Inside: l Feodosiya Velihurska recalls UPA experience – page 4 l Nil Khasevych: UPA artist – page 11 l Ukelodeon: Plast youth visit Spirit Lake – page 19

ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXX No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012 $1/$2 in Ukraine Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church meets in Winnipeg

UGCC WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Thirty-eight bishops from Ukraine, the United States, Canada, Australia, countries of Central and Western Europe, and South America – including emeritus bishops from Europe, North America, Canada and Argentina – participated in the 2012 Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) held in Canada to mark the cente- nary of the arrival in that country of the first Ukrainian bishop, Nykyta Budka. Hierarchs of the UGCC from around the world came to Canada to celebrate this spe- cial jubilee together with the Archeparchy of Winnipeg. Bishop Budka arrived in Winnipeg in 1912 to serve as the sole bish- op for Ukrainian immigrants from coast to coast. He is titled “Blessed” because he was beatified as one of the 27 new martyrs rec- Nobert Iwan ognized by Pope John Paul II in 2001 during Bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church (with clergy and guest archbishops from the Ukrainian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches) stand before Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Cathedral in Winnipeg, just prior to the opening of their synod. his visit to Ukraine. After serving 15 years as bishop in Canada, Bishop Budka returned Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky. His relics were The official opening of the Episcopal sentations were made that shed light on the to Ukraine only to later suffer arrest and transferred here shortly after his beatifica- Synod took place the following day in biblical and theological foundation of the martyrdom under the Soviet regime. tion by Pope John Paul II in 2001. The Winnipeg at the solemn celebration of the vocation and mission of the laity, the histor- The Synod of Bishops of the UGCC – the Synod fathers served a Moleben to the Holy hierarchical divine liturgy in the Metropolitan ical context for the development of lay first ever to be held in Canada – convened in Spirit and also prayed at the tomb of the Cathedral of Ss. Volodymyr and Olha. Also movements in the UGCC and the activity of and around Winnipeg on September 9-16. blessed bishop and martyr. It was there that attending were guest bishops, priests and the laity in the parishes of the UGCC today. On September 8, the bishops of the UGCC they took an oath for the fulfillment of their deacons, women religious and laypersons. The results of surveys of the laity with visited the Church of St. Joseph, which also duties and to maintain confidentiality During his homily, Patriarch Sviatoslav, regard to their views on their role in the life houses the shrine of the Hieromartyr about the synodal proceedings. the head of the UGCC, greeted everyone on and mission of the Church were also pre- the occasion of the 100-year jubilee of the sented, as was the theme of the liturgical appointment and arrival of the Blessed life of a parish. Hieromartyr Budka, the first Ukrainian During discussions of the presentations New USAID building opened in Kyiv Catholic bishop in Canada. He noted that the bishops acknowledged the dedication with the arrival of the first bishop came the and sacrifice of the laity of the UGCC and their establishment in Canada of a Ukrainian role in the preservation of the faith in the dif- Catholic hierarchy with its own structure ficult socio-political circumstances of the 20th and its own eastern Christian identity. century. The bishops emphasized the impor- The patriarch also invited everyone pres- tance of the laity’s role and noted that atten- ent to be conscious of the unity of the tion must be given to the spiritual care and Ukrainian Catholic Church, remembering that pastoral care of the family, as well as the they are members of “a great family of God, a catechization of children, youth and adults. family that remembers you, loves you, wants Following the plenary sessions, the to support you and asks for your support.” fathers of the Synod worked in thematic Present at the opening of the Synod groups on the role of the laity and then made were the Roman Catholic archbishop of a series of decisions designed to help the Winnipeg, James Weisgerber, representing laity better appreciate their mission in the the Canadian Conference of Catholic Church. The bishops proclaimed Blessed Bishops and Metropolitan Archbishop Yurij Volodymyr Pryjma as the patron of laity of (Kalishchuk) of the Ukrainian Orthodox the Ukrainian Catholic Church and encour- Church of Canada, which is in communion aged all the faithful to promote the venera- with the Patriarch of Constantinople. tion of the lay saints of the Ukrainian Church. The working sessions of the Synod An important part of the strategy of the Vladimir Gontar/UNIAN began on Monday, September 10. In his UGCC through the year 2020 is the adapta- KYIV – U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John F. Tefft (right), USAID-Ukraine Director addresses on the first day of the synod, tion of the ancient practice of the Jed Barton (left) and Assistant Administrator of the USAID Bureau for Europe and Patriarch Sviatoslav analyzed the past and Catechumenate for the Church’s contempo- Eurasia Paige Alexander (center) officially open the new USAID building in Kyiv present state of development of the UGCC, rary pastoral needs, which will consist of October 2. The building is located on the premises of the U.S. Embassy compound tasks that the UGCC must take up, as well as gradual and systematic introduction into at 4 Aircraft Designer Igor Sikorsky St. The USAID office in Kyiv manages pro- internal and external challenges that can the mystery of the Christian faith for adults grams for Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. As noted by the Embassy of Ukraine, an present obstacles to the Church in the ful- who desire to become part of the UGCC. information fair by USAID and Embassy Public Affairs Section partners provided fillment of its sacred mission. This will be accomplished through the holy a look at past and current U.S. assistance in Ukraine to mark the opening of the The next day the Synod focused atten- sacraments of Christian initiation, and also new USAID facility, as well as the 20th Anniversary of the Freedom for Russia and Emerging [Eurasian] Democracies and Open Markets Act, or FREEDOM Support tion on the principal theme of “The Role of by a deepening of the faith of baptized Act, which authorized the United States to provide assistance to the newly indepen- the Laity in the Life and Mission of the dent states of the former Soviet Union. Church.” A number of talks and joint pre- (Continued on page 17) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012 No. 42

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Ukraine to keep cutting Yanukovych: EU pressure unacceptable only in August that these prices started to rise.” The expert noted that the current KYIV – President Viktor Yanukovych, campaign is the most massive by volume of Russian gas imports in 2013 addressing delegates to the 11th meeting advertising and communication elements. of heads of Ukraine’s foreign diplomatic “For one thing, there are more than 5,500 by Oleg Varfolomeyev gas of its own (Interfax-Ukraine, September missions, said: “We have always carefully 15). This is in line with the optimistic candidates, plus the information environ- Eurasia Daily Monitor analyzed and will analyze all signals from ment has increased compared to 2007. national draft energy strategy compiled by our partners of the European Union. And Ukraine has indicated that a cut in the Energy Ministry, according to which gas Therefore, all together they create much we will respond to them, but I have often greater ‘information noise.’ But due to the Russian natural gas purchases will be deep- imports should be cut to as little as 5 bcm said that we do not accept any forms of er next year than expected thus far, to 24.5 by 2030. And Kyiv hints that even this little fact that the advertising market after the pressure on Ukraine.” Therefore, the presi- crisis has not yet reached the scope of 2007, billion cubic meters (bcm). This means that amount might be imported from Azerbaijan dent stressed, “We say that we act only Ukrainian gas imports from Russia will be or Qatar rather than Russia. I do not think it will be greater in money within the law, not within any emotionally terms,” Mr. Bidenko said. (Ukrinform) below contractual volumes for the third Ukraine has already started to take steps motivated political cases, and this should year in a row, for which Ukraine may be in that direction. Visiting Turkish Prime be realized.” According to October 3 press Law on video surveillance at polls Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly punished according to the take-or-pay reports, Mr. Yanukovych noted that, if clause in the 2009 contract between agreed to allow tankers loaded with LNG KYIV – National deputies on October 3 Ukraine does not get free of the dirt that Gazprom and the national oil and gas com- for Ukraine to pass through the Turkish passed a law on the installation of a surveil- accumulated over years and decades, it will pany Naftohaz Ukrainy. Ukraine is cutting straits (zn.ua, September 14). lance system at polling stations that will be not move forward. He said that for years gas imports saying that it cannot afford to Meanwhile, domestic gas consumption used during the voting and counting of Ukraine had corrupt officials, who left a lot pay the prices set by Russia, but Moscow was cut by 7 percent and gas imports by 39 votes in the upcoming parliamentary elec- of problems behind them. He added, “And insists that Kyiv can expect price cuts only if percent year on year in January-July, tions. A total of 263 national deputies voted we would like corrupt officials not to use it joins the Russian-led customs union. according to official statistics. The cut in gas for bill No. 11104 introducing amendments political means to defend themselves when Ukrainian Energy Minister Yurii Boiko consumption cannot be attributed to a to the law on the specifics of ensuring they are caught in corruption, but get pro- announced on September 13 that decrease in industrial demand, which is the open, transparent and democratic parlia- tected by legal methods. And it will be so.” Naftohaz’s order for Gazprom’s gas for next largest gas consuming sector in the country. mentary elections on October 28. “The law (Ukrinform) year amounted to 24.5 bcm. This would be Ukraine has experienced an economic establishes that, in order to raise the level 10 percent less than Naftohaz is going to slowdown this past year, but is still not in a Candidates expected to spend $2.5 B of public confidence in elections and the import from Russia this year, Mr. Boiko recession. In fact, Ukraine’s industrial out- transparency of the electoral process, pub- added (Interfax-Ukraine, September 13). put rose slightly – 0.2 percent year on year KYIV – The current parliamentary elec- lic access to observation in real time during More precisely, this will be 9.3 percent less – in January-July (ukrstat.gov.ua, August tion campaign will not be more expensive the vote, as well as the creation of a video than this year if Naftohaz imports 27 bcm 17). than the previous one, and will cost the of the counting of votes at an ordinary poll- of gas in 2012 as Kyiv said earlier it would. This rate of gas import decline is less candidates $2.5 billion. That’s according to ing station, it is planned to use a video sur- However, Mr. Boiko noted at a forum in impressive than the 50 percent reported for an estimate made public by an expert in veillance system, a department for the Yalta on September 15 that Naftohaz January-May, which may be due to Ukraine advertising communications, Artem recording and broadcasting of images, intended to buy even less than 27 bcm this hurrying to buy more gas for storage ahead Bidenko of SA Political Communication. which, in accordance with this law, ensures year. He added, tongue-in-cheek, that Russia of an expected increase in the Russian gas Speaking on October 3 at a press confer- the creation of information, the transfer of did not voice any objections (Interfax- price in the fourth quarter of this year. ence about promises to the voters and the images from an ordinary polling station Ukraine, September 15). Naftohaz bought Ukraine increased domestic gas output only value of their implementation, he said, “We with the possibility of viewing it on a slightly more than 40 bcm of gas from by 1 percent in January-July, but coal extrac- estimate that, from the beginning of the respective website on the Internet and sav- Gazprom last year, compared to the 42 bcm tion was up 5 percent, which bodes well for year to October, about $2.5 billion will be ing information created during the process it has to buy according to the 2009 contract the government’s plan to partially replace spent on the campaign. In 2007, this figure of video surveillance,” reads an explanatory so as not to pay penalties. gas with coal in power and heating genera- was more than $3 billion.” He attributed note to the document. The statement also Mr. Boiko’s statements must anger tion. This past July, Ukraine received a $3.7 the decline to the financial consequences of notes that such a video surveillance system Gazprom, which has been insisting that billion loan from China for replacing gas the crisis: “It is just because the main will not be installed on the premises of the Ukraine should increase gas purchases in with coal at co-generation and heating media channels halved their prices, as Central Election Commission, district elec- order to pump more gas into its under- plants, and the government plans for four there was dumping at the beginning of the tion commissions, precinct election com- ground storage facilities for the winter. state-owned co-generation plants to soon year. Whereas in 2007 political advertising missions, or foreign and special polling sta- Otherwise, Gazprom argues, it will be diffi- abandon gas in favor of coal (Kommersant- was basically 50-60 percent more expen- tions. The document also contains a provi- cult to ensure uninterrupted deliveries to Ukraine, August 27). sive than commercial, in outdoor and TV sion according to which, in case of a techni- cal impossibility to ensure the transfer of customers in the European Union. This past At the same time, Kyiv is not abandoning campaigning those who started it back in images from an ordinary polling station, June, when the Ukrainian government hope that it can persuade Moscow to cut March and April paid about 10 percent approved the national gas balance for this gas prices. Mr. Azarov complained at the more than the commercial price. It was (Continued on page 12) year, local news agencies cited Gazprom Yalta forum that Russia – while saying that chief Alexei Miller as saying that Ukraine bilateral relations should be built on equali- asked for 27 bcm of gas for each of the ty and good neighborliness – has been years 2012 and 2013 (see Eurasia Daily “strangling” Ukraine with high gas prices FOUNDED 1933 Monitor, July 10). Now it turns out that Kyiv (Ukrayinska Pravda, September 15). The Ukrainian Weekly wants to buy even less. However, Russia is not changing its stance Kyiv has indicated several times that, that concessions on gas are possible only in An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., while Ukraine would keep cutting Russian exchange for political concessions from a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. gas imports, Russia should start paying Ukraine. Yearly subscription rate: $65; for UNA members — $55. 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NEWS ANALYSIS Black banners, white front pages against libel laws in Ukraine by Oleg Varfolomeyev September 19). Mr. Yanukovych’s media express his opinion on the bill during his revealing the content of private text mes- Eurasia Daily Monitor adviser Hanna Herman, who used to work visit to New York, said that it was Mr. sages of a member of Parliament from the for RFE/RL, said on a talk show that the Zhuravsky’s personal mistake (Interfax- ruling party. The prosecutors said the cases An intention by the ruling Party of president definitely would not sign the Ukraine, September 26). On the same day, against both media outlets were closed Regions of Ukraine (PRU) to toughen up amendments into law (UT1, September 21). Mr. Zhuravsky indicated he wanted to recall after interference from Mr. Yanukovych, libel laws triggered protests from local The local media reaction to Mr. his bill. But judging by the wording of his who ordered the Procurator General’s journalists. Many suspect that the pro- Zhuravsky’s bill was predictably indignant. statement, Mr. Zhuravsky does not seem to Office to oversee the cases (UNIAN, July 27; posed amendments could be used to stifle At the end of September, several leading think he committed a mistake. He suggest- lb.ua, August 3). dissent ahead of the October 28 parliamen- opposition websites and news agencies ed that society “feared and distrusted” his It is obviously very important for tary election and the presidential election displayed black banners with links to con- “initiative” only because it coincided with President Yanukovych to convince the West scheduled for 2015. tact information of parliamentarians who the election campaign. Further, Mr. that media freedom is not under threat Sensing scandal and afraid of negative voted in favor of the amendments, calling Zhuravsky declared he would not change ahead of the October 28 elections, especial- reaction by the West, the ruling elite started on readers to ask them directly why they his opinion that it was high time for ly since the imprisonment in 2011 of sever- to play “good cop.” President Viktor did so. Several daily and weekly newspa- Ukraine to toughen up libel laws al opposition politicians, including former Yanukovych was quick to say the bill was a Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, made mistake; there are also indications that the him almost an international pariah. Parliament may not approve the bill on sec- There are indications that the Verkhovna However, the temptation to muzzle the ond reading. [The bill was withdrawn on Rada might still pass a bill recriminalizing opposition media is apparently very strong. October 2 – ed.] However, PRU representa- TVi in particular continues to experience tives made it clear that their party would try libel after the parliamentary elections, if the problems. This past summer, TVi was to tighten up libel legislation again in the excluded from the Triolan cable networks future (Ukrayinska Pravda, September 26). PRU continues to dominate the Parliament. in several Ukrainian cities, while another On September 18, the 450-seat nationwide cable operator, Volya, moved Ukrainian Parliament had passed by 244 pers ran blank front pages on September (Ukrayinska Pravda, September 25). TVi to a more expensive package in an votes in favor the first reading of a bill to 27 and 28 in protest against the bill. There are indications that the apparent attempt to limit its audience. amend the criminal and criminal procedure The European Commission suggested Parliament might pass Mr. Zhuravsky’s or a Interestingly, Triolan suggested that TVi codes. Provisions in the bill stipulate that that Kyiv should not hurry with the adop- similar bill after the parliamentary elec- itself or the opposition could have orga- journalists, policemen and judges could face tion of the controversial bill, saying that it tions, if the PRU continues to dominate the nized a technical sabotage of TVi’s broad- from two to five years imprisonment for contradicted Ukraine’s obligations to the legislature. PRU senior National Deputy casts for political purposes (Interfax- libel (Interfax-Ukraine, September 18). The Council of Europe, the European human Serhii Kivalov has already stated that the Ukraine, September 5). bill came 11 years after Ukraine abandoned rights watchdog (Interfax-Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada would return to the issue On September 12, a court in Kyiv its Soviet laws that sanctioned prison terms September 20). (Ukrayinska Pravda, September 26). charged TVi with tax evasion and the gov- for libel. The author of the law is PRU Addressing a recent international forum Several hundred opposition activists and ernment temporarily froze its bank National Deputy Vitaly Zhuravsky, who has in Yalta, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of journalists afraid of this prospect picketed accounts (UNIAN, Kommersant-Ukraine, served as staff adviser to Mr. Yanukovych State Thomas Melia criticized restrictions Parliament on October 1 and called for a September 13). Mr. Yanukovych intervened for the past several years (obozrevatel.com, on access to the media in Ukraine (Interfax- strike (Ukrayinska Pravda, October 1). again, expressing his concern with “the April 19; file.liga.net, May 25). Ukraine, September 15). Ukrainian authorities are accustomed to attempts to hinder broadcasts and com- Initial reactions showed that the govern- U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Philip playing “good cop, bad cop” on matters mercial activities of the TV channel” (presi- ment camp was divided on the amend- Gordon expressed concern over reports concerning media freedom. In the summer, dent.gov.ua, September 17). ments. First Vice Prime Minister Valery about harassment of independent and local prosecutors closed proceedings Khoroshkovsky, whose family owns one of opposition media by local authorities, tax against Mykola Kniazhytsky, director of the The article above is reprinted from Ukraine’s most popular TV channels, Inter, inspectors and prosecutors (Ukrayinska opposition channel TVi, who had been sus- Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from opined that it was not expedient to toughen Pravda, September 21). pected of tax evasion. They also dropped its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, up libel laws (Ukrayinska Pravda, Finally President Yanukovych, forced to the case against the website lb.ua for www.jamestown.org.

Zhulynsky: Anti-gay bill clears first hurdle in Verkhovna Rada

RFE/RL The measure follows similar legisla- on the street and demonstrates this way Language law tion that was passed and took effect this of life – this represents a violation of my KYIV – Ukraine’s Parliament has year in Russia’s second city of St. rights, a violation of children’s rights, a must be repealed approved in the first reading a bill that Petersburg and has been proposed in the violation of rights of the absolute majori- would make it illegal to openly support State Duma, the lower house of the ty of people, and this worries us, and we Ukrinform homosexuality. Russian Parliament. demand that propaganda of homosexuali- KYIV – The law on the principles of state The draft, approved by lawmakers on Opponents of the measure staged a ty is banned and punished for in Ukraine.” language policy must be repealed as anti- October 2, would make what it calls “pro- protest outside the Ukrainian Parliament The bill’s authors have reportedly cited constitutional and a new one on Ukrainian motion of homosexuality” – defined as in Kyiv on October 2. Yelena Shevchenko, the Oscar-winning Hollywood film as the state language must be adopted, said taking action to create a positive portray- a member of the Insight activist organiza- “Brokeback Mountain,” which features Dr. Mykola Zhulynsky, director of the Taras al of gays – a crime. tion, condemned the legislation as an gay love between two male cowboys, as Shevchenko Institute of Literature, in his Supporters of the bill argue in a note attack on freedom of speech and a further an example of what could be considered speech at the All-Ukrainian Forum “Defend accompanying the draft that “the spread restriction on Ukrainian media. homosexual propaganda under the mea- the Language – Save Ukraine” held in Kyiv of homosexuality constitutes a threat to “[The bill] concerns public actions, we sure. on September 25. “There is the only way national security” because the lifestyle will not be able to come out with posters Analysts say that, if the measure is out: the Verkhovna Rada repeals the law choice could lead to an HIV/AIDS “epi- like today, with our symbols, and, for approved, it is also likely to further com- and adopts a law on Ukrainian as the state demic,” destroy the institution of family, example, to say publicly that you are a plicate Ukraine’s already strained rela- language, as is envisaged by Article 10 of and lead to a shortage of children, which homosexual or a lesbian in an interview tions with the European Union. the Constitution,” the scholar said. Dr. could trigger a “demographic crisis.” to a journalist will be considered propa- The EU earlier this year suspended rat- Zhulynsky reminded his audience that a The bill calls for punishment of up to ganda,” Ms. Shevchenko said. ification of an Association Agreement working group led by Leonid Kravchuk, five years in jail. The U.S.-based Human Rights Watch with Kyiv because of the imprisonment of with the active participation of Serhiy Parliament must approve the bill in a group has warned that moves to restrict former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Holovaty, Volodymyr Vasylenko and other second reading before it can be sent to the publication and dissemination of who is seen by the EU as a victim of politi- leaders, drafted a bill “On the usage of lan- President Viktor Yanukovych for signa- materials related to sexual orientation cal persecution. guages in Ukraine,” but the Cabinet of ture into law. Reports say it is unclear if could limit access by Ukrainians to infor- Based on reporting by Reuters and the Ministers postponed its consideration and Mr. Yanukovych intends to sign it. mation about gay health issues, support Associated Press. its fate is unknown. Local and Western human rights groups and social networks. groups have denounced the legislation as Supporters of the bill also staged a Copyright 2012, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted discriminatory and an echo of Soviet rally near Parliament on October 2. with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ times, when homosexuality was a crimi- “No one intrudes into one’s bedroom, Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, To subscribe to nal offense. no one interferes with one’s private life, Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see The Ukrainian Weekly, The bill has been put forward in this is their own problem,” supporter http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine- advance of Ukraine’s October 28 parlia- Ruslan Kukharchuk told the Reuters news antigay-bill-clears-first-hurdle/24727046. call 973-292-9800, ext. 3042 mentary elections. agency. “But when this person comes out html). 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012 No. 42 UPA veteran recounts experience in Ukrainian underground by Zenon Zawada pull through. But if my father hadn’t finally Special to The Ukrainian Weekly taken me, they would have surely held me for God knows how long. YEVPATORIYA, Crimea – Patriotic So they asked you what you knew? Ukrainians are commemorating on October 14, St. Mary the Protectress Day, the -year Yes, they wanted evidence of what I did, anniversary of the formation of the what others did, what villages I served, Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA),70 which where I was sent. I said that my father emerged in western Ukraine to fight the didn’t allow me anywhere. They hung a occupation of Ukrainian lands by the stick, took me by my braids and hung me by German Nazis and the Soviet Bolsheviks. them. They held me like that and beat me Feodosiya Velihurska served in UPA as an under my legs. It was very painful to be orderly. She was born on January 26, 1928, pulled by my braids. They tore the earrings in the village of Tesiv in the Ostrih district of from my ears. They closed my fingers in a the Rivne Oblast. This interview was taken door. How did my body withstand all this? on July 13, 2006, in her home in Yevpatoriya, You don’t remember anything that’s hap- Crimea, but not yet published. Ms. pening to you, and afterwards you’re Verlihurska died on May 12, 2011, at the age drenched with water. Not one investigator, of 83. but three large men. Lord have mercy! And then in Ostrih, it got better. They forced me Zawada: How old were you when the to write. And I told them that I don’t know war came? how to write. So they beat me on my hands and my head. This is sometime in 1945, Velihurska: I was about 14 years old. It 1946, before I married. was bad when it started. No one thought Zenon Zawada that such an attack on us would happen. But How were you freed, exactly? Feodosiya Velihurska served as an orderly in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) already after the Germans came, I was called when she was a teenager in the Rivne Oblast. My father was a clergyman who knew an to help some time at the end of 1942, 1943, old priest and the entire village leadership. and for all the years until I left there. on their family and there wasn’t anything laws and they couldn’t have known. They The entire village signed a letter that I’m What kind of help? good from that all the same. But at least I took everyone except for a few girls and innocent, that they didn’t see me anywhere, wasn’t exiled, as well as his family. I left gave them all 25 years of exile to who- and didn’t notice that I was involved in any- Velihurska: I didn’t finish school, but I Tesiv in 1956. My father took us to the knows-where in Russia. I don’t know how could help. I was an orderly, and my pseud- thing. The village council secretary – a patri- Kirovohrad Oblast. many of my cousins ended up there. Today, ot who had concealed himself in front of the onym was Bereza (Birch). I was very young they are cripples just like me. Everything and worked until I was arrested by the So you carried food to people? Communists – was a friend of my parents was beaten from them so that they couldn’t and told them where to get a stamp from NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal The housewife would be home, and her live or die. Everyone with our surname the oblast leadership. So my father took me Affairs), who tortured me. I was still unmar- son would be there. We would get all the (Velihurskyi) was a patriot, in our village away without a trial. I was exhausted and ried. They didn’t have the right to condemn news, sealed with wax, and bring them to particularly. We fought until the very end. beaten up. Now I’m deaf and it ruined my all my girlfriends, who were given 25 years the housewife. She would pass them on I know that UPA was founded in the whole life. I haven’t seen anything good in (exile). My father, who was a clergyman, res- with the food. They would learn who died, Volyn region. I had understood that this my life. I love Ukraine and help all I can. But cued me. who sold out to the Communists, all that. It army was more active in the Halychyna there’s no sense in it. Now there’s no sense. was horrible, Lord have mercy. Many nights How did you help during the war? region … I had to go home along a road and the So your father supported your efforts I was dispatched to deliver written mes- NKVD agents would launch an ambush. UPA was strong in Volyn. People took to help UPA? sages. I organized food products, collected How much they’d shoot! I ran and ran in everything in their hands and went to their We lived on the edge of the village. The them and transported them to the forests to horror! How many times! Thank God I deaths, not with the fear we see today. particular points. I washed clothes. boys would come in the winter and I sewed wasn’t injured. Fathers with sons and daughters. They took them these white linen cloaks so that they people and went. UPA was strongly orga- What was in the forest? So UPA was very active in the Volyn wouldn’t be visible when walking in the nized in the Volyn region. Volyn is still hold- The forest was not far from us. The boys region? snow. In the summer, we washed for them ing its own. The natives remained and and my father would read the Bible with were wounded. I needed to take them away It was going well and everything was planted their sprouts. They remain there them. They really wanted my father to tell from there, take them home. The village moving forward for a while, but we see now. I don’t even want to say anything them whether Ukraine would come into council chair was my uncle. He told my what happened. Many of our own about the stupid “komuniaky” here (in being. He said, “Boys, the loss will be great father that I was being suspected of being Ukrainians – sell outs – were a hindrance. Yevpatoriya). and you won’t achieve anything.” an enemy of the people, the Communists They sold each other out, you understand had designated me for exile and that my What type of punishment was inflict- So you think it was all for nothing? family was being monitored. We started to How? ed under arrest? We gained a little, but now our enemies hide a bit and then I was forced to marry in Well, how did they sell out? I did every- Oh, God. They punished us horrifically. are taking every last thing from us. How to 1947 (at 19 years old). My father fled with thing with them. But once arrested, they They have no souls, keeping people in sheds. save Ukraine? Who is there to help? my younger siblings. would surrender during interrogations. I They drove around in trucks and carts, Ukrainians are in different countries. We resisted, but they capitulated. There were a Where? shooting people and hauling them off like have relatives in America, where two cous- lot like these. The young ones, “strybky” livestock. It was horrible to look at. They The clergy dispatched him as a priest to ins live, the sons of my artist brother who (turncoats) as they were called, were given took people to interrogations at night and Kirovohrad. I got married. My husband had died. It was worst than a war. The NKVD arms and monitored everyone, particularly produced documents to be signed. There a foreign visa. He served in the Polish Army. officers drove around in black vehicles. the UPA boys. After the war finished, the were those who couldn’t resist the pain. He was 28 years old and was supposed to They were called “Black Crows.” If that German prisoners were freed along with the They were beaten savagely, you can’t imag- leave. That’s how we were supposed to res- Black Crow arrived at night and took some- female so-called spies, whose husbands ine. They beat and beat, it hurts, and then so cue the family. I was arrested and released one, that was it. One of my cousins was were in the UPA, some of whom were killed. I’m numb that I’m indifferent. They used by the NKVD, but I wasn’t able to leave. He taken that way and vanished. Another was They settled there, not being able to go whips, irons and stools. You were forced to began to help the boys, as did his brother taken from school. Another relative, Vlodko, home without documents. They tracked sign and if you didn’t, you got a stool across and sister. The collective farm was formed was taken away, tortured and sentenced, everything. And it was very hard. The boys the back of your head. You remember some- and that was all. What happened in the but before his death he somehow came beat each other, warred with each other, all thing the first time, then you look at what Volyn region was worse than the war. home and died his own death. for nothing. There were those who held out will happen next. Then you fall and remem- What Church did your father serve? to the end, at which point they saw no way ber nothing. Then they pour water, gain a bit You haven’t said anything about the The Orthodox Church. out. They surrendered to the Soviets. Many of consciousness, and they ask the same cruelty of the Nazis. Did they first arrive were killed in the forests and the shelters. questions. No one had a conscience when it in the Volyn region? So why couldn’t you go with him to UPA organized shelters to hide from the came to me being a young woman. In the Kirovohrad? No! Oh my child, how cunningly they did NKVD. People from several villages dug village, I was imprisoned for two weeks, and it all! The Germans invaded Poland, which He thought I’d be better off. these caves and supplied them with food. then went to jail in the city. I was beaten a was cordoned off by the Buh River. Stalin We didn’t know where it all went, but our bit for my father having served in the under- Abroad. and Hitler reached an agreement by which leadership did know who got it all. Then ground the entire time and I heard different the Nazis take Poland and the “moskali” My father performed the marriage of my afterwards, vehicles arrived and a lot of peo- discussions. Those who didn’t confess and approach the river bank with their planes husband’s brother and that’s how they got ple were taken in and arrested. The NKVD persevered – though tormented and had and tanks on Ukrainian land. The NKVD to know each other. My husband told my recognized everyone and all the UPA com- information beaten out of them – were not agents started not killing Poles, but cutting dad that he liked me, that he didn’t want to manders. Our boys were sold out and noth- sentenced. All those who confessed were them with knives. They did it to cause leave me and that maybe we can go to ing could be done about it. They were sen- sentenced. I held out and was made aware Ukrainians to flee, which they started doing. Poland. But it didn’t work out. I had kids tenced to exile in Siberia, some for 20 years. by my father that I had to hold out because They began to cut Ukrainians with knives, soon and [the Communists] didn’t have any- Trucks came for students in the 9th grade they didn’t have the right to sentence some- thing against me. But they had something and took boys and girls. Nobody knew any one under 18 years old. I felt that I could (Continued on page 10) No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012 5

The Ukrainian National Association Forum

Unlike the popular 529 college savings decides not to go to college, or vocational plans, which pay only for college expens- school, and if the money in the account is es, the Coverdell is an educational savings not used by age 30, then the balance must plan and can pay for qualified elementary be withdrawn and is taxable. There is a and secondary education expenses as provision, however, that allows money to well, such as tuition at a private elemen- be rolled over without penalty into the tary school. Furthermore, the list of Coverdell account of another family mem- Coverdell qualified expenses is quite gen- ber. erous, even including the purchase of a Although Coverdell ESAs are limited to home computer for a child to use during an annual contribution of $2,000 (unlike high school. It is possible to establish 529 plans that allow an unlimited annual The UNA Q&A: both a 529 plan and a Coverdell for the contribution), the Coverdell ESAs allow same child, which can offer greater flexi- parents and grandparent more control. At bility when making payments for educa- the UNA, the Coverdell account is opened The Coverdell ESA tional expenses. as an annuity with annual interest com- Coverdell accounts are easy to set up, pounded, and there is no risk to loss of I heard that I should get a Coverdell for that is due to expire at the end of 2012. and they can be set up with a small mini- principal. This is unlike many 529 plans my grandchild by the end of the year. Unless the legislation is modified or mum contribution. Unlike many 529 col- that invest in the stock market, often with What is a Coverdell and why the urgency? extended, the contribution amount will lege savings plans, which often require uncertain returns and no direct input The Coverdell Education Savings revert to the original $500. Therefore, the quite large annual management fees, fees from the plan owners. Account (ESA) is named in honor of the reason for the sense of urgency to set up a on Coverdell accounts are generally quite As for financial aid, Coverdell funds are late Sen. Paul Coverdell, who introduced Coverdell account now may be to take low. At the UNA, the annual fee is the low- not counted as the child’s money as long the plan in Congress. Established in 2002, advantage of the higher $2,000 limit that est of all – zero. There is no annual fee to as the owner of the account is someone the Coverdell ESA is the descendant of the is due to expire on December 31. maintain your child or grandchild’s else, such as a parent or grandparent. As short-lived “Education IRA” that had been A savings of $2,000 a year for educa- Coverdell at the UNA. a result, the child has a better chance to developed in 1997. tion may not seem like much these days; In order to establish an account for a receive financial aid. The original Education IRA allowed for however, the Coverdell has distinct advan- child, the child must be under the age of So maybe this year is the year to set up a maximum annual contribution of $500 tages that should be considered. The 18 and the modified adjusted gross a Coverdell ESA account with the UNA. to be deposited in an educational savings money deposited in a Coverdell account income of the account holder (usually the Contact the UNA Home Office at 1-800- account for a child or grandchild; the grows tax-free until needed for education- parent or grandparent) must be less than 253-9862 or the UNA sales staff directly Coverdell ESA, usually referred to simply al expenses. When money is withdrawn, $110,000 (single) or $220,000 (joint). at 1-888-538-2833, or find your local as a Coverdell, allows for an annual con- as long as the qualified educational Once open, the account can remain open UNA branch secretary through the UNA tribution of up to $2,000. expenses are more than the money taken and contributions can be made until the website at www.ukrainiannationalassoci- However, this higher $2,000 limit out of the Coverdell account, the with- age of 30, helping pay expenses through ation.org to learn more about the belongs to the package of tax legislation drawal is also tax-free. graduate school. If a child or grandchild Coverdell Education Savings Account.

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The Ukrainian Weekly Check our calendars! We’ve heard it time and time again: there should be a general calendar for our major Ukrainian community events. And we heard it again most recently when two Ukrainian festivals, one here in northern New Jersey and the other in the Philadelphia area, were scheduled for the same day. Now, many of you will say that’s not really a conflict, but the truth is that these two venues are within a rea- Sobor’s failure opens options sonable driving distance for a day trip. So, checking a community calendar would have been a good idea, especially since one of the festivals has traditionally been held on the first Saturday in October (and was listed on our Community Events cal- endar), while the other was a first-time event. We have no doubt that there are peo- ple who would have loved to attend both. We’re sure some of our readers remember that there is indeed a calendar for advance planning. And it’s located on our website, www.ukrweekly.com. It was back in 2009 that we created a special section on the website called “Community Events” that allows groups to have their events listed online. The idea was to give community activists a way to keep track of the diverse events, their dates and ven- ues in order to help them plan and schedule their own events so they do not con- flict with others geared to the same audiences. Debutante balls in particular seem to be taking advantage of the listing, probably since they are very popular in our community, and people travel far and wide to attend them. But there are many other major events that would benefit from being listed on our advance planning calendar. Perhaps we need to reintroduce our Community Events calendar. Here goes. The calendar appears on the lower left-hand side of our homepage. Visitors can simply click on the illustration of the calendar to get to the calendar listings. The listings can be viewed month by month (just click on the arrows to move forward or back, or select a month and year from the menu). To check out a listing, just click on the date on the monthly calendar. Individual events are color-coded to indicate wheth- er they are cultural, educational, religious or social. Zenon Zawada We invite our community organizations and activists to become familiar with (From left) Former Foreign Affairs Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko, National Deputy this calendar and to use it. It’s really simple, and it’s free. The directions online say: Volodymyr Viazivskyi, and National Deputy Pavlo Zhebrivskyi campaign for the Sobor “To have an event listed on our calendar please e-mail info on the type of event, Ukrainian Platform Party in late August as an alternative to the current opposition parties. venue and date (for example: Malanka, Hromada Hotel, West Town, NJ, January 12, 2013) to [email protected].” That’s all it takes. Just a few moments of KYIV – October 14 will mark the end of The Kapranov brothers (No. 1 and 2), your time will get the word out about your event. At the same time, it takes only a the Sobor Ukrainian Platform party’s bid publishers born in Moldova with ancestral few clicks for community events organizers to find out what has already been for the Ukrainian Parliament. roots in the Odesa Oblast, are among the scheduled and where. The party leadership agreed to bow out most outspoken advocates for the Now that our community life is back to its usual hectic pace after the summer of the closed-list race if it didn’t gain a poll Ukrainian language. break, this would be a good time for community activists to get into the habit of rating of 5 percent by that time, which is Volodymyr Ohryzko (No. 3) is a former sharing information about upcoming events. Please use our calendars to post your the qualification threshold. It encouraged foreign affairs minister and veteran diplo- events, and, please check our calendars when planning ahead. supporters to vote for other parties mat committed to Ukraine’s integration (PS: We remind readers that The Ukrainian Weekly also has two other calendars opposed to the authoritarian rule of the into the European Union (EU) and the that appear in each week’s issue. You can get a free one-line listing in our “Out & Party of Regions of Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization About” section by e-mailing [email protected]. To list more information – Communist Party of Ukraine. (NATO). up to 100 words – please consider submitting information to our “Preview of The Sobor party, financed by National Oleksander Paliy, a Kyiv-Mohyla Events” column, [email protected]; the cost is $20 per listing for each time Deputy Pavlo Zhebrivskyi, is a valiant Academy graduate, is a leading expert on effort by Ukraine’s unvalued and unappre- it appears. Details about both “Out & About” and “Preview of Events” appear under history and politics and a firm EU and ciated intellectual class to challenge those headings in our newspaper.) NATO advocate. authoritarianism by giving voters an Taras Kompanichenko is a mesmerizing, option beyond the current opposition, modern-day kobzar committed to preserv- which is failing to inspire a critical mass of ing Ukraine’s threatened folk musical heri- Ukrainians. tage. Oct. Its single-winner, single-mandate Needless to say, Ukraine would undergo Turning the pages back... (majoritarian) candidates are former a 180-degree turn around if such people national deputies and active politicians – held political office instead of the likes of relatively honest compared to the rest of Vladimir Makeyenko and Elena 20 Two years ago, on October 20, 2010, EU Commissioner the rabble in Ukrainian politics – who can Bondarenko, who can’t remember the 2010 Stefan Feule, standing in for the EU’s high representative for afford to foot the minimum cost of a cam- national anthem; provocateur Vadim foreign policy, Catherine Ashton, delivered an unusually blunt paign. Kolesnichenko, who compared the warning for Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych in a speech They include Kyiv property rights activ- Ukrainian language of Halychyna residents before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. ist Oleksander Hudyma, currently being to a burp; and Communist Yevgeny Mr. Feule said the EU is “concerned” about the recent deterioration of the state of fun- prosecuted for defending poor residents Tsarkov, who recently expressed his regret damental freedoms in Ukraine, which he added, were values that bind together the EU against real estate developers; Volodymyr that the Communists hadn’t suppressed and “cannot be compromised.” “The pace and depth of our rapprochement with Ukraine Viazivskyi, who bloodied himself in the the nationalists enough. will be determined by full respect of these values,” Mr. Feule stated. April 2010 battle in Parliament over the Unfortunately, the Ukrainian govern- Ukraine, the commissioner noted, previously enjoyed the reputation of a country Kharkiv Agreements; and Vasyl Shkliar, ment doesn’t particularly care for its intel- with a “high level of political freedom,” with “a dynamic civil society and media,” and a author of numerous novels that are lectuals. University professors and aca- good rights record. Mr. Feule praised Ukraine’s adoption of a new public procurement already considered to be timeless classics. demics at the National Academy of law, gas-sector reforms and a stand-by loan agreement with the International Monetary Mr. Zhebrivskyi is a businessman from Sciences earn salaries not any higher than Fund. the Zhytomyr Oblast who left the Our the national average wage of $384 a The European Parliament’s leading legislators were not as kind with its assessments. Ukraine People’s Union party after an acrid month. Michael Gahler, a German Christian Democrat, speaking for the European People’s Party meeting with former President Viktor Meanwhile, the average Ukrainian is too (EPP), the majority party in the European Parliament, tore into Kyiv’s record and the Yushchenko in December 2008, in which poor to concern himself with intellectual the latter became angrily indignant at clampdown conducted by the country’s security service against media and civil society activity. Most never had the chance to gain sharp questions posed to him by the depu- activists, and attempts to silence the opposition ahead of local elections. “Such develop- a quality education that forms critical ties of his own faction. ments must not be crowded out by positive news regarding the economy,” Mr. Gahler thinking skills and offers exposure to Mr. Yushchenko scolded them, saying he said. “The pursuit of economic prosperity through authoritarian rule is a Chinese – not Western philosophy and institutions. brought them out of the political trash bin European – [approach].” Undeniably, many Ukrainians simply and they should be grateful and compliant, The EPP’s draft resolution was sharply critical of Mr. Yanukovych’s record so far, and don’t care about politics and economics, Mr. Zhebrivskyi told The Weekly in an expressed “concern at the increasing number of allegations and credible reports that either because they think that they can’t democratic freedoms and rights, such as freedom of assembly, freedom of expression interview. make any difference or their consciousness and freedom of the media, have come under threat in recent months.” Sobor’s closed-list (proportional) candi- is so limited that they can’t grasp the dates are a dream team for any Ukrainian notion that they can make a difference if Source: “EU serves warning to Ukraine,” by Ahto Lobjakas (RFE/RL), The Ukrainian intellectual, whether in Ukraine or beyond Weekly, October 24, 2010. its borders. 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From a Canadian Angle PERSPECTIVES by Oksana Bashuk Hepburn by Andrew Fedynsky Shaming and naming For Obama Am I better off than I was four years ago? the world. Does Mr. Romney really believe enemies of the people Yes I am. Thank you for asking. Some per- what he said to the gathering of millionaires? Canada and the United States took a cally names Viktor Pshonka, procurator spective: like many, my wife and I have been Who knows? He’s been on both sides of every decisive step forward late last month to general of Ukraine, and Deputy procurator saving for our kids’ college and our retire- issue: health care, abortion, gay rights, immi- deal with international violators of the rule general Renat Kuzmin – key figures in the ment. Our nest egg grew during the Clinton gration, gun control, tailoring his message to of law and human rights. Canada’s govern- corrupted judicial process – to be barred boom, stalled in the Bush years and then, whatever the audience wants to hear. ment proposed legislation to keep them out from entry to the United States. just weeks before the 2008 election, the Mr. Romney’s judgment on foreign policy of Canada, while the U.S. Senate passed a Such a blacklist is much needed to prod market crashed and with it our savings – we is equally bad. Would he have taken out resolution calling on its Department of deviant rulers around the globe to behave lost nearly 50 percent in a matter of days. Osama bin Laden? Well, no. Here’s what he State “to institute a visa ban against those or be named and shamed publicly. Our home value dropped as well. said in 2007: “It’s not worth moving heaven responsible for the imprisonment and mis- As Serhiy Kudelia, a Ukraine expert, What was worse was the prospect that and earth and spending billions of dollars treatment of Ms. Tymoshenko and the noted, “It is necessary to send a strong the entire financial system would fail. Signs just trying to catch one person.” This July, he more than dozen political leaders associat- message before the election that Western were ominous. The month Barack Obama started his tour of Europe and Israel by ed with the 2004 Orange Revolution.” governments will not tolerate further vio- took office, the economy fell nearly 4 per- insulting our British allies just before the This is good news. Both countries have lation of democratic norms in Ukraine. cent; more than 800,000 jobs were lost; 4.3 Olympics and ended by insulting the tried, along with others, to persuade Publicizing such a list is vital. Ukraine’s million before the end of the year. Banks Palestinians. In September, his response to Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych to authorities must realize that there are seri- stopped issuing loans, and there was talk of Ambassador Christopher Stevens’ death in live up to his constitutional commitments ous personal consequences for violating another Depression. It wasn’t Obama’s fault, Libya was crass and opportunistic. And so and to international democratic standards. international commitments. Without a but it was his responsibility. Having cam- on. Instead, the regime has disregarded the threat of personal sanctions they will con- paigned on “Hope and Change,” he had to Even the Republican Convention, where rule of law, most notably via the arrests and tinue business as usual. shift to simply saving the economy. With the party controls every minute, slipped out incarcerations of political opponents, However, the Canadian Group for words and manner, he assured Americans of control. Somehow, actor Clint Eastwood including ex-Prime Minister Yulia Democracy in Ukraine fears that entry while pushing emergency legislation got top billing and now the enduring image of Mr. Romney’s big night is one of a cranky, Tymoshenko and former Minister of restrictions alone may not stop the trans- through a Congress where half the members wanted him to fail and voted in lockstep old white guy venting against an empty chair. Internal Affairs Yurii Lutsenko. fer of money electronically. In a letter to against anything he proposed. No one remembers the nominee’s accep- Despite warnings from the Western the government of Canada the CGDU called With the narrowest of margins, Mr. tance speech. The next day anonymous oper- powers, there has been no response from for more: the freezing of assets held Obama passed a stimulus bill to stop the atives shifted blame for the disaster from Kyiv. In fact, developments in the last weeks abroad by personae non gratae. The letter hemorrhaging of jobs, moved to shore up the themselves to the candidate. underscore the regime’s determination to also points out that other countries like banking system and rescue the auto indus- Finally, there’s Ukraine. Mr. Obama visited cripple the opposition and snuff out the last Liechtenstein, Cyprus and the British try. And it worked. We’ve had more than 30 Ukraine as a senator, but as president – other vestiges of free media on the eve of Virgin Islands need to be persuaded to join straight months of private sector job growth than condemning President Viktor Ukraine’s parliamentary elections sched- in the embargo to prevent ill-begotten (4.4 million since March 2010), manufactur- Yanukovych’s anti-democratic practices (and uled for October 28. money from escaping. ing is back, housing is reviving (and the posing for an ill-advised photo at the U.N.) – The Canadian Group for Democracy in There is no time to lose. In Ukraine, value of our home) and our personal savings he’s put the country on the back burner. Ukraine (of which I’m a member), and oth- publicized information shows that billions are where they were before the collapse. You There’s no one to work with. ers, had asked the government of Canada of dollars were moved to Cyprus and the can’t cut a ribbon on a Depression that didn’t Mr. Romney has never been to Ukraine to increase pressure on Ukraine’s regime British Virgin Islands in 2011 alone. To happen and jobs still aren’t where they and as far as I know has no position on it, so by listing the names of individuals who, protect itself, the government has escalat- should be, but saving the economy was a we only have the Republican record to go on because of their tampering with the rule of ed its war on journalists. And not just on huge accomplishment. and that hasn’t been good. Back in the law, would be disallowed from entering journalists. If the economy wasn’t enough of a chal- 1970s, President Gerald Ford refused to Canada and have their assets here frozen. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov recently lenge, President Obama inherited a foreign meet with Soviet dissidents and insisted Now Canada is taking a decisive step signed an order increasing the authority of policy mess: war in Iraq (which he had there was no Soviet domination of Eastern towards keeping undesirables out. The security and defense entities to deal with opposed), stalemate in Afghanistan and the Europe. President Ronald Reagan challenged proposed “Faster Removal of Foreign “terrorism” – acts designed to bring down threat of global terrorism. Here, his most the Soviet Union but inexplicably opposed Criminals Act” will make it harder for the state. It is feared that the real reason spectacular achievement was bringing creation of the Congressional Commission those who abuse human rights to enter the may be to hunt down the opposition and down Osama bin Laden who gave us 9/11. on the Ukraine Famine, which became law country. dissidents. A few days later the president’s Not only was it sweet justice, it told the with exclusive Democratic support. Most “We want an immigration system that is Party of Regions announced draft legisla- world not to mess with America: even if it notorious, of course, was President George open to genuine visitors, while at the same tion calling for up to five years’ imprison- takes 10 years and two administrations, if H.W. Bush’s “Chicken Kiev” speech where he time prevents the entry of foreign crimi- ment of journalists for libel. you harm us we will get you. applied the full prestige of his office to try to nals,” said Jason Kenney, minister of citi- There is good reason for concern: the Now I know plenty of people don’t like block Ukraine’s independence. zenship, immigration and multiculturalism measures are harsh. Moreover, there is no President Obama. The conservative National Democrats have a much better record. in supporting the act. It is expected that recourse to being accused or apprehended, Review website has a pop-up offering “689 President Jimmy Carter made human rights the proposed legislation will be passed by as there is no independent judiciary in Reasons to vote against Obama.” In a recent the centerpiece of his foreign policy and Parliament where Prime Minister Stephen Ukraine. These developments carry the column, my friend and colleague, Myron negotiated the release of many Soviet dissi- Harper’s Conservative Party holds a slight specter of the 1930s Great Terror when Kuropas, mercifully only listed 50. Me? I’ll dents, including Ukrainians. Bill Clinton visit- majority. The act makes foreign nationals, Nikolai Yezhov, Joseph Stalin’s head of the cite two reasons to vote for him: first, Mr. ed Ukraine three times as president and who play loose and fast with the rule of NKVD, launched his purges. They began Obama’s done a remarkable job in the most made the country the third largest recipient law, “inadmissible” to Canada – specifically with accusations, followed by show trials difficult economic and foreign policy circum- of American foreign aid. Most recently, the Democratic National Committee passed a those “dangerous to security, human or filled with self-denunciations and execu- stances any president has had in three-quar- resolution on the Holodomor. (No similar international rights violations, or orga- tions of the “enemies of the people.” ters of a century; second, his opponent lacks action from the Republicans.) I could go on. nized criminality.” The situation in Ukraine is dire. It is criti- the judgment and gravitas Americans expect So here goes: I support President Canada is not alone in taking stiffer mea- cal for other states to follow Canada and the in a president. Take the auto industry: with credit mar- Obama’s re-election so America can continue sures against “fraudsters and crooks,” as United States in naming and shaming moving forward. Whether you agree with Minister Kenney calls them. The U.S. Senate today’s enemies of the people – the state kets frozen and manufacturers needing tens of billions of dollars, President Obama me or not, my message – particularly to passed a resolution recently referring to the leaders. It is important to do so publicly staved off catastrophe that was literally days young people – is to ignore anyone who tells lack of progress in Ukraine toward abiding and now, before the elections. Afterwards it away. Gov. Mitt Romney? In his infamous you to stay home if you’re not voting for his by international standards of democratic may be too late. “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” article, he argued: candidate. Voter suppression in any form is behavior. Referring to the incarceration of “If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the an abomination. America is a democracy members of the political opposition of the Oksana Bashuk Hepburn may be con- bailout that their chief executives asked for where everyone should participate and once Orange Revolution, the resolution specifi- tacted at [email protected]. yesterday, you can kiss the American auto- the votes are in, respect the outcome. So, motive industry good-bye.” Thank God he make up your own mind and on November was wrong, and I’m sure he’d like to have 6, vote! Notice to publishers and authors that one back. Just as he would like to reel back his unfiltered analysis where he dis- Andrew Fedynsky, along with Julian Kulas, It is The Ukrainian Weekly’s policy to run news items and/or reviews of newly published missed 47 percent of Americans as mooch- is a member of the National Democratic books, booklets and reprints, as well as records and premiere issues of periodicals only after ers: “My job is not to worry about those peo- Ethnic Coordinating Committee at the receipt by the editorial offices of a copy of the material in question. ple.” One of the servers, probably making less Democratic National Committee, repre- Send new releases and information (where publication may be purchased, cost, etc.) to: than $50,000 a year – the cost per plate for senting Ukrainian Americans. Editorial Staff, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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EU President Jerzy Buzek s peaks at Kyiv Mohyla Academy by Marta Farion KYIV – Jerzy Buzek, president of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2012 and prime minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001, presented a lecture titled, “European Union and Ukraine: Which Europe Are We Striving For?” at the National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy on September 14. Given at a crucial time of Ukraine’s relations with the European Union, the presentation drew a large audience of students, faculty and guests, and the attention of the press. Mr. Buzek, who is often referred to as an “advocate of Ukraine” in the European Union, stated that it is impossible to imagine Ukraine without Europe and Europe without Ukraine. He said that Europe, including Ukraine and Poland, needs to launch a new era of cooperation and understanding. In an appeal to the students of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Mr. Buzek expressed his belief that it is the role of the younger generation to exercise the right of freedom of choice and play a key role in the process of European integration. Since the moment Ukraine gained its independence, all Ukrainian citizens bear a huge responsibility to maintain the country’s independence, said the speaker. He contin- Sergiy Rossinsky ued, “It is impossible to take your independence for grant- Jerzy Buzek, former president of the European Parliament, during a visit to the National University of Kyiv ed, it is necessary to struggle for it every day. It is the stu- Mohyla Academy. dents and faculty of Kyiv Mohyla Academy who probably nation and state. And EU needs such active and responsible 1980s, I could not imagine that the Soviet Union would col- realize this better than anyone because personal values youth.” lapse. But this happened. We have to remember our past, and social motivation are at the core of the university’s According to Mr. Buzek, the EU is currently building a and we need to build democracy and freedom.” educational process. It is the academy’s task to educate powerful civil society, not only in its institutional compo- Concluding his presentation, the university’s honored each individual to take personal responsibility for their nents, but first and foremost in the consciousness of its cit- guest emphasized that countries become strong when they izens. “Perhaps on this road we missed some opportuni- are united. Mr. Buzek accepted the university’s invitation to Marta Farion is president of the Kyiv Mohyla Foundation ties, but we have gained experience and we never gave up,” join the Club of International Friends of Kyiv-Mohyla of America. Mr. Buzek stated. “The world continues to change. In the Academy.

Patriarch Sviatoslav informs European bishops about situation in Ukraine

Religious Information Service of Ukraine Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav restrict civil rights and freedoms of citizens bishops’ conferences in Europe, the arch- Shevchuk analyzed the challenges faced by and distort the notion of the supremacy of bishops of Luxembourg and the LVIV – The annual Plenary Assembly of Ukrainian society in the context of the law under the pretext of the formation of a Principality of Monaco, the Maronite arch- the Presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences revival of Soviet social myths and the dis- strict and “effective” power vertical. bishop of Cyprus, the Eparchy of Mukachiv of Europe took place on September 27-30 tortion of democratic institutes of authori- Among other issues discussed by the (Ukraine) and the bishop of Chisinau in St. Gallen, Switzerland, on the occasion ty. bishops were: discrimination against (Moldova). of the 1,400th anniversary of the arrival of The patriarch described the crisis in Christians in Europe and the persecution of The prefect of the Congregation for St. Gall in the canton of the same name. At Ukraine, using the example of the disre- Christians throughout the world; freedom Bishops (Holy See), Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the heart of their meeting was the theme spect for parliamentarianism manifested in of religion; the work of the European Union opened the meeting. Cardinals and prelates “The challenges of our time: social and the adoption of the notorious new law on and the Council of Europe; the Year of responsible for other ecclesial continental spiritual aspects.” language policy and the course of the elec- Faith; and the 50th anniversary of the bodies for Latin America and Africa were In an open discussion, the bishops tion campaign. opening of the Second Vatican Council. also present, as were invitees from shared their pastoral experience and pre- He noted that today in Ukraine there is a The Plenary Assembly of the Presidents Kazakhstan. Various bishops from the sented the social situations in their coun- danger of returning to a totalitarian sys- of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe Swiss Bishops’ Conference also attended tries. The head of the Ukrainian Greek- tem, and that there are temptations to brings together the presidents of the 33 some parts of the meeting.

rent minister for economic development Sobor’s failure... and trade who was among the main spon- (Continued from page 6) sors of the Orange revolts of 2004. The party’s candidates are motivated by they educated themselves and took steps to the same love for Ukraine as the fighters of action. the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Both They’d rather read the latest soccer forces took up arms (in Sobor’s case, in the magazine or gossip rag, which are far more electoral arena) against a vicious, massive widely circulated and popular than politi- enemy in a battle in which defeat was cal magazines such as The Ukrainian Week almost certain. (Tyzhden) or the corruption-exposing Yet, they did so following the uncondi- website Ukrayinska Pravda. tional obligation of the categorical impera- Hence the jaw-dropping poll ratings for tive declared by the 18th century German the Party of Regions – which hover at 28 philosopher Immanuel Kant, which calls percent support – and the Communist upon acting on your moral duty regardless Party, which is projected to gain 8 percent of your immediate surrounding circum- support at the October 28 vote, its highest stances, no matter how adverse they may result since 2002, when it earned 21 per- be. cent. That way, people can live with their con- Sobor, which means assembly or synod sciences knowing they did all they could in Ukrainian, had little odds to pass the 5 when they still had the chance and when percent threshold, and its leaders knew it some traces of democratic values were still all along. left in Ukraine. Mr. Zhebrivskyi said he’s hoping to build It’s that unconquered spirit – held by a the party, as Ukraine’s new national-demo- dedicated minority but unappreciated by a crat leader, to replace its wrecked predeces- financially and spiritually impoverished sors – the People’s Movement (Rukh) of majority – that gives up hope that Ukraine Ukraine and the Our Ukraine People’s Union. will one day fulfill the dreams of its heroes Among Mr. Zhebrivskyi’s close political who gave birth to the nation during centu- allies is oligarch Petro Poroshenko, the cur- ries of seemingly hopeless struggle. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012 No. 42 Conference discusses Ukraine on the historiographic map of interwar Europe MUNICH – The international conference “Ukraine on the Historiographic Map of Interwar Europe” was held on the premises of the Ukrainian Free University (UFU) in Munich on July 1-3. It was organized collaboratively by the W. K. Lypynsky East European Research Institute (Philadelphia), the Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta), the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Institute of History of Ukraine at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the Department of History of Eastern- and Southern-eastern Europe at the Historical Seminar (Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich). Founded in Vienna in 1921, the UFU was soon trans- ferred to Prague and in 1945 to Munich. In the interwar period, it was not only an institution of higher education for émigré Ukrainian youth but also one of the leading institutions for researching Ukrainian history in Europe. Not surprisingly, the interwar historiographic legacy of the UFU and its professors was often addressed at the confer- ence. At one of the panels at the international conference “Ukraine on the Historiographic Map of Interwar Europe” Six panels were held at the conference. On July 1, the (from left) are: Mark von Hagen, Vladyslav Verstiuk and Oleh Pavlyshyn. thematic direction of the conference was defined by Prof. This idea of historical work as an instrument in political émigré historians, the possibilities of their “academic Andreas Kappeler in his introductory lecture, “What is struggle was elaborated by Oleh Pavlyshyn in his presenta- assimilation” and their career opportunities, which often Ukraine? What is Europe? What is a Historiographic Map?” tion, “The ‘United Ukraine’ Idea in the Discourse of Émigré depended on their political preferences, non-Ukrainian The scholar formulated a number of important questions: Historiography of the Ukrainian Revolution.” The speaker connections and topics of their publications. What territories should be included in interwar Europe? pointed to the engagement of various authors in historical Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak’s presentation, “The Bujak School Who could be considered a Ukrainian historian? Who were events. and Its Ukrainian Dimension,” examined the attitude of immigrants from Ukraine? Where was research in Prof. Zenon Kohut opened the next panel, “Historians of Franciszek Bujak toward Ukrainians and the Ukrainian Ukrainian studies conducted? What were the connections the State School,” with his presentation “Habent sua fata question, and revealed the multinational nature of the with non-Ukrainian scholars? libelli: Petro Doroshenko’s Biography in Doroshenko’s school in which the whole political spectrum of interwar Prof. Kappeler paid special attention to the content of Account,” in which he discussed the fate of Dmytro Poland was represented. historical research during the interwar period, provoking Doroshenko’s manuscript on his prominent ancestor and Prof. Michael Moser spoke on “We and Others: ‘History the following questions: What is considered to be the circumstances in which it was discovered and pub- of Ukrainian Literary Language’ by Ivan Ohiienko from the Ukrainian studies? What historical schools were involved lished in 1985. The presenter also made a comparative Perspective of Discourse Analysis,” focusing on a thorough in the emigration? How did the historiographic situation in analysis with a monograph on Petro Doroshenko by the language analysis of this popular work through the prism the new countries of settlement impact their research? Polish scholar Jan Perdenia, which had been similarly pub- of creating the images of “us and them.” Were they under the influence of Soviet historiography? lished many years after the author’s death. At the panel “The Dialogue across the Borders,” Oksana What specific topics were elaborated by émigré historians? In his presentation on “Hrushevsky and Lypynsky in Yurkova spoke on “Honoring the Patriarch: A Response to How did the political situation in interwar Europe influ- Historical Debates,” Prof. Frank Sysyn spoke about the con- Hrushevsky’s Death Outside Soviet Ukraine.” She pointed ence the historiographic process? Prof. Kappeler noted in troversial attitudes of these two prominent Ukrainian his- out the different way the prominent historian was hon- his closing remarks that the answers to these and many torians regarding the Khmelnytsky era, emphasizing the ored, including obituaries, newspapers and social events. other questions would help define Ukraine’s place on the Prof. Serhii Plokhii’s presentation, “East and West map of Europe. at the Crossroads) on Ukrainian historical thought and Together: Ukrainian Historians and the Outbreak of the On July 2, Mark von Hagen opened the panel “Revising politicalimpact of discourse. Lypynsky’s The book presenter “Ukraїna noted na Perelomi” that Lypynsky (Ukraine is Second World War,” was devoted to the cooperation among the Revolution” with his presentation “Pavlo Khrystiuk: An usually considered as a historian of the statist school, while scholars, primarily from Halychyna and Kyiv in 1939-1941, Attempt at Post-Colonial Revision of His History of the his treatment of a nation and people was underestimated, which became possible after “the golden September” of Ukrainian Revolution.” He spoke of Khrystiuk’s fate, his as well as his attempt to undermine the traditional Polish 1939. return to Soviet Ukraine and his concept of history of the historical scheme. The conference concluded with the roundtable Ukrainian revolution. Vadym Adadurov opened the third panel, “People and “Balancing Ukrainian Historiography between the Wars.” In his presentation, “Reflections of Interwar Ukrainian Institutions of Central- and West-European Emigration,” The participants agreed that many questions had not yet Émigré Historiography on the Failure of the National with his presentation “The Construction of a Mythological been addressed despite the productive discussion at the Revolution,” Prof. Vladyslav Verstiuk focused mainly on the Image of Ukraine in France in the 17th-19th Centuries by conference. They noted that gaps remain on both the vision of the Ukrainian revolution by Mykhailo Hruhevsky, Ilko Borshchak.” After a thorough discussion of archival empirical and theoretical levels, which encourages further Volodymyr Vynnychenko and Viacheslav Lypynsky, whose sources, the researcher discovered various falsifications study. The proceedings of the conference will be published concepts and thoughts were used not only in academic employed by Borshchak, which, unfortunately, were soon. polemics but also in the political struggle between various absorbed into modern Ukrainian historiography. groups in emigration and were later revived in indepen- In his presentation, “The Life and Work of Stepan dent Ukraine. Rudnytsky in Vienna and Prague in 1921-1926,” Prof. UPA veteran... Guido Hausmann spoke about the émigré activities of this well-known geographer in the context of European schol- (Continued from page 4) arship. He concluded that the fact that the German and without a shot. Civilians saw blood, and you can imagine the Austrian academic milieu ignored Rudnytsky might have commotion. And they sent this panic that Poles were cutting caused his return to Soviet Ukraine. Ukrainians. Flee! Everyone’s on carts because there weren’t Tetiana Boriak’s presentation, “The Ukrainian Historical any cars. Some were on foot and the youth ran to the border. Cabinet and the Phenomenon of the Prague Archive,” dealt I am telling you what I saw with my own eyes. Everyone with works by Arkadii Zhyvotko and the Ukrainian went across the border which was guarded by the “moskali.” Historical Cabinet, which he directed. We were seven kilometers from the border. A lot of Poles In his presentation, “The Ukrainian Research Institute in lived with us and they were being cut. They were being cut, Berlin and History as a Science,” Prof. Nicolas Szafowal but the Ukrainians were being told that the Poles were cut- analyzed the activities of this émigré institution, focusing ting them. Flee across the border! We crossed the river with on its historical works. He noted that in the interwar peri- our carts from the Poles, yet these Poles themselves were od academic institutions were frequently favorable to suffering and being killed, you understand? Then [the political organizations and movements: the institute was Soviets] issued a document stating that we Ukrainians, under the influence of conservative monarchist ideology. when the Germans arrived, pleaded for the Soviets to come. On July 3, Prof. Leonid Zashkilniak opened the next And the main thing is they warned us to yell, “Save us! Save panel, “In the Homeland and in Emigration: Ukrainian us!,” once we crossed the border. People shouted and they Historiography in Interwar Poland.” In his presentation, recorded everything on camera. No one asked for them to “Ukrainian Historiography in Interwar Poland: Ways of come once we understood what happened. My grandfather Legitimization of the National History,” he argued that, said that they said, “We freed you from your enemies.” And despite ongoing tensions between Ukrainian politicians he replied, “From what enemies? Dumplings and chrome and society and the Polish authorities, Ukrainian historians boots? You freed us from that? And you brought us rubber managed to use their scholarship to contribute to boots! You took away our wheat and white flour and feed us Ukrainian historical thought. with corn!” They beat him for saying that. No one asked for Andrii Portnov, in his presentation, “Writing Ukrainian them to come in 1939. They came on their own and created History in Emigration. The Diversity of Personal Strategies a panic to issue a document to read before other states that in Interwar Poland,” spoke about the personal strategies of Zenon Kohut speaks at the conference. the Ukrainians requested their presence. That’s how it was. No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012 11

The satirical publication “Ukrayinskyi Perets.” Poster “Freedom for Nations, Freedom for Mankind.” Cover of Litopys Library, Volume 10. “Nil Khasevych – His Life and Art”

by Oksana Zakydalsky One form that served as a means of communicating Poster-postcards were produced in series. Of the post- with “people was posters. But the posters produced by the er “Glory to Ukraine,” only a second 1949 version sur- TORONTO – The legendary artist of the Ukrainian UPA had to be small – about 8x6 cm in size, called post- vives. However, the symbolism emphasizes that the UPA Insurgent Army (UPA) Nil Khasevych was born in 1905 in card-posters. According to Dr. Darewych, “Khasevych was was fighting both the Nazis and the Communists. It the Volyn region into a family of an impoverished village the consummate master of the postcard-poster... It is in depicts an UPA soldier striding over fallen flags of the deacon. As a teenager, Khasevych lost his left leg in a train these small works of graphic art filled with meaning that Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The composition is over- accident. In 1943 he joined the UPA, hiding out in under- Khasevych excels by combining often complex images with loaded with images and text, notes Dr. Darewych, “yet is ground bunkers, and created art that, according to art minimal text to convey the message.” The posters were expert Dr. Daria Darewych, “occupies a central and signifi- widely distributed among the population. (Continued on page 16) cant place in the liberation struggle for independence undertaken by the UPA.” In 1926 Khasevych enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw (later the Academy of Fine Arts) where he Symposium: F ocus received several awards for drawing and painting. He received financial assistance to study, but only until 1931, on Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) when he was forced to abandon his unfinished art studies. Although he was issued a Diploma for Art Teachers, obtain- ing a teaching position in a Polish school in western in music, literature and art Ukraine was virtually impossible for Ukrainians. sentation by providing relevant musical excerpts. In the early 1930s, Khasevych returned to Volyn, where by Oksana Zakydalsky Halyna Kostiuk examined the depiction of the UPA in he made his living as a graphic artist. Khasevych’s artistic TORONTO – Most discussions relating to the literature – both as literary creativity of members of the output from 1927 to 1943 included paintings, prints and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) deal with its historical UPA and works in which UPA members were featured as drawings. His work was shown at several exhibitions and, legacy, examined through historical and political criteria. characters. in 1936, four of his prints were included in an internation- Earlier this year, the Shevchenko Scientific Society of The third aspect – art – was presented by Dr. Daria al exhibit in Warsaw. Canada held a symposium that examined the legacy of Darewych and focused on the creative output of graphic When he joined the UPA in the spring of 1943, the UPA as it appears in music, literature and art. artist Nil Khasevych (1905-1952). Dr. Darewych based Khasevych became head of the political propaganda section Musicologist Dr. Dagmara Turchyn-Duvirak her presentation on her introduction to the the Litopys of the UPA North, which was under the command of Klym researched the musical heritage of the UPA – songs and UPA Library Volume 10 titled “Nil Khasevych – His Life Savur-Okhrim. Khasevych created anti-Soviet brochures, musical works whose subject matter was the life and and Art.” posters, mastheads and title pages; he did illustrations and times of the Ukrainian resistance. She enhanced her pre- The symposium was held on May 12. caricatures; designed medals, awards and insignia. The aim of his artwork, done without proper materials in the difficult circumstances of the clandestine operations of the UPA, was to disseminate the message of the libera- tion movement and to mobilize the Ukrainian population to oppose the Soviet regime.

Participants (from left) of the Shevchenko Scientific Society’s symposium on Ukrainian Insurgent Army in music, literature and art: Daria Darewych, Marta Dyczok, Bohdan Nebesio, Jurij Darewycz, Dagmara Turchyn-Duvirak, Peter Potichnyj, Halyna Kostiuk and Orest Subtelny. The satire series “The Party Leads.” 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012 No. 42

international commitments regarding the ing opposition deputies. “Obviously, behind October 1. “Ukraine’s labor force is estimat- NEWSBRIEFS protection of human rights, particularly the this is a specific understanding by our dep- ed to decrease by 0.75 percent annually, rights of sexual minorities. The director of uties of sentiments in society, which, as is the equivalent of approximately 160,000 (Continued from page 2) the Information Policy Department of the known, has a rather low level of tolerance fewer people every year,” bank experts MFA, Oleh Volition, announced this in Kyiv with respect to representatives of sexual noted. The report’s authors cite the exam- the video surveillance system at that sta- on October 3. “We hope that this bill, if it minorities,” he said. ple of Ukraine to demonstrate that huge tion is to be used for the creation and stor- becomes law at some point, will take into On October 2, the Verkhovna Rada demographic changes are expected in the age of relevant information. (Ukrinform) account all of our international commit- approved the first reading of a bill intro- world, but they are in different directions. MFA on sexual minorities’ rights ments regarding the protection of human ducing amendments to legislative acts on The situation in Ukraine is very different rights, particularly minority rights, includ- the protection of children’s rights to a from that in more populous states, such as KYIV – Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign ing the rights of sexual minorities. It’s fun- secure information space. The document China and India. Since the early 1990s, Affairs (MFA) said on October 3 that it damentally important to us,” he said. Mr. introduces a number of amendments to China’s labor market each year has grown expects the bill prohibiting the promotion Volition said that the bill was an initiative existing laws prohibiting the propaganda of by almost 8 million people; in India it has of homosexuality, if it is adopted as a by a group of national deputies, among homosexuality, and the production and dis- grown by 7 million. The World Bank report whole, will take into account Ukraine’s them representatives of all factions, includ- tribution of goods that promote homosexu- also said that in Ukraine the impact of ality, and introduces criminal liability for aging is compounded by migration and such activity. (Ukrinform) declining fertility. “By 2050, the population will have fallen to 35 million. Fertility rates Gryshchenko defends non-aligned status are sharply down, from about 2.0 per thou- KYIV – The proclamation of Ukraine’s sand at the end of the 1990s to below 1.5 TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 non-aligned status has justified itself, as today, albeit with an upward tick in recent or e-mail [email protected] military-political blocs ceased to influence years. The elderly dependency ratio is 22 its relations with Russia, stated Foreign percent and will reach more than 40 per- cent over the next 30 years. Achieving high SERVICES PROFESSIONALS Affairs Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, who on October 2 opened the 11th meeting degrees of efficiency in the labor market is of heads of Ukraine’s foreign diplomatic key to counterbalancing the impact of missions. “Declaration of non-aligned sta- aging. The effect on jobs of this aging popu- tus was justified. Military-political blocs lation is amplified by international migra- have ceased to be the background of our tion. Between the turbulent transition relationship with Russia,” Mr. Gryshchenko years and the middle of the last decade, said. He noted that Ukraine supported the about 2.5 million Ukrainians emigrated, high status of a partnership with NATO and mainly to the Russian Federation and heightened the dimension of relations with Western Europe. Every year, around 80,000 the European Union and the United States. people leave the country, and recent stud- At the same time, the minister said that ies have shown that the possible positive partnership with Russia is one of Ukraine’s impacts of migration through remittances, eternal interests. In his speech, the minis- return migration and diaspora involvement ter also noted that in recent years special have not [yet] shown their desired attention was paid to the strengthening of impacts,” reads the report. (Ukrinform) Ukrainian interests in the Commonwealth Moldova bans Communist symbols of Independent States. In this context, Mr. Gryshchenko said, all the CIS countries CHISINAU, Moldova – A law banning the already have Ukrainian diplomatic mis- usage of Communist symbols for political sions, since an embassy is now opening in purposes came into effect in Moldova on the last country of the CIS where there was October 1. The new law was adopted in no diplomatic mission of Ukraine, namely July by the ruling coalition, the Alliance for Tajikistan. In addition, Mr. Gryshchenko the European Coalition. Moldova’s opposi- stressed the importance of Ukraine’s part- tion Communist Party, which occupies one- nership with China. “We see China as a third of the seats in Parliament, protested strategic area of our foreign policy,” he said. the law, calling it an “anti-opposition law.” The minister also emphasized the high Communist Party leader Vladimir Voronin dynamics of strategic cooperation with said that his party will keep its traditional neighboring Poland. “We [Ukraine and hammer-and-sickle symbol and is ready to Poland] were and are real partners,” he fight for the right to preserve the symbols added. (Ukrinform) FOR RENT in the European Court of Human Rights. 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With deep sorrow we wish to inform Ділимося сумною вісткою, that our beloved що в неділю, 5 серпня 2012 року, Husband, Father, Grandfather and Great-grandfather відійшла у вічність наша найдорожча Мама, Бабця і Тета, Michael Danylyk св. п. passed away on September 14, 2012. Теодора Марія Сасик He was born on May 26, 1922, in Lypia, Boykivshchyna, Ukraine. Parastas and Panakhyda were held a day prior to the funeral at the з дому Лейбич cemetery chapel, which was filled with mourners and flowers. вдова св. п. д-ра Мирослава, Funeral services were held in St. Mary Ukrainian Greek-Catholic мама св. п. Оксани Куликівської. Church in Houston, TX. All in attendence escorted the late Michael to the local cemetery, the final resting place of many of our parishioners. Народилася 12 серпня 1921 року на Мразниці, в місті Бориславі в Україні, в патріотичній сім’ї Катерини (з Хортів) та Івана Лейбича. In deep sorrow: У 1943 році разом з чоловіком та донею Оксаною виїхала з wife - Oksana née Rajewska улюбленого Борислава до Відня, Австрія. Недовго після народження daughter - Halya Filenko Danylyk доні Тані доля повела Дору з родиною до Буенос-Айресу, Арґентина, son-in-law - Alexander Filenko а відтак, в 1958 році, до Чикаґо, Ілиной, США, де прожила до останніх grandchildren - Taras Filenko with wife Allison літ. - Andrew Filenko great granddaughter - Merrin Filenko Віддана, працьовита дружина, мама, бабця і тета, гостинна ук- nieces and nephews - Bohdan Danylyk; Vincent De Niro with wife раїнська господиня, побожна патріотка, буде незабутнім прик ладом Lisa and children Matthew and Alexander; безумовної та підтримуючої любови всій родині. Kathy née Danylyk with husband Louis De Niro Парастас був відслужений 8 серпня 2012 року в похоронному заведенні Музики в Чикаґо. Eternal memory! Похоронні відправи відбулися 9 серпня 2012 року в Українському католицькому соборі Святих Володимира і Ольги, а опісля на цвинтарі Святого Миколая в Чикаґо, де спочила Покійна вічним сном біля мужа. Залишила в глибокому смутку доню - Таню з чоловіком Юрієм Кузичем та дітьми Мотрею, з чоловіком Андрієм Малецьким, Маркіяном і Адріяном, зятя - Григорія Куликівського з дружиною Теофілією та дітьми Олесем і Лярисою, On Friday, September 14, 2012, at the age of 94, та ближчу і дальшу родину Лейбичів, Сасиків, Валєрів, Дорчаків, Андрушкових, Ренерів та Зубенків в Америці, Канаді, Арґентині, Dr. Theodosius G. Krupa Німеччині та Україні. peacefully departed to eternal rest Вічна Її пам’ять! Funeral services were held on September 19, 2012, at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Whippany, NJ, with interment at St. Andrew cemetery in South Bound Brook, NJ. Mass on the 40th day after death will be held at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Whippany, NJ, on Wednesday, October 24, 2012, at 6 pm. He is survived by his beloved wife, Lubomyra, son Yarko with wife Karen, daughter Laryssa Slobodyanik, and extended family Ділимося сумною вісткою, in Lviv, Peremyshl and Canada. що 4 вересня 2012 року несподівaно відійшов у Божу вічність Eternal memory! нa 92-му році життя мій нaйдорожчий Муж і Друг. св. п. У 25-ту завжди пам’ятну річницю відходу на вічний спочинок нашого найдорожчого і незабутнього Д-р Ярослaв Музичкa Батька, Дідуся, Брата і Вуйка нaроджений у священичій родині 11 червня 1921 року в селі Голешеві Жидaчівського повіту, в Укрaїні. Студії із ступенем докторa медицини зaвершив в Університеті Людвіґa Мaксіміліянa, Мюнхен. Приїхaвши до Aмерики, був покликaний до Aмерикaнської aрмії і служив підчaс війни в Кореї як лікaр в рaнзі кaпітaнa. Провaдив привaтну прaктику із спеціялізaцією у внутрішній медицині і рівночaсно співпрaцювaв у лікaрні Mercy Medical Center в Кентон, Огaйо, де був визнaчним членом Stark County Medical Society і численних інших професійних оргaнізaцій. св. п. Був взірцевим Xристиянином і віддaним професіонaлом у своєму фaху. Ярослава Сабата Похорони відбулися із Укрaїнської Кaтолицької Кaтедри св. поминальні Служби Божі з Панахидами будуть відправлені Йосaфaтa в Клівленді, Огaйо нa клaдовище св. Aндрея в Пaрмі, 11 жовтня 2012 року в церквах: Огaйо. • Пресвятого Серця Христового, Johnson City, NY, о год. 7 веч. Зaлишені у глибокому смутку: • Церкві св. Юра, Львів дружинa - Лярисa Звaрун-Музичкa • Церкві свв. Петра і Павла, с. Снятинка Дрогобицького р-ну швaґер - Aндрій Звaрун з родиною тa дaльшa родинa в Укрaїні, Aмериці і Кaнaді. Просимо о молитви за душу Покійного. Родина Рідні просять злучитися з їх молитвaми зa душу Покійного. Вічна Йому пам’ять! Вічнa Йому пaм’ять!

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Soccer total of 16 points. Other teams in Group 5 in Istanbul, Turkey, held August the ranks of Joakim Noah, Carlos Boozer, Taj include Slovakia and Estonia. The qualifying 27-September 10. At the end of 11 rounds, Gibson and Nazr Mohammed. Ukraine tied against England 1-1 on stage began on August 25, 2011, and ended the men’s team defeated China 3-1, and the September 11 during a World Cup qualifier at on September 19, with Ukraine to advance to women’s team defeated Germany 3.5-0.5. The Detroit Pistons on July 14 signed 6-foot-11, 254-pound center Vyacheslav Wembley• Stadium in London. Ukraine, in the play-offs that will be held on October Both the men’s and women’s teams earned Group H, drew first blood with a goal in the 20-21 and 24-25. Ukraine has drawn Iceland 18 points. Armenia’s men’s team defeated Kravtsov,• 25, to a multi-year contract. 39th minute by Yevhen Konoplyanka. Ukraine in the playoffs. Other countries in the pool Russia in the final to win with 19 points. In Kravtsov was named Ukrainian Superleague held the lead and appeared to be on its way to include Scotland, Spain, Austria and Russia. the women’s final, Russia were ahead of Domestic Player of the Year the past two sea- a win, but it all came undone when Yevhen The final draw of the tournament is to be held China, with 19 points. sons in Ukraine, where he averaged 10.6 Khacherdi blocked Danny Welbeck’s attempt July 13-28, 2013, in Sweden. points and 5.5 rebounds in 22 minutes per with his arm, allowing Frank Lampard to Ukraine won silver at the TATA 14th game the previous season for BC Donetsk. score in the 87th minute off of a penalty kick. Oleh Blokhin, 59, was signed to a four- IBCA Chess Olympiad for the Blind on The terms of the contract were not disclosed, per team policy. He also averaged 8.2 points, England’s captain, Steven Gerrard, was red- year contract with Dynamo Kyiv, his former August• 19 in Chennai, Russia. Ukraine carded with two minutes left in the game. club,• on September 25. Blokhin replaces Yuri scored 14 points, and Igor Shepelev won 3.9 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in the EuroCup England also received five yellow cards to Semin, who was fired on September 24, fol- gold in the individual competition (board 2), play for the Donetsk club. Prior to his two Ukraine’s three. Ukraine faced Moldova on lowing Dynamo’s losses in four out of the and Ivan Yatisishin won gold (board 4). In years at Donetsk, he played for BK Kyiv. team’s last five matches. An official successor October 12 and is set to play against Round 9, Ukraine defeated Serbia 14-9. Weightlifting Montenegro on October 16. Oleh Blokhin, the is to be named by the Football Federation of former head coach of Ukraine’s national Ukraine, but assistant coach Andriy Bal is Mountaineering Ihor Konotop won first place in the team, has been admitted to a hospital and will acting head coach of the national team in the Two Ukrainian climbers died while climb- men’s 85-kg division, with a 141 kg snatch miss the matches. Acting head coach Andriy interim. Blokhin started coaching in 1990; he ing Ushba, one of the tallest peaks of the and• a 173 kg clean and jerk for a 314 kg total Bal is scheduled to assume the coaching won two Greek Cups in three years and took Caucasus mountains, located in the north- lift at the 2012 International Weightlifting duties for the team. Other teams in Group H charge of Ukraine’s national team in 2003. west region of Svaneti in northwest Georgia, Federation Youth World Championship in include Poland and San Marino. Ukraine, after Under his leadership, Ukraine reached the it was reported on July 20. The victims, who Kosice, Slovakia, on September 18. its loss to England, fell three places and sits in quarterfinals of the 2006 World Cup in died from falling off the mountain, were part Volodymyr Hoza won bronze in the 85-kg 42nd place in the world rankings according Germany and retired in 2007 after Ukraine of a four-man group set to tackle the 15,500- division, with a 147 kg snatch, a 160-kg clean to FIFA, the world soccer governing body. failed to qualify for the 2008 European foot mountain. The remains of the Ukrainians and jerk, for a total lift of 307 kg. Anastasiya Championship. He was reappointed in April were taken to the city of Zugdidi for forensic Romanova won bronze in the over-69 kg In UEFA Champions League play, 2011 following a stint at Dinamo Moscow tests, Rustavi-2 television reported. division, with a snatch of 95 kg, and a clean Shakhtar Donetsk tied 1-1 against Juventus and after holding an executive post at and jerk lift of 121 kg, for a total of 216 kg. on •October 2 at Juventus Stadium in Turin, Chornomorets Odesa. Hockey Italy. Alex Teixeira scored for Shakhtar in the Ihor Konotop won first place in the Oleksandr Shovkovsky will no longer Ruslan Fedotenko, 33, a former men’s 85-kg division at the European Youth 23rd minute, and Leonardo Bonucci leveled Philadelphia Flyer, announced on September for the Italians in the 25th minute. Shakhtar’s play for Ukraine’s national team, coach Oleh Weightlifting• Championship in Bucharest, Blokhin stated on September 5. Shovkovsky 16 that he signed a temporary contract with Romania, on August 25-September 2, with a coach Mircea Lucescu said of the contest, “We • HC Donbas in Russia’s KHL (Kontinental controlled the match – we had the advantage is recovering from a shoulder injury that kept total lift of 319 kg – 140 kg in the snatch and him out of the Euro-2012 Soccer Hockey League), though the team is based in 179 kg in the clean and jerk. Volodymyr in terms of possession and we made Juventus Donetsk, Ukraine. Fedotenko, originally from run a lot.” Shakhtar defeated the Danish club Championship. He has played in 92 matches Hoza won first in the snatch in the 85-kg for the national team since 1994, alowing 76 Kyiv, will remain property of the Flyers when- division, with a lift of 147 kg, and finished in Nordsjaelland 2-0 on September 19 at ever the current NHL lockout ends. He signed Donbas Arena in Donetsk, Ukraine. In Group goals. The highpoint in Shovkovsky’s career third place, with a total lift of 307 kg, with was making it to the quarterfinals in a penal- a one-year, $1.75 million deal with the Flyers 160 kg in the clean and jerk. Iryna Dekha E standings, Shakhtar is tied for first place in July. His contract with the Flyers needed to with Chelsea with 4 points. Chelsea shares ty-kick shootout with the Swiss at the 2006 and Ananstasiya Romanova won gold and World Cup in Germany. In June Andriy be insured in-full against injury, and since silver, respectively, in the women’s over-69- the same win/loss record of 1-0-1, but leads Fedotenko signed just a one-year deal in on aggregate goals, with four goals to Voronin also announced the end of his career kg division, with Dekha’s total lift of 216 kg with Ukraine’s national team, so that he can Philadelphia for a relatively small amount of and Romanova’s total of 211 kg. Dekha’s Shakhtar’s two. Shakhtar and Chelsea are money, his contract was easier to insure. scheduled to play on October 23 at Donbas focus on club play with Dinamo Moscow. snatch lift of 101 kg was ranked first, fol- lowed by Romanova’s at 100 kg. In the clean Arena in Donetsk. Dynamo Kyiv, in Group A, is Boxing Basketball in third place after defeating Croatia’s and jerk, Dekha scored second with 115 kg Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 on October 3 at Cruiserweight (190 pounds) Vyacheslav Kyrylo Fesenko announced on and Romanova followed in third place with Olympiiskyi Stadium in Kyiv. Oleh Gusev Shabranskyy (1-0-0, 1 KO) knocked out September 27 that he signed a non-guaran- 111 kg. Olena Kokhanenko (58 kg) won the teed contract with the Chicago Bulls. The silver medal for her total lift of 176 kg, with headed in a goal in the third minute of play, Bryan• McGlory (1-1-0, 0 KO) of the U.S.A. in • followed by an own goal by Josip Pivaric in the first round of their fight on September 21 7-foot-1, 288-pound Fesenko is a five-year 80 kg in the snatch and 96 kg in the clean the 33rd minute to seal the score. Dynamo at Florentine Gardens in Hollywood, Calif. NBA veteran, who last played for the Indiana and jerk. Nadia Iefimchuk finished in third lost to France’s Paris Saint Germain (PSG) 1-4 Pacers. He also played for the Utah Jazz. He place in the clean and jerk in the women’s on September 18 in Paris. After the two Vyacheslav Glazkov (12-0-0, 9 KO) averages 2.3 points and 2 rebounds per game, 48-kg division, with a lift of 77 kg, but fin- matches, Dynamo is in third place in Group A, defeated Konsantin Airich (23-6-2, 17 KO) but his willingness to hang around until ished in fifth place overall. Veronika Ivasyuk with three goals for and four against. Dynamo of Russia• in the heavyweight unlimited divi- November, when the Bulls can add him to the finished in fourth place in the women’s plays against Portuguese club Porto on sion on September 8 at Olympiysky roster, is a good sign. Fesenko is the fifth big 53-kg division, with a snatch of 70 kg, for October 24 at Estadio do Dragao in Portugal. Stadium in Moscow. The fight was one of guy in the Bulls’ lineup, which means he third place, and a fifth-place clean and jerk the under-card bouts prior to Vitali won’t see much playing time, and will add to lift of 88 kg, for a total of 158 kg. In the UEFA Europa League, FC Dnipro Klitschko’s title defense match, where he Dnipropetrovsk defeated AIK Solna 2-1 on defeated Manuel Charr by TKO in the fourth round. Glazkov won by unanimous decision October• 4 at Rasunstadion in Sweden. Dnipro came back from a 1-0 deficit in the first half, after the tenth round, with the judges scor- and maintained possession throughout most ing 100-90, 100-90, 100-91. of the match. Vitaly Mandziuk headed a cross pass from Ivan Strinic and scored for Dnipro. Segei Dzindziruk (37-1-0, 23 KO) lost to It looked like the match would end in a draw, Jonathan Gonzalaez (15-0-0, 13 KO) of Cuba but Yevhen Seleznyov snuck a late goal for on •September 1 at Turning Stone Casino in Dnipro. Dnipro defeated the Dutch team PSV New York. The fight, which came down to the Eindhoven 2-0 on September 20 at Dnipro judges’ decision, was to determine the vacant Arena in Dnipropetrovsk. Other teams in WBC Continental Americas light middle- Group F include SSC Napoli. Metalist Kharkiv weight title holder. The judges scored 114- tied 0-0 against Bayer Leverkusen on 114, 115-113, 111-117 in favor of the Cuban. September 20 at BayArena in Leverkusen, Tennis Germany. Metalist defeated Rapid Wien of Austria 2-0 on October 4. Substitute Edmar Alexander Dolgopolov is ranked in 20th headed in a goal in the 66th minute, followed place by the ATP, with 1,770 points after by Cleiton Xavier with another goal, just 14 competing in 27 tournaments. Sergiy minutes later, after Willian hooked the ball off Stakhovsky made the top-100, in 96th place Taison. Other teams in Group K include with 563 points, down one position from the Norway’s Rosenborg. previous week, after 31 tournaments played. In women’s rankings, according to the WTA, Ukraine’s women’s team defeated Lesia Tsurenko tops the list in 102nd place, Belarus 5-0 on September 15 at Spartak with 648 points after 26 tournaments. Stadium• in Mogilev, Belarus, and Ukraine Kateryna Bondarenko is in 129th place, with defeated Finland 1-0 at Finnair Stadium in 513 points after 19 tournaments. Helsinki on September 19. Ukraine is in sec- ond place in Group 5 after eight matches Chess played, with five wins, one draw and two loss- Ukraine’s men’s and women’s teams es, and 18 goals for and four against, with a won third place at the World Chess Olympiad • 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012 No. 42

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fully comprehensible and unified.” In the poster “Freedom for Nations, Freedom for Mankind “the USSR is por- trayed as a prison of nations and the art- work promotes the idea of uniting all of the nations in the fight against the USSR. In the series “Satires and Travesties,” Khasevych pokes fun at the regime, its poli- cies and leaders by emphasizing the nega- tive. At a time when any criticism of the Soviet regime was punished by arrest, years of hard labor in the gulag, deporta- tion or even death, “Khasevich’s [sic] work stands out as a courageous act of defiance against the regime, even though he was fully aware of the consequences awaiting him,” Dr. Darewych writes. The “Volyn in Battle” series was created in 1948-1949 with the intention of publish- ing an album, although this did not happen. Khasevych focused on the insurgents and their surroundings – the soldiers and for- ests of his beloved Volyn dominate. Khasevych designed “bofons,” which were monetary coupons or credit notes (an abbreviation of boiivyi fond – battle fund) used as receipts for products obtained, req- uisitioned or donated to support the libera- tion effort. He also did over 20 portraits, all of them realistically rendered, including the self-portrait that is printed on the cover of the Litopys volume. He produced publi- cations for the UPA and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, an example of which was “Ukrayinskyi Perets” – its first edition was produced in 1943, and includ- ed mocking caricatures aimed at both Hitler and Stalin. Some of the works by Khasevych were smuggled out to the West through under- ground contacts and in 1952 the album “Graphic art in the Underground of the UPA” was published by Prolog in Philadelphia. Throughout his years in underground bunkers (1943-1952), when he designed for the UPA, Khasevych was the focus of a manhunt. On March 4, 1952, MGB forces surrounded his bunker located near Klevan, Rivne Oblast. Grenades were thrown into the bunker, trapping Khasevych and two colleagues. Their bod- ies were left lying in Klevan for several days to intimidate the local population. About Khasevych, Dr. Darewych con- cludes, “No other insurgency or under- ground organization in Europe managed to maintain such a fertile and professional output of visual propaganda material. No other underground artist was as produc- tive for such an extended period of time and had such a tremendous impact.” * * * The Litopys Library Volume 10 – “Nil Khasevych: His Life and Work” – was authored by Oleksandr Ishchuk and Ihor Marchuk, with an Introduction by Dr. Daria Darewych. It was published in 2011 and contains illustrations of most of the known Khasevych works, as well a detailed account of the artist’s life. The volume is in Ukrainian, but the introduction is in both Ukrainian and English. The volume can be ordered online at www.litopysupa.com.

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Time.” He is also the general editor of in Beechy, Saskatchewan. He has won sev- “Sundog Highway: Writing from eral Best Director awards in the communi- A novel explores a farmer’s troubled past Saskatchewan,” Coteau Books’ anthology ty. He now lives with his family in Outlook, of Saskatchewan literature. Saskatchewan. “Bone Coulee,” by Larry Warwaruk, As teenagers, Mac and his friends Being active in community theater, Mr. This book is available online at www. Regina, Saskatchewan: Coteau Books, 2011. became responsible for the death of a Warwaruk founded the Shankebite Players coteaubooks.com. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1-55050-459-2. $19.95 young Aboriginal man. The boys received paperback. no punishment, however Mac can’t seem to forget about what happened. Larry Warwaruk, author of “The To distract himself, Mac reads Taras Ukrainian Wedding” and “Andrei and the Shevchenko poems and works on the only Author recalls émigré experience Snow Walker,” has written a novel about little piece of land that he has left, Bone Mac Chorniak, an old farmer who is trou- Coulee, an ancient homestead where “Sam’s Story: The Saga of an American bled by his past and struggles to move arrowheads, bones and other ancient arti- Émigré- Immigrant,” by Sam Katchmar. on. facts can still be found. He plans on build- Charleston, S.C.: 2012. 51 pp. ISBN: ing a cairn there to honor the ancient heri- 9781461138662. $15.00 paperback. tage. When Roseanna Desjarlais, an Sam Katchmar has written an autobiog- Aboriginal woman, moves into town with raphy focusing on his lifelong journey of her daughter Angela, old problems and achieving the American dream. secrets begin to uncover themselves from The author was born in 1928 in the past. The town is unaware that Pennsylvania as the eldest son of Ukrainian Roseanna is the sister of the Aboriginal immigrants. He describes the hardship his man whom Mac and his friends drunkenly family endured when his father was killed and that she wishes to have revenge involved in a coal mine accident and even- on the town. tually died a few years later. Since the fami- While working on debuting the new ly was not left with much money, his moth- cairn, Mac is also challenged by the memo- er decided that it would be best to take the ries of the crime from his past and the family back to Poland and return to the secrets buried in Bone Coulee. United States once more money was saved. Born in Regina, Mr. Warwaruk grew up Plans changed once World War II began in the southern part of Saskatchewan. He and the Nazis invaded Poland. The author received education degrees from the goes into detail of what it was like living University of Regina and the University of under Stalin and Hitler. The family survives Mr. Katchmar emphasizes the impor- Oregon, and was a teacher and principal in the war and returns to the United States. tance of family and hard work to pursue Saskatchewan for many years. After returning, Mr. Katchmar eventually dreams. Mr. Warwaruk is the author of the nov- joined the United States Air Force and after This book is available online at www. els “The Ukrainian Wedding” and “Rope of retirement, pursued a degree in accounting. amazon.com.

extensive preparation and exemplary orga- Synod of Bishops... nization of the synod proceedings. Before the Synod, Patriarch Sviatoslav (Continued from page 1) was on a weeklong pastoral visit that took members of the Church, who have not had him to various parishes and pastoral cen- the opportunity to experience an appropri- ters in Manitoba. After the Synod, the pri- ate catechesis. mate visited parishes in the province of The members of the Synod also deliber- Saskatchewan and addressed the Canadian ated about individual questions regarding Conference of Catholic Bishops gathered at their annual meeting in Ottawa. canon law and matters of an administrative nature. In particular, they discussed the project of the new revision of Particular Law of the UGCC and heard reports about the activity of the Patriarchal Curia, and other commissions and departments on the patriarchal level of administration. The report from the working group for the implementation of the strategy of “The Vibrant Parish – The Place of Encounter with the Living Christ” was also heard. Norbert Iwan Reports were presented also by the general A view of the congregation with the patriarch at Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Cathedral director of the Administration for Justice, on September 9. as well as individual synodal committees Drohobych; and Borys Gudziak, newly tion to Canada and for the centennial of the on youth, migrants and refugees, canonical- appointed apostolic exarch for Ukrainian arrival Bishop Budka. legal issues, and catechesis and Christian Catholics in France, Switzerland and the They also attended a gala banquet held education. Benelux countries. on the occasion of their visit to Canada and Analyzing the phenomenon of migration Responding to the initiative of Pope the Blessed Nykyta jubilee, at which in today’s world, the situation of Ukrainian Benedict XVI, the Synod declared 2013 to Patriarch Sviatoslav delivered the keynote migrants and the activity of the Church be the Year of Faith in the UGCC and estab- address. with regard to the provision of appropriate lished a separate committee responsible Next year the Synod of Bishops of the care for them, the Synod of Bishops of the for the planning of appropriate spiritual UGCC will take place in Kyiv on August UGCC expressed concern about the now events for the whole Church in the context 11-18. The main theme chosen for the extended and massive exodus of people of the 1,025th anniversary of the baptism 2013 Synod is “The UGCC and the New from Ukraine. Decisions were made to sup- of Rus’-Ukraine. Evangelization.” At that time, the Synod port them in foreign lands and so that their After the close of the Synod on Sunday, fathers will also take part in the solemni- religious and cultural identity is not September 16, the hierarchs celebrated ties in Kyiv to commemorate 1,025 years allowed to be lost. divine liturgy in various Ukrainian Catholic since the baptism of Rus’-Ukraine. An important event of this year’s synod parishes in the city of Winnipeg and other The Synod has decided to organize an was the election of a new composition of parishes throughout the province of all-Church pilgrimage to the Patriarchal the Permanent Synod. The members of the Manitoba. In these pastoral visits, arranged Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Permanent Synod for the next five years by Metropolitan-Archbishop Lawrence Kyiv, and has called upon the clergy, the will be: Volodymyr Vijtyshyn, archbishop- Huculak, the leader of the Ukrainian religious and laity to take an active part. metropolitan of Ivano-Frankivsk; Ken Catholic Church in Canada, they thanked The Synod expressed thanks to Nowakowski, eparch of New Westminster; God for His care for the people, especially Metropolitan Huculak of Winnipeg and the Patriarch Sviatoslav at the Metropolitan Yaroslav Pryriz, eparch of Sambir- over the 120 years of Ukrainian immigra- Synod Organization Committee for their Cathedral of Ss. Volodymyr and Olha. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012 No. 42

Through October 31 Art exhibit, featuring works by Alexander Tkachenko, October 20 Wine tasting and dance fundraiser, Ukrainian American Chicago Ukrainian National Museum, 312-421-8020 Palatine, IL Youth Association – Palatine branch, [email protected] Through November 25 Art exhibit, “Process of Scale,” Ukrainian Institute of October 21 Ukrainian Festival, St. Demetrius Ukrainian Orthodox Chicago Modern Art, 773-227-5522 or www.uima-chicago.org Carteret, NJ Church, St. Demetrius Banquet Center, 732-541-1530 or www.stdemetriusuoc.org October 18 Presentation by Ruslan Zabily, “The Current State of Cambridge, MA Academic Freedom in Ukraine and Its Reflection in the October 21 through Art exhibit, “Wasyl Palijczuk at 78: Art and Life Work of Archives and Museums,” Harvard University, November 30 Retrospective,” Carroll Community College, 617-495-4053 Westminster, MD www.carrollcc.edu October 18 Seminar with Ambassador Olexander Motsyk, “Foreign October 25 through Art exhibit, commemorating the 120th anniversary of New York Policy Priorities of Today’s Ukraine,” Columbia November 9 Ukrainian Settlement in Canada, Kings University College, University, 212-854-4697 or 866-488-8768 [email protected] October 26 Film screening,” Three Stories of Galicia,” Columbia October 19-20 Art exhibit, featuring works by Danylovych, Kuzmenko, New York University, 212-854-4697 or Jenkintown, PA Oddo, Terleckyj and Fedkiw, hosted by Branch 67 of the [email protected] Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, October 27 Book presentation by Bohdan Rubchak, “The Myths of Ukrainian Educational Cultural Center, 215-663-1764 New York Metamorphoses,” Shevchenko Scientific Society, October 19 through Art exhibit, featuring works by Temo Svirely, “Forms 212-254-5130 November 11 and Metaphors II,” Ukrainian Institute of America, October 27 100th centenary celebration, Plast Ukrainian Scouting New York 212-288-8660 Toronto Organization, Allstream Center, 416-769-9998 or October 20 Literary evening, “World Poetry in Ukrainian Translation,” [email protected] New York Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 October 27 Concert, “Memory Songs: A Dialogue of Traditions,” New York Bandura Downtown, The Ukrainian Museum, October 20 “An Evening with Zenia Mucha,” Ukrainian National www.ukrainianmuseum.org New York Women’s League of America – Branch 113, Ukrainian Institute of America, [email protected] October 27 Dinner and presentation, “A Tale of Tango,” The Montreal Montreal Friends of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Loyola High October 20 Exhibit and Sale of Trypilian Works by Myron Bokalo, School, www.mtlfirendsucu.com Chicago Women’s Association in Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine, Ukrainian American Youth Association hall, October 27 Golf tournament, Ukrainian American Sports Center – 874-619-1147 or [email protected] Horsham, PA Tryzub, Ukrainian Federation of America, The Bucks Club, 215-500-7272 or [email protected] October 20 Lvivsky Ball, featuring music by Klooch and Zirka, Toronto Lithuanian Hall, 416-566-2664 or facebook.com/megazabava Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions October 20 Harvest Festival, St. Mary Ukrainian Orthodox Church, from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors New Britain, CT 860-229-3833 or 860-677-2138 and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. No. 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012 19 UKELODEON For The Next Generation

Plast Montreal visits Spirit Lake Internment Center MONTREAL – Plast Ukrainian different periods of time in history.” Scouting Organization of Montreal The singing by young “plastuny” organized a special visit to the Spirit in the evening, “I confess, gave me a Lake Internment Interpretive Cen- lump in my throat hearing Ukrainian ter, 375 miles northwest of Mon- folk songs where almost 100 years treal on July 13. The excursion was ago some internees may have known coordinated by Katrusia Smolynec, the very same songs,” Mr. Slobo- educational director of Plast scouts, dian observed. “Yet, somehow the together with James Slobodian, internment grounds and museum did chairperson of the Camp Spirit Lake not feel sad. They gave a history and Corporation (CSLC). perspective to the settlement and The visit gave the Montreal ignited an interest in knowing more “plastuny” a first-hand experience about early immigrant history.” regarding early settlement of Ukrai- The Ukrainian scouts stayed at La nians in Quebec, including exposure Vérendrye Park, and relaxed on the to the history of the unjust intern- beach at Spirit Lake just down the ment of 1914-1920 by visiting the street from the center. It gave them a center and travelling in areas settled sense of the vast northern wilderness by early Ukrainian pioneers. that once surrounded the internees. Not knowing what to expect, Ms. Also chaperoning the group was Smolynec commented, “I was a Plast member Nestor Lewyckyj. little skeptical about the museum This year Plast worldwide is cel- so far from a big city, but I learned ebrating its 100 anniversary. Plast members in front of the museum at the Spirit Lake Internment Inter- at least two things at our amazing A visit to the center by other pretive Center with Nestor Lewyckyj (front center), Katrusia Smolynec (front visit: one, the very high quality of youth organization is highly rec- right) and the chairperson of the Camp Spirit Lake Corporation, James the museum which makes it worth ommended. For more information Slobodian (back left). the trip, and second, the education see the website campspiritlake@ and sensitization is not only or even cableamos.com or click the link to primarily for people who know about its Facebook page. The Spirit Lake Mishanyna the internment. It is for all people of site has recently been added to the Quebec and Canada to learn about Ukrainian Canadian Congress Na- Following up on last month’s Mishanyna, this month we ask you to our history and about inclusiveness tional website. find hidden in the grid below some well-known Ukrainian boys’ and plurality.” For a concise history of Canada’s names. “We were very moved by the first internment operations, see kindness and hospitality extended the documentary “Freedom Had A Andriy Markian Serhiy by the staff at the center, and by Price” at: www.yluhovy.com. Bohdan Mykola Taras their help in planning every detail of Spirit Lake is the first such inter- Borys Oleksander Viktor our visit,” she added. pretive center opened in Canada. Danylo Orest Yaroslav The Montreal Plast members were The center took more than three able to pitch their tents and camp years to build. Activists worked Ivan Roman Yuriy overnight on the grounds, at exactly closely with Andrij Hladyshevsky, the same location where the camp chairperson of the Shevchenko barracks existed in 1915. Foundation, under which the Cana- Mr. Slobodian remarked, “Who dian First World War Internment would have thought that 97 years Recognition Fund was finally estab- later a group of Plast members lished by the federal government. would occupy the same location The CSLC received a significant where many were interned? This is a grant for the interpretive center’s historic event, linking these two very construction.

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Saturday, October 20 anniversary banquet, featuring as honored p.m. Free with price of museum admission. For Chorus of the University of California, direct- NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society guest speaker the recently consecrated Bishop information visit http://www.bampfa.berke- ed by Marika Kuzma, will take part in perfor- invites all to the first in a series of readings on Borys Gudziak, acting rector of the Ukrainian ley.edu/. The Los Angeles performance on mances of Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck” with the “World Poetry in Ukrainian Translation.” The Catholic University in Lviv. The 4 p.m. event will Sunday, November 11, at 8 p.m. will take place Philharmonia Orchestra under the direction reading will feature the poetry of the take place at the Sheraton Stamford Hotel, 700 at St. Sophia Cathedral, 1324 S. Normandie of Esa-Pekka Salonen. The Berkeley perfor- renowned French poet Saint-John Perse, win- E. Main St., Stamford, CT 06901; telephone, Ave. (free, secure parking facility); $10 sug- mance is on Saturday, November 10, at 7 p.m. ner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1960. 203-358-8400. Tickets are $100 per person gested donation. For information contact in Zellerbach Hall; the Los Angeles perfor- Leonid Hrabovsky and Vasyl Makhno will read (tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law). [email protected] or call 510-642-5519. mance is on Tuesday, November 13, at 8 p.m. in Walt Disney Concert Hall. For information Mykhaylo Moskalenko’s translations. The pre- Mail checks to: The Ukrainian Museum and Saturday, November 10, about the Wozzeck performances visit http:// sentation will take place at the society’s build- Library of Stamford, 161 Glenbrook Road, and Tuesday, November 13 ing, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th Stamford, CT 06902. Additional donations and calperfs.berkeley.edu/ or http://www.laphil. streets) at 5 p.m. For additional information benefit sponsorships are welcome. For further BERKELEY/LOS ANGELES: The Chamber com/. call 212-254-5130. information go to www.ukrainianmuseumli- brary.org, e-mail [email protected]; or CHICAGO: An exhibit and sale of Trypillian call 203-323-8866. PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES ceramics by renowned artist Myron Bokalo will be held between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the Sundays, November 4 and 11 Preview of Events is a listing of community events open to the public. It is a service provided main hall of the American Ukrainian Youth at minimal cost ($20 per listing) by The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. Association, located at 2457 W. Chicago Ave., BERKELEY/LOS ANGELES: The Chamber Items should be no more than 100 words long; longer submissions are subject to editing. Chicago, IL 60622. Come see Mr. Bokalo’s new Chorus of the University of California, directed Items not written in Preview format or submitted without all required information will not collection of interesting and exciting designs by Marika Kuzma, will perform “Devotions be published. that would look lovely in any home. The event East and West,” a concert of works exploring Preview items must be received no later than one week before the desired date of publication. is hosted by the Women’s Association for the sacred music of the Orthodox and Western Items will be published only once, unless otherwise indicated. Please include payment for Christian traditions: works by Dmitry Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine each time the item is to appear and indicate date(s) of issue(s) in which the item is to be Bortniansky, Lesia Dychko, Roman Hurko, (WADFFU), Alla Horska Branch in Chicago. published. Also, senders are asked to include the phone number of a person who may be Arvo Pärt and Sergei Rachmaninoff (repre- Admission fee of $5 includes refreshments. For contacted by The Weekly during daytime hours, as well as their complete mailing address. information e-mail [email protected]. senting the East) and works by John Tavener, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Trevor Weston Information should be sent to: [email protected] or Preview of Events, The Sunday, October 28 (West). The Berkeley performance will take Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054; fax, 973-644-9510. STAMFORD, Conn.: The Ukrainian Museum place at the Berkeley Art Museum, 2626 NB: If e-mailing, please do not send items as attachments; simply type the text into and Library of Stamford invites all to its 75th Bancroft Way, on Sunday, November 4, at 3 the body of the e-mail message.

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