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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXV No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 $2.00 President Trump signs Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute arrives in Toronto

Russia sanctions bill, by Oksana Zakydalsky calls the law “flawed” TORONTO – The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian RFE/RL Studies celebrated its move from Ottawa to Toronto with a garden party and public lec- WASHINGTON – President Donald ture at its new location on the campus of Trump on August 2 signed into law a the University of St. Michael’s College in the bill strengthening sanctions on Russia University of Toronto. and limiting his ability to lift them. The July 25 festivities also featured the However, he called the bill “significant- blessing of MASI’s new home, Windle ly flawed” and signaled that he might House. Officiating were Cardinal Thomas not fully implement the sanctions. Collins, archbishop of Toronto, and Bishop The legislation was passed by both Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic houses of Congress with sizable majori- Eparchy of St. Volodymyr the Great in Paris. ties that ensured lawmakers could Afterwards, Bishop Gudziak delivered a override any potential veto by the presi- lecture about the significance of the dent. With strong bipartisan support, Sheptytsky Institute. the measure amounted to a muscular Some 400 people attended the ceremo- assertion of Congress’s foreign policy nies; among them were professors, clergy, powers and a rebuke of Mr. Trump’s students and community members. Oksana Zakydalsky repeated calls for a more conciliatory The institute was conceived in 1986. Some of the faculty clergy of the Sheptytsky Institute. At the microphone is Cardinal approach toward Moscow, in particular. Thomas Collins, chancellor of the University of St. Michael’s College. On the right is There was a need for an institution of higher Bishop Borys Gudziak of Paris. “My administration will give careful learning where the Eastern Christian tradi- and respectful consideration to the tion – in dialogue with Western thought – expected to be entirely self-sustaining with the Ukrainian Catholic University) soon preferences expressed by the Congress would be studied in its varied forms. The all costs to be covered by student tuition fees. came on board as students. Other students in these various provisions and will purpose was to provide leaders confident of Several small grants were provided by came from various countries, but not from implement them in a manner consis- this tradition’s power to change lives today. Ukrainian financial institutions of Chicago. Ukraine, which was still under Soviet rule tent with the president’s constitutional The Sheptytsky Institute was founded by The fact that Father Chirovsky was employed at that time. authority to conduct foreign relations,” Father Andriy Chirovsky as a summer pro- full-time by the Catholic Theological Union, he said in a statement released by the Thinking of the future gram within Chicago’s Catholic Theological teaching patristics and courses in Eastern White House. Union (CTU). The official birth of the Christianity, helped the situation. But Father Chirovsky was thinking “My administration particularly Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of The first summer program was held in ahead. Since no one in the United States expects the Congress to refrain from Eastern Christian Studies dates to May 1986. 1987. Father Peter Galadza and doctoral using this flawed bill to hinder our sig- Then a four-week summer program, it was candidate Borys Gudziak (now president of (Continued on page 17) nificant work with European allies to resolve the conflict in Ukraine and from using it to hinder our efforts to address any unintended consequences it may have for American businesses, our Canadian Ukrainian goes from Big Four firm to Lviv hotelier friends and our allies,” he said. And in a second statement also by Mark Raczkiewycz released by the White House, Mr. KYIV – There’s a history of people Trump explained further his reasoning becoming entrepreneurs after turning 40. behind signing the bill, saying he was Robin Chase was 42 when she co-founded doing it “for the sake of national unity.” ZipCar, a car-sharing company whose busi- “It represents the will of the American ness model is helping define the so-called people to see Russia take steps to new economy. Henry Ford was 40 when he improve relations with the United States. started manufacturing automobiles. We hope there will be cooperation Giorgio Armani was 41 when he intro- between our two countries on major duced his haute couture line of clothing. global issues so that these sanctions In turn, Canadian Ukrainian Roman will no longer be necessary,” he said. Tatarsky was two weeks shy of his 41st birth- “I built a truly great company worth day when he and his wife, Kristina, opened many billions of dollars. That is a big On the Square Guesthouse, an 11-room bed part of the reason I was elected. As and breakfast (B & B) in historic Lviv’s president, I can make far better deals Market Square, or Rynok, five years ago. with foreign countries than Congress,” His first two guests were from Great Mr. Trump said. Britain. They were in town for the opening of The White House had announced on the quadrennial European soccer champion- July 28 that the president had decided ship on June 8, 2012, that Ukraine and to sign the legislation imposing sanc- Poland were co-hosting for a month that tions on Russia over its alleged med- year. dling in the U.S. presidential election. “They were excited to be in Ukraine as That surprise announcement came football fans, and so were we to have them,” hours after Russia announced retalia- On the Square Mr. Tatarsky, 46, told The Ukrainian Weekly Canadian Ukrainian hotelier Roman Tatarsky holds a certificate of excellence for On (Continued on page 14) the Square Guesthouse that was issued to his bed & breakfast by a notable travel (Continued on page 5) website company. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 No. 32

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Saakashvili’s options are limited Saakashvili lashes out at Poroshenko for early parliamentary elections. A presi- dential vote is to be held in March 2019. KYIV – Mikheil Saakashvili, the former (RFE/RL, based on the YouTube live stream after he loses Ukrainian citizenship Georgian president and Odesa regional gov- of Mikheil Saakashvili’s press conference) ernor who was recently stripped of his by Peter Baumgartner Mr. Saakashvili had pledged to return to Georgia for the October 2016 parliamenta- Ukrainian citizenship, says he intends to Germany urges EU to fight sanctions bill RFE/RL return to Ukraine. In a video press confer- ry elections but ended up not going after PRAGUE – Germany’s economics minis- ence organized by his Movement of New One-time Georgian president, former being threatened with arrest by Georgian ter on July 31 urged the European Union to Forces opposition party at its headquarters Ukrainian governor and current U.S. deni- officials. fight back against new sanctions by the in Kyiv on August 1, Mr. Saakashvili, who is zen Mikheil Saakashvili is a man without a United States that could penalize Western …or U.S. asylum? currently in the United States, said country. companies doing business with Russia. The Mr. Leshchenko said Mr. Poroshenko’s Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s But the firebrand Mr. Saakashvili, who new sanctions targeting Russia’s energy stripping of his former ally’s citizenship decision to annul his citizenship earlier in lost his Georgian passport in late 2015 firms were included in legislation passed was carried out to get Mr. Saakashvili to July was “illegal” and “weakened democracy after he took a government position in overwhelmingly by Congress and signed “take asylum in America and forget about in Ukraine.” Mr. Saakashvili urged Ukrainian Ukraine that required him to be a citizen of into law by President Donald Trump on Ukrainian politics.” authorities and President Poroshenko to that country, has vowed to fight Ukrainian August 2. The provisions affecting Europe President Petro Poroshenko’s July 26 move Mr. Saakashvili resided in the United allow him to come back to legally prove in would allow Mr. Trump to impose sanctions to revoke his new status. States before taking the position of gover- court that his citizenship had been illegally on Western businesses working with The ex-Georgian leader called the move nor of Ukraine’s Odesa region in May 2015. taken away from him. “That move had a sin- Russia’s Gazprom to build the Nord Stream to annul his Ukrainian citizenship “entirely While president of Georgia, he was consid- gle goal, which is to remove a key player 2 natural-gas pipeline between Russia and illegal” and “cowardly” and vowed in a video ered a close U.S. ally and is admired by from the political scene in Ukraine,” said Mr. Germany through the Baltic Sea. European posted on Facebook on July 27 to “fight for many for his leading role in Georgia’s pro- Saakashvili, adding that the action had leaders say the sanctions will jeopardize my legal right to return to Ukraine.” democracy Rose Revolution in 2003 and “weakened Ukraine in its fight against its their energy security and hurt their econo- It’s not clear what his chances are of his achievements cutting corruption and current enemy – Putin’s Russia.” Mr. mies. “We consider this as being against having his Ukrainian citizenship restored, bureaucracy. Saakashvili also was sharply critical of Mr. international law, plain and simple,” German however. He resigned as Odesa governor in Poroshenko, a former friend of his who Economics Minister Brigitte Zypries said in “From a legal point of view, the decision November 2016 after a fallout with Mr. granted him Ukrainian citizenship and an interview published by the Funke by Poroshenko is justified,” Oleksiy Haran, Poroshenko and was in New York when the installed him as governor of Odesa. Mediengruppe newspaper chain on July 31. professor of comparative politics at the Ukrainian president announced that his cit- “Poroshenko’s move made it clear that the “The Americans can’t punish German com- National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, izenship was being revoked. commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian panies because they have business interests told RFE/RL. When asked during the France24.com armed forces is a coward,” he said. “A cow- in another country,” Ms. Zypries said. “Of “When Saakashvili submitted the docu- interview if he would apply for asylum in ard, who while I was not home changed the course, we don’t want a trade war. But it is ments for Ukrainian citizenship [in 2015], the United States, however, Mr. Saakashvili lock on my home door and threw all my important the European Commission now he didn’t mention in his statement that said “no.” He later told CNN he was “not belongings out of the window.” Mr. there was a criminal case against him in looking for help from anybody right now.” looks into countermeasures.” Ms. Zypries Saakashvili, who went to university in said Berlin had repeatedly asked Georgia,” Prof. Haran said. “According to A Saakashvili assistant, Zoe Reyners, said Ukraine and served his Soviet military duty Ukrainian legislation, he has to [declare it].” from New York that the former Georgian Washington not to include the provisions in the country, added that he remains a affecting European companies in a broader Mr. Saakashvili took the governor’s job president and Ukrainian governor plans to Ukrainian who will do everything he can to in Odesa in 2015 at the request of fight the removal of his citizenship and go bill targeting Russia with sanctions over its make sure that corruption and lawlessness alleged interference in the U.S. presidential President Poroshenko, who first met the back to Ukraine to continue his political are eradicated in “our Ukraine.” He added, “I former Georgian leader as a university stu- work. election, aggression in Ukraine and other do not plan to use the protection of the matters. “Unfortunately, that is exactly what dent in Kyiv in the 1980s. Mr. Poroshenko “He’s not seeking asylum in the U.S. right United States or any other country. I will was counting on Mr. Saakashvili’s reputa- now,” she said. they are doing. That means that it is right come back,” noting that his return would that the European Commission now consid- tion as a reformer who tamped down cor- Mr. Saakashvili added that he would not be incognito. Mr. Saakashvili also stated ruption in Georgia and expected him to do ers countermeasures,” she said. European return to Ukraine with “the support of civil that his party’s plan to stage mass protests the same in Odesa. But Mr. Saakashvili Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker society and opposition groups.” in autumn remain unchanged. Mr. resigned 18 months later, complaining of warned last week that “if our concerns are He did find backing for his plight from Saakashvili, 49, resigned as Odesa governor engrained corruption within Ukraine’s gov- not taken into account sufficiently, we stand some quarters in Ukraine. in November 2016, complaining of official ernment, and now thinks Mr. Poroshenko ready to act appropriately within a matter Former Prime Minister Yulia obstruction of anti-corruption efforts, views him as a political threat. of days” of the provisions taking effect. The Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna party said accusing Mr. Poroshenko of dishonesty, and Yarema Dukh, a spokesman for Ukraine’s United States has for years opposed the that Mr. Poroshenko’s action against Mr. charging that the central government was presidential office, told the Kyiv Post that Nord Stream 2 pipeline, saying it will only Saakashvili was “another step toward dic- sabotaging crucial reforms. Without citizen- Mr. Poroshenko signed a decree revoking tatorship.” increase European dependence on Russia Mr. Saakashvili’s citizenship after being told ship, Mr. Saakashvili cannot seek political And Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote office in Ukraine, where his party is calling (Continued on page 12) he gave insufficient information while on Twitter on July 27 that he does not think applying for a Ukrainian passport in 2015. the “decision on Saakashvili’s citizenship is Prof. Haran said that because Mr. a positive thing for the country.” Saakashvili didn’t admit that he had crimi- nal charges against him, “he violated a Boomerang effect? The Ukrainian Weekly FOUNDED 1933 basic rule and there was the possibility to Mr. Saakashvili was quick to accuse Mr. deprive him of his Ukrainian citizenship.” Poroshenko of using the citizenship issue An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., Mr. Saakashvili has said the charges to eliminate possible political opponents. a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. against him, which he has said were politi- “He is basically trying to get rid of one of his Yearly subscription rate: $90; for UNA members — $80. cally motivated by the new Georgian gov- main opponents,” Mr. Saakashvili told CNN. 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Box 280 international law – and since Mr. Saakashvili plained that his anti-corruption efforts were Parsippany, NJ 07054 e-mail: [email protected] only had Ukrainian citizenship the actions being sabotaged, and openly accused Mr. The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com by Mr. Poroshenko should be null and void. Poroshenko of dishonesty. On July 27, Mr. Return to Ukraine… Saakashvili said that he was “trying to stop [the corrupt elite] from killing the Ukrainian The Ukrainian Weekly, August 6, 2017, No. 32, Vol. LXXXV In an interview the same day with state” and vowed that “we will bring a new Copyright © 2017 The Ukrainian Weekly France24.com, Mr. Saakashvili said he political class to power in Ukraine.” would “certainly go back to Ukraine.” He added: “They are still scared of me. But Serhiy Leshchenko, a pro-Poroshen- And the reason they are scared is I do have ADMINISTRATION OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY AND SVOBODA ko national deputy in the Verkhovna Rada, popular support.” warned Mr. Saakashvili that he would be Walter Honcharyk, administrator (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 But Prof. Haran of Kyiv University Mohyla and advertising manager fax: (973) 644-9510 arrested at the Kyiv airport if he tried to Academy said that Mr. Saakashvili’s e-mail: [email protected] return, adding that he could also face extra- Movement of New Forces party, set up last Subscription Department (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 dition to Georgia, where he is wanted on e-mail: [email protected] corruption and abuse of power charges. (Continued on page 16) No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 3

NEWS ANALYSIS Putin’s foreign policy non-options in response to U.S. sanctions by Pavel K. Baev eration with Russia, so a much more force- This means that foreign policy is going tary strength. Eurasia Daily Monitor ful response is to be expected – besides the to be the main instrument for getting even This leaves just two seats of violent con- dramatic reduction of the U.S. Embassy with the United States, and Mr. Putin flict where Russia could move pro-actively It has gradually dawned on the Russian staff in Moscow (Moscow Echo, July 28). indeed considers himself a master of con- against U.S. and Western interests: Syria leadership that the legislation approved by There is no way for him to respond in flict manipulation (DW.com, July 26). and Ukraine. The ceasefire in the south- the U.S. Congress amounts not just to some kind, because Russia cannot afford any fur- One of the most dangerous crises is western corner of Syria negotiated by more tightening of sanctions, but to the ther deterioration of the investment cli- developing in North Korea, but China has Messrs. Trump and Putin in Hamburg is downgrading of Russia’s status on the mate. The only area that is exempt from control over it, so the Russian Defense still holding despite not answering the international arena to that of a “pariah U.S. sanctions is cooperation in space pro- Ministry merely confirms that the missile interests of either the al-Assad regime, Iran state” on par with Iran and North Korea. grams, but Russian corporations are des- tests pose no threat (RBC.ru, July 28). China or Israel (RBC.ru, July 24). Mr. Putin met Until recently, Russian diplomacy had perately dependent on its continuation is presently involved in a very tense stand- last week with Iraqi Vice-President Nouri been making a big fuss around the denied (Kommersant, July 27). Propositions for off with India, but Moscow has no capacity al-Maliki, who is a key conduit of Iranian access to two vast estates in New York and dumping U.S. obligations from Russian for mediating in this test of ambitions influence, and sought to find new opportu- Maryland, and President Vladimir Putin financial reserves would hardly make any (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, July 25). There may nities for Russian maneuvering (Gazeta.ru, made a point of raising it at the meetings impact on the strength of U.S. currency, but be some opportunities to influence the July 25). He is, however, reluctant to be with U.S. President Donald Trump during could damage Russia’s financial system course of the civil war in Libya, but Russia seen as Iran’s ally since that might endan- the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, (Russian Council, July 27). has no capacity for a military intervention ger the deal on oil production cuts with Germany. The closure of a small U.S. diplo- The new U.S. policy targets particularly (Vzglyad, July 6). Violent unrest in Saudi Arabia and OPEC, which, as his min- matic dacha in Moscow announced on July the export of Russian corruption and the Venezuela offers a chance for Mr. Putin to isters argue, is crucial for supporting the oil 28 was a rather weak counter to that mea- activities of oligarchs profitably connected assert his stance against revolutions, but price on the level of $50 per barrel sure enforced by the Obama administration with the Kremlin, and Moscow has no Caracas is too far out of his reach (Kremlin.ru, July 28). Syria is also the only last December, and it was certainly nowhere defense against such investigations (Kommersant, July 28). Russia may make a place where military cooperation with the close to being an answer to the new devas- (Navalny.com, July 28). The attempts to demonstrative exit from the Intermediate- United States is still working, so undercut- tating punishment (Svoboda.org, July 28). play on disagreements between the United Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (1998), ting it might be counterproductive Mr. Putin is visibly angry about this States and the European Union could yield but the consequences could be extremely (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, July 28). “cynical” exploitation by the United States some dividends, but the conclusion about detrimental to its strategic interests (Profil, As for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, the newly of its “geopolitical advantages” and per- the hopelessness for Russia of confronta- July 12). Russia has a position of power in appointed U.S. special envoy, was able to haps also about his own miscalculations of tion in the economic sphere is beyond the Arctic, but it is difficult to find a way to Mr. Trump’s intentions in advancing coop- doubt (Gazeta.ru, July 26). extract any political dividends from its mili- (Continued on page 18) Corruption spoils every attempt to cooperate with Russia

by Pavel K. Baev engaging and then dumping some “patriotic regarding the role of Prosecutor General building a position of political power. And Eurasia Daily Monitor hackers,” so there is little incentive for Yuri Chaika (Navalny.com, July 11). Standing the corrupt officialdom cannot find a way Moscow to curtail its experiments with tall against relentless police pressure, Mr. to stop him, short of resorting to extreme Following the long-expected meeting offensive cyber operations (Meduza.io, July Navalny inspires expanding networks of fol- measures, like with Boris Nemtsov, whose between United States President Donald 12). Only a few enterprises in Russia have lowers, particularly among the youth. The murderers have just received relatively Trump and Russian President Vladimir the capacity to develop weapons as power- hypocrisy of the government in vilifying him light sentences (Moscow Echo, July 13). Putin, on July 7 at the G-20 summit in ful as the recent computer virus Petya; and only adds credibility to his cause. Mr. Putin seems perturbed by this politi- Hamburg, Germany, the main tangible the Kremlin objects vehemently to sanc- Illustratively, evidence recently came to cal challenge; he is reluctant to let Mr. result was the ceasefire in the southwest- tions on such suspects as Kaspersky Lab light that Andrei Klimov, who leads the Navalny participate in the presidential ern corner of Syria. But this “deliverable” is (Newsru.com, July 12). prosecution of “foreign agents” in the campaign but understands that without the of little if any interest to the Russian public, It is as difficult to distinguish between Federation Council, together with his wife opposition challenger’s participation the particularly as Russian casualties in that Russian special services operations and runs dubious off-shore businesses regis- electoral contest could lack legitimacy. The conflict continue to mount (RBC, July 11). hacker activism in the cyber domain, as it is tered in Cyprus (Novaya Gazeta, July 14). Russian leader was supposed to announce Mr. Putin has been generous with his to find a difference between Moscow’s Unlike many liberal critics of the Putin somewhat dubious compliments of Mr. recruitment of intelligence “assets” and regime, Mr. Navalny has set as his goal (Continued on page 16) Trump, describing him as a man who sur- Russian “oligarchs” building business con- prised him with a readiness to listen and to nections abroad. The recently unearthed respond frankly (Kommersant, July 15). meeting from last year between key mem- The Russian mainstream media reso- bers of the Trump campaign and Kremlin- Quotable notes lutely ignores all new turns in the U.S. connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, …President Trump and I believe that better relations with Russia may be possible. investigations into Moscow’s interference accompanied by Russian American lobbyist But as the president has said, we’ll see. in last year’s presidential election. Instead, and former Soviet counterintelligence officer But negotiations between parties always begin with a recognition and a respect Rinat Akhmetshin, illustrates this muddle Russian outlets stick to the official position for the position of each party. And with the sanctions that President Trump will sign of blunt denials, which Mr. Putin recon- (Novaya Gazeta, July 14). Ms. Veselnitskaya’s this week, codifying sanctions that have been in place by the United States, our coun- firmed in Hamburg. The main story is actu- attempts to lobby against the Magnitsky Act try is sending a very clear message and calling on our European allies to join us in a ally the deadlock regarding the issue of were so awkward that a fiasco was pre- very clear message that we mean what we say and say what we mean; that Russia’s access to diplomatic dachas in Washington determined (Grani.ru, July 13). destabilizing activities in Ukraine, their support for rogue regimes like Iran and Syria and New York, which were declared off- Russian special services have access to and North Korea, that their posture has to change. limits for Russia by the administration of various pools of “dirty money” and feel But we believe that by being clear and being strong, that we can pursue a dialogue President Barack Obama last December unconstrained in appropriating such funds, based on mutual understanding. And President Trump holds the view that it’s been a (Rossiiskaya Gazeta, July 14). even for personal profit, as the arrest of two lack of clarity and commitment by the United States that’s created much of the insta- The instant collapse of the initiative to Federal Security Service (FSB) colonels in bility in the world today. … establish a joint group on cybersecurity Moscow has reminded yet again And so President Trump believes that we can have peace through strength. And was interpreted primarily in the context of (Kommersant, July 15). Every rational propo- strong and clear positions, we believe, can create a foundation where authentic dia- Mr. Trump’s complicated relations with the sition to set up new reliable “rules of engage- logue may – we hope – result in better relations and in the resolution of long-stand- U.S. Congress and explained away as a casu- ment” in some area of relations, including ing disputes in Ukraine, in Georgia, and in other areas of the world. … alty of the furious attacks on the president even arms control, is thus inevitably compro- President Trump will sign the Russia sanctions bill soon. … by distressed Democrats (Nezavisimaya mised and defeated by this all-pervasive cul- Gazeta, July 12). ture of corruption that shapes Russian for- And let me say that in signing the sanction, our president and our Congress are There is indeed an obvious need to estab- eign policy, which employs “black” propagan- speaking with a unified voice that those matters that the president spoke about so lish “rules of engagement” in the fast-evolv- da as the instrument of choice. eloquently in Warsaw, about Russian destabilizing activities, about Russia’s efforts to ing sphere of warfare in the virtual space, The struggle against corruption makes support rogue regimes – that has to change. where attacks could inflict heavy damage up the core of blogger and opposition leader For there to be a change in our relationship with Russia, Russia has to change its and remain unpunished (Gazeta.ru, July 11). Alexei Navalny’s political campaign; he behavior. And by these sanctions, by my presence here, by the president’s powerful Yet another recent hack on the U.S. State insists it is not a hollow slogan but a practi- affirmation of the objectives and the values of our alliance in the West, our hope is Department underscored that the risk cal and winnable cause (Moscow Echo, July that we will move toward better relations and a better future and a more peaceful remains uncontained (Kommersant, July 15). 14). He follows closely the development of world as a result. The problem, however, is that it is per- the Russian investigations in the United – U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence, responding to questions during a joint press confer- fectly possible for the Russian special ser- States and has important things to say on ence with Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili in Tbilisi, Georgia, on August 1. vices to cover up their involvement by the corrupt connections, particularly 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 No. 32 No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 5

Canadian Ukrainian... (Continued from page 1) at an outdoor café in downtown Kyiv on July 25. Lviv’s city hall with its two lion statues nobly guarding the main entrance can be seen from the balcony of several rooms situated inside the early 17-century building, locat- ed at 13 Ploshcha Rynok, that dates to when Galicia (Halychyna) belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Mr. Tatarsky, who holds an M.B.A. from Hamilton’s McMaster University in Ontario, consolidated the rooms The B & B’s sign.

On the Square On the Square Guesthouse is located at 13 Ploschcha Rynok The simple yet rustic interior showing an exposed brick wall in one of the rooms at Danylo Inn. above commercial space. into a B & B based on what he says was the city’s hospitali- This meant “dealing with the actual owners of the apart- $3.8 million. The yearly return on the investment is cur- ty segment’s lack of “mid-range” hotels. ments living there… Here you have to knock on the door rently at “above average” compared to his peers, Mr. “Back in the day… your only option was either post-Sovi- and say, ‘Hi, I’m Roman, I’d like to buy your flat” – which he Tatarsky said, without providing a percentage figure due to et crap or high-end hotels,” he said. “I got inspiration from eventually did. confidentiality clauses he has with partners. traveling to Europe with my wife, staying at three-star Roman and Kristina Tatarsky took the plunge eventually Given his Ukrainian heritage, Mr. Tatarsky said his life in hotels. You… still don’t have them in Lviv to a certain and quit their jobs in 2012. Ms. Tatarsky also had a lucra- Ukraine has given him both “professional and personal sat- extent.” tive career working in investor relations for the oil and gas isfaction.” So, he found a Canadian equity partner and started company Halnaftohaz. “There’s a lot of satisfaction in being able to raise up scouting the approximately 100 buildings in old Lviv that “We both took risks, we took pay cuts. She effectively is young professionals,” he said. are about 200 years old. our CFO – she manages the financials,” he said. The Euro-Maidan revolution has been his most memo- Owning four condominiums back in Toronto and a con- Next came Danylo Inn, on 20 Danylo Halytsky St., anoth- rable part of living in Ukraine so far. He and his wife visited verted triplex, the first-generation Canadian always was er B & B in Market Square that started operating six rooms Kyiv’s Independence Square daily to deliver medicine and fascinated with real estate, although it was never his main in October 2015. Mr. Tatarsky brought in four equity part- food that they had bought during those tumultuous times. source of income. He explains his passion for brick and ners from Canada for this project. His success hasn’t gone unnoticed. French investors, mortar projects abstractly. Like its predecessor, this building, which was built in international hotel chains, as well as others have “I walk the streets, I look at buildings, and I love them, I 1787, has maintained its architectural integrity as much as approached Mr. Tatarsky. Some opportunities that he is could appreciate them,” Mr. Tatarsky said. “They’re beauti- possible. Mr. Tatarsky’s concept has been “minimalistic.” He exploring include opening a boutique hotel with 40 to 50 ful. Real estate is something you could touch and feel… It’ll has tried to keep the baseboards intact, has exposed the rooms and a conference center that could have 250 rooms. be there for a very long time. It really is a true investment.” historic brick walls and preserved the old fireplaces, all the But to “build a country, a vibrant economy” is needed, he But his main line of work was risk management consult- while furnishing rooms with colorful furniture. said, adding that “I want Ukraine to be a business destina- ing. He was on assignment in Ireland for Pricewaterhouse- At first, many local tourists didn’t quite grasp his vision of tion… this is why I’m talking to so many investors… I’m not Coopers (PwC) when the Orange Revolution erupted in not plastering walls or of painting floorboards white, he said. a politically active person, I believe in contributing this 2004. He broke down his approach this way: “What real estate way.” “Ukraine started hitting the press and it all looked very investment is, is basically taking a real asset and improving Mr. Tatarsky noted he employs 27 full-time hotel staff exciting. Just after that assignment, I jumped on a plane it and adding value… and you move it to a best-use scenario.” and 15 builders. and came here,” Mr. Tatarsky said. In six months, Danylo Inn will have all 45 of its rooms Indeed, he has something to look forward to. Last year, First, he had to find a job as his position was already ready for occupancy. Currently, the Tatarskys boast an 85 according to official statistics, 2.5 million tourists visited filled at the local unit of PwC in Kyiv. So he pounded the to 95 percent occupancy rate at their two hotels. Lviv – twice as many as in 2012 during the soccer champi- pavement and interviewed with the remaining Big Four Combined, both projects at turnkey are projected to cost onship. That figure is expected to keep growing. accounting firms, eventually accepting an offer to head E&Y’s risk management department. Still, renovating apartments to rent, opening a hotel or re-purposing property was always on his mind. While still at E&Y (formerly known as Ernst & Young), he spotted a derelict building near Lviv’s central square and consolidated the six flats inside that he eventually leased to !FEST, the group of restaurateurs who run several famous themed eateries, the most notable of which is Kryivka: the subterranean brew house modeled after a bunker of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or UPA. Again, his love for landed property drew him to the spot. “I was walking around the center. I said, ‘there’s a story to tell here,’ ” he recounted. He and !FEST then combined to open Dim Lehend, an eclectic restaurant modeled after a chimney sweeper’s house. The restaurateurs contributed to renovating the place, while Mr. Tatarsky provided a 10-year lease that expires next year. After the global financial crisis that hit Ukraine in 2008, the native Torontonian found what would be On the Square and embarked on a “grass-roots project.” 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 No. 32

WINDOW ON EURASIA The Ukrainian Weekly Lethal weapons for Ukraine Russians needn’t fear West’s sanctions, We welcome the news that the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon have pro- posed to the White House a plan to help Ukraine defend its sovereignty by providing but should worry about Moscow’s response lethal weapons. by Paul Goble July 1, 2014, the foreign debt of Russia was The possession by Ukraine of anti-armor projectiles like Javelin missiles and anti- $733 billion (U.S.); now, it is about $530 bil- aircraft weapons would significantly raise the stakes for Moscow, which already has The last three years of Russia’s economic lion. The new package doesn’t make a fur- more tanks in the easternmost Donbas than all the tanks found in Western Europe. isolation show, Sergey Shelin says, that “the ther decline likely. The Kremlin’s trampling of Ukrainian sovereignty – already in its fourth year – counter-measures invented by the Russian Indeed, the Rosbalt commentator says, would then come at an ever higher cost to the aggressor. authorities have harmed the country more “the more symmetrical [Moscow’s Arguments by Russia that the provision of defensive weapons will only “escalate” than ‘the machinations of the West.’ ” response] will be… the less noticeable will the Donbas war ignore the fact that Moscow has ramped up the war against Ukraine Consequently, Russians should be more be the transition from the old version of at each stage. This includes Russia’s provision of anti-aircraft weapons to its proxies worried about Moscow’s response to new Western sanctions to the new.” And thus that have eventually sealed off airspace after numerous Ukrainian jets and helicop- sanctions than to the sanctions themselves. “the optimistic variant” is that Moscow ters have been shot down. Also, since 2013 Russia has added formations of three The commentator for Rosbalt (a Russian won’t do anything that will provoke a fur- armies adjacent to Ukraine, including two new ones, according to Dr. Phillip Karber information agency based in Moscow and St. ther Western tightening. of the Potomac Foundation. “Three divisions were also moved near Ukraine’s border, Petersburg) notes that “many have forgotten Moscow can issue statements, cope with which has included 20 regiments/brigades (17 new) on Ukraine’s border,” he told that the main Western sanctions were intro- a small further decline in the ruble The Ukrainian Weekly. duced, not in the spring of 2014 at the time exchange rate, some additional capital Let’s not forget the Russian-supplied Buk missile that shot down the MH17 pas- of Crimea, but only in the summer because flight and a decline in foreign direct invest- senger airliner, which tragically killed all 298 people on board on July 17, 2014. Or of the war in the Donbas and the shooting ment. But if the Kremlin adopts a more sig- the Moscow-supplied arms, armor, artillery, manpower and training of collaborators down of the passenger jet [Malaysia Airlines nificant counter-sanction program, such as in eastern Ukraine. Flight 17]. Corresponding countersanctions an embargo on the import of food of all Russia’s escalation of the war – when Kyiv forces were on the verge of cutting off were declared then” (rosbalt.ru/blogs/ kinds, then the outcome could be more the main highway arteries between Luhansk and Donetsk – led to the battle of 2017/07/28/1634442.html). negative, past history suggests. Ilovaisk in August 2014, when regular Russian army divisions were sent to stave off Thus, Russia now is marking the third In 2013, Russia exported $16.2 billion Ukraine’s successful summer offensive. anniversary of its economic isolation. That worth of foodstuffs; last year, it exported Massive cross-border shelling from Russia of Ukrainian positions in 2014 preced- experience suggests what people should $17 billion, a tiny increase given that ed the battle that led to Ukraine losing control of 450 kilometers of its eastern bor- expect now, because “the new American Russian agricultural production has been der with its belligerent neighbor. sanctions package doesn’t so much intensi- growing more or less uninterruptedly since Next came the battle of Debaltseve, a key rail transportation hub in Donetsk Oblast fy the measures that were introduced earli- that Russia also took over with regular forces just days after the so-called Minsk II the end of the 1990s, Mr. Shelin says. If er as tighten them and make their lifting peace agreement was brokered in Belarus on February 11, 2015. That ceasefire has things had been normal, Russian exports more difficult.” yet to take hold because Russia continues to escalate the war. Last month, in fact, would have soared. The new measure does allow for making Ukraine had the highest monthly casualties since June 2016, losing 24 soldiers. “But import substitution,” he says, them harsher, but only if Russia’s responses This only illustrates what military experts say is Moscow’s advantage of having “opened before the agricultural magnates are such that the U.S. elite and population “escalation dominance.” Whatever Ukraine does, Russia can match it and maintain enormous sources of income on the domes- superiority through its more advanced military. feel offended. Taking away the American tic market” and meant that they could ignore Ukraine is obviously paying a high price for turning toward the West and embrac- dacha and expelling a few diplomats isn’t foreign problems. But Moscow’s counter- ing values based on democracy and civil liberties, while turning away from back- going to reach that level, Mr. Shelin says. sanctions had a very different and more sig- ward Russia, whose leadership offers no vision for the future. Russia, after all, is a He recalls that “the main direct conse- nificant impact on Russian consumers. country that never soberly confronted its totalitarian and criminal past, one that fab- quence of the summer sanctions of 2014 In 2013, Russia imported 2.65 times as ricates myths of times long gone, and one that constantly destabilizes its neighbors was the need to return foreign debts quick- much food from abroad as it exported; last with military intervention. ly and search for new sources of credit in year, that figure was 1.45. That decline was Ukraine, which has been fighting courageously to preserve its independence, place of those that had been closed off.” On not because Russia was becoming more self- deserves to have its military capability improved so that it can successfully battle sufficient but rather because of the sharp invading Russian-and Russian-led forces. Should Moscow decide to alter its narra- Paul Goble is a long-time specialist on decline in imports as a result of Russia’s tive of the Ukraine “conflict” being a “civil war” and escalate its military adventurism ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia declining income and, thus, its ability to pay. into something well beyond that, Ukraine would sorely need anti-aircraft missiles. who has served in various capacities in the And that permits the following conclu- Moreover, a Russian invasion from other directions is always a threat, whether U.S. State Department, the Central sion: “Even in such a growing and almost from Russian-occupied Crimea, from the northeast via Chernihiv or Sumy oblasts, or Intelligence Agency and the International flourishing part of the economy as agricul- even from Belarus, north of Ukraine. Indeed, Russia plans to engage 100,000 troops Broadcasting Bureau, as well as at the Voice ture, ‘import substitution’ counter-sanc- in a training operation at the end of this summer called operation Zapad (West). of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio tions have distorted normal development, Some 3,000 to 5,000 soldiers will be stationed in Belarus alone, and Kyiv’s military Liberty and the Carnegie Endowment for have supported oligarchic circles and mate- leadership fears that not only personnel, but equipment and other military resourc- International Peace. The article above is rially harmed masses of ordinary Russians.” es, will stay there after the September operation. reprinted with permission from his blog Those ordinary Russians can only hope Without lethal weapons, Ukraine’s soldiers will be stuck with the training they called “Window on Eurasia” (http://windo- that the Kremlin will not adopt something got from the American military that taught them how to halt armored vehicles by woneurasia2.blogspot.com/). similar again, Mr. Shelin concludes. laying traps of wire that go into the treads of tracked vehicles. Sure, Ukraine has its homegrown Stuhna anti-tank weapon, but it’s technologically inferior to the Javelin. But that’s not the point. FOR THE RECORD Russia responds only to force. Ukraine has proven to be a resilient opponent. With more advanced weaponry, Kyiv might force Moscow leader Vladimir Putin to alter his calculus ahead of an election year and before he hosts next year’s quadrennial World Cup soccer tournament as more Russians needlessly come home in more body bags. UCCA reacts to “false narrative” Ukraine is the frontline to Europe’s security. Moscow has already severed 7 per- cent of its territory. More advanced weapons will help Ukraine defend the rest of its territory from a war-mongering state bent on not letting Ukraine choose its Western regarding Ukraine and United States path away from its former ruler and colonizer. UCCA and structures binding the two nations, including the 2008 U.S.-Ukraine Charter on NEW YORK – Earlier this month, several Strategic Partnership, the UCCA further U.S. media outlets, so-called political experts stressed that these false statements, laced and a few government officials began to with the “ ‘whataboutism’ originating in Turning the pages back... repeat a false narrative about Ukraine. The Russia,” particularly pain the Ukrainian August Ukrainian Congress Committee of America American community coming “after Russia’s (UCCA), the largest representative body of bloodiest attempted advance in 2017 took Twenty-five years ago, on August 9, 1992, thousands of veter- Americans of Ukrainian descent, on July 27 the lives of 17 Ukrainian heroes.” ans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) marched through the issued a statement decrying the false com- Since the beginning of 2017, there have 9 streets of Kyiv to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the parison of Ukraine, a strategic ally of the been some 2,000 recorded attacks by founding of the partisan force. 1992 United States, with Russia, a criminal Russian forces across the ceasefire line in An estimated 5,000 men and women, primarily from western aggressor state, and urging fellow support- Ukraine, with dozens of civilians killed this Ukraine, the United States and Canada, dressed in full uniform and ers of Ukraine to set the record straight year alone. carrying flags of Ukraine and the black-and-red flag of revolution, rallied at St. Sophia Square when confronted by these fanciful stories. The full text of the UCCA’s July 27 state- to pray for those UPA soldiers who had fallen in battle and to call on Ukraine’s Parliament to Stating that these “false accusations, lev- ment follows. recognize the Ukrainian Insurgent Army’s defense of Ukraine during the second world war. eled by Russian propagandists,” slander The commemoration was part of a larger, three-day commemoration hosted in Kyiv. * * * Ukraine’s government and its people, the The events concluded with a concert on Independence Square. The UPA 50th anniversary Increasingly over the past few months, observances also featured a conference at the Ukraina Palace of Culture and the Officers UCCA decried the omission of Ukraine’s the ideological battleground that is social real and lasting ties with the United States, Building on August 8 and 10. media has seen an uptick in attacks target- and presented a compilation of examples. (Continued on page 14) Listing a series of bilateral agreements (Continued on page 19) No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 7

OPINION COMMENTARY You can’t ‘work’ with Putin, A visit to the IPSC in Lviv Oblast you can only isolate him by Paul Grod Western institutions and alliances. It has allowed him to occupy Crimea and to wage A recent exclusive in The Washington Post war against Ukraine for three years, at the (“Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia cost of over 10,000 lives. In a concerted for Putin’s election assault,” by Greg Miller, effort to destabilize Ukraine and ensure that Ellen Nakashima and Adam Entous, June it becomes a failed state, Russia continues to 23) exposed the fundamental error at the heart conduct the only active war in Europe. of the West’s policy towards Russia. It is also the reason why the United Russia continues to divide Europe and States, Canada and other trans-Atlantic allies the world into spheres of influence, through have thus far refused to provide Ukraine an active hybrid war that masterfully utiliz- with the weapons the country needs to es manipulation of the media, influencing defend itself from Russia’s invasion and politicians, economic blackmail and military active military conflict in eastern Ukraine. aggression in order to secure for itself an We must understand that Russia’s attack outsized influence on global events. on Ukraine is also an attack on the interna- The Post’s reporting shows a U.S. presi- tional order. Mr. Putin attacked Ukraine dential administration paralyzed into inac- because its people chose to join the tion by fear of “escalation” or “provocation.” European community of nations, to build a It shows an American president seemingly democratic and free Ukraine. It is an attack unaware of a basic truth: Vladimir Putin on the values that unite the democratic Lubomyr Luciuk (left) presents a copy of “A Canadian Hero,” about Cpl. Filip Konowal, to Col. Ihor Slisarchuk of Ukraine’s armed forces at the International needs no provocation. Not to invade world. It’s an attack on the independence Ukraine, not to support the murderous Peacekeeping and Security Center in Lviv Oblast on July 15, as Lt.-Gen. Paul and right to self-determination of states in Wynnyk of the Canadian Army (right) looks on. Assad regime, and not to attack the most Eastern Europe and the former Soviet sacred of Western institutions – a free and sphere of influence. by Lubomyr Luciuk “president-in-perpetuity’” of the Russian fair election. For all of the blather about Mr. Putin’s Federation, certainly knows Russia can We have seen all of this before. In the “unpredictability,” he is actually entirely Looking out and down from the inside of a never be an empire without dominating 1930s, European leaders ignored Hitler’s conventional. He shares the characteristic Ukrainian armed forces Mil Mi-8 helicopter, I Ukraine. Restoring an imperial Russian early aggression and tried to appease him. common to all tin-pot dictators and school- surveyed Ukraine as I have never done before realm remains his fundamental goal, no This was naïveté and willful blindness at its yard bullies: When they meet resistance – marveling at that country’s measureless matter how many of his soldiers’ lives are worst, and it drew us directly into history’s and defiance, they back off. tracts of sunflowers and wheat fields nour- squandered paying the butcher’s bill. greatest cataclysm. It took tens of millions of Here’s what a recent bipartisan task ished by the fertility of its “chornozem” soil – I was able to visit with our troops at the lives to rid the world of Nazism. The folly of force of prominent American military, dip- understanding by seeing it from this height Demining Center and the IPSC in a day, the appeasement should be clear to all by now. lomatic and political leaders had to say on why this land, known from ancient Greek mobility of an Mi-8 and the courteousness of This nonsensical fear of “provoking” the subject: times as the “breadbasket of Europe,” has Lt.-Gen. Paul Wynnyk, commander, Canadian Russia has allowed President Putin, at little again and again been made a ravin by the Army, and his accommodating staff, facilitat- real cost, to sow division and uncertainty in (Continued on page 14) depredations of rapacious invaders. ing this sally. I learned more during this one Since February 2014 the trespassers summer’s day than I do in most weeks. have been the Russians, whose army seized Let me also establish how it was agreed, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Crimea then attacked in eastern Ukraine, well before we left, that I could write as I occupying much of the Donetsk and please and would be prohibited only from What we have known and still know is Luhansk oblasts. To this day, they despoil photographing individual soldiers or other- Life-saving bandages that Mr. Trump admires Vladimir Putin, there and so threaten the peace of Europe. wise identifying them, a reasonable condi- who is an enemy of Ukraine. Mr. Putin has But the Russians are encountering resis- tion. I also travelled at my expense. And when still needed in Ukraine stolen Crimea by armed force. He is now tance, and an increasingly dogged one at that. I took leave of the general’s party it was engaged in an armed invasion in the east. From the very start of their unprovoked inva- clear that if I went further, up to the front- Dear Editor: Ukrainian civilians and soldiers are being sion of Ukrainian territory, they found them- lines in eastern Ukraine, I would be doing so As a reminder, the Ukrainian Human killed on a daily basis. The U.S. special envoy selves impeded by volunteers who rushed privately and entirely at my own risk. I did. Rights Committee is still engaged in send- to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, in late July said: forward from all parts of their homeland to Before I departed, however, my aim was to ing QuickClot bandages to the war zone in “This is not a frozen conflict, this is a hot thwart the aggressor. The bravery and sacri- find out whether this Canadian mission was Ukraine. These bandages stop the flow of war, and it’s an immediate crisis that we all fices of what we might well describe as beneficial only in one direction – presumably blood with their clotting properties, thus need to address as quickly as possible.” Ukrainian minutemen helped blunt and then our side teaching as Ukrainians do all the saving lives. Mr. Trump offers vague promises about contain Moscow’s imperialistic designs. learning – or if there was more to it than To help this effort, readers may send tax- Ukraine. Congress is so fearful of Mr. And, since November 2014, Canada, stal- just a paternalistic, one-way relationship. deductible donations to: Ukrainian Human Trump’s relationship with Mr. Putin that it wartly determined to help Ukraine remain I got my answer at the Demining Center. Rights Committee, 203 Bainbridge, has passed legislation to stop him from uni- sovereign, stable and secure, has been Quite by chance I overheard a conversation Philadelphia PA 19145. For more informa- laterally lifting sanctions. The Trump assisting in the enhancement of Ukraine’s between the general and a Canadian officer tion, e-mail this writer at ubulana@aol. administration is rife with people who have defensive capabilities. As part of a who, when asked if he had learned from close ties with Russians. Multinational Joint Commission, including Ukraine’s sappers, responded with an Ulana Mazurkevich The facts are simple: Ukraine is under the United States and the United Kingdom, emphatic “Absolutely!” and then went on to Philadelphia continuing attack from Russia. Mr. Trump about 200 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) describe how the lessons learned by has praised Mr. Putin endlessly. He has met specialists, currently drawn largely from Ukrainians engaged in the euphemistically privately with Mr. Putin to engage in secret the 3rd Canadian Division and deployed on named anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone discussions. While dining with the leaders six-month rotations, have been training of Ukraine were being incorporated into Donald Trump is of 19 other countries, he went off to the Ukrainian troopers at the International the advanced training offered to military no friend of Ukraine side to confer with Mr. Putin. Peacekeeping and Security Center (IPSC) students. Canadian, British and American Those secret discussions did not stop the located near the hamlet of Starychi in Lviv soldiers’ lives will be saved in future Dear Editor: Russian onslaught. That war could be Oblast. Other Canadians are teaching at the because Ukrainian troops are bringing Ukrainian Ministry of Defense’s Demining It is with great sadness and some ire that stopped with a word from Mr. Putin or pres- hard-won intelligence, paid for with their Center in Kamianets-Podilskyi. flesh and blood on the battlefield, and shar- I read some letters to this paper concerning sure from Mr. Trump. The latest reports are The IPSC is found within the Yavorivsky ing it with their Western friends. the present situation in Ukraine. I wonder if that Mr. Putin is more emboldened and is increasing Russia’s involvement. military polygon, a 40,000-square-kilometer Later in the day I would, time and again, I am living in a time warp. Do people not training area, the largest in all of Europe, cre- How then can any Ukrainian look upon get positive responses from Canadian sol- know we had an election for president in ated by the razing of 29 western Ukrainian President Trump as anything other than an diers, including two graduates of the Royal 2016? Do they think Barack Obama got a villages at Stalin’s command. My maternal enemy of Ukraine? Wishful thinking, wordy Military College of Canada, whenever I third term? Six months into the presidency grandmother’s was one of them; her home statements and Republican loyalty blind asked if they were benefitting from this of Donald Trump, some still assail both Mr. once stood no more than a few dozen meters many to the peril Ukraine faces under Mr. deployment. Indeed, most said they would Obama and Hillary Clinton for their deal- inside this restricted zone’s front gates. Trump. I suggest it is tragic that, while like to stay longer, to learn even more. ings. What they did, or did not do, is yester- As of July 1, the CAF Joint Task Force- Russians are killing Ukrainian civilians, As for the Ukrainians, they have wel- day’s news. Rehashing it does little good. Ukraine had trained some 5,000 Ukrainian investigators and soldiers, there are any comed our troops as comrades-in-arms We must not close our eyes to Ukraine’s soldiers. Canada has pledged its support for Ukrainians supporting Trump. and, to a soldier, stressed how grateful they present plight. Its future is in the hands of Operation Unifier until at least March 2019. are to Canada for standing with them as the current president. Let’s keep that in Maria Wozniuk Connolly We may need to stay longer, for Vladimir mind in our discussions. Falmouth, Mass. Putin, the KGB man in the Kremlin and (Continued on page 16) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 No. 32

NEWS AND VIEWS Rivne team wins Little League Championship, advancing to regional tournament in Poland

Participants of the 2017 Ukraine Little League Championships in Kremenets, Ternopil Oblast. by Basil Tarasko ers were too old to participate. This was a were available. There were many smiles just cause for disqualification. The team and happy faces as they chose their prizes. KREMENETS, Ukraine – Nine all-star and its coaches were sent home. Once again, I would like to thank Self teams from across Ukraine descended upon Reliance (New York) Federal Credit Union, the city of Kremenets, Ternopil Oblast, on Exciting final games the lead sponsor, for making this festival a Sunday, May 28, to compete in the 18th A total of 15 games were played. The reality for the Ukrainian children during a Ukraine Little League Championship for Kirovoghrad LL defeated the Diamond LL time of war in the eastern part of Ukraine. children age 10-12. (from Kyiv) 12-2 to win third place. The This kind of contribution helped to pay A total of 105 players, boys and girls, were championship game featured two undefeat- for meals, housing and half of the transporta- set to compete on May 29, after the opening ed teams, Kyiv Baseball School LL versus the tion costs of the players and their coaches. A ceremony. The nine teams were divided into Rivne LL. The final game was played on the total of 131 children and adults benefited. two groups. Eventually, the winners of both main soccer field in Kremenets. A portable Thanks also go out to Emily Rivers from groups would face off in the final. backstop and dugouts made this field ideal Eastern Region Little League for donating This year, each manager needed to bring for the final six-inning game. Off and behind those wonderful items for the lottery. In original birth certificates to certify the age the third base dugout, the fans and players addition, Killian Knowles provided new of each player. The winning team in this could see Bona, remnants of a historic cas- baseball gloves from Rawlings for the lot- championship is then eligible to represent tle. What a setting for the most exciting fin- tery. Rod Reamer donated new baseballs Ukraine at the European Regional ish to a championship game ever! for the games. Championship in Kutno, PoIand, on July Kyiv jumped out to an early 4-0 lead in Near Kerhonkson, N.Y., the Indian Valley 17-25. In the LL program the winning team the first inning. Rivne scored four runs in LL is collecting funds to help pay for some stays intact. We do not form an all-star the second inning to tie the game. Slowly, of the travel expenses of the Rivne team to Killian Knowles (left), who donated base- team or a national team. This way it is pos- Rivne pulled away to lead 7-5, as Kyiv bat- Kutno. Special thanks go out for their sible for a team from a small town or a vil- ball mitts, and Basil Tarasko, district efforts to help the Little Leaguers in ted in the bottom of the sixth inning, its last administrator for Ukraine Little League lage to represent Ukraine in Europe. That is Ukraine. This is the second consecutive chance for that special trip to Kutno. With Baseball. the dream for each boy and girl competing their best batter, Dmytro Yerofeiev, on year of this wonderful fund-raiser. in Kremenets. deck, Ivan Labavlov stepped up to the plate others would jump up in total disbelief and Peace Corps volunteers In the past, there were issues with docu- with men on first and second bases with victory. What happened? ments and there is still some of that “Soviet one out. On the mound for Rivne was Labarov lined the 85th and final pitch In 2014, all Peace Corps volunteers were style” pressure on coaches to produce Dmytro Kalko, a crafty lefty pitcher who down the first base line, and Vladyslav evacuated from Ukraine as Russian forces “results” no matter what the cost. Here in was about to deliver his 85th pitch of the Oleynyk, the Rivne first baseman, dove to and their supporters started a war in east- the U.S., most communities are satisfied game. Per LL rules, a pitcher may not his left and caught the line drive, and at that ern Ukraine. Now, three years later, the when their children participate. Good exceed 85 pitches in a game. same moment fell on first base to double United States has renewed the Peace Corps results are welcome. That is not the case in This was the last batter for the Rivne off the runner at first. The umpire raised program in Ukraine. many parts of Ukraine. So after a review of pitcher. He would have to be removed after his right arm to signal the third out at first I am happy to report that three Peace the documents from the South LL this batter. No one was warming up. What base. End of game, game over. Corps volunteers – Casey Mohrien, Janet (Mykolayiv Oblast), I discovered that two was the Rivne manager thinking? Who Rivne advanced on to the European Nguyen and Sierra Burtis – joined us and younger players came to play instead of would go in relief, and with no warm ups? Regional Championship in Poland. served as umpires and scorers. They repre- two other players on the roster. Those play- In a split second, tears would flow and What a finish! Tears flowed and heads sented the United States in an admirable way. were down on the Kyiv LL team. The Rivne Mr. Knowles, 24, born in Cherkasy, LL team was in shock from the miraculous Ukraine, was adopted by U.S. parents when finish. That day, there were no losers, just he was only a few months old. He returned two evenly matched teams that fought until to Ukraine a second time to volunteer as an that final pitch. Both programs won. umpire. He had the distinction of being the Congratulations to both LL programs! home plate umpire at the championship This LL Championship was not just game. about baseball, it was a festival for the chil- I asked Mr. Knowles: “Why did you come dren. There was a cultural component. The back to Ukraine?” He remarked: “I feel children were able to visit the holy monas- something special in my heart.” Helping me in Kremenets to make this a tery at Pochayiv. Some teams went to the fantastic experience for all the children Spring of St. Anna, where they were able to were: Volodymyr Mishko, director of the immerse themselves in the holy water. Kremenets Internat, Victoria Scherbatuk, Many teams visited the botanical gardens Sergiy Zez, Victor Titarchuk and the city and various museums in Kremenets. officials of Kremenets, who allowed us to Others climbed up to the ancient castle use their soccer field. “Bona.” The 10th Ukraine LL Championship for Also, I held the annual pitching skill children is set for September 21-25. These competition. There were individual awards, games will be held in Kremenets. Four and the Kyiv Baseball School LL won the internats will be invited: Mizoch LL (Rivne team competition. Oblast), Kremenets LL (Ternopil), Donetsk The highlight of the games is always the LL (Ukrainian territory) and Bald Mountain The Little League team from Rivne, Ukraine, champions of the 2017 Ukrainian Little lottery, during which each child picks a League Championships in Kremenets, Ternopil Oblast. prize. Gloves, shirts, caps and other goodies (Continued on page 15) No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 9 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 No. 32 Kyiv artist depicts “Th e Face of War” her artwork, expressing her outrage wire and bullets. Found in the iris of the eye against the invasion of Ukraine, the loss of is the Budapest Memorandum, a document lives, the maiming of the innocent. In this signed in 1994 by Russia, the United States undeclared brutal war waged by Russia, and the United Kingdom, which guaranteed Ms. Marchenko saw only one face: the face Ukraine its sovereignty and territorial of Vladimir Putin, the de facto dictator of integrity in exchange for Ukraine giving up Russia. She saw this former KGB officer as its nuclear weapons. the person responsible for the brutality. In their artwork, Ms. Marchenko and Mr. Ms. Marchenko then proceeded to show Green have uniquely captured the brutality what the face of war looks like. She con- of war. A video demonstration of this piece structed a mosaic of 5,000 bullet shells that can be viewed at: https://www.youtube. were collected from the battle zone. She com/watch?v=UijRQOAQTNs. used these shells to render the face of Mr. The premier of the art exhibit “The Face Putin – “The Face of War.” of War” will take place in Chicago at the This remarkable and monumental work Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art on of art, which stands almost eight feet tall has August 26. The exhibit will be on view garnered widespread media attention, through September. appearing in such outlets as the BBC, The Wall Raymond Staples Street Journal, The artist at work on the eye of “The Face of War.” International Business News, the Associated by Ulana Baluch Mazurkevich testers were beaten and murdered in cold- Press, Reuters, NBC and blood; Mr. Yanukovych fled to Moscow; ABC News, The Guardian, PHILADELPHIA – Ukraine’s “Revolution Russia annexed Crimea and invaded east- Die Welt and others. of Dignity” brought together Ukrainians to ern Ukraine. This undeclared war in east- Raymond Staples, an stand on the Maidan united in their quest ern Ukraine continues unabated, leaving avid art collector and for freedom against the Russian-backed thousands homeless, wounded or dead. one of the most success- regime of President Viktor Yanukovych. Yet, Kyiv artist Daria Marchenko spoke out ful American entrepre- the events quickly spiraled: peaceful pro- against this aggression. She spoke through neurs and investors in Central and Eastern Europe, saw a broadcast about the Maidan and America’s Premier International Folk Ensemble Ms. Marchenko’s portrait of Mr. Putin and offered his patronage to the art- ist and her collaborator, artist Danylo Green. Mr. Staples encour- Presenting music, songs, dances aged Ms. Marchenko to and costumes from Eastern Europe complete her series “The and neighboring cultures! Five Elements of War.” “The Face of War” is the first in this series; the others are as unique as the first. Each art piece is constructed from debris recovered from the war zone in eastern Ukraine. One of the “The Five Elements of War” is “The Eye of War,” which is “The Face of War,” a portrait of Vladimir Putin created by constructed with barbed Daria Marchenko using bullet shells. No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 11

Misha Lytvynyuk Andre Gagne Three young girls enjoy the festival. Svitanok dancers in traditional Ukrainian clothing. Ottawa celebrates at third annual Capital Ukrainian Festival

by Chris Metzger The executive chef of Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello and former chef of the prime minister’s residence, Tim Wasylko, OTTAWA – The third annual Capital Ukrainian Festival also led two incredible cooking demonstrations, showing the brought another fantastic weekend of Ukrainian food, music, crowd how to make Ukrainian “perogies” (as they are called dancing and culture to the nation’s capital. With an attendance here) and borshch, and shared cultural stories centered on of over 25,000, including 6,000 tourists from cities and towns core foods. from all over Canada, the United States and Ukraine, the cele- Amid a rainy and cloudy summer, the weather celebrated as bration of all things Ukrainian was in the air on Friday through well, with hot sunny days on Friday and Saturday, and the rain Sunday, July 21-23. holding off until the end of the festival day on Sunday. There were several highlights delighting the 2017 festival’s The food was high-quality, traditional Ukrainian cuisine. The visitors. The programming was spectacular and dynamic with perogies (varenyky), which Ukrainians are known for, were in no breaks in performance on the main Ukrainian Credit Union high demand. Over 45,000 were eaten over the weekend. Other stage. The audience was wowed by Kyiv-based DakhaBrakha’s favorite menu items were the award-winning sausages from unique sound, and visitors were entertained by the over 500 Halenda’s Meats, and the 250 liters of homemade borshch pre- performers that took the stage over the course of the weekend. pared fresh throughout the festival dates. Music and dance ranged from electrified strings to folk flair; To celebrate Canada’s 150th, the festival collaborated with the festival had something for everyone. To top the night off on Ottawa 2017. Artists from across Canada performed at Saturday, Zirka, Canada’s favorite “zabava” band, hosted the Inspiration Village as a kick off to the festival. On opening night, largest and best Ukrainian dance party that Ottawa has ever Ottawa 2017 surprised visitors as Ignite 150 brought its seen. “enlightenment kit” on site, adding a glowing ambiance In the Village Voices tent, there wasn’t a dry eye in the crowd as enjoyed by all. the 100th birthday of Maria Reshitnyk was celebrated in a touch- This sensational weekend would not have been possible ing ceremony to honor her life and extensive contributions to the without the help of over 200 volunteers, and festival organizers Misha Lytvynyuk Ukrainian community and people in need. thanked them for their contributions. Brian Cherwick of the Kubasonics plays the Duda.

Andre Gagne At Chef Tim’s cooking demonstration (from left) are: Katherine Vellinga of Multiculture Bevco, Maria Lachowich of the Ukrainian Catholic Women’s League of Canada, Mama Raisa, Chef Tim Misha Lytvynyuk Wasylko of Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello, Jane Kolbe of Capital Ukrainian Festival, and Yuriy DakhaBrakha performs on the main stage. Diakunchak and Alison Conroy of the Ukrainian Credit Union.

Ivan Meush Misha Lytvynyuk The Saturday night crowd dances during the “zabava.” Ignite 150’s “enlightenment kit” on opening night. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 No. 32

700,000 metric tons will be shipped to Regional Court on July 31 found Oleksiy Patriarch calls for unity against aggressor NEWSBRIEFS Ukraine by the end of 2017. “The first ship- Syzonovych guilty of planning a terrorist ment of 85,000 [metric tons] is expected in attack, illegal border crossing and illegal KYIV – Thousands of followers of the (Continued from page 2) early September,” Centrenergo head Oleh possession of explosives. It issued the sen- Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv for natural gas when Western allies should Kozemko said at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv tence the same day. Investigators have said Patriarchate, led by Patriarch Filaret, per- formed a traditional cross-bearing proces- be diversifying their energy sources away on July 31, adding that the deliveries that Mr. Syzonovych traveled to the town of sion in Kyiv on July 28 to mark the Day of from Russia. But the sanctions bill repre- should help Ukraine through the winter. Kamensk-Shakhtinsky in Russia’s Rostov the Christianization of Kyivan Rus’. The pro- sents the first time Washington has taken George Kent, the embassy’s chargé region, where he took pictures of a local cession started from St. Volodymyr concrete action in its opposition to the pipe- d’affaires, said the deal demonstrates railway station in connection with an Cathedral in downtown Kyiv and ended line that could lead to punitive measures “intensified cooperation” to reduce Kyiv’s alleged plan for an attack in September. near the monument to St. Prince against European companies. The new sanc- dependence on Moscow since Russia Rights activists say Russia has jailed several Volodymyr of Kyiv, where prayers were tions are also coupled with provisions seized Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in Ukrainians on trumped up, politically moti- offered. Patriarch Filaret said while leading encouraging European countries to pur- 2014 and proceeded to back armed sepa- vated charges since Moscow seized the prayer that by honoring Prince chase liquefied natural gas from the United ratists in eastern Ukraine. Mr. Kent said U.S. Ukraine’s Crimea region in March 2014. In Volodymyr, “we have to unite as a single States as an alternative to relying on Russian President Donald Trump and Ukrainian March, the European Parliament called on Ukrainian nation, single country in order to gas. “One is left with the sense that the President Petro Poroshenko discussed the Russia to free more than 30 Ukrainian citi- win.” He said Ukrainians soon will “be not United States is looking to its own economic possibility of U.S. coal deliveries to Ukraine zens who were in prison or other condi- only commemorating Prince Volodymyr, interests,” Volker Triere, the head of the during their June 20 meeting at the White tions of restricted freedom in Russia, but also celebrating our victory over the Germany Chamber of Industry and House. Ukraine has been struggling to pro- Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine that aggressor,” Patriarch Filaret said, referring Commerce, said last week. German Foreign are controlled by Russia-backed separat- duce coal since the conflict erupted in April to Moscow’s support for pro-Russia sepa- Minister Sigmar Gabriel warned last week ists. The list included filmmaker Oleh 2014 because Russia-backed separatist ratists in eastern Ukraine. On July 27, a that Germany will not tolerate sanctions forces control much of its coal-rich region. Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year sentence in Russian prison after being convicted of cross-bearing procession was held in Kyiv against European companies involved in the Mr. Poroshenko’s government in March by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Nord Stream project. Some German busi- suspended all cargo traffic with areas held plotting terrorist attacks in a trial support- ers called absurd, and reporter Roman Moscow Patriarchate, which is under ness groups are advocating countersanc- by the separatists and has been seeking to supervision of the Russian Orthodox tions against the United States if President secure sufficient fuel reserves needed to Sushchenko, held in Moscow on suspicion of espionage. The list, which the European church and promotes Ukraine’s close ties Trump decides to impose sanctions on keep power plants operating. “The United with Russia. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) European companies. (RFE/RL, with report- States can offer Ukraine an alternative, and Parliament statement said was not com- ing by Reuters, Newsweek and TASS) today we are pleased to announce that we plete, also included several leaders of the Russian court extends prison term will. U.S. coal will be a secure and reliable Crimean Tatar minority, which rights KYIV – Russia’s Supreme Court has pro- U.S. set to deliver coal to Ukraine energy source for Centrenergo and its elec- groups say has faced abuse and discrimina- longed to 15 years the prison term for a tricity customers,” U.S. Energy Secretary tion since Russia’s takeover. (RFE/RL, KYIV – The United States is set to begin jailed Crimean Tatar man who was earlier Rick Perry said in a July 31 statement. based on reporting by TASS, Interfax and delivering coal to Ukraine for the first time sentenced to 12 years in April after a court (RFE/RL, with reporting by AFP) Ukrayinska Pravda) in a deal Washington framed as a move found him guilty of creating a cell on behalf toward reducing Kyiv’s reliance on Russian Russian court sentences ‘terrorist’ Massive military drills start in Georgia of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group. energy. Under a deal signed earlier this Ruslan Zeytullayev was convicted of estab- month between the Ukrainian state-owned KYIV – A court in Russia has sentenced a TBILISI – Some 2,800 troops from host Georgia, the United States, and six other lishing the cell on Ukraine’s Crimean penin- energy company Centrenergo and the U.S. Ukrainian citizen to 12 years in prison on countries have begun a major military exer- sula, which was seized by Russia in 2014. firm Xcoal Energy & Resources, some terrorism charges. The North Caucasus cise in the South Caucasus nation. Georgian Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in Russia. Mr. Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili and Zeytullayev pleaded not guilty on July 27 other leaders on July 30 said they see the and announced that he would start a hun- event as a substantial step toward their ger strike to protest his prolonged sentence. goal of one day joining NATO. “These exer- Russia-backed authorities in Crimea have cises will help Georgia to get closer to prosecuted many opponents of the take- TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 NATO standards and to strengthen stability over, including members of the Muslim or e-mail [email protected] in the whole region,” Mr. Kvirikashvili said Crimean Tatar community on what rights at the opening ceremonies at the Vaziani groups say are false charges. Mr. Zeytullayev and three other Crimean Tatars SERVICES PROFESSIONALS military base near the capital, Tbilisi. Georgia’s defense minister, Levan Izoria, were convicted of being members of Hizb called the scale of exercises “unprecedent- ut-Tahrir and sentenced to prison terms ed” and said they “make clear the support ranging from five to seven years. for Georgia by the NATO member states, Prosecutors appealed Mr. Zeytullayev’s sen- especially the U.S.” U.S. officials in the past tence, saying it was too lenient. In April, Mr. have spoken favorably toward Georgian Zeytullayev’s sentence was extended to 12 hopes of eventually joining NATO, a move years in jail, but prosecutors again appealed Russia vehemently opposes. At a 2008 the ruling, saying that Mr. Zeytullayev summit in Bucharest, NATO leaders made a deserved harsher punishment because they formal pledge that Georgia “will become a claimed he was “a founder” of a Hizb ut- NATO member,” but alliance leaders have Tahrir cell. Russia has been heavily criti- moved warily toward that goal in the face cized by international rights groups and of Moscow’s opposition. About 1,600 U.S. Western governments for its treatment of OPPORTUNITIES troops and 800 Georgian soldiers are tak- the members of the indigenous Turkic- ing part in the two-week exercises, dubbed speaking Crimean Tatar minority since it Noble Partner. Troops from Britain, took over the Black Sea peninsula in March Earn extra income! Germany, Turkey, Ukraine, Slovenia and 2014. (Crimean Desk, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian The Ukrainian Weekly is looking Armenia are also participating, with the Service) United States deploying a mechanized com- for advertising sales agents. UCCA welcomes Volker’s assessment For additional information contact pany, including several Bradley infantry Walter Honcharyk, Advertising Manager, fighting vehicles and M1A2 Abrams battle NEw YOrk – The Ukrainian Congress The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. tanks. It is the third time the exercises have Committee of America (UCCA), the largest been held in Georgia, a country that has representation of Americans of Ukrainian seen much larger rival Russia encroach on descent, welcomed Ambassador Kurt HELP WANTED its territory since its independence from Volker’s recent statement that the United The UNWLA (Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, Inc.) is looking the Soviet Union. The Kremlin recognized States is considering sending lethal defen- for an experienced part-time Bookkeeper to manage our day-to-day accounting Georgia’s breakaway areas of Abkhazia and sive weapons to Ukraine to help Ukraine and nancial requirements: con dentiality, good organizational skills, accuracy, South Ossetia as independent countries “defend itself if Russia were to take further and reliability are important quali cations for this position. A solid knowledge after fighting a five-day war against Tbilisi steps against Ukrainian territory.” of QuickBooks is necessary;  uency in English required, knowledge of Ukrainian in 2008, and Russia maintains thousands of Ambassador Volker departed for Ukraine helpful. troops in the two regions. In previous shortly after his appointment as U.S. special Duties to include: pay vendor invoices, track bank account balances, monitor years, Moscow warned that the drills could representative for Ukraine negotiations. o ce expenses, balance & maintain accurate QuickBooks ledgers, coordinate destabilize the region, a notion that Georgia After spending the day at the frontlines and bank deposits, prepare quarterly payroll tax returns; report nancial results on a and the United States have dismissed. “This the adjoining demarcation zone, he regular basis to the Treasurer, work with auditors in completion of annual audit. exercise is not directed against any country. assessed that the conflict is a “hot war” and Schedule is  exible but at least one day per week in NYC o ce is required. It’s about to help Georgia to grow its capac- not a frozen conflict. He stated that Russian Please submit resume by email to [email protected]. ity to interoperate in international opera- aggression is to blame for violence in east- tions,” U.S. Ambassador Ian Kelly told the ern Ukraine and that this crisis needs to be Reuters news agency, citing missions such addressed as quickly as possible. To better Run your advertisement here, as the current one in Afghanistan. (RFE/RL, engage in the peace process, Mr. Volker in The Ukrainian Weekly’s CLASSIFIEDS section. with reporting by Reuters, AFP and Interfax) (Continued on page 13) No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 13

Д-р ЄВГЕН ФЕДОРЕНКО 1929-2017

Українська Шкільна Рада УККА з глибоким сумом повідомляє, що 1 серпня 2017 року на 89 році життя в м. Моріс Плейнз, Нью-Джерзі, відійшов у вічність д-р проф. Євген Федоренко, довголітній голова Управи Україн­ськ­ ­ої Шкільної Ради в США (1983-2017), Почесний голова Шкільної Ради, дійсний член і почесний академік Академії наук Вищої школи України, іноземний член Академії педагогічних­ наук України, почесний доктор Національно-педагогічного Харківського університету ім. Григорія Сковороди, член Національної спілки письменників України, Науковий секретар УВАН, член управи НТШ, член Асоціяції українських американських про­фесорів, член Об’єднання українських журналістів, член Ради Координаційного комітету допомоги Україні, Почесний голова Комітету допомоги Україні. Д-р Євген Федоренко народився 28 січня 1929 р. на Харківщині, на хуторі Одринка біля Люботина, у селянській сім’ї. Дитинство майбутнього доктора наук і академіка пройшло в надзвичайно важкі й небезпечні часи колективізації, розкуркулення, Голодомору, примусових робіт у Німеччині, життя в таборах для переміщених осіб (DP Camps). Далі навчання в українській школі й гімназії в Баварії, здобуття освіти у Лювенському католицькому університеті (Бельгія, 1949-1955), Фордгамському університеті (Нью-Йорк), Нью-Йоркському­ університеті (1962-1969). Участь у роботі молодіжних організа­ цій,­ зацікавлення спортом та невтомна праця в українському шкіль­ництві США, спочатку як учитель і директор Школи україно­знавста у Випані, Нью-Джерзі, а пізніше як член і Голова Управи Шкільної Ради (з 1983). Засновник і провідник літніх курсів-семінару учителів шкіл українознавства на оселі УНС „Союзівка”. Автор численних статей, підручників, студій, редактор журналу „Рідна Школа” (1978-2016), співробітник „Радіо Свобода”, член редколегії журналу „Молода Україна” та видання „Мова про мову”. Д-р Є. Федоренко назавжди залишиться в пам’яті своїх рідних, учнів і колеґ, друзів і членів української громади як великий патріот України, невтомний організатор української освіти, мудрий і розважливий наставник-вихователь молоді й порадник для колег-учителів, що передбачав, що українське шкільницто може затримати асиміляцію української молоді в США. Він звертав увагу на підтримку сільських шкіл в Україні рівно ж з підтримкою університетів. Хай американська земля буде йому пухом! Світла і вічна Йому пам’ять! Управа Шкільної Ради

CUFTA a reality” he added. “The Canada- NEWSBRIEFS Ukraine Free Trade Agreement sends a powerful message to the rest of the world (Continued from page 12) that Ukraine is open for business, and offers added that a new strategic dialogue with significant trade and investment opportuni- Russia is needed – one that is based on the ties,” stated Zenon Potoczny, president of principles of Ukraine’s territorial integrity the Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce and a change in Russia’s approach. The (CUCC). “”With CUFTA now in full effect, UCCA noted that it has repeatedly called for Canadian and Ukrainian businesses alike the United States to provide lethal defensive will fully benefit from the countless oppor- assistance to Ukraine, and said the newly tunities for increased trade, growth, and appointed U.S. special representative’s investment.” Canadian and Ukrainian busi- recent remarks “give us hope that the nesses are encouraged to contact the United States will seriously take into consid- Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce to eration stepping up our efforts to address explore opportunities presented by the the continuing national security threats CUFTA. For more information on the CUCC, Russia poses not just to Ukraine, but to the please see http://cucc.ca. (UCC) stabilizing transnational, trans-Atlantic security framework that first emerged after One soldier killed, nine injured the second world war.” (UCCA) KYIV – Ukraine said on July 30 that one CUFTA opens new chapter in relations of its soldiers was killed and nine others were injured in fighting with Russia-backed OTTAWA – The Canada-Ukraine Free separatists in the east of the country. Trade Agreement (CUFTA) entered into Ukraine’s National Security and Defense force on August 1. The CUFTA opens a new Council (NSDC) said that the bulk of the chapter in relations between Canada and casualties over the previous 24 hours were Ukraine, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress sustained in the frontline town of pointed out. The CUFTA will significantly Krasnohorivka due to shelling from sepa- increase bilateral trade between Canada ratist forces. The shelling there left one sol- and Ukraine, to the benefit of the economies dier dead and eight others wounded, the of both. The agreement includes the phase- NSDC said in a statement. Another out of tariffs to create a duty-free environ- Ukrainian soldier was wounded during an ment. It includes the elimination of tariff attack on government positions in the town and non-tariff barriers; protection of intel- of Shyrokino, the NSDC added. Hostilities lectual property; environmental and labor between Kyiv’s forces and Russia-backed standards; and provides enhanced market separatists persist in eastern Ukraine access for goods and services. “This is a his- despite an internationally backed 2015 toric day in relations between Canada and ceasefire deal aimed at resolving the con- Ukraine. It is an important milestone in flict, which has killed more than 10,000 Ukraine’s ongoing Western integration, and since April 2014. Kyiv, the United States, the will create considerable opportunities for European Union and NATO accuse Moscow economic growth in both Ukraine and of supporting the separatists with weapons Canada,” stated Paul Grod, UCC national and personnel, an allegation Moscow president. “Congratulations to everyone rejects despite substantial evidence of such who worked for many years to make the backing. (RFE/RL) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 No. 32

approval from Congress to waive any of the United States to reduce the size of its diplo- the U.S. election and ill-treatment of U.S. President Trump... bill’s sanctions against Russia, and that pro- matic staff in the country and said it will diplomats in Russia. vision was not changed. seize a U.S. Embassy dacha and storage The current number of U.S. personnel in (Continued from page 1) But other provisions barring U.S. energy warehouses in Moscow, hitting back at the Russia was not immediately clear. The tory measures over the legislation, order- companies from participating in oil and gas sanctions bill passed overwhelmingly by Russian news agency Interfax cited a source ing potentially deep cuts in U.S. diplomatic projects anywhere in the world if Russian the U.S. Senate and sent to the White House it did not identify as saying the United staff in Russia and the seizing some U.S. energy firms are participating were modi- on July 27. States would have to cut “hundreds of dip- diplomatic property in Moscow. fied after lobbying by the White House and “The passage of the new law on sanc- lomatic and technical staff.” Enactment of the legislation, which American oil companies. tions shows with all obviousness that rela- Russia also said that, as of August 1, the cements into law an array of strong sanc- Also, House leaders added sanctions tions with Russia have become hostage to United States would be barred from using tions against Russia for its alleged election against North Korea to the bill, in a move the domestic political battle within the warehouses that it has used in Moscow and meddling and aggression in Ukraine, dashes that pleased the White House, officials said. United States,” Russia’s Foreign Affairs from a modest property in the capital’s hopes of any immediate improvement in Another factor may have been Russia’s Ministry said, adding that “the latest events leafy Serebryanny Bor district that is used relations between Moscow and Washington offer to try to keep cooperating with the show that in well-known circles in the by the U.S. Embassy, mainly for events such as espoused by Mr. Trump during his cam- administration and improving relations, United States, Russophobia and a course as parties and barbecues. paign. despite what Russian Foreign Affairs toward open confrontation with our coun- On July 25, the U.S. House of Representat­ Minister Sergei Lavrov described as the try have taken hold.” With reporting by Reuters, AP, AFP, “hostile” measures in the bill. ives overwhelmingly backed the sanctions Russia directed the United States to Reuters, TASS, Interfax, Bloomberg, and The In a phone call with Secretary of State bill, 419-3, and the Senate rapidly followed reduce diplomatic staff in Russia to 455 New York Times. Tillerson, “Lavrov confirmed that our coun- its lead with a 98-2 vote. people by September 1, saying that is the Copyright 2017, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted try is still ready to normalize bilateral rela- In a statement on July 29, Secretary of number of diplomats and other personnel with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ tions with the United States and to cooper- at its Embassy and Consulates in the United Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, State Rex Tillerson said the near unani- ate on the most important international mous votes “represent the strong will of States after former President Barack Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see issues,” the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry Obama’s administration expelled 35 https://www.rferl.org/a/white-house-says- the American people to see Russia take said on July 28. “However, this is possible steps to improve relations with the United Russian diplomats in December 2016 in his trump-sign-russian-sanctions-bill-iran- only on the basis of equality, mutual respect, response to alleged Russian meddling in north-korea-/28646180.html). States.” and a balancing of interests,” it added. Mr. Tillerson said he hoped for coopera- The ministry said the two top diplomats tion with Russia that would make the sanc- “agreed to maintain contact on a range of Organization formed ranks behind a Plast tions unnecessary. bilateral issues.” The State Department did Turning... Ternopil banner. A prayer service by President Trump’s decision acquiesced not provide a readout of on the conversation. Catholic and Orthodox clergy was also to the reality that Congress almost certainly Russia’s new envoy at the United (Continued from page 6) offered at the statue of St. Volodymyr. could have overridden a veto of the legisla- Nations also extended an offer of coopera- The procession then moved to Askold’s tion, fueled by bipartisan concern that media tion on July 28, even as he said the sanc- Few officials from the Ukrainian govern- Grave on the banks of the Dnipro River, reports and investigations in Congress and tions legislation has plunged U.S.-Russia ment attended the commemoration. the Justice Department recently have relations to “rock-bottom” levels lower than Present were Member of Parliament where a cross commemorates those who appeared to uncover some evidence of those reached during the Cold War. Oleksander Hudyma, as well as Volodymyr perished at the Battle of Kruty, Symon attempts by Russia to collude with Mr. “We will continue to cooperate,” Russia’s Muliava and Maria Vlad of the Ministry of Petliura’s last major stand against the Trump’s election campaign. U.N. Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya said in Defense. Ukraine’s Minister of Defense Bolshevik army in 1918. A moleben service But White House spokeswoman Sarah New York. “The Americans cannot do with- Konstantyn Morozov was invited to speak was offered and flowers were laid on the Huckabee Sanders said that a deciding fac- out us, and we cannot do without them. at the podium, but it was unclear if he was memorial site. tor was Mr. Trump’s satisfaction that he was Such is reality. Certainly, we will be working even in attendance at the commemoration. Stephan Khmara, a national deputy in able to secure changes in some “critical ele- to resolve those unprecedented problems Greeting the gathering were Mykhailo the Verkhovna Rada, urged the marchers to ments” of the bill which she did not identify. that have emerged in the world before our Zelenchuk, head of the Brotherhood of UPA proceed down the Khreshchatyk, Kyiv’s The White House had objected to a key very eyes,” he said. in Ukraine; Lev Futala of Yonkers, N.Y., head main thoroughfare, despite the fact that a provision that requires Mr. Trump to get Russia earlier in the day directed the of the World Brotherhood of UPA Veterans; permit for the march there had been and Volodymyr Mazur of Chicago, repre- denied. A contingent of the Lviv division of senting the leadership of the Organization the UPA had marched on the Khreshchatyk of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). Mr. Mazur earlier that day; following the ceremony at spoke on behalf of Slava Stetsko, head of Askold’s Grave, many did in fact march on the OUN. the broad avenue. They were joined by During the ceremonies, many who spoke numerous passers-by. commented on the fact that few people Founded as a formation of irregular would have imagined commemorating the units of a people’s army, the UPA was orga- 50th anniversary of the UPA in the capital nized at the outbreak of the Nazi-Soviet city of a newly independent Ukraine. A war. UPA solders fought against the Poles, prayer service was officiated by Ukrainian the Red Army and the Nazis. Under the Catholic and Orthodox clergy, with each command of Gen. Roman Shukhevych, the clergyman listing the names of those who UPA numbered between 30,000 and had died from his parish. 40,000 soldiers at the height of its ranks; The thousands then marched to the stat- some estimates place the figure at closer to ue of St. Volodymyr the Great, singing songs 100,000. of the UPA. A contingent of youths from the Ukrainian Youth Association, who were Source: “Veterans of Ukrainian Insurgent attending a summer camp in Chernivtsi, Army gather in Kyiv to mark 50th anniversa- marched chanting “Hartuys,” while a con- ry,” by Khristina Lew, The Ukrainian Weekly, tingent from Plast Ukrainian Scouting August 23, 1992.

and that until that happens, the West will You can’t ‘work’... supply Ukraine with the defensive weapons it needs to protect its citizens. Furthermore, (Continued from page 7) Western allies should make it clear to Mr. “Making the Kremlin pay a heavy price Putin that if Russia’s aggression against for its aggression in Ukraine will help dis- Ukraine does not end and if Russia refuses suade it from taking aggressive steps to leave Crimea, stronger sectoral sanctions against the neighboring Baltic states and will be imposed upon Russia’s economy and other, vulnerable neighbors. Providing the enablers of Putin’s regime. Ukraine with more substantial military Mr. Putin’s Russia is not a partner for the support would make it harder for Putin to West. It is an adversary. The only way to succeed in Ukraine, and it would strength- effectively deal with an adversary – one en Ukrainian morale in the knowledge of who, for the last three years, has unabash- real Western support. edly broken international laws and com- “We should provide training and equip- mitted war crimes – is through real deter- ment – including defensive lethal systems – rence, not just words of condemnation. that enable the Ukrainians to defend them- selves while incurring fewer casualties, and Paul Grod is the national president of the to impose much greater costs – including Ukrainian Canadian Congress. human costs – on Russia if it undertakes The op-ed above was published in iPOLI- further aggression.” TICS on July 10. To view on the iPOLITICS Western allies should state clearly that website (see http://ipolitics.ca/2017/07/ Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine must 10/you-cant-work-with-putin-you-can-only- stop and Russia must get out of Ukraine – isolate-him/). No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 15

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Ukrainian Independence Day Internment exhibit unveiled proclaimed in Sarasota County at Canadian History Hall

Sarasota County Commission VENICE, Fla. – The Sarasota County Government, headed by Paul Caragiulo, issued a proclamation at its July 11 meeting declaring August 24, 2017, as Ukrainian Independence Day. Present at the meeting were members of the Ukrainian American GATINEAU, Quebec – On June 12, the first “legacy project” exhibit organized by Dr. Organizations of Southwest Florida. Alexandra Popel and Nancy Wosny accepted the Lubomyr Luciuk for the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund was proclamation on behalf of the Ukrainian American community. Also present were Ihor unveiled in the newly renovated Canadian History Hall at the Canadian Museum of Hron, Natalie Newmerzytska, Doris Horbachewsky, Marian Boysiuk and retired Pastor History in Gatineau, Quebec. Seen (from left) are Dr. Luciuk; the recognition fund’s Mykhailo Jakubovych of the Ukrainian Baptist Church. chairman, Ivan Grbesic; and the president of the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of – Vira Bodnaruk Taras Shevchenko, Andrew Hladyshevsky. Nazareth College welcomes exchange student from National University of Ostroh Academy

by Tamara Denysenko Christine Hoshowsky, president of the Rochester Ukrainian Group, visited Ostroh ROCHESTER, N.Y. – In 2013, a Ukrainian Academy and met with Rector Ihor Partnership Program was established to Pasichnyk to help promote and strengthen promote collaborative educational projects the partnership between the Rochester between Nazareth College of Rochester, community and Ostroh. N.Y., and the National University of Ostroh Mr. Baida recently presented Rector Academy in Ostroh, Ukraine. This was Pasichnyk with a special non-traditional achieved on the initiative of Tamara embroidery created by Kathy Sydor that Denysenko and Dr. George Eisen, executive depicts the name Ostroh Academy; the date director of the Nazareth College Center for 1576, when Prince Vasyl-Kostyantyn of International Education (CIE). Ostroh founded the first higher educational In 2016, Nevan Fisher, current executive establishment of the eastern Slavs; and the director of Nazareth’s CIE, and Olena date 1994, when Ostroh Academy was Prokopovych, associate professor at the revived in an independent Ukraine. college, visited Ostroh Academy, and pro- The National University of Ostroh posed to have an Ostroh student attend Academy, the successor of the Ostroh Nazareth College tuition-free. Slavic, Greek and Latin Academy, became In the spring of this year, Nazareth one of the leading centers of higher educa- College welcomed Dmytro Baida, the first tion in Ukraine thanks to the unwavering exchange student from Ostroh Academy. leadership of Rector Pasichnyk, who visited Mr. Baida not only pursued academic stud- the Greater Rochester community twice ies and collegiate activities, but became a during the past several years. welcome member of the Greater Rochester George A. Denysenko Nazareth College was established in 1924. It has earned widespread popularity Ukrainian American community, thanks to Ostroh University exchange student Dmytro Baida at the annual meeting of the Eugene Sydor and his family, who took him Ukrainian Federal Credit Union with community members and other Nazareth for training professionals in the fields of lib- under their wing. International students: (standing from left) Eugene Sydor, Onise Tsulaia (exchange eral arts and fundamental sciences, taking Through the Ukrainian Partnership student from Georgia), Mr. Baida (exchange student from Ukraine), Tamara into consideration the future economic and Program, Nazareth College has offered to Denysenko, Zhanna Polyanska-Wirlo, (seated) Dr. Olena Prokopovych (associate pro- spiritual needs of the world. The college host an Ostroh student each spring semes- fessor of political science at Nazareth College), Sofiya Kreminska (Nazareth College offers over 40 bachelor’s and master’s ter for the next five years. Most recently, alumna) and Malgorzata Dronka (exchange student from Poland). degree programs.

The Donetsk League degrees) No. 1, Chasovoiarsk specialized The Lysa Hora internat is also new to the Rivne team wins... More about the Donetsk LL: prior to general education school-internat No. 8, LL program. The director of the internat and Paraskoviyivsk specialized general informed me that his school is a magnet (Continued from page 8) 2014 and the start of the war in the east, Internat No. 1 in the city of Donetsk partici- education school-internat No. 40. school for Mykolayiv Oblast, which serves (Lysa Hora) LL (Mykolayiv). In addition, a pated every year at the championship. The Recently, over 350 pounds of donated students with speech impediments. new LL formed in Odesa Oblast has been team won three consecutive titles and then baseball equipment was shipped to Sloviansk According to the director, most of the chil- invited. I feel it is a good idea for those chil- we lost contact with the internat. Recently, I to be shared by the seven Little League teams dren are orphans. dren to get a taste of western Ukraine, its learned that the children in that internat registered there. The United Ukrainian It takes many caring individuals to orga- culture and its language. were eventually resettled in Sloviansk, American Relief Committee (UUARC) nize and coordinate these two champion- Once again, the lead sponsor for this Donetsk Oblast. And now, that internat and arranged the shipment. Thanks go out to Pitch ships. Readers may support the champion- special championship is the California three others are joining the Little League In for Baseball, Al Erdmann of the Monroe ships in many ways, and are encouraged to Association to Aid Ukraine (CAAU). The program in 2017. American Legion Post and Paul Venosdel of offer suggestions, assistance or comments. CAAU wants this baseball event to be the New for 2017 will be four new teams the Idaho LL program for supplying them Please contact Mr. Tarasko, district adminis- highlight of these children’s sports year. from Donetsk Oblast, including Sloviansk the much-needed baseball equipment. trator of Ukraine Little League Baseball, via Games, cultural trips, a pitching competi- general education school-internat (first to Another LL program was begun at the e-mail at [email protected], www. tion and that lottery full of gifts for the boys third degrees) No. 1, Bakhmut general edu- Lysohir SZOSHI with help from its director, ukrainebaseball.org or at www.Facebook. and girls are all part of the program. cation school-internat (first to second Valeriy Ivashko. com/UkraineLittleLeagueBaseball. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 No. 32

(New Times, July 12). the popularity of Saakashvili or decrease Corruption... Mr. Putin may think that the problem of Saakashvili’s... [his] popularity. We don’t know yet,” said corruption is of little interest to the Russian Prof. Haran. (Continued from page 3) (Continued from page 2) public, but falling incomes inevitably pro- “There are people who are criticizing the his claim for yet another presidential term voke outrage against bureaucratic preda- year after he quit his governor’s post, is cur- necessity of this move because they think... in the week after Hamburg; but he traveled tion. He may also think that the export of rently polling about 1.8 percent in a nation- it could increase the popularity of to some distant monasteries instead corruption has yielded some useful connec- wide survey taken by the Ukrainian-based Saakashvili and create additional problems (Newsru.com, July 12). Few doubt that the tions with the Trump administration, but Democratic Initiative Foundation. for the president,” he added. elections, which are eight months away, the deepening investigations in the U.S. And a rally in central Kyiv on July 27 to will be heavily manipulated in Mr. Putin’s turn every minor asset of this kind into protest the removal of Mr. Saakashvili’s citi- Copyright 2017, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted favor, and even fewer question whether he huge liability. Mr. Putin hopes for a follow- zenship drew only a few hundred demon- with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ intends to run (RBC, July 5). up high-level dialogue after the promising strators. Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Mr. Putin, however, likely finds little tête-à-tête in Hamburg, but cannot quite Some think the dispute could rejuvenate Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see comfort in polls that show 66 percent of understand the political risk to his counter- Mr. Saakashvili’s popularity in Ukraine. https://www.rferl.org/a/saakashvili-ukraine Russians want him to continue his rule part in the White House from befriending “The debate is also [going on now] -georgia-citizenship-options-limited/2864 (Levada.ru, July 5). He knows how quickly the Kremlin chief. whether this [action] actually will increase 4947.html). the public mood can shift and suspects that The new blend of corruption, intelligence the elites might betray him, particularly operations, cyberattacks and propaganda since his loyal subordinate Prime Minister offensives, now the trademark of Russia’s Ukraine but on the eastern front, I think Dmitry Medvedev lost all support in the foreign policy, requires a new kind of A visit... they’re right. For do remember what Mr. Putin seems to have forgotten: this is not the ruling bureaucracy after Mr. Navalny tar- Western deterrence – and there can be no (Continued from page 7) geted him in an investigation (Vedomosti, ceasefire in the fight against this menace. first time in their history that Ukrainians July 13). Postponing the announcement they fight what has truly become Ukraine’s have fended off a foe. They remain unbowed. may be a useful way to maintain suspense, The article above is reprinted from war of independence. but it could backfire as Mr. Navalny’s Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from The Ukrainians, by the way, believe they Lubomyr Luciuk is a professor of political straightforward message about the need its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, will win it. From what I saw of their profes- geography at the Royal Military College of for change at the top gains momentum www.jamestown.org. sionalism and pluck, not only in western Canada. No. 32 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 17

Oksana Zakydalsky Bishop Borys Gudziak speaks about the work and fund- ing of the Sheptytsky Institute. The audience at the presentation on the history and tasks of the Sheptytsky Institute. In 2011 the Sheptytsky Institute celebrated its 25th among the founders of the Ukrainian Professional and Metropolitan Andrey... anniversary as part of St. Paul University. In 2013 the Businessmen’s Club in Edmonton. The Kules are major Sheptytsky Institute was chosen as one of the few institu- supporters of higher education who have contributed to (Continued from page 1) tions from across Canada to form part of the Governor Edmonton’s Grant MacEwan College, the Canadian had shown any interest in the new institution, he turned General’s delegation to the inauguration of Pope Francis; Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, his attention to Canada. He had elicited interest from Father Galadza represented MASI. the Kule Folklore Center and the Chair of Ukrainian Studies Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk (the Ukrainian Catholic The Sheptytsky Institute has benefitted greatly from the at the University of Ottawa. primate of Canada), who persuaded him to come to a generous support of benefactors in the community. Drs. In its 30-year history, the Sheptytsky Institute has hired meeting of the bishops of Canada in February 1989. The Peter and Doris Kule have chairs endowed in their names more than 60 professors and instructors to teach individu- proposal was put to the bishops, and it was suggested that and they have received honorary doctorates from the chan- al courses, covering a wide spectrum of Eastern Christian the relocation of the Sheptytsky Institute from Chicago to cellor of St. Paul University. Studies from diverse communities: Maronite, Greek Ottawa could be a celebration of the 100th anniversary of As Father Chirovsky has written, they are deservedly Orthodox, Romanian and Greek-Catholic. Ukrainian settlement in Canada. The bishops accepted the regarded as “unprecedented Ukrainian Canadian philan- The Peter and Doris Kule Chair of Eastern Christian proposal and voted unanimously to extend their help to re- thropists of higher education” and, according to Father Theology and Spirituality has been held by Father locating it from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago Galadza, “they could well be considered the greatest educa- Chirovsky since its inauguration in 1994. The Kule Family to St. Paul University in Ottawa. tional philanthropists in modern Ukrainian history.” Chair in Eastern Christian Liturgy has been held by Father The bishops included Metropolitan Hermaniuk Peter Kule was a successful real estate investor and was Peter Galadza since its inauguration in 1997. (Winnipeg, Manitoba); Bishops Basil Filevich (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), Demetrius Greschuk (Edmonton, Alberta), Jerome Chimy (New Westminster, British Columbia), Myron Daciuk (Auxiliary of Winnipeg); they were joined by FAQ Bishop Isidore Borecky (Toronto). Thus, the Sheptytsky Institute had the official backing of the Ukrainian Catholic About the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute hierarchy of Canada. Following are some frequently asked questions about its most notable former students is Patriarch Sviatoslav And so, on Labor Day weekend 1989, the Metropolitan the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, who is MASI’s Andrey Sheptytsky Institute (MASI) was born. Father Christian Studies. international patron. Chirovsky wrote, “I am convinced that it was the historic bond between the French Canadian Oblate Missionaries What is MASI? What courses and programs does MASI offer? and the early Ukrainian settlers in Western Canada that The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of MASI offers primarily graduate university degree pro- played an important role in St. Paul University’s decision to Eastern Christian Studies is an autonomous academic grams in Eastern Christian Studies. Some undergraduate meet the Ukrainians half way.” unit of the Faculty of Theology of the University of St. course offerings are being contemplated at this time. At Father Phillip Ruh, who had designed the beautiful Michael’s College (USMC) at the University of Toronto. It the graduate level there are two professional (pastorally Ukrainian churches across Canada, had been a member of specializes in the theology, spirituality, liturgy, history oriented) degrees: the M.A. and the M.T.S. with an the Oblates. and ecclesial polity of the Eastern Churches, both emphasis on Eastern Christianity, as well as two The Ukrainian Catholic Congress of Canada, the lay lead- Orthodox and Catholic. The institute focuses on all four research-oriented degrees: the M.A. and the Ph.D. ers of the Church, designated the relocation of the institute families of Eastern Churches: Eastern Orthodox, Pre- Four general areas of specialization are represented as their official project of the centenary of Ukrainian settle- Chalcedonian, Assyrian and Eastern Catholic. by MASI professors: Spirituality-Doctrine, Liturgical ment in Canada. When was it founded? Studies, Historical Studies, as well as Ecumenism and According to church historian Jaroslav Pelikan, Inter-Faith Relations with Eastern Christianity. Some Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, for whom the institute is The Sheptytsky Institute was founded in 1986 by courses are offered online as distance education. named, “was the most influential figure... in the entire his- Father Andriy Chirovsky in Chicago. In 1990, MASI tory of the Ukrainian Church in the 20th century.” moved to Ottawa’s St. Paul University. In 2016, MASI How is MASI funded? Sheptytsky was born Count Roman Aleksander signed an agreement with USMC paving the way for its Several income streams support MASI. USMC shares Sheptytsky in the village of Prylbychi, 40 kilometers from move to Toronto. Since July 1, MASI has been an autono- tuition income with MASI and gives the institute infra- Lviv, in the kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria – a crown- mous academic unit within USMC’s Faculty of Theology structure support (use of Kindle House and chapel space land of the Austrian Empire. Despite his father’s opposi- and part of the Toronto School of Theology, an ecumeni- in Elmsley Hall, administrative support, basic office tion, Sheptytsky became a monk in the Basilian monastery cal consortium of seven colleges. equipment and building maintenance). Salaries are cov- in Dobromyl. He took the name Andrey and studied at the For whom is MASI named? ered by donations from the MASI Foundation, which Jesuit Seminary in Krakow, Poland. He was ordained a holds the institute’s endowments. priest in 1892 and in 1899 was nominated by Emperor Born in 1865 into an aristocratic family in present- The Ukrainian Canadian philanthropists Peter and Franz Joseph to the position of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic day western Ukraine, Andrey Sheptytsky became the Doris Kule of Edmonton stand out as the institute’s bishop of Stanislaviv. In 1900 he was appointed metropoli- metropolitan, the highest ranking leader of the Greco- greatest benefactors to date. In the 1990s they endowed tan-archbishop of Lviv and enthroned on January 17, 1901. Catholic Church in Europe, in 1901. He held this position two academic chairs named in their honor, and continue In 1910 he visited North America, where he met with until his death in 1944. to generously support the institute’s work. Ukrainian Catholic communities in the United States and A man of deep prayer, a gifted teacher, preacher and phi- A registered charity in Canada and a 501(c)(3) in the lanthropist, he greatly valued education (having the equiv- Canada. United States, the foundation makes donations to help alent of three doctorates himself). He founded the Lviv USMC with the institute’s annual budget. MASI’s aca- The move to Ottawa Theological Academy in 1929. He is particularly renowned demic and support staff are employees of USMC. The for sheltering more than 150 Jews during the Holocaust, In 1990, the Sheptytsky Institute moved to St. Paul foundation also invested wisely years ago in the Ontario for which the Canadian House of Commons in April 2012 Student Opportunity Trust Fund; thus, there are some University in Ottawa, where it created a comprehensive honored his heroism with a unanimous resolution. program in Eastern Christian Studies – from the bachelor’s monies set aside for scholarships for Ontario residents degree level to the Ph.D. Who can study at MASI? wishing to study at MASI. The institute also has a small revenue stream from the sale of some of its publications. Father Chirovsky wrote: “The early years in Ottawa Students of MASI include university students studying were not easy. We needed to convince the Faculty of at USMC and the University of Toronto, as well as clergy, Source: St. Michael’s College at the University of Theology that, although it might appear that we had been church leaders and lay individuals from North America, Toronto. For more information about MASI, visit the web- foisted upon them from above by the Oblates, we would Ukraine, the Middle East and around the world. One of site www.sheptytskyinstitute.ca. make good colleagues.” 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 No. 32

Tamburitzans international folk ensemble to perform at Clifton High School SADDLE BROOK, N.J. – America’s premier international concert will offer a fascinating, musically varied program folk ensemble, the Tamburitzans from Pittsburgh, will per- with a chance to learn more about the rich tradition of eth- form a concert at 4 p.m. on Saturday, September 23, at nic folk music.” Clifton High School. Dancing her way across America Year after year, the Tamburitzans dazzle audiences across the country with elaborate costumes and incredibly While other college kids are enjoying summer fun activi- versatile musicians, singers and dancers. The talented ties, Anastasiya Kaspruk from Colonia, N.J., will be at the young performers are full-time students. Tamburitzans’ production camp, learning new songs in for- The heart of the group’s repertoire is music, songs and eign languages, playing a Balkan instrument called a prim dances from Croatia, Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and learning new steps to new dances representing an Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. intriguing assembly of international cultures. The Clifton concert of this acclaimed song and dance The Tamburitzans are the longest-running multicultural folk troupe, which hasn’t visited northern New Jersey in song and dance company in the United States. Headquartered many years, is being sponsored by Holy Apostles Orthodox in Pittsburgh, the company’s members are full-time students Church in Saddle Brook, N.J. who receive scholarships for their activities. “We’re so blessed to be able to sponsor such a group of A 21-year-old student entering her senior year as part of this magnitude,” said Father Matthew Brown, pastor. “The a six-year pharmacy program at Duquesne University in

Tamburitzans/Rick Armstrong Anastasiya Kaspruk of Colonia, N.J., is in her fourth year with the Tamburitzans. Pittsburgh, Ms. Kaspruk will be beginning her fourth year as a “Tammie.” For the last three years, she has studied dur- ing the school year and performed across America in her “off” time. Ms. Kaspruk emigrated from Ukraine when she was 7 and belonged to various Ukrainian folk groups while grow- ing up. She was looking for a school with a good pharmacy program, and joining the Tamburitzans was a plus. “I really enjoy learning new cultures and new languages and I’ve met fantastic people through it,” said Ms. Kaspruk. Tickets to the Clifton performance of the Tamburitzans are available for purchase at www.talentshadows.events for $35 in advance and at the door the day of the perfor- mance for $40. For information, call 973-460-0243, e-mail [email protected], or check the website www.holyapostlesnj.org. and click on Tamburitzans. Clifton High School is located at 333 Colfax Ave., Clifton, Romanian (Moldavian) Carnivale set. NJ 07013.

be used as a camouflage for deploying more might, which extended to Tartus, Syria, Mr. show for the humiliating sanctions except Putin’s foreign... forces that could turn a tactical success into Putin signed a decree on the guidelines of for costly and profitless entanglements. a strategic breakthrough (Nezavisimaya naval policy, which prescribes the concen- Residual pragmatism dictates to him the (Continued from page 3) Gazeta, July 25). tration of efforts on the task of ensuring for need to suppress the urge to hit back on an see clashes in the Donbas war zone last Last Sunday, the largest ever naval the Russian navy the position of the second arrogant adversary, who refuses him due week, while Mr. Putin was blunt and irrecon- parade was staged in St. Petersburg, featur- most capable in the world (Ezednevny respect and treats him like a maverick and cilable in the telephone conversation with ing the world’s largest nuclear submarine, Zhurnal, July 25). corrupt dictator. He is, however, so obvious- German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French the Dmitry Donskoy, which for the last 15 Quite possibly, this celebration of ly full of himself that suppressing vindic- President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian years has been used as a test platform Russia’s naval capabilities – which are, in tiveness goes against the character of an President Petro Poroshenko (Kommersant, (Rossiiskaya Gazeta, July 22). Chinese ships fact, seriously overstretched and shrinking almighty ruler, who is entitled to domestic July 25). Three Russian divisions are ready also arrived for this show after joint exer- – has helped Mr. Putin regain confidence adoration and external admiration. to move into this theater and break through cises with the Russian Baltic Fleet after the fiasco with cultivating special ties Ukrainian defenses around Mariupol or in (Fontanka.ru, July 26). Mr. Putin basked in with Mr. Trump. It is doubtful, nevertheless, The article above is reprinted from the outskirts of Donetsk (RBC.ru, July 23). the role of commander-in-chief and reaf- that Mr. Putin can move into the already Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from Large-scale Russian-Belarusian exercises, firmed Russia’s status as a great naval belated Russian election campaign with its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, Zapad-2017, planned for September might power. On the eve of this demonstration of this failure on his hands and nothing to www.jamestown.org.

2nd UKRAINIAN SPORTS HALL OF FAME INDUCTION BANQUET Saturday, September 16, 2017 at 6:00 pm Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey, 60C North Jefferson Rd., Whippany, NJ 07981

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Event details include banquet with Hall of Fame induction ceremony, silent auction and other surprises.

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August 7-10 Hand-made Ukrainian folk Christmas decorations worshop, August 19 Ukrainian Independence Day celebration, Ukrainian Jewett, NY with instruction by Lubov Wolynetz, Grazhda Music and Toronto Canadian Congress, Etobicoke Centennial Park, www.ucc.ca Art Center, 518-989-6479 or www.grazhdamusicandart.org August 19 Piano recital concert with Pavlo Gintov, Grazhda August 7-10 Writing Ukrainian Easter Eggs, Grazhda Music and Art Jewett, NY Music and Art Center, 518-989-6479 or Jewett, NY Center, 518-989-6479 or www.grazhdamusicandart.org www.grazhdamusicandart.org

August 12 Softball tournament, Ukrainian American Youth August 19 Sports Festival (soccer, volleyball, badminton, table tennis Ellenville, NY Association camp, www.cym.org/us-ellenville Etobicoke, ON and chess), USC Karpaty, Centennial Park, 416-807-0988

August 12 Hamilton Ukrainian Day on the Bay, Ukrainian Canadian August 19-20 Ukrainian Festival, Ukrainian Homestead, Hamilton, ON Congress – Hamilton, Hamilton Waterfront Dock, Lehighton, PA 610-377-4621 or www.ukrhomestead.com www.ucchamilton.ca August 20 Vyshyvanka Run, Ukrainian Running Club New York, August 12 Golf tournament, Ukrainian Golf Association of Canada, New York Ukrainian Institute of America, www.facebook.com/URCNY/ Halton Hills, ON Glencairn Golf Club, 905-876-3666 or www.glencairn.clublink.ca August 24 Canada 150 Celebration, Embassy of Ukraine, Ottawa Horticulture Building, Lansdowne Park, August 12 Ukrainian picnic, featuring the Odesa Ukrainian Dance [email protected] or 613-230-2961 ext. 100 Warners, NY Ensemble and a traditional bonfire, www.stlukesuoc.org August 24 USCAK Beach Soccer Tournament, beach in front of August 12-13 Uketoberfest, St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Wildwood Crest, NJ Pan American Hotel, www.uscak.org Chicago Catholic Church, [email protected] August 25 USCAK Beach Volleyball Tournament, Ukrainian Sports August 12-19 Club Suzie-Q, Soyuzivka Heritage Center, Wildwood Crest, NJ Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada and the Lys Sports Kerhonkson, NY www.soyuzivka.com Academy, beach in front of Pan American Hotel, [email protected] or www.uscak.org August 13-19 Ukrainian Choral and Vocal Workshop, Ukrainian Bandurist Emlenton, PA Chorus, All Saints Camp, www.bandura.org or 734-658-6452 August 25 Fund-raiser dance, Khmelnychenky Plast fraternity, Wildwood, NJ Wildwood VFW hall, [email protected] or August 17-19 Saskatoon Folkfest, Ukrainian Karpaty Pavilion, Hall www.facebook.com/xmeli Saskatoon, SK D Exhibition Grounds, www.saskatoonfolkfest.com or 306-931-0100 August 26 Vocal recital with soprano Sofia Soloviy of the Rome Jewett, NY Theatro dell’ Opera, Grazhda Music and Art Center, August 17-20 St. Josaphat Ukrainian Festival, St. Josaphat Ukrainian 518-989-6479 or www.grazhdamusicandart.org Rochester, NY Catholic Church, 585-467-6457 or www.rochesterukrainianfestival.com Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions August 19 Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Ukrainian Dance Camp recital, from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors Kerhonkson, NY Soyuzivka Heritage Center, www.soyuzivka.com and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

in advancing U.S.-Ukraine cooperation, such ing that those weapons would not end up belief that democracy is the chief guarantor UCCA reacts... statements pain our community, coming in the hands of North Korea, Iran or a radi- of security, prosperity and freedom; (Continued from page 6) only days after Russia’s bloodiest attempt- calized terror cell. defense and security cooperation partner- ed advance in 2017 took the lives of 17 ships between the United States and ing Ukraine. A vast majority of these mes- Ukrainian heroes and left dozens more Ukraine have entered into numerous bilat- Ukraine are of benefit to both nations; the sages are automated by Russian networks, injured. eral• agreements, Since 1991, including the United investment States and importance of the security assurances simply repeating their old messages in The Ukrainian Congress Committee of economic treaties, the formation of the U.S.- described in the Trilateral Statement by the order to weaken the overwhelming support America (UCCA), the largest grassroots rep- Ukraine Council on Trade and Investment, presidents of the U.S., the Russian of Ukraine by the West. The most disturbing resentation of Americans of Ukrainian the Bilateral Energy Security Working Federation and Ukraine of January 14, messages, however, are those that can be descent, maintains our long-held belief that Group, as well as the U.S.-Ukraine Charter 1994, and the Budapest Memorandum on sourced to voices featured in U.S. media, or the security of the United States lies in the on Strategic Partnership. Security Assurances in connection with worse yet, by government officials. expansion of democracy and mutual securi- Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the As with its 2008 and 2014 invasions of ty guarantees best demonstrated in the his- Agreement has provided reciprocal most- Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of Georgia and Ukraine, respectively, Russia tory of U.S.-Ukraine relations. To combat favored-nation• Since 1992, tariff the U.S.-Ukrainetreatments toTrade the December 5, 1994. repeatedly deflects criticism by the tried whataboutism originating in Russia, we products of each country. Furthermore, and true tactic of “whataboutism.” urge our fellow supporters of Ukraine to Ukraine successfully “graduated” from the signed by both the United States and Designed to delude both domestic and for- set the record straight whenever possible. Jackson-Vanik amendment in 2006, permit- Ukraine• Numerous were violated multilateral when Russia agreements invad- eign audiences, this Cold War technique The following facts serve to clarify the ting trade to flourish between the largest ed Ukraine in 2014. That military attack has been re-deployed by Russia to divide special relationship between the United country in Europe and the leader of the free and subsequent armed occupation of the American and Ukrainian people States and Ukraine: world. Ukrainian sovereign territory constitute a through false rumors and innuendo. - daily violation of all conceivable interna- Currently, Russia’s state outlet RT heavily ly establish diplomatic relations with Ukraine joined the North Atlantic tional law and standards, including the promotes the fanciful story that the revela- Ukraine• While until the United 1991, States during did notUkraine’s formal Cooperation• After the Cold Council War ended, (1991) independent the Conference on Security and Cooperation in tion of surreptitious contact with agents of decades of Soviet occupation, hundreds of Partnership for Peace program (1994) and Europe (CSCE) Final Act (often referred to the Russian government should be treated affirmations of Ukraine’s individual sover- the Charter on a Distinctive Partnership as the Helsinki Final Act), the Treaty on no differently than the open, mutual sup- eignty and cultural identity were pro- (1997), which established the NATO- Conventional Armed Forces in Europe port of the Ukrainian and United States claimed year after year in U.S. municipali- Ukraine Commission (NUC). (CFE), the United Nations Charter (and spe- governments. ties, resolutions by Congress, as well as cifically United Nations General Assembly The false accusation, leveled by Russian statements by U.S. presidents (including NATO partner nation to have contributed Resolution 3314 on the use of “aggression” propagandists, slandering the Ukrainian yearly commemorations of Captive Nations actively• Ukraine to all today NATO-led stands asoperations the only non-and between member states) and the Nuclear government of attempting to harm its stra- Week). Those affirmations were officially missions for the past 20 years. Non-Proliferation Treaty. tegic ally, the United States, would be laugh- recognized by the state of Ukraine after its able had it not been picked up by several independence as proof positive of the spe- Ukraine – is on pace to field Europe’s larg- its commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty, U.S. media outlets, so-called political cial relationship between the two coun- est• military, Today, with Europe’s spending largest levels country exceeding – independence,• In 2014, the territorial United Statesintegrity reaffirmed and the experts and government officials. tries. NATO’s minimum defense spending stan- inviolability of borders with the passage of Unfortunately, continued public statements dards. the Ukraine Freedom Support Act. This law by those ignorant of the facts can have a Ukraine commanded control over the third declares as official state policy that the lasting effect on the flourishing largest• When nuclear the Soviet arsenal Union in the ceased world, to exist,with Charter on Strategic Partnership affirmed, United States will “assist the government of U.S.-Ukraine relationship. more nuclear weapons than China, France among• Signed other inpoints, 2008, the the following U.S.-Ukraine shared Ukraine in restoring its sovereignty and Today’s statement by the president of and the United Kingdom combined. With values between the United States and territorial integrity in order to deter the the United States repeating such allegations the encouragement of the United States, the Ukraine: support for each other’s sover- government of the Russian Federation from only serves to harm this strategic alliance. people of Ukraine voluntarily rid the world eignty, independence, territorial integrity further destabilizing and invading Ukraine While this administration has made strides of its stockpile of nuclear warheads, ensur- and inviolability of borders; our shared and other independent countries.” 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 2017 No. 32

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Sunday, August 27 will be held at St. Basil’s Seminary, 161 Glenbrook Road. Beginning at 9 a.m. visit HORSHAM, Pa.: The Ukrainian American over 20 Ukrainian vendors. Confessions will Sport Center – Tryzub – will host the 26th be available before 11 a.m. liturgy celebrat- annual Ukrainian Independence Folk Festival ed by Bishop Basil H. Losten. Following lit- and Outdoor Summer Concert at Tryzubivka, urgy there will be Ukrainian and picnic County Line and Lower State roads, foods. At 2:30 p.m. enjoy a lively program Horsham, PA 19044. Doors will open at noon. The outdoor summer concert in the featuring several dance ensembles, singers, park will begin at 1:30 p.m. It is an integrat- performers; at 5-8 p.m. there will be a ed, dynamic program titled “United Ukraine; “zabava” with Halychany. There will be chil- United,” a collaborative effort of prior per- dren’s activities and tours of the Diocesan formers: Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Museum on the grounds. Admission for visi- Ensemble, Iskra Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, tors age 12 and over: $5 per person when violinist Innesa Tymochko Dekajlo and Vox purchased in advance, $10 at gate. Parking Ethnika orchestra. Special guests include is free. For tickets, information or to volun- singer-songwriter Iryna Lonchyna from teer, call 203-269-5909. Ukraine and the Efsane Crimean Tatar Saturday, September 23 Ensemble. A social dance to the live music of Vox Ethnika will follow at 4:30 p.m. Delicious CLIFTON, N.J.: The Tamburitzans Ukrainian foods and baked goods, picnic International Folk Ensemble will perform at fare, cool beverages and refreshments will be 4 p.m. at Clifton High School, located at 333 plentiful. Vendors are welcome. An arts and Colfax Ave. With elaborate costumes and crafts bazaar and a children’s fun area will be versatile musicians, singer and dancers, the open all day. Admission: $15; students, $10; repertoire is from Croatia, Greece, Bulgaria, children under 15, free. Parking is free. For Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, further information call 267-664-3857, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. The concert e-mail [email protected] or visit www.tryzub. is being sponsored by Holy Apostles org. The sponsor is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt Orthodox Church located in Saddle Brook, nonprofit charitable organization; proceeds N.J. Tickets for this family-friendly event are benefit youth and adult amateur sports, and available for purchase at www.talentshad- cultural, fraternal and community programs. ows.events for $35 in advance and $40 at the door the day of the performance. For Sunday, September 10 tickets, call 973-460-0243. For information, STAMFORD, Conn.: The 50th Connecticut visit www.holyapostlesnj.org and click on Ukrainian Day Festival, sponsored by the Tamburitzans, or e-mail eventsholyapos- Connecticut State Ukrainian Day Committee [email protected].

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