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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXX No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 $1/$2 in Ukraine Foreign Relations Ukraine’s 2012 parliamentary elections: Committee approves Two parties that might make the cut Tymoshenko resolution by Zenon Zawada Special to The Ukrainian Weekly WASHINGTON – A resolution intro- duced by U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a KYIV – Polls indicate that at least four member of the Senate Foreign Relations political parties will qualify for the 2012 Committee, and co-sponsored by U.S. Verkhovna Rada. Another two parties have Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Senate majori- a chance of surpassing the 5 percent ty whip, on September 19 unanimously threshold on election day, October 28: the passed the Senate Foreign Relations Ukraine – Forward! party launched by Luhansk oligarch Natalia Korolevska and Committee. The resolution, S. Res. 466, the Svoboda nationalist party launched by calls for the unconditional release of Oleh Tiahnybok. political prisoner and former Ukrainian At the moment, however, both parties Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. would fail to qualify. Ukraine – Forward! “Tymoshenko was a key revolution- would earn 4 percent of the votes for ary in Ukraine’s 2004 Orange closed party lists, while Svoboda would get Revolution and is a pro-Western reform- about 3.8 percent, according to a poll er,” said Sen. Inhofe. “The conviction released on August 27 by the Razumkov orchestrated by the current administra- Center in Kyiv, which is financed by tion was conducted under recycled Western and domestic grants. Soviet-era codes, and is a poorly veiled The poll was conducted on August 10-15 effort to dispose of a political rival. My Aleksandr Sinitsa/UNIAN along with the Kucheriv Democratic Natalia Korolevska, leader of the Ukraine – Forward! party, and professional soccer resolution condemns the selective and Initiatives Fund. Svoboda has gained momen- politically motivated prosecution and player Andriy Shevchenko during the party congress on August 1 in the village of tum since the June poll, when it earned 3.1 Buky, Kyiv Oblast. Nearly 1,000 people attended the congress. imprisonment of Ms. Tymoshenko and percent of electoral support, while Ukraine other Orange Revolution leaders, and – Forward! has slid from 4.6 percent. who resigned his post as vice-chair of the There aren’t any other intrigues in the calls on our State Department and the “Paradoxically enough, Ukraine – Verkhovna Rada after the language legisla- closed lists. It all applies to the single man- Organization for Security and Forward!’s chances fell further after the tion fiasco. date voting,” Mr. Tomenko said on Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to apply party added an actor and soccer player to “Today, the intrigue involves whether September 17. (Continued on page 14) its closed list,” said Mykola Tomenko, the the count is correct and we can take first campaign chief of the Batkivshchyna party place and whether Svoboda will qualify. (Continued on page 15) Updated and interactive statistics on Ukrainians in the U.S. now online

by Oleh Wolowyna and Vasyl Lopukh NEW YORK – The Center for Demographic and Socio- Economic Research of Ukrainians in the United States, at the Shevchenko Scientific Society in New York, announced its expanded and updated website at the new address http://www.inform-decisions.com/stat/. Features of the website are: statistical data on Ukrainians in the U.S. updated to the year 2008; fixed and interactive tables; fixed and interactive maps; and a new section with immigration statistics. Most data are from previous popula- tion censuses and the American Community Survey; immi- gration statistics are from the Office of Immigration Statistics, Department of Homeland Security. In many tables one can sort each column by descending or ascending order and calculate row and column percent- ages; each table can be exported to Excel. The interactive sections have a list of tables and maps, and for each table or map one can choose a state or a metropolitan area and view the respective information for that geographical unit. The fixed tables section has data on numbers of Ukrainians by state and by metropolitan area for the years 1990, 2000 and 2008. One can see which States and cities gained (or lost) Ukrainians during the whole period and periods between the different years. Another set of tables, with data for 2008, presents numbers and percent by lan- guage spoken at home, also by state and metropolitan area.

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Tymoshenko’s strange week in jail Council of Europe urges fair elections Slain journalists remembered in Kharkiv KYIV – Council of Europe Secretary- KYIV – A rally in memory of journalist by Dmytro Barkar, Claire Bigg Inmate Yulia Abaplova claimed that the General Thorbjorn Jagland on September Heorhii Gongadze and other murdered jour- RFE/RL former prime minister was faking back 10 urged authorities in Kyiv to conduct free nalists was held with lighted candles on problems that have allowed her to post- and fair parliamentary elections in October. Freedom Square in downtown Kharkiv on It’s been a trying week for jailed Ukrainian pone a trial on fresh charges of embezzle- He said the international community will the evening of September 16, Dmytro ment and tax evasion. opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. be watching the elections closely and they Pylypets, NGO Young Education leader, told First, two of her former cellmates pub- Following her interview with the news will play a role in shaping Ukraine’s image. Ukrinform. “The event was attended by licly accused her of faking health problems website UNN, which is seen as close to Mr. Jagland said the continued jailing of for- about 50 Kharkiv residents, who came with and having an affair with her lawyer. President Yanukovych, Ms. Abaplova reiter- mer Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, national flags and posters reading ‘We Then, in a new twist worthy of a spy ated her allegations on September 13 in a who was accused of abuse of office and movie, prison officials raided her hospital video news briefing from jail. remember you.’ They read out the names of sentenced to seven years in jail and heads ward in the city of Kharkiv and confiscated “She used to ask me to help her get up,” more than 50 Ukrainian journalists killed or an opposition political party, is “a problem.” devices that she says revealed unusually Ms. Abaplova said. “But sometimes there missing since 1991, and observed a moment Ms. Tymoshenko also stands accused of high radiation levels in her room. were situations where, in forgetfulness, she of silence in their memory,” Mr. Pylypets other criminal activities that she says is The 51-year-old Ms. Tymoshenko, a for- would get up and take a few steps.” said. The event took place without public part of a vendetta led by current President mer prime minister of Ukraine, had hidden Another former cellmate, Oksana disturbances, the city’s Dzerzhynsky district the Geiger counters inside a cache carved Melnik, also took part in the briefing. She Viktor Yanukovych. Speaking at a confer- police department confirmed. (Ukrinform) ence on Ukraine-European Union relations, out in a hard-back copy of Ukraine’s said allies of the opposition leader had Melnychenko on Shcherban murder Criminal Code. been pressuring her family to deter her Mr. Jagland said that, if Ukraine fails to “This search was carried out with a sin- from revealing the truth about her health. implement democratic reforms, it risks KYIV – Former security officer Mykola gle goal,” Ms. Tymoshenko’s lawyer Serhiy She also suggested that Ms. Tymoshenko “international isolation.” He criticized the Melnychenko said in a comment to Radio Vlasenko told RFE/RL. “To seize the dosim- and Mr. Vlasenko, her lawyer, were lovers. Ukrainian judicial system for long pretrial- Liberty that he is ready to provide record- eters, which have revealed high radiation “Once, I inadvertently witnessed their custody periods, slow civil and criminal ings on the murder of Yevhen Shcherban proceedings, and the non-fulfillment of levels over a certain period of time in Yulia meeting,” Ms. Melnik said. “They were com- both to the Procurator General’s Office and judicial orders. (RFE/RL, based on report- Tymoshenko’s quarters.” municating quite closely, let’s say. Their the defense of Yulia Tymoshenko. “The ing by Interfax and AP) Mr. Vlasenko said there were no rules relationship was like between a man and a Procurator General’s Office appealed to the banning the possession of such devices and woman. The way they hugged and kissed, TVi loses case over back taxes U.S. Department of Justice, demanding that I denied that medicine kept by Ms. old friends don’t behave that way.” give it the records. I emphasize: I will do Tymoshenko in breach of prison regula- Ms. Tymoshenko’s camp insists the women KYIV – Ukraine’s TVi television channel, everything so that these records are formal- tions had been seized during the search. were coerced into making the accusations. one of the country’s few remaining inde- ly handed over to the Procurator General’s The confiscation prompted Ms. Ms. A letter by Ms. Abaplova was published pendent media outlets, has lost its court Office. Also, I’ll do anything for Tymoshenko’s Tymoshenko to accuse her political foe, on the prime minister’s website this week battle over charges of overdue taxes, it was lawyers to get familiar with all the records President Viktor Yanukovych, of using in which the inmate says an “active cam- reported on September 13. The hearing that I will give the Procurator General’s Stalinist measures against her. paign of discrimination” was being waged was convened after tax authorities Office. So that both the defense and the “Only he is capable now of taking special against Ms. Tymoshenko. appealed an earlier lower-court ruling that prosecutors could use them in the court,” measures against my health and my life,” Ms. Abaplova now claims Ms. TVi had won. The lawsuit against TVi has Mr. Melnychenko said, according to she wrote on the website of her party, Tymoshenko forced her to write the letter. sparked opposition accusations that September 17 news reports. He added that Batkivshchyna. “A search worthy of the best The claims leveled against Ms. President Viktor Yanukovych is seeking to it is in the interests of both society and Ms. traditions of 1937 was carried out in my Tymoshenko this week are not new. crack down on critical reporting ahead of Tymoshenko that his evidence and record- ward,” she said, referring to the purges car- In April, a grainy video purportedly parliamentary elections on October 28. ings are used in an open trial. “I am ready to ried out under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. showing her moving lightly in her cell and TVi’s embattled director, Mykola She said she had planned to go public in a romantic embrace with her lawyer was testify, to come, and I think in the near Kniazhytskyi, insists that his company had future, depending on a reaction in Ukraine, I with the alleged high radiation levels in her broadcast on national television. Ms. not been paying its taxes in full because it hospital quarters. Tymoshenko and her lawyers immediately will make my decision,” he said. Earlier, Mr. had reached a deal with tax authorities Melnychenko wrote on his Facebook page Ms. Tymoshenko is currently serving a rejected the footage as fake. under which it was offered temporary seven-year sentence stemming from a con- On September 14, European Union offi- that he had recordings of conversations in exemption in place of a tax refund on which different persons indicated that the viction for abuse of power. That and other cials warned Ukraine that it could not inte- equipment purchased when the channel killing of Shcherban was ordered by Pavlo cases against her have prompted scorn in grate with the EU as long as Ms. Tymoshenko was founded four years ago. Ukraine’s State Lazarenko, and Ms. Tymoshenko was the West and damaged Ukrainian hopes of remains in jail. Mr. Yanukovych, speaking at a Tax Service claims the company and its among those who paid for the murder. joining the European Union. conference attended by EU officials earlier in director owe $375,000 in back taxes. (RFE/ Ms. Tymoshenko has dismissed all crim- the day, insisted the October parliamentary RL, based on reporting by UNIAN and RFE/ (Ukrinform) inal charges against her as political revenge elections would allay EU concerns about RL’s Ukrainian Service) from Mr. Yanukovych, whose 2004 bid for Ukraine’s democratic course and clear the (Continued on page 12) the presidency was scuppered by the Orange way for the “full integration” of the two sides. Revolution that Ms. Tymoshen­ko helped The 27-nation bloc put on hold negotia- lead and who narrowly beat her for the tions with Kyiv on political association and presidency in February 2010. free trade after Ms. Tymoshenko’s sentenc- he krainian eekly FOUNDED 1933 Polls show her Batkivshchyna party ing in October 2011. 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NEWS ANALYSIS Soft power with an iron fist: Putin administration’s foreign policy by Dumitru Minzarari appears to be a game-changer in Russia’s could exploit all of those to “develop bilat- is soliciting coherent strategies about Eurasia Daily Monitor foreign policy toward the other former eral cooperation” (zakupki.gov.ru). “how” it can be done. This confidence is Soviet republics. On July 27 the Russian Alexey Malashenko of the Carnegie based on Russia’s recent success stories, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s talk presidential administration launched an Moscow Center believes that by referring indicating it possesses significant potential at the Russian Foreign Ministry on open tender, inviting research proposals to successful “bilateral cooperation,” the for effective foreign pressure on these post- September 3, when he powerfully stressed exploring issues like the role of Russian Kremlin means nothing less than a display Soviet countries. For instance, after the need for his country to strengthen and capital in the economies of countries in the of extreme loyalty toward Russia from decades of resistance, the Ukrainian consolidate its “soft power” (mid.ru, Caucasus, as well as an evaluation of the these groups (Vedo­mosti.ru, August 16). Parliament has finally voted on the contro- September 3), may look to an outside concepts and approaches toward Ukraine’s Vedomosti also writes, quoting a source versial bill granting the Russian language a observer like an optimistic signal and a federalization, prevailing in its administra- inside the Kremlin, that this research ten- regional status (rbk.ru, July 3). long-awaited change in Russia’s foreign tive regions. The Kremlin appears to also der is indicative of the current administra- In Moldova, Russia’s efforts have also policy. This benign view, however, could be interested in what influence domestic tion’s firm plans to build a consolidated been rather successful. Shortly after being not be more wrong. financial and economic groups have on the Eurasian Union. visited by Russian Ambassador Farit Rather, the Kremlin is seeking to exploit political processes in Moldova and Latvia, It is not a coincidence that the three Mukhametshin, the Gagauz autonomy and the Western concept of “soft power” – as well as in factors determining the emer- states that, in Moscow’s view, are best posi- the Balti municipality (the second largest which basically implies the power of attrac- gence of political elites in Central Asia tioned for Russia’s active political influence city in right-bank Moldova) began mount- tion – and reframing it as a euphemism for along with explanations for their ability to have a significant percentage of their popu- ing pressure on the central government in coercive policy and economic arm-twisting. maintain a continuity of governance (zak- lation that uses Russian as the main lan- Chisinau concerning the regional use of the One of the key participants in the meet- upki.gov.ru, tender # 0173100011512 guage of communication (by modest Russian language (protv.md, July 11; publi- ing at the Foreign Ministry was Rossotrud­ 000062, July 27). accounts, over ca.md, July 20). The Russian ambassador to nichestvo, Russia’s analogue of the United The research 30 percent in Moldova also publicly praised and encour- States’ foreign aid agency USAID, which is on Moldova and Russia is willing to explore L a t v i a a n d aged a referendum initiative on Moldova striving to become the spearhead of Latvia is sup- the ongoing decrease in Moldova, and joining the Russian-led Customs Union Russia’s “soft power” efforts. Konstantin posed to identify over 40 percent (nr2.ru/kishinev, June 20). Though the ini- Kosachev, the agency’s head, explained to the ways and interest both in the United in Ukraine). The tiative was invalidated by the Central the Voice of Russia the goals of his organi- m e t h o d s K re m l i n h a s Election Commission due to an insufficient zation. It boils down to transforming the employed by the States and the European understood that number of valid signatures, the referendum Russian-speaking community in foreign largest local Union toward the post-So- s o r t i n g o u t has recently enlisted the support of the countries into a force capable of influenc- businesses and problems with parliamentary Communist Party (prime. ing the governments of host nations to the o l i g a r c h i c viet space by launching a its neighbors md, September 3). effect of promoting the Russian groups to trans- foreign policy offensive. through military It very much appears that Russia is will- Federation’s foreign policy interests in form the domes- force is too cost- ing to explore the ongoing decrease in these states (Voice of Russia, September 3). tic and foreign ly – just in the interest both in the United States and the It is true that Russian foreign policy has policies of their governments. In particular, first week of war against Georgia in August European Union toward the post-Soviet a long-standing tradition of exploiting the Russian presidential administration 2008, Russian foreign reserves dropped by space by launching a foreign policy offen- Western concepts and liberal-sounding would like to learn how these groups influ- $16.4 billion (ng.ru, August 22, 2008). sive. No longer relying on its earlier coer- rhetoric as window-dressing for Moscow’s ence the law-making process, what is the Thus, Russia has reverted to a Cold War- cive rhetoric and actions, the Kremlin’s assertive domestic and foreign policies. structure of their representation in the style of political warfare, which includes new foreign policy strategy toward its Examples include the well-known term of Latvian Parliament and other state institu- buying out politicians, funding political neighbors is, thus, definitely a change in “sovereign democracy” to legitimize its tions, the groups’ approaches to political parties and movements, exploiting weak tact; but Moscow’s intentions, nonetheless, authoritarian domestic rule, or the claimed party creation and consolidation of power, institutions, encouraging secessionist remain the same. “humanitarian intervention” and “peace as well as the lobbying process for econom- movements, and even armed rebellions. enforcement” in August 2008 to cover for ic interests. Finally, the Kremlin would like It is also important to note that the The article above is reprinted from the military invasion of Georgia. to understand the dynamics of interaction Kremlin is not interested in learning Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from The difference this time lies in the insti- between “pro-Western” and “pro-Russian” “whether” Russia could influence the its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, tutionalized and strategic character of what groups and how the Russian Federation domestic affairs of these states, but instead www.jamestown.org.

Russia shuts down USAID activities Quotable notes Russian advocacy groups that receive for- Russia’s civil society was “quite mature” “The decision to halt USAID work RFE/RL eign grants such as For Human Rights, and did not require “outside leadership.” in Russia is just the latest in what has WASHINGTON – The U.S. Agency for responded by refusing to comply and call- Russian Central Election Commission been an especially bad year for International Development (USAID) will ing for a “civil disobedience” campaign. member Maya Grishina said USAID’s human rights in that country, though end its activities in Russia following a USAID says it has provided “more than departure would not jeopardize the quali- you wouldn’t know it from the virtual decision by Moscow, according to U.S. offi- $2.6 billion toward Russia’s social and ty of Russian elections. She said indepen- silence of Western leaders. … cials. economic development” since 1992. dent election monitoring is “guaranteed “…the Obama administration’s In a statement issued on September 18, The agency lists its activities as promot- by Russian law” and will continue. announcement Tuesday [September U.S. State Department spokeswoman ing broadly shared economic prosperity, However, Lilia Shibanova, head of the 18] that it will comply with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s request – Victoria Nuland confirmed Washington strengthening democracy and good gover- independent monitoring group Golos, detailed in a diplomatic note last had received the Russian government’s nance, protecting human rights, boosting which receives funding from USAID, said week – that the U.S. Agency for decision to end the mandate of the agency, her organization’s projects are “threat- health and food security, furthering educa- International Development (USAID) which supports development and gover- tion and providing humanitarian assis- ened” by USAID’s withdrawal. Ms. end operations in Russia effective nance programs around the world. tance, among other things. Shibanova said she believes Moscow’s October 1. The administration is try- “While USAID’s physical presence in decision not to renew USAID’s mandate is Russians debate impact ing to put the best spin on this, but it Russia will come to an end, we remain partly connected with the Kremlin’s desire simply isn’t credible. Instead of push- committed to supporting democracy, Russia, for its part, says that it is expel- to control election monitoring. ing back and forcing Putin to publicly human rights and the development of a ling USAID from the country following Lev Ponomarev, head of the For Human kick out USAID – a scenario from more robust civil society in Russia,” Ms. attempts by the mission to influence Rights group, also said the decision to which he might have backed down – Nuland said. Russian politics and elections. close USAID was decreed because the the Obama administration has capitu- “The Russian government’s decision to On September 19, the Russian Foreign Kremlin doesn’t want Golos to have the lated peremptorily, without even an end all USAID activities in the country is Ministry accused USAID of seeking to support needed to work effectively.” expression of regret, betraying and an insult to the United States and a finger “influence political processes, including demoralizing Russian civil society in the eye of the Obama administration,” elections of various types, and institutions With reporting by Interfax, ITAR-TASS, and setting a dangerous precedent Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, of civil society through the distribution of and newsru.com. under which repressive regimes else- said in a statement. grants.” Copyright 2012, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted where that don’t like our support for Moscow’s decision comes after The ministry said it was also worried with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ civil society and human rights can ask President Vladimir Putin in July signed by the mission’s work in the volatile North Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, us to leave. …” into law controversial legislation compel- Caucasus, where Moscow is fighting an Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see – David J. Kramer, president of ling NGOs that receive funding from Islamist insurgency. http://www.rferl.org/content/moscow- Freedom House, writing in The abroad to register as “foreign agents.” In separate comments, Foreign Ministry shuts-down-usaid-activities-in-rus- Washington Post on September 18. Some opponents of that law, including spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich said sia/24712579.html). 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 No. 39 No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 5

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The Ukrainian Weekly Russia’s “soft power” Recent developments in Russia and Ukraine illustrate clearly how Russia imple- ments what is known as “soft power.” On page 3 of this issue, the article “Soft power with an iron fist: Putin administration’s foreign policy,” explains: “…the Kremlin is seeking to exploit the Western concept of ‘soft power’ – which basically Precedents cause for pessimism implies the power of attraction – and reframing it as a euphemism for coercive pol- icy and economic arm-twisting.” KYIV – The 2012 parliamentary election Russia has successfully used this concept both abroad and at home. And, it has campaign has distinguished itself with used its own soft power to further its goals, while at the same time working to precedents in Ukrainian politics, but negate the effects of other countries’ soft power. they’re cause for pessimism and confirma- Outside its borders, Russia has applied pressure via its role as a provider of tion that President Viktor Yanukovych is energy supplies, for example, persistently pressuring Ukraine to enter into the pursuing an authoritarian course for the Russian-led Customs Union in exchange for a significantly lower price for gas. It Ukrainian government. also uses Russian-speaking communities, as Eurasia Daily Monitor’s Dumitru Most notably, Ukraine’s Parliament on Minzarari notes in the aforementioned article, as “a force capable of influencing September 18 approved the first reading of the governments of host nations to the effect of promoting the Russian legislation that makes libel a criminal Federation’s foreign policy interests in these states.” offense, with offenders subject to impris- Thus, in Ukraine, for example, Russia most recently offered to “help” by provid- onment and severe fines. The law was ing textbooks, as well as modern methodologies for educators, for the teaching of sharply criticized by the nation’s journal- the Russian language. After all, with Ukraine’s new law on language policy now in ists and drew rebuke from European effect, there are already many more places where Russian has been officially rec- Union authorities. ognized as a “regional language.” An earlier analysis by Prof. Alexander Motyl “Until recently, Ukraine had the highest (“Soft and Hard Power Threats to Ukraine,” World Affairs, March 16) explained the level of free mass media among the CIS rationale for such assistance: Russia “achieves influence in Ukraine by mobilizing countries,” said Pawel Kowal, chair of the constituencies around politically sensitive issues such as language policy and EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation shared cultural and historical legacies.” And that, in turn, helps to ensure that Committee in the European Parliament. Ukraine will not move toward the West, but will orient itself toward Moscow. “The threat of imprisonment for libel can seriously threaten these positions. At home, on its own territory, Russia acts to counter soft power that could be Renewing a very harsh law can threaten useful to other countries. The Russian government has disbanded two nationwide freedom of speech. Journalists will be Ukrainian community organizations: the Federal National-Cultural Autonomy of Ukrayinska Pravda afraid to criticize politicians, businessmen Ukrainians in Russia and the Union of Ukrainians of Russia (UUR) – the better to and officials. This has particular meaning Journalist Tetiana Chornovil after she keep control of the third largest ethnic group on its territory, over 3 million strong. was splashed with green paint. in the context of the latest pressure on The UUR’s leader, Taras Dudko, recently noted: “This is a strategy whose goal is to TVi,” he added. The first victim was Serhiy Vlasenko, destroy all such unions that united national forces and did not support national The law, approved by 244 national dep- the lead attorney for former Prime culture on the level of ‘sharavary’ [i.e., on a purely folk culture level].” uties, requires approval by a second read- Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who was Finally, we must point out that, while Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s version of ing and the president’s signature to take splashed in the face on July 16 during a the U.S. Agency for International Development, is increasing its activity abroad, effect. Journalists said it’s written so protest outside the hospital where the Russia has now shut down USAID in Russia. The Obama administration appears to broadly that even benign observations or opposition leader was being treated. have accepted this decision much too serenely, with State Department spokesper- statements could be interpreted by the Mr. Vlasenko, a closed-list candidate son Victoria Nuland merely noting: “While USAID’s physical presence in Russia courts as a falsehood. from the Batkivshchyna party, identified will come to an end, we remain committed to supporting democracy, human rights While tightening its grip on the media, his assailant as 24-year-old Maria and the development of a more robust civil society in Russia.” Foreign policy veter- the government took another step to pre- Stoliarova, the deputy chair of the an Sen. John McCain, on the other hand, stated: “The Russian government’s deci- empt opposition protest. Zhovtnevyi district organization of the sion to end all USAID activities in the country is an insult to the United States and a Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers on Party of Regions in Kharkiv. finger in the eye of the Obama administration.” (See the news item and “Quotable” September 12 issued a decree calling on In response, Kharkiv City Council Chair on page 3.) the Security Service of Ukraine, the Hennadii Kernes of the Party of Regions It cannot be overemphasized that Russia is taking advantage, quite effectively, of Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Defense said Mr. Vlasenko had poured the antisep- the West’s decrease in interest toward what is termed “the post-Soviet space” to Ministry, the Ministry of Emergency tic on himself to draw media attention. further its foreign policy objectives. Unfortunately, we’ve seen that over and over, Situations and the State Television and A statement from Prime Minister with particular detriment to the United States and its policies abroad. Radio Company to identify and halt the Mykola Azarov four days later on his distribution of materials calling for violent Facebook site assured Ms. Stoliarova that regime change and terrorist acts. “she has no reason to fear and no one will The decree, posted on the Cabinet’s bother her.” website on September 17, calls for these The next victim was Oleksander Kirsh, a Sept. Turning the pages back... organs to ensure that the mass media Batkivshchyna parliamentary candidate in address measures to fight terrorism and to Kharkiv for a single-winner, single-man- form a negative attitude in society towards date seat (majoritarian). An unknown terrorist activity in all of its forms. assailant splattered him with green anti- 26 Fifteen years ago, on September 26, 1997, the U.S. Embassy in The organs are instructed to prevent septic on September 19 at the start of a 1997 Ukraine released a statement that it was “notified by Ukrainian attempts to encroach upon Ukraine’s terri- meet-and-greet with voters. authorities of a potential terrorist threat against U.S. government torial integrity, commit terrorist acts and To rub salt in the wound, Kharkiv State facilities in Ukraine.” inflame ethnic, racial or religious hostility. Oblast Administration Chair Mykhailo The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) notified the U.S. Embassy of the threat. A spokes- By these criteria, law enforcement Dobkin released a statement that day to person for the U.S. Embassy said he was not allowed to explain specifically what the threat authorities would have been dispatched to declare that the election campaign was entailed, but said that “over the weekend the Ukrainian government took steps to deal violently suppress the Orange Revolution, being conducted very calmly, in a calculat- with the situation, and the Embassy has put into effect appropriate security precautions.” which ignited following the falsified presi- ed and restrained manner, “with very few The spokesman also said there was no danger to U.S. citizens or to local offices of U.S. cor- dential election of 2004. It’s no coincidence smear attacks to my surprise.” porations in Ukraine. that such a decree emerged weeks ahead Afterwards, when addressing the attack No information was released by either the Embassy or the SBU on what type of danger of the October 28 parliamentary election, in an extraplenary session of the Kharkiv existed or who, if anybody, was responsible. It was also unclear whether it was the work of veteran observers said. Oblast Council, Mr. Dobkin dismissed the the SBU that uncovered the danger. Neither the Embassy nor the SBU would affirm or Ironically, many Ukrainians viewed the incident, stating, “Splashing green antisep- deny whether the notoriously secretive organization was responsible, but Anatolii Sakhno, government’s own recent language bill as a tic is a way of improving one’s poll ratings a spokesman for the SBU, told the daily newspaper Den, that one of its functions was to provocation that inflamed ethnic and lin- now.” monitor and uncover potential threats to foreign embassies. guistic hostilities. Another victim was Tetiana Chornovil, a The official U.S. spokesperson said, “We are functioning as normal.” He added that secu- single-winner parliamentary candidate in rity officers had implemented appropriate measures in and around the Embassy. Green antiseptic attacks Lviv. Instead of antiseptic, however, Ms. However, he had observed no visible increases in security manpower around the Embassy Opposition parliamentary candidates Chornovil was splattered on September 13 compound in Kyiv and that guards remained unarmed. He underscored that those were have to deal with a new election “technolo- with a bucket of green paint when the ele- his observations and that the security office of the Embassy had released no information gy” being employed by their state-backed vator doors opened at her own residence. on what specific new procedures had been introduced, as is their policy. opponents, which involves getting Ms. Chornovil said she was the target of other pranks that week, including having In January of this year, the U.S. Embassy relocated its compound from its previous splashed by a tub of green antiseptic. her mobile number advertised as a prosti- address at 6 Pymonenko St. to its current location at 4 Aircraft Designer Igor Sikorsky St. “Zelenka” as it’s commonly called, is a tution service and having her car tires Ukrainian medical staple, used to disinfect pierced. Source: “SBU uncovers terrorist threat against U.S. Embassy,” by Roman Woronowycz, The skin tears, ranging from scratches to Ukrainian Weekly, October 5, 1997. wounds. (Continued on page 7) No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 7 COMMENTARY PERSPECTIVES “Ukrainian Socialist Realism”: by Andrew Fedynsky observations on an art exhibit by Alexander Motyl propaganda can be art – a point made per- suasively by painter Hilary Zarycky, a sym- A busy summer for Ukraine posium participant. The Ukrainian Institute of America’s It’s hard to say whether it was more good noted that Ukrainian athletes had won 613 “Ukrainian Socialist Realism” exhibit Moreover, the fact that artists them- than bad, but the past summer for Ukraine medals. In Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, opened with a bang on September 14, with selves can often be odious human beings was certainly momentous: co-hosting the Osyp Zinkewych of Smoloskyp launched a over 300 people coming to view more than does not detract from the quality of their Euro 2012 soccer tournament in June with campaign for Soviet Ukraine to be in the 40 Soviet-era Ukrainian paintings from the work. Few would suggest that T.S. Eliot’s Poland and then playing a major role at the Olympics as a separate country – a position Collection of Jurii Maniichuk and Rose anti-Semitism or Ezra Pound’s fascism or London Olympics in July and August, where that Moscow, Kyiv and the International Brady. The opening was followed on Mykola Khvyliovy’s Bolshevism or Ernst 238 athletes competed in 21 sports. Olympic Committee adamantly rejected. September 16 by a well-attended sympo- Jünger’s Nazism disqualifies them from the It certainly started on a negative tone Now the president of the National Olympic sium on “Ukrainian Socialist Realism: status of great poets or writers. already in May, when President Viktor Committee of Ukraine, echoing the course Propaganda or Art?” Indeed, as another symposium partici- Yanukovych had to cancel the Central Mr. Zinkewych set 56 years ago, lays claim Socialist realism is an intrinsically con- pant, Lyudmyla Lysenko of Kyiv’s Academy European Summit in Crimea because an to the Soviet legacy. Wow! troversial art form, having been adopted of Art and Architecture, pointed out, seeing Also interesting is how prominent and imposed by the Stalinist authorities in Ukrainian socialist realist art out of context embarrassing number of government lead- Ukrainian athletes go into politics. Valery the 1930s and surviving in one form or – not in Ukraine’s museums, but thousands ers announced a boycott, citing what they other until the mid-1980s, when Mikhail of miles away, on 79th Street and Fifth saw as the unfair trial and imprisonment of Borzov, four-time Olympic medalist, includ- Gorbachev abandoned most official stric- Avenue – was a jarring experience for her. former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. ing two gold, became the first president of tures on the arts. Although socialist realism Understandably so, as “decontextualiza- It got worse in June, when German Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee, as closely resembles traditional 19th century tion” inevitably transforms the paintings Chancellor Angela Merkel called Ukraine a well as minister of youth and sports and a realism and has roots in both Ukrainian and themselves from manifestations of the cul- dictatorship and, citing the same reason said, member of the Verkhovna Rada from Rukh. Russian artistic traditions, it also strongly tural policy of Stalin and his successors to a she would not attend any Euro 2012 match- World heavyweight boxing champion Vitali resembles the art of other totalitarian particular artistic genre that more resem- es in Ukraine. Other leaders said they would Klitschko founded his own political party states, such as Nazi Germany, Communist bles those a few blocks away in the also boycott. As if taking a cue from all that, “UDAR” (Punch) “to take up the political China, North Korea and the socialist satel- Metropolitan Museum of Art than those in European media warned would-be tourists fight again for the future of my country,” he lites of East Central Europe. Happy, healthy Ukrainian or Russian museums. to Ukraine to beware of racism, violence, said. Soccer star Andriy Shevchenko cited and exceptionally well groomed peasants Context therefore matters: where we see sex-trafficking, corruption and other ills. the same reason for entering politics, when and workers abound, almost invariably in art affects how we see it. And who sees it Well, as it turned out, the Euro was a tri- he announced his retirement from soccer heroic poses. Leaders usually have vision- also affects how it will be seen. And while a umph for Ukraine’s image, if not for its pres- after the Euro 2012. ary expressions, pointing to the future and Ukrainian American audience is unlikely to ident. Visitors were charmed by the hospi- According to a news story, Mr. Klitschko, smiling at the adoring masses. be sympathetic to socialism in any of its tality and the safe, efficient administration who grew up in a Russian-speaking envi- It’s hard not to feel some unease viewing guises, it is by the same token less bur- of the matches. A post-tournament poll of ronment, “spoke succinctly but still not paintings that were part and parcel of the dened by the specifically Soviet past that more than 1,000 visitors commissioned by entirely fluently in Ukrainian.” Which self-promotional ethos of the most murder- afflicts Ukrainians in Ukraine. the Kyiv-based Institute of World Policy brings us to another development from the ous regime of the 20th century. It becomes Whatever one’s take on socialist realism found that 84 percent were pleased by their past summer: the law allowing 10 percent doubly hard not to feel unease when one as art, however, it’s unquestionably the experience and more than three-quarters of a linguistic minority in a region to claim considers that socialist realist painters case that socialist realism constitutes a said they wanted to come back as tourists. official status, a statute obviously aimed at made conscious choices to collaborate with large part of modern Ukrainian history. It As for the Olympics, that was also a tri- giving the Russian language inroads into such a regime, very often to the detriment was hegemonic for some five decades and umph. Ukraine won 20 medals, coming in Ukraine. That the bar is set so low (10 per- of the non-conformist artists who refused therefore had an enormous impact on 14th out of 204 countries. It could have had cent), I suspect, signals that proponents of to become socialist realists and paid for Ukrainian culture. Some may laud that fact, 21, but a controversial judges’ decision Russian doubt they can reach a higher their stubbornness with their lives. others may bemoan it, but all of us must, favoring Japan moved the Ukrainian men’s threshold. And that makes it all the more Those viewers who cringe upon viewing for better or for worse, recognize it. gymnastics team from a third place bronze dangerous and also exposes the national- socialist realist paintings may be excused: The challenge for Ukrainians every- to fourth and out of the medals. cultural orientation of the Yanukovych their doubts are no different from those of where is to imagine Ukrainian history and Something similar happened at the Euro administration, while challenging Dr. Israelis who cannot listen to Richard culture as consisting, as they obviously did, 2012. In a must-win game against England Klitschko and millions of others who care Wagner’s music or Germans who refuse to of both Stepan Bandera and Volodymyr and trailing 1-0, a Ukrainian striker got a for their country to fight reactionary politi- consider Adolf Hitler’s watercolors art. Shcherbytsky, of both Dmytro Dontsov and shot on goal. Sitting in front of a TV set cal forces. And yet it’s equally hard not to conclude Yaroslav Halan, of both dissident art and 5,000 miles away in Cleveland, I leaped up. Little noticed, but also momentous for that socialist realism is a legitimate form of socialist realism. Reconciling such irrecon- The score was tied! An English defender Ukraine was the centennial jamboree of realism and that many of the works pro- cilables may very well be a project that can kicked the ball out of the net and back into Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization held duced by socialist realists were of high only be accomplished with the passage of play, but as instant replay confirmed the ball in August with more than 2,000 members artistic quality, possessing a variety of laud- much time and the emergence of new gen- had crossed the goal line. Only the referees attending from 10 countries, including the able formalistic qualities on the one hand erations unfettered by the past. Whether (five of them) didn’t see it that way, the goal United States. For the past 100 years, Plast and being bereft of all too obvious propa- that’s possible in an age where the past is was not awarded and Ukraine went on to has engaged young people in summer ganda on the other. fetishized and memory is glorified is, of lose 1-0. camps and yearlong activities, instilling val- Indeed, as was stated at the September course, another matter. After the game, my friend Ihor K. gave ues and setting young people on a course 16 symposium, the distinction between art The “Ukrainian Socialist Realism” exhibit me his analysis. Referees don’t live in a vac- toward success in their careers and a life and propaganda is at best overdrawn and at the Ukrainian Institute of America was uum. The close call went for England dedicated to God and Ukraine. Plast’s reviv- at worst false. Artists have historically pro- curated by Walter G. Hoydysh and Olena because the country is more respected than al in Ukraine is among the positive signs moted the cause of the state or the Church, Martynyuk, who also wrote the introducto- Ukraine, he said. Would the refs have made that tell us the nation is on a good course, being more than happy to draw hefty hono- ry essay to the catalogue. The show will the same call if the shot had come off the despite obstacles. My own children attend- raria from individuals with morally dubi- continue through October 7. foot of a German, Italian or Spanish player, ed the Plast jamboree and now my daugh- ous qualities. Art can be propaganda, and The Maniichuk-Brady Collection con- he asked? Countries like England get the ter “skypes” with new friends in Australia sists of over 140 paintings. Some 50 paint- benefit of the doubt. Ukraine, the subject of and Ukraine. ings from the collection will be on view, on high-level boycotts and charges of racism There’s so much more. I was thrilled, for Alexander J. Motyl is professor of political a rotating basis, on the fourth floor of the and violence, does not. It’s an interesting example, to see an article about the Roma science at Rutgers University-Newark. He is Ukrainian Institute until 2018. (For more theory, but there’s no way to verify it. Pryma Bohachevsky Dance Camp in The also the author of several works of fiction information log on to www.ukrainianinsti- As for the Olympics, Ukraine’s leaders, New York Times with a photo of the veran- and a painter. tute.org or call 212-288-8660.) like politicians everywhere, wrapped them- da at Soyuzivka and its magnificent view of selves in the flag and welcomed the win- the Catskills. My family and I have been ning athletes with cash and praise, includ- coming to Soyuzivka for decades and can President Viktor Yanukovych allegedly ing the fourth-place gymnastics team and confirm that the camp is first-class, playing Precedents... stole from state property. five other athletes who were deprived of a big role in maintaining Ukrainian identity (Continued from page 6) She took photos of the president’s new medals by unfair referees, at least accord- in America. golf course, as well as the never-before- ing to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. Finally, there’s the 2012 U.S. presidential “This could have happened on the local seen Galleon, a resort building on the One of the most interesting moments campaign, which dominated the news level, because my opponent has become Dnipro River that has become a symbol of politically came on Ukraine Day during the throughout the summer, whenever sports nervous, or on the central level as revenge the president’s excess and waste. Olympics when Serhiy Bubka, the greatest didn’t intrude. I have some thoughts about for Mezhyhiria,” she told the Ukrayinska With its marble and gold fixtures, the pole vaulter in history and now president that, and I’ll share them in my next column. Pravda website. Galleon – which, as its name indicates, of the National Olympic Committee of As always, thank you for reading. On August 24, Ms. Chornovil, a profes- resembles a ship – cost tens of millions of Ukraine, spoke. “This year,” he said, sional journalist, had entered the territory dollars to build at the expense of the “Ukraine will mark the 60th anniversary of Andrew Fedynsky’s e-mail address is of Mezhyhiria, the luxurious residence that Ukrainian people. its participation in the Olympics,” and he [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 No. 39

Noted author Myron Kuropas delivers lecture in Philadelphia

by Ulana Mazurkevich ed an independent Ukraine were accused of being “fascists” and “Nazis.” It was all PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia com- part of a well-orchestrated Soviet disinfor- munity had the unique opportunity to wel- mation campaign. come from Chicago Dr. Myron Kuropas, a When World War II ended, Ukrainian noted author and scholar on Ukrainian displaced persons were attacked by the immigration to the U.S. Soviets for being Nazi collaborators. For a Dr. Kuropas came to Philadelphia at the brief period the United States government invitation of the Ukrainian Human Rights believed the Soviet lies and instituted Committee and the Senior Citizens Club. “Operation Keelhaul,” a forced repatriation The afternoon event at the Ukrainian program that sent thousands of Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center was very refugees to labor camps in Siberia. well attended. All of this is reviewed in Dr. Kuropas’ lat- The president of the Senior Citizens Club, est book, “The Demjanjuk Debacle: The Yuri Tarasiuk, welcomed the attendees and Trials of a ‘Nazi’ Who Wasn’t.” The canard thanked Ulana Mazurkevich, president of that DPs were Nazi collaborators was res- the Ukrainian Human Rights Committee, for urrected by the former head of the Office of helping organize the event. He then called Special Investigations (OSI), the U.S. gov- Dr. Natalia Pazuniak to introduce Dr. ernment agency that charged John Kuropas. Dr. Pazuniak thanked the speaker Demjanjuk of having been “Ivan the for his scholarly work and noted that she, Terrible,” a brutal mass murderer at the as a visiting professor at a university in Nazi death camp in Treblinka, Poland. Australia, was able to use in her lectures After a short trial in Cleveland, Standing in the lobby of the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center next to a “The Saga of Ukraine,” a two-volume histo- Demjanjuk was convicted of having lied on sculpture of Taras Shevchenko are (from left): Dr. Myron Kuropas, Ulana ry series written by Dr. Kuropas. his application to enter the U.S. and Mazurkevich, Chrystia Senyk and Borys Zaharczuk. The lecture of Dr. Kuropas focused on stripped of his citizenship. He was sent to the involvement of the U.S. government in Israel for trial as a war criminal. The only cent. The Israeli Supreme Court overturned Kuropas blamed the U.S. Department of the lives of Ukrainian Americans. He spoke evidence was a Soviet-supplied identity the verdict, and he returned to the United Justice for allowing this travesty of justice of those Ukrainians in America who were card, which many experts concluded was a States, where his citizenship was restored. to occur against an innocent American citi- dedicated to Ukrainian independence and Soviet forgery, and five aging Treblinka sur- The OSI then convinced Germany that zen who died in a Munich nursing home who tried to help Ukrainian partisans in vivors, who swore Demjanjuk was Ivan the Demjanjuk had been an accessory to mass awaiting appeal of the German court’s ver- their fight for independence. Dr. Kuropas Terrible. Held in a theater, the show trial’s murder at Sobibor, another death camp in dict. captivated the audience with his fascinat- purpose was to educate a younger Israeli Poland. He was stripped of his citizenship a Attendees at the lecture, which took ing presentation. generation about the horrors of the second time, sent to Germany and tried. place on May 23, purchased Dr. Kuropas’ The most dynamic aspect of the lecture Holocaust. Demjanjuk was found guilty and The purpose of the trial was to show the book which is still available for $17 from focused on the infiltration of Soviet spies in sentenced to hang. world that Germans were not the only ones Ukrainian Educational Associates, 107 the U.S. government, beginning with the Soon after the USSR collapsed, Dr. responsible for the Holocaust. The German Ilehamwood Drive, DeKalb, IL 60115. administration of President Franklin Kuropas continued, his defense attorneys court convicted Demjanjuk despite the fact After the lecture, Dr. Kuropas was inter- Delano Roosevelt. During the 1930s and rushed to Ukraine and discovered docu- that true Nazis are still alive and well, and viewed by Borys Zacharczuk for the 1940s, Ukrainian Americans who support- ments that proved Demjanjuk was inno- living comfortably throughout Germany. Dr. Ukrainian radio hour. Engineer lectures on environmental policies and security concerns

by Ivan Durbak Dr. Stakhiv works closely with the climate scientists and the environmental mately $300 billion to $500 billion, while at Department of Defense, the Council on community. His description reflected a the same time requiring adaptation mea- NEW YORK – Dr. E. Zenon Stakhiv, U.S. Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the pragmatic view of how to deal with the sures of dealing with the consequences of co-director for the U.S. Army Institute for national intelligence community on these consequences of global warming in a cost- the inevitable warming and sea level rise Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of issues, and has presented variants of this effective manner, while exploring the that would cost an additional 1 to 2 percent Engineers, recently presented a lecture on lecture to the Naval War College and national security implications of current of GDP. “Environmental Policies, Global Warming National Defense University. He has been Obama admnistration policies towards the Dr. Stakhiv made the case that it is much and National Security Concerns.” This lec- an invited speaker at Johns Hopkins Kyoto Protocol and other Defense more rational to focus on adaptation, i.e., ture was co-sponsored by the Ukrainian University, Harvard, Tufts and MIT. He has Department initiatives related to mitigating preparing to deal with the consequences of Engineers’ Society of America, New York worked on climate change issues since greenhouse gases (GHGs). global warming, rather than focusing too City chapter, and the Shevchenko Scientific 1977, mainly from a water resources adap- Dr. Stakhiv’s basic approach was first to much on mitigation. He demonstrated Society. tation perspective – well before it became a describe the science of global warming and clearly that throughout the developing Dr. Stakhiv began with a general over- mainstream international cause. show the large uncertainties that exist in world millions die because of poverty, lack view of climate mitigation strategies, look- Dr. Stakhiv presented a view of U.S. the modeling and scientific inferences. He of access to clean water and insufficient ing at the “big picture” in terms of national national and environmental security con- then showed how this highly uncertain nutrition. Expanding the world’s food sup- security goals, and identified differing and cerns from a somewhat different climate information is being implemented in a ply and providing a reliable source of water often controversial approaches in dealing adaptation point of view than that popular- wide range of government policies, such as supply can be readily achieved through with climate changes. ly presented in the mainstream press by national energy policies, environmental conventional means of water resources protection policies, foreign aid initiatives, development. as well as Defense Department initiatives These are the same mechanisms of to reduce GHG’s. infrastructure development that made the First, he went over the practical implica- U.S. a great economic power, by expanding tions of mitigation policies designed to the western U.S. through irrigation devel- reduce greenhouses gases, noting that even opment, providing cheap energy through at an 80 percent reduction of energy use hydropower development and expanding globally, it will take over a century for car- the nation’s waterways transportation sys- bon dioxide levels, currently at about 400 tem. That is a proven way to increase parts per million (ppm), to stabilize at a growth and development, decreasing pov- level of 550 to 600 ppm. At this target sta- erty and simultaneously dealing with the bilization level, according to the results of uncertainties of climate change through General Circulation Models (GCMs) used sensible adaptation policies. for such predictions, average temperatures Throughout the presentation Dr. Stakhiv would increase by 2 to 3 degrees used vivid imagery and slides to keep the Centigrade (3.6-5.4 degrees Fahrenheit). audience engaged and involved with a bal- This change is inevitable, he said, whether ance of technical material and practical we invest in mitigation policies to reduce real-world problems. GHGs or simply try to adapt to the inevita- The lecture, held on May 5 at the ble warming. Mitigation will require annual Shevchenko Scientific Society’s Manhattan expenditures that are estimated to be as venue at 63 Fourth Ave., generated a spirit- much as 3 to 5 percent of gross domestic Dr. E. Zenon Stakhiv lectures on “Environmental Policies, Global Warming and product (GDP), which amounts to approxi- National Security Concerns” at the Shevchenko Scientific Society. (Continued on page 14) No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 9

BOOK REVIEW: Ethnic cleansing of Ukrainian minority in Poland “Zakerzonnia: Ethnic Cleansing of the Ukrainian The operation began on April 28, 1947, and took three Minority in Poland 1944-1947,” compiled and edited by months to complete. Under brutal and inhumane condi- Taras Hunczak. Clifton, N.J.: Organization for the Defense of tions, some 140,000 Ukrainians from Zakerzonnia were Lemko Western Ukraine Inc. and The Lemko Research herded and deported in cattle cars to nine different prov- Foundation, U.S.A., 2012. 288 pp. $30. Library of Congress inces in the “Regained Territories.” Mr. Misylo cites the Control Number 2012933499. number of people assigned to each of the provinces. Some of the deportees, however, never reached their destina- by Orest Popovych tions, winding up instead in the notorious Polish concen- Dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the 1947 forced tration camp Jaworzno (“Yavirya” in the book) – a branch resettlement of Ukrainians within Poland known as Akcja of the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp, which the Polish Wisla, this book cuts a much wider swath across the histo- Communists utilized to imprison Germans and Ukrainians. ry of Ukrainian martyrology in Poland by covering all of Mr. Misylo, who made an exhaustive study of the the deportations of the Ukrainians from Zakerzonnia, Jaworzno concentration camp, reports that some 4,000 which had started as early as 1944, as well as their lives Ukrainians, including more than 800 women and a num- and struggles following the deportations of the Wisla oper- ber of small children, were imprisoned at that camp, while ation. Furthermore, it provides the needed historical back- close to 300 captured UPA soldiers were sentenced to ground through analysis of the pertinent developments in death and executed there. western Ukraine prior to 1944. The chapter titled “The Ethnic Policy of the Polish This book is a compilation of independent chapters by Communist Regime with Regards to the Ukrainian several authors, each focusing on different aspects of the Population in Poland 1944-1989” by Prof. Drozd repre- events. The authors, in the order of their appearance, are: sents an opus that could rightfully merit a separate book Taras Hunczak, Roman Drozd, Timothy Snyder, Yewhen review. Prof. Drozd is currently the rector of the Misylo, Diana Howanska Reilly and Mykola Duplak. Their Pomeranian University in Slupsk and the head of the chapters are followed by reproductions of a number of offi- Ukrainian Historical Society in Poland. cial Polish documents and of Ukrainian memoranda in In his chapter, Prof. Drozd does cover the events of defense of the victims of Akcja Wisla, as well as some pho- 1944-1947, which unavoidably duplicates some of the tographs of the remnants of Ukrainian churches in the other material in this compilation, but he then proceeds to Lemko region. trace and document in great detail the efforts of the reset- “Zakerzonnia” is the Ukrainian term for the territories tled Ukrainians to organize their cultural, educational and west of the Curzon line, an arbitrary Polish-Soviet bound- religious activities in their new environment. By the mid- ary accepted at the Yalta Conference in 1945. Since the 1950s, these efforts became centralized when a nation- original Curzon line proposed in the 1920s was modified destruction of their villages, or by attacks of the Polish wide Ukrainian Social and Cultural Society was formed and in Yalta in favor of Poland, there were at least 700,000 anti-Communist guerrillas. By January 1945, only about in June 1956 convened its congress in Warsaw, which pre- Ukrainians living on the Polish side of it in 1944. They 20,000 Ukrainians had been resettled to the USSR. sented a series of demands to Polish authorities on behalf resided in a continuous band of 22 border counties of the As a result, Polish authorities resorted to a variety of of the Ukrainian community in Poland. While the demands Krakiv (Krakow), Riashiv (Rzeszow), Lublyn (Lublin) and harsh administrative measures to induce more Ukrainians to restore the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) Bilostok (Bialystok) regions that formed a natural ethno- to leave, while the Polish anti-Communist underground and to permit voluntary returns to the homeland were graphic boundary between Ukraine and Poland, about 90 unleashed an orgy of mass murder on Ukrainian civilians steadfastly denied by Polish authorities, some concessions miles long and 15 to 30 miles deep. between March and June 1945, claiming at least 3,000 vic- were granted in the cultural and educational area. This The Ukrainians in this region represented an indige- tims. Of these, the best known is the massacre in the village enabled the establishment of a number of Ukrainian nous ethnic group with unique cultural, linguistic and reli- of Pavlokoma, about which Mr. Misylo has published a sep- schools, choirs, instrumental and dance ensembles, as well gious characteristics, a population whose ancestors had arate monograph. As a result of these terror tactics, the as the holding of Ukrainian festivals and other cultural lived there since the dawn of history. They were nurtured total number of Ukrainians who “volunteered” to be events. Furthermore, the political changes in Poland made by hundreds of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic and Orthodox deported had reached 229,685 by the end of August 1945. it possible in 1989 to elect a Ukrainian, Dr. Volodymyr churches, steeped in traditions that harked back to the In the meantime, representatives of the Ukrainian popu- Mokryi, to the Polish Parliament. periods in history when the towns of Peremyshl and lation in Zakerzonnia selected from Communist and other Mr. Duplak’s chapter, “Cultural Consequences of Yaroslav served as the western outposts of Kyivan Rus’, left-wing groupings who were summoned to Warsaw on Operation ‘Wisla’ for the Deported Ukrainians,” comple- while Kholm was actually the capital of the Galician- July 24, 1945, declared that the remaining Ukrainians ments the chapter by Prof. Drozd. Mr. Duplak draws upon Volynian kingdom. No wonder the Ukrainians of wished to stay in Poland and help build a democratic his personal experiences as a victim of the operation which Zakerzonnia adamantly opposed deportation from their Polish state, provided they were accorded equal civil rights he calls “a shameful act of deportation of innocent people.” ancestral lands. with the Polish people. He then discusses the material broken up into segments: A more immediate historical background to the events This declaration was contrary to the objectives of Polish “The Ukrainian School System,” “Ukrainian Mass Media,” of 1944-1947 is provided by Dr. Hunczak in his introducto- authorities, however, forcing them to shed the fig leaf of “The Ukrainian Church after Operation ‘Wisla.’ ” The last ry chapter “Zakerzonnia within the Context of Ukrainian “voluntary resettlement” in favor of a new rationale for the segment contains some painfully graphic descriptions of History.” Dr. Hunczak, professor emeritus of history at ethnic cleansing: it was the activities of the Ukrainian the martyrdom of Ukrainian priests in Zakerzonnia, Rutgers University and former director of the History Insurgent Army (UPA), which were deliberately exaggerat- accounts of the destruction and expropriation of Ukrainian Section of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, U.S.A. ed by the Polish media so as to justify the measures of churches and the hostile attitude of the Polish Church lead- (NTSh-A), is a prolific author on the subject of Ukrainian unspeakable brutality against the Ukrainian population ership towards the UGCC. history in the 20th century. that followed. Mr. Misylo asserts that they were even more In the segment “Cultural Life of Zakerzonnia Ukrainians In his chapter in this book he offers the pertinent facts brutal than those of the infamous Akcja Wisla of 1947. in Polish Exile,” Mr. Duplak concludes that the deportation and figures about the interwar Polish policies in western As recounted by several authors in this book, on of Ukrainians through Akcja Wisla was a planned ethno- Ukraine, which laid the groundwork for the bloody con- September 3, 1945, three infantry divisions of the Polish cide of the Ukrainian minority in Poland and was accompa- frontations between Poles and Ukrainians during and Army began the forced deportation of Ukrainians to the nied by the destruction of all traces of Ukrainian cultural immediately after World War II. Essentially, these policies Ukrainian SSR, resorting to violence and massacres of the and religious presence on their native land. Mr. Duplak, an were designed to turn multiethnic Poland into a national civilian population. By April 1946, the military operation editor, scholar, journalist and author, served as the editor- state through forced linguistic and cultural assimilation, against the Ukrainian civilians was escalated further by the in-chief of the newspaper Narodna Volya for 20 years. He is coupled with the establishment of Polish settlements on Operation Group Rzeszow, which comprised not only the the founder and curator of the Ukrainian Lemko Museum Ukrainian ethnic territories. original three divisions, but a number of additional army in Stamford, Conn., and a member of NTSh-A. The most comprehensive chronological narrative in and police units. “To Resolve the Ukrainian Question Once and for All,” a terms of facts and statistical data on the Ukrainian marty- According to Mr. Misylo, in the period from September quotation eerily reminiscent of the Nazi call for the “final rology in Poland in the period 1944-1947 can be found in 1945 to June 1946 the Polish authorities managed to evac- solution” to the Jewish problem, heads Dr. Snyder’s chapter the chapter by Mr. Misylo titled “Solution to the Ukrainian uate forcibly over 260,000 Ukrainians, making it a total of on the ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians in Poland. The quote Question in Poland through Deportations to the Ukrainian 480,000 Ukrainians who were deported to the USSR since comes from the Polish military officials in charge of Akcja SSR and Operation Wisla.’ Mr. Misylo, the director of the 1944. Wisla. Dr. Snyder, professor of history at Yale University, is Ukrainian Archive in Warsaw, Poland, is a historian who Nevertheless, when the resettlement deadline of June best known in the Ukrainian American community for his specializes in the deportations and resettlement of 26, 1946, had expired, there were still some 150,000 books “The Red Prince” and “Bloodlands – Europe Ukrainians from Zakerzonnia. He has published several Ukrainians left in Zakerzonnia. Since their integration into between Hitler and Stalin.” He is a member of NTSh-A. books on the subject, based on Polish documents. Polish society was not an option considered by the Polish Prof. Snyder analyzes the tragedy of the Ukrainians The resettlement of Ukrainians from Poland to the authorities, the latter chose the forcible resettlement of the from Zakerzonnia within a much larger framework of all Soviet Union and the resettlement of Poles from Ukraine to remaining Ukrainians to the so-called “Regained the mass killings and forced deportations that took place Poland began as a result of an agreement signed between Territories” in western and northern Poland, which were on the territories of western Ukraine and Poland in the Poland and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on acquired from Germany after the war. The forcibly deport- 1940s. Among those he devotes considerable attention to September 9, 1944, according to which the population ed Ukrainians were to be resettled with maximum disper- the 1943 ethnic cleansing of Polish civilians in the Volyn exchange was guaranteed to be voluntary. However, sal, so as to prevent the formation of Ukrainian communi- region by the UPA, which he claims killed 40,000 Poles and according to Mr. Misylo, the evacuation of the Ukrainians ties, thus guaranteeing their rapid assimilation. To accom- caused another 250,000 to flee the region. was “voluntary” only until the beginning of 1945, and even plish this was the task of the military action known as then it was effectively coerced either by the wartime Akcja Wisla. (Continued on page 19) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 No. 39

Boys in the U-12 to U-17 group battle for the soccer ball. Girls in the U-12 to U-17 group chase down a soccer ball. Baraboo grounds host 20th annual Wings soccer camp BARABOO, Wis. – The Wings soccer club, under auspices of the Chicago branch of the Ukrainian American Youth Association (UAYA), hosted its 20th annual youth soccer camp on July 29 through August 4 at the Beskyd campground in Baraboo, Wis., led by head coaches Taras Popowycz, for half-day campers, and Joseph Vidmar, for the full-day campers. More than 100 half-day and full-day campers trained on two soccer fields at the camp. But the training was tough for the staff and campers alike, as the fields were impacted by the Midwest summer drought. If not for the efforts of volunteers to water the fields and maintain them on a daily basis, the campers would have been train- ing on dirt. Each day, the campers had two training sessions – one in the morning and one in the afternoon – focusing on dribbling, shooting, trapping and goaltending. Full- day campers’ daily routines started with a breakfast, followed by a morning training session, then lunch, swimming, an after- noon training session, dinner and an eve- ning campfire by the barracks and tents. On Thursday evening, the campers were broken up into teams for the mini-World Cup competition beginning on Friday after- Participants of the 2012 Wings soccer camp. noon, with the finals played on Saturday. On Saturday morning, parents arrived on the parade route for photo opportunities with their children. Campers march onto the soccer fields wearing the colors of their chosen representative countries. Each child hand-paints a shirt with a name, number and team logo. Before competition begins, a group photo of all the campers, trainers and coaches with the flags of each country, is taken by the camp photographer. In the Under-12 to Under-17 group, Norway defeated Australia. In the U-8 to U-11 group, Brazil defeated Spain. In the half-day camper group, they were all winners. For the past 20 years, the Wings sports club soccer camp has grown in size and recognition by the Ukrainian and non- Ukrainian communities. The UAYA in Chicago is extending an invitation to other clubs in the Midwest and East to enroll their soccer campers next year. There is room for families to camp on the Beskyd grounds as well as motel rooms when available. For more information about the camp, The Wings soccer camp staff and trainers for 2012. readers may visit www.cym.org. No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 11

Petrusia Sawchak At Soyuzivka (from left) are: women’s winner Mariyana Milchutskey, women’s finalist On the courts (from left) are: Omelan Twardowsky, Roma Lisovich, men’s winner Galyna Kostenko, men’s 45 winner Yuriy Kolb, Chornomorska Sitch President Marko Krasij, USCAK Tennis Committee member Ivan Durbak, men’s finalist Omelan Twardowsky, UNA Treasurer Roma Lisovich, USCAK Tennis Director Mykola Stroynick, USCAK Tennis Director George Sawchak, men’s semi-finalist Oles George Sawchak, and USCAK Tennis Committee members George Hrabec and Charchalis, USCAK Vice-President Myron Bytz, men’s semi-finalist Mykola Ivan Durbak. Nalywayko, and USCAK Tennis Committee member George Hrabec. Krasij retakes men’s title in USCAK tennis championships at Soyuzivka by Petrusia Sawchak in the 55’s. George Petrykevych of Connecticut won in the men’s 65, thereby retaining his title from last year after KERHONKSON, NY. – For the past 57 years, the overcoming George Hrabec of Massachusetts 4-6, 6-4, 10-7 Ukrainian Sports Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada in the tiebreaker. In the semifinals he eliminated Walter (known by its Ukrainian acronym as USCAK) has been Dziwak of New Jersey 6-1, 6-3, and Hrabec advanced to the holding its tennis championships on Labor Day weekend at finals when Sydorak, who was winning a very long grue- Soyuzivka, now known as the Soyuzivka Ukrainian some match, decided not to continue playing in that age Heritage Center. Many things have changed throughout the group. years, but the one thing that remains constant is its ability Fewer juniors played in this year’s tournament, perhaps to attract good tennis players to the tournament. The play- due to the fact that the school year in many areas com- ers also come from different parts of the country including menced earlier. Three girls competed in a round-robin for- Ukraine in recent years. They develop a camaraderie with mat. Catherine Popow emerged as the winner by overcom- each other that brings many of them back year after year. ing her sister, Anna, 6-2, 6-2; Anna Popow took second This year, lefty Marko Krasij from Texas beat last year’s place over Teya Lucyshyn. winner, Mykola Stroynick, a 25-year-old teaching pro from Twelve-year-old Adrian Charchalis won in both the New York, thus retaking the title he had two years ago. The older and younger boys’ groups. The older group was deci- 35-year-old math lecturer from the University of Texas at mated due to illness and no-shows, and in the younger Arlington came back determined to win and that he did. group Danylo Sosiak took second place. The final score was 6-3, 6-2, which does not reflect the The closing ceremonies took place on Sunday, intensity of play. Boys’ winner Adrian Charchalis (center) and finalist September 2. Mr. Sawchak, USCAK’s tennis director, con- “I love coming to Soyuzivka year after year to play in the Danylo Sosiak with George Hrabec (right) and (back row, gratulated all the players for participating in the tourna- tennis tournaments, which I began when I was only 16 from left) Ivan Durbak, George Sawchak and Myron Bytz. ment and encouraged all to continue supporting Soyuzivka. He commended the members of the USCAK years old. I didn’t win then, but I promised my beloved There were nine playing groups in the tournament and uncle that I would not give up. I think of my winning as a Tennis Committee, Messrs. Durbak and Hrabec, for their some of the players competed in more than one category. assistance and the host club, the Carpathian Ski Club tribute to him,” reminisced Mr. Krasij. In the quarterfinals of the men’s event, Stroynick beat In the women’s group 22-year-old Mariyana (known by its Ukrainian-based acronym as KLK), which Ihor Ferencevych 6-2, 6-4, and Mykola Nalywayko defeated provides the balls and press announcements. Milchutskey, last year’s champion and four-time winner in George Walchuk 6-3, 6-3. In the same round, Oles the years 2003-2006, beat newcomer Galyna Kostenko of He also thanked the sponsors: the Ukrainian National Charchalis won over Dmytro Pidvysotsky 6-0, 6-3, and Association for their staunch community backing, use of Kyiv, 6-3, 6-3. Miss Milchutskey, who graduated from Krasij defeated Ivan Stefaniuk 6-1, 6-1. Advancing to the facility and funding of trophies; and John Hynansky, entre- Rutgers University this year as a communications major, semifinals, Stroynick took Nalywayko 6-2, 6-4. In one of the preneur, philanthropist, art patron, Ukrainian sport enthu- emigrated from Ukraine as a child and now works as a many exciting matches of the tournament, not indicative of siast and owner of Winner Automotive Group from fashion consultant for an upscale boutique in Monmouth the score, Krasij beat college sophomore Oles Charchalis Wilmington, Del. The Winner Group is an affiliation of 26 County, N.J. Her opponent took time off as a commentator 6-0. 6-3. The experience of Krasij prevailed, but the power- companies, including car dealerships both in the United at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships held at Flushing ful strokes of Charchalis were awesome. States and Ukraine. For more than 30 years, Mr. Hynansky Meadows, N.Y. to compete in the tournament. Ms. Kostenko In the women’s group, Catherine Popow advanced in the has contributed about $4,000 annually in stipends to the works for Poverkhnost Sport TV, a broadcasting company first round when Christine Toth (winner of last year’s feed- winners and finalists in the men’s, women’s and junior with three TV channels in Kyiv, Ukraine, as a TV commenta- in) withdrew due to illness, but lost in the second round to groups, which helps to attract talented players to the tour- tor and sports journalist. She came with her friend Yuriy Milchutskey 6-2, 6-1. Also in the second round, Kostenko nament. Kolb, who was once a national tennis coach of Ukraine, and won over Catherine’s sister, Anna Popow. Presenting the awards were Messrs. Sawchak, Durbak who won this year in the men’s 45 division. A very determined Mykola Nalywayko retained his title and Hrabec, Ms. Lisovich, Omelan Twardowsky (president The opening ceremonies of the USCAK tournament, for in the men’s 35 group, making it the fifth time he has won of Chornomorska Sitch), Myron Bytz (vice-president of both the tennis and swimming competitions, took place on in this category. In the first round Pidvysotsky beat Bohdan USCAK) and Petrusia Sawchak. the deck of the swimming pool on Saturday morning, Kucyna 6-1, 6-4 and then lost to Nalywayko 6-2, 6-1, and In a addition to the UNA trophies, the following memori- September 1. The director of the USCAK Tennis Committee, Ivan Stefaniuk overcame past champion in this group, al trophies were also awarded: the Roman Rakoczy tro- George Sawchak, and Roman Hirniak, secretary of USCAK, Steve Sosiak 6-3, 7-6 (5) tiebreaker in a highly contentious phies to the men’s and women’s winners, men’s – Bohdan greeted everyone and thanked all the players for partici- match. Nalywayko defeated Stefaniuk in the finals 6-4, 6-0. Rak Trophy, women’s – Constantine Ben Trophy, men’s 35 pating in this year’s tournaments. In the men’s 45 first round, Yuriy Kolb took Kucyna – Jaroslaw Rubel Trophy, men’s 45 – Dr. Wolodymyr Huk Irenaeus Isajiw, president of USCAK, said among other 7-6, 6-1. He then beat Sosiak 6-2, 6-2; Ivan Durbak over- Trophy, and men’s 55 – Dr. Petro Charuk Trophy. things, “Make no doubt about it, winning is important. It came Roman Wasylak 6-1, 6-2. In the finals, Kolb, a teach- The coveted Mary Dushnyck Good Sportsmanship builds character and the desire to do better.” ing pro in New Jersey, won over Durbak, a long-time Trophy, determined by the tennis committee, was awarded After the flag-raising ceremonies, Roma Lisovich, trea- champion known for his classic strokes, 6-2, 2-0 (retired to Ivan Stefaniuk of Ohio. Mrs. Dushnyck was a longtime surer of the Ukrainian National Association (UNA), also due to injury). supreme vice-presidentess of the UNA and participant of welcomed all the players and guests to Soyuzivka, wished In the men’s 55, George Walchuk, last year’s winner in this tennis tournament beginning in 1956. She was much the participants much success and encouraged everyone to this group, defended his title by battling with Yaroslav loved and contributed greatly to the Labor Day tourna- continue coming and supporting this Ukrainian heritage Sydorak of California, a perennial champion, and ultimately ments for many years, even after she stopped competing in center. The UNA, a fraternal organization that offers finan- winning the group with a score of 7-5, 7-5. In the first the tournaments. cial products such as life insurance, endowments and round, George Petrykevych beat George Hrabec 6-1, 6-1. Ms. Lisovich officially closed the 57th USCAK Tennis annuities and has served the Ukrainian community for Walchuk then eliminated Petrykevych in one of the best Tournament by congratulating all the winners and finalists nearly 120 years, has been sponsor of the tournaments matches in the tournament, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3, and Sydorak took and encouraging everyone to continue to support since their inception and has funded the trophies for more Orest Wasyluk 6-2, 6-3. Soyuzivka, the tennis tournaments held there and the than 50 years. In the men’s 65 some of the same players competed as Ukrainian National Association. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 No. 39

Yanukovych sidesteps Tymoshenko case would stay for at least one more month in a 18 that they will work in the session hall NEWSBRIEFS clinic for treatment. Ms. Moiseyenko’s state- once a week on Tuesdays until the parlia- KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor ment on September 18 came one day after a mentary elections in late October. In all, (Continued from page 2) Yanukovych says he’s confident his coun- German doctor, Lutz Harms, examined Ms. 264 deputies voted for this decision. As a try’s parliamentary elections next month Kyiv under pressure from West, Russia Tymoshenko at the hospital in Kharkiv result, national deputies will work until all will allay concerns in Europe about where she has been undergoing treatment issues on the agenda are considered on KYIV – A senior U.S. official has warned Ukraine’s democratic course. According to since May due to her complaints over back September 18, and they will work in com- that Ukraine’s parliamentary elections next September 14 news reports, Mr. pains. Ms. Tymoshenko is serving a seven- mittees and factions on September 19-21. month risk falling short of democratic stan- Yanukovych, speaking before European year jail term on charges of abuse of office; Plenary meetings of the Parliament are Union officials at a conference in Yalta, said dards and further damaging the country’s she denies any wrongdoing. The European planned for October 2 and October 16, and the October 28 vote would cause EU anxi- ties with the West. According to September Union and the United States have con- national deputies will meet in committees eties over Ukraine to “disappear” and clear 15 news reports, Deputy Assistant demned Ms. Tymoshenko’s imprisonment and factions on October 3-5 and October the way for the “full integration” of the two as politically motivated. A week earlier, Secretary of State Thomas Melia, speaking 17-19, respectively. The opposition vigor- sides. The EU has put on hold a key cooper- female convict Oksana Melnik, who shared at a conference in Ukraine’s Black Sea ously opposed changes in the timetable of ation deal with Ukraine because of objec- a clinic room with Ms. Tymoshenko for sev- resort of Yalta, said significant steps were plenary meetings, but the majority adopted tions over Kyiv’s jailing of former Prime eral weeks, told journalists that the former them. (Ukrinform) required to ensure the October 28 poll Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, which the EU prime minister was in fact “healthy and would be free and fair. A day earlier, EU says is politically motivated. The president simulated her illness for political PR.” (RFE/ Komorowski appeals to Ukraine officials in Yalta expressed a dim view of of Ukraine did not address the issue of Ms. RL, based on reporting by UNIAN and KYIV – Polish President Bronislaw Ukraine’s democratic progress under Interfax) Tymoshenko, who is currently serving a Komorowski has called on the Ukrainians to President Viktor Yanukovych, saying that seven-year sentence on abuse-of-office integrate with the West on the basis of his- the case of jailed opposition leader Yulia Putin admits wildlife stunts are staged charges. Her supporters are expected to torical truth and to overcome sentimental- Tymoshenko remains a stumbling block to present a strong challenge to Mr. MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir ism over the Communist past. He was good relations. Meanwhile, Russian officials Yanukovych’s ruling Party of Regions in the Putin has admitted that some of his most speaking on September 17 at the opening at the Yalta conference urged Ukraine to elections. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by famous media adventures with wildlife ceremony for an exhibition dedicated to the join the Moscow-led Customs Union or the Associated Press and Reuters) were staged, according to September 14 Polish part of a cemetery of victims of continue to face high energy prices. news reports. Russian television has shown Tymoshenko to remain in clinic Stalin’s regime, which will soon appear at Ukraine has resisted such an alliance in videos of Mr. Putin tagging whales, saving a the National Historic-Memorial Reserve favor of closer ties with the EU. (RFE/RL, KYIV – Ukrainian Vice-Minister of Health TV crew from a tiger and taking to the skies Bykivnia Graves. “We must remember the based on reporting by Reuters and the Minister Raisa Moiseyenko said that jailed to help Siberian cranes learn to migrate. In crimes committed, in particular, to consis- Associated Press) former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko a meeting with Masha Gessen, an editor tently encourage our neighbors to the east, I who lost her job for refusing to send mean especially the Ukrainians, to integrate reporters to cover the recent crane flight, with the West on the basis of truth and by Mr. Putin conceded: “Of course, there are overcoming sometimes sentimentalism and excesses. And I’m annoyed about it.” In an sometimes ignorance of what communism account of the meeting in Bolshoi Gorod was in the USSR,” said Mr. Komorowski. The magazine, Ms. Gessen also quoted Mr. Putin president of Poland noted that the fourth TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 as saying the wildlife encounters were or e-mail [email protected] worthwhile because they drew the public’s Polish cemetery of victims of the Katyn attention to animals under threat. Ms. tragedy will be created in Bykivnia (they already exist in the village of Katyn, as well SERVICES PROFESSIONALS Gessen edited a travel magazine until she was dismissed. She is also the author of as in Mednoe, Russia, and in Kharkiv). “At “The Man Without a Face: the Unlikely Rise the same time it will be a cemetery to pay of Vladimir Putin,” a book highly critical of tribute to the victims of totalitarian the president. Ms. Gessen said Mr. Putin, Communism,” said Mr. Komorowski. He alongside the magazine’s owner, had asked stressed that Bykivnia buried about her whether she wanted to have her job 100,000 victims – citizens of the former back or whether she was comfortable in Soviet Union, as well as 3,500 Poles. The the role of “persecuted journalist.” Ms. exhibition, titled “The Polish military ceme- Gessen refused the offer to get her job tery in Kyiv-Bykivnia” consists of 22 stands back, saying she did not want to work in a with the results of the exhumation of Polish magazine where the editor-in-chief is victims of the NKVD in 1940. (Ukrinform) appointed by the president. The Reuters Yanukovych on foreign relations СТЕФАН ВЕЛЬГАШ news agency quoted President Putin’s Ліцензований Продавець spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, as saying the KYIV – Ukraine is making every effort to Страхування Життя report represented “a correct account of establish stable partnerships with its STEPHAN J. 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Certainly, in a status of a Customs Union, studying ways of coopera- political leader, and certainly, claiming if not FOR SALE tion and acceptable forms of integration,” for participation in power, then for presen- the president said. “Special attention is tation of at least small faction in the given to the transformation of these associ- UPSTATE NEW YORK Parliament.” Mykola Obikhod, ex-deputy ations into the Eurasian Economic Union, Near Soyuzivka and churches - Ukrainian community - 2 bds, 2 baths, procurator general and vice-president of where Ukraine already has an observer sta- large family room, garage, balcony, the LLC Center for Strategic Research and tus,” he added. 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MPs to work once a week until elections APEC members, first and foremost, Russia, For additional information contact China and India, will contribute to success- Walter Honcharyk, Advertising Manager, KYIV – Members of Ukraine’s ful implementation of our intentions,” he The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. Parliament made a decision on September explained. (Ukrinform) No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 13

Our community celebrates Ukrainian Independence Day 2012

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by Oksana Koziak BETHLEHEM/ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The mayors of Bethlehem and Allentown, both located in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, declared August 24 as Ukrainian Independence Day in separate ceremonies held at each City Hall plaza. Bethlehem Mayor John B. Callahan greeted those gathered to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the proclamation of Ukrainian independence. The program began with the raising of the American and Ukrainian flags by Orest Harasymowich, Viktor Litkewicz and John Solotwa, mem- bers of the local Ukrainian American Veterans Post 42. Carol Hanych, cantor, and Tekla Morrison of the church choir led everyone in the sing- ing of the American and Ukrainian national anthems. Archpriest Daniel Gurovich, pas- tor of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Members of the Ukrainian American community in Bethlehem, Pa., with Mayor John B. Callahan on the steps of Bethlehem City Hall. Church, offered the benediction and spoke of Ukraine’s continuing desire for freedom and 8-year-old Yura Holowchak recited the Ukrainians on maintaining their rich cul- Anna Oleszczuk led the program and pre- and independence. poem “Ridna Mova.” The program ended ture and heritage while also being contrib- sented the main address on Ukraine’s Mayor Callahan presented his proclama- with the singing of the Lord’s Prayer. uting citizens in their adopted country. struggle for independence, the current situ- tion from the City of Bethlehem and spoke Serving as master of ceremonies was They both spoke of Ukraine’s hard work in ation and hope for the future. of the strides Ukraine has made since pro- Oksana Koziak. All participants were developing a democratic and independent Both State Rep. Dent and Mayor claiming independence. Nadiya Cehelsky- dressed in embroidered Ukrainian blouses nation and of the long road ahead; their Pawlowski took photographs and had them Kidd presented the main address, titled and shirts, presenting a colorful and festive words were very encouraging. posted on their Facebook pages. “The 21st Anniversary of Ukrainian atmosphere. The Allentown program began with the Eugenia Morkowchuk also worked on Independence Day – Unite or Divide.” Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski pre- raising of the American and Ukrainian flags putting together the program and provided Rozalia Polianska presented a reading sented a proclamation and, along with by Stefan Kacapyr and Peter Chomko, and embroideries and small Ukrainian and from a poem titled “I am a Part of Ukraine” State Rep. Charles Dent, congratulated the singing of both countries’ anthems. American flags for the audience.

Tryzub festival celebrates Ukraine’s Independence Day folk dances. Their fusion of traditional our fireworks – our rich and explosively col- Ukrainian styles with various “foreign” orful Ukrainian culture – for the world to motifs made several of their dances, includ- see.” ing the “Canadian Country Dance and Not everyone at the festival had Miners,” particularly entertaining. Ukrainian heritage. Some people came to Masters of ceremonies Tanya Husar and enjoy the culture, while others, such as Gene Luciw intertwined the ensembles’ Anthony Scriva, came with Ukrainian loved performances with a rich bounty of beauti- ones. “I come here every year, my wife is ful music and song performed by violinist- Ukrainian. I love Ukraine, I go there every virtuoso Innesa Tymochko Dekajlo (Lviv) year. The food, the people – everything,” and the Vox Ethnika orchestra (New York). said Mr. Scriva, a resident of Three Bridges, The people showed their appreciation with N.J. applause matched by their cheers, broad A significant non-Ukrainian presence, grins and smiles. noted Ms. Husar, accomplished other very Tryzub’s President, Mr. Nysch, stated that important missions: “to showcase our beau- the festival was “a testament to the beauty tiful Ukrainian culture and to heighten peo- and strength of the Ukrainian spirit and to ples’ awareness about Ukraine, its people the value of cooperation among and their very strategic role in the world.” Ukrainians.” He was especially pleased to Festival-goers also had an opportunity to see Ukrainians and even non-Ukrainians of visit an arts and crafts bazaar and to snack all generations and immigrations working on anything from tasty homemade Wasyl Jur and celebrating together as one. Ukrainian ethnic foods and baked goods to Zoriany of Kirovohrad, Ukraine, in a medley of Hutsul dances. “It’s a very special day for us. Just like St. barbecue fare from the grill. Patrick’s Day where everyone is Irish — After the concert, the Vox Ethnica orches- HORSHAM, Pa. – The blue and yellow particularly moving prayer. The Grace today, everyone is Ukrainian,” Mr. Nysch tra played dance music for a sensational colors adorning Tryzubivka gleamed with Ukrainian Baptist Church Choir, under the added. “We celebrated Freedom. We set off “zabava” that lasted well into the evening. brilliant vibrancy in the gorgeous Sunday baton of Ivan Velenchuk, then sang beautiful afternoon sun that greeted over 1,500 peo- renditions of “The Lord’s Prayer” and “The ple, young and old, as they assembled on Prayer for Ukraine” (“Bozhe Velykyi August 26 to celebrate 21 years of Ukraine’s Yedynyi”). independence. The Zoriany Academic Theater of Music, The anticipation was palpable as the Singing and Dance, a 40-artist-strong Karpaty Ukrainian Dance Orchestra ensemble of dancers, orchestral musicians warmed the crowd with a rich variety of and singers from Kirovohrad, Ukraine, folk songs. Everyone expected “the fire- opened the concert program with a majes- works”: a grand explosion of color, sound, tic 20-minute long medley of Ukrainian folk movement and energy that is Ukrainian folk dances, music and songs. They performed a music and dance. second such medley later in the program. The opening ceremonies began with the The troupe showcased a vast array of national anthems of Canada, the United Ukrainian regional variations and styles. States of America and Ukraine. After A brilliant, highly talented and extremely Tryzub’s president, Danylo Nysch, greeted accomplished ensemble from Canada, the the people, the Rev. Taras Naumenko, dean Desna Ukrainian Dance Company of at the Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Toronto, greatly enriched the stage with an Vladimir in Philadelphia, led the faithful in a especially diverse and varied collection of The Desna Ukrainian Dance Company of Toronto performs “Canadian Country.” 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 No. 39

minutes. That’s what you have to look at, off season fresh, having played some 60 who he plays against every single shift, and games less than his teammates. Zajac’s return fuels Devils’ run that tells you a lot about him.” There was another silver lining to the Zajac’s all-around game on the ice is injury – Zajac was home for the birth of his Martin Brodeur, Ilya Kovalchuk, Zach tore an Achilles’ tendon last August, had matched by his quality character off the ice. son. He and wife Nicole greeted baby boy Parise and Peter DeBoer received the surgery the next day, later attempting to He always puts the team first, and he’s Zenon into the world last January. majority of the press about the New Jersey come back and play in December. His inspired his teammates with his play and When Zajac returned to full-time action, Devils’ surprising run through the Stanley comeback lasted all of eight games. His sea- dedicated work ethic, especially with the the Devils had altered their style of play, Cup playoffs. The 40-year-old goalie, the son looked to be over as the painful injury way he persevered through his lengthy bat- going more offensive under DeBoer, less of club’s two main scorers and their new would not go away. Another lengthy rehab tle with the Achilles injury. a trapping defensive squad. The new strat- coach were all key contributors in pushing followed, and in late March, Zajac finally After playing in only 16 regular-season egy was to play with more aggressiveness the upstart Devils to the Cup finals only a returned to the ice. It took him several games in which he totaled only 6 points, and to get the defense more involved in the year after the team didn’t qualify for the weeks to get back into game shape, which the playoffs were the proverbial second play. A strong forecheck with defensemen post-season for the first time since 1996. he did at the start of the playoffs. Since then season for Zajac. He managed to hit his keeping pucks alive got the forward lines Sometimes it takes a grand stage like the he was arguably the Devils’ best skater stride at the perfect time, allowing head more scoring chances. Stanley Cup playoffs to let the word out on throughout the post-season. coach DeBoer to rely on him and Parise It took some time, but the strategy a player like Travis Zajac. One of the most The Winnipeg native, son of Tom and more and more as the Devils made their clicked. General Manager Lou Lamoriello underrated centers in the entire NHL, his Trish Zajac, can skate, win faceoffs and play surprising playoff run. received major kudos for not panicking at seven goals and 12 points in 20 playoff effectively against the opposition’s top for- “Getting this far I’m sure it’s enjoyable the trade deadline, instead waiting for games, and his all-around game have ward line. These proficiencies normally for everyone, but it really is for me,” Zajac Zajac to get healthy and return to duty. said in a Canadian Press interview after the After missing most of the year, Zajac start- become impossible to ignore. The befit the No. 2 center, but because of Travis’ Devils beat the New York Rangers in the ed playing top minutes, including regular Ukrainian is now mentioned in the top 10 chemistry with team captain Parise, he Eastern Conference finals. “Playing this late time on the power play and penalty kill. He of defensive forwards and as an offensive took the role of the team’s No. 1 pivot with in the season really makes me feel like I was a huge addition to what turned out to force who can produce solid point totals. the Devils. didn’t miss the whole season. It’s really a be a Stanley Cup finalist. The 27-year-old, who wears the number “He is the type of player who does a lot fun time to play hockey.” And, according to the Devil’s official 19, is only beginning to enter his prime, of things well, from the face off to the fore- Entering the 2011-2012 year, Zajac had website, a healthy Zajac will be key to a and his ranking of eighth in playoff scoring checking, taking the body,” Brodeur said in been New Jersey’s current iron man, hav- successful 2012-2013 season. Of course, has showcased a game that will demand to a late-may interview with the Canadian ing played in 401 consecutive games that season is now in question as the NHL be considered for Canada’s future Olympic Press. “He does a lot of little things. A lot of between 2006 and the end of the 2010- lock-out has begun. team. people who are not watching him and who 2011 season. He injured himself working The 2011-2012 campaign was almost a only look at the stats miss a lot. He is an out at home prior to training camp. As a Ihor Stelmach may be reached at iman@ total loss for New Jersey’s No. 1 center. He effective player. He logs a lot of important result of the injury, Zajac entered the play- sfgsports.com.

from debilitating back pain and needs spe- Foreign Relations... cialized treatment. International physi- cians have only been granted limited (Continued from page 1) access. Collectively, between the false- imprisonment and denial of adequate unified multilateral diplomatic pressure on medical treatment, this situation has President Yanukovych to release amounted to a grave abuse of human Tymoshenko.” rights.” “This resolution sends a strong and In addition to Ms. Tymoshenko, the unmistakable message to the Ukrainian administration of President Viktor government: selective prosecution of polit- Yanukovych has brought charges against ical opponents has no place in the commu- more than a dozen political leaders associ- nity of democracies. Former Prime ated with the Orange Revolution. This Minister Yulia Tymoshenko should be abuse of the judicial system has not gone released immediately,” Sen. Durbin said. unnoticed. “With parliamentary elections just around On January 26, the Parliamentary the corner, we also urge the Ukrainian gov- Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) ernment to conduct open and fair elections passed Resolution 1862, declaring that the that are open to domestic and internation- articles under which Ms. Tymoshenko was al observers.” convicted are ‘‘overly broad in application In addition, the resolution calls on the and effectively allow for ex post facto crim- State Department to institute a visa ban inalization of normal political decision- against those responsible for the imprison- making.” ment and mistreatment of Ms. Meanwhile, the European Union has Tymoshenko. delayed indefinitely the signing of a free Sen. Inhofe noted that, “Since her trade agreement with Ukraine until the imprisonment in October, she has suffered opposition leader is freed.

Society of America (UESA), Ukrainian Engineer lectures... Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the (Continued from page 8) Plast scouting fraternity Chornomortsi. The UESA is an association of technical/ ed question-and-answer session and a col- scientific professionals and students, legial – and sometimes controversial – including engineers, scientists, architects debate with the large audience in atten- and businesspeople. Its mission is to help dance. advance members’ professions, foster The evening concluded with informal interest in technical and economic issues in and convivial discussions over food and Ukraine, and provide a social and profes- drinks. sional network of mutual support. To learn Dr. Stakhiv is very active in the more about UESA, readers may visit the Ukrainian American community, and is a website at www.uesa.org or write to: UESA, member of the Ukrainian Engineers’ 2 E. 79th St., New York, NY 10021. Need a back issue? If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 15

majority of whom are not ethnic Ukraine’s 2012... Ukrainian, and redistributing them among ethnic Ukrainians. (Continued from page 1) “It won’t be a single owner of an enter- Ukraine – Forward! prise taking all the profit offshore, but we will divide it based on the proportion – It’s all but confirmed by Ms. Korolevska 78 percent of all profit for Ukrainians, herself that Ukraine – Forward! is a satellite and 22 percent for representatives of electoral project of the ruling Party of other nationalities,” Dr. Shevchenko told Regions of Ukraine. the Glavkom news site in an interview The evidence is overwhelming – there’s published on September 14. an avalanche of advertising on the national “In Europe, all the profit of enterprises radio and television networks that are con- is divided not only among its workers, trolled by the government. but also their wives and children under The party also has ample financing for 16. That’s what the outstanding Swedish billboards and campaign tents. socialism is based on. We’re talking The party’s top five candidates on its about enterprises which until recently closed list include soccer legend Andriy were in state ownership, the earnings of Shevchenko, who campaigned previously for many generations of our forefathers,” the Party of Regions; Dr. Roman Vasko, who svoboda.org.ua said Dr. Shevchenko. was appointed a university rector by Oleh Tiahnybok at the party congress of Svoboda held in Lviv on August 1. The party’s closed list confirms that its Education Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk; and The congress was attended by 492 delegates. strategy is to take advantage of its strength in the Halychyna region to Dr. Illia Yemets, a former health minister in Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, with whom can promise that is unexplained in the the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. expend more energy on gaining votes in she was once closely allied in the campaign brochures. the regions of central Ukraine, from which Ms. Korolevska enjoys close political ties Tymoshenko Bloc. with fellow Luhansk Oblast native Svoboda Party three of the top five candidates hail. She reportedly abandoned the impris- Svoboda remains plagued by suspi- Oleksander Yefremov, the head of the Party oned politician when it became apparent The Svoboda party has risen from the of Regions’ parliamentary faction. He is cions from political observers that it’s that she would not have a key role in Ms. ashes of Ukraine’s national-democratic believed to be financing Ukraine – financed by Ukraine’s oligarchs. Nothing Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna party. Her movement, led by Our Ukraine, which dis- Forward! with Kremlin money, Oleksii has been proven and party leaders said sponsors are hoping she will attract voters, integrated after President Viktor Kliashtornyi, chair of the central coordinat- such accusations are merely smear tactics. particularly young urban residents, who Yushchenko’s highly unpopular presidency. ing committee of the People’s Solidarity In 2011, Hanna Herman, an advisor to are disillusioned with both Batkivshchyna Parties such as Batkivshchyna and the labor union, said in early August. President Viktor Yanukovych, claimed and the Party of Regions. Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for that Mr. Tiahnybok had visited the What is certain is that several candi- “Entire groups of influential Ukrainian Reform (UDAR) have attracted a good Presidential Administration numerous dates on the closed party list have close ties portion of Our Ukraine’s politicians and times, which the party leader denied. In to top oligarchs who belong to the Party of investors have decided to speculate on 2007, Ternopil Oblast Council Deputy Regions, most notably Rinat Akhmetov. Korolevska’s ambitions and growth in pop- supporters. Orest Muts, a Party of Regions member, “Regarding Natalia Korolevska, it’s cer- ularity,” Mr. Fesenko said. “She received Yet a solid portion of the national- alleged that Mr. Tiahnybok receives tainly not one person” who’s financing the quite a lot of financing… Those people, who democratic electorate, mostly in the financing from his party, which the party, said Volodymyr Fesenko, board invested a lot of money into this project, Halychyna region, remains unconvinced are not only interested in it peeling off that these parties are committed to nationalist dismissed as nonsense. chairman of the Penta Center for Applied “They sow such seeds of distrust Political Science in Kyiv. “The financing is votes from the united opposition. Their defending Ukrainian cultural values, as task is for this project to qualify for the well as economic policies that will resist among our electorate and sympathizers, too large, and I think there’s a pool of spon- who don’t accept it at first. But, after one, sors there. Akhmetov is mentioned, as well Verkhovna Rada and become one of its the demands of oligarchs in favor of the players.” working class. two or three times of reading and hear- as one of his big business partners. ing it, they start to think that maybe it’s Behind the youthful image, there is little They have thrown their support Mentioned is a partner of [Dmytro] true,” Mr. Tiahnybok commented in a substance. behind Svoboda, which has the best Firtash.” Mr. Firtash was among the leading March interview on a local television sta- The campaign platform consists of vague chance to qualify for the Verkhovna Rada sponsors of the Party of Regions of Ukraine tion in Ternopil. during the 2010 presidential campaign. promises such as raising the minimum pen- since it became a competitive political “There are 56 versions on the Internet The Ukraine – Forward! party’s main sion payment (that happens every year party in 2006. of who finances us – all the oligarchs, the theme in the campaign is youth, which is regardless), doubling salaries (no timeline The party’s theme is the same as it has Vatican, the Russian Federal Security summarized by the slogan, “New Leaders – is given) and decentralizing budgetary poli- always been – Ukrainian language and Service and even the Canadian intelli- New Country.” cy (it can’t get any more centralized than it culture, as well as anti-oligarch rhetoric gence service through the Ukrainian Campaign tents throughout the country is now, according to economists.) on the economic front. The party favors a diaspora.” have life-sized billboards of the youthful Party propaganda also consists of hack- “social-nationalist” approach to econom- Mr. Tiahnybok has maintained for Ms. Korolevska, 37, posed alongside Mr. neyed slogans that few take seriously, ics, which it has yet to define in depth. years that his party is financed by mem- Shevchenko, 36. So do thousands of bill- including “The rich should pay more taxes Such party members as Dr. bership dues and contributions from boards erected along Ukraine’s roads. than the poor,” “Keeping Ukrainian land in Oleksander Shevchenko, a law professor small- and medium-sized businesses. Yet Ms. Korolevska has also adopted a hair- Ukrainian hands,” and even “Certainty in at Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv, many in the electorate find that hard to style resembling that of former Prime tomorrow’s day.” Just how a political party favor taking profits from oligarchs, the swallow as well.

Following is information about the top five candidates sleeps in them when on the road. on the party lists of Ukraine – Forward! and Svoboda. 2. Bohdan Beniuk – 55, actor. Mr. Beniuk joined Svoboda in 2006 after establishing himself as a nationally Ukraine – Forward! THE TOP 5 Ukrainian people. He also starred in the Russian film recognized theatrical and film actor. Since 1980 he has 1. Natalia Korolevska – 37, party founder and chair- “Match,” widely criticized as Ukrainophobic. performed at the Ivan Franko Academic Drama Theater. woman. Kyiv’s Focus magazine in 2008 estimated Ms. 4. Roman Vasko – rector of the Kyiv National He also had a role in “Famine-33,” the film about the Korolevska’s wealth at $243 million. Her campaign finan- Linguistics University. Dr. Vasko led the university’s Holodomor produced by Oles Yanchuk in 1991. cial disclosure filings in August reported only $21,000 in department of Germanic and Finnish philology before 3. Andrii Mokhnyk – 40, Kyiv Oblast Council deputy. income in 2011, and about 30,000 square feet of land, but being appointed as rector by Education Minister Dmytro An engineer by profession, Mr. Mokhnyk has led the par- no home for herself. She earned her first millions from Tabachnyk in 2010. He voiced his support for this year’s ty’s Kyiv Oblast organization since 2006. His family lived her family’s ice cream business in her native Luhansk language bill, which he said would “help Ukrainians feel in Prypiat during the Chornobyl nuclear disaster and was Oblast, an empire that now includes food-processing and united.” among the thousands evacuated. He has proposed build- industrial assets. Her brother, Konstantin, is the deputy 5. Illia Yemets – 56, practicing director of the Center ing more bridges in Kyiv as a priority to ease traffic. minister for regional development in the Russian for Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiosurgery under the 4. Ihor Miroshnychenko – 36, chair of the party’s Federation. Ministry of Health. Dr. Yemets, a cardiologist, served as Sumy Oblast organization. Mr. Miroshnychenko is a 2. Andriy Shevchenko – 36, professional soccer player. Ukraine’s health minister between December 2010 and sports journalist who led the sports desk at the ICTV net- Ukraine – Forward! recruited Mr. Shevchenko not to be May 2011. Dr. Yemets has worked as a staff and resident work. He has been on the party front lines, having been outdone by a contending party led by a boxing champion. cardiosurgeon in the leading pediatric cardiology centers arrested alongside Mr. Mokhnyk and others for protesting Mr. Shevchenko even challenged UDAR Party Chairman of France, Australia and Canada. the 2010 “Volyn Massacre” historical exhibit, which Vitali Klitschko to a political debate, to which the former defamed the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and the screen- Svoboda responded he’d only do so if Ukraine-Forward! acknowl- ing of the “Match” film, which defamed Ukrainians. edged it’s a satellite of the Party of the Regions. Mr. 1. Oleh Tiahnybok – 43, party founder and chairman. 5. Oleksander Shevchenko – 75, a doctor of legal Shevchenko said he’d make sports a priority in his politics. In March, former party members alleged that Mr. studies and professor at Taras Shevchenko National 3. Ostap Stupka – 45, actor. Mr. Stupka is the artistic Tiahnybok drives a Toyota Sequoia SUV, worth about University in Kyiv. Dr. Shevchenko leads the university’s director of the Ivan Franko Academic Drama Theater, the $90,000. They claimed he has switched SUV’s about five department of state theory and history. He has called for premiere Ukrainian-language theater in Kyiv. He played times in as many years. Mr. Tiahnybok has always legalizing gun ownership in Ukraine, electing judges and the role of a commander in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army claimed that his party is financed by small- and medium- establishing a policy of affirmative action for ethnic (UPA) in the film “We’re From the Future – 2,” which has sized business. Mr. Tiahnybok didn’t deny driving the Ukrainians, citing the U.S. government’s policies for been widely criticized for defaming UPA and the vehicles, but claimed they were borrowed. He also said he African Americans. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 No. 39 No. 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 17 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 No. 39 Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art to honor Paul Plishka CHICAGO – On Saturday, October 13, the Ukrainian ing to the New World, and here I was, their grandson, Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) will honor the distin- returning to Kyiv, standing there with gold pouring over guished American artist Paul Plishka, in recognition of his my shoulders [in ‘Boris Godunov’]. I could almost feel my extraordinary career at New York’s Metropolitan Opera grandparents up above me, looking down with tears in and major opera houses throughout the world. One of the their eyes, seeing that all the sacrifices they had made dur- most widely acclaimed singers of our time, he has earned ing their lives had come to this.” consistent critical praise for his smooth, beautifully pro- “An Evening Honoring the Distinguished Career of Paul duced bass and polished dramatic skills. Plishka”, will take place Saturday, October 13 at the Mr. Plishka announced his retirement in January, cap- Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 W. Chicago Ave. ping 45 years of a professional singing career that includ- Cocktails will be at 6 p.m. ; dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are ed 1,642 performances. He made his Met debut as the $125 per person ($1,250 for a table of 10, reservations Monk in Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda,” alongside Renata will be held at the door). Readers are asked to RSVP by Tebaldi, Sherrill Milnes and Rosalind Elias. He performed September 28 by calling 773-227-5522 or e-mailing the role of Sacristan in Puccini’s “Tosca” on the night con- [email protected]. Checks may be mailed to: UIMA, ductor James Levine made his debut in June 1971. He 2320 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622; tickets may also shared the stage with other greats such as Franco Corelli, be purchased online at www.uima-chicago.org. Joan Sutherland, Robert Merrill, Nicolai Gedda, Beverly * * * Sills, Luciano Pavarotti and Renee Fleming. The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art was established Critically praised performances include leading basso in 1971 in the heart of the Ukrainian Village in Chicago’s roles in “Aida”, “Lucia di Lammermoor,” “Othello,” “Barber West Town neighborhood, to preserve and promote con- of Seville”, “Marriage of Figaro,” “Simone Boccanegra,” “Il temporary art as an expression of the Ukrainian and Trovatore,” “Eugen Onegin,” “Nabucco,” “Falstaff,” “Tristan American experience. Established as a primary venue for und Isolde,” among many others. Other notable perfor- the exhibition and study of modern and contemporary mances included “Elixir of Love” at the Lyric Opera of Ukrainian art outside Ukraine, UIMA’s collection encom- Chicago, where he was often a guest artist, and “Adelia” passes a half-century of art, which is brought to life with the Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall. He through exhibitions, concerts, readings, lectures and films. also performed as the Grand Inquisitor in “Don Carlo” at Much of the progressive and iconoclastic art created in the Salzburg Festival and throughout the world. Paul Plishka the 1970s and ’80s in Ukraine would have been lost due to The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants who came to loved member of that company. Soviet suppression without the efforts of the UIMA to col- America in 1910, Mr. Plishka was born in Old Forge, Pa., in One of the high points of his career came not at the Met lect, preserve and share it. As a direct result of its efforts, a Ukrainian community. His early studies were under the but in Kyiv, where he sang the title role of “Boris Godunov.” UIMA is home to a large collection of Ukrainian and tutelage of Armen Boyajian, whose students also included After that performance, in 1991, as the Soviet Union disin- Ukrainian American abstract and minimalist works from Marisa Galvany and fellow basso Samuel Ramey, and he tegrated, he remarked in an interview with Carla Maria the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Many of the artists represented made his operatic debut with the Paterson Lyric Opera in Verdino-Süllwold in Opera Monthly: “I couldn’t help but are world renowned, and their works can be found at the 1961. In 1967 Mr. Plishka made his debut at the Met as the think of my grandparents, leaving Ukraine on a boat the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery, the Monk in “La Gioconda,” and soon became a prominent and way they did with just a bag and an old suitcase and com- Barnes Collection and other museums.

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Ukrainian Catholic Church of Sts. Peter and Paul 30 Bentley Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07304 will be celebrating its 125th Anniversary on Sunday, November 18, 2012. A Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at 12 noon at Sts. Peter and Paul Church Festivities will continue at the Ukrainian Community Center 90-96 Fleet Street, Jersey City, NJ. • Cocktails at 2 p.m. • Banquet to follow Invitations will be mailed out shortly. Please RSVP by October 18, 2012.

ATTENTION PARIShIONERS! If anyone has addresses of former parishioners that have moved from the area, especially their children, relatives and friends, please contact Fr. Vasyl Putera at the rectory as soon as possible. Tel. 201-432-3122

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Through September 30 Art exhibit, “Prairie Dreamscapes: Re-imagining Our September 28-30 21st Congress of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of Toronto Roots,” Canadian Ukrainian Art Foundation, Yonkers, NY America, Ukrainian Youth Center, www.ucca.org 416-766-6802 or www.kumfgallery.com September 29 Conference, “65th anniversary of the establishment of the Through October 26 Photography by Tania D’Avignon, “Cultural Kaleidoscope: New York Shevchenko Scientific Society in America,” Shevchenko Cambridge, MA Ukraine, Mongolia, Tibet, Uzbekistan,” Harvard Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 University, 617-495-4053 September 29 Convention banquet, Ukrainian Congress Committee of September 24 Presentation by Andrei Ivanov, “Davids and Goliaths: Yonkers, NY America, Ukrainian Youth Center, [email protected] or Cambridge, MA Image of the Enemy in Orthodox Russian and Ukrainian 212-228-6840 Military Sermons, 1700-1812” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 September 29 Book launch by Susan Viets, “Picnic at the Iron Curtain: Ottawa From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Ukraine’s Orange September 25 Fundraiser, Calgary Friends of the Ukrainian Catholic Revolution,” Books on Beechwood, Calgary, AB University, St. Stephen Ukrainian Catholic Church, www.booksonbeechwood.ca or 613-742-5030 403-670-9145 or [email protected] September 30 60th anniversary banquet, Ukrainian National Museum, September 26 Fall Kick Off Evening and Dance, Ukrainian Canadian Chicago Ukrainian Cultural Center, Ottawa Professionals and Businesspersons Association, Lago Bar [email protected] and Grill, www.ucpbaottawa.ca or 613-737-4211 September 30 Pilgrimage, Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great, September 27 Book presentation by Serhiy Bilenky, “Romantic Fox Chase Manor, PA www.stbasils.com New York Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian, Polish and Ukrainian Political Imaginations,” Columbia University, September 30 Presentation by Lubow Wolynetz, “Ukrainian Kilims: 212-854-4697 New York Journey of a Heritage,” The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 September 28 Monument unveiling, Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Sydney, Nova Scotia Foundation, Endowment Council of the Canadian First September 30 Roast beef dinner, Ss. Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian World War Internment Recognition Fund, Holy Ghost Olyphant, PA Catholic Church, 570-489-2271 (pre-sale, take-out only) Ukrainian Catholic Church, [email protected] or [email protected] October 1 Presentation by Andriy Danylenko, “Hamlet in Peasant Cambridge, MA Leather Shoes: Shakespeare in 19th-Century Ukrainian September 28 “Fall Evening at the Museum,” Young Members at The Translations,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 New York Ukrainian Museum, Ukrainian National Women’s League of America – Branch 99, The Ukrainian Museum, October 6 Ukrainian Festival, Ukrainian American Cultural Center of 212-228-0110 Whippany, NJ New Jersey, www.uaccnj.com or 908-759-1771

September 28-30 “Ukrainpex 2012,” Ukrainian stamps, coins and collectibles Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events Toronto exhibition and bourse, Ukrainian Philatelic and advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Numismatic Society – Toronto Branch, St. Demetrius the from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors Great Martyr Church, [email protected] and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

from this data source. riage, a very important topic about which website and give us feedback on how to Updated and interactive... Official government statistics contain little is known. improve and expand the published data. (Continued from page 1) very detailed information about persons of The website provides an efficient way of Tell us what topics, tables and maps you Ukrainian ancestry in the U.S. The Center for finding updated and objective statistical would like to see. Hopefully, community Tables in the interactive tables section Demographic and Socio-Economic Research information about Ukrainians in the United and organizational leaders will find this present more detailed information on has constructed a detailed database with all States. For example: information useful for their current work Ukrainians for each state and metropolitan the information contained in previous cen- and planning of future activities. area: age by sex distribution, type of ances- suses and the yearly American Community State or city, by age and sex? If you think that this work is useful, with try (single, first ancestry Ukrainian or sec- Surveys. New tables, indicators and maps • How many Ukrainians are there in my additional resources we can do much more ond ancestry Ukrainian) by age and sex, will be added to the website covering topics and Ukrainian-speakers in the U.S.? and provide a detailed and objective pic- number of U.S.-born and foreign-born by such as marital status, internal migration, • What is the distribution of Ukrainians ture of Ukrainians in the U.S. Donations can period of immigration and by age and sex, education, occupation, labor force status, in my state? be made to the Shevchenko Scientific Fourth Wave immigrants by period of income, veterans, disabilities, etc. • What is the distribution of Ukrainians Society in New York, earmarked for the immigration and by age and sex. In a separate section, detailed statistical Russian-speakers) are there in my state or Center for Demographic and Socio- profiles will be developed for each city with city,• byHow age many and sex? Ukrainian-speakers (and Economic Research on Ukrainians in the Two maps are presented with number sizeable Ukrainian populations. United States. Contact information: of Ukrainians and of Ukrainian-speakers by A second database containing housing immigration are there in my state or city? Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth state, respectively. In the interactive maps and household characteristics is in the pro- • How many immigrants by period of Ave., New York, NY 10003; telephone, 212- section detailed maps with the geographi- cess of being constructed. It will provide immigrants by age, sex and period of immi- 254-5130; e-mail, cal distribution of Ukrainians in each state information on: home ownership; home gration,• What for is eachthe numberstate and of metropolitanFourth Wave [email protected] or [email protected]. are presented. Data are shown in terms of characteristics like value, year of construc- area? SuperPUMAs (in some cases PUMAs), tion and number of rooms and bedrooms; Oleh Wolowyna is a demographer spe- which are geographical units with about mortgage status and monthly payment; been adopted in the U.S.? cializing in research on Ukrainians in the 400,000 persons in the case of monthly rent for renters; family and house- • How many orphans from Ukraine have United States and Canada. He is the director SuperPUMAs and about 100,000 in the hold income; family structure, etc. visa”? of the Center for Demographic and Socio- case of PUMAs. Depending on the popula- A third database is planned containing •All How these many data Ukrainians are also fully won accessible the “lottery on Economic Research on Ukrainians in the tion density, these units can encompass detailed information about all households smartphones. United States. one or more countries or parts of counties, with at least one person of Ukrainian * * * Vasyl Lopykh is an economist and the or a county can be divided into several of ancestry. This will allow the research cen- The authors of this article invite all executive director of the New York-based these units. Thus, in large cities one can see ter to make a detailed study of intermar- interested persons to visit and explore the research center. the distribution of Ukrainians in the differ- ent sections of the city. A new section with immigration statis- oncilable. The author ends on a positive Howanska Reilly holds an M.A. degree in tics has, for the moment, two tables: start- Ethnic cleansing... note, however, by pointing out that the international affairs with a specialization in ing in 1992, the yearly number of legal diverging interpretations of the events of Russian-area and Eastern European stud- immigrants born in Ukraine by class of (Continued from page 9) 1943-1947 did not prevent the establish- ies, and an M.S. degree in journalism. She is admission; and starting in 1996, the yearly ment of excellent relations between Poland a member of NTSh-A. number of orphans from Ukraine adopted Throughout his most compelling and and independent Ukraine in the 1990s. The book under review is a must read by U.S. citizens, by sex and age groups. The heavily annotated narrative spanning the The copious facts and statistics filling for anyone interested in the martyrology of first table shows immigrants by categories period 1943-1957, Dr. Snyder has adopted this book are enriched by the first-hand the Ukrainians in Poland and, in a broader like: family-sponsored or employment an impartial, balanced approach, discuss- accounts of the deportees which Ms. sense, in Ukrainian-Polish relations in the preferences, immediate relatives of U.S. citi- ing separately the positions and viewpoints Howanska Reilly reports in her chapter 20th century. “Zakerzonnia” should receive zens, refugee and asylee adjustments and of the Poles and the Ukrainians on all “Memories of Operation Wisla.” These are the widest possible distribution, but its sec- diversity program (lottery). Additional important matters, and demonstrating based on interviews she had taped with the ond printing would benefit greatly from- tables will be added with more information how those positions were generally irrec- survivors in the “Regained Territories.” Ms. more thorough proofreading. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 No. 39

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Friday, September 28 refreshments): $15; $10 for members and and 3 p.m.) featuring fabulous entertainment festival featuring Ukrainian dance performanc- NEW YORK: YM@UM – Young Members at seniors; $5 for students; free for course regis- by the Iskra, Babarocin, Barvinok and Kazka es, delicious homemade Ukrainian food, a The Ukrainian Museum – (for ages 21 and up) trants. Tickets may be purchased online or at dance ensembles, singers and musicians. Ukrainian beer garden, vendors, Ukrainian folk will host a “Fall Evening at the Museum” at the door. The Ukrainian Museum is located at Come enjoy delicious Ukrainian foods, a pig art exhibits and demonstrations by master 8-10 p.m. with a docent-led tour of the exhibi- 222 E. Sixth St.; telephone, 212-228-0110. roast and scrumptious homemade pastries. craftsmen in pysanky, gerdany, weaving and Also featured: an international beer garden wood-carving, a bandura demonstration and tions “Singular Vision: Ilona Sochynsky, Friday, October 5 Retrospective of Painting” and “Ukrainian with live music, vendors galore, games for chil- activities for the children, including a moon Kilims: Journey of a Heritage.” Admission: $10 NEW YORK: Calling all former patrons of The dren and a varenyky-eating contest for adults. bounce, games, face-painting and much more, for current members (includes one raffle tick- Orchidia! Come to the book launch and signing Tours of the new church will be available. A as well as live music throughout the event by et); $30 for non-members. Become a member of Alexander Motyl’s latest novella, “My “zabava” (dance) begins at 8 p.m.; free admis- the Cheremosh Band. The fest will be held at that evening ($40) and get free admission plus Orchidia,” a story featuring the once-famous sion for all under age 21, $5 for those over 21. 700 Cedar Road in Jenkintown from 11 a.m. to two raffle tickets. Wine and light hors Ukrainian-Italian restaurant in Manhattan’s East All proceeds benefit the Ukrainian American 6 p.m. followed by a “zabava” (dance) in the d’oeuvres will be served. This event is spon- Village. A Friday night hangout, a favorite meet- Cultural Center of New Jersey. For more infor- main hall. For more information call 215-663- sored by Ukrainian National Women’s League ing place on Saturday nights, and an “Orchidia mation call 908-759-1771 or 201-317-8518 1166 or visit www.ukifest.com. pizza” with family and friends on Sunday made of America Branch 99 of Watervliet, N.Y. The Sunday, October 14 Ukrainian Museum is located at 222 E. Sixth “Orchie’s” a weekend haven for decades. Join us JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass.: An auction of St., New York, NY 10003; telephone, 212-228- beginning at 7 p.m. to help recreate the magic of Ukrainian paintings and art objects from the ALEXANDRIA, Va.: The Washington Group 0110; www.facebook.com/UkrainianMuseum. those halcyon days. Admission (includes recep- collection of Irena and Ihor Kowal for the ben- Cultural Fund Sunday Music Series inaugu- tion): $15; $10 for members and seniors; $5 efit of the Ukrainian Catholic University will rates its 2012-2013 season with a recital by Saturday, September 29 for students. Tickets may be purchased online take place under the sponsorship of the Zino Bogachek, violinist with the Washington NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society at www.ukrainianmuseum.org or at the door. Greater Boston Chapter of Friends of UCU. It National Opera, violinist Igor Veligan and pia- invites all to a conference commemorating the The Ukrainian Museum is located at 222 E. will be held at 7 p.m. in the Parish House of nist Natsuki Fukasawa, performing: Wolfgang 65th anniversary of the establishment of the Sixth St.; telephone, 212-228-0110. Christ the King Church, 146 Forest Hills St., Amadeus Mozart, Sonata for violin and piano Jamaica Plain, Mass. Admission of $20 KV379; Arthur Mykytka, Divertimento for two Shevchenko Scientific Society in America. Saturday, October 6 Participants include current and past presi- includes refreshments and a short film on the violins; Myroslav Skoryk, Sonata for violin and dents of the society: George G. Grabowicz, WHIPPANY, N.J.: The Ukrainian American progress of the university being built in Lviv. piano No. 2; Bohuslav Martinu, Sonatina for Larissa Onyshkevych, Orest Popovych and Cultural Center of New Jersey hosts its third For further information contact two violins and piano. The concert will be held Leonid Rudnytzky. The Shevchenko Scientific annual Ukrainian Festival at 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m. [email protected]. at 3 p.m. at The Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St. Society in America was founded on September on its grounds at 60 N. Jefferson Road, Suggested donation $20; students, free admis- 29, 1947. The conference will take place at the Whippany, NJ 07981. Admission is free. The JENKINTOWN, Pa.: The Ukrainian Educational sion. For further information call 301-229- society’s building, 63 Fourth Ave, (between festival includes two stage shows (12:30 p.m. and Cultural Center is sponsoring an outdoor 2615. Ninth and 10th streets), at 5 p.m. For additional information call 212-254-5130. Sunday, September 30 PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES NEW YORK: Join us at 2 p.m. for an informa- Preview of Events is a listing of community events open to the public. It is a service provided at minimal cost ($20 per listing) by The tive lecture about kilims, tapestries and weav- Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. ing by Lubow Wolynetz, curator of the current Items should be no more than 100 words long; longer submissions are subject to editing. Items not written in Preview format or exhibition “Ukrainian Kilims: Journey of a submitted without all required information will not be published. Heritage,” followed by a demonstration in weaving techniques by expert weaver Vera Preview items must be received no later than one week before the desired date of publication. No information will be taken over the phone. Nakonechny. The event kicks off the museum’s Items will be published only once, unless otherwise indicated. Please include payment for each time the item is to appear and indicate new four-week course, “Introduction to date(s) of issue(s) in which the item is to be published. Also, senders are asked to include the phone number of a person who may be Tapestry Weaving.” Check out “Education” on contacted by The Weekly during daytime hours, as well as their complete mailing address. the museum’s website, www.ukrainianmuse- Information should be sent to: [email protected] or Preview of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, um.org, for information about workshops and Parsippany, NJ 07054; fax, 973-644-9510. NB: If e-mailing, please do not send items as attachments; simply type the text into the courses. Admission to the lecture/demo (with body of the e-mail message.