INSIDE:• The Gongadze cover-up — page 3. • Trade expo spotlights Ukraine — page 11. • U. of Illinois Conference on Ukrainian Subjects — page 13.

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Vol. LXXII No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 $1/$2 in Ukraine In contraventionHE of earlierKRAINIAN decision, EEKLY T U YushchenkoW introduces his platform, Ukraine OKs reverse use of pipeline

by Roman Woronowycz Ukrainian Service on July 12, was promisingby Roman Woronowycz paradigmrights shift of free thought, in Ukraine free speech, freedom Kyiv Press Bureau echoed by the European Commission, Kyiv Press Bureau of conscience and equality before the law. the governing arm of the European Mr. Yushchenko’s political platform is KYIV – Europe and the United States Union, in a statement released the same KYIV – Presidential candidate Viktor divided into 10 parts, which cover most reacted harshly to a political turnabout day. The EC statement also addressed the Yushchenko introduced his political plat- every aspect of political, economic and by the Ukrainian government of Viktor dangers to the environment posed by form on July 9, promising a paradigm social life in Ukraine. Yanukovych on July 5 giving the go- increasing the amount of oil to be shift in economic, political and social In the economic sphere, Mr. Yushchenko, ahead for the reverse use of the Odesa- shipped from Odesa through the policy should he be elected president. a former prime minister and current law- Brody pipeline. The announcement Bosporus. The current leader in the race for the maker, promised to create 5 million new rescinded a decision made in February to “While acknowledging that this deci- presidential chair, Mr. Yushchenko was the jobs and increase foreign investment tenfold use the oil transportation pipeline only in sion lies entirely within Ukrainian sover- first of the major contenders – including as well as to rid the government bureaucra- the direct mode as originally envisioned. eignty, the commission expresses concern Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and cy of corruption and eliminate the tax police Poland, the European Union and the on the impact this decision will have on Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko within the State Tax Administration. He also United States officially questioned the the longer-term use of the pipeline and on – to release a detailed plan for his presi- said he would substantially reduce taxes and purpose and need for again bowing to the increased environmental risks this dency. Mr. Yanukovych has promised to make the economy much more transparent. pressure from a Russian oil company to could have for the Black Sea and the follow suit in the near future. However, the Among the promises he made, Mr. move oil through the pipeline in a direc- Bosporus, as well as the energy security day after Mr. Yushchenko published the Yushchenko gave notice to rich business- tion not originally intended. of supplies for Ukraine and Central major policy paper, the prime minister men that political and legal loopholes would UkrTransNafta, the quasi-governmen- Europe,” the European Commission voiced his own promises to the Ukrainian be closed, forcing them to take on a much tal agency responsible for developing the noted in its statement. electorate in a public address in Mariupol. broader share of the country’s tax burden, Odesa-Brody pipeline, announced on U.S. Ambassador John Herbst ques- In the introduction to his program, which he indicated would greatly increase July 8 that it will support the new gov- tioned the advisability of the decision in which Mr. Yushchenko is calling “Ten government revenues and allow him as ernment recommendation, inasmuch as a statement to the newspaper Fakty i Steps Toward the People,” the head of the president to fund more social programs. there was no hope of utilizing the oil Kommentari, stating that there was no Our Ukraine political bloc who decided to In domestic politics, the presidential transportation tube to move oil from the substantial gain for Ukraine in reversing cast his hat into the ring without the nomi- candidate promised to re-identify the pri- Caspian Basin to Central and Western the flow of the oil pipeline to accommo- nation of a political organization, said he orities of law enforcement agencies and Europe in the near future. date the desires of the Russian firm wanted Ukraine to be a strong and just to offer more protection to citizens – and Ukraine has complained that none of TNK-BP. Mr. Herbst explained that the country. He said he wanted its citizens to not only to those in power. He said he the major oil-producing companies now decision would not increase the amount have the opportunity to fulfill their hopes would dismiss corrupt prosecutors and working in the Caspian region have of oil that flowed through Ukraine, inas- and ambitions – to be employed and enjoy state militia officers. expressed a willingness to utilize the a fair wage – without being forced to move pipeline to ship Caspian light sweet (Continued on page 16) elsewhere. He said he wanted to ensure the (Continued on page 3) crude to Central Europe until the final segment from Brody to Plock, a town located in Poland near the Baltic Sea, is completed – a process that may take years. The Odesa-Brody pipeline, com- Cheney brings campaign to Ukrainian cathedral in Parma pleted at the end of 2001 and ready for by Halyna Kuzyszyn-Holubec Children dressed in traditional “With your support I have no doubt use in early 2002, has yet to have crude Ukrainian clothing, along with several that Ohio will support the Bush-Cheney PARMA, Ohio – The astrodome of St. prominent Ukrainian American ticket,” Mr. Cheney said. He continued to moved through it. Josaphat’s Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral TNK-BP, a joint venture between the Republican leaders, stood on stage with speak of the “strong-decisive action” by was filled to the brim on July 3, with Russian and British oil giants, has been the vice-president as he delivered a President Bush since 9/11 and America’s some 1,500 Republican supporters, as pushing strongly for reverse usage of the speech rallying support for President economy as being the fastest growing pipeline for more than a year. Vice-President Dick Cheney kicked off George W. Bush’s re-election, American UkrTransNafta said it would enter into his campaign bus tour in Parma, Ohio. values and the war on terror. (Continued on page 4) final negotiations with the oil company within a month. TNK-BP has said it would like a three-year contract during which it would move up to 9 million tons of Urals heavy crude, a poorer quality, sulfur-filled oil, through the pipeline from Brody to Odesa, then via oil tanker through the Black Sea and the Bosporus into the Mediterranean and on to Western Europe. The Ukrainian government said the agreement would bring $92 million of gross income, with a net profit of $30 million. The Odesa-Brody pipeline currently can move up to 14 million tons of crude oil annually. It is envisioned that, with improved pumping stations, the amount could be raised to 40 million tons within a few years. Poland, Ukraine’s partner in the proj- ect, after hearing of the policy turnabout declared that Ukraine was rejecting European integration. The comment, made by Polish Vice Prime Minister Jerzy Hausner to BBC The crowd at the astrodome welcomes Vice-President Dick Cheney during a campaign stop in Parma, Ohio. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 No. 29

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Opposition in Ukraine is divided Ukraine invites election monitors not his personal view, but “the opinion of the groups within the administrative-bureau- before presidential elections KYIV – Ukrainian Foreign Affairs cratic elite that have substantial impact on Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko has [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, but I do by Taras Kuzio umbrella Democratic Opposition of Serbia sent official invitations to heads of the not want to personalize,” he said. But even if Eurasia Daily Monitor (DOS). Their candidate, Vojislav Kostunica, Organization for Security and Cooperation the election is won by Our Ukraine leader won 50.4 percent of the vote in the first in Europe, the Council of Europe and the Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine’s most popular One day after the Ukrainian presiden- round. The only major opposition party not United Nations asking the organizations to politician, Moscow will eventually accept it. tial elections officially started on July 3, included in DOS was Vuk Draskovic’s send monitors for the October 31 presiden- “Any next president of Ukraine will in retro- four major candidates filed their papers Serbian Renewal Movement. In Georgia’s tial election in Ukraine, Interfax reported spect be announced as ‘Moscow’s candi- with the Central Election Commission. 2003 and 2004 elections, the opposition was on July 13, quoting Foreign Affairs date,’ even if it is Yushchenko,” he said. The oligarchic regional clans and political less united than its counterparts in Serbia. At Ministry spokesman Dmytro Svystkov. (RFE/RL Newsline) parties of the pro-presidential camp have the same time, Mikhail Saakashvili’s Mr. Svystkov added that similar invitations united behind Prime Minister Viktor National Movement-Democratic Front, were also sent by Verkhovna Rada Bucharest gives Kyiv ‘last chance’ Yanukovych. His own Party of Regions, which closely resembles the Tymoshenko Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn to the BUCHAREST – Romanian Foreign the “party of power” that dominates the bloc, and Nino Burjanadze’s bloc, whose European Parliament and parliamentary Affairs Ministry State Secretary Bogdan Donbas, endorsed Mr. Yanukovych at its position is similar to Mr. Yushchenko’s, structures of the OSCE, the Council of weekend congress in Zaporizhia. Europe and NATO. (RFE/RL Newsline) Aurescu told journalists on July 12 that faced fewer domestic opponents than will Romania will bring its dispute with Ukraine In contrast, the opposition will field Mr. Yushchenko in October. three presidential candidates: Viktor PM promises fair presidential election over the oil-rich Black Sea shelf surround- While the Saakashvili-Burjanadze ing Serpents Island (Zmiinyi Ostrov) before Yushchenko (supported by the populist alliance did not face off against a hostile Yulia Tymoshenko bloc), Petro KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at Communist Party, the Tymoshenko- Yanukovych told The Washington Times The Hague if no agreement is reached in Symonenko (Communist Party [CPU]), Yushchenko alliance faces a CPU equally and Oleksander Moroz (Socialist Party on July 9 that the presidential election in bilateral discussions by next month, hostile to both the alliance and the Ukraine this fall will be free and fair, and Mediafax reported. Mr. Bogdanescu said [SPU]). Will this disunity and rivalry authorities. Georgia’s Labor Party resem- prevent one of the three opposition can- added that he hopes the ballot will open that a new round of talks ended in Yalta on bles the Socialist Party of Ukraine, and the door to a new relationship with the July 10 without agreement between the rep- didates from defeating Mr. Yanukovych? both stood in the Georgian and Ukrainian Recent elections illustrate the advantages West. “I’ve said before I don’t need elec- resentatives of Kyiv and Bucharest. A new elections separate from, respectively, the tions at any price,” Mr. Yanukovych said. round of negotiations is planned for August of a united opposition. In Yugoslavia the Saakashvili-Burjanadze and the opposition finally succeeded in defeating “We need to strictly keep to Ukrainian and, according to Mr. Bogdanescu, Tymoshenko-Yushchenko alliances. laws. The government will monitor the Bucharest will appeal to the ICJ if that round Slobodan Milosevic in the Yugoslav presi- Ultimately, the Socialist candidate, Mr. dential elections after a decade of disarray. election and create all conditions for ends in a deadlock. (RFE/RL Newsline) Moroz, will be the kingmaker in this observers to be convinced of what is being In October 2000 they overcame their differ- EU concerned about Danube canal ences and the 18 parties united under the (Continued on page 16) done in Ukraine.” (RFE/RL Newsline) Medvedchuk comments on candidacies BUCHAREST – Romanian Foreign Affairs Ministry State Secretary Bogdan NGOs and civil society KYIV – Presidential administration Aurescu said on July 12 that European chief Viktor Medvedchuk, who is also Commission President Romano Prodi under attack in Ukraine leader of the Social Democratic Party- and Foreign Affairs Commissioner Chris United (SDPU), said on July 13 that he is Patten have expressed their concern over sure Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych Ukraine’s decision to proceed with its by Taras Kuzio elections (Ukrainska Pravda, May 21). will win the fall presidential election, construction of a deep-water canal Eurasian Daily Monitor Two hundred eighty-nine national Interfax reported. “[Incumbent President] through the Bystraya estuary, Mediafax deputies had voted in December 2003 to Leonid Danylovych Kuchma has no desire reported. Mr. Aurescu said that at the Valeriy Mishura, Communist national create the Commission. This large major- to run [in the election],” Mr. Medvedchuk deputy and chairman of the Temporary previous week’s European Union summit ity was reached because the CPU and said. “Regarding myself, I have no such the two officials “firmly insisted” on the Investigative Parliamentary Commission, pro-presidential factions both voted in desire, either.” (RFE/RL Newsline) recently issued his first report to Parliament need for a study on the environmental support of its creation. Our Ukraine and impact the canal might have on the on the implications of foreign financing of the SPU fully voted against the motion, Moscow’s take on Ukraine’s election NGOs. Ukrainska Pravda, May 21). The Danube Delta, adding that construction while the populist Tymoshenko bloc should be halted until the study can be commission has always understood its KYIV – Speaking at a press conference split, with 5 of its 19 deputies supporting completed. Mr. Aurescu said Ukraine has remit to investigate only Western funding in Kyiv, Kremlin insider and National the commission. The campaign against sent only a “summary” of its construc- of NGO’s. Mr. Mishura’s report concluded Strategy Council head Stanislav Belkovskii NGOs – and by implication civil society tion plans in response to Romania’s that the major aim of Western-financed said that Moscow sees three favorable sce- – is the product of four factors. demand that all documents pertaining to NGOs was to influence this year’s elections • First, there is an ingrained Soviet polit- narios for Russia in Ukraine’s presidential by bringing to power Viktor Yushchenko, the project be released, in line with rele- ical culture that leads to “spy mania.” CPU election in October, glavred.info reported on vant international conventions. He said the pro-Western leader of Our Ukraine. Chairman Symonenko is convinced that, June 15. The first scenario would be the The majority of Western assistance to the canal is not just a Romanian- “In the majority of cases, these structures election of current Prime Minister Viktor Ukrainian issue, as the Danube Delta is a NGOs and civil society has reached only (NGOs) are simply ‘roofs’ for the activities Yanukovych as president, the second would the national democratic opposition Our site protected by UNESCO and other of foreign secret services.” (Ukrainska be the hypothetical re-election to a third international organizations. He also said Ukraine and Yulia Tymoshenko bloc and, Pravda, December 4, 2003) This view has term of President Leonid Kuchma, and the to a lesser extent, the Socialists (SPU). that Kyiv has yet to respond to a letter widespread support in the pro-presidential third scenario would be the election of a sent by European Environment Affairs The report also indicates that the two camp. In a vehemently anti-American “Ukrainian Putin,” that is, a member of the largest providers of assistance are the Commissioner Margot Wallstrom. newspaper financed by the Social security services. The third scenario would (RFE/RL Newsline) United States and Germany. The report lists Democratic Party-United (SDPU), Yurii be the most desirable and the first one the well-known U.S. foundations, such as the Smeshko, chairman of the Security Service least. Mr. Belkovskii also stressed that this is (Continued on page 21) National Democratic Institute, International of Ukraine (SBU), stated that the SDPU Republican Institute, Freedom House, believes that NGOs and Western assistance Eurasia Fund, National Democratic are potential avenues for the overt collec- FOUNDED 1933 Institute, George Soros Foundation, as well tion of intelligence data (April 30, 2000). as German institutions, including the Second, conspiracy theories are import- HE KRAINIAN EEKLY Konrad Adenauer Foundation, which pro- ed from Russia. Gleb Pavlovsky’s Fund TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., vide the bulk of Western assistance in sup- for Effective Politics, which worked close- a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. port of civil society activity in Ukraine. ly with the SDPU in the 2002 Ukrainian Yearly subscription rate: $55; for UNA members — $45. 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News analysis The Gongadze cover-up ELECTION WATCH Viktor Yanukovych’s program published tion of state control over prices of “essen- by Roman Kupchinsky Mr. Kravchenko on July 10, 2000: “I tell tial goods,” natural gas, fuel, electricity RFE/RL Organized Crime and Terrorism Watch you, get him out, throw him out, give him to KYIV – The Ukrainska Pravda web- and utilities, as well as the establishment the Chechen’s (expletive), have him become site on July 12 published Prime Minister PART I of state monopolies in foreign trade and a hostage, let them pay a ransom for him.” Viktor Yanukovych’s presidential elec- in the alcohol, tobacco and medicine mar- This September will mark the fourth Kravchenko: “We will think it tion program. Mr. Yanukovych pledged kets. Mr. Symonenko also proposed intro- anniversary of the killing of Heorhii through. We will do what is needed … I to improve comprehensively the econom- ducing a moratorium on the sale of state- Gongadze, a 31-year-old journalist in was told today that we are preparing a ic situation for Ukrainians, including a 2- run enterprises of “strategic importance” Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. program for him. We are studying his 2.5-fold increase in average monthly and reviewing previous privatizations. He Mr. Gongadze’s murder, which movements, where he goes. We need to salaries and to raise the minimum wage pledged to create 1 million new jobs, remains unsolved, has been the subject of learn this and then we will act … to the subsistence-minimum level. Mr. increase the average monthly salary 2.5- numerous international protests and has What Mr. Kravchenko was describing Yanukovych also promised to implement fold, the minimum wage threefold, and generated hundreds of articles in the is the surveillance which had been placed constitutional, judicial, administrative, the average pension 4.3-fold. Mr. world press. The inability of Ukrainian by the Internal Affairs Ministry on Mr. and military reforms intended to “devel- Symonenko said he wants Ukraine to give law enforcement agencies to solve the Gongadze in July and which continued op democracy [and] local self-govern- up its intention to join NATO, pull its case has isolated Ukrainian president up to the day he went missing. ment, protect civic rights and freedoms, troops out of Iraq, and deepen integration Leonid Kuchma throughout the world This fact has been denied for four and improve the national security of the with CIS countries, specifically within the and created a prolonged crisis throughout years by Mr. Kuchma, Mr. Kravchenko state.” In the foreign-policy sphere, Mr. Single Economic Space framework. his second term as president. and Leonid Derkach. All three men have Yanukovych promised to deepen (RFE/RL Newsline) Apparently it is also a case cloaked by stated that the recordings made in the Ukraine’s “European integration advance a massive cover-up engineered by high- president’s office were “fakes” and that [and] cooperation with the Russian Yushchenko seeks fair campaign level officials in Kyiv. there was never any surveillance of Mr. Federation and other states that are our KYIV – Our Ukraine leader and presi- Known for articles that he and his co- Gongadze by the MVD. traditional partners.” (RFE/RL Newsline) dential candidate Viktor Yushchenko has workers had been writing about corrup- The surveillance signed a so-called Declaration for a Fair tion at the highest levels of government, Petro Symonenko’s platform released Election and urged other presidential can- Mr. Gongadze disappeared on the night of On January 15, 2001, Yuriy Lutsenko, the KYIV – Communist Party leader Petro didates who share its principles to follow September 16, 2000. The next day many editor of the newspaper “Grani” published Symonenko’s presidential-election pro- suit, Interfax reported on July 7. The dec- people began to blame Mr. Kuchma for an article in which he stated that MVD offi- gram was published on the Ukrainska laration obliges signatories to provide true complicity in his disappearance. The cers from the Organized Crime Unit were Pravda website on July 12. Mr. statements about their past during the president and his closest circle had often involved in the surveillance of Mr. Symonenko asserted that the ruling campaign; promote comprehensive and been mentioned in Mr. Gongadze’s Gongadze. A few days after this disclosure, regime has led Ukraine to “a national honest media coverage of the campaign; exposés and, therefore, Mr. Kuchma, in a number of MVD officers were interrogat- catastrophe that has no analogy in the reject unfair campaign methods; rule out the eyes of many, had a good reason to ed by the office of the Procurator-General of world.” He proposed “strengthening the pressure on journalists, observers and vot- see Mr. Gongadze cease his activities. Ukraine (PGU). These interrogation reports role of the state” in achieving an “eco- ers; and renounce engaging state bodies Their fears were confirmed two days were never released, but now it is clear that nomic recovery,” including the introduc- in campaigning. (RFE/RL Newsline) after his disappearance when an anonymous the men who were questioned had been caller to the Georgian Embassy in Kyiv told forced to deny surveilling Mr. Gongadze. the receptionist that Mr. Gongadze could be Apparently the PGU wanted to have During a stop in Mariupol in his home found in the Kyivsky District of Kyiv and such evidence on file in case Mr. oblast of Donetsk, Mr. Yanukovych that Yurii Kravchenko (the head of the Yushchenko... Lutsenko or others were to continue this (Continued from page 1) promised to raise farm sector profitability Ministry of Internal Affairs), Oleksander line of investigative reporting. Volkov (a close friend of Mr. Kuchma and Mr. Yushchenko also said he would to 40 percent. He said he would institute Almost 4 years later new information policies that would at least double the his campaign manager) and Volodymyr on the case appeared in the London initiate administrative reform, liquidate Kysil (a well-known organized crime figure many unnecessary government posts and average wage from where it stands today. newspaper “The Independent” on June He also said he would reduce the value- in Kyiv) knew where he was. There is no 19, 24 and 26 of this year. The author of fire corrupt judges. He would force all record of what the investigation was able to government personnel to sign and uphold added tax (VAT) from 20 percent to 12 the article, Askold Krushelnycky, stated percent. President Leonid Kuchma has determine about this call, if there was any that he received copies of interrogations an “honor code for government workers.” investigation of it at all. On the military front, the country’s already decreed that VAT should be low- of these same MVD officers conducted in ered to 17 percent beginning in 2005. On September 27, 2000, the Interfax June, July and August 2003. most popular politician said he would cut news agency reported that President the number of officers in the armed In addition, Mr. Yanukovych said he The documents given to Mr. would simplify the tax administration and Kuchma officially announced that he Krushelnycky show that the newly forces and immediately reduce the num- was taking the investigation under his ber of conscripts by one-third. He said he make it more transparent. He also said he appointed Procurator-General of Ukraine, expected to develop the financial and personal control. By making such a Svyatoslav Piskun, had repeated the inter- would eliminate the draft entirely by statement, Mr. Kuchma apparently want- 2010 and turn Ukraine’s armed forces banking sectors, which would result in rogations of these same men. Only this more financial and investment innovation. ed to deflect speculations and show that time the officers told a different story. One into a professional army. he, too, was interested in finding the In foreign affairs, the presidential can- He said he would raise minimum pen- of them, Major Serhiy Chemenko, sions and extend welfare payments to killer or killers. But by announcing this described how in January 2001 he had didate said he would seek friendly, stable obligation he also took upon himself and equally advantageous relations with “the vulnerable strata of the population” been coached by a high official of the and return bank deposits that were responsibility for everything that was to MVD, Lt. General Oleksiy Pukach, the Moscow. He underscored that the East take place in the coming months and and West would see a different Ukraine – defaulted upon in the inflation crisis of head of the Criminal Investigation 1992-1993 using revenues received from years. Division, on how to answer the questions “strong and reliable, one which fulfills its Earlier that same year a Russian jour- commitments and is capable of securing government privatization. which the PGU investigator would pose. Addressing a major issue regarding nalist, Andrei Babitsky, had suddenly Mr. Chemenko admitted that he was not its national interests.” agricultural development, Mr. gone missing in Chechnya. Mr. Babitsky’s asked any questions and merely told to In the social and health portion of his Yanukovych said he believes that the reporting on the war in Chechnya had sign his interrogation report. The fake platform, Mr. Yushchenko promised to introduction of a land market should begin been angering the Kremlin for some time, interrogation report stated that there had raise maternity financial support by a fac- as planned in January 2005 to assure and his disappearance was soon blamed been no surveillance of Mr. Gongadze. tor of 10, upgrade the quality and quantity farmers access to banking credits. He said by many observers on the Russian Federal Major Chemenko told investigators on of medical clinics in villages, provide that only a land market would allow farm- Security Service (FSB) which was sus- June 19, 2003: financial support for the purchase of med- ers to establish collateral to secure loans to pected of having arranged his kidnapping. “Concerning the surveillance of Mr. icines to children with disabilities and develop their agricultural businesses. This precedent was to play a role in the Gongadze it took place in the late sum- introduce a system of family doctors. Mr. Yushchenko, who did not address events that took place in Kyiv. mer-early fall. Normally such surveil- Mr. Yushchenko’s platform also paid that issue directly in his platform, came out In early November 2000, Gongadze’s lance lasts 10 days, but in his case it last- special attention to the rebirth of the on July 14 for delaying the implementation headless body was accidentally discov- ed longer … This surveillance lasted up Ukrainian village. Mr. Yushchenko prom- of a land market until private farmers ered in a shallow ditch outside of Kyiv. to the day of his disappearance … Our ised to ensure that farmland would be became financially stronger. He called on On November 28, 2000, the leader of work was coordinated by Bernak … sold only to those who would continue to delaying the introduction of the land mar- the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Oleksander After our shift ended, we prepared a work it. He said he would raise farm ket to January 2007, as had been proposed Moroz, told the Ukrainian Parliament that report on our days activities which every- income to the national average and make he had in his possession recordings made in one on the shift signed and it was sent to financial resources more readily avail- in a law passed by the Verkhovna Rada but the president’s office and that these record- our section head…” able to farmers. In addition, he promised rejected by President Kuchma earlier this ings showed that Mr. Kuchma had dis- “Why did the deputy head of the division, to modernize life in the village, including year. Mr. Yushchenko explained that if the cussed Mr. Gongadze with Internal Affairs Mr. Bernak, coordinate the work of the sur- making telephone lines and natural gas ban on the sale of farmland were lifted Minister Kravchenko and Leonid Derkach, veillance team following Mr. Gongadze?” available in all rural communities and then the land would be snatched up and the head of the Security Service of Ukraine “For some reason the surveillance of improving roads in the countryside. monopolized by a few individuals. (SBU). Furthermore, in these discussions, Mr. Gongadze was given a very high priori- The day after the publication of Mr. “If we don’t prolong the moratorium recorded prior to Mr. Gongadze’s disap- ty. Even the head of the Main Yushchenko’s political platform on July 9, on the sale of farmland now, we’ll make pearance, Mr. Kuchma had been urging the Administration of the Criminal Investigation his closest competitor in the race for the the same mistake as we did with voucher removal of Mr. Gongadze. Division, (General) Oleksiy Pukach himself presidency, Mr. Yanukovych, was quick to privatization, when several families The Babitsky scenario was most definite- enumerate his own list of promises to be bought up everything for a pittance,” ly on President Kuchma’s mind as he told (Continued on page 14) implemented should he win the post. explained Mr. Yushchenko. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 No. 29

said Republican consultant Andrew St. Josaphat’s Ukrainian Catholic still has much democratic, political and Cheney brings... Futey. Mr. Futey also mentioned that he, Cathedral where in 1992 he presented economic reform to enact. October’s (Continued from page 1) Taras Szmagala Jr. and others have President George H. W. Bush with the Presidential election in Ukraine will be economy of any major industrialized organized a Ukrainians for Bush organi- Medal of Freedom for his work to liber- critical for its future and for further U.S.- nation in the world. zation in Greater Cleveland and plan to ate those countries that were behind the Ukraine relations. Joined by his wife, Lynne, and 10- be actively involved in the race. Iron Curtain. “The Bush administration has to come Sen. Voinovich also mentioned that out with a decisive stance on free and fair through the efforts of the current Bush elections in Ukraine to ensure democra- administration, NATO has incorporated cy,” said Wasyl Liscynesky, head of the such countries as Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, United Ukrainian Organizations in Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Greater Cleveland. Mr. Liscynesky con- Slovenia. Speaking to the vice-president, tinued by saying that only a true demo- Sen. Voinovich added, “I know that, with cratic Ukraine can be included in NATO the president, you yearn for the day when and, therefore, both U.S. presidential the partnership for peace is extended to candidates need to make their policy Ukraine, because that, too, will be one toward Ukraine clear to the Ukrainian guaranteed way that NATO can be American community. strengthened and Ukraine will not slip The vice-president’s bus tour contin- under the boot of a more powerful nation.” ued on to Wheeling, W.V., and Pittsburgh Ukraine is not yet part of NATO, as it for the July 4 holiday. Ukrainians elected to Canada’s Parliament

EDMONTON – At least four received 58.34 percent of the votes. His Ukrainian Canadians were elected as closest competitor was fellow Ukrainian members of the Canadian Parliament in Canadian Lida Preyma, a Conservative, Halyna Kuzyszyn-Holubec the most recent federal elections, accord- who received 28.26 percent. Sen. George Voinovich (second from left) with (from left) Dr. Marta Jakubowycz, ing to Ukrainian News of Edmonton. Ukrainian News Editor Marco Lev Holubec and Dr. Alexander Jakubowycz. The newspaper reported in its June 29- Levytsky reported also that there were July 30 issue that the four MPs of five MPs with Ukrainian-sounding sur- year-old granddaughter Kate, the vice- In addition to speeches by 10th Ukrainian origin who were elected are: names who could be of Ukrainian origin, president spoke after introductions by Congressional District candidate Ed newcomer Borys Wrzesnewskyj, a plus a number of other MPs who may be Ohio State Sen. Bob Spada, who Herman and Ohio Secretary of State J. Liberal Party member in the riding of of Ukrainian or part-Ukrainian heritage declared that “Parma is where it’s at,” Kenneth Blackwell, Sen. George V. Etobicoke Center, Ontario; Walt but have non-Ukrainian surnames. referring to the melting pot of nationali- Voinovich (R-Ohio) welcomed the Lastewka, a Liberal in St. Catharines, Mr. Levytsky added that one high-pro- ties – including some 40,000 Ukrainians enthusiastic crowd at St. Josaphat’s, Ontario; Judy Wasylycia-Leis, a member file member of the Ukrainian community – that live in the community. telling them that “there is no doubt in my of the New Democratic Party, in who did not succeed in his bid for “The vice-president’s visit to Parma, mind that Ohio will be the state that puts Winnipeg North, Manitoba; and Mark Parliament was Jurij Klufas, producer of Ohio, especially to our Ukrainian George Bush and Dick Cheney over the Warawa, a Conservative Party member in Kontakt TV, who ran on the Conservative Catholic Cathedral, shows the impor- top in this presidential election.” He also Langley, British Columbia. Party ticket in Toronto’s Parkdale-High tance that we will play in this election,” noted that he was pleased to be back at Mr. Wrzesnewskyj, it should be noted, Park riding.

Highlights from the UNA’s 110-year history A special yearlong feature focusing on the history of the Ukrainian National Association.

The 24th Convention of the Ukrainian National Association was the third to be held in Cleveland. Four hundred nineteen delegates and 20 supreme officers representing 846 votes converged on the city on May 26-31, 1958. Reports delivered at the convention indicated the organization’s con- tinued growth. A total of 14,688 new members joined the UNA and UNA assets increased by more than $5,108,000 to reach $20,366,992.10 (Continued on page 14) No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 5

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

Annual dinner of Branch 120 Member of UNA Branch 444 features presentation of awards in the running for “Canadian Idol” by Al Kachkowski Youth Choir. In addition to her musical talents, Ms. SASKATOON – Theresa Sokyrka, 23, Sokyrka is also an upstanding, pleasant of Saskatoon, a member of UNA Branch and modest young lady. She is an out- 444 has been selected to be among the 10 standing representative of the Ukrainian final contestants for the title of CTV’s Canadian community and deserves the “Canadian Idol” for 2004. community’s backing in her quest to be Her rendition of Gershwin’s jazz clas- Canada’s best. sic “Summertime” on June 30 earned Her continued success depends not glowing praise from all four adjudicators, only on her vocal talent, but also on the who had predicted her advance to the number of phone-in votes she receives next stage of the competition. It was the after each of the remaining segments of viewer vote, though, that decided the the competition. final outcome. Viewers voted Ms. She returns to the competition with Sokyrka first among her group of eight. nine other co-finalists on Wednesday, Ms. Sokyrka comes from a musically July 21, in the first live Top 10 perform- gifted family that is also very active in ance show. (Check local listings for Ukrainian cultural activities in broadcast time in your area.) Saskatoon. She began both her musical Please continue your support for and her cultural involvements at a very Theresa and vote for her after each of the early age. She attended the Ukrainian remaining segments of the “Canadian Bilingual Program in school, took danc- Idol” competition. Note that the rules Seen during the UNA Branch 120 awards dinner are: (from left) Eli Matiash, ing lessons with the Yevshan and the permit you to phone in more than once. branch treasurer and chairman of the dinner; Jennifer Refice; Kira Palichat; Pavlychenko Ukrainian dance schools, Let’s help elect Theresa Sokyrka as Jamie Yurcina, president of the Ukrainian Club; Jennifer Campbell; and attended the Mohyla Institute Language Canada’s Ukrainian Canadian Idol! Michelle Masley. and Culture Immersion Summer School, and sang as a soloist with the Lastiwka (Source: UCC-SPC e-Bulletin, July 9.) ALIQUIPPA, Pa. – The Aliquippa Ukrainian Club. His son, John, accepted Ukrainian Club, or St. Nicholas Branch 120 the award on behalf of his family. of the Ukrainian National Association, held John Kowalyk received the Man of the Insure and be sure. its fourth annual awards dinner on June 27. Year Award from the Beaver County Five scholarships totaling $4,000 were Federation of Fraternal and Social Clubs, Join the UNA! awarded to: Kira Palichat, a junior at honoring his dedication to the Ukrainian Penn State University; Michelle Masley, Club. This award was presented by a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon Denny Davis, newly elected president of University; Jennifer Refice, a senior at the Pennsylvania Federation. Slippery Rock Universit;, Jennifer Jean Karmazyn of Aliquippa, presided RECORDING DEPARTMENT Campbell, a freshman at Clarion over the event as master of ceremonies. MEMBERSHIP REPORT – JUNE 2004 University; and Melissa Reft, a senior at Dr. James Showrank, a renowned edu- Christine E. Kozak, National Secretary the University of Pittsburgh. cator and director of government and A special award was presented to the community relations for Manchester- Juvenile Adult ADD Total family of the late Walter Reft for his many Bidwell Corp. of Pittsburgh, gave the Total Active Members – 5/2004 5,732 11,804 2,553 20,089 years of service and dedication to the keynote address. Total Inactive Members –5/2004 7,644 15,725 0 23,369 Total Members – 5/2004 13,376 27,529 2,553 43,458

ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP

On our 110th anniversary Gains in 6/2004 New members 17 14 0 31 New members UL 0 0 0 0 Spotlight on UNA branches Reinstated 4 4 0 8 Branch 102 Brotherhood in establishing the first Ukrainian Total Gains: 21 18 0 39 of Ss. Peter and Paul, Cleveland Catholic parish, Ss. Peter and Paul Losses in 6/2004 Ukrainians started to immigrate to the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Cleveland. Died 1 33 0 34 Cleveland area in 1894-1895, 20 years Today it is considered the Ukrainian Cash surrender 4 7 0 11 after the arrival of Ukrainians to the Catholic mother church. Of the 30 origi- Endowment matured 14 13 0 27 nal founders of the church 26 were Fully paid-up 3 13 0 16 United States. A few of the pioneers felt Reduced paid-up 0 0 0 0 it was necessary to bring together the members of UNA Branch 102. Extended Insurance 5 13 0 18 Ukrainian people and to build a founda- Members of this organization never Certificates lapsed (active) 8 7 12 27 tion for Ukrainian American life. On forgot their purpose and kept hard at Certificate terminated 0 1 3 4 October 18, 1902, the first Ukrainian work, organizing and helping each other. Total Losses 35 87 15 137 organization in the city of Cleveland and Fraternalism and brotherhood remained Total Active Members – 6/2004 5,718 11,735 2,538 19,991 the first organization in the state of Ohio the principal objectives of the association. was formed. Its original name was the Financial and moral support was never INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP denied. The records show that as early as Greek Catholic Rusky Spolok Ss. Peter Gains in 6/2004 and Paul. This fraternal association is 1915 the brotherhood supported the cul- known today as the Brotherhood of Ss. tural (Prosvita), educational (Ridna Paid-up 3 13 0 16 Shkola) and many other institutions in Reduced paid-up 0 0 0 0 Peter and Paul, Branch 102 of the Extended insurance 5 13 0 18 Ukrainian National Association. their native land, Ukraine. Financial assis- The branch started with eight mem- tance was sent regularly to Lviv, to the Total Gains 8 26 0 34 bers. The first officers elected were: Association of Veterans of the War for Losses in 6/2004 Michael Chegin, president; Semen Independence of Ukraine (1918-1920). * Died 1 35 0 36 Brunarsky, secretary; and Iwan Hudak, Each year donations were given also * Cash surrender 8 7 0 15 to numerous local and national organiza- Pure endowment matured 2 3 0 5 treasurer. Its purpose was threefold: to Reinstated to active 4 4 0 8 help each other; to teach brotherhood tions. On the national level, the brother- Certificates lapsed (inactive) 0 5 0 5 and to bring our Ukrainian people closer hood and its members contributed to the Ukrainian Congress Committee of Total Losses 15 54 0 69 together, while insuring them and thus Total Inactive Members – 6/2004 7,637 15,697 0 23,334 maintaining security for their families. America and to the United Ukrainian In 1909 members of Ss. Peter and TOTAL MEMBERSHIP – 6/2004 13,355 27,432 2,538 43,325 Paul Branch 102 were most instrumental (Continued on page 23) (* Paid-up and reduced paid-up policies)

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NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY The campaign begins Community seeks to rebuild

In the first days of the 2004 presidential campaign we see the emergence of two Poltava’s Dormition Cathedral very different campaign strategies being used by the two main rivals. While Prime by Volodymyr Bakum and painted it. The body of Panas Myrny Minister Viktor Yanukovych has decided to develop his image in the pre-election sea- has lain in state in it; Paissiy son as a politician who will not allow frivolous and wasteful campaigning to interfere The church community of Poltava and Velychkovsky and Theophan Zatvornyk with his efforts to improve the lives of the Ukrainian people, Our Ukraine leader its pastor, Father Mykola Khrapach, are were its parishioners; in 1992 the first Viktor Yushchenko has decided to use a more traditional campaign technique. He will urging all Ukrainians who come from the patriarch of the reborn Ukrainian travel the country using the political soapbox and political hoopla to get his word out region of Poltava, whether they currently Orthodox Church, Metropolitan to the citizenry. reside in Ukraine or outside of its bor- Mstyslav, celebrated liturgy in its bell- The two candidates came to decide on their very different campaign methodologies ders, and all people of good will to help tower. based on the resources available to them. In short, not only does Prime Minister them rebuild the city’s historic Dormition In 1995 President Leonid Kuchma Yanukovych have the benefit of the power of his office, which gives him open and almost Cathedral. issued a decree “On the rebuilding of limitless access to the press, his supporters also control most of Ukraine’s major mass The origins of this holy shrine are lost well-known historical and architectural media, which allows him to control how his message gets out. in the twilight of Poltava’s history. We treasures.” Its list included the Poltava Mr. Yushchenko, on the other hand, has virtually no access to national television, know that it existed in 1695 because that cathedral. because the major television networks – almost completely controlled by the prime year one of its bells was cast from can- Unfortunately, in the five years that minister’s political cronies – have imposed a news blackout. Therefore, he has decided nons seized by the Poltava Kozak followed, nothing was done by the that to have a chance at winning on October 31 he has no alternative but to stump the Regiment in the battle for the Turkish Poltava City Administration to imple- country, rousing support among the populace for his plans and goals with personal fortress of Kazikermen (which was the ment the presidential decree. The appearances and public speeches. name given to that bell). rebuilding of the shrine was finally start- Thus far his strategy seems to be working, and the early political momentum is in In the middle of the 18th century the ed in June 2000, but it had to be inter- his favor. The appointment of Oleksander Zinchenko, formerly a leader of the Social city of Poltava experienced enormous rupted a year later due to lack of funds. Democratic Party United, as campaign manager has given the Yushchenko effort growth, and its wooden cathedral no Since then, the building process of the much more focus. Mr. Zinchenko must be given credit for organizing the grand com- longer satisfied the needs of its inhabi- Dormition Cathedral has been proceed- ing out party for candidate Yushchenko, which engulfed a good portion of downtown tants. The Kozak leadership decided to ing on and off, at a slower pace, depend- Kyiv on July 4. The nearly 50,000 supporters who traveled via busses to Kyiv from all build a stone church. The construction ing on the availability of money provided over Ukraine and swarmed peacefully over the city’s streets and avenues that day were began in 1751 and, ultimately, thanks to by businesspeople, the city administra- a testament to the solid support that Mr. Yushchenko enjoys. The orange t-shirts, caps the all-out efforts of the entire Kozak tion and the general public. and pendants with the simple but effective Yushchenko campaign slogan “Tak” (Yes) military and civilian communities, it was As of this date, the walls of the church were an effective advertisement of the legitimacy of the Yushchenko effort, even if completed in 1770. The cathedral stood have been brought up to two-thirds of three of the six major television stations did not feel the events of the day warranted in all its Ukrainian Baroque splendor their required height. The rest of the coverage on their news broadcasts that evening and others didn’t see a need to show the until 1934, when it was dynamited by the structure must be completed, but will the huge crowd at the rally on Spivoche Pole. Communist regime. needed resources be available? The next day Mr. Yushchenko put Mr. Yanukovych on the defensive by challenging The belltower of the cathedral, built Faced with this dilemma, the parish- him to sign a pledge on honest elections, which the Our Ukraine leader signed after he later and at a distance, survived to this ioners have turned to all Ukrainians, was officially registered as a candidate by Ukraine’s Central Election Committee. Mr. day. In 1991 the square where the cathe- especially those originating from the Yanukovych responded a week later during a visit to Ternopil, essentially Yushchenko dral once stood and the belltower were Poltava region, with an urgent appeal to territory, by stating that he believes honesty is found in a person’s soul and in his word, turned over to the Ukrainian help them rebuild their beloved Holy not in the signing of a piece of paper. He did not promise, as far as we can determine, Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Today Dormition Cathedral – considered by that he would run an honest campaign free of the use of government resources or intimi- it is being used by a parish of the many to be a gem of Ukrainian church dation, as the West has demanded. Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv architecture. Mr. Yushchenko again one-upped Mr. Yanukovych on July 9 when he issued a Patriarchate. The names of all contributors will be well-prepared, although perhaps a bit too all-encompassing, political platform. Mr. Holy Dormition Cathedral has touched entered into the commemorative register Yanukovych was forced to follow with a set of his own campaign promises the next the lives of a number of prominent of the cathedral and will be known for day during a public appearance in Mariupol. Suddenly the prime minister had been Ukrainian literary figures: the 17th cen- generations to come as benefactors. The forced to deliver a blatant campaign speech from the stump. tury poet Ivan Velychkovsky; the father names of those who contribute $500 or It is much too early in the campaign to state that the last few days have set the tone for of Ukrainian literature, Ivan Kotliaretsky, more will be carved on marble slabs its duration. There are more than three months to go. Much can happen, including political whose residence/museum stands next to attached to the facade of the holy shrine. defections and character assassinations, not to mention political stumbles. it; and Taras Shevchenko, who sketched All contributions are tax-deductible. Mr. Yanukovych has no need to hurry. His message, whatever it may be, will get Please make checks out to St. Andrew’s out. The TV networks, radio stations and newspaper that his cronies control will Volodymyr Bakum is secretary of St. Society/Poltava Fund and mail to: St. assure that it does. It is Mr. Yushchenko who has the much harder task before him, Andrew’s Ukrainian Orthodox Society Andrew’s Society, 1023 Yorkshire Drive, whether as a result of circumstances forced upon him or simply in upholding one of Inc. Los Altos, CA 94024. the grandest of democratic campaign traditions. It is he who will be forced to race about the country like some whirling dervish, shaking hands, kissing babies, espous- ing his views repeatedly and relentlessly from stages covered in blue-and-yellow bunting while town and village bands play another badly rehearsed version of “Sche MAY WE HELP YOU? Ne Vmerla Ukraina.” In the end, however, it should serve him well. He is charismatic and intelligent, and To reach The Ukrainian Weekly call (973) 292-9800, in person comes across as credible and honest. A democracy likes nothing more than and dial the appropriate extension (as listed below). to see its candidates up close and to hear their opinions and promises up front. 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orphan adopted by the whole world, 16-year-old figure skater Oksana Baiul. As a result of her July stunning performance, on the night of February 25, 1994, the Ukrainian flag was raised and the Turning the pages back... Ukrainian anthem was played. It was as early as 1916 that a Kyiv Olympic Committee had been established. In 1920, the 21 governments of both the Ukrainian National Republic and the Western Ukrainian National Republic tried to participate in the Olympics in Antwerp. The following year Soviet Ukraine 1996 In 1996, as the Summer Olympics in Atlanta were about to organized a Ukrainian Olympic Committee, but this was quickly disbanded by Moscow. begin, The Ukrainian Weekly commented on yet another historic Next, as noted in the Newsletter of the Ukrainian World Congress, a Ukrainian Olympic moment for Ukraine: “By the time you read this issue of The Committee was formed in 1956 (headed by Dr. V. Bilynskyj of Australia) to work for IOC Ukrainian Weekly, the opening ceremonies of the XXVI Summer recognition that Ukraine, which had its own seat in the United Nations, should have its own Games will be over, and the young team representing the independent young state of team at the Olympic Games. Ukraine will have marched proudly with their blue-and-yellow national flag. It will no doubt In the 1980s talk of forming a National Olympic Committee began to surface in be a sight to remember as the 1996 Games are the first Summer Olympics for independent Ukraine. Then, in 1989, the World Congress of Free Ukrainians created an Olympic Committee to pursue this same goal. A year later, in December 1990, sports activists Ukraine.” Ukraine’s 237 athletes were to be among the 10,700 athletes representing 197 from all of Ukraine’s oblasts gathered in Kyiv to establish the National Olympic countries in Atlanta on July 19-August 4, 1996. Our editorial gave the following background Committee of Ukraine, electing former Olympic champion Valerii Borzov as its presi- information that provided a context in which readers could view the 1996 Olympics. dent. In March 1992, the International Olympic Committee granted the NOC Ukraine During its Olympic debut as an independent state at the XVII Winter Olympics in 1994, conditional membership. In the meantime, however, during the 1992 Winter Olympics in Ukraine had fielded at team of 37. It was a team hampered by lack of proper equipment and a Albertville and the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona, Ukraine was part of the so-called severe shortage of funds, but it was a proud troupe nonetheless. The honor of carrying independ- Unified Team representing the Commonwealth of Independent States. Finally, in 1994, ent Ukraine’s flag in the opening ceremony on February 12 – the first time ever that flag appeared came Ukraine’s entry into the Olympic arena. officially at the Olympics – went to figure skater Viktor Petrenko. At those Games, it will be recalled, the first medal for independent Ukraine was in the 7.5 kilometer biathlon: a bronze cap- Source: “Olympic hopes fulfilled” (Editorial), The Ukrainian Weekly, July 21, tured on February 23, 1994, by Valentyna Tserbe. And the first gold went to a graceful sprite, an 1996, Vol. LXIV, No. 29. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 7 Faces and Places TheThe thingsthings wewe do...do... by Myron B. Kuropas by Orysia Paszczak Tracz

Mountaindale: going back in time Ukraine under Nazi rule by Orysia Paszczak Tracz had been at camp. This older woman and When the Germans invaded the Soviet Historiography: History and Its Sources,” my mother struck up a conversation. She Union in 1941, Ukrainians and, amazing- which appeared in Harvard Ukrainian It is true what they say about taste and was from one of the earlier immigrations ly, many Jews, greeted them as liberators. Studies two years later. Dr. Hunczak smell bringing back memories. With the to America, and had somehow wound up In the aftermath, Romania, a German questions the authenticity of the Stetsko first lick of that strawberries-and-cream in Mountaindale, a small resort town on ally, was awarded Bukovina. Eastern “zhyttiepys.” (biography) Dr. Stetsko Campino candy, I was again about 9 or 10 the way to Monticello. She was a widow, Galicia became part of the allegedly wrote that he supported “bring- years old, and back in Mountaindale, N.Y. with a daughter and granddaughter, had Generalgouvernment under the leader- ing German methods of exterminating With my newly found friend I was many rooms in her big house and wel- ship of Hans Frank. Most of Volyn and Jewry in Ukraine” when he was in a Nazi picking and eating strawberries, really comed summer guests. Dnipro Ukraine were incorporated into concentration camp, before such big, ripe, wonderful strawberries which So, the next summer we piled into the the Reichskommisariat, ruled by the infa- “German methods” were actually being just happened to be waiting for us in the car and, with quite vague directions (and mous Erich Koch, a psychopathic mass implemented. How can this be, wonders garden. Neither she nor I realized that my mother didn’t clearly remember what murderer whose loathing of Ukrainians Dr. Hunczak. He has other questions as these were not ours to pick, that they the woman looked like), we found our was surpassed only by his hatred of Jews. well: why was the biography found in were in her grandmother’s garden, and way to Mountaindale. It is southwest of In “Harvest of Despair: Life and Ukraine and not in Germany, where it grandma had other plans for them. Of Ellenville, just on the other side of the Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule,” was supposedly written? Why was it course, she would have shared them with Ulster/Sullivan county border. I do not Karl C. Berkhoff, associate professor of “discovered” only in 1970 by a Soviet us, but it was not up to us to pick and eat remember the babusia’s name, nor that of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide researcher? Why are there so many “fac- as many as we could stuff into our her granddaughter. But I do remember Studies at the University of Amsterdam, tual, terminological, linguistic and mouths straight from the plants. Snowflake, her large white collie or presents us with a thematic sketch of chronological mistakes which Stetsko My family spent two summer vaca- husky. (I guess for that time of my youth, Ukrainian life under the Koch regime. tions in Mountaindale; it was an idyllic he had made more of an impression on The book, initially part of a Dr. time in our life. My sister, Nusia, was me.) Memories can get clouded, embel- Magcosi-directed Ph.D. dissertation at the about 1 1⁄2 years old that first summer, lished or remain vague. But some also University of Toronto, informs us almost as much about the abominations committed and had just learned to walk. No, not stay crystal clear. I am surprised how by the retreating Soviets – the scorched walk, run! At times, none of us could some images of those two summers still earth policy, the dynamiting of Kyiv, catch her. It was dangerous, because at remain with me. Stalin’s order to murder all political prison- the end of the yard and garden was a For the second summer in ers – as it does the horrors of Nazi rule. small stream. We were staying in a large Mountaindale, we had company. My moth- Ukraine’s “liberators” quickly became white Victorian or Queen Anne-styled er told another family about the lovely Ukraine’s tormentors, a blunder that con- home, with a porch all around the house. place, and the Holowchaks joined us. Our tributed greatly to Hitler’s ultimate demise. There was a summer kitchen in a sepa- two mothers cooked together, our fathers Unlike other books on Nazi rule in rate building alongside the main house listened to the radio and discussed politics. Ukraine, the author focuses on the suffering where my mother prepared our meals. The Hungarian Revolution did not begin My mother met the owner of the house of Ukrainians rather than Jews. He writes at the SUM camp in Ellenville, where I (Continued on page 15) that the Jewish militia collaborated closely with the Nazis. He cites Nazi reports which suggest that while “most non-Jews expressed anti-Semitic views ... they also did not want the Jews killed.” He explains the antipathy toward Jews by the fact that “whereas the official Jewish percentage of the entire pre-1949 Soviet Ukraine was only 4.9, 13.9 percent of the republican could not have made” in his own autobi- Communist Party in 1940 were officially ography? What role did Michael Jewish.” Jewish representation among the Hanusiak, the Ukrainian American Soviet Soviet Ukrainian leadership was far out of agent identified by the Venona Files, play proportion to Jewish percentages in the in bringing it to light? The document, Dr. general population. Still, according to one Hunczak concludes, “was written in the 1941 Einzatsgruppe report, “almost offices of KGB functionaries.” nowhere could the population be moved to Ukrainian antagonism toward Jews take active steps against the Jews.” Later, during World War II cannot be dismissed when “the non-Jews of Kyiv learned that all simply as “traditional Ukrainian anti- of the Jews had been shot ... the general Semitism” as some Jewish Americans reaction was horror and indignation, even and Israelis have a wont to do. Were Jews among those who hated Jews.” “the most reliable supporters of the ruling There is much to recommend this book, Bolshevik regime” as Resolution 17 of described by the author as “a narrative his- the Second OUN Congress alleges? The tory.” The Ukrainian/English spellings, for distinguished Jewish activist Arnold example, are a refreshing change, as are Margolin wrote that “Jews were promi- interviews with Ukrainians conducted in nently represented in the ranks of the the Ukrainian language. Especially inform- Bolsheviks.” Historian Arthur Adams ative are the chapters titled “Life in the suggests that Jews were the prime on-the- Countryside,” “Ethnic Identity and Political ground engineers of Ukraine’s 1932-1933 Loyalties,” “Religion and Popular Piety,” Famine. “Jews abounded at the lower and “Deportations and Forced Migrations.” levels of party machinery – especially in The author stumbles badly, however, the Cheka ...” claimed Prof. Leonard when he writes: “Both factions of the OUN Schapiro. Dr. Hunczak informs us that all were anti-Semitic themselves and wartime this was confirmed in 1997 when Yurii documents with regard to leading Shapoval, Volodymyr Prystaiko and Banderites show that during the German Vadym Zolotariov researched the invasion they wanted the Jews, or at the archives of the Cheka/KGB in Ukraine very least Jewish males, killed, and that they and concluded that “the number of Jews were willing to participate in the process.” who were in high positions of secret serv- The primary source for this statement is an ice in Ukraine, exceeded all the other article by the author Marco Carynnyk titled, nationality groups put together.” “The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Despite the OUN flaw, egregious on and Its Attitude toward Germans and Jews: its face, Dr. Berkhoff’s book is an Iaroslav Stetsko’s 1941 Zhyttiepys,” which extraordinary piece of research that con- appeared in Harvard Ukrainian Studies in tributes much to an understanding of 1999. modern Ukraine. Unfortunately, Dr. Berkhoff does not reference Dr. Taras Hunczak’s rebuttal to Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is: Orysia and Nusia Paszczak on the swing in the backyard in Mountaindale, N.Y. the above paper, “Problems of [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 No. 29 No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 9 Grads of Ukrainian Catholic University continue their education abroad by Matthew Matuszak The first graduates of its five-year bachelor’s also will be able to help Notre Dame. “As degree program in theology graduated in UCU grows,” he said, “there should be LVIV – The 71 students of the class of 1999. There have been 258 graduates since greater opportunities for Notre Dame faculty 2004 graduated from the Ukrainian Catholic then. Twenty-three have already received and graduate and undergraduate students University (UCU) in Lviv on June 19, with licentiate degrees; 37 are now working on who are studying Slavic languages and his- 40 from the General Department and 31 licentiates; and 14 are working on doctor- tory to benefit from an immersion, such as a from Holy Spirit Seminary. Like their pred- ates. In addition, 10 graduates with focus in European studies.” ecessors, many of the young men and advanced degrees are now teaching under- In addition to theological disciplines, women will be continuing their education graduate students at the UCU. The universi- UCU graduates abroad are working on abroad, because Ukraine’s government still ty began a bachelor’s degree in history pro- advanced degrees in psychology, anthropol- does not recognize their degree. gram in 2001, which has since been accred- ogy, sociology and Byzantine studies. As the Vatican’s Congregation for ited by Ukraine’s government. The UCU has also started its own licenti- Catholic Education has accredited the UCU ate program, where 22 graduates are study- bachelor’s degree in theology, dozens of its Because the university’s bachelor’s alumni and alumnae have been pursuing degree has international recognition – it has ing. In addition, 12 UCU graduates are con- graduate studies abroad at various Catholic been accredited by the Congregation for tinuing their studies in Ukraine, at the universities since 1999. Catholic Education since 1998 – Catholic National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Taras Tymo is one of the 51 graduates of colleges and universities have been particu- Academy, Ivan Franko National University the UCU now studying abroad. As part of Taras Tymo in the United States at the larly welcoming of UCU graduates. Among in Lviv, and other institutions. the Fulbright Program, an international edu- University of Notre Dame. the schools where UCU graduates are study- The Fulbright program has recently hon- cational exchange program sponsored by ing for doctorates are the Catholic ored another of the UCU’s staff, Olena from Leuven to do research at Notre Dame. the U.S. government, Mr. Tymo went to the University of Eichstaett (Germany), the Dzhedzhora, acting dean of the Humanities University of Notre Dame in January to He is working on his doctoral subject, which Catholic University of America, St. Paul Faculty. Ms. Dzhedzhora will be a Fulbright study and do research at Notre Dame’s will involve the homilies on the saints of 4th University in Ottawa and the Pontifical scholar for the 2004-2005 academic year at Early Christian Studies program. century theologian St. Gregory of Biblical Institute in Rome. Columbia University in New York. Mr. Tymo graduated from the Lviv Nazianzus. Secular universities have welcomed UCU The speaker at this year’s UCU com- Theological Academy (now the Ukrainian A graduate of the seminary campus of the grads, as well. Roman Zaviysky, who gradu- mencement was literary critic and civil Catholic University) in 1999 and, with three Ukrainian Catholic University, Mr. Tymo ated with Mr. Tymo in 1999, is working on a activist Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska. fellow graduates, entered the licentiate pro- says he plans to apply his studies “for edu- doctorate in dogmatic theology at Oxford, Previous commencement speakers have gram at the University of Leuven (formerly cational and pastoral purposes.” He said he and Orysya Hachko, who graduated in 2002, included Harvard Byzantinologist Ihor known as Louvain) in Belgium. He received hopes “to introduce patristic Christianity is studying on a Fulbright in religion and Sevcenko, former U.S. Ambassador to his licentiate in sacred theology in 2001 and into the Church in Ukraine today, translating women’s studies at Drew University in Ukraine Carlos Pascual, and Dr. Martha returned to Ukraine, where he worked at his texts into Ukrainian and writing commen- Madison, N.J. Bohachevsky-Chomiak, director of the alma mater. taries on classical patristic works for the According to the Rev. Brian E. Daley, Fulbright Office in Ukraine. He taught early Church history and public, not just for scholars.” Because his S.J., director of the Early Christian Studies Further information about the UCU in patristics to undergraduates at the UCU. He further studies will keep him abroad for program at Notre Dame, “probably the best English and Ukrainian is available on the also worked for the Commission for some time, the dates of Mr. Tymo’s ordina- way Notre Dame can help [train young university’s website at www.ucu.edu.ua. Theological Education, set up by the tion to the diaconate and priesthood have Ukrainian scholars] is to find ways to bring Readers may also contact the Ukrainian Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church to place not yet been set. them there to participate in programs and Catholic Education Foundation, 2247 W. graduates in theology and other pastoral dis- The Lviv Theological Academy renewed research, by a degree or shorter visits Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60622; phone, ciplines in graduate programs in Ukraine its activities in 1994, after being closed by through summer courses. There are a variety (773) 235-8462; e-mail, [email protected]; and abroad. the Soviets for five decades. In 2002 it of things in the summer, and a fine library.” website, www.ucef.org. The phone number Mr. Tymo is currently on doctoral leave became the Ukrainian Catholic University. The Rev. Daley said he thinks the UCU of the UCEF in Canada is (905) 465-3388. Congratulations,Congratulations, Graduates!Graduates!

Congratulations, and åÌÓ„‡fl ã¥Ú‡, ûðÍÓ!

George William Wyhinny graduated with Honors from Barrington High School in Barrington, Illinois, on June 4, 2004.

George was Senior Class President, a member of the National Honor Society, an Illinois State Scholar, and the recepient of awards in Spanish, Model United Nations and Drama.

In 2002 he graduated with High Honors from St. Volodymyr School of Ukrainian Studies in Chicago. George will study Drama at Stanford University in the fall.

with love, Mama, Tato and Andrij

Congratulations to Attention, Students! Nadia Kihiczak Kuzycz, M.D. Throughout the year Ukrainian student clubs plan and hold activities. The Ukrainian Weekly urges students to upon the completion of her Residency in Dermatology let us and the Ukrainian community know about at the upcoming events. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey The Weekly will be happy to help you publicize them. New Jersey Medical School We will also be glad to print timely news stories about events that have already taken place. Photos also will June 2004 be accepted. Best wishes for a successful future.

MAKE YOURSELF HEARD. From your family. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 No. 29 No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 11 Upstate New York trade expo on Central Europe spotlights Ukraine

by Roman Omecinskyj ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Senior officials of the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, and its New York City Consulate’s Trade and Economic Mission participated in a multi-day string of international events held here in mid- May. In coordination with the Ukrainian Federal Credit Union in Rochester, N.Y., awareness of Ukraine and Ukrainians locally and worldwide was further enhanced starting on Saturday, May 8, thanks to a working visit from the New York Consulate and a Rotary International benefit program for the benefit of the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund’s Poltava Maternity Hospital Initiative. It culminated on Tuesday, May 11, with the Upstate New York International Trade Exposition evening banquet hosted by the International Business Council of the Rochester Business Alliance (Chamber of Commerce of Greater Rochester and Industrial Management At Rochester’s recent exposition of “Trade Opportunities in Central Europe” are: (seated, from left) Lydia Dzus, Tamara Council), Rochester Business Journal Denysenko, Sergiy Korsunsky, Ann Kornylo, the Rev. Ihor Krykhovetsky, Myron Babiuk; (standing) Bohdan and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Zakharchishin, Oleh Pawluk, Wasyl Kornylo, Lesia Telega, Therese Corrigan-Bastuk, Roman Omecinskyj, Maksym The theme of this year’s events was Vdovychenko, Natalia Shulga, Olga Dereschuk, Roman Kucil, Oleg Lebedko and Anatole Koba. “Trade Opportunities in Central Europe.” The 14th Annual Upstate New York Business” seminars moderated by attended the evening banquet, including investments and expanded relations with International Trade Exposition and Charles M. Goodwin. The well-attended senior executives from Bank of America, Ukraine. Banquet was a showcase event for the daytime seminars demonstrated a high Bausch & Lomb, Eastman Kodak, HSBC During the dinner various recognitions Greater Rochester international business visitor interest and proved informative. Bank USA and Xerox. The Very Rev. and awards were presented – Top community. This is the first time in the The seminars included “Doing Business Ihor Krekhovetsky, pastor of St. Mary International Service Provider, Exporter event’s 14-year history that the in Hungary and The Czech Republic” Protectress Ukrainian Autocephalous of the Year and International Executive Ukrainian Federal Credit Union (with during the morning segment; “Doing Orthodox Church, led the invocation and of the Year. branches in Rochester, Albany and Business in Poland and Ukraine” at mid- benediction. The keynote speaker that evening was Syracuse, N.Y., as well as Sacramento, day with Dr. Liakh; “Doing Business in Dr. Korsunsky of Ukraine’s Embassy Andras Simonyi, Hungary’s ambassador Calif., and assets of over $100 million) Central Europe and Belarus” during the fluently welcomed the guests in to the United States, who praised or the Embassy of Ukraine participated afternoon segment. Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Czech and Rochester’s mix of research and business in this annual international event. Dr. Liakh’s oral presentation was aug- Hungarian on behalf of Ukraine’s ambas- prowess, and expressed hopes of sharing The well-appointed exhibits of the mented with a slide presentation titled sador to the U.S. Mykhailo Reznik. The know-how from Hungary. In counseling Ukrainian FCU and Embassy of Ukraine, “Ukraine, the Center of Europe,” which Ukrainian delegation at the banquet com- patience, the ambassador drew an analo- located in prime locations of the exposi- gave the audience a comprehensive array prised representatives of the Ukrainian gy of recent technology outsourcing to tion hall, with flags of Ukraine and the of essential details, including the coun- government, Rochester Ukrainian the overseas movement of textile United States included an assortment of try’s geographic, demographic, political, American community officials and busi- employment 40 years ago. He concluded literature, brochures, videos and dis- social, legal and cultural aspects, with nesspeople, as well as a large contingent by stating that globalization has to be a plays. The Embassy exhibit included particular emphasis on privatization from the Rochester Ukrainian Federal two-way street. AeroSvit Ukraine Airlines, visuals dis- achievements, growing international Credit Union. As a result of the newly developed playing slides from Ukraine’s trade and the expanding dynamic econo- Dr. Korsunsky congratulated relationships, information exchanges and Pivdenmash rocket manufacturing facili- my. Ukraine’s neighbors, Hungary, the Czech alliances between the RBA and the ties and the international joint venture Dr. Liakh characterized U.S.-Ukraine Republic and Poland, for their remark- nations represented at this year’s exposi- operations of Sea Launch, which trade relations as a “sleeping beauty.” He able achievements, along with those of tion of “Trade Opportunities in Central includes U.S.-based Boeing and other underscored the paradox that the United other Central European states that have Europe” a technology grant was awarded participating companies. States is the No. 1 provider of foreign joined NATO and the European Union. for a new Hungarian high-tech facility in Numerous visitors circulated among direct investments in Ukraine, while Dr. Korsunsky further underscored that Rochester; and a Project Outreach itiner- the 53 exhibition pavilions that included Ukraine is ranked 93rd among U.S. trad- Ukraine is an indispensable part of the ary is in the planning stages with a dele- exhibitors from an array of sectors such ing partners. European landscape, demonstrating the gation of business leaders from the as banking, telecommunications, high- Over 600 business leaders and guests, best economic performance in Europe as greater Rochester region scheduled to tech circuitry, manufacturing, chemical, including several local Ukrainian well as the world. He invited all the travel to Ukraine, Hungary and Poland in tourism, International Rotary, American community business leaders, guests to explore the new possibilities for the fall of this year. International Sister Cities, universities and colleges, various federal, state and local government economic development agencies and consulates. The Embassy and Consulate of Ukraine exhibit pavilion was attended to by Dr. Sergiy Korsunsky, deputy chief of mission and minister counselor of the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington; Dr. Oleksandr Liakh, deputy consul general of the Consulate General of Ukraine in New York and his wife, Tamara Liakh; Maksym Vdovychenko, consul and com- mercial affairs officer, Trade and Economic Mission, Consulate General of Ukraine in New York; Kostadin Botev, sales director for North America, AeroSvit Ukrainian Airlines in New York City. The Ukrainian Federal Credit Union pavilion was attended to by Tamara Denysenko, general manager and CEO; Oleg Lebedko, assistant manager; Lydia T. Stevens and Roman G. Omecinskyj staff members; Lesia Telega, second vice-president; and Natalia Shulga, credit union member. In addition to the daylong exhibition displays, there were three “Doing 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 No. 29 Ukrainian Medical Association of North America delegation visits HURI CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A delegation Visiting professor George Liber and other minted acquaintances parted, resolving to the American Ukrainian Medical from the board of directors of the Ukrainian Institute staff were on hand to express maintain contact and consider group Foundation (AUMF), partially funded by Medical Association of North America their interest in the field of health care activity in the future. a $10,000 grant from UMANA. (UMANA) paid an official visit to the education and research. Further cementing the bond between According to AUMF President Dr. Paul Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard The meeting lasted well past 5 p.m. the organizations, UMANA donated to Dzul, “Dorland’s is the most widely pub- University (HURI) on Friday, May 14. with participants reluctant to break off HURI a two-volume edition of the newly lished medical dictionary in the world; In Boston for a quarterly directors far-ranging conversations, or leave the published Ukrainian translation of the translation a first of its kind.” It is a meeting, UMANA board members were well-prepared reception table. After gath- Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary. fitting example of the joint bond of aca- pleased to share an afternoon with mem- ering on the institute’s steps for a group The Nautilus Publishing House of Lviv demic publishing uniting UMANA and bers of the prestigious Institute, receiving photograph in the setting sun, the newly published the dictionary as a project of HURI. a tour of the premises. A reception with the academic leadership and staff ensued. For the first time in their combined histories, UMANA and HURI members met to discuss issues and achievements common to both organizations. The com- pilation and indexing of archives involv- ing the history of Ukrainian American medicine, and publication of Ukrainian and English scholarly editions in their respective “hard” and “soft” scientific fields, lent an air of commonality to the work of both institutions. UMANA Executive Director Dr. George Hrycelak and his delegation, including Drs. Roxolana Horbowyj, Maria Hrycelak, Boris Leheta, Roman Worobec and S. Welykyj, were warmly welcomed at the door by HURI Director Prof. Roman Szporluk. HURI Executive Director Tymish Holowinsky led the group on an interest- ing tour of the institute’s estate, includ- ing the publications office and the exten- sive archive and library. Archivist Dr. Ksenya Kiebuzinski patiently explained the importance and usefulness of the col- lections, expressing shared interest in UMANA’s materials. UMANA and HURI members at the institute: (From left, front row): Dr. Boris Leheta, Dr. George Hrycelak, Tymish Dr. Lubomyr Hajda noted similarities Holowinsky, Dr. Roman Worobec, Dr. Maria Hrycelak. (middle row) Dr. George Liber, Patricia Coatsworth, Dr. Roxolana in publishing experiences with Horbowyj, Tamara Nary, Katherine Kisselstein, Dr. Sophia Welykyj. (top row) Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky, Dr. Roman Szporluk, UMANA’s editor-in-chief, Dr. Worobec. Dr. Lubomyr Hajda, Dr. G. Patton Wright.

Metropolitan Soroka donates $20,000 to CCRF for HIV testing center in Lviv SHORT HILLS, N.J. – Metropolitan from mother to child. In cases where Ukraine today,” said Dr. Matkiwsky. New Jersey (UMDNJ). Under the tute- Archbishop Stefan Soroka of the children have already contracted HIV, the “Through the church’s involvement, this lage of Thomas Denny, a member of Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of center will treat the children by providing program will have a powerful impact in CCRF’s board of directors and the princi- Philadelphia presented a check to the anti-retroviral medications that have raising public awareness of the dangers pal investigator of the Division of AIDS Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund proven extremely effective in eliminating of this infectious disease.” Immunology Quality Assessment (CCRF) in the amount of $20,000 to all traces of the virus in newborns. UMANA’s former president Dr. Ihor Program at UMDNJ, Dr. Olena Baran develop an HIV testing center in Lviv. Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky, president of Voyevidka initiated a meeting with Dr. from the Lviv Perinatal Center under- Together with a grant from the Ukrainian CCRF, and Alexander Kuzma, executive Matkiwsky during which they discussed went an intensive four-week training pro- Medical Association of North America director of CCRF, were present at the the severity of the health crisis in Ukraine, gram to implement proper PCR testing (UMANA) and CCRF, this donation will meeting. “We are very proud of the new specifically the AIDS epidemic in Ukraine techniques. go toward a program to diagnose HIV metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic that, according to the latest findings by the Dr. Baran, director of the Infectious infections in pregnant women in order to Church for having the vision to act in World Health Organization, has one of the Disease Testing Laboratory, worked close- prevent the transmission of the virus combating the HIV crisis affecting fastest-growing rates of HIV in Europe. ly with Mr. Denny and his associates, Dr. Following this meeting, the UMANA Dan Lewis, the head of molecular virolo- Board approved a seed grant of $10,000 at gy at UMDNJ, and Dr. Richard Stevens, its summit in May 2003 to begin the head of the Serology Lab at UMDNJ. process of developing an AIDS testing For the next phase of this project, Dr. facility in Lviv. Lewis will travel to Ukraine to supervise The first phase of the program was to the installation of the AIDS testing provide physician training at the equipment and to provide the final University of Medicine and Dentistry of assessment of the Lviv PCR lab.

UIA to honor Klitschko brothers NEW YORK – The Ukrainian Institute of America (UIA) will honor Vitalii and Volodymyr Klitschko with its 2004 “Man of the Year” Award, the institute announced on July 12. The official awards ceremony, with the Klitschkos in attendance, will be scheduled for late 2004 or early 2005. The decision to honor the boxing brothers was an obvious choice, according to Walter Nazarewicz, UIA president, as it continues the institute’s tradition of hon- oring Ukrainians who have excelled in their particular fields. “We first met Vitalii and Volodymyr in 2002, when their close friend Kyiv Mayor Oleksander Omelchenko was in town to accept the Man of the Year Award. Then, we honored the man who led the rebirth of Ukraine’s capital,” Mr. Nazarewicz said, “and this year, we would like to salute the two brothers who have contributed to Ukraine’s international renown in the world of professional sports.” Vitalii Klitschko is the reigning heavyweight champion of the World Boxing Council (WBC). Volodymyr won Olympic gold for Ukraine in Atlanta in 1996. Besides their athletic achievements, the brothers have become virtual goodwill ambassadors for Ukraine. Publicly proud of their Ukrainian heritage, the brothers,

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U. of Illinois hosts 23rd Conference on Ukrainian Subjects by Volodymyr Chumachenko Dr. Strikha introduced his analysis of Chicago during a gathering of the participated in the conference used this the state of sciences and humanities in Ukrainian community in Chicago with opportunity to work with these Ukrainian URBANA, Ill. – The 23rd annual contemporary Ukraine. scholars from Ukraine that was organized materials – many of which are unique. Conference on Ukrainian Subjects took Among the most interesting sessions by the Foundation for the Advancement At the conference closing reception, place at the University of Illinois at Urbana- was one dedicated to the prominent of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Prof. Shtohryn, who has been the confer- Champaign on July 16-19, attracting schol- Ukrainian literary scholar Chyzhevskyi. Illinois. Here the book was introduced by ence organizer for 23 years, emphasized ars whose professional interests are related Dr. Leonid Rudnytzky, Assia Humesky, Dr. Hunczak. the necessity to establish a chair of to Ukrainian subjects from different coun- Ivan Fizer and Jaroslav Rozumnyj spoke This year’s Conference on Ukrainian Ukrainian studies at the University of tries, including Ukraine, Canada, Germany, about Chyzhevsky’s scholarly accom- Poland, Australia and Yugoslavia. Subjects, like all previous gatherings, was Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an plishments, his philosophical and The conference was organized by the a good chance for its participants not only important center of Ukrainian studies in methodological approaches toward the Ukrainian Research Program at the to meet each other and exchange opin- the Midwest. history of Ukrainian literature and about University of Illinois led by Prof. Dmytro ions, but also to work with materials from Dr. Zhulynskyi and Strikha expressed his great personality. Shtohryn. As in previous years the confer- the Ukrainian collection of the Main a similar opinion during the meeting with The session about Russian influence ence was organized within the framework Library of the University of Illinois at the Ukrainian community in Chicago, on contemporary Ukrainian economy and of Summer Research Laboratory at the Urbana-Champaign. This collection con- stressing that such a chair could play an University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign culture was among those that attracted tains approximately 70,000 items related important role in teaching Ukrainian with the support of the Foundation for the participants’ close attention. Kyiv schol- to Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora courses and leading research on Advancement of Ukrainian Studies at the ars Veniamin Sikora and Bohdan Sikora and is one of the largest in the world out- Ukrainian subjects, as well as organizing University of Illinois (President Paisa presented well-grounded and detailed side Ukraine. Scholars from Ukraine who future conferences and seminars. Bratkiv) and The Heritage Foundation analyses of how Russian business pene- (President Dr. Julian Kulas). The head of trates the Ukrainian economy and influ- BOOK NOTES this year’s conference Program Committee ences Ukrainian politics. Martha was Prof. Assya Humesky. Trofimenko and Sviatoslav Trofimenko The general topic of the 2004 confer- discussed questions of Ukraine’s geopo- ence was “Contemporary Ukraine and Its litical and cultural orientation, and the Compedium on Ukraine Diaspora as Seen by Scholars in Ukraine process of the “hidden” Russification of and Abroad,” and was dedicated to the Ukrainian economic and cultural life. during second world war 130th anniversary of the Shevchenko The session about the present state of Scientific Society and the 110th anniver- and perspectives for the development of “Ukraine: The Challenges of World War II,” edited by Taras Hunczak and Dmytro sary of the birth of Dmytro Chyzhevskyi. higher education in Ukraine caused a Shtohryn. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2003, 420 pp., $75 (hardcover). The most important topics discussed heated discussion and created some con- during the conference were: the contem- troversy between the Ukrainian and porary economic and political situation in Western scholars regarding the system of “Ukraine: The Challenges of World Ukraine, the upcoming presidential elec- graduate and doctoral studies at War II” provides a description of the tion, cultural developments in Ukraine Ukrainian universities. challenges faced by Ukraine during the and problems of the “Fourth Wave” of One of the major events of the confer- second world war as the country was Ukrainian immigration. ence was the presentation of the book subjected to the alternating occupations The keynote speakers of the conference “Ukraine: The Challenges of World War of both Nazi Germany and Communist were two guests from Kyiv: Dr. Mykola II” edited by Dr. Taras Hunczak and Prof. Russia. Zhulynskyi, director of the Institute of Shtohryn and published with the financial The book delves into the history of Ukrainian Literature of the National support of Walter and Raisa Bratkiv. The Ukraine during World War II – “a story of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Dr. book is the first volume of conference a profound human drama,” the editors Maksym Strikha from the National papers of the Ukrainian Research Program note in the preface to the book. “It was Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, who is at the University of Illinois. It includes 20 both tragic and heroic, suffering the great- known not only as a scientist in physics, but papers/articles and deals with various est human losses of any nations, although also as a translator of poetry and a publicist. issues of the Ukrainian experience during not directly involved in the war as an Dr. Zhulynskyi, who is also well-known World War II, such as occupational poli- independent entity,” the editors wrote. as an important public and political figure cies, the resistance movement, economy, The book’s 20 chapters – which deal in Ukraine, presented his views on the con- politics, culture, etc. with a variety of topics, including reli- temporary political situation in Ukraine on Another presentation of the book took gion, literature, theater, Ukraine’s rela- the eve of the presidential election. place at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in tionship with neighboring countries dur- ing the second world war – are predomi- nantly a compilation of papers that were prepared for and read at scholarly confer- ences organized by the Ukrainian Scholars gather in Winnipeg for conferences Research Program at the University of WINNIPEG – The University of paper was highlighted in a Winnipeg Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Several Manitoba hosted the Congress of the Free Press article on the day preceding chapters were written specifically for the Humanities and Social Sciences on May the conference as a presentation of par- book, while two chapters, as well as five since 1960. He has edited and con- 29-June 6, bringing more than 70 aca- ticular interest and by the fact that Dr. valuable documents included as part of tributed to a number of books, and is the demic organizations, 6,000 professors Pawlowsky’s and Dr. Hlynka’s papers the appendix to the book, are reprints author of “On the Horns of a Dilemma: and scores of visitors from the general were earmarked by the media for possi- from publications of the Canadian The Story of the Ukrainian Division public to the campus. ble Canada-wide coverage. Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. Halychyna.” On Saturday, May 29, the Ukrainian Dr. Pawlowsky’s paper, “Baba’s lan- Contributors to the book include: Iurij Prof. Shtohryn completed his studies Academy of Arts and Sciences in Canada guage: The language of Ukrainian Shapoval, Wolodymyr Stojko, Rudolf A. in Ukrainian literature and library sci- (UVAN), with the assistance of the Canadiana,” dealt with the Ukrainian Mark, Bohdan Krawchenko, Myroslaw ence at the University of Ottawa in 1970. Center for Ukrainian Canadian Studies, Canadian variant of the Ukrainian spoken Prokop, Peter J. Potichnyj, Taras He has served as the Slavic cataloguer at held its one-day conference at St. language that developed among the Hunczak, Edward D. Wynot, Jr., Arkady the library of the University of Illinois at Andrew’s College. The conference met Ukrainian Canadians over their 100 plus Joukovsky, Basil Dmytryshyn, Jaroslav Urbana-Champaign, starting in 1960. In with unprecedented success as there were years of domicile in Canada. Rozumnyj, Wolodymyr T. Zyla, Andrew 1961 he was appointed associate of the a total of some 80 participants. Dr. Hlynka’s paper, “The Mazepa leg- Turchyn, Alexander Voronin, Valerian university’s Russian and East European It featured a varied program which end in America,” traced the evolution of Revutsky and John Basarab. Center, where he has organized annual included the presentation of academic the legend in North American popular Prof. Hunczak has been teaching his- Ukrainian studies conferences. papers by specialists from the universi- culture. This paper was of particular tory and political science at Rutgers Ordes may be placed by calling toll- ties of Manitoba, Alberta and Toronto on interest because it presented heretofore University in New Brunswick, N.J., free: 1-800-462-6420. topics ranging from Ukrainian little known information about the legend Canadiana, Ukrainian culture and con- and how pervasive it was in North temporary Ukraine, to a showing of a America, particularly the American West rare archival film “The Barbarian and the of the 19th and 20th centuries, and noted Notice to publishers and authors Lady” (also known as “Taras Bulba”) and that it laid the foundation for the devel- a roundtable discussion pertaining to opment of the American burlesque the- It is The Ukrainian Weekly’s policy to run news items and/or reviews of newly Ukrainian Canadian archives and muse- atre. published books, booklets and reprints, as well as records and premiere issues ums (Andriy Makuch, Jars Balan and Dr. The conference took a year of plan- of periodicals only after receipt by the editorial offices of a copy of the material Shelley Sweeney). Among the presenters ning and was coordinated by Drs. in question. were Dr. Alexandra Pawlowsky, Dr. Pawlowsky and Hlynka and Dr. Roman Denis Hlynka, Dr. Robert Klymasz, Yereniuk, all members of UVAN, but News items sent without a copy of the new release will not be published. Geraldine Russin, Mykola Soroka, Dr. also part of the academic personnel of the Send new releases and information (NB: it is important to include information Valerii Polkovsky, Dr. George Chuchman Center for Ukrainian Canadian Studies. on where the new release may be purchased and its cost) to: Editorial Staff, The and Pablo Markin. All sessions took place at St. Andrew’s The interest generated by this confer- College, which houses the Center for Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. ence was evident as Dr. Pawlowsky’s Ukrainian Canadian Studies. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 No. 29

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made the flatter, not-so-deep fried ones Mountaindale... with the pale ring around the edge, where (Continued from page 7) the oil did not touch the dough. I gulped With deep sorrow we announce that until the fall of 1956, but already that sum- down the other mother’s doughnuts, on Tuesday, June 8, 2004, mer something was brewing, because I while my friend headed straight for my our beloved wife, mother and grandmother vividly remember our two fathers huddled mother’s pampushky. Each of us had over the short-wave radio in the summer never had the other kind. In searching for information about kitchen, listening intently to something Mountaindale, I came across its website, about troops or a crisis in Hungary. www.mountaindaleny.com, presented by Many years later I met Chrystia the Diversified Realty Services of Holowchak-Debarry again, and – from Sullivan County. The whole area is my memory – she did not look that much booming, according to the realtors. The different from the friend I played with in “Living History of Mountaindale” page Mountaindale. Already then she was an is something that could be emulated by artist, and painted during her summer Soyuzivka, Oselia SUM, Hunter, Plast vacation. I still remember the painting of and other places and organizations. Theophilia Petryk the two chickadees on a pine branch that This is a discussion page, where people she just completed and how impressed I reminisce about spending summers in the entered into eternal rest. was with her talent. various bungalow camps and kuchalains The grandmother had a daughter, with a (bungalows with summer kitchens) in the child my age. We played together, but I do area. These were the Jewish/Yiddish Requiem liturgy was held on June 11 not remember her name anymore. We camps of the Borscht Belt. On this web- in St. John the Baptist U.C.C. picked those contraband strawberries, and page, long-lost friends find each other, in Northampton, PA. we played in the creek at the end of the catch up on decades of news and discuss very long yard. From MapQuest, I found the history of Mountaindale. out that this was Sandburg Creek. This is Alas, there was no reply to my query Interment at St. Andrew’s Cemetery, where I first caught pollywogs and min- about the lady who owned Snowflake. I S. Bound Brook, N.J. nows, and wondered about the shell think she was the only Ukrainian living imprints in the stones – we were in the there. Imagine how many old friends In lieu of flowers, please pray for her departed soul. mountains, so how did the shells get here? could be found on a “living history” site Many years later I studied sedimentary for Soyuzivka after all these years, or rocks in Geology 101 and got the answers. maybe a Ukrainian Catskills site that One day our two mothers decided to would encompass the whole area. Ñ¥ÎËÏÓÒfl ÒÛÏÌÓ˛ ‚¥ÒÚÍÓ˛, ˘Ó 27-„Ó ˜Âð‚Ìfl 2004 ð. make pampushky, or jam-filled dough- One of these days, I will drive through nuts. This was a fascinating example of Mountaindale again, and see if the white ‚¥‰¥È¯Î‡ Û ‚¥˜Ì¥ÒÚ¸ ̇¯‡ ̇ȉÓðÓʘ‡ ÑðÛÊË̇, å‡Ï‡ Ú‡ Ň·ˆfl how the grass is always greener on the house with the big porch is still standing. other side. Each mom made her version My summers there were really special. of the pastry – her mother made the All I have to do is pop another Campino deep-fried round ones, and my mother to remember even more.

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day explaining that there were several Moroz aligning himself with Yushchenko- In contravention... reasons for the decision to go with TNK- Opposition... Tymoshenko. Last weekend 300,000 fake (Continued from page 1) BP. A Cabinet of Ministers press release (Continued from page 2) leaflets circulated in eastern Ukraine and much as TNK-BP would simply be redi- noted that the proposal put forward by year’s Ukrainian elections. Mr. Moroz as claimed to be “from Moroz.” In a new twist, recting some of the oil it had transported TNK was much better than any offers a joint left candidate would ensure the the leaflets accused Mr. Yushchenko of earlier via rail and via the Prydniprovska currently on the table, including anything Left a place in the second round. being an “agent of the Kremlin and Russian pipeline to the Druzhba line and then into made by oil companies who wanted their Together, Messrs. Moroz and Symonenko capital” (Ukrayinska pravda, July 2 and 3). Odesa-Brody. oil moved to markets in the Czech are polling at about 23-25 percent, higher Like the Burjanadze-Saakashvili bloc in Mr. Herbst also echoed the environ- Republic and Poland. than Mr. Yanukovych’s 15-17 percent. Georgia, the Yushchenko-Tymoshenko mental concerns noted by the EC, as well It pointed out that at the moment there The combined Left vote (CPU, SPU alliance will attract broad support from both as pointed out that the Bosporus was was little demand for moving oil through and Progressive Socialists) in Ukraine moderate and populist opposition to the already badly congested with shipping Odesa-Brody in the originally intended ranges between 30.07 percent at its lowest authorities. The Tymoshenko bloc placed traffic. Mr. Herbst suggested that the direction and explained that the oil com- in the 2002 elections, to 44.50 percent in fourth in the 2002 elections with 7.26 per- Ukrainian government should better panies in the Caspian Basin had stated the first round of the 1999 elections. Mr. cent, up from the 4.67 percent obtained by explain to the Ukrainian people its moti- that it would be inefficient to transport Moroz came third in the 1999 elections its mother party, Hromada, in the 1998 elec- vation for the decision to reverse the crude through Odesa-Brody before the with 11.29 percent, and the SPU third in tions. Support for the Tymoshenko bloc intended flow of Odesa-Brody. last portion of the pipeline, to Plock, was 1998 and fifth in the 2002 elections, with resembles that given to the current Minister In an interview with The Weekly last completed. The press office statement 8.56 percent and 6.87 percent respectively. of Defense, Yevhen Marchuk, who ran on year, the U.S. ambassador had said that also explained that to move Caspian light The CPU has repeatedly shrugged off an anti-Kuchma populist platform in the TNK could even see financial benefit sweet crude from Brody into Central proposals from the SPU to back Mr. 1999 elections and placed fifth with 8.13 from the arrangement because the cost of Europe through other currently available Moroz as the joint candidate of the left. percent. Mr. Marchuk’s 1999 election cam- shipping via Odesa-Brody would be European pipelines would take an addi- As the “senior” party, the CPU would paign was backed by the same parties that cheaper than via Ukrainian rail, which it tional investment of 45 million euros never agree to back a candidate from its today are members of the Tymoshenko currently utilizes. ($60 million). “younger brother,” the SPU. bloc. Ms. Tymoshenko’s alliance with Mr. After obtaining the right to negotiate a The Cabinet of Ministers underscored As the sole candidate of the CPU, the Yushchenko is already radicalizing his elec- contract with UkrTransNafta, TNK-BP that the use of Odesa-Brody in reverse uncharismatic and neo-Stalinist Mr. tion rhetoric. Mr. Yushchenko’s mild criti- director for Ukraine, Oleksander mode was temporary and its decision to Symonenko is destined to lose any presiden- cism of the authorities, despite numerous Horodetskyi, who has led a strong and move oil to Europe from the Caspian Sea tial elections he contests. In the 1999 elections, provocations against him, turned many of unyielding public relations and lobbying remained as its goal. he obtained 22.24 percent in the first round his potential supporters away. This was campaign to obtain access to the Odesa- Polish Ambassador Marek Ziolkowski, then lost in the second with only 37.80 per- most likely a factor in freezing his support Brody pipeline, unexpectedly announced in an interview with Holos Ukrainy, cent. Most of Leonid Kuchma’s 56.25 percent at 21-25 percent since the 2002 elections. on July 12 that because economic condi- reminded the Ukrainian government on winning votes in the second round of the 1999 Mr. Yushchenko has abandoned his tions had changed TNK-BP would now July 13 that it had promised to move oil elections came from Ukrainians voting against mild manner. Now he has called for “ban- only transport about 1.4 million tons of through the Odesa-Brody pipeline “in a the CPU. Such a negative vote against the dits” to be imprisoned after the elections, oil through the controversial pipeline dur- European direction,” in an agreement Communists would not be possible if the re-opening shady privatization deals, ing the course of the three-year contract. signed with Warsaw earlier this year in moderate Socialist and derzhavnyk Mr. eliminating criminal elements from the According to an Interfax-Ukraine which the two countries had agreed to Moroz were the joint left candidate. security forces and taking television sta- report, he stated that the other major cooperate to complete the pipeline to Unable to obtain the CPU’s backing for a tions away from oligarchs. At a July 4 Russian oil companies, including Lukoil, Plock. Mr. Ziolkowski also expressed joint left candidate, Mr. Moroz also refused rally in Kyiv, Mr. Yushchenko told the Yukos, Sibneft and Slavnet, had concern that the Ukrainian government to follow Ms. Tymoshenko and back the 50,000 participants, “The criminal gov- expressed substantial interest in the proj- had failed to keep Warsaw informed on Yushchenko camp. Mr. Moroz was person- ernment is to blame for all of this. Today ect and would combine to provide the current negotiations taking place with ally angry with Mr. Yushchenko and Ms. citizens are not free in their own country, amounts needed to achieve the 9 million Uzbekistan and Kazakstan on utilization Tymoshenko for not supporting compro- they are unprotected against the whims of ton figure. The Kyiv newspaper Den of the pipeline. The decision to reverse mises on constitutional reforms that Mr. the bureaucrats, tax inspectors, militia and reported on July 14 that none of the com- Odesa-Brody – and the controversy sur- Moroz ended up backing in parliamentary the procurators” (yushchenko.com.ua). panies enumerated by Mr. Horodetskyi rounding yet another turnabout in votes in April and in June. If a Moroz- With two left candidates standing in had confirmed plans to utilize the Odesa- Ukrainian government policy on the mat- Yushchenko-Tymoshenko alliance had been October, neither will likely garner Brody pipeline. ter – came in the same days that successfully negotiated, they could have enough votes to advance to the second The Ministry of Foreign Affairs UkrTransNafta and its Polish counter- ostensibly repeated the opposition’s victory round. This may make it impossible for defended the decision by the Ukrainian part, the Przedsiebiorstwo Eksploatiacji in the 2000 Yugoslav elections in round Mr. Yushchenko to win in the first round, government to put Odesa-Brody in reverse Ruriciagow Naftowych Przujazn S.A. one. Mr. Yushchenko and Ms. Tymoshenko meaning he would be forced into a run- mode at its weekly briefing on July 13. (PERN), signed an agreement in Warsaw have a hard core support base of 35 percent. off with Mr. Yanukovych. MFA spokesman Dmytro Svystkov stated on setting up the Ukrainian-Polish Mr. Moroz’s additional support of 8-11 per- This calculation would change only if that the Ukrainian government was forced International Pipeline Enterprise cent, based on his and the SPU’s votes in Mr. Moroz dropped his candidacy and into its decision and underscored that the Sarmatia Ltd. earlier elections, might have tipped the total backed Mr. Yushchenko. Alternatively, reverse flow of oil through the pipeline The joint venture, signed on July 12, past 50 percent in round one. Mr. Yushchenko’s campaign could gather was strictly a temporary phenomenon. He was created from an agreement between Mr. Yushchenko and Ms. Tymoshenko sufficient momentum by attracting mem- did not clarify whether he meant that the Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and have not ruled out Mr. Moroz joining bers of the ruling elites not enamored of pressure to bend was of a political or eco- his Polish counterpart, Aleksander them. In a joint appeal, they advised the Mr. Yanukovych. In the 1994 elections nomic nature. He also emphasized that the Kwasniewski, that was signed on June SPU leader, “Today much depends on the incumbent, Leonid Kravchuk, was decision should not be unduly politicized. 25. It is to be funded by a $1.2 million you: whether we can achieve that level of defeated by the treachery of officials who Later, in a separate conversation with The investment, with equal shares coming unity of all democratic forces of defected to Kuchma, giving him a 6 per- Weekly, Mr. Svystkov denied calling the from each side, for the purpose of con- Ukraine” (Ukrainska Pravda, July 2). cent margin of victory. Will Ukrainian decision forced. structing a 490-kilometer stretch of The authorities are clearly afraid of Mr. history repeat itself in October? Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Cabinet of pipeline from Brody in Ukraine to Plock Ministers issued a statement the same in Poland. Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble Are you still reading your mother’s copy of Saturday July 24 - 7:30 p.m. The Ukrainian Weekly? McKeesport Riverfront Park 5th & Water Street How adult of you. Free admission & free parking. Bring lawn chair. For $45 a year, you can have your own. 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NEW RELEASE: Voloshky trio’s fourth recording of Ukrainian music

The Voloshky trio.

SASKATOON – The female vocal trio adding a modern flavor, these songs are Voloshky is releasing its fourth album of really unique,” said Ms. Sokyrka. Ukrainian music. Titled “The Best of She added, “We chose these songs Voloshky,” the release is expected to be because they are not as well known and available near the end of July. are not recorded very often. However Voloshky, one of Canada’s best known they are songs that anyone can sing Ukrainian popular music vocal ensem- along to with very basic melodies.” bles, is composed of Nadya Foty of “Working with selected musicians Edmonton, Marusia Kachkowski of from Edmonton and Saskatoon, and Minneapolis and Christina Sokyrka of compiling these amazing new tracks Saskatoon. All three vocalists are mem- have given Voloshky a new sound,” Ms. bers of Branch 444 of the Ukrainian Sokyrka said. Need a back issue? National Association. The recording was completed in If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, Often described as a “natural blend,” Edmonton on June 5. Voloshky have send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, these three voices’ harmonies can again engaged musicians from Edmonton and 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. be appreciated on this latest album. Saskatoon for the musical accompani- “We wanted to give our listeners ment. The musicians are Jonathan Locher something they may not have heard (accordion and keyboard), Curtis Phagoo UKRAINIAN BUILDERS OF CUSTOM HOMES (bass) and Clint Moroziuk (drums), all of recorded before. Some of the songs we WEST COAST OF FLORIDA have chosen have ancient roots and have Edmonton; and Carissa Klopoushak (vio- been around for a long time, but by lin, guitar and percussion) of Saskatoon. Ms. Klopoushak is the principal of the TRIDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP. second violin section of the Saskatoon • Over 25 years of building experience Symphony Orchestra. She is also a mem- • Bilingual ber of the orchestra with the Lastiwka • Fully insured and bonded Addendum Choir of Saskatoon that toured Ukraine • Build on your lot or ours Sonia Lee’s new CD recording “Songs • Highest quality workmanship from the Heart” (New Release, June 13) last summer. She graduated with a music degree from the University of Ihor W. Hron, President Lou Luzniak, Executive V.P. may be purchased by visiting her web- Saskatchewan and was recognized as the (941) 270-2411 (941) 270-2413 site, www.sonialee.net, or from the most distinguished graduate of the Yevshan Corp., 1-800-265-9858. We Zenon Luzniak, General Contractor College of Music this year. apologize for the inadvertent omission Serving North Port, Venice, South Venice and area about ordering information. (Continued on page 19) 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 No. 29 No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 19

Verkhovyna Ukrainian Festival, Glen Voloshky trio’s... Spey, N.Y.; Vesna Festival and Folkfest, (Continued from page 17) Saskatoon; Hopak in the Park, SUMA (YONKERS) FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Ms. Klopoushak’s playing of the vio- Edmonton; Jasper Park Lodge Malanka, lin, sopilka and drymba and Mr. Locher’s Jasper, Alberta; Mosaic Festival, Regina, Offers New Services on the tsymbaly, generate a genuine folk Saskatchewan; Petroleum Club Malanka, Calgary, Alberta, and many others. sound that enhances the modern styling • Drive through teller window for this recording. They released their first album “Blossoming” in 1996, the second, • Mon-Thu: 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Fri: 8:30 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Voloshky’s next scheduled live • ATM – 24 Hour 7 Days appearances include the Karpaty “Fantazia,” in 1999 and the third, “A Christmas Album,” was produced in con- • Expanded Office Hours Ukrainian Pavilion at FolkFest in • Now Open 6 days: Monday-Saturday Saskatoon, on August 19-21, and Ukraine junction with CBC/Radio, Regina, in • Morning and Evening hours Day in the Park (to be confirmed), in 2000. Voloshky have been featured on Saskatoon, August 28. The group has the television program “Kontakt” as well • Safe Deposit Boxes also been approached by the Music as CBC radio nationally on the “Max • New Types of Loans Department at the University of Ferguson Show” and frequently on CBC • Vacant Land Loans Saskatchewan to perform a recital as part radio in Saskatchewan. Their music has • Construction Loans of the “In Performance Series,” which also been broadcast on radio in Kyiv and traditionally features performances by Kharkiv, Ukraine. music professors, as well as local and In the past, Voloshky have received SUMA (Yonkers) Federal Credit Union offers fast and convenient services. international artists. The recitals are pro- much acclaim for their work. For exam- Using our Drive Thru Teller Window will save you a lot of time and possible vided for the benefit of music students ple, Bonnie Austring-Winter, perform- parking tickets. You can do all your transaction right from your car. You can get whose attendance is compulsory. The ance producer for CBC, stated, “The cash from our ATM machine 24 hour 7 days-Surcharge Free for All Credit recital by Voloshky will take place beauty of the songs and their exquisite Union Members. Need a secure place for your important documents – check out Thursday, January 13, 2005. Admission harmonies definitely captivated the audi- our Safe Deposit Boxes. Thinking about a new home – Vacant Land Loan and is available to the general public. ence. In fact, my observation was that Construction Loan is what you might need. Since their founding in 1991, people were mesmerized.” Voloshky have appeared at Ukrainian The new album will be available in venues throughout North America CD format at Ukrainian music stores. including Canada’s National Ukrainian The album may also be ordered by phone Main Office: Yonkers Branch: Festival in Dauphin, Manitoba; the by calling (306) 955-5366 or e-mailing 125 Corporate Boulevard 301 Palisade Avenue Soyuzivka resort in Kerhonkson, N.Y.; [email protected] Yonkers, NY 10701-6841 Yonkers, NY 10703 Phone: (914) 220-4900 Phone: (914) 965-8560 Fax: (914) 220-4090 Fax: (914) 965-1936 father-and-son team of Yaroslav (Jerry) and Roman Kernitski of the U.S.-based 1-888-644-SUMA UIA to honor... E-mail: [email protected] (Continued from page 12) Klitschko Fan Club for their support in who hold Ph.D. degrees, are also active organizing this year’s award. Stamford Branch: Spring Valley Branch: in a variety of charitable endeavors in Previous UIA Man of the Year award Ukrainian Research Center Ukrainian Hall Ukraine. recipients include Oscar award winner 39 Clovelly Road, Stamford, CT 06902 16 Twin Ave., Spring Valley, NY 10977 The Ukrainian Institute of America Jack Palance, U.S. Gen. Nicholas Phone/Fax: (203) 969-0498 Phone: (845) 356-0087 Man of the Year award will be presented Krawciw and international financier Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: Tuesday, Friday: at a gala ceremony at the Waldorf- George Soros. 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Astoria Hotel in New York City, with Founded in 1948, the Ukrainian many prominent Americans and Institute of America is a non-profit Board of Directors SUMA (Yonkers) Federal Credit Union Ukrainians expected to attend. organization dedicated to showcasing The institute expressed thanks to the Ukrainian culture and achievements. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 No. 29

Tatars in the storming of the Ukrainian NGOs and civil society... Parliament in a repeat of what took place (Continued from page 2) in Serbia and Georgia. Such a view on for- was behind the October 2000 Serbian eign funding for Crimean Tatars leading to and November 2003 Georgian democrat- instability was supported by Mr. Kuchma ic revolutions. Mr. Kuchma deliberately and Russian Ambassador to Ukraine snubbed Georgian President Mikhail Viktor Chernomyrdin (Ukrainska Pravda, Saakashvili, refusing to meet him at the April 3; ITAR-TASS, March 29). airport as protocol demands. This was the • Third, the Soviet legacy claims that first time this has happened to a foreign pro-Western political groups do not possess state leader on an official visit to Ukraine genuine domestic roots but are implanted (Ukraina Moloda, April 28). only due to financing by Western struc- Pro-presidential groups and the CPU tures. Mr. Yushchenko and Our Ukraine are have repeatedly stated their fear that the regularly assailed as a Western-financed U.S. is preparing a “Kashtan revolution” political bloc. This view is shared by the (Wall Street Journal, February 11) in this CPU and its de facto pro-presidential allies. year’s elections, with the aim of bringing President Kuchma has openly claimed that Mr. Yushchenko to power. This would be Our Ukraine obtained its instructions from followed by Ukraine becoming a “U.S. abroad as to how to relate to proposed con- and NATO protectorate,” Mr. Symonenko stitutional changes (Ukrainska Pravda, maintains (Ukrainska Pravda, April 7). Mr. March 2) Mr. Symonenko similarly Mishura’s report to Parliament alleges that believes that, “the political ruling bodies of the British Westminster Fund for the U.S. Embassy sit on the parliamentary Democracy has financed “secret training balcony and control Our Ukraine,” particu- seminars” for young members of national larly as to how and when it should vote democratic groups. The seminars had been (Ukrainska Pravda, April 8). taught by Serbian OTPOR and Belarusian • Fourth, Western criticism of Ukraine’s ZUBR activists who trained their poor record of democratization is side- Ukrainian colleagues in how to undertake stepped by condemning it as “interference” mass civic disturbances and oppose law in Ukraine’s internal affairs. The sole pur- enforcement agencies, as well as how to pose of such “interference” is to bring the avoid arrest and, if arrested, how to act opposition to power by criticizing the (www.temnik.com.ua, May 23). authorities, Stepan Havrysh, pro-presiden- A leaked presidential administration tial parliamentary coordinator, said. temnyk (secret instruction) dated March 18 Freedom House’s 2004 annual world sur- instructed television channels to describe vey on media freedom, which severely criti- philanthropist George Soros’s visit to cized Ukraine, is “merely a public relations Ukraine as espionage activity and an campaign for certain political groups (such attempt to repeat the Serbian and Georgian as Mr. Yushchenko’s) which are struggling revolutions in Ukraine. Three television for power in Ukraine,” Mr. Havrysh alleged channels controlled by Viktor (Interfax-Ukraine, May 25). Medvedchuk (State Television 1, 1+1, President Kuchma is unlikely to Inter) faithfully followed these guidelines, authorize closure of Ukraine’s NGOs, as as did SDPU newspapers (Kievskiye the CPU and SDPU demand, as such a Viedomosti, March 29 and 30; April 2-8, step would severely damage Ukraine’s 2000). The CPU, SDPU and Russian relations with the U.S. At the same time, media alleged that Mr. Soros’s visit to the the activities of NGOs are being restrict- Crimea was aimed at training Crimean ed and curtailed in more covert ways. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 21

manufacturers. The study found that while NEWSBRIEFS $80 billion in software was installed on (Continued from page 2) computers worldwide last year, only $51 Putin to envoys: improve Russia’s image billion was legally purchased. Among key Ukrainian Folk Festival findings: The piracy rate in the Asia/Pacific region was 53 percent, with dollar losses August 21st and 22nd, 2004 MOSCOW – Speaking at the Foreign Commemorating the 13th anniversary of Ukrainian Independence August 24, 1991 Affairs Ministry at a convocation of 160 totaling more than $7.5 billion. In Eastern Russian ambassadors on July 12, President Europe, the piracy rate was 71 percent, Vladimir Putin urged Russian diplomats to with dollar losses at more than $2.1 billion. UKRAINIAN HOMESTEAD 1230 BEAVER RUN DRIVE respond to attempts from abroad to “dis- In Western Europe, the rate was 36 percent, LEHIGHTON, PA 18235 (610) 377-4621 credit” Russia, ORT and other Russian and dollar losses totaled $9.6 billion. The average rate across Latin American coun- media reported. “The image of Russia in the KAZKA UKRAINIAN FOLK ENSEMBLE countries [you work in] is far removed from tries was 63 percent, with losses totaling reality,” Mr. Putin said. “Quite often there nearly $1.3 billion. In the Middle Eastern And from Canada – performances by: are managed campaigns aimed at compro- and African countries, the rate was 56 per- UKRAINA DANCE ENSEMBLE – DZERELTSE DANCE ENSEMBLE mising our country and the damage from cent on average, with losses totaling more KARPATY DANCE ENSEMBLE such campaigns is obvious both for the state than $1 billion. In North America, the pira- and Russian businesses.” President Putin cy rate was 23 percent. The losses totaled added that the priorities of Russian foreign more than $7.2 billion. The study found policy remain the CIS, the European Union, that the size of a regional software market the United States and the Asian-Pacific is the critical link between piracy rates and region. As far as the CIS is concerned, actual dollars lost. For instance, 91 percent Russian diplomacy should reject the notion of software installed in Ukraine in 2003 “that nobody except [Russia] can lay claim was pirated, as compared to 30 percent in to leadership in this area,” he said. Such the United Kingdom. But dollar losses in ideas are both “illusory and mistaken – the the U.K. ($1.6 billion) were about 17 times extension of the EU and NATO create a higher than those in Ukraine ($92.1 mil- new geopolitical reality” that must be con- lion). This difference is attributed to a sidered in formulating Moscow’s foreign much larger total PC software market in Saturday, August 21st Sunday, August 22nd policy. Mr. Putin added that good relations the U.K. than in Ukraine. (Business Wire) 1:30 PM - Main Stage Show 10:00 Divine Liturgy celebrated by with U.S. officials are not enough for a “sus- 3:30 PM - Main Stage Show Most Reverend Stefan Soroka, Archbishop tainable partnership” and called for cooper- Ex-Soviet states rebuke OSCE 8 PM - ZABAVA (Dance) Ukrainian Catholic Archeoparchy, ating with “broader circles” of the American Philadelphia and Metropolitan, VIENNA – Russia and eight other ex- public. (RFE/RL Newsline) Dance admission: $10.00 per person Ukrainian Catholic Church in America Soviet states accused Europe’s biggest secu- 1:00 PM - Main Stage Show Kuchma praises his 10 years in office rity and human rights watchdog on July 8 of failing to respect their sovereignty. The 55- KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma told nation Organization for Security and Festival Admission: $5.00/person one day $7.00/person - both days 1+1 Television Channel on July 11 that dur- Cooperation in Europe, whose activities FREE - Age 14 and under ing his 10 years as Ukrainian president, the include monitoring elections, has chided Ukrainian government has averted an eco- former Soviet states for ballots [elections] it Enjoy Ukrainian foods - Arts & Crafts - Refreshments of all types nomic collapse, raised living standards in says failed to live up to democratic stan- the country and achieved “impressive” eco- dards. “In part (the OSCE) does not respect Rides and Games for all ages nomic results. According to the Ukrainian such fundamental principles ... as non-inter- president, the three main foreign-policy ference in internal affairs and respect of OPEN TO PUBLIC NO CAMPING PERMITTED achievements in the last 10 years are the national sovereignty,” said a statement international recognition of Ukraine as a signed by Armenia, Belarus, Kazakstan, Distance from: Allentown - 30 mi., New York - 90 mi., Philadelphia - 75 mi., Pottsville - 35 mi., Scranton - 60 mi. state, Ukraine’s membership in collective Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, security organizations, and the fixing of the Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Russia has long state’s borders. Mr. Kuchma avoided a complained of double standards at the direct response to a question about whether OSCE, which it says criticizes human rights he will run for a third presidential term. He and democracy failings east of Vienna, praised Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, where the organization is based, but does HE KRAINIAN EEKLY a presidential candidate, for the “specific not denounce similar shortcomings to the ATTENTION, MEMBERST UOF THE UKRAINIANW NATIONAL ASSOCIATION! results” that Mr. Yanukovych achieved with west. The OSCE said Russia’s presidential his Cabinet and criticized Viktor election in March was well administered but Do you enjoy your subscription to The Ukrainian Weekly? Yushchenko for making “populist” election fell short of democratic standards, particu- Why not share that enjoyment with a friend? promises. (RFE/RL Newsline) larly where the state media was concerned. ORDER A GIFT SUBSCRIPTION TO THE WEEKLY “It is of concern that OSCE field missions at the member’s rate of $45 per year. 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He said that over the last three years the center has been working in Eastern European and other countries, including Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Croatia and Austria. Over that time, it has found 266 Nazi war criminals, most of whom have been punished. Mr. Lavrynovych said the search for and punishment of Nazi criminals should be done in accordance with the law, and law-enforcement agencies should study information about these criminals and con- duct pre-court investigations. (Interfax) 91% of software in Ukraine is pirated SAN FRANCISCO – Thirty-six percent of the software installed on computers worldwide was pirated in 2003, represent- ing a loss of nearly $29 billion. These are the key findings of a global software piracy study released on July 7 by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the international association of the world’s leading software 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 No. 29 No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 23

ticipated in the opening of the Ukrainian Spotlight... Cultural Gardens in Rockefeller Park in Inspired by the Kyivan Pecherska Lavra, these 8 1/2” x 13 3/4” x 2 3/4” (Continued from page 5) Cleveland. icons are hand-serigraphed in an Orthodox Monastery. This museum- quality, numbered, limited edition of one hundred of the SAVIOUR and American Relief Committee. On the local A jubilee concert to mark the branch’s 50th anniversary was held on Sunday, the MOTHER OF GOD is authentically executed on a reinforced gesso level members supported the two surface in traditional egg-tempera with a gold leafed background. The Ukrainian national homes, Ss. Peter and October 19, 1952, at the Ukrainian icon panel is solid wood, reinforced by splines. The glass-fitted, deep Paul Church and school (now known as St. National Home on West 14th Street. wooden kihvot is gold filigreed. These icons exhibit the spiritual and artis- Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic School), St. The brotherhood and its members con- tic values of ancient masterpieces but unworn and undamaged by time. tributed toward the dedication of the Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church, St. $500 donation post-paid Lesia Ukrainka monument in the Andrew Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ridna (money order or check) to: Shkola, the Cleveland Blind Apostolate Ukrainian Cultural Gardens in 1961. Sight Center and a number of other institu- In 1961-1964 brotherhood members Monastery Icon Studio UW40701, tions. were vital participants in the fundraising 3011 Roe Dr. Houston, TX 77087-2409 In 1928 the brotherhood was one of the for the dedication of the Taras God Bless you! 4-6 week delivery time. 40 local organizations that banded together Shevchenko monument in Washington. to centralize the community life of The UNA became affiliated with the Cleveland Ukrainians by forming the United Ohio Fraternal Congress in 1962; mem- Ukrainian Organizations of Cleveland. bers of the brotherhood represent the To subscribe: Send $55 ($45 if you are a member of the UNA) to The Ukrainian Weekly, To facilitate the UNA’s organizational UNA in this congress. Mary Szmagala Subscription Department, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 work, Cleveland area branches united in the Bobeczko became president of the Ohio early 1930s to create the Cleveland UNA Fraternal Congress in 1975 and was District Committee. The brotherhood can be treasurer for four years, 1983-1987. considered one of the founders of this asso- Bowling was the primary interest among YURI INTERNATIONAL ciation. Members of Branch 102 have youth in 1964-1969; the Branch 102 team 4166 Union Rd., Cheektowaga, NY 14225 served and today serve as executive officers. bowled in the UNA’s Pennsylvania-Ohio Members of Branch 102 chaperoned tournaments held in Berea and Youngstown, TRADE, TRAVEL, PARCEL Ohio. These teams were winners and have and participated in the Cleveland Tel.: (716) 630-0130 Fax: (716) 630-0133 Avramenko Ukrainian Dance Group at championship trophies to prove their ability. The brotherhood sent delegates to con- the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. PARCELS, AIRLINE TICKETS, VISAS, MONEY TRANSFER, ventions of the Ukrainian National Under the leadership of many brother- FOOD PARCELS FROM AMERICA AND CANADA TO UKRAINE, hood members, land on Hoertz Road in Association, the Ukrainian Youth League of North America and the World RUSSIA, BELARUS, MOLDOVA, BALTIC COUNTRIES, POLAND, Parma, Ohio, was purchased in 1935 on CENTRAL ASIA AND CAUCASUS which was established the Ss. Peter and Congress of Free Ukrainians. Paul Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, the Three of the brotherhood’s members Parcels pick-up from home Ukrainian Picnic Grove and St. Andrew were elected to serve as supreme advi- Ukrainian Catholic Church (built on the sors of the UNA: Michael Chegin, 1908- Invitation to America • Visas to Ukraine • Extension of U.S. visas • DV Lottery property in 1966). 1910; Nicholas Busko, 1933-1937; and Airport pick-up and assistance in Lviv, Kyiv, Moscow, New York and Toronto The UNA sponsored a sports program in Dmytro Szmagala, who served for 25 Assistance with immigration papers for “Green Card” years, from 1941 to 1966. Nicholas 1939, providing an opportunity for the youth Video Transfers PAL/SECAM - NTSC of the brotherhood to become involved. Bobeczko has served on the Elections Calls to Ukraine 14¢ per minute • Calls to Moscow 4¢ per minute Basketball and softball teams were organ- Committee at 12 conventions. ized. These teams competed with other – by Nicholas Bobeczko For further information call: UNA teams in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan, and in the Cleveland city leagues. Present officers are Secretary (716) 630-0130 On Sunday, June 2, 1940, members of Nicholas Bobeczko and President E-mail: [email protected] • Website: www.Yuriinter.com Branch 102 financially supported and par- Daniel Bobeczko. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004 No. 29

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Monday, July 19 (sopilka), bass sopilka, block-flute, bells and Soyuzivka’s Datebook zozulia. The featured performers are Oksana July 17-24, 2004 Kozak Exhibit - artwork by the CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Stebelska, Roman Kuka, Inna Tymochko Ukrainian Institute will host a lecture and and Andriy Serba. The concert will take Adventure Camp, Session One Kozak Family - library slide presentation given by Myroslav Discovery Camp, Session Two Zabava - Burya - 10 p.m. place at 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Lowell Hall, Shkandrij, professor at the University of located at 17 Kirkland St. in Cambridge on Manitoba and co-curator of the exhibit the Harvard University campus. This event July 18-23, 2004 August 8-21, 2004 Phenomenon of the Ukrainian Avant-garde at is free and open to the public. For more Chemney’s Children’s Day Camp, Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Prof. Shkandrij’s information, please contact the Institute at Session One Ukrainian Folk Dance Camp presentation, “The Art of the Ukrainian (617) 495-4053 or visit the website at Avant-Garde, 1910-1930,” will be held at http://www.huri.harvard.edu/husi.html. July 21, 2004 August 13, 2004 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Room 250 of Jefferson Hutsul Night Dinner - Special Pub Night with Luna Hall on the Harvard University campus. This Sunday, September 12 event is free and open to the public. For fur- special appearance by HILLSIDE, N.J.: Religious Education Olya Chodoba Fryz and August 14, 2004 ther information, contact the institute at (617) 495-4053 or visit their website at classes for children will begin shortly before Andrij Milavsky Miss Soyuzivka Weekend http://www.huri.harvard.edu/husi.html. the 10:45 a.m. Sunday liturgy at the Zabava - Luna - 10 p.m. Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic July 24, 2004 Friday, July 23 Church, located at Liberty Avenue and Bloy Zabava - Halychany - 10 p.m. August 14-22, 2004 St. The program is targeted for children from Club Suzy-Q Week CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard pre-school through Grade 8. Classes will be July 24-31, 2004 Ukrainian Summer Institute is proud to co- held on particular Sundays shortly before the sponsor the Ukrainian Colors Folk Discovery Camp, Session Three August 15, 2004 10:45 a.m. liturgy. For further details, Ensemble as part of the Harvard Summer please contact either Patricia Shatynski, Adventure Camp, Session Two Ivano-Frankivsk festival celebration; School’s Visiting Artists Series. Ukrainian (908) 322-7350, Mike Szpyhulsky, (908) more details to follow Colors is a vocal and instrumental folk 289-0127 or Joe Shatynski, (973) 599-9381 July 25-30, 2004 ensemble from Kyiv. Among the instruments by August 8, 2004. Additional information Chemney’s Children’s Day Camp, August 21, 2004 used will be modern and classic bandura, may be found on the parish website, Session Two Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky violin, hammer dulcimer, pan flute, folk flute www.byzantines.net/immaculateconception. Scuba Diving Course (revised dates) Dance Camp Recital with intermission performance by July 31, 2004 Olya Chodoba Fryz - 8 p.m. Exhibit - Daria “Dycia” Hanushevska - Zabava - Fata Morgana - 10 p.m. Soyuzivka to host children’s day camp library - ceramics Zabava - Cheres - 10 p.m. August 22, 2004 Ternopil - festival celebration; more August 1, 2004 details to follow Special Golf Tournament opening with Askold Buk Trio - time to be August 28, 2004 announced Zabava - to be announced

August 1-6, 2004 August 28-29, 2004 Soyuzivka Golf Week Lviv - festival celebration; more details to follow August 6, 2004 Cabaret performance by Ron Cahute September 3, 2004 & Ihor Bachynsky - 10 p.m., Zabava - Luna - 10 p.m. adults only September 4, 2004 August 6-8, 2004 Zabava - Fata Morgana & Tempo 2nd Annual Sports Jamboree (see ad) September 5, 2004 August 7, 2004 Zabava - Tempo & Vorony Barabolya concert - 2 p.m. Veselka Patio

Participants of a previous Chemney’s Children’s Day Camp at an outing to Kelder Farms.

KERHONKSON, N.Y. – This year’s also will make their own “vinok” (for girls) Chemney’s Children’s Day Camp at and “toporets” (for boys) for the popular Soyuzivka will be held during the weeks Hutsul Night held on Wednesday evenings. of July 17 and July 24. Each five-day pro- Nadia Kruchowa will lead the children in gram is designed to educate and entertain various outdoor playground activities and 4-7 year old children of Ukrainian descent. structured games, all of which are designed “Whether your child speaks Ukrainian, to encourage age-appropriate fun, self-explo- understands Ukrainian, or is simply just ration and adventure. Tania Sawa-Priatka proud to be Ukrainian, Soyuzivka’s half- will join the campers for both weeks to teach day camp will enable them to learn more the children new and well-known Ukrainian about and take greater enjoyment in their songs. Children will perform these selections Ukrainian heritage,” said Bohdanka Puzyk, during the bonfires and at the farewell con- the day camp’s coordinator. “All are wel- cert, which will take place on both Fridays come.” during Soyuzivka’s Odesa Night. New to the The theme for this year’s camp – program this year is the fact that Children’s “Pisnia Ukrainy,” or “Melodies of Day Camp participants have been invited to Ukraine” – will be woven into their daily participate in bonfires with the older children Mission Statement activities of group songs, crafts and games. enrolled in other Soyuzivka camps. The Ukrainian National Association exists: Andrij Oprysko is returning as the As has become a custom for Soyuzivka I Ukrainian dance instructor for both sessions. campers, there will be a field trip to near- to promote the principles of fraternalism; For children who do not participate in a by Kelder Farms, where campers will Ukrainian dance group in their hometown, take a hayride, pick blueberries and enjoy I Mr. Oprysko provides an excellent introduc- interacting with the animals at this work- to preserve the Ukrainian, Ukrainian American and tion to basic Ukrainian dance steps. ing farm. Tuesday nights are designated Ukrainian Canadian heritage and culture; and However, for those with greater Ukrainian as “Movie and Pajama Party.” folk dance experience, this will be an oppor- Finally, during the first week, Mrs. Puzyk I tunity to broaden and refine their skills. will enchant the campers with stories of to provide quality financial services and products to its The children will work with Natalka thrilling adventures, famous Ukrainian roy- members. Junas on various crafts projects during the alty and the daring Kozaks; Olenka Bilyk first week, and with Dycia Hanushevska will thrill campers with equally exciting As a fraternal insurance society, the Ukrainian National during the second week. In keeping with “kazky” during the second week of camp. Association reinvests its earnings for the benefit of its members the musical theme of the camp, crafts will For questions about the program or the include making the children’s own versions schedule of this year’s Chemney’s and the Ukrainian community. of traditional Ukrainian instruments, such Children’s Day Camp, contact Soyuzivka as the trembita or the bandura. The children at (845) 626-5641.