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Inside: l Sen. Robert Menendez meets with Ruslana – page 3 l Former U.S. envoy to Ukraine tapped for Moscow – page 4 l Photos of Soyuzivka’s Ukrainian Cultural Festival – centerfold

ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXII No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 $2.00 Thousands enjoy 8th annual Ukrainian Cultural Festival at Soyuzivka

Christine Syzonenko Christine Syzonenko Anna Shpook The headliners of the 2014 Ukrainian Cultural Festival: (from left) Vasyl Popadiuk, Ruslana and Oleh Skrypka.

by Roma Hadzewycz In keeping with the 2014 festival theme, Ruslana asserted that she would not Papa Duke band. They were later joined on “Spirit of the Maidan,” the dynamic allow Vladimir Putin to take Ukraine, stage by Mr. Skrypka, who sang and played KERHONKSON, N.Y. – The eighth annual Ruslana, a leading figure of the revolution- underscored that “We are for peace in alternately on guitar, horn and bayan (a Ukrainian Cultural Festival at the Soyuzivka ary Euro-Maidan in Kyiv, created a mini- Ukraine,” and exhorted festival-goers to type of accordion). A founder of the legend- Heritage Center was the place to be during Maidan on the Soyuzivka grounds. She pledge to save Ukraine. As she spoke, a ary rock band Vopli Vidopliasova, Mr. the weekend of July 11-13 – and especially appeared with four of her equally dynamic huge Ukrainian flag was carried through Skrypka gifted the audience his special on Saturday, July 12, for the grand stage dancers in a high-energy performance that the throngs sitting on the hill overlooking brand of Ukrainian ethno-rock music that program that featured an array of top stars harkened back to her first performance at the festival stage. She had the audience had fans dancing on the festival grounds. – Ruslana, Oleh Skrypka, Vasyl Popadiuk – Soyuzivka’s festival in 2009. She’s made members chanting “Heroyam slava” (Glory The performance was a unique collabora- and more. several appearances at the heritage center to the heroes), waving blue-and-yellow tion prepared especially for the Soyuzivka More than 5,000 guests traveled that since then, a fact she noted when she said flags and otherwise expressing their patri- festival. weekend to Soyuzivka, located here in the that Soyuzivka had become “something otic emotions. Also on the bill was a festival favorite, scenic Shawangunk Mountains, or as Mr. very dear,” that coming here was “like going Mr. Popadiuk performed his energetic Skrypka put it, in the “stateside Karpaty.” to grandmother’s village.” “Gypsy World Fusion” music along with the (Continued on page 10)

Diaspora at the front lines in offering aid to Ukrainian fighters by Zenon Zawada diers, Dr. Suprun said. government dispatched its soldiers to the Ostrovsky of Vice News in its Dispatch 46, “The conditions they’re in aren’t the occupied territories of the Donetsk and “Delivering Bulletproof Vests to the Russian KYIV – Diaspora Ukrainians are at the best, but they’re certainly doing what they Luhansk oblasts. Army.” front lines of helping Ukrainian soldiers can to make them better, as are the volun- Soldiers and fighters lacked the basic Mr. Kasyanov personally delivers sup- and fighters defend their land. That’s liter- teers who are supplying them with what necessities for fighting a war such as night- plies bought with the donations, which are ally in the case of Ulana Suprun. they need that the government isn’t doing,” vision scopes, bulletproof vests, helmets to handled through its Facebook page, As director of humanitarian missions at she said. protect against shrapnel, tents, sleeping Ukrainian Army S.O.S. the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), the “Not only are the soldiers patriotic, but bags, tents, shovels, flashlights, boots and “If these funds are given to the Ukrainian Ukrainian American physician spent this so are the volunteers helping. This has real- even camouflage clothing. “Let alone first government, they won’t be very effective week coordinating combat medical training ly brought Ukraine together for keeping aid kits or paramedic packs, which are con- because it’s acting slowly,” said Mr. at a Ukrainian fighter base in the Ukraine whole and free,” Dr. Suprun added. sidered far down on the list,” Dr. Suprun Kasyanov, a retired soldier who served for Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, near the border with With the Ukrainian government bank- said. 16 years. “It would be better if the the Donetsk Oblast, as part of the Patriot rupt after the corruption of the administra- Therefore, they haven’t been shy about Ukrainian diaspora or rich Americans who Defence program, which she also directs. tion of former President Viktor requesting help from average Ukrainians, care about our problems made donations The program provides Ukrainian sol- Yanukovych, Ukraine’s Armed Forces were largely because they don’t trust Ukraine’s to our funds directly or send us things like diers and fighters with Improved First Aid in catastrophic shape when they found military bureaucracy, where officials are bulletproof vests as gifts.” Kits (IFAK) and Combat Lifesaver training themselves unprepared for a Russian mili- often incompetent, inefficient or thieving. Indeed, Ukrainian diaspora leaders have that the Ukrainian military doesn’t provide. tary invasion in March. Yuri Kasyanov, the founder of Armyia responded to Mr. Kasyanov’s call for help. They’ve raised $250,000 so far and saved The depths of the catastrophe became S.O.S., made a direct plea to the diaspora for the lives of at least four dozen injured sol- apparent for the world to see when the support when interviewed by Simon (Continued on page 13) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 No. 29

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Putin’s “smart defense”: Wars, Malaysian airliner down in Ukraine resentatives to join the investigation efforts. We are confident that those respon- KYIV – A Malaysia Airlines flight with 280 sible for this tragedy will be brought to jus- rumors of war, and generations of wars passengers and 15 crew was downed in tice.” (Official website of Ukraine’s Ukraine, some 35 miles from the border President) by Jacob W. Kipp was so successful that these phrases with Russia, on July 17. The Boeing 777 was passed into both media and analytical cov- and Roger N. McDermott flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. A Downed plane claim on social media Eurasia Daily Monitor erage of the crisis (RIA Novosti, May 16). Ukrainian Internal Affairs Ministry adviser, But their appearance and use in the crisis Anton Herashchenko, claimed the plane had KYIV – Shortly before reports surfaced PART I marked elements of the underlying shift in been shot down by a ground-to-air missile. on July 17 that a Malaysian Airlines Boeing Since Vladimir Putin was elected to the Russian defense and security thinking, Andrei Purgin, the self-styled first vice-pre- 777 had crashed in eastern Ukraine, a social Russian presidency in May 2012, he has which blurred the distinction between war mier of the unrecognized Donetsk People’s media site purported to belong to a separat- promised to place “smart defense” at the and peace, combining an array of policy Republic, told Interfax the separatists do not ist leader claimed that insurgents had shot heart of Russia’s security strategy (http:// tools to achieve strategic objectives. have weapons that could shoot down a down an aircraft. In a post on VKontakte, www.rg.ru/2012/02/20/putin-armiya.html), Consequently, it is not surprising to find plane flying at an altitude of 10,000 Russia’s largest social media site, which has testing new concepts and approaches to that among the first individuals decorated meters. Both Ukrainian and Russian author- since been taken down, separatist leader Igor Girkin, aka Strelkov, wrote: “In the the use of the armed forces featured in the by the Kremlin following the Crimea opera- ities denied shooting down the Malaysian vicinity of Torez, we just downed a plane, an operational-strategic exercise Zapad 2013. tion were Russian journalists who were at passenger aircraft. President Petro AN-26. It is lying somewhere in the These were further refined in the numer- the forefront of Moscow’s 21st century Poroshenko of Ukraine said he had called Progress Mine. We have issued warnings ous snap inspections of combat readiness information operations (un1.tv, May 6). By Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the late May, Der Spiegel acknowledged the not to fly in our airspace. We have video introduced by Defense Minister Sergei Netherlands to express his condolences and depth of Moscow’s success in its informa- confirming. The bird fell on a waste heap. Shoigu and were displayed to ruthless invite Dutch experts to assist in the investi- tion campaign (http://www.spiegel.de/ Residential areas were not hit. Civilians effect in the operation in Crimea. gation. “I would like to note that we are call- international/world/russia-uses-state-tele- were not injured.” The AN-26 is a Soviet- Yet, the expert and policy-making com- ing this not an incident, not a catastrophe, vision-to-sway-opinion-at-home-and- built twin-engine transport plane used by munities among members of the North but a terrorist act,” Mr. Poroshenko said. abroad-a-971971.html). the Ukrainian military. Torez is a small city Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have (Agence France-Presse, The New York Russian military deployments and exer- of 80,000 located some 40 kilometers east been slow to identify potential break- Times, RFE/RL) cises along the northern, eastern and of Donetsk. Included in the post were two throughs in Russian military thinking and southern borders of Ukraine kept interna- Poroshenko orders investigation videos that showed a rising plume of black their application of military art. Crimea tional media attention on the threat of smoke in the distance. The claim was post- revealed a Kremlin that had found the KYIV – The following announcement overt Russian invasion a la Crimea, when ed at 5:50 pm Moscow time, shortly before appropriate mix of political, diplomatic, appeared on the website of Ukraine’s presi- that opportunity had long since passed. reports surfaced that the Malaysian civilian informational and military tools to apply dent: “Today, approximately at 16:20 (Kyiv The press had reported on the appearance aircraft had crashed in eastern Ukraine in minimal coercive pressure to dislodge a time) a Malaysia Airlines aircraft Boeing of more “little green men” who have assist- the same area near the Russian border. part of Ukrainian territory. 777, flight MH17 en route from Amsterdam ed a hodgepodge of federalist and seces- (RFE/RL Ukrainian Service) Moreover, as the crisis unfolded in to Kuala-Lumpur has vanished off radars. sionist pro-Russian militias to seize, hold Ukraine’s east, this new mix of political and In recent days, this has become the third and defend public buildings in eastern U.S. tightens Russia sanctions military interaction in Moscow points to an tragic accident following AN-26 and SU-25 Ukraine. The rumors of war have led to talk aircrafts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces WASHINGTON – The U.S. Treasury application of experimental concepts to of a “phony war” – more about posture downed from the Russian territory. We do Department on July 16 announced a new asymmetrically boost Russia’s power in the than battle. On May 3, the world watched not exclude that this aircraft was also round of sanctions aimed at Russia over the international arena (RIA Novosti, May 16; street violence turn into premeditated attacked and emphasize that the Armed Ukraine crisis, including several top Russian Vedomosti, March 12). mass murder in Odesa (Interfax, May 4; Forces of Ukraine have not taken any banks and energy companies. The entities Traces of the extent of tinkering, experi- Oriental Review, May 15). actions to strike targets in the air. On behalf include Rosneft, a state-owned oil company; menting and learning within the Russian In response, Ukrainian Minister of of Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko state-owned bank Vnesheconombank; natu- armed forces were evident in Zapad 2013 Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov stated the expresses the deepest and the most sincere ral-gas producer Novatek; and Gazprombank, and the series of “snap inspection” exercises problem in Odesa had been the terrible condolences to families and friends of the financing arm of Gazprom, the state- that have occurred frequently since local police, which he planned to replace those who died in this terrible tragedy. All controlled gas monopoly. Five more February 2013. These have tested new with “Kyiv-1,” a group of “civil activists” possible search-and-rescue operations are Russians were sanctioned, including Sergei approaches to command and control, mix- who would help the Black Sea city “in these being carried out. President Poroshenko Beseda, commander of the Fifth Service of ing special forces from various power min- difficult days.” On May 9 – Victory Day, com- addressed the Cabinet of Ministers of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Duma istries to support regular troops, as well as memorating the end of the Great Patriotic Ukraine to set up an Emergency State Deputy Chairman Sergei Neverov, Minister placing greater emphasis on improving War – Kyiv’s anti-terrorist operation struck Commission for the thorough investigation for Crimean Affairs Oleg Savelyev, and Igor strategic mobility. Equally, it is clear that at the coastal town of Mariupol. Units of the of this tragedy. The president has invited Shchegolev, an aide to Russian President Russian military analyses of recent conflicts, Ukrainian National Guard raided down- the ICAO [International Civil Aviation Vladimir Putin. (RFE/RL) including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and town Mariupol, used heavy weapons to Organization] and other international others, are an antithesis to Western read- engage “separatist police” at their police experts including Dutch and Malaysian rep- (Continued on page 12) ings. Mr. Putin declared during Zapad 2013 station, killing 20, and burned the building that the snap inspections offered real to the ground before attacking unarmed insight into combat readiness and had civilians in the streets and then withdraw- proved to be a turning point in improving ing, plunging the town into complete chaos. he krainian eekly FOUNDED 1933 capabilities. In January 2014, Col. 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There is wild speculation and $10,000 for each “little green man” about the next target of Mr. Putin’s aggres- mercenary handed over. sion. “Little green men” fight with “little A few days later, Mr. Kolomoisky defined ADMINISTRATION OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY AND SVOBODA black men” and Ukraine’s regular army the battle in eastern Ukraine: “I would like across the east and south. Walter Honcharyk, administrator (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 to warn all the little green men that, unlike and advertising manager fax: (973) 644-9510 Of course, the image of “little green men” some others, we have balls, and if they try e-mail: [email protected] or “polite people” was crafted by the GRU to seize State Security and police buildings, Subscription Department (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040 Spetsnaz (Russian military intelligence spe- e-mail: [email protected] cial forces), and the operation in Crimea (Continued on page 8) No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 3 Sen. Robert Menendez meets with Ruslana by Matthew Dubas with whom Ruslana said she communicates on a friendly level. But more needs to be NEWARK, N.J. – Sen. Robert Menendez done, she said, as the news stories in (D-N.J.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Ukraine need to be translated and these Relations Committee, held a brief meeting translations need to be coordinated with with Ukrainian singer Ruslana – who has distribution to decision makers in the U.S. been recognized for her efforts during the Sen. Menendez was briefed on develop- Maidan protests – as well as with represen- ments in the recent fighting in eastern tatives of the Ukrainian American commu- Ukraine by Tamara Olexy, president of the nity at the senator’s office in Newark, N.J., Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, on July 14. and Dr. Walter Zarycky, president of the Ruslana, who was unforeseeably delayed Center for U.S-Ukraine Relations. Also in in arriving at the meeting, conveyed to the attendance were Roma Lisovich, treasurer senator how extremely difficult the situation of the Ukrainian National Association, Yuriy in Ukraine is now, how the separatist-held Symczyk, UNA fraternal benefits coordina- east of Ukraine is lawless, and how uncoor- tor, and Michael Koziupa of the Selfreliance dinated is the fighting by civilian and volun- Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union Matthew Dubas teer separatist forces. Much of the informa- in Whippany, N.J. Sen. Robert Menendez with the Ukrainian delegation during a meeting at his office. tion about what is going on in Ukraine, she Ms. Olexy noted the need for humanitar- added, is being suppressed or distorted by ian assistance for Ukraine that has been Russian misinformation. Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. Russian media. While the east of Ukraine is coordinated through various organizations Sen. Menendez said that he would check Sen. Menendez noted his concern about torn by war, she noted, western and central and thanked Sen. Menendez for his help on the status of non-lethal assistance for the economic impact of sanctions against Ukraine remain relatively peaceful. and the support of Congress in this area. Ukraine, and noted the difficulties in the Russia on the U.S., as well as that of other sen- However, she added, “unknown agents of Dr. Zarycky thanked Sen. Menendez for response of the Obama administration. As ators who remain cautious. However, he Putin have infiltrated all parts of Ukraine, his “very good work” with the Foreign he said during a Foreign Relations added, in general there is widespread sup- and there is no trust among the people, even Relations Committee. He noted the hybrid Committee hearing with Assistant Secretary port for sanctions among senators and con- one-on-one, looking straight in the eye.” warfare being conducted by Russia in of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at gressmen. Sen. Menendez recommended that Potential agents of Mr. Putin need to be Ukraine. The unexpected nature of that the U.S. State Department, Victoria Nuland, during the UNIS advocacy event, meetings be purged to remove these saboteurs, she said. warfare requires a response to the lack of “What are we waiting for?” Other challeng- set up with both the Senate and House Ruslana has been working through vari- de-escalation by Russia, Dr. Zarycky said, es, the senator noted, include Europe’s majority and minority leaders. Sen. ous channels to aid Ukraine, including polit- and he requested non-lethal defensive U.S. inability to come to a consensus on a unified Menendez admitted that the Obama adminis- ical, religious, NGO, international diplomatic equipment once used in Afghanistan in response, as the 28-member EU faces vary- tration is resisting further Russia sanctions if missions, as well as with U.S. ambassadors addition to efforts aimed at countering ing degrees of economic effects based on the EU does not move together with the U.S. each country’s ties with Russia. Mr. Symczyk urged the senator to assist The senator also said that the U.S. should with humanitarian aid for Ukraine, as there lead if there is no progress with the EU in are a number of non-profit organizations its decision-making. that are restricted in what they can send to Dr. Zarycky cited a report by Ambassador Ukraine. Dr. Zarycky added that the com- David J. Smith, who was appointed by munity has organized a medical pack proj- President George H.W. Bush as chief negotia- ect for soldiers in Ukraine and said he tor for defense and space at the U.S. State would send the senator more information. Department between the U.S. and Soviet Sen. Menendez asked if President Petro Union in 1989, indicating that Germany Poroshenko was seen as galvanizing trained Russian soldiers and facilitates Ukraine. Ms. Olexy confirmed President Russia’s hybrid warfare, as well as France’s Poroshenko’s work to unite the country, add- sale of Mistral-class warships to Russia, which ing that Ukraine’s Association Agreement shows the EU’s disingenuous response to with the EU has high support and that across Russian aggression toward Ukraine. Ukraine there is growing support for the Ms. Olexy invited the senator to the idea of Ukraine joining NATO. Ukrainian Day advocacy event that was to Sen. Menendez, whose schedule was be held in Washington on July 16 by the already constrained, concluded the meeting Ruslana and UNA Treasurer Roma Lisovich with Sen. Robert Menendez at his office Ukrainian National Information Service by congratulating Ruslana on her work and in Newark, N.J., on July 14. (UNIS), the Washington office of the wishing further success for Ukraine. The tough-as-nails Ukrainian pilot that Russia wants to try for murder

by Daisy Sindelar ‘The same as the guys’ RFE/RL Lt. Savchenko is already a familiar face in July 10 Ukraine, where she has served as one of the country’s first female career soldiers. Nadiya Savchenko has a history of fight- At 16, Vira Savchenko says, her older sis- ing for what she wants. ter was already determined to become a The 33-year-old Kyiv native fought to pilot. She joined the Ukrainian army, working become one of Ukraine’s first women to as a radio operator with the country’s rail- train as an air-force pilot. And as a member way forces before training as a paratrooper. of the volunteer Aidar Battalion in eastern A picture from the time shows a smiling Ukraine, she fought to defend her country – Nadiya Savchenko wearing the paratroop- even remaining defiant after being abduct- ers’ trademark blue beret, arm in arm with ed by pro-Russian separatists. four fellow soldiers – all men. “When she was little she was very self- “Of course any girls in the army who are reliant,” says her younger sister, Vira, 31, involved in more than office duties and speaking from Luhansk. “I used to follow paperwork have to be able to withstand the her around like I was her tail. She always same physical pressure that the guys do, defended me. That was our childhood.” the same military drills,” Vira Savchenko Now Lt. Savchenko is facing a new fight, says. “They have to be able to perform all as a prisoner in a Russia detention center, RFE/RL via YouTube the same physical tasks. She was able to do facing charges of complicity in the June 17 Lt. Nadiya Savchenko all these things at a high level.” killing of two Russian journalists, Igor Nadiya Savchenko went on to serve as Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, who died despite being in the custody of pro-Moscow tion about troop size and strategy in the east. the only female soldier among Ukraine’s during a mortar attack on a separatist separatists and handcuffed to a metal pipe. She smiles wanly when she is offered the peacekeeping troops in Iraq. Upon return- checkpoint outside Luhansk. Wearing combat fatigues and sporting a chance of release, saying, “They’re not ing, she successfully petitioned the Defense Little is known about Lt. Savchenko’s shaggy crewcut, Lt. Savchenko in the video going to let me out, they’re going to kill me.” Ministry for the right to attend the presti- current state. Abducted on June 18 outside appears to look directly at her interrogator, She adds, in an apparent reference to the gious Air Force University in Kharkiv, which the Luhansk suburb of Shchastia, she was even leaning in assertively as she repeats her current Russian accusations, “Your Russian until then had been open only to men. last seen in a video, released on June 19, in oath to protect Ukraine “against external authorities will kill me, according to the which she appears healthy and unfazed, invasion” and refusing to divulge informa- charges they’re leveling against me.” (Continued on page 19) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 No. 29 A bogeyman in Russia, U.S. envoy Tefft poised for Moscow job byCarl Schreck in September. RFE/RL Even when Mr. Tefft “is delivering the toughest and least-welcome messages, his counterparts are always gen- In Moscow they have called him a regime-change uinely pleased to see him as a person, and always, at the expert, a “diplomatic diversionist” dispatched by conclusion, invite him back,” Mr. Melia added. Washington to foment unrest in Russia’s neighboring Mikhail Pogrebinsky, a Kyiv-based political analyst, told states. And now he appears to be headed to Russia, where the Russian magazine Profil in July that Mr. Tefft is a “sly Kremlin surrogates warn he may try to do the same. charmer” who at the same time can “eat an opponent with- Meet John Tefft, the man who has apparently been out choking.” tapped to manage Washington’s tattered ties with Moscow. According to the latest media reports, U.S. President ‘Stick in the eye’? Barack Obama plans to nominate Mr. Tefft as Washington’s When Mr. Tefft’s name emerged earlier this year as next ambassador to Moscow and Russian press reports say Ambassador McFaul’s potential replacement, it was inter- Moscow has approved the appointment. preted by some Russian and U.S. analysts as a signal of the If the reports are accurate, and if the U.S. Senate con- Obama administration’s intention to continue its policy of firms Mr. Tefft, the veteran diplomat would be headed to minimizing cooperation with Moscow due to the Ukraine Moscow at a nadir in U.S. relations with the Kremlin crisis. unseen since the Cold War, one that comes in the wake of It’s an assessment, however, that former administration the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea in March and amid an officials disagree with. armed pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine. “I don’t read it the same way as these people who basi- And few career diplomats raise hackles in Moscow like cally say, ‘Hey, you know, he served in Ukraine and Georgia, the 64-year-old specialist on the post-Soviet world. U.S.-Ukraine Business Council so the idea here is to put a stick in the Russians’ eye,’” the Russian suspicion of Ambassador Tefft stems from his Ambassador John Tefft in a photo taken in 2013 in Kyiv. former U.S. official who worked with Mr. Tefft told RFE/RL. service as a spearhead of U.S. diplomacy with pro-Western “I think that’s just wrong calculation. John Tefft has 30-plus governments in Ukraine and Georgia that rode into power When the Soviet Union collapsed, he was serving as years’ experience representing the United States abroad, behind the so-called “color revolutions” that the Kremlin deputy director of the Soviet affairs office at the State and he spent a lot of his time working on Russia.” accused Washington of orchestrating. Department, and he got a front-row seat to Russia’s subse- David Kramer, a former State Department colleague of A four-decade veteran of the foreign service, Mr. Tefft quent political and economic turmoil as deputy chief of Mr. Tefft’s, said he had heard the veteran diplomat’s name played a visible role in the U.S. response to the 2004 mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow from 1996 to 1999. proposed as the potential next U.S. envoy to Russia in the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and went on to serve as U.S. Mr. Tefft’s extensive record working on Soviet and summer of 2013. ambassador to Georgia during the tiny ex-Soviet republic’s Russian affairs – including a 10-month stint as chargé At the time, the United States and Russia had butted short 2008 war with Russia. d’affaires at the Moscow Embassy – make him an ideal can- heads over Moscow’s decision to grant political asylum to Moscow accused the West of emboldening Georgian didate for the job at this moment in U.S.-Russian ties, his U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden and Russia’s law President Mikheil Saakashvili with military assistance in former colleagues say. against so-called gay propaganda, but the bilateral relation- the run-up to the conflict over the Moscow-backed rebel If he is nominated and confirmed by the Senate, his ten- Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. ship had not “reached the point where it is now,” Mr. ure is likely to differ sharply from that of his predecessor, A year prior to the war, Ambassador Tefft accused Kramer told RFE/RL. Prof. Michael McFaul, a political appointee who made a Russia of directly aiding Georgian separatists, according to “So I don’t think it’s meant to send a signal that because public outreach – perhaps most notably through Twitter – a State Department cable published by WikiLeaks and the he was ambassador to Ukraine and Lithuania and Georgia, a keystone of his ambassadorship. British newspaper The Guardian. that this guy is now going to come to Russia. I think he’s one “John Tefft has grown up in a world where quiet govern- After leaving his post in Tbilisi in 2009, Mr. Tefft was of the best in the business,” said Mr. Kramer, now the presi- ment-to-government diplomacy has been the norm for the appointed by President Obama to be the U.S. envoy to dent of the Washington-based rights watchdog Freedom bulk of his career,” a former U.S. official who worked closely Ukraine, where floundering pro-Western president Viktor House. with Mr. Tefft told RFE/RL, adding that he would be a Yushchenko subsequently lost re-election to Kremlin- Russian officials have expressed a comparable estima- friendly candidate Viktor Yanukovych. “superb choice” for the Moscow posting. tion of Ambassador Tefft’s skills as a diplomat, however Mr. Yanukovych fled to Russia in February of this year in After Mr. Tefft’s name surfaced in the media as a candi- wary they may be of the work they believe he was the wake of mass protests, setting off a chain of events that date for the job earlier this year, Ambassador McFaul him- deployed to carry out. would lead to the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea and the self tweeted that the veteran diplomat was “one of the best Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly rise of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. [ambassadors] around” and said he would be a “fantastic” Churkin, told the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya While Ambassador Tefft’s posting in Kyiv had already selection. Pravda in April that Mr. Tefft is an “experienced diplomat ended by the time the protests erupted in November 2013, A Wisconsin native who collects hats as a hobby, Mr. who has extensive experience working in our region, and Kremlin loyalists have accused him of laying the ground- Tefft speaks in public with a folksy Midwestern accent and he probably understands its problems.” work for President Yanukovych’s ouster in what Russia an aw-shucks demeanor that evokes the goody-two-shoes “If he arrives with the assignment of irritating Russia calls a coup sponsored by Western powers to diminish neighbor Ned Flanders in the American animated series based on his work experience and previous not-so-charita- Russia’s influence in the region. “The Simpsons.” ble statements directed at us, then his effectiveness as an “In Ukraine …his role in organizing the current events can It is a bearing that was on full display in a farewell inter- ambassador will be close to zero,” Mr. Churkin said. “If he in no way be underestimated,” Veronika Krasheninnikova, a view he gave to a Georgian talk show in 2009 that he arrives with the assignment of trying to forge a dialogue, Kremlin-appointed member of Russia’s Public Chamber, capped off by singing an earnest – if dissonant – version of then we can look at his service record differently.” said of Ambassador Tefft in an interview with a state-run “What a Wonderful World,” a song made famous by jazz Mr. Kramer said he expects Russia to treat Ambassador Russian radio station in April. legend Louis Armstrong. Tefft with more respect than Dr. McFaul was greeted with, Mr. Tefft also served as U.S. ambassador to Lithuania – a Tefft’s warm persona, however, belies what his col- given the nominee’s long government service. former Soviet satellite state wary of Russia’s ambitions out- leagues describe as a shrewd ability to tighten a diplomatic After assuming his post in 2012, Dr. McFaul, an academ- side its borders – from 2000 to 2003. State-owned Russian vise when needed. ic who has written extensively about pro-democracy move- media have suggested his time in the Baltic country helped U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Melia ments in the former Soviet Union, was hounded by state- solidify his alleged antipathy toward the Kremlin. said last year that Mr. Tefft is “always double-tracking” in loyal Russian television over his meetings with Russian Mr. Tefft, meanwhile, has denied harboring such hostili- his dealings with foreign officials. opposition activists. ty. Most of these meetings, Mr. Melia said, would end with “They had everything cued up [for McFaul], all they had “I’m not anti-Russian,” he told the Ukrainian newspaper Mr. Tefft channeling the fictional detective Columbo played to do was hit the play button,” Mr. Kramer said. “And I don’t Segodnya in a 2009 interview published in Russian. “I sim- by actor Peter Falk in the eponymous American television think they would do that with John.” ply believe that everyone in this part of the world should series, with the diplomat turning back just as he is about to As an old-school diplomat, Mr. Tefft is likely to differ learn to work and get along with each other, mutually depart and saying, “Oh, there is just one more thing.” from Dr. McFaul in at least one other respect as well, Mr. respecting sovereignty and independence.” “And then he leans in and in lowered voice tells the Kramer said: “I would expect that there would be a lot less uncooperative government official that he personally is tweeting.” ‘Columbo’ diplomacy working on his daughter’s visa for study in the U.S. next fall, Mr. Tefft joined the foreign service as a European spe- or he mentions to the presidential aide that unless some Copyright 2014, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted with the permis- cialist in 1972, in the midst of the Cold War. He went on to things are fixed in the non-transparent way licenses to sion of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut work on the Soviet Desk at the State Department in the export wheat are unfairly excluding U.S. companies, there Ave. NW, Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see http:// 1980s, serving in a U.S. delegation on arms control negotia- would necessarily be adverse consequences,” Mr. Melia www.rferl.org/content/us-envoy-tapped-moscow-ambassa- tions in 1985. said while presenting Mr. Tefft with a human rights award dor-john-tefft/25446780.htm).

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WINDOW ON EURASIA The Ukrainian Weekly About negotiations and sanctions Kyiv churchman’s death highlights German Chancellor Angela Merkel sparked outrage in Ukraine when her press service on July 14 issued a statement calling for the Ukrainian government to negoti- Moscow patriarch’s failure in Ukraine ate with the pro-Russian terrorists directly. by Paul Goble 10415692.html). She reached that recommendation after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Volodymyr ‘s withdrawal allowed Kirill Putin in Rio de Janeiro, a day after the World Cup match where she was seated next The death on Saturday of Metropolitan to be elected, a misfortune, Mr. Baranov to the Russian leader and even hugged him afterwards, sending chills down the Volodymyr Sabodan, the longtime head of the says, because “if the intelligent and experi- spines of Ukrainians. They both agreed that direct negotiations between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow enced Kyiv metropolitan had become head Ukrainian government and separatists in the format of a videoconference should be Patriarchate, simultaneously highlights the of the Russian Orthodox Church, it is likely held as soon as possible, the press service reported. The goal of these talks should be failure of Moscow Patriarch Kirill in Ukraine, that the events in Ukraine would have a bilateral ceasefire, the statement said, important conditions for which are a mutual Russian commentators say, and likely acceler- developed in an entirely different way.” exchange of hostages and active monitoring of the Ukraine-Russia border involving ates a wholesale re-alignment of Orthodox “The aggressive and often stupid foreign the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). bishoprics and congregations in Ukraine. policy of Patriarch Kirill is far from the least On July 10, Ms. Merkel had spoken with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who Volodymyr, who died at the age of 79 important factor underlying the Ukrainian reportedly agreed on the need for urgent negotiations involving all sides. She said she after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease crisis,” the editor says. What happened was recognized his military actions as legitimate but called on him to weigh these measures which in fact forced him to give up his day- this: “the Kremlin began to openly define and defend the civilian population – comments that got blood boiling in Ukraine. to-day management of his Church earlier the policy of the Russian Orthodox Church, The Merkel-Putin proposal seemed to want to replace the trilateral contact group this year after serving as its metropolitan and Patriarch Kirill did not find in himself format that has been in place, in which the Ukrainian government is represented by since 1992, was a major figure not only in the courage to conduct his own.” former President Leonid Kuchma. That format enabled President Poroshenko to Ukraine but in Russian Orthodoxy more Metropolitan Volodymyr was “another keep a safe distance from the terrorists while satisfying Western demands for talks. generally. man” entirely, Mr. Baranov continues, espe- European leaders have long ago demonstrated their timidity – in some cases utter In 1990, he finished a close second to cially with regard to the level of his authori- appeasement – when challenged by Mr. Putin. That became apparent during the Euro- Metropolitan Aleksii in the voting for a new ty in society outside of Russia. And he con- Maidan protests and the Crimean invasion. So, conciliatory statements to the Russians Moscow patriarch, and in the two decades cludes: “the tragic events in Ukraine not by come as no surprise to Ukrainians. But the source of the outrage this time around was since that time, he has played a key role not accident coincided with the deterioration the utterly ill-advised and unprofessional nature of the chancellor’s recommendation. only in the expansion of the bishoprics of the of the health of the Kyiv metropolitan, and To put it bluntly, she doesn’t seem to know with whom the Ukrainians are dealing. Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine but also his life ended along with the disappearance The “separatists” are largely a ragtag bunch of career criminals and social out- in the retention of its congregations, which of that Ukraine which he knew.” casts with violent leanings. They’ve been supported by similar characters from Metropolitan Volodymyr’s authority was Russia that Mr. Putin is more than happy to rid himself of and dump on Ukraine, otherwise might have left that hierarchy. truly enormous, and with his passing, including Chechen and nationalist radicals who revel in killing and destruction. The While many Ukrainians viewed Moscow and the Moscow Patriarchate are separatists also have no idea what they want. Some seek an autonomous republic Volodymyr as little more than Moscow’s within Ukraine. Others want Russian annexation. Still others want independence. It’s man in their country, Russian commentators going to find it ever more difficult to retain not clear what negotiations would produce when those responsible for the violence remember him as something more than that their positions among the Orthodox in don’t know what they’re fighting for, other than contempt for anything that threat- and at least some are worried that his death Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin and ens their Russo-centric worldview. will lead to the further decline in the posi- Patriarch Kirill implicitly recognized this in It’s for these reasons the “Russian spring” has been an utter flop. Unlike the Euro- tion of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine. their message of sympathy on Volodymyr’s Maidan, which was fueled by Ukraine’s middle and working classes, the rebellion in In a comment on Forum-MSK.org, that death (expert.ru/2014/07/5/vladimir- Donbas, which was violent from its very outset, failed to attract anyone with an edu- site’s editor, Anatoly Baranov said that putin-i-patriarh-kirill-vyirazili-sobo- cation or a business. Unlike the Euro-Maidan, which mostly consisted of peaceful Metropolitan Volodymyr “was one of the leznovanie-v-svyazi-s-konchinoj-mitropoli- protests, speeches, poetry and music, the Donbas rebellion has been plagued on a most interesting officials of the Russian ta-kievskogo-i-vseya-ukrainyi-vladimira/). daily basis by theft, murder, rape and the use of children as human shields. Orthodox Church” and almost became its But their words are unlikely to slow the After her announcement, Ms. Merkel’s Ukrainian critics compared her to Joachim patriarch on two occasions, first in 1990 process of the Ukrainianization of von Ribbentrop, the German minister for foreign affairs under Adolph Hitler who when he lost to Aleksii and then in 2009 Orthodoxy in Ukraine at an organizational signed the Soviet-German non-aggression pact. (You won’t be reading about that when he was nominated but withdrew level, and with that process accelerating, instance of Nazi collaboration in Russian history textbooks.) (forum-msk.org/material/news/ both the Kremlin and especially Patriarch “Danke, Frau Ribbentrop!” was the phrase coined by Volodymyr Horbach of the Kirill are going to see their religious and Institute of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kyiv, who urged Ukrainians to paste it Paul Goble is a long-time specialist on political leverage decline there, in the post- throughout the comment sections of German government websites as if it were an ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia Soviet states, and internationally as well. act of online graffiti. The chancellor’s Facebook page was also targeted. “She wants who has served in various capacities in the Some Orthodox writers have been refer- to be the intermediary in an aggressor-victim situation at a time when the victim U.S. State Department, the Central ring to Volodymyr as “a Soviet church func- needs not intercession, but help and defense from the aggressor,” Mr. Horbach wrote Intelligence Agency and the International tionary,” one of the last of a generation that on his Ukrayinska Pravda blog. Broadcasting Bureau, as well as at the Voice will inevitably disappear. But unlike The day after the chancellor’s announcement, Mr. Poroshenko’s press service report- of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Patriarch Kirill, who remains very much ed a phone conversation in which Ms. Merkel allegedly claimed her recommendation Liberty and the Carnegie Endowment for what he was, the late Metropolitan was misinterpreted, as she was urging a renewal of the trilateral contact group rather International Peace. Mr. Goble writes a blog Volodymyr was someone who made an than direct talks between the Ukrainian leadership and the separatists. That appears to called “Window on Eurasia” (http://windo- attempt to change. That gave him an be backtracking, as the original statement by Ms. Merkel’s press service did not mince woneurasia2.blogspot.com/). The article authority Kirill very much lacks (portal- words. (Perhaps it was someone in her press service who misinterpreted her words.) above is reprinted with permission. credo.ru/site/?act=authority&id=2090). In the meantime, Mr. Poroshenko is doing well in using buffers such as Mr. Kuchma with the separatists and continuing to pursue the anti-terrorist operation as the Russians have clearly shown they will only heed force and power. YOUR E-MAIL MESSAGES European Union leaders, instead of urging talks with riffraff separatists, ought to be halting any arms sales to Russia, such as the two French Mistral-class sophisticat- TO THE WEEkLY ed amphibious warships, and exploring new sources of natural gas supplies, such as Due to the quantity of messages The Ukrainian Weekly the U.S. Following the latest round of stronger U.S. sanctions imposed on top Russian receives at its address ([email protected]), we kindly banks and energy companies on July 16, EU leaders said they’d follow up with their ask senders to have consideration for those on the own sanctions, which would be their first against Russian state enterprises. 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FOR THE RECORD U.S. State Department releases fact sheet on Russia’s support for armed separatists The following fact sheet on “Russia’s depot to send to this same deployment site. Ukraine’s good-faith efforts bers are wounded by pro-Russian separat- Continuing Support for Armed Separatists in - ists, foreshadowing separatists’ 100 plus In a bid to unify the country, President Ukraine and Ukraine’s Efforts Toward Peace, ment will be transferred to separatists, as violent actions over the next 10 days. Poroshenko outlined a comprehensive Unity and Stability” was released on July 14 we• are We confidentare concerned Russia much has alreadyof this equip deliv- • June 23: The contact group meets in peace plan on June 7. President by the U.S. State Department, Office of the ered tanks and multiple rocket launchers to Donetsk. Poroshenko’s plan offers amnesty to sepa- Spokesperson. them from this site. • June 25: NATO Secretary General ratists who lay down their arms voluntarily, [Anders Fogh] Rasmussen notes that there and who are not guilty of capital crimes; The United States’ goal throughout the Moscow has recently transferred some are “no signs” of Russia respecting its inter- commits to providing a safe corridor for crisis in Ukraine has been to support a Soviet-era• Available tanks and information artillery to indicatesthe sepa- national commitments with regard to Russian fighters to return to Russia; estab- democratic Ukraine that is stable, unified, ratists and that over the weekend several Ukraine. lishes a job creation program for the affect- secure both politically and economically, military vehicles crossed the border. • June 27: ed areas; includes an offer of broad decen- Ukraine provides constitu- and able to determine its own future. - tralization and dialogue with eastern tional reform provisions to the Venice Therefore, we support ongoing dialogue tary convoys suggest Russia in the past regions, including the promise of early local Commission for review. This reform would among the foreign ministers from Ukraine, week• Social alone media has probably videos ofsupplied separatist the mili- elections; and grants increased local con- allow for the direct election of governors Germany, France and Russia to work tants with at least two-dozen additional trol over language, holidays and customs. and for local authorities to confer special toward a sustainable ceasefire by all parties armored vehicles and artillery pieces and President Poroshenko also has reached out status on minority languages within their in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in about as many military trucks. to the residents of regions. eastern Ukraine that would build toward a eastern Ukraine • June 27: lasting peace. We should emphasize, how- 14 of a Luhansk convoy on the road to and is pursuing While Russia says President Poroshenko ever, that our ultimate goal is not just a Donetsk• Publicly revealed available at leastvideos five posted T-64 ontanks, July constitutional it seeks peace, its extends the unilateral temporary halt to violence. We want Russia four BMP-2 armored personnel carriers reform which will ceasefire another 72 to stop destabilizing Ukraine and occupying (APC), BM-21 multiple rocket launchers, actions do not match give local regions hours to allow another Crimea, a part of Ukraine’s territory, and three towed anti-tank guns, two ZU 23-2 more authority to its rhetoric. We have chance for OSCE con- allow all of the people of Ukraine to come anti-aircraft guns and probably a 2B16 choose their region- tact group negotia- together to make their own decisions about mortar. no evidence that al leaders and pro- tions to show progress. their country’s future through a democratic tect locally spoken Russia’s support for • June 28: Ukraine political process. Izvaryne border crossing, on 11 July languages. the separatists has shoots down two Ukrainian President [Petro] Poroshenko showed• A videotwo BTR of armored Krasnodon, personnel near carri the- President Russian UAVs violating has proposed a detailed peace plan that ers, two anti-tank guns and various trucks ceased. Poroshenko imple- Ukraine’s airspace in includes a promise of amnesty for separat- on a road heading in a westerly direction the Luhansk region. ists who laid down their arms voluntarily, towards Donetsk. mented a unilateral seven-day (later extended to 10 days) • June 30: Due to the separatists’ refusal and who are not guilty of capital crimes; to abandon violence in favor of negotiation, decentralization of powers within Ukraine; showed a convoy of three BMD-2 APCs, two ceasefire on June 20. He also proposed meeting with leaders from eastern Ukraine President Poroshenko allows the ceasefire and protection of the Russian language. He BMPs,• A videoone 2S9 filmed self-propelled in Donetsk gunon 11 and July a to expire. also implemented a unilateral 10-day BTR-60 APC. – including separatists – despite their stat- ed unwillingness to abide by the ceasefire • July 3: President Poroshenko in a tele- ceasefire on June 20 to create room for a phone conversation with U.S. Vice- political solution, which unfortunately was Ukrainian cities last weekend, Ukrainian or to negotiate. Yet Russia and its proxies in Donetsk and President [Joe] Biden reaffirms that he is not reciprocated by the separatists and officials• In addition, discovered after caches recapturing of weapons several that ready to begin political negotiations to their Russian backers. they assert came from Russia, including Luhansk did not act on this opportunity for peace. Hours after the ceasefire began, resolve the situation in Donetsk and While Russia says it seeks peace, its MANPADS, mines, grenades, MREs, vehicles Luhansk regions without any additional Russia-backed separatists wounded nine actions do not and a pontoon conditions. Ukrainian service members. During the match its rhetoric. bridge. • July 8: President Poroshenko visits the We want Russia to course of the 10-day ceasefire, Russia- We have no evi- - former rebel stronghold of Sloviansk to es have discovered backed separatists attacked Ukrainian dence that Russia’s stop destabilizing meet with local residents after government large• Ukrainian amounts forc of security forces over 100 times, killing 28 support for the sep- forces recapture it from pro-Russian sepa- aratists has ceased. Ukraine and occupy- other Russian- service members. The separatists continue ratists. In fact, we assess provided military to hold more than 150 hostages, mostly ing Crimea, a part • July 9: Ukraine restores electricity and that Russia contin- equipment, includ- civilians, including teachers and journalists. of Ukraine’s territory, train service to Sloviansk, and Ukrainian ues to provide them ing accompanying Separatists have refused all offers by the security forces distribute food, drinking with heavy weap- and allow all of the documentation veri- Ukrainian government to meet. water, and humanitarian aid to the popula- ons, other military fying the Russian people of Ukraine to tion. equipment and origin of said equip- Timeline of events • July 11: The Ukrainian government financing, and con- come together to make ment, in the areas This timeline of events leading to, during tinues to allow mili- they have liberated establishes an interagency task force in their own decisions and after the unilateral Ukraine ceasefire Sloviansk that is conducting damage, secu- tants to enter from the separatists. illustrates how the good-faith efforts of the Ukraine freely. about their country’s rity and humanitarian needs assessments. Ukraine government and European leaders • July 11: The Ukrainian government Russia denies this, future through a destroyed or dis- to broker a ceasefire with Russia and the just as it denied its abled• Photographs separatist of reports that it delivered over 60 tons of democratic political separatists it backs have been rejected. humanitarian aid supplies in Donetsk forces were equipment in east- Russia and the separatists they are sup- involved in Crimea – process. ern Ukraine have Oblast over the preceding 24 hours, bring- porting continued to destabilize Ukraine ing the five-day total to 158 tons. President until after the fact. corroborated that throughout the ceasefire, and continue to Russia has refused to call for the separatists some of this equipment is coming from Poroshenko announces that Ukrainian destabilize Ukraine today. security forces had successfully cleared to lay down their arms, and continues to Russia. • May 25: Petro Poroshenko, who had - nearly 100 mines and roadside bombs from mass its troops along the Ukrainian border. campaigned on a platform stressing recon- Many self-proclaimed “leaders” of the sepa- ers are expanding inside Russia, and sepa- liberated territory. ciliation with the east and Russia, is elected ratists hail from Russia and have ties to the ratists• Recruiting are looking efforts for volunteers for separatist with expefight- * * * by an absolute majority of voters in Russian government. This all paints a tell- rience operating heavy weapons such as As General Philip Breedlove, NATO’s Ukraine. ing picture of Russia’s continued policy of tanks and air defenses. Russia has allowed supreme allied commander for Europe, • June 8-17: President Poroshenko destabilization in eastern Ukraine. officials from the “Donetsk People’s stated on July 1: “The ceasefire in Ukraine Here are the facts: Republic” to establish a recruiting office in hosts five rounds of contact group talks, was not ended because of accusations; it - Moscow. facilitated by the OSCE envoy, in the lead-up was ended because Russian-backed sepa- cant amounts of equipment at a deploy- to his announcement of a ceasefire. ratists responded with violence while ment• Russia site in continues southwest to Russia.accumulate This signifiequip- has long had a distinguished career in the • June 12: President Poroshenko initi- President Poroshenko tried to open a win- ment includes tanks of a type no longer Ukrainian• Ukrainian military, pilot was Nadiya taken Savchenko, by separatists who ates a call to President [Vladimir] Putin to dow for peace. Russia’s commitment to used by the Russian military, as well as in mid-June. She is now being held in a pris- open communication. peace will be judged by its actions, not its armored vehicles, multiple rocket launch- on in Voronezh, Russia. According to the • June 14: EU-brokered gas talks end words.” As the United States and our ers, artillery and air defense systems. Ukrainian government, she was transferred with a final EU-brokered proposal: Ukraine European allies have repeatedly stated, we Russia has roughly doubled the number of to Russia by separatists. accepts the proposal, but Russia rejected it. call on the Russian government to halt its tanks, armored vehicles and rocket launch- - • June 19: President Poroshenko meets material support for the separatists, to use ers at this site. More advanced air defense ploy new forces extremely close to the with eastern Ukrainian leaders, including its influence with the separatists to push systems have also arrived at this site. Ukrainian• Separately, border. Russia We have continues information to rede that separatists, in Kyiv. them to lay down their arms and abide by a a significant number of additional military • June 20: President Poroshenko imple- ceasefire and to release all hostages. Only additional tanks that are no longer in the units are also in the process of deploying to ments a seven-day unilateral ceasefire. then can the process of bringing peace to active• We Russian are confident military Moscow inventory is mobilizing from a the border. Hours later, nine Ukrainian service mem- Ukraine truly begin. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 No. 29

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critics, silenced analysts, and left the public Sevastopol. The movement of forces, con- and can reappear in the same location. Putin’s... commentary rooted in reaction to every duct and discipline in the Crimea operation Russia, in Mr. Putin’s world, never steps nuance and twist of a directed, though not was way advanced compared to the inva- back from the brink. (Continued from page 2) entirely controlled, Kremlin narrative. While sion of Georgia in 2008. There were almost This vortex of Russian planning and secu- we will shoot to kill. Everybody who wants Moscow no doubt used these tools to maxi- no Russian conscripts involved, reflecting rity thinking, along with its views on future to make war in our region should know mize its role and influence in the unfolding moves in the VDV and the ground forces to war and ongoing military experiments and that Dnipropetrovsk will be a second crisis with Ukraine, it clearly did not exer- reconstitute the earlier model, from 2010- modernization, has plunged the North Stalingrad for them, but in that struggle the cise full control over all the “separatist” ele- 2012, of battalion tactical groups (BTGs) Atlantic Alliance back to reconsidering col- Ukrainian people will win” (http://euro- ments converging within Ukraine’s east. staffed with kontraktniki (contract sol- lective defense. The Kremlin has a new tool maidanpr.com/2014/04/15/dnipropetro- Moscow’s experiment in Crimea, perhaps diers) (Interfax, April 17; Ren TV, March 4). at its disposal – and though largely restrict- vsk-promises-putin-a-second-stalingrad/). expanded over the following weeks in east- To date, Western and Russian analyses of ed to special forces and elite units in Crimea, Whether a quasi-private force funded by an ern Ukraine, constitutes a move toward the Crimea operation and the Ukraine crisis this is likely to be extended in the years oligarch can be a legitimate instrument of non-linear warfare capabilities in general have missed a number of major ahead to widen the options and force mix at national security remains open to question. On May 23, Russian President Vladimir advances in Russian military capabilities. the disposal of Russian planners. Indeed, such measures, when combined Putin tentatively expressed a willingness to These include the force mix for operations Analysts and Western governments with poor training and lack of discipline, respect the outcome of Ukraine’s presiden- such as Crimea, the use of exercises and failed to foresee Russian actions during the can lead to unintended consequences. In tial election on May 25; but since then snap inspections to pressure a local conflict crisis, which demands greater levels of Mariupol, the National Guard left behind a Moscow has carefully avoided a full situation, advances in manning to create understanding concerning what Moscow new political landscape. Rinat Akhmetov, endorsement of the election’s outcome. fully contract BTGs, as well as the use of did that marked novelty and how this was the founder and president of System On June 2, in the context of increasing vio- new tactics, terms and an approach to war- achieved. This understanding, in turn, is a Capital Management and the owner of lence in eastern Ukraine, Moscow attempted fare that leaves August 2008 looking like prerequisite for predicting the likely course Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest steel mill, sanc- to gain United Nations Security Council back- ancient history. of Russia’s future actions. Seen from a tioned the creation of unarmed “volunteer ing for a resolution calling on an end to the It is possible to describe such a conflict NATO perspective, the crisis establishes the warriors” from among Mariupol’s workers violence and the opening of a humanitarian as a fourth-generation war, which blurs the emergence of an asymmetrical actor on the to cooperate in restoring order in the land corridor in the country. The effort lines between politics and war and periphery of the Euro-Atlantic space, blur- Donetsk Oblast and to keep Kyiv’s anti-ter- achieved little progress but confirmed the between combatants and civilians. They are ring the distinction between war and rorist operation out of the region (The Kremlin’s diametrically opposing view on the complex and create “wicked problems” for peace, with unpredictable and potentially Independent, May 16). crisis compared to Western counterparts. the militaries that must fight them. The dangerous consequences. Mr. Akhmetov seems to understand bet- Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary struggle is non-linear (nelineynaya voyna) It remains to be seen whether Ukraine’s ter than the Kyiv government that attacking General of the North Atlantic Treaty and involves the application of a whole ongoing anti-terrorist operation will end the unarmed civilians undermines both de Organization (NATO), described Russia’s range of means to affect the conflict’s cen- armed resistance in the east in a quick victo- facto and de jure legitimacy. Continued actions in Ukraine as “irresponsible and ter of gravity, which is the civilian popula- ry, bring about the evolution of that struggle anti-terrorist operations and more civilian illegal,” and a “serious challenge to a tion itself. Both sides will seek to exploit the into a protracted civil war, or even produce casualties present a greater threat to the Europe whole, free and at peace” (RIA human terrain. The insurgents will attempt a direct, overt Russian military intervention legitimacy of Ukraine’s newly elected presi- Novosti, June 3). to conceal their assets there and to provoke and a much wider war. dent than either the Russian Army across Reporting on the Crimea aspect of the the opposing state’s armed forces into Newly elected President Poroshenko does the border or the “little green men” operat- crisis had missed most of the crucial ele- actions, seeking to isolate the central gov- not face an easy task in achieving peace and ing inside eastern Ukraine. ments in the Russian experiment with non- ernment from the indigenous population. reform in Ukraine. Mr. Putin has many mili- The state forces, on the other hand, will tary and political cards to play in this dan- PART II linear warfare. The force mix – including all the elements of the long-discussed rapid need to use the human terrain to assure the gerous situation, which will define the future Russia’s response to the Euro-Maidan, reaction forces modeled on the elite local population of its intent to restore of Ukraine and the issue of war or peace for which dislodged President Viktor Airborne Forces (VDV), but also including order, establish the rule of law and protect Eurasia, including the fate of Russia. Yanukovych’s government, utilized a broad naval infantry, GRU Spetsnaz (military intel- the life and property of its citizens. range of political and military tools leverag- ligence special forces) and supporting Some analysts and Western govern- The article above is reprinted from ing Moscow’s influence in shaping the manoeuver brigades – benefited from the ments welcomed the reduction of Russian Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from future of its close neighbor. It caught nature of the operating environment and troops on Ukraine’s border, naively ignor- its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, Western governments by surprise, stunned the presence of the Black Sea Fleet’s HQ in ing just how fast those troops had appeared www.jamestown.org. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 9

Petrusia Sawchak Girls who initiated and designed last year’s and this year’s T-shirts, Tusia Katya Bis Kopach (left) and Ari Louer. Participants of the 2014 Tennis Camp at Soyuzivka. Soyuzivka Tennis Camp focuses on improving skills while having fun

Katya Bis Katya Bis Winners of the camp tournament (front row, from left) Stefan Waskiw, Stefan Best camper award winners: (holding trophies, from left) Maryanna Dumalska, Sorobay, Molly Bis, Nastya Dudaryk, Polina Mosharov, Alexandra Bula, Pavlo Matthew Bach, Stephan Kurras and Nastya Dudaryk, with camp staff and counselors. Oscislawski, Pavlo Busko and Alex Dale with (back row) camp director George Sawchak, and counselors Danylo Hankewycz, Christopher Bula and Mike Galonzka. who were divided into groups according to ed the closing ceremonies. The dinner was ability in each particular skill. During the superb thanks to Chef Andrey Sonevytsky, by Petrusia Sawchak band, Don Kopach, also past champion and second week the campers applied their who always tries to make every meal nutri- winner of this year’s USCAK tennis tourna- knowledge during tournament play. tious and delicious. KERHONKSON, N.Y. – The Soyuzivka ment with doubles partner Roman Rakoczy. Aside from tennis instruction, campers Mr. Sawchak gave the campers their cer- Tennis Camp kicked off the spring/summer The counselors were: Mike Galonzka, had time to enjoy Soyuzivka’s pool, volley- tificates and thanked everyone associated season with a bang. The annual tennis and former campers Danylo Hankewych, ball court and hockey rink, where they with the camp for their cooperation and camp was held for 12 days at the Soyuzivka Victoria Voronovich and Christopher Bula. played some soccer. They also watched the diligence in conducting the camp. The tour- Heritage Center from June 22 to July 3. It Guest instructors were Tania Sawchak, a World Cup, cheering on the U.S.A., which, nament results were announced and tro- drew children, ages 10 to 16, from 11 dif- tennis teaching professional in Pennsylvania, unfortunately, lost to Germany. In the eve- phies awarded to winners in four groups. ferent states. There were also many day alumnus Dr. Kornylo Chorny and Dr. Yurko nings they enjoyed various activities that In the Boys’ A Group, Paul Oscislawski campers, siblings of the Tabir Ptashat Plast Charyk – past champions and all with ties enabled them to get to know each other, from Arizona won first place, and Alex Dale camp that was in session at the same time. to Soyuzivka’s tennis tournaments. like performing skits the campers made up from Pennsylvania took second. In the This year there were many more day camp- Mrs. Olya Czerkas, dorm supervisor at themselves, dancing at the popular teen Boys’ B Group, Stefan Waskiw from ers, as interest in this is growing. Camp Lviv, who likes to be called “Dorm dances held at Camp Lviv, or watching a Pennsylvania won first, and Stefan Sorobay As always, there were many campers Mom,” made sure the campers were happy popular new movie. from New York took second. who have come back for several seasons. and felt included in all the off-court activi- During the USCAK East Tournament In the Girls’ A Group, Molly Bis from And, these campers were from different ties. Completing the staff was this writer, weekend, the youngsters dressed up to Michigan took first place, and Nastya generations (children of first-, second- and Petrusia Sawchak, who acted as coordina- attend Soyuzivka’s dance held at Veselka Dudaryk from Florida took second. In the third-generation Ukrainians, as well as tor and administrator. Both Pani Olya and with a live band called Zabava. They showed Girls’ B Group, there was a tie between newer immigrants), getting to know each Pani Petrusia are public school teachers by off their dancing skills, having practiced the Alexandra Bula of Florida and Polina other, making friendships, and, of course, profession, ensuring that the children are day before. At the end of each day the Mosharov from New York. learning to play tennis. well supervised. campers formed a circle and sang “Nich Selected by the entire staff, the coveted What is the secret for a successful camp, Soyuzivka’s office manager Sonia vzhe yde” (Night is Falling), reinforcing the Best Camper Awards were awarded to one which builds camaraderie and loyalty? Semanyszyn provided the camp with cour- new friendships they made at camp before Matthew Bach of New York, Stephan Kurras The formula is simple: a dedicated enthusi- teous service and support, and Assistant going to sleep. from Connecticut, Nastya Dudaryk from astic and caring staff that loves tennis and Manager Stefko Drabyk was there to pro- Another popular activity for the campers Florida and Maryanna Dumalska of New Soyuzivka, experience and knowledge in vide assistance whenever needed and kept was being invited by Soyuzivka’s general York. organizing and teaching tennis, and fun off- the camp functioning well. The Soyuzivka manager, Nestor Paslawsky, to attend Adding some levity to the occasion, Ms. court activities. camp nurse was Natalia Swyrydenko “Kozak Night,” a Soyuzivka tradition previ- Czerkas and the counselors presented The director of the camp was George Girardi, who took care of the campers’ ously called “Hutsul Night,” where many some “funny awards” to the campers and (Yurko) Sawchak, a United States Tennis nicks and bruises. campers don their Ukrainian embroidered staff. Association (USTA) instructor, player, orga- Many of the campers participated in the shirts and enjoy Ukrainian-style food to cel- After all the presentations were over, the nizer of tennis tournaments (both for USCAK East Tennis Championship ebrate their heritage. campers continued the festivities with a Ukrainian and American events) and present Tournament held on the weekend of June The gala banquet was held at the end of dance in the hall. tournament director and senior team captain 28-29. camp in Soyuzivka’s main dining room with The next day, the campers met on the for USTA Middle States. He was assisted by The first week of camp was devoted to hors d’oeuvres and Shirley Temples tennis courts for some formal farewells, Leda Kopach, an accomplished player and learning the basics of tennis: various served in the lobby. Again, the campers and all vowed to continue playing tennis winner of many tennis tournaments strokes, game strategy and etiquette. All the wore their party attire and were given the and to return again. Many promised to keep throughout her career, as well as her hus- instructors rotated with all the campers, royal treatment. Many parents also attend- in touch throughout the year. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 No. 29

Christine Syzonenko Christine Syzonenko The Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Dance Workshop performs its “Hopak.” Singer Sofia Fedyna of Lviv.

letic tribute to the Maidan that earned a standing ova- terrorist aggression against Ukraine. Appearing at that Thousands enjoy... tion. Rusalka performed dances from such regions of elegant $200-a-plate event held under the stars on the Ukraine as Volyn and Bukovyna, its unique version of Lviv lawn were the festival’s three headliners, Ruslana, (Continued from page 1) the spirited “Hopak” and the lyrical “Vesnivka.” Mr. Skrypka and Mr. Popadiuk. the Roma Pryma Bohachevsky Dance Workshop, which Also during the grand program on Saturday night, The festival was officially opened during the Saturday is held at Soyuzivka, as well as the visiting Rusalka the Ukrainian National Association (UNA) recognized afternoon concert with the singing by the Dumka Chorus, Dance Ensemble from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ruslana’s “unwavering will” by presenting her with a with soloists Swiatoslawa Kaczaraj and Andriy Sofia Fedyna, the voice of Lviv’s Euro-Maidan, inter- plaque that cited her work as a leader of the Euro- Gavdanovich, of the national anthems of Ukraine, the nationally renowned master bandurist Victor Mishalow, Maidan movement. United States and Canada, and the presentation of colors the young bandurist Bogdan Shutka and the Dumka The festival got under way on Friday, July 11, with by the Ukrainian American Veterans. President Stefan Chorus of New York rounded out the program. the first of its three concerts. The Friday evening show Kaczaraj of the Ukrainian National Association, which Ms. Fedyna, who stood on the Lviv Euro-Maidan served as a preview of what was yet to come – and an owns the Soyuzivka Heritage Center, welcomed all to the stage for two months and helped care for the wounded enticement for festival-goers to come back the next day eighth annual festival, and the dance workshop present- who arrived from other parts of Ukraine, aroused the for two more concerts offering an extensive program of ed its signature “Pryvit” (Welcome) dance. patriotic fervor of her audience, seemingly speaking for music, song and dance. Throughout the weekend, the duties of masters of the entire Ukrainian nation when she said, “We will Also on Friday evening, the Ukrainian National ceremonies were ably handled by twin sisters stand until the end, until Ukraine is victorious and Foundation, the UNA’s charitable arm, and the United Alexandra Zawadiwsky and Anya Tomko, and Yarko Russia loses its illegal war.” Ukrainian American Relief Committee held the “Spirit of Dobriansky, who were already familiar to much of their The dance workshop presented numbers from vari- Maidan Gala,” a dinner and show benefiting the UUARC’s ous regions of Ukraine, themed dances, as well as a bal- aid to families of the fallen, injured and missing victims of (Continued on page 18)

Christine Syzonenko Christine Syzonenko The Rusalka Dance Ensemble of Winnipeg presents its opening dance number. The dance workshop participants in “Droboychanka.”

Christine Syzonenko The Dumka Chorus of New York, with Vasyl Hrechynsky (left), its conductor/music director.

Roma Hadzewycz Roma Hadzewycz At the Ukrainian National Association’s information booth Christine Syzonenko Anna Shevchenko admires one of the many Ukrainian (from left): Stephan Welhasch, Stefko Woch, Yuriy Symczyk, Varenyky-eating champion Paul Czerepacha with embroidered blouses available for purchase at the festival. Maria Drich and Nicholas Fil. Alex Gutmacher, who organized the competition. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 11

Christine Syzonenko Christine Syzonenko Ruslana and her dancers during the Saturday night program. The dance workshop presents its tribute to the Maidan.

Christine Syzonenko Christine Syzonenko Young performers who appeared in the Sunday afternoon concert at Veselka. Rusalka dancers pose for a photo with Ruslana.

Christine Syzonenko Christine Syzonenko Christine Syzonenko Virtuoso bandurist Victor Mishalow. MCs Anya Tomko, Yarko Dobriansky and Alexandra Zawadiwsky. Young bandurist Bogdan Shutka.

Christine Syzonenko A giant Ukrainian flag is carried through the crowd during the grand concert on Saturday.

Roma Hadzewycz Roma Hadzewycz A group of students enjoys the Saturday program. A view of a portion of the crowd attending the grand concert on Saturday. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 No. 29

significant, but they are also targeted.” He broaden the scope of other sanctions in Poroshenko vowed vengeance for the NEWSBRIEFS added that the steps were taken with an response to Moscow’s actions in Ukraine. deaths of 19 troops in an insurgent rocket emphasis on limiting the potential “spill- According to a draft statement seen by attack near the Russian border. During (Continued from page 2) over” for U.S. companies. “We have repeat- Reuters, EU leaders, who are meeting in their second conversation this week, the Obama speaks on new sanctions edly made clear that Russia must halt the Brussels on July 16, will ask the European White House said on July 13 that Mr. Biden flow of fighters and weapons across the bor- Investment Bank to suspend financing of also expressed support for Mr. WASHINGTON – President Barack der into Ukraine,” President Obama stated. new Russian public-sector projects. It says Poroshenko’s efforts to convene a meeting Obama on July 16 made a formal statement Russia and its eastern Ukraine allies, he EU countries will also work together to sus- with the separatists on a possible new about the new sanctions imposed on Russia. said, must also release hostages being held pend funding for new projects in Russia ceasefire. The vice-president also briefed Business Insider noted that the Obama in Ukraine, and agree to a ceasefire, interna- through the European Bank for Mr. Poroshenko on efforts by the United administration had leveled its most punitive tionally mediated talks with the Ukraine Reconstruction and Development. The draft States and its allies to punish Russia if it sanctions yet against Russia and the govern- government and international monitors on statement also says the bloc will broaden continues to provide the insurgents with ment of President Vladimir Putin. The New the Ukraine border. “I’ve made this clear to the scope of asset freezes to target compa- heavy weapons and equipment. (RFE/RL, York Times reported: “While the latest Mr. Putin. Many of our European allies have nies and other organizations that under- based on reporting by the Associated Press moves do not cut off entire sectors of the made it clear to Mr. Putin,” Mr. Obama said. mine Ukraine’s sovereignty. The text of the and Agence France-Presse) draft could change, however, before its final Russian economy, as threatened in the past, “So far, Russia has failed to take any of the U.S.: Moscow is giving rebels weapons the administration’s actions go significantly steps that I have mentioned.” (Business adoption. (RFE/RL, with reporting by further than the financial and travel limits Insider, The New York Times, The Reuters and Agence France-Presse) WASHINGTON – The United States has accused Russia of supporting separatists in imposed so far on several dozen individuals Washington Post) Apartment building is destroyed and their businesses. The new measures eastern Ukraine with military hardware, EU may block new loans to Russia will severely restrict access to American KYIV – On July 15, at least 11 people including tanks. A “fact sheet” released by debt markets for the targeted companies.” BRUSSELS – European Union leaders will were reportedly killed in eastern Ukraine the U.S. State Department on July 14 said Speaking from the White House briefing work to block loans for new projects in when an apartment building was destroyed Washington had “no evidence that Russia’s support for the separatists has ceased.” room, Mr. Obama said, “These sanctions are Russia by two multilateral lenders and by explosions. Kyiv officials have denied pro-Russian separatists’ claims that a [The full text appears on page 7 of this Ukrainian air strike caused the destruction issue.] “In fact, we assess that Russia con- on July 15 in the border town of Snizhne, in tinues to provide them with heavy weap- the Donetsk region. 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In the already delivered tanks and multiple rocket last two weeks, Ukrainian forces have cut in launchers to them from this site,” the State half the territory in eastern Ukraine that is Department said. NATO said Russia had held by the separatists, many of whom have increased its soldiers on the frontier to fled to the regions’ capitals of Luhansk and some 10,000-12,000, up from less than Donetsk. (RFE/RL) 1,000. A NATO official said the larger num- ber of troops is “not a step in the right Kyiv says Russia increases role in fighting direction” but rather “a step away from de- escalating the situation.” President Petro KYIV – Ukrainian officials have accused Poroshenko held an emergency meeting Russian army officers of fighting with sepa- with his leading security officials in Kyiv on СТЕФАН ВЕЛЬГАШ ratists in eastern Ukraine and suggested a Ліцензований Продавець July 14. 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Mr. Heletei said on July 14 Administration, Valeriy Chaly, told the Inter Walter Honcharyk, Advertising Manager, that the plane was flying at an altitude of television channel on July 13. “Ukraine is The Ukrainian Weekly, 973-292-9800, ext 3040. 6,500 meters, which he said is too high for now making every effort. On the instruction weapons being used by the pro-Russian sep- of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko aratists that are fighting Ukrainian troops. the Foreign Affairs Ministry is now sending Ukrainian officials said some members of the notes to international partners, and we crew – which is reported to number eight already have a lawyer,” the press service of people – have been in contact with Ukrainian the Ukrainian president quoted Mr. Chaly as military officials. Kyiv officials dismissed a saying. “That these are, in fact, abducted separatist official’s claim of responsibility for people, Ukrainians who were moved to a downing the large plane. There was no word prison in Russia, is an unprecedented case,” on casualties, though an Agence France- he said, noting that the Russian side for sev- Presse reporter said there were charred eral days has not allowed the Ukrainian con- human remains at the crash site of a military sul to visit Lt. Savchenko. However, Mr. KERHONKSON Make this “L” ranch your weekend get- plane believed to be the AN-26. A separatist away or year round home., walking dis- Chaly expressed hope that in the near future ULSTER COUNTY, NY $99.000 spokesman said some of the survivors of the Ukrainian diplomats and lawyers would still tance to Soyuzivka, United Ukraina crash had been captured and were being Association Estate. have the opportunity to talk to the 2 Bedrooms, 1 & 1/2 baths, large living interrogated. (RFE/RL, with reporting by Ukrainian pilot and that the situation with room, dining room, kitchen plus 2 other Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Deutsche prisoners will be resolved soon, the press rooms that can be 3rd bedroom, and a Presse-Agentur and the Associated Press) service reported. (Interfax-Ukraine) laundry/ pantry off kitchen. There is a wood stove in basement that uses the Biden expresses condolences over deaths Consul allowed to see Savchenko central oil heat system to deliver heat with- out the cost of fuel. It needs some updat- WASHINGTON – U.S. Vice President Joe KYIV – Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo ing but at this price it is well worth the Biden has offered condolences to Ukrainian Klimkin on July 16 informed President effort. Location alone is a great attraction. President Petro Poroshenko over killings in Petro Poroshenko that Consul Hennadiy Call Gail Vesely today to make an eastern Ukraine. At last four people were appointment. (cell) 845-901-4553 Breskalenko had an opportunity to meet killed by artillery fire in an overnight attack with Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, on July 12 in Maryinka, a suburb of Donetsk who is being illegally held in prison in where pro-Russia insurgents are holed up. The attack happened hours after Mr. (Continued on page 13) No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 13

percent from a collapsed lung and 10 per- week, Dr. Suprun said. funds for IFAKs and combat medical train- Diaspora... cent from blockage of airways. The IFAKs “It’s not just the kit, it’s also the training,” ing, which is being offered to the Ukrainian are specially designed to address these Dr. Suprun explained. “They teach how to Armed Forces, National Guard, State (Continued from page 1) injuries. administer first aid under fire. What to do Border Service, territorial battalions (such Patriot Defence (patriotdefence.org) was Among the 10 IFAK items, seven of first, second and third, and its completely as Dnipro and Donbas) and independent launched in early May and has used Armiya which can be gotten only in the U.S., is com- different than first aid. They teach soldiers fighting groups. S.O.S. to deliver its IFAKs to the front lines. bat gauze with a haemostatic agent to stop how to make tactical decisions in addition The Organization for the Defense of Four Additionally, “through them we buy bleeding, a halo chest seal to stop air from to medical decisions.” Freedoms for Ukraine has also been raising things made in Ukraine such as bags for exiting the chest cavity when penetrated, a In one recent incident, eight NATO- funds for the IFAKs, which are shipped at first aid kits,” Dr. Suprun said. “They act as a needle decompression to decompress a trained Ukrainian officers (three from the no cost by Dnipro LLC and Ukrainian liaison between us and formations.” tension pneumothorax and a nasopharyn- Security Service of Ukraine and five from International Airlines. Yet diaspora leaders have launched their geal airway that’s inserted in the nose to the National Guard) saved the lives of 46 The United Ukrainian American Relief own operations as well. The diaspora’s secure an open airway. army soldiers injured in a single battle by Committee (UUARC) is pursuing its own main umbrella organization, the Ukrainian All the money raised through Patriot opening airways and stopping blood loss program, having raised a total of $130,000 World Congress, formed Patriot Defence Defence is used to buy IFAKs, while individ- with the help of IFAKs. so far, $60,000 of which was used to buy with a twofold mission: to provide IFAKs ual donors helped the organization hire “The medics panicked and froze because medical supplies in the U.S., including pock- they didn’t know what to do,” Dr. Suprun said. and combat medical training. NATO contractors to provide military-spe- et resuscitators and trauma kits, fingertip “Civilian doctors and medics aren’t combat- pulse oximeters, lubricated nasopharange- The IFAKs are critical because they con- cific Combat Lifesaver (CL) two-day train- trained, which is completely different.” al airways and IV catheters. tain 10 items that are particularly helpful in ing, four-day CL training of Ukrainian Unfortunately, the bureaucratic battle- “We have not bought one item without a battlefield conditions, Dr. Suprun said. instructors and four-day CL training of fields are proving just as challenging for request,” said Dr. Larissa Kyj, the UUARC’s “The U.S. Defense Department sent over combat medics. Patriot Defence as battlefield injuries. president. “We met with soldiers of the 1,500 buddy kits, but they have only four The Ukrainian instructors also go to the About 2,000 Ukrainians have been trained Chernihiv battalion, and they gave us two items: a tourniquet, bandage, gauze and front lines to provide a one-day Tactical to use the IFAKs, yet only about 1,000 to pages of requests.” gloves,” she said. “But soldiers can prevent Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) course for 1,200 have been delivered. The UUARC also donated $35,000 each 15 percent of battlefield deaths with an those fighters who don’t have the time to The main obstacle has been the to the Apostol Fund, founded by National IFAK.” take the two-day CL course. As of this Ukrainian government itself, Dr. Suprun Deputy Mykhailo Apostol of the Ternopil Of that 15 percent, 60 percent of deaths week, there are 10 Ukrainian instructors, said, echoing what the soldiers and fighters Oblast, and the All-Ukrainian Veterans are caused by catastrophic blood loss, 30 but that may double by the end of next have been saying. Union led by Viktor Palii, to provide for the The Health Ministry informed her that humanitarian needs of Ukraine’s Armed seven-U.S. made items in the IFAKs need to Forces and National Guard, including basic Vladimir Chizhov, said the blacklisting of be certified in Ukraine, despite the fact that necessities such as boots, sleeping bags, NEWSBRIEFS the separatist leaders would not help they are being used throughout the mattresses and underwear. efforts to find a political solution to the cri- (Continued from page 12) Western world. That process would take Ukrainian Canadian Congress President sis. (RFE/RL, with reporting by RFE/RL’s many months and Dr. Suprun is working to Paul Grod declined to reveal what aid his Voronezh, Russia. The consul conveyed Ukrainian Service and Interfax) avoid that. organization is offering to the military Then the customs officials said taxes effort and how much, but he stressed that words of support from the president to Lt. Lviv withdraws bid for 2022 Olympics Savchenko. The pilot confirmed that with- need to be paid on the IFAKs if they’re not he’s leading a lobbying effort to press the out her consent, she had been illegally PRAGUE – The Ukrainian city of Lviv is declared as humanitarian aid by the Canadian government to provide technical removed from the territory of Ukraine with dropping its candidacy for the 2022 Winter Ministry of Social Policy. The tax rate is support for Ukraine’s military. a bag on her head and handcuffed. The kid- Olympic Games due to the deadly separat- 20-30 percent, which Dr. Suprun said she’d In the last two weeks, he’s met with nappers switched cars several times, she ist conflict raging in the country’s east and rather spend on buying more IFAKs, with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. Protesting her illegal removal to the ensuing economic crisis. The the ultimate goal of reaching 10,000. At and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, another state and demanding a meeting International Olympic Committee (IOC) $100 each, Patriot Defence would need to among other key officials, “to convince with the consul, Lt. Savchenko went on a said Lviv’s withdrawal was “a result of the reach $1 million in donations. them to commit support for the Ukrainian hunger strike. After meeting with Consul present political and economic circum- Dr. Suprun managed to get the first military,” Mr. Grod said. Breskalenko, she stopped her hunger stances in Ukraine.” The city will bid for the 1,000 or so IFAKs through Boryspil Ukrainian Congress Committee of strike. In the course of his negotiations 2026 event instead. Lviv had been vying International Airport in late June with the America (UCCA) President Tamara Olexy- with world leaders, President Poroshenko with Beijing, Oslo and Almaty to host the help of sympathetic customs agents, who Gallo said her organization is urging the has always insisted on the liberation of all 2022 games. The IOC said the decision fol- dug up about half a dozen loopholes to get community to donate to the UUARC to hostages, including Lt. Savchenko. (Official lowed discussions between its president, them through. They even paid a tax out of ensure their efforts are coordinated, as well Website of the President of Ukraine) Thomas Bach, Ukrainian Prime Minister their own pockets. as to Patriot Defence. In addition, UCCA Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and pole-vaulting leg- “They worked all weekend to ensure branches have been organizing events to Top separatists hit with EU sanctions end Sergiy Bubka, who heads the country’s that we got our shipment. If not for their raise funds, she said, without disclosing help, it would have been stranded for how much so far. BRUSSELS – The European Union has National Olympic Committee. Mr. Yatsenyuk said a bid for 2026 “would have months in a warehouse. A lot is being The UCCA has been continuously been added 11 so-called officials of the self- brought as contraband, but we don’t want lobbying for military assistance to Ukraine declared separatist republics in eastern excellent potential for the economic recov- ery of the country.” (RFE/RL, based on that. We didn’t stand on the maidan to in the U.S. Congress, which was the theme Ukraine to its list of individuals subject to work around the system. We want the sys- of its July 16 Ukrainian Day in Washington. travel bans and asset freezes over the reporting by Reuters, the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse) tem to work for us.” For its part, the Ukrainian National Ukraine crisis. The EU agreed on the sanc- Among those in the system working for Association, through its charitable arm, the tions earlier this week, but the names were Obama and Merkel discuss Ukraine them is Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian National Foundation, recently made public on July 12. The new names who ordered Social Policy Ministry officials held a fund-raiser with the UUARC (uuarc. include Aleksandr Borodai, a 41-year-old WASHINGTON – President Barack to cut the number of required documents org; click on the link “Fundraising political consultant from Moscow, who is Obama spoke on July 15 with German to four from 10. Yet, each shipment Campaign for the Humanitarian needs of the so-called prime minister of the self- Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss the sit- requires that all four documents be the Ukrainian Army & National Guard”). declared Donetsk People’s Republic. The uation in Ukraine, the ongoing P5+1 talks received by eight members of a committee, The benefit aimed at raising money to help other Donetsk separatists hit with sanc- with Iran in Vienna, and U.S.-German bilat- who meet only once a week. the families of the fallen and injured was tions on July 12 include the self-declared eral relations. A readout of the call provid- Meanwhile, the UWC is lobbying the U.S. held during the Ukrainian Cultural Festival republic’s security minister, Aleksandr ed by the White House, Office of the Press and Canadian governments to allocate at Soyuzivka. Khodakovsky; a deputy prime minister, Secretary noted: “On Ukraine, the president Aleksandr Kalyussky; and the minister and the chancellor reiterated their agree- responsible for pro-separatist propaganda, ment that Russia must take immediate Aleksandr Khryakov. Luhansk separatists steps to de-escalate the situation in eastern In Memoriаm were also included in the list. Those include Ukraine amid the ongoing violence there – Marat Bashirov, the so-called prime minis- including by supporting a bilateral cease- ter of their self-declared republic. Also fire, a roadmap for talks under the OSCE- Emilia Smal included are the vice prime minister, Vasyl mediated contact group, and the establish- Nikitin; the chairman of the so-called ment of an OSCE border monitoring mech- October 27, 1927 – May 25, 2014 Supreme Council, Aleksey Karyakin; the anism, as well as by urging the separatists internal affairs minister, Yurij Ivakin; and to release all hostages they hold and ending the defense minister, Igor Plotnitsky. The the flow of heavy weapons, equipment, and The Executive Committee of the Ukrainian National Association regrets list also includes Nikolay Kozitsyn, com- fighters from Russia to separatists. The to announce to the members of the General Assembly, members of mander of Cossack forces, and Oleksiy leaders agreed that to date neither the Branch 412 and to the UNA membership at large that Emilia Smal, Mozgovy, responsible for military training United States nor Germany has seen Russia secretary of Branch 412 for 48 years, died on May 25, 2014. of the separatists fighting against Ukrainian fulfill these required actions. The President government forces. The EU has now issued and the Chancellor reaffirmed their com- sanctions against a total of 72 individuals mitment to work together with other allies The Executive Committee and the entire UNA membership wish to and two entities for threatening Ukraine’s to ensure that Europe and the United States express their sincerest sympathy to her daughter Irene, son Steve with territorial integrity. The EU Official Journal remain closely coordinated on measures to his wife Halina, grandchildren and the entire family. said the sanctions, agreed by EU ambassa- impose costs on Russia, as necessary, as dors earlier this week, go into on July 12. well as to continue to support Ukraine’s Вічна Їй пам’ять! Russia has denounced the EU sanctions. long-term stability and prosperity.” (White Moscow’s envoy to the EU in Brussels, House, Office of the Press Secretary) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 No. 29

A glimpse at official FIFA records reveals deemed the first in the history of both SSR from 1921 to 1936. The Kharkiv squad formed, comprising eight players from the Ukrainian national soccer team, as a Ukrainian and Polish football. How very also defeated the Leningrad team in the ini- Dynamo and three from Lokomotiv Kyiv. separate and recognized entity, has existed appropriate the two nations co-hosted the tial Soviet-wide cup competition in 1924, Start won its inaugural match over fellow for 20 years. Its record over two decades is first European football championships ever the predecessor to the Soviet league. Ukrainian side Rukh 7-2, on June 7, 1942. unimpressive: one World Cup appearance held in Eastern Europe. Several Kharkiv players were featured on That summer Start played several matches in 2006, advancing to the quarterfinals, and the USSR national team. There were no for- against teams made up of the occupying Game grows in big cities automatic qualification for the Euro Cup mal club organizations during this era – forces from Romania, Hungary and 2012 as co-hosts. This unremarkable The sport’s popularity spread onward in instead the teams comprised the top play- Germany, winning them all. On August 6 record, however, contradicts an illustrious the early 1900s. The Gymnastics-Sports ers from each city, playing in a Ukraine- Start defeated Flakelf, an elite team of play- soccer legacy Ukraine left behind as part of Club, later renamed Pohon, was established wide elimination cup format. This changed ers from the German air force. Three days the Soviet Union. in Lviv in 1904. The club would go on to when the legendary Dynamo Kyiv club was later Flakelf challenged Start to a rematch. Officially, Russia is considered the suc- become one of the best teams in the Polish formed in 1927, which then won the last of Details of the match are sketchy, but cessor national team of the USSR. However, league during the interwar period. the Ukrainian SSR tournaments in 1936, according to some reports, the Germans this appropriation of history ignores the Ukraine’s first city-wide league was formed the first time a club won the cup competi- played dirty, constantly fouling the influence Ukrainian players and clubs had in Lviv in 1906. The Sokil movement grew tion. Dynamo also finished as runner-up in Ukrainian players. The match referee, an SS in the Soviet era. Furthermore, soccer, or in influence and helped establish the sport the inaugural USSR league championship officer, ignored all Ukrainian appeals. It shall we properly say, football, goes back in Kyiv. By 1911 city-wide championships in 1936. didn’t matter, since FC Start persevered, much further. had been organized in Kyiv and Odesa – the winning 5-3. A Ukrainian national team Football first made its way to Ukraine game’s momentous rise seemed unstoppa- Following the match, many of the FC when it was still a part of imperial Russia ble until the year of 1914. Football was Interestingly, six decades before inde- Start players were arrested, tortured and by way of British soldiers, merchants, offi- temporarily put on hold when the pendent Ukraine ever played an official executed by the Gestapo. At this point there cials and businessmen who travelled the European empires and democracies pre- match, an unofficial Ukrainian national are varying reports which some claim as world, bringing the game with them to pared for an unprecedented, devastating team played an unrecognized friendly truth, others as myth. The Soviet propagan- many corners of the globe. As early as the war. match against Turkey. In 1933 the Turkish da machine characterized the Start mem- 1860s British sailors played the game at The collapse of imperial Europe as a national team, while en route home after bers as heroes, who defiantly ignored the docks in the Black Sea port of Odesa. In result of World War I saw borders redrawn defeating the Soviet Union 2-1, was chal- German threats, winning the match while 1878 the first ever football club was across the continent. Most of western lenged to a match in Odesa by a team made knowing it could cost them their lives. formed in Ukraine, the Odesa British Ukraine now fell under the recreated Polish up exclusively of Ukrainian players. The Named the “Death Match,” it became a pop- Athletic Club, though composed only of state, while the Trans-Carpathian region match took place in Kharkiv, where bill- ular romanticized tale in the Soviet Union Englishmen. In 1884 the club built the first and parts of southwestern Ukraine were boards advertised the sporting event as which went on to spawn two films. Clearly ever football field in Ukraine. After an ini- ceded to Czechoslovakia and Romania. “National Team of Ukraine vs. National the accuracy of what transpired is dubious tial reaction of skepticism by the locals, the Ukrainian football teams continued to Team of Turkey.” Kyiv-based striker at best. In 2005, the prosecutor’s office in game’s appeal proved irresistible and foot- prosper despite the division between Konstantin Shegodskiy’s hat trick pro- the city of Hamburg, Germany, declared ball fever spread throughout the land. The nations. Lviv, a part of Poland, was a foot- pelled the Ukrainians over the Turks 3-2. there was no evidence the Ukrainian play- sport became especially popular in ball power. The Pohon Club won the Polish Growing interest in the sport was pro- ers were shot for winning the match. Western Ukraine, where its growth was league four times, while Sparta Lviv was found in Kyiv, where there were ambitious Regardless of what actually happened, helped by the Sokil movement. The first runner up to Wisla Krakow in the only plans to build a National Sports Complex the football match entered the Ukrainian documented match on Ukrainian land took Polish Cup ever held before the outbreak of with a 50,000-seating capacity that was to national consciousness as a symbol of place in Lviv. World War II. Rus’ of Uzhorod won the open on June 22, 1941, hosting an opening brave resistance and soccer prowess. In the On July 14, 1894, several sports tourna- Slovak championship in 1933 although this match pitting Dynamo Kyiv against CSKA decades following the second world war, ments were held in Lviv, among them a was not an official national title. Moscow. As luck would have it, that very Ukraine would go on to establish itself as a football match between the Sokil clubs of The remaining area of Ukraine was day Germany invaded the Soviet Union and soccer power on the European stage. Lviv and Krakow. After Wlodzimierz appropriated into the Soviet Union as the the city of Kyiv was bombed by the German (Sources: Encyclopedia of Ukraine, The Chornicki scored to put Lviv up in the sixth Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic by Luftwaffe. The match was postponed. New York Times, BBC Sports, Andrew minute, the referee called the match off 1922. The capital of the republic, Kharkiv, During the occupation of Kyiv many Gregorovich and Mark Pougatch.) minutes later since there was to be a gym- became a dominant force in Ukrainian foot- Dynamo players continued to play football, nastics competition to be held in the same ball. Kharkiv teams won eight of the 11 despite the war-time conditions. In the Ihor Stelmach may be reached at stadium. Nonetheless, Chornicki’s goal is national tournaments held in the Ukrainian spring of 1942 FC (Football Club) Start was [email protected].

Soyuzivka Heritage Center hosts USCAK-East Tennis Tournament

by Petrusia Sawchak KERHONKSON, N.Y. – More than 40 par- ticipants, many of them from the Soyuzivka Tennis Camp, took part in this year’s USCAK-East Tennis Tournament held at the Soyuzivka Heritage Center during the weekend of June 28-29. The 58th annual event was contested in 12 age and gender categories in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. The tournament was conducted by the Tennis Committee (George Sawchak, George Hrabec and Ivan Durbak) of the Ukrainian Sports Federation of the U.S.A. and Canada, an umbrella organization for all Ukrainian sports activities held here, known by its Ukrainian acronym, USCAK. The following were the winners and finalists in the various groups: Men’s singles: Mykola Stroynick def. Otto Fisher 6-0, 4-0, retired. Women’s singles: Emily Slater def. Molly Bis 6-3, 6-2. Petrusia Sawchak Girls’ singles: Tusia Kopach def. Ariadna USCAK-East tournament winners with Ukrainian National Association Advisor Maya Lew (third from left). (Ari) Louer 4-6, 5-2, retired. Boys’ singles: Marko Gural def. Danylo George Hrabec 6-0, 6-1. Rakoczy def. George Hrabec/Stefan Sosiak (Ari) Louer def. Mary Hankewycz/Yana Sosiak 6-3, 6-2. Men’s doubles: Adam Oscislawski/Otto 2-6, 7-5, 10-5. Skorobogatova 6-3. 6-2. M45’s singles: Stefan Sosiak def. Ivan Fisher def. Christopher Bula/Danylo Mixed doubles: Peter Slater/Emily Slater Boys’ doubles: Zenon Kochanowsky/ Durbak 6-3, 6-2. Hankewycz 6-4, 6-1. def. Nastya Dudaryk/Pavlo Busko 6-2, 6-3. Mark Blyznak def. Dmitri Tytla/Stephan M65’s singles: George Petrykevych def. Senior men’s: Don Kopach/Roman Girls’ doubles: Tusia Kopach/ Ariadna Kurras 7-6, 6-4. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 15

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Boston honors Ukrainian heroes at annual ceremony by Peter T. Woloschuk BOSTON – Under the auspices of Boston’s Ukrainian American Youth Association (UAYA) branch, a memorial program was held in honor of all those who have given their lives for the freedom of Ukraine at the annual “Sviato Heroyiv” commemoration on Sunday, June 8. Particular mention was also made of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ukraine’s poet laureate, Taras Shevchenko; the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Sichovi Striltsi (Ukrainian Sich Riflemen); and the 60th anniversary of the uprising at the Soviet penal camp in Kinghir. A moment of silence was observed for those who gave their lives on the Maidan, and a roster of their names was displayed. The program began with the placement of a memorial wreath by the younger chil- dren who are members of UAYA before the iconostas at the beginning of the main litur- gy at Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic Church celebrated by the Very Rev. Dean Dr. Yaroslav Nalysnyk, who made mention of the commemoration in his homily and then celebrated a panakhyda (requiem service) for all of Ukraine’s heroes at the liturgy’s Vsevolod Petriv conclusion. Some of the participants at the annual “Sviato Heroyiv” commemoration in Boston. The program then continued in the par- ish center, starting with a light luncheon for Church. The mistress of ceremonies was Insurgent Army and the Organization of that in the past few years many new some 80 people and then a formal com- Anna Nosal, and the slogan for the day was Ukrainian Nationalists. Ukrainians had settled in the greater memoration consisting of a welcome by “Our soul is everlasting, and our will shall A number of songs were sung by the Boston area and that many of the new UAYA Boston’s President Michael Nosal Jr., never die.” members of UAYA. Poems were recited by arrivals were not aware of and thus not the communal singing of the Ukrainian The speakers and performers were Keira, Natalie and Tara Reid, Sofia Syneyko, participating in the ongoing life of the orga- national anthem, an explanation of the his- backed by a power point presentation put and twins Adam and Sophia Szczudluk. nized Ukrainian American community in tories of some of the individuals being together by Maria Fedynyshyn Saxe, assist- In his brief remarks, Mr. Petriv said that Boston. remembered; remarks by Ihor Marynyak ed by Hanya Kurniawka and Ms. Nosal. The the annual commemoration of the thou- “These people offer fresh insights and and Vsevolod Petriv, president of the program included an overview of sands of Ukrainians who gave their lives for new experience, and we should make addi- Boston Branch of the Ukrainian Congress Shevchenko’s life given by Maryann Zozula, the freedom of the Ukrainian nation and tional efforts to reach out to them and Committee of America (UCCA-Boston); as a brief history of the Sichovi Striltsi by Ryan the independence of the Ukrainian state invite them to participate” Mr. Petriv con- well as a presentation of appropriate songs Reid, an account of the Kinghir uprising by was very important for the local communi- cluded. and poetry readings. Olga Baryski, and the importance of the ty and was a highlight of its annual calen- Sviato Heroyiv has been celebrated in Final remarks and the benediction were Maidan and its heroes by Ms. Nosal, who dar, adding that it is commendable of UAYA Boston annually since 1954, originally offered by the Very Rev. Roman Tarnavsky, also talked about other Ukrainian military to keep up the tradition. under the auspices of the UCCA Boston and pastor of St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox formations including the Ukrainian At the same time, he also pointed out more recently by the UAYA of Boston. Holodomor Writing Competition results are announced

by Kalyna Kardash fiction); third place ($300) – Melania Antoszko, Edmonton (historical research essay), TORONTO – In 2013, the third Holodomor Writing Honorable Mentions ($100 each) went to: Joseph Sliva, Competition was held under the auspices of the Ukrainian Yorkton (historical research essay); Luke Joseph Savard, Canadian Congress (UCC). The 2014 competition, which Winnipeg (historical short fiction); Anna Lopatnyuk, was advertised across the country, resulted in 26 accepted Hamilton (historical short fiction); Marko Boychuk, submissions from many parts of Canada including Toronto, Edmonton (historical short story); Luca Settembrini, Hamilton, Ottawa, Yorkton and Mississauga, Ontario; Toronto (historical poem); Brittany Chirko, Winnipeg (his- Winnipeg, Manitoba; Edmonton, Alberta; North Battleford, torical short fiction); and Sergio Raez Villanueva, Saskatchewan. The competition results were finalized on Mississauga (historical short fiction). June 1. Information about the winners and their submissions This was also the first time that the competition was was posted on the UCC website under the National promoted in Canadian school boards, and the Toronto Holodomor Education Committee, www.ucc.ca/programs/ Holodomor Education Team was pleased to announce that committees; the Toronto UCC website, www.faminegeno- some of the entries from non-Ukrainians received honor- cide.ca; and the Holodomor Research and Education able mentions. Consortium (HREC) website, www.holodomor.ca. The Holodomor Writing Competition was open to high The five adjudicators who donated their time, expertise school students age 14 to 19. Using historical facts of the and energy were: Dr. Olga Andrievsky, Dr. Oksana Kuryliw, 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine, students were able to Oksana Levytsky, Olivia Pyniansky and Lidia Smilka. choose to submit an entry in any of the following catego- Funding of prize money was provided by the Ukrainian ries: historical short fiction, historical research essay, poet- Canadian Congress. Also noteworthy were the organizing ry or lyrics for a song, interview with or biography of a sur- efforts of the National Holodomor Education Committee vivor, dramatic skit or short play. Entries could be submit- (Valentina Kuryliw, chair) and the Toronto Holodomor ted in English or Ukrainian. There were 12 submissions in Education Team (Lesia Korobaylo, coordinator); and the the Ukrainian language and 14 in English. support of the Holodomor Research and Education The adjudicators, who are professional educators and his- Consortium of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. torians, after carefully reviewing each submission, selected The Toronto Holodomor Education Team is currently the three winners as well as seven honorable mentions. reviewing future competition requirements and is expand- The winners were: first place ($700) – Sofiya ing the scope of entries, which may include DVDs, Yusypovych, Toronto (historical short fiction); second Sofiya Yusypovych, 18, of Toronto, the first-place win- PowerPoint presentations, slideshows and other electronic place ($500) – Yana Kibalnyk, Edmonton (historical short ner of the 2014 Holodomor Writing Competition. media, as well as written submissions. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 No. 29

Oksana Tanasiv’s “Voice of Ukraine” art exhibit opens in Stamford STAMFORD, Conn. – Art works by Oksana Tanasiv, a Ukrainian American artist, are currently on view at The Mayor’s Gallery in Stamford, Conn. The exhibit, “Voice of Ukraine,” features political and philosophical paintings and will be on view through September 2. (The exhibit opened on July 7, and an open- ing reception was held on July 8.) Ms. Tanasiv was born in Ukraine and immigrated to the United States in 2004. Since 2011, strongly influenced by political and economic issues in her home country, she began to develop the series “Dollar Art” as a protest against a corrupted regime and dictatorship. Her “Voice of Ukraine” series is a political collection of realistic and surrealistic images with collage. The work is dedicated to the fight of the Ukrainian nation for a better future. Ms. Tanasiv experiments with styles, objects, materials and techniques in the process of her work, but what is most important, she says, is neither technique nor style, but her vision and the philosophical messages. “The last few months of political conflict in Ukraine has grabbed the attention of the world community,” she com- mented. “We’ve been watching the incredible fight of the Ukrainian nation for a better future.” The collection “Voice of Ukraine” portrays the Kyiv revo- lution, political conflicts with Russia, shameless Russian “Guest from Hell,” 2014, from the series “Voice of Ukraine.” “I Don’t Care,” 2011, from the series “Dollar Art.”

propaganda and the Ukrainian people’s patriotic fight for a better future. At a time when the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin invest millions into Russian propaganda against Ukraine, every Ukrainian has a responsibility to stand up for their country, Ms. Tanasiv believes. Ms. Tanasiv is a recognized modern art- ist whose artwork may be found in private collections throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and Ukraine. In 2012, 2013 and 2014, she presented her fashion collection at New York Fashion Week. She is also an exhibitor at international trade shows, showing her collections at one of the big- gest world exhibitions – Art Expo New York. On the local level, she is also a mem- ber of the Loft Artists Association. The Mayor’s Gallery is located on the 10th floor of the Government Center at 888 Washington Blvd, Stamford, CT 06901. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays. For information readers may call 203-858- 3082.

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cessful in honoring the spirit of the Maidan.” Thousands enjoy... There was were commendations all Maidan United organizes festival around for the 2014 Ukrainian Cultural (Continued from page 10) Festival. to raise funds for injured in Ukraine audience from their stint as MCs at the Taissa Hamulak of Randolph, N.J., who 2013 festival. was attending her fourth festival at The bands Fata Morgana and Zabava Soyuzivka, was effusive in her praise: “The played for the dances during the weekend. festival this year was once again phenome- Midday on Sunday, it was the turn of nal. The weather turned out to be perfect, young performers to take to the stage. and the concerts had so much energy – Appearing in the Veselka auditorium in especially with Ruslana and the various what was billed as the Young Artists’ singers and dancers, including the workshop Concert were singers Xenia Kaczurak, Anya and the Canadian dance group, Rusalka.” Kosachevich, Max Lozynskyj (who accom- Borys Buniak of Fayetteville, N.Y., said of panied himself on guitar) and Sofia Nayda, the festival: “One of the most emotional, as well as the Korinya music ensemble. entertaining and patriotic festivals I have The eighth annual Ukrainian Cultural ever attended. Ruslana and Sofiya Fedyna Festival also featured a demonstration of energized the public, while dance work- the Ukrainian martial art form known as shop choreography by Orlando Pagan, Lev “Boyovyi Hopak”; a recreation of Ukrainian Iwashko and Stefan Kalka successfully cap- village life; a film festival focusing on the tured the spirit of the Euro-Maidan. A very events of the Euro-Maidan, the beautiful memorable experience.” voice of the late Kvitka Cisyk and other sub- Adrianna Melnyk Hankewycz of jects; a photo exhibit, “Maidan Through the Bronxville, N.Y., was spotted with her little Lens”; and crafts demonstrations. son, Dennis. It was her fifth Soyuzivka festi- Numerous and diverse vendors offered art val and the second for Dennis. Also attend- work, folk crafts, music recordings, jewelry, ing were her husband, Taras, and parents, Members of Maidan United Oleksandr Yasnikovskyy (left) and Sofia Dumansky with souvenirs and more on Soyuzivka’s lower Christine and Myron Melnyk. Ms. Volodymyr Movchan, who was injured on the Maidan in Kyiv, at the group’s informa- tennis courts. Hankewycz noted that two-year-old Dennis tion table at Soyuzivka’s Ukrainian Cultural Festival. Other highlights of the festival included stayed up through Ruslana’s late-night per- the varenyky-eating contest organized by formance, dancing and clapping throughout. HARTFORD, Conn. – Maidan United Inc., and Teatr Wyobrazni Novum – playing Alex Gutmacher. Pavlo Czerepacha was Asked via Facebook for her impressions a nonprofit organization based in Hartford, Ukrainian, Polish and American music. crowned the new champion in this annual of the festival, Ms. Hankewycz wrote: “At a Conn., has organized a festival to raise funds Ukrainian and Polish food and drinks will competition. And, of course, the food court time of great crisis in Ukraine, Soyuzivka to help the people of Ukraine who have be available. Children will be able to enjoy offering Ukrainian specialties like varenyky continues to serve as a cultural and social been injured get support and financial aid to bouncy houses, cotton candy, face painting, and “shashlyk” beckoned many. locus for the Ukrainian diaspora in the obtain the medical attention they need. and more. And there will be a dunk tank for The Ukrainian Cultural Festival is orga- United States. The rich array of both tradi- The Pol-Uki Festival – the name refers to those who are more adventurous or would nized by the Ukrainian National tional and modern handicrafts on display, the Polish and Ukrainian groups that are like to try out their throwing skills. Foundation, the charitable arm of the the beautiful and inspirational music and involved in the endeavor – will take place Maidan United was founded by a group Ukrainian National Association, and is held dance performed by some of Ukraine’s and on Saturday, July 26, at 2-10 p.m., at Falcon of young professionals living in under the patronage of the Embassy of North America’s greatest performance art- Field, 721 Farmington Ave., in New Britain, Connecticut. Information on the group’s Ukraine in the United States. The eighth ists, and the opportunity to reconnect with Conn. website (www.maidanunited.org) says: annual festival was sponsored by Self old friends made for a truly rejuvenating Sofia Dumansky, who was present along “We are a non-profit organization that rais- Reliance New York Federal Credit Union, weekend. The Ukrainian nation extends with other members of Maidan United at es funds to help Ukrainians directly and Ukraine International Airlines and SUMA beyond its borders to the diaspora commu- the Ukrainian Cultural Festival held at the indirectly affected by Ukraine’s fight for Federal Credit Union (Yonkers, N.Y.). nity – the stronger the diaspora throughout Soyuzivka Heritage Center in Kerhonkson, democracy. All proceeds from every event Greetings were extended to festival the world remains, the more support and N.Y., said: “What an honor it was to meet will go to help those wounded and injured attendees, performers and organizers by prayers there will be for the people of Volodymyr Movchan at Soyuzivka on during [the] Euro-Maidan. …We have set up Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States Ukraine during this difficult time.” Saturday. He came to the U.S. for facial secure channels in Ukraine where all dona- Olexander Motsyk and Ukraine’s Consul She added, “Thank you to Soyuzivka and reconstruction surgery. Volodymyr is one of tions will be sent. All donations will go General in New York Igor Sybiga. to the UNA for providing a venue for three the heroes of the Maidan and a victim of towards providing immediate medical UNA President Kaczaraj characterized waves of Ukrainian immigrants to gather the events that transpired in Kyiv. He was assistance to those injured and wounded in this year’s festival as “inspiring, extraordi- and to reconnect with their nation of ori- one of the three that Maidan United had the Ukraine. MU will provide financial support nary, fabulous.” He added that “it was suc- gin.” ability to sponsor and pay for their trans- towards the treatment of these patients. In portation expenses.” addition we will provide medical equip- Ms. Dumansky added, “This really is the ment and supplies to hospitals in Ukraine secure, and to their own foreign policies. least we could do for these Ukrainian that are treating these injured and wound- Turning... Any system that cedes those rights will lead to anarchy. That is why this principle heroes who risk their lives for our freedom.” ed individuals.” (Continued from page 6) The Pol-Uki Festival will feature three For more information, readers may must apply to all nations, including bands – Anna Maria, Groupa Vademecum e-mail [email protected]. Speaking with the Wall Street Journal on Ukraine.” July 24, 2009, Mr. Biden explained U.S. During a meeting with the U.S. Chamber expectations for Russia, claiming that of Commerce in Ukraine, Mr. Biden said that Russia’s debilitating socio-economic prob- if Ukraine’s democracy is to mature and sur- lems would lead to Russia conceding on vive, the nation must develop institutions Maidan helmets being auctioned U.S. national security demands. “They have such as a free press, independent courts and a shrinking population base, they have a an effective legislature, “all of which serve as withering economy, they have a banking a check on the corruption that fuels the cyn- to help the 3rd Sotnia in Ukraine sector and structure that is not likely to be icism and limits growth in any country, WASHINGTON – Ukrainian activists in olution that ousted former President able to withstand the next 15 years, they’re including yours.” the United States of America are conduct- Viktor Yanukovych from power. Today, in a situation where the world is changing Dr. Oleh Soskin, director of the Kyiv- ing online auctions of helmets entrusted to many members of the 3rd Sotnia are before them and they’re clinging to some- based Institute of Society Transformation, them by the 3rd Sotnia (Brigade) of the wounded; some gave their lives for thing in the past that is not sustainable,” Mr. said the U.S. is not ready to engage Ukraine, Euro-Maidan. Ukraine’s freedom. Biden said. and Mr. Biden’s trip was a façade to ease These helmets were worn by members of All proceeds raised in this auction will Just two days later, U.S. Secretary of State worries about another tense election. Mr. the 3rd Sotnia during the time of the be sent back to Ukraine, to members of the Hillary Clinton attempted to backpedal on Biden had avoided areas of conflict Ukrainian revolution prior to the first deaths 3rd Sotnia who will use this money to help Mr. Biden’s statement, claiming “we view between Ukraine and Russia, such as bor- in January of this year. They were simple their wounded members, the family mem- Russia as a great power.” der disputes. “Basically, they flew in and construction helmets that could protect the bers of those who died on Maidan, and “Moscow sees Ukraine as a major U.S. asked the presidential candidates to calm protesters from stones thrown at them by other urgent needs of the brigade. ally, so if U.S.-Russia relations are difficult, down and that, God forbid, they stir up the Berkut special forces and police in the win- The first helmet was auctioned for then Ukraine stands the risk of Russian situation,” Dr. Soskin said. “But this is all a provocation,” said Anders Aslund, a senior cross-Atlantic American fantasy.” ter of 2013-2014. When the situation $1,000 (it was purchased by Ukrainian fellow at the Peterson Institute for “Eventually the reset in the Russia-U.S. became more dangerous and the first blood American attorney Andrew Fylypovych). A International Economics in Washington. relations will fail,” said Dr. Taras Kuzio, a was spilled on Maidan, protesters began to second helmet will be auctioned on July 17 “When Russian relations are better, then research professor at the University of wear metal helmets for better protection. to July 24. The online auction takes place normally Ukrainian relations are better.” Carelton in Ottawa. “This is not the Russia A Ukrainian artist, Yaroslav Ilkiv, deco- on the Facebook page “EuroMaidan Items However, President Obama did say that of the 1990s with which the EU and U.S. rated the helmets worn by protesters and to benefit Ukrainian People”: https://www. Ukraine was not negotiable during his visit can work. There are just too many differ- they became symbols of the Ukrainian rev- facebook.com/EuroMaidanItemsAuction. to Moscow. “State sovereignty must be the ences.” cornerstone of international order,” Mr. Obama said. “Just as all states should have Source: “News Analysis: Washington tries the right to choose their leaders, states to reassure Ukraine,” by Danylo Peleschuk, Visit our archive online: www.ukrweekly.com must have the right to borders that are The Ukrainian Weekly, August 2, 2009. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 19

July 22 Panel discussion, “The Impact of Ukraine in the July 27 Ukrainian Cultural Festival, Ukrainians of Buffalo and Washington Neighborhood,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Buffalo, NY Western New York, www.ukrainiansofbuffalo.com Scholars, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 202-691-4100 or [email protected] July 27 Benefit, “Yoga for Ukraine,” with Annelise Hagen, New York Ukrainian Institute of America, 212-288-8660 July 23-26 Ukrainian Food and Fun Festival, St. Mary Ukrainian McKees Rocks, PA Orthodox Church, www.ukiefestrox.com July 27 “Den Soyuzianky” picnic, Ukrainian National Women’s Wallingford, CT League of America – New England region, Community July 23-27 67th Ukrainian Orthodox League Convention, St. Andrew Lake Park, 203-269-5909 South Bound Brook, Metropolia Center of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of NJ the U.S.A., www.uol.orthodoxws.com or 732-356-0090 July 30-August 4 Exploration of Kalyna Country (eco-museum of Ukrainian Edmonton, AB Canadian pioneers), Paul Yuzyk Institute for Youth July 24 Commemorative concert, “The Celestial Hundred,” Leadership, www.unfcanada.ca Newport, RI featuring bandurists Larysa Dedyuch, Roman Hrynkiw and pianist Roman Lopatynskyi, The Breakers, 401-849-0700 July 31 Film screening, “Haytarma,” Ukrainian National or www.newportmusic.org Ottawa Federation (Ottawa-Gatineau Branch), Ukrainian Youth Association hall, [email protected] July 25-August 1 St. Volodymyr Camp, Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon, SK Saskatoon, St. Volodymyr Park, August 1-3 Canada’s National Ukrainian Festival, Selo Ukraina, www.stvolodymyrcamp.com Dauphin, MB www.cnuf.ca

July 25-26 Ukrainian Festival, St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic August 1- Art exhibit, “glitChicago: An Exhibition of Chicago Glitch Syracuse, NY Church, www.syrucc.org September 28 Art,” Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 773-227-5522 Chicago or www.uima-chicago.org July 25- Art exhibit, featuring works by Walter Hoydysh, September 21 Ukrainian Institute of America, 212-288-8660 August 2 Concert, with music performed by the Grazhda Chamber New York Jewett, NY Ensemble, Grazhda Concert Hall, www.grazhdamusicandart.org July 26 Concert, with music performed by the Grazhda Chamber Jewett, NY Ensemble, Grazhda Concert Hall, August 2 Musical walking tour with Lemon Bucket Orkestra, www.grazhdamusicandart.org Ottawa Byward Market, www.lemonbucket.com

July 26 Award ceremony and concert, recognizing bandurists August 2-4 Servus Heritage Festival, Ukrainian Pavilion, William Newport, RI Larysa Deyuch, Roman Hrynkiw and pianist Roman Edmonton, AB Hawrelak Park, [email protected] or Lopatynskyi, Newport Music Festival, The Elms Tent, 780-488-3378 401-849-0700 or www.newportmusic.org Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events July 26-July 31 Courses in Ukrainian Folk Arts, with instruction by Sofika advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Jewett, NY Zielyk and Anna Bachynsky, Grazhda Concert Hall, from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors www.grazhdamusicandart.org and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

the separatists before managing to escape – PUBLIC NOTICE The tough-as-nails... dismisses allegations by Russian investiga- tors that her sister was arrested after cross- TO REGULAR MEMBERS OF (Continued from page 3) ing the Russian border in civilian clothes. ODUM RESORT CENTER INC. The distinction earned her the attention Nadiya Savchenko’s June 18 disappear- of Ukrainian television and the United ance in eastern Ukraine and July 8 reap- Nations Development Program, which used pearance in Russia has infuriated Ukrainian e Liquidating Committee of ODUM Resort Center Inc., duly her example to help successfully lobby for officials, who accuse Russia of violating formed and constituted as provided for in the Corporation’s By- 2010 legislation establishing principles of international norms by illegally transfer- Laws, gives notice of the dissolution of ODUM Resort Inc. gender equality in the Ukrainian military. ring a Ukrainian national across the border As a senior lieutenant, she has served in to face trial. (Lt. Savchenko has denied tar- e By-Laws of ODUM Resort Center Inc. de ne Regular Members the airborne forces and as a gunner and nav- geting the journalists in what was other- igator on Mi-24 helicopter gunships. Vira wise a normal military action.) as those persons that made a minimum $100.00 contribution to says her sister has always been fascinated by Court officials in Voronezh, where Lt. ODUM Resort Center Inc. and were granted membership status. machines and making things work. Savchenko is currently being held, ruled on IT DOES NOT INCLUDE PERSONS WHO WERE DESIGNATED “There’s an expression about people hav- July 10 that she will remain in pretrial AS “FRIENDS OF THE VACATION RESORT ODUM”. ing ‘golden hands’ – people who, even if they detention through at least August 30 – a don’t know how to do a particular thing, can vagary of the Russian legal system that can just pick it up immediately and be great at it,” keep detainees behind bars for months, or If you are a Regular Member of ODUM Resort Center Inc., you says Vira, who is herself an architect. “My sis- even years, without being brought to trial. may be entitled to refund of the actual contribution that you made ter is this kind of person. She can repair little She has been assigned a Russian defense in order to become a member. In order to make a request for problems with electrical devices, and she lawyer, a situation that Vira hopes to rectify the return of the contribution you must contact the Liquidating can also make very elegant things, works of by traveling to Voronezh with a Ukrainian art, like pottery and designer lamps. She has lawyer hired by the family. Committee’s designated person responsible for accepting and a lot of potential for creativity. She can do Vira, who is used to frequent communi- processing membership refund requests at; anything, and everything comes out perfect- cation with Nadiya, says she traveled to ly. That’s why I admire her.” Luhansk out of sisterly desperation to ODUM Resort Inc., Liquidating Committee ‘We are strong people’ know how Nadiya was holding up. “I want- c/o Petro R. Stawnychy Esq. ed to see her so I could understand her P.O. Box 287 Nadiya and Vira – whose names trans- state of mind,” she says. “I know that she is late as “Hope” and “Faith” – were raised in very strong – we’re strong people – and South Bound Brook, NJ 08880 Kyiv by parents with their own technical that she can withstand a lot of things. But proclivities. Their father was an agricultur- moral support from family always helps.” e Liquidating Committee has established September 20, 2014 al engineer, their mother a designer and She pauses. “Unfortunately, at this point as the last day for accepting requests for share payment refunds. cargo manager. I’ve stopped being able to imagine how If you do not submit your application by that date you will not be Speaking Russian to accommodate a she’s feeling and what she’s going through reporter, Vira briefly slips back into at this point.” able to receive a repayment of your contribution. Ukrainian to emphasize that she and her sis- ter were brought up in a Ukrainian-speaking Copyright 2014, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted All funds which remain on hand a er Regular Members have household and attending Ukrainian- with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ received repayment will be distributed as required by the By-Laws language schools – a point of pride for many Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, of ODUM Resort Center, Inc. patriots in Ukraine. Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see Vira, who traveled to Luhansk in early July http://www.rferl.org/content/savchenko- in hopes of tracking down her missing sister ukrainian-badass-pilot-in-russian- ODUM Resort Inc., Liquidating Committee – and herself endured a night in captivity of jail/25452738.html). 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2014 No. 29

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