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UCC presents Shevchenko Medal EU disinvites Yanukovych to Prime Minister Stephen Harper Brussels meeting is postponed until conditions are ‘more conducive’

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The European The Associated Press reported that Union on October 18 abruptly canceled a the postponement of Mr. Yanukovych’s planned visit by Ukrainian President visit to Brussels came after there were Viktor Yanukovych following the sen- indications from that Ms. tencing a week earlier of former Prime Tymoshenko would not be quickly Minister to seven released based on legal amendments to years’ imprisonment followed by three the law that would turn her misdemean- more years’ prohibition against holding or from a criminal offense to a milder office. economic violation. Party of Regions Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for national deputies refused to consider EU’s foreign policy chief, Catherine such a bill on the morning of October 18 Ashton, said Mr. Yanukovych’s visit and the president himself indicated in an would take place when “conditions will interview with U.S. and European news- be more conducive to making progress papers that passing those legal reforms on bilateral relations.” would take time. Mr. Yanukovych was scheduled to “If the EU is not ready for one reason meet with EU president Herman Van or another, or Ukraine is not ready, the Rompuy and European Commission decision can be made not now but later, president Jose Manuel Barroso on when we are ready,” he was quoted as October 20. The talks were to focus on an saying by The New York Times on Association Agreement between Ukraine October 17. “We are open to discussion, Prime Minister Stephen Harper (left) receives the Taras Shevchenko Medal and the EU, as well as a free trade pact. but I do not have the right to stand in for from Ukrainian Canadian Congress President Paul Grod. EU-Ukrainian relations were strained the Ukrainian court of law. The court is TORONTO – The Ukrainian “Today we want to thank and recog- by the sentencing of Ms. Tymoshenko for independent and makes its own deci- Canadian Congress bestowed its high- nize Prime Minister Stephen Harper abuse of power in connection with a con- sions. We cannot very quickly change est honor – the Taras Shevchenko for his dedication to public service, for tract she signed with Russia’s Gazprom laws which have been in force in Ukraine Medal – on Canada’s prime minister, his leadership and in particular to the in 2009. The EU, which along with the for more than 50 years.” Stephen Harper, at a tribute dinner on outstanding contribution he has made United States said the case was politically In addition, Mr. Yanukovych was quot- October 14 attended by almost 600 of towards the development of the motivated and an example of selective ed by The Times as saying that the new members of the Ukrainian Canadian prosecution in Ukraine, said it wanted to criminal case opened on October 14 by community. (Continued on page 10) see “progress” on Ms. Tymoshenko’s situ- ation and the rule of law in Ukraine. (Continued on page 4)

Vitali Klitschko visits D.C. in new role as political leader by Yaro Bihun Washington think tanks and with con- gressional leaders interested in Ukraine Special to The Ukrainian Weekly developing into a Western-oriented dem- WASHINGTON – Vitali Klitschko, bet- ocratic and free-market country. ter known as the heavyweight boxing In response to a question about the champion of the world, visited the U.S. Tymoshenko sentencing during a discussion capital in his recently acquired new – at the Brookings Institution, Mr. Klitschko political – role in life, as the leader of the called it another example of the “slide back” Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for from the democratic development in Reforms (UDAR) party. Ukraine, and added that the Yanukovych His October 11-12 visit here began on administration now is trying to find some the day a Kyiv court sentenced Ukraine’s kind of an acceptable resolution to it. opposition leader and former prime min- The court system, like the other parts ister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in of Ukraine’s government, are corrupt, Mr. prison for abuse of power in signing an Klitschko said, adding that politicians and other officials – at all levels – make Yaro Bihun expensive natural gas deal with Russia. promises to get into power and then act Vitali Klitschko with Ukrainian American community leaders who accompanied him This development heightened the inter- in their own self-interest. to the Taras Shevchenko monument in Washington, Andrew Futey (left), executive est to his discussions of Ukraine’s politi- vice-president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, and Michael cal and economic reform issues at two (Continued on page 4) Sawkiw, director of the Ukrainian National Information Service. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 No. 43

ANALYSIS

Putin attempts to reinvent Yanukovych: no grounds to delay EU pact The Ukrainian opposition described the cancellation of the president’s visit to KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor Brussels as backsliding on Ukraine’s Customs Union as Eurasian bloc Yanukovych has said that he sees no European integration. (Ukrinform) by Erica Marat and international politics. Union member- grounds to delay the signing of an ship is regarded as an indicator of political Association Agreement between Ukraine Eurasia Daily Monitor Tymoshenko sued in three more cases alignment with and support of the and the European Union. He announced Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Russian leadership in the post-Soviet this in an interview with one of the leading KYIV – On October 18, Yulia Tymoshenko is yet to win the presidency formally next space. Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan German newspapers, Frankfurter was interrogated in the case concerning the year, but he has already laid out ambitious are being pressured to join the club. Allgemeine Zeitung, on October 19. “It is debts of United Energy Systems of Ukraine foreign policy plans in regard to former Moscow easily convinced Belarus and important for us to sign the association (UESU) to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Soviet states, Russia’s “traditional sphere Kazakhstan to support the idea of a com- agreement, which contains clear EU mem- Procurator General Viktor Pshonka told a of influence,” as the Kremlin often defines mon market. The isolated Belarusian bership prospects for Ukraine. If the EU is press briefing on October 19. He said that it. In his recent op-ed piece in Izvestiya, economy is deeply dependent on Russian not prepared for this or we’re not prepared the pre-trial investigation of the case is Vladimir Putin proposed deepening the credits, and President Alyaksandr for this, then this decision cannot be made being conducted by the Security Service of integration of former Soviet states within Lukashenka’s domestic political support right now, but only when both sides are Ukraine (SBU), while the Main Directorate a newly proposed Eurasian Union (www. is contingent upon his relations with his prepared for this. Today we at least have of the Procurator General’s Office (PGO) is izvestia.ru, October 3). much larger neighbor. political will for this. We also feel that the overseeing compliance with the law during Mr. Putin sees the Eurasian Union as an For Kazakhstan, on the other hand, the Ukrainian people want this. Therefore, we the investigation. As for resolutions by ex- extension of the CIS and the Russia- Customs Union is more a symbol of good currently see no grounds to delay this mat- Procurator General Sviatoslav Piskun on the Belarus-Kazakhstan Customs Union, neighborly relations with Russia rather ter,” Mr. Yanukovych said. The president closure of similar cases against Ms. arguing that it will be a long-term project than of economic integration. Unlike promised to do everything he can “to Tymoshenko in 2005, these documents that intends to function independent of Belarus, Kazakhstan’s biggest trade part- ensure that this agreement contains a pas- require more detailed legal evaluation. political regime changes in its member ner continues to be the European Union, sage about [Ukraine’s] future EU member- “Following this assessment it will be possi- states. Mr. Putin also pledges that the new and the country is also expanding its eco- ship.” When asked whether the signing of ble to say whether those decisions were union, “connecting and the Asia- nomic cooperation with China and the the agreement with the EU could fail due to legal or illegal,” Mr. Pshonka said. Regarding Pacific region,” will promote the develop- United States. Kazakh experts, however, the case of former Prime Minister Yulia two other cases against Ms. Tymoshenko, ment of domestic industries and expand link 12 percent inflation in the country Tymoshenko, the president said: “I’m not Ms. Pshonka said investigations into the trade ties between its members. over the past few months with the union clairvoyant nor a prophet. We are in the acquisition of ambulances and the diversion The Russian leader, however, denies agreement. process of discussions that will continue. of funds received under the Kyoto Protocol All points of view have a right to be heard that the new union will be a mere resto- By contrast, Ukraine’s current pro- have been completed and Ms. Tymoshenko’s and to be respected. However, we often get ration of the USSR. Instead he compares Moscow leadership has been reluctant to lawyers are getting familiar with these crim- the impression that others simply don’t the potential union with the European join Mr. Putin’s project as a full member, inal cases. There are no new cases in which want to listen to what we have to say. The Union’s Schengen zone and promises proposing collaboration with the union in Ms. Tymoshenko would be a defendant, the debate concerning the Tymoshenko case is that labor migrants would be free to a special “3+1” format. President Viktor PGO said. Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court actually far from being completed.” On move across borders without having to Yanukovych has said that Ukraine is inter- sentenced Tymoshenko on October 11 to October 17, Mr. Yanukovych said in an match their skills to existing migrant ested in collaborating with the union, but seven years in prison for abuse of power in interview with Bloomberg News that Kyiv quotas in Russia. Europe needed 40 full membership would undermine the signing gas agreements with Russia. On was ready to move the signing of the country’s current benefits derived from October 12, the SBU filed against the ex-pre- years to integrate, while the Customs Association Agreement and the creation of serving as a transit state for Russian gas mier a new criminal case for imposition of Union requires much less time to gain a free trade area with the EU to a later date (www.rbc.ua, August 26). Russian the corporate debt of UESU on the traction, he says. if European leaders are not ready for this in President Dmitry Medvedev rejected the Ukrainian budget. (Ukrinform) For Mr. Putin, the Customs Union’s connection with the “Tymoshenko case.” It main architect, the grouping has already was planned that the agreement on associ- Ukraine and Russia sign agreements become an instrument of both regional (Continued on page 22) ation and the creation of a free trade area KYIV – A number of new bilateral agree- would be finalized in December and ratified ments were signed during the second next summer. The European Commission Ukraine-Russia Interregional Economic announced on October 18 that the Forum in Donetsk on October 18, which Ukrainian president’s visit to Brussels, was attended by President Viktor Putin prioritizes rebuilding which was scheduled for October 20, had Yanukovych of Ukraine and President been postponed until a later time when Dmitry Medvedev of Russia. The parties of the lost (Soviet) empire conditions are more suitable to continue negotiations on the association agreement. by Pavel Felgenhauer Former Kremlin political adviser Gleb (Continued on page 14) Pavlovsky told journalists he “could not Eurasia Daily Monitor remember a single election after 1996 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin – the rul- where the president failed to promise to ing United Russia party’s official candidate restore the Soviet Union” (Kommersant, he krainian eekly FOUNDED 1933 for re-election as president for a third six- October 5). T U W year term next March – recently published Liberal commentator Dmitry Oreshkin An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., told Ekho Moskvy that Mr. Putin’s policy a major policy article in the Izvestiya daily. a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 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NEWS ANALYSIS: Yanukovych determined not to let Tymoshenko go

by Oleg Varfolomeyev President Yanukovych looks set to sacri- to conclude in December (Ukrainska integration into the EU (Ukrainska Pravda, fice good relations with neighbors in Pravda, October 11). October 11). Eurasia Daily Monitor pursuit of his goal to eliminate Ms. The United States, the EU and Russia This was probably interpreted in Contrary to expectations of many Tymoshenko from the parliamentary expressed disappointment with the ver- Brussels as readiness to compromise and observers both at home and abroad, election race next year. dict. The European Commission issued a decriminalize the article under which Ms. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych The Pechersky District Court in Kyiv on statement warning that it could affect the Tymoshenko was convicted (see Eurasia has failed to instruct a Parliament loyal to October 11 sentenced Ms. Tymoshenko to talks with Ukraine and bilateral coopera- Daily Monitor, October 5). Accordingly, on him to decriminalize the offenses with seven years in prison for exceeding her tion in general. European People’s Party October 12, Ms. Ashton told the European which former Prime Minister Yulia authority in preparing the January 2009 President Wilfried Martens, who has been Parliament that the EU should continue Tymoshenko had been charged. Rather, he gas contract with Russia. The court also Tymoshenko’s main supporter in the EU, talks with Ukraine despite the odds looks determined to keep her behind bars. obliged Ms. Tymoshenko to reimburse the suggested that the EU should withdraw (, October 13). A court in Kyiv has sentenced equivalent of almost $190 million in dam- from the talks (UNIAN, October 11). However, on October 13, the Security Tymoshenko to imprisonment for her ages from the contract to the national oil Mr. Yanukovych, commenting on the Service of Ukraine (SBU) made it clear that role in the controversial 2009 gas deal and gas company Naftohaz Ukrainy. This verdict while on a visit to Slovenia, said it Mr. Yanukovych’s intentions were misin- with Russia. What is more, in spite of a happened just a day after the EU foreign was due to outdated legislation which terpreted and that Ms. Tymoshenko could barrage of criticism from the West and policy chief, Catherine Ashton, had con- should be changed shortly so that it should be imprisoned for something that hap- Russia, and threats from the European firmed at the EU Foreign Affairs Council be in line with legal norms accepted in the pened in 1996 even if she had been pro- Union to freeze the association and free that Ms. Tymoshenko’s imprisonment EU. He added that the verdict was not final nounced innocent as far as the 2009 deal trade talks which are close to comple- could prompt national legislatures to and that Ms. Tymoshenko should appeal, concerned. tion, another criminal case has been block an EU-Ukraine association and free and he admitted that Ms. Tymoshenko’s opened against Ms. Tymoshenko. trade accord, which the two sides planned imprisonment could complicate Ukraine’s (Continued on page 16)

Most member-countries of CIS sign up to free-trade zone RFE/RL disputes, and they were given a six-month any obligations under the World Trade “It is not possible for Moldova to be in a break to resolve them,” Mr. Calmac said. Organization (WTO), which Moscow hopes customs union with CIS countries and, at the Years of fruitless negotiations to create a “We’re talking about the same countries that to join in the near future. same time, continue to work for economic free-trade zone among the members of the didn’t sign the treaty [in St. Petersburg].” “The establishment of a free-trade zone integration with the EU’s common market,” Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in no way contradicts the principles and Mr. Calmac said. “These are opposing things unexpectedly came to a successful conclu- Step forward norms of the WTO,” he said. “Moreover, with totally conflicting consequences.” sion on October 18, when Russian Prime Mr. Putin hailed the free-trade decision as Minister Vladimir Putin appeared before some of the countries that signed today’s Prime Minister Putin has made the clos- a key step forward in the economic develop- journalists in St. Petersburg, Russia. treaty – namely Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, er integration of the CIS a major theme in “The heads of the delegations have had ment of the region. Ukraine and Moldova – are already mem- recent weeks since it became clear that he lengthy discussions today and reached a “We are opening up our markets to each bers of the World Trade Organization.” intends to return to the Russian presidency other, which means that goods will be in 2012. In an article published in Izvestia rather unexpected result,” Mr. Putin said. “We Hinder further integration discussed [a free-trade agreement], made brought to our markets at lower prices, on October 4, Mr. Putin advocated the for- some corrections and adopted its final text.” which will in turn provide better conditions However, there have been concerns that mation of a Eurasian Union, which he Mr. Putin was participating in a regular for starting new joint enterprises,” Mr. Putin such arrangements within the CIS could hin- described as “a powerful, supranational gathering of CIS prime ministers that also said. “All of this, of course, increases the com- der the efforts of countries such as Ukraine body.” He said such a union would be part included heads of government from petitiveness of all of our economies.” and Moldova to further integrate with the of a “greater Europe” with shared values of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Under the agreement, import and export European Union. Ukraine is in the final stag- “democracy and market laws” that would Moldova, Tajikistan and Ukraine. duties on most categories of goods will be es of negotiating a Deep and Comprehensive facilitate its members’ closer integration Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan are also CIS eliminated, although Mr. Putin said there Free Trade Area (DCFTA) and an Association with the European Union. members, while Turkmenistan has observ- will still be unspecified exceptions. The Agreement with the EU, although the status In an article in Germany’s er status. Those three countries have asked leaders expressed the hope that the agree- of those agreements is in doubt following “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” back in 2010, Mr. for a few weeks to consider joining the ment will come into force in January. the October 11 conviction of former Prime Putin argued for a free-trade zone span- free-trade agreement that the other mem- CIS leaders first signed a protocol on a Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on abuse-of- ning “from Lisbon to Vladivostok.” bers signed. free-trade zone in 1994, and promises to office charges that many in the West view as Moldovan Deputy Economy Minister sign a final agreement have been regular politically motivated. Written by Robert Coalson, with agency Octavia Calmac contradicted Mr. Putin in features of CIS summits since the early Moldovan Deputy Economy Minister reports. comments to RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service, 2000s. For example, then-Ukrainian Calmac agreed that the Petersburg agree- Copyright 2011, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted saying the agreement was prepared President Leonid Kuchma told journalists ment does not contradict his country’s with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ months ago. in May 2003: “I am sure we will sign the Western integration strategy. However, he Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, “In fact, we wrapped up negotiations in agreement in September.” added that Chisinau has no intention of Washington DC 20036 (see http://www. May. But the deal wasn’t signed then because Mr. Putin also stressed that the new free- joining the Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan rferl.org/content/cis_putin_free-trade_ some Asian members of the CIS had some trade arrangement does not conflict with Customs Union. zone/24364420.html).

FOR THE RECORD OSCE media freedom rep urges UCCA condemns “smear campaign” full transparency in Gongadze trial of Yanukovych against Tymoshenko OSCE Gongadze’s colleagues and family VIENNA – The OSCE representative on The following statement was released by Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Organization for Security and Cooperation the Ukrainian Congress Committee of calls upon the world community to reject indeserve Europe this,” (OSCE). said Mr. Mijatović of the America on October 13. these allegations as vociferously as it did said on October 6 that the Ukrainian and “I accept that some court proceed- freedom of the media, Dunja Mijatović, the Pechersky Court ruling and to continue international media should have access ings require the protection of confiden- The Ukrainian Congress Committee of to push the ruling regime in Ukraine to to information about the ongoing trial tial data related to national security. But America strongly condemns the new adhere to the rule of law and international related to the murder of Ukrainian jour- the fruitless efforts of the last decade to charges brought against Ukraine’s former standards. nalist Heorhii Gongadze in 2000. find the instigators of this killing Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko by the The Ukrainian Congress Committee of “Unfortunately, the trial that has require the judiciary to show maximum Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). America reiterates its call upon the gov- resumed today remains closed to the openness at this final stage to ensure This Soviet-style smear campaign is a ernment of the United States to take media. This raises concerns about trans- the credibility of the final verdict,” said transparent attempt by the Yanukovych appropriate measures to support democ- parency. In my September 13 letter to regime to counter the international com- racy and . We the Ukrainian authorities, I emphasized The OSCE representative emphasized munity’s universal condemnation of the urge the United States government to the importance of free reporting in this thatMr. Mijatović. only vocal and resolute responses Pechersky Court’s October 11 ruling. restrict visas and freeze assets of the cur- ‘case of the decade.’ All the circumstances from governments to violence against Furthermore, the Yanukovych regime is rent anti-democratic regime and to hold surrounding the cruel murder of Heorhii journalists, bringing both perpetrators clearly trying to deflect world attention congressional hearings on sanctions and Gongadze should become known and and instigators to justice, could relieve from its own anti-democratic practices and future foreign assistance to the govern- public officials implicated should not be media from fear when reporting on sen- politically motivated prosecutions. The ment of Ukraine. shielded using secrecy arguments. sitive issues of public interest. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 No. 43

Vitali Klitschko talks politics at Columbia University

by Matthew Dubas opposition politicians to focus the popular discontent with Ukraine’s Euro-integration was also a major point of President Viktor Yanukovych, he said. Mr. Klitschko hopes discussion, as Mr. Klitschko said that Ukraine looks toward NEW YORK – More than 150 people attended a discus- to offer voters a choice via his UDAR party. Europe as an example to follow, but “our own way.” sion on the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform However, “no one in Ukraine trusts any politicians,” Mr. Ukraine is European geographically and historically, but party (UDAR, which in Ukrainian means punch) led by Klitschko said. Ukraine needs to look toward places like values and respect for the rule of law are things that need Vitali Klitschko, held on October 13 at the Italian Georgia, where young politicians have avoided getting to change, he said. Academy’s Teatro at Columbia University. involved in corruption, he added. Regarding Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, Mr. Klitschko, 40, is also the WBC world heavyweight Mr. Klitschko responded, sometimes in Ukrainian, which is dominated by Germany and France, Mr. Klitschko boxing champion, nicknamed Dr. Ironfist for his record in other times in English, to questions from the audience, on talked about how Ukraine and the EU would have to adapt the ring, having never been knocked out. a variety of topics. to one another during the process. Among the benefits of In the political arena, Mr. Klitschko lost the 2006 Kyiv The issue was raised and Mr. accession, Ukraine can hope to raise its standard of living mayoral elections, but the UDAR party seems to be on the Klitschko noted that he has been studying the Ukrainian to European standards and break free from its Soviet lega- rise, according to Mr. Klitschko. language for 11 years. Originally a Russophone, Mr. cy, he said. A panel discussion was moderated by Dr. Yuri Shevchuk, Klitschko noted that more than 17 nationalities live on the One audience member, a foreign policy student, asked to professor of and language at Columbia territory of Ukraine. He said the Ukrainian language should compare China’s system of government and Ukraine’s ver- University, and Dr. Mark Andryczyk of Columbia be promoted but not forced on the people, and it should be sion of democracy. Dr. Shevchuk noted that change is com- University’s Harriman Institute. (Dr. Shevchuk also served presented as “cool.” “Do you love Ukraine or not? That’s ing to China, but it is not as swift as in Ukraine. He added as translator to Mr. Klitschko in a few instances.) more important,” he underscored. that China and Ukraine are different than 20 years ago, but Mr. Klitschko noted the difficult task ahead for Ukraine On language, Dr. Shevchuk noted that in the U.S. and China is further from a democracy than Ukraine. and mentioned the show-trial sentencing of former Prime Canada, people are fortunate to have free English language Mr. Klitschko also fielded questions on gender equality, Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in prison. If the courses offered in every major town. In Ukraine, this does noting, “Ukraine needs more women involved in politics. sentence is not overturned in the appeals process, not exist, he said. Dr. Shevchuk presented a copy of his new They have a stronger work ethic.” Ukraine’s opposition will need to find a new generation of Ukrainian language workbook to Mr. Klitschko. To combat corruption, Mr. Klitschko said that the rule of law must be respected by everyone and a healthy civil soci- ety must keep things in balance. Responding to a question on the improvements in Ukraine since the 1990s, Mr. Klitschko said, “We had rosy glasses on in the beginning, but then the glasses fell down.” “The dream is important,” he said, “but you have to work hard to make the dream come true. I reached my dream in sport, and now the new dream is that Ukraine can be a European country. This is not my dream, but the dream of millions of .” Mr. Klitschko then signed autographs and posed for pic- tures. Founded in April 2010, the UDAR party has 400 members that sit on local councils or oblast councils in Ukraine and is gearing up for the 2012 parliamentary elections. Mr. Klitschko was elected to the Kyiv City Council in April 2006, when he ran together with the bloc of the Reforms and Order Party. His party was originally named the Vitaliy Klitschko Matthew Dubas Bloc, but changed its name to UDAR in February of this year. Vitali Klitschko responds to questions. Seated with him are: Drs. Yuri Shevchuk (center) and Mark Andryczyk of For more information on UDAR, readers can visit www. Columbia University. klichko.org.

are divided on that issue. In his opinion, Ukraine should cooperate with NATO but not become a member of the Vitali Klitschko visits D.C.... alliance. (Continued from page 1) On the question of Ukraine’s relationship with Russia, he said that Russia is an important neighbor and that How can a prosecutor be independent and make a Ukraine should maintain good relations with both fair decision, he asked, if his annual wage is $20,000- Europe and Russia. 30,000 and he drives a car that costs $100,000-200,000. The 90-minute discussion with Mr. Klitschko at the These people work not for the interest of the country Brookings Institution on “Ukraine: Today’s Issues and but their own personal interest, he said. Tomorrow’s Opportunities” was moderated by Steven Mr. Klitschko said that next year’s election should be Pifer, who was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 1998 to a “litmus test” for Ukraine’s development into a truly 2000. democratic state and that his UDAR party is working to While in Washington, Mr. Klitschko also had meetings help bring about those necessary political and econom- at the National Democratic Institute and the Commission ic reforms. on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki He noted that the government keeps repeating that Commission), with its co-chairman, Sen. Benjamin Cardin, Ukraine is for European values and yet keeps backslid- and members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. ing from these democratic values. That, he added, is not On his first day in Washington, Mr. Klitschko, accompa- the way to become a European country. nied by Ukrainian Ambassador Olexsander Motsyk, laid a Yaro Bihun As for joining NATO, Mr. Klitschko said, Ukrainians floral wreath at the Taras Shevchenko monument. Vitali Klitschko at the Brookings Institution.

imposed on the Ukrainian opposition leader. they are not prepared to do that,” he commented. EU disinvites Yanukovych The Russian president has called for closer coopera- The Financial Times quoted Ukrainian Vice-Prime tion between Russia and Ukraine. The Ukrainian presi- Minister Sergey Tigipko’s comments on October 18 to (Continued from page 1) dent said prior to his Donetsk meeting with his Russian the newspaper Den: “If the EU sends a clear ‘no’ signal the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) against Ms. counterpart that he would push for Russia to reduce the to Ukraine, then there is a high likelihood that there will Tymoshenko must be thoroughly investigated before price of natural gas sold to his country. Russia has be a re-orientation towards the [Russia-led] Customs any final conclusions could be made. The new case repeatedly said it could agree to sell Ukraine gas at Union.” alleges that she transferred the corporate debt of United lower prices if Ukraine cedes control of its pipeline grid. In a related development, Ukraine joined Russia, Energy Systems of Ukraine, which she headed, to the Kyiv has resisted such Russian pressure in the past, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and state budget. professing a preference for stronger ties with the Tajikistan in signing an agreement to create a free-trade Meanwhile, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, European Union. But the Tymoshenko sentence has zone of members of the Commonwealth of Independent speaking on October 18 at a joint press conference with soured relations between Kyiv and Brussels. States (CIS). The move came during the October 18 President Yanukovych in Donetsk, where the two heads Volodymyr Fesenko, director of the Penta Center of meeting of CIS heads of government in St. Petersburg. of state met during the Ukraine-Russia Interregional Applied Political Studies, in Kyiv told The New York Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan (both CIS members) and Economic Forum, said that he viewed the seven-year Times that Brussels faces a quandary over how hard to Turkmenistan (which has observer status in the CIS) jailing of Ms. Tymoshenko as the country’s internal mat- push Ukraine’s leaders on rule of law and rights issues. asked for a few weeks’ time to consider signing the pact. ter. “Politically, they have to draw a red cross over Analysts say Russia hopes to exploit a chill in rela- Yanukovych. On the other hand, to throw out Ukraine, to Sources: RFE/RL (with agency reports), Associated tions between Kyiv and Brussels over the jail sentence turn away from all the levers of power over Ukraine — Press, The New York Times, The Financial Times. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 5

The Ukrainian National Association Forum

UNA rewards New Haven grads Young UNA’ers

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Graduates of St. Michael’s School of Ukrainian Tyler Wilkes, sons of Kristina and Nicholas Hugo Kolodiy, son of Stephan Studies in New Haven, Conn., receive gifts from the Ukrainian National Chesley Wilkes of Clifton, N.J., is a new and Elizabeth Kolodiy of Maplewood, Association for passing their comprehensive examinations, known as the member of UNA Branch 234. He was N.J., is a new member of UNA Branch “matura.” Pictured (from left) are: Orysia Yanovska, teacher; graduates enrolled by his grandparents Eugene and 234. He was enrolled by his grandparents Andrea Zelez, Paul Doboschak and Maria Zyla; Gloria Horbaty, UNA advisor Nina Pawelko. Oleh and Olenka Kolodiy. and financial secretary of Branch 414; and Myron Melnyk, school director and teacher. Though the students completed the matura in May, the presentation of UNA gifts was made during the Connecticut State Ukrainian Day Festival in Stamford, Conn., on September 11. Do you have a young UNA’er, or potential young UNA’er OBITUARIES in your family? William J. Zarsky, former building manager Call the UNA Home Office, 973-292-9800, to find out how to enroll. for the Ukrainian National Association, 73

GARFIELD, N.J. – William J. Zarsky of Garfield, N.J., formerly of Secaucus, passed away on Thursday, September 22. He was 73. He was born in Jersey City, N.J., and lived in nearby Secaucus for 34 years before moving to Garfield in 2005. Mr. Zarsky was a retired building man- ager for the Ukrainian National Association in Parsippany. He owned the Plank Road Inn in Secaucus for 19 years. He was a devout parishioner of Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church, Jersey City, was active at the Ukrainian National Home in that city, and was a member of the Ukrainian National Association. He proudly served in the U.S. Army with the rank of sergeant. Mr. Zarsky was the beloved husband of William J. Zarsky 43 years to Barbara, devoted father of Christine and Michael Zarsky, and loving 24-25, with a parastas service on Sunday grandfather of Jackson. He is also survived afternoon. The funeral liturgy was offered at by loving family and many dear friends. Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Funeral arrangements were handled by Church on Monday, September 26. the Riotto Funeral Home, where visitation Interment followed at New Jersey Veterans was on Saturday and Sunday, September Memorial Cemetery in Arneytown. Mission Statement The Ukrainian National Association exists: • to promote the principles of fraternalism; • to preserve the Ukrainian, Ukrainian American and Ukrainian Canadian heritage and culture; and • to provide quality financial services and products to its members. As a fraternal insurance society, the Ukrainian National Association reinvests its earnings for the benefit of its members and the Ukrainian community. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 No. 43

COMMENTARY The Ukrainian Weekly Yanukovych snubs Europe Five thoughts on the Tymoshenko verdict On October 11, after the verdict in the Tymoshenko trial was announced, The by Dominique Arel - Economist wrote: “Mr. Yanukovich [sic] put himself into a deep hole when he sanc- sented as a Ukraine torn between Russia tioned Ms. Tymoshenko’s arrest. It would be rational for him to try to climb out On October 11 former Prime Minister and• the3. The West. problem, Ukraine as is always,on the verge is pre of of it by freeing her. But rational behavior is never assured in Ukrainian politics.” Yulia Tymoshenko was condemned to signing a free trade agreement with the At the start of this week, October 17, President Viktor Yanukovych made it seven years in jail, and an additional European Union, called the Association clear that he was not giving in to pressure from the West to free his strongest three years of deprivation of political Agreement. In a summer debate posted political rival. Speaking to several Western newspapers, The New York Times and activities, a verdict that triggered an in the newsletter The Ukraine The Wall Street Journal among them, he said he would not interfere in the work international outcry, including, curiously, List (UKL), compiled by the Chair of of the courts. His comments came after the Security Service of Ukraine said on from the Russian Federation. The follow- Ukrainian Studies at the University of October 13 that it was opening a new investigation into allegations that back in ing are five thoughts prompted by this Ottawa, prominent Ukraine watchers the mid-1990s Yulia Tymoshenko had transferred the debts of her company, obvious miscarriage of justice. United Energy Systems of Ukraine, to the state budget. The president was were divided over the EU factor. On one unequivocal: the new case must be thoroughly investigated before any final con- side, we have those arguing that democ- clusion can be reached. At the same time, referring to suggestions that the law been a distant dream and received its racy must precede integration, that the • 1. The has long under which Ms. Tymoshenko had been sentenced in the gas trading case could official burial with the court decision to Agreement must serve as a reward for be decriminalized (suggestions he himself had made), he stated that “We cannot send Ms. Tymoshenko to jail. Critics who reform (or rather, in the diminished very quickly change laws which have been in force in Ukraine for more than 50 caution against “personalizing” expectations of the Yanukovych era, for years.” Ukrainian politics miss the fundamental preserving what had been gained before, Mr. Yanukovych then went on to comment on Ukraine’s negotiations with the point. The Orange Revolution was not namely, free elections). On the other European Union on an Association Agreement and a free-trade pact: “If the EU is about Viktor Yushchenko (or Ms. side, we have the argument that EU poli- not ready for one reason or another, or Ukraine is not ready, the decision can be Tymoshenko), any more than the cies, such as free trade, will generate made not now but later, when we are ready.” He even quipped, “I don’t intend to October 11 verdict was about Ms. internal demands for reform in the mid- go to anyone asking for favors. We are partners. If there is a need to meet, I’m Tymoshenko alone. The civic uprising of dle to long run, and that the need for ready. If not, I’ll fly onward.” (Onward to where? Was this perhaps intended as a late fall 2004 overturned a fraudulent transparency in economic dealings will threat to the West that there is always a willing “partner” for Ukraine in Russia?) election and established (or re-estab- bring transparency in political matters. On October 18 the EU disinvited Mr. Yanukovych, abruptly postponing his lished, since Ukraine had experienced it A companion argument is that closing October 20 visit to Brussels. The Ukrainian president could visit when “condi- in 1994) a fair and free election, the the door to the EU will push Ukraine tions will be more conducive to making progress on bilateral relations,” an EU “thin” – and yet so indispensable – defini- back into Russia’s orbit, a worst-case spokesperson stated. It was the proper response. The EU should not be persuad- tion of a democracy. scenario. ed to ignore the Ukrainian government’s flouting of the rule of law and basic With the Tymoshenko ruling, we While the quasi-“modernization” human rights. Eurointegration means shared values. And, today, the Yanukovych already know that the forthcoming elec- argument (economic development will regime does not share Europe’s values. tions will be unfair and unfree. This has bring political change) has merits, the Why is President Yanukovych doing what he’s doing? nothing to do with whether Ms. reality is that Ukraine was a democracy, Several possible explanations have been given by various observers of the Tymoshenko is popular, trusted, or even twice (1991 to roughly 1997, 2004 to scene. Some say the president is willing to sacrifice good relations with the West a “true” democrat, and everything to do last week), and there is frankly no reason to achieve his goal of eliminating Ms. Tymoshenko from the political scene. with the principle that the Ukrainian gov- why it couldn’t be one tomorrow, as Others say that perhaps the president’s advisers counseled him that the West ernment can now prevent political oppo- opposed to in the next decade. As for the would not take such a hard line, that Ukraine would get a pass, just like Russia nents from contesting power. Now that Russia factor, the evidence should be fair- has. Perhaps most troubling is the possible explanation that Mr. Yanukovych is the principle has been used, it will be ly clear by now that the Donetsk clan – making these moves to force the EU to push Ukraine away into the waiting used again, and the prospect of a long however close to Russian culture, and “embrace” of Russia. detention will be enough to dissuade definitely close to Russian political cul- Valeriy Chaly of Kyiv’s Razumkov think-tank told The Financial Times this challengers from seeking power. ture – does not want to be subordinated could be “a big geopolitical game with a simple aim: to end Ukraine’s EU integra- - to Russia. tion drive and create conditions through which Ukraine would instead enter tion hardly merits a serious discussion. The October 11 statement by the Russia’s Customs Union. It’s hard to understand the logic, but it looks as if Neither• 2. That the the European trial was aUnion political nor opera the Russian Foreign Ministry about the “obvi- Ukraine’s leadership could be doing this.” United States minced words, both ous anti-Russian subtext” of the verdict So, the key question is: Is Mr. Yanukovych just plain crazy to snub the EU, or is denouncing the “politically motivated” does not exactly square with the standard he crazy like a fox, moving Ukraine in the direction he intended all along? proceedings. For analysts of the Ukrainian nationalist view of President Ukrainian scene, the mere presence of an Yanukovych as “pro-Russian.” What Mr. unreformed Office of the Procurator Yanukovych wants, other than Russia’s General, whose illiberal powers of “con- gas, is Russia’s political system, but with trol” over judicial organs were left economic protectionism from Russia, and Oct. Turning the pages back... untouched by the Orange governments, at no cost to Ukraine’s dealing with the makes any prosecution initiated by the West. The saying about having one’s cake government politically charged. and eating it too comes to mind. 24 Three years ago, on October 24, 2008, Ukraine’s Foreign The procuracy was previously in the Affairs Ministry turned down a Russian proposal to extend the business of issuing threats, by initiating – Ukrainian nationalism. The very term 2009 lease for the naval base on the Crimean peninsula used by the but rarely concluding – investigations. Mr. was• demonized 4. An important in Soviet propaganda, word about on Russian Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yushchenko used these powers to try to a par with “fascism,” and Western com- said a lease extension “cannot be a subject of discussion” and remove judges on charges of “corruption.” mentators have often been suscipious of that Russian ships would have to leave Crimea in 2017. The qualitative difference now is that the its intent and possible consequences. Russia wanted the fleet to remain in Sevastopol, Ukraine, after the lease was to expire in procuracy has become the instrument for Nationalism is the desire to have one’s 2017. Russia noted that it could raise the issue after President Viktor Yushchenko’s term neutralizing political opponents. In open state, or to make an existing one more expired. societies, politicians commit “crimes” “national” (and what “national” means is In August 2008 Russia misused Ukraine’s neutrality when it launched an attack on when they are found guilty of having per- generally quite contested). It can have its Georgia, when it used the Russian Black Sea Fleet to transport ground forces for an opera- sonally benefited from their office (or ugly side, and the rise of the Svoboda tion in Abkhazia. In 2008, Russia wanted to use the Ochamchire base on the Abkhaz coast, when they commit the same kind of acts – party in Halychyna is not pretty. which is legally sovereign Georgian territory. such as sexual misconduct – that con- But let the record show that Ukrainian Presidents Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia signed the demn ordinary people). nationalism, in the empirically verifiable Kharkiv accords on April 21, 2010, which extended the lease for the Black Sea Fleet until As a private energy entrepreneur in field of Ukrainian politics of the last 20 2042, with an additional five-year renewal option. In return, Ukraine was provided a $100 the 1990s, Ms. Tymoshenko benefited years, has been the driving force behind discount per thousand cubic meters (tcm) of gas if the gas price was higher than $330 per immensely from the gray laws and prac- democracy, while Ukrainian anti-nation- tcm or 30 percent discount if the price went lower. tices of the time. As prime minister in alism, for lack of a better word, a.k.a. the Ukraine’s 450-seat Parliament ratified the deal with 236 votes in favor on April 27, 2009, however, she did not personally political forces grounded in eastern 2010, to the throwing of eggs at Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn by the benefit from the gas deal signed with Ukraine, have aimed at the dismantle- opposition. Moscow (while the shady interests of ment of democracy. Rukh in the 1990s, The previous gas arrangement, signed in 2009 by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, RosUkrEnergo lost a great deal of Our Ukraine and the Tymoshenko Bloc in agreed to $450 per tcm. According to the ruling Party of Regions, Ms. Tymoshenko had money). Whether the deal was in the the 2000s (although Tymoshenko flip- abused her powers by signing the gas deal without the government’s approval and the interest of Ukraine was for the electorate flopped frequently on core issues) had resulting price crippled Ukraine’s heavy industrial base, which consumes approximately to determine, although it doesn’t seem serious flaws (rule of law, historical 20 billion cubic meters of gas annually. Ms. Tymoshenko was sentenced last week to seven that Viktor Yanukovych campaigned on memory), but they were, in their actions, years in prison for abuse of office. the issue. not just words, for free elections and a free media. Source: “Kyiv denies extension of lease for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet,” The Ukrainian Weekly, Dominique Arel is chair of Ukrainian November 2, 2008. studies at the University of Ottawa. (Continued on page 9) No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 7

NEWS AND VIEWS What was really in Tymoshenko’s 2009 gas agreement with Russia?

by Derek Fraser Russia’s gas sales to Ukraine have repeatedly been used by Russia as an Yulia Tymoshenko, the principal rival of instrument for bringing Ukraine to heel. Shooting peasants Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, When Russia first turned off the gas sup- I was walking through the little market more important to publicize their plight has been convicted in a political trial in ply to Ukraine and Europe at the end of area near the foot of Horodotska Street in through the media? Ukraine of having exceeded her authority 2005, a year after the Orange Revolution, it Lviv. All kinds of folk artifacts, as well as And what was that comment about as prime minister in concluding a gas was preceded by Russia tearing up a multi- mounds of nuts and fruits, were being diaspora dollars? Had she seen her neigh- agreement with Russia in 2009 that was year gas supply contract it had concluded sold on little carpets laid out on the bro- bors enriched by their American relatives, unfavorable to Ukrainian interests. For this in 2004 with the more pro-Russian govern- ken pavement amid trees and canvas while she sank into penury? Or was it the she has been sentenced to seven years’ ment of President Leonid Kuchma and booths. Suddenly an old woman leaped in conspicuous wealth of Ukrainian imprisonment and fined nearly $200 mil- Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. front of me, brandishing a broom, and Americans that offended her? Perhaps lion. Statements made by Russians at the time shouted, “Do you want this?” Taken aback, that was the point of the retort that she It is worth recalling the circumstances in make it clear that the main aims of the I said nothing. “Because if you want it, wanted the same things as we did. which she had to negotiate. Russian action were political. One purpose you’ll get it on the backside!” The contrast between the lifestyles of The negotiations of 2008 came at the was to create difficulties for President It dawned on me that this must have vacationing Ukrainian Americans and end of the second of two gas wars in three Yushchenko and Prime Minister something do to with my second cousin, poor Galician villagers is stark. years between Russia and Ukraine – wars Tymoshenko in forthcoming parliamentary who stood a few paces away, taking pho- We stroll about the market square, that led to Russian gas supplies being twice elections. Another was to take over the tographs. The granddaughter of an immi- dropping hryvni in the baskets of street cut to Ukraine and Western Europe. Ukrainian gas transit pipeline. grant who had left at 17, she spoke performers; we dine with a bottle of The EU had to intervene to put an end to no Ukrainian. This was her first visit to Georgian wine on the terrace of a restau- that dispute. Ukraine. Having spent six weeks working rant in the warm summer evening, or sip Derek Fraser was Canada’s ambassador In the gas war of 2008-2009, Russian with another photographer on an installa- espresso at one of Lviv’s charming cafés. to Ukraine in 1998-2001. He is a senior fel- motives were also not purely commercial. tion somewhere in Finland, she had come In the villages, men are either drunk or low of the Center for Global Studies and an At the time Russia’s relations with Ukraine via St. Petersburg, Russia, which she had gone to Russia or Poland to work at adjunct professor of political science at the were especially tense because of Ukraine’s found dull and dismal. But my second menial jobs, while the young have scat- University of Victoria (British Columbia). campaign to join NATO, its support for cousin loved Lviv. She had shot arcades tered for the cities, leaving elderly women Georgia in its war with Russia, and and facades, balustrades and balconies, to fend for themselves. You see them in The article above is reprinted from hum- Ukraine’s refusal to renew the lease on the chimneys and courtyards, lampposts and the streets of Lviv, propped up against news.com. HUM describes itself as follows: Russian naval base on Sevastopol in even coal-chutes and manhole covers. As walls, their faces barely visible beneath “A mobile news agency solving a billion-dol- Crimea, which was to expire in 2017. interpreter and guide, I had had a chance their headscarves, purveying pathetic lar information problem, HUMNEWS pro- The Russians were also likely angry at to take a closer look at the historic center. bunches of parsley, carrots and celery, or duces, aggregates, validates, analyzes and the inability of the Ukrainians to pay a con- Foolishly, I tried to explain that my sad little piles of sour cherries and wild distributes news, information and expertise tested amount for past gas deliveries and companion was a professional photogra- strawberries. At an outdoor restaurant collected from 116 countries and territories the tough, dilatory and contradictory pher from the diaspora. This enraged the you may see a dignified elderly gentleman missing from the international information Ukrainian negotiating positions. old woman even more, and she screeched in a shabby suit, hawking a bunch of flow- supply, for ourselves, for our clients and for something incoherent about American ers to heedless diners. And along the global audience.” (Continued on page 22) dollars. I politely asked her what she Freedom Prospect you may toss some needed. “The same thing as you!” she coins to the legless man on his little retorted and disappeared from view. I wheeled platform. rejoined my cousin, and we continued our We are not, of course, responsible for stroll. Aside from a casual reference to the any of this. Blame the oligarchs, who woman with the broom, she didn’t men- spend millions of dollars on mansions in From a Canadian Angle tion the incident again. London or birthday parties in the Alps So what was this all about? Had my while their people sink into poverty. True, by Oksana Bashuk Hepburn cousin taken the woman’s picture without they are merely heeding the free-market permission? Normally, she focuses on mantra endlessly chanted by neo-liberal inanimate objects, catching unusual pat- economists, bankers and politicians, terns and transforming the captured backed up by enthusiastic cheerleading images into dazzling works of art that from our diaspora. Standing on guard for democracy resemble abstract paintings more than Perhaps we forgot to remind them that The Ukrainian community in Canada ness,” and warned of “potential negative photographs. She rarely photographs peo- economic freedom entails social responsi- recently has been rising to its potential. effect on future relations with Canada and ple, and then very discreetly. Or was it the bility, that government regulation is woman’s broom that had attracted her essential, and that even our 19th-century Grave issues call for serious response and, others.” attention? Or the goods she was selling? robber barons had a Christian conscience to its credit this is being done. Much is at stake here. Canada has con- Photography is an intrusive and that prompted them to give back to soci- The trial of former Prime Minister Yulia tributed over $400 million in aid money to exploitative art. It is all well and good to ety. But such things don’t interest them. Tymoshenko has incensed most of the Ukraine since 1991; some 40 projects have say that we do not have proprietary rights To many villagers, however, there has world; Western leaders have stated that been implemented or are in progress. An to our external appearance, and that by always been a conspiracy of outsiders to additional $25 million was announced dur- the politically motivated arrest and sen- appearing in public we consent to its keep them poor. Once it was the rapacious ing the Harper visit to deal with the further tencing of the opposition leader are unac- reproduction. Nonetheless, by photo- landlord, his bailiff, the tax-collector, the clean up of the Chornobyl nuclear plant ceptable. It looks like the diaspora has graphing an individual we are taking inn-keeper and the money-lender (all and expanded youth exchange programs. done good work and the governments of something from that person. No wonder either Poles or Jews). Later it was interna- The prime minister’s letter is a serious the countries where they reside, from that in some societies taking a photo- tional capital, the Jews and the Americans. response to a serious situation. Ukraine is Europe to North America, are responding. graph is regarded as capturing one’s soul. Today it might be the oligarchs, corrupt A potent reaction came from Canada’s a country with which Canada has “a special People may have no reasonable expecta- politicians, the West, the diaspora – the Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Receiving partnership forged through generations of tion of privacy in the public square, but latter represented by a couple of intrusive the coveted Taras Shevchenko Medal from migration of Ukrainians to Canada,” says taking their picture is invasive all the shutterbugs. the Ukrainian Canadian Congress for his the letter to a friend on the verge of losing same. It also treats a human being as an In any case, after the initial shock I felt stance in defense of democracy, rule of law his way. Will Mr. Yanukovych back down? object – no different from a lamppost or a sorry for the woman. I imagined an aban- and human rights in Ukraine during his This week, Canada’s Parliament is manhole cover. In that sense, it is demean- doned village, a broken family, a dead or visit there last fall, the prime minister devoting a session to Ukraine’s troubles. ing and dehumanizing. alcoholic husband, needy grandchildren. repeated his deep concerns. No doubt questions about the effectiveness There may have been more to it. Most Perhaps there was illness, a flood, or a These were not mere words to a capaci- of aid dollars there will arise as will the so- likely this woman had travelled from a bad crop. ty crowd gathered in Toronto for the far-on-track free-trade discussions. It village, driven by poverty to sell some Or maybe these are just the neurotic awards ceremony. Mr. Harper backed up would be a giant step backward if all this paltry goods in the big city. Do we humili- musings of a hypersensitive conscience. those words with a letter to President good work were to stop. There are sure to ate the poor by photographing them? Maybe my cousin was right. It might have Viktor Yanukovych reminding him that be discussions about freezing the assets of What about the photographers who been nothing more than an irascible recent developments in Ukraine, including certain oligarchs and corrupt judges, and recorded the famines in Biafra, Ethiopia, crone having a bad day. But I’m not so the “apparent political motivations behind restricting their travel abroad. or Sudan? Is there not something immor- sure. the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Others, like the United States and al, or at least distasteful, about recording Europe, have already taken or are being the distress of human beings without Tymoshenko,” were not in keeping with Andrew Sorokowski can be reached at doing something to relieve it? Or is it “accepted norms of due process and fair- (Continued on page 18) [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 No. 43

HISTORICAL ENCOUNTERS Slightly slanted eyes? Ukrainians, Turks and Tatars

by Thomas M. Prymak The question of ethnicity, which is closely related to the idea of nationality and somewhat more loosely related to the idea of “race,” is presently of great concern to many Ukrainian Americans and Ukrainian Canadians. But ques- tions of ethnicity and indeed “racial” mixing are not only of import in contemporary multicultural North America, but also go back quite far into Ukrainian history and in particu- lar are closely bound up with this traditionally Christian country’s relations with its neighbor to the south, Muslim . As is well-known to archeologists and linguists, Ukraine most likely formed at least part of the original homeland of the famous and somewhat controversial “Indo-European” people whose language was carried west and south to form the basis of the Greek, Germanic, Romance, Slavic and other linguistic groups, and east and south to form the basis of the Iranian and North Indian groups. But linguistic science later became tied to racial theories and, as is universally known, eventually was misused by the Nazis in the 1930s (in the so- called “Aryan” theory of racial hierarchies), so that it became difficult to talk about the very real linguistic and the possible ethnic relationships without a certain amount of negative emotional and ideological baggage. In fact, modern Roksolana and her husband, Suleiman the Magnificent. Ukrainians are probably not only true descendants of the ancient peoples who at one time inhabited the Ukrainian The situation in modern Turkey is both similar and dif- (They were rated below the Circassians but above Western steppe, but also of many other peoples who migrated to or ferent. The territory that is today Turkey (Asia Minor and Europeans.) through Ukraine from the very beginnings of history. eastern Thrace) was once the homeland of Hittites, Meanwhile, in Ukraine itself, the epic songs called Thus as many historians beginning with the “Father of Phrygians, Greeks and Armenians. Byzantine civilization, “dumys” described the fate of Ukrainian captives in striking History” himself, the Greek Herodotus, noted early on, which was also based in this region, greatly influenced terms and often brought to tears those who heard them Greeks and Iranians such as and Kyivan Rus’. The Turks from Central Asia invaded this land sung by the bandura and kobza players. Thus the Kozak his- inhabited Ukrainian territories in the centuries before too in medieval times and in 1453 conquered the great city torian Dmytro Yavornytsky tells us that his friend, the Christ. And, as other historians have noted since, various of Constantinople, which was called ‘Tsargrad’ in Old Russian painter Ilya Repin, cried “more than a single tear” Central Asian peoples, including Central Asian Turks, with Slavonic and is called Istanbul today. when he heard these songs. what some people think of as “slanted eyes,” came to At about the same time, the descendants of Genghis Khan There remains some question, however, as to whether Ukraine repeatedly thereafter. These peoples included Huns founded the Crimean Khanate on the north shore of the the Ukrainian folk tradition of which the dumys were a part in classical antiquity, Pechenegs and Polovtsi in the time of Black Sea and began their raids into the steppe interior. is always perfectly accurate. Certainly, Turkish captivity was Kyivan Rus’, Mongols in the 13th century, and then Tatars Thus arose the concept of “Ukraine” as a “borderland” not the same thing as American slavery and some Eastern and Turks in Kozak times. between the settled areas of Eastern Europe (or European captives like the Grand Vizier Sokullu (Sokolsky), Indeed, the word “Cossack” itself – “Kozak” in the modern Christendom as it was called at the time) and the Lands of the great architect Sinan (non-Turkish name unknown), or Ukrainian language – is of Turkic origin, probably mediated Islam to the south. In fact, the great American historian the Ukrainian wife of the great Sultan, Suleiman the into English through Polish and French. In fact, there are William H. McNeill considered Ukraine to be one of the larg- Magnificent, Roxelana (or Roksolana), were people of sub- about 4,000 current Ukrainian words of Turkic origin, about est and most important parts of what he called “Europe’s stance and influence. In Ukraine, in particular, the legend of the same as the number of Arabisms in modern Spanish. Steppe Frontier.” Roksolana which is reflected in the well-known duma about Moreover, the Ukrainian family names “Tataryn,” But both Turks and Tatars were soon mixing very inti- Marusia Bohuslavka has acquired an almost mythical status. “Turchyn” and their variants, are not particularly unusual, mately with Ukrainians. In their raids into Ukraine, the Historians generally agree that, while the raiding process even in North America. Thus the Indo-European legacy in Tatars carried off many thousands of Ukrainian men, was cruel and terrifying, if the captive could make it safe and Ukraine, while very real, is complicated by the recurring women and children to serve as slaves in their homes, fields secure to a pious Muslim household, his or her prospects mixture of the ancestors of the Ukrainian people with vari- and galleys. However, Islamic slavery was never quite the suddenly greatly improved and manumission, though not ous peoples speaking Turkic languages originating in same as slavery in the ancient world or in America. return to the Slavic homeland, became a real possibility. Central Asia. In Islam, all true Muslims are thought of not as “children Indeed, the entire question of the Black Sea slave trade, of God” but rather as “slaves of God” (“Abdulla,” meaning which seems to have been a very big business, is little “slave of God” is actually a rather common Muslim personal explored by historians and deserves further investigation. name) and the concept of liberty varied considerably from Such investigation may, in fact, have certain geopolitical the Christian model. Indeed, it was often partly replaced by implications and substantially alter the very negative stereo- ideas of “justice” and “equality.” Also, there is no color-bar in types of Turks and Tatars that were incumbent upon histori- Islam and manumission of slaves was greatly encouraged. ans writing in the Soviet era. These stereotypes often fil- Moreover, the children of Muslim masters and their tered down to the population at large. European concubines were completely free and had equal Finally, it should be mentioned that the Turko-Tatar pres- inheritance rights with the master’s other children. ence in Ukraine still pops up in various places outside of Thus, integration and assimilation were not the exception purely historical discourse. but rather the rule, and in modern Turkey and among the Thus, the former Ukrainian diplomat, Yury Kochubei, present-day Crimean Tatars there is most certainly a good who bears a famous name of Tatar origin, is now active in dose of Slavic and Ukrainian blood, though lineage is always revising traditional stereotypes in about traced along the paternal line. the Turks and Tatars. The co-founder of the Ukrainian In this regard, the Ukrainian historian Yaroslav Academy of Sciences, Ahatanhel Krymsky, who was actually Dashkevych actually argued Ukraine’s legal right to the dis- of Crimean Tatar origin, is now an almost iconic figure in puted Crimea on the basis of the largely Ukrainian origins of Ukrainian scholarship, and his onetime student, Omeljan the modern Tatar people, who lean towards Ukraine any- Pritsak, a Turkish specialist of note, was one of the pioneers way because of their fear of aggressive Russian nationalism. of Ukrainian scholarship in the United States and co-founder As well, the historian of Ottoman Turkey Victor Ostapchuk of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. In turn, his stu- believes that Ukrainian facial characteristics can still be dents, Orest and Maria Subtelny, Victor Ostapchuk and oth- often spotted among the population of modern Turkey. ers, continue to play a role in academic life on this continent. The famous Ukrainian orientalist Ahatanhel Krymsky These interactions between Ukraine and Turkey have The mixture of Ukrainians, Turks and Tatars, which histo- as a young man. played a large role in the formation of modern Ukrainian rians have not always emphasized, therefore, has implica- culture in which the Kozak era is so prominent. In the 16th tions not only in the present “racial” mixtures of Ukraine century, the famous polemicist Michael the Lithuanian, who and Turkey (and is reflected in the occasional curiosity of Thomas M. Prymak, Ph.D., is research associate, Chair of was in fact probably a “Ruthenian” (Belarusian or Ukrainian Americans and Ukrainian Canadians about from Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto. He is book review Ukrainian) nobleman, praised the Tatars to embarrass his where some of them got their “peculiar” eyes), but also has editor of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies and the author of countrymen into better behavior, but also described in great certain cultural and political ramifications. three published books and numerous articles and reviews in detail the sad fate of Ukrainian captives in the Crimea, while These ramifications are often overlooked, but to this day the field. His most recent manuscript, not yet published, is in the early 18th century, the pioneering Romanian histori- affect North Americans who are concerned about where titled “Gathering a Heritage: Essays on Ukrainian, Slavonic an of the Ottoman Empire Demetrius Cantemir noted the their ancestors came from and how their heritage ties in and Ethnic Canada and the USA.” relative value of Ukrainian slaves on the Istanbul market. with that of other cultures. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 9 Ukrainian Free University marks 90th anniversary WASHINGTON – Dr. Yaroslava Melnyk, professor of Ukrainian studies at the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, discusses the accomplish- ments and future potential contribu- tions of the Ukrainian Free University (UFU) during a celebration marking its 90th anniversary at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington on October 1. Dr. Melnyk will become president of UFU in early 2012 – the first woman elected to that position. Seated at the head table next to her during the commemorative discussion are (from left): U.S. Federal Claims Court Judge Bohdan Futey, an UFU professor; Dr. Leonid Rudnytzky, president of the World Council of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and former UFU president; Ambassador Olexander Motsyk; and Dr. Albert Kipa, president of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. and former presi- dent of UFU. – Yaro Bihun

Congressman Pascrell receives UCCA’s Hrushevsky Award UCCA representative of New Jersey’s 8th District. for their valuable role in helping Ukraine being a member of the Congressional NEW YORK – On Sunday, October 16, the In this 20th anniversary year of achieve and sustain its independence. Ukrainian Caucus since its inception, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Ukraine’s independence, the UCCA has Following liturgy at St. Nicholas congressman has fought for Ukrainian (UCCA) presented its prestigious bestowed the Hrushevsky Award on a select Ukrainian Catholic Church in Passaic, N.J., issues throughout his entire tenure in Hrushevsky Award to Rep. Bill Pascrell, few individuals for their efforts in promot- Kenneth Wanio, president of the UCCA’s Congress, and has encouraged the gradua- currently serving in his eighth term as the ing U.S.-Ukraine relations, and particularly Clifton/Passaic branch, opened the cere- tion of Ukraine from the Jackson-Vanik mony by thanking the Rev. Andriy amendment, the law to build the Ukrainian Dudkevych, pastor of St. Nicholas Church, Famine-Genocide Memorial in Washington, for graciously allowing the Ukrainian as well as consistently supported congres- American community an opportunity to sional resolutions and letters to various thank the congressman. Mr. Wanio also Ukrainian and American government offi- introduced several UCCA executive board cials.” members in attendance, including Jaroslaw Rep. Pascrell thanked the UCCA for con- Fedun and Ivan Burtyk, before introducing ferring upon him the prestigious and passing the microphone over to UCCA Hrushevsky award. Noting that his district President Tamara Olexy. is made up of various ethnic communities, Ms. Olexy stated: he said that his work on behalf of the “Congressman Bill Pascrell has been a Ukrainian American community was never longtime friend of the Ukrainian American a “labor” because supporting Ukraine’s community and particularly to his constitu- independence was always the right thing to ents in New Jersey. Not only has he attend- do. ed many of our local community events, He concluded his remarks by reiterating but he has consistently served our needs his pledge to continue working closely with by supporting issues of importance to the the Ukrainian American community and Ukrainian American community within the assuring the audience that they could halls of Congress. count on his continued assistance and sup- “Although his good and noble deeds on port of Ukraine-related issues. our behalf are too numerous to list, I would Following his remarks, Rep. Pascrell Brian Spadora like to highlight a few of his efforts on our joined members of the Ukrainian American Rep. Bill Pascrell receives the Hrushevsky Award from UCCA President Tamara Olexy. community’s behalf. In addition to his community for coffee in the parish hall.

Ukraine case backs him up. driving himself to the wall. Yet this Ukraine could fall on the wrong side of Five thoughts... would imply that he is not a rational pol- selective decisions made by the EU and it? He has been under immense pressure itician, whereas he has amply demon- the U.S. Lucan Way has an interesting (Continued from page 6) from• 5. the Why EU did and President the U.S. notYanukovych to have Ms. do strated, ever since he was down and out theory about how EU standards matter Tymoshenko condemned. (Is it neces- after the third round in December 2004, depending on geographical zones. (They Political culture in central-western sary to add that no one believes the plati- that he has in fact great talents as a poli- certainly matter in Poland). Ukraine, as Ukraine is rowdy, exasperating in its tudes, reiterated by the Ukrainian foreign tician. always, is in the uncertain borderland in incomprehension of the law, but open. affairs minister, that the president cannot Closer to the mark might be the real- that regard. Russia is definitely outside of Political culture in eastern Ukraine is “interfere” in legal proceedings, when the ization that President Yanukovych is per- the zone, because it is a petro- and nucle- based on intimidation. Leonid Kuchma in trial was initiated by the procuracy at the suaded that he can get away with it. That ar state. But what can a “Russified” the late 1990s tried, and ultimately urging of the government, since this is in the last analysis, the EU will yield, (politically, but not economically) failed, to institute the “blackmail” state. how the procuracy has always worked?) Ukraine will get its Association Ukraine have to offer the West? Mr. Yanukovych learned nothing from the Promises were made, such as the Agreement, and that verbal reprimands, So, let us see whether the European Orange Revolution and everything from repeal of obscure “Stalinist” laws, and when they remain verbal, are perfectly Union means what it meant to say with Vladimir Putin: to stay in power, you nothing happened. More promises were tolerable. After all, if Mr. Putin got away the “profound implications” that the have to bully your opponents. issued after the ruling (with Mr. with it – he dismantled democracy, at no court decision allegedly entails. And if Taras Kuzio, already in the Kuchma Yanukovych insisting that “the verdict is diplomatic cost – why couldn’t Mr. Mr. Yanukovych were to backtrack and era, was arguing for a strong linkage not final”), but hardly anyone is holding Yanukovych get away with it? He may release Ms. Tymoshenko, all the better, between nationalism (or a strong nation- his breath. One could think that Mr. very well be right. except that the line has been crossed and al identity) and democracy (or plural- Yanukovych, steeped in a culture of On the other hand, international rela- expectations of fair elections next year ism). Twenty years of evidence in the intimidation, does not realize that he is tions is a study in double standards and will still be nil. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 No. 43

FOR THE RECORD: Acceptance speech by Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Following is the text of Canadian Prime to the legacy of Taras Shevchenko. His blind to the dark points in Ukraine’s past, for. I was tremendously impressed by Minister Stephen Harper’s acceptance words provided the inspiration for neither are we forgetful of our own. these young men and women, their knowl- speech at the October 14 ceremony during Ukrainian independence. This Conservative government was the edge, their idealism their eagerness to hear which he received the Shevchenko Medal He said, and I quote: “Strive and you first to formally recognize Canada’s own of the past and to create a better future. from the Ukrainian Canadian Congress will triumph for God is on your side. The black mark – the injustice of World War I They are the embodiment of Ukraine’s (UCC). The text was released by the UCC. rewards are glory, truth and that most internment. And we’ve established a recog- aspirations. sacred of things, freedom.” nition fund to make sure that everyone Through this trip, our government …I am honored to receive this award Shevchenko was a brilliant artist and a learns from that event. We will never sweep hopes to build on the personal ties that and such a warm welcome from the renowned poet. But most important, his history under the carpet. Not Canada’s his- have long connected Canada and Ukraine. Ukrainian Canadian community. was a voice for freedom. As a conse- tory. And not Ukraine’s history. During that visit, we signed a youth mobili- The Ukrainian Canadian Congress does quence, Tsar Nicholas I condemned him That’s why, when I visited Ukraine last ty agreement to make it easier for young tremendous work to promote the to live in exile (and again I quote)… year I made a special point of visiting his- people to get life experience in both coun- Ukrainian cause in Canada. … “Under the strictest surveillance, with- toric sites to pay my respects, on behalf of tries. And I announced new programs to You know, it’s a pleasure to see so many out a right to write or paint.” all Canadians. And I started by laying a provide expert Canadian advice and train- familiar faces here tonight. Especially But even that cruel sentence could not wreath at the Sad Memory of Childhood ing in areas like economic development. those who joined us on our visit to silence Shevchenko. Or dissuade his statue in honor of the many millions who While I was in Kyiv, as you remember, I Ukraine, last year. And I’m happy to see many followers. In the decades that fol- died in the . In that quiet also raised issues that are of concern to the such a great turnout… not only from lowed, his spirit would inspire wooded place, surrounded by those of our government of Canada. I took particular Eugene Czolij and the Ukrainian World Ukrainians to fight for liberty against not delegation – for whom it was intensely care to show Canada’s support for demo- Congress…, but also from groups like the only the tsars, but also the totalitarian personal – and asked to place bread and cratic debate… by meeting with Yulia Ukrainian Catholic Women’s League of ideologies of the Nazis and the Soviets. salt before the monument, a simple act of Tymoshenko. Canada, the Canadian Friends of Ukraine, You know, here in Canada, with our remembrance, I was deeply moved. Like many of you, I am seriously con- the Canada-Ukraine Chamber of deep parliamentary traditions and our The magnitude of the tragedy that the cerned about her situation. I’ve written Commerce and many others that contrib- comparatively benign history, democracy Ukrainian people suffered is exceeded directly to President [Viktor] Yanukovych. I ute in so many important ways. sometimes gets taken for granted. We only by the bitter recognition that it was let him know that I am deeply concerned… And I’m proud of the strong contingent often need to be reminded of how long inflicted upon them by the government that the conduct of Tymoshenko’s trial does of my Parliamentary colleagues here and hard the struggle for basic freedoms that ruled their land. And it is a great sad- not reflect accepted norms of due process or tonight… in particular, Sen. [Raynell] has been, and that it remains to be fought ness to me that for decades official fairness. Andreychuk …, who has been such a for so many of our fellow human beings. Ottawa was afraid to call it what it was: a Friends, we all know that a vigorous strong voice for the Ukrainian community The Ukrainian Canadian community has genocide. political opposition and judicial indepen- in Ottawa for almost 20 years. She has always provided that perspective and But in 2008 at the initiative of my col- dence are vital to building a democratic been joined by a number of our MPs who that voice for the oppressed. league, MP James Bezan, we had the and prosperous Ukraine. Canada will sup- are working closely with the community I remember in the latter days of the chance to finally do something about it – port Ukraine whenever it moves towards here in the GTA [Greater Toronto Area] – Cold War, when some so-called experts and we did. freedom, democracy and justice. especially, to name just a few, Ted Opitz, talked of a middle way in global affairs… Our government adopted the bill in However, our foreign policy is rooted in Wladyslaw Lizon and Bernard Trottier. as if there were some kind of moral Parliament, declaring the Holodomor to principle and in the defense of freedom. So, Friends, for 120 years the Ukrainian equivalence between the imperfections be genocide. From now on, in our eyes at to be clear, our government is very con- community has played an important role of our democratic societies and the total- least, those who took the lives of so many cerned about the path the government of in the growth of this country. From east to itarian brutality of the Soviet empire. Ukrainians must take the guilt as well. Ukraine appears to be taking. Tuesday’s west, Ukrainian Canadians have made Of course, Ukrainian Canadians would In that same spirit of solemn remem- developments may have serious conse- outstanding contributions throughout our have none of that kind of thinking. You brance I went to the museum at the infa- quences for our bilateral relationship. society… in business, academia, the arts, reminded us of the realities Ukrainians mous Lontsky Street Prison. There, I The Ukrainian people can count on sport, politics and many different fields. lived under: Not just denial of basic came face-to-face with the reminders of Canada to stand up for their liberty. Canada And Canada is stronger for it. rights, but of imprisonment, brutality Soviet-era oppression. And I also saw is always ready to help… to help democrat- This award has been presented to many and even, almost unbelievably, the impo- Babyn Yar, where the Nazis slaughtered ic institutions take root, in Ukraine and distinguished Ukrainian Canadians, as well sition of mass starvation. Of course, I am tens of thousands of people. I made these around the world. And I know that each as friends of Ukraine. Among those friends speaking of the Holodomor, of which I stops because we must all understand and every person here tonight shares that was John Diefenbaker, the first prime min- will say more in a moment. Ukraine’s past to appreciate its promising cause… which is why I am so honored to ister to receive it. I am honored to follow in But, the important thing is this, I’m future… and how central the desire of be here. his footsteps… for Diefenbaker personified here to tell you that as long as I am prime freedom is in that. So thank you once again for your hospi- the distinctly Canadian reality that people minister our government always will To see the faces of Ukraine’s future, I tality… for the honor that you have pre- from all backgrounds can and do succeed speak out for those things that elevate met with students at the Ukrainian sented… and for the work you do, day in in this great country. the human spirit – freedom, democracy, Catholic University in Lviv. It was an oppor- and day out, to preserve the proud heri- Of course, what really makes this pre- human rights and the rule of law – for all tunity to speak openly about the freedom tage of Ukrainian Canadians and to build sentation special is the fact it pays tribute nations and peoples! For if we are not that generations of Ukrainians have longed our great country.

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Ukrainian Canadian community,” stated UCC National President Paul Grod. Prime Minister Harper stated in his acceptance speech that he was honored to be in the company of the many distin- guished recipients of the Shevchenko Medal, including John Diefenbaker, the first Canadian prime minister to receive it, “for Diefenbaker personified the dis- tinctly Canadian reality that people from Seated at the head table (from left) are: UCC Toronto Vice-President Lida Kulish, Ukrainian World Congress President Eugene all backgrounds can and do succeed in Czolij, Bishop Stephen Chmilar, UCC President Paul Grod, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Sen. Raynell Andreychuk, Bishop this great country.” Andriy and James C. Temerty, president of Northland Power. The prime minister went on to quote duct of Tymoshenko’s trial does not area of human rights protection has been multiculturalism in the Canadian the words of the great poet of Ukraine, reflect accepted norms of due process or an example to other world leaders and Constitution, developing human rights emphasizing that Shevchenko was “a fairness.” He noted that he had written we hope that you will maintain Canada’s law in Canada and establishing progres- voice for freedom” who could not be directly to President Viktor Yanukovych commitment to human rights, democrat- sive immigration policies by working silenced and who inspired countless oth- of Ukraine to express his serious concern ic development, and free and fair elec- with government. More recently, we have ers in the decades that followed. about the path his government appears tions in Ukraine.” worked to recognize injustices such as Mr. Harper also pointed to the contri- to be taking. (The text of Prime Minister First presented in 1961, the Taras the genocide of the Ukrainian people – butions of the Ukrainian Canadian com- Harper’s speech appears on page 10.) Shevchenko Medal is the highest form of the Holodomor – and the internment of munity, which he said has always provid- UCC President Grod stated: “Prime recognition that can be granted by the Ukrainians and other Eastern Europeans ed perspective on “the struggle for basic minister, you can be sure that the Ukrainian Canadian Congress in recogni- during Canada’s first national internment freedoms” and has served as a “voice for Ukrainian Canadian community, as a tion of an outstanding national contribu- operations. We are committed to ensur- the oppressed.” founding people of Canada, will continue tion to the development of the Ukrainian ing that the lessons of these tragic Turning to current issues, he cited the to contribute to the development and Canadian community human rights abuses are appropriately case of Ukraine former Prime Minister promotion of Canadian values both at “Over the past 12 decades Ukrainian represented in the Canadian Museum for Yulia Tymoshenko, saying that “the con- home and abroad. Your leadership in the Canadians have succeeded in enshrining Human Rights,” the UCC president noted. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 11

Patriarch Sviatoslav (center) celebrated the liturgy at Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic Church with Bishop Richard Seminack (to his immediate left), and with the following clergy (from left to right): the Photography by Stanley Rev. Yaroslav Mendyuk, the Rev. James Bankston, the Very Rev. Mitred Archpriest Andriy Chirovsky, the Very Rev. Patriarch Sviatoslav offers Holy Communion to the Archpriest Mykhailo Kuzma, the Rev. Leonard Korchinsky, the Rev. Ihor Koshyk and the Rev. Andriy Plishka. congregation. Patriarch celebrates divine liturgy at Palatine church by Irene Magera in a very warm family right now here among you.” He us… be the cornerstone of the life of Our Church, of the life reminded all those in attendance that “the center of the of each of you.” PALATINE, Ill. – Patriarch Sviatoslav honored the faith- apostolic tradition of the Catholic Church is Christ Himself” About 175 parishioners, guests and members of the ful and friends of Immaculate Conception Ukrainian and that “new generations [need] the possibility to be Ukrainian community filled the church. A procession of Byzantine Catholic Church in Palatine, Ill., with a visit on touched by God, to meet Him Himself, to receive His power clergy led Patriarch Sviatoslav to the entrance of the church September 26. that can restore the fullness of human life.” where the Rev. Kuzma, pastor of Immaculate Conception This historic event in the life of the church centered on One of the highlights of the day was the patriarch’s Church, gave the cross over to the patriarch as a sign of the the patriarch’s celebration of the divine liturgy. Patriarch blessing of a pair of engraved granite stones commemorat- parish’s love and its acknowledgment that he is the head Sviatoslav was joined by Bishop Richard Seminack of the ing his visit. The parishioners plan to place the stones in a and father of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. St. Nicholas Eparchy in Chicago, the Very Rev. Mitred new church that they hope to erect in coming years. The patriarch was then welcomed with flowers, the tra- Archpriest Andriy Chirovsky, the Very Rev. Archpriest “By blessing the cornerstone for the new church, we ditional bread and salt, and greetings from representatives Mykhailo Kuzma, the Very Rev. Yaroslav Mendyuk, the Very have to manifest to everyone that ‘Christ Himself is the cor- of the church’s Sisterhood of the Apostleship of Prayer and Rev. Bohdan Nalysnyk, the Rev. Leonard Korchinsky, the nerstone of my life’ ” and that “ ‘I’m supposed to build my Parish Pastoral Council. Rev. Ihor Koshyk, the Rev. Andriy Plishka and the Rev. life, my projects, and my future upon Him,’ ” Patriarch Commemorative holy cards, graciously blessed by James Bankston. Sviatoslav explained to the parishioners. He went on to say, Patriarch Sviatoslav, were distributed at the dismissal of In his sermon, Patriarch Sviatoslav stated, “I feel myself “May Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is present today among the divine liturgy.

Patriarch Sviatoslav blesses a pair of engraved stones commemorating his visit. The stones feature the Bible verse “My House will be called a house of prayer for all About 175 parishioners, friends and guests filled the pews at Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic nations” (Mark 11:17). Church in Palatine, Ill., to participate in the celebration of the divine liturgy.

The Very Rev. Archpriest Mykhailo Kuzma, pastor of Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic Church, offers the hand cross to Patriarch Sviatoslav in love and acknowledgement of his position as head and father of the Ukrainian Greek- Catholic Church. Bishop Richard Seminack is seen in the background. Patriarch Sviatoslav and the Very Rev. Mykhailo Kuzma at the Great Entrance. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 No. 43 UACCNJ holds second annual Ukrainian Festival

WHIPPANY, N.J. – The second annual Ukrainian Festival of the Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey (UACCNJ) was held here on Saturday, October 1. The event, attended by Ukrainians and non-Ukraini- ans alike, once again invited all to “be Ukrainian for a day” by enjoying Ukrainian performances, as well as Ukrainian foods, pastries and beers, and by learning what the UACCNJ has to offer the surrounding commu- nity. Also on the agenda for the day were games for chil- dren, varenyky-eating and other contests, and a chance to purchase diverse items, ranging from folk art and music recordings to jewelry, books and kovba- sa, offered by festival vendors. The day was capped off with a dance to the music of the Luna band in the cen- ter’s main hall. The festival’s two concert programs were head- lined by the Iskra Ensemble, whose artistic director is Andrij Cybyk. Also appearing on stage were violinist Andrij Gavrysh, singers Ania Kosachevich, Taras Kurchyk, Nastia Kaspruk, Ksenia Christine Syzonenko Yaworska and Veronica Nalywayko, bandurists The Iskra ensemble’s “Pryvit” dance begins the show. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) greets festival-goers. Oksana, Marta and Katrusia Telepko, the vocal ensemble of the Ukrainian Music Institute of New Jersey, as well as the Barvinok Dance Ensemble and ballroom dancers from Studio 22. The annual fund-raising event is presented by a committee of a dozen volunteers who this year were led by Lesia Lebed. It is made possible also by a large crew of additional volunteers – over 100 in all – who work prior to, during and after the festival to ensure that the festival grounds are prepared and that all aspects of the festival (such as the food court, café, beer garden and parking) run smoothly. The festival’s grand sponsor was Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union, which pre- sented a donation of $50,000 to the UACCNJ. Other sponsors included various businesses and organiza- tions, including the Ukrainian National Association, as Officers of Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union present a donation of $50,000 toward the well as individual supporters. Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey to the center’s representatives and Festival Committee members. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 13

Christine Syzonenko The Iskra ensemble in a dance from the Iskra dancers perform the Hopak inside the UACCNJ’s main hall. Bukovyna region.

Bandurist Oksana Telepko. Iskra’s novice dancers in a number from the Polissia region. Singer Ania Kosachevich.

Festival Committee Chairperson Lesia Lebed (right) with Maria Kucyna, who took Iskra dancers in various regional costumes perform the “Pryvit.” charge of organizing festival vendors.

Accordionist Walter Syzonenko performs in the beer garden. Three of the young members of the vocal ensemble of the Ukrainian Music Institute. Novice dancers of the Barvinok ensemble. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 No. 43

Ukraine, EU continue technical talks Fesenko, explained on October 18 that as a rently don’t exist,” he said. At the same NEWSBRIEFS result of the sentencing of ex-Prime time, given the harsh statements made by KYIV – The decision to postpone the Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the post- European officials, Mr. Tigipko said that (Continued from page 2) visit of Ukrainian President Viktor ponement of President Viktor Ukraine could reorient itself from a Yanukovych to Brussels, which was sched- signed three intergovernmental agree- Yanukovych’s visit to Brussels, the chances European course to membership in the uled for October 20, was taken with regard of an Association Agreement not being Customs Union. “If the European Union ments: on crossing the Ukrainian-Russian for the need to ensure appropriate condi- state border by the residents of border signed between Ukraine and the European clearly says ‘no,’ then the probability of tions for further development of relations Union have considerably increased. [Ukraine’s] reorientation toward the regions, on cooperation in joint control of between the European Union and Ukraine, According to the expert, there is a cooling Customs Union is rather high. The people persons, vehicles and goods on the state according to European Commission in relations between Ukraine and Europe. who currently want to see Ukraine in the border, and on cooperation in the develop- spokesperson Karolina Kottova. Speaking The political scientist also predicted that Customs Union can get a very strong argu- ment of crossing points on the Ukrainian- at a briefing in Brussels on October 18, she this time a pause will appear in relations of ment for the thesis that we need to move Russian state border. The customs services said the meeting was postponed because Ukraine and the European Union at the towards this union,” he said. When asked of the two countries signed a protocol on the overall atmosphere is not conducive to highest level. “If there appears a certain how the authorities will find a way out of mutual recognition of the individual results negotiations of the Association Agreement, official boycott of Mr. Yanukovych, it may this situation, given the very strong criti- of customs control of goods and vehicles but technical negotiations on the agree- continue for a definite period, perhaps, for cism from the international community, Mr. during customs proceedings in border ment are continuing. Ms. Kottova stressed half a year,” he believes. At the same time, Tigipko said that this road runs through crossings and a joint statement on the that the meeting of Mr. Yanukovych with Mr. Fesenko noted that both parties have a reforms, the simplification of tax, customs immediate admission of goods with a limit- leaders of the European institutions was mutual interest in furthering relations and and labor laws, the drafting of new legisla- ed shelf life across the border. Both postponed rather than canceled. According that relations with Europe may be renewed tion on bankruptcy, etc. “In my opinion, it’s Ukrainian and Russian regions enlarged to the European Commission spokesper- provided further aggravation of the inter- necessary to conduct all of the work on their contractual base. Ukraine’s Donetsk son, developments in the case of former nal political situation does not occur in bringing [Ukrainian legislation] into line region signed with Russia’s Krasnodar Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko are not Ukraine. The expert also said he believes with European standards and then start the main factor that affects the relations region an agreement on trade, economic, that the crisis in relations with the EU will talking about the signing of an agreement between Ukraine and the EU. There are scientific, technical, social and cultural not automatically “push” Ukraine in the on a free-trade area with the EU. If there broader issues related to respect for the cooperation. In addition, Donetsk expand- direction of the Customs Union with are problems with democracy, then we will fundamental values that underlie the bilat- ed a similar agreement previously signed Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. He said talk about this. But the main thing for me eral relations, she underscored. with the Kursk region. The Zaporizhia and that, against the backdrop of worsening today is that Ukraine has not yet brought (Ukrinform) Novosibirsk regions, and Crimea and the relations with the European Union, a thaw its legislation into line with European stan- in relations with Russia is possible, howev- Nizhny Novgorod region also signed agree- Expert cites cooling of relations dards. Only after this step is completed, ments on trade, economic, scientific, tech- er, that does not mean that Ukraine will we’ll be able to talk about the next one,” Mr. nical, social and cultural cooperation. KYIV – The CEO of the Penta Center for immediately join the Customs Union. Mr. Tigipko said. (Ukrinform) (Ukrinform) Applied Political Studies, Volodymyr Fesenko said there are both economic and legal obstacles to this, in particular, the fact Moscow to increase funding for Sevastopol that Ukraine is a member of the World Trade Organization, which makes its KYIV – Sevastopol City Administration Customs Union accession impossible. Chairman Volodymyr Yatsuba and Moscow (Ukrinform) Mayor Sergei Sobyanin have agreed to increase funding for social projects in TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI (973) 292-9800 x3040 Record number of volunteers for Euro 2012 Sevastopol. As reported by the Department or e-mail [email protected] of Press and Information of the Sevastopol KYIV – The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has registered 23,965 City Administration on October 17, the par- SERVICES PROFESSIONALS people wishing to become volunteers dur- ties agreed to establish a fund under the ing the finals of the Euro 2012 European auspices of the House of Moscow in Football Championship. The Euro 2012 Sevastopol to restore the provision of Organizing Committee in Ukraine reported health services to Sevastopol’s veterans at on October 18 that about 5,500 volunteers the Black Sea Fleet hospital (that is, to war will support UEFA’s full-time staff in Poland and army veterans who are not Russian cit- and Ukraine, but the number of people izens). “In addition, Sergei Sobyanin issued willing to participate in the biggest sport- instructions on establishing a mechanism ing event is much greater. The application for the acquisition of trolleys for Sevastopol period for the UEFA Euro 2012 volunteer and the purchase of special equipment for program started on October 14. the municipal economy of the city,” Mr. Applications were submitted from 142 Yatsuba said. Mr. Sobyanin expressed confi- countries. The application period was dence that cooperation between Moscow extended until October 16 to enable all and Sevastopol will develop, and the interested persons to pass the selection exchange of experience in education and Karpaty Construction Company process. Residents of Ukraine and Poland human relations will continue. The sent the largest number of applications (90 Moscow mayor accepted an invitation for a All work, large or small: complete home percent). In addition, many Russians, return visit to Sevastopol in the spring of renovations, bathrooms, basements, Italians, Germans and Spaniards also want 2012. (Ukrinform) roofs, masinry work, exterior and to become Euro 2012 volunteers. Euro interior painting. Call Vasili Cholak: YEPP condemns police raid in Ukraine 718-392-0138; cell 347-515-5437. 2012 Tournament Director in Ukraine Markiyan Lubkivsky noted that concerns about the successful implementation of the European People’s Party (YEPP) on October volunteer project had not become a reality. FOR SALE 12 BRUSSELSreleased the – Тhe following board ofstatement the Youth on of the “Ukraine and Poland have set an absolute record in terms of the recruitment of vol- political situation in Ukraine: “YEPP strongly condemns the brutal acts of the Ukrainian Ukrainian Village, Somerset, N.J. unteers for the tournament, with the aver- age contest in Ukraine being four people authorities against MP Jevgeny Suslov, chair- Center unit #32, 1 bedroom, man of Batkivschyna Moloda, the youth LR, DR & deck. per place, while in Kyiv the figure was 6.5 people per place. In general, in the capitals organization of Yulia Tymoshenko’s party $50,000.00 or best offer of the host countries, we saw the biggest Batkivschyna. Reports suggest that Mr. Call 732-819-0324 competition among those wishing to Suslov’s office has been broken into. At the become volunteers,” he said. (Ukrinform) same time, another inspection was carried out in his parents’ house in Buky. For many HELP WANTED Tigipko: Ukraine’s reorientation is probable hours, police were ransacking their personal KYIV – Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister belongings. 30 armed and masked members of security forces were present. A senior Live-in caregiver for older person Sergey Tigipko has said that there is a high probability of Ukraine’s reorientation to investigating officer has brought orders of a who lives in Colorado. Room and accession to the Customs Union of Russia, court, alluding to some minor accountancy board are paid for. Necessary skills: Belarus and Kazakhstan if the European irregularities. Following the verdict yester- cooking and cleaning. Union refuses to provide membership day against former Prime Minister Call 1(303) 478-3974 prospects to Ukraine. In an interview with Tymoshenko, this brutal police act is yet OPPORTUNITIES the newspaper Den (Day) on October 18, another sign of political persecution in Mr. Tigipko declined to predict whether the Ukraine. YEPP calls on the European verdict against former Ukrainian Prime Parliament, the European Commission, and WANT IMPACT? Earn extra income! Minister Yulia Tymoshenko would be an the member-states to strongly condemn obstacle to the signing of the Association political persecution in Ukraine and harmo- Run your advertisement here, The Ukrainian Weekly is looking for advertising sales agents. Agreement and the creation of a free trade nize their efforts to put diplomatic pressure in The Ukrainian Weekly’s For additional information contact area with the EU. “I don’t know. Further on the Ukrainian regime. YEPP is convinced CLASSIFIEDS section. Maria Oscislawski, Advertising Manager, negotiations will show. We are still talking The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. about [membership] prospects, which cur- (Continued on page 15) No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 15

workers to Ukraine in 2010 amounted to that Ukraine’s key problem is its depen- that conclusion of a cooperation agreement NEWSBRIEFS $5.2 billion, which is actually equal to the dence on energy imports from one source. with authorities of the Luhansk region is the amount of direct foreign investment in He announced this in an interview with the first step and demonstration of good will (Continued from page 14) 2010. Mr. Profazi also said that without the Mirror Weekly on October 10. “Last year, toward mutually beneficial and fruitful coop- that the EU-Ukrainian Association support of migrant remittances the natural gas imports from Russia amounted eration. The International Investment Forum Agreement cannot be concluded under these Ukrainian economy would have lost about to 33 billion cubic meters. This is more was in session in Luhansk on October 5-7. political circumstances.” (YEPP website) 7 percent of its capacity. “It is strange that than France consumes, and, by the way, it Participating in the forum were representa- no one pays attention to these flows of gets energy from various sources,” Mr. tives of business circles from 17 foreign Azarov on revision of gas contracts remittances and how they can improve the Puliti said. He said that the EBRD was countries and 110 companies. The Luhansk situation in Ukraine,” he emphasized. The ready to participate in projects to build up region is planning to present 38 business KYIV – Revision of the 2009 gas contracts conference brought together policy-mak- hydrocarbon production in Ukraine. This projects in the sphere of energy-saving tech- between Ukraine and Russia, and the setting ers, diplomats, migration experts, journal- could be conventional gas and unconven- nologies, agriculture and machine building. of a fair market price for gas will make it ists and representatives of the Ukrainian tional sources of gas (biogas, coal bed (Ukrinform) possible to reduce the currency costs on diaspora to assess the prospects of how methane and shale gas). The ’s experts import of gas and ensure the financial stabil- migration may shape the future of Ukraine. are studying proposed projects for the Vietnam to invest in Ukrainian Internet ity of the currency, Prime Minister Mykola The population of Ukraine as of August 1 organization of production from land and Azarov said at the Cabinet of Ministers KYIV – Vietnam will invest $600 million was 45.6 million people. (Ukrinform) sea (offshore) fields. At the same time, Mr. meeting on October 12. “I am convinced that in the creation of Internet in Puliti said that the EBRD would not finance in the coming weeks we will find a compro- Steve Jobs Street in Ternopil? Ukraine, Vietnamese Prime Minister the exploration of energy resources. “We mise with Russia on the gas price and get a Nguyen Tan Dung told reporters in Kyiv fair and reasonable price. That is, along with KYIV – Ternopil Oblast Council Deputy do not finance exploration. We work only after meeting with the Ukrainian authorities energy efficiency we will reduce the costs of Stepan Barna has asked the Ternopil City with proven reserves. And there are a lot of on October 6. “The creation of broadband currency on gas import. And with ample Council to name a street in the city after them in Ukraine,” he said. (Ukrinform) Internet in Ukraine envisages the invest- Steve Jobs, the TSN Ukrainian TV program reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine, it Ukraine, France, Russia criticize BMD ment of $600 million (U.S.). The project is is a guarantee for stability of the financial reported on October 17. “I have sent a mes- being implemented by a military communi- system, the national currency,” Mr. Azarov sage to the Ternopil mayor and the City KYIV – France, Russia and Ukraine criti- cations corporation of Vietnam. The corpo- emphasized. The prime minister said the Council with a proposal to honor this land- cized plans to deploy the U.S. ballistic mis- ration signed a memorandum of coopera- government will make every effort to mark figure of our time, Steve Jobs, and sile defense (BMD) system in Romania at tion with Ukrainian partners during the visit improve significantly the trade balance of name after him one of the streets in the annual session of the NATO of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to Ukraine by the end of the year. (Ukrinform) Ternopil,” the deputy said. “Ukraine must Parliamentary Assembly in Bucharest, Vietnam in March this year. The project honor the man who created by his inven- Romania, according to October 10 news partners were working actively, but they Azarov: Global processes affect Ukraine tions a time machine and took a step into reports. French socialist Jean-Michel have not yet received a license from the future. And I propose renaming one of Boucheron, the NATO PA vice-president, Ukrainian authorities,” Mr. Dung explained. KYIV – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov the streets in Ternopil in honor of Steve predicts that global crisis processes may stressed the inefficiency and economical According to him, the Ukrainian side Jobs, to commemorate this great man,” Mr. inexpediency of the U.S.-Romanian deci- ensured that it would contribute to develop- also affect Ukraine, according to comments Barna said. (Ukrinform) made at a meeting of the Cabinet of sion. “The system doesn’t ensure security ing cooperation in this area and in the inter- Ministers on October 12. “If France and Capital fleeing from Ukraine as it would be able to intercept only one- ests of both parties. (Ukrinform) Germany agreed on the reform of the euro fourth of missiles,” he emphasized, accord- KYIV – Ukraine is currently experiencing Rural population down 2.5 M in 20 years zone, will it affect Ukraine, for which it is a ing to the Romanian publication Cotidianul. the processes of capital flight from the third of exports? Surely, it will, and now we The French parliamentarian also noted KYIV – Durig the 20 years of indepen- can predict the following: if [industrial] country, as well as a reduction in invest- that “amid the reduction of budget costs, it dence, the rural population in Ukraine has inflation in the U.K. has reached an unprec- ment, both in portfolio and direct invest- would be more appropriate to direct these declined by 2.5 million, Iryna Pribitkova, edented 6.4 percent and the central bank of ment, the director of the Institute of Society funds for other social programs.” The leading researcher with the Institute of the United Kingdom begins to justify the Transformation and a professor of the Ukrainian delegation voiced concern that Sociology of the National Academy of need for significant issue of the pound, will National Academy of Management, Oleh the decision to deploy elements of the mis- Sciences of Ukraine, said at an October 6 it be reflected on the international financial Soskin, announced at a press conference on sile defense system is not compatible with news conference, as she presented the find- markets? Surely it will,” Mr. Azarov said. October 10. In his opinion, Ukraine does the neighboring states, and questioned to ings of a demographic study of the Ukrainian This is “bad news,” Mr. Azarov noted, and not have an attractive environment for cap- whether a military contingent based in village. The survey found that as of January 1, President Viktor Yanukovych instructed ital. In addition, according to Prof. Soskin, Deveselu would threaten the national secu- 2010, the rural population in Ukraine had the government to ensure financial stabili- in terms of the simplicity of paying taxes rity of Romania’s neighboring countries fallen to 14.337 million. The decrease ty in Ukraine. “We have to keep the budget Ukraine ranks 181st (out of 183 countries), and the Black Sea region as a whole. Russia occurred solely through depopulation – high deficit for next year at no more than 2.5 it is 162nd in terms of economic freedom, raised the question of coordination with mortality and active migration. The mini- percent of GDP. However, we will signifi- and 134th in terms of corruption. The fact other NATO members. Representatives of mum compensation of demographic losses cantly reduce the portion of withdrawals that Ukraine is not attractive for invest- the Russian Federation also asked whether of the rural population was achieved by a from the budget so that there is a greater ment due to a significant level of corrup- the anti-missile shield is part of the symbolic migration growth through the financial resource for economic develop- tion was also pointed out by an honored European or U.S. security system. Moscow urban population (17,600 residents), as well ment. Our main chance to confront the cri- economist, former chair of the State and Kyiv officials asked whether Romania as administrative-territorial transformations sis is to avoid a budget imbalance. This is Committee for Regulatory Policy and is authorized to sign an interstate defense (61,500 people). According to Ms. Pribitkova, the responsibility of each member of the Entrepreneurship, Oleksandra Kuzhel. treaty with the U.S. They also demanded the migration gain of the rural population government,” the prime minister said. According to her forecast, in the next two that the Romanian side provide an explana- began in 1992 when former villagers who Speaking about cooperation between years European investors will not invest in tion of how strong the threat of missile had moved to cities started to return to their Ukraine and the International Monetary the Ukrainian economy due to the global attack is. Romanian Foreign Ministry State native lands. This process continued until Fund (IMF), Mr. Azarov said that the only economic crisis. (Ukrinform) Secretary Bogdan Aurescu hastened to 2001 inclusive. In the early 2000s, leaving assure that the system is part of a new con- bargaining issue remaining is the IMF’s Business faces double-dip recession the village again gained momentum. But requirement to increase the tariffs for gas cept of collective security of NATO, and over the past five years the intensity of the and heat for households due to the steady KYIV – With low levels of investment “elements of the U.S missile defense system outflow from Ukrainian villages began to rise in the price of gas. “But the govern- attractiveness in the Ukrainian market, in the country will not be targeted against recede: in 2009 the loss of the rural popula- ment has its own calculations. Our position investors’ forecasts of a double-dip reces- anyone, as they are of a purely defensive tion due to migration had declined to 16,500, is that we need to find other equalizers and sion and another global crisis are rather nature.” (Ukrinform) in 2010 – to 5,200. The sociologist said that not to lay the load of very high gas prices pessimistic, according to InMind Marketing Canada ready to invest in Luhansk over the last five years the decrease in the on people. I am sure that in this matter we Director Olena Zhytnyk, who spoke during rural population has slowed down: the birth will find the right decision,” the prime min- a presentation of the Investment KYIV – Investors from Canada are ready to rate began to increase and mortality ister assured. (Ukrinform) Attractiveness Index of the European invest $270 million (U.S.) in renewal of coal declined. And though the death rate in rural Business Association on October 6. “More production at mines closed many years ago areas is decreasing more slowly than in cit- ІОМ on Ukraine’s demographic decline than half of respondents believe that the in the Luhansk region. The press service of ies, the birth rate in rural areas is growing KYIV – “If the demographic decline con- next wave of recession in their industries is the regional state administration reported on faster. The study also found that every sec- tinues in Ukraine, Ukraine will probably entirely likely,” she said. In Ms. Zhytnyk’s this October 6 with reference to a statement ond village in Ukraine has no business entity, soon have to think about how to attract words, given the fact that the markets of made by the president of the Canada-Ukraine therefore peasants are forced to work in cit- migrants to fill the loss of manpower,” the Europe and the U.S. are experiencing hard Chamber of Commerce, Zenon Potoczny, at ies or abroad. The gross income for a mem- chief of the International Organization for times, the question of the likelihood and the second International Investment Forum. ber of a rural family is 766 hrv, while the Migration Mission in Ukraine, Manfred magnitude of recession is becoming more Mr. Potoczny said Canadian business is great- total income of urban residents is 1,127 hrv, Profazi, said at the international conference acute. The Investment Attractiveness Index ly interested in Ukraine’s east, in particular, in and residents of the capital earn 2,248 hrv. “The Future of Migration in Ukraine” in of Ukraine in the third quarter was 2.56, the Luhansk region, and is ready to invest in The average gross income per capita of a Kyiv on October 12. Mr. Profazi noted that which corresponds to the rate as of the late local business. “On the whole, Canadian busi- Ukrainian family is 1,284 hrv. According to over 20 years of independence Ukraine has third quarter of 2009. (Ukrinform) ness is rather conservative and cautious, but the study, 80 percent of respondents believe lost nearly 5 million people due to a demo- EBRD ready to support gas production gradually in Ukraine the investment environ- that they live in poverty, 45 percent consider graphic crisis. Moreover, he said, the loss of ment has been changed for the better, and themselves as poor, and 45 percent believe manpower in Ukraine is also associated KYIV – The managing director for ener- with each passing year Canadians invest that they have a reasonable income. Only 0.8 with the flow of labor migration from gy and natural resources at the European more and more funds in its economy,” Mr. percent of villagers said they are wealthy Ukraine. He recalled that, according to the Bank for Reconstruction and Development Potoczny said. The leader of the Canada- people, but none of the respondents called World Bank, remittances from migrant (EBRD), Riccardo Puliti, said he believes Ukraine Chamber of Commerce also noted themselves rich. (Ukrinform) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 No. 43

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Ukrainian folk art displayed at Warren Community Center by Ola Movchan Novak WARREN, Mich. – The Warren Community Center housed a large display of Ukrainian folk art for three months, from mid-July to mid-October. The display included various examples of traditional Ukrainian folk art such as embroidery, pysanky, ceramics (Hutsul, Trypillian and Kyivan), woodcarving and national costumes. Also included was information on the Ukrainian genocide, the Holodomor. The display was the work of Branch 53 of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA), Detroit Regional Council. Branch members who organized the dis- play include: Helen Palmer (president), Ola Movchan Novak (vice-president), Luba LePage (corresponding sec- retary), Mary Mykolenko (organizational chairperson) and Annette Stadnyk (cultural chairperson). All the articles on display were from the personal collec- tions of Mmes. Novak, LePage, Mykolenko, and Stadnyk. Some were hand-made by these members. All of the Hutsul ceramics were made by Ms. LePage, one of the embroidered pillows was made by Ms. Mykolenko, and the pysanky were made by Ms. Novak. Branch 53 members were pleased that the folkart dis- play was prominently featured in the Warren Weekly issue of September 28, with several photographs and an exten- sive story based on interviews with Mmes. Stadnyk and Standing before the display of Ukrainian folk art prepared by UNWLA Branch 53 are: (from left): Ola Movchan Novak. Novak, Helen Palmer, Annette Stadnyk, Luba LePage and Mary Mykolenko.

New Haven parish organizes “Bundles for Ukraine” campaign by Joan Kerelejza NEW BRITAIN, Conn. – Maintaining its devotion to the needy in Ukraine, this fall the Bundles for Ukraine group at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in New Britain, Conn., has sent a record 5,650 pounds of aid to needy children and Orthodox parishes in Ukraine. At a cost of over $6,000, the group of 11 dedicated volunteers has sent 189 packages of children‘s clothing and shoes, toys, candy and school supplies to orphanages, children’s hospitals, homes for abandoned infants and Orthodox parish priests for St. Nicholas Day distribution. The orphanages are in the Lviv, Kharkiv and Kherson oblasts, as well as Odesa, and gift boxes were sent to 35 individual Orthodox par- ishes all over Ukraine. Donations of items and money for shipping come from the generos- ity of parish members, parish organizations and friends. All money goes for shipping expenses. The group has established a network of Orthodox priests in Ukraine, who oversee the distribution of aid to the needy children. Volunteers meet each Thursday to sort and pack items and wrap and address boxes. These workers are: the Rev. Andrii, Oksana and Christopher Pokotylo, Yaroslawa Buczko, Ann Harris, Stefan Melnyk, Lester Sirick, Carol Speck, Katerina Sudyk and Julia Stepanczak. Dr. Joan Kerelejza is chairperson for the project. John Petruniw supplies all the boxes, and Dimitry Shafran translates all the request and thank-you letters. Anyone wishing more information should e-mail Dr. Kerelejza: at [email protected]. The group would appreciate donations of money for shipping. The group particularly appreciates the extensive Christine Melnyk donations of items for the children from Alexandra Prychodczenko of Bundles for Ukraine packers (from left): Dr. Joan Kerelejza, Sylvia Lindgren, Carol Speck, Alice Salem, Ohio, who send them in memory of her son Michael. Andrusia, Stefan Melnyk and Yaroslawa Buczko.

Kommersant-Ukraine, October 14). has reminded the public that proceedings Interviewed by Western journalists on Yanukovych determined... This is a very old case. Ms. Tymoshenko in the cases against Ms. Tymoshenko October 17, President Yanukovych said he faced the same charges in the early regarding the use of funds under the Kyoto would not interfere in the work of the (Continued from page 3) 2000s, but the case was closed when she Protocol and the purchase of ambulances, courts to free Ms. Tymoshenko. He also became prime minister in 2005. Mr. both related to the period when she was denied the reports that he had promised The SBU said that it had opened a Lazarenko is currently serving a prison prime minister in 2007-2010, had been the West to initiate legal changes to criminal case against Ms. Tymoshenko term in the U.S. for money laundering on put on hold due to Tymoshenko’s October decriminalize the offenses Ms. Tymoshenko and Pavlo Lazarenko, who were suspect- unrelated charges. 11 conviction (UNIAN, October 14). was charged with. What is more, he said ed of attempting to embezzle $405 mil- The new old case is evidently subject to The two cases were opened in that the signing of the EU-Ukraine lion in the 1990s. SBU chief investigator the statute of limitations, yet both the December 2010 and January of this year. - Ivan Derevyanko told a briefing in Kyiv Ukrainian electorate ahead of the cam- The PGO suspects that Ms. Tymoshenko that Mr. Lazarenko, who was prime min- paign for the October 2012 parliamentary misused public funds when her govern- Аssociation Аgreement could be post ister at the time, and Ms. Tymoshenko election and Western politicians who ment in 2009 imported ambulances under Bloombergponed if one of via the Ukrayinskasides wас not ready Pravda, for masterminded a scheme in 1996 where- defend Ms. Tymoshenko are once again government guarantees and authorized Interfax-Ukraine,the event (Тhe October Wall Street18). Journal, by the government was made to pay the reminded of her controversial past. What the spending of millions of dollars, which debts of the private gas trader United is more, Ukrainian prosecutors have some- Ukraine received for selling carbon emis- The article above is reprinted from Energy Systems, then chaired by Ms. thing else up their sleeves if both the cases sion quotas to Japan under the Kyoto Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from Tymoshenko, to the Russian Defense related to gas deals do not work. Protocol, on programs unrelated to envi- its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, Ministry (UNIAN, October 13, The Procurator-General’s Office (PGO) ronmental projects. www.jamestown.org. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 17 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 No. 43

13th annual golf outing raises funds to support Plast

Participants of the 13th annual Plast Open – Chicago Golf Tournament. OAK BROOK, Ill. – Picture-perfect weather once again two of the event’s organizers. Pobratymy fraternity. The purpose of the foundation is to crowned the Plast Open – Chicago Golf Tournament and The winning men’s team consisted of Alex, Adrian, support the activities of Plast Ukrainian Scouting made for a most enjoyable tournament and celebration. On Nicholas Sosenko and Teresa Sosenko. The winning wom- Organization, both in North America and in Ukraine. The a beautiful late summer morning, the Pobratymy en’s team members were Mary Dykun, Roksolana Tymiak- foundation also awards contributions to other 501 c (3) Foundation hosted its 13th annual tournament on Lonchyna, Katrusia Saldan and Lida Stankewych. organizations that support the stated purpose of the frater- Saturday, September 10, at the Oak Brook Golf Club in Oak Nicholas Sosenko scored the longest drive for men and nity: to renew and strengthen Plast; to encourage excel- Brook, Ill. Ms. Tymiak-Lonchyna had the longest women’s drive. lence and self-improvement; to encourage identification Using a team scramble format to engage the 48 men and George Kuritza won the closest drive to the pin, and Bill and cooperation among Ukrainian youth; and to inform women golfers, the outing provided an opportunity for Young won the putting contest. others about Ukraine. participants to enjoy the beautiful setting, the friendly Proceeds from this year’s event will provide financial The Pobratymy Foundation thanked its volunteers and competition and the great camaraderie. support for Plast Chicago’s development of the Round Lake sponsors for their support of the golf outing. All sponsors The fun continued at the post-golf reception, which took “oselia” and for program development work for the are being recognized in a separate ad placed in The place in the clubhouse, where the award winners were Chicago chapter. Ukrainian Weekly. For more information on the 14th annu- announced. Afterwards most of the golfers continued the The Pobratymy Foundation, a 501 c (3) tax-exempt cor- al Plast Open scheduled for September 8, 2012, readers celebration at the nearby home of Luba and Oleh Skubiak, poration, was established in 1992 by members of the Plast may contact Mr. Skubiak at [email protected].

Many deserve a pat on the back for responding to in the World Trade Organization and aim to secure a free- Standing on guard for democracy Ukraine’s current woes. The good news is that democracy trade deal with the EU ruled this out.” (Continued from page 7) requires constant vigilance and the diaspora is doing just Mr. Yanukovych is in a difficult situation, and friends that. Alas, it is not yet over. are urging him to do the right thing: respect democratic urged to take similar steps. The Ukrainian World Congress The headlines of The Wall Street Journal of October 17 values. Canada’s national anthem proclaims that we of has written to European institutions to pressure proclaimed that “Yanukovych Rejects Western Pressure, “stand on guard” for democracy. Those who wish Ukraine Ukraine to stop “flouting fundamental European demo- Says He Won’t Review Former Premier’s Conviction the best are doing the same. cratic values.” Ahead of Trip to Meet With EU.” At the same time, the arti- The escalation of concrete political action by the dias- cle reports that Ukraine won’t “accede to Russian Oksana Bashuk Hepburn may be contacted at pora is noteworthy. For too long Ukrainian Canadians demands to join its trade bloc, as Ukraine’s membership [email protected]. have been fixated on preserving culture, while consider- ing politics to be the exclusive domain of overworked umbrella organizations. The reality is that many more actors are needed to deal with the volume and complexi- ties of the issues. FOCUS: Canadian Group for Democracy in Ukraine This was the motivation behind the founding, in June, Following is the information provided by the newly - of the Canadian Group for Democracy in Ukraine. (I’m a founded Canadian Group for Democracy in Ukraine liamentary opposition members, above all the arrest of member.) At that time, the diaspora establishment about its raison d’etre. the• principalcharges against opposition and imprisonment party leader, offormer leading prime par showed little appetite for inviting opposition leaders, minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko; including Ms. Tymoshenko, to state their case in Canada. The Canadian Group for Democracy in Ukraine As her trial escalated into an arrest, the group organized (CGDU) is a newly created grassroots organization academic community with a focus on historians draw- three protests in Toronto. Robust support from estab- comprising Canadians concerned about Ukraine’s back- ing• attention accelerated to Ukrainian harassment national and intimidationresistance to ofSoviet the lished organizations with mandates designed to uphold sliding towards dictatorship under the leadership of rule; and democratic values in Ukraine was lacking. This led the President Viktor Yanukovych. The group is guided in its Group to obtain an official invitation for Ms. Tymoshenko raison d’etre by its democratic Canadian experience, its freedom of assembly. from Bob Rae, leader of the Liberal Party. By that time, rights as citizens of a free country concerned with a To• deal with of such media abuses, and curtailment the group invites of the peoples’all free- however, she was imprisoned. fledgling democracy, as well as its keen interest in dom-loving Canadians to join in calling upon the The group worked to obtain an open letter from sever- peace and security in the world. Canadian government to keep condemning this slide al former Canadian ambassadors and senior officials. It The erosion of freedom of expression, disrespect for towards dictatorship and, if unheeded, take concrete asked Canada’s prime minister to urge President national symbols, favoring Russia’s interests above actions to counter them. In this matter, the group advo- Yanukovych to ensure due process in the Tymoshenko those of Ukraine, preferential treatment of the Moscow cates the targeting of oligarchs and senior officials, trial. And it asked, Robert Sopuck, chair of Canadian Patriarchate-led Orthodox Church, the politicization of including judges, implicated in corrupt and/or criminal Parliamentarian Friends of Ukraine, to add their numer- the criminal law system, and the systemic violation of activities if these don’t cease. ous voices. They did. universal freedoms and human rights as penned in the The Canadian Group for Democracy in Ukraine acts Once Ms. Tymoshenko’s verdict was announced, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights created a need in response to the call of Ukraine’s democrats who, group reacted again. In an open letter of its own, it asked for greater attention and action in this area and gave unable to fight the slide into dictatorship on their own, Mr. Harper to use his “good offices to convince President birth to the group. need friends like Canada and other democracies to Viktor Yanukovych to exercise presidential authorities to Some of the recent violations of human rights in assist them in staying the course of freedom, rule of law exonerate Ms. Tymoshenko.” The prime minister reacted Ukraine underscore the rationale: and democracy. by writing president a letter. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 19

Ti Scho Hrebli Rvut Plast sorority holds biennial conference EAST CHATHAM, N.Y. – The senior Plast sorority of Ti Scho Hrebli Rvut held its biennial conference at the Vovcha Tropa campground of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization on August 12. The meeting of some two dozen “Hrebli” members from the United States, Canada and Europe took place on the Friday of the weeklong International Plast Jamboree held August 6-13. The jamboree kicked off world- wide celebrations of Plast’s centennial. At the sorority conference, reports were delivered by the regional leaders of Ti Scho Hrebli Rvut. In North America there are Hrebli branches (each named for a river in Ukraine) in Canada (Zolota Lypa), New Jersey (Bystrytsia), Buffalo (Limnytsia), New York City (Dnister) and Hartford, Conn. (Stryi), as well as branches in Ukraine (Cheremosh) and Australia (Dnipro), and individual members in England and Germany. Reporting for the outgoing worldwide leadership of the sorority was Marta Kuzmowycz, president, and her fellow offi- cers. Sorority members elected a new leader- Members of the Plast sorority Ti Scho Hrebli Rvut gathered at their biennial conference. ship for the 2011-2013 term headed by Lesia Lebed, president. Also elected were: Bethlehem Peace Light project. Dr. Kochan place in Lviv in April 1912, is being pre- camps through the years, including sum- Christine Kochan (United States), Daria also serves as liaison to the young adult pared. The goal is to videotape clips of Plast mer camps and counselor training courses, Kowalyk (Canada) and Halia Potiuk sorority of Ti Scho Hrebli Rvut. members from branches around the globe as well as specialized Plast camps, such as (Ukraine), vice-presidents; Maria Kolodij, Among the major topics of discussion at reciting the oath; these clips will be edited ski camps and sea scouting camps. Many treasurer; Oksana Bachynsky, secretary; the conference was Plast’s 100th jubilee. into one video that will be released as part visitors were observed commenting on the Olenka Yurchuk, editor; Ms. Kuzmowycz, Under the leadership of sorority member of the centenary commemoration. display, noting how many of the camps archivist; Daria Darewych, Sophia Kachor Christine Kolos, who is coordinator of cen- At the jamboree, the Hrebli sorority was they had attended and recalling fond mem- and Marta Borowyk, sorority council; and tennial events, a video marking the anni- responsible for organizing and presenting ories. The exhibit coordinator was Ms. Roma Shypailo, coordinator of the versary of the first Plast oath, which took an exhibit of T-shirts from various Plast Lebed.

Plast’s sea scouting fraternities and sorority meet at Vovcha Tropa by Yaromyr Oryshkevych allow them to reconnect and discuss ongo- to full membership, and the Khvylky had ment was Oleh Kolodiy’s performance of his ing fraternity issues, as well as the Jubilee four eager to join the sorority and get signature song, “Twist and Shout,” and a EAST CHATHAM, N.Y. – The Council of International Plast Jamboree planned for involved in its work. musical skit presented by the Khvylky. Black Sea Fraternities and Sororities 2012. At the same time, four candidates The agenda for the seniors’ gathering Several weeks after their conference, the (“Chornomorska Rada”) of Plast Ukrainian were welcomed to the fraternity – two of included a long discussion about the techni- Mortsi returned to Vovcha Tropa for the Scouting Organization held a conference the candidates were previous members of cal aspects of the Mortsi webpage and their International Plast Jamboree in order to and get-together at the Vovcha Tropa camp- the young adult division of the fraternity. network, which allows communication conduct a presentation on the history of ground on June 25-26. The seniors’ get-together began as a among Chornomortsi in Ukraine, Australia, Plast on August 7. Approximately 350 young The young adult fraternity of chapter gathering at the Hudson Valley Canada, the United States and elsewhere. scouts participated, learning about the dif- Chornomortsi and the young adult sorority Resort, which included a friendly golf tour- The planned sports activities, which ferent epochs of Plast history at various sta- of Chornomorski Khvylky met to elect new nament. During the subsequent gathering would have pitted the younger fraternity tions set up on the grounds of the camp. leaders. The “Mortsi” elected Yarema Belej at Vovcha Tropa, the seniors were visited members against the seniors, didn’t take The Chornomortsi, founded in Ukraine as their new kurinnyi (president) to suc- by Marko Warcaba of Australia, who is place because of intermittent but torrential in 1927, are known for running Plast sea ceed Petro Steciuk, while the “Khvylky” re- touring the United States. He extended rain. Several times the hardy athletes gath- scouting camps. Such camps have taken elected Chrystia Popovich. greetings from the Aussi Mortsi, and invit- ered to play in the mud and/or puddles, only place for decades on various bodies of For the seniors of Chornomortsi, who are ed the fraternity to have a future confer- to be chased under cover by nearby thunder. water in the Adirondacks, Berkshires and led by Yaromyr Oryshkevych (elected at the ence “down under.” The evening’s traditional bonfire was Poconos, and even on the St. Lawrence fraternity’s 2010 conference), the weekend The younger Mortsi had five candidates held in the Vovcha Tropa pavilion (because River. This year’s camp was held in was a biennial friendly gathering meant to at their conference who began the journey of impending rain). Among the entertain- Pittsfield, Mass. Following is the information provided by the newly founded Canadian Group for Democracy in Ukraine about its raison d’etre.

The Canadian Group for Democracy in Ukraine (CGDU) is a newly created grassroots organization comprising Canadians concerned about Ukraine’s back- sliding towards dictatorship under the leadership of President Viktor Yanukovych. The group is guided in its raison d’etre by its democratic Canadian experience, its rights as citizens of a free country concerned with a fledgling democracy, as well as its keen interest in peace and security in the world. The erosion of freedom of expression, disrespect for national symbols, favoring Russia’s interests above those of Ukraine, preferential treatment of the Moscow Patriarchate-led Orthodox Church, the politicization of the criminal law system, and the systemic violation of universal freedoms and human rights as penned in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights created a need for greater attention and action in this area and gave birth to the group. Some of the recent violations of human rights in Ukraine underscore the rationale: Members of the Chornomortsi fraternities and the young adult sorority of Chornomorski Khvylky during their conferences and gatherings at the Vovcha Tropa campground of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 No. 43

Popovych and Armstrong joined the Kazakh team led by Contador. Contador Kazakhstan-based team Astana, home of now races with Saxo Bank and has been tied Three Ukrainians in 2011 Tour de France many other ex-Discovery Channel riders to performance-enhancing drugs. The 98th Tour de France ran from July Belgian team Landbouwkrediet-Colnago and staff members. The exodus continued a “I don’t see any difference now that 2-24 and was made up of 21 stages, covering where he delivered strong efforts. A top year later, as many former Astana cyclists Contador isn’t with us anymore,” Grivko told a total distance of 3,450 kilometers (2,200 achievement was third place (2003) and moved to a newly created American-based Cycling News. “Maybe we feel less pressure miles). The most prestigious of cycling’s three fifth place (2004) in the Giro d’Italia, where Team Radio Shack. from media and fans, but I hope it will be grand tours, the French version attracts rid- he wore the pink jersey during three stages. another year of many successes. I think we ers and teams from around the world. In 2005 Popovych joined the Discovery DOPING ALLEGATIONS can perform just like last year. We have a The race is broken down into day-long Channel team, where he was mentioned as a In mid-November 2010, Italian authori- strong team. We’re very serene.” segments, named stages. Individual times to possible successor to Lance Armstrong as ties carried out a search of the Brescia, Italy, Road rider and time-trial expert Grivko finish each stage are aggregated to deter- team leader. He won the Volta a Catalunya, home of Popovych. A search warrant had skipped the Giro d’Italia this year, with no mine the overall winner at the end of the an important prelude to the Tour de France been issued to investigate the use of perfor- plans to miss his two favorite competitions: race. The rider with the lowest aggregate race. His potential showed in the 2005 Tour mance-enhancing substances in the sport of the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana time at the end of each day wears the cov- de France when he won the stage 4 team cycling. It was reported police discovered were on his 2011 calendar prior to this eted yellow jersey. The overall winner is trial and the top young rider classification, drug-testing documents, medical supplies year’s world championships. usually a master of the mountains and of all while assisting Armstrong win his sev- and performance-enhancing drugs, plus evi- time trial races against the clock. enth Tour de France. dence of links to controversial Italian physi- UKRA INIAN­ITALIAN cian Michele Ferrari. Popovych denied all of Twenty-two teams competed in this More success followed in the 2006 Tour UNION the allegations. year’s Tour de France, each team compris- de France where Popovych merited consid- A new 2011 cycling year saw long-time At the time Popovych had returned from ing of nine riders. Three Ukrainians were eration as one of Discover Channel’s leaders. Italian sponsor Lampre merging with a trip to the United States, intended as a found among the 198 athletes signed up for He won Stage 12 by attacking his fellow Ukraine’s ISD squad to create a stronger Pro brief visit to Austin, Texas, to participate in cycling’s biggest endurance test: Yaroslav breakaway competitors. Team – the Lampre-ISD team. ISD’s joining the annual Ride for the Roses fund-raiser for Popovych (Team Radio Shack), Andriy In 2007 he assisted Alberto Contador, forces with Lampre meant a significant the Lance Armstrong Foundation. While in Grivko (Team Astana) and Denys Kostyuk enabling him to win Paris-Nice and the Tour addition of talented Ukrainian riders from Austin, Popovych was served with a subpoe- (Team Lampre ISD). de France. Thanks to a late-attack strategy, the former ISD-Neri UCI Professional na and ordered to appear before a federal Below is our annual look at professional Popovych won the Stage 5 in the 2007 Paris- Continental Team. (UCI stands for Union Nice. He was forced to withdraw Stage 12 of grand jury in Los Angeles. Cycliste Internationale.) This includes five cycling, Ukrainian style. News includes an On November 3, 2010, Popovych made a updated profile on Popovych, Grivko’s train- the 2007 Giro d’Italia after suffering two Ukrainian riders: Vitaliy Buts, Vitaliy crashes in the race. He finished eighth in the 90-minute appearance before the grand Kondrut, Tour de France participant Deny ing down under, and an interesting merger jury convened to investigate allegations of of two teams. 2007 Tour de France, working with Kostyuk, Dmytro Krivtsov and Oleksandr Contador for Discover Channel. widespread doping on the U.S. Postal, Kvachuk. POPOVYCH SHOWS The next year saw his move to the Discovery Channel, Astana and Radio Shack In the last three years, Lampre invested Silence-Lotto squad when Discovery teams of seven-time Tour de France champi- in a strategy of developing good young PROMISE AT EARLY AGE Channel ceased operations. He was recruit- on Armstrong. Italian riders. Combined with the influx of He was deemed one of the most promis- ed as a support rider for team leader Cadel The Ukrainian cyclist offered little or no the above five Ukrainians – all under the age ing cyclists in junior and under-23 races Evans, but, overall, had a rather disappoint- information to the grand jury, claiming he of 30 – their long-term future looks bright. after placing first some 35 times in 2000 ing year. He then decided to team back up had no knowledge of doping on any of the and 2001. The Drohobych-born Ukrainian with former Discovery manager Johan teams he’s ridden with Armstrong. The U.S. POPOVYCH OUT OF TOUR turned pro in 2002, when he joined the Bruyneel at Team Astana. Food and Drug Administration’s Criminal WITH FEVER Division had already been investigating the On the morning of July 12, Team Radio distribution of performance-enhancing Shack lost another rider when Popovych drugs in cycling, when former Postal rider could not start Stage 10 tenth stage of the Floyd Landis leveled allegations against Tour de France. The 31-year-old had been Armstrong and other members of the team suffering with a fever since the previous earlier in 2010. Sunday. Since his condition did not improve on the rest day, the team decided GRIVKO GEARS UP DOWN to put an end to his Tour de France partic- UNDER ipation. He was to undergo further medi- For his second season with Astana, cal testing to determine the fever’s cause. Ukraine’s Grivko, who has a reputation as Popovych was already suffering after one of the most dedicated team players in crashing twice during Stage 5. A team professional cycling, chose the Santos Tour statement said, “With a lot of character he Down Under for his training program. survived four more stages. The current ill- Contrary to other teams and riders making ness, however, makes an end to his Tour it a priority to score points for the World de France.” Tour, Grivko went to Australia to gear up, so Radio Shack began the Tour with four to speak, for the season. captains, two of whom left the race with “We know it’s important, but we don’t injuries. Jani Brajkovic crashed out of Stage feel any pressure at Astana to score points,” 5 with a broken collarbone and Chris the Symferopol native said in an interview Horner could not go at Stage 8 due to a with Cycling News in late January. severe concussion from the previous day. His past days were full of initiating break- aways in every race he entered. These days, UKES FINISH IN BACK with no profit there, he doesn’t bother to OF PACK expend the energy. Next to Jens Voigt and The 2011 Tour de France was not a Sylvain Chavanel, Grivko was the fourth and good one for the three Ukrainian riders least familiar cyclist in the famous break- who entered the race. The most promis- away that gave Oscar Pereiro a 30-minute ing cyclist, Popovych, completed only the bonus and eventual victory in the 2006 Tour first nine stages prior to being knocked de France. out by a bad fever. His best stage was the “The Tour Down Under is a bit too closed second when he finished 26th out of 198 and controlled for riders like me to get contestants. Grivko ended the Tour in results,” Grivko explained. “There are so 144th overall place out of the 167 final many teams of sprinters! We’ve built our finishers. His top result was a phenome- tactics here around Allan Davis. We just nal 10th in Stage 16. Denys Kostyuk work for him. Maybe he doesn’t have the peaked in the 13th stage, finishing a per- same brilliant form he had at the world sonal best 69th. He came in 153rd overall. championship (third place) in October, but Cadel Evans became the first Australian he’s strong enough to win a stage.” to win the Tour de France, breaking three- Grivko, who used to ride with Domina time champion Contador’s streak at two. Vacanze and Milram, was selected by The 34-year-old Evans was the oldest tour Alexander Vinokourov for Astana after winner since World War II. Luxembourg’s spending 2009 with ISD-Neri. He rode the Schleck brothers, Andy and Frank, fin- Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France with the ished second and third. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 21

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The union forces Russia to relax some of Putin attempts... the retaliatory trade bans Moscow Annual commemoration of the Holodomor imposed in 2006 on Georgian products. (Continued from page 2) As the Customs Union is designed to erase to be held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral idea outright, however, stating that Russia trade barriers among its members, Georgian products banned in Russia will NEW YORK – On Saturday, November tatives from the United States government will only accept Ukraine as a full member. inevitably make their way to the Russian 19, at 1:30 p.m., the Ukrainian Congress will be offered an opportunity to deliver While Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have Committee of America (UCCA) will hold its remarks. Invited speakers include: Sen. shown interest in becoming members of market once they pass through intermedi- annual requiem service to commemorate Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Rep. the Customs Union, both countries face ary countries that have not imposed simi- the 78th anniversary of Ukraine’s Genocide Sander Levin (D-Mich.). Also anticipated is strong domestic opposition against join- lar trade bans. Although Belarus has of 1932-1933, known in Ukrainian as the the reading of President Barack Obama’s ing the grouping. If Tajikistan joins the imposed sanctions on Georgian products, Holodomor. statement in remembrance of the Holodomor. Customs Union, Russia will have the right for example, Kazakhstan freely sells In this 78th anniversary year, the newly The Holodomor is one of the darkest and responsibility to station its border Georgian wines and mineral water. elected patriarch of the Ukrainian Greek- pages in the history of the Ukrainian guards on the Tajik-Afghan border to con- The Customs Union’s future beyond its Catholic Church, Major Archbishop nation. Up to 10 million innocent victims trol all cargo passing through to the three members is uncertain. Mr. Putin’s Sviatoslav Shevchuk, will be the honored were starved to death through a deliberate union’s border. According to Moscow, new Eurasian project will survive should guest at St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Fifth Soviet policy aimed at crushing the nation- Tajikistan’s military lacks sufficient capac- the current members show their political Avenue between 51st and 52nd streets) to ally conscious Ukrainian peasantry. The ity to prevent the transit of drugs across support. Other Russian-led initiatives lead those who will gather in prayer for the Famine-Genocide ranks among the worst the border. Russian border guards are have been similarly supported by regional repose of the souls of the millions of inno- cases of man’s inhumanity towards man already posted on the Kyrgyz-Kazakh bor- players, only to fizzle out later. According cent victims of the Famine-Genocide. and is perhaps the most extreme example der to check trucks crossing that frontier. to the Kremlin, before announcing his Following the requiem service, represen- of the use of food as a weapon. Since withdrawing from the Tajik-Afghan plans, Mr. Putin had not consulted with border in 2004, Russia has been trying to the union’s other members (www.kom- re-establish its military presence in the mersant.ru, October 4). amount, and that by a circuitous route that country. would have forced Ukraine to deprive Since entering into force last year, the The article above is reprinted from What was really.. Customs Union has implemented several Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission (Continued from page 7) much of the south of the country of gas. It was apparently only after the inter- key trade agreements, but its members from its publisher, the Jamestown The Russians warned the Ukrainians vention of German Chancellor Angela remain divided on a number of policies. Foundation, www.jamestown.org. that they would cut off the gas if the pricing Merkel with Mr. Putin that he and Ms. issues were not solved by December 31, Tymoshenko finally reached an agreement by regionally integrated powerful group- 2008. On that day, the Russians proposed a on gas and transit costs. The Western ings: the EU, North American Free Trade gas price of $250 per 1,000 cubic meters. Europeans also put considerable pressure Putin prioritizes... Agreement (NAFTA), Asia-Pacific Economic On the next day, January 1, 2009, Mr. on both Russia and Ukraine to put an end (Continued from page 2) Cooperation (APEC) and Association of Yushchenko agreed to $250, but sought an to the gas war. Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). increase in transit fees on Russian gas The new contract was based on the gen- In the old USSR, the republics that It would seem Mr. Putin believes that, being shipped to Western Europe. erally accepted formula used throughout formed the union were also legally sover- while Russia “integrates” the post-Soviet In response, Russian Prime Minister Europe at the time that linked the price of eign: Soviet Belarus and Ukraine enjoyed space, taking in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Vladimir Putin accused President gas to the price of diesel fuel plus transpor- separate United Nations membership dur- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan with others Yushchenko of breaking off negotiations, tation costs. Ukraine received a 20 percent ing the Cold War, while being in fact inte- (Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Moldova) insisted on $450 and halted gas deliveries discount on this price for 2009. Russia gral parts of a totalitarian state. possibly adding up, the United States is free intended for Ukraine. received a discounted price on transit fees Mr. Peskov insisted Mr. Putin’s Eurasian to “integrate” Canada, Mexico and other A few days later, Mr. Putin accused the for the same period. The agreement also Union plan has nothing to do with the com- Central American and Caribbean states, Ukrainians of taking gas intended for did away with an intermediary gas trader, ing elections. Indeed, Mr. Putin is in any forming the “NAFTA Union” superstate. Western Europe. In reprisal, he halted all RosUkrEnergo, which had been allegedly case assured of a landslide victory in a India, China and the ASEAN nations may shipments to Western Europe. He called for channeling funds to the party of Mr. nation were elections are anything but form their own regional superstates: an an international consortium to take over Yanukovych as well as to associates of Mr. democratic or fair. The acute public nostal- Orwellian future, like in “1984” (first pub- the Ukrainian transit system. Yushchenko. gia over the demise of the USSR has greatly lished in 1949) by George Orwell. After European Union observers had The facts therefore suggest that the gas diminished after its fall in 1991 as a new Mr. Putin writes: “I am convinced that established that there was no evidence that agreement concluded by Ms. Tymoshenko generation matures that did not know it the establishment of the Eurasian Union was likely the best she could have achieved much or at all. Ukraine had cut shipments to Western and efficient integration are approaches under the circumstances. The elimination Mr. Putin writes about Russia’s Europe or siphoned off gas for its own use, that will enable members to take a promi- of RosUkrEnergo, in addition, removed an “7,000-kilometer border with Kazakhstan” Russia agreed to resume shipments to nent place in our complicated, 21st century Western Europe, but only of a small apparent source of corruption. becoming a purely administrative inter- state line, allowing Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and world. Only by standing together will all Tajiks to travel and work anywhere within our countries be able to take their places as the new superstate at will. That is a vision leaders of global growth and drivers of many Russian nationalists will surely hate. progress, only together will they succeed It also makes virtually impossible Mr. and prosper” (http://premier.gov.ru/eng/ events/news/16622/). Putin’s insistence on visa-free travel Mr. Putin tried to dismiss arguments “by between Russia and the EU. some of our neighbors” [clearly pointing at Mr. Putin’s Eurasian Union dream is a Ukraine] against joining the Customs Union serious long-term strategy, which trumps and CES, since “this may contradict their almost anything else. Mr. Putin seems pro-European stance.” According to Mr. ready to open Russia and its coffers to any Putin: “The Eurasian Union will be based nation that chooses to join. The Customs on universal integration principles as an Union is already costing dearly. Under the essential part of Greater Europe united by Customs Union agreements, import duties shared values of freedom, democracy, and are jointly collected and later divided, with market laws” (http://premier.gov.ru/eng/ Russia receiving 87.97 percent, Belarus 4.7 events/news/16622/). percent and Kazakhstan – 7.33 percent. In reality Mr. Putin is at present integrat- According to government statistics, under ing into his Customs Union and CES only this tariff-sharing agreement, Russia’s bud- authoritarian dictatorships that do not get will lose in 2011 some 40 billion rubles share any “values of freedom, democracy ($1.15 billion) of revenue (Vedomosti, and market laws” with the West. August 22). A massive rearmament effort is under In addition, Russia’s long-postponed way in Russia – aimed at building modern entry into the World Trade Organization conventional forces using Western technol- has been further muddled by the Customs ogies to defend the union of Eurasian dicta- Union. But Mr. Putin has a revisionist vision tors from popular uprisings and a new gen- of the future that does not involve the WTO. eration of long-range nuclear weapons to Mr. Putin writes that economic and political deter the West to keep its values out. Mr. globalization has been undermined by the Putin is pragmatic: such protection may present world economic recession, and the indeed induce the Eurasian Union dictators WTO is in crisis. He sees the future world as to integrate. an agglomeration of several superstates, created by the integration of many nations. The article above is reprinted from The Eurasian Union would be one of these Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from “powerful poles.” Mr. Putin expresses the its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, view that global integration will be replaced www.jamestown.org. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 23

October 23 Film screening, “Marusia,” The Ukrainian Museum, November 4 through Exhibit, “DP to DC Exhibit: World War II Refugees,” New York 212-228-0110 January 31, 2012 Ukrainian National Museum, 312-421-8020 Chicago October 23 Potato bake and fall festival, Bobriwka Ukrainian Colebrook, CT Campground, www.bobriwka.org November 5 Dinner, dance and presentation of the Ukrainian of the Pittsburgh Year Award, Ukrainian Technological Society, The Club October 28 Masquerade, early show for kids, evening dance, at Nevillewood, 412-835-8714 Toronto Ukrainian National Federation – Trident Hall, November 5-6 Autumnfest, Epiphany of Our Lord Ukrainian Catholic [email protected] or 416-253-6002 St. Petersburg, FL Church, 727-576-1001 or www.epiphanyukrch.com

October 29 Dinner and show, “Medieval Ukraine,” dance featuring November 6 Centennial banquet, Sisters of the Order of St. Basil Whippany, NJ music by Fata Morgana, Ukrainian American Philadelphia the Great, Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Cultural Center of New Jersey, 201-213-4321 Cathedral, www.stbasils.com or 215-379-3988 ext. 17

October 29 Concert, featuring the Lysenko Choir from the November 7 Seminar by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, “Looted Art from Ottawa Netherlands, St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Cambridge, MA Ukraine in East Prussia: On the Trail of German Wartime Shrine, 613-723-1673 Seizures from Kyiv Museums,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053

October 29 Autumn Masquerade Dance, Ukrainian Homestead, November 12 Film screening, “Jajo’s Secret” by James Motluk, Lehighton, PA 215-235-3709 or [email protected] or 610-377-4621 New York The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110

October 30 Harvest Thanksgiving Dinner, St. Vladimir Ukrainian November 12 60th anniversary banquet and dance, Ukrainian American Scranton, PA Greek-Catholic Church, 570-346-2414 Jersey City, NJ Youth Association – Jersey City branch, Ukrainian National Home, 201-491-3714 or [email protected] October 31 Presentation by Nadiya Kravets, “The Russian Factor Cambridge, MA in Ukraine’s Foreign Policy,” Harvard University, November 12 Benefit masquerade gala, Ukrainian American Youth 617-495-4053 New York Association, Ukrainian Institute of America, [email protected] November 4 Young members’ night, The Ukrainian Museum, New York 212-228-0110 Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions November 4 Film screening, “Genocide Revealed” by Yurij Luhovy, from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors New York Ukrainian Institute of America, 212-288-8660 and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 No. 43

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Saturday, October 29 fle, and enjoy all the benefits of museum membership; admission is $25 for non-members. For reservations con- NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites all tact: [email protected] or 212-228-0110. The to a lecture by Dr. Viktor Brekhunenko, professor at the Ukrainian Museum is located at 222 E. Sixth Street, New National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, on the sub- York, NY 10003. ject “Christian Cossack Armies and Christian States: Models of Unification and Integration.” Dr. Brekhunenko Saturday, November 5 is director of a division in the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography of the National CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a 2011-2012 Yevhen and Ukrainian American Writers: A New Generation of Shklar Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Literary Voices will present their annual reading of new Institute. The lecture will take place at the society’s build- fiction and poetry at 7 p.m. The reading will take place at ing, 63 Fourth Avenue (between Ninth and 10th streets) the UIMA, 2320 W. Chicago Ave., and will feature new at 5 p.m. For additional information call 212-254-5130. work by Alexis Buryk, Roman Skaskiw and Virlana Tkacz. The featured reader this year is Askold Melnychuk. The PALATINE, Ill.: The Ukrainian American Veterans 1st Lt. reading, conducted in English, will be followed by a wine Ivan Shandor Post 35, ACT for America and the Veteran and cheese reception, during which the audience will Defenders of America invite members of the community have the opportunity to meet the writers. For more infor- and patriots to attend a meeting to view a documentary mation visit www.uima-chicago.org or contact organizers from Guy Rogers of ACT for America addressing the law Sonya Arko and Anna Golash at [email protected]. of abrogation and how it applies to the interpretation of the Koran. A discussion of Sharia law will follow. The Saturday-Sunday, November 5-6 meeting takes place at the Palatine Library, 700 N. North ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.: The 31st annual Ukrainian Court , Palatine, IL 60067 at 2 p.m. There is no charge for Autumnfest will be held at Epiphany of Our Lord this event. For more information contact the post com- Ukrainian Catholic Church at 434 90th Ave. N., St. mander Col. Roman G. Golash (ret.), romangolash@sbc- Petersburg, FL 33702 on Saturday at 3-9 p.m. and Sunday global.net or 847-910-3532. at noon-6 p.m. The festival will feature authentic Ukrainian food (borsch, holubtsi, varenyky and potato Friday, November 4 pancakes available for take out), Ukrainian beer, NEW YORK: Join the Young Members at The Ukrainian Ukrainian arts and crafts, vendors, church tours, chil- Museum (YM@UM) at 7:30-11 p.m. for a fun evening dren’s rides and games, music for dancing with a “zabava” party at the museum. Reconnect with old friends and on both days and dance performances by the Kalyna make new acquaintances against a backdrop of art, cul- Ukrainian Dancers. A silent auction and raffle will be held ture and your ancestral heritage. Open to young adults Sunday (winner need not be present). There is free park- age 21 (required minimum) to 40 (suggested maximum); ing on site. Admission is $2 for adults, free for children cocktail attire is recommended. Become a member ($40 under age 12. For information call 727-576-1001 or log annually) that night to get free admission and enter a raf- on to www.epiphanyukrch.com.

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