INSIDE:• UPA veterans give accounts of their experiences — page 3. • Ukrainian American’s story of moving to Ukraine — page 12. • Conference focuses on Ukrainian folk life — page 13.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIV HE No.KRAINIAN 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine SheptytskyT beatificationU process moves forward Ukrainian InsurgentW Army veterans Religious Information Service of Ukraine means that, after appropriate positive assessment of the status of the historical mark anniversary of its founding KYIV – The most recent session of credibility and authenticity of the docu- the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian mentary materials gathered during the Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) report- long-lasting beatification process (on the ed that the beatification process for basis of archival documents and eyewit- Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, head of the UGCC from 1901 to 1944, is ness testimonies), the cause itself has moving forward in Rome. passed to the competency of those hold- Father Roman Terekhovskyi of the ing governing positions in the Roman UGCC’s Postulation Center, the vice-postu- Congregation for the Causes of Saints, lator for Metropolitan Sheptytsky’s cause, who should in an appropriate way assess commented on the latest developments, not- also the quality of the facts gathered in ing that Sheptytsky’s cause has gone to the this cause,” said Father Terekhovskyi. Vatican’s Theological Commission. According to Father Terekhovskyi, after UGCC Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn, the commission confirms the fact of the head of the Synod’s Committee on metropolitan’s heroic virtues (de heroicitate Beatification and Canonization, said that virtutibus) throughout his life, his faith and this is a great step toward beatifying service to God and neighbor, his official Metropolitan Sheptytsky. The Synod met status will be designated “venerable,” on September 13-20 in Briukhovychi, which will make possible his recognition as near Lviv. a “blessed” of the Catholic Church. Iryna Cherepynska “The fact that the beatification cause Father Terekhovskyi added that a doc- UPA veterans listen to speeches delivered at St. Sophia Square on the 64th of Servant of God Metropolitan Andrey umented miraculous healing performed anniversary ceremony of their army’s founding. Sheptytsky was recently passed for fur- through the metropolitan’s intercession ther work to the special Theological will then allow his beatification. by Zenon Zawada Commission of the Congregation for the The beatification process for tioning them off rather than evict them. Causes of Saints in Rome formally Metropolitan Sheptytsky began in 1958. Kyiv Press Bureau Judge Natalia Buzhak reached her decision despite the fact that the patriotic KYIV – Ukrainian Insurgent Army groups had submitted their request on (UPA) veterans and thousands of their September 13, a full month ahead of the supporters succeeded in commemorating planned commemoration, which falls on the 64th anniversary of its founding on St. Mary the Protectress Day, a widely Memorial events in Washington October 14 without interference from observed Ukrainian holy day. hundreds of violent-prone agitators, Pro-Soviet forces submitted their recall ‘lonely hero’ Politkovskaya largely from the Communist and request only a week prior to the date. by Yaro Bihun ing and honoring Ms. Politkovskaya and her Progressive Socialist parties. Although they had a pretext of com- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly unrelenting effort to keep the tragedy and Although separate scuffles and fights memorating the 60th anniversary of the travesty of what the Russian government of broke out, more than 3,000 Kyiv police Nuremburg trials, their lawyers stated WASHINGTON — The “lonely hero,” President Vladimir Putin was doing to officers provided heavy security for the their intent was to prevent the UPA veter- as Zbigniew Brzezinski called journalist Chechnya from being forgotten. Ukrainian patriots, setting up metal bar- ans’ commemoration. Anna Politkovskaya, was honored here at Later, in the evening, there was a can- ricades and denying the agitators any The judge was merely carrying out two memorial events, nine days after she dlelight vigil in her memory in front of access to Independence Square, where President Viktor Yushchenko’s incoher- was murdered in Moscow on October 7. the Russian Embassy. the commemorative events began. ent politics, said Oleksander Bashuk, a The former national security advisor to “There is no heroism more impressive “Everything is in order, and there haven’t lawyer with the Svoboda political party. President Jimmy Carter was among those than lonely heroism,” Dr. Brzezinski been any confrontations,” Oleh Tiahnybok, who spoke at a memorial gathering at the the event’s leader, said during the commem- (Continued on page 4) National Endowment for Democracy, recall- (Continued on page 10) oration. “The provocateurs were sectioned off, and possibly even barred from entering Ukraine, since we were expecting provoca- U.S. government teurs and thugs from Russia.” Mr. Tiahnybok’s All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda, the leading nationalist force in adopts ‘Kyiv’ spelling Ukraine, organized the day’s events with the Kyiv Regional Brotherhood of the WASHINGTON – The U.S. Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists- Department of State reported that on Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN-UPA), October 3, the Board on Geographic which was formed to fight against both the Names (BGN) unanimously voted to German Nazi and Soviet Russian invaders change the BGN standard translitera- in order to secure Ukraine’s independence. tion of the name of the Ukrainian Though police provided the necessary capital to Kyiv. protection, the patriots had little support This decision affects the whole from the government, either on the U.S. government. The State national or the local level. Department noted: “Although ‘Kiev’ The prior day, a Kyiv district judge remains the BGN conventional name ruled that neither the patriots nor the pro- for this city, all State Department Soviet/pro-Russian demonstrators had the offices and operations are requested right to be on Independence Square, to immediately begin using the new which had been sealed off on October 14. spelling ‘Kyiv’ in all written com- The square had been the heavily pub- munication. The American diplomat- Yaro Bihun licized meeting place for the patriots ic post there will henceforth be Slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya is remembered during a candlelight vigil in who gathered there nevertheless, and riot called Embassy Kyiv.” front of the Russian Embassy in Washington on October 16. police opted to set up a barricade sec- 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 No. 43

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Two Viktors, but no clear winner NEWSBRIEFS UPA veterans seek combatants’ status Ukraine still needs to pass a dozen laws by Jan Maksymiuk Yanukovych against the backdrop of the and sign a bilateral trade accord with RFE/RL Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Report Orange Revolution. They now seem to KYIV – A group of Ukrainian Kyrgyzstan in order to be ready for WTO have backfired, devolving into an institu- Insurgent Army (UPA) veterans and sev- entry. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych The appointment in August of Viktor tional row between the two leaders. eral thousand sympathizers took to the urged Parliament on October 16 to move Yanukovych as Ukrainian prime minister The constitutional requirement that streets in Kyiv on October 14 to mark the quickly to pass the legislation that would left many speculating how he and his some presidential decrees should be co- 64th anniversary of the founding of the enable Ukraine to join the WTO early onetime rival, President Viktor signed by the prime minister and the UPA and demand official recognition as next year. (RFE/RL Newsline) Yushchenko, would work together. If ministers directly responsible for their war combatants for UPA fighters, Russia checks on Ukraine’s alcohol recent developments are any indication, implementation existed even before the Ukrainian and international news agen- the relationship still needs some work. 2004 reform. cies reported. The UPA was a nationalist The trouble began in earnest in guerrilla force that fought the Nazis as MOSCOW – Rospotrebnadzor, But in the era of former President Russia’s consumer rights watchdog, said September, when Mr. Yanukovych refused Leonid Kuchma, no prime minister – well as Soviet and Polish troops during to implement seven presidential decrees, on October 16 that it is carrying out checks including both Messrs. Yushchenko and World War II and immediately after it. arguing that they were issued without his of all alcohol imports from Ukraine, look- Yanukovych – ever invoked the attendant Several thousand policemen guarded the co-signature. Mr. Yanukovych, in return, ing for banned wines from Georgia and provision to question the legality of pres- rally in Kyiv against left-wing demon- demanded that President Yushchenko sack Moldova, international news agencies idential decisions. strators who unsuccessfully tried to break five regional governors loyal to the presi- reported. “We have reason to believe there Now, however, the situation is different. through police barriers and provoke dent. is some sort of agreement between these The constitutional reform, which took clashes. President Viktor Yushchenko Mr. Yushchenko later declined an invi- countries – including Ukraine, Belarus and effect on January 1, has shifted the center said the same day that he has signed a tation by Mr. Yanukovych to participate in Azerbaijan – to help these two countries of political power from the president decree on “restoring historical justice” to a Cabinet of Ministers meeting. Most [Georgia and Moldova] enter the Russian toward the prime minister and UPA veterans, Interfax-Ukraine reported. recently, of course, the president’s Our market,” Rospotrebnadzor head Gennady Parliament, making the president and the “As a president, I do not define the [com- Ukraine bloc appeared to dismiss the pos- Onishchenko said in a television interview. prime minister top executive officials batant] status. But I may stimulate the sibility of joining the ruling coalition led In another television interview with more or less equal authority. government and Parliament to consider Onishchenko said a doubling of wine by Mr. Yanukovych’s Party of the Regions. this issue and take the decision. This is Both politicians have apparently President Yushchenko and Prime imports from Ukraine is suspicious, adding Minister Yanukovych are from different the purpose of the decree I signed today that all alcohol imports, including vodka, entered a period of argument over who is in the morning,” Mr. Yushchenko told to play the leading role in Ukraine’s con- political camps, so it is hardly surprising will be probed. (RFE/RL Newsline) they are now competing for recognition journalists. (RFE/RL Newsline) stitutionally remodeled political system, President, PM agree to continue talks which went into effect this year. as the uppermost politician in Ukraine. But since the two politicians personify Our Ukraine pledges to stay with president The constitutional amendments were K YIV – Following a meeting with opposing sides of Ukraine’s deeply felt hastily adopted in December 2004 to KYIV – Roman Bezsmertnyi, head of President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime East-West divide, their rivalry, if contin- resolve the presidential election standoff the parliamentary caucus of the pro-pres- Minister Viktor Yanukovych told journal- ued, will no doubt contribute to widening between Messrs. Yushchenko and idential Our Ukraine bloc of six parties, ists in Kyiv on October 10 that negotia- this troublesome gap. said on October 12 that Our Ukraine will tions on the creation of an expanded rul- President Yushchenko proposed a solu- continue to support President Viktor ing coalition with the participation of the Jan Maksymiuk is the Belarus and tion two months ago when he persuaded Ukraine specialist on the staff of RFE/RL Yushchenko and will press for the execu- pro-presidential Our Ukraine bloc will be Newsline. (Continued on page 14) tion of the program with which Mr. continued, Ukrainian media reported. Yushchenko won the presidential elec- “We agreed to work toward forming a tion in 2004, Interfax-Ukraine reported. broad coalition. For that, we have, first (RFE/RL Newsline) and foremost, the political will of the Deciphering the new gas deal Ukrainian president and prime minister. Rada delays hearings on WTO We believe it is our common goal to sta- bilize the political situation,” Mr. between Ukraine and Russia KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on Yanukovych said. Last week, Our October 17 decided to postpone until Ukraine leader Roman Bezsmertnyi by Roman Kupchinsky paid $95 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas, November 1 parliamentary hearings on announced that his party was switching to RFE/RL Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Report was apparently scrapped in late Ukraine’s prospects for and problems September during secretive discussions the opposition and called on Our Ukraine regarding its entry to the World Trade ministers in Yanukovych's Cabinet to step Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister with Russia on gas supplies. Organization (WTO), UNIAN reported. Despite Mr. Boiko’s statement regard- down. However, Family, Youth and Yurii Boiko raised more than a few eye- The hearings were originally planned for Sports Minister Yurii Pavlenko told jour- brows when he told journalists in Kyiv ing the replacement contract, it is a October 18. Verkhovna Rada Chairman stretch to say that Ukraine will be free nalists on October 11 that he and the three on October 6 that Ukraine will not Oleksander Moroz said the postponement other ministers from Our Ukraine will import Russian gas for domestic con- from the Russian gas yoke. After all, does not imply that deputies will not dis- sumption next year. while it will be purchasing gas under the cuss WTO-related bills in the meantime. (Continued on page 8) His statement that “there will not be new contract via RosUkrEnergo and not from Gazprom directly, the Russian gas any Russian gas in Ukraine’s balance” giant remains the owner of 50 percent of was clear enough. How he calculated that the shares in RosUkrEnergo. 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(Continued on page 15) No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 3 UPA veterans share their experiences at press conference in Kyiv by Zenon Zawada they didn’t let us sleep at night. We had Kyiv Press Bureau to work. Then the interrogations, interro- gations … And the question was, “Do KYIV – Ukrainian Insurgent Army you want to fight against Hitler?” I said, (UPA) veterans shared their experiences “Yes, I do.” So they sent me to the so- at an October 10 press conference organ- called “shtrafbat” (penalty battalion) in ized by the Congress of Ukrainian Eastern Prussia. Almost nobody who was Nationalists, one of six political parties with me had returned from the concentra- belonging to the Our Ukraine bloc. tion camp. Following are some of their accounts of In the fall of 1944, we carried mines in the UPA’s activity. our backpacks and they told us to place them when German tanks drew close. We Petro Balytskyi, 84, Vorobivka, didn’t even have any arms or anything. I Ternopil Oblast, UPA soldier: took off my military clothes, changed into civilian clothes and registered myself as a My group was arrested by the NKVD Pole. I got myself jailed as a Pole, and the (People’s Commisariat for Internal Soviet NKVD transferred me into the Affairs). They brought us to a concentra- hands of the Polish NKVD and I was tion camp in Saratov (Russia), and we imprisoned in a Moldovan concentration endured horrible torture, but I am not camp. I knew how to lie and they believed going to talk about it because all of us I was a Pole. I learned perfect Polish. know the NKVD’s methods. They tor- tured us, gave us salted fish, dry crusts, Daria Husiak, 82, Truskavets, Lviv Zenon Zawada broke our teeth and denied us water. Try Oblast, Roman Shukhevych’s liaison: it for yourself. You will see after one Daria Husiak Fotii Volodymyrskyi week you would hang yourself. No Roman Shukhevych prepared a lot in water. You are choking. And people did 1930s. He did a lot of educational work the Ukrainian nation was ready for the banks of the Pacific Ocean for lumber- commit suicide. and prepared young people for this armed armed struggle, not for life but to death. jack work. I survived and I am still alive. When we came out in the morning, we struggle. At the beginning of World War You know very well what losses those I don’t regret anything, although it was drank cow’s urine on the ground. We II, national consciousness was so high fighters for Ukraine’s freedom suffered. difficult. It was cold, I was hungry, and it drank dew to quench our thirst. Later, and the desire for freedom so large that They managed to hold out a decade. And was painful. They beat us, taunted us and I believe the struggle of the 1940s is tortured us. unique. It is unique because the But we knew we were for this great Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian peo- idea – you can take away everything ple rose up with arms against two world from me, just don’t take away this holy U.S.-Ukraine Foundation hosts powers. I believe there is no analogue in and saintly love for Ukraine. Let it stay. the world. When they beat us, tortured us, they put He was a very communicable and out cigarettes on my nose, when they third session of policy dialogue marvelously cheerful man. When we beat me by my feet, put me into a punish- WASHINGTON – The U.S.-Ukraine at,” stated Mr. Wilson. look at portraits with the stern appear- ment cell, it wasn’t as painful as it is Foundation and its partners hosted the Throughout the week, participants ance of Shukhevych, we can hardly now, when 24 European nations have third working session of the U.S.- were divided according to their expertise imagine that he was a man with a sense recognized us as a resistance movement, Ukraine Policy Dialogue in Washington into four task forces: politics and gover- of humor. He knew how to joke and and here in our native Ukraine they don’t on September 25-29. Funded by the U.S. nance; foreign policy and national securi- understood the jokes of other people. He recognize us. That’s the most painful and Department of State, the U.S.-Ukraine ty; economics and business; and media could sing with the boys and the boys felt most horrible thing. Policy Dialogue is designed to supple- and information. Each of these task very free in his company, despite the fact ment and deepen the official bilateral dia- forces held numerous meetings with sen- that he kept discipline. But all the people Fotii Volodymyrskyi, 83, Vyshnevets, logue between Ukraine and the United ior officials of the U.S. government, rep- that surrounded him felt themselves very Ternopil Oblast, UPA soldier: States. resentatives of NGOs, congressional easy. More than 60 policy-makers from the committees and think-tanks in He was so modest that practically any- I represent the brotherhood of OUN- United States and Ukraine met to discuss Washington, which provided further one who mentions him in their memoirs UPA of the Carpathian region, the region U.S.-Ukraine relations through the prism insight on U.S.-Ukraine related issues. talks about this trait – his modesty. He where this struggle continued for the of foreign policy and national security; Co-chaired by high-level American wore clothes and ate what the UPA sol- longest time for our Ukrainian state. In politics and governance; media and infor- and Ukrainian experts, the task forces are diers ate. He didn’t allow any exceptions the Prykarpattia region, 16,500 fighters mation; and business and economics. managed by U.S. and Ukrainian partner for himself, even when he was sick. One were killed and 650 women – the wives Program participants included organizations such as The Atlantic more trait of his was his diligence. In his of our commanders and our girlfriends deputies from Ukraine’s Parliament, rep- Council of the United States, Razumkov last secret house where he actually died, involved in this struggle. resentatives of the U.S. Department of Center for Economic and Political in Bilohorscha, he, a sick person already, When the Soviet Army stood under State, National Security and Defense Studies, International Center for Policy was very hard-working and he used Moscow and the Germans were eyeing Council of Ukraine, the Secretariat of the Studies, Kennan Institute at the Woodrow every minute as optimally as best he the Kremlin through their binoculars, President of Ukraine, Ministry of the Wilson International Center for Scholars, could. He had rest – probably his doctor nobody knew how the circle of history Economy of Ukraine, U.S. and Ukrainian SigmaBleyzer and Europe XXI told him to have a rest – but he used would turn. There still weren’t any parti- think-tanks, non-governmental organiza- Foundation. every minute for work sans. It was only the UPA soldiers who tions, and media and business representa- The U.S.-Ukraine Policy Dialogue stood up for the defense of the father- tives. concluded with a closing plenary session Tetiana Vaida, 74, Zavorol, Rivne land. The opening plenary session, which on September 28 at which Ukraine’s Oblast, UPA scout: Stepan Bandera proclaimed in 1941 was webcast live, commenced with wel- ambassador to the United States, Dr. the independence of our state. The occu- coming remarks by Nadia McConnell, Oleh Shamshur, gave closing remarks, I was 13 when I helped out. I was a piers, the Germans, accepted it very neg- U.S.-Ukraine Foundation president, and and each task force presented its policy runner and a scout. My father had a shel- atively. They forced Bandera and Damon Wilson, the director for Central recommendations for the U.S. and ter, the boys asked me and I went, so it [Yaroslav] Stetsko to cancel that act. But and Eastern Europe at the National Ukrainian governments. was not official. But when my brother was they didn’t want to. So Bandera and the Security Council. Afterwards, a reception to commemo- arrested, I stood consciously on the side of entire leadership were arrested. Until Noting the importance of the project, rate the U.S.-Ukraine Policy Dialogue struggle. I joined the junior network of the 1944 they were imprisoned in German Mr. Wilson stated: “I appreciate very and to celebrate the 15th anniversary of OUN, they suggested a propaganda post camps. much the role of the U.S.-Ukraine the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation was held at to me and I spread the propaganda in And it is very painful to me to hear Foundation supporting this policy dia- the Embassy of Ukraine. schools that it was necessary to go to the those Communists in the Verkhovna logue. It is a particularly opportune Commenting on this special occasion, army of the Ukrainian nationalists. Rada led by Petro Symonenko say that moment to have it here in Washington Mrs. McConnell expressed that she My father had a shelter in our yard “they were German collaborators.” and to be talking about U.S.-Ukraine hopes “the foundation’s next 15 years where insurgents were hiding all the Halychyna was occupied by the relations. After prolonged uncertainty will be as enjoyable and productive as time. I communicated with them every- Germans, who were robbing us. I was there is a government and we have a these first 15. We know this will be so if day. My brother was also a runner who wounded for the first time in my feet in partner to work with in Ukraine. It is the we continue to receive the kind of sup- brought weapons from Lviv to Lutsk and 1943 when the Germans came to rob our right moment for us in Washington to be port that we have received thus far. In back. He was sentenced. Unfortunately, village. I was 19 years old when they thinking through the next steps in the particular, we recognize our partner insti- he became ill with tuberculosis in the wounded me in the leg during a battle. relationship and, therefore, the work that tutions and all of the task force members mines and died. And I was sentenced for Look at all the historical facts – the you will be doing in this group over the who have so generously donated their 10 years and stayed alive. issue of UPA crimes was not even in the coming days I think is very useful.” time and energy to make policy dialogue As always there were traitors, Nuremburg trials. This issue was not “Over the years, policy dialogue has a success. ” “stukachi,” and they betrayed me. I was even raised because we were fighting for been constructive in feeding into the To learn more about the U.S.-Ukraine arrested and they put me in a cellar. For our state and for our freedom. Our slo- thinking here in Washington, and hope- Policy Dialogue or to view webcasts of the three months I endured 42 interrogations, gans were “Freedom to the nations and to fully in Ukraine as well, among the poli- policy dialogue events and the 15th anniver- and then they sentenced me to 10 years. man” and “The well-being of the nation cy-makers. I think this is particularly rel- sary celebration, readers can log on to They suggested that I collaborate and is the highest law.” We fought with these evant right now during the stage we’re http://www.usukraine.org/pd06videos.shtml. betray. I didn’t go for it. I was sent to the slogans. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 No. 43

back and knifed them,” said Natalia Ukrainian Insurgent... Kuzmenko, 40, a medical worker and a (Continued from page 1) Communist. “This was a Solomon’s decision, which “People were trying to live a new life, is [emblematic of] Ukraine’s multi-vector and they were merciless to Komsomol approach and decay,” he said. members and Communists. They torment- Judge Buzhak didn’t base her decision ed Jews, Poles, Russians and anyone who on the law or any political motivations, didn’t think like they did,” she added. Mr. Bashuk said. Instead, the decision As the agitators lost their patience with attempted to find an administratively con- police, they began swinging their homespun venient resolution to a conflict. “Any court weapons at them and tearing down the decision has to have a legal foundation,” metal barricades. One police officer suffered Mr. Bashuk said. “ ‘I’m a judge so I made injury to his eyes and nasal canal when a this decision’ is something only Solomon Progressive Socialist sprayed tear gas in an could have done because he was a king.” effort to break through a barricade. Despite the court order, more than 300 Attempts to break past the police patriots managed to secure a section of dressed in riot gear failed, however, and Independence Square at the arch of St. 56 demonstrators were arrested, mostly

Iryna Cherepynska Tymoshenko Bloc National Deputy Lev Lukianenko addresses UPA veterans and their supporters at St. Sophia Square.

50,000 UPA soldiers who died in the order,” Mr. Tiahnybok said, holding a copy struggle for an independent Ukraine. of an order prepared by the Svoboda party. Leaders of patriotic and nationalistic It called for recognizing the national groups criticized the government for fail- liberation struggle of the OUN-UPA for ing to grant the UPA recognition, failing to Ukrainian independence; granting UPA make St. Mary the Protectress Day a veterans status as fighters for Ukraine’s national holiday and failing to take steps freedom; making St. Mary the to educate Ukrainian schoolchildren about Proctectress Day the official holiday for the role the UPA played in World War II. Ukraine’s armed forces and canceling the National Deputy Lev Lukianenko, a February 23, 1999, presidential order cre- former Soviet political prisoner, said the ating Defenders of the Motherland Day. law is the basis for Ukraine’s current He called for opening Ukraine’s archives struggle against its enemies, including and criticized the Yushchenko administra- the Constitution of Ukraine, the tion for allowing a Communist Party mem- Iryna Cherepynska Universal Declaration of Human Rights ber, Olha Ginsburg, to become appointed as Ukrainian nationalist leader Oleh Tiahnybok speaks during the UPA anniversary and international law. director of the State Committee on Archives. commemorations at St. Sophia Square. “In a peaceful way, we were able to He said he suspected this was done to achieve what our two armed struggles destroy any remaining evidence of Michael the Archangel after Svoboda from the pro-Russian side. Among them, attempted throughout the 20th century,” Communist crimes in order to prevent organizers arrived at 10 p.m. the prior 25 were arrested for anti-police actions he said. “To great regret, the peaceful any future lustration of Communist Party night to claim the space. while 31 were arrested for hooliganism. means of struggle didn’t provide the members. At about 2 a.m., the police decided to Meanwhile, UPA veterans and their means to destroy those who are deeply “The people need the truth,” Mr. let them remain after a mild stand-off, supporters gathered at St. Michael’s arch, rooted enemies of the Ukrainian inde- Tiahnybok said. “Schools and higher educa- Mr. Bashuk said. “We stood there the waved flags of patriotic political parties pendent nation. And today in the 21 cen- tion institutions need to teach the true histo- whole night,” he added. and sang war hymns, bellowing the tury, there are a lot of them in Ukraine.” ry of the UPA and Ukraine, not what was By sunrise, Independence Square words, “Don’t cry my girl, he gave his An armed struggle against these ene- taught through the prism of the Kremlin.” looked like a war zone under martial law, life for Ukraine.” mies may or may not have been success- President Yushchenko didn’t attend as metal barricades lined with riot police Just after 10 a.m. Mr. Tiahnybok ful as the Russian Federation remained a any UPA-related events on October 14. blocked access from every major roadway. addressed the supporters, urging them to military threat, Mr. Lukianenko said. Instead, he and his wife traveled to his From both ends of the Khreschatyk, up sign a petition demanding that the president Therefore, patriotic forces foresaw home village of Khoruzhivka, where they to 1,000 pro-Russian agitators, including sign an order recognizing the UPA as a force upon Ukraine’s independence that these visited a new home for orphans, placed Communists led by Petro Symonenko that fought for Ukrainian independence and enemies would impede the nation’s flowers at a grave of Holodomor victims and Progressive Socialists led by Natalia making St. Mary the Protectress Day the rebirth, progress and development, he and visited the grave of Mr. Yushchenko’s Vitrenko, collected at the barricades national holiday for Ukraine’s armed forces. continued. These enemies were evident mother, who passed away last year. where they were blocked by police. He also urged them to refrain from on Khreschatyk that very day. He issued a presidential order that day They gradually grew furious that they reacting violently to the pro-Soviet and Mr. Lukianenko said he’s been trying to insisting that the Cabinet of Ministers weren’t allowed onto Independence Square pro-Russian agitators. “I propose that we pass a bill granting government recogni- and the Verkhovna Rada consider reha- to attack the patriots and nationalists. don’t give into any provocations, and tion to all armed forces that fought for an bilitating the soldiers of the OUN-UPA. Many of the agitators, particularly peacefully and honorably celebrate this independent Ukraine, but Verkhovna Rada As president, he doesn’t have the authori- older women, were carrying sticks, icons distinct, grand holiday and honor Chairman Oleksander Moroz and the ty to recognize UPA, he stated. or other objects that could be used as Ukrainian heroes,” Mr. Tiahnybok said. Communists have acted in obstruction. “This conflict is caused by the pervert- weapons. Young men donned ski masks. UPA veterans alongside Orthodox and “We live in a paradoxical country: ed knowledge of history,” Mr. Yushchenko “Under President Viktor Yushchenko, Catholic priests led a procession up using economic and political freedoms are said, adding that it must be resolved as Ukraine has become a type of country Mykhailivska Street to the Holodomor those very same Communists who soon as possible. “We must give answers where Banderites and fascist accom- monument at St. Michael Square, where enabled their sons to become wealthy cap- to the question of historical justice and plices feel free,” read one flier. “Shame they placed flowers and prayed. italists,” he said. “At the same time, the pay tribute to every fighter for this land.” and damnation to the neo-Banderites!” Among those joining the procession Russian empire’s judgment upon an inde- In response to the attempts by Yelling “Fascists!” and waving were members of the Kharkiv-based pendent Ukraine lingers regarding these Communists to interrupt the UPA com- Communist and Donetsk Republic flags, Patriots of Ukraine citizens’ organiza- fighters for Ukraine. This is laughter in the memoration events, the Svoboda party they attacked anyone they perceived to tion, Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists face of logic and normal understanding.” announced it has organized a procession in be a Ukrainian patriot or nationalist. As a paramilitary soldiers, as well as individu- Nevertheless, Ukrainians are more Kyiv on November 7 honoring victims of result, innocent bystanders were hurt. als wanting to express their support. conscious with every passing day that the Communist repressions. November 7 was “I stood nearby, and when these boys “I am a Kyivite and a Russian, but nation’s future depends upon a Ukrainian the Soviet holiday marking the start of the attacked, I got a stick to my head,” said Ukraine is my land regardless of my eth- Ukraine, Mr. Lukianenko said. October Revolution of 1917, because it Oleksander Zolotariov, a Kyiv resident nicity,” said Oleksander Berendeyev, 49, In his remarks to the gathering, Mr. took place when Russia and Ukraine still who was at the wrong place at the wrong a mechanic. “Ukraine is my homeland Tiahnybok criticized the Yushchenko abided by the Julian calendar. time. regardless if I’m Russian or Jewish. administration for failing to make any The procession will begin at the “I went to the side. Afterwards, I saw a Ukraine needs to be defended, and some progress in granting government recogni- Arsenal metro station, lead down person lying on the asphalt being kicked, order needs to be implemented.” tion to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Hrushevsky Street along the Khreschatyk and I tried to pull him out of there. By the time the procession reached St. Unfortunately, those in Ukraine’s gov- to the monument to Vladimir Lenin Luckily, the police had arrived,” he noted. Sophia Square, the crowd had swelled to ernment view the nation as a successor to across from the Bessarabskyi Market. Protesters said they were compelled to about 2,500 UPA supporters, including Soviet Ukraine rather than the Ukrainian There, a rally will be held to call for come to Independence Square to protest members of various Kozak organizations National Republic, Western Ukrainian the removal of the statue of the “execu- the presence of those who collaborated that took the opportunity of St. Mary the National Republic or the Carpatho- tioner of the Ukrainian people,” Mr. with German Nazis and committed Protectress Day to bless initiates. Ukrainian state. Tiahnybok said. vicious crimes against the Soviet people. Father Serhii Tkachuk of the Mr. Yushchenko has the full right to “We will also begin measures to ban This is the common view of the UPA that Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv issue a presidential order recognizing UPA the Communist ideology in Ukraine,” Soviet propaganda instilled in its citizens. Patriarchate joined Ukrainian Catholic as a force that fought for Ukrainian inde- Mr. Tiahnybok said. “It’s necessary to “There won’t be any reconciliation and other Orthodox priests in leading a pendence. “It would take the president only conduct a second Nuremburg trial against because they shot their own people in the moleben service honoring the more than three seconds to take a pen and sign this the Communists.” No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 5

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

UNA Branch 283, the Sicz Club, celebrates its 80th anniversary

Branch 283 members with New York State Sen. Mike Nozzolio and Mayor Timothy Lattimore of Auburn, N.Y.

All 18 honorees’ tickets to the dinner- by Budem Razom, a Ukrainian band Members of the local SUM branch, (from left) Sonia Dubovici, Tonjia and dance were funded by the club as yet from Rochester, N.Y. Performing on Larysa Droczak, and Tanya and Marika Kobylnyak, perform during the dinner. another expression of gratitude. stage were the local Ukrainian school Guest speakers at the event were New and Ukrainian American Youth by Stefan Lysiak Droczak and Bohdan Droczak. All York State Sen. Michael Nozzolio and Association (SUM), as well as the Dunai received certificates of appreciation. In AUBURN, N.Y. – A dinner-dance on Mayor Timothy Lattimore of Auburn. Ukrainian folk dance troupe from addition, the men received tie clips Music for the occasion was provided Rochester. October 7 celebrated the 80th anniver- engraved with the phrase “25 Sicz Club,” sary of Ukrainian National Association while the women received necklaces. Branch 283, known as the Sicz Club. At Also honored were members of the the same time, the club honored those Sicz Club who had more than 25 years of longtime members who had served the service, but had never been recognized club for 25 years. for their many years of membership. The honorees were: Michael Chalupa, Thus, the following five members were Olga Chalupa, Roman Bohayets, John recognized: George Sullivan, 46 years of Koziej, Stefan Husak, Catherine Hrynyk, membership; John Latanyshyn, 42 years; John Droczak, Irene Szul, Myron Szul, Michael Droczak, 39 years; Stefan Walter Holak, John Hladun Jr., Walter Rotko, 37 years; and Rosalie Hawryshkiw, 35 years. Each received a Stefan Lysiak is secretary of Ukrainian special certificate, plus the aforemen- The Ukrainian National Association will mail National Association Branch 283. tioned gifts. Christmas greeting cards to Ukrainian American service people! UNA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE announces that the The UNA will be mailing Christmas greetings to Ukrainian American service people presently serving their country in NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND CENTRAL NEW JERSEY many parts of the world. The UNA wishes to solicit your help in getting names, address- FALL ORGANIZING MEETING es and ranks of any Ukrainian you may know who is serving in will be held on the armed forces. Help make this project successful! Friday, November 3, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. at the UNA Home Office The UNA will mail Christmas and New Year’s greetings 2200 Rt. 10, Parsippany, NJ to our service people by December 25, 2006.

Obligated to attend the organizing meeting as voting members are District Committee Officers, Convention Delegates and two delegates from the following Branches: We wish to contact all of our service men and women. With your help we will reach most of them! 25, 27, 37, 42, 70, 76, 133, 134, 142, 171, 172, 214, 234, 287, 340, 155, 269, 349, 353, 372 Name: All UNA members are welcome as guests at the meeting. Rank: MEETING WILL BE ATTENDED BY: Address: Stefan Kaczaraj – UNA President Michael Koziupa – UNA 2nd Vice President Christine E. Kozak – UNA National Secretary Please send the information by December 2, 2006, to: Roma Lisovich – UNA Treasurer Eugene Oscislawski – UNA Advisor Ukrainian National Association, Inc. UNA National Organizer - Oksana Trytjak DISTRICT COMMITTEE 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 Stephan Welhasch, District Chairman, Northern New Jersey Yaroslav Zaviysky, District Chairman, Central New Jersey Parsippany, N.J. 07054 Tel.: 973-292-9800 ext. 3071; e-mail: [email protected]

THE UNA: 112 YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 No. 43

FOR THE RECORD THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Recognizing genocide Ukrainian World Congress appeal to Yushchenko On September 25, Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Borys Tarasyuk stated in the regarding the museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau U.N. General Assembly: “Ukraine calls upon the United Nations, as the collective voice of the international community to contribute to the commemoration of the 60th Following is the text of an appeal to ty because of resistance to the inhumane anniversary of the Convention [on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine actions of the Nazis. We are aware that Genocide] by recognizing the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian from the Ukrainian World Congress to this time Ukraine has not appealed to people.” He noted that 7 million to 10 million people – about 25 percent of Ukraine’s (UWC). The Ukrainian-language state- the Auschwitz complex committee for population at that time – died during the Famine-Genocide. Thus, he launched ment was released to the press on the allotment of space for a Ukrainian Ukraine’s campaign to seek U.N. recognition of the Holodomor as a genocide, hopeful- October 2 by the UWC; an English exposition, and the [committee] recog- ly in time for commemorations of the Famine’s 75th anniversary. Back in 2003, translation was published on October 9 nizes only the application of individual Ukraine had succeeded in having 25 countries sign a statement that condemned the by Action Ukraine Report. states. murderous acts of the Stalin regime, but fell short of characterizing them as a genocide. The Ukrainian World Congress is per- It was also in 2003 that Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada passed a resolution declaring the Honorable Mr. President: turbed about this issue in light of the Famine “an act of genocide against the Ukrainian nation.” The resolution also stated One of the places that with great sor- necessity to organize an exposition and that “in an independent Ukraine the terrible truth of those years must be publicized by row etched itself in the memory of all of also in conjunction with the fact that the state, inasmuch as the Famine of 1932-1933 was organized by the Stalin regime mankind is the largest of Hitler's concen- most of the barracks have already been and should be publicly condemned by the Ukrainian nation and the international com- tration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau, given away to other nations for exhibi- munity as one of the largest genocides in history in terms of the number of victims.” where, according to unofficial data, from tions. We note that the two-story 14th Significantly, the Rada’s resolution cited the conclusion of the congressionally 1.5 million to 4 million representatives of barrack is precisely the one in which mandated U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine that the Famine was a geno- nearly all countries of Europe were sub- multiple groups of Ukrainian political cide against the Ukrainian nation. Though the commission's report, which was jected to utter destruction. Every day prisoners stayed (among them were two released in 1988 put the U.S. government on record as calling the Famine a hundreds of people of various nationali- brothers, Vasyl and Oleksa, of the genocide, a stronger iteration of that position, embodied in Senate Resolution ties, including youth, head to this place founder of the Organization of Ukrainian 202, never did pass as it did not make it out of the Foreign Relations Committee. to learn the truth about this horrific crime Nationalists, Stepan Bandera). It is cur- That resolution clearly stated that “the man-made Ukraine Famine of 1932-1933 against humanity and honor the innocent rently under reconstruction. The 14th was an act of genocide as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention.” fallen prisoners. and 17th barracks are closely tied to the Most recently, the Congress passed a bill, signed into law by President George As is well-known, during the post-war fate of a large number of Ukrainians who W. Bush on October 13, which authorizes the government of Ukraine to establish in years a state museum "Auschwitz- lived their last days there, suffered inhu- Washington a memorial “to honor the victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of Birkenau" was created on the territory of man torture and met with a harsh death at 1932-1933.” The Senate committee report on the bill noted that “26 nations, includ- the former concentration camp that the hands of Nazi executioners. We are ing the United States, have recognized Stalin’s ‘famine’ as an act of genocide.” became a symbol of terrible suffering aware that even your deceased father was A day earlier, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko issued a presidential decree and death. In our day, the former prison imprisoned at Auschwitz. This is why on commemorations of the Famine and political repression on a special memorial barracks have been converted into muse- we believe that you personally deeply day scheduled for November 25 of this year. His decree also directed: authorities to um expositions on the nationalities of understand and share our desire to honor allocate land for a memorial to victims of the Famine that is to be erected in Kyiv; various states (each of the nationalities is the memory of Ukrainian victims of the the Cabinet to make provisions in the budget for 2007 to fund the memorial and given one floor of a two-story barrack). Auschwitz terror. There is no better research the Famine (the budget does not now provide for any such funding); and the Here you can see documentation includ- opportunity than this for the creation of a Foreign Affairs Ministry to be more active in seeking international recognition of the ing enlarged photographs and informa- Ukrainian exposition on the territory of Famine as a genocide, to study the possibility of erecting Famine monuments in tive sketches about the fate of the sons the largest Nazi concentration camp. other countries, and to organize memorial days at Ukrainian embassies. and daughters of various nations who In connection with the above, the Certainly, these are steps in the right direction. However, we strongly feel that dwelled in the German mills of death. Ukrainian World Congress asks you, the appeal of the World Forum of Ukrainians, issued this past August, which Today the Jews, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Honorable Mr. President, to address the calls for a Holodomor memorial complex (not simply a memorial) to be built in Hungarians, French, Dutch, Austrians, administration of the Auschwitz complex Kyiv is worthy of serious concrete support – not merely fine words – from the Yugoslavs and Roma have such exposi- with a request to allot one of the floors of Yushchenko administration, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Verkhovna Rada. tions, and the opening of Italian and the 14th barrack for a Ukrainian exposi- If Ukraine does not take the lead in remembering the deaths of millions of its Belgian expositions is planned. One of tion. The Ukrainian World Congress and own people and recording for posterity the history surrounding the Holodomor, the barracks presently under reconstruc- the World League of Ukrainian Political then we can hardly expect other nations to recognize this genocide and to learn tion is designated for the Soviet prison- Prisoners, in turn, are prepared to assist its all-important lessons. President Yushchenko himself said in 2005: “The world ers. in the design of this exposition and in must know the truth about all crimes against humanity. Only in this way can we Because of the "non-governmental sta- securing the necessary funds for this all be sure that indifference will never again encourage evil-doers.” tus" of Ukraine until recently, an exposi- work. tion about the imprisoned Ukrainians, the We ask you also to note that it is number of which is fairly substantial, imperative to act immediately. In the Oct. was not created at Auchwitz. Among case of rejection regarding the 14th bar- them [the imprisoned Ukrainians] was a rack, you could make inquiry regarding Turning the pages back... large number of imprisoned Soviet ser- the 8th, 9th, 26th and 28th barracks cur- vicemen, over 300 members of the OUN rently unengaged in exhibits. 22 (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) that were arrested after the June 30, With respect, 1995 With the U.S. State Department on October 3 adopting the 1941, declaration of the restoration of In behalf of the Ukrainian-based spelling of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv – based Ukrainian statehood, and hundreds of Ukrainian World Congress: on a unanimous vote by the U.S. Board on Geographic Ukrainians who fell into German hostili- Askold Lozynskyj, president Names (BGN) to change the standard transliteration of the name of the Ukrainian capital – readers are reminded that it was 11 years ago that The Ukrainian Weekly reported that Ukraine officially agreed on its capital’s spelling. 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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Understanding, which was delivered on Famine memorial’s March 15. The book is Mr. DoubleDoubleby Khristina ExposurExposur Lew ee Andrukhovych's novel “Twelve Rings,” conceptual confusion which was published in German transla- Dear Editor: tion. It deals with what the title of the A monument is effective only if it rep- Leipzig Book Prize addresses, namely resents a clear conception. Judging from “European Understanding.” After expressing his gratitude to the the report on the planned Famine com- Old-fashionedBeing Ukrainian is its own sort of call- oblasts loveand in over a dozen song countries. jury for awarding him the prize, thanking memorative complex in Kyiv and ing card. You can visit any city in the There’s no cost to join strilka.com, but his friends and readers of his book, Mr. Morgan Williams’ comments (September world that has a Ukrainian population and after one month of free messaging fees Andrukhovych turned his attention and 17), there is some conceptual confusion find a friendly face. (Ask anyone who was apply: $4.99 for one month, $9.99 for speech to the relevant matter, which was about the project. Should it focus on the in Germany for this year’s World Cup.) three months or $19.99 for 12 months. A the statement of Guenter Verheugen on victims or the perpetrators? Should it be For many of us, finding a Ukrainian year and a half after its launch, strilka.com February 20 published in the popular religious or political? Is it a commemo- spouse or partner is important. (Certainly pays for itself through its subscriptions. ration or a condemnation? German newspaper Die Welt. Mr. our mothers find it so.) But my own Strilka and other sites like it are cer- Underlying these uncertainties there Verheugen, who is one of the commis- informal survey has found that eligible tainly busy, but online dating is not for is, I think, a deep ambivalence. On the sioners of the European Union, and who Ukrainians are in short supply and that everybody. One Ukrainian single in New one hand, we want to build a monument is described as “superofficial superper- many Ukrainian singles have changed the York told me that meeting people online that will symbolize the suffering, death son” when asked by a journalist about way they look for one another. was not his thing. “I’m not on Multiply. and resurrection of the Famine victims of the future of United Europe stated: “In The methods are definitely generational. I’m 38, not 22,” he said. He has a more 1932-1933. This calls for a mood of 20 years all European states will be Ask 20-somethings how they meet single traditional approach – going to compassion and contemplation. On the members of the EU, with the exception Ukrainians and they’ll tell you, “On line.” “Soyuzivka, Karpaty pub, zabavas, other hand, we want to condemn the of the successor states to the Soviet Ask 30-somethings (O.K., 40-somethings) debs.” genocidal policies of the Soviet Union that are not yet part of the EU.” how they meet available Ukrainians and Another single Ukrainian New Yorker Communist state. That requires a bold Most of us sympathize with Mr. they’ll say “I drove up to Toronto for the (both asked not to be identified) said that, political indictment. Andrukhovych and share his neurosis Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival.” as you get older, finding a Ukrainian Can a single monument do both? Can concerning the place of Ukraine among There are many online Ukrainian dating mate becomes more tricky. “Going to we reconcile mourning with outrage? Or EU nations, especially since the Orange services. In fact, if you Google “Ukrainian Soyuzivka is not what it used to be. does spirituality mute the impulse to Revolution. Mr. Andrukhovych, when dating service” you will get 4,720,000 hits. There are fewer singles. But it’s a role of political action? And does the triumphant addressing the European Parliament in There are websites that call themselves the dice – you never know when that per- narrative of resurrection blunt the Strasbourg in December 2004, was “marriage agencies,” “dating services” and son who’s been hiding in Texas for the tragedy of death? If we cannot answer appealing for a chance for Ukraine to “mail order brides.” They will provide you past six years will show up.” these questions, we cannot create a con- join the EU and quoted Ivan Franko: with pictures of your intended or make She said that careers often pull people ceptually coherent monument to the “We too are in Europe.” arrangements for you to travel to Ukraine out of the social calendar and can limit Famine. In addition, in his March 15 speech, (this service includes a tour of Kyiv). exposure to other Ukrainians, but that Yet we can answer these questions. Mr. Andrukhovych charges the EU for There is also something called events like art exhibits and the “Yalynka” Just as faith and joy in the Resurrection its attitude towards Ukraine, singling it strilka.com., a site that since its launch in at the Ukrainian Institute of America are hardly diminish our horror at Christ’s out by disguising it in general terms: April 2005 has attracted 689 members. good places to meet singles. torments, so our prayers for the Famine “the successor states to the Soviet “Strilka,” or arrow, “is simply another She has tried Ukrainian dating online victims need not deter us from condemn- Union.” Mr. Andrukhovych writes: “In tool in your toolbox” for meeting single but says it’s a bit embarrassing. “There’s ing the crimes of its perpetrators. Nor the former USSR there is only one Ukrainians, said William Szuch, who a kind of stigma to it – as if someone should anything hold us back from country with a European dream” – designed and maintains the site’s content. were saying ‘What – you can’t find any- exposing the nihilistic ideology which, Ukraine. He also mentions the fact that Strilka.com is run out of Toronto by Mr. one so you’re going online?’” with inexorable logic, led to a policy of not a single German intellectual or any Szuch and sisters Natalia Nemyliwska and Mr. Szuch concedes that people are annihilation. other member of Germany's elite ques- Maria Koszarny. The trio feels strongly hesitant to admit to using strilka.com, But how can we embody such a com- tioned the validity of Mr. Verheugen’s about creating an open and transparent which is why if you go on the site you plex conception in a concrete memorial? statement. space for single Ukrainians on the web and won’t find any success stories listed there. As described, the monument will have a It is also ironic that the pronounce- has put pictures of themselves and person- He too cites the Ukrainian shame factor, binary symbolism, tracing a path down- ment that Ukraine is not eligible to join al data on the site. “We wanted to inspire but says that he has heard through word of ward to death, then upward to renewed the EU was made by Mr. Verheugen, a confidence and trust in strilka.com, so we mouth that some half-dozen people have life – a universal narrative (and, inciden- German whose compatriots during World put ourselves out there,” said Mr. Szuch. “met up” on Strilka. “I’m not surprised tally, not an exclusively Christian one). War II on one side and Soviet Strilka allows you to e-mail, IM or chat [by the lack of success stories]. You’re The facilities for the study of the his- Communists on the other side were with other Ukrainians in the Ukrainian, dealing with people’s hearts and emotions torical Famine – the narrative of death – responsible for the death of millions of English, Russian or Polish languages after – I don’t know of a more delicate part of would belong to the first part. They Ukrainian people and the horrible devas- creating your personal profile and setting the human condition,” he said. should include the museum, library, tation of their country. One would rather preferences for the type of person you’d Yet Ukrainians somehow manage to archive, genealogical and research cen- expect a helping hand on the part of like to meet. Strilka members are find each other all over the world, and ter. The chapel would naturally belong to Germans to bring Ukraine into the EU as Ukrainian-Polish, Ukrainian-Russian, success stories do happen. Look at my the second part – the narrative of resur- a moral obligation. Ukrainian-Jewish, Ukrainian-Brazilian, friends Lida and Nestor. Both American- rection. Kudos to Mr. Andrukhovych, who Ukrainian-French, Ukrainian-Italian, born, they met on the maidan in Kyiv Of course, many visitors might simply represents the finest of the new genera- Ukrainian-Greek, Ukrainian-Portuguese, during the Orange Revolution of 2004 walk through the complex without paus- tion of writers in present-day Ukraine for Ukrainian Mulatto and Ukrainian and just got engaged. Congratulations to ing. There must be some way to convey his impassioned involvement and his American. They live in six Canadian them. And, to single New Yorkers: the the message to them. Here, as Mr. defense of the right of Ukraine to be in provinces, 19 U.S. states, 10 Ukrainian Yalynka is right around the corner. Williams suggests, the Holocaust Europe. Museum in Washington could provide some guidance. 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to step down. “There cannot be a place he added. Our Ukraine has delegated five between the YTB and Our Ukraine and NEWSBRIEFS for ministers from Our Ukraine in a gov- ministers to the Yanukovych Cabinet. the subsequent formation of a shadow (Continued from page 2) ernment that does not share provisions Our Ukraine leader Roman Bezsmertnyi Cabinet. (RFE/RL Newsline) included in the declaration of national said on October 17 that the bloc is with- decide whether to quit the government PRU proposes to restore roundtable only after “the talks on the formation of a unity,” Mr. Yushchenko added. drawing its ministers from the govern- coalition of national unity are finally con- Regarding the fate of the defense and for- ment but was unable to predict when they K YIV – Yurii Miroshnychenko, a cluded.” (RFE/RL Newsline) eign ministers, who are appointed by the will officially step down. “[The issue] is lawmaker from the ruling Party of the president, Mr. Yushchenko said he will to be decided in the ongoing dialogue Regions, said in the Verkhovna Rada on President less optimistic about coalition decide on whether to dismiss them with the president of Ukraine and the October 17 that his party is proposing to depending on “the current political situa- parties of our bloc,” he told journalists. reinstate the roundtable talks that the KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko tion.” (RFE/RL Newsline) (RFE/RL Newsline) president conducted with representatives on October 11 said he still hopes that the of major political forces in Ukraine in Our Ukraine bloc will be able to strike a Tymoshenko Bloc invites Our Ukraine PM to ministers: business as usual July and August, UNIAN reported. coalition deal with the ruling alliance of According to Mr. Miroshnychenko, the the Party of the Regions, the Socialist KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor KYIV – Oleksander Turchynov, deputy roundtable should work out a “consen- Party and the Communist Party, Interfax- Yanukovych on October 17 called on head of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc sus vision” of the government under the Ukraine reported. “Breaking up is not an members of the Cabinet of Ministers to (YTB) parliamentary caucus, told journal- work as a team despite the recent switch ists on October 17 that the YTB expects existing circumstances of a parliamen- original idea, but the risk that this will tary-presidential political system in of the Our Ukraine bloc to the opposi- to coordinate opposition activities with happen is very high. Earlier I was an Ukraine and put an end to “conflicts in tion, Interfax-Ukraine reported. “We Our Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine reported. optimist in this issue. Now I’m less opti- the lobbies” between the president and should remain calm and work as we have “We hope that the decision of Our mistic,” Mr. Yushchenko told journalists the prime minister. Mr. Miroshnychenko worked,” Mr. Yanukovych said at a Ukraine to join the opposition will not be in Chernihiv. Answering a question about vowed that the ruling coalition led by what will happen with Our Ukraine’s Cabinet meeting. “I wish us to continue abandoned tomorrow,” Mr. Turchynov the Party of the Regions is ready for four ministers in Prime Minister Viktor cooperating, and let nothing change in said, adding that the withdrawal of Our cooperation with President Yushchenko. Yanukovych’s Cabinet if the bloc fails to connection with the processes under way Ukraine ministers from Prime Minister (RFE/RL Newsline) reach a formal coalition accord, Mr. in the country. The attitude of ministers Viktor Yanukovych's Cabinet could pave Yushchenko said the ministers will have to business must be the same as always,” the way for a cooperation agreement Traders says wheat exports are blocked KYIV – Ukrainian grain traders on October 11 accused the government of blocking wheat exports by hastily intro- ducing export licenses and imposing lim- its on grain export volumes, the Associated Press reported. “The govern- ment’s decision effectively blocked Ukrainian export of bread wheat and fod- der wheat,” said Volodymyr Klimenko, president of the Ukrainian Grain Association, which groups more than 60 local and international companies. The government introduced a new licensing system in grain trade in late September, arguing that it must first ensure that the country has enough wheat to supply Ukrainians with bread. The Agriculture Ministry forecast wheat yield this year at 14.4 million tons, down from 18.7 mil- lion tons in 2005. (RFE/RL Newsline) UGCC opens Chaplaincy Department KYIV – On October 3 the presenta- tion of the Department for the Military Forces, a newly created structure within the Patriarchal Curia of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC), took place in Kyiv. The key objectives of the new unit are to coordinate the pastoral care of Ukraine’s armed forces and the penitentiary system by the UGCC, as well as to establish cooperation between the UGCC and the armed forces regard- ing the pastoral care of the military and prisoners. At the beginning of the meet- ing, in which representatives of Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ministry of Defense and those responsible for the chaplaincy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate participated, Bishop Bohdan Dziurakh, auxiliary of the UGCC Archeparchy of Kyiv and Vyshhorod, said that, in keeping with a decision of the UGCC Synod of Bishops, Bishop Mykhail Koltun of Sokal was appointed head of the Department for the Military Forces of the Patriarchal Curia of the UGCC. Bishop Koltun introduced his colleagues, Father Lubomyr Yaworski, appointed assistant for the military chap- laincy, and Deacon Kostiantyn Pantelei, assistant for the prison chaplaincy. The military representatives expressed their ideas on the current situation and the development of pastoral care at the armed forces and the penitentiary sys- tem. A suggestion was made to create a coordinating council, which would con- sist of representatives of military struc- tures and Churches, which would be aimed at helping to solve issues of prop- er spiritual care of military workers and prisoners according to their denomina- tion. (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 9 Environmental groups outline how U.S. can help Ukraine KYIV – In a letter delivered last week up to a meeting the groups had with the greater emphasis to reaching out to American counterparts). to U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Ambassador on September 11. American firms working on energy effi- The groups noted in their letter to B. Taylor, representatives of 12 leading Among the groups' proposals were the ciency and renewable energy technolo- Ambassador Taylor that they hoped that Ukrainian environmental groups outlined following: gies and encourage them to invest in the September 11 meeting would “lay the recommendations for how the U.S. gov- • The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine should Ukraine and/or partner with Ukrainian foundation for an ongoing dialogue with ernment could help mitigate the energy urge the U.S. Agency for International firms in these fields. you and members of the U.S. Embassy crisis in Ukraine, as well as develop its Development to give much higher priori- • U.S. exchange programs, such as the on not only energy issues but also a range energy efficiency and renewable energy ty to funding energy efficiency projects. FSA-FLEX, Muskie and Fulbright pro- of other environmental concerns that sectors. The letter was sent as a follow- • Many of the educational and techni- grams, should give higher priority to might be more effectively addressed cal materials on energy efficiency pro- recruiting and placing Ukrainian stu- through Ukraine-U.S. cooperation.” duced by the U.S. government should be dents, teachers and scholars interested in * * * translated into Ukrainian so they could be energy and related environmental issues World Bank replicated and used in Ukraine. at U.S. educational institutions. The Ukrainian American Environmental • Members of the Renewable • The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine should Association is a private, non-governmental Energy/Energy Efficiency Caucuses in facilitate having U.S. officials who work organization founded in 2004 and char- ranks countries the U.S. Congress, who also have an on U.S. government energy efficiency tered in both the United States and interest in Ukraine, should be encouraged programs, such as the Energy Star pro- Ukraine. It is a network of more than 750 on governance and helped to meet with their counter- gram, the Federal Energy Management Ukrainian and American NGOs, academic PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The World parts in the Verkhovna Rada; the specific Program, the federal Weatherization researchers, businesses and government Bank recently released a report titled: focus of the ensuing dialogue would be Program, the government energy efficien- officials to facilitate the exchange of infor- “Governance Matters V: Aggregate and strategies for developing and implement- cy procurement program and the federal mation on a broad array of environmental Individual Governance Indicators for ing effective energy policy legislation energy efficiency research and develop- issues including, but not limited to, energy 1996-2005” that profiled 213 countries based on the best of American experi- ment program, come to Ukraine to pro- policy, climate change, air and water pollu- and territories from 1996 to 2005. ence. vide training for Ukrainian officials (or, tion, toxic wastes, soil conservation, sus- Ranking criteria were based on six • The U.S. government should encour- alternatively, to have Ukrainian officials tainable agriculture, and wildlife and dimensions of governance: age its Department of Commerce to give come to the U.S. to meet with their • voice and accountability – the freedom wilderness protection. of a country’s citizens to choose a govern- ment, freedom of expression, freedom of association and freedom of the press; • political stability and absence of vio- lence – perceptions of the likelihood of government destabilization from uncon- stitutional or violent means; • government effectiveness – the quali- ty of public and civil services, its level of independence from political pressures, the quality of policy formulation and imple- mentation, and the credibility of the gov- ernment’s commitment to those policies; • regulatory quality – the govern- ment’s ability to formulate and imple- ment policies that promote development in the private sector; • rule of law – the extent that agents have confidence in and abide by the rules of society, the quality of enforcement, the police, the judiciary, and the likeli- hood of crime and violence; and • control of corruption – the level of public power used for private gain, both in petty and grand forms, as well as “capture” of the state by elites and private interests. In comparison with other former Soviet republics 1996, Ukraine was sig- nificantly ahead of others in all areas, including Russia, which ranked 151st overall out of 208 countries, as reported by The Moscow Times. Based on an average of the rankings in each category, Ukraine ranked approximately 129th out of the 208 countries. The report further showed Ukraine was ranked higher than Russia in all areas of governance. In particular, Ukraine was significantly better in the areas of political stability, rule of law, and voice and accountability. According to a comparative graph by year (in which countries’ ratings were given as percentiles reflecting their performance) major areas of improvement have been in the areas of government effectiveness from the 18th percentile to the 40th, as Ukraine ranked with the Niue Island [in free associ- ation with New Zealand] and Sri Lanka; and in regulatory quality from the 24th per- centile to the 47th, where Ukraine was list- ed with Guatemala and Gabon. In areas of the rule of law, Ukraine improved from 21st percentile to 34th and compared with Zambia and Moldova. Control of corrup- tion improved from a low at the 10th per- centile to a high of 34th, comparable to Yemen and Nicaragua. The report further detailed that Ukraine hit its peak of political stability in 2002 at the 41st percentile and has continued to decline to the 32nd, and is currently com- pared to Morocco and Guyana. The World Bank’s report was released on September 15. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 No. 43

Memorial events... U.S.-Ukraine Foundation launches webcasts (Continued from page 1) WASHINGTON – The U.S.-Ukraine Prospects in Ukraine,” Ambassador the base for any business. No business Foundation launched its first webcast as Steven Pifer’s talk on the “Current can be successful without a talented said, speaking to a gathering of some 200 of her friends, colleagues and admir- part of a series of events to commemo- Developments in Ukraine”; and the plena- team, and a very strategic location which ers who came to honor her memory. rate the 15th anniversary of the founda- ry sessions of the U.S.-Ukraine Policy makes it an excellent place to base a “To stand for something transcendental, tion. These webcasts allow individuals Dialogue. Numerous viewers from business when you want to deal with to stand for something utterly good amidst interested in U.S.-Ukraine relations to throughout the United States, Canada, and both east, west, north and south,” silence, indifference, hostility, cowardice, “virtually attend” presentations and even Ukraine logged on to www.usukraine.org explained Ms. Jaresko. opportunism — that is heroism,” he said. ask questions of the speakers from the to watch and interact with the speakers. Recently returned from a trip to “That is very special heroism.” convenience of their computer. The managing partner of Horizon Ukraine, Ambassador Pifer spoke about Dr. Brzezinski chastised America for Commenting on this new capability, Capital, and with over 16 years of experi- the “Current Developments in Ukraine” demonstrating a “moral indifference” to U.S.-Ukraine Foundation Vice-President ence in Ukraine and the Newly by focusing on the Yushchenko- what has been happening in Chechnya John Kun said: “The mission of this Independent States, Ms. Jaresko gave a Yanukovych “cohabitation;” judicial and and, thereby, being complicit to its organization is to promote democratic presentation on the “Investment economic reforms; the need to adopt tragedy. He pointed out that since 1995 institutions in Ukraine and one of the Prospects in Ukraine.” Among other top- energy efficiency measures; and neither President Bill Clinton nor ways that we achieve this is by distribut- ics of discussion, Ms. Jaresko focused on Ukraine’s foreign policy orientation. President George W. Bush has “explicitly ing information. Our new webcasting the transformation of the banking system The policy dialogue webcasts zoomed condemned the crimes committed in feature helps us achieve this goal. I and foreign direct investment in Ukraine. in on the opening and closing plenary Chechnya. Instead, he said, the United should note that this would not be possi- “From 1992 to today the country has remarks of prominent Ukrainian and States has “increasingly fuzzed over the ble without the donors and supporters of changed dramatically … the changes are American policy-makers who were in Chechen issue with the war on terror, the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation. Their con- permanent. I find with each and every Washington, as part of the third working making it easier for Mr. Putin to say tributions make this webcast possible, day that this is a more friendly environ- session of the U.S.-Ukraine Policy what he’s been saying and worse, to do and I personally want to thank them on ment for foreign investment. Over time, Dialogue. what he has been doing.” behalf of the Foundation.” Ukraine will become known for a variety To view archived webcasts of the Also honoring Ms. Politkovskaya at To date, three webcasts have been of its characteristics: natural and agricul- above-mentioned events, or to sign up for the memorial was U.S. Undersecretary of aired: Natalie Jaresko’s presentation at the tural resources, extraordinarily talented future webcasts, readers can visit State for Democracy and Global Affairs U.S.-Ukraine Foundation on “Investment and well educated population – which is www.usukraine.org. Paula Dobriansky, who called her “one of the bravest and most respected inves- tigative journalists in Russia.” “She embodied fully the role of the jour- nalist in a free society: to bring the truth, especially about difficult issues, to the citi- zens of her country,” Dr. Dobriansky said. She noted that Ms. Politkovskaya was not the first or only Russian journalist to be killed in “contract-style murders” in Russia. Twelve others preceded her, which has had a “chilling effect” on media freedom in Russia, she said. “For the sake of Russia and freedom in Russia, I hope that Anna Politkovskaya's death – and the memory of all that she achieved in her short but extremely accomplished life will not have been in vain,” Dr. Dobriansky underscored. A few days after Ms. Politkovskaya was gunned down in her Moscow apart- ment building, the newspaper for which she worked, Novaya Gazeta, published portions of the next report she was work- ing on. It included excerpts from a letter written by a Beslan Gadayev, a Chechen nationalist detained in August in Crimea and handed over to Russia, which turned him over to the pro-Russian regime in Grozny, where he was tortured. Mariana Katzarova, who had worked with Ms. Politkovskaya in investigating incidents of torture in Chechnya, mentioned the Gadayev torture letter in her remarks. She also noted that her killers helped achieve one of Anna Politkovskaya’s goals. “Chechnya is back in the news around the world these days. It took the killing of Anna to break the silence over Chechnya,” she said. “But how long will that last?” Also speaking at the memorial were NED President Carl Gershman, Don Jensen of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Andrei Piontkovsky and David Satter of the Hudson Institute, Susan Glasser of the Washington Post, former world chess cham- pion Garry Kasparov and Ilyas Akhmadov, the former foreign minister of Chechnya. The memorial program included the showing of a video interview with Ms. Politkovskaya taken a few months earli- er. It will be part of a PBS documentary, “Democracy on Deadline,” about jour- nalists working in dangerous places around the world. It is scheduled to air on the “Independent Lens” program on November 21. The evening candlelight vigil, which brought together more than 100 people in front of the Russian Embassy's main gate, was organized by the International Center for Journalists, Amnesty International and other groups. Ms. Politkovskaya was born in 1958 in New York to a family of Soviet Ukrainian diplomats at the republic’s mission to the United Nations. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 11

Rep. Curt Weldon honored at Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center by Andrea Porytko-Zharovsky issues that have united him with the Ukrainian diaspora and how he got J ENKINTOWN, Pa. – U.S. Rep. Curt involved with the Ukrainian American Weldon (R-Pa.), a long-time advocate of community. He voiced his regrets that he Ukraine and a friend of the Ukrainian did not spend enough time on Ukraine’s American community, was honored at a development in the early 1990s and mid reception on Saturday, October 7, here in 1990s, and stated that the American the main hall of the Ukrainian response to the Orange Revolution was Educational and Cultural Center. not quick enough. “Unfortunately, we Representing the 7th Congressional did not take those steps. We did not act District in Pennsylvania and currently quickly enough on Jackson-Vanik. We serving his 10th term, Congressman should have given Yushchenko Jackson- Weldon has been a leader on committees Vanik on his first visit to America,” he ranging from national security to the said. environment, in addition to serving as Rep. Weldon said he believes that the co-chair of the Congressional Ukrainian Ukrainian diaspora is a critical compo- Caucus, vice-chair of the House Armed nent in allowing Ukraine to unleash its Services Committee, and vice-chair of potential and its power, and pledged the House Homeland Security when re-elected that he will continue to Committee. work and push issues dear to the As co-chair of the Congressional Ukrainian diaspora. Ukrainian Caucus, Rep. Weldon is the “The Ukrainian-American relationship voice of Ukraine in Congress and has is one of the most important strategic personally worked on improving rela- relationships in the world. We must stay Rep. Curt Weldon is greeted by constituents during a reception at the Ukrainian tions between the United States and the course, as Ukraine changes its lead- Educational and Cultural Center in Jenkintown, Pa. Ukraine, successfully restoring the pres- ers, we must not waiver from our support ence of pro-democracy organizations in to the Ukrainian people. There is no Ukraine such as the International nation with the potential in the world that political process, raised over $10,000, in and a friend to the Ukrainian American Republican Institute and the National Ukraine has – the breadbasket of the a two-week period, from sponsors in community, who has a record of intro- Democratic Institute, developing a work- world,” he said. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, ducing legislation and policy beneficial ing relationship between the members of Friends of Congressman Curt Weldon, Virginia and Delaware. This was a true to Ukrainian Americans and Ukraine. the U.S. Congress and the Verkhovna with the participation of the Heritage bipartisan effort with recent U.S. citizens The evening concluded with a musical Rada in the Rada Exchange Program, Action Council, formed to involve originally from Ukraine actively partici- interlude by Kalynonka, a bandura duet and recognizing the 1932-1933 Genocide Ukrainian Americans in the American pating, in support of a friend to Ukraine of Halyna Bodnar and Lada Pastushak. in Ukraine. Rep. Weldon was recently instrumental in the passage of legislation to graduate Ukraine from the Jackson- The Board of Directors of the UACCNJ Vanik Amendment. A candidate in the U.S. general elec- and tion on November 7, Rep. Weldon spoke The Parish Community of Saint John the Baptist at the reception enthusiastically about the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Whippany, New Jersey Wrzesnewskyj joyfully and cordially invite you to the condemns cuts SOLEMN DEDICATION and GRAND OPENING of the new at Kyiv Embassy OTTAWA – Liberal M.P. Borys UKRAINIAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER Wrzesnewskyj on October 5 condemned Conservative cuts to the Canadian OF NEW JERSEY Embassy in Kyiv. Since July of this year, the Conservative government of Stephen which will be held on Saturday, November 11, 2006, Harper has cut three positions at the immigration section of Canada’s at 60 North Jefferson Road, Whippany, New Jersey Embassy in Kyiv, Mr. Wrzesnewskyj pointed out. 4:00 p.m. – Dedication and Grand Opening “This summer I was receiving increas- ing numbers of calls and e-mails from 5:00 p.m. – Cocktail Hour (Cash Bar) frustrated constituents and Canadians 6:00 p.m. – Banquet across the country who were unable to 8:30 p.m. – Grand Ball get their relatives and friends to come to Canada for family visits, weddings, christenings and, regrettably, even funer- and to the als,” the member of Parliament said. “It turns out that this is a consequence of aggressive cuts to the staff at Canada’s BLESSING OF THE NEW TEMPORARY Embassy in Ukraine by Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. In July and SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH September 2006, three positions, or 30 percent of the immigration section in which will be held on Sunday, November 12, 2006 Kyiv have been eliminated, leaving a at 60 North Jefferson Road in Whippany, New Jersey skeletal staff of seven. “With tens of thousands of family ties between our two countries this creates 9:00 a.m. – Final Service at the old Church unnecessary aggravations. At a time 9:30 a.m. – Procession to the new Church when Portugal has accepted over 250,000 hard-working immigrants from 10:00 a.m. – Blessing of the new temporary Church Ukraine, the cutting of three immigration 10:30 a.m. – Pontifical Divine Liturgy officers further demonstrates Immigration Minister Solberg’s attitude 12:30 p.m. – Banquet when it comes to potential immigration from Ukraine,” stated Wrzesnewskyj. Tickets for Saturday only – $100; Tickets for Sunday only – $50;

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by Bohdan Hodiak missing, but a clerk took down all the information and the so warmly as I was walking away that I went back and next day the suitcase was delivered to our residence. gave her 5 hrv more. Readers of The Weekly know of Part I In fact, during our first few weeks in Kyiv we saw that the tens of thousands of orphans and runaway and aban- store clerks had actually been taught that their job is to serve doned children in Ukraine. This also is today’s Ukraine. Returning to Ukraine has been the dream of many immi- customers, and bureaucrats taught that their job is to serve My wife had made an exploratory trip to Ukraine two grants, but very few have actually done it. We did, and I citizens. That was quite a change from a dozen years ago. months before we moved, and her priority was to find a hope some of our impressions and experiences will be of The first thing I wanted to do was to walk and ride all good school for our 10-year-old son and scout out pos- interest to others – especially the many baby boomers who over Kyiv, to soak in the city and its people. I noticed will soon be retiring and wondering what to do next. that my reaction this time was quite different from my We had many reasons for moving to Ukraine. My visits as a tourist. I was now a resident – someone who wife was raised and educated there and missed Ukraine. had burned his bridges and would most likely spend the After I retired, I became increasingly annoyed at the rest of his life here. A tourist is more accepting; a resi- high cost of living in the Washington, D.C., area. Both dent is more possessive. of us wanted, also, to do our little bit toward the renais- I was eager to see something Ukrainian in the people. I sance of Ukraine. wanted to feel I was in Ukraine, not just any country. I wanted to see this away from the well-trod tourist circuit. To my disappointment, this eluded me. I was being painfully weaned from my “diasporan” fantasies. Now I realized that my wish was a little naïve. I had barely dipped my toe in Ukraine. Certainly I wasn’t ask- ing that people walk around in embroidered shirts or play the bandura on the street. My mind understood that, but my heart did not. I did not grow up in Ukraine, and my parents came to America when I was 9. So, to me, Ukraine was a land of myths and dreams, of stories and songs. In the land of my forefathers, I wanted to see something Ukrainian. I wanted to connect with my myths. It would have helped if I was surrounded by the Ukrainian language but I heard mostly Russian. It would have helped if my little part of Kyiv was more a “normal European city” as many Kyivans fervently hope it will become. As I walked through the shopping area near the Darnytsia metro stop – scores of little stalls selling things to eat, for the home and the kitchen, to wear and to enjoy – I was reminded of a poor Mexican village. But that was deceiving because 50 meters away was City.Com, an electronics store that had the latest cell- phones, digital cameras and computer equipment, and near that a dozen shops that sold everything a child might need or want, including loads of toys. Nearby was A condominium under construction in Kyiv. The a busy McDonald’s restaurant and not far from that was sign advertises jobs paying up to $400 per month. a large supermarket that was as good as the better super- markets in the states. It had food items from all over sible rental apartments. Europe and, to my wife’s delight, tofu and soy milk. Since independence, more than a score of private An elderly villager sells horseradish and homemade So someone visiting Kyiv for the first time since schools have sprung up in Kyiv and this one, called “khrin” on a streeet in Kyiv independence will be in shock. A dozen years ago I was Harmonia, seemed to have the best of old and modern unable to buy a light bulb or a shirt, but today you can teaching. It respected the children, respected the humani- In the past 15 years I had made several trips to Ukraine buy almost everything. ties (not just the “hard” subjects), taught most courses in and this time I was impressed with the efficiency at The sad thing about all this bounty is that so many Ukrainian, and had class sizes of about 17. Teachers were Boryspil International Airport. Our luggage arrived quick- Ukrainians can't participate in it. not restricted to set time periods. There were no bells in the ly; we were processed efficiently. One of our suitcases was Throughout Kyiv you can find forlorn old ladies, school. If a class in a particular subject was going well and hunched over with age, often holding out a paper cup the children were excited, it could be prolonged. If it was Bohdan Hodiak was born in Slovakia and arrived in and begging on the street. Just as sad are the old ladies going poorly, or everything had been covered, the class the United States with his parents when he was a pre- who come to the city with a few meager vegetables or could be cut short. They even taught aikido in the school, teen. He attended Stuyvesant High School in New York flowers to sell from their gardens and stand on the my favorite martial art. We don’t know yet if the school is City and the City College of New York. For most of his street waiting for customers. Their retirement pay is as good as advertised, but we are hoping for the best. professional life Mr. Hodiak was a reporter and an edi- generally a couple of dollars a day. The mother of a After our son was accepted at the school we decided to tor at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in Pennsylvania. He friend of ours was a teacher all her life; now, in her old look for an apartment near it. This restricted our options a also worked for the Associated Press; was the editor-in- age, she gets a pension of $18 a week. lot, but it was also a benefit because rentals are highest in chief of two weeklies in Miami and was senior editor at I still remember one of these ladies to whom I gave the center of Kyiv. It is now a seller’s market in Kyiv, a boating magazine in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 2 hrv – about 40 cents. She blessed me and thanked me with more demand for decent apartments than supply. The agencies that aim their advertising at foreigners seem to think that rentals for two-bedroom apartments in Kyiv begin at $2,500 a month. What you get is a “Euro-remont” apartment, meaning the owners redid the rooms, the toilet, bathroom and kitchen and then tripled the rent. I can’t imag- ine an average Westerner, who plans to stay for years, will- ing to pay such prices. But the alternatives can be grim. The problem is that most, though not all, of the apart- ment complexes in Kyiv have no maintenance. It was like that 20 years ago, and it is like that today. So you will walk by apartment buildings that have loads of green space, grassy fields, a lot of trees and shrubbery (it could be very pleasant), but the fields will have discarded bottles and lit- ter, the grass will be uncut, the shrubbery untouched. The apartment entrances are generally crumbling, and filthy and dark. The elevators look 1930-ish and the hallways stink. As I was told, the residents consider everything outside their apartments as having nothing to do with them. You would think that 70 years of communism would have creat- ed some communal ethic, some “we’re all in this together” kind of feeling. But it did just the opposite. So, when you go apartment hunting to the more reasonably priced places, you feel like an archeologist entering ruined and abandoned territory. Yet, with care and love and community effort, these could be decent places to live. Currently there are many condominium buildings under construction in Kyiv, and I think the residents here will demand maintenance. Lada Bondarenko Two of the apartments we went to turned our stom- Two students in front of a modern wall sculpture in a recently constructed school in Kyiv. (Continued on page 20) No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 13 Museum conference focuses on Ukrainian folk life and “culture keepers”

by Helen Smindak people will copy or a person at a tradi- tional wedding who knows what to do NEW YORK – Who devotes more next and how to do it. “Certain people attention to the preservation of Ukrainian are more zealous about a tradition; they folk art, folklore and folk life? maintain knowledge and are sought out Ukrainians in the old country or for their knowledge, and receive honors Ukrainians in the diaspora? and other rewards for what they do,” The answer’s easy, you say – Prof. Kononenko explained. Ukrainians in Ukraine. Their ancestors In Ukraine, Oksana Fedorivna began age-old rituals and customs, the Kryvorih (known to other villagers as decorating of colorful Easter eggs, the Baba Sianka) is a culture bearer who welcoming of honored guests with bread “maintained a lovely home and garden, and salt on an embroidered ritual cloth, executed exquisite embroidery, was a the summer festival of Ivan Kupalo, etc. wonderful singer and a great teller of folk That answer will not earn an A – or tales and legends.” even a B – from Ukrainian folklore Prof. Kononenko called attention to expert Natalie Kononenko. Speaking at a several other examples in her slides-and- daylong conference at The Ukrainian commentary presentation, among them Museum last month, she said that both Motria Perepechai, an expert embroiderer groups have tradition keepers – she and song preservationist, and school- prefers to call them “culture keepers” – teacher Mykhailo Koval, who started and who lead the way in preserving traditions ran a school choir and later a village and rituals for the collective whole. choir, played bandura and accordion, Once considered to be a group prod- made straw hats, embroidered, and uct, where everyone knew songs, rituals, revived the art of woven belts and other embroidery patterns and pysanka types of weaving. designs, folklore is now understood to be “Pretty well everywhere you go (in a phenomenon where by a group enjoys Ukraine), people know who the culture and appreciates the folklore but not keepers are and will assemble them for everyone is equally adept at its produc- the folklorist,” she said. Prof. tion. In this setting, says Prof. Kononenko has traveled to Ukraine sev- Kononenko, traditions are carried on by eral times to research Ukrainian folklore. special, active individuals – tradition She noted that rituals, in particular, bearers, or culture keepers – who pro- require the help of culture keepers, since duce for others. “not everyone knows instinctively what Prof. Kononenko, professor and Kule to do and how to do it.” At weddings, Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography at the culture keepers guide the proceedings, University of Alberta in Edmonton, was prepare the “korovai,” (traditional wed- the keynote speaker at the museum’s ding bread) negotiate at the door of the “Ukrainian Living Heritage” conference, bride’s home and perform other func- held in conjunction with a yearlong tions. The role of culture keepers is espe- Anna Revchoun exhibit featuring symbolic motifs in cially clear at funerals and baptisms. At a Seated at her loom, Vira Nakonechna points out the intricacies of weaving to an Ukrainian folk art. funeral, for instance, they perform an interested observer. During the day, participants were important role of speaking on behalf of given the opportunity to try their hand at the deceased, and sing psalms while indi- festivities, folklore in Ukraine is faced high-tech methods such as the craft lathe, Ukrainian folk crafts, from the making of viduals sing the lament. with many challenges: the maintenance using pysanka stands and electric needles ritual bread ornaments to pysanka deco- Prof. Kononenko said that culture or restoration of culture in the special (for pysanka decorating), sanctioning rating and weaving. They also had a keepers resisted Russification and post-Soviet situation, the threat of chance to view the folk art exhibit, as extreme Soviet guidelines (which out- such new cultural expressions as the increasing globalization and the incur- well as an exhibit of woodcuts and paint- lined specific ways to do things, includ- blessing of Easter baskets inside the sion of global pop culture. “We can find a ings by distinguished artist Jacques ing how to fold a wedding invitation) by church rather than on the church lawn, Barbie Doll clone in every village now,” Hnizdovsky. preserving traditional customs. They held and offering instruction and literature on said Prof. Kononenko. Prof. Kononenko believes the term secret baptisms and shifted the age of Ukrainian crafts. The preservation of culture in the dias- “culture keepers” is especially appropri- baptism, used hidden crosses, kept icons She noted that Chester Kuc, whose pora, specifically the Ukrainian diaspora ate for the Ukrainian situation. When in their homes and maintained the “klub” collection of Easter eggs was recently in North America, has also been faced Ukrainian culture is under assault – be it (village social club) so that young people exhibited at the Alberta Provincial with challenges, particularly that of from a system that seeks to annihilate it, had a safe place to socialize. Museum, is one of many Canadian cul- assimilation. While the first generation, like Soviet rule, or pressure from living ture keepers. Instrumental in founding Facing many challenges the immigrants, continued old ways, the as a minority within a very powerful the Shumka dance group (later the second generation rejected traditions in dominant mass culture, as is true of While the advent of Ukrainian inde- Cheremosh dance group) in Edmonton, its desire to assimilate. Language was America – there are always individuals pendence brought a tremendous religious Mr. Kuc also embroiders and collects lost, people changed names and intermar- who are determined to preserve their cul- revival, with rebuilding of churches, embroidery designs, which he charts and ried with people from other ethnic groups ture, she said. singing and other religious activities, and sells. or the dominant culture. However, the This category might include an the return of folk activities like pysanka- A break in tradition usually causes second generation, Prof. Kononenko embroidery master whose work other decorating, embroidery and Ivan Kupalo radical changes and initiates new needs, stressed, managed to found museums and as seen in ritual cloths (rushnyky) used in collect materials from the old country, as weddings in Ukraine, Prof. Kononenko well as new items produced by noted. Women in Ukraine now use DMC Ukrainians in North America. thread to produce bright, geometric Prof. Kononenko said that interest in designs on rushnyky that contrast dra- ethnic heritage was rekindled by the third matically with traditional towels. generation, which led the process of Another innovation is “text” ritual revival, and has continued through subse- cloths that employ words to duplicate the quent generations, often due to the efforts meaning of ornamental motifs for anyone of culture keepers. With a new outlook, who cannot “read” motifs and needs the third generation adapted to the lack of words to be able to understand. Ukrainian language skills, employing Analogous to the books of symbols and new technologies and appeals to those patterns produced in North America, text outside the Ukrainian community in rushnyky are a folk way to provide infor- order to present a positive image of mation, in the same way that books of Ukrainians to the dominant culture. pysanka and embroidery symbols and Traditions that can be understood by motifs, produced by the elite in Ukraine, everyone – folk dancing, pysanka deco- serve urban dwellers. rating and embroidery, the use of the While text rushnyky and other new korovai and rushnyk in wedding celebra- customs may not be welcome to diaspora tions – are used to appeal to Ukrainians Ukrainians, who want to preserve tradi- who do not know the language and to tional folk ways for succeeding genera- non-Ukrainians. tions, “we can’t change what’s happening Prof. Kononenko pointed out that vari- over there,” Prof. Kononenko asserted. ous ways are used in the diaspora to Conference organizer Lubow Larysa Zielyk (right) forms tiny dough birds and pine cones (symbol of fertility) reach out beyond the Ukrainian comm- for a ritual wedding bread, or “korovai.” munity – staging public events, utilizing (Continued on page 14) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 No. 43

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discrepancy in the volume of gas pur- Deciphering... chased by Ukraine in 2006 and the new (Continued from page 2) amount for 2007. The oft-cited decrease Georgia and Azerbaijan – is already about of around 18 bcm would be enough gas $200 [per 1,000 cubic meters]. In October, to meet the demands of a medium-size we will see what price Ukraine will have country. Has Ukraine’s consumption of to pay. We expect, and we have reasons for gas declined so drastically in one year? this, that the price will be about $130.” Ukraine currently ranks sixth in the Meanwhile, the 2007 draft budget pre- world in terms of gas usage – burning more The “Ti, Scho Hrebli Rvut” Sororities of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization pared by the Yanukovych government gas than Poland, the Czech Republic, announce, in deep sorrow, to the Ukrainian community and Plast members factored in the new price for gas to be Hungary and Slovakia combined. It pro- the passing on October 11, 2006, in Sarcelles, France, of $135 and allocated ample funding to duces approximately 20 bcm of its own gas account for increased gas expenses, while and in 2005 sold 5 bcm abroad. Thus, it is also lowering the gas price for the public. feasible that imports of 55 or 57.5 bcm might be sufficient to meet Ukraine’s needs SOFIA (née Moiseiovych) JANIW The new arrangement apparently caught born on November 14, 1908 in Lviv. the Ukrainian government off guard. As in 2007, although that would also mark the late as September 22, Mr. Boiko told the end of profitable sales of gas abroad. In the weeks preceding the Ukrainian- The daughter of a highly respected Lviv lawyer and civil activist, at a very early media that beginning in January 2007 age she worked with him in defense of Ukrainian prisoners of conscience in through the end of 2009, Ukraine will buy Russian negotiations, numerous Russian officials – among them Anatoliy Chubais, Galicia under Polish rule in the interwar period, serving as his secretary and note- an annual total of 62 bcm of gas from taker at the sham political trials of the time. She organized a system of preparation the head of Unified Energy Systems, the Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and distribution of daily hot meals for these prisoners. Involved very early in the electricity-generating monopoly; Andrey and “partially from Russia.” Again, Mr. activities of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, she become a member of its Boiko said that amount would be “fully Kiriyenko, the head of the Atomic Home Executive; she was imprisoned for the first time at age 19 by the Polish sufficient to meet Ukraine’s gas needs.” Energy Agency; and German Gref, the authorities, and twice subsequently. She was one of the founding members of the Five days later, Gazprom CEO Miller economic development and trade minis- “Ti, Scho Hrebli Rvut” sorority of Plast, founded in Lviv in 1926. and Mr. Boiko announced that Ukraine ter – all warned that Russian gas produc- would only be buying 55 bcm of gas per tion will not be able to keep up with Sofia Janiw began working with Prof. Volodymyr Kubijovyc as secretary of the year beginning in 2007 through 2009 – domestic demand by 2007. editorial board of Entsyklopedia Ukrayinoznavstva (Encyclopedia of Ukraine), both again saying that despite the 18 bcm dif- This means that the fall in Ukrainian the first thematic encyclopedia (Munich, 1949), and subsequently the alphabetic ference compared to 2006, the gas would gas imports is likely not by preference – encyclopedia (Sarcelles, France, 1955-1990). She was also personally responsi- “fully meet Ukraine’s needs.” but can rather be directly traced to Russia’s ble for articles in the fields of art history, music and dance, as well as the corre- It is difficult to account for the vast own rapidly rising domestic demand. spondence and photo archives for the whole encyclopedia. Sofia Janiw was the first director of the museum of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome (1963-1972) and a corresponding member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh). The wife of the late Wolodymyr Janiw, rector of the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, she was the last of the founding generation of the Sarcelles encyclopedic team.

Funeral services were offered on October 20 in St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Catholic Church in Paris; interment was at the NTSh burial site in Sarcelles.

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS 16-ий ŠУІЬ У‘ „У‹АŠˆ“ о р г а н і з у є (Continued from page 24) undertaken at the federal level to protect S unday, November 12 the public’s health in the event of a pan- ‹ ™ ’А‘ЬŠІ TAОˆ demic. He will explore the cornerstones CHICAGO: A benefit luncheon for the від понеділка 25 до неділі 31 грудня 2006 р. of pandemic preparedness, which include Ukrainian Catholic University featuring Father Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., rector, will the development of vaccines, the use of риїзд учасників у понеділок, 25-го грудня 2006 р. antivirals and general community public be held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 2247 W. Chicago Ave. For more informa- health measures. The luncheon and con- 1. ’АІ „‹Я ЮАŠІ‚ І ЮА—ОŠ ference will take place in The Signature tion call the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, 773-235-8462. 2. ’АІ „‹Я ‘’А˜ОƒО ЮА–’‚А та ŒО‹О„˜ОƒО Room at the 95th of The John Hancock ‘’А˜ОƒО ‹А‘’У‘’‚А Center, 875 N. Michigan Ave., at 2 p.m. Sunday, December 3 Reservations are required; call UMANA на лещетарських теренах headquarters, 773-278-6262. WARREN, Mich.: A benefit luncheon for the Ukrainian Catholic University featur- Gore Mountain North Creek, NY NEW YORK: A benefit luncheon for the ing Myroslav Marynovych, senior vice- ’аборова оплата 575.00 дол. і 35.00 дол. вписове Ukrainian Catholic University featuring rector of the Ukrainian Catholic Father Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., rector, will University, will be held at the Ukrainian • ’аборова оплата покриває приміщення, прохарчування be held at the Ukrainian National Home, Cultural Center, 26601 Ryan Road. For (сніданок і вечеря), транспорт до лещетарських теренів, витяги, 140 Second Ave. For more information more information call the Ukrainian інструкції лещетарства. call the Ukrainian Catholic Education Catholic Education Foundation, 773-235- • Оплата не покриває доїзду до табору. Foundation, 773-235-8462. 8462. • ‚писове (незворотне) покриває таборову відзначку і адміністраційні видатки. Kaрти зголошення можна дістати в ластових ‘таницях. PLEASE NOTE REQUIREMENTS: —исло таборовиків є обмежене. Preview of Events is a listing of Ukrainian community events open to the public. It ‡голошення будуть прийматися в такій черговості, як будуть приходити. is a service provided at minimal cost ($20 per submission) by The Ukrainian Weekly Інформації про табір та карту зголошення можна дістати на website: www.plastusa.org to the Ukrainian community. Payment must be received prior to publication. Šарти зголошення з повною оплатою треба висилати To have an event listed in Preview of Events please send information, in English, written in Preview format, i.e., in a brief paragraph that includes the на адресу: Mr. J. Danyliw, P.O. Box 206, Spring House, PA 19477 date, place, type of event, sponsor, admission, full names of persons and/or organi- —еки виписувати на „PLAST, INC. – BURLAKY“ zations involved, and a phone number to be published for readers who may –––––––––––––––––––– require additional information. Items should be no more than 100 words long; all submissions are subject to editing. Šандидатів до булав таборів просимо зголоситися до пл. сен. Ю. „Аˆ‹І‚А та подати точну адресу і число телефону: Preview items must be received no later than one week before the desired date of publication. No information will be taken over the phone. Items will be E-mai:[email protected] published only once, unless otherwise indicated. Please include payment of $20 ––––––––––––––– for each time the item is to appear and indicate date(s) of issue(s) in which the О„ˆ—І‚ І ƒО‘’ ‰, item is to be published. Also, please include the phone number of a person who які бажають дістати інформації про приміщення may be contacted by The Weekly during daytime hours. Information should be в часі табору, просимо звертатися до пл. сен. Aндрія •архаліса sent to: Preview of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, e-mail: [email protected] Parsippany, NJ 07054. Items may be e-mailed to [email protected]. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 No. 43

remont” and the apartment was miles from Moving to Ukraine... Kyiv’s center, the rent was $1,000 a (Continued from page 12) month. I had asked a native Kyivian who achs, but we were in luck with the third. works for a Japanese company, and is the The owner told us the building had been No. 2 man in his office, what would be constructed for high government officials considered a really really good salary in and, because her husband worked for one Kyiv and he said $1,000 a month. So, I guess you have to do a lot better than that of these officials, they were able to to afford a decent apartment. become owners of the apartment during Our general impression of Kyiv was the privatization period. The entrance, the that things have become better in almost hallways and the elevator looked like every way, if you put the political situa- those in a poor low-rent building in the tion into a separate category. Although States. The toilet and bathroom was the my wife is fluent in Russian, she always usual sorry Soviet model. Half the electric talks to everyone in Ukrainian, even outlets didn’t work. when addressed in Russian. Ten years But there were major differences. The ago, she said, she would sometimes get rooms were large and there were four of angry or indignant looks, but not today. them, nicely furnished – the equivalent of Ukrainian is accepted even though most a three-bedroom apartment, which is a rar- people in Kyiv speak Russian. ity in Kyiv. The ceilings were high, and Making Ukrainian the official lan- the floors were of parquet. The windows guage of Ukraine was a godsend, for it were large, and there were large balconies. legitimized the Ukrainian language in There were even two large closets. Most Ukraine. Just after Viktor Yanukovych Kyiv apartments have no closets. And, it was named prime minister he addressed also had something that made my wife Parliament in Ukrainian. That means it jump up and down: a washing machine. must be politically advantageous for a Laundromats in Kyiv are rare. national politician to speak in Ukrainian, The building was by the lovely and at least part of the time. huge Victory Park. At the entrance to the During my many encounters with peo- park are seven plaques commemorating ple in Kyiv more than three-quarters of the the “Great Patriotic War.” This busy park Russian speakers switched to Ukrainian was well maintained, perhaps because it once they understood I wouldn’t or could- was built to honor the sacrifice and strug- n’t speak Russian. Ukrainian was the lan- gle of World War II. In a number of park guage of their childhood, their mother areas there were beautiful flower patterns tongue. I still remember a clerk in an appli- consisting of thousands of flowers. What ance store who switched to Ukrainian with pleased me most was that the people who us and said somewhat shamefaced: “Why used the park did not steal these flowers did I give up Ukrainian? I’m glad you are but left them for everyone to enjoy. In willing to speak my language.” one section of the park was an artesian For myself, I cannot imagine that the underground fountain and people came soul of Ukraine can survive if the from all over to fill their jugs with good- Ukrainian language dies. Vitaly Korotych, tasting water. the former editor of the important journal Our apartment was a few minutes walk “Ogonyok,” could write Russian as well to the metro and a few minutes walk to our as anyone. Yet, he confessed that he could son’s school. Because there was no “Euro- write poetry only in Ukrainian.

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Assistant surgeon general OHIO NATIONALITIES to be keynote speaker at UMANA gathering FOR DEWINE CHICAGO – Dr. Boris D. Lushniak, rear admiral and assistant surgeon gener- The Hon. George V. Voinovich The Hon. Jim Petro al in the Commissioned Corps of the Honorary Co-Chair Honorary Co-Chair U.S. Public Health Service, will be guest speaker at a regular meeting of the Illinois Branch of the Ukrainian Medical “Mike DeWine – Leadership Ukrainian-Americans can count on!” Association of North America (UMANA) on Sunday, November 5. UMANA Illinois Branch President George Kuritza, M.D., said members, colleagues and the general public are invited to hear and meet Dr. Lushniak. “Dr. Lushniak will be visiting his child- hood home, and is looking forward to seeing his friends, acquaintances as well as the sights,” Dr. Kuritza added. The meeting will be held at 2 p.m. in The Signature Room at the 95th at the John Hancock Center on Chicago’s trendy North Michigan Avenue. Chicago’s Ukrainian American med- ical community is vibrant and growing – nearly 200 active, retired and student UMANA Illinois Branch members form a key chapter in the North American association. Under the capable leadership of Dr. Kuritza and his administrative team, UMANA-Illinois Branch members meet regularly to expand their medical knowledge directly from experts like Dr. Lushniak. In a new development, the Illinois Branch has spearheaded a medical mis- sion to Ukraine involving a number of branch members donating supplies and As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Mike DeWine time to the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast has supported and brought back to Ohio millions of dollars Hospital. Newly arrived Fourth Wave physi- for economic development and community projects. Mike DeWine cians are joining UMANA and many are certifying their medical credentials to sponsored and secured federal funding for the Ukrainian Museum become active members in the Ukrainian Archives in Cleveland. American medical community. Dr. Lushniak, a physician who also holds a master’s degree in public health, As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee he recommended will speak to his colleagues on “Pandemic Influenza – Preparing for the to the President the appointment of a Ukrainian-American Unknown.” Previous outbreaks of pan- demic influenza have shown that pan- as a Federal Judge. demics are unpredictable and inevitable. Dr. Lushniak will review the basic biology of influenza, the conditions neces- On November 7, let’s re-elect a proven leader! sary for a pandemic and the preparedness Vote Mike DeWine for U.S. Senate planning that is being undertaken at the federal level to protect the public’s health in the event of a pandemic. He will Paid for by Mike DeWine for U.S. Senate explore the cornerstones of pandemic pre- paredness, which include the development of vaccines, the use of antivirals and gen- eral community public health measures. In conjunction with this event, the board of directors of UMANA, as well as the board of directors of the UMANA Foundation, will hold meetings on Saturday morning, November 4, at the national office in the Ukrainian Village. With many guests and UMANA mem- bers from across North America coming to Chicago to celebrate the centennial of St. Nicholas Cathedral Parish with a gala banquet and dance on Saturday evening, as well as a pontifical divine liturgy on Sunday morning, the weekend will be a busy and informative one. Further information is available from the UMANA office, 773-278-6262.

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October 24 Film screening, “The Undefeated,” Ukrainian Film Club, November 4 “The Sounds of Ukraine,” Kyiv Chamber Choir performance, New York Columbia University, 212-854-4697 Vancouver, BC Ryerson United Church, 416-292-3407

October 26 Photographic exhibit opening reception, “Gulag: Soviet November 4 Graduation Ball, Taras Shevchenko School of Ukrainian Boston Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom,” Parma, OH Studies, 440-886-3223 Boston University, 617-358-0922 November 4 Ukrainian Harvest Festival, St. Mary Ukrainian Orthodox October 28 SUM World Congress banquet, 60th anniversary of SUM New Britain, CT Church, 860-229-3833 Toronto in the diaspora, Ukrainian Cultural Center, 416-537-2007

October 29 “The Sounds of Ukraine,” Kyiv Chamber Choir performance Kitchener, ON St. Mary Roman Catholic Church, 416-292-3407 ÄÇßüäÇàíäà ‚ ìäêÄ∫çì October 29 Concert “…Iz Syrom Pyrohy” featuring the Akord Ukrainian Ottawa Men’s Choir, St. Mary Ukrainian Orthodox Church Hall, 613-728-0856 (586)759-6563 October 30 “The Sounds of Ukraine,” Kyiv Chamber Choir performance, London, ON First St. Andrew’s United Church, 416-292-3407 Standard Food Packages November 1 “The Sounds of Ukraine,” Kyiv Chamber Choir performance, Montreal St. Andrew – St. Paul United Church, 416-292-3407 ÚÍË ä‡ð November 2 “The Sounds of Ukraine,” Kyiv Chamber Choir performance, íÂÎÂÙÓÌ¥˜Ì¥Íð‡ªÌË èÂðÂÔËÒÛπÏÓ ‰Ó ì 00 Ottawa Christ Church Anglican Cathedral, 416-292-3407 $10. ‚¥‰ÂÓ͇ÒÂÚË Á 00 ı‚ËÎËÌÓ Ö‚ðÓÔÂÈÒ¸Í Á‡ 1 ÄÏÂðË͇ÌÒ¸ÍÛÓª ̇ November 2 Film premier, “Ex-mas Eve,” written, produced and directed ·ÂÁÍÓ¯ÚÓ‚ÌÓ„ ÒËÒÚÂÏÛ ¥ ̇‚Ô‡ÍË Washington by Vsevolod Horodyskyj, Mazza Galleria AMC Theater, Çßá www.silveredgefilms.com/exmaseve.htm áà ß áÄè èêéòÖç ‰Ó ìä ççü äêÄ∫çà November 3 “The Sounds of Ukraine,” Kyiv Chamber Choir performance, Toronto The George Weston Recital Hall, 416-292-3407 臘ÍË ‚ Íð‡ªÌË Å‡ÎÚ¥ª, èÓθ˘Û, êÓÒ¥˛, Å¥ÎÓðÛÒ¸, November 3-5 Art exhibit, Ukrainian National Women’s League of åÓΉӂÛ, óÂı¥˛ Parma, OH America Branch 12, St. Andrew Ukrainian Church hall, ¥ ëÎÓ‚‡Í¥˛ 440-230-2296

November 4 Masquerade, sponsored by the Chortopolokhy Plast Philadelphia Sorority, Ukrainian League of Philadelphia, 215-684-3548

October 27-29, 2006 The Halloween Trembita Bar Opens at 9 pm tradition continues... Friday night, 10/27/06 Friday Night Dinner, 6-8pm, $16.95++ Don your masks & (Choice of Shrimp Scampi, Pesto Lamb Chops or Chicken Roulade) Join the fun! Friday night, 10/27/06 Pumpkin Picking, Painting & Crafts, 1-4 pm Saturday, 10/28/06 MAQUERADE PARADE for kids, 4-5 pm Saturday, 10/28/06 HAY RIDES to HAUNTED HOUSE in our Lviv Building 5-9 pm Saturday, 10/28/06 Scrumptious Dinner Buffet 6-8 pm, $19.95++ For smaller appetites- $7.95++ Saturday, 10/28/06 Saturday COSTUME ZABAVA 9:30 pm Saturday, 10/28/06 Prizes for most creative costumes- Categories: 1) Best Homemade Costume, 2) Best Male Costume 3) Best Female Costume 4) Best Group Costume 5) Most Original Costume! POBox 529  Kerhonkson, NY 12446  (845)626-5641 www.Soyuzivka.com 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006 No. 43

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Sunday, October 22 Bihun, director, Business Development Soyuzivka’s Datebook Forum of The Washington Group, 301- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Academy of 873-2035 or [email protected]; or October 27-29, 2006 N ovember 22-26, 2006 Arts and Sciences in New York is sponsor- Adrian Pidlusky, TWG president, 240- H alloween Weekend with children’s Family Reunion ing a lecture by Dr. George G. Grabowicz, 381-0993 or president@thewashington- costume parade, haunted house, Dmytro Cyzevskyi Professor of Ukrainian group.org. costume zabava and more November 23, 2006 Literature at Harvard University, on the Club Suzie-Q Fall Weekend Thanksgiving Feast subject “Franko's Reception of Saturday, November 4 Shevchenko.” The lecture will take place November 4, 2006 November 25, 2006 at 2 p.m. in the academy's building, 206 PHILADELPHIA: The Chortopolokhy 90th Birthday Party W. 100th St. For information call 212-222- Plast sorority invite all to a “Maskarada” Wedding 1866. The Ukrainian public, especially (costume party) and dance at the Ukrainian December 1-3, 2006 students, is cordially invited. League of Philadelphia located at 800 N. November 10-12, 2006 Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization 23rd St. Doors open at 7 p.m. with live Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization “KPS Vidprava Stanychnykh” Saturday, October 28 music provided by The Wave band. Prizes “Orlykiada” will be awarded for best original costumes. NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific December 24, 2006 Admission: $10. For more information call Society (NTSh) invites all to a lecture by November 19, 2006 Traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve Nusia Pohorylo at 302-239-2952 or e-mail Family Reunion Andriy Chemerynsky, a historian from [email protected]. Supper Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, who will pres- Ellenville Co-op Nursery School ent the results of his research into "The Fund-Raising Auction December 31, 2006 NEW BRITAIN, Conn.: A Ukrainian History of the Shevchenko Scientific Harvest Festival will take place 9 a.m.-2 N ew Year’s Eve Extravaganza Society in America." There will be an p.m. at St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox introduction by Dr. Larissa Onyshkevych, Church, 54 Winter St. (behind Newbrite ex-president of NTSh. The program will Plaza). For cookbook lovers and collec- take place at the society's building, 63 tors, the festival will feature hundreds of Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th new and slightly used cookbooks. Also streets) at 5 p.m. For additional informa- featured will be a tag and Christmas item tion call 212-254-5130. sale, a large collection of costume jewelry, To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 Ukrainian breads, a raffle, a cake and Monday, October 30 216 Foordmore Road P.O. Box 529 dessert table, as well as a Ukrainian Kerhonkson, NY 12446 kitchen. Parking is available behind the WASHINGTON: T he Washington Group church. For further information call 860- E-mail: [email protected] Business Development Forum roundtable 229-3833. Website: www.Soyuzivka.com on "Trade and Investment in Ukraine: Current Prospects and Challenges – Sunday, November 5 Viewpoints from the United States and Canada" will be held at Johns Hopkins CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Medical University School of Advanced Association of North America – Illinois International Studies, 1619 Massachusetts Chapter cordially invites its members, MAY WE HELP YOU? Ave. NW, Rome Auditorium, at 7-9 p.m. families and guests to attend the fall edu- To reach The Ukrainian Weekly call (973) 292-9800, Roundtable topics are expected to cational conference and luncheon, featur- and dial the appropriate extension (as listed below). include: priority sectors, legislative obsta- ing keynote speaker Rear Adm. Boris D. cles (e.g., related to WTO accession), Lushniak, M.D., assistant surgeon gener- Editorial – 3049, 3088; Production – 3063, 3069 trade promotion efforts (missions and al in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Administration – 3041; Advertising – 3040; Subscriptions – 3042 exhibitions), investment facilitation Public Health Service. Dr. Lushniak will mechanisms, anti-corruption campaigns, present a lecture on “Pandemic Influenza dealing with central and local govern- – Preparing for the Unknown.” He will ments, growth of trade associations in review the basic biology of influenza, the Ukraine, civil vs. commercial code prob- conditions necessary for a pandemic and lems, and sufficiency and effectiveness of the preparedness planning that is being business-related foreign technical assis- tance. For information contact Andrew (Continued on page 19)