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INSIDE: • Russia's largest minority: Ukrainians — page 2. • Interview with Bohdan Hawrylyshyn — page 3. • Ukrainian Quebecers comment on referendum — page 4. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIII No. 51 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1995 $1.25/$2in Ukraine FCC fines CBS affiliate Voter apathy shows as only 7 of 45 Parliament seats are filled by Marta Kolomayets between the actions of the government ernment's interests, in the hope that our for failing to maintain Kyiv Press Bureau and Parliament," said Parliament effective cooperation will not only Chairman Oleksander Moroz. improve the state of affairs in the con­ KYIV - Only seven deputies were He called the low number of winners stituency, but will also be helpful in cre­ elected to Ukraine's Supreme Council on "predictable," adding that the election ating a new pattern in the settlement of public record of letters December 10, during by-elections to fill returns mirror the present-day social situ­ old contradictions," he told Interfax- by Roman Woronowycz 45 empty seats in the Parliament, report­ ation. Ukraine on December 12. ed Ivan Yemets, head of the Central JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The Federal "The trust expressed by the people at "I voted for cooperation between the Electoral Commission. Communications Commission has this most difficult time, during an eco­ executive and legislative branches. I There is still the possibility that 11 more slapped a CBS affiliate in Washington nomic crisis, is a source of tremendous voted for a candidate who is ready to candidates will join the current legislature on the wrist for failing to keep a public support to me in my subsequent activi­ work, to roll up his sleeves and work, when run-offs in these districts are held, as ties," said Prime Minister Marchuk after and not take part in political games," said inspection record of letters of complaint required by law, within the next two weeks, which it receives from viewers. receiving the news of his victory. President Leonid Kuchma after he cast and no later than December 24. Prime Minister Marchuk has been The FCC decision, dated December 5, his ballot on Sunday morning at the In the remaining 27 districts, however, gaining popularity in Ukraine over the assesses a $2,000 fine against Washington Pechersky District polling station just a voter turn-out was below the required 50 last few months, as he has proven him­ television station WUSA for willfully and few yards from the presidential adminis­ percent, and the entire election process self to be an effective government leader. repeatedly failing to keep letters sent to it must start all over again. An election tration building. His name has come up frequently as a regarding displeasure with the October 23, date for these districts has not yet been The Pechersky District had more than 50 presidential candidate in the next elec­ 1994, broadcast of the "60 Minutes" seg­ announced, but given the drawn-out percent voter turnout, but no candidate got tions, scheduled for 1999, and some ment "The Ugly Face of Freedom." process of nominating and registering the necessary 50 percent of the vote. Run­ political observers view his run for a candidates, it will not be earlier than offs will be held in two weeks between The decision comes from a complaint deputy's seat as a way to test the waters March, 1996 - two years since the first Anatoliy Kovalenko, an independent who filed against the station by the Ukrainian- for the future. elections to this Supreme Council began. American Community Network on "I am going to Parliament in the gov­ (Continued on page 4) February 20. WUSA replied to the com­ Of the seven winners on Sunday, six plaint by stating that it had sent all the let­ are independents with no party affiliation, ters to CBS headquarters in New York, as and one is a member of the Communist was customary, and that it had been assured Party of Ukraine. Parliament postpones CIS debate, by CBS that those corresponding had been Central Electoral Committee Chairman sent reply letters, an assertion later found to Yemets blamed the low success rate in be false when CBS admitted that it had not these elections on widespread voter apathy. reviews 1995 budget implementation But most politicians blamed the low turnout responded to a single viewer's letter. by Marta Kolomayets word that a vote on the issue would not on an election law that requires more than The local station did admit in its reply Kyiv Press Bureau be taken - did the necessary quorum reg­ 50 percent turnout to the polls for elections ister. Two hundred seventy-one deputies (Continued on page 8) to be considered valid. KYIV - After weeks of bickering, the listened to Parliament Deputy Chairman "The by-elections have demonstrated Ukrainian Parliament decided on December Oleh Diomin deliver an address on the the weakness of political parties and the 12 to postpone debate on the issue of benefits for Ukraine if it were to join the strength of the nomenklatura. Democratic Ukraine's accession to the Inter-Parliament­ CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly. Edmonton TV station parties will be defeated in new by-elections ary Assembly of the Commonwealth of After his speech the issue was closed, if they fail to unite into one political bloc," Independent States until after the 1996 bud­ and the deputies took part in "Government cautioned Taras Stetskiv, a deputy from the get is reviewed by the legislature. apologizes for airing Day" in Parliament, during which they had Reforms faction in Parliament. The final debate and vote on accession the opportunity to question government Ihor Yukhnovsky, leader of the to the Assembly has now been scheduled ministers on their recently submitted 1996 'Ugly Face' segment Derzhavnist (Statehood) faction in for February at the latest, after the budget budget. Parliament, told Interfax-Ukraine that he for 1996 is endorsed by the Parliament, by Andrij Wynnyckyj According to deputies in the Parliament, believes the new deputies elected on announced Parliament Chairman a cursory review of the newly submitted Toronto Press Bureau December 10 will make the anti- Oleksander Moroz on December 12. budget shows that for 1996 the main goals Communist wing of the Supreme Council On Monday evening, December 11, dur­ TORONTO — An Edmonton-based for the economic and social development of stronger. ing the regular meeting of the Presidium of affiliate of the CTV network, CFRN tele­ Ukraine include stabilization of production, Vyacheslav Chornovil, leader of the Supreme Council, leaders of the vision, has aired an apology for having creation of conditions conducive to eco­ Rukh, told reporters on December 11 Parliament's standing committees were at a carried the defamatory "The Ugly Face nomic growth and halting the decline of cit­ that he was satisfied with the results, loss as to how to break the stalemate that of Freedom" segment of the CBS "60 izens' living standards. Minutes" newsmagazine last fall. which will allow two Rukh members to has paralyzed the Parliament for three take part in run-offs on December 24. weeks. They could only suggest that the On Thursday, December 14, the On Sunday, October 22, following the Parliament discussed amendments to the trademark "I'm Mike Wallace, I'm Ed "Our task now is to make sure that the leader of the Supreme Council try to bring by-elections take place in the two districts it up again, at least for debate. 1995 budget, based on the experience of Bradley, I'm Morley Safer" introduction the last 10 months. to the program, the screen went to black, where we have our candidates," he noted, At the start of the morning session on The Parliament's Budget Committee the "60 Minutes" logo appeared with the explaining that Rukh has to make sure Tuesday, December 11, it looked as proposed that a vote of no confidence be legend "produced by CBS-TV in New more than 50 percent of the voters turn out though the legislature would be in for given to the ministers responsible for York," and an announcer of CFRN to the polls and vote for its candidates. more of the shenanigans it had experi­ various aspects of that budget and their Television read the following statement, In the Sunday elections, the top vote- enced in late November and the first failure to achieve 1995 budget targets. accompanied by text: getter was Prime Minister Yevhen week of December, as deputies of right- "Last October [October 23, 1994], the Marchuk, who won a seat in Myrhorod, wing factions refused to register. According to Mykola Azarov, chairman '60 Minutes' program broadcast a seg­ Poltava Oblast. He captured more than Chairman Moroz accused the deputies of of the Budget Committee, his group will ment regarding freedoms in an indepen­ 83 percent of the vote, something none trying to provoke a parliamentary crisis, but propose that a vote of no confidence be dent Ukraine. '60 Minutes' subsequently of the other 34 candidates who have run Vyacheslav Chornovil, leader of the Rukh given to Viktor Pynzenyk, vice-premier in broadcast a number of letters of com­ in this district in six elections and run­ faction, told fellow deputies "it would be charge of economic reforms, who was plaint. offs over the past year have been able to premature to discuss the issue until after the responsible for drafting the 1995 budget, "CFRN television particularly regrets the do. More than 84 percent of the con­ legislative body knows the outcome of par­ and Yevhen Dovzhok, head of the State producers' implication that Ukrainians are, stituents turned out to vote for one of liamentary elections in Russia," which are Committee for Oil, Gas and Oil Refining among other things, genetically intolerant nine candidates running in that district. scheduled for December 17. Industry, for failing to collect payments for "The election of Prime Minister Finally, on the fifth try - and only oil and natural gas supplies, reported (Continued on page 8) Marchuk can ensure better coordination after Chairman Moroz gave his solemn Interfax-Ukraine. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1995 N0.51 ANALYSIS NEWSEREFS

Russia's largest national minority: Is Sevastopil really open to all? that the Communists and Agrarians have the most seats. The Mass Media Center Ukrainians in the Russian Federation SEVASTOPIL — Despite high-level in Miensk gave the following break­ directives to the contrary, this port city, down: Party of Communists of Belarus, by Serge Сірко schemes in the Russian Far East, causing headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet, has 42 seats; Agrarian Party, 33; the Party of local alarm that Ukraine's own agrarian not in fact been opened to all comers, said Popular Accord, eight; the United Civic When the World Congress of sector would suffer with such an exodus. the press service of municipal administra­ Party, seven; the Social Democratic Ukrainians (WCU) recently admitted They are a significant labor force in tion and local Interior Ministry officials Hramada, two; and the Party for All new members from countries beyond the the Russian oil and gas industries. on December 12. In accordance with a Belarusian Unity and Accord, two. No West, it subsequently incorporated orga­ According to the Ukrainian ambassador recent Cabinet of Ministers decision, candidates from the nationalist opposi­ nizations representing several million to Moscow in 1992, Volodymyr entrance to the city, off-limits to foreign­ tion Belarusian Popular Front were elect­ Ukrainians scattered from Prague in the Kryzhanivsky, one-third of the oil work­ ers and Ukrainian residents alike since ed. (OMRI Daily Digest) heart of Europe to Vladivostok in the ers in the Tyumen oblast in Siberia and 1984, was to have been allowed as of Asian Far East. The number of almost half the construction workers are December 1. Yet to this day the local mili­ ... and leaders voice differing views Ukrainians now represented by organiza­ "transplants from Ukraine." tia have not received an Interior Ministry MIENSK — Belarusian President tions in the WCU has more than doubled, The deputy head of the Ukrainian directive to that effect. (Respublika) Alyaksandr Lukashenka said the election including the 4.3 million residing in the Rodyna Society in Surgut stressed at the Coal miners' strike continues of a new Parliament shows that world's largest state - Russia. First Congress of Ukrainians in Russia in Belarusians continue to uphold the same The 2,373,250 Ukrainians in Russia 1993 that since Ukrainians form such a DONETSKE — A recently initiated ideals they had when they elected him who, according to the last Soviet census large share of the labor force in the strike by miners at three local coal mines president in 1994, Belarusian Radio of 1989, live in the European parts of the Siberian oil and gas industries, they continues, reported Ukrainian Television reported on December 12. He described federation (west of the Urals), along with should be considered a factor in deter­ on December 11. The miners are these ideals as support for his policies of 600,366 in Moldova, 291,000 in Belarus mining the price and supply of these demanding prompt payment of back pay, closer integration with Russia. Prior to the and 185,161 more distributed across the commodities to Ukraine. in some cases stretching back three elections the president, saying he would Baltic states - in total, some 3.44 million Another delegate at the same congress, months. The strike has resulted in a near­ not vote, publicly tore up his voting card. persons - constitute perhaps the largest Vasyl Vilchak, head of Mria Ukrainian ly 6,000 ton shortfall in coal extraction. But Zyanon Paznyak, leader of the single minority in Europe, aside from the Cultural Society in Kaliningrad, spoke of (Respublika) Belarusian Popular Front, said the success Russians in the former Soviet republics. a similar Ukrainian economic relevance of the elections showed people were afraid Reporter Michael Kesterton, in an arti­ in his region, a free trading zone, where Belarusians elect valid Parliament... of Mr. Lukashenka establishing a dictator­ cle titled "Rising Nationalism" in the Ukrainians exploit mineral and forestry MIENSK — According to internation­ ship in the country. The leader of the Social Sciences column of Toronto's resources which Ukraine is seriously al agency reports from December 11, United Civic Party, former national banker Globe and Mail (February 10, 1993), lacking. The Ukrainians Mr. Vilchak rep­ 198 seats in the 260-member Belarus Stanislau Bahdankevich, agreed with Mr. accorded such status to the 3 million resents, some of whom are in local gov­ Parliament have now been filled, more Paznyak's interpretation and added that his Hungarians living in neighboring states, ernment, also want to be considered com­ than enough for a quorum. There has party hopes to cooperate with the but it is clear that once the moderate esti­ mercial brokers between Ukraine and been some confusion over how many Agrarians since their program is liberal in mates of Ukrainians in Poland (250,000), Russia. deputies were elected from each party. many ways. (OMRI Daily Digest) Romania (70,000), the Czech Republic On both counts, the Ukrainian govern­ Most reports maintain that independent and Slovakia (100,000) are also taken ment has been reluctant to accept any candidates now have 96 or so seats and (Continued on page 8) into account, then with nearly 4 million it such proposals, the logic being that com­ is the Ukrainians, who, in Mr. mercial transactions conducted with citi­ Kesterton's terms, may well form zens of another country should not pro­ Europe's largest minority after the ceed without official sanction. Chornobyl memo may be signed December 20 Russians. And in the axis of the Russian In Russia, the Soviet census of 1989 Federation itself, Moscow, Ukrainian by Marta Kolomayets Ukrainian government in April of 1995. actually enumerated more Tatars than "gastarbeiter" have been an emerging Kyiv Press Bureau This includes Western financing for the Ukrainians, but unofficial estimates of complete shutdown of the plant, and factor in the transport and service sectors, KYIV - The "memorandum of mutual the latter are given more credence than guarantees of an alternative power plant driving the capital's transit buses, and a understanding" between Ukraine and the the total formally reported. The Russian to provide Ukraine with its energy needs. pivotal element in the running of the G-7 regarding the shutdown of the newspaper, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, for According to the Ukrainian minister, local emergency medical services. Chornobyl nuclear power plant may be example, in reporting the convening of who is scheduled to travel to Ottawa to Thousands of Ukrainians have been signed in Ottawa on December 20, the First Congress of Ukrainians in sign the agreement with Canadian Vice- flocking to the Russian metropolis in the Environment Minister Yuriy Kostenko Russia in October 1993, noted that the Premier and Ecology Minister Sheila last two years in response to the compar­ told reporters during a news conference Federation of Ukrainians founded at that Copps, the West continues to raise the atively stronger Russian currency, there­ on December 8. conference could "potentially represent point that the plant should be closed by by reversing a trend after independence As previously reported, the memoran­ the interests of 6 million to 8 million the year 2000. in which the number of Ukrainians dum was initialed in Vienna on Russian Federation citizens." returning to Ukraine from Russia exceed­ "But, the decommissioning of the December 1, with both sides promising nuclear power plant may last for What are the characteristics of this ed the volume moving northward. to work together to solve the complicated minority? Certainly it is one whose eco­ In spite of their economic importance, decades," he added. issues of closing down the nuclear power Mr. Kostenko also explained that men­ nomic significance to the country is not however, the political clout of Ukrainians station, providing alternate energy matched by a corresponding political in Russia is immeasurably more limited tion of the year 2000 as a deadline date sources for Ukraine, accommodating for closing the plant was omitted from influence. than that of their Russian counterparts in workers who will be left without jobs Ukrainians have historically made Ukraine. They have been on Russian ter­ the text of the memorandum. However, and securing an ecologically safe envi­ Western negotiators told The Weekly important contributions to the expansion ritory since the days of Kyi van Rus\ but ronment for the European continent. habitually subjected to irrevocable assim- that the date remains prominent in the of the Russian wheat frontier eastwards. Mr. Kostenko told reporters the ilatory pressures in subsequent centuries. headline of the memorandum. Even as recently as the 1980s, tens of timetable for closing down Chornobyl is Today's leaders of the minority now thousands of farmers from Ukraine were explicitly linked to terms set by the (Continued on page 8) recruited to participate in colonization have to contend with an unevenness of national consciousness and frequently ambiguous, if not outright hostile, atti­ Dr. Serge Сірко is the 1995-1996 tudes towards them on the part of local Neporany Fellow and teaches the history FOUNDED 1933 authorities. 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Box 346 Staff writers/editors: Roman Woronowycz in exceptional cases local Ukrainian pres­ "Ukrainians in Russia: A Bibliographical Jersey City, NJ 07303 and Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj (Toronto) sure on regional authorities has paid off and Statistical Guide " (Canadian Institute in the occasional provisioning of cultural of Ukrainian Studies, University of The Ukrainian Weekly, December 17,1995, No. 51, Vol. LXIII Copyright © 1995 The Ukrainian Weekly Alberta, Edmonton, 1994). (Continued on page 9) No. 51 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1995 INTERVIEW: Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, a major player in the Ukrainian renaissance by Roman Woronowycz was transformed into a seminar. That was a high point for the Council. Noted scholar Dr. Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, one of the Something that was done reasonably quietly but was true movers and shakers in contemporary Ukraine, is a useful was sending various members of Parliament on member of the American-Ukrainian Advisory study trips to different countries; for example to Committee, a prestigious body of statesmen, politicians Switzerland to see how a highly decentralized system, a and international experts chaired by President Jimmy direct democracy, functions. Then to countries where Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. there is representative democracy. The distinguished, although informal, advisory body, We selected people like (Ihor) Yukhnovsky from one established in 1993 by the Center for Strategic and party, and (Oleksander) Moroz from another, as well as International Studies, a public policy research institu­ others, and put them in the same group. We selected tion in Washington, recently met in New York for its eight, nine people from different parts of the political third plenary session and issued a communique on U.S. spectrum and had them learn together how the different policy towards Ukraine (see last week's issue of The systems function abroad. Weekly). Afterwards, the focus shifted to parliamentary com­ Dr. Hawrylyshyn is also the chairman of the missions, where more detailed work takes place and Ukrainian Renaissance Foundation, a branch of the today seems more important. Starting this year we have Soros Foundations, and chairman of the Council of provided 35 assistants to parliamentary commissions. Advisors to the Presidium of the Ukrainian Parliament. The assistants were chosen from among 200 candidates Dr. Hawrylyshyn was born in 1926 in Koropets, a village on the Dnister River in the Ternopil region of who had to be graduates of law or economics and.have western Ukraine. After living under the Polish and the good knowledge of a foreign language. Soviet regimes, in 1944 he ended up in a refugee camp Are they from Ukraine? in Germany. They are all from Ukraine and from different regions. After emigrating to Canada he was awarded bache­ By the way, they all had to know Ukrainian and of lor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering course one foreign language. I myself checked how at the University of Toronto. Subsequently he earned a good their French, German or English was, but some degree in industrial management from the International also knew Chinese or Japanese, so we had to take it on Management Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, and a faith that they knew the language. Ph.D. in economics from the University of Geneva. In parliamentary commissions, like (Deputy Oleh) Since 1960 he has lived in Switzerland and has been at Taranov's Economics Commission or (Deputy Viktor) IMI-Geneva as faculty member, director of studies and Suslov's Banking Commission, these assistants are director (1968-1986) and finally as scholar-in-resi­ helpful because they can quickly access foreign legisla­ dence (1986-1989). tion if necessary, do the translation, be in contact with He is the author of two books and more than 180 foreign sources, etc. They have both the right education­ articles on management, management education, and Bohdan Hawrylyshyn al backgrounds and the linguistic capabilities, and one the economic and political environment. He holds many does not often find that combined in Ukraine. Most distinctions, including recipient of the Gold Medal of forward their own corporate goals as far as invest­ members of Parliament do not know any foreign lan­ the President of Italy and member of the Engineering ment and profit-making in Ukraine? guages, except for Russian. Hall of Distinction of the University of Toronto. He is We very much hope that such a "threat" could be also a member of the executive board of the Club of We also have two or three members of the Council realized. We badly need foreign investment because who come to Kyiv and have sessions with various com­ Rome and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences along with it comes know-how and access to foreign and is a fellow of the World Academy of Art and missions and ministers, like Prof. Burenstam-Linder, markets. That's what the multinationals bring. They who is chairman of the National Bank of Sweden, and Science and the International Academy of Management. bring some foreign capital, some new technology, but He is in constant transit between Kyiv and Geneva. also rector of the Stockholm School of Economics, for­ most importantly they bring their knowledge of world mer minister of foreign trade and newly elected to the As he told The Weekly: "My home is in Geneva, but I markets and how to access them. live in Ukraine." European Parliament who led a seminar on what should If we had been overrun with investments by these be the foreign trade regime [in Ukraine]. So the parlia­ PARTI huge corporations, which immediately assumed a domi­ mentarians have access to people not only with legisla­ nant position and squeezed out the Ukrainians, that Could you comment on the recent meeting of the tive and executive expertise but also with tremendous would've been a threat, but as things stand we view the American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee (held the international experience. prospective investments as a great opportunity. weekend of November 17-18 in New York) and the As a very specific example, Suslov's Banking communique that was drawn up (see last week's You are also chairman of the Council of Advisors Commission very badly needed to get a guide reaction issue of The Weekly) as a result of it, which makes of the Presidium of the Parliament of Ukraine. As I on a proposed law for insuring banks. So they asked if very specific recommendations as to how U.S. policy understand the function of the Council of Advisors, we could get them an expert opinion. We sent the should develop vis a vis Ukraine. Specifically, was it is to give advice on economic issues, banking and request to Prof. Burenstam-Linder of the Swedish there any dissension in approving this communique? credit regulation, foreign economic affairs, state gov­ National Bank, who replied that he was not a great ernment, political reform. Given that, what do you expert on the subject but that a colleague of his at the There were some pretty hot debates. This was the consider the council's achievements thus far? Stockholm School of Economics was one of the world's third meeting of that group, and, I think, in everybody's best experts. In a matter of a few days, a number of judgment, particularly that of our American colleagues, The accomplishments have varied over time. The faxes with comment were sent back to Kyiv. it was the best, precisely because there were some pretty Council was created because (Leonid) Kravchuk, when We are connected mostly by e-mail and certainly by hot discussions. he was chairman of the Parliament, had asked me if I fax with our Council members and can access people It was not Americans as a bloc and Ukrainians as a would not be his advisor. That was in January 1990. I we know, who know the subject. They work free of bloc. There was integration. We (Ukrainians) would have refused and suggested instead to create a group of advi­ charge; we could not get such people to do it on a con­ arguments among ourselves: "You should not be insisting sors, not for him but to the Presidium of Parliament, in sulting basis. This is a key strength of the Council. on that point, it is not vital, this is more important," or which there were representatives of Rukh and other "Why don't we join these two propositions," etc. movements and not just the Communist Party. He So you're saying that a strength of the council is I worried that there would be asymmetry between the agreed immediately. the informal network amongst members that allows American side and the Ukrainian side because on the Then, I got some distinguished personalities from them to get information to Ukrainian leaders. American side there are former statesmen not occupying around the world, including at that time a person from That's right, but there are other things as well. For an official position, but still active and listened to. People Japan, who had legislative and executive experience at example, Lord Geoffrey Howe spoke about his experi­ will still listen to what (Henry) Kissinger, (Zbigniew) the national level and broad international experience. ences in Ukraine at the Council of Europe assembly in Brzezinski or (Frank) Carlucci have to say. The head of From the United Kingdom it was Geoffrey Howe, who Strasbourg before Ukraine became independent because the Westinghouse Corp. (Michael Jordan) was there too. had been deputy prime minister and minister of foreign So it is a powerful group from the United States. he was on the Council of Advisors. A Russian scholar affairs and is now in the House of Lords — a tremen­ was scheduled to speak after him. I saw his written It is difficult for us to present as powerful a group dously respected person agreed to join, as did Shirley speech, which was horrible vis a vis Ukraine. But Lord from Ukraine. But it is interesting how mutual respect Williams, member of the House of Lords and former Howe was the first speaker and after he spoke from his and understanding has developed. It was nice to see this head of the Social Democratic Party. From the United own experiences about how things were moving crossing of the line to reach agreements on things that States both Zbigniew Brzezinski and George Soros towards both independence and democracy in Ukraine, were clearly perceived to be in the interest of Ukraine, joined the Council. primarily, but also of the United States. It was an excit­ the speech given by the Russian departed greatly from The first thing we did was to run a seminar in the the written version. ing meeting because of that and also the best so far. Parliament's Assembly hall on May 20-21, 1990, compar­ A previous meeting in Kyiv included more seasoned These were also the first openings, let's say, into the ing the positives and negatives of various western parlia­ Council of Europe. People like Geoffrey Howe or people from Ukraine. This time, for example we had three mentary systems. People who lectured had been in parlia­ younger people, (Borys) Sobolev, deputy minister of Shirley Williams have great influence in those circles ments and in cabinets, including the former president of because of their reputations, but also because they are finance, (Svitlana) Oharkova, a businesswoman, and Switzerland, Dr. Kurt Furgler, Minister Kurt Beidenkopf, (Serhiy) Oksanych, the president of a financial house. We not Ukrainian, so they are not suspected of grinding the who talked on Germany, Baroness Williams on the U.K., national interest, if you will, but they are highly respect­ needed them because we wanted to discuss conditions for the Honorable Hugh Faulkner on Canada and others. I investment in Ukraine. They happen to know these fields. ed authorities who happen to know well the situation in lead the seminar. This was four days after the first session Ukraine. of the Parliament convened. Is there ever a threat that businesspeople on the They are credible to the outside because they can be Advisory Committee, the chairman of Westinghouse I think it was a unique event, not repeated anywhere, for example, could be pursuing a separate agenda to anytime in the world, when a parliamentary assembly (Continued on page 12) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1995 No. 51 Ukrainian Quebecers comment on province's referendum by Christopher Guly lot rejection. One, in south Montreal, For Mr. Czolij that is not resignation, believes most of his ethnic compatriots found a pro-separatist government scruti­ but realization. Growing up in Quebec voted "no" on October 30. He certainly HULL, Quebec - On October 30, a neer rejecting 102 out of 205 ballots - or during the Quiet Revolution of the did - but not because he's Ukrainian. collective sigh of relief swept across 49 percent of the vote. Most of the rejec­ 1960s exposed to him renewed and "I analyzed the issues and felt that I'm Canada when Quebecers voted by the tions were "no" votes. often heated moves toward cultural, if living in a country that doesn't deserve to slimmest of margins - 50.6 "no" to 49.4 Dr. Cipywnyk, who also serves as not complete, sovereignty for be split up," said Mr. Czolij. "I have spent "yes" - to keep Quebec a part of Canada. president of the Ukrainian World Quebecers over their own destiny. many nights and weekends working, and But while Canadians living outside Congress, said he feels the PQ must real­ Despite Canadian Prime Minister Jean have reached a certain standard of living Quebec may have found some comfort in ize "that ethnic minorities are a vital part Chretien's recent parliamentary offer to in which I have accumulated a certain knowing their country would not break of Quebec and have the right to fully par­ extend a "distinct society" designation to amount of wealth. I didn't want to suffer up, the mood for many Quebecers, sepa­ ticipate in all aspects of society." Quebec, Mr. Czolij knows the real polique economically if Quebec separated." ratist or not, was perhaps less buoyant. Eugene Czolij is living proof of that. at work in Quebec. "What Parizeau said So, was Premier Parizeau right about Indeed, there was some nervousness on The 36-year-old Montreal-born presi­ about the ethnic vote on October 30 just blaming the money factor in the "yes" the part of Quebec's 16,000 residents of dent of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress confirmed what we all knew for a long loss? Certainly, the Quebec government is Ukrainian descent. Montreal Branch has built a successful time. It's not as if he made a blunder, but among the few Canadian provinces which When outgoing Quebec Premier commercial law practice over the past 14 went as far as to say it publicly." have not, so far, shown any real desire to Jacques Parizeau acknowledged that his years. A graduate of the Francophone In fact, Mr. Parizeau's likely successor prop up their faltering economies. And "yes" forces had been beaten in the refer­ Universite de Montreal, Mr. Czolij works as Quebec premier, Lucein Bouchard - though Quebec controls its own immigra­ endum, he did not blame French-speaking in one of Quebec's major French-speak­ who now serves as Canada's official tion standards, many so-called foreign eth­ Quebecers for losing the plebiscite. ing firms, Desjardins, Ducharme, Stein, Opposition leader - sounded similarly nics might be reluctant to choose Montreal "Money and the ethnic vote," were the Monast in downtown Montreal. xenophobic 15 days before the referen­ over Toronto or Vancouver. culprits, he said. Presumably, the retiring Though he is fully trilingual (English, dum. Mr. Bouchard told a rally of women That, said Dr. Cipywnyk, would be a Parti Quebecois (PQ) leader included all French and Ukrainian), Mr. Czolij says his that Quebecers are "one of the white tremendous loss of opportunity for non-Francophones, such as Ukrainian colleagues don't look upon him as any­ races" with the lowest birth rates. Quebec and Canada. Quebecers, in his blanket condemnation. thing different. "They may not rush out That was supposed to garner more "Let's face it, Canada is a country "I don't think Parizeau's remarks were and buy [The Montreal Gazette] whenever votes. Instead, the Bloc Quebecois that needs immigrants. They make a slip," said Dr. Dmytro Cipywnyk, presi­ there's a story on Chornobyl, but they leader turned Canadians' attention to Canada and provinces like Quebec run." dent of the Canadian Ethnocultural respect the fact that I celebrate Christmas the not-so-subtle racist overtones seem­ As Mr. Bouchard enters the February Council. "I think what he said was quite at a different time than they do," he said. ingly inherent in Quebec society. 1996 race for the next PQ leader - and deliberate - that obviously the ethnic vote "But I spend a lot of time working and Though still "disappointed" at hearing Quebec premier - Mr. Czolij hopes Mr. in Quebec made the difference." socializing with Francophone Quebecers such remarks, Mr. Czolij kept the UCC Bouchard and other Quebec separatists In the days following the crucial vote, and don't need to be 'pure laine.' " (or out of the referendum fray. "I felt will give the Canadian distinct society reports suggested that several polling sta­ "poor wool," as Quebecers with long Ukrainian Quebecers should not be vot­ offer a chance. tions in which there is a considerable eth­ ancestral roots in the province's franco­ ing wearing a Ukrainian badge," he said. "There are always options to live nic population had experienced high bal­ phone culture are called). Nevertheless, the UCC Montreal head together," he underlined.

Republic of the Crimea, with the elder Franchuk receiving cent of the vote. Voter apathy shows... almost 73 percent of the vote, despite the fact that two The third district in Kyiv that will have run-offs is the (Continued from page 1) days earlier, on December 8, at an extraordinary session of Pechersky District mentioned earlier in this story. the Crimean Parliament, Mr. Franchuk, the prime minister The citizens of Kyiv once again have suffered most chairs the district council of deputies, and Volodymyr of the Crimean government, received a vote of no-confi­ in these elections: of the 23 city districts only seven Shpundra, a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine. dence. Seventy-three out of 98 deputies voted for Mr. have representatives in Parliament. Victory seen for Kuchma Franchuk's ouster. Crimean Parliament Speaker Yevhen Among other districts that will have run-offs are three Supruniuk will now have 10 days to reach an agreement in the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea, where To some extent, these elections can be considered a with President Kuchma on a new candidate. Anatoliy Drobotov, a member of the Communist Party victory for President Kuchma, who now has his prime The younger Mr. Franchuk, who won a seat in the of Ukraine is running against Yuriy Kolesnikov, a busi­ minister in the Parliament, as well as two relatives, Parliament with 63 percent of the vote, is the general nessman running as an independent; Mykola Anatoliy Franchuk, 60, father-in-law of President director of a stock company, the Center for Fuel-Energy Myroshnychenko, a member of the Party for the Kuchma's daughter, and Ihor Franchuk, 27, the presi­ Resources of Ukraine. Economic Rebirth of the Crimea, who is running against dent's son-in-law. Heorhiy Shevchenko, 64, a member of the Ihor Sharov, a Communist Party member; and in Both were elected in districts in the Autonomous Communist Party of Ukraine, and a bureaucrat who Sevastopil, where two Communists, Vadim Zachosov works for the Sevastopil city organization of the party, and Vasyl Kalytiuk, are running against each other. won election in that city with 54 percent of the vote. In Zakarpattia, two independents are facing off: The other three winners in the December 10 elections Serhiy Slobodianok and Nestor Shufrych. This is also were deputies from Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovske and Kyiv. the case in the Kyiv Oblast, where Serhiy Buryak and Oleh Ishchenko, 39, a businessman who chairs a Valeriy Khoroshkovsky, a banker and a businessman, transnational corporation, the Russian-Ukrainian respectively, are running against each other. Petroleum Association, was elected in Chernivtsi with In Mykolayiv Oblast, Maksym Vynohradsky and 65 percent of the vote. Although he was registered as a Serhiy Mayboroda, a Communist, are running against candidate, during the campaign process there was some each other. In the Sumy region, there are two races: question as to whether he holds both Ukrainian and Eduard Kozin, an independent, is running against Russian citizenship; that issue has not yet been resolved. Leonid Mordovets, a member of the Socialist Party; and Ivan Kyrylenko, 39, the deputy head of the Volodymyr Petrenko, a Communist Party member, and Dnipropetrovske Regional Council of Deputies was Oleksander Stetsenko, a member of the Christian elected with 82 percent of the vote. Democratic Party, are pitted against each other. Only one candidate from Kyiv, Mykola Slavov, 69, the In Lviv, only one seat was vacant in these by-elec­ president of UkrRichFlot, was elected in this latest round tions, but the district was not able to muster enough con­ with almost 54 percent of the vote from the Podil district. stituents to take part in the voting on Sunday, December 10. Thus, the election process must start all over in this Run-offs scheduled district, where 15 candidates ran for one seat. In the run-offs, scheduled for December 23 or 24, there In that district, which saw one of the most heated races, will be 22 candidates on the ballots in 11 districts. Among Olha Kolinko, Ukraine's deputy procurator general, and them are seven members of the Communist Party of Ihor Pylypchuk, the chairman of the Anti-Corruption Ukraine, two members of Rukh, and one candidate each Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who has from the Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine, the been instrumental in investigating the baby-selling cases Peasants' Party, the Party for the Economic Rebirth of the in Lviv, came in first and second, respectively. Crimea and the Socialist Party of Ukraine. The other nine Just two days before the elections, Mr. Pylypchuk candidates are not members of any party. was shot and wounded in the shoulder as he approached Kyivans from three districts will be able to cast their the entrance to his apartment building. He remains in ballots for the following candidates. the hospital, and no suspects have yet been arrested in Holosivskiy District: Oleh Korban, a member of the this suspicious incident. However, some Lviv officials Peasant Party of Ukraine, who garnered 17 percent of think the shooting may have been related to Mr. vote, or Yaroslav Feodryn, a member of Rukh, who Pylypchuk's investigations. received 36 percent of the vote on Sunday. High costs and low voter turnout caused the Industrial District: Roman Zwarycz, an expatriate Ukrainian Parliament to postpone the elections of the Ukrainian American who gave up his U.S. citizenship in last 45 deputies for over a year. They passed that deci­ 1993 and is the director of the Center for Democratic sion on December 7, 1994. Reforms, a candidate from Rukh, who received almost The rigid electoral rules have put a tremendous strain I Marta Kolomayets 45 percent of the vote; or Oleksander Chubatenko, who on Ukraine's budget, with repeat balloting costing over Voting in the Podil District of Kyiv. does not belong to any party, and who received 34 per­ $70,000 (U.S.) in each district. No. 51 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1995 THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM Statement and appeal of the UNA Auditing Committee The Auditing Committee of the Ukrainian National Association — consisting of from the UNA's reserve, the delegates decided to increase the subscription fees for Stefan Hawrysz, William Pastuszek, Anatole Doroshenko and Iwan Wynnyk Svoboda and The Weekly for both members and non-members. Whether Svoboda (Stefania Hewryk was unable to participate) — in discharging its duties as stipulat­ remained a daily or was transformed into a weekly newspaper depended on this ed in the UNA By-Laws, during the period of October 21-25, 1995, conducted a increase. review of the operations and organizing status of this institution, including the oper­ In order to decide this matter, the General Assembly at its annual meeting in May ations of its publishing house, its Soyuzivka resort and the Ukrainian National voted to poll the readers via a special questionnaire asking whether they would Urban Renewal Corp. agree to pay a higher fee and keep the paper a daily, or if they would prefer to keep As a result of its review, the Auditing Committee affirms the following: the price the same but transform the paper into a weekly. In accordance with the 1. During the year under review, UNA assets grew by $1,744,936, reaching the wishes of 60 percent of the readers who returned the questionnaire, Svoboda total of $74,695,540. It should be noted that during the report period, a dividend remained a daily. totaling $503,873 was paid out to members and scholarships amounting to $58,850 In conjunction with historic events that take place daily in independent Ukraine, were awarded to students. Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly continue to provide the latest news. Speaking of the UNA's finances, it was affirmed that, in keeping with the deci­ 5. The UNA resort, Soyuzivka, which is directed by a professional manager, sion of the General Assembly that took into account the smaller income from John A. Flis, continues to fulfill its role as a Ukrainian cultural center, presenting investments, the Executive Committee was compelled to decrease the amounts allo­ performances of the best Ukrainian artists of the U.S. and Canada, as well as inde­ cated for the annual dividend paid to members and student scholarships as well as pendent Ukraine. Thus it is attractive to young and old alike. A very important to cut back on personnel in certain departments in order to stop a further drain on facet of the resort's activity is the tennis camps, dance workshops and, most the reserves. recently, the Plast camp for preschoolers (Tabir Ptashat), which this year attracted 2. The work of the Organizing Department, which is charged with taking steps 110 children age 4-6 during a two-week period. The UNA also annually funds that will result in the enrollment of new members, is the foundation of the two-week pedagogical courses for teachers of schools of Ukrainian studies in the UNA's growth. It was affirmed that during the period between January 1 and U.S. and Canada. September 30 of this year, 804 new members were enrolled for $14,622,000 of It would be remiss not to mention a significant change in service to Soyuzivka life insurance coverage. To this should be added 65 annuity certificates for near­ guests: guests now they may choose to stay at the resort and pay for accommoda­ ly SI million. Comparing these figures with those for January through September tions only, or they may choose accommodations plus a meal plan. The new system of 1994, one sees that this year $5 million more of insurance was sold; and this has proven to be successful. is laudable. During the report period, i.e. during the first nine months of this year, income at 3. The Recording Department, which is directed by Secretary Martha Lysko, Soyuzivka was $755,838, while expenses were $1,017,830, thus showing a deficit conducts wide-ranging correspondence with branch secretaries and serves them of $261,993. with expert advice regarding UNA insurance. This work has become more compli­ 6. As regards the UNA building, the Ukrainian National Urban Renewal Corp., cated due to the introduction of new classes of insurance, plus the new program during the annual meeting of the General Assembly held in May, the majority voted aimed at transforming 28,000 paid-up policies to single-premium life certificates. to sell this building because income from rentals does not cover all the costs of This effort is beneficial especially for younger members who can significantly taxes, administration and interest on loans. increase their insurance coverage, and for older members who do not need addition­ During the first six months of 1995, the UNURC collected rents totaling al medical examinations for this coverage. During the first two months of this pro­ $2,267,809 and other income of $3,004; expenses were $ 1,908,972. gram (September and October), more than 150 members took advantage of this The UNA's loan at this time stands at $10,927,530.25, while UNA members offer and the UNA gained $81,000 in membership dues. hold promissory notes for a total.of $6,301,691. It should also be noted that the Recording Department has begun to merge small­ The Auditing Committee calls on the patriotic Ukrainian community of the U.S. er branches with larger ones when needed, especially in cases of branch inactivity. and Canada to continue providing moral and material support in order to buttress During the report period, 18 branches were merged; their members can now expect the independence and sovereignty of the Ukrainian state. improved service. The Auditing Committee appeals to branch officers in the U.S. and Canada to 4. The review of publishing operations included the Ukrainian-language daily intensify their organizing efforts so that there is not a single branch that does not Svoboda, the English-language Ukrainian Weekly and the bookstore. It should be enroll at least one new member. Remember, new members guarantee the growth of mentioned that during the 33rd UNA Convention in Pittsburgh delegates spent our long-standing institution. much time on the fate of UNA publications, which were supported each year by a sizable UNA subsidy. In order to decrease losses and the disbursement of funds Auditing Committee of the Ukrainian National Association Chicago District holds seminar, honors activists Young UNA'er CHICAGO — The Chicago District UNA Secretary Martha Lysko con­ introduced new young assistant secre­ Committee of the Ukrainian National ducted the seminar, which was attended taries. Branch 259 Secretary Julia Guglik Association held a fall seminar to update also by Honorary Members of the brought her assistant secretary, Leigh secretaries on changes in UNA insurance General Assembly Stephen Kuropas and Pitula, and treasurer, Laurie Chico; plans. The meeting, geared toward branch Myron Kuropas, and former UNA Vice- Branch 399 Secretary Roman Prypchan secretaries and their assistants, was held in Presidentess Gloria Paschen. brought his assistant, Andrew Skyba. Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Cultural Center. Two of the branches in attendance (Continued on page 17)

Petro Chudolij, son of Lillianna and Alex Chudolij of Clifton, N.J., is a new mem­ ber of UNA Branch 182. He was enrolled by his grandmother Tatiana Chudolij. The little tyke promptly took advantage of one of the many fraternal benefits offered by the UNA: he is seen above enjoying his subscription to The Ukrainian Weekly (available to UNA members at a 33.3 percent discount off UNA award recipients of the Chicago District Committee with Secretary Martha Lysko, Advisor Stefko Kuropas, and the regular price of $60 per year). Honorary Members of the General Assembly Stephen and Myron Kuropas. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17,1995 No. 51 New Jersey's Millicent Fenwick THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY is honored and remembered fondly Watching and waiting "Where there is no vision, people will accomplish this challenging ta$k a com­ perish. There must be a balance of com^ mittee comprising New Jersey citizens, With Russia's parliamentary elections scheduled to take place on Sunday, the Millicent Fenwick Monument December 17, it is now widely acknowledged that the Communists are expect­ топ sense, humility and vision." - Millicent Fenwick 1910-1992 Association, was organized in June 1994. ed to prevail. That, of course, is bad news for Russia, as the party platform is The group raised the necessary funds and filled with Soviet-era concepts like zero unemployment, a halt to privatization by Bozhena Olshaniwsky accomplished its goal in one year. and state protection for certain industries. Millicent Fenwick worked all her life Walter Bodnar and this writer repre­ One of the reasons for this scenario is that Russia's reformers and democrats are sented Americans for Human Rights in splintered — so much so that Yelena Bonner, widow of Andrei Sakharov, has for the promotion of civil rights, con­ sumer interests/prison reform and eco­ Ukraine (AHRU) at the ceremony, which appealed to several of the parties, asking them to withdraw their candidates. "You included a dinner that evening^ They also are confusing the democratically oriented voters, arid you are making the victory of logical conservation. Communist and nationalist [read chauvinist] forces much easier," she wrote. Beginning in 1938 she served on the reminisced on the many occasions that A Communist victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections is bad news also for Bernardsville Board of Education and the they had the good fortune to work with the huge Russian Federation's wary neighbors. Comrade Gennadiy Zyuganov, Bernardsville Borough Council. In 1970- Mrs. Fenwick, especially in the defense leader of the Communist Party of Russia, pledged last week that he would scrap 1974 she served as New Jersey State of human rights and political prisoners in the agreement that led to the dissolution of the USSR and would work actively assemblywoman and as director of con­ the 1970s and 1980s. Among AHRU's toward restoration of the Soviet Union. He told a meeting of Communists from sumer affairs. archives, they have her hand-written let­ territories across the former Soviet Union that the Belovezhskaya agreement — At age (54 in 1975, she was elected to ters and notes that they treasure. They the so-called Slavic summit held December 7-8, 1991, that declared the USSR the United States House of Representatives reminisced how Mrs. Fenwick always had ceased to exist — had brought Russia to its knees, and he called for a refer­ where, as one of orily 16 congresswomen took time out of her busy schedule to see endum "to allow for the re-creation of all that was destroyed." out of 432 members, she served four them, talk to them, to personally advise That, coupled with rumblings in the Russian Federation about its role in the terms. them. "near abroad," as well as a military doctrine which refuses to acknowledge that President Ronald Reagan appointed We met Mrs. Fenwick for the first time new independent states on former Soviet territory can determine their own des­ her as United States ambassador to the at the beginning of her congressional career tiny, does not bode well for this region. As noted by an analyst writing in United Nations Food and Agricultural in 1975 when she was running for Prism, Russia's military doctrine (adopted in 1993) was calculated to put Organization in Rome; she served in that Congress. While working under the aus­ "pressure not only on Ukraine, but also on other former republics of the USSR post in 1983-1987. pices of the Committee for the Defense of which had refused to need Moscow's cries and were trying to build their own Mrs. Fenwick lived her life with Valentyn Moroz, we presented the plight of states independent of the opinions and intentions of the Kremlin leadership." courage and conviction. She said she Ukrainian political prisoners in the Soviet The doctrine "was directed toward creating and securing Russian dominant wanted to be remembered as one who Union and in particular the case of Mr. influence within the bounds of the former USSR, while assigning the other for­ was useful. Moroz to Mrs. Fenwick and then later to mer republics the role of obedient younger brother." An inscription recalling her wish can Nelson Rockefeller (then a presidential In addition, Prism reports that the Russian General Staff is now working out be found on the plaque next to the life- candidate who came to Morristown in his a new military doctrine, taking into account possible expansion of NATO size bronze statue of Mrs. Fenwick erect­ private plane). This resulted in numerous toward the east. Prism goes on to note: this document envisions "the redeploy­ ed in her honor in the middle of the town efforts by Mrs. Fenwick on behalf of Mr. ment of troops, including nuclear forces, to Russia's western border, and the square in Bernardsville, N.J. The unveil­ Moroz - and in his ultimate release. sending of troops to the Baltic states if they join NATO." ing of this monument took place on a Mrs. Fenwick was a feisty warrior for All of which should be cause for concern, if not alarm, as the world watches sunny Sunday afternoon, October 15. human rights issues. During one of her and waits to see who will take charge in Russia. More than 300 people attended this visits to the Soviet Union she asked to unveiling, including members of the see Mr. Moroz personally. She was told local, county, state and federal govern­ by the authorities that there was no such ments. Mayor Hugh Fenwick, the late person. When she challenged this refusal *Mrs. Fenwick's son, led a long list of by informing the authorities in which speakers which included New Jersey prison and in which cell he was being Turning the pages back.. Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and Rep. held, they called her "insane." The con- Marge Roukema. gresswoman publicized this on her return Speakers reiterated that long before to the U.S. and gained much mileage there was women's lib or breaking of with it. The ongoing efforts of Dr. Josef Oleskow (Osyp Oleskiv), a glass, there was Millicent Fenwick. They A special public meeting was held in professor of agronomy from Lviv, to redirect the flow of called her the "conscience of Congress," her honor sponsored by the Morristown Galician Ukrainian emigration from Brazil to Canada were lauded her as an inspiration to all and Chapter of the Ukrainian Congress noted on December 12, 1895, in the Ukrainian American newspaper Svoboda. The quoted her many poignant statements, i.e., Committee of America. Rep. Fenwick article was a reprint of an account Oleskow had submitted to the Lviv daily Dilo. It "Success is not the measure of a human praised the benefits of the Helsinki noted that on November 14, 1895, a public meeting was held in Lviv to discuss the being or of an idea's transcendence. Effort Accords to a chorus of protests from vexing emigration problem. The meeting succeeded in establishing an emigrant aid is the measure;" "We are all in this togeth­ Ukrainians who deemed it detrimental to committee. More importantly, it brought to the fore how bad matters had become and er;" "With years we should be sagging not Ukraine since it confirmed the post-World helped to focus public debate about how to deal with the mass of humanity blindly aging." "I'd like to be remembered as War II borders. She admonished setting off "into the unknown world." someone who tried to be useful." They Ukrainian human^rights activists and "Emigration fever" ("emigratsiyna hariachka") had gripped Galicia in the early also reminisced about personal relation­ members of the community for being too 1890s. The most prominent destination for those abandoning their meager plots was ships and encounters with her. soft and weak in their protests and actions. Brazil, which at that time was experiencing a labor shortage in the wake of its aboli­ The monument cost $80,000, which She told them to be firm and forthright, tion of slavery in 1888. Unscrupulous steamship agents had whipped up interest in was contributed by private donors. To and not to take "no" for an answer. this South American destination with promises of cheap land and inflated accounts of Another one of Mrs. Fenwick's impor­ tant accomplishments in the field of the comfortable life to be led there. The reality was considerably grimmer. Bozhena Olshaniwsky is president of This state of affairs troubled the idealistic Oleskow. In March 1895, he wrote to the Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine. (Continued on page 18) Canadian Department of the Interior requesting information about that country's suitabil­ ity for mass agricultural emigration and indicating his willingness to go there to survey potential settlement sites. His request was greeted with enthusiasm, for Canada had long been seeking to populate its prairie provinces. Oleskow obtained an endorsement from the Prosvita Society for his fact-finding mission and prepared a brochure, "Pro Vil'ni Zemli" (About Free Lands, published by Prosvita), which provided a detailed account of the suitability of Canada for emigration. On August 12, Oleskow, accompanied by Ivan Dorundiak (a well-known peasant that the Prosvita Society had recommended join in the tour so that a separate opinion could be offered), arrived in Montreal. He toured mainly in the prairie provinces, but managed also to visit several sites in British Columbia. He was favorably impressed with what he saw and heard. On October 5, 1895, he set sail back to Ukraine from Montreal. Upon his return Oleskow organized the public meeting mentioned earlier. He also prepared an account of his journey, "O Emigratsiyi" (About Emigration), which he had published in December 1896 by the M. Kachkovsky Society (Prosvita's Russophile rival) in a bid to get his message out to the broadest public. It was a sensation, in effect the "book of the year'* in Galicia. The results of Oleskow's efforts soon became clear. On April 30, 1896, the first group of emigrants following his advice arrived in Quebec. They would be followed by thousands upon thousands more in the years to come. Sources: Kaye, Vladimir J., "Early Ukrainian Settlements in Canada, 1895-1900: Dr. Josef Oleskow's Role in the Settlement of the Canadian Northwest" (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964); Swyripa, Frances and Makuch, Andrij, "Ukrainian Canadian Content in the Rep. Millicent Fenwick speaks at a press conference on March 18,1976, to intro­ Newspaper Svoboda, 1893-1904," (Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Researchduc e a resolution she and Rep. Edward Koch (left) were introducing in defense of Report No. 7, (1985); and Martynowych, Orest, "Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Period,Valenty n Moroz. On the right is Andrew Michniak of Human Rights Research Inc. 1891-1924" (Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press,-1991). (Moroz Defense Committee, Washington). No. 51 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1995

LETTERS TO THE ED/TOR CANADA COURIER after only a few minutes? And no, this is Let Ukraine's not the result of a policy of by Christopher Guly "Englishification" in the United States, citizens decide nor would the situation be much differ­ Dear Editor: ent if Ukrainian were alive and well in Ukraine. How well do American citizens Tamara Koropet'ska's first (and now of German extraction speak German? The many faces of sainthood infamous) letter spawned a multitude of Clearly, we have a long and difficult oftentimes bitter responses from mem­ task ahead of us to support the restora­ Beyond its publishers - the Ukrainian bied the Vatican to beatify Metropolitan bers cf the Ukrainian diaspora in the tion of the Ukrainian language to what Catholic Brotherhood of Canada (UCBC's) Sheptytsky as early as 1950, the process West. Unfortunately, her second letter many of us feel should be its rightful seniors' club - one person who especially stopped in 1968 when Paul VI offered (November 26) demonstrates she still position in an independent Ukraine. hopes the book, "Words of the Servant of the Ukrainian Catholic archbishop his does not understand the tenuous position Moreover, it is not wrong to encourage God: Metropolitan Sheptytsky," sells is the only distinction to date. of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine. A the Ukrainian government to establish a Rev. Andriy Chirovsky. But some members of the community recent manifesto by Ukraine's intelli­ policy that gives preferential treatment to The director of the Ottawa-based don't feel they have to wait for Rome to gentsia (The Weekly, November 19) in the Ukrainian language. Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky confer saintly status on Ukraine's 6-foot-7- fact warns of an increasing threat to However, it cannot be emphasized Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at inch "gentle giant." The Rev. Chirovsky Ukrainian language and culture. Ms. enough that Ukraine and the Ukrainian St. Paul University heads an academic suggests that other Ukrainian saints, such Koropetska should therefore not be sur­ language do not exist simply to satisfy center that bears the Ukrainian prelate's as Prince Volodymyr and his grandmother, prised at the response, nor should she the ideas of people who live abroad and name, and the thesis of his 1990 doctor­ Olha, were never canonized, but were expect her version of "language rights" given that status by the ancient, Eastern-rite who have not endured that which the cit­ ate in theology examined the mystical to be universally accepted by those who authority of the Church. "Thousands of izens of Ukraine have. Past injustices wisdom of the metropolitan. rightfully fear for the continued exis­ people are praying to, not praying for, against the Ukrainian language and its "His gift of gentleness entered into so tence of our language. Metropolitan Sheptytsky, today," he said. people notwithstanding, this still may not many different facets of the life of And while Ukrainian Catholics are Although I may not be "politically warrant the imposition of foreigners' Ukrainian Catholics," explained the Rev. 4 campaigning for Andrey Sheptytsky's correct ' for stating the following, I hold expectations. We may encourage and Chirovsky. "He loved his people deeply, cause, they might wish to consider Josyf firmly to it: Ukraine at this moment can­ support them, but we should also permit and you just have to look at the breadth Kobernytsky-Dychkowsky Slipyj's. not afford the luxury of "equal rights" the citizens of Ukraine to make their own of the pastoral letters he issued to see Another physically imposing figure, for all languages - as if it were self-evi­ decisions. This is the very least they can how. They covered everything from dent that any language has "rights" in the Metropolitan Sheptytsky's successor vir­ expect from us. hygiene to the steps to follow in leading classical sense of the word. Since any to [Ukrainian] nationhood." tually administered the see in pectore, language in all its various manifestations Alexander R. Sich Roman Maria Alexander Sheptytsky, while serving time in Soviet concentra­ (including song) is the major transmitter London born a count in western Ukraine in 1865, tion camps. He, too, might be worthy of of culture for a given people, it follows went on to become metropolitan of Lviv, sainthood, said the Rev. Chirovsky. that it is the existence of the Ukrainian where he died in 1944 at the age of 79. "While Metropolitan Sheptytsky was national identity that is threatened in the Ukraine suffers Before his father allowed him to become gentle, Patriarch [which is what the car­ current situation. As such, the Ukrainian a Basilian monk, the young Sheptytsky dinal and his followers called him, language deserves preferential treatment from low self-esteem served in the Austrian Army, earned a though Rome would not] Josyf could be in Ukraine - this is only natural and doctorate of laws (he later received two one of the most ornery creatures on the right. Anything less will eventually lead Dear Editor: others in theology and philosophy), and face of the planet. But like John the to cultural suicide. Tamara Koropet'ska is the one who traveled throughout Europe. He was Baptist, who had an awful personality To be fair to her, however, Ms. doesn't get the message (November 26). ordained to the priesthood in 1892. and would refer to people as a 'brood of vipers,' Jesus said there was no greater Koropetska does have at least one impor­ How would we function without the Throughout his episcopal career, which man than John. People confuse etiquette tant point to make. It is clear, as she con­ English language in the United States? began in 1899 when he was consecrated with sainthood. Just because someone is tends in her second letter, that the Could we go through the educational bishop of Stanyslaviv (today's Ivano- a nice guy doesn't make him a saint. And Ukrainian language has benefited from the system without knowing English? Could Frankivske), the metropolitan blended phil­ just because someone is not so nice a fact that English is not the official language we work in professions or work for cor­ anthropy with the pastoral process the Rev. guy, that doesn't qualify him either," said of the United States. As such, Ms. porations or the U.S. government or in Chirovsky celebrates. As a count, he trans­ the Rev. Chirovsky. Koropetska is correct to assert that universities without knowing English? In ferred some of the wealth from his family's American citizens should not dictate to France, could one function professional­ funds into the construction of hospitals, The Ottawa professor got to know their Ukrainian citizen employees in ly without knowing French, in Germany orphanages and co-ops. As a pastor, Cardinal Slipyj, who died in Rome in Ukraine what language should be spoken without German, in Poland without Metropolitan Sheptytsky spent much time 1984 at the age of 92, as a student. on the job. Moreover, there are indeed "bet­ Polish, in Hungary without Hungarian, with pen and paper in hand. Despite the white-bearded man's crusty ter and less offensive ways to encourage the etc.? That is normal. During the first Soviet occupation of nature, the 39-year-old priest noted that UvSe of Ukrainian among the citizens of What is abnormal is the situation in Ukraine between 1939 and 1941, his pas­ he would "die for that man." Ukraine." That these less obtrusive ways Ukraine, where the citizens and the gov­ toral letters urged resistance to atheism. Worrying that polarizing the two great demand more effort, patience, resources, ernment function by using their neigh­ During the subsequent Nazi occupation, metropolitans' personalities belittle their and, of course, a better command of the bor's language, afraid or ashamed to use he sent a letter to German Gestapo leader legacy, the Rev. Chirovsky added, "I Ukrainian language on our part, is by no their mother tongue. This abnormal situ­ Heinrich Himmler condemning the per­ have dedicated my life to seeing that means an argument against them. ation is what concerns us. secution of Jews. their vision and their legacy be put to And this leads to my own point. I, for We know that the Russian language, But the UCBC is focusing more on the work in our Church, for the sake of the one, am concerned about the virulent literature, history and culture are held in metropolitan's spiritual writings. Church's renewal. They are the two guid­ tone of some of the responses to Ms. high esteem in Ukraine, instilled in them Specifically, two works, "On Prayer," ing lights of my life." Koropetska's first letter, and suspect she by the educational system. But what written in 1932, and "The Gift of Indeed, the heroism of both Ukrainian may have brought to the surface the about Ukraine's own language, litera­ Pentecost," penned in 1937, form the primates - one a Servant of God, the other deeper angst many Ukrainian Americans ture, history, culture? The little the peo­ basis of the new Canadian-printed tome. considered a martyr-like Confessor of the feel over their own imperfect command ple were taught was done to implant A group of men involved with the broth­ Faith - speaks for itself in both their of the Ukrainian language. shame and a sense of the worthlessness erhood, along with two Ukrainian ecclesiastical and secular worlds. For example, it never ceases to amaze of their own culture. This seems to con­ Catholic priests in Britain, devoted two me how some in the diaspora, who can tinue even now in independent Ukraine. and a half years to translate the essays hardly finish a single sentence in This concerns and worries us! from Ukrainian to English into a 200- Ukrainian without a mistake or an Russian is thriving well in Ukraine page, illustrated hard-cover book. Americanism slipping in, feel themselves without Western support - the great They printed 1,200 copies, which sell perfectly justified to dictate to the citi­ majority of periodicals and books are for $15 plus postage, and have distributed zens of another country what language published in Russian. This is abnormal 800 to English-speaking Latin-rite Roman they should speak. How many of us in and it worries us. Can a nation with low Catholic hierarchs around the world. the United States, especially those who self-esteem survive? "We see this as being a stepping stone were bom here, have struggled to sustain to declare Metropolitan Sheptytsky a Valentlna Limonchenko a conversation fully in Ukrainian without saint," explained Michael Cybulsky, one Arlington, Va. reverting (at least partially) to English of the book's translators. Rumors abound that Pope John Paul II may use next year's 400th anniversary of the Union of Brest - Notice to publishers and authors when Eastern Ukrainian Orthodox bishops It is The Ukrainian Weekly's policy to run news items and/or reviews of newly published from the Kyivan region pledged their alle­ books, booklets and reprints, as well as records and premiere issues of periodicals, only after giance to Rome - to fast track the former metropolitan of Lviv from Servant of God receipt b/ the editorial offices of a copy of the materia! in question. status to sainthood. (Ironical!), і he Sec o<" News items sent without a copy of the new release will not be published. LMV, which Metropo'itvi Sbeptysky p Send new releases and information (where publication may be purchased, cost, etc.) to: The administered from i "f: tc 1 ;4L did not joh r one urJ і к cen*i,r\ later.1» Editor, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ 07302. ^ithcuch Ukramiar C tlhoscs ha^ ]QD- THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1995 No. 51

turned over to us." (OMRI Daily Digest) dice that the broadcast of this segment Newsbriefs Edmonton TV station... may have caused the Ukrainian commu­ Booze у tobacco merchants drag feet (Continued from page 2) (Continued from page 1) nity" and undertook not to rebroadcast it. When pressed to do so by the KYIV — According to information of other racial, ethnic or religious groups. Serpent Island wrangle continues Canadian Radio-Television and issued by the Ministry of Foreign "While not involved in any way with Telecommunications Commission KYIV—Ukrainian officials are dis­ Economic Affairs, Ukrainian manufactur­ the production of the program, CFRN (CRTC), Global also agreed to take full mayed by recent comments by Romanian ers and merchants of alcoholic beverages television would like to apologize to the responsibility for its programming and Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu that and tobacco products have until December Ukrainian community in Alberta for any 4 institute a policy of pre-broadcast review. his government is considering taking its 15 to obtain certificates (licenses), allow­ harm or embarrassment the 60 Minutes' claim on a tiny Black Sea island, now ing them to import or export such prod­ program may have created." In addition to the apology, Mr. Jacuta part of Ukraine, to the International ucts, reported Ukrainian Television on The CBS program had suggested there said Edmonton's CFRN-TV also under­ Court of Justice at The Hague, interna­ December 12. Although the procurement is a climate of intolerance in Ukraine, took to give the Ukrainian community tional agencies reported on December 6. of these licenses is mandatory, a large por­ and in a concluding statement, "60 equal time to balance the detrimental Ukrainian Foreign Minister Hennadiy tion of those firms affected by the require­ Minutes" correspondent Morley Safer effect of the CBS broadcast. Mr. Jacuta Udovenko told reporters that Ukraine ments has not yet complied, which may implied that Ukrainians are "genetically said CFRN would produce a program will not make any territorial concessions cause them serious difficulties in the near anti-Semitic." highlighting positive aspects of life in and that it has decided to recall its future. (Respublika) Following the offending broadcast in Ukraine. ambassador in Bucharest for consulta­ 1994, Ukrainians throughout North "[The Alberta UCC] will provide tions. Romania claims Serpent Island Date of USSR's demise passes quietly America and officials of Ukraine's diplo­ CFRN with information and contacts," was unjustly turned over by Communist Mr. Jacuta said, "and assist them in MOSCOW — The fourth anniversary matic missions in the U.S. and Canada, authorities to the USSR in 1948. preparing a show along the lines of the of the Belovezhskaya agreement signed filed protests with CBS and the various According to Ukraine, there are poten­ 'Beautiful Face of Ukraine,' which will by Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, which other networks and affiliates who carried tially lucrative oil and gas deposits off likely involve sending on-air anchors in brought and end to the USSR, was the "Ugly Face" segment. the coast of the island. Romanian claims the spring, and will likely focus around marked on December 8 by a small group The Edmonton station's apology was on land annexed by the Soviet govern­ five years of Ukrainian independence, of demonstrators in the city center. The hailed as a victory by Dmytro Jacuta, ment and now part of Ukraine have long freedoms, minority rights and favorable organizers, Working Russia, had antici­ president of the Ukrainian Canadian held up the signing of a border agreement changes." pated a crowd of 20,000, NTV reported Congress's Alberta Provincial Council, between the two countries. Since Mr. At press time, officials of CFRN-TV that day, but attendance was smaller. who had lobbied for the statement. Udovenko's comments, Ukrainian could not be reached to confirm this Stanislau Shushkevich, former chairman Mr. Jacuta said this was the first time President Leonid Kuchma has reaffirmed arrangement. of the Belarusian Parliament, revealed a full on-air apology for content of the Ukraine's intentions to hold onto the Mr. Jacuta attributed the success of the that he had suggested inviting Mikhail program was aired by a TV station. The island. (OMRI Daily Digest) Alberta UCC's effort to "persistence" Gorbachev to the meeting, but Russian Alberta UCC president added that and ongoing pressure on the station and President Boris Yeltsin vetoed the idea. CFRN-TV's apology shows "there is no the CRTC. "When we got to a stage Few fleet officers to serve Ukraine (OMRI Daily Digest) reason why a similar apology can't be broadcast by every TV station that where we requested public meetings with KYIV — The Ukrainian Navy's press Second reactor shut down at Zaporizhzhia showed the 'Ugly Face' program," and CFRN, we got movement," Mr. Jacuta service reported on December 10 that encouraged Ukrainians throughout North said. Ukraine's Naval Commission began to KYIV — Another mishap at the America to keep up the pressure on CBS. "Initially, the reaction was 'well it's receive garrisons and weapons of the ex- Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has shut Earlier in the year, The Global not that bad, and it is balanced,' " Mr. Soviet Black Sea Fleet the previous day, down reactor No. 5 only days after a leak Can West network, whose affiliates car­ Jacuta said, "but eventually, they came to Interfax reported. While it noted that of radioactive steam prompted manage­ ried the offending segment in Winnipeg, agree with us that the show as a whole "several officers" asked for permission to ment to close the station's first reactor, Toronto, Saskatoon, Regina, Vancouver was not well produced, did not reflect the continue their service in the Ukrainian Interfax-Ukraine and Reuters reported on and the Maritimes, issued a written apolo­ current reality in Ukraine and as such Navy, Russian sources told a different December 7. The automatic shutdown gy to complainants "for any hurt or preju­ was bad programming." story. ITAR-TASS reported the same day occurred after the water level fell in three that only three out of 200 officers and 19 steam generators in the fifth reactor. The out of 300 warrant officers wanted to shutdown within one week of two of the of $2,000 is miniscule, in his opinion, the stay with the Ukrainian fleet. It quoted a plant's six reactors, which provide 33 per­ FCC fines... fact that the FCC has told WUSA that it Ukrainian spokesman as saying what cent of Ukraine's nuclear energy, now (Continued from page 1) must take whatever steps are necessary to happened has been a "real shock" for threatens the power supply to consumers to the UACN complaint that it had not make the public inspection files complete Ukraine and that there is "no one to serve as energy demand reaches peak winter stuck to the letter of the law, which will give the UACN a chance to deter­ on the ships and sites that have been levels. (OMRI Daily Digest) requires that a station keep on hand let­ mine just what happened to the many ters sent to it regarding its programming, viewers' letters. but maintained that by sending the corre­ "I strongly suspect that these letters spondences to the network it had main­ either were trashed by WUSA, or they tained the "spirit of the commission's were sent to CBS where they were rules." trashed," said Mr. Belendiuk. "WUSA The FCC has given WUSA 30 days has never provided evidence that the let­ "to show, in writing, why a forfeiture ters were sent, and CBS has never shown penalty should not be imposed or should that the letters were received and cata­ be reduced, or to pay the [fine]." logued." Arthur Belendiuk, counsel for the He said he will appeal the relatively Ukrainian-American Community Network, low amount of the forfeiture, and that the said the ruling is a determination by the UACN will be monitoring WUSA to FCC that WUSA is guilty of improprieties. make sure that in fact the station places "This is clearly a black mark on their those letters in its public inspection file record, and that stays with them." that the group determined were missing He added that although the forfeiture back in February.

material throughout Ukraine, territories of Chornobyl memo... the former Soviet Union and Europe. (Continued from page 2) Reactors 1 and 3 continue to provide Ukraine with 5 percent of its energy Although the text of the memorandum needs, but the first reactor is scheduled to still is unavailable to the press, Mr. be decommissioned next year. Kostenko said further implementation of While the West views the physical the points mentioned in the document decommissioning of the power station as would come into effect through bilateral an answer to most of the problems, Mr. agreements between Ukraine and the G-7 Kostenko said that with the decommis­ countries. sioning "a number of problems will start "The size of the funds will become cropping up for Ukraine," including the clear only after we sign the various transformation of the plant into an envi­ agreements," he said, adding that two- ronmentally safe system, the settlement thirds of the $3.2 billion (U.S.) men­ of the issue of the sarcophagus covering tioned in the document will be given as the fourth reactor, cleaning up the credits to modernize the Ukrainian power Chornobyl zone and the reburial of cont­ engineering industry. aminated materials from temporary bur­ According to Mr. Kostenko, Ukraine is ial grounds. not planning to commission the second The year 1996 will be a decisive one power unit at the Chomobyl station, which for Ukraine, for Ukraine will see how the was damaged by fire in 1992; the fourth implementation of the Chornobyl pro­ power unit was destroyed after an explo­ gram will work, and how much money sion in 1986, which spewed radioactive Ukraine will receive, he concluded. No. 51 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1995 One Floridian's dream: a Ukrainian showcase at Disney World by Christopher Guly six years, the green light to commence. It's certainly not a case of the Boston- OTTAWA — First came the giant born Mr. Harper, who serves as the co- pysanka at Vegreville, Alberta. Then the founding president of the Ukrainian Project hulking mosquito at Komarno, Manitoba. Fund (UPF), being short on enthusiasm. He Now, some enterprising Floridians are has already begun to promote the pavilion vying to outdo their Ukrainian Canadian project on the Internet and plans to hold a innovators and build a Kozak roller fund-raising benefit next April featuring coaster ride at Disney World. Winnipeg's Rusalka Dance Ensemble. Taras Harper hopes that, one day soon, Beyond pushing for Disney-styled, the 40,000 daily visitors to Disney's roller coaster Kozaks, Mr. Harper and the EPCOT Center will be able to wander UPF are also in negotiation with a major around a Ukrainian pavilion, which corporation to develop a satellite pro­ would become Disney's 12th internation­ gram called, "News from Ukraine." The al center. Much like the Norwegian four-year-old fund also remains active in pavilion's alpine ride, which includes sending shipments of medical supplies to mechanical "animatronic" forest elves Ukraine three times a year. scaring passengers on the dip down, the Ukrainian pavilion will feature a roller Other projects in the works include coaster titled 'The Ride of the Kozaks." "Satellite Social Studies," a potential joint Mr. Harper, 28, who works as an project with AT&T, which would link 100 instructor for the Disney Institute's televi­ Canadian and American classrooms with sion and video program in Orlando, says their Ukrainian counterparts through state- of-the-art video conferencing technology. the ride is intended to provide a history of Taras Harper, president of the Ukrainian Project Fund, on the set of the Another is a massive advertising campaign Ukraine. Like Norway's, Ukraine's will Ukrainian sitcom "Shcho Novoho?" have animated characters, but their's will to promote tourism to Ukraine. be tough Kozaks, not shrinking elves. 'There are a lot of wonderful beaches, signed an agreement to produce a full 13- "When I grew up in Ambridge, Pa., all "The Kozaks will ride along with the pas­ ski resorts and beautiful architectural episode series, with production expected the Ukrainians in town were able to walk sengers when the roller coaster is moving attractions in Ukraine that no one knows to commence in late 1996. to the local Ukrainian club," reminisces at a slow pace," he explains. about," said Mr. Harper. But much like the pavilion concept, good Paul Galadza, a 42-year-old executive The pavilion will also feature a dine-in Another project is a Ukrainian-lan­ ideas need "hroshi." So Mr. Harper, who chef who was lived in Miami for 20 restaurant and a take-out food stand, both of guage educational children's program already has a pilot episode of the series in years. "Now it takes between 25 and 45 which will offer hungry visitors the choice called "The Play Yard," which will fea­ the can, is trying to raise funds. He's chosen minutes to get anywhere." between such fare as varenyky, holubtsi and ture puppets performing in traditional to do it Ukrainian-style: a raffle. But Florida's Ukrainian community, quasi-American delicacies such as the Ukrainian apartment play yards. In April, four four-day passes to Disney which is estimated at close to 50,000 "Baba burger." An onion-domed church, Since Mr. Harper's background World, a Sony Walkman (thanks to Donna people, has seemed to handle its half cen­ replicas of the mighty Carpathian includes television production, it's not Yarus, Sony's VIP pavilion manager at tury of adjustment reasonably well. They Mountains and three gift shops, which will surprising he also plans a Ukrainian sit­ Disney/MGM Studios), and an auto­ have churches and clubs, and an active sell crystal, pysanky and woodcarvings, will com, "Shcho Novoho?" ("What's graphed script of the 1991 film, "City 36-member dance troupe, the Ukrainian round out the $10-mi 11 ion-plus exhibition. New?"), which will present a day in the Slickers" (courtesy of another UPF board Dancers of Miami. Former Radio City Sounds like a great idea. The only prob­ life of a Ukrainian family who have member and Oscar-winning star of the Music Hall diva, Winnipeg-born Olga lem is that Disney has yet to give Mr. recently joined their sister to live in the motion picture, Jack Palace, aka Vladimir Pavlova, who directs a Ukrainian choir, Harper, one of its employees for the past United States. UT-3 in Kyiv has already Palaniuk), will go to lucky winners. Veselka, lives in Coral Gables. The trouble is, getting people in the But Ukrainian Floridians don't have Sunshine State to actually sell the tickets is animated Kozaks, something Mr. Harper a project in itself. Ukrainian Floridians, desperately wants them to enjoy. All he like their southern Californian colleagues, needs now is some cash, and maybe one spend a great deal of time in their cars. more idea.

lowed a trail already well-trodden by Russia's largest... descendants of the Kuban Cossack Host. (Continued from page 2) Among them, the late Antin Chorny, who services. But the question of such provi­ once entertained with his bandura in sioning - still grossly inadequate - can­ packed Pros vita concert halls in Buenos not be seriously resolved, Ukrainian Aires or before fellow Argentine workers leaders in Russia have repeatedly empha­ in his factory workplace. The bandura, as sized, until the federal government pass­ one proud descendant of Kuban es a law on minorities. Cossacks, a citizen of Russia, proclaimed Meanwhile, Ukrainian communities in a few years ago, was once played more Russia have steadily amplified their links widely in the Kuban than in Ukraine. with Ukrainians in the West, ties which can only be expected to improve with their admission into the WCU. Some How to reach Ukrainians in the Far East have adopted their counterparts in Australia as the THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY model to which to aspire. Ukrainians in Magadan have initiated ties with MAIN OFFICE (editorial, subscriptions Ukrainians in Alaska with whom they and advertising departments): hope to jointly publish a newspaper. The Ukrainian Weekly Such Pacific Rim contacts have paral­ 30 Montgomery Street lels elsewhere in the Federation. Jersey City, NJ 07302 Ukrainians in the western parts of Russia, for instance, consider the Phone:(201)434-0237 Ukrainian community in Canada, which fax:(201)451-5486 some have personally visited, and which operates within an official multicultural KYIV PRESS BUREAU: framework, as a standard to emulate. The Ukrainian Weekly Emigration will also serve as a person­ 11 Karl Marx Street - Apt. 33 al bridge between communities. Take the Kyiv, Ukraine 252001 case of the daughter of a Ukrainian cul­ Ukraine tural activist in the Kuban who was liv­ phone/fax: (44) 229-1906 ing in Vilnius and in 1992 was in Moscow preparing her papers to emigrate TORONTO PRESS BUREAU: to Argentina. Her father rhetorically told Ukrainian National Association a Toronto Ukrainian newspaper that he The Ukrainian Weekly Press Bureau has "never been to Russia" because his 1 Eva Road -Suite 402 own environment is Ukrainian. He Etobicoke, Ontario M9C 4Z5 admitted, however, that not too many of Canada his neighbors in the region shared that Phone:(416)626-1999 opinion. fax: (416) 626-3841 His daughter, should she ever have A model of the proposed Ukrainian pavilion at Disney World. made the trip to Argentina, will have fol­ 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1995 No. 51 Ukraine's rock 'n' roll autumn by Khristina Lew Rolling Stone guitarist Mick Taylor and his All Star Blues Band and guitarist LVIV — The cultural thaw in the last Snowy White, who played with Pink years of the Soviet Union spawned a Floyd during "The Wall" tour. thriving underground music scene in Across the country in Lviv, the Ukraine. Independence has literally oblast's Ukrainian Cultural Fund and the pulled alternative groups out of base­ newspaper Express launched the second ments and set them center stage. Alternative Festival of Independent Music festivals like Chervona Ruta Music on September 15-17. The two-day (1989, 1991, 1993, 1995), Vyvykh concert, held on an indoor tennis court at (1990, 1992) and the Alternative (1994, the Spartak athletic club, catered to 1995) were springboards for many of these bands into the mainstream. Some Ukraine's young people and attracted broke up and were replaced by new ones, 5,000. while others began recording albums The show on September 16 featured bankrolled by private individuals and the hard-core band Rokovi Yaytsia, Western interests. formed in Donetske Oblast in 1994, Music industry standards for the rock whose lead singer performed in little cn' roll genre have yet to move into more than his briefs; five-year-old 999 Ukraine. Few record companies outside from Lviv whose alternative sound of the National Audio Company, which resembles a ride on a circus carousel; and recorded pop diva Iryna Bilyk's latest Plach Yeremiyi, voted Ukraine's No. 1 band in 1995 by the Kyiv music maga­ album, exist. The payment of royalties 4 for music broadcast over the airwaves is zine "Out." (The straight-up rock n' roll unheard of. of Plach Yeremiyi, formed in 1990, Ukraine has no record stores that sell blew out power for 10 minutes that contemporary rock music per se. Saturday night.) Cassettes may be purchased at street On Sunday, five-year-old Mertviy kiosks, but the selection consists mostly Piven, also from Lviv, took to the stage of Western fare — Eagles albums record­ and played its grunge set to poetry. ed in the 1970s and pirated recordings of Komu Vnyz, together since 1988, trained bands currently popular in the U.S., like in from the Yarmarok in Kyiv to play Nirvana. haunting art rock rivaled by chants for Most new music gets introduced into the crowd's favorite, the song the mainstream via the tried old tradition "Nachtigall." The British band The of taping a tape off a friend. Bands that Ukrainians, which incorporates do sell cassette tapes charge 200,000 kar- Ukrainian folk elements into its rock V bovantsi, which is slightly more than $1. roll, closed the Alternative. The only time bands see any substantial From September 18 to 24, Komu amount of money is when they play con­ Vnyz and Plach Yeremiyi toured Lviv certs or record music for television com­ Oblast with the "Youth for Christ" tour, mercials. which culminated in an outdoor concert The only way to hear new music is to set against illuminated gargoyles in front inhabit obscure cafes or, more likely, go of St. George Cathedral in Lviv. to concerts. While much of Ukrainian contempo­ Autumn appears to herald the rock rary music cannot be considered "alterna­ concert circuit in Ukraine. On September tive" in the Western sense of the word, 14-15, the International Music Yarmarok for Ukraine's new generation of music in Kyiv, which imported 70 representa­ aficionados it is fresh. Guitarist Peter tives from musical instrument firms in Solowka of The Ukrainians, whose father the United States, Japan and Europe, was born in Ukraine, complained that showcased Kyiv bands Aktus, Braty most of the music he heard at the Blues, Komu Vnyz, Vsiak Vypadok and Alternative copied sounds from the West Lviv's Plach Yeremiyi playing their and was unoriginal. Western instruments. Tell that to the thousands of Kurt The Yarmarok (fair), organized by the Cobain-shorn, bell-bottom clad teenagers Ukrainian-British music joint venture waving T-shirts and flags at the Komora, also put on concerts by ex- Alternative's smoke-filled Spartak.

Braty Blues jams at the International Music Yarmarok in Kyiv.

PSach Yeremiyi (left) and Komu Vnyz (right) wrap up the "Youth for Christ" tour at St. George Cathedral in Lviv. No. 51 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1995 Ukrainian artist finds his niche in Prague by Andrij Wynnyckyj PRAGUE — Make your way through the narrow pic­ turesque streets of Prague's Stare Mesto (Old Town), and you'll be in for a pleasant surprise — the thriving gallery run by expatriate Ukrainian painter Roman Zuzuk. Situated in a wedge-like space on Jilska Street, it boasts vaulted ceilings, large windows and bright light­ ing. The sign outside says, ''Exhibition of East European Modern Art — Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian — Roman Zuzuk and His Friends." Mr. Zuzuk, 34, was born in the village of Selets, near Ivano-Frankivske. He studied at the Symferopif Art School in 1980-1984, then trained in icon restoration at the Kyiv Academy of Fine Arts. His first individual show was held at Kyiv University in 1989. His first in Prague came in 1991, at the RAPID gallery. The painter has also had exhibitions in Germany (Berlin, Frankfurt-on-Main and Worpsvede) and Italy (Florence), and is planning to attend the upcoming Biennale that is to be held in Barcelona next year. ! Andrij Wynnyckyj The friends are a group of Bulgarian artists, Boyko Roman Zuzuk in front of the entrance to the gallery he runs in Prague. Asparukhov, Nikolai Zlatiev, Bistra Bakalova, and.a Russian, Valeria Yelts. "I met all of the Bulgarians when I first came," Mr. Zuzuk said, "they had already INTERVIEW: Roman Zuzuk, artist, art promoter been living and working here, earning a living in the street, in the market, on the Karlovy Bridge." Ms. Yelts While doing his best to be on vacation in Prague, The What did you restore? is a friend of Marina, Mr. Zuzuk's wife, an architect. Weekly's Torontonian, Andrij Wynnyckyj, stumbled on Icons, mainly. an impromptu assignment — to put the spotlight on a It's easy to see how Mr. Zuzuk makes friends: he is Individual works, or on iconostases? Did you spe­ taciturn and modest, yet affable and workmanlike. local artistic Ukrainian success story, Roman Zuzuk. cialize in a particular century or period? Through his industriousness and a canny survival The interview was conducted during the week of instinct, he quickly managed to move off the street and November 4-І J (in as leisurely a fashion as possible). No, just icons painted on wood, one at a time. I didn't become an expert on it, because we were simply taught gain a foothold in this city in transition. What kind of atmosphere is there for art in Prague "Just today I managed to extend the contract to rent now? Some say it's a clearinghouse for everything out the techniques and the practical application of restora­ this place for about a year," Mr. Zuzuk confided in of the East; some artists say things have been brought tion. I'm not a specialist by any stretch of the imagina­ early November, "but the people who own the building out of them by the spirit of the place. tion — I dropped it, after all. (laughs) could decide to turn it into a hotel or restaurant at the Has your work with icons influenced your art? drop of a hat." I think everybody brings something with them, then Situated on the Vltava (or the Moldau, for Germans), develops under the exposure to the city and to Western Very much so. Perhaps the strongest influence was Prague has long been called "the Paris of the East." In traditions. These traditions are somewhat more accessi­ the mere fact of working on a masterpiece. You can't recent years, the Bohemian capital has been compared ble here, but not much more than back home. help but be affected. to Paris of the 1920s, because of the torrent of all man­ For my part, I don't think I've changed that much. And it doesn't matter whether these were works by ner of artists, adventurers, entrepreneurs, tourists and Many artists simply paint Prague — it's a fascinating folk artists or professional Church painters — these hacks arriving from around the world — the U.S. and subject, it looks magical, and the tourists love it. icons were exceptional. I got to look at these things up Canada in particular. But you don't do that. Prague doesn't show up in close for about five years. Since 1991, it has been estimated that anywhere from your works. The icons I worked on were all Ukrainian — from 35,000 to 50,000 North Americans have settled more or Volhynia and Transcarpathia. When you work on this mate­ No, but it still might, who knows? Then again, I less permanently in "Zlata Praha", (Golden Prague), and rial, you become steeped in the spirit of your own people. that an astounding 80 million people from around the didn't start painting and working creatively until the last Your catalogue mentions that your art is filled world have visited the town, descending on it like a year of my studies. Restoration took up most of my time massive touristic fist. at the Kyiv Art Institute. with biblical and religious themes. Mr. Zuzuk was one of the earliest arrivals. He first came The "realistic" approach to painting enforced when I I'm not sure, but I might have started off with that to Prague in the fall of 1990, together with a group of artists was in school [in the 1980s] also sapped any other cre­ because I didn't know what I wanted to paint. Almost mounting an anti-AIDS show. "They went back home, I ative energies I might have had. But that's not all bad — by default I turned to eternal things. I concentrated on learning as much as I could about (Continued on page 16) technique and so on. (Continued on page 15)

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something somebody enjoys, as a strange more exposure. But there are people who had been Roman Zuzuk... joy. I try to produce ambiguity. So that Of course, they could always use a bit waiting for a chance to express them­ (Continued from page 11) someone looking at the work feels both of exposure. I could bring them here, if selves, and waited out the first wave of joy and sadness. It's just like life — interest and have now begun doing the An artist's hardest task is probably to they wanted to come, but showing their some laugh, some cry. things they want to. That's a bit more find out what needs to be expressed, stuff becomes kind of complicated — risky, and brave, to my mind. what voice to use. An artist can know Do you try to, for instance, carica­ these things are really huge. how to do a lot, but have no idea what to ture cruelty so that somebody might Who is the best of the crop in Kyiv Do you think that these artists have do. Sometimes it's hard to find out what realize what they're doing and stop? now? less of a "tainted" perspective and you're interested in. (laughs) vision, because they don4 use the tired Could be. But I doubt that anybody Two artists, Senchenko and Savadov. I Personally, I knew I wanted to be an lexicon of the West? will look at anything and decide to stop don't remember their proper names, but artist, that I wanted to paint, but what? doing what they're doing, particularly not their stuff is great, and big. Depends on the artist. Some have gone So when I first came to Prague, I would art. I don't think art can change anything, Recently, they took over a ship from entirely Western, some kept their identi­ paint the Trinity, and took quite a bit of unfortunately the Black Sea Fleet, painted it up like a ty, their Ukrainianness. inspiration from religion. But the more I go Art can show, it can explain. Maybe stage and dressed all the sailors and sol­ on, the less I find myself doing this. What is "Ukrainianness" in art? people will start thinking — and that's diers as ballerinas. It was great. Just like You have some people constricted already asking a lot. And here you are, Swan Lake, (laughs) (Laughs) Aah, yes. Well, it's hard to put in cravats, who are they, the bour­ asking them to change ... (laughs) it into words, but you can feel it in the So it's performance art and installa­ geois, party hacks? works — let's say, the openness of the col­ An encouraging thing about your tions? ors, the song-like quality. You have to see They're yuppies (laughs). People who gallery is its openness. Even your sign Right. They do things with life, not it, but there is a quality to Ukrainian art want to become either. There's no differ­ says "Roman Zuzuk and friends." Do with canvasses. It's pure. You can't hang that differentiates it from any other. ence between them, obviously. you hope to bring your friends from it up on a wall, you can't buy it, but it's It's regional too, of course. Take Ukraine and expose them to the scene There's a naive quality to your beautiful. You just have to be there to see Transcarpathians, they paint with very in Prague? work, is that something you strive for? it. Who knows if it would work here, or clear colors. It's a school of painting. That's already happening. A few of if [the artists] would even know what to That probably comes from my work Have you been back to your own vil­ my friends have come here, they've seen do in this environment. with icons. It taught me that the simplest lage? what the art world is like. And more will things are the most beautiful. Things that What kind of an influence do you probably come, and I'll show them Selets? Sure, I was there in the spring. seem to have been painted by a child, but at think the West is having on art in around. But in my opinion, art in Kyiv is I go every year. second glance, obviously not by a child. Ukraine? Is it something one has to much more progressive than in Prague. Also, with an icon, the artist tries to put contend with, to embrace, to defeat? Do you draw inspiration from that? in more spirit than "ability" or knowledge. Really? It has to be survived, (laughs) The A German asked me once — "What After all, when you look at an icon, it's not Sure. Of course, you can get more buy­ world is one place, it always has been. do you go to look at, the cows, the pigs?" the technical mastery that awes you — it is ers and sponsors here, no question about it. Styles, fashions, kinds of thinking, they (laughs) And I told him, "Well, luckily, a door into the spiritual. But in terms of what is current, what is in pass over us, they leave, they return. people still live there, too." You can't pin One shouldn't show everything one the air, Kyiv is ahead of Prague. At least, Some things can be suppressed for a it down to that. If I could become a better knows and is able to do in a single work. that was my impression when I last visited time, but they don't disappear. artist by visiting my village, then I'd be You have to do what you want, not what Kyiv, in the winter [early 1995]. People should live through this, experi­ back there every weekend. you know how to do. ence what the West brings. When the pere- But obviously, it's better to keep contact Did you encourage people to come Your catalogue mentions Picasso as a budova [perestroika] period came, people with the place where you were bom — you to Prague? model. Picasso once said he tried to paint in Ukraine and Russia started to copy what can see how people change, your relatives. like a child, to get back to that mode of Well, I could, but most artists doing was going on in the West and became You ask yourself many questions after each expression. Is that what you do? interesting things there need massive famous, simply for copying. It was cute for visit. No matter who you are, how far spaces, primarily. Their main concern is Westerners to watch Ukrainians doing the you've gone, the place where you were The essential thing is to express your not commercial, nor do they really crave same things, I guess. born is a center of your being. emotions by way of simple things. The primitive, the caricature — these are very basic and very accessible. The text in your catalogue mentions AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFT that you deal with "social and political HISTORY ECONOMY CULTURE GEOGRAPHY INDUSTRY DEMOGRAPHY issues." Which ones? 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Robinson, Olga Berejan, Paul Oleksiuk, Chicago District... Stefan Golash, Ruth Jaworsky, Vera (Continued from page 5) Gojewycz, Kateryna Hulchiy and Natalie The meeting was an occasion also to Shuya. СОЮЗІЄКА • SOYUZIVKA recognize the many years of work by Posthumous awards were also given to UNA branch secretaries as a follow-up Wolodymyr Nychy, Michael Ostap, Ukrainian National Association Estate to the organization's centennial celebra­ Mike Karachewsky, Michael Semkiw Foordmore Road Kerhonksoa New York 12446 tions. This portion of the program was and Roman Smook. 914-626-5641 FAX 914-626-4638 conducted by Advisor Stefko Kuropas. Mrs. Lysko noted that it is worthwhile The following secretaries were hon­ to underscore the great contributions of DON'T BE A BEAR AND HIBERNATE ored: branch secretaries to the growth of the • For 20 or more years of service to UNA, for they are the organization's COME ENJOY SOYUZIVKA AND OUR SNOW. the UNA: Jaroslaw Bylen, Helen Olek builders. She noted in particular that WINTER rUN AVAILABLE AT AND AROUND Scott, Sophie Orich, Bohdan Wowchyk, recently it has become difficult to find Mychajlo Olshansky, Esther Cebak, dedicated persons to take over the OUR BEAUTIFUL ESTATE !! Wasyl Wanshuha, Mrs. Paschen, Lew responsibilities of branch secretaries, but Bodnar, Mychajlo Soroka, Peter Pytel, she added that the work is rewarding and Wolodymyr Matyczak, Anthony can be an additional source of income Kobylanski, Wolodymyr Turczynowsky, for young people or for women, perhaps Mykola Chujko, Mrs. Guglik, Petro mothers of young children, who can Wrubliwsky, Stephanie Lisowych, Mr. work only part-time. Mrs. Lysko con­ Prypchan and Stefania Kochy. cluded her remarks by expressing hope • For less than 20 years of service that more young people would become (active in 1994): Victor Holyk, Waiter active in the oldest Ukrainian fraternal Zenczak, Michael Marchuk, Larysa organization, the UNA.

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ADULTS ADD TOTALS Endowments Matured 93,576.00 the signing of the Helsinki Accords in TOTAL AS OF JULY 1995 17,188 39,217 5J03 61,508 Indigent Benefits Disbursed 450.00 GAINS IN AUGUST 1995 wu Interest On Death Benefits 385.54 1975 - 20 years ago - by the United Scholarships 9,900.00 New members 24 34 58 States, Canada and 33 European coun­ Reinstated 26 88 1 115 Total 288,414.88 Transferee! in 40 64 2 106 Operating Expenses: $ tries - the Soviet Union being one of Change class in 7 1 8 Real Estate 258,891.29 them. The late Sen. Clifford Case of Transferee! from Juvenile Dept. Svoboda Operation $ 200,240.94 TOTAL GAINS: 97 187 3 287 Washington Office 11,667.32 New Jersey was instrumental in helping LOSSES IN AUGUST 1995 Official Publication-Svoboda 63,271.13 to push this project through Congress. Suspended Organizing Expenses: Transfered out Advertising 9,594.89 Objections to the establishment of this Change of class out Commissions And Overrides On Universal Life 4,114.37 Transfered to adults Field Conferences 4,810.59 commission came from Dante Fascell, a Died Medical Inspections 279.35 Florida Democrat who in 1976 was the Cash surrender Refund of Branch Secretaries Expenses 104.37 Endowment matured Reward To Organizers 4,632.27 acting chairman of the House Foreign Fully paid-up Reward To Special Organizers 21,881.92 Affairs Committee. He claimed that no Extended insurance Traveling Expenses-Special Organizers 8,013.34 Certificate terminated Total 587,501.78 additional agencies were needed since TOTAL L6SSES 126 295 33 454 monitoring human rights could be car­ INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP Payroll, Insurance And Taxes: $ GAINS IN AUGUST 1995 Employee Benefit Plan 56,348.59 ried out by his committee. Paid-up 18 26 44 Insurance-General $ 608.73 Realizing the urgency and a possibili­ Extended insurance 8 14 22 Salaries Of Executive Officers 17,470.56 Salaries Of Office Employees 72,051.61 TOTAL GAINS 26 40 66 ty of failure, Congresswoman Fenwick Taxes-Federal, State And City On Employee Wages 44,227.27 LOSSES IN AUGUST 1995 Total 190,706.76 turned to human-rights activists Ihor Died 42 42 Cash surrender 21 34 55 General Expenses: $ Olshaniwsky, Dr. Ihor Koszman and Reinstated 1 2 3 Bank Charges 2,868.16 Daniel Marchishin from New Jersey and Lapsed Bank Charges For Custodian Account $ 781.65 asked them to help. Through a concerted TOTAL LOSSES 23 80 103 Books And Periodicals 300.00 TOTAL UNA MEMBERSHIP Dues To Fraternal Congresses 3,432.31 grass-roots effort, they contacted many AS OF AUGUST 1995 17,162 39,069 5,073 61,304 Furniture & Equipment 300.00 General Office Maintenance 1,466.48 individuals (especially persons in MARTHA LYSKO Insurance Department Fees 1,995.27 Secretary Operating Expense of Canadian Office 175.00 Florida) who, in turn, lobbied Mr. Fascell and helped to convince him to Printing and Stationery Rental Of Equipment And Services agree to the special oversight commis­ FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT Telephone, Telegraph sion. Of course, his becoming chairman Traveling Expenses-General INCOME FOR AUGUST 1995 Total of the new commission was the carrot for Dues From Members Miscellaneous: his final approval. Annuity Premiums From Members Donation From Fund For The Rebirth Of Ukraine 20,840.56 Income From "Svoboda" Operation The congressional Commission on Donations 9,563.25 Investment Income: Exchange Account-UNURC 527,319.08 Security and Cooperation in Europe Banks 900.77 Expenses Of Annual Sessions 684.34 (CSCE) was established in 1976. Bonds 409,928.77 Fraternal Activities 942.69 Certificate Loans 2,071.55 Investment Expense-Mortgages 300.00 Commonly referred to as the Helsinki Mortgage Loans 44,179.57 Professional Fees 8,240.00 Real Estate 271,912.73 Rent 3,054.48 Commission, it can be credited with being Short Term Investments 2,297.51 Reserve For Unpresented Checks 182.01 Stocks the most important agency for the defense TransferAccount 751,576.65 "Total 1.14502BL21 Ukrainian Publications 633.57 of human rights in the international arena Refunds: Youth Sports Activities 782.66 - in addition to playing a major role in the Total 1,324,11929 fall of the Soviet empire. Convention Expense Investments: Death Benefits 1.00 Certificate Loans 4,721.55 * * * Employee Hospitalization Plan Premiums 749.47 Mortgages 2,705.56 Investment Expense 500.00 Real Estate 6,940.20 Millicent Fenwick epitomized the Official Publication "Svoboda" 140,000.00 Short Term Investments 276,369.32 Operating Expenses Washington Office 3,116.45 word "gentlelady." In spite of her politi­ Stock • 4,756.84 Rent 253.34 Total cal and career ambitions, forthrightness, Reward To Special Organizer 1,065.19 295,49347 Scholarship 500.00 Disbursements For August, 1995 human and civil rights activism, hard Taxes Federal, State & City On Employee Wages 22,593.53 Telephone 103.00 work, singlemindedness, independence, Total self-sufficiency, candor, wit, integrity, Miscellaneous: dedication to principle - plus the fact Dividend Accumulations 260.03 Donations To Fraternal Fund that she was the butt of jokes for smok- 1,875.00 ASSETS LIABILITIES Donations To Fund For The Rebirth Of Ukraine 14,397.58 ing a pipe (in private) or serving as Exchange Account-UNURC 524,390.14 Cash 4,207,637.24 Life Insurance TransferAccount 752,037.90 Short Term model for Lacey Davenport in the Transactions Within UNA 13,688.05 Investments Doonesbury comic strip - she never Total 1,306,648.70 Bonds Mortgage Loans Investments: $ stopped being a gentlelady. Certificate Loan Bonds Matured Or Sold 69,797.29 Real Estate 3,275,236.79 Accidental D.D. When a fellow assemblyman gibed at Certificate Loans Repaid $ 9,884.42 Printing Plant &E.D.P. her by saying: "Women were meant to Mortgages Repaid 88,816.62 Equipment 714,681.36 Fraternal Short Term Investments Sold 400,000.00 Stocks 1,795,216.54 Orphans be kissable, cuddly and sweet-smelling," Total 568,49833 Loan to D.H.-U.N.A she retorted with a smile: "That's what I Income For August, 1995 ; $_3,190,161.2 2 Housing Corp. 104,551.04 Old Age Home Loan To U.N.U.R.C. 27,530.25 Emergency thought of men, and I hope, for your sake, you haven't been disappointed as DISBURSEMENTS FOR AUGUST 1995 many times as I have been." She never ALEXANDER BLAHITKA compromised her womanliness, her lady­ Treasurer hood and her gentleness.

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SPRING VALLEY, N.Y.: The Ukrainian Heritage Society of Rockland County will December 31 hold a Christmas party at the Ukrainian Sunday, December 31,1995 NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of Hall, 16 Twin Ave., on December 22, at 8 America, 2 E. 79th St., invites the public to 9 PM to 2 AM p.m. Members and guests should bring a its New Year's Eve Gala, to be held 9 p.m.-2 gift for the grab bag as well as a favorite a.m. The evening's entertainment will be dish for a pot luck dinner. On December 23, by the Bobby Johnson Jazz Quintet. An the society is sponsoring a holiday progam open bar and hors d'oeuvres are included in featuring the Veseli Halychany from the price of admission. Tickets in advance Ternnopil, Ukraine. The event will be held are $75, members; $100, non-members; tick­ at the hall at 6 p.m. For more information ets at the door, $125. 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For tickets and table reserva­ program featuring an evening of songs and tions call (201) 823-1242. a duo-piano concert with works composed by Myroslaw Skoryk and other Ukrainian ONGOING The Ukrainian Institute of America and American composers. Performing will be Maestro Skoryk and Volodymyr NEW YORK: An exhibition of paintings 2 E. 79th Street Vynnytsky on the piano, with vocals by by Claire McConaughy and Christina Saj Marianna Vynnytsky. The evening's interi­ is on view at The Lobby Gallery, 31 W. New York, NY 10021 or decor will be by Ihor Barabakh. The 52nd St., with an artist's reception on entertaining evening begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday, December 15, 6-8:30 p.m. Ms. Admission: $15; $10, seniors. 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