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The Ukrainian Weekly, 2018 INSIDE: l International action on Holodomor’s 85th anniversary – page 4 l Communities celebrate Ukraine’s Independence Day – pages 10-11 l Ukrainian National Association’s scholarship winners – pages 12-13 THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXXVI No. 36 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2018 $2.00 Volker says U.S. Meeting of Orthodox hierarchs in Istanbul is ready to send more arms to Kyiv gives Ukraine more hope for autocephaly RFE/RL The United States is ready to widen arms supplies to Ukraine to help build up the country’s naval and air defense forces in the face of continuing Russian support for eastern separatists, the U.S. special envoy for Ukraine told The Guardian. Kurt Volker told the newspaper in an interview published on September 1 that pro-Western, anti-Russian sentiment was growing in Ukraine and that the Trump administration was “absolutely” pre- pared to go further in supplying weapon- ry to Ukrainian forces than the anti-tank missiles it delivered in April. “They are losing soldiers every week defending their own country,” Mr. Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA NATO, said in the interview. More than 100 Orthodox metropolitans and archbishops of the Ecumenical Patriarchate assembled in Istanbul on September 1-3 “And so in that context it’s natural for for a Synaxis whose agenda included the issue of autocephaly for Ukraine’s Orthodox Church. Ukraine to build up its military, engage in self-defense, and it’s natural to seek by Mark Raczkiewycz Indications of optimism for autocephaly implemented… This was announced to assistance and it’s natural that other of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church came fol- Patriarch Kirill during his visit,” said countries should help them. And of KYIV – Ukraine received more encourag- lowing Ecumenical Patriarch Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, after course they need lethal assistance ing signs that it could receive canonical per- Bartholomew’s meeting with Russian the meeting of the two primates, as cited by because they’re being shot at,” he added. mission to form a unified Ukrainian Patriarch Kirill on August 31 ahead of the Greek-language religious news agency Moscow’s takeover of Ukraine’s Orthodox Church following an assembly of Synaxis of the Hierarchs of the Ecumenical orthodoxia.info. Crimean peninsula and its support for more than 100 metropolitans and arch- Patriarchate. “The ecumenical patriarch has decided separatists in eastern Ukraine prompted bishops at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in The assembly of leading Orthodox hier- to use all ways possible to resolve the issue the United States, the European Union Istanbul that took place on September 1-3. archs is consultative in nature and is com- of granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian and others to impose sanctions on Russia. The move would further erode parable to a meeting of directors of various Orthodox Church,” he added, according to Russia seized Crimea in March 2014 Moscow’s influence in Ukraine as the two shareholding groups, whereas the decision- the Ukrainian news site Hromadske after sending in troops, taking over key predominantly Orthodox countries contin- making body, or Synod, is more like a man- International’s correspondent in Istanbul. facilities, and staging a referendum ue fighting a multi-front war on the battle- aging board of directors. The Russian Orthodox Church and its deemed illegitimate by at least 100 field, in cyberspace, diplomatically and on The decision to grant canonical recogni- energy issues. tion, via a Tomos of Autocephaly, “will be (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 17) Parma’s Ukrainian Village marks Ukraine’s independence with a parade by Marta Liscynesky-Kelleher American Veterans Post 24, American Legion Post 572 Joseph J. Jacubic and PARMA, Ohio – Parma’s Ukrainian Legion Auxiliary. Participating local busi- American community commemorated the nesses and Ukrainian organizations were 27th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence surrounded by the music of three local high with a parade on Saturday, August 25. school marching bands: Padua Franciscan, The annual parade kicked-off at 11 a.m. Normandy and Parma high schools. from Cleveland Selfreliance Federal Credit All local Ukrainian Churches participat- Union, the entry way to Ukrainian Village, a ed – Orthodox, Catholic and Baptist – as did 1.5 mile stretch along Parma’s main thor- members of the Eastern European oughfare, State Road. Ukrainian Village, Congress of Ohio. Grand Marshal Oleh lined by Ukrainian American businesses, Mahlay, an active member of the Parma hosted the parade, which proceeded past Ukrainian community and artistic director St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral and conductor of the Ukrainian Bandurist to the main stage on the grounds of St. Chorus, which is celebrating its 100th anni- Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, versary, greeted the crowds lining the directly across from the Ukrainian Heritage street. The grand marshal was sponsored Park dedicated by the City of Parma. by the Ukrainian Federal Credit Union – The nearly 50 organizations marching in Alex Fedorchuk Osnova branch. this year’s parade were led by the City of Parma Mayor Tim DeGeeter with Ukrainian Independence Day parade marshals and Cleveland Police Honor Guard, Ukrainian organizers. (Continued on page 9) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2018 No. 36 ANALYSIS European Court of Human Rights demands Russia Ukraine-NATO military exercises nized the famine as an act of genocide by the Stalin regime against the Ukrainian people. Ukraine has begun joint military exercises Moscow has long denied any systematic account for health of Ukrainian political prisoners with 10 NATO countries in western Ukraine effort to target Ukrainians, arguing that a amid ongoing tensions with Russia over psychotropic drugs and tortured into sign- poor harvest at the time wiped out many in by Halya Coynash Moscow’s illegal annexation of the Crimean ing “confessions” to insanely impossible other parts of the then-Soviet Union. (RFE/ Kharkiv Human Rights peninsula and the ongoing conflict in eastern “crimes” supposedly involving Ukraine’s RL, based on reporting by RFE/RL’s Protection Group Ukraine between government forces and then Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Ukrainian Service, TASS, and Novosti-n.org) The European Court of Human Rights other prominent Ukrainian politicians back Russia-backed separatists. The Rapid Trident has responded swiftly to Ukraine’s request in 1994-1995. 2018 drills officially opened on September 3 Zakharchenko killed in cafe blast for urgent measures (under Rule 39) at the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National There are very strong grounds for con- The leadership of the pro-Russia mili- regarding the state of health of four cern about Mr. Klykh’s psychological state Ground Forces Academy in the western tants in eastern Ukraine has been thrown Ukrainian political prisoners: Volodymyr after all that he has been through, including a region of Lviv. Taking part are about 2,200 into disarray after the head of the so-called Balukh, Stanislav Klykh, human rights Kafkaesque “trial,” in which even historical troops from 14 countries, including the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) was killed activist Emir-Usein Kuku and Serhiy fact was ignored. It was also reported in early United States and nine other NATO member in an explosion at a cafe designed to honor Lytvynov. The move is very welcome, how- June that Mr. Klykh was on hunger strike. states. The maneuvers are scheduled to con- ever the number of political prisoners, tinue until September 15. For Ukrainian forc- the separatists. The death on August 31 of especially in occupied Crimea, whose very Emir-Usein Kuku es, the exercises will involve 350 units of mil- Aleksandr Zakharchenko at the Separ cafe – life Russia is jeopardizing is much higher. Mr. Kuku is one of six recognized politi- itary equipment. The Ukrainian Border a separatist-themed establishment featur- Ivan Lishchyna, Ukraine’s representative cal prisoners now on trial in Rostov, Russia, Guard Service and Ukrainian National Guard ing camouflage netting hanging from its to the European Court of Human Rights, on charges of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir. troops will take part in the drills for the first eaves – drove the separatist council into an reported on August 23 that the court in This is a peaceful pan-Islamist organization time. The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie emergency meeting and angered the sepa- Strasbourg has given Russia until that is legal in Ukraine and not known to Yovanovitch, said at the opening ceremony ratists’ backers in Moscow. The TASS news September 5 to provide information about have committed any act of terrorism any- that all countries participating in the maneu- agency reported that Mr. Zakharchenko’s the men’s state of health and what medical where in the world, but which Russia vers “stand in solidarity with Ukraine for bodyguard also died as a result of the blast, treatment they are receiving. It asks wheth- declared “terrorist.” There is every reason Ukrainian security, Ukrainian sovereignty, while a dozen others were injured. The er particular prisoners have declared hun- to believe that the Crimean Tatar human and Ukrainian territorial integrity.” The Donetsk News Agency said in a statement ger strikes and, if so, what measures are rights activist has been targeted because of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on its website that another separatist figure, being taken in connection with this. his rights activism and for his refusal to say has described Rapid Trident maneuvers as “a Aleksandr Timofeyev, was injured in the Mr. Lishchyna writes that ECHR is thus nothing about previous, unrelated, forms of culmination of multinational training exer- blast and was in serious condition. breaking through the information vacuum harassment, including an attempted abduc- cises, conducted annually, that serves as the “According to verified data, the terror attack that Russia has created around the state of tion.
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