INSIDE: • Auto accident alters lives of families in Ukraine, U.S. — page 3. • Philadelphia celebrates 95th anniversary of Plast — page 9. • ‘Bereza Kartuzka’ documentary premieres in Montreal — page 13. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXXV No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 $1/$2 in Ukraine Bush unveils memorial Latest poll says four political forces to victims of communism likely to be elected to next Rada by Nina Brantley by Zenon Zawada The Razumkov Center is among the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation Kyiv Press Bureau most respected polling and research cen- ters in Ukraine, supported by 57 govern- WASHINGTON – Twenty years to the KYIV – Four political forces would ments and private organizations, including day when U.S. President Ronald Reagan qualify for the Verkhovna Rada if elec- Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the stood in Berlin and asked then-Soviet tions were held today, according to a sur- U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and the Morgan, leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down vey of 11,000 Ukrainians in 403 locations, Stanley and Co. investment bank. this wall,” a memorial to commemorate conducted between May 31 and June 18 Almost 79 percent of respondents said the victims of communism was dedicated by the Kyiv-based Razumkov Center for they will vote in the September 30 parlia- in Washington by the current U.S. presi- Economic and Political Research. mentary elections, while 10 percent said dent, George W. Bush. The Party of the Regions would win 37 they won’t. Some 14 years in the making, the memo- percent of the vote (compared to 32 percent Almost 54 percent of respondents said rial stands as testament to the hard work of in 2006), the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc they will vote for the same political party the Victims of Communism Memorial would win 21 percent (22 percent in 2006), or bloc on September 30 that they sup- Foundation and especially its chairman, the Our Ukraine People’s Union – People’s ported in the March 2006 parliamentary Lee Edwards, historian and author, who Self-Defense Bloc would win 16 percent elections, while about 18 percent said lobbied for permission to build the monu- and the Communist Party of Ukraine they will switch their support. ment, as well as Ambassador Lev would win 5 percent (4 percent in 2006). When asked why they will choose Dobriansky, chairman emeritus. The 10- “The political forces that will realisti- another political force, 41 percent said foot-tall bronze statue is a replica of the cally form the Parliament won’t differ the bloc or party they voted for didn’t Goddess of Democracy, used by students in much from the prior session, but we hope fulfill expectations, while 35 percent said Beijing during the Tiananmen Square its level of accountability will improve,” they were disappointed with the leaders. protests. It stands in Washington at the said Oleksander Chalyi, assistant general intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, New director of the Razumkov Center. (Continued on page 10) Jersey Avenue and G Street within view of the Capitol building. The dedication ceremony on June 12 began with remarks by Mr. Edwards and Yaro Bihun Our Ukraine, Lutsenko bloc join forces Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). Rep. The Victims of Communism Memorial, by Zenon Zawada Razumkov Center for Economic and a 10-foot-tall bronze replica of the Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), chairman of the Kyiv Press Bureau Political Research. Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the Goddess of Democracy statue built by Together, the Our Ukraine People’s Chinese students during the 1989 KYIV – The Our Ukraine People’s Union and People’s Self-Defense Bloc (Continued on page 5) Tiananmen Square protests. Union and Yurii Lutsenko’s People’s have about 16 percent voter support. Self-Defense Bloc have united into a sin- The two leaders have yet to announce gle political bloc for the September 30 the new bloc’s leader and the top 10 can- parliamentary elections, their leaders didates on the electoral list, as well as a OSCE Parliamentary Assembly announced on June 28. possible new name for the bloc. At a signing ceremony for the While the two leaders invited the Declaration of Uniting Democratic Rukh-Ukrainian Right Wing to join their to hold annual session in Kyiv Forces at the Presidential Secretariat, Our bloc, leader Yurii Kostenko said he was Organization for Security ter; and Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Ukraine People Union’s Chair Viacheslav surprised by the announcement and was- and Cooperation in Europe OSCE secretary general. Kyrylenko and People’s Self-Defense n’t invited to the signing ceremony. Chair Yurii Lutsenko said they will The assembly’s special representa- An earlier agreement reached by the merge following the elections. COPENHAGEN – Nearly 300 tives and Ad Hoc Committees, which three blocs had allocated the Rukh- “Today we are ready to announce not Ukrainian Right Wing 21 percent of the members of Parliament from most of deal with issue-specific topics such as only the creation of a single electoral candidates in the event of a common the 56 participating states of the Guantanamo and Central Asia, will bloc and electoral list, but also clear electoral list, he said. Organization for Security and deliver reports at the meeting. Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will intentions to create a single democratic Our Ukraine would have 54 percent and Elections will also be held for new party,” Mr. Lutsenko said. the People’s Self-Defense Bloc 25 percent. meet in Kyiv on July 5-9 for the OSCE assembly officers. Mr. Lennmarker Parliamentary Assembly’s 16th annual Though Our Ukraine for many years “Does this document cancel all prior will seek a second one-year term as session. has structured itself as a bloc in which agreements regarding the unification of president of the OSCE Parliamentary Participants will discuss regional Our Ukraine People’s Union was one of blocs?” Mr. Kostenko said. “This is evi- Assembly. security, including energy security, several parties, the March defection of dence the negotiations are taking place migration, corruption, democratic The annual session in Kyiv is being the Party of Industrialists and on two echelons – Kyrylenko-Lutsenko development and election standards. held at the invitation of the chairman Entrepreneurs prompted its leaders to on one level, while the (Rukh-Ukrainian) Another focus will be human rights of the Ukrainian Parliament, favor consolidation into a single party, Right Wing is not an equal partner.” issues affecting the OSCE area, includ- Oleksander Moroz. The 2006 session observers said. Only 1.3 percent of voters said they ing protection of minorities, press free- was held in Belgium, and the 2008 ses- The unification of Our Ukraine and would vote for the Rukh-Ukrainian Right dom and human trafficking. sion will be held in Kazakhstan. the People’s Self-Defense has the poten- Wing according to the Razumkov poll. A final declaration is expected to The annual session will take place at tial to significantly boost what had been The Rukh-Ukrainian Right Wing would include recommendations on these and the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv, which is President Viktor Yushchenko’s waning add 0.5 percent more votes to the Our related issues. also the host of the session. The meet- influence in Parliament, given his status Ukraine People’s Union-People’s Self Expected speakers at the session ing is open to the media. as honorary chair of the Our Ukraine Defense Bloc if it merged, the poll said. include: Viktor Yushchenko, president The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, People’s Union, political observers said. Even if offered an invitation to the of Ukraine; Goran Lennmarker, OSCE created in 1990, is the parliamentary Without the People’s Self-Defense bloc, Mr. Kostenko expressed concern Parliamentary Assembly president; dimension of the OSCE. The assem- Bloc, the Our Ukraine People’s Union about whether a nationalist-oriented bloc Miguel Angel Moratinos, OSCE chair- bly’s primary task is to facilitate inter- would earn only 10 percent of the vote, could merge into a single party with the man-in-office, Spanish foreign minis- parliamentary dialogue. according to a poll of about 11,000 People’s Self-Defense, which he consid- Ukrainians released on June 26 by the ers a leftist force. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 No. 26 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Tymoshenko comes out PM cites needs for early elections “However, we agreed to this because we do not want to disrupt the elections,” he ahead in Ukraine’s crisis KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor said. It was the first valid sitting of the Yanukovych told journalists in Kyiv on by Taras Kuzio 2004 presidential elections, had support- CEC following the approval of its June 27 that the early elections scheduled renewed composition by the Verkhovna Eurasia Daily Monitor ed two Orange governments in 2005- for September 30 are necessary for 2006/2007 but moved to the Anti-Crisis Rada on June 1. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ukraine’s Parliament closed on Friday, Ukraine, Ukrainian media reported. “It is Coalition of Prime Minister Viktor necessary to hold elections under these Melnychenko set to release recordings June 15, after a tense two-month crisis. Yanukovych in 2006-2007. This was a success for Yulia Tymoshenko circumstances,” he said. “There is no Second, the Orange split permitted Mr. other way for the state, but they must be KYIV – Former presidential bodyguard and her eponymous bloc (YTB), which Yanukovych and his Party of the Regions Mykola Melnychenko, whose alleged was the only political force consistently held exclusively on the basis of the law (PRU) to revive their fortunes. In the and the Constitution. The country and 47 secret recordings in the office of former calling for early elections since the col- seven months between the September Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma were lapse of the Orange coalition last year. million people cannot live and suffer 2005 Cabinet crisis and the March 2006 under the circumstances of a political cri- made public in November 2000, said in an On April 2 President Viktor Yushchenko parliamentary elections, the PRU effec- interview with Channel 5 on June 24 that followed suit, disbanding the Verkhovna sis and a blockade of the work of tively doubled its popular support. Parliament.” Mr. Yanukovych also assert- he is ready to publicize those of his tapes Rada and calling for early parliamentary The PRU placed first in the 2006 elec- that feature current President Viktor elections later that same month. ed that 90 percent of the May 27 political tions, and likely will do so again in deal he made with President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor The YTB has come out on top in Yanukovych, Ukrainian media reported. September, but it cannot count on a land- Yushchenko and Verkhovna Rada Ukraine’s spring 2007 political crisis. When Mr. Melnychenko was allegedly slide, especially in western-central Chairman Oleksander Moroz to resolve Ms. Tymoshenko could again become Ukraine, where there is a greater degree making his recordings, Mr. Yushchenko the political crisis in Ukraine has already prime minister if Orange forces win the of political competition with no dominant was the head of the National Bank of been implemented. At the same time, Mr. September 30 parliamentary elections. political force. Ms. Tymoshenko is steadi- Ukraine and subsequently prime minister, Yanukovych noted that his Party of the And if not this year, she could set her eye ly gaining ground across the country. while Mr. Yanukovych was the oblast Regions has not yet adopted formal deci- on the 2009 elections. The YTB is seeking to use the 2007 administration chair of Donetsk. “Let’s set sions to take part in the early polls or to Recent developments suggest that Ms. elections to dent the popularity of the up a group of several experts, make a tran- Tymoshenko’s political fortunes are on compile its election list. (RFE/RL PRU in its eastern-southern Ukrainian script [of the tapes] and publish a separate the upswing. After only eight months Ms. Newsline) stronghold. Most members of the PRU book or a brochure,” Mr. Melnychenko Tymoshenko lost the prime minister’s live in eastern (62 percent) and southern said. “If Viktor Andriyovych post in September 2005 when corruption CEC assigns its members regions (21 percent) Ukraine, but in the 2006 [Yushchenko] or society need us to really allegations surfaced against the presi- elections the YTB placed second in every KYIV – The Central Election show [his] face and if Viktor Andriyovych dent’s business entourage. Mr. region of eastern-southern Ukraine Commission (CEC) on June 25 adopted a is not against it, I can heed this [need],” Yushchenko then dismissed the govern- except the two Donbas oblasts, the resolution allocating Ukraine’s regions to Mr. Melnychenko said. “I think we can do ment, a right he had under the 1996 Crimean autonomous republic and the individual supervision by its members this not only with Yushchenko but also Constitution of Ukraine but does not city of Sevastopol. during the pre-term parliamentary elec- with Viktor Fedorovych [Yanukovych] have under the 2006 version. The move Polls have consistently put YTB in sec- tions on September 30, Interfax-Ukraine and other politicians.” At the same time, had two strategic consequences for his ond place nationally, making it the leading reported. As expected, regions in the Mr. Melnychenko noted that his tapes do political allies. Orange political force. Between the 2002 east, the south and the center of Ukraine, not contain “anything that could compro- First, the Orange camp fractured for and 2006 elections YTB tripled its support which account for a majority of 18 months. Our Ukraine and the YTB did mise Viktor Yushchenko very strongly.” from 7.26 percent to 22.29 percent, while Ukrainian voters, were assigned to eight not reunite until February 24. Oleksander Mr. Melnychenko left Ukraine in Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine declined from CEC members representing the ruling Moroz’s Socialists and Anatolii Kinakh’s September 2000, following the kidnap- 23.57 percent to 13.95 percent. coalition. The opposition’s six CEC Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, ping of Internet journalist Heorhii Part of this growth is due to disillu- members will supervise regions in the both of whom had defected to Mr. Gongadze. In April 2001 he was given sionment with President Yushchenko, west of the country. CEC Chairman Yushchenko in the second round of the political asylum in the United States. Mr. which led to a large defection of Orange Volodymyr Shapoval, who was appoint- Melnychenko returned to Ukraine in voters from Our Ukraine to YTB and ed by President Viktor Yushchenko, was 2005. The authenticity of his tapes, which Dr. Taras Kuzio is visiting professor at changed the configuration of national not given any special regional assign- indicate that President Kuchma and other the Elliot School of International Affairs, democratic forces. Our Ukraine has ment for the snap elections. Anatolii officials from his entourage might have George Washington University. The article recovered some since 2006, and now Pysarenko, who represents the opposition been involved in the murder of Gongadze, above, which originally appeared in The includes the Yurii Lutsenko People’s Self in the CEC, said that the regional assign- has not been definitively confirmed. Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Defense group (focusing on the youth ment of responsibilities within the CEC (RFE/RL Newsline) Monitor, is reprinted here with permission is unfair for the opposition. “This deci- from the foundation (www.jamestown.org). (Continued on page 14) sion has brought us to our knees or even President wants election observers made us lie on our stomachs,” Mr. KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor Pysarenko noted, predicting that such an Verkhovna Rada in limbo assignment will encourage vote rigging. (Continued on page 16) by Pavel Korduban as a result of the March 2006 election, Mr. Eurasia Daily Monitor Yushchenko suggested. Public opinion polls show that it may be quite difficult for the THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FOUNDED 1933 The majority of Ukraine’s Parliament has Socialists to clear the 3 percent election bar- defied the accords between President Viktor rier in the next vote. 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The Melnyk and Liubezhanin families NOVOVOLYNSK, Ukraine – Blind- live just down the street from Holy ing headlights were the last thing Trinity Church, one of three Pentecostal Volodymyr Liubezhanin remembered congregations in Novovolynsk, a city 12 seeing before the collision. miles from the Polish border. The day had been joyful for him until The church is the focal point in the that moment, as he had driven an lives of Pentecostals, who distinguish entourage of family and friends from themselves from other Protestant denom- Novovolynsk, Volyn Oblast, to welcome inations because they believe the Holy three relatives at the Boryspil airport Spirit is alive, communicates with arriving from Sacramento, Calif., where Christians and even baptizes believers by they earned money and were active in bestowing spiritual gifts. the Ukrainian Pentecostal community. These gifts consist of prophecy, healing The 6,000-mile airline journey proved and the ability to pray in foreign lan- far safer than Ukraine’s treacherous roads. guages, according to the Apostle Paul’s “He came out in front of me and I first letter to the Corinthians in the New started to maneuver, but I couldn’t avoid Testament. the collision,” Mr. Liubezhanin, 41, told The Pentecostals derive their name The Weekly from his hospital bed in from the Day of Pentecost, an event doc- Klevan, Rivne Oblast. “Our fate was umented by the Apostle Luke in the decided by seconds.” Book of Acts, in which the Holy Spirit Zenon Zawada Those seconds would claim six lives visited Christian believers and enabled Andrii Melnyk kneels at the wreath placed at the site of the collision that killed and forever alter its five survivors’ futures. them to speak in foreign languages. his parents. It was only after he reached the hospi- Sacramento, Calif., had been the desti- tal that Mr. Liubezhanin learned he had nation for hundreds of Pentecostals from brought money she had set aside for wid- the plane was the red caviar he extracted lost three family members in the wreck – Novovolynsk during the 1990s who left ows and orphans. from the fish he caught. his sister Raisa, 47, who had arrived Ukraine because of religious persecution “She said people in Ukraine see each This summer was going to be among from the U.S., and his sons Vladyslav, under Communist rule. other more often compared to the U.S.,” the most eventful in the Melnyk family. 17, and Myroslav, 9, who joined the trip Certainly, economics played a role in Olha said. “In the U.S., everybody is Not only was their daughter Natalia’s wed- to welcome her back. their decision too. busy with their own job. She didn’t have ding planned for July 8, but younger son Petro Melnyk, 49, perished alongside his Like most western Ukrainian towns, her own family, and she said she had Andrii scheduled his wedding for July 29. wife, Maria, 46, who rode in the van to wel- Novovolynsk has few opportunities to more friends here and felt freer.” Both couples had already printed wed- come her husband back from Sacramento. offer, and any available job doesn’t pay Of the three U.S. residents in the acci- ding invitations, with special versions for They had celebrated their 24th enough to lead a normal life, let alone dent, only Vira Hnatiuk, 45, survived. their father that they passed to him anniversary the very same day, and Mr. raise a family. While Raisa was arriving for the sum- through friends traveling to Sacramento. Melnyk was looking forward to attend- At one point, the majority of church mer, Ms. Hnatiuk was planning to spend “Man’s fate is from God, and by God’s ing the July wedding of his daughter members had left, or about 1,000 mem- just two weeks in her homeland, mainly will it happened so that our paths Natalia, 17, who survived the crash and bers, said Pastor Volodymyr Hrytsak, but to visit relatives and have dental work crossed, and we invite you now to our was hospitalized in Klevan. the congregation has since replenished performed, she told The Weekly. marriage, ‘laskavo prosymo pryity’ (we The sixth casualty was the single pas- itself with new believers. She lived in the U.S. for six years with kindly welcome you),” read the invita- senger of the BMW X5 that swerved into The three Pentecostal churches in three siblings and her mother, singing in tion to Natalia’s wedding. the oncoming traffic, Mykhailo Syrota, 45, Novovolynsk now have 1,830 worship- the church choir and sending tithes to the After retrieving his father’s luggage the director of a BMW dealership in Kyiv. pers, he said, while Holy Trinity Church Novovolynsk church. from the wreck, Andrii opened his Abrasions to her face and body were father’s Bible and found his wedding the least of her injuries. The accident tore invitation tucked amongst its pages. “Let her leg from heel to hip, stripping away your steadfast love, O Lord be upon us much of its skin and contaminating her (Psalms 33:22), we invite you to our hol- flesh with dirt. iday, we will be happy to see you in our Upon her arrival at Rivne Municipal church, the Ark.” Hospital sometime between 3a.m. and 4 The two children of Petro’s sister also a.m., doctors determined Ms. Hnatiuk planned July weddings, amounting to also suffered a brain concussion. four Melnyk weddings in a single month, For five hours, surgeons operated to four weekends in a row. repair her fractured hip and leg, which Not allowing the tragedy to disrupt was broken at the knee joint and shin. their future, the children all decided to They determined a second surgery would keep their wedding plans on track. Andrii be necessary, and that was performed on consulted with Pastor Hrytsak, who June 23 in Lutsk. advised him to proceed because his par- Ms. Hnatiuk is Andrii Melnyk’s god- ents were in support. mother and taught him in Sunday school. “My father traveled with one goal – When hospital staff finally allowed for our weddings,” Andrii said. “I think Andrii to visit his godmother two days looking down from heaven, our parents after the accident, she immediately will gain joy from our weddings.” instructed him not to tell her of any deaths. He’s already planned calm music, so “I don’t feel well and that’s why I that the celebration doesn’t turn exces- don’t want to know,” she said. “When I sively festive. “It will be a symbolic will feel well, then I can know. But so far Zenon Zawada wedding,” Andrii said. I don’t want to, because I know it will Natalia’s wedding will take place just Tania Pavlova holds a Matchbox car from the Liubezhanins’ van she found on traumatize me. It won’t change anything.” the roadside two days after the fatal accident. Standing to her left is Andrii two weeks after her scheduled release Melnyk, her future husband. Summer weddings from the hospital. She and her fiancée plan only a church ceremony, followed Incredibly enough, the 25-year-old in Sacramento today has a congregation Petro Melnyk had spent many years in by a modest dinner. Portugal and France earning money for driver who apparently caused the acci- of 1,800. Tragedy strikes dent was the only person to emerge from Raisa Liubezhanin was among the his family before settling in Sacramento the collision without a scratch. earlier members, joining the church choir six years ago, attracted by the ample Volodymyr Liubezhanin has long been electrical and construction work. The accident’s horrid timing, and the after moving to the U.S. a decade ago, a pillar in his community, serving as the Perhaps another unspoken allure for havoc it wrecked, would cause anyone to Volodymyr Liubezhanin’s wife, Olha, church’s chief treasurer and deacon. the avid fisherman was northern For many years he worked as an elec- question God and justice. told The Weekly. California’s remarkable rivers, where The Pentecostals reacted with faith. While working at a local factory, Raisa trician at the local hospital before taking Petro routinely caught five-foot-long a job at the local coal mine two months “There is a God in heaven,” said Andrii strained her hands, causing a gradually salmon and carp. Melnyk, one of the deceased couple’s worsening pain that eventually required earlier because it offered a higher wage. Upon becoming a permanent resident Volodymyr is also the father of 11 three children. “If He did this, then it surgery, she said. Afterwards, she could- more than two years ago, Petro shuttled means it was supposed to happen. If God n’t work as much and lived off worker’s children. back to Ukraine whenever he got the Always conscious of the vast responsi- did this, then how can we question Him?” compensation for her injury, Olha said. chance to visit his family in bilities on his shoulders, Volodymyr was Raisa decided to join her two friends Ukrainians in Sacramento Novovolynsk, where his wife, Maria, a careful driver, never exceeding 55 to visit Novovolynsk for the summer, lived with two of their three children miles per hour, Andrii said. The three Ukrainians arriving from largely to rest and spend time in the com- (their eldest son lives in North Dakota). Sacramento – Petro Melnyk, Raisa munity, where she felt more at ease. She Among the gifts he would sneak onto (Continued on page 4) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 No. 26

ter Liya by his side. that his two children were dead, and his to identify his parents, Andrii visited a Auto accident... When asked to recall any memories he sister too.” local police station where his father’s lug- (Continued from page 3) had of the accident Volodymyr had to The pastor led a prayer for gage was being held. It was there he saw At Boryspil, the arrivals loaded his restrain his emotions amidst the fragile Volodymyr’s strength and recovery, and Anatolii, the driver of the SUV sitting on Renault Trafic van with luggage bearing condition of his traumatized ribs and also bought medicines recommended by a chair with his head buried in his hands. their clothes, personal possessions and abdomen, which caused him to breath the medical staff. “Are you the driver of the BMW?” gifts. heavily as he lay in a hospital bed. Atop Volodymyr suffered trauma to his Andrii asked. Later that day in the border town of the many scratches across his bare chest, chest cavity and abdomen, a brain con- “Yes,” Anatolii replied. Ustyluh, Mykhailo Syrota and his driver, cathodes monitored the precarious cussion and a broken leg, said Dr. Andrii was about to ask him what Anatolii, set off for his car dealership in breathing. Verveha, chair of the surgical department happened, but a police officer interrupted Kyiv in a new black BMW X5 SUV, “When I came to, I was still laying on at the Central District Hospital in Klevan. and asked Andrii to go to another room. transported to Poland still bearing New the ground,” Volodymyr said, his rib Just across the hall in the hospital’s “Maybe they thought I would have want- resuscitation ward lay Liya Liubezhanin, Jersey license plates. cage heaving in attempts to breathe and ed to harm him,” he said. who arrived at the hospital with scratch- A car transport trailer had earlier stifle his crying at the same time. “She Officers told Andrii that Anatolii was es to her legs, a broken collarbone and hauled several vehicles to Mr. Syrota’s was lying near me. She asked me if we shocked and disheveled at the accident contusions throughout her body. dealership, but the black SUV was the were in a car crash, and I told her we scene, crying and asking others what to Eventually, doctors uncovered internal single vehicle that didn’t fit. were. She asked me what would happen do. “He could not even comprehend bleeding from her liver and decided to what had happened,” police told Andrii. Multi-lane highways are an exception to us. I told her I didn’t know.” operate on her. “An air bag saved his life. But he noticed in Ukraine, built only to connect the Uttering these words, Volodymyr was The pastor also led a prayer for Liya that everyone else was injured and only largest of cities. The road connecting suddenly overwhelmed and began weep- amidst her tears. he was alive without any trauma. He Lutsk and Rivne is only a two-lane route ing. Lying in her hospital bed and resting couldn’t handle it.” her thick hair and long brown braid on a Anatolii initially admitted to falling pillow, Liya appeared as a bruised angel, asleep at the wheel, police told Andrii, with scabs covering her mouth and nose. but when his colleagues arrived, they “How are you?” Dr. Verveha asked. urged him to change his story. He later “Normalno,” she replied in a weak, claimed that he was trying to pass the car hollow voice, her left hand resting on her in front of him, police told Andrii. stomach. Anatolii is now incarcerated and Andrii Melnyk first learned of the col- charged with a crime, according to the lision at about 3:30 a.m. Rivne Oblast State Auto Inspection press His parents were still alive when they service, which offered no specifics other arrived at the hospital, but they would than that the case is still being investigated. not live long enough to see their son one Afterwards, Andrii arrived at the last time. Rivne Municipal Hospital to identify his “The policeman answered the phone parents’ bodies. and informed me of the car crash,” Andrii “I noticed my dad died with a smile on said. “He asked me to introduce myself. I his face,” he said. “He looked like he did- told him my surname is Melnyk. They n’t suffer too much, like nothing hurt him told me that my father had very severe before he died. It seemed that he closed bodily injuries, and that he would proba- his eyes and just smiled. My mother Zenon Zawada bly die. In a half hour, he called back and looked different though. You could tell Olha Liubezhanin at home with four of her nine remaining children. From left to said they both passed away.” she was hurt. Her skull was broken.” right, Yana, 6; Alla, 11; Natalia, 2; Alina, 8. He first traveled to the Klevan hospi- Meanwhile, Mr. Syrota’s business col- tal to visit his sister, who suffered a brain leagues, who had awaited his arrival in about 12 feet wide. “Don’t break down,” urged his sur- concussion and torn leg muscles, rela- Rivne, immediately took his body to Kyiv Tragedy struck between the villages of geon, Dr. Mykhailo Verveha. “Calm tively mild injuries requiring three weeks and placed a wreath at the scene, large Bronnyky and Karpylivka, nine miles down.” of hospitalization. enough for all passing motorists to see west of Rivne. With Volodymyr’s stress evident, the Natalia immediately asked about her that a life had ended in that very place. Recalling the accident from his hospi- surgeon immediately concluded the brief parents, to which Andrii replied he didn’t “Mikhail Sirota tragically passed away tal bed, Mr. Liubezhanin said he remem- interview, concerned that recalling the know of their condition, thinking such here,” read the wreath’s plaque in Russian. bered three cars passing him in the oppo- tragedy would harm his patient’s condition. devastating news would only harm her “For dear Misha,” read the wreath’s rib- site lane when the fourth vehicle shot The father had learned of his sons’ recovery. bons. “From Vadim, Dima and friends.” towards him. The BMW’s driver, death when Pastor Hrytsak arrived at Five days after the accident, she still Anatolii, had suddenly veered into the Central District Hospital at Klevan just didn’t know of her parents’ deaths, Mourning in Novovolynsk oncoming lane of traffic. hours after the accident. though Andrii began to suspect she was News of the accident swept Too late to steer back into his lane, “He told me he remembered lying on already onto him. Novovolynsk by sunrise. Anatolii made a split-second decision to the ground and hearing somebody say “We keep telling her they’re not let- The victims’ families decided to bury dodge the oncoming vehicle by veering off there were two dead bodies,” Pastor ting me into their room to check on the dead as soon as possible, and the the road’s far opposite end. That maneuver Hrytsak said. “He asked me who died. them,” he said, his face revealing his church community immediately made failed and the Renault van crashed directly And I asked him if he was strong enough doubt as to whether he was doing the preparations. into the BMW’s passenger side, instantly to hear who died. He asked me to tell right thing, and whether she was still Pastor Hrytsak arranged to transport killing Anatolii’s boss, Mr. Syrota. him the truth, since he felt much worse believing him. The BMW plunged into a ditch, while not knowing who they were. I told him Before trekking to the Rivne hospital (Continued on page 15) the Renault van spun around before stop- ping on the opposite side of the road, still on its wheels. For two hours, six victims in the Renault van waited for aid, Andrii Melnyk said. Vladyslav and Myroslav Liubezhanin died on impact, and their aunt Raisa passed away before para- medics arrived, Pastor Hrytsak said. While the victims waited, an anony- mous motorist stopped at the accident scene and injected anesthesia into the living victims, temporarily relieving their pain until the paramedics arrived. “Nobody knows who it was,” Andrii said. “It looked as though God himself sent somebody to relieve their sufferings. I think so. It is not usual that people carry treatment, especially injections.” Rescue workers had to rip through metal to reach some victims. All Vira Hnatiuk said she remembered was lying on the grass by the side of the road, drifting in and out of consciousness. “I touched the grass and asked for help since I felt an awful pain in my leg,” she said. “Periodically, I’d lose consciousness and come to my senses.” Volodymyr remembered lying under Pavlo Borys the dark sky with his 14-year-old daugh- Mourners carry the coffins of two auto collision victims at a June 7 funeral in Novovolynsk. No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 5 Bush unveils... (Continued from page 1) FOR THE RECORD: Excerpts of Bush’s remarks keynote address. Following are excerpts of President Mr. Lantos is a Holocaust survivor who George W. Bush’s remarks at the unveil- owes his life to one of the victims of com- ing of the Victims of Communism munism, Raoul Wallenberg, who provided Memorial. safe houses for Jews in Hungary during the second world war. Wallenberg was … The 20th century will be remem- later arrested by Stalin and presumably bered as the deadliest century in human killed in Moscow’s Lubianka prison. Rep. history. And the record of this brutal era Lantos has worked tirelessly to facilitate is commemorated in memorials across the creation of the monument to com- this city. Yet, until now, our nation’s memorate those, like Wallenberg, and the capital had no monument to the victims estimated 150 million others who fell vic- of imperial communism, an ideology tim to Communist regimes worldwide. that took the lives of an estimated 100 President Bush was present to formal- million innocent men, women and chil- ly unveil the statue. In his speech he dren. So it’s fitting that we gather to noted that, “We will never know the remember those who perished at com- names of all who perished,” but that munism’s hands, and dedicate this “these men and women lived, and they memorial that will enshrine their suffer- should not be forgotten.” Mr. Bush men- ing and sacrifice in the conscience of the tioned the need specifically to acknowl- world. … edge, among other groups, the fate of The sheer numbers of those killed in Ukrainians under the Stalin purges. communism’s name are staggering, so Following the official dedication was large that a precise count is impossible. a day of activities to honor those who According to the best scholarly esti- worked on the creation of the memorial. mate, communism took the lives of tens In the afternoon, the Heritage of millions of people in China and the Foundation held a roundtable discussion Soviet Union, and millions more in featuring foreign dignitaries, former North Korea, Cambodia, Africa, political prisoners under regimes from Afghanistan, Vietnam, Eastern Europe Vietnam to Poland to Cuba, and scholars and other parts of the globe. who study Communist regimes. Behind these numbers are human sto- A gala awards dinner closed the day’s ries of individuals with families and commemorations with the presentation dreams whose lives were cut short by of the Truman-Reagan Medal of men in pursuit of totalitarian power. Freedom to William F. Buckley Jr. by Some of communism’s victims are well- former Rep. Jack Kemp. known. They include a Swedish diplo- The memorial marks the first of three mat named Raoul Wallenberg, who planned projects for the Victims of saved 100,000 Jews from the Nazis, Communism Memorial Foundation. The only to be arrested on Stalin’s orders next phase in the project, which the foun- and sent to Moscow’s Lubianka prison, Joyce N. Boghosian dation hopes to launch in late 2008, will be where he disappeared without a trace. President George W. Bush speaks at the dedication ceremony for the Victims of a Global Virtual Museum on the Internet. They include a Polish priest named Communism Memorial in Washington. This virtual museum, dedicated to commu- Father Popieluszko, who made his nism, will act as an online network for Warsaw church a sanctuary for the Revolution; Cambodians slain in Pol we have an obligation to those who museums dedicated to communism around Solidarity underground, and was kid- Pot’s Killing Fields; East Germans shot died, to acknowledge their lives and the world – from South Korea to Budapest napped, and beaten, and drowned in the attempting to scale the Berlin Wall in honor their memory. The Czech writer – and as a resource of academic literature Vitsula by the secret police. order to make it to freedom; Poles mas- Milan Kundera once described the about communism. Initially the academic The sacrifices of these individuals sacred in the Katyn Forest; and struggle against communism as “the database will draw English language mate- haunt history – and behind them are mil- rials from American universities, but even- lions more who were killed in anonymi- Ethiopians slaughtered in the “Red struggle of memory against forgetting.” tually it will include materials in other lan- ty by communism’s brutal hand. They Terror”; Miskito Indians murdered by Communist regimes did more than take guages and foreign universities as well. include innocent Ukrainians starved to Nicaragua’s Sandinista dictatorship; and their victims’ lives; they sought to steal The final phase in the foundation’s death in Stalin’s Great Famine; or Cuban balseros who drowned escaping their humanity and erase their memory. plans includes a museum and library in the Russians killed in Stalin’s purges; tyranny. We’ll never know the names of With this memorial, we restore their Washington area. The building, which will Lithuanians and Latvians and Estonians all who perished, but at this sacred humanity and we reclaim their memory. cost approximately $50 million, would loaded onto cattle cars and deported to place, communism’s unknown victims With this memorial, we say of commu- house permanent exhibits as well as an Arctic death camps of Soviet commu- will be consecrated to history and nism’s innocent and anonymous vic- auditorium for lectures and films and a nism. They include Chinese killed in the remembered forever. tims, these men and women lived and library to be used as an academic resource. Great Leap Forward and the Cultural We dedicate this memorial because they shall not be forgotten. … Reaction to monument’s unveiling The Ukrainian National Information communism were striking; (4) on recent Service solicited the following comments records of monument-building in on the unveiling of the Victims of Washington, thanks to Congress and the WE NEED YOUR HELP! Communism Memorial. National Park Service this undertaking took only 14 years.” VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Ambassador Lev Dobriansky (who was * * * unable to attend the memorial’s unveiling Michael Sawkiw Jr., president of the All UNA branch secretaries and UNA members, as due to health reasons), commented: Ukrainian Congress Committee of well as those who love Soyuzivka and their Ukrainian “The spectacular unveiling of the America (UCCA), who is also the secre- Victims of Communism Memorial in tary and treasurer of the Victims of heritage are needed as volunteers to help with the Washington at a site in direct view of the Communism Memorial Foundation and Ukrainian Festival on July 11-15, 2007, at Soyuzivka. Capitol itself symbolizes these prominent, was present at the unveiling, noted: meaningful truths: (1) among other educa- “This is truly a momentous occasion. tional features, and yet not generally under- We, as a Ukrainian American community, Contact Nestor Paslawsky or Sonia Semanyshyn at stood, it now stands as the only one in our have struggled long and hard for the evils capital completing a story of our Cold War of communism to be recognized on this 845-626-5641 for details. victory; (2) though set on June 12 com- level. Along with this memorial, we are memorating the 20th anniversary of also proud that our community has Thank you in advance for your help! President [Ronald] Reagan’s challenge to achieved similar results as we are diligent- [Mikhail] Gorbachev to tear down the ly proceeding with plans for a monument Berlin Wall, it points to the beginning of an in Washington, D.C., to the victims of the historic process, which has resulted in the Ukrainian Genocide perpetrated by the independence of non-Russian nations, par- Stalinist regime. We are extremely proud ticularly geo-strategic Ukraine, and the of our achievement here and the distin- demise of the Soviet Union; (3) in his guished role of the longtime UCCA presi- address on the occasion, President [George dent Ambassador [Lev] Dobriansky in the W.] Bush’s remarks on Osama bin Laden process of establishing this Victims of terrorism meeting the same fate as utopian Communism Memorial.” 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 No. 26

COMMENTARY THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Remembering the victims Parliamentary election campaign of communism is already under way in Ukraine The millions of victims of communism are being remembered both here in the by Ilya Khineyko the future of the bloc in jeopardy. On June 18 Mr. Lutsenko threatened to pull United States and in Ukraine, as seen from recent events in both countries. On June 15 the Verkhovna Rada of In Washington, President George W. Bush on June 12 unveiled the Victims of his party out of the bloc and run inde- Ukraine of the fifth convocation ceased pendently if no consensus is reached in Communism Memorial, a 10-foot replica of the historic “Goddess of Democracy” to exist. By the morning of that day, 151 statue that was a centerpiece of the demonstrations on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in two weeks regarding the candidacies for deputies from Our Ukraine and the Yulia prime minister and chairman of the 1989. The dedication took place on the 20th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s Tymoshenko Bloc had submitted their celebrated “Tear down this wall” speech in Berlin. Fourteen years in the making, the Verkhovna Rada. resignation papers to Rada Chairman Also, Mr. Lutsenko’s party is interest- Washington monument is dedicated to the estimated 100 million worldwide who died Oleksander Moroz, bringing the total during the 20th century as the victims of communism, from the USSR to China, North ed in government portfolios concerning number of national deputies below the security: Mr. Lutsenko was minister of Korea to Cuba, to Eastern Europe, Africa and other parts of the globe. necessary quorum of 300. Later that President Bush said, “…this memorial will enshrine their suffering and sacri- internal affairs in the first Orange gov- same day, four more resignations were ernment in 2005-2006, in addition to fice in the conscience of the world,” “at this sacred place, communism’s announced. unknown victims will be consecrated to history and remembered forever.” having responsibility for the economic The de-facto dissolution of the reform program. Mr. Lutsenko’s ambi- Among the tens of millions of communism’s victims the president cited “inno- Verkhovna Rada, or Parliament, was car- cent Ukrainians starved to death in Stalin’s Great Famine.” tions may have been encouraged by the ried out through the resignations of results of the latest polls, which suggest Meanwhile, in Ukraine in recent weeks, President Viktor Yushchenko opposition deputies in accordance with announced his support for the Museum of the Soviet Occupation – which focuses his party’s ratings are currently safely the May 27 agreement of the “big three,” above the 3 percent threshold necessary on Communist crimes committed in Ukraine between 1917 and 1991 – reasoning which ended the two-month-long politi- that Ukraine needs to know its own modern history. to be represented in the new Rada. cal crisis in Ukraine. It happened in spite While the complex relationships “How do we evaluate the pages of our history that for many years have been of the obstructionist maneuvers on the hidden from us? We are going to become a country without a future if we do not among various political forces within the part of Mr. Moroz, who stands to lose the Orange camp are hardly news, it appears recognize the truth in our history,” the president said. “Who is afraid of this truth?” most from the dissolution of the current A partial answer to the latter question follows. that the iron-clad discipline for which the Parliament. Party of the Regions has been known The chair of Ukraine’s State Committee on Archives, Olga Ginzburg, consid- Also, many rank-and-file opposition ers the Museum of the Soviet Occupation unnecessary. “We should not have may also be a thing of the past. In an deputies were extremely reluctant to interesting article published by the such a museum in our country at all. … My position on this issue is very nega- relinquish their mandates. As Ukrayinska tive. Who needs this? My generation does not need this. Which generation needs Ukrainian online portal proUA.com, Pravda reported before the resignations Oleh Polishchuk claimed that the party to hear about the Communist occupation?” she was quoted as saying by the list was read out loud at the Verkhovna BBC. Ms. Ginzburg also refused to turn over any archival documents on the leaders are planning to get rid of at least Rada session, “many deputies [had] 50 incumbent deputies and replace them Soviet occupation to the museum. asked not to have their names put in the Russia’s ambassador to Ukraine, Viktor Chernomyrdin, was none too pleased with newcomers. top 10 of the list because in the event that Rynat Akhmetov and Viktor by the museum either. According to the BBC he stated that the creation of the dissolution of Parliament fails they museum is an insult to the Russian people. And, though he has not commented Yanukovych espouse two different would never have a chance to return to visions of the upcoming campaign. The specifically on the new museum in Kyiv, Russian President Vladimir Putin the Verkhovna Rada.” Their worries were recently said in a reference to Stalin’s purges that “in other countries even worse former wants to maintain the status quo, not completely unfounded, given the fact meaning that the Party of the Regions things happened.” Speaking to social studies teachers in Moscow, Mr. Putin that not all members of the opposition stressed, “No one must be allowed to impose a feeling of guilt on us.” would run independently with a certain factions chose to follow their leaders. number of seats on the list reserved for Thus, it is clear that there are those who want to remember the great evils that have Mykola Zamkovenko, the erstwhile occurred in human history in the expectation that knowledge is power – including, Mr. Akhmetov’s people. However, Mr. foe of Leonid Kuchma, and 29 other Yanukovych contemplates plans to create one would hope, the power to prevent other evils. And then there are those who’d deputies from the Tymoshenko Bloc have rather we forget and head blissfully, ignorantly into an uncertain future. a bigger coalition under his name, which refused to abide by their party’s decision would include the Social-Democrats and have instead formed a new United led by Viktor Medvedchuk and Tymoshenko Bloc faction in the the Socialists headed by Mr. Moroz, or a Parliament without the participation of number of representatives from those and July their leader. In light of such events and other parties on an individual basis. Turning the pages back... since resignation papers had to be sub- There is simmering discontent at the mitted in person, extraordinary efforts regional level. Despite being, nominally, 7 were made to bring opposition members part of the same political force, local to Kyiv, including sending a private jet to governors (chair of oblast administra- Five years ago, the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), the deliver some deputies. tions) and mayors in eastern Ukraine 2002 first Christian university in Ukraine in the modern era, for- The dissolution process was also chal- have been engaged in a bitter turf war mally opened, as reported by The Ukrainian Weekly on July lenged in court. A former ally of President with each other, which may have a seri- 7, 2002. Viktor Yushchenko, Anatolii Kinakh, who ous negative effect on the strength of the Myroslav Marynovych, vice-rector of the university, acted as master of ceremonies accepted a Cabinet position in the Party of the Regions campaign in those and read the proclamation that announced the inauguration of the Ukrainian Catholic Yanukovych government in March of this regions. Yet, currently the fortunes of the Church’s (UCC) new university in Ukraine. Three-thousand people attended the June year, challenged the legality of the annul- Regions do not seem to be in any danger. 29, 2002, opening. ment of the Our Ukraine electoral list. His According to the latest poll conducted Others in attendance included Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, archbishop major of the party, the Union of the Industrialists and by the Ukrainian Barometer sociological UCC and chancellor of UCU; the Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, UCU rector; Archbishop Entrepreneurs of Ukraine, was not present service, the breakdown of votes in the Vsevolod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A.; Archbishop Mykola at the special session of the Our Ukraine upcoming elections will look as follows: Eterovic, the papal nuncio to Ukraine; ambassadors from Great Britain, Germany and bloc which made that decision. France; as well as Lviv Mayor Lubomyr Buniak and administrators from several Party of the Regions – 34 percent; However, on June 16 the appellate Tymoshenko Bloc – 20.3 percent; Our prominent Ukrainian universities. court of Kyiv confirmed the ruling of the Cardinal Husar said, “Our university, just as all universities, should not hide behind Ukraine – 11 percent; People’s Self- Pechersk district court that deemed the Defense Bloc – 4.8 percent; Communist the walls of its buildings, but must be close to the society it serves,” adding that “there annulment legally valid, effectively must be a lively exchange between the university and the community, which becomes Party of Ukraine – 3.9 percent. killing off one of the last chances to save Other parties – including the Socialists the foundation for new ideas.” the current convocation of the Rada. “If a university is supposed to seek truth, beauty and goodness beyond the façade whose rating is hovering around 2 per- Despite the fact that the election cam- cent and the Moscow-financed Natalia of the obvious, then the university that is being born today must uphold this standard paign will not be underway until August, as well and search for these eternal values, but in addition it must do so through the Vitrenko bloc with 2.7 percent, seem the leaders of Ukraine’s main political unlikely to get into the new Verkhovna eyes of a Christian,” he stated. parties, Our Ukraine and the Party of the The Rev. Gudziak noted that seven of the Ukrainian martyrs that Pope John Paul II Rada. Thus, as individual political fig- Regions, are already preoccupied with ures, both Ms. Vitrenko and Mr. Moroz beatified in 2001 had attended the Lviv Theological Academy, the UCU’s predecessor. the complicated process of forming their He underscored the role the UCU must play in uniting Ukrainians through knowledge, may be making their last appearances on electoral lists. the Ukrainian political stage. understanding and tolerance. It was announced on June 17 that Our Preceding the inauguration ceremony was a conference titled “The Identity and Ukraine and its political allies had come The article above appears on the blog Mission of the UCU,” which reviewed the effort to establish a Catholic university in up with a new electoral list to be named “Current Politics in Ukraine,” which Ukraine, the history of the UCC’s higher educational institutions and the future of the the Bloc of Democratic Forces. Our provides opinion and analysis on current new university. Ukraine was to be allocated 54 percent events in Ukraine. The blog was created On the final day of the festivities, a hierarchical divine liturgy was celebrated fol- on the list while Yurii Lutsenko’s in February by the Stasiuk Program for lowed by the blessing of the cornerstone for the building that would house the UCU People’s Self-Defense and the Ukrainian the Study of Contemporary Ukraine. faculty and UCC seminary. The construction project, which included six new build- Right Wing, as junior partners in the Most of the articles are written by Ilya ings on the 17-acre plot, allocated by the local government, was made possible by the coalition, would get 25 and 21 percent, Khineyko, a Ph.D. candidate in history. respectively. However, squabbles over The blog may be found at http://ukraine- (Continued on page 21) key appointments have immediately put analysis.wordpress.com/. 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NEWS AND VIEWS View from the The 10-year war Trembita Lounge by Olya Odynsky the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was by Taras Szmagala Jr. adopted – where all the government had Ten years is a long time to fight a bat- to do to revoke anyone’s citizenship was tle that should never have begun. to prove on a balance of probabilities – The process of making difficult choices It started with a surprise visit from the not beyond a reasonable doubt – that Cleveland’s Roman Catholic popula- the Cleveland area alone (including Royal Canadian Mounted Police someone obtained his or her citizenship tion is nervous. Bishop Anthony M. Pilla, Lorain and Akron), we have eight (RCMP) on August 26, 1997, followed on the basis of a misrepresentation. Ukrainian Catholic parishes and one full- by a letter from Ottawa on September 24, As far as we could tell, the allegations a native son who had served as the leader time K-8 elementary school. And while 1997, notifying my father, Wasyl of war criminality served only one pur- of the diocese’s 800,000 Roman each has a core of dedicated parishioners, Odynsky, that, as a result of his alleged pose: to create the illusion before the Catholics for more than 25 years, has in only one parish is membership grow- failure to “divulge to Canadian immigra- Canadian public that Canada was pursu- retired, and Bishop Richard G. Lennon, ing. Over the past two decades, most tion and citizenship officials [his] collab- ing Nazi war criminals, which in turn former auxiliary bishop of Boston, has parishes have seen a slow but steady oration with German authorities and [his] would continue the funding stream for been installed as Pilla’s successor. decline in membership – and the trend is engagement in activities connected with the largely unsuccessful War Crimes Bishop Lennon’s reputation preceded continuing. Changes are inevitable – per- forced labor and concentration camps Unit, which to date, after expending him to Cleveland. As a key assistant to haps not this year, or even next, but soon. during the period 1943-1944, as a guard approximately $60 million over the last Cardinal Sean O’Malley, archbishop of The situation in Cleveland is compli- at the Trawniki Training Camp and later 15 years, has not delivered any evidence Boston, Bishop Lennon figured promi- at the Poniatowa Labor Camp in of war crimes or crimes against humanity nently in the closure of more than 50 cated even more by the fact that each Poland,” the minister of Citizenship and in any of these World War II cases. parishes in the Boston Archdiocese. In Ukrainian Catholic parish is special in its Immigration would seek revocation of In the end, Justice MacKay concluded fact, his role during the 2004 restructur- own way. Some parishes serve mostly my father’s Canadian citizenship, which that on a balance of probabilities, Wasyl ing of that archdiocese earned him the English-speaking faithful, while others could ultimately lead to his deportation Odynsky had likely misrepresented his nickname “the Closer.” cater to newly arrived Ukrainians. Some from Canada. past when immigrating to Canada. This Now, the Closer has come to Ohio. are located in more affluent suburbs, By the end of that year, most major finding was made despite the fact that all His mission is clear: to lead the same sort while another, located in the inner-city, is Canadian media outlets, the Canadian immigration documents from this period of reorganization that has already taken critical to the spiritual well-being of the Jewish Congress and the B’nai B’rith had been destroyed by the government place in Boston, New York and other Ukrainians in that neighborhood. had branded my father a war criminal – and despite the lack of any direct evi- areas where, due to a shortage of priests What to do? Of course, that’s the hard even though, to this day, not a shred of dence about my father’s specific immi- or parishioners, diocesan resources need- part. I certainly don’t envy the eparch of evidence demonstrating any wrongdoing gration experience. ed to be reallocated. That Cleveland Parma as he faces these questions. But he by him has ever been produced. As a result of this finding, my father’s needs a restructuring is beyond dispute – need not, and should not, face them For the next three years my family citizenship could now be revoked. For to take but one example, Cleveland has alone. We parishioners are partners on struggled to mount a defense to these the next six years we lived in dread of 25 percent fewer parishes than Boston, this journey, and we have the right and outrageous charges, being levied more the next knock on the door by the RCMP, but has less than half as many Catholics. obligation to participate in the tough than 50 years after the end of World War who made a mean habit of checking up That’s unsustainable, both from a staffing decisions that will need to be made over II. My elderly father had to laboriously on our father before major holidays. No and financial perspective. the next years. piece together and document every detail Christmas, Easter or long weekend was To his credit, Bishop Lennon is not To begin this process, the eparchy of his life, from the time of his birth in exempt. Often, the visits by the RCMP pretending the issue does not exist. In might consider publishing a complete 1924, to the time of his immigration to would be followed by letters indicating fact, the Diocese of Cleveland is address- and detailed financial statement, setting Canada in 1949 and his eventual natural- that the Cabinet would be reviewing our ing the matter directly and transparently. forth its own financial position as well as ization in 1955. father’s case, leaving us dreading the Parish “clusters” have been formed, con- the position of each parish. This would This involved endless consultations outcome each time. sisting of five or six churches in the same reveal, at the outset, whether there’s real- with our legal counsel, interviewing The defamation in the media contin- area. Through these clusters, neighboring ly a problem at all. Are there parishes in scores of Canadian immigrants who ued unabated, provoked by press confer- churches are sharing resources (including danger of closing now due to their might have had similar immigration ences by the Canadian Jewish Congress priests) and cooperating in their min- finances? Are all our parishes self-suffi- experiences, hours of searching through and the B’Nai B’rith, which provided the istries. Audited diocesan financial infor- cient or are some subsidized by the archival documents and the vast volumes media with new fodder for further stories mation has been made readily accessible, eparchy? And what is the long-term of government-produced documents, about the presence of Nazi war criminals and many parishes provide a complete financial plan to support the school? engaging historians and researchers to in Canada. financial report, as well. Using this information as a baseline, we provide the historical and factual context By virtue of repeated complaints to Most recently, Bishop Lennon can have a better understanding of what for the defense, a trip to Ukraine in June the Press Council we managed to curtail informed some of the clusters that one or reallocation of resources may be of 1998 to locate and interview witnesses, the reporting by most outlets, with the two of the churches in their cluster must required, and when. With this information, we would then and another trip to Ukraine in November exception of the National Post, which close. But he did not dictate which be able to have a more meaningful con- of 1998 with the Federal Court to hear the conveniently refuses to join the Press parishes will be shuttered; instead, versation about the best use of our limit- evidence of witnesses in our father’s vil- Council, thus remaining outside the Bishop Lennon has invited each cluster ed resources. For instance, if the school lage near Ivano-Frankivsk. scrutiny of its journalistic peers. to discuss the matter and decide amongst Throughout this ordeal, I, along with is in danger of closing, would it be better And so it was with disbelief that themselves what makes the most sense my brother and sister, attempted to main- to close an underutilized parish instead Wasyl Odynsky received notification that for their group. Rather than assuming he tain some semblance of a normal life for and divert the funds toward the school? If on May 17 the Governor in Council had knows best, Cleveland’s bishop is relying our aging parents and our families. we need to close two parishes, which decided not to revoke his citizenship. As on the wisdom of the faithful themselves The hearing in the Federal Court two? These are difficult questions with a result, he remains a Canadian citizen to allocate scarce church resources. To be spanned 23 days in 2000. Finally, in no clear answers, but we need to discuss under the Citizenship Act. My family sure, Bishop Lennon will make the final March 2001, Justice Andrew MacKay them. breathed a huge sigh of relief. decisions, but only after a transparent, found that my father had not joined the The eparch of Parma will ultimately We are relieved, we are vindicated, we thoughtful process in which all Cleveland auxiliary forces voluntarily, that his serv- are grateful. decide these issues for our eparchy. ice was not voluntary, that there was no Roman Catholics may participate. There are two ways he can go about As we reflect upon the past 10 years, In this area, the contrast between the evidence that he was a “collaborator” we know that we could not have survived doing that: he could follow the lead of and, more importantly, that there was no Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland his brother in Cleveland, proceed with this ordeal without the assistance of so and the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever very many people. transparency and involve the laity, or, by him, either during the war or after. St. Josaphat in Parma could not be more alternatively, he could simply do what he We had skilled and talented legal stark. Indeed, I think it’s safe to say that Justice MacKay noted in particular the counsel, who guided us correctly and thinks is best without extensive consulta- evidence as to my father’s good character when one thinks of our eparchy, the term tion. The path he chooses will have a steadfastly. “transparent” does not jump to mind. and his standing within the church and Prof. Orest Subtelny’s research, as profound effect on the future of the the Ukrainian community in Toronto. It’s hard not to suspect that the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Cleveland. well as the discovery of Prof. Volodymyr Eparchy of Parma faces many of the To anyone who knows my father, these Kubijovich’s files in the Archives of findings did not come as a surprise. In same challenges as the Diocese of Taras Szmagala Jr. may be reached at Canada will survive as part of the perma- Cleveland, albeit on a smaller scale. In [email protected]. fact, the government lawyers almost nent historical record. We are grateful for immediately abandoned any suggestion the assistance of historians and that our father was a criminal, much less researchers in Canada, Ukraine, a “war criminal,” and did not even Germany and the United States. attempt to prove that case against him. Notice to publishers and authors We extend our heartfelt thanks to the It is The Ukrainian Weekly’s policy to run news items and/or reviews of newly pub- For you see, they had been handed a many people in Canada and Ukraine who much easier task by then Justice Minister offered to be, or actually were, witnesses lished books, booklets and reprints, as well as records and premiere issues of periodi- Alan Rock, who abandoned any effort to during the hearings. In particular, we cals only after receipt by the editorial offices of a copy of the material in question. bring real war criminals to justice in wish to acknowledge our family in News items sent without a copy of the new release will not be published. Canada in accordance with Canadian Ukraine for their tireless assistance in criminal law. Instead, he chose to use the Send new releases and information (where publication may be purchased, locating witnesses. cost, etc.) to: Editorial Staff, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, odious denaturalization and deportation We are grateful to our personal friends (D and D) proceedings under the outdated Parsippany, NJ 07054. Citizenship Act – enacted in 1947 before (Continued on page 19) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 No. 26 Ukrainian Rochester Collection Project decades in the making ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Ukrainian great achievements of this community, the beginning of World War I. You could tions in Rochester such as sports and art Americans have made major contributions but its struggles as well. Combining pub- say they came here for the economic groups, churches, clubs, schools and fra- to the culture, social life and business activ- lic and personal documents, narratives, opportunities – they came for a better life ternal organizations. ities of the population of Greater Rochester. photographs and film footage, the URCP – though they had always planned to go Reproductions, abstracts and lists of In the spirit of that community and in an is perhaps the most detailed record of a back, make money and go back.” the materials collected have been record- attempt to preserve its achievements, Ukrainian American community – one of “The next wave fled political persecu- ed and preserved in the Credit Union Ukrainian American Wolodymyr “Mirko” the many which form the multicultural tion as European ideologies settled into Opinion, a quarterly publication of the Pylyshenko has founded the Ukrainian landscape of the United States. place leading up to World War II. And Ukrainian Federal Credit Union that first Rochester Collection Project (URCP). A bulwark of the community’s cohe- that war led to the third wave, the dis- appeared in 1955 and has since docu- Ukrainians first arrived in the United sion, the Ukrainian Federal Credit Union placed persons in flight from the mented the major happenings within the States toward the end of the 19th century, (UFCU) opened in Rochester in 1953 Communists, from 1947 to 1965.” Ukrainian community. Through the already fragmented, already confounded with a mere $350 and eight members. “The last wave left during perestroika years, Prof. Pylyshenko has served at as to who they really were. In the ports of The UFCU now has branches from from 1987 until just a few years ago – made times as chairman, at times as writer, as Ellis Island they were tagged as Boston to Portland, Ore., with $125 mil- up mainly of Pentecostals and Baptists who editor and as illustrator of the publica- Austrians, as Hungarians, as Russians, lion and a membership of over 16,000. sought religious freedom,” he said. tion, which was published in both Germans, Poles, Slovaks and Romanians. “When I came to Rochester in 1950 Since he arrived in the United States in English and Ukrainian. Despite the fragmentation of their her- there was only one Ukrainian church and 1950, Prof. Pylyshenko has amassed an Though unofficially the collection has itage, Ukrainian immigrants formed a dias- seven Ukrainian social clubs. These clubs archive of materials, which he has anno- been a lifelong pursuit of Prof. pora community with roots that stretched had bar rooms, card and billiard tables, tated, inventoried and safely stored for Pylyshenko, it has benefited from vari- deep into the soil of the new land. They meeting halls and dance halls. Today, the preservation and future clarification ous public attentions. Financial support from a Documentary Heritage Grant was struggled to achieve a cultural unity as they there are seven churches and only one of posterity. provided by the New York State founded churches and social clubs, muse- social club. Can you imagine the change The collection, drawn from individual Education Department for 2005-2006, ums and schools, fraternal organizations that must have taken place over the past and organizational sources, includes and from the Ukrainian Federal Credit and businesses. They sustained four sepa- half century alone? We’re talking about a pages culled from books, magazines, Union Library, which provided storage rate waves of immigration over the course community that numbers 15,000 to periodicals and newspapers; family histo- and copying services for the project. All of a century, and their community encom- 20,000,” said Prof. Pylyshenko. ries, personal memoirs, photographs and other funding for the URCP has come passed four religious denominations. “The first wave of immigration came fliers; and separately archived subcollec- from Prof. Pylyshenko. The URCP not only documents the at the end of the 19th century through to tions of materials from Ukrainian institu- “This collection provides only partial documentation of the Rochester Ukrainian community. Many questions remain to be researched and added to the collection. New documents are always being discovered. Older generations are opening up, telling their stories,” he said. Prof. Pylyshenko is emeritus chair of the department of art and art history at the State University of New York, College at Brockport. He also is a charter member of the Western Monroe Historical Society, a trustee of the Irondequoit Public Library and the director of the Ukrainian Credit Union Library. Since his youth, Prof. Pylyshenko has been active in more than 25 religious, political, social, educational and profes- sional organizations of the Ukrainian American community. He has been a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian American Association of University Professors. He has served on the board of directors of The Ukrainian Museum in New York City and as chair of the Rochester Fund for Harvard University’s endowed chairs of Ukrainian studies. Over the past 40 years Prof. Pylyshenko and his family have hosted scores of Ukrainian artists, poets, aca- demics and political figures during their visits to the United States, and he and his wife have donated a substantial collec- tion of folk costumes and folk art objects to The Ukrainian Museum in New York City. Prof. Pylyshenko has made more than 35 trips to Ukraine, including visits to Ukrainian minority populations in Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia and Germany. “I hope that with the completion of this project valuable information about the Rochester Ukrainian community will be preserved and clarified for futurme generations,” he said.

For further information readers may contact Prof. Wolodymyr Pylyshenko at 915 Winona Blvd., Rochester, NY 14617; 585- 467-5365.

SEND THE WEEKLY TO UKRAINE To order an air mail subscription to The Ukrainian Weekly for addressees in Ukraine, send $245 for subscription fee and postage costs to: Subscription Department, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 9 Philadelphia Plast branch celebrates scouting organization’s 95th anniversary

Members of the Philadelphia branch of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization in photo taken in front of St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church on the occasion of Plast’s 95th anniversary.

by Andrea Porytko Zharovsky Philadelphia Plast branch. monies. main duties of being a member of Plast. The guests of the banquet were assem- Archbishop Stefan Soroka of the He entertained guests with anecdotes JENKINTOWN, Pa. – Every year bled with the sound of a bugle, the signal Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of from his personal Plast experiences, Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization so familiar at Plast camps, played by Philadelphia and metropolitan for bringing smiles to many faces and nods remembers St. George, its patron saint, Roman Chabursky. After a moment of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S.A., of “yes, I had a similar experience.” on May 6. St. George is known for his silence in honor of deceased Plast mem- blessed the Philadelphia Plast community “Yunachka” Natalia Tarasiuk and purity of spirit and his valor in the serv- bers, the banquet began with an invoca- and spoke briefly, congratulating all in ice of goodness and purity. This year the “yunak” Stephan Luchanko led the artis- tion delivered by the Rev. Kaszczak. reaching such a milestone and for all of tic program, which was designed to high- Philadelphia Plast branch celebrated the Warm greetings from Plast dignitaries as the tremendous accomplishments of feast of St. George and commemorated light the talents of the Plast youths age well as from various Ukrainian organiza- Plast. He encouraged all, especially the 11-17 and to remind all of the Plast expe- the 95th anniversary of Plast with a tions were read, and representatives of youth, to continue to strive for excel- jubilee banquet attended by over 300 rience. In a short skit, written by Zenon Philadelphia-area organizations were lence. Chajkowsky, the audience learned people. introduced by Danylo Zacharczuk and In the keynote speech, Dr. Roman The celebration began on Sunday Marta Lewyckyj-Cairns, masters of cere- Procyk reminded those gathered of the (Continued on page 21) morning, May 6, with a divine liturgy at St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in Jenkintown, Pa. Representatives from “ptashata,” “novat- stvo,” “yunatstvo,” “starshi plastuny,” “plastuny seniory,” “Plast-Pryiat” and proud parents filled the church with song and prayer of thanks. The Rev. Ivan Kaszczak, a member of the “Khmelnychenky” Plast fraternity and the Plast chaplain, celebrated the divine liturgy. Afterwards, a commemorative photo- graph of the entire Philadelphia Plast community present was taken on the steps of the beautiful wooden Ukrainian church. Four generations of Plast mem- bers were represented on those steps as they smiled for the camera – each gener- ation living and firmly believing in the Plast ideal: the development of moral and spiritual character; the patriotic upbringing of Ukrainian youth; reaffir- mation of Ukrainian tradition and knowl- edge of Ukrainian history and culture; and education of youths to be responsi- ble and well-rounded citizens. A jubilee banquet was held at the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center (UECC), the home of the 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 No. 26 Ukrainian president addresses summit Ukrainian Catholic bishop named for Brazil Religious Information Service of Ukraine Curitiba, Brazil, as auxiliary of the same of Black Sea Economic Cooperation eparchy. KYIV – On June 20 at the Vatican, The Curitiba Eparchy encompasses Press Office of Ukraine’s President the region’s leaders that Azerbaijan, Pope Benedict XVI blessed the decision 161,500 Catholics, 81 priests, two per- Georgia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian manent deacons and 553 religious. had suggested creating a single system to on June 25 spoke at the 15th summit of Greek-Catholic Church to appoint Father The bishop-elect was born in Colonia produce and pipe energy. He expressed the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Daniel Kozelinski Netto of the Ukrainian Paraiso, Brazil, in 1952 and was ordained hope this idea would be supported by the (BSEC) organization in Istanbul. Catholic Eparchy of Sao Joao Batista in a priest in 1980. Black Sea states. Mr. Yushchenko said Ukraine, which “It is time we established a free trade will hold the BSEC presidency from zone in the Black Sea area based on the cent said government indifference to citi- November 1, aims to start large-scale rules and procedures of the World Trade Latest poll... zens’ opinions’, 47 percent said corrup- transportation projects, enhance regional Organization. This is another key to the (Continued from page 1) tion in the higher echelons of govern- security, develop trade in the Black Sea ment and 38 percent said the govern- region and promote international dia- region’s deeper and more active integra- Perhaps the most surprising result ment’s inability to enforce laws. logue. tion,” he said. from the poll released on June 26 was More than 45 of respondents favored a “We sincerely welcome the active Speaking about ways to strengthen that 70 percent of respondents said they government with authority distributed efforts by Serbia and Turkey during their regional security, the Ukrainian presi- believe the results of the September elec- among its branches at the national and presidency to unite the region. I would dent said the organization must “perma- tions could be falsified. local levels, while 34 percent preferred a like to assure you that Ukraine will nently control” such important issues as “That absolutely doesn’t mean that the worthily continue these efforts,” said, the anti-terrorism efforts, and illegal labor elections will be falsified,” said Yurii strict, vertical government run by a single Ukrainian president. “Our common mis- migration, human trafficking, illegal Yakymenko, director of political and legal authority. sion has not changed, and it is to support drug and arms trade, and suggested programs at the Razumkov Center. “But Almost 35 percent of poll respondents the idea of dynamic and multilateral opening a special office to coordinate citizens are fairly carefully assessing the are satisfied with the current government cooperation in the political, economic “the security dialogue.” conditions in which elections will be held.” authority designated for Ukraine’s oblasts, and cultural area of the Black Sea.” “We insist on enhancing our efforts About 19 percent believe a falsification while 36 percent said more authority Speaking about transportation proj- aimed at settling frozen conflicts in our could occur in favor of the president, should be allocated to regional structures. ects, Mr. Yushchenko said the Black Sea region peacefully. This task affects us all about 16 percent said it would favor the Only 10 percent favored creating a region was among the world’s transit because it poses a threat to universal coalition government, and 36 percent said Ukrainian federation. leaders. “Kyiv suggests concentrating on security,” he added. they could be falsified in favor of both. Almost 42 percent of respondents said the implementation of large-scale proj- The president urged BSEC members If evidence of election falsifications they are most oriented toward Ukraine ects and programs to develop roads and to resolve ecological problems in the emerges, about 55 percent of respondents culturally and spiritually; 30 percent said the creation of international transporta- region by renewing its flora and fauna. said they would not participate in peaceful they identify themselves with the region tion corridors,” he said, adding that He also said it was important to promote protests under any circumstances. About 16 where they live and 16 percent said they Ukraine welcomes and approves the idea cultural cooperation. percent said they would protest, while about orient themselves towards Russia. of building a highway around the Black Describing the Black Sea Economic 18 percent said they would protest depend- More than half of poll respondents Sea and roads to connect BSEC member- Cooperation organization as an “organi- ing on the scale of falsifications and which (50.4 percent) said Ukraine needs to join states. He added that such projects would zation having ambitious goals and great political force stood accused or suspected. the European Union, while 29 percent help boost tourism and trade. prospects,” Mr. Yushchenko said it When asked to select Ukraine’s most said EU membership isn’t needed. President Yushchenko insisted the should build closer and effective ties with serious socio-economic problems, 59 Almost 60 percent opposed Ukraine’s organization must formulate “fundamen- other international organizations. “I see percent cited rising consumer prices membership in the North Atlantic Treaty tal energy policies,” adding, “We will great prospects in implementing joint (inflation), 42 percent said low wages Organization, while 19 percent were in then have more benefits and minimize projects with the European Union in and 39 percent said unemployment. support. the threat of using energy as an instru- many important areas – from politics to When asked to select Ukraine’s most The poll’s margin of error was ment of foreign influence.” He reminded energy,” he underscored. serious socio-political problems, 58 per- plus/minus 1 percent. No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 11 CCRDF hosts international conference in Kyiv on perinatology by Zenon Zawada stages, Dr. Matkiwsky said. Kyiv Press Bureau Ukraine needs to begin establishing perinatology units in Ukraine’s maternity KYIV – More than 300 of Ukraine’s hospitals, rather than transporting babies most ambitious nurses attended the to pediatric hospitals after delivery, as is Children of Chornobyl Relief and currently done. Development Fund’s (CCRDF) first “It’s difficult to move and convince International Conference on Perinatology people,” Dr. Matkiwsky said. “I had to held at the Ukrainian Home on June 15-16. go to ministries in different oblasts.” CCRDF wants to advance the knowl- CCRDF has launched a perinatology edge of Ukrainian physicians and nurses center at the Chernihiv Obstetrical and in better managing high-risk or difficult Gynecological Regional Hospital, which pregnancies, and to improve perinatal received five top-quality respirators, two care and newborn survival in Ukraine. of which were part of complete Neonatal “Over the past six years or so, we had Intensive Care Units. a situation where neonatalogists were Since 2002 CCRDF has provided accusing obstetricians of delivering needed perinatal and neonatal equipment babies with a lot of trauma,” said Dr. and supplies to the Chernihiv hospital Zenon Matkiwsky, the president and worth more than $600,000, including a board chairman of CCRDF. 2006 grant from the Victor Pinchuk “The obstetricians said we delivered a Foundation’s Cradles of Hope program. normal child and gave it into the hands of neonatologists to take care of, who we feel CCRDF has helped establish perina- are the ones who damaged the children. tology centers in Ivano-Frankivsk, Alexa Milanytch For that reason, I said we should probably Chernivtsi and Poltava, and implemented Renell Liechty (center), a registered nurse from Fort Wayne, Ind., instructs have a special conference in the area of Cradles of Hope at more than 15 hospi- Ukrainian nurses at a hands-on seminar at Chernihiv Obstetrical and immunology and perinatology,” he said. tals throughout Ukraine. Gynecological Regional Hospital. Experienced medical professionals shared the latest technology, techniques and information available in perinatology, a field of obstetrics dedicated to caring for high-risk pregnancies during the perinatal period, which includes the 22nd week of gestation to the first week after birth. Among them was Renell Liechty, a registered nurse at the intensive care nurs- ery of Parkview Health in Fort Wayne, Ind., who specializes in neural behavioral development of premature babies. In her third visit to Ukraine with CCRDF, Ms. Liechty gave presentations on pre-term labor nursing assessment and support, postpartum assessment and complications, and newborn assessment and care. Specifically, she addressed the effects smoking and alcohol consumption can have on newborns, particularly their birth weight, mental abilities and behavior. “There was so much interest that they soak it up like sponges,” Ms. Liechty said. “The passion and desire for this knowledge is incredible.” Aside from a lack of medical and financial resources, she said she noticed Ukrainian nurses remain burdened by remnants of the Soviet system. For instance, one nurse told her she always learned that taking initiative in a situa- tion is punishable. Furthermore, Ukrainian nurses are rel- egated to technician roles of cleaning equipment and changing diapers, rather than caring for pregnant mothers and babies, Ms. Liechty noticed. “A nurse is the eyes, ears and mouth for babies in the U.S., and that’s not the same way it’s done here in Ukraine,” she said. Ukrainians have the intelligence and desire to improve the medical system, she said, but lack access to resources and knowledge. For example, Ukrainian nurses still mix medications and intravenous fluids at bedside, whereas U.S. hospitals have long ago established pharmacies to han- dle such tasks in order to reduce medica- tion error. “I can’t imagine how difficult it must be for these people to have a little bit but not enough to make the changes they want,” she said. “It’s heart-breaking.” CCRDF’s efforts are making a differ- ence in Ukraine, Ms. Liechty said. Babies born weighing under one pound are reported as surviving nowadays thank to CCRDF-provided equipment, she said, which might not have been the case when she first arrived in 2002. This year’s conference is part of CCRDF’s aim of developing perinatol- ogy in Ukraine, which is in the earliest of 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 No. 26 Yevshan choir and Zolotyj Promin dancers perform “Summer Revels” in Hartford by Roma Thibodeau and the Romanian shepherd’s dance “Maramuresh” by Roman Lewkowycz. HARTFORD, Conn. – The Theater for Yevshan’s trio of bandura players – the Performing Arts in Hartford, Conn., Irene Kytasty Kuzma, Joanna Boutsko- on June 8 hosted a collaborative concert O’Flaherty and Luda Yurkevych) – featuring the Yevshan Ukrainian Choir accompanied a set of instrumental pieces and the Zolotyj Promin Dance Ensemble including the “Ballad of Nechai,” The titled “Revels of Summer.” Star Between the Hills (“Po toi bik The concert included a variety of pop- hora”) and a lyrical piece reputed to be a ular folk dances as well as premieres of favorite of Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko, new works choreographed and arranged “Na vodi choven.” The choir also per- by the artistic directors of the two formed two liturgical settings: Ave ensembles, Orlando Pagan of Zolotyj Maria (“Bohorodytse Divo”) by Myron Promin and Alexander Kuzma of Fedoriw and the polyphonic “Anhel Yevshan. Vopiashe” (The Angel Proclaimed) by The evening opened with a traditional Mykola Verbytsky. Norman Zarsky welcoming dance, “Pryvit,” showcasing The second half of the concert opened Dancers from the Zolotyj Promin Ensemble take their bows following the talents of the 19 veteran dancers of on a humorous note with a duet by bass “Maramuretz.” Zolotyj Promin – many of whom are baritones Ihor Stasiuk and Jaroslaw a parting kiss from his beloved at his oration with a similar concert next year. “funeral.” Zolotyj Promin’s women’s *** ensemble lent an air of girlish charm to CDs of Yevshan’s music may be the pas de deux. obtained by calling 860-665-0155 or The Yevshan choir continued the pro- 860-621-0661 or by mailing a check for gram with two selections of Oleksander $18 for each to CD Yevshan, 35 Oregon Koshets’ cycle of songs from other cul- tures titled “International Tapestries” Ave., Newington, CT 06111. Video clips (“Mizhnarodni Hobelyny.”) The first was of Zolotyj Promin’s performances may a rowdy Scottish drinking song, and the be obtained from Roman Kolinsky at second was an arrangement of the tradi- 860-667-2931. tional American ballad “Somewhere Far Away” with Mr. Zastawsky as soloist. Yevshan concluded the choral portion of the program with excerpts from Yevhen Stankovych’s “Kupalo,” a mod- ern setting of traditional songs from the summer solstice ritual. The intricate har- monies of the women’s chorale were The Yevshan Ukrainian Vocal Ensemble. interwoven with haunting responses high school students and alumni of the Zastawsky performing “The Man Who from the men’s ensemble, leading to a soulful lament sung by soprano soloist Roma Pryma Bohachevsky ballet pro- Drank away his Fortune” arranged by Ms. Yurkevych. The piece ended with a gram. As the dance concluded with the Mykola Deychakiwsky. rousing finale as Stankovych’s composi- dancers holding their final pose, the back This was followed by the premiere of tion brings together the disparate voices curtain opened to reveal the Yevshan a new dance by Mr. Pagan, “Permit Me, of different villagers and releases them choir, which sang an original arrange- Mother” accompanied by banduras and in a triumphant six-part ecstatic flourish. ment of “Ivanku, Ivanku” to accompany the entire Yevshan chorus. Soloists Areta Zolotyj Promin then took the stage for an elegant presentation of embroidered Bojko and Alex Kopcyk performed a the traditional “Hopak,” which brought ritual cloths and bread and salt. delightfully light-hearted rendition of an the audience to its feet in a long ovation. Zolotyj Promin performed several of old folk tale about a young man who The “Revels of Summer” was underwrit- the most demanding pieces in its reper- resorts to desperate measures to win his ten in part by a grant from the Ukrainian Ihor Stasiuk and Jaroslaw Zastawsky toire, including “Povzunets” choreo- sweetheart’s favor and to outmaneuver Cultural Heritage Foundation of sing a humorous duet, “Cholovik graphed by the famed Pavlo Virsky, her overbearing mother. Eventually the Chicago. Yevshan and Zolotyj Promin Propyv Pomelo” during the “Revels of “Bukovynka” arranged by Larisa Pagan young man feigns his own death to steal hope to repeat the success of their collab- Summer” concert.

On the scene at the Cannes Film Festival, and noting Ukraine’s presence by Christina Kotlar in One” (Kira Muratova), “The Chosen” fore, is an apparent start of a long-term all the new talented directors, actors and (Roman Balayan), “Aurora” (Oksana program to promote Ukrainian films and cinematographers who have lately joined CANNES, France – While all eyes were Bayrak) and “By the River” (Yeva Neiman). the filmmaking industry to international the industry. Cannes is the one place still on the 12th day of red carpet wonders, While the International Molodist Film markets. Mrs. Yushchenko noted that in where anyone and everyone involved in the Cannes Film Festival 60th anniversary Festival has been in existence in Ukraine addition to its old traditions, the the film business – distributors, studio celebration reached a crescendo on Sunday, since 1961, it’s not really on the film fes- Ukrainian film industry possesses great heads, film, media and industry – go for May 27, with pomp and nervous smiles tival radar screen yet. This event, there- potential and prospects, especially with two weeks. waiting for the announcement of top hon- The Marché du Film was held within ors: the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm). the framework of the Cannes Festival’s Everyone has a different interpretation for the festival and it was wonderful to 60th anniversary celebrations. While read about Ukraine’s introductory pres- awards can open doors for filmmakers, ence when Kateryna Yushchenko the business end is paramount for the end appeared at the Marché du Film (the film result – getting distribution, a successful market). According to the Ukraine 3000 theatrical run and a lucrative ancillary International Charitable Fund website: market deal. on the second day of the festival, May There was a large turnout with creden- 17, there was a presentation of the tials provided to 10,491 professionals International Molodist Film Festival and from 92 countries. Some 4,082 compa- Mrs. Yushchenko, head of the nies registered with the film market, an Supervisory Board, had meetings with increase over the figure of 3,797 for the market’s top management about 2006. Production, distribution and inter- opening a Ukrainian Pavilion at the national sales are the principal business- Cannes Film Market 2008. es represented. A total of 5,157 titles This is great news because it was a bit were offered (against 4,569 in 2006), disconcerting to see so many neighboring 2,250 of which are in development or in countries – Hungary, Czech Republic, production, confirming a trend towards Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Bosnia and presenting projects still in pre-production Herzegovina – with their own stands, hold- well upstream of completion. These ing meetings, receptions and screenings and films came chiefly from Europe (45 per- not having a Ukraine stand there. Films rep- Christina Kotlar cent), the U.S. (30 percent), Asia (12 per- resenting Ukraine in Cannes included “Two A view of a venue at the Cannes Film Festival. cent), and Latin America (6 percent). No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 13 Pianist Mykola Suk performs at second Daria Telizyn Memorial Concert in D.C. by Yaro Bihun Art. And, on June 15, they traveled to Special to The Ukrainian Weekly New York City, where they were sched- uled to perform that evening at the WASHINGTON — As he finished the Bargemusic on the East River. second of two Hungarian rhapsodies by Mr. Suk is not a newcomer to Franz Liszt at the end of the concert pro- Washington audiences, performing in gram, pianist Mykola Suk approached recent years both at the National Gallery the large photo of Daria Telizyn off to and at TWG Cultural Fund concerts. He one side of the stage area, bowed and launched his music career in Ukraine and quietly shared a few thoughts about her gained international recognition after with the audience. Liszt was her favorite, winning the gold medal at the 1971 he said, and Ms. Telizyn, who passed International Liszt-Bartok Competition away two years ago, is especially in Budapest. Since then he has per- remembered for her mastery of his work. formed as soloist and chamber musician Returning to the piano when the on many of the major concert stages applause subsided, he played an encore around the world, playing traditional and — yet a third rhapsody by Liszt. contemporary music and introducing the It was the second Daria Telizyn international audience to Ukrainian com- Memorial Benefit Concert organized by posers, among them Valentin Silvestrov, The Washington Group Cultural Fund to Ivan Karabyts and Myroslav Skoryk. honor her memory and help young musi- Currently he heads the piano department cians from Ukraine participate in interna- at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas tional music competitions in the and is artistic director of the Music at the Washington area. This year’s event, held Institute series at the Ukrainian Institute Yaro Bihun on June 14 at the Great Hall of the his- of America in New York. Pianist Mykola Suk takes a bow at the Daria Telizyn Memorial Benefit Concert. toric Charles Sumner School in down- Mr. Rohde is said to be one of the town Washington, featured Mr. Suk and most sought-after violists in Europe. He Europe, toured Germany and Austria with performing in the United States, Marta violist Hartmut Rohde. is professor of viola at Berlin’s the Washington Symphony Orchestra and and Iryna Krechkovsky, and pianist Mr. Suk opened the evening's program University of Arts, a guest professor at twice toured the United States with the Kevin Kwan Loucks. with the Sonata in G Minor of C.P.E. the Royal Academy London, a founding Kyiv Chamber Orchestra. Three CDs of her The series also featured soprano Bach, and followed with the Autumnal member of the Kandinsky-Streich trio, as work have been recorded on the Claudio Oksana Krovytska, pianist Jim Allison and and Hutsul preludes by Mykola Kolessa. well as the Mozart Piano Quartet. A win- Records label to critical acclaim: “Daria an ensemble of six Washington-area musi- Mr. Rohde then joined him on stage for ner of a number of international prizes, Telizyn Plays Liszt” (1988), “Grande cians brought together for the occasion by the Fantasiesonate for viola and piano by he has toured Europe, North America, Fantasie Symphonique/Totentanz” (a world Igor Leschishin, the principal oboist of the Paul Hindemith and, after intermission, Australia and Korea, both as a soloist premiere recording of the two Liszt works Kennedy Center Opera House and the the Suite Hebraique for viola and piano and with ensembles. with the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, 1990), Washington National Opera orchestras. by Ernst Bloch. The three Hungarian The pianist being honored that evening, and “Tchaikovsky: Tranquillity” (2002). The ensemble included two other Rhapsodies performed by Mr. Suk were Daria Telizyn (1960-2005), was born and She spent the last few years of her life in Ukrainian-born musicians, pianist Oksana Nos. 8, 12 and 11. began her musical education in Toronto. Florida, where she died on March 21, 2005. Skidan and violinist Zino Bogachek. It was the second performance in She studied two years at the Paris The Telizyn Memorial concert brought According to Cultural Fund Director Washington for these two musicians in as Conservatory before settling in the to an end the Cultural Fund’s 2006-2006 Marta Zielyk, the coming 2007-2008 many days. On June 13 they were fea- Washington area after receiving a master’s season. Its popular Sunday Music Series Music Series will include the winners of tured in the first in a series of concerts degree from the Peabody Conservatory in at the Lyceum in nearby Alexandria, Va., the Horowitz International Competition complementing the photographic exhibit Baltimore in 1985. concluded a few weeks earlier, on May in Kyiv for young pianists, a Ukrainian “Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, Ms. Telizyn had performed to critical 20, with a concert introducing two young bandurist duo called Bandurna Rozmova 1918-1945” at the National Gallery of acclaim throughout North America and Ukrainian-born violinists now living and and pianist Natalya Shkoda.

Three Ukrainian films screened Luhovy’s documentary “Bereza Kartuzka” at Montreal’s Eurofest festival premieres to standing ovation in Montreal MONTREAL – Eurofest, the first Eurofest’s mission “is to highlight an MONTREAL – The Montreal pre- mentary dynamically depicts the political Eastern European Montreal Film Festival, interesting yet little-known cultural space miere of the long-awaited Ukrainian-lan- situation between the first and second was held from May 25 to June 2 at Cinema representing Eastern Europe in Montreal’s guage version of the documentary world wars. du Parc in Montreal. It encompassed fea- unique multiculturalism, nicknamed ‘the “Bereza Kartuzka” was held on June 6 at Thanks to Mr. Luhovy’s nearly confis- tures, documentaries and short films, among city of festivals.’ The festival also includes the Ukrainian Youth Center to a standing cated rare footage filmed at the actual them three award-winning Ukrainian films. the films of Canadian filmmakers of East ovation of over 200 viewers. Bereza Kartuzka site, and compelling Eurofest was co-organized by Rocade European background. An illustrated pro- Produced and directed by award-win- eyewitness testimonies, viewers were Association, a newly formed association gram booklet was published with a synopsis ning filmmaker, Yurij Luhovy, the film – able to relive the period portrayed. by actor/film director Daniel Bacur and of all the films entered in the festival, as well the first to be made on this topic, is about Together with vintage stock shots, by Crissaro Communications. The film as brief biographies of all the filmmakers. the infamous Polish concentration camp, festival organizing team was headed by A press conference on May 9 included archival photos and insightful commen- Bereza Kartuzka, where thousands of taries by pre-eminent academics, the Simona Hodos with program coordinator Zorianna Hrycenko-Luhova representing Ukrainian patriots were arrested between Simona Pogonat of the Romanian com- the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, who filmmaker presented a highly moving 1934 and 1939. munity. Prof. S. Anastasin of The Mel congratulated Rocade for conceiving and story of a little-known part of Ukraine’s Based on extensive research and in a Hoppenheim School of Cinema at organizing Eurofest. visually captivating manner, the docu- (Continued on page 21) Concordia University advised. She added, “Ukraine has had a long Various East European cultural com- history of exceptional films, beginning munities in Montreal were contacted by with Oleksander Dovzhenko, despite the the organizers of Eurofest to assist in decades of severe censorship and restric- preparing the eight-day film festival, as tive creative film possibilities for were their respective embassies in Ukrainian cinema prior to the fall of the Canada. Among the cultural communities Soviet Union. Only now the countries of represented at Eurofest were the Eastern Europe are finally able to try and Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, freely produce unique, thought-provoking Ukrainian and Croatian. The Ukrainian and creative films and interact with the Canadian Congress, Quebec chapter, and international community of filmmakers.” the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada agreed It is hoped more Ukrainian films will be to help support and sponsor the festival. made available to be featured in Eurofest Included in the festival were three Montreal in what is expected to be an annu- award-winning Ukrainian films. Featured al East European film festival event, finan- were the films “Famine ’33” by Oles cially supported by the City of Montreal Yanchuk on the Famine-Genocide in and Caisse Desjardins Quebec Credit Soviet Ukraine, the documentary films Union. Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay “Freedom Had A Price” by Yurij Luhovy stated, “this event shows off Montreal’s cos- on the internment of Ukrainians in Canada mopolitan character and reinforces its repu- in 1914-1920 and “Harvest of Despair” by tation as a city of culture.” Film director Yurij Luhovy, with Adolf Hladylovych, survivor of Bereza Slawko Nowytski and Yurij Luhovy on The organizers of Eurofest are now Kartuzka, and Orest Hummeny, master of ceremonies for the premiere of a the 1932-1933 Famine-Genocide. searching for films for next year’s festival. documentary about the Polish concentration camp. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 No. 26 Tymoshenko... CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS (Continued from page 2) vote) and Ukrainian Right Wing (based TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI, (973) 292-9800 x 3040 largely on the two wings of Rukh) or e-mail: [email protected] among its members. 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bear yet another misery, the death of he never ate them alone, his mother He has lots of servants who provide care. Auto accident... their daughter. recalled. He always brought them home Our hope is only in God, and I believe to share. (Continued from page 4) Faith in God alone that God will not leave us.” the five bodies to Novovolynsk, while “Even if it was a tiny piece, he man- the church deacons bought the burial Two days after the accident, Andrii aged to split it 11 ways among all the clothes and coffins. Melnyk and his fiancée, Tania, traveled children,” his mother said. How to help By the evening, mourning services to the accident site. He wanted to go to Boryspil with his were held at the Melnyk and Amidst the tiny car parts that father because he was learning how to NOVOVOLYNSK, Ukraine – The Liubezhanin homes, which are a five- remained scattered about the accident drive. Sometimes, his father would let Holy Trinity Church is collecting funds for anyone interested in providing finan- minute walk from each other. scene was a Matchbox car from the him practice behind the wheel. cial assistance for Vira Hnatiuk or the The next morning, funeral processions Liubezhanin family van. “I had hoped Vladyslav would make Liubezhanin family. began from each home towards the “Volodymyr kept toys in the car for my life easier, but God determined things “We are helping to pay huge costs for church where 200 were gathered, includ- the kids,” Andrii said. according to His own will,” Olha said. Vira Hnatiuk’s treatment,” Pastor ing Mayor Viktor Sapozhnykov and They scoured the roadway and sur- “My son was so dear to me, so he will be Volodymyr Hrytsak said. Viktor Moroz, the chief doctor of the rounding tall grasses as if looking for precious for God. He took my son from Anyone wishing to make a specific hospital where Mr. Liubezhanin worked clues and answers to understand a me. But there is God’s will for every- donation should consider a bank transfer for 10 years. tragedy that remains beyond comprehen- thing.” and call Church Treasurer Liudmyla Weeping, singing, praying and eulo- sion. With 17-year-old Yulia now the oldest Hnatkevych at 011-380-3344-25276 to gizing filled the two-hour funeral rite. Why would God allow Volodymyr child, Volodymyr disabled and Olha inform her how much is being sent and Afterwards, friends, co-workers and Liubezhanin to become injured after he pregnant, there’s no one to earn an for whom. classmates swelled the mourners to more took a job in a mine to support his chil- income in the immediate future. They should also send a message with than 1,000 as they carried the five coffins dren? What sort of God would plan to The Liubezhanins have only God to the fund transfer to indicate the dona- in a massive funeral procession. take away Andrii’s parents on their rely on, and the Church that serves Him. tion’s specific intent, Pastor Hrytsak said. So resonant was the tragedy that city anniversary, just as he and his sister were Olha has prayed for strength to feed her The church’s address is: Tserkva leaders ordered police officers to prevent about to be married? children and to bring her husband home Sviatoyi Triytsi, Volynska Oblast, 45420, any auto traffic from interfering with the “I was supposed to go with them, but I some day. M. Novovolynsk, Vul. Lomonosova, procession, which extended from the decided not to,” Tania said of the bus “If we were to ask, people may misun- Bud. 14; the bank account information church to the Melnyk home and then the trip. “I don’t know why I didn’t go. derstand us,” she said. “God knows is: Kredyt Bank, ID Code 13369764, Liubezhanin home, where the coffins were There was no room, I suppose.” through whom and in what way to give. Account No. 26005000004098. placed in cars and driven to a cemetery. Later on, they visited a Rivne junk- In the distance, the bells at Vladyslav yard where the two ill-fated vehicles sat Liubezhanin’s school chimed in his next to each other. honor. Their smashed frames were proof of The Sunday service following the the collision’s ferocity. funerals overflowed with worshippers, Inside the Renault van, the remnants despite the oven-like heat and the sum- of a typical family excursion remained mer vacation season. scattered, reminiscent of how normal life All the believers couldn’t fit into the had been in a moment in time that felt Holy Trinity Church building, so addi- decades away. tional wooden benches were placed in A half loaf of black bread lay under- the center aisle, filling it with congre- neath a seat, and P.K. Shatrov’s daily gants. Christian Reader lay on another car seat. Guitarists sang Christian hymns in Scattered about were photographs – Russian and Ukrainian. Preachers had relatives arm-in-arm on a sandy arrived from neighboring towns and vil- California beach; a blonde girl in a cher- lages to deliver God’s word, including ry-colored shirt and white skirt posed Leonid Sahan, the Sacramento church next to an ornate bouquet. pastor who happened to be visiting his In the Melnyk family, it was up to family in Novovolynsk at the time. Andrii to be strong and pull everyone Heaven is our home, the pastors remind- through. ed the flock. They each cited the Bible’s “I locked the doors and cried,” he various demonstrations of faith during said. “I cried when I was alone. But there times of extraordinary difficulty and pain. must be somebody who is strong, and There was the woman who bled for 12 that is my lot, my fate.” years, healed upon touching the garment He is well-versed in the Bible after of Jesus Christ, in whom she had faith. graduating the Lviv Theological Consider the apostles who became Seminary, an evangelical Christian insti- frightened when a great storm appeared tution. to threaten their boat. They had awak- When asked whether he felt anyone ened Jesus, who asked, “Why are you should be prosecuted or punished for the afraid, O you of little faith?” before incident, he kept silent, as if not to say calming the seas. anything God would disapprove of. “He knows what you are asking for He didn’t harbor any anger towards and what you truly need,” preached a Anatolii. pastor from a local village. “I don’t know if he will overcome “He is a merciful God. Glory be to this, because it’s really difficult for him,” Him! Today during our meeting, He will said Andrii, recalling his brief encounter talk to your heart. He will teach you to with the driver and how distressed he make you wiser. He will strengthen your appeared. “Honestly, I sympathize with faith. Alleluia! Amen!” him.” Following each sermon, the hundreds The accident occurred just as Andrii’s of worshippers prayed aloud, some cry- father was about to launch his business, ing out to God while others chanted in an artificial lake on the city’s outskirts, foreign tongues, creating a wildly melo- stocked with fish for visitors to pay an dious cacophony interspersed with excla- entry fee to catch. mations of “Alleluia!” and “Thank you, When asked how his family would Lord!” make ends meet, Andrii expressed no At the service’s conclusion, Maria worry, instead focusing his concern on Melnyk’s elderly parents, the Filoniuks, the Liubezhanin family. addressed the congregation amidst tears At their rural home, where chickens and thanked all for their support during roamed about the front yard, Olha DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS the prior days. Liubezhanin appeared exhausted and dis- to be published in The Ukrainian Weekly – in the Ukrainian “Honored church servants, honored traught. 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Moroz for cutting presidential powers with the overt demonstration of impunity. will be no tragedy,” taking into account NEWSBRIEFS ... The cancellation of the unlimited state reserves and harvests in the regions KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman (Continued from page 2) deputies’ immunity is the first step that didn’t suffer from the drought. Oleksander Moroz told journalists on Meanwhile, Vice Prime Minister for Yushchenko said in Brussels on June 21 toward eradicating corruption in June 20 that he would like the Verkhovna Agricultural Issues Viktor Slauta said the that he wants the European Union to send Parliament.” The president expressed Rada on June 27, which is to be the last same day that Ukraine may introduce observers to the early parliamentary elec- hope that his initiative will be supported day of the current parliamentary session, restrictions on grain exports as of July 1. tions he has scheduled for September 30, by all “responsible political forces” and to adopt a bill of constitutional amend- (RFE/RL Newsline) the Associated Press reported. Mr. candidates for the future legislature. ments limiting presidential powers and (RFE/RL Newsline) Yushchenko told journalists at the EU submit it to the Constitutional Court for PM threatens dismissals over bread headquarters that he has asked Ukraine’s examination, Interfax-Ukraine reported. Yushchenko on economic growth KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor Foreign Affairs Ministry to invite EU Mr. Moroz added that the bill could get Yanukovych on June 13 threatened to observers. Mr. Yushchenko also said he final approval in September during the KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko sack Cabinet officials responsible for the does not expect any significant change in next parliamentary session. To become at a June 15 sitting of the Consultative agricultural sector if they failed to stop the make-up of the Verkhovna Rada after law, constitutional amendments in Investment Council said Ukraine’s guide- bread prices in Ukraine from increasing, the pre-term elections, but he stressed Ukraine have to be approved by at least line in its economic development must be Interfax-Ukraine reported. “There are no that the polls will encourage dialogue 226 deputies in the first reading and GDP annual growth at 7-8 percent. He reasons for the bread prices to rise,” Mr. among conflicting political forces in endorsed by at least 300 deputies in the noted that the forecast of industrial pro- Yanukovych said at a Cabinet meeting. Ukraine. “The main thing is that the prin- second reading that needs to take place duction in Ukraine in the next three to “If you fail to bring order before next ciples will be different, the principles of during the subsequent parliamentary ses- four years is set at 8-10 percent. interaction and inter-party relations,” According to the State Statistics week’s Cabinet meeting, I will raise the sion. Mr. Moroz said the draft bill on issue of your dismissal,” he added, Reuters quoted him as saying. “Instead of constitutional amendments stipulates Committee, industrial production grew in a policy of political corruption, I am sure May of this year by 9.9 percent versus addressing Vice Prime Minister for “essential restrictions” on presidential Agricultural Issues Viktor Slauta, this will give birth to political dialogue May 2006 and in January-May by 12.1 prerogatives regarding the appointment Agricultural Policy Minister Yurii between the factions and parties in percent. While preparing the 2007 state of the head of the Security Service of Melnyk and Economy Minister Anatolii Parliament.” (RFE/RL Newsline) budget the Cabinet proceeded from a Ukraine, as well as the nominations of Kinakh. Mr. Yanukovych also pledged the foreign affairs and defense ministers. forecast of inflation at 7.5 percent and Grain export quotas are set that he will discuss the accountability of The draft bill also proposes to transfer GDP growth of 6.5 percent. The World Bank predicts GDP will grow in Ukraine those oblast administration chairs who KYIV – Vice Prime Minister for the right to appoint and oversee oblast in 2007 by 4.5 percent and inflation at “take advantage of the current political Agricultural Issues Viktor Slauta told administration chairs in favor of the 10.7 percent. According to the situation and destabilize the price situa- journalists on June 20 that the govern- Cabinet of Ministers, and to remove the International Monetary Fund, the growth tion in Ukraine.” Interfax-Ukraine report- ment has introduced quotas on grain president’s right to call for early parlia- of real GDP in Ukraine in 2007 will ed that the prices of flour and bread in exports for the third quarter of 2007, mentary polls. Presidential powers in reach 4.3-4.5 percent and inflation 12.9- the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast had increased Ukrainian media reported. The decision Ukraine were already limited by the con- 13.6 percent. According to the State by some 20 percent since the beginning restricts exports of wheat, rye, barley and stitutional reform adopted during the Statistics Committee, the GDP growth in of the year. (RFE/RL Newsline) corn in July-September, setting a limit of Orange Revolution in December 2004 2006 versus 2005 amounted to 7.1 per- 3,000 tons for each crop. The Cabinet that came into force in January 2006. Ukrainians evacuated from Gaza (RFE/RL Newsline) cent. (Ukrinform) says these measures were prompted by KYIV – A plane carrying 91 the abnormally hot weather in May and a President for cancellation of immunity Direct foreign investment grows Ukrainians evacuated from the Gaza drought that has lasted 40-50 days in cer- Strip, among them 65 children and 26 tain eastern and southern regions. KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko KYIV – The volume of direct foreign investments per capita is $481 (U.S.) in women, landed on June 21 at Boryspil According to Mr. Slauta, grain produc- on June 20 urged the political forces rep- International Airport. Foreign Affairs tion this year will be in the 27 million to resented in Parliament to cancel “unlimit- Ukraine, President Viktor Yushchenko told a sitting of the Consultative Minister Arsenii Yatsenyuk said Ukraine 33 million ton range. Independent ana- ed deputies’ immunity,” Ukrainian media was the first country to evacuate its citi- Investment Council in Kyiv on Friday. lysts generally predict that the grain yield reported. “It is the most important way to zens from the conflict zone. To this end, As he noted, two years ago direct foreign in 2007 will be between 23 million and make the Verkhovna Rada healthy,” Mr. the Ukrainian side negotiated with all investments per capita amounted to $198. 29 million tons, while the most pes- Yushchenko said in a televised address. political forces of the Gaza Strip, as well According to the president, during all simistic ones put it as low as 20 million “Parliament is for making laws, not for as with Jordan, Israel, Syria, the United years of independence the volume of for- tons. Ukraine harvested 28.7 million tons hiding from them,” he argued. “It is defi- Nations and the Red Cross. The Cabinet eign investments to Ukraine reached $22 of grain last year, compared to 34.3 mil- nitely necessary to put an end to abuses of Ministers had allocated $90,000 (U.S.) billion (U.S.), while during the last two lion tons in 2005. (RFE/RL Newsline) of deputies’ immunity. Society is fed up for evacuation of the Ukrainian citizens. years alone their amount reached $10 bil- (Ukrinform) lion. (Ukrinform) Ukraine-NATO Target Plan signed PM warns of grain crop losses KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko POLTAVA, Ukraine – Prime Minister on June 20 signed a Ukraine-NATO Viktor Yanukovych told journalists in Target Plan for 2007 within the frame- Poltava on June 14 that Ukraine might work of the Ukraine-NATO Action Plan, lose some 10 million tons of grain this the presidential press service reported. year because of severe drought in 10 This is the fifth annual Target Plan since regions, Interfax-Ukraine reported. Mr. Yanukovych said, however, that “there (Continued on page 17)

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Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Zakarpattia losing wooden churches based on the declarations of state adminis- NEWSBRIEFS Dmytro Tabachnyk kicked off a photo trations. More than 316 buildings are on the UZHHOROD, Ukraine – The wooden (Continued from page 16) exhibition dedicated to the 90th anniver- churches in southwestern Ukraine’s list and their return is being examined. Mr. Ukraine signed the Ukraine-NATO sary of the formation of the first govern- Popov explained: “Social organizations like ment of Ukraine, it was reported on June Zakarpattia region require urgent repair. In Distinct Partnership Charter in Madrid 10 the last 100 years, out of 800 churches hospitals, schools and institutions for chil- 25. The next photo exhibition will be years ago. The 2007 Target Plan provides only 114 are left. Experts say that in a few dren with special needs are accommodated dedicated to the government of 1920- for cooperation in the military sphere and years there won’t be anything to save if in these buildings. That is why the problem 1930s. Kicking off the photo exhibition, the economy. Prime Minister Viktor the government and society take no action. is in building new premises for these organi- Mr. Tabachnyk stressed that only four Yanukovych believes Ukraine is not yet All 114 ancient churches in the region zations. Construction requires solid sums of political figures have twice headed ready to join NATO, as the majority of need restoration. Every year the region money.” He added that this issue has not Ukrainian governments, notably Demian the Ukrainian population doesn’t support loses an average of one wooden church, been resolved because local authorities do Korotchenko, Volo-dymyr Scherbytskyi, the move. The Ukrainian prime minister according to zakarpattya.net.ua, which not want to obey the law. On January 24 the does support Ukraine’s active coopera- Vitalii Masol and Viktor Yanukovych. posted the news on June 20. (Religious Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine established tion with NATO. (Ukrinform) (Ukrinform) Information Service of Ukraine) a Committee on the Restitution of Church Rusyns seek national status Property to Religious Organizations, headed Ukrainian “Harry Potter” out in October Court limits financing of parties by Ukrainian Vice-Prime Minister Dmytro KYIV – Ombudswoman Nina KYIV – The latest installment of the KYIV – Ukraine’s Constitutional Court Tabachnyk. The leader of the State Karpachova pledged to give Rusyns, who “Harry Potter” series will be published in (CC) has decided that a decree which lim- Committee on Matters of Religion and mainly reside in the Zakarpattia region of Ukraine in October, A-Ba-Ba-Ha-La-Ma- its the financing of political parties, Nationalities is co-chair of the committee. Ukraine, their national status. She Ha publisher Ivan Malkovych told including forbidding religious organiza- Over the course of 15 years, 3,600 former appealed to the prime minister, submitting Ukrinform. He said the book is being tions from doing this, meets the require- church buildings have been returned to reli- documents that reveal Ukraine is inhabit- translated by Viktor Morozov and illus- ments of the Constitution. The CC ratified gious organizations. This process started ed by 130 subnationalities of Rusyns. She trated by Vladyslav Yerko. The British also requested that the ethnic and social this decision on June 12 and publicized it from the moment when the law on freedom publisher Bloomsbury on June 22 on June 19. “The Constitutional Court needs of Rusyns be ensured. After joining released “Harry Potter and the Deathly of conscience and religious organizations the USSR in 1945 inhabitants of the recognized that Article 15 of Ukraine’s was passed. Almost 2,000 of these buildings Hollows.” The book immediately Law ‘On political parties in Ukraine,’ Zakarpattia region were referred to as reached the top of bestsellers’ lists in the are architectural monuments of local or Ukrainians. The language of the Rusyns which sets restrictions on parties’ financ- United Kingdom. The Russian version of national significance. The number of reli- has been called a local dialect. After 1991 ing, corresponds to the Constitution… In the book will be published in December. gious communities has almost doubled, so Rusyns had a right to claim their distinct particular, charitable and religious organi- (Ukrinform) that now there are 33,000. With the support nationality. According to the 2001 nation- zations are forbidden from financing political parties,” said Ivan Dombrovskyi, of the executive and local governments, al register, Ukraine is home to 10,000 New passports in 2010 more than 4,900 churches have been built Rusyns. Responding to numerous acting head of the CC. (Religious and 2,400 are now being built, according to requests of citizens of the region, the KYIV – The Cabinet of Ministers Information Service of Ukraine) Mr. Popov. (Religious Information Service Zakarpattia Oblast Council Rada has rec- adopted a decree on Ukraine’s new pass- Returning church property: financial issue ognized the Rusyn nationality. Over 27 port to be used for traveling abroad, it of Ukraine) Rusyn Sunday schools operate in the was reported on June 26. The new pass- KYIV – The problem of returning church Zakarpattia region, providing courses in ports are very close to European Union property is not so much political as finan- the Rusyn language, culture and history. standards and will be introduced in 2010. cial, said Heorhii Popov, head of Ukraine’s The region has also seen an increase in They will include non-contact electronic State Committee on Matters of Religion and books in the Rusyn language. Rusyns media with passport biometrical data in Nationalities, on June 19. According to Mr. reside mainly in Slovakia, Poland, Serbia accordance with international rules, as Popov, the majority of churches and other and Hungary. (Ukrinform) well as an ID-number of a taxpayer and religious buildings have already been Exhibit focuses on 1917 government two digitized images of the passport returned by the state, but many still need to Insure and be sure. holder with a digitized image of his/her be returned, he added. The State Property KYIV – Ukraine’s Vice Prime signature. (Ukrinform) Fund (SPF) of Ukraine has formed a list Join the UNA! 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 No. 26 No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Sunday July 1, 2007 19

expulsion from OU in courts. vast experience and knowledge they Verkhovna Rada... Another circumstance that gives the The 10-year... acquired during the hearings of the (Continued from page 2) majority formal grounds to disobey (Continued from page 7) Deschenes Commission in the 1980s. In Parliament in 2006. Mr. Moroz also insists President Yushchenko’s dissolution decree is and members of the community for the particular, John Gregorovich, Lubomyr that it is up to the Central Election that, according to Mr. Yushchenko’s rivals, continuous letters, cards and calls of Luciuk and Alexandra Chyczij were Commission (CEC) to confirm or deny that the decree contradicts existing legislation. encouragement and support. Father Taras always ready with advice, strategy, encour- this replacement is possible. The CEC, They argue that the law provides for holding Dusanowskyj and Father Petro Dvirnik, agement and friendship. It was these indi- however, is paralyzed, as its minority fac- a snap election 60 days after the president along with many other members of the viduals who in the early 1990s formed the tion, representing Mr. Yushchenko and the issues an election decree. If this provision Ukrainian clergy, always inquired about Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties opposition, does not attend CEC sittings, were adhered to, Mr. Yushchenko should us, gave us their blessings, offered Association (UCCLA), which through its apparently fearing that they will be outvoted have signed the decree on August 1, not prayers and enveloped us with their gen- national network regularly landed letters to on the vacant seats issue. Without the June 5. On June 16 55 members of the par- uine concern and compassion. the editor and editorials in all major minority, there is no quorum at the CEC. liamentary majority filed a suit with the The Ukrainian Canadian Congress Canadian papers. They were – and contin- The lack of party discipline has made it Constitutional Court asking it to rule on (UCC) advocated for the abolition of the ue to be – vocal critics of the policy of difficult for OU and the YTB to make whether Mr. Yushchenko’s June 5 decree Denaturalization and Deportation Policy denaturalization and deportation, which is Parliament illegitimate. The party leaders was in line with the Constitution of Ukraine. and for the adoption of a new Citizenship unjust and unwarranted in Canada. do not have enough control over the rank- In this situation much – if not everything Act. Of the 17 cases that were com- To the Ukrainian newspapers in Canada and-file members to oblige them to – depends on the PRU’s willingness to menced by the War Crimes Unit from and the United States, the “Kontakt” and renounce their right to sit in Parliament. adhere to the agreement with Mr. 1995 onward, the majority involved eth- “Svitohliad” television programs, radio Many of those who were left out in 2006 Yushchenko. The PRU dominates the nic Ukrainians or those born on what is programs and e-Poshta, all of which rallied are reportedly ready to defy their parties and majority, and it can ignore the opinion of today Ukrainian territory. We extend our behind the issue, we thank you for provid- fill the vacant seats. What’s more, not all the Socialists and Communists if it chooses thanks to the members of the UCC ing an opportunity to get the story “out those OU and YTB representatives who are so. The PRU believes that Mr. Justice Committee, in Toronto and across there” and to get it out there correctly. already in Parliament have agreed to quit. Yushchenko’s June 5 decree was illegal, but Canada, who spearheaded many of the Funding this legal battle was daunting. On June 18 Mykola Zamkovenko was it “agreed to the snap election for the sake lobbying efforts and campaigns. We thank everyone who donated to the elected leader of the YTB caucus in of stability in the country,” as one of PRU’s We are profoundly grateful to Marika Wasyl Odynsky Defense Trust Fund, Parliament, which consists of the 29 YTB’s leaders, Borys Kolesnikov, explained in an Szkambara, who not only led the various which assisted with legal costs. Thank parliamentarians who refused to obey the interview with Zerkalo Nedeli. community campaigns, but demonstrated you to John Schnayder and Wasyl Grod party’s June 2 decision to leave Parliament. Mr. Kolesnikov predicted that Mr. her personal support and compassion by for serving as administrators of this fund. Even the YTB’s decision to expel them Yushchenko will on August 1 sign another accompanying our family to court every Most of all, we thank everyone who from the bloc left the dissenters unabashed, decree scheduling the election for single day of the 23-day hearing. We are believed that this case was a travesty of and it is not clear how they may be legally September 30, and that decree should be equally grateful to Wasyl Radewych, the justice and signed postcards, wrote letters compelled to quit. OU also has disobedient flawless. late Stefa Radewych and Bohdan to Ottawa and to the press, and visited defectors. Those 10 or so members of the Temniuk, as well as the many other their members of Parliament to express Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Sources: UNIAN, June 5; friends and community members who their views. Your effort has been reward- who joined the pro-Yanukovych majority Komsomolskaya Pravda v Ukraine, Zerkalo attended the hearings and provided much- ed with this good news. this past March have flatly refused to leave Nedeli, June 9; Channel 5, June 13, 19; needed moral support and encouragement. Today, Wasyl Odynsky is 83 years old Parliament. They have also disputed their Interfax-Ukraine, June 18. We are grateful to the veterans of the and, thanks to all of you, he can spend his now disbanded Civil Liberties final years in peace with his family and Commission of the UCC, who shared the friends in his chosen country – Canada. ORTHODONTIST Need a back issue? Dr. Daniel A. Kuncio If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, Ñ. чÌËÎÓ é. äÛ̈¸Ó 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054.

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University was realized, albeit outside of tus for the film. Turning the pages... Ukraine, as St. Clement’s Ukrainian Luhovy’s documentary... Mr. Luhovy acknowledged members (Continued from page 6) Catholic University in Rome. (Continued from page 13) of the audience who had relatives taken “I think that the Ukrainian historical to Bereza Kartuzka. In many cases very efforts of the UCC and the Lviv Eparchy, history. experience, the Eastern Catholic legacy, little of their traumatic prison experi- along with the Studite and Redemptorist The film is narrated by the prominent its openness to both East and West, its ences was communicated to family mem- religious orders. Kyiv actor Bohdan Beniuk, whose tradition of high-level scholarship, its bers, who only now were learning about The establishment of the UCU in Lviv restrained tone allows eyewitness social involvement, which was at the root these experiences from the film. was the culmination of a century-long accounts to carry the story. Roman of the modern Ukrainian social awaken- Adolf Hladylovych, one of the last effort begun by Metropolitan Andrey Luhovy, also of Kyiv, composed the orig- ing in the 19th century; its singular forti- survivors of Bereza Kartuzka, was Sheptytsky, with ongoing nurturing from inal score, which compliments and Patriarch Josyf Slipyj. The dream began tude in resisting the great ideologies of acknowledged with a standing ovation. the 20th century and standing up to the strengthens the scenes as they unfold. He expressed his gratitude for the film as early as 1905 and permission was The film’s editing was masterfully granted from the Austro-Hungarian culture of death and negation of human and its documentation of the injustices dignity that was forced on the people of executed by Mr. Luhovy himself. and harrowing experiences that befell authorities in Vienna in 1914 for an acad- The premiere was sponsored by the emy, but the outbreak of the first world Ukraine, this legacy of positive, con- him and his fellow Ukrainians during structive proposals and strong resistance Shevchenko Scientific Society, the that time. war put the plans on hold. In 1928 Polish Ukrainian Canadian Professional and authorities granted permission for a theo- to totalitarianism with an openness to the Many viewers were visibly moved to Business Association, the League of logical academy, which later became the riches of global culture – all of this is tears by the documentary. During the Ukrainian Canadians and the Ukrainian Lviv Theological Academy, led by the very fertile ground for developing critical reception that followed, people lingered National Federation, under the patronage Rev. Dr. Slipyj. The academy was grant- and creative responses to the questions to discuss the film’s impact on them. of the Montreal chapter of the Ukrainian ed permission to become a full-fledged of the 21st century,” commented the Rev. Others retreated to solitude in order to Canadian Congress. university in 1939, but within weeks Gudziak. fully grasp what their family members The evening’s master of ceremonies, Nazi Germany invaded Poland and the were forced to endure in Bereza Orest Hummeny, introduced the film and second world war began. Source: “3,000 attend inauguration in Kartuzka. With the release of Cardinal Slipyj Lviv of Ukrainian Catholic University,” its director, emphasizing the importance A book exhibit displaying some of the from a Soviet prison in 1963, and his by Roman Woronowycz, The Ukrainian of documenting the living historical many materials used in researching the exile, the dream of a Ukrainian Catholic Weekly, July 7, 2002. memory provided by the Montrealers and topic of Bereza Kartuzka was also others imprisoned in Bereza Kartuzka. arranged. He commended Mr. Luhovy for his Upcoming premieres of the documen- determination in completing the film tary are planned for Chicago, Toronto Marta Kuzmowycz, head of the National Philadelphia Plast... despite the numerous obstacles he and Washington. All proceeds from the Plast Command in the United States, who encountered. film showings go toward outstanding (Continued from page 9) welcomed the Philadelphia branch and Mr. Luhovy thanked the many individ- production costs and an English-lan- through song, dialogue and comedy that encouraged all to help prepare and cele- uals and organizations that contributed guage version of the film. Plast is an organization built on exempla- brate the 100th anniversary of Plast in financially to the making of the film, and To arrange for a film showing or to Ukraine. ry international scouting principles with also the dedicated individuals who support the English version of “Bereza In closing, Motria Boyko Watters, rep- distinctive Ukrainian characteristics. helped with the film’s production. Kartuzka,” readers may e-mail resenting the Philadelphia branch, A highlight of the artistic program was He expressed his indebtedness to the [email protected], phone 514-481- thanked all who contributed to the pro- stories he heard as a youth from family 5871, or write to: Bereza Kartuzka, 2230 the original song “Staly Razom My Usi – gram and in making the day’s events Together We Stand,” written for the friends and his father who lived through ave Beaconsfield, Montreal, Quebec, truly memorable. She noted that the cele- Bereza Kartuzka and provided the impe- H4A 2G8. International Plast Jamboree 2007, the bration was indeed a combined effort 50th anniversary of the first International among friends. Plast Jamboree in North America and the “Molodi my i svit nam vidkrytyi, 100th anniversary of World Scouting. pered namy smiyetsia zemlia ...” – “ We Got a group? 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PREVIEW OF EVENTS Soyuzivka’s Datebook Friday, July 6 Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church com- MONDAYS, June 25-August 27, 2007 plex in the Hunter area of the Catskills. Steak Night with Soyuzivka House band located on Veselka Patio CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Mr. Vynnytsky is the current musical Ukrainian Summer Institute will host a director of Music at the Grazhda, and he WEDNESDAYS, June 27-August 29, 2007 concert “Bandurysty i Kobzari: Julian will be performing in the five other con- Hutsul Night with Soyuzivka House band located on Vorochta Lawn Kytasty Plays in Honor of the Hundredth certs scheduled for this summer. For the Birthday of Hryhorii Kytasty (1907- gala opening concert only, admission has FRIDAYS, June 29-August 31, 2007 1984).” It is scheduled to take place in been raised to $25 to commemorate the 25 Odesa Seafood Night with Soyuzivka House band located on Veselka Patio Holden Chapel at 8-10 p.m. Holden years of this series. For further informa- Chapel is located in Harvard Yard at tion call 518 989-6479 or 518 263-4619. SATURDAYS, June 30-September 1, 2007 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Ukrainian zabavas (dances) featuring a live Ukrainian band 02138. For more information contact HURI at 617-495-4053 or [email protected] Monday, July 9 July 1-8, 2007 Hanushevsky Ukrainian vard.edu. Plast Camp – Tabir Ptashat Session #2 Ceramics, Zabava featuring CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Saturday, July 7 ‘ Oberehy,’9:30pm Ukrainian Summer Institute will host a July 1-15, 2007 JEWETT, N.Y.: The Gala Opening lecture given by Paul and Tatiana Terdal, Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Ukrainian July 29-August 4, 2007 “The Emerging Non-Profit Sector in Dance Workshop, ages 16 and up Sitch Sports Camp Session #2, Concert of the Music at the Grazhda sum- mer concert series will be performed by Ukraine: Observations from the Field.” It ages 6-18 will be held in Room S-050 of CGIS July 2-6, 2007 Alexandre Brussilovsky, violin, Natalia Khoma, cello, Roman Tsymbala, tenor, Building South at 7-9 p.m. The South Exploration Day Camp Session #2, August 3 and Volodymyr Vynnytsky, piano. 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