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Inside: l Helsinki Commission hearing on Ukraine’s elections – page 3 l Alexander Motyl on “The Holodomor and history” – page 7 l Ukrainian Graduates honor Ukrainian of the Year – page 17

ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXX No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 $1/$2 in Ukraine Holodomor commemorated Party of Regions to form in Parliament of Canada majority in new Parliament by Zenon Zawada bank and ‘curator’ of the many ‘family’ busi- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly nesses, moves to become first deputy prime minister or even prime minister,” Andrew KYIV – The ruling Party of Regions of Wilson, a senior policy fellow at the Ukraine (PRU) will form the next parlia- European Council on Foreign Relations, mentary majority without the Communist wrote recently. He added, “The Ukrainian Party of Ukraine, leaders in both parties authorities intend to use the elections to said this week. Instead, the party will restore their legitimacy in the West by recruit at least 41 national deputies from threatening to join the Russia-led Customs single-mandate districts to join its 185 dep- Union. But this is a bluff. In fact, only a uties in forming the 226-vote majority. handful of oligarchs, mainly the so-called They’re almost there, said Oleksander gas lobby, would see gains in such a union.” Yefremov, the chair of the PRU parliamenta- In the two years since President ry faction. The party leadership has collect- Yanukovych took power, Ukraine’s parlia- ed 223 statements from deputies commit- mentary coalition – consisting of the Party ted to forming the majority – just three dep- of Regions, the Communist Party and the uties shy of the number needed – he told Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc – approved radical the Den (Day) newspaper in an interview measures to integrate with the Russian published on November 27. Federation, which in some cases are widely Earlier that week, Communist Party considered unconstitutional. UCC Chair Petro Symonenko said his deputies Most notable are the Kharkiv agree- Member of Parliament Robert Sopuck, chair of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary won’t be aligning themselves with the Party ments of 2010 that extended the presence Friendship Group, serves as the master of ceremonies at the Holodomor commemora- of Regions. of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea for tion in the Canadian Parliament. As a result, the next majority will be less another quarter century, and this year’s lan- bers of Parliament who made emotional inclined to vote for Russian integration guage legislation that removes remaining UCC safeguards protecting the Ukrainian lan- statements commemorating this tragedy, projects, as in the past two years, and more OTTAWA – As part of National guage from being overwhelmed by Russian. Mr. Grod noted. “In addition, most media inclined towards promoting the interests Holodomor Awareness Week, on Thursday, Pro-Russian advocates will maintain sig- outlets carried constant news stories this of big business, observers said, citing in November 22, the Ukrainian Canadian nificant influence in Ukraine’s Parliament, week, and many school boards across particular the expanding family business Congress (UCC) in cooperation with the including elements in the Party of Regions Canada held Holodomor memorials.” belonging to President Yanukovych. Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship (Hennadiy Vasyliev and Vadim “On behalf of the Ukrainian Canadian “The power of the ‘family’ is likely to Group (CUPFG) and the Embassy of community, I thank and congratulate Prime grow further after the elections as Serhiy Ukraine in Canada held a solemn commem- Arbuzov, the current head of the central Minister Stephen Harper, Canada’s (Continued on page 13) oration on the occasion of the 79th anni- Parliamentarians and all those Canadians versary of the Ukrainian Holodomor of for their resolve in bringing the issue of 1932-1933 on Parliament Hill. Holodomor recognition to the forefront in The Holodomor was one of the most Canada and Ukraine.” Lviv remembers the Holodomor heinous crimes in the history of mankind, Many Ministers and Members of the result of a deliberate plan by Stalin to Parliament attended the ceremony on subjugate Ukrainians and destroy the Parliament Hill, including Minister Peter Ukrainian nation. For over 70 years the Van Loan, Parliamentary Secretary Ed Soviet regime concealed the truth and mis- Komarnycky, and CUPFG Chair and MP led the West in the hope that its memory Robert Sopuck, who was master of ceremo- would be lost forever. nies for the evening. The gathering on Parliament Hill was The commemoration was addressed by led in prayer by the Very Rev. Dr. Peter Marco Shevchenko, charges d’affaires of the Galadza of the Metropolitan Andrey Embassy of Ukraine in Canada; Members of Sheptytsky Institute in Ottawa, the Very Parliament James Bezan, Ted Opitz, Kevin Rev. Ihor Okhrimtchouk of Assumption of Lamoureux, and Alexandrine Latendresse; the Blessed Virgin Ukrainian Orthodox Holodomor survivor Dr. Julia Woychyshyn; Cathedral in Ottawa and the Very Rev. Dr. and Mr. Grod and Marta Tkaczyszyn from Ihor Kutash of St. Mary the Protectress the UCC National. Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Montreal. A special reading done by Holodomor UCC President Paul Grod spoke on survivor Dr. Woychyshyn provided those in behalf of the Ukrainian Canadian commu- attendance with a distinct perspective into nity praising the government of Canada the horrifying events of 1932-1933. Dr. and all members of Parliament for their Woychysyn retold her childhood memories support in acknowledging the Holodomor of living through the Holodomor and the Lviv City Council/Oleh Kokhan “we have witnessed statements about the terror it inflicted onto her family and vil- LVIV – Residents of Lviv came together at dusk on Saturday, November 24, Holodomor every day for the last three lage community. to light candles in memory of the millions killed in the Holodomor, the Famine- days in Canada’s Parliament in addition to Candles were lit to honor the victims Genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. The ceremonies, accompanied by a moment published statements by the prime minis- with a moment of silence and the com- of silence, took place at 4 p.m. on the main plaza near the city’s monument to ter of Canada, the minister of foreign memoration concluded with the reading of Taras Shevchenko. In Ukraine and beyond, the fourth Saturday in November is affairs, the minister of citizenship and marked as a Day of Memory for Victims of the Holodomor. Solemn ceremonies immigration as well as a number of mem- (Continued on page 3) were held throughout Ukraine. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 No. 49

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Ukraine starts to import gas European bishops remember Holodomor the lack of organized resistance and credu- lity with respect to the Bolsheviks’ promis- KYIV – The head of the Ukrainian Greek- es. “The world of traditions of Ukrainian from Europe, cuts imports from Russia Catholic Church (UGCC) Patriarch village life, based firmly on Christian moral- Sviatoslav Shevchuk on November 24 from the earlier announced 24 bcm. He said ity and the rhythm of church services, was by Oleg Varfolomeyev prayed for the victims of the genocidal Ukraine could in theory import gas from hostile to the Bolshevik utopia. Therefore, Eurasia Daily Monitor Holodomor together with the Catholic Europe not only through Poland but also it was doomed to destruction from the bishops of the Eastern Rite in Zagreb, As Russia refuses to cut gas prices for through Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria moment the Red Army crossed the border Croatia, where they had an annual meeting. Ukraine and proceeds with its South Stream (Channel 5, November 16). Energy Minister of the Ukrainian National Republic. The The bishops from 14 countries prayed for pipeline project – aimed at diminishing Boiko said in June that Naftohaz would cut lack of organized resistance, social apathy, the healing of the wounds of the Ukrainian Gazprom’s dependence on Ukrainian gas gas imports from Russia this year to 27 bcm credulity with respect to the Bolsheviks’ pipelines (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, from the 40 bcm imported last year, and in nation inflicted by the Famine-Genocide of promises were the preconditions for the November 16) – Ukraine has announced September he said Naftohaz would cut 1932-1933 and against the recurrence of genocide,” stressed the hierarch. According plans to further cut Russian gas imports. Even imports from Russia further to 24.5 bcm of similar tragedies. On the eve of the event, in to Archbishop Ihor, the Holodomor in more notably, Ukraine began buying gas from gas next year (see EDM, September 18). answer to a question about whether the Ukraine, the Jewish Holocaust and the the German company RWE last month. The Speaking after Mr. Chuprun on November wounds of Ukrainians have healed, genocide of Armenians have the same Ukrainian government believes this will allow 16, Mr. Boiko said that thanks to RWE’s deliv- Patriarch Sviatoslav stated in an interview roots. “Genocide in all these cases was the country to cut Russian gas imports by eries already this year, Ukraine would cut to the publication Our Sobor that when directed against ethnic communities some 4 percent this year and by more than gas imports from Russia further to 26 bcm. such a tremendous human tragedy is viewed by the ruling regime as obstacles to 16 percent next year. Ukraine is also buying He said RWE’s gas would be imported not silenced, it is not conducive to healing the the creation or preservation of the empire, another two deep-water drilling rigs in order only from the Polish border, but also from wounds. “We still have to become mature Ottoman, Nazi or Soviet,” he said. “And the to boost gas extraction in the Black Sea. Hungary starting on January 1, 2013. enough for everyone, who denies the fact of roots of the hostility lie not in the political RWE has been pumping gas to Ukraine The January 2009 contract signed with the genocide in Ukraine, to be considered self-organization of the destroyed ethnos, via Poland since November 1, according to Gazprom obligates Naftohaz to import at both in Ukraine and worldwide as an but in its way of life, morality, conscious or agreements signed in May and October. least 41.6 bcm of Russian gas per annum accomplice or person justifying this crime subconscious sense of national identity.” RWE’s price is lower than the $430 that the until 2019. According to a take-or-pay clause which cannot be justified,” he said. (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) national oil and gas company Naftohaz in the contract, Ukraine has to pay for that (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) Chechetov on PRU majority in Rada Ukrainy is paying Gazprom this quarter per amount of gas even if it imports less. UAOC bishop on the Holodomor 1,000 cubic meters of gas. This is because However, Mr. Boiko said Ukraine would pay KYIV – Some 40 independent candidates both Russia’s price for Germany and gas for no more than it physically imports. He KYIV – Archbishop Ihor (Isichenko) of who were elected to the Verkhovna Rada of prices on the spot markets in Europe are added that Ukraine was ready to go to court the Kharkiv and Poltava Eparchy of the the seventh convocation in single-mandate lower than Gazprom’s price for Ukraine. if Gazprom sued. He noted that Gazprom Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church constituencies have submitted their state- RWE is going to deliver 5 billion cubic recently lost several disputes over prices to (UAOC) commented that the Holodomor of ments to join the Party of Regions faction in meters (bcm) of gas to Ukraine by May its European customers (Inter TV, November 1932-1933 was not an isolated episode of Parliament, the deputy chairman of the 2013. Both Naftohaz and RWE plan to renew 16). Gazprom, which faces a European Ukrainian history. There were precondi- Party of Regions faction, Mykhailo their contract, and Ukraine hopes to receive Union probe into its contracts, lost in dis- tions for this most terrible tragedy of the Chechetov, told the Russian-language news- eight bcm of gas from RWE next year putes over prices to companies from Ukrainian people and it should be evaluat- paper Komsomolskaya Pravda v Ukraine. (Kommersant-Ukraine, November 12). Germany, Italy, France and Poland over the ed in the general context of the struggle “Nearly 40 self-nominated candidates Citing Ukrainian experts, the Russian past several months as the local gas market between the red dictatorship and “the wrote statements on their accession to our news agency RBC said on November 7 that is being reshaped by the non-traditional gas Christian components of our national life, faction, so the new Rada will have a sole RWE’s gas will cost Ukraine $380 to $390 boom. This must have inspired Ukraine. which were mercilessly uprooted by it [the per 1,000 cubic meters. Ukrainian Energy In order to diminish dependence on majority. We will be able to adopt laws dictatorship], and their carriers in the soci- quickly and smoothly,” Mr. Chechetov said, Minister Yurii Boiko said that RWE’s price Russian gas, along with importing gas from ety,” the archbishop said in an interview for was $40 to $70 lower than Gazprom’s and Europe, Ukraine is starting the construction according to November 26 news reports. He the Religious Information Service of said that independent candidates had sub- that the difference would rise to $100 by of an LNG terminal with a capacity of 10 Ukraine published on November 21. “The next summer (Inter TV, November 16). bcm of gas per annum near Odesa, which mitted their statements voluntarily, without Holodomor was not an isolated episode of any pressure. At the same time, he declined Ukraine has never imported gas from should be ready by 2018. Moreover, Ukraine our history. It logically follows from the Europe before. The breakthrough with RWE is planning to replace gas with coal at sever- to name those who could join the faction. Communist doctrine openly stated by Mr. Chechetov also refused to say whether prompted Naftohaz deputy head Vadym al cogeneration plants with the help of Maxim Gorky in the title of his classical the faction had received statements from Chuprun to announce that gas imports from Chinese loans, and the country will intro- article, ‘If the enemy does not surrender, he current Parliament Chairman Volodymyr Russia would be cut to 20 bcm next year duce new energy-saving technologies. must be destroyed,’ ” he said. The archbish- Lytvyn, former Emergencies Minister Viktor Ukraine invited Chevron and Shell to pros- op noted that the precondition for the pect for unconventional shale gas (see EDM, genocide of Ukrainians was social apathy, (Continued on page 12) May 22), and a consortium led by MUST READ ExxonMobil last August was awarded the In “Five More Years of right to explore an oil and gas field in the Yanukovych; To Victor Go The Black Sea. Spoils”• (Foreign Affairs, October 23), Domestic gas output, currently at some The Ukrainian Weekly FOUNDED 1933 Alexander J. Motyl (professor of politi- 20 bcm per annum, while Ukraine consumes cal science at Rutgers University- over 50 bcm, is also set to rise. Ukraine pins An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., Newark) and Rajan Menon (professor special hopes on its Black Sea deposits, a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 3 Helsinki Commission hearing assesses Ukraine’s parliamentary elections WASHINGTON – The U.S. Commission ening of the existing OSCE documents.” to introduce a national referendum and, eral areas compared to standards previous- on Security and Cooperation in Europe Next, Ms. Aivazovska’s statement was more important, eliminates the need for a ly achieved,” Mr. Nix said, adding that, “the (Helsinki Commission) on November 16 read by her colleague Iurii Lisovskyi, coor- two-thirds majority. Now the president problems in the campaign period and elec- held a briefing to assess Ukraine’s recent dinator of Opora’s observer network, may put a proposed constitutional change tion day are particularly troubling, as they parliamentary elections. which included 225 long-term and 3,500 to a national referendum with the support indicate that Ukraine has not progressed in Testimony was given by Olha short-term observers. She reported: “The of a simple parliamentary majority.” the way that it should and has not Aivazovska, board chair of the Ukrainian 2012 parliamentary campaign ‘was charac- She also commented on the upcoming advanced as far as other former republics, citizens’ network Opora; Katie Fox, deputy terized by an artificial restriction of compe- formation of factions in the new Verkhovna including Georgia, which just saw its first director for Eurasia, National Democratic tition within the electoral process and by Rada, expressing hope that “all parties will peaceful transfer of power from one demo- Institute; Stephen Nix, regional director for flagrant violations of the principle of equal refrain from corrupt or unethical methods, cratic elected government to another.” Eurasia, International Republican Institute; opportunities for political parties and can- bribes or threats to induce members of He also pointed out: “Ukraine has had and Thomas Melia, deputy assistant secre- didates. The mixed electoral system, as well Parliament to join factions,” which has been several systems of elections since its inde- tary of state, Bureau of Democracy, Human as the use of the illegal practice of abusing done in the past “to distort election pendence. It started out with a single-man- Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State. administrative resources and bribing votes, results.” As well, Ms. Fox noted that Rada date system. A few years later, it changed to The hearing was moderated by Orest had a decisive influence on the course of leaders “should examine the rules of proce- a mixed system. It then went to a hundred Deychakiwsky, the Helsinki Commission’s the campaign, which generally did not con- dure and try to ensure that some leader- percent proportional system. Now it’s back policy adviser for Belarus, Bulgaria, tribute to the integrity of its results. These ship positions, such as substantive commit- to a mixed system.” The IRI, he said, sug- Romania and Ukraine, who welcomed par- violations were systematic and had no legal tee chairmanships, are reserved for opposi- gested that Ukraine “adhere to common ticipants on behalf of the commission’s consequences for the electoral subjects tion MPs,” which will promote more confi- practice and not change its system of vot- chairman, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.). In that resorted to them.” dence in the Verkhovna Rada. ing on a regular basis,” and he underscored attendance was Helsinki Commission Ms. Aivazovska offered Opora’s assess- The IRI’s Mr. Nix began his testimony by that, “in an election being conducted under member Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.). ment that “the election process does not stating that “a careful analysis of the demo- new rules, those participating were not Present in the audience was Ukraine’s meet basic democratic standards due to cratic backsliding in Ukraine and how the able to realize their full potential as actors ambassador to the United States, the lack of equal conditions for conducting United States and Europe should react is of in the electoral process.” Olexander Motsyk. campaigning by candidates and parties, the utmost importance at this time.” Mr. Melia of the State Department com- Mr. Deychakiwsky opened the hearing unrepresented large number of technical The starting point from which to judge mented that the election process in by noting: “The OSCE [Organization for electoral subjects, unbalanced election the fairness of Ukraine’s October 28 parlia- Ukraine is not yet completed, with five sin- Security and Cooperation in Europe], the commissions and media,” and noted that mentary elections should be the selective gle-mandate districts holding new elec- U.S. government, the EU [European Union] “the most grievous violations [occurred] at prosecution that kept opposition leaders tions early next year because the CEC could and others have all asserted that these the stage of vote count and vote tabulation.” off the ballot. Election day, he noted, not establish a winner; and with three elections represented a step backward “Opora counted 16 districts, in which “marked the 450th day of imprisonment opposition groups – the United Opposition, compared to the four most recent national direct and unconcealed fraud took place at for Yulia Tymoshenko and the 671st day of UDAR and Svoboda – stating that they will elections. According to the OSCE’s post- the level of district election commissions, imprisonment of Yuri Lutsenko.” not recognize the CEC’s results “until the election preliminary statement, there was a namely: changes were made to the proto- He then cited the law on parliamentary opposition candidates who ran in the five lack of level playing field, caused primarily cols of votes at polling stations; ballots elections adopted in November 2011, disputed districts have been declared win- by the abuse of administrative resources, were destroyed and spoiled; false data of which was strongly criticized by the Venice ners” and threatening to boycott the new the lack of transparency, of campaign and vote counts were transferred to the CEC Commission for the absence of political Rada and file complaints with Ukrainian party financing and lack of balanced media [Central Election Commission] website. consensus and lack of transparency in the courts and the European Court of Human coverage.” The judiciary and enforcement bodies were drafting of the law; increased government Rights because the declared results “do not “On the other hand,” he continued, “vot- unable to properly perform its functions pressure on independent media; the reflect the real will of the Ukrainian peo- ers had a choice between distinct parties, and to promote establishment of the elec- authorities’ monitoring and regulation of ple.” As well, the Procurator General’s and election day voting and the counting tion results. Unfortunately, their above- domestic civil society organizations; intimi- Office is opening criminal cases of alleged were assessed quite positively by the vast mentioned violations remained out of dation of political parties and candidates; illegal actions, including vote-buying, that majority of OSCE observers.” attention by the law enforcement bodies,” the uneven composition of election com- took place during the elections. “However, according to the OSCE-ODIHR she stated. missions; and the creation of pseudo-par- “All this suggests that Ukraine’s grass- [Office for Democratic Institutions and Ms. Aivazovska also prepared a brief ties whose sole purpose was to allow the roots democracy remains vibrant and con- Human Rights] election mission’s post- Power Point presentation for the hearing. ruling party to dominate membership on tentious and, unlike in some countries, the election interim report, issued just a week Ms. Fox of the NDI spoke of the parlia- these commissions. ago, the tabulation process following elec- mentary elections “in the context of Over all, there was “deterioration in sev- (Continued on page 10) tions day lacked transparency and was Ukraine’s longer-term democratic develop- marred by serious problems, including out- ment.” right falsifications in some of the single- She reported: “On one key measure of Ron Sorobey, Ukrainian Canadian mandate districts,” Mr. Deychakiwsky democracy, political pluralism, Ukraine did Holodomor... Professional and Business Associated added. reasonably well in these elections. Even (UCPBA); Adriana Buyniak Wilson, presi- Remarks about election observation though they did not compete on a level (Continued from page 1) dent, League of Ukrainian Canadian were delivered by Paul Carter, senior State playing field, opposition parties are likely Women; Marika Putko, UCC Quebec; the names of but a few victims who per- Department adviser at the Helsinki to be well represented in the new Bohdan Shumsky, Ukrainian Orthodox ished in the Holodomor. Commission, who pointed out that Parliament. In addition, because of what Cathedral, Ottawa; Cornell Popyk, Knights Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister seems to be a protest vote against estab- Present were Members of Parliament of Columbus, St. John the Baptist branch; Kostyantyn Gryshchenko had told the press lished groups, new political parties like Laurie Hawn, Ed Komarnicki, Lawrence and Roman Hruby, UNF Ottawa-Gatineau a few days earlier that during its 2013 Svoboda and UDAR will have seats in the Toet and Mark Warawa. Greetings from branch. Also present were many members chairmanship of the OSCE Ukraine would Parliament.” She also noted that it Sen. Raynell Andreychuk were presented of the Ukrainian Canadian community. offer “common standards” for the activity appeared that “despite the voter bribery by Michael-Paul Senkow. The UCC together with the CUPFG of international election observers. and misuse of government resources in the Representatives from the Ukrainian extended a heartfelt thank you to all who This has caused some concern, he noted, campaign, …many citizens simply decided Canadian community organizations includ- attended the commemoration service in because “the term ‘common standards’ has to vote their current consciences. And this ed Mykola Bilaniuk, president, UCC Ottawa; Parliament. been a shorthand way of referring to pro- is a healthy sign.” posals by some participating states to A second positive sign, she continued, weaken OSCE election activities by subject- was that “parties and candidates appear to ing them to consensus agreement, includ- have campaigned to a greater extent than ing by the governments whose elections previously on the issues, giving voters real are being observed. We strongly oppose choices,” that parties are beginning to any efforts to undercut OSCE election responds to the citizens’ frustrations with observation activities and urge Ukraine to their leaders. ensure that OSCE work on elections and Ms. Fox cited a “potential red flag” in OSCE human dimension work in general is today’s Ukraine: “Critics of the Ukrainian protected from any efforts to weaken or government have long speculated that the undermine it.” Yanukovych administration would seek Mr. Carter underscored: “The OSCE constitutional changes to enhance the Office for Democratic Institutions and power of the presidency. But, until last Human Rights already has a handbook and week, amending the Constitution required code of conduct for election observers that the support of two-thirds of the Rada, a has been the basis of OSCE observations for supermajority, which the governing party the last 15 years. We support the existing did not achieve in these elections. But on handbook and code of conduct, and November 6 the Rada passed – with just 10 encourage the Ukrainian chairmanship to minutes of debate – legislation that chang- UCC Holodomor survivor Dr. Julia Woychyshyn remembers the years of the Famine- assist in the implementation and strength- es the constitutional amendment process Genocide. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 No. 49 Two historians are honored with 2012 Antonovych Awards

by Y aro Bihun tribution to the study of Kozak Ukraine,” Special to The Ukrainian Weekly and Dr. Sysyn’s plaque – “his contribution to scholarship in Ukraine.” WASHINGTON – Two highly respected Dr. Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, who Ukrainian historians and administrators of chairs the Antonovych award selection jury, the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in her brief comments about this year’s lau- (CIUS) were honored with this year’s reates, said their historical research served Omelan and Tatiana Antonovych to disprove the old widely accepted Polish Foundation awards for their exemplary and Russian nationalistic pretensions on work in expanding the world’s understand- Ukrainian territories and “influenced a ing of Ukraine, its history and culture. wide sector of Slavic and East-European Dr. Zenon Kohut and Dr. Frank Sysyn studies.” Dr. Bohachevsky-Chomiak is a received their awards on November 10 at 1989 Antonovych award honoree. the annual presentation ceremony at the The other two members of the jury, Dr. Embassy of Ukraine in the U.S. capital. Orest Subtelny and Dr. Roman Szporluk, Their names were added to the 63 previous also are Antonovych laureates: Dr. Subtelny recipients so honored since the in 1982 and Dr. Szporluk in 2000. Antonovych prizes were founded in 1981. Dr. Szporluk, in his remarks, spoke about Opening the presentation ceremony, this year’s honorees as “very important foundation President Ihor Voyevidka research historians.” Their major contribu- Yaro Bihun described Drs. Kohut and Sysyn as “shining tion was in integrating the earlier periods of Dr. Zenon Kohut recalls some of his accomplishments at CIUS upon receiving his examples of many years of work in spread- Ukraine’s history from the mid-1500s into 2012 Antonovych Foundation award. ing the knowledge about Ukraine, from the contemporary European history, he said, Kozak period to the present, and its inte- with Dr. Sysyn focusing his work on the earli- ning of the 19th centuries. “Today’s big topic, big theory, will be tomor- gration into European modern history.” The er centuries and Dr. Kohut from the end of Accepting his award, Dr. Kohut recounted row’s forgotten one,” he said, recommend- award plaque for Dr. Kohut notes “his con- the 18th and begin- his 30 years of work in researching ing that students of history “go against the Ukrainian history as it developed from its grain.” earliest years to the present. That process of Dr. Sysyn continued his work in the development of Ukraine’s identity con- Edmonton, Alberta, at the CIUS, where, he tinues to this day, both historically and geo- said, he found great support – both moral graphically, he said. and financial – especially during a time of Dr. Kohut began his association with evolving Ukrainian independence in devel- CIUS in 1992, and two years later he oping that institution as it expanded its became the institute’s director, planning work with its counterparts in Ukraine. He and coordinating its expanding academic, said his most recent focus has been on research and publishing programs both “micro history” – on the history of small internally and with academic institutions in Ukrainian villages, Ukrainian immigration newly independent Ukraine. Earlier, he par- to the West and on interviewing the eyewit- ticipated in establishing Ukrainian studies nesses to this history. at Harvard University and was a senior In the absence of Ambassador Oleksander research analyst at the Library of Congress Motsyk, who was in Kyiv that day, Counselor- and Soviet political affairs analyst at the U.S. General Vladyslava Bondarenko welcomed Department of Defense in Washington. the laureates, Antonovych Foundation offi- Dr. Sysyn, now the director of the Peter cials and close to 100 of their friends, col- Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical leagues and other invited guests who came Research at CIUS, noted that his academic to the ceremony at the Embassy. The ambas- career also began in the United States, at sador’s wife, Natalia Motsyk, was present, Harvard University, where he developed his and later joined in the reception that fol- After receiving his 2012 Antonovych Foundation award at the Embassy of Ukraine in lowed the awards presentation. Washington, Dr. Frank Sysyn presents Natalia Motsyk, the ambassador’s wife, with outlook on historical studies. While at two historical works recently published by CIUS: “The Holodomor Reader” and the Harvard, he said, he learned to ignore the sixth volume of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s “History of Ukraine-Rus’.” popular academic trends of the day. (Continued on page 13) OBITUARY The Rev. Dr. Myron Stasiw, UNA officer, Toronto pastor TORONTO – The Rev. Dr. Myron Stasiw passed away Borecky, the Rev. Stasiw fulfilled his role in exemplary on November 22 at the age of 87 after a long and coura- fashion. He also served as chaplain and spiritual direc- geous battle with diabetes and its complications. The tor for many church and community committees and Rev. Stasiw was very involved in the work of the organizations, including the Ukrainian Youth Ukrainian National Association, as a branch secretary Association (SUM). and member of the UNA General Assembly, and was a The Rev. Stasiw, a mitred archpriest of the Ukrainian pastor in Toronto for several decades. Catholic Church’s Toronto Eparchy, firmly believed in In 1983 he was elected as secretary of UNA Branch 49 taking positive action whenever possible and encour- of Toronto and remained in that office until 2011. In aged his parishioners to do likewise. During his homi- 1994 the Rev. Stasiw was elected to the UNA General lies, he often fondly recounted the story of the priest of Assembly as an advisor and served for one term. In 1998 Ars, France, St. John Vianney, who excelled in taking he was UNA Director for Canada and served until 2002. positive action to improve his Church. Father Stasiw’s He was born on March 5, 1925, in Dobrivliany, west- deep devotion and love for his Ukrainian Catholic ern Ukraine, and was raised in a religious and patriotic Church and his homeland, Ukraine, remained with him family. He excelled in school and had a fervent desire for throughout his final days. learning. The opportunity presented itself when he He was predeceased by his parents, Mykola and heeded God’s call and pursued religious studies in Paraskevia, and brother Mychajlo. Surviving are his Rome, where he was ordained a priest on May 22, 1952. brother Ostap; nephews Mykola and Vyacheslav; niece He earned three doctoral degrees. Halyna and their families; as well as many friends and In 1957 he was sent to Saskatchewan, where he parishioners in Toronto and beyond. served in pastoral ministry. He subsequently moved to The parastas service took place on Saturday, Ontario, where he held appointments both in Ottawa November 24, and Sunday, November 25, at the Sobor and at the University of Toronto. Beginning in 1968 he of the Holy Protection in Toronto. The funeral liturgy served as a priest at the Ukrainian Catholic Sobor of the was offered on Monday, November 26, followed by Holy Protection in Toronto, where he became pastor in interment at Park Lawn Cemetery. 1987. He wholeheartedly embraced his pastoral duties In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made for over 40 years, while building a strong and vibrant for liturgies for the repose of his soul or to the Ukrainian congregation. Catholic Seminary in Ottawa. Online condolences may Appointed vicar-general by the late Bishop Isidore The Rev. Dr. Myron Stasiw be offered at www.cardinalfuneralhomes.com. No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 5

The Ukrainian National Association Forum

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COMMENTARY The Ukrainian Weekly Assessing Ukraine’s elections Ukraine’s president missing The Helsinki Commission – that is, the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe as this independent agency of the federal government is for- on the Holodomor mally known – has once again held an important hearing about Ukraine and its by Askold S. Lozynskyj spirituality. Well, despite the low bar, Mr. October 28 parliamentary elections. Readers of this newspaper no doubt recall that Motsyk still managed to underwhelm. He back on May 17 the commission organized a hearing on “Ukraine’s Upcoming On Saturday, November 17, the proceeded to articulate apparently his own Parliamentary Elections: A Pivotal Moment,” that heard from experts in the field Ukrainian American community in the remarks, even using the term “Holodomor- from Freedom House, the International Republican Institute (IRI), the National northeastern part of the United States held Genocide.” By the time the ambassador had Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, its annual Holodomor observance in New concluded, it was clear that there was no as well as the daughter of imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. York City with a 50-block march from St. statement from President Yanukovych. Mr. Now that the election has passed, the Helsinki Commission on November 16 held George Ukrainian Catholic Church on the Motsyk was not able to compensate for another hearing, “Assessing Ukraine’s Parliamentary Elections,” with testimony Lower East Side to St. Patrick’s Cathedral that stark omission. offered by specialists from the IRI and the NDI, as well as a U.S. State Department offi- on 51st Street and Fifth Avenue. There, an Mr. Yanukovych’s struggle with the cial from its Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and the chair of the ecumenical (Ukrainian Catholic and Holodomor dates back to his shameless Ukrainian citizens’ network Opora. The reason: these elections were indeed pivotal in Ukrainian Orthodox) requiem service was performance before the Parliamentary Ukraine’s further development as a democratic state – Helsinki Commission offered to honor the memory of the victims Assembly of the Council of Europe in Chairman Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.) had called them “a litmus test for Ukrainian followed by a commemorative program Strasbourg on April 27, 2010, when he democracy.” There is also the salient fact that Ukraine in 2013 will serve as chair of consisting of a few speeches and/or read- said, “The Holodomor was in Ukraine, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and, as noted by ings of statements. Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. It was the Helsinki Commission Policy Adviser Orest Deychakiwsky, its conduct in adhering to This service and program following a result of Stalin’s totalitarian regime. But it OSCE commitments, especially in the areas of human rights and fundamental free- similar protocol have been ongoing for would be wrong and unfair to recognize doms, democracy and the rule of law, should be exemplary. Unfortunately, it is not. almost 20 years since it was first initiated the Holodomor as an act of genocide (The full transcript of the hearing can be found on the Helsinki Commission’s website, by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of against one nation... It was a common trag- www.csce.gov; a story about the hearing appears on page 3 of this issue.) America and the efforts of Bishop Basil edy for all people who lived in the former Indeed, Olha Aivazovska of Opora testified that “the 2012 parliamentary cam- Losten of the Ukrainian Catholic Church Soviet Union.” paign was characterized by an artificial restriction of competition within the elector- with the participation of then Bishop Since the Strasbourg denunciation, Mr. al process” and the use of government resources (adminresurs) “to give unfair Antony of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Yanukovych and his people have done very advantages to the specific candidates.” She said 457 instances of “adminresurs” were The senior adviser for Europe to the little to advance Holodomor awareness, registered by Opora’s observers. “Unfair advantages provided by use of these state Permanent Mission of the United States of either in Ukraine or within the internation- resources precluded fair competition in these elections.” She also stated that America to the United Nations, William al community. For example, the Permanent “observers recorded the most grievous violations at the stage of vote count and vote Pope, read a statement from The White Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations tabulation” and emphasized that these violations were material “as they affected the House, office of the Press Secretary. The has lately sponsored watered-down annual outcome of the elections.” unsigned statement read, in part, “We observances at the U.N. focusing on lack of The IRI and the NDI also commented on the preparation and outcome of the elec- honor the millions who lost their lives dur- food issues experienced by many nations tions – citing both significant regression in Ukraine’s democratization and the grow- ing this man-made catastrophe, in which instead of poignant commemorations with ing pluralism of political life – and made recommendations for improvements in the Ukrainian farms and crops were seized in a “the Ukrainian Holodomor as a genocide of election process. Katie Fox of the NDI said these recommendations are offered “in deliberate attempt to break the will of the the Ukrainian people” theme as had been the spirit of strengthening and supporting democratic institutions and processes in Ukrainian people. It is a tribute to the cour- done in the past. Some foreign dignitaries Ukraine.” Stephen Nix of the IRI underscored that “Ukraine remains of great strategic age and resilience of the Ukrainian people visiting Ukraine who have made a point of importance to the United States… And for this reason, a careful analysis of the demo- that, even in the face of this unconscionable paying respects to the Holodomor victims cratic backsliding in Ukraine and how the United States and Europe should react is cruelty, they did not abandon their pursuit at Kyiv’s memorial have done so often with- of utmost importance at this time.” Those sentiments were echoed by Thomas Melia of dignity, universal rights and sovereignty.” out the company of Ukraine’s president. of the State Department, who said the hearing was “a reflection of the importance of In keeping with President Barack Obama’s Some have argued that Mr. Yanukovych’s this briefing and the importance that Ukraine has for American policy makers in the “Russia reset” policy the statement was disregard for the Holodomor contravenes Ukrainian law on the Holodomor from Congress and in the executive branch.” neither particularly profound nor evoca- tive. “Genocide” was not uttered. Russia 2006 which remains on the books. It prob- Mr. Melia also underscored that the U.S. remains “committed to engagement with was not mentioned. However, the U.S. gov- ably does. So, once again, Mr. Yanukovych Ukraine” and wants “to continue to help Ukraine move towards its democratic ernment position was salvaged by an ana- flaunts Ukraine’s laws. However, this is future.” He added, “We know Ukraine is capable of taking the right steps. We just lytical, compassionate and unequivocal hardly Mr. Yanukovych’s greatest deficien- haven’t seen the present government in Kyiv make the policy decisions to do so.” honoring of the victims by Sen. Charles cy. More significantly, it underlines the We appreciate, once again, the Helsinki Commission’s attention to Ukraine. And Schumer (D-N.Y.). indisputable fact that Mr. Yanukovych is not we hope that the objectives outlined by NGOs and the words of commitment spoken When Ukraine’s Ambassador to the now, nor will he ever be, the president of by the State Department will be reflected in the actions of the second administration United States Oleksander Motsyk stepped the Ukrainian people even though he may of President Barack Obama. up to the podium, expectations were not be recognized as the president of Ukraine. high. After all, he was the spokesman for An American friend of mine visiting Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine last year told me, “It seems that who has rolled back most progress on those in the Ukrainian government simply issues involving Ukrainian identity and do not care for their people.” My friend Dec. Turning the pages back... could not have been more on target. Viktor Askold S. Lozynskyj is an attorney based Yanukovych simply does not care for the in New York City. He is a former president Ukrainian people, nor does he feel their of the Ukrainian World Congress. pain! 4 Fifteen years ago, on December 4, 1997, Vasyl Koval, chief of the Consular Department of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of 1997 Ukraine, was arrested and charged with abuse of office and unlawful foreign currency operations. This was the highest gov- Quotable notes ernment official charged with corruption, with some speculating that charges were immi- “…Every year, when we remember the victims of the Holodomor, we learn some- nent against one of Ukraine’s leading businesspeople. thing new. One of the indisputable proofs of the artificiality of the famine is the exis- The arrest, ordered by acting Procurator General of Ukraine Oleh Lytvak, came five tence of so-called ‘black boards’ [chorni doshky]. Honestly, when I first heard about days after the conclusion of a government co-sponsored symposium on fighting corrup- the existence of these, I thought they were some sort of secret lists or orders that puni- tion, where World Bank officials criticized Ukraine’s government for much rhetoric and lit- tive Soviet bodies received. But these were not secret lists. These black boards were tle action. published in the press. I was struck by this fact. Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Viktor Nosiachuk declined to comment on the “There is no doubt today that the Famine was artificially induced, even by looking nature of the accusations and First Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Anton Buteiko said at the bountiful harvest that the Ukrainian land produced in the year when the that the situation was indicative of the corruption that was consuming Ukrainian society. Ukrainians were starving to death. So someone took these God-given products of the “The situation that has appeared in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs mirrors what is going earth from the Ukrainians. on in our country today,” said Mr. Buteiko. “Today, in fact, not all accept this idea and other facts as undeniable evidence that the Mr. Lytvak also asked the Verkhovna Rada to remove the immunity from prosecution of Famine was an artificially provoked genocide. Just as it was in the case of the Jewish National Deputy Yulia Tymoshenko in order that he could bring an indictment against her, Holocaust. Even now there are people who deny the Holocaust, although they are con- also for illegal currency operations. Ms. Tymoshenko then headed United Energy Systems, sidered criminals. I think we really need to mature to this, so that these types of ideologi- one of the most successful gas and oil trading firms in Ukraine. cal clichés will no longer disturb the minds of Ukrainians. So that everyone who denies In a written statement to Parliament, Mr. Lytvak indicated that Ms. Tymoshenko was the genocide in Ukraine is considered, both in our country and in the whole world, an indicted for illegally attempting to smuggle $26,000 out of Ukraine at Zaporizhia Airport, accomplice or a person who justifies the crime. A crime, which has no excuse!” where she was preparing to board a flight for Moscow. Petro Sheiko, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Ethics and Legislative Activity, said that the request would – Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk, speaking in an interview with the Religious Information Service of Ukraine, which was posted on the RISU website on November 27. (Continued on page 10) No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 7

UKRAINIAN FAMINE LECTURE IN TORONTO The Holodomor and history: bringing Ukrainians back in Below is the text of Alexander Motyl’s lec- versal condemnation of it as a crime. And, the survivor testimonies and literary as they like to believe, because they say con- ture at the University of Toronto on as ““The Holodomor Reader”” demon- accounts. They impressed me precisely troversial or critical things about Ukrainians November 9. This was the annual Ukrainian strates, the empirical evidence for regarding because they brought the horrors of the or about Ukrainian nationalists. Nor is it Famine Lecture co-sponsored by the the Holodomor as genocide is overwhelm- Holodomor to life. They placed faces on the because they are the first to concern them- Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies, ing. If one is neutral, one will be persuaded. dying and they attached names to the num- selves with moral issues related to culpabili- the Center for European, Russian and If one is a diehard cynic, lacks the capacity bers. These materials transformed the ty for terrorism, violence and crimes against Eurasian Studies, the Petro Jacyk Program for for human empathy, or has a political agen- Holodomor from an abstract event to a humanity. People of my generation were the Study of Ukraine, the Canadian Institute da, no amount of evidence will do the trick. human catastrophe. They gave life to the exploring the same issues they are just dis- of Ukrainian Studies, Toronto Office, and the There is, thus, no more need to demon- dead. They enabled me to feel for them, to covering back in the 1960s and 1970s. Just Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Toronto strate yet again that the Holodomor meets sympathize and even empathize, to imagine read any issue of Student, New Directions, branch. Dr. Motyl is professor of political sci- the requirements of any reasonable defini- what it must have been like to be a Meta or Dialoh from that time. ence at Rutgers University-Newark. tion of genocide. There is no need to pro- Ukrainian peasant condemned to a slow No, I find their work unacceptable duce any more treatises using United and awful extinction in the spring of 1933. because it is offensive. That is, it offends me. Three or more years ago, I would not Nations documents to show that the Listen to the following lines from a poem But not as a Ukrainian. I’m used to that and have been standing here. As most of you Holodomor was as much of a genocide as by Wira Wowk: have a thick skin. Rather, it offends me as a probably know, I have never devoted any the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the human being. Like Soviet specialists on significant amount of time in my scholarly Rwandan genocide, or the Cambodian geno- the forlorn bourgeois nationalism of the past, the neo- career to studying the Holodomor. I’ve writ- cide. The Holodomor was not just a tragedy. field cries Soviet historians offend because they reduce ten a few brief articles and given a few talks, It was a slaughter, and every person of good Famine Ukrainians from complex persons to one- but I have never been a Holodomor special- conscience knows that. There is as little rea- the Golgotha dimensional stereotypes with no conscience, ist. It is only in the last two years that I’ve son to worry about Holodomor deniers in of a home without a roof no feelings, no brains and no voice. It’s as if been able to aspire to that designation. And the West as there is to worry about the Flat distant are the storks these historians had never read “The that is due solely to my having co-edited, Earth Society. Their numbers will, inevitably, how many years of woe Merchant of Venice,” where Shylock states: together with Bohdan Klid of the Canadian decline. In the meantime, they should be did the cuckoo announce? “I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath Institute of Ukrainian Studies, “The treated with tolerance and compassion and, how many eclipses of the sun not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, sens- Holodomor Reader.” Bohdan is the special- ultimately, with indifference. how many scarecrows amidst poppies? es, affections, passions; fed with the same ist, but I was his apprentice and, as such, I After all, the battle has been won, and it a stream of blood food, hurt with the same weapons, subject was able to come to an infinitely deeper is time to move on. flows through the fields to the same diseases, heal’d by the same understanding of this genocide than I had Second, the debate about the exact num- a bleached skull in the black earth means, warm’d and cool’d by the same win- possessed when he and I embarked on this bers of Ukrainians who perished in the ravens circle above corpses ter and summer, as a Christian is? If you project in the summer of 2010. Holodomor is best left to the experts. We can the shadows of children prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, My deepest thanks to Bohdan as well as now state with reasonable certainty that the along the fence do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not to Marko Stech, Frank Sysyn, and Myroslav number is at least 4 million. It may be more. blinded by tears die? And if you wrong us, do we not Yurkevych of the institute for making this But whether or not that number is four, or the dark church revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we book a reality and for enabling me to learn six, or eight, or 10 million no longer matters its zinc cupola nodding will resemble you in that.” so much. once we understand that the Holodomor was where are you mallows Remember: in demanding a pound of The idea for this book came to Bohdan genocide and that that genocide cost some near the multicolored walls flesh, Shylock was acting brutally. Even so, and me, separately, sometime during the 25,000 Ukrainian lives per day at its height. where is the spindle of the song we empathize with him, we even commiser- 75th anniversary of the Holodomor in 2008. The demographers are currently hard at where is the wreath of the dance? ate with him, precisely because we know Both of us were struck by the fact that, work generating numbers and data sets. death dances on the grass stubble that he was responding to the sustained although the amount of material relating to They have the skills to do so, and they also the zither’s strings humiliation of repeated wrongs. And the Holodomor was huge and steadily have the techniques for interpreting these snapped from the lament although Shylock acted brutally, we know growing, there was no comprehensive numbers and producing reliable estimates. of millions of innocents that he was not therefore a brute. sourcebook on the Famine for English- Let me remind you that, back in the Our response to Shylock stands in sharp language readers. As a result, finding basic 1950s and 1960s, the battle of numbers This is the power of memoirs and of liter- contrast to how neo-Soviet historians treat information on the Holodomor required the seemed as hopeless as the battle of inten- ature: to bring the past to life. And we need Ukrainians: as savages, as brutes, as animals kind of research that most non-specialists tionality. And this was true despite the fact much more of both. We need to hear the that respond on impulse and lack the capac- have neither time nor energy to pursue. that many of the Western journalists who peasants and workers and urban dwellers. ity for rational thought and human empa- I was one of those non-specialists. As a wrote about the Famine in the 1930s spoke We need to do everything we possibly can thy. Savages, naturally, want only to be sav- political scientist who has spent inordinate of six to eight to 10 million victims. After to give them a voice and, thus, a presence. It ages. Savages can have no legitimate inter- amounts of time defining concepts, I had no World War II and the outbreak of the Cold is only in this manner that we will fully ests, no legitimate grievances, no legitimate doubt that the Holodomor possessed all the War, however, the 1930s were forgotten. A commemorate their sacrifice and their concerns. Regardless of context, regardless defining characteristics of genocide. But I Soviet history atlas compiled by the reputa- death. Abstractions and numbers are inca- of circumstances, they want only to kill, to confess to having lacked a full appreciation ble historian Martin Gilbert in 1972, for pable of reaching into these inner realms of rape, to pillage. of the magnitude of the tragedy that befell instance, illustrates the “main area of the human experience and, indeed, of the Such a view is of course profoundly, and Ukraine in 1932-1933. That changed in the forced collectivization of over 5 million human condition. manifestly, racist, and we would not counte- course of our research and translations. peasant holdings 1929-1938” and notes Which brings me to my fourth point. I nance this kind of stereotyping of anybody More important, I’ve learned a thing or two that “thousands of peasants were killed wish to make a radical suggestion, one that else – certainly not of blacks, women and about Holodomor studies in the West. when they resisted (some by armed force).” will shock some Ukrainians and many non- Jews. Just imagine if black insurrections, Several things now strike me as obvious. Revisionist historians placed the number at Ukrainians. I wish to suggest that women’s self-assertiveness, and Jews’ anger First, the debate about whether or not several hundred thousand. Soviet propa- Ukrainians are human beings and that their at discrimination were explained only in the Holodomor was or was not a genocide gandists, of course, denied any significant history should be treated as the history of terms of irrational propensities to destruc- is over – at least in the West. Consider population losses at all. Consider where we human beings. In a word, we need to rein- tion, hysteria and greed. We would be out- where the Famine was in the popular con- stand today. No one disputes the fact that vent Ukrainian history as the history – not raged. And yet, it is perfectly acceptable to sciousness of the 1950s. The answer is: millions died. No one disputes the fact that just of elites, not just of masses, not just of view Ukrainians in this manner. Please do nowhere. Survivors, refugees and émigrés the “kill rate” – the rate at which people peasants, not just of a territory or a state – not misunderstand me. I have no doubt that wrote about it extensively, but primarily in died per day – was astonishingly high. but of people. Ukrainians are capable of and have commit- Ukrainian, and their audience consisted The battle of numbers has been won, and Some Ukrainians are heroes, and a few ted crimes. After all, Ukrainians are human. largely of themselves. Although some it is time to move on. are saints. Some are cowards, and a few are But I also have no doubt that Ukrainians are Western journalists had written about the Third, it is time to shift the focus of criminals. The vast majority are just regular rational beings and not savages. After all, Famine in the 1930s, their focus soon shift- Holodomor studies from the big-picture folk – no different from Canadians, Ukrainians are human. ed to other stories, while Western scholars questions – Was it genocide? Did millions Americans, Russians, Jews, blacks, Indians Where does the view of Ukrainians as ignored the Famine almost entirely. Even in perish? – to the small-picture questions: and all the others. All Ukrainians, whatever irrational beings driven by primitive urges 1983, during the 50th anniversary of the Who were the people who died? How did modifier we append to them, are exactly come from? I suspect that the answer has Holodomor, the regnant view of one of the they die? What lives did they lead? Who like all other people. They want to live, and something to do with the way in which great crimes of the 20th century maintained killed them? In other words, we must they generally don’t want to die. They fall in Ukrainians are represented in three key cul- that it was a minor tragedy at best and a humanize the Holodomor. We must remind love, they have relationships, families and tures and historiographies or, to use a fash- consequence of agricultural policy gone ourselves, and others, that this was not just children, and they pass away. They do smart ionable word, discourses. Although no cul- awry at worst. a genocide that cost millions of lives, but things, and they do stupid things. They do ture, discourse or historiography is uniform, Since then, the status of the Famine as a that each and every Ukrainian who per- good things, and they do bad things. No it is not too great an exaggeration to suggest non-event or an émigré fantasy has changed ished in the Holodomor was a human being more and no less than all the other billions that long-standing Polish, Jewish and by 180 degrees. No serious scholar or politi- worth remembering as a human being. of people populating the world. Russian representations of Ukrainians are cal figure now disputes that millions of As Bohdan and I were compiling “The * * * strikingly similar. The Polish discourse tends Ukrainians starved to death in 1932-1933. Holodomor Reader,” the materials that I have often wondered why I find the to view Ukrainians as savage “haidamaky.” There is general agreement in the West that impressed me most were not the scholarly scholarship of the contemporary school of the Famine was avoidable and almost uni- articles and the diplomatic documents, but neo-Soviet historians unacceptable. It is not, (Continued on page 14) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 No. 49 GENERATION UKE

Edited and compiled by Matthew Dubas Boston College Ukrainian Society holds varenyky workshop

Andrij Klokiw BC students gather around tables, rolling dough and Matej Liber presides over BC students hard at work, Markian Bojko holds a tray of freshly made pyrohy. filling them with traditional mashed potato filling. providing assistance and instruction.

by Andrew Klokiw Much of the cooking was done by the society’s vice- The culinary workshop concluded with the partici- president, Andrew Klokiw, and most of the prep work pants eating all 150 of the pyrohy they had made. CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – On the first Saturday of was done by sophomore officers Matt Lieber and BCUS will host another workshop during the spring November, the Boston College Ukrainian Society (BCUS) Markian Bojko. semester, as well as a pysanky workshop before Easter. held its semi-annual pyrohy (varenyky) workshop on “Since we began this event four years ago, it has These workshops will go along with several other events campus. The workshop was publicized throughout the become our most popular undertaking among the stu- sponsored in conjunction with the School’s Slavic Club university and was open to all interested individuals in dents here at BC,” Marko Lieber commented, “and we and several other universities in the area. the Greater Boston area. now have to do it once each semester.” “Generally our spring ‘pyrih’ event is the bigger of the Over 50 students and guests turned out for the after- “Along with our pysanka-making (Ukrainian Easter two,” Mr. Klokiw said of the recent event. However, the noon workshop where BCUS President Marko Lieber egg) workshop, this event has been crucial in broadcast- large turnout would seem to indicate that the students taught the group how to roll the dough for the pyrohy, ing the objectives of our Ukrainian Society to the univer- here really have an interest in Ukrainian culture and how to prepare and then stuff the various Ukrainian fill- sity: to bring Ukrainian customs and traditions to those food. We hope to use this interest as a potential spring- ings into the dough, how to mold them into the finished who want to immerse themselves in another culture, if board to increasing our membership in the coming product, and then how to boil them. only for a day,” he added. years.”

Silecky skates to national championship PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Matej Silecky, a of The Skating Club of New York, has com- Ukrainian American sophomore at the peted at the junior level in the Eastern University of California at Berkeley, is the Sectionals in 2009-2010, including the current United States Figure Skating short program and free skating. His per- (USFS) Junior Men’s Collegiate National formances were ranked near the top 10. Champion and the USFS North Atlantic As indicated on his USFS team profile, Region Junior Men’s silver medalist. Mr. Silecky is seeking a pairs skating part- A native of Verona, N.J., Mr. Silecky, 18, ner. In addition to his solo skating, he has won first place in the junior men’s long begun educating himself on coaching, and program and won third place in the junior completed the Professional Skaters short program at the Golden Bear Skate Association (PSA) Continuing Education Championship held at the University of Requirements (CER) level A. He also vol- California at Berkeley in Oakland, Calif., on unteers as a judge at the USFS basic skills September 15. competitions, and has begun working During the summer, Mr. Silecky won the toward his judging appointments as a trial junior men’s USFS Collegiate Nationals on judge. August 16-18 in South Dennis, Mass. He The son of Markian and Julie Silecky, he scored 130.74 points, scoring more than has been skating since the age of 4 and has 40 points higher than his nearest competi- supplemented his training with dance tor. studies, including ballroom, ballet, hip-hop Mr. Silecky has chosen to double-major and Ukrainian folk dance. (He is related to in Russian and Theater, Dance and renowned choreographer Andrij Cybyk.) Performance Studies. The Cal Figure In addition to his competitions, Mr. Skating Team facebook page listed Mr. Silecky finds time to donate to benefit Silecky as injured. He sustained the injury Rosepetals, a charity for children in hos- following the short program while com- pice care or with cancer and blood disor- peting at the Eastern Sectional ders. His Cal Figure Skating Team wishes Championships on November 8-13 in him a speedy recovery as his injury mends, Hyannis Port, Mass. Mr. Silecky, a member and a swift return to the ice skating rink. Matej Silecky performs. No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 9 A visit to the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv

by Andriy Semotiuk In November, I spent two weeks in Lviv at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) leading classes that focused on public speaking and effective presentation tech- niques, as well as personal and profession- al development. What follows is an account of my impressions from those two weeks. The Ukrainian Catholic University con- sists principally of three buildings: a long four-story structure near the center of the city, a student residence near the city’s Stryisky Park, and a seminary further away from downtown. UCU has about 600 full- time students studying various disciplines, 200 of whom are seminarians. The rest are studying journalism, history, philosophy and business. It costs UCU about $6,000 (U.S.) to teach each student per year, including tuition, books, food, board, etc. UCU There are two women who largely orga- Andriy Semotiuk at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv with students in his effective communication course. nized my stay: Natalia Pylatyuk, who is an on. Then I launched into the effectiveness about a new vision I proposed for them. I skills. I am blown away by this fact since I assistant to the rector of the university, and of a pause in the course of making a pre- suggested that they become so good in believe they have a better understanding Ivanka Mohyliak, who was in charge of sentation. I think it went well. their sermons that word would spread of the importance of effective communica- coordinating the visits of dignitaries. I was In the midst of my remarks, as I talked about how well they speak and that people tion than do our students in the West. assigned a first-class room in the student about my family history in Lviv and the from around Halychyna would look for- Imagine that! Collegium where I stayed. reason why I came to Lviv to spend time ward to a Sunday when, two or three I saw that there were other individuals I was given a cellphone to be in contact with them, I was swept up by an emotional weeks hence, father so-and-so will be who were here also addressing these with everyone, and Natalia took painstak- wave that staggered me. I was speechless speaking at such and such a church. I sug- themes, although I want to believe they ing care to greet me and make sure I was for about a minute as I tried to compose gested to them that they help each other in were not as effective in their approach as I settled after my arrival at the new modern myself, while they watched respectfully in preparing their sermons and that they was. I tried my best in each class to high- Lviv airport, where the sign finally says silence. Finally I managed to get a grip on work on them to make them interesting light the essential elements of a good pre- “Lviv.” She took me out on my arrival for myself and move on. I think that event con- using some of the techniques we discussed sentation and to lead the classes in such a dinner and to tour around the city so I veyed a sense of my sincerity in being in class. way that there was some involvement by would be familiar with my surroundings. there and from then on my presentation Again I was deeply moved as the last the students in presentations. In some Ivanka took over the task of coordinating went smoothly. They probably wondered class was coming to an end; again they cases I may have gotten carried away with my appearances in the days that followed. just what kind of fruitcake I was on the one watched in silence as I struggled with my my family history, but on the whole the My visit was a seamless series of events put hand, but then also probably sensed that emotions. I wondered what went through classes were very forgiving and welcomed together for me by these two wonderful the presentation they had just witnessed their minds as I stood there trying not to my remarks with enthusiasm. women, as well as the other staff at UCU. was somewhat unique and therefore mem- be overwhelmed by the emotions I felt. To A few things stood out about these stu- I met a variety of groups. For one thing, I orable. At least I hope so. me what was so striking was that I was dents. For one, virtually every one of them had four meetings with seminarians in the In the following sessions their numbers now in an independent Ukraine speaking knew Ukrainian and Russian and was fourth year of their studies at the universi- dwindled somewhat, but those who stayed freely to seminarians whose forefathers studying English and another language like ty. There were about 40 of them – young to the end appeared to me to be the ones just 20 years earlier were part of an under- French, Polish or German. No kidding! men, all dressed in black cassocks – eager who will most likely be the future leaders ground persecuted Church under brutal In this sense they are way ahead of us. to learn, full of good will, but also some- of the Church. Not everything went well – Soviet rule. For another, their lives are harder than what uncertain of what I was presenting to there were moments when I was not con- I was also conscious of how fast time ours – their struggle to survive and pros- them. necting with the seminarians and they flies and that I was now in my 60s address- per is on a steeper incline. In most of their I felt a tremendous sense of power in could not see the value I was trying to con- ing a class of young men mainly in their families, money is probably a constant them as they jointly prayed with me at the vey. At other moments I felt like I was real- 20s, that just the other day I was their age problem, and then there are life’s challeng- start of the first class. There is nothing like ly getting through to them, particularly on and did not appreciate how soon I would es: health, government bureaucracy, cor- 40 male voices praying out loud in unison the point of making their sermons relevant be approaching this, the last sprint in my ruption and the like. to give you a sense of spiritual purpose. to the problems parishioners are facing at journey. It dawned on me that no matter In their young lives they have had to I tried to open with something unique. I the moment they are presenting. We held what I said I could not possibly get them to face serious problems in their society – therefore started in silence just looking at break-out sessions and practiced speaking. realize how precious every moment is, and separated families with parents abroad, them for about 30 seconds. They, of course, Some were exceptional speakers, some how there is no time to waste and so much alcoholism, homelessness, hopelessness were wondering what the heck was going less so. While occasionally an exercise I they can do to improve the lives of their and even despair. All take their toll. Despite proposed did not work well, the good will people in Ukraine today – particularly for these challenges, or perhaps because of Andriy J. Semotiuk is an attorney practic- of those who stayed with me through the the young children growing up under the them, most of the students I met have a ing U.S. and Canadian immigration law. A course of my four meetings with them care of their parents who will soon face an high level of spiritual commitment and former United Nations correspondent sta- made up for any shortcomings that arose uncertain future unless something is done lead a religious life. tioned in New York, Mr. Semotiuk is a mem- because of my shortcomings. now. On top of that, I can add with unquali- ber of Pace Law Firm in Toronto and In our last session together following One of the seminarians rose to his feet fied certainty that Ukraine’s future will be Manning and Kass in Los Angeles. our break-out practice sessions we talked and spoke on behalf of his class to thank bright to the extent that more students like me for my visit and for my efforts. His these graduate from this university. words were noble, and he spoke so elo- One afternoon I had the opportunity to quently that I was moved again by his meet Myroslav Marynovych, a vice-rector remarks. Then they all stood and sang at the university and a former dissident “Mnohaya Lita.” As they sang, I made a who was part of the Ukrainian Helsinki point of looking into their eyes. They were Group in the 1970s. I knew his name well, sincere and I knew that they too were since in the 1970s I was at the United touched by the moment. Nations in New York representing the As for other groups, I met classes of World Congress of Free Ukrainians trying journalists, classes of English students and to raise the plight of Ukraine and gain the classes of people working with NGOs to release from prison of dissidents, including mention a few. Each showed a keen inter- Mr. Marynovych, whose name was on our est and I was surprised by the extent of list of people we tried to help. their response and the numbers who We spoke of how circumstances had attended given the last-minute organiza- changed and how he felt it was time for a tion of my arrival and trip. new set of leaders to emerge and take Surprisingly for me, even though I pro- Ukraine further in the direction of democ- posed various themes I could speak about, racy and freedom. We spoke of the such as history, journalism, law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and like, they were all most interested in effec- Andriy Semotiuk talks with seminarians during his workshop at UCU. tive presentation and public speaking (Continued on page 17) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 No. 49 Political advisor and communications officer Zenia Mucha speaks at Ukrainian Institute by Adriana Leshko to quality and the way in which it repre- sents America around the globe that NEW YORK – Branch 113 of the seemed to inspire her most, as well as the Ukrainian National Women’s League of fact that her job allows her to interface America (UNWLA) and the Ukrainian with each facet of the company, making Institute of America on October 20 pre- every day different from the next. sented “An Evening with Zenia Mucha,” a While she sidestepped the inevitable successful and spirited question and “What Disney princess would you be?” answer session with the current executive question, Ms. Mucha did admit that, like all vice-president, chief communications offi- top executives, she had to take a costumed cer for The Walt Disney Co., and former turn around the theme park as part of her powerhouse advisor to New York politi- corporate initiation process. The memory cians Gov. George E. Pataki and Sen. Alfonse of rapturous responses from young fans D’Amato. clearly left Ms. Mucha moved, but the stra- After an introduction by Branch tegic communicator in her was loathe to President Christina Samilenko and brief divulge the Disney character involved. remarks by Ms. Mucha – during which the But perhaps the most direct answer of winner of the 2012 Matrix Award from the evening came in response to a young New York Women in Communications woman curious as to how Ms. Mucha navi- stressed the importance of the work ethic Members of Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Branch 113 with Zenia gated her way to the pinnacle of such an and sense of limitless possibility that her Mucha (seated, second from left) at the Ukrainian Institute of America. iconic company (she reports directly to immigrant parents had instilled in her – the Disney CEO Robert Iger). “Well, I came in at floor was opened to questions. tial time in the public sector. A lifelong bring Gov. Pataki in front of the media to the top,” said Ms. Mucha with a well-earned The diverse audience included many Republican, Ms. Mucha candidly noted the address his state and the nation at large, chuckle. “So I can’t really answer that ques- young communications professionals eager disenfranchisement she feels from the cur- something she views as a significant tion.” to hear from a superstar in their field, as rent iteration of the party, which she char- missed opportunity for the once potential At the conclusion of the Q & A, Ms. well as, much to Ms. Mucha’s delight, some acterized as consumed with a focus on presidential candidate. Mucha was presented with a bouquet of of her former classmates from the East social issues to the detriment of the kind of While her time with the governor was flowers and a selection of exhibit cata- Village’s St. George Ukrainian Catholic impact-making policies she had a hand in among the happiest and most professional- logues from The Ukrainian Museum. The School. Topics ranged between the person- shaping during her tenure with Gov. Pataki. ly fulfilling in a career full of highlights, best reception immediately following featured al, the political, and the professional; in Her respect for and commitment to the – or at least most influential – boss honors an abundant culinary spread and a contin- response to a crowd appreciative of her governor also inform Ms. Mucha’s biggest went to Sen. D’Amato, whose indefatigable uation of the lively dialogue that preceded time and achievements, Ms. Mucha was personal and professional regret: not being energy and high expectations of those it. generous in turn, and answered questions in New York on September 11, 2001. As a around him resulted in Ms. Mucha develop- Ms. Mucha stayed and answered ques- for well over an hour. lifelong New York public servant, she said it ing the consummate communications skill tions until the very end of the evening. While deeply committed to and inspired felt incongruous to not be in the city in its set that laid the foundation for her ascen- Clearly this Los Angeles-based power bro- by her work over the past decade with the darkest hour; professionally, her transition sion to the highest ranks in that field. ker was happy to be back among the com- Disney corporation, Ms. Mucha spoke most to the private sector meant Ms. Mucha When Ms. Mucha spoke of her time at munity and in the city that shaped her des- revealingly about her enormously influen- couldn’t exert her customary influence to Disney, it was the company’s commitment tiny.

mitted to the people of Ukraine and to Helsinki... working with the government of Ukraine bilaterally and in the OSCE and in other (Continued from page 3) multilateral contexts to improve its demo- October 28 election was, in many ways, cratic institutions, strengthen the rule of outwardly competitive, and to some extent, law and advance essential reforms, includ- offered space for campaigning and for vot- ing reform of the criminal justice system, ers to learn of their political choices,” Mr. which has been a major priority. We reiter- Melia said. He added that it was interesting ate our call on the leadership of Ukraine to to note that “both of the major political for- reverse democratic backsliding, and we mations saw a loss in popular support” as offer our assurances that we will stand “the United Opposition and the Party of with Ukraine as it moves forward.” Regions lost about 5 percent over their per- Offered the opportunity to pose a ques- formance five years earlier,” while “other tion or to make a comment, Ambassador formations have emerged and taken a larg- Motsyk made a statement on the elections. er share of the vote, which again suggests He said, in part, “Ukraine’s government made [a] significant effort to guarantee its that there is pluralism in political life in Helsinki Commission Ukraine, and also it tells us that there is integrity, fairness and consistency with the Ukrainian law and international standards. At the hearing held to assess Ukraine’s parliamentary elections (from left) are: some disappointment in the governance Helsinki Commission Policy Advisor Orest Deychakiwsky, Helsinki Commissioner However, no one is claiming that the elec- and the leadership demonstrated by the Rep. Robert Aderholt and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, long-standing political leaders on both tions were 100 percent perfect. But it Human Rights and Labor Thomas Melia. sides.” would also be incorrect to characterize He stated that “Ukraine’s government them only in a negative way. All observers passed with the strong support of all par- that almost 900 journalists were accred- failed… to demonstrate adequate demo- or all observer reports on election day ties, including the opposition; the voter ited by the CEC. He acknowledged “some cratic bona fides... As Secretary [of State activities have complimented Ukraine for registry reached almost 100 percent problems”: district election commissions Hillary] Clinton said two days after the the professional manner in which the elec- accuracy; new regulations were passed did not always include major parties, but October 28 vote, ‘Like the rest of Europe, tion was conducted.” to prevent voting multiple times, so- noted that these commissions were cre- the people of Ukraine deserve so much bet- He noted, “Most of the criticism of the called carousel voting; the campaign was ated by a lottery system; fraud in ballot ter. They deserve to live in a country with elections focuses on [the] pre-election peri- highly competitive and voters had a real counting prevented the CEC from declar- strong democratic institutions that od. However, there are many positive find- opportunity to choose; web cameras ing winners in five single-mandate dis- respects the rule of law, and these elections ings that are being lost in criticism. These were installed at all 34,000 polling sta- tricts, but thus was a mere 1 percent of did not advance those goals.’ ” findings do present a more democratic tions to prevent falsifications. the seats in Parliament. Mr. Motsyk Mr. Melia concluded by underscoring: election that has been cited by critics.” Mr. Motsyk cited the fact that 371,000 stressed that the election results were “As we have for more than 20 years, the The ambassador listed the following domestic and nearly 4,000 international consistent with exit polls and parallel United States government remains com- positives: the new election law was observers monitored the elections, and vote counts.

and that actions by the Procurator the U.S. for money laundering, wire fraud know very well who these people are,” he Turning... General’s Office were a political move in and extortion. The United Nations esti- said. He did not say whether that list the election season orchestrated by the mates that approximately $200 million was included Ms. Tymoshenko or Mr. (Continued from page 6) presidential administration of Leonid looted by Mr. Lazarenko during 1996-1997 Lazarenko. Kuchma. from the government of Ukraine. be reviewed by his committee once Ms. Ms. Tymoshenko was then aligned with During a visit to Zaporizhia, President Source: “Procurator General brings Tymoshenko was notified and responded. the Hromada Party with former Prime Kuchma said that before the end of March charges against government official,” by Ms. Tymoshenko was quick to respond, Minister Pavlo Lazarenko. Mr. Lazarenko 1998, he would reveal the names of the Roman Woronowycz, The Ukrainian Weekly, stating that she had not broken any laws was convicted and sentenced to prison in business leaders of the shadow economy. “I December 14, 1997. No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 11 Three CIUS milestones celebrated in Toronto and developed his support of scholarly and guided her to work in the field, begin- projects there, at CIUS and elsewhere. She ning at a course he taught at the Harvard expressed appreciation of Dr. Kohut’s long Summer School in which he posed the leadership of Canada’s foremost center of question, how did it happen that Ukraine, Ukrainian studies, congratulated him on which in the early 1800s did not exist its achievements, and wished his succes- even as a distinct territory, declared itself sor, Dr. Kravchenko, similar success. a state just over a century later? Seeking Dr. Erast Huculak, honorary doctor of the answer to that question has shaped the University of Alberta, member of the her academic career, said Prof. Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Congress Andriewsky. Harvard was the place also and founder of the Huculak Chair of where Dr. Kohut began his career of devel- Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography, oping scholarly institutions, she recalled, spoke of the University of Alberta by organizing seminars, editing scholarly and CIUS as outstanding centers of publications and fund-raising to support scholarship and study of Ukrainian Ukrainian scholarship experiences that culture. He emphasized the impor- came to serve him and CIUS well during tance of Dr. Kohut’s leadership in his directorship in the expansion of its CIUS’s expansion of programs and programs and activities. These include ini- rise in prominence. tiatives ranging from the Canada-Ukraine Dr. Daria Darewych, president of Legislative program, funded by the the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Canadian International Development Canada, greeted Dr. Kohut as a Agency of the Canadian government, to long-time full member of the soci- the establishment of the Kowalsky ety. Speaking of his service as CIUS Program for the Study of Eastern Ukraine director since 1992, she highlight- at Kharkiv University by the Kowalsky Dr. Zenon Kohut receives the Mercator map from Dr. Frank E. Sysyn. ed the institute’s contributions to family of Toronto and involvement in the Ukrainian studies throughout Canada international project on Ukrainian- by Uliana M. Pasicznyk Speaking of the complexities of the vol- during these two decades. Russian relations organized with the ume, Ms. Pasicznyk thanked Prof. Heretz Olya Kuplowska, president of the Harriman Institute of Columbia University TORONTO – Three milestones of the for his accomplished translation and con- Canadian Foundation of Ukrainian and the University of Cologne. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies sulting editor Myron M. Kapral of Lviv’s Studies (CFUS), thanked Dr. Kohut for his Support of scholars from Ukraine, in were celebrated in Toronto on Friday eve- Institute of Archaeography for his intro- dedication and guidance as a member of particular, has been one of Dr. Kohut’s spe- ning, October 26, as over 90 scholars, duction and editorial work, as well as the CFUS Board of Directors, which cial endeavors as CIUS director, Prof. donors, members of the community and appropriates funds for the support of Andriewsky said, noting that for these CIUS staffers gathered to mark three Warsaw University, Andrii Grechylo of Lviv, scholarship relating to Ukraine. She pre- scholars such support had much more important occasions: the launch of Volume scholarly consultants Tomasz Wiślicz of Victor Ostapchuk and Maryna Kravets of sented both Dr. Kohut and Dr. Kravchenko than monetary value, for it showed that 6 of the English translation of Mykhailo the University of Toronto, David Frick of with copies of the “Encyclopedia of their work on Ukrainian topics was valued Hrushevsky’s “History of Ukraine-Rus”; the the University of California at Berkeley, Ukraine,” one of the major projects sup- and respected in Western scholarship, many years of service of CIUS’s outgoing Robert Romanchuk of Florida State ported by CFUS. encouraging continued dedication to their director, Dr. Zenon E. Kohut; and the arrival University, Michael Moser of the University Olga Andriewsky, professor of history at scholarly work. of the new director of CIUS, Dr. Volodymyr of Vienna, among others, for their contri- Trent University, addressed the gathering Throughout his term as director Dr. Kravchenko. butions. to speak of Dr. Kohut as a scholar and col- Kohut has also continued his own scholar- Dr. Frank E. Sysyn, head of the Toronto She acknowledged the work of fellow league, as well as director of the Canadian ly work in Ukrainian history, especially on office of CIUS, greeted the audience on staff members Dr. Marko R. Stech, who as Institute of Ukrainian Studies. She recalled the Ukrainian Hetmanate during the 18th behalf of the institute, its Peter Jacyk director of CIUS Press also supervised the meeting him as a young graduate student century, producing important contribu- Center for Ukrainian Historical Research publication of the volume, Myroslav at Harvard University in the late 1970s, tions to the field. In all these endeavors, he and the Jacyk Center’s Hrushevsky Yurkevich, Tania Plawuszczak-Stech, and when Dr. Kohut was an associate of has kept the spotlight on scholarly work Translation Project, which is producing the Peter Matilainen, as well as the contribu- Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute. and programs rather than on his own role English-language edition of the “History of tions of Yaroslav Fedoruk of Kyiv and They and numerous other individuals now as CIUS director. His numerous achieve- Ukraine-Rus’.” He called for a minute of Michael Cherkas of Toronto. working at universities in Canada, includ- ments, concluded Dr. Andriewsky, have silence in memory of Dr. Maria Fischer- Dr. Sysyn then presented the new vol- ing several present at the evening’s cele- indeed been remarkable in breadth and Slysh, sponsor of a volume of the history ume to Nadia Jacyk, daughter of the late bration, became part of the intellectually degree. published earlier and a generous donor to Peter Jacyk, founding benefactor of the vibrant community of established and Dr. Sysyn then called Dr. Kohut forward many Ukrainian projects and institutions. Jacyk Center and co-sponsor, with Dr. young scholars then being gathered at and on behalf of CIUS’s Toronto Office pre- The program began with the launch of Jeanette Bayduza, of Volume 6. In accept- Harvard by Prof. Omeljan Pritsak, founder sented him with the gift of an early 17th- the history’s newly published volume 6, ing the volume, Ms. Jacyk, president of the of Ukrainian studies at Harvard. century edition of a Mercator map of subtitled “Economic, Cultural and National Jacyk Educational Foundation, related Prof. Andriewsky related how Dr. Ukraine. Life in the 14th to 17th Centuries.” Dr. how her father had met with Dr. Sysyn and Kohut’s teaching and mentorship had illu- Sysyn, who also serves as editor-in-chief of Dr. Kohut years ago at Harvard University minated her concept of Ukrainian history (Continued on page 18) the translation project, spoke of the overall importance of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s monumental multivolume work and of making his history available to the broader English-speaking world. He introduced the volume’s translator, Leonid Heretz, professor of history at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, who spoke about some of the challenges he faced in working on the volume, including translating complex ter- minology and rendering the names of his- torical places and persons. Uliana M. Pasicznyk, managing editor of the Hrushevsky Translation Project, gave the audience an idea of the volume’s range and content. Here, she related, Hrushevsky gives us a full picture of life in the Ukrainian lands during the 14th to 17th centuries, from trade and commerce to social and family relations to the role of government and the development of the Orthodox-Uniate religious divide. In this volume the master historian not only makes the period come alive but gives an assessment of the long-term effects of Dr. Volodymyr Mezentsev this history on the development of the Nadia Jacyk receives the new volume of Hrushevsky’s “History of Dr. Volodymyr Kravchenko, the new director of the Ukrainian people and Ukrainian identity. Ukraine-Rus’ ” from Dr. Frank E. Sysyn. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 No. 49

Ukrainian Parliament. Speaking with jour- again. “I would ask all the aspirants and Hundreds wish Yulia happy birthday NEWSBRIEFS nalists in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on their teams to relax and not to consider me KHARKIV – At least 200 supporters of November 23, when asked whether he as a competitor,” he said, stressing that there (Continued from page 2) Ukraine’s jailed former Prime Minister Yulia would chair the new Parliament. He said are the election winners, who have the right Tymoshenko gathered in the eastern city of this was unlikely “because there is a party to decide the question of speakership. Baloha or Minister for Economic Kharkiv on November 27 to congratulate her Experts says Justice Minister Oleksander Development and Trade Petro Poroshenko. that won and has 185 out of 445 seats.” He on her 52nd birthday. The activists met in Lavrynovych is the top contender for the “Maybe someone has not yet managed to added, “In addition, a number of deputies front of the clinic where the opposition lead- post of Rada chair. The candidacies of Vice write .an application to join our faction, or, that ran for the Parliament as self-nominat- er is being treated for back pain. Supporters ed candidates have said they want to join Prime Minister Sergey Tigipko, Party of perhaps, some politicians now don’t have ink from different parts of Ukraine brought post- this faction. Thus, it will have more than 200 Regions faction leader Oleksander Yefremov or paper,” he said. As reported, 185 national cards and signs saying “Happy birthday, national deputies.” He commented that the and Minister of Economic Development and deputies were elected to the Verkhovna Yulia!” Police intervened after a group of anti- Ukrainian Parliament of the seventh convo- Trade Petro Poroshenko are also being dis- Rada of the seventh convocation from the Tymoshenko activists scuffled with her sup- cation would be very difficult. “The center of cussed. (Interfax-Ukraine, Ukrinform) porters. Police took away at least one anti- Party of Regions on party lists and in single- political life will be concentrated in the Opposition leaves Rada group’s meeting Tymoshenko activist. Ms.Tymoshenko, a bit- seat constituencies. To form a majority – 226 Ukrainian Parliament until 2015. It’s impor- ter rival of President Viktor Yanukovych, is deputies out of 450 – the Party of Regions tant to do everything to prevent further KYIV – Representatives of the three serving a seven-year prison term for abuse of needs 41 more votes. (Ukrinform) stress in the country,” he said. In a separate opposition parties in the newly elected office. She and her supporters say the charg- Lytvyn on Verkhovna Rada chair interview with the press, Mr. Lytvyn said he Parliament – Batkivshchyna, UDAR and es were politically motivated. On November expects that the new Rada chair would be Svoboda – walked out of a meeting of the 26, the authorities granted permission to Ms. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Verkhovna elected on the first day of the new parlia- parliamentary group responsible for Tymoshenko’s daughter Eugenia to stay with Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn doubts mentary session. He also reiterated that he arranging the first meeting of the new her mother for three days. (RFE/RL, based that he will remain as chairman of the is not planning to take the speaker’s seat Parliament. “Unfortunately, our proposal on reporting by UNIAN and Interfax) for personal voting has failed. Given that Tabachnyk resigns as education minister the ‘piano-voting’ dominating in this Parliament is likely to be continued in the KYIV – Minister for Education and next convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, Science, Youth and Sports Dmytro we see no possibility to work in the prepa- Tabachnyk, who has been elected as a TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 ratory parliamentary group,” Viacheslav national deputy, has submitted a statement or e-mail [email protected] Kyrylenko of Batkivshchyna explained on of resignation to President Viktor November 22. He emphasized that opposi- Yanukovych, it was reported on November tion parties demanded that the No. 1 issue 21. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that SERVICES PROFESSIONALS on the agenda of the working group be a Cabinet members who won seats in draft resolution on ensuring personal vot- Parliament should decide on their future ing in the newly elected Parliament, and jobs, consulting with President Yanukovych. that the document be signed by authorized The head of the Party of Regions faction in representatives of all factions and indepen- Parliament, Oleksander Yefremov, had said dent national deputies. (Ukrinform) that all ministers who were elected to the Verkhovna Rada would accept deputies’ Three sentenced in deadly rape case mandates. “I know one thing: that all minis- ters are now writing statements and MYKOLAYIV, Ukraine – A court in switching to parliamentary work,” he com- Ukraine’s southern city of Mykolayiv has mented. Prime Minister Azarov, Vice Prime sentenced three men to long terms in pris- Minister and Social Policy Minister Sergey on for their role in the rape and eventual Tigipko, Justice Minister Oleksander death of a teenage girl. According to Lavrynovych, Minister for Economic November 27 news reports, the court sen- Development and Trade Petro Poroshenko, tenced Yevhen Krasnoshchok to life in pris- Emergencies Minister Viktor Baloha, Vice on. His co-defendants – Maksym Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Prysiazhniuk and Artiom Pohosian – were Borys Kolesnikov, Minister for Regional sentenced to 15 and 14 years in prison, Development, Construction, Housing and respectively. Their trial lasted six months. Utilities Anatoliy Blyzniuk, and Minister for Oksana Makar, 18, died in a hospital three Education, Science, Youth and Sports weeks after she was raped, strangled and Dmytro Tabachnyk were elected to set on fire in March in Mykolayiv. According Parliament. Under the law, persons who to Ukrinform, she suffered burns on 55 per- were elected as national deputies, in order cent of her body. On March 16 she was to get parliamentary mandates, should pro- transferred to the Donetsk Burn Center vide documents on their dismissal from because of the severity of her burns and previous jobs to the Central Election damage to her lungs. Ms. Makar underwent Commission within 20 days, that is, by several operations, however, on March 28 December 3. (Interfax-Ukraine) her heart had stopped because of bleeding Herman dismissed from administration in her lungs and she died after repeated attempts to resuscitate her. The case KYIV – President Viktor Yanukovych has MERCHANDISE shocked many Ukrainians and sparked a dismissed Hanna Herman as his adviser number of protests after it was revealed and head of the presidential administra- I wish to purchase that police initially released two of the sus- tion’s department for humanitarian, social pects, whose parents were former oblast and political issues and Stanislav paintings government officials. (RFE/RL, Ukrinform) Skubashevsky from the post of Ms. of old Ukrainian artists for my Herman’s deputy in connection with their private collection. U.S., EU envoys meet with Lutsenko election as national deputies of Ukraine. Payment by arrangament. KYIV – The United States and European Relevant decrees were signed on November Union ambassadors to Ukraine visited jailed 23, the presidential press service reported. Tel.: 312-206-8476 former Internal Affairs Minister Yurii Ms. Herman was 13th and Mr. Mykhail Lutsenko at a prison labor camp. U.S. Skubashevsky was 14th on party list of the Ambassador John Tefft told journalists after Party of Regions in the October 28 parlia- mentary elections. (Interfax-Ukaine) the meeting on November 26 that he and EU OPPORTUNITIES Ambassador Jan Tombinski will inform their Opposition files election suits governments about Mr. Lutsenko’s health. He added that the U.S. government has stat- KYIV – The opposition is filing lawsuits Earn extra income! ed several times in the past that the with the European Court of Human Rights The Ukrainian Weekly is looking Lutsenko case is an example of selective jus- regarding the elections in troubled constit- for advertising sales agents. tice and that the former minister should be uencies, according to opposition leaders For additional information contact released. Mr. Tombinski said that the EU will Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Speaking from the par- liamentary rostrum, he said: “We are sub- HELP WANTED Walter Honcharyk, Advertising Manager, monitor Mr. Lutsenko’s appeal hearings. Mr. The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. Lutsenko is serving a four-year prison term mitting to the European Court of Human Rights suits on all districts where the Party for embezzlement, abuse of office and of Regions, together with the Central We are seeking a babysitter ordering illegal surveillance of suspects Election Commission, refused to recognize for our 3 year old son in Bayside, NY. while investigating the poisoning of former Run your advertisement here, a legitimate expression of the Ukrainians’ Must speak Ukrainian fluently. Preferably President Viktor Yushchenko during his owns a car. Two days per week - Wednes- in The Ukrainian Weekly’s will,” According to November 20 news 2004 presidential campaign. He denies any reports, Mr. Yatsenyuk also said the ruling day and Thursday. No. of days to increase CLASSIFIEDS section. wrongdoing and says his imprisonment is in December. Tel. 646-763-0045. politically motivated. (RFE/RL) (Continued on page 13) No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 13

tion (NGO) with special consultative status. Kyiv on November 27: “In general, over the of Entrepreneurs and Kazakhstan NEWSBRIEFS (UWC) period of military operations, Ukrainian Association of Entrepreneurs as part of the diplomats provided assistance to 83 of our opening of Ukraine’s Honorary Consulate,” (Continued from page 12) MEPs pay a visit to Tymoshenko compatriots wishing to leave the Gaza reads the ministry’s statement. The party intends to hold repeat elections only KYIV – Observers from the European Strip.” He said that, according to the Karaganda region occupies a leading posi- in the constituencies where they lost. In Parliament Pat Cox and Alexander Ukrainian Embassy in Israel’s department tion in foreign trade with Ukraine. In 2011 turn, Verkhovna Rada Vice-Chairman Kwasniewski paid a two-hour visit to Yulia in the Palestinian Authority, the situation its trade with Ukraine reached $512.7 mil- Mykola Tomenko said that, due to the fact Tymoshenko at her hospital on November in Gaza had stabilized after the ceasefire. lion (U.S.), or almost a quarter of Ukraine’s that the Party of Regions wants to hold a 19. After the visit, traveling by cars, they The Ukrainian Embassy in Israel’s depart- trade with Kazakhstan. Ukraine buys man- rerun only in the constituencies where they passed by the press without stopping. ment in the Palestinian Authority is con- ganese ore, coal and rolled metal, and sup- lost, “it is necessary to support the idea of Thus, it was only possible to report only tinuing to maintain contact with plies food, coke, ferroalloys, equipment new elections in all districts without excep- that at 4:40 p.m. a motorcade of five vehi- Ukrainians in Gaza, as well as taking steps and spare parts from this region. Four tion.” (Ukrinform) cles – four passenger cars and a to draw up all of the necessary documents regions in Ukraine – Odesa, Zaporizhia, Volkswagen van – left the territory of the for the return of Ukrainians and their fami- Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk – earlier UWC calls for Lutsenko’s release hospital, accompanied by a traffic police lies to Ukraine. (Ukrinform) signed agreements on trade-economic and car. The two members of the European cultural cooperation with Karaganda. The TORONTO – On November 26, Ukraine’s Consulate opens in Karaganda Ukrainian World Congress President Parliament (MEPs) met with Ms. only pair of sister cities in Ukraine and Eugene Czolij called on the international Tymoshenko with the permission of the KYIV – A Consulate General of Ukraine Kazakhstan is Dnipropetrovsk and community to demand that Ukraine’s penitentiary. Both guests, on behalf of the has opened in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, the Temirtau. Six joint ventures are currently authorities immediately release opposition European Parliament, monitor hearings press service of the Ukrainian Foreign operating in Karaganda, and negotiations leader Yurii Lutsenko. The call was based into the criminal cases against former Affairs Ministry has reported on November are under way on joint projects in agricul- on the November 19 dismissal by a five- members of the Ukrainian government. 26. Public figure Erlan Dosmagambetov ture, light industry, pharmaceuticals and member panel of the European Court of The two had visited Kharkiv this summer. will fulfill the duties of Ukraine’s honorary the chemical and construction industries. Human Rights Grand Chamber of the July 10, they attended Kharkiv’s Kyivsky consul. “Memorandums of cooperation About 1,000 Ukrainians live in the region. request by Ukraine’s authorities to appeal District Court meeting on the United were signed between Poltava University of There are also two Ukrainian communities, the unanimous judgment rendered by that Energy Systems of Ukraine case involving Economics and Trade and Karaganda which include about 62,000 people. court on July 3 in the case of Lutsenko v. charges against Ms. Tymoshenko. She is University of Economics, Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine’s new consulate is the second such Ukraine. In that judgment, now final and accused of tax evasion amounting to over Honchar National University and institution of Ukraine in Kazakhstan. In binding on Ukraine, the court clearly 4.7 million hrv, theft and attempted theft of Karaganda State Technical University, and 2004 Ukraine opened an honorary consul- described the violations committed by budget funds by unlawful VAT (value-add- between the Kazakh-Ukrainian Association ate in Kustanai. (Ukrinform) Ukraine’s authorities of their legal obliga- ed tax) refunds for more than 25 million tions under the European Convention on hrv, forgery and income tax evasion for Human Rights, which was ratified by 681,000 hrv. Since December 31, 2011, Ms. Holodomor-Genocide Awareness 1932- Ukraine in 1997. A copy of this letter was Tymoshenko has been serving her seven- Two historians... 1933 for its commemoration projects, year term at a Kharkiv prison in the case among them the building of the Holodomor sent by the UWC president to President (Continued from page 4) Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine. The UWC is concerning gas contracts with Russia. memorial in Washington. Since May 9 she has been undergoing back the international coordinating body for In addition to the honor and accompany- As a young man, Omelan Antonovych was Ukrainian communities in the diaspora; it treatment at the Ukrzaliznytsia hospital in active in the Ukrainian nationalist move- Kharkiv. (Ukrinform) ing plaques, the Omelan and Tatiana represents the interests of over 20 million Antonovych Foundation award recipients ment and was a political prisoner in Poland and Nazi Germany. He earned a law degree Ukrainians. The UWC has member organi- 80 Ukrainians leave Gaza Strip were also presented with checks for $10,000. at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague in zations in 33 countries and ties with The 65 Antonovych prize laureates thus 1943. After the war, he married Tatiana Ukrainians in 14 additional countries. KYIV – The Ukrainian Foreign Affairs far have included many prominent literary Terlecky, a physician, later to become a Founded in 1967 as a non-profit corpora- Ministry has helped 83 Ukrainians leave and academic, as well as dissident and polit- tion, the UWC was recognized in 2003 by the Gaza Strip during the recent armed world-renowned kidney specialist. ical, figures. While most laureates have been After emigrating to the United States, the the United Nations Economic and Social conflict in the region. Ministry spokesman Ukrainian or of Ukrainian descent, a num- Council as a non-governmental organiza- Oleksander Dykusarov said at a briefing in Antonovyches settled in Washington, where ber were not, noteworthy among them: she became a scholar and teacher in medi- David Saunders (1985), Robert Conquest cal schools and he went into ranching and (1987) and Zbigniew Brzezinski (1991). Among the 2004 provisions that were real estate. In 1980 they created their foun- The Omelan and Tatiana Antonovych dation with the goal of advancing the study Party of Regions... overturned was the requirement that Foundation has financed the development national deputies form the parliamentary of Ukrainian culture – its literature, history, (Continued from page 1) of a number of academic and cultural insti- art, music and religion. coalition among factions representing the tutions in Ukraine, including the recon- party, or blocs of parties, that were elected. Dr. Tatiana Antonovych passed away in Kolesnichenko), single-mandate deputies struction of the Kyiv-Mohyla and Stefanyk 2001; her husband followed in 2008. They (Igor Markov of Odesa and Lev Mirimiskyi of The parliamentary coalition then nominated libraries, the Lviv Artists Palace and the and approved the Cabinet of Ministers. were posthumously honored by the Simferopol) and the Communists. building of the Boykivshchyna Museum in The current rules don’t require a coalition Ukrainian government in 2009 with However, passing such radical legislation Dolyna, the western Ukrainian town where to be formed in the new Parliament. Ukraine’s Order of Yaroslav the Wise (fifth won’t be as easy without the Communists in Omelan Antonovych was born in 1914. The Moreover, they don’t require forming fac- degree) during their foundation’s awards power, though Penta Center for Applied foundation has also presented $100,000 to tions, although they will certainly emerge: ceremony at the Embassy of Ukraine in Political Research Board Chairman the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Washington. Volodymyr Fesenko said a Communist could on a de jure basis among the biggest political parties, and on a de facto basis among become the first vice-chair of the Rada even national deputies with common interests, if his party won’t join the majority. such as big business. “The Communists will be in reserve,” he Observers have projected that among the said. “It will be advantageous for them to most influential de facto factions in the trade for each vote and for unofficial support Verkhovna Rada will be those representing for the government. They will get bonuses in the interests of Ukraine’s biggest oligarchs, the form of government positions.” including steel and electricity kingpin Rinat Also hindering pro-Russian legislation Akhmetov and ammonia nitrate and natural are the 37 elected representatives of the gas transit monopolist Dmytro Firtash. Пластовий Курінь уПс Svoboda nationalist party who have pledged Mr. Akhmetov reportedly has about 30 „ті, що греблі рвуть“ to use physical force to block any radical or deputies in the next Parliament to represent ділиться сумною вісткою, що з волі всевишнього illegal Russian integration legislation from his business interests while Mr. Firtash відійшла на вічну ватру в неділю, 4 листопада 2012 року being passed. Indeed, the next Parliament reportedly has about 20 such deputies, could be even more violent than the current reported the Ukrayinska Pravda news site. довголітня членка куреня one, observers said. Predictions of parliamentary friction are “The Verkhovna Rada will be conflictual already coming true as the opposition lead- св. п. and unruly considering two diametrically ers have abandoned two working sessions пл. сен. opposing forces will join it – the Svoboda in the last two weeks that were supposed to party and the Communist Party,” Mr. prepare for the seventh convocation of the Марія Комісар Равич Fesenko said. “At the same time, the ruling Verkhovna Rada, which is scheduled to con- party lacks the 226 votes to approve bills on vene on December 12. народжена 29 жовтня 1906 року. its own.” On November 28 they left the working Indeed, the biggest challenge facing the group after coalition representatives, led by Пластову присягу склала 29 жовтня 1921 року. Party of Regions in the next Parliament will outgoing Parliament Chair Volodymyr навчалася в гімназії сестер василіянок. be finding a consistent majority for its legis- Lytvyn, allegedly declined to state their posi- належала до 2-го куреня уПЮ ім. Марти Борецької. lative initiatives. tion on a resolution requiring personal vot- The Constitutional Court ruled in October ing (instead of allowing other deputies to Цією дорогою висловлюємо глибоке співчуття родині. 2010 that the December 2004 constitutional cast votes on their behalf). amendments were illegal, returning They left the November 22 meeting when Провід Куреня Ukrainian governance to the conditions set the working group declined to include the „ті, що греблі рвуть“ by the country’s 1996 Constitution. personal voting resolution on the agenda. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 No. 49

earth, that mob without beginning or end, And, now, the post-war Ukrainians, with but that particular academic fashion need The Holodomor... those children who seem to belong to their Sovietized memories, are also going – not worry us. Whether the history of nobody, that laziness stretched out in the either to the West or, prematurely, to the Ukraine is national, transnational, global, (Continued from page 7) sun, that vegetable rhythm of life – all this graveyard. multiethnic, or something else, the fact is The Jewish discourse tends to view forms part of the colonial vocabulary.” The town generated many remarkable that the stories of Ukrainians form an Ukrainians as bloodthirsty “pogromchiks.” Naturally, reality is a tad more complicat- individuals. One is my uncle, Bohdan Hevko. important part of it – but, naturally, only if The Russian, and Soviet Russian, discourse ed than the Orientalist imagination would He’d spent some five years in Polish prisons they exist on paper, whether real or virtual. tends to view Ukrainians as treacherous bar- have it. Ukrainians are not interested, and in the 1930s, underwent extensive beatings Let me give you an example of what I barians. In each instance, Ukrainians repre- have not been interested, only in killing and torture, was arrested by the Soviets on mean. I recently read the 1943 diary of one sent the savage “Other” that must be tamed, Poles, Jews and Russians. Like other peoples, June 22, 1941, and then killed during the Samuel Golfard, a Polish Jew who fled and in contradiction to which the nation or Ukrainians do want to be masters of their “night of long knives,” on June 30, along Radom after the Nazis and Soviets divided people or community in question is defined. own fates. They want to enjoy freedom. They with thousands of other western Ukrainian Poland in September of 1939 and eventual- Consider in this light how Frantz Fanon want to make mistakes. They want to speak. political prisoners. The locals found him at ly wound up in Peremyshliany, where he describes colonial views of natives in his And not just when they are spoken to or the bottom of a pit, his hands tied behind was killed. As you would expect, his is a pas- classic 1961 anti-colonialist treatise, “The spoken about. They want to be human. his back with his underpants and his tongue sionate, angry, and altogether persuasive Wretched of the Earth:” They also want to know who killed them torn out. voice. Several other Jewish voices appear in “The town belonging to the colonized and why. They want to bear witness. They Another is my mother’s best friend, Fania the volume. As a result, we feel for the Jews, people… is a place of ill fame, peopled by want to remember. Lacher, a Jewish girl who survived the we sympathize with their predicament, and men of evil repute. They are born there, it * * * Holocaust by finding refuge in a Ukrainian we empathize with them. Peremyshliany matters little where or how; they die there, I have had the good fortune this last year Catholic monastery, converted to also had Polish and Ukrainian communities, it matters not where, nor how. It is a world of occupying myself with my parents’ mem- Catholicism, became a nun, Sister Maria, but their voices are barely audible. Instead, without spaciousness; men live there on top oirs. It was a good fortune that was pre- and turned into a leading figure in the in discussing the Holocaust in of each other, and their huts are built one on mised on bad fortune. My father died in underground Church in Soviet times. The Peremyshliany, the editor of the volume top of the other. The native town is a hungry 2007 and my mother died in 2011. My love of her life was a young Ukrainian provides us with a potted history of the town, starved of bread, of meat, of shoes, of father had written over 150 pages of mem- nationalist, Volodymyr Zaplatynsky, who town and its inhabitants and, wittingly or coal, of light. The native town is a crouching oirs in the course of the 1980s and 1990s, helped hide her and her parents from the not, reduces both Poles and Ukrainians to village, a town on its knees, a town wallow- while my mother wrote some 15 pages in Nazis and took his life during a firefight bit players in a drama that countenances ing in the mire. It is a town of niggers and 1983. I took it upon myself to commemo- with the Soviets in 1944. only three roles for Gentiles: those of perpe- dirty Arabs. The look that the native turns rate their lives by editing their memoirs, Still another is Father Omelian Kovch, the trator, victim, or bystander. on the settler’s town is a look of lust, a look adding footnotes and photographs, and parish priest who persuaded the local gym- Naturally, some Poles and Ukrainians of envy; it expresses his dreams of posses- publishing them in – where else? – Kinko’s. nasium [secondary school] to let my moth- were perpetrators and some were victims. sion – all manner of possession: to sit at the What began as a seemingly simple project er finish her studies tuition-free and who, But the vast majority were not bystanders. settler’s table, to sleep in the settler’s bed, turned into a massive undertaking. My for his efforts to save Jews, was arrested by They did not just stand by for three years with his wife if possible. The colonized man father’s memoirs had to be edited exten- the Nazis and killed in the Majdanek con- and watch as the Holocaust unfolded. is an envious man. And this the settler sively and the repetitions removed. Both centration camp. The street my mother Indeed, they did not stand by at all: they knows very well; when their glances meet ran, they hid, they hurried, they worked, they whispered, they cried. They lived – or he ascertains bitterly, always on the defen- Many living Ukrainians experienced the horrors sive, ‘They want to take our place.’ It is true, tried to live as best they could – while the for there is no native who does not dream at of World War II and of totalitarianism, whether world around them was falling apart. The image of bystander is thus completely inac- least once a day of setting himself up in the of the Nazi or Communist variants. They too settler’s place.” curate. Poles and Ukrainians actually had All nations engage in this kind of “other- should be writing down everything they possibly lives, just as Samuel Golfard had a life. But you’d never know it, precisely because their ing.” Indeed, one might say that it lies at the can. … The all-important thing is to leave behind core of national identity formation. What is voices are absent from the picture. If the distinctive about the Ukrainian case is that written, or even oral, accounts. There must be a Poles and Ukrainians could talk, we would three important discourses all agree on the record. There must be Ukrainian voices. If there learn just what they did or did not do dur- same image of the Ukrainian as a savage, ing those terrible years. Instead, the editor that all three mutually reinforce one anoth- are not, there can be no Ukrainian history. treats them as “others” without a voice and er and thereby make the stereotype seem with preconceived roles to play. perfectly natural and acceptable, and that It is imperative, therefore, that the Ukrainian alternative to this othering is sets of footnotes turned into research expe- lived on is named after Kovch, who was Ukrainians be brought back into history – at best recent, and at worst feeble. ditions about their families and friends. I beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001. and especially their own history. Of course, That is not surprising. Ukrainian nation- now know more about my relatives, and my And, finally, there was Adam Rothfeld, Poles, Russians, Jews, Hungarians, Germans, building began much later than Polish, parents’ lives, than I ever did before. And, son of the head of Peremyshliany’s Judenrat Rusyns, and many others must have voices Jewish and Russian nation-building. naturally, I am profoundly saddened by the and future Polish minister of foreign affairs, in the history of Ukraine. But those voices – Moreover, unlike Poles and Russians, realization that I could have learned so who survived the Holocaust in a nearby especially if suffused with questionable Ukrainians lacked a state and a political much more if I had only had more conversa- Ukrainian Catholic monastery. assumptions about the humanity of elite. And unlike Jews, Ukrainians lacked a tions with them. My mother’s short memoir has hardly Ukrainians – should not drown out the literate urban class. Small wonder that all The project has been immensely reward- resurrected these brave individuals from barely audible and all too few voices of three discourses have been able to acquire a ing. Finally, after so many years, I think I forgetfulness. But her memories give life to Ukrainians. hegemonic status in so many of the cultural understand my parents. Sad to say, I never them in ways that more dispassionate stud- All too often in the past, Ukrainians have assumptions that guide historians, journal- fully appreciated that my father had spent ies cannot. Her memories remind us that been reduced to extras in the already exist- ists, artists, and policy makers in their several weeks in a Nazi prisoner of war these people were not just numbers, but ing scripts developed by their neighbors. As thinking about Ukraine and Ukrainians. The camp in the fall of 1941. That, for a fleeting human beings who lived exceedingly com- we struggle to produce histories of Ukraine neo-Soviet historians – whether in Canada, moment in 1944, he considered joining the plex – that is to say, human – lives. that incorporate all the people who inhabit- Germany, or Dmytro Tabachnyk’s Ministry nationalist underground but then, for rea- I am proud to have added two voices, by ed that land, we should not forget that of Education – are, in this sense, no different sons even he couldn’t explain, decided to two average Ukrainians, to the written Ukrainians also inhabited Ukraine and that than the Soviet historians and propagan- flee west. That he continually faced existen- record of 20th-century Ukrainian history. they were not just the bad guys and heavies. dists who depicted good Ukrainians as pas- tial and moral choices with no easy We need thousands more such voices. We can contribute to the humanization sive Little Russians and self-assertive answers. That he was persuaded by a friend Some living Ukrainians survived the of Ukrainians and, thus, of Ukrainian history Ukrainians as murderers. that he was Ukrainian, and not Rusyn, while Holodomor. Many of them left their testimo- by remembering that the Holodomor was Especially striking about neo-Soviet bicycling from a small town to their village – nies: some have been published, many no not an abstraction that affected some imag- depictions of Ukrainians is their complete a distance of some 7 kilometers that can doubt remain hidden in attics and base- ined category called a nation or a peasantry. lack of empathy. This is hardly surprising in probably be traversed in 15 minutes. I ments. It is now the task of the descendants Millions of human beings were exterminat- light of the deep-seated Orientalism of such know I’ve acquired a better understanding of Holodomor survivors to bring their par- ed. And the people who puffed up, grew list- depictions. When I view Ukrainian history – of myself. And I know I’ve acquired a better ents or grandparents or great grandparents less, and died of hunger, the people who or, for that matter, African American or understanding of Ukrainian history and, back to life. Many living Ukrainians experi- behaved as scavengers, as good Samaritans, Jewish history – I am gripped with a pro- dare I say it, of life. enced the horrors of World War II and of as ruthless cowards, and as cannibals did found and almost inexpressible sadness. I Take my mother’s home town of totalitarianism, whether of the Nazi or so, not because they were savages, but see fundamentally good people being con- Peremyshliany. Back in the interwar period, Communist variants. They too should be because they were forced into circumstanc- fronted with impossible circumstances and it had a population of about 5,000, with writing down everything they possibly can. es that deprived them of their humanity. impossible choices that have no good out- Poles and Jews comprising about 90 per- The works need not be polished prose. We should not compound that injustice comes. The neo-Soviets and Soviets appear cent and Ukrainians the rest. All three com- Rough drafts will more than suffice to by denying the victims and survivors of the to view Ukrainian history as the story, not of munities had a highly exclusionary sense of remind future generations of who they were Holodomor a voice. We should, instead, powerless humans, but of powerful brutes. identity and they all lived side by side, didn’t and what they experienced. The all-impor- insist that they have a voice and that that Listen to Fanon again: like one another too much, but more or less tant thing is to leave behind written, or even voice matter to all honest historians. “When the settler seeks to describe the got along. Since then, the town has been oral, accounts. There must be a record. Only when what Wira Wowk called the native fully in exact terms he constantly “erased,” to use Omer Bartov’s term, several There must be Ukrainian voices. If there are “lament of millions of innocents” is heard refers to the bestiary. … Those hordes of times over. The pre-war Jews and their not, there can be no Ukrainian history. will those millions finally be free. Only then vital statistics, those hysterical masses, memories are gone. The pre-war Poles and * * * will their “distended bodies,” as Fanon put those faces bereft of all humanity, those dis- their memories are gone. The pre-war I fully understand that national histories it, assume human form again. tended bodies which are like nothing on Ukrainians and their memories are gone. are considered passée in this day and age, Thank you for your attention. No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 15 Kucyna inducted into Manhattan College Athletic Hall of Fame NEW YORK – On Saturday, November 10, Bohdan “Bo” Mr. Kucyna was named First Team All-Conference dur- Kucyna was inducted into the Manhattan College Athletic ing all four years of his college career and was named Hall of Fame, becoming the first men’s soccer player in the Conference MVP as a senior. As the captain of the team history of the college to be inducted into its Athletic Hall of during his senior year, he was key to the team making it to Fame. the finals of the 1980 Kronenburg Indoor Invitational He began his soccer career at the age of 7 by playing Tournament, where he was named to the All-Tournament with neighborhood friends on the street using household Team. The team’s level of competition put Manhattan items for makeshift soccer goals. As he grew to under- College on the map, as it played against nationally ranked stand the sport better and grew to love soccer, he joined teams such as Columbia, St. Francis and Adelphi. the Krylati soccer team of the Ukrainian American Youth Mr. Kucyna also received All-New York State Honorable Association in Yonkers, N.Y. Mention recognition as a junior and senior, while also During those years he developed a true passion for the being named Manhattan College’s Most Outstanding Player sport and spent all of his time practicing and perfecting his during that same time period. moves. While playing on the Sacred Heart High School soc- After graduation, Mr. Kucyna had the opportunity to try cer team, he was recruited by the Manhattan College soc- out professionally with the Pittsburgh Spirit (MISL cer coach, Dolph Rotter. Indoor), the New York Apollos and Pennsylvania Stoners Mr. Kucyna played soccer for Manhattan College from (ASL Outdoor). While the professional ranks were not in 1977 through 1981, when he graduated with a business the cards for Mr. Kucyna, he did play on several semi-pro degree in accounting. He brought an energy, enthusiasm teams before becoming a coach at the youth level. and passion that sparked a new place for soccer in the He has coached for more than 25 years at various levels, Manhattan College mindset. including the Pele Soccer Camps, Whippany Park High Nearly 31 years after graduating from Manhattan School, Livingston Recreational Soccer Youth Program, College, Mr. Kucyna still holds several soccer records he New Rochelle Knights, 2011 IUFT Champion USA Team set as a midfielder and sweeper. Always a team player, it and the Chornomorska Sitch Youth Program. He is current- is no surprise he holds the record for most assists (10) in ly the head coach for the Chornomorska Sitch men’s soccer a single year (1977 and 1979); most career assists (34); team, which competes in the highest division of the Garden and most assists in a single game (five), which came State Soccer league. against New York University in 1979. In 1977, as a start- The plaque commemorating his Athletic Hall of Fame ing midfielder, the team set a school record for longest induction reads: “Bo’s love and dedication to the sport undefeated streak with a record of 8-0-3. In 1980, as cap- brought soccer to a new level at Manhattan College. He tain and defensive sweeper, he also helped the team set a laid the groundwork for today’s player and set the mark school record for most consecutive game shutouts with high with records that have yet to be broken. A true soccer Bohdan “Bo” Kucyna holds the plaque recognizing his five. player, a true athlete, a true sportsman.” induction into the Manhattan College Athletic Hall of Fame.

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Ukrainian Graduates of Detroit and Windsor honor radio personalities

by Nina Wasylkewych Gelemey Memorial Fund; Tetyana Rogovyk, University of Michigan, from the Sutaruk WARREN, Mich. – The Ukrainian Family Foundation; Liliya Skikun, at Graduates of Detroit and Windsor held Oakland University from the Joseph Elnick their 73rd annual banquet on Sunday, Memorial Fund; and Christina Sudyk, October 28, at the Ukrainian Cultural University of Michigan, from the Wichorek- Center in Warren, Mich. Founded in 1939, Trendowski Family Fund. All recipients the organization since 1955 has selected a expressed their appreciation for this sup- particularly active and deserving member port and honor. of the surrounding Ukrainian community Bohdan Boyko, who received a to be recognized at this banquet. In addi- Graduates’ scholarship several years ago tion, a number of Ukrainian college stu- and now is president of the recently creat- dents are awarded scholarships. ed Oakland University Ukrainian Students’ The master of ceremonies of the event Club, relayed the club’s mission to propa- was last year’s recipient of the Ukrainian of gate interest in Ukrainian culture and heri- the Year Award, Dr. Walter Yaworsky of tage among students and faculty. He under- Windsor, Ontario. He welcomed the scored the students’ appreciation for the Graduates’ members and guests and intro- direction and counsel of their faculty advi- duced the organization’s President, Dr. sor, Prof. Donna Voronovich. He stated the Jaroslaw Sawka. As is the tradition, Dr. club’s additional goal of promoting aware- Sawka greeted everyone and raised a toast ness of the importance of higher education to the United States of America, Canada and increased activism by the youth of the and Ukraine. The Rev. Roman Hykavy, Ukrainian community. Dr. Jaroslaw Sawka presents the Ukrainian of the Year award to Dr. Roman Kolodchin (left). OSBM, of Immaculate Conception Church The Graduates’ president, Dr. Sawka, recited the Invocation, and dinner was introduced the 2012 Ukrainian of the Year, started his “Ukrainian Hour,” with the assis- the two-year-old program “Slovo” in 1996. served. Olga Dubriwny Solovey, popular Dr. Roman Kolodchin, a practicing psychol- tance of his wife, Marta, Jaroslaw In 2011, her assistant Nataliya Shmoron pianist and Ukrainian of the Year of 1981, ogist and current director of the weekly Tarnawsky and Vasyl Kolodchin. In the fol- became the director, and the program’s provided beautiful background music. radio hour “Song of Ukraine.” Born in lowing decades, program names, stations name was changed to “Ridne Slovo.” Dr. The program commenced with classical Detroit, Dr. Kolodchin is the son of the late and directors changed, but there was a con- Yaworsky presented both of these ladies guitar selections by Steven Dearing, who is Vasyl Kolodchin, Ukrainian of the Year in tinuous stream of Ukrainian broadcasting, with the Ukrainian Graduates’ partly of Ukrainian descent. Currently the 1971, and the well-known “Soyuzianka” featuring music, news from Ukraine and Distinguished Service Award. guitar instructor at the University of Lida Kolodchin. local community events. Irene Momotiuk, a member of the Windsor, Mr. Dearing performs as guest He is a graduate of Immaculate Under the direction of the Rev. Ukrainian Graduates from Windsor, was soloist with symphony orchestras, and has Conception Ukrainian Catholic High School Wolodymyr Gawlich, the Basilian Fathers asked to speak about the Ukrainian radio been featured on both radio and television. and Wayne State University, and holds a initiated “The Ukrainian Religious Hour” in programs in her area. She related that in His repertoire consisted of classical and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the 1962, which continued under a series of the 1960s and 1970s, Eugene Barna broad- folk melodies, including Kytasty’s University of Cincinnati. He was active in pastors until 2009. At that time the program cast a weekly program of Ukrainian music “Tiutiunyk” and “Renesanivka” and “Ponad Plast, learned the business of radio broad- was incorporated as a segment of “Song of and humor from Leamington, Ontario, Sadom,” arranged by our local Roman casting from his father, and continues to Ukraine,” with the Rev. Mario Dacechen as which was very popular on both sides of Skypakewych. relay news, information and traditional director. In 1968 the Detroit Regional the border. Mrs. Momotiuk has been host- The scholarship distribution was admin- musical entertainment to the Ukrainian Council of the Ukrainian National Women’s ing the weekly program “Sounds of istered by Scholarship Committee Chair residents of Southeastern Michigan. League of America sponsored a short-lived Ukraine,” featuring both folk and classical Lydia Taraschuk, who has dedicated many In his acceptance speech Dr. Kolodchin program, “Ukrainian Horizons,” featuring Ukrainian music, through the University of years to this task. The recipients, all young credited his activist mother, Lida, for her Roma Kohut and Roman Luckyj. In 1971, a Windsor radio station since 1988. For her ladies, were: Amanda Chajkowski, who staunch support and guidance. daily program called “Soul of Ukraine” was many years of dedicated work she was attends the University of Windsor, from the The history of Detroit-area Ukrainian inaugurated by Oresta Woloshyn Karalash named the Ukrainian of the Year in 2007. Kasey Family Fund; Roseanna Guimond, radio broadcasting dates from 1935, when and Anastasia Volker, members of UNWLA Due to a surprise visit to the area, Vera also at the University of Windsor, from the Mykola and Julia Shustakewych started Branch 58. The program continued, though Kostiuk Busch, Ukrainian of the Year in John Stoiko Memorial Fund; Rachel “The Ukrainian Radio Hour,” which lasted not daily, until 1982. Kyrylo Cependa, cultur- 2009, was invited to relay news from Pawluszka, Drexel University, from the Ted until 1955. In 1952, Zenon Tarnawsky al activist and choir director, hosted the Germany, her adopted country. Her hus- radio program “Echoes of Ukraine” from band, Dr. Ulrich Busch, famous for his 1973 until the late 1980s. defense of John Demjanjuk, has published For a brief period in the 1970s there was an account of the court case and of the a children’s program hosted by Boris and defendant’s last days. The German text is Tetiana Rohatynskyj Karpenko, and in the being translated into Ukrainian. Mrs. Busch 1980s Andrej Smyk directed a program also spoke of her involvement in the forma- sponsored by the Organization of tion of a new Ukrainian umbrella organiza- Ukrainian Democratic Youth (ODUM). tion in Germany, whose twofold purpose is Another program, “The Ukrainian Radio to support recent immigrants and to coor- Hour,” which started in 1976, was spon- dinate charitable outreach programs to sored by the Ukrainian Liberation Front Ukraine. organizations and featured Jurij Jurkiw, Finally, on behalf of the Ukrainian assisted by Petro Rohatynskyj and Wasyl Graduates’ board of directors, Dr. Yaworsky Scherbey. In 1982, Vasyl Kolodchin started extended sincere appreciation to the outgo- broadcasting “Song of Ukraine,” which was ing president, Dr. Sawka, for his many years commercially supported. Eventually of dedicated leadership. Dr. Yaworsky also Roman Kolodchin began to assist his father called attention to the banquet’s program and in 2006 took over as director. booklet, which listed the Ukrainian Future With Ukraine’s independence, the Credit Union and Ukrainian Selfreliance Fourth Wave of immigrants became inter- Michigan Federal Credit Union as sponsors, ested in conducting their own radio pro- along with numerous individuals and fami- Scholarship recipients (from left): Christina Sudyk, Liliya Skikun, Tetyana Rogovyk, gram. Sophia Shidlivsky, first president of lies who so generously contributed to the Roseanna Guimond and Amanda Chajkowski. the organization Nova Khvylia, took over scholarship program.

others in the declaration. He considered of a free and democratic society. and disciplined (although they do have a A visit to... such attempts to broaden the list in the In general, the approach UCU is using is light dose of the “Ukrayinska tochnist” – (Continued from page 9) declaration as counter-productive and very positive. It tries to link the students to problem of tardiness). The facilities are unworthy of inclusion – I was on the fence the professors in formal and informal first-rate, including residences and meals. what it meant, and discussed modern about the point – although both of us ways. The emphasis appears to be in expe- In every sense, this is a modern university attempts to add further elements to the agreed we needed to be considerate and riential learning, as opposed to the tradi- distinguished by its emphasis on quality human rights already recognized. We also respectful of those who seek protection tional face-to-face classroom lecture. Thus, education, spiritual growth and rejection discussed what that means to those rights due to their gender orientation. there are lunches, coffee breaks and after- of corruption and focus on merit. in the Declaration that still are very much And, of course, we spoke about the hours informal events where students If you are looking for hope for the future at risk in various countries worldwide – progress being made at the university in have a chance to speak with people like me of Ukraine you have no reason to look fur- rights such as gender-related rights and training a new generation of young people and ask pretty much anything. ther – you will find it in people who walk in whether they belonged on par with the free of corruption and versed in the ways The students are bright, enthusiastic the halls of this university. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012 No. 49

Humorously noting the bulava’s weight Three CIUS... as indicative of the weighty role he had undertaken, Dr. Kravchenko expressed (Continued from page 11) thanks for a warm welcome from the Addressing the audience, Dr. Kohut speakers and the audience. In thanking Dr. expressed his appreciation for the tributes Kohut and Dr. Sysyn, he expressed admira- tion for their many achievements, noting and gift received. His nearly two decades that they were his colleagues, too, not only as director had been an exciting time, he as directors and administrators of CIUS but shared, one that had begun at a momen- also by scholarly theme, since his own his- tous time, commencing soon after Ukraine torical scholarship, like theirs, has often gained independence in 1991. He focused on Ukraine’s Kozak period. expressed satisfaction that CIUS, thanks to He referred to Dr. Kohut’s and Dr. its donors, supporters, associates and staff, Sysyn’s long-term relationship as col- had been able in that time to make sub- leagues and friends whose academic and stantial and important contributions to the professional partnership had been of great development of Ukrainian studies. benefit to Ukrainian scholarship. He noted These ranged from providing stipends that both were continuing to serve CIUS, Dr. to scholars and students, to initiating and Kohut now as head of the Kowalsky conducting important scholarly projects, Program and Dr. Sysyn as ongoing director including the “Encyclopedia of Ukraine,” to of the Jacyk Center. issuing scholarly publications and journals In speaking of the establishment and both in Canada and Ukraine, to establish- functioning of CIUS, Dr. Kravchenko said ing connections and cooperative ventures that its existence and role were testimony with scholars and scholarly institutions to the success of Ukrainians in Canada, to worldwide, as exemplified by the estab- their knowing how to use the opportuni- lishment of the Peter Jacyk Program for ties Canada offered to establish and foster the Study of Modern Ukrainian History their community, culture and heritage. This and Society in cooperation with universi- same process needs to take place today in ties in Lviv. Ukraine, he noted, and study of the He noted that his first contact with Dr. Ukrainian story in Canada can help it suc- Kravchenko, his successor as director, ceed there as well. Dr. Kravchenko said his came in connection with CIUS’s establish- goal is that CIUS continue to fulfill and ment of the Kowalsky Program at Kharkiv expand its role as a leading center of University. All of these diverse endeavors Ukrainian studies worldwide, while also were undertaken to broaden and strength- modernizing technologically and expand- en the field of Ukrainian studies, and over ing knowledge of Ukraine as it is today. He the last decades they have succeeded in expressed the hope that in working toward ways that could hardly be imagined when this goal he, like his predecessor, would his scholarly career began and Ukraine have the support of the Ukrainian commu- was part of the Soviet Union. Dr. Kohut nity. said his own role in this development had In response, audience members rose to brought great personal and professional their feet and honored both Dr. Kohut and satisfaction, and he thanked his family and Dr. Krawchenko with a warm rendition of colleagues for the ongoing support that “Mnohaya Lita.” made his work possible. Dr. Kohut also After the conclusion of the program, expressed his gratitude to the many those gathered had the opportunity to donors and supporters whose generosity speak with Dr. Kohut and Dr. Kravchenko have funded the work of the institute. and socialize over refreshments. Many also In a symbolic transfer of authority, Dr. took time to view the handsome artwork Kohut then presented Dr. Kravchenko with on display at the fall exhibit of the a “bulava” (mace), signifying his having Canadian-Ukrainian Art Foundation at the become the scholarly “hetman” of CIUS, KUMF Gallery, 2118 Bloor St. W. in Toronto, and wished him success as its new director. where the event took place.

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Through January 27 First Juried Member Exhibit, Ukrainian Institute of December 8-9 Concert, “Koliada and Music from the Carpathians,” Chicago Modern Art, 773-227-5522 or www.uima-chicago.org New York Yara Arts Group, The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 or www.ukrainianmuseum.org December 3 Lecture by Mariya Mayerchuk, “Premarital Intimacy Cambridge, MA Among Young People in Villages of Central and Eastern December 8-9 Ukrainian Christmas Bazaar, Holy Trinity Ukrainian Ukraine in the Early 20th Century,” Harvard University, Silver Spring, MD Catholic Church, 301-434-6075 617-495-4053

December 5 Roundtable discussion, “Four Elections and a Post-Soviet December 8-9 Christmas Bazaar, The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 New York World: Analyzing and Witnessing Elections in Georgia, New York or www.ukrainianmuseum.org Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania,” Columbia University, 212-854-4697 December 8-15 Art exhibit, “A Little Illumination” by Larisa Sembaliuk Edmonton, AB Cheladyn, Ukrainian Canadian Archives and Museum of December 7 Artist reception with Iryna Karpenko, “Red and Black,” Alberta, Ukrainian Bookstore, www.artbylarisa.com Saskatoon, SK Ukrainian Museum of Canada, 306-244-3800 December 9 St. Nicholas program, Immaculate Conception Ukrainian December 7 Literary evening, with Vasyl Makhno and Alex Motyl, Hillside, NJ Catholic Church, 908-289-0127 or Philadelphia Ukrainian League of Philadelphia, www.ukiebar.com www.byzcath.org/immaculateconception

December 7-9 Christmas Market “Yarmarok,” Ukrainian Museum of December 9 Dinner and concert, “A Life of Music – Volodymyr Ivasiuk,” Saskatoon, SK Saskatoon, 306-244-3800 or www.umc.sk.ca Whippany, NJ Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey,

201-213-4321 December 8 Benefit concert, “Christmas ‘Round the World,’” featuring Los Angeles the Kobzar Ukrainian National Choir and the Los Angeles December 9 Presentation by John Hewko, “Celebrating 20 Years of Doctors Symphony Orchestra, Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, Wilshire Ebell Theater, Chicago Rotary in Ukraine,” Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 909-860-2102 [email protected]

December 8 Christmas breads workshop, The Ukrainian Museum, December 9 Christmas Bazaar, Ukrainian National Women’s League of New York 212-228-0110 or www.ukrainianmuseum.org Yonkers, NY America – Branch 30, St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church, 914-949-4911 December 8 Christmas social, “Yalynka,” Ukrainian Engineers’ Society New York of America, Ukrainian Institute of America, [email protected] Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions December 8 110th anniversary of the birth of Hryhorii Kostiuk, from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors New York Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 212-222-1866 and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

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Christmas Greetings 2012/13 PREVIEW OF EVENTS Wednesday, December 5 As general secretary of one of the world’s largest global humanitarian service organi- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Studies zations, Mr. Hewko leads a diverse staff of Continue your tradition... Program at the Harriman Institute, almost 800 at Rotary International’s World Columbia University, invites you to attend a Headquarters in Evanston, Ill. Mr. Hewko is Use the UNA’s publications to send holiday conference titled “Four Elections and a Post- a former partner with the international law Soviet World: Analyzing and Witnessing greetings and wishes of goodwill, prosperity and firm of Baker and McKenzie, where he spe- Elections in Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus and the season’s blessings. Please note, to accommo- cialized in international corporate transac- Lithuania.” This two-part event will present tions in emerging markets. While in Ukraine date all of our advertisers and the many holiday comparative discussion of the significance in the early 1990s, Mr. Hewko assisted the obligations and deadlines, we must strictly of the multiple elections followed by eyewit- working group that prepared the initial ness reports by election monitors in two of observe the following deadlines... draft of the new post-Soviet Constitution of the countries. Co-sponsored with the Ukraine and was a charter member of the Ukrainian Studies Program and East Central first Rotary club in Kyiv. The presentation, European Center of Columbia University, ublication ates eadlines followed by a holiday brunch, will be held at P D & D and the European Humanities University the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 (Vilnius, Lithuania), the conference will take W. Chicago Ave., at 1 p.m. Admission: $10 for place at 5-8 p.m. in the Lindsay Rogers members; $15 for guests. 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This is The Weekly December 23 December 13 collection of poetry, “Winter Letters,” and a great opportunity to purchase original Alexander Motyl from his latest work of fic- work by Tatiana Ferraro, Christmas orna- tion, “My Orchidia.” Mr. Makhno’s poems in ments hand-painted by Halyna Sloboduch English translations will be read by Orest and original ceramic ornaments by Daria Popovych. The event will start at 7:15 p.m. Hanushevsky. Christmas cards, poppy seeds, 1/16 page – $30; 1/8 page – $50; 1/4 page – $100; Cover charge: $5. Both books will be on sale. organic honey, wheat berries, baked goods Saturday-Sunday, December 8-9 and more will also be for sale. For additional 1/2 page – $200; full page – $400 information call Nadia Liteplo, 914-949- SILVER SPRING, Md.: Holy Trinity 4911. Ukrainian Catholic Church will hold a Christmas Bazaar at Saturday at 11 a.m.-5 Saturday, December 15 p.m. and Sunday at noon to 4 p.m. Featured All advertising correspondence, reservations and payments should be directed MIAMI: Come hear the most popular will be authentic homemade Ukrainian cui- Christmas song in the world, “Carol of the to Mr. Walter Honcharyk, advertising manager, tel. 973-292-9800, ext. 3040, sine: holubtsi, varenyky, borshch, tortes, e-mail: [email protected] Bells,” in its original language as you open pastries, kovbasa, etc., to eat in or take out. your hearts to the rich musical treasure of Church tours will be offered. Gift shop items Kindly make checks payable to The Ukrainian Weekly or Svoboda, as appropriate. the Byzantine/Ukrainian rite. The Please send payment to The Ukrainian Weekly, or Svoboda, include Ukrainian icons, music, ceramics, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary P.O. 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