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Ukraine's Vice PM Calls on Rada to Seek U.N. Recognition of Famine As INSIDE:• Tarasyuk speaks on challenges facing Rukh and Ukraine — page 3. • Battle of Bound Brook is re-enacted at Orthodox center — page 8. • Vasyl Krychevsky returns to Ukraine via his artwork — page 11. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXI HE KRAINIANNo. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2003 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine Ukraine’s vice PM calls on Rada to seek U.S.T will not seekU deposition W U.N. recognition of Famine as genocide from Kuchma in Lazarenko case by Roman Woronowycz edge that pumping Iraqi crude oil by Roman Woronowycz have been immortalized by the world,” Kyiv Press Bureau through the pipeline into Central Europe Kyiv Press Bureau declared Mr. Tabachnyk. was a realistic possibility. He noted, Scores of empty rows – not just seats – KYIV – The United States Attorney however, that a major obstacle remains KYIV – Vice Prime Minister Dmytro marked the parliamentary session hall General’s Office will not seek a deposi- in Turkey’s determination to restrict Tabachnyk called on Ukraine’s Parliament while Mr. Tabachnyk spoke, with at least tion from President Leonid Kuchma access to shipping on the overused on May 14 to turn to the United Nations to half of the legislative body playing hooky, when a U.S. prosecutorial delegation Dardanelles strait that it controls, an have the Great Famine of 1932-1933 rec- including the full complement of the par- comes to Kyiv next week to do inter- impediment to moving the crude oil effi- ognized internationally as genocide. liamentary faction of the Communist views in the case of ex-Prime Minister ciently that would have to be overcome. Speaking during a special session of the Party. Pavlo Lazarenko, announced former U.S. Verkhovna Rada held in conjunction with While the Great Famine is now widely Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer on Armed forces’ specific capabilities the 70th anniversary of the Soviet-perpe- recognized as an attempt at ethnic exter- May 14. trated Famine in which from 7 million to “President Kuchma will not be on the The former ambassador to Ukraine mination to bring the recalcitrant acknowledged that discussions took 10 million Ukrainians were starved, Mr. Ukrainian farmers under Communist con- government’s deposition list,” stated Mr. Tabachnyk said that there is no doubt that Pifer during a press conference after a place about a possible deployment of trol and collectivization, Ukrainian Ukrainian troops to take part in an Iraq the Great Famine was a crime against Communists, for the most part, still cling two-day visit to Kyiv, which included humanity, but that a special effort needs to talks with President Kuchma and stabilization force, which both to the old Soviet party line. Washington and Warsaw supported. be made to have the United Nations rec- National Deputy Adam Martyniuk, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr ognize it as genocide, just as the United Lytvyn on an array of topics. “We believe that the Ukrainian armed vice-chairman of the Communist Party, forces have specific capabilities that they States did in 1988. said prior to the session that his party Mr. Pifer, who is currently U.S. He said that by obtaining international deputy assistant secretary of state for could contribute, based on what we have would not take part because it felt that the seen in U.S.-Ukraine joint military exer- recognition that those who were savagely issue had been addressed previously and European and Eurasian affairs, traveled starved to death by the deliberate actions to Kyiv for a gathering of the U.S.- cises and in the work of the Ukrainian- had become redundant. of Stalin’s henchmen were victims of Ukraine Foreign Policy Council and a Polish Battalion in Kosovo,” explained However, his colleague, National genocide, Ukraine would do much to trilateral meeting on U.S.-Polish-Ukraine the U.S. official. Deputy Ivan Herasymov gave more of an make sure that such a tragedy is not strategic relations. Ukraine is expected to take part in explanation: “In 1932-1933 there was a repeated. During Mr. Pifer’s visit, the London- another round of meetings to be held on hunger [‘holod’] caused by natural cir- “We are quite simply forced by the based Financial Times reported that the May 22 in Warsaw to determine the cumstances, but it was not death by forced Ukrainian president would be asked to responsibilities of the 10 countries that memory of these innocent victims to raise starvation [‘holodomor’].” answer questions on his relations with the level of their commemoration to the Mr. Lazarenko, his ex-prime minister (Continued on page 3) level at which victims of the Holocaust (Continued on page 4) and former political crony, who has spent the last three years in a San Francisco detention center after illegally entering the U.S. and then requesting political Breast cancer awareness program aims to help Ukraine asylum. U.S. authorities have charged by Marta Kolomayets was diagnosed with breast cancer tics are Ukrainian women’s limited Mr. Lazarenko with illegally laundering months after her husband assumed the access to information about breast can- tens of millions of dollars. He faces trial KYIV – When Ira Zholnova, 44, office of president of the United States, cer and the lack of equipment for early on the charges in August. appeared on a popular Ukrainian talk in 1974. “Maybe if I, as first lady, could detection. Mr. Pifer said he had not seen the U.S. show, “Bez Tabu” (Without Taboos), in talk about it candidly and without “We are not a culture of preventive prosecutor’s list and did not want to October 2001 and told of her battle embarrassment, many others would be medicine,” added Dr. Maistruk. “People comment further, but that the U.S. court with breast cancer, it was the first time able to do so as well,” she explained believe that breast cancer equals death, handling the matter would make it public that a Ukrainian woman had so pub- during an interview after her ordeal. so there is no reason to start any kind of at some point. The Financial Times licly spoken out about this disease, treatment,” she added. “We don’t have reported on May 14 that the list included which annually kills 3,000 women in Mrs. Ford, Happy Rockefeller and Betty Rollin, author of the book, “First, a screening program in Ukraine and we the names of Ukraine’s secretary of the Ukraine. use diagnostic equipment only for those National Security and Defense Council, She brought tears to the eyes of the You Cry,” brought the topic of breast cancer out of the closet in the United women who already have breast can- Yevhen Marchuk, and National Deputy studio audience when she disclosed cer,” she noted. Valerii Pustovoitenko. how after her mastectomy she came States in the 1970s. In the 1990s the breast cancer storyline in the popular Slowly, however, attitudes are Messrs. Marchuk and Pustovoitenko, home and told her husband that he was changing; women’s support groups help respectively, preceded and followed Mr. free to go, because she was no longer a sitcom “Murphy Brown,” resulted in a percent increase in the number of breast cancer survivors and their fami- Lazarenko in the post of prime minister. woman. He swept her into his arms and lies; NGOs are beginning public aware- The Financial Times said the political said, “I married you and I will stay with women who went for mammograms. And now, in Ukraine, a group of ness campaigns throughout Ukraine to leaders on the list would be asked how you.” Although her husband did not inspire women to fight the battle. Ukraine’s energy sector was divided leave her after her surgery, he refused non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is taking the lead in raising Although over the past two years, among business clans during the mid- to to appear on the show to discuss this women’s magazines in Ukraine have awareness about this disease among the late 1990s. emotional situation. started writing about such issues. population. Statistics are grim in “Ukrainian society is just not ready Yedynstvenaya, (Only One) a Russian- Pipeline more and more viable Ukraine: more than 15,000 women for such openness,” said Dr. Halyna language monthly women’s magazine annually are diagnosed with breast can- The U.S. senior diplomat said that, in Maistruk, a gynecologist and leading began the dialogue in 2001, dedicating cer. The mortality rate for this disease is discussions with Polish and Ukrainian breast cancer expert in Kyiv, who a series of five articles to this topic. officials during a two-day review of tri- founded a breast cancer support group one of the highest in Europe; 20 percent Together with Avon-Ukraine and Dr. partite relations, the sides had deter- called Women’s Health and Family of them die within a year because the Maistruk, the magazine not only high- mined that the Odesa-Brody pipeline had Planning Charitable Fund. cancer was not detected early. (Close to lighted the importance of self-exams, become increasingly viable, especially in A quarter century ago, the topic of 40 percent of patients are diagnosed but talked to women who are breast the post-war atmosphere, and the con- breast cancer was also absent from pub- with stages 3 and 4, compared to 5-7 cancer survivors, bringing such topics sensus was that Poland needed to com- lic discussions in the United States. percent in the United States in the same into an open forum for discussion. plete the line to the town of Plotsk, locat- First Lady Betty Ford did much to raise stage of the disease.) ed on the Baltic Sea.
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