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Vol. LXIII No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1995 75 cents Masol resigns as prime minister Lviv officials uncover "Masol's resignation will have a great Conservative was seen effect on the course of economic reforms in the country, but today it is too early to baby-selling operation as impediment to reform say what kind of effect that will be," said by Marta Kolomayets which aroused their suspicion. Kyyiv Press Bureau Apparently, mothers of newborn infants by Marta Kolomayets Yuriy Yekhanurov, chairman of the State were told their children had died at birth, Kyyiv Press Bureau Property Fund. KYYIV - Doctors allegedly involved when, in truth, children were smuggled out Mr. Masol, the last major holdover from in stealing newborn babies and smug­ KYYIV - Vitally Masol, 67, has the administration of President Leonid of the country, said Lubomyr Fedash, an gling them abroad for adoption have Interior Ministry spokesman. When the stepped down as Ukraine's prime minister, Kravchuk, was seen as a former high-rank­ been arrested in western Ukraine, the grieving mothers asked to see their babies' citing plans to retire. The announcement ing Communist official who had little chief of the anti-corruption department at bodies, hospital officials would say they did was made by President Leonid Kuchma knowledge of market reforms and even less Lviv's Interior Ministry told The Weekly not want to traumatize the parents because during a session of the Cabinet of Ministers desire to change his conservative ways. on Thursday, March 2. the babies were born with such deformities on Wednesday afternoon, March I. 'The resignation of Vitaliy Masol did In 1993-1994, 114 babies had been sold that it would be too much to handle, he The next day President Kuchma accept­ not solve the main problem: this govern­ for thousands of dollars abroad by a ring of explained. ed the prime minister's resignation and ment is incapable of resolving challenges baby-snatchers that may include foreigners, On Saturday, February 25, a local Lviv issued a decree appointing Ukraine's facing the state," said Yuriy Buzduhan, a said Markian Peliukh at the Lviv ministry, newspaper, Vysokiy Zamok (High Castle), deputy prime minister, Yevhen Marchuk, member of the Parliament's Presidium, which last week brought charges against also accused high-level officials in Lviv 54, as the acting prime minister. Both Mr. who does not belong to any faction. two doctors and one civilian. and Kyyiv of being linked to the plan to Masol's resignation and Mr. Marchuk\s 'The general mood in Parliament today Confirming this information, a Lviv sell off Ukraine's most precious natural nomination must be approved by Parlia­ is that we should call for the resignation of Oblast deputy prosecutor, Stepan Palamar, resource, newborn infants. ment. the entire government, and that the head of said his office has substantial evidence One source at the ministry, who did Lawmakers told The Weekly they the executive branch should hand-pick his against Drs. Bohdan Fedak and Lubov were likely to accept Mr. Masol's resig­ people, not inherit them from others," said Ornst and will press charges against the (Continued on page 16) nation as early as Friday, March 3. And, Oleksander Lavrynovych, a member of the two physicians involved in baby-smug­ most of the deputies polled in Parliament Rukh faction in Parliament. gling last year. He said that criminal inves­ also said they think the Supreme Council "Mr. Masol's resignation was decided tigations could take up to two months, but will back the candidacy of Gen. Marchuk back in July of last year - it was just a mat­ added that he did not have any information White Brotherhood for prime minister. ter of when it would happen," he said. about the third person, a civilian also charged by the Lviv Interior Ministry in "This was a logical solution to this over­ "What may cause some stress," added being part of the ring. ripe problem, and it will positively reflect Oleksander Yemets of the Reforms fac­ leaders go on trial on the processes of economic reform in our He told The Weekly that his department, tion, "is the candidate President Kuchma ,..iby Marta Kolomayets country," said Mykhailo Doroshenko, during a routine check of pediatric wards in ultimately nominates." Kyyiv Press Bureau President Kuchma's press secretary, com­ Lviv Oblast hospitals last year, noticed an menting on the Masol resignation. (Continued on page 3) increased number of deaths among infants, KYYIV - The trial of Maryna and Yuriy Kryvonohov, leaders of the White Brotherhood doomsday cult who prophe­ sied that the world would end on November VOA Ukrainian service marks 45th anniversary 14, 1993, and instructed their followers to commit suicide on that day in order to be by Xenia Ponomarenko our correspondent in Kyyiv," he continued. "Today, children saved, began here on Wednesday morning, UNA Washington Office of a middle school in Kyyiv send us letters, illuminated with March 1. American and Ukrainian flags and flowers, letters written in Joining Maryna Kryvdiohov, 34, who WASHINGTON - December 12, 1994, marked the 45th English in appreciation for, English USA, (a VOA program), prefers to be called Maria Devi Khrystos anniversary of the Voice of America's Ukrainian Language lessons they listened to on our airshows." Service. Despite the small space it occupies within the Voice and claims to be the "living God," and her The branch chief said he believes that the branch would of America's headquarters, this branch was seen as a formi­ husband, Yuriy, 43, who goes by the name not have survived for 45 years without the "vision and deep dable enemy of the Soviet Union. Ioann z Vamy (John is with you), at the understanding of the Ukrainian question in the context of the Distinguished guests present at an anniversary gathering trial at the Kyyiv City Court is a third former Soviet Union by responsible individuals in the federal included the director of the Voice of America (VOA), Geof defendant, Vitaliy Kovalchuk, 28, who Cowan, and the director for the U.S. Information Agency's government." claims to be apostle Peter the Third. Bureau of Broadcasting, Joseph Bruns. Past and present broad­ Messrs. Cowan and Bruns both expressed their belief that During the opening minutes of the casters saluted this victorious giant during the celebration - even the Ukrainian Service was a vital part of the international trial, all three defendants refused legal as the VOA faces the threat of termination due to the budget- broadcasting service of the United States, serving to defeat counsel, opting to represent themselves. cutting moves of the Republican-controlled Congress. the ideas of the former Soviet Union and leading to its Later in the day, Maria Devi Khrystos, The current chief of the Ukrainian Branch, Wolodymyr demise. Mr. Bruns emphasized the service's instrumental who married Mr. Kryvonohov in 1990, Bilajiw, recounted the history of the service during his role in the battle for freedom. He told the branch he will denounced her husband, saying that he is remarks. Its first chief was Nykyfor Hryhoryiv, who was "fight very hard" to continue the branch's role in the future - Satan and that she is seeking a divorce born in Ukraine in 1883. In 1918, at age 35, Mr. Hryhoryiv a future in jeopardy due to slashes in the federal budget. from him. (It is Mr. Kryvonohov who was a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, the Central Rada, The past and present broadcasters and editors of the claimed that his wife was the messiah when it proclaimed the independence of the Ukrainian Ukrainian Service are unified by their sense of duty and and had a following of tens of thousands National Republic on January 22, 1918. obligation to spread truth about the West throughout of people, mostly minors.) "Were he alive in the summer of 1991, he would be wit­ Ukraine. Several were happy to speak to reporters about the "Only God can absolve me, and if need nessing a historical act, the second independence of past role of the service and its future potential. be, condemn me," said Mr. Kryvonohov, Ukraine...and he would have been happy knowing that a Anya Dydyk-Petrenko, news editor, host and 10-year veteran as the court militia ushered out television VOA correspondent reported live from Kyyiv about this of the Ukrainian Service, said, "although the Cold War is over, camera crews, allowing only print journal­ momentous event," said Mr. Bilajiw. the service's main goal is to provide its listeners with an objec­ ists to remain in the courtroom located just Mr. Bilajiw still keeps the old Soviet Ukrainian cartoons tive view of international events. The service is branching out in meters away from St. Sophia Cathedral, depicting VOA and other Western international broadcasters new important directions. VOA was in the forefront of develop­ where the cult leaders were arrested on as "warmongers," and clippings depicting VOA as "the poi­ ing television transmission to the countries of the former Soviet November 10, 1993. soners of the airwaves." Union, and will continue to advance technologically. However, The men have been charged with four "That was a mere decade ago. Today the Embassy of criminal counts, including seizing gov- Ukraine in Washington smoothly facilitates accreditation of (Continued on page 19) (Continued on page 16) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1995 No. 10 ANALYSIS: Treasures plundered during World War II not yet returned Large firms to be partially privatized countries, largely for oil and gas imports by Oleksander Fedoruk current information most efficiently. from Russia and Turkmenistan. All told, the The complexities and scales of the task KYYIV — President Leonid Kuchma is country traded $19.65 billion worth of CONCLUSION Ukraine faces require accurate scientific pushing for further acceleration of econom­ goods, $9.9 billion in exports and $9.77 bil­ ic reforms, reported Interfax. A decree the A major problem today is the lack of organization with specific identification of lion in imports. Russia accounted for the president issued on February 27, upon objective and accurate information about priorities, and current possibilities and largest portion of total trade (39 percent) return from a two-week working vacation, the fate of Ukrainian cultural treasures. perspectives in planning. Cooperation is and the majority of imports (59 percent, The Soviet Union, instead of undertaking needed among all interested offices, insti­ gives the government authorization to offer mostly for oil). (OMRI Daily Digest) well-grounded academic inquiry, used tutions, organizations, public unions, indi­ shares on the Ukrainian stock exchange for the losses as the basis for propagandistic vidual enthusiasts based on mutual under­ large corporations currently part of joint Kuchma forms organized crime agency standing, cooperation, collegiality, sinceri­ ventures. Some 30 percent of Ukraine's declarations blessed by the ideological KYYIV — President Leonid Kuchma ty and responsibility. portion of the joint ventures will be made stamp of the Soviet political leadership. has ordered the establishment of a new gov­ The peculiar characteristic of the prob­ available to individual and corporate It is paradoxical, yet a fact, that none of ernment agency tasked with fighting orga­ lem of identifying and returning lost cul­ investors. Ukraine's privatization agency, the campaigns to develop an inventory of nized crime. Interfax reported on February tural treasures is such that it cannot be the State Property Fund, will compile a list the lost treasures of the archives, libraries 22 that the new agency would serve to sup­ resolved by one state. Its nature suggests of 100 large monopolies, defense plants and museums of the former Soviet plement the existing law enforcement agen­ the need for broad cooperation with other and most enterprises whose value exceeds Union, including those in Ukraine, start­ cies, but would focus mainly on "mafia countries on the basis of good will and 45 billion kbv. The proceeds of the stock ed during the war years or after the war, activities." (OMRI Daily Digest) were brought to a conclusion. At best, international legal norms. I would like to offerings will finance the establishment of the collected materials were deposited in underline that Ukraine has ratified all new voucher auction centers throughout Ukraine offers to mediate Bosnian conflict government archives. Some materials, international conventions regulating Ukraine as well as an electronic stock KYYIV — Ukraine has offered to act known to have been retrieved, have dis­ cooperation among members of the exchange. Stocks in smaller companies not as an intermediary between the warring appeared without a trace. world community in this domain and has sold at auction will eventually also be made sides in the Bosnian conflict, announced As a result most cultural institutions to committed itself to adhere to their spirit available on the stock exchange. (OMRI Defense Minister Valeriy Shmarov on this day do not have registers of their lost and letter. We expect our partners to take Daily Digest) February 23. "Ukraine does not have any treasures. This is particularly characteris­ a similar approach. Ukraine registers trade surplus concrete interests in the Balkans, besides tic of Ukraine's libraries, which, in fact, It is necessary to particularly empha­ size the need for closer cooperation with desiring peace in Europe," said Mr. have only just begun this work. The situa­ KYYIV — Ukraine's Statistics Ministry the Russian Federation and Belarus. Shmarov upon returning from a two-day tion is complicated by the fact that in announced that Ukraine had a trade surplus With regard to Germany, our relations visit to Bosnia and Croatia. While visiting many archives, museums and libraries of $114.7 million in 1994. Interfax reported are developing dynamically, in accor­ the 1,200 Ukrainian troops, part of the pre-war catalogues and inventories were on February 27 that ministry figures dance with a protocol of intent on coop­ U.N. peacekeeping mission in that war- destroyed. Unfortunately, most of those showed that Ukraine had a $500 million eration and identification of cultural trea­ turn region, the defense minister met with who participated in these events and could deficit for the first half of 1994, which was sures, and agreements reached on the senior Croatian, Bosnian and Bosnian have rendered help have passed away. On offset by a trade surplus with non-CIS mutual exchange of collections illegally Serb officials. He also met with the U.N. the other hand, analysis of numerous doc­ countries in the second half. Ukraine moved during the second world war. In uments from earlier years concerning loss­ recorded a $1.7 billion deficit with CIS (Continued on page 17) es at cultural centers shows that the infor­ May 1993, Ukraine handed over to mation available is incomplete and needs Germany historic materials connected substantial verification. with the life of the outstanding German The occupational policy of the poet J.W. Goethe. In November 1993, Left-wing movements protest German Nazi leadership and its allies the government of Germany received also needs fundamental investigation. 8,000 artifacts of ceramics and glassware We need to get a complete picture of the from the archaeological site at Kablov, TV's "nationalist propaganda" moved to Ukraine during World War II. pilfering of our cultural heritage; to learn by Marta Kolomayets later in the day that their demands also the mechanism of removal, the trans­ A ceremonial return of Bronze Age Kyyiv Press Bureau include showing films that provide "an portation routes and to establish their and Neolithic Period artifacts of the accurate account of Ukraine's history." Kherson Museum of History and KYYIV - Accusing the Ukrainian State current locations. They have asked for a ban on films Archaeology, taken in 1944 and kept for Radio and Television Committee of filling The latest academic inquiries are that "deform Ukraine's history via the several years in Germany, was held in the airwaves with "nationalist propaganda," attempting to ^icb the movement of glorification of the Organization of 1994. These moves received positive left-wing forces in Ukraine have begun Ukraine's cultural troves from Ukraine to Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian responses in Ukraine and Germany, and pressuring the state-run company to grant the eastern regions of the Soviet Union: Insurgent Army," and called for the strengthened confidence among the peo­ them two hours of air time per week for the activities of the Soviet war administra­ ouster of certain journalists who promote ple and the governments. their parties' and movements' views. tion and the Soviet administration in their "right-wing views." Today we are cooperating with the Over 300 representatives of 15 parties Germany in the immediate post-war years They said they would like to see a new Bremen Institute of East European and movements picketed the state-run in returning confiscated cultural relics. We television channel in Kyyiv on which Studies. Our current agenda includes the company, whose offices are located on have little clear information about how they could air their ideas and another these artifacts in the Soviet rear areas were creation of a joint data bank. the Khreshchatyk, in the heart of Kyyiv, national TV channel for Ukraine's handled and where they ended up. Were In Ukraine, German cultural treasures, on Wednesday morning, February 22. Russian-speaking population. They also all of them returned? Likewise, a dearth of which made their way to Ukraine as war Leaders of the Communist and have asked that certain public figures and information exists regarding the ways and reparations or simply as trophies of war, Socialist parties, as well as other left-wing remain. Until recently their existence was historians be kept off the air waves. means by which Ukrainian cultural trea­ organizations, such as the Ukrainian secret. The National Commission on the sures were to be returned from Germany Union of Workers, Women-Laborers for Bomb threat ends protests Return of Cultural Treasures is working and the other countries of Europe. We do the Future of the Children of Ukraine and to find them. In time we plan to organize The unsanctioned protest was cut short not have their registers. the Russian cultural organization Kievan a special exhibition of cultural treasures Our initial experiences in attempting (Continued on page 12) taken from Germany. With our German Rus', told reporters at a news conference to identify and retrieve Ukraine's pilfered colleagues we are looking to implement a cultural treasures shows the urgent need policy of cultural restitution. to develop fundamental groundwork to deal with the international legal aspects Direct contacts between archivists, FOUNDED 1933 of the problem. librarians, museum workers and scientists THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY of the involved countries are the most pro­ Practically, the end result of academic ductive. 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(ISSN - 0273-9348) become the basis for the development of a computer data bank, which would allow Today it is necessary to further define Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper (annual sub­ us to use the latest technologies to gather the international legal principles for the scription fee: $55; $30 for UNA members), and Veselka, a Ukrainian-language children's return of cultural treasures illegally moved magazine (annual subscription fee: $10; $8 for UNA members). during the second world war. It is neces­ Oleksander Fedoruk is the chairman sary to declare that from the end of the The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: of the National Commission for the 1940s the requirements of the Hague (201)434-0237,-0807,-3036 (201)451-2200 Return of Cultural Treasures to Ukraine. Convention of 1907 and the declaration of Postmaster, send address Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz The above is a translated, edited and the Allied countries in January 1943, which excerpted version (prepared for publica­ changes to: Associate editor: Marta Kolomayets (Kyyiv) obligated the return of cultural treasures The Ukrainian Weekly Assistant editor: Khristina Lew tion by Roman Woronowycz) of a paper illegally removed during military opera­ he presented at a three-day conference P.O. Box 346 Staff writers/editors: Roman Woronowycz tions and occupations, were not observed. Jersey City, N.J. 07303 Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj called "The Spoils of War. " The confer­ Moreover, there have been incidents where ence was held at the Bard Graduate such treasures have been overtly displayed The Ukrainian Weekly, March 5,1995, No. 10, Vol. LXIII Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts Copyright © 1995 The Ukrainian Weekly in New York on January 19-21. 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IMF head pledges to support Ukrainian Canadian fined for aiding loan package for Ukraine illegal exit of eight Cuban nationals by Marta Kolomayets product, Ukrainian officials said the IMF Kyyiv Press Bureau seemed willing to make some conces­ by Khristina Lew His wife, Donna, who heard of her sions on the conditions it set for Ukraine. JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A Cuban husband's detention from a colleague in KYYIV - During a telephone conver­ Originally, the IMF had stipulated a bud­ Toronto two days after the fact, worked sation with President Leonid Kuchma on court fined Ukrainian Canadian Robert get deficit of 5 percent in 1995. Shymko 12,000 pesos ($3,000 U.S.) for tirelessly to raise funds for her hus­ Wednesday evening, March i, the band's attorney fees and bail. She International Monetary Fund's director, National Bank Chairman Viktor aiding the illegal exit of eight Cuban Yushchenko said on Wednesday evening, nationals on December 22, 1994. Two worked closely with Canadian consular Michel Camdessus, said he would "exert personnel in Havana, and today says maximum effort" to ensure Ukraine March 1, that IMF officials were aware of counts of homicide brought against Mr. the projected budget deficit and "accepted Shymko, an Etobicoke, Ontario, busi­ that "Embassies are very limited on obtained a substantial loan package this taking action on behalf of their citi­ month. it as normal." nessman, and Michael Venditti, a Toronto computer consultant, were zens." Mr. Camdessus, who was pleased to hear A presidential advisor told Reuters that Ukraine interpreted Mr. Camdessus's dropped. Mr. Shymko returned to Mrs. Shymko pointed out that the that Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers had Canada for the first time in eight months Cubans who had attempted to flee approved a draft budget for 1995 that day, conversation with President Kuchma as meaning the higher than expected deficit on January 29. with the assistance of her husband also accepted an invitation from President were released on bail before the Kuchma to visit Kyyiv on March 9. should not be a barrier to the loan. The Cuban Coast Guard captured However, the Ukrainian government Mr. Shymko's 23-foot rented yacht with Canadians. She claims that the Economics experts here view the fact Canadians should have been detained must send a letter of intent to the IMF a Cuban family and Mr. Venditti aboard that Mr. Camdessus is traveling to for only 24 hours. within the next few days. Currently, last May 18. Cuban police alleged that Ukraine just seven months after his ini­ According to Mrs. Shymko, during President Kuchma is polishing the bud­ during the escape attempt Mr. tial visit as a gesture of support for eco­ the Cuban investigation of the escape get and then he must present it to the Shymko's yacht struck three people, nomic reforms in Ukraine. killing two. Messrs. Shymko and attempt, evidence pointed to another Although the IMF mission, which left Parliament for approval. American yacht as committing the Mr. Yushchenko said about two-thirds Venditti denied that anyone had died Kyyiv 10 days ago, warned that it may during the attempt. alleged homicides. "They went ahead cut down monies earmarked for Ukraine of the budget deficit would be covered by The two Canadians were incarcerated with the proceedings anyway, because in 1995 if the government failed to meet printing new money, a small part would they couldn't loose face," she said. be covered by government securities and in Havana's Villa Marista prison for conditions for stand-by credit in the first almost a week before they were allowed Mr. Shymko's trial finally took place quarter of this year. Mr. Camdessus the rest by international financial assis­ to meet with Canadian Embassy person­ on December 22, 1994, at which time the expressed hope that Ukraine would tance. nel. Mr. Shymko was released on homicide charges were dropped. He obtain the credits totaling $1.4 billion The IMF will discuss Ukraine's status $20,000 (U.S.) bail three months later, on applied for his bail on January 19, receiv­ (U.S.) by the end of March. during a meeting of foreign creditors in August 17. He remained in Old Havana ing a portion of the $20,000 in counter­ Despite the fact that the Cabinet of Paris on March 21 and make its final to await trial at the home of the family he feit U.S. funds. The Shymkos had been Ministers approved a draft budget with a decision during an IMF meeting in had tried to assist. warned by Canadian Embassy officials 6.4 percent deficit of the gross domestic Washington at the end of the month. Mr. Shymko had had commercial prior to the release of the bail that the dealings in Cuba for six years prior to Embassy could not guarantee that bail election in July of last year. He had been the escape attempt, first with an interi­ would be returned. Masoi resigns... appointed to the post of prime minister or design firm specializing in hotels Mr. Shymko was not deported from and casinos, and since 1993, as presi­ (Continued from page 1) by former President Kravchuk in June, Cuba, and he will be allowed to travel dent of Selenia International. back to that country on business. "If he is a 'compromise' candidate, the just weeks before Mr. Kravchuk lost his right wing in Parliament will not go for second bid for the presidency. Mr. him and nothing will get done; if he is a Masol, a former Communist, was always, reformer, the left wing won't vote for considered an outsider in Mr. Kuchma's Helsinki Commision urges president him," he explained. Cabinet, and was seen as an impediment to economic progress in Ukraine. He was Prime minister needed? chosen by Mr. Kravchuk as a compro­ mise candidate to appeal to the left- to support international criminal tribunal Although President Kuchma has said wingers, a move Mr. Kravchuk hoped WASHINGTON — "Unless the costs of gathering testimony from thou­ he wants to keep the post of prime minis­ would secure him votes in the presiden­ ter in his government, some parliamen­ International Criminal Tribunal for the sands of victims of, and witnesses to, war tial elections. crimes, or the costs of on-site investiga­ tarians doubt this post is necessary. Former Yugoslavia is given the financial This had been Mr. Masol's second and political support it needs to bring those tions. Former President Leonid Kravchuk, stint as prime minister. The former for one, told Interfax-Ukraine that the responsible for genocide in the Bosnian President Clinton was urged by letter Communist had held this position before conflict to arrest and conviction, the atroci­ to "instruct the U.S. delegation to the executive and the Cabinet of Ministers Ukraine declared its independence in should be headed by the president. "Then ties of the Holocaust and their horrific United Nations to press vigorously at 1991, but was forced to resign after the lessons will have gone unlearned by the these upcoming budget meetings to executive power will be under a plenipo­ government submitted to student tentiary, popularly elected leader, legiti­ modern world. The lessons of Nuremburg ensure adequate funding for the tribunal. demands made during large-scale are under strenuous test today," said Rep. The establishment of this body... is a mate in all aspects," he said. protests in October 1990. "He is the author of economic reforms, Chris Smith (R-N.J.), chairman of the credit to strong U.S. leadership. But, According to presidential adviser Commission on Security and Cooperation without proper funding, the tribunal will so he must take responsibility for their Alexander Razumkov, Mr. Masol is implementation," added Mr. Kravchuk. in Europe (Helsinki Commission). never be able to execute the historic tasks expected to go on an extended holiday Members of the Helsinki Commission that have been set for it." The letter was "No reforms will take place if Mr. soon and take care of his health prob­ Kuchma will only declare transformations Europe on February 10 asked President signed by Chairman Smith, Co-Chairman lems. President Kuchma announced Mr. Bill Clinton to indicate unequivocal U.S. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.) and Ranking with other people in charge of their Masol's plans to retire as the prime min­ implementation." support for the International Criminal Minority Commissioner Steny Hoyer (D- ister sat next to him at a Cabinet meet­ Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia by: Md.) Even Prime Minister Masol did not ing. • 1) directing the U.S. delegation to The Helsini Commission also request­ think a prime minister was necessary for Mr. Marchuk, who became the first Ukraine. In an interview with Interfax- the United Nations to support the tri­ ed a voluntary contribution to the tri­ deputy prime minister last October, con­ bunal's full budget request; Ukraine on February 18, he said that if a centrating mostly on crime issues and bunal of not less than $3 million, as pro­ law on power is adopted in the form Mr. fighting corruption, is considered • 2) providing an additional U.S. vol­ vided last year, with the view that, "if the Kuchma wants to see, the prime minis­ President Kuchma's right-hand man. He untary contribution to the tribunal of not United States inexplicably reduces the ter's post is not needed. has acted as special envoy to resolve con­ less than $3 million; level of financial support it has provided "I don't think Masol wanted to take flict on the Crimean peninsula and has led • 3) directing the Department of to the tribunal, it might send a regrettable responsibility for a program of radical negotiating teams to talks on the Black Justice to finalize and present to signal of weakening U.S. resolve to see economic reform, for the liberalization of Sea Fleet and Ukrainian-Russian relations. Congress jurisdictional legislation; and war criminals held truly accountable." prices," said Anatoliy Marchenko, a He also was the head of the KGB in • 4) calling for the appointment of a The commission also requested that deputy from the Socialist faction in Ukraine and later took on that same post CSCE (OSCE) Special Rapporteur on the the president direct the Department of Parliament. when Ukraine renamed that body the War Crimes tribunal to provide political Justice to complete work on draft legisla­ "His power had been limited and he Security Services Ministry. oversight of the participating states' com­ tion that would clarify U.S. jurisdiction had to go through Pynzenyk (first National Bank of Ukraine Chairman pliance with the tribunal. over such war criminals, thereby closing deputy prime minister in charge of Viktor Yushchenko told Interfax-Ukraine In the commission's hearing on an existing loophole in U.S. law. The reforms) to carry out any decision. Now, that Mr. Marchuk is precisely the "person January 31, testimony was heard from department has had this legislation in this will put all the responsibility for who can consolidate the professionals." Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic development for over a year. reforms on the president. Masol was the He added that Ukraine's principal prior­ regarding the ongoing crisis and the need And finally, the commission called for buffer between the president and the ity - coming through on economic reforms for a tribunal. This was especially timely the appointment of a CSCE (OSCE) Cabinet of Ministers. The president - would be helped by the resignation of as the tribunal's requested U.N. budget Special Rapporteur on the War Crimes could always put the blame on a prime the conservative prime minister. Mr. of $28 million is now under review. It Tribunal, "a commission proposal that minister he did not choose," Mr. Yushchenko said it was Mr. Masol who appears that securing these funds may be was endorsed at the 1994 meeting of the Marchenko explained. had delayed approval last year of a pro­ difficult, even though many non-govern­ CSCE Parliamentary Assembly." Mr. Masol's resignation was widely gram in support of the IMF's first $700 mental experts have suggested that the Copies of the letter are available from predicted after President Kuchma won million loan to Ukraine. amount may not be enough to cover the the Helsinki Commission. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1995 No. 10 Ukrainian Catholics Regina parish leads efforts to build church in Vinnytsia and Vatican plan anniversary events

VATICAN CITY - A meeting was held here on February 3 between Vatican officials and a delegation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church for the purpose of reviewing various possibilities for an observance in Rome sometime in 1996 marking the 400th anniversary of the Union of Brest and the 350th anniversary of the Union of Uzhhorod. The Union of Brest (1596) was an agreement between the Ukrainian-Belarussian Orthodox Church in Poland and Lithuania and the Holy See. The Orthodox clergy recognized the pope as head of the Church, while the Vatican agreed to retention of the Eastern rite and confirmed the autonomy of the Kyyiv Metropolitanate. Under the Union of Uzhhorod (1646), 63 Trans- carpathian Orthodox priests joined the Catholic Church on the model of the previous Union of Brest. On November 7, 1994, the Permanent Synod of Bishops of the Greek-Catholic Church in Ukraine A liturgy on the future site of Holy Protectress Church in Vinnytsia is offered by the Revs. Mychaylo Khrypa, deemed it fitting to send a delegation to the Holy See Rudolph Luzney and Iwan Мак. to meet with Pope John Paul II; the secretary of state, by the Rt. Rev. Rudolph Luzney moved into these accommodations on October 14, 1994. Cardinal Angelo Sodano; the prefect of the Sacred At the same time, the box car was moved into a neighbor­ Congregation for the Eastern Churches, Cardinal REGINA, Saskatchewan - Three years ago, Cardinal ing village, where another parish is being organized. Achille Silvestrini; and the Pontifical Commission for Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky of Lviv appointed the Rev. The church, to be named for the Holy Protectress the Christian Unity, represented by Cardinal Edward Michael Khrypa CSsR of Ternopil, Ukraine, to do pas­ Blessed Mother of God, will be an imposing structure Cassidy. toral work in the Vinnytsia region of eastern Ukraine. designed for 600 people. It is the first Ukrainian Catholic The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church's delegation The oblast consists of approximately 2 million people. church in Vinnytsia, after a lapse of 215 years. The outer was headed by the retired metropolitan of Winnipeg, The city of Vinnytsia has a population of 400,000. shell of the church should be in place within five months. Canada, Archbishop Maxim Hermaniuk. The follow­ The Ukrainian Catholic community in the city con­ In November 1993, St. Basil's Parish in Regina had ing were members of the delegation: Bishop Robert sists of about 300 faithful. Initially, liturgical celebra­ advanced a sum of $4,000 to begin the construction. This M. Moskal, Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn, Bishop tions were accommodated in a Roman Catholic church. parish also assumed the responsibility of obtaining addi­ Wasyl Medwit, Bishop Ivan Semedi, the Rev. Msgr. Due to various difficulties, the community opted to wor­ tional funds, through an appeal to the faithful in the Ivan Dacko and the Rev. Andrew Onuferko. ship under the open skies. With the approaching winter, Eparchy of Saskatoon. To date, the parish has forwarded The apostolic nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop Antonio they obtained an abandoned railway box car, which was $20,000. Through individual contributions, directed to the Franco, made all the arrangements for the meeting in the placed on the site allocated by the city for the parish. It parish, and with the assistance of the Bishop Nikita Budka Apostolic Palace (Aula Bologna). served as a place of worship for almost a year. Council of the Knights of Columbus, the drive continues. The pope graced the meeting with his presence briefly Meanwhile, through financial assistance received, the The anticipated cost of the construction is about and blessed the work of the delegation in preparing not basement of the church was completed and the community $100,000 (U.S.). Although the small congregation is only for the two significant events, but also for the great doing all the manual work, the progress of their building work of renewal as the Third Millennium of the The Rt. Rev. Rudolph Luzney is vicar general of the is dependent upon funds from outside the country. Christian era approches. Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon. People of good will are being asked to assist in the build­ ing of the church in Vinnytsia. St. Basil's parish has a sepa­ rate account for these contributions. Tax receipts will be issued for all donations. Assisting the neglected people of OBITUARY: Michael Smyk, editor of Ukrainian News eastern Ukraine will reap spiritual rewards by all donors. Contributions may be sent to St. Basil's Church, 1747 JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Michael Smyk, longtime edi­ Mr. Smyk was a member of the Secretariat of the Toronto St., Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 1M5. tor of the Detroit-based Ukrainian News, died in Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party. He served Dearborn, Mich., on February 1. He was 79. The politi­ on the board of the Ivan Bahriany Foundation and was cal activist took over as editor of the paper founded by active with the Organization of Democratic Ukrainian poet Ivan Bahriany when it moved from New Ulm, Youth. Germany, to Detroit in 1978. Much of his life was spent escaping political tyran­ ny. Mr. Smyk's odyssey began in December 1, 1915, near Kirovohrad. While he was still very young, Bolshevik repression of his father forced his family to leave their possessions and flee to Kryvyi Rih, where his father found work in the mines. Mr. Smyk completed the Kryvyi Rih Mining Institute even though he was considered socially dangerous by local Communist authorities. He left the city soon after and enrolled in the Kharkiv Hydro-Metallurgical Institute, but ended up teaching school. After moving again, this time to Odessa, he enrolled at Odessa Pedagogical Institute. One semester shy of completion, the Soviet Army drafted him. Soon after­ wards, he ended up in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. After the Nazis capitulated, he entered a displaced persons camp in Hanover. He spent the next several years working for the Ukrainian Red Cross helping peo­ ple avoid forced repatriation to the Soviet Union. Mr. Smyk arrived in Detroit in 1951, where his life­ long flight from repression finally ended. In addition to his political activities, he was active in the community and religious life of Detroit Ukrainians, serving on com­ mittees that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Great Famine of 1933 and the millennium of Christianity in Ukraine. In mid-1994, with his health declining, Mr. Smyk turned over the editorial reigns to Serhiy Kozak, a for­ mer editor for Literaturnaya Ukraina. Mr. Smyk is survived by his spouse, Polya, sons Andrew and Yuriy, and daughter, Irene. In lieu of flow­ ers, please send donations to the Ukrainian News Press Michael Smyk Fund, 19411 W. Warren, Detroit, MI 48228. A scale model of the church to be built in Vinnytsia» No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1995 Torontoniansform MediaWatch Ukraine to monitor news outlets by Nestor Gula TORONTO — According to Canadian journalist Victor Malarek, CBS's "60 Minutes" segment "The Ugly Face Of Freedom" was so sloppy that it "would not pass the grade in a first-year journalism course." He was speaking to roughly 200 people who crammed into the premises of the Ukrainian Canadian Art Foundation in Toronto on the afternoon of February 19 to hear an update on events surrounding the controversial and defamatory CBS program and to witness the launch of a media monitoring group, MediaWatch Ukraine. MediaWatch Ukraine was formed, with the help of the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association (UCPBA) of Toronto, to coordinate action against this show and to head off further defamation of the Ukrainian community in Canada and the world. A host of CBC-TV's newsmagazine "The Fifth Estate," Mr. Malarek was one of five panelists speaking to the assembled crowd. The others were Prof. Peter Potichnyj, co-editor of a book on the history of Ukrainian-Jewish rela­ tions and a professor of political science at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario; Prof. Orest Subtelny, pro­ fessor of history and political science at Toronto's York University; Andrew Gregorovich, editor-in-chief of Forum magazine and a member of the Academic Board at the University of Toronto; and Myra Kozlowsky-Spiers, pro­ ducer-director at CFTO-TV in Toronto. Stepha Dmytriw, the acting chair of MediaWatch Media Watch panelists (from left): Myra Kozlowsky-Spiers, Prof. Orest Subtelny, Andrew Gregorovich, Ukraine, was the moderator for the event, and Walter Prof. Peter Potichnyj and Victor Malarek. Wysocky, the legal advisor for the group, gave an update on what has been done in this matter. dupes, but I can't explain the connection that the whole misinformation about Ukrainians, such as allegations Mr. Malarek said CBS's "kind of formula journalism argument of the show is anti-Ukrainian independence." about the presence of war criminals in Canada, which does not fit into my definition of the job. This one failed Ms. Kozlowsky-Spiers chose several points of the although proven false time and time again, don't seem the test and it failed it miserably." He said when he program to underline "where some of the things were to go away. watched the offending program, he wondered what the not wrong, they weren't incorrect, they weren't neces­ A brief question period followed, during which the agenda behind it was. Mr. Malarek said that the communi­ sarily inappropriate, they were possibly unfortunate public expressed their concerns over what is being done ty has to gather its resources and forcefully challenge because they did leave a little bad taste in the mouth and regarding CBS and "60 Minutes." Anatoliy Kopets, the CBS, "prepare their arguments and rebuttals based on maybe the impression that there was more to this than director of training for the Lviv City Council, attended facts, not emotions," he warned, "just the facts." was supposed to meet the eye." the event. He said that "60 Minutes" did not approach Mr. Malarek emphasized that the community should After pointing out several of the program's flaws, Ms. anybody in the Lviv City Council or anybody from keep the pressure up by writing letters, both to CBS and its Spiers sounded the lone conciliatory note of the after­ Lviv's Jewish community. advertisers, and Ukrainians should not let the issue die out. noon, saying that Ukrainians should concentrate on the MediaWatch Ukraine had several computers on dis­ The next panelist, Prof. Potichnyj, said he was not sur­ positive in their culture. "Now what I'm going to ask you play to show the public the power and the benefits of prised by the "distortions and the exaggerations" that were to do is drop it. Drop your pain and drop your anger, and being plugged into the Internet. Staffers and technical being served to millions of viewers. He said this is because get on with proving that you are better and bigger." advisors Walter Derzko, Orest Dorosh, Orest Humeniuk Ukrainian-Jewish relations are formed by "perceptions on Mr. Wysocky, who spoke after Ms. Spiers, said he "pro­ and Borysa Struk explained to the interested the infor­ both sides of this issue which are based on deeply ingrained foundly disagrees" with the conclusions of the previous mation one can access on the Internet and the contacts emotions and stereotypical thinking." Prof. Potichnyj speaker. "If we don't do something about this, it will be one can make there. underlined that both sides have been negligent in correcting repeated on a regular basis," Mr. Wysocky said. Those MediaWatch Ukraine may be contacted through the these false and harmful impressions of each other. assembled burst into applause at this comment. Toronto UCPBA, at 620 Spadina, Toronto, Ontario Prof. Potichnyj expressed sympathy for those, includ­ Mr. Wysocky then presented several examples of M5S 2H4; (416) 925-1256; fax (416) 925-9228. ing Mr. Malarek, who have said they cannot understand why "60 Minutes" portrayed Ukrainians as crude peas­ ants with their fingers on a nuclear button. But the acad­ emic pointed out that this negative stereotype goes back L.A. community to the 17th century. CBS responds "In many anti-Ukrainian publications, there was the Below The Weekly reprints the form letter received by connection of the dangerous, crude peasants who have meets with CBS Bohdan Futala from audience services at "60 Minutes." weapons in their hands and are killing left and right," JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Ukrainian communities Prof. Potichnyj asserted. across the United States and Canada have protested the Dear; The problem of misunderstanding was echoed by Mr. "60 Minutes" segment on the alleged rise of anti- I am replying to your recent letter regarding "60 Gregorovich. He said that he recently went to a Jewish Semitism in western Ukraine to CBS affiliates and sta­ Minutes." public library in Toronto and only found one book on tions with varying degrees of success. We are sorry to learn of your reaction to our Ukrainian-Jewish relations. "I wanted to see what infor­ Representatives of the Ukrainian community of greater October 23 segment, "The Ugly Face of Freedom," mation the Jewish community has about Ukrainians." Los Angeles met with CBS station KCBS-TV Vice- As you know, this report featured Correspondent He scanned the bookshelves and found only one book in President and General Manager William Applegate and Morley Safer detailing the disturbing rise of anti- the library. "Not even the book which Prof. Potichnyj Community Affairs Director Joseph Dyer on December 14, Semitic activities in western Ukraine, edited - which is the major work on Ukrainian-Jewish 1994. After having been purged from the region by the relations. It was not there." The delegation, consisting of Ihor Wolansky and Nazis during the s&cond world war, it was only in Mr. Gregorovich said the Ukrainian community has Bohdan Futala from the California Association to Aid recent years that Jews began migrating back to not reached out to the Jewish community at all and Ukraine, Paul Bilecky from the Ukrainian Congress Ukraine. The subsequent bold ascension of anti- therefore many misconceptions exist. Committee of America, Alexander Rivney from the Jewish groups have caused alarm and concern in Prof. Subtelny, author of "Ukraine: A History," Ukrainian Cultural Center and Walter Lesiuk, voiced many corners of the world, as well as in Ukraine, severely criticized "The Ugly Face of Freedom." He the community's objections to the segment and provid­ CBS was very careful in researching this report and observed, "I watched the "60 Minutes" program with a ed the station representatives with documents detailing in finding responsible advocates for the various points sense of deja-vu... I heard this all before from Soviet the broadcast's inaccuracies. of view expressed. It was not the intention of CBS propaganda." He underlined that all the information pre­ Both KCBS-TV and the Ukrainian delegation reported News to indict the entire Ukrainian citizenry, nor to sented in the program has been used by Soviet propa­ that the tone of the meeting was positive. Mr. Applegate paint a portrait of Ukraine as an inherently anti- gandists since the end of World War II. suggested that a program on the true state of Ukrainian- Semitic nation. Nevertheless, it is fully understandable "I'm not implying that Morley Safer [the segment's Jewish affairs could be broadcast in the future on the that Ukrainians and Americans of Ukrainian heritage host] is an agent, but I would like to know where they get weekend news and public affairs program "Bob Navarro's would be concerned about how this report would be their information." He pointed out that in the program Journal." (The taping schedule for "Bob Navarro's perceived. The response we received to this segment Stepan Bandera is called the leader of "an army of blood­ Journal" has been reduced because of the O.J. Simpson was extremely varied, and "60 Minutes" broadcast thirsty murderers." trial.) KCBS-TV also agreed to cover the local Ukrainian excerpts from letters on two successive programs. Prof. Subtelny said "the Jewish literature that I know community in the future. Please be assured that your comments and the never really attacked Bandera, because he himself sat in During the course of the meeting, the Ukrainian dele­ emotions conveyed in your letter have been shared a concentration camp for three years. Who has made gation requested that CBS respond to their concerns with Mr. Safer, with Don Hewitt, the executive such statements is the Soviet propaganda [machine]." regarding the segment. A response, which Ray Faiola, producer of "60 Minutes," and with the executives The York professor said it is not in the Jewish inter­ director of audience services at "60 Minutes," says has at CBS News. We sincerely appreciate your taking est to bring up this issue, "it is in Moscow's interest. I been circulated since late November, was sent to Mr. the time to write to us. don't have any evidence that Morley Safer or CBS are Futala. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1995 No. 10 VOA's Ukrainian Service: THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY 45 years — "What a story!5 Silencing the Voice Below is the text of remarks by Wolody-prayed and toiled for many decades. And he myr Bilajiw delivered on the occasion of would have been happy knowing that a Last year, the operations of U.S. non-military foreign broadcasting, including the 45th anniversary of the Ukrainian VOA correspondent reported live from RFE/RL and Voice of America, were streamlined. Various cutbacks ensued, but Branch of Voice of America. Kyyiv about this momentous event. supporters of the radios breathed a sigh of relief, believing that these broadcasters ...distinguished guests, dear col­ He would have also been happy to had been saved. Now, the cutbacks are continuing. In their haste to trim the U.S. know that one of the successive branch budget, the Congress's Republicans have .threatened to terminate an essential leagues: It is indeed an honor to welcome you here. Your contribution to the suc­ chiefs was able to witness at the ornate component of U.S. foreign policy. They have threatened to forever silence its Ukraina Palace in Kyyiv a solemn ceremo­ multilingual voice around the globe, the Voice of America, which this year cess of VOA Ukraine has been and remains ever so important. ny during which were transferred the began its 54th year of broadcasting to some 100 million listeners per week. instruments of power by representatives of As The Washington Post noted, the Senate Budget Committee's draft report, Please bear with me for a short time as I attempt to recreate a part of the history of the Ukrainian government-in-exile to the which proposes to cut over-all international affairs spending by $3:5 billion (from newly elected government of Ukraine. the current level of $21 billion per year),"proposes to eviscerate a range of pro­ VOA's Ukrainian Branch, the human fac­ tor of its 45 years on the air. Who are the And he would have been delighted to grams that have kept America constructively engaged with the rest of the world." know that one of his successors inter­ That, of course, is seriously at odds with what James Collins, the State men and the women bringing America in Ukrainian to millions of listeners in viewed at the Plaza Hotel in New York Department's senior coordinator of the Office of the Special Advisor to the the first popularly elected president of Secretary for the New Independent States (testifying before Senate Ukraine and other countries of Europe? As I thought about this anniversary, Ukraine. What a story! Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Foreign Operations on February In my office I still keep somewhat faded 22), called the "core assumption" of U.S. policy toward the NIS: "the belief I've realized that America's story - its people, institutions, politics and policies, Soviet Ukrainian cartoons depicting VOA that it is in the U.S. national interest to support the emergence of prosperous, and other Western international broadcast­ democratized, market-based independent states." culture and every day life - has been told and continues to be told accurately, ers as warmongers, hirelings of Wall Street, But even the Clinton administration is not 100 percent supportive of several etc., and in my files - clippings from old all-important segments of the U.S. foreign aid programs. The Central and East objectively and comprehensively through the cumulative work of four generations Soviet periodicals depicting us as the "poi­ European Coalition (in its February 24 statement on the administration's foreign soners of the air waves." Such cartoons and assistance budget for 1996) noted: "At a time when support for emerging of dedicated staffers. Thus, individuals are the essence of the story of the allegations were published a mere decade democracies, to insure success at this critical stage of their transition from totali­ ago. And today the Embassy of Ukraine in tarianism to pluralism, is needed the most, the United States is reducing both its Ukrainian Branch. And what a story it is! The first chief of this branch, Nykyfor Washington smoothly facilitates accredita­ direct and indirect support for that effort. The reduction of funding for the tion of our rotating correspondents in FREEDOM Support Act from previous year levels is one example. The cutback Hryhoryiv, who emigrated to the United States, was born in 1883. In 1918, 35 Kyyiv. What a story! in resources for objective information dissemination in the region through a Only a few years ago visitors from viable Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as well as pro­ years old at the time, he was a member of the Ukrainian revolutionary Parliament, Soviet Ukraine would not come near this posed cuts in funding of the National Endowment for Democracy are others." building and would not be caught talking Voice of America brings its global audience information about the U.S., expla­ the Central Rada, when it proclaimed the independence of the Ukrainian National with a staffer of VOA Ukrainian. Last nations of its policies, international news, news about their own countries, and week VOA Director Geoff Cowan wel­ valuable, practical information on how democracy and a free market work. Thus, Republic on January 22 of that year. His first co-workers at VOA - scholars, comed nearly two dozen Ukrainian law­ VOA, which during the times of the "evil empire" served as a reliable source of makers in the Visitor Center and engages information for nations behind the Iron Curtain, has adapted to today's needs. teachers, writers - were men and women only a few years his younger. them in dialogue. What a story! VOA's Ukrainian Branch, which marked its 45th anniversary in December, And then another generation came Only a few years ago our audience does this and more, offering special programming on Ukrainian issues, such as mail contained long epistles in which news about U.S.-Ukraine relations, interviews with American and Ukrainian aboard, some who as G.I.s fought in World War II or served in Europe, the Pacific and allegedly loyal Communists relegated exchange programs participants, information about Congressional hearings our lives, the lives, as they put it, "of the dealing with Ukraine, etc. It gives reformers in Ukraine an opportunity and a Asia. Some came from Western Europe to the shores of this land of Washington lackeys of capitalism," to the "trash heap medium via which they can express their opinions — many of which would not of history." Today, children of a middle be heard on Ukraine's national airwaves even today. "with its sacred and righteouslaw, " as the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko school in Kyyiv send us letters, illumi­ At the Ukrainian Branch's anniversary celebrations, the Ukrainian Branch depicted these United States. Some were nated with American and Ukrainian was saluted by well-wishers and colleagues. VOA Director Geoff Cowan born under the Communist regime. After flags, and adorned with flowers, letters noted: "... in some respects the need for this service is greater than ever. surviving the horrors of Nazi occupation written in English, in appreciation for Because now is a time to shore up the forces of democracy and to help to teach and the war itself, they chose freedom "English USA" lessons they listened to people how democracy works, to shore up the forces of market economies and instead of internment in the labor camps of on our airshows. What a story! to help to explain how market economies work; and to give hope and strength Stalin's empire. Ladies and gentlemen, sometimes I to the friends of the United States." think that this remarkable story could also And thus VOA's mission continues. Now is not the time to terminate this And then came the generation of their not have happened. And there would not be service. As the Central and East European Coalition noted: "The United States children, born in and to freedom, educat­ any 45th or even a lesser anniversary. For spent tens of billions of dollars to win the Cold War. It would be tragic were ed in American colleges, native were it not for the vision and the deep the United States to lose the peace through short-sighted policies." Americans with roots in Ukraine, its lan­ understanding of the "Ukrainian question" guage, culture and religion. Not to men­ in the context of the former USSR by tion those of our colleagues who joined responsible individuals within and outside their relatives in America in the '70s or of our government - among them, I am those who emigrated to Israel in the wake sure, was also the late father of Geoff of a campaign of anti-Semitism orches­ Cowan, whose decision it was to introduce trated by the Soviet government. VOA Ukrainian broadcasts on December And finally - the generation of VOA 12, 1949 - there simply would not be VOA Ukrainian pioneers' great-grandchildren. Ukrainian, and millions of Ukrainians Were Mr. Hryhoryiv alive today, he would be listening to America's story as would be 111 years old...Our youngest told in languages of Ukraine's neighbors. Calling it "an event of great significance," President Leonid staffer is 27. What a story! Kravchuk officially opened Ukraine's Consulate General in New I say this with full awareness of the York, located in Manhattan's Turtle Bay Gardens Historic Another factor was unprecedented his­ fact that in the early 40s and '50s, even District, on Saturday afternoon, March 5, to the applause of scores of Ukrainian torical change. I am mentioning Mr. '60s, Ukraine was so deeply buried under American community activists who made the idea a reality. Hryhoryiv as a point of reference, for had the layers of Russian imperial historiog­ he been alive in the summer of 1991, he "The fact that a Consulate General of Ukraine opened in the largest American city shows raphy that many citizens of the Western would have witnessed a historic act, the democracies thought that Ukraine was that our country is beginning to take on a key role in international relations," said Mr. proclamation of the second independence of Kravchuk, as he and Consul General Viktor Kryzhanivsky enjoyed a champagne toast. simply a short-lived episode in the histo­ Ukraine, for which countless fought and ry of Russia, some kind of aberration Hierarchs of the Ukrainian American community - Archbishop Antony of the suffered and for which many, amongst them Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A., Bishop Basil Losten of the Ukrainian Catholic nearly a million Ukrainian Americans, (Continued on page 17) Church, Bishop Vsevolod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S. and Canada, joined by the Rev. Patrick Paschak, vicar general of St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in New York, and the Rev. Volodymyr Bazylevsky, pastor of St. Volodymyr's Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in New York - blessed the new Consulate General on East 49th UNA Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine Street. Members of the Ukrainian American community witnessed the raising of the blue-and-yellow national flag on the Consulate General's building, and concluded the The Home Office of the Ukrainian National ceremony with applause and the singing of the Ukrainian national anthem. ^WND% Association reports that, as of February 28, the fraternal President Kravchuk arrived with Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oleh Bilorus to organization's Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine has inspect the new premises; he was met by Consul General Kryzhanivsky, Consul received 18,748 checks from its members with dona­ General Anatoliy Oliynyk of Chicago, Acting Chief of the Ukrainian Mission to the tions totalling $476,634.56 The contributions include United Nations Volodymyr Khandogy and members of the Foundation in Support of individual members' donations, as well as returns of Diplomatic Missions of Ukraine. After being greeted by representatives of the members' dividend checks and interest payments on Ukrainian American community with the traditional bread and salt, President promissory notes. Kravchuk cut the blue-and-yellow ribbon and entered the new headquarters. Please make checks payable to: UNA Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine. Source: The Ukrainian Weekly, March 13, 1994. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1995

TABLE 2: Aid expended to NIS in 1992-1994 Letter from Washington I Countries Amount1 Per capita2 Rank % of assistance I by Eugene M. Iwanciw per capita to Director, UNA Washington Office Ukraine NIS-Wide 89.1 .31 I Russia 2278.0 15.23 8 201.7 Armenia 444.7 130.18 1 1,724.2 The real story of U.S. assistance Azerbaijan 60.3 8.09 10 107.2 Georgia 367.1 65.89 2 872.7 During the past few years, I have writ­ actual expenditures for these programs. Kazakhstan 184.3 10.78 9 142.8 ten a number of columns regarding U.S. The last chart lists the "cumulative USG Kyrgyzstan * 202.7 44.37 foreign assistance to Ukraine. In those (U.S. Government) commercial financing 3 587.7 articles, I have tried to paint an accurate and insurance to 12/31/94." Tajikistan 103.2 18.17 7 240.7 picture of how much assistance the While all the charts are fascinating, let Turkmenistan 115.5 30.09 5 398.5 United States was really providing to me focus on the chart of actual expendi­ Uzbekistan 43.6 2.02 12 26.8 f Ukraine, versus the amounts claimed by tures of all US. programs. These include Belarus 268.0 25.83 6 342.1 the administration. all the 13 initiatives or programs con­ Moldova 154.9 34.74 4 460.1 For the past year we have been hear­ ducted by the U.S. Agency for Ukraine 392.1 7.55 11 100.0 ing that Ukraine is the fourth largest International Development, the activities NIS TOTAL 4702.9 16.47 218.1 I recipient of U.S. foreign assistance, after of the Department of Commerce, U.S. 1 In millions of U.S. dollars. Israel, Egypt and Russia. Those claims Information Agency, Department of 2 have even been printed in our community Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Agency, In U.S. dollars. newspapers. We have heard big numbers Peace Corps, Department of Treasury, such as $700 million of assistance in fis­ Trade and Development Agency, State until recently, that was the case, the argu­ assistance provided Ukraine. cal year 1994 and $200 million in fiscal Department, Congressional Research ment does not really hold water in light The bottom line is that USAID does year 1995. I have continually challenged Service, Department of Defense, of the assistance provided other NIS not really have an acceptable explanation the accuracy of these figures. Department of Agriculture and humani­ countries. For example, Belarus has yet of the dearth of assistance to Ukraine, at Analyzing the administration's claims tarian shipments. The assistance is bro­ to begin economic reforms, but already least not one that it can vocalize. of assistance is like looking for the prover­ ken down country by country. It should has received three and a half times as The reality is that the administration bial needle in the haystack. The data are be kept in mind that the assistance of the much assistance as has Ukraine. has not pursued a "Russo-centric" policy almost impossible to find, and different Department of Defense is the Nunn- Tajikistan, an avowedly Communist as much as it has pursued an "anti- people - often in the same agency - will Lugar program for denuclearization, for country at war with its democratic ele­ Ukrainian" policy, no doubt to please the give you different information. In addition, which only Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and ments, received two and a half times the Kremlin. one must sort the apples from the oranges Kazakhstan are eligible. that are often mixed together in the admin­ In terms of total dollar amounts, U.S. per capita assistance as of December 31,1994 istration's announcements of "assistance" Ukraine ranks third after Russia and to Ukraine. The apples are the actual assis­ Armenia. This, however, is deceptive. Moldova — $34.74 tance programs, while the oranges are How does one compare the total dollar credits or loans that must be repaid. amounts when you have a country as Turkmenistan — $30.09 I have continually been challenged by large as Russia with 150 million people representatives of the U.S. Department of and a country as small as Armenia with Belarus — S25.83 State and the U.S. Agency for International 3.4 million people? The only solution is Та ikistan —$18.17 Development on my data. When I have to analyze the amount expended for written about this issue in The Ukrainian 1992-1994 on a per capita basis, which is Russia —$15.23 Weekly, I have even been accused of mis­ what I did. Table 2 illustrates the result. representation. Table 1, based on data pro­ Rather than ranking third, Ukraine vided by USAID, illustrates the allocation ranks 11th out of the 12 MS countries. (i.e. commitment) of U.S. assistance to the Only Uzbekistan ranks behind Ukraine. NIS Average — $16.47 MS for fiscal years 1992-1995. Even Azerbaijan, a nation prohibited The U.S. Department of State has now from receiving U.S. assistance because of set the record straight. Last month, it its war with Armenia, comes out ahead published "U.S. Assistance and Related of Ukraine. LETTER TO THE ED/TOR Programs for the New Independent States To better illustrate the lack of balance of the Former Soviet Union, 1994 in our assistance programs, I have pre­ She didn't make it by just a few votes, Annual Report." pared a graph comparing the assistance Youth attitudes but she was not deterred. The important The report was submitted to the Ukraine received with five other NIS thing was that she gained the confidence Congress "pursuant to Section 104 of the countries as well as with the NIS average. most important to take an important step. Freedom Support Act (Public Law 102- When Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Dear Editor: It is very obvious that the make-up of 511)." The 249-page report assesses the confronted the assistant administrator of Ukraine's Parliament and its laws are con­ effectiveness and overview of US. assis­ the U.S. Agency for International Develop­ Information contained in Xenia tradictory to those promoted by democratic tance, outlines the programs of various ment, Tom Dine, with these figures, Mr. Ponomarenko's story "Survey reveals dis­ principles. Just look at the property owner­ U.S. departments and agencies, itemizes Dine stated that per capita expenditures are content, and hope, in Ukraine" (January ship laws. They are a joke! Does any other assistance programs by country, discuss­ not a proper measure of assistance. The 29) should serve as a barometer for democratic nation have such laws on its es the progress of countries meeting the USAID assistant administrator should be Ukraine's future. The fact that such an books? What have all those highly paid standards in the Freedom Support Act reminded that distribution of federal money overwhelming majority of Ukrainians are American "advisors" been doing anyway? and provides charts. to states is done on per capita formulas. dissatisfied with the current conditions, There is a discrepancy between the The charts at the end of the report are That is why the accuracy of the U.S. census and that so many agree that their future is newly elected Parliament and the dissat­ what caught my eye. The first chart lists is so important to states. tied to educating its young people about isfaction of such a large segment of the the "cumulative obligations of major MS Mr. Dine then argued that Ukraine has the democratic process, should be taken population. But didn't these people elect assistance programs by country to received so little assistance because it has very seriously. Ukraine's existence as a those parliamentary representatives? I 12/31/94." The second chart lists the not pursued economic reforms. While, nation is tied to the attitudes of its youth. have the feeling that election fraud was From personal experience, I believe that far greater than has been reported. the best way to educate Ukraine's youth Ukrainians need to be taught the social TABLE 1: Aid pledged to NIS for 1992-1995 about democracy is to bring them to the skills that were scared or beaten out of them 1 2 United States so they could see how democ­ rCountries Amount Per capita Rank % of assistance by their Soviet masters. The first step they per capita to racy works. I have met several young visi­ must take is to rid themselves of all the Ukraine tors from Ukraine who felt their experience leaders who were associated with the Soviet Armenia 306.0 89.59 1 975.9 here was very valuable compared to what regime - no matter who they are. It seems | Kyrgyzstan 178.9 39.16 2 426.6 they would get from just reading a textbook that those who were in power during the on the subject. Not only the young, but also Georgia 164.5 29.53 3 321.7 Soviet era are also in power now - much to older people in positions of importance, | Russia 3,465.0 23.17 4 252.4 the detriment of the country's economic and e.g., scientists, engineers, lawyers and oth­ social development. Without a major Moldova 89.9 20.16 5 219.6 ers, could benefit greatly from being "purge" of these characters, Ukraine will Turkmenistan 68.6 17.87 6 194.7 exposed to the democratic process. just continue to toss about aimlessly. Kazakhstan 232.4 13.59 7 148.0 In December 1993, I served as inter­ Belarus 137.5 13.25 8 144.3 preter to a nuclear engineer in her mid- Sofie Baran Ukraine 476.7 9.18 9 100.0 30s who was attending a conference in San Francisco Tajikistan 46.9 8.26 10 90.0 this area. She was dour, withdrawn, The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters depressed and a little suspicious. After Uzbekistan 64.3 2.97 11 32.4 to the editor. Letters should be typed (dou­ Azerbaijan 22.1 2.97 12 32.4 three weeks she was transformed into a ble-spaced) and signed; they must be origi­ NIS TOTAL 5,252.8 18.40 radiant, secure, assertive individual with nals, not photocopies. a great smile. She took that attitude back 1 The daytime phone number and In millions of U.S. dollars. to Ukraine and a few months later decid­ 2 address of the letter-writer must be given In U.S. dollars. ed to try her luck for a seat in Parliament. for verification purposes. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5,1995 No. 10 NEWS AND VIEWS: Ukraine at economists' conference BOOK NOTE: by Volodimir Bandera Two experts from the World Bank and order" under Russian hegemony. presented an impressive paper on Defense conversion The annual convention of the Allied "Structural Shocks and Adjustments in Visit to the World Bank Social Sgience Association is the largest Ukraine's Economy." Dr. McCarthy At the invitation of Dr. Zheng, we vis­ gathering of its kind in the U.S. and in from Ireland and Dr. Zheng from China ited his section at the World Bank head­ in Russia, Ukraine the world. Sponsored by the American reported on their estimates of the infla­ quarters in Washington. As the director Economic Association, this year it took tionary impact of the oil shock due to of the project implementation unit for the place in Washington, on January 5-8, Russian's huge price increases without Eurasia region, Dr. Zheng now coordi­ attracting over 2,000 economists. For the the usual provision of credits. We learned nates the financing and disbursement of first time this conference included sever­ that, on Dr. Zheng's recommendation, the bank's $450 million loan to Ukraine, al scholars from Ukraine as well as the World Bank has funded a $100 mil­ the first installment of the larger loan CONVERSION, Western economists who reported on the lion energy conservation project in package. A dozen of his staff members transformation of Ukraine's economy. Ukraine. provide the needed analysis of Ukraine's ECONOMIC This writer, a professor of economics economy, and they evaluate and imple­ at Temple University, coordinated two The expert speaks out ment the proposals. The World Bank and sessions devoted primarily to Ukraine in At the outset, some commentators the IMF maintain their staff also in REFORM, the context of the transformation of the from the audience tended to make super­ Kyyiv. former Soviet bloc. ficial and even demeaning comments We were pleased to take a snapshot at AND ТШ. ОГТШОК Dr. Anna Klimina, associate scholar at about Ukraine's economic difficulties. the bookcase displaying essential publi­ f OR ТІІН RUSSIAN the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Indeed, at some sessions dealing with cations about Ukraine. We were delight­ AN!) UKRAINIAN If.CONOMII?: spoke about the role of Western theories post-Soviet restructuring, some speakers ed to add to that collection a very timely in President Leonid Kuchma's latest bemoaned the dissolution of the USSR and beautifully illustrated volume, "Program of Economic and Social and argued that some sort of reunifica­ "Ukraine and Ukrainians Throughout the Transformation." She explained how the tion or formation of a monetary union is World," just published by the Toronto emerging system represents a synthesis desirable or inevitable. University Press under the editorship of of many proposals, including input from Dr. Zheng disarmed these claims. Dr. Ann Lencyk Pawliczko. Western institutions like the World Bank. Comparing Ukraine to France in size, The World Bank and the IMF serve the Although the "program" is committed population, natural resources and indus­ international community as publishers of to construct a market system with sub­ trial capacity, he underscored Ukraine's statistics and special reports about stantial private ownership and free enter­ potential as a major international partner, Ukraine's economy. Indeed, international JERSEY CITY, N.J. - "Defense prise, it has nonetheless retained many especially in view of its strategic location experts and business consultants are try­ Conversion, Economic Reform and the features of the former socialist system. between Europe and Asia. He said he ing to interpret Ukraine's economy cor­ Outlook for the Russian and Ukrainian As a young scholar, Dr. Klimina under­ believes Ukraine will overcome the diffi­ rectly - although they do not always fully Economies," edited by Henry S. Rowen, scored that professional economists, culties of transition, especially since the comprehend Ukraine's history and cul­ Charles Wolf Jr. and Jeanne Zlotnick, is scholars and students are eager to learn G-7 countries and international organiza­ ture. the result of a Rand Corp. study of the Western theories and philosophy: "We tions like the World Bank have started to vast role played by the military-industri­ need to understand the mixed economic Dr. Zheng and Dr. McCarthy together provide much-needed support for the with their assistants voluntarily prepare al complex in the Russian and Ukrainian system evolving in our young country. young country. economies. We must learn how to join the global and publish scholarly reports about Ukraine, and their article will appear in Various articles address the transition economy." News beamed to Ukraine the first issue of the Ukrainian Economic from a command administrative to a decen­ Other speakers The Voice of America prepared a spe­ Journal, edited by Prof. I. Koropeckyj at tralized, free market economy; the role of cial report about "Ukrainian economists in Temple University. Both scholars partic­ the Russian and Ukrainian military-indus­ Prof. A. Filipenko, director of the Washington." Responding to a reporter's ipated in the Second Congress of the trial complexes as facilitators or inhibitors Institute of International Relations at question, Dr. Klimina stated that econo­ Ukrainian International Economic of economic reform; the questionable desir­ Kyyiv State University, presented a mists in Ukraine view President Association in Odessa last summer. ability of politicized militaries in the two report on the international aspects of eco- Kuchma's program with optimism since it states; and other timely topics. nomic restructuring in Ukraine. He is realistic and pragmatic, containing Much needs to be done Contributors include senior Russian and explained Ukraine's excessive reliance many compromises. However, the Dr. Klimina and Prof. Filipenko spent Ukrainian academic, government and mili­ on Russian oil and gas imports, as well Parliament must enlarge the president's another week as visiting scholars at tary experts. The reader will note that as the efforts to expand its trade with executive powers. Political disunity in the Temple University in Philadelphia. This many of the authors disagree fundamental­ Europe, the Far East and the U.S. He said Parliament could well disrupt or derail the provided an opportunity for them to meet ly on the issues. The parallel inclusion of he is encouraged by Ukraine's growing proposed program, she added. with American colleagues and to analyses of similar topics with radically cooperation with the European As coordinator of the Ukrainian pres­ explore, however briefly, the wealth of different conclusions encourages the read­ Community and international organiza­ ence at the convention, this writer stressed knowledge locked in the wonderful er to independently assess many of the var­ tions like the WTO, IMF and the World the need for Ukrainians to assert them­ books and journal articles that still are ious authors' assumptions. . Bank. selves at scholarly meetings abroad. largely inaccessible in Ukraine. "Defense Conversion, Economic I, in turn, provided an analysis of Younger scholars and professional The Philadelphia Ukrainian Women's Reform and the Outlook for the Russian Ukraine's balance of payments. I argued women, in general, should have more Organization was delighted to hear Dr. and Ukrainian Economies" is published that inflationary expectations lead to fran­ opportunities to learn about their profes­ Klimina's insights about Ukraine's by St. Martin's Press, New York, N.Y. tic conversions of karbovantsi into dollars sions in the West. I also thanked the Soros prospects to repair its battered economy. The price: $49.95. and other forms of capital flight from Foundation for helping with travel Happy to be burdened with an overload For further information or to order, Ukraine. This has greatly contributed to expenses. Ukrainians need to counteract of books and piles of photo copies, Dr. call the publisher at (212) 982-3900, or the galloping depreciation of Ukraine's the biases of former Sovietologists - Klimina returned with new ideas to her write to: St. Martin's Press, 257 Park money in the currency markets. many of whom remain apologists for "law demanding job as associate professor of Ave. S., New York, NY 10010. economics and research associate at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Prof. Filipenko also worked with his Notice to host on a book about the economy of Ukraine. The Ukrainian edition is almost publishers ready, but its English version still requires additional work and financial and authors support to translate and edit the manu­ script. Prof. Filipenko has remained in It is The Ukrainian Weekly's poli­ the U.S. for an additional several weeks cy to run news items and/or reviews to partake in a training seminar spon­ of newly published books, booklets sored by U.S. AID for a group of acade­ mic and business leaders from Ukraine. and reprints, as well as records and Since he has been involved increasingly premiere issues of periodicals, only as an adviser to President Kuchma, Prof. after receipt by the editorial offices of Filipenko's experience abroad and the a copy of the material in question. gained confidence in spoken English will be most helpful. News items sent without a copy While parting with my colleagues, I of the new release will not be pub­ was thinking that much needs to be done lished. to enhance knowledge about economics Send new releases and informa­ and to implement that knowledge in the tion (where publication may be pur­ post-Soviet Ukraine. But, I was heart­ ened by the fact that capable young chased, cost, etc.) to: The Editor, The scholars, professionals and entrepreneurs Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery Dr. Anna Klimina is flankedb y Prof. A. Rugina (left) of Northeastern University are growing in numbers and gaining St., Jersey City, NJ 07302. and Prof. S. Bober of Duquesne University. strength. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1995

Toronto professionals recognize British Columbia college accepts success, contributions of colleagues first exchange student from Ukraine by Nestor Gula Mr. Fedchun is second vice-president of the Canadian Ukrainian Chamber of by Nestor Gula TORONTO — Two members of the Commerce and was instrumental in orga­ TORONTO — For the first time in Ukrainian community in Toronto were nizing the visit to Canada of Ukrainian its history, the Lester B. Pearson honored on February 4 for their success President Leonid Kuchma. College of the Pacific (LPC) in in business and in the community. Gerald Mr. Topornicky made and donated, Victoria, British Columbia, has a B. Fedchun, chairman and CEO of ITT through his company Sutton River Ukrainian student from Ukraine. Canada Ltd., and Edward Topornicky, Trading, all the jackets worn by the Olena Yanchuk is a 17-year-old stu­ owner and president of Topper Linen Ukrainian Olympic Team at the 1994 dent from the town of Skvyra, in the Supply Ltd. and Allied Uniform Inc., Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Kyyiv Oblast. She enrolled at the LPC received the President's Award from the Norway. on October 8, 1994. Ukrainian Canadian Professional and The ceremonies, held in the evening Ms. Yanchuk was in Toronto Business Association (UCPBA) of on February 4 at the posh Old Mill attending an awards banquet of the Toronto. Tavern in Toronto, was attended by 150 Ukrainian Canadian Professional and The occasion coincided with celebra­ people. Also in attendance was the pre­ Business Association (Toronto). tions of the 60th anniversary of the mier of Ontario, Bob Rae; the provincial Although there have been several UCPBA in Toronto. The award is a minister of culture and citizenship, students of Ukrainian background bronze statue created by sculptor Oleh Elaine Ziemba; the acting director of the attending these colleges, 1994 marked Lesiuk and cast by MST Bronze Art Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, the first year students from Ukraine Foundry. Jean Godin; and artist Peter Shostak. became part of the United World The two award recipients come from The master of ceremonies was different spheres of business. Colleges system. One attends the Christina Pochmursky, an executive pro­ United World College of the Adriatic Mr. fedchun is a lawyer and engineer, ducer of CBC Newsworld's "Business in Trieste, Italy, and the other is Ms. and his business success is in the corpo­ | Nestor Gula World" TV program. Yanchuk. rate field. Proceeds from the event went to a Olena Yanchuk To ensure fairness, all students are Mr. Topornicky is an entrepreneur newly established fund to sponsor atten­ selected based on academic merit she found it quite difficult to commu­ who worked in various fields before dance at a member-institution of the alone. The majority receive scholar­ nicate with fellow students and profes­ starting Topper Linen in 1956. His 66th United World Colleges by students from ships, for which funds are raised by sors at the college. Her roommates are birthday fell on the same day as the Ukraine. The UWC consists of nine col­ the United World Colleges or by indi­ from Japan, Canada and Swaziland. awards ceremony. He remains active in leges - located in Canada, the United vidual national committees. She said that the cultural barriers the company and is responsible for gen­ States, Wales, Italy, Swaziland, The acting director of Lester P. quickly faded as the students got to erating ideas for new products. Singapore, Venezuela, Hong Kong and Pearson College, Jean Godin, made a know each other much better. "I had to Norway - whose purpose is to promote, Both have a lengthy, and active, involve­ brief presentation, and a graduate of tell all the students everything about through education, a greater understand­ ment with the Ukrainian community, which the college, Walter Wysocky, present­ Ukraine," said Ms. Yanchuk, "and ing between the peoples of the world. they both consider a natural thing. ed a brief film about the college and explain many misconceptions." the introduced the student from Another shock to her was the rela­ Ukraine. Artist Peter Shostak, who tionship between staff and students. chairs the Ukrainian Scholarship "Everybody calls each other by their Campaign, also made a presentation. first name." said Ms. Yanchuk. "In Ms. Yanchuk heard about the com­ Ukraine you only have this relation­ petition for a chance to attend one of ship with one, maybe two teachers the United World Colleges from a who have a great amount of respect friend. She submitted her application, among the students. But here every­ which included an essay on how she body is so close, so friendly." sees Ukraine in the future. "There were Although economics is the course many applicants," said Ms. Yanchuk. that presents her with the most diffi­ "I was not expecting much. So when culty — "I never studied it before and they informed me that I was chosen, I I am lost in the terminology," Ms. was quite overwhelmed." She said that Yanchuk said — she wants to focus she had virtually no time to pack and her studies in economics. "This is a get ready for her trip to Canada. very important field of study," she Although she said she was taught a said, "one that is greatly needed in bit of English in her school in Ukraine, Ukraine." Immunology textbook is labor of love OXFORD, Ohio - Ivan Kochan, a pro­ money needed to publish 10,000 copies. fessor emeritus of microbiology at Of the 13 medical schools in Ukraine, UCPBA President's Award recipients Gerald B. Fedchun (left) and Edward Miami University in Ohio, has written a four have already adopted the new Topornicky. textbook in Ukrainian on immunology. immunology textbook. The other schools Prof. Kochan, a native of Ukraine, are expected to begin using the text as well. decided to write the book after his retire­ The book includes a comparative ment from Miami in 1989 for use by alphabet to familiarize readers with the Ukrainian physicist to visit Canada medical students and technical personnel English letters used in scientific language in clinical and research laboratories. and a dictionary. There are seven major under bilateral scholarly agreement In choosing to write the text in sections in the text and each begins with Ukrainian, Prof. Kochan faced opposi­ a two-column summary, one in by Lawrence A. Mysak of British Columbia in Vancouver (March tion from the Ministry of Public Health Ukrainian, the other in English. 29). of Ukraine, which wanted it published in C.K. Williamson, executive vice-pres­ MONTREAL - The Royal Society of While visiting in each of the above- Russian. After negotiations, however, ident of academic affairs and provost Canada has announced that Prof. Anatolij ministry officials agreed to allow publi­ emeritus, says "this Ukrainian language J. Zagorodny, deputy director of the mentioned centers, Dr. Zagorodny will cation in Ukrainian if the text received a publication of 'Immunology' is a signifi­ Institute for Theoretical Physics in also address various professional and recommendation from an approved cant scientific contribution by Prof. Kyyiv, will be the first lecturer to visit business Canadian Ukrainian organiza­ reviewer. It did. Kochan and brings deserved recognition Canada under the Royal Society of tions about science and education in to the author, the department of microbi­ Canada - Ukrainian National Academy Ukraine today. . Officials then gave their permission ology, the College of Arts and Science of Sciences Cooperation Agreement. This visit is being funded from dona­ and the text was ready to be published. and Miami University." Dr. Zagorodny will arrive in Toronto on tions to the Royal Society of Canada - Dr. Constantine Pereyma, a physician in March 9 and will give lectures on plasma Ukraine Exchange Fund and has been Troy, Ohio, and director of the surgical Prof. Kochan dedicated the book to his physics (his area of specialty) at the organized on behalf of the Royal Society department and professor of medicine at wife, Tetiana, and to his many former University of Toronto (March 15); McGill of Canada by Prof. Jurij Darewych, pro­ Wright State University, donated the graduate students. University in Montreal (March 16); the fessor of physics at York University National Research Council of Canada in (Toronto), who is also a foreign member Ottawa (March 20); the University of of the Ukrainian National Academy of Need a back issue? Manitoba in Winnipeg (March 22); the Sciences. If you'd like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon Further details about this visit may be send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: (March 24); the University of Alberta in obtained by contacting Dr. Darewych, Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. 07302. Edmonton (March 27), and the University (905) 848-6997; fax, (905) 270-2530. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1995 No. 10 REVIEW: Bohdan Stupka's INTERVIEW: BOHDAN STTUPK Bohdan Stupka, the star of the Ivan Franko The carnival-like marching Dramatic Theater in Kyyiv, has long been consideredstaging , was it Soviet or pre-Rei mad presence on a U.S. tour Ukraine's leading actor. Born on August 27, 1941, It's actually Russian imperial near Lviv, after studies in that city and work as the took it because it fits the perioi by Andrij Wynnyckyj Spanish courtier humoring his king, only Ukrainian Drama Theater's lead in the 1960s, he to burst out again with sadistically mock­ action. There's actually an intere NEW YORK — The mark of all great moved to Kyyiv and quickly established his reputationed with that music. ing laughter and violence. as a dedicated craftsman, mastering the popular actors is their presence — from the first As for the play as a whole, in the early For one of the earlier staging entrance, the first look into the audience; (adaptations of Ivan Kotliarevsky's "Eneyida") andfro m the Ukrainian Ministry о going, it seemed that the 19th century set­ the avant-garde (Ionesco and Brecht), participating the first word, you feel it. ting was too keenly drawn and the action yelled at us for using Russian During the month of December 1994, in over 40 productions in Ukraine and abroad. He dumb, so he left and returned v too frenetic, and so the potential for dra­ also starred in Yuriy Illienko's "Bilyi ptakh z audiences in the U.S. (New York, Chicago matic terror aroused by Mr. Stupka's first compositions and told us to use and Detroit) had an opportunity to feel the chornoyu oznakoyu " (A White Bird with a Black brought was beautiful, very n appearance was dissipated. If it wasn't Mark, 1972) and other film roles. presence of Ukraine's leading actor, loud and repellent, it all seemed too completely foreign to what we v Bohdan Stupka, in an itinerant production Mr. Stupka and his son Ostap recently (August - it had nothing to do with the J strange and distant, or simply slapstick- September 1994) took part in the prestigious of "The Diary of a Madman," a piece funny. Petersburg, the imperial bureauc adapted to the stage from Maksym Edinburgh International Theater Festival. We were lucky because th< But gradually, playing off a well-chosen In December 1994, he was at LaMaMa ETC on Rylsky's translation of Nikolai Gogol's musical score, Mr. Stupka drew the audience rehearsal, just starting out. Aft story. New York's Lower East Side, performing in a stage lost interest and when he left th in. First with the help of an affecting adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's story, "The Diary of a First, sitting in gloom, the audience was Mendelssohn violin solo, then of a Ukrainian a couple of days, we changed it Madman," which later toured to Chicago and assaulted by blaring music, then a wrench- folk song, "Vin bentezhenyi prosyt buri, selection. Detroit. The following interview was conducted by in^ scream As it died down, a blanket- nemov ц buri spokiy ye" (Disturbed, he Andrij Wynnyckyj. But a Ukrainian folk tune is covered figure stirred on a bare mattress seeks the storm, as if there were calm within "delusion" sequences. onstage, the light rose, and then began a it), Mr. Stupka wove a spell of devastating feverish prayer, back turned. You've staged this play a number of times Right, that's "Biliye parus < reminiscences of love lost, of maddening already, right? Then the figure rose, crossed the stage frustration at the social iniquities of castes. Sail Glimmers White) and it's sopranos from the Franko Thea still cloaked in rough wool and slowly As the drama draws to a climax, Well, 11 times here in New York, and otherwise used to suggest overpowering revealed itself to fix the audience with a Poprishchin reaches a paroxysm of delusion, we've been doing it for two years now. It premiered case, there's no conflict with the deranged stare. imagining himself to be the almighty in Kyyiv, and we've gone to Moscow with it, where As Mr. Stupka's face emerged from monarch of Spain. But Mr. Stupka saves it we were visited by the great Ukrainian tenor, Ivan Speaking of the Franko T under his left arm, the audience knew it from farce with a moment of horrific doubt, Kozlovsky, who came to a performance. He was 93 you heard about the damage d was in the presence of madness — a mad­ his face a mask of terror at the uncertainty then and died recently. broke out there [in early Decei ness that touches every movement, every of his mental refuge. Poprishchin suddenly It's always good to return to classics, such as The theater was supposed prayer, every mundane daily ritual, every sees his strait-jacket for what it is — but grandiose speech, every simple narrative. Gogol, but why do you consider it useful to stage January. Luckily, only the curte then with a frightening act of will and imag­ this now? Where is the core of its universality for of the stage or structure or seats Central to the madness: Oksentiy ination transforms it back into the royal Poprishchin, probably a member of the you? Is it particularly relevant to Ukraine at the wasn't as bad as it seemed. ermine of the court in Barcelona. moment? Our company is truly lucky, ( dispossessed nobility but now only a lowly Thanks to Mr. Stupka's mastery, the clerk, is caught in the crushing vise of a I've always been interested in the question of what is have been it for us, for at least і mad clerk is not simply derided or pitied, have had to wander around Ame rigid social order and a love that is devas- but grieved. And, as he sends his desperate normal. What is not normal? How do the two become tatingly impossible to realize. With the ter­ prayer up from the dank, dripping dungeon confused, and to what extent are the 90 percent consid­ Too bad for us. rifying dead-end candor of the insane, of the final scene, one fears for him. ered normal actually the opposite. How is it that normal Stupka shares Poprishchin's bizarre people respond to absurd and insane social and political Oh well. I was also lucky tha epiphanies with us: "Recently I have Ellen Stewart's premiere intro situations? Normally? Is that normal? the time, because people have a; begun to hear and see things that no one that I tried to burn the place d At LaMaMa ETC, Fourth Street's The whole question of normality has always had a has ever seen or heard." away to America, (laughs) famous experimental drama house, its strong emotional resonance for me. I believe that it His is a madness that melts the outlines director, Ellen Stewart, introduced the will always be with us, because people go to work, Who is your favorite Amerii and absorbs the other character in the play, U.S. premiere on December 12 and attend­ sit at their desks, come home — some would call it the orderly in the asylum (played by Mr. normal, others, being lost in a daze. Are you a lab Well, it's hard to say, because ed a number of performances, something chance to see them at work, other Stupka's son, Ostap) the only other person she rarely does. rat or a human being? with whom the protagonist has contact. Take Poprishchin [the protagonist in "The Diary"]. But I do love Jack Nicholson In her introduction, Ms. Stewart paid plays, it could be the most rid The orderly is a cipher whose identity tribute to Ukrainian American Stefan He appears to be speaking very wise things. About poli­ tics, life. Listen to the way he talks about love, the always brings it off. He's an idc and reality remain, clear only when he bru­ Slyvotsky who, she said, "saved her" in him a lot. Of course, there's talizes the patient. Otherwise, the outlines 1961, and thus enabled her to become the tremendous love he feels for Sophie. It's a fascinating barometer of the way a man's personality can be shat­ Dustin Hoffman. There's a trio ( of his personality are blurred as first recipient of Ukraine's Les Kurbas you. Poprishchin's overmastering delusions award, presented to her in Kyyiv in 1993. tered by his love for a woman. If a man loves a woman corrode him into a barking/speaking dog, a If Ms. Stewart's generous tribute is cor­ with great feeling and sincerity, the woman is apt to Is theater in Ukraine facing rect, Mr. Slyvotsky saved more than just consider him a fool, no matter how honest his feelings. of the general economic crisis? an individual. He set in motion an illustri­ Of course, sometimes the passion is mutual, but The economic crisis? Not res ous history of plays staged by Sam for the most part this is lacking. Sure, they make pie are personally finding it difl Shepard, Max Roach and other luminaries pretenses of love, but they have their own separate still has support from the gover of the American and international theater lives, interests — the essential harmony is lacking. minimally, but you know you сг and music hosted by LaMaMa in its space. Only in rare cases does this harmony exist. ly check. Those strange surtitles Do you think the play, and Gogol's story, are It's the same system. It's actu suggesting that we are in a fallen state, that this tern, not the cut-throat life yo Among Ukrainian members of the audi­ harmony is impossible? Throughout Europe, you have a ence, the English surtitles provided Not really. On the other hand, much has been said theaters that are supported by th< seemed oddly (given that they were obvi­ about Gogol, there are many legends about him. So no matter how bad it gets ously not intended for them) troubling. Many consider "The Diary of a Madman" to have an actor, you won't die of starve Since English translations of Gogol's clas­ substantial elements of autobiography. He was a get peanuts, but if you take о sic existed before Rylsky's did (Constance genius and, as many of them do, felt very out of Ivan Franko Theater in Kyyiv], Garnett rendered it in the 1920s), there can place in the society of his day. — 90 are actors, the rest are be no excuse for providing a very sketchy Throughout his life, and particularly in his latter members of the orchestra. simultaneous translation of the "in years, he acquired a fixation that God was speaking [U.S.] Ambassador [William Ukrainian" action proceeding below. to him directly. Judging from his works, whatever it some of our productions of "Те1 And in this case, there should be none was that was talking to him imparted some profound the writing of Sholom Aleich given. The surtitles worked not so much as wisdom. [based on Ivan Kotliarevsky's \ simultaneous subtitles in a foreign film, but Such conversations with God are also fascinating, impressed. He told me that more like the brief frames of text that freeze and no matter how they are treated, whether by pressed to find a permanent the the action in a silent movie, or the title of a [Eugene] Ionesco or Ivan Franko, or Sholom as ours anywhere in America. painting that evolves before your eyes. Aleichem, they produce a dramatic shiver. When he was told it's state During the performance, I found myself In the role of Poprishchin, the greatest challenge "Then your state must be rich,i : actually feeling jealous of those blissfully to me as an actor comes in his moments of calling wonderful group." ignorant souls conversant only in English. out to God. At such moments, any personality The effect of Mr. Stupka working on all undergoes the most extreme stress. Another testament to the cylinders like some berserk engine, while illusion? some calm white words gave jarring shape For me, it seemed that when Poprishchin is wondering about how one is plunged into insanity Maybe. But maybe our сої to his babbling, is something I could only things that truly have value, imagine and not share. Blessed are the poor and when he speaks of his love for Sophie that you are most affecting. advantage to working in a more і Viktor Marustschenko in spirit, as the sarcastic Romans were wont Sure, there are examples of the Bohdan Stupka as Poprishchin. to say. Sure, those are also moments when his personali­ producing fantastic stagings, an ty is in crisis. popular. No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1995 ON GOGOL'S "MADMAN,'' THEATER AND FILM IN UKRAINE Have you seen a rise or decline in independent You provided the narration for "A New Day Will theater? Come," the documentary about Ukrainian- You mean, have things changed since indepen­ Jewish relations. dence? Right. I also took part in a film about the Beilis No, but go ahead. case, it traces it through the theater, exposing who supported the Russian imperial effort to frame I tell people, "It's been three years of a changed [Mendel Beilis], to start an anti-Semitic campaign, political situation. That's not a long time, you can't who stood against it. change overnight." Our theater could do newer things, but classics are where you get your legs, Do you feel you have a role to play in improv­ where you learn the craft. ing inter-ethnic relations, to highlight the posi­ What does the more modern theater give you? It tives and so on? makes it easier to bring everyday speech to the It's a complicated question. We were all brought stage. That's also good. And we've done that, up on negatives, and this has to stop. True, things Arthur Miller, Eugene Ionesco. happened in the past, but you can't do anything [In Ukraine, it appears that] things have changed, about them now. but in certain ways some of the same things go on But there were wonderful things as well. Take the under different labels. Before, we had so-called friendship between [Berezil Theater founder Les] "koniunkturni" plays that we had to stage, plays dic­ Kurbas and [Alexander] Michoels, the actor and tated by the [Communist] Party. director. When Kurbas was sentenced to death in Now you have people writing nationalistic stuff Kyyiv, Michoels brought him to Moscow and shel­ that has no artistic merit whatsoever, and play­ tered him in his apartment. They staged "King Lear" Wynnycky] wrights like that go around screaming that we won't together, both in Ukrainian and Yiddish. Bohdan Stupka stage their material. It's artistically worthless, so we I remember [Mykola] Bazhan telling me about it, won't stage it, we'd lose our audience. At least we you know, the poet and critic, the .... I was on stage with him. But look, those are his have a choice now. problems, or problems of his society. They're not The Soviet minister... mine. Is attendance a problem, now that people have Right, he was a minister once. But he's dead now In the 1960s, these were my poets: the everyday difficulties on their minds? and besides, you can't be so one-sided about a per­ "Shestydesiatnyky" Lina Kostenko, Ivan Drach, Not really. Particularly the youth still go to the son's life. "He was a so-and-so because he did that Mykola Vinhranovsky, Yevtushenko. They're mine. theater. That's another advantage of state support. and that." Humans are multi-faceted beings. They're I grew up on this poetry. If he said stupid things, or Going to the movies in America is 10 times more diplomatic if they're intelligent... if people say things about him, that's not my busi­ expensive than going to the theater here. You get At any rate, they arrested Kurbas in Michoels' ness. I like his early poetry. people from abroad laughing at our ticket prices, apartment. Bazhan told me once, "All of the greatest That evening there were people who staged a "What, 50 cents for a show?" theater directors in the world then, who were they? protest, "How dare you, aren't you ashamed, But if we raised them, what would happen? Meyerhold, Tairov, Mardjanov, Michoels and Yevtushenko hates Ukraine," and so on. Meanwhile, You'd get five foreigners and an empty house. Kurbas." Bazhan said, "The most erudite and edu­ Yevtushenko likes to come to Ukraine to write, Where would the people be? They wouldn't be able cated of them all was Kurbas." some part of his soul is Ukrainian. The fact that he's to afford it. This way, even the youth comes out, The man knew countless languages. When he shifty, well, that's his problem. I like his poetry. I because kids hang around and say, "Let's go there, staged Pogodin's "Aristocrats" on the Solovky grew up on it. it's cheap." Islands, the convicts protected him from the authori­ Then again, Lina Kostenko still writes well, but Besides, we've been brought up on the theater. ties. He engaged convicted criminals and prostitutes Drach — his new stuff is terrible. But [recites a seg­ Once [Bolshevik education commissar Anatoliy] into the cast to play the roles, and at a time when ment of Drach's "Kryla" (Wings), laughs], that's Lunacharsky said, during one of the Soviet regime's they were mortally hostile to political prisoners, they amazing. anti-religious campaigns, that "Theater will replace protected him... Who cares what people say about him now. But the Church." They would destroy churches and erect In Ukrainian theater, there was always a tradition his early verse, "Nizh u Sontsi" (Knife in the Sun), theaters. of staging Jewish plays, [Antin] Krushelnytsky that's what I grew up on. Vinhranovsky, he's gone That's already ideological banditry. played "Tevie" beautifully. So there is a tradition, so crazy over [Zaporozhian Kozak Severyn] Nalyvaiko people lived and worked in harmony, no matter how and all that. But it doesn't matter, what matters is That's another matter — extremism, fanaticism. others twist things around. Besides, people in the that I grew up with his early poetry and will always But take that banditry and something good came of arts who engage in politics are often those with little cherish it. The rest is his problem. it in the end, despite his program. talent, in my opinion. Have you followed the more recent efforts of According to the program being sold at Do you think that Ukrainian culture will have groups like the Bu-Ba-Bu poets? LaMaMa, most of your productions were also more breathing room now, after so many years of staged in Moscow and Petrograd. Do you still do Russian domination? Not much. that? I don't like those kind of questions. They're best Come on. Viktor Neborak is from Lviv. Not as much. We used to tour with our produc­ left to politicians, which I'm not. You're not. It's an Sure he is. I know about them, I know about tions for a month and then come back. But we used irrelevant question. It's impossible for one culture to [Kaniv-born avant-guardist] Tsybulia. Neborak, to travel everywhere in the Soviet Union, to Tbilisi, exist without another. Andrukhovych, I just haven't read much of their to Georgia, all over Ukraine, Russia, the Far East, As far as Muscovite oppression is concerned, material. I have to get to it. Every fruit has its time. Vladivostok, Khabarovsk. there were plenty of satraps at home willing to stifle You put things off, get to them later. Or you get You should have seen how people greeted us over their own culture, their own people. And they con­ caught up in moments. For instance, I grew up with there. There are large settlements of Ukrainians. They tinue to do so. the Opera Theater and then got a whiff of Elvis were largely assimilated, didn't speak Ukrainian any I met and dealt with the Russian intelligentsia, Presley, rock and roll, and decided that classical more for the most part, but they were all very grateful. and had many friends who loved Ukrainian theater music, theater, that was all a waste of time. Nowadays, that's impossible. We don't have the and helped it. When the satraps in Kyyiv and Lviv I'd grab a comb and paper, a friend banged away money for it. tried to destroy it, they helped defend it from afar. on the piano and I would go crazy, singing "Ba-ba- Would that be the main change then, a limit on For the last two years, the same folk songs have be-loo-ba," just like all the early rock and rollers. travel? been played on the radio and TV from dawn till I grew up backstage at the opera, in my father's dusk so that nobody wants to listen to them any­ theater, where I sang for six years. I was ready to A strange kind of internal occupation has begun. more. There have been idiots walking around in throw it all away. And we're talking about a Soviet Particularly in film, where American movies have "sharavary" [Kozak wide-leg pants]. I'm not trying opera with stars that the world never got to hear taken over. Both in Russia and Ukraine. to deny our past, that's our history, but let's look about. In Kyyiv. You had [Bass Borys] Hmyria, the Films are being made in Ukraine, and they're what we're doing now, let's look into the future. whole world never heard of such a voice. being rejected because they have no commercial Of course, not all of the people in Kyyiv were Anyway, Ostap [Mr. Stupka's son, also appearing potential? satraps. For instance, who saved "White Bird with a in "The Diary"] has bought CDs of Presley's music, Black Mark"? It was Petro Shelest [former first secre­ It's not a question of potential. The distribution and this is good for me because it brings back my tary of the Communist Party of Ukraine and member of youth, reminds me of past loves, lovers' spats. But network broke off from the Ministry of Culture and the Soviet Politburo, stripped of his posts allegedly for a now shows what it wants to, which usually means put on some Mozart, that's real music for the ages. hard-line anti-U.S. stance but also for "nationalist devia­ An eternal classic. American films. tion"]. They brought the film to him and said, "This In the end, they've started to drive people away, work contains religious propaganda, it shows the village Do you teach acting? because all they can get is third-rate movies, and our with a priest." And Shelest answered, "When I was a No. I like working with young actors, with aspir­ audiences aren't that desperate. Meanwhile, our own kid I followed the village priests around, whom did you productions are sitting around, are not screened. It's ing actors, and helping them along, but I don't really follow around?" And in the end, he got it in the neck. have the patience for teaching. very strange, an internal occupation. So it's hard to generalize about people. Do you have any urge to direct? But the studios are working, right? You were criticized recently for your defense Sure they are, but before they would put out 12 of Yevgeniy Yevtushenko, given the latter's anti- Haven't tried it yet. I do want to make a film,abou t films a year, now you get one. dissident statements. [18th century poet/philosopher Hryhoriy] Skovoroda. You were involved in a recent documentary. blight. That was at a reading he gave in Kyyiv and (Continued on page 18) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1995 No. 10

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TO ALL UNA MEMBERS: Annual Poltava Night supports This is to remind all members that in accordance with UNA By-Laws all Branches have to hold an Annual Meeting in the months of January through numerous Ukrainian causes March at which the officers render their reports for the prior year and new PARMA, Ohio - The 20th anniversary officers are elected. celebration for Poltavsky Vechir took place on February 11 at St. \^adimir's Ukrainian We urge all members to attend that important meeting. For dates, time Orthodox Church Hall. and place of the Annual Meeting kindly follow SVOBODA or THE UKRAIN­ After a dinner of great Ukrainian food, IAN WEEKLY, or wait for a notice from your Branch Secretary. including Poltavski halushky, the evening proceeded to the one-hour con­ HOME OFFICE OF UNA cert. This year, the well-known Ostap Stachiw from Lviv performed on the bandura and sang with his group, the Ostap Stachiw Ensemble. Mr. Stachiw, a recipient of the 'Merited TO ALL UNA MEMBERS: Artist of Ukraine " award, was one of the first who started to sing traditional Ukrainian Kindly be reminded that your dues (premiums) for insurance coverage are songs that had been banned for years. payable on the first day of the month, and not at the end, as some assume. Before the independence of Ukraine was proclaimed, he was busy researching By paying promptly to your Branch Secretary, you will help him/her remit and collecting songs from old villagers. the monthly collection to the Home Office in a timely fashion. Mr. Stachiw completed his studies at the Lviv College of Music and the Lviv HOME OFFICE OF UNA. Conservatory of Music. He became a pro­ fessor of music and the bandura, and con­ tinued to teach at the conservatory. He later founded the Ostap Stachiw Folkloric Ostap Stachiw NORTH PORT, WARM MINERAL SPRINGS, FLORIDA Theater, which toured the United States and Canada several years ago. the Ukrainian American Bar Association; A community in Southwest Florida. Retire or relocate to a friendly area Mr. Stachiw charmed the audience the Bandurist Chorus of Detroit and the that offers beautiful weather, and many activities, such as: with his magnificent bandura perfor­ Ohio Boychoir, for their individual concert mance. His choice of songs ranged from tours in Ukraine; and the Ukrainian • fishing, boating, swimming, church group activities, etc... the, from humorous to the serious. Museum-Archives in Cleveland. • any size housing is available... 2,3,4 bedroom homes, or condo/villas. 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sat around talking about it. He did say he Bohdan Stupka... wanted to play Mazepa, although his face (Continued from page 11) is somewhat different from the hetman's. We have a screenplay, we have a founda­ It's more "City Slickers." (laughs) tion in his name, we're gathering the funds What's your next project? for it. If we get about half a million dollars In April, we're going to be staging together, we'll do it. Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of We've got some state support. We sent Virginia Woolf?" I'll be playing Martha. President Kuchma a letter, to which his (Brings out photos.) I think I look good staff replied just before his departure for in a dress and make-up, don't you? the U.S. asking for a budget and so on, and promising assistance. So we'll see. You certainly look willing. Very Martha, actually. Are you going to fund-raise in the diaspora? Unfortunately, I can't give you any of these photos, we still need to make posters. I don't think so. Many come here from Besides, they're a bit too candid. Ukraine for that purpose, and I think peo­ ple are probably quite tired of it. Besides, What productions would you like to we are producing our own crop of million­ bring to North America? aires, even richer ones. Besides, with state Actually, we've had a number of things in support, we should be able to manage it. mind for years. We've been thinking of doing We'll have to do some location shoot­ an adaptation of [Taras Shevchenko's] ing in Budapest, Jerusalem. Jerusalem "Kobzar," since 1981. We want to bring would be great, part of Skovoroda's pil­ Shevchenko back to life as a kind of grimage, some dream sequences. Michelangelo of the soul, of poetry, because I also spoke to Jack Palance at one Ukrainians have killed him by making him a point about doing a film about [Kozak prophet Hetman Ivan] Mazepa, but lately he's That's the worst thing you can do to a been very difficult to get in contact with. poet, make him into a prophet. From that That would be worthwhile. day on, everybody frames your picture, He's not totally invisible. When hangs it up in their house and never reads Kuchma was here for the official visit, a word of your work. SEND THE WEEKLY TO UKRAINE Palance came to the White House. Quite a bit of interest has been To order an air mail subscription to The Ukrainian Weekly for expressed in "Tevie Tevel." In fact, for What a guy. To go meet a president, many of our performances in Kyyiv, the addressees in Ukraine, send $125 for subscription fee and postage costs he comes; but when I show up, a fellow front rows were filled by Jewish visitors, to: Subscription Department, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery actor, where is he? Well, well, (laughs) rabbis, from the U.S and Israel, so we St., Jersey City, NJ 07302. Anyway, I visited him in Los Angeles think it could be staged quite successful­ some time ago for about 10 days, and we ly here.

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Friday, March 10 Penn State Slavic Folk Festival will be held in PREVIEW OF EVENTS the ballroom of Hetzel Union Building on LANSING, Mich.: The film "Famine-33," Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.- 10 p.m.; and on produced by Oles Yanchuk, will be shown emonies will be Ludmyla Chajkowsky. For botanicals are currently on view at the Saturday, 1-6 p.m. The festival showcases cul­ at The Work of Christ Community Offices, reservations and additional information call Hayden-Hays Gallery, Broadmoor Hotel. For tural achievements of Pennsylvania's Slavic 1516 Jerome St., at 7:30 p.m. For additional the center, (215) 663-1166 or (215) 663- additional information call (719) 577-5744. American ethnic groups, featuring demonstra­ information call (517) 372-2389. 0707. tions and exhibits of Czech, Slovak, Saturday, March 18 Slovenian, Ukrainian, Polish, Croatian and Saturday, March 11 Sunday, March 12 NEW YORK: The Yara Arts Group and the Russian folk arts, and performing groups. NEW YORK: The 15th annual Shevchenko WATERVLIET, N.Y.: The Ukrainian Ukrainian Instituie of America invite the There will be special events for children on Conference, sponsored jointly by the Saturday School and the Ukrainian public to an evening of poetry and photogra­ Friday, March 24, 10 a.m.-noon. Performing Shevchenko Scientific Society (SSS), the Kindergarten-Preschool of the Ukrainian phy titled "Spinning Spells/Changing at the festival will be the Penn State Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in National Women's League of America Landscapes," featuring photographs by Petro International Dancers, the Czechoslovak- the U.S. (UAASUS) and the Harvard Branch 99 invite the public to a commemora­ Hrytsak, Margaret Morton and David Moravian Club Folk Dancers of Endicott, Ukrainian Research Institute, will be held at tive concert in honor of Taras Shevchenko to Trattles, as well as slides of Ukraine by vari­ N.Y., the Slavjane Folk Ensemble of McKees the Shevchenko Scientific Society's build­ be held in the Ukrainian American Citizens' ous artists. The poetry will include both old Rocks, Pa., the Polka Players, the Polka ing, 63 Fourth Ave., starting 4 p.m. Taking Club, 402 25th St., at 4 p.m. The program and new works by women from Ukraine pre­ Revolution Band of Houtzdale, Pa., and Galla part in the conference will be: Dr. Leonid will include a stage play by the children. sented bilingually by Yara actors. Suggested and Dan of Alexandria, Pa., among others. Rudnytzky, SSS; Dr. Larissa Onyshkevych, contribution: $15, with cash bar. For addi­ The Miskovsky family of State College, Pa., PHILADELPHIA: Mykhailo Horyn, head SSS; Iryna Koropenko, Kyyiv University; tional information call (212) 475-6474. will demonstrate Ukrainian Easter egg decora­ Maria Zubrytsky, University of Lviv; Dr. of the Ukrainian Republican Party, will tion throughout the festival. The festival is Anna Procyk, UAASUS; Dr. Oleh Ilnytzky, speak on the current political situation in WARREN, Mich.: The Ukrainian Institute sponsored by the Penn State Department of University of Alberta; Anatoliy Pohribnyi, Ukraine at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, of Modern Art in Chicago presents a screen­ Slavic and East European Languages and the Kyyiv University; and Dr. Wasyl 700 Cedar Road, at 2 p.m. Admission: $5. ing of the video film "Journey into Dusk," Penn State Chapter of Dobro Slovo, the Omelchenko, UAASUS. The event is sponsored by the Ukrainian directed by Yuri Myskiw, to be held at the national Slavic studies honor society. There is Human Rights Committee, the Ukrainian Immaculate Conception School Auditorium, no admission charge, and programs are free. NEW YORK: Music at the Institute concert Metropolitan Committee of Greater 29500 Westbrook at 7 p.m. Admission: $7, series, sponsored by the Ukrainian Institute of Philadelphia and the Ukrainian Congress adults; $5, students. For additional informa­ Sunday, March 26 America, 2 E. 79th St., presents the Nova Committee of America. tion call (810) 751-1221. JENKINTOWN, Pa.: The annual Easter Chamber Ensemble in a program featuring Expo sponsored by the Ukrainian Heritage works by Leonid Hrabovsky, Max Bruch, Friday, March 17 Sunday, March 19 Studies Center of Manor Junior College, 700 Adam Khachaturian and Gabriel Faure. OTTAWA: The Ukrainian Canadian Fox Chase Road, will be held noon-5 p.m. Performing will be ensemble members BALTIMORE: The Ukrainian National Professional and Business Association of There will be a pysanka exhibit and demon­ Laryssa Krupa, piano; Bohdan Hilash, clar­ Women's League of America Branch 80 Ottawa, in partnership with the Institute of strations, an exhibit of Ukrainian Easter tra­ inet; Christopher C. Lee, violin; Terri Van will host an afternoon tea at the Harbor Central/East European and Russian-Area ditions and Easter breads as well as the per­ Valkinburgh, viola; and Qiang Tu, cello. The Court Hotel, 550 Light St., at 3:30 p.m. Studies at Carleton University, present the formance of folk spring dances. Admission: concert starts at 8 p.m. Donation: $20. Cost: $17. Reservations should be made by annual Ivan Franko Memorial Lecture to be calling (410) 366-5692 or (301) 854-2062. $2, adults; $.50, children. For additional delivered by Prof. Ivan S. Jaworsky, assistant information contact Chrystyna Prokopovych, PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian professor, department of political science, Thursday, March 23 Educational and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar curator, Ukrainian Heritage Studies Center, University of Waterloo on the topic, "The (215) 885-2360. Road, Jenkintown, Pa., will celebrate its 15th Military, State and Society in Ukraine." The TORONTO: The Chair of Ukrainian anniversary with a gala anniversary banquet Studies at the University of Toronto is hold­ lecture will be held in Southham Hall, ONGOING starting at 6 p.m. Special guest will be Theater B, Southam Hall Building, Carleton ing a lecture by Dr. Bohdan Hrabovetskyi, Ambassador Yuri Shcherbak, with Dr. University, at 7:30 p.m. A coffee and tea research associate, Chair of Ukrainian NEW YORK: The work of Yuri Lev Myron Kuropas, as keynote speaker. The reception will follow. Studies, on "Censorship in the Humanities Hrynyszyn and Bob Vizzini is featured in a festivities will begin with the opening of an in Ukraine, 1980s-1990s" (in Ukrainian) to two-man photographic exhibit being held at art exhibit by Yurij Hura in the center's COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.: Larysa be held in the Board Room, Multicultural the Camera Club, Alfred Lowenhertz gallery. Appearing in the evening program Martyniuk's landscapes form part of a group History Society of Ontario, 43 Queen's Park Gallery, 853 Broadway, 2nd floor. The will be Maria Hirska, soprano, and Oleh exhibit titled "West of the West?" to be held Crescent E., 4-6 p.m. exhibit runs through Friday, March 17. Chmyr, baritone, of the Lviv Opera; the at the Max Art Gallery, Trestle Building. Exhibit hours: Monday-Friday, 1-5 p.m. The Friday-Sunday, March 24-26 Prometheus Male Choir; and the Voloshky The exhibit opens March 17, 5-8 p.m.; it will exhibit may also be viewed 'by appointment Dance Ensemble. Serving as mistress of cer- run through May 13. Ms. Martyniuk's large UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.: The 17th annual by calling (212) 260-7077.

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