www.ukrweekly.com

Inside: l Who are ’s new foreign-born ministers? – page 3 l Pittsburgh film fest showcases Ukraine’s filmmakers – page 9 l “Ukraine Trunk” at center of D.C. art exhibit – page 10

ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXII No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 $2.00 New bill in House Newly formed parliamentary majority mirrors Senate bill approves Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers on aid to Ukraine Ukrainian American tapped as finance minister PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), co- chair of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, on by Zenon Zawada cancer plaguing the Ukrainian state. nine out of 20 total posts with his December 2 introduced HR 5782 “to impose sanctions The government will also have to trusted allies (and 12, including three with respect to the Russian Federation, to provide addi- – Ukraine’s coalition govern- deal with restricted sources of financ- foreigners, falling under his quota). tional assistance to Ukraine, and for other purposes.” ment emerged this week as the nation- ing and falling budget revenue while When it came time to approve the Though the text of the new House bill is not yet al deputies elected in late October fighting a war with Donbas “separat- new Cabinet, the president advocated available, observers have said it is a companion to the formed the parliamentary majority on ists,” who continue to be supported by a single vote for the entire list of candi- Senate’s bill, S 2828, known as the “Ukraine Freedom November 27, then voted to approve the Russian government. dates, rather than a separate vote for Support Act of 2014.” Both bills provide for defensive the new Cabinet of Ministers five days “The new Ukrainian rulers have no each minister. military assistance to Ukraine and would grant later. Five pro-EU factions claimed 302 choice but to act fast and hard because Mr. Hroisman, the president’s close Ukraine major non-NATO ally (MNNA) status. deputies among them, enough to Ukrainians are likely to show very lit- ally leading the Parliament, arranged HR 5782, which has 10 co-sponsors, was referred to amend the Constitution. tle understanding if they do not,” Dr. the single vote on December 2, sealing the Committee on Foreign Affairs, as well as to the Prime Minister , Anders Aslund, a fellow at the the passage of the president’s most committees on Financial Services, Oversight and 40, was re-elected to his post on Peterson Institute for International controversial proposal – the creation Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to November 27, prompted by his Economics in Washington, comment- of an Information Policy Ministry – be subsequently determined by the speaker. Each com- People’s Front party’s strong perfor- ed in late November. which is drawing fierce criticism from mittee will consider those provisions of the bill that fall mance in the October 26 election. So far, President the nation’s journalists. The ministry within its jurisdiction. Volodymyr Hroisman, 36, was elected has shown little interest in changing will be led by Yuriy Stets, the godson The bill’s original co-sponsors are: Reps. Rodney P. as chair (speaker) of the Parliament the way politics are handled in Kyiv, of Mr. Poroshenko’s wife. Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.), Jim Gerlach (R-Pa), Sander M. that same day, representing the Petro according to the Parliament’s most “Instead of creating new ministries, Poroshenko Bloc. (The average age of reform-oriented deputies, who criti- their number should be reduced, such (Continued on page 7) the Cabinet of Ministers is 44.) cized his maneuvers during the coali- as combining the economy ministry Never has a Ukrainian government tion’s formation. with the energy ministry, as it was been faced with such serious challeng- While claiming that the new done in ,” commented Dr. es, observers said. It’s expected to Cabinet wouldn’t be formed based on Oleh Soskin, the director of the announces overhaul not only state bodies, but the party quotas, as had been done for the Institute of Society Transformation in way officials approach their work, past decade, that’s precisely how it more non-lethal aid with corruption continuing to be a was handled, with the president filling (Continued on page 3) to Ukraine’s military OTTAWA – Canada’s Minister of National Defense Rob Nicholson, on November 26 announced an addi- Yevhen Sverstiuk, civic activist, writer, tional $11 million in aid to Ukraine’s armed forces. “Our government is committed to supporting the Soviet political prisoner, dies at 85 Ukrainian people as they fight for democracy and the sovereignty of their country in the face of the Putin by Halya Coynash regime’s military aggression. These contributions are a Human Rights clear demonstration of our support for the people of Protection Group Ukraine, and their pursuit of a secure and stable future.” KHARKIV, Ukraine – Yevhen The new assistance includes: $5 million for protec- Sverstiuk, Ukrainian writer, philoso- tive gear, including surplus Canadian Forces cold pher and civic figure, a man who spent weather gear – about 30,000 coats, 30,000 pairs of years in the Soviet labor camps for his pants, 70,000 pairs of Gore-Tex boots and 4,500 pairs commitment to truth and to Ukraine of gloves; $3 million for explosive ordinance disposal and who became a moral beacon for equipment; $1 million for communications equip- very many in Ukraine and beyond, ment; $1 million for night and thermal vision equip- died on December 1 in Kyiv. ment and binoculars; and $1 million for medical train- Mr. Sverstiuk had been suffering for ing, and a mobile field hospital. some time from a serious illness, and The first shipment of equipment and supplies was died in a Kyiv clinic a few days before to arrive in Ukraine by the end of November. what would have been his 86th birth- “The support provided by the government of day. Canada will be of enormous help to the brave men and He had followed all the develop- women in uniform in Ukraine at a critical time. As Roma Hadzewycz ments in Ukraine over the last few Ukraine continues to face invasion by the Russian Yevhen Sverstiuk at the offices of Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly in 1990. years, and in a recent Radio Svoboda Federation, this gear will increase the effectiveness of interview spoke of the “huge social turns of history, which is a test for per- December 1 Initiative, a group formed Ukraine’s military,” stated Paul Grod, national presi- test of strength” that Ukraine was haps all peoples in our . All of of highly respected Ukrainian intellec- dent of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. “We are undergoing. “Both the struggle with that together makes for an incredibly tuals, including former political pris- thankful to the government of Canada for this latest the authoritarian regime and the vic- responsible test of the freedom and oners and the former primate of the assistance package and their steadfast support of the tory of the Maidan revolution are independence of Ukrainians which Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, people of Ukraine as they continue their brave strug- imbued with the long familiar histori- needs to be passed through with dig- Patriarch and Cardinal Lubomyr gle to protect their country’s independence and terri- cal set-up of foreign intervention. All nity,” he said. torial integrity.” of this is logical and one of the classic He was one of the members of the (Continued on page 13) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 No. 49

ANALYSIS

Ukrainian Donbas becomes Biden on Ukraine’s new government cized Kyiv’s decision to establish the Information Ministry. The group’s secre- WASHINGTON – U.S. Vice-President Joe tary-general, Christophe Deloire, said in a a Russian protectorate Biden on December 2 commented on the press release on December 2 that “in a formation of Ukraine’s new government. matic representatives of foreign countries, Mr. democratic society, the media should not by Pavel Felgenhauer The full text of his statement reads: “I wel- be regulated by the government.” The gov- Eurasia Daily Monitor Putin declared the annexation of was come today’s announcement on the forma- “to prevent NATO troops from swiftly deploy- ernment says the ministry is needed to tion of a new Ukrainian government. The counter a steady stream of misinformation In a transcript of a TV interview to ing in , dramatically changing the Ukrainian people demonstrated their clear German journalists published by the regional balance of power and erasing about events in Ukraine by ’s power- preference for democracy, political and eco- ful state media. Russian television channels Kremlin in mid-November, President everything Russia has been fighting for since nomic reform and self-determination at the declared: “There is war in Tsar Peter the Great” (kremlin.ru, July 1). are easily accessible in many parts of ballot box during the October 26 parlia- Ukraine, where 20 years after the collapse the east of Ukraine. The Ukrainian govern- This week, the Kremlin stated its mentary elections. Today’s announcement ment is using its army and even ballistic demands with utmost clarity: Mr. Putin’s of the most people continue to on the formation of a new government sets understand Russian. Internal Affairs missiles. You [the West] are silent. Do you press secretary Vladimir Peskov told the the stage for the difficult but necessary pro- want the Ukrainian authorities to destroy BBC: “We want to receive 100 percent guar- Ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said cess of implementing reforms and deliver- on November 30 that the main task of the everyone there [in eastern Ukraine], all antees that no one is thinking to bond ing results. The United States will support their political opponents? You want that? Ukraine to NATO.” According to Mr. Peskov, new ministry would be “protection of Ukraine’s new government to stabilize its Ukraine’s information space from Russian We do not. We will not allow [this to hap- Russia is concerned about NATO forces economy, strengthen democratic institu- pen].” Mr. Putin was replying to Ukrainian moving closer to Russia, and his country propaganda and counterpropaganda in tions and fight corruption. We will also con- Russia [and] in the temporarily occupied accusations that Russia was supporting the may take additional countermeasures. tinue to stand for Ukraine’s sovereignty rebels with Russian arms and servicemen Officials in Kyiv denounced Mr. Peskov’s territories” of Crimea and the Donbas and territorial integrity in the face of region. (Charles Recknagel of RFE/RL) (kremlin.ru, November 17). demand, insisting they are a sovereign state Russian aggression, and support the aspira- Since the Moscow-backed separatist that can make its own decisions and, in tions of Ukraine’s citizens for a secure, Kyiv: no danger from N-plant accident rebellion began in the eastern Ukrainian turn, demanded guarantees from Russia democratic, prosperous, European future.” KYIV – Ukraine’s Volodymyr Demchyshyn region of Donbas (area including the that it will stop interfering in Ukraine. (White House, Office of the Vice-President) Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts) last April, In Brussels, North Atlantic Alliance offi- said on December 3 that an accident at a Russia has been sending in volunteer fight- cials expressed surprise, since Ukraine’s Opposition to new Ministry of Information nuclear power plant in the southeastern city ers, heavy weapons and munitions. Last NATO membership is not being discussed at of Zaporizhia last week did not involve a KYIV – Ukrainian journalists are up in August, the Ukrainian military seemed present; but they insisted NATO’s “open nuclear reactor and caused no radiation leak- arms over the government’s creation of a close to crushing the Donbas rebellion, but door policy” does not preclude Ukraine from age. Mr. Demchyshyn told reporters the acci- new Ministry of Information that it says is Russian regular army units crossed the perhaps joining someday (rbc.ua, November dent on November 28 occurred in the energy needed to counter a steady stream of border and turned the course of the battle 19). Still Mr. Peskov was publicly supported transfer system of the plant’s No. 3 power- Kremlin propaganda and misinformation. in a short but deadly counteroffensive. by Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei generating unit, not a reactor. “There is no About 40 journalists and activists demon- Ukraine’s military was routed; thousands Lavrov, who said, “Non-alignment is in radiation leakage,” he said, and nobody was strated outside the on of Ukrainian soldiers were killed, wounded Ukraine’s national interests and essential to hurt. Mr. Demchyshyn’s statement followed December 2 as lawmakers approved the or captured; and the siege of the main reb- the stability of the Euro-Atlantic region” reports that Ukraine had introduced rolling ministry along with the government’s new el-held cities – Donetsk and Luhansk – was (Moskovsky Komsomolets, November 19). blackouts across the country – including in Cabinet of Ministers. The journalists, who broken. The Russian authorities stringently The open guarantee of support Mr. Putin Crimea, which Russia annexed in March – held up posters with the slogan “Hello, Big deny any direct Russian involvement in the has given the rebels in effect means they due to shortages in the power grid. Media Brother,” likened the new agency to the fighting, though the facts on the ground can continue to violate the increasingly reports said the shortages were caused in Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s classic seem undeniable (see Eurasia Daily wobbly ceasefire in Donbas, allowing them part by the shutdown of the 1,000-megawatt novel “1984.” The new ministry is headed Monitor, November 13). Now Mr. Putin has to shell and attack Ukrainian forces virtual- power generating unit at the Zaporizhia by Yuriy Stets, a close ally of President made Donbas an official Russian protector- ly with impunity, since Russian forces are plant. Mr. Demchyshyn says it is expected to Petro Poroshenko and formerly the chief ate by declaring that Moscow “will not apparently ready to intervene, if the rebels resume operations by December 5. (RFE/RL, producer for Channel 5, the TV network allow” a defeat of the rebels, implying more find themselves in serious trouble. based on reporting by UNIAN and Interfax) that the president still owns. Journalists say military support in the future. Ukraine is today a vibrant revolutionary they fear the new bureaucracy could seek Russia nixes South Stream pipeline In the same interview, Mr. Putin dis- democracy, and the rulers in Kyiv cannot to increase government influence and pos- missed as “unimportant” allegations of ignore public opinion. According to fresh BRUSSELS – The said sibly control over what appears in the Russia supplying the rebels with arms. He polls, some 36 percent of Ukrainians, Russia’s surprise abandonment of the Ukrainian media. They say their fears are insisted: “People fighting for a just cause apparently fed up with the constant deadly South Stream pipeline project underscored increased by the little information available will, in the modern world, always find shelling and fighting in Donbas, want the the need for diverse energy sources, while about how the new ministry will function. arms.” Mr. Putin agreed that the Donbas resumption of hostilities to crush the rebel- Moscow vowed to find other ways to get its The international media rights group ceasefire agreements, signed last lion – an increase of 14 percent since last Reporters Without Borders has also criti- (Continued on page 12) September in Minsk, are being violated by month. Some 43 percent today support the both sides and demanded the Ukrainian Minsk ceasefire agreements and an approx- military withdraw further out of Donbas imately equal number (44 percent) oppos- and surrender contested positions on the es them (news.liga.net, November 20). line of control, while vindicating the rebel The rebels, in turn, appear opposed to The Ukrainian Weekly FOUNDED 1933 ceasefire violations, “because they are fight- sustaining the ceasefire. The future of the ing for their homes, families and their Minsk agreements is dim, as Mr. Lavrov An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., rights.” Mr. Putin called on Kyiv to stop play- accused Kyiv of preparing an invasion of a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. ing with words and “federalize Ukraine” as Donbas (Interfax, November 19). Yearly subscription rate: $90; for UNA members — $80. the only possible way to solve the present Today, Ukraine is constitutionally a non- Periodicals postage paid at Caldwell, NJ 07006 and additional mailing offices. crisis (kremlin.ru, November 17). aligned country, and it historically never (ISSN — 0273-9348) Russia’s long-term policy in Ukraine has had a majority supporting NATO member- The Weekly: UNA: been to press for “federalization,” turning ship. The confrontation with Russia over Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 644-9510 Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 292-0900 the country into some lose confederacy Crimea and Donbas has been changing where Moscow would continue to act as public attitudes over the course of this Postmaster, send address changes to: protector of Donbas and possibly other year: According to a latest national poll, The Ukrainian Weekly Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz Russian-speaking regions in Ukraine’s some 51 percent are ready to vote “yes” in 2200 Route 10 Editor: Matthew Dubas southeast (see EDM, March 21, May 14). support of NATO membership if a national P.O. Box 280 This could give the Kremlin veto power referendum were held tomorrow, and only Parsippany, NJ 07054 e-mail: [email protected] over all major political and economic deci- 25 percent would vote “no.” Another 25 sions in Kyiv, using pro-Russian regional percent are undecided or would abstain. The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com authorities as proxies. A real referendum on NATO member- The main strategic purpose of Mr. Putin’s ship could receive some 60 to 70 percent The Ukrainian Weekly, December 7, 2014, No. 49, Vol. LXXXII involvement in Ukraine, the occupation of votes in favor. A year ago, only 20 to 25 per- Copyright © 2014 The Ukrainian Weekly Crimea, and the escalating military support of cent of Ukrainians supported membership. the rebels is to prevent Ukrainian integration In the Russian-speaking south and east of into European security, economic and politi- the country, the Alliance enjoys less sup- ADMINISTRATION OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY AND SVOBODA cal institutions (see EDM, November 13). Kyiv port, but the national trend is clear (news. Walter Honcharyk, administrator (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 must stay within Russia’s sphere of influence, liga.net, November 20). and advertising manager fax: (973) 644-9510 totally separate from the North Atlantic Russian actions have accelerated e-mail: [email protected] Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Ukraine’s Westward drift, which Mr. Putin Subscription Department (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 European Union. Speaking last July in e-mail: [email protected] Moscow at a gathering of Russian top diplo- (Continued on page 18) No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 3

Who are Ukraine’s new foreign-born ministers? Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers by Claire Bigg Born in Vilnius, the investment banker has lived in Kyiv RFE/RL since 2008 and has a Ukrainian wife. Following is a list of the members of Ukraine’s new He is a partner and fund manager at the East Capital Cabinet of Ministers and their political affiliations. The Three foreigners – Natalie Jaresko, Aivaras Abromavicius asset management group. The group is a major player in and Aleksandr Kvitashvili – were approved as ministers by Cabinet was approved by the Verkhovna Rada on Ukraine, where it invested almost $100 million in 2012. December 2. Ukraine’s Parliament on December 2. Mr. Abromavicius describes himself as a Ukrainian patri- President Petro Poroshenko said their appointment, ot and has pledged “radical measures” to overhaul the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, People’s Front which has raised some eyebrows in Ukraine, was part of an country’s battered economy. Vice Prime Minister/Regional Development, effort to find “innovative solutions in the government” due He claims he hasn’t yet discussed his ministerial salary, Construction, Utilities and Maintenance Minister to the “extraordinary challenges facing Ukraine.” which he said he expected to be “very small.” Hennadii Zubko, no party, president’s quota Mr. Poroshenko naturalized all three hours before their He has voiced hope that his “efforts and experience will confirmation by the Verkhovna Rada. All have given up Vice Prime Minister/Culture Minister Viacheslav help Ukraine reach a totally different level of economic Kyrylenko, People’s Front their citizenships to comply with Ukraine’s constitutional development, bring transparency and openness to govern- ban on dual citizenship. ment’s work.” Vice Prime Minister Valerii Voshchevskyi, Natalie Jaresko, United States – finance minister Radical Party Aleksandr Kvitashvili, – health minister Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin, no party, Ms. Jaresko, who has Ukrainian roots, has lived in the president’s qouta country for more than two decades. She moved to Kyiv in Mr. Kvitashvili served as health minister in his native 1992, just months after Ukraine gained independence from Georgia between 2008 and 2010, under then-President Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak, no party, the Soviet Union, to head the economic department of the . president’s quota newly opened U.S. Embassy. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from State Internal Affairs Minister Arsen Avakov, People’s Prior to her relocation, she held various economic posi- University and a master’s degree from the Robert F. Front Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in New York. tions in the U.S. State Department. Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko, People’s Front She holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard After graduating in 1993, he did a brief stint working in Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, no party, presi- University’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor of the United States at the Atlanta Medical Center as an dent’s quota science degree in accounting from DePaul University in . administrative and finance officer. In 1995, she left the U.S. Embassy to work for the He returned to Georgia the same year to work for the Infrastructure Minister Andriy Pyvovarov, no Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF), an equity fund United Nations Development Program. party, president’s quota financed by the U.S. government, where she rose to the He has since held positions at a number of healthcare- Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr position of chief executive officer. related organizations, including the United Methodist Demchyshyn, Poroshenko Bloc She established her own fund, Horizon Capital, in 2004. Committee on Relief, the Curatio International Foundation, Social Policy Minister Pavlo Rozenko, During the Orange Revolution, Ms. Jaresko made no the East/West Institute in New York and the Transatlantic Poroshenko Bloc secret of her sympathies for the pro-Western uprising. She Partners Against AIDS organization. Health Minister Alexander Kvitashvili, no party, went on serve on then-President ’s Mr. Kvitashvili was rector of Tbilisi State University president’s quota Foreign Investors Advisory Council. between 2010 and 2013. With the U.S. facing accusations of political meddling in Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has tasked Mr. Education and Science Minister Serhiy Kvit, Ukraine, Ms. Jaresko’s new role has raised eyebrows. State Kvitashvili with introducing sweeping reforms to tackle Poroshenko Bloc Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf has already rampant corruption among health authorities. Agrarian Minister Oleksii Pavlenko, Samopomich denied Washington had any hand in her appointment. Despite his recent arrival in Ukraine, Mr. Kvitashvili, who Economic Development and Trade Minister Ms. Jaresko says the new Cabinet of Ministers intends to does not speak Ukrainian, professes “deep respect for Aivaras Abromavicius, no party, president’s quota “change the country, improve transparency and eliminate Ukraine and its people.” Ecology Minister Igor Shevchenko, corruption.” Speaking to Parliament on December 2, she “I’ve been working on reforms in Ukraine for the past Batkivshchyna declared her readiness to “take on challenges.” three months, but my love [for] this country has a much Ms. Jaresko faces a tough job warding off economic collapse, longer history,” he said on December 2. Youth and Sports Minister Ihor Zhdanov, battling corruption and reforming Ukraine’s economy as the Batkivshchyna country continues to fight an armed insurgency in the east. Copyright 2014, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted with the permis- Cabinet of Ministers Minister Anna Onyshchenko, sion of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut People’s Front Aivaras Abromavicius, Lithuania – economy minister Ave. NW, Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see http:// Information Policy Minister Yuriy Stets, Like Ms. Jaresko, Mr. Abromavicius is no newcomer to www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-new-ministers-foreign-born- Poroshenko Bloc Ukraine. jaresko-abromavicius-kvitashvili/26723564.html)

awaited by global players and Ukraine take advantage of the cuts in social spend- the People’s Will led by Volyn oligarch Ihor Newly formed... observers. Even U.S. Vice-President Joe ing to improve their standing among voters Yeremeyev and the 19 deputies of Biden, when visiting Kyiv on November 21, – particularly pensioners – by attacking the Economic Development led by Donetsk (Continued from page 1) complained that four and a half weeks was government for such measures, observers insider Vitalii Khomutynnik. Kyiv. “Maybe Poroshenko needs to establish too long for the government of a country as said. These final figures are the results of elec- censorship so that no one finds out about vulnerable as Ukraine to take in forming “The pro-Russian opposition is going to tion list voting (in which the People’s Front his deals? Those who want to create such the parliamentary majority. criticize anything the coalition does, but it led by Mr. Yatsenyuk finished first) and sin- ministries and lead them are enemies of The country faces a financial meltdown, doesn’t mean the people will follow them,” gle-mandate district voting (in which the the Ukrainian people.” Dr. Aslund warned in late November. He rec- said Mykhailo Basarab, a Kyiv political con- Poroshenko Bloc gained the most seats). In the ministry’s defense, Mr. Stets told a ommended measures that most economists sultant. “If the painful reforms are done as Mr. Hroisman earned the support of 359 roundtable of his critics that it’s needed to agree upon, including closing failing banks, part of a broad package and are explained by deputies on November 27 to become Rada address the government’s information restructuring the banking sector, drastically the government, society will accept them a chair. Long considered to be a rising star in needs related to the Donbas war – particu- cutting public spending (by 25 percent, in lot easier. But if corruption continues and oli- Ukrainian politics, he became the Vinnytsia larly after failures this year – by working his view), cutting pension payments and garchs get richer, a social protest will erupt.” City Council chair (mayor) in 2006 at the with the mass media and educational insti- state benefits to the wealthy, and eliminating Whether the Parliament has the will for age of 28. He was so popular that he was tutions. It will develop and implement a pro- energy and industrial subsidies. the “tectonic changes” called for by the re-elected four years later with 78 percent gram of positioning Ukraine in the world, as Indeed, on the night her nomination was president is questionable. Yet the numbers support – an unprecedented result for a well as develop and implement a strategy of approved, Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko to approve the legislation are there, with mayoral election in an oblast center. protecting Ukraine’s information space from assured the public that her first steps the majority purportedly consisting of 302 Mr. Poroshenko has extensive ties to the foreign information influences. would be to submit tax code amendments deputies, which would be capable of fulfill- Vinnytsia Oblast, having been elected three Mr. Stets promised not to use the minis- to boost state revenue and sharply cut ing the president’s declared goal of adopt- times to represent its citizens in the try to engage in censorship or require reg- spending in the 2015 budget, which she ing constitutional amendments. Verkhovna Rada, and he has numerous istration of Internet news sites and insisted promised to submit by December 20. Verkhovna Rada factions assets located there. His links to the region it will only operate for the war’s duration. Should the budget meet International enabled him to form a close alliance with That didn’t convince National Deputy Monetary Fund (IMF) requirements, the The parliamentary majority includes Mr. Hroisman, who will defend the presi- Svitlana Zalishchuk of the Poroshenko Bloc, next $2.8 billion tranche out of its $17 bil- members of five factions based on five pro- dent’s interests in Parliament, experts said. who insisted that the ministry’s statutes lion stand-by loan program with the EU parties elected to the Verkhovna Rada: “He is responsible for ensuring that the indicate its aim “is to usurp power, not fight Ukrainian government could arrive around 144 deputies of the Poroshenko Bloc, 83 majority moves in the direction that the against Russian propaganda.” New Year’s Day, said Dmytro Boyarchuk, deputies of the People’s Front, 32 deputies president wants,” said Petro Oleshchuk, a Some opponents dismissed claims the the executive director of the CASE Ukraine of the Samopomich party, 22 deputies of political science lecturer at Taras ministry was for wartime since the govern- Center for Socio-Economic Research. the Radical Party and 19 deputies of the Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. ment has so far only declared an anti-ter- Yet some economists said they’re not Batkivshchyna party. Moreover, Mr. Hroisman fits the category rorist operation. Moreover, the occupied optimistic for the prospects of drafting and The Opposition Bloc has 40 deputies, of officials that suit the president, he said, territories of the Donbas have no legal sta- approving the 2015 budget, considering just based on its election list and single-man- namely those with checkered pasts or lack tus distinguishing them from the peaceful how difficult the measures will have to be. date winners. In addition, two deputies’ of experience, as in the case of Mr. regions of Ukraine. Moreover, populists in the Parliament, as groups emerged that are aligned with the The Cabinet’s emergence was long well as the pro-Putin Opposition Bloc, may pro-Putin opposition: the 20 deputies of (Continued on page 13) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 No. 49 No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 5 The is remembered in Washington Metropolitan taps Bishop Bura as ambassador in Washington of Ukrainian Catholic Church PHILADELPHIA – With the ordination and installation of Bishop Bohdan Danylo as eparch of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Parma, Ohio, Bishop John Bura, who was the eparchy’s apostolic administrator, will continue to serve as auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia. Bishop Bura will reside in the former con- vent addition at St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in Washington, D.C. According to a news release from the archeparchy, Bishop Bura’s primary minis- try will be to reach out to the many Ukrainian organiza- tions now providing varied services in Washington. He will serve as an ambassador to the U.S. State Department and to other federal and state Bishop John Bura WASHINGTON – The 81st anniversary of Stalin’s Famine-Genocide, which killed millions of Ukrainians government organizations in in 1932-1933, was solemnly commemorated at the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington on November matters relating to the interests and needs of the Ukrainian Catholic 21, concluding with the lighting of a cross in the Embassy courtyard led by Ukrainian diplomats, U.S. Church and of the Ukrainian community in Ukraine and in the U.S. officials and members of the Ukrainian American community. The commemorative evening began The archeparchy noted that Patriarch Sviatoslav is pleased with inside the Embassy with prayers and a moment of silence led by Washington-area Ukrainian clergy, Bishop Bura’s willingness to fulfill this need and that it is anticipat- a historic analysis of the Holodomor by the Embassy’s Deputy Chief of Mission Yaroslav Brisiuck and ed that the patriarch and Bishop Bura will develop close ties and the reading of the official White House statement for the occasion by Alexander Kasanof, the U.S. contacts on matters concerning the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic State Department’s East European affairs chief. There was also a presentation by Mary K. Lanzillotta Church in Ukraine and worldwide. In addition to these responsibilities, Bishop Bura will assist at the of Hartman-Cox Architects about the progress in the construction of the Holodomor Memorial in seminary and in the ministerial team approach of the clergy in the Washington designed by Laryssa Kurylas, which, she said, should by completed by April of next year parishes in the District of Columbia and Virginia. and officially dedicated in the fall. – Yaro Bihun

UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC., SEARCHING FOR OUR MEMBERS We ask these members or relatives. PLEASE CALL - 973-292-9800

Name Branch State Name Branch State Name Branch State Name Branch State ARNOLD, NATALIE 070 NJ HOLOWACKY, MICHAEL 133 NJ LUTZKY, ANNA 267 NY SAWCHUK, OLGA 083 PA ASETO, MARY 316 NY HOLOWKA, SOFIA 116 PA LUZECKY, FRANCES R 452 CA SEIFERT, MARY L 076 NY BALLAS, ANNA 305 PA HOSCH, JOHN 083 PA MALARSKY, ANNA 234 CA SEMCZYSZYN, JOANNA 039 VA BARAN, MYRON 005 NY HOSHOWSKY, MYKOLA 005 NY MATKOWSKYJ, EUDOKIA 015 DC SHACHMUT, MARY F 327 FL BECHETTE, ANNA E 362 PA HRANCHOOK, MICHAEL MD 292 MI MAYKOWSKYJ, EMILIAN 102 WA SHELLHORN, MARY P 005 NY BILOUS, MICHAEL 316 NY HRYSZKO, AMIL 005 NY MELEN, ANNE K 271 NY SHULHA, ANDREW 267 NY BOBERSKI, MARY 271 NY HUCULAK, MARIA 432 ON MELNYK, ESTELLE 367 NY SKALLY, KATIE 341 ON BOBERSKI, NICHOLAS 164 FL HUMENICK, MICHAEL 305 PA MELNYK, STEFAN 473 QC SKOCZYLAS, MICHAEL 131 IL BOGDA, VALERIE 112 OH HUMENNA, PARASKA 221 WI MEUTER, JANET E 042 NJ SKURA, ANNE 407 ON BOGDANOW, GRIGORIJ 153 PA ILNYCKYJ, WASYL 053 PA MEYER, ANNA 362 PA SLOBODIAN, DIMITRO 292 CA BORK, MARY 127 NY IWANUS, EWHEN 379 IL MICHALUK, DMIETER 292 MI SMEREKA, MICHAEL 096 PA BUDULYCZ, JULIA 379 IL JANIS, MARY 292 MI MOLODOSHANIN, LEONID 445 MB SMOLINSKY, VICTORIA M 039 NY BYCOK, MARIA 461 ON JANKOWSKI, STEFAN 445 MB MUSKA, HELEN 409 PA SOLHAN, JAROSLAWA 472 MD CAMPO, ANNETTE 174 OH JAWORSKYJ, WASYL 175 MI MUSKA, HELEN 409 PA SOLTYS, ANNA 005 NY CHRUCKY, OLHA 005 ON KASTL, HELEN L 452 MO MUZYKA, ANTONIA 465 QC STASYNA, WOLODYMYR 379 IL CHURCHMAN, MICHALINA 231 PA KESTER, ANNA 409 PA NYKYFORUK, WASYL 194 NY STEFURAK, PEARL 432 ON CHZRESKA, MARY 292 MI KINNAS, STEPHEN 253 MA OLINYK, JOE 401 BC STRILKA, MARIA 230 QC CIHLAR, GEORGE 005 NY KLIM, ANNA 096 PA ORLIWSKY, PAUL 473 QC STRYKOWSKY, HELEN 083 PA KMON, STELLA 253 MA PANCO, MARY 007 PA CRUISE, OLGA 155 NJ SZWAN, MARIA 238 MA CULUPA, MARY 096 PA KOERBER, KATHERINE 161 PA PARASINK, PAULINE 173 PA SZYPULKA, KATERYNA 240 OH CZERCHAWSKI, MARIA 238 MA KOLISNYK, IDA 083 NJ PARIS, MARION 102 OH TITOW, IWAN 055 MD CZYPYHA, KATHARINE 401 ON KOLOHRYWENKO, STEFANIA 423 IL PASTUSHENKO, JAROSLAW 005 NY TYMCZYSZYN, STELLA 027 NJ DE VOE, DORA D 039 NY KOLYNKO, MICHAEL 401 ON PAUL, MICHAEL G 102 OH TYMKO, JULIA 173 DE DEMCHYK, WASYL 147 PA KORDUBA, MARIA 102 OH PAWUK, MICHAEL 291 OH URICK, ANNIE 407 ON DOSKOTZ, JOHN 253 MA KORNYLO, PAUL 461 ON PETROW, FRANK T 367 NY DUBB, WILLIAM 053 PA KOROLYSHYN, MYRON 407 ON PHILLIPS, NATALIA 161 FL WASHLESKI, OLGA 409 PA DUSCHENCHUK, WILLIAM 327 NY KOZAK, ANNA 037 NJ PIHIL, ZOFIA 379 IL WASIUNYK, JOHN 240 OH DWORCZYN, PETER 292 MI KOZAR, JUSTINA 130 NY PLEKAN, STELLA 316 NY WATSON, MARGARET 385 MN DYCZKO, WALTER 096 PA KULYK, IWANNA 042 NJ POPOWYCZ, WARWARA 379 IL WECAL, STEPHEN 206 RI ELIASHEWSKY, MARIA 083 NJ KUZMA, STEPHANIE 221 IL PRENETA, ANNA 067 CT WIATR, JULIA 137 PA FEDAK, TYMKO 230 PA KYRYLCZUK, OLGA 287 NJ PROCANYN, ANASTASIA 088 NY WILKERSON, JULIA 325 NY FEDESON, MICHAEL 292 MI LAJACK, ANN 120 PA PYRTKO, IWAN 397 PA WITKOWSKI, CHESTER 039 NY FEDORCZAK, JOHN 240 OH LASHENKO, OLGA 114 IL REDOSH, ANN 325 CT WOLOCH, STELLA 441 ON GALARNYK, ANDREW 445 MB LAZAR, REV JOHN 083 MI REGUSZ, STEFANIA 125 IL WTORAK, PETRO 445 MB GAMULA, STEPHEN 461 ON LEHACH, OLGA C 037 FL RENNARD, OLGA 161 FL YASINSKI, ANNA 164 CA GAWARECKI, MARTHA 266 NY LENCZYCKYJ, EUGENIA 399 IL ROHOWSKY, VICTOR 076 NJ ZACHARKO, MARY 217 NY GOSPODAREC, ANNA 088 NY LEWIS, ANNA H 055 MD ROSZCZAKOWSKY, ANNA 240 OH ZAHAJEWYCZ, TARAS 112 OH GRECZYN, OLGA 287 NJ LIBOWICZ, SEMEN 005 NY RUMIAN, MARIAN 234 PA ZAMORYLO, GEORGE 292 OH GREGORYNSKA, YUSTYNA 407 ON LITYNSKY, WOLODYMYR 341 ON RYDER, OLGA 287 FL ZAPOTICZNY, JOSEPH 175 MI HAMERA, NELLIE 292 MI LOBUR, ANDREW 364 OH SALAK, HELEN 242 PA ZELENY, ANASTAZIA 407 ON HANAK, JENNIE 397 NJ LOZOWY, JOSEPH 112 OH SARABYN, MARIA 379 WI ZELTONOGA, JEAN 257 CA HNATIW, ROSE 409 PA LUCIW, NICHOLAS 142 NJ SAWCHAK MARY 076 NJ ZELTWAJ, DR LUDWIG M 015 VA 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 No. 49

FOR THE RECORD The Ukrainian Weekly Action needed now! Polish American Congress voices With the U.S. Congress in session for only one more week (through December 11), there was good news from Washington this week. On December 2, Rep. Marcy concern about Russian aggression Kaptur of Ohio introduced HR 5782 “to impose sanctions with respect to the The following “Open Letter to the U.S. unaccounted for liabilities. Russian Federation, to provide additional assistance to Ukraine, and for other pur- Congress and President of the United States” In light of the traumatic experience of poses.” The bill, which has 10 original co-sponsors (see the story on our front page), was released by the Polish American the Polish people subjected to massive mirrors S 2828, known as the “Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014,” introduced Congress on November 24. extermination by both Nazi and Soviet back in September by Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, who chairs the Senate regimes in the aftermath of the Nazi-Soviet Foreign Relations Committee. The Polish American Congress expresses Pact of August 23, 1939, the recent state- In a nutshell, HR 5782 provides over $350 million in U.S. aid to Ukraine, desig- its deep concern over the recent military ment by the Russian president that “there nates Ukraine as a major non-NATO ally, reduces Ukraine’s dependence on Russian and political acts of aggression of the is nothing wrong with the Ribbentrop- gas, and provides assistance for Ukraine’s military and those who’ve fled regions of Russian Federation towards its European Molotov Pact” is not only offensive but also neighbors. We are alarmed by the viola- very dangerous to the peace and security of Ukraine invaded by Russia. Most importantly, it opens the door to providing defen- tions of territorial integrity of its contigu- today’s world. Such a statement sends a sive weapons to Ukraine. What is most needed now is the support of the House lead- ous sovereign states and the blatant impu- message that criminal practices symbolized ership to move that bill forward without delay. dence of the information warfare conduct- and viciously implemented by the In the Senate, where S 2828 was unanimously supported by the Foreign Relations ed by the Russian Federation worldwide. Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact are acceptable. Committee, the prospects for its passage are better, but let’s not assume the best- We object in strongest terms to the The people of Europe unequivocally con- case scenario. (If the 113th Congress does not pass these bills, we will have to press recent attempts by President Vladimir demned the criminal Ribbentrop-Molotov our case all over again once the 114th Congress begins its work in January.) Putin to justify the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact by designating August 23 as the Black The Ukrainian American Bar Association has issued a statement urging swift Pact of August 23, 1939, pursuant to which Ribbon Day commemorating the victims of passage of both bills – which have bipartisan support – because “they will greatly Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union secret- Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes. The enhance the United States’ national security interests and will promote peace on the ly agreed to “a territorial and political rear- Black Ribbon Day was introduced in the Eurasian continent and throughout the world.” The UABA underscores: “It is obvious rangement of the areas belonging to the European Parliament by a resolution on that economic sanctions in and of themselves are woefully deficient and will not Polish state” and left a decision as to European Conscience and Totalitarianism stop Russia’s unlawful aggression against Ukraine.” “whether the interests of both parties make on April 2, 2009. A similar resolution estab- What we all need to do now is the following. Contact your representative in the desirable the maintenance of an indepen- lishing August 23 as the Black Ribbon Day House and ask for his/her co-sponsorship of HR 5782. Contact the House leadership dent Polish state and how such a state was adopted by the Parliament of Canada to press for their support: call Speaker of House John Boehner (Ohio) at 202-225- should be bounded” to be determined by on November 30, 2009. 0600 and House Major Leader Kevin McCarthy (California) at 202-225-2915. the two aggressors. The Nazi-Soviet Pact The Polish American Congress strongly Contact Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Ed Royce (California) at 202-225-4111 and led to the joint Nazi-Soviet aggression on condemns in unequivocal terms this 21st the House Foreign Affairs Committee at 202-225-5021. Also, call your two senators the sovereign Polish state in September century Russian attempt to justify and to seek their support for S 2828. In addition, call President Barack Obama regularly 1939. The two aggressors divided rehabilitate the immoral Ribbentrop- (the White House comment line, 202-456-1111, is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.. Monday between themselves and closely cooperat- Molotov Pact that led to the mass extermi- through Friday) to stress that the U.S. should send defensive weapons to Ukraine ed in combating Polish resistance, in partic- nation of millions of people in Europe. The and that the non-lethal assistance provided thus far is just not enough. ular the extermination of Polish elites. lessons of Poland’s tragic past must not be Finally, share this information with your family, friends, colleagues and other like- Those treacherous pacts led to the unprec- forgotten. We shall honor the victims of minded individuals so that they can do the same. edented genocide committed on the Polish Soviet oppression, condemn the perpetra- As the recently created Ad Hoc Committee for Ukraine (see our November 23 issue) civilian population by both Nazi Germany’s tors, and lay the foundation for reconcilia- and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America have noted, Gestapo and the Soviet Union’s NKVD. tion based on truth and remembrance. and other supporters of Ukraine must act now. With the end of the 113th Congress and While crimes committed by the Nazi Accordingly, we urge the United States the holidays fast approaching, we must keep our eyes on the ball. Ukraine needs our regime have been disclosed, adjudicated Congress to designate August 23 as “Black help today. If the U.S. truly supports Ukraine’s independence and sovereignty, and the and condemned, the crimes committed by Ribbon Day” so as to never forget the Soviet aspirations of its people for democracy, dignity, rule of law and peace, it must heed the Soviet regime have not been fully dis- terror experienced by millions of people of Kyiv’s repeated requests for more substantive and effective assistance. closed and were never properly adjudicat- Central and Eastern Europe during the ed and condemned by the international 20th century. We must remember, honor community. To this day, no justice has been and learn from the experience of the people served for the Katyn Massacre crime, one of subjected to the Soviet Union’s ruthless the most heinous crimes of World War II, military, economic and political repression when an estimated 22,000 Polish intellec- through mass exterminations, arbitrary Dec. Turning the pages back... tuals and leaders were mass murdered by executions, mass arrests, deportations, the the Soviet NKVD secret police by a pistol suppression of free speech, confiscation of Thirty years ago, on December 10, 1984, President Ronald shot to the back of each of their heads and property, and the destruction of cultural 10 Reagan signed a proclamation on International Human Rights buried in unmarked secret mass graves. and moral identity and civil society, all of Day and condemned the Soviet oppression within the borders of Today’s Russia uses historical propaganda which deprived the vast majority of the 1984 the USSR, as well as outside its borders in its “barbaric war” in as an effective weapon to regain the status of peoples of Central and Eastern Europe of Afghanistan. a world power once again at the expense of their basic human rights and dignity. The Soviet Union, he added, was among those countries that her Central and Eastern European neighbors. We must ensure that this cruel history refuse to admit injustices and that justify “assaults on individual liberty in the name of a Today’s Russia denies the historic reality of never repeats itself and that the memory of chimeric utopian vision.” Officials and President Reagan did not hold back criticism of the Soviet responsibility for its trademark crimes these crimes is never forgotten. Soviet record on human rights. “The critical moral distinction of our time” Mr. Reagan said, of World War II and attempts to justify the Sincerely, was while there might be human rights abuses within democracies, these can be debated annexation of half of Poland, occupation of Frank J. Spula and corrected in contrast to other governments that refuse to “admit to such injustices” the Baltic states and the Katyn Massacre, President and assault liberty in the name of utopianism. just to name some of the Soviet Union’s Polish American Congress “Such brutal affronts to the human conscience as the systematic suppression of individ- ual liberty in the Soviet Union, and the denial of religious expression by Christians, Jews and Muslims in that country are tragic examples,” Mr. Reagan continued. Quotable notes Citing the example of Dr. Andrei Sakharov, a physicist and rights activist who was forced to reside in Gorky (a city off limits to foreigners), Mr. Reagan stated, “Nothing more clearly “…when this ministerial last convened, tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens were illustrates the absence of what our founding fathers called a ‘decent respect to the opin- on the Maidan. And they were not intimidated by police violence, the threat of further ions of mankind’ than that cruel treatment of this great humanitarian.” repression, or the freezing weather. They were warmed by a simple desire: to live in a Mr. Reagan stated: “So, today we the people of the United States, in conjunction with country with an honest government. The people of Ukraine continue to persevere. … other freedom-loving people everywhere in the world, rededicate ourselves to the cause tested by external aggression, they are casting off the shackles of repression and open- of human rights, to the cause of democratic self-rule and human freedom. We reassert our ing a new and promising chapter in their nation’s history. Twice in the past year, they belief that some day the repression of the human spirit and the special tragedy of totalitar- have chosen new leaders through genuine democratic elections, and President ian rule will be only a distant chapter in the human past. In doing so, we’re deeply aware Poroshenko and Prime Minister Yatsenyuk have pledged to implement a robust agenda of our nation’s long struggle toward achieving these goals and our own heritage of seeking of reforms designed to make Ukraine more secure, just, inclusive, prosperous, and free. to promote these ideals throughout the world.” “…The international community is united in condemning the violence that has led Mr. Reagan met with 12 rights activists from various parts of the world, including Avital to so much needless suffering in Ukraine, but the violence continues. Regrettably, Shcharansky, the wife of imprisoned activist Anatoly Shcharansky. Her husband had Russia continues to supply new weapons and increase support for armed separatists. served 13 years at the time of the proclamation after being convicted by the Soviets of In doing so, it fails to meet its international and OSCE obligations and to live up to an espionage for the United States. agreement that it actually negotiated and signed. The result is damage to its credibili- Human Rights Day commemorates the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human ty, and its own citizens wind up paying a steep economic and human price, including the price of hundreds of Russian soldiers who fight and die in a country where they Rights by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. The observance had and have no right to be. …” began in 1950, when the General Assembly invited all nations to observe December 10 as Human Rights Day. Previously, there had never been a dedicated statement on human – Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking on December 4 in Basel, , at the rights at the international level. Ministerial Plenary Session of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Source: “Reagan marks Human Rights Day,” The Ukrainian Weekly, December 16, 1984. No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 7

From a Canadian Angle by Oksana Bashuk Hepburn Self-imposed impotence Does modernization mean Westernization? Lately, Canada has been gaining interna- some 400 miles off Alaska and discussions Recently, Anton Shekhovtsov recalled in tion, while resisting Western political, tional prominence. Prime Minister with Canada on the Arctic are sharpening. his blog that the concept of the “Russian social and cultural ideals such as democra- Stephen Harper made news by telling According to , Mr. Putin’s buddies world” (“russkii mir”) had not always been cy, women’s equality and secularization. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to “get are capitalizing on U.S. defense contracts understood in its present sense. In 2000, But what about countries like , which out of Ukraine.” Then Canada dropped a with million-dollar mark-ups on military he noted, the Moscow philosopher Piotr has successfully modernized without bomb on an ISIS stronghold and destroyed rocket engines. Shchedrovitskii saw it as a form of modern- renouncing tradition? a training facility. The strikes demonstrate Mr. Putin has broken all relevant agree- ization through mobilization of Russian Perhaps the dichotomy of tradition vs. its “firm resolve to tackle the threat of ter- ments regarding Ukraine and disregards human, cultural, intellectual and organiza- modernization is a false one. Tradition is not rorism and stand with our allies,” said international institutions. He’s insulted tional capital, expressed in the unique the same thing as traditionalism. Defense Minister Rob Nicholson. every democratic leader with his lies. Their properties of the . This Traditionalism resists change. But those who Not all terrorism. The coalition mission retaliation is mild. So why would he stop? “lone voice,” however, had been supersed- truly honor tradition welcome change as against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, led by the Last week Mr. Putin cut a handsome deal ed by President Vladimir Putin’s under- long as it represents the organic growth of a United States and comprising over 10 with China in the energy, high technology, standing of the “Russian world,” both as a culture, rather than the indiscriminate states, lies in stark contrast to the West’s aerospace and finance sectors. The seri- term for the Russian diaspora enlisted to destruction of the old simply to make way for zero military action against Russia, whose ousness of the rapprochement between the support Russian foreign policy, and for the new. Ironically, those who cut themselves terrorists wage war against Ukraine’s sov- giant dictatorships was in evidence when nearby Eastern European countries that off from tradition are more likely to repeat ereignty, which is so highly prized by the Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s friend- Russia must keep under its control. the horrors of the past than those who con- West. Canada and other friends have yet to ly greeting in Beijing was met with a cobra- (http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot. serve tradition in order to grow beyond it. assist militarily against President Putin, the like expression from China’s Chairman Xi com/2014_ 08_01_archive.html) Which of these two approaches should world’s most powerful and dangerous ter- Jinxing. Did this mean that Russia’s move From the Western geopolitical point of be termed modernization? If moderniza- rorist. on Crimea could be echoed by China in the view, the military, political and economic tion is a renunciation of all previous cul- threat of Russia could be neutralized In Ukraine, there are no Western fighter Senkaku islands? ture, as was envisioned by some intellectu- through modernization. This would also jets, no Aurora intelligence platforms, no Mr. Putin poses a great global danger, yet als in the first decades of the 20th century, serve Ukrainian security. In fact, Ukraine coalition of the willing aiming to disrupt, his terror has not been met with the same then it is obviously opposed to tradition. could even participate in that process. Just But if modernization is simply a word for degrade and destroy the aggressor. For resolve accorded the rag-tag ISIS. Who is as Byzantium made medieval Rus’ less dan- the organic growth of a civilization in its over six months its freedom fighters have the greater threat becomes more evident gerous by “civilizing” it through political, economic and social as well as its battled the aggressor. Meanwhile, Western by linking the globe’s key hot spots. Christianization, Ukraine could help make cultural aspects, then it does not oppose democracies remain on the sidelines full of Here are some facts. Russia less dangerous by modernizing it. tradition; rather, it is nourished by it and “admiration for its bravery,” as participants Russia backs President Bashar al- True, a modernized nation can still be dan- develops it further. at the recent Ottawa conference of NATO Assad’s bloody regime. Russia has had a gerous – in the 1930s, the world’s most For a country like India or Japan, or opined, rather than offer more clout. long history in Iran’s nuclear sector and modern nation was arguably Germany. And Russia or Ukraine, modernization in this Most useless are repetitive confirma- now is to build several additional installa- modernization enabled Japan to build a sense cannot be reduced to Westernization, tions like that of Gen. Philip Breedlove, tions there. Reports claim Russia’s planes Pacific empire. Nevertheless, the conven- because that implies a renunciation of at NATO’s top commander in Europe, that have carried weapons to ISIS and assisted tional type of modernization includes least part of its tradition. This is even true “there is no question anymore about in reselling the energy it steals. rationalization, democratization and secu- for politics. As Gerard de Groot notes in his Russia’s direct military involvement in Russia is not a credible partner, yet larization. These processes are believed to review of Francis Fukuyama’s new book Ukraine.” Western powers keep hoping. The West’s temper, respectively, irrational nationalism, “Political Order and Political Decay” (The Under the circumstances, such words failure to take the offensive is not a strategy irresponsible authoritarianism and reli- Washington Post, October 24, 2014), Dr. only fuel the sneering from Mr. Putin and for peace. It is capitulation to a terrorist gious extremism. Those are three common Fukuyama does not believe that Western- company. Their latest salvo: we’ve stopped state with state resources at its disposal sources of aggressive state behavior. style democracy and its institutions can be paying attention to the commander-in- and a dictator’s command over national This conventional understanding of exported. Each society, says Dr. Fukuyama, chief of NATO. policy, media and its huge nuclear arsenal. modernization, however, is decidedly must adapt Western models of develop- Why should they? None of the atrocities Mr. Putin is a criminal. His end is per- Western, and rests on Western assump- ment to its own conditions “and build on committed in Ukraine have persuaded sonal enrichment, as well as that of his tions originating in the Enlightenment: that indigenous traditions.” (http://www.wash- NATO, the United States, or other alliance tight criminal circle. He makes enormous reason can resolve conflicts; that democra- ingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review- members that Mr. Putin is already at war sums of money – over $40 billion at last cy prevents tyranny; and that secular ideas, political-order-and-political-decay-by- with Europe – for what else is the invasion public report. A recent article in Windows unlike religious ones, are rational. All of francis-fukuyama/2014/10/24/57414b58- of Ukraine? And he is advancing further on Eurasia by the knowledgeable Paul these assumptions have been questioned, if 4e35-11e4-aa5e-7153e466a02d_story. with flyovers, a marine vessel chase and a Goble points out that Mr. Putin is prepared not disproved. Moreover, representatives of html?wpisrc=nl-pmopns&wpmm=1) training base in Serbia. to do whatever it takes to protect himself non-Western countries have challenged the But even a borrowing and adaptation of A new Russian naval base is planned and his ill-gotten wealth – he’s even threat- Western model of modernization and, Western-style change does not exhaust the ened a nuclear war. Yet the West is more indeed, modernization itself. possible meanings of modernization. Oksana Bashuk Hepburn may be con- willing to deal with ISIS guerrillas rather According to Mr. Shekhovtsov, Mr. Granted, the very idea of the modern arose tacted at [email protected]. than with Putin’s terror. Shchedrovitskii conceived of the “Russian in the West and was developed there. But world” as an alternative model of modern- today, models of modernization that take ization, one built on Russian national tradi- issue with fundamental Western assump- legislation authorizes the president to pro- tion. In this he was following Asian countries tions are possible too. Thus, for example, New bill in House... vide military assistance to Ukraine, to which, seeking to emulate their European democracy need not take the form of con- include: providing defense articles, defense colonizers’ scientific, technological and eco- temporary European or American liberal- (Continued from page 1) nomic progress, yet wary of Western social services and training to the government of ism; there may be forms of self-government and cultural values, legitimately asked Levin (D-Mich.), Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), Steve Ukraine for the purpose of countering more protective of community and culture. whether modernization necessarily means Stockman (R-Texas), Gerald E. Connolly offensive weapons and re-establishing the Economic justice and freedom can be better Westernization. In 1921, reissuing his 1908 (D-Va.), Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.), Eliot L. sovereignty and territorial integrity of served by fostering small-scale local entre- booklet titled “What is Swaraj?” (“self-rule” preneurship than by protecting global cor- Engel (D-N.Y.), William R. Keating (D-Mass.) Ukraine, including anti-tank and anti- or “independence”), Mohandas K. Gandhi porate capitalism in the name of “growth,” and James P. Moran (D-Va.). armor weapons; crew weapons and ammu- went further. He condemned Western civi- devastating the environment in the process. S 2828 was introduced on September 16 nition; counter-artillery radars to identify lization as a whole, contrasting the materi- Culture can develop without being shorn of by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), chair- and target artillery batteries; fire control, al achievements of oppressive British rule spirituality. This, apparently, is the kind of man of the Foreign Relations Committee, range finder, and optical and guidance and (e.g., railways and hospitals) with the liber- alternative modernization that Mr. and two days later was passed unanimous- control equipment; tactical troop-operated ating spiritual values of India. Shchedrovitskii envisioned for Russia. ly by that committee’s 18 members. It had surveillance drones, and secure command There is an echo of this sentiment in If today’s Russia has chosen not to fol- three original co-sponsors – Sens. Bob and communications equipment. Russian nationalists’ condemnation of low this path – preferring mere authoritar- Corker (R-Tenn.), Benjamin L. Cardin In an e-mail message sent on December Western materialism and their assertion of ianism and aggression – couldn’t Ukraine (D-Md.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mas.) – at 3, the Ukrainian National Information the superiority of traditional Russian reli- do so? Under better circumstances, per- the time of its introduction and currently Service encouraged Ukrainian Americans gious values. In this they resemble some haps it could. In fact, in the 17th and 18th has 13 co-sponsors. and supporters of Ukraine to contact their Muslims, who eagerly seize the technologi- centuries, a Western-influenced Ukraine The bill would impose broad sanctions members of Congress and ask for their sup- cal and economic benefits of moderniza- (and individual Ukrainians) contributed to on Russia’s defense, energy and financial port of HR 5782. “Time of the essence, as the religious and cultural modernization of sectors, as well as increase military and Congress is in session for one more week,” Andrew Sorokowski can be reached at non-military assistance for Ukraine. The wrote Michael Sawkiw Jr. director of UNIS. [email protected]. (Continued on page 18) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 No. 49 INTERVIEW: Reflections on the Ukrainian Film Club’s first decade

by Ali Kinsella three hours because they kept asking me language films into English for free. We what little money there was for Ukrainian questions, kept talking. It was almost tragic generated subtitles and supplied with sub- filmmaking into Russian projects. And that’s Part 2 to see what the level of thirst for these titles quite a number of important films. outrageous and also insulting given the In this two-part interview, Yuri Shevchuk, ideas that, in my mind, were nothing novel Then we started also working, cooperating dearth, the chronic dearth of Ukrainian film founder and director of the Ukrainian Film given the American academic level of think- with a very important, the biggest that compels many film commentators to Club at Columbia University, reflects on the ing about film, but there it seemed like a Ukrainian film archive actually, the say that Ukrainian film has been in a state of club’s first decade in New York. Since its begin- vacuum. Oleksander Dovzhenko Center in Kyiv. coma for decades. It even serves to justify nings, the club has only gained in popularity, How else does the club contribute to I understand the club still collabo- that situation and to give the money that is yet it continues to be a cultural institution in the field? rates with the Dovzhenko center. at a premium to the films that have nothing exile, a lonely beacon in a field of ever-present to do with Ukrainian national film or to giv- Initially, we had a concept of what to do, This cooperation became particularly Russification. Both by serving as a forum in ing voice to Ukrainians and their stories. but also were open to feedback and when the United States and a sounding board of fruitful with the arrival of the enthusiast of ideas arose, we implemented them. From What is going on in Ukrainian cinema sorts in Ukraine, the club works to counteract film preservation and Ukrainian film, Ivan being very primitive, this website grew and today? How has the Maidan and the sub- commonly held and reproduced misconcep- Kozlenko, a young Ukrainian-speaking gen- now, even today, is the only English- sequent war affected the arts, the cine- tions about this place called Ukraine. For tleman from Odesa. Before even becoming language Internet resource on the matic arts in particular? more information, please visit the club’s the director of that center, he organized the Ukrainian film. I don’t know of any other. website: www.columbia.edu/cu/ufc/. unprecedented Ukrainian silent film festi- What’s going on in Ukrainian film is There are Russian-language resources on Whereas Part 1 of this interview delved exactly what was going on up until today: Ukrainian film, Ukrainian-language, into the history of the club itself, here Prof. nothing’s changed, really. What has hap- Surzhyk-language on Ukrainian film, but no val in Odesa called the Mute Night (Німа Shevchuk, who teaches courses in Ukrainian culture, which is Ukrainian, and the silent pened is nothing short of absurd. Under the English-language websites even remotely ніч). It was supposed to be a pun: the mute language and culture, outlines the state of film. And he openly declared that one of the repressive regime of Yanukovych, the similar to ours, however modest ours national identity and politics in contempo- purposes of that festival was to reappropri- Ukrainian film industry was much better might still look. And this remains a very rary Ukraine, approaching it through cine- ate the jewels, the gems of Ukrainian silent funded. There was something to the tune of important presence on Ukrainian film on ma, language, and cultural production. film that were made in Ukraine with 250 million hrv allocated for filmmaking, the World Wide Web. Ali Kinsella is a recent graduate of the Ukrainian talent, participation, but have an unheard of sum of money. Even though Secondly, I also thought, and I kind of felt interdisciplinary Slavic studies program at been grabbed by Russian imperial culture the Ukrainian agency for film was adhering the interest of our audiences not only in the Columbia University’s Harriman Institute. and presented to the rest of the world as more to the Khalpakhchi conception of films that are produced in Ukraine, but also Russian. national film than to my conception of film, how filmmakers of other countries viewed Can you explain what you mean by Needless to say, that kind of declaration in between some films with Ukrainian attri- Ukraine in their films. So we very early in “Ukrainian national film”? of purpose appealed to me. He invited me butes were made. the day introduced a special series, to participate in the festival, to be one of the Now that same agency is headed by a At the time we started, the club was “Ukraine through the eyes of the world,” guests, and then we started very closely person with impeccable Ukrainian creden- keenly aware of the intellectual and cultural within which we started screening films cooperating, becoming a conduit here in tials, Pylyp Illienko, the son of the Ukrainian discussions underway in Ukraine in that that showed Ukraine, and not necessarily in the West for these films, to reinject them classic, Yuri Illienko. He has a vision, and time: “What is a national film?” And the a positive way. Very many films show into international circulation. Every now the energy and dedication, and a sense of shrillest and loudest voices that were advo- Ukraine in defaming, racist sometimes, and then I get letters from different librar- mission, but what he doesn’t have is money. cating a redefinition of what would be a sometimes very stereotypical or colonial ies asking me where to find this film collec- He has zero budget and the new Ukrainian logical understanding of Ukrainian film. manner. Most of the films that we have tion, and I’m only too glad to channel their government is very similar to all the previ- That is, something along the lines the way offer a positive and very often unexpected enquiries to the Dovzhenko Center. ous governments in one essential sense: the French national film is understood, or view of Ukraine and that is hugely provoca- Wait, you disagree with Khalpakhchi culturally it’s not Ukrainian. It looks at the American or Polish. Yet those voices were tive for our viewers because it’s always culture, at best, as something of a bother, actively trying to impose on all the rest of when he says all films are Ukrainian, yet interesting to take a new perspective on something that has no consequence, some- Ukraine their colonial concept of Ukrainian you agree with Ivan Kozlenko who’s try- something that you think you know. thing that has to be marginalized lest it be film as something purely geographic. Also I tried to encourage my students to ing to reclaim films made in Ukraine. allowed to distract you from things more I was once present at a press conference think of Ukrainian film outside their imme- How do explain this? important. when one of the leading such proponents, diate academic program and get them inter- Two different realities: Kozlenko meant Of course, they’re fighting a war, but the Andrii Khalpakhchi, who has for years ested in reviewing the films and, in that films made in Ukraine with Ukrainian tal- war is also waged in information and cul- headed the Ukrainian international film way, providing something that the ent, like Vira Kholodna, a woman who was ture. There has always been war in festival, Molodist, said, “Every film that is Ukrainian filmmakers dramatically lack: born in Poltava and moved in her child- Ukrainian filmmaking between the Moscow made in Ukraine is thus Ukrainian.” And feedback on what they’re doing from the hood to Moscow but then again came back agents of the influence and those who that was exactly the kind of colonial vision international community. Because to Ukraine and had a husband who was believe that Ukraine is entitled to have its of Ukrainian film, but also “Ukrainian cul- Ukrainian film criticism in Ukraine is still Ukrainian and could plausibly be also own film and its own expression in film. ture” that we wanted to undermine, decon- very underdeveloped and Ukrainian criti- thought of as a Ukrainian in the traditional Paradoxically enough, the proponents of struct, expose as essentially colonialist, as cism outside of Ukraine simply doesn’t sense of the word. Films made in Ukraine the colonialist film oriented toward Russia, perpetrating the old patterns of enslave- exist. Everything that these self-appointed, by Dzyga Vertov with Ukrainian sensibili- culturally Russian, have been particularly ment and cultural control of Ukraine by or enthusiastic film reviewers do – which ties, featuring Ukraine, using Ukrainian vocal since the Maidan. The other obvious Russia. We instead propose and promote a they often don’t realize – is number one, a material. That’s something that I agree tendency is for them to pretend that noth- liberating understanding of Ukrainian film, huge source of inspiration for Ukrainian with; that’s not the geographic understand- one which is on par with the views in other filmmakers. To know that somebody in ing of identity, it’s the essential understand- ing happened, that no revolution happened, free, democratic countries. New York or in the United States, not only ing of identity, identity built on features that dignity was not the center of that revo- And we immediately started broadcast- watches your film, but thinks about it, and that are essential to any identity. lution. They continue to churn the films ing that message both in the United States produces a coherent criticism, is hugely Whereas for Khalpakhchi, the reality that are indistinguishable from Russian where we had, of course, a very limited inspiring. Number two, it creates almost today is geographical identity, encompass- products – language-wise, message-wise, audience, but also in Ukraine, where we automatically, the kind of perception that ing films that are made for Russian televi- by their consistent ignoring the sensibilities also became known almost from day one, you are functioning not in the stifling and sion, the Russian film market, with the of Ukrainian public. thanks to the enthusiasts in the Ukrainian often Byzantine-esque world of Ukrainian Russian consumer in mind, with Russian They are using this Ukrainian willing- filmmaking community who thought we filmmaking, where you depend on the spectator in mind, not only that, the films ness to accommodate the Russian-speaking were doing a very good job. As the director, mood of a deputy minister or a director or that would deliberately be cleansed of any part of the country as license to stay the I was featured on several television pro- an oligarch, but suddenly you feel like visual or audio cues that might place them same, as license to justify the absolutely grams and I voiced those ideas openly. you’re part of the larger international film- in Ukraine because, “Russian viewers are unjustifiable state of things where the Every time I went to Ukraine, I deliberately making community. And that also is an irritated by such cues.” So those films are entire information space, the entire media, sought forums – and in a way single-mind- entirely novel sensation that anyone who not only not Ukrainian, but they are in a distribution of language programs and edly – to voice these ideas, which were then does Ukrainian culture has. And it’s abso- sense anti-Ukrainian and to instill the everything else, are formatted in a way so walled off by entrenched Ukrainian film- lutely priceless. And so we do it deliberately. notion of such films as being Ukrainian as to facilitate a very rapid Russification of making establishment that was supported Then we felt almost like painfully that national cinema, to me, is not only colonial- the entire society. And by Russification I by the oligarchic money. They had all the there was this level of provinciality in ist by its logic, but plainly insulting. don’t only mean linguistic Russification, support of the richly financed television Ukrainian filmmaking, manifested in the Now there is a necessity, a kind of imper- because linguistic Russification always production studios and companies like 1+1, fact that very few films were made with ative to clear to the water and outline, artic- brings in mental Russification, the appro- Inter, ICTV and whatnot. subtitles, so we felt we needed to remedy ulate an understanding of what it means priation of values, civilizational and moral I remember the great enthusiasm with that situation. Very early in our existence, I for a film to be a national film. values, that are not Ukrainian, but Russian, which the filmmaking students at the announced the so-called International and are very often antagonistic and inimi- Does this stance not come from a Karpenko-Karyi University reacted to my Translation Workshop. And there was an cal to Ukrainian values. position of defense? Is Khalpakhchi per- lecture on what national film is, because incredible reaction from people from all haps not afraid that there is no There’s this mantra, though – you see that kind of gave them a new understand- around the world. I had responses from the Ukrainian cinema, so he wants to grab it a lot in feminism – that the nation ing, not only of film, but of their own pur- Czech Republic, from Poland, from Ukraine whatever he can? must come first, and then we can talk pose, of their own vision of themselves as of course, from England, from the United about feminism, or women’s rights, or future professionals. The lecture was sup- States, from Canada; everybody just wanted No, that’s not quite the situation. The sit- posed to be an hour and a half – it lasted for to participate in translating Ukrainian- uation is that such a view is used to siphon (Continued on page 18) No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 9 Pittsburgh Hoverla film fest showcases Ukrainian filmmakers by Tetyana Shlikhar Another documentary about civic resis- screened in Belarus, the film provides an sion as the young students fight for surviv- tance was “Maidan: Women” by Natalia outstanding political and social analysis of al. Although the film is claimed to be set in PITTSBURGH – The 2014 Hoverla Piatygina and Natalya Sukach. The film tells the Russian invasion into Ukraine. western Ukraine, it gives very few referenc- Ukrainian American Film Festival held dur- an impressive story about the revolution in Luckily, not all Ukrainian cinema is es to the actual Ukrainian reality, and is ing the four Sunday evenings of October Ukraine of 2013-2014 as told by seven marked by gloomy consequences of the more likely to resemble an American or (October 5, 12, 19, 26) featured a diversity women. Their personal experiences intri- Russian military invasion. The adventure Western European lifestyle instead. of styles and genres in contemporary cately intertwine into a powerful narrative film by Viktor Andriyenko and Ihor However, the quality of production is Ukrainian cinema – documentaries, psy- depicting revolutionary events from differ- Pysmenny “Ivan the Powerful” (2013) tells remarkable and gives hope for the future chological short films, animation, as well as ent perspectives. the true story of a western Ukrainian development and financial survival of an adventure story and a thriller. There is the story of a girl who fell in strongman, Ivan Fritsak, who was acknowl- Ukrainian filmmaking. The festival kicked off on October 5 with love with a guy during the protests on edged as the strongest man on earth in The Hoverla Ukrainian American Film a screening of the “Babylon’13” documen- Independence Square, who even intro- 1928, but stopped performing abroad and Festival – organized by the Ukrainian tary short film series about Ukrainian pro- duced her as his future wife to his friends. returned to his native land at the peak of Community of Western Pennsylvania tests during the fall-winter of 2013-2014 She will never become his wife, though – his career. The film is set in Europe at the (UCOWPA) and sponsored by the and recent events in eastern Ukraine, fol- shortly afterwards Serhii Nihoyan, the love beginning of 20th century, and all of the University of Pittsburgh Film Study lowed by an interview session with Yuriy of her life, became the first victim of sniper actors, including numerous crowds in mass Program, the Global Studies Program and Gruzinov, lead cameraman for the shootings on the Maidan. Another story is scenes, are dressed in period suits of those the Center for Russian and Eastern “Babylon’13” series. told by a woman whose son was fighting in times, provided by the Czech Barrandov European Studies, as well as the Pittsburgh The birth of civil society in Ukraine has the ranks of military forces against protest- Studio, which creates a magical atmo- branch of the Ukrainian Technological become a powerful source of inspiration for ers, while she came to the Maidan to sup- sphere for the film and turns it into a beau- Society and individual donors – has Ukrainian filmmakers. Among them are the port protesters. In spite of the danger of tiful visual image reinforced by stylized col- become an annual event in Pittsburgh. “Babylon’13” filmmakers who have been cov- being shot, she approached the military ors with a slightly brownish tint. The direc- The event brings together Ukrainians ering events in Ukraine from the first pro- men to look into the eyes of her son. tors, together with the film’s perfect cast, and all those interested in Ukrainian cul- tests in November 2013; the first deaths and Perhaps the most thrilling story is told by a take the audience on a beautiful trip to a ture to discover amazing selections of films, killings in January-February of this year; the woman who lost her 19-year-old son, who country of magic and fairy tales, a country get to know Ukrainian filmmaking, as well annexation of Crimea in March; the Ilovaisk was shot dead among other protesters in where truth defeats evil. as share their ideas and impressions in a tragedy, where thousands of Ukrainian patri- February – a loss she will have to endure “Shadows of Unforgotten Ancestors” relaxed atmosphere during intermissions. ots were killed and hundreds had gone miss- throughout her life. Yet, one can only envy (2013) by Lubomyr Levytsky, who has Films were presented by Dr. Hanna ing; and the most recent events in eastern this woman’s inner strength and power to already enriched Ukrainian cinema with Chumachenko Lassowsky, president of the Ukraine, where the Ukrainian army, National keep on going. such films as “Shtolnya” (2006) and Ukrainian Community of Western Guard and volunteer battalions are fighting “The Island of Crimea. Déjà Vu” (2014) is “Lombard” (2013), became an impressive Pennsylvania, and Ukrainian filmmakers. the Russian invasion. a documentary by Ihor Chaika, a journalist finale of the festival on October 26. The film For more information about the Hoverla The documentaries show an unadorned and civic activist. The film traces the recent spurs the audience to laugh, feel scared and Film Festival and the Ukrainian Community truth of self-sacrificing struggle and hero- annexation of Crimea by Russia back to get involved in unraveling mysterious of Western Pennsylvania, readers can visit ism, as well as atrocities of war and the 2010, when President events happening after demons get www.ucowpa.org. pain of loss. was elected in Ukraine. Documentary foot- released and a group of college students fall When asked “Why did you join the age from 2010 through the present shows victim to the malicious powers. To reverse Tetyana Shlikhar is a research scholar at army?” a Ukrainian volunteer doesn’t hesi- that the annexation did not happen over- the curse and save themselves, the young the University of Pittsburgh who focused on tate to reply that he is proud of Ukrainians night – it was a consistently planned action, people travel to a forbidden mystical forest translation studies at the Taras Shevchenko and wants his country finally to become a with “The House of Moscow” opened in in western Ukraine. Danger lurks in the for- National University of Kyiv and the State country. Sevastopol in 2006 and proliferation of pro- est, and personality clashes add to the ten- University of New York at Binghamton. Filmed interviews with representatives Russian attitudes and hatred towards of the Ukrainian army manifest that the everything Ukrainian, including – Russian or Ukrainian – is not an passports. issue; it did not cause the conflict, since The director draws a parallel with most Ukrainian soldiers, actually, speak Russian writer Vasiliy Aksyonov’s fantastic Russian. As Mr. Gryzunov noted during the novel “The Island of Crimea” (1979) in interview session, Ukrainian identity has which the author envisaged the peninsula become a much broader notion than just a as an isolated Russian state. It took 35 years language question – it is a matter of atti- for this prediction to come true. Another tude toward the country, its traditions and coincidence that Mr. Chaika emphasizes is heritage, as well as aspiration to make it the fact that the surname of the prime min- better. “Everything will be all right” – the ister of the Republic of Crimea is also statement repeatedly resounds in the docu- Aksyonov, although his criminal back- mentaries and somehow fills the audience ground makes any connections with the with unbounded optimism and hope. renowned Russian writer impossible. First 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 No. 49 Shelest Piano Duo “Ukraine Trunk” at center performs at Th e Lyceum of Emilie Brzezinski’s art exhibit by Marta Fedoriw WASHINGTON – “Ukraine Trunk – 2014” is the center- piece of the solo exhibition by artist Emilie Brzezinski, wife of former National Security Advisor Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski. The comprehensive exhibit, which opened on September 18 at the Kreeger Museum in Washington, is titled “The Lure of the Forest” and features monumental wood sculptures – some exhibited outdoors and many indoors. The sculptor uses a chain saw to create her works of art – sculptures fashioned from large trunks of wood, as well as others from moody bark cloths. Of her smaller pieces, some are playful, some – such as whimsical benches – are quite practical. The exhibit is underwritten by none other than Stihl Corp., which is more known for supporting trade groups and contests for lumberjacks. The sculptor owns six chain saws – all made by Stihl and each designed for a different job. Yaro Bihun The “Ukraine Trunk – 2014” is a hollowed, sanded The Anna and Dmitri Shelest Piano Duo performs at maple trunk with a news photo of the many people of the The Lyceum. Maidan, anonymous faces, all upturned, all wondering what might lie ahead for Ukraine. “And not one face is by Zdanna Krawciw-Skalsky smiling. Not one face,” Ms. Brzezinski says. ARLINGTON, Va. – The second concert of the 2014- The trunk with the photos of the Maidan people draws 2015 Music Series sponsored by The Washington its viewers into its interior. Ms. Brzezinski expresses com- Group Cultural Fund in cooperation with the Embassy passion and anguish over present-day conditions in of Ukraine was a recital by the husband-and-wife duo Ukraine, and the faces of those affected stare back from piano team of Anna and Dmitri Shelest here at The within the void. It is a moving, breathtaking piece standing Lyceum on Saturday, November 8. close to three stories high. Both artists began studying piano in their native “As I carve the trunk, I retain the essential outline and Ukraine and completed their musical education in the gesture of the tree, uncovering within its form a symbol of United States. They have performed extensively as its history. The final iconic shapes enshrine this existential soloists and chamber musicians throughout Europe cycle, [acting] as metaphors for human experience.” – Ms. and in the United States, and have garnered awards in Brzezinski notes. numerous competitions. Their program at The The exhibit opening coincided with President Petro Lyceum featured works for solo piano, as well as Poroshenko’s visit to Washington. At the opening Ms. music written or arranged for four hands. Brzezinski presented a lavishly illustrated book, conceived The opening work of the afternoon was a vigorous and edited by her daughter, Mika, that provides a retro- rendition of Mykola Lysenko’s overture to the opera spective look at her career. Her trees, Mika Brzezinski “Taras Bulba,” arranged for piano four hands by Levko writes, represent an extended story, and she believes it is Revutsky, followed by a heartfelt interpretation by her mission to tell that story. Indeed, every sculpture is Anna Shelest of the “Ukrainian Rhapsody” written for from a tree – whether a huge three-story tree trunk or solo piano by an early 19th century Ukrainian com- pieces of bark. And each piece of sculpture tells a story. poser, Oleksandr Zhuk. The exhibit has received publicity all over the world as ’s “Three Extravagant Dances” for the central focus of the exhibit is the “Ukraine Trunk – piano duet is delightful music, and the Shelest team 2014,” which expresses the inspirational longings of the people not only in Ukraine but all over the world for a bet- performed it with lightness and grace, clearly under- ter future for their children. lining the various rhythms while at the same time The exhibit is open to the public until December 27, at evoking the whimsical character of each of the dances. the Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Road NW, Washington, The ensemble work was quite impressive. DC 20007. For more information readers may call 202- After a brief intermission, each of the artists pre- 337-3050, ext. 10. sented some solo piano works. The aria “Sheep May Safely Graze” from a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach was originally scored for soprano, recorders and con- tinuo but has been adapted over the years for various instruments. Dmitri Shelest played an arrangement for piano by Egon Petri. After this quiet piece, Mr. Shelest performed Franz Liszt’s transcription of “Miserere” from Giuseppi Verdi’s “Il Trovatore,” a com- position which permits the pianist to exhibit his virtu- osic skills. Liszt paraphrased some of the best-known Yaro Bihun music in the operatic repertoire, creating works that After viewing the works of such famous impres- explore the technical possibilities of the piano while sionists as Monet, Renoir, Picasso and others in preserving the beautiful melodic lines of the original. the entrance level galleries of Washington’s In her group of solo pieces, Anna Shelest included Kreeger Museum, art lovers proceed to the lower arguably the most popular operatic transcription of level galleries to see “The Lure of the Forest” Liszt, Richard Wagner’s “Liebestod” from “Tristan und collection of Emilie Brzezinski’s modernistic wood sculptures. Descending the stairwell, they Isolde.” Her performance communicated the deep come upon her “Ukraine Trunk.” The towering emotional content of this music. sculpture was inspired by a New York Times Works by George Gershwin completed the pro- photograph by Bulen Kilic of the mass demon- gram: two songs, “The Man I Love” and “Embraceable Artist Emilie Brzezinski is flanked by Dr. Marta strations on Kyiv’s Maidan, which she incorpo- You,” transcribed for solo piano by Earl Wilde, were Bohachevsky-Chomiak (left) and Marta Fedoriw. rated into her maple tree trunk sculpture. performed by Ms. Shelest, and the final work in the program was “Rhapsody in Blue,” arranged for piano four hands by Henry Levine. It was interesting to note the comparison between Skoryk and Gershwin. Both 20th century compositions abound in soulful melo- dies and jazz rhythms. However, Gershwin draws on The Ukrainian Weekly Afro-American idioms, while Skoryk derives his inspi- ration from his Ukrainian roots. A reception after the concert provided an opportu- on Facebook! nity for the members of the audience to meet the art- LIKE ists. https://www.facebook.com/TheUkrainianWeekly No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 11 Shevchenko Foundation presents literary perspective on at Festival of Authors

by Oksana Zakdalsky TORONTO – As the year 2014 marks the centenary of the first world war, the 35th International Festival of Authors in Toronto featured panels relating to that war. On November 2, the Shevchenko Foundation sponsored a lit- erary perspective on World War I and the Internment of Ukrainian Canadians. There were presentations with readings by Prof. Bohdan Kordan, author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and Jars Balan, co-director of the Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Center at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in Edmonton, Alberta. The session was moderated by Prof. Alexander Motyl from Rutgers University, Department of Political Science. Prof. Kordan, chair of the Department of Political Studies, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, has written two books on internment in Canada: “Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada During the Great War” and “A Bare and Impolitic Zenia Turkewych-Miner Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress.” He At the International Festival of Authors in Toronto (from left) are: Dr. Christine Turkewych, Jars Balan, Prof. has recently completed the manuscript “No Free Man: Alexander Motyl, Marcia Forchuk Skrypuch and Prof. Bohdan Kordan. Internment and the Enemy Alien Experience in Canada, 1914-1920.” Ms. Skrypuch, whose own Ukrainian Canadian grandfa- the great war and the civil war in Ukraine. Dr. Kordan provided the broad historical context at the ther was interned as an enemy alien, provided personal The fact that he was a veteran and had served in two time of World War I and described not only the experienc- reminiscences of his account and highlighted what the armies, gave him cachet in the left wing of the community, es of the Ukrainians interned but the strictures put on long-term consequences of that experience meant in her political stature in the ULFTA and sex appeal with women those who were branded “enemy aliens,” that is, anyone own family’s life and relationships in Canada. – all of which played a role in his ultimate downfall. who had come from Austro-Hungary to Canada, no matter The last presentation by Mr. Balan, a freelance writer, Irchan’s extremely popular anti-war play, Rodyna if they supported its war effort or not. His reading revealed editor and translator, was introduced by Prof. Motyl as a Shchitkariv was published and widely produced in Canada the psycho-social effects of this experience for internees, shift from what happened to Ukrainians on Canada’s home and Soviet Ukraine.” ( Jars Balan, 2014, unpublished manu- many of which ended with devastating results. front to the Ukrainian experience on the wartime fronts in script) Ms. Skrypuch is the author of three works of historical Ukraine. Mr. Balan started with a quote from the 1929 The moderator of the panel, Prof. Motyl is a writer, fiction set during the internment: “Dance of the Banished,” Maclean’s article about Myroslav Irchan’s stature as a writ- painter and professor. He is the author of six novels and is “Silver Threads” and “Prisoners in the Promised Land.” The er in Canada, published on the eve of his return to Soviet probably best known for his blog “Ukraine’s Orange Blues” latter two books focused on the Canadian Ukrainian Ukraine. on the current situation in Ukraine which appears on the internment experience. She read from her latest book, “Two books of wartime memoirs were published by World Affairs website. “Dance of the Banished,” which focuses on the Turkish Irchan in , ‘Den Pershoho Travnia’ (Molot, This panel was presented as part of the Literary Arts experience as enemy aliens. As the Ottoman Empire is New York, 1923), and ‘V Burianakh’ (Toronto: Komitet program sponsored by the Shevchenko Foundation and fighting Britain, Ali, who emigrated from Anatolia to Budovy Ukrainskoho Robitnychoho Domu, 1925), having organized by its director, Dr. Christine Turkewych. For Canada, is branded an enemy alien and thrown into an first been serialized in the Winnipeg newspaper, Ukrainski those present, the topic was well presented with signifi- internment camp, although he is a refugee from an oppres- Robitnych Visti in 1924. In Canada in 1923-1929, Irchan cantly memorable information on the intergenerational sive regime. Ali provides an accounting of life in the intern- lectured widely before large crowds in Ukrainian Labor and long-term effects of internment in Canada during ment camp in Kapuskasing. Temples across the country, giving first-hand accounts of World War I.

Pavlo Hunka continues Art Song Project

by Oksana Zakydalsky Institute in . Drafted into the Austrian army, he was captured by the Russians and spent time in Kazakhstan as TORONTO – “Galicians I” – the fourth issue of the Art a prisoner of war. He returned to Lviv and became head of Song Project – was premiered on November 2 at Koerner the musicological commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Hall in Toronto. The selection included the works of Denys Society and later taught at the Lviv Conservatory. Sichynsky, Stanyslav Liudkevych, Vasyl Barvinsky and Vasyl Barvinsky (1888-1963) was an impressionist. He Stefania Turkewich. was exiled to a labor camp in the Mordovian ASSR and all In 2004, bass-baritone Pavlo Hunka embarked on the his musical scores were publicly burned. He returned to Art Song Project – a documentation of all the art songs by Lviv in 1958 and tried to recreate his lost works. Ukrainian composers – with the intention of creating a Stefania Turkewich (1898-1977) was more modern complete anthology of Ukrainian art songs written by 26 than the other Galician composers. Although she also lived Ukrainian composers. in Lviv, she spent time in Berlin, and . In The art song is distinguished from the folk song in that 1946 she fled the Soviets and immigrated to England with the latter has simple melodies and expresses emotions in a her husband. Many of her works have never been per- general way. In contrast, the art song (lied, lieder in formed. Thanks to Mr. Hunka, her two daughters – Zoya German) is a poem set to music, for a trained voice, with Lisowsky de Nyzankowsky (who lives in Geneva) and piano or other musical instrument accompaniment – a Maria Lukianowicz (of Cambridge, England) – attended the combination of music and literature. The art song genre Toronto concert. was established by Franz Schubert at the beginning of the One measure of the success of the Ukrainian Art Song 19th century. project is the fact that non-Ukrainian professionals are per- Thus far, the following recordings of Ukrainian compos- forming the art songs in the original Ukrainian. In addition ers of art songs have been issued by the Art Song Project: to Mr. Hunka, the Canadian opera stars who have taken The cover of the fourth issue of the Art Song Project. Kyrylo Stetsenko (2006), Mykola Lysenko (2010) and Yakiv part in the project include soprano Monica Whicher, mez- Stepovyi (2011). When completed, the entire three-volume zo-soprano Krisztina Szabo and baritone Russell Braun. But Mr. Hunka has not forgotten the reason he initiated Galicians collection will include the works of 12 compos- The singers were accompanied by pianist Albert Krywolt and become involved in this project: “Galicians I” is dedi- ers. Galicians II and III will be recorded in the summer of and violinist Marie Bérard, concertmaster of the Canadian cated to “the heroes of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity 2015. Opera Company orchestra. The producer of the project is The Galician I composers were centered in Lviv, but had Roman Hurko, who has himself composed and recorded bravely sacrificed their lives on the streets of Kyiv, protest- different styles. five major pieces of sacred music. The co-producer is musi- ing2014 for ‘The freedom; Heavenly and Hundred’to the countless – ‘Небесна others Сотня’ who havewho Denys Sichynsky (1865-1909) was a late romantic. cologist and choral director Melanie Turgeon. fought and are fighting today to live in freedom and dignity. During 1890s he led an unsettled life with various music- Previous volumes of recordings have been dedicated by We hope that this celebration of Ukrainian Classical song related occupations in Lviv; most of his art songs originate Pavlo Hunka to persons whom he had known and who offers strength to all, builds yet more pride in the Ukrainian from this period. In 1902 he organized a Ukrainian music played a role in his musical life. For example, the first collec- nation, and displays to the whole world the cultural wealth school in Stanyslaviv (Ivano-Frankivsk), where he settled. tion – Kyrylo Stytsenko – was dedicated to “my beloved of the Ukrainian people.” Stanyslav Liudkevich (1879-1979) was a post romantic, teacher, the late Maria Sandulescu”; the Mykola Lysenko vol- More information on the Ukrainian Art Song Project can studied in Vienna and became the director of the Lysenko ume is “dedicated to the dear memory of Richard Bradshaw.” be found on http://www.ukrainianartsong.ca 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 No. 49

strains in ties caused by Russia’s annexa- other forms to achieve our plans in connec- search of candidates for the new govern- NEWSBRIEFS tion of Crimea and support for separatists tion to supplying gas to other regions. The ment not only in Ukraine, but also abroad, in eastern Ukraine. “The decision that was consequence should rather be calculated especially in the countries with a rich expe- (Continued from page 2) taken and announced by Russia yesterday by those who, as a matter of fact, drove the rience in overcoming systemic crises of natural gas to paying clients. Russian [December 1] tells us that it is urgent not project to the grave.” Doubts about the proj- internal and external origin.” Mr. Kvitashvili President Vladimir Putin said in Turkey on only to diversify the routes but also the ect deepened in June when the EU said noted: “I’ve been working over reforms in December 1 that Moscow was shelving sources of energy for the European Union,” Bulgaria had breached the bloc’s rules by Ukraine for the last three months, but my plans for South Stream, a multibillion-dol- EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini the way it awarded contracts for its leg of love for this country lasts much longer. I’ve lar project to pipe gas under the Black Sea said in Brussels on December 2. Mr. Putin the pipeline. Mr. Putin suggested Bulgaria accepted the proposal to work in the to Bulgaria and then deeper into the EU, blamed the EU for the decision, saying had ceded its sovereignty to Brussels, but Ukrainian government because of my deep which relies on Russia for almost a third of European opposition to the project had European Commission Vice President respect for Ukraine and its people. I am the natural gas it consumes. The decision forced the Kremlin’s hand, and Russia Kristalina Georgieva said Russia was using proud to become a citizen of this great followed years of wrangling between the repeated that accusation on December 2. this as an excuse. In Sofia, Bulgarian country with a great future.” Mr. Kvitashvili EU and Russia over energy supplies, which “You can’t force people to like you,” Russian President Rosen Plevneliev suggested the has served as Georgia’s minister of labor, many in the West say Moscow uses as a Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman South Stream project could be saved if health and social affairs. Mr. Abromavicius geopolitical tool, and reflected severe Aleksandr Lukashevich said. “We will find Russia were to follow the rules. “I am point- has solid experience in investment activity ing your attention to the fact that, if Russia in the countries of Eastern Europe. “I am agrees to comply with European law, I do proud and honored to be granted Ukrainian not imagine anybody having objections to citizenship. I’ve been married to a Ukrainian this project,” he said. “At the same time, up for 10 years. All three kids were born in Kyiv until this moment, Russia has not given and feel very patriotic about this beautiful indications of its intention to comply with country that is experiencing challenging TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 EU law.” (Rikard Jozwiak of RFE/RL, with times. I hope my efforts and experience will or e-mail [email protected] reporting by Agence France-Presse, the help Ukraine reach a totally different level of Associated Press and Reuters) economic development, bring transparency and openness to government’s work and SERVICES PROFESSIONALS President signs decrees on citizenship finally do the much needed reforms fast,” he KYIV – President Petro Poroshenko on said. Ms. Jaresko, a Ukrainian American, has December 2 signed decrees granting been working on attracting and managing Ukrainian citizenship to three foreign citi- foreign investments in Ukraine for more zens – candidates for the posts in the new than 20 years. She enjoys the trust of the Cabinet of Ministers. Under those decrees, Ukrainian business community and interna- Ukrainian citizenship was granted to tional investors. She graduated from Aivaras Abromavicius of Lithuania, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Aleksandre Kvitashvili of Georgia and Government with a master’s degree in pub- Natalie Jaresko of the United States. lic policy. “Having grown up in a Ukrainian Commenting on his decision, Mr. family in the United States, and spending Poroshenko said: “Ukraine faces extraordi- my adult life living and working in Ukraine, I nary challenges – an extremely difficult eco- am honored to accept Ukrainian citizenship. HELP WANTED nomic situation, Russian aggression, an I am committed to Ukraine. With my heart, urgent need for radical reforms and a strug- and with my work. I am grateful for the gle against corruption. These challenges opportunity to continue to serve the PARENTS SEEKING NANNY require extraordinary decisions in public Ukrainian people,” she said. (Ukraine Crisis for two children, administration, which provide for the Media Center) uptown Manhattan Mon – Fri, 8 AM to 6 PM HOUSE FOR SALE! Our children are 3 year old girl, Hunter and 4 month old son, Gri n. Zolota Osin, Kerhonkson, NY We are looking for an experienced This property is currently available for sale in female nanny between the ages of Kerhonkson, a desirable retirement/summer 25-55 who genuinely enjoys caring vacation area 1 1/2 hours from New York City. for, spending time with and teaching It is a brick garage attached with split level home small children. of the former Ukrainian Iconographers Maestro Must be  uent in both English and Juan Denysenko and his son Wladimir. Ukrainian and comfortable speaking The private walkout basement has a large studio to the children in both languages. space with  owering fruit trees, garden and backyard overlooking a stream SERVICES Prior experience and recommendations and forest. The basement can be used as an in-law suite with separate are required. Please include detailed entrance, bedroom, bathroom, laundry and hookup available for kitchen. The list of all prior experience, references main  oor has a huge living and dinning room space with a large retro style including contact information, and kitchen with built in stove top and oven. Two large bedrooms with a third any relevant licenses or certi cations smaller with balcony. The bathroom is retro blue with glazed tile. with your email. This home is located in Zolota Osin, Kerhonkson, NY 12446. It is a gated LOCATION: We live near the B,C and Ukrainian condo community with modest monthly fees of $120 for water the 2,3 trains West 110th Street. services, maintenance etc. The property taxes are assessed on a house/ Contact: property value of $140,000. Negotiable. Katie 917 617 5454 Please email: [email protected] or phone (506) 538-1906 to arrange viewing. [email protected] Michael 917 952 9214 [email protected] SUMA Federal Credit Union Run your advertisement here, Yonkers, New York in The Ukrainian Weekly’s CLASSIFIEDS section. is seeking an outstanding candidate for the position of President. Candidate must have excellent organizational and management skills, in depth knowledge of  nance and banking, as well as superior communication skills (verbal and written - English and Ukrainian). A Bachelor’s degree is required - a graduate degree with 15-20 years professional experience is preferred. For consideration, send CV along with cover letter (pdf) to [email protected]. All correspondence will be strictly con dential. No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 13

also include those like Euro-Maidan legend Russia or the financial crisis is to be found Syroyid as vice-chair. Newly formed... Volodymyr Parasiuk and Azov Battalion in its 66 pages, while Brezhnevite bureau- The biggest surprise among the Cabinet Commander Andrii Biletskyi. cratic expressions such as ‘inventarization’ nominees was the inclusion of three for- (Continued from page 3) Mr. Filatov’s conflict with the and ‘strengthening of the control’ abound.” eigners, all of whom have experience work- Hroisman, who will need to undergo a peri- Poroshenko Bloc is based on a nasty battle (A text of the initialed coalition agree- ing in Ukraine and became citizens via a od of adapting to his new job after serving that Mr. Kolomoisky’s state oblast adminis- ment can be viewed at: http://samopo- presidential decree signed the morning of the Cabinet’s approval. The measure drew in exclusively administrative positions. tration team (which includes deputy heads mich.ua/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ criticism from pro-Russian deputies and “He has no prospects for an independent Svyatoslav Oliynyk and Gennadiy Korban) Koaliciyna_uhoda_parafovana_20.11.pdf.) With the parliamentary majority having nationalists alike. role and will be in the shadows of the presi- is waging against local prosecutors. emerged, deputies spent the weekend “We don’t understand why 10 ministeri- dent,” Mr. Oleshchuk commented. “The On his Facebook page, Mr. Oliynyk determining the Cabinet of Ministers. al candidates weren’t found among 300 president likes to surround himself with accused them in late September of covering Mr. Yatsenyuk was fiercely advocating members of the ruling coalition – and the such people. He picks people who won’t for drug traffickers, tax evaders and cor- ruption that has cost the state hundreds of his interim team of Internal Affairs main thing, among the 40 million people become powerful political players in the millions of dollars. He has also alleged that Minister Arsen Avakov and Justice Pavlo who live in Ukraine – who are citizens of future or potential competitors.” the corruption – led by Dnipropetrovsk Petrenko remaining in place – a demand Ukraine, or at a minimum ethnically Mr. Hroisman will also play a key role in Oblast Procurator Roman Fedyk – has been that was met in exchange for the Ukrainian,” said the Opposition Bloc faction the president’s rivalry with Mr. Yatsenyuk, occurring with the approval of Procurator Poroshenko Bloc gaining twice as many head, Yurii Boiko, during the session. Mr. Basarab said. The two are in “serious General Vitalii Yarema. Cabinet posts as his party. Yet the oligarch – who had spent his competition for influence and positions,” In response, the Procurator General’s Three distinct forces become apparent at political career defending Russian people with the heads of the parliamentary com- Office in Kyiv called Mr. Oliynyk in for ques- the December 2 parliamentary session to and culture in Ukraine – failed to notice mittees yet to be determined, he explained. tioning on November 26 in regard to his approve the nominees. The Opposition Bloc that American-born Finance Minister Another key rivalry in the government claims and alleged threats against local demonstratively abandoned the session hall, Jaresko is, in fact, ethnically Ukrainian. became apparent on the eve of the parlia- prosecutors; the next day Mr. Korban was claiming afterwards it was in protest against Afterwards, the segodnya.ua news site mentary majority’s emergence, when questioned. the single vote for the Cabinet, “which has reported that the Presidential National Deputy Borys Filatov announced “It looks like they were settling scores,” nothing to do with democracy,” said Administration had hired a recruiting he was leaving the Poroshenko Bloc. Mr. Basarab said. “Their conflict could National Deputy Yurii Miroshnychenko. agency to find foreign-born professionals Though he won in a single-mandate district sharpen. Unfortunately, Poroshenko hasn’t A second group – radical reformers that to lead the finance ministry (Ms. Jaresko), as an independent, he signed up to join the risen to the occasion. He remains an oli- include nationalists, soldiers and civic economic development and trade ministry faction on November 26, the same day its garch who is waging battles for resources activists – also refused to support the vote (Lithuanian Aivaras Abromavicius) and deputies blocked him from attending a and assets, alongside Kolomoisky. The to approve the Cabinet by a single vote. health ministry (Georgian Alexander party meeting. Procurator General’s Office is a totally cor- They include those who said they plan to Kvitashvili). What makes the conflict significant is rupt structure that feeds corruption rather form the Ukrop group. Mr. Abromavicius said he was personally that Mr. Filatov is a close adviser to than fights it, and it’s logical to think The measure drew 229 deputies’ votes approached by the head of the Presidential Dnipropetrovsk oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, Yarema is involved.” in favor, a number that did not include the Administration, Borys Lozhkin. At a press serving as his deputy in managing the state Samopomich deputies, who also demon- conference following his approval, Mr. oblast administration. (The state and dis- Coalition agreement stratively left the session hall in protest. Mr. Abromavicius said his ministry will need to trict oblast administrations form the net- The coalition agreement that was ini- Basarab dismissed the stunt as an expres- be overhauled. work of the Presidential Administration’s tialed on November 21 by the five coalition sion of their dissatisfaction with not having The three ministers also acknowledged representative bodies on the regional level.) faction leaders was supposed to be signed gained enough Cabinet seats. The they haven’t prepared their own teams to There was other evidence of a rift on November 27, but that never happened. Samopomich deputies soon afterwards implement the reforms. And Ms. Jaresko between Mr. Kolomoisky’s team and the Experts dismissed it as a declarative docu- returned to their seats and later voted to and Mr. Kvitashvili are likely to be the tar- Presidential Administration. ment with no legal standing. Instead, the approve the Cabinet. get of public ire since their positions will Two national deputies of the Pravyi Sektor Cabinet is currently preparing a program of When that vote finally occurred at about require the most painful measures – social paramilitary force (that has aligned with Mr. its work that will be released soon, Mr. 8 p.m., it was apparent that the parliamenta- spending cuts in Ms. Jaresko’s case and Kolomoisky) – leader Dmytro Yarosh and Oleshchuk said. If approved by Parliament, ry majority truly has a core of 288 deputies health spending cuts in Mr. Kvitashvili’s spokesman Borislav Bereza – didn’t vote to it will give the Cabinet a year of immunity (who voted in approval of the Cabinet via case. approve the candidacy of Mr. Hroisman from a no-confidence vote. the single vote), which can be considered “Foreigners were invited to the govern- (who is aligned with Mr. Poroshenko). The program will need to be far more Ukraine’s third largest parliamentary group ment not only for the experience with The Poroshenko-Kolomoisky alliance is specific than the coalition agreement, judg- ever that is loyal to a current government. reforms, but because trust in them is great- largely credited with ensuring the success ing from the criticism of Ukraine experts “Only about 10 percent of the Parliament er than in our own politicians,” said of Ukraine’s military defense, particularly in who said it doesn’t offer a strategy, or even is committed to radical reforms,” Mr. Volodymyr Fesenko, the director of the the vulnerable oblasts bordering Donetsk, priorities, for dealing with the crisis. Basarab commented. Penta Center for Applied Political Research such as Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk. “Such a conservative document will Earlier in the session, Parliament voted in Kyiv. Rather than joining the coalition, those never bring reform. The document does to keep Pavlo Klimkin as foreign affairs “There’s the risk that the start of like Messrs. Filatov, Yarosh and Bereza said not even start with a set of goals but with a minister and Stepan Poltorak as defense reforms inevitably will create conflict with- they will form a deputies’ group, Ukrop bureaucratic laundry list,” Dr. Aslund wrote minister. in the coalition, as well as in society. There (which means “dill” in Russian), that will in mid-November. “No mention of either Then, at the December 4 session, the will be a great deal of criticism and dissat- coalition selected former National Security isfaction, and that will be a very serious and Defense Council Secretary Andrii trial,” Mr. Fesenko said. “Losses are inevita- Mr. Sverstiuk took part in literary eve- Parubii to be the Rada’s first vice-chair and ble – some ministers will either resign or Yevhen Sverstiuk... nings, meetings and prohibited gatherings, Self-Reliance National Deputy Oksana be dismissed.” such as those at the monument to Taras (Continued from page 1) Shevchenko and in September 1966 in Husar. The group was formed during the memory of the Jews massacred by the regime of President Viktor Yanukovych and Nazis at Babyn Yar, which the Soviet regime on a number of occasions issued state- preferred to ignore. ments regarding the highly contentious He was arrested on January 14, 1972, language law, clearly rigged elections and and convicted of “anti-Soviet agitation and other subjects of concern. propaganda” to seven years’ labor camp Mr. Sverstiuk was one of the (the maximum term) and five years’ exile. “Shistdesiatnyky” (the 60s group), mem- The charges were over articles, in particu- Ділимося сумною вісткою, що 27 листопада 2014 року bers of the intelligentsia whose cultural and lar “Sobor u Rystovanni” (Cathedral in упокоївся в Бозі найдорожчий Батько і Дідо political activities provided a vital form of Scaffolding), as well as public addresses to moral opposition to the Soviet regime dur- teachers in 1965, in which he had criticized св. п. ing the 1960s. Many, including Mr. ideological stereotypes and the system of Sverstiuk, paid for their independent think- lies in the work of schools. д-р Іван Сєрант ing with periods in the Soviet labor camps. He served his sentence in the Perm Mr. Sverstiuk was the author of several cru- political labor camps. From the camps, he народжений 20 листопада 1912 року в с. Демня на Львівщині. cial samvydav texts, and public speeches, for continued to defend victims of political his example, at an evening in memory of the repression, signing various appeals and let- Похорон відбувся 29 листопада 2014 року з церкви poet Vasyl Symonenko were major events. ters in support of particular individuals. One of the samvydav works, written He was later the president of the св. Андрія на цвинтар св. Духа в Гемптонбурґу, Н. Й. together with Ivan Svitlychny and others, Ukrainian PEN Club and editor of the was titled “On the trial of Pohruzhalsky” and Christian newspaper Nasha Vira (Our Faith). Залишилися у глибокому смутку: was about an arson attack on the Kyiv Speaking to Radio Svoboda, former син - Юрій з дружиною Тетяною Central Scientific Library in May 1964 that Soviet-era dissident and psychiatrist внук - Іван destroyed a large number of Ukrainian stud- Semyon Gluzman, said: “The fact is that in братова - Анна Сєрант ies works and archival material. The author Ukraine there are very many professional та ближча і дальша родина в Америці й Україні. believed that the fire was part of a policy to patriots. Different sorts – conscious, mer- destroy the Ukrainian heritage. It appears cantile, various. But there was also that Pohruzhalsky, the man convicted of the Sverstiuk. And now we no longer have him. Вічна Йому пам’ять! crime, was in fact working for the KGB. This is a tragedy for the country.” 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 No. 49

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Fund-raiser benefits Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Schools by Marie Zarycky Cherviovskiy ous important guests, the students partici- pated in various demonstrations, performed HAMTRAMCK, Mich. – For many years the at various community events, staged plays Immaculate Conception (IC) Schools benefit and promoted Ukrainian culture by singing banquet organizers invited former students, ‘koliady’ and ‘hahilky’ at different public successful graduates and loyal supporters to venues like Somerset and Oakland malls. share their fond memories and to reunite This was the atmosphere in which our hon- with their classmates. Dr. Natalya Brezden, IC ored guests grew up. They were outstanding Class of 1981, was instrumental in bringing students, were members of the National together three such alumni – Olena Kalytiak Honor Society and displayed their creative Davis, Ksenia Rychtycka Horobchenko and talents early on in the school newspaper Natalia Iwanycky Tegler – and on Sunday, and yearbooks. They were all active mem- October 26, they were honored by the bers of Plast, completed the ‘matura’ in Ukrainian American community at St. ‘Ridna Shkola,’ participated in various com- Josaphat Church Banquet Hall. munity events and were recipients of the This festive gathering commenced with Merit Scholarship to Wayne State University a warm welcome by mistress of ceremo- and after that their paths diverged.” nies Vera Andrushkiw, who taught all three The first keynote address was by Ms. honorees at IC High School. Current eighth Tegler, who was born in Detroit and gradu- grade students Yulia Mytryfailo, Matey ated as valedictorian in 1987. She graduat- Jacks and Ivan Zaryckyj welcomed the hon- ed with a B.S. in chemistry and an M.A. in The three honorees with the mistress of ceremonies (from left): Natalia Iwanycky Tegler, ored guests with warm greetings in both hazardous waste management, and worked MC Vera Andrushkiw, Olena Kalytiak Davis and Ksenia Rychtycka Horobchenko. languages and flowers. in cancer research in the environmental The Rev. Daniel Schaikovski, pastor of IC field. She married Michael Tegler and job- The second speaker, Ms. Horobchenko, Handed Importunities” (Tin House/ Church, superior of the Order of St. Basil related moves took them from Michigan to attended Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Bloomsbury Press, 2003); and “And Her the Great and administrator of IC Schools, Florida, to Wisconsin and back to Michigan. Catholic Schools, graduating in 1981. She Soul Out Of Nothing” (University of conducted the opening prayer. They have three children, Stefania, graduated with a B.A. in journalism in 1985 Wisconsin Press, 1997), which was selected After dinner, Ms. Andrushkiw returned to Andrew and Joseph. Her unique situation and took off to explore Europe, backpacking by Rita Dove for the Brittingham Prize in the podium. She stated: “In looking back at with her children led her to explore holistic through 12 countries, crossing many bor- Poetry. Her poems have appeared in numer- the 1970s and 1980s our school played a medicine and study homeopathy and bioen- ders both physically as well as psychologi- ous newspapers, journals and anthologies very important role in not only teaching ergetics. It was her children who spurred her cally. She worked in Ukraine as an editor for (including The New York Times, The Los Ukrainian language, history, literature and toward writing about her experiences and the Eastern Economist and the Ukrainian Angeles Times, The Paris Review and The culture, but also creating an awareness and sharing her insights in her book “Swan Legal Foundation for three and a half years. Harvard Review), have been included in understanding of events behind the Iron Mothers: Discovering Our True Selves by She has an M.A. in creative writing from seven volumes of Best American Poetry and Curtain. These were the times of the dissi- Parenting Uniquely Magnificent Children,” Columbia College in Chicago. Her debut col- have won a Pushcart Prize. dent movement. The school hosted numer- written under the pseudonym Nata Erehnah. lection of short stories, “Crossing the The recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Border,” was selected as a finalist in the Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Award, several Rasmuson Foundation grants, in the category of short story-fiction. as well as numerous grants from the Alaska Ms. Horobchenko’s short stories and and Juneau Arts Councils, Ms. Davis currently poems have appeared in numerous publi- writes, practices law and raises her two chil- cations, and she was a finalist in the 2008 dren, Avgustyn Kalytiak-Davis, 15, and Olyana Blue Mesa Review Fiction Contest and a Kalytiak-Davis, 13, in Anchorage, Alaska. “featured poet” in the spring/summer The author spoke about the influence of 2011 issue of River Poets Journal. Her her teachers on her life and writing, and read works have appeared in numerous publica- two of her moving poems, delighting the tions. She resides in metro Detroit with her appreciative audience. She also shared the husband, Volodya, whom she met in good news that her latest collection of poetry Ukraine and her daughter Lina. She works will be reviewed in The New Yorker magazine. as a freelance copy editor. Ms. Andrushkiw concluded by thanking The last speaker was Ms. Davis, who the honored guests for their interesting pre- graduated as co-valedictorian in 1981. After sentations and insightful remarks, which, this rigorous and auspicious start, she grad- she said, will remain with us for a very long uated summa cum laude from Wayne State time. She expressed the community’s pride University in 1985, from the University of in the achievements of these young authors. Michigan Law School in 1987, and obtained She then thanked all benefactors for their Students Matey Jacks, Yulia Mytryfailo and Ivan Zaryckyj greet the honorees. a Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College generous support of Immaculate Conception in 1995. She is the author of four collections Schools through the years, underscoring of poetry: “The Poem She Didn’t Write And their understanding of the importance of a Other Poems” (Copper Canyon Press, Ukrainian Catholic education. 2014); “On the Kitchen Table from Which After a joyous “Mnohaya Lita,” the partic- Everything Has Been Hastily Removed” ipants showed their support by purchasing (Hollyridge Press, 2009); “Shattered the available books and congratulating the Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back three young women for their success. No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 15

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Massachusetts parish celebrates 100th anniversary by Peter T. Woloschuk FALL RIVER, Mass. – The parishioners of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Fall River, Mass., cele- brated the 100th anniversary of the formal establishment of their parish and the completion of their church building with a pontifical divine liturgy followed by a commemora- tive banquet on Sunday, October 5. The main celebrant of the festive 10 a.m. liturgy was Bishop Paul Chomnycky, OSBM, eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford, Conn. He was assisted by the church’s pastor, Msgr. Roman Golemba. As the celebrants entered the church, they were greeted by parish trustees Helen Love and Ihor Slabicky with the traditional ritual bread and salt. During the liturgy, choir director Yuri Minyaluk of St. Michael’s Parish in Woonsocket, R.I., and his wife, Lida, sang the responses. Clifford Corvalho, Grant Kokoszka and Stefan Minyaluk acted as altar servers.

In his homily, Bishop Chomnycky praised the parishio- Sofia Kaczor ners for their continued support of their parish and their Parishioners with Bishop Paul Chomnycky and Msgr. Roman Golemba at the conclusion of the divine liturgy cele- church and for their maintenance of their Ukrainian lan- brating the centennial of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Fall River, Mass. guage, rituals and traditions. “For more than 100 years, suc- cessive generations of parishioners in Fall River have mani- and each parishioner was given a commemorative icon of develop in the Globe section of the city, and in 1905 a fested their love of God, their Ukrainian Catholic Church and the parish’s patron, St. John the Baptist. group of men founded the Brotherhood of St. John the their heritage,” Bishop Chomnycky pointed out. “It is now In commenting on the celebration, parish trustee Mr. Baptist and formed a committee to begin the organization up to you to continue this proud tradition and pass on what Slabicky said, “Although our parish is very small now, we of a Ukrainian Catholic parish and begin the construction you have received to future generations,” he added. are here and our centennial is a celebration of our pres- of a church. A celebratory banquet was held following the liturgy at ence, and the presence of the Ukrainian community and At first, a Ukrainian priest would come occasionally Magoni’s Restaurant in Somerset, Mass. Former parish the Ukrainian Catholic rite in the Fall River region.” from St. Michael’s Parish in Woonsocket, and hold services trustee John Kokoszka, who is also a third-generation Ukrainians from the Austro-Hungarian provinces of in one of the three local Latin Rite parishes (St. Stanislaus, member of the parish, was the main speaker and gave an Halychyna began arriving in Fall River in the last decade of St. Anne and St. Mary). Finally, on June 21, 1914, the broth- overview of the history of the parish. At the dinner, Bishop the 19th century, attracted by work in the various mills and Chomnycky was presented a gift by the parish trustees, factories of the city. Eventually, a community began to (Continued on page 16) Philadelphia UNWLA presents exhibit of Kapschutschenko sculptures

by Petrusia Sawchak gave a brief biographical description of the Personal reflections were given by Ms. Voloshky Dance Ensemble offered homage artist’s life in the keynote address. Doherty and John Bruce Schmitt, the mae- to the artist who was born in Ukraine but JENKINTOWN, Pa. – On October 31, a Kapschutschenko was born in Ukraine stro’s son-in-law. Mr. Schmitt described his lived part of his life in Argentina. gala opening night reception was held in in 1915 and completed his studies in sculp- father-in-law as a humble man, who was Completing this scene was an elaborate the Alexander Chernyk Gallery at the ture at the Dnipropetrovsk Fine Arts never arrogant about his accomplishments culinary assortment of scrumptious appe- Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center Institute. After World War II, he lived in or abilities. He emphasized qualities of his tizers and sweets. (UECC) to view the sculptures of the late Regensburg, Germany, at a displaced per- works which make him exceptional: the The exhibition was organized by Halyna Peter (Petro) Kapschutschenko from the sons’ camp for four years, where he contin- form, the expressions and details on the Henhalo, president of the UNWLA private collection of Andrew and Sophia ued his artistic endeavors among other tal- faces that capture the precise moment and Philadelphia Regional Council; co-chairs Melnychuk of Brewster, N.Y. ented people in the community. situation of the piece. He also talked about were Eryna Korchynsky and Ms. Keller, More than 100 guests attended this fes- In 1949, he immigrated with his family Kapschutschenko’s great patriotism, devo- assisted by Petrusia Sawchak. Other mem- tive exhibition presented by the to Buenos Aires, where he was known by tion and love of Ukraine, which he carried bers of the committee included Oxana Philadelphia Regional Council of the his pseudonym Pedro Enko. There he was with him for his whole life. Farion, Oksana Henhalo, Halyna Karaman, Ukrainian National Women’s League of appointed honorary member of the The elegant reception featured the Iryna Konyk, Andrij Korchynsky, Daria Lissy, America (UNWLA). The exhibition was Universidad Libre de Humanidades de sounds of the Ukrainian bandura per- Mariana Mokritski, Marta Pelensky, Halyna made possible mainly by a grant from the Buenos Aires for his artistry and contribu- formed by Halyna Bodnar and Yuliya Pupin, Nadia Rusinko, Zoriana Sohatska, Ukrainian Community Foundation of tions to Argentina’s culture. Stupen, and Argentinean acoustic guitar Oksana Voroch and Bogdanna Yudina. Philadelphia. Other sponsors were the In 1963, Kapschutschenko settled in music provided by Pedro Martinez and For more information about the exhibit, UECC, MB Financial Bank and Meest-US. Philadelphia, taught at the Ukrainian Art Joseph Costillo. Live art installations of readers may refer to www. The exhibition was on view through Studio with Prof. Petro Mehyk, opened his Ukrainian and Spanish couples from the Kapschutschenkoscuptures.com. November 2. own studio, and created the majority of his The 40 magnificent sculptures on dis- works. His most famous sculptures were play were presented by Phyllis Doherty and the large monuments to Metropolitan Vasyl Joan DeCosa, daughters of the Melnychuk Lypkivsky and St. Olha, Kyivan princess, on family, who inherited the collection (which the grounds of the St. Andrew Ukrainian spanned the period 1972-1976) from their Orthodox Memorial Church in South Bound parents. According to Mrs. Doherty, this Brook, N.J. unique collection was commissioned by In 1996, Kapschutschenko returned to her father from Maestro Kapschutschenko Ukraine to exhibit his works at the Taras in 1972, and this is only the second time it Shevchenko National Museum in Kyiv and has been exhibited. later in other museums throughout Ms. Doherty said, “This collection is very Ukraine. There are now nine museums in dear to us – it is a very important and mov- Ukraine that include his works in their per- ing part of our family’s history.” She added manent collections. Among them are the that this is a tremendous responsibility and Hetman Museum in Kyiv, the Taras that she wants to share Petro Shevchenko Museum in Kaniv, the National Kapschutschenko’s artistry with the entire Expocenter of Ukraine, and more recently, Ukrainian American community, which has the National University of Ostroh Academy, long appreciated the scope of his work. which added a piece in 2013. During the reception, the opening In 2005, he was awarded the prestigious remarks were given by Halyna Keller, and Presidential Order of Artistic Merit by the mistress of ceremonies was Olenka President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine. Karpinich, both members of UNWLA He passed away in 2006 in Lawrenceville, Committee members with John Bruce Schmitt, son-in-law of sculptor Peter Branch 88. N.J., leaving his wife, Zoia, and daughter, Dr. Kapschutschenko (from left): Halyna Karaman, Oksana Henhalo, Co-Chair Erna The chair of the Ukrainian Community Ludmila Schmitt, both of whom have Korchynsky, Andrij Korchynsky, Petrusia Sawchak, Co-Chair Halyna Keller, Mr. Foundation of Philadelphia, Roman Petyk, passed away since that time. Schmitt, Halyna Henhalo, Oksana Voroch, Halyna Pupin and Bogdanna Yudina. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 No. 49 Team Ukraine cyclists raise over $8,500 for MS by Damian Handzy tri-state cyclists and to take advantage of either a completely traffic-free ride on the NEW YORK – In the chilly twilight before West Side Highway and the FDR Drive or a dawn on October 5, the 11 members of challenging course through the rolling hills Team Ukraine joined other cyclists in the of the Palisades. Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Bike MS New The team’s riding jerseys, designed by York City 2014 charity ride. Seven members artist Roman Hrab, feature the Ukrainian rode in a 30-mile loop around Manhattan, tryzub prominently displayed on both the while four rode in a 100-mile course front and back. Team Ukraine’s riders through the Holland Tunnel and up the sce- included five minors: Sofia Handzy and nic Palisades into New York state before Melania Wowk (both 12), Kyril Yurchuk returning over the George Washington (13), Stephen Handzy (14) and Matthew Bridge. Handzy (17). Team Ukraine raised over $8,500 in The team’s co-captains, Roman Hrab and donations that the MS Society will use to this writer, considered the appropriateness provide services for those afflicted and for of asking Ukrainian Americans to donate to much-needed research toward a cure. This the MS Society in a year during which the year’s entire cycling event attracted over diaspora has already given so much to 5,000 cyclists who collectively raised causes in support of Ukraine. The decision almost $500,000. was made to proceed in an attempt to dem- Team Ukraine cyclists at the Bike MS New York City charity ride. Two years ago, Dr. Bohdar Woroch of onstrate that Ukrainian Americans not only West Orange, N.J., inspired the first Team support their own but are also active and woven into the wider American fabric and fund-raising for this event. Ukraine MS cycling event in the City to contributing members of American society. that we care about others’ needs. The This year’s Team Ukraine adult riders Shore ride from Cherry Hill to Ocean City, Riding in such a public event with the results speak for themselves: raising over included Mr. Hrab, Taras Ferencevych, N.J. This year, the team decided to move to Ukrainian symbol on display would help $8,500 by just 11 people, five of whom are Bohdan Skoratko, Andy Wowk, Dorian the New York City ride both to attract more send the message that Ukrainians are minors, puts the team on the high end of Yurchuk and Damian Handzy. The team is actively searching for new members for next year’s ride, when it hopes to have over 25 Team Ukraine riders. Anyone interesting in joining Team Ukraine 2015 can contact the writer by email, dhandzy@alumni. upenn.edu.

Massachusetts... (Continued from page 15) erhood took the unusual step of writing a letter to Bishop Soter Ortynsky of Philadelphia, saying: “We have the honor to inform your Excellency that we have com- pleted the construction of a church and request that you send us a resident priest…” Bishop Ortynsky dispatched Father John Zarkharko as the first pastor and a short time later dedicated the church building. Initially, the parish community numbered 199 members and it continued to grow. In 1918 the parish installed the church bell and christened it “Vasyl,” and in 1924 the first women’s guild, the Sisterhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was founded. Over the years, the parish prospered, built a rectory, opened a Ukrainian National Home, acquired picnic grounds in Tiverton, R. I., and initiated a second women’s guild, the Sisterhood of St. John the Baptist. Two of the sons of the parish were killed fighting for the United States during World War II. However, after the second world war, Fall River went into decline and much of its industry relocated to the South. The city’s population contracted, and the number of parishioners of St. John the Baptist’s also began to drop. The parish also saw accul- turation and intermarriage, and some fur- ther decreases in overall numbers. Because Fall River was not a magnet for the Fourth Wave of Ukrainian immigration, the members of the church in Fall River are the descendants of the original parishioners and now represent the third, fourth, fifth and, in some cases, even sixth generations of Ukrainian American members of the parish. St. John’s has been aided in its continu- ous growth and development by the estab- lishment of a very generous foundation by lifelong parishioner Olga Hoffman, who was concerned with the future of the par- ish in Fall River. Located at 339 Centre Street, St. John’s warmly welcomes all to its Sunday liturgy at 8:30 a.m., which is said in Church Slavonic and English and which is followed by a cof- fee hour in the church hall. For further information, see St. John’s Parish website at http//www.stmichaelsri.org/STJOHN.php. No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 17 Plast scouts compete in 52nd Orlykiada by Lydia Rezie KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Fourteen teams of Plast scouts from across the U.S. and Canada gathered on November 8-9 on the grounds of the Soyuzivka Heritage Center to participate in “Orlykiada,” an annual competition aimed at challenging its participants both intellectually and creative- ly. Orlykiada is sponsored and organized by the Plast fra- ternity Orlykivtsi, and for the second consecutive year the organizers were joined by the Plast sorority Verkhovynky, who helped run the event. This year’s theme, “Break Your Chains: The Rise of the Ukrainian Nation,” focused on the development of Ukrainian national identity over the last two centuries, cul- minating in the Euro-Maidan and Ukraine’s current battle to forge a new state independent of Russian influence. The theme’s name was borrowed from Taras Shevchenko’s poem “Testament,” reflecting Shevchenko’s profound and continued influence on Ukrainian identity. Natalka Halatyn The boys’ team from Toronto and the co-ed team from Chicago compete in the academic bowl. Current events in Ukraine weighed heavily on the partic- ipants, and the opening ceremony concluded with a moment of silence in memory of the three Plast members who have died in combat during the anti-terrorist opera- tion in eastern Ukraine. The opening ceremony was followed by three team competitions: an academic bowl, theatrical performances and exhibits. While the academic bowl focused solely on the participants’ knowledge of the theme, the performanc- es and exhibits also relied on creativity to capture the attention of judges. Performances were punctuated by art- istry, imagination and even humor, while the exhibits turned the venue into a veritable museum. In addition to the team competitions, individuals also competed for the title of “hetmanych” and “hetmanivna,” awarded to Orlykiada’s most outstanding male and female scout, respectively. Candidates were judged based on their activity and leadership roles in Plast and the broader Ukrainian community; their ability to converse with judges

Representatives of the teams report their readiness for the opening ceremony. (Continued on page 19) 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 No. 49

Zajac a dynamic Devil Boychuk will be counted on to have a 3. Bryce Salvador, N.J. Devils: His age is right wingers. Unlike veteran Ruslan bigger role on the Island than what it was catching up to him, but he’s the captain and, Fedotenko, Tootoo earned his deal as a There have been several dynamic duos in Boston. He is expected to become an when not hurt, a top-four defender. non-roster invitee to training camp… in the history of the New Jersey Devils: unrestricted free agent next summer and 4. Johnny Boychuk, N.Y. Islanders: Finally Lee Stempniak came to the N.Y. Rangers Gomez and Mogilny, Arnott and Elias, Zajac might not be re-signed. For at least one sea- given a chance at a full-time job, he made with close-up knowledge after skating for and Parise. Jaromir Jagr and Travis Zajac son his focus will be on helping the the most of his opportunity. He owns a the Pittsburgh Penguins and being elimi- have worked well together since coach Islanders get back to the playoffs and him- lethal shot and will mentor young Isles. nated in a seven-game playoff series last Peter DeBoer paired them in October 2013. self a lucrative new contract. 5. Tyler Bozak, Toronto Maple Leafs: He June. Stempniak signed with the Blueshirts Jagr, it is safe to say, exceeded expectations The Islanders gave up second-round centers the top line with Kessel and van on July 19 after playing 21 regular season in his first season with the Devils. He has selections in the 2015 and 2016 NHL drafts Riemsdyk – he surprised with 49 points in games and 13 playoff games with been part of numerous dynamic duos over plus a conditional third-round pick. 58 games last year. Pittsburgh following a trade from the his storied career, teaming up with Mario Boychuk, 30, set career highs last season in 6. Lee Stempniak, N.Y. Rangers: His scor- Calgary Flames. The N.Y. Rangers are his Lemieux, Ron Francis and Adam Oates, so it goals (5), assists (18), points (23) and plus/ ing skills are still in demand, although these sixth NHL team. The 31-year-old has lots of was no surprise he fit in so well with the minus (+31). It was his 10th professional days he only rates one-year deals; should friends from college (Dartmouth) living in Ukrainian Zajac. The two displayed consis- season and sixth with the Bruins. help new squad on power play. the New York area and has always loved tency throughout the 2013-2014 season. In 321 career NHL games with Boston 7. Kyle Brodziak, Minnesota Wild: He playing in New York. Attacking off the rush Entering his ninth NHL season, the and Colorado, Boychuk has 75 points (19 knows his role: third line, a checking center and speed are the keys to his game – he’s 29-year-old Zajac has been the setup man goals). In 79 career playoff games he has who occasionally will chip with a point. scored 50 goals and 191 assists in 637 NHL for Patrik Elias, Zach Parise and Ilya scored 27 points (13 goals). Boychuk won 8. Daniel Winnik, Toronto Maple Leafs: games… Kovalchuk prior to Jagr entering the scene. the American Hockey League’s Eddie Shore Toronto acquired this wily, gritty center late Toronto signed Daniel Winnik to a one- Although his point totals have dropped in Award in 2009, given to the league’s out- in the summer to bolster its bottom six for- year contract late this past summer. He recent years, he contributes more in other standing defenseman. He was selected in ward unit and penalty killing. played in 76 games for the Anaheim Ducks ways, including defensive duty against the the second round (61st overall) of the 2002 9. Jordin Tootoo, N.J. Devils: He makes in 2013-2014, notching career highs in opponent’s top line, winning face-offs and NHL Entry Draft by the Colorado Avalanche. the team on a try-out – his feisty style of assists (24) and points (30) while compil- performing as a key penalty killer. It took him some time and lots of hard play adds toughness to New Jersey’s skilled ing a plus-six rating. The 6-2, 207-pound Zajac has been soaking up all of the work, but Johnny “Rocket” finally carved a forward roster. He’s happy to be out of center has amassed 150 career NHL points knowledge and experience he can from Jagr. place for himself in the NHL. He will forever Detroit. and 226 PIM’s in 490 games with four NHL The two sit side-by-side in the locker room be grateful to the Bruins for the opportuni- 10. Dave Schlemko, Phoenix Coyotes: clubs… and Zajac frequently joins No. 68 in his post- ty they gave him after the Avs gave up on This journeyman defenseman has played Buffalo added defensive depth by sign- game workouts. He correctly figures there him way too soon. his way onto the team’s third pairing on the ing Tyson Strachan to a one-year deal. He are reasons why Jagr has been so very suc- blue line. appeared in 18 games with the Washington cessful for so long, thus accepting any tips he Ukrainian player rankings 11. Matt Halischuk, Winnipeg Jets: He Capitals in 2013-2014, spending most of receives from the future Hall of Famer. has a 50-50 chance at sticking with the year in Hershey (AHL), dressing in 60 Every year hockey periodicals publish Both are strong on the puck, hanging on Winnipeg; another Ukrainian with bad games, tallying 19 points with 56 PIM’s and lists of the NHL’s top players. The Hockey to it until there is a play to make; they do not injury luck in recent years. a plus-13 rating. Strachan has played in 138 News selected Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby dump the puck just to get rid of it. Both read 12. Tyson Strachan, Buffalo Sabres: The NHL games in parts of six seasons with as the best player in the world going into the game well, both are aggressive on the ultimate journeyman defender is either the three organizations. Originally drafted by the current season. Their criteria factor in forecheck, usually on the same page, getting last guy in Buffalo or the top guy in the Carolina Hurricanes in 2003, Strachan past achievements and career potential, but the pucks back into the opponent’s end. Rochester (AHL). has played in parts of eight AHL seasons for the most part ask which current player The Devils are hoping the top line of Jagr, 13. Zach Boychuk, Carolina Hurricanes: with four clubs, compiling 87 points and would be the choice if one was starting a Zajac and a third member have continued He’s trying to take advantage of a second 326 penalty minutes in 276 regular season new franchise today. success in the 2014-2015 campaign. life with Carolina; a former first-round pick games. He began 2014-2015 with the big In lieu of a preview of the 2014-2015 and one-time top AHL prospect could final- club in Buffalo… After spending the last NHL season, The Weekly has decided to ly make it. four seasons in the AHL, Brandon Kozun Boychuk a salary rate our Ukrainian pro hockey stars in a 14. Brandon Kozun, Toronto Maple made the cut and started the current cam- cap casualty first-ever ranking. We’re limiting ourselves Leafs: He made the final cut out of training paign with the Toronto Maple Leafs, giving to 14 players who started the new season In the running for a playoff spot in 2014- camp after toiling in the minors for four the club a fourth Ukrainian skater (Bozak, skating in NHL rinks. Minor leaguers and 2015, the New York Islanders bolstered their seasons. He’s a vertically challenged speed- Lupul and Winnik being the other three). prospects can look forward to being includ- chances at the end of training camp when ster who adds zip to Toronto’s line-up. Kozun displayed great speed, a solid work ed in future rankings. Here we go: they acquired defensemen Johnny Boychuk Ukrainian Utterings: Jordin Tootoo spent ethic and scoring potential during Leafs 1. Travis Zajac, N.J. Devils: He’s counted and Nick Leddy. The two skated together about 10 days in early October looking for a training camp. The 24-year-old registered their first day of practice (October 6), a on for offense, defense and leadership house in New Jersey after earning a one- 17 goals and 46 points with the AHL’s defense pairing likely to stay together head- these days in New Jersey. year contract with the Devils. He previously Toronto Marlies last season… ing into the new season. The two will learn 2. Joffrey Lupul, Toronto Maple Leafs: If he played for the Nashville Predators and new systems, get adjusted to new surround- avoids injuries, this winger is capable of 30 Detroit Red Wings, the latter club buying Ihor Stelmach may be reached at ings and get to know each other real fast. goals and 60+ points on club’s second line. out his contract, claiming it had too many [email protected].

making films and surviving as a nation. In told Jamestown that Russian officials are Reflections... fact one thing helps the other, never mind Ukrainian Donbas... constantly trying to place a map on the nego- feminism! tiation table to carve up Ukraine and the rest (Continued from page 8) (Continued from page 2) In your opinion, what is the most of Eastern Europe into “spheres of interests,” equality. So first we have to save Ukraine exciting thing happening in Ukraine tried to reverse by political, economic and Molotov-Ribbentrop style. Moscow seems to as a sovereign nation, and then we can today? In any sphere, cinematic or oth- military pressure that escalated into an be sincerely demanding an everlasting “non- talk about making movies, right. If erwise? invasion. Now, Russian foreign and defense NATO” pledge for Ukraine, which no one can Ukraine loses the war that Russia has policies seem to be at a dead end, which is legally provide – effectively ruling out the Well, I belong to the definite majority of waged against it, there will be no highly dangerous, since it leaves little room possibility of reaching a comprehensive, people who treat what’s going on in Ukrainian cinema, so how do we recon- for any meaningful negotiated outcomes. negotiated solution of the Ukrainian crisis. Ukraine as singularly a war of aggression; cile these two issues? Moscow claims it wants a sustainable therefore, it’s difficult to find anything ceasefire in Donbas, but its open-ended The article above is reprinted from There’s nothing to reconcile. Making exciting about war. Ignoring that, what is support of the rebels turns the Minsk Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from Ukrainian films is a powerful way of mobi- exciting is the long overdue process of crys- agreements into nonsense. its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, lizing the Ukrainian nation all across the tallization and consolidation of the national Top Moscow-based Western diplomats www.jamestown.org. board. Appealing to things Ukrainian as identity in Ukraine. There is a kind of infinitely superior as values over the values emerging national unity that we haven’t of the aggressor is a powerful mobilizing had, at least we hadn’t had the feeling of it mir-kara-murza/both-ukraine-and-russia- force. Even Stalin in his day of war against before. Maybe it was there, but it took this Does modernization... belong-europe). There is no reason – again, the Nazis, knowing the incredible power of war and this atrocious behavior of the for- in better circumstances – why Ukraine nationalism, allowed for nationalist expres- mal imperial power who refuses to become (Continued from page 7) could not once more lead the process of sion in film, allowing such of his court film- former but wants to be future and present Muscovy, as it turned Westward and modernization, and why Russia – given makers as Ihor Savchenko to make imperial power to give Ukraine a sense of became modern Russia. Something analo- more sober and humble rulers – could not “Bohdan Khmelnytskyi,” allowing Mikheil purpose as a nation, a sense of solidarity as gous could happen today. As civil society follow. But today, modernization can take a Chiaureli to make a film that appeared to a nation, a sense of shared systems of value activist and historian Vladimir Kara-Murza new form, moving beyond Westernization Georgian nationalism called “Giorgi as a nation. And for me – though I would commented last year, both Russia and to models better suited to indigenous cul- Saakadze.” But now, to deny Ukrainians – object to the word “exciting” given the war Ukraine are European countries, and the ture and tradition. This would mean not a that is not simply stupid, but it’s suicidal. – had there been no war, that would be future of both belongs in Europe (http:// renunciation of Europe, but its enrichment There is no conflict whatsoever between very exciting. www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/vladi- and redefinition. No. 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 19

Through Children’s exhibit, “From Past to Present: Ethnic Heritage December 13 Yalynka Christmas celebration, Ukrainian Engineers’ January 25, 2015 Through the Eyes of My Elders,” Ukrainian Institute of New York Society of America and the Ukrainian Medical Association Chicago Modern Art, 312-421-8020 of North America, Ukrainian Institute of America, www.uesa.org December 9 Holodomor commemorative event, Permanent Mission of New York Ukraine to the United Nations, United Nations Headquarters, December 13 Concert, “A Bandura Christmas,” Ukrainian Bandurist [email protected] or 212-759-7003 ext.115 Warren, MI Chorus, Ukrainian Cultural Center, 734-953-0305 or (must RSVP by December 7) www.bandura.org

December 10 Performance by jazz pianist John Stetch, “Off with the December 13 Christmas Bazaar, St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, New York cuffs,” Ukrainian Institute of America, 212-288-8660 Amsterdam, NY 518-842-8731

December 10 Discussion, “Soviet Symbols After the Soviets,” City December 13 Lecture by Natalia Laas, “Politics Serving Science The New York University of New York, John Jay College, New York Harvard 1950s Project to Study the National Question http://www.eventbrite.com/e/soviet-symbols-after-the- of the Soviet Union,” Shevchenko Scientific Society, soviets-tickets-14489641909 212-254-5130

December 11 Film screening, “The Guide,” with director Oles Sanin and December 13 Performance, “Koliada and Music from the Carpathians,” New York Anton Sviatoslav Greene, Ukrainian Film Club of Philadelphia featuring the Yara Arts Group and the Koliadnyky of Columbia University, Harriman Institute at Columbia Kryvorivnia, Ukrainian League of Philadelphia, University, The Ukrainian Museum, 215-776-1004 www.ukrainianmuseum.org or 212-228-0110 December 13-14 Family activity for making Ukrainian Christmas tree December 11 Christmas dinner and presentation of awards, Ukrainian New York ornaments, The Ukrainian Museum, Ottawa Canadian Professional and Business Association of Ottawa, www.ukrainianmuseum.org or 212-228-0110 Marconi Center, [email protected] or 613-851-9171 December 13-14 Christmas Bazaar, Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church, Silver Spring, MD 301-717-2537 December 11 Performance, “Koliada and Music from the Carpathians,” Annandale-on- featuring Yara Arts Group and the Koliadnyky of December 14 Performance, “Koliada and Music from the Carpathians,” Hudson, NY Kryvorivnia, Bard College, [email protected] or Washington featuring the Yara Arts Group and the Koliadnyky of 845-752-2405 Kryvorivnia, Ukrainian National Catholic Shrine of the Holy Family, [email protected] or December 12 Concert featuring classical works performed by violinist www.ucns-holyfamily.org New York Solomia Soroka and pianist Arthur Greene, The Ukrainian Museum, 212-228-0110 or www.ukrainianmuseum.org Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events December 12 Ukrainian Festivities on the Eve of St. Andrew, Ukrainian advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Chicago Cultural Center, 312-421-8020 or from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors [email protected] and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

Excitement mounted as the overall Ukrainian Plast... results were announced, beginning with fifth place. The girls’ team from Toronto Chornomorski Khvyli enjoy reunion (Continued from page 17) came in fifth; the girls’ team from Newark on topics in Ukrainian history, culture and took fourth; the co-ed team from Chicago at St. Mary’s Villa in Sloatsburg, N.Y. current events; and how their attitudes and came in third; and the boys’ team from behavior reflect the ideals of Plast. Newark took second. The first-place win- After a rigorous weekend of interviews, ner of this year’s Orlykiada was the girls’ quizzes and stage performances, Andriy team representing Passaic. Stasiuk of the Plast branch of Newark, N.J., was The victors of the 52nd Orlykiada could named hetmanych, and Dorota Andrusiak not conceal their excitement at the out- of Montreal was named hetmanivna. come, which, in their view, was no accident: The newly named hetmanych and het- “Our kurin [troop] competes in Orlykiada manivna immediately assumed their roles every year, but this year, we worked harder as honorary hosts of the closing ceremony, than ever – we came to win!” exclaimed during which the results of the competition Lena Wanio from the Passaic team. The were announced, beginning with the win- effort paid off, and their mission was trium- ners in each of the three categories. phantly accomplished. The winner of the academic bowl was the Participants were invited to return for girls’ team from Passaic, N.J.; first place for the- next year’s competition, celebrating the atrical performances was awarded to the co-ed music of Volodymyr Ivasiuk and his influ- team from Chicago; and first place for exhibits ence on the development of contemporary was awarded to the girls’ team from Toronto. Ukrainian music.

SLOATSBURG, N.Y. – Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization’s senior sorority of Chornomorski Khvyli welcomed this year’s autumn equinox over the weekend of September 20-21 with a reunion and conference here on the grounds of the beautiful estate of the Sisters-Servants of Mary Immaculate. At St. Mary’s Villa, the Khvyli held an official session during which members presented reports on their recent activities and resolved to continue their work in promoting Plast ide- als and sea scouting rituals and traditions, particularly among younger members of the organization. A new leadership was elected for the next two years, headed by Zirka Klufas as “kurinna.” In the evening, sorority members enjoyed an informal get-together, with everyone recounting their adventures and experiences. A spon- taneous three-part choir came into being when all sang beloved Plast songs, as Natalka Halatyn well as Ukrainian folk and contemporary songs. See above are the Chornomorski Andriy Stasiuk and Dorota Andrusiak are named hetmanych and hetmanivna, Khvyli with their sorority flag. respectively, of the 52nd Orlykiada. – Zirka Klufas 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 No. 49

PREVIEW OF EVENTS Subscribe to Saturday, December 13 Ivan and Mykola Zelenchuk, with “troista” “Winter Light” with koliada and vertep featur- NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society musicians Mykola Ilyuk, Vasyl Tymchuk and ing Koliadnyky, Yara artists and special invites all to a lecture “Politics Serving Science: Ostap Kostyuk. They will be joined by the guests. The program is on Saturday at 3 p.m. The Harvard 1950s Project to Study the SPIV-Zhyttia vocal ensemble, as well as ban- and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. La MaMa National Question in the Soviet Union” by Prof. durist Julian Kytasty. The program is at 2:30 Experimental Theater is located at 66 E. he Natalia Laas. Prof. Laas is a candidate of histor- p.m. at the Ukrainian National Catholic Shrine Fourth St. Admission is $25; $20 for seniors, T ical sciences, a research fellow at the National of the Holy Family, 4250 Harewood Road NE. students and children. Tickets may be pur- Academy of Science in Ukraine and the 2014- Tickets: $25; $15 for seniors and students. chased by calling 212-475-7710 or at www. 2015 Carnegie Fellow at Harvard Ukrainian For information e-mail ukelivingsong@gmail. lamama.org. com. krainian Research Institute. The lecture will take place Wednesday, December 31 U at the society’s building, 63 Fourth Ave. Saturday, December 20 (between Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For PERTH AMBOY, N.J.: A New Year’s Eve dance additional information, call 212-254-5130. WASHINGTON: Taras Shevchenko School of (zabava) will be held by Assumption Ukrainian Studies will host a Mykolai show Ukrainian Catholic Church, 380 Meredith St., PHILADELPHIA: Yara Arts Group presents and holiday bazaar. Students will present a Perth Amboy, N.J., beginning at 8 p.m. Music Weekly “Koliada and Music from the Carpathians” Mykolai show at noon. Sviatyi Mykolai (St. will be by Oberehy. Tickets are $80 per per- featuring the Koliadnyky from Kryvorivnia Nicholas) will then meet with each grade/age son; children (age 5-12), $40. (Tickets pur- Ivan and Mykola Zelenchuk, with “troista” group (non-students welcome). The Heavenly chased after December 25 will be $90). A TV musicians Mykola Ilyuk, Vasyl Tymchuk and Office will be open at 9:15-11:45 a.m.; only will be raffled off as a door prize. Menu will per year Ostap Kostyuk. They will be joined by the one item per child ($2 fee), labeled (child’s include: main course – stuffed salmon, $90 Accolada Chamber Choir. The program is at name, grade/age). The bazaar/bake sale at French-style pork, roasted chicken, chicken 7:30 p.m. at the Ukrainian League of 9:30 a.m. to noon will feature a variety of with barbeque sauce, chicken loaf, meatloaf, Philadelphia, 800 N. 23rd St. Tickets: $25; $20 home-baked treats and holiday foods, as well stuffed cabbage, pyrohy, roasted potatoes, $80 for UNA for seniors, students and children. For infor- as books and gift items. Location: Westland cheese blintzes, puffs with meat, mushroom mation call 215-776-1004. Middle School, 5511 Massachusetts Ave., gravy, borshch; European salads – salad olivi- members Sunday, December 14 Bethesda, MD 20816. For further information er, cold feet (studynets), “shuba,” carrot salad visit ukrainianschoolbazaar.weebly.com or with raisins, cold cuts, pickled cucumbers and CHICAGO: The Chicago Business and contact Lada Onyshkevych, lada2@verizon. tomatoes; desserts – cakes, fresh fruit and Professional Group invites members and the net or 410-730-8108. champagne. For tickets call 732-826-0767 or community to a presentation by Dr. Roman 202-368-2408. All seats reserved; no tickets Cybriwsky on his new book “Kyiv, Ukraine: Saturday-Sunday, December 27-28 For an additional will be sold at the door. For information see The City of Domes and Demons” – an anthro- NEW YORK: Yara’s new theater piece www.assumptioncatholicchurch.net. $5 get an online pological and sociological study of urban change from socialism to a particularly rapa- subscription as well cious market economy that helped fuel the civic revolt on Maidan. Dr. Cybriwsky is pro- PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES fessor of geography and urban studies at Preview of Events is a listing of community events open to the public. It is a service pro- Temple University and former Fulbright vided at minimal cost ($20 per listing) by The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian commu- Scholar at the National University of Kyiv nity. Items must be no more than 100 words long. Please contact Subscription Dept. Mohyla Academy. The presentation will be held at 1 p.m. at the Ukrainian Institute of Preview items must be received no later than one week before the desired date of Modern Art, 2320 W. Chicago Ave. Admission: publication. Please include payment for each time the item is to appear and indicate Tel.: 973-292-9800 ext. 3040 $10. For additional information contact chica- date(s) of issue(s) in which the item is to be published. [email protected]. Information should be sent to [email protected]. When e-mailing, please do not Published by the Ukrainian WASHINGTON: Yara Arts Group presents send items as attachments – simply type the text into the body of the e-mail message. “Koliada and Music from the Carpathians” Preview items and payments may be mailed to: Preview of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, National Association featuring the Koliadnyky from Kryvorivnia 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054.