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Frustrated with stalled reforms, Kuchma says CIS summit heralds Pynzenyk offers his resignation new era in relations among members by Roman Woronowycz tax reform package prompted Mr. by Roman Woronowycz of State Council, even though he has Kyiv Press Bureau Pynzenyk’s action. He explained that Mr. Kyiv Press Bureau served five terms already in a position Pynzenyk’s economic program would that was meant to be a rotating chair. KYIV — Vice Prime Minister of the only work if the tax package and the bud- KYIV — President Leonid Kuchma President Kuchma said that, for one Economy Viktor Pynzenyk, who has get were passed. “We will now see further heralded a new era in relations between more year, Mr. Yeltsin was the right attempted to cajole and drag Ukraine stagnation and the work done toward members of the Commonwealth of man for the job. toward a free market economy, tendered macro-economic stabilization could be in Independent States after his return from “I think we saw a new and different his resignation on April 2, apparently vain,” he noted. the CIS summit held in Moscow on Yeltsin,” said Mr. Kuchma. “Over the frustrated with his inability to move the President Leonid Kuchma did not March 28. He also announced that last months he has had more time to ana- process forward. immediately announce whether he would Russian President Boris Yeltsin had lyze to what extent the world has “I believe that Mr. Pynzenyk resigned accept the resignation of his captain on agreed to visit Kyiv in May or June for changed, and that one country, using because he saw that he could not adequate- economic reforms at such a crucial time the signing of a treaty on friendship and whatever force, cannot control change in ly and fully influence the work of reform,” in the process. cooperation. the world today.” said Tamara Kutsai, the vice prime minis- Mr. Pynzenyk’s baby, the tax reform The president, speaking in Kyiv on Mr. Kuchma said Ukraine still is not ter’s press secretary, who emphasized to package, which he hoped would prompt March 31, said the meeting of 12 leaders ready to agree to the Concept of The Weekly that Mr. Pynzenyk’s had not businesses to come out of the gray econ- of countries that were once part of the Integrated Economic Development, yet released an official statement. omy and would finally stimulate invest- Soviet Union was an unparalleled suc- which was signed by most CIS members cess. “Every country got what it wanted,” Ihor Hryniv, Mr. Pynzenyk’s aide, ment and economic recovery in Ukraine, in January of this year, but that it was not explained that the failure of the Verkhovna has been languishing in the Verkhovna said Mr. Kuchma. against partial integration. “Our primary What each country received individu- Rada to pass either the 1997 budget or a Rada since the end of last year. concern will always be the national inter- ally is not clear. However, the leaders Mr. Pynzenyk’s belief in a strict mon- ests of Ukraine. I repeat that it is not agreed to continue to work toward some etary policy coordinated with the important for us to be involved [in the kind of economic cooperation, the level National Bank of Ukraine has stemmed CIS] 100 percent,” explained Mr. of which is yet to be defined. They U.S. ambassador to NATO inflation in Ukraine (the March inflation Kuchma. signed papers on developing transporta- figure is 0.1). But he had stated several During the three-hour closed session tion routes and customs controls among speaks on pact with Kyiv times that without tax reforms and a bal- of the summit on March 28, Russian their countries, the formation of joint anced budget the economy would not President Yeltsin made a surprising financial-industrial groups and on the by Roman Woronowycz begin to move upward. acknowledgment to assuage fears that defense of borders. Verkhovna Rada National Deputy the CIS is merely a vehicle for further- Kyiv Press Bureau They also agreed that Russian Vadym Hetman, a proponent of Mr. ing Russian interests, which undoubted- KYIV — The United States ambassador President Yeltsin should serve one more to NATO all but confirmed on April 1 that (Continued on page 7) term as the chairman of the CIS Heads (Continued on page 7) although Ukraine and NATO are working towards an agreement on cooperation, it will not have legal standing. “I do not think that one should call it Potichnyj Collection documents insurgency in Ukraine ‘just’ a political document,” explained Ambassador Robert Hunter at America by Marta Dyczok 70,000 troops were regularly used of bringing the materials to Canada, House in Kyiv at the conclusion of a two- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly against the Ukrainian underground, and including Ottawa’s former ambassador that western Ukraine was considered a to Ukraine, François Mathys, and day trip to Ukraine. “It will be signed by TORONTO — A diagram of the President [Leonid] Kuchma, by President war zone and treated as an occupied ter- Ukrainian-born Toronto businessman hideout where Gen. Taras Chuprynka, ritory long after the end of World War II. Petro Jacyk. [Bill] Clinton, by the General-Secretary of commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian “In my opinion, the story should not Mr. Jacyk endowed the University of NATO [Javier Solana] and by the other 15 Insurgent Army (UPA), was ambushed end here,” Prof. Potichnyj said. “The Toronto’s Central and East European leaders of NATO members. It will be a and killed is now available for viewing collection should be added to, expand- Resource Center where the Potichnyj very powerful signal of Ukraine’s general at the University of Toronto Library. It ed and improved, and I think that it will Collection is housed. At the official membership in the European family. It is one of over 250,000 documents in act as a magnet for other similar materi- opening Mr. Jacyk noted, “The only will give much more than a legal docu- the newly opened Potichnyj Collection als, especially since now we are going way that we can preserve our culture, ment could.” on Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency He explained that even now Ukraine as preserve our heritage, is in institutions in Ukraine at the Petro Jacyk Central through a serious assessment of the a member of the Partnership for Peace has which have the possibility to exist for and East European Resource Center. Soviet system, especially the period of representation both at NATO headquarters many years and are professionally The largest collection of its kind in the Cold War,” the Hamilton-based and the central command post in Brussels, maintained.” The patron was particular- North America, it holds materials from scholar added. that it has the ability to consult with NATO ly pleased to see the sketches of the Soviet, Polish, German, U.S. and The original Soviet documents, closed on defense matters, regularly participates UPA bunkers on display, commenting Ukrainian underground archives on to researchers until the collapse of the in NATO joint military exercises and is that as a young man he was one of insurgency and counter-insurgency in Soviet Union, are now in Moscow in the being encouraged to develop NATO-like many who built the hideouts. Ukraine during the years 1941-1954. archival repository of Russia’s Ministry military standards. of Internal Affairs. They were taken to Prof. Robert Johnson, director of the Ambassador Hunter, who said he had The energetic Peter J. Potichnyj, pro- Center for Russian and East European fessor emeritus at McMaster the Russian capital after Ukraine declared come to Ukraine because “it was impor- independence in 1991. At the insistence Studies at the University of Toronto, tant to visit [the country] during discus- University, spent over three years com- praised the Potichnyj Collection as an piling the documents. During the offi- of the Ukrainian government, a microfilm sion on the NATO-Ukraine relationship,” copy was made; it has since been deposit- important building block of the univer- cial opening of the collection on March sity’s resource base. During the official said everyone’s expectation is that the ed in Kyiv, in the Central State Archive 18, he commented, “This is a unique opening of the collection Prof. Johnson formal signing will take place at the of Government Organizations (formerly collection, and it is my expectation that said, “This extraordinary collection sets Madrid Conference of NATO scheduled the Central State Archive of the October after it is properly processed, it will an agenda for a whole future generation for July 8-9. Revolution). He also confirmed that, no matter serve the scholarly community well.” of scholars.” what Russia thinks, several Central For Western researchers, the most Now another microfilm copy has The Potichnyj Collection is divided European countries will be invited to interesting materials will likely prove to been made and brought to Toronto. into two large groupings: insurgency join NATO. He downplayed Moscow’s be those drawn from Soviet sources. Prof. Potichnyj thanked a number of They show that in 1944-1945 over individuals for expediting the process (Continued on page 5) (Continued on page 5) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1997 No. 14

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Belarus: the nature of the dictatorship Cabinet reshuffle to resume in Ukraine? Yeltsin and Belarusian President by David R. Marples Washington. The U.S. has also cut off Alyaksandr Lukashenka have signed the KYIV – The secretary of the National some $40 million worth of aid to Belarus. treaty on Russian-Belarusian union and ini- Security and Defense Council, Volodymyr The month of March has seen a dramat- The new Belarusian ambassador to tialed a union charter following last-minute ic upsurge in government repressions in Horbulin, said President Leonid Kuchma Washington, Valerii Tsepkalo, was talks in Miensk and Moscow, RFE/RL will fire Viktor Chebrov and Bohdan Belarus as President Alyaksandr informed en route to the United States that reported on April 2. The final version of Lukashenka has taken further steps to con- Babii, the heads of the top nuclear and he would not be welcome to enter that the treaty is much shorter than the draft solidate the powers granted to him by the energy bodies, because of electricity sup- country “for some time,” and the U.S. approved on April 1 by the joint Russian- national referendum of November 1996. ply non-payments, shortage of nuclear fuel ambassador to Belarus, Kenneth Yalowitz, Belarusian Parliamentary Assembly. It is The targets have been independent soci- and monopolization of the energy sector, was recalled to Washington for talks. mostly declarative in nature, prompting eties and organizations, foreign journalists Reuters reported on March 26. The Relations between Belarus and the United complaints among parliamentary support- and the United States Embassy. Ukrainian Trade Union Federation has States have reached an all-time low, while ers of integration. Although the name of appealed to President Kuchma to dismiss A new crackdown President Lukashenka has defended his the Russian-Belarusian “community” has Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, ITAR- actions publicly. been changed to “union,” President Yeltsin March and April tend to be sensitive TASS reported. In his March 21 address to A further public demonstration occurred stressed that Russia and Belarus remain months for the Belarusian government; sev- the nation, the president had accused Mr. on March 25, when, on the 79th anniversary sovereign states and will not hurry to form eral anniversary commemorations embrace Lazarenko and his Cabinet of incompe- of the declaration of Belarusian indepen- a common budget or establish a single cur- both Communist and national events. In tence. Last month, Mr. Kuchma fired sev- dence in 1918, an unsanctioned march of rency. Instead, coordinating security poli- 1996, the two months saw several violent eral ministers responsible for the economy. the Belarusian Popular Front tried to move cies and border controls will be the top pri- clashes and the detention of about 100 (OMRI Daily Digest) toward an approved march by the ority. The treaty will be submitted to the demonstrators. One year earlier a sit-in by State Duma and Federation Council for rat- opposition deputies in the Parliament was Belarusian Liberal-Democratic Party (the U.S. officer notes problems for investors Belarusian equivalent of the right-oriented ification after one month of public discus- resolved by force when presidential guards KYIV – Andrew Bihun, senior com- sion. (RFE/RL Newsline) were ordered to violate parliamentary Russian party led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky). The attack by the militia on mercial officer at the U.S. Embassy’s immunity. President Lukashenka tried to Commercial Service in Kyiv, told Discord in Yeltsin camp over accord pre-empt problems this year by banning the opposition demonstrators was one of the most brutal to date. The head of the United RFE/RL that the main obstruction to MOSCOW –The last-minute changes to public demonstrations close to the presiden- investment in Ukraine “is the government, tial residence and the Parliament. Civil Party, Henadz Karpenka, a prominent the union treaty reflect deep divisions in the Miensk politician, was arrested and placed which creates an unfavorable climate for Yeltsin camp over how far and how fast Early in March, the President’s Office investors.” His comment came after the intensified a campaign of hitherto low-level under close guard in a military hospital. integration with Belarus should proceed. Many foreigners were among those U.S. electronics firm Motorola announced An RFE/RL correspondent reported that, harassment of public organizations unaffili- last week it is leaving Ukraine because of ated with the government by issuing a d e t a i n e d . among President Boris Yeltsin’s associates, Other than political opponents and civil the “unfavorable investment climate.” the main proponents of rapid integration decree which implied that tax exemptions Motorola planned to invest some $500 formerly granted to such organizations societies, the main target of President are Vice Prime Minister Valerii Serov, CIS Lukashenka has been Russian television million in Ukraine. Mr. Bihun said the Affairs Minister Aman Tuleiev, Foreign would be reviewed. The offices of the Communications Ministry had granted Belarusian charitable fund For the Children networks in Belarus, which have featured Affairs Minister Yevgenii Primakov, presi- shots of militia beating demonstrators. On Motorola a license to operate a mobile dential foreign policy adviser Dmitrii of Chornobyl, which have survived three phone system in Ukraine but later insisted recent and very thorough government March 26 the government announced Riurikov and Sergei Shakhrai, Mr. stricter regulations for foreign media and that Motorola apply for permission to use Yeltsin’s representative to the audits, were entered by officials of the the GSM-900 frequency. Meanwhile, the Committee for State Security, who proceed- on the following day Aleksandr Stupnikov Constitutional Court. Meanwhile, nearly all of the Russian NTV network was ordered state-backed company KyivStar, one of the ministers who joined the government in ed to rifle through various files. The fund’s three winners for a recent tender for president, Gennadii Grushevoi, was a victor to leave Belarus by the end of the month. last month’s Cabinet reshuffle have The Yeltsin government in Moscow has GSM-900 cellular frequency licenses, expressed concern about the economic con- in the November 1996 parliamentary elec- announced it intends to invest $30 million tions, but not permitted to take his seat in expressed its concern at the constant sequences of integration with Belarus. The infringements against Russian broadcasters in its mobile telephone network this year. skeptics include First Vice Prime Ministers the new rump Parliament established by (RFE/RL Newsline) Mr. Lukashenka. By December, a petition in Miensk. Since a majority of these people Anatolii Chubais and Boris Nemtsov, with over 100,000 signatures had been col- are Belarusian citizens, the Belarusian Lazarenko to address Verkhovna Rada Economics Minister Yakov Urinson and lected in Mr. Grushevoi’s district, one of the response has usually been that the matter is State Property Committee Chairman Alfred KYIV – On the request of President most effective grassroots campaigns against an internal one. Kokh. (RFE/RL Newsline) President Lukashenka’s actions to date. The attacks on human rights have been Leonid Kuchma, Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko is to address the Verkhovna 400 protest in Belarusian capital Another thorn in the side of the presi- all-encompassing over the past year. There Rada to explain the government’s position dency has been the Belarusian Soros is no longer an effective Parliament, and MIENSK – Police in the Belarusian on the budget. The Ukrainian president has Foundation (SFB). The president has even the Constitutional Court, once a capital dispersed about 400 demonstrators sharply criticized the prime minister and threatened in the past to tax the foundation, watchdog over the president, has been who gathered on April 1 to protest the his government for failing to deal with the which in 1995 and 1996 reportedly spent silenced by the president’s acquisition of signing of the union treaty between country’s severe economic crisis. He has $10 million on programs to assist Belarus. the right to appoint half its members. Belarus and Russia, ITAR-TASS reported. also warned he will dismiss the govern- On March 16, the head of the SFB, Peter Opposition newspapers are subject to Police and protesters, most of whom were ment if the situation is not improved. Mr. Byrne, was detained at the Miensk-2 harassment, provocation, unwarranted from the opposition Popular Front, Lazarenko recently returned from an offi- International Airport for 18 hours and then taxes and even assassination attempts on engaged in a stand-off for more than an cial visit to Egypt, where he met on March deported to Germany. The Belarusian gov- prominent journalists. hour. After unsuccessful efforts to per- 29 with Egyptian President Hosni ernment alleges that Mr. Byrne had taken suade the crowd to disperse, police moved Analysis Mubarak to discuss trade and economic part in illegal meetings organized by the in and broke up the rally. Some protesters cooperation between the two countries. opposition. The SFB denies this accusation. Given the nature of the Lukashenka were detained by the police. The previous regime, the new onslaught against the (RFE/RL Newsline) That the move to expel Mr. Byrne was day, Belarusian police detained Irina orchestrated by the presidency is clear: remaining, passive opposition is perhaps to Vazhnik, a member of the Popular Front, be expected. But where is it leading? What Russian-Belarusian agreement signed no remorse has been expressed over the event, nor has there been any response to are the president’s current priorities? On MOSCOW – Russian President Boris (Continued on page 4) April 2 President Lukashenka is expected in protests by Nicholas Burns of the U.S. State Department and others against the Moscow to conclude what has been deportation and the government’s inva- described as an all-embracing integration sion of the offices of various opposition accord that is expected to formalize dual cit- H E K R A I N I A N E E K LY FOUNDED 1933 political parties in Miensk. izenship for citizens of Russia and Belarus. T U W The meeting between the two presidents One week later, on March 23, the First An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Miensk, takes place on the anniversary of the origi- a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ 07302. Serge Alexandrov, was arrested while nal formation of a “Community of Russia Yearly subscription rate: $60; for UNA members — $40. observing an unsanctioned demonstration and Belarus,” and the date April 2 has been declared a national holiday by the Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, NJ 07302. in central Miensk. He was then declared (ISSN — 0273-9348) “persona non grata” and given 24 hours to Belarusian president. leave the country. The U.S. retaliated by The symbolism of the Moscow meeting Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper expelling the First Secretary Vladimir however, is more significant than the sign- (annual subscription fee: $100; $75 for UNA members). Hramyka of the Belarusian Embassy in ing of another agreement. Mr. Lukashenka revels in his status as a public figure and The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: has an almost Hitlerian penchant for public (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201) 451-2200 David R. Marples is professor of history ceremonies and parades. Yet his interests Postmaster, send address Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and those of the Russian neighbor do not and director of the Stasiuk Program for the changes to: Assistant editor: Khristina Lew coincide. He has benefited from Russia’s The Ukrainian Weekly Staff editors: Roman Woronowycz (Kyiv) Study of Contemporary Ukraine at the current preoccupation with the proposed Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, P.O. Box 346 and Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj (To r o n t o ) expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe. Jersey City, NJ 07303 which is based at that university. He is the Under such circumstances Russia is hardly author of “Belarus: From Soviet Rule to likely to risk alienating an ostensibly The Ukrainian Weekly, April 6, 1997, No. 14, Vol. LXV Nuclear Catastrophe” (New York: St. Copyright © 1997 The Ukrainian Weekly Martin’s Press, 1996). (Continued on page 13) No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1997 3 ANALYSIS: Ukraine lags behind other NIS countries in terms of U.S. aid by Eugene M. Iwanciw sampling of the rate of expenditures for other NIS coun- the terrible legacy of the Chornobyl accident, Ukraine tries includes: Russia at 75.18 percent; Moldova, 84.14 ranks eighth in humanitarian assistance on a per capita WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of State percent; Belarus, 76.94 percent; and Turkmenistan, basis. The amount is 14 percent below the NIS average, recently released the “U.S. Government Assistance to 93.07 percent. less than half of the assistance provided Belarus, and only and Cooperative Activities with the New Independent While the speed with which budgeted amounts are oblig- a third of the assistance provided Moldova. States of the Former Soviet Union, FY 1996 Annual ated and expended depends on a variety of factors, includ- In terms of food assistance, Ukraine ranks 10th, Report” detailing U.S. assistance through fiscal year ing the type of assistance and the cooperation between the receiving about one-quarter of the average assistance to 1996, which ended on September 30, 1996. The report United States and the recipient state, it is difficult to under- the NIS. Belarus received 8.9 times the food assistance makes interesting reading and demonstrates that assis- stand why Ukraine continues to lag so far behind all other that Ukraine received, Russia 3.5 times, and Moldova tance to Ukraine continues to lag behind most of the NIS countries. The administration had proclaimed 1995 as 10.3 times. other 11 countries of the NIS. the “Year of Ukraine” and in 1996 signed a “Strategic Despite claims by the administration that congressional Since the passage of the Freedom Support Act in 1992, the United States has budgeted over $9.3 billion Partnership Agreement” with Ukraine. Ukraine is an impor- earmarks are not needed, it is clear from the State of assistance to the NIS. Slightly over $1.3 billion has tant state, if one listens to the administration’s rhetoric. One Department report that only because of the earmarks is the been budgeted for Ukraine. In over-all dollars, Ukraine would expect, therefore, that every effort would be made to amount budgeted for Ukraine slowly reaching the NIS ranks second in budgeted assistance behind Russia, expedite assistance to Ukraine, especially as Ukraine is average. which was apportioned slightly less than $4.3 billion. In undergoing major economic reform. From the data provided by the State Department, it per capita terms, however, Ukraine ranks ninth, leading The State Department report breaks down the assis- appears that Congress needs to not only continue earmark- only Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. The aver- tance by programs and U.S. government agencies. One of ing funds for Ukraine but also to continue pressuring the age per capita amount budgeted for the NIS is over 28 the programs itemized is humanitarian assistance. Despite administration to spend the funds it provides for Ukraine percent higher than the amount budgeted for Ukraine. In terms of obligations of resources (the development of 1 programs and signing of contracts), the picture for Ukraine Major NIS assistance programs expenditures as of September 30, 1996 looks dimmer. Ukraine ranks 10th in per capita obligations, leading only Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. The average per Countries Amount2 % of total Per capita3 Rank % of assistance capita amount obligated for the NIS is over 40 percent high- assistance to Ukraine er than the amount obligated for Ukraine. That trend is also NIS-Wide 4 220.59 3.25 .76 true in the category of actual expenditures on assistance. On Russia 3,232.08 47.57 21.56 8 129.1 a per capita basis, the expenditures for assistance to the NIS is over 40 percent higher than that for Ukraine. Armenia 563.61 8.30 158.32 1 948.0 The congressional earmarks of the past few years have Azerbaijan 86.74 1.28 11.13 11 66.6 served to slowly close the gap between Ukraine and the Georgia 421.86 6.21 73.62 2 440.8 other NIS countries in the amount budgeted for assistance. Due to these earmarks, Ukraine trails the NIS average by Kazakstan 282.24 4.15 16.24 10 97.2 only 28 percent as contrasted to 49 percent a year ago. Kyrgyzstan 266.59 3.92 55.89 3 334.7 However, the rates of obligations and expenditures (actual Tajikistan 143.72 2.15 23.33 7 139.7 payment for assistance programs) continue to lag far Turkmenistan 131.29 1.93 32.19 5 192.8 behind the NIS average (by 40 percent). In other words, the administration is not committing or spending the Uzbekistan 71.47 1.05 3.10 12 18.6 money Congress is providing for Ukraine. Belarus 309.38 4.55 29.63 6 177.4 For example, the administration has obligated only Moldova 199.33 2.93 44.39 4 265.8 $1.1 billion or 83.23 percent of the $1.3 billion budget- Ukraine 866.05 12.75 16.70 9 100.0 ed for Ukraine. The NIS average is 91.10 percent, with most countries at over 95 percent. Ukraine ranks last in NIS Total/Average 6,794.95 100.00 23.49 140.7 the amount obligated as a percentage of the budgeted 1. Includes Nunn-Lugar funds. amount. Of the $1.3 billion budgeted for Ukraine, the 2. In millions of U.S. dollars. administration has actually spent only $866 million or 3. In U.S. dollars. 66.37 percent. The NIS average is 72.77 percent. A 4. Assistance not allocated to any specific country but to the NIS in general. U k r a i n e - N ATO relationship on agenda of Kuchma visit to D.C. by R.L. Chomiak American diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in NATO allies in the European capitals. In and-answer session, emphasized that the Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Kyiv. He also is in frequent contact with February, a significant step forward was U.S.-Ukrainian strategic partnership is a Ukrainian officials: his latest visit to Kyiv, taken when the North Atlantic Council permanent arrangement in which consul- WASHINGTON – Next month, when for a meeting of the Security Committee of approved a draft framework for NATO’s tations on various issues are dealt with in President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine the Kuchma-Gore Commission, took place relationship with Ukraine and began dis- a direct fashion as they come up, and comes to Washington for a meeting with just two weeks before the TWG-CSIS cussions with Ukrainian Ambassador to urged the audience not to measure it by Vice-President Al Gore – for a principals’ forum; earlier in March he participated in NATO [Borys] Tarasiuk. counting the number of high-level meet- meeting of the Kuchma-Gore Commission Washington talks between Ukrainian “Yesterday in Brussels, Foreign Minister ings or comparing them to U.S. talks – they should have very few, but tough, Foreign Affairs Minister Hennadii Udovenko and National Security and with other countries. items on the agenda to work out. Udovenko and Secretary of State Defense Council Secretary [Volodymyr] Mr. Connuck also said that over the past This is because the commission itself Madeleine Albright. Horbulin, accompanied by a team of 18 months the American private sector has works continually, dealing with “the full One of the issues Mr. Segal expects to Ukrainian government experts, began been looking with increased intensity at range of issues, problems and ideas ... in a be on the agenda during the Kuchma visit negotiations with NATO Secretary-General investment opportunities in Ukraine, and systematic and purposeful way,” explained will be Ukraine’s relationship with [Javier] Solana over the substance of the noted, “we could be close to a break- Jack R. Segal, director of the Office of NATO, and by way of illustrating the Ukraine-NATO relationship. through.” Plans of at least two companies, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Moldovan dynamic ties between Ukraine and the “As we move forward in this process, he said, call for investments that would be Affairs at the U.S. State Department. Mr. United States, he outlined for the audi- the NATO allies are in agreement on a higher than the total American investment Segal spoke on March 21 at a Friday ence what has been accomplished so far: very important goal. That goal, expressed in Ukraine to date. The ball is in the Evening Forum of The Washington Group “Last fall, the Ukrainian side approached by Secretary Albright at NATO head- Ukrainian Parliament’s court at this time; it (TWG), sponsored jointly with the Center the U.S. with a proposal to codify quarters February 18, and in several other has to pass the legislative package to pre- for Strategic and International Studies Ukraine’s relationship with the alliance in fora since then, is to complete the docu- pare the ground for foreign investment, he (CSIS) in Washington. some formal way, with a document record- ment defining the NATO-Ukraine rela- said, adding that if just two investment “In prior years, without the structure ing the alliance’s understanding with tionship in time for the July NATO sum- projects were successful, “they would provided by the commission, our work had Ukraine. mit in Madrid. break the logjam” and other investment been episodic and reactive,” Mr. Segal “Ukraine presented a very well-rea- “I can hardly think of a clearer state- would follow. (Trade and investment are said. “With the commission, we face dead- soned proposal for describing what would ment of Ukraine’s standing in the new one of the areas in the Kuchma-Gore lines that push the respective bureaucracies be a unique relationship with NATO, that Europe than our having this document Commission’s portfolio.) to move issues to resolution.” What the went beyond that of simply participating in ready in time for that historic meeting.” While the Ukraine-U.S. partnership two principals will address, he continued, NATO’s Partnership for Peace. Later, during the question-and-answer has many accomplishments, Mr. Segal “will be [issues] that those less senior offi- “Ukrainian experts came to Washington period, Mr. Segal noted that the work on noted, great tasks are still ahead. “We cials are unable to decide or those that pose to discuss their ideas with American Ukraine’s charter with NATO is proceed- need to get to the point where Ukrainian such difficult choices that they require the experts who work closely with our NATO ing independently from work on a charter citizens will answer the question, ‘Are most senior consideration.” mission in Brussels. Together, as partners, with Russia. He predicted that the two you better off now than you were four TWG board member Orest we helped Ukraine refine and develop fur- documents would be different, although years ago?’ with a resounding ‘Yes!’ Deychakiwsky, who organized the forum, ther these ideas. And we encouraged the it wasn’t possible to say at this time in “We are not there yet by a long shot, but introduced Mr. Segal as the official with a Ukrainians also to make their case directly what way. we think we are on the right path. With special vantage point on Ukrainian issues: to other members of the alliance. Bruce Connuck, Ukraine desk officer your help, the dedicated effort of the gov- he coordinates them among the top State “Over the past three months, Ukraine at the State Department, who was invited Department officials, desk officers and has outlined its proposals to many of our by Mr. Segal to take part in the question- (Continued on page 11) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1997 No. 14

New York City mayor announces OBITUARIES legal challenge to welfare reform Mychajlo Dmytrenko, 88, artist NEW YORK – Mayor Rudolph W. are those who have met all the stringent Giuliani announced on March 26 that the legal requirements necessary to become City of New York has filed suit in the U.S. permanent legal residents but have not yet active in Ukraine and diaspora District Court for the Southern District of become citizens. They pay the taxes that New York challenging provisions of the support the SSI and food stamp programs. DETROIT — Mychajlo Dmytrenko, Welfare Reform Act that deny Failure to attain citizenship is often a result a leading artist of the older generation Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and of mental or physical infirmity or illitera- who was active in the organizational food stamps to legal permanent resident cy, and can be an impossibility in the case life of Ukrainian artists both here and in Ukraine, died on March 8 at the age aliens residing in New York City prior to of severely mentally disabled individuals of 88. the date of the enactment of these laws. because they are incapable of taking the Apart from his talent as an artist In the lawsuit, New York City charges oath of allegiance. working in various genres, Mr. that the new law violates the Fifth While recipients of SSI and food Dmytrenko was the last of his generation Amendment to the United States stamps will most likely be eligible for who for some six decades worked for the Constitution. local assistance, provided at a lower level promotion of Ukrainian art, thereby con- “The purported justification for this than SSI by New York City and New tributing to its development in the dias- policy by Congress is that removing the York state pursuant to the Home Relief p o r a . SSI benefits of aged, blind and disabled program, not all those legal aliens Mr. Dmytrenko was born on November people, and eliminating food stamps for removed from the federal benefits pro- 9, 1908, in the town of Lokhvytsi in the low income and elderly individuals, will grams will necessarily obtain such public Poltava region. He graduated from the ‘encourage self-sufficiency’ and discour- assistance. Because of their physical and Kyiv State Art Institute in 1930, where he age illegal immigration,” Mayor Giuliani mental impairments, a significant num- studied with the renowned Fedir said. “This justification makes no sense. ber of legal immigrants are likely to Krychevsky, and worked as his assistant The affected SSI class is, by definition, become destitute and homeless, thereby and subsequently as professor of drawing unable to attain self-sufficiency. And affecting the health, welfare and social at the insitute (1935-1939). those who receive food stamps are fabric of the entire city. In 1939 Mr. Dmytrenko was in Lviv, already living on the margin.” New York City is filing its lawsuit at where he was active in the organization Mychajlo Dmytrenko “Removing benefits from this popula- the same time as a consortium of legal ser- of the association of Ukrainian artists, tion is unfair and cruel. The new law is vices groups in New York City. A similar both under the Soviet and German occu- was editor of the association’s short- more of a flawed effort by the federal gov- class action is being filed on the West pations of western Ukraine. lived art journal Ukrainske Mystetstvo ernment to reduce its budget at the expense Coast. New York City will continue to Fleeing to Munich in 1944, he was ( 1 9 4 7 ) . of states and cities than a means of achiev- cooperate with these groups so that legal instrumental in organizing the Ukrainian Upon emigrating to Toronto in 1951, he ing real immigration reform,” he added. immigrants are not deprived of benefits. Association of Artists (Ukrainska Spilka continued his organizing activity. He was The city’s corporation counsel, Paul The mayor was joined by representa- Obrazotvorchykh Mysttsiv, 1947-1951), one of the founders and served as the first Crotty, said, “The Supreme Court has held tives from the New York Legal Assistance an organization of Ukrainian emigre president of the Ukrainian Association of that Congress has the right to draw a line Group, the Center for Constitutional artists established in Munich in 1947, Creative Artists in Canada, established in between aliens and citizens, and that legiti- Rights, the Center for Disability Advocacy most of whose members were in dis- 1 9 5 5 . mate distinctions between the two may jus- Rights and the Legal Aid Society. placed persons camps in Germany or Mr. Dmytrenko was employed as chief tify benefits for one class not accorded to In addition to Mr. Crotty, New York Austria. Apart from taking part in exhi- designer with an architectural firm in the other. But the place where that line is City is represented by Lorna Goodman, bitions as a leading member of the asso- Detroit where he settled permanently in drawn cannot be wholly irrational as it Gail Rubin and Hilary Klein of the ciation (of particular note, in the 1947 1960. clearly is in this instance.” Affirmative Litigation Division of the International Displaced Persons’ Art The class of legal immigrants affected Corporation Counsel’s Office. Exhibition in Munich), Mr. Dmytrenko (Continued on page 12)

tial foreign policy aide Dmitrii Riurikov Newsbriefs said that as part of its proposed charter with Liudmyla Morozova, 89, artist (Continued from page 2) NATO, Russia wants a veto over NATO and her husband for distributing leaflets decisions with which it disagrees. He said known for portraits, landscapes calling on people to take part in opposition Moscow does not accept U.S. President Bill demonstrations. (RFE/RL Newsline) Clinton’s statement after the Helsinki sum- HUNTER, N.Y.— Noted Ukrainian St. Michael of the Golden Domes in mit that the charter will give Russia a voice, artist Liudmyla Morozova died on March Kyiv, which was destroyed by the Flag flies over Central Rada but not a veto. Mr. Riurikov asserted that 1 at the age of 89. Soviets in 1934. President Yeltsin “acts on the assumption KYIV – The Ukrainian blue-and-yellow Ms. Morozova was born on July 6, A memorial service for Ms. Morozova that if our country has a voice, it will have 1907, in Kyiv. She was a graduate of the was held on March 7 at St. John the flag flew from the building once occupied the right to block decisions that are unac- by the Central Rada for the first time in 80 Kyiv State Art Institute (1931), where Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in ceptable to it,” adding that “otherwise, there she studied with the renowned painter Hunter. years on March 21. The occasion was a is no sense in having a voice.” The presi- commemoration of the 80th anniversary of and professor of art Fedir Krychevsky. In accordance with Ms. Morozova’s dential aide concluded that it was important Ms. Morozova began exhibiting her work wishes, funeral services were held at the the Central Rada, the revolutionary parlia- to make sure that any agreement with ment of Ukraine (1917-1918). Some 200 in 1935. Cathedral of St. Volodymyr in Kyiv, NATO “precludes ambiguous interpreta- A post-war refugee, she emigrated to with interment at the Berkivtsi Cemetery persons attended the public meeting orga- tions.” (OMRI Daily Digest) nized by “Rukh for the people, for the U.S. in 1951. She taught at the on March 12. Ukraine,” a political bloc organized for the U.S. expels Belarusian diplomat Queensboro Art Society in Queens, N.Y., A commemorative program was held upcoming elections. Speakers included before settling permanently in Hunter, at the Ukrainian Academy of Art with the Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian W A S H I N G T O N – Vladimir Hramyka, N.Y. participation of professors, academicians, Affairs Ivan Kuras; Ivan Drach, co-chair- first secretary and consul of the Belarusian Ms. Morozova worked in the genres of government officials, museum directors man of the Congress of Ukrainian diplomatic mission to Washington, was portrait painting, landscape and still life. and members of the arts intelligentsia. Intelligentsia; academician Yaroslav expelled from the U.S. on March 26, inter- Her landscapes of Greece form an impor- Paying their respects at the commemora- Yatskiv; Pavlo Movchan, head of the national agencies reported. The measure tant part of her oeuvre, a result of her tion were: A. Chebykin, dean, Ukrainian Prosvita Society; and historian Taras was a response to the recent expulsion of a travels to and fascination with that coun- Academy of Art; Oleksander Fedoruk, Hunczak of the U.S. As the Ukrainian U.S. diplomat, Serge Aleksandrov, after he try. chairman, National Commission for the national anthem sounded, the flag, blessed was detained at a demonstration in Miensk. Solo exhibitions of her works have Return of Cultural Treasures to Ukraine; by Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian State Department spokesman John Dinger been held in New York, Chicago, Marian Kots, Lexington, N.Y., on behalf Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate, was expressed concerns about the deterioration Cleveland, Philadelphia and Washington. of the Ukrainian community and friends raised over the building. (Respublika) in U.S.-Belarusian relations but did not rule Her works are found in museums and of the deceased in the diaspora; O. out further action by the U.S. Meanwhile, private collections in Ukraine, Germany, Mishchenko, vice-president, Ukrainian April 1: holiday in Odesa the newly appointed Belarusian ambassador Austria, England, France, Australia and Artists’ Association; V. Rozhok, vice- to the U.S., Valerii Tsepkalo, who was on Canada. minister of the Ukrainian Ministry of ODESA – Mayor Eduard Gurvits pro- his way to Washington, was recalled for In the late 1970s, Ms. Morozova Culture; M. Rudko, chairman, claimed April 1 a holiday, and a day off consultation during a stop-over in Frankfurt. moved permanently to Hunter, where she Committee for Humanitarian Affairs at from work, in this Black Sea port city. That move followed a similar recall of the had her studio. Among the local the Office of the President of Ukraine; Traditionally, April Fool’s Day has cele- U.S. ambassador to Belarus, Kenneth Ukrainians in the Catskill resort commu- and M. Romanyshyn, director, National brated as a day of humor in Odesa. The city Yalowitz. A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman nity she was known for her staunch indi- Museum of Art, Kyiv. is known for its particular brand of humor, said Mr. Tsepkalo’s arrival in Washington vidualism and for her hospitality in wel- Taking part in the memorial repast which reflects its cosmopolitan character. “is not appropriate at this time in connection coming those interested in art, as well as were the Rev. Volodymyr of St. ( R e s p u b l i k a ) with the recent expulsion of the U.S. various visitors from Ukraine. Volodymyr’s Cathedral as well as Evhen Russia still wants veto in NATO Embassy first secretary.” The Belarusian During the last years of the artist’s Sverstiuk, Irma Totska of the St. Sophia Foreign Ministry issued a statement protest- life, she donated funds and proceeds Museum in Kyiv; artist and professor of MOSCOW – In a March 27 interview ing the U.S. decision to expel First from the sale of her art work to the pro- art Vasyl Zabashta; and Mr. Fedoruk, with Moskovskii Komsomolets, presiden- Secretary Hramyka. (OMRI Daily Digest) ject for the rebuilding of the Cathedral of among others. No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1997 5 COMMUNITY PROFILE: Ukrainians thrive in Northwest Te r r i t o r i e s by Yuriy Diakunchak “The purchase of the encyclopedia, now is revitalizing its dance group, The supported initiatives outside of the cul- and its presentation to our city library is Aurora Ukrainian Dancers. The dance tural field. One of these is a scholarship YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories indeed something that we are pleased to program started in 1978, but experienced program for students entering post-sec- — When one thinks of Canadian Ukrainian have done for our community,” said Mr. a four-year hiatus until being revived last ondary institutions. Another initiative communities, Edmonton, Winnipeg or Marykuca. The association plans to pur- year. At its zenith, Aurora performed involved support for the humanitarian Toronto’s Bloor West Village are usually chase two more sets of the encyclopedia before the entire world on the Northwest work of Dr. Claire Moisey, a former the first to pop into mind. Not many people in order to donate them to the two local Territories stage at EXPO ‘86 in Yellowknifer who has been working with would think of mentioning Yellowknife in high schools in Yellowknife. Vancouver. Now the group has approxi- children suffering from the effects of Canada’s Northwest Territories as a thriv- Though Yellowknifers now have ing center of Ukrainian life. Canada’s mately 30 students and is planning to add Chornobyl. access to a great deal on Ukraine and Ukrainians are proud of their past role in a section for older dancers in their 20s. The organization itself is “pretty low- Ukrainians through their public library, opening up the Canadian West; here in the “With the dance group we have key,” according to Ms. Michalchuk. As the association has been exposing them far north they are the modern-day counter- tapped into the people who have a sec- past-president Mr. Marykuca put it, “Most parts of those early pioneers. Not only are to Ukrainian life on other levels as well. ond-generation ancestry in the of us in the organization have had fun. the new pioneers playing an important role The annual “Malanka,” or New Year’s Ukrainian community, who want their We’ve done quite a few things for the in harnessing Canada’s vast northern fron- dance, which has become a highly popu- children to know a little bit about the community, and we feel good about it tier, they are also pushing the envelope of lar social event in Yellowknife according culture,” said association president because it’s something we started. We awareness of Ukraine and things Ukrainian. to Mr. Marykuca, is a good example. Kathleen Michalchuk. don’t have a major agenda, we just do the The Ukrainians of Yellowknife have “The Malanka is a big item. We have Though the organization’s main focus things that have been successful for us and made Ukrainian culture and information people who have no Ukrainian heritage is to promote cultural activities in the things the community expects from us, about Ukraine and Ukrainians in Canada whatsoever coming. They enjoy the per- Yellowknife, the membership has also like the Malanka.” accessible to their local community. The formance, they like the food, the music,” Yellowknife Ukrainian Association (YUA), said Mr. Marykuca, who moved to set up in 1985 and numbering around 30 Yellowknife from Winnipeg in 1977. paid members, has been busy organizing The association also sets up a pyrohy Ukrainian dance, food and art for the “bene- booth during Yellowknife’s Raven Mad fit, edification and enjoyment of all the resi- Daze Festival, which is held during the dents of the city,” according to Marvin summer solstice. “The pyrohy and kovbasa Marykuca, the association’s past-president. go like wildfire. We can never keep up. It’s Recently, the association donated a set a very popular thing,” Mr. Marykuca noted. of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine to the The YUA has also seen success over AAppears Ukrainian May 4 in The Ukrainian Summer Weekly Yellowknife Public Library. the years with its float in the Canada Day The presentation of the five-volume parade. “About three or four years run- encyclopedia was done in conjunction with ning we won first place in each catego- an exhibit from the Oseredok Gallery of ry,” Mr. Marykuca pointed out. The Winnipeg. The association sponsored the group has decided to take a break from exhibit on early Ukrainian pioneer life, the parade for a while to give others a titled “Harvest of Dreams,” which ran for chance to win the honors. three months in public gallery space. The big project facing the YUA right

from the USSR Ministry of State Potichnyj Collection... Security’s archives). The latter include (Continued from page 1) detailed operational information on the and counter-insurgency. The insurgency strategies and methods applied by Soviet materials include documents from the forces against the Ukrainian underground, archives of the Polish Security Service statistics on casualties suffered by the on Ukrainian underground activities in UPA, weapons and equipment captured by 1945-1948; the archive of the UPA the Soviets, political decisions pertaining Mission in Germany; documents of the to the underground, and reports by Soviet Foreign Representation of the Ukrainian officials based in western Ukraine that Supreme Liberation Council in New were sent to Kyiv and Moscow. York City (ZP-UHVR); unpublished Much of the Potichnyj Collection is materials from the “Litopys UPA” (The already catalogued and open to researchers, UPA Chronicle) series; UPA veterans’ and librarians are hard at work on the materials concerning the army’s propa- remainder. Luba Penzey, head of the Escape to The Catskills... ganda mission to Western Europe in University of Toronto Library’s Slavic 1947-1949; and a complete set of the Section and the coordinator of its interna- Toronto-based Ukrainian-language tional library programs with Central and Weekends in Wildwood... weekly newspaper “Homin Ukrainy,” Eastern Europe, is in charge of this effort. which has systematically published mate- Injecting a note of humor into the Perhaps a Trip Abroad... rials concerning the armed liberation opening ceremonies, Prof. Potichnyj struggle in Ukraine since 1949. awarded a “Socialist Medal of Labor” to How will you enjoy your Ukrainian summer? The Potichnyj Collection’s counter- Ms. Penzey. University of Toronto Chief insurgency materials include documents Librarian Carol Moore presided over the Read our special section for tips on where to go, on the activities of the German occupation proceedings, noting that the Potichnyj what to bring and whom to see! forces, and on the Soviet internal security Collection should attract scholars to the Look for advertisements from travel experts police and military formations (drawn university. on great destinations and nearby day trips!

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NEWS AND VIEWS TH E UK R A I N I A N WE E K LY A public thank-you to Pani Olenka The Helsinki deal by Lydia Smyk twins ready for school, they both lay their jackets on the floor upside down. “What A little more than three weeks ago, Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin Often we have people or organizations met in Helsinki. The results in a nutshell: Russia did not get a legally binding are you doing?” I asked. To my utter right under our noses who, though their amazement, they flipped the jackets over treaty defining its relations with NATO and it did not get a veto over alliance contribution to the community is great, are matters that affect its interests. But, Russia did get U.S. pledges that it would do their heads and were dressed in five sec- not acknowledged. In Newark, N.J., we onds flat. “Who taught you that?” “Pani more to support private investment in Russia, back Moscow’s bid to join the have a Ukrainian Montessori program run World Trade Organization and support enhanced status for Russia in the G-7 Olenka,” they proudly replied in unison. by St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic That day at dismissal I asked which of (e.g., the meeting in Denver will be called the “Summit of Eight”). Church. Thanks to the outstanding leader- At first glance, Russia appeared to have compromised on the issue of NATO my students had gone to Pani Olenka’s. ship of its director, the program is a unique Many eager pupils raised their hands. expansion. But soon afterwards Mr. Yeltsin made it clear that he continues to contribution to our community. view NATO expansion as “a mistake, and a serious one at that,” and that Gently I reminded them about the coat Olenka Makarushka-Kolodiy (“Pani trick. Needless to say, dismissal became an Moscow intends to “minimize” its impact via an agreement with the alliance. Olenka”) loves children and her work. At about the same time the U.S. and Russian leaders were meeting in organized activity. Those children who did The pre-school is a home away from not know the coat trick were proudly taught Helsinki, Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Hennadii Udovenko was in home where Maria Montessori’s proven Brussels outlining what Ukraine expects should be included in its own partner- by the others. methods of teaching are exemplified. The I later asked Pani Olenka what other ship pact with NATO. The key provisions: “confirmation of the openness of the program prides itself on being conducted alliance to new European democracies, including Ukraine; non-acceptance of skills she had taught her charges in order strictly in Ukrainian. Every child is treat- that I might reinforce them. Whatever toy any claims for a new division of Europe into spheres of influence or domination; ed as an individual, while nurturing a guarantees of freedom of choice to join any existing security organization; and or game the children took had to be put community spirit of responsibility. back in place. Once again, this became stan- confirmation of the NATO requirement that any candidate should fully resolve My twin daughters attended this dard practice at home and in kindergarten. its territorial disputes and problems with its neighbors, including Ukraine.” school and, unbeknownst to me at the Ukraine’s reaction to the U.S.-Russian summit was cautious. An official Whoever took a toy first had the option to time, learned valuable lessons that later play with it until he/she was ready to give it statement noted: “It is unfortunate that ... the differences in U.S. and Russian helped them deal with a family crisis. For views regarding NATO expansion were not resolved. ... Ukraine welcomes the up. Again this became standard at home. In this, I feel a public thank-you is in order. school, Pani Olenka taught the children efforts of NATO and Russia to prepare an appropriate document outlining the Last summer I found myself living main parameters of their partnership. ... Such an agreement ... should promote how to fold up their blankets and cots. For Kafka’s strange “Metamorphosis.” One day them this was a great accomplishment. the strengthening of European security and should not violate the fundamental I was dropping off my children at Plast To my utter amazement, my twins began security interests of other interested states.” camp, and two days later I couldn’t walk. to make their beds daily. They would lay There was stronger reaction from former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. In All my dear friends and acquaintances out their clothing the night before, and they a cogent article carried by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Dr. Kissinger argues rallied to my side. In the early morning enjoyed organizing their things. that NATO’s ability to function as the alliance and guarantor of peace it was hours I would worry how the children It would be simple for me to take credit designed to be is jeopardized by the deal in Helsinki. The heart of the problem is would adjust to living with a mother for this and praise my parenting skills or my that Russia will be given a powerful voice via “consultation, coordination and ... whom they had to help dress and feed. We little geniuses. But that would be false. The joint decision-making and action on security issues of common concern.” slowly adjusted to this when the realiza- credit belongs to their teacher: Pani Olenka. “From now on,” writes Dr. Kissinger, “all discussions within NATO .... will be tion that the school year would soon be influenced by Russian participants whose objectives cannot possibly be the starting began to weigh heavily on my * * * defense of NATO territory — historically the principal objective of the alliance.” heart. The normal motherly things, such Several years afterwards, as the 1996- He goes on to point out that “Even post-Communist Russia is conducting some as making lunch, doing laundry and cook- 1997 the school year began, my illness policies redolent of traditional Russian imperialism.” ing dinner, were physically impossible for was debilitating. Yet my children were It is ironic, the former secretary of state writes, that “Russia seems to be achiev- me. I began to panic, envisioning failing able to get their own breakfast daily. ing NATO participation before the new applicants.” That is why he suggests the grades and stress on my children. They packed their snacks. They laid out their uniforms. They brought home every new NATO-Russian Council should be delayed until new members are admitted, or But I had taken for granted all the letter from school that they were given. these applicants should at least be allowed to participate in deliberations of this skills that were taught to them by Pani As they entered the house, they would NATO-Russian forum; that Russia should stop agitating against NATO expansion; Olenka – skills that I now believe will call up to me, listing all their homework. and that it should finally accept its borders with all neighboring states. remain with them throughout their lives. That, we agree strongly, should be a minumum requirement for any Russian As I lay in bed, they would sprawl on the pact with NATO. Clearly Russia — not a NATO member, and not even a prospec- * * * floor and do all of their homework. They tive member — cannot have more prerogatives than candidate-members. It cannot When my twins were born, we were new would say all their prayers daily. They determine NATO policies as an outsider. And, it cannot be accepted as a NATO to the New Jersey community. I was from believed that God would help me get bet- “partner” while it refuses to recognize the borders of its own neighbors. Canada and, though I knew I would have to ter. Their prayers worked. I am on the return to work, had no idea what preschools road to recovery, but every day I thank were available. It was my husband who God that my children had Pani Olenka. drove the local carpool and matter-of-factly Since 3-year-old children are unable to said that they would go to Pani Olenka’s. articulate the skills they are being taught; April Little did I know that Ms. Makarushka- the teaching source often is not acknowl- Kolodiy, a certified Montessori profession- e d g e d . TurningTurning the pagespages back...back... al, would become the “alpha and omega” One recent morning the twins were get- for my twins. ting ready for school. As one was packing 12 During the twins’ first year with Pani her lunch, I could hear her sister singing Olenka, I found myself teaching 21 softly in the hall. “What is your sister 1541 Adam Potii was born on April 12, 1541, in Rozhanka, in the kindergartners at the neighboring St. singing?” I asked. “The song that Pani Podlachia region, to a Ukrainian Orthodox nobleman. Raised at John’s School. As I would line up my Olenka taught us,” she answered matter of the Polish royal court in Krakow, he attended a Calvinist school students for dismissal, the inevitable factly. Four years later they were singing run by the Lithuanian Chancellor A. Radivilas (Radziwill). After attending Krakow stress of the day would take over. Have Pani Olenka’s song? I wondered. University, Potii entered the service of King Zygmunt II August, moving to Brest, where you ever tried to dress 21 5-year-olds in Quietly, with curiosity, I approached my he rose in influence from zemstvo judge, tax collector and castellan to senator. 10 minutes? This chaos went on for daughter. She was singing “Sche Ne Potii was continually involved in religious affairs. In 1574 he reconverted to weeks, with me becoming more and Vmerla Ukraina” (the Ukrainian national Orthodoxy from Calvinism. In 1593, at the initiative of Prince Kostiantyn Ostrozkyi, more frazzled at the end of the day. a n t h e m ) . he was made bishop of Volodymyr and Brest, adopting the name Ipatii. As bishop he One morning, as I was getting the Thank you, Pani Olenka. began formal negotiations with Roman Catholic representatives, who had long been pushing for a Church union. He tried to convince his erstwhile patron, the staunchly Orthodox Ostrozkyi, to back a union. In June 1595, all nine Orthodox hierarchs signed a letter to Pope Clement VIII declaring their readiness for a union and authorizing Potii and Bishop Kost Terletskyi to travel to Rome as representatives of the Church in Ukraine and formally set forth their confession of faith. Upon the pair’s return from the Vatican in mid-1596, the fateful sobor was held at which the Ruthenian (Ukrainian-Belarusian) Church split into two groups – those favoring union with Rome, led by Kyivan Metropolitan Mykhailo Rahoza; and those opposed, led by Prince Ostrozkyi. After the proclamation of the union in October 1596, Potii was one of its leading sup- porters, and sought equal rights with Roman Catholics in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was also active in exerting pressures on his Orthodox counterparts and confiscating property from the now officially “schismatic” Orthodox Church. After the death of Rahoza in 1599, Potii became the second Uniate metropolitan of Kyiv and Halych. A noted polemicist, Metropolitan Potii wrote in Ukrainian, Polish and Latin. He also founded a seminary in Vilnius and a Greek-Catholic school in Brest. He died in 1613. Sources: “Potii, Ipatii,” “Berestia, Union of,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vols. 1, 4 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984, 1993); P.R. Magocsi, A History of Ukraine (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996). Olenka Makarushka-Kolodiy with a class of Montessori pre-schoolers. No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1997 7

treaty on friendship and cooperation. On Kuchma says... the agenda were the continuing problems (Continued from page 1) with the division of the Black Sea Fleet ly pleased many of the leaders. He said and Russian bases in Crimea, compensa- P E R S P E C T I V E S the sentiments are “perhaps fair, and I tion for tactical weapons turned over to see Russia’s share of responsibility Russia, the “zero option” settlement of B Y AN D R E W FE D Y N S K Y c l e a r l y . ” the debts and assets of the former Soviet President Kuchma said that during the Union, and the settlement of Ukraine’s meeting all countries, including Russia, trade debts to Russia. agreed that each member-state has its President Kuchma said these issues Of history, and news, and image own national interests, priorities and would be further discussed when vision of future integration. “In Moscow, Russia’s Prime Minister Viktor World War II, it seems, is not history lions. Things changed. Ukrainians dis- as in the rest of the CIS, they have started Chernomyrdin visits Ukraine in the next – it’s news. More than 50 years after the covered that the Nazis were just as evil to deal with the interests of Ukraine, not two months, which would be followed by fighting ended, people are still trying to as the Communists. According to Hitler’s simply to look at their own interests,” a visit to Kyiv by President Yeltsin for an come to terms with that horrible conflict. right-hand man, Herman Goering, “the said Mr. Kuchma. official signing of the treaty on friend- Most recently, President Arnold best thing would be to kill all men in “We understand that Russia, being by ship and cooperation. Koller of Switzerland exhorted his coun- Ukraine over the age of 15.” far the largest and most influential mem- This is the sixth time that such a meet- trymen to “publicly admit self-criticism As for the man Hitler appointed ber, must be the unifying force. But its ing has been announced. When asked if and admit the dark sides of that difficult Reichskommissar of Ukraine, Erich Koch, agenda cannot be the CIS agenda,” he this one would be for real, Mr. Kuchma period.” He was referring, of course, to he was the quintessential Nazi. His job, he added. replied, “It will be when he arrives. We Switzerland’s ambiguous role as banker said, was “to suck from Ukraine all the President Kuchma said he still has expect him to do so.” to the Nazis and the question of dormant goods we can get hold of, without consider- problems with the way the CIS has On the matter of the Black Sea Fleet, accounts of Holocaust victims. ation for the feeling or property of developed, not the least of which is that the Ukrainian president said he and Mr. As Switzerland reluctantly comes to Ukrainians.” They were Untermenschen within the commonwealth informal Yeltsin had agreed that the issue of the terms with these issues, you have to (subhuman), “a colonial people that, like the regional alliances and trade partnerships Crimean fleet should not be the issue that admire the wisdom and decency of Negroes, should be handled with a whip.” exist. “This will only result in the ruin of should halt the signing of a treaty. “I do Ukraine’s President Leonid Kravchuk. In Before Koch was done, more than 2 mil- the CIS. I am still for the CIS, I still think not believe that the Black Sea Fleet is the October 1991, less than two months after lion young men and women were sent to that we can do a lot with it,” said the main detriment to a treaty. It has become Ukraine declared independence, he con- Germany to work as slaves, usually in the president. the focal point because the opposition ducted a solemn commemoration at most brutal of conditions. Those who The Ukrainian president also said Mr. has used it to worsen Ukraine-Russia Babyn Yar, the infamous gorge where remained continued to work the collective Yeltsin had given the leaders a briefing relations,” said President Kuchma. “We 200,000 Kyivans, mostly Jews, were farms – which Hitler refused to dismantle – on the Helsinki summit and added, “The agreed in Moscow that it is not a conflict, murdered by the Nazis in 1941. providing grain for a hungry Germany. most important thing is that the president but a disagreement.” He said the Black President Kravchuk used that occasion Tragically, the worst elements of of Russia did not make out NATO Sea Fleet issue could now be resolved to apologize to the Jewish people “against Ukrainian society were recruited to help in expansion to be a tragedy.” after the signing of the treaty on friend- which so many injustices occurred in our the extermination of Ukrainian Jews ship and cooperation. [Ukrainian] history.” The weeklong cere- (crimes for which President Kravchuk apol- Kuchma-Yeltsin meeting He also stated that no one should get monies showed Ukraine’s maturity as a ogized on behalf of Ukraine.) On the other On Saturday, the presidents of Ukraine their hopes up that the Russian troops in nation, in sharp contrast to the Soviets who hand, the best elements of society, led by and Russia met for an intensive round of Crimea would soon leave, and he gave a had been silent about Babyn Yar for half a Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, risked talks on issues that have kept the two time frame of five to 10 years for their century. Now, that aspect of World War II their lives to shelter Jews. Still others countries from signing a comprehensive departure once an agreement is reached. is no longer news, it’s history. reached for their guns. Tens of thousands of What is newsworthy is Ukraine’s role in Ukrainian men (and women) fled for the World War II in general. For half a centu- forests to join the Ukrainian Insurgent Meanwhile, President Kuchma – who ry, censorship in the Soviet Union and Army to wage guerrilla war against the Frustrated with... severely criticized Prime Minister Pavlo Cold War sensitivities in the West made it Nazis and later against the Soviets. Of (Continued from page 1) Lazarenko for submitting an unwork- impossible for a thorough, objective course, millions of Ukrainians – 4.5 million in all – served in the Red Army. able and unrealistic budget to the assessment of Ukraine’s role in World Pynzenyk’s reform plan, said the loss of The war took a terrible toll. The first Verkhovna Rada – has said he will veto War II. Everyone with an axe to grind – the vice prime minister could be a fatal German units entered Ukrainian soil in any budget that is not based on the tax from Soviet propagandists to Western setback to the move towards June 1941. As the Red Army retreated, it reform package. Cold Warriors – caricatured Ukraine’s Westernization of Ukraine’s markets. conducted a scorched-earth policy There is also the matter of rumors of an role, or more often ignored it altogether. “Today, there is not a single man in the throughout Ukraine. When the Nazis upcoming government reorganization, But, the truth is, Ukraine played an government who has the ability to settle retreated three years later, they did the which some suggest may have led to Mr. absolutely central role in the war and, with the outstanding issues,” explained Mr. same. In all, 7 million Ukrainians died in Pynzenyk’s offer to resign. His colleagues the exception of European Jewry, its peo- Hetman. World War II; 600,000 of them were He said any chance for approval of a are downplaying that restructuring, which ple suffered more than any other nation. may include the elimination of the office Jews; 5 million were civilians. More than tax reform package by Parliament could To Adolph Hitler, Jews and Ukrainians 2 million citizens were sent to Germany die with Mr. Pynzenyk’s resignation. of vice prime minister of the economy. were key to his vision for the German Observers say Mr. Pynzenyk could be as slaves; 28,000 villages were “Today Pynzenyk is the only man with nation. “Mein Kampf” states his objec- destroyed, as were 700 cities and towns. in-depth knowledge of the five tax using his resignation tender as leverage tives clearly: first, unite the German peo- to negotiate a stronger position for him- The journalist Edgar Snow, who toured reform bills, and he is the only one who ple who were scattered throughout a half Ukraine in 1945, wrote that “the second self if a reorganization does take place. will fight for them.” dozen countries; second, eliminate all world war ... has, in all truth and in many President Kuchma’s chief of staff, What has frustrated Mr. Pynzenyk Jews from Germany; and third, colonize costly ways, been first of all a Ukrainian Yevhen Kushnariov, said his impression most is the Verkhovna Rada’s inability to Ukraine to create “Lebensraum” (living war ... no single European country suffered was that Mr. Pynzenyk is profoundly dis- pass the tax reform package. It calls for a space) for the growing German popula- deeper wounds to its cities, its industries, satisfied with the performance of the substantial decrease in corporate and tion. It all unfolded according to plan and its farmlands and its humanity.” Cabinet of Ministers and the pace of eco- individual taxes, for capital depreciation very nearly succeeded. As Ukrainians restructure their society, allowances and other tax breaks to stimu- nomic reforms. Hitler first absorbed Austria in March economy and political system, they have a late investment. “If that was the reason behind the let- 1938, then Czecho-Slovakia’s Sudetenland great deal to address – some of it unsa- Today much of business in Ukraine is ter of resignation, then the possible a year later. In August of 1939, he and vory, even shameful. Still, having con- conducted outside the mainstream, which upcoming changes in the structure of the Joseph Stalin cut a deal dividing Europe fronted with remorse and sorrow “the dark allows firms to avoid paying income tax. Cabinet and staff may force Mr. between them. A month later, World War side of that difficult period” (World War Because Ukraine has committed itself to Pynzenyk to reconsider his resignation. If II began in earnest when Hitler invaded II), the nation can also look back with halting monetary emissions to cover bud- not, then the resignation most likely will Poland from the West and Stalin invaded pride on the way it survived and ultimately get deficits, which was a substantial rea- be accepted,” said Mr. Kushnariov. western Ukraine, Bessarabia and the Baltic prevailed in an impossible situation – son for the hyperinflation of the last few However, the vice prime minister’s states from the East. caught between Hitler and Stalin. The full years, it must receive sufficient revenues aide, Mr. Hryniv, told Interfax-Ukraine For western Ukrainians – hitherto part story has yet to be told. In the years to through taxes to cover the budget. that Mr. Pynzenyk’s resignation “was in of Poland – this was bitter medicine. come, historians and artists will inevitably President Kuchma complained in his no way connected with the upcoming Only six years earlier Stalin had mur- turn to Ukraine’s complex and fascinating state of the nation address on March 21 Cabinet restructuring.” dered more than 7 million of their coun- past to craft a new image for an indepen- that already this year there was a huge Prime Minister Lazarenko was expect- trymen in the Great Famine. Now the dent people. Ukraine and World War II is shortfall of anticipated revenues in ed to address the Verkhovna Rada before two greatest despots in history shared a a worthy topic for further study. Ukraine’s coffers. the end of the week and present a propos- common border. This unstable situation We participate here when young people The other problem that has bedeviled al for streamlining and reorganizing the could not last. The German nation was ask their grandparents to record their mem- Mr. Pynzenyk is the Verkhovna Rada’s government. Originally, he was to speak largely united; many Jews had already ories of the war and the immediate years lack of desire or simple inability to pass on April 1, but never appeared. fled Germany and the machinery for the thereafter. Those in high school or college the 1997 budget. The Verkhovna Rada Insiders say that he and the president Holocaust was being assembled. The last writing a term paper on the war might want has refused to vote on the budget until a disagree on the amount of authority that piece of the puzzle was Lebensraum – to reach for Alexander Dallin’s “German tax package is in place, but it has yet to ministers should have. Mr. Lazarenko is the conquest of Ukraine and Russia. Rule in Russia, 1941-1945.” Still others act on the tax package, has expressed lit- battling to retain his absolute authority in Hitler invaded Ukraine on June 22, might want to make a donation to the tle support for tax reform and has shown the Cabinet, while Mr. Kuchma favors 1941. He met little resistance. The popu- “Ukraine in World War II” film project at every inclination to reject the bill submit- more decentralization, making the minis- lation and the Red Army, demoralized by the Ukrainian Canadian Research and ted by Mr. Pynzenyk and the Cabinet of ters more accountable for the work of their Stalin’s terror, had no interest in defend- Documentation Center, 620 Spadina Ave., Ministers, or simply let it die. respective ministries. ing the regime that was massacring mil- Toronto, Ontario M5S 2H4. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1997 No. 14 BOOK NOTE: Political profile BOOK REVIEW: Scholarly study of President Leonid Kuchma of Ukrainian nationalism in 1990s by Marta Kolomayets Andrew Wilson, Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith. Cambridge: Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Cambridge University Press, 1997, XVII + 300 pp., ISBN 0521 48285 hardback and ISBN 0521 57457 9 paperback KYIV – Described as a political portrait of Leonid Kuchma, “The Third President” by journalist by Taras Kuzio It is certainly the case that the number of Russian speakers limits the appeal of Yuriy Lukanov is a milestone in Andrew Wilson’s book “Ukrainian Ukrainian book publishing. the radical right, but it does not limit the Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority appeal of nation-state building, in which Not only is it being recognized Faith” is one of the first academic stud- as the first independent book about Russia speakers fully participate. ies to survey the subject of Ukrainian Mr. Wilson also prefers not to use the a leading Ukrainian government nationalism since John A. Armstrong’s official to be published while that term “Russification” as this would seminal “Ukrainian Nationalism, 1939- denote a prior loyalty to Ukrainian lan- person is still in office, but it is also 1945” (New York: Columbia University the first book that clearly presents guage and culture on the part of Russian- Press, 1955 and 1963). Mr. Wilson’s speaking Ukrainians. However, all for- the office of the president as a study is well documented by tables and viable institution for building a mer Soviet states, with the exception of maps throughout the text, and the author Belarus, are attempting to provide affir- democratic society in Ukraine. shows a good grasp of Ukrainian-, “In this unbiased work, we not mative action in favor of their titular lan- Russian- and English-language sources guages and cultures which were, despite only see the rise of Leonid on Ukraine. As a study of an important Kuchma to the post of president, the author’s reluctance to use the term, topic, it is therefore a welcome addition subjected to Russification in the Tsarist but we also see the institution of to a body of literature that remains the presidency laying firm roots in and Soviet eras. If Mr. Wilson had sur- s p a r s e . veyed, as did Mr. Armstrong, only the Ukraine,” said Dmytro Markov, Nevertheless, for five related reasons the president’s press secretary, radical right in Ukraine, he could have the book suffers from an acute identity made the rather unrevealing conclusion who attended the book launch on crisis. First, the book lacks a theoretical February 4 at the UNIAN news that it is indeed a “minority faith.” This discussion of nationalism within which would not have told us very much, a g e n c y . the subject matter should have been Mr. Lukanov, 38, a journalist because the radical right is a “minority placed. faith” throughout Europe and Eurasia. If, who began his career at the news- Second, the book lacks a comparative however, one is referring to either paper Molod Ukrainy in 1982, approach to the study of nationalism with Ukraine’s drive to independence or went on to establish the press service of the early days of Ukraine’s independence, other countries within Central-Eastern Ukrainian nation-state building, use of Rukh in 1989. At Rukh-Press he worked on and they agreed to print the first edition of Europe and Eurasia. By creating a com- the term “minority faith” leads to wrong Vyacheslav Chornovil’s presidential cam- his debut work: 5,000 copies. parative approach Mr. Wilson would conclusions and policy prescriptions. paign and the December 1991 referendum Although few of his Ukrainian col- have found that Ukraine is not the Throughout the former USSR, with the on Ukraine’s independence. leagues believe Mr. Lukanov’s book was “unique” country that he argues in the exception of Belarus, nation-state He has been a featured reporter on not censored, both Mr. Lukanov and Mr. range of difficulties it inherited. All of builders are the “majority faith.” Ukrainian State Radio and the popular Markov said no government officials saw Ukraine’s inherited problems (regional- This identity crisis throughout Mr. television news program “Vikna.” Mr. the book before it was printed. ism, lack of a unified political culture, Wilson’s book leads him to make sever- Lukanov also has worked abroad at Radio Mr. Lukanov explained that he inter- denationalization, uncompleted nation- al general statements and confusing Canada International, traveled to the viewed a handful of government officials, building) exist throughout the former conclusions. For example, Ukrainian United States on various internships, and but they provided little insight: many USSR. nation-state building since 1992 has been a frequent contributor to Radio refused to talk to him, while still others Third, Ukrainian elections are not been largely successful in maintaining Liberty, Voice of America and BBC radio gave evasive answers. Mr. Lukanov said he always a good indicator of the strength of stability and progress. However, by con- b r o a d c a s t s . did not interview President Kuchma at all. certain political views. The 1994 parlia- fusing “Ukrainian nationalism” with While working for the Ukrainian “I saw him at a press conference, and mentary elections were held on the basis both the radical right and/or Ukrainian National Information Agency – Novyny obviously analyzed his speeches, but what of a majoritarian election law. In addi- speakers, Mr. Wilson fails to see how (UNIAN) Mr. Lukanov said, he was good would an hourlong interview do me? tion, although the number of elected radi- support for the Ukrainian state is not inspired to write something longer and And, I really couldn’t expect more time cal right and center-right nationalists is confined only to western and central meatier than the short news briefs and from the Ukrainian leader,” Mr. Lukanov relatively small, they have a great degree Ukraine. Furthermore, Mr. Wilson’s articles he churned out on a daily basis. s a i d . of influence within the policy-making neat division of Ukraine presents “But I wanted it to be something people “When you read the book, you’ll see that community in Kyiv. In contrast, the Ukrainian speakers as standing opposed would read and something I could make it presents no one else’s vision of President amorphousness of the large number of to the Russian-speaking regions of a some money on,” said the practical Mr. Kuchma but my own,” he noted. Russian-speaking Ukrainians Mr. Wilson supposedly homogenous eastern and L u k a n o v . Mr. Lukanov said the title of his book is admits is reflected in the low level of southern Ukraine. Mr. Wilson also goes He realized that readers of popular books the subject of heated debate, because Mr. influence they are able to exert. on to mistakenly argue that the Donbas in Ukraine today can be classified into two Kuchma, in fact, is Ukraine’s second popu- Fourth, it is never clear in the book is representative of the entire eastern- categories: those who savor detective tales larly elected president. Mykhailo what exactly Mr. Wilson understands as southern region of Ukraine and that con- of crime and corruption (these books Hrushevsky was the chairman of the the “nationalism” to which the book’s title abound in the Russian language throughout Central Rada and was not a popularly elect- refers, i.e., “Ukrainian nationalism in the frontation between Ukrainian and Ukraine), and those who thirst for books on ed president of Ukraine in 1918. Former 1990s.” Until 1991, any study of Russian speakers is likely on a scale of current events involving today’s political President Leonid Kravchuk has been the “Ukrainian nationalism” should refer to all that in Moldova. leaders (these are lacking in Ukraine, most vocal in this discussion, and this, Mr. those advocating independence for However, within the three radical left whether in Ukrainian or Russian). Lukanov said, also provides publicity for Ukraine from the former USSR. Since parties and parliamentary factions only a Mr. Lukanov chose the latter topic for his book. 1992 studies of “Ukrainian nationalism” small minority of members and national two reasons: it was much safer to investi- Although not yet a bestseller in Ukraine, ought to refer only to the radical authori- deputies still oppose Ukrainian indepen- gate, and it was something he had been Mr. Markov told journalists that the book tarian right in Ukraine. By not defining his dence. Eighty-five percent of Ukraine’s interested in since his early days at Rukh. enjoys a certain popularity, based on his concepts of nationalism, Mr. Wilson con- parliamentarians voluntarily took the oath For 18 months, January 1995 to August own experience. He explained that he fuses three distinct and different entities: of loyalty to the Ukrainian state after the 1996, Mr. Lukanov collected materials, bought the book and began reading it on a advocates of Ukrainian independence, the adoption of the June 1996 Constitution. analyzed hundreds of news stories, traveled recent flight back to Kyiv. He got up to radical right, and those in support of With his confused understanding of around the country – to Mr. Kuchma’s stretch his legs and when he got back to his Ukrainian nation-state building after 1992. “Ukrainian nationalism,” Mr. Wilson fails native village, Chaikine, to the Pivdenmash seat, his book was gone. Finally, by basing his study primarily to understand the dynamics at work with- missile factory in Dnipropetrovsk – and The book has also not been financially on language denomination as the source in Ukraine’s nation-state building project. interviewed tens of government officials, lucrative for Mr. Lukanov; he has had to of the strength of “Ukrainian national- One would assume from any reading of deputies as well as Mr. Kuchma’s profes- serve as his own manager of publicity and ism,” Mr. Wilson oversimplifies very Mr. Wilson’s book that Russian-speaking sional colleagues, childhood friends and rel- marketing, traveling to conferences and complex and multi-faceted processes. He Ukrainians would be generally disloyal to a t i v e s . conventions to promote his own work. argues that the large number of Russian- the Ukrainian state. Yet, we find the Then he began writing. His 158-page U.S. and Canadian readers may obtain speaking Ukrainians severely limits the opposite: a great degree of continuity Ukrainian-language soft-cover book the book from the author – along with his appeal of “modern ethno-nationalism and between the presidencies of the former includes six chapters that cover Mr. autograph – by sending a check for $14 creates the conditions for a sharp polar- “nationalist” Leonid Kravchuk and the Kuchma’s childhood, his professional (U.S. funds) to: Yuriy Lukanov, 4 ization of society.” This, in turn, leads “pro-Eurasian” Leonid Kuchma vis-à-vis career, and his climb up the political ladder Volhohradska St., Apt. 61, Kyiv, Ukraine him to conclude that “Ukrainian nation- federalism, the state language, dual citi- from prime minister to president in the 252141. For additional information, inter- alism” is a “minority faith.” zenship, the CIS and the desire to orient years 1992 to 1996. Illustrating the book are ested individuals may call Mr. Lukanov at Ukraine towards Europe. In reality, there a handful of photos provided by well- 380-44-277-3369, between 8 p.m. and 11 was little to differentiate their platforms known Ukrainian photographer Vasyl p.m. (Kyiv time). Taras Kuzio is research fellow at the during the 1994 elections; at times, A r t i u s h e n k o . As for his future plans, Mr. Lukanov said Center for Russian and East European President Kuchma appears to be more of Mr. Lukanov then talked to his friends at he has been bitten by the writing bug and Studies, University of Birmingham, and a “derzhavnyk” (or “nationalist” in Mr. Taki Spravy Publishing House, with whom plans to start writing his second book, the senior research fellow, Council of Advisers Wilson’s terminology) than his predeces- he had a close working relationship since topic of which is still to be decided. to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. sor, Mr. Kravchuk. No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1997 9 Smoloskyp publisher receives Ukraine’s Presidential Award by Yaro Bihun zation that helped the persecuted dissi- dents and their families. In addition, WASHINGTON – Osyp Zinkewych, Smoloskyp was known for its efforts in who founded the Smoloskyp publishing behalf of Ukraine’s independent partici- house and human rights organization in pation in the Olympic Games in 1992, Baltimore in the 1960s and moved the following Ukraine’s independence. operation to Kyiv following Ukraine’s Mr. Zinkewych moved Smoloskyp to independence, received Ukraine’s Kyiv, where he concentrated on helping Presidential Award for his educational young writers, poets and activists by and charitable activities spanning more sponsoring tours, conferences, seminars than 30 years. and readings, awarding prizes for their Foreign Affairs Minister Hennadii best works and publishing them. Udovenko presented the award to Mr. Realizing the plight of students in Zinkewych on behalf of President Leonid Ukraine in the hard economic times of Kuchma during a ceremony on March 7 the 1990s, Mr. Zinkewych broadened at the residence of Ukraine’s ambassador Smoloskyp’s activities to include a to the United States, Dr. Yuri Shcherbak. scholarship fund, which now pays a $10 Mr. Zinkewych, who now spends most monthly stipend and covers the medical of his time in Kyiv, was taking care of care of some 350 qualified students domestic affairs in Baltimore when the throughout Ukraine. The scholarship award was announced. Minister fund, which totaled more than $50,000 Udovenko was in Washington for talks last year, as well as Smoloskyp’s other with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine activities are funded by individual chari- K. Albright. table donations in the United States and Founded by Mr. Zinkewych in 1967, Canada. Yaro Bihun Smoloskyp was a leading publisher of Accepting the award, Mr. Zinkewych Osyp Zinkewych (center) in conversation with Foreign Affairs Minister Hennadii works by persecuted and imprisoned dis- pointed out that when Smoloskyp moved Udovenko of Ukraine (right) and Ambassador Anatolii Zlenko, Ukraine’s permanent sident writers in Ukraine, including the to Kyiv, it did not get involved in the representative to the United Nations. writers of the 1960s (Shestydesiatnyky), politics of the time, but focused on help- the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, as well as ing Ukraine’s creative young people what is now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Last summer, to help mark the fifth writers persecuted earlier, during the build a brighter future for their own Following World War II, in which he anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, Stalinist period, like Mykola Khvyliovy. country. “I accept this award, with a faith participated in the Ukrainian nationalist Smoloskyp organized an exhibit of The scores of books published by in our people, our country, our youth, our underground, he fled to Western Europe. Ukrainian “samvydav” dissident litera- Smoloskyp to shine a light on human president and all who feel the suffering He received a degree in chemistry in ture at the Pecherska Lavra (Monastery and national rights abuses in Ukraine of our people, our Ukraine – all who are France, where he worked as a research of the Caves) Book Museum. It con- later served to fill the many historical concerned about our future,” he said. chemist until 1957, when he moved to tained some of the original manuscripts and literary “blank spots” that became Mr. Zinkewych also called on the the United States. smuggled to the West to be published, as apparent once Ukraine gained its inde- Ukrainian government to get involved in While working as a chemist until his well as some that didn’t make it and pendence. this effort: “I think that the time has come retirement, Mr. Zinkewych continued his ended up in KGB archives. Smoloskyp also served as a news ser- for both government agencies and private work within the Ukrainian American com- More information on Smoloskyp’s vice that informed the West and conduct- citizens from the U.S. and elsewhere to munity, at first publishing Smoloskyp, a activities may be obtained from: ed campaigns against human rights viola- work together in forging our future.” students’ magazine, and later, through the Smoloskyp Inc., 1863 Pioneer Parkway tions in Ukraine, as well as an aid organi- Mr. Zinkewych was born in 1925 in publishing house. E., No. 210, Springfield, OR 97477. Pittsburgh welcomes Ukrainian aviators find Oklahoma friends visitors from Donetsk by Stephen Haluszczak PITTSBURGH – Eleven distinguished visitors from Donetsk, Ukraine, came here in December 1996 to take part in a program called “Community Connections.” Pittsburgh was one of 31 cities to receive visitors from Ukraine through this foreign aid program of the United States Information Agency (USIA). All aspects of the local program were planned and implemented by the Pittsburgh Council for International Visitors (PCIV). Pittsburgh will train a total of 36 pro- fessionals from its unofficial sister city, Donetsk, over a one-year period. The participants of the first group represented the fields of local government and law. Among the visitors were the deputy mayor of Donetsk and the vice dean of the Donetsk State University Law School. The profes- sional program consisted of daily meetings with lawyers, judges, mediators, and representatives of city and county government departments. Other events included tours of the new Allegheny County Jail, Pittsburgh International Airport, several landfill sites, governmental and business sites in Washington County and a Public Officials’ Reception sponsored by the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. The guests were greeted in an official capacity by members of the Pittsburgh City Council and Allegheny County Commissioners. The program was designed specifically to give the Ukrainian delegation a broad look at American culture. Twenty-four countries were represented at the XVIII World Aerobatic Championships held in Oklahoma in August As a result, the visitors also attended a Pittsburgh 1996. Ukraine was among the elite participants, with a team of eight people. Team Ukraine ended up approxi- Penguins’ hockey game and a performance of the mately in the middle of the pack, with the top honors going to France, Russia and the U.S. The Oklahoma Friends Pittsburgh Symphony at Heinz Hall. of Ukraine (OFU), founded three and a half years ago as a non-profit organization to foster cultural and commer- An integral part of the “Community Connections” cial interests of Ukraine through joint endeavors of Ukraine’s and Oklahoma’s people, was a key host for the visit- program is the home stay, where the participants actual ing Ukrainian team. Since these championships, the OFU has remained in contact with the Ukrainian team, look- live with a local family. Among the eight host families ing for ways to assist them by bringing them into sponsor relationships with various aviation industries in were three families from the local Ukrainian American Oklahoma. Olga Kelley serves as the liaison member from the OFU in furthering these efforts. The OFU also is community: Kathy Boykowycz; George and Angela helping the Ukrainian team prepare for the next international aerobatic championships in Italy and Turkey. OFU Honchar; and the parish of St. Vladimir Ukrainian welcomes correspondence from other American aviators or friends of aviators interested in working in this U.S.- Orthodox Church in Pittsburgh. Ukraine program. Contact the OFU either through Post Office Box 26952, Oklahoma City, OK, 73126, or through (Continued on page 14) the internet: [email protected] or [email protected]. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1997 No. 14

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To qualify, 3-5 years of insulation experience in a generating station or heavy industrial March was critical to the team’s hopes of Washington – Peter Bondra, RW, environment is required. You will perform all types of insulation work by using hand tools, securing a pivotal top-four finish or even a power tools, stud guns and taking measurements. In addition, you must be able to push, playoff berth in the Western Conference. strained groin, day-to-day. Andrei Nikolishin, C, bulging disk, early March. pull and lift 45-60 pounds. You will be required to pass an asbestos physical and raspira- tor - fit test, pass OSHA training and will be subject to drug and alcohol testing. A valid Ukrainian transactions and injuries: driver’s license and the ability to work various shifts in an industrial environment at high (December – March) (Tkachuk and Wakaluk quotes courtesy of Tim Campbell and Bob McManaman, elevations and on scaffolds is also essential. 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An Equal Opportunity Employer. ambassador had tours of duty as diplomats Ukraine-NATO... in Israel and saw firsthand how Israel uses (Continued from page 3) the resident power of the American Jews. ernment of Ukraine, and the determination This, he explained, means American and courage that Ukrainians have shown Ukrainians should encourage local com- Being Ukrainian means: panies to conclude business deals with throughout their illustrious history, I am Ukraine, to encourage members of sure we will succeed.” Congress to travel to Ukraine to learn The phrase “with your help” elicited a more about the country first hand, and to ❏ Malanka in January. question from the floor: “What kind of understand Ukraine’s place in the help?” Mr. Segal characterized it as the American foreign policy framework. ❏ Deb in February. “resident power of the community.” There has been a healthy interest in Turning to Ukraine’s Ambassador to the Ukraine among lawmakers, he noted, but ❏ Sviato Vesny in May. U.S. Yuri Shcherbak, who was in the audi- there also are many new members in ❏ ence, Mr. Segal noted that both he and the Congress who need to be educated. Wedding of your roommate in June. ❏ Tabir in July. State University of New York ❏ Volleyball at Wildwood in August. COLLEGE AT BROCKPORT ❏ Labor Day at Soyuzivka in September. ❏ Morskyi Bal in November. ❏ Koliada in December. at the U n i v e r s i t y If you checked off more than one of the above, then you know what you’re doing to your brain cells. Now, how about doing something for your mind?

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What hope is there for those without Belarus: the nature... human rights, struggling against the gross (Continued from page 2) intrusions of the authorities, physical vio- devoted ally such as Mr. Lukashenka, who lence and intimidation, and the lack of a Air Ukraine has always been willing to assist Russia by public outlet for their grievances? There is allowing Russian military installations on no ready answer. It is a mistake, however, National Airlines Belarusian soil. Nonetheless, Russia’s to perceive of citizens of Belarus as pas- enthusiasm for the April 2 “integration” is sive pawns of the president. A young intel- muted. Mr. Lukashenka is unpredictable lectual elite is openly scornful of the gov- Starting May 14, 1997 and volatile. And Russia is unlikely to ernment (many of those arrested in recent year-round agree to any stipulations that would neces- demonstrations were declared to be sitate some form of economic commitment minors). Mr. Lukashenka’s most loyal non-stop flights to a struggling partner. support is from people at least one genera- In turn, President Lukashenka’s dictator- tion older than he (almost one-quarter of ship has been almost consolidated. citizens are of pensionable age). NEW YORK - LVIV Integration with Russia in complete form Moreover, the president has demon- would serve only to undermine his regime strated a remarkable ability to unite every Wednesday (he could not, for example, impose restric- against him the various opposition fac- tions on the Russian media as he has on the tions, from the Communists on the left to with continuing service to Kyiv Belarusian). In this sense, one of the para- the Belarusian Popular Front on the right. The president’s undoing may lie in the doxes of full integration is that it would Air Ukraine is offering the most permit Belarusian citizens and societies a unity of these groups. At the same time greater voice than they have at present. some public outlet must be kept open. competative fares to Ukraine Mr. Lukashenka has now turned on the Without a critical observer within the factories and farmers, reinstituting the country, the dictatorship could step up its For information and reservations, please call: Soviet practice of subbotniki (voluntary repressions. One is given the impression work on Saturdays), with the first subbot- that measures adopted to date are far less nik scheduled for Lenin’s birthday on April harsh than the president would have taken 1-800-UKRAINE 22. He has promised sudden inspections of were such events concealed from the out- farms from the presidential helicopter and side world. (1-800-857-2463) the most severe punishments upon those Finally, the experience of the post- who do not heed his call for rigorous work. Soviet states demonstrates one key fact: Arrival and departure information: JFK - (718) 656-9896 The Belarusian president has attained implementation the changes whether pro- Arrival and departure information: JFK - (718) 632-6909 one goal. Real and imaginary enemies have gressive or retrogressive, emanate from been eliminated (or are in the process of the top. Democracy in Russia, thus is being eliminated). Belarus has been “isolat- dependent on the reforms of Mr. Yeltsin; Air Ukraine ed” by the West. What remains is a quasi- autocracy in Belarus begins with Mr. 551 Fifth Ave., Suite 1002, 1005 Lukashenka. Whereas the former benefit- Soviet state with a currently popular and New York, NY 10176 populist leader. The outcome is likely to be ed from public revulsion for the Soviet a dictatorship without opposition, a country regime, the latter owed his rise to power virtually devoid of economic initiatives that largely because of public disgust with the For cargo shipments call to: will continue to fall behind all its neighbors economic chaos and corruption associated in terms of economic progress and develop- with the period of “perestroika,” defined ment. For better or worse, Mr. Lukashenka as commencing under Mikhail Gorbachev Air Ukraine - Cargo can turn only to Russia for friendship, pro- and continuing through the administration Tel. 718-376-1023, FAX 718-376-1073 the chairman of the Belarusian tection and assistance. President 2307 Coney Island Ave. (Ave.T), Brooklyn, NY 11223 Lukashenka’s political vision has always Parliament, Stanislau Shushkevich.1 T h e been broader than that of his nation of 10.4 reversal of the current political situation in million. It includes images of empire, of Belarus, logically, can only begin with power, of former Soviet greatness and – change at the top. The new Constitution albeit with some reservations – essentially has served to solidify further the omnipo- an affinity for the Stalinist past. tence of the president. Conclusion 1 I am grateful to Dr. Gennadii Can such a dictatorship be stopped? Grushevoi for this insight.

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Obligated to attend the annual meeting as voting mem bers are District Committee Officers, Convention Delegates and two delegates fro m the following Branches:

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All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. Pittsburgh Deputy Mayor Sal Sirabella holds a bulava (mace) presented to him MEETING WILL BE ATTENDED BY: by Deputy Mayor Serhii Beshulia of Donetsk (seated on left). Martha Lysko, UNA Secretary Nicholas Diakiwsky, UNA Advisor

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Yale University conference to focus on Ukraine’s agro-industrial potential

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A two-day Leonid Kozachenko, president, international conference titled Ukragrobusiness; Session II, Part II — “Attaining Ukraine’s Agro-Industrial “The Economic Assessment of Ukraine’s Potential” will be held on Friday and Agro-Industrial Potential”: Stanley Saturday, April 11-12, at Yale Johnson, Iowa State University; Timothy University with the participation of Bodin, senior economist, Cargill; Session Ukrainian policy-makers and govern- III — “Property Rights, Privatization and ment officials, Western economic the Performance-Potential Gap”: Valerii experts as well as professionals in Galushko, dean, National Agricultural Ukrainian and international agri-busi- University; Zvi Lerman, Hebrew ness, banking and other relevant fields. University; Session IV — “State The conference is sponsored by the Intervention and Control and the Council on Russian and East European Performance-Potential Gap”: Petro Sabluk, TO ALL MEMBERS OF UNA BRANCH Studies and the Yale Center for Institute of Agrarian Economics; Alexander 3 9 9 Y E V S H A N International and Area Studies with sup- Kaliberda, World Bank, Kyiv; April 12 — In Chicago, IL Distributor of fine Ukrainian products - Cassettes, Compact port from the Chopivsky Family Session V — “Financing, Financial As of April 1, 1997, the secretary’s duties of Branch 399 discs - Videos - Language tapes & Dictionaries - Computer fonts for PC & MAC - Imported Icons - Ukrainian Stationery Foundation and The Citizens Network Services and the Performance-Potential in Chicago, IL will be assumed by Mr. Andrij Skyba. - Cookbooks - Food parcels to Ukraine for Foreign Affairs. Gap”: David Perry, Massey Ferguson; We ask all members of Branch 399 to direct all correspon- The conference, which is open to the Mark Lundell, World Bank; Session VI — dence regarding membership and insurance, as well as Call for a free catalog general public, will be held in seven ses- “Infrastructure, Institutional Support, and their membership premiums to the address listed below: sions. Both days’ sessions start at 9 a.m., the Performance-Potential Gap”: Vitalii 1-8 00- 2 65-9 8 5 8 with a break at 12:30-1:30 p.m. and the Tsekhmistrenko, president, RISE-Invest; Mr. Andrij Skyba VISA - MASTERCARD - AMEX ACCEPTED 4575 N. Nagle Ave. FAX ORDERS ACCEPTED (514) 630-9960 afternoon sessions to end at approximate- Nikolai Lobas, director-general, Harwood Heights, IL 60630 BOX 325, BEACONSFIELD, QUEBEC ly 5 p.m. AgroIncom; Session VII — “Technology, (708) 867-7762 CANADA - H9W 5T8 Opening the conference will be Gustav Human Capital and the Performance- Ranis, director, Yale Center for Potential Gap”: Dmytro Melnychuk, presi- International and Area Studies, followed by dent, National Agricultural University; an address by Dr. Yuri Shcherbak, ambas- Victor Sitnyk, vice-president, Ukrainian TO ALL MEMBERS OF UNA BRANCH 17 ATTENTION sador of Ukraine to the U.S. The keynote Academy of Agricultural Sciences; John In Chicago, IL ALL MEMBERS OF BRANCH 395 As of April 1, 1997, the secretary’s duties of Branch 17 in address will be delivered by D. Gale Miranowski, Iowa State University; Session Please be advised that Branch 395 will merge with Chicago, IL will be assumed by Mr. Peter Bylen. Johnson, University of Chicago. VIII — “Policies for Closing the Branch 176 as of April 1, 1997. All inquries, monthly Following is a listing of participants. Performance-Potential Gap”: Czaba Cszaki, We ask all members of Branch 17 to direct all correspon- payments and requests for changes should be sent April 11 — Session II, Part I — “Ukraine’s World Bank; Charles Becket, University of dence regarding membership and insurance, as well as Agro-Industrial Potential”: Anatolii Colorado; and Peter Sochan, policy direc- their membership premiums to the address listed below: to Mr. Stefko Kuropas, Branch Secretary. Danilenko, head, Agro-Industrial tor, Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Peter Bylen Mr. Stefko Kuropas Westchester Place Committee, Department of Land Resouces All sessions will be held in the audito- 126 Williams Dr. and Social Development, Verkhovna Rada rium of Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse 11034 Westminster Drive Schaumburg, IL 60193 of Ukraine; John Costello, president, Ave. The sessions will feature simultane- Westchester, IL 60154-5601 Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs; ous Ukrainian-English translation. (708) 409-0994 (708) 294-7858 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1997 No. 14

PREVIEW OF EVENTS Friday, April 11 Thursday, April 17 NEW YORK: The Literary-Cultural Club CAMBRIDGE, Mass: The Harvard will host a program “A Vzhe Vesna, A Vzhe Ukrainian Research Institute will hold a Krasna” that will include traditional hahilky roundtable discussion on the topic “Poles and (spring dances), vesnianky, songs and games. Ukraine: Scholarly Knowledge and Popular Accompaniment on the bandura will be pro- Interests” with introductory remarks by Jack vided by Alla Kutsevych and her students, Kochanowicz, professor of economic history, and Lavrentia Turkevych. Slava Gerulak and Warsaw University. The roundtable will be Oksana Lykhovyd will provide commentary held in the HURI seminar room, 1583 on the program of spring rituals. The pro- Massachusetts Ave., at noon-2 p.m. gram will take place at 136 Second Ave., Friday, April 18 fourth floor, and will begin at 7 p.m. Contact Ms. Gerulak, (212) 260-4490. LIVONIA, Mich.: The Livonia Symphony Orchestra Society presents Cabaret ’97!, an NEW YORK: A screening of “Glass, evening of music and show tunes conduct- Necktie,” a new film written and directed ed by Volodymyr Schesiuk. The evening by Paul Bojack, a.k.a. Roman Boychuk, will be held at Burton Manor, 27777 will be held at the Ukrainian Institute of Schoolcraft, and begins at 6:30 p.m. Tickets America, 2 E. 79th St., at 8 p.m. Reception are $25 and can be ordered from Lee to follow. Admission: $10 non-members, Alanskas, (313) 464-2741. $8 members. Call (212) 737-5994 to RSVP or for further information. T O R O N T O : An exhibit of prints and paintings by Petro Lopata will be shown in Saturday, April 12 an open house at 7-10 p.m. at 239 Lambton MAPLEWOOD, N.J.: The Ukrainian Ave. The exhibit will also be open on Orthodox Church of the Holy Ascension Saturday and Sunday, April 19-20, at 1-8 will hold its third annual pysanka work- p.m. Refreshments will be served; part of shop. Instruction will be provided by Aida the proceeds will go to Help Us Help The Federenko. Sponsored by the Sunday Children Fund. For information call (416) School, the workshop is free of charge and 7 6 7 - 6 1 1 1 . will be held at the church hall, 650-652 Sunday, April 20 Irvington Ave. Refreshments will be served. The workshop will begin at 1:30 LAS VEGAS: The Ukrainian-American p.m. For further information contact Alicia Social Club of Las Vegas will hold an Zurawel, (201) 575-8645. Easter and Spring Celebration Potluck Dinner at 801 Overview Drive. Bring your NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific sidedish, the club will provide entrees. Society will sponsor a lecture by Dr. Dress is casual, admission is $7 and the Olena Pevny, Byzantium scholar and a evening begins at 5:30 p.m. For reserva- principal organizer of “The Glory of tions or information contact Steve, (702) Byzantium” exhibition now showing at the 4 3 4 - 1 1 8 7 . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dr. Pevny Field & Olesnycky will speak on the topic “Ukraine and ‘The HARTFORD, Conn.: The Greater Attorneys at Law Glory of Byzantium’ Exhibit.” The lecture Hartford Association for Aid to Ukraine will be held at the society’s building, 63 invites the Ukrainian American communi- 11 Eagle Rock Ave., Suite 100 Fourth Ave., at 5 p.m. ty to its annual meeting that will take place at the Ukrainian National Home, 961 BUFFALO, N.Y.: The Ukrainian East Hanover, N.J. 07936 Wethersfield Ave., at 2 p.m. The keynote Student’s Club at the University of (201) 386-1115 speaker will be Dr. Roman Voronka, the Buffalo presents “Echoes of Ukraine.” The first vice-chairman of the Coordinating Fax (201) 884-1188 program will feature bandurists under the Committee to Aid Ukraine. (Three Miles North of Ramada Hotel, at Ridgedale Ave.) direction of Victor Mishalow, along with performances by Buffalo women’s choir ADVANCE NOTICE Mria and two dance groups. The program Representation of Small Businesses, SCRANTON, Pa.: The Ukrainian Heritage will be held at St. John the Baptist Church Council of Northeastern Pennsylvania is con- Wills, Estates and Asset Protection, Commercial and Corporate Law, Hall and begins at 5 p.m. For information ducting a heritage bus trip to New York City Real Estate and Family Law. call Lida Paszlowsky, (716) 835-6288. on Saturday, May 17, for the Annual Sunday, April 13 Ukrainian Street Festival sponsored by St. (By prior appointment, on selected Fridays, between the hours of 5:00 P.M. and 7 P.M., Mr. Olesnycky George Ukrainian Catholic Church, Seventh W I N N I P E G : An exhibit of computer-gen- Street, in the East Village. An optional stop will hold office hours at Self-Reliance Ukrainian Federal Credit Union, 558 Summit Ave., Jersey City, NJ. erated images by Margaret Khomenko will also be made at the Metropolitan Please call (201) 386-1115 to make such appointments in advence) titled “Forever Remembered” that com- Museum of Art to view “The Glory of memorate the Chornobyl tragedy will open Byzantium” exhibition. The bus leaves at 9 at the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Nestor L. Olesnycky Robert S. Field a.m. from the Ukrainian Fraternal Center, 181 Alexander Ave., at 3 p.m. The Association, 440 Wyoming Ave., Scranton, Boyan Theatrical Group will sing a com- and will depart Manhattan at 9 p.m. Bus fare memorative program of prayers, and Taras is $20 per person. For reservations contact Harkavy, a child survivor of the disaster, Rosemary Haberle, (717) 347-1735; Sophie SELF RELIANCE (NEWARK, NJ) will premiere his composition “Chornobyl.” Soniak, (717) 347-5050; or Agnes Uhrin, Federal Credit Union Admission is free and a reception will fol- (717) 489-1354. 734 SANDFORD AVENUE, NEWARK, NJ 07106 low the opening. The exhibit continues Tel (201) 373-7839 • http://www.selfreliance.org • Fax (201) 373-8812 through June 30. For information contact ONGOING Oksana Balas, (204) 942-0218. BUSINESS HOURS: NEW YORK: An exhibit of work by Tue & Fri - 12:00 noon to 7 PM • Wed & Thurs - 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM • Sat - 9:00 to 12:00 noon • Mon. - Closed PARMA, Ohio: The Ohio Regional Ukrainian artist Andrii Klymenko has been Council of the Ukrainian National Women’s extended until April 19. Born in Luhansk League of America will commemorate its region, Ukraine, Mr. Klymenko is a world 40th anniversary with a program to benefit renowned artist. The exhibit is sponsored by The Ukrainian Museum in New York City. the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the The program will be held at 4 p.m. in St. United Nations and is open to the public for Pokrova Ukrainian Church Hall, 6812 viewing daily (except Sundays) from 10 a.m. Broadview Road. John Luchechko, presi- - 6 p.m. at 220 E. 51st St. Admission is free. dent of the board of trustees of The TORONTO: An exhibit of over 200 pho- Ukrainian Museum, will speak about the tographs and documents pertaining to the museum, including a slide show presenta- Polish government’s 1947-1949 deportation tion. The evening program will also feature operation known as “Akcja Wisla” (which a musical ensemble performance and an also involved the imprisonment of exhibit of modern fashions from Kyiv. The Ukrainians at the Jaworzno concentration evening will conclude with a reception. camp) sponsored by the Zakerzonnia Tickets are $15. For further information Association is on view at noon-6 p.m., contact Luba Sochocky, (216) 429-5327. Tuesday through Sunday, at the Ukrainian NEW YORK: The New York Branch of Canadian Art Foundation, 2188A Bloor St. Plast will perform its annual play for children W. For further information, call Bohdan age 5-11. This year’s tale is a Ukrainian Szewczyk, (416) 234-1212 or (905) 501- Cinderella set in ancient Kyiv. The perfor- 0167. To view photographs of the exhibit’s mance will begin at 2 p.m. and will be fol- opening on March 26, as well as historical lowed by games and activities, as well as a background materials, visit the website at raffle and buffet. The event will be held at the h t t p : / / w w w . i n t e r l o g . c o m / ~ a l e p k i / 1 9 4 7 / w i s l a Ukrainian National Home, 140 Second Ave. .htm