The Ukrainian Weekly 1990, No.1
www.ukrweekly.com ubhshed by the Ukrainian National Association inc.. a fraternal non-profit association rainian Weekly vol. LVIII No. І THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 7,1990 50 cents Hanna Mykhailenko, CHRIST IS BORN independents picked ex-Soviet prisoner, ХРИСТОС РАЖДАЄТЬСЯ as candidates for arrives in Boston Ukraine deputies by Alicia Szendiuch JERSEY ClTYt N.J. - A number of independent activists, including many BOSTON - Hanna Mykhailenko, former political prisoners, have been the prominent Ukrainian dissident nominated as candidates in the March 4 punished with eight years of confine– republican and local elections, reported ment in Soviet psychiatric institutions, the press service of the Ukrainian arrived for the first time in the West on Helsinki Union on December 27. December 29, 1989, on Swissair flight The newly selected candidates repre– 128 at Boston's Logan^international Дігг. sent a block of informal and semi- port to begin several months of medical formal associations, including the treatment and recuperation. UHU, the Popular Movement of U– She was greeted by members of kraine for Perebudova, or Rukh, Me– Amnesty international USA Group 24 morial and the Taras Shevchenko of Cambridge, Mass., who worked on Ukrainian Language Society vying for her behalf since her detention in 1980, seats in these new legislative bodies. and by the Ukrainian Professionals Association of Boston, who are jointly in accordance with a new republican sponsoring her trip. law "On Elections of People's Deputies Ms. Mykhailenko's first words when of the Ukrainian SSR," published in she arrived at Logan expressed concern Pravda Ukrainy on November 1, 1989, for the other dissidents still jailed back candidates were nominated by labor home, "Don't forget the others left collectives, social organizations, collec– behind.
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