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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXX HE KRAINIANNo. 5 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine UkraineT sendsU 70 athletes Central ElectionW Commission reports to registration of 23 parties, 13 political blocs by Andrew Nynka Sweden, has looked especially strong as by Roman Woronowycz Candidates are required to pay a regis- of late in the 15-kilometer event leading Press Bureau tration fee to run for a parliamentary seat PARSIPPANY, N.J. – When Team up to the Games. – 1,020 hrv, or about $200, per candidate Ukraine parades into the opening cere- Along with Ms. Zubrylova, fans should KYIV – Ukraine’s Central Election in the single mandate districts; while a monies of the 19th Winter Olympic pay close attention to the relay Commission reported that 13 political political party or bloc must pay 225,000 Games in Salt Lake City on February 8, it squad of Olena Petrova, Nina Lemesh, blocs and 23 parties had managed to reg- hrv, or $43,000 to put up its slate. will mark the country’s third Winter Tetyiana Vodopianova and Ms. Zubrylova ister for elections to the Verkhovna Rada The new law also stipulates that law- appearance competing under its own whose World Cup third place, as well as and to submit their candidate lists before makers are elected in a mixed system, national banner (in 1992 Ukraine’s ath- Ms. Zubrylova’s personal bronze in the the January 29 deadline stipulated by with half the 450 parliamentary seats letes competed under the guise of the 15-kilometer course, in Pokljuka, Ukrainian law. The CEC is still consider- awarded to political organizations that Equipe Unifiée/Unified Team). Slovenia, on December 14, 2001, could be ing 14 applications, some of which were attain at least 4 percent voter support and But this time things are a bit different. a strong indicator of the group’s prospects resubmitted under appeal after initial the other 50 percent awarded to individu- According to the National Olympic for the 2002 Games. problems. als who take a majority of votes in each of Committee of Ukraine (NOC-U), the dele- At the 18th Winter Olympic Games in And while officially the campaign sea- the 225 single-mandate electoral districts gation will consist of 70 athletes – 14 Nagano, Ms. Petrova took second in the son will only begin on February 9, dirty of Ukraine more athletes than competed in Nagano, 15-kilometer race while the biathlon team tricks and mudslinging have already The CEC said on January 30 that Japan, in 1998 and 33 more athletes than took fifth in the 4 by 7.5-kilometer relay. marred another Ukrainian election and set 2,765 individuals had registered as candi- in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994. Ms. Zubrylova also took gold medals in the tone for this year. dates from party slates, while another With a strong showing by the delega- the 15-kilometer race, mass start and pur- The registration procedure is the first 1,160 hopefuls had filed in single-man- tion’s odds-on medal favorite Olena suit during the 1999 World major step in the process to pick 450 date districts, which works out to an aver- Zubrylova in the biathlon event, Team Championships. national deputies to Ukraine’s Parliament age of 12 candidates per Verkhovna Rada Ukraine can begin its medals hunt early in The group of 70, recently trimmed in elections that are scheduled for March seat. the two-and-a-half week Olympic compe- down from 87 due to economic concerns, 31. The process was greatly simplified in All the candidates will have to deal tition. Ms. Zubrylova, who currently is will compete in 11 of the 15 Olympic win- a new law passed late last year, which no with the fact that the campaign season second in the World Cup Biathlon stand- longer requires a candidate to gather vot- will be hot and controversial, and that ings behind Magdalena Forsberg of (Continued on page 10) ers’ signatures. many contests will be fierce and some run unethically. With the official onset of actual campaigning still days away, maneuvering for political advantage by Ukrainian becomes youngest world champion using smear tactics in an attempt to dis- by Dr. Orest Popovych later on. Ukraine, has been Ukraine’s premiere credit the competition already has been Commentators have attributed this to chess player since the late 1980s. He well-established. HOWELL, N.J. – Ruslan time pressure and a case of nerves, a won a string of powerful international The main target thus far has been Ponomaryov, 18, of Kramatorsk on problem that has plagued the 32-year-old tournaments, among them New York Viktor Yuschenko, the ex-prime minister January 23 became the new chess (1988), Linares, Spain (1989, 1991, and former head of the National Bank of champion of the world, after defeating Mr. Ivanchuk sporadically throughout his career. In contrast, his young opponent 1995), Wijk aan Zee, Holland (1996) Ukraine, who heads the political bloc his countryman, Vasyl Ivanchuk of and (2000), and has been the called Our Ukraine. The political bloc Lviv, by a score of 4 1/2:2 1/2 in the was a model of confidence and coolness under pressure. No doubt, his decisive perennial top board of Ukraine in inter- final match of the world championship, national team competition. (Continued on page 15) staged by the International Chess win in game one had a great psychologi- cal impact on the rest of the match. Mr. Ponomaryov was born on Federation FIDE in . October 11, 1983,in the city of Nevertheless, it is hard to reconcile The winner went undefeated, posting Horlivka in the Donbas region of this result with Mr. Ivanchuk’s enor- a record of two wins and five draws. Ukraine. He learned chess moves at age Mr. Ponomaryov is the first Ukrainian mous advantage in experience over his 7 and since the age of 12 has been liv- Ukraine’s economy and the youngest player ever to capture opponent. Mr. Ivanchuk, born on the world title. March 18, 1969, in , western (Continued on page 11) Immediately following his victory, records major growth the 16th world champion was congratu- by Roman Woronowycz lated in person by FIDE President Kyiv Press Bureau Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and, via telephone, KYIV – Ukraine’s economy expanded by Ukraine’s president Leonid Kuchma. at a 9 percent clip in 2001, making it the President Kuchma issued a decree second fastest growing economy in the bestowing upon Ruslan Ponomaryov CIS region after Kazakstan. the Order of Yaroslav the Wise, fifth Numbers released by the Ministry of degree. Vasyl Ivanchuk has been hon- Statistics and published in the government ored with the presidential Order of newspaper, Uriadovyi Kurier, on January Merit (“Za Zasluhy”), second degree. 24 show that Ukraine’s industrial and Mr. Ponomaryov and Mr. Ivanchuk agricultural production were sharply up in have received cash prizes of $400,000 2001 over the previous year. Only and $200,000, respectively. Kazakstan’s economy, with 12 percent The world championship match GDP growth, grew more quickly. By between Ukraine’s top two grandmas- comparison, , Ukraine’s northeast- ters, which had been described as an ern neighbor and the largest economy of event of epic significance for Ukrainian the region, experienced growth at about a chess, was not as lopsided as the score 6 percent rate. would suggest. In two of the games Mr. AP/Ivan Sekretarev The strong rise in economic indicators Ivanchuk had achieved technically won Ruslan Ponomaryov (right) and Vasyl Ivanchuk during the coupled with an inflation rate for 2001 of positions, only to blunder them away in Moscow. (Continued on page 3) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 No. 5

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Russia keenly interested NEWSBRIEFS Pro-presidential bloc to become party Mr. Bahanets noted that prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation in Ukraine’s March elections KYIV – Volodymyr Lytvyn, the head against Mr. Melnychenko, who is of the presidential administration and the charged with abusing his office when he by Taras Kuzio 1989 Law on Languages by adding For a United Ukraine election bloc, said served as President Leonid Kuchma’s RFE/RL Newsline Russian as a second “official language.” on January 29 that his bloc will trans- security officer, and with divulging state This Russophile populism did not prevent form itself into a party. “All members of secrets. Mr. Bahanets added that if Mr. Preparations for Ukraine’s parliamentary the SDPU from including the “nationalist” the [For a United Ukraine] coordination Melnychenko is elected to the Verkhovna elections on March 31 are being keenly fol- and pro-NATO former President Leonid board [have concluded] that we have to lowed not only in the West but also in Rada, the Procurator General’s Office Kravchuk among its top five candidates for implement in practice the idea of setting will appeal to the Verkhovna Rada to Moscow. Russia is keen to capitalize upon election. up a political structure. We will tackle its success over the past two years in reori- strip him of his legislative immunity. The SDPU is also the main backer of the this in parallel with the election. Since (RFE/RL Newsline) enting Ukraine’s multi-vectored foreign extreme nationalist, anti-Western, and pro- we are associated with the party of policy eastward. The main threat to the Kuchma Rukh for Unity (NRU-Ye) splin- power, think of it as a pro-presidential or CEC refuses to register Melnychenko consolidation of this eastward orientation ter group led by Bohdan Boiko, which was presidential party,” Ukrainian Television and Russia’s increasing influence in suspiciously created only three days before quoted Mr. Lytvyn as saying. The For a KYIV – The Central Election Ukraine is Viktor Yuschenko and his Our the Kuchmagate scandal began. The NRU- United Ukraine bloc consists of the Commission has refused to register for- Ukraine bloc. Ye and the Progressive Socialists play the Agrarian Party, the National Democratic mer presidential bodyguard Mykola In Ukraine, as in other post-Communist role of “radical opposition” parties on the Party, the Labor Ukraine Party, the Party Melnychenko as a candidate on the states, support for the pursuit of reform, left and right controlled by the executive, in of the Regions, and the Party of Socialist Party’s election list, Ukrainian reviving national identity and an orientation a manner similar to Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. media reported on January 26. The com- toward Europe are closely tied together. The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. The (RFE/RL Newsline) mission said Mr. Melnychenko, who is West is seeking to support this package of NRU-Ye controls the Ternopil-based currently residing in the U.S., cannot be policies by encouraging reform and free Tryzub paramilitaries led by Col. Yevhen Tymoshenko hospitalized after car crash viewed as a permanent resident of elections, as exemplified by U.S. training of Ukraine, which is a requirement of the Fil, who orchestrated the violence at the KYIV – Yulia Tymoshenko, the leader 25,000 local election commissions and election law for parliamentary candidates. March 9, 2001, demonstration in order to of the anti-presidential National Salvation $200,000 in support for the regional media Yosyp Vinskyi of the Socialist Party dis- discredit the anti-Kuchma opposition. Forum and the election bloc bearing her in Ukraine. In contrast, Russia’s primary agreed with the ruling, saying that the The SDPU has also duplicated some of name, was hospitalized with head and concern is to reassert its influence within election law allows anybody staying the shadowy PR activities that the FEP ear- chest injuries after her automobile collided Ukraine, regardless of who is in power in abroad under Ukraine’s international lier successfully used in Russia. This with another in Kyiv on January 29, that country (as in ). agreements to become a parliamentary includes attempting to blacken Mr. Interfax reported. The accident occurred During the last two years, Russophile candidate. He recalled that in 1998 the Yuschenko’s character, which unlike that of when Ms. Tymoshenko was on her way to oligarch clans and their media outlets in Central Election Commission registered the majority of other politicians, remains the Kyiv Appeals Court. Oleksander Ukraine have increasingly given credence beyond reproach. The FEP has an agree- businessman Yukhym Zviahilskyi, who to a “Brzezinski plan” conspiracy that was Turchynov, a leader of the Yulia ment with the SDPU to provide “campaign Tymoshenko Bloc, told UNIAN that, had lived in Israel for more than two first aired by Russian sources close to advice,” and 10 of its associates are work- years. “The Central Election Commission President Vladimir Putin. The “Brzezinski according to doctors, Ms. Tymoshenko’s ing on this campaign. This has included condition is “serious.” (RFE/RL Newsline) interprets this provision differently for dif- plan” is supposedly an elaborate plan con- creating a fake Yuschenko website ferent people. I see this as an element of cocted by a group of U.S. policy-makers to www.yuschenko.com, an action that the Court restricts Tymoshenko’s movement political persecution against our candidate overthrow President Leonid Kuchma and FEP undertook also in the 1999 Russian who is running for parliament on the list replace him with Mr. Yuschenko in a parliamentary elections against Moscow KYIV – The Kyiv Appeals Court on of the Socialist Party,” Mr. Vinskyi said. “bloodless revolution.” An analogy is Mayor Yurii Luzhkov and then-Foreign January 29 rescinded a previous decision (RFE/RL Newsline) drawn with the overthrow of Slobodan Minister Yevgenii Primakov. by the Pecherskyi District Court in Kyiv, Milosevic in Serbia in October 2000. Mr. The FEP and its SDPU allies were very which ruled that law enforcement bodies Melnychenko: officials afraid of my return Yuschenko’s alleged allies in this plot are probably behind Ukraine’s second taping may not take any actions against Ms. KYIV – Former presidential body- the two wings of the radical anti-Kuchma scandal, that of Mr. Yuschenko and Kyiv Tymoshenko that would violate a deputy’s guard Mykola Melnychenko said on opposition, Yulia Tymoshenko (his former Mayor Oleksander Omelchenko in early immunity. This ruling allowed Ms. January 28 that the Central Election vice prime minister) and Socialist leader January. As Serhii Sobolev, vice-chairman Tymoshenko to defy her former written Oleksander Moroz. of the pro-Yuschenko Reforms and Order pledge to the Procurator General’s Office Commission (CEC) refused to register The “Brzezinski plan” was allegedly Party, said, this latest scandal “is a fresh not to leave Kyiv, and to make election him as a parliamentary candidate because behind the “Kuchmagate” scandal that pointer to those who organized the tape campaign trips to outlying areas. The CEC Chairman Mykhailo Riabets, broke in November 2000, when incriminat- scandal” in Mr. Kuchma’s office. This is court’s decision restored the restriction on President Leonid Kuchma, presidential ing tapes illicitly made in President apparently because of the similarity in her freedom of movement as well as legal Chief of Staff Volodymyr Lytvyn and Kuchma’s office were released, leading to advanced technology used in both cases. proceedings in connection with a corrup- others are “terribly afraid” that he will Ukraine’s largest opposition demonstra- Mr. Sobolev had in mind the suspicion – tion case against her. (RFE/RL Newsline) return to Ukraine having parliamentary tions. The “Brzezinski plan,” therefore, first voiced by RFE/RL Newsline in immunity, UNIAN reported. Mr. played a classic disinformation role in December – that the SDPU (with Russia) Melnychenko threatened with arrest Melnychenko added that if he were to seeking to deflect attention from possible arrive in Ukraine with parliamentary was behind the taping of the president’s KYIV – Deputy Procurator General Russian involvement in the scandal (in office. immunity, the Procurator General’s cahoots with a Ukrainian oligarch group) Oleksii Bahanets said on January 24 that Office would have to launch a criminal The latest tape was released by the former presidential bodyguard Mykola by laying blame on the West. newly organized civic group For investigation of the above-mentioned After Mr. Kuchma survived calls for his Melnychenko will be arrested if he individuals regarding the case of mur- Trustworthiness in Politics, which is close- returns to Ukraine from his asylum in the ouster in 2000-2001, the conspiracy was ly linked to the SDPU and the NRU-Ye. It dered journalist Heorhii Gongadze, as quietly forgotten, but it was again revived U.S. to participate in the parliamentary well as other corruption cases. (RFE/RL aimed to discredit Mr. Yuschenko by creat- election campaign, Interfax reported. Mr. in November of last year by Kievskiye ing the impression that he conspired with Newsline) Vedomosti, a newspaper owned by the Melnychenko was proposed as a candi- Mr. Omelchenko to remove Mr. date on the Socialist Party’s election list. (Continued on page 14) Social Democratic Party (United) [SDPU]. Medvedchuk as vice-chairman of the Controversial Kremlin strategist and Verkhovna Rada. The latest taping was Putin imagemakers Gleb Pavlovskii and condemned by the majority of political par- Merat Gelman, who are joint owners of the ties and Mr. Omelchenko has taken the FOUNDED 1933 Fund for Effective Politics (FEP), have matter to court. 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Ukraine’s economy... Comments by deputy prosecutor muddy the waters of Gongadze case (Continued from page 1) by Roman Woronowycz Ukraine that the Procurator General’s Examinations would do the tests jointly. He 6.1 percent – the first time in a decade Kyiv Press Bureau Office had ordered that a German firm con- added that afterwards the German side that inflation was held to single digits – duct a third independent examination of the could take evidence to Germany for further may have given Ukraine the economic KYIV – Comments by Ukraine’s remains of the body found in November study. Deputy Procurator General Oleksander turnaround it has long awaited. In fact J.P. 2000 near the town of Tarascha outside Morgan, the respected banking and Bahanets that the Council of Europe had However, as Interfax-Ukraine later Kyiv that are thought to be those of Mr. investment house, announced on January changed its stance on the creation of an noted, German officials could not verify Gongadze. 8 that Ukraine was among the most international commission to investigate the that they had received a request from He said that the new examination was in investment-attractive countries in 2001, murder of journalist Heorhii Gongadze Ukraine on the matter. having returned a 57.1 percent profit for brought a critical response from Reporters response to persistent requests for another “One of the conditions for sending a investors, reported Interfax-Ukraine. Without Borders on January 28. forensic examination by the journalist’s German expert for a forensic study in a Economic performance in the The remarks by Mr. Bahanets, made in mother, Lesia, and his wife, Myroslava, criminal investigation in Ukraine would be Ukrainian manufacturing sector was par- an interview with Interfax-Ukraine on and a desire to appease the Council of an official request for legal aid from the ticularly strong in 2001. The sector wit- January 25, were among several regarding Europe. He explained, according to Ukrainian side on the basis of the 1959 nessed an upturn of 14.2 percent, with the investigation into the murder of Heorhii Interfax-Ukraine, that the German experts, European Convention on Mutual growth especially vibrant in the first six Gongadze, the controversial Ukrainian who were yet to be chosen, and Ukraine’s months, when industry expanded at a 17.4 journalist who founded one of the coun- director of the Bureau of Forensic (Continued on page 14) percent rate. It was the second straight try’s first Internet newspapers before he year of strong industrial expansion for the disappeared in September 2000, that did country, which experienced 12.4 percent not hold up to closer scrutiny. industrial growth in 2000. Mr. Bahanets told the Ukrainian news Slowed global economic growth in the agency that the Parliamentary Assembly of Kyivans recall sacrifices of the Battle of Kruty second half of 2001, and especially after the Council of Europe (PACE), which has the events of September 11, affected the been calling for the formation of an inde- final industrial production numbers in pendent body to investigate what happened Ukraine and resulted in second-half to Mr. Gongadze, had ultimately decided expansion diminishing to 9.5 percent. that there was no basis for establishing Fourth-quarter growth was particularly such a commission. weak, but within expected projections, In a statement released to the press, with the November numbers showing 7.8 Reporters Without Borders, a human rights percent growth and the December rate group that monitors press freedoms, said slipping to 1.8 percent. that Mr. Bahanets’ assertions were erro- The furniture industry led the way in neous and baseless. the manufacturing sector with an increase “Reporters Without Borders believes of 28 percent. Machine building, which that such an assertion is nothing more than saw an 18.8 gain in production, came sec- a strategy to which Ukrainian authorities ond, followed by the paper industry, ever more often submit in order to delay which rose by 18.2 percent. Next came establishing the murderer of Heorhii food production at 18.2 percent, followed Gongadze,” explained the statement. by consumer goods manufacturing at 13.8 It said that while Latvian Foreign percent. Minister Antanas Valionis, the head of the Metal manufacturing increased slightly, Committee of Ministers of the Council of at 4.9 percent, but showed a marked Europe, had made a statement that Ukraine decline in the second half of the year. The lacks the legal basis that would allow for coal industry realized a 3.3 percent net an international investigative committee to Associated Press gain in production for the year. work in Ukraine, three Ukrainian lawmak- KYIV – The Prosvita Society organized a commemorative The agricultural sector had its strongest ers will shortly introduce the needed legis- year in at least a decade and some say in lation. prayer service on January 29, the 84th anniversary of the Battle of Kruty. Some 20 years, experiencing an overall 9.9 per- Reporters Without Borders also noted 300 Kyivan high school and college students perished near the railroad station at cent surge in production. Agricultural that on January 27, during its quarterly ses- Kruty, a town located outside the capital city, during a confrontation with the Soviet experts attribute the increases to a 7.7 per- sion, PACE officially turned to the Cabinet Red Army in 1918. The Bolsheviks had invaded Ukraine after consolidating their cent increase in yields per hectare, due in of Ministers of the Council of Europe to do power in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The commemoration was held at Askoldova part to ideal weather conditions last year. the administrative work necessary to create Mohyla in Kyiv at the site of St. Nicholas Greek-. The cross at left The grain harvest was the strongest the commission. is the only memorial in the capital to the 300 young students, who are considered since independence, with Ukrainian farm- Mr. Bahanets also seemed to have national heroes by national democratic forces. The remains of 30 of the students ers collecting 39.7 million tons – an missed the mark when he told Interfax- were re-interred at the site when it was built two years ago. increase of more than 62 percent over 2000. The wheat harvest more than dou- bled over 2000, while the barley yield was up by 48 percent and oats by 26.6 percent. Ukrainian officials commemorate 1918 independence Only the corn crop was a disappointment, showing a 5.5 percent yield reduction. In non-grain related agricultural pro- duction, tobacco topped the list with an 18 percent increase over 2000 with sugar beets following at 17 percent. While dairy production saw a 6 percent increase, the meat sector fell by 11 per- cent, which experts said was caused by a depletion of cattle stocks in the country. Poultry was in much better shape and experienced 10 percent growth. Over all, the number of private farms in the country grew by 3,200 giving Ukraine a total of 41,600 by the end of the year. Each farm averaged 62 hectares of land. The state of Ukraine’s ever more healthy economy may also finally have become more evident to average citizens, who still complain that, while the num- bers look good on paper, few see tangible evidence of the improvement in their daily lives. Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister of the Economy Vasyl Rohovyi said on January 18 that the real income of Ukrainians increased in 2001, which he explained was the result of the improved Associated Press economic performance that allowed the KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma along with Kyiv Mayor Oleksander Omelchenko and Verkhovna Rada Chairman Ivan government to increase the amount of Pliusch gaze upon the memorial in Ukraine’s capital city to Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukraine’s first president, before placing wages and salaries paid out in 2001 by wreaths at the base of the statue on “Den Sobornosty.” Hrushevsky led the country after Ukraine proclaimed independence about 25 percent. 83 years ago on January 22, 1918. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 No. 5 Construction begins of new Ukrainian Museum building by Marta Baczynsky the demolition of the existing structure to make way for the construction of the new NEW YORK – Construction of a new building.” home for The Ukrainian Museum in New Mr. Hankevych said work on the York City has begun. The first sign of building project is on schedule. Weekly activity on the designated site at 222 E. meetings between the representatives of Sixth St., between Second and Third the construction management firm, S. avenues in the East Village section of DiGiacomo & Son, the project architect, Manhattan, is recently erected scaffold- George Sawicki of the firm ing that surrounds the existing structure, a former meatpacking warehouse. That SawickiTarella Architecture+Design PC, building is destined to come down short- and representatives of the museum are ly to make way for a modern three-story held to discuss the status and progress of museum facility. the building project. Although not evident from the street, Mr. Sawicki said he is happy that the there is plenty of activity inside the old construction phase of the project has warehouse, according to Andrey begun after many years of preparation. Hankevych, chair of the Building “After all the waiting, after all the plan- Committee on the museum’s board of ning, we have finally started the last but trustees. “The initial demolition, excava- most important phase of this project. For tion and preparatory work is being done me, both professionally and personally,” from the inside of the building,” he he explained, “this is a most gratifying noted. He explained that prior to demoli- and welcoming conclusion to a long tion and before the laying of the founda- process, while at the same time, it also brings forth a feeling of optimism and Scaffolding in front of existing structure heralds the beginning of construction of tion can begin, the existing walls and the new home for The Ukrainian Museum. foundations of the adjoining residential confidence in a project of such great sig- buildings must be supported through the nificance to our community.” ting testament to their heritage, and a tan- She emphasized that the Ukrainian underpinning process. “Once completed and opened, I have gible symbol of their identity,” added Mr. community in the United States and Once that has been accomplished, he no doubt that all the work and waiting Sawicki. Canada has been extremely generous and went on to say that, “the foundation of will have been well justified, and that The new building, which will have 75 because of this support the new building our new building will be excavated and The Ukrainian Museum will offer future square feet of frontage and offer 25,000 project is being realized. poured, and then we will proceed with generations of Ukrainian Americans a fit- square feet of space, will be constructed Fund-raising is also focused on the at a cost of $7.6 million. The Ukrainian financial future of the institution, she Museum, which has been in operation at explained. It is important to strive now to its present location, 203 Second Ave., for build a strong financial foundation, so 25 years, has been conducting a capital that the museum can function effectively fund-raising campaign for more than a in the years to come. This financial secu- decade in support of this project. The rity will be dependent on the future museum has experienced growth and growth of the museum’s endowment pro- expansion in recent years in all aspects of gram. Toward this end the museum is its operations. The new building will sat- looking to substantially raise its endow- isfy the needs and requirements of the ment funds base within the next five museum by providing large exhibition years. The board of trustees hopes that galleries, proper storage for its collec- the Ukrainian community will continue tions, and spacious facilities to conduct to generously support this program, its programs. thereby guaranteeing the financial securi- Olha Hnateyko, president of the board ty of The Ukrainian Museum. of trustees, explained that intensive fund- To support the building project and raising continues and will continue to help build a strong financial future for provide funding for the following: com- The Ukrainian Museum, donations may pletion of the building project without be sent to: The Ukrainian Museum 203 the need for outside financing; furnishing Second Ave., New York, NY 10003. For the new museum facility; bringing the further information: phone (212) 228- new building to a full operational state 0110; fax (212) 228-1947; e-mail (expanding the professional staff); organ- [email protected] or visit the Interior view of existing structure where “underpinning” is in progress in the izing and mounting representative exhi- museum’s webpage at www.ukrainian- construction process of a new Ukrainian Museum building. bitions for the grand opening. museum.org. Ukrainian Australian leader visits Ukraine to promote bilateral relations

ESSENDON, Australia – The chairman “Today’s Ukraine is a developing Mr. Movchan, chairman of the UAH Commerce and Industry, representatives of the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Ukraine. There are many positive aspects board, and Halina Lemets, executive of a consortium of businesspeople, legal Organizations Stefan Romaniw, returned and attributes in Ukraine of 2001,” Mr. director, together with National Deputy and cultural representatives, and academ- from a nine-day visit to Ukraine, where he Romaniw said after the meeting. Ihor Ostash and others are keen to ics. had a series of meetings to promote “It is developing economically at a strengthen links with Australia. At a din- He met also with the Lviv Oblast Australia as a business, investment, tourist faster rate than the U.S. or the U.K. Its ner attended by Mr. Movchan, Ms. Administration and discussed the possibil- and migration destination. A further reason strength is in its people. Government Lemets, Australia’s Honorary Consul Dr. ity of preparing and signing memoranda for the visit was to call on the Australian needs to recognize this and create the path Serhi Berezovenko and representatives of of understanding between Lviv and state government to show a greater interest in for strong, transparent leadership focusing Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs departments in Australia to promote lan- Australian-Ukrainian relations. on the national needs and aspirations of plans for expanding UAH activities. guage and cultural exchanges. The Ukrainian Australian community the Ukrainian nation,” he added. During Mr. Romaniw’s meeting with “We sense the strong support for coop- leader had over 30 meetings with political, “Today’s Ukraine is made up of many senior officials from the Ministry of eration from Ukraine in developing sound business, community and departmental ethnic minorities. The Australian multi- Foreign Affairs Australian-Ukrainian rela- government-to-government relations. We leaders during his trip, which lasted from culturalism model is one Ukraine should tions and strategies were discussed. are entering a new era. Community organ- November 28 to December 6. Among look at closely,” Mr Romaniw said. “All An interesting concept that was raised izations such as the AFUO can facilitate, them was an official meeting with ethnic groups must have commitment to and is now receiving consideration from but agreements, accords, memoranda of Verkhovna Rada Vice-Chairman Stephan Ukraine and the national language being the ministry is the link Australia could understanding which fix in concrete rela- Hawrysz. The meeting was attended also Ukrainian. Government policies encour- play for Ukraine in its alliances and eco- tions must be done on the government by National Deputy Pavlo Movchan. age cultural and linguistic maintenance nomic policies in the Eurasia region. level,” Mr Romaniw said. During the one-hour meeting, issues of and in this environment all ethnic minori- “There is no doubt that closer links Meetings with tourist operators resulted Ukrainian Australian relations were dis- ties should aspire to seeing Ukraine devel- between Australia and Ukraine can bring in the development of the concept of a youth tourist group from Australia visiting cussed. Mr. Hawrysz suggested that an op as a nation.” bilateral opportunities and benefits. This Ukraine under a program dubbed official Parliamentary Group would visit A Ukraine-Australia House (UAH) has can be a win-win situation,” Mr. Romaniw Following the Paths of My Forebears.” Australia in 2002, and a formal letter to been established in Kyiv. The center will said. The program will encourage young people the Australian government was sent after be the hub for promotional activities that Meetings with business leaders in Kyiv, to trek through Ukraine visiting important the meeting to reflect this. Issues of busi- will showcase Australia. “This is a great Lviv and Ternopil have seen Australian- historical attractions and, most importantly, ness, investment, exchanges and support initiative and again shows the support Ukrainian business links already a reality. visiting the regions where their parents and for the Australian Ukrainian community Australia has from many circles in Mr. Romaniw engaged in a range of also were discussed. Ukraine,” Mr. Romaniw explained. meetings with the Lviv Chamber of (Continued on page 14) No. 5 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 5 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM Youngstown District holds Christmas party Young UNA’ers

Aleksander R. and his younger sister Nicholas T. Iverson, son of Motria and Anastasia U. Walters, children of Roma Glenn Iverson, is a new member of and Timothy Walters, are new mem- UNA Branch 66 in New York. He was bers of UNA Branch 66 in New York. BOARDMAN, Ohio – Members of the Youngstown District Committee of the enrolled by his great-grandmother They were enrolled by their great- Ukrainian National Association celebrated Christmas at a party on December 16, Maria Kryzaniwsky. grandmother Maria Kryzaniwsky. 2001, at the Holiday Inn in Boardman, Ohio. Over 60 people in attendance enjoyed dinner to the music of the Bandurists’ Christmas album. The assembled were greeted by Estelle Woloshyn, district chair, who introduced Msgr. George Appleyard, the Rev. Andrew Marko from St. Anne’s Church and the Rev. Charles Baxter from Ss. Peter and Paul Church. After dinner, the guests were treated to various prizes provided by the Youngstown District. Members of the committee included Estelle and Gene Woloshyn, Annabelle Borovitsky, Dan Hlywa, Helen Kozlow, Helene Senedak and Kathy Martynyzyn. Seen in the photo above (from left) are: Mr. Hlywa, Mrs. Woloshyn, Mr. Woloshyn and Ms. Borovitsky; below: Mr. and Mrs. Nick Cooper, Steve Bury, Mr. Kozlow, Sonya Hlywa and Mr. Hlywa.

Maxim Zarycky, son of George and Pei Zarycky, currently residing in Kyiv, is a new member of UNA Branch 327 in Natalie Anna Chapp, daughter of Hempstead, N.Y., thanks to his grand- Kristina and Robert Chapp, is a new mother Zenovia Zarycky, former long- member of UNA Branch 175. She was time branch secretary. Maxim’s father enrolled by her grandparents Roman is a former member of The Ukrainian and Victoria Maksymowich of Weekly’s editorial staff. Warren, Mich.

Woonsocket UNA’ers welcome St. Nicholas WOONSOCKET, R.I. – The presentation of the Nativity scene and the visit from St. Nicholas took place on December 9, 2001, in the parish hall of St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church in Woonsocket, R.I. The event was spon- sored by Ukrainian National Association Branch 241 represented by Janet Bardell, secretary, and Teodor Klowan, president. Msgr. Roman Golemba greeted the audi- ence. Program participants were Sofia Bobiak, Zenon Ruzycky, Dr. Lydia Klufas- Tkach and Dr. Michael Klufas. In the Nativity scene Camilla Bobiak represent- ed Mary, Michael Ruzycky played St. Joseph; the three kings were Marko Tkach, Stefko Ruzycky and Andriyko Klufas; Heather Nikolyshyn and Julia Hull were angels, and Johnathan Nikolyshyn was a shepherd. John Tkach played Christmas music and Dmytro Wolansky decorated the stage. Program organizers were Ivanna Hanushevsky, Nina Koropey, Anna Ruzycky and Ms. Bardell. Gifts were distributed by St. Nicholas and refreshments served, and the program ended with singing of Christmas carols. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 No. 5

NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Dirty politics, as usual Ukraine’s transformation on the European model: Ukrainian elections have never been orderly, clean or totally transparent, and this year’s Verkhovna Rada balloting should be no different, given recent developments. There are politicians in the country who believe that elections, are a no-holds- howby theDr. Bohdan United Hawrylyshyn States can assist the process barred affair and that it is okay to employ unethical and downright dirty tactics to people but there are no really poor peo- manipulate events and voter sympathies for one’s political benefit. The methods ple); co-existence with nature (ecological I will deal with the subject of health, sustainability). already used in an attempt to derail the election campaigns of Viktor Yuschenko, the Ukraine’s transformation under five head- ex-prime minister and former chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine, and the For Ukraine, the development of such ings that pose the following questions. a societal order is almost imperative in effort by state authorities to limit the physical movement of Yulia Tymoshenko, whose • Why should Ukraine transform itself election bloc is a favorite with the anti-Kuchma forces, do not bode well for this year’s order to maintain political and social on the European model. cohesion. At present there are some very Ukrainian parliamentary elections scheduled for March 31. • What are the special attractions of Never mind that President Leonid Kuchma has made it plain that he will not allow wealthy oligarchs and millions of poor the European model for Ukraine. people in Ukraine . This is not tenable election day irregularities to take place and that the leaders of the largest parties and • Is such a transformation feasible? election blocs have pledged to the world that the vote will be the cleanest and most over a long period. • How can the U.S. help? While communism has not delivered transparent in the history of independent Ukraine. The political positioning, mudsling- • Will the U.S. help? ing and bloodletting started even before the campaign officially begins on February 9. equality, the aspiration for a more equi- Why should Ukraine transform itself table distribution of wealth is deeply Mr. Yuschenko, who leads in most polls with anywhere from 15 to 21 percent voter on the European model? support, has already taken two major political hits. First, his integrity and sincerity rooted in society. There is even much The first reason is geography: Ukraine nostalgia now for the ”good old days” were questioned by the release of phone conversations, recorded by someone without belongs to Europe geographically; it is his knowledge, in which he and Kyiv Mayor Oleksander Omelchenko were heard among the majority of the older popula- close to its geographic heart. talking about ousting Rada Vice-Chairman Viktor Medvedchuk from his post. Instead tion which did not experienced the mass History also provides a reason. of undermining Mr. Yuschenko’s image as an honest and straightforward politician, terror of Stalinist days and led pre- Already in the 11th century there were the tapes tended to tarnish Mr. Omelchenko’s reputation as a level-headed leader. dictable lives, had assured retirement family links between the rulers of Rus’- In the second attack, businessman and politician Oleksander Rzhavskyi, a rather pensions, free medical care etc. Ukraine and European royal courts. Four nondescript lawmaker who achieved some fame when he ran unsuccessfully for the The second attraction of the European presidency in 1999 only to slip back into obscurity afterwards, tried to usurp the children of Prince Yaroslav the Wise model is a so-called “social contract.” Yuschenko name and reputation either to besmirch it or to ride it to victory by incor- were married with royal families of west- This essentially means extending demo- porating it into the name of his election bloc, the For Yuschenko Bloc. ern Europe. One of them, Anna cratic rights to the work place and not Ms. Tymoshenko has been the object of several vicious political attacks from the Yaroslavna, became the queen of France, just keeping it in the political arena, i.e., highest levels of government in an unsuccessful effort not only to smear her but also known as Anne de Kiev. She rose to such in various kinds of elections. The experi- to wipe her off the political map. In the latest flap, an appeals court set aside a ruling prominence not because of her looks, but ence of countries as different as Sweden by a lower court that had cleared Ms. Tymoshenko of money-laundering charges and because she was the only truly literate and Switzerland starting in 1937 and reinstated an order by the Procurator General’s Office not allowing her to leave Kyiv. person in the court and her wisdom was lasting over half a century shows that it The decision has drawn much controversy because it was handed down without either admired. is possible to have a broad consensus the defendant or her attorney being present. Most political observers believe the court Further for transformation based on type of agreement between labor man- proceeding was obviously rigged against Ms. Tymoshenko. Ukrainian law states that a the European model are found in both the agement and government on how to defendant can miss two court appearances before a court can rule on the case without present and the future. assure profitability of enterprises and yet him or her present. No one was in attendance for the ruling because Ms. Tymoshenko In terms of economics, the brik of achieve good working conditions, protec- was injured in an automobile accident on her way to the court proceeding. Ukraine’s trade will be with European tion against actions by owners, man- Obviously someone is trying to do as much damage to Mr. Yuschenko and Ms. Union countries. Much of the investment agers. Tymoshenko as possible. Particularly in the case of Mr. Yuschenko, determining who had come and also may continued from Having work representatives on the is behind the efforts is not easy. However, he himself has noted that two political enti- those countries. boards of directors adds to stability both ties brought down his government and those are the two power centers with which he As for the political sphere, harmoniza- at enterprise and national levels rather cannot cooperate politically. One is the For a United Ukraine bloc, headed by tion of legislation with European Union than incapacitating the companies. Even Volodymyr Lytvyn, who happens to be President Kuchma’s chief of staff; the other is standards will pull Ukraine towards full- co-determination law providing for even Mr. Medvedchuk’s Social Democratic Party (United). fledged contemporary democracy. Yet the representation of owners and labor on the But in the end maybe this sort of dirty gamesmanship truly benefits those who are fact that western European countries boards of directors, on the supervisory the subjects of the attacks. Mr. Yuschenko’s even-handed demeanor and restrained range in their political systems from con- boards imposed on Germany by the reaction have to an extent boomeranged on those who would have the young politi- stitutional monarchies through presiden- United States to prevent the re-emer- cian covered in mud and sinking into political obscurity. Likewise, earlier attempts to tial regimes to more parliamentary types gence of huge companies assured their discredit Ms. Tymoshenko backfired, in part because like a good judoist she warded would allow Ukraine to develop its own good development, the international off the attacks and used her considerable public relations talents to turn them to her political architecture best suited to its tra- competitiveness of the German economy, advantage. Many in Ukraine today see her as a sort of political Joan of Arc. ditions and current particularities. Since and the country’s high prosperity. Other It’s a sure thing that there will be more such attacks and smear tactics as candidates Switzerland is likely to join the European countries, like Austria and Holland, that and parties become fully engaged in the campaign. Unfortunately for the Ukrainian Union, Ukraine will be able to draw on have additional legislation testify to the nation, this has become a sad tradition of Ukrainian electoral politics. that experience, which is of particular positive aspects of such social contracts. use for multi-ethnic countries. A key policy instrument of the As regards security, membership in European Union is the Structural Fund. the EU would provide military security Currently there is about $100 billion in Feb. and, even more importantly, permit that fund, which is available for distribu- Turning the pages back... Ukraine to safeguard its cultural, linguis- tion over the next five years to poorer tic and political autonomy in the interde- members and particularly new candidate 6 pendent political constellation in which countries to enable them to go through the EU now finds itself. necessary structural reforms and develop 1998 Four years ago, Ukraine fielded its third Winter Olympic team *** their economies in keeping with higher since independence – the second with its own independent team What are the special attractions of the Western/North European standards. (as Ukraine’s team had been forced by circumstance to compete European model? Richer countries contribute to this in 1992 under the aegis of the Unified Team). It offers a vision called the “idea of fund and poor countries draw on it. This On February 6, 1998, 56 of Ukraine’s athletes and coaches, trainers and officials filed societal order”. The experience of some is how Greece, Spain and Portugal made into Minami Stadium in Nagano, Japan, led by Andriy Deryzemlia, world champion in the member-countries of the European Union rapid economic advances. Ireland is an biathlon, junior division, who carried the Ukrainian flag during the opening ceremonies. shows that it is possible to reconcile the outstanding example of a country that Ukraine’s athletes competed in 10 of the 14 Olympic winter events in Nagano. The head objectives of contemporary societies with moved from economic backwardness to of the delegation, the president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, Valerii the aspirations of people. being in the avant-garde of developed Borzov, told The Weekly in 1998 that the team would be happy with a couple of medals. These objectives/aspirations include: countries. “Ukraine’s potential and traditions in the Summer and Winter Olympics are different. political freedom (true democracy); eco- *** The winter climate in Ukraine is such that it does not allow athletes to realize their full nomic effectiveness through innovation, Is such a transformation of Ukraine potential in those types of sports,” said Mr. Borzov. A former Summer Olympics multiple competitiveness, which assures a high feasible? gold medalist, he said Ukraine nonetheless had medal potential in several events, including level of GDP; social justice (there is One can rephrase the question by pos- figure skating, free-style acrobatic skiing, the luge and Nordic combination (biathlon), but room in such societies for very wealthy ing it in a more direct manner: is ultimate he refrained from naming individual potential medalists. accession to the European Union possi- “Every athlete who goes to the Olympics believes he or she can win the gold. It is not for Dr. Bohdan Hawrylyshyn is chairman ble? The European Union did not seem me to somehow discourage that hope. In the end it is the individual’s determination that of the International Center for Policy to want Ukraine in its midst until now. matters,” said Mr. Borzov. Studies, International Management The EU did not even want Ukraine to Ukraine’s first medal in Nagano came on February 8 courtesy of Olena Petrova, who Institute, Kyiv; and advisor to the chair- call itself a potential candidate country. took silver in the 15-kilometer biathlon. man of the Verkhovna Rada and the But things seem to be changing. prime minister of Ukraine. The article Ukraine’s economic performance over Sources: “Team Ukraine leaves for Winter Olympics in Nagano” by Roman above is based on the keynote address he the last few years reduces the worry that Woronowycz, The Ukrainian Weekly, February 1, 1998, Vol. LXVI, No. 5; “Team delivered on November 1, 2001, at the Ukraine, due to its low GDP per capita Ukraine at Nagano Games: biathlete earns first medal, a silver” by Andrij Kudla conference “Ukraine’s Quest for Mature Wynnyckyj, The Ukrainian Weekly, February 15, 1998, Vol. LXVI, No. 7. Nation Statehood” held in Washington. (Continued on page 23) No. 5 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Faces and Places to congregate in a purposeful environment Ps & Bs groups need have enjoyed continued vitality and suc- by Myron B. Kuropas cess. I wish Mr. Wowk, the Ukrainian purposeful environment Engineers’ Society of America, and the oth- Dear Editor: ers involved in their revitalization effort the best of success and hope to see concrete I read Andrij Wowk’s recent article steps taken as a result of the informal sum- “Where have the young professionals mit they are planning “Together we will” gone?” with interest and laud his and the As most good UNA’ers know, the next egates could freely voice their opinions and Ukrainian Engineers’ Society’s efforts to Olena W. Stercho quadrennial convention of the Ukrainian have them published in Svoboda. The organize an effort to re-engage young pro- Wayne, Pa. National Association will be held in precedent was set prior to the 1914 UNA fessionals in Ukrainian American organiza- Chicago on May 24 through 28 at the convention. The discussion on the pages of tions. Marriott O’Hare Hotel. Svoboda began on July 2 and ended on Mr. Wowk is correct that “there should Thanks to Kuropas The local convention committee has September 5 with a total of 138 individuals be a second level of community involve- been preparing for this important conclave, participating. ment, into which young people can step as working with the UNA Home Office, as What amazed me was that some recom- for column on pioneers well as the Chicago Convention Bureau, to they leave the collegiate world.” While a Dear Editor: mendations are being echoed today – some number of professionally affiliated organi- make this the best UNA convention ever. 85 years later. The August 4, 1917, issue of zations continue to exist in the Ukrainian I wanted to thank Myron B. Kuropas, This is only the second time in 108 years Svoboda, for example, published a letter American community in varying degrees of through your Weekly, for his excellent, eru- that a UNA convention is being held in from Father Dmytro Khomiak demanding vibrancy, it seems that many of the profes- dite article titled “Canada’s barbed wire Chicago. To mark the occasion the Chicago that the entire UNA membership receive all sional and business associations (Ps&Bs) fence” (January 20). To me, the first para- convention committee has adopted the slo- convention reports prior to the elections of that were active in the 1980s and early graph was particularly meaningful and gan “Together We Will,” a modification of delegates so that they would be “familiar 1990s and provided that second level of poignant. the motto of the City of Chicago, “I Will.” with the way the organization was man- community involvement continue to exist My parents came from Bukovyna; my The reader might well ask, “will what? gaged during the past three years. Only in on paper only. Some of the reasons for their dad served in the Austro-Hungarian army. Although the answer is simple enough – this way can delegates decide if supreme demise are pertinent to efforts at revitaliza- Both parents were illiterate because there “we will turn the UNA around” – doing that executives are worthy of further support”. tion. were no schools in their vicinity during is not. It’s no secret that the UNA, like On August 30, Ivan Kashtaniuk complained While networking – one Ukrainian pro- their school-age years, and they were poor. almost every other fraternal benefit society that local UNA branches were no longer fessional putting another in contact with However, an opportunity arose and they in the United States, has declined in recent viewed as important by UNA national exec- “the right person” – is a worthwhile , took it. They immigrated to Canada and years. So has practically every other utives. That same year Gregory Geba wrote this is not enough to sustain an organiza- homesteaded in the area of Kamsack, Ukrainian institution, including our main- that the UNA shouldn’t belong to any politi- tion. Simply put, once interested profes- Saskatchewan, along with hundreds of line Churches. Only our federal credit cal organization “because it creates real sionals from a given geographic location at other Ukrainians. They overcame many a unions appear to be thriving. problems in the organizing of new mem- a given point in time all meet each other, hardship and with hard work and communi- The most momentous question that bers.” the organization quickly devolves into a ty cooperation led a fairly comfortable life. UNA delegates will need to address in May In a September 11, 1920, Svoboda pro- social group. While the importance of The most important result of all this, as it will be “how?” How do we turn things posal titled “Stop, Look and Listen,” the socializing to the continued vitality of pertains to me, is that they encouraged the around? Much is at stake. The future of venerable Father Volodymyr Spolitakewycz Ukrainian American organizations cannot children to obtain an education – something Soyuzivka, The Ukrainian Weekly and wrote: “In order for the UN Soyuz conven- be overemphasized, it alone is not enough they never had an opportunity to experi- Svoboda depend on the answer. Without the tion to be life-giving and beneficial, we to develop and grow an organization, par- ence. UNA, these three community-wide institu- must not be narrow-minded, one-sided or ticularly as members move away, undergo I have copied this column by Dr. tions will probably disappear. selfish, wishing only that ‘good’ which we changes in lifestyle, etc. and members Kuropas and sent it to each of our three Of special interest have been the written believe is good. Our goal must be the orga- begin to question the purpose of the organi- children, so that they and our nine grand- reports of the younger members of the nizational good, a good that is apparent to zation. The loss of momentum that children could get a glimpse of some of the UNA General Assembly as presented at our all delegates and members of the UN inevitably ensues also dooms recruitment of hardships that the Ukrainian pioneers meeting last December. Taras G. Szmagala Soyuz... The convention of the UNA is not new members. This devolution, it seems to endured in order to give us all a much better Jr., for example, believes that the “underly- a political gathering, a party meeting, or a me, was largely responsible for the demise life. ing issue of our association – “why be a religious synod, and for that reason there is of a number of Ps&Bs groups. It is truly something to cherish, and we member” – has gone unaddressed and there no room for political, party or religious Furthermore, while organizing by pro- must never forget our forefathers and their is no indication of that changing in the fights.” fessional pursuit also can be worthwhile, at determined efforts to succeed. I am eternal- future.” Following heated discussions, delegates the same time such affiliations may not ly grateful! Echoing Mr. Szmagala’s sentiments was to the 1925 UNA convention voted to cur- meet the needs of professionals in today’s Dr. Wasyl Szeremta, who wrote: “For the tail recommendations from individual UNA Michael E. Sasynuik, B.Sc. M.D. world. Simply put, Ukrainian American UNA to survive, we need to decide what members. In the future only those proposals Bellevue, Wash. professional societies cannot begin to hope business we are running. Are we an insur- which were approved during a UNA branch to provide the range of services or profes- ance company? Are we a resort provider? meeting would be published in Svoboda. sional information that their American Are we a publisher? Are we a multi-facted This was amended by the 1970 UNA con- counterparts can. While some professional The Weekly provides organization with separate subsidiaries? It is vention, which ruled that only proposals societies seem to have overcome this obsta- clear from the financial reports that we can- approved at district committee meetings cle, many have not. a well-rounded view not do everything as a principal business.” would be published. Nonetheless, I believe there can be Dear Editor: Mr. Szmagala expressed disappointment Even this was too much for some UNA viable Ukrainian American professional that the UNA delegates did not vote to executives. On May 1, 1974, Svoboda societies if a number of factors are taken This is to thank you for publishing my change the structure of the UNA from its promulgated the following dictate: into consideration. article on “Recent legal and tax changes in present form to a corporate structure in “Paragraph 17 of the UNA By-Laws First, while this may be stating the obvi- U.S. facilitate adoption from Ukraine,” in which the convention elects a board of defines the duties of various convention ous, members are drawn to these affiliations your December 30, 2001, issue. Of course, directors which, in turn, has the power to committees. The By-Laws Committee is because they do want to associate with it is always a pleasure to see one’s name in hire (and fire) the working executive. Mr. obligated to review all pre-convention rec- other Ukrainian Americans. print! Also, I was afraid the article would be Szmagala worked long and hard on fine- ommendations for the development and Second, such societies can develop and quite long by many newspaper standards, tuning this proposal, so his letdown is well-being of Soyuz which are made by grow if they provide a mix of activities and and you thought it useful enough to publish understandable. The proposal was defeated branches after they have been approved or in a mail-in ballot because two-thirds of the interests – in other words, there should be in its entirety. Hopefully it will encourage amended by the supreme executive which delegates did not approve the by-laws projects with goals that encourage members some would-be parents to go ahead with then proposes a course of action to be taken change. to participate and to invite others to join what is a difficult – but certainly doable – by the convention. There is nothing in the Why was the proposal defeated? Stefko them. Not only should there be social and undertaking. By-Laws that obligates the publication of cultural activities, but also volunteer activi- Kuropas argued that the pros and cons of My wife Marlies and I both enjoy The these recommendations in Svoboda, the ties for the betterment of the entire commu- the idea were never adequately presented to Weekly very much. We find it very inform- official organ of the UNA. Inasmuch as the nity should be considered. the delegates. “I believe,” he wrote, “that ative. Often the specialized press of any sort publication of such recommendations has For example, the aging Ukrainian most delegates would agree that the mail-in feels it always has to defend its particular become part of our tradition, however, American population would benefit ballot is not something that is well-suited interest. But you publish articles and com- Svoboda will continue to publish them, but tremendously from volunteer (or partly vol- for the our organization.” Al Kachkowski mentaries expressing all possible views on only in the form in which they are received unteer) efforts that younger professionals seemed to agree. “It is normal that such a developments in Ukraine, a country that from the Supreme Executive.” could provide by specialty or interest, such major step be approached with a degree of needs not only fair coverage but also For 60 years recommendations from the as basic medical services, estate planning or encouragement to keep moving in the right caution by delegates, especially when they even the collection of oral histories. do not have an opportunity to hear the pro- UNA membership were published freely in direction. the UNA press. This fraternal and demo- There is also the potential for projects Such an attitude on the part of the press posal presented and debated on a conven- involving Ukraine, collaboration with the tion floor. It is my hope that our next con- cratic practice was quashed in 1974. I don’t is much appreciated by the ordinary reader. believe it is mere coincidence that that same Fourth Wave of immigrants, or joint efforts Through The Ukrainian Weekly we get a vention will make room for such debate.” with other organizations in the larger UNA conventions are important deci- year the UNA began a decline that contin- well-rounded view of events in that coun- ues until today. American society. try. sion-making bodies. In researching the his- Is this too difficult? There are a number tory of the UNA, I discovered that there of organizations which by recognizing the Patrick W. Murphy was a time when all UNA members, not Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is: need for Ukrainian American professionals Bethesda, Md. just executives, assembly members and del- [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 No. 5

FFOOCCUUSS OONN PPHHIILLAATTEELLYY by Ingert Kuzych

The world’s first postal code The use of mail sorting codes to expe- ber-letter-number series. The central ditiously handle large volumes of mail is Cyrillic “Y” (pronounced “oo,” as in not a new idea. The first true postal codes, boot) of an Index designation stood for Íð‡ªÌ‡ today known as zip codes, date to the first (Y) (Ukraine) and so immediately half of the 20th century, and the first coun- identified mails destined for this republic try to introduce them was Ukraine. of the . The first number (the fore-number) designated the impor- Setting up the index tance and size of a location. Numbers 1 A sophisticated, three-part postal code to 10 were assigned to the capital city of system (referred to as an “index”) was (1 through 7 allocated to major first introduced in December 1932. This district (raion) postal centers in the city, program was not a brief experimental but 8 to 10 held in reserve). venture limited to a small region of the Remaining two-digit numbers indicat- country, but instead was a fully supported ed other major cities. So, 11 to 20 speci- Figure 2. Postal card from 1932 introducing the new Ukrainian “index” system. governmental effort that extended to all fied Kyiv (Nos. 11 to 14 allocated, corners of interwar Ukraine (then part of remainder in reserve), 21 to 29 Odesa the USSR) until it was abruptly discon- (five numbers allocated), 30 to 33 tinued in 1939 (Figure 1). Four different Mykolaiv (only one allocated), 34 to 39 informational postal cards were prepared Dnipropetrovsk (four numbers allocated), in 1932 to announce the new index pro- 40 to 44 Zaporizhia (all five numbers gram (Nos. 176 and 184-186). Their texts allocated), 45 to 48 Stalino (presently are all different, but the messages are Donetsk, four numbers allocated), 49 to similar. 51 Mariupil (one number allocated), and Postal card No. 186 (Figure 2) dis- so on to 89 to 91 for (one num- plays a typical announcement-exhorta- ber allocated). Numbers 92 to 100 were tion. It shows an envelope with delivery kept in reserve. Figure 3. The Index 22 Y l specified and return addresses that each contain the Three-digit fore-numbers indicated Odesa. new index (for the cities of Olevsk and raions of lesser importance in the coun- Kyiv, 101 Y 1 and 11 Y 15, respectively). try. So, 101 stood for the Oliev district Figure 4. Index number 485 Y l served The Ukrainian text reads: “A convention- (in Zhytomyr province) and this district Krasnyi Luch. al indication “index” has been assigned was subdivided into 39 smaller postal to every populated point in Ukraine. The drop-off and pick-up points, mostly vil- presence of such a conventional designa- lage post offices. These raion subdivi- tion on a letter guarantees correct send- sions were indicated by the hind-numbers ing and timely reception! Information at of the postal Index. The Oliev subdivi- the post office!” sions, therefore, ranged from 101 Y 1 to It was at post offices that a 268-page 101 Y 39. book was made available to patrons. Its Raion subdivisions could vary tremen- lengthy title was self-explanatory: dously in number, from 130 in Kharkiv Listing of the Postal Establishments, raion to just nine in Staro Kermenchyk Figure 5. Registration sticker with the Figure 7. Cyrillic registration marking Railway Stations, Towns, Villages and raion. Usually, though, they ranged Index 24 Y 11 for Olgina, a substation with the Index of 12 Y 1 for Kyiv. Rural Councils of Ukraine With Their between 20 and 40 in number. In all, 440 of Odesa. Designated Postal Codes. Published in raions are enumerated in the listing, 1932 in Kharkiv (the Ukrainian capital at while 46 large-city raion number slots the time), the volume was divided into were set aside for future use (i.e., the two sections. The first half presented all raion fore-numbers go as high as 486). the locales in Ukraine in alphabetical Over 25,000 unique raion subdivision order followed by their new postal code. receiving points are specified. The second half listed all the postal codes Examples of use of the country in sequence (starting with 1 Y 1 and ending with 486 Y 53) fol- Postal index codes more frequently lowed by the place name. So, either way appeared on the bottom halves of cancel- one looked up some information, it could ing devices (Figures 3 and 4), but they be readily tracked down. can also be found across the tops and How the index worked sometimes on the side. In addition, the codes are frequently seen on registration Every index was composed of a num- cachets (Figures 5 to 7), both those indi-

Figure 6. Registered cover mailed from Odesa to Berlin on December 22, 1932 (i.e., not long after the Index system was established). Note the 22 Y 1 index nota- tion on the rectangular registration marking.

cated with the Latin “R” (for registered) aggression pact, the so-called Molotov- á or Russian Cyrillic “ “ (for zakaznoe). Ribbentrop Agreement, was signed on August 23, 1939.) Postal codes were The fate of the index system apparently not assigned to any locales in The Ukrainian index system was sus- western Ukraine, which came under pended in the summer of 1939. The latest Soviet occupation in September of 1939. code described in the literature (22 Y 1 An alternate reason for the abandon- from Odesa) dates to June 25, 1939, and ment of the system may have been the the index system most likely was discon- stepped-up purges of the latter 1930s. tinued at about this time. The abrupt ces- Newly installed Communist Party sation in use of the index may have been replacements may have wished to for strategic reasons, since the rumblings demonstrate their loyalty by eliminating Figure 1. The Ukrainian SSR during the interwar years in a detail of a map from and preparations for war increased as the the postal code as a manifestation of “Ukraine: A Historical Atlas” by Paul Robert Magocsi (1985). year progressed. (The Nazi-Soviet non- “bourgeois nationalism.” No. 5 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 9

INTERVIEW:by Fran Ponomarenko Yurij Luhovy on the making of a film about Bereza Kartuzka Special to The Ukrainian Weekly It was the political climate at that time. You have to place his story in the MONTREAL – The story of the infa- context of the tension between Poland mous concentration camp, Bereza and Ukraine in the late 1920s and 1930s. Kartuzka (1934-1939), where thousands Western Ukraine was under Polish occu- of Ukrainian patriots were incarcerated pation and the Polish government pro- without due process and in direct viola- gressively used severe measures to sup- tion of the Polish Constitution is little press and pacify Ukraine. By 1935 known. Yurij Luhovy, a member of the Poland became a completely authoritari- Academy of Canadian Cinema and an state and attacks against Ukrainian Television, is now close to completing a life again increased. My father’s arrest documentary film about this camp, a film was one of many. based on authentic photographs, docu- We were never certain of the reason. ments, archival footage, and eyewitness None was ever given. Ukrainians were testimonials from survivors. arrested by the Polish police “bez prava Part one of a trilogy dealing with zakhystu,” without the right of a defense. Ukraine under three occupations – Polish, Communist and Nazi – this film This was illegal, of course, even under will highlight the political situation in Polish law, but it was done anyway. My which Western Ukrainians found them- father had just finished law school in selves under Polish rule between the first Ternopil and had just married my moth- and second world wars. Award-winning er. They decided to settle in Brody; the Montreal filmmaker, Mr. Luhovy is best year was 1938. He was supposed to work known for his work on “Harvest of for two years under a lawyer for no pay. Despair.” He has, however, more recent- However, to survive they opened a fruit ly made another documentary film titled store. Nearby, a Polish man also had one, “Freedom Had a Price” about the intern- and he saw his business dwindling. My ment operations in Canada, which led to mother always thought that the reason the detention of over 5,000 Ukrainians in for the denunciation of my father was 24 camps across Canada, and led to the this person’s jealousy. One day my moth- designation of a further 88,000 civilians er came to the store to bring my father (the majority of whom also were some lunch but he was not there. The Ukrainian) as “enemy aliens.” neighbors said that my father was arrest- Filmmaker Yurij Luhovy stands in front of the Bereza Kartuzka concentration camp. In addition to his documentary work, ed and taken to the Bereza Kartuzka con- Mr. Luhovy has also worked in the main- centration camp. This happened in June thing into a historical context. We see stream industry on such films as or July of 1939. That day about 17 other that problems began on June 28, 1919, Who took these photographs? “Khanehsatake: 250 Years of people from Brody alone were arrested when the Supreme Council of the Paris It was local people from different vil- Resistance,” “Show Girls,” “Rocks at and imprisoned. Peace Conference, just after World War I, lages who took these pictures secretly. Whiskey Trench” and “Race for the allowed Poland to occupy all of Eastern They wanted to inform the League of What kind of people were usually Bomb.” Galicia (or western Ukraine). Poland Nations about the conditions that picked up by the Polish police? never adhered to the points of the Treaty Ukrainians lived in under Poland in order You are presently close to complet- to persuade the League to intervene. The All persons active in Ukrainian of Versailles. ing a film about the Bereza Kartuzka Polish government, claiming to be demo- national affairs were under constant sur- A clear violation of Ukrainian rights concentration camp. What brought cratic, was somewhat sensitive when the veillance, searched and often arrested. was made in July 31, 1924, which you to this subject? West learned about the abuse of minority The Polish police especially looked for excluded the Ukrainian language from rights in Poland. Can you imagine? We people that were in the Ukrainian under- use in governmental and in self-govern- Actually, it was my father. He was ing agencies. In addition, Poland were living on our own land and were imprisoned in Bereza. When I was a ground, in the OUN [Organization of embarked on an intensive process of col- considered a minority! young boy I often heard him speaking Ukrainian Nationalists], which, in retali- onizing Ukrainian territories with Poles with his friends, who were also incar- ation, had organized a struggle against from ethnic Poland. In the next 20 years, What purpose was the concentra- cerated there, about the abuses they the brutality of the Polish occupation. about 200,000 Poles were moved into tion camp supposed to serve in the eyes endured in the camp. They used to sit They also targeted intellectuals. But Ukrainian villages and about 100,000 of the Polish government? around our dining room table in criminals of various nationalities also into cities of western Ukraine. The Polish Montreal and recount their stories for were imprisoned there. This was done regime also began a complete destruction Ukrainians were placed in Bereza to hours. They talked about their lives in on purpose, to create dissension and of Ukrainian schools. For example, be “re-educated,” that is, to learn not to western Ukraine in the 1930s. They all conflict. There were also some Poles in Ukrainian schools in Galicia dropped oppose policies of Polonization and not knew each other in Ukraine as students, Bereza who opposed Pilsudski’s authori- from 2,420 in 1911 to 352 in 1937. to resist Polish rule. It was a way of ter- or as former prisoners in Bereza tarian rule. The Polish police also arrest- Polish schools on Ukrainian territories rorizing Ukrainians and trying to get greatly increased. Ukrainian Catholics them to stop attaining an independent also were pressured to accept the Latin homeland. Most of them were there for rite, to become Roman Catholic, which three months, but some for a year and a [My father’s] experiences, and those of actually meant renouncing their half. Some died in the camp. The camp Ukrainian nationality. commander was Col. Yanush Kostek- others like him were first-hand accounts Then, in June 1934, the Polish Biernacki and his subordinate was B. Minister of Internal Affairs, Bronislaw Grefner, who was later replaced by I. of an untold story never yet filmed. ... It Pieracki, was assassinated in Warsaw by Kamalia. was very emotional for me to walk where Ukrainians in retaliation for his role in I might add that in a declaration of the brutal “pacification” of Ukraine. September 13, 1934, Poland denounced my father once did. Three days later Bereza Kartuzka was the treaty on the protection of national opened. This means that the camp must minorities at the League of Nations. have been planned much earlier because You said earlier that various ethnic everything was in place. groups were incarcerated. Which The “pacification” of Ukraine was a group predominated in the camp? Kartuzka, or from the DP [displaced ed Communists of Polish, Jewish and reign of terror. People were beaten merci- persons] camps after World War II. In Belarusian origin. All these people were lessly, books were burned, Ukrainian Well, that depends on the year. the 1950s some of them found each thrown together and that created lots of institutions were closed, censorship was Towards 1939 the majority were other again in Montreal. problems in the camp amongst the pris- enforced. In the Ukrainian newspapers in Ukrainians. In 1934 the population of So, their stories were always in the oners. There were even fights. Canada during the 1930s, you can read the camp was about 250 people, but by back of my mind and overtime, I real- many accounts of what occurred. It was September 1939 there were between ized we didn’t know our history. There This concentration camp dates back natural for Canadian Ukrainians to follow 5,000 and 8,000 people, the majority of were many other immigrants living in to the early 1930s, to the time when what was happening in their homeland, to whom were Ukrainians. Just imagine the Canada and the United States that had eastern Ukrainians were in the after- their families and friends. Also, when you conditions, too. They used to sleep about spent time in Bereza. What also stayed math of the Famine-Genocide. go through newspapers and archives of 15 to a room when the camp first opened with me is that such a docile, gentle the 1930’s, you see that the international in 1934 but towards the end it was man like my father could be beaten. His The 20th century wasn’t very kind to press was aware of what was happening. between 60 and 70 men to a room. Some experiences, and those of others like Ukraine. Yes, eastern Ukraine was suf- The Manchester Guardian, for example, even slept outside under the elements. fering brutal repression under Stalin, and often reported about the terror being him, were first-hand accounts of an Were you able to learn what the untold story never yet filmed. western Ukraine was suffering under inflicted on Ukrainians. And photos Polish control. Bereza Kartuzka began to depicting this did get out to the West. The prisoners ate? What led to the incarceration of operate from 1934. In the film, the histo- West knew what was happening in your father? rians who were interviewed put every- Western Ukraine but did little. (Continued on page 21) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 No. 5

AP/Franco Debernardi AP/Tor Wennstrom Gold medalist Nina Lemesh of Ukraine (center) with silver medalist Svetlana Ichmouratova of Russia (left) Biathlete Olena Zubrilova celebrates her victory in the and bronze medalist Magdalena Forsberg of Sweden on the winner's podium after the World Cup 7.5-kilo- World Cup 10-kilometer race in Lahti, Finland in 2000. meter biathlon in Anterselva, Italy, in 1998.

place finishes during the 2001-2002 Ukraine sends... World Cup season. (Continued from page 1) Though America’s Michelle Kwan and ter sports with a first-time berth in ice Sarah Hughes, along with Russia’s Irina hockey (see story on , page 11). Slutskaya and Maria Butyrskaya, look The team will compete with five National strong for medal contention in women’s Hockey League players. Veteran Dmitri figure skating, Ukrainians Olena Khristich of the , Liashenko and Halyna Maniachenko Philadelphia Flyers’ up-and-comer Ruslan could prove very interesting to watch. The Fedotenko, ’ fourth- pressure will be off but on round draft pick , St. the American and Russian skaters – and Louis Blues’ Sergei Varlamov and especially Kwan who has yet to win an prospect Dmitri Olympic gold medal. Tolkunov all are expected to compete bar- Both Ms. Liashenko and Ms. ring any last-minute changes. Maniachenko competed in the 2002 The Ukrainian ice hockey squad will European Championships in Lausanne, begin its quest for the medals round by Switzerland, taking ninth and fourth competing against Belarus on February 9, places, respectively. Ms. Maniachenko’s Switzerland on February 11 and France fourth place was especially impressive on February 13. If the group can success- considering that both Ms. Slutskaya and fully navigate the qualifying round, Team Ms. Butyrskaya competed in the event, Freestyle aerialist Tetiana Kozachenko AP/Viktor Pobedinsky Ukraine will need to face powerhouses not to mention that Ms. Liashenko is the (photo reproduced from “The Olympic Figure skater Olena Liashenko poses for Canada, Sweden, the United States and odds-on favorite in the Ukrainian camp. Team of Ukraine: Official Handbook.”). a photo during a training session in Kyiv. the Russian Federation – not to mention It may seem like a surprise, but the gold-medal favorite, the Czech Ukrainian bobsleders have competed in Republic – in order to place itself in all of the last three Winter Games and will medal contention. continue that tradition in Salt Lake City Team Ukraine gained its Olympic ice by fielding a four-man and two-man sled. hockey berth by placing third at the Although they have yet to medal, or for Olympic Qualification Tournament for the that matter even come close (one cannot Salt Lake City Games in Oslo, Norway, help but think of the Cinderella team of on August 2, 2001, and followed up this Jamaican bobsledders) in any European, performance with a top-10 finish at the World or Olympic races, the squad does 2001 World Championships in Germany. have a ninth-place finish in the four-man Ukraine’s hopes in freestyle aerials at the 2001 European Cup in France. The seem much more realistic but suffered a team will also carry 27-year-old veteran blow with the loss of Ukrainian-born Alla Oleh Polyvach who took 23rd place in the Tsuper who changed her citizenship to Belarusian midway through the 1998- two-man at the 1998 Nagano Games. 1999 season. Ms. Tsuper, whose career Although strongest in biathlon with best 2000-2001 World Cup season placed potential in the women’s freestyle aerials, her second overall, was quoted on the women’s figure skating and men’s ice official 2002 Salt Lake City website that hockey, the Ukrainian squad will also she left the Ukrainian team because she field competitors in cross-country skiing, didn’t work well with the new Ukrainian luge, alpine skiing, speed skating, ski head coach and wanted to continue work- jumping, figure skating and short track. ing with her old coach in Belarus. However, with a string of recent top-10 finishes, Tatiana Kozachenko could make things interesting in the women’s freestyle Weekly at Olympics aerials. The 21-year-old took 10th place The Ukrainian Weekly Editor on January 21 in Lake Placid, N.Y., eighth Andrew Nynka leaves on February in Mont Tremblant, Quebec on January 1 for Sun Valley, Idaho, official 13, and second-and-third place finishes at training site of Ukraine’s Winter Canada’s Fortress Mountain on December Olympic Team, where he will have 16 and 14, 2001, respectively. an opportunity to meet with the At the 18th Winter Games, Ms. Ukrainian delegation. Mr. Nynka Kozachenko barely missed the medal will then travel to Salt Lake City, platform by taking fourth place, one where he will cover the Olympic ahead of then teammate Ms. Tsuper. Games. Look for his exclusive While on the men’s side, 23-year-old reports in upcoming issues of The AP/Joe Cavaretta Stanislav Kravchuk took ninth place in Weekly. Iryna Taranenko Terelia crosses the finish line to take fourth place in the 15-kilometer Nagano along with seventh, fifth and third cross-country event at the Nagano Games in 1998. No. 5 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 11 Ukrainian pro hockey update

bbyy IIhhoorr SStteellmmaacchh 2001 World Championships final Team Ukraine scoring Player Pos. GP G A PTS PIM Vadim Slivchenko F 6 4 0 4 0 Vadim Shakraichuk F 6 2 1 3 12 F 6 1 2 3 2 Salt Lake City Preview: Sergei Klementiev D 6 1 2 3 20 Wasyl Bobronikov F 6 1 1 2 0 Ukraine’s hockey hopefuls Valery Shiryaev D 6 0 2 2 2 On Saturday, February 9, even before 21-year-old Alexei Ponikarovsky of the Konstantin Kasyanchuk F 6 1 0 1 0 they drop the puck at center ice in Toronto Maple Leafs, recalled from the Vitaly Litvinenko F 6 1 0 1 2 Ukraine’s first preliminary round game AHL’s St. John’s Leafs in mid-January. Boris Protsenko F 6 0 1 1 0 versus Belarus in Salt Lake City, there The addition of these talented right- will be a tremendous sense of accom- wingers will obviously add offensive Roman Salnikov F 6 0 1 1 2 plishment. The 2002 Winter Games will firepower. Valentyn Oletsky F 6 0 1 1 4 be Ukraine’s first ever participation in Little pepperpot Vadim Slivchenko’s Vyacheslav Zavalnyuk D 4 0 0 0 0 Olympic hockey competition. Previously, star outshined Khristich’s at the World Igor Karpenko GT 3 0 0 0 0 Ukraine had earned its status in the upper tournament by notching four goals. The echelon of hockey nations by winning forward line of Vadim Shakraichuk, Andrei Sryubko D 5 0 0 0 0 the 1998 B-Pool World Championships. Vitaly Lytvynenko and Valentyn Oletsky 0leg Polkovnikov D 5 0 0 0 10 Ukraine’s head coach, Anatoly should return intact as a potentially Konstantin Simchuk GT 4 0 0 0 0 Bogdanov, preaches the old Soviet style potent trio. Vitaly Lyutkevich D 6 0 0 0 2 of hockey, featuring crisp passing, con- Ukraine has struggled against the top stant cycling of the puck and an overall national hockey programs at the World Bogdan Savenko F 6 0 0 0 2 emphasis on an attacking offense. Championships, earning back-to-back Alexei Lazarenko F 6 0 0 0 4 However, Mr. Bogdanov’s theory may 14th place showings in 1999 and 2000. Alexander Matvichuk F 6 0 0 0 6 not be so easy to transform into practical- The squad showed improvement by fin- Artem Ostroushko D 6 0 0 0 8 ity due to a chronic lack of troops to real- ishing in 10th place at the 2001 World Alexander Savitsky D 6 0 0 0 8 ize such a multi-dimensional attack. Championships in Germany, mainly due Between the pipes, Coach Bogdanov to an impressive upset victory over That’s what right-winger Ruslan ful of NHL players on the Ukraine roster. must select between Igor Karpenko, once Latvia. Fedotenko found under the proverbial Without players of his caliber, Ukraine the property of both the Anaheim Mighty One can only wonder about the levels holiday tree when the Philadelphia Flyers has virtually no chance of advancing to Ducks and Calgary Flames, and of grandeur the Ukrainian nationalhock- told him he could miss games to play for the final round. Konstantin Simchuk. Karpenko and ey program could achieve if more of its his native Ukraine in Olympic qualifying “If it means that Fedotenko misses one Simchuk have many years of tested expe- national players stayed at home, honing action February 9-15. game or two, I don’t think that’s as rience on the North American profession- their skills training together as a cohesive A night after finding out the good important to us as him getting a chance al minor league circuits. unit. The legendary Ukrainian club team news, Fedotenko celebrated with his first to play in the Olympics and representing Karpenko has the additional credit used to be Ukraine’s answer two-goal game of the season in a 4-1 vic- his country,” Clarke said. claim of winning two Russian titles while to powerhouse CSKA Moscow, but the tory at Washington. Fedotenko’s response: “I’m honored to with . club has suffered through a series of dif- Initially the Flyers were not too keen play for my country and I’m looking for- Unfortunately, his career resume is some- ficult years due to continually increasing on the idea of giving Fedotenko permis- ward to it.” what tainted by his meltdown at the 2001 player migration throughout Europe and sion to go, but General Manager Bobby World Championships, where he stum- into North America. The lure of upgraded Clarke had a change of heart after he (Thanks to The Hockey News’ Wayne bled and bumbled to a lofty 5.41 goals training facilities/player development and realized Fedotenko is one of only a hand- Fish for above quotations.) against average with a paltry .844 save lucrative professional contracts is too percentage. tempting for our young native sons. His rival, Simchuk, managed a 47- In Group B of the preliminary round save effort in a 5-0 whitewash to of eight teams, Ukraine will encounter Sweden, but finished the tournament the most difficulty against Switzerland. with his own impressive shutout win, 2-0 That said, Ukraine does have an excellent over Austria. chance at knocking out France and The defense corps would truly be for- Belarus. In fact, some international hock- tified and very well manned if Ukrainian- ey experts are predicting Ukraine as a born blueliners of the potential favorite against both these foes. and Oleg Tverdovsky of Team Ukraine has an international rep- the Anaheim Mighty Ducks had the utation as a feisty group that can be vic- desire and eligibility to don the sweaters torious when harnessing that feistiness. of their true national team. Having repre- With all five skaters on the ice sticking to sented Russia in international competi- their offensive system of quick passes tions in the past, this option is no longer and creating the right shot on goal, feasible for the talented Ukrainian Ukraine has a legitimate shot at surviving defense duo. Thus, the Ukrainian back- the preliminary round and gaining the line will be headmanned by 26-year-old medal rounds. Wouldn’t that add to the Sergei Klementiev (owner of a good hard already strong sense of accomplishment shot from the point) and Oleksander of just being in Salt Lake City? Savitsky and Artem Ostroushko (reliable Fedotenko to play for Team Ukraine stay-at-home types). Team Ukraine boasts three semi-note- For Christmas, what do you give a worthy Ukrainian-born wingers with professional hockey player who has just varying levels of National Hockey about everything? League experience: 12-year veteran How about official permission to leave Dmitri Khristich of the Washington his NHL team for a week and play for his Capitals, second-year rookie Ruslan country in the preliminary round of the Fedotenko of the Philadelphia Flyers and Olympics?

In the year 2001, Mr. Ponomaryov tied Ukrainian becomes... for 1-2 places in the European men’s (Continued from page 1) championship and then played a key role ing under the guidance of a full-time in garnering the first-ever gold medal for Ukraine in the World Team Championship. chess coach. In the under-18 age category The gold medal was decided only in the he won the European championship at last-round match against Russia, in which age 12 and the world championship at 13. the four-man Ukrainian team prevailed by At 14 he became the youngest player a score of 22:12, thanks to the lone victory ever to be awarded the title of grandmas- by Mr. Ponomaryov. ter. In 1998, Mr. Ponomaryov made his For the first time in history Ukraine debut on the Ukrainian olympic Team, possesses both the team and the individ- and soon thereafter won the Ukrainian ual world chess championships – and Four of Team Ukraine’s hockey players (beginning with top row, from left): Zonal tournament – the first step towards both of them have Ruslan Ponomaryov Dmitri Khristich, Ihor Karpenko, Valentyn Oletsky and Vitaly Litvinenko. the World Championship. written all over them. (Photos reproduced from “The Olympic Team of Ukraine: Official Handbook.”) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 No. 5 Ukrainian Hopak to be featured during Olympic ceremonies PROVO, Utah – Viewers will need to Edwin Austin is director of the group asked to perform the Hopak and Irish couple of weeks. It’s hard to believe,” keep a sharp eye on the various cere- participating in the Olympics, which is step dancing at the Medals Plaza on said Ms. West. monies during the Olympics in Salt Lake called the Performing Arts Company. February 18 from 6:15 p.m. to 6:45 Ms. West grew up in Edmonton and City, because they may just catch a There are also five other folk dance p.m. NBC will televise this perform- Calgary, Alberta. Her mother hails from glimpse of swirling ribbons and flying teams with 16 couples in each group. The ance. The dancers will also be in the Athabasca, Alberta, where her family, the leaps in the Ukrainian Hopak. faculty who manage these 190 students, opening ceremonies involving Waschuks, emigrated from Datyn, north- Colleen N. West, assistant professor, are Ms. West, Delynne Peay, Jeannette American clogging, Ukrainian and west of Kovel in Volyn, western Ukraine, World Dance Division, Brigham Young Geslison and Tara Christopher. Ms. West Irish dance numbers. in the early 1900s. At the time, “land was University in Provo, Utah, has reported is the costume research and design coor- On January 29 at noon the dancers 160 acres for $10, of course, it was solid that The International Folk Dance dinator for all the costumes. have been asked to do a half-hour show – bush,” Ms. West related. Ensemble from BYU will perform at the The group does dances from all over with Ukrainian numbers specifically West is the recipient of the Teaching Olympics – and its repertoire includes the world, but, according to Ms. West, requested – for the athletes at the Excellence Award, from the College of Ukrainian members. their Ukrainian section always is the sig- Olympic Village. Health and Human Performance at BYU The ensemble, affiliated with the nature piece of its shows and most loved They will also be dancing the Hopak (1998-1999). Her research interests are dance department in the College of by audiences. at the Tabernacle Park in Provo on ethnic costume design, Ukrainian dance, Health and Human Performance, com- There will be a special program called February 14 at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. music and costumes, and history of cho- prises 15 women and 15 men who come “Light of the World” sponsored by The At Washington Square at the County City reography of rhythm tap dance. from all backgrounds and majors. Some Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Building, where the Salt Lake City Along with being a choreographer, of the dancers are dance majors, but Saints. The performance will be present- Corporation will sponsor an Olympic Ms. West designed Poltava-region Hopak many major in political science, interna- ed every night in the Conference Center Celebration, the folk dance ensemble has costumes for the male and female tional finance, linguistics, zoology, health during the Olympics. The Ukrainian cul- been asked to do a half hour show on dancers of the ensemble. She received a science, law, accounting, etc. ture will be one of the many highlighted February 21 at 5:45 p.m. Of course, research grant from the college to con- In order to be a member of the group, and many of the students are involved in Ukrainian again was requested. duct research on culture, costumes and a student must be a full-time student with this huge production. “This is craziness, but yet, it’s a once- dance history during a folk arts tour of a GPA of 3.0 or higher. The folk dance ensemble has been in-a-lifetime experience. It all begins in a Ukraine in August 2000.

Globe-trotting pianist sets off for next round of concerts YOUNGSTOWN – Concert pianist Roman Rudnytsky diplomacy,” made a tour of six Central and West African will be involved in several international concert trips countries in March of 2000. Mr. Rudnytsky previously between February and the end of June, that will cover a wide played in Tunisia in 1998 as part of the Carthage Festival area of the world. there – situated next to the ruins of the famous ancient city of Between February 6 and 25 Mr. Rudnytsky will perform Carthage. recitals and conduct master classes at two California univer- In mid-April the pianist will travel to Poland to perform sities: Cal Polytechnic State University in Pomona and as soloist on April 12 with the Sudecka Filharmonia in the CalState Northridge before proceeding to several Pacific city of Walbrzych, near the Czech border. He will play islands of Micronesia. There, recitals will take place on such Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 as soloist with this orchestra. islands as Majuro and Kwajalein (Marshall Islands), Pohnpei During this same period he will also travel to the island of and Yap (Caroline Islands), Chuuk (Federated States of Malta for a recital arranged through the U.S. Embassy there. Micronesia), Saipan (Northern Marianas), Guam, and Koror On April 25 and 26 he will play a recital and conduct a on the island of Babeldaob in the Republic of Palau. Mr. master class at Abilene Christian College in Texas and on Rudnytsky made a concert tour of most of these islands back May 5 he will be at Dartmouth College, where he will per- in 1996. form Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue as soloist with the On March 8 and 9 he will perform a recital and conduct a Dartmouth Wind Ensemble. From late May through mid- master class at Queen’ s University in Kingston, Ontario, June, he will embark on his concert tour of New Zealand. before proceeding to Britain for several recitals there. In Since concluding his 12th Australian tour (comprising 21 mid-March, he will travel from Britain to Tunisia to play a concerts) last summer, Mr. Rudnytsky played in September recital and conduct a master class in Tunis under the aus- in Britain and Iceland, in late October in Chile – his eighth pices of the U.S. Embassy’s “public diplomacy” program. visit there, and in November in Hagerstown, Md., and at the This program is the successor to the U.S. Information University of Waterloo in Ontario. Service, which was abolished in 1998 and its functions Mr. Rudnytsky has performed concerts in over 75 coun- absorbed into the State Department. tries and since 1972 has been a member of the piano faculty Mr. Rudnytsky played in 18 countries between 1984 and of the Dana School of Music of Youngstown State Roman Rudnytsky 1998 through the USIS and, after the change to “public University in Ohio.

CONCERT REVIEW: Paris to Kyiv in Toronto

by Marcia Ostashewski on sopilka (wooden flute). Mr. Moody rhythmically punctu- ated the melody on viola, then began to wind his own play- TORONTO – Billed as “Winter Cycle Concert,” the ful tune. This was the first of a series of sound vignettes. afternoon concert on Sunday, January 20, was the best Immediately following, the musicians played music this reviewer has heard from Alexis Kochan and her “Cross/Cradle/Tree,” a piece composed for an earlier CD group Paris to Kyiv. It was truly exquisite. recording. Mr. Kytasty played his bandura, which he’d laid Concert-goers were greeted at the door of Holy Trinity across his lap instead of holding upright as it is normally Church in downtown Toronto by concert producer and played. Throughout the concert, Mr. Kytasty displayed his director of Small World Productions Allan Davis. We took talent for creating novel sounds on his traditional instru- our seats among the chairs and old wooden pews in an ments. He fashioned unorthodox tonal moments and often unpretentious atmosphere; while the church is graced with used the bodies of the instruments to produce unusual sound grand stained glass windows and fine celestial decorative qualities. painting, it also feels comfortable. Each member of the trio wove in and out of richly lay- It was the perfect atmosphere for the music of the special ered textures. One audience favorite was a duet between Paris to Kyiv trio comprised of chanteuse Alexis Kochan, Ms. Kochan and Mr. Moody; Mr. Moody jazzed up the bandurist Julian Kytasty, and violist Richard Moody. The piece and bent notes on a groove of Gershwin’s trio recently returned from performing together on an “Summertime” melody, echoing a lullaby sung by Ms. extraordinary tour of old churches and an avant-garde festi- Kochan. val in Poland. The music they shared with the audience in The most intimate part of the group’s performance was Trinity Square was pure synergy – clearly a result of work- “Plach,” an ode to a mother’s dead child. Ms. Kochan ing closely together. chanted the woman’s lament; Mr. Kytasty played a drawn- Ms. Kochan used words from the translated songs to out melody, ending phrases with generous amounts of lightly color images in the mind; each bit of ancient breath-evoking elements of the ephemeral. Mr. Moody Ukrainian song material came alive with the music. The accompanied himself on guitar, offering a response from the concert, which focused on the winter song cycle, began child; the unassuming and calm timbre of his voice brought with the trio’s version of “Sviatyi Vechir,” or “Holy Night.” tears to many eyes as he sang “Mama, please don’t cry.” The velvet tones of Ms. Kochan’s voice welcomed the Such poignant songscapes were interspersed with dancey audience into a gentle quiet and were joined by Mr. tunes played by the two instrumentalists. These tunes treat- Kytasty’s vocal harmonies. Mr. Kytasty, more renowned as a premiere bandurist, met this song with a cheerful melody (Continued on page 14) Alexis Kochan No. 5 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 13

Pop, rock, hip-hop – Ukraine’s music scene has it all – and it’s thriving CONCLUSION than travel abroad to attain stardom. songs remains popular in Kyiv, it is no and soul grouping it is Yevhenia Vlasova The music played in Ukraine today longer prevalent. The most popular acts – or the queen of the genre, . KYIV – Although not as expansive as in encompasses all the various types popu- and just as important – the ones that have In the final installment of a three-part Moscow, which remains the center of post- lar around the globe today. shown staying power, sing mostly in series, The Weekly’s Kyiv Press Bureau Soviet “show business,” Kyiv today has a You’re a traditionalist and want clas- Ukrainian. In the realm of hard rock they presents more of Ukraine’s contempo- vibrant popular music scene, including all sic rock? Or something with a heavier are Vopli Vodopliasova (V.V.) and Okean rary music stars. This week we profile kinds of clubs, bars and discothéques and beat, maybe metal? Perhaps your taste Elzy; in hip-hop it is the group with the two recently popular acts: Tanok Na ever more state-of-the art production stu- runs to the post-modern and you need a amazing name of Tanok Na Maydani Maydani Kongo, a hip-hop group that dios and producers. Ukrainian artists are hip-hop beat to get you moving? Or Kongo and another one at the fringe of the calls its music “Ukra-hop;” and Dymna increasingly recording their soundtracks maybe you like to feel the rhythm inside hip-hop movement called Dymna Sumish; Sumish, considered by its peers the most and their video clips in Kyiv rather than and go for soul and rhythm and blues? in the pop category you can choose from talented of the young breed. running to Moscow for “the best,” as the In Kyiv you will find all that and more. Iryna Bilyk, Oleksander Ponomariov or new talent decides to stay home rather While use of the in Taisa Povalii; and in the rhythm and blues –Roman Woronowycz

Hip-hop takes hold in Ukraine; Ukraine’s hot new musical talent “Ukra-hop” leads the way is alternative, plus a mix of much else by Roman Woronowycz And while it seems you have heard that beat Kyiv Press Bureau or this guitar riff before, you can never quite pin down where or by whom. DYMNA SUMISH Dymna Sumish’s sound is a unique com- bination of various popular music styles and If it weren’t for the likes of Sviatoslav they move freely among several genres, but Vakarchuk of Okean Elzy and Oleh they are unerringly grounded in hip-hop and Skrypka of Vopli Vodopliasova, Dymna rap. That is where their music begins and to Sumish (Smoky Mix) may not have been the point which it returns. part of this series on pop/rock acts. During the course of their interview with However, the two leading Ukrainian artists, The Weekly, the two and a half (as they along with Fozzy of Tanok Na Maydani explained) present members of the four- Tango, kept mentioning the new act as one and-a-half-person band – lead singer of the best and most original groups to Pruzhyna, along with drummer Oleksander, come around in a long while. or Sashko, who also goes by the acronym Their first album is not due until a bit G-Al, as well as the group’s half member later this year, but Dymna Sumish has (because he doesn’t make the music), break begun to play the Kyiv club circuit, appear- dancer Kostia, a.k.a. Co-style – kept adding ing to a packed house at Buddy Guy’s, one of the better known nightspots here, during additional bands and musicians to the list of the first week of January. And, while they acts that have influenced them. What started still do not have a music video, they already with The Fugees, Lauryn Hill, System of a Tanok Na Maydani Kongo have an extensive following. Dog and Portishead, soon also included the As their name implies, their music is a Doors and the Sex Pistols, and then “you by Roman Woronowycz (a marijuana cigarette) of all things. great mixture of influences, not the least of have to add Nirvana, yes, they were one of Kyiv Press Bureau “We found that to be quite interesting,” which is hip-hop and punk with a smatter- the best,” finally, “grunge, punk, heavy explained Fozzy, 28, one of the band’s ing of rhythm and blues. metal and hard core” and “from another TANOK NA MAYDANI KONGO founders and its spokesman. “We create a mix from all that we enjoy,” perspective, jazz.” In reality the group is absolutely drug- explained the band’s front man and vocalist, They are brash and self-assured as most The seven members, all in their early free, although they do experiment with the Pruzhyna, also known as Sashko and more young acts tend to be and, whether accurate and mid-20s, walk the walk that low- occasional beer. formally Oleksander. or not, they have a definite vision of who hanging extremely loose baggy pants The TNMK sound is not gangsta-rap, To say that their music is a mixture is not they are and where they are going. force upon those like them. They wear the but then the group does not try to make to mean that it sounds like everything and Pruzhyna and G-Al said that before they are same dark wrap-around glasses and the that kind of music, as Fozzy, who is everybody. If that were the case, they could through the group hoped to “make albums, unstructured hats and caps. Nonetheless known to his mother as Oleksander have called themselves Dymna Ghoulash make video clips, become super popular they would rather call the music they sing Sydorenko, readily acknowledged. Instead and few would care. What makes listening and earn a few million, and to be able to “Ukra-hop” rather than simply hip-hop. they have focused their energies on creat- to them so interesting is that you recognize create in our own way in a Ukrainian style.” And while the look is the same, the ing a sound that binds the traditional different influences, musical and artistic, at They regard themselves as pioneers on music indeed has different intonations. music of Ukraine to the emerging tradition different moments and in different songs. (Continued on page 18) The harsh rhythms are slightly more sub- of hip-hop. Their latest album, “Anti- dued, the rapping less agitated and even Format,” which was released in melodic at moments. They haven’t, how- December, incorporates that concept into ever, smoothed over the dancing, which its title. seems much more spontaneous and far “The point is that our style of hip-hop less polished than anything ‘NSync or the is not standard for today’s Ukrainian Backstreet Boys could ever hope for. music scene,” explained Fozzy. “It is a And the name, well the name just puts difficult hip-hop. And it is not in the them way over the top. There is nothing Russian language, which absolutely domi- like the name Tanok Na Maydani Kongo, nates music in Ukraine, where musicians and it is exclusively Ukrainian, as is their who sing in Ukrainian are still considered music. secondary talents.” Their stage name originated with a Fozzy admitted that initially TNMK book on the history of jazz the band mem- tried to write in Russian – they are after all bers were leafing through back in their from Kharkiv, where Russian dominates hometown of Kharkiv when they still on the city streets – but found that the lan- called themselves Novyi Dim (New guage did not fit the rhythms and rhymes House). A passage from the book they were trying to achieve. described the African roots of jazz; how “We began to understand that our ancient tribesmen danced to certain groove was better in Ukrainian. We also rhythms, which held specific meaning for decided we would be innovators,” the people. At the time the group came up explained Fozzy. “Let the Russians sing in with the name for use as the title of a song Russian, but we’ll sing in Ukrainian.” they particularly liked. Soon afterwards Fozzy said the album’s title also is a they decided that they liked the title so back-handed jab at the Moscow record much that it should be the name of their industry and the companies and producers act. who put out music in well-worked-out and It was cast in stone about a year later, to a large extent preordained formulas that after they met Jamaal, an African leave little room for innovation and spon- American from New Orleans, who told taneous bursts of creativity. them that a Congo Square (Maydan Kongo) is a Rastafarian term for a spliff, (Continued on page 19) Dymna Sumish 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 No. 5

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Hrycak, Esq. tary elections with some 17 percent sup- ban imposed by the Procurator General’s Attorney at Law Meeting of UNA Br. 206 Office barring Ms. Tymoshenko from port (the latest Democratic Initiative poll CRIMINAL AND CIVIL MATTERS Saturday, February 16, 2002 TO TRIAL AND APPEAL, COMPUTER LAW gave the bloc as much as 21 percent), leaving Kyiv, effectively limiting the Woonsocket, RI charismatic oppositionist leader’s cam- Member of Bar: NJ, NY, CT, DC about two percentage points up on the 316 Lenox Avenue, Westfield, NJ 07090 Communist Party, which has historically paigning to the capital city. Office: (908) 789-1870 The annual meeting of Branch 206 will led the Ukrainian vote for Parliament. Oleksander Turchynov, leader of the be held at 1:00 p.m. at St. Michael’s In the latest strategy directed against Batkivschyna Party’s parliamentary fac- Orthodox Church, 74 Harris Ave. All the Our Ukraine Bloc, the For One Family tion, said during a press conference on members are required to attend. Party, headed by National Deputy September 29 that the ruling against Ms. ATTORNEY Irene Sarachmon, Secretary-Treasurer Oleksander Rzhavskyi, announced during Tymoshenko is illegal and unethical its convention on January 15 that it had because no one was present to offer her JERRY changed its name to the For Yuschenko defense. He explained that a court gener- Bloc and would include Mr. Yuschenko in ally excuses defendants from appearing KUZEMCZAK Meeting of UNA Br. 174 twice before handing down verdicts in its candidate list. Mr. Yuschenko vehe- accidents at work Thursday, February 21, 2002 mently protested the action and said he their absence. • • automobile accidents Warren, MI would file suit against the political organi- Ms. Tymoshenko failed to show for the slip and fall zation. court proceeding because she was • medical malpractice The annual meeting of UNA Br. 174 will “Dirty political tactics are used more involved in a serious automobile accident FIRST• CONSULTATION IS FREE. be held at 7:00 p.m. in front of “Echo” and more often in our times,” Mr. on her way to the courthouse. She is Gallery on Ryan Rd. On the agenda Yuschenko said on January 25, announc- expected to be hospitalized for at least two Fees collected only after are reports, election of delegates and ing that he had filed an appeal in court to weeks for treatment of a concussion, pos- personal injury case is successful. alternates to the 35th UNA Convention. stop the use of his name. Mr. Yuschenko All members are asked to attend. For sible vertebral damage and a chest contu- ALSO: info call 248-693-4548. called the move by Mr. Rzhavskyi’s politi- sion. DWI cal group, which includes at least one “The court made a cynical, even • real estate Zenon Waslkewych, Secretary prominent politician from a pro-Russian immoral decision today,” explained Mr. • criminal and civil cases organization, “a type of political assassi- Turchynov. “The court, which is con- • traffic offenses nation and an attempt to earn political div- trolled by the president, in effect damaged • matrimonial matters idends from the name of the bloc.” Yulia Tymoshenko’s election strategy and • Meeting of UNA Br. 27 general consultation Mr. Rzhavskyi, whose party had unsuc- her ability to campaign.” • Sunday, February 17, 2002 cessfully attempted to become part of the While Mr. Turchynov would not rule Newark, NJ For Ukraine bloc, said he would proceed out that the accident was staged, Yuri WELT & DAVID with the use of the Yuschenko name Kostenko, leader of the Ukrainian 1373 Broad St, Clifton, N.J. 07013 Branch 27 “Orlyk Society” will hold its nonetheless, according to Interfax- National Rukh Party and a member of the (973) 773-9800 annual Branch meeting on Sunday, Ukraine, primarily because there is an Feb 17, 2002 at 11:00 a.m. in the Our Ukraine bloc said it was “the transi- church hall of St. John the Baptist Oleksander Yuschenko on the slate. tion of the electoral process to the extreme FOR RENT Ukrainian Catholic Church at 719 However, the CEC said on January 30 that stage.” Sanford Ave. Newark, NJ. A meeting to it still was not certain that it would regis- “It is difficult for me to comment on elect a delegate to the 35th Convention ter the bloc for the elections. the reasons for the crash,” explained Mr. of the UNA will immediately follow. All This was the second attempt by a politi- members are asked to attend. Kostenko. “But everyone in Ukraine who VACATION CONDO - ST. THOMAS, USVI cal force to discredit Mr. Yuschenko. has heard about this event – I am 100 per- 2-BEDROOM, 2-BATH Luba Lapychak, president Earlier, Dmytro Ponomarchuk, an organ- cent sure about this – sees it not just as a izer of the National Rukh For Unity Bloc, Beachfront Christine Brodyn, secretary simple road accident.” Contact Julie or Wally at (763) 561-8965 whose membership includes many who Meanwhile the Committee of Voters of E-mail: [email protected] had broken with the National Rukh of Ukraine (CVU), a respected civic organi- Ukraine Party after it joined the Our zation that has monitored elections in Meeting of UNA Br. 230 Ukraine Bloc, announced at a press con- Ukraine since 1994 and receives much of ference on January 9 that he had in his HELP WANTED Saturday, February 9, 2002, its financing from international founda- possession a taped telephone conversation Austintown, OH. tions and organizations that support the between Mr. Yuschenko and Unity Party development of democratic processes, leader and Kyiv Mayor Oleksander St. John the Baptist Br. 230 of the UNA also felt the effects of a Ukrainian election Omelchenko, which allegedly proved that Looking for caretaker for an elderly will hold its annual meeting at St. season that is heating up considerably. the two conspired to successfully oust woman of Ukrainian descent. Anne’s Ukrainian Church, 410 Kirk Rd., The CVU issued a statement on Parliament Vice-Chairman Viktor Housekeeping, cooking involved. at 2:00 p.m. There are important mat- January 30 in response to an editorial Medvedchuk. Mr. Ponomarchuk asserted References required. Live-in required. ters to discuss as this is a UNA con- that the tapes are evidence that Mr. commentary broadcast by the government vention year. Light refreshments will be station UT-1, which questioned whether Yuschenko is not as clean and honest as he Call (917) 971-7261 or (212) 721-4010. served after the meeting. portrays himself to be. the use of international funding from the Mr. Ponomarchuk, the longtime press National Democratic Institute, an arm of Annabelle Borovitcky, secretary secretary to the late Rukh founder and the U.S. Democratic Party, renders the leader Vyacheslav Chornovil, said at the CVU unable to remain objective in its election monitoring. It also queried The Ukrainian Institute of America PERSONALS time that he would not identify who gave seeks him the recordings. The taped conversa- whether the use of international funds was an illegal intrusion by the NDI into tions were subsequently confiscated by Office Administrator Two career-minded American men, aged 34 and Ukraine’s intelligence agency, the Ukraine’s electoral process. To manage its office and activities. 50, wish to correspond with Ukrainian women for possible friendship and marriage. Security Service of Ukraine, as it began a The CVU responded that the editorial Successful candidate must be fluent in piece, which was broadcast on January 23, Prefer attractive and physically fit women between criminal investigation, and Mr. Ukrainian and English; be experienced in the ages of 18 and 40 with reasonable English Ponomarchuk was ousted from the politi- was part of a concerted effort “to discredit working with computers and be familiar with skills. Please include photo. cal bloc he helped organize. non-governmental organizations in accepted office procedures. The candidate Mail to: Jon and Dan Judicial authorities also have come Ukraine, with the aim of lowering the trust must also possess excellent people skills and be able to supervise a variety of people. 7600 SW Oleson Rd. #36 under fire recently for influencing the in them in the run-up to elections of Portland, Oregon 97223 electoral process. On January 29 a Ukrainian parliamentarians.” It did not USA Please send resume to: 503-803-2956 Ukrainian Appeals Court rescinded a rul- identify who was attempting to do the dis- ing by a Kyiv District Court in which crediting. Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th St. criminal money-laundering charges Since September the NDI has spon- OPPORTUNITY New York, NY 10021 against former Vice Prime Minister Yulia sored weekly monitoring of elections in Fax: 212-288-2918 Tymoshenko had been dropped. The Ukraine by the CVU in which thousands Appeals Court said the lower court had of CVU workers in all the country’s EARN EXTRA INCOME! exceeded its jurisdiction. regions report on questionable practices The Ukrainian Weekly is looking Ms. Tymoshenko is the leader of a by government officials, election workers, for advertising sales agents. political bloc named after her, which political parties and candidates. The For additional information contact Maria includes many of the political organiza- CVU’s research has found that the use of Oscislawski, Advertising Manager, VisitHE ourKRAINIAN archive on the InternetEEKL at: Y tions that staunchly oppose President government resources will be extensive in T U W The Ukrainian Weekly, (973) 292-9800, Leonid Kuchma and led anti-Kuchma the spring elections and could be decisive http://www.ukrweekly.com/ ext 3040. demonstrations on the streets of Kyiv in in many campaigns. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 No. 5

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Corning re-establishes ties with Lviv by William J. and Gloria B. Misnick Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Elmira Heights by over 75 parishioners CORNING, N.Y. – A Ukrainian dele- led by their pastor, the Rev. Janusz gation from Corning’s sister city of Lviv Jedrychowski. Mr. and Mrs. Olijnyk vis- came to Corning on December 17, 2001. ited with many parishioners from their This event took place because of the native city of Lviv. efforts of William J. and Gloria B. The Misnicks are active members of Misnick, co-chairs since 1997 of the Lviv the Elmira Heights chapter of the Committee of the Corning Sister Cities Ukrainian Congress Committee of Association. America, where Mrs. Misnick is the dele- The Misnicks have worked to re- gate. The Olijnyks met Peter Kremel, establish ties with Lviv by visiting that UCCA branch president, as well as western Ukrainian city in 1997 and again in 1999 when a protocol was signed – the Deacon John Hobczuk, vice-president, first since the fall of communism. Sister and other officers. city ties between Corning and Lviv had A reception was held at the Radisson diminished after the fall of communism Hotel in Corning after the protocol sign- in 1991, largely because Ukraine was ing. U.S. Rep. Amo Houghton Jr. wel- experiencing very difficult economic comed the Ukrainian visitors along with times. Corning City Council members and the Corning Mayor Alan Lewis (left) and Lviv Deputy Mayor Volodymyr Olijnyk. Lviv had become Corning’s first sis- Lviv Committee. Letters of congratula- ter city in 1987 after Corning, Inc. (for- tions were sent by New York State Sen. region, including its wineries. They had a are 200 children age 5-15 who suffer merly the Corning Glass Works) helped John R. Kuhl Jr. and State Assemblyman bird’s eye view of the Finger Lakes in a from cancer as a result of the Chornobyl the Soviet Union install a ribbon James G. Bacalles. private airplane ride. They also saw the accident. They have set up computer A glass gift to the city of Lviv was machine for producing light bulbs at a beauty of Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon service and Internet access for the Lviv presented along with various gifts repre- factory there. and Niagara Falls and the Festival of hospital, linking it with the Falck Cancer senting the Finger Lakes region of New Representing Lviv during the most Lights at Lewiston. Center of Elmira, N.Y. York. Mrs. Misnick was the mistress of recent visit to Corning was Volodymyr “The Crystal City” of Corning and In addition, the Misnicks have shipped Olijnyk, deputy mayor, chair of the ceremonies for the event. Both the American and Ukrainian national Lviv, “The Pearl of Europe,” came 22 wheelchairs of various sizes for the Halytsky District and master of state together in Corning after 12 long years. children. Christ Episcopal Church of management, and his wife, Oleksandra. anthems were sung. Mr. Misnick Now the Lviv Committee in Corning will Corning aided with the wheelchair pro- Ties were cemented with the protocol- explained the meaning of the Ukrainian continue its work with renewed energy. ject’s completion with a generous grant signing ceremony between Corning and national anthem and gave the toast. Lviv on December 17, 2001, by Corning The Olijnyks stayed with the Misnicks Members of the committee have been of $2,500. Mayor Alan Lewis and Mr. Olijnyk. The until December 27, 2001; they visited invited to visit Lviv in September of this Corning’s Lviv Committee also spon- translators at Corning City Hall were Corning Museum of Glass, The Rockwell year to continue the close relationship sored two teachers of English to teach in Peter Melendevych of Horseheads, N.Y., Museum of Western Art and the Benjamin that has been revitalized. summer school and cultural programs in and Victor Ohremchuk of Corning. Patterson Inn, all in Corning. They trav- The Lviv Committee of Corning has Eastern Europe headed by Bridges for The Olijnyks were welcomed to the eled to Hammondsport to the Glen Curtiss supported the Lviv Regional Specialized Education. All of these accomplishments region at a welcoming party at St. Museum and toured the Finger Lakes Children’s Research Hospital where there took place in the past four years.

theme for the event was “Giving Angels,” very well and closed at 3 p.m. The silent and indeed they were that. auction opened at 5 p.m. Baskets were Detroit UNWLA raises funds for needy children The program and plans were carefully assigned to categories such as health and by Irene Pryjma Christmas bazaar and bake sale in the thought-out. Sponsors, donors and dona- beauty, jewelry, fine arts, home/ morning and early afternoon, followed in tions were solicited; items were received, office/garden, Ukrainian artifacts, chil- DETROIT – Saturday, November 10, the evening with cocktails, a buffet dinner, purchased or consigned. A hundred spe- dren’s corner, sports/recreation and holi- 2001, was a day to remember. The Detroit a silent auction, a live auction and fine cialty baskets were assembled, invitations day items. In addition, gift certificates for Regional Council of the Ukrainian entertainment. sent, program and catalogue books com- gardening, flowers, shopping, personal National Women’s League of America and A committee was formed with Natalia piled, flyers, advertisements and posters service, vitamins, beauty salons, therapeu- its members had decided months ago to Hewko, Detroit Regional Council presi- printed and distributed, program partici- tic massages, acupuncture, dental visits, have a fund-raiser for needy schoolchild- dent, and Anna Macielinski, vice-presi- pants selected and contacted, and a special piano lessons, instructions on embroidery, ren in Ukraine under the UNWLA’s dent, as committee chair. For nine months informational/recruitment UNWLA restaurants, jewelry, electronics and “Milk, Roll and Book” program. The 42 UNWLA members participated in this brochure was printed. books, were laid out on tables according ambitious program included a pre- committee preparing the benefit. The The holiday bazaar and bake sale went to category. The live auction was a unique event. Dr. Roman Kolodchin very ably served as auctioneer; he was enthusiastic and kept the bidding moving at a fast pace. The audience responded by bidding up on fine art items, Ukrainian embroidered pillows, rushnyky, carved wooden gift boxes, a torte, a tray of napoleons delivered with a three-song medley, a Ukrainian Christmas Eve supper for eight (prepared and deliv- ered), museum-quality complete Hutsul wedding attire for the bride, a ski vacation package, hockey tickets, a Toronto get- away, and an autographed picture of Canadian comedienne Luba Goy. In the evening there was a two-part program of entertainment prepared by Program Chair Lida Kazevych, opened by Regional Council President Hewko and master of ceremonies Svetlana Korduba. The featured highlight of the evening was Canada’s one and only queen of comedy, Luba Goy, co-star of TV’s “Royal Canadian Air Farce,” which spoofs the Canadian political scene. She appeared as “Queen Elizabeth” and, regally waving, greeted the crowd with a Manchesterian accent and received their accolades. In the second part of the program the The benefit committee of the UNWLA Detroit Regional Council: (seated, from left) Daria Koniuch, Daria Zawadiwskyi, inimitable Luba came out with her Sophie Koshiw, Lydia Kolodchin, Anna Macielinski, Natalie Hewko, Lydia Kazewych, Genevieve Murskyj; (standing, first impressions of Canadian Prime Minister row) Marcelene Chomiak, Irene Pryjma, Myroslava Capp, Lydia Kizyma, Stefa Korol, Nadia Juzych, Olha Hyszczak, Jean Chrétien, Minister of Immigration Marta Szechowycz, Katya Beswerchij, Oresta Biloskurska, Zirka Zubar, Irene Tarnavsky, Lillian Litynskyj, (standing, sec ond row) Juliana Maziak, Elizabeth Kuczer, Marie Zarycky-Chervivskij and Maria Mykolenko. (Continued on page 21) No. 5 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 17

IN MEMORIAM

Ivan Fedorovych Karabyts

January 17, 1945 - January 20, 2002

Ivan Fedorovych Karabyts was one of the leading composers of Ukraine and one who contributed to the establishment of the major trends in Ukrainian music in the post 1960’s. He made his name overnight with “The Garden of Heavenly Songs” (1971) for chorus, soloists and orchestra, on poems of the 18th century philosopher, poet and musician Hryhoriy Skovoroda, in which he tried to rejuvenate the choral concerto genre of 17th-18th century Ukrainian music. In addition to his multifac- eted creative work, he established the international music festival, Kyiv Music Fest and the Kyiv International Piano Competition in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz. He enriched Ukrainian music for generations to come. We shall miss him.

Vichnaya Pamyat!

Our condolences to his family, friends and students.

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Banquet to be held Fozzy, founder and leader of the TNMK posse at Hunter Mountain at 7:30 p.m. Cocktails at 6:30 p.m. their final competition, however, they were DYMNA SUMISH... “discovered” by their current production Race with lift ticket: $50 (adults); $40 (juniors). Race only: $10. (Continued from page 13) company and invited to work in Kyiv. “We had already played several competi- Discounted lift tickets will also be available at the KLK registration table. the Ukrainian music scene and consider the smoky mix they play inventive. They tend tions, including Chervona Ruta,” explained to a version of hip hop, laced with alterna- Pruzhyna, “and decided we had nothing For more race information please phone: more to prove. We knew we were the best.” Orest Fedash at 210-387-8061, or Erko Palydowycz at 518-263-4866, tive music sounds and do not agree with comparisons to Tanok Na Maydani Kongo, Few others did, however, and probably or send e-mail to: [email protected] would not have to this day if the highly currently the most popular hip-hop act in regarded sound producer, Yevhen Stupka, Kyiv. had not been in the crowd that day search- “We were at their last concert and decid- ing for new talent. He immediately asked ed that they are something completely dif- the band to make the move to Kyiv. ferent,” explained G-Al. Dymna Sumish achieved its first sem- “They call their style Ukra-hop, and that TO: ALL UNA MEMBERS blance of fame about a year earlier, using a is not us,” added Pruzhyna. different variation of their current name. At But like TNMK, Dymna Sumish mem- the Chervona Ruta Music Festival, where From January to March 2002, branches of the Ukrainian bers believe that writing good music in the they took second place (and no one was Russian language is very difficult. Also awarded first place) for best act in the 1999 National Association hold their annual meetings as man- much like TNMK they have an aversion to Dnipropetrovsk show, they were billed as nearly all music recorded in Moscow (as dated by the UNA By-Laws. It is very important that all Dyvna Sumish (Strange Mix), but changed well as in all the countries of the CIS, their name about the time they got to Kyiv. members attend these meetings. This year, in prepara- including Ukraine, to be quite honest). They In Chernihiv the band had originally started believe the post-Soviet music scene is stale tion for the upcoming UNA Convention, branches will out as Torba (Bag). and uninteresting. Given a choice, they Whether as bagmen, or in a strange or hold meetings for election of delegates. Branch meet- would perform in Europe. Their ultimate smoky mix, today the group is not shy show would be an appearance at the annual about its abilities and the quality of the ings are announced in both The Ukrainian Weekly and alternative rock showcase, the music they make. Svoboda. Open Air Festival in Holland. “Today we are the best band in Kyiv,” Dymna Sumish hails from Chernihiv, explained Pruzhyna bluntly and matter-of- where group members were on the brink of factly. Participation of UNA members is important to the future calling it quits after three years of work and Such blatant self-promotion would leave performances at several musical competi- them open to much criticism if it weren’t of our organization. tions did not bring forth instantaneous for the fact that many who should know and acclaim. At what they had decided would be might differ seem to agree.

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which included a DJ and a group of break TANOK NA MAYDANI KONGO... dancers, to its current seven-person line- (Continued from page 13) up. TNMK’s composition began to coa- While TNMK lists among its favorite lesce in 1995 when Fozzy’s writing part- hip-hoppers Arrested Development, The ner, Fahot, joined, after running with the Fugees and one of the seminal acts of the rap outfit RAP Obiymy (Rap Hugs) and genre, the Beastie Boys, it also acknowl- also successfully producing a series of rap edges the influence of a local Kharkiv shows in Kharkiv called “In Da House.” singer who made them comfortable Today, in addition to those two, TNMK singing in the local Ukrainian dialect of consists of original member Kotia, along the Slobozhanschyna region, with its with Dilia, Yaroslav, Vitold and Tonique. traces of Russian surzhyk intermixed. The After putting out several well-received music was well received, particularly albums and music videos, the group disap- among the locals who recognized their peared from the music scene for nearly a native accent immediately. year at the end of 2000 before recently re- “It brought smiles to people’s faces,” emerging with a flourish – with two new noted Fozzy. releases in the last two months and anoth- The group members, whose appear- er new album due out in the next weeks. ances may remind some of a rag-tag posse Their music is not yet widely accepted of “homeboys” from the streets of in Ukraine, and the band does not hold Brooklyn, or Hamburg, are actually Kyiv producers in high regard. Fozzy crit- accomplished musicians with formal icized them for being “of an age at which training. they cannot accept aggressive contempo- “We did not come to music like rebel- rary music” and for “wanting to make lious drug-abusers,” explained Fozzy music a decade old.” somewhat defensively. TNMK also is not all that fond of In fact Fozzy began the group with his Moscow, which Fozzy likened to a tundra: friend, Spets Kotia, in 1989, at an age “A lot of noises, but basically empty.” when the two had yet to see the need for a He added that he would not mind if the razor. How audiences reacted to the untra- act made its first international mark in ditional and to some even unheard of Warsaw, which he considers more con- music the youngsters were performing is temporary and more open to new ideas. nicely described in the band’s biography: But in the end that is neither here nor there “In 1992 the kids took part in the initial because TNMK does not have and does musical contest ‘Young Stars of Kharkiv.’ not want a plan for success. The jury said, ‘Phew!’ This incident was “We didn’t begin this to make money repeated five more times.” and be in show business,” explained The band went through several Fozzy. “We want to play music. We call it changes, moving gradually from a time an odyssey, and an odyssey determines its when it consisted of a 15-person “cast,” own path.”

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once I arrived in Belorus nothing was Ironically, it was because of the begin- some food. Unfortunately, my father never Yurij Luhovy... ready, even though I had faxed them that ning of World War II and another occu- really wanted to recount his experiences to (Continued from page 9) I was coming and even though all my pation of Ukraine. In September 1939 the me. I wanted to know all the details of That also depended on the year. papers were in order. Fortunately, a Germans attacked Poland. The Nazis and daily life in the camp, but he wouldn’t talk. Towards the end, just as the second Belarus official in Miensk went out of his the Red Army met in Brest-Litovsk, or He just refused. He was one of 250 prison- world war was beginning, the inmates way to obtain the necessary minister’s Berestia as it is called in Ukrainian. ers who were forced to dig their own were given buckwheat kasha with sand signature on a Friday at three in the after- Berestia is now in Belarus, but it is ethni- graves because they were slated to be shot mixed into it. This was so that sand noon. Without this, I couldn’t film. cally Ukrainian territory. When the Poles by the Polish guards due to the German would lodge in their teeth and cause them That afternoon, I also rented a car and in Bereza saw that the Germans were advance. Then, at the last moment, some- pain. They were also given soup, or then drove about four hours to Bereza advancing, all the police guards fled the how the executions didn’t occur. Call it Kartuzka with historian Dr. Roman rather slop, of some sort. camp at night. Divine Providence. Maybe it was the Wysotsky from Poland. He also had never One witness told me that the female On September 18, 1939, the local people German planes in the sky. I don’t know. visited Bereza, although he was familiar inmates were so hungry they would opened up the gates and released the pris- “Did they hurt you?” I once asked my throw themselves into the large food with it. We enjoyed doing research oners. Believe it or not, that was my together, and we both became united by dad when I was young. “No, they just tick- cauldron to scrub out whatever might father’s birthday. It was the best gift he led me,” he replied. still be stuck at the bottom. Only their trying to imagine what the former prison- could have ever received. He then began backsides and feet would be left hanging ers of Bereza must have gone through. I the two-week walk home to Brody, with *** out and visible. And then they would be was very fortunate that Dr. Wysotsky was the other prisoners. He walked without any Anyone wishing to support the making of beaten with sticks and fists. able to accompany and help me. shoes, with only rags around his bare feet. the Bereza Kartuzka documentary, may send donations to: M M Luhovy Inc., 2330 What was the most frightening or The moment he arrived home, he col- How did you begin filming? Beaconsfield, Montreal, Quebec, H4A 2G8. the most dangerous moment you expe- lapsed. He had been so weakened by the Survivors may contact the filmmaker by Well, at first I needed to find out if I rienced? near starvation conditions in the prison. He calling (514) 481-5871 or e-mailing could actually do a film on this subject. I was utterly exhausted. Occasionally people needed witnesses. Fortunately, here in The very worst part was when we would give him a lift on a cart and give him [email protected]. Montreal I had two people whom I could were leaving Belarus and were at the interview: Jaroslaw Pryszlak, who was Polish border in Berestia. The Belarus imprisoned in 1935, and Adolf guard almost confiscated all my cas- were demonstration dancers Tony Canu Hladylowycz in 1939. Their memories were settes, regardless of my official press cre- Detroit UNWLA... and Natalka Cap (salsa), Gary and Oksana excellent and their stories unbelievable. dentials. “I’ll decide your fate in the next (Continued from page 16) Gudz (ballroom), and the nine hour,” he said. I was worried for the It was crucial to get more survivors of Sheila Copps, Welfare Brenda the bingo Soyuzianka Singers – in their premiere footage I had with me and for all the appearance – accompanied by Olga the camp. I found many young people player, and even Donald Duck. Her whose fathers were in Bereza. But that’s planning and effort that was put into this. Dubriwna Solovey on piano. Prior to and humorous anecdotes and personal remi- not the same, nor as powerful. So, I start- There was a journalist who had disap- during the buffet dinner there was lovely niscences on being Ukrainian in a ed to ask around. In the U.S. I found peared in the area just the week before. It harp music by Paula Pinterper in keeping Demian Korduba but, unfortunately, after was very stressful, not knowing what was Canadian milieu were delightful. She had with the “Giving Angels” theme. interviewing him I decided I couldn’t use going to happen next. Eventually, some- a message to all who have young, creative The event was a highly successful him in the film. He was elderly and his one higher-up asked me more questions and budding artists, to encourage their fund-raiser for the UNWLA “Milk, Roll speech was too difficult to understand. and looked over all my documents again aspiring talents and to let them enjoy the- and Book” program. The proceeds will He was half-paralyzed when I met him. It and then let us go. ater, performing arts and other creative provide many breakfasts and books for a was sad because he, too, had suffered pursuits. larger number of children – nourishment How much of the film do you have there. But he did give me the names of Other participants in entertainment for the body and enrichment for the mind. completed at this point? two other people that I could talk to. Just recently Mr. Korduba passed away and Basically, I am finishing the editing THE DISTRICT COMMITTEE of UNA BRANCHES of CENTRAL NEW JERSEY will never see the film completed. and verifying details. I have a few inserts In the film I have five witnesses, and all announces that its to shoot, and then the music and the ANNUAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING give compelling accounts. In Belarus I sound effects have to be worked on. You found three more. They were children at the will be held on Saturday, February 9, 2002 at 1:00 P.M. know, I’m doing this film in my spare at St. Michael’s Church Hall, 1700 Brooks Blvd., Manville, NJ. time and saw prisoners getting beaten up. I time, between work on other films from also met survivors in Florida, among them which I earn my living. So, I anticipate Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: Bohdan Deychakiwsky. He was excellent, that probably sometime in March of this but was not well enough to be filmed. year the film will be ready for screening. 26, 155, 168, 209, 269, 312, 349, 353, 372. Fortunately, I started this project when I The biggest problem is purchasing the All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. did. It would have been such a shame not to rights to some film archives. This is very have recorded their stories. Once I filmed expensive, it’s $50 for each second plus MEETING WILL BE ATTENDED BY: the witnesses, I knew the film could be lab fees. Martha Lysko - UNA National Secretary made, but it was essential to visit the site Yaroslav Zaviysky – UNAAuditor and go through the archives in Warsaw and How is this film being financed? DISTRICT COMMITTEE: Lviv. Arrangements were made and I went Michael Zacharko, District Chairman to the former Bereza Kartuzka prison last This is one of the most difficult John Kushnir, Secretary summer. aspects. As you know, making a docu- John Babyn, Treasurer mentary is very expensive. As with my What was that like? How much of film “Freedom Had A Price,” I began the camp is left standing today? this film on Bereza Kartuzka, financing THE ALBANY DISTRICT COMMITTEE of the UKRAINIAN NATIONALASSOCIATION everything myself and hoping that even- It was very emotional for me to walk tually the project would get some further announces that its where my father once did. I thought of him support. Because witnesses were elderly, ANNUAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING and all the other prisoners. There were passing away, and their stories disap- will be held on Saturday, February 9, 2002, at 2:00 P.M. at the Ukrainian American Citizens Club, 1 Pulaski Ave., Cohoes, NY 12534. originally two main blocks. But the prison- pearing with them, I knew this project er’s block is still there. However, the could not wait any longer. I had to begin Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, police block is almost in ruins. Whole sec- filming. No one had yet done a film on Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: 13, 57, 88, 200, 266. tions of it, the roof and floor have col- this subject, it’s another first. lapsed. It was risky going inside the build- Eventually, several institutions, All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. ing because at any moment anything could including the Ukrainian Canadian MEETING WILL BE ATTENDED BY: come down. But I went inside, and at first Foundation of Taras Shevchenko and Stefan Kaczaraj – UNA Treasurer I thought that was where the prisoners some private donations, helped offset Stephanie Hawryluk – UNA Advisor were. But, after seeing the book on Bereza some costs. But this is far from the cost DISTRICT COMMITTEE: by Wolodymyr Makar, I rechecked the lay- of the film. I still have hopes the project Nicholas Fil, District Chairman out of the camp and realized that I had will get additional donations. Many peo- Walter Litynsky, Secretary filmed in the wrong building. So, I went Walter Krywulych, Treasurer ple, whether in Canada, the U.S. or in back from Miensk to film again. Paul Shewchuk, Honorary District Chairman Ukraine, have been very supportive of At the site, they are planning to estab- the project, and especially those that lish a museum about the Bereza concentra- were in Bereza and their children. Once tion camp. You have to remember that again, the story was almost forgotten, Bereza Kartuzka is now part of Belarusian silenced forever. territory. Today, most of the prisoners’ It is difficult to get mainstream block has been converted to a children’s financing. So, either we Ukrainians are activity center. prepared to find ways to make these What kind of arrangements did you projects, or we lose the opportunity to need to make in order to film there? record our history. And how can we not capture these stories? I had to obtain special permission from the Ministry of External Affairs of Could you tell us how your father Belarus. I arranged everything here in finally got out of the Bereza Kartuzka Montreal and in Ottawa. Needless to say, concentration camp? 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 No. 5 No. 5 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 23

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admission of Turkey to the EU because Ukraine’s transformation... of its NATO status, even though the cur- (Continued from page 6) rent position of the EU is that Turkey coupled with its size, would be a great falls short on many of the admissions cri- drain on the structural funds. teria, such as minority and general Ukraine is gradually fulfilling the pre- human rights. conditions – both legislative and political The United States sees Ukraine from a – for future accession to the EU. The pri- greater distance. It can judge better how vatization of land, adaptation of some beneficial it would be for the EU to have codes and the abolition of the death Ukraine as an example of a multi-ethnic penalty are among the examples of such country with very liberal policies and moves. practices towards national minorities, as Attitudes in some member-countries compared to the Balkans or even some and the European Commission towards present member states of the EU. Ukraine are changing. On April 24, *** 2001, of this year I chaired a conference Will the U.S. help? in the European Parliament building in Perhaps the answer to this question Brussels on “Ukraine and the European can best be given by recalling a fable. Union.” Several members of the There was an old wise man in a village European Parliament and even the head that always answered when questions of the mission of the European were put to him. A mischievous young- Commission in Ukraine stated forceful- ster thought that he would trick the old ly: man. One day he came up to him, hold- “If Ukraine is so much behind some ing a live bird in his hands behind his Central European countries on the road back, and asked: “Wise man, can you tell to the European Union, it is as much a CANADA CALLING fault of the European Union as it is of me if the bird I hold is live or dead?” He InterestedCANADA in living permanentlyCALLING or working in Canada? Ukraine. Had the EU given the same sig- thought that if the man said the bird is a nals to Ukraine as it did to Czecho- live he would just quickly twist its neck Independent Applicants Business Applicants Slovakia (as it was then), Hungary, and the bird would be dead; and if the Skilled workers Entrepreneurs Poland – i.e., we want you – and had it man said the bird is dead he would let it Self-employed given the same assistance to Ukraine as fly. The wise man looked at the young- Investors it gave to those countries, Ukraine would ster and said: “The fate of that bird is in be much closer to the accession to the your hands, young man.” Contact us to discuss your options: EU which is in the interest of the EU.” It is, of course, Ukraine that has to ZAIFMAN ASSOCIATES, IMMIGRATION LAWYERS *** transform itself on the European model. How can the U.S. help in this process? Its destiny is mainly in its own hands. SUITE 500, LOMBARD AVENUE, WINNIPEG, CANADA R3B OX1 The first question we could ask is: Whether U.S. aid will help Ukraine take TELEPHONE:204/944-8888 FAX: 204/956-2909 Should it help? I believe the answer is the ultimate steps is, of course, up to “yes” for the following reasons. you, the Americans. e-mail: [email protected] Ukraine once anchored in the EU would be by definition more democratic, more prosperous, more pro-Western, and thus a better economic and political part- ner for the United States. Membership in the EU would pre- clude Ukraine from joining Russia. If Ukraine were to join Russia, Russia would cross the psychological threshold and strive openly for superpower status and dominance over neighboring coun- tries and in the process it would likely become anti-Western. This would not be in the interest of Ukraine, or Russia, the EU, or the U.S. Ukraine’s accession to EU would not involve a financial burden for the U.S. since it does not contribute to its Structural Fund. It would just require an intensified U.S. diplomatic effort, i.e., using its influence to persuade members of the European Union to be more open to Ukraine’s accession. *** How can the United States help? In various ways: through direct influ- ence on some of the EU member-states and on the EU Commission; and through international financial institutions. Pointing to NATO, a good example is how the U.S. is pressing hard for the 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2002 No. 5

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