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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXVIII HE No.KRAINIAN 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine Chornobyl shuts down as world watches TensT of thousands U W by Roman Woronowycz attend funeral services Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – As representatives of the international community watched, President Leonid Kuchma gave the order on for Cardinal Lubachivsky December 15 that shut down forever the third nuclear reactor at by Roman Woronowycz the Chornobyl power plant, effectively beginning the de-com- Kyiv Press Bureau missioning of the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident. LVIV – Tens of thousands of faithful “In accordance with a decision made by Ukraine and from lined the streets of Lviv on December 20 agreements made with the world community, I direct that the to pay their last respects to Cardinal No. 3 reactor at Chornobyl be shut down,” Mr. Kuchma said at Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, archbishop 1:16 p.m. Kyiv time, in ordering Vitalii Tolstonohov, the gener- major and head of the 7-million-strong al director of the Chornobyl nuclear plant, to begin the shut- Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church down operation. (UGCC). President Kuchma and his guests then viewed the control The 86-year-old primate died on room of reactor No. 3 via a live feed on a large monitor at the December 14 at his residence in the St. Ukraina Palace concert hall, while an engineer at Chornobyl George’s Metropolitan Palace of compli- threw the switch that halted the huge, atomically fueled, elec- cations due to pneumonia. Cardinal tricity-generating turbine. Lubachivsky had a history of heart prob- In doing so, Ukraine fulfilled a promise it had made when it lems and seldom had appeared in public signed an agreement with the Group of Seven most industrial- in recent years. ized countries in 1995 to do so in return for financial support The nearly two-kilometer-long proces- for the development of compensatory energy-generating sion of bishops, clergy, nuns and monks sources. As late as the beginning of December some doubt that accompanied the red casket carrying remained about whether Ukraine would follow through on its the last Ukrainian Greek-Catholic patri- promise and whether the West was adhering to its part of the AP arch of the 20th century wound through bargain. However, uncertainty diminished when the European the narrow city streets of this western Bank for Reconstruction and Development agreed to extend to Sergei Bashtovoi, a leading engineer at the Chornobyl Ukrainian city for nearly two hours Ukraine a $215 million loan to help with the completion of nuclear power plant, turns the key of the emergency stop as he shuts down the last functioning reactor, officially closing (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 6) the plant on December 15.

UNWLA concludes 75th anniversary celebrations Protesters erect tent towns in Kyiv by Tamara Stadnychenko appointed private dining area, was well Special to The Ukrainian Weekly attended. Among the guests were Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Ukraine’s as Gongadze scandal continues ARLINGTON, Va. – Capping a year- ambassador to the United States, his by Yarema A. Bachynsky The demonstrators on Independence long series of festive and commemora- wife, Natalia Gryshchenko; and Aileen Special to the Ukrainian Weekly Square put forth a number of demands, tive programs to celebrate the 75th among them the resignation of President Marshall, the wife of Carlos Pasqual, KYIV – Some four weeks after National anniversary of the founding of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Leonid Kuchma, Minister of Kravchenko, Deputy Oleksander Moroz made public a Ukrainian National Women’s League of Attesting to the strong ties between Security Service of Ukraine Director tape implicating President Leonid Kuchma, America (UNWLA), members and their the UNWLA and elected officials of Leonid Derkach and Customs Committee Minister of Internal Affairs Yurii guests gathered at the Crystal City Hyatt American communities with a strong of Ukraine Chairman Yurii Solovkov. They Kravchenko and other top-level Ukrainian Regency in Arlington, Va., for a gala Ukrainian presence was the roll call of also called upon Ukrainian authorities to banquet which was held on December 2. officials in the disappearance and possible permit an independent investigation of all The banquet, hosted in an elegantly (Continued on page 10) murder of opposition journalist Heorhii allegations against the president and other Gongadze, the scandal known as individuals allegedly tied to the Gongadze “Kuchmagate,” “Gongadzegate” or matter and the Melnychenko tapes, as well “Tapegate” shows no signs of abating. as to submit the body found in a forest in While Parliament continued its review of Tarascha (near Kyiv) to an independent the scandal, ordinary Ukrainians and politi- international forensic examination. cal activists of all stripes took to the streets The headless corpse was discovered on to advance their case. November 2. Subsequently, a number of On Friday, December 15, in a move that items and bone scars were observed on the harked back to the civil disobedience of body, suggesting that it might be that of Mr. 1990, that forced the resignation of Vitalii Gongadze, who disappeared from Kyiv Masol, prime minister of then Soviet streets on September 16 and has not been Ukraine, a group of students and political seen since. Last week Mr. Gongadze’s wife, activists erected six pup tents on Myroslava, viewed the remains and identi- Independence Square in Kyiv. Those partic- fied the personal items as belonging to her ipating represented such ideological oppo- husband, but could not say with certainty nents as Socialists, the “My” (We) centrist that the badly mutilated body belonged to union, members of the two Rukh parties, her husband. and the radical nationalist UNA-UNSO, Over the weekend the tent town on the among others. city’s central square grew. The anti-Kuchma Leading the anti-Kuchma camp on the camp was joined by six tents set up by pro- Tatiana Terleckyj ground were Volodymyr Chemerys, former Kuchma demonstrators identified by police Participating in the symbolic candle-lighting ceremony at the UNWLA’s national deputy and ally of current National on the scene as their fellow officers. 75th anniversary banquet are (from left): Shelby P. Hamlett of the General Deputy Serhii Holovatyi, and Yurii Meanwhile, Ukrainian broadcast media Federation of Women’s Clubs, Iryna Kurowyckyj and Anna Krawczuk. Lutsenko, Socialist Party activist and 1990 hunger strike participant. (Continued on page 13) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 No. 52

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS ‘Kuchmagate’ and the Ukrainian diaspora Population to shrink to 49.28 million the former prime minister of Ukraine who by Taras Kuzio is currently being detained in the United has demanded that the parliamentary KYIV – The State Statistics Committee investigation into Mr. Chornovil’s death States on charges of money laundering, PART I estimated that by the beginning of 2001, declared himself a political prisoner. Mr. be re-opened. Ukraine’s population will drop to 49.28 Recent events should force us to sober If the existence of Orly proves to be Lazarenko’s attorney, Maryna Dovhopola, million, or 210,000 persons less than the said that he made a statement in the court up to the fact that, nearly a decade after true, it will not come as much of a sur- average figure throughout 2000. In the Ukraine became an independent state, prise. In November an anonymous letter that Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma beginning of 2000, Ukraine had 49.71 mil- and White House officials are in conspiracy what is being built in Ukraine is very far from a Belarusian KGB employee to the lion residents, while in the beginning of from the ideals that the diaspora holds independent news agency Belapan against him. Mr. Lazarenko did not make 1999 this figure was around 50.1 million. any statements with regard to the Swiss law dear. First came former Prime Minister revealed that the Belarusian presidential (Eastern Economist) Pavlo Lazarenko’s theft of millions, then administration had a similar special pur- enforcers, who have already sentenced him to a year and a half in jail. (BBC allegations that National Deputy Viktor pose unit called Almaz that was involved Odesa-Gdansk pipeline is discussed Monitoring Service) Zherebtski stole German government in the murder of Russian Public ODESA – Ukrainian President Leonid compensation for Ukrainian slave labor- Television (ORT) cameraman Dmitryi A tax break for Ukrainian ers and now “Kuchmagate.” Zavadskyi and opposition politician Kuchma and his Polish counterpart, Just how many more scandals are Viktor Gonchar. Aleksander Kwasniewski, meeting in IVANO-FRANKIVSK – Starting on needed before the diaspora wakes up to And we had thought that Ukraine was Odesa on December 17-18, discussed the January 1, 2001, Ivano-Frankivsk will what is going on Ukraine? It is time to not Belarus! construction of an oil terminal in Odesa and implement a privileged tax for enterprises realize that the main threat to Ukraine’s While Belarusian President an Odesa-Gdansk pipeline to deliver that sell only Ukrainian-language products. independence rests not with an external Alyaksandr Lukashenka was introducing Caspian Sea and Kazak oil to Europe. Such enterprises will pay a single 11.4 hrv country (i.e., Russia) – but internally, a neo-Soviet regime, suppressing politi- President Kwasniewski called for the cre- per month tax, or 43 percent less than the from Ukraine’s own Lukashenka. cal freedoms, imposing a command ation of an international consortium to com- regular single tax rate. The vice-chairman plete the pipeline, whose Ukrainian stretch We receive disturbing news on a daily administrative economy, continuing of the City Council’s Entrepreneurship is 80 percent finished, and to organize oil basis about what kind of regime has been Russification and seeking reunion with Development Department, Andrii deliveries through it. “We are dealing with a built in Ukraine under President Leonid Russia, President Kuchma talked about Sobolevskyi, said the decision was taken by very concrete project that demands our Kuchma since 1994. The picture we are creating a democratic market economy the Ivano-Frankivsk City Council “to pro- interest,” Interfax quoted Mr. Kwasniewski obtaining is, without any exaggeration, and returning Ukraine to Europe. In real- tect and spread the use of the Ukrainian lan- as saying. Meanwhile, the United States is truly shocking. ity, Mr. Lukashenka was being the more guage in the city.” (Eastern Economist) An officer in the presidential guard (a pressuring Kazakstan to make a firm com- honest of the two: what he said he was mitment by February 2001 to export oil via Britain ready to help Ukraine’s army department of the Security Service of going to do he has undertaken, while Mr. Ukraine – SBU), 34-year-old Mykola the planned Aktau-Baku-Ceyhan pipeline. Kuchma has consistently done the oppo- (RFE/RL Newsline) KYIV – Great Britain is ready to help Melnychenko from the Kyiv Oblast, who site. Ukraine in forming a professional army, is now living in fear for his life in an As the respected Kyiv weekly Ukraine’s GDP grows by 5.4 percent said the chairman of the Defense undisclosed member-country of the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (December 2) put it: Committee in the House of Commons, European Union, has revealed that the “Ukraine is now being determinedly KYIV – The State Statistics Committee George Bruce. He added that Britain will Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVS) has a transformed into a second Belarus, and reported on December 18 that GDP in provide a number of research documents on special purpose unit called Eagles (Orly) this transformation is being furthered not January-November was 5.4 percent up on the benefits of a professional army and con- whose services are called upon to do only by the authorities but also by socie- the same period last year. GDP in the first duct appropriate training for Ukrainian offi- dirty work. The presidential guard has ty. The most significant difference 11 months of 2000 amounted to 154.04 bil- cers. Mr. Bruce dismissed the thesis that a confirmed that Mr. Melnychenko worked between Ukraine and the neighboring lion hrv ($28 billion U.S.). Earlier this year, professional army costs more to maintain. for it for three years, until early state is our hypocrisy: we continue to the government predicted that the economy Britain spends only 2.4 percent of its GDP November when he resigned. make pretensions of decency, while in would grow by 2 percent in 2000. (RFE/RL for military purposes. (Eastern Economist) The MVS does have a special-purpose Belarus they have long ago ceased to Newsline) police unit called Berkut (Golden Eagle) bother themselves with such attempts.” Odesa among top cities for AIDS that has an unsavory reputation; its unit Chornobyl experts to find work in Russia? Of course, President Kuchma should ODESA – Odesa is seventh among broke up the funeral procession for be considered innocent until proven KYIV – Prime Minister Mikhail Patriarch Volodymyr Romaniuk in June European cities in the number of AIDS guilty. Unfortunately though, his actions Kasianov of Russia promised to consider infected people. As of today, more than 1995 in Kyiv. It is unclear, however, if since the allegations were first made on employing Chornobyl nuclear power plant Orly and Berkut are linked. 15,000 people are afflicted by the disease. November 24 have not been those of an workers at Russian nuclear power sites. He As in most European countries, the majority Oleksander Moroz, former chairman erroneously accused man. It took him 12 has reportedly already discussed this issue of Parliament and Socialist Party leader, of AIDS infected people either use intra- days to make an official reply on with President Leonid Kuchma, and the two venous drugs or have alternative sexual as well as non-left deputies such as Ukrainian TV, and he has sought to not agreed that 6,000 highly qualified special- Serhiiy Holovatyi, former minister of lifestyles. However, according to a doctor at deal with the allegations per se, but to ists from Chornobyl will be able to find the Odesa Oblast’s dangerous infections justice, now allege that Orly were blame them on a conspiracy by domestic jobs at Russian energy stations. Mr. involved in organizing a car “accident” unit, Valentyna Lysetska, the disease has opponents and foreign intelligence serv- Kasianov also confirmed Russian intentions begun to spread among those normally not for Rukh leader Vyacheslav Chornovil in ices intent on destabilizing Ukraine. to increase electricity supplies to Ukraine, March 1999. categorized as at-risk. Over 75 percent of Deputies were illegally searched and which would compensate for Chornobyl’s the infected are men between the ages of 20 Although few of us in the diaspora video evidence they had with them was lost generating capacities. As well, the knew Heorhii Gongadze, the diaspora is and 39. Despite the AIDS epidemic in purposefully damaged at Boryspil air- Russian government is preparing a bill on well aquainted with Mr. Chornovil’s Odesa, many people refuse to submit to port. The media are prevented from pub- employing Russian specialists in building struggle for national and human rights in diagnostic tests. (Eastern Economist) licizing the issues: the SBU is ordering reactors in Khmelnytskyi and Rivne. Ukraine since the 1960s. Dmytro printing houses to halt the publication of (Eastern Economist) Cabinet approves pension increase Ponomarchuk, whom I met in August in newspapers while the tax police have Kyiv and who is the only survivor of the Lazarenko says he is political prisoner launched “investigations” into independ- KYIV – The Cabinet has approved a car crash, has always been convinced ent media. Radio Liberty confirmed that decision to increase pensions in two stages: that it was not an accident. SAN FRANCISCO – At a recent court its Ukrainian partners have been targeted Mr. Chornovil died only a month after hearing in San Francisco, Pavlo Lazarenko, (Continued on page 25) by the tax police publicly announcing that he would not support Mr. Kuchma in the October 1999 Ukraine’s “capture” presidential elections. His death exacer- FOUNDED 1933 bated the split in Rukh and neutralized Not surprisingly, Kuchmagate has any center-right threat to President revealed many aspects of the Ukrainian THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Kuchma’s bid for re-election. Hennadii state that the authorities would prefer be An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., Udovenko, one of the leaders of Rukh, kept quiet. The recently released World a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Bank Policy Research Working Paper Yearly subscription rate: $50; for UNA members — $40. 2444 discussed why countries such as Periodicals postage paid at Parsippany, NJ 07054 and additional mailing offices. Dr. Taras Kuzio is the author of Ukraine had stagnated. 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He is also editor of “Contemporary latory and legal environments to their Parsippany, NJ 07054 Ukraine: Dynamics of Post-Soviet own advantage at the expense of the rest The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com Transformation” (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. of the economy and the populace. Sharpe, 1998), and joint editor of “State The capture of the Ukrainian state by a The Ukrainian Weekly, December 24, 2000, No. 52, Vol. LXVIII and Institution Building in Ukraine” (New Copyright © 2000 The Ukrainian Weekly York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999). (Continued on page 21) No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 3

Kuchma responds to Moroz Verkhovna Rada approves in national television broadcast balanced budget for 2001 Embassy of Ukraine its economy and in improving the politi- by Roman Woronowycz For the most part, in the third reading the cal climate. Kyiv Press Bureau lawmakers simply tweaked a few figures in WASHINGTON – In a nationally tele- The president expressed his outrage a polishing effort. The major portion of the vised broadcast President Leonid that Mr. Gongadze’s fate and his family’s KYIV -– Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada budget bill had been walked through the Kuchma of Ukraine made a statement tragedy had been ruthlessly exploited by approved a balanced budget on December 7 week before, when the national deputies responding to accusations by Socialist and for the first time ever managed to finish approved 70 percent of the line items. party leader Oleksander Moroz, who political profiteers. the process before the New Year. While the new budget removes more tried to implicate high-ranking state offi- President Kuchma emphasized his By a vote of 249-126, the national subsidies for pensioners, law enforcement cials in the disappearance of journalist support for freedom of press and freedom deputies gave the nod for only the second officials, the military and government work- Heorhii Gongadze. of expression, underlining that even the periodicals that openly claim to be in time in the country’s short history to a ers, further remnants of the Soviet system, it The president said the statement financial plan in which revenues will equal made by Mr. Moroz in the Verkhovna opposition to the government continue to adds nearly 1 billion hrv for education, function freely in Ukraine. However, the outlays. For 2001 the figure will come to national health and support for the dying Rada on November 28 launched a pre- 41.97 billion hrv in revenues, which breaks meditated and well-planned political president called it unacceptable when coal industry. some media resort to manipulating the out to 33.8 billion hrv for the general fund The new budget limits the amount of campaign aimed at presenting Ukraine and 8.7 billion for the special fund. as an uncivilized state. The president facts, libel and insinuations. internal borrowing by the state to $317 mil- Concluding his televised address, the The Parliament, which approved the lion and external debt to $10.8 billion, and stressed that the purpose of the provoca- budget bill in its third reading, after squab- tion was to distract public attention from president of Ukraine said that political forbids the government to guarantee credits blackmail would not succeed in provoking bling with the government over expected taken by entrepreneurs, except for those resolving the urgent problems that inflation rates and expected revenues from Ukraine faces. him to institute authoritarian measures or granted by international financial organiza- the privatization of state property, agreed on According to the president, those to change the political course of the tions. It also envisages a 25 percent growth an inflation rate of 13.6 percent, down from political forces that continuously foment nation. President Kuchma stressed that, as in the salaries of civil servants, while fore- the 15.4 percent the government originally the slanderous campaign are not inter- a chief executive officer, he will continue casting a 577.4 million hrv reduction in suggested for 2001, and established the ested in strengthening Ukraine’s sover- to act in line with the law and consistently wage arrears. value of expected receipts from privatiza- eignty, in achieving positive changes in strengthen democracy in Ukraine. National Deputy Oleksander Karpov, tion at 5.9 million hrv, a significant reduc- who is also the head of the majority coali- tion in which the 9.2 billion hrv originally tion, called the approved budget the result expected. of a compromise. The deal, however, did Before the final draft was presented for not include the Communist and Socialist Tax police raid Eastern Economist approval, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Ivan factions, who “did not vote to protest what Eastern Economist the Procurator’s Office of the Pechersk Pliusch read a statement from President they called inadequate social protection for Raion in Kyiv. Matlid stated that STA KYIV – On December 15, Matlid Leonid Kuchma called the newest budget the population. The Yabluko faction also agents committed a series of violations in Publications Inc., publisher of Eastern parameters realistic and reflective of the did not take part to protest the failure of the freezing the subsidiary’s account and raid- Economist and EE Daily, announced that on socio-economic situation in the country. budget to be based on a new tax policy. ing its premises without prior notice and December 12, the main bank account of without providing any basis for their their Kyiv subsidiary, Matlid Publications actions. Ltd., was frozen and on the following day On December 13 the police of the its premises were raided by the police of the BUSINESS IN BRIEF Ukrainian State Tax Administration offered Ukrainian State Tax Administration, its an apology and unblocked the company’s employees and visitors were harassed and account as of December 16. interrogated, and the company was threat- Although a meeting with the STA offi- AmCham elects new board of directors ened with complete “liquidation.” cers on December 15 provided no results, KYIV– The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) has elected a new board These events took place despite the fact the Pechersk District tax police chief met that on December 9 President Leonid of directors for 2001. These are: Gordon Argo, Credit Lyonnais; Elias Ashkar, Coca- with company representatives on December Cola Ukraine Ltd.; Patrick Bracken, Cargill AT; Emmy Gengler, Softjourn; Jeff Kuchma had signed a decree about the 19 to resolve the matter. He expressed con- proper procedure for the STA inspections of Howley, Golden Telecom; Mark Iwashko, Western NIS Enterprise Fund; Bohdan cern that the guidelines laid down in a Kupych, UMC; Adam Mycyk, Altheimer & Gray; Johnny Schepens, Procter & media organizations, which includes recent presidential decree with regard to the mandatory prior publication of intent and Gamble; Andrew Seaton, EBRD; Andrew Taylor, Ernst & Young; Myron Wasylyk, treatment of media organizations might not PBN; Serhiy Yatsenko, Motorola. (Eastern Economist) informing the company’s director and have been properly followed. founder(s). “The State Tax Administration appears to Canadians ready to invest in gas fields Commenting on December 15, publisher have responded quickly and positively to L.A. Wolanskyj stated: “This kind of reac- our efforts to clear up this matter,” Ms. SYMFEROPOL – Representatives of Canadian business circles are interested in tion to the expression of opinion is not Wolanskyj said on December 19. “We hope developing gas deposits in Crimea and are ready to invest, stated Crimean Parliament going to do anything to improve either that this reflects a general improvement in Chairman Leonid Hrach after his meeting with Ron Cormick, president of Canadian Ukraine’s business climate, nor its reputa- the official attitude towards business in Epic Energy Inc. and the administration of First Investment Group. The meeting dis- tion and image abroad.” Ukraine. Matlid Publications is particularly cussed development of oil and gas reserves, production and refining. Agreements That same day a formal complaint by were reached on the shipment of new drilling equipment to Crimea. Mr. Cormick said Matlid Publications Ltd. was accepted by (Continued on page 18) that if one of the wells is productive, the remaining 30 wells of the Ukrainian- Canadian Crimea-Texas oil JV will work at full capacity. He added that his company is ready to invest and will develop the oil and gas sector in Crimea. (Eastern CPJ seeks independent investigation of Gongadze case Economist)

NEW YORK – In the wake of alle- between President Kuchma, Presidential Trade volume with Canada has doubled gations linking President Leonid Chief of Staff Volodymyr Lytvyn, and KYIV – In 2000 the trade volume between Ukraine and Canada doubled, which Kuchma and two top aides to the Internal Minister Yurii Kravchenko. raised Ukraine from 86th to 50th place on Canada’s trade list, said Ukraine’s ambassa- September 16 disappearance of inde- On the tape, three male voices discuss dor to Canada, Dr. Yuri Shcherbak. In January through September trade volumes were pendent journalist Heorhii Gongadze, various ways of “dealing” with Mr. $116 million (Canadian), with Ukrainian exports at $96 million. This is a good result, the Committee to Protect Journalists Gongadze, a Ukrainian journalist whose considering that 85 percent of Canada’s trade is focused on the United States, said (CPJ) on December 14 urged President Internet news site, Ukrainska Pravda Ambassador Shcherbak. Canadian businessmen are afraid of “so-called public corrup- Kuchma and his government to avoid (www.pravda.com.ua) had exposed cor- tion, when the police, firemen and other inspectors demand money from businesses,” the appearance of impropriety by ruption scandals involving Mr. Kuchma, Dr. Shcherbak added. (Eastern Economist) appointing an independent prosecutor senior intelligence officials and local to lead the investigation. business leaders. In casual, profanity- Kuchma supports development of K-226 helicopter “President Kuchma has a responsibili- laced tones, they discuss undercover sur- ty to ensure that any crime that may have veillance, deporting him back to his KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma ordered the government and the National been committed in his name is investigat- native Georgia, prosecuting him in Security and Defense Council to support the development program of the new K-226 ed by authorities whose objectivity can- Ukraine or having a group of Chechens helicopter. It will be jointly implemented by the Zaporizhia Motor-Sich plant and not be called into question,” said CPJ kidnap him. Russia’s Klimov Design Bureau. Motor-Sich’s general manager, Viacheslav Executive Director Ann Cooper. “For this The speakers are clearly concerned Bohuslayev, said the K-226’s production is scheduled to begin in two to three years. reason, we urge the president to appoint about Mr. Gongadze’s journalism. “You The K-226 is a multi-purpose aircraft that can be used to carry passengers, work in an independent prosecutor with a man- give me this same one at Ukrainska agriculture, salvage work, rescue operations, police, border patrols and to inspect date to investigate the case, find the per- Pravda and ... we will start to decide gas/oil pipe-lines and electricity transmission lines. (Eastern Economist) petrators, and bring them to trial.” what to do with him,” one says. “He’s Ukrainian exports to Poland up by 70 percent The allegations were made by simply gone too far.” Oleksander Moroz, the leader of the English translations of excerpts from the KHARKIV – Trade turnover between Ukraine and Poland in 2000 will be around Socialist Party and a longtime rival of tape are posted on the website of the Kyiv $1.3 billion (U.S.), which reflects positive tendencies in the countries’ economic President Kuchma. On November 28, Post at http://www.kpnews.com/main.php. cooperation, said the trade advisor at the Polish Embassy, Valdemar Pitel, comment- Mr. Moroz released tape recordings of what he claimed were conversations (Continued on page 21) (Continued on page 13) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 No. 52

Tens of thousands... (Continued from page 1) beneath a heavy snowfall, before arriv- ing at St. George Cathedral for the funer- al and burial services. One middle-aged man draped in a brown monk’s cloak and carrying a heavy burlap bag and a cross trudged barefoot through the wet snow and cold the entire distance of the procession. Nearly 200,000 viewed the body dur- ing the five days the body lay in state at the cathedral, according to the UGCC press center. Lviv resident Lidia Pavlova, 82, waited for more than three hours on the evening of December 19 in a queue that stretched for hundreds of meters from the cathedral’s expansive courtyard onto city streets before growing tired and giving up. “I really wanted to see him. He would visit friends of mine when he was still a seminarian,” explained a deeply disap- pointed Mrs. Pavlova when she was back in her apartment. Reflecting on the past, she added, “He had a beautiful deep bari- tone.” Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma Roman Woronowycz also paid his respects, arriving in Lviv On the balcony outside the entryway to St. George Cathedral, Bishop Lubomyr Husar concludes the funeral service for from Slovakia in the afternoon of Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky before beginning a procession around the church. December 19. Mr. Kuchma had a meet- ing with the UGCC bishops, during condolences on behalf of the pontiff. who spent time in Soviet prisons for Metropolitan Sheptytsky and then contin- which he emphasized that all confes- Following his remarks, Cardinal defending the faith, said while eulogizing ued his doctoral studies in theology in sions in Ukraine must have the right to Silvestrini gave the pope’s official bless- Cardinal Lubachivsky that he had laid the Austria. freedom of devotion. Before leaving for ing to those gathered. foundation for the new UGCC that Unable to return to Ukraine after Kyiv in the evening, the president also Once the service was concluded, sprang from the demise of the Soviet World War II, he emigrated to the United discussed the upcoming visit of Pope UGCC bishops escorted the casket hold- Union. States, where he continued his pastoral John Paul II, which is scheduled for ing the remains of Cardinal Lubachivsky “He developed the Church and work, first as a priest at St. Peter and June 2001, and financial assistance from out of the church onto the balcony of the strengthened its existence,” explained Paul Church in Cleveland beginning in the state to complete reconstruction of entryway, where government and civic Mr. Hel. “Today we bid him farewell, but 1949, and then from 1968 as a teacher at the exterior of St. George Cathedral. leaders eulogized the late Church primate he will live with us forever.” the St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic The next day, at the conclusion of the before the assembled public. After cir- The other speakers noted that the pri- Seminary in Washington. He taught at St. funeral ceremony, Bishop Lubomyr cling the cathedral once, the bishops mate was the third – after Sheptytsky and Basil’s College in Philadelphia and St. Husar thanked President Kuchma for his returned inside for the burial. Cardinal Slipyj – in a line of great recent Church Basil’s Academy in Stamford, Conn., presence. “When the president bowed his Lubachivsky was laid to rest in the crypt leaders and that he was the first UGCC before being ordained archbishop of head in respect, it could be said that all below St. George Cathedral alongside his head to have spent much of his life out- Philadelphia in 1979. of Ukraine was bowing before the late [patriarch],” said the bishop. immediate predecessors, Patriarch and side Ukraine before returning home. Pope John Paul II appointed the late Bishop Husar, who was appointed the Cardinal Josyf Slipyj and Metropolitan Among Cardinal Lubachivsky’s UGCC leader coadjutor to Cardinal administrative head of the UGCC in Andrei Sheptytsky. accomplishments speakers listed the revi- Slipyj in 1979. Upon Cardinal Slipyj’s 1998 after it became apparent that Among the government officials pres- talization of the Church and its adminis- death in 1984, he took over as head of the Cardinal Lubachivsky could no longer ent for the funeral services were Vice trative structure during the 1990s, includ- UGCC. In 1985, Pope John Paul II gave tend to the day-to-day needs of the Prime Minister Mykola Zhulynskyi, ing the development of the renewed Lviv him the title of cardinal. Church, led the two-hour divine liturgy. National Deputy Mykhailo Kosiv of the Theological Academy. The leadership of the UGCC officially Assisting him were many of the UGCC’s National Rukh of Ukraine Party, Lviv Cardinal Lubachivsky was born in returned to Lviv from its exile in Rome 35 bishops, who had arrived from Oblast Chairman Stepan Senchuk, and a Dolyna, western Ukraine, on June 24, on March 30, 1991, an event immortal- eparchies scattered throughout the world. representative of Lviv Mayor Vasyl 1914, to Yevstakhii and Anna ized by the simple act of Cardinal The U.S. delegation consisted of Kuybida. Lubachivsky. He was ordained a priest of Lubachivsky kissing the ground at Lviv Metropolitan-Archbishop Stephen Sulyk Ivan Hel, a long-time Church activist the Archeparchy of Lviv in 1938 by Airport after disembarking his plane. of Philadelphia and Bishop Michael Wiwchar of Chicago. Other bishops didn’t show because they could not get flights to Ukraine due to the heavy holiday season traffic or had decided to wait to travel to Lviv for the Synod of Bishops on January 24, which will elect a new head of the UGCC. The Roman Catholic Church sent nine representatives, including Cardinal Achilles Silvestrini, the head of the Sacred Congregation of Eastern Churches, who was the official emissary of Pope John Paul II, and Archbishop Mykola Eterovic, apostolic nuncio to Ukraine, as well as several Ukrainian and Polish bishops. Two of the three Ukrainian Orthodox Churches also were represented. Bishop Andrii of Lviv and Sokal, secretary of its clerical synod, represented the UOC- Kyiv Patriarchate, while the Rev. Mykola Kavchuk, the head of its Patriarchal Court, represented the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Hundreds of UGCC priests packed the interior of St. George Cathedral during the funeral services, while thousands of faithful listened from speakers placed on the street outside the church, as Archbishop Eterovic read the official condolences from Pope John Paul II and Some of the thousands of mourners who flocked to the cathedral on December 20 for the funeral of Cardinal Myroslav Cardinal Silvestrini extended personal Ivan Lubachivsky. No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 5 PHOTOGRAPHIC TRIBUTE: Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky

Cardinal Lubachivsky with Patriarch Mstyslav of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ... with Bishop Basil Losten and the Rev. Patrick Paschak ...

with members of Ukrainian youth organizations ... at a congressional breakfast in Washington ...

and with graduates of the Lviv Theological Academy. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 No. 52

cient, it would not be enough to cover all Chornobyl shuts down... the Chornobyl-related expenses that (Continued from page 1) would arise in the future. nuclear reactors near the cities of “We can say that the money is there to Khmelnytskyi and Rivne. complete the first stage, but future The momentous closing day – which [Ukrainian] governments will have a Western leaders had awaited for a decade serious job finding additional resources,” – was the culmination of a process that said Prime Minister Yuschenko. began on March 29, when the Ukrainian Ukraine had received financing from government announced it would begin several sources in the last year to help final preparations to bring the power prod it along on the path to its December plant offline forever by the end of the 15 date with destiny. In addition to the year. Then on June 5, during a visit to $215 million Ukraine received from the Kyiv by U.S. President Bill Clinton, EBRD on December 7, it had received President Kuchma announced that the another $100 million from the EBRD in long-sought shutdown would take place mid-October to help purchase carbon on December 15. fuels for energy generation to compen- During the 40-minute ceremony at the sate for the electricity lost at Chornobyl. Ukraina Palace, President Kuchma said The European Commission added $27 that for Ukraine the closing of Chornobyl million to that amount a few weeks later. In addition, the international commu- is “of epochal importance.” nity had raised some $273 million in “In doing so we are, first, paying trib- early July to meet 90 percent of the ute to the memory of those who died of financial requirement to rebuild the sar- the diseases caused by this catastrophe cophagus over the destroyed fourth reac- during their effort to eliminate the conse- tor block. quences of the disaster; second, we are Mr. Yuschenko said Ukraine’s decision confirming once more that we are fully to close the Chornobyl nuclear reactor committed to our obligations to the was unprecedented and unique – compa- world; third, we are parting once and for rable in international significance to its all with totalitarianism; its tyranny, indif- 1994 decision to give up its nuclear ference and cruelty to human beings, weapons arsenal, which at the time was society and nature,” stated Mr. Kuchma. the third largest in the world. The president cited statistics that tell Few among the diplomats on hand the story of what the Chornobyl catastro- for the ceremony would have argued. phe has done to Ukraine and its develop- For most it was a day of acclaim and ment: accolades. Pierre Cardin, the legendary • nearly 3.5 billion affected either fashion designer, who is currently the directly by the disaster or its conse- goodwill ambassador for UNESCO, quences; said that the world could only thank • nearly 10 percent of the territory of Ukraine for its largesse in shutting Ukraine irradiated; down Chornobyl. • 160,000 people moved from 170 “It is a very, very big day for Ukraine, abandoned localities; and for the world, too,” said Mr. Cardin • total economic losses, directly or in the foyer of the Kyiv concert hall as indirectly related to the disaster, foreign diplomats and Ukrainian politi- approaching $130 billion; cians mingled awaiting the start of the • in some years 12 percent of the AP ceremony. national budget dedicated to Chornobyl- Throughout the day President Kuchma President Leonid Kuchma, on the stage at Kyiv’s Ukraina Palace, looks at a related expenses. received letters of congratulations from screen showing an engineer at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant switching off Ukraine could little afford loss of the various state leaders, including the presi- the last operating reactor. A live broadcast from Chornobyl was shown in the hall energy generated by the last running dents of France, Italy, Austria, during an official ceremony to mark the plant’s closure. reactor at Chornobyl, which supplies 5 Switzerland, Hungary and Israel, as well percent of the country’s electricity. The as the chairman of the Organization for country is almost entirely dependent on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Russia for its natural gas and oil needs, President Clinton sent a greeting but with little financial means to pay for filmed on videotape in which he stated what it needs because of a decade-long that “Today is a great day for Ukraine economic plunge that has only recently and for the world.” Mr. Clinton applaud- leveled off – a fact the president empha- ed Ukraine for its “heroic” commitment sized. “to fulfill its historic decision.” “We realize that Chornobyl is a threat But not everybody was backslapping to the entire world and, consequently, we and hand-clasping on this historic day. are ready to sacrifice a part of our nation- Russian Energy Minister Yevgenii al interest for the sake of global safety,” Adamov told reporters in Moscow, explained Mr. Kuchma. according to Interfax-Ukraine, that it was Meanwhile, members of the Ukrainian a bad move on Ukraine’s part. government, including Prime Minister “I can’t see any reason to celebrate Viktor Yuschenko, said it was time for this event. This event is akin to a funer- the last working nuclear reactor to go. al,” said Mr. Adamov. He explained that “We have a working reactor basically Ukraine made the decision “too early, in separated by a wall from the one that was a hurry and under pressure.” destroyed in the accident, we have to Although most of Europe and the take such things into consideration,” world would disagree with him, those explained Mr. Yuschenko. who depended on the plant for their jobs He was referring to the fact that the would not. President Kuchma went to third reactor and the one that blew up are visit those people and their families the adjacent to one another and separated day before the de-commissioning cere- merely by a single long hallway. mony took place. He told the plant’s The Verkhovna Rada, however, gave workers and managers that he under- an indication on December 14 that some- stands the bitter words he heard them one had convinced a majority of national speak during his daylong visit. However, deputies that the third reactor could and he emphasized that in the end, he still should remain online when it passed a considered it his responsibility to make resolution calling on the president to the right decision to take the third reactor keep the reactor going until April. The offline forever. idea, as explained in the text of the draft “No matter what the critics say, bill, was to make sure that the money Chornobyl could not continue to operate promised by the EBRD for until April without extensive and costly Khmelnytskyi and Rivne would arrive technical maintenance,” explained Mr. and be utilized. Kuchma. Mr. Yuschenko also told journalists He said he would take the Chornobyl Efrem Lukatsky before the closing ceremony began that, workers under his patronage and offered while the financial support provided by The sarcophagus that covers Chornobyl’s reactor No. 4, destroyed as a result of the world community thus far is suffi- (Continued on page 7) the April 26, 1986, disaster, is seen on this file photo taken on November 16. No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 7

CCRF sends 27th airlift to Ukraine FOR THE RECORD: UCCA and UACC to coincide with Chornobyl shutdown SHORT HILLS, N.J. – The New Jersey- plies, antibiotics, cold medication, IV tub- comment on closure of Chornobyl based Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund ing, wound cleansers and sterile gloves. Below is the text of a statement issued on December 14 – the day before the (CCRF) on December 12 delivered nearly In addition to direct medical aid, the fund closing of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant – by the Ukrainian Congress $1.3 million worth of high-priority medical shipped quilts, blankets, cleaning supplies, Committee of America and the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council. supplies to the region affected by the shampoo, diapers and hygiene products for Chornobyl nuclear disaster. the orphanage in Zaluchia in the province of On December 15, a long-awaited day will arrive for Ukraine – the final clo- Among the most valuable cargo to be Ivano-Frankivsk. Located between Sniatyn sure and ceasing of operations of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Following delivered was the thyroid replacement hor- and Chernivtsi, the orphanage provides the devastating nuclear explosion on April 26, 1986, the Chornobyl plant has mone Synthroid (levothyroxine sodium, housing for 127 children suffering from been the scene of many shutdowns due to poor Soviet-style engineering con- USP) valued at over $650,000. Donated by genetic deformities and birth defects. The struction. The G-7 countries, along with Ukraine, signed a Memorandum of Knoll Pharmaceutical Company of Mount shocking conditions at the orphanage have Understanding in Halifax, Canada, in December 1995 to close the Chornobyl Olive, N.J., the hormone will be used to prompted the CCRF and Ukrainian nuclear power plant as quickly as possibly with the appropriate funding coming treat hundreds of children who have been American veterans of the Galicia Division from those industrialized nations. Ukraine will hold official closing ceremonies stricken with thyroid cancer as a result of to launch an intensive campaign to upgrade at the Chornobyl power station on December 15, with representatives from the exposure to radioactive iodine-131. the facilities and improve the treatment of G-7 countries and other nations, as well as the NGO community participating. The rate of thyroid cancer among chil- these orphans. Here in the United States, the Ukrainian community is particularly concerned dren has risen to levels 80 times higher than Ms. Welhasch will be traveling to about the continuing plight of those afflicted by the world’s worst nuclear disas- normal in some regions following the mas- Zaluchia along with the CCRF’s in-country ter. Evidence of radiation and its effect on the Ukrainian population has been sive release of radiation in 1986. director, Olena Maslyukivska, to supervise overwhelming. The airlift – the CCRF’s 27th – was delivery of the emergency supplies and to As they seek humanitarian assistance and expertise to treat their ailing vic- timed to coincide with the scheduled clo- meet with local health officials to address tims, hospitals inundated with children and adults battling leukemia and other sure of the last operating reactor at the the concerns of children’s health advocates. types of radiation-born cancers cannot obtain the resources they need from the Chornobyl atomic energy station that was CCRF staffers also were to travel to the depressed Ukrainian economy. As to Chornobyl’s effect on its environment, the site of the world’s worst nuclear acci- city of Slavutych to express their solidarity Ukraine’s vast fertile lands will remain ruined and barren, and its underground dent. “We are sending this shipment to with nuclear workers who are currently water supplies contaminated for decades, if not centuries to come. show the people of Ukraine that the employed at the Chornobyl nuclear plant Furthermore, when Chornobyl’s nuclear power station finally ceases to oper- American people have not forgotten about and whose jobs are threatened by the clo- ate on December 15, thousands of its nuclear scientists, engineers and staff will the continuing plight of the nuclear sur- sure of the last operating reactor. The CCRF be left unemployed, thus contributing to social hardships and putting an addi- vivors,” said Olena Welhasch, the CCRF’s will deliver medical supplies and children’s tional strain on Ukraine’s economy. director of procurement. clothing to the local children’s hospital as The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the Ukrainian American “Even though the last Chornobyl reactor part of this airlift. The fund will explore the Coordinating Council welcome the closing of the Chornobyl nuclear power is ceasing operation, we know that the long- feasibility of long-term health care and plant. However, we would also like to stress the need for continuing humanitari- lived fallout from the 1986 disaster will humanitarian assistance to the families an assistance to those most afflicted by the consequences of this disaster – continue to affect public health for many affected by the nuclear disaster and the whether medical, environmental or social. In the past 10 to 15 years, the years to come,” Ms. Welhasch pointed out. plant closure. Ukrainian American continuity has contributed hundreds of hours and millions Radioactive cesium, which was widely dis- The CCRF has delivered 1,300 tons of of dollars to help the victims of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. With the closure persed following the accident and which humanitarian aid to Ukraine, with a total of Chornobyl, we appeal to the Ukrainian community in the United States to has a half-life of 30 years, will pose a threat value of $46 million. The fund has been in actively engage in humanitarian assistance to those afflicted by the Chornobyl to children and young adults for at least the forefront of intensive efforts to improve disaster. Your donations and efforts will be most effective if focused through another decade. infant survival rates and to combat chil- existing Ukrainian American organizations already providing assistance to The airlift arrived at Boryspil Airport dren’s cancer. Four of the CCRF’s partner Ukraine. outside the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv at hospitals have achieved dramatic reductions Ukraine needs our help. The Chornobyl disaster and its consequences for approximately 11 a.m. on December 12. in infant mortality – by as much as 50-80 Ukrainian society have been catastrophic and they are continuing. In this time of Ground crew unloaded 76 crates or contain- percent after the fund provided modern giving during the holiday season let us remember those who are less fortunate and those who seek our assistance! ers of cargo designated for hospitals in technology and training for local doctors. Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Lutsk, Lviv, Bila The fund has also enabled several hospi- Michael Sawkiw Jr. Ihor Gawdiak Tserkva and Slavutych, and an orphanage in tals to save thousands of children’s lives by President President the region of Ivano-Frankivske. delivering powerful diagnostic tools such as Ukrainian Congress Ukrainian American The shipment includes neonatal intensive a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sys- Committee of America Coordinating Council care equipment to help combat infant mor- tem and a full protocol of medication for the tality in the heavily contaminated region of treatment of cancer, leukemia, non- Rivne. Incubators and respirators were pur- Hodgkins lymphoma and systemic infec- chased with the aid of CCRF chapters in tions. Chicago, Hartford,Conn., Boston and For more information about the CCRF or Ukraine’s U.N. Mission celebrates Rochester, N.Y. The fund also delivered its latest airlift, contact the CCRF office in ultrasounds, a blood pressure monitor, a New Jersey at (973) 376-5140 or its office Armed Forces Day with reception pulse oxymeter, hospital and surgical sup- in Kyiv at (044) 228-1870.

plant. Chornobyl shuts down... It was not until a week later that the (Continued from page 6) Soviet leadership admitted something personal assurances that “no one will be had gone dangerously wrong at Chornobyl. left jobless or uncared for.” What went wrong and everything that The Chornobyl shutdown came less still must be done to right it, will not end than four months before the 15th with the de-commissioning of anniversary of the explosion, which sent Chornobyl. Experts say that the territory a huge plume of radioactivity into the and the fields immediately surrounding atmosphere over Ukraine and Belarus, the nuclear power complex are unusable and on to northern Europe. and uninhabitable for at least several The accident, the result of a failed thousand years. experiment to squeeze more energy pro- Even in the near future there are the duction out of the reactor which occurred problems associated with rebuilding the about 1 a.m. on April 26, 1986, not only crumbling sarcophagus over the exposed the dangers of nuclear energy in destroyed No. 4 reactor, which will cost general, but the state of Soviet engineer- $758 million, and the medical costs to ing as well as the regime’s twisted policy treat the hundreds of thousands of current of secrecy at all costs. and future victims. Even after the blast had scattered tons Just because the last working reactor is of nuclear materials in a 10-kilometer shut down does not mean that its nuclear periphery and while uncontrolled flames fuel will no longer be a threat. Along continued to send radioactive smoke into with the 37 tons of melted nuclear mate- NEW YORK – Ukrainian Armed Forces Day was celebrated at the Permanent the atmosphere for the next several days, rials and 63 tons of nuclear dust still con- Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations on December 7. Among the guests the government kept absolutely mum tained within the sarcophagus, there is attending was the group above (from left): Steve Rudyk, a former Army combat and allowed for May Day parades and the matter of some 2,000 active nuclear veteran and vice-commander of Ukrainian American Veterans Post 301 of celebrations to proceed in the nearby city fuel rods in the third reactor, which for Yonkers, N.Y.; Col. Victor Hvozd, military attaché to the United Nations, with his of Prypiat and in the capital city of Kyiv, technical reasons cannot be removed wife, Olha; and Taras Szczur, former U.S. Marine sergeant and national publica- about two hour’s drive south of the until 2008. tion/public relations officer for Ukrainian American Veterans. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 No. 52

CHRISTMAS PASTORAL THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Lubachivsky’s legacy Celebrate the gift of the coming of Christ To the Reverend Clergy, the Religious from person to person. God shares His This week in Lviv, tens of thousands of faithful bid farewell to the leader of 7 mil- and Faithful of the Eparchy of Stamford: love for our family and friends by lion Ukrainian Catholics worldwide – 5 million in Ukraine and 2 million abroad. For God so loved the world that He becoming part of the love we share. The Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky – whose other ecclesiastical titles were major gave His only Son ... John 3:16 secret for a fruitful Christmas and a fruit- archbishop of Lviv and metropolitan of Halych – passed away at the age of 86. His This message comes to you with my ful life is to let God use us for His pur- auxiliary, Bishop Lubomyr Husar, noted in a Ukrainian-language message to the cler- prayer that, as we bring one millennium pose; to let it be done for us as God wills gy and laity that was disseminated around the globe: to a close and begin another, this (Lk. 1:38); to do God’s will ... to love “Though for a long time we had not seen him at public liturgies, he always Christmas will be a source of renewed one another as He has loved us (Jn. remained our father, a true father, who perpetually prayed for his nation. Until the last blessings. At the Nativity Liturgy the 15:12). days of his earthly life, he celebrated liturgy, read the ‘Chasoslov’ [a book of prayers] Church presents to us the story of the May this message be for you, one and prayed the rosary on our behalf. ... Three Magi (Mt. 2:1) three who were from the God who loves you, asking you “With the death of His Beatitude we have lost a father. But perhaps we have not inspired to follow a star; three who laid to give of yourself unconditionally in lost him: from now on, together with two other fathers .. Andrei Sheptytsky and Josyf aside all the cares of life and mounted sharing the Good News of Great Joy that Slipyj, His Beatitude continues to pray for us.” their camels to pursue a vision. We are not only has our Savior been born, but Described by those who knew him as prayerful, reflective, wise and active in a told this story to remind us that not only also that God loves His people (Jn. humble and unassuming manner, Cardinal Lubachivsky spent more than half of his has the universe been changed by the 16:27). So many when they hear this call life beyond the borders of his native land. The life of this great Churchman is inextri- coming of Jesus the Messiah, but that from Christ, say, “Not I, Lord!” They cably linked to two other great leaders of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, both of we, too, should lay aside all earthly cares have excuses like those invited to the whom were at once archbishops of Lviv and metropolitans of Halych. (Mt. 6:34) in following the Christ who Banquet (Mt. 22:2). They feel that there Born in Ukraine and ordained there in 1938 by the saintly Metropolitan Andrei saved us. are others more qualified as Moses Sheptytsky, the Rev. Lubachivsky was prevented by war from returning to his home- It would be wonderful if we, together, argued. Our Lord tells His followers that land. In the aftermath of World War II, he visited with refugees and gave them spiritu- let the coming of Christ into our lives He came to give life and to give it abun- al and material assistance. “This calling to help those in need remained with him cause us to love each other as Christ dantly (Jn. 10:10). Only in answering the always,” Bishop Husar underlined. loved us (Jn. 15:12) – unconditionally. call will any of us find happiness and ful- Father Lubachivsky emigrated to the United States, where his pastoral work This is the vision the Church presents to fillment. touched the communities he served as pastor and teacher – Cleveland, Washington, us during this feast. We, too, should join I know that the call to the priesthood Philadelphia and Stamford, among others – and the entire country, once he was named in the mission of salvation that began in is going out to many who are not answer- in 1979 as metropolitan for Ukrainian Catholics in the United States. Just a few Bethlehem. ing it. They are not happy. It reminds me months later he was named co-adjutor to another great Church leader, Patriarch Josyf Imagine in your mind this scene: An of a young man who wrote a letter to an Slipyj, and after the patriarch’s death in 1984 Archbishop Lubachivsky became the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes. The advice columnist, “I’ve got to decide primate of the UGCC. He was elevated to a cardinal of the universal Church in 1985. King of kings (Rev. 19:16) could have between getting married or entering the The Catholic News Service noted that Cardinal Lubachivsky was “a staunch come in majesty, yet chose to come in an seminary. Marriage is beautiful, but defender of Ukrainian Catholics forced to live their faith clandestinely, a supporter of apparently helpless state. He came in this every night when I go to sleep I dream Ukrainian independence and an advocate of maintaining the identity and customs of way to say that He is joining us in the about the priesthood.” As the Magi gave the Eastern Catholic Churches.” It added that Cardinal Lubachivsky “repeatedly asked work of salvation and that we must join Pope John Paul II to elevate the major Archdiocese of Lviv to a Patriarchate in keep- up so much, may that young person and ing with the tradition of the Eastern Churches.” with Him in carrying out the divine plan others follow not only their dream, but Msgr. Ivan Dacko, director of external relations for the Ukrainian Church who had of restoring humanity in its relationship the star. May this star enlighten the way served as the cardinal’s personal assistant in Rome, told CNS that Cardinal with God as it had been in Paradise. of their life. Lubachivsky “presided over truly outstanding moments in our Church and our At Christmas we celebrate the gift of May the Sun of Justice shine the way nation.” Msgr. Dacko said, “He thanked Divine Providence for allowing him to col- the coming of Christ; we remember the for us to follow together as faithful of the lect the successes his predecessors worked so hard for: the legalization of our Church gifts of the Magi (Mt. 2:11). It would be Eparchy of Stamford for the next millen- and the independence of Ukraine,” and he noted that though the cardinal was not as only fitting that we should join in the nium in the name of the Father, and of adamant as his predecessors in requesting a Patriarchate, “he expected it to happen spirit of giving. As we let Jesus into our the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. and was disappointed that it did not. ... He never had ambitions for himself, but want- hearts, let us seek out at least one area in ed the Patriarchate for the status of the Church.” which we can let the grace of Christ flow Sincerely yours in Christ, Bishop Husar also noted Cardinal Lubachivsky’s love of the Ukrainian nation – through us. Let us resolve together that The Most Rev. Basil H. Losten, D.D. perhaps epitomized by the singular act of kissing the ground in Lviv upon his return to we will be the hands of Christ to some- Eparch of Stamford Ukraine on March 30, 1991. “For this love, the Lord granted him a special gift: that in one in need; the ears of Christ to some- (New York and New England) his person he united our nation in Ukraine and abroad, and was its spiritual leader at one who needs to be listened to; and the the joyous time of its freedom and independence.” eyes of Christ to show compassion (Mt. Given December 8, 2000 Indeed, when Cardinal Lubachivsky returned to Ukraine after a 53-year absence 20:34). This is how the love of God is The Feast of the Conception of St. Ann and arrived at historic St. George Cathedral, it was a momentous event for Ukraine, experienced at Christmas. Love is shared in the Cathedral of St. Vladimir the Great then in the process of being reborn as an independent nation. As noted by Ivan Hel, a religious rights activist who spent time in Soviet prisons and camps for championing the rights of the underground Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Cardinal Lubachivsky proceeded to lay the foundation for Church’s rebirth. Among those foundations were the Church’s administrative structure, which he revi- talized, and the Lviv Theological Academy, which he renewed. Another former Soviet dissident, Mykola Horyn, put into words the intangible sig- nificance of Cardinal Lubachivsky’s arrival in his native land: “His return to Ukraine became a vindication of the irreversibility of the reign of God’s spirit over our nation.”

Dec. Turning the pages back... 29 1980 Twenty years ago, on December 29, 1980, the Rev. Stephen Sulyk was named by Pope John Paul II as the spiritu- al leader of Ukrainian Catholics in the United States. Metropolitan Sulyk was born in the village of Balnytsia, in Lemkivschyna. He studied in Germany at a seminary for Ukrainian Catholic priests in exile and then emigrated in 1948 to the United States, where he completed his theo- logical studies at The Catholic University of America. He was ordained a priest in 1952 by Archbishop-Metropolitan Constantine Bohachevsky and served parishes in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and New Jersey. Having been chosen by the pontiff from a list of candidates for the metropolitan of Ukrainian Catholics submitted by the Synod of Ukrainian Catholic Bishops, he was ordained a bishop by Patriarch Josyf Slipyj in Rome on March 1, 1981, and then was installed as metropolitan of the Philadelphia Archeparchy on March 31 by Archbishop Pio Laghi, then apostolic nuncio to the United States. Recently Archbishop Sulyk submitted his resignation as metropolitan to Pope John Paul II. The pope has named Auxiliary Bishop Stefan Soroka of Winnipeg to head the 1 4 Archeparchy of Philadelphia. Halyna Mazepa’s “The Blessed Virgin and Child” (1997, oil on board, 16 / by 16 1/4, from the collection of Bohdan and Marta Koval), as reproduced on a Source: “Philadelphia Prepares to Welcome New Bishop,” The Way, December 3, 2000. Chirstmas card published by The Ukrainian Museum. No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 9

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS Faces and Places

Our communities’ tradition of giving by Myron B. Kuropas New York’s Gov. George Pataki and role in our celebration of the Nativity. Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue extended the fol- Houses of worship on streets everywhere lowing holiday greetings to Ukrainian serve as beacons for the observant and Americans. foundations upon which entire communi- ties enjoy the unity and faith prevalent Stay on message, Mr. Bush! It is always a pleasure for us to extend among people of Ukrainian ancestry. So Congratulations on your election, Mr. “sensitive to” America’s blacks; their holiday wishes to all our friends in the many of these churches and places of Bush. Glad to see you up and around in outstanding credentials are “too white” to Ukrainian American community. assembly have their roots in the aspira- Washington. suit the unholy trio. Christmas and the arrival of the New tions of New York’s earliest settlers, men You haven’t caught your breath yet and The Jesse Jackson phenomenon is noth- Year give countless New Yorkers a and women who were guided by reli- Congressional Democrat such as Dick ing new in American history. Booker T. chance to experience the joy of greeting gious values that are still common here in Gephardt, David Bonior and Tom Daschle Washington (1856-1915), a former slave loved ones while looking wth optimism the Empire State. Religious institutions, are already pushing their mantra of “biparti- and founder of the prestigious Tuskegee toward a promising future. A tradition of especially their clergy and lay leaders, sanship.” Don’t fall for it. Being bipartisan Institute, wrote of the need for blacks to rely giving gifts that dates back to the cele- deserve our thanks and admiration for the for liberals means only one thing: succumb- on their own strength and to create wealth bration of Jesus’ birth is vigorously alive fine example they set during Christmas ing to their will. Your father learned that the rather than try to redistribute it. He was crit- in our prosperous, generous society. and year round. hard way when he allowed himself to go off icized by the legendary W.E.B. DuBois, a Nevertheless, when embracing this tradi- As the days grow colder, the welcom- his campaign message of “no new taxes.” Marxist and father of the black power agen- tion, New Yorkers often discover that the ing environment that is New York grows The liberal leadership in the U.S. da. Mr. Washington had little use for Mr. best gifts carry no price tag and produce ever warmer, fueled by the emotions of Congress is not interested in compromise, DuBois and his followers. “There is another the fondest Christmas memories. In his nostalgia, anticipation and happiness that because in their eyes your presidency is ille- class of colored people,” wrote Mr. letter to the Corinthians St. Paul teaches this joyous season elicits. Let all of our gitimate – a fluke blessed by a partisan Washington, “who make a business of us that all gifts – just like all deeds – are children grow to appreciate the spiritual Supreme Court. You will always be the keeping the trouble, the wrongs, the hard- meaningful only when the giver or doer meaning of Christmas, and may each of enemy and they have no intention of work- ships of the Negro race before the public. is motivated by love. What a wonderful us enjoy our holidays to the fullest. ing with you. As recovering liberal Harry Having learned that they are able to make a summation of the Christmas spirit! From our families to yours, and on Stein has written in his new book “How I living out of their troubles, they have grown Religious institutions of various behalf of the state, best wishes for a Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing denominations of Christianity play a key Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. in the settled habit of advertising their Conspiracy (And Found Inner Peace),” pol- wrongs – partly because they want sympa- itics for the left is a “holy war ... one’s thy and partly because it pays ... Some of adversaries are not merely mistaken, but these people do not want the Negro to lose evil ... they must be shown no understand- their grievance because they do not want to PUBLIC POLL: Ukrainians distrust ing and allowed no quarter.” Remember lose their jobs.” Small wonder that Booker Newt Gingrich? T. Washington has no place in the current Hypocrisy among liberal democrats is pantheon of black civil rights leaders. their course and their helmsmen ingrained, a part of their very nature. They Despite the fact that slavery officially by Jan Maksymiuk whatsoever in that institution. accused Newt of every conceivable evil for ended in the United States in 1863, the RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report The corresponding figures (full agreeing to a book advance and yet, today, unholy trio can often be heard blathering trust/no trust) for the army are 33 per- there is hardly a peep from them when about the scars of American slavery and the Ukraine’s SOCIS and the Democratic cent and 20 percent; the media – 24 per- Senator-elect Hillary agrees to an advance need for immediate reparations to over- Initiative Fund conducted a poll among cent and 18 percent; the Parliament – 6 10 times as large as what Newt was forced come the damage. In Africa, however, espe- 1,200 respondents in all Ukrainian percent and 53 percent; the government to relinquish. The difference? Newt was cially in Sudan, enslaving blacks is a thriv- regions in November to determine politi- – 11 percent and 48 percent; police – 16 benighted. Hillary is anointed. ing business. Not a murmur from the cal preferences and attitudes of percent and 43 percent; local councils – David Horowitz, another recovering lib- unholy trio, Why? Ukrainian citizens, Interfax reported on 11 percent and 50 percent; local state eral, in his book “The Art of Political War Finally, Mr. Bush, you need to take a December 4. administrations – 9 percent and 49 per- and Other Radical Pursuits” writes: long hard look at the situation in Russia and The poll was conducted before the cent; courts – 14 percent and 33 percent; “Republicans are problem-solvers, not ideo- Ukraine where American aid has been release of the tape allegedly showing and trade unions – 12 percent and 33 logical warriors. They are not prepared for squandered by greedy and corrupt govern- Kuchma administration’s involvement in the political battle the Democrats have the disappearance of journalist Heorhii percent. ment officials. Both states need a “tough Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko is come to fight. Republicans want to manage love” approach and a series of benchmarks Gongadze. institutions; Democrats seek to transform According to the poll, only 14 percent fully trusted by 23 percent of respon- that will make it a abundantly clear that the dents, while 31 percent said they had no them. Republicans go to Washington with United States will no longer be suckered of respondents believe that Ukraine is the idea of fixing government; Democrats moving “in the right direction,” while 69 trust whatsoever in him. The correspon- into misguided relations à la the ding figures for President Leonid are missionaries. They want to make the Gore/Talbott disaster. It was this kind of percent are of the opposite opinion; 16 world a better place ... They regard them- percent were unable to answer the ques- Kuchma are 14 percent and 49 percent; American myopia regarding Russia and Internal Affairs Minister Yurii selves and government as social redeemers Ukraine that ultimately allowed “mafiya”- tion. In Crimea and eastern regions, more ... If Americans have bad thoughts, than 80 percent of respondents oppose Kravchenko – 11 percent and 18 percent; supported oligarches to rise to power. Parliament Chairman Ivan Pliusch – 7 Democrats want to use political power to And don’t be alarmed by appeasers such the country’s transformations, while the re-educate citizens in diversity seminar and lowest number of opponents of the cur- percent and 42 percent; National Security as Brent Scowcroft who advise caution in and Defense Council Secretary Yevhen sensitivity-training sessions to make their dealing with Vladimir Putin. Don’t believe rent changes is in the Rivne and Volyn thoughts good ... because the stakes (saving oblasts (39 percent). Marchuk – 6 percent and 39 percent; and for one minute that President Putin will presidential administration chief – or at least uplifting – the world) are so become hostile if he doesn’t get his way. The poll found that 22 percent are high for Democrats, it matters a great deal Volodymyr Lytvyn – 3 percent and 20 The man is not stupid. He needs your good supporters of Communist ideology in to them if they lose an election.” That is percent. will more than you need his. Follow Ukraine, confirming previous polls by why, dear reader, they were willing to drag Among party leaders, the most trusted President Ronald Reagan’s example. Be fair other institutes. Eight percent of respon- the nation through 36 days of chads, hang- are Communist Party leader Petro and negotiate from strength. dents said they support social-democratic ing, pregnant and dimpled. Chads repre- Symonenko (21 percent professing com- And what is your strength? It is honest ideas, 7 percent pledged support for sented victory, and victory meant power – plete trust and 42 percent no trust what- compassion, intelligence, and an ability to socialism, and 6 percent said they are of the means to a “better world.” soever), Socialist Party leader work with both sides of the political divide. a “national-democratic” orientation. Your campaign message, Mr. Bush, was Oleksander Moroz (9 percent and 43 Don’t allow anyone, especially the media, Thirty-four percent said they do not sup- simple and direct: improving education, percent), Progressive Socialist Party to divert you from your vision. Never for- port any ideology. cutting taxes (including the eliminating the get that while the liberal Democrats and The poll also revealed that Ukrainians leader Natalia Vitrenko (8 percent and marriage and death taxes), Social Security, their media sycophants may not be in your are very distrustful of their public and 55 percent), Popular Rukh of Ukraine fixing Medicare and rebuilding the U.S. corner, the good people of America are. political institutions, as well as of top leader Hennadii Udovenko (7 percent military. It’s an excellent message, and it’s They want you to succeed. When obstruc- state leaders and politicians. The Church and 46 percent), and Fatherland Party do-able. Don’t waver from these ideas for tionists in our nation’s capital become too is “fully trusted” by 45 percent of respon- leader Yulia Tymoshenko (6 percent and even one second. overbearing, take your message directly to dents, while 16 percent have no trust 52 percent). 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UNWLA culminates 75th anniversary celebrations (Continued from page 1) U.S. governors who had agreed to be listed member-at-large of the UNWLA. as Special Honorary Committee Members Other letters marking the UNWLA’s in the UNWLA 75th Anniversary Banquet anniversary celebrations were received Program: John Engler of Michigan, George from Soyuz Ukrainok of Ukraine President H. Ryan of Illinois, George E. Pataki of Atena Pashko, Prof. Leonid Rudnytzkyj of New York and Christine Todd Whitman of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, New Jersey. the Children’s Hospital in Lviv, the UNWLA Vice-President Motria Ukrainian National Association, Govs. Voyevidka Sloniewsky, who served as Engler, Patacki, Ryan and Whitman, and Banquet Committee chair for the occasion, Bishop Efraim Krevey of Brazil. officially welcomed UNWLA members and Ambassador Gryshchenko delighted their guests. UNWLA President Iryna everyone at the banquet by reading two Kurowyckyj greeted those assembled and very special letters from Ukraine. In tribute spoke briefly about the UNWLA’s tradi- to an occasion celebrating a women’s tions and its aspirations for continued suc- organization, the envoy took a slight liberty cess in the next century. with established protocol by first reading Natalia Hewko, president of the Detroit the warm and friendly letter sent to the Tatiana Terleckyj Regional Council, served as mistress of cer- UNWLA by Ukraine’s First Lady Ludmilla Ambassador Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, his wife, Natalia, and UNWLA President emonies for the evening. In her introductory Kuchma. The more formal, but nonetheless, Iryna Kurowyckyj during the banquet. remarks, Ms. Hewko praised the UNWLA cordial message of congratulations from as one of the most dynamic and productive President Leonid Kuchma took second organizations in the Ukrainian diaspora. She place. presented an optimistic view of the WFUWO President Sokolyk presented UNWLA’s future, citing the organization’s her organization’s greetings in an envelope newest branches and new members as the specially postmarked by the Canadian gov- key to its vitality and strength. ernment with the letters WFUWO superim- The program began with a presentation posed upon a silhouette of a woman’s head of colors, a formal processional during and Ukraine’s national symbol, the trident. which the flags of the United States, Too numerous to mention here are the cor- Ukraine and the UNWLA were solemnly dial and supportive letters received from borne into the hall. Susanna Shpak, presi- scores of other groups and individuals. dent of the newly formed UNWLA Branch An official congratulatory statement 126 of Boston, carried the American flag, from the National Council of Women/USA and Sophia Caryk of Branch 80 of was presented by NCW President Roshan Baltimore carried the flag of Ukraine, as and Vice-President Pamela Moffat. A long- Zhdana Krawciw played the national time friend of UNWLA President Iryna anthems of each country on the piano. As Kurowyckyj, Dr. Roshan commended Ms. Anya Silecki-Piazza of Branch 80 carried Kurowyckyj for her recent accomplish- the flag of the UNWLA into the hall, mem- ments and for her tenure as NCW President bers sang the UNWLA anthem. from 1993 to 1995. “How proud we are,” Ludmilla Hrabowska, president of she stated, “to have you as our president.” UNWLA Branch 125 of New York City In a personal gesture of friendship and Olha Hnateyko (left), president of The Ukrainian Museum board of directors, and the first UNWLA branch president rep- affection, she presented Ms. Kurowyckyj and UCCA President Michael Sawkiw Jr. address the banquet. resenting the newest Ukrainian immigration with a bouquet of flowers. to the United States, welcomed guests with Representing the General Federation of the traditional greeting of bread and salt. Women’s Clubs, President Hamlett congrat- A symbolic candle-lighting ceremony ulated the UNWLA on 75 years of service followed. The first candle was lit by to women. She commented that the Honorary President Anna Krawczuk to UNWLA had made “major contributions to honor the UNWLA’s founders for their creating a better world – your founders vision. The second, third and fourth candles, would be very proud.” lit in recognition of the UNWLA’s role in Ukrainian Congress Committee the national and international arena of President Michael Sawkiw Jr., and women’s organizations, were lit by Oksana Ukrainian American Coordinating Sokolyk, president of the World Federation Committee President Ihor Gawdiak attend- of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations; ed the banquet and personally delivered Sorosh Roshan, president of the National congratulatory accolades from their respec- Council of Women/USA; and Shelby P. tive organizations. A personal greeting from Hamlett, international president of the UNWLA member Lydia Ficalowych General Federation of Women’s Clubs. The included a generous donation of $5,000 for final candle, representing the bright future the continued support of UNWLA pro- of the UNWLA, was lit by President grams. Ms. Ficalovych is a member of Kurowyckyj. UNWLA Branch 66 (Connecticut). The program continued with a photo A musical interlude combining the tal- montage slide presentation, prepared by ents of pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky and Marta Danyliuk and narrated by members baritone Oleh Chmyr followed. Musical of the UNWLA National Board, that paid selections included works by Mykola Marta Danyliuk (left) receives a special award from the UNWLA president. tribute to the organization’s achievements Lysenko, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and accomplishments since it was founded Franz Liszt and Volodyslav Zaremba. in 1925. For their longtime support of the organi- The invocation was offered by the Rev. zation, special UNWLA awards were pre- Myroslav Medvid. For many of those sented to the Self Reliance New York assembled, the clergyman’s presence at Federal Credit Union, Svoboda, The the banquet was a testament to endurance Ukrainian Weekly, 1st Security Federal and the triumph of the human spirit over Savings Bank of Chicago and the Ukrainian adversity. Now a priest in the service of Orthodox Federal Credit Union of New God and the Ukrainian Catholic Church, York. A special award for 30 years of serv- the Rev. Medvid will always be remem- ice in preserving a visual history of the bered as the Ukrainian seaman who, in UNWLA was also presented to Ms. 1985, attempted to defect to the United Danyliuk. States by jumping from the Soviet ship The banquet ended with brief closing Marshal Koniev while it was docked at remarks by UNWLA President the port of New Orleans. Kurowyckyj and a benediction by Rev. While guests enjoyed a sumptuous din- Medvid. Ms. Kurowyckyj offered special ner, congratulatory messages and greetings thanks to the Banquet Committee, chaired from near and far were read. These included by the indefatigable and very capable Ms. a letter from the Ukrainian Catholic Voyevidka-Sloniewsky. Warm wishes were Eparchy of Stamford, Conn., warm person- also extended to Branch 78 of Washington, al greetings filled with best wishes from whose celebration of the organization’s 75th First Lady and Senator-elect Hillary anniversary was the last in a yearlong series Myroslaw Shmigel (left) and Lubomyr Zielyk (right) accept an award from the Rodham Clinton and from the first lady’s UNWLA on behalf of the Self Reliance New York Federal Credit Union. chief of staff, Melanne Verveer, who is a (Continued on page 12) No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 11 HISTORICAL MONTAGE: The UNWLA’s 75 years of activity Following is the text of the photo/slide montage on tinue to work on local levels with the GFWC. We attend Hospital and Trauma Center. For this endeavor, the UNWLA history that was presented during the organiza- their annual conventions and report on the situation in UNWLA received a citation from the government of tion’s 75th anniversary banquet in Arlington, Va., on Ukraine and on the work of the UNWLA. During World Ukraine. Our organization has also purchased medical December 2. (The text was read, as indicated, by members War II, members of the UNWLA worked with the Red equipment and supplies for other hospitals in Ukraine. of the UNWLA National Board.) Cross. At one time we were members of the National Our newest project, “Milk and Buns” for the youngest Women’s Party and of other women’s organizations as well. school children in Ukraine is very much needed. We have Iryna Kurowyckyj: This evening, we are ending our Iryna Kurowyckyj: While 1925 is the birthday of the visited the schools and they are doing well. The children, yearlong 75th anniversary celebration commemorating the UNWLA, a turning point that strengthened its aims and their parents and their teachers thank you for your generos- founding of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of organizational structure came during the first congress, ity and support. Without your help our programs could not America. Our organization’s history can be traced to an which was held in 1932. It was at this convention that survive. event that occurred at the seventh quinquennial meeting of UNWLA leaders presented their members with the new Luba Bilowchtchuk: The purpose of the UNWLA the International Council of Women held in Washington in vision and the new direction it would need to flourish. Scholarship/Child-Student Sponsorship Program is to 1925. Future generations will look back on our organization as it enhance and create opportunities through education and to The International Council of Women (ICW) and the celebrates its 75th anniversary. They will judge us by our preserve Ukrainian cultural heritage within and outside the National Council of Women U.S.A. (NCWUS) were deeds, just as we have judged the work of our distin- United States of founded in Washington in 1888 on the initiative of a group America. guished predecessors. It is hoped that we live up to the of well-known American suffragettes led by Susan B. With gratitude to our generous sponsors and benefac- standards they set. Anthony, May Wright Seawal, Cady Stanton and others. tors, the UNWLA Scholarship Program has been able to Sofia Hewryk: The UNWLA is a non-partisan, non- The National Council of Women in Ukraine (NCWU), award scholarships to deserving needy pupils and students profit, non-sectarian or under the leadership of President Sofia Rusova, became a ganization that works on three lev- in South America, Europe and the United States. Priority is member of the prestigious ICW in 1920 in Oslo, Norway. els: through its branches, its regional councils and its given to orphans and underprivileged children. In 1925, the year of the ICW’s seventh quinquennial National Board. It also accommodates individual, inde- From 1967 to 1999 the UNWLA Scholarship Program meeting, Ukraine was ruled by a foreign government that pendent members throughout the country. awarded over 14,000 scholarships totaling $2.75 million. did not allow Ukrainian women to leave the country to The principal goal of the UNWLA is to unite women of Hundreds of students have completed middle schools and participate in this important international event. NCW Ukrainian descent (or those who are part of the Ukrainian high schools, and more than 800 have become profession- Ukraine was represented at the meeting by Ukrainian community) who live in the United States in order to pre- als. Some of our former scholarship recipients have them- women from the diaspora: Hanna Chekalenko-Keller from serve Ukrainian ethnic identity, culture and heritage. The selves become sponsors; others are now religious and civic Europe, and Olena Lotocky and Julia Jarema from the diversity of UNWLA members enriches the organization leaders in their own countries. United States. and its programs. It enables us to address ourselves to the We credit the success of the UNWLA Scholarship One of the questions raised during this meeting was myriad problems of modern society. Program to the generosity of our sponsors and benefac- whether the NCW of Ukraine, in the absence of any respon- tors. But most of all, we are grateful to the UNWLA There have been 11 UNWLA presidents: sible government in the country it represented, could Scholarship Program Committee, whose countless vol- remain a member of the ICW. I would like to read from Julia Shustakewych (1925) (Continued on page 12) page 113 of the proceedings of the seventh quinquennial Julia Jarema (1925-1931) International Council of Women’s meeting from the year Olena D. Lototsky (1931-1934, 1943-1965) 1925. Annette Kmetz (1935, 1939-1943) “Lady Aberdeen, the president of the International Anastasia Wagner (1935-1939) Council of Women, explained that, according to the rules Stephania Pushkar (1965-1971) laid down early in the history of the International Council Lidia Burachynsky (1971-1974) by a special committee chaired by Mademoiselle Viradt, it Iwanna Rozankowskyj (1974-1987) was only possible to accept affiliation of the national coun- Maria Sawchak (1987-1993) cils of countries having a responsible government. Lady Anna Krawczuk (1993-1999) Aberdeen was afraid that under the circumstances, it would Iryna Kurowyckyj (1999) not be possible to continue the affiliation of the National Council of Women of Ukraine after the close of the quin- Nadia Shmigel: We respond to changing needs by quennial meeting. Madame Chekalenko-Keller asked that adjusting our social welfare programs. In 1927 and 1928 more time be given to consideration of this question and the UNWLA helped flood victims in Halychyna. For 30 Mrs. Cadbury, one of the delegates, supported this.” A years, aid was given to Ukrainians in the diaspora. In 1998 committee was formed, but the “Ukrainian question” was we extended our help to flood victims in Zakarpattia. not resolved and NCW Ukraine’s affiliation with the ICW During the recent crisis the UNWLA donated $104,000 for was de facto terminated. medicine and emergency relief assistance. We also sent It was at this meeting that Ukrainian women lost their two containers of clothing to flood victims. membership in the ICW. They would no longer be able to In 1933 a committee was formed to help the victims of speak on behalf of their troubled nation. Responding to this the artificially created Famine in Ukraine. UNWLA mem- turn of events, Ms. Chekalenko-Keller suggested to bers helped schools, cultural groups, and other organiza- Ukrainian women living in the United States that it was tions and institutions. After World War II the UNWLA now their duty to find new ways to represent Ukraine in sent money and thousands of pounds of clothing and food the international community. This could be done only by to displaced persons camps. We founded a Mother and creating a strong and independent women’s organization Child Fund to help widows with children to come to this that could work with American women’s organizations and country. In 1969, we created the “Piatsot” [500] Fund to in this way gain access to the ICW. assist the wives of political dissidents. The idea became a reality. In May 1925, almost imme- A more recent noteworthy endeavor was our successful diately after the meeting during which Ukraine lost its effort, in cooperation with the Children of Chornobyl Tatiana Terleckyj membership in the ICW, an organization of Ukrainian Relief Fund of Short Hills, N.J., to obtain a magnetic reso- UACC President Ihor Gawdiak (left) and Michael American women was formed in New York City. It was nance imaging (MRI) unit for the Kyiv Emergency Jarymowycz exchange greetings at the UNWLA jubilee. composed of five groups of women which had previously been formed in New York City and surrounding areas and was named the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America. Motria Voyevidka Sloniewsky: Even though the UNWLA had close contacts with the National Council of Women USA, it took our organization 27 years to become a member of this national group. When we achieved membership status, UNWLA presidents served on the board of directors of the NCWUS and were able to partic- ipate in all ICW meetings and speak on behalf of their enslaved sisters under the Soviet regime. Many members of the UNWLA served on the executive committee of NCWUS. In 1993, after 107 years, one of our own was elected president of NCWUS. The turning point in the history of the Ukrainian women’s movement was in July of this year when the National Council of Women of Ukraine once again took its historic place among the 79 councils of the world during the International Council of Women meeting held in Helsinki, Finland. At the General Assembly of the ICW, the Ukrainian language was heard for the first time in 112 years when Oksana Sokolyk, president of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations, officially welcomed the National Council of Ukraine into the ICW. In 1948 the UNWLA became the first ethnic organiza- tion to be associated with the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Our branches throughout the country con- A group of younger generation UNWLA’ers and guests at the banquet. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 No. 52

ful experiences our children are getting because they are UNWLA culminates... growing up in a bicultural and bilingual community. (Continued from page 10) “Few of us,” she contended, “are going back to Ukraine of festivities hosted by branches and regional councils to live. Our roots are now here, and we need to recognize throughout the country. this.” This, she explained, does not make us bad Ukrainians. No one, she continued, can claim that our main Conference focuses on Ukrainian identity “diaspornyk,” Taras Shevchenko, was unpatriotic. Yet in his own words – “meni odnakovo” (it is all the same to me – The UNWLA hosted a special conference chaired by where he was mattered far less than what he was. The Vice-President Maria Tomorug, on Sunday, December 3. objective, she added, is to keep the Ukrainian spirit alive no The featured speakers were Dr. Daria Markus and Dr. matter where it is and to find ways to do so before it is too Martha Bohachevsky Chomiak, who presented two distinct late. variations on a theme of vital import to all members of the In closing, Dr. Markus emphasized that the UNWLA is Ukrainian community: Ukrainian identity. one of the organizations that understands the issues Dr. Markus began her presentation with a commentary involved and has the ability to keep that Ukrainian soul on Ukraine’s interest in learning its own history for the pur- alive and well. pose of learning from the past to avoid the mistakes of the A different viewpoint on this theme of the Ukrainian past. She indicated that women in the diaspora should spirit and identity was presented by Dr. Bohachevsky- always keep this focus in mind as it is the only way they Chomiak who claimed that one of the biggest mistakes of can avoid reinventing the wheel and succumbing to old diaspora Ukrainians and diaspora organizations has been habits and patterns that defeat successful endeavors. She the idealization of history – a false history that has often emphasized that the longtime goal of the diaspora, an inde- clouded reality. On occasion, she said, the false history was pendent Ukraine, was now a reality and that the diaspora created and promulgated by Ukrainian leaders whose biog- needs to refocus its attention on itself. raphies and autobiographies were too often hagiographies A historical overview of Ukrainian immigrant waves to that proclaimed “nothing before me.” Compounding this the diaspora, especially to the United States, underscored problem is the fact that we have been, too often, the victims the different needs and priorities of successive waves of of someone else’s history or rather, someone else’s interpre- immigrants. The newest wave of immigrants, according to tation of that history. Dr. Markus, is greater than most people realize, exceeding Often, she continued, our worst enemy has been our own even the post-war immigration of the 1950s. They maintain intellectualism. No society can be built on pure conceptual- few contacts with the established diaspora community, she ization. What is needed is hard work. Dr. Bohachevsky- Tatiana Terleckyj noted, with the notable exception of banks and churches. In Chomiak contended that this practical work ethic is most Oksana Sokolyk of the World Federation of Ukrainian a sense, she contended, we cannot look to this new wave evident in women’s groups, here and in Ukraine. “Every Women’s Organization, lights a flame symbolizing for a revitalization of the diaspora community any more American who works in Ukraine comes back to America a Ukrainian women’s role in the international arema. than we can look to Ukraine as a focus for ourselves. feminist,” she claimed. “Everyone sees what they have to According to Dr. Markus, the Ukrainian diaspora’s best contend with, what they accomplish from nothing and how results and practical solutions, she underscored. hope for survival and growth is to look within itself for its hard they work.” A spirited discussion on the speakers’ positions and on best features and promote those features to its own children The UNWLA, she continued, as well as the international related topics of interest followed. Among the issues and grandchildren, as well as to the communities in which women’s movement as a whole, are greatly influential in touched upon were mixed marriages, ethnicity, the Fourth we live. We should, for example, focus on drawing atten- Ukraine because they show what is possible. And what Wave, language, gender studies, the impact of the Internet tion away from our martyred political prisoners and bring these groups teach, she added, is not how to be Ukrainian, and globalization. attention to the fact that Sikorsky, the father of the helicop- but how to make life better for Ukrainians. They do not A brief work session during which assorted proposed ter, was a Ukrainian. We should, in addition, focus on the conceptualize – they deal with what is. And this matters to resolutions were discussed and voted upon by the UNWLA positive aspects of being Ukrainian, including the wonder- young Ukrainian women because they are looking for executive committee ended the weekend activities.

proudly state that our financial contribu- ties including the two buildings in Nations conferences on women. We were The UNWLA’s 75 years... tion to worthy programs and causes has Philadelphia that housed our headquarters in Mexico in 1975, in Copenhagen in 1980, (Continued from page 11) risen to $6 million. at one time and a building that is currently in Nairobi in 1985 and in Beijing in 1995. unteer hours have enabled our program Slava Rubel: The first UNWLA con- used by the Regional Council in Detroit. UNWLA members have attended to be as successful as it is today. vention book was published in 1935. It is a Oxana Farion: Other accomplishments numerous conferences in Ukraine. We par- In 1998 the World Congress of practice that has marked every UNWLA of the UNWLA include the statue of Lesia ticipated in the “Vital Voices: Women and Ukrainians bestowed its highest award, the convention since that time. Ukrainka in the cultural park in Cleveland Democracy” conference held in Vienna, St. Volodymyr Medal, on the UNWLA Since 1944 the UNLWA has been pub- and the reproduction of historical Ukrainian Austria, and in the Conference on Social Scholarship Program for its 30 years of lishing a bilingual monthly magazine titled attire prepared Branch 64 in New York. Development, which was held in continuous assistance to Ukrainian stu- Our Life. The magazine has been the The UNWLA was also active in raising Copenhagen, Denmark. The UNWLA is a dents. responsibility of six editors: Claudia funds to build the Taras Shevchenko member of the Ukrainian World Congress, Iryna Kurowyckyj: In the first 25 Olesnycky, Helen Lototsky, Lidia Monument here in Washington. and in May of this year our organization years, the organization’s charitable contri- Burachynsky, Ulana Starosolsky, Olha Maria Tomorug: In 1979 the UNWLA joined the Ukrainian World Coordinating butions came to $250,000. When the Leskivsky and our current editor-in-chief, was recognized by the Internal Revenue Council. UNWLA marked its 50th anniversary, that Irena Chaban. The editor of the English- Service as a 501 (c) 8 tax-exempt charitable Through the years our members have figure had grown to $1 million. And as we language section of Our Life is Tamara organization. This means we must work addressed many areas of concern to women celebrate our 75th anniversary, we can Stadnychenko. within a federally approved framework of and to humanity: human rights, the rights Oxana Farion: Through the years, we goals. of children, family issues, health and envi- have published numerous brochures on var- Katia Iwasyshyn: Preschool adminis- ronment, trafficking in women, and many ious topics. UNWLA regional councils and tration has become a UNWLA tradition. others. branches also contribute to an extensive Educating our children about their cultural Martha Pelensky: Conscious of the publication program. heritage has played a major role in our importance of environmental issues, we Since 1967 the UNWLA has been efforts to stop, or at least ameliorate, the published the children’s booklet “Nature administering an annual merit-based prize assimilation process. Over the years, the and Us.” The entire world was galvanized for literary works on Ukrainian themes: the organization has sponsored contests for when on April 26, 1986, the nuclear power Lesia and Petro Kovaliv Fund. An inde- children on the following topics: plant at Chornobyl exploded as a result of pendent jury chooses the prize recipient. International Year of the Child, an ill-conceived and poorly executed test Maria Tomorug: During its 75-year International Year of the Family, and the run. The catastrophe released radiation 100 existence the UNWLA has played a major environment. In 1974 Branch 83 was times that of the first atomic bomb dropped role in the Ukrainian American community. instrumental in getting the Ukrainian on Hiroshima. The UNWLA was a major For example, we gathered funds for the Bandurist Chorus to play at the Christmas player in coming to the aid of the victims. joint purchase of a Ukrainian pavilion at tree-lighting ceremony held at Rockefeller Olha Trytyak: Throughout our 75 years the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933. The Center in New York City. of existence, the organization has accumu- UNWLA also purchased an ethnic collec- Iryna Kurowyckyj: The UNWLA is a lated valuable records that will be sorted tion that was displayed in its own room at major force in the Ukrainian community. In and placed with the Immigration History the fair. 1940 we were co-organizers of the Research Center (IHRC) at the University Maria Pazuniak: The collection exhib- Ukrainian Congress Committee of America of Minnesota. ited at the Chicago World’s Fair was the and of the United Ukrainian American Martha Pelensky: Conscious of the true cornerstone for The Ukrainian Relief Committee. pace of rapidly evolving information tech- Museum in New York City, founded by the In 1948 we initiated a Ukrainian nology, the UNWLA has also entered UNWLA in 1976. The UNWLA, as co- Women’s Congress that led to the forma- cyberspace. In the fall of 1999 the purchaser of the building it shares with the tion of the World Federation of Ukrainian UNWLA website was launched. Our UCCA, allowed its portion of the building Women’s Organizations. address is http://www.unwla.org. to be used by The Ukrainian Museum to Members of the UNWLA were instru- Iryna Kurowyckyj: This is our story. Tatiana Terleckyj temporarily house its collection. The mental in getting non-governmental (NGO) These are our deeds. As we end our 75th Ludmilla Hrabowska of UNWLA UNWLA has spearheaded a fund-raising status for the WFUWO at the United anniversary celebration, we look forward to Branch 125, representing the newest campaign to provide a large and more suit- Nations. They presently represent three new challenges and new goals. We hope we group of immigrants from Ukraine, able home for the museum. world organizations at the U.N. The will meet them with courage and strength, offers a traditional greeting. Sofia Hewryk: There are other proper- UNWLA has participated in all four United and faith in ourselves. Thank you. No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 13

Protesters erect tent towns... (Continued from page 1) made varied attempts at delving deeper into the roots of the anti-Kuchma camp’s demands. ICTV, a national television outlet associ- ated with Viktor Pinchuk, son-in-law of President Kuchma, a powerful businessman and a backer of the Trudova Ukraina (Labor Ukraine) faction in Parliament, heavily questioned the protesters’ motives and wondered about the origins of the Moroz-Melnychenko audio and videotapes, which had given impetus to the previous week’s grilling of top law enforcement and security officials in Parliament and had helped bring the anti-Kuchma demonstra- tors onto the streets. UT-1, the state television channel, in its “Seven Days” weekly analytical program on December 17 echoed other voices close to official Ukraine questioning the roots of the scandal. The Studio 1+1 station in its weekly news commentary program, weighed the tape scandal and the burgeoning demonstra- tions on Independence Square, and noted that the organizers of the anti-Kuchma camp included organizers of the 1990 stu- Roman Woronowycz dent hunger strike, people “who are pre- Tent city dwellers and protesters on Kyiv’s Independence Square call for the resignation of law enforcement officials, pared to go all the way,” should the including Minister of Internal Affairs Yurii Kravchenko, head of the State Security Service Leonid Derkach and Ukrainian authorities seek to suppress or Procurator General Mykhailo Potebenko in conjunction with the Gongadze case. ignore their demands. On Monday, December 18, about 250 Speaking through a megaphone to be heard Kuchma protesters time in the legislature on various demonstrators were separated from participants were addressed by Socialist above the din of the crowd, Mr. Pliusch, Thursday to address the national deputies the Parliament and each other by a double Party Leader and National Deputy promised that Mr. Chemerys would address and the nation. Mr. Chemerys also said that steel barricade and large numbers of police. Oleksander Moroz, Sobor Party Chairman Parliament that day at 4 p.m. A short time he and Mr. Lutsenko had told the president Mr. Chemerys addressed Parliament for Anatolii Matvienko and Ukrainian later, both demonstrations dispersed, with that, should Messrs. Kravchenko and some five minutes and repeated the anti- Republican Party Chairman Levko many of the anti-Kuchma demonstrators Derkach, as well as Procura General Kuchma forces’ demands. The Parliament Lukianenko. The anti-Kuchma tent camp returning to Independence Square. Mykhailo Potebenko be removed from voted to include the revised Draft Law on grew to double digits and the anti-Kuchma The designated time came and went with office, the anti-Kuchma tent town would be Special Investigative Commissions on its protesters, along with their counterparts the resolution to permit Mr. Chemerys to disassembled while the group decides on daily agenda, and it ordered Procurator from the pro-Kuchma forces, were begin- address Parliament narrowly failing to gath- further actions as it awaits investigation of General Potebenko to expedite the ning to draw increased attention from er sufficient votes. The pro-Kuchma Labor the Gongadze and Melnychenko issues. Gongadze and Melnychenko investigation; passers-by. Ukraine faction and numerous deputies On Wednesday afternoon, a group of and passed a resolution asking the Council On Tuesday, December 19, events on from the Regional Rebirth, Greens, and close to 500 anti-Kuchma protesters of Europe to assist in conducting independ- Independence Square heated up. In the Social Democratic Party (United) abstained marched to the Cabinet of Ministers on ent examinations of both the unidentified morning, the Communist Party of Ukraine from the vote on this resolution. The anti- Hrushevsky Street, where Prime Minister body thought to belong to Mr. Gongadze brought its supporters to the center of Kyiv. Kuchma forces had also been promised on Viktor Yuschenko met briefly with them and the Melnychenko tapes. CPU First Secretary Petro Symonenko Tuesday that presidential administration and promised to review the issue of Messrs. A meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers at called on the Ukrainian people “to unite head Volodymyr Lytvyn would meet with Kravchenko and Derkach at a meeting of which the issue of Messrs. Kravchenko and and reclaim power from the Kuchma their representatives that evening at 6 p.m. the government in the next days. Derkach’s employment was to be discussed regime.” Around 5 p.m., a group of about 350 Ukrayinska Pravda reported that Mr. was ongoing as this article went to press. While the left-right anti-Kuchma coali- anti-Kuchma demonstrators marched on the Chemerys had been informed that such a On the presidential front, Mr. Kuchma tion was assembling its supporters on presidential administration, but did not meeting might take place the following day. departed on Thursday for meetings in Independence Square, a much smaller meet with Mr. Lytvyn, who in the words of The day closed with the tent town still up, Moscow with Russian officials. Mr. meeting – “In support of Constitutional the demonstrators, was unavailable. Instead Maidan still full of people, and Parliament Kuchma also ordered by decree the creation Order” as it was dubbed by its organizers – the deputy head of the presidential adminis- preparing to review the Law on Special of a Department for Coordination of Law took place on Bankova Street near the pres- tration, Oleh Diomin, spoke with Mr. Investigative Commissions, previously Enforcement Bodies at the Presidential idential administration headquarters. Such Lutsenko, who gave Mr. Diomin a list of vetoed by Mr. Kuchma. Administration. The body will answer well-known politicians as former President their demands, which the latter promised to On Thursday, December 21, a crowd directly to the president. Leonid Kravchuk and Rukh for Union (a pass along to the president. The anti- numbering more than 2,000 anti-Kuchma The tent town in Kyiv continued to grow recently formed splinter group of Rukh) Kuchma demonstrators dispersed, promis- and close to 1,000 pro-Kuchma demonstra- and numbered more than 30 tents in the organizer and former Ternopil Oblast ing to assemble in greater force the next tors gathered near the Parliament. The pro- anti-Kuchma sector. The pro-Kuchma Chairman Bohdan Boiko decried the anti- day, and to begin a hunger strike if Mr. Kuchma side included primarily representa- forces remained at six tents. In Chernivtsi, Kuchma protests. Kuchma did not meet with their representa- tives of the National Democratic Party, SDP Rukh and the Ukrainian Republican Party The approximately 300 students assem- tives by noon the next day. (U) and Labor Ukraine, shouting “Kuchma erected a tent town and information stand of bled at this meeting were, as a number of By Wednesday, December 20, the anti- is our President!” Mr. Kuchma’s opponents their own, according to the Kyiv-based them explained, promised payment of Kuchma tent town had grown to include chainted “Ukraine without Kuchma.” The Korrespondent.net. between 10 and 20 hrv and given free hot delegations from throughout Ukraine, drinks and pastries in exchange for their including regions as diverse as Donetsk, participation in the pro-Kuchma meeting. Lviv, Rivne, Cherkasy, Sumy and Some of the demonstrators’ posters includ- Vinnytsia. Close to noon, President Business in brief ed disparaging references to the lifestyle Kuchma met with Messrs. Chemerys and (Continued from page 3) choice of National Deputy Serhii Holovatyi Lutsenko. Thereafter, the protest leaders ing on the results of the Ukraine-Poland conference, which took place in Kharkiv in and suggested that the entire Gongadze tape met with the demonstrators, numbering October. He added that turnover increased by 30 percent in the first half-year, while scandal was a creation of either Western or well over 1,000 participants. Mr. Chemerys the volume of Ukrainian exports grew by 70 percent. Prospective sectors for coopera- Russian special services. described the meeting with the president, tion between the countries include energy, shipbuilding, transport corridors, including Around noon, between 5,000 and 8,000 which lasted one and one-half hours. oil and gas pipelines. Mr. Pitel noted that Poland is interested in creating alternative anti-Kuchma demonstrators left the central At the meeting, Mr. Kuchma categorical- oil supply routes, including Odesa-Brody pipeline, but feels that this issue depends on square and marched through European ly refused to submit his own resignation. more countries than just Ukraine. (Eastern Economist) Square and up Hrushevsky Street to the Mr. Chemerys reported that the president Parliament, where they were separated would, “agree to consider releasing Internal Ukraine receives support in tourism from a thousand-strong group of Kuchma Affairs Minister Kravchenko and Security supporters by a substantial police cordon. Service Director Derkach, but only on the KYIV – The World Tourism Organization will allocate technical assistance to While the sides were generally restrained in condition that [the] prime minister submit Ukraine to help the country set up its own tourist business sector, stated the organiza- their behavior, the anti-Kuchma camp did such a request to him. tion’s secretary general, Franchesco Franzialli, during his meeting with Prime manage to penetrate the police cordon, Mr. Chemerys also said the president Minister Viktor Yuschenko. “Ukraine has an interesting history, famed cultural although not without some relatively minor had agreed to order an independent interna- achievements, as well as varied landscapes, and the main thing now is to find people fisticuffs that left a number of people with tional investigation of all the issues sur- in the West to consume the products of Ukrainian tourism,” said Mr. Franzialli. He cuts and bruises. rounding Mr. Gongadze’s disappearance added that the total volume international tourism is 655 million persons per year and Parliament Chairman Ivan Pliusch and the Melnychenko tapes. The president brings in revenues of $455 billion (U.S.). Sixty percent of all tourists visit Europe, he addressed the various demonstrators on the also said he would contact Parliament said, emphasizing that Ukraine as a European country must also develop this sector. square in front of the Verkhovna Rada. Chairman Pliusch about granting the anti- (Eastern Economist) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 No. 52

DATELINE NEW YORK: Christmas scenes from yesteryear by Helen Smindak

This year’s package of Christmas greeting cards from heading “Like the USSR, a Longtime Ukrainian Diner the Ukrainian National Association in Parsippany, N.J., is Defunct,” The New York Times said that owner arrived in the mail some weeks ago. Admiring the icons, Michael Hrynenko apparently lost interest in Kiev as he wooden churches and vintage Christmas scenes loving- turned his attention to his real estate holdings and, in ly recreated by Ukrainian artists, a tranquil Sviat Vechir turn, lost patrons. tableau from an earlier time caught my eye. In saffron, Which doesn’t mean the end of Little Ukraine. Far terra cotta and rust hues, with sky blue and sunny yel- from it. The Ukrainian population may be smaller than low accents, a Ukrainian peasant family of four was pic- it was 30 years ago, but the churches, book stores, meat tured at prayer around a table centered with a glowing markets, restaurants and other businesses continue to candle and set with traditional Christmas Eve fare. function as usual, and Ukrainian cultural and social Through the window in the background peeked a neigh- activities go on apace. With the recent announcement bor’s snow-covered cottage, white smoke curling from that a new Ukrainian Museum facility will open on East its chimney. Sixth Street in the spring of 2002, there’ll be no end to The contemporary, curvilinear shapes of the faces Ukrainian events and activities in the East Village. and figures, intermixed with geometric forms, were Consider what took place recently in the span of just two reminiscent of two glass paintings in my personal col- weekends, in addition to regular rehearsals of the Dumka lection that are the work of artist Andrij Khomyk of Chorus and the Promin and Prolisok singing groups, classes Lviv. Sure enough, the back of the card read ‘Christmas at the Ukrainian Music Institute and the two Ukrainian Supper,’ glass and oil, 2000, by Andriy Khomyk, Saturday schools, sessions of the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Stamford, Conn.” The same artist, now in Connecticut? Organization and the museum’s Christmas craft workshops A couple of phone calls confirmed it was so. Mr. and bread-baking demonstrations. Khomyk, a book illustrator and a teacher in a children’s Chicago-born writer Irene Zabytko, author of the art school in Lviv who specializes in the unique art of recently published novel “The Sky Unwashed,” a reverse painting on glass, is now plying his art in the poignant story of villagers who defied the forced evacu- Nutmeg State. ation of their town after the Chornobyl disaster, gave a I met Mr. Khomyk in 1992 at the bustling, colorful reading from her work at The Ukrainian Museum. Ms. Ukrainian Festival in Zdynia, Poland, where my husband Zabytko, whose novel received complimentary reviews and I chanced upon his display of glass paintings depict- from The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and ing themes in Ukrainian folk songs. We bought a framed Bandurist Julian Kytasty the Denver Post, described her experiences in Kyiv and portrait of a young Kozak bidding farewell to his beloved Drohobych as an instructor in the program English as a as he leaves for war – the setting for the well-loved song gy, Lemko traditions and sayings, and Ukrainian sur- Second Language, which prompted her to write the “Kozak vidyizdzhaye, divchynonka plache” (The Kozak names that derive from occupations (Kravchuk – tailor, novel. Later, she signed copies of “The Sky Unwashed,” departs for battle, his sweetheart weeps). Tkachuk – weaver). the novel nominated for the American Library In 1996, on a visit to Lviv, I had the pleasure of Painting in reverse, so that the viewer can see a flat Association’s notable books of the year group and viewing Mr. Khomyk’s dazzling art on display at the picture through the glass, is not an easy task since the selected for Barnes & Noble’s “Discover Great New Sheptytsky Gallery in Lviv’s Old Town and admiring artist must paint an inverted or mirror-image of the Authors” series. A graduate of Vermont College with a other pieces at his studio. From this trip I brought home scene. Mr. Khomyk is definitely up to it and, one can Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing, Ms. two paintings with wedding themes, a gift for my soon- also say, into it. He likes to give attention to the exact- Zabytko believes that Ukrainians in this country need to to-be married daughter. Two years later, when an exhi- ness of settings and costumes and to the subtleties and “tell our stories” to other Americans and the world. “If bition of Khomyk glasspaintings was held at the bravura of color; colors match the spirit and the setting we don’t, someone outside of our collective experience Mayana Gallery in Manhattan, I had an opportunity to of every Khomyk work. Glossing over the finer points will write about us, and they will usually get it wrong.” acquire another Khomyk work for my own collection. I of facial features and hands, the artist interprets depth The season’s first Bandura Downtown session, which selected a harvest scene of two young women in peasant and feeling with lines and forms so that the viewer drew an overflow crowd to the Mayana Gallery, fea- attire, sickles in hand, hard at work in a field of ripe instantly grasps the mood and meaning of a scene. But tured bandura maestro Julian Kytasty with music of the wheat while a young man catches a few winks in the whether the work is completely realist or closer to kobzari, the blind singers who created and perpetuated a shade nearby. cubism, Khomyk paintings are united by one character- unique oral epic tradition in Ukraine. The art of the Mr. Khomyk, who holds degrees in decorative and istic, that of humor. kobzari centered on the duma (epic song), whose sub- applied art, has been painting almost exclusively on Mr. Khomyk’s glasspaintings have been shown in ject matter ranged from historical songs (about Tatar glass since he discovered this wonderful medium during several solo exhibitions and in a large number of nation- slave raids in the 16th century and captivity in Turkey) group expeditions to Carpathian villages in 1990. al and international group shows. His works can be to the timeless and universal (the widow and her three Because the centuries-old art form of painting in reverse found in private collections in Ukraine, Poland, ungrateful sons). Also included in their repertoire were on glass nearly perished during the Soviet era, he has a Germany, France, Canada and the United States, and a moralistic and quasi-religious songs (kanty and consuming ambition to restore this unique tradition. number have been purchased by Ukraine’s Ministry of psalmy), strophic historical ballads, and humorous His turnout has been prodigious. In addition to his Culture. songs and dance tunes. Presenting examples of all these very popular folkloric paintings, he has come up with Mr. Khomyk came to the United States last year to types, along with commentary, Mr. Kytasty worked with complete series devoted to such themes as people and explore opportunities and soon found a market and a two instruments he has not played before in New York, their professions, Ukrainian religious traditions, the delighted viewing public for his glasspaintings. both designed specifically to accompany the music of Kozaks of the Zaporozhian Sich, Ukrainian demonolo- Ukrainians in Warren, Mich., visited an exhibit of his the kobzar tradition: a reproduction kobzar bandura work at Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic with 21 strings and wooden tuning pins, recently made School. New York area residents can find several for him in Kyiv by Mykola Budnyk, and a unique vibrant Khomyk works – among them glasspaintings instrument made in the mid-20th century by Josyf that portray the four seasons – at the Arka Ukrainian Snizhnyj, a member of the original 1918 Kyiv Bandura shop on First Avenue and Fourth Street in the East Capella. Mr. Kytasty’s student, Ilya Temkin, spelled Village. The Ukrainian American Youth Association him with traditional kobzar instrumental tunes. (SUM) is offering a set of eight Ukrainian Christmas An enthusiastic audience filled the Selfreliance cards by Andriy Khomyk on its web site Association clubrooms on Second Avenue to view the (www.cym.org) with proceeds earmarked to benefit work of five Ukrainian women artists, showcased in a SUM children. Each whimsical, boldly colored scene is one-day exhibit by Branch 83 of the Ukrainian National based on a Ukrainian carol, with a verse from that carol Women’s League of America. Included in the show imprinted on the back cover. were icons by Halyna Tytla of Westchester, N.Y., The artist is preparing his own website Myroslava Stojko of Highland Park, N.J., and Lida (www.paintingonglass.com) although only the first page Piaseckyj of Hunter, N.Y., traditional and realist water- is ready for viewing so far. All set for the public, how- colors by Adriana Tytla-Henkels of Philadelphia, and ever, are some 70 Khomyk glasspaintings with religious modern abstract works by Daria Naumko, recently from and Christmas themes, which will go on view January Ukraine. Branch President Barbara Bachynsky, exhibit 13 at the gallery of the Ukrainian Museum and Library co-organizer with Cultural/Educational Convenor of the Stamford Diocese, and will undoubtedly rein- Olympia Rohowsky, opened the exhibit. The artists force the widely-held belief that Mr. Khomyk’s art will were introduced by Iryna Chaban, editor of the be a great asset to American culture. Lubow Wolynetz, UNWLA publication Our Life. librarian and museum curator, says she plans to keep the Yuri Vynnychuk of Lviv is a versatile writer and exhibit open for two or three months. For hours and accomplished storyteller who is regarded as the contem- directions, contact the museum at (203) 327-7899 or porary Ukrainian master of black humor and the (203) 323-8866. grotesque, much in the tradition of his countryman Little Ukraine is alive and well Nikolai Hohol (Gogol). He was the featured guest at a lit- erary evening presented at the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Born in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1952, Mr. Vynnychuk The Kiev Restaurant, the Ukrainian coffee shop open was involved in the samvydav underground during the round-the-clock for 24 years at the corner of Second 1970s and had to hide from the KGB, adventures he later “Christmas Supper” by Andriy Khomyk, as repro- Avenue and Seventh Street, unexpectedly closed its duced on a UNA Christmas card. doors in late October. Reporting the news under the (Continued on page 18) No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 15 Ukrainian American collector brings folk icons into the spotlight by Yana Sedova ination, but lacked any formal knowledge Special to The Ukrainian Weekly of the strict rules of composition demanded by Orthodox tradition – pro- KYIV – Though the Orthodox Church duced the overwhelming majority of never officially recognized the genre of icons which the common folk were able folk icons, it was a popular art form in to purchase inexpensively. Ukrainian villages for centuries. Its tech- The art form flourished in the late niques have never been documented and, 19th century after the abolition of serf- in fact, there are only a handful of col- dom. Its popularity waned gradually, lectors who have expressed interest in replaced by the mass replication of the religious art form of the peasant canonical icons in the form of minia- class. tures and postcards using the latest The few who have recognized its reproduction techniques. Subsequently value include the mid-20th century the tradition nearly vanished during 70 ethnographer and sculptor Ivan Honchar, years of communism, and a great many the folk art expert Mykhaylo Sikorskyi of the icons disappeared forever. Today and, now, Volodymyr Belayev-Belanger, only a few have survived in private col- a Ukrainian American who lives in Kyiv. lections. Thanks to these people, the folk icon “It pained me to see icons in open-air as an art form has not vanished. While antique markets lying about on the the Honchar and Sikorskyi collections ground,” explained Mr. Belayev- have not been seen in years, 30 of Mr. Belanger. “I paid anywhere from $3 to Belayev-Belanger’s pieces recently were $100 for them. Today these icons do not on exhibit at the Museum of Cultural have a high monetary value, but they still Heritage in Kyiv, first in May and again are part of our history.” in October. When a local art expert suggested that Mr. Belayev-Belanger, who was born Mr. Belayev-Belanger exhibit his collec- in Kyiv and emigrated in 1943 with his tion, the folk icon enthusiast replied that parents, first to Europe and then to the he found the idea absurd. He didn’t United States, before returning here at believe his collection would elicit any the beginning of the decade, began to interest. collect the hand-painted images of saints “I thought my collection wasn’t of in 1991. great value to people. Later I was sur- “I bought my first icon in Kharkiv, but prised when many of the visitors said it it wasn’t a folk piece,” explained Mr. was the first time they had seen such Belayev-Belanger, who initially collected icons. They had no idea that such a ancient coins and stamps of the Roman Ukrainian phenomenon existed,” and Greek periods. “Later in Kyiv I saw explained Mr. Belayev-Belanger. icons painted on wooden boards. They Historically, for most peasants the icon were bland, but very nice. I had no idea – before which they prayed and St. Nicholas the Miracle-Worker, late 19th century; oil on wood, left-bank Ukraine. whether they were canonical or not, I just expressed their grief as well as their joys liked them.” – was accorded a special place in the incorrectness. In Mr. Belayev-Belanger’s the mid-sixth century. St. Justinian was The history of icon painting in home. It was often embellished by plac- collection on display at the Museum of very popular among Ukrainian peasants Ukraine dates back to the Kyivan Rus’ ing fresh or dried flowers and stalks of Cultural Heritage the icon of St. George because he was the patron saint of new- period and the 10th century, when icono- wheat around the frame. the Dragon-Slayer looks like a caricature borns who died before being chris- graphers followed the very strict canons For the most part, the folk icons are of the saint, and the saint’s horse has a tened. He was deemed responsible for of the Christian faith in creating their rendered in deep, warm hues typical of rather human face. Another icon depicts guiding their souls to the Gates of depictions of the saints of the Church. the Ukrainian peasant home. The saints St. Barbara wearing her crown sideways Heaven. Over the centuries, icons became depicted on the icons are round-faced, and holding a branch instead of a chalice, Today the folk icon is slowly gaining increasingly popular with the masses, with large compassionate and thoughtful as Church canon would dictate. (Only St. recognition as a unique form of peasant and particularly with the peasant popula- eyes, and seem ready to listen to an Paraskevia should be depicted holding a expression. Mr. Belayev-Belanger said tio. By the 19th century tradition held individual’s prayer. Their faces seem branch.) that many art historians have acknowl- that each peasant household should have familiar, as if based on relatives and Mr. Belayev-Belanger’s collection edged that the folk icon is a vital part of an icon. However, because official friends. consists of 200 folk icons from the the Ukrainian folk tradition. And that is canonical icons were expensive, self-edu- Art critics assert that many folk icons Kyiv region. His favorite is the icon of why, he underscored, “it is important that cated masters – who had talent and imag- are unique simply due to their canonical St. Justinian, the Byzantine emperor of the folk icon survive.” Book launch for newly published work on Vedel is held in Edmonton by Halyna Kotovych of Vedel’s life, explaining why Vedel is little known put as a singer, choral conductor and composer of in the context of Western, or mainstream, music his- more than 80 extant works. These consist entirely of EDMONTON – “Artem Vedel: Divine Liturgy and tory. Artem Vedel (1767-1808), a contemporary of sacred and liturgical music for unaccompanied choir, 12 Sacred Choral Concerti,” is Maestro Wolodymyr Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, is one of the most as required by the Eastern rite. His 21 choral concerti Kolesnyk’s contribution to the rewriting of music his- prominent Ukrainian composers of the 18th century, while revealing a strong relationship with Ukrainian tory,” declared musicologist Olesia Talpash at the and most closely represents Ukrainian music tradi- folklore, kant and psalm melodies, drew on Western book launch of this first published edition of Artem tions of the time. Vedel, like other highly educated European classicism, especially that of Italy, for Vedel’s autographed manuscript, held November 12 at Ukrainian musicians, was thoroughly familiar with aspects of form, harmonic language and choral tex- the Youth Unity Center (SUM) in Edmonton. Western European music and compositional prac- ture. “This publication brought to fruition Wolodymyr tices. According to Yakov Soroker, author of After Vedel was incarcerated, his works were Kolesnyk’s ultimate goal and dream to make Vedel’s “Ukrainian Musical Elements in Classical Music,” banned from publication and performance well into manuscripts, which had been buried over 200 years in Romantic composers who often relied on the music the early 20th century. Nevertheless, his music circu- the Central Library of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, of Eastern countries for inspiration, did not demon- lated in the form of handwritten copies, resulting in accessible to musicians and choirs around the world. strate an awareness of a distinct Ukrainian music, many versions of his works, few of which were true to Unbeknownst to the late maestro, this is also his last often “misidentifying” it as “Russian,” “Hungarian” the original manuscripts. gift to the world of music that he loved with a pas- or “Turkish.” Now, finally, his greatest works have been pub- sion.” “After Maestro Kolesnyk’s death in 1997, the This can be partly explained by the fact that Vedel lished in a beautiful hardcover 380-page tome: 12 Ukrainian Music Society of Alberta with the help of lived in times that were very difficult for Ukraine. The sacred choral concerti, six excerpts from the divine the Friends of the Vedel Project in Toronto, worked reign of Catherine II was a time of intense subjugation liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and a work for trio and with even greater conviction and vigor to overcome all of Ukrainian culture to Russian culture. Singers, musi- choir. This edition is notable in its attention to both problems and adversity in order to put this book into cians, writers, poets, and scholars were “invited” or authenticity and practical accessibility; its bilingual the hands of music lovers,” said Irene Szmihelsky forcibly transferred north in the service of Imperial format and transliterated concerti text make it an music educator and former president of UMSA, in Russia. There were reprisals against those who resisted excellent resource for musicologists and performers. speaking about the initiation, progress and culmination Vedel was arrested and put into a mental asylum. As Maestro Kolesnyk himself contributed a much- of the project which was proposed by Maestro Ms. Talpash put it: “Today, we talk about having to needed article on the proper interpretation of Vedel’s Kolesnyk in 1995. make it in Toronto or New York; the move to Moscow music. Consequently, the significant amount of In her presentation Ms. Talpash gave an overview or St. Petersburg to further one’s career was not ... scholarly theoretical research contained in the vol- always self-initiated.” ume will help the glorious music of Vedel take its Halyna Kotovych is secretary of the Ukrainian Music The brevity of Vedel’s creative life, some 12 years rightful place in the history of Ukrainian and global Society of Alberta. in all, was nevertheless productive in terms of his out- music tradition. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 No. 52

MemoriesMemories ofof aa CarpathianCarpathian ChristmasChristmas

by Edward Andrusko

Our family may have grown up in poverty during the Great planning, but she agreed to take her first airplane trip ever. Depression years in New Jersey, but we were very rich in family Departing from Newark Airport, four hours later she arrived in love. My dearest memories are of my mother telling glowing stories mile-high Denver to visit with us for a year. Needless to say, we of her childhood in a small humble villagein southwestern Ukraine. were all very happy and excited. So many wonderful memories She told of her youth growing up on a farm where the great stepped off the plane with Mom. plains of wheat fields touched the rolling foothills of the Carpathian As we drove west from the airport my mother was in awe of the Mountains. Mother’s family, friends and neighbors farmed, gar- majestic, snow-capped and purple Rocky Mountains in the distance. dened and tended the land as modest peasants. They kept most of Heading westward on lightly traveled long roads stretching to the the common farm animals, as well as a very protective dog and a mountains in the distance, we passed miles of wheat, corn and hay comical cat. fields rolling to the green foothills. Rustic ranches and farm houses She remembered with childlike pleasure riding the milk cows from appeared now and again on the wide-open grazing lands. the pastures back to the barn in the evenings while watching the sun My mother watched quietly for a while then asked: “Where are all set over the mountain range. Before winter set in, occasional journeys the people?” As she had come from the well-populated East Coast of were made miles into the beautiful mountains where smiling soldiers, America, to her it seemed there were more horses and cattle than border guards of the neighboring nations, waved at the pretty girls. people. “Do Native American Indians live out there over the hori- She would sigh, and smile, as she related: “We children had to zon?” make our own fun in those days, but it was easy to do. Holidays I answered, “Most of the people, including the Native Americans, were the most wonderful – especially Christmas. It seemed so joy- are down in the big city of Denver. Some tribes live west, on the ous and religious, as we spent more time in church and then visited other side of the mountains.” with our family, friends and neighbors. Passing the breath-taking Red Rocks Park, we entered rugged “Traditionally we brought gifts to church for baby Jesus but not to Bear Creek Canyon and followed the winding creek. Four miles up each other. After liturgy we ate a delicious feast of home-grown and the canyon we entered our small valley of few homes, some on the home-made foods and delicacies, and sang carols until we were ready banks of the creek, others perched high on the mountain peaks. for bed. Inside our thatched-roof cottage, an entire wall of our home A dirt side-road led to our small cabin, remarkable for the very was one enormous fireplace. large stone fireplace chimney Sleeping shelves were built into that rose from the ground to the sides of the fireplace where we tower above the roof. A moun- kept warm by a crackling, spark- tain stream nearby, called Bear ing fire of large burning logs, and Creek, flowed through a forest stared into the flickering flames of native trees, and the hillside until we fell fast asleep. The danc- was covered with an array of ing fire always seemed somehow wild flowers. Our neighbors magical on Christmas Eve.” waved a “hello” as we passed. In our home in New Jersey my After we got out of the car mother often mentioned how she my mother walked slowly and missed her relatives and especially almost reverently around our Christmastime in the Carpathian tranquil valley home. A short Mountains. time later she asked in awe, Most winter nights, as the “How did you find this place? winds whistled outside our You know, this valley and home, we would gather together small town look just like heav- in the cheery warmth of the red- en to me.” Holding back a tear hot wood stove where Dad would make a pot of warm cider with of joy, she continued, “Why this looks just like my home ... back in cinnamon. Mom always seemed to find the time then to tell us the the old country.” stories, teach the songs, or relate the history of her hometown in the I said, “It must have been our destiny, Mom. This was the first old country. We anxiously awaited mother’s bedtime stories of her house we were shown and when I saw this mountain valley it childhood, and sometimes ... she told scary ones about her mountain reminded me so much of your stories of your hometown in Ukraine, neighbors to the west in Transylvania. that we rented it that day.” As the years passed, we nine children grew up, married and had In a short time we located a small Ukrainian Catholic Church families of our own. When our father died, leaving our widowed with a fine congregation. It was just outside Denver, and Mother mother feeling alone in her new country, we grown siblings often enjoyed the liturgies in her own language. talked of sending our mother back to Ukraine to visit her childhood A few months later we had a white Christmas. After Christmas home. However, it was an area occupied by Russia after World War church services we had a family feast and an evening of caroling II, and at that time visitors were not allowed. and storytelling around the dancing fire in our large fireplace. This In 1950 a job-related transfer took me, the youngest son in our wonderful similarity between Christmas in the Rocky Mountains family from the bustling, heavily populated New Jersey and New and Christmas in the Carpathian Mountains was my Mother’s every York area to Denver. Denver was settled at the foot of the beautiful dream come true. snow-capped Rocky Mountains, surrounded on three sides by seem- ingly endless miles of wide rolling plains, spotted with large cattle * * * ranches and farms. Free-lance writer Edward Andrusko was born in Perth Amboy, N.J. This was a new and amazing outdoor world for me and my young After high school, he joined the U.S. Marines at the age of 17. He served for family. We rented our first home in Idledale, 25 miles west of Denver four years – three years as a combat infantry Marine rifleman, and was in the foothills of the Rockies. A crystal-clear, cool mountain stream wounded three times in World War II and decorated. ran past our rustic home. Deer and cattle grazed together in the val- He studied American history and literature at the University of ley undisturbed, and we rode horses into town to get our mail. Colorado and is a member of the Marine Corps Historical Foundation, The We enjoyed our new rural lifestyle in the west and our communi- U.S. Naval Institute and The Rocky Mountain Writers Guild Inc., and is ty – a peaceful paradise of kindly rancher-neighbors and friends. My past vice-president of the Boulder Art Association. He has lived in Boulder, daily commute took me through such gorgeous country that I never Colo., since 1958. tired of my trip. His art and historical compositions have been published in many maga- When my mother reached the age of 80 and was still very vibrant, zines and newspapers. This is his fifth Christmas story published in The we talked her into visiting us. It took considerable convincing, and Ukrainian Weekly. No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 17

Annual “Yalynka” celebration rings in holiday season at UIA

Carolers Andrew Liteplo, Deanna Yurchuk, Andrij Stasiw and Taras Ferencevych. Andrew Liteplo, Natalie Bonacorsa and Adrianna Melnyk join hands while singing.

by Deanna T. Yurchuk NEW YORK – How many engineers does it take to light up a Christmas tree? On December 1, 131 members, family and friends of the Ukrainian Engineers’ Society of America (UESA) lit up the Christmas season at this year’s “Yalynka” celebration at the Ukrainian Institute of America. The UESA is an organization of Ukrainian American engineers and other technical and scientific professionals that used to be the sole sponsor of the annual Yalynka. Today, however, it is a coalition of UESA, The Ukrainian Medical Association of North America (UMANA), and the Ukrainian Institute of America (UIA). The UESA has been hosting this pre-Christmas event for many years. The Yalynka serves as both a social venue as well as a networking opportunity among professionals, according to the president of the UESA’s New York Chapter, Alexander Salewycz. Mr. Salewycz, son of longtime UESA member Zenon Salewycz, feels it is important to continue the tradition that the founders of the society started. “This Christmas celebra- tion is open to everyone and is cross-generational,” he said. “The party is our way to give back to the community,” he added. Although the spirit of the Yalynka has remained the same through the years, its form has slightly changed. In the past, volunteers would walk to Baczynsky’s meat market in the downtown area to purchase bread, kovbasa and wine, then drive uptown where they would spend hours in the insti- tute’s tiny kitchen preparing refreshments, according to Mr. Salewycz. Today, the event is professionally catered. In the past, the program of the Yalynka also has varied. In recent years the guests have seen a “Vertep” performed Carolers crowd around pianist Andrij Stasiw during the “Yalynka” at the Ukrainian Institute of America. by Ukrainian seminarians from St. Basil’s College in Stamford, Conn., and the Prolisok choir of the Ukrainian American Youth Association (SUM). This year the Yalynka did not have a formal program. NEW RELEASE: Roman Hurko’s “Liturgy 2000” Rather, warmed by hot cider, the guests enjoyed Christmas music by pianist Andriy Stasiw who played throughout the by Bohdan Markiw the ancient Greek tradition. This style of writing has evening. Mr. Stasiw also accompanied the young Christmas never been used in the Ukrainian Church, thus Mr. carolers who gathered to sing a spontaneous repertoire of The “Liturgy 2000” composed by Canadian musi- Hurko’s liturgy is unique. cian Roman Hurko is his endowment for the 2000th traditional Ukrainian “koliady” and “schedrivky,” such as “Liturgy 2000” was first performed on July 16 anniversary of Christ’s birth. The composer evidently “Boh Predvichnyi,” “Dobry Vechir Tobi” and “Schedryk” in in Chicago’s Ss. Volodymyr and Olga Ukrainian order to initiate the holiday season. is familiar with the Vatican II Ecumenical Council’s Catholic Church. Most of the sacerdotal invoca- Maria Lishchynsky, a Lviv native, attended the Yalynka proposed to the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, tions are done by parish-based priests, the Rt. Rev. for the first time. With her beautiful contralto she enthusias- for he wrote a liturgy that corresponds to all the rules tically joined the group of carolers. “It was nice to observe of “Misa Cantata.” Ivan Kortec and the Rev. Yaroslav Mendiuk. The people from different generations talking, singing and enjoy- The settings for a St. Chrysostom Liturgy using responses are by The Schola Cantorum of St. Peter ing the warm and pleasant atmosphere,” Ms. Lischynsky the Ukrainian text of 1966 is for mixed chorus, with- the Apostle with J. Michael Thompson, director. said. “I was especially moved by the caroling,” she added. out soloists, and four-part harmony throughout. All The singing of the professional chorus is seamless. The Ukrainian Institute on 79th Street and Fifth Avenue voices are scored comfortably, move around neigh- Though it contains two Psalms of Typica, the served as a beautiful setting for the freshly cut Christmas boring notes, and are easy to sing. The inner voices Beatitudes and the Creed, the liturgy lasts only 50 tree that was decorated for the occasion. It is appropriate for are treated generously with wide expressive melodies minutes. what used to be soley the engineers’ Yalynka to be held at in constant motion and dynamics ranging from “Liturgy 2000” is available on compact disc in the Institute every year, since the founder and benefactor of pianissimo to forte. Ukrainian shops and record stores at $19.95. For the Ukrainian Institute of America, William Dzus, also was The character of this music is pious and serene, more information visit composer’s webpage at an active UESA member. written in church minor modes that establish a link to http://members.xoom.com/rhurko. Toward the end of the evening, Mr. Salewycz expressed his gratitude to members of the USEA, UMANA and UIA, and friends, as well as the community at large for their sup- port and participation in the Yalynka and wished everyone a joyous Christmas season. “The Yalynka is one of the highlights of our year, and I Give the gift that will last a whole year. urge all members and the community to attend next Christmas season,” said Andrij Wowk, president of the Order a gift subscription to The Ukrainian Weekly. UESA’s New Jersey Chapter. For more information on the society, including member- For information please call: (973) 292-9800 (Ext. 3042) ship information, log on to www.uesa.org. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 No. 52

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CPJ seeks... (Continued from page 3) Mr. Moroz claimed he received the tapes in mid-October from a former offi- cer of the Special Communication Your Support is Vital. Detachment of the Security Service of Ukraine who was responsible for com- Together We Can Meet the Challenge! munications security within President Kuchma’s office, the Kyiv Post reported. Mr. Moroz initially refused to identify The Ukrainian Museum Received $3.5 Million to this officer and said he had delayed Begin Construction of New Building! releasing the tapes until late November in order to have them authenticated by foreign experts, and to give the source’s $2.5 Million of the gift will be designated for the family time to leave the country. While the tape has yet to be defini- Building Fund and $1 Million will be given in the tively authenticated by a neutral third form of a Challenge Grant! party, it seems credible for several rea- sons, according to a CPJ source close to the investigation who did not wish to be The Ukrainian Museum and the Ukrainian identified. The informal manner of speaking and frequent use of expletives Community have an unprecedented opportunity to match President Kuchma’s conversa- double their donations! tional style. Also, researchers from the ANY ADDITIONAL GIFTS OR GRANTS RECEIVED Dutch Institute of Applied Scientific Research, hired by a Dutch tabloid to BY THE MUSEUM AFTER NOVEMBER, 2000 AND evaluate the tapes, concluded that the BEFORE THE END OF 2001 WILL BE MATCHED recordings had not been doctored, I would like to take this opportu- DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR! although they were unable to conclu- nity to double my gift to the sively identify the voices, the Kyiv Post reported. Ukrainian Museum. Your gift can be made in the form of: And, while National Deputy Moroz is Enclosed is my donation in the • An outright gift in cash a bitter rival of President Kuchma, he is • Securities known to be relatively cautious in mak- amount of $ for the • Real Estate ing accusations against other politicians, New Museum Building and particularly the president. • Other The government’s agitated response to Operating Fund. the scandal has only fueled public suspi- During this joyous Holiday Season, please remember cion. A presidential spokesman denied The Ukrainian Museum. Mr. Moroz’s allegations on the same day Name: that he made them. Meanwhile, a local Your 100% tax deductible charitable gift will be matched prosecutor announced he was launching dollar for dollar by the Eugene and Daymel Shklar a criminal investigation into Mr. Moroz’s Challenge Grant. “insults and slander” against President Address: Kuchma. Mr. Gongadze was a pioneer among If your company has a matching gift program, your gift will Ukrainian journalists in that he chose to quadruple. Please include the maching gift form. publish his work on the Internet. Because All donations, regardless of the amount, will be greatly Ukrainska Pravda did not depend on appreciated. paper supplies and printing presses, Telephone: bureaucrats found it harder to interfere The Ukrainian Museum with its distribution. But, like the few Please make checks payable to other investigative journalists in Ukraine 203 Second Ave., New York, NY 10003 • 212 228-0110 who have dared to criticize the govern- The Ukrainian Museum. Fax 212 228-1947 • E-mail: [email protected] ment, Mr. Gongadze faced frequent Web site: www.ukrainianmuseum.org harassment and intimidation. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 No. 52 No. 52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2000 23 REFLECTIONS: Regensburg students meet at 11th reunion at Soyuzivka

Former students of the Regensburg Gymnasium during their reunion at Soyuzivka. by Ihor J. Masnyk versibly for all these years. tlement compliments of Nina who recently haustible energy and spirit in promotion When we come to these reunions it visited there, and a novelty to me – a “Gift and continuance of our reunions. KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Soyuzivka is a seems that we go through the magic Shop” operated very ably by Roma that Congratulations to all three of them for this well-known place that serves the needs of change-over like the folks in the fictitious actually produced remarkable revenue for well-deserved recognition! the Ukrainian American community. It “Brigadoon”: time has stopped for us. We our yet to be decided upon “project.” The Because of previous business commit- brings people together. During the past few are back in Regensburg in spite of the fact second evening produced the long-awaited ments, I did not plan to attend this affair years there has been an ever-increasing that some of us might look a bit more “Vatra” with the untiring Danko as the and only a last-minute change made my number of a particular activity: the reunion. mature as the years marched by us relent- emcee during which the queen and king for participation possible. If I had failed to Patriots of various localities, which they lessly; we forget some of the aches and the night were crowned (Oksana and show, I would have regretted it immensely left many years ago, ex-students from the pains that are unavoidable; we leave our Wasyl). for I found the reunion a pleasant and post-war high schools, surviving residents worries behind wherever our life has placed For the first time a ballot was held for rewarding experience. I hope that this prac- of the sort of artificially thrown together us. For these few days we revive like the the outstanding man and woman of tice will continue as long as we are around. post-war communities known as “DP Brigadooners and relive our days of youth. Regensburg Gymnasium graduates. And from all of us a deep gratitude to the camps” all congregate “once more” on the Can any other post-war school match this? Ludmyla won hands down and was pro- three untiring promoters of this effort: grounds of this popular Catskills resort to Of course, it is not all fiction. We can see nounced the outstanding woman; two men Ludmyla Yarko-Pochtar, Wasyl Luchkiv re-live the all too short private moments of that our professors are not with us any were in a dead-heat for this title, so it was and Bohdan Malaniak. the old days. more, that our numbers dwindle, that some Among them a group of Regensburg split between Wasyl for his efforts in edit- (To be continued next year after our 12th of our best friends are beyond reunion. This ing our bulletin, and Danko for his inex- reunion!) Ganghofer Siedlung Gymnasium students was especially felt this year when we found and some of their spouses probably hold an out that Borys died just a week before our undisputed Olympic gold medal for the reunion. That is painful, very painful, even sheer number of reunions held at though at our age unavoidable. On the sec- Soyuzivka. Having started holding ond day of this reunion a memorial service reunions five years after the dissolution of for our departed colleagues and our profes- the Regensburg Camp, this year was the sors was attended by all. They may be gone, occasion of our 11th reunion. but they are within our memories. There What is it that keeps us united after 50- they are still with us. And our thoughts go plus years of adult life scattered all over the back to them and to the old days as we sing world except, ironically, for Ukraine itself, “The cranes are flying away in a grey from which we all came? Is it the post- flock...” May their memory be eternal! World War II euphoria of having survived On the happy side, more than 50 of us UKRAINIAN SELFRELIANCE the horrors and finding ourselves in a rela- were able to rejoice in the company of our tive haven under UNRRA-IRO (United friends. We came from as far away as FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Nations Relief and Rehabilitation England, New Mexico, Canada, California Administration/International Refugfee as well as from nearby. One represented the PHILADELPHIA, PA. Organization) sponsorship? Is it the result first graduating class, several were from of our youthful years – relatively carefree among the last graduates and the rest from years, yet ones that formed our individual the in-between years. “Girls” seemed to Serving and Supporting the Ukrainian Community Since 1952 personalities with which we went out into predominate, but none of the “boys” com- the world (literally) to forge our future, to plained. We had a surprise visit by two reach for unknown horizons? Is it the feel- daughters of one of our departed school ing of belonging together, of group psy- pals, Roman. This was a first for them and CERTIFICATE SPECIAL chology that fused us into a whole, for really a first for us. In a way it manifested some the only family left? Is it the another facet of the continuity of our ties. ingrained gratitude for having survived the Because the season was over, Soyuzivka 18 Month term trying period at the end of military conflict was ours. And the weather collaborated, which none of us created but for which providing sunshine and warmth. $1,000 minimum deposit many have suffered? The program was oriented towards Whatever it is, I cannot help but marvel socializing. Yes, there was a loosely run at each of our Regensburg Gymnasium business session searching for a project to 6.2% APR reunions how strongly we feel for each commemorate our efforts. There was a for- other. 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Almost 38 percent of local and city court Newsbriefs judges are women. (Eastern Economist) (Continued from page 2) Sailors return after detention in India from December 1 and from April 1, 2001, said First Vice Minister for Social Policy KYIV – Twenty-four Ukrainian sailors, Petro Ovcharenko. He added that starting crew members of the Kobe-Queen-1 December 1, the minimum pension will be returned to Odesa in later November after 30 hrv, while on April 1, 2001, this figure being held under arrest for 16 months in the will increase to 34 hrv. The maximum pen- Indian port of Chennai, formerly Madras. sion for the majority of pensioners is 90 hrv. Indian customs services charged the sailors Pensions for miners and metallurgy sector with drug trafficking, despite the fact that workers starting December 1 increase to numerous inspections did not reveal any 128 hrv, while from April 1 increase to 136 drugs on board the ship. A court case, hrv. Mr. Ovcharenko stated that the overall launched by the receiver of the shipment, increase on April 1 will be 25 percent. freed the sailors and ordered the sale of the (Eastern Economist) ship’s cargo. (Eastern Economist) Coal mines to be privatized in 2001 Communist Party most popular in poll KYIV – Vice Prime Minister Yulia KYIV – The Communist Party placed Tymoshenko told journalists on December first in a list of the country’s most popular 7 that the government intends to privatize parties, as based on a poll by the Laboratory all Ukrainian coal mines by mid-2001, for Social Studies. The Communists rated Interfax reported. She said coal mines will 7.4 on a scale of 10, while respondents eval- be divided into four groups, according to uated Communist activity at +1.1 on a scale their potential to attract investment: prof- of -5 to +5. The Social Democratic Party itable mines, potentially profitable ones, (United) was second with 6.9 and +1.8; fol- loss-making ones and mines that are to be lowed by Batkivshchyna with 6.7 and +2.9. closed. There are currently 196 coal mines Rukh-Udovenko’s popularity was rated 5.2. in the country. (RFE/RL Newsline) The lowest mark for activity was given to Natalia Vitrenko’s Progressive Socialist Gender gap in politics is closing slowly Party at -3.1. (Eastern Economist) KYIV – According to statistics, the lower GUUAM to meet in Kyiv in March 2001 the level of a government office, the more likely the position is to be filled by a KYIV – Meeting in Vienna, foreign woman, stated the report on Gender affairs ministers of the GUUAM (Georgia, Statistics for Monitoring Equality of Men Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and and Women. The number of women in the Moldova) alliance scheduled the organiza- Verkhovna Rada increased from 19 in 1994 tion’s next summit for March 2001 in Kyiv. to 37 in 1998 and is slowly approaching the Relationships in economic, transportation world average of 10 percent. The report and humanitarian sectors will constitute the goes on to state that, despite progress, there summit’s main issues. Foreign Affairs is a deep gender inequality and a general Minister Anatolii Zlenko said GUUAM will lack of balance between men and women in progress from declarative to real coopera- politics in Ukraine. Local legislative bodies tion and begin implementing several multi- have a greater percentage of women, with lateral economic and energy sector pro- 30 percent in 1994 and 38 percent in 1998. grams. 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