INSIDE:• Is Russia fit to head the Group of Eight? — page 3. • Jackson-Vanik Graduation Coalition lobbies House of Representatives — page 4. • News from the ongoing archeological excavations at Baturyn — centerfold.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIV HE KRAINIANNo. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine YushchenkoT journeysU to Iraq on eve Intricate dealW ends gas crisis of Ukrainian peacekeepers’ pullout between Russia and Ukraine by Zenon Zawada ty, on the other hand, will be a harder Kyiv Press Bureau task at this point as European leaders clearly read President Vladimir Putin’s KYIV – The Ukrainian government political motive of destabilizing the finally resolved its natural gas conflict Ukrainian government ahead of March with the Russian Federation, but not elections, preferring to lay blame for the without throwing Europe into a brief crisis with him. New Year’s crisis with countries such as Moscow is “using political brute force France and Italy suffering cuts to their on countries that are moving outside its supplies. sphere of influence, and this risks creat- The intricate deal struck between ing instability,” said Walt Patterson, an Europe’s bickering eastern neighbors energy expert at the Royal Institute for enabled both sides to declare they got the International Affairs in London, as quot- price they wanted. ed by the International Herald Tribune. Gazprom, the Russian state-owned As promised, Gazprom cut natural gas monopoly, will sell natural gas to a trad- supplies on January 1 because Ukraine ing company, RosUkrEnergo, for $230 refused a fourfold increase in price. As a per 1,000 cubic meters, the price it insist- direct result, Italy lost 25 percent of its ed Ukraine pay. natural gas supply, France lost 30 percent RosUkrEnergo will then combine the of its supply that day and Poland lost Russian natural gas with cheaper gas one-third. mostly from Turkmenistan and then Official Website of the President of Ukraine Europe was still coping with reduced charge Ukraine $95 per 1,000 cubic supplies on January 2. The continent At the airport in Baghdad (from left) are: Lt. Gen. Valerii Frolov, President meters, the price Ukrainian officials had obtains a quarter of its natural gas supply Viktor Yushchenko, Foreign Affairs Minister Borys Tarasyuk and National sought. Ukraine had been paying $50 per from Russia, of which 90 percent crosses Security and Defense Council Secretary Anatolii Kinakh. 1,000 cubic meters. Ukraine by pipeline. “The Ukrainian economy is well Russian leaders aimed to pin the KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko foundation of political government in enough prepared to operate in new mar- blame on Ukraine as Gazprom Exports traveled on a one-day working visit to Iraq.” ket conditions,” said President Viktor Director Alexander Medvedev accused Iraq on December 26, 2005, and visited President Yushchenko honored the Yushchenko, adding that he was satisfied. Ukrainian authorities of siphoning off the Delta base in Al-Kut, where he noted memory of 18 Ukrainian soldiers, who “Ukraine is a reliable and stable partner 100 million cubic meters of natural gas that Ukrainian peacekeepers had com- died in Iraq since August 2003, and he both for the European Union and the worth $25 million from the pipeline in Russian Federation.” pletely fulfilled their mission. The fol- (Continued on page 10) Convincing Europe of Russia’s stabili- (Continued on page 10) lowing day, the last of Ukraine’s troops left Iraq. “Two and a half years ago we pre- dictably appeared in Iraq. Today, the Bishop Basil Losten retires, successor is named Ukrainian troops are leaving the country, having adjusted their withdrawal with all STAMFORD, Conn. – Pope Benedict Ternopil region of Ukraine, while his Columbia. Both of his parents passed partners,” President Yushchenko said, XVI has informed the Ukrainian mother, Jessie Delawski, was born in away in 1996. according to the Ukrinform news serv- Catholic Eparchy of Stamford that he has Musidora, Alberta. The bishop has a twin After graduating from the University ice. accepted the resignation of Bishop Basil sister, Patricia, who is an elementary The last mechanized column of mili- H. Losten from office, as he has reached school teacher in Maple Ridge, British (Continued on page 11) tary vehicles of the Ukrainian peace- the mandatory age of retirement. In the keeping contingent arrived in Kuwait on same announcement, dated January 3, December 27, having left Iraq. The col- Bishop Paul Patrick Chomnycky, umn consisted of eight vehicles and 44 OSBM, currently the apostolic exarch of servicemen. Great Britain, has been appointed as Ukraine’s military presence in Iraq is Bishop Losten’s successor as the fourth now limited to some 50 military person- Bishop of the Eparchy of Stamford. nel, councilors and instructors, who will In accordance with the provisions of train the Iraqi military. The group arrived canon law, all bishops must offer their at the Delta Camp on December 20, resignation to the holy father upon reach- 2005. ing the age of 75. On May 11, 2005, President Yushchenko noted that the Bishop Losten was compliant with the Ukrainian contingent “is leaving a law and sent the Holy Father his letter of friendly country” and underscored that resignation, along with a copy to “the big mission” of Ukraine in Iraq had Cardinal Lubomyr Husar. He continued attained its political purpose. “During the as bishop until the pope formally accept- Ukrainian mission stationing in Iraq the ed his resignation and he now becomes two countries established economic, bishop emeritus with a residence in the trade and political relations,” he added. city of Stamford. He will continue to be The president praised the activities of the administrator of the Stamford the Ukrainian peacekeepers in Iraq, not- Eparchy until the arrival of his successor. ing that they had assisted in staging the Bishop Chomnycky, age 51, was born referendum on the adoption of the Iraqi in Vancouver, British Columbia, on May Constitution and the December 15, 2005, 19, 1954. His father, Stephan, had immi- parliamentary elections. These events, grated to Canada in 1948 from the vil- Mr. Yushchenko said, “have laid the lage of Wilchiwchyk, Husiatyn County, Bishop Basil Losten Bishop Paul Patrick Chomnycky, OSBM 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 No. 2

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS A closer look at the disturbing solution NEWSBRIEFS Yavlinskii: Putin manipulates tensions… least some time. In any case, [the authori- ties] have succeeded so far because they to the Ukrainian-Russian gas conflict M OSCOW – Prominent Russian politi- have all possible instruments of propaganda cian Grigorii Yavlinskii told RFE/RL’s at their disposal.” (RFE/RL Newsline) by Roman Kupchinsky Europe at substantially higher prices. Russian Service on January 3 that RFE/RL ETG soon came under suspicion in the President Vladimir Putin has “created Questions arise about G-8 leadership January 4 media of being involved with Russian antagonism between Russia and Ukraine” organized crime figures and in July 2004 in order to “unite the people around the MOSCOW – On January 1 Russia The solution to the ongoing gas con- during the Ukrainian-Russian business government.” The leader of the liberal assumed the rotating presidency of the flict reached between Russia’s Gazprom forum in Yalta, Vladimir Putin and Yabloko Party stressed that “the principal Group of Eight (G-8) leading industrial and Naftohaz Ukrayina, the Ukrainian Leonid Kuchma announced that ETG mistake of ... Putin’s current policy is [to countries, to which it was admitted in an state oil and gas company, announced on would be replaced by a new company, forget] that Russia’s [prospects] in the 21st effort to promote free market reforms in the morning of January 4 raises more RosUkrEnergo. century are good only if it becomes inte- the 1990s and help ensure the safety of the questions than it answers. RosUkrEnergo was touted as a “totally grated into European structures and gener- former Soviet Union’s biological, chemi- According to Interfax, Aleksei Miller, transparent” successor to Eural and was ally redirects itself towards Europe.” Mr. cal, and nuclear stockpiles, mosnews.com the head of Gazprom, announced that an registered in Zug, Switzerland, on July Yavlinskii added that he is “not talking reported. President Putin reportedly intends to use the upcoming G-8 summit off-shore company, RosUkrEnergo, will 22, 2004. It consisted on the Russian side about Brussels, but about European civi- in St. Petersburg to focus attention on be the middleman for gas sales from of Arosgas Holdings AG, named in the lization in its entirety. Right now, instead Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and energy security in an effort to parlay its oil founding documents as a company “affil- of helping Ukraine move along and mov- Kazakhstan to Ukraine and sell a mixture and gas reserves into political power and iated with GazpromBank” and ing along with it, Russia is uselessly trying of gas from these countries to Ukraine at influence. International media noted on GazpromBank, a wholly owned to not let her do so, and is itself trying to a price of $95 per 1,000 cubic meters. January 3 that Russia’s behavior in the dis- Gazprom subsidiary. pursue some sort of ‘third way’ [in politi- Earlier, RosUkrEnergo had acted as the pute with Ukraine over gas prices has On the Ukrainian side, RosUkrEnergo cal development]. In reality, there is no intermediary for Turkmen gas sales to prompted some countries like Poland, the was represented by a company called ‘third way’; there is only the Third World” Ukraine. Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary to Reiffeisen Investment AG, a member of as an alternative. Mr. Yavlinskii noted that RosUkrEnergo is the company that take steps to reduce their dependency on the Reiffeisen Zentral Bank Group. the pro-Putin Unified Russia Party distrib- took over the role of another off-shore Russian energy supplies. The newspaper Reffeisen Investment CEO Wolfgang uted leaflets in the recent Moscow election company formed in December 2001, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung stressed Putschek stated that his company is not a with the slogan that “the citizens are the Hungary-Eural Trans Gas (ETG). that Moscow’s use of gas as a political partner in RosUkrEnergo, but merely government’s best helpers.” He stressed In December 2001, ETG signed con- weapon serves as a warning to Germany manages the portfolios of a “number of that “everything done ... by the Russian tracts with Gazprom and Naftohaz against relying too much on Russian ener- private Ukrainian investors” in propaganda machine during the past Ukrayina to be the intermediary for gas gy suppliers, noting that the old argument RosUkrEnergo. Mr. Putschek refused to month has been an attempt to persuade its shipments from Turkmenistan to Ukraine that Russian deliveries have always been name these investors, citing Austrian citizens to regard a people with whom they and was paid by the Ukrainian side with reliable no longer stands. The German confidentiality laws. However, none of are very close, with whom they have lived 13 billion cubic meters of gas for its daily also questioned the wisdom of the these so-called “investors” had any rela- for centuries, as their enemy, in order to services. ETG then sold this gas in North European Gas Pipeline (NEGP) tion to the Ukrainian government and consolidate them around the powers-that- project in light of Moscow’s apparent will- were merely acting as private individuals. be.” (RFE/RL Newsline) ingness to manipulate energy deliveries for Roman Kupchinsky is the former When the new Ukrainian government director of the Ukrainian service at …diverts focus from Gazprom’s problems political purposes. (RFE/RL Newsline) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. (Continued on page 21) MOSCOW – Yabloko Party Chairman Russia, Ukraine reach gas deal … Grigorii Yavlinskii told RFE/RL’s Russian MOSCOW – Gazprom and Ukraine Service on January 3 that the government announced on January 4 that they have Will Yushchenko survive “campaign” against Ukraine is aimed at reached a compromise deal on natural diverting attention from important issues gas prices, Russian and international gas attack from Moscow? involving the state-run gas monopoly news agencies reported the same day. Gazprom itself. He argued “the campaign is Under a complicated arrangement, by Jan Maksymiuk side refuse [to accept our proposal], we not over, but I think part of it [involves dis- Gazprom will sell gas to an intermediary, RFE/RL Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Report have grounds to appeal to the Stockholm playing] irritation with Ukraine and talk of RosUkrEnergo, for $230 per 1,000 cubic December 29, 2005 court [Arbitration Institute of the Ukrainians stealing gas, instead of [address- meters. RosUkrEnergo, which is a joint Stockholm Chamber of Commerce].” ing] corruption in Russia and [the issue of] venture between Gazprom and Austria’s For Ukrainian President Viktor Mr. Yekhanurov did not provide any where Gazprom’s money is really going. Raiffeisen Investment, will in turn sell Yushchenko, Russia’s announced inten- further details, but the proposal he men- Indeed, it is a means of diverting attention, tion to increase more than fourfold the tioned is apparently close to what Mr. which will have a significant impact for at (Continued on page 24) price for gas supplies in 2006 represents Plachkov made public on December 27, the most serious challenge since his inau- 2005. Mr. Plachkov told journalists in guration nearly a year ago. If such a price Kyiv that Ukraine wants Russia to charge FOUNDED 1933 hike was implemented, the pro- $80 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas in the Yushchenko camp would most likely suf- first three to six months of 2006, with a THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY fer a severe defeat in the parliamentary gradual switch to a “market price” in An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., elections in March, while the decelerat- 2009. 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As Russiaby Taras Kuzio is downgradedabsurd as when Sudan chaired to the “not U.N. Thefree,” Russian-Ukrainian is it gas fit dispute, to – headwhich is propped the up by G-8? Russian gas Eurasia Daily Monitor Human Rights Commission. Moscow’s therefore, no longer a conflict between subsidies. inclusion in the club was never (and still two former Soviet republics but a con- Both Russia’s and Belarus views on It is perhaps fitting that the Ukraine- isn’t) justified on economic grounds.” flict between an autocratic, non-demo- civil society as only being able to exist Russia gas conflict has rekindled debates The conservative Daily Telegraph cratic regime headed by “Putin’s Mafia because of foreign funding are inherited whether Russia truly belongs in the pres- (January 3) wrote more bluntly still: Politics” (Wall Street Journal Europe, from the former USSR when dissidents tigious G-8 group of advanced liberal “The West has to tell Russia that, plainly January 3) and a democratizing regime were routinely accused of being CIA or democratic market economies. The Wall and simply, its conduct is unacceptable if headed by Viktor Yushchenko. As The Zionist agents. These Soviet views are Street Journal Europe (January 3) editori- it wishes to remain part of the club of Daily Telegraph (January 3) pointed out, added to by equally Soviet-era conspira- alized that, “All of this makes Russia’s civilized nations.” “The methods of gangsterism and black- cy theories that blame the colored revolu- assumption of the G-8 presidency this The New York-based human rights mail now being used by Gazprom are tions on the U.S. month not just ironic but almost as tank Freedom House’s 2006 world reminiscent of the Soviet era.” Freedom House downgraded Russia to human rights report shows the degree to Russia’s downgrading to not free not free because of the marginalization of Dr. Taras Kuzio is visiting professor at which there is a total mismatch in places it on a par with other autocratic, the political opposition, state control of the Elliot School of International Affairs, Russia’s presidency of the Group of non-democratic regimes in the CIS such the media, decline in independent judici- George Washington University. The article Eight and its downgrading from “partly as its client state Belarus, Azerbaijan, and ary, growth of “anti-democratic tenden- above, which originally appeared in The free” to the status of “not free” (freedom- all five Central Asia states except cies,” and pressure on civil society. These Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily house.org). This has taken place in the Kyrgyzstan. are all areas where Freedom House noted Monitor, is reprinted here with permission same year as Freedom House upgraded Kyrgyzstan is the exception because improvements in Ukraine. from the foundation (www.jamestown.org). Ukraine from “partly free” to “free.” its Tulip Revolution led Freedom House Freedom House also rightly con- to upgrade it from partly free to not free. demned (before the gas conflict erupted) Kyrgyzstan joins Georgia, Armenia and Russia’s attempts at undermining demo- Moldova as the CIS four partly free cratic progress in the CIS. A final factor states. In being downgraded Russia has in downgrading Russia was Moscow’s Immigration judge orders joined seven not free CIS states. support for anti-democratic regimes in One reason Russia’s status was down- the Commonwealth of Independent deportation of Demjanjuk graded to that of not free is that the States. CLEVELAND – Chief Immigration false statements when entering the authorities hostility to NGOs and civil In contrast, Ukraine is the first CIS Judge Michael J. Creppy ordered on United States in order to escape repa- society has steadily grown. In late state to join the free group of countries in December 28, 2005, that John triation to the Soviet Union. He says he December 2005 both houses of the the world. This places it in the lead Demjanjuk, who the U.S. Justice served in the Soviet army and was a Russian Parliament approved a new law among the four post-Communist states Department claims was a guard at Nazi prisoner of war captured by the requiring NGOs to re-register and mak- that have experienced colored revolu- concentration camps in Sobibor, Germans. Mr. Demjanjuk has claimed ing it more difficult for those re-regis- tions (Serbia [2000], Georgia [2003], Majdanek and Flossenberg, be deport- to be a victim of mistaken identity. tered to obtain foreign funding. Kyrgyzstan [2005]). Freedom House ed from the United States to his native The Demjanjuk case dates back to Such restrictions on civil society upgraded Ukraine to just inside the free Ukraine. 1977, when the Justice Department inside Russia are only the latest in salami group of states. Judge Creppy also said that the for- first accused him of being “Ivan the tactics used by President Vladimir Putin In being upgraded, Ukraine has joined mer Cleveland autoworker could be Terrible,” a notorious guard at the against the media, regional governors, the 12 East-Central European states out deported to Germany or Poland if Treblinka death camp. oligarchs and democratic political par- of 27 post-Communist states also desig- Ukraine refused to accept him. A naturalized U.S. citizen, he lost ties. Russia’s attitudes toward civil socie- nated as free. Three East-Central However, the embattled Mr. that status in 1981, when a court ty place it squarely in the same camp as Demjanjuk’s legal battle is not yet over as stripped him of his citizenship. He was the last dictatorship in Europe – Belarus (Continued on page 24) he has the right within 30 days to appeal ordered deported and in 1986 was the ruling to the Board of Immigration extradited to Israel, where a war crimes Appeals. The Associated Press reported trial began a year later. FOR THE RECORD that his attorney, John Broadley, argued in He was sentenced to death in 1988, November 2005 that sending Mr. but that conviction was overturned on Demjanjuk back to Ukraine would be like appeal in 1993 by Israel’s Supreme throwing him “into a shark tank.” Court, and Mr. Demjanjuk returned U.S. State Department Earlier in the year, on June 20, 2005, home to Seven Hills, Ohio. His citizen- Judge Creppy had ruled that Mr. ship was restored in 1998. In that 1998 on Russia’s cutoff of gas Demjanjuk, could be deported from the ruling Judge Paul R. Matia cited fraud United States. At the same time, Judge on the part of U.S. government prosecu- Following is the text of a January 1 political pressure. As we have told both Creppy said Mr. Demjanjuk had the tors and wrote that attorneys of the U.S. statement on the suspension of gas ship- Russia and Ukraine, we support a move right to fight any deportation order. Justice Department’s Office of Special ments from Russia, which was issued by toward market pricing for energy but In his latest ruling, Judge Creppy Investigations (OSI) “acted with reck- the U.S. Department of State and deliv- believe that such a change should be found no evidence to substantiate Mr. less disregard for their duty to the court ered by spokesman Sean McCormack. introduced over time rather than suddenly Demjanjuk’s argument that he would and their discovery obligations” in fail- and unilaterally. Russia and Ukraine have be tortured if deported to Ukraine. ing to disclose potentially exculpatory The United States regrets the Russian a shared interest in maintaining good rep- Mr. Demjanjuk, 86, was stripped of evidence to the Demjanjuk defense. decision to cut off gas from Russia to utations as gas supplier and transit coun- his U.S. citizenship in 2002 because he In 1999 the Justice Department filed Ukraine, with potential effects on gas tries. The U.S. has encouraged a compro- allegedly lied on his application to enter suit once again to seek revocation of Mr. supplies elsewhere in Europe. Such an mise solution, and we remain hopeful that the United States after World War II. Demjanjuk’s U.S. citizenship on the abrupt step creates insecurity in the ener- a resolution will be reached between the Mr. Demjanjuk denies that he ever gy sector in the region and raises serious two sides that provides energy security served the Nazis, but admits giving (Continued on page 25) questions about the use of energy to exert and predictability for all concerned.

Cardinal Husar’s year-end press conference focuses on Church’s presence in Kyiv by Yana Sedova Husar said. believers.” simultaneously acknowledging the signif- Kyiv Press Bureau Construction of the cathedral started in Church spokesman Father Ihor Yatsiv icant canonical and dogmatic positions October 2002, when builders estimated couldn’t confirm how many Ukrainian that inhibit unity. KYIV – About two-thirds of the con- the project’s cost at $10 million. However, Catholic eparchies exist worldwide, but the “I wish there were one united Church, struction for the Ukrainian Greek- costs have exceeded that estimate because Church’s website indicates at least 22 exist. as it was at the very beginning, in the Catholic Church’s cathedral on the left of the rising price of building materials in North American eparchies have con- times of Volodymyr, when there was one bank of the Dnipro River is complete, Kyiv, Cardinal Husar explained. tributed more to the cathedral’s construc- patriarch and one center, such as St. said Cardinal Lubomyr Husar at a press About $4.5 million has been spent on tion than Ukrainian eparchies, Father Sophia Cathedral,” Cardinal Husar said. conference on December 19, 2005. the project so far, he said. Five domes Ihor said, again declining to offer any Since moving to Kyiv in August, In two years, the Patriarchal Cathedral and a central gold-plated cross have specific figures. Cardinal Husar has resided in a private of Christ’s Resurrection and a separate already been erected. The ground floor of “To give less, but from your heart, is apartment on Mykilsko-Slobidska Street patriarch’s residence should be complete, the patriarch’s residence also is complete. more important,” Father Ihor said. in Kyiv, a two-minute walk from the Cardinal Husar said. The Church has received offerings from “However, we are very happy that those future cathedral. The transfer of the Ukrainian Greek- Ukrainian Catholics from its eparchies who left Ukraine many years ago still Police have yet to identify who set fire Catholic Church’s headquarters to Kyiv in worldwide, but hasn’t accepted any dona- feel their ties.” on November 19, 2005, to the cathedral’s August 2005 and the cathedral’s construc- tions from political parties or government While diaspora Ukrainians may have chapel, where divine liturgies were cele- tion are symbolic steps towards uniting institutions, Cardinal Husar said. maintained ties, the ties between different brated, the cardinal said. Since the arson, Ukraine’s Churches, a goal Cardinal Husar “We do not want funds that could bind confessions in Ukraine haven’t improved, the Church has held its divine liturgies said he’d like to see realized some day. the Church’s hand and foot in the future,” which was the other major issue Cardinal from a wagon. “We are here so as to show our people, Cardinal Husar said. “It is better when Husar addressed. “We haven’t decided yet whether we those in Greek-Catholic Church, a visible the Church is absolutely free and when He lamented the ongoing split between should rebuild [the chapel] or not,” symbol of unity (of faiths),” Cardinal temples are built on donations of its Ukraine’s Orthodox and Catholics, while Cardinal Husar said. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 No. 2

Jackson-Vanik Graduation Coalition Dopomoha Ukraini Foundation gears up for action when House returns gives $500,000 to care center ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The M-C Dairy. The Dopomoha Ukraini U.S.-Ukraine Foundation In preparation for the return of the Dopomoha Ukraini Foundation is Foundation, the family’s foundation, House of Representatives on January 31, WASHINGTON – Given the Senate’s donating $500,000 to the Ukrainian was created to provide assistance to the coalition in urging those who are inter- Canadian Care Center to aid with the the many community, humanitarian passage by unanimous consent of legisla- ested is seeing Ukraine graduated from tion to graduate Ukraine from the provi- expansion of the long-term care and Ukrainian heritage organizations Jackson-Vanik to continue to fax letters home and to establish a secure unit in Canada and in Ukraine for the past sions of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment in supporting Ukraine’s graduation to their November 2005, the Jackson-Vanik for residents suffering from demen- 14 years. members in the U.S. House of tia-related disorders. Mr. Temerty stated: “Through the Graduation Coalition on November 30 Representatives, to the members of the Borys Wrzesnewskyj, member of strength and commitment of the launched an effort to urge the U.S. House Congressional Ukrainian Caucus (CUC) Parliament for Etobicoke Center, pre- Wrzesnewskyj family and the of Representatives to take parallel action. and to members on the House Ways and sented a check on behalf of his fami- Dopomoha Ukraini Foundation, the This effort resulted in numerous mes- Means Committee. ly’s charitable foundation to Ian care center will continue to provide sages to Congress as the membership in the The coalition again recommends that mes- Ihnatowycz, (president and CEO, the best facilities and programming coalition grew to more than 250 businesses sages also urge members to co-sponsor H.R. Acuity Investments Management which honor our traditions of caring and Ukrainian American, Jewish American 1053, introduced by Rep. Gerlach of Inc.) and James Temerty, (chairman, for those in our community while and non-governmental organizations. Pennsylvania. We have been repeatedly told Northland Power), co-chairs of the preserving our heritage. The However, the House of Representatives that, of the three House bills pending on care center’s Home With A Heart Wrzesnewskyj family has always adjourned on December 16 without taking Jackson-Vanik graduation for Ukraine, the been a leader in the Ukrainian action on Jackson-Vanik graduation. The Gerlach bill has the greatest receptivity in the Campaign during the fourth annual Canadian community. This generous House is scheduled to return for its next Ways and Means Committee. As of December Joy of Lights Celebration on gift further demonstrates this leader- session on January 31. 14, the Gerlach bill had 33 co-sponsors. The December 8, 2005. ship and is a testament to the contri- Soundings on Capitol Hill indicate grow- greater the number of co-sponsors, of course, In recognition of the generous bution the Wrzesnewskyj family has ing awareness of this issue, including of the the greater the pressure for early action. gift, the care center will name its importance of moving on graduation prior to Looking ahead to the next session of second floor in honor and memory made to life in Canada.” the March Parliamentary elections in Congress, the Jackson-Vanik Graduation of Mr. Wrzesnewskyj’s aunt and “This gift is a wonderful Ukraine. This greater awareness is due in Coalition will be considering the best tac- uncle, Mychailo and Jaroslawa Christmas present for the community large measure to the letters that have begun tics for securing action in the U.S. House Szafraniuk. and a great start to our Home With A to flow to elected representatives, particular- of Representatives and for engaging the “As a family we are thankful that Heart Campaign,” said Sandy ly those on the House Ways and Means Bush administration to make a more force- the care center provided such a warm Lomaszewycz, executive director of Committee and those who are members of ful push for Ukraine’s graduation. atmosphere and attentive care to our the care center. the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus (CUC). Due to increased security measures in beloved grand aunt Mrs. Jaroslawa * * * Furthermore, there is no indication of Congress, correspondence through the Szafraniuk in the last phase of her opposition per se to graduating Ukraine and postal service can be delayed for up to two life. There is an unwritten under- The Ukrainian Canadian Care there is general agreement that Ukraine has weeks. Therefore, it is recommended that standing, one could say contract, that Center is a 120-bed ethnic, long-term met the freedom-of-emigration require- readers call or send letters via fax. You can parents take care of their children care home. Its interdisciplinary health ments of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. find a sample letter of support, and a list of when they are young and when they care team focuses on the needs of There appears to be reluctance, howev- Jackson-Vanik Graduation Coalition mem- grow old the children take care of residents and improves quality of life er, in the House Ways and Means bers may be found under the heading their parents. And so it is in society; in a culturally sensitive caring envi- Committee (the committee with primary “Jackson-Vanik Graduation Coalition” at we owe a debt of gratitude to our sen- ronment. 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Ukrainian Australian leader named Australia Day ambassador for 2006 MELBOURNE, Australia – The gratulated them on their appointment. chairman of the Australian Federation of The premier in his address highlighted Ukraine Organizations (AFUO), Stefan the importance of Australia Day in bring- Romaniw, has again been appointed an ing the nation together. He said that 2006 Australia Day Ambassador for 2006. will see many important events, such as Australia Day Ambassadors have the the Commonwealth Games, that will role of promoting Australia Day in cere- make Victorians and Australians very monies around the state. proud. During Australia Day ceremonies At a presentation ceremony in early these events should be promoted as they December 2005, the premier of Victoria, build a nation. Steve Bricks, presented all ambassadors The Australia Day Committee in with commemorative plaques and con- Victoria program encourages communities

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KYIV – A delegation representing the an official briefing by Ambassador John Cuban-American community traveled to E. Herbst and his staff at the United Ukraine on December 1-2, 2005, to meet States Embassy in Kyiv. with government officials and medical Following the briefing, the delegates experts to offer their support for children visited Kyiv’s primary children’s medical stricken with cancer and other illnesses center, the so-called “Okhmatdyt,” which linked to the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. is the leading hospital for the treatment The delegation was headed by U.S. of children’s leukemia. There they met Undersecretary of State Dr. Paula with the general director, Dr. Yurii Dobriansky and Rep. Lincoln Diaz- Hladush, and the chairman of the pedi- Belart (R-Fla.), a prominent leader in the atric hematology department, Dr. Cuban-American community whose fam- Svitlana Donska. Dr. Lipshultz and Dr. ily left Cuba when he was 3 years old Kube discussed a variety of strategies for following the Marxist revolution led by helping the hospital improve its recovery Fidel Castro. and remission rates for childhood Other leaders included Miami busi- leukemia, including the development of nesswoman and human rights activist an effective bone marrow transplant pro- Sylvia Iriondo, Steven E. Lipshultz, gram. M.D., the chairman of pediatrics at the Some 300 Ukrainian children current- Miller School of Medicine at the ly require bone marrow transplants each University of Miami, and Dianne M. year, and very few are able to find appro- Kube, the chief administrative officer of priate donors or to travel outside the the Community Oncology Alliance in country for treatment. Dr. Donska Washington. expressed her hope that in the near future Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Belart and human rights activist Sylvia Iriondo distribute gifts The delegation met with President the Ukrainian government and private to children in the leukemia ward of the Kyiv children’s hospital “Okhmatdyt.” Viktor Yushchenko and First Lady donors would be able to provide ade- Kateryna Chumachenko Yushchenko at quate funding to meet this need within Dr. Donska and her staff who have been Dr. Dobriansky also thanked the co- the offices of Mrs. Yushchenko’s founda- Ukraine. able to improve their patients’ survival founders of CCRDF, Dr. Zenon and tion, Ukraine 3000. They also attended Dr. Lipshultz expressed admiration for rates and to develop effective treatment Nadia Matkiwsky for their pioneering protocols despite shortages of medication role in bringing aid to Ukraine and for and medical technology. In addition to their advance work to facilitate the the obvious need for more diagnostic Cuban American delegation’s trip to equipment, he urged the Okhmatdyt and Kyiv. The U.S. State Department invited other Ukrainian cancer centers join with CCRDF to serve as a special consultant international cancer specialists in “coop- on the delegation’s three-day tour of the erative working groups” that can share Ukrainian capital. the latest advances and provide insights Members of the delegation also visited into particularly difficult challenges fac- the Amosov Cardiac Surgery Institute, ing their patients. “Ukraine cannot the National Oncology Institute and the remain isolated from the worldwide com- National Chornobyl Museum in the Podil munity of knowledge,” he said. District of Kyiv, where they heard exten- Mrs. Yushchenko strongly endorsed sive presentations on the continuing Dr. Lipshultz’s proposals and secured his aftermath of the nuclear disaster. commitment to provide training for In recent weeks, President Yushchenko Ukrainian doctors through his medical has pledged a national commitment to school. combat AIDS, cancer and heart disease During his visit to the oncology ward, and to dramatically reduce infant mortali- Rep. Diaz-Belart distributed gifts of toys ty. “We are on the threshold of an epi- to the children in the ward and promised demic and we must address our health to bring the children to Disney World in crisis now,” he told the U.S. delegation. Orlando, Fla., in the near future. He also The first lady and Ukraine 3000 have pledged his support for the Hospital-to- selected 24 children’s hospitals that will Hospital Partnership program launched be the first recipients of private funds and Dr. Svitlana Donska (right) of the pediatric oncology department at by Ukraine 3000 and praised the U.S.- foundation grants to create model pro- “Okhmatdyt” outlines the challenges her doctors face in combating leukemia to based Children of Chornobyl Relief and grams and overhaul health care manage- a delegation of U.S. visitors (from left): Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Belart; CCRDF Development Fund (CCRDF) that has ment with the help of leading Western Executive Director Alexander Kuzma, Dianne Kube of the Community Oncology shipped over $53 million worth of med- medical institutions. Alliance; and Dr. Paula Dobriansky, undersecretary of state; as well as Dr. Yurii ical technology and humanitarian aid to Hladush, the hospital’s general director. Ukrainian hospitals and orphanages. 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THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY The things we do... Shadowy gas deal The things we do... by Orysia Paszczak Tracz A gas row between Ukraine and Russia, which threatened much of Western Europe’s energy supply, was ironed out this past week. Ukraine, it appears, stood firm on its position that its energy-craved heavy industry cannot tolerate a four- fold increase in the price of natural gas and said that any increase in the price it A cherished gift from Sviatyi Mykolai pays for Russian gas will have to be phased in over a period of years. She was the first Christmas gift I the rest of the refugees – no matter what While this initial news was certainly good to hear, the terms of the deal left remember: Bonnie Braids, the baby doll professions or education the people had many questions. with two short yellow braids sticking back home, in America they worked at In the details of this deal was Russian President Vladimir Putin and straight out at either side of the top of her the most basic jobs until they could pick RosUkrEnergo, a shady Swiss-based joint venture owned half by Russia’s state- head. I was about 6, and St. Nicholas, the up the language. controlled gas monopoly Gazprom and half by Austria’s Raiffeisen Zentralbank. good bishop, brought her to me during My father worked in a mattress facto- RosUkrEnergo was created by former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma the night of his feast day (according to ry, a bus factory and a place that made and, according to the Associated Press, “within months of appearing from the Julian calendar). brass horse clocks. I was fascinated with nowhere it had taken control of Ukraine’s gas imports from Turkmenistan by the On the morning of December 19, the one he brought home – a lovely horse start of 2005.” 1951, I awoke and moved my head from on a stand, with a big round clock in his Under the terms of the agreement, Russia will sell gas to RosUkrEnergo for side to side, hoping to hear the rustle of middle. He would come home with his $230 per 1,000 cubic meters, the price it originally wanted to charge Ukraine. paper. St. Nicholas (Sviatyi Mykolai) hands full of cuts from the coils and RosUkrEnergo, which also buys much cheaper gas from Turkmenistan, will mix always leaves your gift under or near metal. up its expensive Russian gas with other cheaper fuel and sell the finished product your pillow. Well, if it was a bicycle or My mother cleaned offices across the to Ukraine for roughly $95 per 1,000 cubic meters. Exactly how RosUkrEnergo something else really big, it would be Hudson River in Manhattan. He worked stands to make a profit from this deal is anyone’s guess. near your bed. during the day, she at night – that was In the broader picture, the international sale of gas and oil has always been a My doll did not come in the original daycare back in the early 1950s. They murky and complex world of tangled pipelines and secret motivations, to be box, but in a cradle basket, lying on and greeted each other on the doorstep. sure. But the deal between Ukraine and Russia is no less tenuous largely because covered with pink and blue satin brocade, They were also the janitors for the its key players remain shrouded in secrecy. one color per side. There was a ruffled apartment building in which we lived. “We represent a group of international investors knowledgeable in the gas pillow, a thin quilt for a sheet, and then a Later, Mama worked as a seamstress in business who don’t want to reveal their identity,” said Wolfgang Putschek, CEO puffy duvet-like cover. She was wearing sewing factories and bridal shops. of Raiffeisen Investment, the investment arm of the bank that owns half of a hand-embroidered flowered nightgown, Despite all their hard work, we still had RosUkrEnergo. and had pink ribbons in her braids. The time for church and Ukrainian school and RosUkrEnergo was under investigation recently by the Security Service of baby doll was beautiful, and I carried her cultural organizations. Ukraine for, among other things, its alleged link to reputed crime boss Semion everywhere, even to school and church. Growing up, I was unaware that we Mogilevich, a Ukrainian-born Russian citizen who is wanted in the United States Although I was not aware of it at the were not exactly wealthy. We had arrived by the Federal Bureau of Investigations. time, Bonnie Braids was the daughter of with a trunk filled mostly with books, a “Not a single dollar has anything to do with illegal activity,” Mr. Putschek told comics heroes Dick Tracy and Tess down-filled peryna (duvet) from Ukraine, the AP. Mr. Mogilevich “definitely has nothing to do with RosUkrEnergo, and Trueheart. In the early 1950s, this was as and my grandmother’s big, precious coral never has.” Mr. Putschek said that any claims of wrongdoing by the company complicated as spins-off got. At the time, necklace. There was love, warmth, cul- were politically driven by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who has in I did not read the comics and would not ture, songs and stories surrounding me. the past also found her name tied to shady energy deals. have understood them anyway. Even For those first few years, I do not think For his part, Mr. Putin said that relations between Russia and Ukraine “are though I could read at the age of 4, it was anything we had was newly bought. I assuming a new quality and becoming a truly transparent market partnership.” Ukrainian, not English, that I knew. My was probably about 10 or so before we Just how transparent that partnership is depends on the viewpoint. If, like Mr. parents had been forced laborers in acquired a brand-new major piece of fur- Putin, the viewpoint was from within the negotiations, then a view of the deal’s Germany during World War II. That is niture. Now that I think back, that origi- details would surely seem transparent. But, if the viewpoint was from outside of where they met, and where I was born nal old furniture would fetch a good price the negotiations, then transparent is the last thing we can call this deal. And the after the war. An older sister I never on the “Antiques Road Show.” devil, as the old saying goes, is in the details. knew, Lesia, was born to them during the One of the first things my parents war, but died of pneumonia at 14 months. bought in America was a sewing She is buried somewhere in southern machine, second-hand. Mama had Jan. Germany. After the war, we lived in the learned to sew at home, but involuntarily Turning the pages back... displaced persons (DP) camp in perfected her sewing during the war, Berchtesgaden, waiting for some country sewing German army uniforms. to take us. Because my parents had been Afterwards, in the DP camp, she remade 9 involved in the Ukrainian underground in clothing for us from donations received both Ukraine and Germany, and were through UNRRA (United Nations Relief 2005 In a special feature published in The Weekly one year ago, fiercely anti-Russian-Communist, there and Rehabilitation Association). I had Marta Kolomayets reported that more than 12,500 international was no way they would return home to some interesting dresses out of men’s observers had converged upon Ukraine for the December 26, the now Soviet Ukraine under Stalin. suiting, and a beautiful ruffled dyed-pink 2004, repeat run-off of the presidential election. According to After four years in the camp, we arrived dress of parachute silk. Ms. Kolomayets, they set “world records for the size of an official foreign observer mis- as refugees in New York in September As I was growing up, rarely if ever did sion, whose monitors represented close to 50 countries from the global community.” 1949, and settled in Jersey City, N.J. I have a store-bought outfit. Mine were “This has never happened in history before – ever,” Jack McDonald, a former con- Even though my parents knew a num- all one-of-a-kind, designed and custom- gressman from Michigan, who traveled to Ukraine’s eastern oblasts with the U.S.- ber of European languages, English was made by Mama. So it was no wonder that Ukraine Foundation to ensure that the election was free and fair in that contested not one of them. It took young adults the outfit that Bonnie Braids originally region, told our correspondent. quite a while to figure out this strange came in was just not good enough. Ms. Kolomayets also reported that what made this mission unique was that some language with no declensions nor obvi- It would be nice to hold Bonnie Braids 2,000 observers were the sons and daughters of Ukraine, members of the diaspora com- ous gender. I, on the other hand, was again. She is available on eBay, but I do munity which, through scores of years, fate had scattered throughout the world. First-, speaking English within two weeks. not need her. I have the memory of her, second-, third- and even fourth-generation Ukrainians from the United States, Canada, Playing with other kids will do that, and and the enveloping memory of loving, Australia, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Romania (among other soon I was helping my parents when they devoted, very hard-working parents who countries), ranging in age from 18 to 80, came to witness history being made in their shopped. sacrificed everything so that we could ancestral homeland, to serve as guardians of democracy at this critical time. Our lives were the same as those of have a new life in a free land. “The delegation from the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America was the largest delegation registered by the Central Election Commission, numbering 2,408 monitors,” noted Tamara Gallo-Olexy, the executive director of the UCCA office in New York. “And about 40 percent of those we had registered had been observers before, so they understood the process and came to Ukraine to make their contribution to democracy in this country,” she added. WWantant toto seesee Viktoria Hubska, the director of the UCCA’s office in Kyiv, commented: “They are some of the unsung heroes of this Orange Revolution, joining their Ukrainian brothers youryour namename inin print?print? and sisters on the maidan [Independence Square] after the December 26 vote.” “It was, honestly, the first time in my life that I felt I could make a difference,” said Then why not become a correspondent of Orest Temnycky, a foreign exchange salesperson and consultant from Clifton, N.J. The Ukrainian Weekly in your community? Mark Iwasykiw, 43, an IT specialist in New York City, said: “My experience here simply confirms the fact that no matter how badly we have been beaten into the We welcome submissions from all our Ukrainian communi- ground, we have now risen from the ashes. And I feel that this will be an amazing ties, no matter where they are located. Let the rest of us know shift in the world.” what you’re up to in your corner of the Ukrainian diaspora! Source: “Diaspora participation makes election monitoring mission unique,” by Marta Kolomayets, The Ukrainian Weekly, January 9, 2005, Vol. LXXII, No. 2. Any questions? Call The Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext. 3049. No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 7 COMMENTARY Faces and Places There is a silver lining by Myron B. Kuropas in Ukraine-Russia gas wars by Walter Prochorenko four times more energy than France for the same amount of output. Also, a 2002 Regardless of the outcome of study by the EIA showed that Ukraine Just say “no”! Ukraine’s gas crisis, which was recently had almost a seven times higher energy Ukrainian officials should just say penned his notorious book “Quiet precipitated by Russia’s exorbitant and intensity factor of 1,000 of BTUs per “no” to U.S. demands that John Neighbors: Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals blatantly manipulative demands, the dollar than the United States. Demjanjuk be deported to Ukraine. in America.” Adopting the Soviet perspec- results may eventually have some posi- During its 14 years of independence Let’s review the history of this sordid, tive regarding post-war Ukrainians who tive effects on Ukraine’s economy. and cheap Russian gas and oil, Ukraine 29-year debacle. John Demjanjuk entered emigrated to the United States under the Reminiscent of the high-handedness has not had much incentive to introduce the U.S. in 1952 and settled in the Cleveland Displaced Persons Act of 1948, he wrote: of Tsarist times, Russia recently conservation measures. Now it will be area. In 1977 he was accused by the U.S. “Had Congress tried to design a law that increased the price that Ukraine should forced to do so. Office of Special Investigations (OSI) of would extend the Statue of Liberty’s hand to pay for Russian gas from the initially Another positive factor may be the being “Ivan the Terrible,” mass murderer of the followers and practitioners of Nazism, it proposed $160 per 1,000 cubic meters to anti-Russian sentiment that could devel- thousands of Jews at the Nazi death camp at could not have done much better than this $230, which is actually a 460 percent op if and when Ukrainians start feeling Treblinka, Poland. His name was part of a without coming right out and saying so.” increase over the $50 per 1,000 cubic the real effects of the gas shortages. It’s list of “Ukrainian war criminals” supplied to Mr. Ryan estimated that “nearly 10,000 Nazi meters that Ukraine is paying now. unlikely they will complain against Mr. the OSI by John Hanusiak, a Stalinist, a war criminals came to America.” At present, the war of words and initial Yushchenko, Yurii Yekhanurov or Yulia member of the Communist Party of the Mr. Ryan was succeeded at OSI by Neal actions continues and Ukraine has asked for Tymoshenko when their apartments grow U.S.A. and one-time editor of a Soviet- Sher. It later came to light that during the intervention from several courts and govern- cold. Instead, their common enemy will financed gazette in New York City. tenure of these two men the OSI had pur- ing bodies. Nonetheless, the crisis is bound now become the country that created the Accused of lying about his “Nazi posely withheld from the Demjanjuk to have some positive developments for gas shortage in the first place. past” prior to his entering the U.S., Mr. defense team, and later attempted to destroy, Ukraine from several different perspectives. Long-term positive factors will be the Demjanjuk went to trial in 1981. Based exculpatory documents. Learning of this First of all, the crisis should solidify development and proliferation of alterna- on the testimony of aging Treblinka sur- mendacity, Gilbert Merritt, chief justice of President Viktor Yushchenko’s political tive energy sources such as nuclear, solar vivors – one of whom claimed earlier that the Sixth District Court, ruled that the OSI position and may actually assist him, and and wind power. True, the Chornobyl he witnessed Ivan’s death – and a fraudu- had engaged in “prosecutorial misconduct his political parties and allies, in the nuclear disaster will continue to be on the lent Trawniki training camp identity card that constituted fraud upon the court.” upcoming March elections. We in the minds of all Ukrainians, but with assistance supplied by the Soviets, Mr. Demjanjuk Mr. Ryan eventually received a sinecure United States have seen many times how a from the United States or the EU, safer and was found guilty, stripped of his citizen- at Harvard University, where he continues to crisis can actually unite people in a com- more efficient nuclear plants should help ship, and ordered deported to Ukraine. write and lecture about “Nazi war crimi- mon cause when faced with outside threats. ease these concerns. Alternative energy is a Israel, meanwhile, decided to intervene. nals.” Mr. Sher later held various positions Ukraine has already shown that it can unite major issue around the world and very Persuaded by the OSI that Demjanjuk’s with Jewish organizations – including a stint under a collective struggle when provoked. much so in the U.S., which has started guilt was indisputable, Israel demanded in Canada searching for “Nazis” in the The magnitude of Russia’s obvious manip- developing such resources. extradition. He arrived in Israel in 1986 Ukrainian community – and eventually went ulations cannot be dismissed as simple Already there have been a number of and, following a raucous show-trial con- to work for the International Commission on business tactics. Russia wants Ukraine to inquiries from Ukraine into alternative ducted in an auditorium, was found guilty Holocaust Era Insurance Claims. He was give up its sovereignty the way Belarus energy utilization methods such as corn- in 1988. He was sentenced to death amid forced to resign in 2002 for misappropria- did, and for that Russia is willing to dole burning furnaces and stoves, which are cries of “death to all Ukrainians” in the tion of commission funds for personal use. out welfare crumbs until the next Ukrainian not only efficient but, considering that courtroom. Mr. Demjanjuk’s Israeli attor- The best published exposé of the entire attempt at independent thinking. Ukraine has huge agricultural sources, ney appealed the sentence. Demjanjuk debacle was written by Israeli The second and even more beneficial could prove to be a blessing. Other alter- The appeal was still pending in 1991 defense attorney Yoram Sheftel. Titled effect of the crisis will be the long-post- native energy sources about which when the Soviet Union collapsed. Mr. “The Demjanjuk Affair: The Rise and Fall poned introduction and development of con- inquiries were made were wind turbines, Demjanjuk’s lawyers gained access to of a Show-Trial,” (published in London in servation measures by Ukraine’s industries. solar panels and bio gas. Soviet files and produced testimony from 1994), his book is an account of what the A continuing study last updated in The EU will also have to come to terms 37 Treblinka guards and forced laborers that author believes was a conspiracy by Israel, January 2005 by the Energy Information with the Ukrainian issue. It will have to Mr. Demjanjuk was not Ivan the Terrible. In the OSI and the USSR to convict an inno- Administration (EIA) of the U.S. decide whether to support Ukraine as a 1993 the Israeli Supreme Court overturned cent man for purely political reasons. Israel Department of Energy indicated that potential future member and speed up its the guilty verdict, despite arguments by the needed another show-trial to remind its cit- “Ukraine has one of the highest levels of assimilation process, or to abandon prosecution that Mr. Demjanjuk was actual- izens and the world of the evils of Nazism. energy intensity in the world.” As far Ukraine to the Russian wolves. Given the ly at Sobibor and Flossenberg, two other The OSI desperately needed to justify its back as 1995, studies by other agencies, slow process and indecisiveness that the Nazi death camps, an allegation that was existence. The Soviets needed to demonize this time from the European Union, have EU has shown toward Ukraine in the past dismissed as face-saving and “fanciful” by Ukrainian anti-Soviets in the free world. shown that Ukraine uses approximately year, this is the least important of the posi- experts familiar with the case. Mr. Mr. Sheftel was especially critical of tive effects, but it remains one that should Demjanjuk returned to the U.S. and his citi- Israeli prosecutors, describing them as a Dr. Walter Prochorenko is currently be pursued continuously by Ukraine’s zenship was restored in 1998. “cynical and malicious team” that was director of publications at the Ukrainian politicians. It is the squeaky wheel that During the 22-year period between 1977 “not ashamed to file an indictment and National Association. His previous experi- gets the oil (pardon the unintentional pun). and 1998, a number of Ukrainian organiza- plan a show-trial on the basis of such ence consists of over 30 years as a multi- Last, but certainly not least, it would tions and individuals in North America unconvincing and disgraceful evidence...” national entrepreneur, wealth management also be a positive development if the came to Mr. Demjanjuk’s assistance. These There you have it, a thumbnail sketch of advisor and business consultant in interna- U.S. would finally recognize Ukraine as included Americans for Human Rights in the behavior of the OSI, a federal agency tional business. Part of his business experi- a real friend, partner and buffer against Ukraine, whose president, Bozhena with unlimited funds, accountable to no one, ence consisted of establishing and running the Russians. One can never fully trust Olshaniwsky, initiated a Demjanjuk Defense supported by your tax dollars. “Fanciful several successful development businesses the United States’ foreign policy, which Fund, the Ukrainian American Justice allegations” have now become the basis for in Ukraine for a period of over eight and a has been misguided at best and often Committee, the UNA Heritage Defense the OSI’s continuing, contemptible cam- half years. Dr. Prochorenko obtained his destructive at other times – but, perhaps, Committee, The Ukrainian Weekly, the paign against John Demjanjuk. This time, Ph.D. in international business and wrote with the guidance of our Ukrainian dias- Ukrainian American Bar Association, the there are no witnesses or documentation for his dissertation on the economic and politi- pora activists, this can provide a positive Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, the unsubstantiated charge that Mr. cal situation of Ukraine since independence. impetus for the Ukraine’s future. the Ukrainian Canadian Committee, the Demjanjuk was at Sobibor and at Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Flossenberg. The cowardly and indolent Association and the Ukrainian Orthodox American press won’t question allegations Church. The late Ukrainian Canadian busi- presented by the OSI whose director, Eli nessman Petro Jacyk donated thousands of Rosenbaum, is known to The Ukrainian Quotable notes dollars to the Demjanjuk defense. Ukrainian Weekly readers for his virulent diatribes “A year ago, on December 26, with the world closely watching and many attorneys in the United States – Andrew against those with whom he disagrees. Canadians taking part as neutral observers, the citizens of Ukraine cast votes to Fylypovych and Jaroslaw Dobrowolskyj Thus far, the Ukrainian government does- choose the country’s president. come immediately to mind – provided legal n’t appear overly anxious to accept Mr. “Orange, the color of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko’s campaign, assistance, and Walter Anastas traveled to Demjanjuk’s extradition. According to Vasyl became the defining symbol of resistance after the people refused to accept the Israel as an observer. Ukrainian Canadian Filipchuk, spokesman for the Foreign results of an earlier, rigged election. Defenders of democracy around the world attorney Peter Chumak served as part of the Affairs Ministry, Ukrainian law requires that responded to the growing Orange Revolution, exerting the pressure needed to Demjanjuk defense team in Israel. It is esti- “the U.S. court decision must be examined ensure new, free and fair elections were held. mated that some $1 million dollars was by competent Ukrainian officials such as the “Democracy gives citizens a voice and an opportunity to help chart their future. It raised by Ukrainians in North America for prosecutor general ... This could take years.” is often something we take for granted here in Canada. ... we’d like to wish the best to the defense. Ukraine can save itself the trouble by all Ukrainians as they celebrate the one-year anniversary of this defining event.” It was also during this period that former simply saying “no.” Now! – statement by Conservative leader Stephen Harper of Canada on the first OSI Director Allan A. Ryan Jr., who worked anniversary of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. closely with the Soviets in obtaining “evi- Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is dence” on Ukrainian “war criminals,” [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 No. 2

NEWS AND VIEWS cynical about the elections, first about to observe the election there as well. the relevance of the municipal authori- Our first stop was a school in the ties, and second about the chances of an south end of Baku. It remains the nicest authentic outcome to the election. school I ever saw in Azerbaijan, with Azerbaijan through Western eyes Azerbaijan is divided into over 2,000 fresh plaster on the walls and new floors. municipalities. That’s more municipali- It was also the nicest polling station I by Larissa Momryk would see – the floors covered in carpets and the interior decorated with large, The parliamentary elections in dramatic flower arrangements. Azerbaijan on November 6, 2005, and The mystery behind this was soon subsequent demonstrations by opposition explained, when our interpreter piped up, supporters have inspired in some “this is the school that our president observers the hope that this country will attended and it is where he always comes follow Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan to vote.” We managed to squeeze out of and become the next former Soviet the chairwoman of the voting precinct republic to undergo a democratic revolu- that he was expected before noon. One tion. shared glance was all it took for Steve Azerbaijan is a country of approxi- and me to decide to stick around to try mately 8.5 million, located on the west- and see the president of Azerbaijan in ern shore of the Caspian Sea and strate- person. gically placed between Russia and Iran. We were not to be disappointed. He It obtained independence from the Soviet came, accompanied by his wife and one Union in 1991. Since then its history has of their daughters. Their arrival was her- been marked by three events. alded by a fleet of unmarked black SUVs In 1992 a war broke out between bearing the security service, and a mob Azerbaijan and neighboring Armenia of television and radio reporters with over control of the predominantly their cameras and tape recorders. The Armenian Azeri region of Nagorno- media clustered around the ballot box to Karabakh. Although a ceasefire was capture the moment when the president signed in 1994, about one-seventh of The opening ceremony of the health clinic in Topal Hasanli. dropped his ballot inside. Then an even Azerbaijan’s territory remains occupied, larger scrum surrounded him outside the and some 800,000 refugees and internal- school, and he stood answering their ly displaced persons are scattered gram, I was to be an intern at the Open ties than Brazil. It’s even more than Society Institute (Soros Foundation) but India. The municipalities have been cate- questions for well over 20 minutes. throughout the country. There is no free media in Azerbaijan, so ended up splitting my time between gorized by the national authorities as The ceasefire was masterminded by the president casting his ballot, and his International Foundation for Election non-governmental bodies, and their pow- Azeri President Heydar Aliyev, who dra- comments afterwards, were the top story matically came to power in 1993 when Systems (IFES) and International ers are severely limited – they can only on every channel that evening. his predecessor fled the capital city of Medical Corps (IMC). make recommendations to the regional Our first polling station experience Baku. Mr. Aliyev died in 2003, just two When I began my internship at IFES administrations, which are staffed by rul- was very different from the rest of our months after his son Ilham won the pres- we were just weeks away from a round ing party members and directly responsi- day observing the election. We visited idential election, which was roundly crit- of municipal elections and I was prompt- ble to the presidential office. many other schools, in towns along the icized by observers for not meeting inter- ly sent out to visit some of the organiza- My internship at IFES also gave me Caspian shore south of Baku. All had national standards. But even two years tion’s voter education projects. The proj- the opportunity to act as an observer on that dirty look that is inevitable when a after his death, Mr. Aliyev’s presence is ects were targeted at vulnerable popula- the day of the municipal elections in building is old and run down. In these still deeply felt throughout the country, tions – internally displaced persons December. My partner in this endeavor polling stations, lacking carpets and in the form of pictures and quotes plas- (IDPs) and refugees, youth, women, the was Steve, an American who was an flowers, and in one case heated only by tered on billboards along every highway elderly and disabled. observer in the Ukrainian presidential the burning pilot of a gas stove, the vot- and in every town and village. In Sumgayit, a city just 45 minutes elections and, between rounds of voting ers cast their ballots under the watchful Heydar Aliyev was also responsible outside of Baku, I sat in a chilly and bare in that election, had come to Baku to for signing, in 1994, an oil contract room in an IDP settlement. A group of visit a friend. He ended up volunteering (Continued on page 22) worth $7.4 billion with a Western con- about 20 IDP youth listened intently as sortium led by British Petroleum (BP). their trainers, young volunteers from the BP and its partners have been building a community itself, explained the voting pipeline to carry oil from Baku through procedure and voting rules for the Tbilisi, Georgia, to the Turkish port of municipal elections. The youths were Ceyhan. The first oil began to pump enthusiastic participants in the voter edu- along the “BTC pipeline” in May 2005. cation project – most were seen voting in This is the country where I lived from the municipal elections and two of the September 2004 to March 2005. Sent to project participants even volunteered to Baku as part of the Department of be election observers. Foreign Affairs and Canadian This contrasts sharply against another International Development Agency’s voter education project I observed, Young Professionals International pro- which aimed to reach women voters by holding training sessions in Baku-area Larissa Momryk graduated from schools (where the vast majority of McGill University in the spring of 2004 teachers are women). These training ses- with an honors degree in political sci- sions had much lower turnouts than the ence and international development ones targeted at youth, and were often studies. She currently lives and works in cut short by impatient school directors. Toronto. The women themselves seemed deeply

An IFES voter education session in Baku targeting teachers. Larissa Momryk in Azerbaijan. No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 9 Thoreau in Ukraine, or a visit to the National University of Ostroh Academy

by Dianne Piper-Rybak “Ostroh Bible” rests on a shelf in the rector’s office. To my surprise, not one of my 85 students, most of Even so, history somehow ceases to be history when whom aspired to be interpreters or business managers, “Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose one realizes that today’s classroom, just down the hall knew of Henry David Thoreau. Or “Walden.” Or Ralph egg has been buried for ages under many concentric from a room that houses an ancient indoor well, was Waldo Emerson. “Transcendentalism” was not in their layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society ... once the living quarters of Carmelite monks whose admirably extensive vocabulary. Who had they read? may unexpectedly come forth amidst society’s most Walt Whitman, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, George trivial and handselled furniture, to enjoy its perfect sum- remains, discovered in the 1994 renovation, lie just below in the old monastery’s crypt. Orwell and J. D. Salinger. Nonetheless, I explained, I mer life at last!” had chosen Thoreau because he is an American icon. In 2000, coinciding with the 900th anniversary of the So ends the penultimate paragraph of the final chap- Every American student is required to read him at least town, Ostroh Academy was designated a “national uni- ter in “Walden” as Henry D. Thoreau recounts the story once, beginning at about the age of 15, then again in of a “strong and beautiful bug” that for several weeks versity” in recognition of its significant role in college and yet again in graduate school. had been heard gnawing its way out of an old table in a Ukraine’s national rebirth. Since then, the university has Ask any American who Thoreau is, I said, and they will tell you, at the very least, two things: (1) Thoreau went to jail for refusing to pay his taxes and (2) he lived for a while in a small cabin in the woods that he built by himself. While Thoreau wrote about both these experiences (and much, much more), I said, it is his experience in the woods at Walden Pond that is the subject of his major work, “Walden.” Undeniably an American classic, “Walden” is definitely a book they should be familiar with. Though these students had not read Thoreau’s essay on “Resistance to Civil Government,” written after his one-night stint in jail, there was little I could teach them about the subject. Less than a year ago they had boarded buses armed with no more than blankets, food and the kind of moral fortitude that only the young seem to pos- sess, headed for Kyiv to take part in the “Orange Revolution,” joined, but not led, by teachers and even their rector. Later, when I asked Rector Pasichnyk if they had not put their jobs, even the very existence of the university, at risk by supporting now President Viktor Yushchenko’s opposition party, he simply smiled and said, “The students were going with or without us.” It was clear to me he would have considered himself a failure as an educator had they not participated in A view of the campus of the National University of Ostroh Academy. Ukraine’s first-ever “civil disobedience.” I had not come to Ostroh to introduce a particular phi- farmer’s kitchen – a bug, he surmises, “from an egg attracted not only international support but also well- losophy, moral or otherwise. For me, Thoreau provides a deposited in the living tree many years earlier still, as recognized professors from throughout Ukraine as well unique snapshot of life in a newly forming democracy, appeared by counting the annual layers beyond it.” I as the U.S. and Canada. albeit one that only a century later emerged as a world was reminded of this story that so strengthened That year, Northern Illinois University (NIU) estab- super power. Understanding this snapshot is key to Thoreau’s “faith in a resurrection and immortality” dur- lished a program to facilitate an exchange of American understanding “Walden.” Thoreau’s views on emerging ing my September 2005 visit to Ukraine’s National scholars who teach summer courses at Ostroh, and technology, represented by the advent of the train, which University of Ostroh Academy. Ostroh scholars, who study for their master of science brought with it a rapidly expanding industrialization and The purpose of my visit was to provide the students in education degrees at NIU.2 Presently, the academy is concurrent degradation of the environment provide an of Ostroh Academy’s Foreign Language Department the attempting to position itself within the European important perspective on America in the 19th century. experience of being in an American university class- Union’s structure of educational institutions. He wrote about it with understated passion and originali- room, which would be a distinct departure from their When I accepted the invitation to visit Ostroh ty. Still, what underlies that American democracy is traditional lecture hall filled with 100 or so students Academy, I was told my students were fourth-, fifth- American individualism and that, along with originality, laboriously taking notes with no thought of asking ques- and sixth-year students who were majoring in English; is the foundation of Transcendentalism – a philosophy tions or expressing opinions. the duration of my stay and the topic of my presentation that Emerson articulated and Thoreau lived. The academy’s Foreign Language Department offers would be entirely my choice. Because my doctorate is By car, Ostroh is about three and a half hours east of majors in French, German, Polish and Latin, as well as in English and because I have worked at the “Writings Lviv, Ukraine’s second largest city. It doesn’t take long English, which is considered the school’s second lan- of Henry D. Thoreau” at NIU since 2001, Thoreau (Continued on page 17) guage. Russian is noticeably not part of the curriculum, seemed to me an appropriate foundation for a three-hour nor is it spoken on campus, signifying the significant discussion comprising American literature and the nationalistic role the academy has played since 1. Kuropas, Myron B. “Miracle of Ostroh: A Beacon of American Renaissance in general. Hope for Ukraine’s Future,” The Ukrainian Weekly 65, no. 47 Ukraine’s declaration of independence. Ostroh Once there, I managed to whittle the Ukrainian notion (November 23, 1997). Academy reopened in 1994 under the direction of Dr. of a “small group” from 50 to 25 students per day, which, 2. Kuropas, Myron B. “Teaching in Ostroh, My Corner of Ihor Pasichnyk – after a 356-year hiatus. in the end, swelled each of my three teaching days to Ukraine,” The Ukrainian Weekly 70, no. 38 (September 22, The town of Ostroh is ancient. The first known men- accommodate more and more enthusiastic learners. 2002). tion of it is in 1100, and by the 14th century, the Ostrozky family had built a castle and a church there, both of which are still standing and open to the public. In 1576, Prince Konstantyn Ostrozky founded the original acade- my in an attempt to intellectually strengthen Ukraine’s Orthodox clergy against Jesuit attempts to convert the country to Roman Catholicism. Its curriculum included the trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and the quadrivium (mathematics, astronomy, geometry and music), as well as theology, philosophy, medicine and natural science. Soon after, in 1578, Ivan Fedorov established Ukraine’s first printing press in the town of Ostroh and printed the first Ukrainian primer for the academy; in 1582, the year before he died, Fedorov printed 1,200 copies of the first Slavic-language Bible. However, with the establishment of a rival Jesuit academy in Ostroh in 1636, Ostroh Academy fell into decline and, when Prince Ostrozky died in 1638, it ceased to exist alto- gether.1 Or so it seemed. Evidence of Ostroh’s rich history is on display not only in the town’s Museum of the History of the Book but also in the academy, where a copy of the 628-folio

Since 2001, Dianne Piper-Rybak has been editorial assistant for The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, University of California, Santa Barbara. She telecom- mutes from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., and holds both an M.P.A. in comparative administration and a Ph.D. in English from NIU. The new library at the National University of Ostroh Academy. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 No. 2

trained 6,000 Iraqi soldiers. They made a could start cooperation in the energy hard to overestimate Ukrainian peace- Yushchenko journeys... significant contribution to humanitarian sphere, water power, water resources and keepers’ contribution to ensuring peace (Continued from page 1) development of the Wasit province, build- machine building. “I think real economic and stability in the country. presented military decorations to ing 16 schools, renovating seven kinder- cooperation will begin after today’s Mr. Yushchenko stated that Ukraine is Ukrainian troops. gartens, repaired four highways and fixed meeting with [Iraq’s] prime minister,” ready to increase its participation in the reconstruction of Iraq’s transportation Reflecting on Ukraine’s involvement three electricity cables lines. They also Mr. Yushchenko said. As the Iraqi economy awakens, network, prospecting for oil and gas in Iraq, Mr. Yushchenko said Ukraine has restored four water-supply facilities and Ukrainian-Iraqi relations “could be much fields, restoring the water-supply and significantly strengthened its position on gave medical aid to 40,000 Iraqis. “The closer,” Mr. Yushchenko noted. training Iraqi specialists. Furthermore, the international arena. “Practically no Ukrainian peacekeepers are leaving this Commodity turnover between the coun- Ukraine is interested in supplying agri- political conflict” is regulated without country as partners and friends,” he said. tries has grown to $100 million (U.S.) cultural vehicles, cargo and passenger Ukrinform also reported that President Ukraine’s presence, and “Ukraine is per year, but it could be even greater. By planes. He also said Ukraine is ready to Yushchenko spoke for closer cooperation trusted,” the president noted. comparison, he said, in 1998 trade welcome an Iraqi diplomatic mission to Mr. Yushchenko also noted that between Ukraine and Iraq. Apart from turnover between the two states was $ Ukraine. Ukrainian troops had professionally military cooperation, the two countries 1.5 million and there were no economic As a result of the meeting between ties between the countries. Messrs. Yushchenko and al-Jaafari the Touching on current “active coopera- prime minister will go to Ukraine in came to power in January 2005, one of tion projects” between Ukraine and Iraq, May, at which time an action plan Intricate deal... the first acts of former Prime Minister Mr. Yushchenko mentioned a recently between Ukraine and Iraq will be signed (Continued from page 1) Yulia Tymoshenko was to call for a crim- signed agreement on supplying more with the aim of promoting relations the first 24 hours of the cut off. inal investigation into RosUkrEnergo, than 2,000 KrAZ automobiles to Iraq. between the two countries. “With the indisputable thievery of our characterized as a “criminal enterprise,” The two countries have also started nego- Also while in Iraq, President gas from the export pipes, we’ve decided according to a Radio Free Europe/Radio tiating agricultural projects and programs Yushchenko met at Baghdad to take all possible measures to secure Liberty (RFE/RL) report. to explore and produce oil and gas. International Airport with Deputy Shortly afterwards, Security Service of our gas so that Western consumers con- During his visit to Iraq, President Commander of the Multinational Forces Ukraine (SBU) Chief Oleksander tinue to receive gas in accordance with Yushchenko also met with Prime in Iraq Nick Houghton. Turchynov said he was launching a crim- contracts,” Mr. Medvedev said. Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. The Iraqi Commander Houghton praised inal case against RosUkrEnergo. The Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister leaders thanked Ukraine for the high pro- Ukraine’s peacekeepers for their profes- investigation abruptly ended in mid- Ivan Plachkov firmly denied Mr. fessionalism of its peacekeepers, noting sional skills and meritorious service, as August, RFE/RL reported. Medvedev’s accusations of theft. that security matters are acute and impor- well as their contribution to training Iraqi Soon after Mr. Turchynov’s dismissal, However, the Financial Times quoted tant for Iraq, and pointing out that it is military and paramilitary servicemen. the SBU officer in charge of the investi- a natural gas advisor to the Ukrainian gation, Andrii Kozhemyakin, was trans- government, Alex Danilyuk, acknowl- ferred from the case to other duties, the edging that “we have no choice but to Ukrainian website obozrevatel.com.ua take some of the Russian gas” because reported in September. Turkmenistan had also cut its supplies to It’s no coincidence that Mr. Putin Ukraine. inflicted the crisis upon the Yushchenko Gazprom was widely suspected of cut- government on New Year’s Day, the holi- ting off the Turkmen gas as well in order day the majority of Ukrainians consider to put additional pressure on Ukraine. most significant during the year when Mr. Putin’s ploy to scapegoat Ukraine they are typically at home with their fam- ultimately backfired as European leaders ilies and watching television. began questioning Russia’s reliability as Amidst television news reports of Mr. an energy partner, prompting Gazprom Yushchenko and his officials wrestling officials to return to the negotiating table with the crisis, advertisements promoting and restore much of the natural gas it had the Party of Regions and a calm, presi- cut off. dential-looking Viktor Yanukovych offer- Even after the two sides reached con- ing Ukrainians stability dominated the sensus in the early morning of January 4, commercial breaks of most networks. European leaders and the media kept the “You would be almost irrational to finger of blame pointed directly at Mr. think the Russians didn’t do this on pur- Putin. pose,” Mr. Lozowy said. “Their biggest “Everyone but Putin and his Gazprom supporters (in Ukraine) immediately took underlings agree that this was a total dis- up the refrain of criticizing their own aster from the Kremlin,” said Ivan government for precipitating this gas cri- Lozowy, president of the Kyiv-based sis, which confirms the whole purpose Institute of Statehood and Democracy, was to impact and influence the pre-elec- which is exclusively financed by tion tendencies of voters.” Ukrainian business donations. The election campaigns are already in “Yushchenko and his government han- full swing for the March 26 parliamen- dled it okay.” tary elections, which will not only deter- The Yushchenko government was able mine control of the Verkhovna Rada but to survive the crisis without selling part the prime minister as well. of the gas transit system’s ownership to All polls point to the pro-Russian Official Website of the President of Ukraine Russia, as its northern neighbor Belarus Party of Regions commanding a solid President Viktor Yushchenko decorates Ukraine’s soldiers in Iraq. had done. lead over fractured pro-Western blocs, As part of its agreement with namely Mr. Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine, Naftohaz, Ukraine’s state-owned natural the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the gas counterpart, Gazprom agreed to a 47 Reforms and Order/Pora Bloc. percent increase in the fee it pays for During the crisis, the Party of Regions transporting gas though Ukrainian-owned coordinated its statements with Kremlin pipelines and to stop the system of bar- and Gazprom officials, Mr. Lozowy said. tering transit fees for natural gas. Throughout the crisis, the same state- The higher revenues will provide ments made by Mr. Yanukovych were Ukraine with about $500 million to put almost identically repeated the next day toward the $1.5 billion it faces in higher by Kremlin and Gazprom officials, and natural gas costs. vice versa, he said. The deal will have a positive effect on “It’s amazing that a Ukrainian political Russian-Ukrainian relations, Mr. Putin party would coordinate its actions with a asserted. “It’s not only important that foreign country which is acting against Russia’s approach to calculating the gas Ukrainian interests in a brutal way,” Mr. price was recognized as justified, but that Lozowy said. “But that is the reality of our relations are assuming a new quality Ukrainian politics and they can get away and becoming a truly transparent market with that.” partnership,” Interfax quoted Mr. Putin as Verkhovna Rada Chairman saying. Volodymyr Lytvyn’s conduct was even RosUkrEnergo, the company acting as more egregious, Mr. Lozowy said. The the middleman in the deal, is jointly leader of the People’s Party of Ukraine owned by Gazprom bank and “a number traveled to Moscow during the crisis, of private Ukrainian investors” whose where he insisted the Yushchenko gov- portfolios are managed by Raiffeisen ernment apologize for its role in the cri- Investment, according to CEO Wolfgang sis, even after Western governments Putschek. almost unanimously criticized the When the Yushchenko administration Kremlin, he said. The Ukrainian president dines at the Delta base in Al-Kut. No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 11

Shevchenko Scientific Society recalls the contributions of two deceased presidents NEW YORK – A program dedicated tive about the life of his grandfather with nisced about the time she roomed as a cessful initiative to renew and expand the to reminiscences about the lives of two a slide show of family photos. teenager with the Rakovsky family in activity of the Shevchenko Scientific deceased presidents of the Shevchenko Dr. Orest Popovych, an NTSh vice- Lviv. Society in Ukraine, of which he was Scientific Society (NTSh), Dr. Ivan president, talked about Dr. Rakovsky as The part of the program dedicated to elected president in 1989. In 1992 Dr. Rakovsky (1874-1949) and Dr. Oleh a scientist and a pedagogue, NTSh Dr. Romaniv began with a slide show Romaniv became secretary general of the Romaniv (1928-2005), took place at the activist, chief editor of the first ever prepared by Dr. Vasyl Lopukh, depicting World Council of NTSh. the recently deceased president of NTSh Next to speak was Dr. Leonid in Ukraine in a variety of solo and group Rudnytzky, who as the president of the pictures, primarily with members of the World Council of NTSh enjoyed a pro- American NTSh. longed close relationship with the Dr. Swiatoslaw Trofimenko, NTSh deceased. Running through the many vice-president and learned secretary, personal memories recounted by Dr. traced the career of Dr. Romaniv as sci- Rudnytzky was the theme that Dr. entist and engineer in the fields of metal- Romaniv was the engine, as well as the lurgy and the strength of materials, in heart and soul, behind the NTSh in which he left behind 380 scientific publi- Ukraine, and that his loss to the society is cations and 30 patents. In the process he irreplaceable. earned the degrees of candidate of sci- The program was capped with the ences, doctor of sciences as well as the closing remarks by Dr. Onyshkevych, title of professor and corresponding who pointed to a common quality in the member of the National Academy of two honored ex-presidents of the Sciences of Ukraine. Shevchenko Scientific Society: their ded- Perhaps the most significant accom- icated and selfless service to Ukrainian plishment of Dr. Romaniv was his suc- causes.

OBITUARY: Washington-based champion At the Shevchenko Scientific Society (from left) are: Prof. Vasyl Makhno, Yuriy of Ukrainian music, Joseph McLellan, 76 Rakovsky, Dr. Leonid Rudnytzky, Dr. Larissa Onyshkevych, Dr. Orest Popovych by Yaro Bihun critic of despotism in the czarist empire, and Dr. Swiatoslaw Trofimenko. Special to The Ukrainian Weekly was arrested and ended his life in exile,” Mr. McLellan wrote. “His words attract- society’s headquarters on December 10, Ukrainian Encyclopedia (1930-1935) WASHINGTON – “To the best of my ed music, ranging from simple folk 2005. The commemoration of Dr. and NTSh president (1935-1940 and recollection, I had never heard a note melodies to cantatas and operas, not only Rakovsky at this time was prompted by 1947-1949). Dr. Rakovsky’s interests composed by Myroslav Skoryk until by relatively unfamiliar Ukrainian com- the recent publication of a book about his and expertise covered an enormous range Wednesday night ....” With this straight- posers such as H. Hladkyi, M. Lysenko life by Ivan Holovatsky. Dr. Romaniv of disciplines – all the natural sciences, forward admission, The Washington and Y. Stepovyi but by such well-known was remembered and mourned because as well as mathematics and psychology. Post’s music critic Joseph McLellan Russians as Modest Mussorgsky and of his death in Lviv, on November 3. He was a prolific author and lecturer in began his review of violinist Solomia Sergei Prokofiev.” The program was introduced by all these fields, utilizing the popular Soroka’s concert in Washington in One year later, Mr. McLellan found NTSh President Dr. Larissa Zaleska genre aimed at a wide Ukrainian audi- February 2000, and added that “he three more Ukrainian composers deserv- Onyshkevych and chaired by Prof. Vasyl ence. should be better known in this country.” ing of more attention in the United Makhno. At the conclusion of the program seg- As in this instance, Mr. McLellan’s States: Mykola Kolessa, whose The book about Dr. Rakovsky was ment dedicated to Dr. Rakovsky, Prof. reviews of other Ukrainian artists per- “Autumnal” and “Hutsulian” preludes presented by his grandson Yuriy Makhno read a memoir sent from Brazil forming in the nation’s capital over the were premiered in Washington by pianist Rakovsky, who accompanied his narra- by Vira Vovk, in which the writer remi- past two decades oftentimes highlighted Mykola Suk at the National Gallery of the “discovery” aspect of the experience. Art; and Stanislav Liudkevych and Vasyl Mr. McLellan died here on the day Barvinsky (as well as Skoryk) – “exem- the priesthood on October 1, 1988, by after Christmas. And with his passing plars of a vital and ancient musical cul- Bishop Losten... Bishop Jerome Chimy, OSBM at Ukrainian classical music lost its great ture that has struggled for centuries to (Continued from page 1) Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary champion in the nation’s capital. win recognition for its distinctive identi- of British Columbia with a bachelor’s Church in Vancouver. He then studied On hearing about his death, Laryssa ty” – whose works were on the program degree in commerce in 1980, the bishop philosophy at the University of St. Courtney, who was the director of The of another Cultural Fund concert, featur- worked as an accountant for two years. Anselm and the Gregorian University in Washington Group Cultural Fund for 10 ing soprano Oksana Krovytska and Responding to God’s call to a vocation, Rome, receiving a bachelor’s in sacred of those years, observed that he pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky. he entered the novitiate of the Order of theology in 1990. approached music “with an open mind As Ms. Courtney noted and The St. Basil the Great at the Basilian Upon his return to Canada he served and keen ear.” Washington Post’s current lead critic Tim Monastery in Glen Cove, N.Y., in briefly as an assistant pastor at Ss. Peter “He relished hearing unfamiliar music Page pointed out in his obituary, Mr. November 1982. and Paul Church in Mundare, Alberta, performed by unfamiliar artists and won- McLellan was not known for sharply He professed his final vows in Rome and St. Basil’s in Edmonton. Eventually dered out loud why he hadn’t heard it negative reviews; his criticism reflected on January 1, 1988, and was ordained to he would return to both parishes as their before. He was a very thoughtful and more his “gentle, inquisitive and compas- pastor in 1997 and 2000; he also served kind man, providing valuable back- sionate” nature, as Mr. Page described it. as the pastor of St. Mary’s Church in ground information where necessary, and His Krovytska-Vynnytsky review was Vancouver in 1994-1997. highlighting the most positive aspects of one example: “Not many performers in Correction During his tenure as pastor at St. a performance, where most of his col- this country know the Ukrainian repertoire In the article titled “Hnizdovsky Basil’s in Edmonton and St. Paul’s in leagues made it a mission to point out well enough to give such a performance, reburied in Ukraine, commemorative art Mundare, he was also the superior of the any real or imagined shortcomings,” Ms. and the result was fascinating – a glimpse exhibit held in Lviv” which appeared in local Basilian monastery. Bishop Courtney said. of musical riches hardly suspected by the January 1 issue of The Ukrainian Chomnycky also served as the director Mr. McLellan related his music expe- American audiences. The performances Weekly, it was erroneously reported that of the Basilian Fathers museum in riences so eloquently, she added, that were both skilled and fervent, the music – Stephanie Hnizdovsky, the artist’s Mundare, a member of the Provincial reading his column “was the next best Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian – carefully widow, and Mira Hnizdovsky, the artist’s Council of the Basilian Fathers of thing to being there.” In his 1983 review selected for quality and interest.” daughter, were present at the reburial and Canada, and a member of the college of of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide As Mr. Page indicated, Mr. McLellan exhibition opening. They were unable to consultors of the Edmonton Eparchy. anniversary concert at the Kennedy was aware that he was sometimes viewed attend due to health reasons, and had He was appointed Exarch for Ukrainian Center, Mr. McLellan included historical as a “cheerleader.” Some could say that asked Mr. Roman Ferencevych of Catholics in Great Britain on April 5, background information about the about his appraisal of Mr. Suk’s encore Alexandria, Va., to represent them at the 2002, and ordained as a bishop on June 11, Holodomor and about Mykola Lysenko’s performance of Liszt’s Hungarian ceremonies. 2002, by Cardinal Lubomyr Husar. opera “Taras Bulba” as describing an ear- Rhapsody No. 11, which he wrote, lier Ukrainian struggle with Russian “nearly set the keyboard on fire.” domination. Born in Quincy, Mass., the oldest of Less than two weeks after the Soroka 12 children, Joseph McLellan came to MAY WE HELP YOU? concert in 2000, Mr. McLellan’s review The Washington Post in 1972. Initially he To reach The Ukrainian Weekly call (973) 292-9800, of another TWG Cultural Fund concert in wrote on various subjects, Mr. Page and dial the appropriate extension (as listed below). a tribute to Taras Shevchenko, featuring noted, including cinema, drama, philoso- bandurists Alla Kutsevych and Ludmyla phy and chess, as well as music. He Editorial – 3049, 3063, 3069; Administration – 3041; Hrabovska, focused on the Ukrainian became the lead music critic in 1982, a bard’s role in the development of position he held until 1995. He was 76 Advertising – 3040; Subscriptions – 3042; Production – 3052 Ukraine’s cultural and political history. when he died of kidney failure in “Shevchenko, an early and outspoken Hyattsville, Md. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 No. 2

FFOOCCUUSS OONN PPHHIILLAATTEELLYY by Ingert Kuzych The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (and Soviet stamps depicting the hetman)

Last month I related some information about Ukrainians serving in the an Austrian military pin of World War I that Soviet Red Army. bore a Ukrainian inscription designed to instill Background pride among the soldiers of a Ukrainian- manned battalion. This month I present some When the German Wehrmacht information of a World War II medal that was attacked the Soviet Union on June meant to provide a similar function to 22, 1941, it initially encountered Figure 3 limited resistance. While the Soviet Union had the manpower in 1940 to bully and annex the Baltic coun- tries in the north or to grab Bessarabia (from Romania) in the south, it was totally unprepared to face a war on the scale the Germans unleashed. Over 3 million troops, 3,350 tanks, 7,184 artillery pieces, 600,000 motor vehicles, 625,000 horses and 2,500 aircraft of all types poured onto Soviet ter- ritories. The German allies of Finland, Romania, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia also provided signifi- cant additional manpower. Although the invasion did not attain ultimate goals of Leningrad and Moscow, for the most part its offensives during 1941 and 1942 were successful. All of Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics, and huge chunks of Russian territories – particularly in the north Caucasus Figure 4 area – were overrun. The situa- tion started to change in 1943 as bon was a light blue moire with white rebuilt Soviet armies began to prestigious Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky take the offensive. was instituted on October 10. center stripe and edges. Khmelnytsky was seen as a natural Figure 1 Since these military formations Khmelnytsky on stamps would now be moving to retake figure after which to name a Ukrainian- former Soviet lands (Ukraine, related honor. After all, he was the great What is interesting about this order, Belarus and the Baltic states) occu- hetman who had voluntarily “joined” and what demonstrates its valuable propa- pied by the Germans for a couple Ukraine to Russia in the 1654 Treaty of gandistic value, is that it appeared no less of years, it was unclear how the Pereaslav. Ignored was the fact that the than five times on stamps of the Soviet peoples of these lands would react treaty was simply one of convenience, Union. The first time was in February of to yet another occupation (a reoc- designed to procure Muscovite aid in the 1945 when three, single-colored, 2-ruble cupation). So, Soviet propagan- Kozaks’ struggle against Poland. stamps (black, dark green and brown) were issued that showed the first-class dists felt that it would be useful to About the award appeal to these peoples’ patriotism. order (Figure 3). In June of that year, The vast struggle between the Red The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky shortly after the conclusion of the war, a Army and the Nazi war machine came in three classes and was presented to smaller 45-kopek stamp showed the first- began to be called the Great officers, noncommissioned officers and class order again on both perforated and Patriotic War by Soviet ideologues, enlisted men of the Soviet army, navy and imperforated versions (Figure 4). and many subtle changes designed guerrilla forces who especially distin- Almost a decade later, the Soviet to instill pride in being a Soviet cit- guished themselves in battle. First class Union decided to go all out in its com- izen were undertaken. went to commanders of posts, senior offi- memoration of the tercentenary (300th In October of 1943, the front cers, and senior partisan leaders. Second anniversary) of the Treaty of Pereiaslav. commands were renamed: what class was for division and regimental com- A total of 10 stamps were released for had been the Voronezh, Steppes, manders, their deputies and commanders the occasion, all showing Ukrainian top- Southwest and South fronts of partisan regiments. Third Class was ics and all proclaiming “300 Years of became the first, second, third and designated for enlisted men, noncommis- (Continued on page 13) Figure 2 fourth Ukrainian fronts. A new, sioned officers and others up to the rank of battalion commander, and partisans. The order was primarily a World War II award. Nikita Khrushchev, who in Who was Khmelnytsky? 1943 was lieutenant general of the First Ukrainian Front, was largely instrumen- Bohdan Khmelnytsky (ca. 1595-1657) is one of the most celebrated and at the tal in having this award established. same time one of the most controversial political figures to emerge from Ukraine’s early-modern (Kozak) period. He was a brilliant military strategist, The first-class order was a 10-pointed who assumed leadership of a typical Kozak uprising in 1648 against the Polish star, five of gold and five of silver. The Commonwealth and turned it into a successful war of liberation for the Ukrainian center medallion portrayed Khmelnytsky populace. holding a mace in his right hand. His His greatest achievement in this national revolution was the formation of a name, inscribed in Ukrainian, appeared Kozak Hetman state, which was to endure for over a century (1648-1782). His along the edge of the medallion, while a leadership and talents were demonstrated in various areas of state-building – in highly ornate rim surrounded the medal- administration, finance, economics and culture, as well as in the military sphere. lion (Figure 1). The ribbon was a light At the height of the Kozak-Polish War (1648-1657), Khmelnytsky concluded blue moire with a white stripe at center. the fateful Treaty of Pereiaslav in 1654 with the tsar of Muscovy, as a result of The second-class award was similar, which Ukraine became a Russian protectorate and fell under the sphere of influ- but the rays were all silver. The ribbon ence of Muscovy. was light blue moire edged in white. For Although the treaty was soon abrogated, it was used for centuries as a Russian the third-class order the rays were again (and later Soviet) pretext for the occupation of Ukraine. Some of Ukraine’s most silver, but of shorter length. Instead of prominent intellectuals – including Taras Shevchenko bitterly criticized the ornate decoration, the name of Khmelnytsky for his strategic error. Khmelnytsky was removed from the medallion to the rim (Figure 2). The rib- Figure 5 No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 13

the “Great Patriotic War,” (Figure 8). In the like regular stamps, but also carried a sur- Bohdan Khmelnytsky also appeared on The Order... background of this 4-kopek stamp, behind charge to raise funds for the Olympic numerous Soviet pre-stamped envelopes (Continued from page 12) a Soviet soldier, looms an outline of the Games, held that year in Moscow. A 1- and on special cancellations, but these Ukraine United with Russia.” Khmelnytsky statue. In 1967 another series ruble stamp carried a 50-kopek surcharge cannot all be listed due to space consider- Three of these stamps depicted of stamps honored the 50th anniversary of and was titled “Tourism Kyiv”; it showed ations. However, one example of each Khmelnytsky in one form or another. A 60- the Great October Revolution. In the right the Khmelnytsky statue in front of the St. will serve and may be seen in Figure 13. kopek stamp showed the famous statue of foreground of this 4-kopek value, before Sophia Cathedral bell tower (Figure 10). the hetman in Kyiv (Figure 5), a 1-ruble various Kyiv structures, the hetman’s stat- In 1982 the Soviet Union concocted a Further information about Ukrainian value depicted the hetman ostensibly giving ue can again be discerned (Figure 9). 1,500th anniversary for the supposed philately and collecting may be found on his pledge of fealty to Russia (Figure 6), and In 1980 the Soviet Union issued a series founding of Kyiv. No one really knows the website of the Ukrainian Philatelic the third was a reissue of the green February of what are termed semi-postal stamps. when the city was established and 482 and Numismatic Society: www.upns.org. 1945 Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky stamp, These were used to move the mails just seemed as good a year as any. To cele- Dr. Ingert Kuzych may be contacted at this time with a red overprint proclaiming brate this special event postally, a large P.O. Box 3, Springfield, VA 22150 or via the “Union” (Figure 7). 10-kopek stamp was produced that e-mail at [email protected] In succeeding decades, the showed many of the city’s most famous Khmelnytsky statue appeared five more buildings, bridges and monuments all crowded together. In the lower right quad- times on stamps of the USSR, each time as rant, a tiny profile of the Khmelnytsky part of an issue honoring Kyiv or showing statue may be discerned. (Figure 11). parts of the city. In 1963 the 20th anniver- The final stamp to present the sary of the retaking of Kyiv was recalled Khmelnytsky monument appeared in on one of the stamps in a series honoring 1989, just two years before the dissolu- tion of the USSR. On this 15-kopek stamp the statue is prominently shown in front of St. Sophia Cathedral (Figure 12). Figure 8

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NationalLVIV – President Viktor Museum Yushchenko Galician Dietof and Lvivthe Austrian renamedHouse of was legally named in thehonor Lviv Church ofProsvita Shep Society. tytsky recently issued a decree to name the Lords and the Imperial Ministerial Museum. A figure whose role in the museum’s National Museum of Lviv after its Council. In 1909, with the blessings of the muse- history was comparable to that of founder, Count Andrey Sheptytsky, for- A defender of the Ukrainian nation and um’s curatorship, it was officially named Sheptytsky’s is its former director Ilarion mer metropolitan of Halych. his Church, he was arrested by Russian after its founder and most valuable bene- Sventsitsky, who oversaw the museum’s A ceremony took place on December and Polish authorities at various times factor, Sheptytsky. However, the museum operation from 1905 to 1952. Sventsitsky 15, 2005, to mark both the naming of the during and after the first world war. was transferred to the public domain of significantly affected the museum’s sta- museum and its 100th anniversary. A During World War II he advocated an Ukraine shortly thereafter, in 1913. tus during its first 50 years of existence; jubilee exhibit opened on December 19, independent Ukrainian state and spoke Metropolitan Sheptytsky was a patron he successfully represented the museum to commemorate the history of the muse- out against the Nazis’ treatment of the of the arts, as well as a very generous phi- at various art institutions and research um, as well as many of its contributors people of Ukraine and, in particular, lanthropist; the museum’s first artifacts centers throughout Europe. and benefactors, foremost among them against their persecution and extermina- were donated by him and his family. In celebration of the museum’s distin- Metropolitan Sheptytsky. tion of the Jews. He took a fearless stand Among the items donated were rare manu- guished existence in Lviv, several special The metropolitan, whose secular name also against the Soviet regime. scripts, ancient books, embroideries, icons, exhibits were prepared. Among them was Roman Oleksander Sheptytsky, was After his death in 1944, a popular wood carvings and religious artifacts recov- were “Echo of the Centuries: From the born into a noble family on July 29, movement for Sheptytsky’s beatification ered from Basilian monasteries throughout Lviv National Museum’s Treasure 1865, in Prylbychi, Yavoriv county, arose. He was recognized in 1968 by Ukraine. During the first 25 years of the Trove,” “Ukrainian Art at the Turn of the Halychyna. He was ordained in August Pope Paul VI as a Servant of God. museum’s operation, Sheptytsky donated 20th Century” and “Early Ukrainian Art 1892 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in law Ukrainian Catholic leaders are continuing approximately $111,000 and over 10,000 of the late 15th-18th Centuries.” at the University of Krakow, and to com- their efforts to have him recognized as a additional historical artifacts from his per- The museum continues to operate suc- plete his studies of theology and philoso- saint. sonal collection. cessfully today, despite a lack of funding, phy at the Jesuit seminary in Krakow. The National Museum of Lviv was Sheptytsky was the museum’s most which once was much more prevalent. He was a cultural and civic leader, and originally founded by Sheptytsky in 1905 generous benefactor, but not the only The curatorship hopes to see a surge of served as metropolitan of Halych, arch- as a church museum on the grounds of St. one. Over the years, the museum generous benefactors, as it is mostly the bishop of Lviv and bishop of Kamianets- George’s Cathedral of the Lviv received donations from significant per- donations of artists and historians them- Podilskyi and, prior to that, as bishop of Metropolitanate. It acquired national sons like historian Anton Petrushevych, selves upon which the museum’s future is Stanyslaviv. He was also a member of the museum status in 1908, after which it Prof. Volodymyr Shukhevych and the dependent. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 No. 2 Update on the 2005 Canada-Ukraine excavations in Baturyn

by Volodymyr Mezentsev church, Holy Trinity Cathedral, commis- sioned by Mazepa ca. 1692. It, too, was The Canada-Ukraine archeological ravaged in 1708. Next season, the expe- expedition has conducted its fifth annual dition intends to locate and excavate the excavations of Baturyn in Chernihiv foundations of the lost Trinity Cathedral province, Ukraine. along with its tall belfry known as the In 2005, the Baturyn expedition team “Mazepine tower.” grew to nearly 150 students and scholars Nearby, researchers unearthed the from the universities of Chernihiv and remnants of several burnt ordinary tim- Nizhyn, and the National University of ber dwellings belonging to the fortress’ Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Dr. Volodymyr residents. In one of the storage pits, the Kovalenko of the University of skeleton of a slain youth was revealed, Chernihiv was the expedition leader; his while next to it, the burnt skull of assistant was Yurii Sytyi. Dr. Volodymyr another casualty of 1708. In the fortress, Mezentsev of the University of Toronto archaeologists found 15 silver and cop- acted as the CIUS research fellow per Polish, Czech and Russian coins, responsible for the Baturyn project. Yurij three neck crosses, pieces of the Kovalenko of the Hlukhiv Historical Preserve particpated in field research. engraved copper setting from an icon or Prof. Martin Dimnik of PIMS has over- a book, two silver finger-rings, a copper seen the funding and helps to publish the seal-ring with carved images of Adam findings of the excavations in the and Eve, two fabric fragments and a Canadian press. strip of brocade, artistic glazed ceramic Between 1669 and 1708, Baturyn was tobacco pipes in the shapes of a flower the capital of the hetman state and one of and a boot, numerous pieces of broken the most significant and prosperous fine ceramic tiles, or “kakhli,” with towns in Ukraine. In 1708, it became the relief patterns used for decorating the center of an insurrection led by Hetman stoves in houses of the elite, fragmented Ivan Mazepa (1687-1709). In an alliance costly painted table-plates and various with Sweden, Mazepa attempted to liber- glassware of the 17th-18th centuries, as ate Left-Bank Ukraine from the over- well as musket or pistol bullets, a can- lordship of Muscovy. That same year, by non ball and grapeshot, and a spearhead order of Tsar Peter I, the Russian army – relics of the heroic defense of seized Baturyn and burned it to the Baturyn. ground and also slaughtered the town’s The discovery of a glass vessel’s piece military garrison together with the civil- with the Cyrillic inscription in the ian population of some 14,000 in total. fortress is of special interest. Together This was a punitive measure designed to with finds such as fragments of a glass suppress the rebellion with the terror. ink-pot and a seal-ring (used for letters Baturyn recovered during the reign of and the other written documents), it pro- Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovskyi (1750- vides evidence of literacy among the 1764) who moved his residence there Kozak elite residing in the hetman capi- Fragments of revetment ceramic tiles (kakhli) with relief geometric and floral tal. from Hlukhiv. Although the Russian motifs and polychrome glazing produced in Baturyn during Mazepa’s rule. empire abolished the Hetmanate in 1764, In 2005 the expedition extended its Rozumovskyi continued to support the archeological research of the remnants of construction of monumental churches, post of the medieval Chernihiv principal- cers’ class, which originated from Mazepa palace, erected by the hetman in schools, hospitals and the famous palace ity. wooden Ukrainian peasant dwellings the Baturyn suburb of Honcharivka in Baturyn until his death in 1803. From The expedition unearthed remnants (khata). before 1700. This rich villa was looted this time, the town declined and became of the gallery or porch of the hetman’s On the ground of the former fortress, by the marauders in 1708 and then stood a semi-agrarian settlement. Since 2005, central palace in the citadel’s bailey. A the team discovered a cemetery sur- abandoned, falling gradually into ruins. the Ukrainian government began to pro- layer of charcoal and ash from the con- rounding the hetman capital’s main Archeologists unearthed new portions mote the development of Baturyn, flagration of 1708 that destroyed this restoration of its outstanding 17th-19th state edifice has been revealed. In 2001- century architectural monuments, as well 2004, archeologists excavated the entire as expansion of the Baturyn National site of this palace and reconstructed its Historical Preserve with the regional- ground plan and architectural type. This studies museum. residence of Hetmans Demian Last summer, in the town’s citadel, Mnohohrishnyi (1669-1672) and Ivan two semi-subterranean dwellings with Samoilovych (1672-1687) was a com- clay ovens from the Kyivan Rus’ era paratively sizeable, rectangular, one- were uncovered. These archeological story, vaulted brick structure. It is likely finds strengthen the view that Baturyn represented the traditional type of raised from an 11th century fortress, out- masonry mansions of the Kozak offi-

Archaeological investigations of the remains of a child who perished during the Fragment of a terra-cotta kakhlia with the relief of a horseman’s arm from the sacking of the hetman capital in 1708. excavations at the fortress site. No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 15 of foundations of the palace and its annex. They established that the struc- ture’s spacious basement (15 by 15 meters) had four storage rooms separated by two inner walls, crossing at right angles. Remnants of stairs were uncov- ered in the annex. Laboratory examina- tions of the bricks and lime mortar from wall debris conducted at the Institute of Geology of the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv showed that they are 1.3 to 1.5 times stronger than the average contemporary brick. According to the 1744 drawing of the Mazepa palace and archeological evi- dences the main part of this building (without the annex) had an approximate- ly squared outline, three floors, a Figured ceramic tobacco pipe bowls covered with green glazing and found at the hetman fortress.

Copper ring with seal depicting Adam and Eve with serpent and Tree of Knowledge, 17th-18th centuries, and sample of a seal wax impression (on right). mansard, wooden ceilings and a vertical skeleton of elderly Kozak who was symmetrical composition of its front ele- buried with a wine goblet left near his vation. In general, this edifice was skull. This deviates from standard designed and adorned in the Western Orthodox burial custom and represents a Archeological finds of silver finger-rings, copper neck crosses and fragments of European or, more precisely, Italian vestige of pagan rites, which was an engraved copper setting, possibly from an icon or a book, 17th-18th centuries. Baroque style. However, its elaborated heretofore unseen in the study of exterior embellishment included ele- Baturyn. ments borrowed from Ukrainian Thus, new archeological findings have Baroque architecture – a semi-cylindri- reinforced the view that during the cal band made of figured bricks (possi- Hetman period Baturyn was one of the bly running along the socle); recessed leading centres of development of whitewashed ceramic details on the cor- Ukrainian Baroque culture. The town’s nices or portals; and circular tiles with total destruction in 1708 abruptly disrupt- multi-colored glazed rosettes nailed to ed its intensive growth. While Baturyn the cornices. recovered under Rozumovskyi, it failed The floor was paved with terra-cotta to revive its broad-reaching Western eco- and blue glazed ceramic tiles. nomic and cultural contacts, as well as Conceivably, the Baturyn ceramists, the high level of urban craft and distinc- inhabiting the Honcharivka quarter, fash- tive folk art, which flourished there dur- ioned these high-quality construction and ing the illustrious Mazepa era. decorative materials for the palace. Thus, The Canada-Ukraine archeological recent archeological investigations indi- expedition plans to continue its excava- cate that Mazepa’s largest, principal resi- tions in Baturyn in 2006. This field dence located near his capital was a research, laboratory analysis of the remarkable structure with no known archeological finds, and publication of direct analogies in Ukrainian or Western its results depend on donors’ support. architecture, while displaying some local The Pontifical Institute of Medieval decorative elements. Studies in Toronto administers the In the summer of 2005, within the Canadian and American funds for the citadel and fortress, the expedition Baturyn project. uncovered 33 graves of Baturyn towns- * * * folk from the late 17th to early 18th cen- The drawing of ruins of the Mazepa palace in Honcharivka suburb near turies (Mazepa’s time). Seventeen of To support this project, kindly send Baturyn, 1744. (National Museum, Stockholm). them, containing the skeletons of chil- your donations to: Prof. Martin Dimnik, dren and women buried in shallow pits Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, without coffins, as well as some human 59 Queen’s Park Crescent East, Toronto, remains devoid of any traces of a Ontario, M5S 2C4. Please make your Supporters of the Baturyn project Christian burial, have been identified as check payable to: Pontifical Institute of The Baturyn archeological project is sponsored by the Kowalsky Program for victims of the massacre of 1708. For the Medieval Studies, Re: Baturyn project. the Study of Eastern Ukraine and the Marusia Onyshchuk and Ivanko Kharuk first time, archeologists unearthed the This institute will issue receipts for Memorial Endowment Fund at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies two family graves with the skeletons of tax-deductible purposes. Organizations, (CIUS), the Yurii Kuzev Endowment at the Shevchenko Scientific Society of women together with their children or institutions and private donors support- America (NTSh-A), and the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies (PIMS) in grandchildren who lost their lives simul- ing the Baturyn excavations and dis- Toronto. In 2005, the Ukrainian Studies Fund (Harvard University), the Nursing taneously. In total, between 1996 and semination of its findings will be grate- Care Inc. (Wood Dale, Ill.), the Ukrainian Graduates of Windsor and Detroit, the 2005, researchers excavated 92 graves of fully acknowledged in the publications Prometheus Foundation, the Buduchnist Credit Union (Toronto), the Ukrainian the 17th and early 18th centuries in and public lectures related to this proj- National Federation and the Help to Ukraine Fund (Montreal) supported research Baturyn. Most of them – 48 graves – ect. of Baturyn with dotations. The Baturyn Fund, established by the president of belonged primarily to the civilian popula- For further information or any ques- Ukraine, contributed, for the first time, to these excavations. The eminent histori- tion, which perished at the hands of the tions about the Baturyn archeological an of the Kozak Hetman state and director of CIUS, Prof. Zenon Kohut, and Dr. tsarist troops during the fall of the het- project, readers may contact: Dr. Larysa Onyshkevych, president of NTSh-A are the patrons of and academic man capital. Volodymyr Mezentsev (100 High Park advisers to this project. Among the pre-1708 graves investi- Ave., Apt. 808, Toronto, Ontario, M6P gated in Baturyn, particular attention 2S2; telephone, (416) 766-1408; e-mail, – Volodymyr Mezentsev should be paid to one containing the [email protected]. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 No. 2

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century, others are representative of world of technology and industrializa- attended just minutes after my last class. Thoreau in Ukraine... Thoreau’s penchant for archaic words, tion; will its people turn away from these The previous day, at the end of classes, (Continued from page 9) still others are understood to be in the name of simplicity? Probably not, the stadium’s loud speakers disrupted the on this highway to realize that “horse- Thoreau’s attempt at humor. Nonplused, but there is much to be done just to get to campus serenity with The Fifth power” takes on a newer, more literal they read and provided what comment the point of consideration. In the town of Dimension’s “Let the Sun Shine” herald- meaning here. Our car, “small, but made they could; they seemed particularly to Ostroh, the central hot-water system has ing the arrival of a team of Ukrainian in Ukraine” our driver from the academy appreciate Thoreau’s play on the not functioned for years, although the bicyclists on their way to Kyiv promoting proudly informed us, was soon outnum- “Cenobites,” who “see no bites.” The university has hot water in the mornings. world peace. As I looked around, I found bered by wooden carts perched on four sixth-year students, compared to the Since the Chornobyl disaster, a deep dis- it impossible to identify within the crowd automobile tires and pulled by one or two fourth-year students, were noticeably trustfulness lingers about the safety of the two dozen Canadian students partici- horses, depending, presumably, upon the reserved – a consequence their teachers the nearby nuclear power plant. pating in a six-month exchange program wealth of the driver. attributed to their having been longer Unemployment is high and locals com- this year – the academy’s own crusade for In September, these carts, wide under the Soviet system of education. mute to larger towns to work. promoting world peace. During my visit, enough to accommodate a driver and one I question still why Thoreau, in 2005, The university, all agree, is an eco- the rector declared the entire campus to another, are brimming with hay, the same was unheard of in this remnant of the for- nomic boon as more and more students be a non-smoking area, and soon after, hay seen piled into Monet-like stacks mer Soviet socialist republic. Perhaps it is arrive; today enrollment is at 2,000, up students began planning a “day of aware- along the highway. Fences, except those simply because there was no access to from 890 only five years ago, and many ness” about the problems Ukraine faces encircling houses within the villages, are Thoreau’s work; American literature has of the students prefer to rent flats in pri- resulting from drugs and alcohol. rare here and grazing cattle are kept from until recently been low on Ukraine’s pri- vate homes rather than live in the dorms. In these and many other ways, the wandering onto the road by a lone cattle- ority list, although that is certainly not the While duplex-style housing is provided National University of Ostroh Academy man (or woman) who assumes this case any longer. The academy’s library is for teachers on campus, just a few min- can be heard slowly “gnawing out” a 21st responsibility for neighbors while they growing day by day with English-lan- utes walk past clay tennis courts and an century example of the “egg deposited in perform more remunerative work outside guage books, much of it literature, donat- outdoor stadium for track meets (and jog- the living tree many years earlier still, as the village. It is “cooperative,” not “col- ed from the U. S. and Canada. ging), many of them, with their families, appeared by counting the annual layers lective,” farming today; that is, it is a Or, perhaps it was because there was no have spilled over into the town now, too. beyond it.” And, as Thoreau writes, way of life no longer mandated and man- room in the former Soviet Union for indi- It may be that Ukraine’s epoch of what “Who does not feel his faith in a resur- aged by the Soviet government. vidualism and originality. Individualism Thoreau referred to in 19th century New rection and immortality strengthened by I began to wonder how appropriate runs counter to communism. To be sure, England as a time when “the mass of hearing of this?” Thoreau’s “Simplify, simplify” would be Thoreau’s “Let each step to the music he men live lives of quiet desperation” is * * * here. hears however measured or far away” over. I had not needed to explain Arriving at the university, I was sur- struck a chord with many of these stu- Thoreau’s “what is called resignation is You can help secure the future of prised to see a wooded campus where stu- dents. Almost without exception, students confirmed desperation” to these students. Ukraine by giving to the National dents mow the lawn and weed mentioned this passage in the end-of-ses- They’ve been there, and the role University of Ostroh Academy. Please flowerbeds. Some were digging a trench sion short essay I had been asked to Ukraine’s young people played in the send your tax-exempt contributions to: through which water would soon flow require of them – the ubiquitous “coherent “Orange Revolution” suggests that they Friends of Ostroh Academy, c/o Myron toward a fountain in front of their newly five-paragraph essay” addressing the are not going back. B. Kuropas, 107 Ilehamwood Drive, built library, inside which students were question “In your opinion, is Thoreau’s For now, the academy has resisted both DeKalb, IL 60115-1856. Checks should sanding and painting, determined to meet “Walden” relevant today?” Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic over- be made out to Ukrainian National their goal of an October 30, 2005, grand Except for one young man, who wrote tures to re-establish its ancient church (and Foundation/Ostroh Fund. opening. Rector Pasichnyk explained that that he now thought he might follow that renew the 16th century rift that resulted in different drummer within him and retreat the academy’s establishment in the first students feel a sense of ownership when 3. Thoreau, Henry D. Walden, ed. J. they are allowed to do these things them- to live his life in a cabin in the woods, the place). Rather, this space, with its extraor- Lyndon Shanley (Princeton: Princeton selves. essays generally argued that living alone dinary acoustical qualities, is used for free University Press, 1971), p. 50. It was an idea he might have taken in the woods – even as an experiment – cultural events such as the Rivne District 4. Thoreau, Henry D. Walden, ed. J. from Thoreau’s “Economy” (had he was no solution. It was more important to Symphony’s performance of Stravinski’s Lyndon Shanley (Princeton: Princeton known of it): “I cannot but think that if accept life’s challenges and adapt to life, “Symphonies of Wind Instruments” that I University Press, 1971), p. 51. we had more true wisdom in these to contribute to society; to live life to the respects, not only less education would fullest was impossible alone. But, they ì 40-ËÈ ÑÖçú ëåÖêíà be needed, because, forsooth, more said, it was up to the individual to decide ̇¯Ó„Ó Ì‡È‰ÓðÓÊ˜Ó„Ó ¥ ÌÂÁ‡·ÛÚÌ¸Ó„Ó would already have been acquired, but how to live – each should follow the the pecuniary expense of getting an edu- voice within him or her. åìÜÄ, ÅÄíúäÄ, ÑßÑìëü cation would in a great measure vanish.”3 My account of Thoreau’s life, that he Students at Ostroh did not build their had indeed been a social creature, that ·Î. Ô. living quarters, but they did reclaim and Walden Pond was an easy 25 minute renovate the former Soviet military bar- walk from Concord, that then, as now, racks built soon after Russia “liberated” Walden Woods was a public park, had ÇéãéÑàåàêÄ ÇéêéïÄ Ukraine. These are conveniently located fallen on deaf ears in Ukraine – just as it across the street from the academy. In a often does in America. However, sense, they are living the evolution of an Thoreau’s words had not. ·Û‰Â ‚¥‰Ôð‡‚ÎÂ̇ era; that is, they do not “play life, or The most thoughtful of the essays study it merely, while the community tackled the “Simplify, simplify” passage. ëãìÜÅÄ ÅéÜÄ supports them at this expensive game, One young woman wrote, rather astutely but earnestly live it from beginning to I thought, that perhaps “Walden” would Á èÄçÄïàÑéû end. How could youths better learn to be more meaningful to middle-aged read- live than by at once trying the experiment ers than to people her age. She admitted of living?”4 that she did not like to think about giving Û ÒÂð‰Û, 11 Ò¥˜Ìfl 2006 ð., Ó „Ó‰. 7-¥È ‚˜. Lacking books for them, I asked my up the few material things she has only ‚ ˆÂðÍ‚¥ Ò‚. ûð‡ ‚ ç˛-âÓðÍÛ. students to take turns reading passages just begun to acquire. Self-gratification is from “Walden” from overhead trans- important to college students and is the parencies, assuring them that there would driving motivation behind larger ambi- èðÓ ÏÓÎËÚ‚Ë Á‡ ÒÔÓÍ¥È ‰Û¯¥ èÓÍ¥ÈÌÓ„Ó ÔðÓÒflÚ¸ be words they would not know: some tions for one’s self and one’s country. ‰ðÛÊË̇ – åÄêßü words were common only in the 19th Ukraine is finally emerging into a ‰Ó̸͇ – áÇÖçàëãÄÇÄ Á ‰Ó̲ ÒËÌ – ãûÅéåàê Á ‰¥Ú¸ÏË Volume I and II You can obtain both volumes for only $130.00 Ç¥˜Ì‡ âÓÏÛ Ô‡Ï’flÚ¸! Including Postage ORDER NOW Fill out the order blank below and mail it with your check or money order DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS To: UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Inc. 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 to be published in The Ukrainian Weekly – in the Ukrainian I hereby order Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia or English language – are accepted by mail, courier, fax, phone or e-mail. 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“í‡Í! ìÍð‡ªÌˆ¥ ÔÂðÂχ„‡˛Ú¸ ÒÏ¥˛˜ËÒ¸” (Yes, Ukrainians Win Laughing”) Mathematics competition honors A unique publication about the events that took place during the 2004 presidential elections in Ukraine. The book features the Ukrainian people standing up for honest Prof. Joseph W. Andrushkiw and transparent elections as well as combating the flagrant fraud of the vote by the SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – The 20th Andrushkiw’s son, Roman, a mathemat- government. Abundant in illustrations, it conveys the spirit of Independence Square in annual Joseph W. Andrushkiw ics professor at New Jersey Institute of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, during the peaceful Orange Revolution. “í‡Í! ìÍð‡ªÌˆ¥ Mathematics Competition was held at Technology, and his grandson, Paul, were ÔÂðÂχ„‡˛Ú¸ ÒÏ¥˛˜ËÒ¸” became possible thanks to the financial support by Alex, Seton Hall University in South Orange in attendance to award the prizes to the Halyna, George and Nina Woskob and the Ivan Bahriany Foundation. The project was here on November 19, 2005. It was attend- winning students. ed by 273 students from 30 high schools in Taking first prize was Meryl administered and coordinated by Oleh Chornohuz and Yuri Zadoya, respectively. the state. Prof. Andrushkiw died in 1984, Federman, a junior from Livingston High To order the book, please send $25 and your requests to: The Ivan Bahriany Foundation, but his memory lives on in the competition School. Livingston High School also named for this beloved teacher and mentor. won the team award. Attn.: DeEtte K. Riley, AW & Sons, 309 East Beaver Ave., State College, PA 16801 He was born in Ukraine where he studied Second and third place were won, mathematics, receiving a master’s degree. respectively, by Alex Yang of West He completed his doctorate in Germany, Windsor-Plainsboro High School North after World War II. He then emigrated to and Jian Li of Livingston High School. To: Our Canadian Subscribers the U.S. and eventually began teaching at In the team category, West Windsor- From: Subscription Department Seton Hall University. Plainsboro High School North came in RE: Delivery of The Ukrainian Weekly This year, on the 20th anniversary of second, while West Windsor-Plainsboro the mathematics competition, Prof. High School South was third. Do you have a postal service problem? 1. The first step is to bring your concern to your local post office. 2. If your concern is still not resolved, the second step is to contact the Customer Service Department at Canada Post at (800) 267-1177. 3. If you still have a concern, you may request that the Ombudsman at Canada Post review your case.

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Ukrainian American Youth Association’s future leaders meet in Washington by Marta Matselioukh WASHINGTON – On a recent autumn holiday week- end, nine bright and energetic teenagers gathered in Washington for the second annual Ukrainian American Youth Association (SUM) Leadership Seminar. During the three day conference on October 8-10, 2005, the participants’ busy schedules were filled with thought-provoking discussions, challenging teamwork exercises, lectures by prominent community figures and even a moonlight tour of the nation’s capital. The goal of the seminar was two-fold: to equip the leaders of tomorrow with strong leadership skills, and to encour- age the young adults to become more active in SUM and in their community. The conference focused on leadership, marketing in organizations, project management and branding. Speakers included Andriy Bihun, director of youth for the Ukrainian American Youth Association; Eugenia Kuzmowycz-Blahy, chief operating officer of Self Reliance New York Federal Credit Union; Jerry Dutkewych, director of country relations at the Millennium Challenge Corporation; Diana Howansky, staff associate at the Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University, Mykola Hryckowian, co-founder of the Center for U.S.-Ukrainian Relations; and Bohdan Shevchik, financial advisor at UBS and former general manager of Coca-Cola Ukraine. Key in organizing the successful seminar were Andriy Bihun, Lida Mykytyn, Eugenia Kuzmowycz-Blahy, Marta Matselioukh and Lesia Harhaj. Sessions of the seminar took place at the Washington offices of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation. At the opening of the seminar, John Kun, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation During an evening tour of the nation’s capital, a visit to the Embassy of Ukraine in Georgetown. vice-president and chief operating officer, addressed the students, speaking about the foundation’s work, and management, hiring and volunteerism, and advertis- Kuzewycz, Philadelphia; Andrea Popovech, Astoria, encouraged the participants to become more involved ing. N.Y.; Monica Sawchuk, Scarsdale, N.Y.; Yuriy with Ukraine. The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation presented On Sunday evening, the group enjoyed a moonlit tour Symczyk, Union, N.J.; Michael Ushak, Tenafly, N.J.; the seminar’s participants with various Orange of Washington. The Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam War and Alexandra Szkafarowsky, Yonkers, N.Y. Revolution memorabilia, and generously donated Memorial, the Korean War Memorial and the Iwo Jima Participation in the Leadership Seminar was based on Orange Revolution sticker booklets to the young chil- Memorial were among some of the stops. Afterwards, a competitive process and was by invitation from dren of SUM’s many U.S. branches. the participants visited the Taras Shevchenko monu- SUM’s national executive, and was fully funded by “What is Leadership?” was not only the first question ment, where they paid tribute to Ukraine’s great poet. SUM’s National Education Fund. The planning for next posed during the seminar, but also the title of the semi- The seminar’s participants – high school juniors and year’s third annual Youth Leadership Seminar, which nar’s first meeting. Mr. Hryckowian provided answers seniors – hailed from various parts of the United States: will take place in October 2006, is already under way. to this broad question by drawing on history and his Christina Drozd, Chicago, Marko Diaczun, Strongsville, For more information about SUM’s Leadership own experiences. Ohio; Simon Kaarenko, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Natalya Seminar, readers may visit www.cym.org. The next session explored the importance of market- ing in organizations and the role played by effective leaders. Ms. Kuzmowycz-Blahy shared her stories from the business and banking world of New York to teach valuable lessons about image, perception and market- ing. On Saturday afternoon, Mr. Dutkewych acquainted the conference attendees with the work of the Millennium Challenge Corp., and touched upon the var- ious ways to improve one’s leadership skills. This session was followed by a discussion with Diana Howansky of Columbia University, who spoke about project management, and her experience as a Fulbright scholar in Poland doing research on “Akcja Wisla: The relocation and assimilation of Lemkos.” Ms. Howansky encouraged the seminar’s participants to apply for the Fulbright program. After an exciting day of workshops and discussions, the participants were treated to a festive dinner at Georgetown’s Ristorante Piccolo, and a tour of that part of the city, which highlighted the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington. Sunday’s schedule included a liturgy at the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family, leadership workshops and a tour of the nation’s capitol. The day’s guest lecturer, Bohdan Shevchik, spoke about branding. Drawing upon his entrepreneurial skills, his work as the general director of Coca-Cola’s Ukraine operations, and his post as the first head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, Mr. Shevchik gave a dynamic and thought-provoking pres- entation on branding and marketing, then gave partici- pants the opportunity to apply the presented concepts on their own. An interactive afternoon session, titled “Leadership in the Ranks of SUM,” challenged participants to organize and run a fictional summer camp. The camp workshop, coordinated by Ms. Kuzmowycz-Blahy and Mr. Bihun, was an opportunity for the participants to apply their newly acquired leadership skills. Working in two groups, the participants created two distinct and interesting summer camps by taking into consideration concept-building, the target market, practical administrative and management skills, budg- eting and financing, program development, project 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 No. 2 No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 21 Working with CCRDF, GlaxoSmithKline donates vitamins to Ukraine’s children

KYIV – GlaxoSmithKline, one of the large district of Sviatoshyn located in the Vitamin C participates in the production running nose, relieves nagging symptoms world’s leading pharmaceutical compa- western area of the Ukrainian capital. of antibodies, thus raising the body’s of infection. nies, has announced that it will be donat- The distribution of Imunovit C began on immunity. It also ensures the proper Imunovit C was officially registered ing a large quantity of its Vitamin November 15, 2005, at the Sviatoshyn structure of collagen fibers, so it reduces by the Ukrainian Ministry of Health in the risk of viruses penetrating the respira- 2004. It is recommended for the preven- tory epithelium into the body. Rutin seals tion of colds and for combating certain the walls of blood vessels, which reduces types of allergies. This over-the-counter the penetration of pathogenic microor- product can be consumed by adults and ganisms and lowers the risk of infection. children over the age of 4 with a recom- Moreover, Imunovit C, by reducing the mended daily dosage of one or two edema of the nose and throat mucosa and tablets.

Sincere thanks to Roman Ferencevych and Victoria Hubska!

My daughter and I would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Roman Ferencevych, Jacques Hnizdovsky’s long-time friend, and to Victoria Hubska for helping us carry out my late husband’s wishes to be reburied in his homeland at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine.

At Sviatoshyn Elementary School No. 206 in the west end of Kyiv, children greet Without Roman Ferencevych and Victoria Hubska’s earnest representatives of GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Co. and the Children of devotion, the task would have proved very difficult. Chornobyl Relief and Development Fund prior to the distribution of Imunovit C, a vitamin designed to strengthen children’s immune systems. In the back row are Alexander Kuzma, executive director of CCRDF, Dr. Lubov Suslova, representing Pan Roman kindly represented us in Ukraine since I was the District Ministry of Health; Dr. Alla Oliynyk, district medical officer and allergy physically unable to make the trip. Sincere thanks also to specialist; Andriy Hunder, director of external affairs and communications for Victoria for taking care of all the minute details and red tape. GlaxoSmithKline; and Olha Ohorodnyk, director of the Sviatoshyn School Board.

Imunovit C to over 10,000 schoolchild- District School No. 206 in the presence My daughter joins me in sending them and the entire ren in the Sviatoshyn District of Kyiv in of representatives from the Ministry of Ukrainian community our Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas an effort to strengthen their immune sys- Education, GlaxoSmithKline and the tems in anticipation of the winter flu sea- CCRDF. and a Happy New Year! son. Following the Chornobyl nuclear dis- The company will be donating aster, there have been widespread reports Stephanie and Mira Hnizdovsky 10,000 packs of Imunovit C to the of increased immune deficiencies among Children of Chornobyl Relief and children exposed to low levels of radia- Development Fund, an award-winning tion. Nuclear fallout, like chemotherapy, charity based in Kyiv and in the United is known to weaken the immune system States that has delivered over $53 mil- by destroying so-called “Killer T-Cells” lion worth of medical aid and technolo- that help protect the human body from TWENTY-PERSON íìêà Ç ìäêÄ∫çì gy to hospitals and orphanages across opportunistic infections. TOURS TO UKRAINE óÖêÖá ãúÇßÇ íÄ äà∫Ç Ukraine. “We are very pleased to be able to TOUR PRICES INCLUDE AIR FARE, ACCOMMODATIONS, ALL MEALS WITHIN “We are very grateful for GSK’s dona- make this donation just as children are UKRAINE, TRASPORTATION tion of this valuable product,” said returning from their autumn vacations, DEPARTURES CITIES DAYS FROM Alexander Kuzma, executive director of and bracing themselves for the winter WINNIPEG CCRDF. “Many children living in the season,” said David Pritchard, area gen- 01 June A JOURNEY TO REMEMBER 16 3,410.00 return Kyiv 3: ancient, medieval, and contemporary cultural and religious days poorer districts of Kyiv have been suffer- eral manger of GlaxoSmithKline in 16 June sites; Ternopil 2, Pochaiv Monastery 2; Chernivtsi 2: Kalinivskyj ing from chronic illnesses and weakened Ukraine. Bazaar, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khotyn Fortress; Kolomyia 4: immune systems, and many parents have Imunovit C – rutin + vitamin C – Carpathian Mountains, Kosiv, Yaremche Bazaar; Ivano-Frankivske, been pleading for vitamins or nutritional enhances the body’s immunity, particu- Lviv 3;Vienna 1. Kyiv and Lviv have UNESCO Heritage Sites unique village praznyk supplements that can help protect their larly to virus infections. Rutin helps the Tour Escort: youngsters from winter colds and body to absorb and metabolize vitamin bronchial infections.” C. It also bonds with cooperation and 4 July ADVENTURES IN MEDIEVALAND CONTEMPORARY 16 $3,670.00 Imunovit C will be distributed to chil- neutralizes the oxidation of ascorbic return UKRAINE days dren between the ages of 6 and 10 in the acid, prolonging its effectiveness. 19 July Kyiv 3: Kaniv ancient, medieval and contemporary, cultural and religious sites; Chernivtsi 2: Kalinivskyj Bazaar, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khotyn Fortress; Kolomyia 4: Carpathian Mountains, Kosiv, Yaremche Bazaar; Ivano-Frankivske;Lviv 4: Vienna 1. Kyiv and Lviv have officer in charge of the investigation of UNESCO Heritage Sites, unique village praznyk A closer look... RosUkrEnergo, Andrii Kozhemiakin, Tour Escort: Mrs. Lesia Slobodianyk (Continued from page 2) was transferred from the case to other 01 August RETURN TO THE SOURCE: FOLK ART AND CULTURE 16 $3,670.00 of Viktor Yushchenko came to power in duties. Mr. Turchynov confirmed this return TOUR OF UKRAINE with specialist Orysia Tracz. Exciting, days January 2005, one of the first acts of information for RFE/RL. 16 August entertaining enlightening adventure. Kyiv 2, Kaniv 1, Ternopil, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was to Gazprom has not come under any offi- Kamianets-Podilsky 2; Khotyn Fortress, Chernivtsi (Kalinivskyi Bazaar, cial scrutiny in Moscow for its role in the University); Kolomyia 4, Carpathian towns & villages(Kosiv, Yaremche call for a criminal investigation into RosUkrEnergo or Eural Trans Gas gas Bazaar, festive visit to master folk weaver’s home, visits with folk RosUkrEnergo, calling it a “criminal artists and to special sites); Ivano-Frankivske,Lviv 4, Vienna 1. Great schemes. The lone critical voice was that enterprise.” Soon afterwards, the head of shopping, food, hospitality and serendipity.Visits to ancestral villages of Moscow-based Hermitage Capital arrenged. You don’t have to be Ukrainian to come along. Kyiv and Lviv the Security Service of Ukraine, the have UNESCO Heritage Sites. 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manifest. The entire time I was there manifest with their arms and refusing to plied a new health clinic. Our trip that Azerbaijan... (and I stayed there longer than I did at look me in the eye. And the chairwoman day was to attend the grand opening. (Continued from page 8) most polling stations) everyone who of the precinct spent most of her time in The small yellow building stood on a eye of Heydar Aliyev, whose portrait was came to vote was turned away with an a back room, a pile of pre-validated bal- parcel of land between some village always prominently displayed. excuse – yet the polling station had one lots on the desk in front of her, with the houses. It was surrounded on all four Surprisingly, at only one of the polling and a half full ballot boxes. Every time I door closed. sides by a wrought-iron fence, to keep stations I visited were there any obvious tried to approach the table where the vot- However, many of my fellow election out the farm animals that grazed nearby. signs of electoral fraud. I was made to sit ing precinct employees were sitting with observers witnessed more serious viola- Staffed by one doctor and some nurses, in a chair from where I had no clear view the voter manifest they would stop what tions. Two of my IFES colleagues the clinic had six small rooms, including of voters’ names being checked off the they were doing, trying to cover the observed a vote count in Sumgayit, a laboratory of rudimentary hot plates where the original protocol “disap- and glass beakers. peared” toward the end of the process For the grand opening the children only to “re-appear” a few minutes later had been let out of the village school, Mrs. Roma with new vote tallies written on it. And a and a van-load of nurses had been friend of mine, acting as an observer in brought from the nearest hospital. When Psychic the south of the country, walked into a everyone was assembled and the ceremo- polling station to find the chairman with ny was about to begin, the local authori- Palm - Cards - Crystal Ball Readings both his hands in an open ballot box. I ties brought out two placards bearing “Tells your past as it was, present as it is, future as it will be.” imagine that incidents such as these also photos of Heydar Aliyev and his son Helps with all matters of life marred the voting process in the parlia- Ilham, and made sure the ruling party’s mentary election. flag was held aloft right next to the Azeri God gifted over 50 years exp. Spiritual guidance, As part of my work with International national flag. 99% accuracy. I will give you advice by phone or Medical Corps, I visited the region of This was to the great bemusement of mail. I help with love, business, health and mar- Kurdamir, in central Azerbaijan, in Adam, IMC’s country director, who riage. I will tell you what the future holds. If you January 2005. BP has a Community couldn’t help pointing out, once we were call, receive one free question. If you write to me, Investment Program which funds proj- in the car on the way out of Topal send $15.00 donation, your DOB, name, address ects in the communities affected by BP Hasanli, how little the government had and three questions to receive a gift from the holy activity. Financially supported by this had to do with the funding and imple- land and your reading. program, IMC was involved in several mentation of the health clinic construc- èÓÎҸ͇ ÇÓðÓÊ͇ projects to improve the quality of health tion project. This state of affairs – how care infrastructure and services in the little the ruling party invests in infra- 301-230-1960 towns and villages along the BTC structure, the economy (outside of the oil or pipeline. In the small village of Topal industry), and the citizens of Azerbaijan 12004 Galena Road, Rockville, MD 20852 Hasanli, not far from the regional center – has in part contributed to the prevalent of Kurdamir, they constructed and sup- dissatisfaction and current post-election protests. I left Azerbaijan at the end of March. In August, there came a report that shop- ping centers in Baku were being raided by officers in civilian clothes who were confiscating orange-colored merchan- dise. I was bemused, for two reasons. RETIREMENT? First that the Azeri opposition, who chose orange as a reference to the suc- cess of the Orange Revolution that brought President Viktor Yushchenko to power in Ukraine, could not come up ARE YOU READY? with an original color or symbol for its campaign, and second that the govern- ment seemed to believe that by suppress- ing the use of the color orange it could suppress the discontent felt by the oppo- sition and its supporters. Two opposition protests in the week following the November 6, 2005, parlia- mentary election drew crowds of at least 20,000. A third protest on November 19, 2005, was attended by approximately 30,000 people. Held on the outskirts of Baku, as regulated by the government, they have all ended peacefully at the end of the three permitted hours. The protest- ers were watched closely by police who have demonstrated in the past that they have no qualms about beating and arrest- ing opposition supporters. The opposition has stated that its intentions are peaceful and that it has widespread popular support. However it has also warned that it may not abide by government restrictions on demonstra- tions once the official election results were published. At the same time the opposition is seriously hampered by pes- simism and fear among the general pop- ulation. My own experience in the country – though admittedly limited – causes me to cast a skeptical eye on current events. The cynicism of the electorate, the lack of progress in curbing voting irregulari- ties, and the pervasiveness of the ruling party’s imagery all suggest that a truly “popular” democratic revolution is still a ways off. The next presidential election in Azerbaijan is scheduled for October UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. 2008. It will be interesting to see what 2200 ROUTE 10, PARSIPPANY, NJ 07054 three additional years of training and organization by the opposition will bring 800-253-9862 about. 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Edmonton hosts Mykhailo Koval, outstanding Ukrainian folk artist by Natalie Kononenko song types. While in Edmonton, Mr. Koval performed the EDMONTON – Mykhailo Koval is a man of many tal- many songs that he knows at the University of ents. He sings and plays the bandura, a unique Ukrainian Alberta and for the community. He participated in folk instrument. He weaves, making traditional belts and university classes on Ukrainian folksong, and per- picture rugs of his own design. He works with straw, pro- formed at the graduate student folklore lunch. He ducing hats for adults and dolls for children. From October visited language classes and was interviewed on 23 to November 6, 2005, he shared his interests and his tal- CJSR radio. ents with the Edmonton community to the delight of all. A highlight was his public performance hosted by Mr. Koval lives in Velykyi Khutir, a village in central folkwaysAlive!, the Ukrainian Folklore Center and Ukraine located approximately 250 kilometers southeast the Kule Endowment, where the full range of his of the capital, Kyiv. He was trained as a school teacher songs was professionally recorded. Graduate stu- and worked with the children of his village until his dents in the Ukrainian Folklore Program also video- retirement two years ago. Like all village school teach- taped a biographical interview with Mr. Koval. All ers, he is also a farmer, raising the crops and keeping the recordings will be housed in the Bohdan livestock necessary to feed his family. What makes Mr. Medewidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives and avail- Koval unique is his love of the arts, combined with his able to the public. impressive talents. Outside the university, Mr. Koval performed at the Mr. Koval has been singing ever since he was a child. Shumka Dancers’ fund-raising gala. He sang for As he remembers, singing was something that he and Ukrainian youth organizations and visited church and everyone in his family always did. They sang on festive other groups. Especially meaningful to both Mr. Koval occasions and while working. The same was true of and to the community were his visits to schools. Mr. many people in the village and from his family and his Koval spoke with and sang for the children at Delwood neighbors Mr. Koval learned the songs of his region, and Balwin, and also visited the H. A. Kostash School in ranging from ballads and lyric songs to wedding songs Smokey Lake. Everywhere he went, he not only per- and historical material. formed, but showed his weaving and his work with He was especially influenced by a neighbor, Oksana straw, leaving dolls as presents for the children. Kryvorit, known locally as “Baba Sanka.” Her songs Mr. Koval’s visit to Edmonton was made possible by were especially beautiful and emotionally powerful and the Peter and Doris Kule Endowment. The endowment’s a song that Mr. Koval learned from Baba Sanka was mission is to foster education and to increase awareness chosen to represent Ukraine on the Eurodisc CD. of Ukrainian topics. Mr. Koval offered a special oppor- Mr. Koval learned to play the bandura later in life. He tunity because he is the type of artist who is seldom seen fell in love with this instrument as a child, but his family in North America. He performs music learned orally, could not afford to get him one. When the museum in from other folk performers, rather than through formal Cherkasy, the provincial seat in his area, loaned him a instruction at a conservatory. hand-made bandura, he realized his desire to learn this Through him, Alberta students, both at the university unique, asymmetrical instrument. The bandura is associ- and in the public schools, were able to experience tradi- ated with the “kobzari” professional minstrels who sang tional music firsthand. Students in Ukraine will benefit historical songs, psalms, and Ukrainian epic poems also. This was Mr. Koval’s first trip outside Ukraine and called “dumy.” As a modern representative of the kobzar he plans to tell students in his own and in surrounding Mykhailo Koval performs at the University of tradition, Mr. Koval has made sure to learn all of these villages about his many experiences. Alberta. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 No. 2

per 100 kilometers Russia had been pay- mise deal between Ukraine and Gazprom cussions in Ukraine about raising the rent NEWSBRIEFS ing. The deal ends a tense standoff that on January 4, saying it benefits both par- that Russia pays for using facilities in (Continued from page 2) saw Gazprom shut off Ukraine’s gas sup- ties, Interfax reported. “We are satisfied Sevastopol for the Black Sea Fleet. Mr. gas to Ukraine at $95 per 1,000 cubic plies on January 1, affecting supplies to with the outcome of our negotiations. We Ivanov argued that the current rent agree- meters. Russia will also pay higher rates Western Europe. (RFE/RL Newsline) reached mutually beneficial and, therefore, ment is valid until 2017 and that Ukraine mutually acceptable agreements, which in general and Sevastopol in particular to ship gas via pipelines across Ukrainian … to the satisfaction of both sides will allow us to fully meet Ukraine’s gas have made money on it. In response to a territory. According to the agreement, the needs, on the one hand, and ensure the question about the problem of a lack of new rate will be $1.60 per 1,000 cubic MOSCOW – Oleksii Ivchenko, the transit of Russian gas intended for Europe, housing for officers and their families, Mr. meters per 100 kilometers, an increase head of Ukraine’s state gas company on the other hand,” Mr. Ivchenko said in Ivanov said that housing for military per- from the $1.09 per 1,000 cubic meters Naftohaz Ukrayiny, praised the compro- Moscow after talks with Gazprom CEO sonnel is the army’s most serious problem Aleksei Miller. “Consequently, I believe and can only be resolved over time and that we are switching to market principles, with strong support from the state budget. December 21). which will allow us to meet our compa- Mr. Ivanov was more optimistic about the Recent events in the gas dispute, and modernization of the military, saying that As Russia... Freedom Houses designations, have also nies’ needs,” Mr. Ivchenko added Mr. (Continued from page 3) much progress has been made recently. brought home another close connection Miller said that “the agreements will pro- European and four CIS states are defined (RFE/RL Newsline) between Russia’s undemocratic domestic vide additional security guarantees to gas as “partly free,” while Russia and six exports to Europe and act as a sound foun- other CIS states are “not free.” policies and its support for autocratic Lazarenko and Lithuanian banks regimes abroad. Of the six CIS states that dation for further cooperation between Thus, these designations show the are designated by Freedom House as not Russia and Ukraine in the gas sector based degree to which post-Communist states KYIV – According to a January 4 free, four are politically aligned with on market principles.” (RFE/RL Newsline) report in the Lithuanian newspaper in East-Central Europe and the CIS are Russia (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Lietuvos Rytas, former Ukrainian Prime radically diverging. They also show how Leader seeks to end Russia’s rent … Uzbekistan, Tajikstan). Minister Pavlo Lazarenko laundered 2004-2005 were pivotal years where Russia supported Uzbekistan’s brutal money through Lithuanian banks, Russia and Ukraine diverged in their M OSCOW – Dmitrii Rogozin, the leader massacre of civilians in May 2005 which Interfax-Ukraine reported. The Lietuvos paths – the former towards autocracy and of the nationalist Motherland Party, sent a led to Tashkent’s re-alignment from the Rytas article cited data from the FBI and the latter towards democracy. letter to senior Russian officials on January U.S. to Russia. Freedom House defines the Lithuanian Financial Crime Few Western commentators have both- 3, asking them to place the issue of the Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan as two of Investigation Service. “Lazarenko ered to connect Russia’s growing autoc- Black Sea port of Sevastopol on the agenda the eight worst human rights offenders in included Hermis bank, which was pros- racy and undemocratic regime at home with Ukraine, Interfax reported the next the world. perous then, in his schemes of money with a return to a neo-Soviet aggressive day. Sevastopol, which is on Ukrainian ter- During President George W. Bush’s laundering in 1998 and transferred $30 foreign policy. It is now evident that ritory, hosts Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. second term, the U.S. has gradually million, gained illegally, to the bank’s Russia’s aggressive stance toward “Russia has every legal ground not to pay become more aware of the inter-connec- Ukraine any rent” on the Russian Black Sea accounts,” the report stated. In late 1999, Ukraine both in the gas conflict, and dur- tion between Russia’s undemocratic according to the report, the funds were ing the 2004 presidential elections, show Fleet deployed in Sevastopol, Mr. Rogozin domestic and aggressive external poli- said. “Sevastopol remains a Russian city transferred to SEB Vilniaus Bankas, how Russia’s domestic and foreign poli- cies. But, it is “old Europe’ inside the from a legal standpoint,” he added. “We which bought out Hermis bank. “This cies are closely woven. European Union that is now finally hav- insist on a revision of an increasingly dubi- money is in an account of this bank to The resignation of Russian presiden- ing to come to terms with the real Russia ous section of the underlying treaty ratified this day,” the report stated. Mr. tial adviser Andrei Illarionov on the eve under President Putin. in 1997 that deals with Sevastopol rent pay- Lazarenko was arrested in the United of the gas conflict brought home this Germany has already changed its view ments,” he said. (RFE/RL Newsline) States in February 1999 for money laun- inter-connection. The use of gas pres- of Russia after the Social Democrats lost dering. He was found guilty on 14 sure, Mr. Illarionov claimed, was first the elections. But, traditionally …but minister says pact valid until 2017 charges related to money laundering and tested inside Russia during regional gov- Russophile France continues to hold on a fraud, each carrying a term of imprison- ernor elections. After their success, the view of Mr. Putin’s Russia that, as the MOSCOW – Russian Defense Minister ment of 20 years. (RFE/RL Newsline) Russian authorities decided to apply gas conflict proves, is out of touch with Sergei Ivanov told vesti.ru on January 2 them to foreign countries (grani.ru, reality. that there is no justification for recent dis- (Continued on page 25) Ukrainian National Federal Credit Union The shortest way to your first million!

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ished, according to expert opinion publi- St. Sophia belongs to all Churches of 25 European Union countries back NEWSBRIEFS cized by the UGCC press service on Ukraine’s membership in the European (Continued from page 24) December 15, 2005. Cardinal Lubomyr KYIV – St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv Union, according to an opinion poll cannot be transferred to any one denomina- CEC refuses to register Lazarenko Husar, head of the UGCC, asks for the released on December 23, 2005, by the prayerful and financial support of the faith- tion because there is no single national European Commission. Eurobarometer KYIV – Ukraine’s Central Election ful to complete the work. Since the dedica- Ukrainian Church and there are ongoing is the European Commission Public Commission on January 3 refused to regis- tion of the sobor’s cornerstone on October arguments among the existing Churches, Opinion Analysis program, which is con- ter former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko 27, 2002, the walls have been built, five said Nelia Kukovalska, general director of ducted twice a year. Ukraine is the only as a candidate in the country’s March par- domes have been installed and their crosses the St. Sophia of Kyiv National Reserve, CIS nation, toward whose potential according to a December 13, 2005, report liamentary elections, Interfax-Ukraine have been dedicated. The cross of the cen- membership almost 30,000 respondents posted on 5tv.com.ua. “All denominations, reported the same day. The CEC said that tral dome is already installed. In addition, were asked to express their attitude. Greek-Catholics, Roman Catholics and all it could not register Mr. Lazarenko the basement of the future patriarchal resi- Forty-two percent of respondents backed the Orthodox denominations could have because he had not lived in Ukraine for dence has been built. Work is now being Ukraine’s membership in the EU – a claims to conduct liturgies at St. Sophia five years prior to election day, as required done to mount the central dome. The see of level of support higher than that for Cathedral. We know there is no union by law. It marked the second time the com- the head of the UGCC was transferred to among the Orthodox denominations now. Macedonia, which has recently become a mission has refused to register Mr. Kyiv on August 21, 2005, in accordance Therefore it is still too early to talk about candidate-nation, and for Turkey, which Lazarenko as a candidate. The former with a decision of the Synod of Bishops. one denomination,” said Ms. Kukovalska. EU is negotiating with on membership. prime minister’s party list, Lazarenko’s (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) Among former socialist bloc countries Bloc, was registered on December 27, who are not yet members of the EU, UOC-KP makes new appointments 2005, but the commission at that time also Polls on support for Ukraine in EU Ukraine was in fourth place after refused to register Mr. Lazarenko himself KYIV – A session of the Holy Synod of Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania. as a candidate. (RFE/RL Newsline) the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv KYIV – About 42 percent of citizens (Ukrinform) Estonia simplifies visa rules Patriarchate (UOC-KP), headed by Patriarch Filaret (Denysenko), took place TALLINN – In early 2006 a new law on December 14, 2005. Because of the Matia saying there is enough evidence to on simplification of the tourist visa regis- death of Metropolitan Danyil (Chokaliuk) Immigration judge... prove Mr. Demjanjuk was a guard at Nazi tration procedure was enacted in Estonia. of Rivne and Ostroh, the synod decided to (Continued from page 3) death and forced labor camps without eye- Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh and appoint Metropolitan Yevsevii (Politylo) of grounds that he illegally gained entry into witness corroboration. That ruling was affirmed in April 2004 by the U.S. Court Belarusian citizens, thus, can be granted a Poltava and Kremenchuk as metropolitan the United States and illegally gained U.S. of Appeals for the 6th District. one-time visa, effective for five days. of that area, preserving his position as reg- citizenship because he had concealed his Presently, European Union countries, the ular member of the synod. Archimandrite In December 2003, the Justice service as a camp guard. His citizenship United States and a number of other coun- Mykhail (Bondarchuk), treasurer of St. Department had asked that Mr. Demjanjuk tries are allowed entrance without a visa. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, was was revoked in February 2002, with Judge be deported. Anyone who wishes to obtain a visa and appointed bishop of Poltava and visit Estonia should possess a sum of not Kremenchuk. In connection with the need solitary confinement. “You have no idea less than 600 kroons (38.5 euros) per day. to elect a new regular member of the how much the Orange Revolution has synod from Ukraine’s central region, after Cuban Americans... According to experts, this sum of money (Continued from page 5) meant to my countrymen who dream of will be enough to provide food, check into Metropolitan Yevsevii became a regular In his meeting with President the day when true democracy and free- a hotel and purchase a return ticket. The member of the synod from western dom will arrive for Cuba,” he added. Yushchenko, Rep. Diaz-Belart recalled essential sum of money is supposed to be Ukraine, the Hierarchal Sobor [Assembly] Rep. Diaz-Belart and other members how inspired he was to hear the presi- checked at the border. (Ukrinform) of the UOC-KP elected Archbishop of the delegation promised they would Volodymyr (Ladyk) of Mykolaiv and dent’s speech to the joint meeting of State of emergency lifted in Crimea not forget the plight of Chornobyl chil- Bohoiavlensk as new regular member of Congress during his first state visit to the dren and the crucial need for aid to the the synod from central Ukraine. (Religious U.S. last April. “That was one of the KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko institutions they visited in Kyiv. Information Service of Ukraine) most inspiring moments in my life,” said has abolished the state of emergency he For more information on the Cuban the congressman. introduced in some areas of the Crimean UOC-KP forum on national Church American goodwill mission, readers may peninsula on December 3, 2005 to help He also extended a special greeting to contact the Children of Chornobyl Relief authorities fight an outbreak of bird flu,” the KYIV – The First All-Ukrainian the Ukrainian President from Cuban and Development Fund at (973) 376- UNIAN news service reported on Church-Civic Forum “For a Ukrainian political prisoners, including a leading 5140, or Ana Carbonell, chief of staff for December 29. By the end of last week, the National Orthodox Church” took place in physician who has been languishing in Rep. Diaz-Balart at (202) 225-4211. authorities destroyed nearly 70,000 domes- the National Opera Hall on December 13, tic birds in Crimea in order to prevent the 2005. Participating in the forum were rep- bird-flu outbreak from spreading. No bird- resentatives of the episcopate, clergy and flu infection cases have been registered laity of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - among humans on the peninsula. (RFE/RL Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), state officials Newsline) and social activists, politicians, scholars and artists, and representatives of the Rabbi speaks on anti-Semitism Ukrainian Kozaks, youth and other social unions. UOC-KP Archbishop Dymytrii KYIV – Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Azriel (Rudiuk) of Pereiaslav and Khmelnytskyi Chaikin said he believes the issue of dis- and National Deputy Lilia Hryhorovych crimination against Jews in Ukrainian soci- were elected co-chairs of the forum. ety should be solved on the legislative level. Dmytro Stepovyk, professor of the Kyiv On December 15, 2005, he came from Spiritual Academy, presided at the meeting. Brussels, Belgium, to the eastern Ukrainian Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko city of Donetsk to take part in a conference sent his greeting, noting the importance of dedicated to the problems of anti-Semitism creating a national Ukrainian Church. The and xenophobia. Rabbi Chaikin said the speech delivered by Patriarch Filaret problem of anti-Semitism does exist. Jokes (Denysenko), head of the UOC-KP, lasted about Jews are only the slightest demonstra- for more than an hour and was the key tion of the lack of respect towards this peo- moment of the forum. The head of the ple, he said. “It is even more unpleasant UOC-KP defined the problems the when people find offensive cards in their Ukrainian church is facing now, as well as mailboxes or when the public buildings of ways to overcome them. He showed the Jewish communities get attacked,” he said. close connection between the national sta- The chief rabbi of Donbas (Donetsk tus of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine and region), Pinkhas Vyshenskyi, said that the Ukraine’s independence and the unity, sta- official statistics on the number of Jews liv- DoDo youyou knowknow whywhy we’rewe’re soso happy?happy? bility and development of Ukrainian socie- ing in Ukraine do not reflect reality. In fact, ty. The patriarch also highlighted the role of he said that nearly 600,000 Jews live in the Constantinople and Moscow patriar- Our parents and grandparents invested in our future by Ukraine, though most of them do not chates in the modern life of the Ukrainian announce this in order not to stand out. The purchasing an endowment and life insurance policy for Church. In the end, the participants of the Donetsk region is home to more than 120 forum sent letters to President Yushchenko each of us from the Ukrainian National Association, Inc. ethnic groups, therefore, Rabbi Vyshenskyi and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I said, the problem of anti-Semitism is not of Constantinople and wrote an appeal to pronounced there. (Religious Information They purchased prepaid policies on account of the low the Ukrainian nation to support the estab- Service of Ukraine) lishment of the Kyiv Patriarchate as the premium rate for our age group. If you’d like to be Sobor’s construction in final stages Ukrainian national Orthodox Church. Also, they created a church-civic committee “For smiling like us, please have your parents or KYIV –The construction of the new a Ukrainian National Orthodox Church,” grandparents call the UNA at 1-800-253-9862. Sobor (Cathedral) of the Resurrection of with Archbishop Dymytrii and National Christ of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Deputy Hryhorovych as co-chairs. They will be happy to assist you! Church (UGCC) in Kyiv is two-thirds fin- (Religious Information Service of Ukraine) 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 No. 2 No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 27 UKEUKELLODEONODEON FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

Children in Hillside, N.J., welcome St. Nicholas ... eral international Christmas carols St. Nicholas. on the harp. St. Nicholas commented that it Mike Szpyhulsky served as was a great privilege to have so emcee. Bill Davis served as liaison many helpers and said that he was to St. Nicholas. Julianna and very pleased to have a very diverse Ariana Shatynski, Maria and program presented in his honor Sofiyka Soroka, Sophika and Hillside’s pastor, Father Joe Ariadna Stockert, and Oksana Szupa, was present to lead the Zaviysky served as angel helpers to group in prayer and koliady.

... as do their peers in Woonsocket, R.I. WOONSOCKET, R.I. – The parish hall of St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church here was the venue on December 11, 2005, of a special program hosting St. Nicholas that was organized by Ukrainian National Association Branch 241, led by Janet Bardell, secretary. The Ladies Sodality prepared a delicious luncheon, while Dr. Lydia Klufas-Tkach organized the program of songs and poems, with music provided by John St. Nicholas visits children at Immaculate Conception Parish. and Marko Tkach. Seen below at the event are children with St. Nicholas, Msgr. Roman Golemba and local activists. HILLSIDE, N.J. – St. Nicholas The Stockert family added a spe- visited many good children and cial spark to the celebration. Tom, adults at Immaculate Conception Odarka, Sophika and Ariadna sang Ukrainian Catholic Parish here on a special carol called “The Friendly Sunday, December 4, 2005. He was Beasts,” accompanied by Odarka especially pleased to sense the great performing on the harp. A 12th Christmas spirit among the audience. century French carol that was trans- In honor of St. Nicholas, several lated into English by an anonymous children and adults presented a translator, “The Friendly Beasts” bilingual holiday entertainment took the audience back to the day program. Children’s performances when Jesus was born in the crib included the sopilka music, recita- surrounded by animals. One by tions of poetry, songs and dances as one, the donkey, cow, sheep and performed by Nadika Szpyhulsky, dove all came to make their offering Julianna Shatynski, Sophika and to the Baby Jesus. Ariadna Stockert, Maria and Ms. Stockert further enhanced Sofiyka Soroka, and Sonya Khedr. the Christmas spirit by playing sev-

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One year ago, after the Orange Revolution, Ukraine witnessed a historic U A A K R O N U M N E A N I L INAUGURATION. Sunday, JANUARY 23, marked a turning point in the S T Y R T N R R A M A T U L O HISTORY of Ukraine. After many TRIALS and TRIBULATIONS – the man known as “the people’s president” – was inaugurated as the THIRD presi- H E U K A O R N Y A U T L L T dent of Ukraine since the country re-established its independence in 1991. C R I A P U D R I H T I I I S VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO was well aware that he was making history, and all his actions on inauguration day sent a powerful MESSAGE both to the H V S E A R A R T A T O C O E people of Ukraine and around the globe: a new Ukraine had been BORN. E T R I B U L A T I O N S N N At the Verkhovna Rada that day, the new president said Ukrainian democracy was “built with MILLIONS of Ukrainian hands,” and he N R A R N D E N T A L I T S O explained that “the citizens of Ukraine secured an HONEST election.” Speaking at INDEPENDENCE Square, Mr. Yushchenko said: “Today K I N A U G U R A T I O N I H Ukraine is a free and independent NATION. We have thrown the burdens O A J M A K E R U P H I S O R of the past off our shoulders. No one will ever dare to dictate to us how we are to live and whom to elect.” L L A S T E Y R O T S I H S E Finally, at the Mariinskyi Palace, at a state reception for foreign dignitaries, G S S O C I A L S E C U R I T President Yushchenko emphasized: “A new Ukrainian nation has been born in EUROPE at the beginning of the 21st century. We are starting a new A E P O C H E P O C H S I D S EPOCH .. of solidarity, partnership and unification in one European house.” M R E E C N E D N E P E D N I 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2006 No. 2

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Saturday, January 14 of Chornobyl at an event featuring Mary Soyuzivka’s Datebook Mycio, a Kyiv-based journalist and author of NEW YORK: The New York Bandura the recently published “Wormwood Forest: January 27, 2006 February 25, 2006 Ensemble, under the direction of Julian A Natural History of Chornobyl,” at 7 p.m. Pre-Malanka Pub Night featuring Wedding Kytasty, and the Promin Vocal Ensemble, at the Embassy of Ukraine, 3350 M St. NW. music by Zukie & Friend, 9 pm under the direction of Bohdanna Wolansky, Suggested donation: $10; free admission for March 3-5, 2006 present a concert of Ukrainian Christmas car- students, RSVP by January 16 to (202) 349- January 27-29, 2006 Plast Kurin “Khmelnychenky” ols at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church, 2961 or e-mail [email protected]. Books C hurch of Annunciation Family Annual Winter Rada 30 E. Seventh Street. The concert will begin will be available for purchase. Weekend, Flushing, N.Y. at 7 p.m. Admission is $10. For additional ADVANCE NOTICE April 16, 2006 information, please call (212) 995-2640. January 28, 2006 Traditional Ukrainian Easter Day C ARTERET, N.J.: The St. Demetrius Saturday, February 25 2006 Ukrainian Engineers’ Malanka Brunch, doors open at 11:30 am Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral and St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church are co- LOS ANGELES: The California Association February 10-12, 2006 April 22, 2006 sponsoring a Malanka, which will be held at to Aid Ukraine (CAAU) will host its annual Valentine’s Day Weekend Alpha Kappa Sorority Formal the St. Demetrius Community Center, 681 charity ball and presentation of debutantes. Pack your beach hat and join us at the Dinner Banquet Roosevelt Ave. The evening features a February 11, 2006 musical performance by Fata Morgana. Marriott Hotel in Marina Del Rey, Calif., Tickets are $45 (includes admission, choice south of Los Angeles. Proceeds from the Five-Course Dinner featuring music April 23, 2006 2006 ball are designated for biomedical by Askold Buc Traditional Blessed Ukrainian Easter of meal, drinks, midnight hors d’oeuvres and a champagne toast); there will also be a research in Ukraine. Admission: $95 per per- Day Brunch, doors open at 11:30 am cash bar. The St. Demetrius Center is locat- son for adults; $85 for students. Admission February 17-20, 2006 ed off of Exit 12 the NJ Turnpike. There is price includes champagne and hors d’oeu- Family Winter Weekend April 28, 2006 also a Holiday Inn near the exit. Doors will vres, three-course meal, live music and danc- Ellenville High School Junior Prom open at 6 p.m. Dinner will be served at 7 ing. The silent auction will feature a dazzling February 18, 2006 p.m., and music starts at 8:30 p.m. For table array of Hollywood items, Ukrainian gifts, Pub Night with music featuring and ticket reservations call Peter Prociuk, baskets, artwork and toys. For reservations Zukie & Friend (732) 541-5452. Tickets will not be sold at send a check to Treasurer Marta Mykytyn- the door. Deadline for tickets is January 16. Hill, 1219 Via Arroyo, Ventura, CA 93003. Accommodations are available at the hotel. Thursday, January 19 For preferred rates book before February 6; mention CAAU when booking. Rooms are WASHINGTON: The Washington Group subject to availability. For further information Cultural Fund, in cooperation with the contact Luba Keske, (818) 884-3836 (home) Embassy of Ukraine, cordially invites the or (310) 449-3485 (office), or Shannon To book a room or event call: (845) 626-5641, ext. 140 public to commemorate the 20th anniversary Micevych, (818) 774-9378. 216 Foordmore Road P.O. Box 529 Kerhonkson, NY 12446 E-mail: [email protected] PREVIEW OF EVENTS GUIDELINES Website: www.Soyuzivka.com Preview of Events is a listing of Ukrainian community events open to the public. It is a service provided at minimal cost ($20 per listing) by The Ukrainian Weekly to the Ukrainian community. Listings of no more than 100 words (written in Preview format) plus pay- Need a back issue? ment should be sent a week prior to desired date of publication to: Preview of If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 07054; fax, (973) 644-9510. Items may be e-mailed to [email protected].

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