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THEPublished U byKRAINIAN the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVII No.27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 $1/$2 in Kyiv consecration of is historic Ukrainians mark 45th anniversary for Ukrainian Greek- of Shevchenko monument in D.C. by Yuriy Borysov Ivan Jurkovic. by Yaro Bihun Special to The Ukrainian Weekly The last time a Ukrainian Catholic conse- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly cration was performed in Kyiv, Metropolitan KYIV – The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic was on his way to exile WASHINGTON – The Church consecrated Studite monk Yosyf in northern in 1914 and then ordained Embassy of Ukraine and the Milyan as auxiliary bishop of its Kyiv two priests in secret, Mr. Antoshevskyi said. Ukrainian American commu- Archeparchy in a June 18 chirotony attended In his homily, Archbishop Husar, the nity of the greater Washington by 20 hierarchs of the Catholic Church, 100 head of the UGCC, to whom many refer as area marked the 45th anniver- clergy and more than 400 laity at the , thanked Bishop Milyan’s parents sary of the Taras Shevchenko Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of “for raising a bishop and giving him up for monument’s unveiling with a Christ. God’s service.” commemorative ceremony on The ceremony, held under the cathedral’s He also spoke of his Church’s survival of June 27. unfinished domes and without electricity, many trials: “If we have survived the severe The ceremony was held on was the first public consecration performed hardships of the last few centuries, it is only the grounds of the Ukrainian in Kyiv by the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic through the grace of God, who operated poet’s memorial in the U.S. Church since it was established by the through us. Our survival was not achieved capital, where on that same Union of Brest in 1596, said Taras through our own merit. It is a gift from the June day in 1964 former Antoshevskyi, director of the Religion Good Lord. …The Lord is behind this his- President Dwight D. Information Service of Ukraine. torical success.” Eisenhower unveiled the mon- “The proclamation itself didn’t evoke sat- In turn, the new bishop said he would try ument in front of an estimated isfaction or elation,” the Rev. Milyan said of to establish contacts with traditional crowd of more than 100,000. his appointment. “I accepted it very calmly. Christian Churches in Ukraine’s capital. Addressing a much small- However, there is anxiety in my soul.” Roman Catholic hierarchs and priests, as er crowd this time, Ukraine’s The chirotony began the prior evening well as clergy from the Ukrainian Orthodox Ambassador to the United when the bishop-designate accepted his Church – Kyiv also attended States Oleh Shamshur called appointment and took an oath before the the consecration. that historic event an enor- Church . Having already received Among the elements in his bishop’s crest, mous achievement of the Pope Benedict XVI’s blessing on April 16, Bishop Milyan chose an anchor as a symbol Ukrainian American commu- the Church selected June 18, Holy Eucharist of hope, “because I am hoping very much nity and “convincing proof Day, as the day of the new bishop’s conse- for God’s help,” and the motto “Z Namy of their enthusiasm and com- cration, because the Rev. Milyan had served Boh” (God Is With Us). Other symbols mitment to the liberty of their Yaro Bihun as the supervisor of Holy Eucharist Church “I think I won’t be a stranger here,” he historic motherland.” A combined church chorus performs at the 45th in for 10 years, explained Ihor Yatsiv, said in a June 15 statement. “I built my He said the monument – anniversary commemoration of the unveiling of the the Church’s press secretary. monastic and priestly service on the experi- the work of sculptor Leo Mol monument to Taras Shevchenko in Washington. Trembita players in folk costumes greet- ence the Church gained during its great his- and landscape architect ed attendants, led by and tory, which is a very valuable rock for me. Radoslav Zuk – was one of the best in the model, Ambassador Shamshur noted that Cardinal , Metropolitan Ivan Therefore, I hope that I won’t differentiate world to honor Ukraine’s premier poet. “it is both natural and highly symbolic Martyniak of the Peremyshl-Warsaw myself from the Kyiv clergy within our The ambassador also noted the work of that the American nation, which has been Archeparchy, Bishop Yulian Voronovskyi of Church, as well as those close to our tradi- Ukrainian American community leaders, built upon the foundations of freedom, the Sambir-Drohobych Eparchy and Bishop tion and spirit.” singling out Dr. Lev Dobriansky, then- acknowledges the genius of this great Petro Stasiuk of the Australia, New Zealand The Rev. Milyan spent half his Church president of the Ukrainian Congress Ukrainian hero.” and Oceania Eparchy. Also present was the Archbishop Alexander Bykowetz of apostolic in Ukraine, Archbishop (Continued on page 4) Committee of America, for initiating and bringing the project to completion. the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Describing Taras Shevchenko’s impor- Patriarch in his brief remarks at the com- memorations contrasted the condition of tance to Ukraine’s long struggle for free- dom and his vision of America as a (Continued on page 5)

Our Ukraine party gets overhaul, declares opposition to Tymoshenko by Danylo Peleschuk isters to abandon Ms. Tymoshenko’s Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Cabinet, a political maneuver that could have dissolved her government and led to KYIV – Led by President Viktor pre-term parliamentary elections. Yushchenko and Presidential Secretariat “On the one hand, Our Ukraine said it Chair Vira Ulianchenko, an overhauled Our will withdraw its politicians from the coali- Ukraine party declared its opposition to tion, but it didn’t call off its ministers,” said Yulia Tymoshenko at its June 27 party con- Ihor Zhdanov, president of Open Politics, a gress and ostracized those politicians loyal Kyiv-based think-tank. “From the point of to the prime minister, who are led by mil- view of political logic, it’s absurd. This lionaire natural gas trader Mykola logic is distorted, involving leaving people Martynenko. Yuriy Borysov [in the Cabinet] in order to have access to The opposition declaration proved to be resources.” Bishop Yosyf Milyan (center) is the first Ukrainian Greek-Catholic bishop publicly more show than substance, however, as the consecrated in Kyiv since the Church’s establishment by the Union of Brest in 1596. party backed down from requiring its min- (Continued on page 16) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 No. 27 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS

Constitutional instability in Ukraine Ukraine marks Constitution anniversary Ukraine political party. “Task No. 1 is consolidation of political forces,” Mr. leads to continuing “legal turmoil” KYIV – Adoption of the Constitution Yushchenko noted. He said that, despite in 1996 marked the completion of the the fact that in the past few years his legal formation of the Ukrainian state, political force lived through a rather diffi- by Taras Kuzio sis in November of that year, when tapes Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr RFE/RL made illicitly in his office allegedly proved cult period, today the party “is spreading Lytvyn said in his message of greetings its wings.” He said, “Our task is to that he ordered violence against journalist on the occasion of Constitution Day, June On June 28, 1996, Ukraine became the strengthen consolidation, reach out to Heorhii Gongadze, who was kidnapped on 28. He said the Venice Commission of the last Soviet republic to adopt a post-Soviet September 16, 2000, and found decapitated each other, offer unity not only among the Council of Europe called the Constitution Constitution, and that day was designated on November 2, 2000. political party, but also to outline com- of Ukraine one of the best among demo- Constitution Day, a national holiday. Two Ukrainian politicians traditionally mon policy in Parliament,” the president cratic countries of the world. Within the years later, on October 21, 1998, the approached constitutional, and indeed all noted. (Ukrinform) framework of holiday festivities, flowers other issues, from the standpoint not of Crimean Autonomous Republic adopted its were laid at the monuments to poet Taras national interests, but personal advantage. YTB says Tymoshenko must run own constitution, recognizing the peninsula Shevchenko and the first president of the within Ukraine. Following the 2002 parliamentary elections, KYIV – According to news reports of Mr. Kuchma shifted 180 degrees from his Ukrainian National Republic, Mykhailo Leonid Kuchma’s re-election as president Hrushevsky. Participating were Prime June 30, Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc National in 1999 gave rise to Ukraine’s first non-left constitutional position two years earlier Deputy Oleh Liashko of the Yulia toward support for a parliamentary system. Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, government parliamentary majority that sought to ditch members, national deputies and Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) said he is con- the country’s “semi-presidential” The architect of this strategy, which had two vinced that Prime Minister Yulia objectives, was presidential chief of staff Presidential Secretariat Chair Vira Constitution in favor of a full presidential Ulianchenko. (Ukrinform) Tymoshenko will not repeat the mistake system. The relevant four questions were Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of the Social of 2004 and refuse to run for the presi- Democratic Party-United. put to an April 2000 referendum in April Tymoshenko comments on coalition dency. Commenting the resolution of the Our Ukraine party congress urging Ms. 2000 that was not internationally recog- Disarming Yushchenko KYIV – A possible withdrawal of the nized, and were approved by a suspiciously Tymoshenko to either give up her presi- The first objective was to split the oppo- Our Ukraine party from the ruling coali- high percentage of voters. dential ambitions or resign, Mr. Liashko sition by persuading the left, perennial sup- tion will not affect the unity of the said: “We have already made the strategic But Mr. Kuchma’s plans were under- porters of parliamentarism, to support the Parliament majority, Prime Minister Yulia mined by the onset of the Kuchma-gate cri- mistake, having turned down the presi- constitutional reforms advocated by pro- Tymoshenko told a news conference on dential race in 2004 and supported presidential centrists. The second was to June 24. “I know that President Viktor Taras Kuzio is a senior fellow in the [Viktor] Yushchenko, and now we have strip popular opposition presidential candi- Yushchenko has set a task to his team to what we have, as [Leonid] Kravchuk once Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of date , if he were elected, reach at the Our Ukraine People’s Union put it. I hope Yulia Volodymyrivna this Toronto, and research professor, Carleton of the extensive presidential powers rally slated for Saturday [June 27] a deci- time will not repeat this mistake.” He University, Ottawa. He edits the bimonth- sion to quit the coalition and withdraw added that Prime Minister Tymoshenko ly “Ukraine Analyst.” (Continued on page 21) the ministers from the Cabinet,” she said. has no presidential ambitions, but the sit- “I am convinced that this will have abso- uation is such that she must run for the lutely no impact on the unity, integrity president and win. (Ukrinform) and cohesion of the coalition, and no U.S.-Russia summit in Moscow presents influence on the unity and integrity of the PRU sees Yatsenyuk as PM government,” the prime minister stressed. She added that, “if the decision is finally KYIV – Oleksander Lavrynovych, the last opportunity to avoid war in Georgia made, I just regret that such decisions can first vice-chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and a member of the Party of by Pavel Felgenhauer ficiently bold” new nuclear arms control arise at all. This will be a decision against Ukraine. …My stance is the opposite: I Regions of Ukraine (PRU), said he Eurasia Daily Monitor agreement to replace the 1991 Strategic am ready to actively work with all assumes that National Deputy Arseniy Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which Yatsenyuk of the Our Ukraine-People’s During the summit between Presidents expires in December. It was provisionally branches of power, and I regret that some- Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in one offers other policy.” (Ukrinform) Self-Defense bloc, could be elected prime planned that during the U.S. president’s minister if PRU leader Viktor Yanukovych London on April 1, it was decided in the visit to Moscow beginning on July 6, a words of Mr. Obama, “to prepare by the Yushchenko on consolidation of forces becomes president. News media reported framework agreement outlining a new on June 30 that Mr. Lavrynovych made end of this year a legally binding and suf- KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor START treaty will be endorsed (Eurasia this statement on the TBi TV channel. He Yushchenko said on June 30 that the main Daily Monitor, April 9). noted that this scenario is theoretically objective of his party, Our Ukraine, is Russian and American negotiating possible if Mr. Yatsenyuk’s political force consolidation of political forces. He made teams have been regularly meeting and sets up a faction in the Parliament and Correction reporting good progress in START talks. a statement to this effect upon the conclu- In the story headlined “The New York The commander of the Russian Strategic sion of the seventh congress of the Our (Continued on page 14) Times spotlights continuing legacy of Rocket Forces, Col.-Gen. Nikolai Surma” (June 28), the website address for Solovtsov, announced that by 2012 Russia the Ukrainian shop should have been may reduce its strategic nuclear arsenal to given as www.surmastore.com. 1,700-2,000 warheads and could eventual- THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FOUNDED 1933 ly go down to 1,500, “if there is a political decision” (Interfax, June 10). The reduc- An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., tion seems steep, compared to the a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 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(Continued on page 20) No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 3 NEWS ANALYSIS: divide Ukraine and Russia by Taras Kuzio people (Voice of America Russian service, against Ukrainian, Baltic and Crimean Tatar is better applied to Russian leaders who Eurasia Daily Monitor May 18). The Crimean Tatars’ congress nationalist diasporas by equating “Nazi col- have ordered school textbooks to portray called upon the Ukrainian president and laborationism” with “(separatist) bourgeois Stalin as an “effective manager,” and his President Viktor Yushchenko has strongly prime minister, “to take urgent steps to nationalism.” This linkage escaped the anti- mass crimes against humanity explained condemned the 1944 deportation of Crimean deliver on all the previously reached agree- communist Russian diaspora as it, like the away as the only manner in which to over- Tatars on many occasions and ordered the ments, and your instructions and promises majority of Russian dissidents, never sup- come the USSR’s economic and security Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) to open regarding the fair resolution of land disputes ported the secession of the Russian SFSR challenges. a special investigative unit examining crimes in and providing Crimean Tatars from the USSR. Russian nationalists and the However, as the Moscow-based political against humanity committed by the Soviet with land” (UNIAN, May 23). majority of Russian democratic dissidents analyst Yevgeny Kiselyov recently observed: regime against them. Since the 1998 All of the infrastructure of the Crimean either supported the transformation of the “The worst ‘falsifier’ of history, of course, Ukrainian parliamentary elections, Rukh Tatars up to their 1944 deportation – the- USSR into a “Russian (or eastern Slavic) has been the Kremlin” (Moscow Times, and President Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine aters, schools, mosques, and other buildings state” or the USSR’s democratization, not its June 3). Stalin came in third place in the have included Tatar leaders within their – were expropriated by the Soviet regime dissolution. In 1967 the Soviet government “Name of Russia” nationwide television party lists. and have not been returned. Crimean Tatar dropped all charges of “Nazi collaboration.” contest held in November 2008. The SBU unit will investigate the 1944 place names were subsequently Russified. But Tatars only began to return to Crimea in Ukraine’s strategy of declassifying KGB deportation and the earlier persecution of the Currently 15 out of 650 Crimean schools the late 1980s, and they now number documents pertaining to Soviet crimes Crimean Tatar intelligentsia. The SBU has provide instruction in Crimean Tatar, but 300,000 (12 percent of the population). The against humanity began in the 1990s, and declassified 63 criminal cases against only 13 of these do so in the first three ethnic Russian majority is in decline from was speeded up under President Crimean Tatar members of the Milly Firqa grades. 65 percent (1989) to 58 percent (2001). Yushchenko. The policy is diametrically at separatist organization that operated in Land is the major source of dispute, as Approximately 100,000 Crimean Tatars odds with Russia under Putin, which contin- 1918-1928. SBU chairman Valentyn many Tatars live illegally as squatters, continue to live in Uzbekistan. ues to block access to archives. Soviet docu- Nalyvaichenko recently outlined how the pushed into rural areas by developers taking Under Vladimir Putin the positive steps ments on the 1933 Ukrainian Famine and special unit would investigate who was prize urban real estate. High unemployment taken in the Gorbachev and Yeltsin eras in other Soviet crimes are being declassified in responsible for the deportations. forces many Crimean Tatars to eke out a liv- overcoming Soviet stereotypes and false Ukraine, while they remain a “state secret” Crimean Tatars seek to have all former ing within the shadow economy, as shuttle- criminal charges have been reversed. in Russia (Moscow Times, June 9). KGB documents pertaining to them declas- traders where they regularly face violence President Dmitry Medvedev’s creation of a sified and made available for public scrutiny from organized criminal gangs who control “historical commission” coincides with a The article above is reprinted from on the Internet. The SBU promised the the street markets. bill “opposing the rehabilitation of Nazism, Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from declassified documents would be given to The issue of the plight of the Crimean Nazi criminals and their accomplices” in the its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, families who suffered during the repres- Tatars is seen in diametrically opposite ways former USSR. The “falsification of history” www.jamestown.org. sions. by Ukrainians and Russians. On the 65th anniversary of the deporta- Russian nationalist and Communist par- tion of Crimean Tatars, Prime Minister Yulia ties and NGOs in Crimea hold to the Tymoshenko condemned it in no uncertain Russian world view of Tatars as rabidly anti- Nationalists damage Lenin statue terms: “This terrible and severe page in our Russian and “Nazi collaborators.” They, and history we, as Ukrainians who ourselves the Russian authorities, see Tsarina went through the Famine-Genocide and Catherine as a great builder of the Russian repression, and for a long period of time empire. defended their right to independence, feel Ukrainians and Tatars see her as a the sufferings and consequences of each and destroyer of their autonomy and indepen- every Crimean Tatar” (www.kmu.gov.ua dence in the last two decades of the 18th May 18). century. Following the Russian occupation The anniversary coincided with the first of Crimea, between the 1780s to 1914, hun- World Congress of Crimean Tatars attended dreds of thousands of Tatars emigrated to by 800 delegates from 11 countries. The Ottoman Turkey, where in modern Turkey congress, held in the famous Bakhchysarai they remain a vocal lobby. palace, the former seat of the Tatar Khanate, The charge of “Nazi collaborators” was was followed by a procession to the histori- first raised in May 1944 when Soviet leader cal Zincirli Madrasah. The congress released Joseph Stalin ordered the deportation of the pent-up frustrations felt by Crimean 200,000 Crimean Tatars to Uzbekistan. Tatars who are dissatisfied with the manner Between 25 percent (the Soviet government in which they have been treated by succes- figure) and 46 percent (the Crimean Tatar sive Ukrainian governments. Throughout estimate) died in the first year in exile. much of May the Crimean Tatar protesters Smaller numbers of Germans, Armenians stood outside the Cabinet of Ministers’ and Bulgarians also were deported. The office in Kyiv, demanding greater attention place of these four ethnic groups was largely for their economic and social plight. filled by ethnic Russians. The autonomous Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev status of Crimea within the Russian SFSR (sometimes spelled Jemilev), a veteran was abolished in 1944 and only revived in Soviet dissident, complained that no legisla- 1991 in the Ukrainian SSR to which Crimea tion has ever been adopted in Ukraine to was transferred in 1954. reinstate the social and legal rights of his The USSR unleashed ideological tirades Quotable notes “Your advocacy of strong U.S. ties with these nations is of vital importance. I share your deep affection for those special countries of Central and Eastern Europe. As a child, I remember watching as men and women demonstrated their support of the Captive Nations, marching in the annual parades. …Like yours, however, my focus stems from far more than warm ties and deep affection. It derives from the recognition that the political and economic trajectories of this region are of direct importance to the U.S. “The history of these lands, though replete with inspiration, has nevertheless been wrought with tragedy. From the Famine in Ukraine in the 1930s to Budapest in 1956 and Prague in 1968, from the Soviet occupation of the Baltic countries to the establishment of martial law in Poland, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have felt the painful weight of oppression in a way that is scarcely imaginable to many of us. And so it is all the more inspiring to see the majority of these countries establish stable and increasingly prosperous democra- cies, open to the West and destined for a bright future. “That is why I have long supported the expansion of trans-Atlantic institu- KYIV – Members of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists damaged a statue tions, including NATO, to the emerging democracies in Central and Eastern of Vladimir Lenin in downtown Kyiv on June 30. The group, led by Mykola Europe. It is why we must work closely with these countries in fields as varied as Kokhanivskyi, scaled a ladder shortly before dawn in order to chip away at trade, energy and defense. And it is why, while we cannot close off opportunities the face and hands of Lenin’s likeness. Five people were arrested, while two for Russia to re-engage in a productive way, we must not yield any hint that we escaped, according to television reports. Police said the vandals could face up to will cede this region to a re-established, Moscow-centered sphere of influence.” seven years in prison. The CUN members took full responsibility for the act; they have yet to be formally charged. The statue is located near the intersection of the – Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), speaking on June 10 at the policy seminar Khreschatyk and Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, across from the Bessarabskyi “Security in Central and Eastern Europe on the Eve of the Obama-Medvedev Rynok (market). Summit” hosted by the Central and East European Coalition in Washington. – Danylo Peleschuk 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 No. 27

He was ordained a deacon on May 9, Kyiv consecration... 1984, and on December 30, 1984, he was The new bishop’s crest (Continued from page 1) ordained a priest by Bishop Sterniuk. service in the Studite order during the Soviet The Rev. Milyan worked at a Lviv facto- era, learning of underground monastic life in ry from 1984 until the Church emerged from his native Dobriany through the clandestine the underground. During that time he taught catechism and served believers in parishes parish of St. John the Theologian. throughout the Lviv Oblast. He took seminary courses under the Rev. When the “Church of the Catacombs” Voronovskyi (today bishop of Sambir and came forward in the late 1980s, he served a Drohobych) and other members of the parish in the village of Univ and the sur- Studite order. He often met with and was rounding villages of the Zolochiv district. taught by the leader of the underground He became the first Ukrainian Greek- Church, Bishop , who Catholic priest to serve at St. Illia the had been secretly ordained a bishop in 1964. Prophet Studite Monastery in Yaremche.

Yuriy Borysov Bishop Yosyf Milyan is consecrated as auxiliary bishop of the Kyiv Archeparchy of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. • The yellow cross on top symbolizes ish church in the village of Dobriany. the Studite cross and membership in the The crossed scythes are part of the Studite monastic order. ancient heraldry symbolizing the village • The angel on the bottom is St. of Dobriany, dating back to 1437. Michael the Archangel, patron saint of • All four sections of the shield are Kyiv. divided by St. Andrew’s Cross, a big • The three red stars and anchor on “X.” According to legend, St. Andrew the left symbolize the immaculate the First-Called Apostle reached and nature of the Mother of God and hope blessed the Hills of Kyiv. in God and maternal protection, respec- • The motto “God Is With Us” (Z tively. Namy Boh) represents the bishop’s per- • The black eagle and crossed scythes sonal conviction, faith and belief in the represent the bishop’s native region. An Almighty’s help in spreading Christ’s eagle is the symbol of St. John the Word. Theologian, whose name adorns the par- – Illya M. Labunka Biography of Bishop Yosyf Milyan • July 7, 1956 – born in the village of Dobriany in the Horodok District of the Lviv Oblast to a family of Ukrainian Catholics. Illya M. Labunka • June 5, 1979 – received Clergy and faithful watch as newly consecrated bishop (left) distributes holy a blessing from Father Yulian communion. Voronovskyi to begin his monastic studies. • March 8, 1983 – pledged his final monastic vows and took the name Yosyf (Joseph). • May 9, 1984 – ordained a deacon. • December 30, 1984 – ordained a priest by Bishop Volodymyr Sterniuk. • 1992 – appointed superi- or of the order of St. Joseph in Lviv. • May 1993 – appointed spiritual director of Christian youth organizations. • June 1996 – earned a Yuriy Borysov master’s degree in theology Bishop Yosyf Milyan at Lublin Catholic University. • March 3, 1997 – appointed supervi- • June 1997 – receives licentiate in the- sor of Holy Eucharist Church in Lviv and ology and begins doctoral studies pro- the Pastoral Center for Youth. gram. • November 1, 2008 – appointed pastor • February 1997 – appointed chair of of Annunciation of the Holy Mother of Yuriy Borysov the Patriarchal Committee on Youth God Church at the Patriarchal Cathedral Bishop Yosyf Milyan and Archbishop Major Lubomyr Husar surrounded by the Issues. of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv. new bishop’s parents (seated on either side of the archbishop) and relatives. No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 5 NEWS AND VIEWS: Argentina has a new Ukrainian Catholic bishop by Oleh Wolowyna his Argentinean friends. As he told me, “I On July 5 Bishop Shevchuk will cele- met some extraordinary people in Buenos brate his first liturgy in Argentina, and LVIV – Sometimes the stars in the sky Aires who helped me in many ways, and this will be a very happy day for the come together in a perfect alignment. I always hoped to have the opportunity to Ukrainian community in Argentina. This is what happened in Lviv on April 7, repay them for all their kindness.” This is an excellent example of collab- when the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Almost 20 years later, his wish became oration between Ukraine and the diaspo- Church’s new auxiliary bishop for reality. ra, and hopefully will serve as an example Argentina, , was In 2003 the Rev. Shevchuk made his on how to revitalize our Church outside consecrated. second trip to Argentina. He was invited of Ukraine. One hopes that the history of This event deserves to be reported, as by the Basilian Sisters in Argentina to Bishop Shevchuk will serve as an exam- it is an ideal example of collaboration preach a mision for them. By then he had ple on how to make sure that priests from between Ukraine and the Ukrainian completed his doctorate in theology and Ukraine are well-prepared for their pasto- diaspora. I was in Ukraine at that time on was the vice-rector of Holy Spirit ral work in other countries. a Fulbright Scholar research grant, and Seminary in Lviv. During this trip he Allow me to also say a few words had the privilege of attending the conse- preached first in Buenos Aries and then in about Holy Spirit seminary in Lviv. The cration. I also spent a few days at the Posadas, Misiones. He visited the major seminary has a long and illustrious histo- Holy Spirit Seminary of the Ukrainian Ukrainian settlements in this Northern ry. It was inaugurated in 1783 under the Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) in Lviv, Province of Argentina, and got acquainted patronage of Emperor Joseph II of where I gave a lecture to the seminarians with the Basilian priests and nuns work- Austria; thus last year the seminary cele- and had a chance to get acquainted with ing in this province. brated its 225th anniversary. The work of this extraordinary institution. Two years later he made his third trip the seminary was interrupted during The episcopal consecration was a fes- to Argentina, at the invitation of the World War I and restarted in 1924. tive occasion. It was presided by Patriarch Newly consecrated Bishop Sviatoslav Ukrainian Catholic University branch in Starting in 1926, Father Josyph Slipyj and Cardinal Lubomyr Husar and attend- Shevchuk Buenos Aires. He participated in the year- was its rector for 13 years, and in 1929 he ed by the apostolic of Ukraine ly summer courses in Ukrainian studies created the Theological Academy. The and Georgia, 18 archbishops and Catholic bishop in Argentina, Andrij held in Misiones, where he met young seminary was closed by the Soviet regime of the UGCC, and the Argentinean Sapelak, to bring young seminarians from third- and fourth-generation Ukrainians in 1939 and was reopened in 1990. ambassador in Ukraine. Ukraine to study in Argentina. eager to learn about Ukrainian history The current facilities of the seminary St. George Cathedral was packed with Young Sviatoslav Shevchuk studied and culture. He also visited many were inaugurated in 2007. It is housed in people and the whole ceremony was tele- for two semesters at the Center of Studies Ukrainian parishes in Misiones and a modern complex of buildings on a large vised. A reception followed the ceremony of the Salesian Order in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aries, and visited for the first plot of land donated by the city of Lviv. and Argentina was the theme of many and on Saturdays he taught Ukrainian time Ukrainian settlements in the prov- There are currently 203 seminarians from speeches and interviews. children at one of the local Ukrainian par- ince of Chaco. Ukraine and other countries. The events that to led to Bishop ishes. After almost two years in Argentina Thus, when Cardinal Husar nominated Living in the dorm, sharing meals and Shevchuk’s consecration are really he returned to Ukraine, was consecrated the Rev. Shevchuk auxiliary bishop for lecturing gave me an opportunity to get to extraordinary. As a young seminarian he as a priest and then traveled to Rome for Argentina, he could not have made a bet- know these young men, and I was highly traveled to Argentina in 1991 as part of a further studies. ter choice. This is a young Ukrainian impressed by the caliber of these stu- program by the first Ukrainian Greek- His story in Argentina gave him a priest with excellent scholastic creden- dents. They are polite but firm when nec- chance to learn Spanish, get to know the tials, wide administrative experience (for- essary, and are not shy about asking ques- Oleh Wolowyna is president of Ukrainian community in Buenos Aires mer administrator of the Patriarchal Curia tions or making comments. Informed Decisions Inc. based in Chapel and get acquainted with the Argentinean of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church The seminary has several computer Hill, N.C. He recently spent six months in people and culture. and, until recently, rector of the Seminary labs, many students have their own note- Ukraine as a Fulbright scholar doing He developed close friendships with in Lviv), with close ties to the Ukrainian book computer and they make good use research at the Institute of Demography young members of Ukrainian community in Argentina, who also speaks of them. Lights in the computer labs burn and Social Studies of the National Scouting Organization and parishioners Spanish and has first-hand knowledge of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. in Buenos Aires, and stayed in touch with the Argentinean people and culture. (Continued on page 22)

Representing the U.S. government at “special meaning” the Shevchenko monu- the event, Karen Stuart spoke about the ment had for her father, who died last enduring friendship between the year. She noted that his widow, her moth- American and Ukrainian peoples and er Julia Dobriansky, and her sister Larisa stressed that the “United States remains were among those who came to mark this committed to a prosperous democratic 45th anniversary. Ukraine and supports Ukraine’s sover- She said her father firmly believed that eignty and self-determination.” the Soviet Union was so inimical to the “I am certain that our friendship will human spirit that it would not last. The remain strong and continue to flourish Shevchenko monument, she added, “is a into the future,” she said. reminder to future generations to never Paula Dobriansky spoke about the take liberty for granted.”

Yaro Bihun Addressing the gathering is former Under-Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky, daughter of Dr. Lev Dobriansky, who played a key role in efforts to erect a Shevchenko monument in the U.S. capital.

Paula Dobriansky (Dr. Dobriansky’s Ukrainians mark... daughter), National Park Service (Continued from page 1) Supervisory Park Ranger Rebecca the Ukrainian people 45 years ago and Karcher, and two Ukrainian American now. Then, he said, they were a disunited community leaders, Borys Hlynsky of the people, often mistaken for Poles or Shevchenko Scientific Society and Russians in the West, and subjugated Bohdana Urbanovych of the Shevchenko within the Soviet Union at home. Now Memorial Committee. this is a joyous event, he added. “For 17 Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty did Yaro Bihun years now we commemorate Shevchenko not attend but sent a letter of greetings, While many of those who came to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Taras as a new, united and free family.” which was read by the Embassy’s first sec- Shevchenko memorial in Washington June 27 photographed its highlights with Also speaking at the ceremony were retary, Olexandr Aleksandrovych. their pocket digital cameras and cellphones, Andrei Kushnir recorded the event the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for The musical part of the commemora- old-fashioned way: oil on canvas, one brush stroke at a time. The Ukrainian Democracy, Human Rights and Labor tion program was performed by a com- American artist is known for his work in New York City, where until February of Karen Stuart, former Under-Secretary of bined Ukrainian church chorus conducted this year he had an art gallery in the Ukrainian section of the East Village. He now State for Democracy and Global Affairs by Gregory Oleynik, with soprano lives in Washington and is the owner of the American Painting gallery in the Solomiya Dutkewych as the soloist. Palisades area of the capital. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 No. 27

COMMENTARY THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Casinos in Ukraine Moscow sees Ukraine as ‘failed state’ Besides garbage-strewn forests and widely available liquor, among the more ripe for seizure, says Shcherbak offensive scenes in Ukraine in recent years have been the pervasive gambling casinos that plague virtually every urban neighborhood. With their neon lights blazing by Paul Goble he continues, is simply not true. According throughout the night, they attract unsavory customers who do dangerous things. The to one recent international ranking, neither last straw came on May 9, when a Dnipropetrovsk casino caught on fire, killing nine Yuri Shcherbak, Kyiv’s former ambassa- Ukraine nor Russia falls in the category of a and injuring 10. Police determined arson was the cause, noting that the casino was dor in Washington, says that some Russian failed or failing state, but Ukraine’s obvious frequented by drug addicts, one of whom was arrested but not prosecuted. leaders are actively considering the possibil- problems combined with Moscow’s vastly Given that a presidential election campaign is under way, Ukraine’s casino opera- ity of seizing all or part of Ukraine and are more powerful propaganda effort have tors couldn’t have fallen victim to arson at a worse time. Prime Minister Yulia preparing public opinion in Eurasia and the allowed Russia to put Ukraine in that box. Tymoshenko pounced on the opportunity, declaring her opposition to casinos with West for such a move by pushing the notion Indeed, two articles by Russians have sophisticated electronic equipment operating in residential buildings and noting that that Ukraine has become “a failed state.” appeared in the late May that appear to pro- gaming operators routinely ignored fire hazards, such as the lack of proper exits. In a lengthy article in the May 21 issue vide evidence of the Ukrainian ambassador’s These casinos have long been a stick in the craw of average Ukrainians who want of the Kyiv newspaper, Den, Dr. Shcherbak point. In one, Andrey Stavitsky pointedly clean and safe neighborhoods, and Parliament approved the Yulia Tymoshenko says that “aggressive conversations relative asks “has the sentence already been returned” Bloc’s legislative initiative to ban all casinos in Ukraine on May 15. Only a politician to Ukraine and the possible dividing up of on Ukraine in the current economic crisis? as clumsy as President Viktor Yushchenko would miss the bandwagon, on June 4 its territory are being conducted” now in And will that entity thus “disappear as a handing down a veto, which the Parliament overrode a week later, collecting 390 out Moscow by a variety of Russian nationalist state?” (odnarodyna.ru/articles/6/666.html). of 429 votes. Gambling was banned in Ukraine on June 11. politicians and analysts (www.day.kiev. And Konstantin Zatulin wrote that “Just as the phrase ‘Vse propalo’ (Everything is lost) has become popular now, the ua/274238/274238 and www.day.kiev. Moscow must view the Russian diaspora in gaming industry is also gone,” said Ms. Tymoshenko, referring to her now-famous ua/274251/). Ukraine and elsewhere as an ally, “in the phrase (uttered recently when her teleprompter experienced technical difficulties). Among the people he names are the fol- same rank with the army, the fleet and the “The gaming business won’t be branched out in Ukraine as it had been. You can also lowers of Konstantin Zatulin, the first depu- Church,” thus making a direct appeal for believe that we will close it reliably and not allow it to operate tacitly.” ty head of the Duma Committee on Russia to act before ethnic Russians in The president supported strict limits on Ukraine’s billion-dollar gambling industry, Compatriots and director of the Institute of Ukraine disappear through assimilation but argued the Tymoshenko legislation threatened the jobs of more than 200,000 CIS Countries; Aleksandr Prokhanov, the (www.russkie.org/index. gambling employees and would result in a very significant loss of tax revenue. novelist and “Zavtra” commentator; and php?module=fullitem&id=15609). Despite the ban, Ukrainian media have reported that casinos and slot joints are Aleksandr Dugin, the leader of the Eurasian Many in Ukraine, the West and even in still running, simply moving to back alleys or second floors of buildings, or operat- Movement. Russia will be inclined to dismiss Dr. ing behind shuttered windows and doors. And while these individuals are notori- Shcherbak’s article as an overreaction to Despite the prime minister’s confident statements, politicians of the Tymoshenko ous for their openly imperialistic views, Dr. overheated Russian nationalist commentar- Bloc are now re-considering gambling’s return to Ukraine. National Deputy Vitalii Shcherbak says that he is convinced that ies in Moscow. One very much hopes that Pysarenko suggested creating four gambling zones, as well as million-euro casino “the idea of the division of Ukraine into such a dismissal is appropriate, but unfortu- licenses. As Ukraine’s most popular tourist destination, Crimea is an obvious parts is completely seriously being worked nately, there are increasing indications that choice for such a zone. Mr. Pysarenko’s proposal also suggests economically out at various levels of the powers that be in at least some in the Russian government are depressed regions in the Luhansk Oblast, which borders the Russian Federation, as Russia.” And he reminds that it was not so actually thinking about partition. well as the Lviv and Volyn Oblasts, which border Poland. long ago that Bolshevik “fantasies” In the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Creating a Ukrainian Las Vegas is a worthwhile idea, and it ought to be Crimea. informed Moscow’s “bloody reality.” Georgia and the West’s failure to take tough It’s doubtful many tourists would travel to far-off regions just to gamble at a few Moreover, he adds, many Russians took action to punish the Russian government for casinos. After all, it took decades before millions would flock to the desert outpost note, even if few in the West did, of Russian this breach of international law, more and of Las Vegas. Nothing in Lviv, Volyn or Luhansk will ever compare, particularly Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s comments more people in the Russian Federation are with the regions’ pothole-plagued roads. at the Bucharest summit when he burst out: thinking about the possibility of redrawing Perhaps National Deputy Hennadii Moskal has the best proposal: to allow casi- “Ukraine is not a state! What is Ukraine? borders in the post-Soviet space. nos to operate in cities of more than 100,000 people, but only under strict zoning One part of it is Eastern Europe, but another An example of that is provided by restrictions and with financial penalties for violations of fire safety and other codes. – and a very large part – was given by us!” Mikhail Chernov, the secretary of the He also said he wants to increase the likelihood of winning on the slot machines Such statements, the former Ukrainian Movement for a Single Ossetia, which and reduce “social risks” of gambling. And, all taxes collected ought to be directed diplomat warns, “are called in military lan- wants that nation to unite under the aegis of toward medicine and education. guage the ideological-propagandistic prepa- the Russian Federation, in an interview he All these proposals are intriguing. But let’s keep the casinos to Crimea and the ration of a future operation for the seizure of gave to the Israeli journalist Avraam five Ukrainian cities with more than a million residents, with strict rules about the territory of a sovereign state.” And like Shmulyevich that was posted online in where and how they can operate. Casinos should be restricted from the storefront most such efforts, they rely on a mix of facts Russia on May 19 (www.apn.ru/publica- properties of multi-floor residential buildings. Gambling zones should be created and fiction in order to appear plausible to the tions/article21616.htm). on the cities’ outskirts, away from residential areas. Strict fire and electrical inspec- greatest number of people. In the course of the wide-ranging inter- tions must be conducted. The idea that Ukraine is a “failed” state, view, Mr. Chernov suggested that incautious Such solutions will prevent a tragedy similar to what happened in actions by Georgia’s Mikheil Saakashvili Dnipropetrovsk on May 9 from happening again. Just as importantly, residential Paul Goble is a lecturer at the could again lead to war and to the Russian neighborhoods will be more attractive and safer as a result. Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy in Baku. conquest and dismemberment of that He is a long-time specialist on ethnic and Caucasus republic. Indeed, he suggested that religious questions in Eurasia who has such an event could lead to further redraw- served in various capacities in the U.S. ing of the borders in the region. July State Department, the Central Intelligence Asked whether Russia might be “playing Turning the pages back... Agency and the International Broadcasting with fire” if it pushes for further border Bureau, as well as at the Voice of America changes, Mr. Chernov replied that “it is 9 and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and impossible to stop this process” and that if the Carnegie Endowment for International Russia wants “to survive,” Moscow must Two years ago, on July 9, 2007, diplomats, politicians, policy Peace. Mr. Goble writes a blog called have “its own projects for the redrawing” of 2007 analysts and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) advo- “Window on Eurasia” (http://windo- the map of the world before others can cates converged at Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a spe- woneurasia.blogspot.com/). This article achieve their goal of “the destruction of the cial meeting to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Ukraine above is reprinted with permission. Russian state as a single whole.” signing the Distinctive Partnership Charter with the alliance. Ukraine’s former Foreign Affairs Minister Hennadii Udovenko was in government when the initiative was launched during the mid-1990s. “The United States, Germany, France – everyone pushed us aside,” Mr. Udovenko said. “They didn’t want to listen to Ukraine’s intention to join NATO and become a civilized European country. Unfortunately, we don’t MAY WE HELP YOU? have a team like that anymore.” Ukraine’s former NATO Mission Chairman Borys Tarasyk proposed the term “special partnership” to describe the relationship between Ukraine and NATO, but the United States insisted on “distinctive partnership.” This was agreed on, because the two words were not To reach The Ukrainian Weekly call (973) 292-9800, distinguishable in most member-states’ languages, including Ukrainian. NATO signed its charter with the Russian Federation before Ukraine, even though and dial the appropriate extension (as listed below). 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Source: “Ukraine commemorates 10th anniversary of its Distinctive Partnership with Subscriptions – 3042 NATO,” by Zenon Zawada, The Ukrainian Weekly, July 15, 2007. No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Let’s talk about it other hand, it may be more effective than Russian depictions patriotic straight talk that is not of much BY YARO BIHUN use or inspiration for the growing ranks of a “failed state” of unemployed blue-and white-collar workers. Dear Editor: The upcoming presidential election I don’t want to walk into a mine field will most probably culminate in a face- “Still another part of ‘us’ disappears” of debate on Ukraine as a “failed state” off between Ms. Tymoshenko and Mr. That was how my old friend Andrew There, the Gen. Taylor/Vandenberg between Roman Kupchinsky and Yanukovych. It is much too late for any Zwarun concluded his response to my has not really disappeared, as my good Alexander Motyl. Both have their points. other candidate to gain traction. e-mail informing him about the recent friend Andrew lamented. Already inha- What is important is not to play into intentional sinking of the USNS Gen. bited by thousands of fish and other sea Russian hands. Boris Danik Hoyt S. Vandenberg off the coast of creatures that have found a new home in As I have written in Eurasia Daily North Caldwell, N.J. Florida. There, six and a half miles south its reef environment, it is also attracting a Monitor (June 12), Russia’s ideological of Key West and 140 feet below the sur- growing number of scuba divers, snorke- crusade against Ukraine includes a cam- face, that missile-spacecraft-satellite- lers, fishermen and – who knows – possi- paign to depict it as a “failed state” that tracking ship on May 27 was turned into bly some of its former, now somewhat requires international (i.e., Russian) super- Obama’s travels the world’s second largest artificial reef. older, reminiscing DP passengers. vision. Former Ukrainian Ambassador to We have shared a strong emotional Our Gen. Taylor, I’m relieved to say, the U.S. Yuri Shcherbak extensively ana- and Ukrainians attachment to that ship since we were 7 has been laid to rest in a much more res- lyzed and condemned this Russian depic- years old, when – in its previous incarna- pectful fashion than other DP ships. tion of Ukraine as a “failed state” in the Dear Editor: tion as the USNS Gen. Harry Taylor – it Another friend on my e-mail alert, newspaper Den (an English-language ver- Who decides where President Barack brought us and our families from war- Bohdan Malanczuk, came over on the sion is available at http://www.day.kiev. Obama should travel – the Ukrainian gov- torn Europe to the United States. Gen. Blatchford, which later served in ua/274533/). ernment or the Ukrainian American The Gen. Taylor was part of a fleet of the Korean and Vietnam wars, was priva- Perhaps Mr. Kupchinsky could find a Community? Neither. World War II U.S. troop carriers re-com- tized and converted into a container ship better term rather than the highly charged I do not profess to be a political sci- missioned after the war to ferry the hun- and, in 1979, was sold for scrap. “failed state.” We should not, after all, ence professional, but I do know that a dreds of thousands of Europe’s war refu- The Gen. Taylor/Vandenberg sinking, provide ammunition to those who seek to head of state does not barge in to another gees, the so-called displaced persons, to however, brought to mind the recent destroy Ukrainian statehood. country without first being invited by the America. Between 1949 and 1952, the “passing” of other institutions that have Taras Kuzio head of state of that country. An open Gen. Taylor made 39 trips from Germany played a role in my life. Toronto invitation by President Viktor Yushchenko to the United States, bringing across Soon after coming to the United in his inauguration letter to President nearly 40,000 DPs to their “new world.” States, Andrew, Bohdan and I found our- Obama does not constitute an official The Zwarun family of four came from selves in the Ukrainian American com- invitation. President Obama cannot travel Bremerhaven to New York in April of munity environment of Cleveland, Ohio, The stark reality to Ukraine on an open invitation without 1950; our family of six followed three with its many active institutions and a mutually agreed upon agenda. months later, in August. Thousands of organizations. One of its pillars was the in today’s Ukraine Perhaps letters should be addressed to other Ukrainian refugees walked its gan- Ss. Peter and Paul (later renamed St. President Yushchenko asking him to gplanks to our “new world” as well. My Josaphat) parochial elementary school in Dear Editor: invite President Obama to visit Ukraine older sister Marta Kowcz recalls compo- Parma. After more than 60 years of servi- ser Ihor Sonevytsky being on our ship. ce in educating generations of Ukrainian- Re: the editorial of June 14: While the for an official state visit. And an Internet search showed that in American (and other) children, it was current election system in Ukraine (via This is not the first time that the gov- 1952, the Gen. Taylor brought to New shut down last year. There may have been closed party lists) is indeed anachronistic ernment of Ukraine and the Ukrainian York the renowned bandurist virtuoso, sound reasons for its closing – demogra- and corruption-prone, in the early 1990s American diaspora are going in different Dr. Zinovij Shtokalko (according a New phic and economic, to cite but two. it was the Rukh organization (which later directions. What else is new? It takes time York Times clipping quoted by Helen A number of Ukrainian parochial became a party) that advocated its adop- to plan and prepare an official state visit Smindak in her “Dateline New York” schools in other cities have preceded its tion. It did so at the time for a good rea- – not a last minute letter-writing cam- column in the January 24, 1999, issue of demise, and more will surely follow. But son: the reformist national democrats paign as suggested by the Ukrainian The Ukrainian Weekly). that does not lessen the sorrow I feel for would win more seats in the Parliament National Information Service. After another historic refugee assign- today’s and future generations of along party lines than on their own. Lack Jerry Zinycz ment – in 1957 it transported several Ukrainian American children in the of individual name recognition (beyond a Venice, Fla. thousand Hungarian freedom-fighter Cleveland area who will not share in small number of former dissidents) was a refugees to Australia – the Gen. Taylor what we experienced within its walls a major drawback for Rukh candidates. was transferred to the Air Force in the half-century ago. This motivation was confirmed by early 1960s, completely rebuilt for the On the very last day of 2008 I witnes- none other than Vyacheslav Chornovil at Ukraine’s revival new, high-tech space mission it would sed yet another painful passing: the last an open meeting in Newark, N.J., at the perform for the next 20 years under its Voice of America Ukrainian radio broad- St. John’s Church gymnasium. Our will come again new name. In 1983 the Gen. Vandenberg cast (Ukrainian TV and Internet services Ukraine later was perhaps the biggest was mothballed for the last time on the continue). I had spent the 1970s behind beneficiary of that system. Dear Editor: James River in Virginia. Its only activity its radio microphones, informing our bre- As for the overall assessment of the If we understand clearly the political since then was the brief role it played in thren in Ukraine about what was going Tymoshenko-Yanukovych deal-making and national situation in Ukraine, with its 1998 as a set for a few scenes in the on in the world and within their own and its collapse criticism is understand- completely irresponsible and corrupt science-fiction horror movie “Virus,” in country – information they could not able, but not entirely sustainable. elites, then we come to the conclusion which it was a Russian ship, Akademik otherwise get in their Soviet state-contro- The stark reality is that Viktor that Ukraine has failed miserably as a Vladislav Volkov, before being towed lled environment. Yanukovych now leads in opinion polls state. last month to its final resting place off regarding the presidential election – Several factors contributed to this state Key West. (Continued on page 22) mainly because of the current debilitating of affairs. The diffusion of the Soviet economic downturn in Ukraine. It is political and economic system in Ukraine worldwide and mostly beyond the control worked to the detriment of the young of national governments. democracy. The question is: How can the Party of However, any thoughts of despair must Regions be stopped from a sweeping vic- be pushed away. Ukraine always had its tory? Over the last several months (coin- period of revival and this time will not be ciding with the deepening economic different. downturn) it became apparent that Prime In the year 1934 when I was 7 years Minister Yulia Tymoshenko needs to gain old, I remember reading Dzvinok, an more ground on that Party’s turf. The illustrated magazine for children. Then I extent of her vote advantage in central reached for a calendar of Chervona and western Ukraine may not be suffi- Kalyna. On the second page of the calen- cient. dar was a picture of two Ukrainian sol- Contemplation of a coalition between diers (Sichovi Striltsi) standing in the the Tymoshenko bloc and the Party of trenches and singing “Vydesh, Brate Miy” Regions was fictional from Day 1. while watching migrating birds flying to Skeptics knew that it could not last ten warm countries. I still see that picture in days, much less four or five years. But my mind and my eyes fill with tears from the use of such an idea as a ploy for emotion. attracting a segment of hesitant voters My love for my country, Ukraine, will and maybe seeding some discord “on the U.S. Navy photo never perish. other side” (and, of course, blaming the The USNS General Harry Taylor, a World War II troop carrier that brought other side for failure) is not without merit. Volodymyr Stryzakowski thousands of Ukrainians and other displaced persons from war-torn Europe to Such a strategy might backfire; on the North Port, Fla. the United States in 1950-1952. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 No. 27 A displaced person’s memoir: “The Great Divide” The following is an excerpt from a mem- against the railing and looking toward the were also humans. oir written by Andrew Zwarun, Ph.D., in rear of the ship. Off in the distance, about a American sailors were so which, through the eyes of a 7-year-old, he few hundred yards, the docks were receding. strange. They were huge, describes his voyage across the Atlantic as a We were moving. We had left for America! polite and easy-going, and displaced person aboard the USNS Gen. A new home, a new way of life, a new usually smiling. Didn’t they Harry Taylor from Bremerhaven to New unknown. But this time it was going to be know who we were? They York in April 1950. That ship, in its more different: no more fear. We were going to also constantly chewed recent incarnation as the USNS Gen. Hoyt America! something, just like cows S. Vandenberg, was sunk as an artificial reef Yet, with more than 1,2000 refugees on after morning grazing. Why off Key West, Fla., in May (see Yaro Bihun’s board, the mood was sad and eerily quiet. didn’t they ever swallow? piece on page 7). Although he retired early Almost all stared at the slowly disappearing The food was also strange. last year, Dr. Zwarun still lectures on soil shore, the last glimpse of Europe, in which Milk was available without science at the department of agriculture at were home, family, war, life and so much limit, even to adults. So was Texas State University. death. I saw many adults with tears quietly water, something we never flowing down their faces, both men and had with meals. At breakfast, ...As the line moved up the gangplank, all women. No one seemed to move until it there were small wood chips were divided into two groups. Males 12 became totally dark and even the distant that one mixed with milk years and older were to go to the stern, shore lights disappeared. The only sounds and, oh joy to a boy, as much females and boys under 12 toward the prow. were the steady thump of engines and an sugar as one wanted. But I was 7, so I had to stay with my mother and occasional sob. how did one eat wood chips? The next morning we woke up and sister, which was already somewhat embar- Oatmeal, bread and grits rassing to me. immediately noticed that something was not were common breakfasts in We moved toward a metal door that was right. There was an acrid stench in the air, Europe. ... If one didn’t want arched at the top, and had to proceed down and the floor would not stop moving – up milk and wood chips (later metal stairs in dim light. We went down one for a few seconds and then down for a few someone explained that the floor, then another, and another. And all seconds. Puddles of vomit were everywhere. floor decks looked exactly alike. I wondered ... More and more people were getting sea- material was flakes of corn), if I’d ever find my way out again. Finally, sick.... The second and third days were hor- one could have standard Zwarun family photo after about four or five decks, we were told rible. Even though it was moving on an breakfast – bread with jam. Andrew Zwarun (right), then a 7-year-old Ukrainian to proceed into a huge hall. The hall was open ocean, the entire ship stunk of vomit. I But again a problem. The DP, posing with his newfound friends — a refugee filled with symmetrical rows of stacked was sick the entire second day and part of bread looked somewhat like girl and an American sailor — on the deck of the metal bunk beds, four bunks high. the third. Then I got my sea legs. Most peo- bread, but it was extremely USNS Gen. Harry Taylor, which brought his family Somewhere in the maze were our three beds. ple became adjusted by the third day, soft and tasteless, almost like from Germany to the United States in 1950. The sail- ... although there were a few who were still mattress stuffing. And if one or’s and the young girl’s names are unknown. The hall quickly filled and was trans- throwing up as we entered New York har- wanted to spread jam or but- formed into a typical refugee holding area. bor. ter on it, it usually tore. ... even a wormhole. ... Various smells, babble in many languages, Food was another experience, and also an At noon and evening meals, we started We often had emergency drills. The alarm crying, screaming kids, pieces of incongru- experiment. One entered the mess hall, and seeing hints of America’s bounty. On a ship would sound; we’d put on our life vests and ent clothing hanging every which way. We the sailors had the tables all clean and set up in the middle of an ocean, there was meat, then walk to a place designated for our were in familiar surroundings. But the over- with plates and utensils. It was so nice to milk, eggs, fresh vegetables and fruit, and group. These places were close to lifeboats. whelming sensation was the rhythmic look at, especially after years of soup kitch- pastries. And not just for the American sail- ... Occasionally there’d be a storm at sea. If thumping of the engines. ens. It wasn’t only because the mess hall ors, but for us refugees also. It really made it was not too bad or rainy, we could stay on Soon everyone went up on deck. ... I was so neat and efficient; one also sensed even a small boy stop and wonder. top. But I remember one bad storm when noticed that almost everyone was standing that there was an aura of kindness, as if we But one had to proceed cautiously. The waves started coming on deck. Few things sailors always served water and milk with are as frightening as a moving mountain of the main meals. Yet even small boys knew black-green water. The alarm sounded and that the human digestive system would not we had to stay in our bunks below deck, tolerate drinking water or milk while also pitching and rolling in our life vests, until eating meat. This just could not be done for the storm passed a half-day later. ... health reasons. ... Yet the Americans did it, I enjoyed the journey. It was fun to be on and they seemed all right after such a meal. deck. ... We also had a constant companion But then the Americans always seemed to – a sparrow. It traveled with us from feel fine, as long as they were chewing Bremerhaven to New York, happily hopping something. all over the deck and rigging of the ship. Fresh fruit was also a problem. How can During the first few days, there were also a ship on the Atlantic in mid-April have sea gulls accompanying us, but after several fresh apples on board? Apple trees just start days, they disappeared. But the entire ship flowering toward the end of April. Where seemed to be aware of and happy for our lit- did these apples come from? ... There was tle sparrow. It was one of us. something unreal about them. They were perfect in shape and color. No fungal rot, not (Continued on page 22)

The masthead of the USNS Gen. Harry Taylor’s newsletter, dated August 18, 1950, showing the progress in its WWII Displaced Persons’ resettlement voyage from Bremerhaven to New York City. The newsletter was printed in German, considered the lingua franca of the 1,200 or so DPs on board, among them the writer of this article Yaro Bihun and his family. No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 9 BOOK REVIEW: Hunczak on Symon Petliura and the Jews “Symon Petliura and the Jews: A Even well before his entry into doning or perpetrating these crimes Reappraisal” by Taras Hunczak, Ph.D. Ukrainian politics, Petliura had been a against civilians. New York: Ukrainian Historical defender of the rights of Jews, and his Despite the many documented cases of Association, 2008. ISBN: 1-879070-22-7. concern for minority rights only increased the Ukrainian Directory working to Softcover, 128 pp., $20. in scope during his time as commander of uphold the law against pogroms – includ- the army of the Ukrainian National ing making public declarations to soldiers by Markian Hadzewycz Republic (UNR) and president of the and civilians, paying reparations to Symon Petliura (1879-1926) remains Ukrainian Directory. Jewish communities, organizing Jewish one of the most controversial figures in The UNR passed progressive legisla- self-defense units, and conducting trials, Eastern European history. A leader cele- tion and proclamations that affirmed the and executions of pogromists – and the brated by Ukrainians but despised by rights of national minorities in Ukraine, vocal backing of Jewish politicians and many Jews, his legacy remains a key area specifically Russians, Poles and Jews. supporters of Petliura, it is the victors of dispute between the two communities. They were granted representation in the who write the history and the Ukrainians While the former respect the man for his executive branch of government through did not come out on top during the attempts at securing Ukrainian statehood the position of under-secretaries, all laws Russian Civil War. in the years after the first world war, and administrative decisions were written Dr. Hunczak’s important work is full Jewish groups allege he was an anti-Sem- in the four main languages (Ukrainian, of incontrovertible quotations, documen- ite and leader of pogroms. Polish, Russian and Jewish), and all eth- tation, and government, eyewitness and Dr. Taras Hunczak, professor emeritus nic groups were granted “national-per- neutral reports from Jews, Ukrainians and of history at Rutgers University, has sonal autonomy in order to secure for others testifying to the positive efforts of delved headfirst into the dispute with his themselves the right and freedom of self- Petliura and his government to establish a 2008 book “Symon Petliura and the Jews: rule.” Ukrainian state that would protect and A Reappraisal.” That last piece of legislation, from the respect all ethnic minorities. Based on a landmark scholarly article Third Universal of November 1917, was, The Ukrainian Directory, outgunned of the same title by Prof. Hunczak that at that time an unprecedented step for and outnumbered throughout the conflict, appeared in the journal Jewish Social Jewish rights and was widely hailed by front meant hundreds of thousands of was simply overwhelmed by outside forc- Studies in 1969, the second edition of this Jewish community leaders and govern- troops were returning home at the onset es during the chaos of the collapse of tsa- work has been expanded with the incor- ment officials throughout the young of the Russian Civil War, and, for various rist Russia. poration of new documentation and anal- Ukrainian republic. reasons, such as the decades of anti-Sem- It is clear that Dr. Hunczak’s goal with ysis. Unfortunately, many Jews remained itism preached by the tsarist government, the release of his “Symon Petliura and the The argument is straightforward: beholden to the notion of a “united soldiers lashed out at civilians, particular- Jews: A Reappraisal” is to improve rela- despite the decades of rumors and myths, Russia” and were skeptical of Ukrainian ly Jews. When coupled with the political tions between Jews and Ukrainians. Any the accusations of Petliura being a mur- independence, while others saw commu- and military weakness of Kyiv during impartial student of history would agree derer of Jews simply do not coincide with nism as the future and backed the these anarchic times, the Ukrainian gov- that this is an important book that should the facts from that tense time period. Bolsheviks. The collapse of the eastern ernment was accused of knowingly con- go a long way toward that goal.

NEWS AND VIEWS: Kent State is first of Ohio universities to host Holodomor exhibit by Marusia Kvit-Flynn at Kent State. “The symposium explores critical questions for our democratic soci- As the newly elected vice-president for ety, in the hope that democracy can lead external affairs for Ohio’s United to a more peaceful world,” University Ukrainian Organizations, I have made it President Lestor Lefton said. my mission to become a part of an overall Prof. Kalinski also invited Dr. Roman Holodomor awareness campaign by hold- Serbyn, a retired professor from the ing a Holodomor exhibit at as many uni- University of Quebec in Montreal who is versities as possible in Cleveland and sur- a Holodomor expert, as a guest speaker. rounding areas. Dr. Serbyn’s presentation took place on The exhibit in question is a profession- Friday evening, May 1, and his theme ally created exhibit prepared by the was “Photographic Evidence of the League of Ukrainian Canadians, in coop- Ukrainian Genocidal Famine, eration with the Museum of Soviet 1932-1933.” The presentation was fol- Occupation of the Kyiv Memorial Society lowed by a question-and-answer session. in Ukraine, with the Ucrainica Research Institute (of which Orest Steciw is presi- Dr. Serbyn was sponsored by the United dent) as their research partner. The Ukrainian Organizations of Ohio of exhibit consists of 101 color laminated which Wasyl Liscynesky is president. panels, 11-by-17 inches in size, with a Dick Russ, managing editor of WKYC- supporting readable and searchable TV also came to interview Dr. Kalinski, CDROM and printed collateral materials. who emphasized the importance of link- ing the Famine directly to Joseph Stalin The exhibit includes panels covering Dr. Michael Kalinski (left) with Laura Davis (center), co-chair of the symposium topics ranging from opposition to collec- as well as the validity of the Famine as genocide. The feature was shown on the at Kent State University, and Marusia Flynn, vice-president for external affairs tivization, to why the genocide was orga- of Ohio’s United Ukrainian Organizations. nized as well as the blacklisting of villag- evening news on May 7. A second exhibit went to Youngstown es, ban on travel, and export of grain Ostafichuk, the exhibit coordinator, at The foundation is also looking for new State University on May 19. Retired his- abroad. It presents strong evidence on [email protected], or call donors so that these exhibits could be tory professor Dr.Yuri Kulchytsky, who how and why the Holodomor was indeed him at 416-800-2388 or toll free at gifted to more universities. For more a genocide. The exhibit also includes a taught at YSU for 38 years was instru- 866-714-4132. The exhibits are valued at information on the exhibits and this proj- glossary, a map of the Holodomor area, mental in contacting the head of the his- $2,500 (Canadian). One hundred such ect, please visit the website at www. panels on the organizers and perpetrators tory department, Dr. Martha Pallante, and exhibits have been donated by the holodomoreducation.org. All currently of the genocide, panels on denial and securing the exhibit showing at YSU. Dopomoha Ukraini Foundation and the participating universities are listed. cover-up, panels on protests and attempts Dr. Kulchytsky’s young successor, Dr. Wrzesnewskyj Family from Toronto, I strongly urge all Ukrainian communi- at relief, statements of survivors, govern- Brian Bonhommé, professor of modern . ties to continue this invaluable effort. We ment documents on the Famine and eye- history and an expert on Stalin, coordi- To date, most of these exhibits have been have many Ukrainian professors as well witness reports. nated the exhibit. The exhibit at YSU donated to major universities. However, as friends in the educational field, and Kent State University was the first was displayed through May 26. A student rentals of these exhibits are available at there are still many more universities that Ohio venue of this exhibit, which was on feedback sign-in book was provided, cap- $300 (Canadian) for three months. In this need to be contacted. There is no better display for two weeks in Ohio. Dr. turing interesting comments from the stu- time frame the exhibit could be circulated way to educate future generations than Michael Kalinski, a professor of exercise dent body. to multiple universities. through educational institutions. physiology who came from Ukraine in Future exhibits are already being 1991 and has been teaching at Kent State scheduled for the following universities since 1998, hosted the exhibit and tied it in the area: Cleveland State University, in with the university’s annual Slippery Rock University, Ohio State Symposium on Democracy. University and Akron University. The symposium was held on May 4-5, Continuing efforts and contacts are being Visit our archive online: and its theme was “Remembering: made with additional universities. Framing, Embracing and Revising (Similar efforts are being made by Lana www.ukrweekly.com History.” The symposium stands as a liv- Babij in Connecticut.) ing memorial to the events of May 4, To acquire this Holodomor exhibit for 1970, when four students lost their lives your area, readers may e-mail Steve 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 No. 27 GENERATION UKE Edited and compiled by Matthew Dubas and Yarema Belej Chornomorska Sitch defeats SC Portugal to win Garden State Semi-Pro League Cup by Omelan Twardowsky PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Chornomorska Sitch Ukrainian Athletic Educational Association defeated Sport Club Portugal 1-0 to win the Garden State Soccer League’s Semi-Pro Elite League Cup, on June 21 at Montclair State University. Chornomorska Sitch was one of 80 clubs competing for the cup. Both teams demonstrated tremendous skill and heart in the final match. Sitch’s high level of discipline was evidenced by the team being cautioned only twice by the referee, as compared to the Portuguese, who were yellow-carded seven times. SC Portugal included players from Portugal and Brazil, and dominated its division this season. In the 10th minute of play, SC Portugal had a scoring chance in front of Sitch’s goal, but Sitch’s goalkeeper Alexander MacDonald and captain Andrew Panas thwarted the Portuguese attempt. The first half ended scoreless. The field at Montclair State University is Astroturf and it took the players a bit of time to get used to the playing surface. Natalie Hordynsky The field choice was a last-minute substi- Chornomorska Sitch celebrates its victory. Sitch president Omelan Twardowsky (far right) beams with pride for the team.

Team members watch the critical shootout. Diehard Ukrainian soccer moms brave the downpour to watch the game.

N.Y., in conjunction with St. Michael the as though coming home. So much work Memoirs of a mistress of ceremonies Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church, goes into preparing for this festival. The hosts a three-day Heritage Festival every Very Rev. Archpriest Philip Weiner, pas- by Adrianna Rudyk-Odomirok suddenly awoken, a burst of applause year in June during the Father’s Day tor of St. Michael’s, serves as honorary filled the hall. Once again, my mother I stood on the open stage with a micro- weekend. In June of 2003 I was invited to chairman and takes an active part in over- had captured the audience, taken them on emcee the festival for the first time. I was seeing the festival. The co-chairpersons phone in my hand, staring at the hundreds a journey through a war, a broken heart or of people sitting in the audience. Thank so honored (and nervous) and since then, of the festival committee are Peter Duda back to their childhood home and then as goodness I don’t get those butterflies in I look forward to coming back every year and Tracey Kuzemchak, who seem to if in a time capsule, they were transported my stomach anymore. I have no need to have boundless energy and enthusiasm. back to the present. I was so proud of her! be nervous! I’ve been prepared for this all Within the festival committee, there are As I watched her, I knew that someday, I my life and it’s time to get this show countless volunteers in charge of food, would join her on that stage, carry on her started. games, sponsorship, vendors and, of As a little girl, I remember the count- talent and command an audience of my course, the show. less times I stood backstage with my own. Every year on Friday night, right after mother, Olia Szkafarowsky-Rudyk, an The Ukrainian National Association the ribbon-cutting kickoff, the Yonkers orator. As the master of ceremonies would gave me my first break when it invited branch of UAYA proudly presents its finish announcing her as the next act, she me to be mistress of ceremonies during dance groups. This year the following leaned over to give me a kiss. Then, as the summer of 2000. Every Saturday eve- ensembles, with dancers ranging in age the curtain reopened, I watched my moth- ning I introduced talented performers to from 5 to 18, performed on Friday eve- er pull her shoulders back and confidently the hundreds of guests and visitors to the ning; Chervona Kalyna, Halychany, Hony glide onto the stage. I watched her bow to Ukrainian National Association’s Viter, Sumivski Zirochky and Metelyky. the clapping audience and take a deep Soyuzivka in Kerhonkson, N.Y. I would Also included in the program was the breath. As the first words of the poem walk out on the stage knowing that some Korinya Folk Band from Ulster County, started streaming from her lips, I quickly 30 years ago my mother, while working N.Y., who play on traditional wooden turned my gaze back to the paper I was at the resort, performed her recitations flutes of various types, banduras and fid- dles. Towards the end of the evening the clutching. I don’t know why she always here as well. As an emcee on the other band The Wave took the stage and played insisted I stay back there as her prompter. hand, I shared the stage with every enter- into the late hours of the night while fes- She knew that poem as if she herself had tainer. My job was to keep the pace tival-goers danced. lived through the story the poem was tell- between acts and save the audience from The Saturday and Sunday afternoon ing. She became the characters in the boredom during “technical difficulties”. programs featured great performers from poems she memorized. Bigger challenges followed in the She spoke the last words and the audi- years to come. The Ukrainian American Emcees Roman Wasylyk and Adrianna ence just sat still. Then, as if they had Youth Association (UAYA) in Yonkers, Rudyk-Odomirok. (Continued on page 11) No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 11

Hofstra University undergraduates vote to include Holodomor in Genocide Awareness Week by Matthew Dubas Holodomor as “government-sponsored political opponents, by radical means if mass murder” rather than genocide to necessary, and with the minimum of out- PARSIPPANY, N.J. – On April 23 untangle the debate, according to Mr. side interference.” In 1979, the Soviet Hofstra University’s undergraduates Longley, between scholars on the Union under Leonid Brezhnev, tried to voted 1,471 to 649 on Referendum No. 6, Holodomor as ethnically motivated ver- revive the political definition of genocide to include a university-sponsored event, sus politically motivated killings. in order to condemn Pol Pot’s massacres at least once every year, to commemorate The United Nations adopted the 1946 in Cambodia. victims of government-sponsored mass definition of genocide to include mass According to Mr. Longley, Hofstra has murder, such as the Armenian Genocide, honored apologists for Joseph Stalin, the the Ukrainian Terror-Famine and the murder motivated by the victim’s politics. man behind the Holodomor, but not the Holocaust. Two years later, when approving the text victims. In 2007 Hofstra’s School of Law The referendum came about from the of the Genocide Convention, the United invited Lynne Stewart, a known commu- Long Island university’s commemoration Nations suddenly reversed its decision nist sympathizer and a civil rights attor- of Genocide Awareness Week, held from and stated that mass political murder ney whose clients have included Sheikh April 27 through May 1. Maximilian would not automatically constitute geno- Omar Abdel-Rahman, known for his links Longley, a law student at the university cide. The leading lobby group for this to terrorist organizations, to speak at the and a Ukrainian Catholic convert since change was the Soviet delegation, under university. (Ms. Stewart was disbarred for 2006, proposed the referendum because, the leadership of Joseph Stalin. while the university has programs to com- In his arguments for the inclusion of her felony conviction of conspiring and memorate some mass atrocities, he the Holodomor in Genocide Awareness providing material support for terrorists.) explained, this institution of higher learn- Week at Hofstra, Mr. Longley cited Leo Mr. Longley distributed anti-Stewart leaf- ing somehow overlooked the Ukrainian Kuper’s “Genocide: Its Political Use in lets to inform his classmates of Ms. Stewart’s stance on Stalin and provided Holodomor of 1932-1933. There is also a the Twentieth Century” (Yale University Max Longley university-sponsored Genocide Fellows Press, 1981). Mr. Kuper declares, “One information about the Holodomor. In a 2002 interview with Monthly Review, program, that includes material on the can only suppose that many of the gov- which also published his first book, “The Holocaust, Armenian and Rwandan geno- ernments represented in the debates on Ms. Stewart was quoted as saying, “I don’t have any problem with Mao or Conservative In Spite of Himself.” cides, but not the Holodomor. the [Genocide] Convention did not wish Mr. Longley is a parishioner at Ss. The proposal referred to the to be denied their right to dispose of their Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or cer- tainly Fidel [Castro] locking up people Cyril and Ruthenian Catholic they see as dangerous.” Church in Cary, N.C. His godfather, Lazar Odzak, penned the book the music stops playing or a dancer is A spokesperson for the university Memoirs... administration indicated that while the “Demetrios is Now Jimmy,” about the missing a costume and suddenly my history of Greek immigrants in the responsibly really kicks in. What else university was opposed to the proposed (Continued from page 10) referendum, and, according to Mr. American South. the metropolitan area, including the Roma can I say at this point? I don’t have any Mr. Longley said he hopes that the words to a poem. I didn’t memorize any- Longley, would rather have had a back- Pryma Bohachevsky School of Dance Ukrainian community can help inform thing for this part of the show. By the room dialogue, Hofstra may commemo- (New York City), Trembita Dance the university administration at Hofstra time I fumble with the notes in my rate the Holodomor victims in the future. Ensemble (Westchester, N.Y.), Anya about the Holodomor with educational hands, it will be too late. Mr. Longley, who graduated in the Oleksiv, soloist (Yonkers, N.Y.), Yaremika materials and ways in which a commem- Instead, I move my gaze from the spring of 2009, is currently studying for and Zoriana Makarenko, duet (Yonkers, oration can be held. Readers interested in sound booth guy who is still pulling an the bar exam. A North Carolina native, he N.Y.), Barvinok Dance Ensemble imaginary rubber band and take a look at returned to his home state after gradua- providing information may contact (Astoria, N.Y.), Vesna Ukrainian Dance the audience. With a deep breath I smile, tion and is soon to launch his mystery Hofstra’s university relations department, Ensemble (Spring Valley, N.Y.), and and without realizing it, my lips start novel “The Three Ecumenical at 516-463-6818, or the dean of students, Prolisok Choir (Yonkers and New York moving. Sometimes I don’t remember Detectives,” by Monograph Publishers, at 516-463-6913. City). what I said but it must have worked. I get The Festival Committee also invited a laugh out of the crowd and once again I Roman Wasylyk to host the Saturday and feel comfortable with the people sur- Sunday evening programs, which includ- rounding me, as if I’m just chatting at the Ruslana to travel to Suzy-Q ed performers from Ukraine: Ludmila dinner table. Fesenko, soprano, Valerij Zhmud, violin- I’m so happy I stuck it out those first for Ukrainian Cultural Festival ist, Andrij Solodenko, musician, and few nerve-wracking years. I enjoy emcee- Solomiya Melnyk, pop singer. The Hrim ing these shows a lot. And considering by Danylo Peleschuk band from Yonkers, played throughout it’s been my seventh year back at the the weekend. The highlight of the week- KYIV – Ukrainian pop sensation Yonkers Ukrainian Heritage Festival, I Ruslana will perform at the Ukrainian end was the Arkan Dance Company from think the crowd likes me too. Toronto. These talented dancers wowed National Association’s Soyuzivka I am so proud of the Yonkers branch of Heritage Center in Kerhonkson, N.Y., the audience with their professional rou- the Ukrainian American Youth tines and beautiful costumes. on July 18, a year after the release of Association and St. Michael’s Ukrainian her latest English-language album, I remember dancing during the festi- Catholic Church for working together in val when I was a member of the youth “Wild Energy.” organizing this festival. I am also proud The first Ukrainian to win the dance ensembles of UAYA of Yonkers, to take part in it to show off our heritage Eurovision Song Contest, Ruslana will and now I have the stage all to myself. I and culture. After all, it is the youth asso- travel to Soyuzivka with eight Lviv don’t have a dance partner, nor do I real- ciation and church that helped instill in dancers to headline the third annual ly have a script. An emcee’s job is to me a passion for all things Ukrainian. Ukrainian Cultural Festival, where keep the crowd’s attention, provide I know I never need to be nervous she’ll showcase an array of new songs information about the festival, and most again. It’s because my mama is standing and choreographed dance routines. importantly, keep the show moving. But in the wings watching me, just like her “It’ll be like a journey to Ukraine, or the latter isn’t always so easy. Sometimes little daughter used to watch her. to the Carpathians themselves,” Ruslana told The Weekly. “In order to have some serious summer fun, we’ll Chornomorska... history of Chornomorska Sitch and the bring some real Ukrainian energy to 40-year history of the Chornomorska the performance.” Yevheniya Maschenko (Continued from page 10) Sitch Sports School. Chornomorska As part of her visit to the U.S. – her Pop star Ruslana tution made by league officials. Sitch’s team included: Mr. MacDonald, first in more than six months – Ruslana After the half, Chornomorska Sitch Andrew Kudryk, Stepan Kolodiy, Andrew plans to travel to Washington, Los professional. Because of this, we are appeared more comfortable on the field Mandzy, Peter Kasiyanenko, Mark Angeles and Miami, among other bringing our music from the Carpathians Hordynsky, Antin Danes, Taras Okonel, and became more aware of the field’s major U.S. cities, for promotional and to America to make music that people Mark Vytvytsky, Roman Tabatchouk, characteristics in play. This allowed for humanitarian work, including her cam- will truly understand and have greater Alexander Shashkevych, Lawrence Sitch to open up scoring chances. Toward paign against human trafficking. access to,” Ruslana enthused. Devlyak, Andrew Panas, Dmytro While working at Miami’s Hit the end of the match, it began to rain and * * * Tereshchuk and Dan Lewycky. Trainers Factory, the Lviv native recorded tracks game time was shortened. At the end of included Mr. Panas and Greg Serheev, with renowned R&B artists such as In its next issue, The Weekly will regulation time, the scoreless match and coach Nick Hordynsky. T-Pain and Missy Elliot for “Wild feature an exclusive interview with ended in a 30-minute overtime, which Also in attendance was Ukrainian Energy.” Ruslana about her recording career and also ended scoreless. In the end, the National Association Treasurer Roma “There is a real potential for artistic impressions of the U.S., as well as match was determined by shootout, with Lisovich. The UNA is the sponsor of the creation in America. It has the ability to hints of what to expect at her July 18 Sitch winning over SC Portugal 5-4. team and funded Chornomorska Sitch’s reach the entire world, and it will be concert at Soyuzivka. This was a key moment in the 85-year uniforms. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 No. 27 No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 13 Two cities, two ensembles; one culture, one show Other than that weekend, show prepa- Chicago’s Hromovytsia rations consisted of independent rehears- als in their respective studios and the and Cleveland’s Kashtan ensembles did not come together on the same dance floor until the evening before present joint concert the show. A concern early on in the plan- by Greg Karawan ning stages, this proved to be surprisingly easy and ran very smoothly for both CHICAGO – It would be difficult to groups. choose the most exciting aspect of the Promoting the concert in Chicago joint concert recently held by the incorporated a widely distributed poster Hromovytsia Ukrainian Dance Ensemble with the words “Passion,” “Heart” and of Chicago and the Kashtan School of “Soul” boldly printed at the top, as well Ukrainian Dance of Cleveland. as a combined Hromovytsia/Kashtan logo Some would say it was the union of and a blurred photograph of several danc- two of North America’s most storied and ers rehearsing in a studio – symbolizing deeply rooted Ukrainian dance ensem- faceless dancers who share the same cul- bles, while others would agree it was the ture and equal fervor for Ukrainian dance friendships and bonds that quickly formed regardless of city, or background. between these Ukrainian Americans from Introducing Saturday’s show was a Chicago and Cleveland. short video that illustrated the coming Perhaps it was the camaraderie, both together of two cities and two ensembles, onstage and off, among the dancers, with footage from the months of rehears- Peter Koutun whether young or old. als and photos of the friendships that have Hromovytsia performs “The Night of Ivan Kupalo.” While it would be hard to choose one developed. as the most exciting, it’s easy to say that Kashtan opened the concert immedi- every aspect contributed to a remarkable ately after the video with its traditional experience for all those involved. On “Welcome Dance,” or “Pryvit”. Other Saturday, May 16, Hromovytsia and dances performed by Kashtan included Kashtan teamed up for an evening of the entertaining and popular “Varvarka,” Ukrainian dance at the North Shore the exuberant women’s composition Center for the Performing Arts just out- “Sviatkovy,” the powerful and precise side Chicago. Under the artistic-direction “Kozak Suite,” and traditional dances of Roxana Pylypczak of Hromovytsia and from the Hutsul and Bukovyna regions of Dave Wozniak of Kashtan, this inaugural Ukraine. union of two Ukrainian dance ensembles Hromovytsia’s repertoire comprised with a combined history of nearly 60 “Hutsul Rhapsody” – the newest addition years showed an abundant audience that to its collection of dances, “Brothers for Ukrainian dance in America is alive and Eternity,” in which the women of well. Hromovytsia portrayed modern-day The collaborative effort between Ukrainian Kozaks, the unique and capti- Hromovytsia and Kashtan had been in the vating story line of “The Night of Ivan works for almost a year and the idea was Kupalo” and the trendy, hand-clapping openly embraced and eagerly anticipated trio in the Ukrainian polka “Drianda.” by the dancers and staffs of both ensem- The customary end to the show was bles. The framework of the show consist- the pinnacle of Ukrainian dance as the ed of an even split of numbers by each ensembles treated audiences to a double Olya Soroka group, as well as guest performances by dose of the “Hopak” with brilliantly col- Hromovytsia and Kashtan square off in “Saved by the Bell.” the Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Church ored costumes, intricate footwork and Ukrainian School of Dance of Chicago dazzling acrobatics. The two finales were mance, a cast party took place in the audito- and hugs would soon turn to phone calls, and the Zorya Vocal Ensemble of fused together by another video compila- rium of the Ss. Volodymyr and Olha text messages and Facebook posts. The Cleveland. tion that created a seamless transition Ukrainian Church, where Hromovytsia and combined logo would metaphorically In addition to Hromovytsia and from one “Hopak” to the other. The eve- Kashtan celebrated their collaboration, “separate” until their next meeting, and Kashtan performing their own repertoire ning concluded with a strong show of achievements and hard work. the dancers and staff would return to their of dances, the two literally joined forces support from Hromovytsia’s premier Accompanying their celebration were dis- respective hometowns and carry on as the in the dance “Saved by the Bell,” in sponsor, the Selfreliance Ukrainian cussions and plans for next step of their alli- students and professionals they are off- which four dancers from each side took American Federal Credit Union of ance, a second concert for Cleveland audi- stage. part in an entertaining “competition” of Chicago, as board member Oleh Karawan ences this fall or in the spring of 2010. But as the bus pulled away and headed eight “boxers” inspired by the success presented $5,000 to the ensemble on Audience members who also attended east, the members of Hromovytsia and and larger-than-life stories of Ukraine’s behalf of the credit union. the party applauded the combination of Kashtan reflected on an evening during Klitschko brothers. During their weekend stay in Chicago, these two ensembles and their guest per- which the borders of Chicago and The four members of Kashtan, its artis- the more than 40 dancers and staff of formers, emphasizing how well the Cleveland disappeared and the difference tic-director and its board president spent Kashtan were accommodated by several groups and their styles of dance comple- in their styles, ages and backgrounds a weekend in Chicago with Hromovytsia members of Hromovytsia and the mented each other. became irrelevant. They reflected on an in early March to learn the choreography Ukrainian School of Dance, strengthening The next morning the two ensembles evening in which these dancers shared in what was the official start of a long- the friendships that were created on stage gathered alongside Kashtan’s bus as the one stage, one culture and one passion – a lasting partnership between the dancers and in rehearsals. troupe readied for its trip back to passion in their hearts and forever a part of these two Midwest cities. Following Saturday evening’s perfor- Cleveland. The good-byes, handshakes of their souls.

Greg Karawan James Basso Dancers from Hromovytsia and Kashtan after the “Hopak.” Chicago and Cleveland in a show of unity. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 No. 27

And the politicians should end this politi- book, “Ukraine is not Russia,” inspired ties work in favor of her rating. Almost NEWSBRIEFS cal war,” Mr. Yanukovych said. “There is Mr. Hoffman to produce the film. half of the survey’s respondents expressed (Continued from page 2) only one enemy: poverty that should be (Ukrinform) the opinion that the Cabinet is making the overcome. It is necessary to build a strong greatest efforts to overcome economic enters a coalition with the PRU after par- New survey on candidates liamentary elections. Meanwhile, Mr. country. This is a major task, I believe, instability in the country. According to Yatsenyuk has said he considers Mr. for every political party, every politician,” KYIV – Ukrainians have clear posi- the survey, other candidates will not have Yanukovych as his main rival in the presi- he noted. (Ukrinform) tions on potential candidates for presi- even half of the votes that Ms. Tymoshenko and Mr. Yanukovych would dential elections. (Ukrinform) Kuchma to be subject of documentary dent, revealed a survey conducted by the Oasis Information and Marketing Center each receive. Arseniy Yatsenyuk had the Yanukovych for simultaneous elections KYIV – Russian film director Andrei in all Ukrainian regions on June 13-19. support of 7.2 percent of respondents; as while Communist Party leader Petro Konchalovsky will shoot a documentary As noted by Deputy Director Hennadii KYIV – Viktor Yanukovych, the leader Symonenko had 4.4 percent support. A about mutual relations between Ukraine Lukiv, 21.5 percent of respondents are of the opposition of total of 12.5 percent of respondents said and Russia, and ex-Ukrainian President ready to vote for Prime Minister Yulia Ukraine (PRU) said that presidential and they intend to vote against all candidates. Leonid Kuchma will be one of the main Tymoshenko; and 26.2 percent are going parliamentary elections should be held (Ukrinform) simultaneously, and as soon as possible, heroes in the movie, it was reported on to support opposition leader Viktor according to news reports of June 30. Mr. June 25. The title of the film and its Yanukovych. However, if these candi- Yushchenko proud of presidency Yanukovych said such simultaneous elec- release date are not yet known, and it is dates meet in the second round of the tions are possible if politicians have unclear who will finance the shooting of presidential elections Ms. Tymoshenko KYIV – At his meeting with Kharkiv enough political will. “And after that the the movie. Earlier, Polish film director will have a slight advantage of approxi- regional media on June 24, President country will have to ensure stability, over- Jerzy Hoffman shot a film titled “Ukraine: mately half a percent. Mr. Lukiv Viktor Yushchenko summed up some come the economic downturn and win. The Birth of a Nation.” Mr. Kuchma’s explained that the prime minister’s activi- results of his presidency. He said he believes that these four and a half years were a time of significant economic and foreign policy success for Ukraine. In par- ticular, the gross domestic product has CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS doubled, the country has seen considerable economic development, and minimum TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI (973) 292-9800 x 3040 pensions and average salaries have grown OR E-MAIL [email protected] significantly. Noting positive shifts in social policy, the president said the demo- graphic situation had substantially SERVICES improved over the past four years. There is progress regarding national adoptions; about 8 billion hrv have been allocated from the budget for the needs of young families, mothers, children and invalids. Mr. Yushchenko also drew attention to the considerable growth of foreign investment, as well as progress in Ukraine’s Euro- integration. Evidence of such success will be the signing within several months of an association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union. It is important, Mr. Yushchenko said, that Ukraine over these four years enjoyed the rule of law, democracy, and freedoms of speech, press, assembly and choice. (Ukrinform) Yushchenko: Amend Constitution first KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko has said that the process of amending the Constitution of Ukraine should start before the presidential election is held. He said in Kyiv on June 25 that politi- cians should honestly express their views of the constitutional amendments. He underscored that the Constitution should guarantee the “impossibility of a return to totalitarianism.” (Ukrinform) Bohatyriova: Rada could be dissolved KYIV – The Ukrainian president could call parliamentary elections before the presidential election if he has legal grounds for this, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Raisa Bohatyriova told journalists on June 30. MERCHANDISE She said that the Parliament’s inability to function and the governmental coalition’s failure to change the economic situation FOR SALE could serve as grounds for this. 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when it also extended a first tranche of NEWSBRIEFS $4.5 billion. The IMF mission supported CCRDF honored by Verkhovna Rada (Continued from page 14) Ukraine’s proposal to increase a second has overturned the acquittals of three tranche to $2.8 billion and use half of that defendants in the shooting of journalist amount to cover the state budget deficit. Anna Politkovskaya, ordering a retrial in The schedule of allocating funds foresees a case that many observers regard as a the allocation to Ukraine of a third key test of authorities’ commitment to the tranche of $3.27 billion after a second rule of law. Ms. Politkovskaya, a journal- review of the program scheduled for June, ist at the opposition paper Novaya Gazeta and a fourth tranche of $3.84 billion if a was a fierce critic of the Kremlin and third review of the program is successful- often wrote about human rights abuses in ly completed in November. (Ukrinform) Chechnya, was fatally shot in the stair- well of her building in downtown Ukraine opens Consulate in Italy Moscow in October 2006. The Supreme KYIV – Ukraine has opened the office Court concluded on appeal that there of its honorary consulate in Reggio di were violations in the original case, and Calabria, Italy, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs ruled that “the sentence of the Moscow Ministry spokesman Vasyl Kyrylych said district military court is canceled and the on June 30. He said at a briefing that criminal case is sent for a new hearing in Reggio di Calabria is the second largest the same court.” Prosecutors had appealed regional center in southern Italy, and that the verdict in the original case, which a great number of Ukrainian citizens live ended in February with an acquittal for Chechen brothers Ibragim and Dzhabrail there. (Ukrinform) Makhmudov and former Moscow police 26 Ukrainians still held hostage officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov. None of KYIV – Volodymyr Yavorivskyi (right), who has supported the Children of KYIV – Somali pirates are still holding the three had been suspected of being the Chornobyl Relief and Development Fund since its inception in 1990, presented triggerman in the Politkovskaya case. The hostage 26 Ukrainian sailors on board the Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky, founder and president of CCRDF, with an award on behalf Makhmudov brothers were cleared of act- Hansa Stavanger (two sailors) and the of Verkhovna Rada Chair Volodymyr Lytvyn in recognition of its contribution to ing as accomplices in the murder, and Mr. Ariana (24 sailors), Ukrainian Foreign Ukrainian medicine. The presentation was made at the CCRDF’s fourth annual Khadzhikurbanov was cleared of organiz- Affairs Ministry spokesman Vasyl ing the crime. The case reportedly went Kyrylych said on June 30. He noted that International Gala Fund-Raiser in Kyiv on June 6. “You earned the highest awards before a military court because of the the owners of the ships were not disclos- that Ukraine gives, long ago,” Mr. Yavorivskyi said. “I only apologize for the involvement of a fourth defendant – for- ing the details of the talks being held with Ukrainian government, and myself, if I could have done something more to give mer Federal Security Service (FSB) the pirates. (Ukrinform) at least a little more warmth and more government attention. But you have what’s Colonel Pavel Ryaguzov – who initially most important – that those children you helped rescue remember and love you.” Ukraine, Russia sign security plan faced related charges but eventually was – Zenon Zawada later accused of abuse-of-office and KYIV – Ukrainian National Security extortion. Ms. Politkovskaya’s son, Ilya and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Politkovsky, criticized the court’s deci- Raisa Bohatyriova and Russian Security sion to order a new trial, saying the case Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev have needed more investigative work, not signed a cooperation plan between the another trial. He said, “We are still certain With great sorrow we announce two countries’ security agencies for that those who were on the court bench that our beloved husband, father, are connected – not guilty, but connected 2009-2010. The NSDC press service said grandfather and uncle – and the case should be sent for further the document had been signed on June 30 investigation.” A Supreme Court spokes- during Ms. Bohatyriova’s visit to Russia. STEFAN CZUJKO man said the case would be examined The two sides agreed to maintain a con- again with new jurors. (RFE/RL) stant dialogue at the level of secretaries, passed into eternity on Sunday, and to strengthen the coordination of the June 7, 2009. Lytvyn on official visit to Minsk Ukrainian-Russian interstate commis- sion’s activity. Particular attention was KYIV – The chairman of Ukraine’s He was born on January 29, 1919, in the village of Symakivchi in also paid to regional security problems. Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr Lytvyn, Ukraine. arrived on June 29 in Minsk for an offi- The sides agreed to deepen a comprehen- sive dialogue on security issues, particu- cial visit. The main objective of the visit Former husband of the late Kateryna Balash-Czujko and brother of the to Belarus is to deepen bilateral interpar- larly on the situation in Transcaucasia and late Michael Czujko and the late Maria Hrabarowskij. liamentary cooperation. At his meeting Transdniester region. (Ukrinform) with Boris Batura, the chairman of the Kyiv, EU discuss free-trade zone Council of the Republic of the Belarusian Stefan was president of the Ukrainian Community Center for over a National Assembly, Mr. Lytvyn noted that KYIV – Ukraine’s Economy Minister decade. He was a member of the Ukrainian National Home in Jersey “cooperation at the parliamentary level Bohdan Danylyshyn has opened the sev- City, NJ, for over 50 years, where he was also a member of the Board of should be of an accomplished nature.” He enth round of talks between Ukraine and Directors for over 20 years. He was an active member of Ss. Peter & added, “We cannot but meet, as the pro- the European Union on the creation of a Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church. cesses that are taking place in the world free-trade zone, the economy ministry and Europe, make us realize the impor- press service reported on July 1. He Funeral services were held June 11, 2009, at Ss. Peter & Paul Ukrainian tance of each other in order to overcome pointed out that the holding of official Catholic Church in Jersey City, NJ, followed by interment at Holy Cross the crisis and not to get lost in these pro- talks has a complex character. “The pur- Cemetery in North Arlington, NJ. cesses.” Mr. Batura emphasized that the pose of creating a free-trade zone is to two countries’ parliaments have good form an effective common economic With deep sorrow he leaves behind: relations. “There is an understanding in space of Ukraine and the EU through the political area, and this is proved by gradual implementation of four freedoms Wife Anna the summit meetings that have been – free traffic of goods, services, capital Daughter Anna Czujko-Rozij with husband Roman recently held.” He also said that Ukraine and workforce,” he emphasized. In this and Belarus would strengthen interaction context, Mr. Danylyshyn pointed out the Son Roman Czujko with wife Nancy in the international arena. The parties dis- importance of reaching compromise posi- Grandsons Stefan and Alexander Czujko cussed the state of interparliamentary tions within the framework of formulat- Nephews Bohdan and Andrew Czujko cooperation, prospects for the develop- Niece Rosalie Dolan ment of trade and economic ties, and ing an optimal model of mutual relations. other topics. (Ukrinform) According to an analysis of indicators of foreign trade in goods and services of As well as many other close and further relatives in the diaspora and IMF mission chief arrives in Kyiv Ukraine for the first quarter of 2009, the Ukraine. European Union was Ukraine’s biggest KYIV – The International Monetary foreign trade partner, accounting for ETERNAL MEMORY Fund’s mission chief to Ukraine, Ceyla 29.75 percent of the total foreign trade Pazarbasioglu, has arrived in Ukraine, the turnover. (Ukrinform) IMF office in Ukraine reported on June 30. The first stage of the mission’s work Minimum wage increases started on June 23 and focused on the DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS program’s technical issues. Ukraine is KYIV – The minimum wage in planning to ask the IMF to increase the Ukraine increased as of July 1, rising Deadline: Tuesday noon before the newspaper’s date of issue. from 625 hrv to 630 hrv (7.64 hrv = $1 amount of the next tranche to $3.8 billion Rate: $7.50 per column-inch. to finance the country’s budget deficit. U.S.) per month. The new increase is to The IMF approved a stand-by arrange- be in effect through September 30. This is Telephone, (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040; e-mail, [email protected]. ment for Ukraine worth a total of $16.4 envisaged by the law on the state budget Please include the daytime phone number of a contact person. billion in early November of last year, of Ukraine for 2009. (Ukrinform) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 No. 27

former party member. Yet, with Mr. organization. Following the turmoil that plagued Our Our Ukraine... Yushchenko’s current poll ratings, which In response to the developments at the Ukraine, the congress revealed those most (Continued from page 1) hover around 3 percent, the party has had party congress, on July 1 the Kyiv organiza- loyal to Mr. Yushchenko, even at his low- The party congress also voted to trim its trouble recruiting financial backers, he said. tion’s political council led by Mr. est political depths: Ms. Ulianchenko, old moniker of Our Ukraine People’s Union Many have left its ranks, including mil- Martynenko voted to leave Our Ukraine. Its Presidential Secretariat chair and party to simply Our Ukraine, the name of the lionaire businessmen Petro Poroshenko, members were absent from the June 27 political council chair; Roman congress. nine-party bloc that has since fallen apart, Oleksander Tretiakov and David Zhvania, a Bezsmertnyi, party executive committee former ally who is godfather to the presi- Although numerous politicians have splitting between loyalists of the prime min- chair; and Yevhen Chervonenko, who is dent’s youngest son, Taras. abandoned Our Ukraine, including Mr. ister and the president. actively involved in preparing Kyiv for “The question of finances is very serious. Marynenko, Roman Zvarych and Olha Adopting a simpler name hasn’t made it Euro-2012. It will loom over the party all the time,” Mr. Herasymiuk, they will remain members of In addressing the congress, Halychyna easier for the party to redefine itself amidst Zhdanov said. “Earlier, oligarchs were able the Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense par- the devastated public support for its leader, politicians Lilia Hryhorovych and to provide money for the party, but now that liamentary faction. Volodymyr Viaznivskyi compared President Mr. Yushchenko, who has little chance for A slight majority of its 72 members sup- [Yushchenko] has no chance for re-election, Yushchenko to Ukrainian icons Taras re-election as president. port the de facto coalition government led nobody will want to donate.” Shevchenko and Ivan Franko. Mr. The pro-Western electorate once firmly by Prime Minister Tymoshenko. The coali- Most recently, Mr. Yushchenko called on Viaznivskyi also referred to the president as held by Mr. Yushchenko and Our Ukraine Mr. Martynenko and three other influential tion hasn’t had a majority since national the second Moses. has since been conquered by Ms. party members to abandon their support for deputies loyal to President Yushchenko However, Ukrainian voters remain Tymoshenko, former Verkhovna Rada Ms. Tymoshenko and her government. abandoned it last year. unconvinced. In a Research & Branding Chair Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Svoboda Besides financing the party, Mr. Though he didn’t attend the party con- party leader Oleh Tiahnybok. Martnynenko is the parliamentary faction gress, Viacheslav Kyrylenko, the rare Group poll conducted between June 12 and With enough work, Our Ukraine could chair for the Our Ukraine-People’s Self- Ukrainian politician with an untarnished 22 of 2,079 respondents, Mr. Yushchenko revive itself by 2012, said Mr. Zhdanov, a Defense bloc and chair of the party’s Kyiv and patriotic image, remains a close ally of didn’t rank among the top six presidential Mr. Yushchenko. candidates. He registered only 2.1 percent He is actively building the Za Ukrayinu popular support. Congratulations to (For Ukraine) civic movement, which Mr. Zhdanov described as a potential back-up Danylo Peleschuk, a journalism grad- Kristina “Lutsi” Lucenko political party in case Our Ukraine should uate of Northeastern University and a falter. former summer intern for The Ukrainian “If it becomes clear that Our Ukraine is Weekly (in Parsippany, N.J., in 2005 and who received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the State on the rise and gathers some strength, then in Kyiv in 2008), will be reporting from University of N.Y. at Buffalo on May 8, 2009. She is currently Kyrylenko will remain there and support the Kyiv during July and August. In the fall teaching at Stony Brook State University on Long Island. president,” he said. “If, however, we see that he will begin studies toward an M.A. in Our Ukraine stalls, then For Ukraine has the European, Russian and Eurasian Studies potential to become a strong political base.” at the University of Toronto. We are very proud of you and your achievements.

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satisfaction as you go on to graduate studies at the Stephan completed his doctoral studies in University of Toronto. Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Stephan has a post-doctoral appointment at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, IL, With love and pride, focusing on synchrotron x-ray science and computational materials physics. Mama, Tato, Ivanka, Baba Natalia Sygida, We are extremely proud of you! Dido Wasyl Peleschuk. Love, Mama (Marta), Tato (Jaroslav), Adrian and Damian No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 17 Fifty years ago: a Ukrainian soccer milestone in the U.S. by Walter Kulba This year, the New York Ukrainians sports organization is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Junior Soccer Team’s (under-19) victory of the U.S. Junior Soccer Championship in 1959. Although the Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals Tryzub were a four-time win- ners of the U.S. Open Cup professional championship in the 1960s, and the New York Ukrainians of the Ukrainian Sports Club (USC) also won it once in that decade, it was the New York Ukrainians USC Junior Soccer Team that became the first Ukrainian soccer team to win a national championship. A few years earli- er, the Ukrainian Lions (Levy) of Chicago (U-19) had been crowned co-champions because the finals were not held. The journey to the championship for USC’s U-19 team began years earlier in the post-war displaced persons (DP) camps of Germany and Austria, which were filled with refugees from Soviet Union. Since childhood, our parents taught us to be proud of our Ukrainian nationality, religion and culture. For us, playing soccer was not only a form of validation, but also a means of nurturing our self-identity. Our team was composed mainly of Ukrainian players whose parents had immigrated with their families to New York City following World War II. We set- Junior soccer players of the Ukrainian Sports Club of New York in 1959 (standing, from left): Walter Kulba, Andrij tled in the “Ukrainian ghetto” on the Zholudko, Dino Sartori, Wasyl Panczak, Jaroslaw Kulba, Jaroslaw Schmotolocha, Jaropolk Kalyna, Walter Schmotolocha, Lower East Side of Manhattan. Most (kneeling) Stephen Kachmarskyj (coach) Walter Kozdoba, Philip Vogiagoglu, Jurij Renner, Anatole Popovych, Alexander attended St. George Ukrainian Catholic Chowaylo, Michael Katynsky, Wilhelm Franz, Bohdan Wasylyshyn (coach). Church and School, and honed our skills playing soccer for countless hours at and ducking punches. we were the champions. fans. We were happy to share this moment Tompkins Square Park, a two-block haven It seemed that would be our last game, Instinctively, all the players ran to the with them, because we knew that we in the midst of the “asphalt jungle.” because the Chicago Fichte Rams, the middle of the field and knelt to thank couldn’t have done it without everybody’s We started playing for USC at the age West Coast champion, was unable to raise God. Before the prayer was over, we were help. Truly, our journey was over, because of 12 or younger. At first we had little the money to travel to New York for the joined by parents, relatives, friends and we had finally arrived. success, but slowly we started to improve finals. However, their coach found some and became more competitive. By the sponsors and the game was scheduled at time we reached the junior level, we were Eintracht Oval in Astoria, N.Y. To build one of the best teams in New York. In the interest in this match, the German news- WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT Junior Cup competition, we defeated all paper Die Staats Zeitung, the official the New York teams and started a series organ of the German American Soccer of road trips. League (GASL), printed the pictures and Our first game in Fall River, Mass., biographies of every Chicago Fichte was almost our last. Although we played Rams player. Two of their best players the entire game in the opponent’s half, we were Ukrainians. were one goal behind with four minutes Before the final, as before all our left. Buoyed by the vocal support of the games, the players and coaches knelt in the Ukrainian Nationals players, who were to middle of the field and prayed in play Fall River later, we scored the tying Ukrainian. When the game started, it was goal and three more in overtime to win obvious that both teams were nervous. We our first road game. were lucky that a hand ball in our penalty The Tiverton Orioles of Baltimore were area was not considered deliberate, and our next opponents. Despite trailing because slowly we started to take the initiative. of a penalty kick, we tied the score before Both sides had a few chances to score halftime and scored twice more in the sec- but with five minutes to go Wilhelm ond half to win. With this victory we “Yanush” Franz, a Polish player, received became the East Coast champions of the a perfect pass from our captain, Walter United States. Our most painful and diffi- “Dzunio” Schmotolocha, and gently cult game occurred against Heidelberg of tapped the ball into the left corner of the Lauren Koltowski, granddaughter of Mrs. Sophie Koltowski of North Pittsburgh. We won this game by two goals net. The final minutes seemed like an but spent most of the game avoiding kicks eternity, but the final whistle sounded and Plainfield, NJ, and daughter of Mr. Edward Koltowski of Hatfield, PA, and Mrs. Linda Warrick of Lansdale, PA, is to be maried to Michael Fink, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Fink of Hamilton, NJ, on August 1, Temerty tapped as parade marshall 2009, at St. Maria Goretti Roman Catholic Church.

for Toronto Ukrainian Festival Lauren is from Hatfield, PA, where she attended North Penn High School and graduated in 2000. From there, she went on to attend TORONTO – The Organizing Museum. He played an instrumental Committee of the Toronto Ukrainian role in bringing to Toronto the exhibi- Villanova University to study Biology and Chemistry. At Villanova, Festival announced that businessman tions “Legacy in Gold: Scythian Lauren participated in the Chi Omega Sorority and the Villanova and philanthropist James Temerty will Treasures from Ukraine,” and Voices. She is currently attending Drexel University, where she is pursu- serve as the festival parade marshall “Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine: The ing her Ph.D. in Molecular Pathobiology. for 2009. remarkable Trypilian Culture.” These Mr. Temerty joins the ranks of such two outstanding exhibits were spon- parade marshalls as former Prime sored by his company Northland Power Michael comes from Hamilton, NJ, having graduated in 2001 from Minister John Turner, rock ‘n roll leg- Inc. Steinert High School. He also attended Villanova University, studying end Randy Bachman, Sen. Raynell Mr. Temerty was awarded the Order English and Education and participating in the Villanova Singers and Andreychuk and Member of Parliament of Canada on May 15 by Canada’s Gerard Kennedy. Governor General Michaelle Jean. Spires, New Student Orientation, and volunteering for special His long list of accomplishments Now in its 13th year, the 2009 Olympics. Michael is currently employed as an English teacher at include serving as chair of the board of Toronto Ukrainian Festival is sched- Council Rock High School North in Newton, PA. governors of the Royal Ontario uled for September 18-20. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 No. 27 No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 19

Ukrainian pro hockey update by Ihor Stelmach A year in the life of Zach Boychuk: from prospect to pro Exactly one year ago the talk of the 2008 shown in my game. I’ve been a od of time during training camp.” NHL Entry Draft was all about Steven lot more aware, and with my Back to the juniors Stamkos and a bumper crop of defensemen. team I’ve gotten a lot more This left another group of quality young- time on the penalty kill, and In the third week of October 2008, for sters feeling a bit unappreciated. my plus-minus has been going Boychuk, there was a proverbial good “They’re obviously great players and up and up.” news/bad news situation. The good: mak- they deserve to be rated that high,” said “I’m a guy that likes to set ing his NHL debut in Los Angeles on a Ukrainian Zach Boychuk in a June 2008 my goals high,” Boychuk con- Friday night, followed by more ice time in conversation with NHL.com correspon- cluded in his talk with NHL. a Sunday win at Anaheim. The bad: get- dent Adam Kimelman. “I just hope that I com. “Anything can happen. It ting the official news that he was being can eventually get drafted and create an just inspires you to see guys returned to his junior team of Lethbridge. opportunity for myself to fight for a spot like Patrick Kane, Sam Gagner Carolina’s president and GM comment- on an NHL team.” and all those guys, kind of ed to the press: “This has been a good In scouting Boychuk for the 2008 draft smaller skill guys similar to experience for Zach. Despite the fact that it was never a question of if he’d get draft- myself, who had great rookie he was recovering fom hand surgery, his ed, but how early in the first round this seasons in the NHL, and it play progressed very well. Another year of Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL) center makes me push that much junior hockey will be good for his devel- would be selected. His NHL Central harder. Once that day comes opment.” Scouting rank peaked at No. 8 among when I get drafted by a team, In his debut in a 4-3 overtime loss at North American skaters, No. 3 among all I’m going to put all my heart Los Angeles, Boychuk saw 9:21 minutes forwards. Most experts agreed Boychuk and soul into it and try to give of ice time and recorded four hits. In the had all of the required skill levels to excel myself an opportunity for a Canes’ 3-1 victory at Anaheim two days in today’s NHL. later, Boychuk was a plus-1 in 14:45 min- In any discussion of today’s NHL, usu- spot.” utes of ice time. ally the first topic for mention is speed – at Drafted fourteenth www.whl.ca 5-foot-10, 175 pounds, Boychuk is blessed Zack Boychuk of the Lethbridge Hurricanes. Though he didn’t taly a point in his first with the speed and elusiveness to leave At the 2008 NHL Entry two NHL games, by no means did he play checking forwards and big defensemen in Draft in Ottawa, Jim Rutherford, president level, or $65,000 per season in the minor himself off the team. Having zero exhibi- his rear view mirror. Boychuk’s draft-year and general manager of the Carolina leagues. For signing his first pro contract, tion games under his belt, making direct juniors season demonstrated how well he Hurricanes, announced that his club had Boychuk got a $262,500 signing bonus. jump from junior hockey and undergoing utilized his speed as an attacking forward: selected Boychuk of the Western Hockey President and GM Rutherford issued wrist surgery were three major adjustments 33 goals and 72 points in 61 regular season League’s Lethbridge Hurricanes as their the following statement in a Hurricanes almost impossible to handle. games, with another playoff-leading 11 14th overall pick of the first round. press release: “Zach is an important part He actually came close to notching his first NHL goal in the Anaheim contest goals and 21 points in the postseason. “Zach is a two-positional player who of our team’s future and we are very had 91 points as an underage in the WHL when he one-timed a pass from fellow NHL Director of Central Scouting E.J. happy to get this deal done now. He is a McGuire penned the following evaluation and was one of a few 17-year-olds to make Ukrainian Ryan Bayda just wide of the net Team Canada for the World Juniors,” said quick, exciting player who has demon- of Boychuk in his final prospect hand- strated an NHL skill level in a short peri- (Continued on page 22) book: “He might be the best two-step Rutherford, in an official Carolina press quickness guy in all of junior hockey. In release. “He’s a talented and highly skilled two steps he is at top speed and he can hit player.” the brakes and delay the play with the best Boychuk, 18 when drafted, led all WHL of them. Zach is an all-around offensive skaters in 2008 with 13 playoff goals as player who sees the ice well and just a Lethbridge won three post-season series treat to watch.” and the WHL’s Eastern Conference title McGuire also noted “The question is before filling to the Spokane Chiefs in the whether or not his average size is enough finals. Boychuk finished the 2007-2008 to get him through the rough periods and regular season ranked second on his team the checking. There are other players in with 72 points, tied for second with 33 the NHL who have beaten the rap; Patrick goals and leading the team with a plus-26, Kane and Sam Gagner are two great exam- though he played in only 61 of th ples. There is no reason why he shouldn’t Hurricanes’ 72 games. The , be a top offensive guy in the NHL.” Alberta, native played in all seven of Team Boychuk said he has adopted the offen- Canada’s games en route to its fourth con- sive game of another smallish NHL player secutive gold medal at the 2008 IIHF – the Flyers’ Daniel Briere. Why not copy World Junior Championships. a success story? Wrist woes “I think we’re similar in size (Briere is 5-10,179),” Boychuk told kimelman of On July 15, 2008, the Carolina NHL.com. “We’re both pretty small out Hurricanes issued an official announce- there. I feel we both have similar speed ment that Boychuk had undergone suc- and skill set. He’s a guy that likes to score cessful surgery on his left wrist in Raleigh, the big goals at key times, and that’s simi- N.C. The surgical procedure was per- lar to me, as well. He works hard, he’s formed by Dr. George Edwards, who pretty thick for being a small guy. I hope repaired a fracture in the forward’s wrist. that I can put on some weight and have a The recovery time for such a procedure similar build as him. I know how hard he was estimated at about three months. competes, and I feel that’s similar in my The final day of September 2008 brought game. I certainly love to stand backdoor a follow-up on Boychuk’s summer surgery and wait for those little chip passes. Also, in which it was made public he had a pin you see how much speed and skill he has, removed from his left wrist. Again per- he gets so many breakaways with that. I formed by Dr. Edwards, this post-surgical try to play like him, for sure.” procedure would prevent Boychuk from The defensive aspect of Boychuk’s contact in practice for another two weeks. game was never overlooked despite the This effectively precluded the young obvious offensive prowess. A plus-19 and Ukrainian from any training camp scrim- an improved plus-26 in his last two junior mages or exhibition games. campaigns showed a commitment to two- Signing on way play. “The past few years I’ve tried to work Despite missing over two months of on my defensive game,” he said. “I know training time due to his wrist injury, it takes strong defense to win champion- Boychuk was signed by Carolina to a ships. If you can’t play defense you proba- three-year, entry-level contract. Terms of bly won’t be able to make it to the next the standard rookie deal included a level. I definitely have been working on $787,500 annual salary beginning with his that the past few years and I think it’s first full professional season at the NHL 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 No. 27

expressed its outrage over the reversal of the Kyrgyz deci- U.S.-Russia... sion, but some sources in Moscow still believe the Manas In the News: (Continued from page 2) reversal could be part of a bigger covert Obama- ing that Russia does not believe that Iran posed any mis- Medvedev deal (Kommersant, June 24). Peter Doroshenko sile threat that could warrant the U.S. BMD in Europe, While the Obama visit is being prepared, Moscow is and that any possible “joint discussions” of a U.S.-Russian continuing military and propaganda preparations for a PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The American-born artistic BMD collective project may begin only after Washington possible full-scale military invasion to change the present director of the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv, Peter officially rejects any plans to deploy BMD in Europe pro-Western regime of President Mikheil Saakashvili in Doroshenko, was mentioned in a June 8 article in the (Interfax, June 11). Georgia. Senior Russian generals and diplomats have British newspaper The Times as the de facto curator of Most recently during a late June visit to the been accusing Georgia of preparing “a new aggression” Ukrainian Pavilion at the prestigious 53rd International Netherlands, President Medvedev issued an official state- (EDM, June 18). Art Exhibit of the Venice Biennale, held in Venice, Italy. ment about U.S.-Russian START negotiations “making a In mid-June a Georgian lieutenant, Alik Bzhania, 35, Although the curator for this exhibit, funded by good start.” Medvedev added, “Russia cannot agree with who served in the Georgian coast guard and apparently Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk, is officially billed U.S. plans to deploy a global BMD” and that “a legal link defected to Russian-controlled Abkhazia, was promoted as heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko, between BMD and strategic nuclear weapons must be part by the Gazprom-owned liberal Ekho Moskvy radio. He Mr. Doroshenko is said to have done the heavy lifting for of a new treaty” (www.kremlin.ru, June 20). This seemed was promptly given asylum and held a high-profile press the exhibition. to counter Washington’s insistence that the new START The exhibition is called “Steppes of Dreamers” and is conference in Moscow. Mr. Bzhania announced, treaty must not include the controversial BMD issues. “Saakashvili is preparing an aggression and I do not want meant to be a journey into a dream world. The Times The Obama Administration seems to be ready to tacitly has hailed the Ukrainian Pavilion as “one of the most to fight Russia” (Interfax, June 19). promise that the deployment of BMD in Poland and the A Moscow journalist who interviewed Mr. Bzhania, ambitious entries among the 77 nations aiming for … the Czech Republic might be delayed, while efforts to press top prize.” speaking on condition of anonymity, told Jamestown that Iran to curtail its nuclear and ballistic missile programs the orders to publicize the defector came directly from The choice of Mr. Klitschko as the official curator is continue. But putting legal restraints on future U.S. BMD meant to encourage examination about the idea of the Prime Minister Putin’s office. If Russia is planning full- plans seems to be politically unacceptable (Moscow scale military action in Georgia, it clearly needs an excuse curator and his image appears in advertisements for the Times, June 11; Interfax, June 22). The Russian linkage of Ukrainian Pavilion at the contemporary art competition, that it is in self-defense – countering an alleged “Georgian BMD and START in a new treaty could undermine the aggression.” which will run through November 22. coming summit in Moscow (Kommersant, June 22). On June 29 Russian troops begin massive military Mr. Doroshenko was featured in The Weekly’s April There are other outstanding contentious issues. exercises on Georgia’s borders, as well as in occupied 8, 2007, and November 9, 2003, issues upon his appoint- Kremlin-connected Russian political commentators have ment to PinchukArtCentre and to the directorship of the Abkhazia and South Ossetia - Kavkaz 2009 (EDM, June been stating, “an Obama visit to Moscow can only be suc- Museum of Contemporary Art S.M.A.K (Stedelijik cessful if he publicly announces a 20-to-25-year moratori- 18). The exercises are planned to end on July 6, when Museum Voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent, Belgium, um on Georgia and Ukraine joining NATO” (RIA Novosti, President Obama lands in Moscow. The troops will be respectively. June 20). In exchange for the recognition of Georgia and deployed and fully ready to go into action for at least sev- He was also the commissioner of the Ukraine Pavilion Ukraine being within Russia’s sphere of control, Moscow eral weeks after July 6, which apparently makes July the in the 2007 competition. In addition to his work at could offer Mr. Obama help in the transit of supplies to most dangerous month in the troubled South Caucasus. PinchukArtCentre and S.M.A.K., he has also worked as troops in Afghanistan. There have been reports that the Mr. Obama’s visit to Moscow may be the last slim the head of the BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art in U.S. might be allowed to continue to use the Manas air- hope to avoid a war: if the U.S. president understands the Gateshead, England, at the Institute of Visual Arts in base in Kyrgyzstan (Kommersant, June 16). threat and decides to put Georgia at the center of his nego- Milwaukee, Wis., the Contemporary Arts Museum in Manas has been used by coalition forces to support tiations instead of START – which is deadlocked anyway Houston, and the Everson Museum in Syracuse, N.Y. operations in Afghanistan since 2001, but in February the by the BMD linkage. It may be still be possible to pull off In 2002 Mr. Doroshenko was awarded the Diploma Kyrgyz government announced its closure after receiving a diplomatic miracle by pressing or persuading Mr. Putin of the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, an pledges of over $2 billion in aid from Moscow. This week to stand back. Order of France bestowed upon those who have signifi- the U.S. and the Kyrgyz authorities announced a deal that cantly contributed to the fields of arts and literature. the Manas base will stay for at least another year under The article above is reprinted from Eurasia Daily – Tyrssa Korduba the name of a “transit center.” Monitor with permission from its publisher, the Jamestown The Russian Foreign Ministry is reported to have Foundation, www.jamestown.org. No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 21

president in the 2006 constitution. German tion of the Soviet empire, the 27 post-Com- journal that “these [constitutional] changes Constitutional... Chancellor Angela Merkel pointed out to munist states are divided into two groups: interlaced the power of the executive and (Continued from page 2) Ukrainians in May that parliamentary presi- those in Central-Eastern Europe and the legislative branches, leaving the country in enshrined in the 1996 Constitution. dents are ceremonial. Baltic states have parliamentary systems, legal turmoil to this day.” and those in Eurasia – presidential systems. The Yushchenko presidency has been The second vote in April 2004 failed after Halfway to nowhere some pro-presidential centrists rebelled in The two exceptions are Ukraine and dominated by political crises, governmen- protest at the change earlier that month of the Two further factors are of direct rele- Moldova, with semi-parliamentary and par- tal instability, elite in-fighting and consti- election law from mixed to fully proportion- vance. “Semi” political systems, whether liamentary systems, respectively. tutional chaos that have combined to al. That change had been a condition of sup- presidential (as in the 1996 Constitution) or Parliamentarism and democratization undermine the potential generated by the port by the left for the constitutional reforms. parliamentary (as in the 2006 Constitution), went hand-in-hand in Central-Eastern Orange Revolution. With the constitutional Ironically, the reforms adopted on are recipes for instability and conflict. If Europe and the Baltic states, facilitating question still unresolved as the Yushchenko December 8, 2004, in a parliamentary vote Ukraine really wants political stability and their integration into NATO and the era nears its end, Ukraine will enter the were identical to those rejected eight months an escape from constitutional and legal European Union. Parliamentarism, there- January 2010 election campaign in the earlier. During those eight months, the chaos, it should change the Constitution fore, could further integrate Ukraine into same state of constitutional uncertainty as authorities waged an all-out campaign to either to a full presidential system or toward Europe. it did five years ago. prevent Mr. Yushchenko from being elected a full parliamentary system. Ukraine’s transition from a semi-presi- with the powers enshrined in the 1996 Prime Minister Tymoshenko acknowl- dential to a semi-parliamentarian Copyright 2008, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted Constitution. The widespread fraud that edged the inevitability of that choice in the Constitution has completely overshadowed with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ marred the presidential ballot led to the course of a lengthy interview on Channel 5 Mr. Yushchenko’s presidency. Personality, Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Orange Revolution, triggered by Europe’s on June 11. “Semi” systems do not divide ideological and gender factors have been Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org. See largest post-war mass protests, in which one powers clearly and, therefore, are recipes for compounded by constitutionally unclear http://www.rferl.org/content/Constitutional_ in five Ukrainians participated. “chaos,” she stressed. divisions of powers. U.S. Judge Bohdan Instability_In_Ukraine_Leads_To_Legal_ Three European Union-sponsored round- Nearly two decades after the disintegra- Futey noted this month in a Ukrainian legal Turmoil/1763341.html. tables resulted in the December 8, 2004, compromise agreement that led to a repeat vote on December 26 that Mr. Yushchenko won. In return, Mr. Yushchenko granted ver- bal immunity to Mr. Kuchma, and Mr. Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine supported the vote on the constitutional reforms to come into force in 2006. The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) was the only parliamentary force to vote against the constitutional amendments. Constitutional questions After being elected president, Mr. Yushchenko complained about, but failed to repeal, the constitutional reforms. First, between September 2005, when the Tymoshenko government was removed, until February 2007, when the Orange alli- ance was reconstituted, the YTB and Our Ukraine were at loggerheads and divided. Mr. Yushchenko and Our Ukraine did not support the YTB’s call to invoke the October 2005 Constitutional Court ruling that consti- tutional reforms required a national referen- dum. The YTB campaigned for such a refer- endum in the 2006 and 2007 elections. Second, Mr. Yushchenko did not estab- lish his National Constitutional Council until December 27, 2007, and presented his reform proposals only on March 31 of this year. But by then he had no hope of imple- menting them as his popularity rating had collapsed to 2 percent and he had no support in Parliament. Our Ukraine had voted to rejoin the coalition in December 2008, against his wishes. The conflict between the president and prime minister continued throughout 2008, and the onset of the global financial crisis in the fall failed to dampen it. During that time, legal and constitutional experts and different political factions all reached the conclusion that the president’s daily intervention in eco- nomic and energy issues is unconstitutional. (Under the 2006 Constitution, the govern- ment reports to the Parliament, not to the president.) In an April 2008 speech to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Tymoshenko announced a dramatic shift within the YTB toward support for par- liamentarism. The experts’ second conclusion was that without presidential support for the holding of a referendum, the only way the Constitution could be changed was through a constitutional majority. But two successive attempts, in September of last year and May of this year, to form a YTB-Party of Regions coalition with the aim of pushing through constitutional reforms that would strengthen the Parliament both failed, partly due to per- sonal mistrust but also to Party of Regions demands to have their cake and eat it. While supporting a president elected by Parliament (i.e., a full parliamentary sys- tem), Party of Regions Chairman Viktor Yanukovych simultaneously sought a “guar- antee” of two presidential terms with exten- sive powers similar to those bestowed on the 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 No. 27

son games which count in the standings. sailors seemed to be scurrying about faster, A year in the life... A displaced person's... and everyone stood at the railing looking Finishing juniors (Continued from page 19) (Continued from page 8) forward. The odor of land was overpower- from out in front. It’s a shot he’s probably Boychuk proceeded to lead Lethbridge But we children had a special friend on ing… or was it our anticipation? That night nailed countless times in practice and his in playoff scoring for the second consecu- board that I still can picture clearly. He was everyone appeared to be packing their valis- junior career. tive year, notching 7G,7A for 13PTS in 11 an American sailor, not very tall, older than es before going to sleep. I slept soundly, but playoff games. At the end of the regular the other sailors and a bit overweight. Quite I think I was an exception. NHL experience season and in March he totalled 22 points often, he was in his blue dungarees and shirt, Very early, before six in the morning on April 20, 1950, I was awakened, dressed When it was time to part ways with his (14G) in his last 17 games, including four with a hat and a protruding stomach. But and taken up on deck. My parents were very newfound NHL brethren, Boychuk masked game-winners. He won the team’s plus- two features made him lovable. He always eager to show me something important. any disappointment he may have felt. minus award and was the team’s co-mvp. had a cigar butt stuck in the side of his Almost everyone was on deck and crowding According to Hurricanes’ blogger Mike He tallied his first WHL playoff hat trick mouth and he always smiled at us. He’d the railing on the port side. Through the Sundheim, Boychuk was totally upbeat against Saskatoon and earned a point in 14 hold our hands, say nice-sounding things to straight game. In the 2008-2009 regular cold, early morning mist, when the whole after his conversations with team execu- those who could feel but not understand, world was colored in shades of gray, I saw a tive Ron Francis and coach (at the time) season he scored 28 goals with 29 assists and frequently passed out gum, candy and colossal woman passing slowly to our left. Peter Laviolette. He shook hands with for 57 points, finishing his career as the large comma-shaped nuts. We loved him. She was in a gown and wore a crown while teammates and staff members as they club’s seventh all-time leading scorer. He became our archetypal American father holding a book. Her other arm was raised boarded the charter to return to Raleigh Boychuk also capably assisted Team figure – non-communicating like an adult, high, holding a torch. She slowly drifted by following the California road trip. His Canada in their gold-medal win at the yet loving like a father. After a few years in in silence. The entire ship was stunned in farewell line to all: “See ya next year.” 2009 World Junior Championships with America, I realized that a lot of middle-aged silence and awe. My father whispered that The experiences the young centerman four goals and seven points. men looked just like that old sailor. ... And this was the Statue of Liberty. collected during his time with Carolina Joins Albany in my now-American mind, he represents As if on some unknown signal, everyone could have as great a positive impact on the typical American working stiff, most broke silence and rushed to the starboard his future development as the disappoint- Boychuk picked up his first professional likely from Brooklyn. ... railing. The ship even listed slightly to the ing summer surgery had on limiting his point with an assist in an early April game After over a week at sea, people started to right. Then shock and utter bewilderment. first training camp. He got to observe stars in Albany. Having just completed his get restless and began to talk of land. People made sounds, but nothing sounded like Eric Staal, Ray Whitney and captain junior eligibility, he joined Albany of the Anticipation started to rise. And then one coherent. Everyone saw for the first time the Rod Brind’Amour preparing on a daily AHL for the last week of their regular sea- day, while on deck, I noticed a strange yet skyline of Manhattan – the skyscrapers of basis for the rigors of NHL play. He expe- son. As the River Rats did not qualify for familiar smell – land. There was no land on the Battery. It was unreal. I was giddy. This rienced the travel factor to the max, going the playoffs, Boychuk got to play in only the horizon, none even two days later. But I just could not be possible. So tall, so many, cross-country to the west coast. Perhaps two games. The talented first-round pick could smell an odor that I told my father so varied, and so huge and mighty. This was best of all, Boychuk had the rare opportu- actually got to make his professional debut was land. The next day we saw several sea America! No ruins, no destruction, no nity to witness hockey’s highest level of twice in one season: in October for gulls appear on the ship’s rigging. People ancient style. Just America, and power! Our speed and intensity from the best possible Carolina, then again in April for Albany. were now really getting impatient to see vantage point – at ice level, in regular sea- You’ll see him full-time as a Carolina new world. Hurricanes center in 2009-2010, for sure. “Ameryka.” But still no land. People looked, but they couldn’t believe April 19 was a very long day. The ocean or comprehend. America! America! The had a greener tint, there were more birds, the ultimate heaven.

and, in 1999, it was absorbed by the State “Still another...” Department as its “public diplomacy” (Continued from page 7) arm. VOA was my second employer in my Maybe it’s part of the aging process, chosen profession after college. The but powers beyond my control seem to Geneva Free Press, a small-town daily have been “burning bridges behind me,” to borrow a phrase from the old country newspaper in northeastern Ohio, which song. hired me as reporter-photographer right out of John Carroll University, was the The trans-Atlantic voyage to America first. It folded a few years after I left for was an experience few refugees can for- Washington. And for 15 years after VOA get. Andrew Zwarun recalls his observa- until retirement I worked for the U.S. tions and feelings in one chapter of his Information Agency’s African and Near- memoirs, which he started writing some East/South-Asian press services. The 10 years ago. Selected excerpts from that USIA was “reinvented” as the U.S. chapter, “The Great Divide,” appear on International Communication Agency page XX.

These young men are the future of the Argentina has a new... Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, and (Continued from page 5) they deserve support from our communi- until the late hours, and everybody makes ty. During my stay, members of the good use of the Internet. famous Byzantine Choir from Utrecht, Besides praying and studying, the sem- Holland, visited the seminary and I was told that they have made generous dona- inarians participate in many extracurricu- tions to the seminary. lum activities: a choir, a highly regarded The next time you are in Lviv, make it chamber group, a wind orchestra, a pro- a point to visit the seminary. You will be fessional soccer team, their own newspa- as impressed as I was and, hopefully, will per. The course of study is seven years support this very important institution. and in the last year of their studies the I also encourage the large contingent seminarians have practicums, during of Ukrainian Argentineans in the United which they teach in schools, work in States to support Bishop Shevchuk’s work orphanages, hospitals and senior homes, in Argentina. He needs help to bring participate in Christian youth organiza- priests from Ukraine and revitalize the tion, and do pastoral work at the military Ukrainian Greek-Catholic church in lyceum of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute.” Argentina. No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2009 23 OUT AND ABOUT

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