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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIX HE No.KRAINIAN 41 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine Cause of Russian jet’s downing unclear In theT aftermath of the terroristU attacks on the U.S. W as international investigation continues

Peace Corps volunteer reflects by Roman Woronowycz ized video footage, radar photographs Kyiv Press Bureau and maps, re-traced the movement of two missiles, one an S-200, the other an onby Deannaevacuation T. Yurchuk fromdon’t Turkmenistan think they were as concerned KYIV – Ukraine’s Ministry of S-300, which were fired at a drone min- about me as other people’s parents may Defense officially continued to maintain utes before the Russian airliner fell from SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – As with have been because my parents had been on October 8 that its rocket defense the sky. He showed how the drone went other historical events, most people will to Turkmenistan. They had seen how forces did not down a Russian passenger to the edge of the designated perimeter no doubt remember where they were the local people really cared for me and jet over the Black Sea during military for the live-fire exercises before turning and what they were doing the moment that I was in good hands.” exercises the prior week. back. Video footage showed a missile they first heard of the catastrophe on the Immediately after the events of The next day, Russian television intercepting the drone and destroying it, morning of September 11. Americans September 11, the Peace Corps volun- reported that Aviation Marshal Yevgenii which Col. Gen. Tkachev said was done sat in shock in front of their TV screens Shaposhnikov, the head of the Russian- teers in the area were called to cluster, by the S-300 at about a distance of 5.8 as they calculated their proximity to the Ukrainian commission investigating the meaning that they had to group together kilometers from the coast. disaster and the victims. incident, said that his group has found in specified sites near a phone and The Ukrainian general said the second Maya Milanytch, a Ukrainian evidence that the plane was downed by remain there until further orders. “While missile, the S-200, then automatically American who had been working as a an S-200 missile launched by the spending time with each other, we self-exploded when it lost the radio sig- Peace Corps volunteer in central Asia in Ukrainian military. would experience many mood swings: nal coming from the drone. He explained faraway Turkmenistan at the time, also According to the Associated Press, from a high because we were together that all test missiles are programmed to sat in shock – a mere 200 kilometers President Leonid Kuchma said on and supporting each other to the deepest do so once they lose their tracking sig- from the Afghanistan border. October 10 that he is prepared to accept low, facing the uncertainty of our future nal. Col. Gen. Tkachev showed video During the attack on the World Trade any conclusion in the ongoing investiga- in Turkmenistan,” Ms. Milanytch relat- footage of the rising arch of a rocket and Center, Ms. Milanytch was staying with tion into the crash on October 4 of the ed. its plume, followed by a belch of smoke her host family for the night in the city Russian plane. The AP added, however, Though she was living in a country and a descending arch. He said the S-200 of Mary, before returning to her perma- that Ukrainian officials have thus far that borders Afghanistan, Ms. Milanytch fell into the sea at about 75-85 kilome- nent home in Turkmengala, the village said she never felt that she was in dan- denied that missile-firing exercises in where she taught English. Because Crimea are responsible for the crash. ters from the coast. ger. “I was never afraid for my well- A day earlier Col. Gen. Tkachev had Turkmenistan is nine hours ahead of being since I knew that I had so many Ukrainian Defense Ministry officials New York, it was evening by the time on October 8 presented video footage of rejected the possibility that a foreign people who were looking out for me radar signal had taken control of the S- the news about the terrorist attacks on and taking care of me there,” she stated. the flight paths of two radio-guided mis- the United States reached her. siles, which they allege were fired at 200 and directed it into the TU-154 as “There was maybe a day or two that I unrealistic. Ms. Milanytch recalled: “I had just felt there were eyes watching me due to about the time a TU-154 airliner carrying finished eating dinner with my host Sibir Airlines Flight 836 went down, as Asked whether an effort would be all the events I had seen on TV and made by Ukraine’s military to bring the family and we were in the middle of rumors within the Peace Corps about evidence in support of their assertion that watching a Brazilian soap opera trans- the Ukrainian firepower did not go astray rocket remains to the surface, the general being evacuated or Afghanistan being said Ukraine today lacks the technology lated to Russian when a friend called to bombed.” and hit the ill-fated flight. tell us to turn on RTR [the Russian tele- “It felt surreal even walking outside “At this time the information we have (Continued on page 9) vision station] and to ‘see what’s going to the bazaar and picking out fruits and indicates that [Ukrainian firepower] was on in America.’ ” The news came in vegetables, something I had done on a not involved,” explained Col. Gen. with CNN footage and English subtitles, Volodymyr Tkachev, head of Ukraine’s daily basis before,” she continued. “But but was broadcast in Russian. “I have a Air Defense Forces, during a briefing at on the whole, I can’t say that I noticed a pretty good understanding of Russian the Ministry of Defense headquarters. difference in the way others acted Russia and Ukraine and my mind kept reading the English The Air Defense Forces were holding towards me; I just made sure to tell the on the screen, but I could not fully live fire exercises on the southeast curious I was Canadian,” she added. process what was going on until the Crimean coast of the Black Sea on Ms. Milanytch also noted that although close to resolution visual images of the planes hitting the October 4, when the Russian airliner, on Islam is the most common religion in Twin Towers were shown on TV,” Ms. a flight from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk, Turkmenistan, few citizens are actually Milanytch noted. suffered at least one explosion and of gas debt dispute practicing Muslims, therefore, she never by Roman Woronowycz What ensued was the same horrified crashed into the Black Sea about 114 felt insecure due to a potential religious Kyiv Press Bureau reaction that everyone had. Ms. miles from the Russian coastal city of conflict. Milanytch was particularly concerned Adler, located near the port city of Sochi. In fact, had she not been evacuated KYIV – Russia and Ukraine may have for her father, who works in New York’s The plane was approximately 160 miles from Turkmenistan, Ms. Milanytch says finally resolved their two-year-old dis- financial district, and immediately tried southeast of the military exercises, which she probably would have stayed at her pute over how much Kyiv owes Russia to call home, first through the Peace were in their second and final day. site until the beginning of November, for natural gas after a meeting between Corps office in Ashgabat, the capital of At the time of the accident, the Air when her tour of duty with the Peace the two countries’ prime ministers that Turkmenistan, and then successfully Defense Forces were in the middle of Corps would have ended. She admited, took place in the Ukrainian capital on through a friend in Mary. live-fire exercises, during which 23 however, that “accurate information and October 4-5. “I was able to breathe a sigh of relief, radio-guided surface-to-air missiles were communication do not travel well in Although the two countries agreed hearing that my father was safe, but the being set upon various targets, including Turkmenistan; rumors run rampant. late last year on the public portion of the horror of the attack left me completely 11 target drones that were sent one at a There might have been an uprising or debt Ukraine owed Russia, there distraught and sick to my stomach.” time into air space in a 95-kilometer refugees coming and going not too far remained the problem of the private debt, Until then, she revealed, “I rarely felt perimeter from the Crimean coast. from me, but because the news on particularly what the nearly bankrupt homesick, because I was secure in The distance of the TU-154 airliner Turkmen TV is so filtered and rarely Naftohaz Ukrainy owes. Naftohaz knowing that my family was safe and from the military exercises was at the addresses pertinent events, I wouldn’t Ukrainy, a national joint stock company, healthy and that I could always reach outer limits of the range of the S-200 and be aware of them.” is a privately run entity that has Ukraine them.” S-300 rockets that were utilized, which is The Peace Corps volunteers spent as a majority stockholder. The quasi-pub- Ms. Milanytch’s parents had traveled one of the central explanations given by lic firm is one of the largest buyers of over a week in their cluster sites and Ukrainian military officials for why it is to Turkmenistan this summer to visit natural gas marked for Ukrainian con- then were told to return to their posts to unlikely their missiles were involved. her, which she believes was incredibly sumption. important in the wake of the disaster. “I (Continued on page 9) Col. Gen. Tkachev, making extensive use of visual aids, including computer- (Continued on page 3) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 No. 41

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS NATO in the wake of September 11 Patriarch Aleksei criticizes Vatican Ukraine – said on October 4 that they are by Christopher Walker In Sofia, Bulgaria, heads of state from beginning the creation of an election bloc RFE/RL Newsline NATO candidate countries (Albania, MOSCOW – At a press conference on named For a United Ukraine, Interfax Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, October 5, Russian Orthodox Patriarch reported. Four days later, Agrarian Party The watershed of September 11 – as the Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia Aleksei II said that “the religious expan- leader Mykhailo Hladii said that talks are coordinated terrorist attack against the and Slovenia) gathered on October 5 for a sion of the Vatican in former Soviet being conducted on forging an election United States unquestionably was – has summit originally intended to put the republics does not give grounds to the coalition of For a United Ukraine with the altered virtually all previous assumptions enlargement cause on the front burner. Moscow Patriarchate to hope for improve- Our Ukraine bloc. (RFE/RL Newsline) and calculations in international politics. However, the issue of NATO’s place in the ment of relations with the Roman Catholic Kyiv to return Bach archive to Germany The shifting global landscape is having international coalition against terrorism Church,” ITAR-TASS reported. Aleksei an especially important impact on the took center stage. In Ottawa, the four-day was especially critical of Pope John Paul NATO alliance. In the days since the II’s failure to consult with him before trav- KYIV – The Ukrainian government meeting of NATO’s Parliamentary has decided to return to Germany a vast attacks, NATO invoked for the first time in Assembly that began on October 6 focused eling to Ukraine and Kazakhstan. its history Article 5 of the NATO Charter, (RFE/RL Newsline) archive containing works by Johann on the issue of global terrorism. Sebastian Bach and other German com- declaring the attacks on the United States to Just over a year from now, at NATO’s be an attack on the alliance. Pope plans to visit Azerbaijan posers long considered lost in World War Prague summit planned for November On October 3, Nicholas Burns, the U.S. II, the DPA and Associated Press report- 2002, a decision will be taken on how many BAKU – Pope John Paul II has written ambassador to NATO, presented a formal ed on September 19. Soviet troops looted new members will be invited to join the to Azerbaijan’s President Heidar Aliev to request to the North Atlantic Council, the archive from the Berlin Choral alliance. Earlier this year NATO Secretary- inform him of his wish to visit Baku next NATO’s decision-making body, asking for Academy in 1945. The archive, which General Lord George Robertson removed year, the Turan news service reported on use of military bases, seaports and airspace. contains nearly 5,120 documents, doubt about enlargement moving forward October 5. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ambassador Burns also requested use of remained virtually untouched in Kyiv next year when he took the so-called “zero the alliance’s fleet of 17 Airborne Warning until Christoph Wolff, a Harvard music option” off the table, indicating that at least Kuchma: be cautious on language issue and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, professor, found it in June 1999 and one candidate country will be invited at the among other items. KYIV – Speaking to a congress of alerted Ukraine to its historical signifi- Prague summit to join the alliance. NATO has been working to arrive at a Ukraine’s education sector employees in cance. (RFE/RL Newsline) The possible enlargement permutations viable, unified response to terrorism, while Kyiv on October 8, President Leonid range from a strategy of maximum caution Ukraine’s workforce in transition managing a full range of other important Kuchma warned against administrative – extending an invitation only to tiny issues on its agenda, including further and forced methods in expanding the KYIV – About 100,000 Ukrainians – Slovenia and, perhaps, Slovakia (the “Slo- enlargement of the alliance. The NATO sphere of use of the Ukrainian language. more than the total population of Yalta – Slo” formulation) – to the other end of the enlargement discussion is being altered con- Mr. Kuchma noted that given Ukraine’s emigrated last year, continuing a trend that, enlargement continuum, the so-called “Big siderably due to the sheer magnitude of the “significant Russophone population,” such along with low birth rates and shortened life Bang,” which would take an entire group of terrorism issue, on the one side, and the methods can only increase opposition to expectancies, could eventually pose a threat candidate countries into the alliance in one apparent need to accommodate Russia, on Ukrainianization and polarize society. “We to the viability of the nation’s workforce. stroke. the other. should understand such lessons now when The number of emigrants was partially off- It is the menu of options beyond Two NATO-related meetings reflect new the [parliamentary] elections are nearing. set by the 53,712 immigrants, mostly from Slovenia and Slovakia, in particular those currents in international politics since Rival political forces, striving for sympa- Russia and CIS countries, who moved to that include the Baltic states, that would September 11. thies of the electorate, are stepping up Ukraine last year, according to data from under any circumstances require skillful speculation on the language problem. the State Committee for Nationalities. diplomatic bargaining to overcome Russian Political stability in Ukraine will to a high While fewer Ukrainians left for foreign Christopher Walker is head of policy and opposition. But the recent change in rela- communication in the president’s office at degree depend on our ability to ensure the countries last year than during previous the EastWest Institute in New York. (Continued on page 14) natural course of the language education years, most of those who did leave were process,” Ukrainian Radio quoted the pres- skilled, working-age people, many of ident as saying. (RFE/RL Newsline) whom headed for better employment and living conditions in Israel, Germany and the Tymoshenko urges Yuschenko to form united bloc Our Ukraine bloc to be formalized. United States. (Kyiv Post) by Jan Maksymiuk ing national revival because they are KYIV – Former Prime Minister Viktor PM gives up parliamentary mandate RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report being guided by ‘principles and rules’ Yuschenko on October 6 announced that that have noting to do with either democ- the Our Ukraine election bloc he proposed KYIV – Prime Minister Anatolii Former Vice Prime Minister Yuliya racy or Ukraine’s revival.” in July will be formalized in the near Kinakh has requested the Verkhovna Tymoshenko has called upon former Some Ukrainian commentators have future, Interfax reported. According to Mr. Rada to relieve him of legislative duties Prime Minister Viktor Yuschenko to form called Ms. Tymoshenko’s open letter a Yuschenko, Our Ukraine will consist of as the Constitution of Ukraine requires an election bloc consisting of his Our good propagandistic move that is intend- some 20 political parties and 30 to 40 from national deputies who choose to Ukraine coalition, her National Salvation ed to demystify Yuschenko and show the civic groups and movements. On October work in the government, Interfax reported Forum, and Oleksander Moroz’s on October 3. Asked why he waited so public that he primarily seeks power and 8 five political parties – the National Rukh Socialist Party. In an open letter pub- long with this request (Mr. Kinakh was not necessarily democratic reforms of Ukraine, Ukrainian National Rukh, appointed prime minister on May 29), the lished by Ukrainian media last week, Ms. championed by a “national-patriotic” Reforms and Order Party, Liberal Party prime minister said that earlier he did not Tymoshenko wrote: parliamentary coalition. and the Christian Popular Union – initial- want to divert the Parliament’s attention “Today we are proposing to unite Our “Today, the ex-premier [Yuschenko] ized a formal accord on the creation of from passing a bill on the Cabinet of Ukraine, the National Salvation Forum needs not Tymoshenko with national Our Ukraine. (RFE/RL Newsline) and the bloc led by Oleksander Moroz patriots (he already has a lot of them) but Ministers. Parliament Chairman Ivan into a single electoral democratic bloc parties with backing in individual Pro-Kuchma parties form election bloc Pliusch recently filed a lawsuit with the with a single election list. It is exactly regions: Solidarnist – this [is leverage in] Kyiv City Court against 10 government this bloc, according to my deep convic- the Vinnytsia region; the Liberal Party – KYIV – Four Ukrainian pro-presidential officials who have not given up their par- tion, that will claim a victory in [next this [means] the Sumy region; Mejlis – parties – the National Democratic Party, liamentary mandates. (RFE/RL year’s] parliamentary elections and this [means] Crimea; the Agrarian Party Party of Regions, Agrarian Party and Labor Newsline) install in power honest politicians who – this [means] the Volyn region; are able to introduce order in the state. ... 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No. 41 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 3 Terrorist attacks on U.S.: PACE hears optimistic report the international reaction on progress made by Ukraine by Roman Woronowycz elections scheduled for March 2002. Special from RFE/RL Newsline during all ground operations against terror- Kyiv Press Bureau President Leonid Kuchma hailed the ists in Chechnya since 1999.” Mr. Putin’s Kyiv backs anti-terrorist strikes adoption of the resolution, as well as the remarks were preceded the day before by a KYIV – The Parliamentary Assembly recommendations on September 29, KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma on Foreign Affairs Ministry statement in sup- of the Council of Europe (PACE) stated according to Interfax-Ukraine. He port of the American strikes. “It is time for on September 27 during its quarterly October 8 said Ukraine “politically, diplo- thanked Ukraine’s representatives to matically and morally” supports the U.S. decisive action” against the evil of terror- meeting in Strasbourg, France, that offi- PACE for their “unity and policies in ism, the statement said, adding that “terror- cial monitoring of Ukraine by the air strikes against terrorists in Afghanistan, support of the state.” Mr. Kuchma said he ists wherever they are – in Afghanistan, European human rights organization Interfax reported. Mr. Kuchma did not rule believes that a concerted effort should be Chechnya, the Middle East, or the Balkans could end as soon as January 2002 if out that Ukraine’s special services may made to implement the remaining com- – should know that they will be brought to Kyiv completes certain requirements the render intelligence assistance to the United mitments, including open and fair parlia- justice,” ITAR-TASS reported. country had pledged to meet. States, but stressed that Ukrainian troops mentary elections. Back in Kyiv, however, Ukrainian will not take part in warfare in Belarus silent on U.S. air strikes The Ukrainian delegation to PACE members of PACE said they doubt that Afghanistan. The president added that also expressed satisfaction with the would happen. Ukraine may resume arms supplies to MIENSK – Belarus has not issued any review during a press conference in Kyiv PACE, which comprises representa- Uzbekistan, which is reportedly facing an official statement on the beginning of the tives of most of the parliaments of on October 1, but noted that it is difficult attack from Afghanistan’s Taliban. U.S. anti-terrorist operation in Europe, spent a good portion of the to foresee a scenario in which PACE Afghanistan, RFE/RL’s Belarusian Communists, Socialists are opposed September 27 session of its quarterly would agree to remove its oversight in Service reported on October 8. meeting reviewing Ukraine’s progress in January of next year. “[Belarusian President Alyaksandr] National Deputy Vasyl Kostytskyi, a KYIV – The Communist Party of Lukashenka has now found himself in a fulfilling commitments the country Ukraine on October 8 condemned the agreed to undertake when it took mem- member of the Social Democratic faction difficult, ambiguous situation. He has in PACE, said he doesn’t believe that the U.S. anti-terrorist operation in always striven to present America as an bership in 1995 and in resolving prob- Afghanistan as an action aimed at Ukrainian government will be able to enemy that is threatening Belarus. So it is lems that have arisen since then. unleashing a new world war, Interfax bring the Gongadze case to a close by difficult for him to abandon this line The organization agreed on a resolu- reported. The Communists want the that time. He also said he believes the immediately. The ambiguity and absurdi- tion in which it noted the considerable Verkhovna Rada to pass a resolution con- election campaigns will give PACE’s ty of his policies is now obvious,” opposi- progress made by Ukraine, “in the form firming Ukraine’s neutral, non-bloc status monitoring committee more than ample tion political expert Alyaksey Karol told of new laws passed that are in line with as well as to revoke Kyiv’s decision reason to continue scrutinizing Ukraine RFE/RL, adding that Mr. Lukashenka is the norms and principles of the Council allowing U.S. military cargo planes to use at least through the end of the first quar- baffled by Russia’s support for the U.S. of Europe,” especially since the last quar- Ukrainian airspace. The Socialist Party of anti-terrorist strikes. Meanwhile, Syarhey terly meeting in April. ter of next year. Ukraine called on the United States to Kastsyan, head of the Commission for PACE noted, however, that Ukraine “One of the main themes that echoed limit its operation in Afghanistan to International Affairs in the Chamber of still needs to pass legislation on a new through the session hall was that the elec- strikes targeted on terrorist bases, adding Representatives, commented that the court structure and judicial procedures as tions to the Verkhovna Rada would be that “an escalation of the military opera- United States has launched a “fascist well as restructure the role of the the ultimate test of Ukraine’s commit- tion will not resolve all problems.” Procurator General’s Office. It also said ment to democracy,” said Mr. Kostytskyi, aggression” that he said will embroil the Ukraine must more fully implement the a member of the Social Democratic Party Crimean Tatar leader backs U.S. action entire globe in a “bloody slaughter.” (United) in Ukraine’s Parliament. new criminal code and the convention on Armenia hails military action human rights. National Deputy Serhii Holovatyi, SYMFEROPOL – Crimean Tatar Mejlis head Mustafa Jemilev on October 9 said In addition, it called on Ukraine to who led the effort to attain membership the U.S. military action in Afghanistan is YEREVAN – In a statement released on hasten the completion of the investiga- for Ukraine in the Council of Europe an appropriate reaction to the September October 8, the Armenian Foreign Ministry tion of the death of the Ukrainian jour- agreed that the country did indeed 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. expressed its support for the previous day’s nalist Heorhii Gongadze, as well as sup- receive a passing grade from PACE. “The U.S. is not aiming at enslaving the air strikes against targets in Afghanistan, port the initiation of an independent However he pointed out that it was a Afghan people as was the case during the describing them as a necessary measure to international investigation sponsored by very low mark. Soviet occupation. On the contrary, combat the threat of international terror- PACE, if necessary, and noted the need to “The question that needs to be asked Afghanistan is being freed from bandits in ism, RFE/RL’s Yerevan bureau reported. begin an unbiased investigation into the is: are we closer to or further from the Afghan leadership,” STB Television Georgian president notes support death of another journalist, Ihor Europe,” explained Mr. Holovatyi, an quoted Mr. Jemilev as saying. The station Aleksandrov. independent member of Ukraine’s said Taliban threats to start a war with TBILISI – In Georgia, President Eduard Finally, the PACE resolution called on Verkhovna Rada. “I believe that in the Uzbekistan may cause a wave of emigra- Shevardnadze expressed support for the five years [of Ukraine’s membership in Ukraine to demonstrate its progress in tion of Crimean Tatars from Uzbekistan. It strikes during his traditional Monday radio moving toward democracy by providing the Parliamentary Assembly of the is estimated that some 300,000 Tatars interview, Prime News reported. democratic and fully transparent prepara- Council of Europe] we could have done resettled from Crimea by the Stalin regime Kyrgyzstan backs anti-terror campaign tions for free and open parliamentary much more.” are still living in Uzbekistan. U.S. planes use Ukrainian air corridor BISHKEK – In Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said the coun- the debt. Ukraine’s Finance Ministry said try’s leadership backs the ongoing “large- on October 8 that it is likely the KYIV – Interfax reported on October Russia and Ukraine... scale international anti-terrorist action,” (Continued from page 1) Eurobonds will be traded freely on 10 that U.S. military cargo planes have but stressed that such actions must not be European markets. already taken advantage of Kyiv’s per- The agreement reached by Prime regarded as a war against either Islam or The two sides signed a total of three mission to use Ukrainian airspace in con- Ministers Mikhail Kasianov of Russia nection with the U.S. operation in the Afghan people, ITAR-TASS reported. and Anatolii Kinakh of Ukraine restruc- agreements, including an intergovern- mental agreement on additional measures Afghanistan. Kyiv also agreed that U.S. tures the method of repayment, spreading planes may land in emergency situations Tajikistan supports action in Afghanistan the company’s $1.4 billion debt over 12 aimed at ensuring the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine’s territory. A deci- at selected Ukrainian airfields. DUSHANBE – Tajikistan’s Foreign years with a three-year grace period at an sion also was made that Ukraine would Ministry in Dushanbe issued a statement interest rate pegged at the rate of infla- Putin backs strikes against Taliban not export natural gas purchased in supporting the air strikes, according to tion plus one percent. Russia until it has developed sufficient Reuters. The government said that “the “The gas problem that has been a MOSCOW – In a speech carried by reserves of its own. Russia’s national channels on October 8, Republic of Tajikistan has declared its problem between Russian and Ukrainian After the signing, Ukrainian Prime President Vladimir Putin said Russia wel- readiness to open its airspace to the U.S. air society for two years has nearly been Minister Kinakh said that both sides were comes and supports the launch of the U.S.- force and, should it prove necessary, its air- resolved today,” said Mr. Kasianov. satisfied with the deal. led military operation against the Taliban ports for carrying out measures against ter- The Ukrainian prime minister “There is no winning side or losing and Osama bin Laden. Putin said that the rorism,” Reuters and Asia Plus-Blitz report- explained that his use of the word “near- side in this agreement. It is a victory for terrorists had seriously miscalculated and ed. But a Defense Ministry spokesman told ly” was intentional because the agree- both of us,” explained Mr. Kinakh. did not expect “such consolidation of the Reuters the same day that no Tajik troops ment is not valid until the Verkhovna The two ministers also said they had international community in the face of a will participate in any kind of international Rada ratifies it. agreed to begin work on an extensive common enemy.” He added that he is con- action in other countries. However, on Mr. Kasianov said Ukraine has agreed agreement on principles by which to fident that the United States is doing October 10, days later, Tajik Security that payments by the Ukrainian side open a free-trade regime between the two everything it can to minimize civilian Council Secretary Amirqul Azimov told could be subtracted from Moscow’s com- countries. Mr. Kasianov said initial dis- casualties. Mr. Putin said that Moscow journalists that Tajikistan may provide pensation to Kyiv for natural gas transit cussions would begin in Kharkiv in plans to increase its cooperation with “our “support” for the Northern Alliance if through the country to Europe should November, where the two prime minis- European and American partners” in fight- asked to do so, Asia Plus-Blitz reported. Naftohaz Ukrainy fail to make a timely ters are next scheduled to meet along ing terrorism and providing humanitarian “Tajikistan has always come out for the sta- payment. with the business leaders of both states. assistance. The Russian president also said bilization of the situation in Afghanistan. If Eurobonds that Ukraine will issue to The Russian prime minister said he that the U.S. had the right to respond we want our participation in the operation the government-controlled but privately hoped that an agreement on free trade because of the horrific losses the terrorists against terrorism to be effective, it is neces- run Russian natural gas company, would “bear a spirit of wide-open con- inflicted in New York and Washington on sary to provide support for the Northern Gazprom, which sells Ukraine the over- structive cooperation” between the two September 11, which he said were “twice Alliance,” Mr. Azimov said. He did not whelming majority of its gas, will secure neighboring countries. the number the Russian Federation has lost explain what that support might involve. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 No. 41 Philadelphia’s Ukrainian Human Rights Committee holds exhibit in Kyiv

by Ulana Baluch Mazurkevich culminated in the joyous independence and current members of the Verkhovna OBITUARY: celebration on the steps of the Rada assembled. KYIV – On the occasion of the 10th Philadelphia Art Museum in 1991. The exhibit left a lasting impression Sister Magdalene, anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, The display was but a small slice of on those who viewed it; many viewers the Ukrainian Human Rights Committee the UHRC’s activities, from demonstra- were surprised at the activities depicted hosted an exhibit in Kyiv on August 22, teacher and prefect tions in support of human rights to lob- in the exhibit since they did not realize at the Verkhovna Rada, titled “The Road bying in Congress on behalf of political the massive amount of work done abroad to Freedom, Philadelphia – Kyiv, 1974- prisoners. The exhibit included letters on behalf of Ukraine. They were most 1991.” from members of the U.S. Congress to intrigued by the photos dealing with Through this exhibit the Ukrainian Soviet officials on behalf of Ukraine: Human Rights Committee showed that Congressional hearings and lobbying hearings on Capitol Hill regarding activities. the road to freedom took many paths, human rights violations by the Soviet Philadelphia activists explained the some of which proved to be unexpectedly government, letters to political prisoners Ukrainian Human Rights Committee rocky. It also showed the persistence, in the gulag, which were returned as established strong ties with many mem- commitment and dedication of the “addressee unknown”; and petitions to Ukrainian diaspora to the independence world leaders on behalf of Ukraine. The bers of Congress and that these senators of Ukraine. exhibit also included the work of the and representatives who had written let- The exhibit depicted through photo- U.S. Congressional Commission on the ters to Soviet authorities protesting the graphs and original documents the 17 Ukraine Famine of 1932-1933 and many denial of human rights today remain years of the work of the Ukrainian other documents in the struggle for the strong supporters of a free and democrat- Human Rights Committee prior to Ukrainian cause. ic Ukraine. Ukraine’s independence. The exhibit The “Road to Freedom” exhibit was The exhibit was also displayed at the encompassed the 1970s marked by on view during a special session of the Palace of Ukraine on August 18 at the demands for the release of Valentyn Rada marking the 10th anniversary of opening of the third World Forum of the Sister Magdalene Komanowsky Moroz, Levko Lukianenko and many Ukraine’s independence. At this ceremo- diaspora and later at the Institute for other dissidents from Soviet prisons and nial session on August 23 all the former International Studies. JENKINTOWN, Pa. – Sister Magdalene Komanowsky died on September 25, in the 89th year of her life, at Nazareth Hospital. She was a resi- dent of Mary Immaculate Nursing Home. Sister Magdalene, a native of Williamstown, N.J., and daughter of the late Alexander and Techla Pawluk, entered the Sisters of St. Basil the Great on August 15, 1930. At the time of sis- ter’s entrance to the community she lived in Chester, Pa., and was a member of Holy Ghost Parish. Her final profession of vows took place on August 8, 1940. During her years in the Basilian com- munity sister taught in the parish schools in Cleveland, Chicago, New Kensington, Pa., Watervliet, N.Y., Hamtramck, Mich., Newark, N.J., Auburn, N.Y., Olyphant, Pa., Yonkers, N.Y., Syracuse, N.Y., and Northampton, Pa. Most of sis- ter’s community ministry was to serve at St. Basil Orphanage on Lindley Avenue in Philadelphia as both teacher and pre- fect. After retiring to the motherhouse in 1990 Sister Magdelene continued to Visitors view an exhibit in Kyiv documenting the work of the Philadelphia-based Ukrainian Human Rights Committee. (Continued on page 15) The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund: July 2001

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TWG names two honorary members: Myroslava Gongadze and Bohdan Budzan by Michael Drabyk reported that assets at the time of the annual meeting were in excess of WASHINGTON – The Washington $50,000. TWG’s net income for the year Group has named two new honorary 2000, including interest, was reported at members: Myroslava Gongadze, widow close to $11,000. of the late journalist Heorhii Gongadze, Membership Director Juliana Kinal and Dr. Bohdan Budzan, director of the Ballard reported that TWG membership International Management Institute in stands at 449, the highest level ever. The Kyiv. membership breakdown is as follows: Mr. Gongadze’s death is the focus of a full memberships, 226; associate, 175; controversy involving the Ukrainian gov- student, 38; and honorary, 10. While ernment, including President Leonid membership was up in most categories, Kuchma. Ms. Ballard indicated that membership Dr. Budzan is director general of IMI- had fallen in two categories: student Kyiv, an international business school in (from 58 to 38) and corporate. Ukraine’s capital. The overall growth in membership TWG took the action during its annual was attributed in part to two factors: the meeting held June 3 in Washington. annual Leadership Conference in Members also elected a slate of candi- October, as well as publication of the dates, most of whom were current officers next TWG Directory. seeking re-election, and heard various The TWG Cultural Fund reported it reports indicating among other things, was involved in sponsoring an unprece- that The Washington Group’s treasury dented nine events since the last annual Members of the TWG Board: (top row from left) Adrian Pidlusky, membership now stands at more than $50,000. meeting. These included a standing- director; George Masiuk, member-at-large; Ihor O.E. Kotlarchuk, president; President’s report room-only “Opera Night at the Orest Deychakiwsky, immediate past president; Volodymyr Yakymets, secretary; Embassy,” as well as a lecture at the U.S. (seated) Michael Drabyk, member-at-large; Anya Silecky Piazza, vice-president; In the first of officers’ reports at the Library of Congress about the long-lost Tanya Stasiuk, member-at-large; Olena Gaponenko, events director; and Roman meeting TWG President Ihor Kotlarchuk Bach scores found in Kyiv. The TWG Stelmach, treasurer. described activities of The Washington Cultural Fund also reported receiving Group since the previous TWG annual $7,000 in donations during the year diate past president. The vote in favor of the proposed slate meeting in May 2000. 2000. Proposed as members-at-large were: was unanimous. These included the traditional TWG The TWG Fellowship Fund reported Nick Babiak, Arthur Belendiuk, Yaro TWG Immediate Past President Orest Leadership Conference held on October the current fund balance to be $4,233.06. Bihun, Steve Boyduy, Michael Drabyk, Deychakiwsky nominated Myroslava 6-8, 2000, with the theme “Ukraine: It was also indicated that this year’s Oleg Jerschkowsky, Tatyana Kramska, Gongadze, widow of the late journalist Integrating into the Global Community.” intern at the Ukrainian Embassy would Maria Kulczycky, Mr. Masiuk, Jurij Heorhii Gongadze, for honorary mem- President Kotlarchuk called the confer- be Maria Sonevytsky, a Slavic studies Mojsiak, Natalie Sluzar, Tanya Stasiuk bership in TWG. Ihor Kotlarchuk then ence intellectually stimulating, socially and music double major at Barnard and Marta Zielyk. Andrew Charchalis, nominated Dr. Bohdan Budzan, director enjoyable and a financial success. He also College of Columbia University in New Michael Kowalysko, and Ihor Procinsky general of the IMI-Kyiv. Both honorary indicated the TWG financial situation is York City. were nominated for the Auditing memberships were approved by majority very solid, with assets at a historic high of Committee. vote. more than $50,000. He also indicated that Election of new officers the TWG Cultural Fund, TWG Business The following slate of candidates was Forum and TWG Fellowship Fund were presented by George Masiuk: Mr. all very busy during the year as well. Kotlarchuk, president; Anya Silecky President Kotlarchuk also went to say Piazza, vice-president; Volodymyr TheThe UkrainianUkrainian WWeeklyeekly 20002000 the next TWG Leadership Conference Yakymets, secretary; Mr. Stelmach, treas- would be held October 19-21 at the Key urer; Adrian Pidlusky, membership direc- VVolumeolume IIII Bridge Marriott in Arlington, Va. A con- tor; Andy C. Szul, public relations; ference planning committee had been Laryssa Lapychak Courtney, TWG To mark the end of one millennium and the beginning of formed, he said, and he invited addition- Cultural Fund; Adrian Karmazyn, TWG al assistance from TWG members. Fellowship Fund, Andrew Bihun, another, the editors of The Ukrainian Weekly have prepared Officers’ reports Business Development Forum; Olena Gaponenko, events; Oles Berezhny, spe- “The Ukrainian Weekly 2000,” a two-volume collection of TWG Treasurer Roman Stelmach cial projects; Mr. Deychakiwsky, imme- the best and most significant stories that have appeared in the newspaper since its founding in 1933 through 1999. Cleveland marks anniversary Volume II, now available, covers events from 1970 of The Ukrainian Museum through the 1990s. All sub- by Nadia Deychakiwsky under the dynamic leadership of Ivanka Skarupa, president of the UNWLA scribers to The Weekly will CLEVELAND – During the span of Regional Council of Ohio. receive a copy in the mail, the last decade, the chapters of the Due to the tragedy that befell America Ukrainian National Women’s League of on September 11, the festive program but additional copies may America in Cleveland have organized had to be adjusted. The planned several fund-raisers for The Ukrainian “Vyshyvani Vechornytsi” dance, which be ordered from our Museum. was to follow the banquet, was canceled. Subscription Department. The purpose of such events is not only The featured speaker, Olha Hnateyko, to acquire funds, but to raise awareness president of the museum’s board of and win support of our community for trustees, was unable to arrive from New New subscribers to The the urgency of the new facility that The York due to airline cancellations. But the Weekly who may not have Ukrainian Museum desperately needs people who came to support the cause of and deserves. The Ukrainian Museum understood. received Volume I, pub- The latest event on September 16, They bowed their heads in silence to marked not only the 25th anniversary of remember the victims of the tragedy and lished last year, may order it the founding of The Ukrainian Museum sang “God Bless America” (led by but also coincided with the announce- Olenka Chmilak) to unite with the rest of now. ment regarding the beginning of con- the grieving country. struction of the new spacious structure in Mrs. Hnateyko’s speech prepared for To order additional copies, send $15 per copy/per volume to: New York City’s “Ukrainian Village.” the occasion was faxed and read by The museum’s understanding of the Oksana Sharanevych. Mrs. Hnateyko The Ukrainian Weekly, Subscription Department, 2200 Route importance of this new home for the underlined the support and understanding 10, P.O. 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FOR THE RECORD THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Putin’s “terrorists” Standing resolute in the face of evil: A new reality has emerged throughout the world in the aftermath of the September reflections on the Great Famine 11 terrorist attacks on the United States with the forging of a new international coali- tion against terrorism. And the new reality has led to a new realpolitik. Remarks delivered by Dr. Myron B. many people in the struggle to create a A key role in the newly formed coalition initiated by the Bush administration is Kuropas at the solemn commemoration Marxist/Leninist state. “The death of one played by Russia, and President Vladimir Putin now sees new opportunities to pro- of the Great Famine of 1932-1933 at St. person,” he replied, “is a tragedy. The mote his policies. The “new” Russia led by Mr. Putin now seeks a deepening partner- Andrew’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in death of millions is a statistic.” ship with the European Union and has changed its view of NATO expansion (e.g., its Bloomingdale, Ill., on September 23. Seven million Ukrainians died during former opposition to the entry of the Baltic states). Speaking in Berlin on September the artificial famine created by the 26 the Russian president even mentioned the previously unthinkable: NATO should As America rises from the cataclysm Soviets. Ukrainians lost their lives admit Russia as a full member. of September 11 – truly a day of infamy because they opposed evil, because they The international coalition has also provided an opportunity for Mr. Putin to that changed the lives of all of us here wanted an independent nation, because reassert a “Russian sphere of influence” in Central Asia. On several occasions the today – we are reminded of another time they believed in life, liberty and the right president and other Russian leaders spoke as if they controlled access to an airport and place in world history, a time and to own their own land. For most people in Tajikistan or had a say in Uzbekistan’s decision on how to participate in the place less known, a time and place when in the world today, however, their death counterterrorism effort; they offered use of CIS territory – the territory of sover- it seemed the world stood still, a time remains a statistic at best, a non-event at eign states – for military operations. when terror ruled not just for one day, worst. While underscoring that Russia is prepared to go to war against terrorists, whom he but for days without end, a place where Although it troubles me to say this, I described as “bacteria” that live off the bodies of host states, President Putin virtually seven million innocent men, women and can at least understand why most people leaped at the chance provided by the new anti-terrorism coalition to brand the entire children died the horrible, slow and lin- in America know so little about Chechen nation as “terrorists” who threaten the Russian Federation. These “Chechen gering death visited upon them by starva- Ukraine’s forced famine. Reports of the terrorists,” he alleged, have contacts with Osama Bin Laden. tion. The winter of 1932-1933 was such a famine were repudiated for decades by Two weeks after the attacks on the United States, Presidential aide Sergei time. Ukraine was such a place. the Soviets. Western journalists like New Yastrzhembskii reported that Moscow was pleased by Washington’s shift in its com- The year of infamy that brought York Times correspondent Walter ments on Chechnya, and other officials suggested that the U.S. now sees the famine to Ukraine was engineered by Duranty knew about the horror but Chechens as terrorists; Russian news media have reported that Russia’s position on Stalinists, the most merciless terrorists in denied its existence. People in the United Chechnya is finding increased “understanding.” Indeed, the United States and the history of the world. Moscow needed States were suffering an economic Germany both gave voice to Russia’s demand that rebels in Chechnya lay down money to survive. Ukraine was a rich and Depression in the 1930s and had little their arms, while omitting any references to Russia’s human rights abuses in its bru- bountiful land which produced wheat interest in events beyond their borders. tal war against the Chechen nation and its freedom fighters. that could bring billions of dollars on the What troubles me very much, howev- This silence came as RFE/RL reported that in early October Russian troops had world market. The more wheat, the more er, is the fact that while Ukraine is a free committed new human rights violations in Chechnya as they engaged in a “mop- money. So the Bolsheviks took all of it – and independent nation, most people in ping-up operation” south of Grozny. In the course of the operation, the troops every single grain, every seed, every Ukraine seem barely aware of what went “rounded up some 50 villagers on October 1; they were beaten, some so badly that morsel – leaving nothing behind. Famine on during that ghastly winter of 1932- they are now crippled. Several houses have been burned to the ground. Food and descended upon Ukraine slowly and 1933. While we in the West have com- water supplies in the three villages, to which human rights activists have been inexorably. memorated the famine annually, pub- barred admission, are running out.” Human compassion, pity and tender- lished books, pamphlets, and countless According to Russian human-rights groups, Russia’s military actions in Chechnya ness were forbidden. Hatred as a way of articles reviewing the terror-famine and have led to more than 80,000 casualties. Similarly, in a recent opinion piece in The life was promoted by the regime. One its consequences, Ukraine’s leaders still Wall Street Journal, Sen. Jesse Helms, the senior Republican on the Senate Foreign member of the Communist Party Central prefer to look the other way. Relations Committee, stated that Mr. Putin’s war against Chechnya has “caused the Committee urged party members to act Oh yes, there is a monument here and deaths of 30,000 non-combatants, the dislocation of 600,000 civilians, and the illegal “without whimpering, without any rotten there, an article here and there, but incarceration of 20,000 Chechens.” liberalism. nothing to compare to the works of Thus, as the United States embraces Russia as its ally in the war against terrorism, “Act like Bolsheviks worthy of Robert Conquest or the Commission of it is worthwhile to recall President Ronald Reagan’s 1989 advice in dealing with the Comrade Stalin,” he told them. “Don’t be the U.S. Ukraine Famine. The indiffer- Soviets: “trust but verify” (“doveriay, no proveriay”). Today the United States must afraid to take extreme measures. The ence which surrounds this great tragedy welcome Russia’s participation in the international coalition against terrorism, but it party stands foursquare behind you. in Ukraine is overwhelming. Think of it. must be prudent as regards Russia’s goals in other areas. Turning a blind eye to Comrade Stalin expects it of you. This is Ukraine has been independent for 10 Russia’s human rights abuses and entertaining its assertions of hegemony in the name a life and death struggle; better to do too years and yet not one person over there of fighting terrorism are simply not acceptable. much than not enough.” has been indicted for crimes against Such orders were obeyed without humanity. No single group, no political question by Stalin’s enablers. A Soviet party, no institution has been con- dissident who earlier in life had partici- demned and anathemized for the Oct. pated in the Ukrainian genocide, destruction visited upon the Ukrainian Turning the pages back... explained his involvement. Here is what people during Soviet rule. he wrote: “We believed the end justified Today, as I reflect upon the artificial 15 the means. Our great goal was the uni- famine of 1932-1933, as I consider the versal triumph of communism and for reaction of Ukrainians to this genocide – 1959 October 15, 1959, marks the day Stepan Bandera was the sake of that goal everything was per- this enormous evil perpetrated by assassinated by Soviet security agent Bohdan Stashynsky in missible - to lie, to steal, to destroy hun- Moscow, and as I worry about Ukraine’s Munich, Germany. The following is an excerpt taken from dreds of thousands and even millions of future, I can’t help but be reminded of the Ukrainian Encyclopedia entry on Stepan Bandera. people, all those who stood in the way. what happened on September 11. There * * * And to hesitate or doubt about all this are certain similarities. A crazed group of Born on January 1, 1909, in Uhryniv Staryi, Galicia, ... Bandera was a revolution- was to give in to ‘intellectual squeamish- terrorists attacked Americans on ary, politician and ideologue of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. Bandera took an ness’ and ‘stupid liberalism,’ the attribute American soil in broad daylight. Why? active part in community affairs, joining the youth association Plast while in high of people who ‘could not see the forest Because they believed we are vermin, school ... and later became a member of the Ukrainian Military Organization in 1927 for the trees’ ... With others, I emptied swine, loathsome, repulsive, enemies of and of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in 1929, in which he soon attained out the old folks’ storage chests, stopping humanity. They, too, were told to act positions of high authority. my ears to the children’s crying and the without whimpering, without feeling – In 1931 he became chief of propaganda in the OUN national executive, in 1932-1933 women’s wails.” not for Stalin, but for Osama bin Laden. he was second in command, and in June 1933 he became head of the national executive We ask ourselves: How is it possible A great nation was struck down that in Galicia. During his tenure Bandera expanded the OUN’s network in western Ukraine, for human beings to be so callous, so infamous day and we all experienced the directing its struggle both against Poland and against Soviet Russian imperialism. ... uncaring, so evil? In his novel “Forever pain, the sorrow, the anger. Like all great On the eve of the German-Soviet war Bandera initiated the formation of the Flowing,” Vasily Grossman wrote that nations, however, the United States did Ukrainian National Committee in order to consolidate Ukrainian political forces. He activists who assisted the Soviet secret not remain down very long. The cultivated German military circles favorable to Ukrainian independence, initiated the police in their nefarious deeds were American people rallied their resources, formation of a Ukrainian military legion, organized expeditionary groups and pre- taught to believe that the so-called set aside their differences and stood as pared the proclamation of a Ukrainian state in Lviv on June 30, 1941. For his refusal “kulaks” were cattle, swine, loathsome, one to face evil firmly, forcibly and to rescind the proclamation, Bandera was arrested and spent the period from July repulsive; they had no souls; they stank, meaningfully. To do so is to obey God’s 1941 to September 1944 in German prisons and concentration camps. ... they all had venereal diseases; they were true laws. In the words of President He was killed by the Soviet agent [Bohdan] Stashynsky. At Stashynsky’s trial in the enemies of the people and exploited the George W. Bush, God is not neutral in Federal Republic of Germany (October 8-19, 1962), it was established that the assassi- labor of others ... It was openly pro- such matters. nation had been directed personally by the head of the KGB [Aleksandr] Shelepin. claimed that the rage and wrath of the It is this American example that I In the memory of his followers Bandera became a symbol of the revolutionary masses must be inflamed against them; would like to see Ukraine emulate. The struggle for a Ukrainian state. His political positions were defined in a series of arti- they must be destroyed as a class, time has come for Ukrainians to deal res- cles collected in a posthumously published book. because they are accursed.” olutely with the crimes of the past and to During an interview with a leading show the world that they, too, are a great Source: “Bandera, Stepan,” Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Volume II. Toronto: member of British society, Stalin was people living in a great nation. God bless University of Toronto Press, 1988. reportedly asked about the death of so America. God bless Ukraine. No. 41 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 7 NEWS AND VIEWS Faces and Places

Our financial support can return by Myron B. Kuropas plundered treasures to Ukraine

by Michael Heretz den of proof and the cost of the docu- mentation falls on the plaintiff – Ukraine. Throughout its domination of Ukraine, Depending on how successful the Hyphenated American or not, we’re all united now In the wake of the September 11 terrorist Assistant for Ethnic Affairs to the White the Soviet government carried out the Ukrainian scholars are in this endeavor, attack on the United States, there has been House Office of Public Liaison in 1976. systematic destruction of thousands of Ukraine will either get its art treasures growing concern regarding so-called I had the good fortune to be involved historical churches and monasteries. back or lose them forever. hyphenated Americans, e.g., Ukrainian with America’s ethnic revival all through Among them the uniquely beautiful 12th The difficulty is further compounded century St. Michael’ Americans, Polish Americans, etc. The the 1970s. I served on the national boards of s Cathedral of the by the fact that there is no money in the Golden Domes, the demolition of which inevitable question remains: are we loyal the National Project on Ethnic America and current state budget for this crucial proj- was preceded by a careful removal of its Americans? This is natural. Such fears the National Center for Urban Ethnic ect. Ukraine has more important budget- most valuable and world-famous emerge every time our nation has been in Affairs. The Rev. Greeley was a member of ary holes to fill, and there is little likeli- Byzantine mosaics and frescoes. These danger. my committee at the University of Chicago hood that the necessary funds will be were then “lent” and shipped to Russia Some of the foolish ideas that have sur- when I was writing my Ph.D. disseration on allocated in the near future. Are years of where, needless to say, they remain to faced as a result of the rise of “multicultur- the history of Ukrainian Americans. I hard work by a group of dedicated schol- this day. alism” hasn’t helped. Multiculturalism is a served as the first, and thus far only, Special ars doomed to failure for lack of money? Through the effort and financial sup- divisive concept. It does not represent the Asssistant to the President for Ethnic port of the Ukrainian government, the And this is where we come in, dear thinking of most Ukrainian Americans. Affairs. I helped organize four White House Kyiv city administration and the generosi- friends – as we did before, several years In his 1971 publication “The Rise of the conferences related to ethnic concerns ty of the Ukrainian diaspora, St. Michael’s ago, when it meant financing the comple- Unmeltable Ethnic,” Michael Novak pre- (including one devoted to the 1980 Census Cathedral was rebuilt – but minus its tion of St. Michael’s bell tower. St. dicted that the 1970s would be the decade which led to the inclusion of an ethnic ori- priceless mosaics and frescoes, which still Michael’s plundered art treasures must of the white ethnic, a time when ethnic con- gin question), as well as a crucial meeting remain “sheltered” in Russia’s museums come back to Ukraine. The psychological tributions to America would be recognized between the director of the Office of and art collections. Now the question is: effect of such a victory on the Ukrainian and celebrated. Management and Budget and the Ethnic How do we get them back to Kyiv to the people will be profound, but it cannot be To achieve this end, a new politics was Heritage Studies Act advisory board. cathedral they adorned? achieved without your help. The comple- required, wrote Dr. Novak, “a politics of At no time during my association with A group of scholars of the Academy of tion of the investigation and the publica- cultural pluralism, a politics of family and the ethnic revival of the 1970s and early Arts and Sciences of Ukraine under the tion of its results will require $22,000. neighborhood, a politics of smallness and 1980s did I or anyone with whom I worked suggest that our ethnicity was anything leadership of Dr. Serhiy Kot undertook, One of our foundations in the United quiteness.” It was also to be a politics of other than an integral part of America’s rich at their own expense, a thorough investi- States is willing to donate $10,000, if we patriotism. “To ethnics,” wrote Michael heritage. It was understood by all of us that gation aimed at establishing the follow- can collect the other $12,000. Novak, “America is almost a religion ... eth- there was an American cultural core that ing: the current location of St. Michael’s St. Andrew’s Society is once again nics believe that they chose one route to moderate success in America, namely, loy- informed our primary identity as individu- art treasures in Russia; the historic cir- calling on your generosity and asking alty, hard work, family discipline and grad- als, and that around that core were all of the cumstances that led to their removal from you to send your tax-exempt contribu- ual self-development. They tend to believe cultural manifestations associated with our Ukraine, and, based on articles of inter- tions to: St. Andrew’s Society Inc., 1023 that some blacks, admittedly more deeply ethnicity. national law and precedent concerning Yorkshire Drive, Los Altos, CA 94024. A injured and penalized in America, want to Cultural pluralism is a unifying concept the fate of plundered art treasures, the list of the contributors will be attached to the scholarly report on the fate of St. jump ... over the heads of lower-class that celebrates ethnic diversity while procedure that must be followed to respecting the primacy of American culture. Michael’s art treasures. whites. Instead of forming a coalition of ensure their return to Ukraine. Cultural pluralists are acculturated *** black and white lower classes, black mili- The results of these investigations Americans who believe that loving our eth- St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Orthodox tants seem to prefer coalition with white served as a basis for negotiations intellectual elites.” nic heritage makes us better Americans. Society was founded in 1990 for the pur- between the art commissions of both For a time it appreared that ethnic While we cherish our differences, our point pose of supporting the spiritual rebirth of Russia and Ukraine. Partial success was Americans would have their day. The Ford of convergence is on our similarities as the people of Ukraine and for giving sup- achieved: Russia returned four frescoes. Foundation funded three separate institu- Americans. However, an additional 20 or more port to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, tions that developed proposals aimed at Today, cultural pluralism has been frescoes and mosaics from St. Michael’s whose spiritual center is ancient Kyiv. It addressing the ethnic agenda. The first was deformed by America’s leftist intellectual Cathedral remain in Russia, and Russian was incorporated in the state of New the American Jewish Committee which elite and their black recruits. It has been experts are questioning Ukraine’s claims York as a not-for profit corporation, and established the National Project on Ethnic hijacked by something called multicultural- to these treasures. They demand further received IRS tax-exemption under sec- America, coordinated by Irving Levine in ism, a divisive notion that stresses distinc- documented proof for each one of the tion 501(c)(3) in 1992. (EIN 22- New York City and David Roth in Chicago. tions rather than similarities. The emphasis contested items. Unfortunately, the bur- 3143813). The major goal of the project was to depo- is not on ethnic cultures but on race, gender larize tensions between blacks and white and class. American society is portrayed as REACTION TO THE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON THE U.S. ethnics through dialogue and greater under- oppressive, homophobic, racist and retro- standing. grade – hardly a core around which to con- A second Ford-funded effort was the gregate. Western civilization is portrayed as Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs at Catholic the root cause of imperialism, poverty and University. Headed by Msgr. Geno Baroni, world terror. Those who dare to question SelfrelianceOn behalf of the AssociationNational Board of theof SelfrelianceUkrainian Association Americans of American the center focused on ethnic neighborhood these beliefs are demonized. Ukrainians and all our branches and members, we express deep shock and profound revitalization, as well as social and technical Multiculturalists maintain that all cul- sorrow for the deaths of countless innocence people in the United States, who were assistance to local community leaders. One tures are of equal worth. Universal stan- murdered in a series of cowardly terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the of its most ambitious projects was the cre- dards, norms, truths are dated concepts, Pentagon and in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. We deplore this heinous act of ation of a Black/Polish Conference in reflections of racism and male hegemony. violence perpetrated by faceless terrorists with complete disregard for human life. Detroit. Reality is relative, “situated,” i.e. whatever During this great tragedy we have witnessed unparalleled examples of courage by The third Ford-funded project was the we believe is true is a reflection of our dif- our police and fire departments, and all involved in this difficult rescue operation. We Center for the Study of American Pluralism, fering interests and circumstances. have witnessed also the exemplary courage and leadership of Mayor Rudolph headed by the Rev. Andrew Greeley of the Tragically, America’s media-sanctioned Giuliani, Gov. George Pataki and President George W. Bush. This great tragedy has University of Chicago’s National Opinion black leadership has never accepted cultural brought all of us closer together. Research Center. The Rev. Greeley’s major pluralism. Unlike other ethnic leaders, they We urge all our members and supporters to help in any way they can, by contribut- focus was on data, primarily sociological believe their people can never succeed in ing services and money, donating blood or consoling those in need. and historical, related to ethnic American the United States because of the horrific We pray for the victims of this national tragedy and send our condolences to their life. Like Mr. Levine and Msgr. Baroni, the scars of almost 250 years of slavery and the families. Rev. Greeley was an articulate advocate- current spectre of “instituional racism.” Bohdan Mychajliw, President spokesman for ethnic Americans, believing This extraordinary mindset has led to the Stefania Kosowycz, Secretary that America’s intellectual class was woe- emergence of Afro-Centrism, a peculiar National Board, Selfreliance Association of American Ukrainians Inc. fully ignorant of this vital segment of the ideal predicated on black superiority. American experience. Because all scholarship is the product of Under the leadership of Sen. Richard S. white hegemony, the divergent black Schweiker (R-Pa.) and Rep. Roman accomplishments have been stolen or sub- Pucinski (D-Ill.) the U.S. Congress passed merged. Reparation is the only just solution. MAY WE HELP YOU? the Ethnic Heritage Studies Bill in 1972, Ukrainian Americans are cultural plural- To reach The Ukrainian Weekly call (973) 292-9800, providing federal dollars for ethnic cultural ists. Our motto is many cultures, one and dial the appropriate extension (as listed below). and literary projects as well as historical American nation. We will do what it takes research. The monies went directly to grass- to help our country overcome our common Editorial – 3049, 3063, 3069; Administration – 3041; roots organizations. The U.S. executive enemy. Advertising – 3040; Subscriptions – 3042; Production – 3052 branch recognized the significance of eth- nicity in American life when President Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is: Gerald R. Ford appointed a Special [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 No. 41 No. 41 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 9

Turkmenistan, where she taught English appreciate America much more when I am sorts for her in Asia. Peace Corps... to village schoolchildren and members of abroad. I see the better parts of America, As for the future, Ms. Milanytch hopes (Continued from page 1) an adult club, as well as worked in a those that are so easy to take for granted: to go abroad again. She had been sched- pack their belongings. The villagers in museum of archaeology and ethnography freedom of speech, freedom of the press, uled to take the Foreign Service exam in Turkmengala were surprised by the creating labels for display cases in freedom of religion,” she said. Ashgabat in late September, but will now urgency of the situation, according to Ms. Turkmen and English. “It was a unique Turkmenistan still has many remnants be taking it in the United States this com- Milanytch. “I left the people in experience. I felt that my presence was of the Soviet system. People pick cotton ing spring. She is also considering jobs in Turkmengala a bit suddenly. I told them appreciated, not only for my knowledge for the state and show support for the pres- coordinating study-abroad programs for that I wasn’t sure when I’d be leaving or if and education, but also because I would ident, Saparmurat Niyazov, with traditional universities overseas or in adventure travel I’d be coming back. I didn’t even get to be the ‘American’ friend. I would visit my Turkmen songs and dances. The villagers tourism. say good-bye to the teacher with whom I colleagues, students, and other villagers, live under a sort of barter system and the In light of the recent U.S. attack on had worked at the school, because she was have tea and just talk about everyday standard of living is much lower, accord- Afghanistan, Ms. Milanytch said she still believes that Turkmenistan’s citizens are out picking cotton that day and I had to be occurrences,” she said. ing to Ms. Milanytch. “But unlike the U.S., rather safe. She stated, “If Afghan back in the city by evening.” According to Ms. Milanytch, the best where life is work-oriented, based on find- ing the job or career that you want, the refugees did indeed come to She continued, “The villagers were aspect of her experience was interacting Turkmens’ lives are centered, first and Turkmenistan, they would have little rea- aware of the political situation, but I don’t with the Turkmen people. “They were hos- foremost, around the family. Without fami- son to target the citizens of the country. know if they fully realized the significance pitable and gracious, and always interested ly and friends, it would be impossible to Turkmenistan officially shares the same of having Americans in their midst. in finding out about something new,” she survive,” she said. religion and, although the president grant- Personally, I was afraid that our clustering stated. At present, Ms. Milanytch said she ed the use of Turkmen airspace to with my host family in Mary might bring Although Ms. Milanytch adapted well feels as if a fast-forward button has been American forces, the majority of repercussions to them, so I was relieved to the Turkmen lifestyle, she admits that pushed on her life and that she is now Turkmen people were in no way involved for them when we left.” the harshness of the climate – the unbear- able heat during the summer and the frigid where she was expecting to be in in the political arena. I even know of Joined Peace Corps after college winter – were hard to endure. She recalls, January of next year. Her two worlds are Afghan communities in Turkmenistan slowly coming together. Looming ahead that sympathized with the plight of the Ms. Milanytch’s interest in the Peace “The first winter I was there I had a bad ear infection that was treated by my host is a pending job search, which she is Americans, asking about our individual Corps began during her sophomore year at contemplating while keeping in phone security within the country. Therefore, I Bryn Mawr when a few recruiters came to mother with vodka and a syringe.” Like the Turkmen villagers, Ms. Milanytch contact with the hospitable people who am relatively confident that my close her school. She spent the following year have come to be an extended family of friends will remain unscathed.” studying abroad in France, which affirmed enjoyed learning about other cultures and her love of languages and foreign cultures, seeing new perspectives. and further sparked her interest in the A keener appreciation of America Peace Corps. She graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1999 with a major in archaeology The group of Peace Corps volunteers and a minor in French. from Turkmenistan arrived back in the When Ms. Milanytch applied for the United States on September 23 and then Peace Corps after graduation, she was spent a week near Washington in a debrief- offered three choices: Central Europe, ing session. Even though Ms. Milantych south or east Asia and western Africa. was returning home, she admited that she She did not want to live in western Africa experienced culture shock. “The situation because of political instability there, so in the United States has changed. It’s much she tossed a coin between the remaining more patriotic than I ever remembered. options and chose Asia. “I had been to After having left Turkmenistan so abruptly, Central Europe a couple of times before, I really appreciated having had a week to so secretly hoped it would be Asia,” Ms. sort out feelings about coming home so Milanytch said. “I wanted to go for the soon,” she commented. extreme adventure.” Soon afterwards she Back in the United States, Ms. found out that she would be living in Milanytch is more keenly aware of the dif- Turkmenistan in central Asia. ferences that separate the United States Ms. Milanytch spent over two years in and her host country. “I realized that I Maya Milanytch (right) with a neighbor in Turkmenistan.

trol missile may have been responsible much hope that the black box aboard the October 8 when he declared that the Cause of Russian jet’s... for the destruction of the TU-154. ill-fated TU-154, which might offer some probability of the plane taking a hit from (Continued from page 1) According to the AP, a top Russian civil clues to what happened, will ever be a Ukrainian missile was “technically pos- to do so. aviation official from the Siberian region recovered. “I think it’s unlikely from the sible,” while stating that “theoretically Col. Gen. Tkachev’s presentation still where the plane was headed said on bottom of the sea. It’s from 1,000 to anything might be possible.” left open the possibility that a Ukrainian Russian television on October 5 that a 2,000 meters deep,” explained Gleb Later that day he said that he contin- traffic controller in Rostov, which is Gutiyev, a spokesman for the Sochi missile could have destroyed the TU-154. ued to support the conclusions drawn by located not far from the crash site, saw a Air Defense Forces officials could not mayor’s office, according to the AP. bright spot approaching the TU-154 his military leaders and that it was time authoritatively prove that the missiles Although Col. Gen. Tkachev attempt- before it disappeared from his radar to stop unfounded conjecture. photographed were indeed S-200 and S- ed to show the irrefutability and single- screen. An Armenian pilot flying a small “It is time for the politicians to leave 300 rockets, as the general asserted. Also, mindedness of the Ukrainian stance dur- commercial vehicle at a distance close the debate and allow the experts to make they did not prove beyond question that ing his October 8 press conference, there enough to see the plane in its last seconds the determinations,” said President the rockets filmed were fired at the times have been discordant voices heard within said an explosion occurred before the Kuchma. displayed on the computer terminals. official Ukraine. crash. Initial reports from the United States While not questioning the assertions Defense Minister Oleksander Kuzmuk RFE/RL Newsline cited an RIA- apparently were supported by an of the Ukrainian military, U.S. officials said on October 5 that a group of Novosti report of October 9 that quoted unnamed Ukrainian military official tak- have continued to maintain that the acci- Ukrainian military and civil experts, Moscow officials as expressing the hope ing part in the military exercises in dent was caused by a Ukrainian missile headed by the chief-of-staff of the Air that Kyiv will “make the difficult but Crimea who wished to remain anony- gone astray, a determination it first Defense forces Valerii Kaminskyi, would only correct decision and accept respon- mous. Then, on October 5, Prime announced several hours after the acci- be sent to investigate the cause of the air sibility for the downing of the plane.” Minister Anatolii Kinakh said that he dent when it said that data from a U.S. crash. According to an agreement Investigators in Sochi, who are pick- could not rule out the possibility that a spy satellite suggested as much. ing through the remains of the TU-154 Ukrainian rocket gone astray was reached with Russia, Ukrainian represen- A U.S. Department of Defense offi- that have been salvaged, said on October involved in the downing of the TU-154. tatives will be included on the commis- cial, speaking on condition of anonymity, 7 that they have found metal debris not President Leonid Kuchma, who at first sion investigating the accident and will had told the Associated Press on October belonging to the airliner. rejected any possibility that Ukrainian give Russia materials concerning con- 4 that a long-range aircraft missile – Meanwhile, Russian authorities have military exercises somehow caused the trols carried out during the air defense believed to be an S-200 – appeared to backtracked from their original stance accident, backpedaled somewhat on exercises on October 4 in Crimea. have hit the plane after being launched that the crash, which killed 66 passengers from the Crimean region. plus 12 crew members, might have On October 9 the Eastern Economist resulted from a terrorist attack. The news service reported that the United investigation, which will include Israeli A friendly reminder States had apologized for its disclosure and Ukrainian military and civilian offi- of unverified information on the possible cials, will now concentrate on the possi- If you have not yet sent in your remittance for the second volume involvement of Ukrainian forces in the bility of mechanical failure. of “The Ukrainian Weekly 2000,” please do so as soon as possible. downing of the Sibir Airlines plane. Israel has rejected any possibility that Col. Gen. Tkachev said Ukraine had the air disaster was the result of terrorist The book’s price is $15. Please send checks for that amount received no information from the United activities in Tel Aviv. Minister of (plus any additional sum you may designate as a donation States supporting its assertions and Transport Ephraim Sneh explained that requested to see any documentation prov- security precautions at Ben Gurion to The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund) to: ing that a Ukrainian missile was involved. Airport are the most stringent in the The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10. P.O, Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. Other sources besides the United world and preclude any such possibility. States have indicated that an out-of-con- Russian authorities do no hold out 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 No. 41 No. 41 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 11

SSPPOORTSRTSLLIINENE GOODWILL GAMES ahead of bronze medalist Dmitri Polyarush of Belarus but behind first- Ukraine placed sixth among a field of place finisher Aleksandr Moskalenko of nearly 50 nations competing at the 2001 Russia. Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia, • Adding to Ukraine’s bronze medal from August 29 to September 9. total, Oksana Tsykhuleva placed third in Although Ukraine tied fifth-place Cuba trampoline while Anna Dogonadze- with a total of 14 medals, Ukraine actual- Lilkendey of Germany took the gold and ly earned sixth place, having won only Irina Karavayeva of Russia took the sil- three gold medals, while Cuba captured ver medal. 11 golds. Ukraine also won five silver Boxing and six bronze medals. Australia finished first in the medal count with a total of 74, • In the 54-kilogram category, edging out Russia, which accumulated 73 Ukrainian boxer Serhiy Danylchenko medals. The United States finished in took the silver medal by defeating third place with 71 total medals, 21 of Australian Justin Kane 18-12 in the semi- which were gold. AP/Markku Ulander/Lehtikuva final, but losing in the final to gold Swimming Ukraine's Yana Klochkova (right) in a file photo with Romania's Beatrice medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux of Cuba Caslaru at the 2000 European Swimming Championships in Helsinki. by a score of 12-2. Track and field • Yana Klochkova took two gold and SOCCER lowed in order by the United States, two silver medals, placing first in both Russia and Japan according to the the women’s 800-meter freestyle and the Ukrainian News. • Vita Palamar won the gold medal in • The Ukrainian men’s national soccer women’s 400-meter individual medley Gymnastics the women’s high jump by clearing a team tied the Polish national squad in events, while taking second place in the height of 1.96 meters. While Ukraine’s front of almost 21,000 fans on a late, 400-meter freestyle and 200-meter indi- last gold medal came courtesy of Serhiy 81st-minute goal by sniper Andriy • Twenty-year-old Tamara Yerfeyeva vidual medley events. Lebid in the men’s 5,000 meters on the Shevchenko to give Ukraine a 1-1 draw Track and field captured five of Ukraine’s 34 medals by closing day of the 21st World University in Warsaw. The outcome, although taking the gold in the individual all- Games. meaning little for the group five first- around, and individual rope, hoop and Other Ukrainian medalists • Tatyana Tereschuk Antipova took the place Polish side, means Ukraine will ball events giving her a total of four third gold for Ukraine by beating now face Germany in a home-at-home golds and one silver medal in the individ- American Tonja Buford-Bailey in the playoff. Ukraine will play host to ual clubs event. • Among the silver medal winners 400-meter hurdles with a time of 54.47, Germany on November 10 of this year Swimming were the men’s 4 x 400-meter swimming while Bailey finished with a time of and will then travel to Germany on relay team of Andrii Tverdostud, 54.75. Finishing in third place was November 14, where the winner of the Volodymyr Rybalka, Yevhen Zyukov and Yuliya Nosova of Russia with a time of aggregate will advance to next summer’s • Yana Klochkova broke the 200-meter Oleksander Kaidash, Yurii Belenoh in 55.27. 2002 World Cup in Japan and Korea, individual medley record of 2:14:22 set men’s shot put, Hanna Sorokina and • Coming off of her recent win over while the loser will be eliminated. by Lin Li from China in 1991 with a time Olena Zhupina in women’s 3-meter dou- American sprinter Marion Jones at the The Ukrainian men’s national soccer of 2:14:13 to take the first of her two bles springboard, Vladyslav Piskunov in eighth IAAF World Championships in team took a step to qualifying for the gold medals. The second gold came in men’s hammer throw, Vyacheslav Athletics in Edmonton, Zhanna 2002 World Cup by defeating Belarus 2- the 800-meter freestyle event, where Shyrsov in men’s 50-meter freestyle Pintusevich-Block could only manage 0 in Miensk on September 1 and handing Klochkova clocked-in at 8:36:37. swimming, Olha Mukomol in women’s 11.01 in the 100-meter final, giving her the Armenian national squad a stout 3-0 • Ihor Chervynskyi added to Ukraine’s 50-meter freestyle swimming, Andriy second place behind Jones who finished defeat in Lviv on September 5, according gold medal count by taking the men’s Serdinov in the men’s 100-meter butter- first with a time of 10.84. to the Ukrainian News. Shevchenko 800-meter freestyle event and a second fly, Anna Harina in the women’s fencing • Ukrainian Vita Palamar took the scored both goals against Belarus – at the gold in the men’s 1500-meter freestyle. epee and Maksym Khvorost in the men’s bronze medal in women’s high jump 44th and 56th minutes of play – and then Chervynskyi joined Klochkova in break- epee. behind first-place finisher Hestrie Cloete capitalized at the 13th minute of play ing a University Games record by swim- • As reported by the Ukrainian News of Russia and second-place finisher against the Armenian nationals to place ming the 800-meters in a time of 7:59:52. of Edmonton, among the bronze medal Kajsa Bergqvist. himself first among goal scorers in World • Also taking two gold medals for the winners were the women’s epee team of •Olena Hovorova also took a bronze Cup qualifying action with eight goals at Ukrainian national squad was Ihor Harina, Eva Vyborna, Natalia Hruzynska medal for Ukraine in women’s triple the conclusion of the Armenian game and Lisohor in the men’s 100-meter breast- and Olha Partala; Tverdostud in the jump with a distance of 14.25 meters, nine after the Polish match. The stroke and 50-meter breaststroke events. men’s 400-meter race, Roman Volodkov finishing behind gold medalist Tatyana Ukrainian side also saw results from • Ukraine’s seventh swimming gold in men’s platform dive; Shyrsov in the Lebedev, who jumped a distance of 14.58 Andrii Vorobei, who in both the 84th and was won by Ihor Snitko in the 400-meter 100-meter freestyle; and Nikolaychuk in meters, and silver medalist Tereza 90th minutes helped his squad diligently freestyle event. He edged out American the 100-meter backstroke. Marinova, who leaped to 14.37 meters. dispose of Armenia. Kevin Clements by .01 seconds, with a Gymnastics • With a 3-2 victory over West Morris winning time of 3:51.94. – compiled by Andrew Nynka on September 7, Columbia High School men’s soccer coach, Gene Chyzowych • In the women’s vault, Alyona set the national high school mark for UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Kvasha of Ukraine took the bronze most career victories with an impressive medal behind Elena Zamolodchikova of combined record of 593-137-55. During Russia, who took first place, and Oksana Chyzowych’s 37-year tenure his Cougars ANNUITY RATES Chusovitina of Uzbekistan, who took the have won 22 conference championships, bronze medal. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2001 13 Essex County Tournament champi- • In the category of individual clubs, onships, 15 North Jersey sectional cham- Single & Flexible Premium Annuities women’s rhythmic gymnastics, Anna pionships, and four New Jersey state First year rate (new money) Bezsonova of Ukraine took the bronze championships. 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A UNA a total of 34 medals – 13 gold, 14 silver Annuity offers safety and garantees constant growth. For information on UNA Annuities call toll free: 1 800 253 9862, ext. 3013, • Oleksander Chornohos of Ukraine and seven bronze – giving them fifth- or e-mail: [email protected] took the silver medal in trampoline, place overall behind host China and fol- 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 No. 41

DATELINE NEW YORK: More great events to anticipate by Helen Smindak

The 2001-2002 cultural season is filled with exciting and unique events that feature Ukrainian artists and per- formers. Two weeks ago “Dateline” spotlighted Ukrainian artists in the worlds of opera, ballet and clas- sical music, as well as outstanding events planned by New York’s leading Ukrainian community institutions. But that isn’t all that’s in store for us – there are also art and craft exhibitions, folk dance, music and drama. Crafting identity

The unique work of 11 artists from across the United States and one from Canada who excel in crafts with inno- vative forms and designs will be shown in the spacious rooms of the Ukrainian Institute of America, Fifth Avenue and 79th Street, during the November 2-4 weekend. The exhibit and sale, whose proceeds will benefit The Ukrainian Museum, is sponsored by Branch 113 of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America and the Ukrainian Institute of America. Headlined “Crafting Identity: Twelve Artists Interpret Their Cultural Roots,” the show will open with a 6 p.m. reception on Friday, November 2, for a preview and sale of the artists’ fine quality crafts. Viewers will note that ancient techniques have been fused with contemporary aesthetics in the jewelry, ceram- ics, glass and wood objects, textile designs, egg decorat- ing and silversmithing. The pieces on display are the work of Masha Archer, Boris Dudchenko, Nancy Weeks “Where Eagles Soar” by Nancy Weeks Dudchenko (100 by 48 inches). Dudchenko, Natalia Kormeluk, Lialia Kuchma, Dan Kvitka, Sophia Lada, Nina Lapchyk, Kateryna Nemyra, The sophisticated, eye-catching wood sculptures and well as museum-quality reproductions of ancient Zorianna Sokhatska, Valentin Yotkov and Sofia Zielyk. decorative objects produced by contemporary craft artist objects, often with repoussé patterning. Chairwoman Ilona Sochynsky-Shyprykevich, herself Dan Kvitka of Oregon have been featured in a number Sofia Zielyk of New York is an expert in the intricate, an artist of high repute, says the pieces in the exhibit are of publications, including Architectural Digest, and are ancient art of decorating pysanky (Easter eggs), an art “a moving tribute to the potent mix of myth and memo- included in the permanent collections of such institu- she learned at the age of 6 from her mother. She has ry that constitute one’s personal heritage.” She noted tions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, conducted numerous demonstrations and workshops, that this “high-end” exhibit, featuring and promoting Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the American Craft among them demos at The Metropolitan Museum of Art artists nationwide and advertised in leading craft maga- Museum in New York. and the Museum of Natural History, appears frequently zines, also brought together a number of young Sophia Lada of Canada draws on distinctly Ukrainian on television and in the print media, and has had her Ukrainian professionals such as Adriana Leshko and archetypes for her exquisite hand-painted ornaments, work featured in a number of coffee-table books. Lew Rakowsky, who lent their talents in communica- and references traditional religious icons for her round Ms. Sochynsky, a resident of both New York City and tions and graphic design. plaques. Margate, N.J., recently completed a six-month assign- “The show will feature a whole range of objects, as Nina Lapchyk of Massachusetts creates large-scale ment as artist-in-residence for the Noyes Museum of Art well as a wide range of prices – from $35 to $50 for an wall hangings and hand-painted scarves of silk and cot- in Oceanville, N.J., developing and presenting work- exquisite hand-painted ornament to $21,000 for a large ton, all resonating with cultural, historical and spiritual shops for the general public and compiling a photo- hand-made tapestry – so we’re anticipating a lot of references to Ukraine’s rich heritage. graphic essay “Portrait of Two Communities” for exhibit action,” Ms. Sochynsky says. Kateryna Nemyra reveals primitive and sophisticated at the museum last spring. She has been commissioned Ms. Sochynsky, assisted by vice-chairs Ola Lewicky creativity in ceramic and clay sculptures, which have by the City of Atlantic City to create and paint a huge and Daria Mehrle, worked closely with Dr. Walter been featured in a number of shows both abroad and in mural on the theme of a fishing pier, to be located on a Hoydysh, the institute’s vice-president of programs, and the U.S., including her own Svitlytsia art studio and prominent avenue in tribute to the Italian community. Maria Shust, director of the museum, who was invited gallery in Parma Heights, Ohio. Exhibit tickets are available in various categories, to come up with a concept for the installation and in Zorianna Sokhatska, a textile artist and teacher in from $25 for museum friends to $1,000 for corporate turn was assisted by George Sawicky, architect of the Philadelphia who founded and directs the Palitra art stu- sponsors, through The Ukrainian Museum at (212) 228- new Ukrainian Museum building. dio in Jenkintown, Pa., creates large woven wool tapes- 0110. The craft show will be open on Friday, November Here’s a closer look at the show’s participating artists tries and delicate painted silk dresses, hats and scarves. 2, 6-9 p.m.; Saturday, November 3, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. and and its coordinator, beginning with Kyiv-born Masha The show’s sole non-Ukrainian, the Bulgarian-born Sunday, November 4, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Archer of San Francisco, whose dramatic and oversized Valentin Yotkov, is recognized internationally as a Here come the Tammies beaded pieces recall both Native American folk art and designer, artisan and teacher in the rare field of silver- the traditional gerdan necklaces of her homeland. A smithing. Mr. Yotkov, who runs his own teaching studio restorer and exhibitor at the Museo Nacional de Mexico in Brooklyn, turns out sleek contemporary pieces as Five Pennsylvania students of Ukrainian heritage will and later a jewelry and clothing designer in Tucson and be performing with the Duquesne University San Francisco, she was named Art-to-Wear Jewelry Tamburitzans at the Fashion Institute of New York, 227 Designer for the U.S. by the New York Fashion Group W. 27th St., on October 20. They are Jessica Craig of in 1985. Her work is currently shown in many shops Pittsburgh, Matt Haritan of McMurray, Dana across the country, including Saks Fifth Avenue stores Holomshek from West Mifflin, J.R. Sergeant from nationwide and the San Francisco Opera Shop, as well Center Township and Elizabeth Skalyo of Bridgeville. as the Firebird Cafe in New York. Fresh and effervescent as ever, though the ensemble is Acclaimed glass artist Boris Dudchenko of in its 65th season, the Tamburitzans will once again Pennsylvania, who produces glass sculpture pieces, has bring to life the folk songs, dances and traditions of had numerous one-man shows as well as stints of teach- Central and Eastern Europe, including the Yiddish drink- ing at Pittsburgh’s prestigious Carnegie-Mellon ing song “Shprayz Ich Mir” that was popular among University and renowned art institutes in the United Jews in Odesa, Kyiv and Lviv. Their program will also Kingdom. include the comical Siberian wrestlers’ dance Nancy Weeks Dudchenko, a full-time ceramic artist, “Nanayan,” once performed by former Tamburitzan specializes in one-of-a-kind glazed and painted ceramic Andrij Cybyk and now re-staged by Mr. Cybyk for per- wall sculptures. Her works hang in over 200 corporate formance by Mr. Haritan. collections and numerous museums and private collec- The Haritan family, incidentally, has been heavily tions. involved with the Tammies. Natalia Kormeluk of Maryland, best known for her Matt’s father, Michael Haritan, at one time the group’s wheel-thrown curved vessel forms in black-and-white tour manager, is a professional photographer whose ceramic, is a full-time instructor of pottery and clay work has been featured in the Tamburitzans’ souvenir sculpture at The Field School in Washington and a mas- program for over two decades. Matt’s uncle, Tim tercraftsman at Manor College’s Ukrainian Heritage Haritan, was a Tamburitzan in the 1980s, as was Tim’s Studies Center. She created a large-scale free-standing wife, the former Andrea Elsner. The Haritan family, “pich” (clay-tile oven or kiln) for the University of active for many years with Pittsburgh’s Ukrainian cultur- Pittsburgh’s Ukrainian Nationality Room. al community, also belongs to the Poltava Ukrainian folk Lialia Kuchma of Illinois, the creator of incredibly ensemble that performs annually in the Pittsburgh Folk fine tapestries with glowing, dynamic images, has par- Festival. ticipated in many solo and group shows, and earned “Luristan Pitcher” by Dan Kvitka (12 inches in numerous grants and awards. diameter, 19 inches in height). (Continued on page 14) No. 41 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 13 35,000 crowd North America’s largest Ukrainian street festival by Jurij Klufas up as a children’s midway with multiple rides, games and the obligatory candy TORONTO – Up to 35,000 eager visi- floss. Approximately 40 kiosks were tors came out to participate in the fifth arranged as a great shopping delight in a annual Bloor West Village Ukrainian “yarmarok” (bazaar) area by vendors Festival held on Friday and Saturday from both sides of the border selling September 21-22. their colorful arts and crafts, T-shirts, Friday night was completely rained dolls, home furnishings, children’s out but beautiful sunshine greeted the books, etc. festival’s parade on Saturday morning. A major cultural achievement for the This year’s parade marshal, Hollywood festival this year was the establishment TV actress Mimi Kuzyk, led the parade of the “ Be Ukrainian for a Day” pavil- along Toronto’s major thoroughfare, rid- ion. Festival manager Raya Shadursky ing in a vintage Cadillac covertable. said she felt that this was a very con- After her came 45 colorful parade entries scious and significant move for the festi- with over 1,000 fun-loving participants. val: “We are very proud to welcome St. Thanks to the fact that this was the first Vladimir Institute as the sponsor and year that the festival, presented by producer of our new pavilion ‘Be Kontakt Television, was held in Ukrainian for a Day.’ This pavilion September there was a huge children’s showcased the multiple achievements of contingent in the parade. the Ukrainian community and its individ- Festival coordinator Olya Grod said uals on the Canadian scene as well as its she was extremely impressed with this colourfull heritage. Our festival is one of year’s turnout: “This was the biggest the few festivals that really focuses on parade yet. The main factor was that in true culture.” addition to the annual regular entries A very significant aspect of the festi- Members of Lviv’s Pikardiiska Tertsia wave to the crowd during the parade. such as the trainful of kids organized val is the social scene, and this was by the Ukrainian Toronto School where Ms. Shadursky said the growth of Board, this year we had the St. Sofia the festival was most evident. Ukrainian day school, the Saturday Tsiopa Palijiw Ukrainian School, as “Everything just keeps getting bigger well as four junior soccer teams of ST and bigger every year,” she observed. Ukraina.” “This year our newest food and beverage By noon there were already over sponsors, Cheemo Varenyky and 15,000 people crowding the huge spe- Slavutych Ukrainian beer, were a great cially constructed 40-by-30-foot stage hit, with everything sold out before the on Bloor Street and eagerly awaiting end of the night. Everybody just wanted the festival’s opening ceremonies. The to be in the beer garden, not just for the official ribbon-cutting was performed beer but to meet and chat with friends by Ms. Kuzyk flanked by the festival’s whom they saw last week or those they special guest, Mayor Vasyl Kuybida of hadn’t seen for 10 years.” Lviv and the president of the area’s The co-host of the evening’s gala Business Improvement Association, cabaret concert, Victor Malarek, Alex Ling. After the traditional render- explained: “What I think is the most sig- ing of Canada’s and Ukraine’s national nificant about this festival is that it anthems the Baturyn Orchestra and brings together both young and old, Band also performed the American teenagers and the middle-aged, those who just came over from Ukraine and anthem in remembrance of the terrorist Marta Stangret attacks on Washington and New York. those like me who were born here.” Mayor Kuibida, was visibly impressed The festival involves and brings Young festival-goers get into the blue-and-yellow spirit. everybody together. Upon being asked by the masses of people all through the Shevchenko and the local hospital, St. val since day one, and this year their festival area, noting in his address to fes- about coming out to the festival, commu- nity members invariably responded: “Of Joseph’s Health Center. Ola Grod fund-raising project was the biggest tival attendees: “It’s amazing to see so expressed very positive feelings about ever.” many Ukrainians together – far away course we’re coming.” One festival-goer noted: “My biggest personal thrill was this new approach to community involve- The evening’s highlight was a fashion from Ukraine and still proud of their her- ment: “St. Joseph’s had a beautiful exhib- show featuring over 20 modern designs itage.” when my daughter, Sofia, while skipping it and did all kinds of entertaining, from by fashion couturieres Iryna and Natalka The end of the official ceremonies home after the festival, joyously exclaimed: ‘Tatu, it’s fun to be face-painting for kids to free blood tests Baraniuk form the Vesna Fashion House marked the beginning of the festival’s in Lviv. The festival chairman (this two all-day concerts. Thanks to annual Ukrainian!’ ” for adults. In addition, we are also very This year the festival began a long- pleased with the continued great support writer) saw their designs during a fashion corporate sponsors, Northland Power and show in Lviv in April, and decided that Acuity Investment Management, and this term community partership with the from our community seniors: ‘Suspilna year’s first-time entry, Western Union, Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Sluzhba’ has been involved with the festi- (Continued on page 21) the festival management was able to commission the construction of two stages set up in different areas of the fes- tival site. The festival stage manager, Zoriana Grod, had her hands full coordinating the various groups and their performance schedules: “This year we have 35 differ- ent performance groups with, I guess, about 200 performers. These are terriffic performers from all over: local Toronto ensembles, Canada-wide, the U.S.A. as well as Ukraine: Pikardiiska Tertsia came all the way from Lviv to perform here, and they really got the crowd going. They were fabulous!” Very moving were the afternoon and evening special tributes performed by violin virtuoso Vasyl Popadiuk in remembrance of the victims of the recent tragedies in the United States. The festival has a special connection with Mr. Popadiuk, since five years ago the first Festival stage presentation fea- tured his premiere performance in North America. Meanwhile, throughout the festival’s six-block site, other activities entertained guests. In order to accommodate whole families, a greatly expanded area was set A view of some of the thousands who came to enjoy food and fun on Bloor Street. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 No. 41

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Sister’s Chapel at the Basilian á „ÎË·ÓÍËÏ Ê‡ÎÂÏ ÔÓ‚¥‰ÓÏÎflπÏÓ ðÓ‰ËÌÛ, Motherhouse on September 26 with the Sister Magdalene... ÔðËflÚÂÎ¥‚ ¥ Á̇ÈÓÏËı, ˘Ó Á ‚ÓÎ¥ ÇÒÂ‚Ë¯Ì¸Ó„Ó (Continued from page 4) sisters’ chaplain, the Rev. Michael Rozmarynowycz, as the main celebrant. 26 ‚ÂðÂÒÌfl 2001 ð. ‚¥‰¥È¯Ó‚ Û ‚¥˜Ì¥ÒÚ¸ teach religion at the Ukrainian Saturday ̇ 68-ÏÛ ðÓˆ¥ ÊËÚÚfl ̇¯ ‰ÓðÓ„ËÈ school at the Ukrainian Cultural Center A funeral divine liturgy was sung on åìÜ, ÅÄíúäé ¥ ÑßÑé on Cedar Road until 1997. Thursday, September 27, in the Holy Sister is survived by two sisters – Trinity Chapel of the Sisters of St. Basil Sister Sebastian and Joan DeSilvis; two the Great. The Rev. Rozmarynowycz brothers – Michael and Walter and her officiated. Sister Dorothy Ann sister-in-law Mary; as well as several Busowski OSBM, provincial, delivered nieces and nephews. the eulogy. Interment followed in the Parastas services were held in the sisters’ cemetery.

Museum. There were samples from the fine Cleveland marks... arts collection (Nikifor, Krychevsky, ·Î. Ô. (Continued from page 5) Archipenko, etc.), folk art treasures, docu- future museum. ments, archival photographs, etc. The slides ÔÓÎÍÓ‚ÌËÍ She remembered the brilliant leader- were accompanied by a commentary deliv- ship and vision of the late UNWLA ered by Dozia Krislata. leader Ivanna Rozankowsky and Dr. Daria Kulchytsky was in charge of the ÇÄëàãú ÄçÑêûä Bohdan Cymbalisty, longtime board very elegant decorations; and the organ- chairman, during whose tenure the muse- izing committee for the event was headed Ç ÔÓıÓðÓÌÌÓÏÛ Á‡‚‰ÂÌÌ¥ Demaine Funeral Home ‚ ̉¥Î˛, 30-„Ó um was handed over to the community- by Lukia Hryciw. ‚ÂðÂÒÌfl 2001 ð. ‚¥‰‚¥‰ËÌË ‚¥‰ 6-Óª ‰Ó 8-Óª „Ó‰. ‚˜. at-large and now belongs to the entire Catalogues of the Museum’s exhibi- èÓıÓðÓÌ̇ ëãìÜÅÄ ÅéÜÄ ‚¥‰·Û·Òfl ‚ ÔÓ̉¥ÎÓÍ, 1 ÊÓ‚ÚÌfl ‚ ÒÓ·Óð¥ Ukrainian American community. tions were available for purchase. Ò‚. êÓ‰ËÌË Û Ç‡¯¥Ì£ÚÓÌ¥, ÓÔ¥ÒÎfl ̇ ÛÍð‡ªÌÒ¸ÍËÈ ˆ‚ËÌÚ‡ð – Cedar Hill Mrs. Hnateyko spoke with special joy The members of the UNWLA in Ukrainian Memorial. of Eugene and Daymel Shklar’s recent Cleveland expressed gratitude to all the donation of $3.5 million, which in effect, friends who give constant support to The á‡Î˯ÂÌ¥ ‚ „ÎË·ÓÍÓÏÛ ÒÏÛÚÍÛ: made the start of construction possible. Ukrainian Museum, noting that preserv- ‰ðÛÊË̇ – åÄêíÄ A brief but excellent program of musical ing the Ukrainian cultural heritage and ÒËÌË – ‰-ð åÄêäé performances by guests from Ukraine and making it available to all is perhaps the – ÄçÑêßâ Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ Äççéû most precious gift Ukrainian Americans Slovakia was much appreciated by some ‚ÌÛÍË – ãìäÄ ¥ ãÖÇäé 180 guests. The evening ended with a can make to America and to the future ·ð‡ÚË – ¥ÌÊ. Ñåàíêé Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ ÄçÑêÖ∏û panorama of slides showing some of the generations who will be seeking their exquisite treasures owned by The Ukrainian roots. – ÄÑÄå Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ ÖãàëÄÇÖíéû ÒÂÒÚðË – ëíÖîÄçßü Á ÏÛÊÂÏ ÖÇÉÖçéå ëàêéíûäéå – åÄêßü ëäéí – ûãßü Á ÏÛÊÂÏ ÇÖâÑéå ÑéÇÑã ¯‚‡£Âð – ‰-ð ûêßâ äìãúóàñúäàâ Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ ÑÄêß∏û ¥ ÒË̇ÏË ãÖÇäéå Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ ÄêÖíéû ¥ ÑÄçàãéå ÔÎÂÏ¥ÌÌËÍË – ëíÖîÄç Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ ëìáÄçéû – èÖíêàä Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ çÖçëß – ûêßâ ëàêéíûä Á ‰ðÛÊËÌÓ˛ Ñß – ¥ÌÊ. ÑÄçàãé ëàêéíûä – çÄíÄãäÄ Á ÏÛÊÂÏ ¥ÌÊ. åàïÄâãéå é'ãéîãàç – ‡‰‚ÓÍ‡Ú ‰-ð ãßçÑÄ ëäéí – ëìáÄç Á ÏÛÊÂÏ ÎÚ. òÖâç ¢Äíêß – ¥ÌÊ. êéÑßüç ÑéÇÑã Bohdan Katamay – Ñéìç ÑéÇÑã ·ÎËʘ‡ ¥ ‰‡Î¸¯‡ ðÓ‰Ë̇ ‚ ìÍð‡ªÌ¥ ¥ êÛÏÛÌ¥ª. of Philadelphia, passed away on October 2, 2001, at Ç¥˜Ì‡ âÓÏÛ Ô‡Ï'flÚ¸! the age of 90. –––––––––––––––––––––– á‡Ï¥ÒÚ¸ Í‚¥Ú¥‚ ðÓ‰Ë̇ ·Û‰Â ˘ËðÓ ‚‰fl˜Ì‡ Á‡ ÏÓÎËÚ‚Ë ¥ Á‡ ‰‡ð ̇ ‰¥ÚÂÈ He is survived by his wife and children, who loved óÓðÌÓ·ËÎfl (Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund). him deeply, and by many relatives in Ukraine and óÂÍË ÔðÓ¯Û ÔÂðÂÒË·ÚË Ì‡ ‡‰ðÂÒÛ: the United States. Andriuk Family, 1 Chasmars Pond Rd., Darien, CT 06820.

Bohdan was active in journalism and fund-raising endeavors on behalf of the Ukrainian community. He will be missed by all whose lives he has With deep sorrw we announce that on October 4, 2001, touched. passed away

A Parastas was held on Thursday, October 11, 2001. The burial services followed on Friday, October 12, 2001.

Olga Buzdygan neé Nalywoyko

a teacher at St. George Ukrainian Catholic School in New York Vichnaya Pamiat! from 1950 until 1997. Funeral services were held on Tuesday, October 9, at 9:30 a.m. at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in New York City.

Interment was at the Calvary Cemetery. In deep sorrow

DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS daughter: Carol Jarema to be published in The Ukrainian Weekly – in the Ukrainian grandchildren: George Jarema or English language – are accepted by mail, courier, fax, phone or e-mail. Tina Jarema Information should be addressed to the attention of the Advertising Department and sent to: The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the World Trade (NB: please do not include post office box if sending via courier), Parsippany, N.J. 07054; fax, (973) 644-9510; telephone, (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040; e-mail, [email protected]. Center Fund. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 No. 41

CLUB SPORTS: Sitch soccer team

advancesby Omelan Twardowsky to Championscommunities. League It should be noted that the Sitch team NEWARK, N. J. – According to the advances to the Champions League with rules of the Garden State Soccer League essentially the same, predominantly and its top Elite Division, the champion Ukrainian, roster that won the somewhat 2001 Leadership Conference of that division automatically advances to weaker Elite Division. To date, the fol- the Champions League, which operates lowing players have been registered with October 20, 2001 in New Jersey, New York and the league: Michal Hojcska (goalie), Connecticut. Presently the Champions Christopher Mykolayevsky, Roman presents League consists of American and Stefourak, Alexander Babushkin, National divisions, in which a total of 20 Vladislav Yerovinkin, Yevgeniy Hon. Borys Tarasyuk soccer clubs compete. Miladinov, Ihor Cheshko, Vladimir Silin, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine As reported earlier, the Chornomorska Ilya Yermolenko (the last seven are Sitch soccer team of Newark had won the as recent arrivals from Ukraine), Marco Elite Division championship in the 2000- Hordinsky, Eugene Gulievicz, Joseph 2001 season and thus advanced to the Guest Speaker Dovichak, Stefan Vavrek, Artur Sadykov Champions League. and Andriy Koziol. Sitch expects to rey- Playing under the name of Union ister a few additional promising players. Ihor O.E. Kotlarchuk George Masiuk Ukrainians, the Sitch team has been Dusan Sokolak is the coach and reserve President Conference Chairman assigned to the National Division, togeth- goalie, Jerry Twardowsky is the team er with such powerful soccer clubs as manager. Costa Rica United, Makedonjia, Roma (a For more information call: Ihor Kotlarchuk at 703-548-8534 The fall schedule of the Union former rival of Sitch in the American or George Masiuk at 202-863-7317 (d) and 703-960-0043 (e) Ukrainians soccer team is as follows: Professional League), Newark Benfica, October 14, Uruguay; October 21, Santa Croce, Uruguay, Cowell’s Kickers, Cowell’s Kickers (home); October 28, Hispano American and Waldwick Roma; November 4, Newark Benfica; Kickers. Sitch is the only Ukrainian rep- November 11, Waldwick Kickers MARK T. OLESNICKY, M.D. resentative in this league. (home); November 18, Hispano Many of the above clubs are very pop- American; November 25, Santa Croce Internal Medicine ular within their ethnic communities and (home); December 2, Makedonjia. On enjoy great support not only from the October 7 the team played its first game 135 Columbia Turnpike, Suite 203 spectators, but from sponsorship by busi- against Costa Rica United. Florham Park, NJ 07932 ness and financial institutions as well. All starting times are 2:15 p.m., except Because of the modest financial capabili- for the Newark Benfica game, which is at Telephone (973) 822-5000 • Fax (973) 822-3321 ties of Newark Sitch it will be very diffi- 4:15 p.m. Sitch home games are played By Appointment cult for Ukrainian soccer players to com- at Kearce field at Valley Street and pete against these clubs. Their hope is Springfield Aveue in Union, N.J. (across that Ukrainian businessmen and profes- from Home Depot). sional people, as well as financial institu- tions will support their representatives no The article above was translated from less than is the case in the other ethnic Ukrainian by Dr. Orest Popovych. BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENTS from RODOVID PRESS (KYIV)

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Ihor O.E. Kotlarchuk George Masiuk UNA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President Conference Chairman announces that the For more information call: Ihor Kotlarchuk at 703-548-8534 BOSTON, CONNECTICUT, ROCHESTER, or George Masiuk at 202-863-7317 (d) and 703-960-0043 (e) SYRACUSE and WOONSOCKET DISTRICTS’ fall organizing meeting will be held on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2001, at 2:00 PM at SOYUZIVKA Obligated to attend as voting members are District Committee Officers, Branch Officers, Convention Delegates and two delegates each from the following branches: 178, 238, 307, 374, 12, 59, 67, 253, 254, 277, 350, 387,414, 66, 217, 285, 318, 343, 367, 21, 38, 39, 58, 121, 271, 283, 484, 177, 206, 241 MEETING WILL BE ATTENDED BY: MEMBERS of the UNA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE and General Assembly members, and District Committee chairpersons: Larisa Dijak, Boston District Ihor E. Hayda, Connecticut District Christine Dziuba, Rochester District Ivan Hvozda, Syracuse District Leon Hardink, Woonsocket District

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Zolota Bulava camp in Quebec hones Plast youths’ leadershipby Andry Monczak skills MONTREAL – Zolota Bulava, a lead- ership training program conducted under the auspices of the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, is in its 28th year of existence since its founding in Canada. Held annually in Ukraine since 1993 and biennially at the Baturyn camp- ground outside Montreal, Zolota Bulava (ZB) strives to give teens age 14-16 an opportunity to develop the skills and qualities needed to handle the responsi- bilities and challenges of leadership, qualities which should prove useful throughout their lives, whether it be in Plast, school, community organizations or future careers. Zolota Bulava began in Canada in 1973, filling a particularly important need in the overall Plast program. In the mid-1980s the program was opened to Plast teens from all of North America. And, since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, the program has proved to be of particular relevance for the rebirth and development of Plast in Ukraine. ZB is based on the concept of leader- ship by example, placing demands on both the counselors and participants. To cultivate organizational and leadership Plast youths (photos above and below) at this year’s Zolota Bulava held at the Baturyn campground in South Bolton, qualities in teens, camp activities are not Quebec, with participants from throughout North America. planned by the counselors but by the par- ticipants themselves. The counselors set the stage with interactive sessions on organizing, plan- ning and leadership, as well as practical skills and self-discipline. The partici- pants apply what they have learned by planning and executing a variety of activities on their own initiative. The emphasis is on cooperation, self- improvement and self-discipline. ZB is structured to provide a low ratio of participants to counselors, around 5:1, and aims for a group of some 30 teens in each sub-camp comprising boys and girls. Admission is selective, based on a multi-faceted application process. The sub-camps are broken down into troops (hurtky), each with their own counselor. Each group is assigned and is responsible for specific activities, which it has to plan, organize and then carry out with camp participants as a whole. Participants are evaluated on their per- formance as well as general conduct and attitude by the counselors. The small group format allows for interaction, development of ideas and honing of lead- ership and planning skills. Participants derive great satisfaction in being able to successfully carry out such undertakings. Apart from self-sufficiency in cook- ing, among activities organized by par- ticipants at this year’s camp were a full- day hike to nearby Mount PeeWee, a test of scouting skills, a sports tournament, as well as debates on Ukrainian issues and a staged celebration of the 10th anniver- sary of Ukraine’s independence. Thus, in addition to giving youth the opportunity to meet other teens and make new friends in beautiful natural surroundings, ZB strives to foster the development of cooperation and leader- ship skills and, in the process, build con- fidence to accept new challenges. In the context of the program, partici- pants learn that a leader is not a leader by virtue of being appointed to a given posi- tion, but rather that a leader can be any- one who, given good skills, hard work and a positive outlook, earns the respect Upstate NY Long Island Queens of his peers. 6325 Rte 209 226 Uniondale Avenue 32-01 31st Avenue Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Uniondale, NY 11553 Astoria, NY 11106 Going beyond the parameters of the Tel.: 914 626-2938, Fax: 914 626-8636 Tel.: 516 565-2393, Fax: 516 565-2097 Tel.: 718 626-0506, Fax: 718 626-0458 program, ZB offers an opportunity for participants to apply what they have learned to their regular Plast activities throughout the year as well as in every- day and community life. No. 41 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 21

TWG conference to focus on Ukraine’s future by George Masiuk gration into the European Union and NATO. The third panel, co-sponsored by WASHINGTON – The Washington the American Association for Ukrainian Group’s annual Leadership Conference, Studies, will look at women and to be held October 19-21 at the Key Ukrainian society: their role in non-gov- Bridge Marriott, in Arlington, Va., will ernmental organizations (NGOs), com- celebrate 10 years of Ukraine’s inde- munity groups and governmental leader- pendence by focusing on what the future ship positions. may hold for Ukraine. During the Saturday evening banquet, The conference theme, “Ukraine: Focus on the Future,” includes a hopeful Gen. Nicholas Krawciw (U.S. Army, scenario: good relations with the United retired) will receive an award for pro- States, integration into the European moting closer security ties between the Union and NATO, development of a civil United States and Ukraine. The evening society, and the revival of religious life will conclude with a dance to the music after decades of persecution. of Montage. The conference will open on Friday, On Sunday morning, October 21, October 19, with a reception at the there will be a meeting of the Federation Embassy of Ukraine at 7 p.m. The con- of Ukrainian American Business and ference program, which begins on Professional Associations. It will be fol- Saturday, will feature a major address by lowed by a brunch and a performance by Ukraine’s former foreign affairs minister Marianna Wynnytsky and Braty Blooz. Borys Tarasyuk, widely known for pro- The conference will conclude with a moting closer relations between Ukraine presentation by the Rev. Dr. Borys and the West. Gudziak on “Heartening a Nation: How The first panel on Saturday will con- John Paul II honored Ukraine ‘s Past and sist of representatives from the depart- Encouraged its Future.” ments of State, Defense and Commerce, For more information call Ihor and the FBI, who will address the U.S.- Kotlarchuk, (703) 548-8534 or George Ukrainian bilateral relationship from the Masiuk, (202) 863-7317 (daytime) or (703) perspective of their departments. 960-0043 (evening). Conference informa- In the second panel, the ambassadors tion may also be found at the TWG website to the United States from Bulgaria, at http://www.TheWashingtonGroup.org Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine will click on “Events” to get conference updates address the prospects of Ukraine’s inte- and a registration form).

Dance ensembles from Toronto, modern 35,000 crowd... Ukrainian rock renditions by Roman (Continued from page 13) Klun from Stoney Creek, assorted pop they should be shown in Toronto at the melodies by the Zahrava band, Toronto festival. soloist Tania Ostapovich, Mr. Popadiuk The fashion show was followed by performing numbers from his newly one of the festival’s feature attractions released CD as well as an extended GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING the evening gala cabaret co-hosted by a appearance by the six-person vocal former festival parade marshal and ensemble Pikardijska Tertsia of Lviv. OF THE UKRAINIAN ENGINEERS’ SOCIETY Canada’s “Queen of Comedy” Luba Goy, After the gala concert the 200 festi- along with one of Canada’s premiere val’s house band, Dunai, took over the OF AMERICA journalists, Mr. Malarek. The evening stage and let loose with great dance featured a door prize of two round-trip The General Membership Meeting of the business-class tickets to Ukraine gra- melodies as the festival ended with a ciously donated by the festival’s perenni- “Zabava Street Dance.” Ukrainian Engineers Society of America will be held on al sponsor, Air Ukraine. Planning is already in place for the Saturday, October 27, 2001, The concert presented excellent per- 2002 festival, and the set dates are Friday formances by the Desna and Ukraina and Saturday, September 13-14. at the headquarters of the Society at 2 East 79th Street, PREVIEW OF EVENTS New York, NY 10021, at 11 a.m.

(Continued from page 24) Dr. Lev Dobrjanskyj will hold a reunion at the Soyuzivka estate, JENKINTOWN, Pa.: The Voloshky President Foordmore Road on the occasion of the Ukrainian Dance Ensemble is hosting its presentation of the recently published book annual Autumn Ball at the Ukrainian on the history of Ukrainian students at the Educational Cultural Center, 700 Cedar university titled “Louvain: 1930-1985.” The Road. The dance will begin at 9 p.m. with publication features numerous documents, music by the Khvylia orchestra. There will photographs, student data, stories and more. be a performance by the Voloshky ensem- Volume I and II For reservations contact Soyuzivka: tele- ble at 8:30 p.m. Tickets: $30, adults; $25, phone, (845) 626-5641; fax, (845) 626- students. Included in the ticket price is a You can obtain both volumes for only $130.00 4638. Please make plans to attend. For more light buffet. Proper evening attire is Including Postage information about the reunion or the book required. For table reservations call Katria call Ihor Hayda, (203) 261-4530, or Vitali ORDER NOW Vizir, (650) 968-6425; in Canada, Zenon Kowal, (215) 413-2504. Tatarsky, (416) 767-3723. Fill out the order blank below and mail it with your check or money order WARREN, Mich.: The Ukrainian Saturday, November 10 National Women’s League of America, Detroit Regional Council, is staging an all- To: UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Inc. NEW YORK: The New York City and day fund-raiser at the Ukrainian Cultural 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054 New Jersey chapters of the Ukrainian Center, 26601 Ryan Road., to benefit I hereby order Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia Engineers’ Society of America (UESA), the needy school children in Ukraine via the K K K Ukrainian Medical Association of North “Milk, Buns and Books” program. The Volume I — $75.00 Volume II — $75.00 Volume I & II — $130.00 America (UMANA) and the Ukrainian theme is “Giving Angels.” There will be a Institute of America invite their members pre-Christmas bazaar, silent and live auc- NJ residents: add 6% sales tax and the general public to the first annual tions, cocktails and buffet dinner; enter- “Fall Zabava in New York City,” with music Enclosed is (a check/M.O.) for the amount $ ______tainment will include music, singers, by Luna. The event will be held at the Please send the book (s) to the following address: Ukrainian Institute of America, 2. E. 79th dancers and surprises. The featured per- St., starting at 8 p.m. Admission: members, former is comedienne Luba Goy, star of $35 in advance, $40 at the door; non-mem- radio and TV’s “Royal Canadian Air Name bers, $45 in advance, $50 at the door. For Farce.” General admission: $45; seniors, additional information call (212) 288-8660; $35; bazaar only, $1. Tickets and detailed No. Street e-mail [email protected] or [email protected], or information are available locally from view the website at www.uesa.org. Svitdana Korduba, (248) 615-7675. City State Zip Code 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 No. 41 UKEUKELLODEONODEON FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

ICHS students join in relief efforts Arts camp preserves traditions ELLENVILLE, N.Y. – For the last two weeks of August, 30 children from all over the eastern United States, including a dozen children from the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington and the Consulate General in New York City, enjoyed two fun-filled weeks here at the Ukrainian American Youth Association’s (SUM) Ukrainian Arts Camp which focuses on the preservation of Ukrainian culture and tradition. Participants had a variety of arts and crafts to choose from: wood-carving, pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs), painting, “gerdany” (beadwork) and Ukrainian embroidery. Dancing and singing also were part of the program. This year the children also enjoyed a mock Ukrainian wedding in which two camp coun- selors were married. The participants also had the opportunity to visit a water park for their Members of the Taras Shevchenko Chapter of the National Honor Society at ICHS. camp field trip. WARREN, Mich. – Students of Immaculate prayed for people they never knew. Two weeks of hard work and practice culmi- Conception Ukrainian Catholic High School It was a solemn service; every student’s problems nated in a final performance on September 1, watched in horror as the events of Tuesday, seemed trivial in light of Tuesday’s disaster. The when all the participants of the camp were able September 11 unfolded before their eyes on a tele- students became more unified, more talkative, more to show their parents and the Ukrainian commu- vision set in the high school library. Their reaction patriotic. Flags at the school hung at half-mast. nity the skills they were taught during their was that of total disbelief and condemnation of bar- The National Honor Society, Taras Shevchenko camp. baric acts against innocent people. Chapter, organized a canned food and supplies The instructors for the camp included David By Thursday morning students expressed the drive to help the relief effort. Students’ collected Odomirok (dance choreographer), Oksana desire to do something to show their solidarity with canned goods, bottled water, flashlights, batteries, Tabatchouk (embroidery and woodcarving), the families of the victims, the rescue workers and blankets and raincoats at St. Josaphat Ukrainian Olesia Bondar (painting), Maria Iwaskiw (ger- the relief effort. On Friday, the National Day of Catholic Church. dany), Irene Grassmann (pysanky), Oksana Remembrance and Prayer, the entire student body Steve Pullis, the National Honor Society branch Tomashevsky (dancing) and Nadia Vatamaiok assembled in the school chapel at 7:30 a.m. for the president, said: “I feel that this is the very least that (song, bandura instruction). The camp command weekly divine liturgy; however, this Friday’s service we could do for the men and women who are risking included Walter Wyrsta , Maria Wyrsta, Roman was different. The students and faculty did not pray their lives in New York. May God bless the relief Iwaskiw, Danny Pushchak, Katherine Wyrsta and for their own intentions, as they usually do, but workers, and God bless America.” Michelle Odomirok.

Pre-schoolers enjoy camp with parents NORTH COLLINS, N.Y. – This summer, 21 chil- dren and 17 parents traveled from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Washington, and Long Island to Novyi Sokil in North Collins, N.Y. The oldest Plast camp in the diaspora on July 15-21 hosted the 12th Tabir Ptashat, a camp for pre-schoolers with their parents. Thirteen tents encircled a shady field for this year’s raucous camp, appropriately named “Shoom Ptashat, Shoom Sela.” Dr. Oksana Lassowsky of Riva, Md., who was assisted by Roma Holowaty of Strongsville, Ohio, and Dr. Christina Stasiuk of Philadelphia, led this year’s camp. Activities included nature walks, “Olympic” sporting competitions, bonfires with singing and skits, rappelling ravine walls, as well as arts and crafts. The children met the local police and fire departments, and collectively steered the local “Ptashata” and their counselors at Plast’s Novyi Sokil campground in North Collins, N.Y. hook and ladder trucks. mals with “marshmallow aspirins” and returned Fantasy Park, exploring giant surrealistic sculptures By mistake, the face painting at a camp carnival real children back to their “distraught” parents. scattered throughout fields, forests and ponds. transformed all the children into jungle animals. A highlight of the camp was a trip to Griffis Camp good-byes were filled with promises of Fortunately, the legendary doctor “Likar Aibolyt” Sculpture Park in Ashford Hollow, N.Y. The “see you next year” as parents and children packed came to the rescue! He medicated the jungle ani- campers hiked through this 400-acre private their tents for their trips home. No. 41 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 23

SUM kids learn about sports, and more Myshka prepares for Halloween

Swimming instruction at SUM’s sports camp in Ellenville, N.Y. by Oksana Dashawetz Walter Wyrsta. Volleyball, also a favorite sport at the “oselia,” ELLENVILLE, N.Y. – When 125 attracted over 40 participants. children came to the Ukrainian Head instructor Oliana Ros, along American Youth Association (SUM) resort here for two weeks of sports with her junior coaches, Taissa camp in August, they thought they Tomaszewsky, Stefan Ros and Mishanyna would practice drills, perfect their Stefan Shchur, implemented a sports techniques and improve as coaching style that keeps the sport K S A N M N E E W O L L A H R overall players. They never expect- fun while maintaining discipline. ed that they’d also do arts and The head instructor of swimming, S H P C A N D Y K I A O R E H crafts, practice their Ukrainian, go Natalia Jackymec, proved that N W P A S A E G N A R O B S O on an eight-mile hike, and make training for her sport consists of friendships that would last through more than just practicing laps. She I O L R K S E V A E L O I C N many summers. and her junior coach, Ulana Blaha, Under the leadership of Anna were rewarded for their hard work K L E V S S D I S N T D T P M Dashawetz (komandant), Adrian when the number of kids in atten- P L S E M U T S O C R E A U U Blanarovich (bunchuzhnyi), dance doubled from the previous Oksana Dashawetz (head coun- week. M E L L A F S I O L I N E D T selor) and Nadia Dlaboha (secre- The head tennis instructor, tary), the instructors and counselors Sammy Warycha, perhaps one of U Y N A M E R I F D C O R E U have emphasized many aspects of the most demanding of all the P O L I C E M A N N K D T R A the SUM way of life, including camp’s coaches, is also one of the cooperation and responsibility. most popular. He and junior coach- U C O L O R F U L S E R G O O Soccer – as always, the most pop- es Markian Kolinsky and Alexandra ular sport – drew groups of 30 to 40 Kuziw trained their tennis players K I D S N O I T I D A R T O Y participants each week. To solve this month’s Mishanyna, search for the words capitalized in the in endurance and fitness, as well as Experienced head instructors text in the Mishanyna grid. Bohdan Kucyna and Mike Hlushko, encouraged friendly competitions with the help of junior coaches with nightly games. OCTOBER is a COLORFUL month. With the AUTUMN sea- Stefan Frycz, Nadiya Kudryk, Tanya Track and field, a new offering at son upon us, we find ourselves surrounded by LEAVES turning Wynarczuk and Peter Kasyanenko, the sports camp this year, was only RED, YELLOW, ORANGE and all shades in between. Here in taught the young athletes about a part-time activity, however, North America the season also has colorful TRADITIONS. teamwork and perseverance. reflecting the dedication of head During this splendid FALL month KIDS plan what COSTUMES Basketball has developed a loyal instructor Katia Dolak and junior and MASKS they will wear on HALLOWEEN. following due mostly to the sport’s coach Roman Kebalo, many partici- Now, with our community gaining many children from Ukraine, we find determined instructor, Nicholas pants asked that it be included as a that quite often the festivities of our TRICK or TREAT season need to be Zozula, and his junior coach, full-time activity next summer. explained to our new friends. Among the fun things we do on Halloween is get dressed up in strange OUR NEXT ISSUE: outfits, eat CANDY APPLES and CARVE PUMPKINS to make jack o’lanterns. Children in Ukraine do not celebrate this holiday, but they’re UKELODEON is published on the second Sunday of every month. To make sure to enjoy Halloween once they learn what it’s all about. it into our next issue, dated November 11, please send in your materials by Perhaps you can help your friends decide what to be this year on November 2. (Please include a daytime phone number.) Send in your articles, letters, photos, etc. to: The Ukrainian Weekly, Halloween. Why not be a HERO, like the ones we saw in action in New UKELODEON, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054; tele- York city? You can be a FIREMAN or a POLICEMAN. They are our true phone, (973) 292-9800; fax, (973) 644-9510; e-mail, [email protected]. superheroes! CHECK IT OUT: On page 20 of this issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, OUR EDITORS: read about “ZB” (that’s “Zolota Bulava”), a special camp for Plast members age 14-16 that hones leadership skills. UKELODEON is prepared by the editorial staff of The Ukrainian Weekly working in conjunction with Lydia Smyk, an elementary school teacher at St. COMING SOON: Review of a new RTS computer game designed John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School in Newark, N.J. and developed in Ukraine, “Cossacks – European Wars.” 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2001 No. 41

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Thursday, October 18 America invites everyone to their Halloween Costume Party for children, with emcee NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Art and Marta Sawycky, director of Music & Me. Literary Club and Ukrainian National The party will be held at the UIA, 2 E. 79th Women’s League of America Branch 127 St., at 2 p.m. There will be a costume parade, present “2000-2001: A Video-Panorama of professional face painting and a magic show, Events,” featuring videofilms from the as well as refreshments for the children. Yaroslav Kulynych Film Production Donation: $20 per family. RSVP by October Archive, which document events in 15 by calling the UIA, (212) 288-8660. Ukraine and the United States; introductory remarks by Lidia Babiuk, with Mr. Wednesday, October 24 Kulynych providing commentary. Donation: $7. The evening will take place PHILADELPHIA: The Shevchenko at 7 p.m. at the Mayana Gallery, 136 Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Second Ave., fourth floor. The exhibit of American Seniors’ Association of paintings by Andriy Humeniuk at the Philadelphia, under the aegis of the Mayana Gallery continues until October 21. Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, Gallery hours: Friday, 6-8 p.m., Saturday- invite the public to a presentation by the Sunday, 1-5 p.m. For more infomation call Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, rector of the Lviv (212) 260-4490 or (212) 777-8144; visit the Theological Academy, who will deliver a website www.brama.com/mayana; or e- lecture titled “Pope John Paul II in mail: [email protected]. Ukraine and the Future Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.” The lecture will be Friday-Sunday, October 19-21 held at 11 a.m. at the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, 700 WASHINGTON: The Washington Group Cedar Road, Jenkintown, Pa. Admission is will hold its annual Leadership Conference free. For further information contact Dr. at the Key Bridge Marriott in Arlington, Va. Eugene Novosad, (215) 357-2175, or Iko The conference theme is “Ukraine: Focus on Labunka, (773) 680-2637. the Future.” Borys Tarasyuk, Ukraine’s pre- vious minister of foreign affairs, will address Saturday, October 27 the conference on October 20; the Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, rector of the Lviv NEW YORK: Dr. Frank Sysyn, director, Theological Academy, will make a presenta- Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical tion on October 21 titled “Heartening a Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Nation: How Pope John Paul II Honored Studies, University of Alberta, and visiting Ukraine’s Past and Encouraged its Future.” professor, Harriman Institute, Columbia Conference panels will discuss U.S.-Ukraine University will take part in an academic relations as analyzed by representatives from conference titled “Orthodoxy and the State, Defense and Commerce depart- Democracy: Challenges After the Cold ments, and the FBI; Ukraine’s integration War,” organized jointly by The Harriman into NATO and the EU, as seen by ambassa- Institute at Columbia University, the Union dors to the United States from Bulgaria, Theological Seminary of New York and Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Ukraine; The J.M. Dawson Institute for Church-State and the role of Ukraine’s women and non- Studies, Baylor University. Dr. Sysyn will governmental organizations in building a speak on “The Role of the Orthodox civil society. For more information see the Churches in Ukraine: Political and Social TGW conference ad in this issue or call Ihor Transformation,” as part of the afternoon Kotlarchuk, (703) 548-8534. panel titled “Orthodox Churches in the Post-Cold War Political Transformation: Sunday, October 21 National Perspectives” (1 p.m., Union Theological Seminary Social Hall). WASHINGTON: The Holy Family Keynote address will be given by Bishop Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine in Kallistos of Diocleia (Timothy Ware), conjunction with the Ukrainian Catholic Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Education Foundation cordially invite the Panels at the conference will examine public to a special celebration of the Orthodox historical and theological per- Eucharist at 9:30 a.m. at the Holy Family spectives on democracy, and the roles of Shrine, 4250 Harewood Road NE, at 9:30 specific Orthodox national churches in a.m. In light of the recent horrific Greece, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine. The tragedies in New York and Washington, conference is being held at the Union the homily will address the meaning of the Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway (at ancient prayer “Lord, have mercy.” Guest 121 St.), October 26-27. For registration homilist will be the Rev. Dr. Borys (fee: $25) and information contact Gordon Gudziak, rector of the Lviv Theological N. Bardos, (212) 854-5487. Academy. Please join the Rev. Gudziak after liturgy for a special presenation in ADVANCE NOTICE the church hall on Eastern theology and spirituality in Ukraine. 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