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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXI HE KRAINIANNo. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2003 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine KyivT roundtableU discusses law U.S. seeks toW take court proceedings on “Ukrainians from abroad” in case of Pavlo Lazarenko to Ukraine by Roman Woronowycz cussions are proceeding to determine by Roman Woronowycz the Procurator General’s Office, speaking Kyiv Press Bureau whether a special visa could be extended Kyiv Press Bureau during a press conference. on a concurrent basis to those persons Mr. Drahan added that, under the terms KYIV – Ukrainians living in the receiving special designation as KYIV – The Procurator General’s Office U.S. officials are requesting, Mr. Lazarenko United States or Canada should not “Ukrainians from abroad.” of Ukraine confirmed on April 24 that would remain in detention while in Ukraine expect to receive visa-free entry into The possibility that Ukrainians living Pavlo Lazarenko, the former prime minis- and would be returned to the U.S. immedi- Ukraine even if its Parliament passes a in the world diaspora might be able to ter who has spent the last three years in a ately afterwards. He also said that, in accor- law giving diaspora Ukrainians distinc- enter Ukraine minus the standard entry detention center outside San Francisco, dance with U.S. law, the accused could not tive status as “Ukrainians from abroad,” visa had been considered in the early could return to Ukraine to take part in court be forced to appear at a witness hearing noted National Deputy Ihor Ostash on stages of the bill’s preparation, but proceedings organized by the United States against his will, an option that is available April 18. protests from the Ministry of Foreign Department of Justice. to Mr. Lazarenko. Speaking before a roundtable called to Affairs and the Customs Department all U.S. law enforcement officials are com- Nonetheless, there is little reason at the discuss the draft law on the legal rights but killed the idea. pleting a lengthy investigation into charges moment to believe that Mr. Lazarenko of Ukrainians living outside the borders Serhii Nedilko, an aide to National that Mr. Lazarenko laundered hundreds of would travel back to Ukraine, where he has of Ukraine, which will soon come up for Deputy Yevhen Zhovtiak, who has been millions of dollars through U.S. and other been all but convicted of two charges of further debate in the Verkhovna Rada the instrumental in moving the bill along and foreign banks and would like to interview murder and is wanted on several other less- lawmaker noted that a more realistic goal who wrote an earlier bill rejected by law- witnesses in Ukraine before winding up er charges, including embezzlement, mis- in the post-9/11 era would be a special makers, explained that visa-free status their investigation. appropriation of government property and document for speedy entry should the bill for certain people entering Ukraine could Mr. Lazarenko is alleged to have illegal- abuse of office. receive parliamentary approval. cause problems with other foreigners ly earned hundreds of millions of dollars “Lazarenko has the right to be present at “There have been many comments because international customs standards through bribes and blackmail and his close interviews, but this does not mean he will submitted by the various ministries, espe- do not allow for what is called “positive ties with United Energy Systems, the gas use this right,” explained Marina cially in the case of the Ministry of discrimination,” which means giving and oil trading company founded and con- Dolhopola, his Ukrainian attorney, accord- Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of preference to one group over another. trolled by controversial National Deputy ing to Interfax-Ukraine. Internal Affairs on the matter of a visa- The idea for a law on diaspora status, Yulia Tymoshenko. U.S. officials want to On April 17 a Kyiv court handed down a free regime,” explained Mr. Ostash. to codify special legal rights and privi- question scores of people living in Ukraine ruling in which it found a crime organiza- “Much of it urges us to reject visa-free leges for Ukrainians who were forced to who had contact with Mr. Lazarenko and tion that has now been disbanded guilty of entry into Ukraine for those who would emigrate for political or economic rea- United Energy Systems as he and the firm the murders of lawmakers Yevhen receive special status.” rose from provincial pre-eminence in Scherban and Vadym Hetman. Prosecutors However, he added a bit later that dis- (Continued on page 9) Dnipropetrovsk to the national spotlight in stated after the court verdict that the Kyiv in the mid-1990s. unnamed party found to have ordered the The U.S. Department of Justice has sub- killings was Mr. Lazarenko, and the only mitted a list of 100 individuals it would like reason he has not been brought to justice is to question to the Procurator General’s because he is in a U.S. jail. Ukrainians in Russia’s Far East Office, among them high government offi- “However, it is clear to everyone to cials and parliamentary lawmakers. whom we refer,” explained Volodymyr “U.S. authorities believe that Mr. Huzyr, the head prosecutor in the case. try to maintain community life Lazarenko must be present in Ukraine by Maryna Makhnonos Moscow, held to commemorate the Law enforcement officials said they when witnesses for the prosecution are proved during the trial of eight members of Special to The Ukrainian Weekly anniversary of the forced resettlement of questioned,” explained Vasyl Drahan, head Ukrainians to the Far East region they of the special investigations department of (Continued on page 8) MOSCOW – Compared to the hero- dubbed Zelenyi Klyn, which was ordered ism that their forebears demonstrated in by the Russian Tsar Aleksandr II in 1883. overcoming obstacles while conquering None of the former Soviet republics Russia’s severe Far East during their had special legislation to protect their Bush announces his nominee resettlement there some 120 years ago, ethnic groups abroad at the moment of today Ukrainians living in Russia have the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, and only bureaucratic immobility and finan- Ukraine has no legislation to this day, for ambassador to Ukraine cial inadequacies to overcome. Even so, Mr. Popok said, addressing top represen- many problems continue to exist as tatives of the Ukrainian diaspora in U.S. Embassy in Ukraine also worked overseas as political counselor Ukrainian Russians attempt to keep their Russia. The Ukrainian government dias- at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and at the ethnic flame burning, especially when pora coordinator could speak from first- KYIV – President George W. Bush has their native country does not provide embassies in Moscow and Saudi Arabia. hand experience because he lived in announced his intention to nominate John either sufficient financial or moral sup- He joined the Foreign Service in 1979. Zelenyi Klyn for a time after his military Edward Herbst, a career member of the port, said a Ukrainian official in charge Mr. Herbst was born on August 12, service and was a community leader Senior Foreign Service, to be the U.S. of diaspora relations. 1952, in Rockville Center, N.Y. He there in 1991-1993. ambassador to Ukraine. The U.S. Senate “Their community life is far from an received a bachelor of science in foreign “The success of legislation depends must confirm the nomination. appropriate level,” explained Andrii service from Georgetown University upon the community’s activity,” contin- Mr. Herbst, who has the rank of minis- Popok, head of the department of School of Foreign Service in 1974, cum ter-counselor, currently serves as the U.S. Ukrainian Diaspora Affairs within ued Mr. Popok. “Unfortunately, laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and a master of Ukraine’s State Committee on Migration. Ukrainians lack unity at times, but they ambassador to Uzbekistan. He assumed arts in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher He said that a lack of legislation regulat- also do not get sufficient attention from that post in October 2000. Prior to becom- School of Law and Diplomacy in 1978. He ing Ukrainian community life in Russia their historical fatherland.” ing Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Mr. Herbst also attended the Johns Hopkins University is the main problem. Mr. Popok made his Mr. Popok said that his department is served as the U.S. consul general in School of Advanced International Studies remarks during on April 12 roundtable too small to respond immediately to all Jerusalem. Previously, he served as the Bologna Center. He is fluent in Russian with some 50 heads of Ukrainian region- the needs of the 20 million or so principal deputy to the ambassador-at-large and has a working knowledge of Arabic. al communities in Russia, including rep- Ukrainians scattered across the world. for the newly independent states, the direc- Carlos Pascual, U.S. ambassador to resentatives from communities in Kursk, Also, the government has dispersed tor of the Office of Independent States and Ukraine since October 2000, is scheduled St. Petersburg, Yakutia, Magadan, Perm, responsibility for coordination with the Commonwealth Affairs and as the director to return to Washington, this summer to Murmansk and Bashkortostan, as well as (Continued on page 9) of regional affairs in the Near East Bureau be the coordinator of U.S. assistance to of the State Department. Mr. Herbst has Europe and Eurasia. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2003 No. 18

ANALYSIS Back to the USSR? Ukraine holds NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Ukrainian role in Iraq reconstruction? Hromnytska. She said the president criti- Soviet-style ‘discussion’ of political reform cized the living conditions of servicemen LONDON – Verkhovna Rada in the units he visited, adding that much Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn on April 29 of the property at the units has been ran- by Taras Kuzio blocked or ruling elites wish to prove their said he hopes that Great Britain will sup- sacked. The next day, Mr. Kuchma “democratic” credentials, referendums are port Ukraine in its attempts to participate appointed Vice-Admiral Viacheslav In several CIS states – especially Russia, held to demonstrate the “popular will” in in the post-war reconstruction of Iraq, Sychov to assume Commander Yezhel’s Belarus, and Moldova – there is increasing which the proposals in question are evidence of nostalgia for the former USSR Interfax reported. Mr. Lytvyn was speak- post. (RFE/RL Newsline) endorsed by wide margins. Belarus (1996), ing at the Royal Institute of International and a resurgence of Soviet-style attitudes Ukraine (2000), Uzbekistan (2002) and and political culture. One aspect of this Relations in London within the frame- Kyiv moves to avoid higher bread prices Kyrgyzstan (2003) all resorted to this tactic. work of his three-day visit to the United trend is the use of elections not as vehicles According to audiotape recordings in the KYIV – Ukrainian Prime Minister for free democratic competition, but to Kingdom. He stressed that his country possession of former presidential security possesses vast experience in the oil sec- Viktor Yanukovych requested on April 26 legitimize ruling elites and their “parties of guard Mykola Melnychenko, the Soviet- that the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the power.” tor, a highly developed engineering style overwhelming endorsements of structure, and experts who have worked Ministry of the Economy and other exec- Opposition parties and civil society are Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma’s four utive bodies “provide conditions” for increasingly seen in a negative and distrust- on oil deposits in Russia. He said a questions in the 2000 referendum were the Ukrainian delegation is to visit grain purchases abroad to avoid signifi- ful light as “extremists” or “destructive result of outright falsification. Mr. Kuchma cant increases in domestic bread prices, forces.” Legislation is selectively applied, Washington on May 4-5 to raise the same has denied the authenticity of the issue. (RFE/RL Newsline) Interfax reported. “I believe today it is especially against the opposition, while Melnychenko tapes. necessary to focus on the mobilization of deception is deeply ingrained. Soviet politi- On March 6, President Kuchma intro- Lytvyn sees no need for referendum bread-grain resources, [and] on its impor- cal culture is especially evident in the dis- duced to the Verkhovna Rada the political tation from Russia, Kazakstan and other crepancy – as seen previously in the USSR reforms he first proposed in August 2002. A LONDON – Verkhovna Rada countries,” Mr. Yanukovych said. He said – between official rhetoric and policies in two month “national discussion” was duly Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn told the bread prices might be pushed up by a the pursuit of reform, the struggle against launched, with Mr. Kuchma threatening to Royal Institute of International Relations possible poor grain harvest this year. The corruption and the achievement of foreign- hold a referendum if his proposals are not in London on April 29 that there will be prime minister said Ukraine lost more policy goals. Most importantly, the execu- implemented by Parliament. Referendums no referendum on political reform in than half of its winter crops due to bad tive branch and the “party of power” seek to “with legally binding results,” President Ukraine, thus contradicting such a sug- weather. UNIAN reported the same day exercise monopoly control over the Kuchma claimed in his April 15 state-of- gestion by President Leonid Kuchma at a Parliament, civil society, the media and the that Agriculture Minister Serhii Ryzhuk the-nation address to Parliament, “are the news conference last week, UNIAN proposed that Ukraine drop duties on 1 economy. highest form of people power.” reported. Mr. Lytvyn said an appropriate Why is this occurring now, more than a million tons of imported grain until July Threats by the Ukrainian executive to decision to reform Ukraine’s constitu- 31 in order to avoid “eating up our seed- decade after the USSR collapsed? In some hold referendums are nothing new. In 1996 tional system will be adopted by the cases, this is in response to political crises grain resources.” Ukraine’s current they helped unblock five years of discus- Parliament with a two-thirds majority import tax on wheat is 40 percent. and the growth of opposition activity (e.g., sions surrounding a post-Soviet constitu- before October 2004, when the next pres- Ukraine and, to a lesser extent, Kazakstan). (RFE/RL Newsline) tion, although not in Mr. Kuchma’s favor. In idential elections are scheduled to take More broadly, the ruling elites feel stronger 2000 a referendum was actually held. Our place. Mr. Lytvyn said he hopes the pres- Kuchma wants halt to defamation cases domestically after having converted their Ukraine National Deputy Mykola Tomenko ident and national deputies will arrive at Soviet-era political power into economic has predicted that a referendum could be a compromise on a political-reform bill. KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma said wealth and then back into political control. held either in the summer or by December In particular, the Ukrainian opposition is at a news conference in Kyiv on April 23 In addition, in Russia they have a strong at the latest. that he has asked Procurator General external ally with whom they can exchange against Mr. Kuchma’s proposals to intro- Why is President Kuchma again threat- duce a bicameral legislature and give the Sviatoslav Piskun to discontinue the crim- domestic assets in return for political sup- ening a referendum? inal investigations launched recently port (e.g., Belarus, Ukraine and Armenia). president the right to appoint some min- Two analysts from the Razumkov Center isters. (RFE/RL Newsline) against a number of regional media outlets When presidential proposals have been for Economic and Political Studies pointed for allegedly defaming the president and out in the April 5-11 edition of Zerkalo obstructing his activities, UNIAN report- Dr. Taras Kuzio is a resident fellow at Nedeli/Dzerkalo Tyzhnia that the ultimate President signs anti-censorship bill ed. Mr. Kuchma said he did not play any the Center for Russian and East aim of the executive is to control role in launching the cases, adding that he KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma has European Studies at the University of even does not know what media were tar- signed into law a bill defining and ban- Toronto. (Continued on page 13) geted by the Procurator General’s Office. ning media censorship in Ukraine, (RFE/RL Newsline) Interfax reported on April 28. The bill, passed by the Verkhovna Rada on April Battalion’s return depends on Kuwait Ombudswoman reports on human rights 3, makes it a criminal offense for offi- cials to “deliberately intervene in the pro- KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma fessional work of journalists.” It also told a news conference on April 23 that by Jan Maksymiuk the head to make people suffocate, limits financial penalties against journal- the return of the Ukrainian anti-nuclear, RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report applying electric shocks to the body, or ists for defamation claims. (RFE/RL -biological and -chemical (NBC) battal- hanging people by their handcuffed Newsline) ion that was dispatched to Kuwait in late Ombudswoman Nina Karpachova on hands. April 18 delivered an annual report to the March is dependent on a Kuwaiti gov- She stressed that in many cases, the Kuchma sacks naval commander Verkhovna Rada on the human rights sit- ernment decision, UNIAN reported. The application of torture led to death, per- uation in Ukraine, Interfax and UNIAN president noted that Kuwait had request- manent disability, or health disorders. KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma on ed a six-month deployment of the unit reported. Ms. Karpachova told lawmak- April 25 dismissed naval Commander ers that the observance of human rights Last year, more than 1,000 police officers and now may either request shortening were fired because of “inclination to vio- Mykhailo Yezhel after visiting a number or prolonging its stay. (RFE/RL in the country is “far away” from interna- of military units and facilities in Crimea tional standards. lence,” application of force and torture to Newsline) citizens. earlier the same day, Interfax reported, According to Ms. Karpachova, after citing presidential spokeswoman Olena (Continued on page 10) the post of ombudsman was established Ms. Karpachova said that as of in 1998, she received complaints mostly January 1, nearly 150,000 Ukrainians from disabled persons, pensioners and served their sentences in corrective-labor jobless people, while now she is more colonies, while more than 43,000 were FOUNDED 1933 and more often addressed by journalists, under investigation in isolation wards. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY law enforcers, state clerks and officials. 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Kyoto protocol on pollution could bring financial benefit for Ukraine by Ivan Poltavets responsible for more than 50 percent of be at between $2.4 billion and $5.6 bil- and cost the German firm approximately Special to The Ukrainian Weekly worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. To lion [annually],” said Mr. Pavel. 15 million euros. achieve the set goals, flexibility mecha- For Ukraine it could become one of In return for the investment, the KYIV – If another major industrial nisms were built into the protocol to allow the rare cases in which the extreme ener- Ukrainian side would have to provide the nation ratifies the Kyoto Agreement, it for easier attainment of overall compli- gy inefficiency of its industry became a could bring Ukraine financial benefit in German firm with emissions certificates ance. One of these mechanisms foresaw benefit, attracting foreign “climate” the most unlikely of ways. for achieved greenhouse gas reductions. the creation of a market for unused quota- investments. Because the level of pollution in However, the project is currently stalled shares, which could be bought by coun- Researchers at the European Bank for Ukraine has dropped sharply in the last by the uncertainty of the official tries or enterprises facing difficulties in Reconstruction and Development several years, mostly due to the near total Ukrainian stance towards the Kyoto meeting their own set quotas. (EBRD) put Ukraine first in a ranking of collapse of economic structures for much Protocol, as well as lack of necessary Ukraine is a country that currently has of the 1990s, Ukraine has dropped below Eastern European countries that could institutional infrastructure. its allocated pollutant levels as agreed many unused quota-shares. Since 1990, potentially reap the most benefits from Officially, the protocol will come into upon in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by Kyoto Protocol implementation. How- force once the ratifying countries togeth- international agreement that delineated a factor of two. The reason for such a ever, in the list of countries ready to deal er account for at least 55 percent of glob- how much pollution signatory nations dramatic change lies in a sharp drop in with the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms al greenhouse gas emissions. Canada and could emit. GDP – and especially in industrial pro- Ukraine occupied the last spot. Poland ratified the anti-pollution docu- Today, by selling its unused quotas for duction – over the last decade. This “Ukraine, after signing the protocol in ment in December 2002. The Kyoto pro- should guarantee Ukraine an ample 1999, slightly decreased its pace in the greenhouse gas emissions, said Ferdinand tocol should enter into force 90 days after stockpile of unused and salable green- international negotiation process and Pavel, expert of the German Advisory its ratification by Russia, which is house gas quotas when that mechanism is implementation of its international Group, “Ukraine can earn from an esti- expected to accede this year. Russia is activated. responsibilities [within the Kyoto mated $700 million to $3 billion every responsible for 17 percent of all green- Another flexibility mechanism that process]. Currently, a ratification package year in 2008-2010.” house gas emissions, and its accession Kyiv may be able to utilize for financial is ready and has been submitted to the Mr. Pavel spoke at a roundtable on the would put the member-states’ total over topic titled “Kyoto Protocol: Opportu- advantage is called “joint implementa- Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine,” tion.” This mechanism allows investors explained Semen Kublanov, head of the 55 percent. nities for Ukraine,” which was held joint- “We will try to convince the Russian ly by the Institute for Economic Research to develop a project in which they find an Ecology Monitoring Department at the leadership to get Kyoto protocol rati- and Policy Consulting and the German enterprise where a reduction of green- Ministry of Ecology and Natural fied,” mentioned Hans-Jochen Schmidt, consulting firm in Kyiv’s World Bank house gas levels could be achieved in the Resources of Ukraine. office on April 4. cheapest way. Investors could finance It is expected that the Kyoto Protocol the representative of the German The Kyoto Protocol, adopted within such a project and then sell the level of package will soon be sent to the Embassy in Kyiv. the United Nations Framework Conven- the emissions that were reduced if they Verkhovna Rada for ratification. Despite A number of firms have already started tion on Climate Change, aims for the fell below the allowable emission level. the relative slack in Ukraine’s perform- their own greenhouse gas emissions reduction of human-produced greenhouse The point is to target the most obsolete ance in the Kyoto Protocol process, reduction programs, and even if imple- gas emissions to prevent global warming. technologies first rather than concentrat- Western companies are already looking mentation of the Kyoto Protocol is In the protocol all major emitter-nations ing on improving modern facilities and for opportunities in Ukraine. Ruhrgas delayed, which is unlikely at this point, of greenhouse gasses were assigned quo- guarantee that the level of greenhouse (Germany) and Ukrtransgaz (Ukraine) projects to reduce emissions will contin- tas on emissions at a base year set as gas emissions is reduced in the most cost have developed a joint project to opti- ue and a greenhouse gas emissions mar- 1990, which they will have to show as an effective manner. mize the work of the Ukrainian gas tran- ket should soon take off as the European annual average for the years 2008-2012. “There are estimations that such a flow sit system, which could cut carbon diox- Union, Japan and perhaps Ukraine devel- Currently, developed nations are into Eastern Europe as a whole area will ide emissions by 350,000 tons annually op potent national programs.

Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee holds hearing on NATO expansion by Serhiy Zhykharev stronger bilateral ties with like-minded the Baltic states are among the highest in on the side of democratic development and Ukrainian National Information Service Allies, Washington may seek a revamped Europe.” continuing market reforms. Joining NATO NATO structure that can more effectively Mr. Larrabee also noted that, unlike most would only reinforce this support and WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate intersect with U.S. interests,” said Mr. other NATO applicants from Central and ensure that the new NATO members imple- Committee on Foreign Relations held a Bugajski. In this context, he argued that the East Europe, the Baltic States did not inher- ment their reforms in a speedier manner. hearing on April 3 on the second round of accession of Romania and Bulgaria to it their military, but instead had to re-create The witnesses and Sen. Lugar also NATO expansion to include Latvia, NATO would benefit the strategic interests them. Given the financial constraints, this remarked that NATO expansion opens a set Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, of the United States in the region and task has been difficult, but the countries of new questions as to who will join the Slovakia and Slovenia. Sen. Richard G. alliance later. Both the committee chairman Lugar (R-Ind.), chairman of the Senate and the experts agreed that eventually there Foreign Relations Committee, presided would be a need to admit Ukraine. over the meeting. “Ukraine, of course, is the grand prize [in “Ukraine, of course, is the grand prize Members of the Committee heard the further expansion of the European Union].” [in further expansion],” stated Mr. Simon. testimonies of Janusz Bugajski, director of According to him, admitting Ukraine to East European Project at the Center for – Jeffrey Simon NATO will become a necessity because it Strategic and International Studies; Jeffrey would tie together the whole region: from Simon, senior research fellow at the the Baltic states in the north, Poland, Institute for National Strategic Studies of Slovakia and Slovenia in the west, and managed to create forces that are capable of the National Defense University; and F. encourage cooperation between NATO Bulgaria and Romania in the south. Mr. Stephen Larrabee of the RAND Corp. members. operating with NATO forces. All three Simon expressed his opinion that the Defending the case for Bulgaria and Mr. Simon expressed similar sentiments. Baltic countries continue to increase their Baltic states and Poland would have an Romania, Mr. Bugajski defined five stan- “The United States’ military footprint is defense budgets and work to develop spe- internal pressure to include Ukraine in dards that are necessary to measure every likely to change in Europe not just by thin- cialized units of value to NATO. the alliance based on their ties and prox- new NATO applicant: domestic stability, ning of its presence in Germany, but also by Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia expressed imity. democratic governance, bilateral political acquiring a new presence in the direction of their support of the U.S.-led war on terror- Mr. Bugajski agreed that Ukraine would cooperation, regional security; and, a com- Europe’s east and southeast,” he stated. ism and participated in Operation Enduring eventually be admitted into NATO along mitment to anti-terrorist activities. Arguing the case for Slovakia’s and Freedom. They have created a joint region- with Moldova. In his opinion, the admis- According to Mr. Bugajski, Bulgaria and Slovenia’s entry into NATO, Mr. Simon al defense unit, composed of a company sion of Romania sets a great example for Romania established and stabilized their pointed out that citizens of both states ini- from each state (BALTBAT), a joint Baltic admission of these two states, which have democratic states, managed to avoid ethnic tially disapproved of NATO membership, Naval Squadron (BALTRON) and a Baltic achieved relative stability (Ukraine more so conflicts, and held several free and fair but subsequent actions by the governments Air Surveillance Network (BALTNET). than Moldova), but still have some issues elections. Although poverty remains an have swayed popular opinion. Both states The states are economically and politically requiring resolution. issue, economic stability was achieved at have a stable political and economic envi- stable and continue their reforms in order to In general, the spirit of the hearing con- the macroeconomic level, and both states ronment and have demonstrated a consis- root out corruption and ensure that political, firmed that NATO expansion is a necessary demonstrated the willingness to cooperate tent desire to cooperate in the political economic, and interethnic stability remains. and inevitable process motivated by the on political and military levels. realm, as evidenced by their active collabo- Following their oral presentations, new developments in the relationship Both Bulgaria and Romania have good ration in the U.S.-led war against interna- Chairman Lugar inquired whether it is pos- between the United States and Germany relations with their neighbors, and both tional terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq. sible that any of the new NATO members and France. The United States may need to have joined the U.S.-led anti-terror coali- Making the case for Baltic states, may change their minds and not uphold the change its “footprint” in Europe and devel- tion by sending troops to the conflict zone. RAND’s Mr. Larrabee remarked that, ideals of democracy and freedom that bind op new relationships with the states that “We have entered a new turbulent era in “membership of the Baltic states in NATO NATO members. All three witnesses agreed support its anti-terrorism policies. The trans-Atlantic relations that may drastically is very much in U.S. interests and will sig- those chances are slim and that such a sce- newest NATO members demonstrated their reshape the strategic map of Europe. While nificantly contribute to enhancing overall nario would be possible only during a commitment to partnership and cooperation NATO may not disappear, it could increas- security in Europe. All three states have major economic catastrophe. Otherwise, the and enabled the United States to receive ingly resemble the OSCE or a mini-U.N. ... functioning democratic systems and viable witnesses at the hearing claimed that public international support it needs in the fight Alternatively, in addition to promoting market economies. Indeed, growth rates in opinion in the aspirant countries is strongly against terror. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2003 No. 18

Life of 21st century Ukrainian woman is topic of conference at Soyuzivka by Marianna Zajac dimmed, author Irene Zabytko was intro- duced to the congenial group. During this KERHONKSON, N.Y. – When sur- conference, Ms. Zabytko’s presentation veyed about whether they would be inter- focused on her latest book, “When Luba ested in participating in another such con- Leaves Home,” which tells a classic story ference, the guests of the “The World of the of growing up in America’s melting pot. 21st Century Woman” conference replied Most of those present quickly identified “Yes,” “Yes, Yes,” and “Absolutely.” From with Ms. Zabytko’s characters as she read the very onset of the conference, held on an excerpt. There were many lively and April 4-6 at Soyuzivka, the ladies who trav- eager questions from the audience, and the eled from Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, line to purchase this newly released book Washington, New York, New Jersey and wrapped around the lobby. Ms. Zabytko Connecticut went out of their way to meet graciously took the time to individually and greet each other. sign all books – even for those women who One of the most important challenges the bought two and three copies for daughters, Ukrainian community faces is to ensure the sisters, friends and cousins. The evening survival of its organizations, and the dias- wrapped up, with great reluctance on the pora as a whole. Without engaging the part of participants, only because of interest and talents of the younger and/or Saturday’s early scheduled start. presently less involved women, for exam- The official kickoff of this women’s con- ple, the Ukrainian National Women’s ference was held Saturday morning as Ms. League of America (UNWLA) will face a Zajac gave an upbeat and positive start to questionable future. the weekend. Iryna Kurowyckyj, UNWLA Thus UNWLA Branch 95, the confer- president, was invited to the microphone to Dr. Tanya Zazula covers the topic “Heart and Mind.” ence organizer, set a goal of bringing deliver introductory remarks in which she together women of the Ukrainian commu- spoke of the bigger picture of the women’s nity – no matter what their profession, what movement. their first language, what their organization- Saturday’s opening seminar, “Legal and al beliefs – in an informal setting to share Financial Fitness,” was given jointly by their thoughts and ideas, their common Oksana Xenos and Zoriana Stawnychy. The daily issues, and, most importantly, to net- dynamic Ms. Xenos is an attorney and spe- work. cialist on tax-exempt organizations with the Sunday’s sessions opened up a good dis- U.S. Department of the Treasury in cussion on the transition of the UNWLA Washington. Ms. Stawnychy is the owner into the 21st century and also on the excit- of the successful Stawnychy Financial ing new health initiative to bring preventive Services Inc., a financial planning firm and health care information and education to the registered investment advisor. Together, this women of Ukraine. As a result, “The World team provided indispensable insight on of the 21st Century Woman” conference financial and legal planning, and enter- surpassed even the organizers’ hopes in tained many vital questions posed by the seeding good exchanges and exciting plans audience – primarily on estate planning and for the future and was a resounding success. personal investment portfolios. It was a The newly refreshed lobby of challenge for the organizers to bring this Soyuzivka’s main house, decorated by session to an end. UNWLA Branch 95 members with beauti- Luba Siryj, an information technology ful “kylymy,” served as the setting for architect with IBM, captured the audience’s Friday night’s opening program. The agen- attention with a lighthearted yet motivation- Offering their perspectives on the “Ukrainian Woman in Two Worlds” are (from da began with a greeting from Marianna al approach to aging titled “Forever left) Regina Hancher, Eva Panchyshyn, Anna Khomenko and Renata Zajac. Zajac, conference chair and president of the Young.” Central New York Regional Council of the Following lunch, the conference was UNWLA, a wine tasting, an art exhibit, and divided into two tracks. Participants were, a book reading and signing. of course, free to join any seminar in either The wine, which came from local track; however, in order to provide as broad Hudson Valley vineyards, was much appre- an array of topics as possible in the span of ciated by the women who had traveled in one weekend, concurrent sessions were poor weather conditions to be present at this necessary. function. Tatiana Zazula who holds a Ph.D in The art exhibit, organized by Ulana basic and applied neurocognition and cur- Hajdar, boasted a wealth of talent displayed rently has a private neuropsychological in an eye-catching manner. The following practice in New York City, delved into the Ukrainian women artists were featured: differences between the male and female Oksana Cehelsky Klapiscak, Anya Farion, brains and how this difference results in Jaroslava Gerulak, Irene Homotiuk Zielyk, reactionary variances between the two. Dr. Olga Maryschuk, Christina Saj, Ulana Zazula’s evolutionary perspective offered Salewycz Hajdar, Ilona Sochynsky, Zoriana the audience a better understanding of the Sokhatska, Marianna Szczawinsky Crans, challenges faced by today’s overextended and Halyna Tytla. The individual artists’ women. styles and mediums were briefly described Communications was approached by by Ms. Hajdar. two experts in the field: Roma Hadzewycz, Later that evening, everyone comfort- editor-in-chief of The Ukrainian Weekly, ably seated with wine in hand, the lights and Gina Hancher, director of product pub- Panelists discuss the “Male Dominant Society”: (from left) Oksana Mulyk, lishing and design at Forrester Research in Oksana Rawlyuk Protenic, Dr. Ivanna Ratycz and Nadia Raytcz. Cambridge, Mass., covered communica- tions. Ms. Hadzewycz spoke about how Ivanna Ratycz, one of the first tenured had one hour to prepare for the cocktail community members can get their mes- female professors at Rutgers University and hour. sages across to their local print media, as an honorary member of the UNWLA; and The cocktail hour in the lobby bustled well as to Ukrainian community newspa- Oksana Rawlyuk Protenic, professor of with great conversation and accolades for pers, whereas Ms. Hancher shared her music at SUNY Conservatory of Music at the day’s events. The women (and some knowledge on the power of effective oral Purchase. husbands) mingled and met with new peo- communication. The duo was barraged The topic of “Elder Care” was presented ple or rekindled old friendships. At the ban- with questions. by Irene D’Alessio who holds a master’s in quet, Ms. Zajac offered her welcome and Dr. Marta Kushnir, a board-certified social work and has worked for 20 years insight into the hopes for the outcome of the internist and current secretary of UMANA’s with the elderly. This is a topic which will event, after which she read letters of greet- New York chapter, spoke on how women’s ings from Sen. Hillary Clinton and New health issues and parameters differ from affect each and every one of us at some point and time in our lives. York Gov. George Pataki. men’s. Dr. Kushnir also fended numerous UNWLA President Kurowyckyj present- questions. The last session of the day stood apart from the previous ones as it dealt with stress ed a certificate of achievement to Branch 95 “Careers in a Male Dominant Society” for its outstanding efforts in public relations, management. Ms. Kaminsky, who recently featured four professional and very quali- within and outside of the Ukrainian com- opened a Curves for Women Fitness Center fied ladies in different areas of expertise: munity, including the planning of this con- Conference Chair Marianna Zajac Nadia Ratycz, project manager at Bayer in Ruchboro, Pa., assured that the ladies ference. delivers a welcome during the banquet Inc.; Oksana Mulyk, director of payroll rec- walked away with valuable relaxation and on Saturday night. onciliation and data integration at ADP; Dr. stress reduction techniques – but, they only (Continued on page 12) No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2003 5 Scholars from U.S., Canada and Ukraine examine Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933

by Dr. Orest Popovych NEW YORK – Scholars from the U.S., Canada and Ukraine convened at the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) building on April 6 in order to mark the 70th anniversary of the “Holodomor” – the Ukrainian Famine- Genocide – with two roundtable discussions, offering analysis of this Ukrainian tragedy from several perspec- tives. The first roundtable dealt with archival materials per- taining to the Famine of 1932-1933 while the second exam- ined the treatment of this subject in art and literature. The program was opened by NTSh President Dr. Larissa Onyshkevych, who transferred the proceedings to Dr. Yaroslav Pelensky, director of the Institute of European Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and president of the Lypynsky Institute of Eastern European Research, who chaired the roundtables, introducing the speakers and their topics. The first to speak was Dr. Taras Hunczak, professor of history at Rutgers University, whose topic was “Materials on the ‘Holodomor’ in the Archives of Ukraine.” Dr. Hunczak focused on the manner in which the Famine in A roundtable on the Great Famine at the Shevchenko Scientific Society: (from the left) Drs. Yaroslav Soviet Ukraine had galvanized and united those Ukrainians Pelensky, Stanislav Kulchytsky, Taras Hunczak and Roman Serbyn. who lived in western Ukraine, beyond the reach of Soviet the International Red Cross in Geneva. Unfortunately, he although in order to conform to the party line, the author rulers, and thus were able to act on behalf of their starving said, most of them pertained to the 1921-1923 Famine in had to restrict the Famine and the blame for it to the class of brethren. The initiative came from the Ukrainian parliamen- Ukraine, with only a few dealing with the Famine of 1932- “kurkuls” (kulaks), the well-to-do farmers who were the tary representation to the Polish Sejm, which on July 25, 1933. Dr. Serbyn found a record of appeals to Moscow first to be liquidated by the Soviets. 1933, created the Central Committee for the Salvation of from the Red Cross and the Catholic Church, as well as a A couple of plays on the Great Famine were published in Ukraine, whose objective was both to collect food for the number of Russian and Kozak émigré organizations. As the United States. The first, named “Velykyi Zlam” (The starving people of Soviet Ukraine and to inform the was mentioned before, the Soviet regime simply denied the Great Break), was written in 1943 and published in 1950 by Western world about Ukraine’s plight, urging intervention existence of the 1932-1933 famine. The speaker presented Serhiy Kokot-Ledianskyi, an eyewitness to the famine, who in defense of the Ukrainian people through the League of two of his latest books to the NTSh library. saw half the people of his village near Kyiv starve to death. Nations, the International Red Cross and other channels. The second roundtable began with a lecture by Dr. Daria His play has some graphic depictions of the horrors of the In Halychyna, civic committees of this type were also Darevych, a professor at York University, and the president “Holodomor,” ending with an accusation directed at his fel- activated at the level of regions, towns and even villages, of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Canada, titled “The low Ukrainians: “We die in captivity, because at the critical Dr. Hunczak continued. October 29, 1933 was designated Theme of ‘Holodomor’ in Art.” While there are examples moment we don’t act, only keep silent and hesitate, or just as a day of mourning and protest, with solemn gatherings, of art referring to the Ukrainian Famine of 1921-1923, the simply submit to the enemy, because he is strong.” religious services and bells tolling throughout Western Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 is virtually unrepresented The second play published in the United States was Ukraine. A number of eloquent protest resolutions have in the fine arts. Dr. Darevych surmised that art reflecting the “Hunger 1933” by Bohdan Boychuk, written in 1961-1962. documented these events. The Central Committee for the Great Famine was either not created to begin with, or was Mr. Boychuk was not an eyewitness to the Famine, but he Salvation of Ukraine was one of the organizers of an inter- created, but subsequently destroyed out of fear, under con- gives an intensely emotional account of the subject, extend- national conference “to aid the starving in the Soviet ditions of Stalinist terror. ing its significance to the general issue of man’s inhumanity Union,” which was held in Vienna in December of 1933. In Ukraine, interest in this theme was awakened only in to man. There were other instances where Ukraine’s tragedy was 1993, in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of the What Dr. Onyshkevych found striking about the last two publicized in Western Europe. Famine, to which a number of artists dedicated their works, plays was the lack of any blame, accusations or any call for Unfortunately, all of these efforts were to no avail, as the most memorable being those of the Lviv painter Roman revenge against the perpetrators of the crimes of the Soviet authorities steadfastly denied the existence of any Romanyshyn. Famine. She wondered if this attitude was typical only of famine on their territory, forbid the importation of food for Lida Bodnar-Balahutrak, an American-born artist, the two playwrights, or generally characteristic of Ukrainian the starving and denied entry to the International Red applied the technique of collage of Christian iconography culture. Cross. with images of the Great Famine. In her works, the sacred In his summary of the program, Dr. Pelensky opined that In desperation, the Organization of Ukrainian images are replaced by photographs of the Famine victims. studies of Ukraine’s Famine-Genocide have only now Nationalists decided to avenge the Famine-Genocide by The last speaker was Dr. Onyshkevych, who discussed begun in earnest, and that they are facing three formidable assassinating the Soviet consul in Lviv. Mykola Lemyk, a “The ‘Holodomor’ as Presented in Drama.” According to problems: 1) The existence of a literature of denial of the young student, volunteered for the task, and he shot and Dr. Onyshkevych, drama is usually the last genre, after “Holodomor,” reflecting an attitude that is prevalent in killed one of the consular officials, but not the consul him- poetry and prose, to which writers turn on any subject, and Russia and also among some scholars in the West. 2) The self. Mr. Lemyk’s act was later described as “a shot in in the case of the Famine-Genocide there was also the strict lack of assignment of responsibility for these crimes, defense of millions,” attesting to the unity of the Ukrainian prohibition against this subject under the Soviet rule in the beyond the present generalities of blaming Stalin or nation, Dr. Hunczak related. period of 1932-1991. Nevertheless, a direct reference to the Stalinism. 3) The fear of eyewitness survivors of the Next was the lecture by Dr. Stanislav Kulchytsky of the Famine did manage to sneak into one play by Yuriy Famine, many of whom have been reluctant to tell their sto- Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Yanovsky, “Potomky” (Descendants), published in 1939, ries, even in the diaspora. Ukraine titled “Materials on the ‘Holodomor’ in the Archives of Ukraine and the USSR.” Under the Soviet regime, said Dr. Kulchytsky, documents pertaining to the Famine-Genocide were marked “top secret” and the very use of the word “famine” was strictly forbidden. With most of the archives accessible today, one can learn much from EighthTORONTO – UkrainianThe Ukrainian World Congress World Presidium, Congressand guests will proceed slated along thefor Khreschatyk August through the hundreds of local newspapers available from that time meeting in limited session on Saturday, April 5, finalized Independence Square to St. Sophia and then to the Great period, as well as from documents of the Ministry of some details of the eighth UWC Congress to be held August Famine monument at the St. Michael’s Square, where a Internal Affairs. 18-21 in Kyiv. All sessions of the congress except the Great requiem service will be offered by Orthodox, Catholic and Dr. Kulchytsky stressed the fact that simultaneously with Famine requiem, the concert and the gala reception, will take Evangelical clergy. starving to death Ukrainian farmers, Soviet authorities per- place at the Ukrainian House on European Square. The following day’s morning and afternoon sessions will petrated the liquidation of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, thus UWC councils and committees will convene at 10 a.m. be devoted to four roundtable discussions. A concert will investing these crimes with all the earmarks of a genocide on Monday, August 18. The following councils and com- take place at 7 p.m. at a nearby hall (to be announced). against the Ukrainian people. mittees have scheduled deliberations: the World Social Thursday will conclude deliberations with the presenta- Since November 2002 there have been many efforts in Services Council, the World Coordinating Educational tion of resolutions and the elections of an executive com- Ukraine to mark the Famine-Genocide, with much of the Council, the Human and Civil Rights Commission, the mittee, an executive and a board of directors. At 5 p.m. a inspiration coming from the activities of the diaspora, said World Cooperative Council, the Council on Cultural concluding press conference will be held, followed by a Dr. Kulchytsky. For the first time ever, the Verkhovna Rada held hearings on the Famine. He offered his opinion that the Affairs, and the World Scholarly Council. Sessions of the reception at the Kyiv City Hall. Ukrainian Parliament should petition the United Nations Sports Committee and the Conference of Ukrainian Youth To date, some 100 delegates have been registered – and other international organizations to designate the 1932- Organizations are still in the planning stage. mostly from the Eastern diaspora. UWC member-organiza- 1933 Famine in Ukraine as a genocide – a designation that An opening press conference will take place at 5 p.m. on tion from North and South America, Europe and Australia to this day is rejected by many scholars in the West. Monday, August 18, at the press conference room at the are urged to register as soon as possible but no later than The Institute of History in Kyiv is a major scholarly Ukrainian House; the opening ceremony will commence May 31. Cost of registration is $400 (Canadian) or $250 institution, employing 34 doctors of science and 80 candi- thereafter at 7 p.m. with a prayer service and presentation of (U.S.) for delegates from United States, Canada, Great dates of science. It is also publisher of books on Ukrainian colors of all countries where Ukrainians reside. Several Britain,Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, $50 (U.S.) for history, and Dr. Kulchytsky presented several of them to the ambassadors have acknowledged their participation. delegates from South America and European Union candi- NTSh library, significantly, a bibliography on the subject of The president of Ukraine along with other dignitaries date countries, and $10 (U.S.) from delegates from the Famine comprising more than 6,000 titles. from Ukrainian government and the Verkhovna Rada have Armenia, Georgia, Kazakstan, Russia, Transdniester and The last to speak in the first roundtable was Dr. Roman been invited to attend the opening ceremonies. Uzbekistan. Serbyn, professor emeritus of history at the University of The following day, Tuesday, will be devoted to plenary For information contact the UWC Toronto Office; tele- Quebec. Dr. Serbyn researched documents on the Famine at sessions, reports and deliberations. At 7 p.m. the delegates phone, (416) 323-3020, e-mail, [email protected]. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2003 No. 18

COMMENTARY THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Recalling one correspondent’s Undoing history, or righting a wrong? act of honesty and courage Earlier this year, the call went out to Ukrainian Americans to write letters to the Pulitzer Prize Board seeking the revocation of the Pulitzer Prize awarded in 1932 to Walter Duranty of The New York Times. That action was meant to attract the attention by Ian Hunter In a series of articles smuggled out in of the board just before its deliberations about this year’s crop of Pulitzer Prizes. We diplomatic pouch, he described a man- have no way of knowing how many letters were sent, but we do know that Sig The 1932 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism made famine that had become a holocaust: Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, sent out form letters responding that was awarded to The New York Times peasants, millions of them, dying like fam- “complaints about the prize for Mr. Duranty have been raised on and off through the Moscow correspondent, Walter Duranty, ished cattle, sometimes within sight of full years. However, to date, the Pulitzer Board has not seen fit to reverse a previous whom Malcolm Muggeridge called “the granaries, guarded by the army and police. board’s decision that now stretches back 70 years.” Furthermore, he noted that greatest liar I ever knew.” Likewise, corre- “At a railway station early one morning, I Duranty’s prize in 1932 “was for a specific set of stories in the previous year – name- spondent Joseph Alsop said: “Lying was saw a line of people with their hands tied ly, 1931” – not the years of the Famine of 1932-1933. Duranty’s stock in trade.” behind them, being herded into cattle What he neglected to mention, however, was the Duranty’s prize was given, as Yet for two decades Duranty was the trucks at gunpoint - all so silent and myste- noted on the www.pulitzer.org website, for a series of articles – “especially the work- most influential foreign correspondent in rious and horrible in the half light, like ing out of the Five-Year Plan.” That Five-Year Plan, as we all know, called for the Russia. His dispatches were regarded as some macabre ballet.” forced collectivization of farms, which led to the Great Famine in Ukraine. Duranty authoritative; indeed Duranty helped to At a German cooperative farm, an oasis effusively praised Stalin’s Five-Year Plan. His subsequent stories denied the Famine at shape U.S. foreign policy. His biographer, of prosperity in the collectivized wilder- the same time that he told others that millions – perhaps as many as 10 million – had Susan Taylor (“Stalin’s Apologist,” Oxford ness, he saw peasants kneeling down in the perished. Indeed Duranty’s role in Moscow was more that of a propagandist for Stalin University Press, 1990) has demonstrated snow, begging for a crust of bread. In his than a correspondent. that Duranty’s reporting was a critical fac- diary, Muggeridge wrote: “Whatever else I In 1986, Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, when asked if the newspaper tor in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s may do or think in the future, I must never would return Duranty’s Pulitzer, replied: “what we report has to stand, for better or 1933 decision to grant official recognition pretend that I haven’t seen this. Ideas will worse, as our best contemporary effort. ... That contemporary Pulitzer jurors thought to the Soviet Union. come and go; but this is more than an idea. him worthy of a prize for the things he did write from Moscow is a judgment I am nei- Duranty, an unattractive, oversexed little It is peasants kneeling down in the snow ther equipped nor entitled to second-guess at this date. ... it is not a prize The Times man, with a wooden leg, falsified facts, and asking for bread. Something that I have can take back.” spread lies and half truths, invented occur- seen and understood.” In 1987, Times Executive Editor Max Frankel – reacting to the revelation in a rences that never happened, and turned a But few believed him. His dispatches recently declassified State Department document that “in agreement with The New blind eye to the man-made famine that were cut. Muggeridge was forced to leave York Times and the Soviet authorities,” the dispatches of Duranty always “reflect(ed) starved to death more than 14 million peo- Russia. He was sacked, then vilified, slan- the official opinion of the Soviet regime and not his own” – said this “doesn’t seem to ple (according to the International dered and abused, not least in the pages of qualify as news. It’s really history, and belongs in history books.” Commission of Jurists that examined this The Manchester Guardian, whose sympa- In 1990, Karl A. Meyer of The Times, in a feature on its editorial page called “The tragedy in 1988-1990). thy to what was called “the great Soviet Editorial Notebook,” acknowledged that what Duranty wrote from his post in When snippets of the truth began to leak experiment” was de rigeur. Duranty’s voice Moscow constituted “some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper.” out, Duranty coined the phrase: “You can’t led the chorus of denunciation and denial, In 2001, in the book “Written into History,” which contains Pulitzer reporting of make am omelet without breaking eggs.” although privately Duranty told a British the 20th century from The Times, there is a parenthetical notation after Duranty’s This phrase, or a variant thereof, has since Foreign Office acquaintance that at least 10 name: “Other writers in The Times and elsewhere have discredited this coverage.” proved useful to a rich variety of ideo- million people had been starved to death – Elsewhere it is noted that Duranty’s prize “has come under a cloud”; his reporting logues who contend that a worthy end jus- adding, characteristically, “but they’re only “ignored the reality of Stalin’s mass murder.” tifies base means. Yet, when the Pulitzer Russians.” Earlier this year, contacted by The Washington Times about the campaign to revoke committee conferred its prize on Duranty, If vindication was a long time coming, it Duranty’s Pulitzer, Catherine Mathis, vice-president of corporate communications for they cited his “scholarship, profundity, cannot have been sweeter than when The New York Times Co., was quoted as saying: “The Pulitzer Board has reviewed impartiality, sound judgment, and excep- Duranty’s biographer, Susan Taylor, wrote the Duranty prize several times over the years, and the board has never seen fit to tional clarity.” in 1990: “But for Muggeridge’s eyewitness revoke it. In that situation, the Times has not seen merit in trying to undo history.” In the spring of 1933 Malcolm accounts of the famine in the spring of But this campaign is not about undoing history. It’s about righting a wrong. If the Muggeridge, newly arrived in Moscow as 1933 and his stubborn chronicle of the Times does not want to do the right thing – as it has demonstrated over and over again correspondent for The Manchester event, the effects of the crime upon those – and voluntarily relinquish Duranty’s ill-gotten Pulitzer, then the Pulitzer Prize Board Guardian, did an audacious thing; without who suffered might well have remained as must act to undo this injustice. No other response will do. permission he set off on a train journey hidden from scrutiny as its perpetrators through what had formerly been the bread- intended. Little thanks he has received for basket of the Soviet Union, Ukraine and it over the years, although there is a grow- May North Caucasus. What Muggeridge wit- ing number who realize what a singular act Turning the pages back... nessed, he never forgot. of honesty and courage his reportage con- stituted.” Ian Hunter, professor emeritus at the Alas, when these words came to be writ- 8 Faculty of Law at Western University, was ten, Muggeridge had died. Still, they are Malcolm Muggeridge’s first biographer worth remembering. 1983 Back in 1983 The Winnipeg Free Press featured three articles on the Great Famine in Ukraine, including an interview with British author Malcolm Muggeridge, one of the first Western journalists to report extensively on the tragedy. In addition to the interview, conducted in 1982 by Toronto writer Marco Carynnyk, the paper’s April 9 issue published an eyewitness account by 72-year-old Winnipeger Oleksa Hay-Holowka, and a UCCLA-initiated postcard project story on the reluctance of some survivors to talk about the genocidal Famine. Along with the three articles, the Free Press printed the following note: “Few events of seeks to rescind Duranty’s Pulitzer such enormity have attracted so little public clamor or more press apathy than the govern- TORONTO – On May 1 thousands of from abroad. Thus, Duranty willingly ment-programmed famine which led to the extermination in 1932-33 of 8 million people in postcards were to be mailed from around helped cover up genocide. Ukraine. The Free Press was a party to that apathy – in the years immediately after the the world to the New York-based Pulitzer Remarking on this campaign, UCCLA’s famine and in efforts this year to publicize its 50 anniversary. Editors took it for granted it Prize Committee. They call for the posthu- director of research, Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, was a matter best left to history books and academics, ignoring much significant new mous revocation of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize said: research on the subject. Readers have noted the shortcoming. These pages acknowledge it.” for Correspondence awarded to Walter “Duranty was described by one of his The 80-year Mr. Muggeridge, who was the Soviet correspondent for the Manchester Duranty of The New York Times for his contemporaries, Malcolm Muggeridge, as Guardian in the early 1930s, called the famine “the most terrible thing I have ever seen.” reporting on the Soviet Union. the ‘greatest liar of any journalist I have The sight of people dying of hunger as the result of a deliberate government policy was As Sally Taylor, author of “Stalin’s ever met.’ Undeniably, Duranty betrayed something he had never experienced. “The novelty of this particular famine, what made it Apologist: Walter Duranty, The New York the most fundamental principle of journal- so diabolical, is that it was not the result of some catastrophe like drought or an epidemic,” Times’ Man in Moscow” (Oxford ism, for he did not truthfully report on what he said. “It was the deliberate creation of a bureaucratic mind which demanded the collec- University Press, 1990) has confirmed, he witnessed. Over many years, in fact, he tivization of agriculture, immediately, as a purely theoretical proposition, without any con- Duranty repeatedly distorted the truth about did just the opposite, and viciously smeared sideration whatever of the consequences in human suffering.” conditions in the USSR, even to the extent as propagandists those honest journalists In his recollections, Mr. Holowka, a plant disease expert who came to Canada in 1949 of covering up news about the politically who dared tell the truth. Duranty was partic- and was working on a book about the Great Famine, told of being pressed into service to engineered Great Famine of 1932-1933 in ularly odious when he denied that the help remove the bodies of famine victims. “The first house we went to, we found two dead Soviet Ukraine. The Ukrainian Canadian Stalinist regime had created a famine on children lying on the bed,” said Mr. Holowka, who returned to Ukraine from Leningrad in Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA) 1932, the start of the famine. “The mother was leaning on the bed. She was dead, too. The Ukrainian lands, deliberating causing the underscored that, simultaneously, Duranty death of millions.” father was lying on his back on the floor.” He also recalled that “People ate dogs, cats and actively denigrated others who tried to rats. When pets and rats were gone, there was a lot of cannibalism.” Dr. Luciuk explained that “Today we are report on this Communist crime against calling upon those who want to preserve the In the article on survivors, columnist Manfred Jager quoted Dr. Jaroslav Rozumnyj, head humanity. Many millions of Ukrainian men, of the Slavic studies department at the University of Manitoba, as saying that it is difficult integrity of journalism, and the stature of women and children starved to death, even the Pulitzer Prize itself, to revoke Duranty’s to get many survivors to talk about their experiences. “For one thing, many of these people as Soviet spokesmen denied that a famine (Continued on page 8) was taking place and refused offers of aid (Continued on page 8) No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2003 7 NEWS AND VIEWS Faces and Places

Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer by Myron B. Kuropas besmirches all Pulitzers by Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk Ukraine, once the breadbasket of Europe, became a modern-day Golgotha, Clever in crafting words, a bon vivant, The evil that was Duranty a place of skulls, Mr. Duranty plowed On May 1, thousands of postcards were with Soviet authorities to deny the exis- ever-engaging as a dinner companion, he the truth under. Occasionally pressed on was much in demand in certain circles. mailed to the Pulitzer Prize Committee at tence of the famine. the human costs of the Soviet experi- Columbia University demanding the revo- The first reliable report of the Stalin- He satiated other needs as a novice ment he did, however, evolve a dismis- necromancer, pervert and drunkard. His cation of Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize. engineered famine in Ukraine to reach the sive dodge, canting “you can’t make an A total of 10,000 cards were printed and outside world was written by Gareth name was Walter Duranty, and he was omelette without breaking eggs.” Not his The New York Times man in Moscow in distributed throughout the United States, Jones, a British journalist who visited eggs, of course. Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Western Ukraine in 1933 and then left the Soviet the early 1930s. For supposedly objec- To hallow the memory of the many tive reporting about conditions there, Europe and Ukraine. Union to write about what he had wit- millions of victims of this Communist The message about Duranty was simple. nessed. When his story broke, the Duranty was distinguished with the 1932 crime against humanity, good men and Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence. What On March 31, 1933, he reported in The American press corps in Moscow – which women are, on this very day, May Day New York Times that “there is no famine.” had seen pictures of the horror taken by he was really was Stalin’s apologist, a 2003, calling for the posthumous revoca- libertine prepared to prostitute accuracy He claimed “any report of a famine is German consular officers – was besieged tion of Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize. today an exaggeration of malignant propa- by their home offices for more informa- for access, ever-ready to write whatever From around the world tens of thousands was necessary to secure him in his vari- ganda” in The New York Times of August tion. Angered as much by Jones’ scoop as of postcards are being mailed to the 24, 1933. That same year he admitted pri- by his portrayal of the brutality of Soviet ous cravings. Pulitzer Prize Committee in New York, Much of this was known at the time, vately to William Strang (British Embassy, life, a group of American correspondents recalling the 70th anniversary of the September 26, 1933) that “it is quite possi- met with Comrade Konstantine Umansky, hence the deprecating references to him Terror-Famine, underscoring Mr. as “Walter Obscuranty.” More tellingly, ble that as many as 10 million people may the Soviet press censor, to determine how Duranty’s perfidiousness and how his have died directly or indirectly from lack of best to handle the story. A statement was Malcolm Muggeridge, a contemporary, duplicitous reports, as published in The said that Mr. Duranty was “the greatest food in the Soviet Union during the past drafted, after which vodka and “zakuski” New York Times, helped cover up one of year.” Walter Duranty was, as S.J. Taylor, were ordered and everyone sat back to liar of any journalist I have ever met.” the greatest acts of genocide in 20th cen- Despite being one of the few eyewitness- his biographer, writes in “Stalin’s enjoy the evening with a smiling tury Europe. Apologist,” a journalist who always wrote Umansky. The most diligent collaborators es to the politically engineered Great There are, I’m told, sophists who shall Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine, what Stalin wanted because, as he himself were Duranty and Louis Fischer, corre- reply that Mr. Duranty’s prize was once stated “I believe in Bolshevism ...” spondent for The New Republic. Fischer Mr. Duranty nevertheless spun stories for awarded for what he wrote before he The New York Times dismissing all The Pulitzer Prize committee was eventually saw the light and became an bore false witness about this man-made impressed with Mr. Duranty’s reporting, anti-Communist. Duranty remained a accounts of that horror as nothing more famine. Those willing to be so indulgent than bunk or malicious anti-Soviet prop- especially “those [dispatches] dealing with Stalinist until the day he died. with Mr. Duranty seem oddly comfort- the Five-Year Plan. The stories, according When Soviet foreign minister Maxim aganda. able with ignoring how he betrayed that He knew otherwise. On September to the panel, were “marked by scholarship, Litvinov sailed to the United States to con- most fundamental principle of journal- clude the infamous Roosevelt-Litvinov 26, 1933, at the British Embassy in profundity, impartiality, sound judgment ism, the obligation of reporting truthfully Agreement, Duranty was on board. He Moscow, Mr. Duranty privately confided and exceptional clarity...” on what is observed. However good a was on board when William C. Bullitt to William Strang that as many as 10 In his acceptance speech Duranty scribbler Mr. Duranty may have been, the sailed to Europe as the first U.S. ambassa- million people had died directly or indi- declared: “I discovered that the Bolsheviks man was a teller of lies, not a reporter of dor to the USSR. Some believe that it was rectly of famine conditions in the USSR were sincere enthusiasts, trying to regener- reality. He willingly served as a shill for Duranty, more than anyone else, who con- during the past year. Meanwhile, pub- ate a people that had been shockingly mis- the Soviets, as millions died. By one cal- vinced FDR to recognize the USSR when licly, Mr. Duranty orchestrated a vicious governed and I decided to give them their culation the death rate during the Great three other American presidents had ostracizing of those journalists who fair break.” There were some imperfec- Famine reached 25,000 souls per day. refused. He was rewarded with a one-hour risked much by reporting on the brutali- tions, he admitted, but he had come to My home town of Kingston would, at audience with Joseph Stalin, who told him ties of forced collectivization and the realize that there was something very good that rate, have been emptied of all life in that he admired the journalist for “writing ensuing demographic catastrophe, about the Soviets’ “planned system of under a week. the truth” about the Soviet people. It was Muggeridge among them. Even as fertile economy.” He had learned, he said, “to The men and women whose principled respect the Soviet leaders, especially the greatest moment in Duranty’s life. labours have earned them the honour and Stalin, whom I consider to have grown Credit for the international postcard cam- Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk is director of distinction of a Pulitzer Prize should be into a really great statesman.” paign goes to Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk of the research for the Ukrainian Canadian revolted at knowing that within their ranks Like Duranty, Eugene Lyons, a Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Civil Liberties Association and author of there remains a blackguard who, Janus- Moscow correspondent for United Press, Association and the Ukrainian World “Searching For Place: Ukrainian like, turned a blind eye to one of history’s was initially an admirer of the Soviet Congress who initiated the campaign. They Displaced Persons, Canada, and the greatest atrocities while casting the other Union. He wrote dispatches glorifying the were morally and financially supported by Migration of Memory” (University of about in wrath against any journalists who USSR. The longer he remained in the Association of Ukrainians of Great Toronto Press, 2000). The Pulitzer Prize reported that truth. Quite simply put, Mr. Moscow, the more disillusioned he Britain, the Australian Federation of committee may be reached at Duranty’s continuing grasp on a Pulitzer became, however. He returned to the Ukrainian Organizations, the Ukrainian [email protected]. Prize soils all Pulitzer Prizes. United States in 1934 and wrote a book Canadian Congress, the Ukrainian titled “Assignment in Utopia” published American Justice Committee and the UCCA involved in campaign by Harcourt-Brace in 1937. In a chapter Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. titled “The Press Corps Concealed a Famine,” Lyons described how he and Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is: to revoke Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer other American corespondents conspired [email protected].

by Tamara Gallo Power 1921-46,” the author, Leonard Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Leshuk, details U.S. intelligence-gather- ing and analysis on the Soviet Union NEW YORK – During its first execu- based on documentary materials from tive board meeting of 2003, held on U.S. and British archival sources. In his January 25, the Ukrainian Congress book Mr. Leshuk states that the U.S. Committee of America discussed the news media had a great influence on commemoration of the 70th anniversary how those in the intelligence agencies, of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide. A policy-makers and the general public broad spectrum of ideas was outlined viewed the USSR. The reliability and and a comprehensive yearlong plan was objectivity of at least one U.S. newspa- devised to focus on developing a high per concerning the Soviets, as well as its school curriculum, obtaining coverage of ethics and those of its reporters can be the Famine-Genocide in the mass media questioned based on a statement by Mr. and organizing solemn remembrances to Duranty of The New York Times who appropriately observe this anniversary in admitted in June 1931 that in an “agree- the United States. One integral compo- ment with The New York Times and the nent of the UCCA’s strategy is a cam- Soviet authorities” his official dispatches paign to revoke Walter Duranty’s 1932 always reflected the official opinion of Pulitzer Prize and to expose the truth the Soviet regime and not his own. about his reporting from the Soviet The above statement is a chilling Union. reminder of how an American journalist In a recently released book titled The postcard being sent en masse to the Pulitzer Prize Board features a likeness “U.S. Intelligence Perceptions of Soviet (Continued on page 15) of Walter Duranty and artwork by Nadia Somko. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2003 No. 18 Ukraine’s officials offer mixed response to fears that Chornobyl sarcophagus is crumbling

by Roman Woronowycz tions and Chornobyl affairs. Ukrainian officials were carrying out the ered at the Chornobyl memorial in Kyiv a Kyiv Press Bureau Mr. Kholosha noted that he could agree necessary scientific monitoring. day before the official date to commemo- with the statement if the charge referred to “No one is conducting tests on the dam- rate the tragedy and its victims. Meanwhile, KYIV – Ukrainian officials have sent the fact that not even a new sarcophagus, as mixed signals in response to charges made aged walls,” asserted Mr. Rumiantsev. United Nations Secretary General Kofi the cement covering over the reactor is International donors have raised $768 Annan issued a statement on the anniver- by the head of Russia’s atomic energy min- often called, could assure with complete istry that the protective shell covering the million for a new outer shell for the fourth sary date in which he called on the world to certainty that the facility would be leak- remember the Chornobyl victims. He damaged fourth reactor is in imminent dan- Chornobyl reactor in a project called the proof and danger-free. requested that international donors continue ger of collapse. Shelter Implementation Plan (SIP). On April 23 the Chornobyl Nuclear to provide for all aspects of the aid that is While several Ukrainian nuclear special- Construction of the new shelter is expected Facility released its response to the asser- still needed. ists said the statement by the Russian gov- to begin early next year. tions made in Moscow in which it generally While 27 Chornobyl “liquidators” died ernment official was nonsense, Chornobyl On April 26 the European Bank for agreed that there is a danger that the shelter immediately as a result of their efforts to facility officials responded that while mis- Reconstruction and Development could come down. The press release extinguish the raging fires, which continued leading, it is substantially true. announced that later this year it expected to emphasized, however, that monitoring of begin accepting tenders for the construction to release radioactive plumes into the On April 22 Russia’s Minister of Atomic the situation by an international team was of Earth’s atmosphere for weeks, another Energy Aleksandr Rumianstev told the of the new shelter. Vince Novak, director of such a magnitude that it was not realistic the EBRD’s Nuclear Safety Department, 1,400 firefighters, soldiers and volunteers newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta “the pos- that a calamity could occur at the site sud- which manages the Chornobyl Shelter eventually succumbed. Hundreds of thou- sibility that the roof of the sarcophagus denly or unexpectedly. Fund, stated on the EBRD’s website that sands of square kilometers of Ukraine, could collapse is absolutely real.” The shelter, which was quickly erected while the design phase of new confinement Belarus and Russia were contaminated and “There may come a moment when the within six months after Chornobyl’s fourth structure is scheduled to conclude this sum- millions of people have been affected since. roof can no longer hold,” explained the reactor exploded 17 years ago on April 26, mer, international support is still needed. According to medical studies, thyroid dis- minister, who added that he is familiar with in what is still the largest nuclear accident “Chornobyl is a global responsibility. eases, including cancer, have skyrocketed the topic from his former work as a scientist ever, has been disintegrating from about the Ukraine can’t do this alone,” said Mr. in the contaminated regions in the last 17 at a Moscow atomic research facility. time it went up. Experts at the site admit Novak. years, and people living there show a 25 to Volodymyr Kholosha, the previous direc- that the construction has many fissures leak- He explained that the central aspect of 30 percent higher morbidity rate. tor of the Chornobyl nuclear facility, reject- ing radioactive material and that its main the new design now nearing completion ed the possibility on April 30. supports need more reinforcement. would be a 100-meter high steel arch with a “If we are referring to a danger that the Mr. Kholosha accented the extensive and span of about 250 meters that would slide Philately next week ceiling of the covering could collapse at any “Focus on Philately,” which regularly highly technical state of the monitoring along rails into place over the old sarcopha- time and that there exists no control over appears in the first issue of each month, going on and preparations for the construc- gus. the covering, then this is not based on reali- has been rescheduled for next week’s tion of a new superstructure by an interna- In Ukraine, state leaders, including ty,” explained Mr. Kholosha, who is cur- issue due to the special supplement titled tional team that are under way. But Russian President Leonid Kuchma and Verkhovna rently assistant minister of emergency situa- “A Ukrainian Summer.” Minister Rumiantsev said he doubted that Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn, gath-

“Now we, and the jurors of the Pulitzer Prize Committee, and the editors, writers of Donbas. UCCLA-initiated... Mr. Hetman, chairman of the Interbank (Continued from page 6) and owners of The New York Times, know U.S. seeks... (Continued from page 1) Currency Exchange and a former chairman distinction. Those who say that his prize better. Someone who helped cover up so atrocious a crime against humanity should the criminal gang, which specialized in of the National Bank of Ukraine was assas- was earned for what he wrote before 1932 not continue to be honored as one of the assassination, that it had contracted with sinated, according to the prosecutor, as a are being disingenuous. Duranty was a shill greats of journalism.” Mr. Lazarenko to kill Mr. Scherban in 1996 disliked political rival and for causing for the Soviets before, during and after the and then Mr. Hetman two years later. The problems in Mr. Lazarenko’s financial * * * dealings and disruptions in his money Great Famine. Perhaps those who honored For more on the campaign to have eight defendants from the gang, which was flows. him with a Pulitzer in 1932 did not fully Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize revoked log led by crime boss Yevhen Kushnir, a The former prime minister has spent his know just how dishonest he was. on to www.uccla.ca. Ukrainian who had taken Israeli citizen- time in a San Francisco detention center ship, were arrested in February 2002. Mr. since he was arrested in New York on Kushnir is believed to have been murdered February 24, 1999, for attempting to ille- in 2000. gally enter the U.S. Upon his arrest he Three of the eight members of the group claimed political asylum and was held for were found guilty of premeditated murder several weeks as that claim was being and were given life sentences. Two others reviewed before the request was ultimately were handed 15-year terms, while the last denied and he was instead charged with three were given 11 years in prison. several counts of financial improprieties. Mr. Scherban and his wife were gunned Mr. Lazarenko was Ukraine’s prime down at Donetsk Airport in November minister from May 1996 to August 1997, 1996 by a group of professional killers who when President Leonid Kuchma dismissed posed as police officers and drove right up him on evidence of corruption. However, to the private plane on which the Scherbans he was never charged, but instead became a were returning from Moscow and sprayed member of the Verkhovna Rada and leader automatic fire on the passengers as they of the Batkivschyna Party, which he found- descended the steps to a waiting vehicle. ed and which maintained a political stance Mr. Hetman was shot at point blank in opposition to President Kuchma. range in April 1998 in the elevator of his As prime minister he is believed to have apartment building as he returned from helped United Energy Systems capture the work in the evening. gas trading market and become the largest Procurator Huzyr explained that the company in Ukraine. At the time he was death of Mr. Scherban was ordered to first detained in the United States Mr. remove business competition for control of Lazarenko was considered the richest per- Ukraine’s natural gas industry. Mr. son in Ukraine. Scherban held operational control of Mr. Lazarenko is expected to finally go United Energy System’s chief rival at the to trial in a U.S. court in August of this time, the Donetsk-based Industrial Union year.

Turning the pages back... (Continued from page 6) still have family members living in the Soviet Union and are afraid of what might happen to them if people here speak out and get their names in the paper,” Prof. Rozumnyj told the Winnipeg Free Press. However, Prof. Rozumnyj also told of one woman who called him shortly after hearing a lecture in Winnipeg by Dr. James Mace of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, who was doing research for Dr. Robert Conquest’s book on the famine, “The Harvest of Sorrow,” which was published in 1986. “She told me she never believed the story her grandfather had told her, how he actually cut pieces of flesh from his arm and leg to feed his children to keep them alive,” he said. “The details in Dr. Mace’s lecture brought all this alive to her and she almost broke down realizing the horror of it all.” Source: “Media Reports on Famine: Winnipeg Free Press,” The Ukrainian Weekly, May 8, 1983, Vol. LI, No. 19. No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2003 9

at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who warriors, were less able pioneers. Many of Kyiv roundtable... was the press attaché of the Ukrainian Ukrainians in Russia... them immediately looked for ways to (Continued from page 1) Embassy in Washington several years (Continued from page 1) escape the Far East’s hardships. sons, came from the second World ago, said there would be no need to diaspora among various institutions instead Before the first steamboat with dozens Forum of Ukrainians in 1997. The inten- develop a special agency to oversee such of establishing a centralized system to make of Ukrainian families aboard left Odesa on tion from the beginning has been to pre- a system, especially when so little money actions effective. As a result, individual April 4, 1883, initiating the mass resettle- serve and strengthen the national identity is available from state coffers. She said communities are often left to their own ment, Ukrainians had sporadically immi- of the Ukrainian diaspora and recognize that the Foreign Affairs Ministry has ade- devices when it comes to resolving local grated to the Far East, usually making the its special ties to Ukraine by developing quate structures and contacts in place problems. trek by foot, which could take as long as a a list of special benefits that would help within the countries where the Ukrainian For example, local authorities in year and a half. maintain Ukrainian communities abroad diaspora is found to fulfill all the func- Vladivostok in the Far East have banned a A study by the 19th century Russian and draw them closer to Ukraine. tions foreseen within the current draft Ukrainian Sunday school so as “not to scholar Alexander Rittikh had decided that The law as currently written would law. accentuate national issues,” according to Ukrainians were “a nation that works will- allow for simplified, longer-term visas Ms. Zarudna and Mr. Chupuk were in Mr. Popok. ingly and becomes rich quickly, is skillful in for all who qualify. It would lend further agreement, however, that it would not be In other cases, local Ukrainians have no choosing soils and is unpretentious in life, privileges to students from abroad who constructive to give diaspora organiza- access to information about contemporary which would bring certain benefit to the wish to study here, as well as to business- tions special status in Ukraine without life in Ukraine, getting news only from U.S. state if its natural skills were applied proper- men and investors working in Ukraine, having them registered in the country as radio outlets retransmitted in Russia. ly.” but only if they also qualified as national organizations. Ms. Zarudna Discussing Zelenyi Klyn’s problems, “This is a nation ... on which a new set- “Ukrainians from abroad.” noted that Hungary had attempted this regional leaders of the diaspora said they tlement can be based, to a future of richness Mr. Ostash said that one issue that has and had much difficulty in deciding who often encountered reluctance by local and prosperity for the new cities [of the not been adequately tackled is just what qualified and who did not, which then led authorities to respond to their needs and region],” Col. Rittikh concluded in his the term “Ukrainian from abroad” should to further divisions and conflicts among complaints, and media bias in illuminating ethnographic research. His work defined the mean. He explained that, while some its diaspora organizations. their problems. destiny of many of the Ukrainians who experts believe that any person who so Ms. Zarudna also stated that the Many Ukrainian community centers con- were eventually resettled and whose home- wishes should be able to apply for such Ministry of Foreign Affairs was working tinue to have problems finding stable facili- land many considered to be overpopulated status, others offer that specific require- on agreements with Russia, Belarus and ties; some have been moved around for at that time. ments should be met. The list of special the countries of Central Asia to simplify years. Other communities suffer from a The emigrants, most of whom initially qualifications, which has yet to be the return of Ukrainians living there – cynical, Ukrainiophobic media. came from the Chernihiv, Poltava and Kyiv defined, might include a demand for many of whom would like to return but Citing an example, Lidia Beda, a regions, and later from Volyn and Kherson, mandatory knowledge of the Ukrainian do not have the financial means. Ukrainian community leader from saw no other choice but to travel to the new language or a requirement that a mother “For instance, in Turkmenistan, if you Tatarstan, waved a local newspaper from land. The only other option was to stay in or father were Ukrainian-born. Some do not know the language today, you Naberezhnye Chelny, which disparagingly Ukraine where servitude to local land have said it should only mandate proof cannot remain a teacher,” explained Ms. called their recent cultural festival a “festi- barons and abject poverty was the norm. that a person’s grandparent was Zarudna. “Many Ukrainians would return val of horilka and varenyky” in a headline. They were not wildly optimistic about the Ukrainian-born, while still others believe to Ukraine but do not have the ability to Russia’s Minister of Nationalities future, however, even though the tsar’s a sufficient requirement to obtain the spe- do so.” Vladimir Zorin, who was present as a guest court had promised them privileges. They cial status should simply be concrete A similar problem is tied to those who at the roundtable, admitted that ignorance carried with them all their cooking utensils proof of an honest appreciation for the were deported or exiled to Russia’s hin- exists among local bureaucrats and journal- and even heavy stones to press vegetables. Ukrainian national and cultural heritage. terlands, but would like to return home. ists. He said that 17 percent of the misun- Having arrived at their destination, a land of Mr. Ostash emphasized that the draft Ms. Zarudna said that the Russian gov- derstandings that arise between community nasty weather and arid soils, the settlers, law is first and foremost a political docu- ernment has refused to give them special and government were a result of “incorrect however poor, still built their churches ment. status. media statements, which we see more than before their schools. “It is evidence that there are at least 12 Another issue that still needs resolu- enough in Russia.” And while the region had an abundance million and up to 20 million of us living tion is how to treat Ukrainians living in Mr. Popok urged Ukrainians in Russia to of fish in its many waterways, the none-too- abroad, and if these people work for regions that border Ukraine today, which take more active steps in protecting their worldly newcomers cautiously partook of Ukraine it will benefit the country,” Mr. ethno-historically are considered interests. “The activity of your communities what nature offered, so much so that initially Ostash explained. Ukrainian, such as parts of should force the historical fatherland to be they fed their dogs sturgeon black caviar, not Andrii Chupuk of the State Committee Slobozhanschyna in the north, Kuban in more attentive to agreements that are realizing the gourmand potential it carried. on Emigration described the document as the southeast, Bukovyna in the southwest signed, to enact them and give the possibili- The Far East’s Ukrainians made great paternal in nature. He said that it should and the city of Peremyshl in the west. ty for communities to exist,” Mr. Popok efforts to enhance their community life with define the relationship between Mr. Nedilko, the aide to National said. a political and cultural structure. They wel- Ukrainians abroad and their historical Deputy Zhovtiak, said he strongly Mr. Popok added that the anniversary of comed guest actors from Ukraine, issued homeland, and should support the social- believes that Ukrainians in these areas the forced migration, initiated to develop ten newspapers, organized several congress- cultural development of the diaspora must be included in any new law so that the vast northeastern taiga of the Russian es, and created a draft constitution. They communities and their institutions. Ukraine can keep a special eye on their Far East, was the right moment to review even made an attempt to establish their own He noted that cultural support is the situation. how the Ukrainian diaspora in Russia had army after the Bolshevik revolution in part accented most often by members of “They have no interest in moving. developed, assess the current situation and 1917, but their actions were gradually the Eastern diaspora, which consists of They live on the lands of their forefa- lay plans for the future. oppressed by the Communist regime. the lands in and around the territory of thers, but those lands are no longer Zelenyi Klyn, – literally green wedge – Currently, some 800,000 Ukrainians the former Soviet Union, while members Ukraine’s,” stated Mr. Nedilko. stretches from Siberia to the seas of Japan live in the Far East, and, while a resurrec- of the Western diaspora most often speak Finally, National Deputy Refat and Okhotsk and includes the regions of tion of their cultural heritage is taking place, of easy access to Ukraine in the form of a Chubarov made a plea for the Tatar peo- Primorie, Khabarovsk, Amur, the it continues to be weak. Ukrainians make less cumbersome visa regime. ple of Crimea to be included in the bill. Kamchatka peninsula and Sakhalin Island; up the second largest ethnic group in Russia National Deputy Ostash added a dif- He asked that the authors add verbiage to it borders China, North Korea and Japan. after the Tatars. Russia’s State Statistics ferent perspective when he stated that, extend the special status being offered to The Russian imperialist monarchy earlier Committee estimates that some 4.3 million while the desire for a paternalistic rela- ethnic Ukrainians “to those who consider had tried to move Russian Cossacks to the ethnic Ukrainians live in Russia. However, tionship between Ukraine and its diaspo- Ukraine the homeland of their ethnic ori- region to develop the cold desert. The unofficial estimates put their number at ra was a major driving force of the bill, gin.” Russian Cossacks, although they were good closer to 5.6 million. the legislation also was intended to stim- Mr. Chubarov, a member of the ulate a desire and smooth the way for the National Rukh of Ukraine Party and him- repatriation of Ukrainians. self a Crimean Tatar, explained that “Let’s not forget that it also includes Ukraine must take care of the millions of the development of a program of return Tatars who were expelled from the of Ukrainians to Ukraine,” explained Mr. Crimea by Stalin in 1945 and now live in Ostash. Uzbekistan and other Central Asian Mr. Chupuk expressed the need to countries. establish a bureaucratic base from which National Deputy Ostash said he the various programs could be devel- believes that the Verkhovna Rada could oped. He suggested that the Ukrainian pass the legislation in this session. He government needed to create a special said the atmosphere is right because agency should the Parliament enact a many more national deputies hold “pro diaspora law because other Ukrainian Ukrainian” or “neutral” positions on the ministries were not sufficiently equipped issue. Last year a similar bill proposed by to deal with the matter adequately. National Deputy Zhovtiak failed by five However, Natalia Zarudna, an official votes.

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(RFE/RL Newsline) NEWSBRIEFS (Continued from page 10) Georgia to help fill Ukrainian pipeline (RFE/RL Newsline) KYIV – Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze told journalists after a meet- Lithuanian, Ukrainian presidents meet ing with Ukrainian President Leonid ATHENS – Lithuanian President Kuchma in Kyiv on April 22 that Georgia can help Ukraine fill the Odesa-Brody Rolandas Paksas and Ukrainian pipeline with Caspian oil, UNIAN report- President Leonid Kuchma, meeting in ed. Mr. Shevardnadze said the Odesa- William Kozulak, of Melville, N.Y., died peacefully on April 27, Athens on April 17, discussed the sign- Brody pipeline could receive oil pumped 2003. Loving father of Paula Hussey, William and Margaret ing of the European Union accession through the Baku-Supsa pipeline, which treaties and the need to expand bilateral Becker, Mary Jordan, Katherine Ahmed and Gregory. Beloved has a throughput capacity of 6 million tons relations, the ELTA news service report- annually, as well as oil transported across grandfather of Jennifer, Peter, Neil, Elliott, Cara, Devon, ed. They spoke about the possibility of Georgia by rail (5-6 million tons annually). Alexandra, Taylor and Jordan. Mr. Kozulak was a World War II establishing visa-free travel for citizens Presidents Shevardnadze and Kuchma also of both countries, which would help veteran, a Naval and Grumman retiree. said they agree that the existence of the Mr. Kozulak was a lifelong member of UNA Branch 267 of New increase economic and cultural coopera- Commonwealth of Independent States tion. The presidents noted that the estab- with no established free-trade zone within York. Internment is at Calvary Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y. He lishment of the regularly scheduled the bloc is pointless and expressed their was deeply loved and will be missed by all who knew him. Viking freight-train route between shared support for establishing such a Odesa and Klaipeda in February has zone. Officials signed three bilateral coop- boosted trade and transit. Mr. Paksas eration accords in connection with the expressed satisfaction that Mr. Kuchma meeting. (RFE/RL Newsline) has accepted his invitation to visit Vilnius in early July for the ceremonies Putin supports unified economic zone marking the 750th anniversary of the coronation of King Mindaugas. He also MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin expressed his support for Ukraine’s said in Moscow on April 16 that he is A STREAM OF THANK YOU LETTERS FROM UKRAINE FOR COMPUTERS efforts to join the European Union. pleased with the progress made to date on a Orest J. Hanas, President, Kobzar Society, LTD. (RFE/RL Newsline) draft agreement to create a “unified eco- nomic zone” encompassing Ukraine, Lehighton, PA. The Kobzar Society, LTD. is a charitable, humanitarian aid organization, which in the past two years Lytvyn criticizes cases against media Kazakstan, Belarus and Russia. During a has delivered hundreds of computers to educational institutions (at no cost to those institutions) throughout Ukraine. meeting with Vice Prime Minister Viktor These deliveries were made possible through the generous sponsorships by individuals and organizations in USA and KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman Canada and with the support and cooperation of Rotary International, the Rotary clubs in Northeastern Pennsylvania Khristenko, who heads the working group and in Ukraine. The computers are delivered to hospitals, museums, secondary schools, seminaries/academies, libraries Volodymyr Lytvyn on April 16 expressed on the unification of trade and tariff legisla- and other educational institutions, which are designated by the sponsors to receive these most valued equipments. disapproval over the announcement of tion, Mr. Putin said that, “despite a number Thus, the children of Ukraine have access to modern computer technology and, via Internet, have the opportunity to criminal cases launched recently against a of setbacks,” the group’s work is moving be connected to each other and the free world. By providing this humanitarian assistance, it is hoped that, in a small number of media outlets for allegedly measure, Ukraine’s youngsters will assist Ukraine to realize its full potential as a peaceful, stable, productive and demo- forward and the four countries should be cratic sovereign nation in a free-market environment. The Kobzar Society has received a continuous stream of ‘thank defaming the president and obstructing able to enter the World Trade Organization you’ letters from very grateful recipient institution. Here are excerpts from some of the letters: * CHENIVTSI-Letter from his activities, Interfax reported. “Suing as “a single economic space.” The other Dr. R. H. Andijchuk, chief surgeon of the Regional Hospital for Children: “From all of us at the hospital I wish to thank journalists is like complaining into a mir- members of the working group – Ukrainian the Kobzar Society for this most generous gift of a computer. We wish to extend our special appreciation to the spon- ror,” he said. RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service First Vice Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, sor of this computer, our dear friend Bohdan Slabyj. We are most grateful for your understanding of our needs, for reported on April 11 that prosecutors had your noble hearts and we pray to God for your well-being, and through you-for the well-being of the American peo- Kazak Vice Prime Minister Karim ple”. * YALTA-Letter from Svitlana Kocherha, curator of the Lesia Ukrainka Museum: “I send you warm wishes and sin- instigated criminal investigations at the Maksimov and Belarusian Vice Prime cere thanks for the computer from Yalta, the pearl of the northern coast of the Black Sea. For almost a year we are regional publications Informatsiinyi Minister Andrey Kabyakou – also attended related to you through the computer. Thanks to this gift, a group of young students has formed a computer/Internet Biuleten (Kremenchuk), Cherkaska the meeting with President Putin. Analysts club which enables them access to world-wide information sources for studying Ukrainian and world cultures”. Pravda (Cherkasy), Rivnenskyi Dialoh (The Northeastern Pennsylvania Rotary District 7410 sponsored this computer). * VILLAGE OF KOSACHIVKA, believe that the proposal to combine the Chernyhiv oblast. Letter from principal Valentyna Danylenko of the secondary school, level I-III: “The teachers and the (Rivne), Pozytsia (Sumy) and Antena four countries – encompassing a total pop- students of our school are most grateful for the computer. In the name of better Ukraine, we hope that more future col- (Cherkasy). Asked by UNIAN whether ulation of 219 million people – is the most laboration will take place between Diaspora and our village school”. (Petro Buniak sponsored this computer). * LVIV- the RFE/RL report is true, Polina ambitious Kremlin initiative since the col- Letter from Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, rector of Lviv Catholic University: “I wish to express my personal thanks and collec- Bashkina, spokeswoman for the procura- lapse of the Soviet Union and could lead to tive gratitude from the students for the computer. Our institution will be happy to connect your computer to the network within the university. I assure you that this computer will serve the students in the betterment of their computer skills”. tor general, said, “Unfortunately, this the creation of a new regional entity. (Dr. Bohdan and Roxana Charkewycz sponsored this computer). * KYIV-Letter from P. I. Rohova, director of the topic is not [appropriate] for comment.” (RFE/RL Newsline) State Scientific-Pedagogical Library of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Science: “From the staff of 120 library profes- sionals I extend sincere thanks for the three computers. The members of the cataloging department send you best wishes and thank you for providing - at long last-the means to organize the library in a technologically modern man- ner”. (Dr. Stephan Olynyk sponsored these computers). The Kobzar Society is in possession of hundreds of requests for computers from very needy educational institutions in Ukraine. The Kobzar Society has many hundreds of late-model (Pentium) used computers in its warehouses in Allentown and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We offer the computers FREE OF CHARGE for sponsorships by anyone for any educational institution anywhere in Ukraine. For $200 per comput- er we will upgrade, test, pack and deliver these computers to the institutions named by the sponsors. The sponsors’ names will be placed on a HRAMOTA and located in the rooms with the computers. The Kobzar Society, LTD., is a tax-exempt 501 ( c ) 3 corporation registered with the IRS in USAand has the privilege from the Ukrainian government to import the computers duty-free and tax-free into Ukraine. Put your name on the next list of computers destined for Ukraine by contacting Kobzar Society, LTD., PO Box 37, Lehighton, PA 18235, USA. Tel.: 1-610-377-3383. Please visit our web site: www.kobzarsociety.org.

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Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, NYC PROGRAMS AND EVENTS SPRING/SUMMER 2003

Art Exhibit 2 East 79th Street, NYC Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m. John Lipsky, chief economist and managing Sponsor: UIA Musical evening director, The J.P. Morgan Chase Company ARTFIRA Eastern Europe Panel Discussion Askold Buk Trio UIA Cruise April 24 – May 25, 2003 Sponsor: UIA Opening Reception – May 9, 2003 Sponsor: UIA Thursday, April 24 Time: 8:00 p.m. Friday, June 6, 2003 Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Featuring original Jazz and Blues Time: 6:30-10:30 p.m. Oleh Denysenko compositions of Askold Buk. Dinner and dance cruise around Manhattan “Art Chemistry” Suggested donation $35, cash bar Etchings & Linocuts Fundraiser to Benefit the Breast Art Exhibit Art Exhibit Cancer Awareness Program in Ukraine Sponsor: UIA Featuring Fashion Designers of Kyiv Sponsor: UIA Anton Kandinsky Marko Shuhan Sponsor: UIA, May 15 – June 15, 2003 Ukrainian Medical Association May 2 – 11, 2003 Opening Reception – of North America Opening Reception – Thursday, May 15, 2003 Supporters: Ukrainian Women’s League Friday, May 2, 2003 Time: 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. of America, Time: 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Anton Kandinsky Young Ukrainians of New York, Marko Shuhan Surrealistic still life and portraits Plast Youth Organization, Recent Paintings Panel Discussion UIA Annual Membership Meeting Sponsor: UIA Saturday, June 7, 2003 Sunday May 4, 2003 Foreign Policy Association Time: 5:00-9:00 p.m. Time: 3:00 p.m. Cocktail, fashion show, entertainment, At the Ukrainian Institute, June 3, 2003 silent auction, prizes No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2003 13

censorship in Ukraine Back to the USSR... (http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/ukraine0 (Continued from page 2) 303), the presidential administration recom- Parliament, toward which Mr. Kuchma – in mended to television stations that they the manner of most CIS leaders – has ignore opposition discussions of executive always been intolerant and impatient. plans for political reform. The temnyk Interviewed in Moloda Ukraina on April requested that television “exclude from UKRAINIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 2, two-time former Parliament Chairman broadcasts any theses that cast doubt on the Ivan Pliusch explained that the executive seriousness of the president’s initiatives.” OF NORTH AMERICA branch views Parliament as a rubber-stamp The organization of the “nationwide dis- New York Metropolitan Chapter body that should be told what to do and cussion” harks back to the era of former what to sign – just like the former Supreme Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. The Odesa Announces that a general meeting and reception Soviets of the constituent Soviet republics. branch of Our Ukraine described the fake for all members and interested colleagues Mr. Kuchma’s reforms would reduce the discussion as a “repeat of the depressing will be held on size of the lower house of Parliament from experience of the Soviet era.” In Mr. 450 to 300 deputies, elected proportionately, Pliusch’s Chernihiv electoral district, he Friday May 9, 2003 and create an appointed upper house, the was told that official protocols endorsing Council of the Regions. Presidential power the president’s reform proposals were hand- 6:00 p.m. therefore, would be enhanced at the expense ed out to organizations that were then of the Parliament. ordered to sign them. The Ukrainian Institute of America Writing in the April 12-18 Zerkalo The presidential website 2 East 79th Street Nedeli/Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, Socialist leader (http://www.reforma.org.ua/regions) fea- New York, N.Y. Oleksandr Moroz said an upper house tures numerous Soviet-style endorsements would mean the “liquidation of [the parlia- of his proposals by “workers” and “peas- mentary system] as such, the final subordi- ants’ collectives” from throughout Ukraine, nation of the Verkhovna Rada to the presi- who are supported by state institutions and dent and his administration.” pro-presidential parties. Suspiciously, the In a speech to parliament during discus- proposal most supported is the one to hold sions of the reforms, Our Ukraine leader all elections in the same year, thereby post- Viktor Yushchenko also defined the real Youth for Children poning the 2004 presidential elections and purpose of the executive in proposing the holding them concurrently with the 2006 changes as extending “power unlawfully” Fundraising Concert and ensuring its “self-preservation.” parliamentary elections, which would give for Although President Kuchma called for President Kuchma two additional years in St. George School and St. George Academy roundtables and the involvement of think- office. May 10, 2003 at 5 p.m. But some observers, even pro-presiden- tanks in the discussion of his proposed Auditorium of St. George School reforms, this has not occurred. The opposi- tial ones, have cautioned that the referen- tion’s call for televised debates also has dum could backfire, as the situation in 215 E. 6th Street, New York City gone unanswered, and state-run Channel 1 Ukraine today is radically different from and oligarch-controlled channels 2 and 3 are that in 1996 or 2000. They point out that Performers Include: authoritarian regimes are most vulnerable not permitting a free debate. As in the “The Prolisky” SUM girls choir from New York; Soviet era, there is merely an imitation of during periods of transition, citing the “free discussion,” the purpose of which is examples of former Chilean President musical director, Andrij Stasiw merely to rubber-stamp official policies. Augusto Pinochet, who held a referendum “Obrij” dance ensemble; choreographer, Roman Lewkowicz In a September 2002 secret instruction in 1998 to extend his term in office, and of Art exhibit by the students of St. George Academy (temnyk) that was leaked to Mr. Tomenko, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who Students of the Ukrainian Music Institute head of the parliamentary committee on called an early election in 2000 hoping to Freedom of the Press and Information, and win the Yugoslav presidency. Both lost reprinted in a new Helsinki Watch report on power. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2003 No. 18 No. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2003 15

stated in part: “My predecessor as UCCA involved... administrator says that complaints about (Continued from page 7) the prize for Mr. Duranty have raised on can sway public opinion and policy- and off through the years. However, to makers by misinterpreting or withhold- date, the Pulitzer Prize Board has not ing the facts. Such was the case with The seen fit to reverse a previous board’s New York Times’ Moscow correspon- decision that now stretches back 70 dent, who not only disregarded the years.” Famine-Genocide in his dispatches but Understanding that the Pulitzer Prize called other journalists outright liars for Board was not going to address these reporting about Ukraine’s Famine complaints in a proper manner, the Genocide of 1932-1933. UCCA joined an international campaign, The UCCA has begun to a nationwide spearheaded by the Ukrainian Canadian and international campaign to revoke Civil Liberties Association and support- Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize. The action ed by Ukrainian World Congress, the began in early February with a commu- Association of Ukrainians in Great nity-wide letter writing campaign to the Britain, the Federation of Ukrainian Pulitzer Prize Committee urging the rev- Australian Organizations, the Ukrainian ocation of Mr. Duranty’s prize. The cam- American Justice Committee and the paign was timed to coincide with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. This cam- Pulitzer Prize board meetings, when paign, which is supported by the above- members are in frequent contact with mentioned organizations and the UCCA, each other to discuss current prize candi- published postcards for distribution dates. In addition to an official letter sent throughout their respective communities by the UCCA Executive Board, hun- to ensure that the Pulitzer Prize commit- dreds of letters were sent from members tee receives thousands of cards post- of the Ukrainian American community. marked May 1 from around the world The UCCA’s Kyiv Bureau also joined urging the committee to revoke the campaign by soliciting letters from Duranty’s prize. various influential individuals in The UCCA has also been contacting Ukraine. Letters were sent to the Pulitzer various journalists to inform them of board by National Deputy Hennadii these efforts. As a result, several news- Udovenko, former President of the papers have printed stories about the United Nations General Assembly; UCCA and its campaign, including The National Deputy Pavlo Movchan, chair- Washington Times, which carried a story man of the Prosvita Society; Prof. by Natalia Feduschak. The Washington Volodymyr Serhiychuk, director of the Times carried this piece on the front Ukrainian Studies Center at Kyiv’s Taras page of its March 29, 2003 issue. The Shevchenko National University; Ihor same article was picked up and printed Lubchenko, Chairman of the National on March 31, the Agence France Press. Union of Journalists of Ukraine; and oth- Other news agencies, such as Radio ers. Liberty, have conducted interviews with The official response from the UCCA executive board members regard- Pulitzer Prize committee’s administrator, ing the UCCA’s action to revoke Sig Gissler, came in a form letter that Duranty’s Pulitzer. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2003 No. 18

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Friday, May 9 Holiday Inn, 31 Hampshire St., Mansfield, Soyuzivka’s Datebook Mass.,at 7p.m. – midnight; telephone, (508) NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of 339-2200. Mr. Cahute’s “Barabolya” musical May 17, Saturday July 20- August 2 America (UIA) is holding a benefit concert concert will be held Sunday May 18, at 1 p.m. Art Exhibit Sports Camp featuring jazz guitarist Askold Buk and the at St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Askold Buk Trio. The concert, to be held in Jamaica Plain. For tickets and information May 19-22 July 26, Saturday the UIA’s second floor ballroom, begins at 8 call Steve Kostecki, (508) 746-7164. Berchtesgaden Gymnasium p.m. Suggested donation: $35; proceeds to Soyuzivka Summer Zabava with Sunday, May 18 Reunion benefit UIA Cultural Events Programs. For SVITANOK additional information call the UIA, (212) 288-8660. The institute is located at 2 E. 79th OLD TOWN ALEXANDRIA, Va.: Pianist May 24, Saturday, July 27, Sunday St.,diagonally across from the Metropolitan Lydia Artymiw performs works by Memorial Day Weekend BBQ Summer Heritage Concert – #3 Museum of Art. Beethoven, Brahms, Lysenko and Schumann and Zabava with LUNA at The Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St., at 3 August 1-3 Saturday, May 10 p.m. Suggested donation: $15; students, free. June 2-5 A reception for the artist will follow the pro- Soyuzivka Sports Jamboree NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Clergy Retreat, Stamford gram. The concert is presented by The Weekend. Society is holding a presentation by Serhii Washington Group Cultural Fund under the Eparchy Softball, Soccer, Volleyball and Holovaty, member of Parliament and former patronage of the Embassy of Ukraine, as part Hockey/Rollerblade minister of justice of Ukraine (1995-1997), of their 2002-2003 music series. For more June 8-13 Tournaments with music by currently, Fulbright Scholar at Yale information contact Laryssa Courtney, (202) UNA Senior Week BARABOLYA. University, who will speak on the topic 363-3964. “Ukraine: Between Europe and America.” CHICAGO: Author Irene Zabytko will read June 15, Sunday August 2, Saturday The lecture will be held at the Society’s building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and from her new book, “When Luba Leaves Father’s Day & Kick-off Soyuzivka Summer Zabava with of the Summer Heritage Concert 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For additional informa- Home,” a humorous collection of stories BURYA tion call (212) 254-5130. inspired by memories of life in Chicago’s Series Ukrainian Village. Ms. Zabytko received crit- August 3-8 CHICAGO: The Chicago Business and ical acclaim for her first novel, “The Sky June 21-July 3 Soyuzivka Scuba Diving Course Professional Group is sponsoring a presenta- Unwashed,” which was based on the Tennis Camp tion by Ambassador William Courtney on Chornobyl tragedy. The reading will be held August 9, Saturday “The Former Soviet Union and International at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, June 22-29 Security.” Ambassador Courtney is director, 2320 West Chicago Ave., at 2 p.m. Soyuzivka Summer Zabava with Day Camp, Tabir Ptashat No.1 national security programs, at Computer Admission: $10. For more information, con- NA ZDOROVYA. Sciences Corp., a large federal information tact the institute, (773) 227-5522. Art Exhibit with Ducia Hanu- June 28, Saturday technology provider. Previously he served as shevsky; Ceramics and the HARTFORD, Conn.: The Greater Hartford Soyuzivka Summer Zabava with a U.S. ambassador to Georgia and to paintings of Anatolij Burtovyj. Kazakstan. The presentation will be held at Chapter of the Children of Chornobyl Relief VIDLUNNIA the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 Fund is hosting a fund-raising awards dinner August 10-23 W. Chicago Ave., at 7 p.m. Refreshments and to honor former Olympic Champion Viktor June 29-July 6 socializing will follow the presentation. Petrenko, the Ukrainian National Home of Day Camp, Tabir Ptashat No. 2 Traditional Ukrainian Folk New Haven, award-winning photojournalist Dance Camp with Roma Admission: $10, members; $15, non-mem- bers and guests. For additional information Joseph Sywenkyj and the Rev. Luke Mihaly July 4-6 Pryma Bohachevsky call (847) 359-3676. for their outstanding contributions to CCRF’s Fourth of July Weekend & mission. Special guests will be Ambassador Zabava with MONTAGE and August 16, Saturday Thursday, May 15 Kostyantyn Gryshchenko and Consul General Serhii Pohoreltzev. The dinner TEMPO. Miss Soyuzivka Weekend & Zabava with CHICAGO: Author Irene Zabytko will offer begins at 2 p.m. at the Hartford Ukrainian Music with Phili Funk Jazz “The Business of Writing” – a workshop for FATA MORGANA National Home, 961 Wethersfield Ave. Ensemble. writers new to the business, offering advice Admission: $50 per person. For information on publishing, etc. The workshop, sponsored or to make a reservation call Nadia, (860) July 6, Sunday August 17, Sunday by the Young Friends of the Institute, will be 529-1336, or Irene, (860) 647-9946. Summer Heritage Concert No. 2 Summer Heritage Concert – #4 held at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 W. Chicago Ave., at 7 p.m. Admission, Monday, May 19 July 6- 19 August 23, Saturday $10. To reserve a place contact Anya Antonovych, (773) 227-5522. STANFORD, Calif.: George Chopivsky, Boys & Girls Recreational Camp Ukrainian Independence Cele- CEO, Ukrainian Development Corp., will bration – Dance Camp Recital Saturday, Sunday May 17-18 give a presentation on “Business in Ukraine: July 12, Saturday & Zabava with VORONY Opportunities and Realities Lessons from Soyuzivka Summer Zabava BOSTON: A “Spring Benefit Dance, with Personal Experience.” The presentation, August 25- September 1 music by Ron Cahute’s Burya band from given as part of seven distingusihed lectures July 13- 18 Labor Day Week Canada is being sponsored by the Rev. John in the series titled: “Ukraine: Emerging Chemney Camp, Session #1 Danylevich Foundation, the Ukrainian Nation,” sponsored by the Center for August 30- 31 Orphan Aid Society of Boston and Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Emergency Medical Aid for Ukraine. All Labor Day Weekend – Zabavas at Stanford University, will be held at Hartley July 19, Saturday profits will benefit Ukrainian humanitarian Conference Center, at 4:15 p.m. For addition- Soyuzivka Summer Zabava with with FATA MORGANA & organizations. Advance ticket purchase: al information access http://www.stanford. VORONY TEMPO. adults, $45; youths, $35. Dinner buffet is edu/dept/CREES/UkrainianStudies.html, or Summer Heritage Concert with included in price. The event will be held at the call the center, (650) 723-3562. July 20-25 UKRAINA Dance Group from Chemney Camp, Session #2 Canada. Being Ukrainian means: J Sviato Vesny or Zlet in May. J Festivals in June. J Tabir in July. J Volleyball at Wildwood in August. J Labor Day at Soyuzivka in September.

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Supplement to The Ukrainian Weekly, May 4, 2003 AIt’s that timeUkrainian of year again – time for our annual issue of “A Ukrainian at Harvard andSummer enjoying the vibrant program at the Grazhda in the Hunter Summer.” And this year marks the seventh year for this special supplement in area. And then there is the array of camps, workshops and courses. You can The Ukrainian Weekly. use your summer to learn one or more of the following: scuba, golf, bandura, Our 2003 supplement invites readers to come home to Soyuzivka, the folk dancing, the Ukrainian language, paintball, mountaineering, tennis, soc- beloved resort owned by the Ukrainian National Association that this year cer, mountain biking, sailing, canoeing ... Whew! There are so many choices! continues celebrations of its 50th anniversary, while looking ahead to the To top it all off, there are fabulous and fun-filled festivals: from New York future with a new management team and a development program in place. City to Horsham and Lehighton, Pa., and on to Toronto and San Diego. Readers will discover that there is much to do this summer Ukrainian- Indeed, what would a Ukrainian summer be without our festivals? wise, from discovering Kyiv’s international restaurants, to attending courses So much to do during such a short season – so, read, choose and enjoy! Our community’s favorite resort beckons: come home to Soyuzivka!

by Olesia Guran as Chef Snake. Items from the ‘Snake to learn about their culture, religion and dren’s sleep-away camp, tennis camp, Pit’ will be featured on the new à la carte heritage and Father’s Day will mark the scuba courses and the ever-popular KERHONKSON, N.Y. – After a win- restaurant menu, in the renovated dining kickoff of the Summer Heritage Concert Ukrainian dance camp. ter that blanketed Soyuzivka in depths of room located in the Main House. Series. This series will include five spe- This summer the Sports Camp is snow unlike the past few mild winters, Also in time for the summer season, cial Sunday performances by a variety being expanded to two weeks, which spring has finally sprung in the Hudson Soyuzivka boasts a renovated lobby and of Ukrainian performers ranging from will end with a Sports Jamboree Valley. And, as the tulips and hostas so a painted Main House building. The Ukrainian dance ensembles to Ukrainian Weekend on August 1-3. There will be a familiar to the landscaping of Soyuzivka Veselka building is currently in the choirs and musicians. hockey/rollerblading, softball and soccer begin to burst through the ground, process of getting a facelift with a reno- During the summer months, tournament, as well as a volleyball open spring is definitely in the air here at vated hallway and bathrooms, and fresh- Soyuzivka will also have a dance every and a seniors division volleyball tourna- Soyuzivka. ly painted Trembita Lounge – a fixture Saturday night with music by a variety of ment. Live music and entertainment will With this season of new growth, visi- well known to many Ukrainians over the Ukrainian bands, beginning on June 28 be featured all weekend long, including tors will see exciting new developments generations. with the band Vidlunnia. These concerts a comedy show/cabaret, a “Barabolya” here at Soyuzivka. Articles have recently Since Soyuzivka’s owner, the and zabavy (dances) are featured in the show for the kids and a zabava with the been written about the changes in man- Ukrainian National Association, is striv- new section called “Soyuzivka’s Ukrainian band Burya. agement, with Nestor Paslawsky, the ing to improve the status of the resort, Datebook,” located on the last page of In addition to the bounty with which new general manager, heading up the which is still recovering from a deficit, it The Ukrainian Weekly, as well as in Mother Nature has endowed Soyuzivka, team. His goal is not only to increase has implemented a multi-level program Svoboda, where the same listing appears there is so much to enjoy about this business at this beloved Ukrainian resort called the Soyuzivka Heritage in Ukrainian. This calendar of events is jewel in the mountains. Come and visit but also to increase the number of year- Preservation and Recreational Center. an ongoing section that will highlight often and experience the exciting round amenities to entice newcomers Phase I of this program is to upgrade events at Soyuzivka throughout the year. changes that the new management team and old-timers back to Soyuzivka. the activity areas at Soyuzivka which Also unveiling very shortly, will be a hopes to introduce on a regular basis. In April the resort held a trailblazing include a new play area for our youngest redesigned Soyuzivka website that will Soyuzivka is currently taking applica- weekend that brought in volunteers of members, a roller blading and ice skat- also keep a current listing of all events at tions for the summer season, hiring for all ages and the beginnings of a mile- ing rink, and a renovated volleyball http://www.Soyuzivka.com. Visitors will all positions including lifeguards, wait long trail loop that heads to the water- court with its very own tiki bar. notice many improvements to the new staff, bartenders and general workers. falls and cuts over to the cliffs. This trail A contribution towards any one of website, including recipes from the Enjoy your summer with an excellent will allow for mountain biking, hiking these projects will be honored at each “Snake Pit,” event archives, Kerhonkson’s job opportunity that will also give you and cross-country skiing during the win- site with a commemorative nameplate in daily weather forecast, and more. memories that will last a lifetime. ter, and will be marked with emblems of a venue of your choice or you may pur- Other marketing efforts include the Even before the summer truly begins, Soyuzivka’s signature Hutsul. chase a tax-deductible advertising board Soyuzivka Internet Newsletter, distribut- however, guests can get a taste of the Eventually it will be connected to that will be placed around the roller ing timelier information on events at new Soyuzivka during Memorial Day Minnewaska State Park trails. blade rink (the rollerblading rink will least once a month. (Please forward your weekend. Why not come bring your There will be no need to bring your replace the lone tennis court located next e-mail address to us if you’re interested family and friends and join us for a tra- mountain bikes since this summer to the volleyball court). in receiving our newsletter.) ditional barbecue on Saturday, May 24? Soyuzivka will be opening a new Phase II will include the renovations Through its first 50 years, Soyuzivka That evening, there will be a dance to Activities Center that will allow guests of Veselka, where the heritage and cul- offered a variety of camps over the sum- the music of the Luna band. to use mountain bikes and cross-country tural programs will be held. Those inter- mer, and this summer the tradition will For more information contact: skis during the winter. ested in participating in this fund-raising continue. For children of all ages, there Soyuzivka, P.O.Box 529, 216 This month Soyuzivka started the program, are asked to call Mr. is a nice selection of camps from “Tabir Foordmore Road, Kerhonkson, NY “Snake Pit,” a vegetable and herb gar- Paslawsky, (845) 626-5641, for any Ptashat” for Ukrainian-speaking 12446; website, http://www.Soyuzivka. den for its very own culinary master, additional information. preschoolers and the Chemney Heritage com; telephone, (845) 626-5641 ext. Andrij Sonevytsky, known to the public Soyuzivka gives individuals a place Camp conducted in English, to the chil- 141; e-mail, [email protected].

Soyuzivka is a mecca for young people, such as this group that came on Labor A group at Soyuzivka learns the basics of scuba diving. Day weekend 2002. 2 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY No. 18

A Ukrainian Summer: where to go, what to do... Travel to Kyiv, and eat your way around the world via its fine restaurants

by Roman Woronowycz changing the established traditions.” Kyiv Press Bureau Kyiv restaurants serving Ukraine’s ethnic nouvelle cuisine, where the motif KYIV – If Ukraine is on your summer and the music nonetheless remain 19th vacation itinerary, undoubtedly that century village traditional, include means a stop in Kyiv, the political and Khutorets, Tsarske Selo, Kobzar, Kozak cultural capital of the country. While Mamai and Hostynnyi Dvir. They do a today this city of nearly 3 million inhabi- huge summer business among tourists tants is internationally known for its his- and keep going through the off-season toric churches and museums, it may also months by appealing to Kyivans longing have a future as a center of fine dining. for a bit of home-style cooking. Although little-known and even less Yet, what puts today’s Kyiv restaurant discussed, Kyiv has a number of delight- scene on a world-class level is the wide ful gastronomic landmarks, on par with variety of ethnic restaurants. There are any other European capital, which American grills, French bistros, Italian tourists to Ukraine should make part of ristorante and pizzerias, Japanese steak- their tour plans when on a trip to houses, and dining establishments offer- Ukraine. ing Indian, Chinese, Mexican and True, before the transformations of the Argentinean cuisine. Walk the streets of last decade, Kyiv was a barren wasteland downtown Kyiv and you will routinely Photos in this series by Roman Woronowycz of culinary cuisine. Kyivans and visitors see restaurants beneath neon signs carry- El Asador Taberna to the capital had practically nothing to ing none-too-Ukrainian names like El choose from in terms of quality eating Asador Taberna and Grill, Hanoi establishments. Cafés and restaurants Restaurant, Mimino, Arizona BBQ, with drab names served nondescript and Sam’s Steak House, San Tori, and forgettable food to customers who didn’t Pantagruel. expect or demand much, except for plen- Leading the pack of notable ethnic ty of cheap vodka, perhaps. A slab of restaurants for some time now is San Tori over-cooked pork, a salad drenched in – a combination Thai and Japanese mayonnaise and the requisite 100 grams restaurant, which serves the differing of the clear stuff was for most a satisfac- fares in separate rooms of a second-floor tory business lunch or a nice evening out. establishment located on Kontraktova The sensibilities and the culinary Square in the Podil district of Kyiv. expectations of Kyivan restaurant-goers San Tori was the creation of co-own- have become vastly more Europeanized ers Marina and Falk Nebiger, who decid- in the last decade. Kyiv’s entrepreneurs ed on the combination for their second and restaurants, in turn, have responded Kyiv restaurant while on a dining tour of well and even led the way forward in Frankfurt. The two, who are married, many cases. thought they could make a dent in the “Kyiv has seen quite a change in the Kyiv restaurant scene by combining the quality and the style of restaurants lately, two internationally recognized and loved and it is only going to get better,” Asian cuisines, while accenting an Asian explained Suzanna Burman of the Kyiv fusion menu as well. Restaurant Guild. The couple and their restaurant form There are more than 2,000 restaurants an interesting, self-contained ethnic melt- and cafes located in Kyiv today, about ing pot: while Marina is half Moroccan 300 of them gourmand establishments, and half Russian, and Falk is German, and more than half of those specialists in they live in Ukraine, where they own a ethnic fare, according to the Kyiv restaurant specializing in Japanese and Restaurant Guild. While Michelin, the Thai food. Now add to that international highly respected restaurant guide and mix the fact that the first restaurant they review to the best restaurants in the opened in Kyiv was the Tex-Mex-style world, has yet to grade the Kyiv food restaurant Arizona BBQ (more about that scene, it does not mean that local restau- later), and you realize they have brought rants do not offer some of the best dining a very interesting potpourri of gastro- in the world. nomic expertise to the city. Today, eateries with outstanding repu- When San Tori opened in 1996, there tations – and prices, we should add – dot was not a single restaurant carrying the Kyiv culinary landscape, dishing up either Japanese or Thai fare on its menu. high-quality food and serving world- Interestingly enough, generally conserva- class wines. Among them Kyiv’s current tive and cautious Ukrainians took to the rave restaurant, Egoist, as well as the restaurant quickly – in part, Marina nouvelle cuisine kitchens of Le Grand explained, because the heavy accent in Café, the Concorde and Surpryz. the menu on fish, a favorite food among The food is prepared by demanding Ukrainians – and soon people were queu- young and innovative chefs competing to ing to get into the restaurant. make their mark and their reputation, “When we opened 70 percent of our including Volodymyr Yadlovsky of clients were foreigners and 30 percent Egoist, Valentyna Kuchar of Tsarske Selo Ukrainians, but very quickly that and Denys Komarenko of Surpryz. Mr. changed around to exactly the opposite,” Komarenko, who is considered the dean explained Marina, who is also the restau- of the new generation of chefs, has suc- rant’s manager. Arizona BBQ ceeded in achieving international renown Today San Tori, which means sizzling in a little over a decade. bird in the Thai language, continues to be could not go wrong either, if you tried Bowl Sunday and the World Series. But There is also an abundance of top-end popular among Kyivans and is almost the Papaya Salad, the Japanese Sea Bass what makes the place a great hangout is Ukrainian kitchens serving nouveau always found on any serious list of the the Thai Red Snapper or one of the lus- the food. Its delicious entrée selections Ukrainian and Kozak fare, in addition to city’s top 10 restaurants. cious desserts, which include deep-fried and spicy appetizers – equal parts Texas the still-popular standards demanded by Sushi and sashimi are the most popu- bananas and Thai coconut pudding. beef and barbecue and Mexican corn tor- tourists: borsch with pampushky, potato lar items on the menu, along with As noted earlier, the Nebigers have tillas, beans and rice – make it a popular pancakes, varenyky and holubtsi. Ms. Japanese Miso soup and the whole spec- become a pillar of Kyiv’s restaurant eating place for Ukrainians and Burman explained that what makes the trum of Thai soups. However, a visit to scene. Before San Tori, they started with Europeans alike and a necessary rest stop Ukrainian cuisine served at these eating the restaurant would not be complete Arizona BBQ, which specializes in Tex- for every American still not hardened establishments notable is that they each without trying an appetizer from the Thai Mex cooking. Around for eight years, it against that yearning for a bit of home. bring something different and unusual to selection (we recommend chicken roast- is already a legendary landmark within Ms. Burman said that warmth and the fare they offer. ed in banana leaves, served with a sweet the party-loving U.S. expatriate set. good service are what make Arizona “There are no restaurants that serve sesame sauce) or something from the Its bar – with satellite-wired television BBQ memorable. “People feel at home pure Ukrainian cuisine today,” explained fusion menu (another suggestion: the broadcasting events direct from the U.S. there,” she explained. Ms. Burman. “Through innovations and roasted magrit of duck with sautéed pear – is the center of action during U.S. additions by the chefs, they are slowly in spicy red wine and ginger confit. You “national sports holidays,” such as Super (Continued on page 3) No. 18 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY 3

A Ukrainian Summer: where to go, what to do... as barbecued veal tenderloin, which until the next delivery came. Today the Ukrainians increasingly will order medi- selection and the freshness of vegetables um rare to his great satisfaction, as are much improved, even though some of opposed to well done, which was the the most exotic stuff is not easily obtain- only way they wanted their meat cooked able in Kyiv. until not long ago. Service is another area in which The chef is in step with the emphasis marked improvements are discernible. on artistic presentation currently popular Today a waiter or a waitress understands in the culinary world. He showed a dish that service means “when the customer he called vegetable rainbow, consisting wants it,” not “when I am ready to of zucchini, eggplant, onion and toma- work.” There is another side to that equa- toes in a honey mustard sauce, arranged tion that has changed as well. Whereas a to create a spectrum of dark blue, green, few years back tipping was not generally yellow and white hues. He also offered expected or required, today if you don’t his award-winning dessert, called Pasion, leave at least 10 percent with your bill – which consists of strawberries and crème which in many Kyiv restaurants you with ground peppercorns in a sugar cone can’t get around anyway because it is shell. automatically added to the check – you Another well-loved Kyiv ethnic will get a stare as ugly and unsettling as restaurant is the Mimino, which serves any dissatisfied French or Italian waiter Georgian cuisine, long popular among could deliver. the sophisticated set in Kyiv. Named for Nonetheless, when taking the whole a much-watched movie from the Soviet Kyiv restaurant scene under considera- era, the word itself means “hawk” in the tion there are still a couple of things the Georgian language. The food is as wild city still lacks. Most notably, as Ms. as the name implies. The Georgian Burman of the Kyiv Restaurant Guild kitchen is very similar to Greek, Turkish observed, there is a very obvious need and Armenian cuisine, heavy on hot for more affordable restaurants, especial- spices and grilled lamb. In a Georgian ly of the family type. True, Kyiv – and eatery, however, there is the added Ukraine in general – has its share of delight of the thick and rich Georgian McDonald’s and even a recently opened wines, and this restaurant offers up quite TGIF’s. The country also has a few of its a selection. own quickly developing fast food chains, Food and service in Kyiv’s restaurants such as the increasingly popular Shvydko have attained a consistent quality that brand. But there are few restaurants was lacking in earlier years. In the first where you can take the family for a half of the 1990s, problems could arise in leisurely and relatively inexpensive qual- simply obtaining the quality produce and ity meal. That needs to change, according ingredients needed to prepare the exotic to Ms. Burman. dishes some restaurants offered. “There are many people who can Even in the last few years, what you afford to eat out, but they don’t because expected was still not always what you it is simply not the right atmosphere for a got as restaurants were forced to impro- family get-together. They still have their vise when a deficit of one thing or anoth- family gatherings at home or at the cot- er occurred in the local market or with tage,” explained Ms. Burman. international deliveries. Ever had a burri- For visitors from Europe or North to with shredded cabbage instead of let- America, more accustomed to eating in tuce? One Kyiv restaurant that claimed to a wide variety of styles and service, this Santori specialize in Mexican fare was forced to is generally not an issue. Also, the euro make that change back in 1998 when it and the dollar go a very long way here, ran out of lettuce one day. and so the term “expensive” carries a Although the situation has vastly discounted meaning. Perhaps it is time improved, in the 1990s some vegetables that Ukraine gets its tourism industry commonly found in European and U.S. off the ground by promoting its Kyiv groceries, such as romaine lettuce, were restaurants. After all, if the rich in not often seen in Ukraine’s markets. North America can fly to Paris on a When a chef unexpectedly ran out of whim for a bit of French cooking, why avocados, he couldn’t simply have a not to Kyiv? dishwasher or busboy run out to a local Anyone for dyruny (potato pancakes)? store to pick some up to tide him over Or how about mandarin duck?

UKRAINIAN DANCE CAMP & WORKSHOP Mountainview Resort-Verkhovyna, Glen Spey, NY

Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Director Tequila House Workshop June 29 - July 13, 2003 Perhaps Kyiv’s most intriguing ethnic open prairie grassland that makes up For advanced dancers ages 16 and older restaurant is the El Asador, which fea- much of the geographic landscape of the tures of all things, Argentinean cuisine. country, which was historically inhabited You could ask, what is an Argentinean by Argentinean gauchos and their herds Dance Camp July 27 - August 9, 2003 restaurant doing in Kyiv? And you could of livestock. answer with the obvious: A Ukrainian But Argentinean-born Chef Antonio, Ages 8 to 16, beginners and intermediate immigrant to Buenos Aires who returned who was trained in the kitchens of Paris home must own it. But you would be and Milan and spent two years in For information and registration write or call: wrong. Moscow before taking his current posi- Chef Antonio Ruiz of El Asador tion in Kyiv, assured us that he does not Ukrainian Dance Camp and Workshop refused to tell us who, in fact, is the have to order his food items from back c/o Roma Pryma Bohachevsky owner of this traditional taberna and grill, home because most everything that is 1942 Route 313 but he did assure us it was an ethnic needed – except for a few varieties of Argentinean. spices – can be found in Ukraine. Perkasie, Pa 18944 The restaurant serves the grilled foods Chef Antonio said his most popular (215) 258-2936 developed on the Argentinean Pampa, the dish is la Cumparsita, better known to us 4 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY No. 18

A Ukrainian Summer: where to go, what to do... Study Ukrainian language, politics, history, literature at Harvard University

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI) offers participants a unique opportunity to study the language, literature, politics and history of modern Ukraine during an eight-week university-accredited intensive program. In a word – HUSI is about Harvard – the university that speaks for itself, with more than 90 libraries, the richest Ukrainian col- lection of books and periodicals outside Eastern Europe and much, much more. HUSI is also about Ukraine and the lat- est in Ukrainian studies, conceptualized either as a separate area of inquiry or as a point of departure for inter-disciplinary and comparative studies of Eastern Europe and post-totalitarian transitional societies. HUSI is about the rewards of studies in the summer – how productive and fruitful they can be. The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute is the only program of its kind in North America. Intensive Ukrainian language teaching is the central focus of the institute; instruction is proficiency-based and aimed at develop- ing speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in real-life settings. An extensive Students, faculty and associates of the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute’s class of 2002 on the steps of Widener Library. video library of over 100 films, satellite access to Ukrainian TV programs, regular Dibrova, Ph.D., Ukrainian Academy of ander Motyl (Rutgers University) – the Grabowicz, Himka and Motyl. Graduate language tables, interaction with native Sciences). political science course “Theorizing students taking any of the listed courses will speakers and other activities supplement HUSI also offers three other courses, Ukraine: Politics, Theory and Politcal get graduate credits. classroom training. taught by senior faculty, each a recog- Theory.” For a detailed description of the HUSI- This year the Institute offers three profi- nized authority in his field. Dr. George In addition, and for the first time in 2003 program and application materials ciency-based, intensive courses in modern Grabowicz (Harvard) will teach “20th HUSI’s history, graduate and doctoral stu- visit the Institute’s web site: www.huri.har- Ukrainian – Beginning (Alla Parkhomenko, Century Ukrainian Literature: Rethink- dents will have the opportunity to take an vard.edu or call (617) 495-7833 or (617) Ph.D., Kyiv State University), Intermediate ing the Canon”; Dr. John-Paul Himka interdisciplinary advanced graduate seminar 495-4053; fax, (617)495-8097; or e-mail (Yuri Shevchuk, Ph.D., Kyiv State (University of Alberta) – the history “Studying 20th Century Ukraine: Theory, [email protected]. University), and Advanced (Volodymyr course “Modern Ukraine”; and Dr. Alex- Methodology, Identity,” co-taught by Profs. The application deadline is May 30. No. 18 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY 5

A Ukrainian Summer: where to go, what to do... Visit the Hunter area and enjoy concerts and other events at the Grazhda

JEWETT, N.Y. — The Music and Art Jersey State Opera this season in Information is also available by calling crafts. The parish hosts a buffet offering Center of Greene County, the first and old- Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci.” (518) 989-6479. Ukrainian cuisine that is open to the public est classical music summer concert series The final concert of the season will take The center also offers four one-week on Sundays at 11:30 a.m., after the liturgy. in the region, offers an opportunity to hear place on Sunday, August 31, featuring the workshops in Ukrainian folk arts — ceram- *** outstanding musicians perform in the Forte String Quartet — Mikhail Kuchuk ics, beadwork (gerdany), embroidery, and As a non-profit organization, the Music architecturally unique Grazhda hall. An and Oleksander Abayev, violin; Roumi pysanky — to be held July 28-August 1. A and Art Center invites interested individu- integral part of the Ukrainian cultural com- Petrova, viola; Kalin Ivanov, cello — with two-week program of Ukrainian folk- als to become members and thus increase plex built around St. John the Baptist Yuri Kharenko, violin; Ms. Khoma, cello; singing for children, under the direction of the membership base, which provides a Ukrainian Catholic Church, the Grazhda is and Mr. Vynnytsky, piano. Anna Bachynska, will be held July 28- substantial portion of the financial support situated in the beautiful natural setting of General information – performance August 8, followed by a recital on August that enables the center to work on the the Catskills in the Hunter area, a region schedules, changes and updates, as well as 9. To register call Ms. Bachynska at (718) that has experienced a remarkable growth development of current and future pro- detailed directions and membership infor- 271-9387 by June 30. in cultural awareness and new opportuni- grams. Inquiries should be addressed to: mation — is available online at: The cultural center also has a gift shop ties. Music and Art Center of Greene County, Established in 1983 by composer and http://musicandartgc.brama.com. featuring a fine array of Ukrainian arts and P.O. Box 20, Jewett, NY 12442. musicologist Dr. Ihor Sonevytsky, the Music and Art Center has become an established presence in the region and on the Ukrainian cultural scene in general. This year, the center embarks on its 21st season under the direction of its new music director, pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky, with Ika Koznarska Casanova, executive director. Heading this summer’s roster of per- formers at the Grazhda is internationally renowned concert pianist Alexander Slobodyanik in the opening concert of the season on July 5. The second concert of the season will feature Laryssa Krupa, piano, and Adrian Bryttan, violin, on July 19. Ms. Krupa, a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory, is an active performer and teacher, currently on the faculty of the County College of Morris in New Jersey. Mr. Bryttan, who has served as conductor of various national and international orchestras, opera companies and youth orchestras, is violin soloist and faculty member at the Pre-College Division of the Manhattan School of Music. A new element - theater - is being intro- duced this season with the appearance on July 26 of Gregory Hlady. One of the most sought-after stage and cinema actors and directors in Eastern Europe, Mr. Hlady, known for his exploration of experimental The Grazhda, which forms part of St. John the Baptist Ukrianian Catholic Church and Cultural Center, serves as the technique, now works largely in French venue for the classical music concert series presented by the Music and Art Center of Greene County in July and August. Quebec. Among his recent film credits are An architectural landmark in the region, built in a traditional style typical of the Carpathian region in Ukraine, the com- the Paramount film “The Sum of All plex is a focal point for a well-established Ukrainian summer community and draws tourists from near and far. Fears” (2001) and lead roles in Kim Nguyern’s feature film “Le Marais” (2002) and, as Gen. Roman Shukhevych, in Oles Yanchuk’s film “The Undefeated” (2001). Participate in a New York City celebration of ‘Ivana Kupala’ Soprano Halyna Wolanska, also of Montreal, will make her first appearance at NEW YORK – The Yara Arts Group visceral connection – what drama – fire and ideas and organize these events. To volun- the Grazhda on August 2. A graduate of the will present “Ivana Kupala: Pagan Slavic water. And for an instant an ancient ritual is teer your talent and time, or for more infor- McGill Conservatory of Music with subse- Midsummer Night” in New York on alive in us.” mation, contact: Yara Arts Group, 306 E. quent voice studies in Milan and Vienna, Saturday, June 21. Preparations for “Kupalo” begin in early 11th St. No. 3B, New York, NY 10003; Ms. Wolanska made her European operatic Yara’s fifth “Kupala in the Garden,” will debut in “Die Zauberflöte” at the Varna June. The public is invited to help create (212) 475-6474; [email protected]; once again be an outdoor event in a beauti- these celebrations – sing, dance, generate www.brama.com/yara. International Music Festival, her lieder ful Community Garden in New York with debut in 1996 in Montreal and her North traditional rituals and songs, as well as a American operatic debut in 1998 in the healthy dose of anarchy and ethno-avant- role of Mimi in “La Bohème.” garde art. Pianist Neal Larrabee, acclaimed recital- Last year participants made flower ist and soloist with orchestras who has con- wreaths, danced around Maryna, drank certized extensively in the United States love potions and had their fortunes told, and Europe, and member of the music per- before witnessing an incredible concert by formance faculty at the University of Connecticut, will appear in concert on Yara artists, Mariana Sadovska, the August 16. Experimental Bandura Trio, Svitanje and Recitalists and international laureates Budmo Musical Ensemble, as well as the cellist Natalia Khoma and Mr. Vynnytsky, ferocious Gypsy dancing of Pyroshka. both graduates of the Lviv and Moscow Reviewing the event Kristina Lucenko conservatories who frequently perform wrote: “The Community Garden was the together, will appear in concert on August perfect environment, with its crowded, lush 23. plots of flowers and vegetables spilling This summer brings the return of a spe- over onto narrow crooked paths.” cial guest artist, noted Ukrainian composer Members of Yara were tucked into the gar- Myroslav Skoryk, currently on the faculties den’s many hidden corners: some read of both the Lviv and Kyiv conservatories, from Hohol’s (Gogol) short stories, while in a presentation based on his opera others sang traditional Kupalo melodies “Moisei” (Moses), which premiered in and did water incantation. Lviv on June 23, 2001. The concert, to be “I’ve always loved the mystery of held on August 30, will feature baritone Kupalo,” said Virlana Tkacz, the organizer Oleh Chmyr in the title role. Mr. Chmyr’s of the event. “These rituals connect us to a most recent appearance was with the New past that is almost forgotten. But what a A scene from Yara’s “Ivana Kupala: Pagan Slavic Midsummer Night.” 6 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY No. 18

A Ukrainian Summer: where to go, what to do... Enjoy festivals and sports Consider the many possibilities at ‘Oselia SUM’

by Peter Kosciolek sponsoring a soccer tournament during July’s last week- at Tryzub’s center in Pennsy end, during which a Ukrainian team from Manchester, ELLENVILLE, N.Y. – “Oselia SUM,” the estate and England, is competing. by Eugene A. Luciw camp center of the Ukrainian American Youth The season finale is the traditional SUM “Zdvyh” and Association (SUM), is situated in a valley between the festival during Labor Day weekend, one of the largest HORSHAM, Pa. – Skillfully carved into the beauti- Catskill and Shawangunk mountains of New York state, ful landscape of Philadelphia’s northern suburbs, the gatherings of Ukrainians in the Northeastern U.S. just south of the village of Ellenville. Many Ukrainian Favorite bands – including Svitanok, Vechirka, Na Ukrainian American Sports Center Tryzub offers a wide Americans spent countless summers on the Oselia, found Zdorovya, Vorony, Homin and others – will perform array of sports and cultural programming to enhance their spouses, had their wedding celebrations in the beau- during dances throughout the summer. Guests are invit- your summer plans. tiful banquet room, and raised their children there. Others ed to stay the night in the newly-decorated motel, enjoy On August 24, commencing at noon, Tryzub will host have passed the “CYM” sign on Route 209, not knowing a cup of coffee at the new café (grand opening during its 12th annual Ukrainian Independence Day Festival, what lies behind the tree-lined fence along the road. Memorial Day Weekend), have a bite to eat at the featuring a rich program of folk entertainment – the The estate is the site of summer camps – eight differ- restaurant, take a dip in the Olympic-sized pool or the Oros Sisters; the Voloshky and Obrij Ukrainian dance ent specialized camps for all age groups – sponsored by refreshing mountain stream, make use of the tennis, bas- ensembles; and the Harmonia orchestra. A dance to the the national organization. Twelve years ago a $1.3 mil- ketball and volleyball courts or the soccer field, enjoy music of the Harmonia and Karpaty orchestras will fol- lion camp, composed of six barracks and a headquarters lots of open space, and catch a movie or bingo night. low. building, was built in the form of a Sich fort. Renovating buildings, landscaping the grounds and On June 15 at noon, for the third year in a row, The Oselia also offers families a perfect vacation spot spring cleaning were the major projects for several Tryzub will proudly host the U.S. Amateur Cup (men’s or weekend getaway. For some, the tranquil setting of the planned work weekends, at which many volunteers, and women’s) Region I Finals on its fields. The best mountain stream is reason enough to stay; for others it’s both SUM members and non-members, dedicated count- amateur teams from the entire Atlantic Seaboard will the atmosphere at one of the social events or the music at less hours. Others have donated much-needed items and assemble for this tournament. At the same time, the an outdoor dance, or “zabava.” The mix of young adults, funds to the Beautification Fund. The dedication and spectators can enjoy a Ukrainian festival, a dance and teenagers, parents with children attending one of the team work demonstrated during the last two months a picnic. These highlights are interspersed among a many camps and not-so-young adults escaping the hot shows that the Oselia will continue to thrive as the site series of informal picnic-dances, sports tournaments city summer, gives a newcomer the impression that the for some of the best Ukrainian camps in the United and festivals from Memorial Day weekend through the resort is a place with something to do for everyone. States as well as for festivals, vacations, conventions, fall. The season kick-off during the last weekend of June weddings and other functions. Also, Tryzub invites readers to send their children to will be the 3rd Annual Lemko Vatra-Festival, featuring The SUM estate is located on Route 209 in Ulster its soccer camps (to be announced) and to play on its 20 Lemko-Ukrainian specialties and entertainment. The County, N.Y., two miles south of the village of youth teams. Fourth of July Weekend is geared towards families with Ellenville. For more information call (845) 647-7230, e- The sports center’s banquet hall, picnic grove and fun and games for all ages. mail [email protected]. or visit the website fields are available for rent. Call (215) 343-5412 or visit The Quad Grass Volleyball Tournament and Annual http://www.cym.org/us/ellenville. (Also, look for Tryzub at its website: http://www.tryzubsportscenter.org/ Softball Tournament return for another round in August. updates on Oselia happenings on the pages of The for more information. Together with the Krylati Soccer Club the oselia is Ukrainian Weekly.)

Journey to the Homestead in the Poconos to experience a piece of Ukraine

by Ihor Czenstuch stead hosts several camps: the Ukrainian Gold Cross Children’s Camp, the Kazka National University of LEHIGHTON, Pa. – At the southern Dance Camp and the Voloshky Dance foothills of the Pocono Mountains, just KYIV MOHYLA ACADEMY Workshop, as well as a Mountain Bike five miles from the Pennsylvania Camp and a Paintball Camp, sponsored in conjunction with Turnpike (NE Extension, Exit 34), one respectively, by Plast’s Burlaky and finds the Ukrainian Homestead – a piece Khrestonostsi fraternaties. of Ukraine on 200 acres owned by the The highlight of the summer is the Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine annual Ukrainian Folk Festival held on (ODVU). For over 40 years, this resort, the third weekend in August to commem- or “oselia,” in Lehighton, Pa., 75 miles orate Ukraine’s independence. Over north of Philadelphia and 90 miles west of New York City, has been the summer 1,000 spectators come from many home for many individuals and groups. regions of Pennsylvania, New York, New THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. Recently, this Ukrainian resort has Jersey, Delaware and Maryland to expe- experienced a resurgence of activity. rience traditional song and dance per- are organizing a 6-week academic program on Ukrainian language, literature and Adults who as youngsters spent many formed by groups from the United States culture in Kyiv. Program includes academic course, summers at the Homestead are now and Canada. Guests feast on Ukrainian room and board in Kyiv, exursions and cultural programs bringing their children. Third- and foods, enjoy arts and crafts presented by transportation services in Ukraine including to/from airport fourth-generation Ukrainians from the many vendors, and dance the night away coal mining regions of Pennsylvania are at the “zabava” on Saturday night. ACADEMIC COURSES: June 23 to August 1, 2003 revisiting their roots, and new arrivals This year’s festival will take place on ACADEMIC PROGRAM: Ukrainian language, contemporary history and litera- from Ukraine are finding a haven. August 16-17. In addition to performanc- The Ukrainian Homestead is occupied es by the Kazka Ukrainian Folk ture, on different levels. All courses taught by professionals from the Kyiv- Ensemble, the Voloshky Performing Mohyla Academy staff year-round by skiers, bikers, campers, rafters, hunting and fishing enthusiasts, Dance Academy, the Vidlunnia Music INTRODUCTION: To the current cultural and political life in Ukraine. conventioneers and vacationers enjoying Ensemble and others, the special guest performers will be the renowned Ukraina EXCURSIONS: Visit historical monuments – churches, palaces, museums and nearby attractions such as the quaint town of Jim Thorpe and the many ski Dance Ensemble from Toronto. theaters in Kyiv; “Celebration of Kyiv Day”; Ivana Kupala, etc., resorts. Weddings, christenings and fam- The traditional “Dyviziinyky” potato 6 WEEKS – $1,700.00 ily reunions also are a common occur- bake and dance are held in late Not including flights to/from Ukraine rence. September. The Ukrainian Homestead offers For more information or to make For further information and applications please call the UNA: motel rooms, bungalows, campsites, bar- reservations, call the Ukrainian Oksana Trytjak – Special Projects Coordinator becue areas, a swimming pool, a dance Homestead at (610) 377-4621 or (215) 235-3709 or e-mail [email protected]. Visit Tel.: (973) 292-9800 ext. 3071; e-mail [email protected] hall and a social club. An active open-air chapel also graces the grounds. the website www.odwu.org for a com- at UNA, 2200 Route 10, Parsippany, NJ 07054 Throughout the summer, the Home- plete schedule of events. Deadline for applications: May 15, 2003 $100.00 application fee non-refundable, payable to UNA ADDITIONAL EXCURSION AVAILABLE AFTER COURSES: And, don’t forget your summertime reading: 1 WEEK IN CRIMEA, ROOM/BOARD AND EXCURSION, $225.00 EXTRA. The Ukrainian Weekly, of course! No. 18 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY 7 8 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY No. 18 No. 18 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY 9 No. 18 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY 10 No. 18 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY 11

A Ukrainian Summer: where to go, what to do... Accept an invitation from Ukrainians in San Diego for Labor Day weekend festivities

by Bill W. Loznycky Jr. SAN DIEGO – The House of Ukraine Inc., located in Balboa Park, will sponsor its annual Ukrainian Festival during Labor Day weekend, Friday through Sunday, August 29-31. Festivities start on Friday with a wel- come barbecue at 6-7:30 p.m. This is an opportunity for guests to meet the dancers. The weekend at Balboa Park contin- ues on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with a Ukrainian dance performance at the Casa Del Prado Theater, home of the world- famous San Diego Zoo. This year’s per- formance features Rozmai Dance Company of Winnipeg. Presently under artistic direction of Gabriela Rehak and Dmitri Dovgoselets, Rozmai’s rich and colorful repertoire is enjoyed both local- ly and abroad. The troupe is a favorites at conventions, concerts and unique occasions, one of these being the recent concert “Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra: On Being Ukrainian.” Earlier in the day on Saturday, for those age 21 and older, a behind-the- scenes winery tour, gourmet picnic lunch and wine tasting are being arranged just north of San Diego in Temecula. On Sunday at noon, Ukrainian ethnic food and refreshments will be available for purchase at the House of Pacific The Rozmai Dance Company of Winnipeg will headline the 2003 festival in Balboa Park. Relations International Cottages’ Lawn Stage in Balboa Park. At 2 p.m., a short purpose. Caritas-Spes has been chosen as the charity that this takers are usually nuns – generally two or three per home. The program of Ukrainian song and dance year will receive a portion of the festival’s proceeds. Rough sta- children attend the regular state school and develop a normal will begin on the lawn stage. tistics say there are about 50,000 street children in Kyiv alone. family unit. Caritas Spes is currently working on costing out Festivities end on Sunday night with a Caritas works with the social services in Ukraine and takes chil- another home in Zhytomyr, a former monastery that will be dinner and “zabava” (dance) beginning dren from the orphanage system and places them in one of its able to house 20 children. at 6 p.m. at Red Lion’s Hanalei Hotel in three homes. The organization prefers to take younger children For more information on House of Ukraine’s Ukrainian Hotel Circle, with Ukrainian dance if possible to minimize their exposure to the state institutional Festival in San Diego, contact House of Ukraine at: phone/fax, music by Kari Ochi Toronto. system. However, children in their teens also are accepted. (619) 291-0661; e-mail, [email protected]; or website, Every year the festival has a serious Nine to 15 orphans live in each home. The children’s care- http://communitylink.sdinsider.com/groups/houseofukraine. 12 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY No. 18

A Ukrainian Summer: where to go, what to do... Get a preview of summer at New York City’s Ukrainian street festival...

by Taras Schumylowych NEW YORK – On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 16, 17 and 18, Seventh Street, between Second and Third avenues, will be closed to traffic and open for a cele- bration by the Ukrainian community of New York City. St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church is sponsoring the 27th annual street festival, which promises to be the biggest and best yet. The official opening will be on Friday evening. There will be many booths featuring Ukrainian food – varenyky, kovbasa, stuffed cabbage, home-baked goods – and Ukrainian arts and crafts: embroideries, wood carvings, ceramics and pysanky (tra- ditional Ukrainian Easter eggs). The famous Ukrainian chorus Dumka of New York will give a concert of sacred Ukrainian music at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church on Sunday, May 18, at 1:15 p.m. Dumka performs under the direc- tion of Maestro Wasyl Hrechynskyj. Festival-goers will be able to enjoy the weekend outdoors, listening to singers and watching those ever-famous Ukrainian dancers with their boundless energy, amaz- ing high jumps, and spectacular steps per- forming the “Hopak” and other folk dances. All in all, an excellent opportunity to dis- cover or revisit this fascinating ethnic neighborhood in the East Village is yours during this exciting weekend in May. Come see the thriving Ukrainian community, which has blended its rich cultural tradi- tions into the fabric of New York City life. A troupe of young dancers entertains the festival crowd in New York City.

... then end the summer with a bang at Toronto’s Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival

A view of the nightlife during the Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival in Toronto.

TORONTO – Over 125,000 are the United States and Ukraine. and beverage gardens offer opportunities nights bring everyone onto the street for a expected at Toronto’s seventh annual This family event provides many activ- to relax, sample Ukrainian fare, listen to traditional Ukrainian “zabava” (dance) Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival ities and interactive exhibits for children some music, meet old friends or make under the stars. scheduled for August 22-23. and adults. Our community partner pavil- new ones. On-street food vendors provide Best of all – admission to the festival is Complete street closure along Bloor ions offer everyone an experience in new and different food concessions. free. For more information check out week- Street West between Runnymede and Jane health and Ukrainian history, culture and On Saturday morning, the official ly updates at the website www.ukrainian- streets offers a festive environment with a language. opening to the festival kicks off with a festival.org or contact organizers via e-mail, grand stage providing non-stop entertain- Over 45 vendor kiosks make shopping huge parade of over 1,000 participants [email protected], or hotline/fax, (416) ment featuring artists from across Canada, for unique gifts a must. Four themed food and over 50 entries. Friday and Saturday 410-9965.

Kick off your summertime fun at Soyuzivka during our Memorial Day weekend barbecue and zabava, May 24. No. 18 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY 13

A Ukrainian Summer: where to go, what to do... Register for one, or several, of Plast’s diverse summer camp adventures

NEW YORK – As the winter season Pennsylvania; drew to a close, many members of Plast • Mountain Bike Camp, August 2-9, Ukrainian Scouting Organization began based in Lehighton, Pa.; and making preparations for what is shaping • Sports Camp, July 26-August 2, at up to be another active summer season. the Vovcha Tropa campground in East With it comes the ability to spend time Chatham, N.Y.; in the great outdoors practicing and Additionally, there are several new- honing what was learned during meet- comers to the list of specialized camps ings held over many cold months, often this year, as well as a Plast-affiliated indoors and in cramped quarters. tour through Ukraine: So this year’s camps provide Plast • Golf Camp, July 27-August 2, based members a chance to get back outside, see old friends from across the country in North Collins, N.Y.; and, perhaps, make some new friends or • Paint Ball Camp, called “Terenova meet a special someone. Hra,” July 27-August 2, based in Camps for Plast “novatstvo” (chil- Lehighton, Pa.; dren age 7-11) and “yunatstvo” (youths • A tour/camp for older members of age 11-18) are being held on July 5-26 “yunatstvo” and members of “starshe at the Novyi Sokil campsite in North plastunstvo” interested in Ukraine, will Collins, N.Y., Vovcha Tropa in East travel through various Ukrainian towns Chatham, N.Y., and Pysanyi Kamin in begining on August 10. The camp will Andrew Nynka Middlefield, Ohio (In order to attend a culminate in the capital, Kyiv, on Members of Plast’s novatstvo take part in a church service during a three-week three-week summer camp, campers August 25 to celebrate Ukrainian inde- summer camp. must have been members of Plast for at pendence. least three months). Additionally, a two- Instructors’ camps are being planned week camp for “novatstvo” will be held as follows: at Zelenyi Yar campground in Michigan • Novatstvo instructors’ training camp on July 5-20. at the Vovcha Tropa campground in East The following specialized camps are Chatham, N.Y., on June 21-July 3; also planned for this summer: • Yunatstvo instructors training camp • “Tabir Ptashat,” to be held at the at Vovcha Tropa on July 27-August 2. Soyuzivka resort in Kerhonkson, N.Y., Additional information and camp (organized by the Pershi Stezhi Sorority) in two one-week tours (one applications may be obtained at local beginning on June 23 and the other on Plast branches, from the National Plast July 7); and at Zelenyi Yar on July 13- Command headquarters at 140 Second 20; Ave., New York, NY 10003, or from the • A “Pochatkovyi Tabir” for the official Plast national website, youngest “novatstvo” at Vovcha Tropa, www.plastusa.org, where you can find held in three one-week tours (beginning additional contact information for the on July 5, 12 and 19); various camps as well as forms for • “Morskyi” Camp, August 9-16, at campers and individuals who would like Lake Wallenpaupack, in northeastern to be camp counselors. “Novachky” seen at the Vovcha Tropa campground in East Chatham, N.Y.

Enroll in the 14th annual Ukrainian folk dance workshop in Lehighton

LEHIGHTON, Pa. – The Ukrainian American Heritage Foundation of the Lower Anthracite Region is proud to host its 14th annual folk dance workshop and camp, Monday, June 30, through Friday, July 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily, at the Ukrainian Homestead in Lehighton, Pa. The camp will conclude with a finale performance on Saturday, July 5, at 7 p.m., followed by a dance in the Homestead ballroom. The camp is open to children and young adults, age 5 and up, with classes for beginners and advanced dancers. This year’s camp features two guest instructors, David Woznak of the Kashtan School of Ukrainian Dance in Parma, Ohio, and Andrij Dobriansky of the Syzokryli Ensemble of New York City. There are special classes for advanced dancers, as well as introductory classes for new or inexperienced dancers. As in years past, the 2003 camp also features traditional crafts and music, sports, swimming, lunch and a snack. For more information or registration forms, contact Dr. Paula Holoviak, (570) 708-1992; Joseph Zucofski, (570) 622- 8056; or Sandra Duda, (610) 377-7750; or e-mail [email protected]. Deadline for camp registrations is Monday, June 9. This camp is partially funded by a grant from the Schuylkill County Dance workshop participants display their skills during the finale performance at the Ukrainian Homestead. Commissioners through the Schuylkill County Council for the Arts and through partnership initiative between local arts agency. State government funding for the and from the National Endowment for a grant from the Pennsylvania Partners in organizations and the Pennsylvania arts comes through an annual appropria- the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is admin- the Arts (PPA). The PPA program is a Council on the Arts (PCA), a state tion by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly istered locally by the Berks Arts Council. 14 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY No. 18

A Ukrainian Summer: where to go, what to do... Get away to enjoy summertime activities and experiences at SUM’s camps

by Andriy Bihun NEW YORK – Summertime means fun at camp. At camps of the Ukrainian American Youth Association (known as SUM), youth can get away from the stress- es of school life to enjoy the exciting activi- ties and adventures of camping at our campgrounds located in Ellenville and Fillmore, N.Y., Baraboo, Wisc.; and Huntington, Ohio. SUM offers an array of specialized camps that will not only delight young hearts and minds, but also stimulate their spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural and physical development. From preschoolers to teens, there’s a camp for everyone! This year, the Ellenville “oselia” (resort) offers a new transitional camp, called “Perekhodovyi Tabir,” for youngsters who have completed kindergarten or first grade and are about to encounter their first sleep- away camping experience. This weeklong camp starts off as a day camp and turns into a sleep-over camp by the end of the week. Another exciting addition being offered by SUM’s national board is a new two- week camp for teens that starts off at the Khortytsia campground in Cleveland and continues in the mountains of West Virginia, featuring hikes through National Parks, mountain biking tours, white-water rafting, rappelling, snorkeling and rock climbing. This year’s SUM summer camp pro- gram includes the following. • SUMeniata Camp is a day camp with a Campers at the SUM camp in Ellenville, N.Y., enjoy a game with a colorful parachute. complete preschool program for children age 4-6. Come with mom or dad and enjoy • Sports Camp in Ellenville provides your first summer camp. concentrated and specialized instruction in • Recreational Camps offers the opportu- soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis, track nity to make new friends, learn crafts, have and swimming, emphasizing sportsmanlike adventures and lots more. A full camping conduct and discipline. experience in the Ukrainian spirit that • Soccer Camp in Baraboo is a one-week comes in several flavors – for young chil- clinic dedicated to the enthusiasts of this dren and for teens. most popular sport, and taught by trained • Survival Skills River Camp is a two- professionals. week rigorous outdoor camp in Ellenville, • Ukrainian Arts Camp is a unique and where we’ll be “roughing it.” Campers varied program offering hands-on experi- learn about survival skills and leadership, ence in Ukrainian traditions, heritage and build their own camp and hike the moun- culture. Participants learn Ukrainian dance, tain trails. bandura and songs, ceramics, embroidery, • Starsho-Yunatskyi Camp is a two-week pysanky, wood-carving, gerdany and the- adventure in Ohio and West Virginia that atrical arts. Campers in Ellenville will per- offers great hiking, biking, rafting and form for thousands of spectators at the mountaineering experiences for teens who annual “Zdvyh” Labor Day Festival. love outdoor life. SUM camps have always attracted • Counselor-in-Training Camp is a three- youths of Ukrainian heritage who come to year program that includes in-depth studies share the experience of bonding with new of Ukrainian language, history, culture, cur- friends and partake of summer fun! For rent events and politics, and workshops in more information, contact your local SUM A group of campers takes a break with a snack. counselor methodology, while stimulating branch or the national office in New York social and cultural development among City by telephone, (212) 477-3084, or e- Check out SUM’s U.S. website at details, registration procedures and forms teens and young adults age 14 to 18. mail, [email protected]. www.cym.org/US for camp dates, more ready to be downloaded!

Learn to play the bandura, or master Ukraine’s national instrument

by Anatoli W. Murha (UBC) has sponsored various bandura You say you don’t own a bandura? No place to relax, go swimming, or canoe- camps and workshops throughout North problem, you can rent one, then buy one ing, play basketball or tennis, walk the DETROIT – The bandura – you know America. Some of the modern-day musi- if you enjoy it. nature trails, or just hang out with your that instrument that many Ukrainians cians you see in concert or playing in a Never played, but are musically friends when you’re not playing ban- have in their homes – is gaining populari- band at a zabava are amongst the ranks inclined? No problem! We have various dura. ty in the music world. Want to learn how of attendees. Sich, as those who made levels of players, from beginners to inter- At the end of the two weeks, partici- to play the bandura? Curious how some- Emlenton their home throughout the mediates, to advanced. pants get to perform in a final concert. one can learn to play 60 strings with only years, was the brainchild of Hryhory No excuses! Join us August 3-17 in Emlenton. two hands? Kytasty – longtime conductor of the The camp’s musical director is Julian You’ll meet interesting people from all If so, come to Emlenton, Pa. for the UBC, composer and bandura virtuoso. Kytasty. Mr. Kytasty is currently the directions and make lifelong friends annual Kobzarska Sich Bandura Camp. Because of his initiative, the camp has musical director of the New York School while keeping an ancient cultural tradi- The highly trained and fun staff will been home to bandura enthusiasts for two of Bandura; he has worked on various tion alive. show you how to not only master the weeks out of the year from all throughout exciting bandura and cultural projects Call Anatoli Murha, camp administra- instrument, but also have fun doing it. All the world – San Diego, Detroit, Toronto, around the globe. tor, at (734) 658-6452; or send an e-mail ages are welcome, and instruction is in New York City, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Emlenton is located in the Allegheny to [email protected]. or both Ukrainian and English. Pittsburgh, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Mountains on the Allegheny River. The log on to www.bandura.org for more The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus even Ukraine and South America. picturesque campgrounds provide a details. No. 18 SPECIAL SUMMER SUPPLEMENT TO THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY 15

A Ukrainian Summer: where to go, what to do... Immerse yourself in learning A UKRAINIAN SUMMER CALENDAR the Ukrainian language at camp May 16-18 Ukrainian Festival, Seventh Street, New York May 23-25 Invitational Soccer Tournament, Tryzubivka, SASKATOON – Many accolades were 586-6805, fax, (306) 585-7945; e-mail, Horsham, PA directed at the organizers by the attendees [email protected]; address, 455 Habkirk May 24 Memorial Day weekend barbecue, Soyuzivka of the second Adult Ukrainian Language Drive Regina, SK. S4S 6B2 ). June 7 Tryzub Golf Tournament, Tryzubivka, Horsham, PA Immersion Camp (AULIC) held last year The AULIC is a joint project of the June 8-13 UNA Seniors Week, Soyuzivka at Trident Camp, Crystal Lake, Ukrainian Orthodox Men’s Association of Saskatchewan. Regina and the Ukrainian Canadian June 13-15 Ukrainian Heritage Festival, Yonkers, NY So great was the response that the next Professional and Business Association of June 15 Father’s Day kickoff of Heritage Concert Series, AULIC, which has been set for August 7- Regina. Soyuzivka 10, has led organizers to consider this an June 21 Benefit Golf Tournament, St. John’s Ukrainian annual tradition. The plan is to schedule all future AULICs for the weekend imme- Catholic Church (Whippany, NJ), Lafayette, NJ diately following the long first weekend Play some golf June 21 Yara’s “Kupala in the Garden,” New York City in August. June 28-29 Lemko Vatra, SUM Oselia, Ellenville, NY The increased level of interest in the July 5 Opening concert of Grazhda season, Jewett, NY AULIC has been simply amazing. In 2001 for a good cause there were 11 registrants. while in 2002 July 11-13 Ukrainian Festival, Verkhovyna, Glen Spey, NY that number more than doubled to 24. An WHIPPANY, N.J. – St. John the Baptist July 18-20 50th anniversary of Vovcha Tropa Plast Camp, East indication of how valuable the immersion Ukrainian Catholic Church here, which is Chatham, NY camp is to attendees is the fact that there in the process of a capital building cam- July 18-20 Ukrainian Festival Days, Dickinson, ND were five registrants from the U.S.A. The paign for the construction of a new church August 1-3 Sports Jamboree Weekend, Soyuzivka very modest registration fee was just a and a cultural center to serve Ukrainians of August 2 Exhibition Soccer, Manchester Dynamo vs. Tryzub, fraction of their cost, which included their northern New Jersey, is holding a golf out- Horsham, PA airfare from such places as Baltimore, ing on Saturday, June 21. Seattle and Detroit. The event takes place at the Farmstead August 16 Selection of Miss Soyuzivka, Soyuzivka The fee for 2003 will be $175 per stu- Golf and Country Club in Lafayette, N.J.. August 16-17 Ukrainian Folk Festival, Ukrainian Homestead, dent. This year’s AULIC will offer three The fee for participation is $125, which Lehighton, PA levels of instruction: beginners, intermedi- includes greens fees, cart and dinner. August 22-23 Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival, Toronto ate and advanced. Registration begins at 9 a.m; play starts at The program will not be all class work. 11:45 a.m. August 23 Ukrainian Independence Day celebration, Soyuzivka The evenings will include singing, learn- In addition, organizers of the golf outing August 24 Ukrainian Independence Folk Festival, Tryzubivka, ing the finer points of Ukrainian cuisine, are looking for sponsors. The following Horsham, PA plus playing cards or watching selected sponsorship opportunities are available: tee, August 29-31 Ukrainian Festival, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA videos. For the entire four-day weekend $250; green, $250; dinner, $500; beverage, August 29- “Zdvyh”, SUM Oselia, Ellenville, NY Ukrainian will be the “official” language. $500. All sponsors will be listed in the September 1 The above activities will be complement- event program. ed with a trip to a historical site or some Golfers, both men and women, will August 30- Labor Day weekend festivities, Soyuzivka other point of cultural interest. compete for prizes for individual low gross, September 1 Simply stated, attending the AULIC is individual low net, team low gross, team September 7 Immaculate Conception Parish-SUM Irvington money and time well spent. Those inter- low net, longest drive and closest to the pin. Picnic, Hillside, NJ ested in learning more about the program Participation in the event is limited to the September 13 Ukrainian Nationals Family Day Picnic, Tryzubivka, should contact the AULIC organizing first 120 golfers who register. For informa- Horsham, PA committee via Tony Harras: phone, (306) tion call Alex Popovich, (908) 642-3737.

Non-profit HOUSE OF UKRAINE, INC., Balboa Park, San Diego, California

Free admission Presents UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL 2003

Fun for all! Featuring Rozmai Dance Company from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Friday, August 29, 2003 Welcome BBQ Come meet the dancers BBQ 6:00 p.m. — 7:30 p.m. Ukrainian Location to be announced. Saturday, August 30, 2003 Winery Tour, Gourmet Picnic Lunch and Wine Tasting 9:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Festival Pick-up and drop off in Balboa Park (Attendees MUST be at least 21 years of age.) Friday Saturday Sunday Rozmai Dance Company Casa del Prado Theater May 16th 17th 18th 2003 Balboa Park, San Diego (11AM-11PM) (1PM-10PM) 7:30 p.m. Dance Performance/Concert (4PM-11PM) 6:30 p.m. Box Office Opens General Admission: $15.00 No flash photography or videotaping will be allowed during the performance. Delicious Ukrainian Foods Those not complying with this request will be asked to leave. Sunday, August 31, 2003 Ukrainian Dance Performances House of Pacific Relations Lawn Stage in Balboa Park 12:00 noon — 3:00 p.m. Ukrainian food sales Music, Artwork ... and much 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Lawn Program Arrive early to assure a space in the standing room only crowd. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. much more! Zabava/Dinner/Dance Red Lion’s Hanalei Hotel 6:00 p.m. Cocktail Hour 7:00 p.m. Dinner/Dance Music by Kari Ochi – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

at East 7th Street, Festival proceeds to benefit: Caritas-Spes For more information (group rates available for 10 or more) please call: Between 2nd and 3rd Aves., Manhattan. (619) 291-0661 (phone/fax) ( [email protected] (email) Sponsored by St. George Church