www.ukrweekly.com Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non- profit association! rainian Weekly Vol. Llll No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1985 25 cents Vyacheslav Bakhmin arrested; Ukrainian Canadians urge creation faces "hooliganism" charge of government human-rights commission MUNICH -Vyacbeslav Bakhmin,а TORONTO - The Ukrainian Brian Miilroney to "live up to its pre­ founding member of an unofficial Canadian Committee, working along election promises and establish a group to investigate Soviet abuses of with representatives of the Lithuanian, permanent commission on human psychiatry, was arrested on February 22 Latvian, Estonian, Czechoslovak, rights." in Kalinin, some 90 miles northwest of Polish and Hungarian communities of "It is imperative that Canada provide Moscow. Canada and the Toronto-based Human a mechanism by which it can effectively According to USSR News Brief here, Rights Commission of the World deal with the scheduled meeting of the 37-year-old ^mathematician and Congress of Free Ukrainians, has urged experts... utilizing both the expertise former political prisoner was taken into the Canadian government to establish a and experience of groups such as ours." custody after he was accosted on a permanent commission on human the UCC said in its statement, which street and punched in the face by a man rights. was prepared by Christina Isajiw. who appeared to be drunk. Seconds These efforts have intensified The position paper pointed out that it after the assault, a nearby police car recently, on the eve of the experts' is Canada's obligation as a signatory ol sped to the scene and Mr. Bakhmin meeting on human rights thai is to be the Helsinki Accords, to "take a strong was arrested. held within the framework of the public position in order to Although the exact charge is not Helsinki Accords review process. The communicate to the peoples of Eastern known, he was most likely charged with experts' meeting is scheduled to get Europe that we hold their governments "hooliganism." under way in Ottawa, the Canadian accountable for the international The apparent frame-up comes just capital, on April 23. agreements they have signed." over a year after Mr. Bakhmin was The UCC. the WCFU and the members of the Canadian Captive European Nations, popularly known as Strengthening rights guarantees Vyacheslav Bakhmin the seven nations (Czechoslovak. Ex- OUN member Estonian. Hungarian. Latvian, The paper also noted: "It is evident released from a labor camp, where he Lithuanian. Polish, Ukrainian) that there is considerable interest on the reported arrested had served a one-year term he received committee, are calling for the creation part of the Canadian public to see while already imprisoned. In 1980, he of an interparliamentary committee on Canada live up to its commitments as a in Ukraine was given a three-year term for activities human rights that would be part of the signatory to the Helsinki Final Act, and with the Working Commission to Standing Committee on External and to see Canada express a much strongei Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Defense. LONDON Information has commitment to specific measures for Political Purposes, which he helped strengthening human-rights guaran­ recently reached the West that former found in January 1.977. Meeting with Clark tees." political prisoner Vasyl Dolishny was Mr. Bakhmin was first arrested in Calls to establish a permanent arrested in Ivano-Frankivske late last 1969 and charged with "anti-Soviet human-rights commission were year, reported the Ukrainian Central Representatives of the seven nations agitation and propaganda." but he was initiated by Canadian non­ Information Service based here. committee met with Secretary of State pardoned and released on September governmental organizations in 1980 Although the exact charges are not lor External Affairs Joe Clark on 29, 1970. Their cause was strongly supported by known, he may have been indicted February 7 to press their^(trgge"slion. then MP Jesse Flis and Sen. Stanley under one of the "parasitism" statutes, Since completing his latest term early Since the vneeting, M/: Clark has Haidasz. as well as Sen. Paul Yuzyk. which make it a crime to be unemployed last year, Mr. Bakhmin has lived in expressed \ns suaport lor the who also chairs the WCFU Human lor more than lour consecutive months. Kalinin because authorities have establishment o`Hhc-ilucrparliamcntary Rights Commission. The two senators It is known that Mr. Dolishny, a refused to allow him to return to his wife committee. most recently pressed the issue on petroleum engineer, has been unable to and family in Moscow. Prior to his In a position paper released on February 13 in statements on the Senate find steady work since December 1981. arrest, he had been under March II. the UCC urged the new floor. when he completed a three-year internal administrative surveillance. government headed by Prime Minister exile term that followed seven years in a labor camp. If convicted of "parasitism," he could get one year in a Pennsylvania campus to install Archipenko sculpture labor camp. acquired from connoisseur-collectors Mr. Dolishny. who is believed to be PHILADELPHIA -TheUniversity and use of the concave and the void Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey H. Loria. parents cither 54 or 55 years old, was sentenced of Pennsylvania will have completed by throughout his works can be seen to of a university student. It is an enlarged to the 10-year term in 1972 after being the end of March the installation on its predate the highly acclaimed sculptures version of the artist's original, an convicted of participation in the main Philadelphia campus of a rare and of Jacques Lipschitz and Henry Moore. abstract rendering of King Solomon, Ukrainian liberation movement unique example of the genius of By the age of 25, Archipenko had one of Archipenko`s last creations. The immediately after World War II. In Alexander Archipenko - his sculpture already attained considerable success in casting was completed under the 1947. he had been convicted of treason of King Solomon. art circles for his innovations and had watchful supervision of Archipenko`s and " sentenced to 10 years for Not until after the sculptor's death in even opened his own school in Paris. widow, according to drawings and membership in the outlawed 1964 was the 14-foot-high bronze His four entrees in the famed 1913 instructions he left for the purpose of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists realized in the monumental size Armory Show in New York led enlargement. and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, but intended by the artist when he worked eventually to his move to the United he was amnestied in 1954. on his four-foot version of the same States where, in 1928. he became a U.S. The site selected by the university for Returning to Ukraine, Mr. Dolishny sub|ect. citizen. mounting this commanding figure is studied engineering in Ivano- The Ukrainian-born Archipenko is After establishing art schools located along the 36th Street walkway. Frankivske. not far from his native now recognized as one of the most successively in New York. Los Angeles Appropriately enough, it will be facing village of Pidluzhzhia. He was arrested important innovators in the and Chicago, he finally settled down in Hillel House, the Jewish Student in 1971 and later sentenced to seven development of modern sculpture. His Woodstock, N.Y., having achieved Center. Responsibility for site years in a labor camp and three years' accomplishments are ranked on the many honors for his work as a teacher preparation and installation of the internal exile. He served the exile term same level as those of such greats in the and artist. sculpture has been assumed by the in the Karaganda region ol northern world of art as Brancusi and Duchamp- The sculpture coming to Penn`s deparment of facilities planning, the Kazakhstan. Villon. Archipenko`s cubist renderings campus on extended loan, was director of which is Titus Hewryk. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1985 ; No. 12 Sannikova begins exile term JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Russian Orthodox" activist Yelena Sannikova Chronicle of began her exile term around February I in the village of Krivosheino, located the Catholic Church some 1,720 miles east of Moscow in the Tomsk region of Central Siberia. in Ukraine According to USSR News Brief in Munich, the 26-year-old activist spent two months in a camp for women political prisoners in the Mordovian ASSR before beginning the 1,400-mile The following excerpts are from The poet writes thus about his life trek into exile in January. Issue No. 4 of the Chronicle of the in court service: "I lived long at Ms. Sannikova, who was arrested on Catholic Church in Ukraine, an luxurious courts,/I tasted sweetness' January 19, 1984, was convicted last underground publication which bitter glory,/Always faithful 1 served October in Moscow on charges of "anti- made its appearance in January 1984 the lords,/1 tasted good and bad..." Soviet agitation and propaganda" and hut has only recently reached the In 1830 Dukhnovych, ragged and sentenced to one-year in labor camp West. Thus far. eight issues have half barefoot, came from Priashiv to and four years' internal exile. She made their way out of Ukraine. The Uzhhorod. where the bishop refused officially completed her sentence on Chronicle is published in samvydav to accept him in his eparchy. At that January 19 because in the Soviet Union form by the Initiative Group for the time Dukhnovych made the a term begins at the time of arrest rather Defense of Believers and the Church, acquaintance of Petrovay, the than conviction. which was founded in 1982 to pro­ pidzhupan (an administrator) of mote the legalization of the Ukrai­ Uzhhorod, who took a liking to him Ms.