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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIV HE KRAINIANNo. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine New government announces measures PrimeT Minister UViktor Yanukovych W to improve relations with Russia introduces new Ukrainian cabinet by Zenon Zawada by Zenon Zawada ing situations which emerged with Russia Kyiv Press Bureau Kyiv Press Bureau in the last year-and-a-half. We will exam- ine to what extent these things are well- KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor KYIV – Pro-Russian politicians took grounded and how much they impede our Yanukovych introduced his Cabinet of control of Ukraine’s key government relations in general,” he said. Ministers on August 4, just minutes after posts and announced measures to As his symbolic first foreign trip, Mr. the Verkhovna Rada affirmed his nomi- improve ties with the Russian Federation Yanukovych announced on August 10 nation. after the Verkhovna Rada voted August 4 that he will travel to Moscow between Of its 24 members, at least nine to affirm Viktor Yanukovych as August 15 and August 17 to visit Russian belong to the Party of the Regions, at Ukraine’s prime minister. Federation President Vladimir Putin. least five belong to the Our Ukraine fac- While Ukrainian President Viktor Mr. Putin called Mr. Yushchenko, and tion and two represent the Socialist Party Yushchenko has portrayed the new gov- then later Mr. Yanukovych, to congratu- of Ukraine. ernment as a diverse body in which polit- late them on their ability to find compro- Though Yurii Yekhanurov will step ical forces made compromises, Party of mise and end Ukraine’s political crisis. down to become a National Deputy in the Regions leaders made clear that reaf- Among Mr. Yanukovych’s top priori- the Verkhovna Rada, eight of his minis- firming Ukraine’s relations with the ties in Moscow will be to possibly rene- ters will remain in place. Russian Federation was a priority not up gotiate Ukraine’s national gas agree- Prime Minister and Party of the for concession. Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych, 56, ments with Russia so that they are trans- Without doubt, Ukrainians can count parent and meet international norms, he returned to Ukraine’s top leadership post on a warming of relations with the after losing it during his failed presiden- said. Russian Federation, said Mykola Azarov, He was confident that he would obtain tial campaign in 2004, during which the who has returned as Ukraine’s First Vice Ukrainian Supreme Court ruled his gov- the “optimal price” for natural gas on Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. behalf of Ukrainians. ernment falsified the presidential elec- AP/Efrem Lukatsky “We will have to untangle those knots tions. “We won’t be working [any]more for Viktor Yanukovych enters the which were artificially tied in the previ- Prior to serving as former president any nation, only Ukraine,” Mr. Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv on Friday, ous governments, particularly in 2005,” Leonid Kuchma’s prime minister for two Yanukovych said. “Our politics won’t be August 4, shortly after he was voted Mr. Azarov said in an August 8 state- years starting in November 2002, Mr. pro-Russian, or pro-Western.” prime minister. ment. Yanukovych served as the Donetsk “We will begin to examine all conflict- (Continued on page 12) Oblast administration chair (governor) for more than five years. Mr. Kluiyev built his career in the Mr. Yanukovych was born in mines and factories of Donetsk, where he Yenakiyeve, a town in the Donetsk was born and spent his whole life. Renowned Ukrainian dissident, oblast, and spent most of his time work- Upon Ukrainian independence, Mr. ing in the Donetsk Oblast. He has close Kluiyev became president of an industri- ties to Rynat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s al enterprise named Promkomservis, and activist Nadiia Svitlychna dies then general director of Ukrpidshypnyk. wealthiest magnate. PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Nadiia poet, literary critic, human rights Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian First Vice Prime Minister/Minister of Svitlychna, a renowned Ukrainian activist, dissident and literary move- Issues Dmytro Tabachnyk, 42, is a long- Finance Mykola Azarov, 58, of the Party political activist, former Soviet politi- ment leader Ivan Svitlychny, and was time associate and close ally of Mr. of the Regions, managed to recapture the cal prisoner, dissident and the promi- well-known for her involvement in the Kuchma. Mr. Tabachnyk, of the Party of two Cabinet positions he held simultane- nent figure in the Ukrainian Helsinki dissemination of “samvydav” litera- the Regions, chaired the former presi- ously while serving in Mr. Kuchma’s Group, died in her home in New Jersey ture with “Shestydesiatnyky” authors dent’s 1994 presidential campaign when government since November 2002. on Monday, August 7, after a pro- Lina Kostenko, Vasyl Stus, Vasyl he was only 30 years old. During this tenure, Mr. Azarov created longed illness. She was 69. Symonenko and others. After his victory, Mr. Kuchma and implemented Ukraine’s notoriously Ms. Svitlychna was the sister of Ms. Svitlychna was the prominent appointed Mr. Tabachnyk presidential ineffective taxation system, which is figure in the Ukrainian Helsinki responsible for much of the corruption administration chair, a post he held until Group’s External Representation, that plagues the Ukrainian economy, said December 1996, during which time which published the Herald of Ivan Lozowy, president of the Kyiv- numerous embarrassing scandals erupt- Repression, that was distributed in based Institute of Statehood and ed. Mr. Tabachnyk was born in Kyiv. Ukraine (1980-1985). She edited a Democracy, which is exclusively Gains in promoting the Ukrainian lan- pamphlet on Yurii Lytvyn (1980), a financed by Ukrainian business dona- guage and culture made by outgoing Ukrainian political prisoner, helped tions. minister Viacheslav Kyrylenko may be publish an edition of Vasyl Stus’ Born in the town of Kaluga in the rolled back by Mr. Tabachnyk, who has poetry (1986) and was a laureate of Russian Federation, Mr. Azarov spent revealed his disdain for both, Mr. the Taras Shevchenko prize in litera- most of his life there and doesn’t speak Lozowy said. ture. Ms. Svitlychna participated in the Ukrainian language. Before entering Vice Prime Minister for Construction, decolonization rallies and demonstra- politics, Mr. Azarov was a Moscow-edu- Architecture and Residential-Communal tions in the West, speaking to a cated geologist. Management Volodymyr Rybak is a crowd of over 8,000 at a 1978 rally Vice Prime Minister for Fuel and Donetsk native. Rybak, 59, is a new- in front of the USSR’s United Energy Issues Andrii Kliuyev, 42, who is comer to the Cabinet of Ministers. Nations Mission in New York. That also returning to the Cabinet after serv- Mr. Rybak served as Donetsk’s mayor same year she spoke at the third ing alongside Mr. Yanukovych in between September 1993 and April World Conference of Free Ukrainians October 2002, is a Party of the Regions 2002, the years during which the city’s on the dissident movement in member. businessmen battled each other for con- Ukraine, stressing to youths and During the falsified elections of 2004, trol of the oblast’s wealth. Mr. Kluiyev led Mr. Yanukovych’s organizations the importance of unity Entering the Verkhovna Rada under among Ukrainians. underground election campaign, hatching the Party of the Regions ballot in 2002, fraudulent schemes and dirty tricks, Mr. Nadiia Svitlychna (Continued on page 8) Lozowy said. 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ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Yushchenko ends crisis, Ukrainian premier to visit Moscow Yushchenko, UNIAN reported. Mrs. Vitrenko said the signed document is tan- but Orange legacy in doubt KYIV – Foreign Minister Borys tamount to “an act of betrayal of the Tarasyuk told journalists in Kyiv on Orthodox-Slavic civilization.” According by Jan Maksymiuk writing this article, two things are already August 8 that newly appointed Prime to Mrs. Vitrenko, even though the decla- RFE/RL Newsline clear. First, the Communist Party of Minister Viktor Yanukovych will visit ration of national unity is an unconstitu- August 3 Ukraine, which proposed Mr. Moscow this month to meet with his tional document, it has “tied the hands” Yanukovych as a candidate for prime Russian counterpart, Mikhail Fradkov, at of the Party of the Regions, the Socialist In the early hours of August 3, minister jointly with the Party of the a session of the intergovernmental com- Party, and the Communist Party, which Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko at Regions and the Socialist Party, refused mission for economic cooperation, now must do what Mr. Yushchenko last put an end to the country’s four-month to sign the declaration. This means the Interfax-Ukraine reported. Speaking later wants them to do. Mrs. Vitrenko added political stalemate with a painful political Communists will drop out of the Anti- the same day on television, Mr. Tarasyuk that by signing this document, the Party concession. In a live televised address, Mr. Crisis Coalition formed last month after said Mr. Yanukovych’s talks in Moscow, of the Regions, the Socialist Party, and Yushchenko named Viktor Yanukovych, the Orange coalition of Our Ukraine, the among other topics, will include the price the Communist Party have betrayed their the head of the pro-Russia Party of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, and the Socialist of gas imported by Ukraine from Russia. electorates. (RFE/RL Newsline) Regions and Mr. Yushchenko’s main rival Party notoriously failed to agree on a new Mr. Tarasyuk also revealed that Mr. in the 2004 Orange Revolution, as the Cabinet. Second, the Yulia Tymoshenko Yanukovych is planning to visit Brussels Presidential decree on military exercises country’s new prime minister. Bloc, which in the past repeatedly in mid-September to discuss Ukraine- President Yushchenko kept the nation KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko declared it would never strike a coalition NATO cooperation. (RFE/RL Newsline) in suspense until the last moment. August deal with Mr. Yanukovych’s Party of the has signed a decree that will allow three 2 was the constitutional deadline for the Regions, will also go into opposition. Party sees new government as revenge military exercises involving the partici- president to endorse or reject the nomina- Messrs. Bezsmertnyi and Yanukovych pation of foreign troops to be held in tion of Mr. Yanukovych as the new prime are reported today to have initialed an KYIV – The Ukrainian People’s Party Ukraine in 2006, Interfax-Ukraine minister. A rejection would likely have agreement bringing Our Ukraine into a (UNP) has called on all “patriotic” and reported. The decree follows the meant the dissolution of the Verkhovna coalition with the Party of the Regions. The “state-supporting” forces to unite in the Verkhovna Rada’s authorization on Rada and a call for new elections. second Anti-Crisis member, the Socialists, face of what the party perceives as a dan- August 4 of the South 2006 maneuvers, Following a meeting with political is likely to stay in the fold as well. ger arising from the recent installation of which are to include the participation of leaders on the day of the deadline, Mr. Does the endorsement of Mr. Prime Minister Yanukovych’s govern- Moldovan troops in August in Mykolayiv Yushchenko appeared to hint the impasse Yanukovych for prime minister by ment, UNIAN reported on August 8. Oblast; the Cossack Steppe exercise had left him no other options. “The lead- PresidentYushchenko mean that the 2004 “The government formed by the involving British and Polish troops in ing five Ukrainian political forces did not Orange Revolution has suffered a total Verkhovna Rada is an overt act of Zhytomyr Oblast in September; and an reach an understanding on the key disintegration? Is Ukraine about to revenge by those political forces that exercise involving Slovak soldiers in Ukrainian constitutional priorities, the key reverse its political course? Both con- were removed from power by the Orange Lviv Oblast in September. Originally, priorities for national development,” he cerns appear to be exaggerated. Maidan,” the UNP said in a statement. Kyiv was planning to hold six multina- said. “This is the most worrying. The road Speaking to a crowd of supporters in “The declaration of national unity, which tional military exercises in Ukraine, map, the [Declaration of National Unity], Kyiv on August 2, Mr. Yanukovych was was drafted with allegedly good inten- including the Sea Breeze 2006 maneu- which was envisaged as an answer to this forced to admit that the Orange tions, has no legal status and is only a vers with a sizable NATO contingent. challenge, unfortunately, was not signed.” Revolution has radically changed the declarative document that was utilized by However, the Verkhovna Rada failed to This left Ukraine anticipating that the country and that there can be no return to the anti-Ukrainian forces led by Mr. authorize these exercises in February. president would use his scheduled televi- the past. “We have already come to Yanukovych, the Communists, and the Moreover, the visit of a U.S. naval ship sion address to announce his rejection of understand that 2004, all things consid- Socialists to come to power.” The UNP in the Crimean port of Feodosiya in May Mr. Yanukovych and the dissolution of ered, has opened all of our eyes as to stressed that it sees “an urgent need to sparked a series of anti-NATO protests in Parliament. who we are, who stands by us, and what form a national-democratic front in order Ukraine, with several Ukrainian regions Mr. Yanukovych and Oleksander our country is,” he said. “I think that this to defend the state and achievements of declaring themselves to be “NATO-free Moroz, the Socialist Party leader and has brought us benefits and, of course, national democracy.” (RFE/RL territories.” (RFE/RL Newsline) Verkhovna Rada chairman, came to the purification.” Newsline) Bush, Putin congratulate Yushchenko president for last-ditch anti-crisis talks, It is true that Mr. Yanukovych objects which continued deep into the night. to Ukraine’s membership in NATO, Vitrenko comments on new government KYIV – U.S. President George W. Early on August 3, two hours past the which is a goal fervently pursued by Mr. Bush has congratulated Ukrainian KYIV – Nataliya Vitrenko, leader of expiration of his deadline, Mr. Yushchenko. However, Mr. President Viktor Yushchenko on the for- Yushchenko announced that he had ulti- Yanukovych’s objection reflects the feel- the Progressive Socialist Party, told jour- mation of Prime Minister Viktor mately decided to endorse Mr. ing of a majority of Ukrainians about the nalists in Kyiv on August 8 that the dec- Yanukovych’s government, Interfax- Yanukovych for prime minister. North Atlantic alliance, rather than his laration of national unity signed last Ukraine reported on August 7, quoting “Following from what I have said, I own deep-seated political convictions. week has obliged its signatories to imple- the Ukrainian presidential press service. have made the decision to put forward In 2003, during Mr. Yanukovych’s pre- ment the pro-NATO and pro-Western Viktor Yanukovych for the post of vious prime ministership under then political course of President Viktor (Continued on page 16) Ukraine’s prime minister,” the president President Leonid Kuchma, Kyiv sought said. “By this I want to once again stress expanded cooperation with NATO, and that I understand the whole complexity declared NATO membership as a strategic FOUNDED 1933 in the east and the west of Ukraine, goal. So, there may be room for compro- regarding this nomination for the post of mise on this tricky issue between Messrs. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY prime minister. 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U.S. State Department releases annual human rights report for 2005 by Matthew Dubas arbitrary, and contributed to the lack of These uncontrolled custody situations police and racist anti-Romani discourse. information. To correct this, President facilitated torture and the covering up of Those accused of these racial actions PARSIPPANY – The U.S. State Viktor Yushchenko ordered the Ministry traces of torture. Also the law and legal avoided being brought to justice due to Department’s Bureau of Democracy, of Justice to prepare bills on access to practices essentially hindered access to a the confidence that the “system” would Human Rights and Labor released its information and on the openness of infor- lawyer and this right was at the discretion never fail them. In practice, the worst annual report detailing current human mation of the state bodies. The report of the investigator in charge who could consequence that a police officer could rights practices around the globe, includ- concluded that, in practice, nothing had cite “special rules” for denying access on expect was demotion or transfer to anoth- ing Ukraine, for the year 2005. The changed as a result of these initiatives. no acceptable grounds. er police department. report indicates that there have been sig- There were fewer reports of attacks on Conditions in prisons and detention Letters of concern sent to prosecutors, nificant improvements in the Ukrainian journalists this year, with considerable facilities constituted a major human rights police chiefs and to the general prosecu- government’s performance regarding increases in freedom of speech and the problem in Ukraine. Article 11 of the law tor or the ombudsperson, alleging racist freedom of expression, improving prison removal of the practice of “temnyky” “On Preliminary Detention” prescribes violence committed by police officers conditions, increased accountability of (directives from the government on how to 2.5 square meter per detainee in a cell, the police officers and freedom of assembly. remained discarded. Authorities would report on important issues). While incidents Ukrainian average was a mere 1.8-square- often reply to letters of concern twice: However a number of cases showed that involving journalists still took place, these meters, with a number of institutions pro- enforcement of laws remained poor in the first to inform the complainant that they acts were sporadic and mostly came from viding even less. Detainees increased by had instructed the relevant (normally areas of the penal system, government mon- pressures by mass media owners, which 10-15 percent every year with administra- itoring of private communications and local) authority to undertake an investi- had led to practices of self-censorship. tions of such institutions forced to gation into the allegations; and then, a movements of individuals, human traffick- The Procurator General’s Office announce greater capacity figures, other- ing, limitations on press freedom, religious couple of weeks later, informing the declared progress in the investigation wise, the traditional shortage of allocated tolerance, discrimination against minorities, complainant of the results of the investi- into the killing of journalist Heorhii funds for inmates’ rations would become corruption, interference with trade unions, gation, stating that no unlawful actions Gongadze. In March 2005 the govern- catastrophic. The budget covered only 35 and violence and discrimination against were found and the police had acted in ment announced that the killers (police to 40 percent of the real needs calculated women and children. accordance with the law. officers) had been arrested, however, it is under the existing standards and was long In regard to election violations, the Other acts of racism, xenophobia and suspected that the orders to kill overdue for review. Ministry of the Internal Affairs and the anti-Semitism were on the increase in Gongadze came from the higher ranks of The report noted that police abuses Procurator General’s Office reported 2005. Assaults were frequently carried the police or the executive branch. continued toward ethnic minorities, with over 700 criminal cases involving 6,000 out by groups of youth dressed in attire The independence and efficiency of the most widespread and violent types of people, with about 250 cases being sub- reminiscent of military uniforms. These the judiciary and the respect for the rule abuse against Roma (gypsies). Racial mitted to the courts by the end of the sporadic outbursts gave rise to concern as of law remained serious problems, while prejudice among law enforcement offi- year. In most cases, the chairmen of Ukraine lacked national instruments for pressure from authorities on the courts cials increased the vulnerability of Roma, polling stations were punished, with over effective protection against violations decreased. Inadequate financing made who were targeted solely on the basis of 250 law enforcement officers being motivated by racism and prejudice. the efficiency of the courts illusory and their ethnic background, which resulted involved as well. Only in a handful of Article 161 of the Criminal Code in many regions the lack of funding was in a lack of trust in the justice system. cases were investigations initiated into envisages punishment “for deliberate so severe that courts were led to ask for Other police misconduct included torture alleged violations and the then – actions designed to provoke national, charitable donations or funding from and ill-treatment in police custody, fabri- Yanukovych opposition declared that the racial or religious hostility...” in the form local authorities, thereby putting their cation of incriminating evidence, daily investigations into, and judgments on, independence seriously at risk, the report harassment and intimidation by the (Continued on page 10) election irregularities were politically pointed out. Other setbacks included the motivated. return of the Soviet-style “general over- Another part of the report tracked the sight” functions, which undermines the IN THE PRESS freedom of expression, freedom of the creation of a strong and independent media and information in Ukraine. judiciary and is a breach of Ukraine’s Infringements regarding freedom of commitments made on joining the expression fell significantly in the course Council of Europe in 1995. Aftermath of a political crises, of 2005, with media reflecting a wide Other concerns for the judiciary system range of opinions. The report suggests, were the non-execution of court judg- a president who won’t listen however, that for these changes to be per- ments or the failure to execute them with- manent, it will be necessary to create a in a reasonable time, especially regarding “Don’t give up on Ukraine,” com- “The Non-Listening President,” legal basis for the creation of public serv- payments from state bodies or enterprises mentary by Carlos Pascual, vice commentary by Dr. Taras Kuzio, senior ice media and move to privatize at least owned even partially by the state. president of the Brookings fellow at the German Marshal Fund of some of the state-owned media. According to the law, the assets of such Institution and former U.S. ambassa- the U.S.A., Kyiv Post, August 3: Ukraine adopted the law “On Public enterprises cannot be sold to cover their dor to Ukraine, International Herald Television and Radio Broadcasting in debts, and without money on the accounts, Tribune, July 3: “One of the most surprising aspects of Ukraine” a few years ago, but the neces- the judgments remained unexecuted. In the Viktor Yushchenko administration sary amendments to this law were not 2005 the European Court on Human “... there is some good news in has been its unwillingness, or disinterest, approved by the Parliament as of the end Rights ruled in more than 80 cases that [Ukraine’s] current political mess. in public relations and public opinion, of 2005. A closed group of individuals Ukraine had violated the right to a fair Multi-party politics is alive. It can be whether in Ukraine or abroad. The controlled the media due to the fact that trial by failing to execute court decisions. bare-knuckled, ugly and corrupt, but it Yushchenko administration and Our Ukraine did not have any laws in place to In July and September new administrative also involves real debate over how to Ukraine ignored public opinion in impose anti-monopoly restrictions. and civil procedural codes were adopted advance Ukraine’s development as a Ukraine among Orange Revolution sup- The adoption of amendments on July 7 that brought Ukrainian procedural legisla- state with ties to the Euro-Atlantic porters, and that of the U.S.A. and the to the law “On the Election of Members ture up to European standards. community and with decent relations West in general, which called for a of Parliament” made impossible a con- However, according to experts, the with Russia. For these goals to be revived Orange coalition following the siderable number of the violations and main disadvantage is the elimination of achieved, however, Ukraine’s politi- March elections. A coalition was only put fraudulent acts that took place during the independent expertise for courts: now cians must give more weight to together on the eve of the June deadline, 2004 presidential election. These amend- every expert needs certification from the national interests and less to the poli- but it immediately collapsed and led to ments also restricted political discussions Ministry of Justice and so potentially can tics of personal power. Such leader- the current political crisis. in the media and restricted foreign press be put under pressure from the executive ship may have emerged with the coali- “In ignoring domestic and foreign pub- and mass media that operate in Ukraine power in cases where a state body is tion forged in the early hours of lic opinion and advice, the Yushchenko from covering the election process. In involved in the dispute. Thursday. ... administration has boxed itself into a cor- December these restrictions were lifted The unpunished everyday practice of “Yushchenko and Yanukovych now ner. The two choices facing President by the Parliament, but the legislation still arbitrary arrest and detention remained a have an opportunity to stop the political Yushchenko are both unpalatable; propos- gave rise to concern. problem in Ukraine, according to the slide. The agreement reached on ing Viktor Yanukovych as prime minister Regarding access to information, the report. This is due to the vague definition Thursday gives Yushchenko the chance or dissolving Parliament and holding new new government leadership promised to of grounds for arrest without a court war- to champion a solid policy agenda - his elections. The first would be to make abolish the all-embracing secrecy within rant. These kinds of arrests were consti- ticket to restore his political relevance. Yushchenko a lame duck president and the government, but this was not tutionally allowed only “in the event of Yanukovych will get another shot as the second would make Our Ukraine a achieved in 2005 and the presidential an urgent necessity to prevent or stop a prime minister – and a chance to turn his lame duck political force. decrees marked “not for publication,” a crime” (Article 29). tainted legacy into one of effective gov- “The Orange Revolution did not have relic of the Soviet era, represented a Furthermore, legislation allowed the ernance. to develop this way if the president and grave threat to democracy and the rule of investigator in charge to extend the term “Coalitions inevitably mean imperfect Our Ukraine had upheld one of the cen- law, the State Department report noted. of detention for a period exceeding three compromise, but it is hard to see how tral ideals of the maidan. When Ukraine did not have an efficient system days without addressing the court, but the any other alternative would be good for Ukrainians went on to the streets in the of accessing information kept by govern- Constitution stipulated that the detainee Ukraine. Any excuse to dissolve Orange Revolution they sought to ment agencies and local self-govern- be brought before a judge within 72 Parliament after August 2 and vote again change their relationship with their ments, and authorities often disregarded hours. The report found that judges would have violated the Constitution and rulers. their duty to provide complete informa- almost never ascertained whether the surrendered the last remnant of the “ ... A central component was to be tion on issues of public importance at the duration of police custody was well- Orange Revolution’s claim to a moral that the ruling elites would listen and act request of individuals. founded or whether the period of custody high ground. in line with public opinion. But The criteria used by authorities to clas- was excessive (judges are allowed to “New elections also would have Yushchenko has failed to become a lis- sify information were broad, vague and extend the detention period to 10 days). extended the crisis through 2006 ...” tening president. ...” 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 No. 33 Massachusetts family reaches out to Ukrainian orphans by Peter Woloschuk herself and was so taken by the plight of Ukrainian orphans that she set up an BOSTON – Chad and Deb Mills of organization to help people adopt chil- Ayer, Mass., learned about Ukraine and dren from Ukraine,” Mr. Mills Ukrainian orphans through the Internet. explained. “She gives advice, helps walk After their son Jason was born in 1996, people through the process, and con- the couple learned that they might not nects Americans who wish to adopt with be able to have more children. The two a facilitator in Ukraine who will help had many discussions and finally decid- them with the language and paperwork ed they would adopt a child. once they have arrived in Ukraine.” “And that’s when the fun began,” Mr. “Harris takes a $500 fee for her serv- Miller said. “We quickly learned all ices and the money is donated to the about bureaucracy and red tape, and the orphanage that took care of her child,” horrors of the adoption process. We were Mr. Mills said. “She put us in touch with advised to go through reputable adoption Dmitri Pugach in Kyiv who had formed agencies and learned that it could take his own charity to match up sponsors several years before we would receive a with orphans” (bigfamilycharity.org). child and that the fees charged ranged “We began to work with him in between $20,000 and $30,000.” March 2001 and over the summer decid- “One day, while doing some research ed to go to Ukraine to explore the situa- online I discovered that Ukraine was tion first hand,” Mr. Mills said. “We one of the few countries in the world were taken to an orphanage in Mariupil, that didn’t require an adoption agency eastern Ukraine, to meet a four-year-old to handle the procedure,” Mr. Mills boy by the name of Lucas.” said. “Basically, an individual or family “We walked into a room in that can deal with the Ukrainian authorities orphanage and knew that Lucas was our The Mills children (from left): Jason, 10, Lucas, 9, Alex, 3 1/2, Yaroslava, 16, and directly and can complete the adoption son,” Mr. Mills recalled. “All the for- Jackson, 3 1/2. process in a fairly short amount of time malities were completed by November with a much smaller expenditure of and Lucas came to join us in Ayer.” and so we partnered with another couple with the National Heritage Foundation, an money.” “Ironically, within a few months of and sponsored a young girl through umbrella organization of more than 6,000 “After talking the possibility over our adoption of Lucas, my wife became Pugach’s charity. We set monthly packages American non-profits so that they could with my wife, we decided to press for- pregnant with the twins, Jackson and and money and received e-mails and pho- send all of the money that they raised ward,” Mr. Mills said. “A further search Alex, who were born in January 2003,” tos in reply.” directly to Ukraine. By law, American of the Internet led us to the website Mr. Mills said. “Even though our fami- “Eventually the other couple decided to foundations normally can only send a por- ukrainianangels.org, which was set up ly was growing rapidly, my wife and I adopt the girl, and my wife and I decided to tion of their funds overseas. by Cathy Harris of Florida.” wanted to do something more for the sponsor another child on our own,” Mr. The Mills were particularly concerned “Harris had adopted a Ukrainian child children in the orphanages in Ukraine, Mills said. “Again, through Pugach we with the older orphans who are phased out were assigned 12-year-old Yaroslava at a of the system somewhere between their small orphanage which houses 200 children 14th and 16th birthdays. Many of them are in the village of Borzna, a three-hour drive left to fend for themselves on the streets to the northeast of Kyiv, and we began and some turn to drugs, crime and prostitu- Members of U.S. Congress sending packages of clothes and toiletries.” tion. A high percentage commit suicide. “Yaroslava sent us a picture of herself In the 11 months since the foundation’s holding up a pair of wool socks, like they registration in August 2005, the Mills have taste traditional Ukrainian food were a gold necklace,” Mr. Mills said. “As raised almost $50,000 from family and by Marta Matselioukh Poland, Germany, Spain, Russia and my wife and I looked at the picture it real- friends. A flat 3.5 percent fee is given to the Organization of American States. ly hit us that such a small effort makes the National Heritage Foundation for WASHINGTON – The Coalition for Members of the Coalition for a Secure a Secure and Democratic Ukraine, such a difference in these children’s lives.” administration and 3 percent is taken by and Democratic Ukraine, which helped As Yaroslava approached her 14th birth- the credit card companies when donations along with the Embassy of Ukraine, organize the event, were SigmaBleyzer, organized the Ukrainian Table at Taste day last year, the Mills knew that she are given that way. A total of 4.5 percent of the Ukraine-U.S. Business Council, the would be “aged out” of the orphanage and all income has gone for expenses. America 2006 at the U.S. Capitol on Ukrainian American Coordinating July 27. Numerous members of sent to an “internat” and considered the Since its establishment, the foundation Council, the Ukrainian Federation of possibility of adopting her as well. has hosted six children from the Borzna Congress and their families enjoyed America, the Ukrainian National scrumptious traditional Ukrainian food “We know boys,” Mr. Mills said, “and orphanage during the month of December Women’s League of America, and the Deb and I looked at each other and repeated- 2005 with host families on Nantucket. It while learning about Ukrainian history, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation. culture, and heritage. ly asked: Can we handle a 14-year-old girl?” will host six more children during the The Coalition for a Secure and month of August in Massachusetts and Taste America, now in its 15th year, The Mills made their decision to adopt Democratic Ukraine is the successor to Yaroslava in May 2005 and Mr. Mills went New York. It has also paid for school sup- is a reception hosted for members of the Jackson-Vanik Graduation Coalition, to Borzna the first time in July. He plies, English lessons, flu and measles vac- Congress prior to their Congressional and has assigned priority to promoting the returned in October, and Yaroslava, now cines, library books, office equipment, a recess. The theme for this year’s event U.S. Congress-Verkhovna Rada partner- 16, came to the United States this past TV and DVD player, uniforms for the was “E Pluribus Unum,” which is the ship, supporting Ukraine’s integration into March. He points out that in the last year orphanage soccer team, the orphanage phrase used on the Great Seal of the the Euro-Atlantic community, and pro- he spent a total of 55 days in Ukraine. Christmas party, dental visits, lice treat- United States. Other countries featured moting Ukraine’s market reform, demo- Although Yaroslava had grandparents ment, classroom repairs and shoes, and were Italy, Ireland, Japan, China, cratic development and energy efficiency. who lived only 15 minutes from the sent 31 of the children to summer camp. orphanage, they were too old and too poor The goal of the Orphan’s Hope to take Yaroslava in and so she agreed to Foundation is to raise awareness of the come to the United States. plight of the children and better their lives “We didn’t realize the impact that we’ve through improved living conditions, better had on Yaroslava,” Mr. Mills said, “until health care, nutrition and education; and she told us that no one cared about her as by letting them know that they are truly much as we did.” cared for; to raise funds and to collect “Yaroslava’s biggest barrier is lan- humanitarian assistance to support the guage,” Mr. Mills continued. “Fluent in orphans; and to give the children hope. Ukrainian and Russian and with some Mr. Mills concluded by saying “It is esti- English, she is still slightly intimidated by mated that there are currently over 100,000 words that she can’t understand.” orphans in Ukraine and approximately “Her transition period has been 8,000 new children enter the system each extremely smooth and she recently learned year. Sadly, they are underfunded by the to ride a skateboard,” Mr. Mills reported. Ukrainian government and living condi- “She has also taken her first roller coaster tions are difficult at best. Help is greatly ride. She is homesick from time to time, needed and that is what we’re trying to do.” especially after having a particularly good Mr. Mills, 37, attended the University of time with us. She’s torn between her new New Hampshire. He is the director of busi- life and her old life and her friends that are ness development for the cardiac safety still there in the orphanage.” division of Covance, a company that con- As a result of their experiences with ducts medical trials. His wife, Deb, is 35 Ukrainian orphans and with the deplorable and attended St. Anselm’s College in conditions of the orphanage in Borzna, the Manchester, N.H. Mills began a non-profit group, the For further information readers may U.S. Congressman William Thomas (R-CA) with Julia Godimiak and Natalka Orphans’ Hope Foundation. They applied visit www.ohfound.org and www.heartto- Karaman at Taste America 2006. for and got 501 (c) (3) status, and affiliated heartwithukraine.org. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 5

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM Annual UNA Seniors Conference held at Soyuzivka, elects leadership by Oksana Trytijak KERHONKSON, N.Y. – On June 11, on a late Sunday afternoon, registration for the annual UNA Seniors Conference began in the library of the UNA estate, Soyuzivka, here in Kerhonkson, N.Y. Upon registration, each participant received information relating to seniors’ issues, UNA products, Soyuzivka and the Soyuzivka Heritage Foundation. They also received information about an upcoming UNA fund-raising cruise on the “Miracle” Carnival Cruise Lines to the Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Belize and Costa Maya from Tampa, Fla., as well as copies of the UNA publications Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. Most participants arrived late on Sunday evening just in time to register and enjoy some wine and cheese, meet old friends and listen to light music by Stefan Ben. As everyone got reacquaint- ed, requests to have a sing-along began. Rostyslav Wasylenko accompanied everyone on his mandolin. Marijka Pidluska, an Ellenville, N.Y., resident, joined in with her lovely voice and enter- tained all with her poetry and humorous anecdotes. Thus, the conference began Participants of the annual UNA Seniors Conference pose for a photograph at the UNA resort Soyuzivka. on a light and happy note. On Monday morning the official por- the first speaker, Damian Kolodij, a young another speaker Dr. Yaroslaw Stawnychy, Roma Lisovich, UNA treasurer, who was tion of the meeting began with 65 partic- cinematographer from New Jersey, showed a well-known New Jersey dentist. Dr. re-elected to her position during the 36th ipants attending. Most of the attendees his movie “The Orange Chronicles,” which Stawnychy talked about various aspects UNA Convention held at Soyuzivka. She hailed from New York, New Jersey, is about the Orange Revolution. He had of dental health, from serious health con- focused her presentation on the new Pennsylvania and Connecticut. But there spent months traveling in Ukraine before, cerns to the cosmetic procedures avail- Soyuzivka Heritage Foundation, explain- were some who came from as far as during and after the Orange Revolution and able today. These topics were particularly ing how the foundation will work and Florida, California and Ontario. It was a dedicated his film to the memory of his interesting for seniors. why it is important to support both the wonderful and diverse group, and many grandparents, who would have been very Nestor Paslawsky, manager of Heritage Foundation and the Ukrainian of the people spoke both Ukrainian and proud of this documentary. Soyuzivka, was eager to welcome the National Association. On Tuesday morning, Roma English. By the end of the week there seniors and spoke about the many proj- On Thursday morning, the speaker were 72 attendees at the conference. Hadzewycz, editor-in-chief of The ects on the premises. There were many was the vice-president of the UNA The meeting began with the participants Ukrainian Weekly, spoke about The questions regarding the estate and posi- Seniors, Mr. Hayda. Drawing on his singing the Ukrainian, Canadian and Ukrainian Weekly and publications in tive commentary on the work that was American national anthems. Oksana general. Participants had many ques- extensive background in the field of done in the last couple of years. Mr. nutrition, he provided the participants Trytjak, UNA Seniors president, welcomed tions, which Ms. Hadzewycz was eager Paslawsky answered all questions and everyone. Ihor Hayda, vice-president, was to answer. with many answers to their questions invited all to visit the resort more often about nutrition, health and diet. elected chairman and led the conference The afternoon speaker was Dr. and enjoy its various amenities. for the duration of the meetings. Bohdan Vitvitsky, a prominent New The afternoon guest speaker was (Continued on page 8) Elections were held and the following Jersey lawyer, writer, teacher, lecturer members were elected unanimously: Ms. and community activist. He shed light on Trytjak, president; Mr. Hayda, vice-pres- the question “What should we think ident; and Ija Wasylenko, treasurer. Olia about what is going on in Ukraine? Are Paprocki, who elected not to run, was things going well? Or badly?” This was a Iraq veteran and UNA member thanked for her dedication and hard work subject dear to all, and Dr. Vitvitsky as a treasurer for over a decade. spent quite some time explaining and The week was also filled with many answering many questions. welcomed home to New Jersey interesting speakers. On Monday afternoon, Wednesday morning brought yet

The Ukrainian National Association welcomes home Capt. Mark D. Popowicz, a member of UNA Branch 234. Capt. Popowicz served two tours of duty in Iraq and recently returned safely to New Jersey. He is seen above while on At the UNA Seniors Conference (seated from left) are: Luba Huraleczko, Ivanna duty in Iraq. Martynetz, Olga Trytyak, (standing) Zenowia and Myroslaw Kulynych.

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Reporter’s notebook HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T U W by Zenon Zawada Our diaspora charities Kyiv Press Bureau The news from the Ukrainian political front in recent months has been, sadly, disappointing. It has kept our editor in Kyiv, Zenon Zawada, very busy. But fear not, dear readers, good news is on the way from Ukraine. Mr. Zawada is now at work reporting on a story about diaspora charities that are working hard to support some wonderful causes in Ukraine. That story is set AKYIV humiliating – Finding himself in the presidential most you ran into Kuchma, position were in the same to appear in next week’s issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, but we wanted to share humiliating position of his political life, room with him, looked into his eyes and some of the good news with you now. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko asked him something. But your position For example, there is the story of Basil Tarasko and the Ukrainian Little League. needed some spin to redeem his disaster and principles can remain unchanged ...,” An American, Mr. Tarasko has spent 15 years traveling back and forth to Ukraine – of a presidency. Mr. Yushchenko said. 42 trips in all – to grow a nascent sporting program for children age 9 to 12. First came his August 4 Verkhovna “Excuse me, I was prime minister “It’s something I want to do to give back to the country of my ancestors,” said Rada speech, in which he cast himself as under Kuchma,” Mr. Yushchenko said. Mr. Tarasko, who is the district administrator for the Little League in Ukraine. “The a unifier of Ukraine. “That’s an even greater sin! By the way, kids just want to play and I want to do it,” he said, referring to the work he has done “Calls to consolidate the nation are you are breathing the same air that to set up baseball clinics for Ukrainian children, many of whom are orphans. before us,” Mr. Yushchenko said. “This is a Kuchma may have breathed. It’s gotten to This past April, Mr. Tarasko was instrumental in sending 300 boxes of baseball task for every National Deputy. We’re not the point where I’ve had enough. Kuchma equipment to Ukraine. That shipment was made with the help of the U.S. State only supposed to discuss our daily bread. is a fact. Kuchma is a Ukrainian fact!” Department and the Children of Chornobyl Relief and Development Fund. The We’re supposed to have a unified nation.” Not only was Kuchma a Ukrainian package included over 15,000 items, much of which Mr. Tarasko sorted himself Two days later, Presidential Secretariat fact, but thanks to Mr. Yushchenko, he into special starter kits for Little League teams. Assistant Chair Ivan Vasiunyk appeared remains a Ukrainian fact. And then there is the story of Ukrainian Gift of Life Inc., a non-profit organi- on the 1+1 television network with the All of his top cronies, Yanukovych, zation founded in 1996 by George and Kathy Kuzma to help Ukrainian children task of portraying Mr. Yushchenko as Azarov, Andrii Kliuyev, Dmytro with a variety of heart problems. Ukraine’s Abraham Lincoln. Tabachnyk, are back in Ukraine’s top Since 1998, Gift of Life has made annual shipments of $500,000 worth of He read a quote someone had written leadership positions. medical and technology equipment to Ukraine. In total, the organization, which about the legendary American president. Kuchma’s politics also linger. is run entirely by volunteers, has raised $15 million for medical services, hospital At his August 8 installation, Foreign costs, equipment and consumables for Ukrainians. “The president is a marvelous person and quite wise, but he lacks will and yearn- Minister Borys Tarasyuk repeated the The Gift of Life organization is aptly named, as it provides a wonderful gift to same foreign policy stance that he had children who might otherwise have died at an early age. The organization helps ing, and I’m afraid he doesn’t have the strength to run the nation,” the quote stated. repeated dozens of times while serving families cover the exceedingly high cost of cardiac surgery and other treatments. under Mr. Kuchma. (Rukh’s current In addition, it gives children who suffer from heart disease hope that they will be “At that time, nobody understood him,” Mr. Vasiunyk said of Mr. Lincoln. leader was a top Communist official too, able to live a long and healthy life. you know.) And lastly, we would like to point out the work of the United Ukrainian “But Lincoln is now the most eminent American president.” “Ukraine’s foreign policy won’t be American Relief Committee, an organization with a track record of more than six pro-Western, won’t be pro-Eastern, but decades of work in support of Ukraine. Among its extensive and impressive list Nice try Ivas, except the situation’s a bit different. pro-Ukrainian.” of ongoing programs are educational, eyeglass, agricultural, exchange, medical Confronted with the choice of having and relief assistance programs. Mr. Lincoln didn’t make Confederate leader Jefferson Davis his vice president. either Ms. Tymoshenko or Mr. Yanukovych The organization even has an Adopt-A-Grandparent Program in which bene- as his prime minister, Mr. Yushchenko factors can sponsor a senior in Ukraine with a sum as small as $15 per month. Nor did he compromise with the Confederacy in allowing slavery to persist. viewed the latter as the lesser of two evils. So while the political situation in Ukraine continues to be ambiguous, the He views Ms. Tymoshenko as a threat social situation is not. There are a great many Ukrainians who need our help, and And while Mr. Lincoln wanted to free the slaves (whatever his motive might to Ukraine’s stability, and ever since firing the good news, dear readers, is that we have capable organizations able and will- her, Mr. Yushchenko has referred to the ing to provide that assistance. have been), the Party of the Regions will draw Ukraine closer to a Moscow gov- need for stability more than anything else. ernment seeking to expand its cultural What the oblivious president doesn’t and economic dominance. seem to realize is that the Orange April Let’s face it – we were smitten, Revolution was a rejection of stability, Turning the pages back... awestruck and mesmerized by a tall, and a demand for reform. handsome Ukrainian-speaking banker If Ukrainians wanted stability, they with a Ukrainian American wife from wouldn’t have camped out on the streets 9 of Kyiv when it was twenty below zero Chicago. For the Ukrainian diaspora in the and snowing. 1967 Ten years ago The Ukrainian Weekly reported on the United States, Viktor Yushchenko The Carpathian Mountains would have thoughts of Ukrainians in Kyiv on the 10th anniversary of appeared to be Ukraine’s messiah – the been more interesting. independence. Halyna Tarasiuk, a prominent Ukrainian long-awaited leader who would guide his And despite Mr. Yushchenko’s attempt writer, Natalia Skrynnyk, director of the language programs at people out of captivity. to paint this nightmare scenario as an the Prosvita enlightenment society, and Roxana Fortunska, a fourth-year university We were desperate, and so were the attempt at national unity, Ukrainians did- student and summer assistant to Ms. Skrynnyk, shared their thoughts on what this Western-oriented patriots of Ukraine. n’t elect him to unite them with a bunch anniversary meant to them and to other Ukrainians. In times of desperation, many will of criminals. In Ms. Tarasiuk’s opinion, the most pressing problem was the lack of economic overlook annoying facts, opting for It is stunning that this question even restructuring initiatives by the government. Ms. Tarasiuk also was troubled by the lack myths instead. has to be posed, but did Viktor of cultural development in Ukraine, saying: “There are no programs for the advance- But the fact is Mr. Yushchenko had spent Yushchenko ever even believe in the ment of culture, no financing arrangements for the arts and even publishing has totally many years in the Kuchma government: as Orange Revolution? fallen apart. Neither are there any laws in place which would encourage patronage of prime minister for a year-and-a-half and It now appears that in his quest for the the arts. Rich people do not originate from the nationally conscious sectors of society.” Ukrainian presidency, Mr. Yushchenko National Bank chair for nearly three. Additionally, Ms. Tarasiuk spoke of the transition of the status of the Ukrainian took advantage of the Orange In building his banking career, Mr. language. In the early years of independence, she explained, no one was antagonistic Revolution’s momentum, sluggishly Yushchenko was, in fact, an active toward the Ukrainian language. All sorts of people readily accepted that they were in attending the meetings but never becom- Communist Party leader. Ukraine and, therefore, it was normal to speak Ukrainian. ing a card-carrying member. Mr. Yushchenko willingly signed a letter At the time of the interview, Ukraine had only one Ukrainian-language television station, One veteran Kyiv photographer that smeared the valiant anti-Kuchma pro- owned by the state, but it did not promote a Ukrainian spirit, according to Ms. Tarasiuk. She observed how Ms. Tymoshenko was testers of March 2001 as “fascists,” and his explained that “the television industry is in the hands of people who are ready enough to encouraging a rather reluctant Mr. Our Ukraine political bloc mostly refrained accept the idea of a Ukrainian territory, but not one that is really Ukrainian.” Yushchenko throughout the revolution, from supporting anti-Kuchma actions. When asked why Ukrainian is rarely heard in Kyiv, Ms. Fortunska responded: pushing him to this march and prodding These aspects of Mr. Yushchenko’s “Most people do not know Ukrainian; they think in Russian. As for the young people, him to that protest. life reveal that he’s a pragmatist more they think that it is prestigious to speak Russian. Ukrainian pride does manifest itself, Either Mr. Yushchenko just doesn’t get than anything else. but it’s usually only when an athlete wins a medal. On a daily basis everyone just it, or he doesn’t care. And the first six speaks Russian, you rarely hear Ukrainian music in the cafés.” When Mr. Yushchenko sacked Yulia months of his presidency serve as ample To correct this attitude, Ms. Fortunska suggested that all government people, famous Tymoshenko in September, I asked him evidence of that. stars and artists, particularly young ones who are idols, would have to show pride in whether he planned on bringing former The whole world was anxiously speaking Ukrainian. Also, the mass media would need to speak Ukrainian, she said. Kuchma officials back into government. watching and waiting for Mr. However, Ms. Fortunska was not optimistic about the future of Ukraine. She felt He had just appointed Yurii Yekhanurov Yushchenko to take full advantage of the that the only solution was to learn foreign languages and to go abroad to work. Many as prime minister, a fellow who chose, as immense political power and trust he had young people had become disenchanted with the situation and Ms. Fortunska said, “I one of his first acts, to engage in a public acquired and use it to clean up a govern- don’t have the feeling that the politicians are interested in the future of Ukraine. embrace of Mr. Kuchma in front of cam- ment mired in corruption. People don’t have any sense of security. First the people need economic security, then eramen and photographers. Month after month passed with no they will be able to think about the national question.” As often, Mr. Yushchenko was long- arrests, no prosecutions and few progres- winded in his revealing response. He must sive reforms. Source: “Interviews: Ukrainians in Kyiv comment on Ukraine today,” by Fran have thought my question was a bit naive: Ponomarenko, The Ukrainian Weekly, August 19, 2001. “I think that there were times when (Continued on page 19) No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 7

NEWS AND VIEWS Is there a need to dub Russian language films into Ukrainian?

by Yuri Shevchuk companies for the right to screen these films, and the rest, retains the original voices. as they say, is just demand and supply – the harsh logic of Until now Ukraine and the other former colonies of The January decision of the Ukrainian government to capitalism in the age of primary accumulation of capital. Moscow were exceptions to the rule, a cultural and affect a gradual transition to dubbing foreign-made Too bad, they also say, that the other corollary of this intellectual anomaly. To this day Ukraine does not have films into the Ukrainian language touched off a stormy situation is continuing Russification – of language, cul- its own independent film market. Thus, the govern- debate in the media. The loudest to protest it were the ture and mentality – our one and only priority is to make ment’s decision on dubbing is designed to put an end to vested interests, subsidiaries of the Russian film distri- money. This kind of film distribution scheme is “cine- this anomaly inherited from the colonial past and to cre- bution monopoly, who like to call themselves Ukrainian matographic gas”: films for nothing. Only a fool would ate a film market in Ukraine. or national distributors. refuse such a gift, or a cunning nationalist. In Moscow Let us pause a moment to examine the concrete Up until now they had run their own show in Ukraine they pay for dubbing with money, and in Kyiv – with with the acquiescence of the government, making sure objections of the government’s opponents to this ques- crippled human souls. And since souls do not have a that no Ukrainian-made film was screened in Ukraine, tion. Their argument is an economic one. It turns out monetary equivalent, the film distributors and their sym- and the entire film distribution was a tool of continuing that film distributors are financially very weak and in no pathizers don’t even talk about them. Russification – uncontrolled, unchecked and typically position to lay out money for dubbing. Thus, these film There is nothing strange about this type of behavior. brazen. As a result of this hard-to-believe anomaly, mil- distributors, particularly small- and medium-sized com- It fits in wonderfully with the theory of rational choice, lions of Ukrainians were deprived of the opportunity to panies, would immediately go bankrupt, leaving our which every self-taught political scientist knows. It see Ukrainian films in their nation’s theaters. viewers at the mercy of powerful American competitors, states that every social actor maximizes his own con- A New Yorker could see Ukrainian films at the who obviously can afford to spend money. As a result, venience to the degree that circumstances allow it. Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University, while a Ukrainians will be deprived of access to everything that Russian film distribution has long reigned supreme in citizen of Kyiv had nowhere to go. does not fit the category of a Hollywood blockbuster, Yuri Shevchuk, the founder and director of the Ukraine, as brazenly as though it were in its own back- meaning independent, art house and experimental films, Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University, who is yard. Now circumstances are showing a tendency to and generally non-American films. also lecturer of Ukrainian language and culture with change in favor of limiting these entrepreneurs’ freedom I don’t care who pays for Ukrainian-language copies the department of Slavic languages at Columbia of activity. The backyard is rebelling. of films – Kyiv, Moscow, Hollywood or Bombay. The University, wrote an analysis of the situation surround- I don’t know about anyone else, but it is difficult for main thing is that they should exist. Powerful Russian ing foreign film dubbing for the leading Ukrainian me to sympathize or even support the activity of such a film distribution companies would also be financially media web publication Telekrytyka. Below is an English “Ukrainian” film distribution system. When you read capable of spending the necessary funds for dubbing if translation of his article prepared by Marta Olynyk. the wails and protests, you ask yourself: to whom are they are so interested in the Ukrainian market. But I these people appealing for support and sympathy? have doubts about the nature of their interest. If there is There is a new scandal brewing in Ukraine: they’re Surely not to those whom they have been robbing for less revenue from all the cinemas in Ukraine than from destroying Ukrainian films. In the 15th year of the decades in broad daylight, putting on a nice face while movie theaters in Moscow alone, then preserving cultur- country’s independence, Prime Minister Yurii playing a very dirty game? Or maybe to simpletons, al and hence political hegemony over the territory that Yekhanurov’s government has approved a plan to con- who are supposed to swallow their inane fabrications they consider their sphere of influence is more impor- vert the dubbing of films produced overseas from about the government’s forced Ukrainization, violence tant than the pitiful amount of several million hryvni. Russian to Ukrainian. Twenty percent of the total num- and undemocratic behavior? The “national” film distrib- The new rules of the game, which foresee the imple- ber of films will be dubbed into Ukrainian by utors themselves are aware of the moral flimsiness of mentation of the Ukrainian Cabinet’s resolution, would September, 50 percent by January 2007, and 70 percent their situation in Ukraine; that is why there is such nerv- foster the emergence of a real market as a factor of by July 2007. ousness bordering on hysteria. progress complete with free competition and richness of Why 70 percent and not 100 percent? In the world’s markets films are adapted to the needs supply. They would destroy the current monopoly, which Because, according to the statistics, this is the portion of a concrete consumer: they are translated from the lan- is primitive, aggressive and lethal to all sorts of innova- of Ukraine’s population that has declared itself guage of the original into the language of the consumer. tions. In this scenario, the selection of films for distribu- Ukrainian. Thus, in addition to satisfying the cultural This translation, depending on the particular features of tion would be based on the true commercial potential of needs of Ukrainian-speaking citizens in their own state the market, viewing habits and other factors, is done in – which until now have been stubbornly ignored – this the form of dubbing, subtitling, or a voice-over that (Continued on page 22) decision is supposed to ignite healthy market competi- tion between Ukrainian-language and Russian-language films and, finally, to put an end to the linguistic violence The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: June being inflicted on most of the citizens of Ukraine. But all this depends on whether the decision remains Amount Name City Ann Goot New York, N.Y. merely on paper, which is often the case. $200.00 Melania Banach Woodbridge, N.J. Marie Gordon Glastonbury, Conn. It appears that all these potentially optimistic devel- $100.00 Wolodymyr Pylyshenko Rochester, N.Y. Vitaly Halich Benson, Ariz. opments are not to the liking of those who are loudly $95.00 Oksana Krawciw St. George, Utah I. Horodyskyj Melbourne, Fla. $75.00 Oksana Zakydalsky Toronto, Ontario Richard Iwanik Farmington, Conn. protesting against the government’s “arbitrariness.” It $55.00 Yuri Stawnychy Kinnelon, N.J. Romana Jachtorowycz Chicago, Ill. turns out that there are more critics of the plan than sup- Nadia Topolnicki Montreal, Quebec Harry Kasha Clark, N.J. porters. This is no surprise, as Ukrainian film distribu- $50.00 Robert Markovitch Hudson, N.Y. Makar Kopanycia Trenton, N.J. tors obviously have a lot to lose: for starters, the gov- Inia Yevich-Tunstall Annandale, Va. Michael Krafcisin Chicago, Ill. ernment may actually begin implementing its own deci- $45.00 Michael Cham Palm Desert, Calif. Paul Makowesky Shoreview, Minn. sion, and then the Ministry of Culture will stop issuing Andrei Harasymiak New York, N.Y. William Maruszczak Wayne, Pa. Theodore Mackiv Albuquerque, N.M. Bohdan Pestrak Whitestone, N.Y. licenses to distribute Russian-language films. Roman Okpysh Dana Point, Calif. Beatrice Salywon Tuscon, Ariz. Before I begin to examine the objections of critics Lew Oprysko Hartford, Conn. Irene Sawchyn Convent Station, N.J. who oppose the plan to dub films into Ukrainian, I must Matthew Stremba Baltimore, Md. F. Shatynski Hillside, N.J. make one thing perfectly clear: at present Ukraine does $30.00 Ihor Makarenko Yonkers, N.Y. $6.00 Pauline Sokolski Wilmington, Del. not have its own film distribution system. No matter Wolodymyr Wolowodiuk Chatham Township, N.J. $5.00 Jaroslaw Bilyj Grand Island, N.Y. what film distribution offices may call themselves, all B. and O. Yaremko Livingston, N.J. Nadija Chojnacka Oak Forest, Ill. $25.00 Silvia Bilobron Clifton, N.J. Julian Chornij Palatine, Ill. of them are, according to the logic of their business Andrey and Maritza Stewart Manor, N.Y. W. Hnatkowsky Bayside, N.Y. activity, branches of the Russian film distribution Harmaty Merle and Bonnie Toledo, Ohio monopoly. Until now the logic of their activity was such Ed Kaminskyj Jackson Heights, N.Y. Jurkiewicz that Ukrainian films were not permitted on the screens Taras and Donya Kolcio Arlington, Va. Andrian Klufas Bridgeport, Conn. of Ukraine and are not permitted to this very day. If I Daniel Pindzola York, Pa. O. Kowerko Chicago, Ill. am wrong about this, maybe someone will write and tell $20.00 Andrew Bihun Silver Spring, Md. W. Kramarczuk St. Anthony, Minn. me: Where and when was a widely distributed Walter Dziwak Lake Hiawatha, N.J. Roksolana Lasiy Cedar Knolls, N.J. Joseph Jackson New Providence, N.J. Sam Liteplo Brooklyn, N.Y. Ukrainian film screened for at least two or three weeks, George Jaskiw S Euclid, Ohio Lydia Pastuszek Sudbury, Mass. instead of the usual one-time special screening? Stephen Lukasewycz Duluth, Minn. Cannon and Marta Paul Whiting, N.J. Just subject James Cameron’s film “Titanic” to these Askold Mosijczuk Clearwater, Fla. Larissa Sawka Des Plaines, Ill. conditions and I guarantee you that it would not make Joseph Podgurski Durham, N.C. Natalie Skorupa Cardington, Ohio more at the box office than the unfortunate “Prayer for Peter Pytel Twin Lakes, Wisc. Michael Solonynka Minneapolis, Minn. Hetman Mazepa,” which the implacable friends of Luba Sochockyj Richfield, Ohio Gertrude Tkachyk Tucson, Ariz. T.F. and L.W. Stock Arlington, Va. Roman Tresniowsky Ann Arbor, Mich. Ukrainian films always trot out with great satisfaction $15.00 Irene Burke Brighton, N.Y. Zenon Wasylkevych Warren, Mich. to bolster their thesis that Ukrainian films are not prof- Stephen Daisak Freehold, N.J. $3.87 Walter Filipkiewicz Philadelphia, Pa. itable. Tillie Decyk Sun City, Ariz. The so-called “Ukrainian,” or rather “national,” film Michael Fedirko Linden, N.J. TOTAL: $1,839.87 distributors (from which nation nobody knows) have Nicholas Gevas Granger, Ind. nothing whatsoever to do with Ukrainian cinematogra- Alexandra Kochman Chicago, Ill. Sincere thanks to all contributors Daniel Krysa Pompano Beach, Fla. to The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund. phy, culture and the Ukrainian state project. To them all Genevieve Kufta Bayonne, N.J. this is just empty words and annoying chatter, which is Melanie Kuzma Rocky Hill, Conn. The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund is the preventing them from making money. These “national” Sydir Michael Tymiak Pittsburgh, Pa. film distributors use Russian-made copies of foreign Orest and Chris Walchuk Pittstown, N.J. only fund dedicated exclusively to supporting films that are dubbed into the Russian language, thereby $10.00 Maria Bodnarskyj Cheektowaga, N.Y. the work of this publication. saving themselves a lot of money. They pay Russian 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 No. 33

Renowned Ukrainian... (Continued from page 1) Ms. Svitlychna was born on November 8, 1936, in the village of Polovynkyne, Starobilske raion, in Luhansk oblast. From 1953-1958 she completed her degree in philology at the Kyiv State University with a concentration in Ukrainian language and literature. After completing her studies, she began work- ing at the state-owned radio station in Kyiv. She was relieved of her position in 1968 for disobeying her superiors by attending a national rally on May 22 at the Taras Shevchenko monument on the centennial of the transfer of the bard’s remains to Ukraine from Russia. Afterwards, she took a position as a librarian. Ms. Svitlychna was arrested on April 18, 1972, for her involvement in the Ukrainian dissident literary movement and her defense of political prisoners. She was sentenced on March 23, 1973, to serve four years in a labor camp for women in the Mordovian ASSR, with an unspecified period of exile. After her release in May 1976 she returned to Kyiv where she was further persecuted and unable to find employment. On October 12, 1978, she was the first Nadia Svitlychna (bottom right) and other Ukrainian "sixties" dissidents came together in 1992 in Kyiv at the funeral of woman Ukrainian political prisoner her brother and fellow dissident, poet Ivan Svitlychny. Standing next to her, crying, is Ivan's widow, Leonida "Liolia" allowed to emigrate to the United States Svitlychna; between and just behind them is his mother. Seen in this photo are fellow dissidents Mykhailo Horyn (bottom and arrived on November 8, (her birth- left, in a dark coat with glasses), Yevhen Sverstiuk (above left, in a light coat with glasses), and Myroslav Marynovych (with day) from Rome, where she stayed for a dark mustache, standing directly behind Svitlychny's mother). Also seen paying his respects, head bowed in glasses, above month with her two sons, Yarema, who and to the left of Myroslav Marynovych, is poet Ivan Drach.

was nine and six month-old Ivan. At John On Saturday, August 12 requiem serv- F. Kennedy airport outside New York ices were held at St. Andrew the First- Need a back issue? City, she was greeted by members of the called Ukrainian Orthodox Memorial If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, local Ukrainian American community Church in South Bound Brook, N.J. Mrs. send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: with the heartfelt rendition of “Mnohaya Svitlychna’s body will be buried at the Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, Lita” (Many Years). renowned Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv. 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. evening. For the dancers in the crowd, Annual UNA... Stefan Ben and his Vidlunnia Band (Continued from page 5) coaxed couples to dance. The afternoon speaker was Dr. Bohdar During the week there was an exhibit Woroch, a prominent cardiologist from of Dr. Yurij Trytjak’s photographs in the New Jersey, who was invited to speak Main House lobby. On Wednesday evening, participants enjoyed a Polish again this year by popular request. He film “With Fire and Sword,” set during gave a brief overview of a typical trip to the Kozak uprisings starring Ukrainian the cardiologist. actor Bohdan Stupka. At the request of His presentation, “The complete many of the conference participants, Yurij Cardiovascular Evaluation,” explained Soltys and Nicholas Nenadkevich agreed many aspects of a visit that sometimes is to manage the bingo evening. It was a fun not entirely clear to the patient. Dr. Woroch evening. During another evening, an auc- also spent time answering questions. tion was held under the direction of Dr. On Friday morning, Christine Kozak, Soltys and his assistant, Maria Bilinsky. UNA national secretary, also re-elected There were also sing-alongs during the to her position at the 36th Convention, evenings when wine and cheese was visited the seniors and informed the served. And last but certainly not least, attendees about the various products the there was the traditional raffle, with the UNA has to offer. first prize being a weekend at Soyuzivka, On Thursday evening, during the tra- won by Geraldine Nadberezny, a guest ditional banquet, most participants wore from California. Almost $1,000 was Ukrainian “vyshyvky,” or Ukrainian raised during these events and the partici- embroidered clothing, making the event pants voted to donate $1,000 to the very festive. Soyuzivka Heritage Fund. The newly re-elected UNA president, The UNA Seniors spent a fun-filled Stefan Kaczaraj, visited the seniors and week at Soyuzivka. The entertainment welcomed everybody to the conference. was first rate, the lectures very informa- The guest speaker during the banquet was tive and often humorous, and the chance Mr. Wasylenko, who entertained guests to meet both new and old friends was with humorous anecdotes and a wonder- priceless. Every meal was a delight, pre- ful recitation of a famous poem, pared by Soyuzivka’s outstanding chef, “Kameniari,” by Ivan Franko. A recipient Andrij Sonevytsky, a graduate of the of the prestigious title “Outstanding Artist Culinary Institute of America. The only of Ukraine,” Mr. Wasylenko not only per- complaint was that “we eat too often, and formed but also wrote and sang a special they serve us too much” (even though song dedicated to the UNA Seniors. many of the meals were buffet style)! All the seniors laughed, sang, danced The six-day stay at this beautiful and enjoyed themselves that evening. A Ukrainian resort (including room and musical interlude by Olya Fryz and board), came down to as little as $345 for Andrij Stasiw brought even more joy to double occupancy. Everybody who could the evening. Ms. Fryz has performed not make it to the Seniors Week this June many times on the Soyuzivka stage, is encouraged to make plans for next year. entertaining both adult and young audi- Next year’s event will be held on June ences. Mr. Stasiw, a gifted pianist, 10-15, 2007. All seniors are welcome, accompanied Ms. Fryz during the and groups are encouraged to attend. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 9 Glaucoma Center of San Francisco celebrates successful first year

by Margaret Perrone announce the Glaucoma Center from the street. For those who have lost their sight SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco has and others fighting to keep theirs, the long been the quintessential melting pot. talking elevator lets them know they People from around the world come and have arrived. find acceptance and success. Celebrating The historical charm of the center’s its first anniversary, the Glaucoma Center three story, 5,400-square-foot facility of San Francisco could be thought of as a was preserved by retaining the original microcosm of the city itself. wood window frames and exposed brick Glaucoma is most common in those in each room. Built in 1911 as a varnish age 55 or older, but can strike at any age warehouse, the building’s old simplicity – affecting even children and newborns. is complemented by modern details, such Several of the Glaucoma Center’s doc- as state-of-the art electronics throughout, tors are world-renowned educators and steel door frames and post-modern light- researchers. Doctors and their staff at the ing. center speak Ukrainian, Spanish, Black and white prints from woodcuts Mandarin, Japanese and Cantonese, as by the Ukrainian-born artist Jacques well as English, to serve a vast popula- Hnizdovsky adorn the walls. “I was cap- tion, many of whom fly in from around tivated by this particular artist because the country and around the world for each piece is a symphony. The woodcuts their care. that the prints are made from require “We have quite a few Ukrainian patients. We attract them, since three of work of the most delicate, detailed, us on staff speak the language,” said Dr. meticulous, and innovative nature,” Martha Klufas, an optometrist at the explained Dr. Iwach. Glaucoma Center. She adds, “Eastern “They require an eye surgeon’s plan- Europeans have an increased incidence ning and dexterity. Really, the art is a of a certain type of glaucoma,” making metaphor for eye surgery. On so many care by a glaucomatologist, who special- levels this collection resonates with the Dr. Andrew Iwach and Dr. Martha Klufas in the visual testing area of the izes in this difficult disease, desirable. qualities of the surgeon and this center,” Glaucoma Center of San Francisco, with one of the over 30 Hnizdovsky prints in “Pseudoexfoliative glaucoma is Dr. Iwach noted. the background. endemic in Ukrainians,” added Dr. “But beyond that, the high-contrast Andrew Iwach, an expert in treating original prints have intricate detail con- ly. It means we have assembled a staff The Glaucoma Center brings together these conditions. tained within larger shapes and context,” from all over that is professional and pro- all of these elements to provide an acces- Bearing in mind the diversity of their said Dr. Iwach. “So each piece can be vides the best in glaucoma care. And, it sible, pleasant environment to help people patients, the Glaucoma Center lobby can enjoyed by individuals with either good means our patients are almost immediate- cope with this dreaded disease. To learn be transformed from a showcase for clas- or poor sight.” That the award-winning ly at ease, despite their apprehension more about glaucoma or the Glaucoma sic movies that put an older clientele at art in the clinic reflects the Ukrainian about having glaucoma, because they are Center of San Francisco, call 415-981- ease to programming for children or non- influence of some of the staff was a comforted knowing we speak the lan- 2020, fax 415- 981-2019, or visit the English speakers utilizing flat-screen tel- bonus, he said. guage and, often, we have come from the website at www.glaucomasf.com. Art evisions. Exam rooms are large enough Currently the Glaucoma Center has same place.” tours can be arranged by appointment. to accommodate patients with mobility seven glaucoma specialists and one limitations, such as those in wheelchairs, optometrist in private practice. This is the and examination equipment is adaptable largest number of glaucoma specialists in Philadelphia Celebrates the 15th Anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine! so that these patients do not need to leave private practice in North America. Four their chairs for the duration of the of the glaucomatologists work on any appointment. given day in eight exam rooms to mini- SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 2006 Designed down to the smallest detail mize patient waiting time. 6:00 p.m. to maximize patient comfort and conven- The third floor of the center is dedicated “Voloshky” Ukrainian Dance Ensemble ience, the Glaucoma Center has melded to research and administration. All of the the best of 1900s San Francisco architec- doctors at the Glaucoma Center conduct ture with today’s technological innova- clinical research, so the convenience of tion. Entertainment and business oppor- having an on-site research facility promis- es to enhance data collection and analysis A UKRAINIAN DANCE SPECTACULAR tunities abound in the newly revitalized With a guest appearance by master violinist Vasyl Popadiuk South of Market area, and the Glaucoma toward finding a cure for this blinding dis- KIMMEL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Center adds another dimension by ease. The doctors are also renowned con- 1420 Locust Street including a stop for eye health care. sultants, offering their expertise to industry Philadelphia, PA Dr. Iwach, who serves as executive leaders in the areas of ophthalmic diagno- For tickets call 215-893-1999 or visit www.kimmelcenter.org director of the Glaucoma Center, states, sis, medicine and surgery. For more information email [email protected] “Everything, including the location of the As an adjunct to research, the building itself, was chosen and designed Glaucoma Center is home to an interna- with a lot of patient input and with tional training program in glaucoma. This SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2006 patient needs in mind.” fellowship is a post-doctoral program for 12:00 noon Easily accessible for anyone coming ophthalmologists from other countries Ukrainian-American Sport Center “Tryzub” into downtown by car, rail, bus or ferry, who are interested in specializing in the Glaucoma Center is located on a glaucoma. In the past year fellows from small, quiet street tucked in the heart of as far as Turkey, China, and Venezuela the South of Market district. “Our have trained side-by-side with the cen- “Voloshky” Dance Ensemble o Folk Singers “Yedneest” & “Svitannia” patients love the fact that everything they ter’s glaucomatologists to hone their “Promin” Chorus o Sisters Oros o Bandurists Oleh Sozansky & Taras Lazurkevych need is in one building and it’s easy to diagnostic, surgical, and clinical manage- Music and Dancing to "Karpaty" and "Harmonia" get to,” said Dr. Klufas. ment skills. They then return home to Authentic Ukrainian Food & Picnic Fare, Cool Drinks & Refreshments, Glaucoma is the second leading cause become experts in their own countries. Free Moon Walk & Fun Slide for Children, Exhibition Soccer Match of blindness in North America, afflicting “The fellowship program certainly “TRYZUB” UKRAINIAN-AMERICAN SPORT CENTER an estimated 3 million in the United adds to our diversity,” said Dr. Klufas. County Line Road & Lower State Road States alone. Large banners in high-con- Dr. Iwach concluded, “The multicul- Horsham, PA trast black and white for easy visibility tural environment means two things real- 215-343-5412 THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 2006 An open invitation 7:00 p.m. to local community activists Philadelphia Ukrainian Community Committee

Would you like fellow Ukrainians to know about events in your community? Would you like to become one of The Ukrainian Weekly’s correspondents? Then what are you waiting for? Keynote Speaker: Editor Osip Rozhka o “Voloshky” Dance Ensemble The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes submissions from local community activists. “Prometheus” Chorus o “Ukraina” Chorus o Soprano Lidia Bychkova You may reach The Weekly by phone, (973) 292-9800; fax, (973) 644-9510; UKRAINIAN EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER e-mail, [email protected]; or mail, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, 700 Cedar Road Parsippany, NJ 07054. Jenkintown, PA 215-663-1166 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 No. 33

led the Our Ukraine bloc’s legal depart- Minister of Family, Youth and Sports Zhytomyr Oblast. Prime Minister... ment through the 2006 parliamentary Yurii Pavlenko is a close Yushchenko Minister of Defense – Anatolii (Continued from page 1) elections. associate. Pavlenko, 31, has also man- Hrytsenko, 48, no party affiliation, born Mr. Rybak served on its delegation to the In April 2005, Mr. Zvarych acknowl- aged to remain in the Cabinet since the in the village of Bahachivka in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council edged to The Ukrainian Weekly that he Revolution. Cherkasy Oblast. of Europe. never completed his master’s degree at The history major and career politician Ministers of Economics – Volodymyr Minister of Fuel and Energy Yurii Columbia University, despite claiming so is regarded as among the rising talents in Makukha. Boyko will assume the reins of one of for eight years. Ukrainian politics largely due to his con- Minister of Culture and Tourism – Ukraine’s most powerful ministries. Minister of Internal Affairs Yurii tacts within the Our Ukraine ranks. Ihor Likhovyi. Boyko, 47, ran Naftohaz for more than Lutsenko is among the Orange Born in Kyiv, Mr. Pavlenko selected Minister of Health – Yurii Poliachenko, two years. Revolution’s field commanders and vet- Mr. Kuchma as godfather for his elder 46, party affiliation unconfirmed, born in Mr. Boyko built his career as a chemist eran anti-Kuchma protestor. Lutsenko, son, and Kateryna Yushchenko as god- Kyiv. before taking leadership positions in 41, announced on August 7 he would mother for the younger one. Minister of Industrial Policy – Anatolii Ukrainian companies dealing in oil. serve in Mr. Yanukovych’s Cabinet. Minister of Transport and Holovko, 55, Our Ukraine bloc, born in the city of Drohobych in the Lviv Oblast. He abandoned the Ukrainian Among only a handful of Cabinet Communication Mykola Rudkovskyi is a Minister of Agro-Industrial Complex Republican Party during the 2006 parlia- members to remain in place since the member of the Socialist Party of Ukraine. – Yurii Melnyk, 44, Ukrainian People’s mentary elections to join Leonid Revolution, Mr. Lutsenko is popular for Rudkovskyi takes the leadership of one Party, born in the town of Verkhniachka Kravchuk’s Ne Tak! bloc. He was born in trying to prosecute Ukraine’s high-profile of Ukraine’s most corrupt ministries. in the Cherkasy Oblast. the city of Horlivka in the Donetsk criminals and remove corruption from After winning the Chernihiv mayoral Minister of Education – Stanislav Oblast. Ukraine’s police force elections, he abandoned the post to serve Nikolayenko, 50, Socialist Party of Minister of Justice Roman Zvarych has Considered among the few untar- in the Verkohvna Rada instead. His flip- Ukraine, born in the village of returned to Ukraine’s Cabinet after causing nished and uncorrupted politicians in the flop cost the city government $100,000 Bohdanivka in the Kirovohrad Oblast. the first embarrassing scandal for the Ukrainian government, Mr. Lutsenko was to hold new elections. The so-called Minister of Emergency Situations – administration of President Viktor aggressively courted by the Party of the Socialist is also known for his taste in Viktor Baloha, 43, Our Ukraine bloc, Yushchenko. Mr. Zvarych, 52, was born in Regions for the polished image his pres- luxury sports cars and yachts. born in the village of Zavydove in the Yonkers, N.Y., to Ukrainian-born parents. ence would bring to the new government. The remaining members of the new Zakarpattia Oblast. Mr. Zvarych has no formal legal edu- Born in the city of Rivne, the Minister government are: Minister of Coal Industry – Serhii cation but has served on various high- of Internal Affairs isn’t allowed to belong Minister of Foreign Affairs – Borys Tulub, 53, Party of the Regions, born in profile committees in the Verkhovna to a party. He has close links with the Tarasiuk, 57, People’s Rukh of Ukraine, the city of Donetsk. Rada as a National Deputy. He has also Socialists. born in the town of Dzerzhynsk in the Minister of Verkhovna Rada Relations – Ivan Tkalenko, 51, Party of the Regions, born in the village of Fursy in the Kyiv Oblast. Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers – Anatolii Tolstoukhov, 50, Party of the Regions, born in the town of Khartsyzk in the Donetsk Oblast. Minister of Work and Social Policy – Mykhailo Papiyev, 45, Ne Tak! Bloc, born in the city of Zaporizhzhia. Minister of Environmental Defense – Vasyl Dzharty, 48, Party of the Regions, born in the village of Rozdolne in the Donetsk Oblast.

U.S. State... (Continued from page 3) of fines, corrective work, or incarceration for up to five years. However, it was nearly impossible to get anybody actually convicted of this crime because the crime involved direct intent, with the particular aim of stirring up ethnic hostility in the country or in a specific region, of deni- grating the honor and dignity of represen- tatives of particular ethnic groups. In practice this meant that in court the author of a provocative article had to state that he or she intended to stir up ethnic hostility. But admission of guilt by the accused could not be the sole proof in a criminal case, there needed to be additional proof such as a note in the accused’s own handwriting clearly indicating such intent. Article 18 of the law “On Printed Mass Communication Media in Ukraine” allowed for the suspension of publication print media by a court in cases “for stir- ring up racial, ethnic or religious hostili- ty.” Lawyers argued if “suspension of an issue of the print media” denoted the sus- pension of the publication as a whole, or just prohibition on publishing one specif- ic issue of it. The State Committee for Nationality and Migration Affairs demanded that the courts suspend issues of Idealist, Personnel and Personnel Plus. Examples of these offenses included an excerpt from the Idealist, which wrote, “Power to God, Ukraine for Ukrainians, Israel for the Jews...” and Krymksaya Pravda, which wrote, “Mejlis terrorists are committing atrocities while the Crimean authorities do nothing ... People have no on to protect them.” The U.S. State Department’s 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices were released in March of this year. They may be found at http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/ index.htm. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 11

Scholars comment on the 15th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence It has been 15 years since Ukraine national language, if by consensus we mote liberalization. Similarly, we tend to mations over the past 15 years. What declared its independence on August 24, mean agreement on a single predominant assume that this coalition will be pro- they have been less good at is forging a 1991. In that time, Ukraine has followed language. Rather, it needs a consensus Russian, but it’s not clear exactly what political identity which would unify all a difficult path along the road of its dem- that tolerance of multiple languages and their interests are in this area. The Party of people living in Ukraine. Instead of ocratic evolution. There have been set- ethnicities is acceptable as long as there the Regions voted unanimously for a bill building a democratic and political sys- backs as well as accomplishments for the is commitment to the territorial integrity on NATO exercises in Ukraine. If this new tem where all citizens are equal before nascent country. of the state. coalition can consistently pass legislation, the law and rights are respected, a coun- The Orange Revolution of 2004 I don’t think that government policies it will be a major advance for Ukraine. try where civic participation is encour- echoed a popular desire for change and, intended to substantially change language The fear, of course, is that the Party of the aged and the decision-making process to a large degree, the people’s commit- use are likely to proceed. The tsars and Regions will use its influence to under- transparent, Ukraine’s leaders created a ment to democratic ideals. However, two then the Soviets used measures to sup- mine the democratic progress that allowed corrupt oligarchic system where most years after the revolution, the govern- press Ukrainian that were much more its resurgence in 2006. This is a real possi- Ukrainians feel alienated, even ashamed ment appears unable to live up to those brutal than today’s government will use bility, especially if pro-democracy forces of their country. Some analysts have sug- high standards. to suppress Russian – and yet Ukrainian continue to be divided and inept. gested that this was done deliberately, to If anything can been learned from survived. My impression is that The events of the past month seem to keep society fragmented, divided and events in Ukraine over the past 15 years, Ukrainianization programs have tended have buried Yushchenko politically – but, thus easier to control. it is that predicting its evolution as a to backfire by increasing people’s desire of course, Yanukovych himself seemed Within this context, the complex lan- democracy is no easy task. What lies to continue using Russian. buried 18 months ago. Rarely has anyone guage issue is easily manipulated by cyn- ahead in the next 15 years for Ukraine? Many countries have developed strong squandered political capital as quickly as ical politicians. How can one know what It is with exactly this in mind that The national identities with multiple lan- Yushchenko has. [Leonid] Kuchma’s views on the lan- Ukrainian Weekly recently questioned guages, and while the challenges are not Tymoshenko now may be in a position guage question really are? He said one Ukrainian scholars and experts. trivial, it appears that such a development to unite the orange forces under her lead- thing before being elected in 1994, and What follows is the first of a two-part is possible in Ukraine. Indeed, I would ership. By leading the opposition, she then did another. What does Yevhen series in which scholars evaluated just contend that a lot of progress has been may be able to put herself in a favorable Kushnariov really believe? He led the how far Ukraine has come on issues of made since 1991. The country is still position for a future election. The cur- separatists in Severo-Donetsk during the Ukraine’s integration with Europe, its regionally divided (as is the U.S.) but rent problems in Ukraine are not due to a Orange Revolution, yet a year and a half development of national identity, and the people across regions clearly view them- lack of democracy, or even to malicious later began declaring that the only state most recent developments in the govern- selves as Ukrainians. forces, but rather to the divisiveness of language in Ukraine should be Ukrainian. ment and Verkhovna Rada. Politicians in all countries are cynical GOVERNMENT the reform movement. and manipulative, and former Canadian * * * It has been said that the people of Marta Dyczok is associate professor at Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has gone Prof. Paul D’Anieri is the associate former Soviet republics – Russia, the departments of history and political down in history for saying, “only naïve dean at the College of Liberal Arts and Ukraine, Belarus, for example – would science at the University of Western people believe election promises.” In Sciences at the University of Kansas. He be best suited and governed by an Ontario and fellow at the Center of some ways Ukrainian politicians are just is also an associate professor in the uni- authoritarian ruler. Considering that European, Russian and Eurasian Studies behaving like politicians when they play versity’s department of political science. democrats and reformers, such as at the University of Toronto. She is the the language card once again. Having Viktor Yushchenko, have been unable traveled through most regions of Ukraine EUROPEAN INTEGRATION author of two books, “The Grand to move Ukraine forward, while more Alliance and Ukrainian Refugees” and over the last 15 years, my very strong Given Ukraine’s past statements on revolutionary figures, such as Yulia “Ukraine: Change Without Movement, impression is that the language issue is joining European institutions, and Tymoshenko, have captured people’s Movement Without Change,” and numer- much less divisive than these periods of since then its lack of movement in that attention, but have also been unable to ous articles. In 1991-1996 she lived in tension would suggest. make political progress, can the cur- direction, is there a future for Ukraine Ukraine working as a journalist and uni- GOVERNMENT in Europe? Can Ukraine be taken rent presidential-parliamentary system versity lecturer, and returned in 2004 for seriously by Western European institu- work in Ukraine? Or are events in the her sabbatical, serving as an OSCE elec- I’m afraid I would not agree that for- tions? What steps must Ukraine take Rada over the past five months indica- tion observer and living through the mer Soviet citizens are more interested in to be accepted by these institutions? tive of what lies ahead for Ukraine Orange Revolution. Currently she is authoritarian rulers – after all, not so long What progress has been made? over the next 15 years? working on a book on mass media in con- ago Ukrainians caught the world’s atten- temporary Ukraine. tion by standing up against an authoritari- There is a future for Ukraine in Europe, I have real concerns about the consti- an power grab during a presidential elec- but only if Ukraine chooses that future, tutional arrangements agreed to in 2004, EUROPEAN INTEGRATION tion. I would also question the rationale and makes the tough decisions needed to and I have expressed these long before I would re-phrase the question, “Is of using the countries which emerged grasp that future. EU [European Union] the most recent crisis. One problem is there a future for Ukraine in Europe?” from the USSR as a useful comparative membership is a distant possibility at best. that the executive is almost bound to be since Ukraine is in Europe geographically, framework. Estonia is very different from But Ukraine can become a member of divided by conflict between president and historically, in terms of culture, religion. Uzbekistan, Ukraine is very different Europe in the broader sense by adopting prime minister. A second problem is that The issue facing Ukraine’s political and from Russia. They all share the Soviet the economic and political norms that are the basis for a strong united Parliament is economic elites is how to integrate with legacy, but each has a different pre- now taken for granted in Europe. still very shaky. The system is likely to institutions created by European Union Soviet history, and rather diverse political Adopting much of the aquis comminau- function only when president and members over the last few decades. Here I cultures. taire [the entire body of European laws] Parliament are controlled by the same think the central issue is that relations For example, in Russia political tech- would be hugely beneficial to Ukraine party. But I don’t see anything in recent between the EU and Ukraine have been nologists Gleb Pavlovskyi and Marat whether it led to EU membership or not. events to indicate that democracy cannot largely declarative for the past 15 years, Gelman have been successful in shaping Ukraine will be taken seriously by succeed in Ukraine. Ukraine needs more public opinion to elect certain candidates, Western institutions only when Ukraine democracy, not less. with both sides making polite statements but without much substance. such as [Vladimir] Putin in 2000, while itself makes an irrevocable commitment. THE MOST RECENT in Ukraine the very same spin doctors Clearly, much of Europe is more skep- The EU has never really held out POLITICAL EVENTS have failed in two consecutive elections. tical about Ukraine’s “Europeanness” prospects for membership to Ukraine the way it did, for example, to Hungary and, By 2006 Ukrainian politicians turned to than that of other countries, and, there- What does it mean for Ukraine to in response, Ukraine has never seriously American PR companies. fore, has not made the kind of promises have Viktor Yanukovych as prime min- begun taking the necessary steps to meet It also seems an exaggeration to count- to Ukraine that it made to others. Ukraine ister? What does this bode for the criteria in the acquis communautaire. er-pose Yushchenko the democrat with needs to stop complaining about this, and Ukraine’s domestic and foreign poli- There is a lot of public support for EU Tymoshenko the revolutionary – they instead commit itself to going the extra cies? What does Yanukovych’s return membership in Ukraine, but without any both have democratic credentials and mile. Not much progress has been made. to the position of prime minister mean clear signals from Brussels. Ukraine’s rather checkered pasts. Let’s not forget After the Orange Revolution, Europe was to the political futures of Viktor which position Yushchenko held during ready to be won over by Ukraine, but that Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko? elites have not bothered to take the diffi- cult steps towards integration. the “Ukraine Without Kuchma” protests opportunity has been thoroughly squan- in 2000-2001. dered. I don’t know anyone outside of This may change now that the EU has accepted formerly Communist countries I don’t feel that the presidential-parlia- Ukraine who is enthusiastic about mentary system is inherently unstable. NATIONAL IDENTITY Yanukovych as prime minister. But it’s into its midst, since the new EU states are much more interested in Ukraine than are Rather, the difficulties in forming a stable The language issue: How important too early to know what will result from parliamentary coalition in 2006 are the the founding EU members. It was Poland is it for Ukraine to find consensus on his prime ministership. As PM, he and consequence of the divisiveness of the and Lithuania that pushed the EU to medi- the issue of a national language? The the coalition he leads will have to try to 2004 presidential election, and the failure ate in Ukraine during the Orange use of language – Ukrainian versus work with a president from an opposing of the Yushchenko team to reach out to Revolution, not France or Germany. If the Russian, whether in schools, textbooks, party. Yanukovych will either have to the Yanukovych voters and re-unite the hesitation over further enlargement can be the government, etc. – has been and make some compromises with country after the dramatic events of the overcome within the EU, the new configu- surely will continue to be a hot topic in Yushchenko, or fight a long series of bat- Orange Revolution. Ukraine. Is resolving this issue critical tles with him. This might well result in ration of membership might create the con- ditions for a more substantive dialogue. for Ukraine? Can Ukraine develop a stalemate, which is not what Ukraine Roman Solchanyk, Ph.D., is a former strong national identity while, at the needs, but that is not the same as NATIONAL IDENTITY senior research analyst at the RAND same time, maintaining both the Yanukovych being in total control, either. Corp., where he worked as specialist on Russian and Ukrainian languages? Some have speculated that in certain Ukraine’s leaders have been very good Ukraine and post-Soviet security issues. areas of domestic economics and free at maintaining stability in a diverse socie- Ukraine does not need a consensus on trade, the Party of the Regions might pro- ty going through fundamental transfor- (Continued on page 12) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 No. 33

ment were Vice Prime Minister for Fuel Though Mr. Yushchenko managed to New government... and Energy Issues Andrii Kliuyev, Vice convince 30 National Deputies of his Our (Continued from page 1) Prime Minister for Construction, Ukraine bloc to vote for Mr. Employing the same refrain just days Architecture and Residential-Communal Yanukovych, including Mr. Zvarych, 50 earlier was Borys Tarasyuk, who has Management Volodymyr Rybak and didn’t vote in favor, revealing the first remained Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Minister of Coal Industry Serhii Tulub. cracks in what political observers believe Affairs in Mr. Yanukovych’s government. Another Donetsk native but member will be the inevitable demise of that During an August 8 press conference, of the Ne Tak! Bloc, Yurii Boyko, political force. Mr. Tarasyuk was careful to stress that became Minister of Fuel and Energy. The Christian-Democratic Union, one the Ukrainian government would not be Although Mr. Yushchenko said the of six political parties that formed the favoring Europe or the Russian National Unity Coalition would end any Our Ukraine bloc, announced August 8 Federation in its foreign policy. discussion of federalism in Ukraine, Mr. that it would not join any coalition gov- Reflecting the National Unity Rybak began advocating what he called ernment that includes Communists and Declaration signed August 3, Mr. “budgetary federalism” in his first press Socialists. Tarasyuk said Ukraine’s foreign policy conference as minister. “Christian Democrats can’t join with has remain unchanged, and that it will Mr. Rybak called for de-centralizing Communists out of principal ideological continue to pursue integration with both budgetary financing and administration understandings, and the betraying posi- the Brussels-based European Union and in Ukrainian government, and increasing tion of the Socialists, which led to the the Moscow-centered Single Economic federal financing of city budgets from 40 democratic coalition’s collapse, closes Space. percent to 50 percent. the road to cooperation between our Mr. Yanukovych raised eyebrows “Above all, I support regional poli- political forces,” the party’s leadership when mentioning that Ukraine may not tics,” Mr. Rybak said. “And we should announced in an August 8 statement. achieve World Trade Organization understand that Ukraine will improve After Mr. Yanukovych’s confirmation (WTO) membership until 2007, a posi- through its regions. The faster people in as prime minister, Ms. Tymoshenko said tion contrary to Mr. Tarasyuk’s goal of regions feel a better life, the wealthier she was confident the National Unity entering the organization this year. First Vice Prime Minister Mykola Ukraine will become.” Coalition wouldn’t hold together and Mr. Azarov The prime minister’s statement may Among the more surprising names to Yushchenko would hold pre-term parlia- be an attempt to placate the Russian emerge in Mr. Yanukovych’s Cabinet of mentary elections. Federation, which has explicitly stated it took Mr. Yushchenko’s lead, as well as Ministers is Roman Zvarych, who has Yurii Kostenko, leader of the wants to enter the WTO simultaneous six from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, returned as Ukraine’s Minister of Justice Ukrainian People’s Party, declared the and alongside Ukraine, a position which who abandoned their leader’s stance. a year after an embarrassing scandal that formation of a “Patriotic Front” against has recently won the support of the U.S. Party of the Regions, Socialist and revealed he grossly exaggerated his the Yanukovych government that would government. Communist National Deputies were vir- resume. unite all political forces in support of a The emphasis on Ukrainian-Russian tually unanimous in their support of Mr. Mr. Zvarych was born in Yonkers, “Ukrainian Ukraine.” relations was inevitable after Donetsk Yanukovych. New York, in 1953 to Ukrainian immi- Following the new Cabinet’s forma- politicians managed to recapture control After a standing ovation and receiving grant parents. tion, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine of the Ukrainian government following a bouquet of roses, Mr. Yanukovych He was active in the Ukrainian- William Taylor visited Makiyivka in the their successful forming of the Anti- immediately presented a list of the nomi- American community before immigrat- Donetsk Oblast as part of a humanitarian Crisis Coalition consisting of the Party nations for the 24-member Cabinet of ing to Ukraine and successfully running outreach. of the Regions, Communists and Ministers, which the parliament for office in the Ukrainian parliament. “It was very pleasant to follow that Socialists. approved with 269 National Deputies “I hope that Zvarych, as an expert with process which recently took place in Mr. Yanukovych officially became voting in favor. definite global experience, will direct the Ukraine, which was achieved by the prime minister at an August 4 evening Among them, at least eight are Party Ministry (of Justice) towards cooperation nation and its people,” Mr. Taylor said. vote in the Verkhovna Rada, in which of the Regions members, at least five with the government and other branches “Of course, these are very interested 271 National Deputies affirmed his nom- belong to the Our Ukraine bloc and two of power,” Mr. Yanukovych said. and compelling times in Kyiv from a ination as prime minister. represent the Socialist Party of Ukraine. Mr. Zvarych told reporters that the political point of view. And Donetsk now Among them were 30 National Among Mr. Yanukovych’s circle of Ministry of Justice’s work under his lead- will play a very important role in the pol- Deputies from the Our Ukraine bloc who Donetsk insiders returning to govern- ership will be irreproachable. itics of the nation and Kyiv.”

by the Soviet experience. there is a rather high correlation between dential campaign in 2004, the programs Scholars comment... Ukraine should pursue the kind of leg- language and those fissures. But a law, a of Yushchenko and Yanukovych quite (Continued from page 11) islation that would bring it nearer to better law, a more wide-ranging law, on often overlapped to some extent. It was His new book, titled “The New Eastern European standards. And, obviously, language is not going to solve that prob- only toward the very end – right on the Europe: Ukraine, Belarus and they’ve got a long, long road ahead. On lem. The problem has, unfortunately, eve of the election – that Yanukovych Moldova,” will be published early next the one hand, yes, Ukraine should pursue been politicized. suddenly introduced these sensitive year. those objectives, but maybe more impor- I think, to some extent, we here in the issues of language and dual citizenship, tant than the objective of adoption of a diaspora put too much credence, too very divisive planks in his platform. EUROPEAN INTEGRATION law that corresponds to European stan- much importance on the language ques- So, on the one hand, I think there dards is to somehow overcome that dis- tion, which does not correspond to the would be general agreement here in the With regard to the first question, well I criminatory attitude against Ukraine in situation on the ground in Ukraine. West that Mr. Yanukovych is an odious would think that there should be a Western Europe. figure, and not only because of his prior European future for Ukraine. Whether GOVERNMENT NATIONAL IDENTITY convictions and felonious behavior, so to there will be in our lifetime, or in my I think that the idea that certain soci- speak. But what’s interesting to me lifetime, is really quite questionable. I The language issue from my standpoint eties are more governable with a strong when one talks about Mr. Yanukovych is think the main problem is the attitude of is a very complex and strange issue. On hand is extremely subjective. I think that that he actually represents a large seg- what used to be known as Western the one hand, if you look at public opinion the real problem is the continuing lack of ment of Ukrainian public opinion, atti- Europe, the West European countries. polls in Ukraine you will learn that for a development of normal state institutions tudes, beliefs and so on. I think it has Not only is it a question of so-called majority of people language issues are not in Ukraine. A concrete example is devel- often been neglected that he in fact did enlargement fatigue on the part of the important. They routinely fall at the bot- oping right now. There were amend- gain 44 percent of the vote in the repeat European Union. tom of a scale of things that are of concern ments that were adopted to the existing election. That is a considerable figure. I think that there is a subjective ele- to Ukrainians, and by Ukrainians I mean Constitution – adopted in December A second point that needs to be made ment in all of this. Namely, that, obvi- people living in Ukraine regardless of 2004 – as a way of reaching compromise is how the so-called Orange Revolution ously with the exception of the Baltic nationality. The problem with the lan- during the presidential elections. But actually mobilized Yanukovych’s sup- states and certainly Poland, I think there guage issue in Ukraine is that it has been there is complete disagreement among porters. It mobilized them in the sense is a very strong, subjective trend in highly politicized. some political forces about what these that the events of November-December Europe today against the former Soviet I don’t think there is an easy solution amendments actually mean. 2004 also consolidated – and this is obvi- republics, including Ukraine. I am con- to the language problem. It is not a ques- So, in spite of the fact that you have a ously an ongoing process – that segment vinced that the leadership of “old tion of passing a law. In fact, we already Constitution, in spite of the fact that you of Ukrainian society that shares Mr. Europe” really views the former Soviet have a law that was adopted in 1989, but have various laws, and so on, what you Yanukovych’s views. states as somehow illegitimate to the it has never really been enforced. There also have is a struggle between the execu- And as far as the most recent develop- extent that they are not Europeans, that is a fissure, or rupture, in society that tive branch versus the legislative branch, ments are concerned – that is, the confir- they have been perverted in some sense overlaps with regional attitudes, and and that’s played out in what we’re seeing mation of Mr. Yanukovych as prime right now. It’s an ongoing story in minister – observers and analysts appear Ukraine about how institutions have not to be seriously split as to whether this is been optimized to the point where every- “good’ or “bad” for Ukraine. Clearly, MAY WE HELP YOU? one agrees that, yes, this is what the presi- we will have to wait and see how things To reach The Ukrainian Weekly call (973) 292-9800, dent does, this is what Parliament does play out. Personally, I have serious and this is what the judicial branch does. and dial the appropriate extension (as listed below). doubts that a document called the THE MOST RECENT “Universal of National Unity” will pro- Editorial – 3049, 3088; Administration – 3041; POLITICAL EVENTS duce the desired results. The driving force behind politics in Ukraine is power Advertising – 3040; Subscriptions – 3042; Production – 3063, 3069 In some sense that’s sort of specula- and money, which go together, not lofty tive. If you remember, during the presi- ideals. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 13

BOOK NOTES

And, of course, it is a good story, as it outlines the struggle between right and A tale of a simpler time in Ukraine wrong. It tells of ordinary people who had the courage to stand up for their rights and refuse to be oppressed. It examines the Orange Revolution relates the plight of ordinary people and “An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History” by Askold Krushelnycky. London: Harvill Secker Publishers, ISBN: 0436206234. modern-day heroes with wit and spirit. Paperback, 368 pp. $17.03 US or 8.99 GBP. Mr. Krushelnycky has reported for more than 25 years for such publications by Marta Kolomayets as The Independent, the Sunday Times and the Herald Tribune. He was a war At a time when the political situation in correspondent in Afghanistan in the Ukraine is both incomprehensible and 1980s and has been a keen observer of chaotic, this writer recommends that peo- Ukrainian politics since the collapse of ple still interested in Ukraine pick up the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Askold Krushelnycky’s book, “An Orange spending weeks at a time writing about Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukraine’s patchy and difficult road to Ukrainian History,” published in March. democracy. It is a tale of a simpler time, a time Mr. Krushelnycky wrote the book in when good and evil were clearly defined nine short months, but he continues to be for most Ukrainian citizens as they interested in the subject of Ukraine and changed the course of Ukraine’s history ponders its future. On the eve of his by becoming active participants in the book’s release, which coincided with peaceful revolution of the winter of Ukraine’s parliamentary elections, he 2004. the events that led up to and became part was interviewed for www.opendemocra- It was November 2004 and all the of the Orange Revolution – British lec- cy.net by free-lance journalist Toby Saul. world watched as up to a million people turer Andrew Wilson produced a book The burning question was whether Mr. gathered in the center of the capital city titled “Ukraine’s Orange Revolution” Yushchenko and Ms. Tymoshenko would to overthrow the corrupt government of (Yale University Press) and U.S.-based be able to overcome their differences: President Leonid Kuchma and challenge scholars Anders Aslund and Michael “My personal feeling is that they will the dishonest campaign and election McFaul edited a book called “Revolution because, however egotistic[al] they are, methods of his prime minister and Party in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine’s they must understand that on their own of the Regions presidential candidate Askold Krushelnycky Democratic Breakthrough” (Carnegie they’re going to be destroyed,” Mr. Viktor Yanukovych. Endowment for International Peace). Krushelnycky replied. “And if they’re Among those carefully watching was date Viktor Yushchenko and the maidan’s However, what makes Mr. tempted to make an alliance with British journalist Askold Krushelnycky, Yanukovych, he’s going to discard them Joan of Arc, Yulia Tymoshenko. Krushelnycky’s book a good read is his who spent most of the fall of 2004 on the style, which intertwines his family’s 20th at the earliest opportunity. Logically, it’s campaign trail with such leaders of the Mr. Krushelnycky’s book is not the century history – and the history of a no-brainer for them. They’ve got to Orange Revolution as presidential candi- only English-language book chronicling Ukraine – spanning many centuries. work together and come to some kind of The book is well-researched and accommodation. Otherwise, it will be a heartfelt; the reader feels Mr. disaster for Ukraine.” Krushelnycky’s passion about his “An Orange Revolution” is available Batkiv church appeals for aid Ukrainian roots and his family history. at amazon.com. by Natalie Temnycky where traveling priests conduct services. After Ukraine regained independence PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The villagers of in 1991, the villagers had hoped to regain Batkiv, in western Ukraine, need financial control of their church, but they did not. assistance to finish building St. John the Ethnic sports encyclopedia Thus, they decided to build a new Baptist Church. About 80 percent of the church, St. John the Baptist Ukrainian church has been completed. However, it chronicles pros and amatuers stands unfinished due to a lack of funds. Greek-Catholic Church. “Encyclopedia of Ethnicity and Sports in the United States,” George B. Kirsch, et al., Yaroslava Dytiuk, who is leading the Funds for the church have been con- editors. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. 530 pp. $157.95 (hardcover). fund-raising effort from Batkiv, com- tributed mainly by families of Batkiv resi- dents and members of the Selfreliance mented on the project: “The economy [of This book offers a well-rounded and Ukraine] is weak and villagers don’t have Federal Credit Union in Baltimore, Md. The informative look at ethnic groups in enough money.” Her family members in credit union formed an account a couple of sports, including the Ukrainian American the United States are helping Ms. Dytiuk years ago for donations toward the project. experience, with a brief outline by publicize the project. An appeal for financial support has Metodij Boretsky, detailing its early Her cousin John Dytiuk of been issued to the Ukrainian American beginnings to the sports climate at the Wethersfield, Conn., explained that community by Mr. Dytiuk and Dmytro time of the book’s publication. Batkiv residents attended liturgy in their Woch of East Hanover, N.J., who both Along with other notables in the book, church, which was built after World War are originally from the village of Batkiv. sportsmen of Ukrainian descent such as I, until the Orthodox Church of the Donations, with the notation “A/C Chuck Bednarik, Bronko Nagurski, Mike Moscow Patriarchate took over the build- 52379 Batkiv Church,” may be sent to: Ditka and Zenon Snylyk are highlighted ing in 1946. Since then, they have been Selfreliance FCU, 2345 Eastern Ave., and each outline offers readers a glimpse holding liturgies in their own homes, Baltimore, MD 21224. of their lives and their contributions to sports. An entire section dedicated to soccer describes the rise of ethnic sports clubs like the Ukrainian Nationals of Philadelphia and relates the Ukrainian experience to that of other ethnic groups, such as the Greeks, Hispanics and Scots. Also in this section it is pointed out how few foreign-born Americans made a splash as players on the college sports scene, but many did as coaches, among them Walter Chyzowycz, who coached at Greenwood Heinemann, P.O. Box 6926, the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Portsmouth, NH 03802-6926; telephone, Science and at Wake Forest University. 800-225-5800; fax, 603-431-2214; or The section also commends foreign- via www.greenwood.com or www.ama- born, and second- and third-generation zon.com. immigrant parents for encouraging their The author of the encyclopedia’s children to play sports, resulting in high- chapter on “Ukrainian Sport in the er quality talent on American soccer United States”, Mr. Boretsky is press teams and offering an opportunity for a coordinator for the Regional Ukrainian college education to many immigrant Olympic Committee of Philadelphia. He families. has published extensively on the St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, which is under construction Readers can obtain copies of this book Ukrainian American community and in Batkiv, Ukraine. by contacting the publisher at: Ukrainian sports. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 No. 33 Ukrainian opera star featured in “God Bless America – A Musical Salute” GLENDALE, Calif. – The Ukrainian attend the concert and present an award and passionate concert. Kobzar is made Choir Kobzar of Los Angeles and The to the Ukrainian Culture Center for its up of strong and talented voices under Pasadena Community Orchestra present- tribute and support of American veterans. the direction of Greg Hallick. The ed a patriotic tribute on June 23 titled The award was received by Mr. Bohdan Pasadena Community Orchestra, directed “God Bless America – A Musical Salute” Shpak, president of the Ukrainian Culture by Wayne Reinecke, is a fine ensemble here at The Alex Theater. Center. and one of which the city of Pasadena Famed Irish tenor Anthony Kearns The proceeds from this event will ben- should be proud. Mr. Hallick had the was the featured performer, along with efit the children of our fallen heroes vision to invite Irish tenor Anthony one of America’s leading opera artists, through the Freedom Alliance. Kearns as the featured artist, and was Stefan Szkafarowsky of New York, and The following review by Lynette lucky enough to garner the support of the television/film actor George Dzundza Crouse appears on Mr. Kearns’ website, Bass Stefan Szkafarowsky, as well. as master of ceremonies. www.anthonykearns.tripod.com. (It is From the moment they met at the The benefit concert was sponsored by reprinted here with permission.) hours-long rehearsal on June 22, respect the Ukrainian Culture Center of Los * * * and enjoyment took root between the per- Angeles. Anna Krawczuk, national com- formers and shone forth the next evening. mander of the Ukrainian American “An excellent group of performers Kearns remarked during the concert, Veteran’s, traveled from New Jersey to shared the stage and delivered an exciting “Everyone on this stage has a connection

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with Ukraine, with a Paddy stuck in the middle!” A Ukrainian Paddy, to be sure; at the end of the performance Mr. Kearns was presented with an Honorary Son of Ukraine Award by Bohdan Knianicky, president of the Kobzar Choir, which he received graciously: “Thank you very much, indeed.” (In Irish, of course!) His solo presentations ran the gamut from cute Irish ditty into sweeping tenor arias, carrying his delighted audience along with him through each and every genre: 17 solo pieces in all, besides the several he sang with the choir. Mr. Kearns The Ukrainian Choir Kobzar of Los Angeles and The Pasadena Community Orchestra perform at The Alex Theater in California. (Continued on page 23) Ukrainian avant-garde in classical music applauded in Chicago

by Maria Kulczycky great trio by a Ukrainian composer, it in the West and taught in Moscow. A gual and multi-disciplinary, he is a conduc- has a lovely and vibrant melodic line. member of the post-World War I tor and music director of the Nevada CHICAGO – Ukraine’s rich musical her- At turns lyrical and explosive, it musical renaissance in Kyiv, he initi- Symphony Orchestra in Las Vegas and dis- itage is being shared with wider audiences evolves through three movements in a ated the modern movement in Ukraine tinguished professor of music and composer in Chicago. continuous rhythmic drive to a tri- with works that originally reflected in residence at the University of Nevada, Last October, the festival of Kyivan umphant conclusion. The three artists expressionism. He is a composer who Las Vegas. He infuses his music with con- Liturgical Music brought musicologists, – William Jason Raynovich, ensemble deserves a greater reputation, which temporary and traditional motifs. choristers and the public to a two-day cele- director, violoncello; Soo Young Lee, could grow with greater exposure in “ ... a trois” (1998), the Baley piece per- bration of a musical tradition threatened piano; and Elizabeth Brausa the West. formed at the Cultural Center, was written with neglect. Brathwaite, violin – performed this Messrs. Baley and Silvestrov repre- to honor the death of Liatoshynsky, as well Another venerable tradition – modern challenging piece with grace and sent a younger generation, having as the 60th birthday of Mr. Baley’s friend, Ukrainian classical music – is being pro- verve. been born just before World War II. Mr. Silvestrov. The work is a fragment of an moted by an American group, MAVerick Liatoshynsky (1895-1968) studied Mr. Baley, born in Ukraine, has spent imaginary piece. The piano reiterates a Ensemble, artists-in-residence at the and lived in Kyiv, but traveled widely his creative life in the U.S. Multi-lin- motif reminiscent of Proust’s “Madeleine.” Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in The final melody was composed when Mr. Chicago, through a series of concerts Baley was 13, bravely attempting to write a around the city. symphony. The latest MAVerick Ensemble program Mr. Silvestrov, born in Kyiv and a stu- was held July 31 at the Chicago Cultural dent of Liatoshynsky, continues to live and Center, overlooking Millennium Park, a work in Kyiv. While lyrical and melodic, major tourist magnet in the center of the his work embraces free serialism, as well as city. The program took place in conjunction aleatory and textural explorations. with the center’s exhibition “Modernism in “Postludium No. 3” (1981/2), his work Ukraine, 1910-1930,” a landmark exhibit of played at the concert, represents a period Ukrainian avant-garde artists. Both were when, as Mr. Silvestrov explained, he presented by the city’s Department of explored “poetry in music. The postlude can Cultural Affairs. be compared to a collection of resonances. The concert echoed the modern theme of A form in which one suspects the existence the exhibition. Works of Borys of a certain imaginary text connected to the Liatoshynsky, a contemporary of the origi- real, given text.” This metaphorical style nal modernists, and Valentin Silvestrov and preoccupies Mr. Silvestrov to the present. Virko Baley, both composing currently, “Postludium No. 3,” a conversation were presented. between the piano and the cello, is a medita- For the past three years MAVerick tive, slow exchange the performers instilled Ensemble has been researching, studying with deep emotion and simplicity. and performing works of modernist The audience in the spacious marble and Ukrainian composers, providing many with Tiffany-glass hall burst into generous their U.S. premiers. The ensemble, consist- applause at the conclusion of the concert, ing of 10 musicians, also promotes the demonstrating their appreciation for both works of cutting-edge composers such as music and performers. Predominantly non- John Cage, Christian Wolff and Morton Ukrainian, the audience nevertheless includ- Feldman. MAVerick Ensemble members (from left) Elizabeth Brausa Brathwaite, ed several members of the Ukrainian com- There is no way of knowing if violin; Soo Young Lee, piano, and William Jason Raynovich, violoncello munity, among them were Ukraine’s Consul Liatoshynsky’s Trio No. 1, Op 7 (1922) has and ensemble director perform Ukrainian modern classical music in General Vasyl Korzachenko and members been performed here before. Called the first Chicago. of his staff. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 15

Long-awaited Ukrainian modernism exhibit stirs Chicago audience by Marta Farion Minister of Culture Ihor Likhovij, who introduced the Cultural Affairs. “The 16 years of exchanges and coop- exhibit with a letter of greetings from Ukrainian eration between Chicago and Kyiv made this opening CHICAGO – The long-awaited exhibition of early President Viktor Yushchenko. President Yushchenko possible,” Ms. Farion stated. 20th century Ukrainian art made a dramatic American wrote: “The mutual efforts of many individuals in The Chicago exhibition and opening were sponsored debut on July 20 when approximately 300 persons Ukraine and the United States will allow thousands of with the generous support of the Chicago Department of attended the exhibit’s opening reception at the Chicago viewers in the United States to familiarize themselves Cultural Center. Titled “Crossroads: Modernism in with another aspect of the art of Ukraine. This exhibit Ukraine, 1910-1930,” the unique collection of more marks the beginning of a new era of cultural exchanges than 70 works assembled from both museum and pri- between Ukraine and the United States.” vate holdings will remain in Chicago until it resumes its Minister Likhovij added: “The artists who created national tour in October when it moves to The these works represent a very difficult and sad era when Ukrainian Museum in New York City. Soviet repression resulted in their persecution, and often death. It is difficult for us now to understand that art was the target of political repression, but these artists refused to cave in to pressure and left the world a signif- icant contribution in the arts. I am grateful to the organ- izers who made this exhibit possible and to Mayor Richard and Mrs. Maggie Daley, who visited Kyiv last year and supported the project in Chicago.” O ther guests from Ukraine Accompanying Minister Likhovij from Kyiv to Chicago was Anatoly Melnyk, director of the National Art Museum of Ukraine; Ludmyla Kovalska, deputy director; as well as the museum’s restorers Tamara Gerzhan and Iryna Demydchuk. Also present at the opening ceremony were respected art historians Dmytro Horbachov and Prince Nikita Vsevolod Maksymovych, “A Kiss.” 1913. Oil on canvas. Lobanov-Rostovsky, who co-curated and assembled the 100x100. unique exhibit from the holdings of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Theater Museum, the Museum Cultural Affairs, the Chicago Sister Cities International of Folk Art of the Ukraine, the Art Museum of Program, UA-TV, LLC as principal sponsor and Hyatt Dnipropetrovsk and from private collections. Doug International Corp. as principal co-sponsor. Additional Robinson provided restoration and installation expert- support came from Selfreliance Ukrainian American ise. Federal Credit Union, Heritage Foundation of First Other guests at the Chicago opening included Security Federal Savings Bank and an anonymous Ukraine’s diplomats, Ambassador to the United Nations donor. Valeriy Kuchinsky and Ukrainian Consul General in The exhibit’s national tour in the United States is Chicago Vasyl Korzachenko. Ukraine’s Ambassador to sponsored by The Boeing Company, The Trust for the U.S. Oleh Shamshur, who supported the exhibit in Mutual Understanding, Nour USA Ltd., Konstantin its various aspects, was unable to attend because of air- Grigorishin and Aerosvit Airlines. Additional financial port weather conditions in Chicago. support was provided by Oleksander Tabalov, Mykola Mr. Melnyk noted the exhibit’s impressive presenta- M. Shymone, Dean Buntrock and Chadbourne & Parke, tion and said, “It is an honor to present these master- LLP. Other support was provided by the Mission of pieces of avant-garde art to the public in the United Ukraine to the United Nations, the Embassy of Ukraine States. It is time for the world to recognize Ukraine’s and the Ukrainian Consulate General of Chicago. contribution to contemporary art.” The exhibit in print Minister of Culture, Ihor Likhovij; Marta Farion; Organizers and sponsors and director of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs published Anatoly Melnyk. The exhibition’s American tour was organized by the colorful brochures for distribution to all visitors for the National Art Museum of Ukraine and the Foundation duration of the show. Some 40,000 visitors are expected The international avant-garde movement that reached for International Arts and Education, whose president, at the exhibit’s premier venue, located in Chicago’s loop its peak during the first three decades of the 20th centu- Gregory Guroff, poured energy, experience and dedica- next to Millennium Park. Exhibit catalogues, published ry included many influential and innovative artists from tion into the project. It took years to find, identify, in Ukraine, contain color reproductions and a collection Ukraine. As elsewhere in the former Soviet Union, restore and gather these works. of essays in Ukrainian and English and are on sale for these artists were often persecuted and executed in the In Chicago, the exhibit was presented by the city’s $50 at the Cultural Center’s gift shop or are available to 1930s and their works were banned or destroyed. Department of Cultural Affairs and the Kyiv Committee order online at http://www.chicagostore.com/. According to local experts, nearly 2,000 of these works of the Chicago Sister Cities International Program. In the exhibition catalogue, Prince Lobanov- were confiscated by the government during the late Marta Farion, chairman of the Chicago Kyiv Sister Rostovsky writes: “This exhibit is designed to show an 1930s, and only 300 remain today. This exhibition pres- Cities Committee, who served as the co-host of the American audience the talent and unique nature of ents the best of these works, many of which have only opening with Gregory Knight, emphasized the historical Ukrainian avant-garde art and to help understand that recently been viewed outside of Ukraine. significance of bringing these works to the United the artists are, indeed, Ukrainian, not Russian, a differ- States. She noted the substantial contributions and sup- ence not always appreciated in the West. Moreover, the Opening ceremonies port of numerous individuals among the professional Chicago’s commissioner of cultural affairs, the leg- staff and the significant resources of the Department of (Continued on page 23) endary Lois Weisberg, addressed the opening ceremony and stated, “I am delighted to see the works of these world-renowned artists in Chicago. It is the first time that these works appear in the United States. These works are masterpieces of 20th century art. Every per- son who visits this exhibit will see the grandeur of Ukrainian culture.” Deputy Chicago commissioner of Visual Arts, Gregory Knight, of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs also addressed the exhibit’s opening and thanked those who initiated, organized, managed and financed it. “This exhibit of modern art from Ukraine opens the door to the art treasures of Ukraine which were banned and hidden all these years and to the Ukrainian artists whose names we have known and others whom we learn about for the first time. Crossroads explores the role of Ukraine in the development of the avant-garde movement,” said Mr. Knight. “This exhibit includes works by well-known artists like Kazimir Malevich, Alexandra Exter, Anatoly Petrytsky, Mykhailo Boichuk and David Burliuk, and introduces American audiences to previously unknown Ukrainian artists including Yasyl Yermylov and Oleksander Bohomazov,” he added. Attending the Chicago opening was Ukrainian Organizers and sponsors of the exhibit, “Crossroads: Modernism in Ukraine, 1910-1930”. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 No. 33

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any party program. In my opinion, these were 11,000. In 1990, the UOCC became, Radio employees, UNIAN reported on NEWSBRIEFS things are: the Ukrainian state, sover- as Interfax puts it, “a Church body under August 10. Nashe Radio Director (Continued from page 16) eignty, faith, patriotism, unitary form of the mantle of the Ecumenical Bohdan Bolkhovetskyy told journalists Party activist Leonid Hrach told UNIAN government and safety. These concepts Patriarchate” of Constantinople. Before on August 10 that unidentified assailants, that the Communist Party had already always form a basis for constitutional that, it was out of communion with canon- following a collision between their car signed the agreement on the formation of priorities of any nation. Whatever party ical Orthodox Churches. The UOCC con- and that of the Nashe Radio employees the Anti-Crisis Coalition with the Party programs say, these key values make us siders one of its important tasks to be on a street in Kyiv on August 8, abducted of the Regions and the Socialists. “If Ukrainians.” He urged politicians to “support of the hopes of the people of the broadcasters and took them out of anyone wants to join [this coalition], they always put national interests first when Ukraine to have a free and autocephalous town. “The assailants demanded the should sign the memorandum, but we do discussing such “cornerstones.” Mr. Ukrainian Orthodox Church.” (Religious return of a briefcase about which none of not need to,” Mr. Hrach added. (RFE/RL Yushchenko then said it is expedient to Information Service of Ukraine) the kidnapped knew anything,” Mr. continue such discussions in the future. Newsline) Radio station asks for probe into attack Bolkhovetskyy said. “[The assailants] “I believe this is only the beginning of interrogated our men for four hours, got Tymoshenko Bloc in opposition our cooperation at a roundtable. I really KYIV – Nashe Radio (Our Radio) has information about their relatives, and want the political forces to support my threatened to make short work of them. YKYIV – ulia Tymoshenko, head of appealed to President Viktor Yushchenko, idea of regularly holding roundtables to They beat one of our men, made him the eponymous political bloc, said after Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, discuss controversial issues,” he said. Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko and kneel down, and shot repeatedly over his the signing of the Declaration of National (Press Office of the President of Ukraine) Unity in Kyiv on August 3 by the Party Prosecutor-General Oleksandr Medvedko head. Then they took [our men’s] money of the Regions, Our Ukraine, the U OC-MP has new bishop for Chernivtsi to take under personal control the investi- and mobile phones and released them.” Socialist Party, the Communist Party and gation into an attack against three Nashe (RFE/RL Newsline) President Yushchenko that her force will KYIV – Metropolitan Volodymyr remain in an “uncompromising opposi- Sabodan, head of the Ukrainian tion” to the ruling coalition, Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate media reported. “For me, the declaration (UOC-MP), presided at the episcopal of principles, whatever has been written ordination of Archimandrite Meletii there, is a capitulation in front of forces Yehorenko as bishop of Khotyn and vicar that have been allowed to come back and of the UOC-MP eparchy in Chernivtsi. date back to the time of [former] The ceremony was held at the Monastery President [Leonid] Kuchma,” Ms. of the Caves in Kyiv, according to Tymoshenko said. “I believe that this pravoslavye.org.ua, which posted the absurdity will not survive for long, and news on July 31. (Religious Information that we will be an uncompromising Service of Ukraine) opposition.” (RFE/RL Newsline) No communion for non-Orthodox President pleased with roundtable ÇÌÓ˜¥ Á 7 ̇ 8 ÒÂðÔÌfl Ô¥ÒÎfl ÚflÊÍÓª ı‚ÓðÓ·Ë ‚¥‰¥È¯Î‡ Û Á‡Ò‚¥ÚË OTT AWA – Archbishop-Metropolitan KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko John Stinka, head of the Ukrainian said on August 3 that he was pleased Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC), has çÄÑßü ëÇßíãàóçÄ with the results of that day’s roundtable released an encyclical against the practice (1936 – 2006) discussion among Ukraine’s political of “communion with non-Orthodox,” leaders. He congratulated those present which certain priests and parishes of his Ôð‡‚ÓÁ‡ıËÒÌˈfl, ÔÓÎ¥Ú‚’flÁÂ̸, ð‰‡ÍÚÓð ð‡‰¥Ó ◊ë‚Ó·Ó‰‡“, on signing the Declaration of National Church have allowed. He said that, inas- „ðÓχ‰Ò¸Í‡ ‰¥fl˜Í‡. Unity, thanking the political leaders for much as the teaching of the Orthodox ì ˆÂÈ ÚflÊÍËÈ ÏÓÏÂÌÚ ·ÂÁ ̇ȉÓðÓʘӪ ‰Îfl Ì‡Ò ã˛‰ËÌË Ì‡ÈÒËθ̥¯ËÏπ “making much progress” during their dis- Church does not allow this, it will no Ú ÔÓ˜ÛÚÚfl, ˘Ó ¥ÒÌÛπ Û Ò‚¥‰ÓÏÓÒÚ¥ ¥ Ì ‚ËÒÎӂβπÚ¸Òfl. cussions. “This path was not smooth, and longer be allowed in the UOCC. interfax- Ç¥‰¥È¯Î‡ ‚¥‰ Ì‡Ò Î˛‰Ë̇, fl͇ ÔÓ‚Òfl͘‡Ò ÊË‚Ë· ̇¯Û ðÓ‰ËÌÌÛ ÎflÏÔ‡‰Û religion.ru posted the news on July 31. those nights and days we spent compos- ‚¥ðË, β·Ó‚Ë È ‰Ó·ð‡. ing this document show we did not take The document particularly notes that this this path in vain,” he said. The president “refers also to Catholics of the Eastern çÂı‡È ÒÔӘ˂‡π Á ÏËðÓÏ í‚Ófl ‰Û¯‡, also thanked those who had meticulously rite, regardless of any contrary state- β·‡ ÑêìÜàçé, åÄåé, ÅÄÅìëû. edited the agreement: “All revisions con- ments.” This year’s sobor (assembly) of cerned the most controversial points….” the UOCC noted a substantial decrease in èÄÇãé ëíéäéíÖãúçàâ, ˜ÓÎÓ‚¥Í Mr. Yushchenko said there were “things the Church’s membership: in 1961 there üêÖåÄ ëÇßíãàóçàâ, ÒËÌ that will always be above postulates of were 119,000 members, and in 2004 there ßÇÄç ëíéäéíÖãúçàâ, ÒËÌ Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ äêàëíàç ÇÖãÖë ëÇßíãàóçàâ, ÓÌÛÍ It is with great sorrow that we announce the death of our beloved husband, father and grandfather èðÓ˘‡ÌÌfl Á 燉¥π˛ ë‚¥Ú΢ÌÓ˛ ‚¥‰·Û‰ÂÚ¸Òfl ‚ ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚. Ä̉ð¥fl èÂð‚ÓÁ‚‡ÌÌÓ„Ó Û ë. Ň‚̉ ÅðÛÍÛ 12 ÒÂðÔÌfl, ‚ ÒÛ·ÓÚÛ, ‚¥‰ 4 ‰Ó 7 „Ó‰. ÔÓ ÔÓÎ. Walter Walchuk èÄçÄïàÑÄ – Ó 7 „Ó‰. ‚˜Óð‡. on Thursday, August 3, 2006, at the age of 83. èÓıÓðÓÌ – ̇ ŇÈÍÓ‚ÓÏÛ ˆ‚ËÌÚ‡ð¥ Û äËπ‚¥.

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Orange Revolution as if he supported it! 32-year-old billionaire who got his start 2004 were essentially a rock festival in the A humiliating... “It’s very important that in 2004, peo- through connections in the Kyiv mafia. snow, cynics are starting to say. (Continued from page 6) ple came out on squares, and we, with Other Tymoshenko Bloc National Perhaps the worst thing Mr. (Sorry Viktor, but eliminating the you all, weren’t only witnesses, but also Deputies with ties to corrupt business- Yushchenko has done is to devastate the national traffic police isn’t what participants,” Mr. Yanukovych said men include Oleksander Abdulin and hopes and moral grounding of average, Ukrainians stood on the maidan for.) before signing the National Unity Kharkiv magnate Oleksandr Feldman. decent-minded, hard-working Ukrainians Mr. Yushchenko’s rise to power is a his- Declaration. Back in March, if I were a Ukrainian looking for a better life in their own torical accident, in the view of Ivan “People spoke of justice, people spoke citizen, I said I would have cast my vote country so they won’t have to go abroad Lozowy, a Ukrainian political expert and of a better life, people spoke of freedom, for Our Ukraine because I thought (get to work as construction workers, clean- New York University Law School graduate. and so forth. These are all things that we this) that it was the best choice to prevent ing ladies or prostitutes. Mr. Kuchma plucked him out of the hoped for and hope for in our lives. We the Party of the Regions from coming to For these people, the near-term out- National Bank and installed him as prime want to build a just nation, we want to power. look is grim. Presidential elections won’t minister because he was largely a weak, dis- build an independent nation, we want to I also criticized Yurii Kostenko for roll around for another three years. associated and detached politician, he said. build a democratic nation.” forming the Kostenko-Pliusch Bloc as a (Yes, it’s shaping up to be a battle That hasn’t changed a bit. All emotions aside, Mr. Yushchenko national-democratic force because it between Ms. Tymoshenko and Mr. When she saw Mr. Yushchenko recently, really did sell out the Orange Revolution, would siphon votes away from Our Yanukovych). Orange Revolution hero Praskovya simply by giving his former enemy the Ukraine. Admitedly, Ukrainian consciousness is Koroliuk told me Mr. Yushchenko right to refer to it in his speeches as if it’s However, it’s now apparent that Mr. slowly evolving. Enough Ukrainians appeared a changed man. something he fought for. Kostenko was aware of something that have been to Europe and have seen how But perhaps it’s not Mr. Yushchenko To set the record straight, the Orange many refused to see until now – that Our a civilized society operates. Movies are who has changed, but instead our percep- Revolution took place because people Ukraine is a pragmatic business clan. being dubbed into Ukrainian, and more tions have deepened regarding a man were absolutely terrified of a Viktor As one veteran reporter told me, the music on the radio is in Ukrainian. who hasn’t changed much at all. Yanukovych presidency. main difference between Our Ukraine and But the Ukrainian language isn’t going A tall, handsome, devout Orthodox Mr. Yanukovych’s attempt to re-write the Party of the Regions is the latter does- to ease the burden of the average Christian makes for good television history, and the spineless Ukrainian pres- n’t shy away from aggression or violence. Ukrainian who is struggling to survive in footage, but there’s got to be some sub- ident allowing him to do it, is outrageous. Instead, Our Ukraine members mas- a faltering, inflationary economy. stance there. The good news is that barring a miracle, querade in embroidered shirts and use the Though Mr. Yushchenko seems to have Mr. Yushchenko was at the right place, Mr. Yushchenko will not be re-elected. Ukrainian language publicly. done everything to wreck the Orange at the right time, but the wrong man. His presidency may one day be Petro Poroshenko and Yevhen Revolution, he can never change the fact And while he blew it (and boy did he remembered as a pathetic accident. Chervonenko don’t speak Ukrainian that millions of Ukrainians came to their blow it), the Party of the Regions have But then where can the average, patri- when the cameras are turned off, and capital city demanding that their govern- shown they are the sharpest, most effec- otic-minded Ukrainian voter turn to for a Oleksiy Ivchenko seems to think that ment be held accountable to the people. tive political force in Ukraine. legitimate political force to vote for? being a nationalist means buying a new Ukrainians demonstrated to Europe Hiring the top K Street U.S. public Oleksandr Moroz? Let’s hope the March Mercedes every two years at the people’s that they hold Western values – democra- relations firm Davis Manafort was 2006 elections were also his swan song. expense. cy, rule of law, pluralism, tolerance, free- among the smartest things they did. The Tymoshenko Bloc has a solid Like many, I wish I could take back dom of speech, freedom of assembly. Politicians synonymous with crime, future, but its structure is very similar to my (symbolic) vote for Our Ukraine. In addressing the Verkhovna Rada on deceit and violence were given a Our Ukraine. Rather than separating business from August 4, Mr. Yushchenko mocked the makeover. Aside for a handful of patriots and politics, Mr. Yushchenko’s presidency has idea of a second maidan, calling it a myth Baby-faced Akhmetov got up in front nationalists who are trotted off before tel- ensured that business clans will continue and a legend. of a Donetsk audience to share his tear- evision cameras, the Tymoshenko Bloc to have a lock on Ukrainian government. Perhaps that’s his fear. Come sooner jerking experience of poverty, describing consists of many shady millionaires who Behind the scenes, it certainly appears or later, however, his government will how he slept on folding beds as a boy in are former associates of Mr. Kuchma and that the “revolution” was in fact a battle need to deliver the demands made on the a home without plumbing. Kyiv clan boss Viktor Medvedchuk. between millionaires and billionaires, as maidan. In his own image makeover, Mr. The Tymoshenko Bloc’s illustrious ranks long suspected. Otherwise, the real Ukrainian revolu- Yanukovych began to speak of the include Kostiantyn Zhevago, a notorious The events of November and December tion may be yet to come. Y OU ARE NOT AL ONE

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House of Ukraine to sponsor annual Ukrainian festival in California SAN DIEGO – House of Ukraine Inc., located in Balboa Park, will sponsor its annual Ukrainian Festival during Labor Day weekend, Friday through Sunday, September 1-3. The House of Ukraine is one of 32 nationalities that make up the House of Pacific Relations in Balboa Park, San Diego. The khatka (cottage) has been the focus of the San Diego Ukrainian commu- nity since its inception in 1961; the cottage is open to visitors and tourists every Sunday afternoon and serves as an information cen- ter about Ukraine and Ukrainians. The annual Ukrainian Festival has brought together Ukrainians and their friends from across the U.S. and western Canada for the past 31 years. Festivities start on Friday with a wel- come get-together in the sand near Lifeguard Station 13 located just south of “The Giant Dipper Roller Coaster” in Mission Beach. The annual concert begins on Saturday evening and features Volya Ukrainian Dance Ensemble from Edmonton. The Volya Ukrainian Dance Ensemble from Edmonton. performance will be held at the Kroc Performing Arts Center, 6845 University Hotel Circle. This year’s zabava show- contemporary Ukrainian dance music. tion on the House of Ukraine’s Festival Ave., San Diego. cases Lviv Muzyky from northern To place an ad in the Saturday night call 619-460-5733, e-mail housandien- Volya returns the next day along with California who will play traditional and program book, for tickets and for informa- [email protected] or visit houseofukraine.com. Lviv Muzyky from northern California to the House of Pacific Relations International Cottages Lawn Stage, located in front of the House of Ukraine in Balboa Notice to publishers and authors Park, for a short program of Ukrainian It is The Ukrainian Weekly’s policy to run news items and/or reviews of newly published books, booklets and reprints, as well as entertainment from 2-3 p.m. Ukrainian ethnic food and refreshments will be avail- records and premiere issues of periodicals only after receipt by the editorial offices of a copy of the material in question. able for purchase from noon to 3 p.m. News items sent without a copy of the new release will not be published. Festivities conclude on Sunday night Send new releases and information (where publication may be purchased, cost, etc.) to: Editorial Staff, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 with a dinner and zabava (dance) at 6 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. p.m. at the Handlery Hotel and Resort in 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 No. 33

when you hear Robert de Niro, Dustin ture over another are simply subjected to tinuous policy of Russification, will be Is there a need... Hoffman, Alain Delon, Catherine social ostracism and are isolated like an very quickly filled up with new talent. (Continued from page 7) Deneuve or Carmen Maura speaking infectious disease. In this sense Ukraine This will happen not through the govern- a film and its ability to attract the widest Russian without blinking an eye. This is is still far from being a democratic socie- ment’s administration but a change in possible number of viewers – and not just as funny as Alla Demidova, Renata ty. And, as for the supposed rejection of those very market conditions and the liq- Litvinova or Nikita Mikhalkov speaking with the fact that a film, no matter how the Ukrainian language by film audi- uidation of the grotesque anomaly English, French or Italian.) ences, one should not rush to any conclu- dubious its quality, is ready for distribu- whereby the cultural needs of 70 percent The advent of Ukrainian-language sions. Instead, we first need to see how tion just because it is in Russian. of the population are insolently ignored. dubbing may give a huge impetus to audiences will respond in the next two or Then more British, Spanish, Polish, There is nothing comparable in other movie theater-going in Ukraine’s west- three years to high-quality Ukrainian French and Czech films would appear on European film markets. Dubbing films ern, central and even eastern regions. dubbing. the market, and viewers would have the into Ukrainian is a step toward European Proponents of the argument about the A long time ago the fine translation of democratic values. This is a sign of chance to watch international films not unprofitability of films in western American television series into respect for the cultural needs of millions reflected through the distorted lens of the Ukraine are not relying on some sort of Ukrainian persuasively corrected the fab- of Ukrainians. In the Spanish province of Russian film distribution industry. How sociological research on the consumer rication about the alleged linguistic Catalonia, whose population is less than is this not an argument in favor of those potential of the Ukrainian-speaking parts Ukrainophobia of the domestic film 7 million, no one questions the advisabil- who worry so touchingly about the high of Ukraine. Meanwhile, this potential audience. The Ukrainophobes are not ity of releasing films in the Catalan lan- artistic quality of the film repertoire and may turn out to be a large one. moviegoers but those who represent guage and subtitling foreign films in support the principles of free competition Particularly significant is the psycho- them in this manner. Catalan. But that is a province of Spain, and market? logical argument that says that viewers Aesthetic concerns are also expressed. and we’re talking about independent There is another interesting economic themselves do not like films in the You see, right now in Ukraine there are Ukraine. How can you compare the two? argument. It turns out that the lion’s share Ukrainian language. They find them no good actors, and the few that exist Ukrainian-language dubbing will of revenues from films distributed in unnatural, laughable, ridiculous or some- rarely speak Ukrainian well. So dubbing quickly create not just demand but sup- Ukraine comes from the predominantly thing along those lines. The people who that would be done with their own ply. Finally, in universities where spe- Russian-speaking eastern and southern say this are transferring their own resources would make a horse laugh. cialists in cinematography – directors, regions. Thanks to them the “Ukrainian” Ukrainophobia and antipathy to the This is undeniable. The general culture screenwriters, actors, etc. – are being film distribution industry is keeping its Ukrainian language to all moviegoers in of language among actors is catastrophi- trained, they will seriously begin teach- head above water. I assume that many Ukraine. cally low, and mastery of the language is ing the Ukrainian language, and students film lovers don’t go to the movies simply Thank you for your frankness, ladies not considered the first obvious require- will realize that mastering this language because they do not want to watch and gentlemen, I get it. But I have news ment of an actor’s professionalism, as it opens up career opportunities in Ukraine. American, French, and Italian films in for you. In democratic societies people is in other cultures. Isn’t this what is frightening those who, Russian. (It’s hard to keep from laughing who advance the superiority of one cul- If you don’t believe me, then just go to contrary to all the demands of political the Molodizhnyi (Youth) Theater on correctness, cannot stop themselves from Prorizna Street in Kyiv, or the Academic making faces whenever they demonstrate (sic!) Ukrainian Drama, where you will cer- their idea of what Ukrainian-language ÄÇßüäÇàíäà tainly hear so many Russian phonetic fea- dubbing should sound like? ‚ ìäêÄ∫çì tures littering the language spoken on stage It is strange that in discussions of the there that you could easily imagine you are government’s decision almost no men- anywhere but in a Ukrainian theater. tion is made of another, significantly This problem also exists in films. The (586)759-6563 cheaper, alternative for resolving this Ministry of Culture and Tourism requires question: foreign films, with the excep- that the film projects it finances are in tion of Russian ones, can be subtitled. Standard Food Ukrainian, but our film people are unable Everyone knows that this is done in the Packages to speak Ukrainian well, so they use either United States, Canada, Great Britain, bad Ukrainian or they make increasingly Spain and Poland, and even more often more “silent” films in which you won’t in France, whose film policies Moscow ÚÍË hear any sort of language at all. liked to copy at one time. One could ä‡ð The requirement to dub films into íÂÎÂÙÓÌ¥˜Ì¥Íð‡ªÌË èÂðÂÔËÒÛπÏÓ hardly expect cinemaphiles to watch ‰Ó ì 00 Ukrainian, under the conditions of its $10. ‚¥‰ÂÓ͇ÒÂÚË Á films by Fellini, Almodovar, Godard or 00 ı‚ËÎËÌÓ Ö‚ðÓÔÂÈÒ¸Í consistent and inexorable implementa- Woody Allen in a dubbed version. Even Á‡ 1 ÄÏÂðË͇ÌÒ¸ÍÛÓª ̇ tion, will create overnight a serious ·ÂÁÍÓ¯ÚÓ‚ÌÓ„ the highest-quality dubbing is not capa- ÒËÒÚÂÏÛ ¥ ̇‚Ô‡ÍË demand for talent – Ukrainian-speaking ble of conveying the luxuriant cultural Ç talent – and dozens if not hundreds of Çßáà ß á flavor of these artists. Ukrainians read no Äèêéò ‰Ó Öççü jobs. The fact that today it is difficult to worse than other nations. ìäêÄ∫ç à find professional actors in Ukraine does However, I am not proposing to sub- 臘ÍË ‚ Íð‡ªÌË not mean that we don’t have talented stitute subtitles everywhere for dubbing. ŇÎÚ¥ª, èÓθ˘Û, people who could quickly master the Dubbing is a wonderful way of affirming êÓÒ¥˛, Å¥ÎÓðÛÒ¸, necessary profession. Overnight demand åÓΉӂÛ, óÂı¥˛ the Ukrainian language, and under no ¥ ëÎÓ‚‡Í¥˛ will create supply. circumstances should this method be The vacuum that is being artificially rejected, all the more so as our viewers maintained by the situation that has are very much accustomed to it. But for existed since 1991 – in fact, since 1896 – art house productions, experimental, and not because of the “elemental market low-budget and non-Hollywood films, force” but because of the brutal and con- subtitles are the optimal method not only from the economic but aesthetic-creative standpoint. It is difficult not to agree with those who are calling on the government to go beyond administrative measures and materially demonstrate the seriousness of its intentions. The government should allocate funds to create Ukraine’s own powerful resources for dubbing and sub- titling films – foreign films into Ukrainian and Ukrainian films into English, French, Spanish and other world languages – and, of course, into Russian for the Russian market. It would be ideal if these steps were taken not by the government but Ukrainian industrialists or, let’s say, the newly created Association of Film Producers of Ukraine, which has a vision, a sense of obligation to its own people, and a mission that will benefit future generations. The transition to Ukrainian dubbing will become a paradigmatic change for cinematography and generally for Ukrainian culture. This will create favor- able market conditions for the emergence and development of the Ukrainian film market, and a bountiful spiritual milieu for creativity on the screen and in literature. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 23

two others. He has an impressive range; choir hosted a stirring and patriotic and who have served, and to honor those Ukrainian opera... [he is] a deep bass who can sing toward evening; an evening quite rare and one who never came home. It was a celebra- (Continued from page 14) the higher baritone. which all in attendance felt genuinely tion of the greatness of our great country paid a high tribute to his hosts: he learned Mr. Szkafarowsky joined Mr. Kearns honored to have attended. narrated beautifully and dramatically by a verse in Ukrainian to sing with the choir and the choir for “God Bless America.” Love of country, which some may call Mr. Dzundza during a moving rendition in his first appearance on stage for the These two men were simpatico from the hackneyed, was dignified and glorious in of the Gettysburg Address and the Emma evening: “O Lord, Thine is the Greatness,” outset. Two powerful, trained, accom- this program. From the opening strains of Lazarus poem “New Collossus.” A great arranged by Hallick for this concert. plished musicians so obviously enjoying “The Star Spangled Banner” clear lover of good music and a patriot at heart, Mr. Szkafarowsky, a bass who has per- the experience of singing together creat- through the encore of “God Bless he became quite swept away with the formed not only at the Met, but on many ed magic! America,” these Ukrainian descendants’ evening, calling for extra encores, and other opera stages worldwide, was a wel- This concert was the realization of a pride in America was lovingly expressed. through his exuberance, receiving them! come addition to the program this dream for concert promoter, choir direc- To end the first half, Mr. Hallick’s dra- Mairead Hurley superbly accompanied evening. He sang two amazing Ukrainian tor and arranger Greg Hallick. Through matic arrangement of “The Battle Hymn Mr. Kearns this evening. She was the pieces, and accompanied the choir for his perseverance and dedication, his of the Republic” sung by his choir and repetiteur for “Faust” this past spring in Mr. Kearns, and preceded by George Dublin in which Mr. Kearns sang the lead, Dzundza’s passionate recitation of “The and is a very talented and respected Americans – for reasons having to do Gettysburg Address,” brought the house woman in the music world of Ireland. Long-awaited... with the country’s reluctant mingling down. Accompanying Mr. Szkafarowsky’s solo (Continued from page 15) with Russia and, later, the Soviet Union – Toward the end of the show, “The pieces was Matthew Bergey, nephew of exhibition is equally important because it is Ukraine’s contribution to the modern Stars and Stripes Forever” was played, Greg Hallick, and an accomplished pianist will also help Ukrainians acquaint them- art movements that percolated through- along with a medley of songs celebrating and piano instructor in the Midwest. selves with their own cultural heritage.” out Europe and the United States in the each branch of the armed services. It would not surprise me in the least if During the exhibit’s first week, the early 20th century. Members and previous members of each one day in the near future we would Ukrainian collection received significant “A casual walk through of the exhibit branch were asked to rise when their again be treated to the dynamic combina- coverage in Chicago’s newspapers. – the first of its kind in the United States song was played and it created an tion of Kobzar, Kearns and The Chicago Tribune’s art critic Alan – can tend to leave you with the impres- intensely moving tribute. Szkafarowsky, for such magic was creat- G. Artner wrote: sion of a polyglot, aggressively cosmo- This concert was a celebration of free- ed on that stage, it would be a tragedy “The Orange Revolution of 2004 not politan art that lacked easily discernible dom, to say “thank you” to all serving indeed to never experience it again. only focused attention on contemporary national characteristics. Those trendy politics and art in Ukraine but also Ukrainians! They dipped their brushes prompted a look at the early decades of into virtually every paint can of the the 20th Century when the capital city avant garde, from Cubism and Futurism Kiev [sic] had an art scene as progressive to (belatedly) Art Nouveau and (early WWantant toto seesee as almost any in the world and several of on) Constructivism. That last move- its artists were leaders in the international ment, widely considered a Russian phe- avant-garde ... What they created was in nomenon, was actually pioneered in part youryour namename inin print?print? the forefront of the most radical art pro- by a cadre of native or adopted Then why not become a correspondent of duced anywhere, and for the first time in Ukrainians. ... memory it is discussed (in superb cata- “There’s a distinctly Ukrainian lush- The Ukrainian Weekly in your community? logue essays) in relation to the history ness that adheres to even the most severe We welcome submissions from all our Ukrainian communi- and traditions of Ukraine as well as such compositions here – such as Kazimir Western art movements as Cubism and Malevich’s ‘suprematist’ images, with ties, no matter where they are located. Let the rest of us know Futurism.” their subtle use of Christian symbols – what you’re up to in your corner of the Ukrainian diaspora! Chicago Sun-Times art critic Kevin and deepens into outright decadence in Nance wrote: the overheated canvases of Vsevolod Any questions? Call The Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext. 3049. “What might not occur to many Maksymovych.” 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 No. 33 No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 25 OUT AND ABOUT

August 17 Voloshky Dancers, Sullivan County Community College, August 24 Ukrainian Independence Day ceremony, Court House Liberty, NY 845-434-5750, ext. 4303 or Scranton, PA Square, luncheon at Radisson Hotel, sponsored by [email protected] Ukrainian Heritage Council of Northeastern Pennsylvania, [email protected] August 18 Friends of the Ukrainian Village Society Golf Edmonton Tournament, Broadmoor Public Golf Course, August 24 Ukrainian Independence Day celebration, State 780-662-3640 Sacramento, CA Capitol Building, 916-482-4706 or 916-726-5205

August 18-20 “And the Ship Sails On: Ukrainian Cinema Today,” August 24-27 Ukrainian Sunflower Festival and Orange Gala, Jewett, NY three-part film series, Grazhda Music and Art Warren, MI The Ukrainian Cultural Center, 586-582-9057 Center of Greene County, 518-989-6479 August 25 Ukrainian Canadian Professional Business Association August 19-20 Ukrainian Days Festival, UCCA of Illinois, Regina, SK Golf Tournament, Avonlea, 306-791-7666 Chicago Smith Park, 773-252-1228 August 25-27 Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival, August 19-20 Ukrainian Folk Festival, Ukrainian Homestead, Toronto 416-410-9965 Lehighton, PA 215- 235-3709 or 610-377-4621 August 26 Ukraine Day in the Park, Kiwanis Park, August 20 Ukrainian Indepedence Festival, Ukrainian American Saskatoon, SK 306-374-7675 Horsham, PA Sports Center Tryzub, 215-343-5412 August 26 Ukrainian festival, Ukrainian Heritage Club of Sacramento, CA Northern California, 916-482-4706 or 916-649-2122 August 20 Ukrainian Independence Day picnic, Tidewater Norfolk, VA Ukrainian Cultural Association, Norfolk Botanical August 27 Ukrainian Music Festival, featuring local Ukrainian Gardens, 757-441-5830 Edmonton folk musicians, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, 780-662-3855 ext. 1104 August 21 Free concert featuring the Syzokryli dancers and East Meadow, NY the band The Wave, Eisenhower Park, 718-347-0013 August 27 Ukrainian independence celebration, St. Mary or 516-572-0200 Parma, OH Protectress Parish hall, 216-524-6870

August 24 Ukrainian Independence Golf Tournament, Clublink’s August 27 Ukrainian Day, Golden Gate Park, 650-363-1476 Bolton, ON Caledon Woods Golf Course, 416-322-9902 or San Francisco, CA 905-338-5885 or 416-933-6908 August 28 Ukrainian Independence Day picnic, St. Andrew August 24 St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Independence Day Silver Spring, MD Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, 301-384-9192 Oakville, ON celebration, St. Volodymyr Cultural Center, 416-323-4772 Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to August 24 Independence day concert, sponsored by the events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. Please send e-mail to staff@ukr- Jenkintown, PA Philadephia Ukrainian Community Committee and weekly.com. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors and as the UECC, 215-663-1166 space allows. Please note: items will be printed a maximum of two times each. No. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 27 UKEUKELLODEONODEON FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

Plast campers send greetings to The Weekly

Youths from across North America attended Plast Ukrainian Scouting camps during the month of July. Fifteen camps sent greetings signed by the campers and their counselors; a few are seen above: (top row, from left) the camp for novachky at Novyi Sokil in Buffalo, N.Y.; the camp for yunatstvo at Novyi Sokil; the camp for yunachky at Pysanij Kamin in Middlefield, Ohio; the camp for older yunatstvo at Vovcha Tropa in East Chatham, N.Y.; (bottom row) the camp for preschoolers at Vovcha Tropa and the camp for yunaky at Pysanij Kamin.

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Mishanyna To solve this month’s Mishanyna, find the words that are capitalized capacity for work, Franko made outstanding contributions to many areas of Ukrainian CULTURE.” On August 27 we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the BIRTH of Ivan Franko, a great Ukrainian poet and nationalist. Source: Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Volume I, Toronto: University of Born in Drohobych county, IVAN FRANKO contributed to Ukrainian Toronto Press, 1984. culture as a PLAYWRIGHT, publisher, critic, POET, translator and TEACHER. Franko studied Ukrainian language and philology at Lviv University, W E R U T L U C H E A M F P J where his first works were published in “DRUH,” a students’ magazine. He continued his studies at Chernivtsi and Vienna universities. Later, in 1894, A M D A C A L E C T U R E R V he was appointed LECTURER of Ukrainian history at Lviv University. He H I G N D J C S R O T B N O E studied many languages and throughout his career translated numerous works by many famous AUTHORS such as Homer and Shakespeare. S T V R I P A O B E H K G T S His works of PROSE comprise over 100 short stories and many novels. E A O A S J L E I R O X Y S O His greatest poem, “Moisei,” (MOSES, 1905) based on autobiographical material, addressed the relationship between a leader and his people. One N C K D N U A D R A R T M I R of Franko’s best known works is “Lys Mykyta,” a book of children’s fables O B S I D F K S T C S E R D P about a sly FOX. As a result of his political activism, Franko was arrested three times. P O P C S M R Q H I H S I D A “Kamienari” (The Stone People), “Vichnyi revoliutsioner” (The Eternal Revolutionary) and “Ne PORA” (This is Not the Time), were used as O L R A V O E A D T M H U R D patriotic ANTHEMS. His political efforts include co-founding the E E Y L J S D Y N B M I L C I Ruthenian-Ukrainian RADICAL Party and running as the the Radical Party’s candidate for the Austrian Parliament. Franko concluded his politi- T E A C H E R A K K R F A E S cal career in 1904, after he joined the Populists and helped to form the E J R D I S P S T S O T R L C National-Democratic Party. Perhaps the Encyclopedia of Ukraine summarized Ivan Franko best, T E A C H S R I H X I M O V G saying: “With his many gifts, encyclopedic knowledge, and uncommon U A N T H G I R W Y A L P B P 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 No. 33

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Saturday-Sunday, August 19-20 Sports Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada Soyuzivka’s Datebook (USCAK) will take place at Soyuzivka. CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Congress The warm-up is at 9 a.m.; the meet begins Through August 28, 2006 Committee of America, Illinois Division, at 10 a.m. Prizes include awards for first, Every Monday: Steak Night with music by Soyuzivka’s House Band is sponsoring Ukrainian Fest 2006 in second and third place and team trophies Chicago’s Smith Park, 2500 W. Grand funded by the Ukrainian National Through August 30, 2006 Ave. (corner of North Campbell Street) Association. Registration fee of $10 per Every Wednesday: Hutsul Night with music by Soyuzivka’s House Band from noon to 10 p.m. on both Saturday swimmer (includes commemorative T-shirt) and Sunday. The festivities will feature is due by August 20; there will be no pool- Through September 1, 2006 Ukrainian food, crafts, music, lotteries and side registration. Please make checks Every Friday: Odesa Seafood Night with music by Soyuzivka’s House Band much more. Pony rides and children’s payable to “Ukrainian Sports Federation” attractions will add to the entertainment and mail to: Marika Bokalo, 641 Evergreen for the whole family. Dance groups will Parkway, Union, NJ 07083. For more infor- August 18, 2006 September 29-October 1, 2006 perform on Sunday afternoon. A celebra- mation call Mrs. Bokalo, 908-851-0617 or “Pete and Vlod – unplugged” perform KLK Weekend, General Meeting tion of Ukraine’s Declaration of log on to www.soyuzivka.com. at the Tiki Bar, 10 p.m. and Banquet Independence will begin on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. For more information contact Friday-Sunday, September 15-17 August 19, 2006 S eptember 30-October 1, 2006 Pavlo T. Bandriwsky, 773-772-4500. ROCK HALL, Md.: The Ukrainian Dance Camp performance followed Grace Church Women’s Retreat Sunday, August 20 American Nautical Association Inc. by zabava with Fata Morgana (UANAI) will have a three-day O ctober 7, 2006 HORSHAM, Pa.: The 15th annual Chesapeake Sail on September 15-17. August 26, 2006 Wedding Ukrainian Folk Festival, celebrating We’d love to have you join us. No sailing Zabava with Vidlunnia Ukraine’s Independence Day will be held experience necessary. A few crew spots Christening luncheon October 8, 2006 at the Ukrainian American Sport Center are available. Cost is $275 per person. For 90th Birthday Party Tryzub, County Line and Lower State further details contact Natalka, 215-947- September 1-3, 2006 roads, beginning at noon. The festival 0423 or check www.uanai.com. Labor Day Weekend October 13-15, 2006 stage show will begin at 1:30 p.m. and A DVANCE NOTICE September 1, Zahrava band performs Plast Sorority “Ti Scho Hrebli Rvut” will feature the following headliners: the at Tiki Bar, 10 p.m. Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble Annual Meeting and (Philadelphia); Bandurna Rozmova, the Sunday, November 5 80th Anniversary bandurist duo of Oleh Sozhansky and September 2, Afternoon performance NEW YORK: A benefit luncheon for the UNA Secretarial Courses Taras Lazurkevich (Lviv); Svitanya by Hrim band; performance by Ukrainian Catholic University featuring Eastern European Women’s Folk Yavir School of Ukrainian Dance, Father Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., rector, will October 14, 2006 Ensemble (Philadelphia); Sisters Oros 8 p.m.; zabavas with Luna and be held at the Ukrainian National Home, (New York); Jednist Folk Ensemble Road Rally 140 Second Ave. For more information Zahrava, 10 p.m. (Lansdale, Pa.); and the Promin chorus call the Ukrainian Catholic Education (New York). The Voloshky Dance September 3, performance by Yavir October 15, 2006 Foundation, 773-235-8462. Academy will present a dance recital after School of Ukrainian Dance, 1 p.m.; Christening luncheon completing an intensive dance camp under Sunday, November 12 zabava with band Zahrava, 10 p.m. the direction of professional dance masters October 21, 2006 and soloists from Kyiv. There will be a CHICAGO: A benefit luncheon for the September 9, 2006 Wedding polka dance at 4:30-9 p.m. featuring the Ukrainian Catholic University, featuring Wedding Harmonia Orchestra (New York). The cen- Father Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., rector, will October 27-29, 2006 ter’s Majors Division Ukrainian Nationals be held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, September 11-14, 2006 Halloween Weekend with children’s will also play an exhibition soccer match 2247 W. Chicago Ave. For more informa- Regensburg and Berchtesgaden costume parade, haunted house, against a select opponent. Delicious tion call the Ukrainian Catholic Education Reunion costume zabava and more Ukrainian foods (such as varenyky, hol- Foundation, 773-235-8462. ubtsi and kovbasa), baked goods, picnic September 12-15, 2006 November 3-5, 2006 fare and cool refreshments will be plenti- Sunday, December 3 Landshut Reunion Grace Church Couples Retreat ful. An arts and crafts bazaar and a chil- dren’s fun area will be open all day. WARREN, Mich.: A benefit luncheon for Proceeds of the festival benefit cultural the Ukrainian Catholic University featur- September 15-17, 2006 November 4, 2006 programming and youth soccer. For more ing Myroslav Marynovych, senior vice- UNA General Assembly Meeting Wedding information call, 215-343-5412. rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, will be held at the Ukrainian September 16-18, 2006 November 10-12, 2006 Saturday, September 3 Cultural Center, 26601 Ryan Road. For Mittenwald Reunion Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization more information call the Ukrainian Orlykiada KERHONKSON, N.Y.: The 50th annual Catholic Education Foundation, 773-235- swimming championships of the Ukrainian 8462. September 23, 2006 Wedding November 22-26, 2006 Family Reunion September 29-30, 2006 PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES Plast Sorority “Spartanky” Annual November 24, 2006 Preview of Events is a listing of Ukrainian community events open to Meeting Thanksgiving Feast the public. It is a service provided at minimal cost ($20 per listing) by The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. Listings of no more than 100 words (written in Preview format) plus payment should be sent a week prior to desired date of publication to: Preview of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054; fax, (973) 644-9510. Items may be e-mailed to [email protected]. To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 216 Foordmore Road P.O. 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