INSIDE: • VOA explains reasons for Ukrainian radio cutback — page 3. • What will be the fate of stolen Shevchenko statue? — page 4. • Statistical look at Chicago’s Ukrainian physicians — centerfold. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXXV No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 $1/$2 in First U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Cabinet’s authority enhanced comments on cautious early policies at the president’s expense by Yaro Bihun gration and independence processes were by Zenon Zawada Constitutional Court and all the main Special to The Ukrainian Weekly moving along fairly well on their own. Press Bureau institutions of government,” he added. Ambassador Popadiuk discussed these The vote, which overrode a presiden- WASHINGTON – The first Bush years of historic transition on January 10 KYIV – In their most significant vic- tial veto, came just two days after Mr. administration steered a cautious politi- at a Johns Hopkins University School of tory in an aggressive campaign of usurp- Yushchenko had invited Mr. Yanukovych cal-diplomatic course in the waning days Advanced and International Studies ing power, the coalition government led and Chairman of the and during the emer- forum sponsored by The Washington by Prime Minister Oleksander Moroz to the Presidential gence of Ukraine and other newly inde- Group, an association of Ukrainian voted on January 12 to significantly Secretariat to begin the new year in coop- pendent countries from its colonial American professionals. He also shed enhance his authority, and that of the eration and leave past conflicts behind. domain, recalled a former U.S. ambassa- some light on the reasoning behind the Cabinet of Ministers, at the expense of “I am convinced that this meeting dor to Ukraine, Roman Popadiuk. infamous “Chicken Kiev” speech, in the Ukrainian presidency. allowed us to remove the acridity of rela- The administration did not want to which President cautioned If the law stands the test of Ukraine’s tions between the branches of power,” Mr. appear to pressure, gloat or poke a finger against “suicidal ” on the eve Constitutional Court, it will transfer to the Yushchenko said afterwards. “I hope that in Moscow’s eye because it needed its of Ukraine’s independence, and gave his Cabinet of Ministers many powers once Ukrainian politics in 2007 will be harmo- cooperation in resolving other important assessment of recent developments there. belonging to the president, including con- nious and united, and all institutions of international problems, and, besides, Currently Ambassador Popadiuk is exec- trol of government-owned monopolies power should ensure stability and give a according to Mr. Popadiuk, who then utive director of the George H. W. Bush and enterprises, as well as selection of the positive signal to Ukrainian society.” served as the White House deputy press Presidential Library Foundation in Texas. defense and foreign affairs ministers, the During the meeting, Mr. Yanukovych secretary and became the first U.S. He pointed out that as the Soviet Union president’s last domain in the Cabinet. agreed to work with the Ukrainian presi- ambassador to Ukraine, the Soviet disinte- was beginning to show signs of change Besides further reducing President dent in drafting the Cabinet of Ministers through ’s “perestroi- ’s authority, the law’s law, the president said. ka” and “” reform policies, the passage signifies that the Ukrainian gov- However, once again the prime minister was dealing with such issues ernment will suffer a very turbulent year responded to the extended hand of partner- Kushnariov dies as the reunification of Germany, elections as its warring factions will likely escalate ship and cooperation with a knife to the in Nicaragua, the end of apartheid in South their infighting, political observers said. back, in what is increasingly looking like a Africa, and financial crises in Brazil and “The year will be unstable, but this case of “battered president syndrome,” in after hunting accident Mexico, among others. instability will be in government rather which a victimized president is unable to by Zenon Zawada “So we had to tread very quietly and than society,” said Yurii Yakymenko, a part with an abusive prime minister. political expert at the Razumkov Center Kyiv Press Bureau softly, because in some cases we needed The coalition government passed the Soviet assistance in these things,” the for Economic and Political Research, bill “On the Cabinet of Ministers” with- KYIV – Yevhen Kushnariov, 55, a top ambassador. And, lest one forget, he which is funded by more than 50 interna- out accepting a single one of 42 amend- Party of the Regions leader, died on January added, the Soviet Union was still a tional government and non-governmental ments proposed by the president. 17, one day after he was accidentally shot superpower with nuclear armaments. organizations. “I had an agreement with the prime min- several times by a companion during an ille- “We will see a lot of conflicts and col- gal hunting trip in his native Oblast. (Continued on page 8) lisions with the participation of the (Continued on page 19) Mr. Kushnariov, who spent his life in the Soviet and Ukrainian governments, was a close associate of former President , serving as Presidential Ukraine’s political scene: three forces pulling in different directions Administration chair. He is most remem- bered for his calls for regional secession by Zenon Zawada during the 2004 , which Kyiv Press Bureau he firmly opposed. KYIV – The Ukrainian folk tale of Mr. Kushnariov was a symbol of the swan, the lobster and the pike may Kharkiv and the city’s Russophile val- best illustrate the current political land- ues, serving both as the city’s mayor and scape in Ukraine. its oblast administration chair with much After all three tied themselves to a public support, though he also faced cart to pull it together, the swan began many accusations of corruption. flying, the lobster marched backwards “It is sad that a talented, bright, and the pike jumped into the river. The extraordinary personality passed away in cart went nowhere. the prime of his life, … [one who] pas- The three concurrent forces within sionately devoted himself to rebuilding Ukrainian politics today are the coali- Ukrainian statehood, creating a civic tion government led by Prime Minister society and the fundamental institutions of democracy,” Prime Minister Viktor Viktor Yanukovych, the Presidential Yanukovych said in a statement. Secretariat led by President Viktor Mr. Kushnariov’s staunch opposition Yushchenko and the parliamentary to the Orange Revolution earned him opposition led by . high regard with the Party of the When they cooperate, it’s typically at someone’s expense, as each tugs in its Andrii Mosiyenko/UNIAN Regions, which he joined in October Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych dances with children during a celebration 2005 by merging his New Democracy own direction with its own motives. “We face a year of instability in held for orphans at Kyiv’s Ukrainian Home on January 12 shortly after the Party into the larger structure. Verkhovna Rada voted to enhance his authority. After the 2006 parliamentary elections, political configurations,” said Oles Mr. Kushnariov became the Party of Doniy, chair of the Kyiv-based Center depending on tactical considerations.” the Party of the Regions. Regions’ assistant faction chair and among for Political Values Research, which is Whatever movement occurs, it will Most conflicts will involve the Anti- its most prominent and visible spokesmen. supported by Ukrainian citizens and is almost exclusively revolve around the Crisis Coalition government teaming up Mr. Kushnariov played a critical role seeking international financing. “They center of gravity in the Ukrainian gov- can have any variety and will shift ernment, which is Mr. Yanukovych and (Continued on page 12) (Continued on page 8) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 No. 3 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS

Are early elections an option PM asks prosecutor to oust Tarasyuk pro-Yushchenko Our Ukraine caucus, said that the bill on the Cabinet was written “at for President Yushchenko? KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor the dictate of the Party of the Regions” Yanukovych has asked the Procurator and gives Viktor Yanukovych’s govern- by Pavel Korduban to run for Parliament if an election is General’s Office to take measures against ment an opportunity “to usurp power.” Eurasia Daily Monitor called in 2007, as only parties more than Borys Tarasyuk, whom the Verkhovna Former Internal Affairs Minister Yurii a year old are allowed to run. Most prob- Rada dismissed as foreign affairs minister Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko Lutsenko similarly said that the endorse- ably, Messrs. Katerynchuk’s and but whom President Viktor Yushchenko ment of the law on the Cabinet indicates may opt for an early parliamentary elec- Lutsenko’s movements are aimed at help- has left in office, reported on tion in order to reverse the 2004-2006 the final usurpation of power by the gov- ing Mr. Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine January 15. The Verkhovna Rada on ernment. (RFE/RL Newsline) constitutional reforms. Reversing the People’s Union (OUPU) drum up popular December 1, 2006, passed a resolution to amendments, which diminished presiden- support for the idea of an early election fire the foreign affairs minister, but the Tymoshenko denies cooperation with PRU tial authority and made it possible for Mr. and possibly build bridges to Ms. president signed a decree four days later Yushchenko’s rivals to quickly return to Tymoshenko. bringing Mr. Tarasyuk back into office. KYIV – Ukraine’s former Prime power, is probably impossible without Of the two, at least Mr. Lutsenko On January 15 Mr. Tarasyuk arrived in Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader of controlling two-thirds of the 450-seat works in concert with Ms. Tymoshenko. the Czech Republic for a two-day visit. the eponymous bloc in the Verkhovna Parliament. Mr. Yushchenko’s allies are in The two met on December 11, 2006, to The Ukrainian Cabinet released a state- Rada, denied on January 12 the possibility the minority in the legislature, and only a discuss “bringing together the democratic ment the same day saying that “Tarasyuk of cooperation with Prime Minister Viktor new election may bring them back to forces in an attempt to unite them for an cannot be considered an official who is Yanukovych or his Party of the Regions power. early parliamentary poll,” Ms. authorized by the state to conduct an offi- (PRU), Interfax reported. “We cannot have Ardent oppositionist Yulia Tymoshenko Tymoshenko told a briefing on the same cial visit abroad.” (RFE/RL Newsline) any fundamental, consistent, systemic has been urging an early election since last day. She made it clear that Mr. Lutsenko cooperation with the Party of the Regions summer, when she lost the battle for the was not going to join her party, but she Ministry points to “artificial drama” or with Viktor Yanukovych,” Ms. post of prime minister to Viktor urged “maximum unification” of the par- Tymoshenko told reporters, commenting on Yanukovych. President Yushchenko ini- ties pushing for an early election. KYIV – The Foreign Affairs Ministry of her bloc’s support of the vote overriding the tially was not enthusiastic about such an Speaking in an interview with Ukraine said in a January 16 statement that presidential veto of the bill on the Cabinet option. But, after losing his loyal Cabinet Kommersant, Ms. Tymoshenko it informed Ukrainian Prime Minister of Ministers. Ms. Tymoshenko said her par- ministers one by one, and after Prime explained the logic behind their plan. Viktor Yanukovych in advance about liamentary supporters supported the bill on Minister Yanukovych kept ignoring his President Yushchenko, she said, has not Foreign Affairs Minister Borys Tarasyuk’s the Cabinet in order to break the govern- orders, Mr. Yushchenko apparently started put up with the fact that his authority was official visit to the Czech Republic earlier ment deadlock. (RFE/RL Newsline) to seriously consider this option. curtailed by the constitutional changes. this week, Interfax reported. Mr. Mr. Yushchenko has been evasive on “An early election is a lesser evil,” she Yanukovych has demanded Mr. Tarasyuk’s Yanukovych hails Cabinet bill an early election in his speeches, but two said. “Dissolving Parliament, we should ouster, saying he “cannot be considered an of his allies, former Internal Affairs immediately offer a new Constitution to official who is authorized by the state to KYIV – The bill “On the Cabinet of Minister Yurii Lutsenko and National the country.” She continued, “Now it conduct an official visit abroad.” The Ministers” – the president’s veto of which Deputy Mykola Katerynchuk, are less would be useless to unite our efforts with Foreign Affairs Ministry’s statement noted: was overridden by the Verkhovna Rada on coy. Both have launched political move- Viktor Yushchenko in this direction. We “The artificial making of a drama about the January 12 – has resulted in the empower- ments with an obvious eye toward an need 300 votes [in Parliament], which we official visit of Foreign Minister Tarasyuk ment of the government, which took early election, even if they ostentatiously do not have.” is harming Ukraine’s image.” It added that responsibility for processes inside the refuse to call the new groups “parties.” “this visit was agreed with head of state country, stressed Prime Minister Viktor However, it may be too late for them (Continued on page 16) Viktor Yushchenko.” (RFE/RL Newsline) Yanukovych. He added that work should now proceed on the distribution of duties Rada overrides veto on Cabinet bill between the president and the prime min- ister. However, Mr. Yanukovych also said Ukraine’s president faces KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on that the prime minister will never aim to January 12 overrode with 366 votes the replace the president, whose powers president’s veto of the bill on the should be secured. Mr. Yanukovych also NATO referendum problem Ukrainian Cabinet, Interfax reported. The expressed his hope that the government by Pavel Korduban December 29, 2006, the CEC officially bill was backed by the Anti-Crisis together with the Rada and the president Eurasia Daily Monitor approved the validity of more than 4 million Coalition and the Yulia Tymoshenko would enhance fulfillment of political signatures. Mr. Davydovych told a press opposition caucus in the Parliament. reforms by passing the bill “On Local Signatures have been collected in conference that the commission has done President Viktor Yushchenko vetoed the Self-Government in Ukraine.” The prime Ukraine in favor of holding a referendum what it legally was obliged to do, and now it bill on the Cabinet and put forward 42 minister did not rule out revision of con- on membership in NATO and the Single is up to President Yushchenko to sign the amendments, none of which were stitutional reforms. (Ukrinform) Economic Space – a loose economic union relevant decree to schedule the vote. approved by the Verkhovna Rada. with , Belarus and Kazakhstan. The Mr. Yushchenko’s Presidential Secretariat Viacheslav Kyrylenko, the leader of the (Continued on page 22) Central Election Commission (CEC) has has not concealed its skepticism. 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Eurasia Daily Monitor consistently opposed the reforms, and Our strengthened by an alliance with the These developments will strengthen Ukraine will support their reversal. . The opposition the European vector in Ukraine’s foreign Ukraine’s domestic and foreign The constitutional reforms could be coalition will be augmented by defectors policy and, coupled with an increasingly prospects in 2007 depend upon the resolu- abolished through a national referendum from Our Ukraine grouped around Mykola belligerent Russia, will make the CIS tion of the political and constitutional cri- this year, as the Constitutional Court Katerynchuk’s for Single Economic Space less attractive for sis that began in 2006. Failure to resolve mandated in a November 2006 ruling. Ukraine and SPU defector Yurii Lutsenko’s Ukraine’s elites. this ongoing crisis will lead to stagnation The Party of the Regions has threatened Civil Movement for People’s Self-Defense The greatest disappointment in 2007 and a possible retreat from some of the to add two additional questions to any (, January 2). will be in Ukraine’s relations with gains of the Orange Revolution (see referendum, such as supporting the eleva- In the foreign policy domain, Ukraine’s NATO. Ukraine’s opportunity of being review of 2006 by Yulia Tymoshenko in tion of Russian to a second state language 2007 prospects look poor. The domestic invited into a Membership Action Plan Zerkalo Tyzhnia, December 30, 2006). and on Ukraine’s membership in NATO crisis and the failure to re-establish an (MAP) at NATO’s November 2006 sum- This year will see the continuation of the (Ukrayinska Pravda, January 2, 4). Orange coalition following the March mit in Riga was squandered by the inabil- Viktor Yanukovych government and the The Tymoshenko Bloc has been con- 2006 parliamentary elections has led to a ity of President Yushchenko and Our Anti-Crisis Coalition. The parliamentary sistent in its demand for early parliamen- de facto return of multi-vectorism in Ukraine to place national interests above coalition’s Achilles’ heel is the Socialist tary elections, although leading National Ukraine’s foreign policy (Ukrayinska personal conflicts with Ms. Tymoshenko. Party (SPU), which has little possibility of Deputy is skeptical that Pravda, January 2). Multi-vectorism is a Ukraine’s recent cooperation with being elected to the next Parliament as long this will take place in 2007 (Ukrayinska product of different foreign policy orienta- NATO is at a higher level than that under as it continues to remain in the coalition. Pravda, January 1). Starting this fall, the tions espoused by the president and prime President Kuchma, as Ukraine was invited The Yanukovych government’s first 150 opposition, therefore, will begin to pre- minister. One anticipated foreign policy in 2005 to join the Intensified Dialogue on days have been widely criticized inside pare for the October 2009 presidential success is Ukraine’s entry into the WTO Membership. Nevertheless, Ukraine is Ukraine for a lack of strategy, disinterest in elections. President Viktor Yushchenko ahead of Russia, which will give Kyiv continuing the Kuchma-era policy of reforms, no transparency and the return of will increasingly be seen as a lame-duck added leverage in its trade and energy intensive cooperation with NATO while discredited personnel from the era of president, and, as a result, the main elec- negotiations with Moscow. not seeking membership. NATO member- President Leonid Kuchma. tion contest in 2009 will be between Mr. In addition, the European Union has ship will not return to the domestic agenda This year will also see growing Yanukovych and Ms. Tymoshenko. offered to begin negotiations with until the country’s next election cycle (in demands for the Constitutional Court to This year will also see the growth of a Ukraine on a free trade area following its 2009-2011) is completed. reverse the infamous constitutional united opposition to the Anti-Crisis WTO membership. These negotiations Intensive cooperation with NATO reforms that transferred some presidential Coalition that will build a protest movement will begin in the second half of 2007, but could be further undermined if Defense powers to Parliament. U.S. Judge Bohdan similar to that which emerged during the they are unlikely to be concluded until Minister Anatolii Hrytsenko is removed, Futey, a longtime adviser on legal reform Kuchmagate crisis. Then and now, the main the first half of 2008. Ukraine will also as the Anti-Crisis Coalition has threat- in Ukraine, told Ukrayinska Pravda opposition force is the Tymoshenko Bloc, negotiate a visa-free regime with the EU. ened following its unconstitutional dis- (January 9) that Ukraine’s constitutional with the difference being that it now has the This year will be the last of the 10-year missal of Foreign Affairs Minister Borys reforms could be considered “illegitimate.” second-largest parliamentary faction. Partnership and Cooperation Agreement Tarasyuk in November 2006. Mr. (PCA) between the EU and Ukraine. An Hrytsenko is the only Orange minister Enhanced Agreement and European left in the Yanukovych government, and Neighborhood Policy-Plus (ENP+) will his support for Ukraine’s NATO mem- VOA cites “market forces” to explain replace the PCA. However, neither of bership is at odds with that of the Anti- elimination of Ukrainian radio progam these two formulations, like the PCA, Crisis Coalition and government. by Roma Hadzewycz Mr. O’Connell responded: “Far from it. We have been moving aggressively – and Yulia Tymoshenko visits Israel PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Cuts to Voice of successfully – into television, which, our America’s Ukrainian radio programs research strongly indicates, is the medi- were “made by VOA’s management in um of choice in Ukraine today, just as it on spiritual and political mission response to market forces demanding is in many other parts of the world. more television product from America’s by Yana Sedova after their meeting, pointing out that We’re optimistic about opportunities for voice,” a VOA spokesperson told The Kyiv Press Bureau Israel supported the 2003 United Nations further growth.” Ukrainian Weekly on Saturday, January declaration immortalizing the memory of He said there were no staff cuts at KYIV – Her blond braid covered by a 13. Holodomor victims. VOA’s Ukrainian Service. silky white veil, she retraced the stations “Starting January 8, 2007, and in The Knesset’s leaders will study the In response to a question about the of the cross of Jesus Christ in the last order to maintain the viability of all VOA issue, she said. reaction to the radio broadcast cuts, Mr. hours of His life. Later that day, she kissed Ukrainian media formats (radio, TV and Ms. Tymoshenko struck a more opti- O’Connell wrote: “We have not had an an Orthodox cross held by Jerusalem Internet), VOA Ukrainian’s radio broad- mistic tone in her assessment of the situation. Patriarch Theofilos III and received his casts were consolidated from 90 minutes outpouring of criticism from listeners. “After explanations, after debates, we blessing at the Church of the Lord’s Tomb. per day to 60 minutes per day,” said There is no question that change is obtained assurance from faction leaders Voice of America’s director of public always difficult, but we also believe Parliamentary Opposition Leader and directly from the Knesset chair- affairs, Joe O’Connell. that television is the way to go in Yulia Tymoshenko spent four days in woman that they will pass a resolution Mr. O’Connell responded via-e-mail Ukraine and regard its growth and Israel as part of a spiritual trek to and will recognize the Holodomor as to The Ukrainian Weekly’s questions prospects for further growth as an “receive a blessing from the patriarch, to genocide,” she declared. about the cutbacks in Ukrainian radio opportunity to make VOA Ukrainian strengthen my faith at this time, when A few days later, Ms. Tymoshenko also programming. He responded after The better and more relevant than ever. At the faith of many is weak- met with her counterpart in the Knesset, the same time, we are working to make Weekly’s January 14 issue went to press ened,” she said. opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu. radio better than ever in order to meet on Thursday evening, January 11. “Now is the time for politicians to Ms. Tymoshenko’s trip immediately Last week’s issue of The Weekly the information needs of people in visit so many places, to visit all the reported that the January 5 broadcast of Ukraine today.” sacred sites of Christianity, to simply (Continued on page 12) Voice of America’s Ukrainian morning Mr. O’Connell cited “a decline in lis- clean their hearts, radio show, popularly referred to as the tenership vis-à-vis our television viewer- their spirits from the “Breakfast Show,” was its last. A ship,” and explained that “we have to filth that unfortu- Ukrainian-language news release about respond to market forces in deciding nately exists in poli- the cut was posted on January 4 on the how and where the funds that the tics today,” Ms. VOA website’s Ukrainian section. Congress gives us will be spent in order Tymoshenko said on Mr. O’Connell noted that VOA’s to reach audiences in the most effective January 14. Ukrainian Service currently broadcasts ways.” Of course, poli- over three hours per week on television, As for why the notice about the morn- tics were on Ms. adding, “Over the past two years, the ing radio program’s suspension appeared Tymoshenko’s agen- VOA’s Ukrainian Service has experienced only in Ukrainian and only on the da as well. tremendous growth in its television out- Ukrainian section of the VOA website, In a meeting with put, beyond the long-running ‘Window Mr. O’Connell responded: “VOA Knesset Chairwoman on America’ TV magazine program.” Ukrainian broadcasts in the Ukrainian Dalia Itzik, she advo- In addition to the nightly “Chas-Time” language to Ukraine. The intended recipi- cated for Israel’s TV news program and the weekly ents of the notice of the programming Parliament to recog- “Innovations Plus” TV magazine, Voice change are Ukrainian speakers.” nize the Holodomor of America “has done occasional TV Mr. O’Connell also provided an offi- as genocide against bridges and special reports for Ukrainian cial response from Adrian Karmazyn, the Ukrainian people. TV stations,” he continued. chief of VOA Ukrainian Service: “We “From our own Only VOA’s radio broadcasts have look forward to many years of successful experience, we been scaled back. Television broadcasts, broadcasting efforts to Ukraine.” Mr. understand what a in contrast, have increased. Karmazyn did not respond directly to genocide of a people Oleksander Kharchenko/UNIAN Asked if the cuts to VOA radio mean The Weekly, which e-mailed questions is,” Ms. Itzik said at Yulia Tymoshenko kisses a cross held by Patriarch Theofilos the Ukrainian Service is on the way out, and phoned him back on January 10. a press conference III of Jerusalem during her visit to Israel. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 No. 3

Ukrainian Canadian group ponders OBITUARIES fate of destroyed Shevchenko statue Ihor Sonevytsky, 80, composer, by Oksana Zakydalsky Relations with Foreign Countries, was stolen from a park in Oakville, Ontario. TORONTO – As reported at the end A suspect has been arrested. musicologist, conductor, pedagogue of 2006, a five-meter-high bronze statue The head of the two-ton statue, which of Taras Shevchenko, a 1951 gift to the PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ihor Sonevytsky, turned up at a nearby smelter a few days renowned composer, musicologist, con- Association of United Ukrainian after the theft, was the centerpiece at a Canadians (AUUC) from the Kyiv-based ductor and pedagogue, died on December meeting of the AUUC on January 14. Soviet Ukrainian Society for Cultural 23, 2006, at his home in Hunter, N.Y. He Although invited to the meeting, the was 80. police did not come, as their investiga- He composed operas, cantatas, works for tion is continuing. The meeting, attended solo voice and piano, choral works, liturgi- by about 50 to 60 mostly elderly mem- cal music and chamber music; among his bers, was called to decide what to do works were compositions to poetry by Taras next. The AUUC runs the Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, Shevchenko Museum in Toronto, filled Oleksander Oles, Yevhen Malaniuk, with exhibits saved from the museum Bohdan Ihor Antonych, Bohdan Krawciw, formerly located at the Oakville park, Volodymyr Sosiura and . which burned down several years ago. Dr. Sonevytsky was a co-founder in Bohdan Harasymiw, who heads the 1952 of the Ukrainian Music Institute of Toronto museum, spoke about the America and from 1959 through 1964 Canada-wide coverage the theft had served as its president. He was conductor received and credited the saving of the of New York’s Ukrainian Chorus Dumka. statue’s head to this publicity. The In addition, he directed and conducted the smelter workers recognized the source of Trembita Choir of Newark, N.J., and the the bronze head and immediately phoned Taras Shevchenko Choir of Cleveland. the police. He also worked with Lidia Ihor Sonevytsky in a photo from 2000. Although many members at the meet- Krushelnytsky’s Ukrainian Stage ing expressed hope that the statue could be Ensemble since its founding more than rebuilt, that does not seem realistic as the Shevchenko Scientific Society and direc- 40 years ago, and he composed 35 pieces tor of its Musicology Section; he was a AUUC does not have the funds to do this. of music for its productions. Beginning Although a final decision about the member also of the Ukrainian Academy in 1983 he was the artistic director of the of Arts and Sciences in the U.S.A. In the statue will wait until the investigation is Music and Art Center of Greene County, completed, the most probable solution 1960s he taught at the Ukrainian which he founded in Hunter area of New Catholic University in Rome. will be to put the head in the current York State’s Catskill Mountains. Oksana Zakydalsky museum. “At least,” said one of the Dr. Sonevytsky was a member of the (Continued on page 13) The head of the Shevchenko statue members, “we will have part of the real stolen from a park in Oakville, Ontario, thing.” has been returned to the Association of The statue was not insured. Insurance United Ukrainian Canadians. It is seen companies refused to insure it because Nina Samokish, 83, Plast leader, above in the AUUC meeting room. there is no one at the park year-round. member of Ukrainian Nationalists NEW YORK – After a long illness, Ukrainian Australian Matthew Guy Nina Samokish, a well-known and hon- ored member of Plast Ukrainian elected to Parliament of Victoria Scouting Organization, passed away on December 31, 2006. She was 83. MELBOURNE, Australia – Matthew State New Year’s Ball at Melrose Hundreds of Plast members remember Guy, a young Australian of Ukrainian Receptions on January 13. her as the “komendantka” director of background, was elected on November His grandmother Mrs. Naumenko is an numerous Plast camps at the Bobrivka, 25, 2006, to the 56th Victorian active member of the community. His Novyi Sokil and Vovcha Tropa camp- Parliament as the Upper House member mother’s family hails from the Nova grounds in Connecticut and New York for the Northern Metropolitan Region. Vodolaha region of the Kharkiv Oblast of State. He is a member of the Liberal Party Ukraine. They left Ukraine during World Mrs. Samokish was born in Kalish, and was appointed the party’s spokesper- War II and arrived in Australia in Poland, on May 28, 1923. She was a son on planning issues. September 1949. longtime member of the Organization of In his maiden speech in the Victorian Mr. Guy, 32, is getting married in Ukrainian Nationalists, was liaison of the Parliament on December 19, Mr. Guy March. national leadership of OUN youth, and at acknowledged his Ukrainian background “Matthew is a strong and principled the time of the German occupation of and heritage. person, who has done the hard yards. We Ukraine worked in the underground He has been active with the Australian wish him well,” commented Stefan Ukrainian Red Cross. Federation of Ukrainian Organizations Romaniw, chairman of the Australian She was a member of the political (AFUO), having assisted in the fields of Federation of Ukrainian Organizations. council of the OUN abroad and a mem- public relations, business and internation- “We are also proud of the fact that he ber of the presidium of the Ukrainian al affairs. spoke in Ukrainian in the Parliament.” Supreme Liberation Council. Soon after his election Mr. Guy con- Mr. Romaniw added: “Matthew has been She was also a member of the under- Nina Samokish in a 1985 photo. tacted the AFUO and offered his ongoing a good role model for other young people. ground Plast organization (1936-1939) and support to the Ukrainian community. His He was extremely active in the time of the remained active in the Ukrainian scouting band, Ivan, she led a Ukrainian radio first public appearance in the Ukrainian Orange Revolution in using his contacts to organization’s ranks once she emigrated program in Trenton, broadcasting every community after the election was at the further the cause of democracy.” from Ukraine. She was a member of the week to the Ukrainian community. National Plast Command and the National After moving to New York City, Mrs. Plast Council in the United States. Samokish for many years managed the AN OPEN INVITATION As well, she was a counselor of a girl Plast store, Molode Zhyttia, located on scout group while residing in Trenton, East Ninth Street. TO LOCAL COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS N.J., headed the Plast New York branch, Surviving are Mrs. Samokish’s daugh- and for many years was the leader of the ter, Oksana, and two sons, Ihor and Would you like fellow Ukrainians to know about events in your community? “Verkhovynky” sorority of Plast. Roman, along with six grandchildren, Would you like to become one of The Ukrainian Weekly’s correspondents? In addition she was active with the one great-grandchild and other relatives. Then what are you waiting for? External Representation of the Ukrainian A panakhyda (requiem service) was Helsinki Group, working closely with offered on January 4 at the Peter Jarema The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes submissions the late Gen. Petro Grigorenko, the late Funeral Home. The funeral liturgy was held from local community activists. Mykola Rudenko, the late Nadia on January 5 at St. Volodymyr Ukrainian You may reach The Weekly by phone, Svitlychna and others. Orthodox Cathedral in New York, with bur- Mrs. Samokish was a member of the ial at St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox (973) 292-9800; fax, (973) 644-9510; Ukrainian National Women’s League of Cemetery in South Bound Brook, N.J. e-mail, [email protected]; America for over 50 years and several The family has requested memorial or mail, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, times was chairwoman of the Trenton and donations to The Ukrainian Museum in Parsippany, NJ 07054. New York branches of this organization. New York or the Ukrainian Orthodox For 25 years, together with her hus- Museum in South Bound Brook. No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 5

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM Woonsocket UNA branch New Haven children receive welcomes St. Nicholas gifts from UNA Branch 414

WOONSOCKET, R.I. – St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church here greeted St. Nicholas on Sunday, December 10. St. Nicholas, assisted by angel Julia Hull, pre- sented local children with gifts. Dr. Lydia Klufas Tkach narrated the Nativity story Carl Harvey that was presented that day. John Tkach and son Marko provided musical accom- NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Children attending the St. Nicholas play presented by paniment for the Ukrainian and American Christmas carols sung by a large group St. Michael’s Ridna Shkola (School of Ukrainian Studies) of New Haven, Conn., of singers. Dimitre Wolansky decorated the hall with a Christmas theme. Janet received coloring books, crayons and candy from Branch 414 of the Ukrainian Bardell, secretary-treasurer of Ukrainian National Association Branch 241, pre- National Association. The gifts were presented to the children by Gloria Horbaty sented the affair, including the luncheon that followed. Msgr. Roman Golemba, of Branch 414, who also happens to be a UNA advisor. Each coloring book had pastor of St. Michael’s, was present and lent support for the event. an attached note that read: “Compliments of the Ukrainian National Association, Branch 414 – New Haven.” The children are seen above displaying their gifts. – Janet Bardell – Gloria Horbaty

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THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY TheThe thingsthings wewe do...do...

The muted Voice by Orysia Paszczak Tracz On January 3 listeners of Voice of America’s morning radio broadcast were told that the January 5 show would be its last. Visitors to the Ukrainian section of the VOA website were given the same information in a press release posted on January 4 in the Ukrainian-language only. That was America’s Christmas present to Ukraine: less of a Anaïve “koliadka” trusted voice that for decades was a reliable source of information for millions living We have quaint and imaginative folk under the Soviet regime and, later, for the citizens of newly independent Ukraine. lyrics are so simple, so naïve and so sin- paintings in Ukrainian art, and folk icons The morning radio show reportedly was the most popular of VOA’s radio cere. The melody is lovely and in a nor- on glass. These have been and continue offerings. Part of its appeal was the fact that it was broadcast in the morning, at mal Ukrainian folk song style. It no to be created by people without fine arts 7-7:30, as listeners were starting their day. longer has the ancient pre-Christian degrees or sophisticated education. They No reason was given for VOA management’s decision. And, there was no melodic turns, but that is because it is portray the world as they see it, and the English-language announcement of the cutback – which VOA prefers to call a “newer,” just a few centuries old, with its spiritual or emotional world as they “consolidation.” Furthermore, the cutback was completely unexpected as it was Christian theme. imagine it. The woman painting fantastic not part of the proposed reductions for 2007 that previously had been announced This koliadka is from a brand-new CD flowers and birds on the interior and by Voice of America. (Among these were the elimination of Russian, Serbian, by a remarkable young woman from exterior walls of her house did this from Bosnian, Georgian and Albanian radio programs.) , Sofiya Fedyna. This winter, she her imagination. In effect, what VOA management did was present a fait accompli. Observers say released a CD of koliadky, schedrivky, Over time, even though these were that one reason for this less-than-above-board activity was to prevent the Ukrainian and Yordan ritual songs, “Ide Zvizda individual designs, somehow a particular American community from mobilizing in time to stop this ill-advised move. Chudna” (The miraculous star comes). style emerged – the ornamented homes of The result: VOA Ukrainian Service radio programs are now down to one hour Included are traditional themes of the central Ukraine and the contemporary daily. That lone hour consists of two 15-minute segments broadcast at 6:15 p.m. birth of Jesus, His Baptism in the River Petrikivka-style designs are an example. and 6:45 p.m. Kyiv time, plus a half-hour broadcast at 11 p.m. Jordan and the pre-Christian ritual songs The bohomaz (plural: bohomazy, liter- VOA argues, through its designated spokesman, that TV broadcasts will serve the of the winter cycle. ally God-scrawler) did not adhere to the people of Ukraine, as will the VOA’s Internet presence. In fact, it argues that the con- “Chy Vy Chuly Liudy” (People, have strict rules of the formal school of solidation is meant “to maintain the viability of all VOA Ukrainian media formats you heard?) is the sad carol from post- iconography. The village painter depicted (radio, TV and Internet).” Public affairs officer Joe O’Connell told The Weekly that World War II Ukraine about the Soviet Jesus, the Mother of God, the saints, the VOA TV as of September 2006 had an audience of 10.5 percent (adults who tuned in at persecution of 1946 and on. (I wrote angels, with smiles on their faces. least once a week) and that this figure remained stable from the prior year. VOA radio, about this in “The Sad Christmas Eve Sometimes one of the painter’s living on the other hand, had an audience of 1.8 percent, down from 2.9 percent a year earlier. Carol” here in the January 19, 2003, enemies would wind up as one of the los- But what VOA does not mention is that radio can still reach many, many more of issue). The album opens with “Novaya ers at the Last Judgement – and would be Ukraine’s citizens than television or the Internet. Consider, for example that VOA’s Zoria” (A new star), composed and writ- recognizable. ten by the singer. This could become a 15-minute “Chas-Time” TV show airs daily on Channel 5, which is not even avail- The same applies to the ritual songs of able in all parts of Ukraine, but only on the cable networks in large cities. (VOA’s 20- standard in the future, a song about the our ancient traditions. We have the pre- Ukrainian family gathering together to minute weekly “Window on America” airs on UT-1, a nationwide TV channel.) Christian winter solstice and New Year’s Consider also that VOA’s radio programs reach villages, towns and cities throughout celebrate Sviatyi Vechir – “my usi odna songs, the spring and fall equinox songs, rodyna – koliaduye Ukraina” (we are all Ukraine. Thus, the potential audience is larger from the get-go on radio. There’s just and Kupalo – Midsummer’s Night songs. no doubt that radio continues to be the more powerful medium in Ukraine. one family – all of Ukraine carols togeth- Over the centuries, with the coming of er). Nonetheless, VOA has opted to focus on “the medium of choice in Ukraine.” Christianity in 988, many of the pre- Reaction to the radio cutback has begun coming in from Ukraine. National But back to the naïve carol “V Christian songs have been layered with a Hlybokii Dolyni” (In a deep valley): “V Deputy (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc), a former Soviet political thin Christian veneer – sometimes being prisoner, has gone on record to state that the decision is “absolutely untimely.” hlybokii dolyni stalasia novyna, to only the refrain “Syn Bozhyi narodyvsia” Prechysta Diva Maty porodyla Syna. A He explained: “In Ukraine today it is necessary to conduct an information cam- (the Son of God was born) or “Sviatyi paign about the great democratic significance of NATO. It is precisely on the yak Yoho porodyla, stala imu liuliaty, vechir” (Holy Evening) repeated after ‘Liuliay, liuliay, miy Synochku, bo ya radio programs of Voice of America that one could hear about the structure of verses about medieval battles, or couples NATO, about its peace-loving intentions and policies.” vzhe idu spaty.’ ‘Mamo zh moya mamo, courting, or the celestial bodies shining. zazhdit khoch khvylynu, nai ya pidu na Another national deputy, Viacheslav Koval (Our Ukraine), said the move is “a Now with “Sviatyi vechir,” we still can- huge mistake,” adding, “Right now what is needed is an active information cam- nebesa, prynesu perynu.’ ‘Synu zh ty miy not be sure if that actually refers to a Synu, ta Ty sche zh ne hoden, bo shche paign among the Ukrainian citizenry. … in Ukraine today all means are used to Christian Christmas refrain, or the earlier harm relations with the U.S.A. and obstacles are erected to the realization of zh nema i hodyny, yak Ty sia narodyv.’ holy evening of the family getting ‘Mamo zh moya mamo, chomu zh ya ne Euro-Atlantic integration.” together at the winter solstice festivities. Three representatives of political parties and public organizations of Mykolaiv hoden? Ya zh sotvoryv nebo i zemliu, Other ritual songs explain the shchem sia ne narodyv!’ (In a deep val- Oblast protested the cutback, calling it “criminally mistaken.” They cited “anti- Christian themes of particular feasts in American sentiments” that have been strengthened as a result of the parliamentary ley, there is news, the Blessed Virgin their own way, the way a peasant without Mother gave birth to a Son. And when victory of the Party of the Regions and its allies. And, they argued that “The influence any formal catechism classes, and with of radio programs of Voice of America, compared with its TV productions is incompa- she gave Him birth, she began to rock the traditional Ukrainian world view, and sing to Him. “Lullaby, sleep my little rably larger.” Yurii Didenko, Valentyna Kucherenko and Kateryna Ryzhova stated that would understand religion and the Holy what is needed from VOA is not cutbacks, but an increase in radio broadcasts that Son, because I want to go to sleep.’ Scripture. For him or her, members of the ‘Mother, my Mother, wait at least a “counter anti-American sentiments in our country and promote democratic values.” Holy Family, the saints and even God Yes, the Voice of America has been muted in Ukraine. Cui bono? Who benefits? minute, let me go to the heavens to get live and think the same as the rest of us. you a comforter.’ ‘Son, my Son, you are They plow the fields – even God himself not able to do that yet, it has not been does, “Po horam, horam, sam Hospod even an hour since you were born.’ khodyv, sam Hospod’ khodyv ta i vse ‘Mother, my Mother, why am I not able? Jan. lahodyv, lahodyv voly ta i na try pluhy” I created heaven and earth even before I Turning the pages back... (On the hills, God Himself walked, and was born!’ ” prepared everything [for work], prepared The lyrics are self-explanatory. I par- 26 the oxen for three plows). And the deities ticularly like that even Jesus, God do other farm work also, and need to eat, Himself, speaks to His mother respectful- 1992 It was 15 years ago that Ukrainian star pole-vaulter Serhiy bathe and live somewhere. ly, “Vy,” (formally, respectfully), in the Bubka (who was recently elected president of the National In the case of the Baby Jesus, Joseph customary fashion. Ms. Fedyna said this Olympic Committee of Ukraine) announced that he would needs to find Him diapers, and Mary carol was not that common in the past, represent Ukraine in the Summer Olympic Games. In previ- needs her rest after giving birth. In “Oy, but recently is sung more often. It is from ous years, Ukraine competed in the Games under the banner of the Soviet Union and, Leliya, Leliya,” the Mother of God is the the collection of Lemko songs after the break-up of the USSR, as part of the Unified Team. original recycler. After giving birth to (“Antolohiya Lemkivskoyi Pisni”) com- When asked by the Associated Press about his announcement, Mr. Bubka said, Jesus, she realizes she does not have any piled by Maria Bayko, recorded from “Why not compete for Ukraine? I think it’s the best solution ... I don’t understand why diapers or a cradle. “Oy leliya, leliya! Antonina Prybylo of the village of we must be one team of 11 countries.” Tam u tserkvi firanochky – budut harni Smerekovets and Pelahiya Buriak of In mid-December of that year, Ukraine asked the International Olympic Committee pelenochky! Tam u tserkvi vivtarochky – Vilkhivets. (IOC) to allow it to participate independently in the upcoming Olympic Games. On budut harni kolysochky” (Oy, lily, lily! A ritual song for the end of the December 19, 1992, the Verkhovna Rada sent an official request, asking that the There are curtains in the church – they Christmas season, for Yordan, the Feast of National Olympic Committee of Ukraine be recognized as a full member of the IOC. will make nice diapers! There are altars Jordan (which marks Christ’s Baptism by After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it became more difficult to obtain funding in the church – they will make nice cra- John the Baptist in the River Jordan) on for the athletes, since the Soviet agency, Gossport, was no more, Mr. Bubka noted. dles!) Then, there are no candles, but January 19, is “Rano-Vrantsi na Yordani” “The economic situation is very bad. Who will give money to the athletes? For me it’s they can be made from the snow, and will (Early Morning on Yordan). Here, the no problem, but it will be difficult for many other athletes,” he added. light the whole world! The incongruity of Mother of God is selecting a name for the Mr. Bubka said that he had not spoken to the National Olympic Committee after his a church already standing as Jesus is born Baby Jesus with the help of all the saints. announcement, but added, “If Ukraine can’t send its own team to the Winter Games, is not a problem at all. They first go through the golden books, maybe it will happen for the Summer Games.” So a “koliadka” (carol) I heard for the reading them to decide upon a name, first time this Christmas did not really Source: “Bubka hopes to represent Ukraine,” The Ukrainian Weekly, January 26, 1992. surprise me – but it did delight. The (Continued on page 13) No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 7

PERSPECTIVES Faces and Places by Myron B. Kuropas BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY

A 75-year-old genocide: news, not history Fighting the “new Bolsheviks” From where most of us sit, measuring out expect. Academics were killed for using In order for a nation to wage war suc- only as naysayers and obstructionists,” our lives a day at a time, weekend to week- the letter “g” in the Ukrainian alphabet. cessfully, argued the 19th century argues Ms. Weber. “Their relentless and end, until the next holiday or latest com- This lunacy took a catastrophic toll. German war strategist Carl von often ad hominem attacks helped to erode memoration, progress in Ukraine, several Cultural historian Yuriy Lavrinenko, edi- Clausewitz, the army, the people, the public confidence in Lincoln’s government. thousand miles away, appears frustratingly tor of the anthology “Executed politicians (the “paradoxical trinity”) The only suggestion they had was to end slow. Indeed, two years after the euphoria of Renaissance” (Paris: 1959), estimated that must work together to achieve victory. the war, but they never produced a realistic the Orange Revolution, many fear the coun- 80 percent of Ukraine’s creative individu- During the Vietnam War, America’s or concrete program to achieve peace.” try, in its labyrinthine struggles for power als were massacred. Consider just litera- paradoxical trinity began on the same Northern soldiers were angered by and influence, is regressing. Yet, viewed ture: in 1930, 259 authors published page but, within a few years, the people what Republicans called “the smell of from the perspective of three generations, Ukrainian works on a regular basis. Eight and the politicians lost their enthusiasm treason”… “It is humiliating is it not?” the nation has come spectacularly far. years later, only 36 of them were still alive for what the media characterized as an wrote one Ohio father to his son serving For Ukrainians, the lowest point in his- – 17 were executed outright; eight com- unwinnable, seemingly endless conflict. in the union army, “that we have a politi- tory was undoubtedly the Famine- mitted suicide; 175 were executed or died Although four American presidents of cal party that depends upon the disaster Genocide – the Holodomor – when mil- of exhaustion in Siberian labor camps; 16 both political parties – John F. Kennedy, of our army for success, but so it is, and lions died of starvation in the midst of a vanished without a trace; seven died natu- Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, the Copperheads here and their friends bountiful harvest. Worse than the destruc- ral deaths. To get a measure of what this Gerald R. Ford – supported stopping the rebels in arms know it.” tion in 1775 of the Zaporozhian Sich, the would mean to contemporary America, Communist expansionist brutality in So determined were the Copperheads last stronghold of Kozak independence; far multiply those numbers by 10. Indochina, America retreated. A blood- to elect Gen. McClellan in 1864 that worse than the Valuev Ukase a century Seventy years later, all this should be bath followed in Vietnam and Cambodia; Democratic legislators in Indiana and later that banned the , history, only it became news late in 2006 millions of innocent men, women and Illinois “blocked efforts to allow absen- the Holodomor in 1932-1933 was nothing when the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada children were murdered. Emboldened, tee ballots” for the fighting men. less than an assault on Ukrainians’ very passed a bill recognizing the Holodomor Russia attacked Afghanistan; thousands “Democrats worried – with good reason existence as a people. Borders were sealed as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian were slaughtered. – that soldiers’ votes would lead to a and an army of Bolsheviks systematically people. This is a big deal. At Yalta, Joseph As we ponder President George W. Republican landslide …,” Ms. Weber seized every scrap of food, inevitably Stalin boasted to Winston Churchill about Bush’s latest proposals in the Iraq War – writes. “Indeed the war turned many a causing nationwide famine. killing 10 million peasants, but he was the which some characterize as “Bush’s war” Democratic soldier permanently into a By design, the Holodomor coincided only one in Soviet society who could bring and “another Vietnam” – many are wonder- Republican.” with the mass murder of the country’s up the Famine. Otherwise, it was taboo. ing if we can beat radical Islam. Stop won- Not all northern Democrats were creative class, from the top minds at the Even census-takers were killed for provid- dering. This is a no-brainer. We must beat Copperheads. Among those who coun- Academy of Sciences to blind minstrels ing accurate numbers for Ukraine’s deplet- radical Islam. It’s the “new bolshevism.” It’s seled political unity was Mr. Lincoln’s who wandered the countryside sharing ed population. either we win and reassure the world that longtime rival, Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, the oral tradition that had sustained the And so, with mention of the Famine America is still willing to protect its free- who declared: “There can be but two par- identity of a long-suppressed nation. forbidden, over time it was all but forgot- doms and remain the bastion of liberty, or ties, the party of patriots and the party of The coordinated attack on the peas- ten. “Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism,” on we lose and prepare for endless attacks on traitors. We [Democrats] belong to the antry and intelligentsia – in effect geno- other hand, remained a serious crime well our homeland. Ask yourself. Which alter- former.” As the North’s leading cide – was the Kremlin’s response to fears into the 1980s. As a result, Ukrainians, like ative would make Osama bin Laden happy? Democrat, writes Ms. Weber, Sen. it was losing Ukraine. The Soviet Union a patient with amnesia, became a people This is a crucial period in American Douglas “was unrelenting in his belief was built on the ruins of the Russian oblivious to their past and, therefore, with history, reminiscent of the darkest days that anyone who did not back the presi- Empire, which Lenin had famously no prospects for the future. of the Civil War when the Northern dent and his war policies was a turncoat.” dubbed “the prisonhouse of nations.” It took a major campaign in the diaspora armies were losing. In her 2006 book “It is no coincidence that the peace Appealing to widespread nationalism in the early 1980s, led by Ihor Olshaniwsky, “Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of faction was strongest at the moments throughout the former empire, the USSR to create a congressional commission, Lincoln’s Opponents in the North,” when the army was suffering its worst promised its constituent republics autono- staffed by Jim Mace, to resurrect the memo- Jennifer L. Weber writes: “Lincoln was defeats,” concludes Ms. Weber. my, cultural freedom and the option to ry of one of history’s greatest atrocities. It’s confronted with widespread disaffection “Conversely, the Copperheads suffered secede. To Moscow’s chagrin, Ukraine’s all part of a slow, steady process. at home, hostility so profound by the their greatest setbacks when the Union cultural leadership took advantage of It’s been 15 years since Ukrainians summer of 1864, that he appeared certain armies won. By the end of the war, the those rights, and consciously and deliber- recovered their flag, national anthem, to lose his re-election effort.” Peace Democrats were men out of time.” ately steered the country away from currency, military, diplomatic corps and The so-called “Copperheads,” mostly Has the Iraq War been a success? Not Russia, toward Europe. other accoutrements of sovereignty. Two anti-war Northern Democrats, were the lately. As Ms. Weber points out, howev- By 1930, in classrooms, bookstores and years ago at the maidan, they rallied to “peaceniks” of the Civil War. As the er, even the general, government offices, Ukrainians were win- defend their freedom and democracy. Army of the Potomac initially lost battle Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois, encountered ning the battle for their culture. Eighty-nine Now, by passing the Famine-Genocide after battle, “declining civilian morale what von Clausewitz called the percent of the newspapers were in bill, the country has taken an important and low spirits for the public meant high inevitable “friction of war”: those war Ukrainian; so were 80 percent of the books, step to restoring its history. hopes for the Copperheads,” writes Ms. plans which appear to lead to an easy which came out at a rate of 5,000 volumes As has often been the case, the people Weber. “Copperheads were so ideologi- victory on paper, become untenable a year – no small accomplishment for a are way ahead of the politicians: according cally driven that they were blind to the under actual battle conditions. people who not long before had been large- to independent polls, 70 percent support threat that the war posed to the nation.” I remain optimistic about America’s ly illiterate. There was a vibrant theater; recognizing the Famine as genocide, yet Some Democratic congressmen even ultimate victory over Islamic bolshevism painters exhibited in Paris salons. What’s the bill passed by the narrowest of margins: accused the Lincoln administration of whose ultimate goal is to have Americans more, Ukrainians were major innovators in 233 votes out of a total 450. And as usual, “misleading the people about the goals of accept Sharia, the Islamic law code, as a new technologies like motion pictures and Russia campaigned to try to influence the the war.” Honest Abe lied? way of life. Like the Bolsheviks before radio. As “Ukrainianization” led to a sepa- outcome, letting it be known it considered Battle casualties were horrendous. them, Islamists want to establish a new rate cultural identity, it had a profound reference to the Famine as “genocide” to Almost 4,100 men perished during the world order. It’s not our Judeo-Christian political impact: Ukrainians began acting be an unfriendly act. Yet for all that, only Battle of Antietam Creek in a matter of ideals that bother them as much as the as if they belonged to a separate country. one deputy voted “no.” The other 216, hours. Another 2,500 died of their perverse culture they see portrayed in so To make a point – one that ultimately cost looking nervously over one shoulder wounds later. One battle led to more than many Hollywood movies. him his life – Education Minister Mykola toward Moscow and over the other to the 6,000 dead. Osama bin Laden has convinced his Skrypnyk, for example, traveled to meet- Ukrainian public, didn’t vote at all – not Criticism of President Lincoln was followers that we are a people so morally ings in Moscow with a translator. exactly a profile in courage. What this brutal. His presidential opponent, Gen. bankrupt that, like Roman citizens in Stalin found all this alarming. For him, shows, however, is the power of public George B. McClellan, once the com- their final days, we are unwilling to Ukrainianization was “a struggle to alien- opinion in Ukraine and the overwhelming manding general of the Northern forces, defend ourselves, to fight back, to stay ate Ukrainian culture and public life from importance of democracy and freedom. called President Lincoln “The Original the course. Keep hitting America long Gorilla.” During the campaign, writes enough and we will fold. general Soviet culture and public life … And so, step by step, week by week, Ms. Weber: “Pamphlet after pamphlet, I salute our fighting men and women, directed [as it was] against Russian culture as the calendar turns to the next holiday editorial after editorial, pounded away at especially those of Ukrainian descent and its highest achievement – Leninism.” and the latest commemoration, a nation Lincoln for his ‘usurpations’ and tyranni- who, following in the tradition of other And so, a new crime was invented: that survived genocide, drove out the cal aspirations, for the imprisonment of Ukrainian Americans over the past 100 “Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism.” Today, Nazis and put the final nail in the coffin dissenters, for the draft, for the blood- years, are today on the frontlines of our the phrase sounds silly, but in the 1930s it of an “Evil Empire,” is doing fine. shed, for the financial cost of the war and defense. God bless them and their fami- amounted to a death sentence. Recovering their past, Ukrainians are the new tools the administration lies. Z Bohom! According to the new rules – made clearing the way to the future. employed to pay for it.” retroactive – applying Ukrainian idioms, “Rather than offer any alternatives to patterns and themes to any aspect of life Andrew Fedynsky’s e-mail address is Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is Lincoln’s policies, the Copperheads acted was potentially fatal. No one knew what to [email protected]. [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 No. 3

way,” he said: the draft statement was First U.S. ambassador... sent late Friday evening to the State (Continued from page 1) Department, noting that without objection The Bush administration was criticized it would be released on the following day. for not adequately expressing its elation Not getting a response from Washington, when the Berlin Wall came down and for the Embassy released the statement. being slow in recognizing the independent The State Department was “not very Baltic states, among other things. “But pleased,” but the Ukrainians were “jubi- think of it,” he added, “at the end of 1991, lant,” he said. And Russian President Yeltsin issued a similar statement. you had an independent Ukraine, you had There was, he said, a “definite mindset the end of the Soviet Union, you had a unit- in the bureaucracy” in favor of caution, ed Germany within NATO, you had no keeping in mind the events in Warsaw Pact, and you had the end of Yugoslavia, the fear of the spread of apartheid, a Nicaraguan election, and – you nuclear weapons and other problems. know what – without a shot being fired.” In addition, he pointed out, “you have to “So we’ll leave history to judge whether remember that most of the bureaucracy that the cautious actions we undertook were dealt with the former Soviet Union had wise or not,” Mr. Popadiuk added. risen through the ranks in Moscow. They As for the August 1991 speech by got their language training in Russian. President Bush in Kyiv, now widely They had been posted to Moscow – a lot of known as the “Chicken Kiev” speech them. They had very little exposure to thanks to columnist , Ukraine or any of the other republics.” Yaro Bihun Ambassador Popadiuk said, the presi- The former envoy to Kyiv said he Ambassador Roman Popadiuk continues his discussion of developments in dent’s national security advisor, Brent would not be “too critical of them” Ukraine with Bohdan Kantor of the Library of Congress following his formal Scowcroft later explained its intent in a because there is always a time lag with presentation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International newspaper opinion piece. Admittedly bureaucracies. Studies in Washington. Kyiv was a “bad platform” for the caution “What I look at is the leadership,” he against “suicidal nationalism,” he said; it said. “And the leadership we got from was aimed not so much at Ukraine as at the president in terms of moving forward solidified for the Ukrainian people that sets, as well as for the economic strength other East European countries. on Ukraine and on the Soviet Union was the old Soviet period is basically dead.” it will have,” he continued. “Not that they shouldn’t move forward the right speed at the right time. And “I think you have a lot to look forward “It takes time,” Ambassador Popadiuk in terms of seeking their own democratic everything worked out fine.” to in that country. I think business is said, noting that it certainly took the United reforms and their own independence, but to Could Ukraine split apart along ethnic going to grow and expand, and I look States more than 15 years to develop. be careful in terms of not letting this ignite lines? Ambassador Popadiuk said he does upon Ukraine as becoming a regional “Democracy is not an easy or beautiful any kind of ethnic conflict within their bor- not think so. There were similar fears power. What the Ukrainians have to do is process,” he said. “But it is working.” ders,” Ambassador Popadiuk recalled. expressed early on about and realize that they do have their own mus- “Elections have taken place on a regu- He said the Bush administration had other Russian-speaking areas, and the cle,” he commented. lar basis. We may not like they way developed a “twofold policy” of working large majority of the residents there voted “Once the Ukrainians get their full act they’re turning out, but that’s democra- with Moscow while at the same time for Ukrainian independence. together as a nation, I think people will cy,” he said. “They’ll have to solve these cooperating and maintaining close ties “It’s the economics,” he said. “I still be surprised at how pivotal this country issues themselves, and, lo and behold, I with the republics. think the economy is the key to this whole is for that region, both in terms of its think they will, over time, solve them President Bush did raise Secretary situation.” And as Ukraine’s economy diplomacy and in terms of the example it themselves.” Gorbachev’s ire, however, after The New grows, he added, animosities will subside. York Times reported that he told Ukrainian As for his assessment of recent devel- Americans during a White House meeting opments in Ukraine and his prognosis of Kushnariov... before Thanksgiving in 1991 that he what its future may bring, Ambassador thought Ukraine would become independ- Popadiuk, who last visited Ukraine last (Continued from page 1) ent and the United States would recognize March, is optimistic. in the Party of the Regions as a savvy it. This, he said, may have had a positive “I’d have to say that the country is mov- and experienced politician amidst a party effect on the result of the independence ing forward,” he said. “There’s a lot of dis- leadership largely consisting of business- referendum in December. appointment, I would imagine, by people men. At the time of his death, he was Ambassador Popadiuk cast some light that it wasn’t moving forward quickly developing the Party of the Regions’ ide- on another U.S. statement that caused a enough,” he added. But he recalled that ological platform. stir at least in Washington in mid-1993, soon after Ukraine’s independence, an “This is a serious loss for the party’s pol- after the Russian Parliament passed a res- ambassador from an unnamed neighboring itics, because Kushnariov prepared a whole olution declaring Crimea to be a part of country assured him that it would be back series of serious projects in the humanitari- Russia. In response, the U.S. Embassy in in the Russian fold within five years. an sphere,” said Volodymyr Malynkovych, Kyiv released a statement that stressed “Fifteen years later, Ukraine is still chair of the Ukrainian division of the pro- that the U.S. position was that Crimea independent, and proudly so. No one is Russian International Institute of was an integral part of Ukraine. talking about going back to Russia,” he Humanitarian-Political Research. This was done “the old-fashioned said. “If anything, the election of last year Among Mr. Kushnariov’s most pas- sionate issues was gaining official gov- ernment status for the NEW COURSE IN POST-SOVIET FILM! in Ukraine, he said. “Without him, no one will realize Zenon Zawada Want to know more about such filmmakers as Dovzhenko, Paradzhanov, Illienko these projects,” Mr. Malynkovych said. Party of the Regions Assistant Faction and Muratova? About cinema from post-Soviet nations, like Ukraine, Belarus or “He’s practically irreplaceable in the Chair Yevhen Kushnariov. ? Want to take an alternative look at Russian and Soviet cinema? party, inasmuch as only he could advo- Then, enroll in the new film course at Columbia: cate a concrete ideology.” died almost 24 hours after being shot. Mr. Kushnariov was boar hunting with Both President Viktor Yushchenko and “CINEMA AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN UKRAINIAN IDENTITY” 10 Kharkiv business and political associ- Prime Minister Yanukovych expressed ates at a hunting reserve in the Izium dis- their grief and condolences when learn- trict of the Kharkiv Olbast. ing of the death, and declared January 18 While they were driving down a road, and 19 days of national mourning. a wolf jumped in front of the vehicle in Mr. Kushnariov was born in Kharkiv which Mr. Kushnariov was seated, on January 29, 1951, to Russian parents. prompting him and his companions to His father was from the Smolensk jump out and attempt to slay it. Oblast, while his mother was from the In the midst of the gunfire at about 2 Bashkortostan Autonomous Republic. p.m., Mr. Kushnariov was accidentally He was an active leader in Kharkiv’s shot; one bullet pierced his stomach, kid- Communist Party and was elected mayor ney, liver and large intestine. in 1994. The hunters violated numerous laws: Afterwards, he served as Mr. (“Bright is the Night” by Roman Balayan, 2005) boar-hunting season ended on January 1, Kuchma’s Presidential Administration Ukrainian W4069 section 001; Call Number 25521 and hunting wolves is allowed only on chair between December 1996 and 3 points, Department of Slavic Languages weekends. Riding in vehicles with loaded November 1998. He was Kharkiv state Instructor: Dr. Yuri Shevchuk rifles also is illegal. oblast administration chair from October Mr. Kushnariov was rushed to the Tuesdays 8:10pm-10:00pm 2000 until the Orange Revolution, when Izium State Hospital, where he received he resigned in December 2004. 717 Hamilton Hall, 1130 Amsterdam Ave., Columbia Univ. a transfusion of five liters of blood. Mr. Kushnariov is survived by his Open to Columbia students & the public. That night, doctors surgically removed a wife, a grown son and daughter. A funer- For more info., contact [email protected] or (212)854-4697. kidney and 40 centimeters of his large intes- al service will be held on January 19 at tine, and declared his condition critical. He Annunciation Cathedral in Kharkiv. No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 9

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the Orange Revolution. A freer media remarked: “I have had to separate politics A return to Ukraine two years and a global awareness of Ukraine will from the maidan. However, the revolution help to keep politicians in power in check is very dear to me. And to those of my – or at least make it harder for them to friends who are Russian and criticize it, I after the Orange Revolution steal. The corrupt system on which say ‘don’t you dare, you would only be so by Damian Kolodiy dered by their chosen leaders? That the Ukraine functions is still very much in lucky if you had these types of citizens in promises made on the maidan were not place, and that won’t go away any time your country.’ That’s what I really real- I decided to return to Ukraine for the kept? That the people had again been soon. However, the truth is slowly being ized, that Ukraine is made up of amazing second anniversary of the Orange used and betrayed? What kind of damage revealed. people. Previously I did not think that Revolution. I had been to last year’s does that do to the psyche of a nation? The people deserved another parliamen- such people existed in my country.” anniversary, but this would be my first How can you measure the psychological tary vote, knowing today’s truths about the Sashko reflected: “People did what time back since Viktor Yanukovych was damage to those who truly believed, and Socialists, whose electorate voted for them they had to do. No regrets. I did not come reinstated as prime minister. I was both the trauma of having that belief crushed? as part of the Orange camp. If the media out for Yushchenko. Who is he? A former wary and eager to speak with friends I’d How is it possible that a movement that can stay fairly independent and expose the member of the Communist Party! I came made during the days of the Orange captured the attention of the world, an fallacy of all parties, the truth might con- out for myself. And I would come out Revolution. I was quite curious as to uprising that was unique in modern tinue to be illuminated. Those who so again. All I can do now is continue to their thoughts on recent events that human civilization, an event that made vehemently supported Mr. Yanukovych work, to better my life.” brought Mr. Yanukovych back to power. Ukrainians proud, respected and even might also become disenchanted. The next There is one factor that consistently My personal theory was that shedding noble, could be so tainted by the failures election, then, would have very different gives me faith: the backbone of the the Soviet system seemed possible only of the government that was supposed to results, and would lead to a healthy Orange Revolution was young people, with time. Changing a Soviet person’s represent it? democracy at work. from Lviv to Kherson, from Zaporizhia thinking in adulthood was impossible; a The underlying consensus seemed to In Lviv there was much talk of the to Kharkiv, and even to Donetsk. Today’s change in mentality would happen only be that no one in power in Ukraine truly next revolution and future steps – that Ukrainian youths are very different from in the next generation. cares about Ukraine or the country’s wel- was the biggest difference in reactions Ukraine’s current leaders. Having grown The root of this situation goes back to fare. Ukraine still is a slave state to the between Lviv and Kyiv. Western up outside of the Soviet system, they are Russia, which killed or shipped off the parasites that live off it and its people. Ukrainians were frustrated, but they cer- a different generation, with an alternate Ukrainian intelligentsia in the 1930s and That’s how it’s been historically and por- tainly weren’t giving up. mentality. diluted the population with Russians. To tends to be for the near future. It seems Taras, a nationalist who had come to “The country we dream of will not be this day this campaign continues to be that the major lesson learned is that Kyiv on November 22, 2004, and stood possible until the next generation takes the basis for a winning strategy in politicians will do what’s right for them, with Yurii Lutsenko when the police over, when someone who is now in their Russia’s favor. Eastern Ukrainians can- not for the country. not categorically separate themselves arrived, spoke of both the future and the early 30s becomes president,” said Oleh. After a couple of days in Kyiv, where past. “For this whole century, the three Vasyl, the driver of the Orange bus in from Russia. Furthermore, there has been the main sentiment was a sense of much intermarriage and genetic ties are oblasts of Lviv, Ternopil and Ivano- the friendship Caravan of 2004, touched betrayal, coupled with pessimism and Frankivsk, they have not been able to on the one thing that was forged during strong, regardless of other extraneous cir- helplessness, a journey to Lviv provided cumstances. crush us. Do you think we will give up the Orange Revolution that will never dis- a similar, yet different reaction. Here, now? Next time, I believe blood needs to appear: “For me, the friends I made dur- And so, this problem of consciousness former supporters of Mr. Yushchenko and identity, compounded by a Soviet be shed. Violence might be necessary to ing that time are not just fair-weather were now quick to dismiss him as a pup- get rid of these clans.” friends. I know that when the time comes, Communist mentality, is what enabled Mr. pet. Rumors about the puppeteer’s identi- Yanukovych to maintain his popularity. Evhen Safonov, a young journalist who they will be there again. No doubt.” ty ranged from Petro from Mr. covered the Orange Revolution with me, I plan to be there too. Of course, on the other side, the Orange Poroshenko, to Mr. Yushchenko’s wife government did everything it possibly (who some believed may have been jeal- could to self-destruct and make itself look ous of Yulia Tymoshenko being per- immature, foolish and unprofessional. No ceived as the “first lady”), to conspirator- THE UKRAINIAN STUDIES PROGRAM efforts were made to educate people in the ial ideas about the NKVD. Comments east; no major informational campaigns often voiced were: “For what did we AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY took place since President Viktor freeze out there? For what did we put our Yushchenko came to office. It should have lives at stake? For him to hand power been his first priority to ease heightened back to Mr. Yanukovych?” tensions between disparate regions in It was quite obvious that, in accepting Ukraine. Instead Mr. Yushchenko spent his former nemesis as prime minister, his first presidential year collecting President Yushchenko also handed over the awards that should have been bestowed last remnants of the respect and support upon the Ukrainian people. that the people had for him. He had failed Mr. Yushchenko’s continual treatment to be the democratically chosen representa- of Mr. Yanukovych as a legitimate politi- tive of the people’s interests. Although still cian rather than a corrupt crook did perceived by some as “a nice guy” who offers the following spring 2007 courses, irreparable damage to Our Ukraine. It genuinely wanted what’s best for Ukraine, starting the week of January 16th: showed that “Bandits to jail” was just a the consensus was that he was a weak pres- political campaign slogan, not a call to ident who should have stepped aside and • NEW!: Music & the Post-Socialist State (Music V3460, G6460) action. let Ms. Tymoshenko take the reins. • NEW!: Cinema & the Emergence of Modern Ukraine (W4069) For me, the Orange Revolution was Ms. Tymoshenko was now reluctantly • Ukraine and the United Nations (Reg. Inst. U4575) still fairly fresh. Trapped in the bubble of chosen as the lesser of all the other politi- • Elementary Ukrainian II (Ukrainian W1102) my editing room, I had spent most of the cal evils. Although erratic at times, to • Intermediate Ukrainian II (Ukrainian W1202) past two years watching video footage date she had not retreated from her • Advanced Ukrainian II (Ukrainian W3001) from my Orange Revolution documen- words. Thus, it seemed that only she still tary. However, in Ukraine, it was already had a chance to salvage the promises of Courses are open to the public. an old dream. People were again cold the Orange Revolution. You can register up to Jan. 25! toward each other; a negative energy per- Buoyed by the power of the revolu- meated the city. This was something tion, Ukraine had the potential to achieve For more information, visit: quite new and different for me. My nor- great things, to ride a wave of enthusi- http://www.harrimaninstitute.org/programs/ukrainian_studies_program.html mally energetic friends were lackluster asm no modern country has ever had. or call (212) 854-4697 and depressed. My first day there, on the Now of course, that had been tragically way to breakfast underneath the maidan, squandered by the Ukrainian ego, never I had to bribe two police officers to leave to be reclaimed. It appears that, when left me alone because I didn’t have my pass- to fend for itself, Ukraine does more port on my person. damage on its own than when united Want to see After my first few conversations, it against a common enemy. Want to see was apparent that, in the eyes of many Today, we often think of “what could Ukrainians, the Orange Revolution had have been.” But it’s more constructive to youryour namename inin print?print? been devalued. It had not brought about look at where we are. The Party of the the promised political changes. Many Regions (PRU) has been playing by the Then why not become a correspondent of questions resulted from this: How do rules, largely because they haven’t had parents explain to their children that the the need to do otherwise. They are cer- The Ukrainian Weekly in your community? principles they fought for were squan- tainly posturing in a different way and, We welcome submissions from all our Ukrainian communi- until they make a major mistake, Damian Kolodiy is a young filmmaker Ukrainians must give the Regions a ties, no matter where they are located. Let the rest of us know who documented the Orange Revolution chance to exist in power, as the rules of what you’re up to in your corner of the Ukrainian diaspora! of 2004 in “The Orange Chronicles.” democracy have given them that oppor- The film was most recently screened at tunity. Any questions? Call The Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext. 3049. the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Ukraine certainly has changed due to 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 No. 3 Plast’s Chornomortsi bless new fraternity flag in New York by Markian Dobczansky The event was planned for December so that it would coincide with the feast NEW YORK – The sun shone through day of St. Nicholas, the patron of the the windows of the Ukrainian Institute of Chornomortsi fraternity. His feast day is America here on a once-in-a-generation celebrated on December 6 and December event for members of the Plast Ukrainian 19, according to the Gregorian and Julian scouting fraternity Chornomortsi. On calendars, respectively. St. Nicholas is December 10, 2006, in New York City, the patron saint of sailors all over the the fraternity – whose name means world; he plays a particularly significant “sailors of the ” – held a cere- role in Ukrainian tradition. mony to bless its new flag. Because of his role in protecting Over 60 people attended the event, sailors, St. Nicholas occupies the promi- including Chornomortsi from earlier gen- nent central position on the face of the erations – many of whom were present Chornomortsi fraternity flag, along with the last time the group blessed a flag the fraternity slogan “Navigare Necesse three decades ago. Members of other Est – Vivere Non,” which means a life Plast fraternities and sororities also without direction is not worth living. The attended, along with their flag-bearers. opposite side of the flag bears the The ceremony, presided over by frater- insignia of Plast, along with its slogan nity President Adrian Oryshkevych and “SKOB” (Sylno, krasno, oberezhno, his second-in-command, John Fedynsky, bystro), which translates to “Strongly, took about 45 minutes and included beautifully, carefully, and quickly.” prayer, singing of the Plast hymn and the The Chornomortsi scouting fraternity fraternity hymn, the swearing in of the was founded in 1927 in the city of Lviv. flag-bearer and the administration of an Its mission is to spread knowledge of oath for all fraternity members to honor boating and flying throughout Ukrainian the flag. scouting. To do this, the fraternity holds The Rev. Ivan Kaszczak of various water-themed instructional Philadelphia, who is also a member of camps featuring canoeing, sailing, scuba Plast, blessed the flag. The water he diving, water skiing and kayaking. It also sprinkled over the flag was collected from organizes the annual Chornomorskyi Ball the Black Sea near the port city of Odesa. as a fund-raiser for its activities. George Kuzmowycz, fraternity presi- Plast was founded in 1911 and bases dent of the senior Chornomortsi, deliv- itself on international principles of scouting. ered greetings. Bohdan Pechenyak spoke Those interested in making a donation on behalf of the U.S. national leadership to the fraternity to support its activities in of Plast Ukainian Scouting Organization. Plast as well as the wider community Greetings were also read from several many send tax-deductible donations senior Chornomortsi who were unable to (please make checks payable to attend. “Chornomortsi USP”) to: Petro Lisowsky A reception followed the blessing cer- (treasurer), 375 Commonwealth Ave., emony. Apt. 2F, Boston, MA 02115. Adrian Oryshkevych (right) administers the oath to flag-bearer Pavlo Jarymowycz.

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The UNA and the Ukrainian community: partners for life! No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 11 Selfreliance hosts representatives from National Exhibition of Ukraine by Volodymyr Pavelchak CHICAGO – On December 14-16, 2006, Chicago hosted the National Exhibition of Ukraine. A total of 76 Ukrainian exhibitors participated in the exhibition, held at the River Exhibition Hall of the Sheraton Hotel and Towers. Participants included representatives of the chemical, mining, metallurgical, machining, aerospace, oil refining and food service sectors, as well as informa- tion technology, media, finance, travel, tourism and hotels. The oblasts of Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea showcased their regions’ industrial spe- cialties and tourism opportunities. The exhibition was opened by Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. Oleh Shamshur and Vice Prime Minister , who read a letter from President Viktor Yushchenko. Letters of greetings from Chicago Representatives of exhibitors at the National Exhibition of Ukraine with officers of Selfreliance Ukrainian American Mayor Richard Daley and Illinois Gov. Federal Credit Union at the credit union’s Chicago headquarters. Rod Blagojevich were also read during the opening ceremonies. industrial capacity and production to U.S. vided $1 million in donations to various Anatolii Maksiuta thanked the leadership The speakers emphasized the need to consumers. He expressed his hope that religious, cultural and youth groups. of the credit union for their hospitality encourage trade between the United this would lead to a better understanding Mr. Watral emphasized the Ukrainian and expressed his delight at the warmth States and Ukraine. A press conference of both trading partners. Americans’ pride at having staved off of the reception. followed, after which Mr. Tabachnyk Selfreliance President Bohdan Watral the pressures of assimilation. Today the Mr. Maksiuta acknowledged the dedi- departed for Washington. delved into the historical background of children of those immigrants are cation of the Ukrainian diaspora in main- Exhibitors were invited to attend a the Ukrainian diaspora, explaining the pleased, in turn, that they are able to taining the Ukrainian heritage and its role luncheon at Selfreliance Ukrainian desire of Ukrainian immigrants to main- provide a helping hand in the ongoing in support of Ukraine’s development. He American Federal Credit Union tain their heritage, culture, religious tra- process of democratization in Ukraine. emphasized that all Ukrainians are part of (SUAFCU), where they became ditions and language, and also the role Credit unions in the United States are one worldwide Ukrainian community and acquainted with the Ukrainian Village credit unions played in this endeavor. assisting in the rebirth of Ukraine’s that working together we should strive to and the Ukrainian American community Today the 105,000 members-owners credit unions. Mr. Watral stressed the create a positive image of Ukraine in all of Chicago. of 17 Ukrainian American credit unions fact that credit unions are more than just aspects. Selfreliance Board of Directors in the United States have amassed over a part of the community, that they are Several of the visitors commented on Chairman Michael R. Kos welcomed the $2 billion in assets, enabling them to con- actually owned by the community and the vitality of the Ukrainian American delegation, and praised the organizers of tinue supporting various Ukrainian its members. community. One even mentioned that he the National Exhibition of Ukraine for American community organizations, he Speaking on behalf of the visitors, felt as if he were Christopher Columbus, providing a positive image of Ukraine’s stated. SUAFCU, for example, has pro- First Vice Prime Minister of Economy discovering “Ukrainian America.” Wrzesnewskyj appointed associate critic for infrastructure, communities and housing OTTAWA – Liberal M.P. Borys ing Canada by having a minister dedicat- Wrzesnewskyj (Etobicoke Center) was ed to this file. Former Minister John appointed the Official Opposition’s Godfrey signed agreements with all the Associate Critic for Infrastructure and provinces for a ‘New Deal’ for cities and Communities. The appointment was communities. Unfortunately, the present made on November 22, 2006, by Official government has abandoned this impor- Opposition Leader Bill Graham. tant file. As well, I look forward to Commenting on his appointment, Mr. addressing the issue of affordable hous- Wrzesnewskyj said: ing and homelessness; another file of “It’s an honor to have been asked to great urban importance, which the serve as the associate critic for infrastruc- Harper government has abandoned.” ture and communities, and I would like An opposition critic’s role and respon- to thank Official Opposition Leader Bill sibility is to shadow a particular minister Graham for this opportunity and chal- in the government and his or her work in lenge. I look forward to working with a particular portfolio. 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ment or alliance that might have been the Regions. the Regions may lead to the president Ukraine’s political scene... reached between Messrs. Yushchenko “Shame on those people who abol- and Our Ukraine having to compromise (Continued from page 1) and Yanukovych to pass the Cabinet of ished the first Orange team, who nomi- with the Regions from a weakened nego- with another political force to combat the Ministers law, which the president indi- nated Viktor Yanukovych with their own tiating point and weaker terms in order to third, as demonstrated in the January 12 cated during a January 17 press confer- hands to the post of prime minister,” Ms. cut political deals, Mr. Doniy said. vote to enhance the Cabinet of Ministers’ ence. Tymoshenko shouted in response to Our The Party of the Regions has a new authority and create an official parlia- “By providing additional power to the Ukraine attacks during the January 12 political option in the Tymoshenko Bloc, mentary opposition. Donetsk clan, she’s encouraging them to parliamentary session. “Shame on Our as demonstrated by the Cabinet of Since the pro-Yushchenko Our wage skirmishes and battles with the Ukraine that they are trying to maintain Ministers bill. president, keeping them in confronta- Ukraine bloc opposes an opposition law chaos in the nation.” Though President Yushchenko said he tion,” said Ivan Lozowy, president of the that would enhance the Yulia The Tymoshenko Bloc is not likely to had an agreement with Prime Minister Kyiv-based Institute of Statehood and Tymoshenko Bloc’s authority, the tempo- suffer the severe political fallout that Our Yanukovych to draft the law, Ms. Democracy, which is exclusively rary alliance between the coalition and Ukraine did, largely because the vote was Tymoshenko offered a better option and, financed by Ukrainian business dona- the Tymoshenko Bloc proved to be prag- a political barter rather than a longstand- as a result, all of the president’s 42 pro- tions. matic and effective. ing alliance, observers said. posed amendments were trashed. “To mobilize Yushchenko, she wants Furthermore, Ms. Tymoshenko’s In the end, the current scenario in However, considering that the coali- him to come to the realization that he has tion government opposes canceling the image is indomitable at the moment. Ukrainian politics involves the Orange nowhere to go and he has to dissolve “People believe in her, and not forces competing to partner with the January 1 constitutional reforms, the Parliament or change the Constitution,” Tymoshenko Bloc would then unite with because she acts correctly or wrongly,” Party of the Regions in order to outdo or Mr. Lozowy added. said Andrii Yermolayev, director of the subvert the other, Mr. Doniy said. Our Ukraine should the president attempt After Ms. Tymoshenko’s pragmatic to reverse those reforms. pro-Russian, Kyiv-based Sofia Center for In this new version of the old alliance with the coalition, a new political Social Research, which is funded by Ukrainian folk tale, the swan, the lobster Each political bloc pragmatically uses landscape emerged in which no party can Ukrainian corporate clients. and the pike are tied to the leg of an each political scenario as a means of claim to be the torchbearer of the Orange “People simply believe in her. And imposing elephant that decides and con- achieving its ends, with Ms. Tymoshenko Revolution and its ideals, Mr. Doniy said. that’s a serious thing. She is the classic trols all their movements. demonstrating a particular mastery. All have cooperated with their neme- charismatic who personifies tendencies “The only winner is the Party of the Her ultimate goal, observers said, is an sis, the Party of the Regions, at one point of independent and irrational factors,” he Regions, which is the single center of empowered Ukrainian presidency. or another, he said – the first culprit being Therefore, she is as intent as Mr. Oleksander Moroz, who united his noted. power,” Mr. Doniy said. “The three Yushchenko on canceling the January 1 Socialist Party of Ukraine with the Party Ms. Tymoshenko’s newfound willing- Orange forces compete against each constitutional reforms, which was the of the Regions to form the Anti-Crisis ness to wheel and deal with the Party of other to offer their services.” first step in reducing the president’s Coalition with the Communist Party. authority. In a politically disastrous move for And, in forming temporary alliances, Ukrainians to help them forget her tem- himself and his , Mr. Yulia Tymoshenko... porary union with the Party of the Ms. Tymoshenko also has hidden motives Yushchenko then attempted to unite the (Continued from page 3) Regions just two days earlier. for achieving her goals. Our Ukraine bloc with the coalition gov- “It was a good PR move,” said Ivan In supporting the Cabinet of Ministers ernment in a National Unity Coalition. followed the January 12 episode in the law and encouraging the coalition’s Then Ms. Tymoshenko took her turn Verkhovna Rada when her faction joined Lozowy, a Kyiv political insider and New aggressive usurpation campaign, Ms. sleeping with the enemy in overriding the coalition government in a vote York University Law School graduate. Tymoshenko is seeking to box President President Yushchenko’s veto of the law strengthening the powers of the Cabinet “She’s trying to act presidential by going Yushchenko into a corner, in which he on the Cabinet of Ministers. of Ministers and Prime Minister Viktor on foreign trips and having a high profile. sees no other way out but to ask the Our Ukraine deputies attacked the Yanukovych at the expense of President It’s critical to look like she belongs in the Constitutional Court to cancel the Tymoshenko Bloc for uniting with the Viktor Yushchenko. presidential chair. Tymoshenko believes January 1 reforms, several observers Party of the Regions to weaken the presi- Television images of her crossing her- her only remaining option is to become posited. dent, though their arguments proved hol- self and fervently praying may have president and consolidate power under that She also managed to ruin any agree- low considering their own history with seared a deep enough impression on position,” Mr. Lozowy commented. No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 13

BOOK NOTES

central planning methods of the Soviet A Peace Corps volunteer’s memoir system, which arranged sources of raw materials, markets for finished products “Assumptions and Misunderstandings: Memoir of an Unwitting Spy,” by Anne and money for spare parts for machinery. Bates Linden. Ivano-Frankivsk: Misto NV, 2006. 215 pp., $14.95. In some instances Ms. Linden attempted to reason with the directors of This book is a great read for those through her adventures and misadven- these businesses and offered some sug- interested in gaining a foreign perspec- tures that nothing can be assumed in gestions, but the directors simply tive through the author’s first-hand Ukraine – not even the existence of toilet laughed at her misunderstanding of the experiences about Ukrainian life in the paper. situation as they saw it. Some employees early days of Ukraine’s independence. Ms. Linden’s experience during the appealed to her to initiate improvements, The author, Anne Bates Linden, who early days of privatization in Ukraine but the directors would simply perpetu- was a Peace Corps volunteer in 1991- gives relevance to what is happening ate the stagnation by exercising their 1993, shares her genuine thoughts on with businesses in Ukraine today. selective memories. everyday issues from overcoming the Previously, the state owned businesses, Throughout the book, Ms. Linden pro- language barrier, to dealing with peo- but after the collapse of the Soviet Union vides the reader with varying average ple reeling from the collapse of the there were unanswered questions as to monthly wages in kupony (the currency of Soviet Union. what level of government controlled the time), with exchange rates and the unsta- As the title of the book suggests, Ms. these businesses. ble inflation rates of the time, highlighting Linden’s Americanized background left The author’s experience took her to the financial difficulties that the people her predisposed to taking certain things Kolomiya, in the Ivano-Frankivsk faced on a daily basis in order to purchase for granted. However, she discovers Oblast, where she saw first-hand how commonplace items such as bread. Available in a soft-cover edition, the Mr. Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine bloc, many businesses of various types, were book may be ordered directly through the Ukraine’s president... which is the only consistently pro-NATO mismanaged. Ms. Linden observed the author’s website, www.ukraineworks.org, for $14.95, plus shipping. (Continued from page 2) force in Parliament, is very far from control- result of an inherent dependency on the former Rada Vice-President Viktor ling two-thirds, even if it secures support of the opposition Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. Musiyaka, pointed to a discrepancy are conflict resolution, and establishment This means that a referendum on NATO between the Constitution and the 1991 Anaïve ‘koliadka’ and maintenance of peace. In addition to could put off Ukraine’s membership bid law on referenda, which obliges Ukrainian and English, she knows five until at least 2011, when the next parlia- (Continued from page 6) Parliament’s presidium – a body scrapped other languages, has organized and partici- mentary election is due to be held. It will either Pavlo or Petro. But the Mother of more than a decade ago – rather than the pated in international conferences and, in God does not like any of these and steps president to set the date for a referendum. also strengthen doubts in the West about the summer of 2006, spoke to the Scottish away from the altar. But hearing the name Analyst Volodymyr Fesenko told the seriousness of Ukraine’s NATO choice. Parliament about Ukraine. Her website Segodnya that neither Mr. Yushchenko nor The Universal of National Unity that Isus Khrystos, she approaches the altar (http://ukrainesinger.tripod.com/id1.html) Mr. Yanukovych are interested in a referen- both Messrs. Yushchenko and Yanukovych and the whole world rejoices. covers her many accomplishments. All this dum on NATO and the SES. He suggested, signed in August 2006 stipulates that a ref- Ms. Fedyna has an M.A. in internation- plus talent, enthusiasm, beauty and a deep however, that Mr. Yanukovych might push erendum should be held as the last stage of al relations and diplomatic service from patriotism. for such a referendum if Mr. Yushchenko the NATO accession process. the Ivan Franko National University in She can be reached at insists on a referendum to reverse constitu- The declaration is more ambiguous on Lviv, and is now in the Ph. D. program, [email protected] for CD orders. tional reform. This means that Mr. the SES, containing no referendum studying contemporary political systems Let us hope she can visit North Yanukovych and the majority in Parliament, requirement, linking Ukraine’s member- and global problems. Her research interests America, both to sing and to speak. which supports him, may use the NATO and ship in SES to World Trade Organization SES referendum threat as a tool to thwart rules and urging a free-trade zone as the Mr. Yushchenko’s plan to reverse the consti- prerequisite for full participation in the tutional amendments that significantly SES. Opinion polls show that more than weakened the president vis-à-vis Parliament. half of Ukrainians support SES member- Popular support for NATO membership ship for the country. has been hovering around 20 percent dur- ing the past six years or so, according to Sources: Channel 5, December 29, 30, various opinion polls, so the negative 2006, January 9; Segodnya, January 3; result of a referendum is easy to predict. ProUA.com, January 4. Another referendum on the same issue may be held only after five years, accord- The article above is reprinted from ing to the law on referenda. The same law Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission leaves to Parliament the option to override from its publisher, the Jamestown referendum results by a two-thirds vote. Foundation, www.jamestown.org.

Ukraine, on January 2, 1926. He studied Ihor Sonevytsky... piano at the Lysenko Music Institute in (Continued from page 4) Kyiv, then went on to study music at the He traveled to Ukraine 17 times in University of Vienna (1945-1948) and at order to work with composers in that the Hochschule für Musik in Munich country, to serve on juries of music com- (1950). He earned a Ph.D. in musicology from the Ukrainian Free University in petitions and to teach. He taught courses 1961. in liturgical music at the conservatories He emigrated to the United States after in Lviv and Drohobych. Five concerts of World War II, and for many years lived Dr. Sonevytsky’s works were staged in in New York City. Lviv and Drohobych. A panakhyda was served at the Peter He was the author of many Ukrainian- Jarema Funeral Home in New York City language works in the field of musicology, on December 27. The funeral liturgy was most notable among them “Artem Vedel offered the next day at St. George and His Musical Legacy” (1966), “The Ukrainian Catholic Church in New York Compositional Legacy of Nestor City, and burial followed at St. Andrew Nyzhankivsky (1973) and Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery in South “Ethnomusicological Works of Zinovii Bound Brook, N.J. Lysko” (1976). He edited the second edi- Surviving are Dr. Sonevytsky’s wife, tion (1961) of Mykola Hrinchenko’s Natalia; children Andrij; Melania, with “History of Ukrainian Music” (originally her husband, Mykola Serbay; and published in 1922). Markian, with his wife, Jessica, and their In addition, many of his compositions daughters, Solomia and Zoriana; as well were published, including collections of as relatives in the United States, Canada, his liturgical music and his art songs, the Ukraine and Poland. opera “Zoria,” his piano concerto and a The family has requested memorial collection of piano music called donations to the Music and Art Center of “Seasons.” Greene County or the Ukrainian Catholic Dr. Sonevytsky was born in Education Foundation to benefit the Hadynkivtsi, Halychyna region of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 No. 3 Ukrainian physicians in the United States: a statistical overview by Oleh Wolowyna that their ancestry was Ukrainian, with of the physicians are U.S. born – 4,306 100 doctors. They are classified according 21 percent females and 79 percent males out of 5,947, or 72 percent of the total. to the following characteristic: age group, if The 2000 U.S. census provides the (Table 1). A slight plurality, 47 percent, Only 40 (less than 1 percent of the total) U.S.-born or immigrant and period of data for investigating in depth many were 45–64 years old, while the 25-44 are survivors of persons who came to the migration, and language spoken at home. aspects of persons of Ukrainian ancestry year age group accounted for 43 percent. U.S. before 1946, and 252 (4 percent of As can be seen in Table 3, the in the United States. One area of interest Only 9 percent were 65 or older. Female the total) are post-World War II immi- Metropolitan Area (MA) of New York- is the size and composition of different physicians were, on the average, younger grants. New Jersey has by far the largest con- professional groups. Here we describe than male doctors, with 57 percent of The 1953-1991 period has the largest centration of Ukrainian American physi- some characteristics of physicians and them aged 25-44 years, and only 3 per- number of immigrants, 807, followed by cians – 1,031 or 17 percent of the total surgeons who stated that their first or cent were 65 or older, compared to 11 the more recent immigrants with 542. (however, as can be inferred from data second ancestry was Ukrainian. (The percent among males. This means that out of the 1,641 total in Table 4, it is likely that a significant census form allowed respondents to state (Methodological note: The data used immigrants, more than 80 percent number of them are Jewish, and the one or two ancestries). Besides providing in this analysis is a 5 percent sample of a migrated after 1952, and that one-third of same applies to Los Angeles and a general overview of the medical profes- 20 percent sample of the total population. all immigrants came to the U.S. between Chicago). The second largest concentra- sion among Ukrainian Americans, this Thus, the results are affected by sampling 1992 and 2000. It should be noted that tion is found in the Philadelphia- analysis may be useful to the Ukrainian errors, which become more serious the out of the 542 recent immigrants (1992- Wilmington MA with 456, followed by Medical Association of North America more detailed the analysis. For example, 2000), 148 were born in Canada, 328 in the Los Angeles-Riverside MA with (UMANA), by providing fairly detailed if the analysis shows that there are no Ukraine and the rest in Russia and 331, the Chicago-Gary-Kenosha MA data about the potential pool of members Ukrainian-speaking doctors in Los Belarus. with 310 and the Washington-Baltimore for their association. Angeles, this may not necessarily be the Thus, the physicians in the Fourth MA with 295. case; it is possible that the number is Wave (immigrants from Ukraine or other The percent of females, shown in the General demographic characteristics small and that they were not included in former Soviet Union countries after last column of Table 3, varies greatly among the different cities. The Detroit- According to the 2000 census, a total the sample data provided by the Bureau 1991) comprise 24 percent of all immi- Ann Arbor-Flint MA had the largest of 5,947 physicians or surgeons stated of the Census. With these reservations in grants (394 born in Ukraine, Russia or mind, the census data is the most accu- Belarus, out of a total of 1,641 immi- percentage with 42 percent, followed rate information we have about persons grants). by Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Oleh Wolowyna, Ph.D., is president of of Ukrainian ancestry in the United As expected, the majority of all physi- with 33 percent, and Boston-Worcester Informed Decisions Inc. based in Chapel States). cians, 66 percent , speak English at and Chicago with 32 percent each. In Hill, N.C. A demographer, he has written In Table 2 we analyze the physicians home, followed by 14 percent Ukrainian Phoenix and San Francisco all the previously for The Ukrainian Weekly by nativity and migration period (if born speakers and 10 percent Russian speak- physicians were males (see method- about the U.S. Census and Ukrainians in in the U.S. or when migrated to the U.S.), ers. Among the U.S. born 82.5 percent ological note at the beginning of the the United States. and by language spoken at home. Most speak English, and among the post- article). World War II immigrants There are significant age structure (1946-1952) there are more variations among the different Table 1.- Number and Percents of Physicians and Surgeons of Ukrainian Ukrainian speakers than Metropolitan Areas. Ancestry, by Age and Sex: United States, 2000 English speakers, 128 and 102, Chicago has the highest percent of respectively. doctors age 65 years or more (34 per- Among the Fourth Wave cent), followed by Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater with 24 percent, Numbers Percent immigrants, the number of Ukrainian speakers is slightly Cleveland with 22 percent and Boston Age Male Female Total Male Female Total with 19 percent. Pittsburgh had the 18 - 24 0 37 37 0.0% 2.9% 0.6% higher than the number of Russian speakers (212 and 206, highest proportion of young doctors, 25 - 44 1,818 725 2,543 38.8% 57.4% 42.8% 76.5 percent in the 25-44 age group, respectively), while in the 1952- 45 - 64 2,348 466 2,814 50.1% 36.9% 47.3% followed by Boston with 58 percent 1991 immigrant group there are 65+ 518 35 553 11.1% 2.8% 9.3% and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater many more Russian than Total 4,684 1,263 5,947 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% with 50 percent. Los Angeles and Ukrainian speakers – 387 com- Phoenix have the highest concentration Source: 5% Public Use Microdata Sample, 2000 US Census pared to 92. It should be noted of doctors in the 45-64 age group with that in the late 1980s and early 79.5 percent, followed by San 1990s, most of the Francisco with 68 percent and Boston immigrants from Table 2.- Number of Physicians and Surgeons of Ukrainian Ancestry by Nativity with 66 percent. Ukraine to the U.S. The distribution of U.S.-born and and Period of Immigration, and by Language Spoken at Home: US, 2000 were Jewish. Only immigrants also varies widely among after 1995 did the the different Metropolitan Areas. Percent immigration stream (Please keep in mind the methodologi- Immigr. Waves English Ukrainian Russian Other Total of Total from Ukraine became cal note at the beginning of the article: US Born 3,551 395 0 360 4,306 72.4% predominantly ethnic due to sampling errors in the data used, Total Immigrants: 399 450 593 199 1,641 27.6% Ukrainian. instances with 0 cases in Table 4 do not <1946 22 18 0 0 40 0.7% Physicians by place necessarily mean no cases, and there 1946-1952 102 128 0 22 252 4.2% of residence may actually be a few cases in these 1953-1991 189 92 387 139 807 13.6% categories). 1992-2000 86 212 206 38 542 9.1% In this section we In Pittsburgh, Phoenix and Tampa-St. Total Numbers 3,950 845 593 559 5,947 100.0% present the number of Petersburg-Clearwater all the doctors Total Percent 66.4% 14.2% 10.0% 9.4% 100.0% Ukrainian American are U.S.-born, and Washington- physicians residing in Baltimore and Cleveland-Akron have Metropolitan Areas Source: 5% Public Use Microdata Sample, 2000 US Census very high proportions of U.S.-born doc- (MA) with at least tors. In New York and Chicago, on the other hand, less than half of all physi- Table 3.- Percent Distribution of Physicians and Surgeons of Ukrainian Ancestry by Age cians are foreign-born, and these cities have relatively large numbers of immi- Groups, for Major Metropolitan Areas*: US, 2000 grants in the 1953-1991 and 1992-2000 periods (this is also the case in Los Age Group Total Percent Angeles, and probably most of the doc- Metro_AreaCMSA5 18 - 24 25 - 44 45 - 64 65+ Percent Numbers Female tors in the 1953-1991 period are New York-New Jersey, NY-NJ-CT 0.0% 43.5% 48.5% 8.1% 100.0% 1,031 27.2% Jewish). Philadelphia-Wilmington, PA-NJ 0.0% 46.3% 43.6% 10.1% 100.0% 456 20.6% Dallas and Cleveland have the highest LA-Riverside, CA 0.0% 6.3% 79.5% 14.2% 100.0% 331 14.5% proportion of doctors from the Fourth Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI 11.9% 26.1% 27.7% 34.2% 100.0% 310 31.6% Wave with over 20 percent of the total Washington-Baltimore, MD-VA 0.0% 48.8% 45.8% 5.4% 100.0% 295 14.2% number of physicians in each city. Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI 0.0% 22.5% 65.7% 11.7% 100.0% 213 41.8% Detroit and San Francisco have the high- Boston-Worcester, MH-NH 0.0% 58.3% 22.9% 18.9% 100.0% 175 32.0% est proportion of post-World War II doc- Dallas-Fort Worth, TX 0.0% 44.3% 55.7% 0.0% 100.0% 158 3.8% tors, almost 20 percent in each city, and Cleveland-Akron, OH 0.0% 46.8% 30.8% 22.4% 100.0% 156 22.4% doctors from this immigration wave S. Francisco-Oakland, CA 0.0% 31.9% 68.1% 0.0% 100.0% 144 0.0% make up 13 percent of all physicians in Pittsburgh, PA 0.0% 76.5% 23.5% 0.0% 100.0% 136 18.4% Chicago. Phoenix, AZ 0.0% 20.5% 79.5% 0.0% 100.0% 127 0.0% The census question “does this per- Tampa-St. Pet.-Clearwater, FL 0.0% 50.0% 26.0% 24.0% 100.0% 104 32.7% son speak a language other than English at home?” allows us to esti- * With more than 100 physicians or surgeons mate linguistic profiles of Ukrainian American physicians in a city. The Source: 5% Public Use Microdata Sample, 2000 US Census (Continued on page 15) No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 15

and in specific cities. of the 5,742 physicians and surgeons Information is available on income, Ukrainian physicians... According to data graciously provid- captured by the 2000 census may be home ownership and value of the house, (Continued from page 14) ed by Dr. George Hrycelak, UMANA’s strong candidates for UMANA member- if the person was active in the military last column in Table 5 presents the executive director, the paid membership ship, this would more than double the service and in what war, etc., and one percent speaking Ukrainian at home in of UMANA has been close to 500 in current membership. has total freedom to make any cross the different metropolitan areas. recent years, and this probably includes Census data also provides information tabulation with any variable. Chicago has the highest percent other medical professionals besides on other medical professions. For exam- Information is available on other cities speaking Ukrainian (50 percent), fol- physicians and surgeons, like certified ple, using the criteria of Ukrainian with fewer than 100 physicians, and one lowed by Dallas-Fort Worth with 41 nurses, pharmacists, dentists, etc. In ancestry, we have the following esti- can further refine the information by percent. This is due to the fact that a theory, if we assume that all UMANA mates: 324 dentists, 424 chiropractors, some idea about their place of work. significant number of new immigrants paid members are physicians, this rep- 1,558 pharmacists, 11,458 registered For example, at the national level 3,154 live in Dallas-Fort Worth, and that a resents less than 10 percent of all physi- nurses, 2,412 therapists (occupational, (53 percent) of all physicians and sur- geons of Ukrainian ancestry work at large proportion of U.S.-born and cians of Ukrainian ancestry in the physical, recreational, respiratory, etc.), 1,842 clinical laboratory technologists private offices, 2,192 (37 percent) work post-World War II immigrants in United States. It would be unrealistic to expect that and technicians, 1,844 licensed practical in hospitals, and 119 (2 percent) work Chicago have retained Ukrainian as all of them might be potential members and licensed vocational nurses. If in universities and colleges. their home language. of UMANA. First, we need to take into UMANA plans to also attract these med- It is a well-known fact that any suc- Several cities do not seem to have any account that, at least in some cities, a ical professionals, this would increase cessful enterprise relies on empirical Ukrainian- or Russian-speaking doctors, significant number of physicians who even further the potential pool of data for its planning and decision-mak- only English-speaking doctors: Los migrated from Ukraine are Jewish, and UMANA members. ing. This applies to the private sector, Angeles, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Phoenix probably most of them would not be The analysis presented here on physi- and the government, as well as volun- and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater. interested in becoming UMANA mem- cians and surgeons can be repeated for tary and community organizations. (Given the sampling nature of the data, it bers. Second, some of them are probably all other medical professions listed Only by modernizing the management is possible that in some of these cities not interested in any kind of activity in above. One can also make more methods of our organizations will we there are a few Ukrainian- or Russian- the Ukrainian community. However, detailed analyses with the current, as be able to build a strong and influential speaking doctors). even if we consider that only 20 percent well as additional census variables. diaspora. Cleveland, Philadelphia and Los Angeles have a great majority of doctors speaking English at home, while the pro- Table 4.- Number of Physicians and Surgeons of Ukrainian Ancestry by Nativity and portion speaking English in Chicago is Period of Immigration, for Major Metropolitan Areas*: US, 2000 low (28 percent). Half of all doctors speak Russian in San Francisco, and in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Immigration Period Cleveland, more than 20 percent of all Metro_AreaCMSA5 US Born <1946 1946-52 1953-91 1992-2000 Total % US Born doctors speak Russian. In New York, Los New York-New Jersey, NY-NJ-CT 465 18 58 327 163 1,031 45.1% Angeles, Cleveland and San Francisco, Philadelphia-Wilmington, PA-NJ 381 0 17 25 33 456 83.6% there are more Russian- than Ukrainian- LA-Riverside, CA 207 0 26 75 23 331 62.5% speaking doctors. Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI 107 0 40 105 58 310 34.5% Chicago has the highest number of Washington-Baltimore, MD-VA 263 0 0 32 0 295 89.2% Ukrainian speakers (59 percent) and Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI 158 0 40 15 0 213 74.2% the lowest number of English speakers Boston-Worcester, MH-NH 157 0 0 18 0 175 89.7% (28 percent). In Philadelphia we have Dallas-Fort Worth, TX 94 0 0 27 37 158 59.5% three-fourths speaking English and the Cleveland-Akron, OH 121 0 0 0 35 156 77.6% rest speaking Ukrainian. In Los S. Francisco-Oakland, CA 45 0 27 72 0 144 31.3% Angeles we also have three-fourths Pittsburgh, PA 136 0 0 0 0 136 100.0% speaking English, but the rest are Phoenix, AZ 127 0 0 0 0 127 100.0% Russian-speakers. New York has the Tampa-St. Pet.-Clearwater, FL 104 0 0 0 0 104 100.0% most diverse linguistic composition: about 42 percent speak English, 20 * With more than 100 physicians or surgeons percent Ukrainian, 29 percent Russian and 9 percent other languages. The Source: 5% Public Use Microdata Sample, 2000 US Census general conclusion from Table 5 is that the linguistic patterns of Ukrainian Table 5.- Number of Physicians and Surgeons of Ukrainian Ancestry by Language American physicians vary significantly Spoken at Home, for Major Metropolitan Areas*: US, 2000 among the different cities, and a key factor is the size of the more recent Language Spoken at Home immigration waves (1953-1991 and Metropolitan Area English Ukrainian Russian Other Total % Ukrainian 1992-2000). New York-New Jersey, NY-NJ-CT 382 178 261 85 906 19.6% Some metropolitan areas, like New Philadelphia-Wilmington, PA-NJ 320 104 0 0 424 24.5% York-New Jersey, encompass very LA-Riverside, CA 218 0 68 3 289 0.0% large areas with several large cities Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI 79 140 60 0 279 50.2% and/or communities. As an example, in Washington-Baltimore, MD-VA 180 83 32 0 295 28.1% Table 6 we decompose the New York- Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI 144 54 0 15 213 25.4% New Jersey Metropolitan Area into Boston-Worcester, MH-NH 146 29 0 0 175 16.6% cities and areas called Primary Dallas-Fort Worth, TX 93 65 0 0 158 41.1% Metropolitan Statistical Areas (PMSA). Cleveland-Akron, OH 121 0 35 0 156 0.0% This provides data on the number of S. Francisco-Oakland, CA 45 27 72 0 144 18.8% doctors and their characteristics in Pittsburgh, PA 136 0 0 0 136 0.0% cities like Bergen-Passaic, New York Phoenix, AZ 127 0 0 0 127 0.0% or Newark. New York City has about Tampa-St. Pet.-Clearwater, FL 104 0 0 0 104 0.0% 540 doctors, followed by Newark with 175. * With more than 100 physicians or surgeons In two PMSAs, Dutchess County and Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, there Source: 5% Public Use Microdata Sample, 2000 US Census are no doctors speaking English, 100 percent spoke only Ukrainian at home in Duchess County, and in the other PMSA 55 percent speak Ukrainian and 45 per- Table 6.- Number of Physicians and Surgeons of Ukrainian Ancestry by Language Spoken cent Russian. In Newark the number of at Home, for Components* of the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Area: US, 2000 doctors speaking other languages (Spanish, Polish and Romanian) is Language Spoken at Home almost equal to the number speaking Metro_AreaPMSA5 English Ukrainian Russian Other Total % Ukrainian English, and only 41 of 175 speak Bergen-Passaic, NJ 50 0 19 0 69 0.0% Ukrainian. Duchess County, NY 0 30 0 0 30 100.0% Practical implications Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ 0 44 36 0 80 55.0% Monmouth-Ocean, NJ 19 0 0 0 19 0.0% The data presented here may be of Nassau-Suffolk, NY 83 18 18 0 119 15.1% general interest to readers interested in New York, NY 164 45 188 142 539 8.3% the status of the Ukrainian diaspora in Newark, NJ 66 41 0 68 175 23.4% the United States in general, and in its Total 382 178 261 210 1,031 17.3% medical professionals in particular. A specific application of these data could * Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas be to estimate the potential membership for the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America (UMANA) in the country Source: 5% Public Use Microdata Sample, 2000 US Census 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 No. 3 Are early elections... 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It is with deep, deep sorrow that we announce the passing on December 6, 2006, of our beloved father and grandfather

Ò‚. Ô. ілимося болючою вісткою з родиною, приятелями і знайомими, що дня 19 жовтня 2006 р. з волі 3севишнього відійшла у Eожу вічність Wolodymyr Lodziuk на 86-му році життя, наша найдорожча УW4/А, А:У(Я, EАEУ(Я, (!(:А born March 1, 1921, in Boryslav, Ukraine

Funeral services were held December 11, 2006, at St. George Ukrainian Catholic св. п. Church with interment at St. Andrew’s Cemetery in South Bound Brook, N.J.

О&ЬА +!:4$ 4EА The 40th Day Masses were held January 15 at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in New York City, St. John’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark, N.J., +А/А-4А відбулася 22 жовтня 2006 р. в похоронному заведенні St. Nicholas Church in Amsterdam, N.Y. and St. George Church in Lviv, Ukraine. . +. раґо. In deep mourning: +О-ОО//І 3І+А34 відбулися 23 жовтня 2006 р. о год. 10-ій daughter - Vera Krasovsky with children Christina and Andrew ранку в церкві Zесного -реста в Асторії, /.[., а відтак на цвинтарі св. son - Ihor Lodziuk with wife Marika and children, Markian, Stefan and Adriana уха в Ґошен, /.[. daughter - Oksana Krywulych with husband Myron and son Roman and family in Florida and Ukraine У глибокому смутку залишилися: íÄíY, ÇßóçÄ íéÅß èÄå’üíú! муж – ЮІ[ сини – О&!$(А/! з дружиною (:!^ОЮ – ОА/ з дружиною О!/І$ОЮ дочки – /АІЯ з чоловіком ОА/О – О&ЬА внуки – О&!$(А/!, [О(4+ Petro Ostapchuk сестри – :!$&Я з родиною – (:!^А/ІЯ в Україні з родиною та ближча і дальша родина. beloved husband, father, and grandfather. Born in Palahiche, Ukraine, on February 16, 1919. 3ічна ?й пам'ять! Departed this life on January 4, 2007, in Jupiter, Florida. одина складає подяку всім рідним, приятелям і знайомим A funeral celebration was conducted on Tuesday, January 9th by Fr. Severyn за молитви, вислови співчуття, слова прощання та за пожертви. Kovalyshin, Ph.D., at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in North Port, FL. Private inurnment will occur at Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in Campbell Hall, NY. The family was assisted by Farley Funeral Home in North Port, FL.

Left grieving are:

Spouse Iryna of Jupiter, FL; Son Myron Ostapchuk of Dominican Republic; Son Dr. Andrew Ostapchuk, of Jupiter, FL, with wife Lori and children Marc, Hana, and Luke; Daughter Roma Hanson, of Kenosha, WI, with husband John, ілимося сумною вісткою, що 22 листопада 2006 р. and children Adalia and Taras; відійшла у вічність Granddaughter Tamara Ostapchuk of Tallahassee, FL; Other family members in the US, Canada, and Ukraine; and numerous св. п. friends. АІЯ ОО!"Ь$А з дому $&І' Stephania Rasiak нар. 6 травня 1915 р. в (яноці на &емківщині. 30 March 1914 - 16 December 2006 +О-ОО//І 3І+А34 відбулися 28 листопада 2006 р. в церкві св. :ройці в Silver Spring, MD. +окійну поховано на Cedar Hill Cemetery, With deep sorrow we share with you that our beloved wife, mother, grand- Suitland, MD. mother and aunt passed away on 16 December 2006 in Astoria, N.Y. Born in Viysko, Ukraine, Stephania was the daughter of Kateryna and Mykhaylo У глибокому смутку залишилися: Malytsky.

доньки – /А:А&ІЯ АІЯ Funeral services and Mass were offered on 21 December 2006 by Father – О$(А/А Christopher Woytyna at Holy Cross Ukrainian Catholic Church in Long Island City, N.Y. Burial followed at Holy Spirit Cemetery in Hamptonburg, 3ічна ?й +ам'ять! N.Y., with Father Yaroslav Kostyk of St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Catholic Church ------officiating. Eажаючих проситься складати пожертви в пам'ять +окійної на: Stephania leaves behind: Holy Trinity Particular Ukrainian Catholic Church, 16631 New Hampshire Husband Vasyl Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20905; Daughter Nadia with her son Roman Maria Horodecka Endowment Fund, Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th Son Ruslan with wife Elizabeth and their children Street, New York, NY 10003; Roman, Katherine, Robert and Sophia Niece Oresta Malytska Maria and Illa Horodeckyj Gift Fund, Columbia University, Ukrainian Nephew Frank Kramer Studies Program, c/o Harvard University, Ukrainian Studies Fund, 1583 and extended families in Ukraine, Canada and the United States Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 . Vichnaya Pamyat - Eternal Memory 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 No. 3 No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 19

date certain so-called interpretations of reject these nominations, as well as the have authority. Therefore, the president Cabinet’s authority... ambiguities or say that this doesn’t Parliament’s nomination of prime minister. loses the right to dismiss Parliament if a (Continued from page 1) adhere to the Constitution,” said Adam If the president doesn’t decide after 15 ministerial seat hasn’t been filled. ister that we would work together to pre- Martyniuk, a Communist and first vice- days to approve the nominees to those Although the president retains the power pare the law on the Cabinet of Ministers,” chairman of the Verkhovna Rada. posts, the Parliament appoints them to appoint state oblast administration chairs, Mr. Yushchenko said on January 17. “But it won’t cancel the whole law regardless, making the president’s role commonly known as governors, under the “Undoubtedly, it would have been logical because it adheres to the Constitution.” essentially a rubber stamp in that regard. new law they are accountable to the Cabinet, The coalition government also reserves to consult with the president and govern- Diminished presidency which has the authority to change any ment about the appropriate mechanisms the right to dismiss the defense and for- instructions or orders from the president. and instruments of regulating the relations Perhaps the most significant restriction eign affairs ministers – a particularly rele- “The principle of distribution of power between the two institutions. It seems the on presidential authority in the Cabinet of vant issue today since the government in Ukraine was violated today,” said prime minister made a big mistake in delib- Ministers law is the requirement that the hasn’t sorted out whether Minister of Arsenii Yatseniuk, the president’s repre- erating this matter in another institution.” prime minister, as well as the minister Foreign Affairs Borys Tarasyuk was law- sentative in the Cabinet of Ministers, Mr. Yushchenko said he wouldn’t sign responsible for its execution, sign each fully dismissed by Parliament or not. adding that the law breached at least 11 the law, vowing to forward it to the presidential decree. If neither approves The Cabinet of Ministers gains the constitutional norms. Constitutional Court for review with the the bill, they can return the decree to the ability to appoint all vice ministers. The authority to approve the Cabinet’s confidence that numerous provisions will president with an explanation. Authority over state-owned monopo- program of activities shifts to the be nullified for violating the Constitution While the president currently selects the lies, enterprises and sites is also trans- Parliament, stripping the president the of of Ukraine. nominees for defense and foreign affairs ferred to the Cabinet, as is appointing power to develop, approve and execute In fact, parliamentary leaders admitted ministers, the Cabinet of Ministers bill their administrators. the government’s program. as much. shifts that prerogative to the parliamentary A minimum of two-thirds of Cabinet “The Constitutional Court can eluci- coalition. The president loses his ability to posts need to be filled in order for it to (Continued on page 20)

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agreements and assigning diplomats, Mr. law “On the Cabinet of Ministers” on it’s the first time such a post has existed. Cabinet’s authority... Fesenko said. Authority over the army, December 21, 2006; it was vetoed by the In fact, Mr. Radchenko’s main task of (Continued from page 19) defense and security structures are also president on January 11. coordinating security and defense struc- The president also loses the right to largely left with the president, he said. Passing it a second time required over- tures is precisely what the National appoint many government officials, Perhaps most importantly, the presi- riding the president’s veto, a feat that Security and Defense Council (NSDC) is including in his own Presidential dent can still dismiss the coalition gov- would have been impossible without the designated to do by the Constitution, Secretariat, reported Mr. Yatseniuk. ernment and halt a law passed by support of the opposition Yulia which defines it as “the coordinating Along with the loss of the presidential Parliament in order to submit it for Tymoshenko Bloc, which gave its votes organ on issues of national security and prerogative to give orders to Cabinet review by the Constitutional Court, as he to create a total of 366 – far more than defense under the Ukrainian president.” ministers, the Ukrainian presidency is did with the land moratorium law that the necessary 300. That last clause, “under the Ukrainian essentially stripped of its influence on the survived his veto. In exchange for her bloc’s support, president,” is what irritates Mr. Yanukovych executive branch of government. “I would not dramatize the situation Ms. Tymoshenko obtained the coalition’s most, and motivated the creation of Mr. Political observers speculated that the too much, but certainly the balance of support to vote for a parliamentary oppo- Radchenko’s position. Ukrainian presidency may be reduced to government has been tipped in favor of sition law that would have created the In doing so, Mr. Yanukovych wants to a figurehead position, similar to the the Cabinet,” Mr. Fesenko explained. first official opposition. counterbalance, offset or supplant Mr. German or Israeli presidency. The pro- Mr. Yushchenko is largely to blame for It would not only have enabled Ms. Yushchenko’s influence in the NSDC, the daily newspaper Segodnya said putting himself in the position in which Tymoshenko to establish a monopoly on Security Service of Ukraine and the as much, comparing the Ukrainian presi- his authority has been stripped, some the parliamentary opposition at the Ministry of Defense. dency with England’s throne, in terms of political observers said. expense of the Our Ukraine bloc, but also Mr. Radchenko is a high-ranking KGB political influence. He had criticized the constitutional given unprecedented influence and access. veteran who chaired all of Ukraine’s critical Some observers declared Ukraine virtu- reforms ever since becoming president in Under its extremely generous condi- security and defense institutions during the ally a parliamentary republic, as opposed January 2005, yet failed to lead any leg- tions, the opposition would have gained Kuchma era, first as minister of internal to a parliamentary-presidential republic. islative initiative to cancel them or at chairmanship of 12 parliamentary com- affairs, twice as chair of the Security mittee chairs, as well as the first vice- However, most political experts said least protect the Ukrainian presidency Service of Ukraine (known by its Ukrainian chairs of all other committees. the Ukrainian president still retains sig- from any vagueness in the law. acronym as SBU) and most recently as It would also have gained the right to nificant powers, even if most provisions Instead, Mr. Yanukovych and the Party NSDC chair between 2003 and 2005. have a vice-chairman in Parliament, to form of the Cabinet of Ministers law survive of the Regions decided to fill in the miss- Despite his close ties to Mr. Kuchma a shadow government and to participate in the Constitutional Court. ing details of the revised Constitution, in and his Communist past, Mr. Radchenko the weekly Cabinet of Ministers meetings. The court is likely to side with the their own favor. maintained a strong independence is In fact, the law was so generous that it president on his right to appoint the “According to the law, the president directing his agencies and never appeared too good to be true – a theory belonged to a political party. defense and foreign affairs ministers, said loses the right to nominate a very large confirmed by Mr. Moroz on January 18. Former Minister of Internal Affairs Volodymyr Fesenko, chairman of the number of officials,” Mr. Yatseniuk said. Though the coalition government Yurii Lutsenko said Mr. Radchenko is a Penta Center for Applied Political “This doesn’t conflict with the agreed with Ms. Tymoshenko to vote for highly professional official, but serving Research, which is funded by Ukrainian Constitution, but it goes against that it in its first reading, passing it with 362 in Mr. Yanukovych’s Cabinet will require political parties and the Presidential political tradition which formed during votes, Mr. Moroz said supporting it on a him to act as an agent in the coalition Secretariat. the independence years.” second reading or in the case of a presi- government’s usurpation campaign. The president also retains the ability to “After all, President Leonid Kuchma dential veto was not part of the deal. “Obviously, the Cabinet’s next logical appoint the procurator general, who is the stamped out for himself the right to appoint “I believe there are a lot of norms step will be creating a vice prime minis- nation’s lead prosecutor, as well as the practically all the officials in the country written there that not only exceed the ter for direction of oblast-district admin- chair of the Security Service of Ukraine, though this wasn’t written in the Constitution’s bounds, but also those of a istrations,” Mr. Lutsenko said. “And on which is Ukraine’s successor institution Constitution. Of course, the president’s main healthy mind,” Mr. Moroz said of the that note, a new dictatorship without to the KGB. mistake was he didn’t manage to pass a law parliamentary opposition bill. restraints and counterbalance of govern- Although the Parliament will determine about the Ukrainian presidency,” he added. In her bartering with the coalition, Ms. ment branches will be finalized. the foundation and principles of foreign Yulia gained too Tymoshenko got support to pass an Therefore, instead of a personified policy, but the president still serves as the imperative mandate law, which will Kuchma, we will get a ‘collective main moderator, signing international The Verkhovna Rada passed the first allow the local leadership political parties Kuchma.’ ” or blocs to dismiss from city councils Regions’ revanche those deputies that abandoned the party or bloc they represented during elections. Critics of the Yanukovych government She sought this law because the have alleged it is not only usurping power, Tymoshenko Bloc suffered political but using it for revanche, a political policy humiliation in the . designed to recover lost territory or status. After winning an overwhelming 41 seats No better evidence of this was the in the 2006 election, 18 city deputies January 12 reappointment of Serhii Popkov abandoned the Tymoshenko Bloc after as vice minister of internal affairs – the same getting elected and joined the Leonid post he held during the Orange Revolution. Chernovetskyi Bloc to form the majority On November 28, 2004, it was the very coalition in the Kyiv Council. same Mr. Popkov who ordered 13,000 sol- Given the generous provisions of the diers of Ukraine’s internal affairs forces to parliamentary opposition law, it’s likely violently disband the protesters on Ms. Tymoshenko expected the coalition Independence Square. government would abandon it, and she In his defense, Mr. Popkov claimed he realistically only expected to gain the received information that protesters were imperative mandate law, observers said. staging an assault on the Presidential Her underlying strategy in supporting Administration, now known as the the Cabinet of Ministers was to exacerbate Secretariat. the conflict between President Yushchenko Orange Revolution field commanders and Prime Minister Yanukovych, Mr. said no such plans ever existed, and Fesenko said, in hope that the president is believe Mr. Popkov called off a violent forced to dismiss the government and hold suppression of the revolution because he pre-term elections or attempt to cancel the lacked the support of many of his own January 1 constitutional reforms. soldiers, and because of the fact that they She also managed to ruin any agreement were immensely outnumbered. or alliance that might have been reached “The person who personally gave the between Messrs. Yushchenko and order to distribute ammunition to special Yanukovych to pass the Cabinet of Ministers forces of the ministry’s internal armies to law, which Mr. Yushchenko hinted at. attack peaceful demonstrators has no The parliamentary opposition law was moral or political right to lead the min- possibly a smokescreen, observers said. istry,” Mr. Lutsenko said. New vice prime minister However, Mr. Yanukovych held a dif- ferent view: “I didn’t see evidence in the The Cabinet of Ministers law isn’t the Procurator General’s Office that would only major victory achieved by the coali- indicate Popkov gave the order to dis- tion government in the past week. perse the maidan using arms.” He added Also on January 12, the Verkhovna that “Popkov is an expert of a very high Rada voted to support Mr. Yanukovych’s level. He had no violations, and he com- nomination of Volodymyr Radchenko as mands high respect.” his vice prime minister for coordination of Also back at the Ministry of Internal power structures, referring to Ukraine’s Affairs is Mykola Plekhanov, the Sumy defense and security institutions. Oblast police chief who ordered assaults The elevation of Mr. Radchenko to on Sumy students peacefully demonstrat- Mr. Yanukovych’s Cabinet drew sharp ing against the merger of several local criticism from opposition forces because colleges into one university. No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 21 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 No. 3

Ukraine’s accession to the EU. It is worth NEWSBRIEFS noting that the destroyed bridge between (Continued from page 2) Solotvyno and Sighetu-Marmatrei was Yushchenko to challenge law in court reconstructed thanks to relief funds provid- ed by the European Union. (Ukrinform) KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko has confirmed his intention to challenge the Poland: recognize Holodomor law on the Cabinet of Ministers in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Ukrinform KYIV – Poland has appealed to the reported, citing the presidential press serv- EuroParliament to recognize the 1932-1933 ice. “The most effective way of renewing Famine in Ukraine as a crime against the balance of powers is to send a request to humanity. A relevant draft resolution has the Constitutional Court to analyze some been presented in the European Parliament clauses of the Cabinet law that conflict with by a Polish member of the European the Constitution,” he said in Mukachiv on Parliament, Konrad Szymanski. According January 14. The president said the “destruc- to the draft resolution, the Holodomor was tive vote” to override his veto “ruined the artificially caused as a punishment to the last chance to preserve balances in the presi- population for opposing collectivization dent’s relations with the government and policies. As the newspaper Rzeczpospolita Parliament.” Mr. Yushchenko said the vote reported, the idea has been already backed made him pessimistic about how to observe by the two biggest factions in the European the Universal of National Unity, particularly Parliament. According to experts, the its clause on the Cabinet law. He reiterated Famine of 1932-1933 killed some 7 million his intention to amend the Constitution to to 10 million Ukrainians. In addition to balance Ukraine’s system of government. Ukraine, the Famine has been recognized (Ukrinform) as genocide by 10 countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, Georgia, Ukraine, Romania open checkpoint and the Baltic states. (Ukrinform)

KYIV – Presidents Viktor Yushchenko Reactions to Constitutional Commission of Ukraine and Traian Basescu of Romania on January 15 participated in an official KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman opening ceremony of the checkpoint Oleksander Moroz and Prime Minister Solotvyno-Sighetu-Marmatrei at the Viktor Yanukovych at a meeting with Ukrainian-Romanian border at a recon- President Viktor Yushchenko on January 10 structed bridge over the Tysa River. Calling supported his idea of a Constitutional it a historic event, Mr. Yushchenko stressed Commission on political reform. As the that it resulted from a constructive dialogue president told a follow-up press conference, between Ukraine and Romania. Mr. the parties reached accord on the need to Yushchenko also congratulated the presi- deepen constitutional reform. In turn, Mr. dent of Romania on Romania’s accession Moroz noted that amendments to the to the European Union. In turn, President Constitution of Ukraine are not perceived Basescu noted that the checkpoint had been unambiguously. Proceeding from the fact opened due to the joint efforts of Ukraine, that, in the process of putting into effect the Romania and the EU. He stressed that constitutional reforms, contradictions were opening the checkpoint symbolizes that Romania is another link in the chain of (Continued on page 23) No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 23

Energy dispute’s losses deportation resulted in a death toll of 46.2 E with a capacity of 2,000 passengers per NEWSBRIEFS percent of Crimean Tatars. (Ukrinform) hour by the year 2015, thus bringing the (Continued from page 22) KYIV – Ukrainian Energy Minister capacity of all the airport’s terminals to Yurii Boiko said on January 10 that prior to Lviv OKs subsidy for UPA veterans 5,500 per hour. It further provides for con- recognized, that Mr. Moroz said these the resolution of Belarus and Russia’s oil should be rectified. Prime Minister struction of yet another terminal with a dispute, Ukraine was losing $330,000 a KYIV – The city of Lviv has granted vet- capacity of 2,000 passengers per hour by Yanukovych did not tell journalists whether day, Interfax reported. “We have lost erans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army he was going to name his representatives to the year 2020, thus bringing the airport’s around 50 percent of our export [of Russian (UPA) a 100 percent subsidy on utility serv- projected annual passenger capacity to 20.5 the Constitutional Commission that has oil] and the operation of the Odesa-Brody ices. A decision to this effect was made at a been initiated by presidential decree. million. In addition, a cargo terminal with oil pipeline has stalled in addition,” Mr. meeting on January 12. The executive com- an area of 6,000 square meters and a daily Earlier, Mr. Moroz had said he would not mittee also granted widows of UPA veterans Boiko said. Belarusian ambassador to cargo-handling capacity of 200 tons is fore- send his delegates to the commission, a 50 percent subsidy. A sum of 500,000 hrv Ukraine Valyantsin Vyalichka suggested on seen by the year 2010. A second cargo ter- which aims to make improvements to the was allocated to finance these subsidies in January 10 that the closure of the Druzhba minal is expected by the year 2015 and a amendments made to the Constitution of 2007. The Lviv City Council has repeatedly pipeline should not affect relations between third one by the 2020 in order to increase Ukraine in December 2004. (Ukrinform) requested that the Verkhovna Rada recog- Belarus and Ukraine, Belapan reported. the area of all the airport’s cargo terminals nize the UPA as a fighting force in World “Ukraine did not consume the oil that is to 29,350 square meters and their cargo- Rada appoints vice prime minister War II. (Ukrinform) now shut off,” Mr. Vyalichka was quoted as handling capacity to 900 tons per day. saying. (RFE/RL Newsline) KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on Ukrainian dubbing for children’s movies Plans also call for construction of a new January 12 appointed Volodymyr Chornovil museum is opened runway, a control tower, an approach road Radchenko as vice prime minister, Interfax KYIV – Seventy-five percent of chil- from the Kyiv-Boryspil road to the airport, reported. Yevhen Kushnariov, vice-chair- CHERKASY, Ukraine – A museum dren’s movies in Ukrainian movie theaters a ramp to the terminals and a separate rail- man of the Party of the Regions caucus, dedicated to human rights activist and will be dubbed in Ukrainian beginning on way line from Boryspil by the year 2015. told reporters that Mr. Radchenko will be Rukh leader Vyacheslav Chornovil was February 1. An agreement to this effect (Ukrinform) responsible for law-enforcement bodies. officially opened in late 2006 in the village was reached at a roundtable between Prior to his appointment Mr. Radchenko of Vilkhovets, in the Cherkasy region. The Minister of Culture Yurii Bohutskyi and 137th political party is registered served with the National Security and museum is located on the grounds of the Ukrainian film distributors. A memoran- KYIV – The Ukrainian Justice Defense Council and the Security Service Chornovil family home. Oleksander dum on film dubbing, sounding and subti- Ministry registered yet another political of Ukraine and was an adviser to the prime Cherevko, head of the tling in the state language is supposed to party, the Ukrainian Party, it was reported minister on a voluntary basis. With Mr. Administration, said that Chornovil, along be signed next week. Earlier, the govern- Radchenko’s appointment, the Ukrainian with Ivan Svitlychny, Ivan Dzyuba, ment had obliged distributors to gradually on January 10. Its leader, Oleksander government now has five vice prime minis- Yevhen Sverstiuk, Alla Horska, move toward dubbing all foreign movies Serhiyenko, is little-known on the politi- ters. The others are: Mykola Azarov, Andrii and Les Taniuk, began the Ukrainian in Ukrainian, which was opposed by dis- cal scene. The Ukrainian Party has Kliuyev, Dmytro Tabachnyk and national liberation movement in the 1960s. tributors, as they buy the ready product become the 137th officially registered Volodymyr Rybak. (RFE/RL Newsline) He added that Chornovil, who was recog- from Russian companies. In October 2006 party in Ukraine. The freedom to unite in nized as a Hero of Ukraine, was one of the the Court of Appeal canceled the unprof- political parties is guaranteed by the Scandal over transcript’s publication leading organizers and activists of this itable resolution. According to the memo- Constitution of Ukraine. The formation movement that fought against the totalitari- randum, as of February 1 distributors will and activities of parties is banned only if KYIV – The parliamentary faction of an regime. He fought for the rebirth of dub at least half of foreign movies in their program goals or actions are aimed the Socialist Party on January 12 urged the Ukraine, its culture and spirituality, and its Ukrainian. (Ukrinform) at liquidating Ukraine’s independence; leadership of law-enforcement bodies and state sovereignty. (Ukrinform) changing the constitutional system special services to investigate the publica- Boryspil Airport to be transformed through violent acts; infringing on the tion by some Internet media of a transcript Tatars seek recognition of genocide country’s sovereignty and territorial of a telephone conversation between KYIV – Ukraine has decided to trans- integrity; propagandizing war, violence, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksander SYMFEROPOL, Ukraine – The form the Boryspil International Airport into interethnic, racial or religious animosity; Moroz and the British Ambassador to Crimean Parliament urged the Verkhovna an international transit hub of interconti- impinging on human rights and freedoms Ukraine. Faction leader Ivan Bokyi stated Rada to recognize deportation of the nental importance. The concept for the pro- or health. Political parties in Ukraine that “the aforementioned materials say that Crimean nation in 1944 as genocide, it was gram of the airport’s development through cannot run military units. (Ukrinform) the telephone talks were recorded as a reported on December 25, 2006. According the year 2020 was approved by the Cabinet result of an operation of Ukrainian special to First Vice-Chairperson of the Crimean of Ministers, it was reported on January 13. Ukraine, Estonia sign accord services, mainly of the Security Service of Meijilis Refat Chubarov, a special commis- To achieve this goal, investments totaling Ukraine. The faction demands that law- sion, formed during a previous sitting, has $2.27 billion (U.S.) must be attracted. The KYIV – The governments of Ukraine enforcement bodies and special services collected myriad documents proving that Transport and Communications Ministry is and Estonia have signed a cooperation conduct an official investigation and the deportation was aimed at destruction of to submit a draft of the program to the agreement in the sectors of economy, reveal the sources of the illegal bugging of the Crimean Tatars. Some Russian-speak- Cabinet of Ministers within two months for industry and science, it was reported on the speaker.” Mr. Moroz said that the tran- ing residents of Crimea still believe the approval. The concept foresees an increase January 16. The document was signed by script of his telephone conversation with deportation was a punishment for the in the number of passengers annually han- Prime Ministers Viktor Yanukovych of the British ambassador is absolutely exact. Tatars’ cooperation with German troops. dled by the airport from the current 4.6 mil- Ukraine and Andrus Ansip of Estonia. “I’m not ashamed of what I have said. I’m Crimea is home to about 250,000 Crimean lion to 8.1 million in 2010, 13.1 million in According to Mr. Yanukovych, the agree- indignant that one can trace in such a way. Tatars. As many as 100,000 Tatars reside 2015, and 18.4 million in 2020. The plan ment envisages development of economic, I support the party’s stance that the abroad, and between 2,000 and 4,000 provides for construction of a Terminal D trade, scientific and other relations Security Service and the Internal Affairs Crimean Tatars return to Crimea each year. with a handling capacity of 1,500 passen- between the two countries. The meeting Ministry should make things orderly,” he The deportation of Crimean Tatars began gers per hour and further expanding its also resulted in a resolution to create favor- said. (Ukrinform) on May 18, 1944; about 200,000 Crimean capacity to 2,000 passengers per hour. It able conditions for further development of Tatars were sent into exile to Asia. The also provides for construction of a Terminal trade and economic relations. (Ukrinform) Druzhba oil transit resumes

KYIV – According to the UkrTransNafta press service, at 11 p.m. on January 10, oil transit to Hungary and Slovakia resumed Ukrainian National Federal Credit Union via the Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline, which passes through the territory of Ukraine. As a result of a conflict between Russia and Belarus, oil transit via the Druzhba pipeline had ceased on January 8. Money Market Account On the same day supplies to Hungary and Slovakia were stopped. (Ukrinform)

Communists threaten impeachment KYIV – The Communist Party caucus up to 4.08%apy* in the Verkhovna Rada said in a January 10 statement that the policies followed by President Viktor Yushchenko are grounds for initiating impeachment proceedings against him, Interfax reported. The cau- Manhattan Brooklyn So. Bound Brook, NJ Carteret NJ cus accused Mr. Yushchenko of waging “an actual war” against Parliament by vetoing a number of bills. “Serious attempts to disturb the social and political 1-866-859-5848 situation in Ukraine and to provoke early parliamentary elections are eroding what is left of the people’s trust in the presi- *Minimum balance to open Money Market Account – $50,000.00 dent’s power and are raising the issue of Annual Percentage Yield based on 4.00% apr impeaching the president,” the statement Rates subject to change without notice. Other restrictions apply reads. (RFE/RL Newsline) 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 No. 3 No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 25 OUT AND ABOUT

January 27 Malanka featuring the music of Hrim, Holy Cross Astoria, NY Ukrainian Catholic Church, 718-932-4060

January 27 “Songs from Beyond the Black Sea,” Kitka women’s Santa Cruz, CA vocal ensemble and Trio Kavkasia, Holy Cross Church, 510-444-0323 or kitka.org

January 27 Lecture by Alexander Motyl, “Ukraine – 2007: What New York Next?” Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130

January 27 Debutante Banquet and Ball, Ukrainian American Chicago Medical Association, The Hotel InterContinental, music by Veseli Chasy, 312-282-7017

January 27 Malanka featuring music by Zolota Bulava, St. George’s New Britain, CT Hall, sponsored by the Zolotyj Promin Dance Ensemble, 860-716-0334 or 203-405-2590

February 1 Lecture by Olena Nikolayenko, “Public Opinion and Toronto Democratic Development in Ukraine,” University of Toronto, 416-946-8938

February 2 Lecture with Keith Darden, “Mass Schooling and the Toronto Formation of Enduring National Loyalties: The Case of Ukraine,” University of Toronto, 416-946-8938

February 3 Malanka featuring music by Hrim, Holy Cross Ukrainian Long Island City, NY Catholic Church, 718-932-4060

February 4 Super Bowl party to benefit the Ukrainian American Whippany, NJ Cultural Center of New Jersey and St. John Ukrainian Catholic Church, UACCNJ, 973-585-7175 or 862-754-6329

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Plast group attends friend’s Second annual Family Night performance in “Nutcracker” delivers fun for all ages by Katia Tomko those of a Chinese fan girl, a soldier, and Kristina Hayda an Arabian harem girl, a sailor and PASSAIC, N.J. – Our Plast group, others. After the performance, we Lily of the Valley, from Passaic, N.J., took a picture with the young balle- recently attended a performance of rina. It was a lot of fun. “The Nutcracker” ballet in which Kristina did a great job. She has our fellow scout Kristina Hayda per- practice or class every day for at least formed. Kristina’s roles included two hours and has been dancing bal- let since she was 5. This is her third Katia Tomko and Kristina Hayda, both year in the performance of “The age 12, are members of the Lily of the Valley Nutcracker.” Kristina goes to the troop of the Plast branch in Passaic, N.J. School of the Garden State Ballet.

Participants at the second annual Family Night at St. Vladimir’s Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Parma, Ohio.

PARMA, Ohio – The Nativity Wednesday, December 27, 2006. Season was the perfect time for Seventy parishioners of all ages parishioners of St. Vladimir’s participated in the fun-filled evening. Cathedral here to gather for fellow- The pastor opened the evening with a ship. With students on break from prayer and spoke on the true mean- school and many adults on vacation ing of Christmas. from work, the parish Youth Ministry Craft stations were set up around sponsored its second annual parish the parish’s grand hall. Children Kristina Hayda (center) with her Plast friends. get-together – Family Night – on decorated sugar cookies and ginger- bread ornaments, and created nativ- ity scenes, Christmas cards and OUR NEXT ISSUE puzzles. Other participants played UKELODEON is published on the second Sunday of every month. To make it into our next issue, dated February 11, please send in your board games. materials by February 2. We especially encourage kids and teens to submit articles and see their names in print. And don’t forget to Everyone enjoyed dinner before send a photo or two. sitting down to play bingo. Family Please drop us a line: UKELODEON, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054; fax, (973) 644-9510. Call Night allowed participants to truly us at (973) 292-9800; or send e-mail to [email protected]. (We ask all contributors to please include a daytime phone number.) come together as one parish family. No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 27 Children welcome St. Nicholas at parish in Hillside, N.J. by Joe Shatynski bilingual holiday entertainment HILLSIDE, N.J. – St. Nicholas program. Opening performances included the following: singing of was very pleased to visit many good “Jingle Bell Rock” (Sonya Khedr), children and adults at Immaculate a medley of carols performed on Conception Ukrainian Catholic piano (Ilina Ghosh), “vichuvan- Parish in Hillside, N.J. on Sunday, nia,” or Christmas greetings, as December 10, 2006. As he was well as carols (Sofia, Maria and passing through, apparently he was John Soroka), and harp music and drawn to the very strong Christmas singing of songs of the season (Tom, spirit that he sensed from the atten- Odarka, Sophika and Ariadna dees at the parish hall. Stockert). In honor of St. Nicholas, several Additionally, the parish children children and adults presented a presented a very special play known

Parish children perform a play based on the old Ukrainian folk tale “The Mitten.”

as “The Mitten,” based on an adap- Julianna and Ariana Shatynski, tation of the original Ukrainian folk Maria and Sophia Soroka, and tale “Rukavychka.” The story Sophika and Ariadna Stockert. revolves around eight animals that Mike Szpyhulsky served as emcee. are brought together by the extreme Russ Pencak served as liaison to St. conditions of a cold wintry day. The Nicholas, while the girls of the parish animals share a lost mitten, dropped were “angel helpers” to St. Nicholas. by a young boy, which serves as St. Nicholas said that he was very their warm and inviting home. pleased with the sincerity of the Nadia Szpyhulsky coordinated the children’s performances in his scripting, stage and preparatory honor, adding that he could clearly research for the play. Sonya Khedr see the love emanating from the St. Nicholas visits children at Immaculate Conception Parish. On the right narrated the story. The young boy children’s hearts. is the Very Rev. Joseph Szupa. was played by Thomas Feld. The Father Joe Szupa, pastor, was young animals were played by present to lead the group in prayer Seattle Plast members Jessica Boudreau, Ilina Ghosh, and “koliady.” record CD of carols Mishanyna by Taisa Hnateyko Vefleyemi.” To solve this week’s Mishanyna, find the capitalized last names of the het- For the first recording session we mans of Ukraine (listed below) within the Mishanyna grid. See how many SEATTLE – Seattle Plast mem- got to go to a real recording studio. of these names you recognize from learning Ukrainian history! bers have recorded a CD of It was very cool. We stood in a U Ukrainian Christmas Carols. We shape around recording equipment Bohdan and Yurii KHMELNYTSKY have been practicing these songs and big microphones. Two guitars Pavlo TETERIA for over two months. were playing right next to us. We Ivan BRIUKHOVETSKY Demian MNOHOHRISHNY Some of the carols we sang we had a lot of fun. Ivan SAMOILOVYCH were already familiar with, like Because of a big storm that hit Pavlo POLUBOTOK “Nebo i Zemlia.” We also learned the Seattle area and knocked out Kyrylo ROZUMOVSKY some fun new “koliadky,” like power to the recording studio, we “Dzvonyky Dzveniat” and “V Misti had to create a recording studio in MHONOMARKIVABID someone’s living room for the sec- Taisa Hnateyko, 12, is a ond recording session. We recorded NOS HCHEKKYA BRY I “yunachka” in the Laiky troop of many takes of each carol to find the OS TRYKS DAPOROKS the Plast group in Seattle. perfect ones for the CD. HROZUMOVSKY I VAL OYRKYRYLOL IUMKD Our Name: Ukelodeon HVYHOVSKYALKAOO UKELODEON: it rhymes with nickelodeon. Yes, that’s a kids’ RALMANISIDOHRTT network (spelled with a capital “N”), but the original word INSEARORIRTOSOI referred to an early movie theater that charged a nickel for admission. According to The American Heritage Dictionary of S IDLOZESTYSVKBS the English Language, the root of the word, “odeon,” is from HK I NOTEATHOEYUT the Greek “oideion,” a small building used for public perform- NOKYE S TPEOP T I LN ances of music and poetry. Our UKELODEON is envisioned as a public space where our youth, from kindergartners to teens, YUNTSKYNARASVOY can come to learn, to share information, to relate their experi- I VA SKOKORYPKY PR ences, and to keep in touch with each other. Its contents will ID I KLOPED IAYARO be shaped by the young readers of the next generation. SHCYVOL I OMASOOM 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2007 No. 3

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