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The Ukrainian Weekly, 2019 INSIDE: UNA Publications Endowment Fund is launched – page 4 Transforming medicine and culture in Ukraine – page 9 Our community: Illinois and Florida – page 15 THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association, Inc., celebrating W its 125th anniversaryEEKLY Vol. LXXXVII No. 45 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2019 $2.00 Celebratory concert marks Ukrainian National Association’s 125th anniversary Christine Syzonenko The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers in their “Classic Hopak,” the finale to the Ukrainian National Association’s 125th anniversary concert. by Roma Hadzewycz Tickets to the concert – which featured the Ukrainian A special prayer was offered at the beginning of the program Shumka Dancers, singer Khrystyna Soloviy, violinist Vasyl by Metropolitan-Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian MORRISTOWN, N.J. – The Ukrainian National Popadiuk and the Women’s Bandura Ensemble of North Catholic Church, and words of welcome were addressed to the Association celebrated its 125th anniversary in grand style America – were sold out. The venue was the state-of-the audience by UNA President/CEO Stefan Kaczaraj. The master on Saturday, November 2, presenting a gala concert for the art Dolan Performance Hall on the campus of the College of of ceremonies for the jubilee event was Roman Hirniak. Ukrainian community that included top performers from St. Elizabeth in Morristown, N.J., not far from the UNA’s Canada, Ukraine and the United States. Home Office in Parsippany. (Continued on page 11) UWC launches Holodomor awareness Zelenskyy team, focusing on the east, campaign in Germany promotes investment and seeks peace UWC by Bohdan Nahaylo country’s democratically elected leadership and its com- mander-in-chief. Opponents of Mr. Zelenskyy countered TORONTO – The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) KYIV – During the last two weeks in Ukraine, worrying that he had shown contempt towards proven defenders of together with the Embassy of Ukraine in Germany and headline-making developments connected with the disen- Ukraine. Within a few days, with both sides having appar- the Ukrainian community in Germany is launching a gagement of military forces in the Donbas were overtaken ently exhausted the issue politically, the withdrawal of series of initiatives designed to help raise awareness of by others focused on the wartorn southeast of the country Ukrainian forces in Zolote proceeded according to plan. But the Holodomor among German elected officials, aca- and economic and security prospects. They saw, among problems elsewhere along the control line have persisted. demics and civil society. The goal of the Holodomor other events, a major public relations and promotional exer- Investment forum in Mariupol Awareness Campaign is to have the German cise by the Ukrainian government in Mariupol designed to Bundestag recognize the Holodomor as an act of geno- build confidence in Ukraine and attract foreign investors On October 29 most of the attention shifted to Mariupol, cide against the Ukrainian people. and donors, and the visit to the country by NATO’s secre- where the Ukrainian government hosted the “THINK. Earlier this year, with the overwhelming support of tary general and a delegation of alliance members. Invest in Ukraine Forum.” It was addressed by President the Ukrainian diaspora, a petition calling for recogni- Initially, a new scandal broke out involving a video- Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk and tion of the Holodomor by Germany obtained the filmed altercation on October 26 between President attracted a host of high-level representatives from the busi- required 50,000 signatures and was subsequently Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a representative of Ukrainian ness world and Ukraine’s partners. Mr. Zelenskyy depicted tabled for review and further recommendations by irregulars on the Donbas frontline in Zolote who are it as the beginning of a new investment stage in the history the Bundestag Petitions Committee. The Petitions opposed to the disengagement of forces that has been of the Ukrainian state. Committee met on October 21 and, following a hear- agreed to within the Minsk peace-making process. There He announced the presentation of an “investment ing on the issue, concluded that it requires further was a blunt exchange between the two, with the Ukrainian menu” – a series of landmark projects. “The state will pro- study. leader using very direct language while attempting to put vide their full support at the level of the president and the The Holodomor Awareness Campaign is being coor- his equally forthright interlocutor in his place. prime minister, protect against corruption and provide PR dinated by the UWC and brings together key Ukrainian The president and his representatives stressed that at the state level,” Mr. Zelenskyy said. “My goal is to make stakeholders including the ambassador of Ukraine to armed volunteers, however patriotic their intentions, Ukraine appear in the world textbooks alongside the cases should not be interfering with the delicate work of the (Continued on page 13) armed forces and should also show proper respect for the (Continued on page 3) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2019 No. 45 ANALYSIS Th e Kremlin tries to exorcise Kyiv to boost defense spending torial integrity.” For this reason, Britain is “extending our training mission to Ukraine Ukraine plans to increase annual spend- for another three years – so we may train the memory of the Berlin Wall ing on defense and security next year by 16 thousands more Ukrainian personnel and percent to more than $9 billion even as Kyiv continue to make a difference.” Britain’s by Pavel K. Baev service (Stasi) was also supposed to be gradually moves toward securing talks to supremely efficient in exterminating all dis- navy and marines mostly train their Eurasia Daily Monitor end the conflict in the eastern part of the Ukrainian counterparts. (RFE/RL) content yet still failed to prevent the politi- country. Prime Minister Oleksiy The massive spontaneous eruption of cal meltdown three decades ago Honcharuk’s Cabinet on November 5 Linkevicius: Russia ‘obstacle’ to peace street protests in East Germany 30 years (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, October 28). The unveiled a $44 billion 2020 spending plan Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas ago culminated in the breach of the omi- Communist-era Stasi was also far less cor- that it will send to Parliament for approval. Linkevicius says Russia represents the big- nous Berlin Wall, and that breakthrough rupt than Mr. Putin’s marauding security About 5.5 percent of economic output will gest obstacle to the peace process in determined the end of the Soviet system services (siloviki), which sometimes go toward defense and security – nearly Ukraine, as it misleadingly represents itself and collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist expose vast fraud among competitors in three times higher than NATO’s recom- as a “neutral party” in the conflict. “Perhaps Republics (USSR) two years later. Today, order to secure their own rackets mended spending target of 2 percent of the greatest obstacle in this [Ukrainian the Russian leadership is keen to celebrate (Kommersant-FM, November 2). This gross domestic product. The Defense peace] process is that Russia is positioning occasions that fit a new “patriotic” histori- unconstrained predation sharply aggra- Ministry specifically is earmarked $4.8 bil- itself as a neutral party while it is an active cal narrative – and the fall of the Berlin Wall vates public grievances regarding shrinking lion and the Interior Ministry $3.4 billion. participant of the conflict, although officially conspicuously does not fit. incomes and the decaying health-care sys- The budget foresees an exchange rate of 27 Thus, Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei tem. Selective repressions only produce they are not being treated as such,” Mr. hrv to the U.S. dollar. Ukraine has one of the Linkevicius said on November 5 in an inter- Lavrov instead traveled to Kirkenes, in sparks that could kindle this smoldering European continent’s most formidable northern Norway, to mark the anniversary outrage (Moscow Echo, November 1). view in Prague with Current Time TV, the standing armies, which is battle hardened Russian-language network run by RFE/RL of the Arctic town’s liberation by the Soviet Taking a stand against Mr. Putin’s regime after more than five years of fighting against Red Army and to warn Oslo against relying today takes no less courage than the leg- in cooperation with VOA. Mr. Linkevicius Russia-backed separatists in the eastern- said Moscow tells separatists in Ukraine that on North Atlantic Treaty Organization endary Soviet-era dissidents had to possess most regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. The (NATO) allies for its defense – underscoring during the Cold War: any word of criticism “you need to reach agreement, and we will conflict has killed more than 13,000 people. help, while exactly the opposite is happen- the current large-scale deployment of can trigger a vicious campaign of vilifica- Kyiv’s proposed defense spending hike Russian submarines in the North Atlantic tion by an eager crowd of pro-Kremlin ing on the ground.” Moscow has repeatedly comes after Ukraine withdrew forces from denied that it has provided weapons, train- (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, October 30). “patriots” (Moskovsky Komsomolets, two settlements in the Luhansk region as a Meanwhile, Sergei Naryshkin, the direc- October 30). One inspiring example for the ing, and personnel to support the separat- condition that was
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