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INTERVIEW: President Leonid Kravchuk Ukraine's nuclear arms negoiiator outlines Ukraine's position on nukes pleased with progress on security

Ukraine's president у Leonid Krav­ a serious, thorough study of the by Borys Klymenko proposal. He added that while it is being chuk, granted an exclusive interview to START I package of documents in studied, he does not wish to talk about IntelNews on January 12. Below is a Parliament. These documents were KYYIV — Ukraine's Deputy Foreign it. However, he did not deny the possibi­ translated transcript of that interview in submitted in November and, obviously, Minister Borys Tarasiuk told reporters lity that this proposal would be dis­ which President Kravchuk speaks on they are very voluminous. For this that his delegation felt no pressure while cussed at the meeting between Ukraine's nuclear weapons in Ukraine. reason Parliament is currently studying meeting with U.S. government officials President Leonid Kravchuk and Rus­ it in commissions. The first deputy on START ratification in Washington, sian Federation President Boris Yeltsin How do you view the START II chairman of Parliament is due to meet on January 5-7, scheduled for January 15 in Moscow. document signed recently in Moscow by with the commissions and we are form­ "And, even if this looked like pres­ Meanwhile, Moscow's leading news­ Russia and the United States, and what ing the opinion (I have never taken any sure, our delegation did not come there paper, Izvestia, took on a familiar tone, are the chances that there will be no other position), that Parliament will to be lectured; we came to conduct writing on January 2: "In Kyyiv, they obstacles there? ratify this document. consultations. І should say, that no should finally understand that the It is possible that Parhament will pressure was exerted. In contradiction world community will never agree to I view the signing as a positive step. have three reservations. The first is a to what was reported in the mass media examine guarantees of collective secu­ Because the disarmament, destruction — both in Washington and in Moscow rity in the sphere of nuclear weapons. and reduction of nuclear weapons guarantee for Ukraine's security from — which reported that we would meet And, the demands of one subject of corresponds with our own policy. I am both nuclear and non-nuclear states — defeat in Washington, I should dis­ international law will not be granted truly and sincerely happy about what but primarily nuclear ones. In my appoint Moscow journalists and report special status." has happened in Moscow — it is a opinion, they must take upon them­ that we suffered no setbacks in Wash­ Ukraine's minister of defense. Col. continuation of eariier discussions and selves some responsibihty for guaran­ ington. Gen. Konstantyn Morozov, who has the signing of documents between the teeing Ukraine's security on a political "Moreover, we are entirely pleased come under criticism of one-third of the United States and the former USSR, level, since in essence it now has on its with these consultations; we have finally Ukrainian Parliament, which has ac­ now Russia. soil the third-largest nuclear arsenal in cleared up the question of national cused him of building a "Petliurite- However, I well understand that the the world. And also because we volun­ security guarantees for Ukraine from Banderite" Ukrainian army, has de­ ratification and fulfillment of START tarily reject these weapons, which could the United States, as well as from other monstrated Ukraine's firm stand on the II depends on the degree to which so considerably change, if not all, then nuclear states," Mr. Tarasiuk said. nuclear arms issue. START I is implemented, since START at least part of Ukraine's policy. They The top Ukrainian nuclear arms In discussing the draft proposal 11 does not impose any obligations on think we will profit from this [the re­ negotiator said the Ukrainian delega­ between Ukraine and Russia regarding Ukraine. By now we should have had a moval of the missiles]. I do not tion witnessed some inaccurate report­ strategic nuclear arms, he commented: nuclear-free state and at present there is (Continued on page 10) ing on the part of the Washington "The proposed document reflects wish­ media. He cited Don Oberdorfer, a staff ful thinking on Moscow's part, and writer for The Washington Post, who once again, it puts Ukraine's stead­ U.S. inaugurates TV show after the first day of consultations, fastness regarding the presence of reported the U.S. administration had nuclear weapons on its territory to the discarded all of Ukraine's demands. "I test. Ukraine's policy considers the for broadcast to Ukraine should add, that this information, given nation's interests and does not take into by Eugene M. Iwanciw The program, anchored by Peter by a senior U.S. government official account whether or not they coincide UNA Washington Office Fedynsky, attempts to integrate who asked not to be identified, was a with those of the Moscow dreamers," he major U.S. and worldwide news serious topic of discussion at the follow­ concluded. WASHINGTON — In a broad­ developments with a series of features ing day's talks. casting first, the Voice of America on business and entertainment, along "As a result, Richard Boucher, a press (VOA) and Worldnet Television with alternating pieces on health and secretary for the U.S. State Depart­ Communists' action inaugurated a Ukrainian-language medicine, science and technology, ment, issued a statement, which report­ news and features television program the environment and agriculture. ed that the government of Ukraine did expected to disband on January 9. Titled "Window on The show will highUght American not present any new demands, nor did America," the 30-minute program is culture and provide its nationwide the United States reject any demands," Supreme Council aired on Saturdays at 10:30 p.m. Ukrainian audience with informa­ Mr. Tarasiuk said. KYYIV — As The Weekly was local time in Ukraine. tion to better understand the United Upon Mr. Tarasiuk's return from going to press, our special correspon­ States and its people, including the Washington, Ukrainian Television, The program is the first regularly dent Dmytro Filipchenko learned Ukrainian community in the U.S. quoting from The Washington Post, scheduled television broadcast by the that on Monday, January 18, about United States in Eastern Europe and The inaugural program opened aired a report that the United States 150 deputies of the Supreme Council the former Soviet Union in a local with a news story about the signing of would aid Ukraine in securing guaran­ of Ukraine are scheduled to meet in language. the START II treaty by President tees from the United Nations Security Kyyiv and then submit their resigna­ George Bush and Boris Yeltsin, Council. "This initiative will be an extra­ tions from the Parliament. ordinary step in our efforts to reach followed by a story on START I and Commenting on this, Mr. Tarasiuk This move will, in effect, disband the vast area of the former Soviet the visit of Ukrainian Deputy Foreign said: "We are interested in guarantees the Supreme Council of Ukraine, Union, and it could be the model for Minister Borys Tarasiuk and his from nuclear states, first of all. If these with one-third of its members resign­ television broadcasts in the lan­ delegation to Washington. In addi­ guarantees are additionally endorsed by ing. This will force new elections to guages of other parts of the world," tion to covering the delegation's all the members of the Security Council, the Parliament before the end of its said VOA Bureau of Broadcasting meetings at the State and Defense and even further by other existing term (May 1995). Director Chase Untermeyer. departments, Mr. Fedynsky inter­ international organizations — political, The action, initiated by deputies of viewed Victor Basiuk, a national mihtary-political, then I think we will "Window on America" is the result the Luhanske Oblast, is a reaction to of an agreement between the govern­ security consultant, about the status not be opposed to this." the fact that the current convocation ments of the United States and of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Mr. Tarasiuk refused to comment on of the Supreme Council has not yet Ukraine. The initial agreement pro­ The next segment of the program the draft proposal about security gua­ discussed the ban on the Communist vides for airing the program on dealt with a variety of news items, rantees drawn up in Russia, which was Party, imposed after the August 1991 Ukrainian television for one year. presented in Kyyiv on January 13, (Continued on page 16) (Continued on page 3) stating only that it differs from the U.S. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17,1993 No.3 NEWS ANALYSIS News briefs Ukraine not a nuclear bogeyman on Ukraine by Borys Klymenko the U.S. and the former USSR, now Russia — are concerned about the • KYYIV — Christmas, celebrated • KYYIV — The Renaissance Fund Ukraine's procrastination in ratifying emergence of another nuclear power. on January 7 according to the Julian reported on its activity during 1992, the START I treaty is, very simply, a Then the balance of power in the world calendar, was a public holiday for the noting that it had approved 100 projects means for this independent state to will change. They are not concerned second year. There were public celebra­ and awarded $1.6 million toward their protect its own interests. It would be about our interests." tions on Independence Square in Kyyiv realization. Among those projects is difficult to even imagine how, say, In regard to the U.S. pledge to and the news media helped create a establishment in Kyyiv of a Ukrainian England or France would respond if the allocate $175 million to Ukraine once holiday spirit via special programs. American College of Business and a Russian Federation, the United States the latter has ratified START I, Presi­ (RFE/RL Daily Report) Political Science Center in Donetske. of America and China tried to pressure dent Kravchuk said he considers this, Dr. Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, who heads either of them to unilaterally begin total "thus far, merely a proposal." He • KYYIV — Two opinion polls the fund established by millionaire nuclear disarmament. commented: "But there is a long way to published in Kyyiv on January 6 show financier George Soros, underlined that But, that is exactly what is happening go from a proposal to realization. And that many Ukrainians view the collapse the Renaissance Fund aims to help to Ukraine — about which most govern­ what is $175 million when we need $1.2 of the Soviet Union as a tragedy because Ukraine create an open society. (Res­ ment officials know only that it is home billion just to destroy 130 missiles?" of the economic hardship that has publika) to 176 nuclear missiles. Demands are However, he stopped short of stating ensued. However, very few would like being made on Ukraine to immediately that ratification of the START pact is to see the USSR restored, reported • KYYIV — The Sociology Institute disarm itself. Furthermore, certain dependent upon receipt of such funds. Reuters. One survey, completed by the at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences countries, adding their own interests to "If for some reason we do not receive Kyyiv International Sociological Cen­ recently conducted a poll in the Kyyiv, the equation, do not even attempt to $1.2 billion we will not ratify the ter, reported that 52 percent considered Chernihiv, Lviv and Dnipropetrovske calculate whether Ukraine would be document — that simply is not the way the USSR's demise a "great tragedy," oblasts, asking respondents to choose able to accomplish this feat — even in we pose the question. Furthermore, we pointing to sharp price increases as the among 15 political parties. Nearly 75 the seven-year span provided for in cannot insist on some definite sum — I principal reason. The Russian-language percent of those polled could not point START I. am merely stating how much we would daily newspaper Pravda Ukrainy car­ to a party they preferred; 31 percent On the eve of his departure for the need." ried out its own poll which revealed that noted they will not participate in United States, Deputy Foreign Minister Thus, one of the goals of the Ukrai­ only 5.9 percent of respondents would elections. Of the 24 percent who ex­ Borys Tarasiuk. told this correspon­ like to see the USSR restored, while pressed a preference, 7 percent chose dent: "Ukraine did not exert any special nian delegation's visit to the United States was to obtain additional funds so 22.3 percent want Ukraine to withdraw Rukh. The Green Party of Ukraine, the effort to obtain nuclear arms, and now from the Commonwealth of Independ­ Ukrainian Republican Party and the it must direct its efforts at disarmament. that Ukraine's financial burden in nuclear disarmament is decreased. ent States. (RFE/RL Daily Report) Democratic Party of Ukraine were each However, given the economic crisis named by 5 percent; the Party for the today facing Ukraine, this is not a Ukraine expects to obtain the assistance of all members of the nuclear club. • KYYIV — Vyacheslav Chornovil, Democratic Rebirth of Ukraine was priority." president of Rukh, the Popular Move­ chosen by 4 percent; 3 percent chose the President Leonid Kravchuk, when Ukraine's situation is complex also ment of Ukraine, called Prime Minister Socialist Party; and the New Ukraine asked about the pressure being applied from the ecological perspective. On the Leonid Kuchma's decree on privatiza­ coalition and the People's Party of on Ukraine by other states, said: "There one hand, the realization of the provi­ tion of small parcels of land the first Ukraine were each chosen by 1 percent. is pressure. And it must be so — that is sions of START II, which has just been concrete step toward privatization of Other parties were named by less than 1 the reality. The superpowers, which signed by the Russian Federation and land. He called on the government to percent of those polled. (Respublika) have taken upon themselves the role of (Continued on page 12) proceed decisively on the path toward guarantors of world security — that is agrarian reform and privatization of • KYYIV — Polish Prime Minister land belonging to collective farms. Hanna Suchocka met with Prime (Respublika) Minister Leonid Kuchma and signed /s Ukraine to be secure? several bilateral agreements during a • CAIRO -~ Egyptian President working visit to the Ukrainian capital. by Eugene M. Iwanciw Washington Times (see page 6), Frank Hosni Mubarak and Ukrainian Presi­ Among them were agreements on mu­ UNA Washington Office Gaffney writes that "Ukraine is one of dent Leonid Kravchuk met on Decem­ tual encouragement and protection of the most important countries of the ber 21, 1992, to discuss Central Asian investments, legal procedures at the WASHINGTON — In the coming post-Cold War Europe," and that "the issues, the situation in Bosnia-Hercego- Polish-Ukrainian border, prevention of months the Parliament of Ukraine time has come to challenge the assump­ vina and the Mideast peace process. As dual taxation and evasion, and coope­ will make perhaps the most important tion that U.S. and Western interests will well, the two leaders focused on bila­ ration in the fields of science and decision of its existence: whether to necessarily be best served by insisting teral ties and economic cooperation technology. Other officials signed pacts ratify the Strategic Armys Reduc­ that Ukraine turn over all remaining, between Egypt and Ukraine. President covering trade, economic relations and tion Treaty (START) and accede longer-range nuclear weapons to Rus­ Mubarak hosted a dinner in honor of cooperation in education. Poland and to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation sia." He also pointed out that United President and Mrs. Kravchuk. During Ukraine agreed to reconcile differences Treaty (NPT). Under the treaties, States policy toward Ukraine has not his speech at the banquet, the Egyptian in historical perceptions in the prepara­ Ukraine would be required to dismantle changed since the famous August 1, leader noted the close ties that had tion of history textbooks. Speaking at a the 176 strategic nuclear missiles located 1991 speech in Kyyiv,in which Presi­ linked Ukraine and Egypt in the past. press conference. Prime Minister Leo­ in Ukraine and would be prohibited dent George Bush "questioned the During his three-day visit to Cairo, nid Kuchma underlined the importance from ever developing or deploying any sanity of Ukrainians who yearned for President Kravchuk laid wreaths at the of good relations with Poland, a "stra­ nuclear weapons. That decision could independence from Moscow and stren­ Unknown Soldier Cenotaph and the tegic partner." (RFE/RL Daily Report) determine the very existence of Ukraine uously urged that Ukraine give up its mausoleum of the late President Anwar as an independent, sovereign nation. nationalistic aspirations and remain Sadat. (The Egyptian Gazette) (Continued on page 13) It must be understood that Ukraine part of the Soviet Union." would not be reducing its nuclear But, while some in the media under­ weapons, but eliminating them. Under stand Ukraine's legitimate needs for START I and START II, Russia, national security guarantees, many do FOUNDED 1933 Ukraine's neighbor and historic adver­ not. In a January 11 editorial The Ukrainian WeeLli sary, would retain 3,500 strategic nu­ New York Times wrote: "Kiev is also An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National clear warheads. Ukraine would retain seeking a U.S. security guarantee Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. ambiguous security guarantees from the against Russia. But Washington would 07302. United States. The Ukrainian Parlia­ be foolish to offer one. That would ment should ask: Is this adequate? needlessly affront Russian nationalists, Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, N.J. 07302. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) does already smoldering about Moscow's (ISSN - 0273-9348) not think so. In a January 6 editorial, diminished stature." In other words, the WSJ stated: "some Russian parlia­ Ukraine's security is less important than Yearly subscription rate: $20; for UNA members — $10. mentarians want to rebuild the Russian affronting Russian nationalists. Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. empire, and how much easier that While what is written in the American would be if the two largest former press is important, it is the position of The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: Soviet republics on their borders had the U.S. government that is vital. Last (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 been forced to disarm." It went on to say week, as a U.S. State Department that "there is no assurance that the spokesman was officially telling the Postmaster, send address Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz region will be more stable if all the press that "the United States has not changes to: Associate editor IMarta Kolomayets nuclear capibilities lie in Russian rejected Ukrainian demands," other The Ukrainian Weekly Assistant editor Khristina Lew hands," but "quite the contrary seems officials were quietly telling a different PC Box 346 Staff writers/editors: Roman Woronowycz more likely." The newspaper also took story to the press. According to The Jersey City. N.J. 07303 Andrij Wynnycltyj . the U.S. to task by stating: "closed out Washington Post of January 7, a senior of significant negotiations, Ukraine has U.S. official said: "We're not going to The Uitrainian Weekly, January 17.1993. No. 3. Vol. LXI been treated in the START talks as a bargain for their vote. We're not going satellite of Russia." Copyright 1993 by The Ukrainian Weekly In a January 12 commentary in The (Continued on page 6) No. з THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1993 Trans-^Dmesier to offer Russian M^ TIRASPOL, Moldova — Lt, Gen. train officers for the Russian forces at Kyyiv demonsfrafors seek Demjanjuk^s rele'ase Aieksandr Lebed, eommander of Rus~ the University of Tiraspol. The uni­ sia's 14th Army in Moldova, addressed versity was recently de-Moldovanized KYYIV — President Leonid Krav- but for many years only the downs have a group of workers of the Kirov muni­ and converted to a Russian institution. chuk concluded his three-day visit to been stressed. We believe there is more tions factory here, claiming that his In the same speech, Gen. Lebed Israel on January 13 by signing a to unite us than to divide us." country would soon open a consular suggested that the dismantled monu­ memorandum on mutual understand­ During the Kravchuk delegation's mission in the city. According to Basa- ment to Feliks Dzerzhinsky in Moscow ing and principles of bilateral coopera­ visit. Foreign Minister Peres noted press reports of January 5 and 6, he be replaced by one to U.S. President tion, reported Radio Liberty. President Kravchuk's speech more than stated that the mission would grant George Bush, and called the U.S. Speaking at a banquet held in his two years ago at the Babyn Yar Memo­ Russian citizenship to local residents ambassador to Moldova, Mary Pendle­ honor by Israel's president, Chaim rial on the outskirts of Kyyiv. He who desired it. ton, "a mediocre woman" for having Herzog, Mr. Kravqhuk stated that described Mr. Kravchuk's address as Gen. Lebed noted that Moldovans rejected his invitations to visit the "through joint efforts... a new chapter is "very anti-anti-Semitic." make up 40 percent of the "Dniester "Dniester Republic." being opened in the history of relations Republic's" population (without men­ between the Ukrainian and Jewish The Demjanjuk case tioning that Ukrainians make up In a related development, Gen. Lebed people." another 28 percent) and contended that held a press conference on January 11 In a speech before the Israeli Parlia­ On January 9, before. President many of them seek access to the Rus­ with officials of the "Dniester" Security ment, the Knesset, President Kravchuk Kravchuk's departure for Israel, a sian Federation. He claimed that geo­ Ministry. Col. Vladimir Gorbov, for­ underlined that Ukraine seeks to culti­ group of demonstrators in Kyyiv called graphical distance presented no ob­ merly of the Moldavian SSR's KGB, vate cordial relations with Israel, while on the president to speak out in defense stacles to this. confirmed previous public admissions reiterating that it wants to pursue a of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian Ame­ The Russian commander also an­ that Soviet KGB officers formerly balanced Mideast policy and supports rican now awaiting the outcome of his nounced that the army and local autho­ active in the Baltic states were now the Middle East peace process. Just a final appeal to Israel's Supreme Court. rities intend to open a miiitary chair to serving with the region's secret police. few weeks earher. President Kravchuk Mr, Demjanjuk, who was born in had visited Egypt, where he met with Ukraine, was convicted and sentenced President Hosni Mubarak. to death in 1986 for the Nazi war crimes Ukrainian, Russian academicians During his visit to Israel, President committed by the notorious guard at Kravchuk also signed agreements on the Treblinka death camp known as Ukrainian-Israeli cooperation in the "Ivan the Terrible." discuss bilateral relations fields of business, science and culture. While President Kravchuk was in by Dmytro Filipchenko influence of strikes on bilateral rela­ The Ukrainian president was accom­ Israel, demonstrators gathered near the tions, and the possibility of a resurgence panied on his visit by Foreign Minister Israeli Mission in Kyyiv to urge Mr. in Communist ideology. Anatoliy Zlenko and six other Cabinet Demjanjuk's release. KYYIV — On January 9-10, a group ministers. Radio Liberty reported that Dmytro of high-ranking academicians and This was the first professional and He met with Foreign Minister Shi­ Pavlychko, chairman of the Ukrainian influential parliamentary consultants non-partisan discussion of the current mon Peres, who said after lunching with Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commit­ from Russia and Ukraine met here in state of affairs affecting both countries. Mr. Kravchuk, "We consider it a very tee, was quoted on January 12 as saying closed sessions billed as "Steps to a It provided a forum for dispassionate important visit because he is president that Mr. Demjanjuk was framed by the Common Ground 1." examination of areas of disagreement in of a very important country." Meetings KGB and it is time for Israel to release the approaches of the two govern­ were also held with Prime Minister him. Sponsored by the Kyyiv periodical ments, and allowed similarities in policy Politolohichni Chytannia (Read­ Yitzhak Rabin. to emerge as well. For Natalia Viatkina, President Kravchuk is the first presi­ ings in Political Science), and the editor of Ukrainskyi Ohliadach (Ukrai­ Eastern Center for Current Docu­ dent of a member-nation of the Com­ nian Observer), the crux of divergence monwealth of Independent States to mentation in Moscow, the confe­ in policy lies in the fact that "even the Kravchuk, Yeltsin rence was held to discuss matters of visit Israel. His delegation visited the consistently democratic forces in Mos­ Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and division of the former Soviet Union's cow perceive the demise of the USSR as assets, the future of Ukraine's status as a attended the dedication of the Ukrai­ meet about debt a tragedy, while the broad consensus in nian Embassy in Tel Aviv. nuclear state, the emerging trend of Kyyiv holds that it marked the begin­ WASHINGTON — Ukrainian Presi­ regionalization in both countries, the A member of the president's delega­ dent Leonid Kravchuk was to head for ning of the emergence of Ukraine as a tion, Viktor Nahaychuk, head of the divergence between Ukraine's and powerful modern state." Moscow and a meeting with Russian Russia's system of government, the Foreign Ministry's Middle East Sec­ leader Boris Yeltsin on January 15 to Although the meeting, held aboard tion, noted "We are doing everything to resolve differences that have held up the ship Academician Hlushkov, were put an end to the myth that Ukrainians new Western credit for the two coun­ Communists' action... not open to journaHsts, participants are anti-Semites." Reuters quoted him tries because they cannot agree on spoke of plans to release transcripts of as saying: "The history of Ukrainian- repayment of debt owed by the former (Continued from page 1) the discussions at a later date. Jewish relations has its ups and downs, Soviet Union to the West. coup. The matter was to be discussed The Paris Club, a group of major during the Parliament's last session industralized creditor nations, has which ended in mid-December. postponed a meeting that was scheduled ''Reef directors" block reform for this weekend because of the dispute Stanislav Hurenko, former first suspend sessions until his return. between Ukraine and Russia, stated a secretary of the Communist Party of by Dmytro Filipchenko Washington Post report. The Paris Ukraine, on January 11 became the Informed sources say Mr. Pynzenyk's proposals threatened the interests of the Club accord would have postponed first to declare his intention to resign KYYIV— The "red directors "faction some of the debt payments for five to 10 from the Parliament. He cited within the Ukrainian Cabinet on red directors. As a result, in order to turn the course of privatization back years. policies of the Parliament that do not January 10 apparently blocked pro­ The two countries had agreed on allow him to fulfill his responsibili­ posals for decrees on economic reform towards a path more beneficial to them, the directors'faction within the govern­ November 24 that Russia would tem­ ties toward his constituents. that would have broken their hold on porarily represent the entire Soviet debt According to Volodymyr Mos- the Ukrainian economy. The measures ment, led by Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Demianov [minister of the of $70 billion, including the 16.37 kovka, head of the parUamentary proposed by Deputy Prime Minister percent Ukraine had assumed pre­ Committee on Glasnost and the and Minister of the Economy Viktor agro-industrial complex], blocked the measures. viously. The agreement was con­ Mass Media, it is possible that mass Pynzenyk and the former deputy head cluded to make Western credit more protest actions will be organized next of the national bank, Dr. Oleksander readily available. The two republics had week in industrial regions of Ukraine Savchenko, were criticized as "too N.Y. Consulate also agreed to finalize debt repayment to protest the policies of the current eclectic," "declarative," and "lacking in schedules and to divide the assets of the Ukrainian government and push for any real mechanisms for the introduc­ contract signed former Soviet Union by December 31. the immediate signing of the CIS tion of market transformations." On that day Ukraine renounced the Charter. It is possible that a demand The proposed policies were seen, by NEW YORK — Ukraine has signed a agreement because Russia never pro­ to renew the Soviet Union will also Western analysts and business leaders three-year contract for rental of a vided a list of the former Soviet pro­ be presented by protesters. such as George Soros, as a welcome building to house its General Consulate perty abroad that is to be divided up, Mr. Filipchenko has also learned departure from the influence of the here. reported Reuters. that other special actions are being heads of state enterprises (the "red The contract was signed by General The amount of the debt that would be prepared by pro-Communist forces, directors"), and a change in direction Consul Viktor Kryzhanivsky, acting on owed by the end of 1993 now stands at in Ukraine, including a decision to for Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma, directives from the Foreign Ministry of over $18 billion dollars — $15 bilHon in cancel some government decrees on himself a former head of such a concern. Ukraine and Ukraine's ambassador to 1993 payments and $3-4 billion in economic reform. This could force Some observers have come to believe the U.S.,Oleh Bilorus. arrears payments from 1992. The pro­ the resignation of Prime Minister that the measures have now been block­ The building is located on East 49th posed Paris Club rescheduling would Leonid Kuchma, or the entire Cabi­ ed because they were introduced with­ Street, between Second and Third reduce the amount owed to the West net. In this case, the deposed head of out Mr. Kuchma's approval. avenues. Ukraine has an option to buy next year to a more manageable $2.75 the Cabinet of Ministers, Vitaliy Fueling speculation in this regard, the the property within six months. The billion. Masol, may be presented as a candi­ Ukrainian prime minister left for Mos­ Foundation in Support of Diplomatic The two presidents are also scheduled date for prime minister by the Com­ cow on January 13, for two to three Missions of Ukraine has pledged to to discuss issues concerning Russian oil munist forces. days of talks with the Russian Cabinet, cover 50 percent of the cost of renting sales and its transport to Ukraine and vand directed his own^ executive-to; the premises. ^ ^ other count ribs. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JANUARY 17, 1993 No. 3 Group promoting Ukraine initiates CDC appoints director for Ukraine

TROY, Mich. — The Citizens De­ nationwide ^Xall for Volunteers" mocracy Corps based in Washington will be implementing its assistance programs for Ukraine starting in January. Under a special presidential order targeted for Eastern Europe and the newly independent states, the CDC will mobiUze U.S. private sector exper­ tise and resources to build democratic institutions and free market economies in Ukraine. Steve Piwtorak, a Ukrainian Ameri­ can from Troy, Mich., was appointed by the CDC from among nearly 100 appli­ cants to establish and direct operations in Kiev for all of Ukraine. While in Ukraine, his objective will be to work with American business and industry leaders to fulfill the needs of Ukrainian free enterprise and democratic activi­ ties. AVID Volunteers in Kiev: (from left) James S. Denton, National Forum To accomplish this objective, he will work closely with Ukrainian govern­ Foundation President; Orysia Pylyshenko, AVID director; Stanislav Lazebnyk, Steve Piwtorak and Ivan Drach of the Ukraina Society, and AVID volunteers Glen Wright and ment and industry leaders to establish Motrya Mac. priorities and implement three assis­ with his family. As a senior executive of tance programs: an international company, he has WASHINGTON — A nationwide John Lechicky, a financial analyst • The Corporate Assistance Pro­ traveled extensively in Western Europe, "Call for Volunteers" has been launch­ for Citicorp, is currently manager of gram will enlist executives of Fortune the Orient and more recently Ukraine, ed to recruit qualified Americans to international programs at the Interna­ 500 corporations, non-profit organiza­ where he had been working on several work with their professional counter­ tional Management Institute (IMI) in tions and universities to provide long- joint ventures and international trade parts in government and independent Kyyiv. He is involved in coordinating term, high-level priority needs. transactions. media throughout Central and Eastern projects between IMI and other West­ • The Business Entrepreneur Pro­ Europe, including Ukraine. "Ukraine is facing numerous com­ ern business and educational institu­ gram will target business needs to small plex issues and hardships during this This activity is being conducted tions, such as summer internships and and medium-size companies. period of transition to democracy and a through the American Volunteers for executive-in-residence programs. • The Citizens Volunteer Program free market economy," he noted. "Reso­ International Development (AVID) To qualify as an AVID volunteer, recruits teams of volunteers to partici­ lutions, however, lie within the Ukrai­ program sponsored by the National applicants must have a minimum of two pate in long-term institution-building nian people and its leadership. They Forum Foundation. The purpose of years' professional experience and projects such as public administration must initially exhibit a combined spirit AVID is to promote the region's transi­ commit to at least three months of and higher education. and effort to overcome these obstacles." tion to a free political and economic service in Eastern Europe. All AVID Execution of these programs will also "By mobilizing America's volunteer system. assignments are in public administra­ require close working relationships with spirit, the Citizens Democracy Corps the American Embassy in Kiev and Rukh Chairman Vyacheslav Chorno- tion and governance, or journalism wants to further stimulate and provide other organizations that serve the cause vil, who recently joined NFF's board of (emphasis on media management). the necessary expertise and resources of free enterprise and democracy. advisors, wrote: "I am very honored to The most highly desired volunteers that will continue to encourage and Mr. Piwtorak was born in the Terno- become the first Ukrainian member of will have work experience in one or reinforce this momentum. This commit­ pil region of Ukraine. He emigrated as a the International Board of Advisors. I more of the following specialities: ment will serve the immediate needs of very young boy to Germany and then to will work diligently to advance the work economic development, city and muni­ Ukraine and ultimately the needs of Canada. He was educated in the U.S., of the foundation..." cipal planning, press and constituency everyone focused towards democracy in relations, political organization, media where he obtained an engineering degree our expanding global economies," Mr. In discussing the program, Ivan management, budgeting, advertising, and an MBA and now resides in Troy Piwtorak said. Drach, head of the Ukrainian Society, television production, venture capital noted: "I am fully aware of, and greatly formation, privatization, banking and appreciate, the foundation's work in finance, legislative management, con­ advancing the region's democratic stitutional law, and defense industry Cincinnati-Kharkiv Sister City transition. The benefits that we in conversion. Ukraine and other young democracies have received are considerable. Through Local language skills are desired, but officials liost Ukraine's envoy the American Volunteers for Interna­ not always required. tional Development program we wel­ AVID is the logical and natural come the active participation of Ameri­ extension of the foundation's flagship can volunteers in our country." program: the Central and Eastern European Internship Program Since launching AVID, 17 volunteers (CEEIP). This project has brought have been assigned to work in Bucha­ almost 200 emerging leaders from rest, Krakow, Kyyiv, Moscow, Prague, Europe's new democracies, including St. Petersburg and Vilnius. The Na­ Ukraine, to the U.S. for professional tional Forum Foundation expects to training. This internship program, by have about 80 AVID volunteers in the now the largest of its kind in the United region in the coming 12 months. States, is internationally recognized as Among these first AVID volunteers one of the most effective training was Glen Wright, a professor of public programs supporting Eastern Europe's administration at The American Uni­ political and economic transition. versity in Washington, who assisted the Kyyiv-based Institute of Social and Major funding to launch AVID has Economic Problems in its efforts to been provided by the National Endow­ develop a privatization plan for the city. ment for Democracy, Pew Charitable Mr. Wright also acted as an institute Trusts and the Office of Citizen Ex­ Haison to the World Bank, the United changes of the United States Informa­ States Agency for International De­ tion Agency. Other NFF-sponsored velopment and the U.S. Embassy. democratization programs are support­ ed by the Lynde and Harry Bradley He was joined by Motrya Mac, a Foundation, Carthage Foundation, graduate student at Harvard University, German Marshall Fund of the United who worked as a staff member for the States, Grace Foundation, John M. Representatives of the Cincinnati-Kharkiv Sister City Project recently met Council of Advisors to the Parliament OUn Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers in Columbus, Ohio, with Oleh Bilorus, the ambassador of Ukraine to the of Ukraine. Fund and the Soros Foundation. United States. Dr. Bilorus lectured at a dinner sponsored jointly by the Myron Rabij, a Philadelphia attor­ The NFF is a non-profit 501(c)3 Columbus Council on World Affairs and the law firm of Bricker and Eckler of ney, is currently at the Computerized organization dedicated to promoting Columbus. Dr. Bilorus spoke about the many rapid changes currently Information Center of the Ukrainian political and economic freedom. For an affecting Ukraine and encouraged American businesses to join in their Parliament, where he is developing a application to participate in the AVID exciting transition to a market economy. Pictured above are representatives national and international laws data­ program write to: National Forum of the Cincinnati-Kharkiv Sister City Project with Ambassador Bilorus (from base for the drafters of the new constitu­ Foundation, AVID Volunteer Applica­ left): Stacia Zyznomirsky, Anne Brannaman, Janet Crawford, Karen Stiros, tion, members of Parliament, as well as tion, 511 C St. NE, Washington, DC Oksana Melnyk, Ambassador Bilorus, Chris Neyer, Gene Petropavlovskiy regional government authorities. 20002; or call 1-800-622-3388: and Steve Sirko. No. з THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1993 Medical delegation from Ukraine travels to Philadelphia to solidify partnership by Christine Shust-Fylypovych nership and assistant dean for interna­ Special to The Ukrainian Weekly tional programs at the University of Pennsylvania, said he felt the partner­ PHILADELPHIA — The leadership ship between the two cities has already delegation of Kyyiv medical specialists succeeded "in many different dimen­ participating in the Philadelphia-Kyyiv sions," since "the people of Kyyiv and medical partnership program com­ the people of Philadelphia immediately pleted its first visit to Philadelphia connected." during the first few weeks of December Dr. Andrew Tershakovec, a Chil­ 1992. dren's Hospital pediatrician and com­ As an initial step towards upgrading munity liaison for the program, added maternal and child health care in the that this was a very successful first step capital of Ukraine, the visiting delega­ of the program and that the Ukrainian tion of doctors, nurses and administra­ American community of Philadelphia tors followed a tight schedule of semi­ has been very supportive and quite nars and clinical observations. helpful in terms of this initial success. Members of the delegation attended Dr. Valentine Yatsenko, vice-dean lectures or_ policy development and the for research and international programs organization and financing of health for the Ukrainian State Medical Univer­ care at the Leonard Davis Institute of sity and head of the nine-member Kyyiv the University of Pennsylvania. At the delegation, stated that the Philadelphia Wharton school, also at the University visit was very interesting and that the of Pennsylvania, they learned about local community's involvement was principles of health management. most moving. A medical contingent from Kyyiv tours Pennsylvania Hospital's Labor and The visitors toured the gynecological, The Philadelphia-Kyyiv partnership Delivery unit led by Shirley Stasiowski, senior vice-president for patient care obstetrical^ neonatology and pediatric services (far right), and Debbie Cruz, clinical nurse specialist (second from right). facilities a: the Hospital of the Univer­ is one of 11 health care partnerships between U.S. hospitals and medical Others (from left) are: Olha Dzuba, Adrian Hewryk (translator) and Larisa sity of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospi­ Konovalova.) tal of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania facilities in the newly independent states. Hospital. The guests also visited the These partnerships are funded by HMO insurance company, U.S. Health­ the U.S. Agency for International care. Development (USAID) and managed by the American International Health The Kyyiv delegation also went on a Alliance (AIHA). two-day excursion to Washington, where the specialists met with officials The Philadelphia-Kyyiv partnership of the U.S. Agency for International includes the University of Pennsylvania Development and the American Inter­ Medical Center (The University of national Health Alliance, and toured Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. the Hospital of the University of The Philadelphia area's Ukrainian Pennsylvania), Pennsylvania Hospital American community was instrumental and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in providing daily translation services as on one side, and the Ukrainian State well as hosting some evening and Medical University, Kyyiv Children's weekend diversions for the guests. The Hospital No. 2 and the Kyyiv Obstetri­ Ukrainian Educational and Cultural cal and Gynecological Hospital No. 3 Center organized and coordinated the on the other. efforts of dozens of local volunteer Over the next several years, Philadel­ translators and guides. Several local phia will host several medical delega­ Ukrainian American organizations also tions for more extended periods of time. hosted the visiting delegation. The next group of specialists from the Dr. George Peckham, project coordi­ Ukrainian capital is due to arrive in The medical contingent visits Pennsylvania Hospital's Intensive Care Nursery led nator for the Philadelphia-Kyyiv part­ Philadelphia early this year. by Dr. Frank W. Bowen, chief, section on newborn pediatrics (far right) . "Medical Clinic on Wheels" physicians discuss project at The Chicago Group meeting by Theodora Turula favorable location. Dr. Dudiak noted. procedures and study other source began to run more smoothly, she said. The program serves various pur­ material. Ukrainian dentists were amazed by the CHICAGO — The need for medical poses. The first is to provide ongoing In conclusion. Dr. Dudiak listed durability of fillings — theirs tended to and dental care in Ukraine, especially medical and dental care to children of some of the program's myriad accom­ crumble in six months. Dr. Tymiak- preventive care, is acute. The "Medical the Ternopil Oblast. In order to ensure plishments. Thirty-five volunteer medi­ Lonchyna emphasized that dental care Clinic on Wheels," an ongoing project that this care will continue after the cal and technical personnel traveled in Ukraine is dismal, and preventive that addresses this problem, was the volunteers leave, it is necessary to train with the clinic and worked at various care non-existent. topic of discussion at a meeting spon­ local physicians and dentists to use the targeted hospitals. These enthusiastic, During her second trip to Ukraine sored on November 21, 1992, by The equipment and supplies. The vans. Dr. dedicated individuals ensured the pro­ this October, Dr. Tymiak-Lonchyna Chicago Group. Featured speakers Dudiak explained, consist of two exa­ gram's success, he underlined. Medical checked on the dentists she had trained were Dr. Stephen Dudiak, project mining rooms, a small laboratory and a care was provided to 7,000 children, and previously. They were seeing 20 chil­ director. Dr. Roxolana Tymiak-Lon- waiting room. Each room in the dental 4,000 received dental care. Volunteer dren per day and, most importantly, chyna and Dr. Andrew Melnyk. clinic has two complete chairs, and each radiology experts showed the people they were realizing that their treatments Dr. Dudiak, a retired physician from of the medical clinic's rooms has side- how radiation had affected their coun­ worked. The main purpose of Dr. Wisconsin, conceived this project short­ by-side examining tables, allowing a tryside, since the government had Tymiak-Lonchyna's second trip was to ly after the Chornobyl tragedy, but it volunteer and a local doctor to work concealed the extent of the damage. talk with the proper authorities about was not until 1991 that he was able to together. The emphasis is on teaching. Dr. Tymiak-Lonchyna, a dentist at introducing fluoridation of the city obtain funding through the "Thoughts The project also provides medical Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, water supply. She came prepared with of Faith" Lutheran ministries in Wis­ supplies and equipment to pediatric and spoke of her two tours of duty with the statistical data and plans for fluorida­ consin, and various pharmaceutical obstetrical hospitals. Experts are sent "Medical Clinic on Wheels" as an tion programs. She also outlined a five- corporations. Two mobile clinics were along to set up the equipment and to "emotional experience... all my years part plan for improving dental care in built — one medical and other dental train local individuals in its main­ of study and work were rewarded." Ukraine, consisting of a public health — with all the most advanced equip­ tenance and repair. "Volunteers are the Within the clinic, a Ukrainian dentist campaign emphasizing preventive den­ ment and supplies to examine and treat key to our success," Dr. Dudiak stated. worked alongside the volunteer, learning tistry; fluoridation of city water; pro­ children. It was also necessary to train personnel how to use materials on hand, so they viding pregnant women with prescrip­ Dr. Dudiak told of the difficulties in in calculating the correct dosages for the could carry on the work when the tions for vitamin supplements with dealing with local bureaucrats in U- various drugs, so doctors will feel volunteers left. fluoride; construction of several tooth­ kraine. In 1991 the country was still comfortable prescribing them. Dr. Tymiak-Lonchyna described the brush and toothpaste factories; and under Communist rule. As a result of Another aspect of the project's work difficulty of imparting the need for education of dentists in methods of official obstacles, the project was not is to provide educational tools, books, disinfection, sterilization and general preventive care. able to set up in its original tai-get areas, videotapes and instructors, to improve cleanliness. Medical personnel were and finally found a home in Ternopil, the level of medical education available required to wear scrub clothes, masks, Dr. Melnyk, chief of pediatric clini­ which had been the third clioice. Since locally in Ukraine. A building was set gloves, glasses — even special shoes. cal genetics at Loyola Medical School, the clinics are self-contained, complete up in the city of Ternopil as a resupply She took the time to explain every step described the critical medical situation with generators, they are free from any warehouse for the medical clinics. of the treatment and discuss alterna­ in Ukraine today. Infant mortality is outside interference, and if their pre­ Several rooms of this building were tives. At first there was much doubt and about 20 percent, meaning that one out sence is not welcomed in any locality, converted into lecture and study rooms, hesitation, but once all the instructions of five newborns dies before his first they can simply leave and find a more where doctors could review taped were written out in Ukrainian, things (Continued on page 9) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1993 No. 3

COMMENTARY A "heretic's" view on the Ukrainian Weell V twisting of Ukraine on arms by Frank Gaffney Jr. been to date — certainly before the Clinton administration starts shaping January 22 Arguably, among the most important policies predicated upon them, too. of the many bits of unfinished foreign For starters, Ukraine is one of the policy business Bill Clinton will inherit most important countries of the "post- This year we mark an important anniversary — the 75th — of the from George Bush is the question of Cold War" Europe. Its geographic size proclamation of an independent Ukrainian state on January 22, 1918. But, relations with Ukraine. If the incoming (equivalent to France), its rich agricul­ though it is a significant anniversary of a significant historical event, there are administration follows the lead of the tural potential, large (if, as with all of questions within the Ukrainian community on just how we should outgoing one in this area, however, Soviet industry) overly militarized commemorate this date. chances are bilateral ties will become industrial base and its well-educated dangerously strained. If so, the principal and reasonably productive population The reason for the questions, of course, is the fact that Ukraine today has beneficiary will the ascendant hard­ would make Ukraine a significant another, more recent, independence anniversary. And Ukraine's government liners in Moscow. player — even without nuclear weap­ has declared August 24 — the date in 1991 when Ukraine's Supreme Council ons. What is more, Ukraine also has, at courageously voted to adopt the "Act of Declaration of the Independence of The Bush administration is currently present, physical control over the world's Ukraine" — a national holiday. There are those in the diaspora who would using intense diplomatic, financial and third largest inventory of strategic arms. simply stop observing the January 22 independence anniversary, and choose political pressure to try to coerce instead the August 24 Independence Day as the focus of our community Ukraine to turn over to Russia strategic Incredibly, despite these factors, U.S. celebrations. nuclear weapons Kyyiv inherited with policy toward Ukraine has not changed the break-up of the old Soviet empire. appreciably from the days when it was a Indeed, last year, it seemed most of our communities marked the first The reasons for such heavy-handedness vassal state of the Soviet empire. This anniversary of the August 24 act. It remains to be seen how, or if, they will are said to include concerns that: policy was best characterized — even celebrate the January 22, 1918, date when the Ukrainian Central Rada • A failure by Ukraine to do so might caricatured — by President Bush's (Council) issued the Fourth Universal that proclaimed a free and independent create grave instabilities insofar as it notorious "Chicken Kiev" speech in Ukrainian state. (If the number of advance news items received here at The will destroy the foundation upon which July 1991, a month before the coup in Weekly is any indication, then the 75th anniversary will be a low-key the START I Treaty was predicated Moscow. commemoration.) (namely that only Russia would retain On that occasion, he questioned the the former Soviet strategic arsenal) sanity of Ukrainians who yearned for We would urge our readers, however, not to forget the January 22 and, in the process, tube the recently independence from Moscow and stren­ anniversary of 1918, or, for that matter, of 1919, when all Ukrainian lands signed follow-on agreement, START II. uously urged that Ukraine give up its were unified into one Ukrainian National Republic. Consider this: If there • Ukrainian insistence on retaining nationalist aspirations and remain part had been no independent UKrainian state in the earlier part of this century, such weapons would undercut its stated of the Soviet Union. Seemingly spiteful Ukraine would have been completely stateless for 300 years. Its claim to commitment to subscribe to the Nuclear at having been proven wrong, the Bush independent statehood would be seriously undermined. Its populace (or at Non-Proliferation Treaty and, it is administration has scarcely deviated in least a portion of it) would have no recollection of independence and, thus, argued, create a new impetus for other the post-Gorbachev period from its their aspirations for freedom would not have been as powerful. nations to acquire atomic and/or ther­ Moscow-centric approach. When U- monuclear arms. kraine is considered at all, it appears to The independence proclamation of January 22, 1918, has been the guiding • Ukraine's nuclear chauvinism may be as an afterthought — or, worse, as a principle of all our community life in the diaspora. It was the legacy of provide pretexts for hard-line elements nasty impediment to smooth relations January 22 that compelled us to preserve our Ukrainian culture, our history in Russia to steer Kremlin policy in with the Kremlin. — the Ukrainian essence. One could go on and on. But the essential question more militaristic and hegemonistic This attitude has not been improved is: Where would we be without the Central Rada's Fourth Universal? Where directions. by Kyyiv's mounting unease over politi­ would Ukraine be? Are these concerns well-grounded? cal developments in Russia. Washing- Do they justify the kind of knee- tion has been infuriated that its own It is a truism that the past is prologue. Therefore, as the 75th anniversary of breaking the Bush team is engaged in? dubious arms control agenda might be the January, 22, 1918, proclamation approaches, let us not forget to mark it in And, more to the point, if the present jeopardized by Ukrainians challenging some special way (perhaps in ways different from years past, as there is no U.S. approach ultimately succeeds, will the wisdom of surrendering their stock­ need for myriad proclamations paying tribute to the freedom-loving this country's long-term strategic in­ pile of powerful nuclear arms to a Ukrainian people's continued struggle for independence). Let us honor all terests be advanced — or will they historical enemy — particularly one those who came before us, who paved the way for Ukraine's current status as actually be disserved? increasingly dominated by the sorts of an independent member of the world community of nations — for today's My own heretical view is that the people who have previously used mili­ independence is built upon the sacrifices of many generations. Without the act answer to each of these questions may tary power to enslave Ukraine. of January 22, 1918, would there even have been an act of August 24, 1991? be "No." At the very least, the assump­ Whether the United States likes it or tions that have prompted the Bush not, Ukraine has serious and, to a administration to answer them in the considerable extent, legitimate con­ affirmative should be analyzed and cerns about Russia's future course. debated more carefully than they have Particularly with the ascendancy of enemies of structural reform in Mos­ Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is the director of cow, Ukrainians have ample grounds Turning the pages back...the Center for Security Policy and a for adopting a cautious attitude toward columnist for The Washington Times, Western-promoted policies that may, at where this commentary was first pub­ best, reduce Kyyiv's negotiating leverage and, at worst, put its sovereignty at risk. lished. It is reprinted in The Weekly Ivan Trush, an outstanding Ukrainian impressionist, was with the author's permission. The time has come to challenge the born in Vysotske, near Brody in western Ukraine, on (Editor's note: The spelling of the assumption that U.S. and Western January 17, 1869. After studying at the Krakow Academy capital city of Ukraine was changed in interests will necessarily be best served of Fine Arts (1891-1897), he lived in Lviv, where he was active in artistic circles and by insisting that Ukraine turn over all this column to Kyyiv to reflect The Ukrainian community life. He was a friend of Ivan Franko and the son-in-law of Weekly's transliteration policy.) (Continued on page 12) Mykhailo Drahomanov. Trush organized the first Society for the Advancement of Ruthenian Art and the Society of Friends of Ukrainian Scholarship, Literature and Art, and co-published the first Ukrainian art magazine, Artystychnyi Visnyk. He also lectured on art and literature and contributed article to the leading journals of the day (Dilo, Moloda Ukrayina, Literaturno Naukovyi Vistnyk). He traveled widely, visiting Kyyiv several times (where he taught at Mykola Have you renewed? Murashko's drawing school in 1901), Italy, Egypt and Palestine.

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Source: "Trush, Ivan, "Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol 5 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press). No. з THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1993 FOR THE RECORD: CI US reacts Faces and Places to Russian ambassador's essay by Myron B. Kuropas Following is the full text of a letter to and has promoted the creation of new the editor sent to Foreign Affairs by Dr. common institutions that would Bohdan Klid, assistant to the director of guarantee its dominance over the othe- the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian republics. This was achieved, in part by We need to be in their face! Studies based in Edmonton at the the Treaty of Tashkent, initiated by Russia to bind the republics in a mutual I occasionally receive correspon­ And today, when the radical left is University of Alberta. The letter is a dence and comments from people I becoming even more entrenched in response to a fall 1992 article by Vla­ security pact, which Ambassador Lukin views positively. respect who take exception either to my academe, we are less likely to get a fair dimir Lukin, Russia's ambassador to views or to my approach, or both. hearing. I remember a time, long, long the United States. Arbitrarily, and outside of the frame­ work of the Commonwealth, Russia has Recent articles of mine that caused ago, when university professors enjoyed In his essay "Our Security Predica­ seized all of the old Soviet Union's some consternation regarding manner the give and take of honest, vigorously ment" (Foreign Affairs, fall 1992), foreign assets, including its banks, and and style were the two regarding Ste­ argued, amply documented, debate. Russia's ambassador to the U.S., Vladi­ has stalled on dividing these among phen Budiansky and other mavens who Today, it's different. Many of today's mir Lukin, begins by describing Russia Commonwealth members, even though malign Ukraine. tenured "professors" don't give a fig for as "a country of paradoxes;" parado­ all of the republics contributed toward One Ukrainian American suggested a facts. Their minds are closed. And no xical is also a good word to describe his their purchase, creation or upkeep. less confrontational strategy with our amount of documentation, reason or vision of Russia's future foreign policy. Through this gesture of "good-neigh- critics. Scholars who respond with facts expository eloquence makes one bit of While claiming that Russia has dis­ borliness," the non-Russian republics and dispassionate documentation, she difference. carded its imperial past, Mr. Lukin have been effectively robbed of what­ believes, are more persuasive and The same, I'm afraid, is true of many argues, throughout his entire essay, for ever has remained of former Soviet hard produce a longer-lasting impact than of our media moguls, especially those its continuation in the form of a Russian currency assets, including real estate, those who resort to a more frontal who have yet to seriously examine the protectorate over the other, now that could have been used to establish approach. ethnic mythology of their communal nominally independent, former Soviet diplomatic and trade missions abroad.' past. How is it that Mr. Budiansky republics. Another Ukrainian American sug­ knows so much about Bohdan Khmel- In contrast, Ukraine has viewed the gested that attacking our detractors, CIS as a forum for settling differences nytsky? Did he learn about this obscure Although one could challenge many "particularly in a public forum nor­ 17th century leader through extensive of the concepts proposed by Ambassa­ and as a device for the peaceful disman­ mally produces the opposite results and tling of imperial structures. To Russia's research? Or did he first hear about the dor Lukin, it is worthwhile to focus on cause the individual to *dig in' his/her hetman from his communal teacher his argument that Russia should protect dismay, Ukraine has been engaged in heels rather than be disproved in his/her building its own state structures, who never tired of comparing Bohdan "the interests and rights of Russians and theory... A major portion of the strategy Khmelnytsky to Adolf Hitler? other minorities" who live outside the thereby consolidating its independence. of the Ukrainian community," he Russian Federation's frontiers. It is It is taking steps to introduce its own argues, "should include a campaign to I spent almost a year with the style already clear that Russia's support of its currency, has urged the division of the keep the news media informed of the editor of U.S. News & World Report ethnic kin in Moldova, who have former Soviet Union's assets, including *where and why' rather than parrying trying to convince him to drop "the" formed a quasi-state called the Dniester military hardware, and moving to off misinterpreted writings." from Ukraine. I provided documenta­ establish its own, defense-oriented, tion. I was friendly, kind, gentle. I even Republic on the borders of of Ukraine These are valid, good-faith concerns nuclear-free armed forces, thereby sent him a free subscription to The and Moldova, has caused much blood­ and, if instinct serves, they are pro­ dealing a staggering blow to the old Ukrainian Weekly. Did it do any good? shed and instability, thereby under­ bably shared by others. Soviet mihtary behemoth. This last step Absolutely not! A week before events in mining Moldova's sovereignty. This A few years ago, I might have agreed. problem is still explosive and not yet has infuriated Russia, which has been Ukraine forced his magazine to change, consistently blocking Ukraine's Since then, however, I have reviewed this man wrote an op-ed piece arguing resolved. One should draw the proper the negative impact vile and reprehen­ lessons from this tragedy as well as from attempts to form its own armed forces, that the protestations of "Ukrainian most vividly in its refusal to quickly sible attacks have had on our commu­ nationalists," notwithstanding, U.S. the recent break-up of Yugoslavia to see nity during the past 50 years. I've also that Ambassador Lukin's proposals will divide the Black Sea Fleet stationed on News and World Report would retain lead to greater instability throughout Ukraine's territory. studied how our community reacted to "the." Eurasia, increased inter-ethnic conflicts It is not surprising, then, that the hatemongers. I've concluded that if anything, we've been too gentle. Despite our best efforts to remain and warfare. Russia's wrath has been directed unflappable, to be reasonable, to pub­ primarly against Ukraine. Most impor­ If there was ever a community in America that has tried to remain sub­ lish, to inform, to plead for a more It is also useful to draw a parallel tantly, it has been threatening Ukraine's balanced approach, our detractors have between those policies advocated by territorial integrity and encouraging dued and moderate in the face of foul and baseless assaults, it has been the misrepresented and defamed us with Mr. Lukin, and already followed by inter-ethnic tensions and conflicts impunity for years. Those days are Russia to a degree, and the policies of between Russians and Ukrainians. Ukrainian community. For years we hardly reacted to defamatory articles gone. Our community is on record, first post-imperial interwar Germany Russian government spokesmen began with the Demjanjuk case and since then towards Czecho-Slovakia and Poland, to make claims to parts of Ukraine's and statements preferring, instead, to take the high road. with other, similar episodes of bigotry especially those regarding borders and territories immediately following its and hatred. From now on, we fight the large German minorities in both independence declaration last August. We've supported prestigious univer­ sity presses that have been churning out back. We've been too nice, too long. states. Germany's policies regarding Now, their tactics have shifted to advo­ The Ukrainian Embassy in Washing­ Poland and Czecho-Slovakia were revi­ cating the secession of ethnic Russian books on Ukraine and Ukrainians since the 1940s. Articles by reputable Ukrai­ ton, D.C., is also on record. In a per­ sionist, while the presence of substan­ minorities in southern Ukraine, especial­ spicacious and forceful letter to U.S. tial German minorities in both countries ly in the Crimea. nian scholars in refereed scholarly journals both here and abroad have News & World Report, Ukraine's am­ was used to put pressure on the two Ambassador Lukin has espoused bassador made it clear that his office young and fragile states. Hitler pursued multiplied since the 1950s. Our commu­ these policies in the past and continues will also be monitoring Ukraine-bash­ the policies of Weimar Germany to their nity has consistently encouraged non- to do so when he writes that Ukraine ing. What joy! logical conclusion, thereby causing the must come to an agreement with Russia Ukrainian scholars such as Clarence collapse of Czecho-Slovakia and preci­ Manning, O.J. Fredriksen, James This is not to say that we should "defining the status of the Crimea. "This abandon the detached, academic ap­ pitating the second world war through position is a territorial claim, which Mace, Robert Conquest and others in the invasion of Poland. their efforts to inform about the where proach. We still need, now more than violates not only principles of interna­ ever, the good offices of courageous tional law and estabUshed norms of and why of Ukraine and Ukrainians. We Nowhere are the dangers of Ambas­ have also raised miUions of dollars to professors like Frank Sysyn who, unlike sador Lukin's proposals more evident international behavior, but also directly some of our gutless wonders at Har­ violates a bilateral Russo-Ukrainian establish three chairs of Ukrainian than in the policies he has advocated in studies at Harvard University because, vard, are willing to take a stand for the the past and those he is currently advo­ treaty of November 1990, in which both truth. sides recognized existing borders.^ we were told, only then could our good cating towards Ukraine. Contrary to name be "properly defended." Has We also need articulate spokesper­ Mr. Lukin's claims, Ukraine is not In January 1992, Mr. Lukin, then» anything changed? sons who can write persuasive letters to building its state on the "anti-Russia" chairman of the Committee on Inter­ people of good will, people who are national Affairs and International Abraham Brumberg trashed our foundation — though there certainly Ukrainian scholars in his recent New merely mis- or uninformed. are differences in the foreign policies of Relations of the Russian Parliament, was directly involved in formulating York Review article, not with reasoned When it comes to dialoguing with the two states and in their approaches to arguments but with vitriol. hatemongering jungle fighters like solving problems affecting both states, Russian policy towards Ukraine regar­ ding the status of the Crimea and the Ukraine and Ukrainians are still Messrs. Budiansky and Brumberg, whether of a bilateral or multilateral suspect in the so-called scholarly com­ however — people who will never be nature. Black Sea fleet. The January 22 issue of the newspaper Komsomolskaia pravda munity. Today many non-Ukrainian converted because their malevolent Lukin and many leading Russian po- published parts of an internal memo researchers shy away from being too bigotry is bone deep — wearing a cap liticans view the CIS as not only a device from Mr. Lukin to Ruslan Khasbulatov, understanding of Ukrainian aspirations and gown won't work. for saving what was left of the old chairman of the Russian Parliament, in for fear of being labeled "nationalistic" The Ukrainian American community empire, but also as the cornerstone for which the former suggested options for by the Russophiles who dominate may not have convinced Mr. Budiansky rebuilding it, that is, in Mr. Lukin's President Yeltsin to pursue regarding Slavic studies in America. Ask your­ or Mr. Zuckerman, his editor, of a words "fill[ing] the Commonwealth with the two issues. self: Why is it that our most promising thing. But we did get their attention. And who knows? Perhaps the next time substance." Within the framework of Published excerpts show that Mr. young historians must move to Canada the Commonwealth, Russia has before their talents are recognized? they decide to kick Ukrainians around Lukin was prepared to support the for no good reason they'll give it a attempted to preserve some of the in­ option of using military force against The reality is that Ukraine and herited Soviet common institutions, Ukrainians have been politically in­ second thought. especially its huge military machine, (Continued on page 12) correct in America for a hundred years. If not, well be back. In their face! THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1993 No. 3 NEWS AND VIEWS: 'The Great Utopia'Releas e of Vorobiov's book of poetry misrepresents artists' bacl(grounds coincides with annual writers' festival

by Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn the development of utilitarian art which by Oksana Zakydalsky became prominent in the 1920s. Male- WILD DOG ROSE MOON "The Great Utopia," an exhibit of vich originated Suprematism, an ab­ TORONTO — "Wild Dog Rose МІСЯЦЬ шипшини "Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde" art, stract movement in art in which he Moon" ("Misiats Shypshyny") is the was held September 25-January 3 at the brought the idea of non-objectivity to title of a book of poetry by Mykola Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in its logical conclusion, namely, painting Vorobiov released to coincide with his ^NewYork. The exhibit presented works a white square on a white background. appearance at the International Festi­ executed on the territory of the former Both artists were born in Ukraine — val of Authors held in Toronto. Russian empire and the former Soviet Malevich in Kiev and Tatlin in Kharkiv It is published by Exile Editions and Union, mostly during the second decade — a pertinent fact that organizers of the includes over 50 short poems in both the of this century. show chose to omit. There are indeed original Ukrainian and English. The The exhibit displayed the dynamic many non-Russian artists in the exhibit, English translation is by Myrosia and imaginative art that had attracted among them the Latvian Gustav Klu- Stefaniuk. the attention of Western art historians tois, who is represented by a large Mr. Vorobiov read his poetry at the much before the Guggenheim show, number of works, many of which were festival on October 23, presenting only a especially in the late 1950s and 1960s, on loan from the Latvian museum in few poems in the original Ukrainian, when it became somewhat easier than Riga. while the rest were read in English before to obtain information and repro­ As is well-known, information about translation by Canadian actor R.G. ductions from Soviet sources. Works artists' origins is considered to be an Thompson. thought to be lost or destroyed were important part of exhibit information, Mr. Vorobiov's appearance at the newly discovered in the 1950s, and have especially if the primacy of an original festival was well received; this is the fascinated the artistic community ever idea is at stake. Such information is fourth festival in a row that has included since. included as a rule, along with titles of a poet from Ukraine. As in previous The Guggenheim exhibit is certainly works and museum loans, even if the years, Lydia Palij lobbied the festival an ambitious undertaking, given its artists, as is the case with the Spaniard organizers into issuing an invitation to a inclusion of a vast number of hitherto Picasso, lived most of their lives outside Ukrainian writer and looked after the Globe and Mail during the festival, Mr. unknown utilitarian objects as well as their native countries. non-English-speaking poet during his Vorobiov spoke about the difficulties of numerous minor works assembled from It is also difficult to explain the weeklong stay at the festival. writing and publishing in Ukraine. In the 20 years after his dismissal from museuni and private collections from organizers' omission of pertinent infor­ There was some doubt this year many countries. mation given that the data in question university, he was not permitted to whether anyone from Ukraine would be publish. His first collection of poetry Considering that the exhibit was are readily available from other sources. invited because the festival has had conceived during a 1988 visit to the There are such thorough studies as "The appeared only in 1985,and he now has funding cuts. But thanks to the financial four books of poetry to his name and museum by Eduard Shevardnadze, Great Experiment" by Camilla Gray, as assistance of businessman Jurij Jemec, then foreign minister of the Soviet well as monographs about the avant- Mr. Vorobiov was able to take part. Mr. two children's books. Union, other than artistic reasons for its garde artists. There are, for example, Jemec also helped in funding the publi­ But, he noted, although now there is inception 'may be entertained. This is books on Malivich, the artist's letters in cation of the book. freedom to write and to publish, significant because the exhibit does not Ukrainian (in the archives of the State In an interview that appeared in The (Continued on page 12) present any major or novel interpreta­ Museum in Kyyiv) which reveal his tion of the subject and the majority of active participation in the Ukrainian art the more important works are well- scene in the 1920s. known in the West. Among other non-Russian artists Dumka of Kyyiv performs at U.N. It would seem that some of the whose works are included in the Guggen­ organizers of the exhibit strove to heim exhibit is Alexander Archipenko establish the historical importance of (also born in Kyyiv), whose sculpture Russian art and the significant role of "Medrano 11" of 1912 or 1913, a work "Russian" artists in the development of executed while he lived in Paris, is also contemporary art. Otherwise it is diffi­ displayed. There is no evidence of any cult to explain the disingenuous pre­ work which Archipenko might have sentations and omission of pertinent executed during his brief stay in Mos­ information about the participating cow (1906-1908) and his earliest known artists. works from the Paris years are reminis­ It is inexplicable why an exhibit cent of the stone babas which he had an comprising works from throughout the opportunity to see while participating in world, with appropriate credits, would excavations in the Ukrainian steppes. arbitrarily withhold all biographical There is no justification for including a information, especially information sculpture by a Ukrainian artist who about the origins of participating lived in Paris in an exhibit of "Russian artists. and Soviet" art. The work was included The art of the most important artists because Archipenko, the originator of in the exhibit Malevich's and Tathn, is Cubism in sculpture, is indeed an showcased (the only two artists so important innovator of 20th century honored) in the prestigious High Gallery art. The primacy of his ideas, however, of the museum, featuring Malevich's is co-opted in this exhibit as that of a "Red Square" of 1915 and Tatlin's "Russian artist." "Counter Relief," also of 1915. Male- The organizers of the exhibit even vich and Tatlin were indeed most included works with titles in Ukrainian, influential in the formulation of new as in the case of Alexander Deineka ideas. Tatlin was the founder of Con­ (1925 "Pered spuskom v shakhtu"), as structivism, the art of assemblage, well as Ukrainian-language book which during the Soviet period led to covers, as can be seen in Vasilly Ermi- lov's book cover for "BibUoteka Robi- tnyka" or Vadim Meller's 1930 "Ra- Pysanka at inauguration dianskyi Teatr." WASHINGTON — Ukrainian The exhibit, of course, implies that artist Tanya Osadca of Troy, Ohio, the creative art scene was exclusively in has been invited by the Smithsonian Russia, while, as is known from other Institution to participate in a display sources, there was a great deal of of ethnic arts with the Ukrainian activity in Ukraine. There is, of course, Easter egg (pysanky) display and abundant evidence for this as docu­ demonstration. The event is part of mented by various exhibits, stage and the pre-inaugural activities to be held costume designs, book covers and I Khristina Lew in Washington. posters. Dumka, the Ukrainian State Choir of Kyyiv, performed a lunchtime Christ­ mas carol program at the United Nations on December 18. Conducted by The display will take place in the Notable among the artists who were active on the Ukrainian art scene is Yevhen Savchuk, an assistant professor of choral music at the Kyyiv Con­ Traditional Arts Workshop tent in servatory, Dumka of Kyyiv was joined by the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of front of the Smithsonian Castle in Anatoly Petrytsky (also included in the Guggenheim show), who was active in America, the former's host choir in New York, during the second half of the the Mall area, Sunday, January 17, program. Dumka of Kyyiv and soloists of Ukraine's opera theaters perform­ and Monday, January 18, from 10 designing for the State Opera in Khar­ kiv in the 1920s, and Meller, who ed a series of concerts celebrating the first anniversary of Ukraine's in­ a.m. to 4 p.m. dependence throughout North America. 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No. з THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1993 position, the source of the originating Gruber's Christmas carol "Silent idea. The support the piano provides by Night," a work that has a special і NOTES FROM THE PODIUM means of its hammer-like quality gives meaning for Schnittke. F by Virko Baley the cello at times stronger rhythmic Oleh Krysa's performance of the two definition, and the cello covers the violin concerti is stunning. His profes­ piano with lyrical incandescence. sional and personal relationship with These four sonatas form an impor­ Schnittke goes back many years and he tant link with other works of Silvestrov has not only premiered a number of his Of recordings, fame, and are an excellent introduction to a compositions, but has had a few dedi­ composer who is gaining recognition as cated to him. Thus the relationship is of freedom of information ] one of the most original voices of the the profoundest kind. At the same time, second half of the 20th century. that does not guarantee a quality CONCLUSION against 'hammer music' I wanted to The performances by Mr. Lubimov performance. What we have in stead is a write a piece that didn't force itself on in the piano sonatas and Messrs. unity between the composer's very Now I will discuss in detail the three the Hstener, didn't hit the listener over Lubimov and Monighetti in the cello elegant style and the equally elegant discs mentioned in the last column. the head all the time. I needed to write it sonata are exemplary and authentic — manner of violin playing that is Mr. First a little about the music, then about at the time, but soon after rejected it. the composer was present at the record­ Krysa's identifying stamp. the performances. But recently I 'rediscovered' it, simpli­ ing sessions in France. Mr. Lubimov is At the end of the second movement of fied it, cut it..." very well-known as a pianoforte player the Fourth Concerto, Mr. Krysa is able SILVESTROV: Three Sonatas for There is a wonderful performance of and has recently finished recording for to make audible in the recording the Piano ERATO 2292-45631-2 DDD; this sonata recorded by Mykola Suk on ERATO his cycle of complete piano gradual fade-out of the violin solo, what Sonata for Violoncello and Piano; Ivan the Melodiya label. I highly recom­ sonatas of Mozart. His approach to Schnittke calls the "cadenza visuale": MonighettU violoncello, Alexei Lubi- mend it — although finding it may be Silvestrov is very classical: propor­ the soloist performs with utmost pas­ mov, piano. next to impossible. tional, unsentimental and greatly sion, but is barely audible, only gra­ Written in 1975, Sonata No. 2 is athletic. The verve that he brings to the dually regaining his "voice" (this idea The non-linearity of Ukrainian cul­ dedicated to the pianist Alexei Lubi- compositions does not allow the music was borrowed by Schnittke from To- ture has affected Ukrainian artistic mov, who premiered it in Kyyiv during to become static, always a danger in the shiro Mayuzumi's "Metamusic,"written mentaUty, producing a way of thinking the 1976 season. The sonata is in one so-called meditative style. As result, the in the early 1960s). The orchestra is very that often defies the logic of "Western movement, and, although clearly in coloristic element is less evident and good, the sound clear and full bodied, music." It is the dream state, the passive definite sections, its over-all structure is more subtle, so that the relationship with and both recordings are highly recom­ resistance, of a person in a vulnerable dominated by a variety of triplet pat­ impressionism (especially in the second mended. position. The lion-linear quality of sonata) is hidden. Mr. Monighetti's terns and a mysterious chord that serves So, to return to our initial question: Ukrainian life has resulted in "mytho­ as a leit-motif of sorts, A very beautiful performance is quite stunning. poetic realism," similar to the "poetic This is a virtuoso performance of a Why aren't there more recordings of section is a long arioso evoking a Ukrainian music in the West? We must realism" found in South American sopilka (wooden flute) played over a very dramatic work. I strongly recom­ writers. Uncommon events become mend this CD. It presents in a unified wonder whether (a) we are being pur­ drymba (mouth drum). This work posely ignored by "our enemies," or (b) everyday — are seen as everyday. Often evokes Antonin Artaud's words about way four important works of the second such an attitude toward reaUty and half of the 20th century in authentic there is still very little interest through­ "...a mind ceaselessly taking its bearings out the rest of the world. unreality is marked by a kind of wild in the maze of its unconscious." performances, well recorded and beau­ humor. A hyperbolic atmosphere per­ Valentin Silvestrov began as a ge­ tifully produced. Actually, the reason is much simpler: vades, in which events that are strange nuine avant-garde composer, taking it is funding. All recordings, be they and fantastic somehow seem quite many creative risks in the process. This done in England, France, Germany, the natural. Art becomes introspective, in a sonata, as many of his more recent United States or any place, else of way "anti-rational" — not anti-rational compositions, reflects a desire to syn­ SCHNITTKE: Violin Concertos No, contemporary composers are done in the sense of opposing the intellect, thesize some of the contradictory aes­ 3 & No. 4, BIS CD-517 Digital; Oleh because of special funding. If you look but in the sense that it allows "feelings" thetic positions of the 1960s and 70s, Krysa, violin, Malmo Symphony Or­ at many record or CD jacket covers and to dictate shape, (Dovzhenko, asked many of which he helped develop. As a chestra, Eri Klas, conductor; read the fine print, you will find a about what he was thinking when he result, his has become a completely Cello Concerto No. 2, BIS CD-567 version of the following: "this record­ made a particular film, said "I wasn't original voice. Digital Concerto Grosso No. 2; Tor- ing has been made possible in part by thinking, I was feeling."). Sonata No. 3 was written in 1979 and leif Thedeen, cello, Oleh Krysa, violin, funds provided by..." and the name of The dominant emotional state in is dedicated to pianist and director of Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Lev the foundation, endowment or patron is Silvestrov's music is its metaphorical the chamber ensemble Kiev Camerata, Markiz, conductor. given. Often it is the state that provides motion trapped in immobility. This Valery Matiukhin. If Sonata No. 1 is the such help. kind of stasis, also found in Ukrainian Prelude of the "mature" Silvestrov and I will spend much less space on We in North America must recognize literature, contrasts with the basic Sonata No. 2 is the exposition and discussing the Schnittke works for two this reality. One of the most popular properties of Russian, French or Ame­ development, then this Sonata is the reasons: space limitation and the fact orchestral works written in the 1980s, rican arts, which tend to aim towards a Postlude, the coda of this pianistic that information about Schnittke is John Adam's "Harmonielehre," was point and to have a certain underlying trilogy. In three continuous movements easily available in North America. But a recorded and released by Nonesuch aggressive intellectuality. (Preludio, Fuga, Postludio) it is the few words will be necessary. because that recording was under­ The three piano sonatas and the most complex and at the same time the All four works deal with the opposi­ written by the Meet The Composer violoncello sonata occupy an important most texturally transparent of the tion between the tonal and atonal. Yet Orchestra Residency Series, which is place in Silvestrov's creative history, sonatas. this opposition is worked out in a very funded by the Exxon Corp., The Rocke­ since they are centrally located within The Violoncello Sonata of 1983, musically organic manner, so that, as feller Foundation and National Endow­ the most critical stages of his creative written for Ivan Monighetti, continues Schnittke writes, "Atonality can be ment for the Arts, a federal agency. life. At the same time, all four are part of the form as developed by the second and reached from any point in tonality (and To hasten the recording of Ukrainian an ongoing process that established third piano sonatas, but now adds to it vice versa)." All four works operate on music and Ukrainian artists we must in certain aspects of his rebellion against the element of theatricality. In that the principle that all historical styles are turn find such financial support to the avant-garde of the 60s. This rebel­ sense, but without the overt elements of currently in practice and thus available interest various orchestras and record­ lion took him away from singleness of music performance that was brilliantly For the composer to use at will. The ings labels in issuing Ukrainian com­ style into a pantheistic realm where parodied in "Drama," he invests the Third Violin Concerto is written for a positions. This has been done with several musical styles are contained music with the same kind of dramatic chamber orchestra, the fourth uses a books (such as Ivan Dzyuba's "Inter­ within a single style, where seemingly intensity that was already apparent in normal symphony size ensemble. The nationalism and Russification"), by competing stylistic polyphonies modu­ Symphony No. 4 (1976) and was to be Cello Concerto was written for Mstislav Harvard and various churches. Why late into one another and become a sort further developed in Symphony No. 5 Rostropovich and Concerto Grosso not with music, that most portable and of musical allegory for the state of music (1982). No. 2 uses in a thin disguise, F.X. international of the arts? in the second half of the 20th century. The triplet (which in most of Silve­ Piano Sonata No. 1 (1960-1970, final strov's music is a characteristic rhythm bits of windowpane serve as slides. revision in 1972) is an example of and structural device), here has virtual "Medical Clinic on... Since proper medication is lacking, simplification and cutting, and of monopoly and, in the final minutes of doctors use whatever is at hand, often establishing the stylistic fingerprints of the piece, becomes a relentless perpe- (Continued from page 5) ineffectively. Patients distrust their own his style. The work is in two movements tuum mobile that deconstructs into birthday. Although the procedure doctors, believing those from the West (Moderato, con molta attenzione and eternal silence. The work is full of exists for testing a newborn's blood for can effect cures. The first question, Andantino). Although its final revisions ornate passages invested with sensitive a whole battery of genetic disorders, when a child is born defective, is: "Did were done in 1972, it originates from lyricism (characteristic of many of blood submitted to the central Kyyiv Chornobyl do this?" 1960 and betrays the influences of its Silvestrov's compositions). laboratories is screened and the tests are The "Medical Clinic on Wheels" is a progenitors (Liatoshynsky and Shosta­ Ihe important structural and aural computerized, many children are simply! proven success. The doctors, dentists, kovich). Yet, it already foreshadows the aspect of this sonata is that it is not not tested. Children under the age of 1 technicians and other experts who elements that were soon to occupy written for cello and piano, but rather are not operated on, so many disorders volunteer their time see the positive Silvestrov. The work's idea can best be for a new sort of instrument a cello- routinely treated in the West remain results of their work and become expressed by quoting from an interview piano, that is somehow played by a uncorrected. deeply involved in the project. Two that this author had with the composer single performer. The texture is one in doctors, Dr. Sonia Prokopetz from in 1974. which there is no feeling of solo and Doctors, he explained, have a good Toronto and Dr. Lydia Chapelsky from The composer-stated: "1 want the accompaniment, nor is there a feeling of grasp of medical knowledge, but mo­ Ann Arbor, Mich., who had partici­ piece played con sordino from begin­ opposition; rather, one feels a unity of dern equipment is lacking. Even in the pated in the project, even traveled to ning to end. I want the whole piece intent, by which each instrument is a Kyyiv hospital's neonatal unit, there is Chicago for this special meeting just sounding like an overtone. I wrote it reflection of the other, neither, and at only one respirator for 10 to 20 infants. "for the sake of nostalgia," to reminisce originally a long time ago, as a reaction the same time both, occupy the primary Microscopes are available, but broken and share some of their experiences. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1993 No. 3

rockets, that is quite untrue. We simply tries are making these declarations that declare these [arms reduction] agree­ President Kravchuk... want this question to be resolved they will not abuse their superiority by ments will be ratified, but we need threatening Ukraine and other states, corresponding actions and con­ (Continued from page 1) without detriment to our nation. If we are to destroy the weapons, then who are voluntarily setting an example cessions. The U.S. had already share this point of view, and neither let's destroy them in a civilized way. of freeing the Earth of this nuclear filth. taken several positive steps. Once other does the majority of Parliamentary If we were a rich nation, we would have countries follow suit, it will be even deputies. had billions of dollars in our accounts This declaration would be made by better, and then, with a 100 percent The second involves compensation and could have solved the problem all nuclear powers ? guarantee,I could appear before Parlia­ for Ukraine. In accordance with laws ourselves. However, since the economy ment and say that the world commu­ passed by Parliament, everything locat­ is in a crisis state, how can we solve the At least separately. I am not ready yet nity understands us, that we must act ed on Ukrainian soil remains the pro­ problem independently? Thus, we must to say how. In principle the declaration according to our policies. But if this perty of Ukraine. In this case, our soil look at solving the problem together, would serve to allay the fears of our doesn't happen, then what will I say, contains nuclear complexes that belong and as soon as a satisfactory solution is people. It would also make it easier for what will I push for? to us. We do not possess, and have no found, we must immediately begin me to address our Parliament. Bush has intention of possessing, the means of destroying the nuclear arsenal. already sent me a letter in which he says So there must still be concessions launching missiles. We are not trying to Ukraine does not need nuclear arms. that after the visit here by [U.S. sena­ from other countries? control the nuclear button and have It is our misfortune that they are located tors] Nunn and Lugar $175 million will oever placed such a task before our­ on our soil. And though we would most be provided by America after ratifica­ Definitely. selves. We do, however, demand that heartily wish they were not there, the tion of the nuclear non-proliferation without our knowledge nuclear rockets reality is that they are. We did not put treaty. So you can't approach Parliament to cannot be launched from Ukrainian them there, but they are tied to Ukraine, Our calculations show this is only a ask for a ratification now? soil. We have the ability to block such a they influence our politics. To get rid of drop in the ocean, and that more than launch. But our goal is the destruction them is not so simple. These are not $ 1 billion is needed to fully complete the Today I could, however, I have of nuclear weapons. So long as they are tanks, which can be cut up without any operation. However, that is not the doubts that I could answer all the located on our soil, we cannot relin­ problems. There is an entire complex point. I am not posing the question this deputies'questions. For example, what quish this responsibility before the here, a living organism that must be way: give us $2 billion and we will, give guarantees of security does Ukraine world and mankind. stopped. We face three problems: us $1 billion and we won't. I am merely have? What will I say, that we must The third problem is a purely ecolo­ safety, compensation and the environ­ saying it must be decided in a civilized hurry and join the European commu­ gical one, because 130 of the 176 rockets ment. manner. America has taken a step, nity? However, we are not joining yet on our soil are powered by liquid fuel, Russia must do likewise. We have and we are not being expected there each of them containing 100 tons of What guarantees of security would already shipped out all our tactical with baited breath. These are only highly toxic compound. If we were to you like? nuclear weapons and have not received words and I have no convincing answer. allow the firing of these rockets, then one cent of compensation. And what compensation will Ukraine the territory of Ukraine would become a At least political ones. In early Let's put it this way: Ukraine partici­ receive for each ton of uranium and land of scorched and poisoned earth. January I spoke with Boris Yeltsin by pated in the manufacture of uranium, plutonium removed? I will be told that There is no technology to convert this phone on the eve of our meeting. I said and the major part of it was produced the U.S. has announced they will buy toxic fluid into a safe product. Neither that firstly, we needed to sign an here in Ukraine in Zhovti Vody. Al­ this plutonium from Russia for 5.5 in Ukraine nor in Russia. Thus, we agreement on the process and mecha­ though it was not enriched here; we sent billion (U.S.). The deputies will ask how cannot act as has been suggested to us: nism of destruction, and the compen­ it to Russia for processing. But the main much of this Ukraine will receive? I have unscrew the nuclear warheads, ship sation. Ї asked him: "Why don't you work was done here. The USSR was no answer. them off to Russia, and be left with make a political declaration to Bush, built in such a way that the end product 13,000 tons of toxic liquid fuel. What we Clinton, Major, Mitterand and the was manufactured not in Ukraine, not Who does this answer depend on? then do with this becomes another heads of other nuclear states?" Ukraine in Belarus, but in Russia. This was the question. We will then be told to go has already made such a declaration. policy of the Communist Party, to make On the U.S. and Russia. A lot now jump in the lake, as has happened in the And not only Ukraine, but also Belarus all nations dependent on one nation. depends on Russia. First, it must make past. The main task will have been and Kazakhstan. Countries are volun­ And I cannot complain, since this was a its position known, that it will really fulfilled, the nuclear warheads will have tarily taking this step. Obviously, under policy of defending one's own nation. share this common property. Yes, been dispatched. When people hint that the current unstable conditions, people I similarly have the right to defend my Russia needs finances to destroy the we will profit from the removal of the around the world are worried. Coun- own people. And I can say that no one, rockets, however, everything must be if they are a member of the United calculated and justly divided between Nations, should act like a bull in a china Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakh­ shop. They must be guided by interna­ stan. When I have answers to all these tional principles, instead of engaging in questions, then I can say that Parlia­ pressure tactics and attempting to live at ment will vote to ratify the documents. the expense of others. Because I see now in the media that this pressure has It seems that ''the gates have moved begun. further away." We have reached our We do not want to speculate on goal, but now it appears we must anything: We merely want a just resolu­ continue on. tion of this question so that we are not left holding the can. So that we are not No. The signing of START I took first applauded and then forgotten. The seven years of work by experts. Ukraine countries of the world are nervous did not take part in this. Now all this has about the decision concerning this fallen into Ukraine's lap and we have 1-9 ads $10.00 per inch/Sc Firm: question, but obviously not because been working at it since August. U- : ads 20% discount they want to defend our interests. 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During the Tarasiuk visit, dered, the West condemns Serbia but Don Rothberg, a correspondent with does nothing to assist Bosnia — not Planning a trip to (Continued from page 2) Associated Press, asked me: "What even providing it with military equip­ to bid up the price." The Washington happened to Sen. Lugar? Wasn't he ment to defend itself. If only Bosnia had Times of January 8 reported that a once a friend of Ukraine?" While Mr. a treaty with any Western power. senior State Department official, after Rothberg sees that Sen. Lugar is not In 1934, Congressman Hamilton Fish UKRAINE? talks with the delegation headed by defending Ukraine's interest, that fact is introduced a resolution in the U.S. Personalized Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs not as obvious to many in Ukraine. Congress condemning the famine in Borys Tarasiuk said: "It's time for them The solution to Ukraine's security Ukraine. At that time, despite having a Travel Service at — it's more than time for them to ratify requirements is not the suggestion mass of information about the famine, these things." It was State Department The New York Times offered: the U.S. Department of State told Reasonable Rates officials who prompted The New York "one solution is eventually to develop a Congress that there was no famine in Times to write the above-mentioned new regional arrangement — a collec­ Ukraine. Today, that same Department editorial. tive security pact that involves Europe of State is telling Ukraine that it does •VISAS* HQTELS* MEALS • as well as Russia and the U.S." That is not need a treaty to guarantee its •TRANSFERS «GUIDES» These are the same administration just not adequate! First, the security security. Perhaps, Ukraine should ask •AIR TICKETS• officials who wrote President Bush's arrangement is needed before and not the State Department the following Kyyiv speech and were quoted in the after the ratification of the treaties. questions: Why should Ukraine, which •RAIL TICKETS' October 27, 1991, issue of the Philadel­ Once they are ratified, Ukraine loses its borders on Russia, trust its security to •CARS WITH DRIVERS• phia Inquirer as saying "we have no bargaining position! Secondly, to in­ the good will of Russia, while the • INTERPRETERS• intention of recognizing them (U- United States, 7,500 kilometers from volve Russia in guaranteeing the secu­ •SIGHTSEEING^ kraine). We just won't do it. Just rity of Ukraine is like asking the fox to Russia, is not prepared to dismantle all because a state is peeling off from the guarantee the security of the chickens. its nuclear weapons? Why are not Great Soviet Union doesn't mean it has an In 1654, Bohdan Khmelnytsky asked Britain and France, each about 2,500 LANDMARK, LTD automatic call on our help." Even after Russia to guarantee Ukrainian security. kilometers from Russia, dismantling toll free (800) 832-1789 Ukrainian independence, these officials any of their nuclear weapons? If Russia It took 347 years for Ukraine to regain DC/MD/VA (703) 941-6180 persisted in negatively portraying U- independence. is truly not a threat to Ukraine, then kraine to correspondents. On April 24, Perhaps Ukraine should look to the why is the United States opposed to fax (703) 941-7587 1992, Reuters reported that an unidenti­ solution pursued by another country signing a security treaty with Ukraine? fied administration official, talking whose very existence is also threatened about economic assistance to Ukraine, — Israel. A day does not pass that Israel stated "we're not going to throw money does not let the world know that some I ATATTENTIOT N NEW JERSEY INSUREDS!!! down a rat hole, and until they (the of its neighbors are only too willing to Ukrainians) make the tough choices eliminate Israel as a nation. As a result, Is your auto insurance presently In the JUA or MTF? Russia has made, they're a rat hole." Israel often pursues policies that are Think you're overpaying for your policy? Ukraine must understand that it opposed by international public opi­ Can't get that good service you need & deserve? security cannot be dependent on the nion and condemned by the United ! • Then we are the one you are looking for!!! good will of others, but on its own Nations. What is important for Israel is DdN'T WAIT OR HESITATE resources. At this time, one of those not public opinion but its continued CALL US TODAY!!! resources is the nuclear weapons on the existence as a nation. ALEXANDER E. SMAL & CO. territory of Ukraine. It is only because Today, Ukraine is in a unique posi­ of these weapons that Ukraine has tion to demand security guarantees Hordynsky, Pastushenko, Smai received any attention from the United from the United States in exchange for INSURANCE — REAL ESTATE States during the past year. Recently, dismantling the nuclear weapons on its (201) 761-7500 FAX: (201) 761-4918 Denny Miller, a former aide to the late soil. It must be understood that the only Sen. Henry Jackson, told me that if U- binding guarantee on the United States kraine gives up its nuclear weapons, it would be a treaty that commits the U.S. will cease to exist in the eyes of the United to defend Ukraine if any nuclear power States. Even with nuclear weapons in uses force or the threat of force against Ukraine, the United States orchestrated Ukraine. A written assurance by a U.S. an international aid package of $24 president is not an adequate substitute billion for Russia with almost no since it could be, at any time, annulled I IKRAiNE assistance for Ukraine and the other 13 by that president or any future presi­ KA -A CONCISE former Soviet republics. Many in the dent. A treaty, signed by the president ENCYCLOPy^DIA KRAINE U.S. government have just not accepted and ratified by the U.S. Senate, has the the break-up of the Russian empire. force of United States law. _. TA, CONCISE Ukraine's security does not lie with The people of Bosnia are learning of U.S. Sens. Sam Nunn and Richard the commitment of the West to their UNIVERSITY OF Lugar who are, understandably, pro­ existence. As Bosnia is being devastated TORONTO PRESS ENCYCLOPEDIA

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His preferred course of action the borders of the Russian Federation Ukraine to examine even more closely was less forceful, but nevertheless are dangerous and Utopian. the United States, is dependent upon the provisions of START I and any dangerous. Mr. Lukin proposed that Ukraine's ratification of START I. On agreements under which the security of Yeltsin issue a decree, placing the entire One can agree with Ambassador the other hand, Ukraine is technologi­ a nuclear-free Ukraine would be gua­ Black Sea Fleet under Russian Lukin that Russia should not be treated cally dependent upon Russia in terms of ranteed. command, including all naval bases in like a pariah or outcast, but rather with the dismantling of nuclear warheads Thus far, Ukraine's position on its the southern Ukrainian cities of Se- sympathy, and helped to integrate into and disposal of highly toxic missile national security, as explained by vastopil, Balaklava and Mykolayiv. Europe. Common sense and self-inter­ propellant. Minister Tarasiuk, who Minister Tarasiuk, is as follows: "Nu­ These actions were to be followed by est, however, suggest an even-handed headed the Ukrainian delegation visit­ clear powers should accept political discussions with Ukraine regarding the approach to the former Soviet repub­ ing Washington, told the newspaper responsibility in the form of an appro­ status of these bases, which could be lics, aimed at achieving a balance of Holos Ukrainy before his departure priate document that would state they tied to an offer of splitting the fleet. The power, not condoning Russian domina­ that "significant portions of the safety will consider unacceptable any use or memo further suggested that steps be tion of the region, which would lead to mechanisms on most of the warheads threat of force against Ukraine on the taken to cripple Ukraine's industry, increased tensions, further inter-ethnic located on the territory of Ukraine part of any nuclear state. To be sure, which would eventually lead to social conflicts, warfare, and the re-emergence have already expired. After a certain assumption of this responsibility does strife and the removal of the most valu­ of a militarized and aggressive Russia. time, when these mechanisms are no not, in and of itself, guarantee Ukraine's able airforce units from Ukraine. This policy can be pursued by attach­ longer effective, no one will even security, but it does have an important attempt to dismantle these nuclear Regarding the Crimea, Mr. Lukin ing political, in addition to economic, political-legal significance." conditions to aid programs. In particu­ warheads — not even those enterprises Ukraine today is a primary example suggested that the parliament examine that had collected them. This becomes the legality of the transfer of the Crimea lar. Western aid should be tied to res­ of worldwide interdependence. And ponsible international behavior by dangerous." And, all these enterprises those countries who try to brand it as a to Ukraine in 1954 "with the objective of are located in Russia. declaring this act illegal"^ He also stres­ Russia, including the treatment by "nuclear bogeyman" should listen to the sed that the separatist movement of Russia of Ukraine and other republics It is understood that Ukraine cannot words of President Kravchuk, address­ Crimean Russians be used as a bargain­ as full-fledged members of the interna­ but hurry to transfer to Russia those ed to the nations of the world on the ing chip in negotiations with Ukraine tional community of nations, and not as warheads whose safety mechanisms are occasion of the signing of START II by over the fleet and the status of the its backyard. In return for such beha­ expired. But, Ukraine would like to the U.S. and Russia: vior, the West should be even more know the fate of these nuclear com­ Crimea. The Ukrainian government, "One must evaluate not only the generous in its aid than it has been until ponents. To date, Ukraine has no delineation of approaches to the reduc­ Mr. Lukin concluded, "will be placed now. Such a policy would support a assurances from the U.S. that "it will before a dilemma: either it will agree to tion of (nuclear) weapons arsenals, but more peaceful Russia, compensate it for not sign any draft agreement initialled also the policies of those states that the transfer of the fleet and bases to loss of empire, and encourage its poli­ by the U.S. and Russia concerning $5 Russia, or Ukraine's authority over the voluntarily proceed toward a non- ticians and people to turn their energies billion in U.S. assistance until such time nuclear status." Crimea will be questioned." inward, toward reconstruction. as Russia and Ukraine reach an agree­ Despite the absence of inter-ethnic ment on compensation to be paid to conflicts in Ukraine and the guarantee • It should be noted that Ukraine's embas­ Ukraine for the nuclear components of minority rights, including those of contained in the strategic and tactical sies in the U.S. and Canada were purchased (Continued from page 6) ethnic Russians, by the Ukrainian by Ukrainian Americans and Ukrainian warheads that are its property," said government, interventions, such as Canadians. Mr. Tarasiuk. remaining, longer-range nuclear weap­ advocated by Mr. Lukin, are aimed at 2 In addition to recognizing existing fron­ Ukraine was to begin negotiations on ons to Russia. An independent, strong destabilization, which may lead to the tiers, both sides recognized each other as this issue with Russia in December, but Ukraine may in fact prove to be the best "Yugoslavization" of parts of Ukraine sovereign states. The treaty was signed by now these talks are expected to begin no bulwark against revanchism from Mos­ or to its collapse, similar to that of pre­ Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk and earlier than January 15. cow — something we have as much to war Czecho-Slovakia. ratified by both the Russian and Ukrainian In any case, no matter how negotia­ fear as do the Ukrainians. Kyyiv's con­ legislatures. The full text of the treaty is tinued physical control of nuclear arms Seen in this light, it is not dificult to printed in Vedomosti Sezda Narodnykh tions with the U.S. and the Russian understand what Ambassador Lukin Federation proceed, Ukraine today may prove a deterrent to renascent Deputatov RSFSR і Verkhovnogo Soveta aggressiveness in Russian foreign po­ really means when he proclaims RSFSR, No. 27 (December 6,1990),pp.482- needs guarantees of its national secu­ Russia's leading role as "a stabilizer of 85. rity. To be sure, no nuclear power can licy. the Eurasian geopolitical environment," 3 On May 21 the Russian Parliament assume this responsibility without At the very least, before a new U.S. or of "Russia's new role as defender of adopted such a resolution. studying all its ramifications and consi- administration takes up the Bush team's cudgel against Kyyiv, it must demon­ strate that the strategic implications of disarming Ukraine have been thought World Famous through. 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teresting, and diverse. It effectively PREVIEW OF EVENTS U.S. inaugurates... uses footage in its reporting. The (Continued from page 1) show was not without humor and Saturday, January 23 New York and the Ukrainian Congress personal observations which gave it a Committee of America Academic Coun­ including the conflict between the human quality. Over all, it was well NEW YORK: The Taras Chuprynka cil will sponsor a symposium-panel — U.S. and Iraq, U.S. humanitarian done and matches the professiona­ Branch of the Ukrainian American "Ukrainian Independence: January 22, Youth Association (SUM-A) in New 1918, and August 24, 1991 —Similarities efforts in Somalia, President Bush's lism of a similar show commercially York and Branch 2 of the Organization and Differences," at the Ukrainian foreign policy speech at West Point, produced. for the Defense of Four Freedoms of National Home, 140 Second Ave., at 2 the new Congress, President-elect The quality of the show is most Ukraine in New York will hold a winter p.m., with moderator Dr. George Soltys Bill Clinton's meetings on Mexico, remarkable since the producers, "zabava,'' to be held at the Ukrainian and panelists Profs. Ivan Holowinsky and the deaths of Rudolf Nureyev directors, and staff had only a matter National Home, 140 Second Ave., start­ (Rutgers University, New Jersey), Volo- and Dizzy Gillespie. of weeks from go-ahead to first ing at 9 p.m. Featured will be the Syny dymyr Stojko (Manhattan College, New Yaryna Kalynychenko reported Ukrainy band. There will be a buffet airing. In addition, the production York) and Lubomyr Luciuk (Kingston on the rollerblades craze with a brief throughout the evening. Formal attire is staff is about one-third the size of a University, Ontario.) For more informa­ history of roller skates/blades and requested. For table reservations, call the tion, call (212) 228-6840. commercially produced program's Dibrova Club, (212) 473-2955. how the fad is sweeping the nation. team. This was followed by a story on the JOHNSON CITY, N.Y.: A program of An initial report states that a cross- newly discovered specimen of what WOONSOCKET, R.I.: The Ukrainian Ukrainian songs and dance will take section of Ukrainians who gathered subcommittee of the Rhode Island Heri­ scientists beheve is the first dinosaur place at Sacred Heart Ukrainian Hall, in Kyyiv to view the program were tage Commission is sponsoring a Ukrai­ and a short feature on how techno­ Ukrainian Hill Road, at 6 p.m. The pleased and impressed. The two nian Heritage Evening, featuring a special guest will be Taras Koznarsky, of logy is shaping the libraries of the stories that apparently attracted dinner/dance to be held at the Embassy Lviv, who is currently studying at Har­ future. most comments were the stories on Restaurant. Performing will be the vard University's Ukrainian Research The business segment of "Window Mandrivka Ukrainian folk dance en­ rollerblades and Ukrainian Christ­ Institute. Mr. Koznarsky will speak in on America" focused on the func­ semble of Boston, with dancing to the mas. English and Ukrainian on the topic tioning of the New York Stock music of Hryts and Stepan. (the Soyu- "January 22, 1918 — Ukraine's Road to Voice of America is the interna­ zivka house band). Cocktails are at 6:30 Exchange. Even the issuance of the Independence." The public is invited to tional broadcasting service of the p.m., with dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets, $20 attend. Admission is free. new Elvis stamp was included in the per person. Proceeds will go to the broadcast. U.S. Information Agency (USIA), broadcasting in 49 languages to a Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund. For Saturday, January 30 The program concluded with a information or tickets contact Olga Kun report by Adrian Karmazyn on the weekly audience estimated in the tens Santos, (508) 222-9972, or Dmytro NEW YORK: A master class by pianist Julian calendar celebration of Christ­ of millions. VOA has broadcast in Sarachmon, (401) 766-3669. Alexander Slobodyanik, artist-in-resi- mas at St. Andrew's Ukrainian Auto- Ukrainian since 1949, and since July dence at the Ukrainian Institute of cephalous Orthodox Church and 1992 has been available via satellite Sunday, January 24 America (UIA), will be held at the Holy Trinity Particular Ukrainian throughout Ukraine on local net­ institute, 2 E. 79th St., 11 a.m. -1 p.m., as Catholic Church. work stations to a potential audience NEW YORK: The United Ukrainian part of the "Music at the Institute"series. of 37 million. American Organizations Committee of Free admission. Worldnet, the television and film PLEASE NOTE: Preview items must be received one week before desired service of USIA, transmits 24 hours Viewing the January 8 taping in date of publication. No information will be taken over the phone. Preview of programming each weekday to Washington of "Window on Ame­ items will be published only once (please indicate desired date of publication). 278 reception sites at U.S. embassies, rica" was both exciting and enjoy­ All items are published at the discretion of the editorial staff and in cultural centers and cable and broad­ able. The show is fast-moving, in­ accordance with available space. casting systems worldwide. PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a listing of Ukrainian community events open to the public, is a service provided free of charge by The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. To have an event listed in this column, please send information (type of event, date, time, place, admission, sponsor, etc.) — typed and in the English language — along with the phone number of a person who may be reached during daytime hours for additional information, to: Preview of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302.

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