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The Ukrainian Weekly, 2017 INSIDE: l Little League Baseball Championship in Ukraine – page 8 l Kyiv artist depicts “The Face of War” – page 10 l Ottawa’s third annual Capital Ukrainian Festival – page 11 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 ANALYSIS 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.
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