ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXI No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 $1/$2 in Vitali Klitschko now Ukraine’s most popular opposition leader

by Zenon Zawada between March 5 and 13 by the Democratic remembered less,” said Petro Oleshchuk, a Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Initiatives Foundation and the political science lecturer at Shevchenko International Institute of Sociology (KMIS). National University in Kyiv. “In addition, no KYIV – Imprisoned former Prime Mr. Yanukovych would earn 21 percent one believes that she will be released Minister is no longer of votes, compared to 14 percent for Mr. before the elections and will participate in Ukraine’s most popular opposition leader, Klitschko and 11 percent for Ms. them. So they’re looking for other candi- according to recent polls. Tymoshenko. Political observers agreed dates to support.” World champion that Ms. Tymoshenko’s incarceration and Since taking power, President Yanukovych Vitali Klitschko is the most popular candi- absence from active political life is the big- has led a campaign to discredit Ms. date among Ukrainians to challenge gest factor in her drop in the polls. Tymoshenko in the eyes of the public, pros- President , according to a “Tymoshenko simply ‘disappeared from ecuting her for abuse of authority in signing poll of 2,037 respondents conducted the screens,’ which is why she is being the 2009 natural gas contract with Gazprom and now prosecuting her for her alleged If there were pre-term elections in Ukraine, who would you vote for? role in the murder of gas trader and National Deputy Yevhen Shcherban in 1996. UDAR Top Western diplomats have dismissed Vitali Klitschko, chair of the Ukrainian these judicial proceedings as selective jus- Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR), tice, ordering Mr. Yanukovych to arrange for is the most popular candidate to challenge her release from prison. That’s unlikely to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in happen, as officials with the Procurator the 2015 presidential election, according to General’s Office of Ukraine indicated a slew recent polls. of other criminal charges are in the pipeline. Yet such efforts to discredit Ms. ical activity, according to the Razumkov Tymoshenko have had little effect on her Center in Kyiv, which polled 2,010 respon- standing among voters, observers said. Her dents between March 1 and 6. ratings had begun to decline earlier. “It can’t be forgotten that negative atti- Ms. Tymoshenko’s support began to tudes towards Tymoshenko among the drop as early as spring 2010, following her ‘national-patriotic’ electorate were formed defeat in the presidential election, said without Yanukovych and the Party of Volodymyr Fesenko, board chairman of the Regions already before the presidential Penta Center for Applied Political Research elections,” Mr. Oleshchuk said. in Kyiv. More than half of the electorate “In my view, the discreditation campaign doesn’t trust her, including a portion of the against Tymoshenko is aimed not so much Above are results of a poll of 2,037 respondents conducted between March 5 and 13 by the opposition electorate, he said. at her electorate as towards the Party of Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Kyiv Institute of Sociology as compared with a poll Indeed, 58 percent of Ukrainians said from 2012. Only the top five responses are listed. they don’t support Ms. Tymoshenko’s polit- (Continued on page 13) WFUWO participates in 57th session of U.N. Commission on the Status of Women

by Irene Jarosewich WFUWO President Sushko attended the opening of the CSW session at the U.N. – A delegation of 14 General Assembly, followed by a panel women from the World Federation of organized by the Council of Europe. Ukrainian Women’s Organizations, led by At the NGO Forum reception for the recently elected WFUWO President Orysia heads of non-governmental organizations Sushko, joined thousands of international at the Kazakh Mission on March 5, the representatives at United Nations head- WFUWO president had the opportunity to quarters in on March 4 to network with leaders of other international begin the 57th session of the Commission organizations from the more than 130 on the Status of Women (CSW). countries represented at the CSW. Convening annually each spring, the On March 6 the WFUWO delegation met CSW sessions are a continuing effort by the with Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United international community to address global Nations Yuriy Sergeyev at the Permanent issues that affect women and children, Mission of Ukraine. Ambassador Sergeyev ranging from maternal health, rural educa- engaged those present in a discussion of tion, illegal labor and sex trafficking to his vision of cooperation with WFUWO’s urban poverty. The organizing theme for increasingly active presence at the U.N., as this year’s session was “The prevention well as discussions of developments in D. Dykyj Ukraine in a variety of areas of interest and and elimination of all forms of violence concern to WFUWO delegates. against women and girls.” Representatives from the WFUWO, the UNWLA and the ICW at a reception on March 3: (seated, from left) Roma Shuhan, Liudmyla Yakovlieva, Orysia Sushko, Also participating in the discussion from WFUWO representatives attended more Marianna Zajac, (standing) Savka Todorovska, Natalia Sonevytsky, Hanya Krill, the Permanent Mission were Vitalij Kasap than two dozen events and panels during Lida Bilous, Dr. Daria Dykyj, Anna Kalmatskaya, Nadia Shmigel, Iryna Kurowyckyj, the two weeks of the CSW. On March 4 Irene Jarosewich and Dr. Marta Kichorowska Kebalo. (Continued on page 9) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 No. 13

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New pope a mixed blessing U.S. undersecretary of state visits Kyiv… cuss with Ukraine the reforms it has to implement. Ms. Sherman also stressed that KYIV – On March 19-20, Undersecretary Ukraine should focus on its judicial sphere, for Kremlin and ROC Patriarchate of State Wendy Sherman traveled to Kyiv to as well as eliminate selective justice and meet with Ukrainian government leaders by Paul Goble Moreover, the background of Francis reform the public prosecution system. includes his involvement and cooperation to continue dialogue on issues of mutual (Interfax-Ukraine) After its problems with the Polish pope, with “Eastern spirituality,” including with concern, including Ukraine’s integration John Paul II, and its more hopeful ties with the man who now leads the Ukrainian into Euro-Atlantic institutions, energy secu- Kozhara meets with USUBC president the German Benedict XVI, views Greek-Catholic Church, Major Archbishop rity, economic reform, and advancement of democracy and human rights. Undersecretary KYIV – Foreign Affairs Minister Leonid the new Argentine pope, Francis, as a very Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv and Halych. Kozhara held a meeting with the president mixed blessing – someone with whom the Both these aspects of the life of Francis Sherman met with President Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister Mykola of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council Russian government and the Russian put him at odds with Patriarch Kirill of the (USUBC), Morgan Williams, to discuss the Orthodox Church may be able to cooperate Azarov, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Russian Orthodox Church, and they may development of the Ukraine-U.S. economic on occasion but someone whose approach explain why Kirill did not rush to congratu- . She also met with opposi- and trade relations, the Foreign Affairs challenges the way both do business. late Francis the way he had done earlier tion leaders. (U.S. Embassy Kyiv) Ministry’s press office said in a statement In a commentary on the Portal-Credo.ru when Benedict was elected to the papacy, …raises case of Yulia Tymoshenko on March 25. “During the meeting the sides site, Aleksandr Soldatov, one of the most the church observer suggests. discussed the development of Ukrainian- thoughtful independent observers of the But there is still more that separates KYIV – U.S. Undersecretary of State U.S. trade and economic relations, includ- Russian religious scene, says that the elec- Francis and Kirill. When he was an arch- Wendy Sherman held talks in Kyiv with ing the possibility of using resources of the tion of Pope Francis is “for the leadership of bishop, Francis organized in his cathedral Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Business Council, which brings together the Russian Orthodox Church of the “joint prayers with Muslims and Jews,” The case of the jailed former Ukrainian more than 200 world-known companies Moscow Patriarchate more bad than good something the Russian churchman has Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko topped (Boeing, Chevron, Halliburton, John Deere, news” (portal-credo.ru/site/?act=c been loathe to do, Mr. Soldatov notes. And their discussions on March 20. Ms. Microsoft and others) in the context of the omment&id=2022). that too means that the new pope can Tymoshenko, who led the 2004 Orange economization of Ukraine’s foreign policy,” But Mr. Soldatov suggests that there are “scarcely hope for friendship with Revolution protests that derailed Mr. the statement said. Mr. Kozhara informed some aspects of the new pontiff’s approach Moscow,” at least under its current leaders. Yanukovych’s first bid for the presidency, Mr. Williams of the measures taken by the that may allow at least limited cooperation Moreover, Mr. Soldatov says, the new was sentenced to seven years on abuse-of- Ukrainian government “to remove obsta- between the Vatican and the Moscow pope has shown himself to be “an oppo- office charges in 2011. She is now facing a cles to attract investments into the Patriarchate on particular questions, such as nent of the Latin mass and Catholic tradi- fresh trial on tax evasion and embezzle- missionary work in Orthodox countries like Ukrainian economy, increase investment tionalists with whom Benedict XVI sought ment charges. The Tymoshenko case has Russia and support for traditional values. rapprochement,” an attitude that makes an attractiveness and provide transparent soured Ukraine’s ties with the West, which The direction the new pope is likely to “alliance” between the Vatican and the rules of dialogue between the different saw it as an example of selective justice. pursue, Mr. Soldatov argues, is shown by Moscow Patriarchate in support of branches of government and investors who The has delayed the sign- the name he has chosen for himself. “The European values and against “conceptions come to Ukraine.” The meeting also reaf- ing of landmark deals on free trade and Catholic Church knows only one [sic] of human rights hardly possible.” firmed the commitment of the sides to political association with Kyiv over the Francis, he of Assisi, and therefore the “On the other hand,” Mr. Soldatov says, cooperate more closely, in particular in the issue. Undersecretary Sherman urged Kyiv selection of his name by the pope clearly “the new pope already in his younger days framework of the renewed Council of to “step back from this very dangerous indicates the priorities of the new pontifi- radically distanced himself from the ‘libera- Exporters at the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs moment,” describing the case against Ms. cate – ‘the apostolate of poverty’ with its tion theology’ which is popular in Latin Ministry. () struggle against luxury and an overly com- Tymoshenko as “political prosecution. fortable life.” (Continued on page 8) (RFE/RL, based on reporting by Reuters Kozhara on Ukraine-Russia relations and Interfax) KYIV – Relations between Ukraine and Sherman: U.S. not planning sanctions Russia will always be “special, strategic at all levels of interaction,” Ukrainian Foreign KYIV – The United States government is Affairs Minister Leonid Kozhara told ITAR- Russian NGOs subjected not planning to introduce sanctions against TASS in an interview, according to March Ukraine, U.S. Undersecretary of State for 25 news reports. “Russia is part of our Political Affairs Wendy Sherman said on to continuing searches common history, and we could not imagine Channel 5 TV. “We will not use them so far, Mr. Ponomarev’s letter notes the search our future without kind, partnership and RFE/RL we believe in direct relations,” she said, of his group’s office is permissible “only if mutually beneficial relations. Our relations MOSCOW – Searches of non-govern- there is information about the organization according to March 21 news reports. The mental organizations (NGOs) continue in violating existing laws and no grounds for official added that the U.S. intends to dis- (Continued on page 12) Russia, including Amnesty International’s [such accusations] were presented to us.” office in the capital. Hundreds of NGOs across Russia report- The head of Amnesty International in edly have been searched in the recent Moscow, Sergei Nikitin, confirmed an weeks, including the offices of Memorial, he krainian eekly FOUNDED 1933 “unplanned search” of the organization’s one of Russia’s oldest rights organizations. T U W premises was under way on March 25. Amnesty International released a state- An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., “On Monday morning, three people from ment on March 22 saying the wave of a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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Reprinted e-mail: [email protected] The head of the For Human Rights with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ Walter Honcharyk, advertising manager (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 fax: (973) 644-9510 movement, Lev Ponomarev, has sent a let- Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, e-mail: [email protected] ter to Moscow Prosecutor Sergei Kudeneev Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see Mariyka Pendzola, subscriptions (973) 292-9800, ext. 3042 complaining that the search of the organi- http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-ngos- e-mail: [email protected] zation’s office is illegal. searches/24937990.html). No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 3 Ukraine’s trade privileges on the line over intellectual-piracy concerns by Olena Removska, Robert Coalson Preferences (GSP). in the state sector is illegal. them – particularly when suing the govern- RFE/RL Such a move could cost Kyiv about $50 Ukraine’s government says it is taking ment in Ukrainian courts. million a year. Washington will announce the piracy problem seriously, especially the “It isn’t a simple matter – getting a court KYIV/PRAGUE – In late January 2012, its decision before the end of April. embarrassing claim that state agencies rou- ruling in favor of a private business over authorities in Ukraine shut down one of the “One of the qualifications for GSP bene- tinely use pirated software. Oleksiy Yanov, the government, particularly in an area like most notorious websites in the world for fits is that a country must provide adequate deputy chairman of the State Intellectual intellectual-property rights,” Mr. Mamunya illegally downloading films, television and effective [intellectual-property-rights] Property Agency, disputes Microsoft’s fig- explains. “This is especially true if such a shows and other intellectual property. protection, and we don’t feel – the mem- ure but acknowledges that illegal software court victory would result in serious mate- Police seized 200 servers and more than bers of the IIAP don’t feel – that Ukraine is in the state sector could be as high as 40 rial losses on the part of the state.” 6,000 terabytes of data. currently providing adequate and effective percent. So far, in fact, only the giant Microsoft It was hailed as major progress in cop- protection given the high levels of piracy,” But Mr. Yanov says the state is taking has managed to win such a case, getting an ing with Ukraine’s chronic problems in the says Eric Schwartz, counsel to the IIAP and measures. “Most computers come with $8,000 judgment against Uzhhorod area of intellectual-property rights. one of the authors of the report criticizing software already installed – that’s one International Airport late last year. Buoyed Yet by February 2, 2012, the website Ukraine. thing,” he notes. “Another is that the gov- by this success, Microsoft filed 12 more was up and running again, reviving suspi- ernment has budgeted money – albeit not complaints in Ukrainian courts last month. Getting Kyiv’s attention cions that the organized-crime groups very much – for every central agency of the The IIAP’s criticism may be having an behind such piracy in Ukraine are protect- However, he adds, neither designation executive branch to legalize or purchase effect. Shortly after it was issued, Vice ed by highly placed officials. as a “priority foreign country” nor a with- new software.” Prime Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko is a member of the drawal of trade privileges means that RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service spoke with ordered the government to prepare sug- opposition Batkivshchyna faction in Ukraine has the one employee of a gestions for more effectively implementing Ukraine’s Parliament, the . worst piracy prob- state geological the action plan. He is also a former vice-minister of internal lem in the world. Ukraine has i n s t i t u te , wh o But the nexus of organized crime and affairs and former deputy chairman of the Rather, such the highest rates of asked to be identi- corrupt officials at the heart of much intel- Security Service of Ukraine. “Who could be moves would signal fied only as Yevhen. lectual-property theft leaves in doubt implicated? The police, the tax authority, U.S. frustration intellectual property He says “99 per- exactly how the $50 million lever of trade the Consumer Protection Office, the with the govern- cent” of the soft- preferences from the United States com- Intellectual-Property Department, the tax ment in Kyiv and its piracy in Europe. ware in his office is pares to the illegal profits being reaped in police – every structure that has the right perceived lack of pirated. “We have a Ukraine. to control those activities in Ukraine,” Mr. action to resolve the long-standing prob- local network where all the programs that Opposition lawmaker Mr. Moskal says Moskal says. lem. The IIAP has concerns about countries we use are available,” he explains. “You can the key to stopping the piracy is rooting out Kyiv’s checkered track record in the area like Russia and China, but feels their gov- say: ‘I have a new version that I got off the the “protection” that surrounds the crimi- of intellectual-property protection has once ernments are, to a greater extent than Internet yesterday. Let me post it and who- nals. “So, obviously there are people who again attracted the attention of the U.S.- Ukraine, taking the matter seriously. ever needs it can use it.’” give a ‘roof,’ an umbrella of support, for all based International Intellectual Property Mr. Schwartz notes that the United this unlicensed or counterfeit production See you in court Alliance (IIAP), an umbrella organization States and Ukraine agreed to an action plan and have some share of the proceeds,” he comprising seven trade associations repre- on intellectual-property protection in As for companies that feel their rights notes. “If there were no such support it senting U.S. producers of copyrighted con- October 2010, but argues that Kyiv has are being infringed upon, Mr. Yanov says would have disappeared from the markets tent and materials. made no progress in implementing it. they need to be more active and take their or shelves, from sale altogether.” Last month, the IIAP called on the U.S. “Piracy’s been continuing at exceedingly complaints to the courts. government to designate Ukraine a “priori- high rates – the highest piracy rates in However, other local observers feel that Copyright 2012, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted ty foreign country” – the most serious of Europe [are] in Ukraine at present,” he state-to-state measures like those advocat- with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ three categories of countries considered adds. “They also have a significant problem ed by the IIAP may be the best way to get Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, problematic in terms of rights protection. with government ministries that are using Kyiv’s attention. Kyiv-based lawyer Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see More importantly, the IIAP also called for unlicensed software.” Oleksandr Mamunya says that, although http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine- Washington to suspend Ukraine’s trade U.S. software giant Microsoft has esti- laws against piracy exist, individual compa- sanctions-intellectual-property/24928537. benefits under the Generalized System of mated that 70 percent of the software used nies have a hard time taking advantage of html).

Quotable notes “…politically motivated attacks against Ukraine’s opposition have escalated. Ambassador inaugurates Ukraine’s Human rights, democracy and freedom continue to erode for all Ukrainians. In an unprecedented attack on democracy, a Ukrainian court has stripped parliamentarian Consular Office in Tucson, Arizona Serhiy Vlasenko of his seat for offering legal counsel to imprisoned former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and has banned him from travelling outside Ukraine. “This latest show trial is part of a series of politically motivated attacks against Tymoshenko and the opposition. Make no mistake; this biased court ruling was made under pressure from President [Viktor] Yanukovych, who wants to crush the opposition and deprive Tymoshenko of legal defense and due process. “Our friends in Ukraine must realize that the path of prosperity lies in promoting the values of freedom and democracy and respecting the rule of law and human rights, not hindering them. “In Ukraine and around the world, democratic voices know that our government is an unwavering ally in the defense of freedom, democracy and human rights.” – statement by Member of Parliament James Bezan (Selkirk-Interlake, Manitoba) delivered on March 19 in the House of Commons, Ottawa.

“…I rise in the House today to recognize the passing of Mr. Erast Huculak, a distin- guished Etobicoke entrepreneur and philanthropist. “Born in Ukraine in 1930, Mr. Huculak witnessed the ravages of the Holodomor Zenovia Kunasz and World War II as a boy. He immigrated to Canada as a displaced person in 1948 Ambassador Motsyk (left) and Honorary Consul Taras Warvariv, sign official with his family. Erast Huculak had a visionary entrepreneurial spirit as a business documents inaugurating Ukraine’s Consular Office in Tucson, Ariz. owner, founding and becoming president of Medical Pharmacies Group, serving long- term care facilities in Canada. TUCSON, Ariz. – The ambassador of uments was the culmination of the ambas- “Mr. Huculak was dedicated to giving back to Canada and supporting the Ukrainian Ukraine to the United States, Olexander sador’s visit. The Ukrainian Community of Canadian community. When Ukraine won her independence, he donated a building in Motsyk, opened a Consular Office in Tucson participated in this historic event Ottawa for the first Ukrainian Embassy in Canada. He founded the Children of Tucson, Ariz., and appointed Taras and had the opportunity to discuss various Chornobyl Canadian Fund and served as president of the Canadian Friends of Rukh… Warvariv as honorary consul. issues with the ambassador. The ceremony “For his humanitarian activities and advancement of Ukrainian studies, Mr. Following a February 23 visit to the and reception were concluded with the Huculak was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Alberta and the Holodomor exhibit at the Student Union singing of the Ukrainian national anthem. Ukrainian Free University in . He was recognized with many honors, includ- Gallery of the University of Arizona, which As the Ukrainian population of Arizona is ing the Order of Canada... Ambassador Motsyk attended with Sergiy growing, the Tucson Consular Office will pro- “Erast Huculak’s life shall be celebrated for strengthening the cultural, social and Aloshyn, Consul General (San Francisco) and vide information and guidance on various economic fabric of Ukrainian Canadians in Canada.” Yurii Babkov, Economic and Trade Attaché, a matters related to Ukraine. Consul Warvariv – statement delivered in the House of Commons on March 20 by Member of formal dedication and reception took place may be contacted at 8060 East Corte de la Parliament Bernard Trottier (Etobicoke-Lakeshore, Ontario). at the residence of the honorary consul. Familia, Tucson AZ 85750 or by phone at The formal signing and exchange of doc- 520-298-0507 or 520-404-1948 (cell). 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 No. 13 UWC leader meets with U.S. Congressmen UWC president discusses Ukraine’s and the Ukrainian community in Chicago democratization with U.S. officials WASHINGTON – On March 6-7, during a Democracy, Human Rights and Labor; Lyn working visit to the U.S. capital, Ukrainian Debevoise, Director for Eastern European World Congress (UWC) President Eugene Affairs, National Security at The White Czolij discussed with high-ranking U.S. offi- House; officials from the U.S. Senate cials, diplomats of various countries and Foreign Relations Committee and the representatives of American analytical House of Representatives Foreign Affairs institutions the issues of Ukraine’s democ- Committee; John Herbst, former U.S. ratization and Europeanization, under- ambassador to Ukraine; and the Ukrainian, scoring their importance to Kyiv as well as Lithuanian and Polish ambassadors to the to the strategic interests of both Europe U.S., respectively, Olexsander Motsyk, and the United States. Zygimantas Pavilionis and Ryszard In that respect, the UWC president Schnepf. emphasized that the European Union During his meeting with Ambassador Association Agreement would provide a Motsyk, Mr. Czolij expressed his concern stimulus for democratic, social and eco- over the March 6 decision that strippped nomic progress in Ukraine. At the same opposition National Deputy Serhiy time, it would prevent Ukraine from being Vlasenko (Batkivshchyna) of his parlia- pulled into the Russia-dominated Customs mentary seat, a move that further distanc- and Eurasian Unions which pose the threat es Ukraine from the Euro-integration pro- UWC of creating a new . cess. Mr. Czolij emphasized that “such During a meeting in Chicago with the president of the Ukrainian World Congress Mr. Czolij noted that in December 2012 actions threaten the signing of the (from left) are: Alex Striltschuk, Paul Bandriwsky, Julian Kulas, UWC President U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stat- EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and Eugene Czolij, Rep. Danny Davis, Bohdan Watral, Rep. Mike Quigley, Marta Farion ed, “we are trying to figure out effective that Ukraine’s governing authorities will and Steve Demitro. ways to slow down or prevent it [a new have to answer for this to the Ukrainian CHICAGO – Ukrainian World Congress Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union, Soviet Union].” Taking into account these people.” President Eugene Czolij met with U.S. Bohdan Watral; the president of the Kyiv words, he called upon high-ranking U.S. While in Washington, Mr. Czolij gave an Congressmen Danny Davis and Mike Mohyla Foundation of America, Marta officials to use all available means of influ- interview to Voice of America and deliv- Quigleyon March 10 in Chicago to discuss Farion; and an executive board member of ence to ensure that Ukraine’s governing ered greetings to participants of a commu- the issues of Ukraine’s Eurointegration and the Ukrainian National Museum, Steve authorities revert, as quickly as possible, to nity gathering at the Embassy of Ukraine democratization. Demitro. democratic governance so as to enable the commemorating Taras Shevchenko. Joining the UWC president in the meet- Mr. Czolij noted that in December 2012 signing of the EU-Ukraine Association The visit was organized by the ings were Ukrainian community leaders: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had stat- Agreement. Ukrainian National Information Service, the president of the Ukrainian Congress ed that the U.S. was making an effort to pre- The UWC President discussed these which is directed by Michael Sawkiw. Committee of America (UCCA), Illinois vent Russia’s attempt to pull Ukraine into issues with Rep. Gerlach, co-chair of the The UWC is the international coordinat- Division, Alex Striltschuk; the vice-presi- the Customs and Eurasian unions and cre- Congressional Ukrainian Caucus; Baxter ing body for Ukrainian communities in the dent of the Illinois UCCA, Paul Bandriwsky; ate a new Soviet Union. He emphasized Hunt, U.S. Department of State director for diaspora representing the interests of over the chairman of the Heritage Foundation of that the serious threat to “re-Sovietize the Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus affairs; 20 million Ukrainians. The UWC has mem- First Security Federal Savings Bank, Julian Michael Uyehara, U.S. Department of State, ber organizations in 33 countries and ties Kulas; the president/CEO of Selfreliance (Continued on page 10) director, European Affairs, Bureau of with Ukrainians in 14 additional countries.

Opitz is new chair of Canada Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group OTTAWA – Member of Parliament Ted Opitz was elected to be a strong advocate for the interests of our community.” members of Parliament: James Bezan (Selkirk-Interlake, as the new chairman of the Canada Ukraine Parliamentary Mr. Opitz commented: “I am honored to represent Manitoba) – vice-chair; Peggy Nash (Parkdale-High Park, Friendship Group (CUPFG) at a meeting held March 4 on Canada and Ukrainian Canadians as the chair of the Ontario) – vice-chair; Kevin Lamoureux (Winnipeg North, Parliament Hill. Canada Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group,” adding, Manitoba) – vice-chair; Mark Warawa (Langley, British The Ukrainian Canadian Congress congratulated the MP “In the upcoming year, I am committed to strengthening Columbia) – treasurer; Mr. Sopuck (Dauphin-Swann River- on his election. “We are pleased to congratulate Mr. Opitz Canada and Ukraine’s close bilateral relationship, while Marquette, Manitoba) – secretary; and Linda Duncan on his election as chair of the Canada Ukraine working towards establishing even stronger relations with (Edmonton East, Alberta), Ed Komarnicki (Souris-Moose Parliamentary Friendship Group and indeed the entire Canadians of Ukrainian heritage across Canada.” Mountain, Saskatchewan), Alexandrine Latendresse (Louis newly elected executive of the parliamentary group,” stated Mr. Opitz, who is from the riding of Etobicoke Center in Saint-Laurent, Quebec), Wladyslaw Lizon (Mississauga-East UCC President Paul Grod. “Ted is well-known in our com- Ontario, replaces Robert Sopuck as CUPFG chair. Cooksville, Ontario) and Joy Smith (Kildonan-St. Paul, munity, representing a riding with a significant number of The newly elected executive of the Canada Ukraine Manitoba) – directors. Sen. Raynell Andreychuk also serves Ukrainian Canadians, and we believe that he will continue Parliamentary Friendship Group also includes the following as a vice-chair of the CUPFG.

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Oleh Karawan Inverness, IL Stefan Kyrylenko Beloit, WI No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 5 Kramarczuk’s Deli receives James Beard Foundation American Classics Award PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ukrainian-owned Kramarczuk’s Deli in Minneapolis is one of five recipients of the James Beard Foundation’s 2013 American Classics Award, which “is given to restaurants that have a timeless appeal and are beloved for quality food that reflects the character of their community.” The award, sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company, was announced by the James Beard Foundation in a press state- ment on February 28, with an official ceremony that is scheduled for May 6 at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in New York. “The America’s Classics Awards are always a highlight of the ceremony,” stated Susan Ungaro, president of the James Beard Foundation, in the statement. “Our honorees come from all walks of life. We have the privilege of hearing their unique stories, which celebrate the great variety and authen- Kramarczuk’s Deli in Minneapolis. tic flavors of America’s culinary scene. These local hang-outs, Ukrainian offerings, as listed on Kramarczuk’s website, of immigrant populations of Chinese, Italians and Ukrainians neighborhood diners and family restaurants truly bring com- include kishka, fresh Ukrainian, regular Ukrainian and – and their food to the area, it is nice to see Ukrainian food munities together, a concept James Beard would have loved.” Ukrainian short sausages. And save room for dessert, with a take its place and be recognized by the mainstream.” In com- Ukrainian favorites include holubtsi in a tomato cream recent expansion of their offerings of tortes, cakes, cream paring U.S. and Canada, for Ukrainian food, Mr. Kramarczuk sauce, varenyky with potato and cheese, kapusta, fresh sal- puffs, babka, makivnyk and kolaches filled with cheese, noted that the competition in the U.S. is more fierce than in ads, nalysnyky with an assortment of fillings, and pyrizhky prunes, apricots or poppyseeds. Canada, and also credits the myriad food-related television filled with hard-cooked eggs, mushrooms and seasoned Kramarczuk’s was founded in 1954 when Ukrainian refu- programs, travel shows and internet sites related to food, ground beef. Of course, there are the sausages – an ever- gees Wasyl and Anna Kramarczuk, who were members of which in the last 10 years have really exploded. changing house selection of expertly made kovbasa, brat- the Ukrainian National Association, purchased Central Founded in 1986, the James Beard Foundation has wurst and wieners, more than 40 varieties. Provisions, one of the city’s oldest butcher shops, and bestowed the “America’s Classics” name on 84 restaurants renamed it the Kramarczuk Sausage Company. Since 1967 since it launched the award in 1998. To qualify for the award, the landmark sausage-making company and restaurant has establishments must have been in existence for at least 10 remained at the same address (215 East Hennepin Ave.), just years and be locally owned. The honorees are selected each across the Mississippi River from downtown Minneapolis. year by the foundation’s restaurant committee, many of Wasyl and Anna’s son, Orest, joined the business in 1979, whose members are food critics and culinary writers. A pub- and he has been the primary owner after his parents passed lic call for entries is also held by the foundation, allowing the away – his father in 1991 and his mother in 2008. public the opportunity to offer suggestions about which res- For many immigrants to the area, Kramarczuk’s was taurants they think should win. their first job in the United States. The deli, which closely Other recipients of the 2013 America’s Classics Award resembles a cafeteria, with polite mostly Ukrainian young include Frank Fat’s of Sacramento; Prince’s Hot Chicken women working behind the counter, serves fresh-made Shack of Nashville; C.F. Folks of Washington; and Keens sandwiches on fresh rye and caraway rye breads. Steakhouse of New York City. Mr. Kramarczuk, the current owner of the deli, told The Kramarczuk’s, located at 215 East Hennepin Ave., Traditional Ukrainian offerings found at Kramarczuk’s Weekly, “Kramarczuk’s has been in business for more than Minneapolis, MN 55414, also offers online ordering at Deli in Minneapolis. 60 years, and coming from immigrant parents, and the influx www.kramarczuk.com or via telephone, 612-379-3018. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 No. 13

The Ukrainian Weekly Canada on Ukraine’s future On March 26, Sen. Raynell Andreychuk of Canada, head of that country’s indepen- dent election observation mission – which comprised 422 short-term and 65 long- term observers – for the 2012 parliamentary elections in Ukraine, presented the mis- sion’s final report to the Canadian prime minister. (The final report had been held up because the voting results in five electoral districts were not declared due to the high Yanukovych difficult to beat, number of irregularities; by-elections have now been authorized in those districts, but their date has not yet been established.) even with Klitschko in the ring As had been noted in Mission Canada’s prior reports, and underscored yet again by Sen. Andreychuk, “In past elections Ukraine met international standards, yet it fell KYIV – Typically, it would be a bit early to failed to muster a majority to approve elec- short of doing so in 2012.” The final report noted serious shortcomings in the elector- start discussing the 2015 presidential elec- tions for the (due in June al environment and conduct of the vote. Among them were: the imprisonment of tions for Ukraine, with 23 months left until 2012) and the Kyiv City Council chair (due leading opposition figures and challengers; structural advantages and use of admin- that date. this coming June). Instead, they’re going to But of course, we’ve got a gangster as istrative resources by the governing party; uneven and unfair application of electoral wait for a Constitutional Court ruling, which president. So it’s not too early to start pon- law; lack of effective recourse and appeal for perceived electoral injustices; question- will likely set the Kyiv elections for October dering other options. In my view, an experi- able delineation of electoral districts; insufficient financial reporting requirements to 2015. enced business executive would make a Let’s say it does come to a Yanukovych- track the flow of money in campaigns; lack of transparency in election administra- good candidate as president, running Klitschko showdown in 2015. I am not con- tion, governance and operations; harassment of opposition candidates and media; Ukraine like an efficient business, simplify- vinced that enough Ukrainians will revolt to and irregularities during the vote count and tabulation process. (The complete ing its tax system, firing all the useless throw Mr. Yanukovych out of office. Mr. report may be read at www.canademmissions.ca/ukraine.) bureaucrats, attracting foreign investment Klitschko is awfully reminiscent of former The final report also listed 19 specific recommendations to improve Ukraine’s and getting a handle on corruption. President . electoral system for future elections. “The people of Ukraine cherish democracy,” Sen. But we live in the television age, in which Sure, there are some differences. Mr. Andreychuk commented. Pointing to the work of volunteers and grassroots workers someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger can Klitschko earned his millions honestly, of various parties at polling stations on election day, she said: “The people them- become governor of California. He more while there’s quite a bit of evidence (e.g., selves stepped up – but they were let down by individuals in positions of authority, than tripled the state debt during his eight- lavish building projects) to suggest that Mr. and the progressive erosion of administrative transparency, rule of law and media year term, leaving office with a $24 billion Yushchenko did quite a bit of stealing (alleg- freedom.” The senator added that she expected to have follow-up conversations with state budget deficit. But these kinds of num- edly) to amass his millions. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his ministers of foreign affairs and international bers are often a nuisance to voters. In this sense, Mr. Klitschko can be consid- cooperation. Now we’ve got a boxer who has emerged ered a legitimate businessman. The A few weeks earlier, Canada’s Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and as the main contender to manage the ’ wealth was estimated at Multiculturalism Jason Kenney traveled to Ukraine on a four-day visit “underscoring Ukrainian government’s finances. And, $55 million in 2011 in the annual survey the deep relationship between Canada and Ukraine.” He went to the Kyiv and Lviv according to polls, he has a better chance to conducted by magazine. areas, met with Ukrainian citizens and leaders, and emphasized to Ukrainian govern- defeat President Viktor Yanukovych than Unlike Mr. Yushchenko, Mr. Klitschko ment officials and national deputies “the need for ongoing democratic reform.” He imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia spent extensive time working in the West, expressed Canada’s deep concern about “selective justice, including the ongoing Tymoshenko and former Verkhovna Rada learning Western principles of governance, imprisonment of opposition leaders.” Chair . business and culture. Unlike Mr. “More than 1.3 million Canadians of Ukrainian descent have played an important But to me, the main question for the Yushchenko, Mr. Klitschko speaks English role in building our prosperous society. They have also been instrumental in foster- 2015 presidential vote isn’t so much wheth- and German. ing the close relationship that exists between Canada and Ukraine,” commented er any candidate has more popularity than But the similarities are just as striking. Minister Kenney. His visit demonstrated Canada’s profound interest and that of its Mr. Yanukovych. The real question is wheth- Mr. Klitschko is extremely comfortable with citizens in the future course of Ukraine. er the opposition candidate has enough the oligarchs. He has at least a half-dozen True friends speak the truth to each other. And Canada, which became the second trust and support among the public to draw deputies with close ties to billionaire country after Poland and the first Western country to recognize independent Ukraine hundreds of thousands into the streets Dmytro Firtash in his own parliamentary in 1991 – acting a day after Ukraine’s citizens voted overwhelmingly for indepen- when the attempt inevitably comes by Mr. faction, and reported dence in the December 1 nationwide referendum – continues to be one of Ukraine’s Yanukovych to avoid ceding the presidency. that Mr. Klitschko met with Presidential staunchest supporters. The recent pronouncements and actions of Canada’s officials Of course, it might not even get to that Administration Chair Serhiy Lyovochkin in are concrete proof of that. point. Numerous exit strategies and detours Florida this past winter, when both their are being set up to avoid a second round in families happened to be vacationing there the 2015 election. at the same time. Oleksander Danyliuk, a leading Kyiv civic Maintaining working relations with activist, pointed out that the Cabinet of Ukraine’s oligarchs is good, but it shouldn’t April Turning the pages back... Ministers and the Central Election go beyond business. Commission have issued numerous resolu- Mr. Klitschko, like Mr. Yushchenko, likes Seventeen years ago, on April 2, 1996, Belarus and Russia tions this year, laying the groundwork for to talk a lot about European integration, but 2 signed a “Treaty on Forming a Union of Sovereign Republics” in holding referenda on any given issue. he doesn’t seem to have the strength of Moscow. The signing by President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, in vio- The Constitution could be amended to character to undertake the painful reforms 1996 lation of the Belarusian Constitution, was his latest move to con- shift the presidential election from a popu- necessary to bring Ukrainian institutions solidate his authority over opposition groups and independent lar vote to the Parliament. The second into line with European standards. media centers, effectively killing the independence of Belarus. round of voting could be canceled to make Moreover, I’m not convinced that Mr. Following the signing, the presidents of the respective countries declared that date as a the first round determine the president. Klitschko has the fortitude to resist Russian day of popular unity that would be marked as a public holiday. Kazakhstan and The president’s term could be extended pressure. expressed interest in joining the union soon after the signing of the treaty between Russia beyond five years. I wish that someone had warned the and Belarus. Prior to the signing of the treaty, the Russian Duma declared the dissolution Even though the majority of the popula- public about Mr. Yushchenko leading up to of the Soviet Union illegal. tion is against such measures, the referenda his 2004 presidential candidacy – that he As a founding member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Belarus results can easily be falsified with minimal was a Communist Party member and that hosted the meeting of Slavic states that formed the CIS in December 1991. In 1993 the resistance, as demonstrated with the 2012 he was directly involved in independent Belarusian Parliament, at the recommendation of the powerful Communists, approved a parliamentary vote. Or Parliament can vote Ukraine’s first major corruption scandal in motion on the formation of a military and security union with Russia. This decision was such measures into law. December 1991, which was far from his strongly opposed by Stanislau Shukhevich, speaker of the Belarusian Parliament, the The Yanukovych administration will do last. Belarusian Popular Front (BPF) and other opposition deputies. everything possible to ensure that it never It was his vice prime minister, Yulia Belarus signed a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with Russia in February 1995, comes to a second round against Mr. Tymoshenko, who found the funds in 2000 following a failed currency union between the two states, and signaled Belarus’ inability to Klitschko. Recent polls showed that Mr. that helped him repay debts and owed sala- manage rising debt from the import of energy supplies from Russia. Klitschko would have too large an advan- ries that boosted his popularity. Someone The 1996 treaty created a Supreme Council (Soviet) as the major organization, com- tage over Mr. Yanukovych to falsify. should have warned that he had a history of posed of high-ranking officials from each country. Mr. Lukashenka chaired the Supreme Meanwhile, the Yanukovych administra- bailing on his closest political associates Council, while Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin headed the Executive tion is not the least bit intimidated by a when they needed him most. I would have Committee; a third body was the parliamentary assembly. The three bodies were respon- showdown with Mr. Yatsenyuk, which it not placed so much faith and trust in him. sible for coordinating economic policy and reforms, including taxation, energy, ownership could falsify fairly convincingly, or with the So, let me be the among the first to warn of property and agriculture. radical Oleh Tiahnybok, who would be the the public that although he would certainly The same day the treaty was signed, 20,000 demonstrators of the BPF took to the ideal sparring partner. be the lesser of two evils, Mr. Klitschko has streets of to protest the union. They were led by Zyanon Paznyak, who had become And, there’s nothing that can force the yet to prove that he will change much as a target for the Lukashenka government. Previously, Mr. Paznyak had traveled to Kyiv to Yanukovych administration to hold an elec- president. All that he’s proven so far is that appeal to the people of Ukraine and to publicize the Belarusian situation. tion it doesn’t want. The election for he’s not Mr. Yanukovych and that simply Chernivtsi City Council chair is three years isn’t enough so far to bring hundreds of Source: “The new union signed by Russia and Belarus,” by David Marples, The Ukrainian overdue because its results are undesired. thousands to the streets of Kyiv to risk their Weekly, April 21, 1996. Just on March 21, the Kyiv City Council lives for him. No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR From a Canadian Angle DP camp life near Nuremberg by Oksana Bashuk Hepburn

Canada’s minister misses the mark Following the European Union-Ukraine setting Ukraine on a European path. Summit in Brussels, which was designed Canada needs to take its cue from inter- to move President Viktor Yanukovych to national counterparts with greater politi- accept Europe’s integration requirements, cal experience and clearer thinking than Canada’s minister of citizenship and immi- some have offered. The situation in gration paid a four-day visit to Ukraine. Ukraine is very dangerous, and worsening. Minister Jason Kenney called it successful. Despite assurances to address EU Roman IInytsky But was it? demands, the rule of law continues to be His post-visit teleconference failed to ignored. As if to make the point about who Members of the Ukrainian Youth Association in a 1947 photo from Nuremberg assure that Canada had done all to move is boss, the Yanukovych-controlled Dear Editor: Association. The UYA included a soccer Ukraine’s leader in the right direction. Verkhovna Rada made a dastardly deci- team named Chaika (Seagull), a reference EU’s key priority – the fate of incarcerated sion the very next day. Thumbing its nose As a devoted reader of The Ukrainian to the famous oceangoing vessels of the at Canada’s new civic society development Weekly allow me to add another name to opposition politicians Yulia Tymoshenko Kozaks used in battle against the mighty programs announced by Minister Kenney the list of DP camps in post-war Germany. and Yurii Lutsenko – seemed like a side Turkish fleet to free Ukrainian slaves. – e.g., judicial reforms, media training – it Its name was “Congress” and it was located issue to what the minister appeared eager Among the camp’s former inhabitants in a suburb (Ziegelstein) of Nuremberg, in to pursue in Ukraine. stripped Serhiy Vlasenko of his parliamen- were people who later on in life played a pine forest. It seems that someone failed to brief tary seat. important parts in Ukrainian life in the free This Ukrainian camp had about 600 the minister properly. As important as the Mr. Vlasenko is Ms. Tymoshenko’s feisty world – like Yaroslav Bilak (Ukrainian inhabitants, beginning in 1945-1946, but Holodomor and the Holocaust are, neither lawyer – a major thorn in the side of the National Federation, or UNO, Canada) and then in 1948 they were resettled. Among must replace today’s urgent concerns for regime. His removal is illegal as he has Volodymyr Bilayiv (poet, political activist its “assets” was a well-functioning adminis- Ukraine. The minister’s agenda – visiting taken no payment for his services. and Voice of America Ukrainian Section tration (Stepan Pokora – chairman), to genocide sites and devoting time to Opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk was editor.) Ukrainian school, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic “reconciliation” of Ukrainians of some quick to call it the “systematic destruction and Ukrainian Orthodox churches and 60 Wolodymyr Kusyk faiths – missed that mark. Ukraine’s of the opposition” and, with other opposi- active members of the Ukrainian Youth Bartlett, III. immediate concern is the choice between tion leaders, announced a national “revo- European integration or Russia-style dic- lution.” tatorship. The EU choice has precondi- President Yanukovych has been given objective. Once a member nation finds tions: it requires President Yanukovych to until May to make his choice. It is impor- itself in that trap, it has very little chance of tant for Canada, as one of Ukraine’s closest A conspicuous checking out of it freely. It faces too many stop selective justice, resolve lingering election fraud and pursue other reforms. friends, to use its influence yet again. obstacles, too many severe and punitive Ottawa must talk to Ukraine’s ambassador conspiracy? measures, such as austerity, not to mention Getting Ukraine to meet EU require- and, if need be, to President Yanukovych Dear Editor: economic sanctions and isolation, and even ments must be the main objective of all to warn him that any further illegal acts, threats of military intervention. In a way, democrats. But some are muddling this. arrests or any “unfortunate accidents” – Former French President Valery Giscard each member nation in the long run finds Assuming the president will not honor the d’Estaing, remarked once that his greatest itself in a kind of a mousetrap from which it demands, they support the appeasement like the one Sergei Magnitsky encountered dream is to see Europeans subsume their can hardly escape. option: admit Ukraine into Europe with- in a Russian prison cell – involving opposi- national identities, so that a woman from It appears that the noble intentions of out having it meet the key precondition of tion politicians will be viewed with great Italy might say some day: “I am a European the European Union’s founders, who want- freeing imprisoned opposition leaders. suspicion. And, Ottawa must work harder from Italy, not an Italian.” That statement by ed to eliminate future wars and confronta- with like-minded friends, such as the former president of makes it This position has baffled many Ukraine- tions among the nations of Europe, have Washington, to influence Ukraine’s presi- clear that the present leadership of the watchers for some time. However, follow- been corrupted to the extent that their dent to make the right choice or else there European Union has accepted this concept ing discussions with prominent EU lead- noble endeavor (as it appeared to be at will be no free trade agreements with the and at the first glimpse appears to be follow- ers, the Ukrainian World Congress put the first), instead of fulfilling their dream, has EU or Canada, and likely not with the U.S. ing in his footsteps, moving toward the freedom of Ms. Tymoshenko and Mr. opened up a “Pandora’s box” for the rich There is little doubt that President same objective: a single European entity Lutsenko at the forefront of its latest state- and powerful few in the process of estab- Yanukovych is using the EU negotiations called a “European Union.” ment. to extract favorable conditions from Everything would be running smoothly lishing for themselves an empire that mar- As much as one might wish to see and well if it wasn’t for some conspicuous ginalizes the poorer nations and is at odds Ukraine in Europe’s free trade zone, there Russia. And Russia, keen to keep Ukraine “ifs and buts” that give most nations bad with the Christian values and the tradition- is little chance of that happening should in its sphere of influence, is making attrac- headaches. al fabric of European nations. requirements go unmet. The key tactic for tive offers. However, Mr. Yanukovych While some of those goals, at least on Lubomyr Pawlowych those keen to keep Ukraine away from knows the size of the markets of the EU the surface, seem to have been achieved Union, N.J. Russia – used by the EU, the United States and the free world is huge compared to and others appear to be in the process of and others – is clear: if Mr. Yanukovych that of Russia. If Mr. Yanukovych wants in, making headway, there are some that give and his oligarchs want access to the $5 bil- he must honor Kyiv’s commitments. European nations sleepless nights – such lion European market, they must operate Ottawa and others need to persuade him as control of each nation’s financial sys- Ukraine’s Vogue: within the law and release the opposition to do so. tems and transactions, uniform taxation leaders. Further discussions about the policies, open and unprotected boundaries, in Russian! ultimate fate of Ukraine outside the EU are Oksana Bashuk Hepburn may be con- introduction of centralized educational sys- premature and draw attention away from tacted at [email protected]. tems that reflect materialistic, hideous and Dear Editor: morally unacceptable values for each mem- That was an interesting article in the ber nation’s Christian traditions. March 3 edition of The Ukrainian Weekly Perhaps most notably of all, there are regarding the launch of the Ukraine edition of MUST READ attempts to silence the voice of each mem- Vogue. It was rather disturbing, however, to ber nation in the sphere of its internal and read that the Ukraine edition is in Russian! “Dmytro Firtash Launches New Opaque Gas Intermediary” (Eurasia Daily international politics – which by all indica- This is truly disrespectful of the country. Monitor, March 25), Taras Kuzio (Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Visiting Fellow tions smells of a new world order of some- Also interesting is the fact that, in con- at the• In Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, one’s imagination and to someone’s liking. trast, the newly launched Ukraine edition John Hopkins University, in Washington) writes about Dmytro Firtash’s latest ven- A kind of a 1984 scenario? In other words of National Geographic is in Ukrainian. It ture: his third gas intermediary company, called OstChem Gas Trading AG. The ana- make every member nation prostrate itself would be good to support that. lyst describes OstChem as “the latest example of high-level gas corruption in under the whips and wills of a rich and It would be informative to have an arti- powerful few – allow the few to decide Ukraine” and Mr. Firtash as a member of “Ukraine’s pro-Russian ‘gas lobby.’ ” Dr cle in The Weekly interviewing those who Kuzio also notes: “ Firtash’s investment in [Viktor] Yanukovych’s 2010 election cam- each member nation’s future. made language decisions regarding these Unfortunately, when it comes to attract- paign paid dividends and his business empire doubled in size in 2010–2012 while two Ukraine publications. his capital assets ‘grew at a fantastic rate’ by 540 percent. Within a year of ing nations to follow them in the pursuit of If anyone would like to comment to their conspicuous scheme, the powerful Yanukovych’s election, Firtash’s fortune soared from $354 million to $2.25 billion Vogue on its Ukraine edition, the contact few are the masters. By preaching peace, (Korrespondent, November 11, 2011).” See http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_ e-address is [email protected]. democracy, economic and social justice, cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=40641&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash and equality, they have a way to lure every Irena Bell =fcba5884c6997d44bc844ad1c3a90aa2. nation into a trap and attain their hideous Ottawa 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 No. 13 U.S. immigration reform in 2013: Time to get organized? If you or someone you know is an immi- Of course it is dangerous for anybody 5. Children brought here illegally do not know how much it will cost to actu- grant in the United States without lawful doing anything illegal in the United States through no fault of their own by their par- ally file an application. status, the following information is impor- to reveal that fact since they can be arrest- ents will be eligible for earned citizenship. For right now, however, all we want to tant to read. Andriy Semotiuk is a U.S. and ed. What is more, as the question implies, By going to college or serving honorably in do is to help clients get organized by pro- Canadian immigration attorney who has in the case of illegal immigrants, they can the U.S. armed forces for at least two years, viding a limited service for a program that been practicing immigration law for over 20 not only be arrested, but they can be these children will be given an expedited may, or may not, be adopted. In the process years and who has helped over 10,000 cli- deported. opportunity to earn their citizenship. we will review their current immigration ents with legal problems. He is licensed to However, it is important for illegal immi- 6. As under current law, five years after options and keep clients posted on practice in both New York and in California grants to understand that if they are in the receiving a green card, individuals will be reforms. Our fee for that service is $300. in the United States and has an office in Los United States they have the right to an eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship like There will be no further fees for this ser- Angeles as well as in Toronto, Canada. attorney guaranteed by U.S. constitutional every other legal permanent resident. vice. In the Q & A below, Mr. Semotiuk discuss- law. Furthermore, according to fundamen- So what exact services are you offer- If immigration reform legislation is es the prospects for the adoption of a new tal U.S. law, anything they reveal to a U.S. ing clients? adopted, we will contact clients proposing immigration reform law to make it possible attorney is protected by the attorney-client a new legal services agreement to proceed for millions of illegal immigrants to gain U.S. privilege and can neither be revealed by At the moment our services include the with filing their application. At that time citizenship and comments on what can be that attorney to U.S. government officials, following: clients will be able to decide whether they expected from immigration reform. nor used by U.S. officials to deport the 1. Helping clients get their immigration would like us to represent them. At any Is the U.S. Congress about to pass an immigrant if that information is passed on profile organized by collecting relevant time clients are free to take their file and go immigration reform law? to them in violation of this privilege. information to support their future appli- elsewhere, or file their application by The point of all this is that illegal immi- cations. themselves. While no reform legislation has yet been grants are completely safe in seeking 2. Collecting copies of and organizing adopted, and at this time Congress is only advice from a U.S. immigration attorney documents for the future principal appli- Isn’t it too early and aren’t you being beginning that process, many U.S. immigra- and cannot be harmed by doing so, unlike cant, his or her spouse and any children. presumptuous to be charging illegal tion attorneys have the impression that when dealing with notaries or immigration 3. Reviewing their profile to determine if immigrants to collect information about this time a reform bill will be passed and consultants where no such privilege at this moment there are any U.S. immigra- a law that you cannot guarantee will be signed into law by President Barack Obama applies. tion options open to the family, such as passed? Are you not taking unfair because both Republicans and Democrats qualifying under previous U.S. amnesties or advantage of these vulnerable people? So what will be the requirements of have publicly declared they are committed by reason of a change of status. In addition, What if reform legislation is not passed? future reform legislation Congress is to achieve this goal. since I am also a Canadian immigration considering? Can you provide any It is true, there is no reform law that has attorney, reviewing the same material to What should an illegal immigrant do, details about what could be included? been passed as of now. To be clear, we are if anything, to prepare for this possibili- determine if the family is eligible for any not yet able to file any application on behalf President Obama, in his recent com- ty? Canadian immigration opportunities. of any illegal immigrant, nor do we even ments on the theme of immigration reform, I need to warn such illegal immigrants know what a reform program, if passed, Given this positive momentum, many outlined what he considered to be the that existing options for immigration to the will exactly require. However, based on our U.S. immigration attorneys believe it is essential features of the new legislation. U.S. or Canada are very few and in most previous experience with immigration appropriate to start collecting information Here are the basic points he made for ille- cases will not be helpful. Nonetheless, such reform measures passed previously by and copies of documents that any reformed gal immigrants in the United States to ben- reviews are an important part of prepara- Congress, we anticipate that any new pro- immigration program will likely require, efit from the pathway to citizenship: tions for a future immigration reform pro- gram will require the same sort of basic such as identity documents and write-ups 1. Undocumented immigrants will have gram. about how the immigrants came to the to come forward and register, submit bio- materials. I am, therefore, helping these What does the client specifically get United States. metric data, pass criminal background and people, based on a limited retainer agree- as a result of retaining you? ment, to prepare their case by collecting Are you helping immigrants unlaw- national security checks, and pay fees and what I think is likely to be needed by them. fully present in the United States in this penalties before they will be eligible for a Apart from the organization of the cli- regard? provisional legal status. ent’s immigration case and documentation Even if reform legislation is not passed 2. Individuals will have to wait until the as mentioned, we will provide the client now, in view of the fact that there are some Yes, I have started to collect such infor- existing legal immigration backlogs are with a checklist from our office indicating 12 million undocumented immigrants in mation from immigrants in the United cleared before getting in line to apply for what we have reviewed and what current the U.S., it is just a matter of time. My view States to help those individuals who want lawful permanent residency (i.e. a “green immigration options, if any, the client has, is that it is better to get everything orga- to benefit from a future immigration card”), and ultimately U.S. citizenship. either in the United States or Canada. nized and prepared now, even if reform is reform law so that they can be ready once 3. People with provisional legal status Finally, we will hold the file open in our delayed. 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between Rome and Moscow than is the the question of “how the new pope of church art when the Orthodox needed New pope... clear contrast between the commitment of Rome will relate to the Orthodox” (nsad. them. (For more detail on this, see russian- Francis to fighting ostentation and helping ru/articles/kak-novyj-papa-rimskij-otnos- orthodoxchurch.ws/synod/documents/ (Continued from page 2) the poor, and the way in which Kirill has itsya-k-pravoslavnym). art_bpjohnsadiocese.html.) America,” because he concluded that it had promoted luxury in the Russian hierarchy It cites the comment of Bishop Ioann of For the Moscow Patriarchate in general and close ties with the Kremlin “sometimes Caracas and South America concerning his and Kirill in particular, establishing com- absorbed too many elements from against the interests of [his] flock.” relations with Francis before he was elect- munion with and ultimately the absorption Marxism. On that point, at least, the pope ‘There is every reason to think that the ed pope. When he was still an archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, and the patriarch probably agree. values of Pope Francis do not correspond and a cardinal in Argentina, Bishop Ioann these past actions of the new pope, the But the real obstacle to a rapproche- to all this “Gospel of wealth” that Kirill has observes, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was Neskuchny Sad commentary says, “speak ment of the two church leaders – and pushed, Soldatov concludes, and every rea- extremely helpful to the Russian Orthodox to the willingness of the new pontificate to something that almost certainly precludes son to believe that his example will repre- Church Abroad, especially after that Church engage in dialogue with the Russian any meeting between the two anytime sent the kind of challenge that Kirill in par- decided to establish communion with the Orthodox Church.” soon, the Portal-Credo commentator sug- ticular will resent and oppose. Moscow Patriarchate. The weekly then adds that “a number of gests – is the positive feelings of the new Pope Francis may not represent the Not only did Archbishop Bergoglio help experts on the Vatican say that the new pope to the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic frontal attack against the Russian Church to overcome divides between the hierarchy pope will not support proselytism in tradi- Church (UGCC). that many of the hierarchs of the latter saw of the ROC Abroad and the leaders of many tionally Orthodox countries but will turn Archbishop Shevchuk of the UGCC says in John Paul II, who was invariably of its congregations who objected to ties his primary attention to the growth of the the new pope was educated by one of the described by Moscow as “the Polish pope,” with Moscow, Bishop Ioann says, but he Catholic Church in the developing coun- Greek-Catholic leaders, knows the liturgy but the new pontiff does represent – as also helped smooth the way for the regis- tries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia.” of the Greek-Catholic Church, is informed other Russian commentators have tration of the hierarchy with the Such predictions may reflect more the by its spirituality and will, beyond any observed – “a breath of fresh air” for Argentinian government. hopes of their authors than anything else, doubt, “be concerned” about a Church that church life not only in the West but in According to Bishop Ioann, “Cardinal but they and the other observations by the Moscow Patriarchate in general and Russia as well. Jorge Mario Bergoglio displayed great Neskuchny Sad suggest that there may be Kirill in particular view as a threat to their A somewhat more hopeful reading of interest in Orthodoxy,” visiting “all the main some basis for cooperation between the dominance. the new pope, at least from the perspective holiday services in the cathedrals of the new leader of the Vatican and Kirill in limit- But, in some ways, even this relationship of the Russian Church, is offered by a com- Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian ed areas, even if they approach their pasto- of the new pope to the Ukrainians is of less mentary in the Orthodox publication Orthodox Church Abroad in Buenos Aires” ral responsibilities in such contrasting moment with regard to the relationship Neskuchny Sad, which directly addresses and providing facilities for the display of ways. No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 9

much fuller understanding of how our WFUWO... international network of Ukrainian wom- en’s groups belongs among an increasingly YWCA of Bethlehem staff and volunteers (Continued from page 1) sophisticated network of women’s group and Yana Boiko, Consul General of Ukraine worldwide. I am pleased to have been here attend U.N. workshop sponsored by WFUWO in New York Igor Sybiga as well as mem- to mark the 20th anniversary of our organi- bers of Ukraine’s delegation to the CSW zation’s representation at the United that included government representatives Nations. And on the eve of our 65th anni- and representatives of Ukrainian non-gov- versary, which WFUWO will celebrate in ernmental organizations. October, it is important for us to take pride During her introduction, Mrs. Sushko and recognize our accomplishments in per- presented the ambassador with the publi- sistently pressing forth to uphold the inter- cation prepared for the WFUWO’s 10th ests and dignity of Ukrainian women and, congress held in 2012, which highlights the therefore, of Ukraine – within this interna- organization’s activities during the past five tional arena.” years, including the WFUWO’s work at the Besides the WFUWO president the United Nations, as well as the most recent WFUWO delegation to the CSW included edition of the organization’s magazine, UNWLA President Zajac; former UNWLA Ukrainian Woman in the World. President Anna Krawchuk; Lida Bilous, a Every year for the past several years, member of the board of directors of both WFUWO’s U.N. representatives have orga- the UNWLA and WFUWO; UNWLA board nized a panel that coincides with the CSW members Sophia Hewryk and Ulana theme. This year’s panel, titled “When Will Zinych; as well as WFUWO U.N. representa- the Violence against Women and Girls tives Mrs. Shmigel, Dr. Kebalo, Dr. Daria Stop? Global Solutions” was held during the Dykyj, Dr. Larysa Dyrszka, Sofika Zielyk, afternoon on March 8. The meeting room Irene Jarosewich, Natalia Sonevytsky and Staff and volunteers of the YWCA of Bethlehem at the United Nations on March 8 for was packed with well over 100 attendees Tamara Parubchenko. the presentation “When Will the Violence Against Women and Girls Stop? – Global listening to presenter Dr. Martha Members of the official delegation from Solutions”: (back row, from left) Rehman Azhar, presenter; Irene Jarosewich, main Kichorowska Kebalo speak on the topic Ukraine included three national deputies representative of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations to the “Mobilizing Outrage: Joining Forces to who were members of the Verkhovna Rada U.N. Department of Public Information; Michelle Chrin, vice-president, YWCA of Combat Gender Violence in Ukraine” and Committee on Human Rights, National Bethlehem board of directors; Kim Capers, YWCA volunteer and supporter; Stephanie Hnatiw, executive director of the YWCA of Bethlehem; (front row) Martha Minorities and International Relations: human rights attorney and Pakistani Kichorowska Kebalo, Ph.D., presenter; Kate Hughes, YWCA volunteer and supporter; broadcast journalist Rehman Azhar speak Chairman Valeriy Patskan, Deputy Chair and Dr. Janet Sigal, moderator. on the topic “Strategies to Convince Men in Iryna Lutsenko and consultant for inter- Developing Countries to Stop Sexual parliamentary relations, Julia Pachesiuk. BETHLEHEM, Pa. – YWCA of Bethlehem host panel about gender-based violence” Violence.” The panel was moderated by Dr. Also included in the official delegation Executive Director Stephanie Hnatiw and written by Irene Jarosewich. Janet Sigal, co-chair with WFUWO’s Nadia were Liudmyla Yakovlieva, chair, National volunteers visited the United Nations on The group participated in additional Shmigel of the U.N. NGO Committee on the Council of Women of Ukraine; Anna Friday, March 8, to participate in workshops at the United Nations, includ- Family, one of several U.N.-affiliated spon- Kalmatskaya, chair, Women’s Federation International Women’s Day programming ing a training workshop titled “Tools and sors of the event. for World Peace-Ukraine; Ella Lamakh, a including sessions presented by Martha Methods to Build Safer Communities and Prior to the official opening of the 57th longtime women’s rights activist and for- Kichorowska Kebalo titled “Mobilizing Cities for Women and Girls,” which was session, the WFUWO delegates attended a mer head of the Department of Family and Outrage: Women Reacting to Public and sponsored by the Huairou Commission reception on March 3 hosted by the Gender Policy of the Ministry of Family, Private Violence in Ukraine and and “Cultural Best Practices in Preventing International Council of Women (ICW), Youth and Sports; Dr. Valentyna Elsewhere” and Rehman Azhar, on and Eliminating Violence Against Women organized by the ICW’s U.N. representative, Bondarovska, executive director of the U.N.- “Strategies to Convince Men in Developing and Girls,” sponsored by the Women and Iryna Kurowyckyj, at the recently renovat- funded NGO in Ukraine, Rozrada, which Countries to Stop Sexual Violence.” Family Affairs Committee (WFAC) and the ed headquarters of the Ukrainian National focuses on assistance and counseling for Both these topics were sponsored by World Igbo Congress (WIC). Women’s League of America in New York women and children victims of domestic the World Federation of Ukrainian For more information on the YWCA of City. Several dozen women from around violence, as well as Olena Hvozdetska, Women’s Organizations (WFUWO) in a Bethlehem and its empowerment and the globe representing the executive of the director of programs; and Roman session titled “When Will Violence Against advocacy for girls and women readers ICW joined the WFUWO delegates for the Liubchenko from the Ukrainian Network of Women and Girls Stop? – Global may call 610-867-4669. Solutions.” Founded locally in 1927, the YWCA of evening. Mrs. Kurowyckyj and UNWLA People Living with HIV/AIDS. Ms. Hnatiw, who is of Ukrainian ances- Bethlehem celebrated its 85th anniversary President Marianna Zajac greeted both the Established in 1948 in Philadelphia by try, had rallied women to attend the event in 2012. The YWCA is dedicated to elimi- new WFUWO president on her first work- 10 women’s organizations, the World after reading a February 10 article in The nating racism, empowering women and ing visit to the United States, as well as a Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Ukrainian Weekly headlined “WFUWO, promoting peace, justice, freedom and member of the official delegation from Organizations is now based in Toronto and U.N. NGO Committee on the Family to co- dignity for all. Ukraine, Liudmyla Yakovlieva, who chairs unites 27 organizations from 17 countries the National Council of Women of Ukraine. found on four continents. Representing a Dr. Kebalo, recently appointed as the spectrum of women’s organizations pursu- WFUWO main representative to the U.N. ing civic, religious, cultural, educational, UCC congratulates Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), immigration and humanitarian goals, the gave a speech at the beginning of the eve- WFUWO reflects the activity of local on winning 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize ning recalling the work of the WFUWO’s Ukrainian communities worldwide, as well OTTAWA – The Ukrainian Canadian from Communism to Capitalism.” ECOSOC representatives during the past 20 as international networking through its Congress on March 27 congratulated Ms. Freeland was born in Peace River, years, extending special thanks to Nadia consultative status with U.N. ECOSOC and Ukrainian Canadian author Chrystia Alberta, where she attended Ukrainian Shmigel who has worked for more than a UNICEF, and its accreditation with U.S. Freeland on winning the 2013 Lionel school on Saturdays and the Ukrainian dozen years representing the interests of Department of Public Information (UNDPI). Gelber Prize for her book “Plutocrats: bilingual program, and was a member of Ukrainian women at the U.N. Although Mrs. At the core of WFUWO’s mission is sup- The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich Plast Ukrainian Youth Organization in Shmigel recently stepped down as the main porting the dignity and integrity of women and the Fall of Everyone Else.” Edmonton. She is a graduate of Harvard representative, she will continue her work in Ukraine and Ukrainian women in émigré “Chrystia Freeland is a proud Ukrainian University and was a Rhodes scholar. as a member of the WFUWO U.N. represen- communities by supporting adherence to Canadian who has made it on the interna- Ms. Freeland will be in Toronto to tation in the coming years. international standards of human rights, tional stage and is being recognized glob- receive her prize and deliver the annual “This has been a most invigorating visit raising public awareness of problems and ally for her tremendous contribution,” stat- Lionel Gelber Prize public lecture on for me,” WFUWO President Sushko com- violations, maintaining the Ukrainian lan- ed Ukrainian Canadian Congress National Monday, April 15, at the Vivian and David mented shortly before her return to guage and culture, cultivating awareness of President Paul Grod. “I would like to con- Campbell Conference Facility in the Munk Toronto on March 11, “and has given me a Ukrainian history, family and social tradi- gratulate Chrystia for being recognized for School of Global Affairs at the University tions, as well as supporting modern her work. We are grateful that Chrystia of Toronto. Irene Jarosewich is the WFUWO’s main Ukraine’s development into an indepen- continues to give back to her community, The Lionel Gelber Prize is a literary representative at the United Nations dent and stable democracy with respect for recently having participated in the Ukraine award for the world’s best non-fiction Department of Public Information (UNDPI). the rule of law. at the Crossroads Conference.” book in English on foreign affairs that Ms. Freeland is the digital editor at seeks to deepen public debate on signifi- Thomson Reuters, following years of ser- cant international issues. It was founded Check out the websites of the UNA, vice at the Financial Times, both in New in 1989 in the memory of Canadian dip- York and in . She was the deputy lomat Lionel Gelber (1907-1989). A prize its newspapers and Soyuzivka! editor of The Globe and Mail and has of $15,000 is awarded to the winner. The reported for the Financial Times, The award is presented annually by The l www.ukrainiannationalassociation.org l Economist and The Washington Post. She Lionel Gelber Foundation, in partnership currently lives in New York City. with Foreign Policy magazine and the l l l www.svoboda-news.com www.ukrweekly.com Ms. Freeland’s previous book was Munk School of Global Affairs at the l www.soyuzivka.com l “Sale of the Century: Russia’s Wild Ride University of Toronto. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 No. 13 Memorial soccer match spurs renaming of NY soccer tournament

Soccer players pose for a group shot prior to the Steven Howansky Memorial Soccer Match and Krylati Sports Club reunion at Tibbetts’s Field in Yonkers, N.Y.

YONKERS, N.Y. – More than 50 players The team of players from Ukraine was (Philadelphia), Levy (Stamford, announced that the EDSL had voted to and an additional 100-plus fans gathered on organized by Sergey Federov and Zenon Conn.), Ukrainian Sports Club (New York), rename the annual EDSL Cup in honor of March 10 at Tibbetts Brook Park in Yonkers, Pavlyshak, managers of the Krylati men’s Polish Eagles, Yonkers Portuguese, Stade Mr. Howansky as the Steven Howansky N.Y., for the inaugural Steven Howansky team; the rest of the world team, captained Breton (French), Cabo Verde (Caribbean) EDSL Cup. Steven Howansky, a longtime Memorial Soccer Game/Krylati Reunion by Mark Howansky, included players from and Westchester Kick. Krylati Sports Club soccer supporter, activ- between a team of players born in Ukraine a variety of soccer clubs, including Prior to the match, Peter Pinori, presi- ist and fan, passed away on February 11 and players from the rest of the world. Chornomorska Sitch (Whippany, N.J.), dent of the Eastern District Soccer League, after losing his fight against lung cancer. The match was officiated by New York state referee Galo Trujilo, who generously donated his time. Following the memorial match, participants watched the Krylati men’s team play its first match of the spring season. Guests and players later gathered at the Ukrainian Youth Center in Yonkers for a reception and to share old photos and stories. Commemorative T-shirts, designed by Lemko artist Andriy Khomyk and printed by Lena Howansky, were on sale, with pro- ceeds to benefit the Krylati Sports Club, under the auspices of the Ukrainian American Youth Association. Participants noted that the successful event was a fitting tribute and discussions are in the works to make this an annual event.

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region” may be averted with the signing of the European Union-Ukraine Association Agreement. Taking into account that the main condition for this to occur is for Ukraine’s governing authorities to revert to democratic governance, the U.S. should consider broadening the scope of the Magnitsky Bill to include individuals asso- ciated with human rights violations in Ukraine. Mr. Czolij also encouraged the U.S. to take appropriate actions to ensure that Russia complies with the 1994 “Memorandum on Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,” also signed by the U.S., the United Kingdom and Ukraine, and that Russia stops using gas as a political weap- on against Ukraine. These issues were also presented by the UWC president at a community gathering organized by the UCCA Illinois under the leadership of Messrs. Striltschuk and Bandriwsky. During the program, Mr. Czolij recognized the Heritage Foundation of First Security Federal Savings Bank for its ongoing financial support of the UWC’s work and presented a plaque in gratitude to the foundation’s chairman, Mr. Kulas. To conclude the evening, the Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union and Selfreliance Foundation, and the Illinois Division of the UCCA presented Mr. Czolij with generous donations in support of UWC activities. No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 11

Andrew Moroch Carpathian Ski Club (KLK) President Vira Boys age 10-11, the largest age group competing in the 2013 races, are seen above with their medals. The champion in the group Popel speaks during the awards dinner. (holding trophy) was Mark Blyznak. Carpathian Ski Club holds 59th annual races

Winners of the fastest skiers trophies Andrew Tytla (left) and Diana Blyznak with the Winners among girls age 14-15 (from left): Adriana Buniak, Maya Lopatynsky, former president of KLK, Erko Palydowycz. Olenka Tytla and Taisa Sorobay (champion). HUNTER, N.Y. – Sixty-four skiers rang- Kucher, mother Marta Dubyk, and children ver and bronze NASTAR medals, with 44 KLK, born in Ukraine in 1924 and activat- ing in age from under 3 to 75 competed in Yevhen Dubyk, 17, Olena Kucher, 8, and competitors earning those distinctions ed in the United States after World War II, the 59th annual ski races of the Carpathian Oleksa Kucher, 3. among their peers nationwide. that made the sports club’s rebirth in Ski Club (known by its Ukrainian acronym The traveling trophies for the fastest The Carpathian Ski Club held its first Ukraine possible. as KLK) held here at Hunter Mountain on male and female skiers (no repeat winners U.S. ski races in 1954 at Whiteface David Slutzky of Hunter Mountain also Saturday, March 3. are allowed) were awarded to Andrew Mountain, near Lake Placid, N.Y. addressed the gathering, welcoming the The skiers – including many children Tytla, 51, and Miss Blyznak. Ambassador Sergeyev noted in his KLK skiers and their families, who have and their parents – competed on a Also awarded were platinum, gold, sil- remarks to the awards dinner that it was skied and raced at Hunter for many years. NASTAR (National Standard Race) course during the day. In the evening there was an 2013 KLK ski results awards dinner at Hunter Mountain’s Copper Tree Restaurant, with the skiers, Girls age 6-7 Women age 18-20 Boys age 6-7 Boys age 14-15 Men age 50-54 their families and friends in attendance. 1. Olga Schturmay 1. Christina Temnycky 1. Arthur Hrycak 1. Alex Rakowsky 1. Yuriy Kucher Participants were welcomed at the din- 2. Severyn Khomyak 2. Andrew Tytla Girls age 8-9 Women age 35-39 Boys age 16-17 ner by KLK President Vira Popel. The mas- 3. Roman Sorobay ters of ceremonies for the evening, which 1. Marta Dubyk Boys age 8-9 1. Olena Kucher 1. Yevhen Dubyk 4. Stefan Wojcickyj was highlighted by the presentation of tro- 2. Christina Silver 1. Marko Wojcickyj Women age 40-44 2. Nicholas Seitz 5. Mark Pawliczko phies and medals to the top skiers in each 2. Peter Hrycak 3. Larissa Pawliczko 1. Miroslava Moroch age group (see ski race results below), 3. Dmytro Crawford Men age 21-29 6. Orest Hrycak Girls age 12-13 2. Margaret Begley 7. Borys Buniak were Orest Fedash, KLK’s skiing coordina- Boys age 10-11 1. Mykhaylo Schturmay tor, and Mariana Livcha. 1. Diana Blyznak Women age 45-49 2. Markian Hadzewycz 1. Mark Blyznak Men age 55-59 Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev, Ukraine’s 2. Julia Moroch 1. Chrystyna Sorobay 2. Dimitri Tytla Men age 30-34 1. Yuri B. Kobziar permanent representative to the United 3. Natalia Moroch 2. Switlana Wojcickyj 3. Stefan Sorobay 2. Vlodko Temnycky Nations, and his wife, Nataliya, who were 4. Larysa Shelton 3. Sophia Tytla 1. Darian Fedash 4. Andriy Stelmach 3. Nestor Blyznak attending the KLK ski races for the sixth Girls age 14-15 4. Tamara Slupchynskyj Men age 35-39 consecutive year, presented certificates 5. Mykola Pawliczko 4. Mark Bach 1. Taisa Sorobay Women age 50-54 6. Roman Hrab Jr. 1. Taras Ferencevych and trophies to the most promising young Men age 60-64 2. Olenka Tytla 1. Natalia Wojcickyj 7. Omelyan Shuhan skiers, 10-year-old Stefan Sorobay and Men age 40-44 1. Andrew Hadzewycz 13-year-old Diana Blyznak. 3. Maya Lopatynsky 2. Ariadne Bach 8. Thomas Silver 4. Adriana Buniak 1. Marco 2. Roman Stelmach Underscoring the family nature of the 3. Maria Rudensky Boys age 12-13 Silver Shmerykowsky event, Ambassador and Mrs. Sergeyev pre- Girls age 16-17 1. Danylo Crawford Men age 75-79 sented the second annual KLK Family (bi-skier) Boys age 5 and under 2. Alexander Iwaskiw Men age 45-49 1. John Award. Earning the special recognition 1. Adriana Wojcickyj 1. Oleksa Kucher 3. Michael Moroch 1. Roman Hrab Sr. Shmerykowsky was the Kucher family: father Yuriy 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 No. 13

held. This year, the same heavy program of Klitschko said. He also once again called on [about 20 inches] of snow have fallen in NEWSBRIEFS bilateral contacts is planned. (Ukrinform) the president to personally come to Kyiv (as compared to the normal monthly Parliament with his annual message. Mr. rate of 47 centimeters), which is half a (Continued from page 2) Klitschko pushes impeachment bill Klitschko noted that Article 106 of the meter of snow cover. Due to the deteriora- with Russia will always be special, strategic KYIV – UDAR party leader Vitali Constitution clearly requires that the presi- tion of weather conditions – heavy snowfall, at all levels of interaction,” he said. The dip- Klitschko is demanding consideration on dent shall annually address the Verkhovna a snowstorm and drifts – a state of emer- lomat noted that in their bilateral relations April 2 of the opposition’s bill to impeach Rada with a message about the internal gency is declared in the capital,” the report Ukraine and Russia do not always have the the president. He announced this at a brief- and external situation of Ukraine. “Article said. Deputy Chairman of Kyiv City State same opinion on a particular issue. ing in the Verkhovna Rada. “The parties 160 of the Regulations of the Verkhovna Administration Oleksander Mazurchak However, he emphasized, “it’s a working UDAR, Batkivshchyna and Svoboda have Rada of Ukraine provides that the presi- instructed all public services to mobilize debate, and exchange of views by close jointly tabled in Parliament a bill on dent’s message shall be announced before and provide around-the-clock removal of friends, good neighbors and partners.” At impeachment of the president, it was March 31. That is, the president should not snow from approaches to subway stations, the same time, Mr. Kozhara said interstate reported on March 22. Ukraine must have send video messages to Parliament – he underground passage stairs, entrances to dialogue at all levels is developing “very this law regardless of the name. We demand must come to Parliament in person,” Mr. hospitals, as well as entrances to shops. “All rapidly.” He said that in 2012 alone more that it be urgently put on the agenda and Klitschko said. (Ukrinform) the available snow-removal vehicles of than 20 bilateral high-level meetings were adopted at the next meeting on April 2,” Mr. Kyivavtodor and districts are now working Working group on Customs Union in Kyiv, including 15 armored personnel KYIV – The Ukrainian government has vehicles that were provided by the Ministry decided to set up a high-level working group of Defense to remove trucks from the on enhancement of cooperation with the streets. We are doing everything we can to Customs Union and the Unified Economic stabilize the situation,” Mr. Mazurchak Space of Belarus, Kazakhstan and the stressed. Meanwhile, there were numerous TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 reports of people stuck in cars along high- or e-mail [email protected] Russian Federation. The decision was made at the Cabinet’s meeting on March 25, ways around Kyiv. (Ukrinform) according to the Media Liaison Department Azarov: snow clean-up unsatisfactory SERVICES PROFESSIONALS of the Cabinet’s Secretariat. “A working group was set up with the aim of preparing KYIV – Prime Minister and realizing measures aimed at enhance- appraised snow removal as unsatisfactory ment of cooperation with the Customs in Kyiv. Speaking at a government meeting Union and the Unified Economic Space of on March 25 he said, “I want to thank all the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of those who worked over these days provid- Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation, cre- ing life activities in Kyiv. Overall, I assess ation of favorable conditions for an increase the work as unsatisfactory. However, ser- in the turnover of goods, improvement of vice by ambulance cars was provided, the trade balance, expansion of cooperative products were transported to hospitals, etc. relations, attraction of investments and Thank God nobody died, froze… in these innovations in the economy real sector,” extreme conditions,” Mr. Azarov said. The according to a statement released by the prime minister acknowledged that utility ОКСАНА СТАНЬКО Cabinet’s Secretariat. Vice Prime Minister service workers alone cannot cope with Ліцензований продавець Страхування Життя Yuriy Boiko was appointed head of the bad weather because the existing technolo- gy is not enough for this scope of work. OKSANA STANKO working group. The membership of the Licensed Life Insurance Agent working group was also approved; it “The situation is really difficult, because Ukrainian National Assn., Inc. includes 10 persons. (Ukrinform) much precipitation has fallen. 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According to Mr. Yatsenyuk, such a (Ukrinform) decision is possible, as the current govern- ment foresees its defeat. “This is primarily Mayor Popov apologizes to Kyivans due to the fact that the authorities well real- ize that they will lose the election if it is held KYIV – The head of Kyiv City State soon, and that they will be heaped up with Administration, Oleksander Popov apolo- people’s discontent just as the city of Kyiv is gized to the Kyivans for the inconveniences heaped up with snow,” he added. On March caused during disaster relief operations 21 the Verkhovna Rada adopted in its first resulting from the heavy snowfall that hit reading a draft decree on holding the next Kyiv, radiosvoboda.org reported on March election of the Kyiv mayor and city council 25. “This is not the first time we face an on June 2. Later, 48 national deputies asked emergency, we experienced it in December. the Constitutional Court to give an official And I always say: Kyivans, don’t get hurt. interpretation of the provisions of the An emergency is our common problem, Constitution and the Law on Local Elections because there are inconveniences, and for devoted to election terms and procedures of the inconveniences, I, as head of the execu- setting their dates. (Ukrinform) tive authorities, definitely apologize,” Mayor Popov noted. He said public utilities Kyiv sets 100-year snowfall record were completing the removal of snow from central roads, and then would start clean- KYIV – Over the weekend of March ing residential areas. “This is for the first 23-24, Kyiv saw the largest amount of time in history – we have never seen such snow in more than 100 years, Mykola an amount of snow. Surely, this is not just a Kulbida, director of the Ukrainian problem of the municipal authorities, it is Hydrometeorological Center, told reporters OPPORTUNITIES also a problem of people who can get out in Kyiv on March 25. “Kyiv saw an amount HELP WANTED and remove snow near own cars. At least of snow that has not been recorded for the near their own cars,” Mr. Popov said, noting entire period of meteorological observa- Earn extra income! that this would help snowplows and public We are seeking a babysitter tion since 1881. And not just for March, but The Ukrainian Weekly is looking utilities effectively do their work. The for our 3 year old son in Bayside, NY. for the wintertime,” he said. Mr. Kulbida for advertising sales agents. mayor said that public transport in the cap- Must speak Ukrainian fluently. Preferably added that nearly 24 inches of snow fell in For additional information contact owns a car. Two days per week - Wednes- ital would resume normal operations in the the capital over the weekend. (Ukrinform) Walter Honcharyk, Advertising Manager, day and Thursday. No. of days to increase morning of March 26. (Ukrinform) The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. in December. Tel. 646-763-0045. State of emergency declared in Kyiv Popov: Kyiv preparing for flood KYIV – A state of emergency was KYIV – The Ukrainian capital, which was Run your advertisement here, declared in Kyiv on March 23 due to the filled with millions of tons of snow over the in The Ukrainian Weekly’s CLASSIFIEDS section. snow, the Kyiv City State Administration said. “Within 24 hours, 50 centimeters (Continued on page 13) No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 13

Therefore, the legal aspect of the issue, in ners and in negotiations with international line Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod worth NEWSBRIEFS principle, is absolutely clear. And decisions, financial institutions and the European about 1.88 billion euros, with the expected which can be taken, are exclusively within Union, Mr. Kuusvek said, according to EBRD loan of 154 million euros, as well as (Continued from page 12) the legal framework,” the prime minister March 26 news reports. In turn, Ukraine’s for increasing the capacity of the Kakhovka weekend, has already started to prepare stressed. Mr. Azarov added that “not a single Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Hydroelectric Power Plant worth about 4.1 for floods. Mayor Oleksander Popov said, judge would dare to declare guilty a person Eduard Stavytsky noted the importance of billion hryvni,” he noted. The total cost of “Due to the considerable precipitation, it is with such attention on the part of the world this project for Ukraine. “Two investment modernization of the Ukrainian gas trans- necessary to intensify preparation for community and the legal community. We projects are being prepared – for modern- portation system is estimated at $5.3 bil- floods. Work is now under way on cleaning have a Commission of Observers from the ization and renovation of the trunk pipe- lion. (Ukrinform) storm run-offs and cleaning riverbeds, European Parliament, in the person of for- including those under ground. Over all, the mer Polish President [Aleksander] system works stably. In addition, we are Kwasniewski, former head of the European October parliamentary elections, observers mobilizing all services in order to prevent Parliament [Pat] Cox. Many lawyers usually Vitali Klitschko... said. Voters like the notion that he earned his family wealth (estimated at $55 million flooding of territories. This situation will be come with them.”(Ukrinform) (Continued from page 1) in 2011 by Korrespondent magazine) hon- under my personal control.” Mr. Popov Kyiv, Brussels to hold roundtable on GTS noted, “If all the snow that has fallen in the Regions electorate, which in this way gains estly, rather than having usurped property capital thaws over one to two days, certain KYIV – Ukraine and Brussels continue to evidence that ‘our guys are bad, but theirs in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse. difficulties may arise. Just due to this, our prepare for an international roundtable are even worse,’ ” he added. And, he doesn’t carry any negativity main task now is to remove the maximum meeting to discuss the creation of a consor- Ms. Tymoshenko’s political career is far from serving in the national government at amount of snow from the capital over one tium to manage Ukraine’s gas transit sys- from over, observers said. Her poll stand- any point, Mr. Fesenko said. to two days,” he said. (Ukrinform) tem (GTS), Ukraine’s Minister of Energy ings would be higher if she were freed from “His political myth hasn’t been damaged and Coal Industry Eduard Stavytsky said prison, Mr. Oleshchuk commented. yet,” he said, pointing out that he’s the only Bad weather to reduce spring crops after a meeting with European Rather than hurting her, as the Party of national politician who is viewed positively Commissioner for Energy Gunther Hermann Regions had hoped, Ms. Tymoshenko’s by at least half of the electorate. More than KYIV – Abnormal snowdrifts in the cen- 56 percent support Mr. Klitschko, as tral and northern regions of Ukraine are Oettinger in Brussels on March 25. “Now incarceration served to rehabilitate her the issue is being finally approved by the image after unpopular compromises and opposed to 38.5 percent who said they preventing farmers from going to the fields. don’t support him, according to the Snow cover in the Kyiv region is at least 20 working groups, and I assume that in two political defeats, said Oleksandr Palii, a weeks at the longest everything will be political observer and author. Razumkov Center poll. inches, ExpertAgro reported on March 25. Defeating Mr. Yanukovych – whom the “At this time, farmers in the affected clear, including the venue. And the fact that “Levels of distrust in her have even it will be – it’s 100 percent,” the Ukrainian declined a bit as a result of growing feel- U.S. Office of National Intelligence recently regions should have sown spring barley. credited with drawing Ukraine towards minister said, speaking about the interna- ings of empathy for her from opposition- But it is obvious that farmers will refuse it authoritarianism – will require an opposi- tional roundtable meeting. At the same oriented citizens,” Mr. Fesenko said. “The and replace for clean-cultivated crops,” spe- tion candidate who can secure an election time, clarifying the possible format for con- West’s attitude towards her has changed cialists said, citing the findings of a survey advantage of at least 7 percent, Mr. Fesenko trol of the Ukrainian GTS, Mr. Stavytsky significantly, from a critical attitude to conducted by the Infoindustriya informa- said. failed to answer whether it would be a bilat- empathy and sympathy as a result of her tion company. April 10 marks the begin- That’s something Mr. Klitschko is capa- eral or a trilateral consortium. Speaking arrest and conviction.” ning of the optimum period for sowing ble of doing with a 13.6 percent advantage, about Ukraine’s relations with the Energy Perhaps Ms. Tymoshenko’s biggest hope clean-cultivated crops such as corn and as compared to Mr. Yatsenyuk’s 5.6 percent Community, the minister said that during for release lies in the success of Mr. sugar beets. (Ukrinform) lead in the event of a second-round run-off, his meeting with the European energy com- Klitschko, who has replaced her as the according to the Democratic Initiatives/ Snowfall did not harm winter crops missioner, the sides discussed implementa- opposition leader. KMIS poll. tion of recent agreements between Ukraine Mr. Klitschko would win 39 percent of KYIV – Heavy snowfall that hit Ukraine A large vote spread in the second round and the European Union. (Ukrinform) the vote and handily defeat Mr. in the last few days in the northeastern and Yanukovych, who would get 26 percent will be necessary to discredit government central regions of the country will not Three Ukrainians detained in Minsk support, in a second round run-off in the attempts at falsification, Mr. Fesenko said. harm winter crops, according to Tetiana 2015 presidential elections, according to The degree of blatancy and scale of the vote Adamenko, head of the department of KYIV – Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign the Democratic Initiatives/KMIS poll. fraud will be a significant factor in upset- meteorology at the Ukrainian Affairs has confirmed the detention of Mr. Klitschko would get 14 percent of ting the public and mobilizing it to protest, Hydrometeorological Center. “The recent three Ukrainian nationals by police in votes and finish second in the first-round of more so than a candidate’s personal snowfalls do not threaten the winter fields Minsk, bigmir.net reported on March 25. voting against Mr. Yanukovych’s 21 percent, appeal, he said. of Ukraine. The current weather conditions “According to the Ukrainian Embassy in according to the Razumkov Center poll, Mr. Oleshchuk agreed that a protest in will postpone the start of their growing Belarus, three citizens of Ukraine were which didn’t ask respondents who they’d the 2015 elections won’t be for the opposi- season and sowing of spring crops,” the arrested,” the acting director of the Foreign vote for in a run-off between the two candi- tion candidate, but against Mr. Yanukovych. weather forecaster said on March 26. At Affairs Ministry’s Information Policy dates. Yet the opposition candidate will need a the same time, she said, the melting of the Department, Yevhen Perebyinis, told The boxing champion has surpassed the significant degree of support. snow cover, which will begin with warmer reporters. He added that the Ukrainian popularity of Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the chair “Trust in Klitschko will depend on his temperatures on March 30, will lead to consul had already left for the local police of the Batkivshchyna party, which has 19 actions as a politician, meaning on his abili- standing water in the fields. According to department for clarification. In turn, the percent support compared to 16 percent ty to defend his positions resolutely, be in Ms. Adamenko, in some southeastern Collaboration without Borders Center for Mr. Klitschko’s Ukrainian Democratic the center of events and lead people,” he regions (Crimea, as well as the Kherson, reported the detention of three Ukrainians Alliance for Reform (UDAR), according to said. “Obviously, if he will interrupt revolu- Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Odesa and in Minsk, who took part in the Belarusian the Democratic Initiatives/KMIS poll. tions for boxing matches, then no one will Mykolaiv regions), where the winter crop opposition rally called Freedom Day. On its Such popularity is not from anything have a great desire to follow him to the bar- growing season has already begun, the Facebook page, the center wrote that the that Mr. Klitschko has done since the ricades.” temperature drop to -10.7 degrees Celsius Ukrainians were detained on Sunday, (about 12.7 degrees Fahrenheit) will be March 24. All of them are activists of the short and “painless.” (Ukrinform) Ukrainian Youth Organization National Alliance. “There are reports that the three Polls reveal voter preferences Azarov on Tymoshenko, Lutsenko cases Ukrainians are in the police department of The following are results of a poll of of the presidential elections, who the Sovietskyi district of Minsk... protocols KYIV – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov 2,037 respondents conducted between would you vote for? of administrative offense are being drawn said there are no political charges or hints March 5 and 13 by the Democratic up against all the detainees,” the report Viktor Yanukovych 28.6 of such in the cases of Yulia Tymoshenko Initiatives Foundation and the Kyiv noted. According to the Collaboration with- Yulia Tymoshenko 29.4 and Yurii Lutsenko. Speaking in an inter- Institute of Sociology. out Borders Center, the detainees will view with the Russian TV channel Mir, he If Viktor Yanukovych and Arseniy remain in custody until their trial. If it happens that Yulia Tymoshenko said, “There is such a notion as Ukraine’s Yatsenyuk entered the second round (Ukrinform) doesn’t participate in the elections, sovereignty and independent judicial sys- of the presidential elections, who who would you vote for? tem. And there are violations, committed EBRD on GTS modernization would you vote for? by designated persons [Tymoshenko and Dec. March Lutsenko]. Those violations were consid- KYIV – The European Bank for 2012 2013 Viktor Yanukovych 28.1 ered by judges. Decisions were taken by a Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Viktor Yanukovych 22.7 21.2 Arseniy Yatsenyuk 33.7 whole series of instances, including the expects to complete by the end of this year Vitali Klitschko 13.1 15.6 first and the appeal instances. And every- negotiations on the allocation of funds for Arseniy Yatsenyuk 14.0 12.4 Hard to say 21.1 19.1 The following are results of a poll of thing was carried out within the frame- the reconstruction and modernization of 2,010 respondents conducted between work of the law applicable in Ukraine,” Mr. the Ukrainian gas transport system (GTS), If Viktor Yanukovych and Vitali March 1 and 6 by the Razumkov Center in Azarov noted, according to March 25 news UA-Energy quoted EBRD Country Director Klitschko entered the second round of Kyiv. reports. He said that the people of Ukraine for Ukraine Andre Kuusvek as saying. the presidential elections, who would treated with understanding the facts that Modernization of the GTS is an important you vote for? If the first round of the presidential were made public at those judicial process- project not only for Ukraine but also for elections occurred in the nearest es. “People understand well whom they are Europe, as it concerns the energy security Viktor Yanukovych 25.7 future, who would you vote for? Vitali Klitschko 39.3 to hold responsible for the difficult eco- of this region of the world, he said, adding Viktor Yanukovych 20.7 nomic situation, and know how the gas the consultations took more time than If Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Vitali Klitschko 14.4 contract was concluded in 2009 in viola- planned. But certain progress was made – Tymoshenko entered the second round Arseniy Yatsenyuk 11.3 tion of all existing legislative acts. both in cooperation with Ukrainian part- 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 No. 13

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Greater Boston Ukrainians commemorate Shevchenko’s birthday

by Peter T. Woloschuk far away. Olena Kovalchuk brought the commemorative portion of the program to BOSTON – On Sunday, March 17, some a close with a recitation of “Rozryta 75 members of the greater Boston Mohyla” (Plundered Grave). Ukrainian American community gathered After the performances, Mr. Petriv pre- for a traditional “Akademia” to commemo- sented plaques listing all of the UCCA- rate the 199th anniversary of Ukrainian Boston presidents to the Rev. Hierodeacon poet laureate Taras H. Shevchenko’s birth Vasyl (Ronald) Janick of St. Andrew’s and in Moryntsi, Oblast, Ukraine. the Rev. Dr. Yaroslav Nalysnyk, pastor of The event was held in the parish hall of Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Church, St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church for permanent display. The research and after Sunday liturgies, which commemorat- formulation of the plaques had been ed Shevchenko with mentions in the ser- undertaken by Maria Fedynyshyn Saxe, sec- mons and with panakhydy. It was spon- retary of UCCA Boston. sored by the Ukrainian Congress The Rev. Nalysnyk, who had given reflec- Committee of America, Boston branch tions on Shevchenko’s spirituality and reli- (UCCA Boston) in collaboration with the giosity at the sung liturgy and had posted local School of Ukrainian Studies, the them on his parish website brought the Ukrainian American Educational Center of event to a close with a benediction in which Greater Boston and the city’s two he prayed: “Accept, oh Lord, our thanks for Ukrainian churches. Yuri Petriv the gift which you sent us in the prophet, Lubov Gentyk, UCCA Boston’s vice presi- St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church Choir (from left): director Eugene Moroz, servant of God, Taras Shevchenko, who in a dent for cultural affairs, was responsible Jane Yavarow, Sandra Kondratiuk, Halyna Banadyga, Michael Muzyka and Val Dingle. bitter time of slavery with his words of for putting together the program, which truth, beauty and love reminded us all ‘of consisted exclusively of works by Andrew’s pastor, for the invocation and he Shevchenko, and then by the duo of whose children we are and of what lineage.’ Shevchenko. led the assembly in singing “Tsaryu Michael Hotz and Eugene Moroz, who sang …We ask you to bless our nation for worthy A large portrait of Shevchenko served as Nebesnyi” (Heavenly Father). “Taka Yiyi Dolia” (Such Is Her Fate). prayer and joint creative sacrificial work in the backdrop on the stage, and, to mark St. St. Andrew’s Church Choir began the Mr. Gentyk appeared next to recite the building of our common Ukrainian Patrick’s Day, which is an official holiday in artistic portion of the program with rendi- “Prorok” (Prophet), and Ernest Derebin, home both in the homeland and in the Boston, it was surmounted by a Ukrainian tion of three Shevchenko poems that have from Poltava, a student at Boston’s noted diaspora ‘where there will be our own rushnyk (ritual cloth) that was embroi- been set to music, including “Zapovit” Berklee College of Music who has been in truth, and might, and will.’ And we ask you dered in Kelly green. (Testament), “Dumy moyi,” (My thoughts), the United States less than a year, sang spiritual strength so that we might retain The celebration opened with brief and “Banduryste, Orle Syzyi” (Bandurist, “Posmikhnysia, Dole” (Smile, Oh Fate). He the holy faith and language of our fathers remarks from UCCA Boston President The Great Eagle). concluded by saying that he had always cel- and continue to testify to Christ the Lord Vsevolod Petriv, who thanked everyone for The choir was followed by Ukrainian ebrated the Shevchenko commemoration with our righteous lives as aware their presence and promised that the event school students Julian and Demian Zayets, at home, that it was one of the major holi- Ukrainians and zealous Christians, ‘so that would be enjoyable and brief. He then and Sophia Shavel and Adriana Grabowycz, days in Ukraine, and that he found it very we can be an example for others and not be called on the Rev. Roman Tarnavsky, St. who recited a number of verses honoring meaningful that it was being celebrated so ashamed of our own.’ ” Ukrainian community of Tucson remembers the Holodomor

by Ihor Kunasz the Student Union Galleries, Carlos Torrejon, prepared an impressive display of TUCSON, Ariz. – An exceptional art the children’s art in the spacious exhibition exhibit was displayed from January 7 hall. through February 1 at the Student Union Using materials on the Holodomor, Mr. Gallery of the University of Arizona. Luba Torrejon created eye-catching information Markewycz of the Ukrainian Institute of islands at the entrance to the exhibit for all Modern Art (UIMA) in Chicago created the visitors to read. Background folders from theme of the exhibit, “The Holodomor Harvard University were also available. Through the Eyes of Children.” She orga- In addition Luba Keske of the Ukraine nized and collected over 400 paintings 3000 group in shipped over 30 from children in various districts of posters that document the actual historical Ukraine, which are part of the UIMA collec- background and identify the planners and tion. With an opportunity to showcase the organizers of the Famine-Genocide: Stalin Holodomor, the UIMA shipped the artwork and his cohorts. The posters lined the to Tucson, and the director and curator of approach corridor to the gallery and offered critical information on the Holodomor. The art collection is not only of high Ihor A. Kunasz artistic merit, but it also illustrates and The Rev. Dr. Andriy Chirovsky leads a memorial service for victims of the Famine- Genocide of 1932-1933. imparts to the viewer the pain and the suf- fering of those poor souls who endured The ambassador reflected on the histori- pastor of St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic and ultimately died of hunger in the coun- cal aspects of the Holodomor. He thanked Church – which he calls “the little parish try know as “the breadbasket of Europe.” the U.S. Congress for adopting a law in that could.” The Rev. Dr. Chirovsky is the Indeed, it was the wheat taken away from 2006 to establish the Holodomor memorial Peter and Doris Kule Professor of Eastern the villagers that financed the Soviet in Washington. The memorial will be locat- Christian Theology and Spirituality; found- Union’s industrialization and collectiviza- ed on the northwest triangle formed by F er and first director, Metropolitan Andrey tion plans from grain export revenues. Street NW, Massachusetts Avenue NW, and Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian On January 23, Ukrainians of Tucson North Capitol Street. Establishing the Studies; a member of the Faculty of gathered at the gallery to commemorate Holodomor memorial in the capital of the Theology, St. Paul University, Ottawa; and a the Holodomor. The community was great- United States will give a strong signal to the member of the Faculty of Graduate and ly honored to welcomed Olexander Motsyk, world that both nations share the same val- Postdoctoral Studies, University of Ottawa. ambassador of Ukraine to the U.S., who, ues as we remember those who sacrificed In his lecture, the Rev. Dr. Chirovsky not together with Serhiy Alyoshin, consul gen- their lives to defend freedom, said Mr. only underscored the terrible cost of the eral of Ukraine, and Yuriy Babkov, economic Motsyk. The design by Larysa Kurylas has Holodomor for the Ukrainian nation as a consul (San Francisco), participated in the been selected and the memorial is sched- whole, but also stressed its indelible mark commemoration. Dr. Kunasz, president of uled to be erected in October of this year. on Ukrainian Spirituality. the Ukrainian American Society of Tucson, The ambassador’s presentation was fol- The commemoration ended with the Poster announcing “The Holodomor introduced Ambassador Motsyk and invit- lowed by a lecture on the Holodomor given singing of a panakhyda (requiem service) Collection” exhibit. ed him to address the community. by the Rev. Mitred Andriy Chirovsky, the for the victims of the Holodomor. No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 15

Ihor Slabicky Eva Salina Primack, Julian Kytasty and Roman Turovsky perform during the “The The Zozulka Trio – Maria Sonevytsky, Eva Salina Primack and Willa Roberts – Ukrainian Wave All-Star Gala Concert and Dance Party!” at The Ukrainian Museum. perform at The Ukrainian Museum in New York City. “All-star” concert celebrates five years of folk music and dance programs two voices at times sounded as if there were three, four, or even five voices singing. The ensemble next performed a song about a philandering husband who leaves his wife at night to visit another. Ms. Primack and Maria Sonevytsky, two early members of the Voices, then joined the ensemble. Together they finished their set with “Letila Zozulia,” also from Krechkivka. Mr. Kytasty returned, joined by Katja Kolcio, a professor of dance at Wesleyan University. They performed a double ver- sion of “Sestra do Brata Lyst Pysala,” with Julian Kytasty singing and playing a kobzar- ska bandura, and Ms. Kolcio interpreting the duma with her dance movements. An awards ceremony provided a brief interlude. Eileen Condon of CTMD present- Nadia Tarnawsky (left) and the Ukrainian Women’s Voices perform during the “The Ukrainian Wave All-Star Gala Concert and ed plaques honoring Maria Shust, director Dance Party!” of The Ukrainian Museum, and Hanya Krill, programs coordinator of the museum, for by Ihor Slabicky folk music and dance programs produced The duo was joined by singer Eva Salina hosting the many concerts that showcased by the Center of Traditional Music and Primack with whom they performed a bal- the best performers of traditional Ukrainian NEW YORK – Long-time attendees of the Dance, members of its Ukrainian Wave lad about a young man who returns home music and dance in the United States. She “Bandura Downtown” concert series at The Community Cultural Initiative, New York with his new wife. also presented a plaque honoring Ihor Bandura, The Ukrainian Museum, and the Nadia Tarnawsky and the eight-member Ukrainian Museum in New York City were Slabicky for his production of the archival Ukrainian National Home and the East Ukrainian Women’s Voice ensemble then treated to a very special concert back on audio recordings of all the concerts. Village Restaurant. took the stage. True to the style of the vil- Saturday, December 1, 2012. “The The music resumed with Michael Alpert, Julian Kytasty began the evening by lage singing of Krechkivka in Poltava, they Ukrainian Wave All-Star Gala Concert and a pioneering figure in Yiddish music, join- singing and playing the sopilka on a devo- performed two wedding songs, each piece Dance Party!” at the museum and at the ing Mr. Kytasty to explore some cultural tional song from the 17th century Ukrainian allowing members of the ensemble to have Ukrainian National Home on Second juxtaposition. The two intermixed Yiddish Baroque period. Baroque musicologist individual solos. Cherrymae Golston and Avenue, featured numerous musicians and and Ukrainian verses, seamlessly seguing Roman Turovsky accompanied him on Nadia Tarnawsky then took center stage artists who had performed in the series back and forth and ending on a lively tourban, his delicate fingering providing over the past five seasons. with “Kotylysia Orishky,” another wedding Bukovyna-style dance tune. The evening celebrated five immensely the period feeling for this retelling of a song. Exploring the microtonalities com- successful and fruitful years of Ukrainian youth’s aspiration to join the monastery. mon to the singing style of this region, their (Continued on page 18)

MATI presents “Beethoven, Barvinsky, Brahms and More” NEW YORK – On Saturday, March 2, at the Ukrainian Institute of America, the Music at the Institute (MATI) series presented “Beethoven, Barvinsky, Brahms and More.” The concert showcased Steven Tenenbom, viola, Peter Wiley, cello, and Lydia Artymiw, piano. In addition to works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Vasyl Barvinsky and Johannes Brahms, the artists – appearing solo, as duos and as a trio – performed selections by Mykola Lysenko, Mykola Kolessa, Viktor Kosenko and Robert Schumann. Ms. Artymiw performed solo piano selections by the four Ukrainian composers, as well as in duos with Mr. Wiley and Mr. Tenenbom, respectively, to present works by Beethoven (Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69) and Schumann (Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70). The trio then took to the stage to perform the last selection of the evening, Brahms’ Trio in A Minor, Op. 114. The concert was followed by a reception. “Music at the Institute” is sponsored by the Ukrainian Institute of America. The series’ artistic director Performing during the Music at the Institute program “Beethoven, Barvinsky, Brahms and More” (from left) are: is Solomiya Ivakhiv and its artistic advisor is Mykola Suk. violist Steven Tenenbom, pianist Lydia Artymiw and cellist Peter Willey. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 No. 13 No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 17 BOOK NOTE: A journey from Dachau to Denver and back “The Night Sky: A Journey From Dachau to Denver Internet research and there are trips to Germany, Poland and Back,” by Maria Sutton. Boulder, Colo: Johnson Books, and Ukraine. What is recounted in this book could best be 2011. 226pp. ISBN: 978-1-55566-446-6. $20 (plus shipping). described as “a journey of the heart.” Along the way are unexpected twists and turns, and not every truth the Tens of thousands of Ukrainians passed through the author uncovers is a pleasant one. displaced persons camps in Germany after World War II, Although the final results of this journey are not exactly settling in various countries and beginning new lives. what Ms. Sutton’s 13-year-old self imagined they would Many of them passed on to their children their family his- be, in the end she finds “what had been missing in her tory, how they had left Ukraine and their experiences in life,” and has what she has wanted since the age of 13 – the war. But many – perhaps equally many – shared only knowledge of her family and its history. bits and pieces of family history, perhaps finding it easier During the course of her research Ms. Sutton gained a to keep the past a closed chapter. great respect for all that her mother had been through, Maria Sutton’s parents had been brought to Germany and all she had done to ensure the best life possible for for forced labor; her family immigrated to the United her children. She says, “Mom is the hero of this story States in 1951 from Bremerhaven, Germany, after several because, in spite of all she has lost, she is not bitter... years spent shuttling between various DP camps. In this …she has continued to be loving and caring.” respect she is no different from many others of her gener- To honor her mother’s struggle for a better life, Ms. ation. Sutton is donating $10 from every purchase of “The Night But what sets her apart from her peers is what forms Sky” to the Ukrainian National Women’s League of the basis of her book: at the age of 13, Maria learned that America scholarship fund – a most fitting tribute. the man she knew as her father was actually her stepfa- Ms. Sutton was born in the barracks of Germany’s for- ther. She knew the name of her biological father – Jozef mer Wehrmacht command center, which had been con- Kurek – and that he had disappeared shortly after she was verted to house Europe’s displaced persons after World born, but not much else. This knowledge stirred in her a War II. In 1951, she immigrated to America with her deep and lasting desire to find her biological father and mother, stepfather and sister, and has lived in the greater learn her family history. Denver area since then, currently residing in Golden, Colo. In “The Night Sky” Ms. Sutton recounts her struggle to Ms. Sutton has a Bachelor of Science in finance and fill in the blank pages of her family’s history, a long and accounting from the University of Colorado, and has also arduous process. There are many conversations with her attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at mother, trying to draw out memories of her life in Ukraine Harvard University. and of her wartime experiences; there are hours of – Christine Syzonenko

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ken mirror, they concluded with a slow “All-star” concert... return back to their initial melody. (Continued from page 15) The evening at the museum ended with Teryn Kuzma, a classical voice singer, per- The Zozulka Trio, consisting of Ms. forming “Nahadai Banduro Spivamy,” writ- Sonevytsky, Ms. Primack and Willa Roberts, ten by her great-granduncle Hryhory sang “Oy Ziydy, Ziydy, ta Misiatsiu,” fol- Kytasty. Her lyrical offering, accompanied lowed with “Oy Dai Bozhe, Vesnu,” a song by Julian Kytasty on bandura, took this clas- from the Chornobyl region of Polissia that sic, usually sung by a male voice, to refresh- calls forth the spring. They finished with ing heights. “Kalyna Malyna nad Yarom Stoyala.” The With the Ukrainian Women’s Voices trio format allowed each singer to exqui- leading them, audience members wound sitely exercise the possibilities of these their way out of the museum, down East seemingly simple songs. Sixth Street and to the Ukrainian National Ms. Kytasty returned with Michael Home. There, they were treated to Andriy Andrec, a fellow founding member of the Milavsky and the Cheres folk ensemble, to Experimental Bandura Trio that explored whose music choreographers Roman musical possibilities of the bandura. The Lewkowicz and Tamara Chernyakhovska two bandurists started with an improvisa- taught several traditional dances. The tion of a traditional folk dance melody. Just Syzokryli Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, as it seemed that they had settled into the under the direction of Orlando V. Pagan, melody, Mr. Andrec picked up a tympani gave a rousing performance. drumstick and gave his bandura strings The reception catered by Nadia Taichin such a resounding blow that he almost Scaglione provided the audience with shattered the soundboard. Transported tempting and tasty treats while this eve- into a musical space where they played that ning of creativity, passion, and innovation introductory theme as if reflected in a bro- continued late into the night. No. 13 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 19

April 1 Lecture with Giulia Lami, “’Little Russia’ in the Eyes of April 7 General meeting, League of Ukrainian Catholics – North New York the Swiss Writer Victor Tissot at the Beginning of the Nanticoke, PA Anthracite Council, Holy Transfiguration Ukrainian 1880s,” Columbia University, [email protected] Catholic Church, 570-822-5354

April 1-26 Art exhibit, “Tethered: Sculptures and Drawings by April 7 Mixed-art evening, “Video Poetry,” Yara Arts Group, The Brookline, MA Tatiana Flis,” Brookline Arts Center, 617-566-5715 New York Ukrainian Museum, www.ukrainianmuseum.org

April 4 Film festival opening reception, “KinoFestNYC,” April 7 Easter egg hunt and hahilky singing, Immaculate New York Ukrainian Institute of America, www.kinofestnyc.com Hillside, NJ Conception Ukrainian Catholic Church, 908-322-7350 or www.byzcath.org/immaculateconception April 5-7 Film festival, “KinofestNYC,” The Ukrainian Museum, New York Anthology Film Archives, www.ukrainianmuseum.org or April 7 Pysanka lecture and demonstration with Gloria Horbaty, www.kinofestnyc.com New Haven, CT Ukrainian National Women’s League of America – Branch 108, Ethnic Heritage Center, Southern Connecticut State April 5-28 Art exhibit, “The Artwork of Oleksiy Kovalenko and University, 203-392-6126 or 203-269-5909 Chicago Nataliya Guchenia,” Ukrainian National Museum, 312-421-8020 April 8 Lecture by Maria Grazia Bartolini, “The Evolutionary Path Cambridge, MA of Skovoroda’s Literary Language: Deukrainianization vs. April 5-June 2 Art exhibit, “Subconscious Eye: John A. Kurtz, Bruce Church-Slavonicization,” Harvard University, Chicago Thorn and Paul Lamantia,” Ukrainian Institute of Modern 617-495-4053 Art, 773-227-5522 April 9 Lecture by Andrei Melville, “Why There are No Post- April 6 Pysanka workshop, Ukrainian National Museum, Stanford, CA Communist Autocracies with Good Institutions,” Stanford Chicago 312-421-8020 University, https://cressevents.wufoo.com/forms/crees- seminar-49-andrei-melville April 6 Book presentation by Yuriy Tarnawsky, “Kvity New York Khvoromu,” Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 April 12-June 4 Art Exhibit, “Andrij Maday, Woodcuts and Drawings: Cleveland Works on Paper and Their Process,” Morgan Art of April 6 Table tennis tournament, Ukrainian American Youth Papermaking Conservatory and Educational Foundation, Palatine, IL Association – Palatine Branch, [email protected] www.morganconservatory.com or 216-361-9255 April 7 Lecture by J.P. Brown, “Field Museum Collections Inside Chicago and Out: X-ray Computed Tomography Applied to Cultural April 13 Wedding bread workshop, The Ukrainian Museum, Heritage,” Ukrainian Medical Association of North New York 212-228-0110 or [email protected] America – Illinois Branch, Field Museum of Natural History, 773-278-6262 or www.umana.org/events.php Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions April 7 Family workshop, “A Ukrainian Easter,” The Ukrainian from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors New York Museum, 212-228-0110 or [email protected] and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. Re: The Weekly’s listings of upcoming events The Ukrainian Weekly has several separate listings of community events which it encour- ages members of the Ukrainian community to utilize to their fullest. However, each listing has its specificity and should be used approj13priately. Below is information on The Weekly’s three calendars of upcoming events.

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Saturday, April 6 evening of video poetry with poet and video artist Kateryna Babkina from Kyiv. NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites all to a presentation of Dr. Yuri The videos feature Ukrainian poets Yuri Tarnawsky’s latest book, “Kvity Khvoromu” Andrukhovych, Bohdan-Oleh Horbochuk, (Piramida, Lviv, 2012). Dr. Tarnawsky is one Halyna Kruk, Iryna Shuvalova, Victoria of the founding members of the New York Stakh and Oksana Zabuzhko, as well as Group, a Ukrainian émigré avant-garde Ukrainian American poet Dzvinia group of writers, and co-founder and co-edi- Orlowska and Lithuanian poets Dainius tor of the journal Novi Poeziyi (New Poetry; Gintalas and Gabriele Labanauskaite. The 1959-1972). He writes fiction, poetry, plays video artists include: Yuriy Kruchak and and criticism in both Ukrainian and English. Yulia Kostereva, Olia Mykhailiuk/ArtPole, The lecture will take place at the society’s Grytsa Erde, Max Hoffman, Volodymyr building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and Klyuzko and Oleksandr Usik with the pop- 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For additional infor- ular Telnyuk Sisters. Yara artists will per- mation call 212-254-5130. form the poems in English. The event begins at 6 p.m. during KinofestNYC at The Sunday, April 7 Ukrainian Museum, 222 E. Sixth St. See NEW YORK: Yara Arts Group curates an www.ukrainianmuseum.org.

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Tennis Camp Tabir Ptashat June 23-July 4 Session 1: June 23-29 2013 Summer Camp Kicks off the summer with 12 days Session 2: June 30-July 6 of intensive tennis instruction and com- Ukrainian Plast tabir (camp) for chil- Information petitive play, for boys and girls age dren age 4-6 accompanied by their par- 10-18. Attendance will be limited to 45 ents. Registration forms will also be students. Room, board, 24-hour super- appearing in the Svoboda and The vision, expert lessons and loads of fun Ukrainian Weekly in March and April. are included. Camp is under the direc- For further information, please contact tion of George Sawchak. Neonila Sochan at 973-984-7456.

Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance Academy Workshop June 30- July 13 Vigorous 2-week dance training for more intermediate and advanced dancers age 16 and up under the direction of the Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance Foundation, culminating with performances on stage during the Ukrainian Cultural Festival weekend. Additional information http://www.syzokryli.com/

Ukrainian Heritage Day Camp Session 1: July 14-19 • Session 2: July 21-26 A returning favorite, in the form of a day camp. Children age 4-7 will be exposed to Ukrainian heritage through daily activities such as dance, song, crafts and games. Children will walk away with an expanded knowledge of Ukrainian folk culture and lan- guage, as well as new and lasting friendships with other children of Ukrainian heritage. Price includes kid’s lunch and T-shirt and, unless noted, is based on in-house occupan- cy of parent/guardian.

Discovery Camp Chornomorska Sitch Sports School Roma Pryma Bohachevsky July 14-20 Session 1: July 21-27 • Session 2: July 28-August 3 Ukrainian Dance Camp Calling all nature lovers age 8-15 for this sleep- 44th annual sports camp run by the Ukrainian Athletic-Educational Session 1: July 21-August 3 over program filled with outdoor crafts, hiking, swim- Association Chornomorska Sitch for children age 6-17. This camp ming, organized sports and games, bonfires, songs will focus on soccer, tennis, volleyball and swimming, and is perfect Session 2: August 4-August 17 and much more. Room, board, 24-hour supervision for any sports enthusiast. Please contact sitchsportsschool@gmail. Directed by Ania Bohachevsky-Lonkevych (daugh- and a lifetime of memories are included. com for an application and additional information. ter of Roma Pryma Bohachevsky), this camp is for aspiring dancers age 8 -16, offering expert instruction for beginning, intermediate and advanced students. For applications or more info please call Soyuzivka, 845-626-5641, Room, board, 24-hour supervision, expert lessons and plenty of fun are included. Each camp ends with a or check our website at www.soyuzivka.com grand recital. Attendance will be limited to 60 students.