INSIDE:• Gore and Bush campaigns hold phone conferences — page 3. • Ukrainian physicians hold world conference in Lviv — page 9. • Narbut Prize winner is announced — page 12.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXVIII HE No.KRAINIAN 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine T U Prime ministersW of Ukraine and Poland International Renaissance Foundation reaches out to others working in Ukraine reaffirm common stand on pipeline issue by Irene Jarosewich Fund, AHRU, Ukrainian American by Roman Woronowycz knows, the real question is not whether Professionals and Businesspersons PARSIPPANY, N.J. – For more than 10 Kyiv Press Bureau Ukraine can supply the quantities needed Association of New York and New Jersey, to Western Europe but whether it can years the International Renaissance KYIV – The heads of government of Coordinating Committee to Aid Ukraine, resist illegally siphoning off large Foundation (IRF) has supported initiatives Ukraine and Poland said in Warsaw on Rukh Fund for the Democratization of amounts of the energy source to sate its that encourage Ukraine’s development, Ukraine, Sabre-Svitlo, 20th Century October 26 that their two countries cravenous energy appetite, which is ruin- after decades of Communist totalitarian- Human Rights Fund, the Sabre Foundation would continue to stand together on the ing its reputation as an honest and trust- ism, into an open and democratic society. and the UNA. demand that Kyiv have some sort of worthy supplier. The Kyiv-based foundation, part of the Noting in his introduction that many involvement in a new natural gas Russia has repeatedly accused international Soros Foundation Network organizations from the diaspora have pipeline that will bypass Ukraine. that operates in more than 30 countries, undertaken projects in Ukraine, Mr. During a two-day meeting of the Ukraine of stealing at least 10 billion has given grants to hundreds of Ukrainian Bystrytsky added that he had asked to Polish-Ukrainian bilateral commission cubic meters of gas annually, to which non-governmental organizations, publish- meet with organization representatives for trade and economic cooperation, the Ukraine has admitted, while pledging ing ventures, artists’ organizations, educa- since “many times our paths have crossed two sides agreed to the formation of an that it would no longer illegally redirect tional institutions and community groups. and we are aware of each other’s efforts ad hoc intergovernmental commission to gas. Moscow also has had trouble obtain- The IRF has invested more than $55 [and that] ... after 10 years, maybe it’s a be headed by the vice prime ministers of ing payment for the natural gas the coun- million in Ukraine to promote institutions good time to come together to make an energy of each country. The commission try takes legally, which has become the and principles essential to a democratic assessment of what has been done and set will delineate the two countries’ common major problem in relations between the society such as a free press, public debate goals for the next 10 years.” position. two countries. and association, protection of the rights of Poland’s Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek After providing an overview of the (Continued on page 3) individuals, civic responsibility and reli- numerous projects that the IRF has funded, said the two countries would develop a gious and ethnic tolerance. Mr. Bystrytsky noted that the strength of mutual strategy for the delivery of IRF Executive Director Yevhen the IRF is that the foundation’s grant Russian natural gas to Western Europe Bystrytsky was in the United States in review experts are residents of Ukraine through their countries. October to meet with representatives from who are familiar with problems in Ukraine “We have declared such and this is the Yuschenko denies other foundations and organizations that and collectively bring a broad background basis for our talks,” said the Polish prime also are working for change in Ukraine. of knowledge and experience to the minister, according to Interfax-Ukraine. On October 18, at a meeting organized by process of project evaluation. He also After first rejecting an unexpected discrimination against Bozhena Olshaniwsky of Americans for noted that another factor in the founda- proposal by Russia’s Gazprom natural Human Rights in Ukraine (AHRU) at the tion’s success is that “we’ve managed to gas monopoly in consortium with four Corporate Headquarters of the Ukrainian avoid corruption and our outside experts Western European natural gas suppliers Russian speakers by Jan Maksymiuk National Association, UNA President manage our money to the penny.” to build a transit pipeline through Poland RFE/RL Poland, Belarus Ulana Diachuk introduced Mr. Bystrytsky Returning to the 10-year analysis, Mr. and Slovakia that would bypass the and Ukraine Report to more than 20 representatives of Bystrytsky commented that “it is not neces- established Ukrainian pipeline, Poland’s Ukrainian American and American organi- sary that it be comprehensive, rather that it President Alexander Kwasniewski Prime Minister Viktor zations, including members of the be an overview with a focus on the future.” changed course and agreed to the con- Yuschenko told the October 24 Ukrainian National Women’s League of struction of the supply line – provided issue of Stolichnye Novosti that America, Children of Chornobyl Relief (Continued on page 3) the Ukrainian side is involved in the there is no “mass Ukrainianization project. of the population” in Ukraine. Mr. Although Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yuschenko cited official data testi- Viktor Yuschenko stressed in Warsaw fying to the fact that the use of the Longtime UNA Advisor Andrew Jula dies that the two sides will act jointly in pro- Russian language is being freely viding natural gas to Western Europe, he encouraged in the country’s educa- Served 10 consecutive terms on Supreme Assembly again questioned the need for another tional and cultural spheres. transit line, when he repeated earlier by Nick Diakiwsky Mr. Yuschenko said Ukraine has statements that Ukraine’s natural gas 2,561 general education schools in AMBRIDGE, Pa. – Andrew Jula, pipeline is 30 percent underutilized. which instruction takes place in longtime member of the Ukrainian Mr.Yuschenko said that not only does Russian: those schools are attended National Association’s Supreme the Ukrainian pipeline now only move by 2.3 million children, or 34.1 per- Assembly, died on Sunday, October 22, about 110 billion cubic meters in a sys- cent of the total number of the at the age of 89. tem that has the potential to carry 170 country’s students. In addition, 1.8 In the 106-year history of the UNA, billion cubic meters annually, but also million schoolchildren (26.6 per- he is the only member of the Supreme that he believes a modernization program cent) learn Russian as a subject at Assembly to be elected to serve 10 con- – which Ukraine and Russia have agreed Ukrainian-language schools. secutive terms spanning 40 years. to undertake jointly – would increase Some 35 percent of students at Mr. Jula was born on October 1, 1911, capacity by some 70 billion cubic meters Ukrainian universities and colleges in McKees Rocks, Pa., to the late Frank annually to about 230 billion cubic receive instruction in Russian. In Jula and Mary Michlenko Jula. He was a meters. Crimea, all higher educational insti- reitred employee of the American Bridge “There is no problem today with tutions offer instruction only in Division of U.S. Steel, where he worked ensuring 100 percent of Europe’s energy Russian; the percentage of Russian- for 40 years, and was also employed by the needs through Ukrainian territory,” said language higher-educational institu- Quaker Valley School District. Mr. Yuschenko, as he attempted to dispel tions is also high in Ukraine’s east- Mr. Jula’s service to the UNA began the notion that Ukraine was incapable of ern and southern regions: Donetsk in 1941 when he was elected to serve as transporting Europe’s current and future Oblast (89.3 percent), Luhansk secretary of UNA Branch 161 in needs through its territory. Oblast (85.6 percent), Odesa Oblast Ambridge, Pa., a position that he would Europe expects that by the year 2008 (49.8), and Kharkiv Oblast (41.9 hold for the next 46 years. it will need about 180 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas annually. (Continued on page 15) Andrew Jula in a 1976 photo. (Continued on page 5) However, as Mr. Yuschenko well 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 No. 45

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Russia’s double bypass NEWSBRIEFS Border delimitation nearly complete Kyiv seeks EU mediation on gas transit by Jan Maksymiuk project would mean obtaining great politi- RFE/RL Newsline cal leverage in Ukraine. Without Russian KYIV – Ambassador-at-Large Yurii KYIV – First Vice Minister for Foreign gas supplies in payment for transit, Ukraine Kostenko, chief of the Ukrainian delega- Affairs Oleksander Chalyi said on October tion to the border delimitation talks with 27 that Kyiv wants more say in developing Russia’s Gazprom, Germany’s Ruhrgas would become a country as politically and and Wintershall, Italy’s SNAM, and Gaz de Russia, told journalists on October 31 that Europe’s energy market, Reuters reported. economically dependent on the Kremlin as France signed a memorandum of under- the delimitation of the Ukrainian-Russian He also asked the European Union to help Belarus. standing in Moscow on October 18 to study frontier has “practically” been concluded, mediate in Kyiv’s dispute with Moscow Warsaw is well aware of all the conse- and develop a new section of the planned Interfax reported. Mr. Kostenko said some over gas transit via Ukraine. “It is necessary quences connected with the bypass pipeline Yamal-Europe gas pipeline. The project 30 sections of the border in Rostov Oblast to draw the European Union into the calls for the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline, project. That’s why a number of Polish top (Russia) as well as Donetsk and Luhansk process of settling the issue of the transit of currently under construction, to be linked to officials hastened to assure Kyiv earlier this Oblasts (Ukraine) remain to be deter- Russian energy to Europe,” Mr. Chalyi stat- Slovakia, where it would connect with a year – when the bypass pipeline project mined. He added that the sides must ed. He said Ukraine wants “to apply network of gas pipelines to Germany, Italy became known to the public – that Poland demonstrate “particular caution” with European tariff policies” to shipments of and France. Such a link, while traversing would not support any gas supply scheme regard to these sections since they are in Russian gas; this suggests that a new tariff Polish territory, would bypass Ukraine. that would be to the detriment of Ukraine, densely populated areas. According to Mr. scheme might involve Western gas con- It remains to be seen if the project is fea- Poland’s strategic partner. Kostenko, an agreement on the delimita- sumers who are currently shouldering tran- sible. In the meantime, all gas experts agree Many Polish politicians believe that the tion of the Ukrainian-Russian land frontier sit costs, according to Reuters. The issue of that the main goal of the agreement – survival of sovereign and independent may be ready for signing in the summer Russian gas supplies to Europe is likely to regardless of whether it can be implement- Ukraine is a guarantee that Poland itself next year. He admitted that Kyiv and be raised at this week’s Russia-EU summit ed – is to intimidate Ukraine into ceasing to will not return to the Russian sphere of Moscow currently differ on how to deter- in Paris. (RFE/RL Newsline) siphon off Russian gas transiting Ukrainian influence and that the political changes that mine the maritime part of their border in territory and into paying for Russian gas took place in Eastern and Central Europe a the Azov Sea and the Kerch Strait. Poland, Ukraine sign protocol more efficiently. According to some decade ago are irreversible. Given Poland’s (RFE/RL Newsline) WARSAW – Polish Prime Minister Russian estimates, Ukraine’s debt for complicated and tragic fate in the 20th cen- Swiss foreign minister visits Kyiv Jerzy Buzek and his Ukrainian Prime Russian gas stands at $2.5 billion (Kyiv tury, one should not dismiss such fears Minister Viktor Yuschenko, signed a proto- admits to owing some $1.4 billion). among Poles as trivial or groundless. KYIV – Switzerland’s foreign affairs col on mutual trade and economic coopera- Gazprom, however, says Ukraine stole 15 Europe wants more Russian gas in order minister, Joseph Deiss, signed agreements tion on October 27, the PAP news service billion cubic meters of transit gas in 1999- to become more independent from OPEC on cooperation in transport and the avoid- reported. The protocol mentions the com- 2000 (worth some $900 million). countries in terms of energy consumption, ance of dual taxation during his visit to pletion of the Odesa-Brody-Gdansk Kyiv on October 30, Interfax reported. Mr. pipeline, joint participation in “European Deiss pledged that Switzerland will contin- energy plans,” as well as the cooperation in Without Russian gas supplies in payment ue rendering humanitarian aid to Ukraine, ship-building, production of agricultural including to people affected by the machinery and modernization of Ukraine’s for transit, Ukraine would become a Chornobyl nuclear disaster and to Tatars power generation plants. Poland’s trade who are resettling to Crimea. Parliament turnover with Ukraine amounted to $700 country as politically and economically Chairman Ivan Pliusch urged the Swiss million in January-July of this year, up 30 dependent on the Kremlin as Belarus. minister to help Ukraine return “illegal percent compared with the same period last deposits of Ukrainian citizens in Swiss year. Mr. Buzek commented that Polish- banks,” the Eastern Economist Daily Ukrainian economic relations have acquired reported. During a news conference at the a “qualitatively new level.” Mr. Yuschenko Gazprom’s chief, Rem Viakhirev, com- while Poland wants to be in Europe, that is, end of his visit, Reuters reported that Mr. said his trip to Poland last week confirmed mented that the bypass pipeline scheme in the EU as soon as possible. Moscow has Deiss said Switzerland is ready to supply that both countries are strategic partners will make it possible to increase Russian calculated that these two aspirations can be cannons for Ukraine’s new tank, provided pursuing a single goal: European integra- gas supplies to the European Union. But it utilized to exert pressure on Ukraine. that those weapons are not sent to “undesir- tion. (RFE/RL Newsline) remains a mystery how this can be done by According to this line of reasoning, Poland able” countries. Ukraine needs a cannon simply constructing a pipeline to Slovakia will not oppose the bypass pipeline project that meets NATO standards in order to Ukrainian president visits Portugal through Poland without completing the too strongly if Berlin or Paris – both of attract international buyers for its newly LISBON – President Leonid Kuchma of entire Yamal-Europe pipeline. which have a powerful voice in Brussels – developed tank. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ukraine visited Portugal on October 25-27, Most likely, Ukrainian President Leonid ask Warsaw to come to its senses and agree. President approves subsistence minimum holding talks on bilateral trade and coopera- Kuchma was aware of this when on For this reason, Gazprom signed a deal tion with Portuguese President Jorge October 19 he shrugged off the deal by say- with its Western partners on building the KYIV — President Leonid Kuchma on Sampaio and Prime Minister Antonio ing that “it takes a lot of time [to proceed] pipeline even without securing the permis- October 30 approved the monthly subsis- Guterres, Interfax reported. The two sides from the project to its practical implementa- sion of the country across which the tence minimum for this year at 270.1 hrv signed an agreement on friendship and tion.” At the same time, Mr. Kuchma pipeline is supposed to run. Moscow ($49.7 U.S.), Interfax reported. According cooperation as well as intergovernmental stressed that the capacity of Ukraine’s exist- bypassed Poland in its political maneuver- to a law passed in July 1999, the monthly accords on investment, education, science, ing gas pipeline network can be increased ing, just as it wants to bypass Ukraine in subsistence minimum is calculated each technology, and media. (RFE/RL Newsline) by 30 percent. gas transit. year by the government, endorsed by the The estimated cost of that part of the From an economic point of view, Verkhovna Rada and approved by the Growth in GDP better than expected Yamal-Europe pipeline that would be built Gazprom’s project offers Poland more rev- president. The same day, Mr. Kuchma enues for Russian gas transit. Some KYIV – First Vice Prime Minister Yurii to avoid Ukraine is $1 billion. It is not signed a law passed earlier this month Yekhanurov said on October 25 that the unfeasible that Gazprom and its Western Ukrainian commentators say it is only a stipulating that “the volume of the state’s matter of time until Poland, pressed by its government expects this year’s GDP to partners could invest such a sum immedi- main social benefits to people for whom grow by at least 3.5 percent compared with ately after the project’s feasibility study is Western allies, will say “yes” to Gazprom’s those benefits are their main source of offer. For the time being, Poland has called last year, Interfax reported. Earlier this year, completed in favor of the Slovak connec- livelihood” may not be lower than the the government predicted that the economy tion. for an international conference of all coun- subsistence minimum. (RFE/RL For Russia, the implementation of the tries interested in the construction of a gas Newsline) (Continued on page 21) pipeline linking Russia’s Yamal peninsula with Western Europe. Jan Maksymiuk is the Belarus, Last week, Russian President Vladimir Ukraine and Poland specialist on the Putin put Vice Prime Minister Viktor FOUNDED 1933 staff of RFE/RL Newsline. Khristenko in charge of negotiations with HE KRAINIAN EEKLY Poland on building a gas pipeline stretch to TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., bypass Ukraine. a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Can Ukraine prevent the bypass pipeline Yearly subscription rate: $50; for UNA members — $40. scenario from being implemented? 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He NEWARK, N.J. – A telephone con- ARLINGTON, Va. – In a tele-press noted that President Reagan received a cleansing in the Balkans; support for new conference on October 31, former ference of more than 100 ethnic women legislation to help battered women and “lot of criticism” in 1983 when he called took place on Friday, October 20. The Secretary of State George Shultz, an advi- the Soviet Union the “evil empire.” But prosecution of violators; opposition to 45-minute event was sponsored by the sor to Gov. George W. Bush, reaffirmed the “key to start being realistic is to state the privatization of Social Security funds: Democratic National Committee the Republican presidential candidate’s the situation realistically and then you can and support for middle-class traditions (DNC). commitment to NATO expansion. do something about it.” He went on to and family values that are the backbone The main speaker was Haddasah Expounding on that theme, Mr. Shultz point out that the governor would not have Lieberman, wife of vice-presidential can- of the nation. noted that as secretary of state he “spent a turned a blind eye to the secret Russian didate Joseph Lieberman. Other promi- Surprisingly, issues regarding lot of time supporting Ronald Reagan’s arms deal to Iran that was approved by nent women who spoke during this con- women’s issues such as abortions, prosti- views on Central and Eastern Europe with Vice-President Gore. “You can expect a hard-line policy toward the Soviet ference were: Geraldine Ferraro, former tution and international trafficking of from President Bush a clear-eyed view” of Union. I have spent lots of time with Gov. U.S. congresswoman from New York and women and children were not discussed. Russia, he added. Bush and he has that same kind of com- the first woman candidate for U.S. vice- Neither were the subjects of health insur- As the press conference was winding mitment, same kind of understanding, not president; Rep. Janice D. Schakowski ance, drug abuse, the high cost of pre- down, the Bush representatives were only from the head but from the gut.” from Illinois; Rep. Rosa DeLauro from scription drugs or care of the elderly. asked about the neglect of ethnic In conclusion, all speakers encouraged Mr. Shultz went on to state that NATO Americans in the election campaign. Connecticut; Rep. Nancy Pelosi from enlargement is extremely important. He California and Chris Wamke from the the ethnic representatives participate and Secretary Shultz apologized that such an vote on November 7 and encourage oth- pointed out that “there is also an economic impression exists and pointed out that he DNC. Women who were deemed to be side to this,” stressing that the United ers also to vote. and Sen. George Voinovich recently met leaders of their ethnic groups were invit- States has to be in a position to help eco- The participants invited for this con- with ethnic leaders in Cleveland. Asked ed to participate. nomic development in Central/Eastern whether Central and East European ference were from 27 states. The nation- The subjects discussed were the Europe. Americans can expect access to the high- alities represented were: Ukrainian, Democratic Party’s support for public The press conference followed the est levels in a Bush administration, Mr. schools and opposition to vouchers for Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, issuance of a press statement on “Gov. Wolfowitz emphatically answered children who attend private schools; German, Irish, Albanian, Lebanese, Bush’s policy on NATO and NATO “absolutely, including with both the presi- expansion of NATO by accepting more Greek, Italian and African. enlargement,” which also touched on other dent and vice-president.” areas of policy toward Central and Eastern He pointed to Mr. Cheney’s record, Europe. Also participating in the conference affirming that the vice-presidential candi- was Ambassador Paul Wolfowitz, another date has “very warm feeling toward foreign policy advisor to Gov. Bush. Central and East Europeans” from his time Famine commemoration slated for November 18 When asked whether the governor as as defense secretary. “He remembers his NEW YORK – A solemn service to forced collectivization. In sheer num- president will take a leadership position on experience working with Ukrainians as honor the victims of Ukraine’s Great bers this genocidal tragedy ranks NATO enlargement for the Baltic states, Ukraine moved toward independence,” Famine of 1932-1933 will be concele- among the worst cases of man’s inhu- Mr. Shultz pointed out the historic strong Mr. Wolfowitz said. For Mr. Cheney, brated on Saturday, November 18, by manity towards man and is perhaps the commitment of the United States to the “Ukrainians are not only important, but he the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian most extreme example of the use of Baltic countries, noting that the flags of enjoys working with them; their values are Orthodox Churches. food as a weapon. these countries were never taken down our values.” The service will be held at 2 p.m. at The Ukrainian Congress Committee from the entrance to the State Department, St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue of America is asking the Ukrainian that the United States never recognized the and 51st Street in New York City. The community of New York and sur- incorporation of the Baltic States into the program will also include addresses by rounding areas not to organize other USSR. “The governor’s commitment is as prominent religious and civic leaders. events for this day and to take part in strong,” he stated. FOR THE RECORD: In 1932-1933 between 7 million and this national commemoration to honor Responding to a question about what 10 million Ukrainians were starved to the victims of our nation’s worst the countries such as Ukraine, Armenia TwoExcerpts views from a lecture of Russia by Condoleezza death as a result of the Soviet policy of tragedy. and Georgia, which are not in line for Rice, chief foreign policy advisor to George early NATO membership, can expect in W. Bush, at a Wilson Center Director’s terms of security from a Bush Forum on April 27. other factors that play a role in creating an Administration, Mr. Shultz said that International Renaissance... environment in which charitable giving is aggressive diplomacy will be the first ... Russia [is] a declining power, trying to (Continued from page 1) not prevalent is that people are afraid to let order. At the same time, the United States find its identity, and a country that has man- will help with economic development for In order to aid with such an assessment, he others know that they have money and that aged to take concepts of the market, private those who do have money use it to gain these nations. “As countries have the abili- capital and privatization, and mutate them stated that the IRF plans to finance and ty to stand on their own in economic develop a website that will include infor- political advantage, since, in present-day into something else. We in the United Ukraine, political power equals wealth. terms, their stature increases,” he said. He States, unfortunately, certified that there mation about activities that have been and also pointed out that Gov. Bush is aware are being undertaken by other foundations Noting that George Soros, the business- were reformers doing some of this when in man who funds the Soros Foundation of the military dimension in the region fact it turns out that some of these “reform- in order to provide a basis for comparison. noting the continued presence of Russian The IRF will develop a short questionnaire Network, has promised to fund IRF proj- ers” were actually stealing the country ects until 2010, Mr. Bystrytsky ended his troops in Georgia, and said that Mr. Bush blind. This is a problem for us. You have to that foundation representatives can com- will work to alleviate that situation. plete on-line and then add their project presentation stating that for Ukraine and tell the truth about these places because her not-so-new independence, “the roman- When pressed as to the type of econom- capital will sniff it out, capital will know. information to the on-line database. ic development assistance these countries tic period has ended and the time has And right now investment in Russia shows During the subsequent discussion Mr. can expect to receive, Mr. Shultz pointed come for hard work, very hard work, time that capital understands the true picture in Bystrytsky suggested some goals for the out that aid, loans and grants are helpful, to become a normal country.” Russia. It is up to the Russians to figure out future, among them to change Ukraine’s but that they need to focus on developing To receive information about the IRF’s how to get a tax code that does not tax law on non-profit organizations, an idea strong economic conditions so that the database on foundations in Ukraine or for small business at 120 percent of income if supported by many of those attending the countries can help themselves. He noted you pay all of their overlapping taxes. We meeting. more information about the IRF, Mr. that “Ukraine is potentially a wealthy can’t fix that problem, the Russians can ... Ukraine’s law on non-profits offers no Bystrytsky can be reached via e-mail: country” and that the United States can incentive for charitable contributions; in [email protected]. help Ukraine achieve that potential. Excerpts from a lecture given by Leon fact, it penalizes the donor and the recipi- Pointing out the importance of trade, Fuerth, national security aAdvisor to Vice- ent organization. For example, a publisher Ambassador Wolfowitz stated that Gov. President Al Gore, at a Woodrow Wilson wanting to donate books is still required to Bush will work to break down trade barri- Center Director’s Forum on July 25. pay a 15 percent value-added tax (VAT) on Prime ministers... ers, not only in the United States but in the donation, even though there is no sale. (Continued from page 1) Europe, so as to help facilitate the integra- ... Overall, as we look back on the result Organizations pay a 25 percent VAT on Ukraine’s problems are multiplied by tion of nations in Central and Eastern of our Russia policy, what we see is an their publications even if they are distrib- a Western Europe that really has no pref- Europe into the European process includ- extensive record of accomplishment: uted for free. erence as to how the natural gas it needs ing membership in the European Union. Americans are measurably safer today than Olha Isaievych of Sabre-Svitlo, one of to obtain relief from its heavy depend- Mr. Shultz also noted that a Bush they were eight years ago. ... Democracy is Ukraine’s leading disseminators of free ref- ence on Mideast oil gets there. The fact administration would encourage private now the accustomed norm in Russia. ... erence books and textbooks, stated: “It’s that the consortium led by Russia’s sector investment. He remarked that both Tens of thousands of state-owned enterpris- absurd. Non-profits are treated as business- Gazprom includes the major natural gas Gov. Bush and vice-presidential candidate es have been privatized and more than es. ... We pay taxes even though we have no providers of Western Europe makes it a Dick Cheney “have extensive experience 900,000 small businesses have been estab- profits. ... And there is an internal contradic- virtual certainty that the new Polish- in the private sector,” which gives them a lished, contributing to Russia’s recent eco- tion. The government supposedly wel- Slovak line will indeed be built. better view of what is needed over those nomic rebound. ... All mainstream parties comes the development of civic and non- Officially, however, it is expected that whose careers have been solely in now espouse democracy and free market profit organizations, yet overwhelms them nothing will be decided until the European Washington. reform. ... Russia is increasingly enmeshed with administrative and tax burdens.” Commission meets to examine the matter Mr. Shultz was asked how President in the international community. ... Mr. Bystrytsky also noted that of the pipeline. Ukraine’s Minister of Fuel George W. Bush will deal with the Ukraine’s current laws do not offer any and Energy Serhii Yermilov said he would Russian economic and political intimida- – from the “Meeting Report” reduction in taxes as an incentive for char- travel to Brussels next week to meet with tion of the Baltic states and other nations (November) of the Kennan Institute for itable giving. He added that among the members of the EC. Meanwhile, EC as pointed out in the Cox Report. He noted Advanced Russian Studies. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 No. 45

OBITUARY: Georgiy Yakutovych of Kyiv, graphic artist, artistic director of films by Marta Kolomayets noted. For years, many thought that “were able to create fantastic works during Yakutovych was a native of the mighty an era that was not particularly benevolent KYIV – Georgiy Vyacheslavovych Carpathians as he talked about the moun- to this kind of creativity.” Yakutovych, a graphic artist, book tains, the people, the climate. He even “And, like Oles Honchar, Yura designer and artistic director for a num- bought an abandoned house on one of the Yakutovych will be a canonized‚ classical ber of Ukrainian films passed away on highest peaks in the 1960s and used it as figure in Ukrainian arts,” noted Dr. September 5 at age 70 – 35 years and his private getaway for years, as an escape Zhulynskyi. one day after the film “Shadows of from the harsh realities of communism. Indeed, throughout his half-century of Forgotten Ancestors” premiered in Kyiv. Ivan Hawryluk, a well-known work, Yakutovych did not paint one por- The premiere was broken up by militia Ukrainian actor from the Ivan Franko trait of Lenin or Stalin, did not illustrate and the KGB, as Ivan Dzyuba, Vasyl Stus Theater, was shocked to find out that one book on the great works of “infa- and Vyacheslav Chornovil stood up and Yakutovych was not a Hutsul, but was mous” Soviet thinkers, did not produce demanded the release of their friends born in Kyiv in 1930, the son of a Soviet one Soviet propaganda film. And, Ivan Svitlychny, the Horyn brothers and Army general, who traveled around the although he avoided all socialist realism, others, who had recently fallen victim to Soviet Union, serving in Moscow and opting to illustrate “Shadows of the new wave of arrests of the Ukrainian Leningrad, with his wife and two sons. Forgotten Ancestors,” “Zakhar Berkut,” intelligentsia after the Khrushchev thaw. During the war, his family was evacuated “Slovo o Polku Ihorevi” and “Yaroslav It was Georgiy Yakutovych (or Yura, as to the village of Tonkino (Gorky Oblast), Mudryi,” somehow he was also inducted he was affectionately called by his friends), And when the war ended, one of the few as a member of the prestigious Union of as artistic director of that Ukrainian classic, possessions young Yakutovych brought Artists, taught at the Soviet Art Academy, who was a driving force in bringing to life back to Ukraine was a tattered copy of won awards at Soviet book fairs for his Georgiy Yakutovych in the early 1990s. the legends of the Carpathian Mountains, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky’s book illustrations and the 1983 Taras the Hutsul traditions and beliefs, creating a “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors,” Shevchenko State Prize for his illustra- film that has become a classic of Ukrainian which he found in the Russian village tions of “Tale of Bygone Years.” poetic cinema. when they were leaving. He returned to “He was a leader and lived his life with And although Yakutovych was not the Ukraine after the war to study and gradu- a full understanding of his mission,” noted only person who helped make the film ated from the Kyiv Art Institute in 1952. Ivan Drach, a longtime friend who worked quintessential – the legendary director His son, Serhiy, who is also a well- on various later films with Yakutovych. Serhiy Paradjanov and the talented cam- known Ukrainian graphic artist, cannot Often that sense of mission allowed him to eraman Yuriy Illienko were the driving explain why his father was so drawn to forge ahead with projects others would forces behind this film – it was the artist the Carpathians, or what he saw there have deemed impossible.” Through his who brought the director and the camera- that he did not see anywhere else, but he illustrations and films, Yakutovych showed man to the scenic Carpathians and it was knows that his fatehr’s love for the region that Ukrainian arts are a part of world cul- he who cast the then unknown second-year was an integral part of his being. Even on ture. theater student Ivan Mykolaichuk in the his 60th birthday, he went back to the For him the story of Ivan and Marichka role of the Hutsul, Ivan. mountains to be baptized in one of the in “Shadows” was no less tragic than At Yakutovych’s funeral on September mountain streams that winds along the Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” and 7, Mr. Illienko noted that every frame of scenic landscape. He took as his godpar- “Slovo O Polku Ihorevi” was as epochal as the film was blessed by Yura before it saw ents an elderly Hutsul couple who had Homer’s “Illiad.” For him, the themes of the big screen. “And no one is given that befriended him during the filming of Kotsiubynsky and Stefanyk were world right, it is earned by talent,” he noted, “Shadows” in 1963-1964. dramas that had not yet been discovered. explaining how Yakutovych’s love for the There are quite a few unexplainable Thirty-five years and three days after Carpathians was an organic part of the things about Yakutovych. At his funeral in the premiere of “Shadows of Forgotten artist. Kyiv Vice Prime Minister Mykola Ancestors” in Kyiv, Georgiy Georgiy Yakutovych’s cover illustation “We all fell in love with the Carpathians Zhulynskyi compared him to the late Vyacheslavovych Yakutovych was buried for “Yaroslav Mudryi, Dramatic Poem” and its people, through Yakutovych,” he writer Oles Honchar, saying that both men in his native city. His work lives on. (1963).

Georgiy Yakutovych’s “Arkan” (1960).

Notice to publishers and authors It is The Ukrainian Weekly’s policy to run news items and/or reviews of newly pub- lished books, booklets and reprints, as well as records and premiere issues of periodi- cals, only after receipt by the editorial offices of a copy of the material in question. News items sent without a copy of the new release will not be published. Send new releases and information (where publication may be purchased, cost, etc.) to: The Editor, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, During the filming of “Zakhar Berkut” in the Carpathians: (from left) Dmytro NJ 07054. Pavlychko, Georgiy Yakutovych and director Leonid Osyka. No. 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 5 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

More on issue of direct billing OBITUARY: Mary Kapral, served UNA and how it affects our branches for 47 years as secretary of Branch 112 by Martha Lysko 50 percent commission first year and 10 by Martha Lysko worried about her branch and planned for National Secretary percent second and third year. The com- National Secretary her successor. She prepared Alice missions for WSP and annuities do not Olenchuk to take her place as branch sec- PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Mary Kapral, Mechanics of branch billing change. retary because she wanted service to her who was secretary of St. Mary’s Lodge 3. Branches will receive money for members to remain uninterrupted. Such In December the branches that are not (Branch 112) in Cleveland for 47 years, fraternal activities. Branches holding any dedication must be admired. already on direct billing will be automati- passed away Monday October 9 in activity will receive $5 for every member Two daughters survive Mrs. Kapral, cally switched to the new system. All in attendance. The activity must take Parma, Ohio. members will receive a letter explaining In the 47 years of service to her branch widow of Michael Kapral: Mary Kay place before payment is made. Home Allen with her husband, Bob; and direct billing, a premium notice and a Office will authorize payment when the members and the Ukrainian National return envelope to the UNA. The system Association, she organized many mem- Theresa Bakum and her husband, Steve; Treasurer or National Secretary receives five grandchildren and two great-grand- of automatic billing provides for four a bill with a list of member attendees. bers, attended district meetings and quad- children. Also surviving are two sisters, notices to members: (a) premium notice; Branches needing funds to start an activi- rennial UNA conventions. However, the Anna Merritt and Olga Hack. The entire (b) a reminder notice; (c) a late pay offer, ty may receive a small advance. needs of her members were always fore- and (d) a termination notice. The branch most. family is enrolled in UNA Branch 112. secretary will receive an assessment list Branch dues The Ukrainian National Association Funeral services were held on October 14 at St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic monthly. This is for information purposes Many branches have branch dues. To was fortunate to have Mrs. Kapral serve Church; interment followed at Ss. Peter only. We will still rely on branch secre- help in the collection of branch dues, the the organization so well for so many taries to help with collection of any over- UNA will spend $2,500 making the nec- years. Even in her last weeks of life she and Paul Cemetery in Parma. due premium payments. essary changes to our administration sys- Every secretary will receive a letter that tem. Recognizing the importance of the is being sent to all branch members advis- branches and the need to support them, ing them of the change. The letter simply the UNA will collect branch dues in the Youngstown District organizes states that all payments are to be made Home Office and remit to every branch directly to the UNA. In the letter we men- annually the amount collected. Every picnic for all UNA members tion that the secretary is still their main secretary must provide us with his or her contact and we encourage members to par- branch method of dues collection. Those by Eugene Woloshyn Woloshyn. ticipate in the branch activities. Annually branches that have no dues will not need All area UNA’ers received flyers noti- YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The every secretary will receive a listing of to do this. fying them of the event to be held in members in the branch, as has been the Youngstown District Committee of the Continuing role of the branch, Ukrainian National Association on Austintown. Some 80 members attended, practice. All premiums collected in enjoying the food and refreshments pre- advance should be submitted to the Home secretary and fraternal activities September 17 organized a picnic for all members in the area. pared by district activists. Office prior to going on direct billing so The focus of every branch and branch Meetings to plan the event were held Following the lunch, members that the secretary will receive full refund of secretary has to shift from premium col- by a committee comprising Estelle enjoyed renewing acquaintances and expenses. Please make final corrections to lection to branch activity and organizing Woloshyn, Annabelle Borovitsky, Helene playing card games. All agreed that the addresses and payer information. efforts. The secretary has to become a Senedak, Kathy Martynyzyn, Helen district should hold such social events promoter of fraternal activities. Time Financial rewards Koslow, Dmytro Hlywa and Gene more often. spent on collection of premiums can be 1. Monthly every secretary will devoted to organizing and fraternal activ- receive a 5 percent commission on all ities. Some branches already have activi- premiums the Home Office collects in ties that are annual events. Small branch- the branch. Checks will be issued only if es can join forces and do joint activities. the amount is $25 or more. Next month I will list some ideas for 2. On new business the UNA will pay branch activities.

among the top organizers year after year. Longtime UNA Advisor... He had the ability to successfully reach (Continued from page 1) and organize immigrant Ukrainians as well At the UNA’s 1954 convention in as first-, second- and third- generation Washington he was elected to his first of Ukrainians. His efforts made UNA Branch 10 consecutive terms on the UNA 161 one of the largest branches in the Supreme Assembly. UNA, which today stands at 396 members. During his tenure on the Supreme Mr. Jula was active also in organizing Assembly, the UNA purchased the UNA national UNA bowling and a youth bas- estate Soyuzivka; established the ketball tournaments that ran for years, as Scholarship Committee; built its 15-story well as, regular branch activities. headquarters building in Jersey City, Mr. Jula is survived by his wife, N.J., and saw its membership peak at Stephanie Hyshak Jula; a son and daugh- close to 90,000 members. ter-in-law, Richard and Florence Jula; a Mr. Jula was considered a “UNA daughter and son-in-law, Andrea and Builder,” a great fraternalist and a calm Robert Scott; five grandchildren, Mark Committee members (from left): Dmytro Hlywa, Estelle Woloshyn, Helen leader. At the 1994 UNA Convention in Jula, Richard Jula Jr., Timothy Jula, Kozlow, Annabelle Borovitsky and Nick Kozlow. Pittsburgh, Mr. Jula decided not to pur- Kristin Scott; Caruana and Courtney sue an 11th term, but rather to step aside Scott, and five great-grandchildren, to make room for younger members to Stefanie Jula, Alana Jula, Mathew Jula, join the General Assembly (the new Crissy Jula and Alec Scott Caruana. ANNOUNCEMENT name for the Supreme Assembly). Mr. Jula died at the Valley Care At the 1998 UNA Convention in Masonic Center in Aleppo Township, Pa. At the 1998 UNA Convention delegates approved the new Toronto, Mr. Jula was awarded the Rev. A funeral liturgy was conducted at Ss. Statutes and By-Laws of the Ukrainian National Association Inc. Hryhoriy Hrushka award in acknowl- Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic edgement of his many years of service to Church in Ambridge on October 24 by The new by-laws have been printed and are ready for distribution the Rev. Father Michael Polosky, pastor. his branch and district and the UNA to the entire membership of the UNA. It is the first such publica- Supreme Assembly. The award was pre- Interment was at the Ss. Peter and Paul sented to Mr. Jula shortly after the con- Church Cemetery. tion since 1977. vention by Nick Diakiwsky Branch 161 secretary and UNA advisor. Nick Diakiwsky is an advisor of the All General Assembly members, district chairpersons and UNA On the branch level Mr. Jula enrolled Ukrainian National Association, as well branch secretaries will receive a copy of the new by-laws. hundreds of members in his 46 years as as chairman of the Pittsburgh UNA branch secretary. He always contributed to District Committee and secretary of UNA achieving UNA organizing quotas and was Branch 161. Any UNA member may receive a copy of this publication upon request. The Home Office may be contacted at (973) 292-9800; Insure and be sure. Join the UNA! please leave a message with the receptionist. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 No. 45 COMMENTARY: Illuminating Ukraine, THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY its history and its neighborhood In praise of smaller communities by Bohdan Vitvitsky these changes in a carefully planned and sustained manner. Last week and this week, The Ukrainian Weekly has given its readers a glimpse of For anyone interested in Ukraine, read- The essays also contain various inter- community life beyond the usual corridor of our Ukrainian American society. The ing Roman Szporluk’s “Russia, Ukraine, esting insights. For example, one of the occasion was the 25th anniversary of the Ukrainian American Cultural Club of and the Breakup of the Soviet Union” themes that appears in a number of Prof. Houston, which provided an extraordinary opportunity for a reporter to get acquainted (Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Press, 2000; 437 Szporluk’s essays is the idea that the incor- with this unique community and, in turn, to inform the broader public about its pp., $24.95) is like being a very lucky poration of western Ukraine and the three achievements and its strengths. prospector during the California gold rush. Baltic republics into the Soviet Union at To be sure, stories about some of the activity of Ukrainians in Texas had appeared As you make your way along the moun- the end of World War II ultimately had a on the pages of this newspaper. Our readers knew, for example of Ukrainians’ partici- tain stream, you keep coming across pation in such major events as the Texas Folklife Festival and the Houston harmful effect on Soviet interests. That is nuggets, some small, some medium-sized because the inhabitants of those lands International Festival, but there were many other multi-ethnic festivals and special and others large. And at the end of the day, occasions throughout the state, such as the American Bicentennial and the Millennium were people who had a different collective your knowledge and understanding of historical experience against which to of Christianity in Rus’-Ukraine where Ukrainians were very visible. At all these Ukraine, its historical context and its events, the Ukrainians of the Lone Star State succeeded in giving Texans a taste of judge Soviet reality. The judgments of geopolitical environment become illumi- these people were inherently subversive of Ukraine through educational materials, cultural displays, scholarly presentations, artis- nated in a way that transforms that under- tic performances, etc. Their work with other Slavic organizations has been exemplary; the Soviet order because these people saw standing. This is a must read. right through the idiocy of the Soviet one of the best examples is the annual Ss. Cyril and Methodius Slavic Heritage Day. The book is a collection of 16 of Prof. Ukrainian Houstonians, through their premier organization, the Ukrainian American claims to having invented a superior way Szporluk’s essays written between 1972 of life. Thus, what at first seemed like an Cultural Club, have played a major role also in establishing contacts between the and 1997, preceded by a 30-page introduc- American world and Ukraine in the realms of politics, humanitarianism, education and unequivocal Soviet triumph, namely, the tion written in 1999. The introduction empire’s territorial expansion, turned out business. And that role – especially in the world of business – was buttressed earlier itself is worth the price of admission. It this year when a local Ukrainian was appointed honorary consul of Ukraine. to have a Trojan horse component. analyzes in a condensed but insightful Most of the discussion over the last 10 No less important is the organization’s charitable activity: aid to Ukraine, its ath- fashion a series of key issues. These are letes, its medical professionals, libraries, victims of Chornobyl and others. The com- years about Ukraine’s prospects as a coun- the relationship between Soviet modernity try has focused on the functioning or mal- munity has supported myriad projects in this country as well, from Ukrainian studies and ethnicity; the impact upon the Soviet at Harvard University to the work of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine. functioning of its economy. That’s under- system of its territorial expansion after standable. But another of Prof. Szporluk’s These activities have succeeded in binding together Ukrainians who have settled in 1939 (namely, Halychyna, the Baltic Texas – many of them from other parts of the country or other parts of the world. As valuable insights is that the “survival of republics, etc.); the Russian-Ukrainian Ukraine as an independent state ... will we heard over and over from locals, the principal strength of that small community is relationship; the stunted development of that, despite its diversity, all can and do work together toward common goals. And, all depend to a large extent on how it suc- Russia as a normal nation; and, how and are welcome as everyone understands that false divisions are impediments to success. ceeds in bringing the world to its people – why it was possible for Ukraine to come On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Ukrainian American Cultural Club and its people to the world” (p. 388). into being as an independent state in 1991. of Houston, we salute these Ukrainian Texans, and, by extension, all small communi- What he means is that Ukrainians, as all The 16 essays cover a breadth of sub- ties of Ukrainian Americans who, oftentimes out of the public eye or, to be more pre- others, want to and “should have direct jects. Prof. Szporluk writes on very specif- cise, outside of the consciousness of the big Ukrainian communities of the East or the access to the centers of civilization rather Midwest, exist, function and flourish, benefiting its members and generations to ic topics, such as “The Strange Politics of than being condemned to an inferior sta- come. In the process they enrich all of us in the diaspora, wherever we may live. Lviv: An Essay in Search of an tus,” that they want to and “should be Though these communities may be geographically far removed from the main- Explanation” and “The Press and Soviet communicating with the world at large on stream Ukrainian communities, and their numbers may be considerably less than Nationalities: The Party Resolution of their own rather than through intermedi- those of our major centers, they have not forgotten their roots and have worked hard to 1975 and Its Implementation.” And, he aries.” As one 65-year-old Ukrainian nurture them in order to provide for a promising future. We salute their vision and writes about more general subjects, such woman explained to American journalists wish them all many, many more years of fruitful activity. as “Nation-Building in Ukraine: Problems during President Bill Clinton’s 1995 visit and Prospects,” “Reflections on Ukraine to Kyiv, “We want to be part of the world, after 1994: The Dilemmas of not part of Russia.’” Nationhood,” and “Ukraine: From an Yet another reason why Prof. Nov. Imperial Periphery to a Sovereign State.” Szporluk’s essays are so compelling is that Turning the pages back... But, since he is interested in understanding they contain an extraordinary wealth of Ukraine’s political neighborhood, he also source materials relating to Ukraine. To 10 writes on topics such as “History and cite but one example, Prof. Szporluk Russian Nationalism,” “After Empire: quotes a fascinating passage written in What?” and “The Fall of the Tsarist 1985 In 1985, more than two weeks after a Ukrainian sailor named 1919 by Sir Lewis Namier. At the time he Empire and the USSR: The Russian wrote the passage he was a young British Myroslav Medvid first jumped ship near the port of New Orleans, Question and Imperial Overextension.” the case was still making headlines. The Ukrainian Weekly on Foreign Service officer who had observed If one were to try and generalize, what developments taking place in and relating November 10 reported that, as the Marshal Koniev awaited its Prof. Szporluk seeks to achieve is an cargo of grain at Reserve, La., north of New Orleans on the Mississippi River and more to Halychyna. The same Namier would understanding of a series of historical and later become a leading British scholar and details emerged about U.S. authorities’ handling of the Ukrainian sailor who jumped from other types of connections and relation- the Soviet freighter on October 24, Ukrainian Americans continued to protest. receive knighthood. Back in 1919 he ships that have helped shape events in wrote: “ ‘They [the Ukrainians] strove The story, reported by a quartet of correspondents based in Jersey City, N.J. (where our Eastern Europe. The relationships include home office was based), New York and Chicago, provided the following information. hard to be a proper government. But a those between Ukraine and Russia, peasant nation exasperated by centuries of * * * Ukraine and Poland, Russia and Poland, oppression and fighting for its life against and the historical one between tsarist The Ukrainian American Bar Association went to the Supreme Court to seek an order landowners – and the foreign domination Russia and the USSR. He is also interested barring the Soviet ship from leaving U.S. waters. Attorney Andrew Fylypovych, represent- for which they stand – cannot be expected in exploring how the processes of modern- ing the UABA and its co-plaintiffs, including the Ukrainian Human Rights Committee and to show superhuman self-control. ... For ization and urbanization relate to the the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, filed a petition for a stay, or temporary all my personal loss and anxieties I do injunction. on Thursday, November 7, before Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, the Supreme above relationships. insist that grievous wrong has been done Court justice whose jurisdiction is the District of Columbia. Prof. Szporluk’s essays are enlighten- to the Ukrainians. Left in peace to estab- The UABA et al said in their petition that it is doubtful that Mr. Medvid’s decision to ing for a variety of reasons. First, he digs lish a strongly radical but decent govern- return to the USSR was voluntary and, therefore, his departure should be delayed until for and discovers facts that were previ- ment, they might well have organized UABA lawyers can interview him about his intentions. ously unknown or ignored. For example, themselves. Driven to despair, insidiously The petition was initially filed in a Philadelphia district court, but the court declined to he spent years tracking an obscure Soviet pushed forward daily toward bolshevism hear the case. It was then refilled in the District Court for the District of Columbia on publication that led him to discover that and into committing atrocious crimes, they November 1 and rejected the same day. Mr. Fylypovych then took his case to the Court of the mysterious reductions in Ukrainian- know that a Polish military occupation, as Appeals on November 2, and two days later the court ruled against granting the stay. language publications in the 1970s and foreshadowed in the Foreign Ministers’ Mr. Fylypovych told The Weekly that, although both courts turned down the petition, it 1980s were not, as some political scien- decision of June 25 [by the Supreme was established that the UABA not only had the right to sue on behalf of the Ukrainian tists thought, simply the result of a kind Council of the Allied Powers in Paris], sailor, but that it, as an association of lawyers, had the right to sue on the grounds that the of natural selection: Ukrainians prefer- means disaster without end. And I insist UABA was denied access to Mr. Medvid for the purpose of obtaining information. ring to read Russian rather than that no number of atrocities however hor- He explained that what was happening in the lower courts was that the judges were say- Ukrainian newspapers and magazines. rible can deprive a nation of its rights to ing, “this is a foreign-policy decision, we can’t do anything about it,” but “what we’re say- What Prof. Szporluk instead found, as independence, nor justify its being put ing is, all you have to do is order a stay to have the U.S. government stop the ship; you don’t described in his “The Press and Soviet under the heel of its worst enemies and have to find the remedy, that is up to the government, up to [President Ronald] Reagan.” Nationalities: The Party Resolution of persecutors” (p. 354). Meanwhile, Ukrainians throughout the country feared for a fellow Ukrainian, realizing 1975 and Its Implementation,” was that Prof. Szporluk has held the Mykhailo that under Soviet criminal codes one of the definitions of treason is escape across the border there was an unseen hand manipulating Hrushevsky Chair in Ukrainian history at or refusal to return from beyond the border back to the USSR. Thus, they had every reason Harvard University for the last 10 years. to expect that Mr. Medvid would be found guilty of treason once returned to the USSR. Bohdan Vitvitsky is a lawyer, writer His book is available from various ven- Source: “Furor continues over Medvid incident; Ukrainian Americans raise voices” by Roma and lecturer who holds a Ph.D. in philos- dors, including the Hoover Press (800- Hadzewycz with Mykhailo Bociurkiw and Marta Kolomayets in New York and Marianna Liss in ophy and is a long-time contributor to 935-2882), amazon.com and others. Get it, Chicago, The Ukrainian Weekly, November 10, 1985, Vol. LIII, No. 45. The Ukrainian Weekly. read it, share it with your friends. No. 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

in America we had to adjust and change From our experience, Mr. Gore’s vice- he demonstrated a lot of illiteracy in for- Jersey Senate race in order to survive. In most cases the president office does not answer letters and eign affairs. As a son of former President change was for the better. We became Mr. Lieberman’s Senate office said they George Bush he will rely on his legacy. more tolerant, more forgiving and more answer only to those with Connecticut And we, of course, have never forgotten is key contest flexible. We also realized that we should addresses. Dear Editor: his father’s infamous “Chicken Kiev” participate in the political process and by The inane “I don’t want the government speech and his negative attitude toward In addition to the presidential run, our vote help to choose our government in my medicine cabinet” portrayal of “small Ukrainians. there are key races on Election Day that and its direction. It has been a great priv- government” by Mr. Bush’s pitch-men begs One more comment on the statement in affect the Ukrainian American communi- ilege to exercise our vote – something the question: “How small can the American the advertisement in question. It is stated: ty. I do not believe there is any more key that was missing for the most part in government become?” “George W. Bush will hold the Ukrainian race than the U.S. Senate race in New Ukraine. This power and strength can be Ukrainian Americans, an unheralded and Russian governments accountable for Jersey. Congressman Bob Franks, a awesome, and we must wield it with minority, have a unique background that the foreign assistance they receive.” In this Republican, is running against what he utmost care. can be of value in assisting American situation, I believe it is advisable to with- has aptly dubbed, “a human ATM It does not matter whether we vote efforts for world stabilization. There are draw from criticism of your own govern- machine.” Democratic or Republican (or independ- some ties to the candidates: the ment. His opponent, Jon Corzine, has to date ent). The important thing is that we vote Kuchma/Gore Commission, the “Chicken A final thought: why not consider the spent over $60 million. At his current our conscience. Although the people who Kiev” speech by Mr. Bush’s father still democratic candidate Al Gore, the environ- rate of spending, he is projected to spend are elected are not always to our liking ringing in our ears (George Schultz is mentalist, and his running mate Joe more on his senatorial campaign than Al and the functioning of the government “Dubya’s” foreign-policy advisor), Pat Lieberman, a friend of Ukrainians, who as Gore and George W. Bush individually can be somewhat lacking, at least we can Buchanan’s anti-Communist and a senator always voted for issues favorable will spend on their presidential races. say we had something to say about it. If Demjanjuk defense columns, and Ralph to the Ukrainian minority group? But, more importantly for us, Mr. errors are made, then we will bear the Nader’s support of Zelenyi Svit’s efforts to This will be the best choice! Corzine knows nothing about Ukraine, consequences of our own mistakes and close down the Chornobyl nuclear plant in nor does he desire to learn anything not someone else’s. Ukraine on the occastion of the fifth Theodosia Kichorowsky about the country and its people, since But we have to act intelligently in the anniversary of the Chornobyl accident. Forest Hills, N.Y. overtures to brief him on the subject voting process and not succumb to elo- The campaign now ends and the voting were ignored. In fact, if his prior rela- quent sloganeering, posturing, negative begins ... It’s Gore/Lieberman by a whisker. tionships are any indication of his views, ads or the color of the eyes of the candi- Walter Bodnar he remains a strong supporter of the date. We should read the platforms, study Newark, N.J. Compliments on Communist regime in China, having the political philosophies and weigh the both encouraged and profited from his past performances of the candidates. philatelic column relationship with that country when he Only then can we make intelligent deci- Dear Editor: was co-chair of Goldmann Sachs. This sions with which we are comfortable. A reader’s reaction Thank you many times for very edu- person is neither a friend of Ukraine, nor As Ukrainian Americans we share a cational articles by Ingert Kuzych. someone who deserves your vote. dual responsibility: how the choice of a to a political ad Specifically I am referring to his article I can honestly say that Rep. Franks is candidate will affect our own lives here Dear Editor: of October 12, “Commemoration of ‘The a true friend of Ukraine. As a member of in America, as well as how the choice In regard to the advertisement that Tale of Ihor’s Campaign’.” He is also Congress during the last eight years (and will affect the global situation in general appeared in your valuable paper on very responsive to readers who ask about before that as a member of the New and, particularly, the relationship of Sunday, October 22, under the title his columns. Jersey Assembly for 15 years), he has Ukraine with America. “Ukrainian Americans Deserve a Better Another superb column is that of both supported and helped Ukraine. He Since Ukraine’s independence in Future,” I offer the following comments. Myron B. Kuropas. His thinking is right is a member of the Congressional 1991, we can recall with clarity how on top of it all. What kind of future can Ukrainian Ukrainian Caucus, the key Congressional each administration dealt with Ukraine: Please keep up the good work. organization of supporters of aid to foreign aid, humanitarian assistance, Americans expect from George W. Bush if Ukraine. To my knowledge, there is no immigration policy, isolationism, trade, he is elected president of the United States? E. Buffalo measure that he has not supported in investments, international bank loans, Right at the beginning of his campaign Fair Oaks, Calif. terms of aid to Ukraine. I know that he etc. It should be fairly easy for us to believes that a free and independent make a final decision based on relatively Ukraine is vital to the United States. He recent events and developments to which is also a person of integrity and charac- we bore witness. ter. He has consistently voted in favor of Make the effort. Vote on November 7. U.S. aid to the struggling and developing Bozhena Olshaniwsky nation of Ukraine. 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Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 from Ukraine, but we soon realized that cluded. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 No. 45 Diverse Ukrainians of Houston united by common goal of preserving heritage by Roma Hadzewycz weekend, The Weekly learned that most, like Michael and Oksana Danylyk, came HOUSTON – The Ukrainian here in the years following World War II. Americans of Houston defy easy catego- The Danylyks arrived from the displaced rization. Perhaps the best way to describe persons camps of Germany, where they them as a group is to say they are diverse. had heard of Texas from a friend, Victor Eugene Kuchta, a former New Jerseyan Balaban, who was headed for Houston to (he’s from Hillside), who was the initiator join his uncle. Thanks to that connection, and the prime mover of the 25th anniver- the Danylyks were sponsored by a local sary celebration of the Ukrainian Ukrainian, Bill Kory (Vasyl Koryvchak) American Cultural Club of Houston and arrived in Houston on March 14, (UACCH), related much of the Houston 1949. Ukrainian community’s history to a visitor In 1950, Mrs. Danylyk recalled, “we from the East Coast. began to discuss what type of community The “hromada” here is a mix of post- we should organize. We gathered at the World War II immigrants, the third wave Rice Hotel and discussed how we should of immigration and others who came later because of job opportunities. There was a start a club and build a church.” major influx of people between 1976 and The first club was soon formed: the 1984, thanks to an oil-driven economic Ukrainian American Club. Its president boom, he explained. Then, in the late was Mr. Kory, while Mr. Danylyk was 1980s there was an outflux due to the secretary. Mr. Danylyk recalled that he city’s economic collapse. even traveled to a convention of the Mr. Kuchta, 44, a chemical engineer, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America to represent the Ukrainians of and his family arrived in 1981, as he was Roma Hadzewycz transferred by his company, Union Houston. Carbide, to a newly created venture, UOP. Next came the church. Michael Lt. Cmdr. Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper in the commander’s seat of a mock-up of the In addition to his wife, Irene née Majnich Balaban donated the land for the church space shuttle at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. and the people pledged amounts of $500 (originally from Willimantic, Conn.), the trical mechanic. It was in Texas that their full-size replicas of the space shuttle and family now includes two native Texans, and $1,000 – a large sum at the time. Donations came in also from around the children – Nadia, who is now studying the International Space Station that are sons, Andrew, 8, and Joseph, 3. medicine in Lviv, Luba, a freshman at the used for training, as well as the old and Mr. Kuchta, whose father arrived in the country. Ultimately, the church was built in 1957. There was much activity under University of Michigan, and 15-year-old new Mission Control Centers, the astro- United States after World War II and Nestor – were born. naut spoke of her training and her future whose mother’s parents arrived before the pastorship of the Rev. Dmytro Mrs. Dub is active also in the Ukrainian with the space program. World War I, explained his community Blazejowsky, according to Mrs. Danylyk, National Association, and two years ago Inside the space shuttle mock-up, she involvement: “As a youngster I was fed who added: “Life was wonderful and took over the post of secretary of UNA explained how the five to seven members hors d’oeuvres. Now I want the full meal. everything was being established.” Branch 28. In that role she is focusing her of the crew are accommodated in tight I didn’t suffer the burnout that many Then, in 1975, the Ukrainian American efforts on enrolling local Ukrainian fami- quarters, adding, “and you thought ‘tabir’ Ukrainians who are very heavily involved Social and Cultural Club of Houston was lies of various backgrounds as members was bad!” This was an allusion to camps in community life do.” founded (the “social” was later dropped), of this 106-year-old fraternal organization. she attended as a member of the Plast “And now, it’s for the kids,” he empha- the result of a meeting in the living room This reporter also had a chance to Ukrainian Scouting Organization. More sized. of the Danylyks’ home. Anne Polewchak was the first president of this new group spend time with the Palmers, Bill and Olia than a year of an astronaut’s training, Lt. A quick perusal of the UACCH’s 25th Cmdr. Stefanyshyn-Piper said as she anniversary book shows Mr. Kuchta which, the Danylyks underlined, was (née Holowka). She is a transplant from formed to unite all the people to work Cleveland who arrived in Houston in pointed to the countless controls, is spent active in a variety of roles at a variety of on learning the shuttle systems. events, from cultural displays to political toward the general good of the entire com- 1979, and is a librarian at the M.D. munity. Andersen Cancer Center, part of the huge Since she holds B.S. and M.S. degrees events, from bowling to festivals. In 1998 in mechanical engineering from the he was the chairman of the Ss. Cyril and Twenty-five years later the UACCH Texas Medical Center. He is a geneticist- remains the area’s most significant organi- turned-computer-guy who has worked on Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she Methodius Slavic Heritage Days Festival, could be tapped as a flight engineer on the zation of Ukrainians. databases for the medical field and has and he is also a former president of the crew. Lt. Cmdr. Stefanyshyn-Piper, who Some members of the Houston com- lived in Houston since 1988. Mr. Palmer UACCH. is married to a fellow engineer and NASA munity arrived later, like Olga Dub (nee calls himself “an adopted Ukrainian” (via The anniversary book features a quote employee Glen Piper, says her 11-year-old Puzyk), a member of the UACCH who his marriage three years ago to Olia). from one of Mr. Kuchta’s articles in The son thinks “it’s neat” that his mom is an emigrated to the United States in 1965 Both Palmers are heavily involved in Texas Trident, the newsletter of the astronaut. from the ethnically Ukrainian the Ukrainian community, with Ms. UACCH that was published in 1985-1988. Though she was an active member of Lemkivschyna region, then part of Poland. Palmer having held practically every “In trying to achieve ... success, the the Twin Cities Ukrainian community in Houston Ukrainian community has the Her father, who was born in Elizabeth, office in the UACCH, and Mr. Palmer doing his share in everything from provid- her youth – most notably in Plast, the greatest resource of all: you! Let us main- N.J., returned to Lemkivschyna. Later, she local Ukrainian dance ensemble and St. tain our heritage, not just for ourselves, explained, he was arrested in 1946-1947, ing technical support for the anniversary book edited by his wife to making Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church – but for generations to come. United we and the family was resettled as part of today Lt. Cmdr. Stefanyshyn-Piper is a stand, divided we fall. Come join us!” Akcja Wisla in the western part of Poland. varenyky. Mr. Palmer has strong opinions about peripheral member of the Ukrainian com- Those appear to be words the Houston Mrs. Dub lived at first in New York munity. She delivered the keynote address community lives by. City, then for a time in Newark, before how the Ukrainian American Cultural Club of Houston could extend its reach: “I at the Houston community’s Ukrainian Speaking with many community mem- moving to Houston in 1979, where her Independence Day celebration in 1998, bers during the UACCH’s anniversary husband, Zenon, got a good job as an elec- feel the club should be Ukrainian – not limited to members of one parish. ... The but due to time constraints of her job – Ukrainian community is not concentrated including training in far-flung places from in one area but is from all parts of northern Canada to Russia – she has not Houston. If the clubhouse was centrally been able to join the UACCH. located, we could attract all segments of Nonetheless, the astronaut sent greetings the community.” He added, “We could and regrets that she could not be present at also attract businessmen who would be the UACCH’s anniversary banquet on interested in doing business with Ukraine. September 30 as that evening she was back I would include anyone who has an inter- home in St. Paul receiving an achievement est in Ukrainian culture.” award from her alma mater, Derham High School. According to Mr. Kuchta, Lt. Houstonians can boast of having a most Cmdr. Stefanyshyn-Piper recently declared prominent Ukrainian in their midst: Heide that beginning next year she will become Stefanyshyn-Piper, 37, a Ukrainian an associate member of the club. American/German American from St. The latest newly arrived, too, have Paul, Minn., who arrived in Houston just found a home among Ukrainians in over four years ago, lured by outer space. Houston. It was in August 1996 that this lieu- Among them are the Litvinchuks, origi- tenant commander in the U.S. Navy was nally of Kyiv, who came to Houston by named an astronaut candidate by NASA. way of Germany and Sweden, where Dr. Since then she has completed two years of Alexander Litvinchuk was a research sci- training and evaluation, and is now quali- entist and professor. Since 1997 Dr. fied and awaiting flight assignment – on Litvinchuk has been a research associate either the space shuttle, or the professor with the Raman and Infrared International Space Station – as a mission Research Laboratory at the Texas Center specialist. for Superconductivity at the University of As she provided a special tour of the Houston, which is known as one of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center’s Space Dr. Alexander Litvinchuk in his lab at the University of Houston. Vehicle Mock-Up Facility, which contains (Continued on page 15) No. 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 9

Lviv hosts eighth congress of worldwide medical federation by Dr. Paul J. Dzul various medical specialties. During the plenary and sec- tion meetings there were 16 participants from the United CHICAGO – The eighth scientific congress of the States, most of them young physicians raised and educated World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Associations outside of Ukraine. They have not only mastered the lan- (WFUMA) was held this year on August 13-17 in Lviv. guage of their parents, but also are fluent in contemporary The unveiling of a monument to Mariian Panchyshyn pre- Ukrainian medical terminology. ceded the formal opening ceremonies of the congress. Some of the lecturers included: Drs. Yuriy Baran, Dr. Panchyshyn (1882-1943) was a prominent civil and Alexander Worobec, Walter Wess, Roksolana Horbowyj, political activist, head of the underground Ukrainian Roman Goy, Andrew Dzul, Ihor Galarnyk, Bronislaw University in Lviv during the interwar years (1922-1925), Gorski, George Miz, Victor Onufrey, Vitaliy Piliuko, Ivan and the founding director of Lviv’s public health depart- Sydorenko, Yevhen Steckiw, Jack Sharchis, George ment (1939). Tysovsky and the Rev. Jaroslav Nalysnyk. Thousands of Lviv’s residents turned out to honor the Over 480 physicians took part in the congress, of which memory of the late medical professor with the dedication 401 were from Ukraine, mostly between the ages of 30 of his statue on a tranquil plaza near the city’s main med- and 50. There were three academicians, 49 holders of ical center. Dr. Oleh Ivantsiv and docent Borys Kryvko medical doctorates and 94 candidates in medical studies. headed the statue building committee. The Rev. Vasyl There were physicians from 11 foreign countries, includ- Boyanivskyi of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, ing the United States, Canada, Argentina, the Netherlands, along with a large retinue of priests, blessed the site. Belgium, Germany, Austria, Poland, Bulgaria, Russia and The official opening of the WFUMA congress took Moldova. More than 60 U.S. physicians, along with their place in the Ivan Franko Theater of Opera and Ballet. families, participated in the congress. Over 900 abstracts Along with the officers of the WFUMA, members of the were published in the congress program. Ministry of Health, Lviv municipal health authorities, and The closing ceremonies of the congress were held in faculty of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the the historic ceremonial hall of the Lviv City Hall. At the Danylo Halytskyi Lviv Medical University were seated on organizational meeting held on August 15, the delegates the dais. WFUMA President Paul J. Dzul, M.D., presided elected to move the WFUMA offices from the United over the opening ceremonies. After the opening formali- States to Kyiv. ties, participants were regaled with outstanding perform- A new executive committee was elected: Dr. Dzul, ances by some of Ukraine’s renowned artists and musi- M.D. (U.S.), honorary president; Academician cians. Liubomyr Pyrih, M.D., Ph.D., president; Myroslaw The scientific program of the congress was conducted Kolenskyj, D.D.S. (U.S.), vice-president; Academician both in Lviv, at the Palace of Railway Workers, and in Mykhailo Pavlovskyi, M.D., Ph.D., vice-president; Truskavets, Ukraine’s leading resort in the Carpathian Tetiana Blikhar, secretary; and Roksolana Horbowyj, Mountains. The plenary sessions of the congress covered M.D. (U.S.), treasurer. current issues in Ukrainian medicine. Special workshops The WFUMA Directors Council is composed of the were held on providing medical health care, medical heads of the national medical organizations that are mem- ethics, sequelae of the Chornobyl catastrophe, including bers of the WFUMA, including, from the United States medical ecological problems, medical education and the and Canada, the president of the Ukrainian Medical role of civic organizations in the development of medi- Association of North America, Roman Goy, M.D., M.B.A. cine. The Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak near the newly dedicated The program also included eight sections reviewing (Continued on page 16) monument to Dr. Mariian Panchyshyn in Lviv. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 No. 45

Piano duo to perform in Chicago CHICAGO – The piano-duo of Holiday Greetings 2000 Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff, both former students at Christmas in Ukraine- 1995 • Vitaliy Lytvyn, T Continue Your Tradition... the Kyiv Conservatory who have been winning critical acclaim since coming to the United States in 1991, Use the UNA publications to send holiday will appear in their third concert per- greetings and wishes of goodwill, prosper- formance at the Ukrainian Institute ity and the season’s blessings. Please note, of Modern Art, on Sunday, November 19, at 2 p.m.

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Special exhibit celebrates jubilee of Ukrainian-Canadian Art Foundation by Daria Darewych tion donated to the State Museum of Visual Art in Kyiv; TORONTO – The Ukrainian-Canadian • 1995 – Retrospective Anniversary Art Foundation (UCAF) in Toronto is cele- Exhibit of Works by Mychajlo Dmytrenko, brating its silver anniversary, marking 25 Founder of the Ukrainian Association of years of activity in support and promo- Visual Artists of Canada; tion/popularization of Ukrainian art in • 1999 – Leo Mol Exhibit on the occa- Canada and beyond, organizing exhibi- sion of the 50th anniversary of the sculp- tions, publishing art catalogues and sup- tor’s creative work in Canada; and porting various cultural programs. • 2000 – Exhibit of the Ukrainian The celebrations will commence on Association of Visual Artists of Canada. Saturday, November 11, with a preview of In the 25 years of its existence the foun- the “Foundation for the Future” exhibit dation has published the following cata- and a champagne reception. The guest of logues: “Ukrainian Artists International honor at the event will be John Yaremko, Exhibit,” 1982; “Toronto Art Mosaic,” former cabinet minister in the Ontario 1984; “Thirty Artists’ Exhibit,” 1986; Parliament and his wife, Mary Yaremko. “Exhibit of Ukrainian Art from Collections The guest speaker will be Chrystia in Canada and the United States; 1987; Freeland, deputy editor of the Globe and “On the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary Mail. of Ukrainian Settlement in Canada,” 1991; The official opening of the “Foundation “Return,” 1994; “Leo Mol,” 1999. for the Future” exhibit will take place on The members of the first board of direc- Sunday, November 12, at 3 p.m., with tors were Mykhajlo Szafraniuk (president), keynote speaker Member of Parliament Yaroslawa Szafraniuk, Jurij Darewych, Maria Minna, minister of international Petro Hlibowych, Lubomir Kozak, relations, government of Canada. A dele- Mykola Kushpeta, Irena Malecka, Mykola gation of Ukrainian parliamentarians, Plawiuk, Bohdan Stebelskyj, Anna Trojan, including Ivan Drach and Les Taniuk, are Wasyl Veryha, Roman Wrzesnewskyj and also expected. The celebration will con- Paul Yuzyk. clude on Saturday, November 25, with The UCAF Gallery was originally hosting by the foundation of an evening located in the Szafraniuk’s building at with artists whose work has been included 2395 Bloor St. W. In 1979, the gallery in the exhibit. moved to its present, more spacious loca- The Ukrainian-Canadian Art tion at 2118-A Bloor St. W. Apart from Foundation was established 25 years ago, exhibits, the gallery serves as a venue for on November 30, 1975, in Toronto. It was various cultural events, lectures, literary established that year as a non-profit chari- evenings, conferences and concerts. As table organization with a provincial charter such it has become a center of Ukrainian by the founders, Mykhajlo and Yaroslava life in western Toronto, where a large Szafraniuk. number of Ukrainians live. The gallery is The Szafraniuks donated 120 works also home to the Ukrainian Association of from their personal art collection which Visual Artists of Canada. became the nucleus of the new founda- Mr. and Mrs. Szafraniuk not only devot- tion’s permanent collection. The perma- ed their time and energy to the foundation nent collection now includes over 650 but also provided all of the funding for the paintings, sculptures, ceramics, prints and UCAF Gallery. Following the passing of drawings and is housed in the UCAF. Mykhajlo Szafraniuk in 1991 and Over the last 25 years, the permanent Yaroslawa Szafraniuk in 1996, the gallery collection has been enriched with art works has relied on the support of the Ukrainian acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Szafraniuk, as community for its continuity. Membership well as those contributed by individual dues, proceeds from the sale of art, rental donors, art collectors and artists. In 1994 of the facilities, as well as limited grants the foundation donated 39 paintings to the and donations, however, have not been State Museum of Visual Art in Kyiv. sufficient to sustain the work of the foun- Promoting Ukrainian art in Canada was dation. and continues to be the foundation’s main As the UCAF Gallery is the only goal. Therefore, the foundation has Ukrainian gallery in Canada that is com- focused on organizing exhibits of estab- mitted exclusively to visual arts and is an lished as well as emerging Ukrainian important center of Ukrainian cultural life artists from Canada, the United States, in Toronto, it merits support from the Western Europe and, in the last decade, Ukrainian community. from Ukraine. To date, over 270 exhibits With the “Foundation for the Future” have been held. exhibit the Ukrainian Canadian Art Among the most noteworthy are: Foundation not only celebrates its 25th • 1982 – Ukrainian Artists International anniversary, but also underscores the pres- Exhibit (with 88 participants); ence and continuity of Ukrainian art tradi- • 1983 – The Jacques Hnizdovsky tions throughout the 80 years embraced by Anniversary Exhibit; the selected works of art. Although the • 1984 – “Toronto Art Mosaic ’84 (held paintings, sculptures and prints of the 51 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of artists on display represent a fraction of the Toronto, with 78 participants from 30 eth- permanent collection, they are indicative nic backgrounds); of the variety of artistic styles and genres – • 1985 – Retrospective 50th Anniversary ranging from realism to abstract expres- Exhibit of Works by Myron Lyvytsky; sionism – represented in the permanent • 1986 – Thirty Artists’ Exhibit; collection. • 1987 – Exhibit of Ukrainian Art from The exhibit includes works of art by collections in Canada and the United prominent Ukrainian artists from Canada, States held on the occasion of the 100th the United States, France, Germany, anniversary of the birth of Alexander Switzerland, Argentina, Venezuela and Archipenko; Ukraine. Most works are familiar from • 1991 – “Commemorating the previous exhibits, but some, like the Centennial of Ukrainian Immigration to recently donated works by Mykola Canada 1891-1991: William Kurelek’s Hlushchenko titled “The Boats have ‘Passion of Christ’ and ‘Pioneer Series’; Arrived”, will be seen for the first time. • 1994 – “Return,” an exhibit of works These works reflect the interests of the from the foundation’s permanent collec- founders and donors and offer an overview of the artists who have participated in Daria Darewych, Ph.D., is an art histo- exhibits at the UCAF Gallery over the past rian and co-curator of the exhibit. quarter century. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 No. 45

FFOOCCUSUS ONON PHIPHILLAATTEELLYY by Ingert Kuzych

A worthy winner for the 2000 Narbut Prize For the third year in a row, a historical Runners-up souvenir sheet topped the field in balloting for the Heorhiy Narbut Prize. Awarded Apparently the public really appreciat- annually by the Ukrainian Philatelic and ed Mr. Shtanko’s work as it garnered 16 Numismatic Society for the previous percent of the hundreds of votes submitted year’s best-designed philatelic issue, the this year. Tied for second place were three year 2000 Narbut Prize goes to Oleksiy stamp issues, each of which received just Shtanko for his masterful creation honor- over 8 percent of the ballots. ing Yaroslav the Wise (1078-1054), ruler One recalled Ukraine’s patron, St. of Rus’ (medieval predecessor state of Andrew the First-Called Apostle. The Ukraine). Once more this year, the illus- stamp shows the baroque and much-loved trated ballot that appeared in The St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Kyiv enfolded Ukrainian Weekly in May greatly spurred in the arms of an angel. The attached label participation in the selection process. presents the saint holding a cross and in the act of blessing the future site of Kyiv A description of the winner which, according to legend, he visited in Hues of red and gold predominate on the first century A.D. (Figure 2). Figure 1 Very interesting and surprising was the souvenir sheet, which depicts Yaroslav Ukraine’s famous graphic artist of the early on the left supporting a sword. On the another release that voters really appreci- ated: the Christmas stamp showing a 20th century who designed many of right is the ecclesiastic Ilarion (birth Ukraine’s first stamps and banknotes. Prize unknown, died prior to 1054), the first group of carolers drawn in a humorous winners receive an engraved certificate and New website native-born (non-Greek) metropolitan of (cartoon-like) “folk style” (Figure 3). One a $250 cash prize. Below are the award Kyiv, who leans on a staff. of the designers of this issue was winners since its inception: Since both men valued education and Oleksander Zharivsky, a member of the focuses on • 1993 – Larysa Koren, the 150th the written word, it is not surprising that Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Anniversary of the Birth of Mykola they are both depicted holding books. Society from Lviv. This unusual holiday stamp collecting Yaroslav displays a bound volume of the depiction easily surpassed the votes Lysenko; and Oleh Snarsky, National Flag by Ingert Kuzych Rus’ka Pravda, the most important collec- received by the other (more traditional) and Trident Emblem of Ukraine (tied in voting). tion of old Ukrainian-Rus’ laws that was Christmas stamp depicting a Nativity icon. You have enjoyed reading about • 1994 – Yuriy Lohvyn, 75th first compiled during his reign. Ilarion, The final runner-up issue, which com- Ukrainian philately in The Ukrainian Anniversary of Ukraine’s First Postage holding an open book, codified the laws memorated the 1,100th anniversary of Weekly for the past two years, now Stamps. governing Church life and defended the Poltava, displayed the colorful coat of arms you can learn still more about • 1995 – Serhiy Byelyayev, 160th independence of the Rus’ Church from the of the city on an ancient scroll (Figure 4). Ukrainian stamp collecting by log- Anniversary of Kyiv University (stamp hierarchy of Byzantium. The inscription The much-touted Scythian gold issue ging on to: www.upns.org This received less than 5 percent of the vote. and souvenir sheet). between the two men reads: “Kyiv in the address is the new website of the • 1996 – Yuriy Lohvyn, Hetmans of 10th-11th Centuries, City of Yaroslav” and Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic * * * Ukraine series. depicted in the background is a view of Society. Launched in late August, Many thanks to all who participated in • 1997 – Serhiy Byelyayev, 150th medieval Kyiv (Figure 1). the site provides a wealth of infor- the balloting. So far this year, Ukraine Anniversary of the Kyiv University The text that appears around the central mation about Ucrainica collecting Post has produced some truly spectacular Astronomical Observatory (stamp trip- scene, and that forms a type of verbal with separate pages devoted to: an issues. It should make the 2001 Narbut tych). frame, is taken from the “Povist introduction to Ukrainian philately, a Vremennykh Lit,” the surviving chronicle Prize selection process a challenge indeed. • 1998 – V. Taran and O. Kharuk, the Founding of Kyiv (Europa souvenir sheet). bookstore of available publications, of the time. The text states: “Yaroslav Former winners • 1999 – V. Taran, O. Kharuk, S. a look at the Narbut Prize for best built the great citadel of Kyiv, near which Ukrainian stamp design (all past It seems that the souvenir sheet format is Kharuk and V. Kozachenko, the 350th stands the Golden Gate. He also founded winners are listed and many of the becoming quite popular. The five issued in Anniversary of the Beginning of the the Metropolitan Church of St. Sophia, the finalists shown), the contents from Church of the Annunciation over the 1999 were a record and since 1993, when Ukrainian Struggle for Freedom under the society’s latest Ukrainian Golden Gate... he assembled many scribes the Narbut Prize was initiated, four of the Bohdan Khmelnytsky (souvenir sheet). Philatelist journal and links to all who translated [books] from Greek into eight winners have been souvenir sheets. • 2000 – Oleksiy Shtanko, Yaroslav the sorts of related collecting sites. Slavic.” The Heorhiy Narbut Prize is named after Wise (souvenir sheet). In addition, one can also join the society online by printing up an application after first reading about the many benefits derived from membership. So, check out the philatelic site and then contact this writer at [email protected] with your impressions, comments, or sugges- tions.

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DATELINE NEW YORK: Around the world in just two days by Helen Smindak New York is an international mecca of all things cultural Pele E” (complete with typical Hawaiian hip swaying), and – art, ballet, opera, theater – you name it, it’s here. For an exuberant Russian Gypsy dance titled “Romany.” many, dance is considered the most beguiling medium and The folk-dance fiesta was followed by an international the easiest to experience and absorb; movement, sound, fashion parade with live modeling of costumes from around costumes and moods express a vast range of events and the world, two of them from Ukraine. The nine-member emotions, inspiring spontaneous feelings of amazement, company, which includes two dancers from Ukraine – pleasure, laughter, romance and sympathy. Anna Mikhaylenko of Kharkiv and Ganna Makarova from On two consecutive Saturdays in October, these senti- Odesa – took viewers on a trip that zig-zagged through the ments were strongly evoked as two dance ensembles that Czech Republic, Romania, India, Mongolia, Scotland, feature Ukrainian performers staged productions in Ireland, Egypt, Spain and China, as well as the Philippines, Manhatttan, one bringing the heritage of Eastern Europe Hawaii, Russia and Argentina. A fast-paced, varied show and neighboring countries to a midtown throng, the other such as this requires speedy costume changes, and the per- interpreting cultures from around the world for an Upper formers were more than capable of keeping up. West Side audience. Mr. Cybyk, who shone in the Filipino, Hawaiian and Russian numbers, was outstanding in the Argentine tango Happy smiles, fleet footwork as he deftly partnered dancer Brenda Neville through a You could call them the Riverdance kids of Central and dance that is characterized by long graceful steps, abrupt Eastern Europe – young people who bring the spirit of stops and sensuous turns. Born in Camden, N.J., he has those regions to American audiences coast to coast, win- studied ballet and character dance with masters in the ning over hearts and minds with their happy-go-lucky United States and Europe, and is a graduate of the Virsky enthusiasm and fleet footwork. The Duquesne University School of Academic Folk Dance in Kyiv. True to his roots, Tamburitzans focus on the stirring dances, folk songs and Mr. Cybyk performs with New York’s Syzokryli Ukrainian instrumental music of Central and Eastern European coun- Dance Ensemble and is the group’s assistant artistic direc- tries, but they’re all native-born Americans: 35 scholarship tor. He also performs and trains with the Anglo-American students from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh who Ballet, Nai-Ni Chen and Michael Mao Dance in New York. spend most weekends from August to May traveling by bus Ms. Mikhaylenko, who came to the United States on a to various corners of the United States unloading and load- full scholarship to the Martha Graham School of ing costumes and musical instruments, and presenting a Contemporary Dance, interpreted a story of the love of two fast-paced two-hour-program for their audiences. Almost hearts in the Mongolian dance “Ayi Nan Ayi,” and was all of them can play the instrument for which the ensemble partnered by Mr. Cybyk in the Russian gypsy dance. is named, the tamburica, a plucked stringed instrument “Romany” began as a romantic, slow-moving number that indigenous to Yugoslavia that resembles a small guitar and changed into a dramatic play of swirling skirts (on her part) sounds like the mandolin. and energetic boot-slapping by Mr. Cybyk. Ms. Appearing at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Hart Mikhaylenko, who studied Mongolian dance at the Auditorium on October 14, the Tamburitzans celebrated the Mongolian College of Music and Dance and later graduat- group’s 64th anniversary with a whirlwind tour of Europe ed from the Kharkiv Choreographic Institute as a ballet and that covered a gamut of moods, styles and cultures from 13 character dancer, performed for six months in the classical countries, including Ukraine. Colorful costumes, including production “Notre Dame de Paris” in Las Vegas and the dramatic Turkish-like dress of Serbian women, multi- appears with the Connecticut Ballet in Stamford and the colored flowered gypsy dresses, classic ankle-length Jennifer Grasha, who sings “Rushnychok” in the Brighton Beach Theatre in Brooklyn. gowns with demure bodices of the Polish women, and Tamburitzans’ latest production. Ms. Makarova, featured with Mr. Cybyk and two other pleated white skirts over tight trousers worn by Greek men, (Embroidered Ritual Cloth). Vocalist Jennifer Grasha, dancers in the Philippine number, took on a solo Russian were a hallmark of the show. attired in traditional Poltava costume, was accompanied by dance “Gannochka” that combined pert movements and This year’s touring group includes seven students of a guitarist and backed by a women’s chorus as she offered a multi pirouettes. Now in her second year with ALLNA- Ukrainian ancestry, all Pennsylvania residents. Performing sensitive interpretation of the story of a loving daughter bid- TIONS, she began her dance training at age 6 at the world- as vocalists, musicians and/or dancers were first-year stu- ding farewell to her mother: “You gave me an embroidered renowned Moiseyev Dance Studio and studied acting at the dents Jessica Craig of Pittsburgh and Dana Holomshek of ritual cloth for good luck. This cloth will forever bring to Moscow Academy of Performing Arts. In this country since West Mifflin; sophomores Michael Wiegand of Bethel life my childhood, our parting and your eternal love.” 1992, she is a magna cum laude graduate in fine arts of Park, Matt Haritan from McMurray and John R. Sergeant To guide concertgoers through the folklore tour, the con- Long Island University. from Center Township; junior Elizabeth Skalyo of cert program included a map of Eastern Europe with num- The two women joined Suzi Myers and Tahji Lacomb in Bridgewater; and senior Justin Greenwald of Elizabeth. bers that corresponded to the numbers of the program notes. presenting a Russian “Khorovod” that had them gliding Former Tamburitzan Andrij Cybyk, who performs with with ethereal lightness around the stage, sometimes appear- New York professional dance companies, came on stage Representing the world ing never to touch the ground, their arms held away from before the program to introduce Hungary’s permanent their bodies in doll-like fashion. The wide floor-length Andrij Cybyk, who opened the Tamburitzans show, envoy to the United Nations Andre Erdosz (the New York skirts of their pastel-colored gowns screened quick dainty played a major role in the concert “Joy in Every Land,” pre- production was sponsored by the American Hungarian footsteps, effecting the illusion of mechanical figures. sented the following Saturday evening by the ALLNA- Folklore Centrum). Mr. Cybyk spoke fondly of his days as The company’s associate director, Sophia Janusz a Tamburitzan, when he learned so much about the songs, TIONS Dance Company at International House. An extremely versatile dancer, Mr. Cybyk was featured in the Pachecano, who hails from Philadelphia, has gone through dances and languages of Eastern Europe and made friend- the ranks of the company as a corps dancer, soloist and ships that will last his entire life. spirited barefoot Philipppine dance “La Jota Manilena,” the sultry “Tango Argentine,” a romantic Hawaiian number “E instructor. Trained in ballet and Eastern European folk Then it was on with the show, a production that Jennifer dancing with an emphasis on Ukrainian and Russian char- Dunning of The New York Times called “a perfect prescrip- acter dance, Ms. Pachecano joined Philadelphia’s Voloshky tion for fighting the blues”: joyful songs and dances from Ukrainian Dance Ensemble in l976. She is the recipient of various regions of Croatia; fiery gypsy scenes from Serbia several grants for choreography from the Pennsylvania and Russia; melancholy ballads from Macedonia, and a Council for the Arts. humorous Slovak game of hat-switching in unison by seven According to Ms. Pachecano, the company’s repertoire male dancers, won by the dancer who managed to retain a includes “Boykivsky Zabavy,” “Hopachok,” and hat on his head throughout the dance. “Kozachok” and a lively Hutsul number. Besides its local From Greece came the sound of the bouzoukee; from performances and tours in this country, the company is giv- Slovenia, a trilogy of tunes, one of them lamenting the loss ing three overseas tours this season and will depart in two of spring; and from Bohemia, animated polka steps and weeks for a tour of the Czech Republic, Poland and characterizations set to the lighthearted music of Johann Slovakia. Strauss II. A love song from Serbia, “A Thousand Tears,” Tour guide/commentator for the ALLNATIONS show was interpreted with deep feeling by Mr. Greenwald; while was Herman Rottenberg, producer and founder of the com- ritual dances from southern Romania that remember and pany, who has spent the last 32 years assisting young per- honor the dead featured Mr. Sergeant as an “iele,” an evil forming artists on the path to success in their chosen wood and water spirit. careers. Among the evening’s most colorful and exhilarating International House, a non-profit residence and program pieces were women’s dances from Bulgaria, performed to center that is home to 700 students from around the globe, the driving beat of the tupan (goatskin drum), and an elabo- is located in New York’s university hub, the Upper West rate grape festival from Poland, with young women raising Side area that embraces Barnard College, City College of sweet voices in song to salute the occasion. The entire com- New York, Columbia University and its School of Social pany joined in presenting a sampling of dances from a Work and Teachers’ College, the Manhattan School of three-day Hungarian wedding celebration and in the finale, Music, Jewish Theological and Union Theological. a Bulgarian canvas depicting the village square through eccentric, driving rhythms and exuberant dancing. The fre- Heavens of a Hundred Days netic twirling of hankies, fancy footwork, squealing and On a mild October evening, with Manhattan clogged shoulder-jiggling marked many of the dances. with traffic due to the presence in town of President Bill Ukraine, usually represented through a vigorous dance Clinton, Vice-President Al Gore and their wives (attending like the Hopak, was depicted in Len Meledandri’s adapta- Andrij Cybyk performs in “Tango Argentine” with tion of the beloved Ukrainian song “Rushnychok” Brenda Neville. (Continued on page 14) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 No. 45

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Musical Arts degree from Juilliard in May. The Ottawa Citizen’s jazz reviewer Since his U.S. debut, Dr. Stetsenko, 38, James Hale deems Mr. Stetch “one of the has been appearing as a recitalist and soloist rare breed” who’s both a sensitive inter- at such venues as Alice Tully Hall and Paul preter and a blazing original. Jazz reviewer Hall at Lincoln Center, Columbia Mark Miller of the Toronto Globe and Mail University’s Organ Concert Series, says the oblique approach seems to be Mr. Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and Stetch’s trademark, whether he’s writing out the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, all in a set list, setting up a tune or laying down New York City, the University of Salisbury an improvisation. “Eventually he’ll get in Maryland and the Fourth Presbyterian around to the heart of the matter in his Church in Chicago. 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For information send a self-addressed references will be accepted until Nov. 15, 2000. stamped envelope to: theaters and 36 that stage plays in both Single Ukrainians Ukrainian Seniors’ Centre, Yuschenko denies... Ukrainian and Russian. P.O. Box 24733, Phila., Pa. 19111 30 Notre Dame Ave., Sudbury, ON P3C 5K2. (Continued from page 1) Commenting on the state policy of Tel.: (705) 673-7404 (9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Friday) percent). promoting the Ukrainian language, which is often criticized by Russian circles in Fax: (705) 673-1137. Of the some 800 titles in Ukraine’s cata- Ukraine and some Russian politicians in logue of periodicals, 50 percent are pub- Moscow, Mr. Yuschenko said: “One lished in Ukrainian and 25 percent in needs to understand our natural desire to Russian; 25 percent are bilingual. In the pay more attention to the Ukrainian lan- FOR SALE country’s eastern and southern regions, 30 guage, insofar as its use was artificially to 50 percent of state television and radio limited in Ukraine for a long time. Now, broadcasts are in Russian. According to the you must agree, there is the problem of For sale furnished condominium, prime minister in some regions non-state the Ukrainian language. ... It is impossi- 2/2, in North Port, FL, broadcasting companies provide coverage ble to force somebody to like a language. in the area where that is 70-90 percent in Russian. ... It is necessary to create incentives for twelve Ukrainian families live. Mr. Yuschenko also told the newspa- a wider use of the official language, to Tel.: (941) 426-7532 per that Ukraine has 30 Russian-language make it prestigious.” 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 No. 45 UAAUP elects executive board

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Tournament finalists on Tryzubivka’s tennis courts (from left): Jerry Tymkiw, Alex Olynec, Pavlo Rehulyk (winner), George Sawchak and Ihor Buhaj.

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Yuschenko assured the public, saying that Newsbriefs another $100 million (U.S.) was issued to (Continued from page 2) the Fuel and Energy Sector to compensate would grow by 2 percent in 2000. Mr. for the plant’s closure. Commenting on Yekhanurov said newly privatized food and social protection of the Chornobyl plant’s wood-processing companies were among employees, Mr. Yuschenko said that more jobs will be created in Slavutych, while the main factors contributing to the revised some employees will stay on at the power growth estimate. (RFE/RL Newsline) plant to complete work which might be Privatization of energy suppliers launched needed for the next 15 years. (Eastern Economist) KYIV – The State Property Fund has announced a tender for privatizing three Communists remain more popular regional energy distributors, the Eastern KYIV – The Center for Social and Economist Daily reported on October 26. Marketing Studies (SOCIS) has found that The fund wants to sell 75.56 percent of if parliamentary elections were held in ZhytomyrOblEnergo, 75 percent of October, the Communist Party of Ukraine KyivOblEnergo and 75 percent would obtain 20.42 percent of the vote, RivneOblEnergo. The asking prices for Interfax reported on October 27. The poll those stakes are 95.174 million hrv ($17.5 registered a wide gap between Ukraine’s million), 174.032 million hrv, and 100.612 Communists and other parties: the Social million hrv, respectively. Conditions of the Democratic Party (United) would be tender include repaying the energy distribu- backed by 4.58 percent of voters, the tors’ debts to energy-generating companies, Popular Rukh of Ukraine (Gennadiy uninterrupted supplies of electricity to con- Udovenko’s wing) by 4.17 percent and the sumers who have no debts and preserving Green Party by 4.17 percent. The other 13 jobs for one year after the purchase. The parties mentioned by respondents did not tender date has been set for February 22, exceed the 4 percent threshold that political 2001. The fund plans to announce next parties in Ukraine need to overcome in month the terms for selling another three order to have their candidates elected to the regional energy distributors. President Parliament on party tickets. Of those Leonid Kuchma commented from Lisbon, polled, 37.33 percent said they would not where he was on an official visit, that cor- vote for any party, while 7.58 percent ruption and the influence of “oligarchs” refused to answer the question about their over the economy will ease once Ukraine party preferences in legislative elections. privatizes its key assets, Reuters reported. (RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine (RFE/RL Newsline) Report) Italy plans Consulate in Lviv TO ALL MEMBERS OF UNA BRANCH 271 LVIV – The chairman of the Lviv Oblast State Administration, Stepan Senchuk, met As of November 1, 2000, with Italian Ambassador to Ukraine Iolanta the secretary’s duties of Branch 271 Brunetti to discuss the opening of an Italian will be assumed by Mr. Michael P. Felenchak. Consulate in Lviv. Italy is one of the coun- We ask all members of this Branch to direct all tries actively cooperating and trading with correspondence regarding membership and the Lviv Oblast. (Eastern Economist) insurance to the address listed below: More funds issued for Chornobyl closure Mr. Michael P. Felenchak 24 Westwind Rd. KYIV – The Chornobyl nuclear power Horseheads, NY 14845-1173 plant will close on time as scheduled on (607) 739-7440 December 15, Prime Minister Viktor 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 No. 45 No. 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2000 23

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(Continued from page 24) Ukrainian Dance Ensemble is hosting its held in the International Affairs Building, annual Autumn Ball at the Ukrainian 420 W. 118th St., Room 1512, at noon-2 Educational Cultural Center, 700 Cedar p.m. Road. The dance will begin at 9 p.m., with music by the Luna orchestra. There TORONTO: The Canadian Institute of will be a performance by the Voloshky Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ensemble at 9:45 p.m. Tickets: $25, Toronto is holding a lecture by Taras adults; $20, students. Included in the Koznarsky, University of Toronto, on the ticket price is a light buffet. For table topic “Ukrainian Literary Almanacs, 1831- reservations call Luba Kalyta, (215) 1861.” The lecture will be held at the 969-1392, or Larysa Didash, (215) 969- University of Toronto, University College, 6555. 15 King’s College Circle, Room 256, at 4 p.m. Monday, November 13 Saturday, November 18 ARLINGTON, Va.: The Washington Group Cultural Fund in cooperation with NEW YORK: “Music at the Institute” the Embassy of Ukraine presents Natalia presents The New York Vocal Arts Khoma, cellist, and Volodymyr Ensemble, Raymond Beegle, artistic Vynnytsky, pianist, at The Rosslyn director, in a program of works by Spectrum Theater in the third concert of a Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, Johann series to raise funds for musical instru- Strauss II, Beethoven, as well as ments at the Lviv Conservatory. The pro- American songs from original editions. gram includes works by Beethoven, The concert, made possible by a special Brahms, Cassadó, Granados, Liszt and grant from the Ukrainian Institute of Lysenko. Suggested donation: $20; $15, America, will be held at the institute, 2 seniors and students. The theater is locat- E. 79th St., at 8 p.m. Donation: $20; UIA ed at 1611 N. Kent St. (two blocks east of members, $15; senior citizens and stu- Rosslyn Metro Station). Free garage park- dents, $10. ing is available in the rear of the building off Arlington Ridge Road. The perform- Sunday, November 19 ance begins at 8 p.m. For more informa- tion contact Chrystia Sonevytsky, (703) CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Institute of 241-1817. Modern Art presents a concert by Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff, CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard piano duo, in a program of works by Ukrainian Research Institute will pres- Schubert, Rachmaninoff and Liszt. The ent a lecture by Dr. Olga Andrievsky, concert will be held at the institute, 2320 Trent University, titled “Dangerous W. Chicago Ave., at 2 p.m. For additional Subversions and Fatal Illusions: The information call the institute, (773) 227- Ukrainian Question on the Eve of the 5522. First World War.” The lecture will be held in the institute seminar room, 1583 ADVANCE NOTICE Massachusetts Ave., at 4-6 p.m. For fur- Friday, December 1 ther information contact the institute, (617) 495-4053. DETROIT Mich.: Ushering in the ATTENTION YOUNG LADIES Thursday, November 16 Christmas season, the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of Detroit and the Vesnivka Choir HOUSTON: Pianist Volodymyr of Toronto, present “A Ukrainian Vynnytsky will appear as guest artist with Christmas” at the Macomb Center for the You are cordially invited to participate in our cellist Vagram Saradjian in the Performing Arts at 8 p.m. The concert is Shostakovich Festival 2000 presented by co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Future the Moores School of Music at the Credit Union and the Ukrainian University of Houston. The concert pro- Selfreliance Credit Union. Tickets are gram of chamber music will feature, available at the following locations: among others, Messrs. Saradjian, profes- Macomb Center Box Office, (810) 286- sor at MSM, and Vynnytsky performing 2222; Ukrainian Future Credit Union, AnnualAnnual DebutanteDebutante Shostakovich’s Sonata for Cello and (810) 757-1980; and Ukrainian Piano, Op. 40. The festival, which runs Selfreliance Credit Union, (810) 756- November 15-19, comprises four pro- 3300. For more information, call (734) grams of music by Shostakovich; the con- 953-0305 and/or visit www.bandura.org certs will be held at the Moores Opera and www.vesnivka.com. BallBall House, University of Houston Main Campus, (I-45 at Cullen Blvd., Entrance Saturday, December 2 #16), at 7:30 p.m. Individual concert tick- CHICAGO: Ushering in the Christmas to be held on ets: $20; $15, seniors and students. For season, the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of reservations and information call (713) Detroit, and the Vesnivka Choir of 743-33l3. Saturday, January 27, 2001 Toronto, present “A Ukrainian Christmas” Friday, November 17 at Lane Technical High School Auditorium at 7 p.m. The concert is spon- NEW YORK: The Harriman Institute at sored by the Ukrainian Community Columbia University presents the first in Committee of Chicago. 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Thursday, November 9 7:30 p.m. For more information call (212) 995-2640 or (212) 777-8144. ANN ARBOR, Mich.: The University of Website: http://www.brama.com/mayana. Michigan Ukrainian Club is hosting a pho- tography exhibit titled “Chornobyl: 13 Saturday, November 11 Years Later.” The photographs, on loan from the Ukrainian National Museum of NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Chicago, depict life in the aftermath of the Society will hold a lecture by Oleksander Chornobyl nuclear accident. The exhibit Zaytsev, assistant professor of history, opens in the Media Union Gallery, North Ukrainian State University of Forestry, Campus, at 8 p.m. A short film will be Lviv and visiting Fulbright Scholar, available for viewing, and refreshments Harriman Institute, Columbia University, will be provided. For further information on the topic “Fascism and Ukrainian and directions contact Petro Lisowsky, Nationalism, 1920-1930.” The lecture will Vera Slywynsky or Julia Sobol, (734) 302- be held at the society’s building, 63 Fourth 0195. Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For more information call (212) 254- Friday, November 10 5130.

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