INSIDE: • Ukraine’s ‘Joint Address to NATO Secretary General’ — page 3. • International Ukrainian soccer tourney in Australia — page 9. • Pysanka symposium to be held in Washington, D.C. — page 22. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXXVI No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 $1/$2 in Ukraine Freedom House Ukraine seeks NATO Membership Action Plan by Illya M. Labunka reports freedom Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – “We will be forced to use appropriate measures.” is on the decline That was the Russian Foreign Ministry’s initial reaction to Ukraine’s latest bid toward European and Trans-Atlantic integra- by Andrew Tully tion. RFE/RL Newsline President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia 2007 was a bad year for freedom, accord- Tymoshenko and Verkhovna Rada Chair Arseniy Yatsenyuk on ing to a prominent rights-advocacy organi- January 15 issued a “Joint Address to the NATO Secretary zation that has registered a global decline in General” asking that Ukraine join the NATO Membership political rights and civil liberties for the sec- Action Plan (MAP) at the upcoming NATO summit scheduled ond consecutive year. for April in Bucharest. In its annual “Freedom of the World” The bold foreign policy announcement declaring Ukraine’s report released on January 17 the New readiness to advance to the next level of NATO-Ukraine cooper- York-based group Freedom House found ation, which was signed on January 11 but made public on that one-fifth of the 193 countries it studied January 15, is a clear sign of Ukraine’s long-awaited unified suffered setbacks last year. None of the political leadership at the highest levels. states that earned the lowest designation, The joint statement issued by Ukraine’s top three government “not free,” in 2006 showed any improve- officials has drawn praise as well as criticism, both within ment last year, and it was the first time in the domestic circles and those abroad. report’s 15-year history that a two-year “Due to the fact that our [Russia’s] relations with NATO are decline had been recorded. very challenging at present, I am not certain the alliance will The former Soviet republics were among extend an invitation to Ukraine,” stated Dimitri Rogozin, the worst performers, with parliamentary Russia’s permanent representative at NATO. elections late in the year in Russia, rated In addition, a country’s entry into an international alliance, “not free,” highlighting the perilous environ- and particularly a military one, suggests that it is ready to forego UNIAN/Oleksander Prokopenko Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Hryhorii Nemyria, speaking at ment in the region’s most influential state. part of its sovereignty and relinquish its right to decide issues a press conference on January 18, presents the “Joint Address “It’s fair to say that freedom is seriously concerning defense, security, military and foreign policy, cau- to the NATO Secretary General” signed by President Viktor lacking in this region or unit, that is to say tioned Mr. Rogozin. Mr. Rogozin said he believes that Ukraine’s entry into NATO would have a negative effect and would ruin Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the former Soviet Union,” Freedom House the military manufacturing sector currently in place between Verkhovna Rada Chairman Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Director of Studies Chris Walker told Russia and Ukraine. RFE/RL. “Of the 12 non-Baltic former In a clear indication of Russia’s economic and security con- tors of both countries have tight relations, because a large num- Soviet republics, seven of those are assessed cerns, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on January 23 ber of our plants date back to the Soviet days and manufacture by Freedom House as ‘not free,’ four are indicated that current relations with Ukraine, particularly in the hardware which can only be produced jointly,” stated Mr. ‘partly free,’ and one is ‘free’ [Ukraine]. So, military-industrial sector, would now directly depend on it’s a very challenging landscape for free- Ukraine’s relationship with NATO. “The military-industrial sec- (Continued on page 8) dom in that part of the world.” Belarus, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are among the “worst of the worst” coun- tries in the world in terms of human rights, and are joined on the list of “not free” coun- Ukraine on verge of obtaining WTO membership tries by Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Two countries looked upon as examples by Illya M. Labunka who took part in the negotiations and all “This is a lot of work, which Ukraine of positive democratic change, Georgia and Kyiv Press Bureau of us, with such a successful compro- must fulfill as part of its overall Kyrgyzstan, both rated “partly free,” took mise,” said Mr. Mendelsohn. European integration plan, said Mr. KYIV – Ukraine may soon become the steps backward – with Russia’s influence in President Viktor Yushchenko said he is Yushchenko. The president said that World Trade Organization’s (WTO) obstructing reforms being noted in the case optimistic about Ukraine’s imminent Ukraine needs to create an appropriate 152nd member state. A final decision of Kyrgyzstan. admission to the WTO. During a meeting infrastructure within the government, in regarding Ukraine’s membership in the “There were big hopes for Kyrgyzstan of the National Security and Defense the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and rep- organization is scheduled to take place and Georgia that if new people came to Council (NSDC), Mr. Yushchenko said resentative offices in various internation- during the WTO’s General Council meet- power, then [the new governments] would that all formal talks regarding the WTO al organizations. “We need to do every- ing in Geneva slated for the first week of apply democratic principles by their actions are complete and underscored that he has thing so that all negotiations would be February. and pressure [on the opposition] would no doubt that Ukraine will soon receive finalized in 2008. This is a key strategy On January 16, during negotiations in stop,” Ilim Karypbekov, director of the direct WTO membership. of ours,” continued Mr. Yushchenko. Media Representative Institute in London, the European Union (EU) and “This will provide Ukraine’s govern- According to the president, Ukraine’s Kyrgyzstan, tells RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service. Ukraine finalized an agreement on export ment leaders the opportunity to engage in membership in the WTO is a legal win- “However, if you look at Georgia, protest tariffs, in principle eliminating the last direct dialogue with members of the dow of opportunity for Ukraine to engage rally participants were beaten up again,” Mr. major hurdle between Ukraine and the global market economy,” said the presi- with the business community on all con- Karypbekov continued. “At the same time, WTO. dent. tinents. This will increase the country’s international observer missions showed that According to EU Trade Commissioner The next necessary step for Ukraine is GDP and stimulate all sectors of its econ- the [Georgian presidential] election was Peter Mendelsohn, since the EU has lift- to engage the EU in negotiations regard- omy. held under enormous pressure [on the oppo- ed its last barrier for Ukraine to achieve ing the creation of a free-trade zone, said U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William sition] and with the use of administrative WTO status, there no longer are any for- the president. The preparatory phase of Taylor said he is convinced that Ukraine resources. The same happened in mal legal reasons to impede Ukraine’s such talks has already been undertaken. will soon be a member of the WTO. Kyrgyzstan’s [early parliamentary elections admission. Ukraine has agreed to reduce Ukraine has a series of questions and According to Mr. Taylor, Ukraine’s mem- in December 2007].” the number of existing export tariffs and issues for discussion, Ukraine has a clear bership in the WTO will steer Ukraine Joining Kyrgyzstan and Georgia among promised not to increase them in the negotiating plan, as well as an official into Europe and will have a positive the former Soviet republics considered future, according to Mr. Mendelsohn. announcement by both the EU and effect on Ukraine’s economy. “partly free” were Armenia and Moldova. “This is a very historic day, a very Ukraine as to the timeframe of when Sen. Richard Lugar, the senior important breakthrough, and I want to such talks will begin, Mr. Yushchenko (Continued on page 5) congratulate the Ukrainian participants explained. (Continued on page 8) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 No. 4 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS

Yushchenko strives to dominate Deputies’ immunity still an issue demanding that Rada Chairman Arseniy Yatsenyuk withdraw his signature from KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko Ukraine’s request for a NATO government led by Tymoshenko said on January 22 that the Verkhovna Membership Action Plan, RFE/RL’s Rada during its ongoing session should by Pavel Korduban boost his powers at the expense of the Ukrainian Service reported. President pass a draft bill abolishing national Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Eurasia Daily Monitor prime minister because Mr. Yanukovych deputies’ immunity from prosecution, Tymoshenko and Mr. Yatsenyuk recently held the majority in Parliament. Now the RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service reported. The political honeymoon between sent a letter to NATO Secretary-General situation is different, as Mr. Yushchenko’s Viacheslav Kyrylenko of the Our Ukraine Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, formally request- Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense bloc – People’s Self-Defense (OU-PSD) bloc and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko ing to take the step toward NATO mem- (OU-PSD) is part of the parliamentary and Ivan Kyrylenko of the Yulia appears to be over. Mr. Yushchenko has bership at the NATO summit in Bucharest majority, so Mr. Yushchenko can directly Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) on January 21 thwarted Ms. Tymoshenko’s planned visit in April. “This letter initiates the actual influence decision-making in the submitted the corresponding draft to the to Moscow, torpedoed planned appoint- procedure of Ukraine’s accession to Verkhovna Rada. Parliament. The annulment of parliamen- ments to her government, disagreed with NATO,” Nestor Shufrych of the Party of The president has come up with a tary immunity must first be approved by a her privatization plan, and come up with a the Regions said, adding that “Ukraine package of bills aimed at boosting his simple majority in the Rada, then con- package of bills aimed at diminishing the authority. One of the bills is meant to never made any specific decision on this firmed by the Constitutional Court, and matter.” The Party of the Regions also role of the prime minister and the amend the law on the Cabinet of finally approved by a two-thirds majority Cabinet. Ministers that was passed in January 2007 issued a statement describing the request in the 450-seat Parliament. The coalition of by Ukraine’s leaders as “political specula- President Yushchenko was weakened and further diluted presidential powers. If the YTB and OU-PSD controls 228 seats tions in the context of future presidential by the constitutional reform of December Parliament passes the amendments, the in the Verkhovna Rada. (RFE/RL elections.” According to the Party of the 2004, which made the prime minister and president will be authorized to disagree Newsline) Regions, the prime minister alone should Parliament considerably stronger vis-à- with the parliamentary majority’s choice sign such letters, as well as take responsi- vis the president than under his predeces- for prime minister; Parliament will not be Constitutional Council expanding bility for doing so. (RFE/RL Newsline) sor, Leonid Kuchma. allowed to dismiss the ministers of for- Reversing the changes is out of the KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko eign affairs and defense – the only two met on January 22 with leaders of parlia- Marchuk: Russia’s reaction is important question, as Mr. Yushchenko has never Cabinet ministers whom the president had the required two-thirds majority in mentary factions and called on them to KYIV – It is impossible to ignore the appoints; the Cabinet will have to obey nominate representatives to the National Parliament. However, Mr. Yushchenko decisions made by the National Security position of the Russian Federation on has never concealed that he would like to Constitutional Council, RFE/RL’s Ukraine’s membership in NATO, said and Defense Council – a body chaired by Ukrainian Service reported. Mr. make the presidency stronger, if not by the president; and regional governors (as Yevhen Marchuk, ex-minister of defense reversing the amendments then by other Yushchenko created the Constitutional and ex-secretary of the National Security oblast administration chairs are known) – Council in December 2007 in order to pre- means, such as exercising control over who are appointed by the president – will and Defense Council in an interview with the prime minister or adopting laws pare a new version of the Constitution of Radio Liberty. According to news reported have the right to veto the Cabinet’s Ukraine. The president told the meeting diminishing the Cabinet’s powers. appointments to the regional offices of on January 18, he noted that current Mr. Yushchenko’s tug-of-war with Ms. that at least 230 candidates to the council Cabinet ministries. Ukrainian-Russian relations are so compli- Tymoshenko’s predecessor, Viktor have been proposed so far, including repre- cated and important for Ukraine that it is Mr. Yushchenko wants the internal Yanukovych, ended with the September sentatives of four parties represented in the simply impossible to pretend we do not troops, which have so far been subordi- Parliament. “The opposition must be 2007 snap parliamentary election. care about Russia’s reaction. “As is involved to the maximum. This is of cru- President Yushchenko had been unable to (Continued on page 20) known, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia cial significance for me,” Interfax quoted Tymoshenko will meet with her Russian Mr. Yushchenko as saying. Viktor counterpart Viktor Zubkov soon. I do not Yanukovych, leader of the opposition know if the question will be discussed, but Party of the Regions, said that his party is they both will feel it behind their backs,” Tymoshenko and Yushchenko holding off on nominating its candidates Mr. Marchuk added. He also noted that it until a meeting with the president. “If we would be best to find a formula for work- are at the start and if we are beginning to ing with Russia that would “at least ease clash over battling corruption move along this way, our party will Russia’s understanding of why we are undoubtedly participate,” Mr. Yanukovych by Taras Kuzio believe that it was a manly hit that should doing so” [pursuing NATO membership]. said. (RFE/RL Newsline) Eurasia Daily Monitor be undertaken by everybody who wants to (Ukrinform) live in an honest state.” Opposition blocs Rada over NATO Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia On December 7, 2007, Mr. Lutsenko and Poland hails step toward NATO Tymoshenko has made combating corrup- Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) National KYIV – Opposition parliament deputies KYIV – Polish President Lech tion and strengthening the rule of law cen- Deputy Sviatoslav Oliinyk introduced a from the Party of the Regions and the Kaczynski hailed the address to NATO tral elements in her government’s policy. parliamentary resolution to remove Communist Party on January 18 blocked She is apparently starting at the highest Procurator General Oleksander Medvedko. the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada, (Continued on page 14) levels of the government. 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(Continued on page 22) No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 3 NEWS ANALYSIS: Ukraine’s top three leaders request NATO Membership Action Plan by Vladimir Socor eration more clearly to the Ukrainian public the end of the MAP process, the member- a pre-summit consensus on this issue is Eurasia Daily Monitor and significantly increase budget funding ship issue will be put to a referendum. becoming more problematic. In Ukraine for such explanatory efforts. The people of “This is the clear position of the president, itself, however, the governing coalition of On January 16 Ukraine’s President Ukraine will in any case be “consulted [by government and Parliament,” Mr. Chalyi the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Our Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia the leadership] about the question of said. However, this would be a “consulta- Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense bloc took Tymoshenko and Parliament Chairman Ukraine’s future membership in NATO.” tive” referendum. Mr. Chalyi pointedly office in December 2007 with a solid inter- Arseniy Yatsenyuk made public a joint let- Based on the country’s readiness to noted that joining NATO is a matter for nal consensus regarding the goal of NATO ter to NATO Secretary General Jaap de undertake “new commitments” in its rela- nations, not just leaders or governments. membership. Hoop Scheffer, declaring Ukraine’s readi- tionship with the alliance, the three leaders Meanwhile, Ukrainian diplomats are now President Yushchenko and his followers ness to advance to a Membership Action trust that the upcoming summit would holding talks with key NATO member- had been committed to this goal all along, Plan (MAP) with NATO and requesting a approve a decision whereby Ukraine would countries to develop support for a MAP although the president himself pursued it decision to that end by the alliance at its enter into a Membership Action Plan with decision at the alliance’s summit without consistency or resolve, allowing Bucharest summit in early April. NATO (www.president.gov.ua, January (www.president.gov.ua, UNIAN, January short-term partisan considerations at times The three Ukrainian leaders’ letter states 16). 16). to trump the strategic goal of joining NATO that the country sees itself as part of the Elaborating on the letter, the Presidential The three top leaders actually signed the and even decelerating cooperation pro- Euro-Atlantic security space; is determined Secretariat’s deputy chief responsible for letter to Mr. de Hoop Scheffer on January grams. to counteract threats to common security foreign policy, Oleksander Chalyi, told 11 (sending it presumably that day), but For her part, Ms. Tymoshenko embraced alongside NATO countries; and is commit- journalists that the key policy issue made it public on January 16 at the end of that goal late but convincingly during the ted to continuing its participation in NATO- involves upgrading the format of NATO- U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar’s visit to Ukraine. home run to her second premiership, as led peacekeeping and anti-terrorist opera- Ukraine relations, after the 2004-2007 On January 10 the Tymoshenko-led stated in the landmark article she wrote for tions. The leaders state that progress Intensified Dialogue has been fully utilized Cabinet of Ministers announced its own the September-October issue of the U.S. already achieved within the NATO-Ukraine and by now almost exhausted its potential. action plan on foreign policy, including an journal Foreign Affairs and subsequent pro- Intensified Dialogue constitutes a strong Mr. Chalyi drew more explicitly than the unambiguously stipulated goal of full nouncements. basis for advancing to a MAP. letter a distinction between membership membership in NATO. However, the gov- Georgian President Mikheil Citing “deep and irreversible democratic and the MAP process, which he described ernment’s program also envisages that Saakashvili’s January 5 re-election, and the changes [that] enable Ukraine to fulfill all as one stage toward the ultimate goal of Ukraine’s ultimate decision on membership concurrent plebiscite that shows more than the necessary criteria for NATO member- membership (Interfax-Ukraine, January would be taken “by referendum only” 70 percent Georgian public support for ship,” the letter assures the alliance that 16). (UNIAN, January 10). NATO membership, also encouraged the Ukraine would broaden and deepen Declining to forecast a time frame for The imminence of NATO’s summit three Ukrainian leaders to send their letter reforms of the security and defense sector. attaining that goal, Mr. Chalyi underscored clearly precipitated the Ukrainian leaders’ to NATO. In debates within the alliance Furthermore, the government intends to the need to develop internal political sup- letter, as the lead time to the summit is explain the merits of NATO-Ukraine coop- port in Ukraine for NATO membership. At tightening and the allies’ ability to work out (Continued on page 22) OSCE chairman meets Ukraine’s president FOR THE RECORD: “Joint Address for talks on OSCE and regional matters to the NATO Secretary General” Organization for Security ic reforms. Following is the text of the “Joint NATO member-states within the new and Coooperation in Europe “Ukraine is ready to move ahead with Address to the NATO Secretary mechanisms of cooperation in the reforms, and the OSCE looks forward to General” signed by President Viktor compliance and implementation of KYIV – The OSCE chairman-in- building on its strong relationship with Yushchenko, Verkhovna Rada fundamental treaties related to interna- Chairman Arseniy Yatsenyuk and office, Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka the government,” he said after those tional security. In particular, our state Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. has acceded to the Proliferation Kanerva, met Ukrainian President Viktor talks. The letter to NATO Secretary General Security Initiative, the Global Yushchenko on January 16 and congratu- The two-day visit to Ukraine also Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is dated Initiative to Combat Nuclear lated Ukraine on its progress pursuing included meetings with Ukrainian Vice January 15. It was released by the Terrorism, the G-8 Global Partnership political reforms and consolidating its Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyria and Press Office of Ukraine’s President. Against the Spread of Weapons and democratic system. the chairman of Parliament, Arseniy Your Excellency: Materials of Mass Destruction. Minister Kanerva also added that the Yatsenyuk. Since restoration of its independ- Ukraine is a recognized regional Organization for Security and Minister Kanerva welcomed Ukraine’s ence in 1991, Ukraine has passed a leader and stands for strengthening Cooperation in Europe was keen to con- commitment to the 5+2 negotiating protracted path of its rapprochement regional security, in particular in the tinue to work on practical projects in process regarding the Transdniestrian set- with NATO: from the fruitful coopera- BSEC, GUAM, CEI framework – Ukraine that would support the country. tlement and expressed satisfaction that he tion in the framework of the under close cooperation with NATO “The OSCE has a strong track record had heard from Ukrainian officials that Partnership for Peace program and and the European Union. in Ukraine, and we are happy to assist if he could continue to rely on the country’s special relationship in the format of the Profound and irrevocable democrat- requested,” said Minister Kanerva, who active engagement. He was to travel to Charter on a Distinctive Partnership to ic transformations have today become is on his first visit to a country hosting an Moldova, including its Transdniester OSCE field operation since Finland took the effective interaction in the frame- the objective prerequisites for resolv- region, for talks there on January 17. work of the Ukraine-NATO Action ing critical issues to fully achieve all over the OSCE chairmanship from Spain En route from Kyiv to Chisinau, Plan and the Intensified Dialogue on the criteria required for membership in on January 1. Minister Kanerva was scheduled to visit membership and relevant reforms. the North Atlantic Treaty The chairman-in-office also met with the headquarters of the European Union The Euro-Atlantic integration policy Organization. Foreign Affairs Minister Volodymyr Border Assistance Mission to Moldova is specified in Ukrainian legislation; it Our main priority is deepening Ohryzko and said the OSCE stood ready and Ukraine (EUBAM) in Odesa. Border is not directed against third countries, large-scale reforms in the political, to assist the new Ukrainian government management is one of Finland’s priorities and it is aimed at Ukraine’s prospec- economic, defense, security, legal and in pursuing further political and econom- for its year chairing the OSCE. tive membership in the North Atlantic other spheres aimed to enhance demo- Treaty Organization to be deliberated cratic institutions, the well-being and with the Ukrainian people. security of the Ukrainian people. Lutsenko, Chernovetskyi Fully sharing European democratic Activities aimed at raising in a sys- values, our state identifies itself as part tematic and resolute manner, public of the Euro-Atlantic security area and awareness of the broad range of issues exchange blows at NSDC is willing, together with NATO and of Ukraine’s cooperation with NATO partners thereof, to counteract com- continue to be significant. It is envis- KYIV – Internal Affairs Minister Chernovetskyi said at the meeting that mon threats to security under equal aged to essentially increase budget Yurii Lutsenko and Kyiv Mayor Mr. Lutsenko threatened to arrest his conditions. It is for this reason that allocations to this end in the program Leonid Chernovetskyi on January 18 son unless he allocated plots of land Ukraine will deepen and broaden this of the government. exchanged blows at a meeting of the for police officers. trend of its cooperation with the We hope that the progress achieved National Security and Defense Council Kyiv’s prosecutor is currently inves- Alliance ensuring continued participa- by Ukraine in the framework of the dedicated to the discussion of land tigating the incident, reported RFE/RL. tion in peacemaking and anti-terrorist Intensified Dialogue on membership issues, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service According to Ukrinform, on January operations conducted under the aegis and relevant reforms will be recog- reported. 21 President Viktor Yushchenko wrote of NATO. nized by the Alliance in the near Mr. Chernovetskyi said that Mr. to the procurator general, asking for a Ukraine is also a reliable partner of future. Currently, Ukraine is interested Lutsenko “barbarously attacked” him study of all circumstances of the inci- the Alliance in its foreign policy, sup- in accession to the NATO Membership because of a “loss of control” and “the dent, and, if necessary, for application porting in various formats, specifically Action Plan. lack of arguments in a dispute.” of all legal measures against Messrs. in the U.N. and OSCE framework or We expect that the level of our Mr. Lutsenko, who at the meeting Lutsenko and Chernovetskyi. through accession to the EU position, state’s readiness for new commitments accused Kyiv’s City Council of the Presidential Secretariat Chair Viktor current approaches concerning solu- will become the basis for a positive “unlawful distribution” of land, said he Baloha commented that the incident tion of outstanding issues of the response at the forthcoming Ukraine- “gave Chernovetskyi a slap” for slan- European and global security. NATO summit in Bucharest in April der. According to Mr. Lutsenko, Mr. (Continued on page 19) Ukraine actively interacts with 2008. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 No. 4 OBITUARY: Boris Baczynskyj, 62, internationally known chess master, journalist PHILADELPHIA – Boris Baczynskyj, on chess and computerized chess. an internationally known FIDE (World As a chess instructor, he tirelessly Chess Federation) Master, popular local taught and promoted chess, especially to chess instructor and journalist, died sud- children in private and public schools. denly on January 16. He was 62. Mr. Baczynskyj provided many simulta- Mr. Baczynskyj was born in Vienna, neous chess exhibitions in venues such as Austria, to the late Dr. Wolodymyr and schools, shopping malls and public fairs. Maria Sodomora Baczynskyj. He was a He deeply cared about his young students longtime resident of Philadelphia, attend- and celebrated their achievements, such ing grammar school and graduating from as during the Philadelphia schools St. Joseph’s Preparatory School. He went (Benjamin Franklin High and Vaux Junior on to earn a B.A. in political science from High) chess teams’ trip to Yugoslavia. Yale University During the early years of Ukrainian After graduation Mr. Baczynskyj independence, Mr. Baczynskyj again served with the Peace Corps in Thailand worked as a journalist for a few years in and later remained in Cambodia, working Kyiv, and his articles were published by as a free-lance journalist for UPI, Far Intelnews, Cox Publishers and The Eastern Economic Review and other pub- Ukrainian Weekly. He returned to lications. Philadelphia and continued his teaching, After Cambodia was overrun by the writing, lecturing and chess promotion. Khmer Rouge, Mr. Baczynskyj returned He was an active member of the Franklin to the United States and immersed him- Mercantile Chess Club. Boris Baczynskyj (left) playing against international chess master Oles Sulypa on self in the world of chess, competing In his youth Mr. Baczynskyj belonged June 30, 1991, at the Lviv Chess Palace during a team match between the actively in national and international tour- to Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization Ukrainian Sports Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada, playing under the U.S. naments. At one point, he was the third- and was a member of its “Burlaky” frater- flag, and the Lviv Chess Club, playing under the Ukrainian flag. Mr. Baczynskyj ranked chess player in the U.S. He also nity. He was active in Ukrainian won the game. served as editor of one of the major American chess life, belonged to the national chess publications, Chess Life, Chess Club of the Ukrainian Sports by translating “We Shall Overcome” into held on Saturday, January 26, at 2 p.m. and was chess advisor for the world’s Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada Ukrainian. Surprisingly, it became the with family greeting friends at 1 p.m. at largest manufacturer of computer chess (USCAK) and participated in Ukrainian theme song at Plast’s camp in East St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church, products, Fidelity International. American tournaments, winning champi- Chatham, N.Y., during one summer in the 1013 Fox Chase Road, Jenkintown, Pa. He became a well-known chess tutor, onships several times. 1960s. Services were to be followed by burial at instructor and commentator. He co- His personal values were reflected in His anti-war convictions during the St. Mary’s Cemetery in Elkins Park, PA. authored “Computer Chess II” with his lifelong promotion of civil rights. Vietnam era led him to organize a march In lieu of flowers, the family requests Charles Welsh (Wm. C. Brown, 1985), During his college days, he participated on the American Embassy in Thailand to that donations be sent to: USCAK-Chess, annotated the games of various Chess in several protests supporting racial inte- protest President Richard Nixon’s secret c/o Nasevich Funeral Home, 9529 Masters, including Bobby Fischer, and gration and was once even caught up in a bombing of Cambodia. Bustleton Ave., Philadelphia PA 19115; worked on the third “Sargon Manual” mass arrest during a protest march in St. Mr. Baczynskyj is survived by his two phone, 215-673-8153. The family may (Hayden Software Co.,) In addition, he Petersburg, Fla. He promoted the concept sisters, Wawa and Ulana. also be contacted through the Nasevich wrote theoretical and instructional articles of “equal rights for all” to his community Funeral services were scheduled to be Funeral Home. OBITUARY: Ivan Batisko, 36, Ukrainian Canadian leaders meet community activist of Fourth Wave with Verkhovna Rada chairman BANFF, Alberta – Newly elected “Ukraine is beyond the phase in its by Alexander Kuzma tion that organized social events designed Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) development of seeking aid from Canada, to help integrate recent émigrés into President Paul Grod met with Arseniy rather we are looking to engage in a HARTFORD, Conn. – For the Ukrainian community life. Yatsenyuk, chairman of Ukraine’s mutually beneficial and constructive Ukrainian community of Greater Thanks in large part to the creative Parliament, against the backdrop of bilateral and multilateral partnership with Hartford, the joy of the Christmas holi- energy and involvement of the Krayany, Canada’s Rocky Mountains in Banff, Canada,” stated Mr. Yatsenyuk. “And we days was dampened this year by the pass- the Hartford area has seen a resurgence of Alberta on January 5. expect to underscore this intention with a ing of a dear friend and colleague, Ivan old traditions like the Christmas street Mr. Yatsenyuk took time out of his visit to Canada by Ukraine’s President Batisko, who died at the very young age theater – “vertep.” The Krayany have also Canadian ski vacation to meet for several Viktor Yushchenko in the late spring of of 36 during a vacation in Florida. provided a critical infusion of new blood hours with Mr. Grod and Zenon 2008.” Mr. Batisko emigrated to the United for several institutions, including the Potoczny, president of the Canada- The Verkhovna Rada chairman made a States just 10 years ago, and he was one Ukrainian studies school and the Ukraine Chamber of Commerce. The personal commitment to work with the of the most prominent members of a statewide dance ensemble Zolotyj discussion was facilitated by Ihor Ostash, UCC in establishing a parliamentary vibrant Fourth Wave of immigrants that Promin. They have also helped to launch Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada. internship program for Canadian students have helped to revitalize the Ukrainian the New Britain Ukrainian Festival. “During our highly engaging discus- in Ukraine’s Parliament. community in Connecticut. Mr. Batisko was an incredibly hard sion we covered a wide variety of topics, “This will form part of a larger youth A native of the Ternopil region, “Ivas’” worker, a devoted husband and father to including the challenges facing the newly initiative which will be launched early this was a fervent patriot and an innately gift- his newborn daughter, Anastasia. Despite elected speaker in leading Ukraine’s new year, whereby the UCC will develop a ed community organizer who could his many commitments to family and Parliament, concrete steps to developing variety of internship opportunities for always be counted on to mobilize his friends, and despite his growing manage- closer relations between Canada and Canadian youth in both Canada and friends for any community event, concert, rial duties as he rose through the ranks of Ukraine, the recognition of the Ukraine. This aspect of UCC’s Youth “zabava” (dance) or political rally. the Connecticut Resource Recovery Holodomor as a genocide against the Development Initiative will provide During the tense days that followed the Center, Mr. Batisko always found the Ukrainian people and the internment of young Canadians with domestic and inter- November elections of 2004, Mr. Batisko time to support Ukrainian causes and to Ukrainians during Canada’s first national national experience in government and reminded the community that Ukraine help any friend in need. internment operation,” stated Mr. Grod. international affairs,” stated Mr. Grod. was not lacking idealistic and committed Most of all he will be sorely missed as young activists like himself who would a fun-loving, nattily dressed bon vivant, a work to ensure the eventual triumph of bundle of nervous human energy who the pro-democracy forces. He will could enliven any social gathering with always be remembered for signature his good humor and his eagerness to moments like the raw and sleet-drizzled strike up a song. Saturday at the Connecticut State Capitol Some of Mr. Batisko’s closest friends when Ukrainian Americans rallied in sup- thought of skipping this year’s New port of the Orange Revolution. Mr. Year’s Eve Dance at Hartford’s Ukrainian Batisko drove up to the Capitol steps with National Home, as it came so soon after an enormous Ukrainian flag billowing out his untimely death. But, on second of his Volkswagen window. The moment thought, they could think of no better way was not lost on the local television crews to honor his indomitable spirit than to that had come out to cover the event and attend the very kind of event that he loved it helped to provide at least some spiritual most. Many thought they could still feel warmth for a slew of young children and his presence in the hall. One woman said, At their meeting in Banff, Alberta (from left) are: Canada-Ukraine Chamber teenagers who stood shivering through “It was as if I could actually see him of Commerce President Zenon Potoczny, Verkhovna Rada Chair Arseniy the speeches and the candlelight vigil. there, in the middle of the festivities.” Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian Canadian Congress President Paul Grod, and Mr. Batisko was one of the charter Mr. Batisko’s earthly remains are to be Ukraine’s Ambassador to Canada Ihor Ostash. members of the Krayany, a new organiza- returned to Ukraine for burial. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 5 “Freedom in the World 2008” report: global freedom in retreat Freedom House “not free” to “partly free.” Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe • Forty-three countries were judged “not free,” repre- WASHINGTON – The year 2007 was marked by a and the former Soviet Union senting 36 percent of the global population. The number of notable setback for global freedom, Freedom House “not free” countries declined by two from 2006. One terri- reported in a worldwide survey of freedom released on tory, the Palestinian Authority, declined from “partly free” January 16. to “not free.” The decline in freedom, as reported in “Freedom in the • The number of electoral democracies dropped by two World 2008,” an annual survey of political rights and civil and totals 121. One country, Mauritania, qualified to join liberties worldwide, was reflected in reversals in one-fifth the world’s electoral democracies in 2007. Developments of the world’s countries. Most pronounced in South Asia, in three countries – Philippines, Bangladesh and Kenya – it also reached significant levels in the former Soviet disqualified them from the electoral democracy list. Union, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Regional patterns A substantial number of politically important countries year in both countries. The deterioration within Nigeria A number of Asia’s most important countries, many on whose declines have broad regional and global implica- and Kenya, two of Africa’s most important countries, the Indian subcontinent, suffered setbacks in freedom dur- tions – including Russia, Pakistan, Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria, should be of great concern for those who had hoped that ing 2007. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and Venezuela – were affected. the incremental gains of recent years would continue. Two all experienced downturns due to increased restrictions on “This year’s results show a profoundly disturbing dete- countries that had “color” revolutions in past years – civil society and, in three of the four cases, increased mili- rioration of freedom worldwide,” said Arch Puddington, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia – also saw disturbing declines. tary activity. Declines were also noted in the Philippines, director of research at Freedom House. “A number of Jennifer Windsor, executive director of Freedom House, Burma and Malaysia. A positive development in the region countries that had previously shown progress toward urged supporters of freedom to redouble their efforts to was the improvement of Thailand from “not free” to “part- democracy have regressed, while none of the most influ- support freedom’s advocates and activists in other soci- ly free” due to the holding of elections by year’s end. ential ‘not free’ states showed signs of improvement. As eties. “Right now, authoritarian regimes have been able to In the formerly Communist countries of the Soviet the second consecutive year that the survey has registered a use their influence to slow freedom’s advance and, in Union and Eastern Europe, Russia, Azerbaijan and global decline in political rights and civil liberties, friends some cases, reverse positive progress. Democratic govern- Kazakhstan – all countries with entrenched authoritarian of freedom worldwide have real cause for concern.” ments have not worked together effectively to counter leaderships and growing energy wealth – registered While the profile of world freedom as measured by the these trends. Those who support freedom – both govern- declines in 2007. Former democratic aspirants Georgia and number of countries designated in Freedom in the World ments as well as non-governmental actors – must get seri- Kyrgyzstan also moved backwards in 2007. In contrast, as “free,” “partly free” or “not free” changed little during ous and redouble their efforts to support the frontline however, the countries of Eastern and Central Europe con- the past year, there were many negative changes within defenders of democracy who are under duress,” said Ms. tinued to move ahead with the process of democratic con- these broad categories. In all, nearly four times as many Windsor. solidation. Poland showed a modest gain, while Latvia and countries showed declines during the year as registered Global findings Bosnia and Herzegovina registered slight declines. improvement. The period of modest gains that had marked the politi- Many of the countries that moved backward were • The number of countries judged by “Freedom in the cal landscape of the Middle East in the post-9/11 period already designated “not free” by the survey. The past year World” as Free in 2007 stood at 90, representing 46 per- came to an end in 2007. Backward movement was regis- saw the intensification of an effort by authoritarian cent of the global population. The number of “free” coun- tered in three important countries of the Arab Middle East: regimes – Egypt and Pakistan are two examples – to con- tries did not change from the previous year’s survey. Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. Major declines were also noted solidate power through the suppression of democratic • The number of countries qualifying as “partly free” in both the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli-Occupied opposition, civil society and independent media in their stood at 60, or 18 percent of the world population. The Territories. Tunisia, long one of the region’s most repres- own societies. Especially important in carrying out this number of “partly free” countries increased by two from sive states, also experienced a further decline in political assault on freedom of association was a group of market- the previous year, as Thailand and Togo both moved from rights in 2007. oriented autocracies and energy-rich dictatorships, includ- While sub-Saharan Africa has made incremental if ing Russia, Iran, Venezuela and China. uneven progress in the last several years, 2007 saw an Not one of the countries that registered the lowest pos- overall deterioration of freedom on the continent. Fifteen sible scores in the Freedom House index – the “worst of countries registered reversals, while six countries marked the worst” – exhibited signs of improvement. This repre- improvements. Togo moved from “not free” to “partly sents a break from a trend formerly observable even in free,” and Mauritania was designated an electoral democra- past years when world freedom stagnated or declined, in cy this year. Two countries that were conflict zones, Cote which progress was registered in some of the world’s most d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone, showed major improvements, as tightly controlled dictatorships. did Mozambique and Rwanda. However, political manipu- Just as concerning, countries that had made progress lation of ethnic tensions and intolerance by many of the toward freedom in recent years took significant steps region’s leaders were important factors in the declines of a backwards. In Asia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the number of countries, including Kenya, the Democratic Philippines all saw declines in their ratings. In the Middle Republic of Congo and Nigeria. Mali and Niger registered East, hopes for movement forward in Palestine and Lebanon were dampened by negative trends in the last (Continued on page 11)

selection of their next president,” Mr. Walker “Year by year it is more difficult with tions, including Freedom House, has been Freedom House reports,.. noted. freedoms in Moldova: with press freedom, increasingly scrutinized in Russia, which (Continued from page 1) A man in Nizhny Novgorod, who freedom of different opinions, human argues that some countries use such entities The best of the bunch is Ukraine, which requested anonymity, told RFE/RL’s rights,” Ms. Grosu told. RFE/RL’s Romania- work to spread their influence in Russia. Mr. Walker said remains “free” because it Russian Service that “I’ve never been to Moldova Service. “And for us, journalists, it Recently Russia opened branches of its has competing factions with well-defined other countries, so I can’t say how the situa- is more and more difficult to do our job in own Institute of Democracy and positions, and a population that accepts the tion in our country is different from theirs. these circumstances. Access to information Cooperation in Paris and New York, with the results of well-conducted elections. But, compared to the Soviet Union, I don’t is more limited, there is tougher punishment intention of improving Russia’s image Democracy in Georgia, rated “partly see any radical changes.” for what the authorities call libel, sometimes abroad. free,” suffered in 2007 due to President-elect “We never had freedom even though they we face threats or acts of revenge from peo- The organization’s chairman, Anatoly Mikheil Saakashvili’s ability to dominate the tried to create it in the 1990s,” the man ple we write about.” Kucherena, recently told The Moscow political scene. The imposition of a state of added. “What we are left with now, at least The report characterized Iran as “not Times that the Institute of Democracy and emergency and a violent police crackdown in my opinion, is a semblance of freedom.” free” and called it a “dictatorship,” accusing Cooperation has “no desire to copy the on opposition rallies late in the year served A man in Yekaterinburg, meanwhile, told it of not only suppressing the rights of its behavior of organizations like Freedom to highlight the country’s problems, accord- the service that freedoms in Russia cannot people, but also of imposing its influence on House... which has only one goal: to publish ing to Freedom House, but Mr. Walker notes be compared with those in European coun- other countries through the support of data which was assembled using methodolo- that there is room for vocal dissent in the tries. “I think we’re at the level of Central Muslim militants. gies that nobody understands, in order to country. Asian countries where rights and freedoms Iraq, too, is rated “not free” because it has draw attention to themselves.” Russia is a different matter altogether, basically exist on paper but in reality [are not limited freedom, given the persistent sectari- Mr. Walker said that “attacks on our find- according to Mr. Walker. upheld],” he commented. “The presidential an fighting between Shi’ite and Sunni ings” aren’t based on the substance of the “2007 was a pivotal year for authoritarian election campaign has exceeded all limits Muslims that poisons daily life in much of report. And, he says, too often governments consolidation in Russia in part due to the because there is a cult of personality, and the country. criticized in the report fail to debate such manipulated parliamentary elections in that is taking us back to the past.” Mr. Walker explained that Freedom findings with the country’s opposition. December, and the managed succession Of the former Communist countries of House’s says the annual report is meant to be “The local civil society in the country like process which really revealed itself by the Eastern and Central Europe, most advanced studied by all those with influence in the Russia should have a right to talk about end of the year where it became very clear on the road to freedom, according to the countries that are rated, from government these findings without fear of reprisal and that there would not be an opportunity for report. Only Latvia (rated “free”) and Bosnia officials to members of the local news the hope is that it will help identify areas of ordinary Russians to have an open and fair (rated “partly free”) showed signs of moving media. The point: to spark debate about how concern, areas where there are problems, backward during 2007. freedoms can be improved. areas where there are possibilities for Andrew Tully is an RFE/RL correspon- Aneta Grosu, editor-in-chief of the week- Sometimes, however, governments react improvement so that domestic institutions dent based in Washington. RFE/RL corre- ly investigative magazine Ziarul de Garda, with hostility, Mr. Walker said, again point- can take the steps to make those improve- spondent Nikola Krastev interviewed described the situation in Moldova, which ing to Russia as an example. ments,” Mr. Walker noted. “I think that ulti- Freedom House’s Christopher Walker. retained its “partly free” rating. The work of non-governmental organiza- mately is the fundamental hope here.” 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 No. 4

NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Say “yes” to Ukraine Cancer survivor lives In a significant step toward membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Ukraine’s leaders on January 15 issued a “Joint Address to the NATO to help others in Ukraine Secretary General” stating that Ukraine is seeking a Membership Action Plan by Ira Gavrisheva disease? Do you realize how painful it is for (MAP). Kyiv hopes to receive the MAP at the alliance’s next summit scheduled for me to visualize my name being crossed out April in Bucharest, wrote President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia In 1997 my life split into two parts: of dozens of such address books?” Tymoshenko and Verkhovna Rada Chairman Arseniy Yatsenyuk. “before” and “after.” I’d spent three weeks Exactly two months later, I crossed A MAP would be the next logical step in Ukraine’s developing relationship with in the children’s hospital’s oncology unit. Natasha’s name and address out of my own. NATO, which began with Ukraine joining the North Atlantic Cooperation Council How could just three weeks radically alter in 1991 and the Partnership for Peace program in 1994, and then moved on to a the life of a 13-year-old girl? Those seem- Set the soul free Distinctive Partnership (1997), the NATO-Ukraine Action Plan (2002) and an ingly endless 21 days turned my life upside A white sheet covered the room’s glass Intensified Dialogue (2005). To be sure, a MAP does not guarantee membership, down. I knew my life would never be the door – an unwelcome reminder that some- but it does spur further Euro-Atlantic integration, with all that integration entails, same. one inside was very ill. It was late at night, including internal reform as a country strives to meet NATO standards. It was a cruel lesson of destiny. I don’t but the light was still on. A woman’s silhou- Poland was among the first to speak in support of Ukraine’s bid for a MAP, with know why God chose me to experience ette could be seen through the sheet. She President Lech Kaczynski stating on January 17: “Ukraine is part of Western civi- such a nightmare. Maybe it was done so lization and should take part in its political, economic and military cooperation, as was sitting beside her daughter’s bed. that many years later I could tell healthy Sometimes her head dropped to her chest. well as integration.” people that hell exists, that it’s here on In Davos, Switzerland, during the World Economic Forum, U.S. Secretary of She’d not slept for many nights. Eventually, earth, in the oncology unit of a children’s she nodded off but woke again almost State Condoleezza Rice on January 23 indicated Washington’s support for Ukraine’s hospital. Or, maybe I survived that hell so NATO bid. According to a report by Reuters, an unidentified U.S. official traveling immediately. “I must not sleep. I must not that I could help people understand the sleep,” she kept repeating to herself, horri- with the secretary of state was cited as saying after Dr. Rice met with President world in which hundreds of Ukrainian chil- Yushchenko, “The secretary reiterated the U.S. view that NATO should leave the fied that she’d dozed off, even for a couple dren live: a world full of fear and sorrow of seconds. door open to those European, democratic states who meet membership require- but also of hope and faith, and to challenge ments.” The Reuters story added that the U.S. position was “likely to anger Russia.” The child was deathly ill. She was dying the public to look beyond mere statistics at from respiratory failure and had been Indeed, Russia has already made threatening comments in reaction to Ukraine’s the children’s lives those numbers repre- move. The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that “Ukraine’s pos- unable to swallow for the past two weeks. sent. The doctors had decided her tumor was sible integration into NATO will seriously worsen the long-term Russian-Ukrainian In these memories, I have tried to record relations. We will be forced to use the adequate measures.” Foreign Affairs Minister inoperable. They’d suggested a deadly dose the moments that I remember best: of hypnotic medication “to set the soul free” Sergei Lavrov added that “future cooperation between Russia and Ukraine depends moments that impressed me and moments to a large extent on how [Ukraine’s movement toward NATO membership] devel- as they told Natasha, the child’s mother. that shocked me. These are moments I had The doctor termed it “an easy way to end ops.” Verkhovna Rada Chair Yatsenyuk quite correctly replied to these grumblings kept silent about for seven years because I from Russia that the two countries’ relations should be “based solely on mutual the child’s suffering.” lacked the strength to relive them even Natasha had refused. She still hoped her respect and non-interference in our sovereign rights.” mentally. Mr. Lavrov also stated on January 23 that there is no security justification for daughter would be better soon. It was this Two excerpts follow – the first from hope that enabled her to sit by her daugh- NATO’s enlargement and that expansion plans are a throwback to the Cold War. 1997, the other from 1998. Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, meanwhile, said its accession to NATO would ter’s bed day after day, night after night. be a “broadening” of “the zone of stability and security in Europe to the south and The address book Due to a lack of oxygen, the girl was only semi-conscious. She alternately slept to the east,” and the U.S. secretary of state characterized talk of a new Cold War as “Natasha, do people often die here?” I “hyperbolic nonsense.” and groaned. She rarely spoke; it required asked. We were sitting in her room in the too much strength, which she no longer The truth of the matter is that Ukraine has been moving all along toward Euro- Zaporizhia Regional Children’s Hospital Atlantic integration, albeit with fits and starts. It has participated in many NATO had. The previous week, deeming her case oncology unit. She was battling Hodgkins terminal, the doctors had ordered the dis- programs, has contributed troops to NATO peacekeeping and anti-terrorism opera- lymphoma and had just relapsed for the tions, and has supported NATO policy in a variety of formats. It has conducted free continuation of all life support. Her IV had third time. Only a bone marrow transplant promptly been disconnected. Now the girl and fair elections and is rated as “free” by Freedom House – rating the best among could save her and, at the time, no doctor in the group of countries once part of the USSR. Today, Ukraine’s intentions are clear- was suffering not only from shortness of Ukraine was performing them. breath but also from thirst. Even in her er than ever. Therefore, Ukraine deserves an upgrade in its relationship with NATO. “Look here,” said Natasha as she pulled Granting Ukraine a MAP now will serve to encourage Ukraine, and Ukrainians, to sleep, she was heard to whisper, “water, a thick address book out of her bedside water.” According to her mom, just the move more quickly toward the West. table. I saw it was well used. “I’ve been To Ukraine, we say: Finally. Ukraine’s executive and legislatives branches of sound of running water made her daughter writing down the names and addresses of cry. government are in agreement on a plan of action. friends I’ve met in the hematology depart- To Russia, we say: Get over it. Ukraine is independent and is pursuing an inde- That particular night, the girl was barely ments of various hospitals. I started the day breathing. Again and again, she’d stop for pendent foreign policy. I got sick.” To NATO, we say: Give Ukraine the green light. This strategic country – which 10 or 15 seconds, then begin again. Natasha I took the address book. It was two- kept her eyes glued to her daughter’s chest, has made great progress since its renewed independence more than 16 years ago – thirds full. There were lots of names and has earned a Membership Action Plan. praying that even the slightest movements addresses. Turning to the first page, I saw would continue. Then as she watched, her all the names had been crossed out; the daughter sighed painfully and began turning same on the second page, and the third. blue. She’d stopped breathing. “This …” I couldn’t continue. Natasha knew what to do. She hopped Jan Turning the pages back... “Yes, all of these kids have died,” off her chair and immediately began per- Natasha explained, taking the book back. forming artificial respiration. She didn’t call She began thumbing through it. I noticed for help. It would have been a waste of that on page after page most of the names time, time she couldn’t afford to lose. The 29 Ninety years ago, on January 29, 1918, a contingent of approx- had been crossed out. department’s head doctor had prohibited the imately 500 young men commanded by Capt. Ahapii “How can you live with this?” I wanted use of all artificial life support. 1918 Honcharenko, attempted to block the advance of Mikhail to know. For me, just seeing the list of chil- In developed countries this is called Muraev’s 4,000-strong Bolshevik unit on Kyiv. The battle dren who’d died of cancer was very painful. “passive euthanasia” and is illegal unless occurred at Kruty, a village located in Nizhen county in the And I hadn’t known any of them. I was specifically requested by the patient in writ- Chernihiv Oblast. convinced the death rate from cancer ing. In Ukraine it’s referred to as “setting The Ukrainian force was hastily assembled, consisting mainly of a company from the among children in Zaporizhzhia had to be the soul free.” Student Battalion of Sich Riflemen, a company of the Khmelnytsky Cadet School and a excessive. Instead, Natasha performed mouth-to- Haidamaka detachment of the army of the Ukrainian National Republic. “I live thanks to this,” Natasha said, tap- mouth resuscitation. She breathed air in and In five hours the Bolshevik force mowed down half of the armed students, but their ping her finger on one boy’s name. His was out, in and out, in and out, still convinced resistance was pivotal in the delay of the Bolshevik’s capture of Kyiv and enabled the the only name not crossed out on the first her daughter would make it. After 10 min- Ukrainian government to conclude the Peace Treaty at Brest-Litovsk. six pages. “This boy lived through two utes, the girl took a couple of breaths. But a For decades the battle at Kruty has been commemorated as a symbol of patriotic self- relapses of leukemia – but he’s fine now half hour later, she stopped breathing again. sacrifice. and has been for three years. He goes to Natasha resumed mouth-to-mouth resusci- In 2006 President Viktor Yushchenko dedicated the Kruty Heroes Monument in the vil- school. He’s happy. I live because I believe tation, refusing to let dizziness and nausea lage of Kruty. The monument is a 10-meter red column sitting atop a 7-meter hill and that I will be just as lucky. There are oth- hamper her efforts. Until her daughter was includes a chapel and a cross-shaped pool. ers.” She quickly flipped over several able to breathe on her own, she had to keep Many have called the battle of Kruty Ukraine’s Thermopylae, a reference to the battle of pages, pointing to some names and address- Thermopylae in 480 BC, which was chronicled by Herodotus. At Thermopylae the vastly going. Fainting, even falling down was out es that also were not crossed out. of the question; she knew what that would outnumbered Greek forces held off the invading Persians for three days. The story of the “But these are the exceptions,” I pointed battle has been an inspiration for many through the ages and is considered one of history’s mean. out. “Most have died.” Until then, I’d had For several hours, Natasha fought to save most famous last stands. no idea of the extent of the tragedy. Like Thermopylae, Kruty, remains a symbol of courage against overwhelming odds. her daughter’s life. Then, when her daugh- “If it weren’t for these individuals, it ter finally opened her eyes, she saw her wouldn’t be worth the struggle, Ira,” pain. “Mom, leave me alone,” the girl whis- Source: “The Battle of Kruty,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 2 (Toronto: University of Natasha continued. “Do you know how Toronto Press, 1988). badly I want to believe that I can lick this (Continued on page 20) No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

we couldn’t wait for the week to begin PERSPECTIVES Remembering again so we could continue our activities and events. BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY Osela’s meaning For many years these camps gave us our Ukrainian foundation, keeping our Dear Editor: language, culture and heritage alive. I As I read the story about the intended learned so much during all those years DP: a label from the past sale of Osela at Round Lake (January 6), spending summers at Round Lake. As I was struck by deep nostalgia and vivid time passed, Osela’s role changed and it DP – in the 1950s I heard those initials munity, made up of people whose own memories of this wonderful place that became a weekend getaway for the large all the time. They burned like acid, hurled families had immigrated to America a gen- was so important to hundreds of newly Ukrainian community of Chicagoland. by playground bullies and the occasional eration or two earlier and had also suffered arrived Ukrainian families to Chicago. I left Chicago almost 42 years ago, but mean-spirited adult who made a point of from discrimination (they were the “green- Since most of our mothers worked, sum- the memories remain vivid. I see many telling me I was different, unwanted, horns”) organized the United Ukrainian mer months were a problem in terms of friends, who are now scattered across the unwelcome and inferior. I was an immi- American Relief Committee to deal with what to do with the children and their country, as we meet at Soyuzivka, grant: a displaced person, a DP. the flood of refugees. Raising money and free time. There was no day care in those Wildwood, weddings and, sadly, at And not only me: nearly everyone my organizing sponsors, the UUARC ulti- days. Therefore, a group of caring par- funerals. We always find a way to go age or older in my community was born mately helped 100,000 refugees settle in ents – my father Oleksander Nahorniak back and reminisce about the carefree somewhere across the ocean: places like the United States. It helped additional among them – organized and purchased days at Osela, and everything Round Wildflecken, Aschaffenburg, Villach, thousands find new homes in South the property at Round Lake. Lake meant and gave to us. Krakow, Lviv, Kolomyia, Sniatyn and a America, Australia and Canada. As part of that effort, the UUARC lobbied Congress Osela was, first and foremost, a place Myroslawa Hrab (née Nahorniak) hundred towns and villages which most Americans found as unpronounceable as to pass the Displaced Persons Act of 1948. to hold summer Plast camps for children, West Orange, N.J. and recreational activities for families on my name. And me? I was born in A young Irishman from Cleveland, weekends. Since few families had cars, Innsbruck, Austria; I was 8 months old Michael Feighan, was on the House the first “tabir” (camp) started with bus- when we came to America, a nation of Judiciary Committee and worked hard for loads of kids leaving to spend the entire immigrants. the bill’s passage. summer in this magical place. This was “Liquid smoke” Growing up on Cleveland’s South Side, It’s one of the ironies of American his- the beginning of “plastuvannia” (Plast my friends and I were different. On week- tory that anti-immigrant attitudes serve to activity) for us, along with sports, swim- and our borsch ends, evenings and for one month during strengthen immigrant communities. The ming in the wonderful lake, romances, the summer, we lived in the Ukrainian Irish, for example, once disdained as illit- break-ups and the roots of lasting friend- Dear Editor: world where we spoke one language; the erate brawlers turned an insult into a badge ships. If Emily Robbins (“A Brooklyn chef rest of the time we were in America, where of honor. At Notre Dame – my alma mater We all spoke Ukrainian, since we had delights in creating gourmet borsch,” we spoke another. The two worlds existed – all of us regardless of our ethnic back- not yet mastered English. Some wonder- January 6) is considering visiting Ukraine in the same physical space, but were conti- grounds were proud to be the “Fighting ful talents were displayed every weekend to sample the borsch, I suggest that she nents apart. Awkwardness, pain even, Irish.” as we sat around the “vatra” (bonfire). bring with her the “liquid smoke” she came where they intersected. Never worse As for my friends and me, Saturday We sang everything: from patriotic songs uses as an ingredient, because I don’t than the time my fifth grade teacher lam- mornings we went to Ukrainian classes and ballads to our made-up “kolomyiky,” believe she will be able to find it any- basted me for being absent on January 7 (DP school) and then in the afternoon which were brilliant. Our skits were cre- where in Ukraine. for Ukrainian Christmas. Andy cut school, played a mean game of basketball at the ative, funny and entertaining. Parents she announced to the class. That was going Lincoln Bathhouse against other neighbor- arrived, mostly by bus, on the weekends, I. Dzerovych on my permanent record and I would be hood pick-up teams, most of them organ- bringing goodies and clean clothes, and Amherst, N.H. forever barred from acceptance to any ized on the basis of one kind of ethnicity major American university. or another. You held the court as long as That experience, I’ve learned since, was you won. We welcome your opinion hardly novel or unique. America has a long Having become citizens, our parents got tradition of nativism. In the 1850s the into another game. Rep. Feighan, along The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters to the editor and commentaries on a variety of topics of concern to the Ukrainian American and Ukrainian Canadian communities. Know Nothing Party fanned popular fears with others, would address audiences of Opinions expressed by columnists, commentators and letter-writers are their own and do that the country was being overwhelmed the very people he had helped come to not necessarily reflect the opinions of either The Weekly editorial staff or its publisher, the by Irish Catholics, people hostile to America and reminded them of the good Ukrainian National Association. America and loyal only to the pope and his work he was doing on behalf of Ukraine. Letters should be typed and signed (anonymous letters are not published). Letters are agent, the parish priest. A generation later, Afterward, “Old Immigrants” like Omer accepted also via e-mail at [email protected]. The daytime phone number and address of Chinese “coolies,” who had built the Miles and John Bilinsky took the stage and the letter-writer must be given for verification purposes. Please note that a daytime phone Transcontinental Railroad, were targets. in American-accented Ukrainian advised number is essential in order for editors to contact letter-writers regarding clarifications or Unless stopped, they would take over the everyone to remember our friends on questions. country, so in 1882 Congress passed the Election Day. Please note: THE LENGTH OF LETTERS CANNOT EXCEED 500 WORDS. Chinese Exclusion Act. Immediately after As I look back on my life from a per- World War I, the Justice Department spective of more than 50 years, I see it as a deported “alien subversives” without trial. struggle to reconcile my two worlds. The IN THE PRESS In World War II, Japanese Americans were fights I had in elementary school to win confined to internment camps. And so respect in the schoolyard were ultimately on… no different than the long-standing politi- A strategy for Ukraine’s I reflect on all this because 2008 is the cal effort I happened to join in the 1970s to 60th anniversary of the Displaced Persons convince America to accept Ukraine’s Act, which opened the door to America for struggle for independence as its own. In Euro-Atlantic integration more than 400,000 DPs, including 100,000 the process, we helped to win the Cold War. “Strategy and tactics of Euro-Atlantic deputies, journalists and NGO leaders at Ukrainians. Today, the DP label has not only lost its integration,” by Taras Kuzio (Institute the April 2008 NATO Bucharest summit. World War II, of course, was a catastro- sting, but hardly anyone knows what it for European, Russian and Eurasian There should not be a repeat of the phe for many peoples, including Ukrainians, 8 million of whom died in the means. Life goes on and now a new set of Studies, Elliott School of International November 2006 Riga NATO summit war and another 2 million forced to work immigrants are targets. They’re the people Affairs, George Washington University), attended by only three Ukrainians (includ- as slaves in the German economy. When who clean America’s hotel rooms, pick Hryhoriy Perepylytsya (Foreign Policy ing only one official). the war ended, they along with millions of fruits and vegetables for our dinner table, Research Institute, Diplomatic Academy and grapes for the wine that washes down “3. The Ukraine-NATO Committee others were relocated to displaced persons of Ukraine) and Walter Zaryckyj (New our meals. They’re the ones who take out NGO, to be officially launched by our- camps in Austria and Germany. Tragically, York University and Center for U.S.- the garbage at restaurants, plant trees and selves [sic] in January 2008 with members huge numbers of people were repatriated Ukrainian Relations), Kyiv Post, shrubs and mow the lawn at the houses drawn from Ukraine, Europe and North to the Soviet Union, where they were exe- January 9: built with cheap labor from people who America, is open to membership by all cuted or sent to the gulag to continue as speak English with an accent. Predictably, NGOs and individuals who support slaves. For others, though, the 1948 act “Ukraine has a strong possibility of there’s also a new set of demagogues who Ukraine’s Trans-Atlantic aspirations. The was a lifeline. completing its integration into Trans- promise to save us from the latest invasion Ukraine-NATO Committee will lobby for First a trickle and then a stream of Atlantic and European structures within the of immigrants. Some are running for presi- Ukraine’s NATO membership and coordi- refugees came to America. There were next decade. In the short term the following dent. nate the work of a disparate group of those, to be sure, who sneered at the dis- steps need to be taken: For America, immigration is a perennial NGOs, practitioners and journalists who placed persons – the DPs – but the benevo- theme. Part of that history is the passage of support its aims and objectives. lent relative and generous neighbor were “1. Coordinate a MAP and NATO mem- much more common, opening their wallets the DP Act of 1948. That was a truly gen- bership with Georgia bilaterally and erous, far-sighted policy and this is one “4. Ukraine’s presidential, government and hearts to the people who had suffered through GUAM and the U.S. American who will never forget and will and parliamentary elites have the opportu- so much and then lost everything that had always be grateful. nity to establish a cross-party and cross- been familiar before the war displaced and “2. Ukraine should have a large delega- regional consensus in support of a then tossed them half a continent and an tion of policy advisers, government and ocean away. Andrew Fedynsky’s e-mail address is presidential officials, parliamentary (Continued on page 19) In 1944 the Ukrainian American com- [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 No. 4

previous leadership was easy to manipu- Ukraine’s sovereignty,” stated Mr. statement elicited opposition in Ukraine seeks NATO... late, but not today’s government. And Yatsenyuk. Parliament from the Party of the Regions (Continued from page 1) that’s cause for sudden fear,” Mr. According to Ukraine’s political of Ukraine (PRU) and the Communist Lavrov. Tarasyuk explained. observers, Ukraine’s letter requesting faction (CPU), Mr. Baloha seemed baf- fled at the opposition’s inconsistency, cit- Feeling bruised by Ukraine’s latest Oleh Bilorus, member of the Yulia admission to a MAP with NATO is long overdue, and will act as only one step on ing the fact that during the PRU’s admin- attempt at political assertiveness, Russia’s Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) and chair of the Rada’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, the long and arduous yet steady road istration in running the government, it Foreign Ministry demonstrated its dissat- offered even harsher criticism by calling toward European integration. If Ukraine’s was Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych’s isfaction when, as part of its official state- Russia’s statements “outright savagery.” latest request is approved during the signatures that steered the course toward ment released on January 22, it added that “If Ukraine enters the WTO, will this forthcoming NATO summit in Bucharest, NATO integration. “apparently today’s Ukrainian leadership also cause sanctions?” Mr. Bilorus asked. acceptance to the MAP would act as an To quell confusion about the MAP’s considers closer ties with NATO as an Ukraine is a sovereign country and, impetus for Ukraine to undertake new exact terms and requirements, and what alternative to good-neighborly relations according to the will of its people, responsibilities and initiate a much-need- this currently means for Ukraine, Valerii with the Russian Federation.” Ukraine has the right to enter the WTO ed public awareness program. Chalyi, assistant general director of the Ukrainian political leaders and analysts and NATO. Russia can be dissatisfied, but Currently, approximately only one- Razumkov Center, made it clear that the dismissed Russia’s criticism of Ukraine’s sanctions are a bilateral phenomenon and third of Ukraine’s population supports a joint statement issued by Ukraine’s lead- declaration as yet another attempt to such behavior is irresponsible, comment- full-fledged NATO-integration program, ers is not a direct request to join NATO. polarize Ukrainian society. ed Mr. Bilorus. while the rest are either poorly informed, In fact, according to Mr. Chalyi, such a According to Borys Tarasyuk, member At Mr. Bilorus’ request, Verkhovna misinformed or against such a policy alto- step is not even a guarantee that Ukraine of the Our Ukraine – People’s Self- Rada Chair Arseniy Yatsenyuk released gether. will be admitted to a MAP, because a Defense (OU-PSD) bloc and chair of the an official statement citing the Russian Furthermore, according to Illya consensus of current NATO-member Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Foreign Ministry’s comments as interfer- Kucheriv, director of the Democratic countries must first be secured. European Integration, Russia’s recent ence in Ukraine’s sovereignty. “I think it Initiatives Fund in Kyiv, “experience sug- “In Ukraine, the question of NATO statements exemplify its inability to influ- would be more appropriate if our bilateral gests that all of the recently admitted admission is not yet on the daily agenda. ence the Ukrainian government. “Russian relations were based exclusively on mutu- members of the EU [European Union] Ukraine is not ready to take that step yet, authorities have come to realize that the al respect and non-interference in without exception initially became mem- because it doesn’t have the broad support bers of NATO and then the EU. Their of the population,” said Mr. Chalyi. First entrance into NATO was viewed as sort of all, a resolution to hold a referendum of a litmus test based on European stan- must be confirmed by the government, dards – first NATO and then the EU. approved by NATO and ratified by That’s why this latest appeal to NATO is Parliament. Only after these steps are an important test for Ukraine, because it taken and fulfilled can Ukraine hold a will only help us to reach those European national referendum, explained Mr. Chalyi. standards.” By agreeing to sign the joint statement By issuing the joint address to NATO, on the MAP, Prime Minister Tymoshenko Ukraine’s top leaders hoped to encourage was the last of the three leaders to join the intense discussions regarding Ukraine’s consensus regarding support for NATO current and future relationship with membership. However, holding true to NATO. Commenting on the letter to her pre-election campaign promise, Ms. NATO, Presidential Secretariat Chair Tymoshenko stipulated that Ukraine’s Viktor Baloha said the statement is yet ultimate relationship with NATO would another confirmation to the world commu- be decided only by a national referendum. nity of Ukraine’s unwavering drive toward On January 1 Ukraine’s Foreign European integration. Mr. Baloha believes Affairs Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko that the so-called policy of “intensified flew to NATO headquarters in Brussels dialogue” of the last four years has run its and delivered Ukraine’s joint to NATO course and needs to be upgraded to a more Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. serious level. “Such a proposal is entirely Mr. Ohryzko assured the NATO leader constitutional and fully complies with that President Yushchenko and his coun- Ukrainian legislation, particularly the law try’s government have a unified vision of on the fundamentals of national security, Ukraine’s foreign policy and its aim to ratified in 2003, which stipulates achieve full European integration. Ukraine’s right to attain membership in Foreign Ministers of NATO member- the alliance,” stated Mr. Baloha. states may begin review of the joint state- Asked to comment on why the joint ment in February.

declared Mr. Nemyria. Ukraine on verge... Mr. Nemyria added that, once Ukraine (Continued from page 1) joins the WTO, the Verkhovna Rada will have to amend 11 current laws, which Republican and co-chairman of the may take up to six months to implement. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, said on January 15, during his visit to The EU formally completed its bilater- Ukraine, that Ukraine has every possibil- al negotiations with Ukraine regarding ity to join the WTO this year, inasmuch WTO membership back in 2003. as Ukraine’s economic development is Afterwards, the EU continued to cooper- evolving very well. ate closely with Ukraine through a multi- According to Vice Prime Minister for lateral working group. Euro-Integration Issues Hryhorii Today the European Union is Nemyria, Ukraine’s admission to the Ukraine’s largest trading partner and the WTO will in no way hinder the economic biggest seller of Ukraine’s goods. development of any other country, Some experts have said that successful including the Russian Federation. negotiations between the EU and Ukraine Ukraine’s government is dismissing any – which paved the way for Ukraine’s suggestions that Ukraine’s European eventual WTO member status – can be integration and its membership in the considered one of the first major achieve- WTO may damage the economic and ments of Prime Minister Yulia political stability of other countries, Tymoshenko’s government. ORTHODONTIST Dr. Daniel A. 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It was arguably sport with the power to unite friends, ene- the weakest team at the tournament with mies and strangers from around the globe. four players in their mid-40s who simply It is the world’s most popular game, so it is were unable to match their younger and fit- not uncommon for even amateur players to ter competitors. travel thousands of miles and spend thou- Yet Victoria’s games provided the most sands of dollars just for the chance to kick a entertainment for the 300 or so spectators small, round ball. who flocked to the grange stands each And that love of soccer – or football as it night. is called outside of North America – proved Indeed, the highlight of tournament was its power again last week when it enticed its unusually friendly losing match against Ukrainians from Great Britain and Ivano- Ukraine, 4-7. It should have been a quick Frankivsk to fly to the land Down Under to and easy win for Ukraine. But Victoria play in the second-annual International managed to mollify its opponent’s fierce Ukrainian Football Tournament (IUFT). competitiveness early in the week. “It’s been a pleasure meeting another “The older guys really looked after the Ukrainian community in Australia. We’ve Ukrainian boys,” laughed 25-year-old met people we didn’t meet last year in Andrew Sobol, the captain and goalie of Sydney [IUFT 2007], and again they have embraced us,” said 29-year-old Stefan team Victoria. “They took them out every night, showed them a good time, and spent Moroziuk, the captain of the Ukrainian soc- Christina Maria Paschyn cer team from Great Britain. “And it’s fan- quite a bit of money on them. They became good friends.” Team Ukraine players celebrate their win at the International Ukrainian tastic, which is really a massive part of the Football Tournament 2008 held in Adelaide, Australia. tournament, people meeting each other “And they [team Ukraine] already were around the world.” in the final, so there was no point in them playing hard,” he continued with a sly grin. “I went to England and America on an involved?’ And we started talking, ‘let’s do The tournament is quite possibly the overseas trip in 2005 … and I heard about an international one.’ And everyone was global Ukrainian diaspora community’s “And we wanted some respectability as well. So we had an understanding” the tournaments that the English keen.” largest sporting event. Held this year in [Ukrainians] had been to in America a cou- Based on the response from the players Adelaide, Australia, on January 13-19, But team Ukraine wasn’t the only one to enjoy itself off the field. IUFT 2008 kicked ple years prior, and they said how good it and fans present at this year’s tournament, organizers welcomed three local Australian was,” he said. “keen” is an understatement. Ukrainian teams: Melbourne-Victoria (USC off with the Adelaide Malanka, which fea- tured a performance by the Adelaide “My brother and I were very jealous, For more information on the IUFT, visit Lions Victoria), Adelaide (USC Lion and we thought ‘why can’t we be the website at www.IUFT.net. Adelaide) and Sydney (Sydney Trident FC). Ukrainian dance troupe Volya. Great Britain was represented by a team Throughout the week, the players were comprising players from England and treated to free meals by the tournament- Scotland. And Ukraine fielded a team from sponsor, Hoverla, the Ukrainian credit the University of Oil and Gas in Ivano- union in Adelaide, whose generosity also Frankivsk, called FSC Prykarpattia. financed a koala sanctuary walk for team The teams played an average of five Ukraine. games during the six-day tournament, with And in the morning hours before the two matches taking place each night. matches, the players built up their strength Although Sydney won the championship by cavorting around Glenelg – one of South trophy in the IUFT inaugural year in 2007, Australia’s premiere beach towns. this year team Ukraine, which plays in the “The hospitality out here is second to Ukrainian First League, was favored to win. none,” said Roman Lenio, 26, a player from And it lived up to its reputation, winning Great Britain. “The organization of the the tournament without a single loss. Team competition is fantastic.” Sydney came in second, losing to Ukraine The IUFT’s president and founder, 0-1 during a 20-minute overtime in the final Daniel Sawalaga, also said he believed the match. tournament was a success. “The Ukrainians play a good game,” “It’s brought a lot of Ukrainians who said Sydney player Ahmad Kabbara, 23, haven’t been involved in the Ukrainian who is Lebanese by heritage but is active in community for a long time,” beamed the the city’s Ukrainian diaspora soccer com- 29-year-old Mr. Sawalaga. “It’s brought a munity. “They play a fast game. But we lot of interest, it’s gotten people talking. slowed down our game and we approached We’ve involved other facets of the them in the right way,” he noted. Ukrainian community, like dancing groups “[But] five games in six days, that does and choirs. And a lot of people have get to every player,” Mr. Kabbara enjoyed it.” explained. “And coming out of that, I think Spectator Natalia Hayduk, 22, couldn’t Spectators Natalia Hayduk, 22, and Tanya Lanycia, 21, show their support for for both teams you’re going to get tired and agree more, but said she hopes that the the Australian Ukrainian teams. you’re going to miss those chances.” IUFT will expand to include gender-repre- Great Britain emerged from the tourna- sentative teams. ment in third after beating Adelaide 2-0 in “I think women’s soccer games would the play-off match for third place. It was a be great as well. If not next year, at least respectable feat after two of the team’s play- within the next five years it should be a ers suffered ankle and finger injuries during goal. I know there are plenty of girls up in the week. Sydney who would love it,” Ms. Hayduk “Just one man down in the squad and said. trying to keep fresh legs on the pitch all the “[Also] hopefully next year the time and you’re a man short – it does make Americans will come along and it can be a big difference,” said Mr. Moroziuk, who more of an international event,” she added. suffered damaged ligaments in his right An American-Canadian team attended ankle when he was tackled during a match the tournament last year, tying for third with against Victoria. Great Britain won the Great Britain. But this year, according to game 8-0, but the injury left Mr. Moroziuk USCAK Soccer Director Gene Chyzowych, sidelined for the rest of the tournament. the organization was unable to send a team Still, Mr. Moroziuk said he was proud of because of a previous commitment to the the team’s finish. Diaspora Olympiad in Philadelphia. “I think we finished quite strongly in “There was too much to do, too many this tournament,” he said. “A lot of people expenses,” Mr. Chyzowych explained. feel we should have been in the final, but “And the teams were not prepared because then it doesn’t go like that in soccer because most of the players are committed to work and as a result it would have been impossi- Christina Maria Paschyn holds a mas- ble to take off for those 10 days.” ter’s degree in broadcast journalism from But he said USCAK will definitely par- Northwestern University. She will be going ticipate in the tournament in 2009, which is back to school in August to obtain a mas- set to be held in Nottingham, England. ter’s degree in Middle East Studies at Ben- For Mr. Sawalaga, that means his dream Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. is coming true. The soccer team from Sydney, which took second place in the tournament. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 No. 4

FFOOCCUUSS OONN PPHHIILLAATTEELLYY by Ingert Kuzych A World War I exhibition in Lemberg (Lviv) I recently came across two very interest- ing postcards depicting buildings construct- ed for a 1916 wartime exposition in Lemberg (today’s Lviv).1 I had never heard of such an exhibition, and I’m hoping this article may generate some more informa- tion about this event. Description of the cards June of 1916 – when the cards were posted – was a relatively peaceful time for the citizens of Lemberg, who were recover- ing from the almost 10-month Russian occupation that had ended only a year before.2 To help celebrate the first anniver- Figure 1. The obverse and reverse of a card showing a pavilion under construction for the War Exhibition held in Lemberg sary of the liberation, the 2nd Army during the summer of 1916. Command3 decided to set up a “War Exhibition.”4 Both cards were probably produced by the military printing office of the 2nd Army, since the reverse of each displays a simple vertical, dotted, dividing line and four hori- zontal, dotted address lines (with the third line thickened) so typical of the Austrian military-produced postcards of the war. The cards were sent free-franked (i.e., postage free, without any stamps) via field post offices by Lt. Josef Kaspar, a member of the K.u k. Kraftwagenkolonne 5 (Motor Column No. 5) stationed in Lemberg, to a Mr. Karl Kaus in Vienna. Both items were written in German and Figure 2. The obverse and reverse of a card showing a wooden church – reminiscent in style of those seen in the Ukrainian the earlier card (Figure 1), mailed June 13, Carpathians – on the grounds of the War Exhibition in Lemberg. 1916, through Field Post 201, has an inscription in the upper left corner of the have been meant to reflect the Austrian and show that the 2nd Army, headquartered in reverse that describes the image that Hungarian halves of the empire. The entire Brody, consisted of the 4th Corps, the 5th appears on the obverse: “A pavilion [under shape of the structure roughly approximates Corps, Group Kosak, and, in Reserve, the construction] for the June 22 opening of the the entrance to the Hofburg (Imperial 29th Infantry Division and the 29th Cavalry War Exhibit of the 2nd Army in Lemberg.” Palace), as seen from the Michaelerplatz in Brigade. The ethnic composition of the 4th The second card, mailed July 31, 1916, Vienna (Figure 4). Corps was Hungarian, Slovak and German; via Field Post 240, has a description penned The Austro-Hungarian Empire encom- that of the 5th Corps was German, next to the image that reads: “Church at the passed a lot of mountainous territory Hungarian and Romanian. In the Reserve, War Exhibit of the K.u k. 2nd Army in including most of the true Alps, the the ethnic make-up was Slovak, Hungarian, Lemberg” (Figure 2). On the reverse of this Dinaric Alps, the Transylvanian Alps and German and Czech. No Ukrainian units card, in the lower left corner, is a little note the Carpathian Mountains. This latter anywhere. that says: “Many thanks for the series range was thickly wooded and it was here, The remaining Group Kosak consisted of cards.” This message would seem to indi- in the mountain villages and foothills, that the 53rd and 54th Infantry Brigades. The cate that the two correspondents were native folk architecture flourished. Over former was made up of two Hungarian- exchanging postcards depicting topics of time, a tremendous variety of beautiful Slovak regiments. However, the 54th interest to them. houses of worship were created, a great Infantry Brigade was made up of Infantry It appears that the material of choice for many of which have been preserved in Regiment No. 67 (Slovak) and Infantry the vast majority of the construction that eastern Slovakia, southern Poland, north- Regiment No. 85 (Ukrainian and Figure 3. The imperial crown on the took place was timber. Stonework would central Romania and, most especially, in Romanian). Since a regiment in 1916 was Austrian 10-heller value stamp of 1916. have been minimal, since all of the build- western Ukraine. composed of about 4,500 men, some 2,250 ings were temporary – even the church and The style of wooden church depicted in of the men would have been Ukrainians. its belfry – and would have been disman- Figure 2, with an attached, ornately decorat- The recruitment base for Infantry Regiment tled by the 2nd Army at the conclusion of ed belfry,5 is fairly typical of the types of No. 85 was Syhit (Sighetu Marmatiei), on the exhibition. wooden churches found in the Zakarpattia the Ukrainian (Hutsul6)-Romanian ethno- Kraftwagenkolonne 5 was a motorized region of western Ukraine, or in the Lemko graphic border. So the architect of the transport column – as opposed to horse- region of eastern Slovakia (whose populace wooden church and belfry was probably a drawn – and the writer of the cards proba- is ethnographically Ukrainian), see Ukrainian Hutsul serving officer from K.u bly helped transport the wood used for con- “Pictorial essay” on page 11. The bell K. Infantry Regiment No. 85 who came structing the exhibition buildings. So, he tower, with its many openings, may have from the Syhit district. was quite proud of his contribution to the served as an observation platform where effort – hence the postcards. visitors to the exposition could oversee the I would appreciate hearing from anyone Analysis of the card images entire exhibition grounds. who might have further information about The conical roofs seen at the entrance to the 1916 Lemberg exhibition. I may be The building under construction on the the church compound on the left, as well as reached at P.O. Box 3, Springfield, VA first card may have been the main pavilion on the building to the right of the church, 22150 USA or by e-mail at ingert@star- of the exhibition. It was certainly one of the are also reminiscent of this type of power.net most important and its very shape was Carpathian craftsmanship. It is quite likely, *** meant to reflect the grandeur of the empire. therefore, that the architect of the church The dome of the structure was topped by a shown on the card was Ukrainian, perhaps My thanks to Peter Cybaniak and Roman crown very reminiscent of the imperial an officer serving in the Austro-Hungarian Dubyniak, who reviewed an early draft of Figure 4. The entrance to the Hofburg crown of Rudolf II, with which the Austrian army. this article and supplied me with helpful as seen on a 1972 Austrian 4-schilling monarchs had themselves invested (Figure Might a closer look at the composition of suggestions, as well as further information stamp commemorating the Conference 3). The dome itself also mimics the crown’s the units making up the 2nd Army provide on the composition of the 2nd Army and of European Post, Telegraph and shape. The dual wings of the pavilion may further clues? Orders from June 4, 1916, wooden churches of Zakarpattia. Telephone (PTT) Ministers.

1 Western Ukraine (Halychyna) with its capital 3 The 2nd Army had been granted the honor of 1916, closed for the winter, and then re-opened 6 The Hutsul highlanders of the Carpathians of Lemberg (Lviv) was at this time part of the entering Lemberg first and so was considered the for the spring and summer of 1917. form a unique Ukrainian ethnic subgroup, widely Austro-Hungarian Empire. relieving army. 5 In most of the other areas of Galicia, then renowned for their mastery with wood, as well as 2 The Russians entered Lemberg on September 4 The Lemberg exhibition was a sort of region- under Austrian rule, the belfrys tended to be built for their amazingly detailed and beautiful folk art 2-3, 1914, and were not driven out until June 22, al version of a larger War Exhibition that opened separately from the church proper and were gen- (embroidery, ceramics, leather work, wood sculp- 1915. in Vienna in July of 1916, ran through November erally not as elaborately constructed. ture and egg-decorating). No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 11 Pictorial essay: wooden churches The beauty and diversity of Ukrainian wooden churches in the Carpathian Mountains was well represented in a series of pen-and-ink drawings converted into postcards during the inter-war period. Published by Rudolf Hulka in Prague, the cards wonderfully portray the different roof and belfry styles of these places of worship, some of which very closely resemble those seen in Figure 2. Reproduced below are the eight cards of the series known to me; compare the drawings to the buildings shown in Figure 2. Figures A-F all display some elements found in the Lemberg exposition church and its bell tower, while Figures G and H show roof lines similar to the church’s surrounding structures. Finally, I include two postcard views from the 1920s showing the romantic castle ruins at Nevytske, not far outside Uzhhorod, in the Zakarpattia region of Ukraine (Figures I and J). Notice how the roof of the ruin tower is virtually identical to that seen on the belfry of the exhibition church. – Ingert Kuzych Figure A – Wooden church from the village of Yasinia.

Figure B – Wooden church from the Figure C – Wooden church from the Figure D – Wooden church from the Figure E – Wooden church from the village of Steblivka. village of Izky. village of Nyzhnyi Studenyi. village of Bystryi.

Figure F – Wooden church from the Figure G – Wooden church from the Figure H – Wooden church from the Figure I – Courtyard and tower in the village of Pylypets. village of Torun. village of Soimy. ruined castle at Nevytske.

Haiti showed signs of modest progress. “Freedom in the World”... Both North America and, with a few (Continued from page 5) exceptions, Western Europe received the declines in civil liberties, while in East highest ratings on the Freedom House Africa, Somalia’s already low score index. However, the flawed response to an declined further. Other countries that upsurge in immigration in Europe and the showed declines included Cameroon, U.S. has revealed potentially serious Chad, Central African Republic, Comoros, imperfections in these countries’ democrat- the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), ic systems, especially in Western Europe. Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Madagascar and Furthermore, they continued to grapple Malawi. with problems posed by the continued Latin America today is largely governed threat of Islamic terrorism. by parties that have demonstrated a com- *** mitment to the electoral process, freedom of expression and a broad range of civil Freedom House, an independent non- liberties. However, “Freedom in the governmental organization that supports World” judged that freedom in Venezuela the expansion of freedom around the remained under duress, and Nicaragua also world, has monitored political rights and Figure J – Aerial view of the castle ruins at Nevytske. suffered a decline. On the positive side, civil liberties around the world since 1972. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 No. 4 No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 13 Celebration and Festschrift honor Dr. Frank E. Sysyn by Uliana Pasiczynyk another former student of Dr. Sysyn. The evening continued with two more presentations TORONTO – Seventy-five colleagues, friends and by the honoree’s CIUS colleagues. Dr. Marko R. Stech, relatives of Dr. Frank E. Sysyn gathered on November managing director of CIUS Press, expressed apprecia- 2, 2007, at Trinity College of the University of Toronto tion of Dr. Sysyn’s ethical standards and personal quali- to mark his 60th birthday, celebrate his distinguished ties, and presented him with the institute’s gift of a academic career and announce the publication of a painting symbolizing Ukrainian Christianity throughout Festschrift in his honor. history by the eminent Ukrainian artist Feodosii Dr. Sysyn is director of the Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute Humeniuk. of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), University of Alberta, On a light-hearted note, Andrij Makuch, editor and Edmonton, and head of the CIUS office at the Ukrainian Canadian specialist, bestowed an ornamental University of Toronto. yet weighty bulava (Kozak hetman’s mace) on the hon- A native of Clifton, N.J., Dr. Sysyn began his schol- oree, in recognition of his special expertise in Ukrainian arly career at Princeton University, where he completed Kozak history and commanding leadership in the field a bachelor’s degree (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude) of Ukrainian studies. at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Dr. Sysyn himself concluded the program. He International Affairs in 1968. He received a master’s thanked those present for gathering in his honor and degree in history from the University of London School expressed particular gratitude to the program’s organiz- of Slavonic Studies in 1969. ers and speakers. He then came to Harvard University at the time that He shared how childhood experiences, especially the Prof. Omeljan Pritsak and the Ukrainian Studies Fund influence of his paternal grandparents, sparked his inter- were working to establish Ukrainian studies there. Soon est in Ukraine and its history, and how that interest he became deeply involved in that effort, both as a doc- developed during his student years. He spoke of the toral student in the department of history and as an scholars who were his mentors, particularly Profs. activist and fund-raiser for the project to establish three Pritsak and Ihor Sevcenko of Harvard, and his good for- professorships – in history, language and literature – as tune in having challenging students and talented and well as a research institute for Ukrainian studies at dedicated colleagues. He voiced his belief in the future Harvard University. Dr. Frank Sysyn of Ukrainian studies and the need for scholarship in the In the decade that followed, he held a number of field to continue to develop both in Ukraine and beyond research fellowships abroad, in the United Kingdom, warm personal and family recollections about his older its borders. Poland and the USSR, and completed his Harvard Ph.D. brother. Dr. Sysyn’s aunt, Olga Zidowsky, greeted the He expressed gratitude for the love and support of his with a dissertation on the prominent 17th century politi- gathering on behalf of members of the Sysyn family and family and thanked his aunt and his mother, Hattie cal figure Adam Kysil. spoke of her nephew’s devotion and importance to Sysyn, for coming to Toronto to be present. He noted Subsequently Dr. Sysyn taught as an assistant profes- them; she also shared memories of the family’s painful the important career advice once given him by his father sor and then associate professor of history at Harvard, loss of Frank Sysyn Sr. in the past year. and expressed sadness at his absence from this special administered the Ukrainian program of the Harvard Profs. Andriewsky and Plokhii then presented Dr. occasion. Summer School, became associate editor of the journal Sysyn with a manuscript of the Festschrift to be pub- Throughout the evening the gathering was enter- Harvard Ukrainian Studies, continued his research proj- lished in his honor. The project follows the European tained by a slide show of photos depicting events in Dr. ects in the U.S. and abroad, wrote numerous scholarly scholarly tradition of marking a 60th or other important Sysyn’s life, created by Marta Baziuk and Prof. Taras works and served as associate director of the Harvard birthday of an eminent scholar by producing a new Koznarsky of the University of Toronto. A special guest Ukrainian Research Institute. work of scholarship in his honor and including it in a was Dr. Sysyn’s godson, first-grader Tymish Koznarsky. In 1989 Dr. Sysyn came to Canada to join the CIUS special collection, traditionally given a Latin title. Dr. Dr. Sysyn’s Festschrift will appear as a special issue at the University of Alberta as director of the new Peter Sysyn’s Festschrift, titled “Tentorium Honorum” after a of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies published by CIUS Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research. At that panegyric addressed to Adam Kysil, contains 33 articles Press. Anyone wishing to join in congratulating the hon- post he founded and continues to administer a number of historical scholarship written by his colleagues and oree may make a contribution toward publishing costs of research and publications programs. He serves as edi- students on a broad range of topics. The studies deal and add their names to the “Tabula Gratulatoria” that tor-in-chief of the center’s major undertaking, the with Ukraine and other Eastern and Central European will appear in the publication. Donations should be sent Hrushevsky Translation Project, which is producing a countries and encompass early history to modern times. to Roman Senkus, director of the CIUS Publications complete English version of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s The editors of the collection are Profs. Andriewsky and Program, University of Toronto, 256 McCaul St., Room multi-volume History of Ukraine-Rus’.” Dr. Sysyn also Plokhii, and Larry Wolff of New York University, 308, Toronto, ON M5T 1W5 Canada. heads the CIUS office at the University of Toronto. He has continued his own scholarly work in Ukrainian studies, particularly in the fields of early modern Kozak, political and religious history, and has an extensive bibliography of publications. He has also Novel by Volodymyr Dibrova wins found time to conduct courses in history at Stanford University and also at Columbia University, where he will be teaching this coming spring. BBC Ukrainian Service’s Book Prize The celebratory evening’s program opened with CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard Ukrainian greetings by Dr. Zenon E. Kohut, director of CIUS, who Research Institute’s (HURI) publication editor and spoke warmly of his long personal and professional writer-in-residence, Volodymyr Dibrova, received the friendship with the honoree and highlighted some of his BBC Ukrainian Service Book Prize for 2007 for his most notable achievements. novel “Andriyivskyi Uzviz.” His work was selected Prof. Olga Andriewsky of Trent University spoke of over 15 other nominees by a jury consisting of Vira Dr. Sysyn as her teacher, mentor, colleague and friend, Aheyeva, professor at the National University of Kyiv noting in particular his profound influence on her intel- Mohyla Academy; Serhii Vasilev, cultural monitor for lectual development as a scholar and historian. the journal SHO; Serhii Zhadan, writer and last year’s Uliana Pasicznyk, managing editor of the Harvard BBC winner; the poet Oleksander Irvanets; and Svitlana Translation Project, shared some experiences and per- Pirkalo, a BBC producer. ceptions in working with Dr. Sysyn on editorial projects Notified of the award via a phone from the BBC Dr. over many years, first at Harvard and then at the Dibrova said: “I am very grateful to the Ukrainian University of Toronto. Service of the BBC for its establishment of this prize Nadia Jacyk, head of the Jacyk Educational Foundation and daughter of philanthropist Peter Jacyk, which, in this way, supports Ukrainian literature. I also Volodymyr Dibrova spoke of the esteem in which her late father held Dr. want to thank all the members of the jury, and all people Sysyn and her appreciation of his accomplishments as who read the work and wrote positive reviews. For me, The other entries for the BBC prize included director of the scholarly center Mr. Jacyk founded. personally, this is great support. Up until now, I thought “Shoma” by Sofiya Andruchovych, “Tayemnytsia” by Prof. Serhii Plokhii, newly appointed Mykhailo that my works were only read by a narrow circle of Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard, reviewers and it’s great to find out that I have a wide Yuriy Andruchovych; “Mizeria” by Taras Antypovych; and previously associate director of the Jacyk Center at audience in Ukraine.” “Elektonii Platylin” by Mikhaylo Brynykh, “Trokhy the University of Alberta, spoke of meeting Dr. Sysyn at The novel takes its name from the street that unites Pitmy” by Lyubko Deresh, “Halmanakh” by by Bohdan Harvard in the 1980s and his role in bringing him to the upper and lower parts of the city of Kyiv and serves Zholdak, “Zoopark” by Andriy Kokotyukha, “Zhertva Edmonton as a visiting scholar in 1991. He expressed as an allegory for the protagonist’s life from its end to Zabutoho Maystra” by Evhenia Kononenko, “Ne gratitute and great regard for Dr. Sysyn as a scholar and its beginning. It is a place dominated by the pulse of the Chervoniyuchy” by Oksana Lutsyshyna, “Sontse Tak friend. era; there is noise and confusion as people rush up and Ridko Zakhodyt” by Oksana Lutsyshyna; “Hovoryty” Prof. Plokhii went on to acknowledge and read greet- down. Some keep to the right and reach their goal, by Tanya Malyarchuk, “Mayzhe Nikoly Ne Navpaky” ings and congratulations sent to Dr. Sysyn from col- while others get lost in the chaos. by Maria Matiyus, “Sluha z Dobromylya” by Halyna leagues and scholarly organizations across North Reviewers noted that the novel is light and slightly Pahutyak; “Chebrets v Molotsi” by Natalka Snyadanko America, as well as from Ukraine, Poland, the United ironic. It is precise and without any trace of jargon or and “BZhD” by Sashko Ushkalov. Kingdom, Germany and Russia. slang. The construction of the dialogue shows the Dr. Dibrova, 56, a native of Donetsk, Ukraine, is Prof. Andriewsky read a letter by John Sysyn sharing author’s talent and has the feel of Soviet-era anecdotes. married with three children and lives in Waltham, Mass. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 No. 4 NEWSBRIEFS CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS (Continued from page 2) signed by Ukraine’s president, prime min- TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI, (973) 292-9800 x 3040 ister and Verkhovna Rada chairman indi- or e-mail: [email protected] cating Ukraine’s intent to join the NATO Membership Action Plan, it was reported on January 17. A statement circulated by SERVICES Ukrainian Book Store GEORGE B. 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have visited Cuba over those 18 years. The satellite, was successfully launched at 1:49 the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Lytvyn is NEWSBRIEFS project is funded completely by Cuba. The p.m. on January 15 from a platform in the predicting instability of the political situa- (Continued from page 14) Jose Marti Rehab Center provides services Pacific Ocean. The satellite was supposed tion in the country until the year 2017, it World Trade Organization (WTO). “This is to treat cancer and other serious ailments, to be put in orbit in November 2007, but was reported on January 21. He told the first step toward greater Ukrainian inte- and Cuban doctors perform successful kid- the launch date was postponed several Business magazine that, “According to my gration with the global and the European ney and heart surgeries. (Ukrinform) times due to bad weather conditions. The estimates, the critical period in Ukraine Thuraya-3 spacecraft weighs 5.173 tons. It will last until 2017.” Mr. Lytvyn said he economy,” European Trade Commissioner Yanukovych: Kushnariov murdered Peter Mandelson said. He told the UNIAN was designed by Boeing for Thuraya believes that Ukraine has been living in a news agency that Ukraine agreed to limit KYIV – “I don’t believe the killing of Satellite Telecommunications of the state of “stable instability” over the past 15 its export duties and not to raise them in Yevhen Kushnariov was accidental,” United Arab Emirates. The Ukrainian years and that this state will continue for a the future, but did not provide further Viktor Yanukovych told journalists in Yuzhnoye Design Office and the produc- rather long time. He added that one of the details. The EU earlier demanded the Kharkiv at solemnities on the occasion of tion enterprise YuzhMash, the U.S. compa- main characteristics of the current political annulment of all export duties from the first anniversary of his death. “I am nei- ny Boeing, the Russian rocket and space process is the lasting presidential cam- Ukraine, while Kyiv proposed a moratori- ther a policemen nor the procurator gener- corporation Energia, and the Norwegian paign, and a possible competition between um on the introduction of new export al, yet as a human I don’t believe in coinci- company Kvaerner ASA participate in the the factions of the ruling pro-presidential duties, as well as not raising existing dence. We mean to employ experts. We Sea Launch project. The January 15 launch coalition. There are no grounds for opti- duties. (RFE/RL Newsline) have consulted Kushnariov’s family and was the first since an accident in early mistic forecasts, he noted. “This confronta- know their stance, yet, I won’t comment on 2007, when the carrier-rocket Zenit-3SL tion and sense of temporality will be the EU launches talks on free-trade area the situation now,” Mr. Yanukovych said. was launched to take the NSS-8 satellite determining factors in 2008, while peo- into orbit but exploded; two spacecraft ple’s fatigue and the wish to have a hard KYIV – The European Union is launch- Mr. Yanukovych, who leads the Party of the Regions (PRU) said Mr. Kushnariov, a were lost and the launch platform Odyssey fist will increase.” Mr. Lytvyn also said ing negotiations on a comprehensive was damaged. (Ukrinform) there is a danger that Ukraine may turn agreement regarding the creation of a free PRU leader, cannot be replaced in the Kharkiv region. (Ukrinform) toward authoritarianism and dictatorship. trade area with Ukraine, the European Serhii Korolev is remembered (Ukrinform) Commission’s Delegation to Ukraine said Yushchenko wary of gas revisions on January 17. In 2006 the commission KYIV – A memorial marker in honor of Minister predicts inflation of 10.5-12.5% suggested that Ukraine conclude a new KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko space rocket designer Serhii Korolev will extended agreement stipulating talks on a has warned the government against raising be erected near Zhytomyr in western KYIV – Ukraine’s Economy Minister free trade area with the aim of better inte- prices for the transit of Russian natural gas Ukraine, said Yurii Zabela, head of the Bohdan Danylyshyn is predicting infla- gration of the two sides’ economies. The across Ukraine, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Zhytomyr Regional State Administration tion of 10.5 percent to 12.5 percent in talks are conditional on Ukraine’s mem- Service reported on January 21, as it will on January 15 during celebrations of the 2008. He made this forecast as he bership in the World Trade Organization only result in Ukrainians paying more for 101st anniversary of Korolev’s birth. Mr. addressed the press on January 15. He (WTO). In 2005, 25 percent of the gas. “Ukraine’s policy toward gas transit Zabela stated: “Serhii Korolev had no noted that the payment of compensations Ukrainian exports to the tune of 8.7 billion should remain specific” as long as Ukraine equals in any country in the field of world to former Soviet savings bank depositors euros were to the EU, while 42 percent of receives Turkmen gas through Russia, Mr. astronautics and rocket production. And in the amount of 20 billion hrv will goods worth 17.8 billion euros were Yushchenko said. He said the price we should be proud of the fact that this increase inflation by 1.5 percent more. In imported to Ukraine from the EU. Ukraine pays Russia to bring 55 billion person, whose ideas and research inven- 2007 inflation in Ukraine totaled 16.6 (Ukrinform) cubic meters of gas the 2,500 kilometers tions will long be used by his successors, percent. (Ukrinform) was born in Zhytomyr.” Mr. Zabela said from Turkmenistan corresponds approxi- GDP grew by 7.3 percent in 2007 PM pledges transparent privatization mately to the price for transit of 127 billion the memorial sign would be rocket-shaped with the inscription “Zhytomyr – Space KYIV – Prime Minister Yulia cubic meters of Russian gas across 1,100 KYIV – In 2007 Ukraine’s gross kilometers of Ukrainian territory. He City.” The memorial is to be erected on the domestic product (GDP) grew by 7.3 per- Tymoshenko said on January 16 that World Day of Astronautics and Aviation, “there will be no more half-shady or shady argued that it is “illogical” to raise the cent from 2006, the State Statistics which is marked on April 12. (Ukrinform) Committee reported. The Cabinet of privatizations in Ukraine,” reported price at one side and have it raised at the Ministers predicts 7.2 percent GDP RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service. “All objects other. Mr. Yushchenko said that Ukraine Lytvyn predicts more instability growth and 6.8 percent inflation in 2008. will be privatized in a completely transpar- “every year faces... new prices” for gas (Ukrinform) ent way, in open auctions,” she said. First delivery, but at the same time it receives KYIV – Ukraine’s former Chairman of Vice Prime Minister Oleksander gas from Central Asia at the lowest possi- Turchynov announced that the government ble price. (RFE/RL Newsline) has approved a list of 28 Ukrainian enter- CPU leader makes accusations prises that should be privatized in the first instance. The Odesa Portside Plant, the KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko is country’s second-largest chemical plant, not interested in changes concerning the and Ukrtelekom are on the list, which Mr. gas supply to Ukraine, as proposed by Turchynov said is incomplete. The govern- Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, since ment assumed revenues of 8.5 billion hrv the present system is beneficial for Mr. ($1.6 billion U.S.) from the privatizations Yushchenko’s family, charged the leader of in its 2008 budget. (RFE/RL Newsline) the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), Petro Symonenko. Mr. Yushchenko and his Cuba helps Chornobyl children brother Petro have ties to UkrGazEnergo, KYIV – A program of post-Chornobyl established as a daughter company of the rehabilitation of Ukrainian children in RosUkrEnergo in Ukraine, Mr. Cuba will be active as long as Ukraine Symonenko said. The CPU leader also needs it, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary charged that PetroGaz, which is linked to Ambassador of Cuba to Ukraine Julio Petro Yushchenko, is engaged in money Garmendia said on January 17. The pro- laundering. (Ukrinform) gram was launched 18 years ago in April Successful rocket launch in Pacific and “we have applied much effort to treat the Ukrainian children,” Mr. Garmendia KYIV – The Ukrainian-Russian carrier- stressed. Some 22,000 Ukrainian children rocket Zenit-3SL, carrying a Thuraya-3 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 No. 4 No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 17 Scholar describes recent Holodomor projects in Ukraine by Natalie Sluzar Mace library to be fully operational. Dr. Shulga said that besides establishing NORTH PORT, Fla. – In conjunction a Holodomor library, another wish of Dr. with official commemorations of the 1932- Mace was to establish a fellowship for seri- 1933 Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, or ous scholars from around the world to Holodomor, Dr. Nataliya Shulga, a scientist come to Kyiv to do their research. Lack of from Kyiv, addressed a gathering here at St. funding is preventing such a fellowship Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church, describ- from being established at this time, but Dr. ing two projects related to the Holodomor. Shulga said she is optimistic that it will The first project Dr. Shulga described happen in the future. was the transfer of the late Dr. James Vira Solovyova, director of the Kyiv- Mace’s archives and library to the library at Mohyla Publishing House, has prepared the National University of Kyiv Mohyla three out of four volumes of the report of Academy. Dr. Mace had stipulated in his the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine will that his entire collection was to be Famine for publication in a Ukrainian ver- donated to Kyiv Mohyla Academy so that sion this year. She is seeking financial sup- researchers and scholars could pursue stud- port to cover translations and publishing ies of Soviet policies in Ukraine that result- costs, Dr. Shulga related. ed in the death by starvation of 7 million to Another project covered by the speaker 10 million Ukrainians. was the recently published collection of Through the efforts of Dr. Shulga, with original documents recently released from the cooperation of Dr. Mace’s widow, the the KGB and other archives in Ukraine. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and friends, the This 1,000-page collection of original doc- Natalie Sluzar collection was assembled from several uments, published by Kyiv-Mohyla Nataliya Shulga of Kyiv and the Rev. Severyn Kovalyshyn, pastor of St. Mary countries, packaged and shipped to Kyiv. Publishing House, provides evidence that Ukrainian Catholic Church in North Port, Fla. Most of the costs of this colossal effort the Holodomor was a Soviet policy of were covered by donations from Dr. genocide against the Ukrainian people. of the KGB documents is scarce, even Ukrainian Scientific Club, an international Mace’s colleagues and friends, especially The KGB documents were published in though funds have been transferred to the organization of top scientists who wish to Russ Chelak of New Jersey, as well as by the original language. A translation has Ministry of Education and Science. Thus, contribute to educational and scientific private donors. already been made into Ukrainian. The financial assistance from the diaspora is reforms in Ukraine. Now that the archives are physically in next step, Dr. Shulga said, is to do an needed, as are translators. Dr. Shulga Dr. Shulga donated a copy of the recently Kyiv, other problems have arisen. The English translation and eventually transla- emphasized that the translation and publi- released Ukrainian-language collection of main problem, Dr. Shulga said, is finding a tions into the major European languages. cation of these materials must to be fin- KGB documents to the library at St. Mary’s. suitable space at Kyiv Mohyla Academy to “The truth of the matter is that Ukraine ished in time for the planned commemora- Anyone wishing to view the documents is house the archives. In addition, appropriate will never get recognition for the tions at the United Nations this fall. urged to contact the pastor, the Rev. staff must be found to catalogue the Holodomor as genocide if there is no docu- Dr. Shulga is a scientist in molecular Severyn Kovalyshyn, at 941-426-7931. archives, translate the documents and mon- mentation and books on the subject in uni- genetics and cellular biology, born and edu- Anyone willing to donate toward the itor their use. Despite all the efforts by the versity libraries all over the world,” Dr. cated in Kyiv. She worked for many years translation and publication of the Yushchenko administration to publicize the Shulga underscored. at the University of Rochester Medical Holodomor documents, may contact Ms. Holodomor as genocide, bureaucratic Dr. Shulga noted that commemorations School and department of biology. After Solovyova at +38 (044) 417-5956, wheels turn slowly and many obstacles of the Holodomor are continuing through the Orange Revolution she decided to [email protected]; or Dr. Shulga at remain, she noted, added that, unfortunate- 2008 and many events are scheduled on the return to her native country. Currently she +38 (044) 295-7532, nataliya_shulga@ ly, it will take at least two years for the subject. Funding for the translation project is CEO of a newly created NGO, the nauka.in.ua 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 No. 4

The Ukrainian Engineersʼ Society of America Philadelphia Chapter

54rd Annual Engineersʼ Banquet and Ball Andrea Nakonechny Marta Sydoryak Sonya Tarin with Presentation of Debutantes

Saturday, February 2, 2008 Park Hyatt Philadelphia Hotel at the Bellevue Broad and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Andrea Watters Nina de Vassal Ksenia Strockyj Cocktails at 6:00 PM Banquet at 7:00 PM Ball and Presentation of Debutantes at 9:00 PM

Music by the “Fata Morgana” Orchestra Master of Ceremonies: Roman Chabursky

Christine Wirstiuk Sofia Karaman Stepha Martynuk Reservations for the Banquet and Ball, at $125 per person, can be made by call- ing Dr. Larysa Zaika at 215-635-7134, no later than Wednesday, January 30, 2008. Tickets for the Ball alone can be purchased at the door on the evening of the Ball, Feb. 2, 2008. The cost is $50 for adults and $25 for students.

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Debutante Ball 2008 Sponsored by the Catherine Anastazia Bukalo Ukrainian American Youth Association Christina Mary Sorano West Patterson, N.J. Saturday, February 2, 2008 Wethersfield, CT. Sheraton Parsippany Hotel 199 Smith Road Parsippany, NJ Presentation of Debutantes 7:00 p.m. Ball 9 p.m. featuring Hrim

Myroslava Hreb Joanna Helen Podberezniak Jersey City, N.J. This page is sponsored by the SUMA (Yonkers) Federal Credit Union Springfield, N.J.

Victoria Leigh Kebalo Alexandra Julia Koszarek Luba Mykijewycz Maryana Nikolin Valentyna Sofia Olynyk South Windsor, CT. Little Falls, N.J. Glassboro, N.J. North Bergen, N.J. Freehold, N.J. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 19 Texas Ukrainians Scranton community holds fourth annual Malanka hold community dinner by Paul Ewasko SCRANTON, Pa. – The fourth annual “Malanka” – a traditional Ukrainian New for Christmas Eve Year’s celebration – was held on Friday, January 11, at the handsomely renovated NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas – The St. Vladimir Parish Center, 428 N. home of Stephen and Beth Sokolyk in Seventh Ave., in Scranton. Sponsored by New Braunfels, Texas, was the scene for the combined Ukrainian organizations of the seventh annual “Hromadska Sviata Northeastern Pennsylvania, the festivities Vecheria” – or community Christmas Eve were co-chaired by Ann Zinich and dinner – for the San Antonio-Austin area Janina “Yanka” Everett of Berwick, who on Saturday, January 5. is also vice-president on the national In this growing tradition, each family board of the League of Ukrainian prepares at least one traditional Ukrainian Catholics. meatless dish, which they then bring to The Rev. Mitred Protopresbyter Nestor the house. Meanwhile, the house is pre- Kowal of St. Michael Ukrainian pared: the living room furniture is car- Orthodox Church and the Rev. Paul ried out, and folding tables and chairs are Wolensky of St. Vladimir Ukrainian carried in. The tables are covered with Catholic Church of Scranton served as white tablecloths, embroidered runners masters of ceremonies. Malanka, which (rushnyky) and centerpieces. The buffet also is marked in honor of St. Melanie, is set up in the kitchen. caps off the festivities of the This year the Texas community’s spe- Christmas/New Year holidays, and is cial guests were four little girls from Enjoying the Scranton Malanka (from left) are: Joe Berta, Nikki Berta, Sandra often the last opportunity for celebrating Berta and Michael Trusz. orphanages in the Zhytomyr and Sumy before the solemn period of Great Lent oblasts of Ukraine, along with the direc- preceding Easter begins. kolomyika and polkas along with the Orthodox Church and St. Vladimir tor of one of the orphanages, a translator The generous buffet dinner, catered by more familiar jitterbug, twist, waltz, Ukrainian Catholic Church, along with (who is also an incredible cook), and Wally Rice of Rice Catering, included a tango and romantic slow dances. Colorful officers of the Ukrainian Fraternal their four New Braunfels host families. mixed greens salad, chicken Marsala with Ukrainian embroidered blouses and shirts Association and members of the North There was a record turnout of 57 mushrooms and fresh herbs, pepper were worn by many of the partygoers. Anthracite Council of the League of adults and about 20 to 30 children, encrusted roasted pork au jus, fresh cod While Malankas in Northeastern Ukrainian Catholics, a Malanka commit- including new immigrants, old immi- in white wine and herbs, caramelized Pennsylvania were conducted for many tee was formed. Due to the positive grants and people for whom this was their baby carrots, green beans almondine, gar- years by Ukrainian immigrants and first- response and community-wide support, first exposure to Ukrainian culture. lic mashed potatoes as well as Ukrainian and second-generation Ukrainian the Malanka is now an annual event. The children enjoyed themselves fare consisting of borsch, kovbasa with Americans, the custom faded away for a Gifts of support were provided by the upstairs playing games, or outside jump- red and white horseradish sauces, holubt- ing on the trampoline. Meanwhile, si, varenyky/pyrohy, nut and poppy seed while. In January 2004, however, it was Ukrainian Fraternal Association, the downstairs the grown-ups were celebrat- rolls, pliatsok, khrustyky and Ukrainian revived when representatives of the Providence Association of Ukrainian ing with Ukrainian carols, a sumptuous festive walnut torte prepared by parish- Ukrainian community of Northeastern Catholics and the North Anthracite buffet and plenty of Ukrainian “horilka” ioners of Ss. Cyril and Methodius Pennsylvania joined hands to resurrect Council of the League of Ukrainian (no Stoli allowed). Thanks to accordion- Ukrainian Catholic Churches of Berwick this age-old New Year tradition. Catholics, as well as a number of local ist Larry Peters, the guests even danced and Olyphant, and St. Michael Ukrainian Spearheaded by the Ukrainian Heritage businesses and individuals. the Arkan between the tables. (Missing Orthodox Church and St. Vladimir Council of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Plans are already in the making for was the incredible singing Kunasz family, Ukrainian Catholic Church of Scranton. parishioners of St. Michael Ukrainian Malanka 2009. but they should be back next year.) The evening included a midnight Several new folks joined the group, champagne toast, door prizes and music including some from as far away as for guests’ dancing and listening pleasure Lutsenko, Chernovetskyi... enjoy the trust of thousands of people, Manchester, England, and Khmelnytskyi, by Oleksa Kerekesha, Bohdan who delegated them to power…” Ukraine. The San Antonio-Austin Sviata Mykaylyshyn and Ihor Shablovsky of the (Continued from page 3) Ukrinform also reported that Mr. Vecheria now has an international follow- popular Ukrainian orchestra Fata was “a fresh shameful clash between two Lutsenko said on January 21 that he ing, with “groupies” in Winnipeg, Morgana, which has played throughout ranking officials, irrespective of who was doesn’t regret fighting with Mayor Manitoba; Tucson, Ariz.; New Jersey; the United States and Canada, as well as the first to start, and who is to blame.” Chernovetskyi. “I don’t regret what I and now the District of Columbia. (Y’all in Ukraine. He added, “The two officials acted inade- have done. This was a brave deed of a just don’t know what you’re missing!) The busy dance floor shook as party- quately to their high posts. … It does not man who seeks a fair state,” he said in Getting together in this way has been goers from Northeastern Pennsylvania, matter who will be found guilty – the Ivano-Frankivsk. He added that he was tremendous for the embryonic Ukrainian New Jersey, New York and Florida parliamentary force leader and govern- responding to the mayor’s lies and accu- community. Many never knew the enjoyed the fast-moving Ukrainian ment officer, or the city head. They both sations of blackmail. Christmas traditions growing up, and this has been a way to learn about the Ukrainian heritage, including learning to cook like “Baba” (grandma) did. Others have moved away from very organized Ukrainian communities and are grateful to be able to reconnect in their new home. If readers want to come join the group next year, or know a South Texas Ukrainian whom the group should meet contact Steve Sokolyk at 830-606-5810 or [email protected]. In the press... (Continued from page 7) Ukrainian position towards the EU. Both the Orange coalition and parliamentary opposition would be able to agree on a common negotiating position towards the EU that is commensurate with Ukraine’s strategic importance and its progress in democratic and economic reforms. Since 2005, Ukraine is the only CIS country defined as ‘free’ by the New York-based think-tank Freedom House. Ukraine has every right to be treated in the same man- ner as Romania, Bulgaria, the Western Balkans and Turkey, and Ukraine should not join any ENP [European Neighborhood Plan] or Privileged Partnership if there is no prospect of future membership of the EU. …” 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 No. 4

Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov and Thanks to her, I’ve been able to live Yushchenko strives... Gazprom on January 23. The Presidential Cancer survivor... these seven years in spite of my tumor. It’s (Continued from page 2) Secretariat, however, said that it would be (Continued from page 6) been a seven-year fight with myasthenia nated to the internal affairs minister, to be better for Prime Minister Tymoshenko to pered through tears. “Let me die. I can’t live gravis and cancer. But still, I’ve had seven renamed “National Guard” and be subor- go to Moscow together with President like this.” Natasha could barely hear her more years. Even now my mom sits by my Yushchenko on February 12, when the dinated to the president. He also believes daughter’s words. bed watching me breathe. She knows I will Yushchenko-Putin commission gathers. that the president, rather than the Cabinet, The distraught mother lovingly closed face many life-threatening battles ahead. Interviewed on TV on January 20, Mr. should appoint the chief of the special her daughter’s eyes. Walking across the But she also knows she will fight to save Yushchenko warned the Tymoshenko my life. Even if the situation seems desper- communications and information protec- room, she heard the child sigh for the last Cabinet against revising the existing ate. Even if my heart stops, she won’t “set tion service. time and become still. Natasha sat with her scheme of gas trade and gas transit fees. my soul free.” He has made it clear that the OU-PSD eyes closed, sobbing silently, biting her lips Most recently, Mr. Yushchenko asked will not back several key appointments to Ms. Tymoshenko to drop her privatization until they bled while feeling no pain. *** the Cabinet, which Prime Minister Then, suddenly, she stood up, rushed plan for 2008. Meeting Ms. Tymoshenko At age 23 though tied to a wheelchair Tymoshenko wanted to make on January over to her daughter. The child was blue. on January 21, Mr. Yushchenko said that and suffering from myasthenia gravis and 18, until the bills aimed at increasing pres- She had no pulse; her heart had stopped. the plan had been prepared too hastily, breast cancer, Ira devotes her time to her idential power are passed. Segodnya and Although this seemed to be the end, and that a law to make privatization more Happy Child Foundation (www.deti.zp.ua) Ukrayinska Pravda reported that Mr. Natasha was confident she could correct the transparent should be passed first. and to helping children in the oncology unit Yushchenko also rejected Ms. situation. Like a robot, she began 15 chest Ms. Tymoshenko planned to use priva- in which she had spent much of 1997, 1998 Tymoshenko’s choice for chairman of the compressions, two breaths, 15 chest com- tization proceedings to compensate and 1999. She analyzes the unit’s needs Anti-Monopoly Committee, Davyd Ukrainians for the savings lost in the pressions, two breaths, over and over, hun- and, using the Internet, finds sponsors to Zhvania. According to the press, Mr. defunct Soviet savings bank. A successful dreds of times. She didn’t look at her watch. provide equipment and medicine. Yushchenko believes that although he for- compensation campaign should boost Ms. She didn’t even think about possible brain In the spring, Ira plans to expand her mally represents OU-PSD, Mr. Zhvania is Tymoshenko’s popularity among the damage, the result of cardiac arrest. She had mission. Working with former Peace Corps in fact on the Tymoshenko team. poor, improving her chances to win the but one thought: she had to save her daugh- volunteer Anne Linden, author of Mr. Yushchenko has taken additional next presidential election. ter. “Assumptions and Misunderstandings, steps to clip Ms. Tymoshenko’s wings. Speaking in her native Dnipropetrovsk With her next breath, she put a hand on Memoir of an Unwitting Spy” and program After returning to the post of prime min- on January 14, Ms. Tymoshenko made a the child’s neck. She felt a pulse. Her coordinator for her own NGO ister this past December, Ms. statement that was widely interpreted as a daughter’s heart was beating. She continued (www.ukraineworks.org), Ira will use her Tymoshenko declared her intentions to warning to Mr. Yushchenko. She said that to do CPR, confident that she would win the experiences to launch a campaign against remove the RosUkrEnergo intermediary she is happy to carry on as prime minis- battle against death and that her daughter children’s smoking. company from the natural gas trade ter, but she may consider running for would be healthy again. To help, readers can make donations by between Ukraine and Russia and to president “if the Cabinet is limited by cer- When the girl came to, she tasted blood transferring money (in dollars) to the Happy charge more for Russian gas transit to tain restrictions, if they start putting for- in her mouth. She didn’t know it was not Child Charity Fund. The following informa- Europe. Ms. Tymoshenko insisted that ward certain conditions.” Mr. Yushchenko her blood but her mother’s. The girl knew tion is required for such transfers: benefici- Ukraine would benefit from buying gas on several earlier occasions denied the only one thing: her mother had brought her ary customer: 2600294259; title of benefici- directly from Gazprom rather than rumors saying that he had agreed to Ms. back to life, back to a world of asphyxia and ary charity fund: Happy Child; bank of ben- RosUkrEnergo and from simultaneously Tymoshenko’s premiership in return for thirst. She almost hated her mother. At the eficiary: Raiffeisen Bank Aval, raising transit fees for Russian gas. Mr. her promise to not run against him in the time, she didn’t realize how much she really Zaporozhzhye Regional Branch Yushchenko disagreed, arguing that next presidential election. wanted to live. SWIFT:AVALUAUKZAP; correspondent Ukraine buys gas at a lower price than its But her mother knew. It was as though account of Raiffeisen Bank Aval: account neighbors under the current scheme, and Sources: ITAR-TASS, January 14; she’d known one day her daughter would 890-0260-688 with Bank of New York, that charging more for gas transit would Ukrayinska Pravda, January 17; thank her. It took seven years. But one day, I SWIFT:IRVTUS3N. complicate relations with Gazprom. Segodnya, 1+1 TV, January 18; Zerkalo did. Ms. Tymoshenko planned to go to Nedeli, January 19; Inter TV, January 20; “Thank you mom for not ‘setting my – Translated by Natalia Guzenko; edited Moscow to discuss gas issues with Russian Ukrayinski Novyny, January 21. soul free.’ ” by Anne Linden. No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 21

Ukrainian pro sports update: basketball by Ihor Stelmach

shot. In most other situations he does not Terry Stotts, his assistants and the Bucks’ Fesenko’s fortune in Utah fold try to avoid physical contact. He enjoys director of player personnel, Dave Utah Jazz Senior Vice-President of in the paint and uses his elbows and hands lateral quickness, intimidates with his Babcock, all broke up in laughter. Basketball Operations Kevin O’Connor to push and shove his way around... show- strength and provides much effort. “Well, he’s coachable,” Assistant announced on August 22, 2007, that the ing a better understanding of post offense Though-lacking professional coach- Coach James said as another assistant team had signed rookie center Kyrylo and is developing a touch six to eight feet ing, Fesenko does seem to enjoy a solid explained to Fesenko what the words Fesenko to a multi-year contract. Terms from the hoop... shot very high 67.9 percent understanding of the game. In addition to actually meant. “He did exactly what I of the rookie entry-level contract were in the post-season (2006-2007), mostly on Nenad Krstic of the Nets, international told him to do.” not released, as per team policy. pick-and-pop plays or putbacks...no perime- players like the Warriors’Andris Biedrins Fesenko did crack a brief smile, but The team acquired the draft rights to ter game and best when playing close to the and Cleveland’s Anderson Varejao come didn’t think it was all too amusing. “I just Fesenko (38th overall pick in the 2007 basket... his running stride reflects very to mind when projecting Fesenko’s don’t understand,” he said in his broken NBA draft) from the Philadelphia 76’ers good coordination... solid second and third promising NBA future. English. “He told me to put it down. I don’t know what it means.” in a draft night exchange for the draft effort gets him rebounds... aggression A Fesenko funny rights to Herbert Hill (55th overall pick) noticeable in his game... has quickness to The final drill of the workout was a and future trade considerations. keep up with small forwards, but yet can Back in 2006, when Fesenko original- two-on-two game of full-court. A native of Ukraine, Fesenko (6-foot- bang with bigger guys... should learn a baby ly declared for the NBA draft, only to When the coaches yelled that the next 11, 240 pounds) appeared in all six games hook shot with his long wingspan... withdraw later, the Detroit Pistons were team to score would win, Fesenko, about for the Jazz entry in the 2007 Rocky Scouting report negatives: Fesenko one of the teams rumored to be interested to take the ball from out of bounds under Mountain Revue, making three starts and haspoor shooting mechanics, as most of his in the Ukrainian hoopster. Also in the the baseline, threw it off an opposing averaging 4.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and points come from right under the basket... mix were the Milwaukee Bucks, who player’s backside, hopped in bounds 1.67 blocks in 16.3 minutes per game. must improve on his leaping ability and actually had the 19-year-old in for a grabbing the ball and raced down to the He averaged 6.7 points, 6.2 rebounds footwork when trying mid-range jump workout. Apparently Fesenko was other end for a dunk. and 1.6 blocked shots in 18.5 minutes per shots... free-throw shooting technique in involved in a funny incident during his The other three players in the scrim- game for Cherkaski Mavpy of the need of major overhaul – 56.3 percent free practice session with the Bucks. Here’s mage watched in confusion. The coaches Ukrainian SuperLeague. Fesenko scored throw shooting is poor, even for a big man... how it went down, courtesy of the threw up their hands, had another laugh in double figures on seven occasions, net- though aggressive, needs to learn to stay in Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. and counted the point as Fesenko walked ting a season high of 17 points. In six front of his man better when defending on Roughly mid-way through the 70- back as if it were a normal play. matches at the FIBA Euro Cup Challenge, the perimeter... has experienced little coach- minute workout, Milwaukee Assistant What an impression this young Fesenko averaged 7.2 points, 8.0 rebounds ing in Ukraine, so will require some time to Coach Brian James told the players he Ukrainian must have made, in more ways and 2.0 blocks in 18.7 minutes develop and acclimate himself to different wanted them to “put the ball on the than one. In retrospect, it may have been Also a member of the Ukrainian NBA game... carelessness with ball results floor,” meaning take a few dribbles very wise for Fesenko to postpone his National Team, Fesenko averaged 6.8 in some turnovers... could use a bit more arc before taking a shot at the basket. The NBA dream for one year. If nothing else, points, 6.9 rebounds and 2.0 blocked in his shot when facing the hoop... low-post young Fesenko was first up in this drill his command of basic English has to be shots at the 2005 Under-20 European game needs improvement... attacks rim and he took the instruction quite literally. better, no? Championships in Moscow. In 2004 he somewhat slowly, needs to work on quicker After catching a pass near the baseline, Coming up in future Pro Basketball averaged 12.0 points, 6.6 rebounds and first step and explosiveness. he proceeded to softly set the ball on the Updates: Oleksiy Pecherov’s wizards 2.6 blocks at the Under-18 European Scouts comparisons: Fesenko is court and then walk away, looking a bit debut is delayed; Fesenko rides the D- Championships in Zaragosa, Spain. likened to: Nenad Krstic, New Jersey puzzled as to the purpose of said drill. League shuttle; Khryapa frustrated in Following are scouting reports, Nets. The Nets were rewarded for their After a moment’s pause to reflect on Chicago; Szczerbiak a Sonic scorer off overviews, comparisons, some inside patience with Krstic, permitting him to what had just happened, Head Coach the bench. scoops and an amusing anecdote about develop in Europe. If the same patience the young Ukrainian hoopster. Fesenko is afforded the young Fesenko, an NBA never enjoyed a whole lot of exposure team could likewise be rewarded with an playing in his homeland, but found him- athletic power forward or back-up center. self at the top of most scouts’ agendas He is a big, mobile and aggressive player prior to the 2007 NBA draft. with nimble feet who needs strong Starring for the Ukrainian National coaching to discover and refine his addi- Under-20 team during the European tional hidden talents. Championship in 2005, Fesenko first So, heading into the 2007 NBA draft, drew the attention of NBA scouts. The Fesenko was an intriguing European defensive aspect of his game is far more prospect. He is gifted with a remarkable advanced than his still-developing offen- physical/athletic profile. He’s a legit big sive side. A center the past several years man with a nice wingspan, strong body while playing in Ukraine, his ultimate and solid frame. He’s also an athletic guy position in the NBA will probably be the who uses his gifts with a notable level of “four” spot, with expectations that he will activity. He’s a high-energy player. compete for time at power forward. For the most part, his offensive produc- In 2003-2005 Fesenko played for tion comes from dunks. He moves pretty Azovmash Mariupol in the Ukrainian well off the ball, hopes for low-post looks, SuperLeague, prior to joining SK Cherkasy tries to fill spaces and rolls after setting for the 2006-2007 campaign. In Fesenko’s picks. If he gets it close enough to the bas- final season with Azovmash Mariupol, the ket, he’ll attack the rim regardless of his team finished first in Ukraine’s second opponent’s positioning. If done correctly, division with a 32-12 record. In five games this usually forces a foul. He is comfort- for his team in the FIBA European League able dunking one-handed, and it’s easy for that year, though limited in playing time (8 him to get up high for the dunk before the minutes/per game), Fesenko flashed prom- defense arrives. ise with 14 points, five rebounds and two Fesenko is a little obsessive about the blocks in 23 minutes against Besiktas, then dunk when he captures an offensive went for 28 points in three games against rebound, as he immediately tries to go Poland with the senior national team. He back up and slam. He’s a very solid declared for the 2006 NBA draft, but later rebounder, particularly on the offensive withdrew his name. glass. He shows strong aggressiveness and Scouting report positives: Fesenko has an ability to avoid his opponent’s box-out long arms and legs with a well-built frame to gain good position. On the defensive that can easily carry at least another 20+ end he’s sometimes caught unfocused, not pounds with zero loss of speed... very agile giving proper box-out effort. Yet all of the for a player his size with good ball-handling key ingredients plus solid hands are there skills... smooth interchange with guards on to come away with the carom. pick-and-roll plays... runs the floor well and In defensive production he’s again provides strong physical presence under- quite active, the type of defender who neath the basket... though only an average first looks for the block rather than to vertical leaper, uses his length and timing to stop his opponent with his body. In go up and block shots... can’t leap above the defensive rotations he usually recognizes rim for a rebound, but knows how to posi- when and where to help a teammate. He tion himself and use his long arms to snatch does not seem willing to take a charge, rebounds... tough to move when established preferring to go up and try to block the 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008 No. 4 Pysanka symposium slated for March 8-9 in Washington WASHINGTON – The annual Pysanka pysanky. Author of the widely acclaimed Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ms. Tracz is a Andrew Sorokowski, Ph.D., a lawyer and Workshop sponsored by the Library of the book “Pysanky in the 21st Century” writer, researcher, lecturer and translator, historian specializing in Church history, Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine in (2004), Ms. Badulak will present an specializing in things Ukrainian, espe- as well as adjunct professor at the Washington will celebrate its 25th artist’s perspective on pysanka-making on cially ethnology. She is a columnist for Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, anniversary this year by hosting a sympo- Saturday and conduct a Pysanka Master The Ukrainian Weekly. Her interests Ukraine. In additon to being a columnist sium featuring pysanka specialists from Class on Sunday, March 9, along with her include folklore, folk medicine, folk for The Ukrainian Weekly, he con- the United States and Canada. daughter Nina Badulak-McDaniel, a songs, traditions, rituals, symbolism and tributes frequently to scholarly and popu- The two-day event will be held at the pysanka artist in her own right. folk art – especially the origin, symbol- lar periodicals on a wide variety of sub- Parish Center at 4250 Harewood Road • Andrij Hornjatkevyc: A linguist by ism and traditions of the pysanka. Her jects. NE in Washington (across the street from profession, Dr. Hornjatkevyc worked for presentation will focus on the pysanka as The program on Sunday, March 9, will the Catholic University of America). A 30 years for the University of Alberta at folk art in North America. include a Pysanka Master Class with Ms. special exhibit is being prepared in con- the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian • Lubow Wolynetz: A librarian by pro- Badulak and Ms. Badulak-McDaniel at junction with the symposium. Studies and the department of modern fession, now a professor and museum 1-3 p.m. (pre-registration required); the On Saturday, March 8, at noon to 5 languages and cultural studies. His inter- curator of the Ukrainian Museum and 25th annual Pysanka Workshop with Jurij p.m. the symposium will feature the fol- est in pysanky comes from his parents’ Library of Stamford, Conn., Ms. Dobczansky at 2-5 p.m.; and the annual lowing speakers. collection, which he preserved and whose Wolynetz is also curator of the folk art Easter Bazaar, featuring traditional • Helen Badulak: This pysanka artist recording in electronic format by the collection at The Ukrainian Museum in Ukrainian foods and baked goods, based in Reading, Pa., entered her first Ukrainian Folklore Chairs at the New York City. She will present a muse- Ukrainian arts, crafts and music, at noon- egg show in 1973. In 1992 she was University of Alberta he facilitated. His um curator’s perspective on the pysanka 4 p.m. named Master of Pysanky by the presentation will give an overview of this based on the annual pysanka exhibitions To register readers may log on to International Egg Art Guild. In her long valuable collection and its unique journey at The Ukrainian Museum, which she has www.ucns-holyfamily.org/events.html for career, she has won numerous first-place from Ukraine to Canada. curated for over 20 years. printable registration forms and detailed ribbons and Best of Show awards for her • Orysia Paszczak Tracz: Based in The symposium will be moderated by information on enrollment and fees.

Sviatoslav Piskun, who had served as It calls for a vote of no confidence because believe that the authorities are effective in Tymoshenko and Yushchenko... procurator general from December 2004 of Mr. Medvedko’s failure to resolve any of their struggle against corruption. Another 22 (Continued from page 2) through October 2005, as well as earlier Ukraine’s sensational crimes, such as the percent saw no results from the campaign, Having the trio in high posts reassures under President Leonid Kuchma in July murder of journalist Heorhii Gongadze in while only 8 percent believed any campaign 2002-October 2003. 2000, Mr. Yushchenko’s poisoning during was effective. the Party of the Regions that they have pro- Herein lies the dilemma. President the 2004 presidential election, and high- Ukrainians are particularly disappointed tection from the Tymoshenko government. Yushchenko claims to support a break with level involvement in election fraud that with the president who, they believe, has Their appointments also conclude the deal the Kuchma era and a battle against corrup- same year. continued Mr. Kuchma’s virtual campaign cut between Mr. Yushchenko and the Party tion, but his choice of procurator generals Under President Yushchenko, no procu- against corruption. The Atlantic Council of the Regions to end the spring 2007 politi- has been inconsistent with this statement. rator general has done much to advance the wrote, “While there are many reasons for cal crisis. The grand coalition between Mr. Maintaining Mr. Piskun in place for the first rule of law or to combat high-level corrup- the persistence of corruption in Ukraine, Yushchenko and the Party of the Regions 10 months of his presidency reassured the tion and abuse of office among Ukraine’s polling suggests that public disappointment that existed in early 2007 has de facto been Kuchma-era elites of their immunity from elites. As Zerkalo Nedeli (December 15-21, is particularly strong in the case of President recreated outside the Verkhovna Rada. prosecution, which had been negotiated 2007) wrote, “Fortunately, groundless polit- Yushchenko, as many voters believe he is Mr. Medvedko became procurator gener- during the Orange Revolution’s roundtables ical repressions are no longer an element of one of the few top politicians who is not al in November 2005 and has remained in in late 2004. public policy. Unfortunately, deserved pun- tainted by corruption. Yet, Ukrainians that position except for a brief period in The anti-Medvedko resolution is highly ishments are not, either.” believe he has done too little to fight it.” April 2007. That month he was replaced by critical of his record as procurator general. Other parties have poor records as well. Only 21 percent of Ukrainians believe the Two senior Socialists (former Internal president has shown the political will to Affairs Minister Vasyl Tsushko and former combat corruption. Transport Minister Mykola Rudkovskyi), Volodymyr Stretovych, OU-PSD nation- Being Ukrainian means: from the previous government of Party of al deputy and deputy head of the parliamen- the Regions Prime Minister Viktor tary Committee on Law Enforcement, said, Yanukovych, are under investigation, but, “He [Yushchenko] has outlined a campaign ❏ Malanka in January. based on past experience, they are unlikely against corruption that he repeated many to be prosecuted. As a recent report of the times. But without cardinal cadre changes ❏ Debs in February. Atlantic Council of the United States point- in the procuracy, nothing will change. In the ❏ Sviato Vesny/Zlet in May. ed out, the Party of the Regions has never current situation the procuracy is corrupt expressed much interest in battling corrup- from bottom to top, from the raion to the ❏ Wedding of your roommate in June. tion. Ukrainians give very low marks to the procurator general.” second Yanukovych government (2006- The Tymoshenko government is com- ❏ Tabir in July. 2007) for failing to battle corruption. mitted to battling corruption and reforming ❏ Volleyball at Wildwood in August. Although most political parties claim law enforcement, including in the procura- they are in favor of combating corruption, cy. Ms. Tymoshenko has stated that she will ❏ Labor Day at Soyuzivka in September. especially at election time, Ukrainians not run in the 2009 presidential elections if remain skeptical. The 2007 Transparency her government’s reforms and campaign ❏ Koliada in December. International survey found that the majority against corruption are successful; she of Ukrainians believe that the judiciary is believes they were blocked by the president the most corrupt institution in Ukraine, fol- in 2005 during her first government. If you checked off more than one of the above, lowed by political parties, Parliament and President Yushchenko is caught between then you know what you’re doing to your brain cells. the Internal Affairs Ministry. When asked if having to choose to protect the Party of the there would be a breakthrough in overcom- Regions and further inaction against elite Now, how about doing something for your mind? ing corruption over the next three years, 44 abuse of office or supporting the govern- percent of Ukrainians said “no,” while 38 ment led by Prime Minister Tymoshenko. Subscribe to The Ukrainian Weekly. percent said corruption would increase. The two are in direct contradiction. Only 18 percent of Ukrainians believed that corruption would decline by the end of Sources: acus.org; transparency.org; President Yushchenko’s first term in office president.gov.ua; rada.kiev.ua; Ukrayinska in 2010. Pravda, January 8-12; Zerkalo Nedeli, SUBSCRIPTION Some 70 percent of Ukrainians do not December 15-21, 2007.

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