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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXVIII HE No.KRAINIAN 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine Medvid denied tourist visa LeadershipT ConferenceU in Washington focuses W for visit to United States on Ukraine’s integration into global community by Yaro Bihun the fact that the people are dissatisfied, by Roman Woronowycz to the United States. Special to The Ukrainian Weekly he said. Kyiv Press Bureau The Public Affairs section of the U.S. As for fears about the establishment of Embassy issued a terse statement in WASHINGTON – The Washington a new dividing line in Europe after the KYIV – Almost exactly 15 years after response to efforts by The Weekly to obtain Group, the largest Ukrainian American first group of East European countries Myroslav Medvid – then a 25-year-old more details about the Medvid decision. professionals’ association in the United joins the European Union, he said, that Ukrainian sailor and today a clergyman – The statement said: “The applicant was States, on October 6-8 held its annual line exists and has always existed in the swam to the shores of New Orleans to plead denied a visa because he was unable to Leadership Conference which this year eyes of Western Europeans, who differ- for political asylum only to be escorted back overcome the presumption of intending focused on the issue of Ukraine’s integra- entiate between Eastern European coun- to his Soviet grain trawler by U.S. immigra- immigration as required by section 214 (B) tion into the global community. tries that were under Soviet domination tion officials and returned to the Soviet of the Immigration and Nationalities Act.” The conference considered the subject and those that were part of the Soviet Union, the U.S. government has told him Contrary to criminal law, U.S. immigra- in three expert panel discussions, as well Union itself. He explained that Ukraine again that he is not wanted in the United tion law holds that every visa applicant is as in speeches by the Ukrainian can cooperate and even become a mem- States. viewed as a potential immigrant and consid- Embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires Oleksii ber of the West’s military alliance, Thirteen days before the anniversary date ered guilty until he proves his innocence by Berezhnyi and American Ambassador- NATO, but membership in its economic of his ill-fated defection attempt on October overcoming the burden of proof, which the designate to Ukraine Carlos Pascual. family, the EU, is another matter. 11, the U.S. Consulate in Kyiv, which is Rev. Medvid failed to do in the eyes of After two days of discussions, the con- On a positive note, Dr. Solchanyk responsible for issuing visas to Ukrainian Kyiv consular officials. sensus appeared to be that Ukraine should pointed out that, despite early gloomy pre- citizens who wish to travel to the United The Rev. Medvid said his request for a strive to integrate itself within European dictions by the CIA and others that States, denied the Rev. Medvid permission two-month tourist visa was turned down and global economic and political struc- Ukraine would fall apart because of ethnic because, in its opinion, he failed to docu- tures, even though it is not yet fully ready divisions and other considerations, today ment that he was not intending to immigrate (Continued on page 3) to take some of the necessary steps. there are no doubts about Ukraine’s viabil- The three-day conference program ity as a nation-state, with a normal, func- began on Friday evening with a reception tioning democratic process. Scythians rule in New York at the Embassy of Ukraine, discussions Oleh Havrylyshyn, a senior advisor in about forming a Business Development the European Division of the International by Helen Smindak southern Russia. Called “The Golden Forum within TWG and about Ukraine’s Monetary Fund, presented the case for leading intellectual journal Krytyka, a Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Ukraine to welcome and take part in the NEW YORK – A hoard of spectacu- Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian banquet and dance, and a performance by globalization process, and become a mem- lar gold and silver treasures and other Steppes,” the show is supplemented by the Experimental Bandura Trio. The ber of the European Union. artifacts excavated by Ukrainian related Scythian, Sarmatian and weekend also included the presentation Prefacing his remarks with the caveat archaeologists from the tombs of the Siberian objects from the State of a TWG award to Orest Deychakiwsky that he was expressing his personal opin- Scythian warrior-nomads who once Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg for his years of work on behalf of human ions, Dr. Havrylyshyn said that globaliza- held sway over the steppes north of the and the Archaeological Museum of the rights and democracy in Ukraine tion is not a threat to Ukraine; indeed, it Black Sea has been put on display at city of Ufa. It includes a number of Ukraine’s official position on integra- may well help save it as a nation-state and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. tion with European and Euro-Atlantic open up enormous opportunities. The first such exhibition to come to (Continued on page 12) groupings was outlined at the outset of the He discounted what he called the the United States since Ukraine conference in a keynote address by Mr. “Poland is different” argument of those achieved independence, the collection Berezhnyi. He said that Ukraine is looking who maintain that Ukraine does not have “Gold of the Nomads: Scythian forward to further cooperation with NATO the wherewithal to compete. Neither did Treasures from Ancient Ukraine” is within its “distinct partnership” with the he find the “lack of natural resources” distinguished by the richness and vari- Western alliance and the Partnership for argument convincing, pointing to the suc- ety of its unique works of art as well Peace program. But it is neither pressing cesses of resource-less Japan and South as the support of First Lady Hillary for NATO membership now nor closing Korea, and the failure of resource-rich the door to that possibility in the future, he Rodham Clinton, its honorary chair- Venezuela and Nigeria. man. Unveiled for the press and muse- added. As for integration with the “Every country has its plusses and European Union, he said, Ukraine sees um members on October 12, the minuses,” Dr. Havrylyshyn said, noting exhibit was opened to the public the “full-fledged” EU membership as a long- that success comes from reforming old term goal. following day. structures as quickly as possible and using The exhibition spotlights over 170 Maintaining its “strategic relationship” one’s advantages and overcoming your with the United States “is essential for rare objects discovered in 62 mammoth disadvantages. “The issue is how to suc- burial mounds, or kurhans, in Ukraine, Ukraine,” Mr. Berezhnyi said, listing in ceed with what you have.” the bilateral agenda basket of that relation- and includes exceptional finds that have Ukraine, he said, must strive to eventu- come to light during the past decade. ship such goals as the establishment of a ally become a member of the EU. It normal trade regime – which is “long The artifacts are on loan from four should not wait for an invitation, but, like museums in Ukraine: the National overdue” – as well as U.S. support in Poland and the Czech Republic, it should International Monetary Fund and World Museum of the History of Ukraine, the keep knocking on Brussels’ door. “There’s Museum of Historical Treasures and the Bank decisions on Ukraine and on only one way to get in – keep asking for Institute of Archaeology of the Ukraine’s membership in the World Trade it,” he said. And the benefits of member- Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, as well Organization. ship, in trade and investment, are great, he as the State Historical Archaeological In the first panel, dealing with the added, pointing out that while foreign Preserve in Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi. future of the nation-state and its implica- investment in Ukraine now is $9 to $10 This 4th century gold pendant, tions for Ukraine, Roman Solchanyk, an per capita, in the EU member-candidate During the same week, the which was intended to be worn on a analyst with the RAND Corp., juxta- countries the figure is “hundreds of dol- Metropolitan Museum of Art opened an necklace, was discovered near the posed some contradictory developments lars” per capita. exhibition of Scythian and Sarmatian village of Velyka Bilozerka, and opinion poll results that suggest that Conference participants heard the U.S. artifacts that focuses on 26 gold-plated Zaporizhia Oblast. The pendant is Ukrainians find it difficult to make a government perspective on the direction wood sculptures of deer with curling on loan from the Museum of final decision about themselves as a in which Ukraine should be going from antlers, discovered in a Sarmatian Historical Treasures of Ukraine to nation and where they feel they belong kurhan near the village of Fillipovka in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. regionally. But there is no doubt about (Continued on page 4) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000 No. 43

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U.S. cities to promote investment Officials accused of hiding info zling 86 million marks ($38 million) by Yaro Bihun the Embassy of Ukraine, co-sponsored by from a German compensation fund for Special to The Ukrainian Weekly The Washington Group, an association of KYIV – National Deputy Oleksander Nazi victims in Ukraine. Mr. Klingle Ukrainian American professionals. Lavrynovych on October 17 said noted that the German authorities previ- WASHINGTON – An official delega- Describing his region to the American Ukraine’s law enforcement bodies are tion from the Kharkiv Oblast led by its ously failed to persuade the Ukrainian and Ukrainian-American guests at the giving only “a part of the information” to Parliament to lift Mr. Zherdytskyi’s chairman, Oleh Diomin, arrived here reception, Oblast Chairman Diomin said the public about their investigation into September 30 for a two-week visit to immunity and arrested him while he was its factories are not outdated or lacking in the disappearance of opposition journal- attempting to withdraw $50,000 from an seven U.S. cities in search of investors to modern technology. ist Heorhii Gongadze, Interfax reported. help develop their region. account at a Hannover bank. (RFE/RL “Actually, all our technology, all the Mr. Lavrynovych heads a special com- Newsline) The tour was organized under the aus- means of production of our leading plants mission created by the Verkhovna Rada pices of the State Department in support are current,” he said. “Our turbines, gener- to look into Mr. Gongadze’s disappear- Azerbaijan, Ukraine sign defense pact of the U.S.-sponsored “Kharkiv ators, planes, tanks, nuclear power plant ance. Olena Prytula, chief editor of the KYIV – Visiting Kyiv on October 10- Initiative.” This initiative was launched in systems, rocket systems are second to Internet newsletter Ukrayinska Pravda, 11, Azerbaijan’s Defense Minister Safar 1998 after, under pressure from none,” he added. where Mr. Gongadze worked before his Abiev signed a defense cooperation Washington, Ukraine agreed to cancel its Unfortunately, he continued, these disappearance, said the chief of the agreement for 2001 with his Ukrainian participation in a $850 million Russian dual-use technologies, while the oblast’s Security Service of Ukraine, Leonid counterpart, Oleksander Kuzmuk. The nuclear power plant construction project future potential, are also its curse. The Derkach, and Internal Affairs Minister agreement includes policy cooperation, in Bushehr, Iran. Kharkiv’s Turboatom, limitations that have been placed on them Yurii Kravchenko “are interested in con- which was contracted to build the turbines vincing” the president that Mr. Gongadze bilateral cooperation within the NATO by international agreements signed by Partnership for Peace program and coop- for the plant, lost the contract, reportedly Ukraine, he explained, have had a “devas- “disappeared on his own initiative.” worth $45 million, and potential future eration within the GUUAM alignment, tating effect.” According to Ms. Prytula, Mr. Gongadze contracts with Russia. which is composed of Georgia, Ukraine, In addition, Mr. Diomin said, their was kidnapped and “is now being kept The Kharkiv delegation, which includ- Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova. products “are denied access to markets, somewhere.” (RFE/RL Newsline) ed the mayors of Kharkiv and Azyum, The two ministers told journalists that where there is a demand for them.” Mykhailo Pylypchuk and Petro Didyk, Legislators protest newspaper’s closure the GUUAM member-states intend to “And despite statements to the contrary respectively, and other oblast and city form a joint military subdivision that will that we heard today in our meetings [with officials, had three days of meetings in the KYIV – Leftist and centrist deputies participate in peacekeeping operations U.S. officials], we know that this is a Washington area, and then left for visits to on October 17 left the parliamentary ses- and protect the planned Caucasus trans- fact,” he added. Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, sion hall to protest the closure of the port corridor, including the Baku-Ceyhan Mr. Diomin said that the “Kharkiv Chicago, Des Moines and New York. Silski Visti newspaper for non-payment oil pipeline, Turan reported. Mr. Abiev Initiative” was warmly welcomed in While in Washington, they had talks of taxes, Interfax reported. Ivan Bokyi of also met on October 11 with Ukrainian Ukraine – by the president, government with representatives of the National the Socialist Party caucus demanded that Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko, who and Parliament of Ukraine, and by the Security Council; the Departments of President Leonid Kuchma “immediately” pledged that his Cabinet will seek ways Kharkiv city and oblast administrations. State, Commerce, Energy and Agriculture; cancel the ban on Silski Visti. The State of promoting joint training and data- “We were optimistic,” he said. “We and with other government agencies deal- Tax Administration ordered the newspa- exchange programs, Interfax reported. saw this as a chance to avail ourselves of ing with foreign assistance and invest- per to pay 1.8 million hrv ($330,000 (RFE/RL Newsline) the U.S. government support to help ment. They also met with representatives U.S.) in penalties for not having paid develop our region and Ukraine as a Kuchma bans stealing of Russian gas of the General Electric Corp. and SUN income tax on property it received eight whole. It was an opportunity to analyze years ago. The Kyiv City Arbitration Capital Partners. KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma has Court rejected the newspaper’s appeal to They were also guests at a reception at (Continued on page 17) “categorically” banned the siphoning off cancel the penalties. Silski Visti has been of Russian gas in transit via Ukrainian known for its leftist political sympathies territory, Interfax reported on October 11. and criticism of the Kuchma administra- The presidential press service said Mr. tion. (RFE/RL Newsline) Kuchma gave the necessary instructions Lawmaker is arrested in Germany to Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko and managers of the oil and gas sector, but it KYIV – Ukrainian Deputy Procurator- did not elaborate. Mr. Kuchma said earli- General Mykola Obikhod said on er that so far this year Ukraine stole 13 October 13 that German authorities have billion cubic meters of Russian gas worth arrested Ukrainian National Deputy $700 million. Ukraine also acknowl- Viktor Zherdytskyi in Hannover in con- edged that it had siphoned off $1.4 bil- nection with a criminal investigation in lion worth of Russian gas in 1999. The Germany involving breach of public Eastern Economist Daily reported that trust, the Associated Press reported. Mr. Fuel and Energy Minister Serhii Obikhod did not give details of the Yermilov commented that Ukraine has German case. Mr. Obikhod said Mr. not stolen Russian gas since May, but Zherdytskyi is under criminal investiga- added that at the beginning of the fall- tion in Ukraine after more than 87 mil- winter season “some may wish to do so lion German marks ($38.4 million U.S.) again.” (RFE/RL Newsline) in German government compensation payments disappeared at Gradobank, Itera cuts gas supplies to Ukraine which he headed before being elected to Yaro Bihun KYIV – The Itera company has cut the Verkhovna Rada. Lower Saxony gas supplies to Ukraine from 30 million Kharkiv Oblast Chairman Oleh Diomin (left) and former U.S. Commercial State Prosecutor Thomas Klingle on cubic meters to 4.8 million cubic meters Attaché Andrew Bihun conversing at the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington. October 16 said Mr. Zherdytskyi will be tried in Germany on charges of embez- (Continued on page 15)

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Ukrainian National Information Service Lozynskyj convened the congress by by Roman Woronowycz Kuchma, who called the agreement greeting the delegates who represented Kyiv Press Bureau achieved in Sochi “in the best interests of WASHINGTON – The XVIII UCCA branches in the United States. the two countries.” Congress of Ukrainians in America, the The congress delegates nominated and KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma has Ironically, Mr. Putin had explained at quadrennial convention of the unanimously elected Michael Sawkiw Jr. agreed to allow Russia to take part in the the conclusion of the Sochi talks that in Ukrainian Congress Committee of as the UCCA’s president for the next four privatization of Ukraine’s natural gas his estimation the most critical issues in America (UCCA) was held on October years. pipeline after meeting with his Russian Ukraine-Russia relations had been 13-15 at the Marriott O’Hare Hotel in The three-day congress appointed counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Sochi, resolved. The largest obstacle in those Chicago. various congressional commitees to Russia, on October 16. relations is the outstanding Ukrainian Outgoing UCCA President Askold examine critical aspects of Ukrainian The agreement was one of several debt for Russian gas deliveries. The community life: aid to Ukraine; student deals signed by the Ukrainian president Russian president explained that the two and youth groups; veterans’ affairs; pub- during separate trips to Russia and sides had recognized that Ukraine is not lic relations; educational concerns; Uzbekistan between October 12 and16 to able to pay the entire debt at present. financial considerations; and organiza- resolve energy deficiency problems in Therefore, it would pay what it could in tional status of the community. Reports Ukraine that some experts here say may hard cash, with the balance becoming a by the outgoing members of the lead to unheated buildings this winter. part of the “national debt of Ukraine to Executive Board and National Council Energy issues have absorbed much of were also given. the Ukrainian government’s attention for (Continued on page 14) Saturday was devoted to various panel the last few months as business oligarchs discussions about relevant aspects of the and leading lawmakers have struggled community’s life in America. In the with the government of Prime Minister evening, a formal congressional banquet Viktor Yuschenko and his energy chief, was held at which the Shevchenko Vice Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, EU names Ukraine Freedom Award was given to Natalka over energy sector reforms. The oli- Shukhevych. wife of Ukrainian Insurgent garchs have said that Ms. Tymoshenko’s policies will lead to a severe natural gas free market economy Army (UPA) Gen. Roman Shukhevych; by Roman Woronowycz Atena Pashko, wife of former Rukh shortage in Ukraine this winter. Kyiv Press Bureau leader Vyacheslav Chornovil; and nine During their one-day meeting in members of the Ukrainian American Sochi, the Ukrainian and Russian presi- KYIV – The European Union on community. dents seemed to resolve one of the major October 4 extended the status as a free Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) delivered problems confronting Ukraine in its market economy to Ukraine, which brief remarks at the banquet and spoke of efforts to guarantee sufficient natural gas will give the country’s exporters more the unrelenting dedication of the peoples resources. They agreed that Russia leverage in resolving anti-dumping would invest in upgrading Ukraine’s disputes to their benefit. Michael Sawkiw Jr. (Continued on page 14) aging natural gas pipeline, which would The EU Council of Ministers meet- indicate the suspension of Russian plans ing in Brussels adopted a proposal to for an alternative gas transit route around extend its special ad hoc market citizens of Ukraine who complain daily that Ukraine, in return for Russian involve- regime in anti-dumping proceedings Medvid denied... they were unfairly denied the possibility of ment in the privatization of the to six other countries besides Ukraine, (Continued from page 1) traveling to the U.S. to visit relatives and Ukrainian natural gas transit system. including Vietnam, Albania, after he endured an unusually long two- friends, or as tourists, because of the harsh Mr. Putin said he was satisfied with Kazakstan and Georgia. hour wait in the consular offices of the U.S. requirements imposed on them – specifical- the deal. “This is a good offer, and we Ukraine’s Vice Minister of the Embassy, during which he was questioned ly the need to prove that one is leaving accept it,” said the Russian president, Economy Andrii Honcharuk said the not only by the consular officer at the win- behind sufficient real estate and income, according to Interfax-Ukraine. decision would allow Ukraine to sell dow to which he was assigned, as is cus- among other things, to assure the U.S. gov- President Kuchma’s spokesman, more of its products in Europe and tomary, but also by a second consular offi- ernment that one will return to Ukraine. Oleksander Martynenko, agreed and help to better Ukraine’s balance of cial. To be sure, the consular division faces explained that, by including the Russians trade there. “Let them do what they want,” said a the huge and unenviable daily task of inter- in upgrading the transit system, it would “It will significantly improve disappointed Mr. Medvid hours after his viewing dozens of individuals and sifting make the Moscow effort to develop a Ukraine’s position in examination of visa application was rejected. “I have a through heaps of documentation to deter- second pipeline through Belarus and anti-dumping cases with member parish to take care of, I have things to do.” mine who among the people – who have Poland, to bypass Ukraine, redundant. countries of the European Union,” And then he added, “If they don’t respect an waited at times for hours outside their doors While downplaying continued severe said Mr. Honcharuk. invitation from a long-established and rep- – intends to merely visit and not permanent- Russian criticism of the siphoning off of The special regime gives exporters utable Ukrainian American organization, ly stay in the United States. millions of cubic meters of Russian gas in these countries the possibility to then what am I to think?” The situation is complicated by the fact by public and private corporations in prove they are operating under market The Rev. Medvid, now 40 years old and that among Ukrainians who seek a visitor’s Ukraine as it passes through the territory economy conditions and will allow a parish priest of the Ukrainian Greek visa many do indeed attempt to gain illegal on its way to Western Europe, Mr. them to use their own data to verify Catholic Church in western Ukraine, had entry into the United States for work or with Martynenko said an upgraded pipeline that their prices are not artificially set. applied for a visitor’s visa for travel to the the intention of staying permanently by would give Russia the extra capacity it is The new policy will enter into force United States after receiving an invitation defrauding and deceiving with lies and seeking as it works to increase its exports on October 12 and apply to all investi- from the Ukrainian Congress Committee of forged documents. to the West. gations initiated after the date. America to take part in a Great Famine The consular section of the U.S. Several days later, however, the fick- EU Trade Commissioned Pascal commemoration that is scheduled for Embassy in Kyiv generally rejects some 40 leness of Russian/Ukraine natural gas Lamy welcomed the news as recogni- November 18 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in percent of the applicants because they have and oil trade relations were underscored, tion of the improvements that have New York. failed to prove that they will not abandon when the Petroleum Information Agency taken place in the countries that In an article in The Weekly earlier this their current residences, or have defined announced on October 16 that a five- attained the status, reported Interfax- year, the Rev. Medvid had expressed his their purpose of travel in a way that does company consortium had been organized Ukraine. desire to return to the United States on the not conform to one of the non-immigrant for developing a gas pipeline from “Extending this regime reflects the 15th anniversary of the debacle for a short visa categories delineated by law. Russia via Poland and Slovakia. The important economic reforms under- visit to thank and pray with those people According to documents handed to the companies involved are Gazprom of taken in these countries. From now on who he believes saved his life. He said that Rev. Medvid after he was rejected, he failed Russia, Italian SNAM of Italy, the all countries with an economy in tran- the hundreds of Ukrainian Americans who to meet the first requirement, which is the French Gaz de France and Germany’s sition who join the WTO will auto- corresponded with their politicians, together most common basis for denying a non- Wintershall and Ruhrgas. matically be eligible for this special with U.S. officials who held hearings and immigrant visa. Then, on October 18, Interfax carried system,” he explained. even traveled to Ukraine after the failed Although initially disappointed by the an unconfirmed report, citing a source The ad hoc regime giving countries asylum attempt, kept his name in the inter- rejection, the Rev. Medvid now says that he close to the negotiations, that an agree- market economy status was first intro- national spotlight, which made Soviet offi- will attempt to have the decision altered by ment had been signed in Moscow to duced in anti-dumping legislation in cials wary of punishing him. consular officials through the appeals build a pipeline bypassing Ukraine. 1998 and applied to Russia and China. Otherwise, he believes he would have process. He explained that he believes he President Kuchma, commenting on the It gave exporters in these countries the died in a Soviet gulag long ago. should not have taken for granted that con- announcement, told Interfax on August possibility, on a case-by-case basis, to His decision to visit the United States sular officers would automatically trust the 19 that Ukraine would not take counter- be treated as market economy came after The Weekly tracked down the words and indications of a man of the cloth. measures in connection with the creation exporters on the condition that evi- long-forgotten sailor and published a story “I now have my bishop fully involved of the consortium. He added that he did dence was presented that showed on what had happened to him in the follow- and will submit the necessary support docu- not consider the decision, taken after prices and costs were not influenced ing 15 years. That feature story spurred ments explaining that I am a parish priest in Russian President Putin had ostensibly by the state and they operated in mar- other articles, including stories in the good standing in the eparchy and that I agreed to be a partner in the Ukrainian ket economy conditions based on cri- Moscow Times and the New Orleans intend to go nowhere except back to gas pipeline, an act of betrayal. teria set out in the European Union’s Times-Picayune. Ukraine after my visit,” explained the Rev. “It takes time to move from protocol anti-dumping regulations. The Rev. Medvid now joins many other Medvid. to implementation,” explained President 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000 No. 43

Leadership Conference... (Continued from page 1) Carlos Pascual, in his first public appear- ance since being sworn in as the next U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on the previous day, October 6. Following his address at the conference luncheon, which at the new ambassador’s request was “off the record,” he fielded questions about press freedom in Ukraine, the replacement of Foreign Affairs Minister Borys Tarasyuk, corruption, the use of Ukrainian by the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv and how Ukrainian Americans can help foster better U.S.-Ukrainian rela- tions. [Ambassador Pascual had addressed the subject of Ukraine’s European integra- tion in remarks during his swearing-in Yaro Bihun Andrew Bihun, former U.S. commercial attaché in Kyiv, listens ceremony at the State Department, where Prof. George Grabowicz, describes the magazine Krytyka, to ideas about the proposed TWG Business Development he promised continued U.S. support for which he helped found in Kyiv. Forum. this effort. He added that if Ukraine wants to be a part of Europe, “it must look like order into the work of the Cabinet. Under tions, especially in culture and scholar- In his planned presentation, Dr. Europe” in structuring its political, eco- the new decision-making process, expen- ship, he noted, “are almost totally unre- Potiekhin showed the results of recent nomic and social systems.] ditures are decided in an orderly fashion formed.” Some names were changed – the polling about how Ukrainians feel about The second panel discussion analyzed and address real needs, such as education Institute of Scholarly Atheism became the themselves and others. One poll, about recent developments in Ukraine, with and health care, rather than providing Institute of History of Religion – but the what problems concern Ukrainians most, Anders Aslund, the foremost expert on subsidies to favored projects. Under the people directing them are the same, he showed that living standards remain the post-Communist economic transforma- new government, Dr. Aslund said, the said. And the Academy of Sciences of top priority and, in fact, increased from 74 tion, now with the Carnegie Endowment finances are in order, there is a balanced Ukraine, as he pointed out, continues to be percent in 1994 to 89 percent in 1999. for International Peace, reporting on the budget and payment arrears “are not headed by Borys Paton, who was appoint- Crime came second, but it dropped over economic situation, George Grabowicz of quite gone, but almost.” ed under Nikita Khrushchev. the five-year period from 49 percent to 37 Harvard University looking at the cultural Dr. Aslund observed that about 25 per- Dr. Grabowicz said it is a paradox to percent. situation, and Oleksander Potiekhin of the cent of agricultural land now is in “real speak of “Ukrainianizing Ukraine.” On relations with Russia, 57 percent Embassy of Ukraine, presenting the latest private hands,” which, he added, “makes it Ukraine is a country with an official lan- want Ukraine to remain independent but data on social attitudes in Ukraine. plausible that real agricultural revival guage that does not have “normal func- friendly with Russia, 35 percent want to Dr. Aslund had returned from a visit to might happen rather soon.” And a new tax tioning” within its borders and no cultural unite with Russia, and 10 percent want to Ukraine two days before his appearance; code, civil code and land code are in the policy. As one example of the problem, he close the borders with Russia. his latest book, “Ukrainian Economic pipeline. noted that among the thousands of books And as for anti-Semitism in Ukraine, Reform,” which he co-authored, was pub- The question remains whether these in a large bookstore he visited in Yalta, one poll showed that Ukrainians are more lished three days before that. reforms will continue. There are threats only three were Ukrainian. The situation is intolerant of Americans and Canadians He said that, at long last, Ukraine’s from two quarters, he said – from the oli- similar in Odesa, he said. than of Jews. economy seems to be on the right track. garchs in the Verkhovna Rada and the oli- Dr. Grabowicz observed that, while The third and last panel on Saturday “But it’s still very fragile,” he added. This garchs associated with the presidential normal countries can do without a policy dealt with building democracy and civil progress was evident on the streets of administration. But Dr. Aslund said he feels on culture, Ukraine, which has been society in Ukraine, with Ambassador Kyiv, where he saw, among other indica- that the threats against the Yuschenko gov- denied nationhood for centuries, cannot William Taylor, the State Department’s tors, growing competition between stores ernment from both quarters now are too afford such a “laissez-faire” approach. coordinator of assistance programs to the at the lower end of the market, which obvious and, therefore, less potent. Prof. Grabowicz also pointed out that new independent states, presenting the were selling locally produced goods and “We are seeing that Ukraine is getting so far Ukraine has not come to grips with U.S. view on how things are developing in processed foods. quite a new group of businessmen, who its past and that no moral responsibility that direction and reporting on some U.S. In addition, light industry and food pro- are real producers and not only trading has been attributed for Ukraine’s major assistance programs in that area. cessing have increased by 30 percent so government subsidies among themselves,” crimes and tragedies. The 1933 Great The “good news” and hope for the far this year, and the gross domestic prod- Dr. Aslund said. Famine in Ukraine, for example, was future, he said, lies with the new genera- uct increased by around 5 percent, accord- Dr. Grabowicz, professor of Ukrainian commemorated in 1993, but only “half- tion, in which he included Prime Minister ing to official statistics. Taken all together, literature at Harvard University, pointed heartedly,” he said, and commented that Yuschenko. More than 11,000 of these “that’s exactly the kind of organic devel- out that culture has been getting short the monument in Kyiv commemorating young Ukrainians have been brought to opment you want to see,” he said. shrift in recent discussions about develop- the millions of Ukrainians who died as a the United States through various U.S. Dr. Aslund said he saw a “substantial ment in Ukraine. result of this deliberate famine is under- exchange programs since 1992, he said. attempt to put things right” in the country, “Ukraine is very much a continuation of stated. The “bad news,” Ambassador Taylor for which he credited Prime Minister Viktor its past existence ... of Soviet Ukraine,” he Dr. Potiekhin, who heads the political said, has been the media and the slow Yuschenko, First Vice Prime Minister Yurii said, pointing out that such essential ele- section at the Embassy of Ukraine, took progress in establishing the rule of law. Yekhanurov and Finance Minister Ihor ments as cultural institutions, cadres and exception to some of the statements by Judy Van Rest of the International Mitiukov. Unfortunately, he added, the peo- the cultural style, have not changed at all. Prof. Grabowicz. He said that he thought Republican Institute described her organi- ple don’t seem to be aware of this. While Ukraine’s foreign service is the the Famine monument in Kyiv is adequate zation’s training programs for young Dr. Aslund said that the new prime most reformed of Ukrainian institutions, it in scale and spirit, and that there are larger minister also brought a large measure of is “largely an exception.” Other institu- monuments elsewhere in Ukraine. (Continued on page 10)

Orest Deychakiwsky accepts The Washington Group’s award for his work in promoting democratic ideals in Ambassador William Taylor outlines U.S. democracy- Among those voicing concern about which way Ukraine Ukraine. building programs in Ukraine. is heading is Roman Solchanyk of the RAND Corp. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000 5 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

Stephen Kuropas feted on 100th birthday CHICAGO – Over 125 guests attended a luncheon held on October 1 at the Ukrainian Cultural Center hon- oring Stephen Kuropas, former UNA supreme vice-pres- ident and current honorary member of the UNA General Assembly, on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Present were Ukrainians from as far away as Massachusetts, Minnesota and Pennsylvania. The day began with a divine liturgy at St. Nicholas Cathedral celebrated by Bishop Michael Wiwchar, who offered a special blessing to the centenarian. George Matwyshyn, president of the St. Nicholas Cathedral Council, presented Mr. Kuropas with a beautiful cross at the conclusion of the liturgy as the congregation, led by the choir, sang “Mnohaya Lita.” The opening prayer at the luncheon was offered by Bishop Innocent Lotocky. Michael Kos was the master of ceremonies. Arriving in the United States in 1927, Mr. Kuropas devoted his life to two major organizations, the Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine (ODVU) and the Ukrainian National Association. In his remarks dur- Stephen Kuropas is surrounded by his family at a special birthday tribute. ing the luncheon, Dr. Bohdan Shebunchak, ODVU hon- orary president, reviewed Mr. Kuropas’ contributions to the Ukrainian nationalist movement in the United States, which included organizing ODVU Branch 2 in Chicago and editing the ODVU journal Samostiina Ukraina. Alexander Prociuk, cur- rent ODVU president, presented Mr. Kuropas with a certificate. Now available: Walter Sochan, former UNA supreme secretary and current honorary member of the UNA General Assembly, recalled Mr. Kuropas’ decades-long work on behalf of additional insurance coverage the UNA, which included enrolling over 150 new members and establishing several UNA branches in the Midwest region. for UNA members Stefko Kuropas presented his grandfather with a distinguished service plaque on If you are already a member of the UNA we offer a guaranteed issue of additional mini- behalf of the Chicago UNA District Committee which he chairs. Larissa Dijak award- mum of $1,000 to a maximum of $5,000 life insurance added to your current policy cover- ed Mr. Kuropas a plaque recognizing his service as a founder and first president of the age. If you presently own any UNA Whole Life, 20-Payment Life, P-65 or DP-65 you are UNA Seniors. guaranteed additional insurance. UNA cannot deny you coverage. This offer is not open to Congratulatory greetings were received from President Bill Clinton, Gov. George members with term insurance, endowment plans, or Universal Life policies. W. Bush, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and Sen. Peter Fitgerald. Here is how it works.The UNA will issue the following amounts of the pour-in-rider: Thanks to the efforts of State Sen. Walter W. Dudycz, Gov. George Ryan of Illinois • Ages 0-35, $1,000 to $5,000; issued a proclamation declaring October 1 as “Stephen Kuropas Day” in Illinois. The • Ages 36-70, $1,000 to $2,500; Illinois State Senate also issued a proclamation honoring Mr. Kuropas. • Ages 71-90, $1,000. The rates for the pour-in rider appear in the chart below. (Continued on page 20) For more information call the UNA Home Office at (973) 292-9800.

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THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY An appeal to UNA members, convention delegates, The struggle continues officers of district committees and branches PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Ukrainian Weekly issue of October 8 (No. 41) car- The guest editorial below is an excerpt from remarks by Orest Deychakiwsky, staff ried a special supplement with proposed changes to the UNA By-Laws. These advisor at the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, who received changes were prepared by the UNA By-Laws Committee headed by UNA an award October 7 from The Washington Group at its Leadership Conference in Advisor Taras Szmagala Jr. in accordance with a resolution of the past UNA Washington for his work during the past two decades on behalf of human rights and Convention held in May 1998. The convention’s intention was to propose a democratization in Ukraine, as well as other countries in that part of the world. change of governance of our society, which the proposed by-laws changes While the difference between Soviet Ukraine and independent Ukraine from a reflect. human rights and democracy perspective is obviously huge – in some respects, like The process of preparing the changes started after the convention. The night and day – and while Ukraine’s record is much better than that of its neighbors – General Assembly at its December, 1999 annual meeting discussed the first draft Lukashenka’s Belarus and, increasingly, Putin’s Russia – this does not mean that the of the proposal but ran out of time to finish the review. A By-Laws human rights and democracy picture in Ukraine is by any means perfect. Subcommittee met on May 10 to finalize the draft. The published proposal was And what this means is that there is an obligation of the Ukrainian American com- the result of that work. It will be reviewed by the General Assembly at its munity and friends of Ukraine to encourage the Ukrainian government to live up to upcoming meeting to be held on December 1-3. international commitments that it freely undertook. Some people, unfortunately, The final version of the proposed by-laws changes, which might include com- ments received from members, after the approval of the General Assembly, will equate any kind of criticism of the Ukrainian government with lack of support for be submitted via a mail ballot to the delegates of the past convention and the Ukraine. This is not the case. Support, whether through policy statements or concrete members of the previous General Assembly for approval or rejection. In order assistance, and constructive criticism are not mutually exclusive – whether the criti- for approval the by-laws changes to go into effect at the next convention in May cism comes from the United States or other governments, or, for that matter, from the 2002, a two-thirds “yes” vote is necessary. Ukrainian American community. Before the final version of the changes is approved, the General Assembly is It is legitimate to raise concerns about actions that threaten democracy in Ukraine asking for input from the UNA membership. It is of utmost importance that all or that violate human rights of Ukrainian citizens (e.g., the recent treatment of inde- members, delegates and officers of district committees and branches carefully pendent media and missing journalist Heorhii Gongadze). And it is legitimate to read the published proposed changes, familiarize themselves with the issues, dis- encourage the development of the rule of law and to criticize the corruption that so cuss them in their branches, and write their viewpoints, questions and comments, debilitates Ukraine. A recent World Bank study, for example, singled out Ukraine as a which will be published in Svoboda or The Ukrainian Weekly. country that could boost per capita income dramatically – even double it – if it shapes The proposed changes of the governance are of major importance to the future up its legal system. Clearly, there is a correlation between rule of law, human rights, of our organization. They deserve the full attention and consideration of the democracy and prosperity. And while no society is perfect, including our own, it’s no UNA membership. accident that most economically successful countries are democracies in which human Your comments and questions should be directed to National Secretary rights and the rule of law are respected. Martha Lysko and Advisor Taras Szmagala Jr. One further thought, or another linkage, if you will. Ukraine’s achievement of inde- pendence nine years ago did not just mean independence from a foreign power Ulana M. Diachuk, president because it was indeed foreign. It was independence against a foreign power that sys- tematically and often brutally violated the elementary human rights of the people of Ukraine. Those who arrived here as refugees from the DP camps, having experienced both Nazi and Soviet occupation and the most horrible war the world has ever known, certainly know what human rights abuses were all about, many of them having experi- UCC extends condolences on the death Trudeau enced them in a very direct way. WINNIPEG – The Ukrainian The UCC statement underlined: “As Most of us present here tonight are their children and grandchildren, and I suspect Canadian Congress (UCC) on October 3 we continue to evolve as a nation and as most of us know of close or distant relatives murdered, or imprisoned, or sent to joined with all Canadians in expressing other nations look to Canada for leader- Siberia, i.e., we know by the personal stories of those close to us the consequences of its sorrow on the death of the Pierre ship, we should remember these words of human rights violations in a way than most people in this country do not. Elliott Trudeau, former prime minister of Prime Minister Trudeau and the unique And those of you who have recently arrived obviously know first-hand what it Canada. qualities of our nation that make ‘Canada was like to live in a system that doesn’t respect human rights – i.e., the Soviet sys- “Prime Minister Trudeau was a man a very special place.’” tem. So Ukraine’s progress on human rights and democracy should matter to us, as with a vision,” said UCC President UCC President Czolij stated: “On should, quite frankly, the promotion of human rights and democracy all over the Eugene Czolij. “His commitment to behalf of the UCC and the Ukrainian world. Canada and to developing a tolerant and Canadian community, I extend our heart- To sum up, what is critically important to remember is that the struggle for inde- just society will remain with Canadians.” felt condolences to the family of the pendence was a struggle not just to throw off foreign domination, but it also was and The UCC noted that it was pleased Right Honorable Pierre Elliot Trudeau at to some extent continues to be, a struggle to restore the human dignity of the that Prime Minister Trudeau had been the this time of sorrow.” Ukrainian people. The promotion of human rights, civil society and democratic devel- guest speaker at the 10th Triennial opment in Ukraine is the best way to not only promote the material and spiritual well- Congress of Ukrainian Canadians held being of the people of Ukraine; ultimately, it is the best way to ensure and strengthen on October 8-11, 1971. At that congress, Ukraine’s independence and thereby contribute to the peace and security of Europe the prime minister chose to highlight the MAY WE HELP YOU? and, indeed, the entire world. government’s multiculturalism policy that had been announced in the House of Commons earlier in the week. To reach Prime Minister Trudeau reminded all The Ukrainian Weekly October Canadians about the importance of multi- call (973) 292-9800, Turning the pages back... culturalism and the strength of a tolerant society. He stated: “We have no alterna- and dial the tive but to be tolerant of one another’s appropriate extension 22 differences. Beyond the threshold of tol- erance, however, we have countless (as listed below). 1955 Forty-five years ago, John Hodiak, an American actor of opportunities to benefit from the richness Ukrainian descent, died in Tarzana, Calif., at the age of 41. and variety of a Canadian life which is The Weekly of October 22, 1955, reported: “A brilliant career the result of this broad mix. The fabric of Editorial – 3049, 3065 or 3069 was suddenly brought to an end when John Hodiak, a Canadian society is as resilient as it is Administration – 3041 younger-generation American of Ukrainian descent, famed motion picture, stage and colorful. It is a multicultural society; it television star, died last Wednesday, October 19.” The cause of death was coronary offers to every Canadian the opportunity Advertising – 3040 thrombosis. to fulfill his own cultural instincts and to Subscriptions – 3042 Born on April 16, 1914, in Pittsburgh, Mr. Hodiak worked as a radio announcer and share those from other sources. This actor for several years before signing with Metro-Goldwyn Mayer in 1942. He made mosaic pattern, and the moderation Production – 3052 his film debut in 1943 in “A Stranger in Town.” Ultimately he appeared in 34 which it includes and encourages, makes Hollywood films. Among the most significant were Alfred Hitchcock’s “Lifeboat” and Canada a very special place.” “Sunday Dinner for a Soldier” (both made in 1944); “A Bell for Adano” (1945) – his favorite role and his favorite film; and “The Harvey Girls” (1946). In 1946 he married actress Anna Baxter. The couple had a daughter who was 2 at the time of their divorce in 1954. On the theater stage Mr. Hodiak was widely acclaimed for his role as Lt. Maryk in A friendly reminder “The Caine Mutiny Court Martial” (1953). Critic Brooks Atkinson of The New York If you have not yet sent in your remittance for the first volume Times said Mr. Hodiak’s performance “has strength, charm and candor, and has the stamp of a human being. Every stroke in it is genuine and pertinent.” of “The Ukrainian Weekly 2000,” please do so as soon as possible. In an interview given to New York Daily News columnist Ed Sullivan, John Hodiak The book’s price is $15. Please send checks for that amount concluded a retracing of his career by noting: “Actually, I’ve always been lucky.” (plus any additional sum you may designate as a donation Source: “John Hodiak, 41, stage, film, TV actor, succumbs,” The Ukrainian Weekly, October to The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund) to: 22, 1955; “John Hodiak: Actually, I’ve Always Been Lucky,” The Ukrainian Weekly, October 29, 1955; “Hodiak, John” in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 2, Toronto: University of Toronto The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10. P.O, Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Press, 1988. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000 7

FOR THE RECORD Helsinki Commission chairman PERSPECTIVES BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY appeals for missing journalist Following is a statement about the several Ukrainian journalists over the case of missing journalist Heorhii last few years and the beatings of two Gongadze by Rep. Christopher H. journalists following their articles about For liberty and truth ed to fight back on their own terms. It Smith, chairman of the Commission on official corruption this year. This disap- In one of his most political poems, Security and Cooperation in Europe, as pearance has occurred within an envi- Taras Shevchenko lashed out at Russians started small in the spring of 1942, with a printed in the Congressional Record of ronment that has made it increasingly who condemned the leaders of 18th cen- few guerrilla units that called themselves October 5. difficult for professional journalists to tury serf uprisings as brigands and out- the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainska operate, including harassment by tax laws. Povstanska Armiia UPA). By the spring Mr. Speaker, it has been almost three police, criminal libel prosecutions, the “Murderers,” he wrote, “You lie! A of 1943, the UPA was conducting wide- weeks since the highly disturbing dis- denial of access to state-controlled bandit would never rise up for sacred lib- ranging defensive operations against the appearance of Heorhii Gongadze, a newsprint and printing presses, and erty and truth.” Germans and staging raids to capture journalist known for his articles expos- phone calls to editors suggesting that Today, after centuries of subjugation, weapons and supplies. As for the ing corruption in Ukraine and for play- they censor certain stories. Such an Ukraine is independent and free. Within approaching Red Army, the UPA viewed ing a prominent role in defending atmosphere clearly has a chilling effect living memory, though, tens of millions it to be as much an occupying force as the media freedoms. Mr. Gongadze, whose on press freedom. of Ukrainians were subjected to a kind of Nazis. visit to the United States last December Mr. Speaker, I am encouraged that slavery that was very much like serfdom. By the time Berlin fell in May 1945, included meetings with the Helsinki the Verkhovna Rada – Ukraine’s Under the latter, people were bound to the the UPA and the Soviets were locked in Commission staff, was publisher of a Parliament – has formed a special ad land. The masters enjoyed the fruits of the bitter combat. The struggle continued into new Internet newspaper called hoc committee to investigate Mr. serfs’ labor and controlled every aspect of the mid-1950s before the Soviets ulti- Ukrainska Pravda (meaning Ukrainian Gongadze’s disappearance. I am also their lives, even to the point of imposing mately won. To do so, they had to employ Truth), a publication often critical of hopeful that Ukraine’s Ministry of death. Under Stalin, people also had no tanks, aircraft, heavy artillery and depor- senior Ukrainian officials and their Internal Affairs and other law enforce- title to their land, working instead on tations of entire populations. “We lost associates. In fact, shortly before he ment agencies will conduct a serious, huge collective farms. The state took the thousands of men in a bitter struggle vanished, Mr. Gongadze had apparently vigorous investigation to solve the case fruits of their labor, controlled every between Ukrainian nationalists and the been facing pressure and threats and of this missing journalist. aspect of their lives and killed millions of forces of Soviet power,” Nikita had complained that police were harass- As chairman of the Helsinki them in a deliberately induced famine. Khrushchev wrote in his memoirs. ing him and his colleagues at Ukrainska Commission and as someone who has a Cut off from the rest of the world and The official Soviet assessment of the Pravda. longstanding interest in Ukraine, I am aware only of their misery and bitterness, UPA, of course, is anything but kind. Unfortunately, Mr. Gongadze’s disap- deeply disappointed that Ukraine’s rela- masses of Ukrainians and others wel- There is no listing in the Soviet pearance takes place in an increasingly tively positive human rights record has comed Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Encyclopedia for the UPA. Instead, you unhealthy media environment. been tarnished by an environment not Union, seeing in him a liberator. In June have to look up “Ukrainian Bourgeois According to the Committee to Protect conducive to the development of a free 1941 no one knew about the concentra- Nationalism.” There, UPA leaders are Journalists, his disappearance follows media. I remain hopeful that the tion camps the Nazis were planning. They condemned as Nazi collaborators “who several suspect or inconclusive investi- Ukrainian authorities will make every only knew the Gulag. And so, entire perpetrated terror against the workers.” gations into the suspicious deaths of effort to reverse this situation. armies laid down their arms. By A cross-reference to “Banditism” is pro- December, the Germans had captured vided. (In their memos to Berlin, the nearly 3.4 million Soviet soldiers. Nazis used the same word – “bandits” – Very soon, people discovered that to describe the UPA.) Sen. Carl Levin commemorates Hitler was anything but a liberator. The bloodless revolution of August Instead, he imposed a slavery of his own 1991, of course, vindicated the UPA’s and matched Stalin in the level of his role. The trident and blue-and-yellow flag Ukraine’s Independence Day criminality. The atrocities the Nazis per- the UPA fought under are now the nation- Following is the text of a statement on democracy. petrated against European Jewry – al symbols of an independent Ukraine. by Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan as pub- With this election the Ukrainian peo- including a million Ukrainian Jews – The hammer and sickle and red flag have lished in the Congressional Record of ple chose to move forward with a pro- have been well-documented and are been discredited and discarded. Die-hard September 18. The statement was read at gram of economic reform. While the widely known. Their policy toward Communists and the large continent of the Ukrainian Independence Day recep- transition from a centralized economy to Ukrainian Gentiles is less familiar. It Red Army veterans in Ukraine, however, tion held on September 20 on Capitol Hill. a free-market system has not been easy, was not genocidal as it was toward Jews, remain unconvinced about the UPA. By Ukraine has been blessed with vast natu- but it was still appallingly brutal. For and large, they still accept the official As Ukraine approaches its first decade ral resources, a sizable industrial infra- Hitler, Ukrainians and other Slavs were Soviet version. Not surprisingly, other of independence, since the collapse of structure, and a hard-working and “untermenschen (subhumans). Typically, Ukrainians disagree. They see the UPA as the Soviet Union there are many accom- resourceful people that promise to ensure Nazi leaders referred to Ukrainians as a heroic formation that paved the way for plishments of which the people of Ukraine’s economic transformation. The “natives,” “half-monkeys,” “dirty and Ukraine’s eventual independence. Ukraine can be proud. decision this year by the Supreme Rada lazy,” “colonials.” To sort this all out, the Ukrainian For over a millennium the Ukrainian to privatize large parts of the Ukrainian Attitude dictated policy. Two million Parliament in October 1993 created a people have successfully preserved and economy will further enable this indus- young people were forcibly recruited as Commission at the Ukrainian Academy maintained their unique culture, lan- trious nation to continue with its eco- slaves; murder became commonplace. As of Sciences Institute of History with the guage, religion and identity. Such an nomic progress. the reichskommissar for Ukraine put it: mandate to conduct interviews, go achievement stands as an inspiration for Ukraine’s unique geographic location “If I find a Ukrainian worthy of sitting at through the archives and other historic free people everywhere, and is a testimo- has given it a vital role in ensuring the the same table with me, I must have him records, and issue a report with objective ny to the depth, character and vibrancy peace and stability of not only the shot.” conclusions about the UPA’s role. The 10- of the Ukrainian culture. region, but of all Europe. Ukraine has Just as their ancestors had done in the member commission included historians, The November 14, 1999, re-election shown its commitment to a secure 17th and 18th centuries, Ukrainians rose archivists and the Security Service of of Leonid Kuchma as Ukraine’s presi- Europe by providing troops to the peace- up in justified rebellion. Shrewdly, Stalin Ukraine. The report was published in July dent is a cause for great optimism. High keeping effort in Kosovo, and by asking appealed to Ukrainian and Russian patri- 2000. It concluded: otism. Minor concessions to Ukrainian • the UPA had indeed fought against the turnout in this election, and a refusal by to enhance its partnership with NATO. and other national sensibilities, coupled Nazis in defense of civilian populations; the voters to return to a Communist past, By entering into the Status of Forces Agreement with NATO and hosting with Nazi brutality, allowed the Red • the UPA did not collaborate with the speaks to the vibrancy of Ukrainian NATO military exercises in Odesa, Army to regroup. With heroic sacrifice, Nazis; Ukraine has reiterated its commitment to along with massive assistance under the • the UPA’s leaders had no intention of the world’s most powerful military American Lend-Lease program, the initiating any collaboration with the Nazis; alliance. Soviets turned the tide. • the UPA was engaged in a war of Quotable notes At this time when we honor Ukraine’s In western Ukraine, though, the vast independence; “As we go forward, more and independence, it is only fitting that we majority would have nothing to do with • the UPA’s principal enemy was the more questions appear [on the laud the many advances made by the Stalin. Subjected to Poland before World Soviet Union; way]. If our steps were clear-cut, Ukrainian people in the past decade. The War II and Austria-Hungary before that, • the UPA’s struggle against the Red there would be fewer questions.” advances Ukraine has made today are western Ukraine had never been part of Army can be characterized as a civil war. built upon the sacrifices and dedication of the Soviet Union or indeed Russia. Since • the war was fratricidal in nature. – Verkhovna Rada Chairman countless patriots who have struggled to 1918, revolutionaries in Galicia and The commission’s bottom line? UPA Ivan Pliusch, commenting on the preserve the independence and freedom of other western Ukrainian regions had veterans can legitimately claim the status nine years of Ukrainian independ- the Ukrainian people. I am sure that my been fighting for independence and by of belligerents against the Germans in ence, as quoted by Interfax on Senate colleagues would join me in salut- 1941 had an elaborate underground in World War II and there is no evidence August 23 and cited by RFE/RL ing the Ukrainian people for their tremen- place. that the UPA ever fought against the Poland, Belarus and Ukraine dous courage in promoting free and fair Caught between two totalitarian sys- Allies on the side of the Germans. Like Report. markets, and participatory democracy tems and refusing to serve either, revolu- the heroes of Shevchenko’s poem, they during a difficult transition period. tionary leaders in western Ukraine decid- stood for sacred liberty and truth. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000 No. 43 Rev. Gudziak installed as rector of Lviv Theological Academy

CHICAGO – The Rev. Borys A. Gudziak Ph.D. was installed as rector of the Lviv Theological Academy (LTA) in Ukraine on September 14. The acade- my’s chancellor, Bishop Lubomyr Husar, auxiliary to the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, conducted the installa- tion. As rector, the Rev. Gudziak is responsible for the overall vision, direc- tion and development of the LTA as a Catholic institution of higher learning. Official ceremonies began with a morning liturgy at St. George Cathedral. Eight bishops were present and the new processional flag of the LTA was blessed. Prior to succeeding the Rev. Mykhajlo Dymyd as rector, the Rev. Gudziak served as LTA vice-rector (1995-2000). He chaired the Commission for the Revival of the LTA (1993-1995), and was the founding director in 1992 of the Institute for Church History, a position he still maintains. The Rev. Borys Gudziak Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, the great leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Rev. Gudziak. “We have a unique oppor- Church, established the LTA in 1928. tunity in Ukraine to model a new type of When Communists took over western Catholic university with a new vision. Ukraine in 1944, the school was shut My mandate is to bring that model to down. After a 50-year forced hiatus, the fruition fully grounded in the legacy of LTA reopened in 1994. At that time, the our Church leaders.” Rev. Gudziak and others committed to Within a few short years much head- Catholic education opened the school’s way has been made. In November 1998 doors, starting with no students, no the LTA received official accreditation books, no faculty, no campus and no from the Congregation for Catholic funding. Education in Rome, whereby the LTA “As the new rector, I am honored and baccalaureate in theology is recognized humbled to carry on the legacy of the at every Catholic educational institution LTA as established by Metropolitan throughout the world. Sheptytsky and subsequently succeeded by Cardinal Josyf Slipyi,” reflected the (Continued on page 16)

UKRAINIAN AMERICANS NEED A PROVEN FRIEND IN THE U.S. CONGRESS STEWART GREENLEAF

Because of his long-term involvement, commitment and support of the Ukrainian American community, Stewart Greenleaf is the better choice for U.S. Congress from the 13th Congressional District, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. For his long-standing support of the Ukrainian American community as a State Senator of Pennsylvania, Stewart Greenleaf was the recipient of the Man of the Year Award from the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center. In these critical days of nation-building, Ukraine needs in the U.S. Congress people like Stewart Greenleaf, who over many years has demon- strated that he is sensitive to the concerns of Ukrainian Americans. When elected, Stewart Greenleaf will be an active member of the Ukrainian Congressional Caucus in Washington and will strive to ensure that the foreign policy of the United States will be fair and equitable towards Ukraine.

Stewart Greenleaf is committed to:

O Protecting Social Security and Improving Medicare. • Make sure that the Social Security Trust Fund and its current surplus are spent only on Social Security. • Fully fund the Medicare program so it is always available to older residents. • Establish a Prescription Drug Program to make sure seniors always have access to affordable medicine.

O Better Health Care. • Continue to enhance the "Patient's Bill of Rights" to make certain patients are protected and doctors are in charge of medical care.

O Stronger and Safer Schools. • Ensure that our schools receive the funding they need.

O Lower Taxes and Less Spending. • Pay down the national debt, which will lower interest rates and help the economy. • Provide tax relief for working families. • Eliminate waste and fraud from government programs.

STEWART GREENLEAF IS AN EXPERIENCED LEADER AND A FRIEND. A VOTE FOR STEWART GREENLEAF IS A VOTE FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR THE U.S. AND FOR UKRAINE!

Paid for and authorized by Greenleaf for Congress No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000 9 BOOK NOTE: Olha Kuzmowycz reflects on “This and That” “Pro Tse i Te” (This and That, Collected she comes from a patriotic family, the was hired to fill the vacancy left when he Short Stories and Essays) by Olha Fedaks of Lviv, and was an eyewitness to retired from the newspaper’s staff. Kuzmowycz. New York: published by the the activity of the Ukrainian Military Mrs. Kuzmowycz’s columns in author, 2000. 387 pp. $15. Organization and the Organization of Svoboda, which appear under the heading Ukrainian Nationalists, as well as the “Pro Tse i Te,” reflect her varied life expe- PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Journalist and searches, arrests and conspiracies that riences and depict the human side of the editor Olha Kuzmowycz, who writes under affected these organizations and their notable persons with whom she came into the pseudonym “O-KA” in Svoboda, the members. contact. Thus, they were, and continue to Ukrainian-language newspaper published Mrs. Kuzmowycz’s father, Lev Fedak, be, unique in the sphere of Ukrainian jour- by the Ukrainian National Association, was a political activist, and her mother, nalism. earlier this year released a collection of her Olena Fedak-Sheparovych, was a leading A collection of the best or most signifi- columns called “Pro Tse i Te” (This and activist of Soyuz Ukrainok, as well as an cant of those columns, Mrs. Kuzmowycz’s That). editor. All of this, of course, had a strong book was warmly received by a full house On its 287 pages the Ukrainian-lan- influence on the author’s life, which is gathered at the Shevchenko Scientific guage book contains food for thought that obvious in her writings. Society’s headquarters in New York to cel- spans several decades and generations, two Mrs. Kuzmowycz herself was a member ebrate this latest achievement by the jour- continents and, indeed, two world orders. of Plast at the time it was an underground nalist. Mrs. Kuzmowycz, who completed a organization. She went on to study jour- The audience that Saturday afternoon, journalism degree in Warsaw, is one of the nalism at the University of Warsaw, after June 17, was welcomed by the society’s Olha Kuzmowycz most active journalists on the Ukrainian which she was affiliated with the newspa- newly elected president, Dr. Larissa M.L. Onyshkevych, while the mistress of cere- scene, and an active member of Ukrainian per Dilo at the time World War II broke monies was the society’s vice-president, community organizations such as Plast out. She and her husband, Mykola Dr. Anna Procyk. Ukrainian Scouting Organization, in which Kuzmowycz, a physician, fled to the West The event featured an introduction of she held several leadership positions, as but then returned to Lviv, where Mrs. the author and her book by Dr. well as the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Kuzmowycz became co-editor of the Onyshkevych, as well as a reading of two In 1996 Mrs. Kuzmowycz marked the youth magazine Doroha. selections from “Pro Tse i Te” by Mrs. publication of her 750th feuilleton. After surviving the upheavals of World Kuzmowycz. Keeping up her regular pace, she should War II, which found them in Austria at Dr. Onyshkevych characterized the publish her 1,000th in early 2001. “My pen war’s end, the Kuzmowyczes arrived in the new book as a collection of “memoirs, has not yet dried up,” the writer quipped at United States in 1949. Mrs. Kuzmowycz thoughts, and observations about our a special gathering held in her honor. resumed her activity in Plast and became life.” The book provides “an illustration The introduction to “Pro Tse i Te” was the first woman to head the National Plast of our society, whether in Halychyna written in 1994 by Mrs. Kuzmowycz’s Command in the United States and the before World War II, or here in the dias- longtime colleague Ivan Kedryn World Plast Bulava. She worked as an edi- pora.” As such, she continued, it could be tor on several Plast magazines, was editor Rudnytsky, who died in 1995 at the age of placed in a time capsule as a document of of the Plast page in Svoboda and was edi- 98. Mr. Kedryn-Rudnytsky, a Galician and an era. tor-in-chief of the Plast magazine Yunak émigré political activist, was the doyen of The columns also are a reflection of val- from 1968 to 1992. Ukrainian journalists and long-time ues, vignettes about notable personages Svoboda editorial board member, whose In 1976 she was elected president of the and cultural activists, comments on his- journalistic activity spanned more than Ukrainian Journalists’ Association of toric events, and tales of life in pre-war seven decades and two continents. America, and five years later joined the Ukraine, the displaced persons camps and Writing “About the Author and Her staff of Svoboda, then a daily newspaper. Book,” Mr. Kedryn-Rudnytsky noted that In fact, Mr. Kedryn-Rudnytsky noted, she (Continued on page 15) UKRAINIAN AMERICANS DESERVE A BETTER FUTURE!

A change in the White House is long overdue. It’s time for a new, fresh face that will restore principle, dignity, honesty and integrity to the American presidency. It’s time for a president with new ideas. It’s time for GEORGE W. BUSH.

GEORGE W. BUSH OPPOSES BIG GOVERNMENT!

GEORGE W. BUSH WILL LOWER TAXES FOR ALL AMERICANS, NOT JUST THE CHOSEN FEW!

GEORGE W. BUSH WILL MAINTAIN THE PRESENT SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM FOR THOSE AT OR NEAR RETIREMENT BUT ALLOW YOUNGER WORKERS TO PUT A PORTION OF THEIR PAYROLL TAX INTO INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS.

GEORGE W. BUSH WILL HOLD THE UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN GOVERNMENTS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE THEY RECEIVE.

GEORGE W. BUSH WILL APPOINT SUPREME COURT JUDGES WHO WILL INTERPRET THE CONSTITUTION, NOT RESTRUCTURE IT TO MEAN WHATEVER IS POLITICALLY CORRECT AT THE MOMENT.

GEORGE W. BUSH IS COMMITTED TO SCHOOL REFORM.

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Leadership Conference... (Continued from page 4) national deputies of the Verkhovna Rada and some of the problems the programs have come up against, among them the fact that Ukrainian parties still are driven by personalities and lack grass-roots sup- port. Politically, she said, Ukraine is still “very much in transition.” Katie Fox of the National Democratic Institute said that among the problems her organization found in working with dem- ocratic parties in Ukraine were that they are small to begin with and tend to frag- ment even further, and that they are unable to build coalitions. The moderator of the panel was Orest Deychakiwsky, staff advisor with the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, who during the banquet that evening was honored with a TWG award for his work in fostering human rights and democracy in Ukraine over the past quar- ter century. (Excerpts of his remarks appear as a guest editorial on page 6.) Accepting the award, Mr. Deychakiwsky stressed the need for Ukrainian Americans to continue pressing the government in Kyiv to continue improving the human rights situation in Ukraine. “The promotion of human rights, civil society and democratic development in Ukraine is the best way to not only pro- mote the material and spiritual well- being of the people of Ukraine; ultimate- ly, it is the best way to ensure and strengthen Ukraine’s independence and thereby contribute to the peace and secu- rity of Europe and, indeed, the entire world,” Mr. Deychakiwsky said. On Sunday morning, the TWG Leadership Conference program contin- ued with Prof. Grabowicz’s discussion about the monthly journal Krytyka, which he and like-minded Ukrainian intellectu- als founded in 1997. Before the final session, conference participants paid tribute to Victor Kytasty, a former member of TWG who had been the first director of the U.S. government- sponsored America House in Kyiv. He died unexpectedly on September 22 while playing basketball at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. NUTCRACKER: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1:00 PM & 4:30 PM The conference concluded with a dis- DON QUIXOTE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 7:30 PM cussion of the possibility of instituting a new specialized body within the TWG PARAMUS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, 425 PARAMUS ROAD (opposite Bergen Community College), structure, called the Business PARAMUS, NJ Development Forum, which would group members involved or interested in broad- ening and improving commercial ties Tickets: $40, $35, $30 • Visa and MC charge: 800-518-6444 with Ukraine. The discussion was led by For all other orders and further information call 201-670-4422 former TWG Vice-President Andrew Bihun, who served as the U.S. commer- cial attaché in Kyiv from 1995 to 1999.

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by Yaro Bihun Special to The Ukrainian Weekly WASHINGTON – The Washington Group’s Cultural Fund, in cooperation with the Embassy of Ukraine, on October 3 launched a series of benefit concerts for the 2000-2001 season in order to raise funds for the procure- ment of musical instruments for the Lviv Conservatory. The first concert featured acclaimed pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky and an ensemble of musicians from the Washington Opera Orchestra performing Myroslav Skoryk’s Concerto No. 3 for piano and string quartet and percussion. The program also included Mozart’s Oboe Quartet in F major, with oboist Ihor Leshchishin, and Beethoven’s Sextet for two horns, two violins, viola and cello, with Greg Drone and Bob Odmark as horn soloists. While the first televised presidential debate kept many politically minded Washingtonians from being in the audi- ence, those who came to the concert at the Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre in Arlington – the dean of the Washington Post’s music critics, Joseph McLellan, among them – found Maestro Skoryk’s concerto, and Mr. Vynnytsky’s execution, moving. While the differences between a concerto and a piece Yaro Bihun of chamber music have been well established for cen- Pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky (second from left) and the ensemble of players from the Washington Opera turies, and “ever the twain shall meet,” Mr. McLellan Orchestra who performed in the first TWG Cultural Fund benefit concert to help the Lviv Conservatory. wrote on October 5, “pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky and colleagues performed the Washington premiere of a con- “brought out the music’s color and excitement.” Beethoven, Liszt, Brahms, Shostakovich, Albeniz and certo that is also a piece of chamber music: Concerto No. TWG Cultural Fund Director Laryssa Chopivsky noted Cassadó; 3 for piano and string quartet by Myroslav Skoryk, a very at the outset of the concert that the benefit series combines • March 5 – Anna Bachynsky, soprano, and Roman productive (e.g., 40 movie soundtracks) and impressively the goal of the fund – to acquaint the greater Washington Tsymbala, tenor, in a concert of music, song and poetry in imaginative Ukrainian composer who is virtually area with Ukrainian culture – with a need for assistance to a tribute to Ukraine’s bard Taras Shevchenko; unknown in the United States.” those who create that culture in Ukraine. If successful, she • April 23 – Oksana Krovytska, soprano, and Zenoviy The concerto’s last movement, titled “Life,” he added, said, the series will be expanded to help other conservato- Bogachek, violin (program to be announced). is, like the first two movements, “unconventional in struc- ries and cultural institutions in Ukraine. All performances begin at 8 p.m. Tickets can be ture but emotionally and harmonically well within the late The next four concerts in the series are: obtained at the door for $20; seniors and students, $15. Romantic tradition. Wild outbursts of passion alternate • October 16 – Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin, and Christina There will be a reception following each concert. with charming melodies; displays of virtuoso tempera- Anum-Dorhuso, piano, performing works by Beethoven, The Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre is located at 1611 N. ment with moderate dialogue.” Stankovych, Liszt, Sarasate, Skoryk, Liudkevych and Kent St., two blocks east of the Rosslyn Metro Station and “The performance, with violinists Zino Bogachek and Kos-Anatolsky; next to the Newseum. Free garage parking is available in Joan Hurley, violist Uri Wassertzug, cellist Liz Davis and • November 13 – Natalia Khoma, cello, and Volodymyr the rear of the building, off Arlington Ridge Road. drummer John Spirtas,” Mr. McLellan continued, Vynnytsky, piano, performing works by Lysenko, For more information call (703) 241-1817.

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heard of the Met’s exhibit only six months Scythians rule... ago, “ he said. (Continued from page 1) An associate in the Metropolitan gold objects of Ukrainian origin, loaned to Museum’s press office readily offered the Met by the Hermitage Museum. information about Ukrainian objects in the Hermitage objects whose provenance is Metropolitan exhibition, but was unable Ukrainian include a gold comb from 530- to give an immediate answer to the ques- 490 B.C., five-by-four inches in size and tion of when preparations for the exhibit topped by a miniature battle scene, origi- had begun. She called later with the infor- mation that the Metropolitan “has been nally found in the Solokha kurhan in working on the exhibition for the past five Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Another years.” Ukrainian object loaned to the Met by the Hermitage is a golden vessel discovered in “A fantastic adventure story” 1830 in the Kul’ Oba kurhan near the Crimean city of Kerch. Dr. Ellen Reeder, deputy art director of In a review published in The New York the Brooklyn Museum, who curated the “Gold of the Nomads” exhibition along Times on October 13, writer Holland with Dr. Gerry Scott III, curator of ancient Cotter calls the overlap of shows “a art at the San Antonio Museum of Art, scheduling fluke.” He believes the two sees the Brooklyn exhibit as “a fantastic shows possess contrasting attractions of adventure story.” She feels this assem- their own and together offer a substantial blage of “the finest Scythian objects in archaeological update on the last big Ukrainian museums” tells the story of a Scythian showcase here. However, he nomadic people who acquired extraordi- Discovered in 1976 in a kurhan near Hunivka, Zaporizhia region, this 4th centu- appears to favor the Met show, describing nary wealth in the fourth century B.C. by ry gold openwork plaque depicts a hunt scene – at left, the quarry, a stag with it as “bigger, more complicated and more providing grain to Greek markets. exaggerated antlers; in the center, a tree; and at right, an archer on horseback, adventurous.” Fascinated by Scythian art and culture, poised to dismount and holding a bow as he reaches for an arrow in the case at Mr. Cotter says the Brooklyn exhibit is Dr. Reeder has traveled to Ukraine many his hip. The artifact is on view at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. “more neatly packaged ... cleanly times since 1996 to visit kurhan sites, con- installed, and cast as a kind of walk- fer with museum officials and gather massive adornment worn on the chest) goods were crafted by Greek goldsmiths through historical narrative.” He defines it information for the exhibition catalogue consisting of three crescent-like tiers con- catering to Scythian tastes, ornamental as a traveling survey-style “collections” “Scythian Gold,” which she wrote and nected by chainlets of little hollow pipes, objects were also made by their own met- show that gives United States audiences a edited. Her most recent visit was made to discovered in the Tovsta Mohyla kurhan alworkers who apprenticed in Greek first glimpse of rare objects drawn from shoot footage for the video accompanying in the Dnipropetrovsk region in 1971, pre- workshops. museums in Ukraine, where Scythian the exhibit. serves a scene at daily life in Scythia. An The Scythians were eventually dis- nomads put down roots in the first millen- “When you consider that we began to extraordinary gold cup from the fifth cen- placed by the Sarmatians, also a nomadic, nium B.C. organize this exhibition in 1996, just a few tury B.C., found in the Bratoliubivskyi horse-riding people, who took over the Mr. Cotter’s commentary was printed years after Ukraine gained its independ- kurhan in the Kherson region in 1990, is region from 2 B.C. to 4 A.D. in the story “Golden Mysteries From the ence in 1991, it’s absolutely remarkable decorated with horses, conveying the Ritual practices accompanied the burial Cowboys of the Steppes” on the front that we have this wonderful cultural Scythians’ love for these animals. of a royal or elite Scythian: the embalmed page of the Times’ Weekend section, exchange,” Dr. Reeder exulted. Also on view: exquisite jewelry worn corpse was entombed with one of his con- together with an eye-catching half-page “Ukrainian curators gave us full rein in by the Scythians, decorative plaques for cubines, his horses, select servants and photo of a golden stag from the our selection of pieces, from museum their clothing and shoes, and elaborate prized possessions in a spacious pit that Metropolitan Museum and a smaller photo holdings to recently excavated finds – I ornamentation for their horses, as well as was topped by a vast mound of black of a hunt scene plaque from the Brooklyn truly appreciate their generosity and help,” bowls and drinking cups, all made of gold earth whose diameter could be as great as Museum. she added. or silver; bronze swords, daggers, arrow- 110 yards at the base and its height up to Some observers in the Ukrainian com- The landmark exhibit, featuring many heads, finials and cauldrons; vases, ves- 65 feet. The higher the late king’s standing munity question the scheduling of the Met objects which have never been seen out- sels and figurines of clay; and stone sculp- in the hierarchy of Scythian rulers, the exhibit as well as its emphasis on Russia, side Ukraine, includes virtually unknown tures of granite or limestone carved in the higher his mound. Relatives and close pointing out that wall maps that accompa- masterpieces, including a bell-shaped gold shape of standing male figures. associates were buried in secondary burial ny the show bear no identification for helmet with a finial, excavated in 1988, Music that invokes the sounds of the chambers in the same kurhan. Ukraine, although most of the kurhan sites which bears scenes in relief of Scythian steppes, merging the cries of animals, Today more than 40,000 unexcavated marked on the maps are located on combat; leopards, eagles and feline ani- trilling flutes and the whistling of wind kurhans, characterized by gently sloped Ukrainian territory. There is speculation mals captured in dynamic motion and tall through tall grass, provides an ambient sides, still remain in Ukraine, located pri- also that the Metropolitan may have grass swaying, echoing life on the steppes. background for the show. marily in the Dnipro River valley and opened its show two days before the Among the artifacts are a foot-high object, Migrating westward from the central along the tributary Sula and Poltava Brooklyn exhibition in order to retain its unearthed in 1990, covered with intricate- Asian steppes in the seventh century B.C., rivers. reputation as a Scythian standard-bearer, ly intertwined animal combat scenes, that possibly in search of better pastures and Traveling with the exhibit is a “brain established 25 years ago with the exhibi- may have served as a finial, and a series of peoples to conquer, Scythian tribes trust” of archaeological specialists from tion “From the Lands of the Scythians.” gold openwork plaques from a bow-and- roamed across the territory now known as Ukraine, including Serhii Chaikovsky, According to a spokesperson at the arrow case, excavated in 1991, that depict modern-day Ukraine, their kingdom director, National Museum of the History Brooklyn Museum’s public information winged dragons crafted in a blend of ani- stretching from the Danube River in the of Ukraine; Denys Kozak, director of the office, the Brooklyn exhibition was in mal and Near Eastern styles. west to the Don River in present-day Institute of Archaeology of the Academy preparation for over three years. “We A lustrous 23-carat gold pectoral (a southern Russia and south into the of Sciences, and his deputy director, Serhii Crimea. Fierce warriors and horse-riding Kryzhytsky; and researchers Svitlana hunters and herdsmen who were skilled at Koretska and Olena Pidvysotska, who breeding and training horses, the contributed essays to the exhibition cata- Scythians used state-of-the-art combat logue. gear and clever military strategies that Organized by the Walters Art Gallery enabled them to dominate the region for and the San Antonio Museum of Art, almost four centuries. The Greek historian “Gold of the Nomads: Scythian Treasures Herodotus, whose extensive travels in the from Ancient Ukraine” has been exhibited fifth century B.C. included Scythia, describes the Scythians as revelers who in San Antonio, Los Angeles and relished fermented mare’s milk, called Baltimore. It will be shown at the Royal kumys, and fearsome fighters given to Ontario Museum in Toronto from such sadistic customs as making cloaks February 18 to April 29 and the Nelson- from their victims’ scalps and using the Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, skulls for drinking cups. Missouri, from May 27 to August 11, In the catalogue essay “Scythia and the before going on to the Grand Palais in Scythians,” Lada Onyshkevych of the Paris next fall. Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore says that *** archeological evidence suggests that the Scythians may have mixed “to some “Gold of the Nomads: Scythian degree” with the local populations. Treasures from Ancient Ukraine” is at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Grain for Greek ornaments Parkway, (718) 638-5000, through Scythian rulers became prosperous by January 21. Group tours or visits can be trading with Greek colonists who had set- arranged through the Education Division tled along the Black Sea coast. Grain (718) 638-5000, ext. 234. “The Golden raised in the northern plains by agrarian Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Scythians or Scythian-ruled aboriginals, Treasures From the Russian Steppes” is at Detail of gold comb topped with a miniature battle scene from the period between furs, amber, cattle and slaves were traded the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth 530 and 490 B.C. Found in a kurhan in Ukraine, it is on view as part of the for Greek wine, olive oil, textiles and Avenue at 82nd Street, (212) 535-7710, “Golden Deer of Eurasia” exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. works of art. While many of the finest through February 4. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000 13

Summer camps teach life skills to Ukraine’s children by Bohdan Lysyj WARREN, Mich. – For the past five years, Help Us Help the Children, a non-profit foundation with branches in Canada, Ukraine and the United States, has been organizing summer camps for children from Ukraine’s “internaty” – state-run children’s homes. This year on August 4-20, 350 children between the ages of 12 and 17 from 35 internaty throughout Ukraine attended a summer camp in the beautiful Carpathian Mountains, in the town of Vorokhta, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. The camp’s location is striking dis- tance from Ukraine’s highest peak, Hoverlia, at 2,060 meters, and near such scenic towns as Yaremche and Kosiv. The campers were housed in facilities normally used to house ath- letes during training: Baza Avanthard, home to Ukraine’s national ski jump team, and Baza Ukraina, home to Ukraine’s national biathlon team. Children from internaty are often orphans, or come from highly dysfunc- tional families – alcohol or drug-addict- Participants and staff of the children’s summer camp reach ed parents, parents in jail, abusive fami- The staffers of the leadership camp on the summit of Hoverlia. the summit of Khomiak at 1,960 meters. ly members, extreme poverty. Children from these families are often sent to live in a state-run children’s home for years at a time. Many live there until the com- pletion of high school, after which they are discharged, often, literally, onto the street, with very little in the way of sup- port and life skills. The summer camp programs organ- ized by Help Us Help the Children include workshops intended to improve personal life skills: the ability to make decisions, solve problems, negotiate, communicate, cooperate with others. Discussions and activities focus on ethics, responsibility, tolerance, respect for others, as well as Ukrainian tradition and culture. Campers are also given practical information about topics such as hygiene and nutrition, and job search tools. The camp activities are geared towards building independence, self- sufficiency, self-esteem and confidence in these adolescents. In 1999 an additional camp was added, with a program specifically designed for 50 of the oldest and most mature of the children, emphasizing leadership and service. This leadership camp was located near the summit of Mahora, in a fairly primitive setting, and the activities were more challeng- ing, including a 43-kilometer, 15-hour hike up Pip Ivan, as well as organizing a large-scale orienteering competition for Oleh Nestaruk of Ivano-Frankivsk receives Prime Minister teams from Baza Ukraina and Baza Viktor Yuschenko’s autograph as Roman Heresyniuk waits Children from the internaty loved the horses and horseback Avanthard. his turn. riding. The staff for these camps is as varied as the children: volunteers from Mohyla Academy. Last year three stu- Canada, the United States and Ukraine; dents who passed the university’s rigor- members who have experience in youth ous admissions standards received groups such as ODUM, Plast and SUM, scholarships from the foundation. As as well as volunteers from the Orthodox part of its fund-raising efforts, the and Catholic Churches. organization holds a telethon each year Besides the summer camps, Help Us in Toronto. In the United States, the Help the Children organizes semi-annu- foundation’s next fund-raiser, a silent al outreach missions in the autumn and auction, will be held in Detroit on spring that travel to Ukraine with sup- November 18. plies for the internaty. The organization For more information about the raises funds and collects donations of organization and its activities, please gently used clothing, bicycles, toys, contact Vera Petrusha at (810) 756-5283 sporting goods and camping gear for (evening). To make a tax-deductible these missions. donation to the foundation, please send The foundation also sponsors talent- your contribution to: Help Us Help the ed young adults from the internaty to Children Inc., 4511 Bernice, Warren, Relaxing near the campfire after breakfast are (from left): Oleksander Melnychenko, attend the National University of Kyiv- MI 48091. Yulia Testova and Zhenia Khomenko of Sevastopol. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000 No. 43 CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS UAMA officers participate TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI, (973) 292-9800 x 3040 in UAVeterans’ convention

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TO ALL MEMBERS OF UNA BRANCH 112 Rev. Gudziak... As of November 1, 2000, (Continued from page 8) the secretary’s duties of Branch 112 At the time the LTA acquired accredi- will be assumed by Mrs. Alice Olenchuk. tation, Leonid Kuchma, president of We ask all members of this Branch to direct all Ukraine, proudly noted, “This is the first correspondence regarding membership and time ever that a Ukrainian institution has insurance to the address listed below: received such recognition.” According to the Rev. Gudziak, the accreditation from Mrs. Alice Olenchuk Rome “provides real criteria by which 2625 Bonny Blvd. we can work to obtain accreditation from Parma, OH 44134 the state.” However, the Ukrainian gov- (440) 884-5126 ernment does not yet recognize theology as a field of study. While pursuing state accreditation, the Rev. Gudziak added that in July 1999 the LTA held its first commencement in more than 50 years. Today the LTA boasts two campuses and more than 400 students, including over 200 seminari- Insure and be sure. ans. Women are being offered theologi- cal education for the first time in the his- tory of Ukraine. Join the UNA! The Rev. Gudziak noted that “the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation (UCEF) in Chicago has been and continues to be a major contributor to the growth of the LTA. Through the 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF CHAIR OF UKRAINIAN STUDIES enormous generosity of its many American donors, the LTA is the grateful 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM beneficiary of much-needed financial support, donated books and learning materials, and volunteers.” Helping to rebuild Ukraine’s religious PROGRAM and educational infrastructures, the UCEF was founded in 1997 to teach Americans about the needs of Catholic education in Ukraine. The UCEF oper- Friday, October 27, 2000, in Sheraton Hall, Wycliffe College ates several international programs to University of Toronto, 5 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto develop Ukrainian Catholic seminarians; educate students in a Catholic school set- ting and provide cultural exchange 6:00 p.m. Presentation of Chair Associates Publications opportunities. 7:30 p.m. Bill Harnum (University of Toronto Press) A recipient of numerous awards and honors, the Rev. Gudziak earned a doc- Reception toral degree in Slavic and Byzantine Church and cultural history from SYMPOSIUM Harvard University, and a licentiate degree in theology from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, where he cur- Symposium Topic for all Sessions: “As a Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet of Ministers in the rently is working on a doctorate in theol- Government of Ukraine I would implement the following policies to improve the standard of living and ogy. unite the country.” The Rev. Gudziak is the author of “Crisis and Reform: The Kievan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople,” and the Genesis of the 7:30 p.m. Introductory Remarks – Ihor Bardyn, CUPP Director Union of Brest, a religious, cultural and historical study of 16th century Slavic 10:00 p.m. Symposium Overview – Alexander Pivovarsky, CUPP ’94, University of Kyiv/John F. Kennedy Church history. He is the author of School of Government, Harvard University. numerous internationally published arti- cles on political, cultural and religious Session One Participants: Chair – Taras Malyshevs’ky (‘93), Ukrainian Embassy in Canada/ affairs, and academic curricula. He also is editor of six volumes of conference University of Dnipropetrovsk/City of Dnipropetrovsk Councillor; Olha Makara (‘94), proceedings on the Union of Brest and is University of Kyiv/Sorbonne University; Natalya Astapova (‘96), University of Zaporizhia/ co-editor of Kovcheh, a journal of Vanderbilt University; Mykhailo Shapiro (‘96), University if Chernivtsi/ Church history. University of Amsterdam. His teaching engagements include Harvard University; the Sheptytsky Saturday, October 28, 2000, in Sheraton Hall, Wycliffe College Institute, University of St. Paul, Ottawa; and Lviv State University. University of Toronto, 5 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto The Rev. Gudziak is the son of Dr. Alexander and Jaroslava Gudziak of Syracuse, N.Y. 9:30 a.m. Session Two Participants: Chair – Nazar Bobitski (‘94), Ukrainian Embassy in Brussels/ University of Lviv/University of Amsterdam; Pavlo Kuzminov (‘96), Deputy Mayor of Berdyansk/University of Zaporizhia/University of Minnesota; Yurij Rudiuk (‘96), University of Lviv/University of Saskatchewan/University of Amsterdam; TO SUBSCRIBE Oleksandr Kraynyukov (‘97), University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy/University of Dunkirk; Tania Skvortsova-Darens’ka (‘97), Luhansk Pedagogical University/Harvard University; Slava Opeyda (‘97/’98), University of Donetsk/University of Illinois. 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by Roman Juzeniw 50th anniversary of their branch. They will also schedule a commemorative NEW YORK – Plast Ukrainian event in the Plast building on Second Scouting Organization’s 22 branches (or Avenue. stanytsi) in the United States commenced In Portland, Oregon, home to the regular scouting activities in September, newest Plast group in the United States, following a summer that saw over 700 branch leader, or stanychnyi, Andre members participate in Plast camps. Andrukhiv, said the scouts are planning According to Andreas Boyko, head of regular nature hikes in the fall. the Hartford branch, that city began its In Los Angeles, where there are close Plast activities in early September and to 50 Plast members, according to later that month held a successful ban- Stanychnyi Irynej Prokopovych, two to quet and dance to mark its 50th anniver- three regularly scheduled Plast meetings sary. The Hartford stanytsia will also are held every month. This Christmas have a potato roast on October 22 for season, the group will visit homes with a Plast members and their families. traditional Ukrainian “vertep,” and the Margaret Nycz, head of the Newark children will act out a play using pup- branch, mentioned that besides regularly pets. The group plans a “Sviato Vesny” scheduled meetings, participation in Plast on Memorial Day every year and actively and Ukrainian community events, and participates in the community’s the annual debutante ball (to be held on Shevchenko Day and other events. February 3, 2001), the Newark branch The National Plast Command, headed will be doing several good deeds this by Borys Pawluk, has scheduled two autumn by collecting scout uniforms and ambitious events this fall: A Plast insignia for Plast members and winter Leader’s Conference and a special cele- coats and clothing for orphanages in bration of Plast’s 50th anniversary in the Ukraine. United states. The Plast group in Passaic, headed by The Plast Leader’s Conference will be Daria Temnycky, will be working on held on October 14-15 in East Hanover, similar humanitarian deeds. The Passaic N.J. The conference will include sessions branch also organizes an annual St. on Plast organizational functions at the Nicholas presentation for the entire local level, Plast ceremonies, counseling Passaic/Clifton community. issues, camping issues, and a roundtable The Cleveland stanytsia, headed by discussion with the participation of the Mykola Holian, is planning the attending branch leaders. “Lystopadove Sviato,” marking the his- Sunday, November 19, is the date of toric events of November 1, 1918, in the special celebration dubbed “The Ukraine, to be held at the Pysany Kamin Golden Flame” – part of a campaign to campsite and preparing for participation join with the Ukrainian community in in the annual “Orlykiada” held at celebrating the 50th anniversary of Plast Soyuzivka in November. Mr. Holian stat- in the United States. This event will be ed that the branch’s counselors have been held at Clifton High School in Clifton, enthusiastic in their counseling activities N.J., at 3 p.m. Lydia Krushelnytsky and with Cleveland’s youth. Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky, both noted The Buffalo stanytsia, headed by Ukrainian artists and educators, are coor- Jaroslaw Pryshlak, is planning its dinating the Plast members’ efforts in this ATTENTION YOUNG LADIES branch’s 50th anniversary on October 21, commemoration. which will include a banquet, dance and In November, the United States Plast Plast themed-program. organization will also send delegates to New York Plast members will holding the International Plast Congress which You are cordially invited to participate in our a banquet on December 16 to mark the will be held in Kyiv.

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sent also by The Ukrainian Weekly. Stephen Kuropas... Present for the joyous occasion was (Continued from page 5) the entire Kuropas clan, which now con- Greetings were read from Illinois Lt. sists of a son and his wife, a daughter, Gov. Corrinne Wood, Illinois Attorney two grandsons and their wives, three General Jim Ryan, Sen. Dudycz, granddaughters and their husbands, and Selfreliance, and a number of other indi- eight great-grandchildren. viduals, many of whom recalled the per- Among that family are three UNA sonal assistance they received from Mr. vice-presidents: former VPs Stephen Kuropas during the 1950s and 1960s Kuropas and Myron B. Kuropas, and the when they first arrived from displaced UNA’s current first vice-president, Stefko persons camps in Europe. Greetings were Kuropas.

Against the backdrop of the Chicago skyline, Stephen Kuropas is flanked by Dr. Bohdan Shebunchak (left) of ODVU and Walter Sochan of the UNA.. No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000 21 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000 No. 43 No. 43 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000 23

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(Continued from page 24) Ukrainian Catholic Church, 30 E. Seventh Mr. Fraser was appointed Canada’s ambas- St., at the 10 a.m. divine liturgy, celebrated sador to Ukraine in July 1998. For further by the Rev. Lawrence Lawryniuk. The information call CIUS, (780) 492-2972, or 112-year-old choir is considered to be the e-mail [email protected]. oldest of its kind to continue in the tradi- tion of Old Church Slavonic consecutively Friday- Sunday, November 3-5 since its inception in 1888. The choir is PARMA, Ohio: HALLOWEEN WEEKEND under the direction of Patrick J. Marcinko Ukrainian National II, a noted musician and composer. The Women’s League of America Branch 12 CHANGED BY POPULAR DEMAND public is invited. invites the public to its third annual art show featuring nine artists/artisans who will pres- ROOM ONLY — FLAT RATE $70.00 PER NIGHT ent their recent works. Represented in the NEW YORK: “Maskarada: A Costume TAX AND GRATUITIES INCLUDED exhibit are: Ihor Bereza, Lviv (decorative Party for Children” with Marta Sawycky, FRIDAY OR SATURDAY director of Muzychne Doshkillia (Music ceramics); Ihor Derevyany, Louisville, Ky. and Me), will be held at the Ukrainian (icons, ceramics, jewelry); Slava Gerulak, Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St., at 2 New York City (ceramic icons, small ceram- FRIDAY p.m. Enjoy activities with “Pani Marta,” ic sculptures); Lesia Greif, Broadview MIDNIGHT BIGUS PLAYS Heights, Ohio (gerdany); Natalia Kormeluk, including a costume parade, magic show, HORS D’OEUVRES AND HAPPY HOUR and professional face-painting. Rockville, Md., (traditional pottery); Kateryna Nemyra, Parma Heights, Ohio COVER CHARGE AT DOOR $5.00 Refreshments will be served. Donation: DOORS OPEN 9 P.M. BAND AT 10 P.M. $20 per family. RSVP by October 23 by (decorative ceramics); Aka Pereyma, Troy, calling the institute, (212) 288-8660. Ohio (ceramic plates and vases); Kateryna Krychevska-Rosandich, Mountain View, SATURDAY Monday, October 30 Calif., (watercolors); and Zoriana Atlantova- ALL MEALS EXTRA Sochacky, Philadelphia (paintings on silk- BREAKFAST $6.00 PER PERSON 8 A.M. - 9:30 A.M. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard batiks, wearable art accessories). A preview LUNCH $12.00 PER PERSON 12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M. Ukrainian Research Institute is holding a lec- reception with several of the artists present ture by Dr. George Liber, University of will be held on Friday, November 3, at 7 DINNER $15.00 PER PERSON 6 P.M. - 7:30 P.M. Alabama, titled “In the Labyrinths with the p.m. Exhibit hours: Saturday, 9 a.m.-5:30 Minotaur: Dovzhenko and Stalin, 1928- p.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The show will TREMBITA OPEN FROM 8 P.M. TO 10 P.M. 1953.” The lecture will be held in the insti- be held at the UNWLA Social Room, St. ZABAVA DOORS OPEN 10 P.M. COST $15.00 AT DOOR FOR ALL tute’s seminar room, 1583 Massachusetts Josaphat’s Astrodome, 5720 State Road. For WILL INCLUDE SNACKS AT MIDNIGHT Ave., at 4-6 p.m. For more information con- additional information call Daria Horodysky, PRIZES FOR BEST COSTUME tact the institute, (617) 495-4053. (330) 659-4753. Monday-Wednesday, Saturday, November 4 SUNDAY October 30-November 1 COFFEE AND DANISH JERSEY CITY, N.J.: The annual fall dance MAINHOUSE LOBBY 8 A.M. - 10 A.M. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.: Volodymyr sponsored by Ukrainian National Women’s Schesiuk and pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky League of America Branch 71 will be held at HALLOWEEN BRUNCH will appear as guest conductor and soloist, the Ukrainian National Home, 90-96 Fleet MAINHOUSE DINING ROOM 10 A.M. - 1:30 P.M. respectively, with the Scottsdale Symphony St., starting at 9 p.m. Music will be by COST $15.00 PER PERSON Orchestra in the opening concert of the sea- Tempo. Tickets: $10. All are welcome. For son in a program of works by Liszt, Concert more information call the dance committee, No. 3, and Skoryk, Concert No. 3 for piano (201) 963-0936. and symphony. The three consecutive con- certs will be held at 8 p.m. at the Scottsdale EAST HANOVER, N.J.: The New Jersey Center for the Arts, 7380 E. Second St. For branch of the Ukrainian Engineers Society of ticket information call (480) 945-8071. America (UESA) will hold a presentation titled “Communication in the Digital Age” at Tuesday, October 31 1 p.m. at the East Hanover Ramada Inn, Route 10 West. Featured speakers will be Dr. NEW YORK: Dr. Taras J. Odulak and his Leo M.F. Chirovsky and Dr. Yurij Shevchuk, office, East Village Chiropractic, which is both of Lucent Technologies. UESA mem- located in the heart of the Ukrainian neigh- bers and the general public are invited to borhood, will sponsor a children’s attend; refreshments will be served. For more Halloween Party in the office, 33 E. Seventh information, contact Andrij Wowk, (732) St., at 3-5 p.m. Children age 1 through 8 are 271-8461; e-mail [email protected] or visit invited to come dressed in their costumes the UESA website at http://www.uesa.org/. and enjoy: story time, a magic show, healthy Halloween treats, beanbag toss and ADVANCE NOTICE pumpkin decoration. Space is limited; call (212) 260-2213, or visit our website, Friday, December 1 http://www.eastvillagechiropractic.com, to register. DETROIT: Ushering in the Christmas sea- son, the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of Thursday, November 2 Detroit and the Vesnivka Choir of Toronto will present “A Ukrainian Christmas” at the TORONTO: The Ukrainian Professional Macomb Center for the Performing Arts at 8 and Business Association of Toronto will p.m. The concert is co-sponsored by the sponsor the launch of Prof. Lubomyr Ukrainian Future Credit Union and the Luciuk’s latest book, “Searching For Place: Ukrainian Selfreliance Credit Union. Ukrainian Displaced Persons, Canada and Tickets are available at the following loca- the Migration of Memory” (University of tions: Macomb Center Box Office, (810) Toronto Press, 2000). The launch will be held 286-2222; Ukrainian Future Credit Union, at the Multicultural History Society of (810) 757-1980; and Ukrainian Ontario, 43 Queen’s Park Crescent E., at 7 Selfreliance Credit Union, (810) 756-3300. p.m. Copies of the book will be on sale that For more information call (734) 953-0305 evening. The public is cordially invited. For and/or visit http://www.bandura.org and additional information call (416) 979-2973. http://www.vesnivka.com. Celebrate “A Ukrainian Christmas!” Thursday, November 2 Saturday, December 2 EDMONTON: Derek Fraser, Canada’s ambassador to Ukraine, will give a lecture CHICAGO: Ushering in the Christmas titled “Whither Ukraine?” at 3:30 p.m. in season, the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of Heritage Lounge, Athabasca Hall. The lec- Detroit and the Vesnivka Choir of Toronto ture is sponsored by the Canadian Institute present “A Ukrainian Christmas” at Lane of Ukrainian Studies, University of Technical High School Auditorium at 7 Alberta. Ambassador Fraser, LL.B., joined p.m. The concert is sponsored by the Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs in Ukrainian Community Committee of 1963. Since then he has served in Saigon, Chicago. Tickets are available at the fol- Bonn, Moscow and Brussels. From 1988 to lowing locations: Selfreliance Ukrainian 1993 he was ambassador to Hungary, and Federal Credit Union, (773) 489-0520; and from 1995 to 1998 ambassador to Greece. First Security Federal Savings Bank, (773) In Canada, Mr. Fraser has held a number of 772-6500. For more information, call (847) posts in foreign affairs, including director, 358-7905 and/or visit www.bandura.org USSR and Eastern Europe Relations and http://www.vesnivka.com. Celebrate Division, and Western Europe II Division. “A Ukrainian Christmas”! 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2000 No. 43

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Wednesday, October 25 Saturday, October 28

EDMONTON: Dr. Iaroslav Isaievych, PHILADELPHIA: Ukrainian National director, Institute of Ukrainian Studies at Women’s League of America Branch 43 the National Academy of Sciences of invites the public to a literary evening for Ukraine, Lviv, will give a lecture on “Neo- Olha Kuzmowycz, journalist and editor at Panslavism in Contemporary East Svoboda, on the occasion of the publication European Politics and Scholarship.” The of her book “Pro Tse i Te” (This and That: lecture, sponsored by the Canadian Collected Short Stories and Essays). Taking Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University part in the program are Anna Maksymowych, of Alberta, will be held in the Heritage Dr. Larissa Onyshkevych, Zenon Snylyk and Lounge, Athabasca Hall, at 3:30 p.m. Dr. Vasyl Lopukh, with Liudmyla Chajkowsky, mistress of ceremonies. A musi- Friday, October 27 cal program will feature Nestor Kyzymyshyn and Halya Mazurok-Ray. The evening will NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Museum close with a light buffet, overseen by Maria will host an author’s evening for Danyliv. The event will take place in the Ukrainian American writer Irene Zabytko, gallery of the Ukrainian Educational and author of the popular novel “The Sky Cultural Center, 700 Cedar Road, Unwashed.” The event will be held at 7 Jenkintown, Pa., at 4:30 p.m. p.m. at the museum, 203 Second Ave. Ms. Zabytko will read excerpts from her book MORRISTOWN, N.J.: Alexander and autograph copies. The book will be Slobodyanik will open the concert season of available for purchase for $22.95. the New Philharmonic of New Jersey with Admission: $6. For information call the the performance of Prokofiev’s Piano museum, (212) 228-0110, or e-mail Concerto No. 3 in C Major. The New [email protected]. Philharmonic, under the direction of Leon Hyman, will also perform works by Rossini EDMONTON: Dr. Iaroslav Isaievych, and Beethoven. The concert will take place at director, Institute of Ukrainian Studies at The Community Theater, 100 South St., at 8 the National Academy of Sciences of p.m. Tickets, at $38, $27 and $17, are avail- Ukraine, Lviv, will give a lecture on able by calling the Box Office, (973) 539- “History and Culture of Ukraine: New 8008; Visa and MasterCard accepted. Discoveries of Lviv Scholars” (in Ukrainian). The lecture is co-sponsored NEW YORK: The annual fall zabava of by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian New York SUM will take place at 9 p.m. at Studies, University of Alberta, and Plast the Ukrainian National Home, 140 Second Ukrainian Youth Organization of Ave. The young and the young-at-heart are Alberta. It will be followed by a recep- invited: come hear the popular new band tion in the Plast Home, 10159 79th St., Svitanok, help us crown a new SUM queen, at 7:30 p.m. For further information, and avail yourselves of the tasty refreshments contact CIUS, (780) 492-2972, or e-mail and friendly company. Admission: $20. For [email protected]. additional information call Ivan Makar at SUM Oseredok, (212) 473-3467. Friday-Saturday, October 27-28 Saturday-Sunday. October 28-29 OTTAWA: The Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa is holding its SILVER SPRING, Md.: Holy Trinity third conference in the “Towards a New Particular Ukrainian Catholic Church will Ukraine” series, subtitled “Geopolitical hold an open house on Saturday, October 28, Imperatives of Ukraine: Regional Contexts.” at 1-5 p.m. The blessing of the church by The conference will cover Ukraine’s relations Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk will be held on with Russia, Poland, Germany and Europe, Sunday, October 29, at 1 p.m.; it will be fol- and strategic and security issues. Eleven lowed by a banquet at 5 p.m. at the Holiday speakers from Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Inn, College Park (by prior reservation only). Poland, the United States and the United For reservations call Larissa Fontana, (301) Kingdom will speak in consecutive sessions; 365-2490, no later than October 19. The among them, are: Dr. Olga Alexandrova, Dr. church is located at 16631 New Hampshire Grzegorz Babinski, Ambassador Derek Ave., nine miles north of the Beltway-495 Fraser, Dr. Sherman W. Garnett, Dr. Rainer and the New Hampshire Avenue exit; Lindner, Dr. Mikhail Malchanov, Dr. Jennifer between Route 198 and Ednor Road. D. Patterson Moroney, Col. Leonid I. Donations to the Building Fund are greatly Polyakov, Dr. Deborah Sanders, Ambassador appreciated and may be sent to: Holy Trinity Yuri Scherbak, Dr. Jennifer D. Patterson, Dr. PUCC, 16631 New Hampshire Ave., Silver James G. Sherr, Dr. Stephen Shulman. Spring, MD 20905. Registration for sessions only is free for stu- Sunday, October 29 dents; for others, registration ranges from $55 to $100, depending on options. For more NEW YORK: The choir of Ss. Cyril and information contact Irene Bell at the chair, Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Parish of (613) 562-5800, ext. 3692; fax, (613) 562- Olyphant, Pa., will sing liturgical respons- 5351; e-mail, [email protected]; or see the es in Old Church Slavonic at St. George chair’s website at http://www.uottawa.ca/ WHAT? academic/grad-etudesup/ukr/. (Continued on page 23) YOU DON’T HAVE YOUR OWN PLEASE NOTE REQUIREMENTS: SUBSCRIPTION? Preview of Events is a listing of Ukrainian community events open to the To subscribe to The Ukrainian Weekly, fill out the form below, public. It is a service provided at minimal cost ($10 per submission) by The clip it and mail it to: Subscription Department, The Ukrainian Weekly, Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. Payment must be received prior to publication. 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 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