone.” The film Headquarters. Those interested in attending the Context of Globalization” translation of Bohdan Ihor examines the Chornobyl disaster and its conse- should e-mail [email protected] or fax their (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Antonych’s, “The Grand quences 20 years later from the perspective of a names and contact information to 212-686-2172. University Press, 2007); Harmony” (Lviv: Litopys • Catherine Wanner, associate Publishers, 2007). professor of history and anthro- The winners of the AAUS Ukrainian folk dance, to new generations. pology, department of history at prizes were selected by separate The new dance academy... This new cooperative relationship seemed to the Pennsylvania State University, committees chaired by the follow- (Continued from page 5) be a natural progression with the dance academy, for “Communities of the ing: book prize committee – SK: We are trying to think of innovative ways as Soyuzivka’s relationship with the late Roma Converted: Ukrainians and Global Marian Rubchak, professor of Pryma Bohachevsky has spanned many decades. Evangelism” (Ithaca, N.Y.: history, Valparaiso University; to partner with other organizations and emphasize Her daughter continues this tradition, and we Cornell University Press, 2007). article prize committee – Andriy the community role Soyuzivka has always played. are proud that Syzokryli have chosen to make The 2006 AAUS Prize for Best Danylenko, professor of modern Soyuzivka is a unique place whose purpose always Soyuzivka their summer home. Incidentally, Article in the fields of Ukrainian languages and cultures, Pace was to provide a venue where Ukrainians could Syzokryli will practice at Soyuzivka during the history, politics, language, litera- University; and translation prize meet, be part of the unique Ukrainian experience, summer months, as well as perform. They will ture and culture was awarded to committee – Maria Rewakowicz, promote Ukrainian arts, music, theater and culture, become members of the Soyuzivka Heritage the following individuals and professor of Slavic languages, and, most importantly, pass on the traditions, like Foundation. works: University of Washington-Seattle. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 No. 16

argument. “In using the common-sense Rutgers conference... definition of the word genocide,” he con- (Continued from page 1) tinued, “the Holodomor was a genocide.” attendance, including Yuriy Sergeyev, Dr. Hinton, who organized the confer- Ukraine’s ambassador to the United ence, questioned the difference between mass-murder and genocide and the gray Nations, and Mykola Kyrychenko, con- areas of definition and differentiation sul general of Ukraine in New York. between the two, as well as the focus on Commenting on the recent passage of the part of the Soviet government, and legislation in the Russian Parliament (the later the Russian government, of denying Duma) that the Holodomor was not a the very existence of Famine in Ukraine genocide intentionally directed against in 1932-1933. the Ukrainian people, Dr. Hinton ques- Following these opening remarks, a tioned the legal basis for the Russian film clip of “Holodomor: Ukraine’s

Markian Hadzewycz Daria Schulha Kira, a Holodomor survivor, along with her son, who read her English-language testimony, field questions from the audience.

Genocide of 1932-33” by Tomkiw Ukraine Famine, the International Famine Entertainment and Moksha Films was Commission at The Hague, the release of screened to give audience members who the documentary “Harvest of Despair” were not familiar with this human and Robert Conquest’s book “Harvest of tragedy a brief overview of the effects Sorrow” incited dialogue, not only among and the reality of the Holodomor. Ukrainians, but among the scholarly com- The conference was chaired and mod- munity as well. Soviet revisionist histori- erated by Dr. Alex Motyl, professor of ography perpetuated academic deafness political science at Rutgers University- and a lack of independent thinking to “do Newark, who introduced Taras Hunczk, the homework.” There was a danger of professor emeritus of history at Rutgers not accepting the Holodomor as a field of University-Newark. Each speaker was study due to lack of physical evidence given 15 minutes for his presentation. and a paper trail, Dr. Sysyn noted. Dr. Hunczak’s topic, “The Ukrainian Dr. George Grabowicz, Dmytro Genocide and Soviet Policy,” examined Cyzevskyi Professor of Ukrainian Communist economic planning and the Literature at Harvard University, who is fate of the “kulaks,” or farmers who had Former Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Nations Valery Kuchinsky recalls the editor of the literary journal Krytyka property, and in the eyes of the regime his experience in working toward international recognition of the Holodomor as and director of the Krytyka Institute in were seen as subversive bourgeoisie and a genocide. Kyiv, spoke on “The Famine-Genocide in targeted for persecution. Dr. Hunczak Ukrainian Culture.” Dr. Grabowicz com- also was critical of The New York Times mented on the struggle of correspondent Walter Duranty, who won “Ukrainianization” versus “Russification” a Pulitzer Prize for his falsehoods that and noted that during the Holodomor the described a prosperous Soviet system Soviet regime prevented aid from coming rather than the thousands who were in to the affected areas, to which Dr. dying per day as a result of that system Grabowicz rhetorically asked: “What during the Holodomor. regime would prevent aid to famine?” According to Dr. Hunczak, the Famine According to Dr. Grabowicz, only peaked in 1932-1933, but was ongo- Ukrainians lacked a voice to inform peo- ing for years prior, with 1 million ple about the Holodomor at the time and Ukrainians being transplanted outside of depended on the diaspora for spreading Ukraine, to the east and to Siberia, begin- information about this human tragedy. ning in 1930. Secret directives by the The Ukrainian case of genocide is Soviet regime prevented an exodus of unique, he continued, because Ukrainians Ukrainians in search of bread to Russia in the Soviet Union were forced to praise or Belarus, he added. their victimizers, which perpetuated a Dr. Frank Sysyn, director of the Peter false memory of national consciousness. Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Valery Kuchinsky, former ambassador Research and a research associate at the of Ukraine to the United Nations, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies informed the audience about the progress at the University of Alberta, spoke on the toward recognition of the Holodomor as topic “Putting the Ukrainian Famine- genocide by the United Nations. Mr. Genocide on the Scholarly Agenda: The Kuchinsky recounted how, in an official Role of the Ukrainian Diaspora.” Dr. statement on the Holodomor read during Sysyn began with the question: “Why did a meeting of the General Assembly, it come so late as a topic of study?” which gained support from one-third of Points made by Dr. Sysyn included: 1.) it the member-states, President Vladimir matters how and who makes the state- Putin mentioned “the terrible hunger in ment of the Holodomor as genocide; 2.) Ukraine.” This was the first time that any after World War II, the nationalities issue Russian leader had mentioned or even was a hot topic with the signing of the acknowledged before the General Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the expan- Assembly the famine conditions in sion of the Soviet sphere; 3.) certain Ukraine during 1932-1933, Mr. fields of study and use of the Soviet Kuchinsky explained. archives were forbidden. Daria Schulha Kira, a Holodomor sur- Dr. Sysyn commented on the efforts of vivor, told of her life experience growing the diaspora, including the dissemination up under the Soviet regime and the terror of knowledge about the Holodomor and she endured. Born in 1922 in the the expansion of Ukrainian studies at uni- versities. The U.S. Commission on the (Continued on page 29)

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“Ukraine can’t put the perpetrators on Rutgers conference... trial. All we can do is seek international (Continued from page 28) recognition and dialogue, and academic Zhytomyr Oblast, by the age of 3 she lost study,” Mr. Sergeyev added. both parents to disease. Her parents were The Russian position in scholarship, branded kulaks because they owned according to Dr. Hunczak, is to treat all property, including cattle and horses, and the former Soviet republics the same and hired a laborer to help with the harvest. to “pay no attention to what happened in They were forced onto collective farms Ukraine.” and their assets confiscated as property In his final commentary, Dr. of the state. Grabowicz spoke of the lack of national The grain harvest was abundant in her memory, or even a powerful institution to village in 1932, but was confiscated by preserve the national consciousness. As the Soviet authorities, Ms. Kira contin- an example of such institutions he cited ued. At the time, she was 10 years old, the Institute of National Memory in and she and her three siblings, the oldest Poland, which Dr. Grabowicz explained age 17, survived on mushrooms, grasses, is a very powerful organization that can bark, roots, insects and worms. Acts of bring people to trial who committed cannibalism were not uncommon, she crimes against the Polish people or who explained. perpetuate false national history. In the “We should teach our children and Czech Republic there is a special divi- Markian Hadzewycz future generations what happened in sion which addresses crimes committed Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev (left) listens to Prof. Henry Huttenbach's closing Ukraine in 1932-1933, that they should under communism. remarks. never forget and never allow such crimes Another example of the Ukrainian to ever take place again,” she said. The government’s inaction regarding the audience gave Ms. Kira a standing ova- preservation of national memory, Dr. tion for her testimony. Grabowicz continued, is the back-room Dr. Henry Huttenbach, professor of politics that put a Communist, Olha history and director of the Russian and Ginzburg, in charge of Ukraine’s state East European Studies Program at the archives. Under her initiative, sections of City College of New York and editor of the archive related to the Holodomor the Journal of Genocide Research, said were closed and competent archivists the Holodomor was a unique tragedy that were being replaced by fellow needs to be added to the curriculum of Communists unqualified for the job. genocide studies. It should be The integration of the Holodomor in approached from a comparative perspec- the overall curriculum of genocide stud- tive, he commented. ies will combat ignorance, Dr. Grabowicz During the discussion, Ambassador continued, but Ukraine should be more Sergeyev informed the audience that in involved. order for the General Assembly of the Dr. Hinton said that the academic U.N. to recognize the Holodomor as a community needed to speak out against genocide there needs to be proof of intent denial of the Holodomor as genocide. of the Soviet regime against Ukrainians. Judging from the interest at this confer- “The evidence is there,” Mr. Sergeyev ence, Dr. Hinton anticipated more speak- continued, “it’s a matter of people ers and more information to be presented accepting the evidence.” at next year’s conference. Profs. George Grabowicz and Frank Sysyn listen to panelists. 30 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 No. 16 No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 2008 31 OUT AND ABOUT

April 25 Film screenings, “Radiophobia” by Julio May 3-4 St. Thomas Sunday “Providna Nedilia” Philadelphia Soto, “Have You Ever Heard About Bound Brook, NJ Pilgrimage, Metropolia Center of the Vukovar?” by Paolo Borraccetti, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., Ukrainian League of Philadelphia, 732-356-0090 www.kinofilmproject.org May 10 Spring zabava, Assumption of the Blessed April 26 Holodomor exhibit and film screening, Perth Amboy, NJ Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church, Syracuse, NY Ukrainian National Women’s League of 732-826-0767 America – Branch 68, Hazard Branch Library, 315-492-9696 May 13 Lecture by Roman Koropeckyj, “Self- Stanford, CA Portraiture and Narrative in Taras April 28 Lecture by Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, “Two Shevchenko,” Stanford University, Stanford, CA Nationalities, Three Cultures: Russians and 650-725-5936 Ukrainians in the Russian Empire,” Stanford University, 650-725-5936

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