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INSIDE: • New Jersey seeks immigrants’ testimonies — page 4. • Exhibit on “Holodomor: Genocide by Famine” — page 10. • The Holodomor Remembrance Torch in Chicago — pages 12-13. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXXVI No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 $1/$2 in Ukraine Chernovetskyi wins Yushchenko visits Ottawa on state visit to Canada re-election in Kyiv in early mayoral vote

by Illya M. Labunka Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – In a lower than anticipated turnout, approxi- mately 53.39 percent of Kyiv’s eligible voters cast their ballots on May 25 in the capital’s pre-term mayoral and City Council elections. According to the Kyiv City Territorial Election Commission, of the 70 individuals offi- cially registered on the yard-long list of mayoral candi- dates, the incumbent, Leonid Chernovetskyi, managed to hold on to his highly contested position by winning 37.72 percent of the votes. First Vice Prime Minister Oleksander Turchynov of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc garnered 19.13 percent and Vitalii Klitschko of the eponymous bloc received 17.97 percent. They were followed by Viktor Pylypyshyn of the Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc (6.71 percent), Mykola Katerynchuk of the eponymous bloc and member of the Maria Sochan Tymyc European Party of Ukraine (4.44 percent), Oleksander President Viktor Yushchenko addresses the Holodomor memorial ceremonies in Ottawa. Omelchenko of the eponymous bloc (2.53 percent), Vasyl Horbal of the Party of the Regions (2.33 percent) and Oleh OTTAWA – President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine, ues, particularly democracy, human rights and freedoms, Tiahnybok of the all-Ukrainian Union Svoboda (1.37 per- and the supremacy of law. cent). beginning a three-day official state visit to Canada, on May “Ukraine remembers and will always remember that it Meanwhile, of the 37 political factions hoping to obtain 26 appeared before a joint session of Parliament, met with was Canada that was one of the first Western countries to representation on the Kyiv City Council, six blocs and one Prime Minister Stephen Harper and was hosted by recognize the independence of our state in 1991,” he stated. party managed to secure seats by winning the necessary Governor General Michaëlle Jean. Ukrainian Canadian Congress President Paul Grod was minimum of 3 percent of the votes. He began his state visit in Ottawa at Rideau Hall, the res- present at the official greeting ceremonies to welcome As a result, the Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc won idence of the governor-general, who represents the crown in President Yushchenko on behalf of the 1.2 million 30.45 percent of the vote, the Tymoshenko Bloc Canada and carries out the duties of head of state. After Canadians of Ukrainian descent. received 22.79 percent and the Vitalii Klitschko Bloc being welcomed to Canada by Governor General Jean, Mr. Later Ukraine’s president had a meeting with Canadian garnered 10.61 percent, followed by the Volodymyr Yushchenko proceeded to plant a tree on the grounds of Prime Minister Harper, at which the two leaders discussed a Lytvyn Bloc (8.17 percent), the Civic Activists of Kyiv Rideau Hall in commemoration of his visit to Canada. range of bilateral and international issues, including the fur- Bloc headed by Oleksander Pabat (5.95 percent), the President Yushchenko noted “the special partnership ther development of political and commercial ties between Party of the Regions (3.95 percent) and the Mykola established between our friendly countries,” adding that Katerynchuk Bloc (3.47 percent). Ukraine and Canada are united by common goals and val- (Continued on page 19) The Our Ukraine –People’s Self-Defense (OU-PSD) bloc did not qualify for membership on the Kyiv City Council as it received only 2.01 percent of the votes. When the pre-term mayoral and City Council elections campaign had just gotten under way, the Committee of ‘Walk Against Genocide’ escorts Voters of Ukraine (CVU) had predicted that total expenses for the campaign would be approximately $100 million (U.S.). However, in what has turned out to be the costliest Holodomor torch in New York political election campaign and the most controversial the by Matthew Dubas city of Kyiv has ever witnessed, that sum had doubled by election day. Thus, over $212 million was spent in a hard- NEW YORK – Over 150 people gathered at Castle fought electoral battle aimed at gaining control of Clinton in Battery Park on Tuesday, May 27, to partici- Ukraine’s capital. pate in the “Walk Against Genocide” as the The campaigns of the Chernovetskyi Bloc, the International Holodomor Remembrance Flame contin- Tymoshenko Bloc, the Lytvyn Bloc and the Katerynchuk ued its journey around the world, enlightening people Bloc recorded the five most expensive campaigns, as each about the Ukrainian genocide of 1932-1933, which faction attempted to outdo its opponents with huge claimed the lives of millions of men, women and chil- finances. The campaign budget of the major political dren. forces ranged from $25 million to $40 million. The ceremonies, organized by the New York branch For example, candidates spent close to $10 million on of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America street advertising, as the average cost of one political bill- (UCCA), began with a ferry ride from Battery Park to board, depending on size, ranged from $1,000 to $2,000. Liberty Island, where the torch was officially blessed by Nine thousand billboards of various sizes were utilized by the Revs. George Bazylevsky of the Ukrainian Messrs. Chernovetskyi and Katerynchuk alone. The politi- Orthodox Church and Ivan Tykhovych of the Ukrainian cal campaign billboards featuring Mr. Klitschko added up Catholic Church. to approximately 4,000. Dr. Oleh Shamshur, ambassador of Ukraine to the Matthew Dubas According to law, each candidate was allowed to spend United States, commented on the location of the blessing, no more than $100,000 on advertising, campaign fliers and noting the Statue of Liberty holds a torch in her hand as a National Park Service Ranger Eugene Kuziw holds salaries for campaign staff. However, due to the fact that a symbol of freedom and democracy, so too the Holodomor the International Holodomor Remembrance Torch candidate was closely affiliated with his or her particular torch is a symbol of Ukrainian resolve and the hope of with Ivanka Zajac, president of the New York branch of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, at (Continued on page 17) (Continued on page 9) Liberty Island National Park. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 No. 22 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS

Euro-Asian Oil Transportation Corridor Jewish Community honors Sheptytsky the Russian side is obliged to take a deci- sion on adequate measures against those proposed at energy summit in Kyiv KYIV – The Jewish Community of Ukrainian politicians who with their Ukraine has called Metropolitan Andrey actions and statements are doing harm to Sheptytsky of the Ukrainian Greek- by Vladimir Socor Russia,” said the statement released by the where the Kralupy and Litvinov refineries Catholic Church a righteous gentile, ministry. The Security Service of Ukraine Eurasia Daily Monitor are interested in using Caspian oil. Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi Moshe Reuven had barred Mr. Luzhkov from entering UkrTransNafta signed a framework agree- Asman said at a press conference. The presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia, ment to that end with the Czech Mero Ukraine due to his statements made during Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania agreed on Metropolitan Sheptytsky did a lot to save transport company at the Kyiv summit. people, including Jews, during World War celebrations of the 225th anniversary of May 22 and 23 in Kyiv on steps to create Such an arrangement however, is subject the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. a Euro-Asian Oil Transportation Corridor II, the rabbi said. Risking his life during to agreement by Slovakia’s Transpetrol the German occupation of Lviv, he shel- Mr. Luzhkov said that in 1948, Sevastopol (EAOTC). The planned corridor is a cen- for using the Slovak stretch of the became a city of state subordination, terpiece to the concept of an Energy tered in his house several hundred Jews, Druzhba pipeline. called on believers to save the Jews and whereas “in 1954, the city was not includ- Transit Space, which was also launched at ed in the number of those regions and terri- the Kyiv summit of Caspian, Black Sea wrote numerous appeals to the German command, demanding a halt to attacks on tories that [Soviet leader Nikita] and Baltic countries. Khrushchev transferred to Ukraine.” The EAOTC, in turn, is an enlarged The energy sum- the Jewish population of Halychyna. The Jewish Community of Ukraine staged the Moreover, the Moscow mayor promised to version of the project to extend the raise the issue of reviewing a treaty of Odesa-Brody oil pipeline from Ukraine mit of Caspian, “Tree of Life” action outside Kyiv’s cen- tral synagogue on May 20 in memory of friendship and cooperation between into Poland, in order to carry Caspian oil Ukraine and Russia. On May 15 Russia as originally intended into European Black Sea and Sheptytsky, planting a tree as a token of banned Ukrainian National Deputy Union territory. gratitude and respect to him for saving Baltic countries Vladyslav Kaskiv from entering Russia, Completed by Ukraine in 2001 up to hundreds of Jews. Yet, Rabbi Asman said, where he was participate in a TV program Brody near the Polish border, that pipeline the state of Israel refuses to call Sheptytsky also launched the a righteous gentile, even though the ques- in Moscow. (Ukrinform) remained empty for three years because tion was repeatedly raised by the Yad Russia blocked the access of oil from concept of an Vashem task team. This may be due to the Ukraine, Canada to cooperate on power Kazakhstan to Odesa. Assurances by the fact that at the beginning of the war Bush administration to the Ukrainian gov- Energy Transit KYIV – The National Academy of Sheptytsky backed the German invasion, ernment in 2003 that American producer Sciences of Ukraine and the Canadian Rabbi Asman said, adding that he changed companies would supply oil volumes Space. company Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. his opinion when he realized the Germans from Kazakhstan to Odesa were not borne have signed a memorandum of mutual came to Ukraine as occupiers instead of out. understanding and cooperation in the liberators. (Ukrinform) In 2004 the Ukrainian government The Sarmatia consortium intends to act nuclear power industry, which provides for agreed to the use of the pipeline “in as a one-stop window in seeking host Hryvnia to dollar value rises introduction in Ukraine of Canada’s new reverse,” Brody-Odesa, by Russian oil government agreements, intergovernmen- reactor technologies, particularly, imple- companies. This change defeated the pro- tal agreements, and contracts with oil sup- KYIV – Ukraine moved on May 21 to mentation of a joint project for the creation ject’s purpose to diversify pipeline-deliv- pliers for the project. It also proposes to strengthen the hryvnia by revising its peg of a CANDU-type atomic reactor. Ukraine ered oil supplies to the EU and reduce establish an oil quality bank, which is a to the U.S. dollar. It was the first time since is planning to build and launch before the overdependence on Russia. By the same mechanism to compensate suppliers of August 2005 that the National Bank of year 2030 over 20 new-type reactors, token, that change also halted the planned high-grade oil in the event that this is Ukraine changed the official exchange rate including CANDU, Academician Ivan extension of the pipeline from Brody to mixed with lower-grade oil in the pipeline for the hryvnia versus the dollar. Under the Nikliudov said. This diversification of the Polish refinery at Plock and potential- and marketed as a blend. An oil quality new rate, $1 equals 4.85 hrv; previously a reactors will correspond to other countries’ ly to the refinery and port of Gdansk. bank would be of particular interest to dollar was worth 5.05 hrv. (Wall Street practices in the field of safe generation of Nevertheless, the Ukrainian and Polish Azerbaijan as a supplier of high-grade oil. Journal) nuclear energy. Touching on the CANDU oil transport companies, UkrTransNafta The consortium’s countries also reckon Entry ban on Ukraine’s politicians reactor advantages, Atomic Energy of and PERN, in 2004 created the Sarmatia with lucrative refining operations along Canada Ltd. representative Bob Speranzini company for completing that project. It the proposed pipeline route and EAOTC. MOSCOW – The Russian Foreign noted that they might use raw uranium, marked time owing to Russian obstruction For its part, Azerbaijan is interested in a Affairs Ministry on May 22 announced the which would enhance Ukraine’s energy of access to Caspian oil and the conse- partnership to build a refinery in Ukraine, introduction of a ban on the entry of independence. This technology will also quent lack of investors for the project. as well as a chain of fuel supply stations Ukrainian politicians into the country. The make it possible to use heavy water in However, Azerbaijan’s State Oil Co., in that country. Kyiv is keen on this decision was motivated by Ukraine’s ban Ukraine. Similar equipment is already Georgia’s Oil and Gas Co., and prospect, so as to reduce Russia’s heavy on entry by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. functioning in Argentina and Romania. Lithuania’s Klaipedos Nafta (owner of the dominance in oil refining and product “In connection with the Ukrainian authori- (Ukrinform) eponymous maritime terminal) joined the marketing in Ukraine. ties deciding to ban Moscow Mayor Yuri Sarmatia consortium at the energy summit Countries along the pipeline route and Luzhkov from entering Ukrainian territory, (Continued on page 14) in Vilnius in October 2007. In April of elsewhere in Europe anticipate sharp this year Granherne, a subsidiary of KBR growth in demand for jet fuel and diesel (formerly Kellogg Brown & Root), fuel, along with a sharp decline in demand launched a feasibility study for extending for heavy fuel oil in post-Soviet countries. 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EAOTC will have to compete with Russia The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com; e-mail: [email protected] Restoring the existing pipeline’s south- for access to Kazakh oil. north “forward” use, as opposed to the Under decisions taken at the Kyiv sum- The Ukrainian Weekly, June 1, 2008 No. 22, Vol. LXXVI current “reverse” use, is one of the first mit, a joint working group is to submit Copyright © 2008 The Ukrainian Weekly requirements for the project. The Russian detailed economic and technical proposals company TNK-BP is the main reverse- by July on aspects of the EAOTC project. user. 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No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 3 NEWS ANALYSIS: U.S. company banished from Ukrainian oil and gas field by Pavel Korduban Islands and legally belonged to four Speaking in Kyiv on May 15, he power in 2005. Ms. Tymoshenko has Eurasia Daily Monitor young Ukrainian students, according to revealed that Vanco Energy had three accused him of involvement in several Ms. Tymoshenko. She also said that partners in Vanco Prykerchenska: the non-transparent privatization deals before The Ukrainian government has Vanco Prykerchenska was in talks to sell Donetsk Fuel and Energy Co. (DTEK); and after 2005. Mr. Akhmetov denied the revoked the license to develop Black Sea its rights to develop the Black Sea field, Shadowlight Investments Ltd, linked to accusations, and implied that Ms. oil and gas fields that was issued to and that Russia’s Gazprom could be the Russian businessman Yevgeny Novitsky; Tymoshenko was biased against him. Vanco Prykerchenska, a subsidiary of the buyer. This, according to Ms. and Integrum Technologies (Austria), Prime Minister Tymoshenko com- U.S. company Vanco Energy. Tymoshenko, is a threat to Ukraine’s whose owners he did not name. Mr. plained that the Yushchenko team put Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said energy security. Mitchell said that JNR Eastern pressure on her at a meeting of the that the agreements concluded with Ms. Tymoshenko is also unhappy Investment, which represented the inter- National Security and Defense Council Vanco in 2007 were not transparent, and about the conditions of the PSA with ests of the Rothschild family and was ini- on May 16, demanding that she return she accused President Viktor Yushchenko Vanco, according to which Ukraine is tially Vanco’s partner in the the license to Vanco Prykerchenska. She of lobbying for Vanco’s interests. Mr. entitled to 35 percent of the hydrocar- Prykerchenska project, had withdrawn said she would not obey the council. Yushchenko flatly denied the accusation bons extracted in the Black Sea at the from it before the PSA was concluded. Commentator Volodymyr Fesenko of and called on Ms. Tymoshenko to review first stage of the project. Ms. Many Ukrainian observers have sug- the Kyiv-based Penta think-tank opined her decision on Vanco. Tymoshenko demands 65 percent. If gested that it was the participation of in a conversation with Kommersant Meanwhile, Vanco has threatened to Vanco did not agree, the best fields in the DTEK in Vanco Prykerchenska that Ukraine that Ms. Tymoshenko would not sue the Ukrainian government. Black Sea should be taken from it and prompted Ms. Tymoshenko to revoke the restore Vanco’s license because this was Vanco Energy, which is based in passed to the Naftohaz Ukrainy national license. DTEK CEO Maksym an issue between her and Mr. Houston, used to extract hydrocarbons in oil and gas company, she said. Tymchenko said that DTEK was invited Yushchenko. the United States and the North Sea. In Ms. Tymoshenko also accused Mr. to join the project in 2006. DTEK is the mid-1990s it moved to West Africa. Yushchenko of lobbying in Vanco’s linked to the System Capital Sources: Ukrainska Pravda, ITAR- In 2005 Vanco won a tender against such favor. “Everything that happened was on Management company of billionaire TASS, May 12; Channel 5, May 14; strong rivals as Shell and Exxon Mobil to the president’s orders and against Rinat Akhmetov, who is one of the lead- Zerkalo Nedeli, May 17; Kommersant prospect for oil and gas in the Black Ukrainian national interests,” she said. ers of the opposition Party of the Ukraine, May 16, 19. Sea’s Prykerchenska area, where the “A corrupt scheme was launched with Regions. The article above is reprinted from deposits are estimated to contain hydro- Viktor Yushchenko’s permission,” she Mr. Akhmetov opposed the Orange Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission carbons worth some $200 billion. A prod- added. Mr. Yushchenko flatly denied this, Revolution, which brought Mr. from its publisher, the Jamestown uct-sharing agreement (PSA) was signed saying that the legal assessment of com- Yushchenko and Ms. Tymoshenko to Foundation, www.jamestown.org. with the Ukrainian government in mercial deals was the prerogative of the October 2007. The government of then law enforcement agencies, rather than of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych the prime minister. issued a license to Vanco Prykerchenska, On May 14 President Yushchenko Statement by U.S. ambassador rather than Vanco Energy, which won the called on the Cabinet to review its deci- 2005 tender. sion on Vanco. Mr. Yushchenko’s aide Following is the text of a statement ly in those sectors vital to its energy The government used this circum- Andrii Honcharuk said that Prime by the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, security, it needs to make clear that it stance as a formal reason to revoke the Minister Tymoshenko should launch Willliam B. Taylor, concerning the respects the sanctity of contracts and Vanco case. It was released on May 21 license. Environment Minister Heorhii talks with Vanco in order to restore inter- the rule of law. by the Embassy of the United States in Filipchuk told Zerkalo Nedeli that the national trust in Ukraine’s investment cli- We continue to believe a direct dis- Kyiv. tender conditions did not allow Vanco to mate. cussion between the two parties could pass its right to develop the deposits to Vanco Energy Senior Vice-President remove misunderstandings that lie at Vanco Prykerchenska, which did not Jeffrey Mitchell said that an international I am very disappointed that the the heart of this controversy. This has exist in 2005 when Vanco won the tender. arbitration procedure would be launched Cabinet of Ministers today took unilat- not happened to date, despite a clear eral action to revoke the Production promise to do so. We urge the govern- Prime Minister Tymoshenko told a against the Ukrainian government at the Sharing Agreement the government of ment to reconsider its decision and press conference in Kyiv on May 12 that Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Ukraine negotiated with the U.S. com- return to a policy of dialogue, so this the ownership structure of Vanco Chamber of Commerce, if no agreement pany Vanco. For the government of project, important to Ukraine’s energy Prykerchenska was not transparent. It with Ms. Tymoshenko was reached with- Ukraine to attract investors, particular- security, can get back on track. was registered in the British Virgin in 60 days.

Countries share responsibility to protect children Ani Lorak second at Eurovision KYIV – Ani Lorak, a pop singer from from trafficking and exploitation, says OSCE official Ukraine, came in second at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. She also won Organization for Security geted resources to be able to respond to the Press Award of the Eurovision Song and Cooperation in Europe the growing number of children exploited Contest. Dima Bilan of Russia was the sexually, for organized begging and for VIENNA – The need to provide local top winner at Eurovision, earning 272 committing petty crimes,” said Eva authorities with the tools and resources to points, while Ani Lorak earned 230 Biaudet, the OSCE special representative strengthen child protection services, and points. and coordinator for combating trafficking Charlotte Perrelli of Sweden and Ani for countries of origin and destination to in human beings. Lorak were considered to be the share this responsibility, is the focus of a During the meeting, representatives of favorites at this year’s song contest, two-day conference that opened in local authorities and NGOs are to discuss according to the results of a BBC poll of Vienna on May 26. the challenges posed by children being The eighth conference of the Alliance exploited in the streets, subjected to fans from 43 countries. Against Trafficking in Persons centering criminal acts or forced to commit crimes. On the BBC’s request, 43 viewers, on “Child Trafficking: Responses and “In all situations, we have to act in the one from each Eurovision member coun- Challenges at Local Level,” brings best interests of the child,” said Ms. try, watched clips of all the songs pre- together representatives of local and Biaudet. “We need to speak the language sented this year and chose their top 10 national authorities, as well as interna- of these vulnerable children, understand favorites. Ms. Perrelli, with her song tional and non-governmental organiza- their priorities and offer them alternatives “Hero,” was the leader in the poll. She tions. They will discuss how to prevent corresponding with their needs.” was followed by Ani Lorak, with the child trafficking, and identify and protect Grete Laska, deputy mayor and execu- song “Shady Lady” written by Philipp www.anilorak.com victims. tive city councilor for youth for the city of Kirkorov. Ani Lorak holds the Ukrainian flag “Passive acceptance and silence about Vienna, described her city’s way of han- Ani Lorak performed her song on and the Press Award of the Eurovision human trafficking cannot be tolerated as dling the problem. “In order to guarantee May 22 in the second semifinal together Song Contest as she arrives at Kyiv’s several elements of human rights viola- the best possible care and help for the chil- with participants from 19 countries (the Boryspil International Airport from tions are embedded in the phenomenon,” dren in their countries of origin, the city of first part of the semifinal took place in Belgrade. said Astrid Thors, Finland’s minister of Vienna places great emphasis on know- Belgrade on May 20). She earned a place migration and European affairs, in the how transfer,” she said. “Social workers in the final, which took place on May 24. Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade.” opening address. from Vienna hold training courses for the Ani Lorak was born Karolina Kuiek in He added, “Your sweet voice, unique Combating trafficking, which affects staff in countries of origin, and we support Kitsman, Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine, charm and masterly performance fasci- all 56 participating states of the the construction of crisis centers.” in 1978. Her stage name is her given nated the viewers from many European Organization for Security and Ms. Biaudet added: “It is the moral name spelled backwards. countries. Let your talent continue giving Cooperation in Europe, is one of the pri- responsibility and legal obligation of President Viktor Yushchenko congrat- pleasure to the admirers of modern orities of the 2008 Finnish OSCE every OSCE participating state to active- ulated Ukraine’s representative at music and help strengthen the interna- Chairmanship. ly seek to identify and protect every vul- Eurovision, writing in a message to Ani tional image of our motherland.” “The solution to the alarming problem nerable and exploited child, without dis- Lorak, “Please accept warm congratula- of child trafficking is national and local crimination and regardless of their immi- tions and sincere gratitude for Ukraine’s Sources: Ukrinform, www.anilorak.com, ownership – local authorities need bud- gration status.” deserved presentation at the Eurovision Wikipedia. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 No. 22 Governor’s panel on immigration schedules third public hearing PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The New Jersey Governor’s Liberty & Prosperity, who called Gov. Corzine “a facili- grants for its third public hearing. Testimony should be Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Immigrant Policies will tator of the invasion” of the United States by illegal sent to Clarisa Rodriguez by calling 609-826-5081 or e- hold its third public hearing on Wednesday, June 11, at immigrants. Mr. Lukens cited an estimate that New mailing [email protected]. 6-10 p.m. at New Jersey City University, Margaret Jersey is home to more than 900,000 illegal immigrants. Witnesses must register to speak at the hearing. Those Williams Theater, 2039 Kennedy Blvd., Jersey City, NJ The Governor’s Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on needing language interpreter services or an assisted-lis- 07305. Immigrant Policies has convened four committees to tening device should call or e-mail no later than June 4. The panel’s directive is to prepare recommendations study the problems and contributions of the state’s The time limit for each speaker is three minutes. on how to integrate and serve the immigrant communi- immigrant communities; these committees are presently Ms. Huk advised that there will be Ukrainian transla- ties of New Jersey. While it is not empowered to deal working on recommendations. tors at the panel hearing, but witnesses are asked to sub- with federal issues, it is concerned with providing pro- Camilla Huk, a Ukrainian American on the panel, has mit their testimony prior to the hearing. If they bring it tection under the law to all immigrants, finding ways of been working with the Ukrainian and Polish communi- providing health care and education opportunities and ties in ensuring that the voices of these communities are to the hearing itself, they will need to bring 38 copies, protection of workers in the state. heard and the needs of its immigrants are addressed. which will then be distributed to the panel members. The 27-member panel was established on August 6, “Children of immigrants, who were born here or Individuals will also have an opportunity to register 2007, by executive order of Gov. Jon Corzine. It has came here, irrespective of their parents’ present status, to give testimony before and during the first 15 minutes already held two open hearings, soliciting testimony and should have the right to complete their education in the of the public hearing and may submit written testimony input from the community at large. same way that all children in the state may. If they have to the panel at any time. The first hearing was on December 10, 2007, in New successfully completed their high school studies, they Written testimonies can be e-mailed to the above Brunswick, and the second was in Bridgeton on March should be allowed to pursue college degrees, with address or sent via fax to 609-984-4747, or mail to 11. More than 200 people attended the first hearing and instate tuition payments. Now these children are really Department of the Public Advocate, Attn. Clarisa 50 provided testimony. In addition, more than 20 others innocent because they were minors when their parents Romero-Cruz, P.O. Box 851, Trenton, NJ 08625-0851. submitted written testimony. came to the United States, are often not allowed to go to “It is important that Ukrainians go on record and be Sean C. McMullen of the Bridgeton News reported college at all because they are considered ‘undocument- included in the report,” Ms. Huk stressed. “This is our the following about the second hearing: “Immigrants ed’ or if they do enroll in classes, they must pay out-of- future, for it affects the future of our immigrants.” from as far away as Camden explained their plights to state tuition fees, which are much higher than those for the panel, pleading for policy changes they feel will in-state residents,” Ms. Huk stated. improve their quality of life. Some testified about the “In the state of New Jersey, many of our citizens rely hardships illegal immigrants face as a result of their on the help and support of caregivers, who devote their inability to obtain driver’s licenses, to access health care full attention to their patients. Many of these caregivers New Jersey collects and to go onto college after graduating high school. perform duties that would otherwise be too expensive Others complained that federal law-enforcement raids for American citizens to afford. Their work allows fami- targeting illegal immigrants are tearing families apart.” lies to survive in these dire financial times. Yet, these immigrants’ stories Mr. McMullen quoted Yesica Guzman as saying: “We caregivers often have no protection under the law, as to PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The New Jersey Governor’s are here to demand immediately to stop the raids. We compensation, health care, and are often denied work- Ethnic Advisory Council has initiated a project called are also asking to stop the abuse and invasion of church- men’s compensation in case of injury on the job,” she “Coming to America: Personal Stories of Immigration es and homes. ... Since the raids began we have lost the related. to New Jersey.” peace in which we live.” “In some communities, a disproportionate statistically Camilla Huk, who serves on the council (as well as The Bridgeton News reported that the immigrants at significant number of undocumented Eastern Europeans Governor’s Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Immigrant the hearing were joined by immigrant-rights activists are often directed to deportation centers even if they are Policies), explained that the Ethnic Advisory Council and attorneys, as well as area residents who pleaded for simply found in the presence of anyone who may have wants to collect immigrants’ personal stories in order to greater acceptance of immigrants. As well, there were committed a simple traffic offense,” Ms. Huk noted. include them in future educational projects, including speakers who argued that illegal immigration must be “This must change. Everyone should have due process Holocaust studies and ethnic histories. stopped. under the law.” According to a project outline, the goal of “Coming Mr. McMullen quoted Charlie Lukens, a member of The panel is requesting witness testimony of immi- to America” is to highlight the diversity of the state of New Jersey through the lens of personal experience. Its objectives are to: The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: April • capture the advantages and experience available through the Governor’s Ethnic Advisory Council to Amount Name City Walter Myskiw Mahopac, N.Y. reach into New Jersey’s diverse communities and share $200.00 Anonymous Adolph Slovik McAdoo, Pa. and celebrate the vantage point of diverse groups and $100.00 Roman Hirniak Perkasie, Pa. $10.00 Andrij Buhel Mississauga, Ont. people; Murray Senkus Winston-Salem, N.C. Ihor and Alla Cherney Oradell, N.J. • produce a written document that can remain as a $55.00 Bachynska Maria Nutley, N.J. 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UNA Auditing Committee reports on Ukrainian National Foundation PARSIPPANY, N.J. – UNA Auditing and disbursed in accordance with estab- Committee Chairman Slavko Tysiak lished expectations. announced the results of a recently com- The UNF is organized exclusively for pleted audit of donor funds contributed to charitable, religious, educational and sci- the Ukrainian National Foundation entific purposes. Donor funds are collect- (UNF), whose proceeds are spent on a ed and deposited with the UNF in special variety of activities and institutions. accounts, later to be distributed consis- The UNF distributed approximately tent with donor intentions for either $350,000 in donor funds during the calen- restricted or unrestricted purposes. The dar year ending December 31, 2007. The UNF is governed by a board of directors audit – conducted by Mr. Tysiak and fel- that is separate from the Ukrainian low Auditing Committee members Vasyl National Association’s Executive Luchkiw and Wasyl Szeremeta – identi- Committee, but certain individuals occu- fied five recommendations for UNF board py similar positions in both the UNA and members and management to improve the UNF. accounting and documentation practices. Mr. Tysiak said an important priority The audit found that donor funds are of the Auditing Committee is to help the properly accounted for, that management UNA Executive Committee manage the oversight is appropriate, and that controls UNA’s core insurance operations effec- are adequate but formal agreements tively and to provide accountability and UNA Auditing Committee members (from left): Vasyl Luchkiw, Wasyl Szeremeta should be adopted between the parties transparency for funds spent to support and Slavko Tysiak. involved in the collection, investment, member benefits and community out- distribution and accounting of donor reach initiatives that foster the Ukrainian funds. The purpose of such an agreement spirit. The audit’s results and recommen- the UNF’s board of directors in effective- ary community activities. is to assure the UNF, and thus the UNA, dations, he explained, are resources for ly managing their business affairs and in Mr. Tysiak noted that the UNF board that all donor funds are handled properly the UNA’s Executive Committee and for meeting the expectations of UNA’s mem- of directors generally agreed with the bership, regulators and the donors whose audit’s findings and has already begun to contributions support numerous benefici- implement recommended improvements.

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NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Politics, Ukrainian-style Say good night to Putin – the bad guy “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” Those may be the lyrics to a song by by Roman Kupchinsky back afterward.” The Who about a mythical revolution whose leader becomes just like the one from the “Do you understand, George (Bush), “You don’t have the guts to be what that Ukraine is not even a state!” (At previous regime, but in Kyiv, those words apply literally. The new mayor is the old you wanna be. You need people like me mayor, Leonid Chernovetskyi. NATO summit in Bucharest in April). so you can … say, “That the bad guy.” “There is no such thing as a former In the byzantine world of Ukrainian politics, Mr. Chernovetskyi, who had been So...what that make you? Good? You’re accused of corruption, was, in effect, ousted from office when the Verkhovna Rada KGB man.” not good. You just know how to hide – “They [the Organization for Security voted to hold pre-term elections of Kyiv’s mayor and City Council. The move was how to lie. Me, I don’t have that problem. largely a power play by Yulia Tymoshenko, whose bloc enjoys considerable populari- and Cooperation in Europe] should teach Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I their wives to make cabbage soup.” ty in the Ukrainian capital. The mayor then ran for re-election; he was one of 70 can- lie. So say good night to the bad guy!” didates for that office. And he won by winning 37.72 percent of the votes. The grimy Russian street identifies One of the reasons for Mr. Chernovetskyi’s victory is that, when you have a yard- – from the film “Scarface” with this no-nonsense KGB macho atti- long list of candidates on the ballot, the vote is splintered. In addition, voter turnout tude. Mr. Putin’s “envy” of former Israeli was only 53.39 percent – a lower than expected number that most analysts attributed Does the world need people like President Moshe Katsav’s sexual to voter fatigue and/or disenchantment. There are also allegations that Mr. Vladimir Putin? prowess, demonstrated by his alleged Chernovetskyi managed to buy votes and used “administrative resources” and various Some do, many don’t. The tough talk- rape of 10 women, is always good for a “political technologies” to secure his victory. Plus, the democratic forces could not, or ing, often abrasive Russian fuehrer who laugh among comrades sharing a few would not, join forces to field one strong candidate. Instead, they had two strong can- has captured the imagination of his coun- bottles of cheap vodka in a dark Moscow didates who came in second and third. Oleksander Turchynov (Tymoshenko Bloc) trymen, is not an easy personality to deal underpass. and Vitalii Klitschko (Klitschko Bloc) got 19.13 and 17.97 percent, respectively, of with. Sexism is no more prevalent in Russia the vote, followed by numerous lesser candidates – several of whom also came from With popularity ratings that make than in the West – but indifference to cru- democratic political groupings. The situation was similar on the City Council end of Western leaders blush with envy, elty and suffering is. A popular Russian the elections. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has man- joke illustrates this traditional attitude: So, will anything change in Kyiv? Not likely. The Kyiv Post quite rightly asked: aged to inspire some, alienate others and “What is sexual foreplay in Russia? The “What did the elections accomplish?” Its answer: “Hopefully, lawmakers will think confound the rest. answer – a punch in the face.” twice before calling snap elections again.” (The newspaper added, “if suspicions of Human rights groups point to his nasty Countless generations of Russians corruption resurface, let’s go to the courts instead of the polls.”) habit of setting stormtroopers on the have led “lives of quiet desperation” as As Ihor Zhdanov, an independent political analyst told the Ukrainian Service of political opposition, media monitors Henry Thoreau once wrote, and it is no Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, pro-Orange forces could have won the vote had deplore the disappearance of a free press wonder, therefore, that the recent photo they put differences aside and fielded a single candidate. “The results of these elec- in Russia, and Western oil companies of a vigorous President Putin, crossing a tions simply confirmed Mr. Chernovetskyi’s mayoralty. … had the democratic camp cringe when Mr. Putin’s environmental Siberian river bare-chested, without an had a single candidate, if people had been able to overcome their ambitions, then they hound dogs begin baying. ounce of spare fat on his tummy, and would have had a victory and the mayor of Kyiv would be a representative of the Mr. Putin emerged from obscurity out with the look of a warrior’s determina- democratic forces.” The analyst added: “This is the No. 1 conclusion of these elec- of the vast, inhospitable depths of tion on his face is an inspiration for the tions: that politicians need to curb their ambitions, learn to agree and understand their Russia. He practiced judo and spent a wretched Ivan Ivanoviches, the John responsibility to the voters.” number of years spying on the West from Does, of Russia. “Vot Vam muzhik! Another question is, to cite the title of The Who song quoted at the top of this edito- a small town in Germany – not Bonn, Blya…” (“That’s a man for you! Blya rial, have the people of Ukraine finally decided they “Won’t Get Fooled Again”? John LeCarre’s original “small town,” expletive.”) but dreary Dresden. The Russians have finally been sent an Silently he moved into the Kremlin Orthodox savior, a crusader, who will and, as one Russian magazine noted at protect Russia from Western imperialism the time, he became not only the by shutting down the British Council so June President, but “The Resident of All of as to keep the British “shpiony” (spies) Turning the pages back... Russia” – “resident” meaning the station far from the “rodina” – the homeland. chief, the head of the espionage network The logic is ironclad. in a country. Long live the bad guy! 1 Only Mr. Putin has managed to evoke Today he is a cult hero. Mr. Putin is Five years ago, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of optimism among Russia’s habitually America’s (UCCA) Washington bureau, the Ukrainian National the Russian bad guy, Stenka Razin and 2003 “Scarface” rolled into one, who delights despondent; his message that their coun- Information Service (UNIS), responded to the Broadcasting try is changing for the better is both a Board of Governors (BBG) recommendation to reduce funds to in telling the hapless West in no uncer- tain terms to shove it. Moreover, he does solace and a shell game. Nobody in his the Ukrainian services of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio or her right mind could imagine Boris Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). this bluntly, more harshly than any Soviet leader dared to during the Cold Yeltsin or Leonid Brezhnev pulling off The announcement by BBG Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson in February 2003 stated “the such a stunt. budget [reduction] means an end to most Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio War. The shoe-thumping Nikita Khrushchev and his successors made ter- It would not be surprising if the fabled Liberty broadcasting to the democracies of Eastern Europe where free speech is practiced photo of the bare-chested Putin soon and where the process of joining the NATO alliance is under way.” rible mistakes because of their dogmatic belief in history, and the same fate might becomes the best selling cult poster in The Ukrainian service of VOA would be reduced from two hours of daily programming Russia surpassing other well-known bad well await Mr. Putin and his successors. to just one, as well there would be a reduction of operational costs associated with the guys – Che Guevara in his beret or Darth Thousands of young Russian people, RFE/RL Ukrainian service. However, areas of increased broadcasting, would be redirected Vader. many of whom might be naïve, but who to areas of the Middle East and Southeast Asia to combat international terrorism. The legend of the bad guy fighting the certainly are patriotic, adore the Putin A letter, dated March 12, 2003, and penned by the UCCA to Mr. Tomlinson, stated, “The system, revered in Western pop culture, image and have joined Red Guard-like importance of Voice of America’s and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s role as a provider lost its appeal in Russia soon after Stenka organizations to praise their tough guy of objective information to the public is even greater in the context of next year’s presiden- Razin was quartered alive in Red Square leader. Some refer to them as the “Putin- tial elections in Ukraine.” in 1671. Almost 250 years later the era of Jugend.” “Thus, at this critical juncture in U.S.-Ukraine relations, a reduction of the Voice of the proletariat criminal elite began and All that is lacking is a little Red Book America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Ukraine services is ill-advised and signifies lasted until the Communist Party of the filled with Mr. Putin’s sayings for them a lack of interest in sustained democratic development in Ukraine,” the letter continued. Soviet Union, “the locomotive of histo- Michael Sawkiw Jr., president of the UCCA, provided testimony before the U.S. House to wave during their rallies. ry,” ran out of steam in 1991. Soon after- of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary of the Go ahead, read a few quotes from the wards Vladimir Putin appeared on the Appropriations Committee on April 11, 2003, regarding the issue. “Reducing funding to the Great Chekist (spy) Vladimir Vladimir- scene. Ukrainian service of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty would ovich, have a chuckle. Mr. Putin, Russia’s foremost illusion- reduce airtime and affect coverage of important issues in Ukraine,” he said. “In combina- “We’ll follow terrorists everywhere. ist, boldly challenged the corrupt system, tion with the current conditions in the Ukrainian media, such changes would deplete the Should we catch them in a toilet, we’ll which, he claimed, the West had encour- influx of objective and diverse information to the Ukrainian public.” waste them even there in the s—-house.” aged his predecessor Boris Yeltsin to set The Washington-based Central and East European Coalition (CEEC), of which the “You must obey the law, always, not up. In its place Mr. Putin constructed his UCCA is a member, disputed the BBG’s assumption that all the countries of Central and only when they grab you by your special own highly corrupt system, called it Eastern Europe were on their way to becoming NATO members, whereby many aspirant place.” “transparent” in order to placate Western countries to NATO rely on American support for increased citizen awareness of NATO “He raped 10 women. I never expect- sensitivities and brutally silenced anyone goals and responsibilities. ed it from him. He surprised all of us. We who suspected that he was lying. In a letter to Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, envy him.” Mr. Putin began his career as the “bad the CEEC stated: “While the Ukrainian American community understands that U.S. home- “If you want to become an Islamic guy” by challenging the established oli- land security and strategic interest in the Middle East as well as Southeast Asia have radical and have yourself circumcised, I garchs like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the acquired new significance and importance, the Ukrainian National Information Service invite you to come to Moscow. I would owner of Yukos Oil Co., who saw believes that reductions in strategically important factors for democratic development is recommend that he who does the surgery through his “transparent” schemes. Ukraine may result in negative repercussions and not only slow the progress of Ukraine’s does it so you’ll have nothing growing Poor stubborn Khodorkovsky was reforms, but compromise the achievements of previously implemented programs.” unwilling to repent and see the errors of Roman Kupchinsky is a partner at his ways and was sentenced to cruel and Source: “Re: U.S. broadcasts to Ukraine,” by Serhiy Zhykharev, Ukrainian National AZEast Group and can be contacted at Information Service, The Ukrainian Weekly, June 1, 2003. [email protected]. (Continued on page 22) No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 7

Faces and Places by Myron B. Kuropas by Andrew Sorokowski Kyiv (and Washington) vs. Moscow Where will it end? In a recent essay titled “The Anti- Orthodox spirit” reflect an attitude com- As I watched President George W. tory texts emphasize negatives such as Orthodox Spirit of ‘Conscious’ mon among representatives of the Moscow Bush lay a wreath at the Tomb of the slavery, atrocities against Native Nationalism,” Dr. Dmytro Tabachnyk, who Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Unknowns on Memorial Day, I was Americans, Japanese American intern- served Viktor Yanukovych as vice prime Church, which remains dominant in deeply moved. Our nation has many ment camps, McCarthyism, etc. Howard minister for humanitarian affairs, accuses Ukraine through the subsidiary Ukrainian symbols and monuments to sacrifice and Zinn’s “The People’s History of the the Tymoshenko government of seeking to Orthodox Church (UOC-MP). In fact, that patriotism that remind us of the greatness United States” is the standard text. The establish a totalitarian nationalist regime Church is strongest in Ukraine’s South and of our people. Will they endure? Does Rosenberg executions are described as an (www.ua-pravda.com, April 27). East – precisely the power base of the Party heroism still exist? Do symbols matter? example of “what lay at the end of the Fundamental to his argument are two prin- of the Regions. While only about half the The short answer is: Yes. New York line for those the government decided are ciples: that ideological nationalism is population there even believes in God, firefighters and police during 9/11 were traitors.” Mao’s China is depicted as “a inconsistent with Christianity (true), and many combine Orthodox Christianity with heroes. So is our military serving in people’s government, independent of that Orthodoxy is inseparable from pro-Communist, pro-Russian, anti- Afghanistan and Iraq. They remain sym- outside control.” Jonas Salk, Alexander American and anti-NATO sympathies. The Russian-Ukrainian unity (false). Dr. bols of American greatness. Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers and Tabachnyk compares Ukraine’s pro-NATO Moscow Patriarchate, in turn, has support- Unfortunately, we have long forgotten numerous great Americans aren’t even policy with Nazi aggression: ed the Party of the Regions. Thus, in the 9/11 and our fighting men and women mentioned. “It is typical that the ‘Orange’ ‘Euro- 2004 elections, Patriarch Aleksii II met are portrayed by the leftist media as “vic- Multiculturalism is the norm in our Atlantic integrators’ are repeating the poli- with candidate Yanukovych, who was tims” of a failed presidency. “Bush lied, cy of Rosenberg, Koch and Himmler with a openly supported by a number of UOC-MP people died.” schools. All cultures are equal. No cul- maniacal precision even in the details. bishops and clergy. UOC-MP faithful have At the same time, we have a presiden- ture is superior. Down with American Their tasks are practically identical: for our repeatedly demonstrated against Ukraine’s tial candidate, a member of our privi- exceptionalism. Children learn about the Atlanticians it is necessary at any price to accession to NATO. leged elite, who won’t wear an American “cultures” of America’s victims – drag the country into NATO, where Is this simply a matter of the Moscow flag pin in his lapel. It’s only a symbol, Hispanics, blacks, women. Forget “e Ukrainians will play the role of cannon Patriarchate fomenting anti-NATO activity his supporters tell me. Wearing a lapel pluribus unum.” The emphasis is on what fodder for the builders of the next empire in Ukraine at the Kremlin’s behest? Quite flag actually degrades the United States. divides us, not what unites us. Studying after the Reich, with pretensions to global possibly. But there seems to be a genuine It screams “triumphalism,” the idea that victims allows us to preserve our self- rule, while the Ukrainian land will become spiritual and cultural concern as well. our nation is somehow exceptional. esteem, a major goal of progressive a staging area against Orthodox Russia.” Russian Orthodox hierarchs have decried Other patriotic symbols are fading as American education. Pampered and lied This kind of rhetoric has a long and the secularization of Europe and have even well. Many schoolchildren are no longer to, many people remain adolescents into undistinguished history. Comparing your called for cooperation with Roman required to know or to recite the Pledge their 20s and 30s. In her book “The political adversaries to the Nazis is a cheap Catholics in the re-evangelization of that of Allegiance. As one New York City Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s trick – the common currency of far-left and continent. As analyst Paul Goble has point- District 3 school board member put it, Arrested Development Is Bringing Down far-right Russian legislators (sometimes it’s ed out, the accession to the European “Requiring students to blindly repeat the Western Civilization,” (2007) Diana hard to tell the difference) and delusional Union of traditionally Orthodox Bulgaria pledge is no different than the Taliban West notes that it is the “passive status of linguists from MIT. Dr. Tabachnyk applies and Romania may signal a growing requiring children to memorize the the vulnerable victim, not the aggressive a stock phrase from the Soviet political lex- Orthodox role in Europe, challenging the Koran and repeat it by rote without acts of the valorous hero, that allows the icon, “platsdarm” (staging area) to Ukraine. hegemony of a Western liberalism that has knowing why or what they are saying.” non-adult, non-warrior to stand tall... In In the Soviet-era Dictionary of the kept Christian Churches out of social and Question: How can the children ever short, the adolescent culture celebrates Ukrainian Language (Volume 6, 1975), its political life. Here the Moscow Patriarchate know the meaning of the pledge if they the victim because the hero is too tall.” secondary definition as “a territory or coun- sees itself as the natural leader of a don’t read or recite it? Looking down and feeling empathy is renewed European Orthodoxy. try that a state uses to prepare an attack When was the last time you heard easier than looking up and feeling proud. But is America responsible for the secu- upon another state” is accompanied by a children sing patriotic songs such as While America’s revisionist historians literary example from Oles Honchar, where larization of Europe? Even if one could “America the Beautiful,” and “My blame Western decadence on the American are writing about “America the Bad,” a speaker declares that “the imperialists... Country ’Tis of Thee”? “God Bless Russia’s revisionist historians are writing would like to transform Ukraine into a media, corporations and popular culture, America” is rarely heard since the death about “Russia the Great.” Exceptionalism staging area for a struggle against Soviet one could hardly indict Yulia of Kate Smith. Few children (and fewer is the norm, writes Edward Lucas in “The Russia.” Tymoshenko’s “Orange Euro-Atlantic inte- adults) can sing our national anthem. New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Russian fear of foreign armies using grators” as accomplices in an assault on It is no secret that American schools Ukraine as a staging area has been nour- Orthodox Christianity. If anything, the are dumbing down our kids. Even liber- Threat to the West.” He notes: “Sanitizing ished by a series of historical experiences, Orange Revolution represented Christian als now admit that we are a history-chal- Soviet history is one leg of the Kremlin’s including invasions by the Poles in 1604- ethics and morality in the face of a corrupt lenged nation. “The importance of emerging ideology.” The old Soviet 1605, the Swedes in 1708-1709 and the regime steeped in atheist communism. chronology has been downplayed at all anthem has been resurrected. New text- Germans in 1941 – in all cases with And is the Russian Church the natural levels of the educational system for the books laud Russian contributions to Ukrainian support. Furthermore, the flat, leader for Orthodox Europe? Its sub- past 50 years,” writes secularist Susan world culture. Stalin is back. He had to be permeable border between Russia and servience to the state, from Peter I through Jacoby in her book “The Age of tough in order to modernize Russia, we Ukraine is as much a liability for the for- Stalin to Vladimir Putin, hardly makes it a American Unreason,” (2008), “and that are told. His methods were “controver- mer as for the latter. Dr. Tabachnyk evi- role model. Certain hierarchs’ collaboration is largely the work of those who fail to sial,” but he accomplished much. “The dently believes the U.S. is using NATO to with the state security services has discred- understand that students can hardly be new party line is: If Stalin made mistakes, build a new empire, starting with the ited the Russian church – unfairly, to be expected to comprehend why things hap- so what? Lots of people make mistakes.” Middle East. Ukrainians will soon be fight- sure – in the eyes of many believers and pened – the frequently stated mantra of Guilt will not be foisted upon us by the ing America’s wars in Afghanistan, Iraq weakened its role in society. Parallels progressive educators – if they don’t outside world, Putin has declared. Russia and Iran. At the same time, synchronizing between the pronouncements of the know what happened and when.” was not responsible for famine in Ukraine’s defense structure with NATO’s Kremlin and the Patriarchate cast suspicion Americans are also ignorant of our Ukraine. Today, Russian schools are edu- will facilitate an assault on Russia. on the latter’s spiritual integrity and inde- system of government. “Only four in 10 cating a whole new generation of children This ominous theme has even been pendence. adults – but just two in 10 teenagers – proud of their Slavic Russian messianic sounded in the U.S. Late last year, articles If one were to choose a leader for know that there are 100 U.S. senators,” heritage. President Vladmir Putin, a European Orthodoxy, one would want a appeared in our press criticizing the Bush writes Ms. Jacoby. “The vast majority of Russian imperialist, is a hero. sizeable Church with a venerable tradition, administration for threatening Russia, in both adults and teens have no idea when American schools, especially univer- historical experience in engaging with the part through its support of the Orange or by whom the Constitution was written. sities, are fostering an American identity Catholic and Protestant West, and a demon- Revolution in Ukraine. It later emerged that Among teenagers, nearly 98 percent can- predicated on guilt. Western civilization in 2007 Daniel J. Edelman Inc. had been strated ability to respond to the challenge of not name the chief justice of the United modernity. There is an obvious candidate. and “whiteness” are international prob- paid $35,000 a month by Davis Manafort States.” lems. American pride is being chipped International LLC to promote Ukraine’s Unfortunately, it remains split into four Nor do American children have heroes competing factions – none of them both away. Flag lapel pins? Unimportant. The Party of the Regions. Chris Deri, an to look up to. McGuffey Readers were Pledge of Allegiance? Talibanism. “God Edelman employee who worked on this autocephalous and universally recognized. once standard texts in American elemen- Bless America? No, no, no,” shouts an contract, said its work was “almost entirely But in the final analysis, why should a tary schools. Stories about individual influential Black preacher. President focused on U.S. media” (The Wall Street Ukrainian politician be so concerned with heroism, sacrifice and loyalty were read Bush, a democrat committed to liberal Journal, May 14, p. A7). threats, real or imagined, to a foreign coun- every day by millions of children. Today While it is ludicrous that a U.S. preoccu- try – particularly one whose leaders persist school kids read stories by Beverly internationalism, is a pariah. pied with Iraq, Iran and North Korea in questioning the sovereignty, legitimacy Cleary, a highly successful author who Strange times we live in. Where will it should embark on an invasion of Russia, and territorial integrity of his own? believes that children want to read stories end? Dr. Tabachnyk may be thinking metaphori- about themselves, not heroes. The goal is cally. His concerns with “Orthodox Russia” Andrew Sorokowski can be reached at entertainment, not moral example. Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is and with Ukrainian nationalism’s “anti- [email protected]. High school and college American his- [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 No. 22

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Secretary of State George Shultz, to atten- our website, http://depts.wash- was being very careful to single out the Hillary Clinton tion. Sen. Obama is that extraordinary ington.edu/slavweb/ukrainian/. one gypsy who stole his wallet in statesman, a natural aristocrat, who will Portugal, and not to cast aspersions on Eugene E. Lemcio, Ph.D. or Barack Obama not resort to pandering. all Roma. Seattle What a refreshing change. A vote for To the contrary, it seemed to me as if Dear Editor: Sen. Obama is not making a compromise. Dr. Kuropas sought out negative stereo- The letter-writer is co-chair of the Six months ago the Democratic nomina- Voting for the contender who is willing to types about the entire group to spice up Ukrainian Studies Endowment Fund at the tion was nearly in Hillary Clinton’s pocket. make every compromise to win is a terrible his column, with comments such as University of Washington. Then she blew each and every advan- rationalization which, in effect, says: “Gypsies were on the tram. You can tage: being a president’s spouse, many “Let’s not soar too high so as not to risk guess the rest.” and “Ukrainians work years honing a strategy to be the first falling with a loud thud.” where gypsies won’t.” It left a very bad woman president, all the right connections Pragmatic convictions are for the birds. Kuropas account taste in my mouth. I’d rather take the risk. with lots of moneyed supporters. Her was an honest one Larysa Kurylas inability to pull together a superior cam- Irena Kowal Kensington, Md. paign organization demonstrated question- Concord, Mass. Dear Editor: able judgment, and her funds became so depleted that she borrowed from her own I read with mild amusement a silly bank account. example of misguided political correctness 2008 Chornobyl Her supporters are united not by loyalty Holodomor Flame in a letter to the editor (April 27) criticizing but by fear. They aren’t looking for change Myron Kuropas for his honest account of Charity Bazaar an encounter with gypsies on a street car in so much as stability and more money in in Washington State Dear Editor: their pocket. These folks are willing to Lisbon. accept a dynastic mode of four more years Dear Editor: On May 8 of this year, as we exited our On April 24, the 18th annual of Bill and Hillary to make 12, even 16, cruise ship for an independent tour of Chornobyl Charity Bazaar took place at Tamara Olexy’s otherwise fine article on Clinton years in the White House. Lisbon, we were warned not to carry the United Nations headquarters in New Feminists are willing to close their eyes the Holodomor Remembrance Flame in the unnecessary documents, credit cards and York City. cash, and to watch for gypsies on city to the fact that the private, now public, state of Washington (May 11) contained a This longtime tradition, sponsored by trams. We followed this advice and wit- nature of Bill and Hillary’s relationship has significant omission. There was no indica- the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the nessed the action of gypsies on street car been brutally exposed and that Hillary has tion that the Holodomor remembrance at United Nations, was attended by many of No. 15E within five minutes after boarding endured years of humiliation in order to the University of Washington had been the member-nations of the United it. There was a bit of commotion in the compete for the highest position of power jointly sponsored by the Ukrainian Studies Nations and the U.N. community. Since tightly packed tram and, with lightning in the country. Endowment Fund and by the Ukrainian its inception 18 years ago, the charity American Club of Washington. speed, a group of French tourists were bazaar has not only raised tens of thou- Mary Mycio’s comparison of the relieved of their wallets, passports and Orange Revolution in Ukraine to the In fact, it was because of the Endowment sands of dollars to purchase medical Fund’s participation that the site was other valuables. equipment for children’s hospitals in Obama campaign in the United States is An observant Portuguese explained to a secured. This gap in reporting is odd Ukraine, but also reminded the world of like comparing “horokh z kapustoyu” (peas confused French tourist that they had just because both printed programs and public the travesty of the terrible nuclear acci- with cabbage). Barack Obama is an elo- been robbed by gypsies. When asked why quent politician who does not rattle off announcements mentioned the fund and the dent at Chornobyl, bringing awareness of he did not intervene to prevent the robbery its horrible long-term consequences dried up clichés to rouse the rabble. He is a club as hosting the event together. he relayed that he did not want a knife thinker whose speech on the race question For information about what we are affecting the Ukrainian people, which inserted into his stomach. My advice: when will continue for the next 1,000 years. in the United States brought many a distin- trying to achieve at the University of in Lisbon, watch your wallet. guished conservative politician, like former Washington, we invite readers to visit The 2008 Chornobyl Charity Bazaar And, by the way, we did not see any would not have been possible without gypsies running around Libson with Dr. the generosity of many, as well as the Kuropas’ wallet. dedication of volunteers who have Ihor Lysyj worked tirelessly for nearly two decades. Austin, Texas We would like to thank all of those involved but, in particular, we offer a special acknowledgment to: Daria Re: Kuropas letter Genza, Nadia Sawchuk, the Drobenko family (ARKA-Ukrainian Arts), Julian Bachynsky and Andriy Ilnytsky (East about his column Village Meat Market), Yaroslav Dear Editor: Kurowycky (Kurowycky Meat Market), In the recent defense (letters to the all of the Ukrainian credit unions of New editor, May 11) of his March 30 column, York City and Yonkers, N.Y., and Myron Kuropas makes it sound as if he Newark and Clifton, N.J., who generous- ly supported the cause, never refusing our requests for help and members of We welcome your opinion Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Branch 75 (Maplewood, N.J.) – The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters to the editor and commentaries on a vari- Ksenia Rakowsky, Olha Lukiw and Anna ety of topics of concern to the Ukrainian Koziupa. We also extend a very special American and Ukrainian Canadian com- recognition to Kvitka Semanyshyn and munities. Opinions expressed by colum- Dr. Larysa Melnyk Drezda for their long- nists, commentators and letter-writers are term commitment and participation in their own and do not necessarily reflect the the bazaar. opinions of either The Weekly editorial Our most sincere and humble thanks staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian to all. National Association. Letters should be typed and signed Yuriy Sergeyev (anonymous letters are not published). Marta M. Kokolskyj Letters are accepted also via e-mail at United Nations [email protected]. The daytime phone number and address of the letter-writer must be given for verification purposes. Please Dr. Sergeyev is ambassador and per- note that a daytime phone number is essen- manent representative of Ukraine to the tial in order for editors to contact letter-writ- United Nations, and Ms. Kokolskyj is ers regarding clarifications or questions. advisor to the Permanent Mission of Please note: THE LENGTH OF LET- Ukraine and director of the Chornobyl TERS CANNOT EXCEED 500 WORDS. Bazaar.

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A young participant of the ceremonies stands next to (from left) Askold Lozynskyj, president of the Ukrainian World Congress; Yuriy Sergeyev, ambas- sador of Ukraine to the United Nations; Oleh Shamshur, ambassador of Ukraine to the United States; Mykola Kyrychenko, consul general of Ukraine in New Children hold candles in memory of Holodomor victims as members of Ukraine’s York; and activists of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. diplomatic corps and Ukrainian community leaders look on.

Ukrainian community leaders congregate at New York City Hall for the concluding The “Walk Against Genocide” commences from Battery Park. ceremonies of the procession. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 No. 22 “Holodomor: Genocide by Famine” exhibition details horrors of 1932-1933 NEW YORK – The details of a little- known genocide that resulted in the deaths of as many as 10 million people are pre- sented in an exhibition that opened on May 27 at The Ukrainian Museum. The exhibition, “Holodomor: Genocide by Famine,” is one of a series of events taking place around the world to commem- orate the 75th anniversary of what James Mace, the director of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine (1988), referred to as “the crime of the century that nobody’s ever heard of.” The opening of the exhibition at The Ukrainian Museum was the culmination of several commemorative Holodomor events in New York City on May 27, beginning with the arrival of the International Holodomor Torch at Manhattan’s Battery Park (from Liberty Island) followed by a “Walk Against Genocide” from Battery Park to City Hall Park. The Holodomor (literally, murder by starvation), took place in 1932-1933, less than 20 years after Ukraine was forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union. Determined to force all Ukrainian farmers onto collective farms, to crush the burgeon- ing national revival, and to forestall any calls for Ukraine’s independence, the brutal Communist regime of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin embarked on a campaign to starve the Ukrainian people into submis- sion. The Soviet government confiscated all the grain produced by Ukrainian farmers, withheld other foodstuffs, executed anyone Ukrainian Central Government Video-Photo-Audio Archives trying to obtain food, closed the borders 1930: Peasant families, labeled as “kulaks,” are evicted from their home in the Donetsk region. and punished those who attempted to flee. As a result, in the land called “The The exhibition also drew on the archival Breadbasket of Europe,” millions of men, material of numerous other institutions and women and children were starved to death. organizations throughout the world to trace Stalin boasted privately that as many as the events leading up to this tragedy, to doc- 10 million people – 25 percent of ument the extent of the Famine and its Ukraine’s population – had perished during effects on the Ukrainian nation, and to the Holodomor. At least 3 million of the explore how the atrocity of such magnitude victims were children. could have escaped the attention of much of The Soviet regime denied the existence the world. The exhibition also explores to of the Holodomor for decades, denouncing what extent the world was actually aware of any reports as “anti-Soviet propaganda.” It this genocide at the time. was not until the break-up of the Soviet The League of Ukrainian Canadians Union in 1991 and the subsequent re-estab- (LUC) and the League of Ukrainian lishment of an independent Ukraine that Canadian Women (LUCW) sponsored the the contents of many sealed government production of the exhibition in Canada. archives were uncovered, exposing a LUC and LUCW are non-profit organiza- wealth of gruesome information. tions dedicated to the continued develop- Much of that information is included in ment of a thriving Ukrainian community “Holodomor: Genocide by Famine,” which in Canada, to raising awareness of the consists of 100 panels of photographs, doc- history of the Ukrainian people, and to uments, government reports, eyewitness promoting the tenets of democracy and accounts and other archival material detail- respect for human rights. Over the years, ing virtually every aspect of the tragedy. the organizations have actively supported “Holodomor: Genocide by Famine” was a number of human rights projects, produced by the League of Ukrainian including the International Commission Canadians (LUC), with the assistance of the of Inquiry into the 1932-1933 Famine in Museum of Soviet Occupation of the Kyiv Ukraine (1990). Ukrainian Central Government Video-Photo-Audio Archives Memorial Society in Ukraine and with the “Holodomor: Genocide by Famine” will 1929: Peasants hand in their grain to the collective farm, Nymyriv, Vinnytsia region. cooperation of The Ukrainian Museum. be on view through November 30.

The Ukrainian Museum Archives The Ukrainian Museum Archives 1933: As the Famine intensified in the countryside, peasants swarmed railroad 1930: A collective farm’s shipment of grain. The banner on the truck reads: stations, trying to get to cities in search of food “Instead of kulak bread – socialist bread.” No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 11 Talk and reception launch Serhii Plokhii’s latest book by Peter T. Woloschuk ed and used from the 17th century to the present. In the various essays Harvard’s CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A talk and Prof. Plokhii discusses many questions reception marked the launch of Mykhailo fundamental to the formation of modern S. Hrushevskyi Professor of Ukrainian Russian and Ukrainian historical identity. History Serhii Plokhii’s latest book He investigates the critical role of history “Ukraine and Russia: Representations of in the development of modern national the Past,” which was published by the identities and offers historical and cultur- University of Toronto Press at the begin- al insight into the current state of rela- ning of April. The event was held on tions between the two nations. Friday, April 18, at Harvard University’s Prof. Plokhii also shows how history Center for Government and International has been constructed, used and misused Studies and was co-sponsored by in order to justify the existence of imperi- Harvard’s Early Slavists Seminar and the al and modern national projects, and how Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI). those projects have influenced the inter- “Ukraine and Russia: Representations pretation of history in Russia and of the Past,” is a collection of 16 essays Ukraine. Finally, the book looks at the divided into four sections which gives an conflicts and negotiations inherent in overview of the way Ukrainian-Russian opposing historiographic traditions, and historiography was developed, interpret- examines ways of overcoming the limita- Profs. Serhii Plokhii (left) and Michael Flier. tions imposed by those traditions. A key issue examined in the book is years. He added that the collection was major results of his efforts has been to the question of where Russian history particularly useful because it brought aid in the development of a new myth to ends and Ukrainian history begins – a together his major ideas dealing with supplement Hrushevsky’s work on question that many historians feel has not Ukrainian historiography and enabled a Ukrainian history.” yet been satisfactorily answered. serious student of the topic to follow the In commenting on Prof. Plokhii’s book Generations of historians have referred to development of his thought. Prof. Hiroaki Kuromiya of the depart- Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, as the start- Oleksander Potebnja Professor of ment of history at Indiana University ing point of the Muscovite dynasty, the Ukrainian Philology Michael Flier and said, “The work elucidates the entangled Russian state and, ultimately, of the George F. Baker III Professor of Russian historical nexus of the two largest Slavic Russian nation. Studies Terry Martin then each took eight nations. Students of Ukrainian history However, the history of Kyiv and of of the essays and commented on them. will have to read this book, and it will the Scythians of the Northern Black Sea In his discussion Prof. Flier said, “The also appeal to those studying Russian region have also been claimed by appearance of Prof. Plokhii’s latest book history who have hitherto known the his- Ukrainian historians, and are regarded as is important because it gives easy access tory of these two nations through an integral parts of the history of Ukraine. If to a number of specific yet related works exclusively Russian lens.” these are actually the beginnings of and it provides a context for them.” Prof. Nadieszda Kizenko of the Ukrainian history, when does Russian Prof. Martin pointed out that “Prof. department of history of the State history start? Plokhii has written extensively about the University of New York at Albany added, During his talk, Prof. Plokhii pointed historian’s responsibility in using and “This is a collection of thoughtful essays out that eight of the 16 essays were being interpreting a national historical myth that reflect upon and analyze key published for the first time and that all 16 and has himself been scrupulous in doing moments in Ukrainian history and histo- of them had been written over the past 15 so, but, ironically enough, one of the riography.”

Penn State awards recognize excellence in Ukrainian studies UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The other family friends. Ukrainian Studies Program in the depart- The Ukrainian Studies Program also ment of Germanic and Slavic languages announced that Olena Melnychenko of and literatures at the Pennsylvania State the department of computer science University has announced the recipients received the Woskob Family Award for of two awards for excellence in Ukrainian outstanding performance in the Ukrainian Studies for the 2007/2008 academic year. culture class for the spring 2008 semester. Justin Stasiw, a student in the theater The $1,200 award is funded from the department, received the William and Endowment in Ukrainian Studies at Penn Anna Naydan Prize for outstanding State, which was established through the achievement in Ukrainian studies for his generosity of the Alex and Helen Woskob work in the fall 2007 semester “Ukrainian family. Culture and Civilization” course. Both award-winning students were The award, whose purpose is to taught by Olha Tytarenko, a graduate stu- encourage travel to Ukraine by outstand- dent from Lviv, who is completing her ing undergraduate students, is in the master’s degree in comparative literature amount of $1,200. The award was estab- at Penn State and who will continue her lished in memory of Prof. Michael Ph.D. studies in Slavic literature at the Naydan’s parents by Michael, Roxolana University of Toronto in the fall. and Liliana Naydan in the amount of Ms. Tytarenko said she was particular- $20,000. Additional significant contribu- ly impressed by the dedication of both tions have been made to the award fund students in the Ukrainian culture class as by Anna Naydan’s sister, Stephanie well as by the outstanding websites they Yaremko, along with contributions by created as part of their term projects.

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Millennium Park to greet the On the morning of the torch relay International Holodomor Remembrance Wrigley Square was awash with children Flame as it arrived from Salt Lake City, and adults in Ukrainian embroidery and Utah. waiving Ukrainian flags, including one Millennium Park is located directly stretching over 50 feet in length. across the street from the Chicago Students held banners and signs with Cultural Center and is situated on one of facts about the Ukrainian Genocide Chicago’s busiest and most famous throughout the Square and along streets – Michigan Avenue. The wide Michigan Avenue so that pedestrians and open space, towering Grecian columns vehicular traffic could see. Some of the and large reflecting pool of Wrigley banners read: “Holodomor – Genocide Square served as a fitting location to by Forced Starvation,” “Ukrainian hold such a somber public event. Genocide – 75 Years of Silence Is The torch relay at Millennium Park Enough!” and “Holodomor – Ukrainian was coordinated by the Chicago Genocide: 10 Million Murdered.” Committee to Commemorate the The Ukrainian Genocide Famine Ukrainian Genocide-Holodomor 1932- Foundation – USA, with the assistance 1933. The co-chairs of the event were of Laryssa Matusiak, took the opportuni- Lida Tkaczuk, Marika Klymchak and ty to distribute over 500 educational brochures about the Holodomor to pedestrians walking along Millennium Park. Many passers-by stopped to observe the torch relay and to learn more about the Famine-Genocide. At 11 a.m. Ms. Tkaczuk, mistress of ceremonies, officially began the torch relay. The program began with a presen- tation of colors by Ukrainian American Veterans and the singing of the Ukrainian and American national anthems by the St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church Choir under the direc- tion of Taras Rudenko. Bishop Richard Seminak of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy led the crowd in prayer following the singing of the national anthems. Nestor Popowych, chairman of the Chicago Committee to Commemorate the Ukrainian Genocide-Holodomor of 1932-1933, then read an official greeting from Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Mayor Daley noted: “Commemorating Katya Mischenko-Mycyk Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation - USA President Nicholas Mischenko Holodomor survivors Luba Maleshyk the victims of a dark chapter of history, today’s event offers profound lessons lights a memorial candle from the flame of the Torch held by Ukrainian genocide and George Kolomayets hold the torch survivor Kateryna Pietrzyk. during the panakhyda (memorial and empowers people to combat preju- service). dice, hatred and indifference in the world. Chicago shares a close Sister City Illinois State Rep. John Fritchey greet- before handing it off to Consul General relationship with Kyiv, highlighted by a ed the crowd. Rep. Fritchey, along with Vasyl Korzachenko. Natalia Jarowyj. strong history of cultural exchange, and Illinois State Rep. Paul Froehlich and Mr. Korzachenko accepted the eternal Nine buses were chartered by this occasion offers everyone an opportu- Illinois State Sen. Jacqueline Collins, co- flame of the International Holodomor Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal nity to strengthen our bonds of friend- sponsored a genocide education bill, Remembrance Torch and declared: “It is Credit Union to help bring Ukrainian ship and understanding.” which was passed into law two years our hope to keep the flame alive to help School students, parents, clergy and sen- Ukrainian Congress Committee of ago. State law now requires that Illinois iors to Millennium Park. Buses trans- America – Illinois Division President ensure that the story of the Holodomor is public schools not only teach about the passed on from culture to culture, from ported participants from the Ukrainian Paul Bandriwsky read greetings and a Nazi Holocaust, but also the Armenian, American Youth Association’s (UAYA) generation to generation, from the sur- proclamation from Illinois Gov. Rod Ukrainian, Cambodian, Bosnian, Ukrainian School in Palatine, St. Andrew vivors to our youth.” He further stated, Blagojevich, who proclaimed May 10 Rwandan and Sudanese genocides as Ukrainian Orthodox Church and “Let the memory of the 10 million vic- Ukrainian Genocide Remembrance Day part of their genocide curriculum. Ukrainian School in Bloomingdale, St. tims of the Ukrainian Genocide help us, in Illinois in observance of the 75th Rep. Fritchey stated, “The purpose of Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox along with the cooperation of the consci- anniversary of the Ukrainian genocide of the law that we passed is to make sure Cathedral and School, St. Nicholas 1932-1933. entious people of the world, to prevent that every day is Ukrainian Genocide the repeat of such a horrible tragedy Remembrance Day and that our students from ever occurring again in history.” throughout the city of Chicago, through- The consul general then gave the torch out the state of Illinois, and throughout to Holodomor survivor Kateryna this country will never forget what hap- Pietrzyk. Mrs. Pietrzyk was 9 years old pened.” He is committed to expanding when the genocide struck her village in awareness and government recognition the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine. of the Holodomor as genocide not only She lost two uncles and her grandmother in Illinois, but nationwide. and has vivid memories of the horrors Following Rep. Fritchey’s speech, that surrounded 1932-1933. John Jaresko, president of St. Andrew Mrs. Pietrzyk said she remembers her Ukrainian Orthodox Church in belly being bloated from the hunger. She Bloomingdale, delivered the keynote survived by eating grass and dandelion address. The great-grandson of weeds, as there was nothing left in her Holodomor victims, he spoke about how village to eat. Her father was taken away Joseph Stalin used food as a political to Siberia, and her family struggled to weapon to systematically murder over 10 survive as many died around them. She million innocent Ukrainian men, women remembers the corpses lying out on the and children. street because villagers were too weak to Nicholas Kotcherha of the Ukrainian dig graves to bury them. Genocide Famine Foundation – USA While Mrs. Pietrzyk held the torch, then lit the International Holodomor Nicholas Mischenko, president of the Remembrance Flame Torch. He gave the Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation One of the many Ukrainian genocide banners held by students in Millennium torch to Ms. Klymchak and Ms. Jarowyj, Park and along Michigan Avenue. who carried it into Wrigley Square (Continued on page 13) No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 13

Ms. Jarowyj, torch relay co-chair and International Holodomor... member of the Orange Wave, lit her can- (Continued from page 12) dle and declared: “May this – USA initiated the spreading of the Remembrance Flame always serve as a International Holodomor Remembrance reminder of the souls that we have lost. Flame. He raised a candle and declared: They have paid the final toll, but we will “I am lighting this flame to commemo- share their story, we will keep the flame rate the 75th anniversary of the Ukrainian alive in our hearts and pass it on to our genocide perpetrated by Joseph Stalin brothers and sisters in Detroit [the torch and his Communist regime.” relay’s next destination].” Mr. Mischenko along with Consul The Rev. Salkovski of Nativity of General Korzachenko and Mrs. Pietrzyk Benevolent Virgin Mary Ukrainian began to spread the International Catholic Church in Palos Park declared: Holodomor Remembrance Flame to the “We as clergy light this flame and pray hundreds of candles which participants that the truth be known this was a forced, in Wrigley Square held during the relay. fabricated famine. Let food never be use The torch relay co-chair, Ms. food as a weapon against humanity.” The Klymchak, host of the “Ukrainian Wave” Rev. Salkovski concluded the torch relay radio program on 1240 AM, lit a candle by leading the crowd in singing and proclaimed: “I, as a member of the “Vichnaya Pamiat” (Eternal Memory) in media, pass this flame on to all honor of the over 10 million victims. Katya Mischenko-Mycyk media/press in the world, petitioning The next day the International Ukrainian genocide survivor Kateryna Pietrzyk, Ukrainian Genocide Famine them never to be blind or deaf to any Holodomor Remembrance Flame Torch Foundation-USA President Nicholas Mischenko, Illinois State Rep. John Fritchey engineered famine or human torture. Be visited the Chicagoland Ukrainian geno- and National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy President Serhii Kvit. alert, let the world know the truth.” cide monument, located on the grounds Representatives of Ukrainian American of St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox youth groups declared: “We representa- Church. It was built by funds raised with tives of Ukrainian Youth Organizations, the Chicagoland Ukrainian American SUM Ukrainian American Youth community as a permanent memorial to Association, ODUM Association of the Holodomor’s 10 million victims. The American Youth of Ukrainian Descent and monument depicts a starving Ukrainian Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, mother sitting beneath a granite cross accept this flame today with humility and with her emaciated child curled up pride. With it we will honor the victims of across her lap. this horrific tragedy. We will always Following the Sunday liturgy, the remember. We light this flame for the chil- International Holodomor Remembrance dren who comprised one-third of the geno- Flame was lit inside St. Andrew cide victims and in memory of those chil- Ukrainian Orthodox Church and was car- dren left orphaned and homeless.” ried out to the monument by Consul Then, students from St. Volodymyr Gen. Korzachenko and Ms. Tkaczuk. Ukrainian School, St. Andrew Ukrainian A memorial wreath, carried by School, UAYA Palatine Ukrainian Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation School and St. Nicholas School lit their – USA President Mischenko and St. candles as Bohdana Bahrij, an eighth Andrew’s parishioner Olha Diachenko, grader at St. Nicholas Ukrainian followed behind the torch and monument. Cathedral School read a declaration: “In After a short panakhyda (memorial honor of Mother’s Day I light this can- service) sung by the St. Andrew Choir dle. Let this flame reach the hearts of all and Father Bohdan Kalyniuk, Consul mothers, specifically those who starved General Korzachenko gave a moving to death in 1932-1933 during the geno- speech about the impact of the Ukrainian Close-up of Chicagoland’s Ukrainian Genocide Monument. cide, those who suffered and are sur- Genocide on subsequent generations of vivors and those mothers who survived, Ukrainians. Maleshyk and George Kolomayets, who Photos from these Chicago events can but not their children. I pass on this eter- The torch was handed over to carried it to the base of the monument be found at http://www.Ukrainiangeno- nal flame to all those mothers.” Ukrainian genocide survivors Luba where a separate torch was set into the cide.com/Chicago.html, along with fur- ground waiting to be lit from the remem- ther information about the 75th anniver- brance flame. sary commemorations of the Holodomor *** for the Chicagoland area.

Chicago Committee to Commemorate the Ukrainian Genocide-Holdomor 1932- Natalia Jarowyj, Consul General Vasyl Korzachenko and Maria Klimchak escort 1933 member Lida Tkaczuk, Consul General Vasyl Korzachenko and Ukrainian the torch into Wrigley Square. Genocide Famine Foundation - USA President Nicholas Mischenko. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 No. 22 NEWSBRIEFS CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS (Continued from page 2) Energy forum held in Kyiv TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI, (973) 292-9800 x 3040 or e-mail: [email protected] KYIV – The International Energy Forum being held within the framework of the Energy Safety Summit started work in SERVICES TOURS Kyiv on May 22. 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Tadeos Georgian, held a number of events Shevchenko National University in Kyiv publication in France of a book on totali- NEWSBRIEFS to commemorate the Armenians who died on April 15-18 this year. Microsoft’s CEO tarian rule in the USSR. The traveling (Continued from page 14) during the genocide against Armenians in had been on a one-day working visit to exhibition will also visit other cities of thinker, a man who changed the world. 1915 in Turkey. On April 24 a requiem Ukraine as part of a weeklong tour of Ukraine. (Ukrinform) was held in the church’s courtyard with the countries of Central/Eastern Europe. The And we are proud that he studied at the Festival of Crimean Tatar culture Kyiv Polytechnic Institute,” Mykhailo participation of Lviv residents of various corporation and the Ukrainian Cabinet of Zhurovskyi, a member of Ukraine’s nationalities. (Religious Information Ministers signed three memoranda of KYIV – Performers from Ukraine, National Academy of Science and rector of Service of Ukraine) cooperation on May 20. (Ukrinform) Russia, Lithuania, Turkey, Romania, NTU KPI, said at the unveiling ceremony. Pastoral work with Ukraine’s emigrants Ambassador dies in Sweden Poland and Germany participated in the Sikorsky was born in Kyiv. In 1907-1911 first international Crimean Tatar festival, he studied at KPI, where he began to real- LVIV – Pastoral work with Ukrainian KYIV – Ukraine’s ambassador to Bakhchisarai 2008, which concluded in the ize his aircraft construction dreams. In emigrants requires a special pastoral pro- Sweden, Anatolii Ponomarenko, died in Autonomous Republic of Crimea on May 1912 his Sikorsky R-6A received the Great gram. This was the conclusion reached by Stockholm on Tuesday morning, May 20. 25. According to the chair of the Gold Medal at the Moscow Aviation Bishop Hlib Lonchyna, apostolic visitator According to the latest reports, the death Bakhchisarai District State Administration, Exhibition. The construction of Rusky for Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in Italy, was caused by a heart attack. Mr. Ilmi Umerov, the festival was called to Vitiaz and the famous Ilya Muromets in Spain and Ireland, after his stay during Ponomarenko turned 61 on March 4. show Crimean Tatar national arts, tradi- 1913 marked a new stage of Sikorsky’s Passion Week and Easter in Spain. “The (Ukrinform) tions, customs and trades, as well as to activity. In 1918 the designer emigrated to lack of catechetical programs is sharply draw the attention of the world public to France and then to the United States, felt for the faithful, and not only children Exhibit on dissident movement the historic, architectural and archeological where in 1923 he designed the Sikorsky- and youth,” Bishop Lonchyna said. KYIV – About a thousand artifacts are monuments of Bakhchisarai. The festival “Plenty of people did not receive a basic 29. In the 1930s Sikorsky returned to heli- on view at the History of Ukrainian is a cultural holiday for the multinational religious education in their youth and live copter construction and his creations Resistance Movement exhibit devoted to Crimean peninsula and a means to only with what they managed to learn in became leaders in world helicopter con- the dissident movement of the 1960s- strengthen friendship, harmony and con- church during services. If you ask them struction. Famous U.S. politician, attorney, 1980s. The exhibit is being shown at the cord in society, Mr. Umerov said. why they believe, they will not be able to businessman and ex-mayor of New York Literature Museum of Kharkiv. Among the (Ukrinform) explain it. However, the external circum- City Rudolph Giuliani arrived in Kyiv to artifacts are photos, archival materials and stances of the immigrants’ lives do not Ukraine sends aid to China participate in the unveiling ceremony. personal belongings of former Soviet polit- allow priests or catechists to give them (Ukrinform) ical prisoners, said the museum’s director, KYIV – The Emergency Ministry of more religious formation, because they Iryna Shumylina. The artifacts were col- Ukraine has delivered 50 tons of humani- Yaroslav the Wise is tops have a day off only on weekends.” (Religious Information Service of lected by activists of national-democratic tarian aid via two IL-76 flights to the KYIV – Grand Prince Yaroslav the Ukraine) non-governmental organizations in the Chinese city of Chengdu, capital of the Wise (978-1054) of Kyiv was the winner Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv regions. The tour Sichuan Province, it was reported on May in the “Great Ukrainians” project, which Kyivan Rus’ Christianity’s anniversary guide at the exhibition is Ukrainian writer 26. Medical and rescue equipment, medi- came to an end on May 17. Over 648,000 Yevhen Sverstiuk, who in 1962 was sen- cines, blankets, sleeping bags and tents Ukrainians voted for Yaroslav the Wise as KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko tenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for the were supplied by Ukraine. (Ukrinform) a great Ukrainian. Outstanding heart sur- and Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian geon Nikolai Amosov took second place Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate, dur- with 322,000 votes; 261,000 Ukrainians ing a meeting on May 21, discussed prepa- voted for Organization of Ukrainian rations for marking the 1,020th anniver- Nationalists leader Stepan Bandera, who sary of the conversion of Kyivan Rus’ to took third place. Poet Taras Shevchenko Christianity. Mr. Yushchenko expressed came in fourth (150,000 votes), followed hope that the upcoming celebrations would by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky consolidate the Ukrainian community, (64,000), prominent soccer player and since joint festive events would bring clos- coach Valerii Lobanovsky (51,000), and er the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of national rights activist and political leader various jurisdictions. According to Mr. Vyacheslav Chornovil (42,000). Yushchenko, this anniversary celebration Philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda, poetess should remind all that it was from Kyiv Lesia Ukrainka and writer Ivan Franko where Christianity started spreading rounded out the top 10. Some 2.5 million throughout Kyivan Rus’. The president Ukrainians participated in the voting to signed a decree on marking the 1,020th anniversary of the conversion of Kyivan choose great Ukrainians. (Ukrinform) Rus’ to Christianity. According to the doc- Stallone’s mother visits Ukraine ument, an organizational committee charged with preparing the celebrations KYIV – Jacqueline Stallone, mother of scheduled for July and August has been Hollywood movie star Sylvester Stallone, created. The committee includes represen- who arrived in Ukraine at the invitation of tatives of the Churches of three Orthodox the Ukrainian magazine Exclusive Style, jurisdictions, as well as the Ukrainian told a May 20 press conference in Kyiv Greek-Catholic Church. (Ukrinform) that she found many photos related to fam- ily history. She traveled to Odesa, where Microsoft CEO cooperates with Ukraine her grandmother Roza-Hitel Labovich was KYIV –Internal Affairs Minister Yurii born and whence she left for the United Lutsenko and Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve States together with her family at the end Ballmer discussed further cooperation of the 19th century. Speaking about herself between the ministry and the corporation and her world-famous son, Mrs. Stallone during a meeting in Kyiv on May 20. The noted that they owe their character and two men exchanged views on the protec- energy to Odesa genes. A successful busi- tion of intellectual property rights and the nesswoman, presenter of a women’s sports implementation of Microsoft’s social pro- show on TV, patron of arts and astrologer, grams in Ukraine aimed at protecting chil- she told an Ukrinform correspondent that dren on the Internet and fighting the she “will speak seriously to Sylvester, who spread of child pornography. Mr. has never been in Ukraine, about a visit to Lutsenko said that Ukrainian internal the country.” Mrs. Stallone did not rule out affairs bodies had exerted every effort to the possibility that she will join a charita- prevent and uncover illegal activities ble project on supporting talented linked to intellectual property. In particu- Ukrainian children. The project is the ini- lar, measures on uncovering unlicensed tiative of her close friend Chio Orsini (a software, including Microsoft software, rock-musician and a friend of Sean Carr) are being taken, according to Mr. and Yevhenia Tymoshenko. She said she is Lutsenko. “The police are fighting piracy; ready to create horoscopes for President 160 criminal cases linked to the breach of Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister copyright were opened in only three Yulia Tymoshenko if they so desire. In months,” he said, adding that equipping general, she said that Ukraine has a government institutions with legal tech- tremendous future and that she is certain nologies is a “big problem.” The about Russia’s and Ukraine’s peaceful Ukrainian internal affairs minister thanked future. (Ukrinform) Mr. Ballmer for providing assistance in Lviv remembers Armenian Genocide giving Ukraine’s law enforcement bodies the newest technologies on fighting the LVIV – The Armenian community in spread of child pornography on the Lviv, headed by the pastor of the Internet. An international seminar, involv- Armenian Apostolic Cathedral of the ing 100 law enforcement personnel from Assumption of the Mother of God, Father nine countries, was held at the Taras 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 No. 22 No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 17

Turchynov, came in second in the mayoral Chernovetskyi... campaign. As part of her grand crusade to (Continued from page 1) eradicate corruption, Ms. Tymoshenko had party, the total election fund of a particular campaigned aggressively on behalf of Mr. political faction actually turned out to equal Turchynov in the mayoral race. $200,000, as half the amount was allocated An initial blow to Ms. Tymoshenko’s toward the needs of the candidate and the political crusade vis-à-vis the mayoral cam- other half was funneled to the party itself. paign came when she attempted to amend “Even though the law forbids using a the electoral law by hoping to secure a sec- party’s money on advertising its candidate ond round of elections, thus automatically and vice-versa, it is almost impossible to guaranteeing a run-off vote between trace such things,” said Oleksander Messrs. Chernovetskyi and Turchynov, as Chernenko, a member of the CVU. the incumbent did not receive over 50 per- The Verkhovna Rada had called for pre- cent of the ballots. term mayoral and City Council elections in However, President Viktor Yushchenko, Kyiv after Prime Minister Yulia for unexplained reasons, torpedoed the Tymoshenko accused Mayor Chernovetskyi notion of a second round of elections. of selling off highly profitable land and Political analysts agree that Ms. withholding revenue from the state budget. Tymoshenko had been eyeing the mayoral In July 2007 Kyiv’s City Council post for her eponymous bloc as a crucial approved a construction project on a 28- stomping ground for next year’s presiden- hectare land plot in the Dniprovskyi district tial electoral campaign. The prime minister of Kyiv for a 15-year lease to Vulkan- has not yet offered any official statement Pravex, whose founders happen to include regarding the latest electoral results. companies controlled by Mr. Chernovetskyi. The latest election results are also con- Similarly, the City Council transferred sidered a major setback for OU-PSD. a plot of land in a prestigious district for Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Lutsenko residential construction to the company and his People’s Self-Defense faction have Hosp-Torh, which is controlled by Denys been increasingly leaning towards support- Komarnytskyi, the head of the ing the Tymoshenko Bloc. Chernovetskyi Bloc in the Kyiv City Nevertheless, some experts agree that Council. the aftermath of the latest elections will not Mr. Chernovetskyi, a multi-millionaire bring any immediate earth-shattering former lawyer and banker, has denied any results for the capital city itself. wrongdoing. According to Volodymyr Fesenko, direc- The Kyiv City Council is made up of tor of the Penta Center for Political 120 seats, and if Mr. Chernovetskyi joins Research, the thing to keep in mind is how forces with the Lytvyn Bloc and the Civic these elections will affect the overall nation- Activists of Kyiv Bloc, considered to be his al political scene. “Members of the closest allies, the three political forces Chernovetskyi Bloc have a strong possibili- might solidify a 62-seat majority in the ty of emerging as new political players on municipal legislature. the national level,” said Mr. Fesenko. The re-election of Mayor Chernovetskyi “Furthermore, these elections will serve as is being labeled as Prime Minister the steppingstone onto the national scene of Tymoshenko’s first major political defeat, the Katerynchuk Bloc or his European Party as her closest ally, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine,” added the political analyst. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 No. 22 No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 19 Historic Holodomor bill fast-tracked in Canadian Parliament OTTAWA – Member of Parliament the president and personally discussed the James Bezan (Selkirk-Interlake, bill with him on May 26 during the presi- Manitoba), rose in the House of dent’s visit to Ottawa. Commons on May 26 and with the sup- “I cannot stress enough the impor- port of all parties successfully moved tance of recognizing the Holodomor now that his Private Member’s Bill C-459 be as genocide even though the West sat passed at all stages. silent while this took place,” concluded The bill establishes a Ukrainian Mr. Bezan. “This is an important time for Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) Ukraine, for this Parliament and for Memorial Day and recognizes the Canada.” Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 as an act The bill was introduced last year as of genocide. In one move, the bill was Ukrainian Canadians and the internation- deemed to have been read a second time, al community marked the 75th anniver- considered in committee, reported, con- sary of one of the most heinous crimes in curred in, read a third time and passed. modern history – the state-sponsored Bill C-459 is now in the Senate for final Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 perpe- consideration before it will become law. trated by the Communist regime under In a show of solidarity, Liberal MP Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin against the Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Center, Ukrainian people. For decades the truth Ontario) supported the move and ensured about this horrific crime was suppressed that the bill would be passed at all stages. and denied by Soviet authorities. During his final speech, Mr. Bezan “The omission of this forced famine stated, “I want to thank the member for and genocide from our history books is Etobicoke Center for his hard work on very troubling to me and I hope that this behalf of all Ukrainians and for making bill will bring to light the atrocities that sure that we get this done today.” were committed against the Ukrainian Mr. Bezan also expressed his apprecia- people. Canada has a long-standing his- tion for the all-party support that he tory of condemning all war crimes, received from the Liberals, New crimes against humanity and genocides, Democratic Party and Bloc Quebecois. and this bill will once and for all Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko acknowledge the forced famine and Conservative Member of Parliament James Bezan (second from right) meets in was then in Canada and had asked for genocide against the Ukrainian people,” April with representatives of Canadian Friends of Ukraine, Stefan Horlatsch, Canada’s support in recognizing the said Mr. Bezan, speaking in the House of Margareta Shpir and Lisa Shymko, to discuss the adoption of legislation recog- Holodomor as genocide. Mr. Bezan met Commons on April 29. nizing the Holodomor as an act of genocide.

raising awareness of the Famine-Genocide. Yushchenko visits... Present at the event was Holodomor sur- (Continued from page 1) vivor Stepan Horlatsch, who has been the the two nations along with Ukraine’s future carrier of the torch throughout its Canadian in NATO and Canada’s firm support for sojourn. The torch will visit over 30 coun- Ukraine’s bid for a Membership Action tries before ending its journey in Kyiv in Plan plus cooperation in the U.N.-mandated November. mission in Afghanistan. Secretary of State for Multiculturalism Prime Minister Harper added that and Canadian Identity Jason Kennedy spoke at the event. He announced that the Ukraine can expect Canada’s full support government of Canada had made a deci- as it continues its post-Communist evolu- sion that afternoon to recognize the tion into a free and democratic nation. Holodomor as a genocide against the The two leaders signed a joint statement Ukrainian people and that the private mem- confirming their commitment to active ber’s bill now before the House of development of special partnership rela- Commons, which recognizes the tions between Ukraine and Canada, encom- Holodomor as a genocide, will be passed in passing the political, humanitarian and the immediate future. Maria Sochan Tymyc business spheres. Also on May 26, President Yushchenko The president of Ukraine, accompanied by First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko, Having been granted a rare honor, presented the Order of Prince Yaroslav the acknowledges the public’s applause. President Yushchenko addressed a joint Wise to Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj session of the Canadian Parliament. during a special ceremony on Parliament While welcoming Mr. Yushchenko to Hill. Mr. Wrzesnewskyj was surrounded by Parliament, Prime Minister Harper his colleagues, including Liberal Leader expressed support for a private member’s Stephane Dion and Paul Martin. bill which recognizes the 1932-1933 The president’s first day in Canada Famine in Ukraine as an act of genocide. ended with an official state dinner hosted “In Canada we aren’t afraid of history or of by Governor General Jean. “I am con- truth,’’ Prime Minister Harper told vinced that we will find new forms of Parliament. mutually beneficial cooperation, and Prime Minister Harper stated categori- strengthen and deepen our partnership,” cally that Canada will continue to support Mr. Yushchenko told the gathering. Ukraine’s efforts for Euro-Atlantic integra- Commenting on the day’s activities, tion and that the sovereignty of the UCC President Paul Grod noted that the Ukrainian state is indisputable. scope of the president’s visit and the During his well-received speech, warmth with which he was received at President Yushchenko told both Houses of every stop are an indication of the depth of Parliament of the deep affection and the relationship between the two countries. respect that Ukrainians have for Canada, “We need to act on that strength so that not only because of the support that the Canada’s relationship with Ukraine evolves country has given to Ukraine in the past, into one characterized by strong economic, but because of the 1.2 million strong social, cultural and security ties. Ukraine Ukrainian Canadian community, which and Canada have much to offer each acts as a bond between the two nations. other,” he commented. The president encouraged Canadians to “After much hard work on the part of become more active economically in the community to educate Canadians about President Viktor Yushchenko greets Mar’yan Chabursky, whom he noticed when Ukraine, especially in the strategic and the true nature of the Holodomor in the lad enthusiastically sang along with the crowd on Parliament Hill. growing energy sector. Ukraine 1932-1933, it was gratifying to President Yushchenko then participated hear Secretary of State Kenney announce Ukraine and the government of Canada in Mr. Yushchenko has given interviews to in the International Holodomor that Canada will move to recognize the ensuring that the state visit of Viktor leading national news media, including the Remembrance Flame ceremony on Holodomor as genocide. That is a fitting Yushchenko is a success. Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and The Parliament Hill. This was the culmination conclusion to an historic day,” concluded The president’s itinerary during this Globe and Mail. of a monthlong relay in Canada that Mr. Grod. three-day visit to Canada also included a brought the Holodomor Torch to cities The Ukrainian Canadian Congress has visit to Winnipeg, Manitoba, on May 27, Sources: Ukrainian Canadian Commit- throughout the country with the goal of been cooperating with both the Embassy of and the next day to Toronto, Ontario. tee, Ukrinform. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 No. 22 Colleagues and friends gather in Philadelphia to recognize Dr. Zenia Chernyk by Iryna Ivankovych-Bloshchynska Members of the Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble presented Dr. Chernyk PHILADELPHIA – They say, “When with a bouquet of roses. Dr. Albert Kipa, you take, you fill your hand; when you master of ceremonies, emphasized the give, you fill your heart.” As a little girl, main goal of the event: to honor the daughter of a political prisoner living exceptional work and outstanding profes- with his family in exile in Poland, Zenia sional achievements of “a wonderful per- Chernyk remembered her parents’ words son, humble, open, generous and kind,” about their neighbors who did not have and to pay tribute for her many years of sufficient means to feed their child, and dedicated service to Ukraine, the thus, “one should always share with oth- Ukrainian people and to the community. ers.” Years later, helping others became A short video by Tanya Husar, based her motto. Dr. Chernyk’s heart overflows with on the letters of Dr. Chernyk’s patients gifts of care, love, patriotism, humanism, and their families, touched the hearts of self-sacrifice, dedication, selflessness, those present. Sharing their personal tireless work, unbridled energy, openness experience of working with Mrs. and motherly kindness. This is why this Chernyk, every speaker underlined the petite lady has been surrounded by thou- exceptional dedication of this toiler in the sands of thankful patients, friends and field of serving others. According to colleagues, many of whom gathered on Cynthia Horajecky, secretary at Dr. May 4 at the Ukrainian Educational and Chernyk’s medical practice, she finds Cultural Center in Jenkintown, Pa., to time to help people both in her office and express their profound gratitude and in the community. respect for a person who, along with her Her efforts are recognized also in late husband, Dr. Alexander Chernyk, has Ukraine, as Olexandr Aleksandrovych, dedicated her entire life to serving others. minister counselor of the Embassy of Minister-Counselor Oleksandr Aleksandrovych presents Dr. Zenia Chernyk with The event, organized by the Ukrainian Ukraine in Washington, brought greet- greetings and cetificates from First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko and Federation of America and its president, ings from First Lady Kateryna Ambassador Oleh Shamshur. Vera M. Andryczyk, was supported by pri- Yushchenko of Ukraine, with whom Dr. vate benefactors and financial institutions Chernyk has been working in the founda- Soviet Union and other Communist states Committee. Dr. Chernyk’s cooperation such as The Heritage Foundation, First tion Ukraine-3000, and from Ukraine’s that had denied normal trade relations with Jewish organizations has signifi- Security Saving Bank and Ukrainian Self- ambassador to the U.S.A., Dr. Oleh with Ukraine. She is a member of the cantly improved relations between Reliance Credit Union in Philadelphia, the Shamshur. Coalition for a Secure and Democratic Ukrainians and Jews. Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Dr. Chernyk is actively involved in Ukraine, which is co-chaired by two for- As a remembrance of the evening, Dr. Center, and many volunteers. numerous American Ukrainian projects, mer U.S. ambassadors to Ukraine, Chernyk received an album of salutations Opening the reception, Mrs. which, according to Nadia McConnell, William Green Miller and Steven Pifer. and well-wishes from Mykola Andryczyk welcomed the guests, the president of the U.S.-Ukraine The Ukrainian diaspora is quite famil- Kyrychenko, Ukraine’s consul general of Rev. Yaroslaw Kurpel, pastor of Christ Foundation, requires much travel iar with Dr. Chernyk, and speakers at this New York; Orest Chebeniak, the chair- the King Ukrainian Catholic Church in between Philadelphia and Washington. event included Iryna Kurowycky, presi- man of the Humanitarian Initiatives char- Philadelphia, Sisters of the Order of St. Dr. Chernyk expended much effort to dent of the Ukrainian National Women’s ity fund in Ukraine; and community Basil the Great, representatives of politi- ensure the repeal of the Jackson-Vanik League of America, and Dr. Yaroslav organizations and private individuals cal and social institutions, friends and Amendment, a response to the discrimi- Zalipsky, chairman of the Philadelphia who expressed their regards and best colleagues. natory emigration policies of the former Branch of the Shevchenko Scientific wishes. Everyone had a chance to greet Society (NTSh). Dr. Chernyk personally and wish her the Dr. Chernyk is well-known in political best. and international circles. On April 30 When questioned about the secret of Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.) inserted her success in numerous projects, Dr. remarks “honoring Dr. Zenia Chernyk for Chernyk smiled and emphasized the her tireless efforts and service to Ukraine importance of organization. She added and the Philadelphia area Ukrainian that success and internal satisfaction gen- American community” into the erate the aspirations for new accomplish- Congressional Record. ments and achievements. She works with members of the U.S. Dr. Chernyk is currently involved with Congress as well as various organiza- Dana Yudyna in the “Our Family” proj- tions. This was attested to by former Rep. ect, which aims to assist persons in Charles Dougherty (R-Pa.), an advisor to Ukraine suffering from multiple sclero- the UFA; Ihor Gawdiak, president of the sis, as well as their families. This com- Ukrainian American Coordinating plex program, which received the bless- Council; Morgan Williams, president of ing of Patriarch Lubomyr Husar, aims to the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council; provide multifaceted (economic, medical Cheryl Portwood, who represented Dr. and social) support to patients afflicted James Portwood, Business Programs by this disease, and also to include Director of the UFA; and Dr. Harold B. Ukraine into the world organization for Jaffe, chairman of the American Jewish combating MS.

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COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Florida center holds annual meeting NORTH PORT, Fla. – St. Andrew’s located next to the Oseredok at 9 a.m. every Ukrainian Religious and Cultural Center Sunday. Following the service there is an (Oseredok) held its annual meeting on opportunity to visit with friends and family March 26 and elected a new slate of officers at the Oseredok, where coffee and pastries headed by Dr. Wolodymyr Korol, president. are served. Also elected were: Mykola Andrushko, During the week the Oseredok is open vice-president; Roman Swystun, secretary; for members and friends on Mondays and Victor Caply and Maria Boyduy, treasurers; Thursdays, 2-6 p.m. to take advantage of Prof.Vira Bodnaruk, cultural activities chair; its well-stocked library, play cards or Hanna Cherin, librarian; Daria Tomashoski, chess, or just meet friends for conversa- membership chair; Lusia Harasymiv, Maria tion. On Fridays at 4:30-6 p.m. Ukrainian Nikityn and Anastasia Fatenko, social serv- dinners are available (borsch, varenyky, ices; Alex Vlasenko, chapel liason; Maria holubtsi) for a very reasonable price. This Members of the board of the Ukrainian Religious and Cultural Center: (first Chorna, head of kitchen; Petro Lobur, Ivan is especially convenient for residents of row, from left) Maria Boyduy, Vira Bodnaruk, Maria Chorna, Maria Nikityn, Popiwchak, Halyna Korol, Julian Helbig the “Ukrainian Village,” which is next to Daria Tomashoski, (second row) Anastasia Fatenko, Halyna Korol, Victor Caply, and Oresta Swystun, members-at-large; the Oseredok. Wolodymyr Korol, Julian Helbig, Lusia Harasymiv and Bohdan Bodnaruk. Mykola Nenadkewych, Dr. Bohdan Activities at the Oseredok are in full Bodnaruk and Klara Szpiczka, auditing swing from September through May. orations of national and religious holidays all persons of Ukrainian descent (or those committee members. Various organizations hold their monthly are held here, as are literary evenings, married to Ukrainians) who live in the Various events planned for the current meetings here: Branch 56 of the Ukrainian bazaars, dances and lectures. vicinity. The initiation fee is $100; there is year will take place at the Oseredok, located National Women’s League of America, the During the summer, when many people an annual fee of $20 for each member. For at 4100 S. Biscayne Drive, North Port, Fla., Ukrainian-American Club, Ukrainian go north, the pace at the Oseredok slows information readers may contact Prof. telelphone, 941-426-9745. American Veterans and the Community down. Bodnaruk, cultural activities chair at drdan- Divine liturgy is celebrated in the chapel Committee. Throughout the year commem- Membership in the Oseredok is open to [email protected].

Literary evening honors Vasyl Stus NORTH PORT, Fla. – The Ukrainian logical punishment. He never gave in to the Language Society organized a literary physical pressure hurled at him. evening to honor the great Ukrainian poet, The stage was decorated with a portrait critic, journalist, Helsinki Group and PEN of Stus, the dates of his birth and death, the Club member Vasyl Stus on the 70th words of one of his poems, “My People, I anniversary of his birth. The event took Will Return To You Yet,” and a replica of place here at St. Andrew’s Ukrainian the post that marked his original grave with Religious and Cultural Center (Oseredok) the number “9” with an embroidered rush- on April 12. nyk around it. This artistic setting was cre- Stus (1938-1985), a prolific poet and ated by Bohdana Bilovshchuk and Ivanna writer, was one of the most active propo- Martynec. nents of Ukrainian human and national It was also very emotional to hear the rights. His political convictions and his voice of Stus –recorded on a CD and works were banned by the Soviet regime. received from Ostroh University – reading Stus spent 13 years in detention and died in his poem “Osliple lystia vidchuvalo Yar.” During the literary evening (from left) are: Olena Ruzaykyna, Bohdan Lechman, a forced labor camp for political prisoners, The choir of Ukrainian National Taras Roman, Halyna Korol, Olenka Kryvenok, Irena Zyznomyrska and Perm Camp 36 in the Russian SFSR. In Women’s League of America Branch 56 Ruslana Borysenko. 1985 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize under the direction of Lubov Ingram, per- in literature by an international committee formed two songs, “Lebedi Materynstva” of scholars, writers and poets, but died and “Kyieve Mii.” Ruslana Borysenko. At the conclusion of the evening, guests before the nomination materialized. A montage based on the creative works A baritone solo of “Rushnychok” was had a chance to share their impressions Prof. Vira Bodnaruk, president of the of Stus was written and presented by performed by Mr. Lechman. Members of while enjoying refreshments provided by Ukrainian Language Society, related the Olena Ruzaykyna together with Taras the Mria quartet – Olia Pasternak, Maria members of the Ukrainian Language highlights of Stus’ life, his literary achieve- Roman. Readers of Stus poems were Kovalska, Nadia Lobur and Zoya Society. They also had a chance to buy a ments and his undefeated spirit in the face Halyna Korol, Olenka Kryvenok, Irena Fylypovych – performed three songs under book about Vasyl Stus which was pub- of impossible circumstances and psycho- Zyznomyrska, Bohdan Lechman and the musical direction of Iraida Cherniak. lished in Ukraine last year.

Fashion show focuses on Ukrainian embroidery by Natalie Sluzar secure it and define its border. The queen of the Poltava-style NORTH PORT, Fla. – At a recent dinner “merezhka” designs is North Port’s own and fashion show at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Irene Kassaraba Radzykewycz, who has Catholic Church in North Port, I watched devoted the last 25 years to this form of the models twirling down the makeshift art, not only safeguarding the traditional runway and was mesmerized by the outfits forms of this style, but also creating excit- they wore. I was even more amazed to learn ing, contemporary designs suitable for that the gorgeous designs on these dresses, modern-day wear. Ms. Radzykewycz skirts and blouses were created by simply designed and created over 80 outfits for cutting holes or pulling threads out of the women, some for children, as well as over fabric. 60 dolls representing the national dress of Myron Radzykewycz What we were seeing that Saturday all regions of Ukraine. Models at the “Merezhyvo Designed for the Modern Dress” fashion show. evening, March 29, was an elegant form of Traditionally, “merezhyvo” was done Ukrainian embroidery called “merezhka,” with white threads on white homespun fab- honeybees, adding multiple layers and sev- tainment was provided by a quartet consist- an ancient form of embroidery dating back ric using geometric forms and patterns rep- eral borders. The “merezhyvo” was no ing of Christyna Sheldon, Oksana Lew, possibly to the first century. The Poltava resenting plants and animals. Ms. longer just on the sleeves, but on the shoul- Anya Rajnarowycz and Lieda Boyko. Orest region is most famous for the “merezhka” Radzykewycz broke out of these confines, ders, front, side, back. The outfits were one Lazor performed an original composition embroideries, especially the unique stitch- instead using bright fabrics in her creations piece, two pieces or complete ensembles for the piano. Poetry was recited by Natalka ing technique called “layerings.” This style like reds, greens, yellows, or bold colors with a dress and coat or jacket. Each was Honcharuk. All this added to the elegant of embroidery is based on cutting and like black and navy, and embroidering them truly a work of art. ambience of the evening. pulling out threads from the fabric (often with silk threads of gold, beige, black, or The evening’s program, “Merezhyvo Special thanks went to models Irena referred to as drawn-thread work). Using soft pastels like blues, greens, pinks, and Designed for the Modern Dress,” was Zyznomyrska, Tanya Budny, Olena Skiba, various styles of stitches, such as cross- gray tones. The patterns became bolder, organized by Halyna Kovalyshyn. Natalka Honcharuk, Tanya Thompson, stitch, hemstitch, buttonhole, satin, eyelet, multi-dimensional, combining many forms, Mistresses of ceremonies were Lidia Bilous Oksana Lasor and Oksana Gresko, as well chain and others, the opening is then geometric with triangle and crosses, nature and Neonila Lechman. as children models Mateyka Kowalyshyn, enclosed by the threads (as in darning) to motifs depicting flowers and leaves, even In addition to the fashion show, enter- Xenia Kowalyshyn and Adam Henderson. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2008 No. 22 Ukrainian soprano to perform Want to see your name in print? Then why not become a correspondent of at Carnegie Hall in June NEW YORK – Soprano Nataliya “I Pagliacci,” and “Tsar Sultan.” She has The Ukrainian Weekly in your community? 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Metropolitan Opera production of “The Ms. Tymchenko, who recently per- Gambler,” and mezzo Elena Obraztsova, formed with Mr. Galouzine in Macedonia a frequent partner of Placido Domingo at in the Puccini opera “Turandot” – they the Met. The music of Tchaikovsky is sang the roles of the young slave girl Liu among the works of Glinka, Puccini, and the unknown prince Calaf – is sched- Verdi, Bizet and Leoncavallo included in uled to sing at the New Jersey State the program. Opera House on September 14. A citizen Although this will be her debut perform- of Ukraine, she makes her home in ance at Carnegie Hall, Ms. Tymchenko France and Russia. made her New York debut earlier this year International Concerts, a not-for-profit in a concert at the Bulgarian Consulate. organization, serves diverse cultural Ms. Tymchenko has performed the interests and provides career-enhancing title role in “Madame Butterfly” and has opportunities for young artists. 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their “independent” views known. Say good night... “Russia fears becoming isolated,” former (Continued from page 6) German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder unusual punishment. The nation jubilant- told an astonished audience at Columbia ly cheered. It was a glorious victory. It University. satisfied their appetite for revenge. Others on the Kremlin’s consultancy Besides, they whispered to one another, and PR payroll were ordered (and paid) “most of these damn blood-sucking oli- to justify their keep and began forcibly garchs like Khodorkovsky are Jews any- insisting that there was nothing to worry way, so who gives a rat’s burp. He got about. Russia had a grand plan they what he deserved.” claimed, one which would keep the West As the Putin cult grew, the West supplied with reliable oil and gas deliver- became confused and resorted to various ies for decades to come. theories to explain what was taking place Gazprom, the state gas monopoly, they Ukrainian Sports Federation of USA and Canada and KLK in Russia. Scholars, journalists and intelli- insisted, was being badly maligned by gence analysts in the West spent countless recidivist Western Cold Warriors and man-hours indulging in old-fashioned Russophobes. Gazprom was as pure and Kremlinology trying to identify who is a transparent as mother’s milk they insist- “silovik” (a current or past member of the ed. And, even if they erred in their ways police or KGB), who is a liberal and who now and then, so what? Enron did the is neither in Mr. Putin’s entourage. same. Why does the West maintain a This frenzied search was reminiscent double standard? 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