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1NS1DE: - Eurovision visitors to are impressed - page 8. - Уагепуку eating champion crowned in New York - page 11. - Ukrainians in the world of sports: an overview - centerfold. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association vol. LXXIII No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 Si;S2 in Yushchenko shows signs of impatience Kyiv hosts Eurovision finals with his prime minister after fuel crisis Greece's entry wins song contest by Zenon Zawada principles and that the government could Kyiv Press Bureau no longer resort to such tactics. The decree re-established a market-oriented KYiv - President environment in Ukraine's oil-refining reportedly lost his patience with Prime industry. Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and suggest– According to the confidant, when the ed that she resign during a high-level May 21 meeting began, Ms. Tymoshenko conference with Russian oil executives immediately told those present that she on May 19. disagreed with the first part of the presi– Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, Ukraine's weekly dent's order, in which he said the govem– analytical newspaper, confirmed with ment's response to the crisis was not "four conference participants" the details market-oriented. of the conflict as revealed by a trusted At this point, the president reportedly confidant of Ms. Tymoshenko. apologized to the Russian oil executives According to Ms. Tymoshenko's that the Ukrainian government did not anonymous confidant, in his alleged allow them to conduct business. emotional outburst, the president also That's when he reportedly made the said that "Ukraine's government is the remark about Ukraine's government worst in Europe and he regrets selecting being the worst in Europe and that he Ms. Tymoshenko to her position." regretted appointing Ms. Tymoshenko. The president's remarks came as he He then reportedly suggested that she AP7Mykola Lazarenko, Pool tried to resolve a fuel crisis in which Ms. join the Social Democratic Party - President viktor Yuschenko applauds as the winner of the 2005 Eurovision Song Tymoshenko accused Russian oil execu– United (SDPU) and resign. Contest, of Greece, holds the trophy and a special Ukrainian tives of artificially inflating prices, as The remarks were not serious, said award he presented after the finale. much as 10 to 15 percent in recent Petro Miroshnykov, chair of the gasoline months, in order to destabilize the inde– company Alians-Ukraina. by Zenon Zawada the finals - the pendent-minded Yushchenko govern– "The phrase really did come up, that if Kyiv Press Bureau first time Ukraine hosted the event. ment. something doesn't please you, you can 's victory at last year's compe– in response, Mr. Yushchenko issued a resign," Mr. Miroshnykov told Channel KYiv - More than 150 million televi– tition in istanbul brought Eurovision to presidential decree on May 18 stating 5, Ukraine's 24-hour news channel, dur– sion viewers worldwide set their eyes on Kyiv, which was able to demonstrate to that the prime minister's decision to Kyiv's Sports Palace on Saturday night, Europe that it could organize and execute implement price controls violated market (Continued on page 10) May 21, to watch the 50th anniversary of a show of high standards and quality. Helena Paparizou, a Swedish citizen who is an ethnic Greek, emerged as the Cardinal Husar speaks on eve of Permanent Synod's meeting in Canada winner after performing in English her song, "," as Greece's by Christopher Guly Constantinople and the world's most sen– concept that allows for unity in multiplic– representative in the contest. Special to The Ukrainian Weekly ior Orthodox , warned that the ity. Communion establishes unity but The political and economic significance establishment of a Kyiv-based Ukrainian allows people to be themselves, to of hosting Eurovision just months after the OTTAWA - While the Ukrainian Catholic Patriarchate would risk a break observe their own traditions," said proved far more signif– Catholic Church is "on the right road" in ecumenical relations between the Cardinal Husar, a Ukrainian Studite icant to Ukrainians, and particularly their toward being granted a Patriarchate, Orthodox communion and the vatican. who in 1977 was secretly ordained government leaders, than the music itself. achieving Catholic-Orthodox unity will But Cardinal Husar said the creation a bishop in Rome by the late Cardinal "The festival's concept, which we pro- require a "more imaginative" approach, of a Patriarchate would not give the Josyf Slipyj (who used the title of patri– posed, depended on the fact that this according to the leader of the estimated 6 arch). wasn't just a song competition, but million Ukrainian Catholics around the Ukrainian Catholic Church "something "if you look at it theologically, we all above all, a European presentation of world. extraordinary" based on "merit" or in recognition of the years of suffering the are Orthodox and Catholic at the same Ukraine," said Mykola Tomenko, vice- in an exclusive, 45-minute telephone Church endured after being forced under- time - it's simply where you put the prime minister of humanitarian affairs, interview with The Weekly on the eve of ground by the Soviets. accent," he added. after the final's conclusion. a historic May 22 to 29 meeting of the "it is a natural form of existence," While "there is a general desire on the in front of an international audience of Ukrainian Catholic Church's Permanent part of the people" of Ukraine for nearly 9,000 spectators, singers and rock Synod in Winnipeg, Cardinal Lubomyr explained the white-bearded, five-foot– 10, Lviv-born major . Catholic-Orthodox unity, achieving it has bands from 24 nations competed in the Husar said that though he didn't know been bogged down in "politics" and the final round on May 21 in the annual cele– when the Holy See would formally give However, Cardinal Husar who is often repetition of past "stereotypes without an bration of European pop music, with tra– him the title "patriarch," he said the referred to as "patriarch," also rejected effort to see things anew," Cardinal ditional, ethnic elements mixed in by the Church is "going in that direction." the idea of a Patriarchate as an all-or- Husar explained. Mediterranean and Slavic performers. The "difficulty," he explained, comes nothing proposition. "There are those who say, Tf we have "The general attitude has been that Eurovision fanatics began descending from two groups opposed to a Ukrainian upon the Sports Palace hours before the it, we'll survive; if we don't have it, we everything will be all right if everybody Catholic Patriarchate. event, either draping their nation's flags will not survive.' it is not that way. The comes to us. That's a very one-sided ecu– "Within the Church, there are fears around their shoulders or waving them Church has survived and it simply wants menism that has been exercised - or at that such a Patriarchate could separate us fiercely. a tPatriarchatel within the bounds of its least has been seen to be - by a great from the fCatholicJ Church. And then Organizers covered the Sports Palace tradition - EandJ within the concept of many people within and without the there are also ecumenical considerations. Catholic Church," he continued. "Maybe in green netting and its awning featured ECatholicJ communion." There is much opposition on the part of what we need is a more imaginative the show's logo alongside advertise– some Orthodox neighbors," said 72-year- Embracing that notion of communion approach and not be afraid to take some ments for Nemiroff vodka and Kyivstar old Cardinal Husar, who is officially could also lead to Catholic-Orthodox actions together." telecommunications. known as the of Lviv unity, said the cardinal, who has been This week's meeting of the Ukrainian Delegations took turns holding mini-ral– for Ukrainians. head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church Catholic Church's Permanent Synod lies on the Sports Palace's steps, chanting Last year, Ecumenical Patriarch since January 2001. "in Ukrainian, it's Bartholomew, the archbishop of what we call 'soprechashtia' - a basic (Continued on page 16) (Continued on page 8) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 No. 22

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Kyiv divided on how far Leaders commemorate Bykivnia's victims and the monopolization of the fuel market caused the current fuel crisis, UT1 report– KYiv - President viktor Yushchenko, ed. Mr. Yushchenko on May 18 signed into to go with reprivatization members of the Cabinet of Ministers, and law a government-sponsored bill abolish– by Taras Kuzio tigation into the privatization deals of the delegations of the Ukrainian ing import duties on gasoline and diesel Eurasia Daily Monitor 1990s. Both Ms. Semeniuk and Ms. Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) that the verkhovna Rada passed the previ– Tymoshenko have hinted that and the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic and ous day. Mr. Yushchenko also declared that Foreign investors are showing more Kryvorizhstal, which oligarchs viktor Roman Catholic Churches attended a "for once and forever no one will regulate interest in Ukraine since the Orange Pinchuk and Rynat Akhmetov purchased memorial service in the Bykivnia Forest, prices using administrative methods in Revolution took place. Nevertheless, for a third of its real price in June 2004, near Kyiv, where more than 100,000 vic– Ukraine," warning that such a policy sends they remain cautious because of uncer– should remain in state hands. tims of Stalin's terror are buried. of an "unhealthy signal" to internal and exter– tainties surrounding the threat of re-pri– The Yushchenko team faces divisions the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv nal markets. Mr. Yushchenko also vatization. Until this issue is resolved - on re-privatization and other issues Patriarchate celebrated the service on May explained the process under which firms something President viktor Yushchenko because it is an extremely broad alliance 15. "1 am pleased that as the years go on would be reprivatized, interfax-Ukraine supports but Prime Minister Yulia that stretches across the entire political we are finding out the historical truth and reported. He said that if an enterprise is Tymoshenko opposes - Ukraine's posi– spectrum seen in any European democra– that every year more people come to this determined to have been privatized illegal– tive international image will not generate cy. The alliance includes left-wing social place, and that every year more govern– ly, then a new tender commission will be additional foreign investment. democrats, business representatives, lib– ment representatives are present here," said set up and the firm will undergo a new pri– Potential foreign investors have been erals and populist right parties. President Yushchenko in his speech. vatization tender with the participation of alarmed by the manner in which the gov– The main fault line runs between Mr. According to the Kharkiv eparchial news, domestic and foreign investors. The largest ernment threatened TNK-BP and OASO Yushchenko's Our Ukraine and Anatolii Archbishop ihor (isichenko), head of the bid will be presented to the current owners. Lukoil with the re-privatization of the Kinakh's Party of industrialists and UAOC of Kharkiv and Poltava, The current owners will then either have to refineries they acquired in the 1990s. To Entrepreneurs. Both parties include took part in the event at the invitation of the pay the difference between the sum they stem inflation, caused partly by contin– medium and small businessmen and back Kyiv city organization of the paid during the previous privatization and ued high social spending, the govern– liberal market economics. These more Memorial Society. Together with vadym the new price, or, if they refuse, the enter- ment ordered oil companies to not raise liberal, free marketers are more inclined Prykhodchenko, head of the Kharkiv area prise will be transferred to the winners of a prices or else face the re-privatization of to minimize the number of companies Brotherhood of St. Andrew the First-Called new tender. (RF^RL Newsline) their Ukrainian refineries. subjected to re-privatization. They also Apostle, and representatives of the church The Yushchenko team did little to favor offering re-privatized companies communities of the Kharkiv region, Prime minister slams first deputy assure their commitment to a market Archbishop ihor placed flowers on the for tender. economy by appointing valentyna monuments in honor of the victims, in KYiv - Prime Minister Yulia A second group represents a more Semeniuk as head of the State Property 1994 a memorial complex was opened at Tymoshenko told reporters in Kyiv that populist, anti-oligarch orientation Fund. While she has experience as head Bykivnia and in 2001 Ukraine's Cabinet of the government welcomes the president's grouped on the left (Socialists) and the of the parliamentary Committee on Ministers, under the leadership of then- criticism, which is an "absolutely normal right (the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc). Privatization, Ms. Semeniuk and her Prime Minister viktor Yushchenko, passed occurrence," Ukrayinska Pravda reported. These populists are in favor of reviewing Socialist ties will add to the populism of a resolution to create a government memo- She also "thanked" First vice Prime a far longer list of privatizations and, in the Tymoshenko group within the gov– rial called the Bykivnia Graves. (Religious Minister Anatolii Kinakh for his criticism some cases, keeping firms under state ernment. Like Ms. Tymoshenko, Ms. information Service of Ukraine) of her personal role in the crisis. Mr. control. Semeniuk backs a more extensive inves– Kinakh said that she authorized "the According to Prime Minister President confirms 2006 election alliance chaotic introduction of more than 100 Tymoshenko, "if an enterprise brings amendments to tax legislation without Dr. Taras Kuzio is visiting professor at profits to the country, it is not necessary KYiv - President viktor Yushchenko item-by-item discussion" or "any the Elliot School of international Affairs, to sell it into private ownership." Such reiterated his intention on May 22 to form a grounded analysis," 1TAR-TASS reported. George Washington University. The article comments do little to allay fears that she coalition for the 2006 parliamentary elec– Ms. Tymoshenko criticized Mr. Kinakh above, which originally appeared in The is more a populist than a free marketer. tion of the Our Ukraine People's Union, a for asserting that the government has Jamestown Foundations Eurasia Daily She has already ruled out the privatiza– party created earlier this year to form the compiled a list of 29 enterprises designat– Monitor, is reprinted here with permission political basis of his presidency, as well as from the foundation (www.jamestown.org). (Continued on page 14) ed for reprivatization. "One minister corn- the Fatherland Party led by Prime Minister piles some lists on his own. І just want to Yulia Tymoshenko, and People's Party ask why some companies get onto the list headed by verkhovna Rada Chairman and not others. ... This simply smells of vblodymyr Lytvyn, interfax reported. Tm corruption," she said, according to the Ukrainian television dispute sure that the Orange Revolution and the Ukrayinska Pravda website. She promised values with which we came to Kyiv's that a list will be presented to the presi– maidan (independence SquareJ truly casts glare on broader problem dent in two days of "possible firms that belong to these three political forces," Mr. by Jan Maksymiuk said in a statement in early April. NTN could be revalued." (RFE7RL Newsline) Yushchenko said in Kaniv, at the grave of journalist vblodymyr Kartashkov openly RFEWL Newsline Ukrainian national poet . accused President viktor Yushchenko's PM reportedly asked to resign "1 support with all my soul our union, our The Ukrainian Supreme Economic administration - which came to power teamwork, our joint political activity for KYiv - The Kyiv-based Zerkalo Nedeli Court on April 28 rejected a complaint by following the country's recent Orange many years ahead," Ms. Tymoshenko weekly reported in its May 21-27 issue that the Procurator General's Office against Revolution - of resorting to "politically added. (RFE7RL Newsline) during a meeting with Russian oil traders on an earlier decision of the Kyiv Appellate motivated retribution" against his politi– May 19, President viktor Yushchenko pro- Economic Court to approve the expan– cal opponents. NTN journalists organized President criticizes government posed that Prime Minister Yulia sion of the broadcasting license of the a series of pickets in front of the presiden– Tymoshenko tender her resignation over NTN television channel to a nationwide tial administration and the Procurator network, vitalii Shevchenko, head of the KYiv - Ukrainian President viktor what he saw as her unsatisfactory manage– General's Office in Kyiv in April to National Council for Television and Yushchenko said on May 18 that the protest what they perceived as an official Radio Broadcasting, an eight-member flawed policy of the Cabinet of Ministers (Continued on page 22) intention to close down their channel. constitutional body empowered to issue A closer look at the controversy over broadcasting licenses in Ukraine, said the the NTN license suggests that NTN's same day that the broadcast council will appeal against the Supreme Economic allegations of "politically motivated retri– THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY FOUNDED 1933 Court decision. bution" by the authorities are difficult to substantiate. On the other hand, the The legal clash between the authorities An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., authorities' actions with respect to the a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. and NTN over its license expansion has channel also appear to be motivated by Yearly subscription rate: S55; for UNA members - S45. struck a raw nerve in the media sector in more than simply an intention to restore Ukraine, where many broadcasters are Periodicals postage paid at Parsippany, NJ 07054 and additional mailing offices. justice and lawfulness in the media sector. widely regarded to have obtained licenses (1SSN —0273-9348) under dubious circumstances. Since NTN NTN began its broadcasting on is partly owned by Donetsk-based oligarch November 1, 2004, under a license The Weekly: UNA: Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 644-9510 Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 292-0900 Eduard Prutnik, who was once an adviser issued in April of the same year, in early to then-Prime Minister viktor Yanukovych, 2004, NTN - then known under the name Telestudio information Service and Postmaster, send address changes to: Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz the case also has political undertones. The Ukrainian Weekly Editors: "The NTN channel considers that the authorized to broadcast only in Kyiv and Symferopol - applied to the broadcast 2200 Route 10 Andrew Nynka actions of the Procurator General's Office P.O. 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LXXlll new frequencies are allotted to broadcast- Ukraine specialist on the staff of RFESRL Copyright Ф2005 The Ukrainian Weekly Newsline. continued on page 14) No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 independent think-tanks complete Two SDPU deputies and police clash 100-day review of Ukraine's government in oblast chairman's hospital room KYiv - A comprehensive review of the Center, both recipients of previous grants by Zenon Zawada Ms. Proshkuratova then handcuffed new Ukrainian government's first 100 days from the Eurasia Foundation. Kyiv Press Bureau herself to Mr. Rizak, according to the in office was presented on May 19 by a Topics covered in the 100-day review police report, although the SDPU version KYiv - After observing how authori– consortium of independent think-tanks, included reform aspects of internal and jus– of events claims she had been handcuffed ties swiftly arrested accused Donetsk bringing together non-governmental to Mr. Rizak for hours at that point. tice-related policy, social and economic pol– extortionist Borys Kolesnykov, the Social organizations, embassies, donors, media According to Ms. Proshkuratova, the icy, as well as security and defense issues. Democratic Party - United (SDPU) organizations and government representa– dozen Sokil forces then seized Mr. x x x decided it wasn't going to go down with– tives, including Mykola Tomenko, vice Shufrych, while two officers approached out a fight. prime minister of Ukraine, and Boris Privately managed with support from the her. Sobolev, deputy state secretary of Ukraine. U.S. Agency for international Development Two SDPU activists, Nestor Shufrych Mr. Shufrych broke free from the offi– The event, which was supported by and other sponsors, the Eurasia Foundation and Tamara Proshkuratova, planted cers' grip and tried pushing off the two the Eurasia Foundation and the has made over 7,400 grants totaling more themselves in former Zakarpattia Oblast officers approaching her, Ms. international Renaissance Foundation, than Si50 million in 12 countries of the for– Chairman ivan Rizak's hospital room in Proshkuratova said, instead, the officers marks one of the first times the govern– mer Soviet Union since 1993. Uzhhorod the evening of May 20 to pre– ended up grabbing him and slamming his ment of Ukraine has been receptive to For more information on grant-making vent his transfer to an isolation ward. head to the ground several times, knock– such broad commentary from the non- activities in Ukraine, Belarus and Their protest resulted in a videotaped ing Mr. Shufrych unconscious, she said. governmental sector. Moldova, and a complete list of the foun– brawl in which about a dozen armed and On the videotape, it is apparent that "1 promise that all government offi– dation's independent board members, masked Sokil Special Forces shoved Mr. Mr. Shufrych is harshly shoved to the cials will review this document," vice readers may visit www.eurasia.kiev.ua. Shufrych to the floor, allegedly injuring ground. him. Prime Minister Tomenko said. The international Renaissance Ms. Proshkuratova also claimed to Heading the research and coordinating Foundation is Ukraine's largest charity Despite what observers say was the have fallen unconscious because she with other analytical centers was the organization, its main objective is to pro- obvious intention of the two SDPU couldn't recall when or how the officers institute for Economic Research and vide financial and operational assistance to national deputies to provoke a conflict, broke her handcuffs. the videotape clip of Sokil officers in Political Consulting, ihor Burakovskyy, the development of an open and democratic At that point, the Sokil forces man- black masks manhandling Mr. Shufrych director of the institute said, "This was society in Ukraine by supporting key civic aged to carry out the court orders and and Ms. Proshkuratova was an image that the first experience of cooperation initiatives in this area. Over the period from transfer Mr. Rizak to the isolation ward. President viktor Yushchenko's govern– between analytical centers. We hope the 1990 to 2004, 1RF supported numerous Ms. Proshkuratova suffered a small ment could have done without. The tape next request for an evaluation will come Ukrainian NGOs, community groups, aca– bruise and her right hand, which hap– was aired on 1-Й television. from the government itself, maybe on the demic and cultural institutions, publishing pened to be the handcuffed hand, was first anniversary of government activity." houses, etc. to the tune of over S82 million, "it was scary!," Ms. Proshkuratova swollen according to an interfax report. told reporters afterwards. "Men in Among the seven participating analyti– in 2005,1RF will make grants for a total of However, the SDPU claimed in a masks!" cal centers were the Center for Political S7 million. For more information, log on to statement that the officers beat Ms. The incident began when Sokil forces and Legal Reforms and the Razumkov http:77www.irf.kiev.ua. Proshkuratova "brutally and cynically" arrived at an Uzhhorod cardiology center and in an "animal-like fashion." at 10 p.m. in order to transfer Mr. Rizak Mr. Shufrych claimed to have suffered to an isolation ward for temporary arrest, a severe brain concussion from the according to Ukrayinska Pravda, which Press freedom is slipping away melee. However, three days later, quoted the police report. Ukraine's Health Minister Dr. Mykola in much of former Soviet Union Authorities arrested Mr. Rizak on Polishchuk said Mr. Shufrych had suf– May 13 and accused him of driving the fered no shock to his head. of the University of Uzhhorod to Radio Free EuropefRadio Liberty in discussing the findings in Freedom "1 am a neurosurgeon," Dr. Polishchuk suicide in May 2004. He also stands House's just-released annual Press said. "All neurosurgeons are my students. WASHINGTON - During a briefing in accused of engaging in massive corrup– Freedom Survey (http:77www.freedom- With the objective methods of investiga– early May to mark World Press Freedom tion and electoral fraud. house.org7research7pressurvey.htm), Mr. tion at hand, there was no shock to the Day, four experts on the media in the former Walker said that while the eight new After his arrest Mr. Rizak claimed to brain." Soviet Union shared their insights with an have severe heart problems, which if European Union member-states have "in instead, Mr. Shufrych has signs of audience at RFE^RL's Washington office. proven, would have resulted in his large measure ... managed to consolidate "old trauma to his frontal lobes," Dr. Freedom House Director of Studies release from custody. However, the the basic elements of a free press" and Polishchuk said. Christopher Walker, Diana Howansky of Zakarpattia Oblast Office of Judicial- that the nations of southeastern Europe However, doctors at the Boris medical Columbia University's Ukrainian Studies Medical Expertise ruled that Mr. Rizak have achieved "partly free" status, "the clinic in Uzhhorod where Mr. Shufrych Program, and Julie Corwin and Daniel did not have an illness that justified his picture is far less encouraging" in the underwent treatment affirmed that Mr. release from custody, Ukrayinska Pravda Kimmage of RFE7RL all agreed that Shufrych suffered damage to soft tissues "the non-Baltic former Soviet" countries. reported. much needs to be done before the media in his brain, and had suffered a concus– in this region could be considered free. (Continued on page 10) Masked Sokil forces entered Mr. sion to his brain. Rizak's room and announced the experts' internal Affairs Minister Yurii conclusions and court ruling, the police Lutsenko acknowledged that the Sokil report said. forces violated the law when injuring Mr. At that point, Mr. Shufrych and Ms. Lviv remembers victims of World War 11 Shufrych. At the same time, national Proshkuratova began interfering with the Religious information Service of Ukraine ored by the Ukrainians. He also spoke of deputies don't have the right to attack policemen's discharge of their duties, the horrors of World War П and remem– police officers, he said. Lviv - Roman and Greek-Catholics as threatening them and expressing their bered the Auschwitz death camp, where Mr. Lutsenko even visited the SDPU well as Orthodox participated in a joint disagreement with the court's decision. many Jews and people of other nationali– deputies on May 24, when they were ecumenical prayer service held on May 8 Also in the room was SDPU National ties were killed. in memory of the victims of World War П Deputy Yolodymyr Yoyush. (Continued on page 17) He said this memorial event is very on the 60th anniversary of the end of the important, because in it, we remember war in Europe. Ukrainian and German bishops took part in the service at military those who died in the war. "We will walk graves in the village of Potelych, Zhovkva the way of peace. Our task is to become an Quotable notes district, in western Ukraine's Lviv region. instrument of peace," Bishop Marx said. "Given that the defeat of the Soviet army would have given Hitler control of The event was organized by the Peace Roman Catholic strategic resources and territory that almost certainly would have made and Justice Commission of the Ukrainian Marian Buczek of Lviv read a prayer for Germany's defeat impossible, it is entirely appropriate for President Bush to Greek-Catholic Church's Metropolitanate the dead in Latin. acknowledge in Moscow the historic debt of the American people to those 27 of Kyiv and Halych and the Yl independ– Several Byzantine-rite panakhydy million Soviet soldiers and civilians who died in the war. ent culturological journal. (memorial services) were held at the "Given how Stalin used that victory and the sacrifices of those soldiers and Clergy of the Roman Catholic Church monument to the Red Army soldiers and civilians, it is at the same time entirely appropriate for President Bush to travel to (from Germany and Ukraine), the at the grave of soldiers of the Ukrainian Riga to denounce how the Soviet leadership turned wartime cooperation in Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, the insurgent Army. A roundtable meeting titled "World defeating one totalitarian regime into the pretext for imposing another totalitari– Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv an system in Eastern Europe. Patriarchate, the Ukrainian Orthodox War 11: Remembrance. Responsibility. "American citizens and their leaders should be deeply troubled that Russia's Church - Moscow Patriarchate and the Reconciliation" took place at the leadership has not only failed to denounce Stalin's annexation of the Baltic states Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv to and Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe, but has sought to justify and even glo– Church took part. conclude the event. Clergy, scholars, cul– rify the Nazi-Soviet Pact and post-war imposition of Soviet-style regimes in tural figures and guests from Germany Bishop Reinhard Marx of Trier, Eastern Europe. This failure is both a symptom and cause of Russia's inability to participated in the meeting. Germany, head of the Peace and Justice become a successful and modern major power in the 21st century." Commission of the German Conference According to a report by the press of Roman Catholic Bishops, said after a service of the UGCC, at the same time - Celeste Wallander, director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Roman rite memorial service that, even Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, head of the Center for Strategic and international Studies, Washington, May 6, as cited by though his fellow citizens are not buried UGCC, participated in the ecumenical The Action Ukraine Report. here with glory, their remains are hon– Memorial Days in Berlin. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 No. 22 Power-sharing deal in Crimea Crimean Tatar leader still seeking bolsters Tatar minority's role justice after deportations of 1944 by Jeremy Bransten Crimean Tatars have two main griev– by Jean-Christophe Peuch other legal issues that have yet to be RFESRL Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Report ances. RFESRL Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Report solved. Should Ukraine continue to con– 'The two main issues are, first of all, sider the Crimean Tatars an ethnic minor– Lawmakers in Ukraine's Crimean land; what the Crimean Tatars consider The name of Mustafa Dzhemilev (also ity group, there would never be an end to Peninsula have approved a power-sharing the land stolen by the Stalinist regime. spelled Jemilev) is synonymous with the our problems. We believe that Crimean Crimean Tatars' decades-long struggle to agreement that ends months of political And the second issue is cultural diversity Tatars should be considered as an indige– obtain reparations for their suffering due deadlock and strengthens the role of the and linguistic protection of the Crimean nous people of Ukraine. Unlike other eth– to the deportations ordered by Soviet territory's ethnic Tatar minority, in the Tatars' language," Mr. Dell'Arciprete nic minority groups, the Crimean Tatars leader Joseph Stalin in 1944. wake of the deal, Ukrainian President said. have no historical motherland outside Mr. Dzhemilev, now 61, has spent 15 viktor Yushchenko called on the penin– Much of the land the Tatars once lived Ukraine. Unfortunately, this question years in jail for his active participation sula's three major ethnic communities - on and cultivated is now settled by ethnic remains in abeyance. Russians, Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars Russians and Ukrainians. The land is fer– in the Soviet dissident movement. He - to draft a joint memorandum on recon– tile, and some of it lies on the much-cov– served seven prison terms between 1966 is access to land the main problem ciliation. eted coastline, which is lined with and 1986, not only for defending the facing those Crimean Tatars who have Leaders of the Crimean Tatar commu– resorts. As a result, many Tatar returnees cause of his people, but also for refusing returned home? nity, who have for years fought for whose families once prospered have been to serve in the Soviet army, protesting the greater political representation and eco– forced to squat in makeshift settlements, invasion of Czechoslovakia, and defend– We're suffering great injustice in this nomic rights on the peninsula, are wel– without proper sanitation and roads and ing freedom of speech. regard. When (after the collapse of the coming the May 12 power-sharing agree– often electricity. Mr. Dzhemilev was an infant when, on Soviet UnionJ Ukraine adopted its land ment as a step forward. Resolving this issue in an equitable May 18, 1944, Stalin's NKvD secret code, the peculiarities of the Crimean Under the deal, Crimean Tatars will way without causing large-scale social police deported Crimea's entire Tatar peninsula were not taken into account, in receive two ministry portfolios as well as upheaval and inflaming ethnic tensions is population to Central Asia. He returned this legislation there is a paragraph which the post of vice prime minister in the one of the long-term challenges facing home in 1989 only after Soviet authori– says that only those who used to cultivate local government. The agreement, which the government. ties permitted the repatriation of the those lands can own them, in other was worked out between Crimean Tatar Culturally, the Crimean Tatars also Crimean Tatars. Two years later, Mr. words, that means that only former col– leader Mustafa Dzhemilev and Crimean want their language to be accorded the Dzhemilev was elected chairman of the lective farm workers can claim ownership Prime Minister Anatolii Matvienko, ends official status it enjoyed before World Qirimtatar Milliy Meclisi, or Crimean rights over those lands. But this cannot be four months of administrative deadlock War 11. Mr. Dell'Arciprete said the May Tatar National Parliament, a post he still applied to Crimea insofar as Crimean on the peninsula. 12 power-sharing agreement goes at least holds today. Tatars used to work in collective farms in Mr. Matviyenko was appointed prime one step in the right direction. Crimean Tatars throughout the former Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and elsewhere. minister of Crimea by President "The new power-sharing agreement Soviet Union are preparing to commemo– Although 75 percent of Crimean Tatars Yushchenko in the wake of the Orange also gives to the Crimean Tatars a (televi– rate the 61st anniversary of their depor– live in rural areas, they have approximate– Revolution. But Mr. Matvienko found sionj channel and some media space in tation to Central Asia, just days after the ly half as much land as the Russian- himself unable to form a new govern– their language," Mr. Dell'Arciprete said. Crimean legislature approved a power- speaking population. This problem is par– ment until the May 12 deal was struck, as "This is a very important point for a sharing agreement giving Crimean ticularly acute in ECrimea'sJ south as a Tatar legislators boycotted sessions of the community in which 86 percent of the Tatars three ministerial portfolios in the result of the attempts made by the Soviet regional Parliament. young generation are going to school in regional government, in an interview regime to bar the Tatars from returning to Now it seems the peninsula's ethnic Russian-speaking areas and learning, first with RFESRL ahead of that decision, Mr. these valuable areas. Before the 1944 Russian and Ukrainian majority and their of all, Russian." Dzhemilev described the current situa– deportations, the Crimean Tatars account– tion of the Crimean Tatars. Crimean Tatar counterparts could be As Hanne Severinsen, a member of ed for 70 percent of the population in opening a brighter chapter in their often the Council of Europe's Monitoring these regions. Now, they account for less strained relations. Committee on Ukraine, told RFE7RL, the Sixty-one years after Joseph Stalin's than 1 percent. The lands are being dis– Crimean Tatars, who now make up Crimean Tatars have faced alternating massive deportations, where does the tributed, or sold at cut-rate prices, to oli– roughly 20 percent of the peninsula's periods of welcome and hostility since rehabilitation process of Crimean garchs who live either in Kyiv or in population, were deported by former they began returning home. Tatars stand? Russia. This generates tensions and per– Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to Central manent conflicts. How does Russia inter- "in the beginning, 1 think, there was a Many Crimean Tatars - over one-half, Asia in 1944 on the pretext that they had fere in the affairs of the Crimean Tatars? lot of good will," Ms. Severinsen said. according to our estimates - have collaborated with Nazi occupiers. it is mostly a pressure exerted through "And in fact, tthe Tatars J gained some returned home. An estimated 150,000 to They began to return in large numbers propaganda efforts which aim to portray land. But also because of economic prob– 200,000 Crimean Tatars still live outside to their homeland after the collapse of the the Crimean Tatars as a threat for Ukraine, lems, ttheir situation! has been stagnat– Crimea, mainly in the former Soviet Soviet Union but have faced many diffi– as a potential second Chechnya. The ing." republics of Central Asia. They can't Russians are trying to set people against culties. Now, the hope is that with their partic– return home mainly for economic rea– tthe Crimean Tatars! by suggesting there Nicola Dell'Arciprete, who monitors ipation in the government, the Crimean sons. This is why fit was agreed in 1992 are extremist organizations among us. events in Ukraine on behalf of the Tatars will be able to make more that they would get) a certain amount of Hague-based Unrepresented Nations and progress in regaining the status they once money from the government of Ukraine in addition, there are some political Peoples Organization, told RFE7RL the enjoyed in their homeland. and the governments of those countries forces in Crimea - such as the well- where they live. Depending on its finan– known Russian Bloc - that are very cial situation, Ukraine each year ear- nationalistic and are always trying to marks a portion of its national budget to block any decision that is taken in favor Ukrainians in Transdniester the Crimean Tatar issue. of the Crimean Tatars. These forces are, of course, supported by Russia. Yet, this cannot be said of the other and Russia expand activities countries where Crimean Tatars live. But Most of those Crimean Tatars who our grievances are mainly directed at the Ukrainian World Congress have returned home live in poor condi– in Transdniester, a breakaway region Russian Federation. Not only does where the Ukrainian community is tions. Statistics show that more than 60 TORONTO - While the presidential Russia not provide financial assistance essentially separatist, Russia has creat– percent of them are unemployed. election of last year in Ukraine proved fto the Crimean TatarsJ, but it also views ed the impression of being the protec– Would you say this is the result of dis– largely successful, it also exposed a the whole repatriation issue with hostility tor from Moldova, suggesting that pro– crimination on the part of regional number of deficiencies within our because it fears Crimea's demographic tection depended upon support for the authorities? communities in the diaspora, in partic– balance might be altered to the detriment pro-Russian candidate. ular in Moldova (Transdniester) and of its Russian-speaking population - Although fCrimean Tatars! account for in the Russian Federation, the the Russian Federation. The elections even though Russians currently account around 13-14 percent of the peninsula's Russian government established a there were greatly influenced (even for approximately 60 percent of the population, they represent no more than 4 "Ukrainian" newspaper urging controlled) by the government there peninsula's population. percent of those employed in self-gov– Ukrainian citizens in Russia to vote for and resulted even on December 26, fAs for UkraineJ, we're still waiting ernment bodies, in some institutions - Prime Minister Yanukovych and por– 2004, in a vote favoring Prime for a law that would restore to the such as the Security Ministry, the traying opposition candidate viktor Minister viktor Yanukovych by 92 per– Crimean Tatars all their rights. There is Customs Committee, or the Finance Yushchenko as a fascist and the candi– cent and 81 percent, respectively. still no official document that says the Ministry - this percentage is equal to date of American imperialism. Following the November 21, 2004, Crimean Tatars have regained all their zero. Of course, this is discrimination. Despite pervasive Russophilism election day fiasco, rules were put in rights. The verkhovna Rada last summer predicated on a perception of Russian The consequence is that the unemploy– place in Ukraine to preclude both fraud voted a bill called the "Law on the protection, because of its proximity ment rate among Tatars is much higher and an uneven playing field in Ukraine. Rehabilitation Of Peoples Deported On Ukraine remains a very significant fac– than the average for Crimea, or even However, this did not apply to the Ethnic Grounds" that deals only with the tor in Transdniester. Nevertheless, open Ukraine. Concerning this 60 percent fig– polling stations in the diaspora since Crimean Tatars' social rights. However, support for the separatists by the ure, this does not mean that people do not those had been fixed and foreign gov– former President fLeonidJ Kuchma Yushchenko government would be work. Some people have set up their own ernment influence, particularly Russian, vetoed this bill. We're now working with problematic. Ukrainian community small businesses, buying and selling in such places as the Transdniester the new president, f viktor YushchenkoJ, leaders in Transdniester have expanded things. Of course this is not enough to region of Moldova and the Russian so that he lifts EKuchma'sj veto and signs allow for a stable source of income and, as Federation could not be addressed. (Continued on page 15) the bill into law. On top of that, there are a number of (Continued on page 15) No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 5

insurance Matters Young UNA'ers

by Joseph Hawryluk

Take a look at UNA annuities

Dear Osyp:

І keep noticing great interest rates (up to 5.50 percent) in advertisements for annu– ities in the UNA's publications. How do those annuities work?

- Dennis

Dear Dennis:

Before we can explain how they work, one must know what is it. An annuity is a contract in which an insurance company (in this case, the UNA) makes a series of income payments at regular intervals in return for a premium or premiums you have paid. Annuities are most often bought for future retirement income. Only an annuity can pay an income that can be guaranteed to last as long as you live. An annuity is neither a life insurance nor a health insurance policy, it is not a savings account or a savings certificate. Your value in an annuity contract is the premiums you have paid, less any applicable charges, plus interest credited. The UNA uses the present Sofia irena Pawluk, daughter of Borys L. Julia Reine Gerenser, daughter of account value to calculate the various options open for distribution of the funds to you. and Olenka Pawluk of North Wales, Pa., Chris and Holly Gerenser of Napa, An annuity has two parts or periods. During the accumulation period, the money is a new member of UNA Branch 83. She Calif., is a new member of UNA you put into the annuity earns interest. The earnings grow tax-deferred as long as you was enrolled by her grandparents Branch 360. She was enrolled by her leave them in the annuity. (Tax-deferred means postponing your taxes on interest Borys Y. and Nila Pawluk. grandmother Gail Gerenser. earnings until a future point in time.) During the second period, called the payout peri– od, the company pays income to you or to someone you choose. There are two forms of an annuity you can purchase, fixed or variable. With a fixed Mission Statement annuity you know what the interest rate will be that is credited to your account. The The Ukrainian National Association exists: variable annuity is tied to the stock market. The UNA only offers the fixed annuity. m to promote the principles of fraternalism; P.S. in my next letter 1 will discuss the workings of a fixed annuity. m to preserve the Ukrainian, Ukrainian American and Ukrainian Canadian Osyp heritage and culture; and Ш to provide quality financial services and products to its members. Joseph (Osyp in Ukrainian) Hawryluk is an advisor on the UNA General Assembly, chairman of the Buffalo UNA District Committee and secretary of UNA Branch 360. He is As a fraternal insurance society, the Ukrainian National Association reinvests its also a New York State licensed agent. Readers may reach him at osyp Ф unamember.com. earnings for the benefit of its members and the Ukrainian community. Does your entire family belong to the UNA family?

A UNA family -lhorandRoma Hayda ofEaston, Conn., their children and grandchildren: (standing, from left) Helena, Borys, Christine, Kathryn, Йота, lhor, Marko, Roxana, Roman and the Rev. Pavlo Hayda; (seated) Alexander, Artym, Zachary, Dmitri, Kristina, Taissa, Julian, Elias, Maya and Sophia Hayda. The Ukrainian National Association is planning to publish photographs of UNA families on the pages of its publica– tions. We ask that readers sentl photos of their families encompassing at least three generations, providing the names of all persons pictured. The only stipulation is that all the family members on the photograph must be members of the UNA. Send your photos and caption information, along with your phone number and mailing address, to: Oksana Trytjak, National Organizer, Ukrainian National Association, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Please do not send color photocopies of photographs, if you would like to have your photograph returned, please include a pre– addressed envelope, in order to send photographs and information via e-mail write to Ms. Trytjak at oksanauna(5)comcast.net. For further information readers may call Ms. Trytjak at 1 -800-253-9862, ext 3071. у 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 No. 22 COMMENTARY: Ukraine faces THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY growing challenge ofH!YlAlDS Remembering Memorial Day by Alexander Kuzma still avert the worst of this catastrophe, but only if the government, the Churches, Given that so much has been written this year about the 60th anniversary of in its most recent annual report, a hos– non-governmental organizations, philan– the end of World War 11 - in which 45 million troops and civilians died - as pital in Dnipropetrovsk reports that 77 thropic institutions, medical associations Memorial Day 2005 approaches, our thoughts turned to the meaning of this newborns delivered in its obstetrics ward and student groups mobilize at unprece– national holiday. were diagnosed positive for Hiv. These dented levels. We have time, but precious To most people in the United States, Memorial Day, which is observed on the are babies whose mothers unwittingly little of it. Token assistance and symbolic last Monday in May, is simply the first holiday weekend of the approaching sum– passed on their illness during delivery or gestures will not rescue Ukraine from mer season, it's a time to head out for the long weekend, whether to the moun– through breast-feeding or in the womb. this crisis. tains or the seashore; a time to enjoy three days with family and friends. These are babies who will become This is a t?me to heed Taras However pleasant that may be, it is far from the original intent of the orphaned at a young age. Without proper Shevchenko's prophetic words: "1 Memorial Day holiday. care, they are likely to be stigmatized by chuzhoho nauchaites, svoho ne Originally called Decoration Day, it was a day on which the graves of the society, to be housed in orphanages that tsuraites!" We must learn what is foreign Civil War dead were decorated with flowers. Today the day is observed in do not meet basic codes of human decen– to us; at the same time, we must not for– remembrance of all the country's war dead - those who paid the ultimate price in cy where they will eventually contract sake our own. the ranks of the U.S. armed forces. The holiday was officially proclaimed back full-blown A1DS and die. Ukrainian health authorities and aid in 1868 by Gen. John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Seventy-seven may not seem like a organizations can learn a great deal from Republic, and was first observed on May 30 of that year, when flowers were large number, but it points to a very omi– countries like Brazil and South Africa placed on the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers buried at Arlington nous trend as the A1DS epidemic spreads that launched high-intensity campaigns National Cemetery. to the mainstream population in Ukraine. against their own A1DS crises, saving in 1971 an act of Congress designated the last Monday in May as Memorial There was a time when A1DS was associ– hundreds of thousands of lives in the Day, thus creating a three-day weekend as a result of the national holiday. Today ated almost exclusively with intravenous process. We also have a great deal to - and some say as a direct result of the three-day holiday weekend - Memorial drug users, prostitutes and homosexual learn from the experience of American Day traditions have been largely neglected. To be sure, some towns and cities men. Not any longer. A1DS has entered a and European health authorities that have still do hold Memorial Day parades, and veterans' groups, among them the new phase whereby even infants, for no turned the corner and helped to level off Ukrainian American veterans, still decorate the graves of fallen comrades, but fault of their own, face a very bleak new infections, even in their inner cities. the average American's observance of the day comes down to a barbecue. future. But the greatest obstacle to an effec– Forgotten are the traditions of visiting cemeteries and placing flowers and7or During his recent triumphant visit to flags upon the graves of family members and friends who died in combat; of visit– tive response is the stigma and scorn that the United States, President viktor attaches to A1DS victims, it is much easi– ing memorials honoring fallen heroes; of flying the U.S. flag at half-staff until Yushchenko and the first lady of Ukraine noon and flying the POWMlA flag; or of supporting organizations that give aid to er for polite society to turn its back on made frequent mention of the looming the destitute sick, leaving them to die out the widowsAvidowers and orphans of the war dead, as well as to disabled veterans. A1DS crisis as one of the most serious (The annual sales of artificial red poppies known as "Buddy Poppies," the official of sight and out of mind until the epi– challenges facing their nation. Probably demic grows to such enormous propor– memorial flower of the veterans of Foreign Wars, help needy and disabled vets.) not many in the diaspora took notice, it's indeed, as some observers have noted, the "memorial" in Memorial Day has tions that it overwhelms the economy time to wake up to the threat. and the health system. been forgotten. The United Nations warns that with So, this weekend, when you head out to enjoy your extended weekend, we The urge to forsake our own - the epidemic's current rate of growth, "tsuratysia" in Shevchenko's words - is urge you to take a little bit of time out to honor those for whom Memorial Day Ukraine could lose up to 40 percent of its was established. Remember to honor our country's fallen heroes - proud extremely dangerous. During the early population in the coming decades. years of Ukraine's independence, many American men and women of diverse backgrounds, many of them immigrants According to the best estimates of the from other lands - on this special day. members of the diaspora felt ashamed World Health Organization, nearly and alienated from their kinsmen. Until As a column (signed by G.H.) printed in The Ukrainian Weekly in 1948 noted: 500,000 Ukrainians, or more than 1 per– "it has often been said that when we do visit the grave of a fallen soldier or the Orange Revolution, many felt justi– cent of the population, are already infect– fied in sneering at the inadequacies and sailor, it is not to add anything to the hallowed remains, but to become strength– ed with the deadly virus. ened in the conviction that they died to make the world a better place to live in, vices of Ukraine's stereotypical "homo To grasp the numbers, we need to Sovieticus." Hopefully, those days are that their cause has not yet been won, and that it is up to us, the living, to visualize the mass of people who assem– advance that cause a step further." over. Now that we have seen the poten– bled on Kyiv's maidan (independence tial and the decency of Ukraine's pro– Square) last December. At its peak, the gressive forces, we must not give in to crowd was estimated between 500,000 shame and turn our backs on Ukraine as and one million souls. As horrible as it it struggles to curb the onslaught of may be, we need to imagine the oblitera– A1DS. if it hasn't already, very soon this Turning the pages back... tion of a crowd that size to fully compre– epidemic will threaten our cousins, our hend the peril that awaits Ukraine. nieces, our nephews, our families. Our At the height of Ukraine's electoral own. crisis, all of us feared the worst. We 0n May 28 31 1948 the foundin From a Christian perspective, we need 1948 НІНІ ' ' ' g convention of the prayed that the security police under to remember that Jesus did not make it HUH ukrammri American veterans was held in Philadelphia at the President Leonid Kuchma's control and easy for us to "love your neighbor," to Penn-Sheraton Hotel. Up until that point, Ukrainian veterans the Russian storm troopers exported by embrace our own. The mandate to heal were active in local communities as individuals and within Russian President viadimir Putin would the sick and to bring comfort to the local posts, but they did not have a national coordinating body. not suppress the Orange Revolution with afflicted applies as much to A1DS victims During the 1947 convention of the Ukrainian Youth League of North America Walter violence. Even the slightest provocation as it applied to lepers, hemophiliacs, sin– Bacad, Michael Darmopray, J. Konchak, Joseph Lesawyer, M. Nasevich and George could have led to a repeat of the mas– ners, despised Samaritans and other Wolenetz took it upon themselves to call a convention of all Ukrainian American war sacre at Tienanmen Square, or the vio– social pariahs 2,000 years ago. We do not veterans' organizations. Mr. Darmopray was in charge of the preparations for the conven– lence we saw more recently in get a pass just because this illness makes tion, which was hosted by the Philadelphia post of the Ukrainian American War veterans. Uzbekistan. Yet the number of us feel uncomfortable. The first national convention of the UAv was attended by 55 delegates from vari– Ukrainians threatened by A1DS is expo– Our Churches, our credit unions and ous veterans' posts, primarily those active in the states of New Jersey, New York and nentially greater than the 2,000 to 3,000 medical associations have a special role Pennsylvania. Michael Hynda of the post in Newark, N.J., was elected as the national Chinese students who died when commander. Others elected to the UAv's first national executive board were: John tc^play in developing the resources need– Beijing's democracy movement was Romanick, senior vice-commander; James Greenday, junior vice-commander; Charles ed to combat the pandemic. At a mini- crushed. Kredensor, finance officer; the Rev. Levytsky, chaplain; Mr. Swystun, judge advocate; mum, we need to help the Ukrainian gov– and Michael Elko, historian. in many ways, our response to the ernment improve the quality of life in A1DS crisis will be the greatest test of Michael Gwiazda was appointed national adjutant, and Mr. Darmopray was nomi– Ukrainian orphanages that will be strain– our diaspora's fidelity to Ukraine, it will "nated and approved as the new organization's first honorary national commander. ing under the weight of thousands more be a harsh test of our commitment to its The Ladies Auxiliary Committee, represented by Ann Mitz and Olga Chernezsky, children filling their wards. And we need future. was charged with organizing the women's component of the UAv organization. to reach out to Ukrainian youth to help A1DS is not a pleasant problem to con- The convention passed a resolution supporting the Mundt-Nixon anti-Communist them resist the high-risk behaviors that bill (which became the McCarran Act in 1950) and challenged the Ukrainian Soviet front. Many nations have been devastated threaten their generation. by it because they failed to grasp its mag– Socialist Republic's delegation to the United Nations, stating that they do not represent The diaspora could try to wash its nitude in its early stages. They indulged in the people of Ukraine. The UAv also expressed support for the Displaced Persons Bill hands of A1DS as somebody else's prob– denial until it was too late, in sub-Saharan and lauded the work of the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee (UUARC). lem. But the West must bear some share Africa, A1DS has been a monstrous plague The convention banquet was addressed by various Ukrainian American community lead– of responsibility. According to a recent that has mowed down more human beings ers, including Gregory Herman of the Ukrainian National Association, Dr. Walter Gallan of article in the Kyiv Post titled "The than even the horrific wars and civil strife the UUARC and Stephen Shumeyko of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. Summer Sex Boom," Western men con– that have torn apart this region. The Ukrainian American veterans' second annual convention was slated to be held tinue to flock to Ukraine in search of tro– The good news is that Ukraine can in Newark over Memorial Day weekend in 1949. phy brides and sexual conquest. This unseemly spectacle only adds fuel to the Source: "Ukrainian vets hold convention," The Ukrainian Weekly, June 7, 1948; Alexander Kuzma is executive director epidemic's fire. A1DS was virtually "Ukrainian American veterans 1948-1998: Historical Analysis and Evaluation" by of the Children of Chornobyl Relief Dmytro Bodnarczuk, Ph.D., New York: Ukrainian American veterans inc., 1998. Fund. (Continued on page 16) No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 NEWS AND viEWS The things we do. Sex slave trafficking case jolts Detroit community j Orysia Paszczak Tracz by Larissa Ghiso Prague. Although an earlier hearing resulted in Reading Russian Recently, we looked into the faces of denial of bail, the men's attorneys My Russian has really improved. І didn't know either language, but recognized pure evil. We looked into the faces of claimed that new evidence had surfaced haven't read it that intensely for quite a the difference between them. two sex slave traffickers masquerading and a new bail hearing was needed. while. І studied it at college, and worked in Many Ukrainians are bilingual, and as human beings. Cornelius Pitts, well-known in the the Slavic collection of a university library many more have been or are becoming One horror that has plagued mankind Detroit area as a criminal defense lawyer, for a number of years. But only during the multilingual. Along with Ukrainian and for millennia that has ostensibly been and his son Byron Pitts tried valiantly to fall of 2004 1 get back into it, with my Russian, they know a number of the eliminated in our "enlightened time" is present the defendants as "upstanding trusted RussianTEnglish dictionary nearby. European languages, and almost every sex slavery. Or so one would think. citizens in the community," twice quot– Reading all the information about the young person also knows English, in Slavery is alive and well here, now, in ing the Bible, using the phrase "if it presidential election in Ukraine, both in fact, English is now the lingua franca of the year of Our Lord 2005. it is alive and doesn't fit, you must acquit," and even print and online, one needed to use communication, with English elementary well in countless countries and, yes, also citing Kermit the Frog ("it's not easy Ukrainian, English and - Russian. And and high schools the place to be. in the U.S. being green."). We found it difficult to what surprised many people, and should– My ears and brain short-circuit and І Last fall, the Ukrainian community of comprehend the relevance. n't have, is that so much pro-Yushchenko gag at "Russisms" and "Englishisms" in Metropolitan Detroit had invited Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark discussion and information was in Ukrainian. Of course, languages are Canadian investigative journalist victor Chutkow then gave a short and concise Russian. One site, zavtra.com.ua, was enhanced by words from other languages, Malarek to speak about his book "The presentation on why the government is completely in Russian - the orange rib– but when existing Ukrainian words are Natashas: inside tbe New Global Sex convinced that the men are a flight risk bon on the top of the masthead indicating eliminated for the sake of foreign words - Trade" and the two-year research that and a danger to the community. its allegiance. The information and dis– and so very often bizzarely and ungram– went into it. He spoke eloquently and in the end, all the efforts of the cussions on maidan.org.ua were bilin– matically - it really bothers me. For exam- passionately about the inhumane treat– defense attorneys were to no avail: Judge gual, either in Ukrainian or Russian, pie, now in Ukraine, instead of saying ment of the women and children, about victoria Roberts reached her decision on along with an English page. Ukrayinska "tarn bulo 20 liudei7osib" (there were 20 how they were tricked into accompany– the day of the second hearing, and the Pravda, www2.pravda.com.ua, had people7individuals there), they say "tarn ing the men, and sometimes just kid- decision was: no bail; the two men are to Russian and English pages, while Pora's bulo 20 cholovik." Not even "cholovikiv," napped off the streets, about how they remain where they are (i.e., in prison) site - pora.org.ua - had an English page, which would be grammatically correct, were sold like chattel. until the trial. The charge of human traf– but no Russian one. even if incorrect Ukrainian terminology. imagine our shock when, in mid- ficking carries a maximum penalty of life On the Maidan site especially, in the "Cholovik" in Ukrainian is man, while in February, the local police and FB1 arrest– in prison. news, the articles and the forum discus– Russian "chelovek" is person. This is a ed two men in Livonia, a Detroit suburb, Now three new developments have sion group, there was very much in the straight translation from Russian, rather our own back yard! For months, they had surfaced: the two defendants are appeal– Russian language. І was very surprised at than good old Ukrainian. held four young Ukrainian women ing the detention order at the U.S. Court the Ukrainian patriotism expressed in the And the terms from English! Where hostage and forced them to "work" 12- of Appeals in Cincinnati. As well, three letters and even poems written in Russian. does one start? І realize the new computer hour days, six days a week in a strip more women who had been held hostage І should not have been. terminology is international, but what club. They were expected to earn a cer– by the defendants have recently been So many people grew up not knowing about "imidzh" (image); why is it "siur– tain amount of money each day. When found. And, finally, Attorney Chutkow Ukrainian. Others were "influenced" into pryz" (surprise - what happened to good they didn't reach their quota, they were has filed for a five-month continuance of thinking that it was a second-class lan– old "nespodivanka"), "mitynh" (meeting), severely punished and one of them was the trial, and Judge Roberts will rule on guage and did not have the status of "vizyt" (visit), "ofis" (office), "mer" told that she would be killed and her that motion in a few weeks. Russian. There are still so many people (mayor), "konsensus" (consensus), "kom– body would never be found. The United Nations has declared who think it is for the village, but not fortabelnyi" (comfortable) and on and on? The defendants are Michail Aronov, international trafficking of women for sophisticated enough for important or This is happening to many languages 32, from Lithuania and a permanent resi– sex exploitation to be the biggest viola– refined conversation. around the world, and it is a real shame. dent of the U.S., and Aleksander tion of human rights in today's world. As John Kolasky showed decades ago, Not that English is not the lingua franca Maksimenko, 25, from Ukraine, a natu– Mr. Malarek stated that it is the third Russification in the schools meant that to - this can't be denied - but the other lan– ralized U.S. citizen. largest source of illegal income, after get into university, you'd better know guages should at least remain themselves A police search of the properties of the arms and drugs, generating about Si2 Russian rather than Ukrainian. That ugly within themselves. defendants disclosed half a million dol– billion a year - a lucrative business that legacy of Russian imperialism permeat– The previous Russification was lars in cash and several loaded weapons, is not taxed by any government in the ing Ukraine still lingers. forced, but this new English-invasion is both "legal" and illegal (one had been world. І hope that people soon realize that people-driven. True, one cannot deny stolen in Milwaukee), and proof that Those of us from the Ukrainian Ukrainian really is a legitimate language, progress, but is the eradication of vocab– 5145,000 had been wired to Kyiv and National Women's League of America and is not substandard, as they were ulary a necessary part of advancement? who attended the hearings hope and pray brainwashed to believe. And don't even get me started on "H" Larissa Ghiso of Royal Oak, Mich., is that by supporting the Department of And to my not-too-objective ear - it is so and "G" and transliterations. The brain a retired English teacher, librarian and Justice in its prosecution, educating the much more pleasant-sounding than Russian. just fries. archivist with B.A. and MA. degrees community at large and giving aid, if at Last summer in Lviv an American tourist Now that the Orange Revolution has suc– from the University of Michigan. She is a all possible, to the abducted women and commented to me on some teenagers stand– ceeded, 1 pray that the member of Branch 96 of Ukrainian children, these evil practices will at least ing nearby, talking away in Russian. "Why will enjoy a revival in its own. Hey, with the National Women s League of America. be reduced, if not eliminated. are they speaking Russian, when Ukrainian revolution's impact around the world, it will is so much more beautiful to listen to?!" He be "in" to be Ukrainian - in Ukrainian!

Beware of using ATMs To: Our Canadian Subscribers From: Subscription Department in Ukraine, advises expert RE: Delivery of The Ukrainian Weekly by Anne Bates Linden Frankivsk or Kolomiya - 1 used my ATM card to withdraw it. І couldn't imagine Do you have a postal service problem? KYiv - The U.S. Embassy's director being able to function without one - which of security took the podium. This was the as 1 suddenly realized, was exactly what the 1. The first step is to bring your concern to your local post office. third time in three months i'd heard him director of security was recommending. 2. if your concern is still not resolved, the second step is to address Americans preparing to observe "Some of Kyiv's ATMs have been contact the Customer Service Department at Canada Post at Ukraine's presidential election. So 1 fig– rigged to photograph users' P1N numbers ured 1 didn't really need to listen - that (800) 267-1177. as well as information contained on the Fd heard it all before. That was until І 3. if you still have a concern, you may request that the cards," he explained. We don't know heard him mention ATMs. Ombudsman at Canada Post review your case. which ATMs have been hijacked, which For as long as Fd been living in remain secure. But we do know that sev– Ukraine, my ATM card had been my fman– The Ombudsman is the final appeal authority in the dispute eral Embassy staff members have been cial lifeline. At the beginning of each resolution process at Canada Post and is committed to help improve victimized, he continued. month, money was automatically deposited postal services for all Canadians. to my vermont account, and when 1 needed "What can 1 do to protect myself or at some - whether in Kyiv, Lviv, ivano– least lessen the exposure?" І asked him The Office of the Ombudsman offers its services free of charge to all after the meeting. Canadians. "For this to work, you need to be able to P.O. Box 90026, Ottawa, Ont. Kiv 1J8 Anne Bates Linden, originally from bank online," he'd told me. "Plus, you need Telephone: (800) 204-4198, Fax: (800) 204-4193 Boston, is a former Peace Corps volun– to have two accounts - one with no ATM teer (1992-1995) who now lives in www.ombudsman.poste-canada-post.com ivano– Frankivsk, Ukraine. (Continued on page 15) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 No. 22

trum of popular music. such as that of Chiara of Malta, who pre– would become the first hip hop song per– Kyiv hosts... Norway's Wig Warn was a living effi– sented an emotional, inspiring ballad, formed at Eurovision. (Continued from page 1) gy to the glamour rockers of the 1980s "Angel," in which she sang the refrain Certainly, it was the only hip hop song "Г11 be your angel, in the darkest nights." performed during this year's contest, and their country's name and singing its song who caroused on stage in skin-tight Her vocal range and intensity drew enthu– the entire audience rose from their seats entry. The Serbians held the first rally, fol– pants, eyeliner and long hair. siastic applause and many votes later on. to clap, dance and sing along. lowed by the Greeks and Russians. Moldova's young rockers Zdob si Zdub Not everything was rock, israel's Shiri Finally, just minutes before the concert thrashed about the stage with a 60-year-old Chants of "U-kra-yi-na" filled the hall Maymon sang a heartfelt song, "The began, about 40 Ukrainian youths began woman in their performance of "Boonika when Mr. Kalyn, guitarist Roman Silence That Remains," in a long evening chanting, "U-kra-yi-na" and sang verses Bate Doba" (Grandma Beats a Drum), Kostyuk and keyboardist Andrii Pysetskyi gown and was accompanied by a pianist, from "," the Orange which they sang in Moldovan and English. ran onto the stage along with their drum– a guitarist and back-up singers. Revolution's anthem that the "1 smile and 1 cry when 1 see that mer who was decked out in orange. Gryndzholy, known in English as crazy baba," was among the curious Four female violinists surrounded Behind Mr. Kalyn, two young dancers Greenjolly, rewrote for Eurovision. lyrics in the group's tribute to babas, dur– Albania's Ledina as she performed, dressed in white sweats struck sharp syn– Ruslana launched the finals with the ing which their babusia sat in an over- "Tomorrow 1 Go." Turkey's Gulseren chronized dance moves while a heavy song that won her the competition last sized rocking chair beating a large drum, sang strictly in Turkish in what was the chain bound their wrists, striking an year, "." then later springing out. night's most traditional performance, obvious political message. Performances covered the whole spec– Other performances were more serious, consisting strictly of Turkish costumes, Mr. Kalyn sang the first two verses in dancing and melodies. English, including the lyrics, "All together Most songs were sung in English, and we're one, all together we're strong. God most female performers wore short skirts be my witness, we've waited too long!" visitors impressed with Ukraine s handlingand revealing tops, including the winner, After the second verse, the dancers broke Helena. their chains and began to dance freely in in her performance, Helena danced in their own individual styles. One did a cart- of Eurovision - and Ukrainian capital city a tan, glittery top and a light skirt that wheel while the other did a handspring. bounced and teased the audience as four by Zenon Zawada Geneva, Switzerland, who worked in And, despite attempts to politically muscular men in loose light button-down Kyiv Press Bureau Russia for 10 years, said he was surprised neuter the song, in which phrases such as shirts danced alongside. to see how distinct Ukraine was. "This "Yushchenko-Tak!" (Yushchenko -Yes!) The dancers performed intricate KYiv - Europeans visiting Kyiv for place is not the same," Mr. Engellau said. and "My ne bydlo - my ne kozly" (We are moves resembling traditional Greek the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest said "Ukraine radiates softness and beauty. not beasts of burden– we're not goats) were dancing and at one point raised Helena in they were impressed with Ukraine's cap– The people are very friendly, not hostile." eliminated, Mr. Kalyn managed to shout the ital and the way its people had organized the air so that she could play an exagger– Ukraine's tourism industry needs to words, "We are together, we won't be and prepared for Europe's annual pop ated string bass. do a better job of marketing the country defeated," in Russian toward the end. music extravaganza. Helena's song contained the refrain, to Europeans, he said, particularly those When the song ended, the concert hall "it's a real big party," said Frode "You are the one, you're my number one, who are looking to get away for a single erupted in frenetic cheers as flags repre– Fjeldstad, 26, a Eurovision fan from the only treasure ГИ ever have." weekend, or what's known as "short- senting all nations waved fiercely. Norway who was visiting Kyiv for four The excitement reached a climax break destinations." Another "U-kra-yi-na" chant started. days, "it's much better than Riga in when Ukraine's national heroes came out "i'm very surprised with the architec– in fact, other artists chose unique, sym– 2003. The whole city is on fire. І think on stage to play the simple, catchy tune ture," Mr. Engellau said, "it's not as bolic ways of expressing support for the they are proud of it." that became a part of history. Russian as 1 thought it would be - not revolution. For example, the Norwegian While nations like Great Britain and Before the contest, Greenjolly's chub– decadent and dirty." lead singer waved an orange flag during France have come to dismiss the compe– by lead singer Roman Kalyn said Martin Tiveus, 34, a Eurovision fan tition as somewhat tawdry, Ukrainians "Razom Nas Bahato - Nas Ne Podolaty" (Continued on page 9) from Stockholm, Sweden, said Kyiv's embraced Eurovision, which provided restaurants and night life are "very high- the rare opportunity to host thousands of class." The city's location on the Dnipro Europeans who might otherwise have and its many beautiful parks made him never considered visiting Kyiv. feel as if he were back home in "Europe has two main venues for Stockholm, Mr. Tiveus said. tourists - Eurovision and the Olympics," A veteran of 13 consecutive Mr. Fjeldstad said. "So it's a real door- Eurovisions, Boog Biagi, 42, of opener for the country." Edinburgh, Scotland, said he found a To welcome the tourists, Kyiv kicked very positive atmosphere in Kyiv for off Eurovision festivities the prior Eurovision. "1 was in Latvia two years Saturday with European Union Day. ago, and they were slightly aloof there," That night, Ukrainian rock legends УорИ Mr. Biagi said. "1 didn't understand local vidoplyasova performed a concert before custom. They're a reserved people." thousands of youngsters at independence Margaret Geraghty, 38, of Dublin, Square, known as the "maidan," in front of ireland, said she was expecting a former a European Union flag. Soviet city, but instead found Kyiv to be During the concert, singer Oleh "a lot more cosmopolitan than І Skrypka shouted, "We want to join thought." Kyiv has the potential to Europe, not the Soviet Union right?" The become a city like Prague, she noted, young crowd responded with a resound– which is a popular place for Europeans ingly affirmative cheer. to visit for the weekend. All week, musicians performed on a "Europeans are always looking for stage erected on the maidan, and Kyiv some place new to go," added Mr. Biagi, closed the Khreschatyk to auto- who wore a kilt and a Yankees baseball І, AP7Sergei Chuzavkov mobile traffic so that Europeans could Helena Paparizou of Greece with vitalii Klitschko while performing on pleasantly stroll down the city's main cap as he strolled down Khreshchatyk independence Square. thoroughfare and enjoy food or buy the Sunday afternoon of the finals. Ukrainian souvenirs. The only problem with this year's Eurovision, fans said, was that few Some visitors said they didn't know what to expect from the post-Soviet nation Ukrainians could afford to go. Tickets with which they became familiar only for Ukrainians were in the S40 range, after the Orange Revolution. Some said more than 200 hrv. they were unsure whether the country was Mr. Biagi said he gave his dress stable, while others didn't know whether rehearsal tickets away to Ukrainians. Kyiv had progressed from Soviet times. "it would be nice if it were more "To be honest, 1 was worried about inclusive," Ms. Geraghty said. "Tickets things," said Mika Toivanen, 23, who are so expensive that the locals can't go, wrote the music for "Why?" the song and that's a negative thing." sung by Finland's representative in the visitors agreed that hosting Eurovision semi-finals, Geir Ronning. "But i'm is a positive step in Ukraine's determina– quite impressed, and working here has tion to join the European Union. been great, it was very well-organized." "1 think Ukraine will become part of Yictor Engellau, 34, a native of the EU before Norway," Mr. Fjeldstad said, pointing out that his nation is among the few European countries that have vol– untarily refrained from membership. Correction Cultural adjustments won't be as The caption to the photo of the much as a problem for Ukraine as it Gryndzholy published in the May 22 would be for Turkey, he said. issue incorrectly identified the two mem– "it's a question of attitude," Mr. bers of the group pictured, in fact, Fjeldstad said, "if Ukrainians want to be Roman Kalyn is on the left, while European, then they will become A police officer stands guard outside the Sports Palace in Kyiv, where the finals Roman Kostyuk is on the right. European." of the 50th Eurovision song contest were held. No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 9

thick trash can lids attached onto their Kyiv hosts... feet and provided the beat by stomping (Continued from page 8) in rhythm upon the thick glass stage. his performance, while Denmark's Jakob By the time voting concluded, it was wore bright orange shoes. apparent that Helena had won and the Eurovision's theme this year was large Greek delegation burst into cheers, "Awakening," also a reference to the rev– Greek chants and singing. olution. When she reached the stage, the To the audience's delight, boxing Klitshcko brothers greeted Helena with hugs

І APZSergei Chuzavkov The flags of Ukraine and the European Union are raised outside the Eurovision contest venue.

І APZSergey Ponomarev Ruslana opens the finale of the Euro vision song contest in Kyiv. champions vitalii and volodymyr and Ruslana came out to congratulate her. Klitschko emerged onto the stage in in a Eurovision first, a national presi– sleek suits to announce the commence– dent, in this case viktor Yushchenko, ment of tele–voting. appeared on stage at the competition's Europeans were allowed to vote by end to congratulate Helena. telephone for any contestant except the "This is a special prize from Ukraine one representing their home nation. As a with the hope that your song unites all of result, many nations end up giving the Europe," Mr. Yushchenko told Helena as most votes to the performers represent– Ukrainian spectators led a chant of "Yu– ing their neighboring countries. shchen-ko." Performers received as many as 12 in a conversation with Ruslana after- points from a single nation. wards, President Yushchenko said he Despite the loud, enthusiastic believed that many of this year's І AP7Sergey PDnomarev applause in the Sports Palace, Greenjolly Eurovision contestants chose to sing in Gryndzholy7Greenjolly of Ukraine perform during rehearsal for the final of the faired rather poorly, receiving only 30 "our style." Eurovision song contest. votes and finishing near the bottom. At a 2 a.m. press conference following The Moldovans gave Greenjolly eight her victory, Helena was pointedly asked points, the Portuguese gave seven points, whether she thought her performance the Spanish gave one point and Russian and style were similar to Ruslana's. voters awarded the boys from ivano– "She made all countries feel more Frankivsk only two points. proud of their tradition and nationality," Only Poland gave Greenjolly its maxi– Helena responded. "She gave inspiration mum of 12 points, repeating its decision for countries to do more traditional songs." last year when it awarded 12 points to Helena was also asked what she Ruslana's performance. thought about the revolution in Kyiv and incidentally, a vote that raised eye- Ukraine's future in the European Union. brows was Belarus awarding Russia's "All revolutions in history result in rock singer Natalia Podolskaya 12 something better in the end," Helena said. points, but no points to Greenjolly. "1 would like to see Ukraine and all the Clearly impressed with the homage to Balkans in the European Union, because a drum-beating baba, Ukraine gave its 12 we will be stronger if we are all together." points to the Moldovan rockers, Zdob si With those comments, Ukrainian lead– Zdub. ers succeeded in what viewed as a gold- Greece's Helena received 230 total en opportunity to further promote votes and the top score of 12 points from Ukraine's relations with the European 10 nations, including Cyprus with its Union. They were thrilled about Greek-speaking population, the singer's Eurovision's results and post-Eurovision home country of Sweden and even comments, and Mr. Tomenko went so far Greece's historic rival Turkey. as to say Eurovision 2005 was the best in g AP7Mykola Lazarenko, POOL incidentally, European oddsmakers the contest's 50-year history. The winner of the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, Helena Paparizou of Greece (left), had cast her as the favorite before the "Our team received from the prior and 2004 winner Ruslana with Ukrainian boxer vitalii Klitschko. competition, it was Helena's second government a management task in which Eurovlsion contest; she represented we were faced with the threat of Eurovision stood in contrast with the con- to be done, including presenting an ener– Greece in 2001. Eurovision 2005 being moved from test's status in places such as Great Britain getic performance and strong choreography. Malta's Chiara placed a distant second Ukraine to another country," Mr. and France, where it's treated as more of a "Most of all, 1 am very happy for with 192 votes and Romania's Luminita Tomenko said. "That's why the main task spectacle. Even the more successful Ukraine that it organized the competition and her band Sistem finished in third put in front of us by the president was to bands, such as Wig Warn, appeared more and it took place in our country," Mr. place with 158 votes. not allow any upheavals of the contest like parodies and acts than actual artists. Kalyn said. Luminita's song, "," was a and carry it out at the appropriate level." "it might look strange that the new cul– After the finals, Eurovision's execu– techno-dance song with a very catchy Joining Mr. Yushchenko and Mr. tural era in Ukraine has to begin with an tive director, Svante Stockselius, said he refrain: "Let me try; 1 don't want to say Tomenko in attending the song fest were event that has become known for joining was satisfied with Ukraine's execution of good-bye. І will find a way to make you Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and kitsch costumes with horrible lyrics," wrote Eurovision, which he described as excel– stay; just let me try." State Secretary Oleksander Zinchenko. the British newspaper, The Guardian. lently organized. The Romanian group's choreography Even Coca-Cola promoted Eurovision As for the Ukrainian representative "Everything was fabulous: the sound, was among the most unique as Sistem's 2005 on its bottles in Ukraine, adopting group's poor vote results, Mr. Kalyn of camerawork and tele-voting," he said. percussionists banged on trash cans the slogan, "Obiednuysia zi svitom" Gryndzholy said Eurovision is a lottery "And 1 give you a 100 percent guarantee throughout the performance. During the (Unite with the world.) when it comes to determining its winners. that everything was carried out honestly song's third verse, they emerged with Ukraine's serious treatment of He said his band did everything that needed and openly." 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 No. 22 BOOK NOTE: Pysanky for the 21st century by master of ancient art "Pysanky in the 21st Century," by Helen Badulak. ly moved to the United States, and Mrs. Badulak lost Kutztown, Pa. The Kutztown Publishing Co. inc., 2004, touch with her Ukrainian heritage. 229 pp., S50 (hard cover). As she grew up in America she became truly intrigued by the vast amount of cultural diversity she The ancient Ukrainian art of creating pysanky has encountered here. 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herself, who asked reporters to ignore upon the Russians to conduct themselves Penta Center for Applied Political Yushchenko... "political rumors and gossip" when asked as business partners and to refrain from Research, said it won't be the last sharp (Continued from page 1) about the incident the same day. organizing a fuel crisis every time conflict between Mr. Yushchenko and ing a May 22 interview. "But it wasn't An anonymous source in President Ukraine's sowing season begins. Ms. Tymoshenko, and more conflicts are serious at all." Yushchenko's camp offered a separate He also reportedly said the govern– likely to flare up in the autumn as they That seemed to be the consensus of all version. ment used excessive non-market levers in gear up for parliamentary elections. those present, including Ms. Tymoshenko Mr. Yushchenko reportedly called regulating the crisis. Ms. Tymoshenko's fate is similar to Ms. Tymoshenko repeated that she that of Mr. Yushchenko in 2001, Mr. was convinced the Ukrainian government Fesenko said, when a coalition of left- campaign. Since Mr. Yushchenko's vic– conducted itself properly during the cri– wing, oligarchic and Communist political Press freedom... tory on December 26, 2004, the media sis, according to Dzerkalo Tyzhnia's fractions in the verkhovna Rada voted to (Continued from page 3) freedom situation in Ukraine has shifted anonymous sources. oust him. Mr. Walker noted, however, that devel– to one of "cautious optimism," according At that point, the president didn't in the days following the reported opments in the last year and a half "offer to Ms. Howansky. Ukrainian media con– dwell on the matter and reportedly asked flare-up, both Mr. Yushchenko and Ms. Ms. Tymoshenko to refrain from making Tymoshenko did their best to appear at some signs of promise." tinue to face challenges, she said, but the government is working to ensure media such comments in public, which reveal peace and insisted no serious conflict Ms. Howansky said that the improve– freedom by "eradicating the abuse of the disunity in the leadership. exists. ment in Ukraine's press freedom rating, criminal justice system against media, Even after Mr. Yushchenko's repeated The day Dzerkalo Tyzhnia reported its from "not free" to "partly free" is primari– reforming the politicized regulation of admonitions, Ms. Tymoshenko reported– story, Ms. Tymoshenko said that her rela– ly due to changes in the political environ– the media and resolving unsolved murder ly brought up her disagreement a third tions with the president are warm and ment that have occurred since the election cases, such as the Gongadze case." time, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia's sources said. friendly. of viktor Yushchenko as president. Ms. Mr. Kimmage said that "the situation She then thanked Ukrainian and Tatar "That's how it was yesterday, that's Howansky stated that the legal framework with the media in Turkmenistan is terri– companies and said she would conduct a how it was today, and that's how it will has long been considered satisfactory in ble, bad in Uzbekistan, not very good in separate meeting with the Russians, always be," Ms. Tymoshenko said. Ukraine, because the Constitution provid– Kazakhstan and Tajikistan and unclear in sources said. Both she and Mr. Yushchenko deeply ed for freedom of speech and citizens' post-Akaev Kyrgyzstan." Mr. Kimmage in that case, Mr. Yushchenko reported– value their relationship and she is con– access to information. However, according stated that, in these nations that "often ly said, Ms. Tymoshenko can write a let– vinced that no one can ruin their relation- to Ms. Howansky, "(these! rights were not lack consensus" over basic political sys– ter of resignation and join the SDPU and ship, dismissing the reports as "informa– respected in practice" by the administra– tems, the press "assumes broader func– Party of the Regions supporters in blow– tion diversions." tion of former President Leonid Kuchma. tions" such as the "search for justice." ing horns and beating their drums. "We are one team that came to power By the end of 2004, however, hun– Because of this, he added, "journalists "We work as a team, therefore, discus– seriously and for a long time," Ms. dreds of journalists denounced the offi– are often forced to take sides" on the sions can only take place at the discus– Tymoshenko said. "We feel an immense cial intimidation and censorship they suf– issues and that "traditional journalists" in sion stage," the president reportedly said. responsibility before the people who fered during the presidential election the Western mold do not now exist. "After a decision has been made, there is brought us to power, who are hoping and Ms. Corwin said that the smaller the no place for discussion. Those who do counting on us. We will never betray audience that can be reached by a media not agree can resign." their hopes." Want to reach us in Russia, the less official interest and This remark was not directed at Ms. in response to the reports, the presi– control it faces. She called the internet Tymoshenko personally, but the presi– dent's press secretary, iryna bye-mail? the "freest" form of media in Russia, but dent's team as a whole, said vitalii Heraschenko, said Mr. Yushchenko's Editorial materials: said that Russian media consumers Chepinoha, Ms. Tymoshenko's press sec– words were interpreted in the wrong way. staffSukrweekly.com exhibit a "great reliance on national tele- retary, who added that the anonymous On the Sunday following the reported vision news" that "maintains the sources and journalists presented the conflict, Mr. Yushchenko and Ms. Subscription Department: Kremlin's view of foreign policy and meeting "in a somewhat distorted fash- Tymoshenko joined other government subscription^ukrweekly.com world events." 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"Maybe with fights, with pain, designOukrweekly.com Southeastern Europe; the Caucasus; and cussion of Ms. Tymoshenko's resigna– maybe with gasoline crises, maybe with Preview of Events: Central and Southwestern Asia funded tion," said Oles Donii, the head of the problems with meat, but Ukraine is ris– previewOukrweekly.com by the U.S. Congress through the Center for Research of Political values, ing. We are united and not dividable on Broadcasting Board of Governors. vblodymyr Fesenko, the head of the any issue." No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 11 Yarenyky eating champion crowned in New York City by Andrew Nynka NEW YORK - They're called sliders for a reason. But if there was ever any doubt about how easy it is to eat them, several hundred onlookers watched in amazement recently as a trim Ukrainian man polished off several hundred in less than two minutes during a varenyky eat– ing contest here in the East village. Oleg Zhornitskiy, a 39-year-old immi– grant from Odesa, Ukraine, ate 200 of the potato-filled dumplings, entertaining a crowd of some 200 people who came to watch the inaugural competition, held at the Ukrainian National Home, on a cool Saturday afternoon on May 21. The winner received a trip to Ukraine with the airfare and hotel expenses covered. But what stunned the crowd and the organizers of the event was that Mr. Zhornitskiy devoured the varenyky (also known as pierogies) in one minute and 35 seconds. in fact, Mr. Zhornitskiy's performance was so stunning that he even baffled the contest's organizers, who originally planned to give all six competitors eight minutes to eat as many varenyky as they could. But Mr. Zhornitskiy, a trim man who said he weighs about 175 pounds, finished his portion and calmly stood up after little more than a minute and a half, effectively ending the competition well Andrew Nynka before the allotted time had expired. Gregory Bohdanowycz (standing upright) takes a more patient approach to eating his varenyky. Still griping a handful of varenyky, 17-year-old Lesyk Myskiw, the runner- Andrij Sonevytsky, head chef at the up, looked on in disbelief at the end of Ukrainian National Association's the contest to see the winner's arms Soyuzivka resort, said the average size of raised triumphantly. a varenyk is about 2-2 172 inches long But it was before the contest ended with a weight of 2-3 ounces. The that people in the crowd, many of whom varenyky used during the eating contest began the competition seated, quickly were closer to 1 172 inches long and rose to their feet and surged forward for appeared to be about half the size of a a clear view of the action. regular varenyk. Hunched over platters filled with but– Either way, Mr. Zhornitskiy effectively tered varenyky, the six competitors ate 100 full-size varenyky in 95 seconds, jammed pierogies into their mouths by Mr. Sonevytsky said. 'That's amazing. the handful. But tell him he's lucky 1 wasn't around," Mr. Zhornitskiy, however, had the the Soyuzivka chef added, alluding to his advantage of experience, in 2001 the own varenyky-eating prowress. Brooklyn, N.Y., native won an eating The inaugural event was produced and competition of pelmeni (Russian run by Artemes, an entertainment and dumplings, similar to varenyky, but small– production company, which in previous er and often filled with meat). During the years ran the pelmeni contest, as well as varenyky competition he seemed to swal– ice cream and gefilte fish eating contests. low handfuls at a time, pausing at points The company, which paid for the win– for only brief sips of water. ner's trip to Ukraine, said it planned the Artur Gevorkan (left), a Georgian who now lives in New York, faces off against The remaining four competitors - eating contest with the idea of a food Oleg Zhornitskiy, the eventual varenyky eating champion. Eugene Evans, Artur Gevorkan and broth– trade show in mind, indeed, sponsorship ers Nicholas and Gregory Bohdanowycz - banners and products from various Shustoff, provided t-shirts for the com– Assemblyman Brian M. McLaughlin; looked shocked by Mr. Zhornitskiy's per– Ukrainian food companies could be seen petitors and vodka for the guests, who and Andriy Lastowecky, the manager of formance. in effect, the Brooklyn man ate throughout the Ukrainian National paid a S15 entry fee to watch the compe– the Ukrainian National Home. at a pace of just over two varenyky a sec– Home's second-floor hall. tition and sample the assorted foods. ond, though the dumplings were smaller The competition's main sponsor, a Among the evening's other sponsors than traditional varenyky. new Ukrainian vodka company called were Chumak, which makes a variety of canned products; and the Kurowycky Meat Market, which provided kovbasa, kabanosy and salo for those people who were not saving room in their stomachs for the varenyky-eating competition. "in the end, it's all about the food," said Artemes Chief Executive Officer Yolodymyr (Wolf) Birman. "We're starting a new trend in the Ukrainian community and 1 think this is something worthwhile," said Jaroslaw Kurowyckyj Sr., whose son now owns the Kurowycky Meat Market. "The Ukrainian downtown has not yet seen something like this," he said of the eat– ing competition. The event included a small cultural presentation of Ukrainian dancing and songs, a lunch for the guests and short speeches from a variety of people. Among them were Consul Andrii Olefirov of Ukraine's Consulate General in New York; Bruce Solomon, who rep- Oleg Zhornitskiy celebrates his victory Competitors in the varenyky eating contest wait for the competition to begin. resented New York City Comptroller in the varenyky eating competition, Pictured (from left) are: Lesyk Myskiw, Nicholas Bohdanowycz, Gregory William C. Thompson Jr.; Jeff Gottlieb, a the first of its kind in the East village, Bohdanowycz and Eugene Evans. special assistant to New York State by hoisting the first place trophy. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 No. 22 Ukrainians in the world of sports: an overview of top stars by George Tracz, Ph.D. the son of Michael and Eamelia One of the greatest tight ends in college his mother-in-law, Halyna Zmiyevska, to Nagurski, pioneers who settled in Rainy football, the son of a rail worker from coach her. Through the years, Ukrainian athletes River. Bronko's football exploits at the Carnegie, Pa., he was an intimidating SOCCER have registered significant accomplish– University of Minnesota earned him Ail- force as a tight end, winning the NFL's ments in a variety of sports. American selections to two different rookie of the year award with the Zenon Snylyk: The following is a brief overview of positions - tackle and fullback. Probably Chicago Bears. Ditka (born Dyzcko) was The first wave of Ukrainian immigration some of the brightest Ukrainian stars one of the greatest football players in the an NFL All-Pro from 1961 to 1964. to Canada produced excellent athletes in from the United States, Canada and National Football League, he starred for hockey and football. But it was soccer that Ukraine, as well as Australia. the Chicago Bears. A salary dispute led Terry Evanshen: provided sporting success for post–World FOOTBALL Nagurski to take up professional in the off-season of 1965, the War 11 immigrants, symbolized best by wrestling, where he won the World Montreal Alouettes foolishly underesti– Zenon Snylyk. Red-haired Zenon played in Bronko Nagurski: Heavyweight Wrestling title in 1937. He mated the power of "The Flea," and trad– both Canada and the United States, and Raw strength and brute power charac– continued to wrestle through the 1950s. ed their star receiver, Terry Evanshen, to was on three U.S. Olympic teams (1956, terized this 6-foot, 230-pound fullback. His son, Bronko Jr., played tackle for the the Calgary Stampeders. 1966 turned out '60, '64), and became the only player in Bronislav ("Bronko") was born in 1908, Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the 1960s and to be a good year for Calgary. Terry U.S. history to do so. He later became edi– was twice selected to the All-Star matched the league record for a 109-yard tor of The Ukrainian Weekly, and then edi– Dr. George Tracz, a former education Canadian Football League's team. reception and led the CFL with 67 catch– tor-in-chief of Svoboda. professor at the University of Toronto, es for 1,200 yards. The following year he in the 1950s, readers will remember has just published "The Dominators: Mike Ditka: again led the CFL, scored 17 touch- USC Trident (Tryzub) and SA Ukraina, The Remarkable Athletes Who Changed At 6-foot, 3-inches tall and 225 downs, and captured his first Schenley as well as the Skocen brothers Their Sport Forever'' (with co-author, pounds, iron Mike, Da Coach, The Award, in 1970, after being traded back (Oleksander and Osyp), the Dyczkowsky Frank Orr). The book is available at Hammer, Ditka, won the Super Bowl as to Montreal, Evanshen helped the brothers (Levko and vblodymyr), Ostap most North American bookstores. player, assistant coach and head coach. Alouettes win the Grey Cup. Steckiw, Myron Bereza, Walter There have been nearly 100 players of Zakaluzny, Tony Shapka, Stan Haba, Ukrainian descent in the CFL. Local Andriy Horsky and Jaroslaw Kowal. readers will find the following names familiar: Lance Chomyc, Danny Oleh Blokhin: Nykoluk, John Sopinka, Zenon Soccer also put Ukraine on the land- Andrusyshyn and Steve Onyschuk. scape of European sports. Th legendary Dynamo Kyiv, coached by valeriy FIGURE SKATING Lobanovsky, thrilled thousands in the Oksana Baiul: 1970s and '80s. Oleh Blokhin was cho– if Hollywood were to make a movie sen European Footballer of the Year for about В ami's dramatic and determined 1975; teammate igor Belanov duplicated drive to defeat Nancy Kerrigan for the the feat in 1986. Blokhin, blessed with 1994 figure skating Olympic gold medal, blinding speed, electrified the crowds it would be named "The Odyssey of the and led Dynamo Kyiv to victory in the Ukrainian Orphan." Born in 1977 in European Cup - Winners" Cup in 1975 Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Oksana and 1986, scoring in both finals. A showed promise by the age of 5. "1 liked national hero, Oleh Blokhin was hon– the feeling of gliding," she recalled, and oured in 2004 as Ukraine's Outstanding local coaches also liked what they saw. Player of the past 50 years. Orphaned at 13, she was taken under the wing of famed coach Halyna Zmiyevska : and just three years later, the tiny, perky After Ukraine gained independence, teenager qualified for the Olympics. Dynamo Kyiv began exporting skilled Overcoming an aching back and a stitched players to attain financial viability (Oleh right shin, Oksana stole the show with her Luzhny to Arsenal; to brilliant performance and skated away Tottenham; and Shevchenko to AC with the gold medal. Milan). After leading Dynamo Kyiv to five straight Ukraine titles, Shevchenko, who made his debut at 17 in 1994, joined viktor Petrenko: AC Milan for S25 million on a five-year Petrenko brought great artistry and contract. The gifted striker quickly led superlative technical skills to men's fig– the league in scoring and took his team to ure skating. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, in victory in the Champions League (2003) 1969, viktor quickly gained international and later helped capture the italian acclaim by winning the World Junior League title (2004). in 2004, Shevchenko Championship and four years later, in was named European Footballer of the 1988, won a bronze in the Worlds. Then, Year and dedicated the "Golden Ball" to in 1992, he captured the Olympic gold "my people in Ukraine - who are facing medal, justifying his reputation as such difficult times." "Baryshnikov on ice." He also played big to Oksana Baiul by arranging for (Continued on page 13)

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Readers will recall the great play of TRACK AND F1ELD Drayton (given name, Peter Buniak) Ukrainians in the world... Turk Broda, Johnny Bower, Bill were Canada's top distance runners in Mosienko, Bill Barilko, Dave volodymyr Kuts: the 1960s and '70s. Both won important (Continued from page 12) Born in 1927 in Oleksyne, in the HOCKEY Andreychuk, Eric Nesterenko, Dave marathon races, and Drayton, in 1977, Semenko and Danny Lewicki. There Sumy region of Ukraine, Kuts moved to was named Canada's Male Athlete of the Terry Sawchuk: were nearly 200 players of Ukrainian Leningrad at an early age. He established Year. Call him "Uke," "Ukey," or "Shutout descent in the NHL. himself as a distance running champion King," and you'd be right on all counts. Dmitri Khristich, Ruslan Fedotenko when he upset the great Emil Zatopek in GYMNAST1CS: 1954, and is one of a handful of athletes His 103 shutouts in regular season and Alexei Ponikarovsky, among others, Larysa Latynina: to establish new records in both the 5,000 National Hockey League play are still are currently in the NHL. in a league of her own? Perhaps one of and 10,000 meter runs, volodymyr cap– unmatched, long after his tragic and the greatest female gymnasts of all time? tured the gold medal at the 1956 untimely death in 1970. Sawchuk, born GOLF Certainly, with a total of 18 Olympic Olympics in both events, and, although in 1929 in Winnipeg, remains one of the Bob Panasiuk: medals (nine gold) around her neck, representing the Soviet Union, Kuts greatest goaltenders, and can be credited Bob, the protege of avid golfing par– Latynina has won more medals than any always emphasized his Ukrainian nation– with the "crouch" style of play. ents, Nick and virginia, brought sunny other athlete has. But Larysa also brought ality. "Crouching," he said, "gave me a far bet– days to the fairways of the family's charm, skill and beauty to her favourite ter chance of seeing the puck on screen Hydeaway Golf Club near Windsor, event - the floor exercise - for which she shots." That innovative approach reward– Ontario. Just shy of 16 at the 1957 volodymyr Holubnychy: gathered three Olympic golds (Melbourne, ed Terry with four vezina trophies, each Canadian Open, he became the youngest Holubnychy, on the other hand, spe– 1956; Rome, '60; and Tokyo, '64). Born in recognizing him as the NHL's top goal- ever to play in a Professional Golf cialized in the 20-kilometer walk. His 1934 in Kherson, Ukraine, Latynina grad– tender. Sawchuk paid dearly for 21 sea- Association Tour event. Shortly there- dominance was long-lived as he took the uated from the Kyiv institute of Physical sons of play for NHL teams through a after, he won the Ontario and Canadian following Olympic medals: gold (Rome, Culture, and coached the USSR women's variety of physical injuries and emotional Junior Championships and then, in 1959, '60), bronze (Tokyo, '64), gold (Mexico gymnastics team from 1966 to 1977. She City, '68), and finally settled for silver turmoil. the Ontario Amateur Championship. remains the only gymnast (male or (Munich, 1972). At the age of 38, in Panasiuk spent the next 15 years on the female) to have won medals in every event Eddie Shack: Canadian PGA tour, winning several 1974, Holubnychy was still the European champion in this event. (all-around, team, bars, beam, floor and "Clear the track, here comes Shack" championships with outstanding shot- vault) at two Olympics. sidelined even Elvis's "Hound Dog" in making. the hockey world of the '60s. in Glen Hnatiuk, out of Manitoba, is cur– valeriy Borzov: Lilia Podkopayeva: Borzov had but one desire: run fast, November 1960, the 200-pound, 23- rently playing in the PGA tour. Forty years after Latynina's dramatic even faster than the breeze, in 1966, the year-old right winger from Sudbury, debut in the Melbourne Olympics SKIING 17-year-old entered the Kyiv institute of Ontario, exploded onto the Maple Leaf (1956), Podkopayeva provided her own Physical Education. Coached by valentin ice with passionate determination. Steve Podborski: winning performances in the individual Petrovsky, the athletically gifted Borzov During his flamboyant seven-year in 1982, Podborski was honored as all-around gymnastics event at Atlanta. developed into a supreme sprinting tenure, "The Entertainer" powered the Officer of the Order of Canada, in recog– Born in Donetsk, Ukraine, the 18-year- machine using scientific training methods Leafs to four Stanley Cup victories, nition of the young man's excellence. At old took women's gymnastics to a new developed at the institute, in 1972, at the including the winning goal in the 1963 17, as a member of Canada's national level by executing exceptionally difficult Munich Olympics, valeriy achieved the series. Canada lost their "guided missile" alpine team, Steve pushed his boundaries routines with unequalled perfection. The rare sprint double, winning both the 100- in 1967 to the U.S. but he returned in in his first World Cup race, earning, with shy, petite, "Lilly Pod" morphed into a meter and 200-meter races. After he 1973 for the final two years of his fiery his teammates, the title "Crazy Canucks." bold and artistic performer once she retired from competition, he was elected career in Toronto. Three years later, he captured his first entered the competitive arena. Lilia is to important sports positions in Ukraine's victory on the World Cup circuit before a also 1996 European Champion and the government and is currently a member of "The Uke line": series of injuries slowed him down a lit– first defending World Champion (1995) the international Olympic Committee. The Uke line was a high-scoring for– tle. in 1981 he returned with a vengeance to win an Olympic gold medal since ward trio for the NHL's Boston Bruins and became the first non-European to be 1972. That's three titles simultaneously! made up of Johnny Bucyk, vie Stasiuk, crowned with the World Cup Downhill Serhiy Bubka: and Hungarian Bronco Horvath (the Championship. if Borzov loved to run, Bubka loved to SW1MM1NG: "adopted Ukrainian") that terrorized fly. One of the most outstanding athletes BOX1NG: of the 20th century, Bubka won six con– Yana Kiochkova: opposing goalies during the late 1950s. "The swimmer." That's how volodymyr and vitalii Klitschko: secutive (six for six!) World Championships in pole vaulting, from Kiochkova is known in Ukraine. Not sur– Mike Bossy: Two boxing brothers with Ph.D.s in prising when Yana, at a mere 22 years of A scoring machine, "Boss" scored 50 sport science? Who are you kidding? But 1983 to 1997. Serhiy was selected as 1997 "Champion of Champions" by age, is the dominant woman's all-around or more goals through nine consecutive that's exactly what the Klitschkos, a pair swimmer (backstroke, breaststroke, but– seasons in the NHL, including his rookie of brainy, brawny Ukrainians, are. "The l'Equipe, easily beating out Michael Jordan, in 1985, he was the first to clear 6 terfly, and freestyle) in the world right year. One of 10 children, he was born in Bruise Brothers" have brought valid cre– now. At the Sidney Olympics in 2000, Montreal in 1957, and explained that the dentials into the boxing ring (volodymyr meters and, in 1991, the first– and only– vaulter to clear 20 feet. He was also the she won both the 200-meter and 400- family name was originally Bosse, pro– won the super heavyweight gold medal meter individual medley races, establish– nounced "Baw-See" by his ancestors, and first to espouse the independent participa– for Ukraine in the 1996 Olympics, at the ing new records. Then, "The swimmer" hence Bossy. Between 1977 and '87, tion of Ukraine in the Olympic Games. age of 20). vitalii, five years older, repeated the feat four years later in Mike led the N.Y. islanders to four recently defeated Danny Williams in his Currently, the 41-year-old, from Luhansk, Stanley Cups, and was playoff Most Ukraine, is a member of the international Athens. Born in Simferopol she has been first defense of the WBC heavyweight with the same coach, Nina Kozhukh, valuable Player in 1982 before his early title. These goodwill ambassadors, hav– Olympic Committee, in 2003 he was retirement at the age of 31. in the 1980- appointed UNESCO Champion of Sport, since she was 8. Besides the four gold ing demonstrated strong support for Olympic medals, she has been a 10-time 1981 season his quick wrist shot and fast viktor Yushchenko and for democracy in joining Michael Schumacher and Pele as World Champion. Her greatest joy? skating enabled him to score 50 goals in Ukraine, have also revitalized the heavy- sport ambassadors. the first 50 games. weight boxing world. Seeing the Ukrainian flag being raised Locally, Andy Boychuk and Jerome and hearing the Ukrainian anthem being played at the Olympics. TENN1S: Andrei Medvedev: Born in Kyiv in 1974 into a tennis playing family, Andrei quickly endeared himself to fans and the media alike by displaying exceptionally entertaining (and winning) tennis. Yet, at the 1999 French Open finals, although leading Agassi by two sets to nil, he self-destruc– ted and gave Agassi the only Grand Slam event that had eluded the American. Medvedev saw his promising career cur- tailed by a rash of injuries. BASKETBALL: vitaly Potapenko: The arrival of the "Ukrainian Train," vitaly Potapenko, at 285 pounds, to the National Baksetball Association proves that even basketball is not immune to the Global village. After stints in Kyiv and at Ohio's Wright State University, Potapenko made his reputation as a strong and fearless rebounder first for the Heinz KluetmeierySports lllustratectfCBS inc. Terry Sawchuk Serhiy Bubka viktor Petrenko (Continued on page 20) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 No. 22

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orders would be ignored, if not deliber– the Crimean Tatars regarding all person– democratic forces are his main support Crimean Tatar... ately sabotaged. І would say that only 10 nel issues. Here in Crimea, only 15.5 per– here. Yet, he has already appointed a few (Continued from page 4) percent of his orders had any effect. cent of the population voted for officials without taking into account the a consequence, the Tatars' living standards On the one hand, fKuchmaj was obvi– Yushchenko. We estimate that the interests of the Crimean Tatars. This is are slightly below the average for Crimea. ously trying to make things happen. But, Crimean Tatars accounted for 10 or 11 probably due to the fact that some people on the other hand, we cannot say he was percent of the Yushchenko votes. Were it in his entourage are defending their own Did you receive firm assurances unaware of the selling of lands that was not for the Tatar factor, Yushchenko commercial interests and are trying to from President Yushchenko that he taking place in the south. He must have would have probably performed as poor– have their own people appointed to the will lift Mr. Kuchma's ban on the draft known that these lands were distributed ly here as he did in Donetsk and garnered right jobs, in this regard, one can say that rehabilitation bill passed by among people who were close to him and only 3 or 4 percent. the interests of the Crimean Tatars are, Parliament last year? that the Crimean Tatars were denied fYushchenkoJ knows that the national– once again, being ignored. access to them, in addition, there have We talked about this with him. He been a number of injustices committed received us on February 28, and our talks against Crimean Tatars. Whenever clash– 1914 Pine St. focused on this particular issue. He had es broke out between representatives of Philadelphia, PA 19103 asked the Justice Ministry to check the Russian-speaking population and Diaspora 215-732-3732 ' 1-800-487-5324 whether he could, as Ukraine's new pres– Crimean Tatars, only the latter were ident, lift the veto imposed by his prede– blamed. cessor and sign this bill into law. Our leg– When, to draw the public's attention to islation is not clear on this point. Some the illegal purchase of lands by the son- INDEPENDENCE TOURS legal provisions say he has the right to do in-law of the former speaker of the so. But others say he doesn't. 1. Aug. 14-28 Lviv-YaremcheTTruskavets-TERNOPliv Crimean Parliament and Communist Pochaiv-KYiv-POLTAvA S2950 We will, therefore, probably come to Party leader fLeonidJ Hrach, six young П. Aug. 16-28 Lviv-KYiv-POLTAvAXReshetelivka S2600 the conclusion that he should lift the veto Tatars took these lands by force before ill. Aug. 20-Sep. 2 KYiv-Poltava7Reshetelivka-YALTA7SimferopilX and that the Rada should re-examine the clashing with the Russian Cossacks who Bakhchisaray7SevastopiyKhersones-ODESA7Kherson S2850 bill. We would like this to happen before had been sent against us, they were sen– iv. Aug. 16-25 LvW(5)-KYiv(4) S2130 May 18, which will mark the anniversary tenced to up to nine years in jail - of the deportation. However, the first ses– although there was not a single casualty. sion cf the Rada will take place only on By comparison, a few months earlier an Please call for tour BROCHURE or Design your own tour the nth. So 1 don't know whether we entire Tatar family - including three will have enough time. small children - had been assassinated ( EASTERN UKRAINE ^ ( KALYNA ) and their murderer was sentenced to Would you say that the former eight years in jail, in another case, one June 2-12 — 11 days - LvW-Bakhchisaraj– June 30-July 14-15 days - Lviv-Po– Ukrainian government has done every– Tatar had been beaten to death in a police YALTA-KYiv-Kaniv S2300 chaiv-TERNOPlL-YALTA-Symferopil-Bakh– thing it can so that the Crimean Tatars precinct and his torturer had been sen– chysaraj-KYiv-POLTAvA 32850 can return home? tenced to eight years in jail. This gives C PYSANKA ^ you an idea of how authorities treat us. ( POLONYNA ) it would be wrong to say that it did June 14-24 - 11 days - Lviv-lv. Fran– nothing. Each year a portion of Ukraine's A significant part of Crimea's law enforcement agencies work hand-in-hand kivsk-Jaremche-Kolomyja-CHERNivTSl– July 26-Aug. 7-12 days - ODESA– national budget was allotted to this end - Khotyn-Kam. Podilskyj-KYiv S2350 Kherson-YALTA-Bakhchisaraj-Symferopil– even if that was not enough to cover even with local criminal rings. But we hope KYiv S2100 one-tenth of the needs. President this will change under EYushchenkoJ. Kuchma used to come regularly to Have there already been any LOWEST airfares on AEROSviT ^968^tax Crimea to meet the Meclis leaders. He changes since Yushchenko's election JFK-KYIV-ODESA-LVIV would then give orders so that the prob– last December? JFK-KYIV-ODESA-LVIV lems we had discussed would be S768^tax addressed. 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І typed a lengthy description of what had 1-888-644-SUMA My first morning back in the States, І happened and e-mailed that to the bank. did as the director of security had suggest– The following morning, my suspicions Yonkers Branch Sprineg УаІІеу Branch Stamford Branch ed - almost. Thinking my ATM connected were confirmed. My banker called. The 301 Palisade Ave 16 Twin Ave 39 CloveUy Road account was safe - after all Fd been in money had been withdrawn using an ATM Yonkers, NY 10703 Spring valley, NY 10977 Stamford, CT 06902 Ukraine four months and had never had a in St. Petersburg. Fd never even been to Tel: 914-220-4900 Tel: 845-356-0087 Tel: 203-696-0498 problem - 1 kept a S500, S600 balance. Russia. And, at the time of the withdrawal, Fax: 914-965-1936 Fax: 845-356-5335 Fax: 203-696-0498 Six weeks later 1 realized my mistake. Fd been on Cape Cod. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 No. 22 Cardinal Husar... (Continued from page 1) which the cardinal convened in Winnipeg, was the first time his "adviso– ry group" of bishops had assembled in Canada. it was also only the second time that the Church's senior executive - which includes Cardinal Husar, U.S. Metropolitan Stefan Soroka, the arch- bishop of Philadelphia, as well as Bishops Michael Hrynchyshyn of France, Yulian voronovsky of the Ukrainian Eparchy of Drohobych– Sambir and vblodymyr Juszczak of the Polish Eparchy of Wroclaw-Gdansk in Poland - has met outside Ukraine. Last year, one of the permanent synod's meetings was held in Przemysl, Poland. Speaking in fluent English from the residence of Canadian Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop Michael Bzdel of Winnipeg - a city he last visited two years ago - Cardinal Husar said that though the annual meet– ing of the general Synod of Bishops will At Ss. volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral on Sunday, May 22, at the opening of the Permanent Synod's continue to be held in Ukraine, the per– meeting in Winnipeg, are: (from left) Metropolitan Stefan Soroka of the U.S., Archbishop Luigi ventura (papal in manent Synod will hold one of the three Canada), Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Metropolitan Michael Bzdel of Canada, Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn of France and meetings it has every year "in one of the Bishop Yulian Yoronovsky of Sambir-Drohobych, Ukraine. countries or regions where our Church is already established." bishops and bishops of the Ukrainian and active Ukrainian Catholic bishops. press officer for the Ukrainian Catholic He added that the five-member Latin rites. Some of the issues and concerns raised Church in Canada and of Holy Permanent Synod plans to hold one of its On the agenda at last week's meeting could be of relevance for the entire Church Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in meetings in the United States in 2007. in Winnipeg was some administrative and, in turn, be discussed when the general Ottawa, points out that Ukraine has a Opening the weeklong event was a work: a 1995 manual on how to conduct synod next meets in Ukraine later this year, greater population base with about 4.5 May 22 patriarchal divine liturgy at Ss. meetings of the Synod of Bishops need– explained the major archbishop, who was million Ukrainian Catholics compared to viadimir and Olga Cathedral concele– ed updating, according to the Ukrainian elevated to the rank of cardinal by under 150,000 in Canada.) brated by Cardinal Husar, along with Catholic . John Paul П in January 2001. And regardless of how many seminari– Archbishop Luigi ventura, the apostolic But one of the major reasons for tak– Cardinal Husar also met with about ans - and where - the Ukrainian Catholic nuncio (the Holy See's ambassador) to ing the Permanent Synod on the road is 200 Ukrainian Catholic priests from Church is attracting, "we shouldn't be Canada, the Ukrainian Catholic and to get first-hand reports on the situation across Canada (about two-thirds of the complacent," said the cardinal. Roman Catholic of of the Church in various parts of the country's total), along with female and "There is a tendency still to consider Winnipeg Metropolitan Bzdel and James world - in this case, Canada, and hear male members of religious communities priesthood as a profession and not as a Weisgerber; and several Catholic arch– from the country's six (three are retired) and monasteries, , seminarians vocation, and this causes some prob– and the wives of married clergy in a lems," said Cardinal Husar, who was three-day workshop dubbed "Encounter appointed head of the Exarchate of Kyiv– 2005," which ran from May 24 to 26. vyshhorod in 1996, the same year he was UKRAINIAN The last time the Ukrainian Catholic appointed auxiliary to the late Cardinal Church in Canada held a similar meeting Myroslav Lubachivsky. ^шШшШШтШШШшж^ was in 1962, when the late Metropolitan "We have to exercise a lot of wisdom Archbishop Maxim Hermaniuk of and Edistinguish between! who is coming І Can Do All Winnipeg convened a sobor in the city for a profession or who really wants to with bishops, clergy and the laity from serve God and the people," Cardinal across the country. Horns Equity lmm Husar noted. Though Cardinal Husar said he came Still, Cardinal Husar said he feels that to Winnipeg to "listen" to what his Ukraine could help Canada with its short- Ukrainian Catholic flock in Canada had age of priests. (2003 statistics for the to tell him, he did have one issue he Archeparchy of Winnipeg, for instance, wanted to address: vocations. indicate that only 21 parishes throughout Over the next few months, seven Manitoba had a resident ; 108 Ukrainian Catholic men are to be churches did not, though many of them ordained to the priesthood across the only consist of a handful of parishioners.) Пйіт СШ country. "Numerically, that is absolutely Perhaps Ukrainian Catholic priests Audio Response insufficient," said the cardinal. from Ukraine could bring their ministry Нф-YWd Sham By comparison, there are nearly 750 to Canada, said the cardinal. men studying to become priests in Ukraine. (The Rev. Ken Nowakowski, (Continued on page 17)

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"it's only been 15 years that (the enjoys the confidence of the people more hierarchs "make sure that we try not to Cardinal Husar... Ukrainian Catholic ChurchJ is legal fin than any other organization," explained do it, even indirectly" in any election. (Continued from page 16) Ukraine!, so there are different problems, the major archbishop. "But on the other And while viktor Yushchenko has "This is certainly one of the solutions, new situations that face our Church today hand, the Church has to be very careful reached out to the Church by paying a visit since we have an abundance. And, maybe that we had to submit fto the Holy SeeJ to not to get involved in worldly matters, to St. George's Ukrainian Catholic this is also a way for Ukraine to show its receive opinions," Cardinal Husar said. such as politics, it must try to preserve its Cathedral in Lviv, Cardinal Husar said his gratitude for the help given to fitj by our However, he observed that whenever spiritual character." rapport with Ukraine's president is "no churches - our communities - here tin he met with Cardinal Ratzinger, in his He said he was compelled to issue a more, no less" than with Mr. Yushchenko's Canada!. When the Church in Ukraine had role as the Roman Curia's of the pastoral letter and sign a joint statement predecessor, Leonid Kuchma. to be silent, they spoke for us. They were Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, with other Christian Church leaders dur– The Ukrainian Catholic primate said that the voice of the voiceless," he pointed out. the future pope was "always very open to ing last year's Orange Revolution out of when "individual communities" within the He said priests from Ukraine are already listen and to react." a sense of "duty to help people in critical Church have tried to establish authority serving in Ukrainian Catholic in But Pope Benedict should not be expect– moments." through "connections and influence in the Canada and the U.S., but added that those ed to be as familiar with the Ukrainian But while the cardinal expressed hope political arena," the effects have been who wish to follow "must be ready to Catholic Church as was his predecessor, the Ukraine's presidential election would be "destructive." According to Cardinal Husar, adjust" and be prepared to "learn the ways cardinal explained. As a Pole, Karol free and fair, he did not endorse any can– "it's always been ultimately negative - and and traditions" of North America. Wojtyla (Pope John Paul П) was a "neigh– didate - and added that he and his fellow always, they lost their credibility." "it is not simply a question of lan– bor, fwhoj lived under a Soviet Communist guage - it is a question of enculturation," regime and had a very good understanding explained Cardinal Husar, who himself of the situation in Eastern Europe. "The ORGANlZATlON for DEFENSE spent several years in the U.S. as a semi– present pope, coming from a different narian and a priest, earning a master's milieu, cannot be expected to have such a of LEMKO WESTERN UKRA1NE degree in philosophy from Fordham close understanding." University in New York and later serving When asked whether 78-year-old as a pastor in Kerhonkson, N.Y., and as Benedict ХУІ could become the second prefect of St. Basil's Seminary in consecutive pope to visit Ukraine after їЧ?Чь Stamford, Conn. John Paul H's historic 2001 visit, Having a married clergy could also Cardinal Husar replied: "if he lives long help inspire more vocations in North enough, 1 hope." America, but the primate wouldn't specu– On participating in his first papal elec– late about whether women could one day tion, Cardinal Husar said the conclave be ordained priests in the Ukrainian was "very interesting and very well Catholic Church. organized" where one could "feel the The cardinal said that while the issue coexistence of age-old traditions with has become a "very hot potato" in modern necessities." He also said that тлямтіля. иу -,i ,v хи -яв ять яооа Western Europe and "very much a prob– going into the sequestered meeting, he lem" there and in North America, the didn't expect Cardinal Ratzinger to invites all to а Ukrainian Catholic Church has not been emerge as pope. caught up in the "uproar" and "disqui– Apparently, neither did John L. Allen etude" surrounding the debate over Jr., the Rome correspondent for the 5th Lemko "vatra" in the USA extending holy orders to women. Kansas City, Mo.-based National "Since we do not have this problem, І Catholic Reporter, who included never gave it much thought or had much Cardinal Husar - but not Cardinal on June 24-26, 2005 interest in it," Cardinal Husar candidly Ratzinger - on his list of "papabile," or admitted. top candidates for the papacy. "1 do know that the late holy father Cardinal Husar "is a moderate, easily at CYM campgrounds f John Paul Щ excluded the possibility. My the most articulate and theologically in Ellenville, NY deficiency is the knowledge of the exact engaged of the Eastern Catholic reasons why he took such a stand. There prelates," Mr. Allen wrote before the must certainly be a very good reason. І conclave commenced. would simply have to study it," he added. He also wrote: "He is amiable and However, he noted that he "cannot imagine humble, and speaks English and italian Tired of searching and surfing? at this time" that the Ukrainian Catholic with ease. He holds a U.S. passport, The Ukrainian Weekly - your one reliable source for all the news Church would include female priests. though most electors might exempt him about Ukraine and Ukrainians. indeed, 10 years ago, Pope John Paul from the taboo against a 'superpower 11 issued an apostolic letter, "Ordinatio pope' since he is actually Ukrainian. Sacerdotalis," in which he declared that "it would be difficult for many electors the Church had no power to ordain to choose another Eastern European after women, since Jesus had only male Wojtyla. Yet there is much in Husar's Apostles, and that "this judgment is to be background they might find attractive: As HUTSUL FEST1 held by all the Catholic faithful." an Eastern patriarch he feels in his bones His right-hand man at the time and the the argument for the independence of Catholic Church's theological watchdog, local Churches; he is pastorally gifted and 11. 2 German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, said politically sophisticated; and he is a warm, vv Atr^sv?f tixm Ut that Pope John Paul's position was smiling, slightly chubby prelate who could Jain us mt the gpemtest fatk "infallible." Now, as Pope Benedict ХУІ, remind the world of John ХХІІІ. fmtiwml in Rahkiv, the km he is unlikely to change that seemingly "Husar performed brilliantly during doctrinal position. John Paul's June 23-27, 2001, trip to afthg Hutra! wadd! Enja^ The new pope is also "quite well- Ukraine, and that opportunity to introduce awmr SB ensembles рттіагт^ informed" about "some aspects" of the himself to the world's media did not hurt." ing Bt the biggemt sang and Ukrainian Catholic Church, explained Cardinal Husar's reaction to the glow– йшпее яатреШіап aithe Cardinal Husar, who participated in last ing endorsement: "1 didn't take it very Carpathian Мів. month's conclave that chose Cardinal seriously." Limited Ітіеї шсеошя4ШякяїІ Ratzinger to be the 265th pontiff. "1 He does, however, take the Ukrainian myself gave him trouble," said Cardinal Catholic Church's mission and role in Husar, laughing. Ukraine very seriously. "The Church

the Ukrainian government's top prosecutor, атЕшш mum; ^^^^mm Two SDPU... had opened an investigation into the affair. Best of Шсгаіве Jim ОФ 18Вжуш Шшв, JQrfr, Шщ ТмІЇш 1 (Continued from page 3) President Yushchenko said he believed Шешівт икгвіпш junm 18 Ддо Kyi?, hvmt YaurmmxteBt Жжмкт? transferred to hospitals in Kyiv. He gave both sides in the conflict acted inappro– Bmt of tfktaim Juiaj JS4ijra Odtot, ІДО, Мчг, ШШ Ms. Proshkuratova flowers and Mr. priately. "We are all learning democracy, and І Shufrych a box of Roshen chocolates. WmtGfn Ukraine АЩІЗ ЇВ days ШуЖь Lvivf YoremchBi Kyiv am convinced that Ukrainian society (Roshen is a company owned by Petro CttmmHndtfpvntfftnve lWr Лщ 12 Z8 48ys YitftR, lm^ Kyfo Poroshenko, who today is secretary of understands today that nobody, including Ukraine's National Security and Defense political powers or national deputies, is їтіїярєМшяя Тшг Ащї? W Шдо uifift^ KuitpMf Ежц Mftv supposed to instruct a Ukrainian court on Council.) Виі.яиї Festival Таш ВярІ 21 BSJB Makkxvt hviv, Kyiv He also apologized to Mr. Shufrych how to act in this or another investiga– and assured him that investigations were tion," Mr. Yushchenko said. BttekvtWtraiaa Вир ЇВ lSdmym Ogsmt Щуйя, ІлиН?, Схіжяа under way and any police officer deter– After viewing the videotape, Mr. Budget Tom 8tp23 їй Юніуя into , ІДО mined to have breached the law will face Yuschenko said he concluded that the Ski Ukraine- JAM ЇВ їй Days Шикашї Resnrt–, Xvfv prosecution. police broke the law when dealing with Procurator General Sviatoslav Piskun, Mr. Shufrych and Ms. Proshkuratova. wwWbBtiteti^lmm 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 No. 22

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cordially invites you to the opment professions make Ukraine a FATHER'S DAY WEEKEND CELEBRATlON CLUB N1GHT AND FESTWAL Wins Fulbright promising place for research. The United States, on the other hand, has the money and to study in Kyiv for nanotechnology research and devel– NORTH AMERICAN UKRAINIAN SOCCER CLUB opment, but rising costs mean many PARS1PPANY, N J. - Aleksander EASTERN CONFERENCE (USCAK) CHAMPLONSHLP TOURNAMENT companies are looking to outsource the Mehrle, a Ukrainian American born and work. Schedule of Events: raised in New York City, won a Fulbright "With its population of highly trained Award to study in Ukraine this coming Saturday, JUNE 18, 2005 scientists and the ability to offer compar– year. A graduate of Washington and Lee 9:00 am - 4:00 pm -— USCAK-EAST Championship Tournament University's law school in Yirginia, Mr. ative cost advantages over the United States on labor and materials, Ukraine 7:00 pm-12:00 am Club Night "Уеспігка": music and dancing featuring the Mehrle will study at the National band TLADD' and a DJ, food etc. Admission SlO.OO University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy in should prove an inviting destination for Ukraine. nanotechnology research and develop– Sunday JUNE 19, 2005 Mr; Mehrle's work in Ukraine will ment," he said. 10:00 am -2:00 pm —USCAK-EAST Championship Finals Mr. Mehrle said the nanotechnology examine the research and development of 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm — Stage Show Featuring: nanotechnology, the process of creating market in Ukraine is growing, and he vOLOSHKY DANCE ACADEMY quoted the National Science microminiature equipment by manipulat– SISTERS OROS ing atoms and molecules as if they were Foundation's prediction that the nan– otechnology market in Ukraine will JUR1J MELNYCHUK parts of a machine. NOVYJ DENH (New Day) ORCHESTRA Mr. Mehrle completed his bachelor of reach Si trillion within 15 years. arts degree at the College of the Holy Mr. Mehrle said he plans to research 3:30 pm - 7:30 pm - ZABAvA DANCE: NOvYJ DENH ORCHESTRA Cross in Worcester, Mass., and then the legal and logistical issues involved in forming Ukrainian American joint ven– entered the law school at Washington and Authentic Ukrainian foods and picnic fare, cool drinks and refreshments Lee in 2002. tures in nanotechnology. Afterwards, he Childrens' fun area with arts Sc crafts monitored by professional artists from SP1N ART in the spring of 2004 he began an hopes to establish contacts and interview ADM1SS10N 35.00, Children Free internship with Lux Capital, a nanotech– members of Ukraine's scientific, legal, nology venture capital firm, according to business and political communities, eval– a statement issued by the law school. uating their interest in working with U.S. Mr. Mehrle says his work there "turned capital. into a career interest - and 1 never imag– Mr. Mehrle attended Ukrainian school 7th Annual ined it would." He followed the intern- in New York City and is a member of ship with an independent study on nan– Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization's otechnology regulatory issues in the Chornomortsi fraternity. Mr. Mehrle PL0SHKY l United States. studied at Oxford, England, during his in Kyiv, Mr. Mehrle told the junior year at college, and was later UKRAINIAN DANCE Ш Washington and Lee law school he inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. His grand- hopes "to contribute to Ukraine's devel– parents were Wolodymyr and Уега 'ДОіШ:ШПІ opment as a sovereign, democratic and Sushkiw, and his parents are Axel and Daria Mehrle. prosperous nation." He said that Dancemaster Ukraine's 1,500 research institutes and Aleksander Mehrle is a member of ЙЩІЇШЙЩ its rank as the 26th in the world for per Ukrainian National Association Branch Stepan Zabredowsky capita population of research and devel– 194. miTDciJ ent for the celebration as were many National Artist and virsky Soloist A 90th birthday other guests. yictoria Shumilova Mrs. Ropke was born in New York. and family reunion Her parents, Nicholas and Mary І 7n the US for two weeks only! Yurchak, came to the U.S. from Stary І Academy Dates: MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. - Elaine " Academy Classes August 7 - 21, 2005 Yurchak Ropke, mother of Father John Sambir, Ukraine, in 1901. They were Registration deadline: June 30, 2005(space is lii Ropke, pastor of St. John the Baptist founding members of St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church here, recently Ukrainian Catholic Church in New York celebrated her 90th birthday with a spe– City where her father was the first choir cial divine liturgy and family reunion at director. the church. She was always fond of music and Father Ropke, his brother Richard sang with the Ukrainian Catholic Chorus Ropke, from the North Port, Fla., area, of New York and New Jersey in the Mrs. Ropke's three grandchildren and 1930s and 1940s. She also sang with the three great grandchildren were all in Scola Cantorum in New York City. Her attendance, along with many cousins husband, John C. Ropke, died in 1998. from Ohio and New Jersey. 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Rada not ready for local reform port Ukrainians have for the independent apologized to them for the behavior of "his NEWSBR1EFS policies of the Georgian government. This Uzhhorod colleagues," interfax reported, KYiv - verkhovna Rada Chairman (Continued from page 2) was reported by the press center of the quoting the internal Affairs Ministry's volodymyr Lytvyn said on May 24 that Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox spokeswoman. National Deputies ment of the current fuel crisis in Ukraine. there is no "political will" in the Parliament Church (UAOC) Consistory of the Proshkuratova and Shufrych were hospital– The presidential website (http:77www.presi- to pass a bill on reforming local self-gov– Eparchy of Kharkiv and Poltava. The cars ized after they reportedly were beaten by a dent.gov.ua) on May 21 quoted Mr. ernment, which was initially approved on set out on their way from Kharkiv's central riot-police squad in Uzhhorod on May 20, Yushchenko as saying that he trusts Ms. December 8, 2004, in a package of bills square, symbolically named Liberty Tymoshenko but it did not deny the reported during a visit to see hospitalized former intended to resolve the then presidential- Square. The race was blessed, and the cars resignation offer. "1 trust the prime minister, Zakarpattia Oblast Chairman ivan Rizak. election standoff, interfax reported. Under were consecrated by Protopriest vitalii my generally positive assessment of the gov– "We are learning democracy," Mr. the political compromise achieved in Zubak, chancellor of the Eparchy of ernment's work is unaltered. Only those Lutsenko reportedly said while assuring the December, a constitutional reform shifting Kharkiv and Poltava of the UAOC, and doing nothing make no mistakes," Mr. lawmakers that a probe into the incident in powers from the president to the Parliament Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Father Onufrii Yushchenko asserted. He added that the fuel Uzhhorod will be fair. Meanwhile, law- and the prime minister would occur on Ripetskyi, superior of the Basilian crisis in Ukraine has been resolved. A joint makers in the verkhovna Rada have man- September 1 if the verkhovna Rada monastery in the village of Pokotylivka. presidential and prime minister statement on aged to collect more than 150 signatures in approved the self-government bill in the (Religious information Service of Ukraine) the website said that the two leaders "are one order to hold an emergency session on May second reading prior to that date. Failing team, whose work is oriented toward the ful– 25 to consider the treatment of Ms. such passage, the constitutional reform is to Ombudsman condemns reported beating flllment of a joint goal: holding a systemic Proshkuratova and Mr. Shufrych by police automatically go into effect on January 1, reform in Ukraine, oriented toward the in Uzhhorod. (RFE7RL Newsline) 2006. (RFE7RL Newsline) KYW - Ombudsman Nina Karpachova democratization of society and improvement has protested against the reported beating of Kinakh promises participation in SES of people's lives." (RFE7RL Newsline) Turkmenistan concerned about pricing an unspecified number of lawmakers from the opposition Social Democratic Party - MOSCOW - First vice Prime Minister Government cancels price caps on fuel KYiv - During a May 23 telephone United (SDPU) by a riot-police unit in Anatolii Kinakh said in Moscow on May conversation with Ukrainian President Uzhhorod on May 20, interfax reported on KYiv - The Ministry of the Economy 23 that Ukraine will certainly take part in viktor Yushchenko, Turkmen President May 22. "Applying force to national has canceled its decree of April 14 setting the creation of the Single Economic Space Saparmurat Niyazov drew his counter- deputies is an actual sign of a police state, in the price limits on high-octane gasoline in (SES) with Russia, Kazakhstan and part's attention to "unfounded overpric– which human rights are grossly violated and Ukraine at 3 hrv (S0.6) per liter, Ukrainian Belarus, interfax and 1TAR-TASS report– ing of the goods that the Ukrainian side no citizen can feel himselfYherself protect– media reported on May 24. At that time ed. Mr. Kinakh made his comments during provides" as payment for Turkmen natu– ed," Ms. Karpachova said in a statement. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accused a session of the Economic Council of the ral gas, turkmenistan.ru reported the next According to what Ms. Karpachova was told Russian oil traders, who control three- day. According to the report, Mr. by SDPU legislator Tamara Proshkuratova, Commonwealth of independent States. fourths of the fuel market in Ukraine, of Yushchenko promised Mr. Niyazov that who reportedly was a victim of the beating, "This is a unique opportunity for creating deliberately provoking a fuel crisis in the he would review and resolve the issue the incident took place in a hospital ward favorable conditions for trade cooperation, country. President viktor Yushchenko on within two days. Ukraine is set to buy 36 when the legislators were visiting former creating new jobs, and increasing revenue May 18 ordered the government to lift the billion cubic meters of natural gas from Zakarpattia Oblast Chairman ivan Rizak, for the budget. The first stage of the Single decreed curbs on fuel prices. New prices Turkmenistan in 2005 at a price of S58 who was hospitalized after being charged Economic Space formation - setting up a have now been fixed at 3.2 hrv, 3 hrv, and per 1,000 cubic meters, paid half in cash with abuse of power and of driving a former free-trade zone - is vital for Ukraine," Mr. 2.85 hrv per liter of A-95 gasoline, А-92 and half in kind. (RFE7RL Newsline) rector of Uzhhorod University to commit Kinakh said. He also said in Moscow that gasoline and diesel fuel, respectively. "1 suicide. (RFE7RL Newsline) it is "inadvisable" for Ukraine to build a declare that there has been no Russian Kharkiv-Tbilisi car race is blessed new oil refinery in Odesa, the Ukrayinska hand behind these processes (Tuel crisis in Minister apologizes to national deputies Pravda website reported, quoting Mr. Ukraine!," President Yushchenko said on KHARKiv - A car race from Ukraine Kinakh's spokesperson. The previous May 24. "When tthe price of) a market to Georgia started in eastern Ukrainian KYiv - internal Affairs Minister Yurii week Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko item is regulated administratively, sooner Kharkiv on May 22 as part of the Year of Lutsenko on May 23 visited hospitalized pledged to build an oil refinery in Odesa in or later one has to make decisions that will Georgia in Ukraine. The race should prove lawmakers Tamara Proshkuratova and the next 18 months in order to avoid fuel be painful to both buyers and the authori– the solidarity of the ancient Christian peo– Nestor Shufrych from the opposition Social ties." (RFE7RL Newsline) ples of Ukraine and Georgia, and the sup- Democratic Party - United (SDPU) and (Continued on page 23) fWhen looking for safety, security and value come to: ^ SELF REL1ANCE NEW YORK FEDERAL CRED1T UNlON A full service financial institution serving the Ukrainian American Community since 1951. 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Mr. of the 21st century, in this context, the (RFE^L Newsline) among 2,045 adult Ukrainians on April Rizak was detained on May 13 on charges Kremlin has now revised and dropped the 14-24 that 76 percent want the Russian Catholic center to be transferred to Kyiv of abuse of power and of driving a former concept of "near-abroad countries" language to be granted official status in rector of Uzhhorod University to commit because it failed to fulfill Russian national Ukraine, interfax reported on May 5. LYiv - The transfer of the administra– suicide. The opposition believes the arrests interests and security. Russia's new policy Regarding the languages spoken at work, tive center of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic of Mr. Rizak and Donetsk Oblast Chairman toward its neighbors will be based on pure– Church (UGCC) from Lviv to Kyiv will Borys Kolesnykov are part of the authori– ly pragmatic interests, and Russia will deal the poll found that 32 percent of respon– happen between August and, at the latest, ties' revenge campaign against officials who not only with their governments, but also dents speak Russian, 31 percent speak November of this year, said Cardinal supported former Prime Minister viktor with the opposition, in the same article, Ukrainian and 22 percent use both lan– Lubomyr Husar, head of the UGCC, during Yanukovych during the 2004 presidential Mr. Pavlovskii said that the Baltic states guages. According to the poll, 76 percent a press conference on May 13. He added campaign. (RFEZRL Newsline) "were and will be in the zone of Russian of Ukrainians support their country's inde– that the transfer will happen quietly, with– interests" and that the situation has not pendence, which is the same percentage as out any special celebrations. Metropolitan Broadcast council warns Novyi Kanal changed with their joining NATO and the was registered in the nationwide referen– volodymyr (Sabodan), head of the European Union. Moreover, Russia will dum on independence conducted on KYiv - The National Council for окгаіпіап Orthodox Church - Moscow use their membership in international December 1, 1991. (RFE7RL Newsline) Television and Radio Broadcasting issued Patriarchate (UOC-MP), in a story on May alliances to promote and fortify its inter– a warning on May 18 to Novyi Kanal for 16 responded that this event might send ests, he said, in a paradoxical way, the Seven parties could pass 3 percent mark violating the terms of its license, interfax– Orthodox-Catholic dialogue "many cen– Baltic states' joining of the European Ukraine reported. The violations included KYiv - The Democratic initiatives turies back." The Greek-Catholics of Union does not decrease but rather increas– an insufficient volume of Ukrainian-pro– Fund and the Kyiv international institute of Ukraine are expecting the support of Pope es Russia's influence on the situation there, duced programs, informational and educa– Sociology also found in an April 14-24 poll Benedict Xvi. According to Cardinal he said, noting that the Kremlin realizes tional programs, and an absence of cultur– that eight parties could exceed the 3 percent Husar, the pope knows well the Church life this very well. (RFE7RL Newsline) voting barrier to qualify for parliamentary of Ubxaine and the plans of the UGCC to al programming. The channel also showed seats if an election were held "next obtain the status of a Patriarchate, in the films without the state certification of its Yushchenko offers border compromise Sunday," interfax reported on May 5. vatican, this question is assessed "in total right to show the films in question. Novyi as positive," according to the cardinal, Kanal is owned by viktor Pinchuk, the SYMFEROPOL - President viktor Those parties are: Party of the Regions, led though the advice is to wait until the proper son-in-law of former Ukrainian President Yushchenko said in Symferopol on May 4 by former Prime Minister viktor moment. "1 had the opportunity to meet Leonid Kuchma. (RFE7RL Newsline) that he has proposed to his Russian Yanukovych (13.3 percent backing); with the holy father and he clearly said to President viadimir Putin that they settle Fatherland Party, led by Prime Minister Hiv infection rate accelerates let the matter ripen, so that it can continue all problems regarding the delimitation of Yulia Tymoshenko (10.7 percent); Our the Ukrainian-Russian border by the end Ukraine People's Union, led by Roman moving further," said Cardinal Husar. KYiv - The Health Ministry of this year, RFETRL's Ukrainian Service Bezsmertnyi (10.8 percent); Our Ukraine "There is no special date. First of all, the announced on April 28 that the registered reported. According to Mr. Yushchenko, Party, headed by viktor Pynzenyk (8.3 per– center of the Kyiv-Halych Metropolitanate number of new infections with the Hiv Moscow must recognize the Soviet-era cent); Socialist Party, chaired by has to move to Kyiv and then we will see virus in Ukraine in 2004 amounted to administrative border separating the Oleksander Moroz (7.4 percent); what will happen next." (Religious 12,500, which is 25 percent more than the Ukrainian SSR and the Russian SFSR in Communist Party, led by Petro Symonenko information Service of Ukraine) previous year, interfax reported. From the Kerch Strait as the new state border (6.5 percent); and the Progressive Socialist 1987 to March 1 of this year, Ukraine between independent Ukraine and Russia. Party, headed by Natalia vitrenko (4.2 per– TymashenkOy Kinakh most popular officially registered 76,900 Hiv-positive "We are ready to compromise on the bor– cent). The Social Democratic Party - Ukrainians and 314 Hiv-positive foreign– KYiv - Zerkalo Nedeli discussed the der line across the Azov Sea in exchange United led by viktor Medvedchuk fell just ers. More than 9,000 people subsequently results of an opinion survey conducted with for a clear-cut position from Russia short of the parliamentary threshold with developed A1DS and 5,500 died of it. The 2,024 respondents by the Kyiv international regarding the border in the Kerch Strait," 2.7 percent in the poll. (RFE7RL Newsline) ministry estimated that, at present infec– Sociology institute about President viktor tion rates, the number of Hiv-infected Yushchenko's first 100 days in office. Ukrainians could rise to as many as According to the weekly, the results show 479,000 by 2014. (RFE7RL Newsline) that the new government has maintained "a solid reserve of sympathy and hope." Across Ukraine urges Russia to meet obligations Ukraine, 51.6 percent of respondents said they viewed the policies of the new adminis– SYMFEROPOL - President viktor tration as "basically positive." in the east, Yushchenko said in Symferopol on May 4 this percentage fell to 22.7 percent and rose that the deployment of the Russian Black to 73.1 percent in the West. Among respon– Sea Fleet in Sevastopol until 2017 is regulat– dents, Yulia Tymoshenko's performance ed by a "big agreement" between Ukraine enjoyed slightly higher support than did that and Russia, and that his government does of President Yushchenko, 55.3 percent ver– not intend to review this accord, interfax sus 50.2 percent. First vice Prime Minister reported. At the same time, Mr. Yushchenko Anatolii Kinakh also enjoys a high rating of noted that Russia has not yet met some com– 52.3 percent. (RFE7RL Newsline) mitments laid out by the "big agreement." He added, "Until today, Russia has not trans– Opposition tries to disrupt Rada's work ferred the navigation-system infrastructure in the Crimean Peninsula to the Ukrainian KYiv - About 2,000 people gathered side," noting that this concerns 170 naviga– outside the verkhovna Rada on May 19 to tion-system facilities. (RFEflRL Newsline) protest the criminal case against Donetsk Oblast Chairman Borys Kolesnykov, Turkmen president's father is honored RFETRL's Kyiv bureau and UN1AN report– ed. Demonstrators were carrying placards KYW - President viktor Yushchenko has of the Social Democratic Party - United posthumously awarded Atamurat Niyazov, (SPDU) saying "Freedom to Borys the father of Turkmen President Saparmurad Kolesnykov!" According to proUA.com, Niyazov, with the Order the Parliament closed its session early of the Fifth Degree to mark the coming 60th because members of the SPDU, the Party anniversary of the victory over Nazi of the Regions and the Communist Party of Germany in World War її, Ukrainian media Ukraine were blocking the rostrum. SPDU reported on May 4. Atamurat Niyazov was a and the Party of the Regions demanded the veteran of World War 11 and has been HAVE YOU HEARD? PURCHASE A PREPAID release of Mr. Kolesnykov and former declared a hero of Turkmenistan. "Ukraine 20-YEAR ENDOWMENT POL1CY FROM Zakarpattia Oblast Chairman ivan Rizak. honors the combat services of Atamurat Former Prime Minister viktor Yanukovych, Niyazov, whose immortal image personifies THE UNA FOR S2,287.26^ AND ІW1LL RECEivE who heads the Party of the Regions, the heroism of the 740,000 Turkmen heroes A CHECK FOR S5,000^ JUST 1N ТІМЕ FOR charged that more than 18,000 people have who sacrificed their lives on the battlefields been fired for their political opinion since of the Great Patriotic War," Naftohaz MY COLLEGE EDUCATlOR WHAT ARE YOU the new government took power, interfax Ukrainy head Oleksii ivchenko reportedly WA1T1NG FOR? CALL THE UNA AT 1-800-253-9862 reported. (RFE7RL Newsline) said while presenting the award to the Turkmen president on President AND LET'S GET STARTED. New charge filed against Rizak Yushchenko's behalf. (RFEZRL Newsline)

818 KYiv - The prosecutor's office in the Kremlin consultant on Russia's goal FOR AGES 0 THROUGH 3 172 YEARS OLD Zakarpattia Oblast has added a third charge ^ M1N1MUM FACE AMOUNT OF S5,000 - large-scale bribery - to the list of charges MOSCOW - Gleb Pavlovskii, head of against former Oblast Chairman ivan Rizak, the Effective Politics Foundation and polit– 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 No. 22 PREVIEW OF EVENTS Soyuzivka's Datebook Saturday-Sunday, June 11-12 England Regional Council of the Ukrainian National Women's League of CH1CAGO: Ukrainian American veterans America (UNWLA) invites the public to May 27-30,2005 July 17-July 23,2005 1st Lt. ivan Shandor Post 35 in Palatine, an "Afternoon Tea," to be held in cele– Memorial Day Weekend BBQ Discovery Camp - Session P2, Hi., will host the Ukrainian insurgent Army bration of the 80th anniversary of the and Zabava forages 8-12 ("JPA) Conference to be held Saturday, UNWLA's founding. The event will be Adoptive Parents Weekend, sponsored Adventure Camp - Session 41, June 11, at the Selfreliance Ukrainian held at St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic by the Embassy of Ukraine and forages 13-16 American Federal Credit Union, 2332 W. Church Hall, 569 George St., at 3:30 the UNA Chicago Ave., at 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The con– p.m. As part of the program, there will July 22-24, 2005 ference will serve as an educational forum be a display of both traditional and con- June 1,2005 Ukrainian Language immersion on the UPA's war on fascism and commu– temporary Ukrainian embroidery, as rrism and compare it to today's Global War Ellenville High School Weekends offered at State well as the modeling of traditional on Terrorism (GWOT). Keynote speaker is Scholarship Banquet University of New York New Paltz national dress and the display of con- Dr. Peter Potichny, professor emeritus, temporary embroidered attire. The event McMaster University, and former member June 4, 2005 July 24-July 29,2005 is open to all. Refreshments will be cf the UPA and the Marine Corps. served. Admission: S5. Wedding Chemney Day Camp - Session Ш, Conference speakers include: Dr. Myron for ages 4-7 Kuropas, adjunct professor, Northern CH1CAGO: The Ukrainian institute -f June 6,2005 illinois University; Lt. Col. Orest Logusz, Modern Art invites the public to the open– Highland High School Senior Day July 24-July ЗО, 20І5 author. "Galician Division"'; Maria Pyskir, ing of an exhibition of the works of Discovery Camp - Session 43, author, "A Thousand Roads"; Cmdr. Chuck painter, sculptor and photographer June 6-9,2005 for ages 8-12 Dobra„ post JAG, recently retired; and Lt. Edward Matwijkiw. The opening recep– Clergy Days Adventure Camp - Session 42, Col. Roman Golash, post commander. tion, to be held June 12 at 2-6 p.m., will forages 13-16 Discussions will follow the morning and feature a poetry performance by members June 10-12, 2005 afternoon sessions; presentations will be in of the literary magazine Spirits (Best Ukrainian Language immersion July 24-August 6,2005 Ukrainian and English. Discussions will Literary Magazine of the Year 2004) at 3- Weekend offered at State Teachers Seminar, Ukrainian center on how the UPA, based on values 4 p.m., followed by a musical interlude University of New York New Paltz Educational Council and principles, was able to sustain combat with cellist Jason Raynovich at 5-6 p.m. operations into 1956 and how core values The exhibition will be on view through of New York City June 11, 2005 impact today's U.S. armed forces. Post 35 July 24. Wedding July 29-31, 2005 plans to fund a new UPA book and announce a new civilian task force, Saturday, June 18 "A day in the life of a LTPA Partisan June 12-17, 2005 'Friends of UPA." Conference co-sponsors Soldier" event EAST HANOvER, N.J.: Dr. Taras UNA Seniors' Week and Conference include the SUM, Plast and ODUM youth organizations. Cost of program: S25 Kuzio, visiting professor at the Elliot July 31-August 5,2005 (includes lunch). Proceeds will fund histor– School of international Affairs, George June 18, 2005 Scuba Course for ages 12 and up Washington University, and leading ana– Wedding ical publications. On Sunday, June 12, a military liturgy will be held at 10 a.m. at lyst of current Ukrainian affairs, will be August 1-5,2005 St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Church the guest speaker at the upcoming meeting June 19,2005 Golf Week іл Bloomingdale, with post chaplain Father of the Ukrainian American Professionals Father's Day Program Bohdan Kalynyuk officiating. For addi– and Businesspersons Association of New August 5,2005 tional information e-mail York and New Jersey. Dr. Kuzio's topic, June 25,2005 "Ukraine's Orange Revolution," will be Cabaret Show with Ron Cahute 8c romangolash Ф cs.com. Wedding company supplemented with a multi-media presen– Sunday, June 12 tation, including photographs, video June 26-July 3,2005 August 5-7,2005 footage and music. The event takes place at the Ramada Hotel, Route 10, at 7 p.m. Tabir Ptashat - Session tfl Sports Jamboree Weekend NEW HAvEN, Conn.: The New

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