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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIII HE No.KRAINIAN 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine U.S. lifts sanctions Yushchenko sacks Tymoshenko and Cabinet of Ministers T U by Zenon Zawada “IW am convinced the moment has arrived when my col- on Ukraine’s exports Press Bureau leagues have lost their team spirit and faith,” Mr. Yushchenko by Andrew Nynka said. “This is painful because these people are still my KYIV – In an unprecedented move by a Ukrainian presi- friends.” PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The United States dent, sacked his entire Cabinet of By firing his government, Mr. Yushchenko has swept out of has lifted a $75 million sanction on Ministers and top government officials, including arch rivals office all those who most supported him during the Ukrainian exports, the Office of the U.S. Prime Minister and National Security and Revolution. Trade Representative announced on August Defense Council Secretary . Political experts hailed Mr. Yushchenko’s bold decision to 31. The move is the result of legislation Mr. Yushchenko announced the firings on September 8 just clear the Cabinet of its irreconcilable squabbles, but also passed recently by Ukraine that improves as high-ranking officials, first among them presidential chief expressed deep concern about the president’s desire to carry the protection of intellectual property rights of staff Oleksander Zinchenko, submitted resignations while out reforms and continue the spirit of the . and has been billed as a boon to President citing widespread corruption in his government. He said he As Ms. Tymoshenko’s replacement, Mr. Yushchenko tapped Viktor Yushchenko’s government. made his decision because his appointees were failing to work On July 6 the passed a together and cooperate on behalf of the Ukrainian people. (Continued on page 4) law that made the piracy of intellectual property illegal. The new law, which went into force on August 2, is meant to strength- en Ukraine’s licensing regime and enforce- ment efforts to stem the illegal production and trade of compact discs and DVDs. Reaction from the United States to pas- sage of Ukraine’s new law protecting intel- lectual property came quickly. “I commend Ukrainian President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko for their personal involvement in securing passage of these amendments, which is expected to improve Ukraine’s protection of intellectual property rights,” said U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman on August 31. In a statement released the same day, Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry praised Oleksander Zinchenko Petro Poroshenko Yulia Tymoshenko Yurii Yekhanurov the lifting of the sanctions, which it said is proof that the country is moving closer toward joining the World Trade Organization. The move by the Office of the U.S. by Zenon Zawada years, university officials said. Trade Representative “recognized the Ukrainian Catholic University expands its campus in The campus’ other main structure, the nearby 59,200- Ukrainian government’s effort to safe- Kyiv Press Bureau square-foot Faculty of Theology and Philosophy building and guard intellectual property, to bring LVIV – Four years ago, Frenchman Didier Rance stood at a library, will open its doors in January 2006, said Dr. Jeffrey Ukrainian legislation in line with interna- 42-acre site in suburban Lviv with the Rev. Bohdan Prach, the Wills, UCU vice-rector. tional standards, and is a sign of Ukraine’s rector of what was called Lviv Seminary at the time. Several monastic orders, including the Studite Fathers and progress on the way toward completion of “There were mainly goats and grass,” said Mr. Rance, pres- the Redemptorist Fathers, will build places of study for their the talks on WTO entry,” the Foreign ident of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) in . “But he students during the next decade, he said. Affairs Ministry statement said. “It is a said in four years, we’ll have a seminary open here. It was a UCU Rector Father Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., said the grow- remarkable event on the eve of Ukrainian dream, of course.” ing university can become a leading European theological President Viktor Yushchenko’s visit to the On August 28, Mr. Rance revisited the former pasture with center. U.S.A.” 21 of his fellow countrymen to admire the dream of “There is enormous potential, with the closing of theologi- The move is seen widely as a first major and non-Ukrainians realized: the 123,785-square- cal faculties in Western Europe and with the old-fashioned step toward Ukraine’s membership in the foot Holy Spirit Seminary and Church of the Holy Spirit. approach to academic theology to the east and to the north of World Trade Organization. In addition, in “As a Frenchman, I can only be impressed by the growth of us, for Lviv to become a leading European theological center order to become a member of the WTO, the Church, the youth and the number of seminarians,” said during the next 10 years,” Father Gudziak said. Ukraine must shed its status as a Jackson- Jacques Ouvrier, 74, a retired aerospace employee who made The fall semester began on September 1, but the academy’s Vanik country, a status that the U.S. significant financial donations to the construction. approximately 260 seminarians won’t be able to live in the Congress had placed on the Mr. Ouvrier was among more than 1,000 Christians and 14 new seminary until government inspectors give approval, Dr. for its failure to allow citizens to emigrate Ukrainian Catholic bishops who worshipped at a divine litur- Prach said. freely. gy, led by Archbishop Major of Kyiv-Halych , Ever since the Theological Academy was reopened in In December 2001 the U.S. imposed to bless the seminary and consecrate the church. 1990, seminarians had been living in derelict, cramped build- sanctions on $75 million worth of metals, “There will come a time when we will have all the neces- ings in Rudno, a village on Lviv’s outskirts. footwear and other goods from Ukraine in sary space and structures, and we will have everything to lead To mark the completion of the new center, Catholics led a pro- retaliation for the continued violation of a church life,” Cardinal Husar said in his sermon. “But the cession on August 27 from the old seminary building on intellectual property, most notably of most important thing is that we never try to do anything with- Kopernik (Copernicus) Street to the Khutorivka Street campus. music compact discs and optical media out holy God.” They prayed at both locations. products. The Holy Spirit Seminary and Church of the Holy Spirit At the time, U.S. officials contended that form the architectural and social focal point of the Ukrainian The new accommodations Ukraine was the largest producer and Catholic University’s (UCU) ever-expanding Center of The two-story Holy Spirit Seminary has the shape of a exporter of pirated media in Europe. Theological Education and Formation campus on Khutorivka closed half-circle, forming a large central courtyard where the Ukrainian piracy of intellectual property Street. five-domed Church of the Holy Spirit can accommodate copyrights is believed to have cost the U.S. The center is a milestone in Ukraine’s higher educational about 200 worshippers. recording industry more than $200 million system, making the UCU the largest theological institution of All the center’s buildings have a façade of white plaster annually in lost revenue, U.S. trade offi- higher education in the country. The center was western cials said. Ukraine’s largest construction project during the last four (Continued on page 8) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 No. 37

ANALYSIS Polls: Yushchenko government NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Ukraine to help hurricane victims Internal Affairs Ministry.” Meanwhile, Mykola Martynenko said later the same is gradually losing popularity KYIV – The Cabinet of Ministers of day that he will sue Mr. Zinchenko for Ukraine has adopted a resolution to allo- “mendacious and deliberately discrediting” by Jan Maksymiuk weekly in its August 24-September 2 cate 1 million hrv ($200,000 U.S.) as relief allegations. (RFE/RL Newsline) RFE/RL Newsline issue, the Razumkov Center found in for the areas in the United States affected August that for the first time since the by hurricane Katrina. The money will be President convenes security meeting A survey by the Razumkov Center Orange Revolution more Ukrainians think used to buy medicines and other necessi- KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko polling agency conducted on August 5- that things in the country are going in the ties. Humanitarian relief cargoes are to be chaired an eight-hour meeting of the 12 confirmed what was signaled earlier wrong direction rather than the right one: delivered to the United States by super- National Security and Defense Council by other Ukrainian pollsters – namely, 43 percent versus 33 percent. In April the heavy Ruslan transport planes. (Ukrinform) (NSDC) in Kyiv on September 6, that the new government of President analogous indicators in a similar poll were Zinchenko resigns in protest Ukrainian media reported. The meeting, Viktor Yushchenko is gradually losing its fairly upbeat: 23 percent versus 54 percent. attended by high-ranking state officials, popularity, following its installation in Moreover, the number of respondents KYIV – Oleksander Zinchenko, the followed the resignation of Oleksander February on a nationwide wave of enthu- who think that the country’s economic siasm incited by the November- Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, stepped Zinchenko, chief of the presidential staff, situation under the Yushchenko govern- December 2004 Orange Revolution. down on September 2, Ukrainian media who on September 5 accused several offi- ment has deteriorated is more than double In an April poll, the Razumkov Center reported. Mr. Zinchenko held a news con- cials in the president’s inner circle of cor- the number who think that it has found that 52 percent of Ukrainians ference in Kyiv on September 5 at which ruption. Presidential spokeswoman Iryna improved – 41.5 percent versus 20.5 per- thought that the new authorities were he explained that his move was caused by Heraschenko told journalists after the cent (19 percent versus 27 percent in better than the old ones; in August this increasing corruption in the president’s meeting that “there is no crisis among the April). Ukrainians’ confidence in the indicator fell to 37 percent. inner circle. “Having organized an infor- authorities.” She was quoted by Inter TV future has also shrunk considerably. A It appears that, apart from any other mation blockade around the president, hav- as saying: “The important, frank, and mere 12 percent of respondents now think consequences, such a public mood prima- ing taken him to a virtual, unreal world, tough conversation centered on the need to that prospects for the future improved, rily indicates that the probability of any cynically distorting the reality and true optimize the work of all branches of power versus 48 percent of those who believe radical socio-economic reforms being accents of life, [these people] are step-by- and also the need to consolidate the action that they have worsened (in April the pro- launched by President Yushchenko prior to step carrying out their plan to maximally of the team in power.” Meanwhile, NSDC portion was 32 percent to 26 percent). the parliamentary elections due at the end use government posts in order to increase Secretary Petro Poroshenko, one of the On the positive side, Ukrainians in of March 2006 is virtually nil. The govern- their own capital, to privatize and get their officials accused by Mr. Zinchenko of cor- hands on everything they can,” an RFE/RL ment will almost certainly focus on short- August still tended to believe that the ruption, told journalists on September 6 correspondent quoted Mr. Zinchenko as term measures, both economic and propa- level of democracy and media freedom that he has requested that law-enforcement saying. “Their goal is a monopoly on key gandistic, to keep the electorate from turn- under Mr. Yushchenko’s rule had bodies investigate Mr. Zinchenko’s allega- government functions. I will name some of ing against the new authorities completely, increased rather than decreased – 38 per- tions. (RFE/RL Newsline) them: Security Council Secretary [Petro] rather than make any reformist steps that cent versus 20 percent and 46.5 percent Poroshenko, senior presidential aide would require everyday austerities. versus 14.5 percent, respectively. Putin: forcing reform could lead to chaos [Oleksander] Tretiakov, and some of their As reported by the Zerkalo Nedeli The Razumkov Center confirmed that the popularity of the ruling parties also is slid- aides, including [Our Ukraine parliamen- MOSCOW – During a meeting at the ing. In August six political parties were tary caucus head Mykola] Martynenko.” Kremlin on September 5 with Western aca- Jan Maksymiuk is the Belarus and potentially able to overcome the 3 percent (RFE/RL Newsline) demics and journalists, President Vladimir Ukraine specialist on the staff of RFE/RL Putin warned that forcing democratic Newsline. (Continued on page 20) Poroshenko denies accusations reforms in post-Soviet states could plunge them into chaos, The Times reported the KYIV – Speaking immediately after next day. “Our foreign partners may be Oleksander Zinchenko at the same news making a mistake,” Mr. Putin said. “We are Death notices serve conference in Kyiv, National Security and not against any changes in the former Defense Council Secretary Petro Soviet Union. We are afraid only that those to revive moribund CIS Poroshenko denied the corruption allega- changes will be chaotic. Otherwise there tions voiced by the former, an RFE/RL cor- will be banana republics where he who by Liz Fuller CIS member-states (Armenia, respondent reported. “I would like to shouts loudest wins.” Mr. Putin was particu- RFE/RL Newsline Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, , emphasize that Petro Poroshenko is an larly critical of Ukrainian President Viktor Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) signed the absolutely self-sufficient person and that he Yushchenko, accusing his government of Meeting in the wilds of Belarus on CIS Collective Security Treaty, pledging has never clung onto a [government] post corruption. The United States and the December 8, 1991, the presidents of to intervene collectively to counter an and never will,” Mr. Poroshenko said. “He European Union supported Mr. Russia, Ukraine and Belarus announced attack on any one of them; a CIS armed has not become one kopiyka or one share Yushchenko, who won power following the creation of a new Commonwealth of forces general staff continued to exist richer since he became a government offi- Ukraine’s Orange Revolution in November- Independent States (CIS) on the ruins of until mid-1993. cial, and he will leave office in the same December. “No one wanted to listen to us – the crumbling USSR. Two weeks later, But, from the outset, the CIS was split way. I emphasize now that the Security and and we have to be listened to,” the Russian on December 21, 1991, the presidents of into two factions, the first of which Defense Council secretary has no influence president said. (RFE/RL Newsline) 11 former Soviet republics (Armenia, (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, either on the Procurator’s Office, or on the Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) was Security Service of Ukraine, or on the (Continued on page 15) Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, markedly more committed than the others , Ukraine and Uzbekistan) (Azerbaijan, , Moldova, met in Almaty and signed a protocol to Turkmenistan and Ukraine). Azerbaijan quit FOUNDED 1933 that declaration affirming their countries’ the CIS in 1992 following the advent to membership in the CIS. power of the Azerbaijan Popular Front, but HE KRAINIAN EEKLY The ink was barely dry on those signa- rejoined in late 1993 after the front’s leader- TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. tures when skeptics began questioning how ship was ousted. 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Mr. Zinchenko politically unaffiliated businessmen and It was no secret that the alliance that September 9). When Mr. Zinchenko accused all three of corrupt dealings and is the most influential group within the brought Viktor Yushchenko to power in began to cooperate with Pora leader claimed that they had ignored Mr. Our Ukraine bloc. Ms. Tymoshenko, like Ukraine had its disagreements. The Vladyslav Kaskiv to improve the effec- Yushchenko’s election promise to sepa- Mr. Zinchenko, has described Messrs. alliance, forged in the second round of tiveness of the presidential secretariat, rate business from politics. As evidence, Martynenko and Zhvania as oligarchs the 2004 presidential elections, consisted Mr. Poroshenko claimed that Mr. Mr. Zinchenko cited Mr. Tretiakov’s and believes them to be corrupt. of an eclectic group that ranged from Zinchenko intended to head the Pora revival of corrupt Kuchma-era practices The 2005 annual list of the 100 socialists through liberal businessmen, political party for the 2006 parliamentary in the energy and telecommunications wealthiest people in Central and Eastern moderate conservatives, and populists. elections (Ukrayinska Pravda, September The main axis has always run between sectors. Mr. Tretiakov is also disliked for Europe, compiled by the Polish journal 2; .org.ua). National Security and Defense Council limiting access to President Yushchenko. Wprost, includes seven Ukrainian busi- Justice Minister had (NSDC) Secretary Petro Poroshenko and Mr. Martynenko is a wealthy business- nessmen. Besides six oligarchs, the list blocked Pora’s attempts to create a politi- Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The man from (EDM, June also includes Mr. Poroshenko, who ranks two camps mainly disagreed on the cal party, but the courts ruled that the 22). When Mr. Kuchma was president, 95th with an estimated fortune of $350 direction of reform, pitting Mr. ministry should register the Pora party Mr. Martynenko controlled the Interport- million. Poroshenko’s market economic views and backdate the registration to before Kovel Free Economic Zone (FEZ) in the Continued association with question- against Ms. Tymoshenko’s state-capitalist March 2005 so that it could contest the Volyn Oblast. Before Mr. Yushchenko able businessmen such as Mr. orientation (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, 2006 election. shut them down, the zones could import Poroshenko could ultimately spell the July 13). This division has now been Mr. Zvarych is a close ally of Mr. lucrative goods such as cigarettes, alco- end of the Mr. Yushchenko coalition. A eclipsed by one that is potentially more Poroshenko, who actively defended Mr. hol, coffee and meat duty-free. Razumkov Center poll found that the damaging to President Yushchenko, par- Zvarych during the scandal surrounding Mr. Martynenko has a cozy deal with number of Ukrainians who believed that ticularly as he prepares to visit the United the minister’s fraudulent academic cre- Minister for Emergency Situations business was being truly separated from States to attend the annual opening ses- dentials (see EDM, May 4). Mr. Davyd Zhvania for supplying nuclear politics had declined from 51 percent in sion of the United Nations General Zinchenko loudly criticized Mr. fuel, a sector as corrupt as any in the April to 34 percent in August (Dzerkalo Assembly. Poroshenko’s behind-the-scenes maneu- energy field. Mr. Martynenko also heads Tyzhnia/Zerkalo Nedeli, August 27). On September 5, Oleksander vering and accused Mr. Poroshenko of the parliamentary Committee on Fuel If this trend is permitted to continue Zinchenko held a devastating press con- turning the NSDC into an “all-strong and Energy, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear due to President Yushchenko’s inaction, ference after tendering his resignation as powerful new NKVD” (Ukrayinska Security. then the Ukrainian public could come to head of the Presidential Secretariat (The Pravda, September 5). Messrs. Martynenko and Zhvania see him as little different from those in Times, September 5 and 6). Prior to his resignation Mr. Zinchenko backed Our Ukraine in the 2002 parlia- power during the Kuchma era. Mr. Zinchenko had been an important had called upon President Yushchenko to member of the Yushchenko team. Until “halt Poroshenko.” During his press con- 2003 he was a senior figure in the pro- ference Mr. Zinchenko demanded Mr. Social Democratic Party Poroshenko’s resignation and accused Ukraine’s first lady profiled – United (SDPU) headed by Viktor him of turning the NSDC into a conduit Medvedchuk. Mr. Zinchenko was also to promote cadres loyal to himself. Mr. first vice-chairman of the Verkhovna Zinchenko also alleged that Mr. in Harper’s Bazaar magazine Rada. Then he defected to Mr. Poroshenko sought to control the judici- PARSIPPANY, N.J. – First Lady follows. It covers such topics as the poi- Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine after the ary and Procurator’s Office. In fact, is profiled in the soning of her husband, her move to SDPU was implicated in violent election Ukrainian media have dubbed Deputy September issue of Harper’s Bazaar, the Ukraine, the differences between fraud in the Mukachiv mayoral elections Prosecutor Viktor Shokin as “Poro- magazine’s fall fashion issue. Ukrainians and Americans, her feelings (see EDM, May 6). In a clever strategic Shokin.” Mrs. Yushchenko was “profiled and about American traditions, how she rais- move, Mr. Yushchenko appointed Mr. Second, sources close to Mr. dressed” by Tatiana Sorokko, who is iden- es her children, what a typical day is like Zinchenko as the head of his presidential Zinchenko have told the Jamestown tified as a contributor to the magazine. for the first lady of Ukraine and, how she campaign. Foundation that a key factor propelling Headlined “Born in the U.S.A.: The prepares “beauty- and fashion-wise” for Mr. Zinchenko used his press confer- Mr. Zinchenko into action was the fear First Lady of Ukraine,” the article fea- state events. ence to accuse key members of the that Mr. Poroshenko and his allies would tures an introduction telling readers about The concluding question asks Mrs. Yushchenko alliance, including Mr. attempt to remove Prime Minister Mrs. Yushchenko’s Ukrainian American Yushchenko what she thinks her hus- Poroshenko, of corruption Tymoshenko. Mr. Poroshenko is known background and the Orange Revolution band’s legacy will be. Her answer: “That (5tv.com.ua/video/143/0/793; Ukrayinska to covet the prime minister’s job and was that brought her husband, Viktor he taught the people that they could stand Pravda, September 5). Two factors visibly unhappy at being denied this Yushchenko, into office. up for their rights, which they did, and to explain Mr. Zinchenko’s broadside. position in the new government. Mr. “Mr. Yushchenko’s political and per- have hope for their future. You could say First, the Presidential Secretariat has Zinchenko apparently feared that remov- sonal struggles have raised the profile of it took 1,000 years for this to happen.” ing Ms. Tymoshenko would badly split Ukraine in all venues, even fashion: This Mrs. Yushchenko appears in photos Dr. Taras Kuzio is visiting professor at the Yushchenko camp and decided to act season, announced taken at the family’s country home out- the Elliot School of International Affairs, (Ukrayinska Pravda, September 5). that his couture line was inspired by side Kyiv; in the lead photo she is seen George Washington University. The article Besides Mr. Poroshenko, Mr. Ukraine, and Mrs. Yushchenko was a wearing a blouse ($340) above, which originally appeared in The Zinchenko also targeted Yushchenko guest of honor at his show. Indisputably, and a flowing long skirt by Carolina Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily adviser Oleksander Tretiakov and the at 44, Kateryna Yushchenko is hitting her Herrera ($4,290). She is also seen in pho- Monitor, is reprinted here with permission head of the Our Ukraine parliamentary stride and helping her husband rewrite tos with her daughters, with Mr. Gaultier, from the foundation (www.jamestown.org). faction, Mykola Martynenko. All three he history,” Ms. Sorokko writes. and next to her husband with President An interview with Mrs. Yushchenko George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. Ukraine’s Central Election Commission and OSCE sign plan of cooperation Yulia Tymoshenko comments Organization for Security and Cooperation Ukrainian election process more fair and on her noteworthy wardrobe in Europe transparent,” said Yaroslav Davydovych, by Yana Sedova her to buy fashionable clothes, including chairman of the CEC, which is the state Kyiv Press Bureau expensive designer goods by Louis KYIV – The Ukrainian Central body responsible for conducting elections. Vuitton. Election Commission (CEC) on OSCE Project Coordinator Ambassador KYIV – The private lives of Ukrainian “Until 1997 I was in charge of one of September 8 signed a plan of cooperation James Schumaker said, “This plan shows political figures are still among the top the most powerful private enterprises in with the OSCE project coordinator in the willingness of Ukraine to comply with news in Ukraine. Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine,” Ms. Tymoshenko said at an Ukraine during a joint press conference their OSCE commitments and to promptly who until September 8 was prime minis- August 18 press conference. “Certainly, at CEC headquarters. follow up on ODIHR’s recommendations. ter, has recently had several rhetorical my family has savings. I can afford a The agreement regulates how the organ- The OSCE project coordinator stands duels with muckraking journalists who dress at least.” izations will cooperate in their joint effort willing to assist the Central Election kept trying to find out how she is able to Ms. Tymoshenko stressed that she has to further improve the Ukrainian election Commission in doing so.” afford her legendary wardrobe. published her 2004 personal income process. It covers areas such as assistance In supporting the Ukrainian govern- Ms. Tymoshenko, in turn, remains statement, but refused to explain why the to voters with special needs, updating the ment through projects undertaken within remarkably calm and faces the music savings were not included in a column system of voter lists, educating subjects of OSCE competencies, the project coordi- with impressive tact. marked “bank account.” the elections process and raising the legal nator supports the election process in a “I have been working for many years,” However, Ms. Tymoshenko supported awareness of voters on election issues. non- and objective manner. Ms. Tymoshenko said. “I can assure you Ukrainian journalists in their investiga- “The OSCE has proved to be a reliable Separately, the Office for Democratic that my life is well-to-do on an absolute- tions. “If the only thing you can criticize partner for Ukraine in the sphere of elec- Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) ly legal basis.” the prime minister for is dresses, it means tions during past years. I greatly appreciate is the institution responsible for election In addition to her prime minister’s that our new authority isn’t so bad,” Ms. and value our cooperation in making the observation within the OSCE. salary, she said she has savings that allow Tymoshenko quipped. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 No. 37

mise. However, sometimes he has to be a crisis in the government, which Mr. concern over the future of political Yushchenko sacks... more decisive,” Mr. Lytvynenko added. Yushchenko spent three days trying to reform is rooted in Mr. Yushchenko’s (Continued from page 1) “I would have never imagined it would resolve. selection of Mr. Yekhanurov, the current Yurii Yekhanurov, a participant in the have gotten this bad this quickly,” said A deal had been reached in which Mr. chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Orange Revolution who had worked Ivan Lozowy, president of the Kyiv-based Poroshenko and several other officials State Administration. closely with former President Leonid Institute of Statehood and Democracy, would resign, said Iryna Heraschenko, A member of the Our Ukraine coali- Kuchma and . He which is exclusively financed by the president’s spokeswoman. tion and a supporter of the Orange Ukrainian business donations. Revolution, Mr. Yekhanurov has exten- asked Mr. Yekhanurov to help form a new Tomenko follows Zinchenko government team. Mr. Yushchenko had spent the prior sive experience working not only with three days trying to resolve the conflict However, Vice Prime Minister for Mr. Yushchenko, but also his predeces- The only way out? that had erupted when Mr. Zinchenko, Humanitarian Affairs ’s sors Mr. Kuchma and . One Kyiv-based analyst said sacking the president’s chief of staff, submitted decision to call a September 8 press con- The selection of Mr. Yekhanurov is the prime minister was probably the pres- his resignation on September 3. ference to support Mr. Zinchenko’s alle- disturbing and threatens the reforms ident’s only way out of a bad situation. Two days later, Mr. Zinchenko gations of corruption in the government promised on the maidan during the “He is attractive with or without accused Mr. Poroshenko, senior presi- broke any deal and forced Mr. Orange Revolution, Mr. Lozowy said. Tymoshenko. This situation negatively dential aide Oleksander Tretiakov and Yushchenko to fire the whole govern- “No question, this is a negation of affected his personal rating in the sense Our Ukraine parliamentary faction leader ment, she said. what the revolution was about,” Mr. that there was a government in crisis giv- Mykola Martynenko of using their posi- It’s unlikely Mr. Tomenko would have Lozowy said. “Yushchenko got rid of a ing the impression that the president is tions of power to advance their business called the press conference without Ms. key person against the former Kuchma not in control. Of course, that calls for a interests. Tymoshenko’s agreement, political crowd, Yulia Tymoshenko. Yekhanurov, negative standing. If hirings occur quick- “A small group of political oppor- experts said. (Roman) Bezsmertnyi and (Yevhen) ly, with professionals who have minimal tunists is trying to use the efforts of hun- Ms. Tymoshenko declined any com- Chervonenko – none of these people left business ties, that will resolve the situa- dreds of patriots of Ukraine for their pri- ment on her dismissal, but Ukrinform the Kuchma team with even a pretense of tion and the president’s rating will suffer vate interests,” Mr. Zinchenko said. reported that she was expected to meet being dissatisfied with what the Kuchma minimally,” said Oleksander Lytvynenko, “They are exercising their power in order with the press on Friday, September 9. regime was doing.” a political expert at the Razumkov Center to privatize and lay hands on everything Her close ally, Oleksander Turchynov When Mr. Yushchenko served as for Economic and Political Research. possible.” announced on September 8 that he was Ukraine’s prime minister under President “In this situation, the president had no On September 7 Mr. Yushchenko resigning as head of the Security Service Kuchma, Mr. Yekhanurov served as his other choice. With public accusations of named his longtime trusted adviser Oleh of Ukraine because he believes the presi- first vice prime minister from December people close to him involved in corrup- Rybachuk as Mr. Zinchenko’s replace- dent’s move “threatens national security.” 1999 to May 2001. tion, the president had to do this to deflect ment. Prior to becoming chief of staff, Mr. Poroshenko said his opinions were When he was voted out of the posi- accusations. The president’s circle has Mr. Rybachuk was vice prime minister consistent with those of Mr. Yushchenko. tion, Mr. Yekhanurov became the first become odious in Ukraine. To the very for . Mr. Tomenko, who announced his res- assistant to Viktor Medvedchuk, who end, the president tried to find a compro- Mr. Zinchenko’s accusations provoked ignation, said two separate governments chaired the presidential administration at had existed and clashed under the the time. During the Kuchma presidency Yushchenko administration. Mr. he also served as head of the State Poroshenko led the oligarchic interests, Property Fund in 1994-1997. In 1997 he Tickets available for medal ceremony while Ms. Tymoshenko represented the served as Ukraine’s minister of the econ- lawful political interests, he explained. omy for five months. “To a large extent, ‘Kuchmism’ has “I see this as a victory for the honoring Yushchenko in Philadelphia returned to Bankova Street,” he said. Kuchmites,” Mr. Lozowy said. Mr. Tomenko also criticized Mr. by Ulana Mazurkevich and the accompanying $100,000 will be “Yekhanurov coming in means Ukraine Yushchenko for lack of communication presented to President Yushchenko at 2 p.m. is going to dampen down reforms and in his government. He said any attempt PHILADELPHIA – Tickets to the out- on the mall of the National Constitution getting rid of corruption. Relations with to communicate with the president had to door ceremony on Saturday, September Center. The Constitution Center is located Russia will revert to the old form.” be approved by Mr. Tretiakov. 17, during which President Victor on Arch street between Fifth and Sixth Mr. Yekhanurov, 57, was born in the Foreign Affairs Minister Borys Yushchenko will receive the prestigious streets. The hourlong medal presentation Yakutsk region of Russia, and studied in Tarasyuk said that because of Mr. Philadelphia Liberty Medal are free and ceremony will be broadcast live on the local Kyiv during the 1960s. Tretiakov’s interference he was not able may be ordered directly from the ABC affiliate. As oblast administrator, this year Mr. to communicate with Mr. Yushchenko for National Constitution Center. Tickets There is parking in the lot underneath Yekhanurov changed a Dnipropetrovsk three months. may be picked up the day of the event. Independence Mall between Fifth and street name to Kateryna Street in honor Many organizations and churches are Sixth and Race and Market streets. There Poroshenko resigns of Catherine II, the tsarina who destroyed organizing buses to the award presentation is additional parking at Third and Race the Zaporozhian Sich, Mr. Lozowy said. ceremony. Tickets for those arriving on streets. For security reasons the lot Shortly after Mr. Tomenko’s resigna- As head of the State Property Fund in buses have to be ordered in advance. directly under the National Constitution tion, Mr. Poroshenko became the third the mid-1990s, Mr. Yekhanurov led what Representatives of the National Constitution Center will be closed. top-level official in the government to was then a feeding trough of corruption Center will meet the buses and will distrib- After the awards ceremony, at about resign, announcing that he was resigning and exploitation, he noted. ute the tickets to bus leaders. 3:45 p.m. President and Mrs. Yushchenko in order not to obstruct an official inves- “It’s sad. Mr. Yushchenko made a bold To reserve tickets readers may call will depart for the Immaculate tigation into the corruption charges lev- move, but he’s gone back to his old form, Melissa at the National Constitution Center Conception Cathedral, the largest eled by Mr. Zinchenko. which is relying on people he knows per- at (215) 409-6695. All ticket-holders will Ukrainian church in the U.S. with a seat- Later in the day, Mr. Tomenko and sonally,” Mr. Lozowy said. have to pass through security; security other Cabinet ministers speculated that a ing capacity of 2,000. The cathedral is President haggles with Cabinet check-in will start at 12:30 p.m. People located only a mile from the National majority of those fired would return to without tickets will be in the unrestricted Constitution Center. At the cathedral, their posts. During his press conference, which area on the mall and will be able to view the President Yushchenko will attend a meet- That’s a likely possibility, but unfortu- was limited to television reporters, awards ceremony on large outdoor screens. ing with Ukrainian youth and the nately the majority of those returning President Yushchenko said he never Among the prior recipients of the Liberty Ukrainian community of Philadelphia. will likely be from the oligarch camp, Mr. Lozowy commented. He said his (Continued on page 16) Medal are Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, At 7 p.m. that day a black-tie banquet Lech Walesa and Hamid Karzai. The medal will be held at the National Constitution Center. The gala starts with a coctail Ulana Mazurkevich is president of the reception at 6-7 p.m. The cost of tickets Quotable notes Philadelphia-based Ukrainian Community to the banquet is $250 per person. For to Welcome President Yushchenko. tickets readers may call (215) 858-3006. “While many Ukrainians look at the current move of the Ukrainian Greek- Catholic Church headquarters from Lviv to Kyiv with either sympathy or indif- ference, some religious activists of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate doubtless perceive the move as an emblematic setback for Orthodoxy in its struggle to ward off the expansion of Catholicism. ‘The Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate will consider this [move] as a UUARCPHILADELPHIA fund – The to United helpNonetheless, hurricane the Embassy victims of Ukraine great symbolic failure,’ Ukrainian political analyst Viktor Nebozhenko comment- Ukrainian American Relief Committee continues to receive inquiries from fami- ed. ‘And some political forces will of course use Lubomyr Husar’s move to Kyiv (UUARC) has announced that it is con- lies and friends of Ukrainian residents of as a pretext for exacerbating interdenominational relations in Ukraine.’ ducting a fund-drive to help the countless New Orleans who have not been heard “Regrettably, Mr. Nebozhenko may be right. The protest nearby the unfin- victims of hurricane Katrina, which dev- from, and is attempting to locate them. ished Resurrection of Christ Greek-Catholic Cathedral in Kyiv on August 21 was astated New Orleans and other cities near The UUARC is appealing to attended by representatives of extreme leftist and pro-Russian forces, including the Gulf coast. to send financial the Progressive Socialist Party of Natalya Vitrenko and the radical Brotherhood The horror that overwhelmed the lives help for all those who are suffering the association led by Dmytro Korchynskyi. These forces, which failed to win par- of the residents of New Orleans and aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Please liamentary representation in 2002, will in all probability use the religious factor vicinity also touched Ukrainians living in send checks or money orders to: UUARC – the dissatisfaction of a significant part of Orthodox Ukrainians with the Greek- the area, the UUARC noted. Luckily, New Orleans Fund, 1206 Cottman Ave., Catholic move – as an extra argument in their campaign for the 2006 parliamen- three Ukrainian students who were study- Philadelphia, PA 19111. tary elections.” ing in New Orleans, Oleksij Luhovyj, Credit card donations can be made on Nazar Trebot and Oleh Krutyj, managed line at www.uuarc.org. For further infor- – Jan Maksymiuk writing in the September 1 edition of RFE/RL Belarus, to evacuate in time, and are safely mation readers may contact the UUARC Ukraine and Moldova Report. ensconced in a hotel in Dallas, Texas. office at (215) 728-1630. No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 5

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM Delegation from Ukraine visits UNA’s Home Office, newspapers PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ukrainian civic leaders visited the Home Office of the Ukrainian National Association on August 9 to learn about the fraternal organization, as well as to see how the newspapers Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly operate. The visit was part of a broader weeklong Open World Program, which is managed by the independent Open World Leadership Center at the U.S. Library of Congress. The trip, which lasted from August 6 to 14, was hosted by the Cross Cultural International Institute (CCII) and its founder, Maryanne Oslen. The Open World Program provides youth leaders from the Eurasian region with an oppor- tunity to work with their counterparts in the United States to develop an understanding of the American approach to democracy and a free market economy. The visit was made possible by the National Peace Foundation. Pictured in the photo are (front row, from left): Sergiy Chumak, a member of the Ukrainian dele- gation and the chairman of the Poltava Regional Organization for Disabled Athletes; Dr. Marta Kokolskyj, an NGO representative of the Ukrainian World Congress at the United Nations; (back row, from left): Roma Lisovich, treasurer of the Ukrainian National Association; Brother Luke Gilchrist, an assis- tant with CCII; members of the Ukrainian delegation Dmytro Avdyeyev and Vladyslava Pyhova; Stefan Kaczaraj, UNA president; Irene Jarosewich, Svoboda editor-in-chief; members of the Ukrainian delegation Oleksandr Vasylovych and Anastasiya Bezverkha; Oksana Yakuha, an assistant with the Cross Cultural International Institute; and Mrs. Olsen. – Andrew Nynka

Life Insurance Awareness Month isWASHINGTON being –observed This month the life inMs. September Henner’s participation in Life insurance industry will come together for Insurance Awareness Month was secured by the second time to observe Life Insurance the LIFE Foundation. In addition to coordi- Awareness Month (LIAM). This is an nating the industry-wide Life Insurance opportunity for the industry to act collec- Awareness Month campaign, LIFE plans to tively to make sure that all Americans are spend millions of dollars in September edu- reminded of the importance of including cating consumers about the benefits of life life insurance in their financial plans. insurance and the importance of seeking The Life and Health Insurance advice from qualified insurance profession- Foundation for Education (LIFE) esti- als. LIFE’s publicity plans include print and mates that more than 60 million radio advertising, the annual eight-page Americans lack sufficient coverage. This realLIFEstories special section that will month insurance professionals are appear in the September 12 issue of encouraged to do something about the Newsweek, multi-page special sections in growing “crisis of underinsurance” by Time, Parents, Child and Ser Padres maga- talking to people in their communities zines, aggressive outreach to the news about their life insurance needs. This media, a series of public service announce- industry-wide effort is supported by many ments on radio, and the “LIFE Lessons” of the nation’s leading life insurance com- essay contest, a college scholarship program panies and fraternal benefit societies. in which students will describe the emotion- Together, life insurance organizations will al and financial impact of losing a parent at spend tens of millions of dollars in a young age. September in an effort to get people to More than 100 insurance companies and think about their life insurance needs. industry trade groups participated in the HAVE YOU HEARD? PURCHASE A PRE- Calling on a personal story to illustrate inaugural Life Insurance Awareness Month the importance of life insurance, actress campaign in September 2004. Companies PAID 20-YEAR ENDOWMENT POLICY and New York Times best-selling author supported last year’s campaign with a wide FROM THE UNA FOR $2,287.26* AND I Marilu Henner, star of the hit television range of marketing communications efforts, shows “Taxi” and “Evening Shade,” will including consumer advertising, direct mar- WILL RECEIVE A CHECK FOR $5,000** serve as spokesperson for the observance keting campaigns, Internet promotions, pro- of Life Insurance Awareness Month. ducer incentive programs, campaign sig- JUST IN TIME FOR MY COLLEGE EDUCA- nage in field offices, and new sales and Having lost her father to a heart attack marketing resources. Many companies also when she was only 17 years old, Ms. TION. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? used September as an opportunity to remind Henner knows first-hand the financial their own employees about the importance CALL THE UNA AT 1-800-253-9862 AND relief that life insurance provides. of having adequate life insurance coverage. “Marilu’s story is a wonderful exam- This year, LIFE expects even more life LET’S GET STARTED. ple of how life insurance protects a fami- insurance organizations to participate in ly from financial hardship, and we’re the campaign. Many companies already excited to have her anchoring our efforts have indicated that they will participate * FOR AGES 0 THROUGH 3 1/2 YEARS OLD to get Americans focused on their need in September. for coverage,” said David F. Woods, ** MINIMUM FACE AMOUNT OF $5,000 LIFE’s president. (Continued on page 16)

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FOR THE RECORD THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Channeling our energy Ukrainian Canadians no longer With relief, we note that the hot and humid days of summer this year are com- ing to a close. The heat has been especially draining this year; it has taken its “in fear of the barbed wire fence” toll, leaving many of us sapped of energy and weary. But, fall is in the air and Below is the text of a speech presented place not because of anything they had with cooler temperatures comes rejuvenation of mind and spirit. by Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk in Regina, done but only because of who they were, With cooler temperatures also come other reminders that summer is leaving and a Saskatchewan, on August 24. where they had come from. No wonder new season is beginning. Our summer interns here at The Ukrainian Weekly (thank that Ukrainian Canadians were reported you for all of your help, Roxolana [Woloshyn] and Danylo [Peleschuk]), as well as I stood the other day on Hill 70, just to still be “in fear of the barbed wire fence,” decades afterwards. the interns at our sister publication, Svoboda, have left us to return to their studies. beyond Vimy Ridge, looking down into One of the innocents apprehended dur- Meanwhile, a new school year has started (cue a collective drone from our the French town of Lens. There, 88 years ing Canada’s first national internment school kids), and with it comes a feeling of commencement – a feeling for all of ago, on August 22, 1917, the valor in bat- operations was Mary Manko, a 6-year- us that something new has started. tle of a Canadian soldier, Corporal Filip old -born girl who would be Fall is certainly a time of new beginnings. Many of our community’s activities Konowal, was recognized with the high- transported north by railway car to the begin in September: youth organizations’ meetings, dance lessons, sports seasons, est military decoration of the British Spirit Lake internment camp in Quebec’s etc. And many of our adult organizations refocus their efforts at this time, as peo- Empire, the Victoria Cross. Abitibi region, along with the rest of her ple return from summer vacations and prepare to face another year of work. Yet even as Konowal and thousands of family. There she would watch her 2 1/2- September is also a good time for us to gauge if we’ve done enough for our parish- other Ukrainian Canadians fought in the ranks of the Canadian Expeditionary year-old sister, Nellie, perish, needlessly. es, our non-profit organizations, our schools and our clubs. If we do feel we’ve done Mary is 97 years old now, the last enough with our time, we can instead ask other important questions. Namely, which Force, many thousands of their fellow Ukrainian Canadians, and other known survivor of the internment opera- organizations and charities should we support, which have truly done all they can with tions. While age and ill health keep her the resources they’ve been given, and which have not used their resources effectively? Europeans – people who had been lured to the Dominion with promises of free- from being with us today we must September is also an opportunity to ask ourselves: What more needs to be remember that it was Mary Manko done in the community? Are we, as a Ukrainian diaspora in North America, dom and free land – were being branded as “enemy aliens” and herded into Haskett who charged us, when she was happy with our accomplishments, or is there more we can do? still able, to never forget what was done But making a contribution to our community does not have to come in the form Canadian concentration camps. There they were forced to do heavy labor for to her and all the other internees. She did of money alone, though money is always needed. We can all make a variety of not ask for an apology, or compensation. different contributions that in the long term will provide a wonderful example for the profit of their gaolers. What little wealth some of them had was confiscat- She asked only that we secure their our children and others of what it means to strengthen the Ukrainian community. memory. For example, we can reach out to our local parish and tell the pastor there that ed, and a portion of it still remains in the federal treasury to this very day. They Last Sunday I stood at Essex Farm, we’re available to help. We can reach out to our Saturday schools and offer admin- where John McCrae penned “In Flanders suffered restrictions on their freedom of istrative help, work which can include something as simple as gathering, collating Fields”: “from failing hands we throw movement, association, and free speech, or photocopying materials. We can reach out to our youth organizations, many of the torch, be yours to hold it high. If ye and even, in 1917, disenfranchisement. which are always looking for volunteers, and offer to prepare an hourlong lecture break faith with us who die, We shall not Everything that was done to them took or run a half-day hike. There really are numerous ways we can all help. We’re con- sleep...” strained only by our own imaginations and our willingness to become involved. We did not break faith. A score of So, as fall approaches and we’re reinvigorated by the change of season, it Lubomyr Luciuk, Ph.D., is a professor years ago our community began to recov- would do us well to be reminded that a portion of our renewed enthusiasm and of political geography at the Royal er the memory of what it had endured – a energy this fall should be channeled toward our Ukrainian community life. Military College of Canada, in Kingston, “national humiliation,” as an editorial and serves as director of research for the writer described our disenfranchisement Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties in Canada’s oldest newspaper, Kingston’s Association. He is the author of “In Fear Daily British Whig – one that sooner or Sept. of the Barbed Wire Fence: Canada’s later would have to be atoned for. That First National Internment Operations time for atonement begins here, today, in Turning the pages back... and the Ukrainian Canadians, 1914- 17 1920” (Kashtan Press, 2001). (Continued on page 14) Our issue of September 17, 1989, carried news about the his- 1989 toric founding congress of the Popular Movement for Perebudova in Ukraine, or Rukh, whose formation had been stymied for a year and half under the regime of , leader of Prime minister’s remarks at signing the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR. Our editorial in that issue, excerpts of which fol- low, reflected on the importance of Rukh’s formal establishment. ofFollowing agreement is the text of remarks in deliv- principleThe impact ofon wartime redress measures and * * * ered on August 24 by Prime Minister Paul immigration restrictions on ethnic com- Martin at the signing of the agreement in munities in Canada and their families ... The mood was euphoric as, on the second day of the three-day founding confer- principle regarding redress for the nation- took a heavy human toll. ence [held September 8-10, 1989], Rukh was officially proclaimed a fait accompli. ... al internment operations of 1914-1920. But it took another kind of toll – on Outlining its principles and goals, the Rukh noted that it is “founded on the principles our ability to see the importance of diver- of humanism, democracy, glasnost, pluralism, social justice, internationalism” and that it I am pleased to be in Regina to sity and human rights protection in an “emanates from the interests of all citizens of the republic regardless of their nationality.” announce an agreement in principle with evolving Canada. Our vision of the future ... During the landmark conference, delegates and observers discussed myriad top- the Ukrainian Canadian community con- was blocked by misplaced fears and mis- ics: national minorities, human rights, repressed history, the fate of the Ukrainian vil- cerning wartime measures and immigra- guided policies. lage, spiritual sources of rebirth, social justice, the role of youth, Ukrainians in the This, sadly, was the experience of the gulag, and consolidation of Ukrainians worldwide. The result of these discussions is a tion restrictions imposed by the federal government in the past. Ukrainian Canadian community during the far-reaching and broad program ... that, in a nutshell, seeks to promote true perestroika, or first world war. In coping with the crisis perebudova in Ukrainian, in the Ukrainian SSR. This agreement is part of the Acknowledgement, Commemoration and overseas at the time, the federal govern- As well, the Rukh conference issued an appeal to all non-Ukrainians living in ment left unprotected certain ethnic groups Ukraine to squelch officially disseminated propaganda that seeks to discredit Rukh as Education Program set up by the govern- ment to help commemorate the historical who were, by any reckoning, Canadians. an organization that aims to promote “narrow nationalist interests” and “strictly They, like so many other immigrants, Ukrainian” issues. The appeal pointed to the common concerns of all residents of experiences of communities affected by such wartime measures and immigration had come to this country looking for a Ukraine, which today finds itself “on the borderline between life and death,” in condi- new life and new opportunity. But they tions described as “atomic Chornobyl, economic Chornobyl, spiritual Chornobyl.” restrictions and to educate Canadians about them. were treated in a manner which today we ... [Rukh] was meant to stand for sovereignty – political, economic, cultural – of see as inconsistent with and offensive to the Ukrainian SSR. Sovereignty such that, for example, the people of Ukraine – not It is also designed to highlight and commemorate the contributions that the values that underpin Canadian society the central authorities in Moscow – would be the ones who determine what to do with and our democratic way of life. the Chornobyl nuclear power plant; such that Ukraine itself would control its natural affected communities have made to Canadian society and to help build a bet- Ukrainian Canadians played an impor- resources; such that the and culture, alongside the languages and tant role in the settlement and growth of cultures of national minorities resident within Ukraine’s , could be freely ter understanding among all Canadians of the strength of Canada’s diversity. Canada’s West. Throughout that great developed and not dependent upon a diktat from Moscow. ... belt of Ukrainian settlement in Canada’s This is a significant step forward. Speaking at the Kyiv regional conference of Rukh, Ivan Drach explained why the West – stretching from Winnipeg and Through this agreement and program, we term “rukh” (movement) rather than “front” (as in the Baltic states, for example) had central Manitoba through Saskatchewan recognize that government actions of the been chosen in naming the fledgling group: “Rukh has an internal energy different to Edmonton and northern Alberta – they past, while legal at the time, are inconceiv- from that of a front. It has a different philosophical and moral sense. Within it one can built homesteads, founded communities, able in today’s Canada and incompatible sooner find a place for a Skovoroda, a Gandhi, a Martin Luther King ... The word raised their families and lived peaceably. ‘rukh’ is also closer to reality and to eternity. A movement can exist with opponents. A with the values that we as Canadians hold Yet this was not enough to protect them. front immediately denotes opposition. Rukh elicits hope. ...” so strongly. Individual rights, the protec- By the sweat of their brows and the tion of minorities, respect for others, open- strength of their backs, they helped to lay Source: “Rukh represents hope,” editorial, The Ukrainian Weekly, September 17, ness, inclusion, fairness – these are funda- 1989, Vol. LVII, No. 36. mental to our identity and way of life. (Continued on page 18) No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

But it is misleading to jump from that District of New York. The committee HURI and Columbia one instance to the general conclusion Still optimistic received full support from the entire the that somehow one university (Columbia) Ukrainian American community, includ- both meet our needs is doing a “better” job of promoting about Ukraine ing the Ukrainian National Association – Dear Editor: American understanding of Ukraine than Dear Editor: the most generous financial supporter of Taras Kuzio and Orest Deychakiwsky another university (Harvard). Better to It is hard to argue with Zenon the committee’s actions. have preformed a valuable service for say what is clearly the case: that Zawada’s piece on Ukraine’s 14th birth- Under political pressure, the New American readers by summarizing the Columbia had a series of panels on day and Viktor Yushchenko’s eight York State Education Department decid- main players in the greater Washington, Ukraine’s election whereas HURI’s months as president (August 21), but ed to include the material on the Famine- D.C., metro area when it comes to our approach to the story of the Orange being true to my moniker as a “patholog- Genocide into the program. It understanding of Ukraine (see “A guide Revolution has been attentive as well, ical optimist on Ukraine,” I have to sug- approached Walter Litynsky, a high albeit in a different and more extended to who’s who in D.C’s Ukraine-related gest that a similar compilation of “tut, school teacher, to prepare the volume, format. activities,” August 7). tut...” quotes from experts could be gath- and he wrote an excellent teachers’ In the end, the simple truth is that the Certainly the Orange Revolution and ered about, say, Chancellor Gerhard guide. The book was reviewed by the 13 needs of the Ukrainian American com- the subsequent visit to the United States Schroeder of , a country that members of the review committee, munity, not to mention all Americans of President Viktor Yushchenko of has been independent for nearly 60 which included Drs. James E. Mace, with a growing interest in Ukraine, are Ukraine remind us that we need to have years. Jurij Darewych, Taras Hunczak, George being met by two fine universities, each a much clearer view of who, exactly, has To his credit, Mr. Zawada did bring in Slusarczuk, Roman Trach, Bohdan in its own way, and each effectively. contributed and continues to contribute the views of Prof. Michael McFaul on Vitvitsky and others. to Ukrainian studies in this country. Ukraine. But – 61 inches into the story? The publication of the third volume of Dr. William Gleason Especially since, as the authors remind You wisely picked up on Prof. McFaul’s “Teaching of the Holocaust-Genocide Arlington, Va. us, the United States now is Ukraine’s comments in the editorial. Series” culminated with a reception at most important support in the West and a One small point: the brilliant political the State Capitol organized by the Ad The letter-writer is chair of Advanced fair portion of Ukraine’s success and/or analyst Kost Bondarenko, quoted by Mr. Hoc Committee. It was attended by New Ukrainian Area Studies and coordinator failure to move forward with its political, Zawada, heads the Institute of National York State politicians, Department of of Eurasian Area Studies at the Foreign economic and social development will Strategy, a Kyiv affiliate of a Moscow Education officials, members of the Service Institute, U.S. Department of depend on continued attention in organization, not the other way around – Executive Committee of the . America to developments under the “an organization with a Moscow affili- National Association (John O. Flis, Yushchenko regime. ate.” Ulana Diachuk, Walter Sochan) and by Unfortunately, on one point, Dr. On the other hand, I found myself other leaders of the Ukrainian communi- Kuzio and Mr. Deychakiwsky are wrong The “big picture” going over the multi-page paid ad of the ty. Also present were representatives of in this writer’s view or, at best, mislead- Pastuch family five or six times. It was a the Polish, Armenian, Lithuanian and ing: their comparison of Columbia and Ukraine fascinating family album ending with Hungarian communities. University and the Harvard Ukrainian Buddy Max of Cowboy Junction, Fla. The publication of the 21,000 copies Dear Editor: Research Institute (HURI). In essence, There’s definitely a story there and I of the volume on Famine-Genocide was I like Prof. Alexander Motyl’s opti- the authors suggest that Columbia hope someone writes it for The Weekly entirely financed by the New York State mism in “Reassessing Ukraine and why University does a better job than HURI readers – at least for this one. Education Department. It was distributed the big picture matters” (August 14). It of helping Americans comprehend Meanwhile, after another couple of to every school district in the state, and it reminds of Marlon Brando’s rendition of Ukraine because HURI continues to weeks “in the old country,” I’m rushing is still available for distribution to the “Luck Be a Lady Tonight” in the movie view Ukrainian studies primarily through back to Ukraine with all its “widespread general public at a nominal cost. “A Streetcar Named Desire.” the prism of history and culture, whereas disappointment ... among intellectuals The purpose of writing about an event Luck is something that Ukraine will and common Ukrainians alike.” And I that took place almost two decades ago is Columbia takes a more contemporary need, as well as steady hands and some (i.e., political) approach. Is this true? I happen to know that Mr. Zawada enjoys to help those who are now trying to honest answers from its leaders, in addi- living there, too. include in their school curricula informa- think not. tion to the conventional dos and don’ts. First of all – and here I speak from tion about the Famine-Genocide. It Even then, the capacity to mess up will R.L. Chomiak direct experience dating back to 1994, would easier to persuade the school offi- remain at least as credible as favorable Washington when I was a Mid-Career Fellow at cials of other states to do so if the cur- prognoses. riculum guide prepared by Dr. Kuropas HURI – Harvard has always brought The comparison of the Orange in speakers to talk about current issues were accompanied by the curriculum Revolution with the American experi- guide published by the New York State and themes. During the summer school, ence of the 1960s (the anti-war era) is Re: 1986 curriculum for example, students from Ukraine and Education Department. After all, the very valid, in my view, although it is state of New York is considered by many other countries listen to a kaleidoscope probably shocking to our immobile com- on Ukraine’s Famine of speakers on many issues, including to be a leader in the field of education. munity pillars. As for the young genera- Dear Editor: civil society in Ukraine, American for- The publication titled “Case Studies: tion’s forward motion in Ukraine, it can- The editorial of August 14 titled Persecution/Genocide; The Human eign policy toward Ukraine and not be entirely frictionless. Ukraine’s economic problems. “Famine-Genocide curriculum” gave Rights Series, Volume III” can be pur- An old truism says that the more extensive information about the new cur- chased by writing to: The New York During the regular academic things change the more they stay the year, monthly and semi-monthly noon- riculum guide on the Famine-Genocide State Education Department, same. For instance, after the fresh air of of 1932-1933 which was prepared by Dr. Publications Sales Desk, Education time and afternoon talks take place at the post-Vietnam euphoria, we got HURI, which focus on current chal- Myron Kuropas and has now been made Building – Third Floor, Albany, NY President George W. Bush and his wars, available by the Ukrainian National 12234. The price: $4 per copy, plus $3 lenges and realities, including (in recent blessed by pseudo-religious jingoism. years) corruption and the Gongadze Association. for shipping and handling (the $3 charge After the Orange Revolution, in the blink The list of what was done so far to covers shipping of up to five copies). scandal, academic exchanges between of an eye, bringing home the bacon is our two countries, and the reconstruction “educate the educators” about the back in style. Famine-Genocide includes many events Michael Heretz of the Jewish community across Seemingly minor mistakes can be that took place thanks to the involvement Rutherford, N.J. Ukraine. costly. A company is likely to fold if it of Dr. Kuropas. Taken together, these programs hardly loses money on many small items sold With no intent to diminish the excellent The letter-writer is former chairman represent a retreat from the contempo- and expects to make it up by the econo- work that is being done by Dr. Kuropas, I of the Ad Hoc Committee on Education rary world; to the contrary, HURI has my of scale (“the big picture”). About the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine. gone forward across the years to help the Ukraine is facing huge challenges. would like bring to the attention of your greater community understand a land Finding its own identity, employment for readers one example from the past of a that for many Americans, at least, has workers within its borders, and paying successful community initiative whose We welcome your opinion seemed well nigh invisible. for imported oil and gas are the first that results continue to be felt today. Secondly, I do not wish to denigrate come to mind. Somehow, the far-out In 1986 the State Education The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters Columbia – not in the least. I have a Department of New York prepared and to the editor and commentaries on a variety diaspora activists do not always get the of topics of concern to the Ukrainian great deal of respect for Columbia’s picture. And some are struggling with published three volumes of a teaching guide about the Holocaust and Genocide. American and Ukrainian Canadian com- leadership in addressing many concerns their own narcissistic images. munities. Opinions expressed by colum- of international import, Ukraine among The failure to connect with things One volume of the series was devoted to nists, commentators and letter-writers are them. I do believe, however, that these sensibly specific is illustrated by advo- the Famine-Genocide of 1933 in their own and do not necessarily reflect the kinds of institutional comparisons, cacy on the part of the Ukrainian World Ukraine. The publication of this volume opinions of either The Weekly editorial however well-intentioned, are in the Congress (in Kharkiv this time) to grant was the result of the political action of staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian end beside the point simply because Ukrainian citizenship to any ethnic the Ukrainian American community of National Association. individual institutions can from time to Ukrainian living abroad. The recom- the state of New York and other states. Letters should be typed and signed time move back and forth on specific mended method of proving ethnicity is The lobbying efforts for the inclusion (anonymous letters are not published). points. another doozy. The idea ranks some- of the Famine-Genocide into the Letters are accepted also via e-mail at Holocaust/Genocide program was spear- [email protected]. The daytime phone It may very well be true that, as Dr. where between the bizarre and mind- number and address of the letter-writer must Kuzio and Mr. Deychakiwsky note, “dur- less. headed by the Ad Hoc Committee on be given for verification purposes. Please ing and after Ukraine’s 2004 election, Education About the Famine-Genocide note that a daytime phone number is essen- Columbia hosted panels dealing with this Boris Danik in Ukraine formed by educators and tial in order for editors to contact letter-writ- historic event.” My response is – great! North Caldwell, N.J. community activists of the Capital ers regarding clarifications or questions. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 No. 37 Ukrainian Catholic... (Continued from page 1) walls and brick-colored Onduline tile roof, an architectural style currently pop- ular in Europe. The seminary provides accommoda- tions for students’ social and spiritual lives such as residence rooms, study and meet- ing halls, gymnasiums and classrooms. Seminarians will receive their five- year theological instruction in the adja- cent faculty building, alongside lay stu- dents and even seminarians of other con- fessions. About 260 seminarians and 100 lay theology students and nuns will study at the faculty building once it is open, according to the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation’s 2003 Annual Report. The seminary accepted an unprece- dented 70 students in its freshman class this year, Dr. Prach said, all of whom met high standards. However, enrollment won’t necessari- Zenon Zawada ly continue to increase because the uni- The Holy Spirit Seminary and Church of the Holy Spirit, part of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, were western versity is focused on quality not quantity, Ukraine’s largest construction project during the last four years.

The -based Ukrainian Catholic about him, Mr. Leschuk said. Education Foundation also was a major “He had an exceptional presence, with contributor to the center, however both a lot of knowledge, morality and intel- foundation and UCU officials weren’t able lect,” Mr. Leschuk said. “He had such an to say how much of its funds were used. influence on his peers that he was among Self Reliance New York Federal Credit the best role models anyone of us had Union of New York donated $100,000 to known.” the Ukrainian Catholic Education By the time Soviet Communists had Foundation in 2004, said Bohdan Kekish, taken control of Lviv in 1945, Soviet dic- the credit union’s president. tator Joseph Stalin had either killed or However, Father Gudziak estimated deported all the Ukrainian Catholic bish- that the Ukrainian diaspora of North ops to Siberia. Himself a former seminar- America contributed $150,000 to the ian, Stalin decided to spare the students center’s construction. from execution and sent them to Siberia. The visiting Germans and French were Mr. Leschuk served six years at a particularly enthusiastic about Holy Spirit labor camp in the Kurile Islands, located Seminary because they said they’ve seen in the far eastern USSR between the Sea their own seminaries become depleted of Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean. during the past several decades. Former UCU Rector Father Ivan Western European seminaries are so Muzychka said the new campus can’t depleted that they have become a burden even compare with the buildings in

Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych Lubomyr Husar kneels in prayer during the divine liturgy consecrating the new Holy Spirit Seminary and Church of the Holy Spirit in Lviv.

Dr. Wills said. Academy’s first rector spent 18 years in a Dr. Prach oversaw the complex’s Siberian concentration camp. architectural design and managed con- Father Werenfried frequently wrote of struction, all the while serving as the the Ukrainian Catholic Church and seminary rector. Patriarch Slipyj in his bulletin, read by He received tremendous praise from 700,000 readers worldwide, said Eva- his colleagues, including Cardinal Husar, Maria Kolmann, author of the biography, for directing the center’s construction “Thank you, Father Werenfried.” “It was thus far. Father Gudziak pointed out that not just a project for him, but a deep the Polish-born rector also coordinated heartfelt wish to build up the seminary,” Pope John Paul II’s historic 2001 visit to Ms. Kolmann said. Ukraine. When Father Werenfried died just a “I would like for the Lviv community few weeks after his 90th birthday in to appreciate not only Dr. Prach, but at April 2003, Ukrainian Catholic priests least these two projects, although he does were present at his funeral and held a a lot of other things,” Father Gudziak said. panakhyda in his honor. “The papal visit greatly raised the image ACN contributed about $4.9 million Tykhon Leschuk, a Lviv Polytechnic University professor, attended the Lviv of Ukraine and this seminary and this to the center’s construction, according to Seminary in 1944-1945 and spent six years in a Siberian labor camp as a result. Theology Center will also do a great deal.” Mark Fromager, an ACN spokesman. The French donated more than half of to the Church, Ms. Willemsen said. Rome. “Rome was the realization of Primary source of funding that sum. “So many nations, particularly the hopes,” Father Muzychka said. “It was a The center’s primary source of financ- The seminary’s construction cost was Germans and the French, are almost jeal- big deal. But this is the realization.” ing was Aid to the Church in Need about $5 million, and the faculty build- ous that these churches have been Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and (ACN), a Frankfurt, Germany-based ing under construction has cost about blessed with these seminarians,” Mr. Father Slipyj reorganized the Lviv international Catholic charity founded by $3.1 million so far, estimated Dr. Prach. Fromager commented. Seminary as the Greek-Catholic the Dutch priest Father Werenfried van Once it’s eventually completed, the Former students attend ceremonies Theological Academy in 1928. The Straaten in 1947. entire center’s cost will be about $10 Soviet Communists liquidated it by 1945. An organization that distributes $85.6 million, estimated Dr. Wills. Besides foreign donors, among those in The Church re-established it in 1994 million globally every year, ACN has Visiting donors from France and attendance were students of the Theological as the Lviv Theological Academy, and had an exceptional interest in the Germany expressed joy over their invest- Academy during World War II, when it was the Congregation for Catholic Education Ukrainian Catholic Church because of ment. still located on Kopernik Street in Lviv. accredited the UCU as meeting interna- Father Werenfried’s close relationship “The building is not the most impor- Tykhon Leschuk attended the Lviv tional standards in 1998. with the former Ukrainian Catholic tant thing here,” said Antonia Willemsen, Seminary in 1944-1945 when Patriarch Patriarch Josyf Slipyj. the secretary general of ACN until June Josyf, then still archbishop of Lviv, was No government recognition They met when Patriarch Slipyj began of this year. “The seminary is only a rector. When Archbishop Slipyj walked While the university offers undergrad- establishing the UCU in Rome after he left shell. Most important is the 220 seminar- the halls of the old seminary, he had an the Soviet Union in 1963. The Theological ians who will fill this building.” awesome physical and spiritual aura (Continued on page 9) No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 9

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Soccer the former champion in while of the United Synchronized Las Vegas, most likely on November 12, States took first place with new course Ukraine became the first European The New York Times reported recently. record time of 59.37 seconds. Kosuke Ukraine’s Daria Yushko took eighth country to advance to the 2006 World Rahman, an American, won the right Kitajima of took second with place in the solo event at the 11th FINA Cup, to be played in Germany, when it to meet Klitschko by beating American 59.53, and of France World Championship, finishing with a completed its September 3 game against Monte Barrett by decision in Chicago on took third with 1:00.20. score of 91.583, while France’s Virginie Georgia with a 1-1 tie, while tied August 13. The WBC has Rahman Ukraine’s Valerii Dymo took sixth Dedieu took first place with 99.001. 2-2 with Denmark in a game later that day. ranked No. 2, while Barrett is now place in the men’s 50-meter Russia’s Natalia Ischenko took second According to the Ukrinform news ranked No. 3. with a time of 28.03 seconds, while Mark with 98.250, and Gemma Mengual of service, President Viktor Yushchenko Klitschko, who had back surgery in Warnecke of Germany took first place took third with 97.417. conveyed his congratulations to the April, has not fought since beating Danny with 27.63. Mark Gangloff of the United Ukraine took ninth place in the free Ukrainian National Soccer Team via Williams last December. States took second place with a time of routine competition with a score of Youth and Sports Minister Yurii Meanwhile, Volodymyr Klitschko will 27.71, and Japan’s Kitajima took third 91.833, while Russia took first with Pavlenko, who attended the Ukraine- take on the unbeaten Samuel Peter in an with 27.78. 99.333. Japan took second with 97.833, Georgia match in Tbilisi. International Boxing Federation elimina- and Spain took third with 97.167. Jack Bell of The New York Times tion bout on September 24 in Atlantic Diving The Ukrainian team of Ksenia reported the victory thus: “In Ukraine, City, fight promoters announced on Sydorenko, Daria Yushko and Oksana The Ukrainian team of Kristina first there was last year’s Orange August 10, according to The New York Samokhvalova took 10th place in the Ischenko and Olena Fedorova took third Revolution, and now this year’s World Times. The winner of the 12-round fight duet competition with a score of 89.917, place in the women’s three-meter syn- Cup revelation. Ukraine, the former at will become the while the Russian team took first place chronized springboard competition at the Soviet republic, seems like the perfect mandatory challenger for the IBF title with a score of 99.084. Spain took second 11th FINA World Championships in blend of politics and sports, freedom to held by . place with a score of 97.417, and Japan Montreal. The Ukrainian pair scored demonstrate and freedom to celebrate.” Volodymyr Klitschko, 29, lost the took third place with a score of 97.334. 308.82 points, while China’s Ting Li and The Ukrainian team is lead by striker World Boxing Organization title when he Jingjing Guo took first place with a score Andriy Shevchenko of A.C. Milan. was knocked out by Corrie Sanders in World University Games of 349.80. Germany’s Ditte Kotzian and Speaking with The Times from Denver, 2003. His career was hurt also after he Conny Schmalfuss took second place Russia took first place in the medal count where his team, D.C. United of Major lost the following year to Lamon with a score of 319.05. at the World University Games held in Izmir, League Soccer, had lost to the Colorado Brewster. Roman Volodkov and Anton Zakharov Turkey, on August 10-21, while Ukraine Rapids, Dema Kovalenko, said, “It’s excit- In other boxing news, former heavy- of Ukraine took fourth place in the men’s came in fourth in the total medal count. ing for me and for my country, for every- weight champion and controversial boxer 10-meter synchronized platform event Russia took 26 gold medals, 16 silver body.” The Times noted that Kovalenko Mike Tyson arrived in Ukraine on a pri- with a score of 353.40, while Russia’s and 23 bronze for a total count of 65 “could barely contain himself.” vate visit on August 28, Ukrinform Dmitry Dobroskok and Gleb Galperin medals, while Ukraine took 18 gold, 16 “Qualifying for the first time, especial- reported the following day. The news took first place with a score of 392.88. silver and 18 bronze for a total of 52 ly when Russia might not – this is huge. agency reported that Tyson and his 131- China’s Jinghui Yang and Jia Hu took medals. The People’s Republic of China It almost doesn’t matter what happens in foot yacht Summer Wind landed at the second place with a score of 374.79, and took second place with 49 total medals (21 the tournament because it’s just such a Odesa Marine Port, and cited unofficial Great Britain’s Peter Waterfield and Leon gold, 16 silver and 12 bronze for a total of big thing to make it,” he added. sources who said he intended to leave for Taylor took third place with a score of 49), while Japan took third place (18 gold, The Ukrainian soccer player’s com- Kyiv the following day. 367.95. ments appeared in the September 6 issue 18 silver and 20 bronze for a total of 56). Ukraine’s Fedorova took eighth place of The New York Times under the rubric Swimming A highlight for Ukraine came in the in the women’s three-meter springboard “Soccer Report.” The story was head- basketball tournament. The United States Ukraine’s Andrii Serdinov took third event with a score of 522.12, while lined “Reason to Rejoice Again in beat Ukraine, 85-70, in the men’s basket- place in the men’s 100-meter butterfly at China’s Jingjing Guo took first place Ukraine.” ball final to take first place in the tourna- the 11th Federation International de with a score of 645.54. Min Xia Wu of Kovalenko, 28, moved from Kyiv to ment. Ukraine finished in second place, Natiation (FINA) World Championships China took second with 619.05, and Rochester when he was 14, The Times while took third held in Montreal on July 17-31. Ian Tania Cagnotto of took third with reported. He helped Indiana to an NCAA place by beating Russia, 86-77, in the Crocker of the United States took first 591.27. Division I title in 1998 and began his bronze medal game. place with a new world record time of Zakharov of Ukraine took 11th place Major League Soccer career in Chicago. Ukraine took gold medals in archery, 50.40 seconds, while Serdinov finished in the men’s 10-meter platform event He played part of the 2002 season with athletics, fencing, rhythmic gymnastics, the race in 52.08. of the with a score of 587.13, while Jia Hu of St. Pauli in the German league. swimming and wrestling; silver medals in United States took second place with a China took first place with 698.01. José His dream, he said, is “to play in the archery, athletics, basketball, diving, time of 51.65. Antonio Guerra Oliva of Cuba took sec- World Cup.” Kovalenko said he spoke fencing, gymnastics, rhythmic gymnas- Serhii Breus of Ukraine took third ond with a score of 691.14, and Gleb with Ukrainian soccer officials two years tics, swimming and wrestling; and bronze place in the men’s 50-meter butterfly Galperin of Russia took third with ago about the possibility of playing for medals in archery, athletics, fencing, with a time of 23.38 seconds, while 656.19. team Ukraine. “They didn’t say I wasn’t gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, sail- Roland Schoeman of the Republic of Yulia Prokopchuk of Ukraine took good enough, just that I play so far away ing, swimming and wrestling. South Africa took first place with a new 12th place in the women’s 10-meter plat- it’s hard for them to follow what I’m The World University Games are an world-record time of 22.96. Crocker of form competition with a score of 417.03, doing.” international sporting and cultural festival the United States took second place with while Laura Ann Wilkinson of the United that is staged every two years in a different Boxing a time of 23.12. States took first with 564.87. Australia’s city and, its organizers say, is second in Oleh Lisohor of Ukraine took fourth Loudy Tourky took second place with a importance only to the . Vitalii Klitschko will defend his World place in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke score of 551.25, and Tong Jia of China Boxing Council title against with a time of 1 minute and 0.36 seconds, took third with 550.98. – compiled by Andrew Nynka

are young people who are talented, who them and work even harder. stand the Eastern Churches, and vice Ukrainian Catholic... translate Plato texts and don’t expect any The Ukrainian Catholic Church’s versa. (Continued from page 8) material rewards and who make a person- greatest current need is access to theolog- “Many see us as a bridge between East uate and post-graduate studies for its stu- al sacrifice to serve. But the government ical books and academic sources, particu- and West,” Cardinal Husar said. “The job dents, the Ukrainian government doesn’t isn’t interested in their service.” larly translations of these materials, of a bridge is for people to walk upon it.” Cardinal Husar pointed out. This will Therefore, the Ukrainian Catholic Church recognize it as an accredited institution of The Kairos conference allow for deeper studies of the Bible and higher education because its curriculum is has the ability to be an intermediary provide a solid foundation for future between the West and the East “so that theologically based. As a result, UCU stu- The same day he blessed the seminary, Cardinal Husar delivered the opening research, he said. people stop fearing one another.” dents have no discounts on transportation remarks to Kairos, a two-day conference The major archbishop also stressed the Cardinal Husar made these remarks a enjoyed by other students and can’t regis- to allow graduate students in the need for the global Ukrainian Catholic week after Russian Orthodox believers ter as students at hospitals for treatment. Ukrainian Catholic Church to organize, Church to retain its members in countries held protests condemning the transfer of Most importantly, their well-earned motivate and prepare themselves to lead other than Ukraine, particularly in the the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church’s degrees aren’t recognized by the the Church in the future. West. headquarters from Lviv to Kyiv. Ukrainian government. More than 250 Ukrainian Catholic The Church needs to enable these Throughout the day’s events, numer- “They study for a non-existent disci- graduate and post-graduate students parishioners to understand that the faith ous Catholics repeated the verse, “The pline,” Father Gudziak said of his theolo- attended Kairos, which means “It’s their grandfathers brought to the new blood of the martyrs is the seed of future gy students. Time” in Greek. Most of them were continent grows and lives with full, spiri- Christians.” Mr. Rance pointed out that On February 17 President Yushchenko returning to their graduate studies abroad tual treasures which they can’t find in Lviv was the first place where Pope John embraced the study of theology and following the conference. other Churches, Cardinal Husar said. Paul II declared that the 20th century was promised a representative in the In his opening remarks to Kairos, Therefore, an increased understanding of the century of martyrs. Presidential Secretariat. Cardinal Husar told the Kairos partici- theology will enable the Church to under- “All of Ukraine’s suffering is bearing “For eight years, we have systemati- pants that the new campus gives the stand its spiritual treasure, he added. fruit,” Mr. Rance said. “And it is a grace cally fought for our rights,” Father Church unprecedented facilities that The Church’s other key responsibility from God that we can help. We have Guziak said. “This is an injustice. These require its students to make the most of is to help the Western Churches under- received more than we gave.” 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 No. 37 Young SUM members enjoy weekend outing at Detroit-area campground by Roman Los youths would learn to be independent. The parents were more than welcome, DETROIT – Nine campers – seven however, at the evening bonfires. Several boys and two girls between the ages of 5 Ukrainian camp songs highlighted the and 9 – 5 descended upon the Ukrainian quiet night, especially the closing song American Youth Association (SUM) “Nich Vzhe Ide.” Kyiv campground on August 5 for a The next morning, after an exhilarat- three-day outing. ing exercise routine prepared by Mike For many, it was their first time camp- Kryzaniwkyj, campers washed up, had ing, since in the past several years camp breakfast and had their first formal intro-

Participants of a weekend camping outing at SUM’s Kyiv campground.

A group activity at the campground, which is located in the suburbs of Detroit.

had not been held at this “oselia,” or duction to an official assembly. campground, which is located in Myron Fedoriw helped explain to the Whitemore Lake, a suburb of Detroit. children what exactly a “komanda” After a late Friday afternoon registra- (camp command) is, from “oboznyi” or tion, campers mingled with each other by “obozna” to “bunchuzhnyi” and “pysar- the campfire as the camp leaders intro- ka,” all the way up to his role as duced themselves and explained to the “komandant.” He also explained the youths what they would be doing at morning ritual of prayer and the raising camp. of both the Ukrainian and American Parents were kindly asked to “stay Campers enjoy the beach. away” from daily activities so that the (Continued on page 14)

SUM resort in Ellenville hosts Family Day of fun for all ages by Tania Priatka Team Tomaszewsky (Yonkers/Hartford), Team multiple generations of SUM members. like a blast from the past, thanks to the Brigada (NYC), Team Super (Passaic), Team Following the bonfire, those in the creative genius of Orysia Woloszyn ELLENVILLE, N.Y. – On one of those Precision (Passaic), three teams from Hartford 21 and over crowd were invited to Dmytrenko of New York SUM, and perfect midsummer days when the sun is SUM (Juniors 1, 2 and 3), Team Hrim Roadies wind down the night at “Oldies Night” the festive atmosphere was filled with high and the humidity is low, scores of (Yonkers) and Team GBO (Yonkers.) held in the lounge inside the main nostalgia and the music and memories Ukrainian American Youth Association This year’s tournament witnessed an building. The lounge was decorated of days gone by. (SUM) members found themselves enjoy- incredible caliber of play, likely the highest ing a fun-filled Family Day at the associa- since the tournament’s inception in 2000. tion’s “oselia” (resort) in Ellenville, N.Y. Team Tomaszewsky and the three Hartford The day, Saturday, July 23, was organized SUM teams made it to the semifinals. After as part of an ongoing series of activities an exhausting but exciting day, victory planned during the summer months to cele- went to Hartford SUM Juniors 2, second to brate the oselia’s 50th anniversary year. Hartford SUM Juniors 1 and third to Team Some came just to relax and lounge by the Tomaszewsky. oselia’s pool or to indulge in some of the MVP awards were given to Taissa popular, traditional Ukrainian foods prepared Tomaszewsky of Team Tomaszewsky and with love by oselia’s tireless “kitchen ladies.” Roman Palylyk of Hartford SUM Juniors 2. Beginning at 11:30 a.m., children rang- Winners went home with trophies and ing in age from 1 to 12 and their parents prizes provided by oOselia. assembled in the main building to enjoy All proceeds from the tournament were arts and crafts, music, “kazky” (stories) donated to the resort’s Capital and a lively and interactive concert of Improvements Fund to benefit future proj- songs from the new CD “Scho za Hamir,” ects. Oselia Administrator Peter Kosciolek performed by Olya Chudoba-Fryz. was quite pleased with the amount of the While the kids had a terrific time partici- donation and thanked the coordinators of pating in the activities, planned by Oksana the tournament for all of their work. Tomaszewsky of Yonkers SUM, parents As the sun went down, everyone was found it a pleasant experience to see their invited to participate in a traditional “vatra,” children immersed in a positive environment or bonfire. Campers in SUM’s Wilderness of Ukrainian arts and culture. Camp (“Praktychnyi Tabir”) cooperated in While the children played indoors, the sixth building an awesome bonfire that burned annual Co-Ed Quads Volleyball Tournament, brightly into the star-filled night. Songs, organized by Christina Jancew Iwanik of skits, jokes and other activities were planned Hartford SUM, was held outside on the large by Zoryana Kovbasniuk for all to enjoy. For field in front of the oselia’s tribute to some it was an opportunity to relive old Ukrainian heroes, the “trybuna.” camp memories, and for the younger partici- Ten teams represented the tri-state area con- pants it was a chance to spend time with sisting of Team “Asbach” (NYC/Yonkers), their parents, enjoying an event that unites Guests, young and old(er) enjoy a get-together at SUM’s Ellenville resort. No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 11

Plastby Nancycampground Stecyk As the infire blazed Ohio celebrates its 40th anniversary high into the sky, the MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio – During the campers, parents and weekend of July 23-24, over 500 Plast guests were entertained campers, family and friends celebrated by the “Amish the 40th anniversary of Pysanyi Kamin, Sestrychka,” played by Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization’s Halya Jatsyshyn of campground in Middlefield, Ohio, with Toronto, assisted by both the traditional “Den Plastuna” (Day Nadia Palka-Zappernick, of the Plast Scout) festivities and special Darka Lasowsky- ceremonies centered on the 40th anniver- Nebesh, Petro Fedynsky sary celebration of the founding of “PK.” and “Goofus,” also On Saturday afternoon, as the campers known as Petro Kowcz. were returning from their break with their families, the campground sponsored a Plast counselors and free barbecue for the out-of town guests. youths with guitars led Organized by Roman (“Pan Moloko” – the singing of the camp the Milkman) Kwit for the third year in a songs so dear to every- row, the barbecue presented an opportu- one’s hearts. nity for parents, friends and non-camping The next morning Plast members to reunite and share camp dawned cloudy, but the stories from past years, as well as get Plast members and Novaky present the theme of their camp, “Lords of Middle Earth.” caught up on each others’ lives. guests joined Father Since this barbecue was also a cele- Pavlo Hayda of Chicago to celebrate bration of the founding of the camp- divine liturgy at the campground’s ground, the Plast sororities Shostokryli, chapel. Father Pavlo, who is a senior Buryverkhy and Lisovi Mavky, the Plast member, the father of two campers, Cleveland “yunachky” (girls age 11-17) and member of the Pobratymy Plast fra- and PK campground committee sold ternity offered his prayers for all of the commemorative items such as prints and campers, support staff and guests, as well t-shirts, tote bags, hooded sweatshirts, as a special prayer for the members of and first aid kits with the 40th anniver- the Plast fraternity Lisovi Chorty who sary logo emblazoned on them. were present. He was assisted by Father As dusk fell, everyone took their blan- Deacon Stefan Kuzyszyn of Ukraine. kets and chairs and walked down the At the conclusion of the divine liturgy path to the main field to the bonfire site. everyone met at the field near the sports With the stars appearing in the clear fields, where the respective camps pre- night sky, the oldest group of “yunaky” sented their programs. The fledglings of (boys age 11-17) opened the program. Tabir Ptashat, led by Adriana Nebesh- The “komandanty” of the camps were Lisowsky, presented the program from invited to light the bonfire for the their camp called “The Magical Boat.” evening. They were assisted by Dr. Taras Mahlay

Yunachky present their program, “Plast Around the World.”

on his bandura. Next on the program program under the comfort of their were the “novachky” (girls age 6-11). umbrellas during a steady drizzle. under the direction of Chrystia Stachur, At the conclusion of the program, the who performed their camp songs with campers returned to their respective the theme “Treasures of the Wild West.” camp areas to dry off, while family and The yunachky under the direction of friends retired to the pavilion. Soon the Chrystia Hanowsky presented “Plast skies cleared in time for lunch, and the Around the World,” with presentations campers and families enjoyed a cookout about the activity of Plast in six coun- of barbecued chicken and bratwurst tries, starting with Ukraine. The under the sunny skies. Immediately fol- “novaky” (boys age 6-11), under the lowing lunch, the campers enjoyed fun leadership of Adrian Oryshkevych, then and games under the direction of Roma performed their program “Lords of Telishewsky-Holowaty and Tania Terpylak-Kurtz. Middle Earth.” As the guests gradually left the camp- Ending the program with a presenta- ground and headed home, the campers tion of marching drills were the yunaky gathered outside the pavilion again. under the direction of Danylo Proczko, Cleveland Plast branch leader Nadia Cleveland Stanychna Nadia Palka Zappernick and the campers sing “Mnohaya who performed while several hundred Palka-Zappernick carried out one of two Lita” for the Pysanyi Kamin campground. family members and friends watched the large birthday cakes on which was inscribed “Mnohaya Lita, PK.” The 240- plus campers sang the traditional Ukrainian song to honor the campground that has brought many wonderful memo- ries to thousands of campers over the past 40 years. Within a short time there were very few crumbs left of the cake, but the many memories of “Den Plastuna” will remain with all of those who came to celebrate. (As a reminder, they can visit the PK website at www.plastcleveland.org/plastpk.htm to view photographs of the weekend.) * * * The celebration of Pysanyi Kamin’s 40th anniversary will conclude with a celebratory banquet and program (“Sviatochna Vatra”) to be held on October 2 at Pokrova Church Hall. For tickets and further information readers may contact Roman Kwit, (330) 659- 2123, or Ivanka Bodnaruk, (440) 838- Tabir Ptashat presents its program, titled “The Magical Ship.” 5458.

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‘Welcome to Ukraine’ souvenir sheet wins Narbut Prize Ukraine has many breathtakingly was also one of Ukraine’s most romantic beautiful tourist sites, and a few of these to date, and it was not surprising when it were presented in a special Europa was announced that it won the presti- “Welcome to Ukraine” issue released in gious Heorhii Narbut Prize as the best- April of last year. Ukraine Post depicted designed Ukrainian stamp of 2004. several of the country’s most photogenic The image on this Europa issue shows sites on both a souvenir sheet and (in a five different landscape scenes imbedded slightly reduced size) in a special presen- in a flowered headdress (Figure 1). Such tation booklet. This very colorful issue wreaths, generally tied in the back with

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colorful ribbons, are worn by many 2004 version of this ongoing series Ukrainian women as part of their tradi- showed the attire and customs of the tional folk attire. The four largest scenes Hutsul region of the Carpathian appear in stamps of various denomina- Mountains (Figure 2). The Folk tions, while the fifth photo lies tucked Costumes stamps have finished among into the lower left corner. the top vote-getters every year since the series began in 2001, finishing first in About the tourist sites 2002 and second in 2001 and now 2004. Since last year’s Europa theme cen- Coming in third with 8.5 percent of tered on tourism, Ukraine Post decided to the votes were the stamps making up the have its issue display some of Ukraine’s History of the Ukrainian Army issue, most renowned tourist destinations. The which last year depicted medieval war- 45-kopiyka value in the upper left shows riors and warfare (Figure 3). The the famous “Swallow’s Nest” castle in Ukrainian army stamps also typically do . This rather Gothic-looking struc- well every year. This phenomenon is ture at Cape Ai-Todor, not far from Yalta, likely the result of the fact that more was completed in 1911 for a Baron male than female voters submit ballots Schteingel and today is one of the most every year despite the fact that the popular destinations on the peninsula. is open to anyone who wishes to partici- The 2.61-hrv value in the upper center pate. shows Khotyn Castle in Chernivtsi There was a three-way tie for fourth Oblast. First built in the 13th century and place: receiving 8 percent of the votes were four stamps showing “Bridges” Figure 1 later expanded during the 15th and 16th centuries, the strategic site was an object (Figure 4), four stamps depicting “Kyiv of conquest in the Kozak, Polish and Through Artists’ Eyes” (Figure 5) and a Russian wars with the Turks in the 17th souvenir sheet of “The Regalia of and 18th centuries. Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky” (Figure The image on the 75-kopiyka stamp in 6). The hetmans were Kozak leaders of the 15th to the 18th centuries; the upper right shows a woodland scene Khmelnytsky led a successful revolt with stream in the Carpathian Mountains against the Poles in the mid-16th century, of western Ukraine. This area is famed which resulted in an autonomous Hetman for its hiking, camping and skiing ven- state that lasted for over a century. ues, in addition to being the home of the The broad array of subjects depicted Hutsul mountain folk, whose elaborate on Ukraine’s stamps seems to resonate woodworking and embroidery never fail with Ukraine’s citizens as well as with to amaze and delight all visitors. collectors. Almost every one of last The high-value 3.52-hrv stamp in the year’s stamps or souvenir sheets lower right depicts one of Ukraine’s most appealed to someone and subsequently famous religious structures, the spectacu- received some votes. lar Monastery of the Caves in Kyiv. The Narbut Prize is sponsored by the Founded in the mid-11th century, it was Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic expanded in subsequent centuries and Society (UPNS), which is based in the became a leading center of learning in U.S. It continues to be recognized as the the Orthodox Church. premier philatelic art award in Ukraine. Finally, the image in the lower left is Past winning designs and their artist cre- of a straw-thatched cottage as seen in an ators have all been prominently featured outdoor ethnographic museum. Such in Filatelia Ukrainy, Ukraine’s leading structures were still quite common in the philatelic periodical. The Heorhii Narbut early 20th century, but are becoming rare Prize honors Ukraine’s outstanding today. graphic artist of the early 20th century. The design of the souvenir sheet was Narbut prepared the three high-value the work of Maria Heiko, while the pho- stamps (30, 40, and 50 shahy) from tography is by Yuriy Buslenko. Both will Ukraine’s first postage stamp issue of receive equal shares of the $250 Narbut 1918. He also designed about a dozen of Prize honorarium. Ukraine’s first banknotes. Other top vote-getters Readers wishing to examine all of last year’s stamps (or the issues from any Earlier this year the “Welcome to year) in full color, may do so online at Ukraine” souvenir sheet placed third in the Ukrainian Electronic Stamp Album the voting for best 2004 Europa stamp (www.ukrainian-philately.info). Click on design. However, for the Narbut Prize 2004 or on any other year’s issues you balloting, the issue finished head and may wish to check out. Past Narbut Prize shoulders above the rest of the competi- winners as well as runners-up may be tion, receiving 19 percent of the votes. viewed on the website of the UPNS The battle for the next several places (www.upns.org.). turned out to be a real dogfight. The A list of past winners “Ukrainian Folk Costumes” souvenir sheet ended up squeaking into second The Narbut Prize has been awarded Figure 2 place with 9 percent of the ballots. The annually since 1993 for the best-designed No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 13 stamp of the previous year (Ukraine • 1993B – Oleh Snarsky, “National • 1998 – V. Taran and O. Kharuk, “The • 2003 – Mykola Kochubei, resumed stamp production only in 1992). Flag and Trident Emblem of Ukraine” Founding of Kyiv” (Europa souvenir “Ukrainian Folk Costumes” (stamps and The award was established by Dr. Ingert (Note: there was a tie in voting in 1993.) sheet). souvenir sheet). Kuzych, well-known philatelic author, • 1994 – Yuriy Lohvyn, “75th • 1999 – V. Taran, O. Kharuk, S. • 2004 – Jaan Saar and Oksana editor and exhibitor, who currently serves Anniversary of Ukraine’s First Postage Kharuk and V. Kozachenko, “350th Ternavska, “Route from the Varangians to as the UPNS’s president. Below are the Stamps.” Anniversary of the Beginning of the the Greeks” (Ukraine-Estonia joint issue). winners of the Narbut Prize since its • 1995 – Serhiy Bieliaiev, “160th Ukrainian Struggle for Freedom Under inception. The 2005 “Welcome to Anniversary of Kyiv University” (stamp Bohdan Khmelnytsky” (souvenir sheet). • 2005 – Maria Heiko and Yuriy Ukraine” winner was the seventh sou- and souvenir sheet). • 2000 – Oleksiy Shtanko, “Yaroslav Buslenko, “Welcome to Ukraine” (sou- venir sheet to receive the Narbut Prize in • 1996 – Yuriy Lohvyn, “Hetmans of the Wise” (souvenir sheet). venir sheet and booklet). the past eight years. Ukraine” series. • 2001 – Kateryna Shtanko, • 1993A – Larysa Koren, “150th • 1997 – Serhiy Bieliaiev, “150th “Wildflowers of Ukraine” (souvenir sheet). Ingert Kuzych may be contacted at P.O. Anniversary of the Birth of Composer Anniversary of the Kyiv University • 2002 – Oleksiy Shtanko, “King Box 3, Springfield, VA 22150 or at his e- .” Astronomical Observatory” (stamp triptych). Danylo” (souvenir sheet). mail address: [email protected].

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Figure 5 Figure 6 Penn State University offers freshman seminar Rutgers-Newark course offers on “Songs of the Ukrainian, Celtic and English Folk” intro to Ukrainian literature UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The department course will additionally examine the nature of NEWARK N.J. – The department of classical and modern litera- of Germanic and Slavic languages has annouced the transmission of folk songs as an oral tradi- tures and the Central and East European Studies Program at Rutgers a new course in Ukrainian studies at Penn State tion, the structure; imagery and conventions of University in Newark have announced that Prof. Antonina University that will be taught as a freshman sem- the folk song; the collection of folk songs by Berezovenko will teach the course “Introduction to Ukrainian inar: “Songs of the Ukrainian, Celtic and English ethnographers and musicologists; the psychologi- Literature” (21:967:205:01) 35370. Folk.” cal and sociological impact of folk songs on a The course is offered Tuesdays at 5:30-8:20 p.m. (seventh period) The course will be a comparative analysis of people; different versions of songs in various his- in Conklin Hall 349, located at 175 University Ave., Newark, N.J. the rich Ukrainian, Celtic and English folk song torical contexts; and folk revivals in the various Classes begin on September 6. traditions and the way those traditions serve to cultures studied. Songs and their relationship to The course fulfills the college literature requirement and may be help define a culture and a people. Translations folk art will also be examined. used toward a major or minor in Central and East European studies at of all Ukrainian and other non-English folk There will also be special emphasis on com- Rutgers Newark. songs covered in the course will be provided, so paring the unique phenomenon of the blind Students from other colleges and members of the community are no knowledge of Ukrainian or Gaelic will be Celtic harpers with the blind Ukrainian minstrels welcome to enroll for the course. necessary. Nor will a knowledge of music be (kobzars). Particular stress will be placed on the For more information on the course contact Prof. Berezovenko required. relationship between music of the folk and major ([email protected]) or Profs. Myroslava Znayenko The course will examine the nature of the folk national poets like the Ukrainian bard Taras ([email protected]) or Alexander Motyl song and folk poetry as a means of conveying a Shevchenko, the Scottish Robert Burns and the ([email protected]), directors of the program. wide range of human experiences over the cen- Irish William Butler Yeats. Numerous cultural turies. Songs from the Ukrainian, Celtic and issues will be discussed in the course, including English traditions will be examined topically, the folk beliefs and religious foundations of the including ritual songs, Christmas carols, New Celts and the Ukrainians; the religious conver- Year’s songs, love songs, lyrical songs, songs of sion to Christianity from paganism and its effect MAY WE HELP YOU? revenge, drinking songs, harvest and wedding on the respective cultures; the agrarian basis of songs, humorous songs, and historical and politi- Celtic and Ukrainian culture and its implications To reach The Ukrainian Weekly call (973) 292-9800, cal songs. for cultural growth; the role of colonialism and The course will examine the differences and imperialism in language and political develop- and dial the appropriate extension (as listed below). similarities between folk dance music like Celtic ment; issues of dialect vs. language and endan- reels and jigs vs. Ukrainian kolomyika and hopak gered languages; and the clash of religions in the dance rhythms. It will also survey folk instru- respective cultures – Catholic vs. Protestant in Editorial – 3049, 3063, 3069 ments like the Ukrainian kobza, lira and bandura the Celtic lands, and Orthodox vs. Catholic in and the Celtic bodhrán, bagpipes and harp, as Ukraine. Administration – 3041 well as instruments common to the cultures Field trips to performances by Celtic and under scrutiny, including the fiddle, flute, tin Ukrainian musicians as well as in-class demon- Advertising – 3040 whistle, and hammer dulcimer (tsymbaly in strations by visiting musicians and dancers are Ukrainian). also planned. For more information on the Subscriptions/Circulation – 3042 Various genres of folk music will be exam- course, contact Prof. Michael Naydan at (814) Production – 3052 ined, with particular emphasis on the ballad. The 865-1675 or by e-mail at [email protected]. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 No. 37 Ukrainian Canadians... 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workers of the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant in reach agreement on a price for Russian Deputy Taras Chornovil of the Party of NEWSBRIEFS Zaporizhia Oblast staged a protest rally in natural gas supplies to Ukraine in 2006, the Regions parliamentary caucus. Mr. (Continued from page 2) front of the plant on September 1 against strana.ru reported. Gazprom has pressed Chornovil added that, fearing arrest, Mr. Wrangles over WTO-oriented bills what they see as an attempted takeover of for a price increase from $50 to $180 per Yanukovych did not take part in recent their company by the industrial group 1,000 cubic meters, while Naftohaz has celebrations of Miners’ Day in Ukraine, KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on Pryvat, which is allegedly supported by rejected an increase and threatened to as was his custom in the past. Earlier in September 6 began its autumn session, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, increase transit fees on Russian gas bound August, the Party of the Regions press Ukrainian media reported. Communist Ukrainian media reported. The rally was for Europe. Strana.ru reported that service said Mr. Yanukovych would go to Party deputies blocked the parliamentary broadcast live on three television channels Russian Energy and Trade Minister Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic for a rostrum, protesting the postponed discus- that are linked to Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Viktor Khristenko said Russia will refrain short vacation. Meanwhile, Mr. sion over bills proposed by the government Pinchuk, son-in-law of former Ukrainian from signing documents on gas supplies Yanukovych’s press secretary Hanna to facilitate Ukraine’s accession to the President Leonid Kuchma. A week ago the in 2006 if it is unable to define prices for Herman suggested to Ukrayinska Pravda World Trade Organization (WTO). The Kyiv Appellate Court annulled the sale of 2007 and 2008. “This is our principle on August 30 that Mr. Yanukovych may Parliament managed to adopt several 50-percent-plus-one share in the Nikopol position,” Mr. Khristenko reportedly said. currently be in Ukraine. “I don’t know WTO-oriented bills before its summer Ferroalloy Plant to the consortium con- Some observers believe the Kremlin’s [where Yanukovych is], I only know that, recess, although the Communist Party cau- trolled by Mr. Pinchuk and ordered the political goals are blocking an agreement according to what I’ve heard, today in cus attempted to block the debates by pro- stake to be returned to the state. On August as much as financial differences. the morning he bought flowers for his voking scuffles and sounding sirens in the 30 Pryvat, which holds a 27 percent stake “Gazprom wants to inflict economic col- teacher, and these flowers are to be sent session hall. On September 6 the in the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant, organized lapse on Ukraine,” gazeta.ru commented to her on his behalf,” Ms. Herman said. Verkhovna Rada reportedly managed to a shareholders, meeting and appointed a on September 1. (RFE/RL Newsline) On August 29 Internal Affairs Minister pass a bill on bringing Ukraine’s food qual- new manager of the plant. President Viktor Yurii Lutsenko told journalists that Mr. 20 percent in Russian schools ity and safety regulations into line with Yushchenko instructed the government to Yanukovych may have been involved in WTO requirements. (RFE/RL Newsline) resolve the conflict according to the law KYIV – Deputy Education Minister the misuse of budget funds. (RFE/RL and restore “normal conditions” for the Viktor Ohneviuk said in an interview with Newsline) Okean Elzy soloist is goodwill ambassador plant’s operation. According to Mr. -Ukraine on August 31 that 1,500 Arms smuggling allegations denied Yushchenko, the conflict reflects a clash of schools in Ukraine teach some 1.2 million KYIV – Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, the interests between two financial-industrial pop group Okean Elzy’s soloist, has been students, or approximately every fifth KYIV – National Security and groups that were formed under the previ- schoolchild in the country, in the Russian appointed a goodwill ambassador of the ous regime. (RFE/RL Newsline) Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Petro United Nations Development Program language. Mr. Ohneviuk also said some Poroshenko told journalists in Kyiv on (UNDP). Mr. Vakarchuk also happens to Yushchenko at Solidarity Center ceremony 150 schools in Ukraine instruct students in August 30 that media reports alleging be the Ukrainian president’s non-staff minority languages, including 33,500 stu- that weapons are smuggled from adviser for matters of culture, youth, GDANSK, Poland – President Viktor dents in Romanian-Moldovan, 20,000 stu- Transdniester to the Ukrainian port of social and informational policies. Mr. Yushchenko participated in the signing cer- dents in Hungarian, 6,000 in Crimean Tatar Illichivsk are not true, Interfax-Ukraine Vakarchuk has thus joined fellow singers emony of an act to found a European and 1,400 in Polish. Mr. Ohneviuk added reported. “As the NSDC secretary, I per- Lyzhychko and Ali Lorak who Solidarity Center in Gdansk on Wednesday, that Ukraine also has 550 schools with two sonally refute [those reports] and state serve as good will ambassadors for U.N.- August 31. As Solidarity leader Lech languages of instruction, for example — that there have not been any similar facts affiliated entities, the former as UNICEF Walesa noted, the center is aimed at pro- Ukrainian and Russian or Crimean Tatar [of smuggling],” Mr. Poroshenko said. goodwill ambassador and the latter as moting the ideas of the independent trade and Russian. (RFE/RL Newsline) He added that he has requested that the union movement. He said there still are U.N. goodwill ambassador for combating Is Yanukovych avoiding arrest? Procurator General’s Office and the HIV/AIDS. (Ukrinform) countries where there is no democracy and Security Service of Ukraine check those freedom and, thus, it is important that these KYIV – Former Ukrainian Prime reports. “If they are confirmed, [the Yushchenko remembers Stus, others ideas be deliberated and discussed. Mr. Minister , leader of guilty parties] must be held accountable. Walesa stressed that the European KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko the opposition Party of the Regions, is If they are not, [I want to know] who Solidarity Center in Gdansk will be a staying abroad following a warning that made those allegations, since they dis- laid flowers at the tombs of human and scholarly, cultural, educational and archival national rights activists , Yurii he may be arrested, Ukrainian media credit our borders,” Mr. Poroshenko center, a symbol of the victory of peaceful reported on August 30, citing National added. (RFE/RL Newsline) Lytvyn and Oleksa Tykhy to commemo- revolution. According to European rate them on Sunday, September 4 when Commission President José Manuel Ukraine marked the 20th anniversary of Barroso, the signing of the act on establish- the heroic death of Stus, a poet and rights ment of the center in Gdansk will help advocate of the 1960s-1980s. (Ukrinform) future generations remember what hap- Porn producer plans “Yulia” sequels pened in this city 25 years ago. “Solidarity and freedom are components of the MOSCOW – State Duma Deputy European Union, its key values, he empha- Aleksei Mitrofanov (Liberal Democratic sized. “There is no freedom without soli- Party) is promising to film two sequels to darity, there is no Europe without solidarity the pornographic film “Yulia,” which and freedom,” Mr. Barroso noted. The depicts a hypothetical love affair between foundation act was signed by Mr. Walesa, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, Tymoshenko and Georgian President European Commission President Barroso, , Novyi Region British Vice Prime Minister John Prescott, reported on September 1. The first film Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka, will be called “Yulia’s New Adventures,” Solidarity trade union Chairman Janusz he said, and the other “Tough Mrs.” The Sniadek and Gdansk Mayor Pawel film “Yulia” is expected to appear in Adamowicz. The presidents of Ukraine, Moscow this month, Novyi Region report- Georgia, and Serbia, and the ed. Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor prime ministers of Belgium, Croatia, Chernomyrdin said on September 1 that Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, “it hurts and offends me that there are Finland, Latvia, , Macedonia, people such as Mitrofanov,” according to Slovenia, Sweden and Slovakia signed the for-ua.com. (RFE/RL Newsline) document as witnesses. (Ukrinform) Official comments on Melnychenko tapes Walesa to receive Ukrainian medal KYIV – According to Deputy State KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko Secretary Markian Lubkivskyi, Mykola signed a decree to decorate Lech Walesa, Melnychenko’s tapes have become a mere leader of the Solidarity trade union and blackmail tool. Mr. Lubkivskyi thus com- in 1990-1995, with the mented on Mr. Melnychenko’s recent public Order of Yaroslav the Wise, 2nd Degree. pronouncements, addressed to the president The September 1 decree notes that Mr. of Ukraine. If you really wish to help Walesa was decorated with the medal for Ukraine, please come to Ukraine to publicly his “significant personal contribution to the state your stand, instead of resorting to development of freedom and democracy in blackmail, Mr. Lubkivskyi said on Central-Eastern Europe, his weighty per- September 2. What Mr. Melnychenko pos- sonal role in supporting democratic process- sessed was something more than just a com- es in Ukraine and strengthening bilateral modity, as his information led to Ukraine’s Ukrainian-Polish relations.” (Ukrinform) biggest crisis, he added. Now his informa- tion is viewed as just a commodity in gross Talks with Gazprom a failure violation of ethical norms and moral criteria, MOSCOW – Gazprom Deputy Mr. Lubkivskyi said. (Ukrinform) Chairman Aleksandr Ryazanov said in Tensions mount around metals giant Moscow on September 1 that recent talks in Kyiv with Naftohaz Ukrainy officials ZAPORIZHIA – Several thousand had failed and that the two sides did not 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 No. 37 Ukrainian Technological Society presents 33rd annual scholarship awards PITTSBURGH – The Ukrainian Technogical Society hosted a scholarship awards social on Sunday, August 7, beginning at 3 p.m. in the auditorium of the Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building on the University of Pittsburgh campus to present its 33rd scholarship awards. With these 2005 awards, the Pittsburgh-based society has made 317 awards to 229 different college-bound stu- dents of Ukrainian descent residing in the area of Western Pennsylvania and - ing regions of Ohio and West Virginia. President Debra A. Walenchok wel- comed the students, parents, members and guests. Continuing the program, Treasurer Nickolas C. Kotow thanked the Ukrainian community for its unwavering and very generous support of the UTS Scholarship Program. UTS member Roksana Korchynsky, Ph.D., spoke on the necessity of quality in a commitment to excellence, and Michael Kotyk, Ph.D., the first president of the society, spoke on how education throughout life emanci- Scholarship sponsors and recipients (from left): Yaroslaw Hodowanec of the Ukrainian Selfreliance of Western pates a person for productive activity. Pennsylvania Federal Credit Union, Olga S. Manasterski, Kateryna Dowbenko, Vitaly Cherednichenko, Dr. Roksana Then, the scholarship awards were Korchynsky, Allison Krisza, Nathan R. Polnyj and Nicholas J. Honchar. made, and the students shared with the audience their future college and life plans. Ten scholarship awards were country to collapse, chaos and disorder,” University. made, totalling $5,500. The society Yushchenko sacks... a press release stated. “They didn’t like the businessmen sur- intends to make a further award of $500 (Continued from page 4) Social Democratic Party of Ukraine rounding Yushchenko, like Poroshenko,” to the scholarship program of Smoloskyp wanted to repeat the three days he spent leaders referred to the situation as a polit- Dr. Kuzio said. “And they didn’t want to Inc., which benefits Ukrainian college haggling with his Cabinet to remain ical crisis and tried driving a wedge merge that party [Batkivschyna] into the students in Ukraine. together. between Mr. Yushchenko and Ms. party Yushchenko was creating.” Michael Korchynsky and Mr. Kotow Throughout the months of Cabinet Tymoshenko. SDPU Chair Viktor However, Dr. Kuzio also pointed out: co-chaired the Scholarship Committee conflicts, Mr. Yushchenko said he felt as Medvedchuk even made the claim that “The paradox of the Orange Revolution for 2005. if he were a “baby-sitter” – a position he his party may pursue forming a bloc with is that without these businessmen, the Vitaly Cherednichenko of Pittsburgh felt a president shouldn’t have to be in. Ms. Tymoshenko’s Batkivschyna Party. Revolution wouldn’t have happened. received the Korchynsky Family In fact, it remained unclear whether Most of the money came from these Scholarship; Domenique E. George of The administration’s paradox Ms. Tymoshenko would remain in the domestic sources. But at the same time, Wheeling, W.Va., received the Chester “My colleagues and I promised on the Our Ukraine coalition or if she would their continued presence could have Manasterski Memorial Scholarship; and maidan that nobody would have privi- form an opposition force. undermined the revolution.” Nicholas J. Honchar of Carnegie, Pa., leges,” President Yushchenko said. “But Mr. Tomenko told reporters that the Mr. Tomenko also accused Messrs. received the Ukrainian Selfreliance of we saw that many new faces appeared in Orange Revolution’s first stage was suc- Poroshenko, Tretiakov and Martynenko, Western Pennsylvania Federal Credit the government, and a paradox happened cessfully executed, but it’s not over and and Verkhovna Rada Chairman Union Scholarship. – the government’s face didn’t change.” the next phase now has to take place. of doing everything Receiving Akim and Tatiana When explaining his decision, the “The second phase is only possible if possible to prevent the information about Kutsenkow Memorial Scholarships were president said he noticed his ministers business leaves Ukrainian politics,” Mr. those who ordered Heorhii Gongadze’s Autumn M. Adamiak of Arnold, Pa., didn’t trust each other and were making Tomenko said. “I am thrilled that Ukraine murders from becoming public. Allison Krisza of Pittsburgh, Anna side agreements that led to scandals, the has the wealthiest government officials in Mr. Yushchenko took offense at the Lernatovych of Carnegie and Nathan R. latest of which involved the Nikopol fer- Europe. But I am absolutely convinced accusation. Polnyj of North Huntingdon, Pa. roalloy plant. that until the wealthiest businessmen in “In four or five months of investigat- The Rostyslaw and Kateryna In the plant’s re-privatization, Ms. Europe and the world come to a decision ing the Gongadze case we have accom- Dowbenko Scholarship was received by Tymoshenko was accused of having at the president’s command, we will live plished more than the previous four Alexander Begey of Baden, Pa; Eric favored the Pryvat business partnership in an uncivilized nation.” years,” Mr. Yushchenko said. “We know Senedak of Austintown, Ohio, and Molly those who executed the murders, but we Wolfe of Ford City, Pa., received Ukrainian led by over other com- An opposition force in the making? petitors, deeply upsetting Mr. still don’t know who ordered the mur- Technological Society scholarships. Yushchenko, who likened it to taking the Mr. Tomenko said that he would be ders.” Several students were in Ukraine and willing to join Ms. several were working so they were not plant from one gang, led by Viktor Tymoshenko’s Some optimism remains Pinchuk, and giving it to another, led by Batkivshchyna Party, hinting that she able to attend the scholarship social. Mr. Kolomoyskyi. might form an opposition force. RFE/RL reported that, although the After the awards presentation, all Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Agriculture Minister Oleksander Yushchenko administration is now facing enjoyed light refeshments in the atrium reported that, while announcing the dis- Baranivskyi predicted that more than half the biggest crisis of its seven-month exis- area and got to meet one another. missal of his prime minister and the of the Cabinet ministers would join an tence, some observers remain optimistic. Information about the society’s schol- entire Cabinet, the president said he opposition party if led by Ms. Volodymyr Horbach of the Kyiv-based arship is available by writing to: UTS would like Ms. Tymoshenko to remain on Tymoshenko. Institute of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation Scholarship Program, P.O. Box 4277, his team and that he wants Mr. The next several days or weeks will be told RFE/RL that eventually the crisis Pittsburgh, PA 15203. Poroshenko to stay on. intriguing as Ms. Tymoshenko decides might push the administration to start He told the press he would be open to what her political course will be, Mr. serious reforms. Ms. Tymoshenko and Mr. Poroshenko Lozowy said. “She has got a real difficult He went on to say that the crisis is Life Insurance... remaining on his team “if these people choice to make because this is the first unlikely to tarnish President (Continued from page 5) change their conduct and show they can time she’s cut adrift without a patron to Yushchenko’s image very much because work together.” look over her,” he said. “She’s always the revelations come from the adminis- “The number of organizations plan- Mr. Yushchenko’s traditional political been a protégé: of and tration itself, not from the opposition. ning to participate in Life Insurance opponents said the government is in cri- then Yushchenko. Does she have the “That’s why people will respect [the Awareness Month is very encouraging,” sis, although Labor Party (Trudova wherewithal to stand on her own and administration] even more.” said Mr. Woods. “Our ability to motivate Partia) Chair Valerii Konovaliuk called seize the moment?” Meanwhile, Prof. Ihor Losev of the people to get the coverage they need... for Ukrainians to put aside their political Echoing virtually all the Cabinet min- National University of Kyiv Mohyla totally depends on how committed the differences and support Mr. Yushchenko. isters, Mr. Baranivskyi said he supported Academy commented to RFE/RL that in industry is to reaching the public with Last year, Mr. Konovaliuk was a Party the president’s move to dismiss the gov- the current situation President our messages and our products. I urge of the Regions member. While stating the ernment because the president’s work Yushchenko had little choice. anyone still on the sidelines to join this Mr. Yushchenko can fully rely on was constantly obstructed. “It is evident that the government was important industry-wide effort.” Trudova Ukraina for support, Mr. An interesting development is that formed hastily after the Orange * * * Konovaliuk added the caveat that his those politicians who have been tradi- Revolution,” Prof. Losev noted. “It party doesn’t necessarily support Mr. tionally aligned with Mr. Yushchenko included representatives of many differ- Organizations or individuals wishing to Yushchenko’s political agenda. have switched to Ms. Tymoshenko’s ent political trends and on the whole was learn more about the campaign should “Trudova Ukraina, as a party of con- camp, including and not united. [The president] has to serious- contact Jon Dressner, vice-president, LIFE structive opposition, will never stand on Serhii Teriokhin, said Taras Kuzio, a vis- ly reform the government and also look Foundation, at [email protected] or the side of those forces that drive the iting professor at George Washington closely at the people who surround him.” (202) 464-5000, ext 117. No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 17 Ukrainian community to celebrate conductor and liturgical music by Maria Kulczycky lected and recorded songs and melodies, emphasizing phraseology, translation and CHICAGO – The Chicago Ukrainian liturgical language. He considered choral community will host a two-day celebration music without instrumental accompani- of the life of conductor Ivan Truchly, par- ment the highest form of creativity for ticularly his interpretation and propagation the human voice. of the Kyivan liturgical choral music. The Kyivan liturgical style, distinguished The celebration, to be held October 8 by a capella singing, a broad base range and and 9, will include a symposium, concert, dominant male voices, is majestic and mov- solemn high liturgy and reception, all ing.The Chicago celebration is aimed at focused on the examination and perform- renewing appreciation and performance of ance of Kyivan liturgical music. All events this unique choral treasure of Eastern Slavic will be held at St. Andrew’s Ukrainian peoples that was much admired by Debussy, Orthodox Church in Bloomingdale, Ill. Ravel and other Western composers. Participants will include musicologists, A special invitation is being issued to conductors and local Ukrainian choirs. A choristers who performed in choirs con- book of Prof. Truchly’s arrangements, ducted by Prof. Truchly to participate and “Liturgy,” will be available for purchase. share their recollections at the reception on The celebration coincides with the Sunday. Information and registration forms 120th anniversary of the birth of Prof. can be found on Brama.com or obtained by Truchly. Born September 19, 1884, in the e-mailing [email protected]. Poltava region of Ukraine, Prof. Truchly studied in the Kyiv Music Conservatory, as well as at the Physics and Mathematics University of St. Volodymyr. He assisted eminent Ukrainian con- ductor Oleksander Koshetz, developed student choirs in Ukraine, and performed in Czechoslovakia and Germany. Forced to leave Soviet-occupied Ukraine in 1919, he dedicated his life to the study and performance of Ukrainian folk and liturgical music and the training of a new generation of conductors. Emigrating to the U.S. after World War II, he conducted church and secular choirs in New York and Chicago. Prof. Truchly died in 1975 in Chicago. His research and analysis was published recently in the Ukrainian collection titled “Liturgy.” Throughout his life, Prof. Truchly col- Prof. Ivan Truchly 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 No. 37

Russia’s point of view) , namely persuade the CIS presidents to endorse, Mr. Putin proposed establishing a “coun- Death notices... European Union-style integration, and and then implement, a blueprint for clos- cil of wise men” to draft new, unspecified (Continued from page 2) that reunification of the two Germanies er and more effective economic coopera- proposals for reforming the CIS. (An tists Andranik Migranian and Konstantin would have been far more appropriate. tion, beginning with the creation of one alternative blueprint for reform drafted by Zatulin unveiled a program intended to That blueprint set off alarm bells or more CIS free-trade zones. (An agree- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko ment in principle to form such zones had was reportedly not included in the agen- restore Russia’s status as unacknowl- across the CIS and served as the catalyst been signed in April 1994, but shared the da.) Despite the ongoing uncertainty, edged leader within the CIS. Warning for the foundation in late 1997 of same fate as hundreds of other collective however, Moldovan President Vladimir that the CIS risks becoming “a fiction,” GUAM, a loose geopolitical alignment encompassing Georgia, Ukraine, statements of intent that were signed but Voronin described the Kazan summit as they advocated radical measures, includ- one of the most productive ever, accord- Azerbaijan, and Moldova; Uzbekistan never implemented.) Meanwhile, the ing the deliberate destabilization of the “core” CIS states – Russia, Belarus, and ing to The Moscow Times of August 29. acceded to GUAM in April 1999. domestic political situation within select- Kazakhstan, which had formed a customs That comment may, however, prove to ed CIS states (Georgia, Azerbaijan and In a possible acknowledgement that union in 1995 to which Kyrgyzstan be premature in light of two related Tajikistan), to reverse the perceived drift the scare tactics espoused by Messrs. acceded the following year – were developments. First, in line with its of the former Soviet republics away from Migranian and Zatulin had proven coun- mulling the creation of a Single predilection for structuring its foreign Russia. They argued that the founders of terproductive, in April 1998 Russian oli- Economic Space together with Ukraine. policy exclusively on bilateral, rather the CIS had committed a fundamental garch Boris Berezovskii was appointed Two developments seemed to infuse than multilateral ties and agreements, error by selecting the wrong (from CIS executive secretary with a brief to new vitality into the CIS, albeit only Turkmenistan has finally admitted its briefly: the election of Vladimir Putin to total lack of interest in the CIS and for- succeed Boris Yeltsin as Russian presi- mally requested that its status be down- UKRAINIAN BUILDERS OF CUSTOM HOMES dent and the creation in November 2001 graded to that of associate member. WEST COAST OF FLORIDA of a CIS Anti-Terrrorism Center. (Article 8 of the CIS Statutes adopted in Then in 2003, the CIS drafted, but January 1993 provides for states with TRIDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP. failed to endorse, a new 10-part plan for such associate membership to participate • Over 25 years of building experience expanding economic cooperation, the first in selected CIS activities with the formal • Bilingual stage of which was to be the creation of a consent of the CIS full members). free-trade zone. That failure to move deci- Some might argue that the effective • Fully insured and bonded sively forward prompted Kazakh President exclusion of Turkmenistan from the CIS • Build on your lot or ours Nursultan Nazarbaev, one of the most equation is a positive development insofar • Highest quality workmanship enthusiastic proponents of closer CIS inte- as it removes an obstacle to closer and Ihor W. Hron, President Lou Luzniak, Executive V.P. gration in both the economic and political more effective economic integration. (941) 270-2411 (941) 270-2413 spheres, to propose at a CIS summit in Others, however, might see it as the thin Zenon Luzniak, General Contractor Astana in September 2004 transforming end of a much larger wedge – a wedge the Single Economic Space into the nucle- that the unequivocally Western-oriented Serving North Port, Venice, South Venice and area us of a “super-CIS,” while the remaining CIS members, in the first instance Georgia CIS members confined their cooperation and Ukraine, might seek to use at some within that body to the military sphere. future point to deal the coup de grace by Mr. Nazarbaev also proposed other announcing their collective withdrawal. measures to streamline the CIS and make it One unfortunate incident at the sum- more effective, including abolishing the CIS mit’s opening ceremony on August 26 – Economic Court and several other bodies shown on Russian television – perfectly and reducing the staff of the CIS Executive symbolized the CIS’s dilemma. The presi- Committee from 220 to 140, according to dents gathered in a magnificent new con- Vremya Novostei of September 17, 2004. ference center only to find the air condi- The summit participants agreed to reach a tioning did not function and the windows final decision on Mr. Nazarbaev’s reform would not open. Mr. Putin, perspiring vis- proposals within 12 months. ibly, looked on as a workman wielding a However, last week’s CIS summit in crowbar was summoned to force open a Kazan failed yet again to yield a consen- window and let in some fresh air – a com- sus on reform; the participants decided to modity without which the CIS will suffo- readdress the issue at their next summit, cate, sooner or later. The question is: tentatively scheduled for 2006 in Belarus. which president will wield the crowbar?

nically and culturally diverse societies. Prime minister’s... We recognize diversity as a source of (Continued from page 6) strength and innovation. We are a coun- the foundations of modern Canada, try built on immigration and the princi- investing what they could in improving ples of acceptance and inclusiveness. their lives and in educating their children. This is how we got to where we are This still was not enough to protect them. today. This is what will take us confident- ly, successfully into the century ahead. We It has been estimated that more than must remember the past, yes, but we must 5,000 Ukrainian Canadians were rounded also learn from it constructively. In this up and sent off to internment camps. 3.56% APY (3.50 APR) ** way, we make the past serve our future. Other restrictions were imposed that Let us re-dedicate ourselves to creating curbed basic freedoms and denied funda- 3.82% APY (3.75 APR) ** a more equitable society now and a better mental rights to those of Ukrainian origin. future for generations to come. Let us 4.08% APY (4.00 APR) ** The AIP is thus also a statement of continue to promote our values of respect, resolve on the part of the government of tolerance, fairness – and inclusion. Canada, in collaboration with the There can be no doubt that the Ukrainian Canadian community, that Ukrainian Canadian community has ded- such actions will never happen again. icated itself to traveling this route. It has been said that those who cannot The Ukrainian Canadian community remember the past are condemned to has been present in Canada for more than repeat it. a century. Your roots are deep – through- But it is not enough just to remember out the West, in urban centers and towns, the past. We must actively learn from it. and villages across the country. The con- We must put in place the institutions, the tribution you have made to Canada is laws, the mechanisms – as well as the impressive, strong, continuing. education and the understanding – to Through today’s agreement in princi- ensure that we don’t ever repeat the past. ple, you are showing again that strength Over the years, Canadians and their of character that enabled your forebears governments have painstakingly and suc- to arrive with little but their determina- cessfully built a network of legal and tion and faith – and succeed. And made constitutional protections to guarantee Canada a better country. individual rights as well as minority In closing, let me thank all those who rights for our ethnic communities. worked so assiduously and successfully In the midst of these laws and institu- in producing this agreement in principle tions is the Charter of Rights and – Ministers [Liz] Frulla and [Raymond] Freedoms, standing as the bulwark, Chan, MPs [Borys] Wrzesnewskyj and ensuring that innocent Canadians and [Walt] Lastewka, and, in particular, the communities will not be persecuted or leaders and members of the Ukrainian targeted as once happened in the past. Canadian community. Canada is one of the world’s most eth- This is a moment we can all be proud of. No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 19

New film by Odezynska NOTESNOTES ONON PEOPLEPEOPLE and had been sent out between the months to premiere in New York Returns from service of September and October of 2004. NEW YORK – Andrea Odezynska’s story in here.” The two sifted through While serving his six-month tour of new film, “The Whisperer,” will pre- over 20 hours of tape and began exper- with Marines in Iraq duty, Mr. Galonzka was stationed at Al miere at a special screening on imenting with structuring the film. PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Andrew Asad airfield – Iraq’s second-largest air- Saturday, September 24, at LaMama’s “The more we watched it, we real- Galonzka is proof that Ukrainian field – where he performed service on Annex Theater, 66 E. Fourth St. in ized we didn’t want to do a dry, didac- Americans stand proudly behind their vehicles as a heavy equipment mechanic . tic piece, educating people about country on both native and overseas soil. and engineer. “The Whisperer,” a 30-minute docu- Ukrainian folklore,” said Ms. Barnier. Mr. Galonzka, 22, of Walpole, Mass., As part of his responsibilities, Mr. mentary, explores Ms. Odezynska’s “I had to find a way into the story that recently returned to his post with the Galonzka rode a convoy into nearby journey to a small village in Western would make the material interesting Massachusetts Bay Transportation towns in order to repair broken and dam- Ukraine where she has an unexpected and moving for others.” Authority (MBTA) after serving in Iraq aged water mains, which were designed encounter with Baba Anna, the village “Once we knew what the main story as a soldier with the Marines. to provide the soldiers in the area with a healer, thus changing the course of of ‘The Whisperer’ was going to be, Mr. Galonzka, a member of Air Wing water supply. Andrea’s life forever. A short question we then filmed more footage, inter- Squadron 472, joined the Marines upon In January 2005, during Iraq’s elec- and answer period with Ms. Odezynska views, scenes around that main spine. graduating high school in 2000. After boot tions, Mr. Galonzka was assigned to a (director) and Kathryn Barnier (film pro- It was like making the movie back- camp and numerous other training pro- military police unit along with several ducer/editor) will follow the screening. wards,” she explained. grams, he joined the Marine Reserves in other Marines to protect a group of Iraqi Several summers ago Ms. Ms. Odezynska and Ms. Barnier January of 2001. While in the Reserves, Mr. election officials. Odezynska went to Utoropy, a village worked on the film as a labor of love Galonzka began studying criminal justice at After his six-month stint in Iraq, Mr. in western Ukraine, with theater direc- whenever they could find a few hours to Northeastern University in Boston, where Galonzka returned home on February 24. tor Virlana Tkacz to help Ms. Tkacz meet. Three years later, they are quite he used the cooperative education (“co-op”) Upon arrival, he immediately returned to research Ukrainian music. Ms. happy with the result. Reviewer Vincent program as a steppingstone to achieve his his duties with the MBTA, and was official- Odezynska turned her camera on for LoBrutto writes, “I love films which start dream of becoming a police officer. ly deactivated from the Reserves on May archival purposes, to record singers. out being about one thing then surprise During his time in college, Mr. 31. For his service in Iraq, Mr. Galonzka Upon coming home to , Ms. you and take you down another path...” Galonzka worked with both the was awarded five medals, including the Odezynska couldn’t stop thinking about Ms. Odezynska, the director of “The Nantucket and Wellfleet police depart- Iraqi Campaign Medal, the Global War on one very intense encounter she had with Whisperer,” is a professor of film at the ments, where he gained crucial first-hand Terrorism Medal, the Overseas Deployment awoman called Baba Anna. “The meet- School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New experience in the realms of criminal jus- Ribbon, the Reserve Mobilization Medal ing with Baba Anna became more impor- York City. She is a graduate of the tice and public service. and the Reserve Good Conduct Medal. tant to my life, after I left Ukraine, when American Film Institute, where she Soon thereafter, Mr. Galonzka headed On his first day back on the force, Mr. I got some perspective on the meaning of received an MFA in directing and was straight to the MBTA Police Academy in Galonzka was honored by MBTA Police her actions and words. These memories awarded an NEA grant and scholarships Quincy, Mass., in April 2004. Although Chief Joseph Carter during an academy took on a life of their own and the film from the Kodak and Robert Wise foun- his Marine unit had been called to serv- graduation ceremony. demanded to be made,” she noted. dations. Her comedy film, “Dora Was ice during his stay at the academy, the Mr. Galonzka has been active in the She showed her tapes to Ms. Dysfunctional” won her an award at the Corps allowed him to stay and complete Ukrainian Community for many years. Barnier, a veteran documentary film- his studies in Quincy. He is an active member of the Ukrainian maker, who stated, “there’s a good (Continued on page 20) However, it was not long after his grad- American Youth Association (SUM), and uation from the academy in September is the assistant activities director for 2004 when Mr. Galonzka was called into Druzhynnyky, a youth program. He has duty and deployed to Iraq. Stationed at gone through three camps as a counselor Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee, at the Ellenville, N.Y., SUM campsite, Mass., Mr. Galonzka’s unit had been and has taught soccer at the sports camp training for active duty since June 2004, sponsored by SUM.

care and love into everything I make, and Accountant pursues people seem to appreciate it.” Ms. Kost-Lupichuk also infuses her baking as a business Ukrainian heritage into her creations from PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Natalia Kost- the ingredients that she uses to the fin- Lupichuk quit her accounting job in ished products that she sells. She uses lit- February to pursue baking, and she now tle flour in her recipes, and instead incor- works out of her parents’ home, creating porates ground nuts and layers of light, European-style pastries. airy genoise. In fact, one of Ms. Kost- Ms. Kost-Lupichuk, 34, bakes Lupichuk’s “standouts” is a Ukrainian “Natalia’s Elegant Creations” in the walnut torte layered with vanilla walnut state-inspected commercially licensed butter cream and red currant preserves. kitchen in the Kosts’ Falls Church home, Ms. Kost-Lupichuk naturally flavors her and delivers her baked goods all over the pastries, avoiding the use of preservatives. Washington area. Delivery is free in Readers in the Washington area may Arlington and Falls Church, Va.; for purchase Natalia’s Elegant Creations at other locations in the Washington area Dean & DeLuca, 3276 M St. NW; phone there is a delivery charge of $7 to $10. number, (202) 342-2500; and at the According to the Washington Post, in Clarendon Farmers Market at the which Ms. Kost-Lupichuk was featured Clarendon Metro Station on Wednesdays in the July 27 Food Section, “sales of from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Natalia’s Elegant Creations have Custom orders require 72 hours’ increased every week.” notice, and may be placed by calling Ms. Kost-Lupichuk, who has a mas- (571) 239-0256. ter’s degree in culinary arts from Boston For more information about Natalia’s University, told Walter Nicholls of the Elegant Creations, including pictures and Washington Post, “At first, I thought to prices, readers may visit the website: myself, ‘Let’s see how it goes.’ But I put www.nataliaselegantcreations.com.

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cial situation of Ukrainians. According to “thoughtlessly” introduced to reinforce the August support for the president in this Polls: Yushchenko... the government, real incomes rose in post-revolutionary enthusiasm in the coun- social group fell to 32 percent, while oppo- (Continued from page 2) January-June by some 27 percent. And try were actually devoured by a subsequent sition rose to 35 percent. vote threshold to qualify for parliamentary the average monthly wage in Ukraine by jump in inflation. And Mr. Yanukovych But the most dismal indicator appears representation. The Our Ukraine People’s the end of June officially stood at some argued that in April Ukrainians already had to be a drop in enthusiasm for Mr. Union was supported by 20 percent of those 820 hrv ($160), exceeding by 80 percent to pay three times more for food and other Yushchenko among those Ukrainians who necessities than a year before. classify themselves as the “middle class” polled, the by 14.2 percent, the country’s subsistence minimum. So, Ms. Tymoshenko’s Cabinet has official- (some 60 percent of the population). the Fatherland (Batkivschyna) Party by 10.5 why should people be dissatisfied? ly admitted that inflation in Ukraine in the According to the Razumkov Center, in percent, the Communist Party by 5.5 per- Former Prime Minister Viktor first half of 2005 was 6.7 percent. April Mr. Yushchenko was backed by 51 cent, the Socialist Party by 4.2 percent and Yanukovych criticized the Yushchenko However, International Monetary Fund percent of middle-class voters and the People’s Party by 4.1 percent. In a simi- government as early as April, saying that it experts estimate it to be 15 percent. The lat- opposed by 21 percent of them, whereas lar poll conducted in May, Mr. Yushchenko’s was sacrificing the country’s economic development for temporary social benefits. ter figure may explain why Ukrainians now in August these indicators were 34 per- Our Ukraine People’s Union and Prime tend to believe that their economic situation cent and 29 percent, respectively. Ukraine’s economic growth in 2005 slowed Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s Fatherland has worsened rather than improved, partic- According to sociological surveys, to some 5 percent from the 12 percent were backed by notably larger electorates: ularly if we take into account that most of more than 70 percent of Ukrainians sup- 31.6 percent and 15.5 percent, respectively. growth reported in 2004 by Mr. them spend their incomes almost complete- porting Mr. Yushchenko at rallies during The results of the survey are rather Yanukovych’s Cabinet. According to Mr. ly on food and other essentials. the Orange Revolution belonged to the surprising, given the government’s Yanukovych, the pension and wage Zerkalo Nedeli also points to another middle class. Arguably, representatives of reports on the allegedly improving finan- increases that the new government potentially hazardous misstep that the this social group are the most likely candi- Yushchenko government has made in dates to form the backbone of a future bestowing its post-revolutionary generosi- society that could wholeheartedly accept a ty on the populace. The weekly argues that market economy and parliamentary Lesia Ukrainka Mr. Yushchenko’s pension and wage hikes democracy. For them time-serving state generally embraced pensioners and the charity seems to be not so important as a School of Ukrainian Studies poorest segment of Ukraine’s workforce, purposeful policy to recast the current mix that is, the people who categorize them- of Soviet-era socialism and post-Soviet in Morris County, N.J. selves as the “lower class” (approximately oligarchic capitalism in Ukraine into a 30 percent of Ukrainians). However, this transparent and civilized market-economy announces largesse, the weekly adds, did not produce system with a strong middle class as its any lasting shifts in this group’s political stabilizing core. Regrettably, President sympathies. In April Mr. Yushchenko was Yushchenko has so far failed to show or the beginning of the school year backed by 45 percent of lower-class voters even convince the public that he intends to for children from pre-kindergarten (age 5) through 12th grade and opposed by 25 percent of them, but in make any steps in this direction.

on September 10, 2005 She was series editor for the 10-hour PBS New film... program, “The American President,” and (Continued from page 19) is currently editing for PBS. in Morris Catholic High School Hampton’s and Rotterdam film festivals. The premiere screening of “The Whisperer” is part of a celebration of the 200 Denville Ave, Denville, N.J. Ms. Barnier, the film’s producer, has immediately following registration at 8:30 AM. 15th anniversary of The Yara Arts Group. worked in film and television for over 20 For tickets, at $20 general admission, years. She directed and edited the enter- $10 for students, readers may call (212) tainment show “Broadway Legends” for Lubodar Olesnycky, President of the Parents’ Committee 475-7710. the Trio Digital Cable Channel and co- For more info about Ms. Odezynska, Website: www.ridna.org produced “The Gun Deadlock” with visit: www.odezynska.com or e-mail her director Lee Grant for Lifetime Cable. at [email protected]. No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 21 Canadian researchers speak at Rylsky Folklore Institute EDMONTON – The Rylsky Folklore Institute of the dig/search/ukrn/. rapidly as manpower permits. All non-digitized collec- Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, invited Natalie There are also several photo collections, including tions can be used on premises. Kononenko, Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography at David Goberman’s photographs of wooden churches in The Ukrainian Folklore Center also provides another the University of Alberta, and her husband, Peter western Ukraine, which should be open to the public Internet service, the Ukrainian Traditional Folklore Holloway, member of the Ukrainian Folklore Center, to shortly. The archive owns the recordings of major field- website available at http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/. address the institute on July 26. workers such as Robert Klymasz and hopes to acquire This is a digital folklore textbook that currently presents Prof. Kononenko described the University of Alberta additional major collections shortly. material culture such as traditional housing, ritual cloths folklore program and the holdings of the Bohdan A special new collection which should be online soon (rushnyky), and Easter eggs (pysanky). This website is Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archive. The archive is the Local Culture Project. This documents the life of being expanded on a regular basis. holds the best collection of Ukrainian material in North Ukrainian, French, German and English pioneers on the For his part of the presentation, Mr. Holloway spoke America and possibly anywhere outside Ukraine, she Canadian prairies. Audio and video recordings, collec- about digital technology and the exciting possibilities said. It includes 30,000 songs, many of which are digi- tions of posters, almanacs, calendars and pamphlets for the documentation of folk objects that it provides. tized and accessible at http://www.museums.ualberta.ca/ which have not yet been digitized are being processed as Three-dimension modeling programs allow viewing of a small object, such as a pysanka, from all sides. For large objects, such as the interiors of traditional houses or churches, the program creates a panorama that allows the viewer to “move about” a room as if standing inside it. Several 3-D models are currently available at the http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/ website and more will soon be added. While at the institute, Prof. Kononenko concluded a preliminary agreement of cooperation between the Rylsky Folklore Institute and the University of Alberta Ukrainian Folklore Center. When the agreement becomes effective, it will facilitate scholarly exchanges, allowing graduate students and senior researchers to participate in courses and field expeditions at both insti- tutions. Joint work with digital technology is foreseen, as are joint efforts to promote knowledge of and interest in Ukrainian folklore. Prof. Kononenko and Mr. Holloway’s appearance at the Folklore Institute was part of an extended research trip which lasted the entire month of July. During their trip the two also attended the International Ballad Conference where Prof. Kononenko spoke about Ukrainian courtship ballads. Most of their time, however, was spent on fieldwork. Prof. Kononenko and Mr. Holloway visited a number of villages, including Ploske, Berlozy and Chasnivtsi in the Chernihiv Oblast, Selychivka and Dobranychivka in the Kyiv Oblast, and Yavorivka and Velykyi Khutir in In Velykyi Khutir, outside the home of Mykhailo Koval, a village school teacher active in collecting and pre- the Cherkasy Oblast. They conducted interviews and serving Ukrainian folk traditions, (from left) are: Mr. Koval’s wife, Olha; his mother, Maria; his grandson, did extensive photography, including panorama shots of Kostia; Mr. Koval; Peter Holloway; Natalie Kononenko; and Mr. Koval’s son, Roman. four village churches and three village house types.

FESTIVAL OF KYIVAN LITURGICAL MUSIC Learn, Entertain, Celebrate, Reminisce

Commemorating the 120th anniversary of the birth of Professor Ivan T ruchly October 8-9, 2005

Saturday, October 8 Please complete the enclosed form and mail, with event fee, Saturday, October 8 by October 5, 2005. Checks p ayable to Kyiv Fest should be KYIVAN LITURGY SYMPOSIUM CHICAGO SINGS mailed to: Committee for the Festival of Kyivan Liturgical St. Andrew Cultural Center A concert by four choruses Music, 3712 N. Broadway A venue, Suite 247, Chicago, IL 300 E. Army T rail Road St. Andrew Cultural Center 60613. Email registration available at [email protected] Bloomindale, IL 7 p.m.

Introduction and Historical Review Name: ______Dr. V asil T ruchly Sunday, October 9 Address: ______Profession: ______Session I Choral Music in Byzantine Liturgy RECOLLECTIONS Firm:______Archbishop Vsevolod Majdansky Luncheon of reminiscences Address: ______Ukrainian Orthodox Church of USA about Prof. Ivan T ruchly Telephone/Fax/Email: ______St. Andrew Cultural Center Session II 1 p.m. _____ I will attend the seminar ($25, fee includes lunch) Master Class _____ I will attend the concert ($10, free to seminar Connecting Body and S pirit in Music attendees) Laurence Ewashko, choral studies professor KYIVAN TRADITIONAL _____ Please order boxed dinner for me on Saturday ($10) University of Ottawa DIVINE LITURGY _____ I will attend the Sunday luncheon ($20) Sung by the Festival Choir Session III _____ T otal fees Liturgy and St atehood Sunday, October 2 Bishop Oleksander Bykovets Bus service between Ukrainian V illage Cultural Center and St. Nicholas Ukrainian Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyiv Patriarchate Bloomingdale, IL will be available for the seminar and the Catholic Cathedral concert. A schedule will be provided to registrants. Session V 10 a.m. Master Class A block of rooms has been reserved at $98 per night Sunday, October 9 Choral Conducting at Hilton Garden Inn, 551 North Swift Road, Addison, IL St. Andrew Ukrainian William W oloschuk, music director 1-877-STA YHGI Counterpoint Chorale and S tring Ensemble Orthodox Cathedral 9:30 a.m.

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Plast youths find new challenges at Mountain Biking Camp by Michael Stecyk take risks. The weeklong camp, run by Petro LEHIGHTON, Pa. – Plast Kowcz of Cleveland and the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization fraternity Burlaky, took place at the holds many different camps all over Ukrainian Homestead in Lehighton, the world, and those who are in Pa., the week of August 6-13. Plast may find it difficult to choose The campers learned valuable which camps they wish to attend. skills used for mountain biking and One such camp is dedicated to bike maintenance. For example, mountain biking, and it is most def- the importance of hydration and initely not meant for those afraid to having plenty of energy for biking are stressed, just as much as how to Michael Stecyk, 15, is a sopho- properly fall off a bike. more at Walsh Jesuit High School in During the morning, the campers Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He is a learned the technical aspects of member of Plast’s 17th “kurin” biking, such as what to do when (unit) named in honor of Bayda one encounters a very steep but Vishnyvetskyi and the “Hadiuky” short hill, or how to hop over logs troop. while biking.

A group of campers takes a break on one of the trails they traveled.

A good part of the afternoons was were campfires at which songs spent on actual trails. The trails were sung and the campers got to each day varied in difficulty this share things with each other, like year just as they do every year; favorite colors and ice cream fla- however, the first trail is usually the vors. same one with a very slight uphill This year’s camp website has pic- to the top of the mountain, then the tures of the campers in various bikers ride down, letting the incline activities and action shots, and may carry them. give you an idea about what it is like One of the last trails this year to bike in the Pocono mountains in was much more difficult and Pennsylvania. The website may be advanced with short, steep found at www.bikecamp.org/sum- inclines, narrow single tracks and mer2005. a stretch right up next to an old And, if you like what you see, Plast mountain bikers en route. strip mine, where there is a very come join us next year! steep decline on the side of the trail. Each trail had a spot where the campers were able to look out at the surrounding countryside from near the top of a mountain, and the views were spectacular. Every day the campers would come back from the trails exhausted and some- times wet from riding through tricky river crossings, and they would clean the mud, dirt, dust and some- times blood from that ride’s challenges. The evenings were mostly spent relaxing with games like Pictionary or Taboo, One of the more challenging, and treacherous, trails. and occasionally there Wipeouts will happen. No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 23 Record number attend Ukrainian Folk Dance Camp at Soyuzivka

KERHONKSON, N.Y. – A record-breaking number of campers and staff participated in the 2005 Ukrainian Folk Dance Camp held at Soyuzivka, the estate in upstate New York owned by the Ukrainian National Association. Held August 7-20, the camp attracted campers from the U.S. Northeast, the Midwest, Florida and Hawaii, as well as Canada. The camp director was Ania Bohachevsky Lonkevych, who was assisted by 16 counselors and staffers. The campers, who ranged in age between 8 and 16, included 32 first-timers; 33 returning campers and nine graduates who were counselors-in-training. In the photo above the dance camp participants are seen in their camp T-shirts.

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS Friday, September 16 Mussorgsky’s “Songs and Dances of Death,” works by Tchaikovsky, Soyuzivka’s Datebook NEW YORK: The Ukrainian American Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and September 11-15, 2005 September 30-October 1, 2005 Community Committee invites the public to Shostakovich, as well as popular Ukrainian Regensburg Reunion Plast Sorority Rada - Spartanky attend a banquet welcoming President songs. The concert, which begins at 8 p.m. Viktor Yushchenko to New York. The ban- at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, is September 14-16, 2005 October 2, 2005 quet will be held at The Pierre, Fifth Avenue Ms. Tarasova’s New York debut. The con- Landshut Reunion UNWLA Luncheon at 61st Street in New York City. Tickets are cert is presented by the Stowe Summer $300 per person. The event begins at 7 p.m. Music Festival. Ms. Tarasova, a native of September 17, 2005 October 3-6, 2005 with cocktails, followed by dinner at 8 p.m. St. Petersburg, Russia, graduated from the Lynee Richel Anniversary/ Stamford Clergy Days Dark suit attire is requested. For more infor- Odesa Conservatory in Ukraine and holds Wedding Reception mation contact Tamara Gallo Olexy of the master’s degrees from the National Beaux Ukrainian American Community October 8, 2005 Arts Institute in Ukraine. Tickets: $25; $15 Committee, either by telephone at (212) for students and seniors. For information September 17-19, 2005 Wedding 228-6840 or by e-mail at [email protected]. Mittenwald Reunion and tickets visit the Carnegie Hall Box Office, call CarnegieCharge, (212) 247- October 9, 2005 Saturday-Sunday, September 17-18 7800, or log on to www.carnegiehall.org. September 21-23, 2005 Republican Party Fund-Raiser Bayreuth Gymnasium Reunion Banquet SILVER SPRING, Md.: The third annual Washington Ukrainian Festival will be held Sunday, September 25 on the grounds of St. Andrew Ukrainian September 22-24, 2005 October 15, 2005 WARREN, Mich.: A benefit luncheon and Orthodox Cathedral, 15100 New Hampshire hosted by the Ukrainian UNA General Assembly and District Wedding Ave. The festival will feature Ukrainian and Meeting National Women’s League of America, grilled foods, Ukrainian music and dance Branches 53 and 96 of the Detroit Regional October 22, 2005 performances, children’s activities, and the Council, will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the Market Place (Ukrainian handicrafts, art, September 24, 2005 National Plast Convention Ukrainian Cultural Center, 26601 Ryan clothing, ceramics, novelties, jewelry, Ellenville High School Reunion, Road. Proceeds will be used to aid handi- music/videos, books and more). The official Class of ‘49 October 28-30, 2005 capped children of the Dnipropetrovsk opening is Saturday at noon. The zabava Halloween Weekend with children’s Orphanage in Ukraine. The show will fea- (dance) is at 9 p.m. that evening in the church September 24-25, 2005 costume parade, costume zabava ture contemporary women’s fashions with Founders’ Hall. Parking is free; admission: Plast Sorority Rada - Pershi Stezhi and more Ukrainian embroidery provided by $5 per person (age 16 and under, free). For Alexandra Sawyn of Chicago from her per- Plast Sorority Rada - Chornomorski directions and detailed information go to sonal collection. Included in the program Khvyli November 4-6, 2005 http://www.standrewuoc.org/festival.htm or also will be a performance by the Plast Orlykiada call Val Zabijaka at (301) 593-5316. September 29-October 3, 2005 Soloveyky Quartet under the musical direc- Ukrainian American Veterans November 12, 2005 Friday, September 23 tion of Olga Dubrivny-Solovey. Drawings Convention Wedding will be held for various prizes. Donation: NEW YORK: Mezzo-soprano Natasha $25 per person. For further information call Tarasova will perform a program of (586) 757-5571 or (248) 656-0306. September 30, 2005 November 19, 2005 KLK Weekend - General Meeting Sigma Beta Chi Fraternity Formal and Banquet Dinner Banquet PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES Preview of Events is a listing of Ukrainian community events open to the public. It is a service provided at minimal cost ($20 per listing) by The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. Listings of no more than 100 words (written in Preview format) plus payment should be sent a week prior to desired date of publication to: To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 Preview of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, 216 Foordmore Road P.O. Box 529 Parsippany, NJ 07054; fax, (973) 644-9510. Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Items may be e-mailed to [email protected]. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.Soyuzivka.com BACK TO SCHOOL AN OPEN INVITATION SPECIAL: TO LOCAL COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS

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