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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXX No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 $1/$2 in Ukraine UKRAINE AT 21: Ukraine’s 2012 parliamentary elections: Experts share Voters’ disillusionment is key for some parties by Zenon Zawada their observations Special to The Ukrainian Weekly On the occasion of Ukrainian Independence Day, KYIV – The Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform August 24, The Ukrainian Weekly asked several scholars (UDAR) and the Communist Party of Ukraine have a lot in and experts on Ukraine to share their observations. common. Both have red as their party color, and both par- Roma Hadzewycz of The Weekly asked: Where does ties will qualify for the Verkhovna Rada in the October 28 Ukraine stand on the 21st anniversary of its renewed parliamentary elections. Both parties have surged in popu- independence? Where is the country headed today, as larity owing to voter disillusionment. compared to where it was, say, in August 1991, or even a The Communists have gained at the expense of the Party year ago? of Regions of Ukraine, which has hemorrhaged voters. The Following are the responses received from two special- disenchanted of eastern and southern Ukraine have trig- ists from the United States and two from Canada. gered a new wave of nostalgia for Soviet times, on which Alexander J. Motyl, professor of political science, the Communists are aiming to capitalize, observers said. Rutgers University, Newark, N.J.: “The Communists’ poll ratings to a large degree depend Compared to Soviet Ukraine, today’s Ukraine has on the Regions,” said Volodymyr Fesenko, board chairman made enormous progress. It’s no longer communist, it’s of the Penta Center of Applied Political Research in Kyiv. no longer totalitarian, it no longer has a centrally “There’s fluctuation – if the Regions’ poll ratings grow, then planned economy, the Gulag no longer exists. By the the Communists’ ratings will decline a little, and vice versa.” same token, Ukraine has a market economy – deformed, Meanwhile, UDAR has become a political heavyweight to be sure, but a market economy nonetheless. Ukraine on the back of refugees from the decimated Our Ukraine enjoys significant, though diminishing, freedom of force led by former President Viktor Yushchenko. The speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of thought, party is also aiming to attract the votes of Ukrainians with and these freedoms will – regardless of whatever crack- Zenon Zawada downs the Yanukovych regime implements – always be Western values who remain reluctant to support anything Boxing champion Vitali Klitschko heads the party list of greater than those in Soviet times. Ukraine has a vigor- (Continued on page 3) the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform. ous civil society, whereas it had none two decades ago. True, Ukraine is profoundly corrupt and the ruling elites have no regard for law, but the degree of corruption and legal nihilism is probably no greater now than it was during late Brezhnevism. The current regime’s incom- Plast begins centennial jamboree in Lviv petence and lack of imagination are also more or less on par with those of the late USSR. So, all in all, when viewed from the perspective of two or even three decades, Ukraine has made great progress. The down side obviously concerns Ukraine’s back- sliding within the last two years. The Yanukovych regime has formally abandoned all pretense of democ- racy, and it has officially embraced an openly Russian- supremacist position on Ukrainian identity, language and culture. In contrast to the Soviet regime, which pre- tended to have an ideological vision, this one has openly declared that its primary goal is self-enrichment. Small wonder that, whereas most Soviets lacked respect for the Brezhnev regime, most Ukrainians genuinely detest the Yanukovych regime. The up side for Ukraine and Ukrainians is that the Yanukovych regime is about as rotten as the Brezhnev regime. Its collapse is, thus, only a matter of time. The bad news is that Ukraine will have to endure several more years of misrule before that collapse comes. The good news is that, with the Yanukovych regime’s destruction of Ukraine’s political institutions, post-Yanu- kovych Ukraine will finally be able to start anew, with a clean slate, and just possibly succeed in building a genu- ine democracy. Orest Deychakiwsky, policy advisor for Belarus, Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine at the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Washington: LUFA While much has been done to create a state and LVIV – Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization officially opened its international jamboree here on Sunday, August while this young country has much to be proud of, much 19, with more than 2,000 members from around the globe in attendance. Seen above is a portion of the gather- remains to be done. There are reasons for concern, not ing in Lviv. The Jubilee International Plast Jamboree (known by its Ukrainian acronym as YuMPZ) continues so much about Ukraine’s continued existence as an through Saturday, August 25, with special celebrations of Ukrainian Independence Day planned for August 24 in the city center of Lviv. For a look at the diverse camps held during the first phase of the jamboree, see the spe- (Continued on page 9) cial photo report on page 11. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 No. 35

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Another sentence for Lutsenko September 2-5. In addition, the channel Why the Kremlin is losing sent a letter to the National Television and KYIV – On August 17 the Pecherskyi Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine con- strong, cool and decisive leader, and is rising by Brian Whitmore District Court in Kyiv found former Internal cerning unlawful disconnection of the up from its knees; Putin’s opponents are RFE/RL Affairs Minister Yurii Lutsenko guilty of channel by some cable TV operators. feckless and doomed; the troubled 1990s negligence during an investigation into the Ukraine’s TVi Channel claimed on August Remember when something called “the are over; we won’t be pushed around any- case of the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko 14 that the exclusion of the channel by Family” dominated Russian politics and more. and sentenced him to two years in prison, Boris Berezovsky looked invincible? Mr. Putin’s Kremlin once excelled at this cable operators in Donetsk and Mariupol with no right to hold public office for three from their networks on August 13 was due It wasn’t that long ago. Just over a decade kind of thing. They don’t anymore. The nar- years. The verdict says that, since Mr. back. ratives they try to push – like blaming mass to direct instructions from the regional rep- Lutsenko was earlier sentenced to four resentatives of the National Council on In late 1999, I was having dinner in a demonstrations on foreign agitators – years in prison, the softer punishment has Moscow restaurant with some colleagues appear worn and dated, and Mr. Putin’s scat- Television and Radio Broadcasting. On July been “absorbed” by the more severe pun- 20, TVi Channel said that it had been dis- and we noticed Mr. Berezovsky and some ological slang just isn’t that funny anymore. ishment. On February 27, the Pecherskyi hangers-on a few tables away. Now it is the opposition that is succeed- connected from the cable networks of the District Court found Mr. Lutsenko guilty of Triolan trademark and that residents of 11 One colleague gestured to the uber-oli- ing in getting its one-liners into the coun- abuse of office and sentenced him to four try’s collective consciousness. With mes- towns in Ukraine had been denied the pos- garch’s entourage, which was flanked by the years in prison, with confiscation of his sage discipline and tech-savvy that would sibility to watch the channel. TVi linked this usual phalanx of bodyguards, and said: property. (Ukrinform) “Wouldn’t you love to just approach him make a political consultant proud, anti-cor- “with the pressure being placed on the and ask: ‘Boris Abramovich, what exact ruption blogger Aleksei Navalny has man- TVi cites continuing pressure channel.” On July 12, reports said that a scheme are you working on right now?’” criminal case had been opened against TVi It was conventional wisdom at the time KYIV – Ukraine’s TVi Channel has said Director Mykola Kniazhytsky. The tax that Mr. Berezovsky was the master of aged to turn phrases like “партия жуликов that the pressure on the channel by the police accused him of failing to pay 3 mil- Russia’s political universe. As the informal и(Foreign воров” Agent(party Bastrykin)of swindlers into and powerful thieves) authorities continues. “The Tax Service lion hrv in taxes. Mr. Kniazhytsky said that leader of the so-called “Family,” the shad- andcultural “Иностранный markers. агент Бастрыкин” continues impeding our work. More and he had already won all trials in this case owy collection of tycoons, cronies and This may seem trivial, but it’s not. It is more regional providers have been discon- and that he had paid all taxes. The tax bureaucrats surrounding the ailing helping to establish a new counternarrative necting TVi Channel from their networks police started checking the channel’s docu- President Boris Yeltsin, he had the Kremlin that the current ruling elite is corrupt and due to censorship by the authorities,” the ments, although the head of the State Tax wired and was orchestrating the rise of incompetent – and has overstayed its wel- channel said in a statement on its official Service, Oleksander Klymenko, signed an Vladimir Putin – who the media called “the come. According to the Levada Center, some website on August 20. TVi leadership order in April declaring a moratorium on Family’s candidate.” We assumed Mr. 42 percent of Russians now agree with the stressed that in case of continued pressure, media checks before the upcoming parlia- Berezovsky would keep Mr. Putin on a tight statement that United Russia is a “party of the channel reserves the right to appeal to mentary elections. On July 27 the procura- leash, too. swindlers and thieves.” the world journalism community asking tor’s office cancelled an instruction on the We, of course, were dead wrong. We exist them to boycott the 64th World Newspaper opening of a criminal case against Mr. As the new millennium approached, Mr. Congress and the 19th World Editors Berezovsky and “the Family” may have For an opposition narrative to take hold, Forum, which will be held in Kyiv on (Continued on page 13) looked omnipotent, but the tectonic plates it needs a receptive audience. Does anybody supporting the political order were shifting. remember the chants of “We need another A new political era was on the way – and Russia!” from anti-Kremlin rallies, attended FOR THE RECORD “the Family” was on the way out (although by a dozen or so brave souls, back in 2006 some of its members, Roman Abramovich or 2007? I didn’t think so. for example, found a place in the new In those days, most people didn’t want order). another Russia. Most were fine with the one U.S. on Lutsenko trial verdict Inflection points like the one at the end they had and it was easier for the Kremlin The following statement was released on Tymoshenko, raises serious concerns about of the 1990s can sneak up on you, and there to marginalize, trivialize and ridicule its August 17 under the heading “U.S. the government of Ukraine’s commitment is often an analytical bias in favor of expect- opponents. It’s not so easy today. Government Statement Regarding the to democracy and rule of law. We note the ing the status quo to continue indefinitely. Never mind the tens of thousands who Verdict in the Yurii Lutsenko Trial.” decision of a Ukrainian appeals court earlier One of the tricks for Russia watchers is to can be counted on to regularly show up at this week to release former Acting Defense know when the paradigm is about to shift, opposition protests in Moscow. The broader The United States is disappointed by the Minister Valeriy Ivashchenko, who had also when the meta-narrative is truly changing. public opinion poll numbers tell an even verdict in the trial of former Interior been detained on questionable grounds, Are we at such an inflection point again? starker story. [Internal Affairs] Minister Yurii Lutsenko. and urge the government of Ukraine to free The politically motivated prosecution of Mr. Lutsenko and Mrs. Tymoshenko, whom I don’t know for sure, of course, but I do sus- Mr. Putin’s raw approval rating is some- opposition leaders, including Mr. Lutsenko we believe should have an unrestricted abil- pect we are approaching one. where between the mid-50s and low 60s, and former Prime Minister Yulia ity to participate fully in political life. Mr. Putin still has the full weight of the depending on the poll. But as political ana- Russian state at his disposal. He can use lyst Kirill Rogov pointed out in a much-dis- obedient courts to imprison his opponents cussed article in July, it isn’t as solid as it appears at first glance. and deploy administrative methods to rig “This would be an excellent result for the elections. His cronies control the traditional FOUNDED 1933 president of any democratic country, but it The Ukrainian Weekly media, the energy sector and much of the is unacceptable for a ‘tsar’ – an unassailable country’s heavy industry. and all-powerful leader with an unshake- An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., But regimes like Mr. Putin’s don’t survive a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. able mandate. Putin has, in effect, lost his on repression alone. To be stable and suc- Yearly subscription rate: $65; for UNA members — $55. mandate,” Mr. Rogov wrote. cessful, they also need, for lack of a better According to the Levada Center data that Periodicals postage paid at Caldwell, NJ 07006 and additional mailing offices. term, soft power. 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I’m not ADMINISTRATION OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY AND SVOBODA sayand somethingit would be – “Мочитьrepeated вendlessly сортире, and or sure where it came from, but it showed up become part of the political lexicon. on numerous placards at protests and was Walter Honcharyk, administrator (973) 292-9800, ext. 3041 e-mail: [email protected] It was entertaining for much of the pub- part of the refrain in one of Pussy Riot’s lic and burnished the president’s pop cul- (pre-Christ the Savior Cathedral) perfor- Walter Honcharyk, advertising manager (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 ture image as an action-hero tough guy. But fax: (973) 644-9510 mances. e-mail: [email protected] more importantly, Mr. Putin’s colorful use of It was simply: “We Exist.” the Russian language helped establish a Mariyka Pendzola, subscriptions (973) 292-9800, ext. 3042 e-mail: [email protected] powerful national narrative: Russia has a (Continued on page 15) No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 3 Cat-themed opposition billboards taken down in Ukraine by Ron Synovitz RFE/RL DNIPROPETROVSK – With Ukraine’s parliamentary elections just over two months away, opposition campaign- ers in eastern Ukraine say their voices are being muffled – in one case by taking down political billboards featuring gigantic cats. In the eastern city of Dniprodzerzhynsk, City Council deputy Vitaly Kuprii is crying foul after 15 election bill- boards he ordered were simultaneously removed from city streets. Mr. Kuprii is running for Parliament for the opposi- tion Svoboda party and his billboards had criticized Ukraine’s ruling Party of Regions with slogans like “Are you tired of abuses by the authorities?” On August 16, it became known that eight of the 15 missing billboards were discovered near an asphalt plant in the Petrykiv district. The removal of the billboards comes after other anti- government billboards created by Mr. Kuprii’s friend Maksym Holosnyi were also torn down. One of Mr. Holosnyi’s humorous political advertise- ments – which was removed early last week from a site in Dniprodzerzhynsk – depicted a cat with an elderly woman who says: “I learned my grandson voted for the Party of Regions. I’ve signed the house over to the cat.” Mr. Holosnyi head of a village in the region, has gone into hiding after authorities launched a criminal investiga- dndz.co.ua tion against him over allegations of theft. A billboard (left) in Dniprodzerzhynsk says: “I learned my grandson voted for the Party of Regions. I’ve signed the house over to the cat.” The message was soon afterwards pasted over and then completely covered. Later the Party of (Continued on page 12) Regions put up its own cat billboard (right) reading: “Under our rule, even cats got apartments.”

for the last six years and consistently fight- party, some of whom have shady pasts. ranks of the “tushky” (canned carcasses), Ukraine’s 2012... ing the corruption of City Council Chair These include Kostiantyn Bryl, an alleged or those opposition deputies who aban- Leonid Chernovetskyi. contrabandist; Vitalii Maksymov, an alleged- doned their parties to join the coalition (Continued from page 1) Indeed, the Klitschko Bloc distinguished ly corrupt former police chief in the Ternopil government. For instance, Pavlo Riabikin, associated with former Prime Minister itself by not colluding with the and Lviv oblasts; and Vasyl Furman, who has 28th on UDAR’s closed list, switched parlia- Yulia Tymoshenko. Chernovetskyi Bloc, particularly its notori- the nickname “Chornyi Bankir” (The Black mentary factions five times between 1998 “[Vitali] Klitschko will sound the thesis ous real estate giveaways. But corruption at Banker), reported the Ukrainian Week mag- and 2004. that we’re the new opposition, distancing the parliamentary level could be much azine in its August 10 issue. himself from the unified opposition,” Mr. harder to resist for candidates of the UDAR Many UDAR politicians could join the (Continued on page 12) Fesenko said. “There’s a need in Ukraine for new politicians and forces. Therefore, the poll ratings of Klitschko and Natalia Korolevska [chair of the Ukraine – Forward The top 5 of UDAR and CPU party] have surged.” Following is information about the top Communist Party of Ukraine Ukrainian Democratic five candidates on the party lists of the 1. Petro Symonenko – 60, first secre- Alliance for Reform Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform tary of the Communist Party of Ukraine (UDAR) and the Communist Party of Ukrainian political parties draw criticism for nearly two decades. The millionaire Ukraine (CPU). from observers for relying on charismatic leader of Ukraine’s exploited working leaders, rather than being based on ideologies Ukrainian Democratic Alliance class has done well for himself, reportedly and programs. UDAR will be no different; its for Reform counting five apartments, a mansion, a popularity is entirely based on the celebrity $50,000 belt and a $99,000 watch, among status of its founder, current world heavy- 1. Vitali Klitschko – 41, current world heavyweight boxing champion. His 2011 his known possessions. (His 2011 declara- weight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko. wealth, with brother Wladimir, is estimat- tion mentions no car.) In 2009, he also “The main accent will be made on the ed at $55 million. Mr. Klitschko entered gained a wife 25 years his junior after he character, the fame of Vitali himself and his Ukrainian politics in 2006 when forming divorced his companion of 35 years. sports achievements,” Mr. Fesenko said. his eponymous bloc in the Kyiv City 2. Petro Tsybenko – 63, party stalwart “On account of that, his latest fight is Council and then battling the coalition’s for nearly two decades. Mr. Tsybenko planned in September for Moscow.” (Mr. real estate giveaways. leads the party organization of his native Klitschko will fight against German Manuel 2. Maria Matios – 52, leading contem- Luhansk Oblast, a Communist stronghold, Charr at Moscow’s Olympic Sports Arena porary writer. Ms. Matios established her- and has served in the Verkhovna Rada on September 8.) self as a prolific prose author in the 2000s. since 1994. How the history teacher About 12 percent of Ukrainians would She gained additional fame when her Zenon Zawada became a millionaire remains a mystery, Contemporary writer Maria Matios is vote for UDAR if the election was held in Piramida publishing house in Lviv was yet former Communist Party member late July-early August, the Razumkov second on the party list of the Ukrainian Leonid Grach said the party regularly sold searched by police in December 2010. They Democratic Alliance for Reform. Center in Kyiv, one of Ukraine’s most reli- came to confiscate books in which she com- its votes in Parliament. able polling firms, reported on August 17. pared a Soviet monument to a phallus. She’s November 2010. At the time, she was the 3. Iryna Spirina – 53, psychiatrist. Dr. Few enjoy Mr. Klitschko’s positive image a native of the Bukovyna region. chair of the Committee to Defend Spirina chairs the psychiatry department among his countrymen, which is why pur- 3. Valentyn Nalyvaichenko – 46, for- Entrepreneurs under the shadow govern- of the Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy. suing politics – an image-dependent pro- mer Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) ment led by former Prime Minister Yulia She also leads a district party office. Dr. fession – was a logical post-boxing career chair. Mr. Nalyvaichenko was among the Tymoshenko. Before that she led the Spirina was born in Potsdam, Germany. choice. His popularity stems from having closest confidantes of former President Council of Entrepreneurs in the 4. Spiridon Kilinkarov – 43, Luhansk earned his millions honestly, rather than Viktor Yushchenko, remaining loyal to him Tymoshenko Cabinet. businessman, millionaire. Mr. Kilinkarov’s via the opaque schemes common to even after most had abandoned him after 5. Vitalii Kovalchuk – 43, business fortune began with an automotive repair Ukrainian politicians, observers said. his presidency in 2010. But even Mr. executive. Mr. Kovalchuk is a lawyer who business. He didn’t join the Communist As a result, UDAR’s campaign posters Nalyvaichenko had his limits, announcing worked in banks and oil companies before Party until 2001. employ slogans such as, “Politics can be sin- his departure from Our Ukraine in May. becoming board chairman in 2001-2005 5. Oleksander Prysiazhniuk – 26, first cere,” “Politics can be open,” and “From the He’s most recognized for opening all of Ukrnaftoprodukt, a network of oil stor- secretary of the Lenin Komsomol success of a person to the success of a country.” secret Soviet archives to the public. age depots. Mr. Kovalchuk became one of (Communist Youth Union) of Ukraine. The Yet veteran observers are skeptical 4. Oksana Prodan – 38, board chair- Mr. Klitschko’s most trusted political advi- Communists are trying to win young vot- ers, and Mr. Prysiazhniuk plays a key role in about whether Mr. Klitschko’s success as a man of the Fortetsia (Fortress) association sors in 2010. He serves as UDAR’s deputy chairman, the chair of the party’s central that strategy. He’s a native of Zhytomyr, boxer will translate onto the national level. of small- and medium-sized businesses. Ms. Prodan was among the leaders of the executive committee and chair of the par- which has a large Lenin statue in its city He’s not a political virgin, having led his tax protests that erupted in Kyiv in ty’s Kyiv city organization. center. eponymous faction in the Kyiv City Council 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 No. 35 No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 5

The Ukrainian National Association Forum Soyuzivka crowns its “Miss” for 2013 by Sonia Semanyszyn The second runner up was Christine Nedilsky of New Jersey, an employee of Soyuzivka who is a senior at the KERHONKSON, N.Y. – The crowning of Miss Soyuzivka State University of New York at New Paltz. She is majoring 2013 was the highlight of the August 11-12 weekend at in journalism with a concentration in public relations and the Soyuzivka Heritage Center. minoring in women’s studies. Seven candidates vied for the title, and the winner was The new Miss Soyuzivka was congratulated by her announced as Katya Hoshovska of New York. Ms. predecessor, Miss Soyuzivka 2012 Lala Chopivsky- Hoshovska attends Fordham University at Lincoln Center Benson. and is majoring in performing arts. Participants of the Roma Pryma Bohachevsky The first runner-up was Julianna Hanas of Maryland, a Ukrainian Dance Camp (Session 2) were in evidence at the junior at Towson University in Maryland. Ms. Hanas is dance. Everyone enjoyed the wonderful “zabava” sounds majoring in graphic design. of the Na Zdorovya band while dancing the night away.

During the presentation of Miss Soyuzivka and her runners-up (from left) are: Maya Lew, judge; Stefko Drabyk, assistant to the general manager of Soyuzivka; Roman Hirniak, judge; Stefanie Hawryluk, Miss Soyuzivka coordi- nator; Miss Soyuzivka 2012 Lala Chopivsky-Benson; second runner-up Christine Nedilsky; first runner-up Miss Soyuzivka 2012 Lala Chopivsky-Benson (left) con- Julianna Hanas; Miss Soyuzivka 2013 Katya Hoshovska; Ukrainian National Association President Stefan gratulates her successor, Miss Soyuzivka 2013 Katya Kaczaraj; UNA Treasurer Roma Lisovich; and Lydia Chopivsky-Benson, judge. Hoshovska. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 No. 35

COMMENTARY The Ukrainian Weekly Ukraine in London Duping the kittens Ukraine has much to be proud of as far as its performance at the Summer Olympics in London – it finished 12th out of 204 countries that competed at the by Mykola Riabchuk mailed by the Regionals because of his Games (14th in the gold medal count) and won six gold, five silver and nine bronze alleged involvement in the Gongadze affair medals. Ukraine’s run at these Olympics could be best characterized as a few expect- The last hopes some Ukrainians har- (http://news.liga.net/ua/news/politics/ ed wins, surprising victories, unexpected disappointments and an undisputed pres- bored for the president’s veto over the high- 707846-litvin_p_dpisav_skandalniy_zakon_ ence in boxing. ly divisive language bill, faded away on pro_movi.htm). Starting off the Olympiad, which was held July 27 through August 12, Ukraine fin- August 8, after Viktor Yanukovych signed it Thirdly, the professional “doves” on the ished the first week (ending on Sunday, August 7) with nine medals – three gold and into law (http://www.president.gov.ua/ Yanukovych team strained every sinew to six bronze medals – in fencing (Yana Shemyakina, gold; Olha Kharlan, bronze), row- news/24960.html). convey to the public the president’s deep ing (Yana Dementieva, Nataliya Dovhodko, Anastasiya Koshenkova and Kateryna The result was largely predictable since concern with the controversies and his sin- Tarasenko, gold), weightlifting (Oleksiy Torokhtiy, gold; Yulia Kalina, bronze), shoot- the promotion of the Russian language – at cere desire to find a reasonable compromise ing (Olena Kostevych, two bronze), triple jump (Olha Saladuha, bronze), and gymnas- the expense of Ukrainian, as many critics that would not harm the Ukrainian lan- guage. tics (Ihor Radivilov, bronze). opine – was a cornerstone of Mr. Yanukovych’s 2004 and 2010 presidential Maryna Stavniychuk, his adviser, went so Then, during the second week (ending on Sunday, August 12), Ukraine collected campaigns, as well as of his Sovietophile far as to recognize unequivocally that “the 11 medals – three gold, five silver and three bronze medals – in canoeing (Yuri Party of Regions of Ukraine. The propagan- law was passed with flagrant violations of Cheban, gold), kayaking (Inna Osypenko-Radomska, two silver), wrestling (Valerii distic materials leaked from the party head- the Articles 47, 116-122 and 130 of the pro- Andriitsev, silver), boxing (Oleksandr Usyk, gold; Vasyl Lomachenko, gold; Denys quarters before the bill was even approved cedural rules of Parliament, and many of its Bervinchyk, silver; Taras Shelestyuk, bronze; Oleksandr Hvozdyk, bronze), javelin reveal a key role assigned to the language provisions contradicted the respective para- throw (Oleksandr Pyatntytsya, silver), and in the 4x100-meter relay (Olesya Povh, law by the party spin-doctors in the pending graphs of the Ukrainian Constitution and Hrytsyna Stuy, Mariya Ryemyen and Yelizaveta Bryzhina, bronze). parliamentary elections campaign. And the international documents ratified by Ukraine, Ukraine also had 28 top-10 finishers who did not medal. They too deserve con- brutal, extremely unscrupulous and illegiti- including the European Charter of Regional gratulations. But its best performance was in boxing, and its boxers truly embodied mate way the bill was pushed through the and Minority Languages” (http://obozreva- the Ukrainian warrior spirit in competition. Usyk and Bervinchyk sported “oseledtsi” Parliament proves that the stakes are too tel.com/politics/16482-umovna-movna- (the Kozak-era scalp-lock), with both of them taking it a step further by performing a high for the Party of Regions and, apparent- krapka.htm). Moreover, Mr. Yanukovych victory Hopak following their medal-winning bouts. Not only were Ukraine’s athletes ly, for the president. himself recognized the controversial charac- on view for the world, some of them took it upon themselves to share a part of Therefore, it was rather naïve to expect ter of the law, referring to it as a crude docu- Ukraine’s culture. that the president would destroy what his ment “splitting society,” and therefore Ukraine did manage to win medals in sports where its chances were considered team had been building so ruthlessly, requiring “some improvements.” unlikely. Ukraine’s women’s rowing team won the country’s first-ever gold medal in breaching various laws and dismissing pro- And, finally, on the very eve of the bill’s rowing, let alone women’s quadruple sculls; Cheban earned gold in canoe sprint, cedural subtleties. The calculation looks signing President Yanukovych summoned a Pyatnytsya took silver in javelin, Andriitsev’s silver in wrestling and Ukraine’s wom- simple: whatever the president and his number of what still is called in Soviet new- en’s 4x100-meter relay team’s bronze medal could also be added to the surprise list. party do, they will not garner support from speak “representatives of intelligentsia” to Some of Ukraine’s shortcomings at the Olympics in London included the lowest the democratic, Ukrainophile, and pro-Euro- his summer residence in Crimea to get their medal total since Ukraine first participated as an independent country in the pean part of society. So, the main task is to first-hand opinion on the hot issue. The next Summer Olympics at Atlanta in 1996. The medal counts for previous games were: mobilize the traditional, Sovietophile part of day the bill was signed into law to the great Atlanta, 1996, 23; Sydney, 2000, 23; Athens, 2004, 23; Beijing, 2008, 27. The num- the electorate, which would probably never shock of the “representatives,” who justifi- bers show a national Olympic sports program in transition. The lone bronze medal vote for the “democrats” perceived as ably considered themselves “tricked like kit- by Radivilov in gymnastics – which had been Ukraine’s top medal-producing sport – “nationalists” and “Western hacks,” but may tens.” (The phrase became a popular and the lack of medals in swimming, diving and judo are a testament to this. It could also reject the “Regionals” because of dissat- description of the Party of Regions’ behavior also be that, as often happens, the pressure of the global stage, with the world watch- isfaction with their disastrous social and after its informal parliamentary “director,” ing, and a split-second miscalculation brought years of training to a crushing end economic policies. Some protest votes Mykhailo Chechetov, used it boastfully to against the world’s best athletes. would probably benefit the Regionals’ satel- explain how they had cheated the opposi- “The Olympic Games gather the strongest athletes on the planet. It is difficult to lites: the Communists on the virtual left and tion when pushing through the bill against predict anything. There are a variety of surprises – both positive and negative,” said Natalia Korolevska’s Ukraine – Forward in Serhiy Bubka, president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine and former the quasi-liberal “center.” Still, the problem Olympic and world champion pole-vaulter. “Now it is time to think about the Olympic of mobilizing the Regionals’ core electorate allRussian procedural word “razvesti” requirements: – to sucker “Мы some- их Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. In September or October the National Olympic remains topical, since many of those people развели,body – comes как котят.”from the Remarkably, criminal jargon the Committee will initiate the All-Ukrainian Congress of Sports, which will bring togeth- may simply ignore the elections, facilitating openly favored by the dominant Donetsk er leaders of our country, sports professionals from different organizations and thereby the chances of the opposition. clan (http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/ regions. The purpose of this forum is to work out a global concept for further devel- The estimated size of the Sovietophile 2012/07/3/6967926). opment of national sports and a clear strategy for preparing for these Olympics.” electorate in Ukraine is about 40 percent. To sweeten the pill, the president With four years to go before the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, can This does not comprise a majority, but the ordered the government to create an ad-hoc Ukraine hope to restructure its Olympics training to win more than 20 medals? We’ll Party of Regions has good reason to believe working group that would elaborate proper see in four years. In the meantime, congratulations to all of Team Ukraine’s Olympic that the half of the Parliament elected from changes to the law, with a stated goal to medalists and athletes! the territorial districts (not from the party “ensure the full-fledged functioning of the lists) will bring it the much-needed majority Ukrainian language in all spheres of social thanks to the so-called independents. Most life over the entire territory of the country.” of them ultimately appear very dependent This belongs next to the initial intention of on the incentives or intimidation or both the document to “guarantee the free devel- Aug. from the authorities and usually end-up in opment and use of other mother tongues of Turning the pages back... the pro-government camp. Ukrainian citizens” (http://www.president. The plot of the “language bill” was essen- gov.ua/documents/14941.html). Eleven years ago, on August 26, 2001, The Ukrainian Weekly tially clear, but some dramatic devices were Raisa Bohatyriova, the vice prime minis- 26 reported on commentary by Ukraine’s leading politicians about invoked to create an effective atmosphere of ter in charge of humanitarian issues, was Ukraine’s achievements over the decade since the country suspense and intrigue. First, there was last assigned to head the group, while the presi- 2001 regained independence in 1991. year’s precedent, when the law on official dent’s guests, a.k.a. “representatives of intel- Ivan Drach, leader of the Rukh organization who was head of use of the Soviet red flags was passed and ligentsia,” were invited to participate in the the State Committee on Radio and Television, said, “The biggest even signed by the president but cancelled deliberations. Ironically, the same offer was accomplishment? That the country has survived these 10 years. That is it. What else can eventually by the hyper-loyalist made also to the bill’s sponsors, Serhiy there be?” Constitutional Court. (This actually may Kivalov and Vadym Kolesnichenko – a deci- Clearly, state independence is the most important achievement for the Ukrainian happen again, but probably only after the sion that some Ukrainian journalists nation, which suffered over 300 years of imperial hegemony, according to the politicians. parliamentary elections. The abandoned declared was rather like asking Himmler Everything else, they said, was secondary. law would not bring Mr. Yanukovych much and Goebbels to work on a law of de-Nazifi- Secondly, there was less to celebrate during those 10 years as opposed to the big event love and gratitude from Ukrainophiles any- cation. – independence, as Les Taniuk, a national deputy with Rukh, added. “The main achieve- way, but it would certainly give him an addi- The excessive demonization of two petty ment was the end of the empire – the end of the Soviet Union. It was an achievement pro- tional trump-card for some manipulative swindlers and opportunists is hardly appro- pelled by a desire for independence primarily on the part of Ukraine, the Baltic states and games in the future – something that his priate, but the metaphor is actually not Georgia. It was a monumental historical moment. The second one is that Ukraine predecessor Leonid Kuchma understood about ideological similarity. It refers primar- appeared on the European map not through violent overthrow but by a vote, a national perfectly.) ily to the intolerant, aggressive and arrogant referendum, and when we began to analyze that vote we saw that, while more than 90 Secondly, Parliament Chairman approach of these two persons and their use percent of ethnic Ukrainians voted for independence, 80 percent of ethnic Russians living Volodymyr Lytvyn refused to sign the bill, of political force to resolve any issue that in Ukraine did as well. And Jews were at about 90 percent in support, while Tatar support citing multiple violations of the procedure requires a dialogue and consensus-building. came out to some 96 percent. It turned out that not only did Ukrainians want out [of the http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2012/ Mr. Kivalov was the cynical head of the Soviet Union], but Jews, Tatars, Russians and Germans did too.” 07/4/6967984. But his resignation was not Central Election Commission that notori- accepted by the Parliament and he was ulti- (Continued on page 19) mately forced to comply, possibly black- (Continued on page 15) No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 7 “Impact of Russian Soft Power” discussed at Congressional Policy Forum Americans, however, have nothing to fear from free and open exchange of ideas, a concept woven into our national identity and reflected most prominently in the First Amendment. In contrast, Mr. Trimble remarked that Russia’s Duma has recently passed a series of restrictive laws on NGOs, defamation and the Internet, further downgrading free- dom of speech in Russia. Additionally, the vagueness of these laws, characteristic from Soviet times, could cripple free expression and freedom of the press. U.S. international broadcasts are limited today to a single FM station on Russia’s Kola Peninsula and two weak AM (medium-wave) stations in Moscow. There are no domestic TV broadcasts. What’s worse, as of November 10, RFE/RL’s MW transmitter in Moscow will no longer be legal. Despite these challenges, the U.S. continues efforts to reach audi- ences in Russia primarily through Russian-language RFE/ RL and VOA digital and shortwave platforms. Mr. Trimble noted that U.S. International Broadcasting is prohibited by legislation to conduct propaganda and is lim- ited to: (1) broadcast reliable, authoritative, accurate and CEEC objective news; (2) project a balanced and comprehensive At the policy forum discussing “The Impact of Russian Soft Power in Washington and its Spillover Effects” (from left) view of U.S. thought and institutions, reflecting the diversi- are: Jeff Trimble, deputy director of the International Broadcasting Bureau; Susan Corke, director of Eurasia ty of culture and society; and (3) present the policies of the Programs at Freedom House; Nino Japaridze, moderator, Central and East European Coalition; Ariel Cohen, research United States government, including discussions and opin- fellow at the Heritage Foundation; and Irena Van Deusen, managing editor, Voice of America Russian Service. ions on those policies. Ms. Van Dusen remarked that the “Voice of America WASHINGTON – The Central and East European Russian Service offers a valuable platform for views in Coalition (CEEC) on July 25 sponsored a policy forum on policy directives on public diplomacy; Russia, being the only resource for objective discussion on Capitol Hill titled “The Impact of Russian Soft Power in • use the findings of this research to craft presidential American thought on events relevant to Russian speakers Washington and its Spillover Effects.” Panelists included embassies best public diplomacy practices for improving in the region.” The VOA Russian Service is engaging its Ariel Cohen, research fellow at the Heritage Foundation; U.S.• publictask the diplomacy State Department programs; and to collect from its many audience by offering balanced reporting and a forum for Susan Corke, director of Eurasia Programs at Freedom ideas, despite media restrictions and pressure from the House; Jeff Trimble, deputy director of the International U.S. journalists reporting in/and on China, Russia and Russian government. Under pressure by the authorities in Broadcasting Bureau; and Irena Van Deusen, managing other• ensure states visa whose parity public and diplomacyfreedom from outreach interference counters for Moscow, radio and television affiliate stations in Russia editor, Voice of America Russian Service. U.S. policies and leadership. have stopped broadcasting VOA programs. To circumvent The event was moderated by Dr. Nino Japaridze of the Russia Today (RT) has well-staffed broadcast bureaus in such restrictions, the Russian Service of VOA adopted an Georgian Association in the U.S., with introductory Washington and in New York, noted Mr. Trimble. It now Internet-only strategy in 2008. Unfortunately, Russian- remarks by Alice Kipel of the Belarusan-American has distribution in 10 U.S. states and in the District of language VOA radio broadcasts were terminated just days Association. Both are representatives of the CEEC, which Columbia – potentially reaching 50 million viewers in before Russia’s war with Georgia that year. The Russian comprises 18 American ethnic organizations representing English and Spanish. Taking full advantage of new technol- Service VOA now offers through web-based discussion, over 20 million Americans. (Among the CEEC’s members ogies, new media as well as traditional media – Russia dialogue, and multimedia presentations; it is a timely and are the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the (through RT), China and others are bringing their narra- trustworthy source of news, information and analysis of Ukrainian National Association.) tives and their ways of defining themselves directly to the the U.S.-Russian relationship, global events relevant to Ms. Corke, the first presenter, noted that recent punitive U.S. public. The openness of American society facilitates Russia; and it projects America’s way of life and culture. legislation introduced by the Russian government against the soft-power efforts by various foreign entities to propa- This is something seldom heard on any of Russia’s state- non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and citizen pro- gate their perspectives and views in this country. run media, Ms. Van Dusen noted. testers poses a direct challenge to the international com- munity and those who support the protection of democrat- ic rights. President Vladimir Putin is deliberately and sys- NEWS AND VIEWS tematically trying to silence groups whose criticism of his human rights record exposed weakness and helped fuel months of protests against his rule. To justify his repressive moves, Mr. Putin needs an enemy – a threat beyond Russia’s borders to rally the nation behind him. The U.S. An appeal of the Volyn Brotherhood government, in solidarity with international governments by Andriy Bondarchuk the conservation. The second stage will require more spe- and NGOs, Ms. Corke said, must stand up for the belea- cific rebuilding. The crypt will have a separate entrance guered organizations in Russia who seek a more democrat- LUTSK, Ukraine – In our much victimized country, there from the street and will be waterproofed. The remains ic future. Mr. Putin knows that support for those who seek are still millions whose remains have not been properly should be stored properly and perhaps displayed under fundamental freedoms is a powerful form of soft power. buried. In many cases we do not even know the location of glass, as was done in the Pecherska Lavra. The crypt could In his extensive remarks Dr. Cohen observed that their final resting places. We can only pray for them while become an underground church, together with the muse- Russian leaders, since Mr. Putin’s assumption of power, continuing our search. But even in burial places known to um of the Volyn Brotherhood. It may become a new tourist have viewed the purpose of soft power much like their pre- us, we found the scattered bones of well-known people attraction in the old quarters of Lutsk. decessors did: to extend Russian influence and constrain who fully deserve our deepest respect and admiration. These remains of prominent people from our past, are America’s. To this end, the Russian government allocated In the crypt of the Volyn Brotherhood’s Church of the not buried. Those people have done their duty. Their $1.4 billion for international propaganda in fiscal year Elevation of the Cross, the mortal remains of the first remains are not able to appeal to us, the living. Our con- 2010, increasing that budget by 33 percent from FY 2009. brethren are still waiting for a final resting place. Most of sciences ought to scream: “Remember that the same rules Russia’s premier soft power instrument is its global televi- them are 300 to 350 years old. They were interred here you use to judge others, God will use to judge you” sion empire led by RT, with a significant presence in according to their testaments, and their names are (Matthew 7:2). Washington. Its priority is to denigrate America, disparage renowned. The Volyn Brotherhood of St. Andrew, as the heir of the other perceived enemies and promote the notion of a mul- Here are some of them: the poet Danylo Bratkovsky; the Lutsk Brotherhood of the Elevation of the Cross founded in tipolar world to counterbalance U.S. dominance. philantropist Halshka Hulevychivna, one of the founders of 1617, is appealing to people of good will who are not indif- Dr. Cohen said he believes that the U.S. administration the Brotherhood; a Greek physician Alexander Don ferent to the history of our land. We are also asking for help and Congress should: Muzelli; Bishop Aphanasiy; Prince Yuriy Puzynac; Roman from people who are well-off, political parties, kind-heart- and Danylo Hulevych; and others. In difficult times for ed and generous individuals. Our Brotherhood does not center to collect and analyze data on the public diplomacy Ukraine and orthodoxy, these people defended their insti- possess financial resources and therefore is asking for investments• create a andfederally activities funded of China, research Russia, and Iran development and other tutions with total disregard for their lives. “I bequeath to assistance in completing this mission. countries challenging U.S. policies values and leadership; my children to keep the faith, for which I am dying,” wrote Andriy Bondarchuk is president of the Volyn Brotherhood Danylo Bratkovsky in his last will, before his execution. in Lutsk, Ukraine. After the church was destroyed by fire in 1803, the * * * crypt collapsed and was flooded for a long time. The St. Andrew’s Society Inc. in the United States is joining LIKE remains were robbed, desecrated, strewn all over amidst this appeal of the Volyn Brotherhood, and is asking all peo- The Ukrainian dirt, trash and building debris. During the years of ple of good will, especially those from the Volyn region, to Communist atheism, the place was used as a trash dump. help their brethren complete their pious undertaking. Tax- Weekly Three years ago, the crypt was painstakingly cleaned by exempt contributions to may be sent: St. Andrew’s Society hand as the bone remains were carefully gathered and Inc. (memo: “Volyn”), V. Vizir, 1023 Yorkshire Drive, Los on Facebook! placed into four large caskets. This was the first stage of Altos, CA, 94024. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 No. 35 The witness of the Ukrainian Catholic priest-martyr of Majdanek, Omelian Kovch

A monument to the Blessed Omelian shepherd celebrating daily divine liturgies, the historical events themselves and their Kovch, was unveiled on May 11 in the town tending to the wounded and sick in hospital, reception in the Ukrainian population have of Peremyshliany, Ukraine, where Father and offering pastoral care during battle. He yet to be fully analyzed. Kovch served as a parish priest from 1922 to was known as a good mediator in conflicts One thing, however, is clear a priori. A the time of the Nazi occupation, during and supported the morale of the soldiers. discussion of any aspect of social life in which he was imprisoned for rescuing Jews. Father Omelian was sometimes accused Ukraine, including post-Soviet Church life, In connection with the ceremonies, which of “imprudence” in that he was apt to go to must always take into consideration the were accompanied by a nationwide pilgrim- the front lines to be by the side of troops basic anthropological impact of modern age, the Religious Information Service of under fire. “I know that a soldier on the line totalitarian violence. More than many other Ukraine (RISU) posted extended excerpts of a of the front feels best if he sees there a doc- factors, it helps to explain the dynamics February 23, 2010, speech delivered in tor and a chaplain.” Father Omelian would underlying contemporary phenomena and Madrid by the Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, rector joke: “You know, gentlemen, that I am trends in human behavior. Very importantly, of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. ordained, and bullets don’t bite an ordained it serves to explain the worldview and prob- The text of the speech is being published in man that readily.” lems of a recent immigrant to Spain. The Ukrainian Weekly in two parts. Both Poles and Ukrainians had no state- This historical context helps us under- hood, that is, national independence stand the heroic ministry and witness of by the Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak throughout the 19th century. Ukrainian and Blessed Omelian Kovch. After the Polish- Polish ethnographical lands were part of Ukrainian war ended Father Omelian was PART I the Russian or Austrian Empires. (Besides appointed, in 1922, to the parish of As a Church historian I have studied the Russia and Austria, Prussia participated in Peremyshliany, a town, like most in Galicia, persecution and underground life of the the 18th century partitions of Poland and composed primarily of three nationalities: Ukrainian Greek-Catholics in Soviet times. Lithuania.) Both peoples fought during and Jews, Poles and Ukrainians. Throughout the (From 1946-1989 the catacomb Ukrainian A depiction of the Blessed Omelian Kovch after World War I to establish their inde- inter-war years Father Omelian developed Greek-Catholic Church was the largest ille- pendence. The war between Poles and a vibrant ministry that included a rich litur- parish priest in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ukrainians for Galicia (1918-1919) ended gical life, organized cultural activity and gal Church community in the world.) As a After completing gymnasium studies in university lecturer I teach primarily courses with defeat for the Ukrainian side. If multi-faceted social outreach. Lviv, the main city in western Ukraine, he Poland, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Estonia, and The Polish authorities, which were con- on Christian spirituality in the context of embarked on the road to priesthood. He post-modern cultural challenges. I am pro- Lithuania would emerge as independent ducting an explicit policy of Polonizing and spent six years in Rome as a seminarian in countries from the collapse of the Austro- Latinizing the Ukrainian population of foundly convinced that the neo-martyrs are the Greek-Catholic College of Ss. Sergius an important source of guidance regarding Hungarian and Russian tsarist empires, Galicia, harassed the dynamic and vocal and Bacchus and student of the Universita the complex spiritual predicament of the Ukraine would endure many decades of pastor regularly. According to reports, Urbaniana of the Congregation for the present and proximate future. In Ukraine brutality totalitarian rule before it would between 1925 and 1934 the police Propagation of Faith. In 1910 he married they overcame the greatest challenges of the gain independence in 1991. searched his home some 40 times. On Maria-Anna Dobrianska, who would be a 20th century – Soviet and Nazi totalitarian- To understand the circumstances of the many occasions Father Omelian was arrest- model partner in his apostolate. The fol- ism – and they can give us a key to the great- Church and neo-martyrs in Ukraine, it is ed and held for questioning for longer or lowing year Omelian was ordained presby- est spiritual and moral tasks of 21st century. important to know that in the 20th century shorter periods. Although firm in his con- ter by Blessed Bishop Hryhorii Khomyshyn The martyrs and confessors kept the some 17 million inhabitants of Ukraine victions and outspoken on behalf of his dis- (1867-1945). Bishop Hryhorii himself faith in virtually impossible circumstances, would be killed or die an unnatural death criminated flock in the public square, became a martyr of the Soviet persecution. in which giant systems with almost limit- due to the world wars, Soviet and Nazi per- Blessed Omelian was equally famous for his Arrested in 1945 at age of 78, after eight less power and control tried to negate both secution and extermination policies, includ- pastoral zeal and tact, a sensitivity to plight months of interrogation and beatings, he human dignity and the very existence of the ing the diabolical artificial famine of the weak and capacity as a peacemaker. died in the hospital of a Soviet prison in Creator. Deprived of the most elementary Holodomor (“genocide by hunger”) orches- Passers-by would say about the simple Kyiv and was beatified together with legal and civil rights, stripped of the entire trated by Stalin in 1932-1933 and the Nazi rectory of the pastor: “Angels hover over that Blessed Omelian by John Paul II. infrastructure of the Church, and subjected Holocaust. From 1914 to 1945 every other house.” The Kovch family had six children of At the time of Omelian Kovch’s child- to excruciating physical and spiritual suf- adult male and every fourth adult female their own. Despite their modest circum- hood, seminary studies and ordination, [1] fering, the new martyrs remained strong, perished. stances Father Omelian and Maria-Anna western Ukrainian Galician lands were part courageous, joyful, full of hope, humble and Ukraine was one of the main theaters of almost continuously housed orphans and of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The com- in peace. They experienced and radiated two world wars with their battle casualties other children who were abandoned to pov- plexities of Ukrainian history were reflected the love of God. If they did so in totalitarian and violence against civilian populations. erty. The family was known to favor these throughout the challenging ministry of circumstances facing death yesterday, can- Its people endured the Leninist revolution- special guests, giving them better food and Father Omelian. Over a period of 30 years not also we do the same today and tomor- ary mayhem, the famine after World War I, clothing than that enjoyed by the Kovch chil- he would be a priest under successive row – in Spain and in Ukraine? the systematic Stalinist purges of political dren. Blessed Omelian was radically atten- Austrian, Ukrainian, Polish, Soviet and Nazi Of these martyrs Blessed Omelian leaders, Communist Party activists, intellec- tive to the poor, helping them materially and rule and endure the hardships of the émigré Kovch, who was beatified by Pope John tuals, religious leaders, military officers and spiritually. His reputation of virtue spread. experience and two world wars. Paul II in Lviv on June 27, 2001, is a particu- even folk musicians beginning in the 1920s The Greek-Catholic pastor of In all of these trying circumstances larly relevant example for priests during and lasting until World War II, and the eth- Peremyshliany was not only a uniquely Blessed Omelian was a spiritual father to his the Year of the Priesthood. Who was nic cleansing and the forcible deportations active minister. He was also a profoundly Greek-Catholic Ukrainian flock, which had a Blessed Omelian Kovch and what can his of the post-war years together generated a reflective one. Not a scholar by primary second-class if not persecuted status witness express to the clergy and faithful of toll of death and human suffering that is vocation, he nonetheless was very well edu- throughout his entire life. At the same time, Roman Catholic Spain? simply overwhelming. cated. Besides classical languages he knew he earned a reputation for being a defender To answer these questions it is neces- The death toll in Ukraine constitutes five or six European ones, and was well of representatives of other ethnic communi- sary to provide historical information on nearly one-tenth of the approximately 180 read. He combined practical pastoral experi- ties, especially Roman Catholic Poles and the martyr of a Nazi labor camp in million estimated fatalities worldwide ence with critical analysis of cultural, social, Jews during the Holocaust, for whom he Majdanek, near Lublin, Poland, who for caused by war and by homicidal policies of political and economic phenomena. In a would ultimately give his life. three decades served as a creative, indefati- the various totalitarian regimes in the last special way, he systematically and scrupu- Soon after ordination, in 1912, Father [2] gable and intrepid pastor, and voluntarily – century. The brutality and slaughter of lously analyzed the effectiveness of the Omelian volunteered to serve Greek- with deep conviction and joy – sacrificed the most modern century affected the per- Greek-Catholic Church’s apostolate. He Catholic immigrants who had left densely his life to minister to and save Jews and to sonal history of every Ukrainian. Among loved his Church and served it indefatigably. populated and economically depressed be a priest to the dying in a death camp. In European nations, no other people except At the same time, he was an open critic of western Ukraine to settle in ethnically and the process I would like to highlight some the Jews suffered losses of such propor- many of the shortcomings in Greek-Catholic confessionally diverse Yugoslavian lands. He [3] aspects of Blessed Omelian’s priestly char- tions. It is these circumstances that the liturgical life and pastoral methodology. administrated a parish in Kozarac, a small acter and propose a few perspectives neo-martyrs faced and overcame. In 1932 he published a small book with town in what is today northwestern Bosnia regarding his relevance for priests at the Since, in the Soviet Union, much of the an evocative title: “Why Do Ours Flee from and Herzegovina. In this mountainous beginning of the 21st century. savagery, particularly the Holodomor, could Us?” Given the economic circumstances, the region, where Muslims cohabited with Omelian Kovch was born August 20, not be acknowledged in public and even mere fact that a busy priest with six chil- Catholics of Latin and Byzantine rites, he 1884, in the picturesque southern Galician private discourse, this drama remained dren of his own and a veritable orphanage traveled the hillsides to attend to the spiri- village of Kosmach, near the town of Kosiv, unreflected, the deaths remained in his house could write and publish a book in the Carpathian Mountains. The family tual needs of a dispersed flock. Already then unmourned, the violence and offenses he came to be recognized as an effective while being under pressure from the was full of priests. His father was a parish unpardoned, and the psychological and authorities is in itself remarkable. The book priest, and his mother was the daughter of a missionary with a gift for preaching, consol- spiritual scars unhealed. The sociological, parish priest. Omelian had one brother and ing and converting souls. psychological, and spiritual implications of (Continued on page 13) three sisters, all of whom became wives of In 1916 he returned to Galicia where he served as an assistant pastor until 1919 priests. Eventually two of Omelian’s sons, [1] Serhiy and Myron, would become priests. when he became a chaplain in the Ukrainian Iaroslav Hrytsak, “Narys Istoryi Ukraïny. Formuvannia Modernoyi” Ukrayinskoyi Serhiy was a prist in Slovakia, and Myron Galician Army during the revolutionary Natsyi, XIX–XX Stolittia” (Kyiv: Vydavnytstvo “Geneza,” 2000), p. 102. served for many years in Detroit. His grand- events that were occurring in the wake of [2] Zbigniew Brzezinski, “Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century” son, Taras Kowcz, who studied with me in the collapse of both the Austro-Hungarian (New York, 1993), chapter titled “The Century of Megadeath,” pp. 7-18. the seminary in Rome, today serves as a and Russian empires. He was a diligent [3] Hrytsak, “Narys Istoryi Ukraïny,” p. 102. No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 9

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Collections of papers delivered ries based on the experiences of an at such conferences on Polish, Russian, American living and working in Russia and German, Jewish, Romanian and Moldovan Ukraine. affairs present permanent records of these This collection takes readers back to international forums for research and dis- Soviet times and, based on “Seinfeldian cussion of Ukraine’s role in the region and The volume begins with an article (in humor,” tells the story of intriguing events the multicultural aspects of Ukrainian histo- Ukrainian and Armenian) by Prof. that an individual encounters on a daily ry. In co-sponsoring a conference on the Dashkevych on the ancient Armenian com- basis. As noted on the back cover, “it offers Armenians of Ukraine together with the munity of Kyiv. Articles by Myron Kapral practical tips on how to cope with: …angry Armenian Studies Program of the (in English) and Alexander Osipian (in motorists who stop for pedestrians at University of Michigan and the Ukrainian Ukrainian) deal with the history of the crosswalks only because they are bumpier Catholic University (UCU) of Lviv, CIUS has Armenians of Lviv. than potholes; packs of howling stray dogs continued this tradition by examining one Karina Pyvovarska writes (in Ukrainian) who don’t understand English; Slavic of the most ancient and influential minori- about the activities of the Armenian attack pigeons and much more.” ties inhabiting the Ukrainian lands. Revolutionary Federation in early Soviet When in a foreign country, an American The multilingual volume “Armenian- Ukraine. Hasnik Step‘anyan discusses can find himself in unimaginable situa- parents in a German refugee camp. After Ukrainian Historical Contacts: Papers of the Armeno-Kipchak literature (in Armenian), tions. The author realizes this and through entering the U.S. when he was 1, Mr. International Conference held in Lviv, 29-31 and Vardan Grigorian examines the manu- the help of chapter titles, each chapter Parchomenko grew up in Rochester, N.Y.. He May 2008” edited by Kevork Bardakjian, script tradition of the Armenians of Podilia gives readers an idea of what to expect. eventually left Rochester to work and attend Frank Sysyn and Andrii Yasinovsky and co- With some of the titles being “Mayo graduate school in Washington; there he published by CIUS and UCU, appeared in with Armenian religiosity and cult objects Heaven,” “Meeting my Slavic Neighbors,” directed a Russian and Eurasian Studies 2011. The book is dedicated to Prof. Yaroslav (in Polish).Ukrainian). Konrad Siеkierski deals “School of Defensive Walking,” “Looking for graduate school program for 16 years. Dashkevych, the great Lviv specialist in Several articles treat the artistic legacy of Love in all the Wrong Places,” “Vodka & the Recently, the author has been traveling Armenian studies, who played a major role in the Armenians of Ukraine. Iryna Haiuk dis- Weak American,” “Your American Cash is and living in Russia and Ukraine. His works organizing the conference and participated cusses museum holdings of Armenian arti- No Good” and “Slavic Humor,” an American have appeared in The New York Times, The actively in its discussions. Prof. Dashkevych facts (in Ukrainian). Lilit Pipoyan discusses can be ready to face anything. Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science passed away on February 25, 2010. the architecture of the Surb Khach It also portrays an American’s key sur- Monitor, the Kyiv Post and many other pub- The editors’ introductions, written in Monastery in Crimea, and Anush Ter- vival story in this strict post-Soviet envi- lications. Dr. Parchomenko received his English and Ukrainian, discuss the context Minasyan examines the Armenian cathedral ronment. It shows how one is challenged Ph.D. from Georgetown University and is a and proceedings of the conference, paying in Lviv (both in Russian). Mik’ayel Arak’elyan to face and understand the cultural differ- former Fulbright scholar. special attention to the significance of Lviv discusses the illuminated manuscripts of ences between American and Slavic living. This book is available online at www. and of Prof. Dashkevych in Armenian studies. Galicia, Bukovyna and Podilia in an English- Dr. Parchomenko was born to Ukrainian createspace.com or www.amazon.com.

Yanukovych. itics to the national stage, but the Ukrainian dered by the short-term upheaval known as UKRAINE AT 21... Ukraine desperately needs political elites president is merely imitating a system per- the Orange Revolution. who care more about the country and the fected by Vladimir Putin in Russia (and first Today the predominance of what might (Continued from page 1) people they are supposed to serve than devised in Belarus). In that crucial sense, be termed the “Donetsk clan” ensures politi- about lining their own pockets. Until that Ukraine is already fully in Russia’s orbit. In cal stability – especially coordination independent state, but about the quality of happens, I fear Ukraine will continue to this neo-Soviet universe, politicians do not between the executive and the legislature – that independence. muddle through as it has for most of the last give up power, openly flout formal rules, and but exacerbates the situation and causes ten- With few exceptions, notably the Orange 21 years – neither a rousing success story, believe that the democratic discourse ema- sion with the European Union because of its Revolution, Ukraine stands as it generally nor an abject failure. nating from the West masks the only kind of obvious disdain for political niceties and has for the last 21 years – not sure of its politics they understand: the politics of the democratic procedures. On the other hand, direction or the system of values it wants to Prof. Dominique Arel, Chair of bully. because of the emergence of a business elite adopt. Ukraine has been caught between Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa: It is not the dismantlement of the Orange as a political force, the authority of the presi- East and West, both geopolitically and with Since his election, Viktor Yanukovych has Revolution that we have been witnessing dent is somewhat less certain than, for respect to its political system and values; still crossed all the red lines in place under since 2010, but the dismantlement of the example, in the Kuchma era. In theory at somewhat unsure of itself and not yet com- Leonid Kuchma, whose “blackmail state,” in political system established since 1991. The least, the “clan” around the president pletely defined as a nation. This can be seen retrospect, was a model of restraint. In less huge unknown is the capacity of the current appears capable of replacing him if it is in the current battle over the language law. than three years, in succession, Yanukovych regime to control all of Ukraine, a capacity deemed necessary. Geopolitically, Ukraine at times has has made parliamentary debates irrelevant, that the Kuchma administration could not Although much has been written about leaned more towards the West, taking seri- forced the court to repudiate a Constitution muster in 2004. Ukraine’s east/west divide the recent assault on the Ukrainian language, ous steps toward European integration; that it had acknowledged, arrested opposi- could be its savior. it is regionalism that is the most important other times toward the East. At times tion figures on bogus charges and made feature of modern Ukraine. Over the past 21 Ukraine has embraced democracy; at other Russian an official language (a symbolic David Marples, Distinguished years, one notable feature has been the times, such as now, there is backsliding in measure that sends the powerful message Professor of History and director of the decline of the Communist Party, but another the direction of authoritarianism. Although that Ukrainian is not needed in Ukraine to Stasiuk Program on Contemporary has been the virtual demise of the pro-dem- this democratic regression is deeply trou- make a career). Ukraine, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian ocratic political forces, initially based in bling, and needs to be exposed and coun- The trend is fairly clear and it is now cer- Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton: Rukh, and continued by Our Ukraine. tered, I do not see Ukraine becoming anoth- tain that the October parliamentary elec- Ukraine today is a country with strong The political situation in Ukraine reflects er Belarus or Russia, as there exists more tions will be falsified: definitely in the cam- regional divisions. Since 1991, its industrial its demographic make-up and conflicting political pluralism and civil society in paign (Yulia Tymoshenko in prison), most assets have been used as instruments for historical memory. To date there has been no Ukraine which militates against complete likely in the counting, and most certainly in enhancing political and economic power, political movement that encompasses diver- authoritarianism. The lack of rule of law pressuring elected deputies to join the ruling leading to the predominance of eastern gent historical and contemporary attitudes, and corruption continue to haunt Ukraine, coalition. The point is often made that industrial regions in the ruling structures. or one that offers alternative views or and have become even more acute under Yanukovych has imported Donetsk-style pol- Corruption has grown steadily, barely hin- visions of Ukraine as a nation. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 No. 35 No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 11

plast.org.ua At “Etnokoleso,” the ethnographic camp held in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, partic- Roman Baluk ipants explored Ukrainian folklore, music, art and the cultural traditions that are At the Krayovyi Morskyi Tabir (sea scouting camp) participants had an celebrated throughout the year in the village of Kosmach. opportunity to try many water sports on rivers and lakes in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. PHOTO REPORT: Plast’s centennial jamboree, phase I

LVIV – On August 9-18, during the first phase of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization’s Jubilee International Jamboree (known by its Ukrainian acronym as YuMPZ), Plast scouts from around the world participated in a variety of camps – 26 in all – held in different locations in six oblasts of Ukraine. More than 1,300 Plast members from Ukraine, the United States, Canada, Germany, Belgium, Australia, Argentina, Austria, Poland and Great Britain arrived for the camps. On this page is a look at several of the Plast camps, as compiled by Deanna Yurchuk. On August 19, all the camp participants, plus other Plast members arriving for the second Deanna Yurchuk phase of YuMPZ, attended the jamboree’s official During the camp called “Poburlakuimo Svitamy,” Andriy Strilets opening in Lviv. According to various news held on the border of the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk Campers had a chance to improve their horseback- oblasts, participants spent five days rock climbing on riding skills and learn about the traditions and history reports, 2,000 Plast members were present for the Dovbush Rocks (Skeli Dovbusha) near the of the Kozaks at the “Kinno-Sportyvnyj Vyshkilnyi the ceremonies. The jamboree in Ukraine marks Carpathian village of Bubnishche and then continued Tabir” held in the Kamianets-Podilskyi area of the the culmination of Plast’s centennial celebration. their journey for another five days on catamarans Khmelnytskyi Oblast. down the Dnister River.

Roman Zadorozhnyj Andriy Michalchyshyn Participants of “Svitankovi Vikhy” learned about the history, folklore and tradi- Participants of the “Zolota Bulava” camp in Ukraine, which this year marks its tions of Great Britain and recreated Robin Hood’s camp in Nottingham Forest in 20th anniversary, honed their leadership skills in the village of Yamelnytsia in the the beautiful wilderness near the village of Tostianets in the Ternopil Oblast. Lviv Oblast.

plast.org.ua plast.org.ua The “Lehion” camp, which is based on traditions of knighthood and chivalry, At “Vovcha Shkola,” held near the historical-cultural preserve Tustan, close to the incorporated team-building skills and personal physical challenges. The camp village of Urych, Lviv Oblast, the program was devoted to ecology. was held near Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 No. 35

there are internal conflicts, different posi- prosecution, but they did not support the Ukraine’s 2012... tions, different views and different people.” legislation when it came up in Parliament UDAR is trying to attract voters in east- three times in 2008-2009. The (Continued from page 3) ern and southern Ukraine, but isn’t shying Communists criticize the Ukrainian oligar- “Potentially, the largest risks are related to away from its support for the Ukrainian chy, yet they formed a ruling coalition in 2010 with the country’s biggest oligarchs businessmen who came to politics from busi- language and Euro-integration. NATO in the Party of Regions. nesses that are investors in one or another membership hasn’t been mentioned at all “They’re outright lying and misrepre- opposition project,” Mr. Fesenko said. during the campaign, though UDAR staff senting their position,” said Ivan Lozowy, a Mr. Riabikin is also alleged to have had told The Weekly that the party supports veteran political observer in Kyiv who is a business ties with Viktor Rybalko, an NATO integration. graduate of New York University Law alleged mobster who was gunned down in “Klitschko is being pushed into the School. “They do this because they have a Kyiv in 2005, according to media reports. national-democrat niche, but it’s not entire- support base of about 5 percent of the elec- Mr. Klitschko has denied any business ties ly organic for him,” Mr. Fesenko said. “He had an interesting situation, in which his torate who will vote for the Communists no to Mr. Rybalko, dismissing video evidence matter what they say or do. The nostalgia confirming some form of interaction. popularity grew in the west and east. It’s important to maintain that balance.” factor works in convincing them things Certain Party of Regions politicians are used to be great. They don’t have to worry financing UDAR, Mr. Fesenko claimed. Communist Party of Ukraine about their base at all.” Additionally, many of its candidates are In trying to attract votes, the Communists The Communist Party lied about much refugees from the shipwrecked Our have traditionally played on divisive cultural Ukraine party, including former Security during the 72 years of Soviet occupation of issues, promising expanded Russian lan- Andrey Skakodub, UNIAN Service of Ukraine (SBU) Chair Valentyn Ukraine, and its tactics aren’t any different guage use and condemning the Ukrainian Nalyvaichenko and Kyrylo Kulykov, a serial today in independent Ukraine. Petro Symonenko, No. 1 on the Insurgent Army (UPA) at any opportunity. Communists’ closed party list. switcher who migrated from the People’s Its campaign billboards promise to revoke This time around, however, their adver- Self-Defense party (part of the Our Ukraine the controversial 2011 legislation that jacked tising campaign is focused on economic A single billboard costs between $800 bloc) to the pro-coalition Single Center up the pension age for females by five years issues. Their billboards are the most prom- and $1,500 to prepare, he said. Therefore, party to UDAR in just the last three years. to 60 and the qualifying working term by inent throughout Ukraine, most of them tens of millions of dollars are being stolen “Many people are coming to him,” Mr. 10 years to 30. Yet the Communists were bearing the main slogan, “We’ll return the from the budget, he alleged. Fesenko said of Mr. Klitschko. “He promises among the three coalition parties that country to the people.” “The Party of Regions registered on something to almost all of them, but he voted in support of such increases. Based on that theme, the messages vary August 7,” he explained. “But after registra- doesn’t control his own political force to a The Communists promise to vote to further, promising an eight-hour work day, tion they all need to gain certification – full extent. Like Our Ukraine in its time, repeal national deputies’ immunity from a guaranteed right to work, free education which takes time – and only after that can a and medical care, and cancelation of the bank account be opened for a party, from 2011 pension hikes. which everything can be financed. If the Such promises are entirely unrealistic, registration was on August 7, then how can observers said, and they merely exploit the Party of Regions hang all of its bill- emotions of nostalgia that poor Ukrainians boards in Crimea by August 8? How could TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 harbor for the Soviet Union, particularly in this have been financed? It’s understood or e-mail [email protected] the eastern and southern regions. that the election process is being manipu- “Nowadays people think about how medi- lated by bandit politicians.” cine was free under communism, and how I Mr. Grach asked rhetorically where the SERVICES PROFESSIONALS had enough to live on,” Mr. Lozowy said. Communist Party could get such funds. In “I was rich on 300 rubles! And in that soci- response, Party Chair Petro Symonenko ety, with the limited selection that it offered, said the party would reveal its advertising they were rich. And they didn’t know that budget after the elections. they were far poorer than any European soci- More than 9 percent of Ukrainians ety. Those are the remnants that the would vote for the Communist Party if the Communists are playing on, and I don’t find elections were held in late July-early much fault with this approach,” he added. August, the Razumkov Center said. That’s The national public radio and television compared to 4 percent in the previous par- airwaves are flooded with Communist liamentary elections of 2007. Party ads. “They’re polling so well because [former Former Crimean Communist Party boss President Viktor] Yushchenko was a Leonid Grach said at an August 9 press confer- Ukrainian patriot who only made things ОКСАНА СТАНЬКО ence in Symferopol that he believes the worse,” Mr. Lozowy said. “This is clearly a Ліцензований продавець Страхування Життя Communist Party is fueling its massive ad direct result of Yushchenko’s failure. Their OKSANA STANKO campaign with funds laundered from the state lies have to be countered with truth and a Licensed Life Insurance Agent budget in tandem with the Party of Regions. wider world view.” Ukrainian National Assn., Inc. 32 Peachtree Rd. Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 has been hearing a case over who owns the Tel.: 908-872-2192; email: [email protected] Cat-themed... structures that hold up the billboards. He (Continued from page 3) said police must confirm whether the court has issued any order for the removal of the HELP WANTED Mr. Holosynj maintains that those charg- billboards before deciding if a criminal case es are politically motivated. But police say will be opened. We are seeking a babysitter the probe had nothing to do with the anti- That court case was raised by Halyna for our 3 year old son in Bayside, NY. government billboard campaign he created. Kuropiatnykova, a deputy in the Must speak Ukrainian fluently. Preferably Dniprodzerzhynsk City Council from the owns a car. Two days per week - Wednes- Police investigation Party of Regions who also heads a local day and Thursday. No. of days to increase Mr. Kuprii said that his billboards were communal company called M.I.S. in December. Tel. 646-763-0045. removed on the orders of local officials Elena Kondratyuk, a member of from the Party of Regions in Parliament from the opposition Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, has appealed to OPPORTUNITIES Dniprodzerzhynsk. “I think they, the government, just decid- Ukraine’s procurator-general to find who- ed to go in with full force so that there is no ever took down the billboards. Meanwhile, photos of the elderly wom- Earn extra income! criticism. The authorities just gave the order to destroy [the billboards]. The police knew an’s cat are proliferating on social networks The Ukrainian Weekly is looking about this but they did not give any warn- used by Ukrainians – apparently in sympa- thy with opposition forces running in the for advertising sales agents. ing,” Mr. Kuprii said. For additional information contact parliamentary elections on October 28. But Andrei Mikheichenko, a local press Walter Honcharyk, Advertising Manager, The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. secretary for the Party of Regions, says his Written by Ron Synovitz based on report- party had nothing to do with the removal ing by Maryanna Drach in Prague and Yulia of the 15 billboards. Ratsybarska in Dnipropetrovsk. ​Dnipropetrovsk regional police spokes- Copyright 2012, RFE/RL Inc. 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NEWSBRIEFS Opposition filing suit against president Free trade zone effective in September Police block language law protesters KYIV – Ukraine’s opposition is filing a MOSCOW – Ukraine’s free trade zone KHARKIV – Police in Ukraine have prevent- (Continued from page 2) lawsuit that seeks the official recognition (FTZ) with the Commonwealth of ed an attempt by protesters to storm the City of “crimes committed by President Viktor Independent States (CIS) will start working Council building in Kharkiv to prevent law- Kniazhytsky. President Viktor Yanukovych Yanukovych against the people of Ukraine.” in September, Andrei Kushnirenko, director makers there from voting to approve the and Procurator General Viktor Pshonka Oleksander Turchynov, head of the central of the economic department at the CIS Russian language as an official regional lan- have ordered the government to check election headquarters of the united oppo- Executive Committee, said on August 14. guage. Hundreds of protesters chanting whether the criminal case was opened sition, told journalists on August 20 that “The new treaty on a free trade zone will “Shame!” and “No to Russification!” were legally. Mr. Kniazhytsky is 11th on the party 309,711 signatures in support of the law- become a reality in mid-September. Under blocked on August 20 from entering the build- list of the united opposition for the October suit had been collected as of August 17. the rules, the treaty becomes a subject of ing. The Kharkiv City Council voted to imple- parliamentary elections. (Interfax-Ukraine) The leader of the Front for Change party, international law 30 days after the execu- ment the new law on state-language policy. tive committee receives a third notification President Viktor Yanukovych earlier this Gas price for households to increase Arseniy Yatsenyuk, said the united opposi- tion had filed a lawsuit with the Ukrainian of its ratification. If the president of Ukraine month signed the law, which clears the way KYIV – The cost of gas for households in Supreme Administrative Court. According signed the relevant law on August 9, in the for an increase in the use of Russian in regions middle of August we will get a notification of Ukraine where Russian is spoken by at least Ukraine in the next year or two will grow to Mr. Yatsenyuk, the opposition seeks to and the counting of 30 days will start,” Mr. 10 percent of the people. The move has to $200-$250 per 1,000 cubic meters, charge Mr. Yanukovych with the “illegal Kushnirenko explained. He noted that the angered many Ukrainians, who view the law according to a forecast by Oleksander signing of the law on pensions, the code on CIS free trade zone agreement will replace a as weakening Ukraine’s sovereignty in an Todiychuk, president of Kyiv’s internation- taxes and the controversial law on lan- al energy club Q-Club. “The prospect is large number of bilateral agreements, as attempt to curry favor with Moscow. (RFE/RL, guages, the illegal appointment of the well as the CIS FTZ instrument of 1994. At based on reporting by UNIAN and Interfax) $200-250 per 1,000 cubic meters in the Cabinet, and applying pressure on the coming years. We may reach this price in a the same time, World Trade Organization judges of Ukraine’s Constitutional Court.” rules will be applied among the CIS coun- Extradition halted in alleged Putin plot year or two,” Mr. Todiychuk said on August No comment from the presidential office tries that have joined the WTO. According to KYIV – Ukrainian authorities have sus- 22. He predicts that the first increase, was immediately available. (RFE/RL, Mr. Kushnirenko, the main advantage of the pended the extradition to Russia of the main about 40 percent, in the price of natural based on reporting by UNIAN and gas for households is possible in new agreement is that it provides clear suspect in an alleged plot to assassinate Interfax) December 2012-January 2013. “This will rules of the game. “Russia, like other coun- Russian President Vladimir Putin. Officials be the first stage of the multi-stage U.S. funds for cathedral’s restoration tries, gets clarity in its relations with the said on August 21 that the decision to halt increase in the gas price for the popula- countries that have signed the document. proceedings was made after the European tion,” the expert predicted. In his view, the KYIV – On August 8, a meeting between We’re moving from three packs of regulato- Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg, International Monetary Fund requirement the leadership of the National Reserve St. ry documents to one,” he said. (Ukrinform) France, demanded that the extradition be Sophia of Kyiv and representatives of the for Ukraine to reduce its budget deficit Number of millionaires up in capital suspended. Ethnic Chechen suspect Adam under the current stand-by program was U.S. Ambassadors’ Fund for Cultural Osmayev was detained in the Ukrainian city the main driver for these changes. In addi- Preservation was held regarding the use of KYIV – According to the State Tax Service of Odesa in February after a handmade tion, Mr. Todiychuk said he is convinced a grant for the preservation of a collection of Ukraine, there are 984 millionaires in explosive device detonated in an apartment, that in the coming years Ukrainian gas of authentic mosaics from the 12th century Kyiv today. The chairman of the State Tax killing one of his associates and injuring mining companies will require significant Golden-Domed Cathedral of St. Michael Service (STS) in the city of Kyiv, Iryna another. Russian authorities had requested investment in the industry, “and without that are kept in the stocks of the St. Sophia Nosachova, speaking at a meeting with Mr. Osmayev’s extradition, and a court in an increase in prices, these plans are entrepreneurs, said that “As of August 14, Odesa upheld moves by Ukrainian prosecu- unlikely to be put into effect.” As earlier of Culture, the amount of the grant allocat- there are 984 millionaires residing in Kyiv. tors to extradite him. Reports about the reported, Ukraine is hoping to get a new edcomplex. by the According U.S. Ambassadors to Ukraine’s Fund Мinistry for The amount of a tax paid up them is double alleged plot surfaced days before Russia’s aid package from the IMF in 2013 under Cultural Preservation is $45,850. The grant that of the previous year.” Ms. Nosachova March 4 presidential election, which result- the continuing stand-by program totaling expires on June 30, 2013. (Religious added that over 63,000 declarations were ed in Mr. Putin winning an unprecedented third term as president. (RFE/RL, based on $15.5 billion. (Ukrinform) Information Service of Ukraine) submitted and the declared income makes up over 10 billion hrv. (Ukrinform) reporting by ITAR-TASS and Interfax) 63%: country headed in wrong direction Ukraine rejects provocative reports KYIV – Nearly two-thirds of Ukrainians KYIV – The Ukrainian Foreign Affairs are pessimistic about developments in the Ministry has described as a provocation country as the parliamentary elections media reports in Azerbaijan alleging that approach, according to a survey conducted Ukraine sold multiple rocket launchers and by GfK Ukraine, the Rating Sociological mobile missile systems to Armenia in Group, the Socis Center for Social and 2011. Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Marketing Research and the Razumkov Oleksander Dykusarov said at a press MARTA STECKIW Center. “Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of briefing on August 14 that Ukraine had respondents are of the opinion that events been strictly observing the international née Tybinka in Ukraine are developing in the wrong obligations assumed before the United Entered into eternal rest on August 16, 2012 direction. This opinion is held by most resi- Nations and the Organization for Security in Matawan, New Jersey dents of all regions – from 54 percent of the and Cooperation in Europe, as well as residents of southern regions to 74 percent national legislation. Armenia’s Defense Funeral services took place on August 21, 2012, of the residents of western regions in the Ministry also denied the reports on August at St. Andrew Cemetery in South Bound Brook, New Jersey country,” read a statement posted on the 14. Armenia and Azerbaijan have been in Marta leaves behind her grieving family: conflict for around three decades over website of the Razumkov Center. The sur- Daughter – Irena Steckiv vey was conducted from July 27 to August Azerbaijan’s Armenian-controlled enclave Granddaughter – Marta Bechtold with husband Wasyl Maczula 9, and the results were released on August of Nagorno-Karabakh; a fragile ceasefire 17. A total of 10,979 respondents over age has been in place since 1994. The self-pro- In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Marta Steckiw may be made to: 18 from all oblasts in Ukraine, Kyiv and claimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh UNWLA Scholarship Program, P.O. Box 24, Matawan, NJ 07747-0024 Crimea were interviewed; the poll’s margin has not been recognized by any other of error does not exceed 1 percent. country. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by (Ukrinform) UNIAN and Interfax)

also positive, proposing – in fact insisting on The witness... – reforms that would come only 30 years (Continued from page 8) later with the Second Vatican Council, for example the revisiting of certain liturgical was dedicated to the topic of “desertion” practices and strict fasting rules. He With great sorrow we announce the passing of from the Greek-Catholic Church. Father approached the issues directly and logically, Omelian was realistically assessing the pro- responding to what he was observing as a Oksana Baran cesses occurring under the influence of pastor. He had a keen sense of historical secular, communist and atheistic trends, a development. née Nakoneczna gathering influence of Protestantizing Above all, his guiding principle was the on August 7, 2012 in Warren, Michigan. “sects” as they were then called, and the spiritual welfare of the faithful. Thus for active Latinization that was being promot- example, he calculated that in the Greek- She was the beloved wife of Wolodymyr, ed by the Polish secular and Church Catholic practice during the liturgical year the honored mother and grandmother of authorities in contravention to explicit poli- there were 204 days of abstinence and fast- - George with wife Nina and children Alexander and Diana; cies of the Holy See. ing, while in the Roman practice there were Blessed Omelian was not looking to only 75. Such a burden was not realistic and - Andrew with wife Julia and son Nicholas; blame an outside “enemy.” On the contrary, he argued that it should be lightened. In a - Bohdanna with husband Oles’ and son Daniel. he focused his attention on the shortcom- prophetic manner he also argued strongly for ings of liturgical practice and priestly minis- the general use of the vernacular as opposed Eternal memory! try in his own Church. He was critical but to Church Slavonic in liturgical services. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 No. 35

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Buffalo, Chicago, Minneapolis premiere “Genocide Revealed” Foundation and the Chicago Self-Reliance formation organized by the Kremlin Ukrainian Credit Union. The making of the regarding Ukraine. documentary has also been supported by The Minneapolis premiere, held at the the Bahriany Foundation. A radio inter- Ukrainian Event Center, was organized by view with the filmmaker was conducted by Greg Baranivsky and Paul Jablonsky and radio host and museum curator Maria with the assistance of other center volun- Klymchak, prior to the premiere, reaching teers. Following the film, viewers com- a broad cross-section of the Chicago area mented on how relevant the documentary community. was today. They stated how “Genocide During the period of the genocide, in Revealed” gave a better understanding of June 1933, a Ukrainian Pavilion at the today’s situation in Ukraine, with its highly Chicago World’s Fair was opened. Russified eastern region, a consequence of Organized by the Chicago Ukrainian com- deliberately starving to death Ukrainians munity at that time, the pavilion was the during the 1932-1933 famine and reset- only national pavilion not sponsored by a tling the depopulated areas with Russians. foreign government. As author Dr. Myron As a post-genocidal nation, Ukraine still has B. Kuropas notes in his book “The a difficult time in recovering from its trau- Ukrainian Americans,” (1991) this pavilion ma. At the Chicago premiere of “Genocide Revealed” (from left) are: Mykola The shorter educational version of Mishchenko, head of the Ukrainian Genocide Foundation – U.S.A.; Lidia Tkachuk, was highly protested by the Soviet vice-president of the Ukrainian National Museum; Jaroslaw Hankewycz, museum Ukrainian authorities. During this time, “Genocide Revealed” is nearing completion, president; Maria Klymchuk, Museum curator; Anna Chychula, museum administra- Stalin was intensifying the Famine and the and will make available both 26-minute tor; and filmmaker Yurij Luhovy. Soviet government was continuing to deny and a 55-minute versions on one DVD for the Famine-Genocide. This pavilion is one educators. MONTREAL – A three-city tour of the Ukrainian National Museum in collabo- of many examples of how the Ukrainian To arrange for a screening or to support “Genocide Revealed” took the award-win- ration with the Ukrainian Genocide community in the United States and the educational version readers may e-mail ning feature documentary to Buffalo, N.Y., Foundation – U.S.A. and held at the muse- Canada, over the decades, persistently [email protected], call 514-481-5871 Chicago and Minneapolis on May 11, May um. On behalf of the foundation Mykola tried to counter the suppression and disin- or log onto www.yluhovy.com. 12 and May 23, respectively. Mischenko presented Mr. Luhovy with a Produced and directed by Yurij Luhovy, Recognition Award “for his extraordinary the Buffalo screening was organized by contribution in the making of “Okradena Emil Bandriwsky on behalf of the Zemlya/Genocide Revealed” regarding the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America 1932-1933 Famine Genocide and for his Minnesota Plast members celebrate – Buffalo branch, the School of Ukrainian many years of work in furthering historic Studies and the Ukrainian American Youth truths in the mainstream community scouting organization’s centennial Association. It was held at the Ukrainian regarding Ukrainian genocides in the 20th Cultural Center Dnipro. The documentary century, perpetrated by occupiers of was enthusiastically welcomed, with a live- Ukrainian lands.” ly discussion following. Contributing to organizing the event The Chicago premiere was organized by was Julian E. Kulas of The Heritage

Bob Iwaskewycz Members of the Minneapolis branch of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization in St. Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church.

by Christina Cybriwsky-Jermihov Worldwide Plast Conference (KUPO), was presented with a donation from the PRIOR LAKE, Minn. – Plast Minneapolis Minnesota Plast group to support and pro- celebrated Ukrainian Scouting mote the Zustrich Jubilee International Organization’s 100th anniversary on Plast Jamboree taking place in Ukraine in Saturday, June 9, 2012 at Cleary Lake August. Regional Park in Prior Lake, Minnesota. The Rev. Roman Voronchak of St. A beautiful “brama” (gateway) at the Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church, led entrance was a welcome sight for all the evening with a prayer. The evening guests. It was built and donated by Roman ended with the traditional “Nich Vzhe Ide” Lucyk. A committee of six members around the campfire and with a spark (Christina Cybriwsky-Jermihov, (iskra) sent through a handshake to all. Volodymyr Anastazievsky, Yurko Bazarko, On Sunday, June 10, past and present Ivan Luciw, Vlodzia Taraschuk and Zenon Plast members participated in the divine Stepchuk), headed by Paul Makowesky, liturgy at St. Constantine Church in organized a delicious buffet, which fea- Minneapolis led by the Rev. Michael tured a pig roast, music by the Ukrainian Stelmach. After an entrance with a com- Village band (of which Mr. Luciw is a memorative banner, the members and the member), a video of old photos (organized congregation prayed together while listen- by Mr. Stepchuk) of past Plast events and ing to the choir of St. Constantine Church camps in Minnesota and a fun evening of which sang the “Our Father” in the Plast songs and jests around the traditional version arranged and conducted by Dr. Yuri campfire led by Ms. Cybriwsky-Jermihov Ivan. and Mr. Anastazievsky. At the end of the liturgy, all members More than 70 people – arriving from posed for a very memorable group photo eight states and Canada – attended the fes- and a thrice shouted “SKOB,” the Plast tivities – Volodymyr Bazarko, chair of the greeting. No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 15

institutions (http://www.pravda.com.ua/ Now one may guess how the “kittens,” news/2012/08/7/ 6970338). Duping the kittens articles/2012/05/23/6965117) and to fal- a.k.a. “representatives of the Ukrainian intel- Even though most of the “representa- sify quotations and references in the explan- ligentsia,” would cooperate with the two tives” are not directly connected to the politi- (Continued from page 6) atory notes to the document he submitted very peculiar personages on the expected cal opposition (actually most of them have with Mr. Kivalov (http://www.pravda.com. improvements to a law that has been abso- successfully cooperated with both Soviet and ously falsified the 2004 presidential elec- ua/columns/2012/07/30/ 6969744). lutely lawless – illegal and illegitimate – in post-Soviet authorities), all of them repre- tions and provoked the popular uprising Perhaps the best characterization of this its spirit and letter, causes and effects, incep- sent, in the popular mind, the “Ukrainian known as the Orange Revolution. Today, he provocateur-at-large comes from his 2009 tion and delivery. My bet is that the crusad- party,” i.e., the opposition as it is broadly reportedly owns the TV channel Academia, speech in the Verkhovna Rada, where he ers might tone down their Ukrainophobic understood. To discredit the opposition on a source of pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian lobbied for another “anti-nationalistic” bill: zeal on the boss’s orders; the “representa- the eve of elections is definitely a favored propaganda, with a flagship program, “On banning the rehabilitation and heroiz- tives” would receive from the president policy, but probably even more important for “Background,” full of unrestrained innuen- ing of fascist collaborators of 1933-1945.” soothing promises of further support for the regime is to involve as many public fig- dos and overt propaganda of hatred (http:// To make his propagandistic speech more Ukrainian language and culture; the law ures as possible in its illegal activity. This rutube.ru/tracks/5357980.html). appealing to the fellow national deputies would be amended to meet (more or less) helps to normalize things abnormal and Mr. Kolesnichenko, the other self-pro- and especially for the general public, he provisions of the Constitution. So little will legitimize the illegitimate. The cheaters fessed promoter of European charters and embellished dry bureaucratic formulas with change in today’s ambiguous situation, become the partners; the swindlers assume values in Ukraine, has a similar reputation some personal details. At one point he which is determined primarily not by laws the role of respectable statesmen. The story as a professional crusader against referred not only to United Nations docu- but by the authorities’ goodwill and political may resemble the classic parable about “Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism.” Since ments and Nuremberg court decisions but expedience. All this will happen, however, Faust and Mephistopheles. The only problem Soviet times, the term has been used exactly also, as stated in the official transcript, to the after the elections, when logic suggests Mr. is that the Ukrainian Mephistos are merely like “Zionism,” i.e., to denigrate all things “bright memory of millions of Ukrainians Yanukovych will backtrack a little bit in petty crooks, and the Ukrainian Fausts are Ukrainian and to criminalize any vestiges of who perished in their fight against fascism order to have more space for eventual politi- merely dull and insipid collaborators. national identity beyond ethnography. Mr. and bright memory of my father who cal bargaining and maneuvering. Kolesnichenko’s fame in the Parliament is burned in a tank in Belarus defending the Today, expediency means appeasing sup- Mykola Riabchuk is an author and jour- based primarily on his pugilism, parading Soviet Motherland from the German-fascist porters and undermining opponents. Messrs. nalist from Ukraine, and a leading intellectu- with Russian state symbols and making dis- occupants” (http://www.pravda.com.ua/ Kivalov, Kolesnichenko and Chechetov al who is affiliated with the journal Krytyka. paraging remarks about the Ukrainian lan- columns/2012/07/30/ 6969744). accomplished the first part of the project, guage and culture. A dense cloud of scandals The only problem with the credibility of while the “representatives of intelligentsia” The article above is reprinted from the accompanies his activity. Within the few this speech (and Mr. Kolesnichenko in gen- helped to complete the other part. First, they blog “Current Politics in Ukraine” (http:// past months, he managed to steal Timothy eral) is that the speaker was born in 1958, ran, at the president’s whim, to his dacha ukraineanalysis.wordpress.com/) created by Snyder’s article from the New York Review roughly 15 years after his father reportedly and, second, they got virtually nothing. To the Stasiuk Program for the Study of of Books for his own “antinationalistic” col- perished in Belarus. (One may remember enhance the humiliation, the information Contemporary Ukraine, a program of the lection (http://news.liga.net/news/ here a reputed similar statement by was leaked that all of these affluent citizens Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the politics/669428-professor_yelskogo_uni- Alyaksandr Lukashenka who was also flew at the cost of Bohdan Havrylyshyn, a University of Alberta. versiteta_vozmushchen_postupkom_kolesn- impassioned so much by his own rhetoric Swiss Ukrainian businessman, fully in line [Note: the views expressed in this article ichenko.htm), to organize “mass approval” that forgot he was born seven years after with the Regionals’ propaganda that the are those of the author and do not necessarily for his draft bill by forging “letters of sup- the war and, moreover, had actually never Ukrainian language issue is merely a diaspo- reflect those of the Stasiuk Program for the port” from various academic and minority heard anything about his father). ra hobbyhorse (http://www.pravda.com.ua/ Study of Contemporary Ukraine.]

“The problem of the opposition’s legiti- would return to the presidency and Dmitry the spell, inflamed public opinion and creat- Why the Kremlin... macy needs to be decided through elec- Medvedev would become prime minister. ed crippling divisions within the elite itself. (Continued from page 2) tions, [especially] if we are going to accuse It was also the day when what I like to call “The deep state worked when everyone the authorities of lacking legitimacy,” Mr. Russia’s “deep state,” a permanent super- was aware that it existed... but it was willing A powerful constituency for change does, Navalny said in a video explaining the pri- elite that rules outside the confines of consti- to operate behind a carapace, a facade of indeed, exist now. It grew out of the increas- maries on his blog in mid-August. tutional law, came to the surface – and in the politicians,” he said. “Putin made the pres- ingly confident middle class that emerged The primaries won’t quite produce a process lost a large degree of its legitimacy. ence of the deep state so clear. He rubbed it during Mr. Putin’s rule. It is powered and shadow government. But they’ll be a start. As New York University’s Mark Galeotti in Russians’ noses, and that was a big mis- pointed out in an earlier edition of “The take.” networked by increased Internet penetra- The deep state deep-sixed? tion and the explosion of social networks. Power Vertical Podcast,” for a deep state to And it’s not going away anytime soon. When the history of this period is writ- work, “it has to remain deep.” Copyright 2012, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted ten, one date will likely loom large as the In other words, everyone knows it is with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ The next generation beginning of the end for the current ruling there, but everyone pretends that it’s not. Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Yeah, but there isn’t any real alternative elite: September 24, 2011. As Prof. Galeotti explained, Mr. Putin Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see to Mr. Putin and his team. The opposition is That was the day when it was announced made the mistake of “dragging the deep http://www.rferl.org/content/why-the-krem- a hodgepodge of nationalists, leftists and at the United Russia congress that Mr. Putin state into public view” – a move that broke lin-is-losing-putin-russia/24676986.html). liberals, and has no viable leaders. These are common refrains, repeated by Kremlin-friendly spinmeisters since mass anti-government demonstrations broke out in December. And there is a degree of truth to this. At each period of change in recent Russian his- tory, there has been a leader-in-waiting ready to take charge. 2012 Labor Day Weekend Events As the Soviet Union imploded, it was, of course, Mr. Yeltsin. And as Yeltsin’s chaotic, Friday 6-8 PM: Odesa Seafood Night, clams, shrimp, ribs family-style followed by Surf & Turf dinner turbulent and corruption-tainted presiden- (make reservations early, call by 8/30 to pre-order lobsters) cy wound down, there was the anointed 8-10 PM: guest bartenders from Veselka Bowery successor Mr. Putin, whose style of rule reminded no one of Yeltsin. Beach Party Volleyball under the lights Now there is... nobody. 10 PM: Music by Svitanok on the Tiki Deck But the flaw with this line of thinking is the assumption that just because change is Saturday USCAK Swim Races and Tennis Tournament in the air, the regime’s fall is imminent. I Noon-5 PM: BBQ at the Gazebo don’t think it is. What I think is happening is that Team 2 PM: EMCK on the Tiki Deck Putin has lost the initiative – and lost it deci- 5-6 PM: Hot Tub Happy Hour sively. They have no rationale for their con- 6-8 PM: Chef Snake’s Special in the Main House Dining Room tinued rule other than, well, they want their 7:30 PM: Concert featuring Syzokryli rule to continue. They could still be in 10 PM: Zabava with Hrim power for awhile. But the hyperconfident Kremlin we saw during Mr. Putin’s first two terms is a thing of the past. Sunday 8:30 AM and 10 AM: Catholic Liturgy at Holy Trinity Church And meanwhile, the opposition – that 10 AM: Orthodox Service at Soyuzivka Chapel hodgepodge of liberals, leftists and nation- Noon-5 PM: BBQ at the Gazebo, Spartanky Volleyball Tournament alists – is gearing up for a long endgame. 2 PM: Labor Day weekend tradition continues with Matthew Dubas on accordion on the Tiki Deck In the autumn, they will hold online pri- 4 PM: Super Speedo Sake Bomb Sunday Happy Hour on the Tiki Deck maries to choose a 45-member council that will be tasked with making key decisions, 6-8 PM: Nestor’s Special Meal in the Main House Dining Room like which candidates will run in local elec- 10 PM: Zabava with Klopit from Chicago tions, which initiatives to support and when to hold demonstrations. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 No. 35 Anthony Fedorov stars in Off-Broadway musical by Helen Smindak the tenor appeared younger than his 27 years. “This show has been my bucket list show and Roger has NEW YORK – “I arrived for an audition for a future been my bucket list role,” he said, referring to the list of replacement in a show and didn’t even consider I could get things people hope to accomplish during their remaining it off the bat. I walked into the room, and director Michael years on Earth. “Now I could really experience this incredi- Greif was sitting there with his entire creative team. I was ble role. And I’m the last Roger in the show; I’ll be closing very nervous because it was Michael Greif and the original it out, so I’m really excited,” he said. ‘Rent’ creative team.” He joined the cast of “Rent” in July, taking on the role of “After the audition, they said I had done a really nice job; a young musician/composer living in the East Village area I kind of let it go, thinking nothing would come of this audi- called Alphabet City because the avenues there are named tion. But two hours later my agent called and said they A, B, C and D. It was a time when the neighborhood wanted me for the job [the male lead]. I was in the car with swarmed with young people attempting to make a living my girlfriend, we both started screaming like crazy; it was while staying true to their ideals, yet struggling with AIDS, a surreal experience to get that phone call, to be able joblessness and despair. to be a part of the show.” The musical was inspired by Puccini’s opera “La Singer/songwriter Anthony Fedorov was relating Boheme,” incorporating some lyrics from the opera and an incident in June when he was selected for the role of closely following its plot: a group of artists sharing a garret Roger in the Off-Broadway revival of the rock musical in the Bohemian quarter of Paris while trying to make a liv- “Rent.” The original production, with book, music and lyr- ing, the artist Rodolfo falling in love with the seamstress ics by Jonathan Larson, ran on Broadway for 12 years, win- Mimi when she comes in looking for a light for her candle. ning the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, six Drama Later, he rejects her because she is deathly ill, but is over- Desk Awards, three Obie Awards, four Tony Awards and come with grief when she succumbs to tuberculosis after the Pulitzer Prize. spending a freezing winter’s night in the park. As Mimi Mr. Fedorov and I were chatting in the vast empty lobby dies, she says “I have so many things to tell you – you are of the New World Stages theater on West 50th Street as my love and my life.” sounds of riotous singing and music drifted down from In “Rent,” Roger is mesmerized by a dancer named Mimi Joanne Marcus theaters on upper floors in the complex where an evening during a power outage when she enters the apartment he Roger and Mimi, played by Anthony Fedorov and Natalie shares with filmmaker Mark, looking for a light for her can- performance of “Rent” had just ended. With a slender Wachen, profess their love for each other as they sing frame, his blond hair tousled like Roger’s in the musical, “Without You” in the Off-Broadway musical “Rent.” (Continued on page 18) Chicago parish to hold 10th annual “Ukrainian Village Fest” by Greg Karawan Chicago’s Ukrainian Village who have traditional Ukrainian fare prepared by the ule. Various musical and vocal artists are caught wind of its popularity, delicious Ukrainian Cultural Center of Ss. interspersed among dance and theater CHICAGO – Ss. Volodymyr and Olha food and exciting entertainment. Volodymyr and Olha Parish and the groups with a culminating performance by Ukrainian Catholic Parish of Chicago is Merchants come from all over the United Ukrainian restaurant Shokolad, familiar Chicago’s Hromovytsia Ukrainian Dance gearing up for its annual “Ukrainian Village States and Canada to offer festival attendees ribeye steak sandwiches made famous by Ensemble. This year’s anticipated guest Fest” to be held September 8-9, celebrating a variety of merchandise that includes the the Hromovytsia Ukrainian Dance performer is Ukrainian pop sensation its 10th year on the church grounds under latest and greatest in Ukrainian music, Ensemble’s annual grill and other popular Irchyk, originally from Lviv. its current name (and well into its fourth authentic Ukrainian embroidery and items such as pizza, gelato and “shashlyk” Saturday evening concludes with a DJ decade when taking into account a prior, ceramics, and various knick-knacks that can (shish-ke-bab). under the main tent and a “zabava” (dance) offsite location). only be found at a Ukrainian festival. While merchants and food vendors line at the adjacent Ukrainian Cultural Center The “Ukrainian Village Fest” has enjoyed Several children’s activities attract kids both sides of Superior Street, crowds can with musical entertainment provided by the much success and growth in the last sever- of all ages with rides, face-painting, excit- also gather under the giant, circus-sized Mriya vocal and instrumental ensemble. al years with two-day attendance figures of ing games and plenty of prizes up for tent that covers most of the church’s For additional information about this over 6,000 parishioners and community grabs. New and repeat food vendors keep 30,000-square-foot parking lot to enjoy a year’s festival, readers may e-mail stsvo@ members, as well as those outside of hungry and thirsty crowds satisfied with jam-packed non-stop entertainment sched- comcast.net. Voloshky dance ensemble of Philadelphia hosts Zoriany song and dance ensemble of Kirovohrad JENKINTOWN, Pa. – The Voloshky U.S. under the company’s former name, the in 1977 but the tour was abruptly and mys- at Northeast High School in Philadelphia at Ukrainian Dance Ensemble of Philadelphia Yatran Song and Dance Ensemble. Earlier teriously canceled by Soviet authorities. 2 p.m. (for tickets call the Ukrainian is currently hosting a joint artistic project this summer, Voloshky Artistic Director The Zoriany will perform excerpts from Federation of America, 215-782-1075, or with Zoriany Ukrainian Song and Dance Taras Lewyckyj and Anatoly Kryvochyzha this full program at the Ukrainian visit www.brownpapertickets.com). Company from Kirovohrad, Ukraine. culminated eight years of work in Independence Festival at the Tryzub Sports Voloshky will premiere the new contem- During August and September, the Kirovohrad, and restaged original choreog- Center in Horsham, Pa., on Sunday, August porary work by Mr. Morris on September groups are working together on major artis- raphies from the 1977 Yatran program. 26. 14 at Bryn Mawr College. tic projects and performances. One of the Mr. Kryvochyzha was artistic director Voloshky will present two full-length Founded in Philadelphia in 1972, the most significant is the collaboration on a and chief choreographer of the Yatran concerts of the Yatran program featuring Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble fosters new contemporary work by world- Ensemble from 1957 to 1978. During his song and dance with live music on and promotes cultural exchanges between renowned choreographer Mark Morris; Ukrainians and the global community tenure as head of Yatran, the company grew September 7 at the Brook Theater, Bound Voloshky and Zoriany have spent three through the art of dance. Voloshky’s unique from an enthusiastic amateur group to one Brook, N.J., at 7 p.m. (for tickets call the weeks at the Mark Morris Dance Center in blend of styles has positioned the company Brooklyn. Both companies have also of the finest professional folk ensembles in Brook Theater, 732-469-7700, or visit as a leading cultural ambassador, simulta- worked over the past eight years on recov- Europe. Yatran made a brief visit to the U.S. www.ticketweb.com) and on September 16 neously representing Ukrainian culture ering and restaging the famed Yatran per- along with the rich dynamic pluralism of formance program that toured the United the United States. States in 1977. The Zoriany company was founded in With support from The Pew Center for Kirovohrad. From 1988 to 1997 it was Arts and Heritage, Voloshky has commis- directed by Mr. Kryvochyzha, National Artist sioned an original work by Mr. Morris, con- of Ukraine, known as the patriarch of sidered the most important choreographer national choreography. The mission of the since Balanchine. The new work will be company is to restore in post-Soviet shown during a preview performance at Ukraine the harmony of three elements: Bryn Mawr College’s McPherson music, song and dance. Auditorium in Bryn Mawr, Pa., on Friday, Central to the current creative achieve- September 14, at 8 p.m. (For tickets call: ments of the group is People’s Artist of 610-526-5210 or visit www.brownpaper- Ukraine Antonina Chervinska, a tireless tickets.com.) promoter of Ukrainian folk songs, who is The Zoriany company includes over 30 the original vocal soloist who toured with dancers and musicians. During its U.S. visit Yatran in 1977. The Zoriany dancers are Christine Syzonenko it will perform dances and songs from a Choreographer Mark Morris (standing, fourth from right) with members of Voloshky headed by choreographer and Merited highly acclaimed program which toured the and Zoriany during a joint rehearsal. Artist of Ukraine Gennadii Maiarash. No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 17 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 No. 35

Columbia offers Ukrainian studies courses, lectures during fall semester gious minorities (particularly Jews, Roman Catholics and Dr. Shevchuk, who is also director of the Ukrainian Muslims). Also analyzed will be the relationship between Film Club of Columbia University, will continue to provide the imperial government and Russian nationalism. The fans of film with consistent programming featuring “gap” between nation and empire in Russia will be con- Ukrainian cinema both on and off campus this fall. sidered. The main chronological focus of the seminar is Liza Kliuzko, a talented filmmaker from Kyiv, will open the “long” 19th century – the late 18th to the early 20th the 2012-2013 season of the Ukrainian Film Club in per- centuries. son on September 19. Ms. Kliuzko is known for her per- Ambassador Valerii Kuchynskyi will teach the course ceptive and moving portrayal of the taboo subject of pros- “Ukrainian Foreign Policy: Russia, Europe and the U.S.” titution in her short film, “The Wardrobe” (Shafa, 2010). Ambassador Kuchynskyi is the former permanent repre- Recently she finished another short, “Mykola’s Field” sentative of Ukraine to the United Nations, a career diplo- (2012). Among others, the film features the leading mat who has been actively involved in the implementa- Ukrainian actor Bohdan Beniuk and will be screened in tion of Ukraine’s foreign policy for many years. His the U.S. for the first time. Ms. Kliuzko will present a mini- course, to be held on Tuesdays at 2:10-4 p.m., will deal retrospective of her works in person and will entertain with the performance of Ukraine on the international questions from the audience. arena, and its relationship with major partners – Russia, For the sixth year in a row, there will be a Europe and the U.S. – as well as with new emerging part- Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series event held this Vasyl Gabor of Zakarpattia will appear in the ners – China, India, Turkey and some countries of the fall. The ongoing series is co-sponsored by Columbia’s Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series. Middle East. Special emphasis will be placed on the Ukrainian Studies Program and by the Kennan Institute in assessment of current ties with Moscow and on the new Washington. Past guests in the ongoing series have NEW YORK – This fall, Columbia University is offering trends in foreign policy doctrine. The class will examine included, among others, Taras Chubai, Yuri courses in Ukrainian history, political science, language Ukraine’s quest for Euro-Atlantic integration and its activ- Andrukhovych, Andrei Kurkov, Serhiy Zhadan, Ivan and film, as well as a series of lectures on various ities at the United Nations. Issues of national security will Malkovych and Taras Prokhasko. This semester’s guest is Ukrainian topics featuring leading scholars in the field. be dealt with extensively, and the conduct and results of the prose writer Vasyl Gabor. In addition to his stories, Mr. Once again visiting Columbia this semester will be his- the October parliamentary elections will also be thor- Gabor, who hails from the Zakarpattia region of Ukraine, torian Dr. Serhiy Bilenky. Dr. Bilenky received a Candidate oughly examined. is well-known for the many award-winning books he has of Historical Sciences degree at Kyiv University in 2001 Also in the fall, Dr. Yuri Shevchuk (Department of Slavic published in his “Pryvatna Kolektsiia” (A Private and a Ph.D. in history at the University of Toronto in 2007. Languages and Literatures) will teach the course “Soviet, Collection) series. Mr. Gabor will appear at Columbia on He will teach two courses during the fall semester. One Post-Soviet, Colonial and Post-Colonial Cinema.” The October 29 and at the Kennan Institute on November 1. course, titled “Streetcar and Cholera: Central and East course will overview discuss how filmmaking has been During the fall semester, book presentations of recent- European Cities between Tradition and Modernity,” deals used as an instrument of power and imperial domination ly published monographs by Dr. Serhiy Bilenky, with the contradictory modernization experienced by in the Soviet Union, as well as in the post-Soviet space “Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian, Polish major Central and Eastern European cities between the since 1991. A body of select films by Soviet and post-Sovi- and Ukrainian Political Imaginations” (Stanford late 18th and early 20th centuries. The first half of the et directors which exemplify the function of filmmaking University Press, 2012) and Dr. Mark Andryczyk, “The course will introduce students to the most important as a tool of appropriation of the colonized, their cultural Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction” social, political and cultural issues associated with and political subordination by the Soviet center will be (University of Toronto Press, 2012) will take place. modernity in the Austro-Hungarian and the Russian examined in terms of post-colonial theories. The course Courses at Columbia are open to students from other empires, primarily in urban settings. The second half will will focus both on Russian cinema and on often over- universities in the New York metropolitan area seeking feature six cities – Vienna, Prague, Lviv, St. Petersburg, looked work of Ukrainian, Georgian, Belarusian, credit. (Please contact the university at which you are Kyiv and Odesa – each representing a particular crucial Armenian, etc. national film schools, and will examine enrolled to determine whether it participates in this man- issue of the epoch. Students will learn when and where how they participated in the Communist project of foster- ner with Columbia University). Some courses are also public transport first appeared in the region and why ing a “new historic community of the Soviet people,” as open to outside individuals interested in non-credit con- cholera co-existed with electricity. Topics such as nation- well as resisted it by generating, in hidden and, since tinuing studies. Additionally, through the Lifelong alism and anti-Semitism, radicalism and conservatism, 1991, overt and increasingly assertive ways, their own Learners program, individuals over age 65 who are inter- centrality and provinciality, hygiene and imperial control, counter-narratives. Close attention will be paid to the ested in auditing courses may enroll at a discount rate. folk culture and the artistic avant-garde will be explored. new Russian film as it re-invents itself within the post- (Please visit the Columbia University School of This course will be held on Wednesdays at 6:10-8 p.m. Soviet imperial momentum projected on the former Continuing Education, (http://www.ce.columbia.edu/ Dr. Bilenky will also teach a course Mondays at 6:10-8 Soviet colonies. This course will take place Tuesdays at auditing/?PID=28, for more details.) p.m. titled “Empire and Nation: Nationality Issues in the 6:10-10 p.m. September 4 is the first day of classes and September Russian Empire.” This senior seminar deals with national- Three levels of Ukrainian language instruction will be 14 is the final day to register for a class. For more infor- ist challenges and nationality policies in imperial Russia. taught this fall by Dr. Shevchuk: elementary on Mondays, mation about courses or the Ukrainian Studies Program Particular emphasis will be placed on the imperial poli- Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:40-9:55 a.m.; intermediate at Columbia University, readers may contact Dr. cies vis-à-vis national peripheries (primarily Poland, on Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:10-11:25 a.m.; and Andryczyk at [email protected] or 212- Ukraine, the Baltic and the Volga regions), as well as reli- advanced on Mondays and Wednesdays at 2:40-3:55 p.m. 854-4697.

ing him his musical talent. brother Denis, who died of Ewing’s Sarcoma in 2005. The Anthony Fedorov... His magnetic performance in the revival of “Rent” is the CD is available on his website AnthonyFedorov.com and a (Continued from page 16) latest in a series of performances that he hopes will bring copy can be picked up on iTunes. him a role in a Broadway musical. He was a finalist in the Mr. Fedorov says the new record, containing six origi- dle. Later, Roger wants to leave town because Mimi has 2005 spring season of the popular “American Idol” TV nal songs he has written or co-written, is not what people renewed her relationship with her former boyfriend, but show (the only Ukrainian American to make it to the may expect to hear. “They remember me doing ballads on Mark encourages him to admit he is afraid she will soon show, he says), placing fourth after performing Celine American Idol, but it’s been six years and my voice has die and does not want to grow too close to her. After Dion’s “Surrender,” Paul Young’s “Every Time You Go deepened and developed a lot of color and a lot of Roger and Mimi’s separation, Mimi is found “freezing” in a Away” and other ballads. He joined the top 10 finalists, strength. Although I’ve had no formal vocal training, I park and is brought to Mark and Roger’s apartment. including winner Carrie Underwood and runner-up Bo studied with Ron Anderson after ‘American Idol’ – he’s Unlike the finale in “La Boheme,” Mimi, who is suffering Bice, in a highly successful 44-city summer tour. one of the top vocal coaches in the world.” from AIDS, does not die, and says to Roger, “I should tell Since then, he has played Matt in the Off-Broadway pro- Remembering his brother’s fight with sarcoma and you – I love you.” duction of “The Fantasticks” in New York and appeared in hoping to educate people to the need for early diagnosis regional productions of “Joseph and the Amazing of the disease, he has been working with the Sarcoma A magnetic performance Technicolor Dreamcoat,” Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Foundation of America since 2007 as an advocate, celebri- Mr. Fedorov was born in Yalta in the Ukrainian SSR in “Cinderella” and “Hairspray.” A production of “Joseph and ty spokesperson and board member. He says he finds 1985, the son of Ukrainians Natalia Fedorova and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” in Tokyo, the first “Rent” is “very therapeutic for me; there are a lot of issues Vladimir Fedorov, who hail from Yalta and Symferopol, “Joseph” to play in Japan, was cut short after one perfor- I hadn’t dealt with in terms of my brother’s passing; as I respectively. The family, including their older son Denis, mance when an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and massive play Roger, I am dealing with death; I’m living out all of moved to the U.S. in 1994 and made their home in tsunami hit Japan. this pain and at the same time releasing a lot of tension in Trevose, Pa., where Anthony graduated from Neshaminy Mr. Fedorov has toured U.S. Air Force bases in Europe a very healthy way.” High School and attended Bucks Community College. as a judge and performer for the Military Idol contest, and With the musical set to close in mid-September, Mr. As a toddler in Ukraine, he underwent a tracheotomy has made guest appearances on a number of TV shows, Fedorov has been doing a good deal of auditioning for made necessary by a birth defect in his windpipe; he including the “Ellen Degeneres Show,” “The Tonight Show” musical theater and TV, and looks forward “for a chance to began singing early in life despite skepticism that he and “Live with Regis and Kelly.” put my foot on Broadway.” His motto: “Every day some- would be able to speak or sing again. He proved the skep- thing new happens in my life, so we’ll see what happens.” A new record tics wrong. At age 15 he began to perform in restaurants * * * and clubs in Philadelphia and New York, accompanying He says his newest project, other than “Rent,” is the Tickets for “Rent” may be purchased by visiting sitefor- himself on piano or guitar. He credits his musician father launching and promoting of his new record, “Never Over,” rent.com or telecharge.com, by phoning 212-947-8844, or and “my grandma, who had an incredible voice,” with giv- released last year by Airgo Music and dedicated to his at the New World Stages box office, 340 W. 50th St. No. 35 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 19

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years,” explained Taras Chornovil, then a Turning... national deputy and a leader of the anti- Kuchma movement. ATTORNEY (Continued from page 6) Levko Lukianenko, Yuri Yekhanurov and Leonid Kravchuk, the first president of Viktor Yushchenko also shared their com- independent Ukraine, who was succeeded ments on the importance of Ukraine’s inde- ANDRE SHRAMENKO by Leonid Kuchma in 1994, said before pendence. beginning the 10th anniversary session of Mr. Yushchenko added, “The most Parliament on August 21, 2001, “There is a important is that Ukraine is a country on 32 Mercer Street country called Ukraine, and that is all that is the map of the world. It is a known entity. I important. We can discuss the details and understand the pessimism that is evident Hackensack, NJ 07601 debate the negatives and positives, but in the country. But remember, 10 years is (201) 488-3200 nobody can disagree today with the fact that absolutely a kid’s age. It is a young country. Ukraine is a country found on the map of the That does not mean, however, that the world, a European country. Furthermore, in leadership can use that as an excuse for 10 years we have had the good fortune to certain failures. On the other hand a lot has have avoided foreign conflict and domestic been accomplished. It is just that a lot still strife. But I repeat here, the most important needs to be done.” element remains that Ukraine exists.” “I would say the biggest achievement is Source: “Politicians comment on the basic fact of independence, but I do not Ukraine’s achievements over the past believe the independence we gained has decade,” by Roman Woronowycz, The been developed properly these past 10 Ukrainian Weekly, August 26, 2001.

The Board of Directors of the Ukrainian Institute cordially invites you to view the exhibition

UKRAINIAN SOCIALIST REALISM T H E JURII MANIICHUK & RO SE BRADY COLLECTION

ART OPENING RECEPTION Friday, September 14, 2012 at 6:00pm

SYMPOSIUM UKRAINIAN SOCIALIST REALISM: PROPAGANDA OR ART?

Sunday, September 16, 2012 at 4:00pm

PATRON’S GALA DINNER Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 7:30pm

The exhibit will be on display through October 7, 2012

“Art at the Institute”

is presented by the

Ukrainian th Institute of America 2 East 79 Street, New York, NY 10075 212-­‐288-­‐8660 · [email protected] 235 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2012 No. 35

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