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lished by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! rainian WeeklV Vol. LIX mNo. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1991 50 cents Senate Finance Committee hearings Kravchuk addresses myriad issues focus on trade with Soviet Union on eve of North American trip by Adrian Karmazyn the new realities in what is now often UNA Washington Office termed the "former Soviet Union." by Chrystyna Lapychak In his opening remarks at the hear­ Kiev Press Bureau WASHINGTON - The Senate ing, Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas), Finance Committee held hearings on chairman of the committee, noted that KIEV — As he prepared to embark September 11-12 on the topic of U.S.­ President Bush's trade agreement with on his first North American trip as the Soviet trade relations. In early August, the USSR was negotiated with an entity head of an independent Ukrainian state, President George Bush had submitted that "doesn't exist anymore." Ukrainian Supreme Council Chairman to the Senate for ratification the June He went on to say that the United Leonid Kravchuk held a special pre-trip 1990 trade agreement negotiated with States needs to "sort out ptsj political press conference on September 18 for the Soviet Union. The agreement would and economic relationships with each American journalists either based in or grant most-favored-nation status to the Soviet republic and the newly indepen­ visiting Kiev who had requested one- Soviets. dent Baltic states." Sen. Bentsen com­ on-one interviews with him before his plained that the committee was "hard- In the aftermath of the failed coup in September 22 departure. pressed to find any high-level officials in In a special delegation meeting room the USSR and the subsequent changes the administration willing to ... tell us in the relations between the center and in the Ukrainian Parliament building, what their policy is toward the republics Mr. Kravchuk answered a variety of the republics, the Senate Finance Com­ and the Baltic states." mittee convened to assess the adminis­ questions during the hourlong meeting. In his remarks, the senator stressed The questions focused on his North tration's trade struggle for dealing with that the U.S. must structure its economic t ' - ' - " American trip, the current political and relations with the Soviet Union to economic situation in the newly inde­ enhance global stability and to further pendent Ukraine, his views on negotia­ Greenpeace accuses U.S. economic interests. "I don't want tions over new economic and political to see a bustling, modern Kiev in the unions between the former Soviet IAEA of collusion year 2010 where the Ukrainian citizens republics and his candidacy for the new are driving BMW's and talking on post of president of Ukraine. Samsung cellular telephones, with no with Soviets American companies in sight," he said. The American journalists included: Roman Ferencevych of Voice of Ame­ JERSEY CITY, N.J. -Theenviron­ "That's why I've called these hearings," Chrystyna Lapychak mental organization Greenpeace has he explained. rica, Christine Demkowych of The New accused the International Atomic York Times and Baltimore Sun, Daniel Leonid Kravchuk, chairman of the "I want to hear the administration Sneider of The Christian Science Moni­ Ukrainian Supreme Council. Energy Agency, the United Nations outline its current strategy and how it's tor, Juan Tamayo of The Miami He­ work of the situation, the position of agency set up to promote the peaceful pursuing America's interests. ...The rald, Lisa Trei of The San Francisco use of atomic energy, of colluding with American people, Congress and the Chronicle and this reporter. Ukraine will become better known, Soviet authorities to hide the impact of business community all have a role to more understandable. This is exactly the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear power A single Canadian correspondent what we need today. play in determining the shape of our was included in the group: Natalia plant disaster. relations with the nations that have The IAEA's "The International Cher­ Feduschak of Canadian Press. Roman Ferencevych: Ukraine has arisen from these recent changes," he Marina Lysenko of the Foreign nobyl Project" report, presented at a said. appointed its first representative to a conference in Vienna May 21-24, Ministry of Ukraine served as inter­ state. Volodymyr Kryzhanivsky to the Testifying at the hearing were three preter. purportedly measured the consequences administration officials: Julias L. Katz, Russian Federation. Which will he the of the Chornobyl disaster on the health A transcript of the press conference next countries to receive Ukrainian deputy U.S. trade representative; Tho­ follows. of the population and determined mas Duesterberg, assistant secretary for representatives? whether there was an adequate response international economic policy, Depart­ PARTI by authorities to protect the population ment of Commerce; and Curtis Kam- Mr. Kravchuk: This is a multi-faceted from irradiation. The report was pre­ task. We've started negotiations with all man, deputy assistant secretary for Christine Demkowych: Why are you pared by a group of international con­ European and Canadian affairs, De­ states, but it's natural that we started sultants for the IAEA at the request of going to the U.S., and what do you hope with Russia, because Russia has a partment of State. They all urged quick to achieve there? the Soviet government. approval of the president's trade agree­ singular interest in this. This exchange In "The IAEA File," a document ment with the Soviet Union, underlin­ of official representatives was agreed published to coincide with the IAEA's Leonid Kravchuk: First of all, I'm ing the benefits it would bring for going to the United Nations. I have to upon with President (Boris) Yeltsin general conference which opened in American businesses, but paying rela­ when we signed the bilateral agreement Vienna September 16, Greenpeace give a speech there. The goal is to tively little attention to the role of the present the position of Ukraine on the between Ukraine and Russia on No­ accused the IAEA of failing to respond republics in future trade relations. main economic, political, legal and vember 14, 1990. to warnings that foreshadowed the The casual treatment of the increa­ military issues. And besides that to tell Now this problem is solved with Chornobyl accident and of accepting singly powerful republics was under­ the world community what is this Kirghizstan. We're negotiating it with uncritically Soviet explanations that the scored by Sen. Bentsen's opening state­ Ukraine and the goals it pursues, and its the Baltic republics, which already have disaster was caused by human error, ment on the second day of the hearings. development after the declaration of proclaimed their independence. We reported the Financial Times. "I must say that after listening carefully independence. -have intentions of having our repre­ The Ukrainian environmental asso­ yesterday to the administration wit­ sentatives in all the states of the world. ciation Zeleniy Svit and the Ukrainian nesses, I'm still not sure what our policy Judging from my experience, not Green Party claim that the IAEA, an is — and I'm certainly not convinced everyone knows very well what is organization created to control the that the administration is moving fast Ukraine, what is its potential, what its Roman Ferencevych: In many coun­ spread of radioactive materials, is not enough to keep up with the changes,"he history is, what is happening here today tries of the world, in particular in competent to make medical assessments in Ukraine, what political forces are in Canada, the United States and Austra­ said. lia, there are a lot of people of Ukrai­ of the aftereffects of Chornobyl. Testifying on the second day of the action here. And all this complicates Ukrainian Greens state: "The respon­ cooperation with other states for us, for nian descent. Kiev has American and hearings were representatives of the Canadian consulates-general. When sibility of the IAEA is to study the still Latvian and Lithuanian legations in the business people. And I hope that (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 5) when I draw just the general frame- (Continued on page 8) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1991 No. 38 50,000 in Kiev celebrate Ukraine's new independence Newsbriefs KIEV - More than 50,000 citizens of organizations also spoke to the throngs from Ukraine the newly proclaimed independent who came to celebrate Ukraine's free­ Ukraine gathered at St. Sophia Square dom. here on Sunday afternoon, September During the meeting, the people ap­ ^ LVIV — Cardinal Myroslav Ivan "It is not the first time that we have to 15, to celebrate their nation's August 24 proved resolutions which called for Lubachivsky met on September 10 with admit the obvious lack of elementary declaration of independence, reported cancellation of a referendum scheduled Grzegorz Kostrzewa Zorbas, vice- safety culture in running reactors," said the Respublika press agency. for December 1 to confirm the pro­ deputy of the Europe Section of the Mr. Mazlov. Polish Foreign Ministry, and a delega­ The all-national/ public meeting, clamation of independence by the ^ KIEV — Jewish leaders, including which included a moleben celebrated by Ukrainian Parliament. tion which included the Polish consul in Lviv, Henryk Litwin. Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and the hierarchs and priests of the Ukrai­ After the public meeting, the people winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, nian Autocephalous Orthodox and formed columns and led by ex-soldiers The meeting came one day after the and Edgar Bronfman, president of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Churches, dressed in the uniforms of the Ukrai­ signing of a joint communique by the World Jewish Congress, met at Babyn began with people's deputy and presi­ nian Insurgent Army and the Sich Ukrainian and Polish ministries an­ Yar on September 12 to pray for the dential candidate Levko Lukianenko Riflemen, made their way from Volo- nouncing the development of formal dead. reading the act accepted by the Supreme dymyr Street to the Khreshchatyk diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Poland. Although Ukrainian officials are Council of Ukraine on August 24. where they gathered at Independence planning to mark September 29 as a day Square (formerly October Revolution. Although details of the two-hour meeting between Cardinal Lubachivsky of mourning, September 12 is the 50th According to the press bureau of the Square) to participate in. a meeting, anniversary of the massacre by the Ukrainian Republican Party, other organized by the Ukrainian Republican and the delegation will not be made public, the discussions fodused on Jewish calendar. Also, the delegation people's deputies addressing the multi­ Party. Its chairman, Mr. Lukianenko, is. unable to, be in Kiev on September tudes assembled at the historic square once again spoke to the people and methods to improve current relations between Ukrainians and Poles in the 29. ' ' . '. V included: Mykhailo Horyn, Vyacheslav stressed the need for democratic forces In addition to saying the Kaddish, Chornovil, Ivan Zayets, Oleksander to consolidate in order to strengthen areas of Church and state. In a show of greater cooperation and the Jewish prayer for the dead, the Yemets, Larysa Skoryk, Stepan Kh- Ukraine's sovereignty. delegation met with Leonid Kravchuk, mara and Pav.lo Movchan. support between the two nations, Msgr. This meeting was also addressed by Iwan Dacko, chancellor of the Arche- chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament, Leading political activists who spoke leaders of Rukh, among them Oleksan­ parchy of Lviv, participated in a prayer on September 11. Yankel Bleich, an to the crowds included Ukrainian der Lavrynovych, vice-chairman, as service at the Latin-rite Cathedral of the American rabbi living in Kiev, said that Democratic Party chairman Yuriy well as the chairman of the Peasants' Dormition of the Blessed Virgin in Lviv Mr. Kravchuk promised the delegation Badzio, Ukrainian Republican Party Democratic Party, Serhiy Plachynda; on September 11. In his address to the that Ukraine would not give asylum to spokesman Oles Serhiyenko, Kiev City the vice-chairman of the Prosvita estimated 500 persons present, Msgr. Nazi war criminals and would prosecute Councilwoman Svitlana Lee and Rukh Ukrainian Language Society, Anatoliy Dacko underlined the unity in diversity all charged with World War II crimes activists Bohdan Ternopilsky and Nosenko; as well as Inter-Party As­ within the Catholic Church and called against Jews. Serhiy Riabchenko, to name a few. sembly leader Anatoliy Lupynis. for greater understanding, tolerance and cooperation between Byzantine 9 KIEV - An official branch of the Representatives of the Crimean Ta­ Throughout the day, the sounds of and Latin-rite Catholics as well as international Israeli organization tars, coal miners of Ukraine, members Ukrainian national songs resounded among all confessions. (Press Office of Sokhnut was opened in Kiev on August of Soyuz Ukrainok (Ukrainian Wo­ through loudspeakers placed along the the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church) 11, Radio Kiev reported. Its function men's Association) and other civic Khreshchatyk. will be to promote Jewish culture, tradition and customs and to answer . MOSCOW-..Startling new infor­ questions about immigration to Israel. Galician Assembly convenes mation on the state of nuclear power (RFE/RL Daily Report) j plants has been published in Trud, the all-union newspaper based in Moscow. Ф VIENNA - The United Nations second session in Ternopil According to Anatoly Mazlov, the on August 1 announced a plan to TERNOPIL — The second session of territory of Ukraine swear allegiance to government head of nuclear safety, 20 combat the effects of Chornobyl. the Galician Assembly was held here on Ukraine; to propose to the Supreme of the 59 accidental stoppages in nuclear Margaret Amstee, the U.N. director September 5. The one-day session Soviet that it liquidate itself once a plants in the first six months of 1991 general in Vienna and coordinator on included people's deputies from the president of Ukraine is elected and were due to human error. Chornobyl issues, said that the plan Lviv, Ivano-Frankivske and Ternopil elections for the Parliament are plan­ Three people were subjected to would address health and reconstruc­ oblasts. Representatives of the Volyn ned. dangerous doses of radiation when tion problems, economic, social and and Chernivtsi oblasts came to an­ The assembly also proposed that new workers mistakenly loaded a radio­ psychological rehabilation and agricul­ nounce that they, too, want to join the elections be held for the heads of the active, rather than a dummy, rod into a tural and environmental issues. It is also assembly. oblast councils and prefects be chosen chamber at the Ignalina plant in focused on learning from the disaster. to the oblast councils to oversee that Lithuania. A two-week shutdown at the The plan, which will cost S646 million Four main topics were under discus­ governmental and presidential deci­ Khmelnytskyi plant in Ukraine, due to and fund 131 projects, will involve the sion. Vyacheslav Chornovil, chairman sions are carried out. the failure of three safety ducts, was also U.N., the Russian, Byelorussian and of the Lviv Oblast Council, spoke on the The assembly also recommended that caused by workers' mistakes. Ukrainian republics and the Soviet political situation; Bohdan Boyko, the political parties and organizations Although in 1989 nuclear power central authorities. Ternopil Regional Executive Commit­ refrain from calling strikes, in order not plants supplied 12.4 percent of all An international Chornobyl confer­ tee vice-chairman, spoke on the up­ to worsen the economic situation. energy for the Soviet Union, in the first ence will be held in New York on coming presidential elections; Mykola six months of 1991 the plants in the September 20, where the plan will most Yakovyna, the Ivano-Frankivske Ob­ USSR only worked at 67 percent likely be discussed. (Reuters) last Council chairman, spoke on the Soccer federation capacity. (Continued on page 5) system of government in Ukraine — both national and regional; and Volo- dymyr Oliynyk spoke on programs to seeks independence stabilize the economy. MOSCOW - "Whatever the result FOUNDED 1933 of the December referendum we are Ukrainian Weelcb The Galician Assembly resolved that going to start preparing an independent the Communist Party should not be championship in our republic," said An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National revived in any shape or form; that funds Ukraine's soccer federation president Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. the CPU had invested in various co­ Victor Bannikov on September 12. 07302. operatives and other economic enter­ prises be confiscated; and that the city Ukraine is planning to hold its own soccer championship beginning in 1992- Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, NJ. 07302. Soviets in which the members worked (ISSN - 0273-9348) with the CPU be dissolved and new 1993. The first championship will have between 18 and 20 teams. elections be held. Yearly subscription rate: S20; for UNA members - S10. As well the Galician Assembly voted Ukraine has some of the best teams in Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. the Soviet Union, including Dynamo, to reaffirm the statement made at its n first session regarding the unity of which used to be the champion team. The Weekly a 1 Svoboda: UNA: Ukraine, both political and territorial, Ukrainian players will play for the (201)434-02J/,-0807,-3036 (201) 451-2200 as a necessity for stability in the republic Soviet national team during a transition Postmaster, send address and in Europe; to put radio, television period, although some Ukrainian soc­ changes to: Editor-in-chief. Roma Hadzewycz and the press under the supervision of cer leaders wanted to make a clean The Ukrainian Weekly Associate editors: Marta Kolomayets the oblast councils; to submit the break. They will play in the European P.O. Box 346 Chrystyna Lapychak (Kiev) proposition that KGB structures be Championships in Sweden next year for Jersey City, NJ. 07303 Assistant editor Khristina Lew dissolved and the KGB stop function­ the Soviet team, but hope to have a ing as political police; to form a national Ukrainian team at the Olympics and The Ukrainian Weekly, September 22, 1991, No. 38, Vol. LIX guard as the first step to a Ukrainian other international games from 1992 Copyright 1991 by The Ukrainian Weekly army and to have all troops on the on. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1991 3 Ukrainian reps Reception committee organized to host Kravchuk delegation by Marta Skorupsky community, cultural, and scholarly ration of Ukrainian Medical Associa­ speak to press organizations to serve as honorary tions; Prof. George G. Grabowicz, NEW YORK - As part of his offi­ members of the Reception Committee director of the Ukrainian Research at Moscow CSCE cial visit to Canada and the United sponsoring the banquet in honor of Mr. Institute, Harvard University; Titus D. States, Leonid M. Kravchuk,chairman Hewryk president of The Ukrainian MOSCOW - Oleksander Yemets, Kravchuk and the members of his dele­ of the Supreme Council (Parliament) of gation. Museum; George Honczarenko, presi­ head of the Ukrainian Supreme Coun­ Ukraine, will visit New York where on dent of the Ukrainian Engineers' So­ cil's Human Rights Committee, V0I0- The honorary members of the Recep­ Saturday, September28,he will attend a tion Committee include: Patriarch ciety of America; Dr. Andrew Lewyckyj, dymyr Kryzhanivsky, recently appoint­ banquet in his honor hosted at the president of the Ukrainian Medical ed Ukrainian consul to Moscow, and Mstyslav I of Kiev and All Ukraine, Waldorf Astoria by the Ukrainian Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Association of North America; Dr. Semyon Gluzman, a psychiatrist, parti­ Reception Committee. Chairman Krav- Zenon Matkiwsky, president of the cipated in a press conference here at the Church; Archbishop Stephen Sulyk of Union Building on September 13, chuk's visit to New York will follow a Philadelphia, metropolitan for the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund; reported the press service of the Ukrai­ meeting with President George Bush Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S.A.; John Oleksyn, president of the Ukrai­ nian Republican Party. and two days of high-level diplomatic Archbishop Antony of New York and nian Fraternal Association; Prof. talks inWashington. On Monday, Washington, Ukrainian Orthodox Leonid Rudnytzky, president of The conference was organized by September 30, Chairman Kravchuk will Church of the U.S.A.; Bishop Basil Los- the Shevchenko Scientific Society; members of U.S. and Canadian Ukrai­ address the General Assembly of the ten of Stamford; the Rev. Volodymyr Maria Savchak, president of the Ukrai­ nian organizations who are in Moscow United Nations. Domashovetz, president of the All- nian National Women's League of for the Conference on the Human Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Fellow­ America; and Dr. Stephan Woroch, Dimension being held as part of the Chairman Kravchuk who will be accompanied by his wife, Antonina,an ship; the Very Rev. Patrick Paschak, president of the Conference of Ukrai­ Conference on Security and Coopera­ OSBM, vicar general of the Stamford nian American Professional and Civic tion in Europe. instructor of economics at the Taras Shevchenko Kiev State University, Eparchy, superior pastor of St. George's Organizations. Ukrainian Catholic Church in New Mr. Yemets spoke of the past history heads a delegation of legislators that The Ukrainian Reception Committee of Ukrainian independence movements includes: Dmytro V. Pavlychko, mem­ York; the Very Rev. Protopresbyter Volodymyr Bazylevsky, pastor of St. is headed by Dr. Jaroslaw Padoch, past and stressed that the recent declaration ber of the Parliament's Presidium and president of the Shevchenko Scientific of independence was accomplished Volodymyr's Ukrainian Orthodox head of the Permanent Committee on Church in New York. Society. The other committee members without bloodshed, coinciding with the Foreign Affairs; Vasyl I. Yevtukhov, are Mykola Haliv, Dr. Maria Klachko, collapse of the totalitarian Soviet member of the Parliament Presidium Also serving as honorary members Wasyl Nykyforuk, Bohdan Pevny, Eva regime. and head of the Permanent Committee are: Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), Sen. Piddubcheshen, Volodymyr Rak, Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J), Gov. James When asked about the motives of the on the Development of the Basic Marta Skorupsky, Yevhen Stakhiv, Branches of the National Economy: Florio of New Jersey, Mayor David M. Irene Stecura, Dr. Lubomyr Woroch Communist majority in the Ukrainian Dinkins of New York City, Rabbi Supreme Council in voting for indepen­ Ihor R. Yukhnovsky, member of the and Dr. Zvenyslava Woroch. Parliament Presidium and head of the Arthur Schneier, president of the Ap­ dence, Mr. Yemets said that they peal of Conscience Foundation and During his visit to Canada and the mistakenly thought that if they support­ Permanent Committee on Education and Sciences; Mykola H. Khomenko, chairman of the United States Com­ United States, Chairman Kravchuk will ed the Act of Declaration of the In­ mission for the Preservation of Ame­ dependence of Ukraine they would people's deputy and chief of the Secre­ be in Ottawa on September 22-24; tariat of the Parliament; Anatoliy M. rica's Heritage Award; Walter I. Bara- Toronto, September 24; Washington escape responsibility for supporting the netsky, president of the Ukrainian coup. Zlenko, minister of foreign affairs; September 25-26; Boston, September Valeriy O. Kravchenko minister of Institute of America; Prof. Mykhailo 26-27; Chicago, September 27-28; and Mr. Yemets said that Ukraine was foreign economic relations; Yuriy Y. P. Boretsky, president of the World Fede­ New York, September 28-October 2. not participating in the CSCE confer­ Spizhenko, minister of health care; ence because it did not want to be part Oleksander I. Melnyk, advisor to the health in Ukraine. Further, the health of of the delegation from the USSR since it chairman; and Heorhiy V. Chernyav- Greenpeace accuses... 100,000 evacuees and the 600,000 clean­ would be impossible for all the republics (Continued from page 1) up worlcers was not included in the sky, chief of the International Depart­ : K ,: v — some democratic, some still totolita- ment of the Secretariat. unclear technical4 reasons ifor the Cher­ feporV '-\' - ' ' - Л- " " ;; ' ' ; - rian — to agree on a single position. Gennadi Y. Udovehko, the perma­ nobyl accident, to assist in the safe As a result, Ukrainian Greens have Ukraine as an independent entity still nent representative of Ukraine to the burial of radioactive waste, and to help demanded that the Ukrainian represen­ has to apply for membership in the United Nations also is a member of the find a solution to the question of an tative to the IAEA be recalled and that CSCE, which Mr. Yemets said he official Ukrainian delegation visiting appropriate sarcophagus which will Ukraine withdraw its membership from foresees in the near future. Canada and the United States. The shield the most unsafe nuclear installa­ the IAEA. They called on the citizens of entire Ukrainian delegation, as well as tion in the world. The IAEA ignored all Ukraine, Byelorussia and Russia, the Dr. Gluzman spoke about the rene­ Ambassador Udovenko and his wife, requests from Zelenyi Svit for interna­ international community, environmen­ wal of the abuse of psychiatry in order Dina, will be guests at the banquet in tional cooperation in the resolution of tal organizations and the Greens of the to cover up the aftereffects of Chor- New York in honor of Chairman Krav­ the sarcophagus question and, instead, world to condemn the IAEA for its role nobyl. He gave examples of people who chuk. took upon itself the inappropriate task in representing the nuclear lobby and were "diagnosed" as psychologically ill In light of the significance of this visit of conducting medical research." ignoring the victims of Chornobyl. when they were in fact suffering from by the first head of state of an indepen­ radiation-related symptoms. According to Ukrainian Greens, the The IAEA has responded to accusa­ dent Ukraine to the United States, an ad conclusions of the IAEA report com­ tions by stating that it had difficulty Mr. Kryzhanivsky, a Ukrainian hoc Ukrainian Reception Committee pletely contradicts the work of many obtaining full reports from the Soviet people's deputy, commented on Ukrai­ has invited the top-ranking members Ukrainian clinics, hospitals and re­ Union and that the Chornobyl report nian-Russian relations, noting that of the Ukrainian Church hierarchy, search centers which have established had drawn on the work of 200 experts many Russian democrats do mot under­ leading American legislators and public undeniable correlations between the from 23 countries, and was thorough stand the nationalities question. officials, and leaders of Ukrainian Chornobyl disaster and the declining and objective.

FOR THE RECORD: World Congress of Free Ukrainians brief to CSCE conferencel Following is the text of a brief submitted by the legitimate governments of the newly proclaimed Ukrainian Parliament before the end of 1991, and Toronto-based World Congress of Free Ukrainians to independent republics must be given formal access to which guarantees a wide range of political, economic, the Conference on the the Human Dimension being the CSCE process as full participants. social and cultural rights to all national minorities in held in Moscow as part of the Conference on Security When we look at the human rights record of the past Ukraine. The law envisages the creation of an and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Accords year, we still have to take into account the fact that it is administrative network at different levels of govern­ process). the Soviet human rights practices which we have to ment, where national minorities would be represented assess. Hopefully current dramatic events will lead to and have a voice in legislation affecting minority Human rights in Ukraine permanent democratic changes. issues. The Act of Declaration of the Independence of During the 14-month period since the June 1990 Although Ukraine has made major strides in Ukraine adopted by its Parliament on August 24 states CSCE Conference on the Human Dimension, we have seeking greater sovereignty within the last few years, that the territory of Ukraine is indivisible and witnessed revolutionary changes that have resulted in the ultimate levers of power still reside in Moscow. inviolable, that only the Constitution and the laws of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and its central Ukraine's assertion of control over its own fate and Ukraine are valid in the territory of Ukraine, and that government into independent sovereign states whose growing independence from Moscow have manifested on December 1 Ukraine is to hold a republican republican governments have become the repository themselves in several ways. Among the most signifi­ referendum to confirm the independence proclama­ of legitimate authority. cant are: the March 1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet tion. In view of this major shift in the balance of powers elections; the adoption of the Declaration on State Sovereignty by the Ukrainian Supreme Rada (Soviet) Faced with a renewed threat to its territorial from central authorities to the newly proclaimed integrity by the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist independent republics, the delegation of the former on July 16, 1990, and the August 24, Act of Declara-. tion of the Independence of Ukraine. Republic, Ukraine's public outcry resulted in the USSR can no longer act as the sole representative of RSFSR and Ukraine signing an accord on August 29, the nation-states of this region. The CSCE process Prior to August 24, various follow-up laws were confirming the territorial integrity of both states. must adopt dramatic changes to reflect this new enacted aimed at implementing the declared sover­ The current human rights picture is characterized by reality. Notwithstanding proposals to set up an eignty, such as a recent draft law on national major inconsistencies. Although the right of the interim administration in Moscow or plans for a minorities, prepared by the democratic opposition individual to know and act upon his/her rights has future loose confederation of sovereign auties, the deputies, which is expected to be debated in the (Continued on page 13) 4. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1991 No38 Council organized to promote IMI-Kiev MBAs participate trade between Ukraine and U.S. in University of Delaware exchange CHICAGO - A consortium of Ame­ commercial interests. The council seeks by Petrusia Sawchak This year's MBA program was or­ rican business, professional and aca­ to develop and encourage successful ganized and promoted by the staff at the University of Delaware and Andrij demic representatives has organized the trade relationships through its collec­ PHILADELPHIA - Ready or not, Masiuk, the director of international America Ukraine Business Council to tion and dissemination of business news capitalism is coming to Ukraine, espe­ programs at IMI-Kiev. Mr. Masiuk is promote trade relationships between that is relevant to members of both cially if the republic's new MBAs have director of the Advanced Management Ukraine and the United States. countries," she said. something to say about it. Program for Eastern Europe and the Following meetings on August 12, jn Both Mr. Wyslotsky and Ms. John­ Dedicated persons on both sides of USSR at the International Institute for Boston at Harvard's Kennedy School of son emphasized the council's enthusias­ the Atlantic are trying hard to facilitate Management Development in Geneva, Government and the Ukrainian Re­ tic support for the economic reorgani-' this transition by creating a master in Switzerland. Having lived in Philadel­ search Institute, the Business Council's zation of Ukraine, and said that the business administration (MBA) pro­ phia up to 1978, Mr. Masiuk received founding members elected Chicago area Business Council will encourage its gram which will prepare future entre­ his MBA from the Wharton School of businessman Ihor Wyslotsky president members to consider direct investment preneurs for a new economy. Business at the University of Pennsyl­ of the group. Mr. Wyslotsky is active in and involvement in Ukrainian business The Ukrainian Educational and vania. enterprises. international business. Cultural Center (UECC) recently host­ Mr. Masiuk said he believes that "The Business Council was created in Other founding members of the ed a delegation from Kiev at a wine and capitalism, when it comes to Ukraine, response to this year's historic events in Business Council include: Pinhas Dror, cheese reception held in their honor. Dr. will be unique. He noted, "The market Ukraine which underscore the impor­ Venture Partners, Inc.; Dennis Farrell, Victor Mashtabey, deputy director of economy in Ukraine will be distinctive, tance of this nation, wealthy in agricul­ IBM Corp.; George G. Grabowicz, the International Management Institute bearing a stamp of past economic and tural, mineral and human resources, as Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard (IMI) of Kiev, and Mykola Deycha- political traditions in combination with a potential trading partner and a signifi­ University; William Hogan, Kennedy kiwskyj, director of the MBA program grafts from Western economies. The cant future player in the world eco­ School of Government, Harvard Uni­ at IMI, along with a delegation of MBA MBAs from IMI-Kiev will contribute in nomy. These same events have opened versity; Michael O. Holowaty, Labora­ students met on August 4 with heads of formulating such a synthesis." the door to Western business and tories of Environmental Research, Ukrainian organizations, professionals, According to Mr. Masiuk, the criteria financial entities interested in develop­ Indiana University; Peter Jacyk, The and business owners to discuss the for selection into the program are a ing a new market," Mr. Wyslotsky said. Jacyk Group, Promobank Investment economy in Ukraine and the possibili­ bachelor's degree, recommendations Another founding member of the Ltd.; Elie A. Shneour, Biosystems ties of joint economic ventures. from the student's institute (which may Business Council is Jaroslawa Zelinsky Associates Ltd.; Adrian Slywotsky, The 40-member delegation was com­ be from industry, a cooperative, or Johnson, Chicago attorney with Hin- Corporate Decisions Inc.; Sheree T. posed primarily of managers from academia), and a sponsorship from shaw 8c Culbertson and specialist in Speakman, Coopers 8c Lybrand; and industrial enterprise, including six his/her place of employment. international commerce. Ms. Johnson Roman Szporluk, Ukrainian Research university professors. Three are women. The MBA program at Delaware is is chairperson of the Business Council's Institute, Harvard University. They are pursuing a one-year, post- divided into three areas: board of advisors. The America Ukraine Business experience MBA program at IMI-Kiev ^ a business communications course "The Business Council's primary Council is a not-for-profit cooperation and a six-week program at the Univer­ designed to teach students effective purpose is to promote trade between with offices at 321 N. Clark St., Suite sity of Delaware where they are learning skills in English (both oral and written); the United States and Ukraine by identi­ 550, Chicago, IL 60610-4714; tele­ basic American business practices and 9 business lectures and seminars, fying business opportunities and bring­ phone, (312) 321-3942; fax, (312) 467- strategies which will help them expand which will include such topics as: "Inter­ ing together American and Ukrainian 0615. The council is a member of the opportunities for trade, joint ventures national Marketing: Goals Now and in business persons who share specific World Trade Center Association. and other forms of international co­ the Near Future," "American Business operation between Ukraine and the Concepts and Practices," "Telemarket­ United States. ing in the U.S.," "Creating Joint Ven­ New Jersey to pursue trade Prof. Alexander Billon of the tures," "Management Information"and University of Delaware, was instrumen­ "Systems for Global Market"; and with Baltic states, Ukraine tal in setting up the first program for ^ corporate interaction and visita­ and telecommunication lines in Latvia, IMI-Kiev students at Delaware last tion, during which the participants have TRENTON - In an action believed year. He has also taught management Lithuania and Estonia, and many of a three-week internship with various to be the first by any state, Gov. Jim courses at the University of Kiev, where the world's centers for these industries corporations and businesses in Dela­ Florio on September 6 directed New he will return this October for another are based in New Jersey. ware as well as in the neighboring states. Jersey's international trade office to four-month teaching position. pursue trade links with the independent "International trade is the single most As a result of the internships, it is Dr. Billon said, "In view of the fact nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Esto­ important mechanism for the Baltic hoped participants will establish con­ that Ukraine has embarked on a path to nia, as well as Ukraine. The state's republics to transform their economies. tacts and create networks of mutual a market economy, knowledge of major pharmaceutical companies are New Jersey businesses are eager to play interest with American businessper- management especially with Western one area that could capitalize on the an active role in all these engagements. sons. experience will be critical to Ukraine region's demands for technology and New Jersey stands ready to do business During the reception at UECC, June and its economic development." He products, Gov. Florio said. with all the Baltic republics," said Quinley, the business ESL coordinator added, "The challenge is to make this Commerce Commissioner George Zof- at the University of Delaware, wel­ "With freedom come new opportuni­ opportunity available to thousands finger. "As free and independent na­ comed the business leaders present and ties for everyone. The best foundation instead of a few." for freedom is a strong economy, and tions, the Baltic republics have a brigh­ encouraged them to contact her office A step in that direction was the we in New Jersey want to do all that we ter future. Latvia, Lithuania and Es­ for possible internships for the MBAs. donation of 950 textbooks on manage­ can to help. We already have deep ties tonia are beginning to transform their Martha Shyprykewych, president of the ment from the University of Delaware's with the Baltic states and we're ex­ societies into market-driven economies. Ukrainian Savings and Loan Associa­ library to the University of Kiev, which ploring ways to make them stronger," They will need technology, equipment tion, was one of those present who has was organized by Dr. Billon and the said Gov. Florio, following a meeting taken on an intern to learn and work at and increased trade with the West." library staff. with representatives from New Jersey's the bank. New Jersey has always led the nation Baltic ethnic communities. "One of the in recognizing human and civil rights; in best places to start is in trade. I envision 1985, New Jersey was the first state in a host of joint ventures, and we in New Incubator' established at KPI the nation to divest its public pension Jersey have the ability, the location and funds from companies doing business in TROY, N.Y. - Pier A. Abetti, In February, at least six Ukrainian the willingness to establish export and South Africa. Rensselaer professor and director of the businesspersons will be traveling to import ties with these countries." Center for Entrepreneurship of New Troy, N.Y., to be trained in running the Gov. Florio cited opportunities for In the past year, the Florio adminis­ Technological Ventures, has just re­ Kiev incubator. For three weeks, direct exports, joint ventures, esta­ tration has taken several steps to turned from a trip to Kiev, where he was trainees will be taught by role playing, blishing branches and subsidiaries, increase the potential for business successful in establishing the first examining case studies, and exercises. licensing and franchising in the Baltic development under perestroika. The Center for New Technology, a business They will also gain hands-on experience nations and Ukraine. New Jersey New Jersey Department of Commerce "incubator," at Kiev Polytechnic Insti­ through practical work at Rensselaer's companies have the technology to has participated in two trade shows in tute (KPI). Incubator and Technology Park. undertake these activities and the state's Moscow to introduce New Jersey pro­ With a grant from Rensselaer Poly­ East Coast location, air and sea trans­ ducts and technology ranging from technic Institute trustee Warren Brug- "The events in the Soviet Union could portation facilities, and strong ties with construction equipment to computer geman and Pauline Bruggeman, who is not have been more perfectly timed," Western Europe underscore the poten­ software. Last May, the department of Ukrainian descent, Prof. Abetti said Prof. Abetti. "The recent events tial for doing business with the Baltic met with a senior-level Ukrainian trade went to Kiev in June to formally have speeded things up for us tremen­ republics and the rest of Eastern Europe. official and as a result, initiated a major establish ties to create a Center for New dously." While the coup has dramati­ High on the list of priorities in the dairy and food processing project with a Technologies (CNT) at KPI. Victor cally increased the possibilities for Baltic republics is a demand for phar­ New Jersey commercial refrigeration Ivanenko, professor at KPI and inter­ capitalism and has improved the out­ maceutical products and technology. company. national authority on cybernetics, has look for entrepreneurship in U- New Jersey is world renowned in this In September 1990, Gov. Florio and been appointed president-director of kraine, it is expected to take at least 10 industry and is home to several major Commerce Commissioner Zoffinger CNT. months to renovate the space to be used pharmaceutical companies. An emerg­ met with Lithuanian New Jerseyans to Prof. Ivanenko will be coming to for the incubator, hire staff and select ing tourism industry in the region gives discuss relations between New Jersey Rensselaer this October to present his at least 10 tenant companies. In the opportunities to develop hotel and and Lithuania. Commissioner Zof­ business plan to Prof. Abetti. In the meantime, Profs. Abetti and Ivanenko travel services. There is also a strong finger also led a trade mission to plan he will identify potential tenants will be working together to insure their demand for improved transportation Eastern Europe in October 1990. and sources of capital. chances of a successful venture. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1991 5 тіишіпшімттнттіьшттіртмшіж DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING Luba Lapychak-Leshko retires man, Mr. Wasylenko, vice-chairman, New Haven Taras Slevinsky, secretary, Osyp Hla- from the UNA after 41 years dun, treasurer, and representatives of STAMFORD, Conn. - The New each of the UNA branches belonging to Haven District Committee held a meet­ the New Haven District. Dr. Snihu­ ing on September 8 on the grounds of rowych remains as the honorary chair­ the Ukrainian Catholic Seminary. man of this committee and will be Due to the illness of Dr. Michael available to act as its advisor. Snihurowych, the current district chair­ Although the exact time and place of man, and the absence of Tymish the anniversary celebration will be Melnyk, vice-chairman, the meeting announced at a later date, it was decided was conducted by Wolodymyr Wasy- to hold a large-scale event at some lenko, with Dr. Snihurowych's con­ location in the Hartford area. sent. The second item on the meeting's Two items were discussed. As the agenda was a decision to organize a bus first item on its agenda, a committee trip to the Ukrainian demonstration in was elected to make plans to celebrate Washington, which is to take place on the 100th anniversary of the UNA in Sunday, September 22, in support of 1994. Ukraine's independence. Bus reserva­ The committee will consist of the tions will be handled by Mr. Wasylenko following members: Ivan Teluk, chair­ and Mr. Hladun.

dor to the United Nations called for the Senate Finance... speedy establishment of direct trade and (Continued from page 1) economic cooperation between the U.S. and Ukraine. Washington and Ukraine's Ambassa­ UNA Supreme President Ulana Diachuk toasts Luba Lapychak-Leshko on her During the question and answer dor to the United Nations Gennadi well-deserved retirement. To Mrs. Lapychak-Leshko's right is her husband, period, several senators, including Udovenko. Ambassador Udovenko Mykhailo. To Mrs. Diachuk's left are UNA Supreme Secretary Walter Sochan and committee Chairman Bentsen and Sen. began by noting that this was a historic UNA Supreme Treasurer Alexander Blahitka. moment, for no other, government Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), who advocates granting most-favored-nation status representatives of Ukraine had ever JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Luba Lapy­ woman newly hired by the UNA, high­ before addressed a Congressional separately to the Baltics, pressed Ambassador Udovenko to describe chak-Leshko, longtime administrator lighting the many years they worked committee. He devoted the first part of of Svoboda, was honored at a luncheon together. his presentation to highlighting U- Ukraine's role in a new economic union with other Soviet republics. on the eve of her retirement from the kraine's economic and political signifi­ Ukrainian National Association after Mrs. Lapychak-Leshko was greeted cance as a strategically located, re­ The ambassador reassured the com­ 41 years of service. and thanked by Wolodymyr Lewenetz, source-rich European nation. mittee members that Ukraine would be on behalf of Svoboda, Roma Had- As for the central question of U.S. aid cooperating with its neighbors, espe­ Mrs. Lapychak-Leshko was respon­ zewycz, editor-in-chief of The Weekly, to the USSR, Ambassador Udovenko cially since the economics of the repub­ sible for overseeing the daily opera­ and Stepan Chuma, director of the spoke against giving aid to the center, lics are so thoroughly intertwined, but tions of the Svoboda Ukrainian daily, Svoboda print shop. She was then pre­ saying it would only perpetuate the noted that Ukraine must also act in its The Ukrainian Weekly and the Svo­ sented with a gift from all her co- centralized bureaucracy in Moscow own "national interest." Despite plans boda Press print shop. workers' by Sofia Ilczyszyn, Svoboda's which hinders economic reform. for economic cooperation, Ukraine is new administrator. At the June 27 luncheon, UNA The ambassador argued for direct forging ahead with plans to issue its own Supreme President Ulana Diachuk U.S. assistance for Ukraine in several currency. He added that Ukraine's thanked Mrs. Lapychak-Leshko for all Mrs. Lapychak-Leshko then thanked key areas: food supplies, food proces­ government would honor its interna­ her years of cooperation and hard work her many well wishers, co-workers and sing and storage, environmental clean­ tional financial obligations, even as well as her readiness to postpone her friends, and spoke of her many years up (including Chornobyl), banking though it was not a party to loans retirement for an additional year in working for the UNA. infrastructure and revitalization of negotiated by Moscow. ord'er to facilitate Mrs. Diachuk's "rust belt" industries. Also testifying at the hearings were transition from supreme treasurer to The luncheon concluded with UNA Dwayne Andreas, chairman of Archer He emphasized that Ukraine is com­ supreme presiderit. executive committee members, guests mitted to economic and political re­ Daniels Midland, andDonald Kendall, and staff singing "Mnohaya Lita" to form, and noted that Ukraine recog­ former chairman of Pepsi Co. Inc., both Ivan Kedryn-Rudnytsky, longtime Mrs. Lapychak-Leshko, and wishing nized the independence of the Baltic of whom have had significant business editor of Svoboda, reminisced about her and her husband, Mykhailo, many states before the European Commu­ experience with the Soviet Union. They Mrs. Lapychak-Leshko as a young happy years together. nity countries did. Underscoring U- strongly endorsed President Bush's kraine's intention to become an inde­ U.S.-Soviet trade agreement, and called pendent state, the Ukrainian ambassa­ for its speedy ratification by the Senate. LIST OF DONORS TO Ф IVANO-FRANKIVSKE - On CHILDREN OF CHORNOBYL FUND Newsbriefs... August 20 the founding meeting of the Donations collected among participants of the UNA Seniors Association (Continued from page 2) Union of Ukrainian Officers, headed by Capt. Ivan Merynchak, was held. On conference held in June 1991 at Soyuzivka. ^ 1VANO-FRANKIVSKE - On August 27 members of this union Alexandra Shkolnik, Walter 8c Katherine August 19, people gathered in Meeting appealed to officers and citizens of the M.D. 10.000.00 Dobushak . 50.00 Plaza to find out about the events in region to apply for membership. The Anna 8c Philip Paszak.... . 50.00 Moscow from a reliable source: Radio union's main goal is to form a Ukrai­ Myroslaw Pastushenko . ..100.00 Stephan 8c Pauline nian Army. (Respublika) Paul Babiak ..100.00 Oleksiw . 50.00 Liberty. Broadcasts were transmitted via John 8c Ann Turchan...... 100.00 Mr. 8c Mrs. Frederick loudspeakers in the regional Rukh Bohdan Prynada ..100.00 Muzyka . 50.00 building throughout the day. (Ukrai­ . LVIV— Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, head of the Ann P. Kuchma ..100.00 Emile 8c Helene nian Republican Party - URP Inform) Nicholas 8c Mary Ukrainian Grcek-Cathblic Church, Jurchynsky . 50.00 Bobeczko ..100.00 Wasyl 8c Eugenia Picyk.. . 50.00 officiated on August 18 at celebrations Dr. Roman 8c Stephania Volodymyr Semenyna.... . 50.00 e ODESSA - On August 27 the of the first anniversary of the return of Baranowskyj .100.00 John 8c Martha Lisy .50.00 regional newspaper Chornomorska the Cathedral of St. George in Lviv to Vladimir 8c Helena Michael 8c Stefania Komuna (Black Sea Commune) noted the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. Shyprykevich .100.00 Babiak . 25.00 that "the journalists of Chornomorska An estimated 5,000 people filled the Maria Stefanyshyn .100.00 Leo 8c Alexandra Kommuna state that forging an inde­ cathedral and courtyard to participate Mary Bednarczyk ..100.00 Jackewych . 25.00 pendent, democratic Ukrainian state is in the pontifical divine liturgy. Mr. 8c Mrs. Philip Anna Chopek . 25.00 the responsibility of every one of us, of Joining the primate at the services Moody .100.00 Leo 8c Sarah Dziubaniuk . 25.00 every citizen of Ukraine." were bishops and priests representing William 8c Ann Shedd... . 100.00 Zenon 8c Isabel Natalie 8c Joseph Omecinskyj . 25.00 On August 24 the publishing collec­ the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Martynec .100.00 Maria Mandij . 25.00 tive had decided to change the paper to in Ukraine and the West, reported the Michael 8c Anna Remick 100.00 Phyllis Stopay . 25.00 a socio-political newspaper based on Press Office of the Ukrainian Greek- Andrew 8c Anne Malan. .100.00 Mr. 8c Mrs. Walter the following principles: the consolida­ Catholic Church. Regina Dziubaniuk . 50.00 Nicholas . 25.00 tion of Ukrainian independence, re­ Also present at the celebratory events .. 50.00 Anne Hossofsky 20.00 awakening of national consciousness were Vice-Chairman of the Lviv Oblast Cornelia 8c Steven E.B. Saraczynsky . 20.00 and defense of the social rights, honor Council Ivan Неї and Ukrainian Yavarow . 50.00 and dignity of each person, regardless of People's Deputies Iryna Kalynets and Olga Paproski ... 50.00 Total S12,340.0G nationality. (Respublika) Mykhailo Kosiv, as well as representa- THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1991 No. 38

COMMENTARY Ukrainian WeeHV The Kravchuk visit and chances for success in Ottawa and D.C. Babyn Yar: by Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk government could not "give this expla­ nation in public." In Kiev this summer President More than a touch of racism also a shared tragedy George Bush lectured Ukrainians against colored Anglo-American thinking on striving for independence, a perfor­ the "Ukrainian question." Paternalisti- In an attempt to set the historical record straight, Ukrainian government mance insightfully tagged by William cally it was remarked that Ukrainians officials have designated the week beginning September 29 as "Days of Safire as "the Chicken Kiev" speech. were unfit for self-rule because no Memory and Sorrow" in Kiev. For it was in the capital city of Ukraine 50 Equally timid, Prime Minister Brian British bureaucrat could even define years ago that the Nazis began a most gruesome episode of mass slaughter as Mulroney announced in Edmonton exactly what a Ukrainian might be. part of Hitler's "Final Solution." that Canada has no near-future plans "Some authorities...assert...Ukrai­ An official German report notes that all the Jews of Kiev were ordered to for recognizing Ukraine. nians are of artificial origin without any appear on Monday, September 29,1941, at a designated place. There, on the Soon afterwards Canada's minister real claim to race distinction and are in outskirts of the city, during a 36-hour period, Einsatzgruppe C, Sonderkom- for external affairs, Barbara McDou- fact a collection of magnificent cross­ mando 4A murdered 33,771 Jews. These children, women and men were gall, was embroiled in controversy when bred scallywags." A few weeks after the stripped naked, shot and pushed into a ravine known as Babyn Yar. she committed the apparently un­ war began another observer derided speakable error of referring to Ukraine Ukrainian prospects for independence, After this first mass execution the ravine was sealed off with barbed wire as a "country." Spokesmen hurriedly reminding Whitehall "we must bear in and declared a restricted zone. But the killings did not end. During the next mind that most, even of the Ukrainian two years - until the German retreat from Kiev — an additional 170,000 explained this did not mean that Ca­ nada accepted Ukraine as an indepen­ leaders, (a) are only just emerging from persons were massacred at the ravine. Thus, Babyn Yar became a mass grave the status of 'semi-intellectual' and (b) for 100,000 Jews, some 70,000 to 80,000 Ukrainians and 30,000 others, dent state, presumably in case those monitoring the minister's remarks had have a decidedly oriental kink iri their Russians, Poles, Gypsies, both prisoners of war and the civilian population of brains." Although consideration was Kiev. misunderstood. Ukrainian Parliament Chairman given to exploiting Ukrainians as a For decades, official Soviet propaganda and anti-Semitism would not let Leonid Kravchuk's direct appeal to spoiler force for undermining the Nazi- the truth be told about Babyn Yar. Even once a monument was erected at the Soviet alliance, nothing came of this. site in 1976, the memorial plaque noted only that residents of Kiev and Canada and other Western nations "who can think ahead to be brave now Britain had no wish to alienate its fallen prisoners of war had been executed there by Fascists; the monument itself did ally, Poland, or anger its potential not depict Jewish victims. and recognize Ukraine," fell on deaf ears. If the past is any guide to the future partner, Stalinist Russia. Some blamed the Ukrainian people and government for the silence, not he will not do any better this week, in American officials got into the game realizing it was Moscow that determined how history was presented. Others Ottawa or Washington. later but were no better disposed toward unjustly stated that this was yet another example of Ukrainians trying to Ukrainians everywhere may well Ukrainian independence than their cover up collaboration with the Nazis — an absurd statement given the wonder why America, Britain and cousins. In May 1945, attending the San number of Ukrainian victims at Babyn Yar, among them Kiev Mayor Oleksa Canada, avowed champions of the Francisco meetings that led up to the Bahaziy, poetess Olena Teliha and thousands who resisted the Nazi principles of democracy and national creation of the United Nations, an occupation. self-determination, side with a Moscow American Ukrainian delegation was fit should be pointed out that some of these unfair accusations resurfaced that has no intention of dismantling its told that even if the public had some just recently, when President George Bush paid a visit to Babyn Yar and listed empire. The answer is disarmingly interest in the world's oppressed "it among its victims Jews, Gypsies, Communists and Christians - pointedly simple. Neither Britain, America nor would not serve anybody's interest to omitting any mention of Ukrainians. At the same time, some media reported Canada have ever wanted or felt they create an impression that...the (US) as background on Babyn Yar the erroneous information that "Ukrainian needed a free Ukraine. Isolated behind government was the unreasoning cham­ Nazis" (sic) had taken part in the killings in 1941-1943.1 the Iron Curtain, however, most Ukrai­ pion of the discontented." A "friendly accommodation" was then, and ever We welcome the Ukrainian government's initiative in marking the 50th nians have always believed exactly the opposite. They could not be more naive. since, being sought with Moscow. anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacres and the pledge by Serhiy America's Ukrainians were warned not Komisarenko, deputy prime minister and chairman of the Babyn Yar Official archives reveal how ignorant, indifferent and sometimes outwardly to do anything which might disturb Commemorative Committee, that "This official tribute marks the start of a those efforts. They "professed to agree." new era in our republic, an era of freedom and respect for all peoples." hostile the Anglo-American powers were to Ukrainian independence before, Even during the Cold War the Ukrai­ Furthermore, we hope that the legacy of Babyn Yar, a tragedy shared by during and after the second world war. nian liberation movement was not the Jewish and Ukrainian people, shall be one of overcoming stereotypes and For example, the British were so intent favored. A "top secret" National Se­ hatred, and building a new relationship based on mutual understanding and on preserving the international status curity Council note, dated August 18, good will. quo that, even after the Foreign Office 1948, may be viewed as a harbinger of learned a politically engineered famine the kind of advice proferred to the had taken millions of lives in Ukraine in Ukrainian government in recent days. 1932-1933, they covered up evidence of That memorandum recognized that this genocide. "We do not want to make Ukrainians were "the most advanced of it public,"an analyst wrote, "because the the people...under Russian rule in Turning the pages back... Soviet government would resent it and modern times," but recommended that our relations with them would be pre­ America's interests would be better judiced." He at least admitted the served if Ukrainians remained in some sort of restructured "federal relation­ On September 21, 1974, Ivan Buchko, Ukrainian Lubomyr Luciuk is a professor in the ship" with the "Great Russians," allow­ Catholic archbishop, church and civic leader, died. ed cultural but not economic or military Born on October 1, 1891, in the village of Hermaniv near Department of Politics and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada autonomy. Lviv, he completed his theological studies in Rome in 1911 -1915, and was ordained And should the "unlikely" so nehow in 1915. and co-author of "Anglo-American Perspectives on the Ukrainian Ques­ happen and Ukraine achieve indepen­ The Encyclopedia of Ukraine notes: tion, 1938-1951: A Documentary Col­ dence, Washington was not prepared to "He served as rector of the Minor Seminary and professor of the Greek Catholic lection, " (The Limestone Press, Kings­ immediately come out in favor of the Theological Seminary in Lviv. In 1929 he became auxiliary bishop of the Lviv ton, 1987). (Continued on page 8) eparchy and was active in the archeparchial administration, the improvement of the religious life of the laity, the organizations of Catholic youth (including the Ukrainian Youth for Christ manifestation) Catholic Action, Orly, and the defense of the Church and the people under the Polish occupation:, particularly during the Pacification. UNA Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine "In 1939 he was the visitor of Ukrainian communities in South America and in 1949 the auxiliary bishop of the Philadelphia exarchate in the United States and FUND. the pastor of New York. From 1942 he lived permanently in Rome, representing The Home Office of the Ukrainian National Ukrainian Church and national interests at the Vatican. In 1946 he was appointed Association reports that, as of September 2 b apostolic visitator of Ukrainians in Western Europe and in 1953 the titular fraternal organization's newly established archbishop of Leucadia. Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine has received "In 1958 he became consultor to the Congregation of the Eastern Churches, a 9,084 checks from its members with donations member of the Vatican Commission of the Eastern Churches of the Second Vatican totalling ^225,658.47. The contributions Council, and the vice-chairman of the Ukrainian Episcopal Conference. He was include individual members' donations, as instrumental in the growth of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the diaspora. He well as returns of members' dividend checks also acted as the protector of Ukrainian political refugees in Europe after 1944. and interest payments on promissory notes. "As a patron.of Ukrainian culture and learning, Buchko was instrumental in setting up the Shevchenko Scientific Society center in Sarcelles, France, and was an honorary member of the society. Hs ,received honorary doctorates from the Ukrainian Free University and the Ukrainian Technical and Husbandry Institute." No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1991 7

NEWS AND VIEWS Centennial CELEBRATE Why Ukrainians seek independence: sojourn a look at four interrelated factors by Christopher Guly by Bohdan Vitvitsky Soviet terror. Bodies unearthed a year OTTAWA - As I speak to Larry ago in one such pit in the western Kissick over the telephone, I imagine On August 24, the Ukrainian Parlia­ Ukrainian city of Drohobych revealed the lot on which his two-story house ment declared Ukraine's independence remains with skulls into whose fore­ rests. As a child, I can recall passing that from the Soviet Union, subject to con­ heads nails had been driven and that Pritchard Avenue property, in Winni­ firmation by public referendum on reflected other forms of bestial torture. peg's North End, where his grand­ December 1. In order to understand Ukraine's history within the Soviet mother, Anne Buchko, and family once why Ukrainians declared independence, Union also consists of the Soviet policy lived. we must look to the influence of four of deporting many millions of Ukrai­ In her own right, the old gal, who interrelated factors: politics, history, nians, principally to the gulag, while lived to the ripe age of 103, was a legend І1ІШ culture and economics. resettling millions of Russians in U- in her time. It was that luscious ve­ Politics was the immediate stimulus kraine, mostly to oversee and operate getable garden, bursting with dill cu­ for the declaration in at least three the colonial empire. cumbers and chives, that made a lasting different respects. For the indepen­ And, then there is Chornobyl: a impression on a young boy. Now her 42- dence-minded democrats, the attempt­ year-old grandson Larry has a chance to ed coup in Moscow, its Yeltsin-led nuclear plant over whose location, design, construction and operation leave an imprint on this year's Ukrai­ defeat, Gorbachev's concomitant dimi­ nian Canadian centenary celebrations. nution of power and the tidal wave of Ukrainians had no decision-making authority; and regarding whose explo­ His painting, titled "Friends," was backlash against the Communist Party recently selected as the trademark for provided both a shove and a window of sion the Gorbachev government main­ tained strict secrecy while Ukrainian "Synergos 2," the second phase of a opportunity. The desire to avoid a Ukrainian-Manitoban art exchange. future coup attempt emanating from children were told to march in Kiev, a mere 60 miles away from Chornobyl, in Last year, work from Ukraine toured the center served and serves as the the Province of Manitoba. Next year, prophylactic stimulus. And for the a May Day parade amidst a cloud of invisible radioactive fallout. 80 works of 60 urban and rural Mani­ Kissick has had to find a steady income Communists in Parliament who voted toba Ukrainian artists will travel to elsewhere. For the last eight years, that for independence, it was an opportu­ As regards culture, the Russification Kiev, Lviv and other Ukrainian cities has meant assessing income tax returns nity to temporarily deflect the people's policies in Ukraine were so virulent that from April to October. for Revenue Canada. He is currently wrath against them and to direct atten­ 15 years ago a Ukrainian school child in "Synergos 2" will then make its way compiling data for the Statistics Ca­ tion elsewhere. Kiev could be vilified as a "nationalist- to Canadian embassies in Berlin, Rome, nada census. The historical factor is much more fascist" merely for making the mistake Brussels, Paris and on to Washington at So, this current marketing opportu­ complicated and immensely painful. of speaking Ukrainian. The teaching of . the end of 1993. nity for Mr. Kissick's work, as Lionel Since its forcible incorporation into the Ukrainian history was considered an act' The exhibition, organized by the Ditz, president of the Manitoba Ukrai­ USSR in the early 1920s, Ukraine has of sedition. Not a single Ukrainian Manitoba Ukrainian Arts Council, will nian Arts Council says, is a welcome been the object of an extraordinary — university (in all of which, of course, the first run at the University of Winnipeg spark in his life. even by Soviet standards — level of official language of instruction was from September 23 to October 27. Thankfully the vivid colors and close violence and oppression. It is estimated Russian) had the authority to grant the There's bound to be one beaming face at definition of "Friends" stimulated its that between 10 and 15 million Ukrai­ Soviet equivalent of a Ph.D. - only ^he September 26 official opening at the selection as the signature piece for nians have been killed by the Soviets Moscow could deign to make such an university's Gallery 1C03. - ^ "Synergos 5." Mr. Ditz explains that it, since the 1920s. This includes, for award. й On every poster and; on every pro­ like "Colette" from: the stage hiusicll example, the 6 to 7 million Ukrainian In general, everything Ukrainian was gram, Larry Kissick's "Garden of Eden" "Les Miserables" and the horse figure peasants deliberately starved to death in taught to be inferior to everything theme work will introduce the global advertising the Winnipeg Art Gallery's 1933; the destruction of Ukraine's Russian, and Ukraine's entire "history" arts community to dozens of talented "Spirit of Ukraine" show, will be this political, scientific and literary intelli­ was sardonically portrayed to consist of Manitobans — not the least of which is exhibit's calling card. gentsia beginning in 1929 and conti­ one long endeavor to unite itself with its Mr. Kissick himself. nuing throughout the 1930s; and the Personally, "Friends" marks a certain benevolent and wise Slavic brother- The artist has spent the last two time in Mr. Kissick's life. Insured at destruction of the Ukrainian Orthodox nation to the north. Church in the 1930s and the Ukrainian decades, following his graduation from 510,000, it took him three and a half Catholic Church in the late 1940s and Most Ukrainians do not want to face the fine arts program at the University months to complete the oil on canvas early 1950s, and the physical elimina­ the possibility of a continuation or of Manitoba, honing his craft. Some of painting back in 1975. That was long tion of their respective clergies and repetition of any part of this cata­ it, a piece on birds flying over Winni­ before he became more methodical in hierarchies. strophic past. But none of these consi­ peg, has demanded S3,500. Yet, any his approach. derations explain why perhaps as many artist will tell you that passion doesn't These days, Mr. Kissick plans ahead. Ukrainian poets have died in the as half of the Russians presently living make for great economics. He's currently preparing 169 "mina- Soviet gulag as recently as several years in Ukraine may favor Ukrainian inde­ Between designing Millennium-theme tures" on Ukrainian themes, such as ago. And throughout Ukraine there are pendence. Their motive is principally greeting cards for the National Ukrai­ pysanky, dancers and churches, and on mass burial pits containing hundreds of economic. nian Catholic Women's League, Mr. Canadian wild life. thousands of victims of decades of A Deutsche Bank study recently quantified what some of Ukraine's Bohdan Vitvitsky practices law at a inhabitants have suspected for some New York firm. He is helping to or­ time. On the combined basis of indus­ ganize the first international conference trial output, agricultural output and of Ukrainian lawyers to be held in Kiev mineral wealth, Ukraine was found this October. among all republics — including Rus­ sia — to have the best prospect for economic independence. (For example, A step forward, although in 1985 it only contained 18 percent of the then total Soviet popula­ and a step back tion, Ukraine produced 46 percent of the former union's total agricultural JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Eco­ output.) Yet in an analysis based on nomist, the business-oriented news­ 1989 data, Salomon Brothers, a leading magazine published in London, no Wall Street investment banking firm, longer uses the definite article "the" found that whereas inhabitants of in front of Ukraine. Russia enjoyed an average monthly As far as The Economist is con­ wage that was 8 percent higher than the cerned it is now simply "Ukraine," average monthly Soviet wage, inhabi­ not "the Ukraine." tants of Ukraine earned an average monthly wage that was 9 percent lower than the average. With its size approximating that of U.S. News Sc World Report, which France, with its natural resources and continues to refer to "the Ukraine," with its economic balance between agri­ meanwhile, made another faux pas in culture and industry, Ukraine's inhabi­ its September 16 isue. tants have a good chance of enjoying a A map showing Ukraine's agricul­ considerably improved standard of tural output, natural resources and living once Ukraine begins to function production of foodstuffs was head­ like other European countries of its size lined "Russia's (sic) breadbasket." and with its economic capabilities. "Friends" by Larry Kissick 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1991 No. 38

You can view the union of republics in greater detail why you said at yester­ our talk, our clarifications, explana­ Kravchuk addresses... as an inter-republican structure. Such a day's session of the Supreme Council of tions to Mr. Mulroney, our position will union is possible. But this is quite a Ukraine that Ukraine had no other open up the horizons and will lead to (Continued from page 1) different approach. This would mean choice but to join in the new proposed more realistic detailed cooperation, will Ukraine have its own consulates in that the republics themselves, agree as economic union? bearing in mind the long-term mutual the countries I have mentioned? independent, full-blooded states, on the relations. creation of some kind of new associa­ Mr. Kravchuk: I meant this for the Roman Ferencevych: One of the Mr. Kravchuk: In both countries tion, either a council or a common­ transitional period. That is I didn't most important factors of an indepen­ youVe mentioned, we've started nego­ wealth, or a council of independent mean it to be the general perspective, dent state is the mass media, especially tiating just those issues, in a general states in some branches, for instance, but at a transitional time, this year first radio and television. If I'm not mistaken political respect, and we are now finding the economy, space, military strategic. of all, and perhaps next year. Because the Ukrainian teleradio company re­ ways to tackle the mechanisms for Such unions are possible. today, right now, we have no Ukrainian mains under Moscow's central control. setting up consulates. It concerns For some republics, a union in the currency, we don't even have a chance What is Ukraine doing to liberate it Poland as well. The Polish minister of form of a confederation is possible too, to get credits, because, more or less, the from the center's control? foreign affairs recently visited Kiev and but not for all of them. Those republics banks of the great powers have declared the head of the commission of the that already have confirmed the idea of that they prefer to do business with a Mr. Kravchuk: Today the company is Ukrainian Supreme Council has been to a confederation, like Russia, Kazakh­ center and they are very suspicious of not under the control of the center in Poland negotiating this issue. stan, Tadzhikistan, as far as I know. 1 direct contacts with Ukraine. Moscow, absolutely not subordinated These issues will be tackled, and we don't know the position of Uzbekistan And considering that we're closely to Moscow, not in its essence, not the have intentions to start solving them in now, so about five or six republics tied in a military, defense and energy character of its programs, not in its those states where there is a Ukrainian supported the idea of confederation. complex, we are linked in the frame­ scheduling, not organizationally nor population - with others, too - to We support the idea of collective work of a common economic space of financially. have consulates and perhaps diplomatic the former union, and it's perhaps 20 If you mean that Ukraine receives representatives and embassies later on. security, collective defense of borders, and collective solving of a number of percent of the national product, that's Channel 1 from the center and Channel why it's natural today to say that the 3 from Russia partially, this is not Daniel Sneider: Do you consider economic, ecological, space and other problems. These are approximately temporary problems of the rhythmic, dependence on the center. This reflects there to be a future for a political union more or less balanced functioning of the the desire of millions of people in of the former republics of the Soviet three aspects, three branches where we support collectivity, something joint. industrial complex and energy, and Ukraine to watch Channel 1 and the Union? If there is such a future, what other complexes — I think it's impos­ Russian channel. We have 11.5 million would such a union look like in your But in other questions, like economic management, finances, credit, taxation, sible without Ukraine's entry into that Russians living in Ukraine and we can't view and would Ukraine be willing to economic space. neglect, but must satisfy, their needs in join it? property, problems of economic deve­ lopment, the market and others, they But this is not a centralized union, we this respect. Besides that, I think that are the matters of only the Ukrainian wouldn't agree to that. This must be a Ukrainians themselves watch central Mr. Kravchuk: I would like to divide state. That's why we say that the future union between the republics in the television and Russian television be­ this question up into several parts. First, of the union as we saw it earlier does not interests of the republics on a mutually cause there is something to learn from the union in the shape that it used to exist. profitable basis, on the basis of justice, it, although now IVe felt an intonation exist is non-existent and it is not and it cannot restrain our economic often that Ukraine is displaying a possible for it to exist in the future. Chrystyna Lapychak: Please explain policies. If the union will restrain our separatist' attitude. I think it will pass. aims to develop a market economy, to that the Communist regime in Russia We don't have any kind of separa­ have our own national currency, our tism. In the economy, in the spiritual The Kravchuk... should disappear," they have decreed, it desire to liberalize all the managerial is doubtful whether an independent sphere we simply want to be masters on (Continued from page 6) and economic structures, we will not our own land. We want to pursue our Ukraine would be "a practical possibi­ join such a union. new state. It would wait and see. Having lity." And, in any case, advocating own economic policy and politics. We concluded that only the Baltic nations Ukrainian independence would, "se­ I meant only a transitional period. want to have our own language and deserved their freedom, the State De- riously offend all Great Russians." But while developing this subject, we culture, create our own laws. It's not partment8^ffect|yfly abftRdon^ l|- What they hoped for was, or so they йопХ say, no fQUhe integration of a separatist. I think it's a normal objec- kraine and the other captiv^ nations to wrote, a "liberalization" pf the Soviet common |;cpnomipr space,, but at the tivi process for every people?ШШ as their captivity. regime and the emergence of "a more same time we focus our policies on the dependence oh the leaders in Moscow I Chairman Kravchuk probably knows genuinely federal relationship" between integration into European structures, would say again that there is no depen­ nothing about these once-secret files. Ukraine and the USSR. In 1956 Jules both economic and financial. dence. He will likely repeat his belief that "it Leger even suggested Moscow might be should not be a difficult step for the encouraged in that direction by "subtle Natalia Feduschak: You will be Chrystyna Lapychak: I represent an world to recognize a fellow U.N. mem­ reference to Canada's solution" of its traveling first to Canada, before you go English-language newspaper of the ber as an independent state." But no own "bi-national problem," a foretaste to the United States. Canada, it seems, Ukrainian diaspora. What I'd like to Western leaders are likely to buy that of the specious comparisons made in has been much more forthcoming than know is will Mr. Kravchuk be meeting line. The Allies had no delusions about recent weeks between Quebec's situa­ the United States has been in granting with representatives of the diaspora and why Ukraine and Byelorussia were tion in Canada and that of Ukraine in credit lines and showing other sorts of what is he planning to say to them, what admitted as founding members of the the disintegrating Soviet Union. Faced support for Ukraine. What is your is he planning to speak to them about? United Nations, at the time, or since. with "a certain amount of pressure by realistic expectation of your trip and of your meeting with Brian Mulroney? Mr. Kravchuk: Naturally, especially Late in 1946, for example, the Foreign members of the Ukrainian-Canadian in Canada and in the United States as Office noted how other republics were community...who would like to see Will you ask Canada to recognize Ukraine? well, 111 focus on the centennial of the "mere puppets of the Soviet Govern­ government policy statements...take a settlement of Ukrainians outside the ment." Canada's own Lester B. Pearson more forthright attitude toward the Mr. Kravchuk: I wouldn't complicate borders of Ukraine. I have intentions was informed, in July 1947, that Presi­ 'liberation' of the Ukraine," Mr. the situation for the Canadian govern­ and want to meet Ukrainians, Ukrai­ dent Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Leger recommended that Ottawa ment today. I understand the attitude of nian organizations. I want them to hear Minister Winston Churchill agreed to could cope by continuing "to avoid this the Canadian government, and particu­ about what we're doing here on our allow the two republics seats only issue," and deflect Ukrainian-Canadian larly of Mr. Mulroney, toward Ukraine, land, on our common land, though fate because of the difficulties being en­ lobbying efforts by proclaiming "ex­ toward the act of independence. I spoke spread us around the world. I want to countered in having India admitted to pressions of sympathy with Ukrainian with the external affairs minister of just speak to them, I want to just ask the U.N. A State Department official cultural survival." The government did Carada and I understood that they un­ them to take an active part in the went further, describing their admis­ just that. And it proved to be a success­ derstand Ukraine and have a very development of Ukraine. sion as "the worst decision taken at ful stratagem. For years Canada's friendly attitude toward it; this is I want to tell them that we didn't Yalta," and adding that it was made Ukrainian community allowed itself the confirmed by practical steps. during one of the ailing Mr. Roosevelt's luxury of believing that it had received always have good times nor did we "bad days." sympathetic hearings in Ottawa. In fact, But I know that the system of think­ understand each other. We didn't as another External Affairs official ing we have here and the system of understand those who lived outside the As for a 1948 British notion about thinking in the Western world — they territory of Ukraine. Part of those establishing a mission in Kiev, Ottawa observed in a 1957 memorandum to Leger, the government's men had are not alike for the time being. I people, didn't understand us, although was warned of the dangers inherent in understand that Canada could be one of we knew that not everything that was doing anything which might he inter­ simply learned how to make Ukrainian- Canadian delegations "all feel impor­ the first to recognize Ukraine as an happening, that ideology, politics and preted as according recognition to the independent state only after the referen- confrontation, and the accusations were "claim to alleged sovereignty" of Soviet tant, which as far as I could judge, was the main object of their visit." dum. That's why we hope that the not realistically grounded. But now Ukraine. No such recognition was referendum will have the expected times have changed. We have much intended, or desirable. Decades later But now all those "unlikely" events results and hope that both Canada and more information, and we have more Canada's External Affairs mandarins have happened. The Communist regime the United States, as well as other states, opportunity to make greater generali­ would prevaricate for many months has just about disappeared, and there both in Europe and not only European, zations, to make just conclusions which about setting up a consulate in Kiev, the has been a "liberalization" of society in won't hesitate to recognize Ukraine. without this information were impos­ prime minister's promises notwith­ the USSR. Ukraine has declared its For today, however, we put forward sible to make. On the basis of that standing, reportedly because of their independence and asked for interna­ tasks we can put forward and I would be information, we want to meet and look disinclination to recognize Ukrainian tional recognition. So far it has not been happy to sign at least a document, a into each other's eyes and speak about statehood, even obliquely. heard. Will the West accept the righto f memorandum of intentions, not in a what was our truth, what was our life. Like their British and American the Ukrainians to democratically decide political sphere, but first of all in the But this is not important. The most counterparts, Ottawa's men have con­ their future? Or will they consign trade and economic sphere. This may be important thing is that all Ukrainians, sistently argued that the Canadian Ukraine to a resuscitated Russian signed there, and we could agree finally irrespective of where they live, should government should not commit itself, empire? And if that is what they do, about having a Ukrainian consulate understand that this is their land, their directly or indirectly, to the liberation of which seems likely, what will their general in Canada. Therefore, I'm grandfathers' and fathers', and that we Ukraine. "Even in the unlikely event excuses be this time? placing limits on our tasks, but I think must build a new country together. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1991 9 Ukraine and Russia: relations before and after the failed coup

by Dr. Roman Solchanyk of the problem of Russian national On at least two occasions Soviet republics offered the Ukrainian and RFE/RL Research Institute identity. The same holds true for such President Mikhail Gorbachev is on Russian peoples "a real chance to open leading Russian thinkers and states­ record as referring to Russians in a new page in the history of their PARTI men as Georgiy Fedotov, Pavel Milyu- Ukraine in the context of a political relations," affirmed the unconditional kov, and, closer to our time, Aleksandr problem. During his visit to Lithua­ recognition of Ukraine and Russia as One of the direct consequences of the Solzhenitsyn. For many Russians, nia in January 1990, \yhich was meant subjects of international law; the "so­ failed coup is that the Soviet Union, in regardless of their political persuasion, to persuade Lithuanians to be "sen­ vereign equality" of the two republics; the form that it existed prior to August to "lose" Ukraine is tantamount to sible," Mr. Gorbachev warned a crowd the principles of non-interference in 19-21, no longer exists. This reality was losing a crucial part of their own history in Vilnius: "You remember, as soon as each other's internal affairs; inviolabi­ reflected in the joint communique and, consequently, identity. they raised the question of the Russian lity of the existing borders between the issued by the Ukrainian and Russian And although the "total demolition" language in Ukraine it immediately two republics and renunciation of any delegations after negotiations in Kiev referred to by Struve was supposed to affected the interests of many people. and all territorial claims; safeguarding on August 28 and 29, where the phrase have been accomplished by Lenin and After all, there are 15 million Russians of the political, economic, ethnic and "the.former USSR" is said to have been his followers after 1917, the Russian in Ukraine (sic) — all of Donbas is cultural rights of representatives of used for the firsttim e in current political "Ukrainian complex" has remained Russian (sic), Kharkiv is Russian (sic),, nations from the RSFSR living in terminology. intact. This is amusingly illustrated by Russians are 66 percent in Crimea. As Ukraine and vice versa; mutually bene­ Ivan Drach, the leader of Rukh, who you can see, it is not enough to throw ficial cooperation in various fields on The phrase was repeated by St. out a slogan, it has to be thought out." Petersburg Mayor Anatoliy Sobchak, tells the story of a Russian tourist from the basis of inter-state treaties; and the Tambov who, seeing Kiev for the first Similarly, addressing the Komsomol regulation of disputes in the spirit of head of the USSR Supreme Soviet time and charmed by its beauty, asks in delegation that attended the Ukrainian- Congress in April 1990, Mr. Gorbachev harmony. bewilderment: "But when did the Ukrai­ The declaration served as the founda­ Russian negotiations in an observer nians steal all of this from us?" told the delegates: "When certain public capacity, in his report to the USSR movements in Ukraine posed the lan­ tion for a formal treaty between the two Supreme Soviet on the Kiev talks. Mr. guage question in a way that did not republics signed by Messrs. Kravchuk Sobchak said that the two sides had Ukraine and Russia: before the coup correspond to the interests of either the and Yeltsin in Kiev on November 19, agreed that "the former union no longer Ukrainians or Russians or of people of 1990, which many commentators saw as In spite of this historical legacy, other nationalities there, in the Crimea a historic turning point in Ukrainian- exists and that there can be no return to Ukrainian-Russian relations — particu­ it." they began to gather signatures for its Russian relations. The choice of the larly after Mr. Yeltsin assumed leader­ return to Russia; they gathered half a Ukrainian capital as the venue for the Another reality stemming directly ship of the Russian republic and came from the abortive coup is the enhanced to personify democratic Russia's oppo­ role of the Russian federation in the sition to the center — were in the political life of the country. process of being "normalized" and "de- ...mainstream Russian political thought and public Under these circumstances, whereby, Sovietized." There are 11.3 million on the one hand, the old center no Russians in Ukraine who constitute opinion in general has found it inordinately difficult longer exists and it is still unclear to almost 22 percent of the population, but to come to terms with the notion of Ukraine existing what extent one can speak of a future there is no "Russian problem" com­ new center, and, on the other, the parable to the situation in the Baltic in other than a Russian context. question of whether or not Russia will states or Moldavia (Moldova). assume some if not all of the charac­ Leading figures in the Ukrainian teristics of a new center remains open, a government - the prime minister million of them and then stopped major issue — and not only for Ukraine (Vitold Fokin), the deputy chairman of official ceremonies was not fortuitous. — is the relationship between the two inasmuch as a correct solution was Speaking at a press conference directly the Supreme Soviet (Vladimir Hry- found. The same thing in the Donbas, in largest republics, Ukraine and Russia. niov), and the newly appointed minister after the treaty was initiated, Mr. This; Ьесаще, obvious when, on August the east of Ukmine^ jHiefe tfcere atrr H YelisinimphM of defense (RonsftahtorMto ШіІіопТЛУйап^'^ч'^^іЧ? f ;^'''' 26, Russian President Boris Yeltsin's prosecutor general (Viktor Shishkin) -- agreements between Ukraine and Rus­ press office issued a statement saying Such attempts to cast Russians in sia that were arranged in Moscow on are all ethnic Russians. Russians in Ukraine in the role of a potential fifth that the RSFSR reserved the right to Ukraine do not appear to have a great unequal terms, "we very much wanted raise border questions with those repub­ column have been convincingly re­ to sign this one in Kiev." The gesture desire to leave Ukraine for Russia. Even buffed both by the Ukrainian democra­ lics, apart from the three Baltic states, in western Ukraine, where Ukrainian was intended to underline the funda­ declaring themselves to be independent. tic opposition and by the government in mental change in relations between the national sentiment is firmly entrenched Kiev. It was this statement and the ensuing and where anti-Russian attitudes might two states. reaction in Ukraine that necessitated In a July 16 article in Pravda, for be expected to be strongest, a poll Addressing the Ukrainian Supreme the hurried negotiations in Kiev. conducted at the end of last year showed example, the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Kravchuk seemed to be Soviet, the Russian leader announced that 44 percent had no intention of another fundamental change — i.e., a Ukraine and Russia: historical legacy leaving for Russia (another 31 percent responding directly to this challenge: "I want to point out that the Russians in reassessment of Russia's self image: "I had difficulty giving a definitive an­ categorically reject the accusation that Historically, the Ukrainian-Russian swer). Ukraine should not be compared to the Russians in Baltic republics. Here they Russia is now claiming some special relationship has been conditioned by a role. At the (^Supreme Soviet! session very specific Russian view of "the This is not to say that a "Russian are indigenous residents, they have lived problem" as such does not exist in pVikolaij Ryzhkov said that we alle­ Ukrainian question." Simply stated, l on this land for hundreds of years ... Ukraine. There are centrifugal or sepa- And we will not permit any kind of gedly want to shift the center from the mainstream Russian political thought center to somewhere in Russia. I cate­ and public opinion in general has found ratist tendencies in the Crimea, which is discrimination against them. Therefore the only oblast with an ethnic Russian the Russian-language card should not gorically reject this accusation. Russia it inordinately difficult to come to terms does not aspire to become the center of with the notion of Ukraine existing in majority, and in parts of the southern be played. This is a dangerous game. and eastern oblasts, and organized There are 12 million Russians in U- some sort of new empire. It does not other than a Russian context. In the want to have an advantage over other pre-Soviet period, this found expres­ groups and movements there that kraine. And if someone wants to divide reflect these views. But apart from the and dismember Ukraine, then I cannot republics. Russia understands better sion in the concept of an all-Russian than others the full perniciousness of (obshcherusskiy) identity that included Crimea, which is a special case because understand such people, I cannot un­ of its pre-1954 status and the added derstand the aims that they are pursuing. this role inasmuch as it was precisely Great Russians (Russians), Little Rus­ Russia that performed exactly this role sians (Ukrainians), and Byelorussians. problem of the Crimean Tatars, these Either they have lost their common movements do not appear to have sense, their sense of reality or they really for a long time. What did she gain from This was a widely held view that could this? Did Russians become more free as be found throughout the Russian politi­ gained sufficient strength to pose a want to play into the hands of (our) genuine political problem for Kiev. enemy ... Our republic, pardon me for a result? Wealthier? Happier? You cal spectrum, including liberals and yourselves know the truth; history has social democrats of both the Menshevik To some extent, this may be explain­ saying so, is not Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, or Moldavia." taught us that a people who rule over and Bolshevik varieties. ed by the fact these separatist tendencies others cannot be fortunate." were largely, if not entirely, based on Thus, Petr Struve, a prominent fears of forcible ukrainization of the The opposition and the government representative of Russian liberal demo­ predominantly Russian-speaking local have pursued a similar policy of ac­ cracy, wrote in 1912: "I am deeply population after the Ukrainian Su­ commodation and cooperation with the Supreme, not Soviet convinced that alongside all-Russian preme Soviet passed a law on languages Russian SFSR. At the end of August culture and the all-Russian language — granting Ukrainian state language 1990, shortly before Solzhenitsyn pro­ Some folks at the Supreme Plast Little Russian, or Ukrainian culture is a status at the end of 1989. This turned posed that Ukrainians join Russia as Bulava (the worldwide leadership of local or regional culture. This position out not to be the case. Moreover, in time "Little Russians" to form a new state, Plast) are chuckling; others агепЧ. Due of the 'Little Russian' culture and the it became rather clear that these se­ the Russian Union, representatives of to a typographical error in The Weekly's /Little Russian' language has been paratist movements were being pro­ the Ukrainian parliamentary opposi­ story about Plast counselors' training determined by the entire course of the moted by the local authorities who are tion grouped in the National Council courses (September 1), that body was historial development of Russia and can overwhelmingly Communist and were and their Russian counterparts from the referred to as the Supreme Soviet Plast be changed only by the total demoli­ Democratic Russia bloc signed a tion not only of the historically deve­ playing the "separatist card" against the Bulava. (Apparently our typesetter has considerably more progressive central "Declaration of the Principles of Inter- gotten so used to typing the words loped structure of Russian statehood, State Relations between Ukraine and but of Russian society as well." administration in Kiev. - "Supreme Soviet"...) Of course, there is Indeed, local structures dominated the RSFSR Based on the Declaration of no such thing as a Supreme Soviet Plast Clearly, for Struve "the Ukrainian by the Communist Party have not been State Sovereignty." Bulava. So, just for the record, lest we problem" was very much a Russian the only ones who have found such an The declaration, which noted that the leave our readers puzzled, we run this problem — specifically, an integral part approach politically useful. " growth of democratic movements in the correction. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1991 No. 38 UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CENTENNIAL: The latest in fashion wraps up events

by Christopher Guly

EDMONTON - The latest in Ukrai­ PROFILE: Super model Cathy Fedoruk of Canada nian and Ukrainian Canadian fashion by Christopher Guly Recently married (on August 18), Ms. Fedoruk is also as insistent on wrapped up the weekend launch of the she visited Edmonton during the her personal integrity. She won't Ukrainian centenary celebrations in EDMONTON - The women arch recent Ukrainian centenary celebra­ model furs and refuses to appear Edmonton. their necks just a bit further when she tions with her husband, David nude for any shoots. "I want to "Moda Щ" a sequel to last year's struts her stuff. You don't have to tell Kinigson. Owner of New York's present myself as more intelligent — success, was held at the city's Chateau them the tall beauty walking the ramp Salon Dada, Mr. Kinigson is, in his a thinking person. I don't think it Louis Conference Center on September is one of the world's super models. own right, the creme of fashion makes a difference if you're showing 1-2. Sponsored by both the Ukrainian Whether she's wearing an evening accomplishment. your breasts. That's not sexy. That is Professional and Business Club of when you can't see them." Edmonton and Panache Creative Stra­ gown or a professional suit, Winni­ Hair designer for actors Faye peg-born Cathy Fedoruk's style is A model since she was 18, Ms. tegies, this year's show attracted 11 Dunaway and William Hurt, along Fedoruk maintains that her schedule designers from across Canada, as well unmistakable. It's little wonder with other super models Paulina organizers of this year's "Moda ^l" could allow for a seven-day work­ as two from Ukraine. But it was a Porizkova and Cindy Crawford, he week. So she compromises and foreigner, who started her career in were besides themselves when she also cuts his own wife's hair. An agreed to model the latest Ukrainian makes adjustments. Summers are men's fashions, who wowed the crowd, important point if you want to play spent in Manhattan and, come au­ fellow designers and models alike. Canadian fashions in two separate in the big leagues, noted Ms. Fedo­ shows. tumn, in preparation for spring and Teresa Mayevska, chief designer with ruk. summer layouts, she heads for war­ the Kiev House of Fashion, displayed a So proud of her Ukrainian roots mer climes in Florida or the Carib­ — her father is of Ukrainian descent, She explained that success comes contemporary style which replaces with being reliable and professional bean. traditional Soviet bleak with bright and her mother of English background — Ms. Fedoruk waived her normal fee. at all times. "I like to know who is But it's neither the heavy demands colorful. Her use of bold purples, greens doing my hair, my make-up, who the placed on her, the travel nor the and fuchsia impressed super model Show organizer Daria Markevych said," "She and the designers really photographer is and what we're battle of the bulge (she likes her Cathy Fedoruk and designer Rokso- shooting for." Haagen Dazs ice cream) that pose lana Curkowskyj. made the show a hit." the greatest stress. Nor surprisingly, Ms. Curkowskyj, who operates Needless to say, in the chic fashion "Sometimes my photos (accom­ it's people. Roksolana-Bridal and Evening out of world, Edmonton is not exactly pany) an editorial. I will then want to "The hardest part is dealing with Toronto, found inspiration in Ms. Manhattan or Paris, which is where know what the story is about. It's everyone's personalities," she said. this New York-based model spends important for me to know these Mayevska's work. "Her design is alive," minor details just so that I can "You go on a booking for two days she observed. much of her time. Presented by and work with a group of people, and internationally renowned Elite Mo­ prepare myself ahead of time," she So is Ms. Curkowskyj's design, which continued. two days later, you're working with drew gasps when Ms. Fedoruk paraded del Management, the 24-year-old different personalities." in a Catherine the Great bridal gown former Vancouver resident has ap­ To prepare for a spread in the Is it as glamorous as it seems? inspired by an embroidered pillow from peared in the top fashion mags, September issue of Harper's Bazaar, Although she refuses to reveal exact the Ivan Franko family. Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Mira- Ms. Fedoruk rented a movie. "It was figures, Ms. Fedoruk insists that she bella, and was captured by photo­ based on "The Thin Man" series on "lives very well." But becoming a In an interview following the show, grapher Richard Avedon as one of Nick and Nora. Before that I didn't super model, like success in other she said that she simplified the elaborate the "most unforgettable women in know anything about it, so I rented a professions, comes down to hard motif and altered the color scheme. the world" in his famous Revlon movie. I was told early enough, work and perseverance. She empha­ "Rather than using a cross-stitch, I which makes a difference." sized, "We're everyday people." asked two ladies from Ukraine to follow campaign. a^more historical embroidery — a flat sitin stitch." She also replaced the green and olive tones with a warmer golden color. Others presented similar Ukrainian influences in their work. Lida Lahola and Bohdan Chomiak of the local Art Smart shop, could easily turn Car­ pathian sheepskin coats into sudden vogue, Iris Wakefield, a product of rural Alberta, applied Ukrainian symbols like the pysanka to prairie and native motifs, like the buffalo and a sheaf of wheat to contemporary hand- painted cruisewear. Another Edmontonian, Deidre Hack- man from Concrete Clothiers, whose thematic styles range from minimalist to avant-garde chic-chic, exploited religious imagery. Icons on sweaters and monklike jackets accessorized with a crucifix and hot pants, are sure to raise many a conservative eyebrow. Both fashion shows also included a centennial tribute. Ms, Mayevska used a traditional white gown with red garland to accent grace and form. German-born Halia Siolar from Edmonton's Alter Ego, paid tribute to her own roots with her "Personal History Jacket" — ultra suede complete with antique family photographs and a reproduction of a romantic postcard sent by her father to her mother after the second world war. Kiev's Leonid Krasiuk, who along with Ms. Mayevska attended the 1989 "Made in Ukraine" trade show two Super model Cathy Fedoruk on the runway in Edmonton. years ago in Edmonton, said that he, too, was impressed by Canadian fa­ shion. Director of his own fashion house, Collection Krasa, he produces elegant women's clothing, using Ukrai­ nian wool and silk. U.S. SAVINGS BONDS "The designer works for the people, whether they are living in Ukraine or in THE GREAT AMERICAN INVESTMENT Canada. The language of fashion is universal," he said. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1991 11

U.S., will perform for the New England Give me a Coat," honoring the Canadian etc. For further information, call (306) PREVIEW... audience at The Old Meetinghouse, 310 centenary. The institute and museum will 244-3800. (Continued from page 16) Washington St., at 7 p.m. This 18th be open at 3-9 p.m. At 3 p.m. and 7:30 vliet. A celebration banquet with cock­ century historic building with excellent p.m. there will be readings/dramatic CHICAGO: There will be an opening tails at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. will be acoustics serves as the setting for Bos­ presentations by Joan Karasevich and reception on September 22 for a group held in the ballroom of the Ukrainian ton's Classic Symphony Orchestra Mr. August Schellenberg based on the history show celebrating the 20th anniversary of American Citizens Club. The evening's Vynnytskyj's recital has been arranged by of Ukrainian Canadians through their the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. program will include a male vocal en­ the Ukrainian Professionals Association literature. Torte and tea or coffee will be The reception will be at the Institute, semble presenting songs of Ukraine. of Boston. Tickets are S10; S5 for stu­ available. For further information, call 2320 W. Chicago Ave., at 4 p.m. The Eugene Nabolotny, president of the dents. For more information, please call (416)923-3318. show will be open from the opening date Ukrainian Congress Committee of Ame­ Oksana Piaseckyj, (617) 934-0566. to November 10. For further informa­ rica. Albany Region, will present a talk tion, call (312) 227-5522. covering his recent visit to Ukraine October 5-6 ONGOING and his views on the rapid movement towards Ukraine's independence. For TORONTO: The St. Vladimir Institute, SASKATOON: Architecture of Ukraine, more information please call Marion 620 Spadina Ave., will host a celebration photographs from the Frank Lakusta Locke, (518) 273-0714, Olga Zendran, of Ukrainian arts, called "Mystetstvo a la Collection, will be on view through Share The Weekly (518) 273-5236, or Anna Spiak, (518) Ukraine," with demonstrations of py- October 13 at the Ukrainian Museum of 272-2446. sanky, embroidery, woodcarving, weav­ Canada, 910 Spadina Crescent East. The ing, batiks and other arts. In the Ukrai­ 26 black and white photographs depict BOSTON: Ukrainian pianist Volodymyr nian Museum of Canada, at the same typical architecture from various regions with a colleague Vynnytskyj, in his series of concerts in the address, will be the exhibit "V Dorohu - of Ukraine - churches, castles, towers,

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Chornomorsko Sitch Sports School completes successful season

by Christine Kozak-Prociuk is from Lviv also, and is an accom­ Swimming instruction was conduct­ running and strategy drills as well as plished athlete. Luda Brynzak is from ed by Taissa Bokalo and Christine scoring technique. The annual tourna­ GLEN SPEY, N.Y. - The Chorno- Kiev, and is a rhythmic/aerobic/gym­ Kozak-Prociuk. Swimmers learned the ment held during the fourth week of morska Sitch Sports School completed nastics instructor. Omelan Twardow- proper stroke and diving techniques. camp found the volleyball players another successful season here at the sky, director for the second two weeks, Each swimmer was given specialized applying their skills and techniques in a beautiful Verhkovyna Resort of urged all campers and their parents to instruction for his/her ability. Weekly vigorous round-robin competition with the Ukrainian Fraternal Association. compete in sports throughout the year swim races were enjoyed by all as the first-place team Karpaty receiving Almost 100 campers, from various representing their Ukrainian heritage. swimmers exhibited their newly learned awards for its first-place victory. swimming skills. Winners in each age regions of the United States, Ukraine, Soccer instruction was conducted by Rhythmic gymnastics were taught by group and category were awarded Germany and England, participated Ihor Chupenko, who is technical direc­ Ms. Brynzak, who also conducted morn­ swimming certificates of merit for their during the four weekly sessions begin­ tor and head coach. Various drills, ing exercises daily to the campers' first places in each of four strokes: ning July 28 and ending August 24. exercises, techniques, and "moves" were selection of music. Daily instruction freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and Four children from Ukraine attended instructed, along with the implementa­ also found the campers doing gymnas­ butterfly. the sports school on scholarships. tion of audio/visual training. In the tic/aerobic movements to music. Co­ Myron Stebelsky, camp director for fourth week of camp, the campers Tennis was instructed by Messrs. ordination and self-improvement were the first two weeks, greeted the campers participated in extensive competitions Kolb and Kordiak for the first two stressed as the campers found them­ and introduced four staff members for: best dribbler, best juggler, most weeks, and by Ihor Lukiw and Mr. selves improving in their coordination from Ukraine. Yurij Kolb is from penalty shots, and others. Mr. Chu­ Kordiak for the second two weeks. and thus enhancing their performance Uzhhorod and is a professional tennis penko is noted for his fine instructional Tennis players were taught terminology in other sports. coach as well as a universal sports skills and is loved and respected by all in both Ukrainian and English. Drills, coach Andrij Kordiak, who is a dentist campers and staff. Mr. Chupenko was serving and stroke clinics were preva­ Nightly league games were the high­ from Lviv, is noted for his fine tennis assisted by Oles Wasylak and Christo­ lent throughout the four weeks. Mr. lights of each sports-filled day for the and-volleyball skills. Antin Stefaniutyn pher Maliczyszyn. Lukiw videotaped the tennis players as campers. Using Ukrainian cities and they were learning so that they could team names, the campers competed later see what they needed to improve against one another giving them an ATTENTION NEW JERSEY INSUREDS!!! on. 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World Congress... refuse to register congregations and to deny them component of the 20 percent non-Russian minority in adequate premises is a particularly severe problem in the Russian Federated Republic. In addition, even (Continued from page 3) Ukraine with regard to the Ukrainian Autocephalous though Ukrainians constitute over 80 percent of the improved through glasnost, it is still weakly exercised, Orthodox Church and Pentecostals (U.S. Department population in such regions as the Kuban and the CSCE materials are rarely available in Ukraine, and of State, July 1991, Vol. 2, Supplement No. 3). Pacific Rim of far Eastern Siberia, there is not a single even they are only in Russian. We have had numerous Authorities allowed a number of unofficial religious Ukrainian language school nor Ukrainian language requests from Ukrainian parliamentarians for copies groups to hold seminars and conferences with minimal publication to serve these communities. of the various CSCE documents, and have been told interference, except to groups of Pentecostals and the We hoped that the human rights guaranteed by the on numerous occasions that documents are almost Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Be­ proposed Constitution of Ukraine and espoused in the impossible to obtain in Ukraine. Furthermore, since lievers of both of these groups suffered severe programs of all political parties in Ukraine will serve everything is available only through Moscow, NGO repressions from the central authorities. as a model for other republics. registration forms, update materials for the various CSCE meetings, even information as to where to Ukrainian Greek-Catholic congregations are free to Recommendations write, is non-existent. register in Ukraine, and the banned Church has to some extent re-established itself in western Ukraine. 1. We recommend the immediate recognition by the There are serious shortcomings in the existence of However, in Kiev and throughout the eastern regions government of CSCE member-states of the proclama­ executive, legislative, judicial and administrative this Church has been very restricted. The enactment of tion act of Ukraine's independence to be followed by remedies for addressing human rights violations. a law of freedom of religion on March 22 by the the establishment of direct diplomatic relations. Executive bodies in charge of providing remedies Ukrainian Supreme Rada has not improved the 2. We recommend that steps be taken now to ensure against human rights violations, such as the Ministry situation much. Discretionary powers of the central that Ukraine will fully participate in the CSCE of Internal Affairs, republican procuracies, KGB and authorities remained too restrictive and discrimina­ process. the military have not been sufficiently changed despite - tory. 3. We recommend that safeguards be discussed which recent changes following the failed coup. Providing can effectively deal with any arising human rights effective remedies to individual: victims of human Despite the improvements which have been made, violations as a result of the present transitional period rights abuse are also limited by the dominance of the much work remains to be done before a state based on in the USSR. executive branch. With few exceptions, individuals the rule of law is fully established. Ukraine's problems 4. We recommend that religious rights be fully cannot turn to the courts to seek redress against remain primarily due to the political climate, where guaranteed by the separation of Church and state human rights violations, and administrative remedies the center and Communist forces are still potent, and giving religious institutions independent juridical are still non existent. the possibility of outside influence and interference is status at the republican and other levels of govern­ still very real. Although a general amnesty has been declared by ment. the Parliament of Ukraine, it is very difficult to verify The strong residual forces of decades and even 5. We recommend that the rights of all national what the present status of the political prisoners centuries of Russification, the dismal economic minorities on the territories of the former USSR be remaining on our lists is. Therefore, the appended list prospects together with the task of political, economic fully guaranteed by the republican and other levels of of Ukrainians incarcerated as of June for political or and military reorganization pose an enormous government consistant with international standards religious reasons remains actual until we learn challenge to the present reformers and the government set by the declarations, resolutions and conventions of otherwise. which will be elected at the end of this year. the U.N. as well as safeguards agreed to by CSCE member-states. The legal system has not developed to the extent that Rights of national minorities 6. We recommend the implementation of mechanisms that legal counsel is available to the average citizen to monitor and verify the compliance by CSCE with human rights complaints. The legal right of an Each of the constituent republics of the former member-states with all aspects of the Helsinki individual to seek and receive help exists, but the USSR contains substantial populations of minority Accords. actual mechanisms for an individual to find effective groups. Except for the Russian minority all other 7. We recommend that the proposal to establish a help does not exist. national minority groups have limited rights of parliamentary assembly as recommended in Madrid Freedom of religion or belief education, media and government funding guaran­ be adopted by the CSCE member-states and that the teeing the survival and development of their linguistic proposed USSR parliamentary delegation be review­ The USSR Supreme Soviet adopted a law guaran­ and cultural heritage. ed allowing for separate delegations from the teeing freedom of conscience and religion in 1990. Parliaments of the three Baltic states and from the Despite this law, serious restrictions on religious This is ^particularly evident in the case of the U.N. member-states of Ukraine and Byelorussia which freedom remain. The right of local authorities to approximate 8 million Ukrainians who form a major at present are de facto fully independent states.

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FRATERNAL UOL holds 44th annual convention INSURANCE ACCOUNTANT PHILADELPHIA - The 44th con­ Social events included the "Best of vention of the Ukrainian Orthodox Philly" featuring the Philadelphia Degreed Accountant with working knowledge of statutory accounting principles and I ea?ue of the U.S.A. was held on July Mummers and String Band; a Ukrai­ experience in putting together insurance company quarterly and annual reports. Posi- ; 24-28 at the Warwick Hotel in down­ nian cabaret with the very talented tion requires knowledge of a computerized general ledger system and the ability to J town Philadelphia and was hosted by Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, create and analyze management reports. the senior and junior chapters of St. comedian Jim Karol, and the Alexander Salary is commensurate with experience. Good benefits. Pleasant working conditions. Vladimir Cathedral. Koshetz Choir of St. Vladimir Cathe­ The theme of the convention, "Grow­ dral under the direction of Ms. Kur­ Send resume to: ' ing in the Grace of God," was centered man; awards banquet and ball; as Alexander Blahitka on the need to strive for a more perfect well as a farewell luncheon. knowledge of Jesus Christ through Elected to the senior board were: Mr. Ukrainian National Association ceaseless searching of the Holy Scrip­ Skocypec (Palos Park, 111.), president; 30 Montgomery Street tures. Dr. Stephen Sivulich (Carnegie, Pa.), Jersey City, NJ. 07302 The hierarchal divine liturgy at the first vice-president; Dr. Claudia Liber- hotel on Thursday was concelebrated tin (Palos Park, 111.), second-vice by Archbishop Constantine, Arch­ president; Dr. Gayle Woloschak (Palos bishop Antony and Bishop Paisiy of Park, III.), treasurer; Daria Pishko South America, together with seven (New Britain, Conn.), financial secre­ priests and seminarians. tary; Ms. Szafranski (Philadelphia), СОЮЗІЄКА Ф SOYUZIVKA Sessions began on Thursday after­ corresponding secretary; and Cynthia noon with UOL President Emil Sko- Haluszczak (Carnegie, Pa.), recording /-\ ,\ ear l^ound I Resort cypec presiding. The members of the secretary. national executive board were intro­ Auditors are: Ms. Kurman, (Phila­ duced by Mr. Skocypec with Susan delphia), Pani-Matka Marijka Norton, "Thanks for the Memories" Todd, Junior UOL president, intro­ (New Britain, Conn.) and John Stasko, ducing the junior board members. (Carnegie, Pa.). SOYUZIVKA WORKERS Greetings were extended by the Rev. 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September 25 Ethnography in the 19th Century" at 4-6 PREVIEW OF EVENTS p.m. The lecturer will be Thomas Pry- mak, Canada Research Fellow, McMas- CHICAGO: The Chicago Group (Ukrai­ Educational and Cultural Center. Artists of America is sponsoring its 29th Anni­ nian American Business and Profes­ ter University. The new location is the featured will be M. Hlushchenko, O. versary Weekend Charity Dinner-Dance Board Room, Multicultural Society of sional Association) cordially invites which will be held at Soyuzivka. Fea­ members and the public to its after- Kononiv, Z. Sholtys and A. Kashay. The Ontario, 43 Queen's Park Crescent East. opening will be on Friday at 8 p.m. On tured will be a cocktail hour, banquet and For further information, call (416) 978- dinner meeting on the topic "Pers­ dancing to the music of Johnny Gay. The Saturday the exhibit will be open from 9 3332. pective on Ukraine" at 7:30 p.m. at the donation is S95 per person. For further Ukrainian Cultural Center, 2255 W. a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. All proceeds go to The information and advance reservations October 4-6 Chicago Ave. Recently traveled speakers for the weekend, call Stella Demey, (718) Andres Durbak, Michael Shep and Paal Ukrainian Museum in New York. September 28 545-5752, or Anne Malan, (718) 726- RALEIGH, N.C.: The sixth annual Nadzikewicz will discuss "The Moscow 6759. Coup as Viewed in Kiev,""The Changing International Festival of Raleigh will be CHICAGO: The Plast Pobratymy frater­ held at the Raleigh Civic Center, down­ Face of Law Enforcement in Ukraine," nity will celebrate the 25th anniversary of September 29 and "Bureaucracy and Survival — Alter­ town. The Lyman Dance Ensemble will its founding at the Ukrainian Cultural be the featured performers, sponsored by native Travel in Ukraine." A wine and Center, 2247 W. Chicago Ave. The SASKATOON: Using weavings, em­ cheese reception will follow the pro­ the Southern Ukrainians. A demonstra­ evening will begin with cocktails, appe­ broideries, costume pieces, tools and tion booth based on the pysanka is also gram. Admission: S5 for TCG members; tizers and an anniversary program at 7:30 other artifacts, Rose Marie Fedorak, S7 for non-members. For more informa­ planned. Festival hours will be 6-11 p.m. p.m., followed by a dance to the sounds curator of the Ukrainian Museum of on Friday; 10:30 a.m. -11 p.m. Saturday tion, call Natalka Priatka, (312) 235- of Good Times (Veseli Chasy) at 9:30 Canada, will give a talk titled "From the 3774. and noon - 6 p.m. on Sunday. For more p.m. Donations for the evening are S25, Pioneer's Trunks" at 2:30 p.m. at the information on the festival please call September 27-29 S10 for the dance only. For more infor­ museum, 910 Spadina Crescent East. For Paul A. Wasylkevych, (919) 839-8962. mation, please call (708) 459-4329 after 7 further information, call (306) 244-3800. PHILADELPHIA: Branch 67 of the p.m. October 5 October 3 Ukrainian National Women's League of September 28-29 America will present an exhibition of WATERVLIET, N.Y.: This year marks works of prominent Ukrainian painters in KERHONKSON, N.Y. - Branch 72 of TORONTO: The Chair of Ukrainian the 60th anniversary of the founding of honor of Museum Week at the Ukrainian the Ukrainian National Womens'League Studies Seminar will be presenting the Ukrainian Women's Club of Water- | "Mykola Kostomarov and East-Slavic (Continued on page 11)

Leadership Conference announced CfiC fo focus on ,n,ernmen, WASHINGTON - The Washington nal and internal factors affecting U- Group, an association of Ukrainian kraine's position in the "New World OTTAWA - On Wednesday, Sep­ rious other discriminatory and repres­ American professionals, is planning its Order." tember 25, the Canadian Broadcasting sive measures legislated by the govern­ 5th annual Leadership Conference Panels will deal with such topics as Corp. program "The Journal" will ment of Canada, noted the Information titled "Ukraine in a New World Order," the fragmentation of the USSR, Rus­ premiere a 20-minute segment titled, Bureau of the Ukrainian Canadian which will be held on October 12-13 at sian imperial ambitions; foreign policy "Land of Hope — Land of Sorrow" Committee. the Sheraton National Hotel in Arling­ initiatives by the government of U- focusing on Canadians of Ukrainian ton, Va. kraine; U.S. and Western attitudes descent interned between 1914 and The properties and valuables of many Among the speakers who will address toward the republics sovereignty; the 1920. so-called "enemy aliens" were confis­ the gathering are Gennadi Udovenko, December 1 referendum and elections Thousands of Ukrainian Canadians cated and never returned. This took permanent representative of Ukraine to in Ukraine; economic, legal, political were interned unjustly in 26 "concen­ place even though the government had the United Nations; Martin Sieff, reform in Ukraine; the development of tration camps" set up across the coun­ been advised by the British Foreign correspondent for The Washington democratic institutions; political parties try. Tens of thousands more were Office that Ukrainian Canadians were Post who has written extensively about in Ukraine; the role of the banned designated as "enemy aliens"and forced "friendly aliens" who were hostile to the Ukraine; Doug Seay of the Heritage Communist Party and Communist to carry identification documents, war aims of the Austro-Hungarian Foundation; Gregory Stanton, law bureaucracy, and other topics. disenfranchised, and subjected to va­ Empire. professor at American University, who This year's conference program in­ was involved with the Stephan Khmara cludes panels, exhibits, guest speakers, Ukrainian Ski Club KLK, New York case; as well as Kathy Chumachenko, a Friday evening birthday party for The formerly of the U.S. Joint Economic Washington Group, a Saturday evening INVITES ITS MEMBERS, FRIENDS AND THEIR GUESTS TO THEIR Commission; and Orest Deychakiwsky, benefit gala with DJ and band (all staff member of the U.S. Commission proceeds will be donated to the TWG ANNUAL FALL WEEKEND on Security and Cooperation in Europe Scholarship Fund), as well as a Sunday (the Helsinki Commission). morning brunch with featured speaker. at SOYUZIVKA The 1991 Leadership Conference will For more information on the confer­ attempt to define and better understand ence, call Lydia Chopivsky-Benson, to be held on October 12-13, 1991 Ukraine's position in a dynamically (202) 955-3990, or Myron Wasylyk, Program includes: changing international environment. (202) 234-7584. Organizations and 1. KLK Tennis Tournament (winner awarded the Dr. Rozankowsky trophy) Using the August 24 declaration of businesses interested in exhibits during 2. Golf Outing independence as a point of departure, the conference may contact Marta 3. Open discussions on the role of KLK the conference shall look at both exter­ Pereyma, (703) 998-8570. 4. BANQUET and DANCE on October 12

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