INSIDE:• New journal focuses on business in Ukraine — page 4. • U.S. allocates additional $1 million for Chornobyl center — page 5. • Rule of law in Ukraine: an analysis by Judge Bohdan Futey — page 6.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXII HE KRAINIANNo. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine DynamicT growthU of economy Verkhovna WRada faces crisis, reported for 2003 in Ukraine concludes its session prematurely by Roman Woronowycz inflation away from double digits,” by Roman Woronowycz warned that the country faced a parliamen- Kyiv Press Bureau explained Mr. Lytvytskyi. Kyiv Press Bureau tary crisis if the opposition forces contin- The NBU’s chief concern at the begin- ued to block the Parliament’s work. He KYIV – A dynamic expansion of ning of the year was deflation, which KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman had said that it could become the death Ukraine’s economy continued in 2003, stood at 0.6 percent as 2002 ended, the Volodymyr Lytvyn prematurely closed the knell for the parliamentary system in with the latest government figures show- first downward price spiral ever recorded winter parliamentary session on January Ukraine. ing that GDP (gross domestic product) in Ukraine. That problem was rectified 15, after opposition lawmakers continued However, he rejected assertions by growth in the last year rose by 8 percent, to block the chairman’s rostrum and para- by the NBU and prices went the other some lawmakers that President Leonid reported Prime Minister Viktor lyze the work of the legislative body. way in 2003, rising by 8.2 percent. But Kuchma might now dismiss the Yanukovych on January 12. It was the fourth consecutive day that the Ministry of the Economy said the rate Verkhovna Rada before it reconvenes. The “We had solid economic growth in members of the political opposition to the was not a concern, inasmuch as it was a president has the right to call for new par- 2003,” said Mr. Yanukovych. pro-presidential majority in Parliament did direct result of a hot economy. liamentary elections if the legislative body The country’s industrial sector stoked not allow for a plenary session to take The ministry placed most of the blame fails to meet within 30 days. Ukraine’s an unprecedented fourth continuous year place amid charges that the lawmakers had on flour and bread price increases, which Constitutional Court is now considering of strong economic growth by exceeding passed legislation illegally in order to were fueled by poor weather conditions how the constitutional wording can be expectations and increasing production move along a process of political reform in the spring that led to a poor grain har- interpreted, as requested by the president by 15.8 percent. At the beginning of 2003 the majority supports. vest for 2003, as well as a grain sale to do so last year. The Verkhovna Rada’s government officials had forecast growth In fulfilling a warning that he would do scandal within the agricultural sector. At spring session is scheduled to open on in the industrial sector at no better than 7 so made two days earlier, Mr. Lytvyn the close of the year, flour, bread, noodle February 3. percent for the year. brought the session to a close merely and bakery product prices had risen by Mr. Lytvyn’s decision to end the morn- Since the country’s economy heated some 35 percent. seven minutes into the legislative day, up in 2000, industrial production has after opposition lawmakers again jammed ing meeting, which was followed by the Speaking in Zhytomyr, Prime Minister playing of Ukraine’s national anthem, expanded by 33 percent. It stimulated the Yanukovych said he would not allow the front of the session hall and did not economic expansion of 5.9 percent, 9.1 allow parliamentary activity to begin. closed a turbulent winter session. grain prices to increase any further Nonetheless, the Rada chairman said he percent and 4.8 percent in the years 2000, before the next harvest. Afterwards, Mr. Lytvyn criticized what 2001 and 2002, respectively. he deemed the inappropriate behavior of could not consider it a failure, inasmuch as “We are making sure that there will be the lawmakers had managed to pass 120 Valerii Lytvytskyi, an economist and no more price increases for bread. The the opposition in demanding that the advisor to the National Bank of Ukraine, Parliament reconsider a political reform legislative acts. situation will be difficult until the next What Mr. Lytvyn did not mention was said that NBU monetary policy helped to harvest,” explained Mr. Yanukovych, bill it passed last week. promote the latest industrial growth. “Today they did not give us even the that prior to bringing the session to a close, according to Interfax-Ukraine. the Parliament leadership had hoped to “The [prime] rate of the NBU [in Recently announced government fig- ability to close the fourth session in a civi- 2003] went from 9.5 percent to 7 percent. lized way,” stated Mr. Lytvyn. pass several tax bills, documents used by It spurred economic growth, yet kept (Continued on page 3) On January 13, the Rada chairman had the Cabinet of Ministers as a basis for developing the 2004 national budget in the expectation that they would be approved. Without them, the government might not Chicago-based First Security bought by MB Financial Bank be able to fulfill revenue targets. The opposition lawmakers who stopped by Andrew Nynka identity. However, during a telephone transition and delivering the same high- the last week of legislative work, chiefly interview with The Ukrainian Weekly on quality personalized service with the famil- PARSIPPANY, N.J. – First Security from the Our Ukraine and Tymoshenko January 14, Mr. Kulas said First Security iar faces to which First Security customers Federal Savings Bank, a 76-year-old parliamentary factions, had decided, as it would retain its identity and he emphasized are accustomed. In addition to offering Ukrainian institution based in Chicago, turns out, that the only way to return to the that all of the company’s employees would First Security customers the same general announced its sale to MB Financial Bank matter of political and Constitutional be left in place, retaining their seniority, banking products to which they are accus- on January 12 for $139.2 million. reform – which pro-presidential forces salary and even accrued vacations. tomed, we will offer them some new MB have said repeatedly would not be re-visit- The announcement was made jointly by Financial products and services which they Julian Kulas, president and CEO of First The statement formally announced that ed because the bills were legally approved MB Financial Inc., the parent company of may find helpful in dealing with today’s – was to paralyze the work of the Security Federal Savings Bank, and complex financial world,” Mr. Feiger said MB Financial Bank, and First SecurityFed Parliament. Mitchell Feiger, president and CEO of MB in the statement. Financial Inc., parent of First Security While stating that he remained opti- Financial, in a statement released on the According to Mr. Kulas, the transaction Federal Savings Bank, agreed to merge, mistic that the opposition factions would Internet that same day. was initiated by First Security because “we In the statement, Mr. Kulas said that the pending shareholder, regulatory and other not continue to paralyze the Parliament in necessary approvals. However, MB wanted to allow our customers access to transaction would “allow our shareholders, products and services which are simply not the next session, Mr. Lytvyn added that he many of whom are long-time customers Financial Inc. will be the surviving corpo- and the rest of the majority leadership ration in the transaction, which is expected available to small community banks like and community members of First Security, First Security.” would consider developing a sergeant-at- the choice of obtaining an attractive cash to be completed by the second quarter of arms system for the Verkhovna Rada. 2004. In addition, First Security Federal Mr. Kulas also noted that timing was a price for their shares or obtaining, on a tax- strong consideration in First Security’s “If we again see attempts to illegally deferred basis, shares in a strong, well- Savings Bank will merge with MB control the work of the Parliament, we will Financial Bank, leaving MB Financial as decision to initiate a merger. “We wanted managed, community oriented bank.” to do this while we are still a valuable insti- have to turn to a policing method,” the surviving bank. “We [the First Security Board of tution,” Mr. Kulas told The Weekly. explained Mr. Lytvyn. The transaction, valued at $139.2 mil- Directors] considered this transaction very Officials at First Security first began dis- In blocking legislative activity for a lion, will be paid through a combination of carefully and would not have approved it if cussing the possibility of a merger months fourth consecutive day, the Our Ukraine MB Financial stock and cash. First we didn’t think it would be in the best ago and looked at 14 financial institutions and Tymoshenko political caucuses had interests of our shareholders, our cus- Security stockholders will receive a cash before agreeing to join MB Financial. demanded that the Parliament reconsider tomers and our communities,” Mr. Kulas payment equal to $35.25 for their shares if The 40-year veteran of First Security, its December 24 passage of a political said. they decide to sell, while First Security who has made known his intention to retire reform bill, the first stage of a process of Mr. Kulas acknowledged that the news stockholders receiving stock will receive in the next year or so, said that larger banks constitutional change that would give the caught many people by surprise, particular- MB Financial shares valued at $35.25 per have been aggressively moving into the legislative body the right to elect the head ly older Ukrainians who felt that by selling share. of state and bypass a direct popular vote. out First Security was losing its Ukrainian “We are looking forward to a smooth (Continued on page 13) (Continued on page 3) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 No. 3

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Divisions within Social Democrats NEWSBRIEFS Referendum proposed on election process port by pro-government forces for Mr. Kuchma as a joint candidate. The continue to cause conflict KYIV – Three parliamentary opposi- Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled tion groups – Our Ukraine, the Socialist last week that Mr. Kuchma may seek the by Taras Kuzio the Lviv Oblast State Tax Administration Party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc – presidency in 2004 despite a two-term RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report (now appointed deputy head of the State have proposed a nationwide referendum limit in the Constitution that went into Tax Administration). to resolve the ongoing dispute in Ukraine The conflict that has been developing effect in 1996, during Mr. Kuchma’s first The Marchuk wing, on the other hand, over direct versus indirect election of the between Viktor Yushchenko’s Our term as president. (RFE/RL Newsline) is serious about its intentions to fulfill the president. On December 23, lawmakers Ukraine and Viktor Medvedchuk’s Social military sections of the Action Plan. One from the pro-government majority and the Kyiv to test Melnychenko tapes Democratic Party-United (SDPU) con- wonders then how Mr. Marchuk must Communist Party preliminarily approved tinues to snowball. It is difficult to see KYIV – The Ukrainian government has feel knowing that Mr. Medvedchuk is a constitutional-reform bill calling for the how the SDPU could remain a political undermining his work. This is likely to election of president in 2006 by the allocated 850,000 hrv ($159,000 U.S.) to force in Ukraine if Mr. Yushchenko wins lead to a postponement on upgrading Verkhovna Rada. The proposal to hold the allow the Justice Ministry to submit audio- the October presidential elections. The Ukraine’s Action Plan to a Membership referendum was voiced during a January tape purportedly implicating President anger and frustration of national democ- Action Plan at NATO’s summit later this 12 meeting of parliamentary-caucus lead- Leonid Kuchma and other senior Ukrainian rats after a Yushchenko victory are likely year. ers devoted to the current parliamentary officials in the 2000 killing of Internet jour- to be focused on Mr. Medvedchuk and An example of the growing conflict controversy over a related constitutional- nalist Heorhii Gongadze for international the SDPU, rather than other oligarchic between Our Ukraine and the SDPU can reform bill. According to Our Ukraine tests to determine its authenticity, Interfax clans. be seen in recent developments in the leader Viktor Yushchenko, under the reported on January 8. The tapes were Ironically, the wholesale deterioration Zakarpattia Oblast town of Mukachiv. Constitution of Ukraine, any curbs on the recorded by Mykola Melnychenko, a for- of relations between Our Ukraine and Speaking at this month’s “Europe on the rights of voters may be introduced only mer presidential security officer. The SDPU is not in the latter’s interests. The Path to a New Era” conference in Berlin via referendums. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ukrainian Procurator General’s Office last former president and head of the SDPU attended by high-ranking EU officials year petitioned the U.S. Department of parliamentary faction, Leonid Kravchuk, and West European leaders, the chairman Kuchma appoints three Cabinet ministers Justice to perform a joint analysis of the has always stood out as an example of materials. (RFE/RL Newsline) of the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee for KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma moderation, recently cautioning European Integration, head Borys President Leonid Kuchma that he will made three new appointments to the Russia and Ukraine agree on energy pact Tarasyuk, described the Mukachiv events Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers on January inherit a positive historical legacy only if as a “cynical rape of democracy and par- KYIV – Russian Energy Minister Igor a peaceful transfer of power takes place 12, UNIAN and Interfax reported, quoting liamentarism in Ukraine.” presidential spokeswoman Olena Yusufov and Ukrainian Energy Minister (such as Kravchuk himself organized in In the June 20, 2003, mayoral elec- Serhii Yermilov signed a protocol on July 1994). Hromnytska. Mykola Derkach was sworn tions, Our Ukraine candidate Vasyl in as minister of economy and European December 29, 2003, for an agreement on In an interview published in the Petiovka won and defeated his nearest cooperation in 2004 in developing the fuel January 10 issue of the newspaper Den integration, Viktor Slauta as agriculture rival, SDPU member Ernest Nuser, in a minister and Oleksander Neustroyev as and energy sectors, Russian news media (The Day), Mr. Kravchuk also criticized bitterly fought campaign. The SDPU had reported. The two countries had reached the manner in which the Constitutional minister of industrial policy. Mr. Derkach, considered Zakarpattia as one of “it’s” agreement in principle on the plan in Court’s decision to allow President a former ambassador to Lithuania, replaces oblasts since the mid-1990s and this loss, September 2003. The two sides have Kuchma to run for a third term is being Valerii Khoroshkovskyi, who cited obsta- therefore, was seen as a slap in the face. agreed on the terms for supplying Russian used. In the same interview, Mr. cles to his ministry’s activities when he The SDPU turned to the courts, claim- fuel and energy to Ukraine, as well as for Kravchuk warns that if Mr. Kuchma runs resigned earlier this month. Mr. Slauta, a ing that the outcome of the vote had been transiting Russian natural gas, oil and elec- again this will lead to Ukraine’s interna- lawmaker from the Donetsk Oblast, takes rigged. A district court in Lviv agreed tricity to Europe via Ukraine. The energy tional isolation in the West. This would over for Serhii Ryzhuk, who was appoint- with the SDPU complaint. Mukachiv’s agreement follows a December 24 meeting leave Ukraine with only one path, toward ed head of the Zhytomyr Oblast State election commission ignored the court between Russian President Vladimir Putin Russia, which Mr. Kravchuk would see Administration. Mr. Neustroyev assumes decision and voted to confirm the elec- and Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma as the undoing of his work in facilitating the industrial-policy portfolio from tion of Mr. Petiovka as mayor, refusing in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Kerch, dur- Ukraine’s drive to independence in 1991- Anatolii Mialytsia. (RFE/RL Newsline) to order fresh elections. The Mukachiv ing which they moved closer to resolving a 1992. election controversy was later reviewed Ukraine posts 15.8 % industrial growth territorial dispute by signing a framework Mr. Kravchuk’s views are echoed by by the Supreme Court, which confirmed agreement on joint use of the Sea of Azov Defense Minister Yevhen Marchuk, who that Mr. Petiovka was elected in a legiti- KYIV – The State Statistics has remained close to the SDPU and and the Kerch Strait. Under the agreement, mate way. Committee announced last week that Russia and Ukraine will set up a consor- whose Den newspaper is reportedly still However, on December 25, 2003, a industrial production in Ukraine grew by financed by the party. Den has always tium to control joint use of the strait, presidential decree described the June elec- 15.8 percent in 2003, including an annu- Prime-TASS report. (RFE/RL Newsline) stood out as a patriotic, pro-Western pub- tion as illegitimate and installed as tempo- alized 18.4 percent in December, Interfax lication that espouses moderation com- rary mayor SDPU member Myroslav reported on January 10. Ukraine’s indus- Noted analyst compares Bush and Putin ... pared to other rabidly anti-American Opachka. The following day the City trial output increased by 12.4 percent in SDPU newspapers, such as 2000 and Council reconfirmed Mr. Petiovka as its 2000, 14.2 percent in 2001 and 7 percent MOSCOW – Writing in the newspaper Kievskie Viedomosti. Messrs. Kravchuk head. Berkut riot police and Sokil special- in 2002. (RFE/RL Newsline) Izvestia on January 8, Fedor Burlatskii, a and Marchuk have long been advocates task units were then flown in to prevent the former adviser to Soviet leaders Leonid of Ukraine’s membership in NATO. council loyal to Petiovka from entering the PM says presidential bid is up to Kuchma Brezhnev, Yurii Andropov and Mikhail Therefore, this wing of the SDPU is in Gorbachev who is now president of the building. Last week, Mukachevo’s election KYIV – Ukrainian Prime Minister fundamental conflict with the pro- Academy of Science’s Political Science commission voted to hold repeat mayoral Viktor Yanukovych told journalists on Russian wing led by Mr. Medvedchuk, Council, noted that U.S. President George elections on April 18. January 5 that President Leonid Kuchma who said at last year’s SDPU congress Ukrainian Human Rights Ombudsman W. Bush and President Vladimir Putin have that his party should become the leading should decide on his own whether or not similar characters and political experience. Nina Karpachova has sent an urgent to run for a third term as president in advocate of Russian interests in Ukraine. inquiry to the Constitutional Court about Both men are reserved, but tough and capa- The conflict of interests within the 2004, UNIAN reported. Mr. Yanukovych the legality of the presidential decree. The was responding to a question about sup- (Continued on page 12) SDPU between its pro-Western and pro- Supreme Court also is investigating the Russian wings is best seen in terms of issue. Meanwhile, Our Ukraine has held Ukraine’s non-European domestic poli- daily demonstrations outside Mukachiv cies, which clash with its declared goals City Hall and is planning to hold a parlia- FOUNDED 1933 of membership in the European Union mentary hearing on the subject. An attempt HE KRAINIAN EEKLY and NATO. 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Serhiiby Medvedchuk,Roman Woronowycz Lviv Oblastoblast tax agencytax chief, and businesspeople named tothat No. the situation2 post in Lviv in Ukraine’shas gone too far, Statearrested Tax high-profile Administration businessman Kyiv Press Bureau aligned with the Our Ukraine political so the president decided now is the time to Markian Ivaschyshyn, co-founder of the bloc. begin the moves.” oppositionist newspaper, Lviv Hazeta – KYIV – Almost exactly two weeks Several lawmakers in the Verkhovna Our Ukraine, headed by former Prime who also owns a popular entertainment after the controversial arrest of a high-pro- Rada said on January 14 that while the Minister Viktor Yushchenko, and the center, Dzyga – on three charges of failing file Lviv businessman on charges of tax promotion of Mr. Medvedchuk to the Social Democratic Party-United, headed to declare income. Mr. Ivaschyshyn, who evasion, which many Lviv politicians said number two slot in the State Tax by Mr. Medvedchuk’s brother, Viktor, was released after being charged, called was politically motivated, the head of the Administration was obviously a move to have been political enemies for several the charges baseless. He said his arrest State Tax Administration of Lviv Oblast, reduce the political temperature in Lviv, it years. The enmity between them has heat- was the continuation of a pattern of Serhii Medvedchuk, received a promotion could also be the result of preparations for ed up as the presidential elections harassment by Mr. Medvedchuk’s people and was named first deputy chief of the the presidential campaign season. approach. Mr. Yushchenko is considered that has occurred since June 2003. national office on January 12. National Deputy Volodymyr the favorite in the October elections, along Mr. Medvedchuk replaces Oleksii The promotion, effected by presidential Bondarenko, a member of the Our with whoever is chosen from the pro-pres- Shytria, who had been a high level mem- decree, was announced as Ukraine began Ukraine faction, said the move was not idential political bloc For a United ber of the State Tax Administration even implementing a flat, across-the-board 13 simply a career advancement, but part of a Ukraine. before its reorganization, when it was percent income tax, a reduction passed by larger reorganization of President Our Ukraine activists in Lviv, including known as the Main State Tax Inspectorate. the Verkhovna Rada last year and intended Kuchma’s closest cronies in preparation National Deputy Yevhen Chervonenko, a The presidential decree releasing Mr. to raise budget revenues by drawing shad- for the elections. leading figure in the oppositionist political Shytria from his post offered no reason for ow income out into the open. “This is part of a re-positioning of the grouping who owns a Lviv-based trans- the dismissal. The promotion came after Mr. political clan in preparation for the 2004 portation firm and a beverage firm, both Mr. Medvedchuk will report to State Medvedchuk the younger brother of vote,” stated Mr. Bondarenko. “The presi- known as Orlan, have repeatedly accused Tax Administration Chief Yurii President Leonid Kuchma’s chief of staff, dent wants his most loyal supporters in the local tax officials of politically motivated Kravchenko, a controversial figure associ- had become the center of an increasingly key positions. But there is another factor. harassment of their businesses since the ated with the Melnychenko tape scandal antagonistic situation in Lviv between his Mr. Kuchma seems to have understood younger Medvedchuk became Lviv’s and the disappearance of journalist chief tax man. Heorhii Gongadze. When the Lviv Oblast Council passed a Some political voices are suggesting mentary voting to abolish the popular elec- no-confidence measure on September 29 that Mr. Medvedchuk could eventually Verkhovna Rada... tion of the president is against the law and regarding Mr. Medvedchuk’s policies in lead the State Tax Administration, given (Continued from page 1) must, therefore, be reconsidered,” Lviv in the hope that President Kuchma the influence his older brother enjoys with The bill is part of a plan of political explained National Deputy Viktor would take note and replace him, the pres- President Kuchma. A Ukraina Moloda reforms that President Kuchma is pursuing Pynzenyk, who heads the Reforms and ident responded by firing four raion repre- story from January 14 stated that Mr. that he has said would turn Ukraine into a Order Party and an Our Ukraine faction sentatives to the Lviv Oblast State Kravchenko could soon return to head the parliamentary/presidential state, more in leader, who added that “it is illegal to Administration who had supported the call state militia as minister of internal affairs, line with European traditions. It includes allow the removal of a constitutionally- for the Lviv tax chief’s dismissal. leaving Mr. Medvedchuk in charge of plans for constitutional amendments that granted right to elect without a national Then, on December 30, Lviv tax police enforcing tax collection in Ukraine. would give a parliamentary majority the referendum.” right to appoint a prime minister and gov- On January 13 Mr. Lytvyn suggested ernment – plus a new provision that that Our Ukraine and the Tymoshenko empowers the Rada to elect the president – Bloc had reneged on a deal that the repre- should they receive approval by a two- sentatives of the various factions had Ukrainian version of latest Harry Potter book thirds parliamentary majority in the next patched together late the previous night, session. which would have unblocked the was first translation released in Europe Oppositionist lawmakers, however, Parliament’s work. by Oksana Zakydalsky 6, Netherlands – November 22, France believe it is an effort by state authorities to Mr. Lytvyn explained that both sides had – December 22 and Russia – February ensure that power remains in their hands. agreed on what some lawmakers called the LVIV – Harry Potter made head- 22, 2004. The book was launched in The opposition to Mr. Kuchma states that “Moroz compromise.” Mr. Lytvyn said that lines again in Ukraine during 2003, as Lviv on November 7. the political reforms can be attained with- Our Ukraine and the Tymoshenko faction the Ukrainian translation of the fifth The Ukrainian volume 5 is pub- out amending the Constitution. leaders had said they could support the volume in the beloved series was lished, as were the previous four vol- Several foreign diplomats and interna- political reform bill if provisions were launched in Kyiv on November 6. umes, by Mr. Malkovych’s A-BA-BA- tional organizations have stated that the included that would allow the 2004 presi- And, “Harry Potter and the Order of HA-LA-MA-HA publishing house, reforms themselves would be democrati- dential elections to remain a direct popular the Phoenix” in Ukrainian was the first with a first printing of 60,000 vol- cally valid if pursued constitutionally, but vote and delineate that no constitutional translation to be issued in Europe. umes, already oversubscribed. The have questioned whether it was proper to amendments could be approved without But this was not the milestone that translation once again is by Viktor push the changes in a presidential election electoral support for them as expressed in a most pleased its publisher, Ivan Morozov, and the cover designed by year. national referendum. Malkovych, who was quoted as say- the publisher’s artist, Vladislav Yerko. Our Ukraine and Tymoshenko faction The failed proposal was dubbed the ing, “We did not set out to be the first Most translated versions – for lawmakers have repeatedly accused the “Moroz compromise” after it was pro- in Europe. The most important thing example, Polish, Czech and Russian – pro-presidential parliamentary majority of posed by Socialist faction leader for us was the fact that by publishing use the American-designed cover and ramrodding the bill through the Oleksander Moroz, an opposition leader volume 5 three months before the Mr. Malkovych said he is very proud Parliament. The majority used a hand vote who has supported the controversial politi- Russian version comes out we will be of the fact that the Ukrainian publica- – in which 286 lawmakers were officially cal reforms since he struck a compromise able to pull over to the Ukrainian side tion – like the German, French and counted as supporting the bill – after oppo- with President Kuchma late this past sum- thousands of readers who read the pre- Italian – received the right to have its sition members did not allow for either an mer. The two politicians agreed at the time vious volumes in Russian.” (The pre- own cover design. electronic or roll call vote by taking con- that the constitutional amendments should vious Ukrainian Harry Potters came Mr. Malkovych is also pleased that trol of the administrative tables and chair- include a change that would allow the out after they were already in print in he has received a large order for the man’s rostrum each time an attempt was Parliament to elect the president. Russian). books from two of Russia’s biggest made to bring the issue to a vote. Our Ukraine members said they decided The 2003 schedule of publication of publishing houses and plans to go to Opposition members said after the vote that they could not support the compro- translations of volume 5 was: Ukraine Moscow in December to launch the that many of the bill’s supporters voted mise because they had also demanded a – November 6, Germany – November Ukrainian translation. with two hands and that the numbers who provision in the new bill that elections voted in favor of political reform were would take place on a proportional, by- greater than the actual number of lawmak- party, basis, which the pro-presidential par- ers present in the session hall at the time. liamentary forces had backed away from “Our position is that, first of all, parlia- after initially consenting to support it.

legal structures increased by 55.7 percent Dynamic growth... to 29 billion hrv. Private individuals also (Continued from page 1) showed a decidedly increased inclination ures stated that Ukraine barely managed to trust Ukraine’s financial institutions by to harvest 20 million tons of grain last depositing 32.3 million hrv into bank accounts, an increase of 67.2 percent year – half of what it collected in 2002 – over the previous year. when the harvest came in at a figure just The amount of credit extended by short of 40 million tons. Ukraine’s banks rose dramatically in Ukraine’s banking sector also showed 2003 as well, to 67.8 billion – a 61.4 per- healthy growth in 2003. The country’s cent increase. The average interest rate monetary supply grew by 95 billion hrv, for hryvnia loans fell from 19.5 percent another contributing factor to inflation. at the beginning of the year to 17.8 at Viktor Morozov, who translated book 5 of the Harry Potter series into Banks were able to capture some of that year’s end, while the average rate for for- Ukrainian, autographs copies of the book during its launch in Lviv. currency as deposits by commercial and eign currency loans stood at 11.2 percent. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 No. 3

OBITUARIES Renata Babak, 69, opera star Dr. Miroslav Labunka, 76, who defected from the Bolshoi retired professor of history SlLVER SPRING, Md. – Renata PHILADELPHIA – Miroslav Labunka, Babak, the internationally known mezzo- retired associate professor of history at soprano who defected from the Bolshoi LaSalle University, died suddenly on Opera in 1973, died at her home in Silver December 2, 2003, at Albert Einstein Spring, Md., on Declember 31, 2003, at Medical Center. He was 76. the age of 69. Born in Kotiv, Ukraine, on March 23, Ms. Babak was born in Kyiv and stud- 1927, he attended secondary school in ied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Ukraine and Germany, and completed his Conservatory in Leningrad (present-day secondary school education by receiving his St. Petersburg). She was a soloist at the Abitur Diploma through the auspices of the Kyiv Opera and subsequently at the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Leningrad Opera, performing in Administration in Traunstein, Germany. Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, He attended theological seminary in Italy and Canada. Hirschberg, Germany, and Culemborg, An international star with 10 years’ Holland, earning a B.A. in philosophy and experience at the Bolshoi, she defected theology. He received a master’s in history while the opera company was playing at in 1955 at the Catholic University of La Scala in Milan. As reported in the Louvain, Belgium, and then emigrated to January 2 issue of The Washington Post, the United States in 1955, settling in New “Ms. Babak, who had been prohibited by York City. He earned a master in library sci- the Soviet secret police from traveling ence in 1958 at Columbia University and outside the Soviet Union for the previous worked in the Columbia University six years,” was ultimately able to evade Libraries from 1956 to 1965. Later, he the agents who kept her under surveil- received his Ph.D. in history at Columbia lance. The great escape occurred after University in 1978. the first act of Mussorgsky’s five-act In 1965, he and his family relocated to opera “Khovanshchina,” followed by Philadelphia, where he joined the faculty at Dr. Miroslav Labunka immigration to Canada, where Ms. Renata Babak LaSalle College. He was an associate pro- He was also an active member of Plast Babak was in hiding for two years. fessor of history and retired in 1993. During Ukrainian Scouting Organization, where he rights causes.” Ms. Babak’s U.S. debut in Carnegie his time at LaSalle, he was also a visiting was a co-founder of the “Orden As noted in The Washington Post, Hall in 1975 garnered enthusiastic professor at St. Clement’s Ukrainian Chrestonostsiv” fraternity and the St. “The KGB had undermined her career reviews. Her voice was described (in Catholic University in Rome from 1976 to Sophia Religious Association of Ukrainian before she defected, not only by prohibit- 1982) as “both big and sweet, tremen- 1995; and research associate at the Harvard Catholics (Rome Branch); and was a board ing foreign appearances, but also by dously powerful and superbly controlled University Ukrainian Research Institute and member of the Ukrainian Patriarchal failint to publicize her appearances and in its upper register, with only a small, visiting professor at the Philosophical Society (USA) and the Association of by prohibiting her from singing piquant touch of the vibrato so often Institute of the Ukrainian Free University in Parents and Teachers of Ukrainian Ukrainian pieces.” over-indulged by Russian singers.” Munich, Germany, from 1982 to 1993. Secondary Schools (Philadelphia). “In 1979, when the Soviet Embassy After her initial move to New York, In 1993 he was named dean at the In 1988 Prof. Labunka was the sponsor sponsored an exhibit of Russian art at the she left for Washington at the invitation Faculty of Philosophy of the Ukrainian of an honorary doctorate at LaSalle Renwick Gallery, Embassy officials very of George London, then general director Free University. He was appointed rector in University for Cardinal Myroslav Ivan publicly canceled the exhibit because of the Washington Opera. However, Mr. 1995, a post he held until 1998. Lubachivsky; in 1992 he co-sponsored an Ms. Babak was scheduled to perform London’s death cut short the prospect of In 1998 Prof. Labunka was awarded honorary doctorate, also at LaSalle, for collaboration. Ms. Babak joined the fac- nearby,” The Post noted. knighthood by Pope John Paul II, Equitus Leonid Kravchuk, then president of ulty of the Washington Conservatory of Ever since her defection, Ms. Babak OSGM (Order of St. Gregory the Great) for Ukraine; and in 1996, he co-sponsored hon- Music and, according to The Washington continued to be an outspoken critic of his lifetime of work and dedication to the orary doctorates at the Ukrainian Free Times, “gave recitals and sang roles that Soviet repression. In 1986 Ms. Babak, Ukrainian Catholic Church, and also University for Ukrainian President Leonid critics said did not often offer her the who ultimately was able to contact her received the Lifetime Achievement Award Kuchma and Archbishop Myroslav chance to use her extraordinary voice to parents in Kyiv at the time of the from Ukraine’s Ministry of Education for Marusyn, secretary of the Congregation of its fullest.” Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster, his significant contribution to Ukrainian Eastern Churches. Music critic Joseph McLellan wrote in gave press interviews condemning the culture and education. Also in 1988, under the aegis of the The Washington Post in 1984: “Babak’s Soviet government’s handling of the crisis. His professional memberships included: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Prof. career has been nowhere near as spectac- Ms. Babak became a U.S. citizen in the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Labunka, along with his colleagues Profs. ular as her talent deserved. She has an 1993 and taught Russian for 10 years, Sciences (USA), the American Association Omeljan Pritsak and Ihor Sevcenko of extraordinary mezzo-soprano voice, until 2001, through an Agriculture of College and University Professors, the Harvard University, co-organized an retaining its power in the dramatic sopra- Department program. International Association of Ukrainian International Congress commemorating the no range, and it has won critical superla- Her last opera perforance was in 1997 Scholars, the Shevchenko Scientific Society Millennium of Christianity in Rus’-Ukraine. tives wherever (all too seldom) she has in Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta” with Opera (USA), the Ukrainian Association of The congress was held in Ravenna, Italy, performs – in the Washington area usual- Camerata of Washington. She continued Journalists (USA), and the Association of and was marked by the attendance of pre- ly at concerts connected with human- to sing recitals until 2002. Ukrainian Librarians (USA). eminent scholars from throughout the world, including the Soviet Union. USUF publishes inaugural issue of business journal Potential Due to the generosity of the Millennium of Rus’-Ukraine Christianity Committee in New York, the proceedings of the congress by Olenka Dobczanska ries of businesses with contact informa- were subsequently published under the edi- tion and how-to articles on various torship of Profs. Pritsak, Sevcenko and WASHINGTON – The inaugural issue aspects of conducting successful busi- Labunka as a special issue of the scholarly of the business magazine Potential, the nesses. journal Harvard Ukrainian Studies. U.S.-Ukraine Foundation’s newest bilin- The publication is produced in the Prof. Labunka was a specialist in Eastern gual publication, has been printed in Washington offices of the U.S.-Ukraine European medieval history and published Ukraine. Potential is a journal that pro- Foundation by Managing Editor John numerous articles on the subject. He was motes business and economic develop- Kun, USUF Senior Advisor for the author of a monograph on the “Legend ment in the U.S. and Ukraine by creating Government Relations and Foundation of the Novgorodian White Cow,” which and sustaining communication and coop- Development Morgan Williams and was published in 1998 at the Ukrainian eration between American and Ukrainian USUF Economic Development Program Free University in Munich through the gen- businesses, educational institutions and Manager Irene Mokra. Staff members erosity of Dr. Wolodymyr and Anna Rak, government agencies. who worked on the first issue included benefactors. Potential strives to be timely by USUF summer interns Andriy He leaves behind two sons, Alex with reporting on current business news and Shekhovtsov and Lyudmyla Polyun, his wife, Luba and Illia, with his wife, events and by analyzing current trends USUF Program Associate Miriam Bates, Olenka; a daughter, Iya; and three grand- and developments in the Ukrainian and USUF Administration Associate Marko children, Matthew, Andrew and Nina. He American economies. Potential hopes to Serbinsky, as well as interns Yuriy also leaves behind a sister, Marusia, in also become a unique and essential busi- Piskalyuk and Olga Sukhanova. Ukraine. He had recently remarried follow- ness reference guide for leaders in gov- The inaugural 52-page issue intro- ing the death seven years ago of his wife, ernment and business in the United Maria nee Rovenchuk. They had been mar- States and Ukraine by publishing directo- (Continued on page 5) ried 44 years. No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 5 Message from the UNA president regarding former UNA sales agent Joseph Binczak Dear UNA Members: 2003, Mr. Binczak voluntarily pleaded Binczak’s attorney claimed in his fraud. Yet, financial fraud is epidemic in guilty to charges of theft by deception defense that Mr. Binczak, 39, had an America these days. Therefore, we ask On January 7, New Jersey Superior and awaited sentencing. uncontrollable gambling problem that that all our members carefully review, Court Judge Salem Ahto sentenced for- The UNA is pleased that this case is caused him to steal. Currently, accord- not just the information that they mer Ukrainian National Association coming to an end. Nonetheless, we ing to the state prosecutor’s office, Mr. receive from the UNA, but also from sales agent Joseph Binczak, who plead- remain stunned by Mr. Binczak’s deep Binczak has no assets. He has repaid ed guilty to stealing from the associa- other financial institutions. As we have violation of our community’s trust. For $60,000 of the $633,700 that he stole tion, to three years in state prison and noted before, though it is good to trust imposed a condition of restitution, almost two years the UNA quietly coop- from the UNA. Mr. Binczak also stole each other, we must remember our requiring Mr. Binczak to pay approxi- erated with New Jersey state authorities $133,000 from a client in Pennsylvania, Ukrainian folk adage “God protects mately $570,000 to the UNA. to gather evidence about these acts of who had an account with Conseco. He those who protect themselves.” In November 2002 we informed our theft that occurred between 1996 and will serve the sentence handed down in We thank all of our members for their members that the State of New Jersey 2000. No Ukrainian National Association Pennsylvania concurrently with his sen- continuing support and loyalty, and look had brought criminal charges against policyholder suffered any financial loss, tence in the New Jersey prison. The forward to serving you in the future. Mr. Binczak, accusing him of theft, since the UNA made full and immediate UNA will continue to pursue Mr. forging signatures and falsifying docu- restitution to our victimized members. Binczak and any of his future assets Fraternally yours, ments in a scheme to fraudulently At the sentencing on January 7, through actions in civil court. Stepan Kaczaraj obtain funds from the annuity accounts which was attended by UNA National Thankfully, over its 110-year history, President of seven UNA members. In September Secretary Christine Kozak, Mr. the UNA has never been the victim of Ukrainian National Association

U.S. Department of Energy to provide additional $1 million to Chornobyl center KYIV – U.S. Ambassador John Herbst The U.S. government has previously pro- and international financial institutions. projects for mitigating social and economic announced on December 29, 2003, dur- vided more than $12 million for infrastruc- The G-7 countries and other donors have impact of the Chornobyl closure on city of ing a visit to Slavutych, that the U.S. ture, analytical and research equipment, provided nearly $1 billion in grant funds for Slavutych include the following. government will provide $1 million in operations, training, communications, mar- Chornobyl site safety projects, for decom- • International Chornobyl Center: The funding over the next two years to the keting and business development of the cen- missioning facilities and to repair the United States Department of Energy estab- International Chornobyl Center for Nuclear ter. The additional funding announced on Chornobyl sarcophagus. In the MOU, the G- lished the International Chornobyl Center Safety, Radioactive Waste Management December 29, 2003, will be used for the 7 and European Union also recognized that for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology in Slavutych. center to obtain licenses and certificates, to the closure would adversely affect the sur- Management and Radioecology in 1996. The United States and Ukraine jointly provide management and technical training, rounding region and agreed to prepare, in The center conducts its main activities established the center in 1996. The main develop business and marketing plans, to cooperation with Ukraine, a Social Impacts through its two laboratories, and helps the goal of the center is to become a national continue to support operations and mainte- Action Plan, which was completed in 1997. city of Slavutych mitigate the social and and international resource for nuclear safe- nance of the International Radioecology But, while the G-7 and the European economic impacts of Chornobyl closure by ty and research. The center conducts its Laboratory, and to further promote the cen- Commission can help mitigate the social employing city residents. The center main activities through its two laboratories ter to domestic and international markets. costs associated with this transition period, employs 65 full-time workers. – the Laboratory of Engineering Research ultimately the responsibility lies with • Off-Site Training and Crisis Center: Fact sheet: U.S. assistance Ukraine in taking the next steps to facilitate and Technology and the International The United States Department of Energy to Slavutych and Chornobyl worker retraining, diversify the regional Radioecology Laboratory. equipped and established the former economy and improve the local tax base in The center plays an important role in Chornobyl Offsite Emergency Response The G-7 countries, the European order to maintain an appropriate level of mitigating social and economic impact on Commission, and Ukraine signed a social services. Collectively, the donors Center as the National Ukrainian Training the city of Slavutych by directly employing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on have provided approximately $30 million Center for Ukraine’s nuclear emergency its residents. It employs approximately 65 the closure of the Chornobyl Nuclear to establish several programs to mitigate preparedness personnel. full-time personnel, and has additionally Power Plant in December 1995, in Ottawa. the social and economic impact of • Slavutych – Richland Community employed up to 100 Chornobyl nuclear That memorandum set in motion a sus- Chornobyl closure. Partnership: The United States Agency for power plant workers as contractors for spe- tained program of intensive cooperation As part of the international assistance, International Development is supporting a cific projects. between Ukraine and Western governments the United States has provided more than community partnership program between $220 million for improving nuclear safety, Slavutych and Richland, Washington. • Worker Assistance Initiative: The of the Western NIS Enterprise Fund. stabilizing and reconstructing shelter, con- United States Department of Labor worked Potential will also contain very practi- structing waste management facilities at the USUF publishes... closely with the city of Slavutych and the cal articles designed to serve as reference Chornobyl industrial site and implementing (Continued from page 4) Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant to provide material for people interested in business several programs in the city of Slavutych to duces the editorial team and gives an employment transition services economic ventures in Ukraine. How-to articles in mitigate social and economic impact due to overview of the foundation’s programs. development guidance and funding for eco- the first issue include one by Nestor the permanent closure of the Chornobyl Greetings and congratulations from plant. nomic renewal and business consulting to important players who promote U.S.- Scherbey on “How to Export to Global Markets.” The former U.S. commercial Nuclear Safety: Since 1992, the United restructuring enterprises. Ukraine business are interspersed States has been providing safety improve- attaché in Kyiv, Andew Bihun, provides • Small Business Incubator: The United throughout the issue. They include mes- ment assistance to Soviet-designed nuclear suggestions on how do business with States Agency for International sages from Anatoliy Kinakh, president of power plants in Ukraine. For the U.S. companies in “An Overview of Development established the Slavutych the Ukrainian League of Industrialists Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the United Cooperation between Ukraine and U.S.” Business Incubator in January 2001 to fos- and Entrepreneurs and the Federation of States Department of Energy’s National Valuable reference information can also ter business skills development through Employers of Ukraine; Rep. Marcy Nuclear Security Administration: training and information services, and the Kaptur, (R-Ohio); Kostyantyn be found in articles which list opportuni- • provided a safety parameter display ties for internships and study in the U.S. provision of office space. Gryshchenko, Ukraine’s minister of for- system to improve operations; • Micro-Credit Facility: The United eign affairs; Tim Honey, executive direc- available to Ukrainians, a guide to select- • supplied a wide variety of equipment ed U.S. government projects currently States and its international partners estab- tor of Sister Cities International; and Sen. for fire, worker and radiological safety; lished a Micro Credit Finance Bank for Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of under way in Ukraine, and an overview of • supported the development of Slavutych in June 2001. The facility has the Senate Committee on Finance. industries, the business climate and oppor- improved maintenance procedures and pro- provided loans to assist small-to-medium Each subsequent issue will contain an tunities in the state of Iowa. vided diagnostic equipment; and business enterprises to expand their opera- overview of the latest developments in Mr. Kun said he is pleased with the • completed repairs to the Unit 3 and 4 tions and also has assisted the start up of Ukraine-U.S. trade and business relation- first issue: “Through Potential, I hope ventilation stack. numerous small businesses. ships. The variety of articles that will be you will see the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation Chornobyl Closure: The United States • Humanitarian Assistance: The United contained in each issue is intended to as an NGO that is deeply committed to Department of Energy’s National Nuclear States introduced several humanitarian appeal to a wide audience. Ukraine’s democratic future ... I believe Security Administration assisted in imple- Feature articles will highlight a com- we can offer information that will be mentation of the following critical activities assistance organizations to Slavutych. The pany or institution, along with an inter- valuable and useful to both Ukrainians related to Chornobyl closure: Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund provid- view with a company representative. For and Americans, and that we can bring • provided radiation dose reduction ed medical supplies to the Slavutych hospi- example, the first issue contains an inter- more political and business attention to equipment and procedures to reduce the tal and other health care organizations. The view with Jed Sunden of KP support Ukraine’s democratic develop- radiation exposure of shelter workers; Medical Service Corporation International Publications, which counts the Kyiv Post ment.” • supported and participated in the stud- conducted thyroid and psychosocial screen- among its publications, and with To receive a free copy of Potential, ies and the development of specific project ing of children. Yaroslav Lyubinets of Soft-Serve Inc., a where business opportunities are endless, plans related to stabilization and long-term • Chornobyl – Hanford Visit: The United Lviv-based software company that is suc- readers may contact the U.S.-Ukraine reconstruction of the Chornobyl Shelter; States Department of Energy facilitated dis- cessfully operating in Eastern Europe and Foundation by mail, phone (202) 347-4264 • commissioned the Chornobyl replace- cussions of the Chornobyl management the United States. There are also inter- or e-mail [email protected]. The ment plant; and with the Department of Energy’s Hanford views with Michael Considine, BISNIS foundation is looking for feedback in order • conducted assessments and developed Site in the state of Washington to determine trade specialist for Ukraine and Moldova to improve subsequent issues of this technical plans for decommissioning Units similarities between the two sites for work at the U.S. Department of Commerce, unique publication and would like to hear 1-3. force restructuring and potential economic and Natalka Jaresko, president and CEO readers’ ideas and insights. Socio-economic Impacts: United States development for the city of Slavutych. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 No. 3

NEWS ANALYSIS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Anniversary of ill-fated Pereiaslav Treaty Rule of law in Ukraine: The year 2004 marks the 350th anniversary of the ill-fated Pereiaslav Treaty of forward or backward? 1654, the pact between Ukrainian Kozak Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Russian Tsar Aleksei Mykhailovich, whereby Ukraine became a protectorate of the tsar of by Judge Bohdan A. Futey elected after said date was bound by its Muscovy. The military alliance, which was ratified by a Kozak council in Pereiaslav on terms. The court, however, excluded January 18, 1654, was usurped by Russia and brought Ukraine centuries of oppression As we enter the year 2004, Ukraine stands at a crossroads: one route leads to national deputies who were elected – first under tsarist Russia and then under the Soviet Union. integration and acceptance into the between March 27, 1994, and June 8, Soviet historians, of course, saw the treaty as formalizing the desire of the Ukrainian European and international communities; 1995. The court explained that those and Russian people to unite in a single Russian state. Indeed, on the 300th anniversary the other to regression and reversion to a national deputies could hold dual man- of the treaty, which was celebrated in 1954 as a “reunion” of Ukraine and Russia, a country where the rule of law is selec- dates because at the time they were elect- huge arch of friendship was erected in Kyiv. tively applied and undermined for the ed there was no such prohibition. It was back on March 13, 2002, that President Leonid Kuchma had issued a decree benefit of those who possess power. With the principles enunciated in “On the Commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of the Pereiaslav Kozak Council of Nowhere is this more evident than in Chapter XII of the Constitution in mind, 1654. The decree, which was but one example of Ukraine drawing nearer to Russia at the attention that has been given to the as well as court’s decision in “Re Dual that time, raised the ire of the scholarly community and Ukrainians worldwide. First to recent decisions of the Constitutional Mandates of Verkhovna Rada Deputies,” react in the diaspora was the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. In a June 14 open Court of Ukraine and to the recent events the recent decision clearing the way for letter, the CIUS argued that, “Intentionally or not, the presidential decree of March 13 that transpired in the Verkhovna Rada. President Leonid Kuchma to seek a third politicizes historical scholarship in order to legitimize a possible change in the foreign The Constitution of Ukraine explicitly term is unsupportable. The Constitution policy of Ukraine and reorient the historical consciousness of the Ukrainian people.” designates the Constitutional Court as provides that the court’s decisions are Inasmuch as the presidential decree called for conferences, publications and other “the sole body of constitutional jurisdic- binding. The court’s decision concerning commemorative activities involving the scholarly community, the CIUS told its col- tion in Ukraine.”1 The court’s mandate the prohibition on dual mandates was not leagues in Ukraine: “Your participation in these measures – commemorating an event entails providing “the official interpreta- overturned, and, therefore, remains on that most historians on the organizing committee continue to regard as a decision tion of the Constitution of Ukraine and the books as a ruling to be adhered to. forced upon our ‘great Bohdan’ – will lend legitimacy to those forces in Ukraine and the laws of Ukraine.”2 The court is While the dual mandates decision was beyond that seek to resurrect the empire that Pereiaslav helped create. That would be a responsible for hearing and deciding referenced by the court in the latest deci- disservice to Russia and Ukraine, whose progress requires not the rebuilding of the issues involving conformity of laws, sion, its holding was limited to the empire but the development of democratic nation-states.” (For information on CIUS presidential decrees and other legal acts proposition that laws could not be resources on the Pereiaslav Treaty, see the commentary by Dr. Frank Sysyn on page 7.) with the Constitution. Decisions of the retroactively applied. The CIUS representatives wrote: “Do the authors of the decree and members of the court are final; Article 150 of the Nevertheless, the dual mandates deci- organizing committee not understand that they are preparing to commemorate the Constitution establishes their authority: sion and the “third term” decision are anniversary of an event that led to the abolition of the independent Ukrainian state “On the issues envisioned by this Article, logically inconsistent. In the dual man- formed under Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s leadership? The March decree calls into question the [Court] adopts decisions that are dates decision, when examining which not only the historical legitimacy of Ukraine’s current independence, but also the offi- mandatory for execution throughout the law to apply to disputes concerning cial genealogy of the Ukrainian government. ... Ukraine’s first president, Mykhailo territory of Ukraine, that are final and national deputies, the court looked to the Hrushevsky, regarded Pereiaslav as a mistake and declared an ‘end to orientation on shall not be appealed.”3 constitutional norm in place at the time Moscow’ in 1918.” Since the court’s inception on January the individuals were elected. Applying In July 2002 the World Scholarly Council of the Ukrainian World Congress protest- 1, 1997, its judges have occupied a posi- this decision and its reasoning would ed the presidential decree and called on Mr. Kuchma to withdraw from observances of tion that occurs once in the development lead to the conclusion that the constitu- the anniversary, which they called “one of the blackest dates in our history.” Other sig- of a nation. They have the unique oppor- tional norm in place at the time president natories to the open letter to Kuchma included the leaders presidents of scholarly insti- tunity to shape the law and the legal sys- Kuchma was elected controls. The tutions, such as the Shevchenko Scientific Societies of Europe and Poland, and the tem in the same manner as Chief Justice Constitution adopted in 1996 and prior Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Science in the U.S.A. The Shevchenko Scientific John Marshall did in the United States in legislation addressing presidential term Societies in Canada and the United States issued their own protest statement, also in Marbury v. Madison 200 years ago.4 limits have consistently limited the July. Soon thereafter, the International Congress of Ukrainian Studies, meeting in Initially, the Constitutional Court lived President to two terms: the 1978 Chernivtsi in August, also issued a formal protest. up to the great challenge it had undertak- Constitution of Ukraine SSR; the 1991 Similarly, in a statement released to the press in July 2002, the Ukrainian World en. In “Re Residents of City of Zhovti Law on the President; 1994 Law on Congress noted that “the Pereiaslav Treaty was not a ‘voluntary reunification’ but the Vody,”5 the court interpreted three arti- Election of the President; and the 1995 beginning of a long period of enslavement of Ukraine by Russia.” Furthermore, it cles of the Constitution with the cumula- Constitutional Agreement reached noted that “this presidential decree is a striking example of national irresponsibility. The tive effect of affirming that citizens shall between the Parliament and President government of an independent country has decreed to officially observe an event that have access to the courts for the protec- Kuchma, and signed by President resulted in its people’s enslavement and loss of statehood.” tion of rights. Further, in the Ustymenko Kuchma. For instance, the 1994 Law on Election of the President, Article 2, Now the anniversary year is upon us. What should one expect from the commemo- case, the court held that: 1) an individual Section 2, under which President rations of the Pereislav Treaty of 1654? We do not have the answer to that question, but has a right to obtain information about Kuchma ran for the first time and was we know that we must be prepared to respond to distortions of Ukraine’s history. And oneself, regardless of whether it is in elected, provides: we must be armed with the facts. Thankfully, the CIUS has once again taken the lead possession of national or local govern- “In order to be elected as the President on this matter by making available to the public significant information resources that mental authorities; 2) certain provisions of Ukraine a person must be a citizen of will be invaluable in countering what some quarters still insist is cause for celebration of Ukraine’s law on information must be Ukraine with the right to vote, not by both the Ukrainian and Russian nations. understood as to prohibit the collection of any information, retaining it and/or younger than 35 years of age, who has disseminating it without an individual’s resided in Ukraine no less than 10 consent.6 In addition, in 1998 in “Re (including the last five) years, and speaks Law on Election of Deputies to the the state language. One and the same Jan. person cannot be elected President of Turning the pages back... Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine” the court 9 declined to address the provision of the Ukraine for more than two terms.” election law establishing a 4 percent The applicable law as well as the con- 24 threshold for party representation in the stitutional norm in place at the time Parliament, because its resolution would President Kuchma was elected, as well 1993 On January 24, 1993, the front page of The Ukrainian entail deciding a “political question.”7 as at the time President Kuchma ran for Weekly reported that Ukraine’s President Leonid Kravchuk Most pertinent to the present contro- re-election in 1999, limited the president had reaffirmed his position on the CIS Charter, i.e., that the versy, however, is the case “Re Dual (Continued on page 17) independence of Ukraine is paramount. Mandates of Verkhovna Rada Deputies.” Mr. Kravchuk underlined that, in accordance with a resolution of Parliament, his principal The court held in 1997 that national 1 Constitution of Ukraine, Chapter XII, task as president is “to strengthen the legal foundations of his independent state as an object deputies elected after June 8, 1995, may Article 147. of international law and not to allow the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to be not simultaneously hold two state posi- 2 Id. transformed into some kind of state entity with its own organs of power and authority.” tions.8 The court reasoned that the 3 Article 150. That is why, he said at a press conference after returning from a January 15, 1993, sum- Constitutional Agreement, which first 4 See Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 mit meeting in Moscow with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the proposed CIS Charter established the prohibition against dual Cranch) 137, 2 L. Ed. 60 (1803) (establishing “does not satisfy the needs of Ukraine and, from a legislative point of view, it cannot be mandates, was in place as of June 8, the doctrine of judicial review). 5 Visnyk Konstytutsiinoho Sudu Ukrainy signed.” This, he emphasized “is our position – expressed concisely and clearly.” 1995, and, therefore, any national deputy President Kravchuk told reporters that, “as a result of the haste with which certain 1 (1998):34. leaders of CIS member-states act on certain political questions concerning the CIS, 6 “Re K.H. Ustymenko,” Visnyk Judge Bohdan A. Futey serves on the Konstytutsiinoho Sudu Ukrainy 2 (1997):31. the Ukrainian populace has become divided into distinct groups,” based on their opin- 7 This decision is similar to that reached ions of the proposed Commonwealth Charter. He said he considered both those who U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington and has been active in vari- by the United States Supreme Court in Baker demand immediate ratification of the CIS Charter (for example, members of the for- v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962). mer Communist Party of Ukraine), and those who demand Ukraine’s immediate with- ous rule of law and democratization pro- 8 “Re Dual Mandates of Verkhovna Rada drawal from the CIS to be extremists. grams in Ukraine since 1991. He served Deputies,” Visnyk Konstytutsiinoho Sudu as an advisor to the Working Group on Ukrainy 2 (1997):5. Source: “Kravchuk reaffirms position on CIS Charter,” by Borys Klymenko, The the Constitution of Ukraine that was 9 1994 Law on Elections of the President, Ukrainian Weekly, January 24, 1993, Vol. LXI, No. 4. adopted June 28, 1996. Article 2, Section 2 (emphasis added). No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 7 COMMENTARY Faces and Places The Pereiaslav anniversary and CIUS by Myron B. Kuropas by Dr. Frank Sysyn users around the world on the its website While the Ukrainian community in the at www.encyclopediaofukraine.com. diaspora has been occupied with the CIUS has also taken an active role in commemoration of the 70th anniversary funding and producing a major volume of the genocidal Famine of 1933, it has on the Pereiaslav Council and Treaty that A unified community needs the UNWLA “The rebirth of our statehood requires paid little attention to another anniver- has just been published in Kyiv by Congress of Ukrainian Women in America” hard work among all segments of our socie- was held on May 29-30, 1932, in New York sary looming – the 350th of the Smoloskyp Press for the Mykhailo ty,” wrote Mary Beck in the May 1933, City with 68 delegates, representing some Pereiaslav Agreement and Council of Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian issue of Zhinochyi Svit. “We will not reach 40 branches, in attendance. January 1654. This is in marked contrast Archeography and Source Studies, the our objective if we place the entire burden Adopting a new constitution, delegates to the 300th anniversary, when the com- Shevchenko Scientific Society (USA), on the backs of fathers, husbands and sons.” passed resolutions pledging support for: pro- munity mobilized against the Soviet cel- and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian In the history of the Ukrainian American gressive labor and local legislation, ebration of the Pereiaslav Council as an Studies. Pavlo Sokhan served as the community, women have more than carried women’s rights and the improvement of act of the “reunion of Ukraine with main editor, and Iaroslav Dashkevych as the associate editor. Titled “Pereiaslavska their share of the burden. On the whole, it international relations. Other resolutions Russia” and effectively lobbied the press has been my experience that when it came addressed organizational expansion, assist- and media to ensure that the Soviet inter- Rada 1654 Roku (Istoriohrafiia Ta Doslidzhennia)” (The Pereiaslav Council to organizational life, men often did much of ing Ukrainian women with naturalization pretation would not be affirmed. the talking, while women usually did most and full support for Ukraine’s independence Even before Ukraine’s president, of 1654 [Historiography and Research]), the 888-page volume printed in 5,000 of the work. This is especially true of movement. A significant resolution revolved Leonid Kuchma, issued a decree on the women associated with the Ukrainian around familiarizing the American public commemoration of the Famine, he issued copies includes 21 articles. Part 1 contains five reprints of classical National Women’s League of America and Ukrainian youth with Ukraine and her one on the commemorations of the (Soyuz Ukrainok Ameryky). works of Ukrainian historiography by culture. Pereiaslav Council, which – reminiscent Inspired by the success of the American Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Viacheslav The UNWLA was one of the key organi- of Soviet celebrations – called for school feminist movement, as well as by the work Lypynsky, Rostyslav Lashchenko, Andrii zations in supporting Ukrainian involvement competitions and artistic endeavors. of their Ukrainian sisters in Polish-occupied Iakovliv and Oleksander Ohloblyn, as well in the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. Working Framed as part of the presidential tilt eastern Galicia, Ukrainian American women as five reprints of scholarly-publicistic through various parishes, Soyuz Ukrainok towards Russia, the decree was met with began to organize nationally in the early was able to raise thousands of dollars (a siz- essays by Mykhailo Drahomanov, Dmytro protests from the Ukrainian intelligentsia 1920s. able sum during the Depression) to pay for Dontsov, Roman Bzhesky, Zynovii Knysh and criticism from the International The first Ukrainian women’s organiza- the purchase and transport of embroideries, and Mykhailo Braichevsky. Congress of Ukrainian Studies, which tions in the United States were established rugs, village apparel, wood carvings and Braichevsky’s piece is accompanied met in Chernivtsi in August 2002. locally, in such large urban centers as paintings from the Ukrainian Peasant Art by the notes of the criticisms (in fact On June 14, 2002, three historians from Chicago, where the Ukrainian Women’s Co-op (Kooperatyua Narodne Mystetsvo) in the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian attacks) in the 1970s of his lengthy essay Alliance was created as a fraternal insurance Lviv. The artifacts were exhibited at the Studies (CIUS), Zenon Kohut, Serhii “Annexation or Reunion?” by members society in 1917, and New York City, where Ukrainian pavilion at the Chicago Fair. Plokhii and Frank Sysyn, wrote an open of the Institute of History of the Soviet the Ukrainian Women’s Society (UWSNY) When the fair ended, the artifacts were letter to their colleagues in Ukraine Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, as well was born in 1921. made available to UNWLA branches partic- affirming their support for freedom of as his replies to the critics, edited and Early on, however, it was clear to these ipating in local folk fairs and cultural exhibi- intellectual inquiry in Ukrainian historical commented on by Ihor Hyrych. progressive women that localism was not tions. Thanks to the UNWLA, our commu- research and calling on their colleagues The second part of the volume has six enough. National unity was necessary in nity finally had an authentic Ukrainian cul- not to be seduced by blandishments of the articles on Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, order for Ukrainian women to become truly tural collection that could be proudly exhib- authorities to take part in this obvious and English-language historiography by effective. The stimulus for this unity came ited anywhere in America. In 1978 the col- political gambit. Realizing the importance Frank Sysyn, Volodymyr Kravchenko, from Ukraine, via Canada. lection became part of a permanent Soyuz of providing reliable historical informa- Oleksii Ias, Viktor Brekhunenko, and In March 1925, the UWSNY received a Ukrainok exhibit at The Ukrainian Museum tion on the Pereiaslav events, CIUS has Miroslaw Nagielski, as well as five new letter from the Society of Olha Kobylianska, in New York City. undertaken a number of steps to provide studies on the problem by Viktor a Ukrainian women’s society in Canada, The second UNWLA convention was such scholarly information for the aca- Brekhunenko, Viktor Horobets, Taras mentioning that a world congress of the held in May 1935, and a new executive demic and Ukrainian communities. Chukhlib, Serhii Plokhii and Iaroslav International Council of Women was sched- board headed by Anastastia Wagner was CIUS Press made John Basarab’s book Fedoruk. The monumental volume is uled for Washington in May. Money was elected. Continuing its emphasis on enlight- “Pereiaslav 1654: A Historiographical being launched in many cities throughout needed to underwrite the cost of sending a enment, one of the first projects undertaken Study” its featured book of the month in Ukraine in order to permit the Ukrainian Ukrainian female delegation from western by the newly elected board was the stan- December 2003. The volume is a thor- public to gain a deeper understanding of Ukraine. The UWSNY responded by calling dardization of branch activity. In a unique ough study of the documents of the the historical events of 1654 and how a women’s rally for New York City in April development for any Ukrainian organization Ukrainian-Russian negotiations, including they have been interpreted since. and, with the assistance of other local even today, lesson plans were printed along translations of the most important texts. “Pereiaslavska Rada 1654 Roku” is Ukrainian women’s organizations, created with the monthly guidelines for local activi- The volume examines the views of the available from CIUS Press for $64.95 an ad-hoc women’s congress for the purpose ties. Below is a sampling. most important scholars who wrote on the and can be ordered by e-mail of raising the required $250. The goal was • January – Christmas caroling to raise Pereiaslav treaty from the 17th century to ([email protected]), mail (CIUS Press, reached and the money was sent to the funds for various causes in Ukraine; New the 1970s. More information about this University of Alberta, 450 Athabasca League of Ukrainian Women (Soyuz Year’s Day supper for all members and sup- volume, as well as other publications and Hall, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E8), phone Ukrainok) in western Ukraine. porters; commemoration of Ukrainian order forms, can be found on the CIUS (780-492-2973), or fax (780-492-4967). When the Polish government refused to Independence Day. Press website at www.utoronto.ca/cius. CIUS is also co-sponsoring an interna- issue passports for the Ukrainian delegation, • February – Birthday of Lesia Ukrainka At the same time, the Peter Jacyk tional conference on the Pereiaslav events Soyuz Ukrainok in Ukraine selected Dr. to be commemorated in an appropriate fash- Center for Ukrainian Historical Research that will be held in Kyiv in this month Hanna Chikalenko-Keller – then living in ion along with the death of Olha Basarab. has completed the editing of the English precisely 350 years after the meeting of Switzerland – as the official representative Similar commemorative events should be translation of Volume 9, book 1, of the council. The aim of the conference is of Ukrainian women at the Washington con- held for George Washington and Abraham clave. Ukrainian American women decided Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s “History of to provide a forum for scholarly discus- Lincoln. to participate as well and sent two represen- Ukraine-Rus’,” which takes the reader up sion of the Pereiaslav Agreement and its • March – Commemoration of Taras tatives: Olga Lotocky of the UWSNY and to the eve of the Pereiaslav events. The consequences and to counter the antici- Shevchenko. Julia Jarema of the Ukrainian Democratic volume, which will be published in 2004, pated official celebrations. • April – Organize classes for the teach- Club. together with the already published As well, the Peter Jacyk Center for ing of Ukrainian Easter egg-making. During her stay in the United States, Dr. • May – Every branch is obligated to Volume 8, which covers the period 1625- Ukrainian Historical Research and the Chikalenko-Keller urged Ukrainian women 1650, will provide readers with the views, Kowalsky Program for the Study of organize a Mother’s Day concert where the to create a national organization in America importance of raising children in the in English, of Ukraine’s greatest historian Eastern Ukraine of CIUS are sponsoring similar to Soyuz Ukrainok in Western on the Khmelnytsky Uprising and the a conference in cooperation with col- Ukrainian spirit is stressed. Ukraine. At Dr. Chikalenko-Keller’s sugges- • June – Children’s Month – Every background of the Pereiaslav Treaty. The leagues at St. Petersburg University in tion, the American ad hoc congress commit- Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine project May. The goal of the conference is to Ukrainian mother should take her children tee was transformed into a new organization, to the doctor for an annual check-up. has made a general entry on the gather an international group of scholars the Ukrainian National Women’s League of Pereiaslav Treaty accessible to Internet in a Russian setting to discuss various • September – Every branch is obligated America (Soyuz Ukrainok Ameryky) and to find ways to guarantee a higher education interpretations of Russian-Ukrainian rela- the same executive board, headed by Julia tions, including the Pereiaslav events. for the most talented boys and girls in the Dr. Frank E. Sysyn is director of the Shustakevych, was retained. community. Every member should become Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian CIUS has striven to ensure that aca- Efforts to expand the ranks of the newly demic circles and media worldwide, the involved with the local Ridna Shkola. Historical Research at CIUS, University established UNWLA beyond the confines of • October – Book Month – Every branch Ukrainian diaspora and the Ukrainian of Alberta and the editor in chief of the the East coast proved difficult until the is obligated to take stock of its own library public will have authoritative material on Hrushevsky Translation Project. During arrival of Olena Kisilevsky, a Ukrainian and to enlarge it. the Pereiaslav Treaty and Council. At a the spring semester, 2004, he is affiliated member of the Polish Senate. In her travels • November – Commemoration of time when these historical topics are the with the Harriman Institute of Columbia to various Ukrainian American communi- Lystopadove Sviato (the November 1 Act). subject of political and ideological strug- University, where he is teaching two ties, she urged other Ukrainian women’s • December – Devoted to reviewing courses in Ukrainian and East European gles, these information sources are of organizations to unite with the UNWLA. A history. exceptional importance. UNWLA convention, billed as “The First (Continued on page 12) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 No. 3 No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 9

SSPPOORTSRTSLLIINENE Figure skating took 36th place, finishing the race in In the men’s over 105-kilogram com- Championships held in Dublin, Ireland, 40:15.80. bined category, Ukraine’s Artem on December 11-14, 2003. Lysohor fin- Ukraine’s Olena Liashenko took first On the women’s side, Oksana Udachyn took second place, while ished the race in 26.89 seconds, while place in the women’s event at the Cup of Yakovleva of Ukraine took 28th place in Hossein Reza Zadeh of Iran took first Sweden’s Remo Luetolf took second Russia Grand Prix in Moscow on the 10-kilometer pursuit, finishing the place. Velichko Cholakov of Belarus took place with a time of 27.02. Mark November 20, 2003, while her teammate race in 34 minutes and 55.39 seconds. third place and Oleksii Kolokoltsev of Warnecke of Germany took third place Halyna Maniachenko took third place. Germany’s Uschi Disl won the race with Ukraine took sixth. with a time of 27.03. Italy’s Carolina Kostner took second a time of 30:23.44, and Sandrine Bailly In the men’s 62-kilogram combined Viacheslav Shyrsov of Ukraine took place. of France took second place with a time category, Ukraine’s Oleksander Lykhvald second place in the men’s 50-meter back- Liashenko then took fourth place at an of 31:14.16. Russia’s Olga Pyleva took took eighth place, and Henadzi stroke on December 12, finishing the race International Skating Union Grand Prix third place with a time of 31:14.19. Aliashchuk of Belarus took third place. in 24.16 seconds. Thomas Rupprath of event in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Ukraine’s Derkach then took the 18th Turkey’s Halil Mutlu won the event, Germany took first place with a time of December 14, 2003. Japan’s Fumie spot in the men’s 10-kilometer sprint, fin- while China’s Zhiyong Shi took second 23.71, and fellow German Toni Helbig Suguri took first place, while teammate ishing the race in 25:30.2, while team- place. took third place with a time of 24.19. Shizuka Arakawa took third place. Sasha mate Deryzemlia took the 19th spot with Ukrainian Oleksander Cherpak took Andrii Serdinov of Ukraine took third Cohen of the United States took second a time of 25:35.6. France’s Raphael sixth place in the men’s 77-kilogram place in the men’s 50-meter butterfly on place. Poiree took first place with a time of combined competition, while Iran’s December 14, finishing the race in 23.44 In the ice dancing competition, 24:13.6, and Norway’s Bjoerndalen took Falahati Mohammad Nejad took first seconds. Mark Foster of Great Britain Ukraine’s Olena Hrushyna and Ruslan second place with a time of 24:22.5. place. Gevorg Davtyan of Armenia took won the event with a time of 23.22, and Honcharov took fourth place, while Vladimir Dratchev of Belarus took third second place, and Reyhan Arabacioglu of Alexei Puninski of Croatia took second Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto of place with a time of 24:34.3. Ukraine’s Turkey took third place. place with a time of 23.40. the United States took third place. Lysenko took the 32nd spot in the event In the men’s 100-meter freestyle on Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov Oleksii Petrov of Ukraine took 12th with a time of 26:01.5, and teammate December 13, Yuriy Yegoshin of Ukraine of Russia won the event, while Albena place in the men’s 85-kilogram combined Alexiy Korobeinikov took 47th place category, while Valeriu Calancea of took fifth place with a time of 47.95, Denkova and Maxim Staviski of Bulgaria while Christian Galenda of Italy took took second place. with a time of 26:26.8. Roman Pryma of Romania took first place. Aijun Yuan of Football Ukraine finished the race in 71st place China took second place, and Sergo third place with a time of 47.77. Pieter with a time of 27:22.4. Chakhoyan of Austria took third place. Hoogenband of the Netherlands won the In the women’s 7.5-kilometer sprint, In the men’s 94-kilogram combined event with a time of 46.81, and Filippo University of Oregon defensive line- Ukraine’s Yakovleva took 18th place competition, Ukraine’s Valeriy Magnini of Italy took second place with a man and native of Ukraine Igor with a time of 24:00.2, and Lilia Pokrivchak took 11th place, while Milen time of 47.32. Olshansky announced on January 9 that Efremova of Ukraine took 52nd place Lysohor then took second place in the he would skip his senior season in order Dobrev of Bulgaria took first place. with a time of 25:31.1. Norway’s Liv Hakan Yilmaz of Turkey took second men’s 100-meter breaststroke on to enter the National Football League December 12, finishing the race in 58.42. draft, according to a press statement post- Grete Poiree took first place with a time place, and Vadim Vakarciuc of Moldova of 22:32.6, and Germany’s Disl took sec- took third place. James Gibson of Great Britain won the ed on the school’s football website. event and set a new course record with a According to the university, the 6-foot- ond place with a time of 22:38.3. In the women’s 58-kilogram combined Frances’ Bailly took third place with a competition, Ukraine’s Svitlana time of 58.03. His teammate Darren 6-inch, 305-pound Olshansky was born Mew took third place with a time of time of 22:43.9. Ukraine’s Iryna Kokhanenko took 15th place, while in Dnipropetrovsk on May 3, 1982. He 58.78. Tananaiko took 65th place with a time of China’s Caiyan Sun took first place. ranked fifth at the University of Oregon Ukraine’s Serdinov then took a second 26:29.5, and teammate Tatiana Indonesia’s Patma Wati took second with 58 tackles, 40 unassisted, last sea- bronze medal, this time in the 100-meter Lytovchenko took 72nd place with a time place, and Turkey’s Aylin Dasdelen took son. He led the Ducks with three fumble butterfly on December 12, finishing the of 27:30.1. third place. recoveries and was ranked second on the race in 50.88 seconds. Serbia and Cross country running In the women’s 69-kilogram combined team and eighth in the Pac-10 football Montenegro’s Milorad Cavic took first category, Vanda Maslovska of Ukraine conference with 15 tackles for losses. place and set a new world record with his “I feel I am ready for the next chal- Ukraine’s Serhii Lebid won the took seventh place, while Chunhong Liu time of 50.02, and Germany’s Rupprath lenge,” the university press release quot- European Cross Country Championships of China took first place. Eszter Krutzler took second place with a time of 50.43. ed Olshansky as saying. in Holyrood Park, Scotland, on of Hungary took second place, and In the men’s 4x50-meter freestyle “I especially will miss my many December 14, 2003. Lebid led the entire Valentina Popova of Russia took third relay on December 14, the Ukrainian Oregon fans, whose chants of ‘Igor, 10-kilometer race, finishing in 30 min- place. team of Lysohor, Yegoshin, Shyrsov and Igor,’ spurred me on,” he said. utes and 47 seconds. Juan Carlos De La In the women’s 75-kilogram combined Oleksander Volynets took third place “Hopefully with the coaching I’ve Ossa took second place with a time of competition, Ukraine’s Nadia Shamanska with a time of 1 minute and 26.30 sec- received at Oregon, the hard work and 31:08, while Portugal’s Eduardo took eighth place, while China’s Shichun onds. The Netherlands took first place determination, I will hear those chants Henriques took third place with a time of Shang took first place and set a new world and set a new world record with a time of again at some distant city.” 31:15. record in the event with a combined total 1:25.55, while Germany took second During his career at Oregon, Yevhen Bozhko of Ukraine took fifth lift of roughly 601 pounds (264 pounds in place with a time of 1:26.26. Olshansky had 146 tackles, one intercep- place with a time of 31:19, and teammate the snatch and 337 pounds in the clean Ukraine’s Iryna Amshennikova took tion and three blocked kicks. Vitalii Shafar took 58th place with a time and jerk). Nahla Ramadan of Egypt took third place in the women’s 200-meter Biathlon of 33:13. second place, and Slaveyka Ruzhinska of Weightlifting backstroke on December 14, finishing the Bulgaria took third place. Kateryna Bilyk race in 2 minutes and 6.51 seconds. Ukraine’s Andrii Deryzemlia took 16th of Ukraine took 15th place. Antje Buschshulte of Germany took first place in the men’s 12.5-kilometer pursuit Ukraine’s Natalia Skakun won the In the women’s over 75-kilogram place with a time of 2:04.23, and event at a World Cup event held in women’s combined event in the 63-kilo- combined category, Olha Korobka of Stanislava Komarova of Russia took sec- Pokljuka, Slovenia, on January 7-11. gram weight class competition at the Ukraine took third place, while China’s ond place with a time of 2:05.42. Norway’s Ole Einar Bjoerndalen took 2003 World Weight Lifting Ding Meiyuan set a new world record Amshennikova also took seventh place first place, finishing the race in 36 min- Championships in Vancouver held on and captured the gold medal in the event in the women’s 100-meter backstroke on utes and 18.88 seconds, while Russia’s November 14-22. China’s Xia Liu took with her lift of 303 pounds in the clean December 12, finishing in 59.28 seconds. Nikolai Krouglov took second place with second place, while Hanna Batsiushka of and jerk. Russia’s Albina Khomich took Germany’s Buschschulte took first place a time of 36:25.14. Fellow Russian Belarus took third place in the competi- second place, and Ukraine’s Viktoria with a time of 58.40, and Ilona Sergei Tchepikov took third place in the tion. The combined event is composed Shaymardanova took eighth place. Hlavackova of the Czech Republic took race with a time of 36:30.34, while of clean and jerk as well as snatch Swimming second place with a time of 58.72. Laure Deryzemlia finished the race in 37:49.21. weightlifting techniques. Skakun’s clean Manaudou of France took third place Ukraine’s Ruslan Lysenko took 35th and jerk lift of 138 kilograms (roughly Ukraine’s Oleh Lysohor took first with a time of 58.99. place in the race with a time of 40:07.45, 304 pounds) on November 18, 2003, in place in the men’s 50-meter breaststroke and his teammate Viacheslav Derkach that competition set a new world record. at the European Short Course – compiled by Andrew Nynka 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 No. 3

MUSICb yREVIEW: Orysia Paszczak MakingTracz a joyfulThe voices, noise the harmonies – the and Volynthe soloists areUkrainian wonderful. Song and Dance Company Some compositions, while interesting, still remind me of the If you’re down in the dumps and need a pick-me-up, Soviet-style epic melodies (“Harnyi, Kozak, Harnyi”). put on a Volyn Choir album, and turn it on a bit louder It would be very difficult to pick a favorite song from than usual. You’ll be smiling, probably singing along this album, because each is so special and so well done in and even dancing in no time. This is one amazing bunch its own way. But I am partial to “Hai, Hai, Zelenkyi / A of enthusiastic, very talented singers and musicians. Divchyna Horlytsia” (No.18). I can just see a dance chore- Their full name is the Volyn Ukrainian Song and Dance ographed to this delightful blend of two upbeat tunes. And Company, from Lutsk, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. their version of “Rozprahaite, Khloptsi Koni – Marusia So far, there have been three albums of folk and con- Harna” is one the younger generations will enjoy. temporary songs from this ensemble, and one album of One final note: There is a problem with the labeling Christmas songs, koliady and schedrivky (New Year’s of tracks for a series of songs on this album, with tracks songs). “Volyn, Ukrainian Christmas Album” and 16 to 23 not cued up properly. “Volyn,” which comprised folk songs, were just released The “Volyn Ukrainian Christmas Album” also is very by Ablaze Productions of Toronto. This company is also fine. Along with a few standards that have been recorded planning to bring Volyn to North America later in 2004. and performed before, the majority of the numbers com- Thankfully, there are many, very many choir record- prise koliadky and schedrivky originating in pre-Christian ings from Ukraine now – most of them very good. And times, with the Christian layer sometimes added later, in the subject matter is extensive – from the authentic and the refrain. There are medieval songs that we do not hear stylized ritual and folk to the most contemporary. The as often. It is a pleasure to hear the actual ancient songs as choices are out there, and the buyer must choose wisely, opposed to just reading the lyrics in old books. because not all ensembles are worth listening to. The second song, “Skhovalos Sontse za Horoyu” (The With its very first recording, the Volyn Choir was a Sun Has Set Behind The Mountain) is neither a carol nor labeled, the “Carol of the Bells” at all. burst of joy and fun. The singers approach their songs a schedrivka, but a long-lost song from the turn of the last Both new albums would benefit from having the with enthusiasm and let-’er-rip delight. The very fine century set to a folk melody. Leopold Yashchenko, the song titles listed also in Ukrainian because the English orchestra, with folk instruments and great horns, adds director of the Homin Choir of Kyiv, explained to me that translations are not easily associated with a particular much to the joy of song shared with the audience. for a long time people thought this was a folk song. Ukrainian song. In gearing the albums to an English- The repertoire of the choir is also something new. During Soviet times this gentle, lovely song was frowned speaking audience, perhaps the producer did not want Along with well-known folk and ritual songs, there are upon, because it spoke of the beauty of Ukraine and peo- Cyrillic writing confusing the reader. An insert in many new ones (new to North America, old in Ukraine), ple’s love and devotion to it. Only recently did it come to Ukrainian might help. Also, indicating which is a koli- and some standards. Artistic Director Oleksander Stadnyk light that the lyrics were by the poet M. Kononenko. This adka and which a schedrivka would help. has arranged very old Ukrainian folk music in a fresh, song, along with a few others on this album, have been in And now to the one thing that drove me up the wall. In new, delightful way. The happy songs are so good that the repertoire of the Homin Choir for years. It deserves to both albums, there is this shrieking woman at the begin- many have been used by North American dance ensem- be heard and sung, but not as a Christmas song. ning and throughout the cheerful fast-paced songs. High- bles as their accompaniment. While this ensemble, formed The open, “bilyi” (white) style of singing is in vogue as pitched yelps, shouts, screeches, howls – “skavulinnia,” as in 1978, is well-rehearsed, the effect is one of spontaneity. the accepted folk way of singing, but after a while a whole my Mama would say. And how in the world could the The Volyn Choir’s new volume of folk songs includes a album of these blasting voices gets to be a bit much. In this director permit or initiate this shrieking in schedrivky? few from the previous albums, in new renditions, and songs Christmas album, it is a pleasure to hear the choir also sing Even the fun ones are still to be done reverently – after all, newly arranged and performed. There are also compositions in the regular fashion – the gentility of presentation is a these are ritual songs, representing something ancient and by Mr. Stadnyk to lyrics of various poets. One haunting welcome change. And here’s a question for ethnomusicolo- very spiritual. Dare we hope that subsequent recordings composition about the Kozaks, “Oy u luzi,” has lyrics by gists: Is this “bilyi holos” really traditional? will eliminate most of the yelping, and all of it in the Vasyl Symonenko to the music of O. Petrov. The selection is The penultimate cut, “Staryi Rik Mynaye” (The Old Christmas album? varied, from the rip-roaring Kozak battle songs and humor- Year Passes),” is a great way to bid farewell. The last The Volyn Choir’s CDs are available at most Ukrainian ous ones, to gentle, sometimes heartbreaking love songs. track is “Schedryk” (one of many), but it is not, as music outlets and on Ukrainian catalogue webpages. Oliynyk’s Third Concerto for Bandura and Orchestra has world premiere by Adriana Shmahalo a visual feast,” which includes the beginning and the end of the composi- returned to Lviv, where she is professor smooth changing of tonalities with the tion. There is an interesting brief quota- of bandura at the Lviv State Music SACRAMENTO – Oksana hand-operated switches and the artistry tion of a motive from Ms. Academy, she gave concerts at the Herasymenko introduced Yuriy of negotiating all 65 strings on the Herasymenko’s Elegy in the extensive Ukrainian Saturday School with 350 Oliynyk’s Third Concerto for Bandura instrument. bandura cadenza in the first movement. children in attendance, Ukrainian and Orchestra in a world premiere here Indeed, the virtuosic concerto No. 3, This reminds us to whom the concerto is Catholic churches in Sacramento and in in the capital of California on November “Exotic,” by Mr. Oliynyk was dedicated dedicated. San Francisco, as well as at Stanford 15, 2003. to Ms. Herasymenko. It features a tam- This was the opening of the 41st sea- Mr. Oliynyk is already known as the University in Palo Alto as part of the son for the Camellia Symphony tam in the percussion section, which composer of three other concertos for commemoration of the Famine-Genocide Orchestra. The auditorium was filled to gives it a certain exotic character. The bandura and orchestra, which were per- in Ukraine in 1932-1933. She met the overflowing, and the press reviews for treatment of phrases, which merge one formed both in the United States and well-known author of “The Harvest of the Bandura Concerto were sensational. into another, makes this concerto Ukraine, and were recorded on a CD by Sorrow,” Dr. Robert Conquest. A few days before the concert, markedly different from its predecessors. his wife, Ola Herasymenko, as a soloist She returned to Lviv hastily in order Patricia Beach Smith, the main music The introduction begins with a chant in with the Lviv Virtuosos Symphony to continue her work in order to raise a critic for the Sacramento Bee, had parallel fifths resembling ancient choral Orchestra and Ukraine’s Shevchenko new generation of students of Ukrainian placed an article with a full-page color music with periodic strokes of the tam- State Award-Winning conductor Yurii musical culture and to further the ban- photograph of the soloist, bandura virtu- tam. A brisk bandura passage leads to the Lutsiv. dura’s full potential, which should be oso Ms. Herasymenko, with an interview first march-like theme played by a com- Ms. Herasymenko’s brief stay in developed by contemporary Ukrainian and her impressions from a demonstra- bination of strings and woodwinds. A California came to an end, but before she composers and performers alike. tion concert at American River College. tense succession of key changes, so She noted that the Ukrainian national characteristic for this composer, lasts instrument shows a multitude of tonal almost through the entire concerto. colors and technical possibilities. The three-movement structure of the Ms. Smith was impressed by the concerto follows a traditional sonata beauty of the music and the exquisite allegro form with clearly defined con- workmanship of the instrument itself, trasts between the individual move- which was custom-made by Ms. ments. The thematic arrangement pres- Herasymenko’s father, Vasyl ents colorful musical images with chang- Herasymenko. Ms. Smith noted that Ms. ing moods and suggestive twists. The Herasymenko is a bandura virtuoso, second slow movement resembles composer and singer whose voice resem- Ukrainian folk motifs with an impres- bles that of Edith Piaf. She wrote that the sionistic accompaniment and a some- singer-bandurist has a master’s degree what accelerated middle section. and was taught by her father, Mr. The last movement is a toccata in fast Herasymenko, professor of bandura at tempo, which requires virtuoso tech- the Lviv State Music Academy, which nique on the bandura. The xylophone, recently celebrated its 150th anniversary. which is absent in the other concertos, is She also pointed out that Lviv was used extensively. The sounds of the ban- founded in 1256. dura and the xylophone create an exotic Eugene Castillo, the conductor of the juxtaposition, which reinforce the exotic Camellia Symphony, said that the music character of this concerto. A brief of Mr. Oliynyk is loved by the public restatement of the theme from the first Bandura soloist Oksana Herasymenko and composer Yuriy Oliynyk receive and that Ms. Herasymenko’s playing “is movement provides a link between the standing ovation, November 15, 2003. 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KERHONKSON,Soyuzivka N.Y. – The Ukrainian photo National Associationalbum: estate, New Year’s Eve festivities Soyuzivka, rang in the New Year with special festivities and celebrations that ran from New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2003, through January 4, 2004, as many took advantage of an extended holiday weekend. The resort offered a “New Year’s Eve Extravaganza” that included a formal banquet with an open cocktail hour, a dance to the music of Temp and, of course, champagne served all night. There were fun activities for Soyuzivka guests on other days as well, including dancing and a cabaret. Seen on these pages (clockwise, beginning with top right) are: Soyuzivka’s snow-covered gazebo; a view of informal dancing in the Main House lobby; the Soyuzivka wait staff ready to serve guests; the New Year’s Eve cocktail hour in the Main House; entertainment and games during cabaret night with Ron Cahute of the Burya orchestra; and New Year’s Eve guests Ksenia Rakowsky (left) and Ivanka Olesnycky during the festive dinner in the Veselka hall.

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reflection of its financial growth, the founda- Chicago-based... tion is looking to expand the number of BOOK NOTES (Continued from page 1) members on its board of directors, Mr. Kulas area and that, in the past nine months have said. “surrounded our offices.” Mr. Kulas called it “The First Security board of directors a “virtual invasion” by companies such as views this transaction as an evolutionary New book tells about experiences Washington Mutual and Bank One. The lat- step in our long-term effort to serve our cus- ter, Mr. Kulas explained, has some 200 tomers and maximize shareholder value,” Mr. Kulas said. of Mennonites in Tsarist Russia, USSR branches in Chicago alone. “A Mennonite Family in Tsarist MB Financial, which prior to the transac- Following news of the transaction, the Chicago Sun Times reported on January 13 Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789- tion had 36 locations, will gain two branches 1923,” by David G. Rempel with in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village, as well as that First Security’s stock shot up $3.01 to Cornelia Rempel Carlson. Toronto: offices in Norwood Park and Palatine, Ill. $34.91, its highest close since it became a University of Toronto Press, 2003, 356 According to Mr. Kulas, all of First publicly held company in 1997. pp, $70 (hardcover). Security’s branches will continue running The First Security customer base, which currently comprises various ethnic back- just as they had prior to the transaction while History comes alive in David G. the Chicago branch locations could see a grounds, including the Polish and Hispanic communities, originated in 1928 as a bank Rempel’s “A Mennonite Family in Tsarist name change to Ukrainian Bank, a division Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789- of MB Financial. predominantly used by Ukrainians. According to Mr. Kulas, the bank’s 1923.” The author presents history Mr. Feiger told the Chicago Tribune that through his own experience living in a First Security branch office in Philadelphia Ukrainian customer base is currently 35 per- cent, while only 5 percent of its lending goes Russian Mennonite settlements during also was part of the deal and that it is “large 1900-1920 and through drawing upon the enough to make money on its own” and to Ukrainian customers. history of his ancestors. Throughout the would run for at least a year under the First The statement also announced that Mr. book Dr. Rempel weaves the reader Security name. Kulas will become a member of the MB through the 1905 revolution, the reper- MB Financial also announced that, in Financial Bank board of directors, remain a cussions of the Stolypin reforms, World order to “emphasize its commitment to First director of the Heritage Foundation and Security’s customers and communities,” it retain his office in Chicago. Paul War I and the people’s fear concerning most dynamic, ethno-religious minori- would donate $1 million to the Heritage Nadzikewycz, chairman of First SecurityFed property expropriation and exile, the ties.” “A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Foundation, a private grant-making organi- Financial, will also become an MB 1917 revolution and Makhnovschyna. Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789- zation created by an initial infusion of $5 Financial Bank Board member and remain Dr. Rempel includes photographs of 1923” was published posthumously and million worth of First Security cash and on the Heritage Foundation board. himself and his family in this book, which edited by Dr. Rempel’s daughter, stock. The MB Financial donation will be First Security reported assets of $495 mil- draws the reader even more into the histo- Cornelia Rempel Carlson. made after the transaction between MB lion on September 30, 2003. 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CALLING ALL NOTESNOTES ONON PEOPLEPEOPLE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ALUMNI! Syracuse attorney The Ukrainian studies Program at Columbia University appears before top courts is compiling an archive with a list of all the Ukrainians SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Attorney John I. Hvozda, son of Dr. John and Valentyna who have studied at Columbia and Barnard. Please phone, Hvozda from Syracuse, N.Y., is practic- fax, or e-mail us with information about you ing before the highest courts of the New York State – the Court of Appeals and and your family’s Columbia studies. the Supreme Court Appellate Division. Mr. Hvozda for some years has been a Write to [email protected] or mail to: member of the Wood and Richmond L.L.P. law firm of North Syracuse, which Maria Sonevytsky specializes in representing employers and Ukrainian Studies Program, Columbia University their insurance carriers throughout International Affairs Building, 1209A Northern and Central New York State in the area of workers’ compensation. 420 West 118th Street Recently, he had represented a client cor- New York, NY 10027 poration before the highest court of New York State, the Court of Appeals, and won Tel.: (212) 854-4697 this important precedent-setting case. Mr. Hvozda was admitted to practice Fax: (212) 666-3481 law before the courts of the State of New York and the U.S. District Court, ôËðÓ ÑflÍÛπÏÓ! Many Thanks! Northern District of New York in 1989, worked in several law firms, as well as John I. Hvozda successfully practiced law from his own law firm in Syracuse. Program Certificate. Dr. Hvozda had graduated with honors He is a member of several Ukrainian from the State University of New York at community organizations, including Buffalo with a B.A. in political science, Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, and received a Juris Doctor from and belongs to Ukrainian National Syracuse University College of Law, Association Branch 39. He resides in with an International Legal Studies Syracuse with his wife, Sofia.

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St. Nicholas hosted by children (and adults) in Hillside, N.J. HILLSIDE, N.J. – On Sunday, December 7, 2003, St. Nicholas made a special visit to the children and adults here at Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Parish. He was especially pleased to have the children visit with him despite the significant amount of snow that fell only hours earlier. As an expression of their love for St. Nicholas, several children and adults presented a bilingual holiday entertainment program. Children’s performances included the following: sopilka (Danylo and Nadia Szpyhulsky); poems (Krista Erakovic, Thomas Feld and Nadia Szpyhulsky); and the famous Ukrainian schedrivka “Carol of the Bells” on the flute (Rebecca Shatynski). Several children (Rebecca, Sarah, Lisa and Gregory Shatynski) creatively brought the song “The 12 Days of Christmas” to life. The chil- dren researched the religious sym- bolism of each of the items men- tioned in the song. The “12 days of St. Nicholas visits children at Immaculate Conception. Christmas” refers to the period from December 26 to January 6. love, which are referred to as gifts gift of Christ is with us for 12 Shatynski, and Sophika and The song begins “On the first from God in 1 Corinthians 13. The months of the year!” Ariadna Stockert served as helpers day of Christmas my true love gave children then used audio-visual Odarka Polanskyj Stockert fur- to St. Nicholas. to me...” The “true love” repre- tools to encourage the audience to ther nurtured the Christmas spirit Hillside’s energetic new pastor, sents God and His love for us. The sing and reflect on the religious by playing several international Father Andriy Rabiy, was present to “partridge in a pear tree” symbol- aspects of this song. Christmas carols on the harp. She lead the group in prayer and song. izes Jesus Christ, who died on a The children asked the audience also led the audience in singing Father Andriy asked everyone to cross for us; “two turtle doves” to reflect on the following thought, several koliady. welcome Christ into their hearts symbolizes the Old and New “The world celebrates Christmas Mike Szpyhulsky served as during this blessed Christmas sea- Testaments; the “three French for 12 hours, but the Church cele- emcee. Russ Pencak served as liai- son and throughout the upcoming hens” symbolizes faith, hope and brates it for 12 days because the son to St. Nicholas. Julianna New Year.

Hartford’s SUM members honor youth organization’s patron HARTFORD, Conn. – The Ukrainian American Youth Association (SUM) branch held a commemorative pro- gram on December 2, 2003, to honor SUM’s patron saint, St. Michael the Archangel, and to mark the 70th anniversary of the Famine- Genocide in Ukraine. The gathering also provided an opportunity for the branch’s SUM youths to be recog- nized for their accomplish- ments and achievements during the educational year. Seen on the right are mem- bers of the SUM branch in

Hartford. Christine Melnyk No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 19 UKELODEON marks its fifth anniversary next month Dear Readers of UKELODEON: for admission. According to The reading and seeing what other kids postal address or e-mail address American Heritage Dictionary of the and teens send in. So, why not let given on this page.) Next month marks the fifth English Language, the root of the everyone else enjoy your submis- We hope to hear from you in anniversary of UKELODEON, a word, “odeon,” is from the Greek sion? 2004! special section of The Ukrainian “oideion,” a small building used for Thus, we repeat our invitation to Weekly that was created in public performances of music and all you members of the “next gen- CKECK IT OUT: On February 1999 to serve as a forum poetry. Thus, our UKELODEON is eration”: Don’t be bashful! Send in page 2 of this issue read about for young readers, by young readers public space for the youth of the your stories and your observations. the Ukrainian translation of the and about young readers. Ukrainian community. Share your experiences with fellow latest book (No. 5) in the Harry UKELODEON was envisioned as a Though UKELODEON is pre- readers. And if you have any ques- Potter series, which was released space where our youth, from pared by the editorial staff of The tions about sending materials, call in Ukraine in November. The kindergartners to high schoolers, Ukrainian Weekly, its main contrib- us at The Weekly, (973) 292-9800, Ukrainian version of “Harry Potter and the Order of the could come to learn, to exchange utors are you, its readers. That is ext. 3049, or send a message via e- information, to relate their experi- why we are thrilled when we get Phoenix” was the first transla- mail to [email protected]. (You ences, and to keep in touch with stories written by kids and teens – tion to be issued in Europe. may send in your materials to the each other. Its contents were to be whether they live here in the shaped by the young readers of United States, or Canada, or what we call the “next generation” Australia, or ... anywhere around of our community. the world. Petro Pytaye: 2004 and you The name UKELODEON rhymes Consider UKELODEON your In an attempt to get more UKELODEON readers involved and onto with nickelodeon. Yes, you probably space – your space to fill with your the pages of this special section for “the next generation,” our reporter, Petro Pytaye, is asking you to reply to the following ques- know that as a kids’ network contributions, whether they be arti- tions in time for our next issue. (spelled with a capital “N”), but the cles, or poems, or photos, or draw- original word referred to an early ings – anything you’d like to share What New Year’s resolution did you make for 2004? movie theater that charged a nickel with your peers. Surely you enjoy ______OUR NEXT ISSUE: UKELODEON is published on the second ______Sunday of every month (there are exceptions, such as this month’s What are you most looking forward to in 2004? ______UKELODEON, which was published a week later due to The Ukrainian ______Weekly’s regularly scheduled “Year in Review” issue, which appeared ______last week). To make it into our next issue, dated February 8, please send in your materials by January 30. Please fill out: We especially encourage kids and teens to submit articles and see Name:______Age:______their names in print. And don’t forget to send a photo or two. Plus, pho- School:______Grade:_____ tos of UKELODEON reporters – that means any of you young readers Address:______who submit a story – are welcome. Please drop us a line: Please clip out and send to: The Ukrainian Weekly, UKELODEON, UKELODEON, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ, 07054. Deadline: Parsippany, NJ 07054; fax, (973) 644-9510. Call us at (973) 292- January 30. If possible, please include a photo of yourself that we can 9800; or send e-mail to [email protected]. (We ask all contributors publish along with your response. PS: You may also e-mail your to please include a daytime phone number.) response to [email protected].

Mishanyna The theme for this month’s Mishanyna is the rulers of early Ukrainian states – its “kniazi,” or princes, its grand princes, and its “koroli,” or kings. S Y D N Y E T A S K O L D Y R Below is a list, in chronological order, of the most prominent rulers of the D U R O T I I R U Y D Y M E V principalities of Kyivan Rus’, Halych and Halych-Volyn (Galicia-Volhynia). The reigns of these rulers span the period between 862 and 1308. To solve I I O M E L K O L R U Y O R I Mishanyna, look for the capitalized names you see below in the puzzle grid. S A S I D I S A Y U M R L K N ASKOLD L L M I M O O D R I S A D O N DYR OLEH A V O R K L O P O R A Y O U Y IHOR V A M O R Y A P Y O R O V Y T OLHA SVIATOSLAV Zavoyovnyk (the Conqueror) O L Y S U N I M O M A N A R S VOLODYMYR Velykyi (the Great) M S S T R A Y O T A B R A T I YAROSLAV Mudryi (the Wise) Volodymyr MONOMAKH Y O L Y E D A N O N O L E H A YAROPOLK R T E S O O N O R S L A V O R VOLODYMYRKO ROSTYSLAV D A D L N R O M L I H E A R A ROMAN I I O A E W R A T H A R M A T DANYLO LEV S V S V E V V K E L E V A T E YURII O S M O T R O H A L O U V R E 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2004 No. 3

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Soyuzivka’s Datebook EDMONTON: The Canadian Institute of CARTERET, N.J.: The St. Demetrius January 30 - February 1, 2004 March 6-7, 2004 Ukrainian Studies presents, as part of its Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral and St. Church of Annunciation Weekend, Plast Kurin “Khmelnychenky” spring lecture series, Dr. David Marples, Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church are co- Flushing, NY Annual Winter Rada professor in the department of history and sponsoring a Malanka or, New Year’s Eve director of the Stasiuk Program for the dance, to be held at the St. Demetrius February 14, 2004 March 13, 2004 Study of Contemporary Ukraine at CIUS, Community Center, 681 Roosevelt Ave. who will give a lecture on “Stalin’s Valentine’s Day Weekend, Dinner UACC Rada Music will be by Fata Morgana. Tickets, at Emergent Crime: Popular and Academic $40, include admission, hot buffet, beer, and Show Debates on the Ukrainian Famine of 1932- March 20, 2004 wine, soda, a midnight buffet and champagne 1933.” The lecture will be held in Heritage toast; there will also be a cash bar. The St. February 21, 2004 Grace Church Men’s Retreat Lounge, Athabasca Hall, University of Demetrius Center is located just blocks from Napanoch Fire Department Banquet Alberta at 3:30 p.m. For more information Exit 12 of the New Jersey Turnpike. There is April 10, 2004 contact CIUS, (780) 492-2972; fax, (780) also a Holiday Inn off the exit with free shut- February 28, 2004 Easter Celebration and Easter Brunch 492-4967; e-mail, [email protected]. tle service. Doors will open at 6 p.m.; buffet SUNY New Paltz Sorority Friday, January 23 will be served at 7 p.m.; and the music starts Semi-Formal Banquet April 24, 2004 at 8 p.m. For table and ticket reservations, Zinych and Dziubina Family Reunion NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Art and call Peter Prociuk, (732) 541-5452. Tickets Literary Club and the New York Bandura will not be sold at the door. Ensmeble present the first concert in the 2004 season of the Bandura Downtown Sunday, February 1 series, “Kubasonica,” featuring Ukrainian SOMERSET, N.J.: The Committee for sounds from the Canadian prairies with Aid to Ukraine presents the Ukrainski tsymbaly wiz Brian Cherwick, the man Barvy vocal and instrumental ensemble responsible for Edmonton’s legendary from Kyiv in a concert to be held at the “Kubasonics.” The program will include Ukrainian Cultural Center, 135 Davidson the songs “Baba Rolls Her Own” and “The Ave., at 4 p.m. Tickets: $15. 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