1NS1DE: - Photodocumentary of Chicago's Ukrainians - page 10. - Center for Contemporary Art struggles to survive - page 11. ^ Plast in Ukraine marks 10th anniversary of rebirth - centerfold. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association vol. LXVIII No. з THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 16,2000 51.25^2 in Ukraine Kuchma administration says recall New majority coalition in verkhovna Rada of envoy not related to election results aims to remove Tkachenko, promote reform by Roman Woronowycz pointed" by first-round voting results in the by Roman Woronowycz especially in the sphere of economic and Kyiv Press Bureau diplomatic centers in New York, Washington Kyiv Press Bureau administrative reform. and Chicago, and that the "political fallout The verkhovna Rada, elected in March KYiv -Although information in the U.S. was roiling Ukrainian diplomatic ranks." KYiv - National Deputy Leonid 1998, has been unable to pass any substan- press has suggested that the recall of Many of the Ukrainian citizens living in Kravchuk on January 13 announced the tial bills on new tax procedures, a criminal Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States the United States are diplomats or members formation of a majority coalition of center and commercial code or on land reform. All Anton Buteiko is in some part due to dissat- of their families and workers associated and center-right democratic forces in the efforts have been stopped by the four leftist isfaction with the results of voting by with the two consulates in Chicago and verkhovna Rada and stated that its first blocks: the Communist, Socialist, Ukrainian citizens living in the United States New York, the Permanent Mission to the assignment would be to remove the current Progressive Socialist and Peasant factions. during the presidential elections, the admin- chairman of Parliament. United Nations in New York or the Mr. Kravchuk said that in one of its first istration of President Leonid Kuchma has The coalition, which has dubbed itself Embassy in Washington. Generally speak- moves the coalition will propose the unequivocally stated this was not the case. the Coordinating Council, includes 11 of ing, they serve by decision of the president. removal of verkhovna Rada Chairman "1 assure you that the recall of Mr. the Parliament's 15 political factions and in addition to Ambassador Buteiko, the Oleksander Tkachenko, leader of the Buteiko is in no way tied to the results of numbers 241 national deputies, in the 450- Ukrainian government recalled both consuls Peasant Party, along with his first vice- the presidential elections," the president's seat verkhovna Rada, 226 deputies are general. The recall extended to the diplo- chairman, Adam Martyniuk, a member of spokesman, Oleksander Martynenko, told needed for a majority. matic communities found in other countries the Communist Party. Mr. Kravchuk said The Weekly on January 12. Mr. Kravchuk, Ukraine's first president, and included the ambassador to Canada. that most of the 250 signatures needed to The reason behind the decision to replace who today is one of the more influential The president's spokesman said that present the proposal have already been Dr. Buteiko, who had served exactly a year members of the Parliament, said the majori- Mr. Buteiko's term in Washington, and gathered. in his position as ambassador to those of the other diplomats, was ended ty coalition was formed to break the paraly- Washington, has been questioned not only sis that has become the hallmark of the leg- "Our patience is at an end, as is the in connection with administrative patience of the nation," he explained. by members of the Ukrainian community in reforms that are finally under way in the islative branch of government. the United States, but by at least one "Our primary task will be to return the Mr. Tkachenko, who was picked as the government. He said an effort is being chairman of the verkhovna Rada as a corn- reporter of the Washington Post. made to raise the quality and the qualifi- verkhovna Rada to constructive work and Post reporter Nora Boustany, comment- to rekindle cooperation with the other promise candidate in the summer of 1998 cations of people who hold high posi- after a four-month stalemate over who ing on December 17, 1999, in the newspa- tions in all spheres of government. branches of power," said Mr. Kravchuk. He per's "Diplomatic Dispatches" column, sug- said the coalition will take responsibility for would lead the newly elected legislature, gested that President Kuchma was "disap- (Continued on page 24) beginning to move legislation forward, has consistently sided with his leftist col- leagues during parliamentary voting, even as he has left the impression that he is working with the president. A search for one family's roots in Ukraine "He used his position so that today the divisiveness of the verkhovna Rada has led by Yaro Bihun brating our own golden jubilees in this appeared on my laptop computer screen, to a sharp drop in its effectiveness, it has Special to The Ukrainian Weekly country and, 1 hope, using the occasion І was stunned. Before me, was a copy of sharpened the conflict between the branch- to gather and preserve information about an 1846 church registry, documenting in As the world marks the new millenni- es of power," said Mr. Kravchuk. ourselves and our forebears: who they very fine handwritten Latin, the death of um, many Ukrainian American organiza- The former president outlined seven were, how they lived, what they endured "Joachimus Bihun." tions are celebrating their 50th anniver- areas in which the coalition would concen- it contained only the bare essentials: sary in the United States - those that and achieved. trate its efforts immediately, in addition to he lived in house No. 163 in Nyzhnii were transplanted here from Europe's the effort to oust Mr. Tkachenko, the PARTI Strutyn, died on April 18, 1846, and was post-war refugee camps or established Coordinating Council will propose changes buried on April 20 at the age of 44. He here by those refugees. Many Ukrainian it was late at night on July 3, 1999, to the procedures of the verkhovna Rada, was a peasant, (Greek) Catholic, and the American families - like mine and, that 1 had my first glimpse into my fami- so that all votes must be taken in an open cause of death was "pleura" (most likely maybe, yours - are, or could be, cele- ly's very distant past. As the document roll call, except where otherwise stated in pneumonia). law or in the Constitution, it will demand He was my great-great-grandfather that all leadership posts in the verkhovna Yoakhym, the most distant ancestor Rada be held by the recognized majority, found in my search for our family's and will submit a bill defining the rights roots. and responsibilities of the opposition. The scanned copy of the document in addition, the coalition will sign a doc- was attached to an e-mail from a friend ument of solidarity with the president and in Lviv and accompanied by a summary the Cabinet of Ministers in which all sides report from the Central State Historical should express the desire to cooperate in Archives of Ukraine in Lviv listing more order to improve relations. The three than a dozen other documents found branches will then develop a joint list of the there that not only effectively traced our draft laws that should be passed immediate- roots to 1802 but also shed light on more ly, which Mr. Kravchuk said would be recent relationships in the family tree. A reform-related bills. few weeks later, another friend hand-car- Finally, the new majority coalition will ried authenticated copies of those docu- place a moratorium on bringing issues ments on his return trip from Ukraine. before the verkhovna Rada agenda that it was a gold mine of information: might "create conflict and transform it once church registries from Nyzhnii Strutyn, again into a political battlefield," explained Stryi and Lviv, documenting family Mr. Kravchuk. births, marriages and deaths; a village The creation of the majority coalition is council meeting report, and Polish court the culmination of several separate efforts Ukrainian political prisoners celebrating Christmas in a Polish prison in indictments for nationalist activities that have taken place in and around the Wisnicz on January 7, 1929. Sitting in the middle of the front row is the against my father Mykola in Lviv and halls of Parliament since President Leonid writer's father, Mykola Bihun; standing directly behind him, second from Kuchma declared just before his re-election left, is Yolodymyr Kubrak, the writer's uncle. (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 11) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 16,2000 No. з

ANALYSIS Ending "the break-up of Russia" Pascual may be new US. ambassador regions. CAE members in the Luhansk by Paul A. Goble Russian Federation, for its relationship with region have previously leased their shares KYiv - Several sources in Washington its neighbors, and hence, for the world as a to farmers. Experts in land administration RFElRL Newsline indicated in mid-December that U.S. whole. believe that plots of 300-400 hectares are Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer, a PRAGUE - viadimir Putin's latest For the Russian Federation, Mr. Putin's profitable. Of the 3,380 CAEs in the career diplomat who has built a good repu- rationale for Moscow's campaign in new position on Chechnya points to a more region, 304 are subject to the distribution tation for being pro-business and pro-active Chechnya - to "bring about the end of the authoritarian future, one in which the recon- of shares. (Eastern Economist) since his first days in Ukraine, is likely to break-up of Russia" - raises some disturb- stitution of state authority and the defense be recalled early, sometime in the summer ing questions about the kind of policies he of a particular territory takes precedence Search for AN-28 off Turkey continues of 2000. His replacement is said to be may try to pursue as acting president of the over any move toward greater freedom and Russian Federation. Carlos Pascual of the National Security KYiv - A Ukrainian plane is to search democracy. for the AN-28 that disappeared near the During a visit to Russian-controlled Council, who has been in Ukraine a num- As all polls show, Mr. Putin's popularity coast of Turkey on December 28, 1999. regions of Chechnya on New Year's Day, ber of times with the Kuchma-Gore in the Russian Federation reflects the long- The plane, owned by Guinea Equatorial Mr. Putin told Russian soldiers that their Commission, is seen as a political ing of many Russians for a stronger and Airlines, was piloted by Ukrainian pilots, it campaign against the Chechens is "not sim- appointee by U.S. President Clinton. Mr. more effective state capable of responding is possible that Ukraine will appeal for aid ply about restoring honor and dignity to the Pifer, the United States' third ambassador quickly and harshly to any challenge - be it to representatives of NATO, which manage country." Rather, he continued, "it is about to Ukraine, arrived in Kyiv in January from often despised ethnic minorities, crim- the Partnership for Peace Program. The how to bring about the end of the break-up 1998. His predecessors were Roman inal groups, or Western governments. Equatorial Guinea Airlines' AN-28, which of Russia." Popadiuk and William Green Miller. But a state reconstituted on the basis of was piloted by a Ukrainian crew, disap- Most immediately, these remarks call (Eastern Economist) such expectations is unlikely to be the peared near the town of inebolu, Turkey. into question the claims Mr. Putin and his peaceful and liberal democratic regime for Kuchma, Putin agree on C1S summit Due to bad weather, the airplane, which supporters have made in the past about this which many in both Russia and the West was flying from Zhuliany airport to the conflict. Until last weekend he had insisted have been hoping. KYiv - President Leonid Kuchma and Turkish capital city of Ankara, landed in that the conflict was about extirpating Under such leadership, the Russian Russia's acting President viadimir Putin, the city of Mykolaiv. it took off again and "extremists" and "terrorists," goals which Federation could become an increasingly during a telephone conversation supported flew to Yalta, Crimea, then on to inebolu. many Western leaders have found difficult authoritarian Rechtstaat, a regime in which the idea of holding the next summit of There were no passengers on board the to oppose even though they are appalled by the state is capable of enforcing the laws it heads of state of the Commonwealth of plane besides the six crew members. the way Russian forces have set about issues rather than responding to the independent States on January 25-26 in (Eastern Economist) achieving that objective. demands of population in whose name it Moscow. (Eastern Economist) By shifting his stance so quickly and rules. Cabinet submits zero-deficit draft budget completely, Mr. Putin has unintentionally For many Russians who have lived Kuchma in israelfor Christmas invited those governments to re-examine KYiv - The government on January 6 through the lawlessness of the Yeltsin years, KYiv -President Leonid Kuchma left both his earlier claims about the conflict submitted a draft budget for 2000 with a as well as for Western business interests for israel on January 5 on an official visit to and their response to it. And he has equally zero deficit to the verkhovna Rada, the there, such a state might appear to be a take part in the celebration of Christmas unintentionally raised questions on only his Associated Press reported, quoting uniden- major improvement on current conditions. 2000. Mr. Kuchma was scheduled to meet second day in office as to how reliable a tified government officials. The draft budg- But precisely because such a regime is representatives of the israeli government, partner he may be in any negotiations with et sets revenue and spending at 31.46 bil- likely to have to seek support through and ex-President of the Russian Federation Western governments. But as significant as lion hrv (S5.76 billion). The Parliament's nationalist appeals, it might rapidly become Boris Yeltsin. During his meeting with these consequences may prove in the future, Budget Committee examined the draft over something much less attractive and ever israel's interior Minister Nathan Sharansky, Mr. Putin's words on this occasion clearly more nationalistic. Should that happen, the President Kuchma supported the israeli the Christmas holidays (celebrated accord- have even more serious implications for the Putin government might move on from its proposal to establish strict control over ille- ing to the Julian calendar) and the current campaign against "persons of the gal migration of Ukrainians to israel. verkhovna Rada was scheduled to vote on Caucasus nationality" to open and state- it soon thereafter. The Parliament already Paul Goble is the publisher ofRFElRL (Eastern Economist) approved a zero-deficit draft budget in Newsline. (Continued on page 20) Flu epidemic plagues Zaporizhia November 1999, but that draft set revenue and spending at 40.75 billion hrv. (RFE^RL ZAPOR1ZH1A - An influenza epidemic Newsline) has stricken Zaporizhia. The type of virus Will Ukraine abolish collective farms? is yet undetermined, but it is known that it Tkachenko urges adoption of budget can very quickly lead to complications of RFE1RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report sphere in the countryside, a sharp reduction KYiv - verkhovna Rada Chairman in employment, further pauperization of a bronchitis and inflammation of the lungs. PRAGUE - President Leonid Kuchma Oleksander Tkachenko has called on all significant part of the population and further (Eastern Economist) on December 4, 1999, signed a decree "On parliamentary caucuses to make every stratification of the population in terms of Urgent Measures to Accelerate Reform of Nearly 50 Luhansk farms transformed effort to pass the 2000 budget this week, property." the Agricultural Sector of the Economy," interfax reported on January 10. As an alternative to abolition of the col- which stipulates that the government and LUHANSK - Nearly 50 collective agri- Meanwhile, the Parliament's Budget lective farming system and the introduction local executive bodies are obligated to cultural enterprises (CAEs) in the Luhansk Committee has concluded that the submit- of private land ownership in Ukraine, the reform Ukraine's collective agricultural region changed their form of ownership in ted bill is in fact a surplus budget since it caucus proposes "planning and prognosti- enterprises in accordance with the "princi- accordance with the presidential decree on includes a spending item denoted as "pay- cating," as well as "ensuring targeted ples of land ownership" by the end of April accelerating reform of the agrarian sector. ments to cover the basic debt sum," which financing and preferential crediting" in the 2000. The head of the Administration of Land amounts to 405.4 million hrv (S78 million agricultural sector. The government, accord- The decree states that all collective farm Resources within the oblast administra- U.S.). The committee argued that, accord- ing to the Communists, should reintroduce a workers "have the right to freely leave ftheir tion, Petro Milekhin, said the most active ing to the international practice of drafting "significant state purchase system" in the collective farmsj vvith land and property CAEs are being reformed in the budgets, debt repayment is categorized as sector and eliminate the disparity in prices shares and may, on the basis of these shares, Stanychno-Luhansk, Kreminsk, of agricultural and industrial products. create private enterprises, private farms and Starobilsk, Svativsk and Atratsytiv (Continued on page 22) The Left Center parliamentary caucus, agricultural cooperatives." The decree also which unites deputies from the Socialist orders the government to supply the plots' Party and the Peasant Party, said in the owners with private ownership certificates December 9 Tovarysh that President by the end of 2002. FOUNDED 1933 Kuchma's decree means "compulsory THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY The decree has provoked stormy reac- decollectivization" in Ukraine. According to An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., tions on the left wing of the Ukrainian polit- the Left Center, the decree will in no way ical scene. a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. improve the situation in the agricultural sec- Yearly subscription rate: S50; for UNA members - S40. 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Box 280 lrene Jarosewich and moral concerns in the whole post- Parsippany, NJ 07054 lka Koznarska Casanova Among the "unforeseen negative conse- Soviet area - may turn out to be a touch- quences" of the decree, the Communists stone for Mr. Kuchma's commitment to The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com mention "the destruction of the scientifical- breaking with Ukraine's Communist past ly supported system of agriculture and live- and setting his country on the path of irre- The Ukrainian Weekly, January 16, 2000, No. 3, vol. DCvill stock breeding farms, the ruin of integrated Copyright (0)2000 The Ukrainian Weekly economic complexes, the ruin of the social (Continued on page 20) No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 16,2000 з A search... Constitutional referendum (Continued from page 1) my uncle vblodymyr Kubrak, in Krakow. becomes more realistic Nyzhnii Strutyn is a small Boyko village at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains about 70 miles south of Lviv RFE1RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report and halfway between Dolyna and Kalush on the way to PRAGUE - Ukraine's Central Election Commission ivano-Frankivsk. has registered 218 initiative groups that want to collect І had visited it, as well as Stryi and Lviv, less than two signatures in support of a nationwide constitutional ref- months earlier, in May, checked just about every grave erendum, interfax reported on December 30, 1999. The marker in its cemetery - which included very many Bihuns; registration followed the decision of a district ccur: in spoke and visited with people there; read some background Kyiv on December 21, 1999, that obliged the commis- literature; including a recently published booklet about the sion to register the first initiative group from Zhytomyr. village; and had discussions with the eldest members of our The groups propose referendum questions connected extended family in Ukraine and in the Unites States. with holding a nationwide vote of no-confidence in the Much lost over time current Parliament, terminating the current Parliament's powers, reducing the number of national deputies, creat- it seemed like the more new information 1 gathered, the ing a bicameral legislature, lifting deputies immunity, more 1 realized how much had been lost over time, for and introducing a rule to adopt the country's whatever reason. When 1 set out, 1 didn't expect to find Constitution by a nationwide referendum. much, if anything, about my distant ancestors, who, after According to the current Constitution, a popular ini- all, had lived in a small out-of-the-way village that over tiative to hold a nationwide referendum must be sup- the past few centuries had been ravaged by wars - from ported by at least 3 million signatures collected in at the Tatar invasions to the two great wars of this century - least two-thirds of Ukraine's regions (at least 100,000 and enslaved by foreign invaders, serfdom, illiteracy and signatures in each of them). communism. President Leonid Kuchma has voiced the icea of it was very disheartening to realize that there are many, holding a referendum on the dissolution of the current many things 1 will never learn about close family mem- verkhovna Rada and the creation of a bicameral legisla- bers 1 had known - my mother and father, aunts and ture. Most commentators considered the idea to be a uncles in Pennsylvania or even those who had lived just a threat in order to create a pro-government majority in few blocks away - because they have died without pass- the Parliament. Now, however, after the registration of ing on what they knew. the support groups, the referendum idea may gain a And it was sad to look at old, and some not so old, momentum of its own. photo albums, boxes and envelopes filled with photos More than 50 parliamentary deputies have asked the with very little or no identifying information. Who are Supreme Court to cancel the decision registering the those people standing next to my mother, Mychajlyna, initiative group from Zhytomyr as illegal. Parliament and why are they there, in the photo labeled "Peremyshl The writer crossing Syhla Creek while searching for Chairman Oleksandr Tkachenko said the referendum 1936"? And could the two large pictures at the beginning his roots in Nyzhnii Strutyn. cannot be held because Ukraine has no law on referen- of the album be of her mother and father? Or is that her dums. He also told interfax that the country has no Mountains in 1996, it chose Pidliute as the site: a beautiful stepmother? Maybe some of the eldest members of our money to hold nationwide plebiscites. mountain setting on the Limnytsia River where extended family will be able to shed some light into this Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky once had his summer resi- void, but 1 fear that much is lost forever. dence and the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization once And it need not have been so, had 1 or someone else in had its campgrounds, in order to drive there with my the family had the urge to look into our past some 20 or Quotable notes brother Andrew and his family (in their big Buick - he was more years ago, when the "American pioneers" of our the head of the U.S. Embassy's commercial section at the "Under your leadership, Russia entered the road family were still with us. time), we needed a detailed map. And luck would have it of democratic development, beginning the process A need to learn that old Soviet Army topographic maps of the oblasts were of deep reforms, which, despite inevitable difficul- being hawked to tourists on the streets of Kyiv and Lviv. ties, will bring - 1 am convinced of this - well- it's hard to pinpoint exactly when 1 first felt the need to The map of ivano-Frankivsk oblast not only got us to being and prosperity to Russia and its peoples ... know more about my past. Maybe it was during a visit to the reunion, but also showed us that just off the side coun- We, the Poles, are especially grateful to you for istanbul in the mid-1980s - the closest 1 had ever been to try road to Pidliute were a number of villages, among your commitment to overcoming the difficult lega- Ukraine since our mother took us out of the country near them, to our amazement, Nyzhnii Strutyn. We stopped in cy of Polish-Russian history, for revealing the the end of the war. Standing at the water's edge of the the village on our way back from the reunion, but, being painful truth of the Katyn tragedy to the world, Bosphorus for some reason 1 felt compelled to fill the rushed, only Tor a few hours. (which J created a foundation for the normalization small plastic bottle 1 had in my camera bag with its water, Unfortunately for our efforts to find someone in the vil- of relations between our countries and opened the and to bringing it home with me, coming as 1 knew it did, lage who would remember "dido" (grandfather) Stefan, road to rapprochement and reconciliation of the at least partially, from somewhere in Ukraine. who had been the church "diak" (cantor) there at the turn peoples of Poland and Russia." The yearning certainly was there in 1989 during my of the century. He had moved the family to Stryi in the first visit to Ukraine, where 1 met a Ukrainian side of our early 1900s so that his children could get more than the - Poland's President Aleksander Kwasniewski family about which 1 had no previous knowledge, and saw two years of education Strutyn had to offer. No one we in a December 31, 1999, letter to Boris Yeltsin the house on ivan Franko Street in Lviv where 1 was born. met could remember our branch of the family, even upon his resignation as president of Russia, as "i've found my roots," 1 thought to myself at first. But though, as 1 noticed while wandering through the ceme- cited by RFEfRL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine it didn't feel right - roots in the stone and concrete of a tery, it seemed as if every third or fourth grave marker, old Report. city did not seem natural. Roots belong in soil, in a vil- and new, had my surname on it. Kravtsiv and Lutsiv were lage. І knew that was Nyzhnii Strutyn, where my father the other predominant surnames in the village. The passing of presidential powers from Boris was born in 1901, probably in that same house No. 163 І knew 1 had to come back. І was determined to get as Yeltsin to viadimir Putin indicates "an offensive of where his great-grandparents Yoakhym and Anastasia much information as 1 could about the family and even Russian fascism. ... Russia has been captured by had lived and died. But no one seemed to know where started thinking about possibly organizing an anniversary the KGB and Yeltsin has ceased to control the situ- the village was exactly; the tourist maps did not give that gathering of the clan in August of 2000, 50 years after the ation. ...As soon as Putin becomes president, an much detail; and time, as always, was running short. U.S. troop ship General Taylor brought us to New York occupation of Belarus will take place. While earli- Two subsequent visits to Ukraine and a two-month tour harbor. er Yeltsin played integration games with of duty with the U.S. Embassy in 1992 did not get me І returned three years later, in May of last year, armed EBelarusian President AlyaksandrJ Lukashenka, there either. But my luck changed in 1996, and 1 stayed with additional details about the family history as well as, now the opinion of ELukashenkaJ will be of no lucky through the end of last year. information from genealogical websites on the internet importance for Russia. ... Russia has obtained its When Plast's Burlaky scouting fraternity decided to and from other helpful sources. own Lukashenka." hold its 50th anniversary reunion in the Carpathian And Lady Luck came along as well. - Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Zyanon Paznyak in comments reported by the January 4 Dies tmirtis JRd gio SexUS j; edition of RFEfRL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report. ra^A Nrw В WOMEN j Dies МОИТШ 1 Do- і COGNOMEN ct C0NMT1O Measls ССґгк'З^Х J vita? "Of all Russia's recent premiers, Putin - except -' й iQUAUTAS MOETlSj for, maybe, Sergei Kirienko - is the most right- 'S fi MGBTUl. і з wing one. And the right-wingers, as is known, like mortmis Ї sepultos "5 і ^ 2 and know how to count money. Therefore, 1 will not be surprised if Belarus'is presented tby PutinJ

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xAfet^^ fteq-vy. - Alyaksandr Sasnou, head of the National Executive Committee (Belarus's Shadow Cabinet), as cited by the January 4 edition of RFEfRL An excerpt from a page of the village church record documenting the death of "Joachimus Bihun " the Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report. writer's great-great-grandfather. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY ie, 2000 N0.3

OBITUARY Appeal to Ukrainian American community

The Rev. Dr. volodymyr Figol, Dear Benefactors and Supporters of the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee: pastor of underground Church The executives of the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee warmly and sincerely greet you and your families with the birth of Christ. We wish all of YONKERS, N.Y. - The Rev. Dr. you - people of good will - health, strength and prosperity in the new year 2000! volodymyr Figol, former professor of We are grateful for your understanding of the need for our organization's work, theology at the Lviv Theological as well as for your generosity, especially now, when the financial crisis in Ukraine Academy, pastor in Ukraine, Lithuania continues. and the United States, and "confessor of We would like to share with you the successes of our multi-faceted work, name- the faith," who spent 15 years in the ly, our accomplishments in transfering donations to relief efforts in the aftermath of gulag system of concentration camps of severe floods in Zakarpattia, both in Ukraine and in parts of Romania. Our organi- Siberia for his refusal to recant the zation was able to raise and contribute S71,988 to those in need as a result of this Ukrainian Catholic Church, died here on natural disaster. December 27 at the age of 88. We were also able to provide financial assistance to the familes of deceased or Rev. Figol was born August 3, 1911 in injured miners after a devastating coal mine accident in the Donetsk Oblast. in Kolomyia, Ukraine, the son of the Rev. Dr. addition, we were able to expand our role in providing glasses to orphaned chil- ivan Figol and Stefania nee Halushchynska. dren who have vision problems. The Figol and Halyushchynsky families We gave children from orphanages in the eastern Oblasts of Ukraine an oppor- were renowned priestly families in the tunity to celebrate Christmas and Easter in cities of Galicia so that they might annals of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. become familiarized with our traditional customs. And, during the summer, chil- The Rev. Figol was ordained by Bishop dren from orphanages and from children's homes were given a chance to attend Mykola Charnetsky, CSsR (who received camps in Ochakoba and sanatoriums in Kremenets. delegation from the Metropolitan We have also sent hundreds of relief packages to children's homes, charitable Archbishop of Lviv Andrey Sheptytsky) as foundations, as well as to new Ukrainian Greek-Catholic and Orthodox churches in a priest of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic eastern Ukraine. We are also continuing our monthly financial aid to sick and Archdiocese of Lviv on July 22, 1934, in struggling Ukrainian writers; these are people who are somehow physically inca- the Holy Family Catholic Chapel in pacitated, sick or impaired, but maintain a strong spirit and uncompromising patri- innsbruck, Austria. otism. The Rev. Dr. volodymyr Figol He completed his studies in theology at We have recently embarked on a new project called "Babusia і Didus" (Gradma and Grandpa): a S15 monthly donation can help an ill and helpless eld- the Jesuit theological faculty of the the completion of his sentence, the Rev. erly countryman or woman who suffered in exile or served with the Ukrainian University of innsbruck as an alumnus of Figol was offered a place of refuge in insurgent Army. the Canisiamum, receiving a doctoral Lithuania by the Rev. Jan Preiksas, a degree in 1936. Roman Catholic priest with whom he Thus, we ask for and encourage your support of these efforts. We hope that you Upon his return to Ukraine he served as worked together in the camps. The Rev. will open your hearts to our unfortunate brothers and sisters in Ukraine with dona- professor of patristic theology of the Preiksas was later named Archbishop of tions to the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee's traditional "koliadia," Eastern Churches and instructor of Kaunus. The Rev. Figol worked in Kaunas Christ is Born! - Praise Him! homiletics at the Lviv Theological in 1958-1990, ministering to the Roman -Executive Committee of the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee Academy until July 1945 under then rector, Catholic community which was subjected the Rev. Dr. Josef Slipyi. to Soviet harassment. After the outbreak of World War П and During this time the Rev. Figol was the Soviet occupation of western Ukraine, also a major source of clandestine support Houston's Ukrainian Americans maintain the Rev. Figol was pastor in the Zboriv for the outlawed Ukrainian Catholic region of the Lviv Deanery (1940-1944). Church in Ukraine, especially through his He also served as an assistant pastor of the relationship with the archimandrites of the contacts with Ukraine's Embassy in Seoul historic Church of the Assumption in Studite Fathers of Ukraine - Klymentii Lviv's city center in 1944-1945. Sheptytsky, Nikanor, and the present HOUSTON - Eugene A. Kuchta of will be the first artwork displayed at the Following the arrest of all Ukrainian archimandrite, the Rev. Yulian Houston's Ukrainian American commu- newly opened Consulate in Pusan, South Catholic bishops of the Archdiocese of vbronovsky. nity had the honor and privilege of a Korea. The wood-carved box depicting a Lviv in April 1945 by the Soviet govern- Upon his arrival in the United States in luncheon meeting with Ukraine's ambas- Kozak on horseback which was created ment of Ukraine, the Rev. Figol served as 1990, the Rev. Figol was received by sador to South Korea, Mykhailo B. by vasyl Goulytch, will be prominently the third of the "temporary syncelli" (vic- Bishop Basil Losten as a priest in the Reznik, during his most recent business displayed at the Embassy in Seoul. ars general) of the archdiocese until his Stamford Diocese. Subsequently, the Rev. trip to Seoul. Ambassador Reznik's friendship with own arrest on July 28, 1945. He was sen- Figol served in various Ukrainian Catholic During their luncheon on November 18, members of the UACCH began during tenced to 10 years of hard labor and five parishes in New York State, among them, 1999, Mr. Kuchta presented Ambassador his tenure as chief of Ukraines' Trade and years of exile by Soviet courts and sent to Rochester, Utica, Glen Spey, Yonkers and Reznik with two original paintings and a Economic Mission as an adjunct to the Norilsk for his refusal to denounce his Hunter. hand-carved wooden box as gifts to the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington. Church and to publicly join the leadership A priestly parastas for the Rev. Figol Embassy from members of the Ukrainian During a previous business trip to of a group leaning to the Russian Orthodox was held on December 29, 1999 at St. American Cultural Club of Houston Seoul, Mr. Kuchta had an opportunity to Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. (The Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church in (UACCH ). These gifts were commis- visit the newly appointed ambassador pseudo-sobor of Lviv took place in the Yonkers, N.Y., with the Rev. Mitred sioned by the UACCH from artists and and extend the UACCH's best wishes to spring of 1946). John Terlecky officiating. A funeral craftsmen who are members of Houston's Ambassador Reznik and the Embassy While in Siberia, the Rev. Figol minis- liturgy, with Bishop Losten officiating, Ukrainian American community. staff. Upon returning to Houston Mr. tered clandestinely to the needs of believ- was held the following day at the The artists are Lydia Ostapiuk Earl, Kuchta informed the membership of the ers imprisoned under a variety of political church, followed by interment at Holy whose "Kobzar" oil painting will grace UACCH of his visit and it was unani- and slanderous charges. Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in the Embassy in Seoul, and Natalka mously agreed that the UACCH would Not allowed to return to Ukraine after Hamptonburg,N.Y. Zabolotsky, whose "Pryvit" watercolor send a gift to the newly opened Embassy.

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RECORDING DEPARTMENT Young UNA'ers MEMBERSHIP REPORT - OCTOBER 1999 і Martha Lysko, National Secretary

І Juvenile Adult ADD Total f ! Total Active Members - 9799 7,858 16,966 4,263 29,087 1 1 Total inactive Members - 9799 7,221 17,504 0 24,725 1 і Total Members - 9799 15,079 34,470 4,263 53,812 І

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1 Gains in 10799 1 1 New members 14 14 0 28 1 New members UL 2 3 0 5 1 Reinstated 2 5 3 10 1 1 Total Gains: 18 22 3 43 1 1 Losses in 10799 1 1 Died 0 34 0 34 1 1 Cash surrender 3 22 0 25 1 1 Endowment matured 15 28 0 43 1 1 Fully paid-up 7 26 0 33 1 1 Reduced paid-up 0 0 0 0 1 Extended insurance 4 8 0 12 І 1 Certificates lapsed (active) 0 0 6 6 і Certificate terminated 0 2 4 6 1 Total Losses 29 120 10 159 1 1 Total Active Members - 10799 7,847 16,868 4,256 28,971 1

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1 Gaines in 10799 1 Twins Emerald Grace Oksasia Saldyt and Lucas Paul Michael Saldyt, children of 1 Paid-up 7 26 0 33 І Myron and Carolyn Saldyt made UNA Branch 360 headlines in Buffalo, N.Y., і Reduced paid up 0 0 0 0 і where they recently became new members. They were enrolled by grandparents 1 Extended insurance 4 8 0 12 1 Myron A. and Oksana Saldyt. 1 Total Gains 11 34 0 45 1 І Losses in 10799 1 1 " Died 0 26 0 26 і 1 ' Cash surrender 5 17 0 22 і 1 Pure endowment matured 4 4 0 8 і 1 Reinstated to active 2 5 0 7 і 1 Certificates lapsed (inactive) 3 11 0 14 І 1 Total Losses 14 63 0 77 1 1 Total inactive Members - 10799 7,218 17,475 0 24,693 ї 1 TOTAL MEMBERSHiP - 10799 15,065 34,343 4,256 53,664 1 І (л Paid up and reduced paid up policies) 1

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l Martha Lysko, National Secretary І

І Juvenile Adult ADD Total І J Total Active Members - 10799 7,847 16,868 4,256 28,971 1 І Total inactive Members - 10799 7,218 17,475 0 24,693 І 1 Total Members - 10799 15,065 34,343 4,256 53,664 І

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Tania M. Stoecker, daughter of Rosty Sofia Anna Bankston, daughter of Olena І Gains in 11799 j and Tim Stoecker, is a new member of and James Bankston, is a new member І New members 8 15 0 23 j UNA Branch 216 in Philadelphia. of UNA Branch 216 in Philadelphia. She І New members UL 2 4 0 6 1 і Reinstated 3 15 2 20 1 Tania was enrolled by her grandfather, was enrolled by her grandfather Bohdan Bohdan Odezynskyj. Odezynskyj (seen above). І Total Gains: 13 34 2 49 і І Losses in 11799 1 Died 0 32 0 32 І 1 Cash surrender 4 32 0 36 1 J Endowment matured 11 23 0 34 Mission і Fully paid-up 8 30 0 38 І і Reduced paid-up 0 0 0 0 1 Extended insurance 3 25 0 28 Statement і Certificates lapsed (active) 16 9 19 44 1 1 Certificate terminated 2 4 2 8 1 The Ukrainian National Association 1 Total Losses 44 155 21 220 і exists: 1 Total Active Members -11799 7,816 16,747 4,237 28,800 І

m to promote the principles of fra- І INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP І ternalism; І Gaines in 11799 1 1 Paid-up 8 30 0 38 І m to preserve the Ukrainian, 1 Reduced paid up 0 0 0 0 І Ukrainian American and і Extended insurance 3 25 0 28 І Ukrainian Canadian heritage and 1 Total Gains 11 55 0 66 і culture; and і Losses in 11799 1 1 ' Died 2 32 0 34 і m to provide quality financial serv- 1 ' Cash surrender 13 27 0 40 І ices and products to its members. 1 Pure endowment matured 3 2 0 5 І 1 Reinstated to active 3 18 0 21 і 1 Certificates lapsed (inactive) 2 2 0 4 1 Alexander Andrew Kobryn, son of As a fraternal insurance society, the І Total Losses 23 81 0 104 1 George and Nina Kobryn, is a new Ukrainian National Association rein- 1 Total inactive Members - 11799 7,206 17,449 0 24,655 1 member of UNA Branch 130 in vests its earnings for the benefit of its І TOTAL MEMBERSHiP - 11799 15,022 34,196 4,237 53,455 ї Pomona, N.Y. He was enrolled by his members and the Ukrainian community. grandmother Ala Nowicky. l f Paid up and reduced paid up policies) 1 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 16,2000 N0.3

NEWS AND viEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY A date that lives on Young Ukrainian journalists warn of danger January 22. For decades it was celebrated by Ukrainians around the world as of continued deterioration of press freedom the independence Day of Ukraine, in the United States, for example, Ukrainian institutions and businesses observed the day as an official holiday akin to the NEW YORK - Carrying a letter of exclusively by Ukraine's financial oli- American Fourth of July, closing their offices to demonstrate the importance of introduction from Mark A. Taplin, coun- garchs. this Ukrainian national day. Ukrainian schools gave their students the day off, and selor for public affairs at the U.S. The delegation distributed copies of a Ukrainian Americans flocked to their city halls for special flag-raising ceremonies Embassy in Ukraine, a small delegation of statement signed in November by 60 jour- and proclamation readings marking this significant date, in addition, there were young journalists from Kyiv was in the nalists in which an appeal is made to the countless community concerts, conferences and other commemorative gatherings United Sates from December 4, 1999, world community to focus on the problem devoted to this doubly significant date. through January 3, 2000, meeting with of lack of press freedom in Ukraine, in the it was on January 22, 1918, that the Ukrainian Central Rada in Kyiv issued an congressional staff, administration offi- appeal it is stated that without a free press, edict declaring an independent Ukrainian National Republic - the realization of cials and representatives of non-profit without open discourse and an informed an age-old dream of the Ukrainian people. "Henceforth, the Ukrainian National organizations and foundations in public, democracy in Ukraine will never Republic is an independent, free and sovereign state of the Ukrainian people, sub- Washington and New York in an effort to truly develop. ject to no one," it proclaimed. publicize the continued deterioration of Below is the full text of statement dis- Then, exactly one year later, the Act of Union - proclaimed in St. Sophia press freedom in Ukraine. tributed by the delegation of journalists. Square in Kyiv - consolidated all Ukrainian lands, east and west, into one The message brought here by Serhiy (No first names were given for the signa- Ukrainian National Republic. The historic merger, which occurred at a time of Sholokh, general manager of Radio tories to the statement). great chaos, the collapse of authority, social turmoil and war, came after the Kontinent, Olena Prytula of interfax Ukrainian National Rada, the representative assembly of the Western Ukrainian Ukraine and Georgiy Gongadze, also of National Republic, voted on January 4, 1919, in Stanyslaviv to unite with their Radio Kontinent is that the psychological compatriots in Kyiv. We, journalists of Ukraine, who work and physical intimidation of the press by Unfortunately, the independence proclaimed in 1918-1919 was short-lived - a in various mass media, feel it is our pro- the government in Ukraine was not simply victim of external forces and internal factors. fessional and community obligation to our a short-term phenomenon related to the re- As noted in "Towards an intellectual History of Ukraine: An Anthology of society and citizens of our country to state election of President Leonid Kuchma, but Ukrainian Thought from 1710 to 1995," edited by Ralph Lindheim and George the following: rather, has become a consistent element in S.N. Luckyj (University of Toronto Press, 1996), in its immediate historical con- Ukraine, which gained its independ- text, "the Fourth Universal had only a symbolic importance" as, "days after its the practice of journalism in Ukraine. ence in 1991 with the support of the proclamation, the Bolshevik forces occupied Kiev (Kyiv), and the Ukrainian gov- This phenomenon of control by intimi- majority of its citizens, is in its ninth year ernment fled to the west." Nonetheless, the anthology notes, "the document dation has a dual nature, according to Mr. of independence. Presently, however, retained its significance for the future " Gongadze. The first is external, such as Ukraine is faced with the true danger of Furthermore, As Dr. Orest Subtelny underlines in his "Ukraine: A History" the use of administrative means, for the dissolution of a free and independent (University of Toronto Press, 1988,1994), the Ukrainian revolution of 1917-1920 example tax audits, and physical means, press - not to mention democracy as a spread national consciousness to all segments of Ukrainian society. "... the rise of such as threats of bodily harm, to keep whole. Ukrainian governments taught peasants to identify themselves as 'Ukrainians.' ... editors and journalists in line; the second During the past several years Ukraine fThusJ the upheaval of 1917-1920 was not only a socioeconomic but also a is internal, ever-increasing self-censorship has seen the formation of clan-like, oli- national revolution." - as editors and journalists refrain from garchic political groupings that have insti- So, then, the revolution whose key events are dated January 22, must be con- reporting negative information about tuted antiquated methods of state control, sidered a success, it laid the groundwork for what was to come, albeit decades elected officials, as well as about the so- and have led to the practical liquidation of later, and its memory kept the Ukrainian national idea alive around the globe. called financial "oligarchs," in order to independent television and print media. That is why, we firmly believe, Ukrainians worldwide should continue to recall not suffer consequences later. Notwithstanding the government's the milestone date of January 22. Let us mark the January 22 anniversaries each A December 2 RFE7RL report stated declared freedom of speech, the adminis- year by remembering Ukraine's past - perhaps via something as simple as delving that some observers in Ukraine believe trative and financial pressure placed on into our history books to renew our knowledge about what was and reinforce our that the issue of media intimidation has the mass media has forced Ukraine's mass appreciation for what is - as we look toward Ukraine's future. been overblown. Among them is Taras media to turn into separate financial-polit- Kuzmov of internews, an internationally ical groupings that stand for personal funded project for training journalists. He political and economic interests. claims that media organizations in Therefore, the interests of the public in January Ukraine's relatively numerous regional obtaining unbiased and objective informa- medias feel little or no pressure from tion are ignored. Furthermore, citizens of Turning the pages back. elected officials or financial oligarchs, Ukraine obtain distorted and tendentious though he does acknowledge intimidation information about issues in the country 18 of large, central media outlets and the phe- that represent individual views on these nomenon of journalistic self-censorship. events. 1998 llllll ^wo vears aSQ on January 18, The Ukrainian Weekly reported in a December 17 meeting at the New in cases where there is critical material """ on the ratification by the verkhovna Rada of the Treaty on York offices of the Ukrainian Congress Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership with the Russian about the activity of state authorities in Committee of America, Mr. Gongadze ТУ-radio information programs or in Federation. dismissed such comments about regional Ukraine's lawmakers voted 317-27 on January 14,1998, to approve the pact, which cre- newspapers, those responsible for issuing media by noting that most regional media such material undergo pressure from the ated new conditions for a relationship with Ukraine's largest economic partner. Foreign outlets are relatively weak and not influ- Affairs Minister Hennadii Udovenko presented the document to lawmakers for their state tax administration and other govern- ential. He said he supports the increased ment structures. At the same time, if any approval and urged them to ratify the treaty, saying it will build a legal base for economic involvement of the West in media devel- cooperation with Russia, which accounts for 47 percent of Ukraine's exports. publication shows an extreme loyalty and opment in Ukraine, including Western Olexsander Razumkov, vice-chairman of Ukraine's Security and Defense Council, said ownership, as a hedge against ownership (Continued on page 19) "The treaty is very important for us. We have very strong economic interaction with Russia, and economic cooperation without a political base is impossible." The political treaty had been signed by Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and Russian President Boris Yeltsin on May 31,1997, after more than five years of discussion between the neighboring nations' politicians. Ever since Ukraine became independent in 1991, its lb The Weekly Contributors: leaders had worked with Russia to sign an agreement on friendship, but President Yeltsin We greatly appreciate the materials - feature articles, news stories, press clippings, let- had postponed his visit six times, citing the unresolved dispute over the former Soviet ters to the editor, and the like - we receive from our readers, in order to facilitate prepa- Black Sea Fleet and particularly the status of its main base. ration of The Ukrainian Weekly, we ask that the guidelines listed below be followed. "The treaty means the affirmation of the territorial integrity and inviolability of borders of Ukraine and Russia, and in this way all questions about territorial ownership of ^ News stories should be sent in not later than 10 days after the occurrence of a given Sevastopol and Crimea are removed," Ukrainian Prime Minister Уаіегіі Pustovoitenko told event. lawmakers before the vote. ^ All materials must be typed (or legibly hand-printed) and double-spaced. The signing of several Black Sea Fleet agreements days before Presidents Yeltsin and ^ Photographs (originals only, no photocopies oir computer printouts) submitted for pub- Kuchma signed the big treaty had set the stage for the final document, but some Ukrainian lication must be accompanied by captions. Photos will be returned only when so lawmakers charged President Kuchma and his government with making a lot of conces- requested and accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. sions during talks with Russia, including allowing Russian forces to remain on Ukrainian ^ Full names (i.e., no initials) and their correct English spellings must be provided. land in Crimea. ^ Newspaper and magazine clippings must be accompanied by the name of the publi- The ratification of the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership with Russia cation and the date of the edition. was seen as only the first step in normalizing relations between the two most powerful ^ information about upcoming events must be received one week before the date of republics of the former Soviet Union, vblodymyr Horbulin, secretary of the National The Weekly edition in which the information is to be published. Security and Defense Council, noted that ratification of the treaty was a huge diplomatic ^ Persons who submit any materials must provide a daytime phone number where they step forward, while adding that other facets of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship will may be reached if any additional information is required. demand similar efforts. ^ Unsolicited materials submitted for publication will be returned only when so request- Source: "verkhovna Rada ratifies treaty with Russia, setting the stage for a new relationship" by ed and accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. Pavlo Politiuk, The Ukrainian Weekly, January 18,1998 (YoL ІХУІ, No 3). No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 16,2000 7

LETTERS TO THE ED1TOR

for our support speak volumes about per- explore the depth of our heritage, find the Russian authorities in Noginsk, Russia U0C-U.S.A. responds sonal character and motivation! strength internally in the Kyivan tradition, (near Moscow) in October 1997; the assas- Perhaps Patriarch Filaret should spend which is the basis of Ukrainian culture." sination attempt on Patriarch Filaret in 1997 to patriarch's visit as much time concentrating on the unity of Both the Orthodox and Catholic branch- when a radio-controlled plastic explosive Church life in Ukraine as he does disrupt- es of Ukrainian Christianity are in a state of was discovered in a Kyiv monastery he was Dear Editor: ing the life of the Church in the diaspora by flux today and undergoing major structural planning to visit (note: two priests and a in an article covering Patriarch Filaret's deliberately disseminating "disinformation" and philosophical changes. Philosophical church activist were murdered about the visit to one of our parishes (November 14, among the faithful - a leftover technique changes in the religious landscape are a same time); the anathema leveled against 1999) the patriarch's comments concerning from Soviet times. Our Church in the dias- search for common religious roots in the Patriarch Filaret (and the Kyivan the relationship between the Ukrainian pora continues to call for the abandonment Kyivan Church, the Mother Church of both Patriarchate) on March 8, 1998, by the Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. and the of personal greed and ambition by individ- Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Ukrainians. bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Church in Ukraine, were quoted as follows: ual Church leaders in Ukraine and for a There is an emerging recognition that the inside Ukraine (a.k.a. "Ukrainian Orthodox "The question is not about uniting with concerted effort to unite into a single humanistic traditions of Kyivan Church - Moscow Patriarchate"); and the the Kyiv Patriarchate, you already are part Ukrainian Orthodox Church - as did Christianity are distinct and different from attack on Patriarch Filaret and a small con- of the Kyiv Patriarchate. The question is Patriarch Mstyslav in his last will and testa- the foreign absolutism of Roman gregation of parishioners in the Donetsk that you simply need to confirm this now ment. Only united can the Church become Catholicism and the formalism and monar- Oblast city of Mariupol, during the conse- that :he bishops in Bound Brook are trying the moral conscience of the nation and chism of Byzantium's Orthodoxy, it seems cration of a new Ukrainian Orthodox to divide us, fto confirmj that you are part expect the allegiance of Ukrainian that the future of Christianity in Ukraine Church on April 30,1999. of the Kyiv Patriarchate - and not 'go over' Orthodox faithful throughout the world. and in the diaspora lies in the native roots Yet, in all of this, we wrestle not against to something to which you have always of the Kyivan Church, rather than in for- flesh and blood, "but against principalities, belonged." The very Rev. Frank Estocin eign imports. against powers, against the rulers of the Tnis is a false and misleading statement South Bound Brook, N.J. The driving force behind this sea of darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts changes in religious life is the emergence of wickedness in the heavenly places." designed to serve the purposes of an indi- The writer is secretary of the Consistory vidual who is attempting to export into the of the independent Ukrainian state, reli- (Ephesians 6:12) This is not simply a case of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the life of our Church here in the United States gious freedom in Ukraine, and the resur- of "Church politics," rather, this is a spiritu- U.S.A., Ecumenical Patriarchate of the very same disunity he created and con- rection of the Ukrainian Orthodox and al battle, it is a continuation of the same Constantinople. tinues to foster in Ukraine. This head of the Ukrainian Catholic Churches formerly sup- war Metropolitan Yasyl Lypkivsky and his present-day Kyiv Patriarchate had absolute- pressed by Russian imperialism. These his- bishops fought in the 1920s when they, ly nothing to do with the Sobor of 1990, toric events promise a renaissance of with many others, bravely laid the founda- except for his condemnation of it as the Ukrainians should look Christianity in Ukraine. tion for an independent Orthodox Church in then exarch of the Moscow Patriarchate for Such a renaissance can be based only on Ukraine. Ukraine. towards unity ot Churches the humanitarian traditions of the Kyivan І had the good pleasure of visiting my The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Dear Editor: Church. The recent elections in Ukraine relatives in Ukraine over the Christmas hol- U.S.A. did not in 1990, and has not since, demonstrated that there is no return to the idays last year. My father and 1 were been united with or come under the authori- The Ukrainian Weekly should be com- Communist past. There will be also no blessed to have spent several days with ty of any jurisdiction in Ukraine. Patriarch mended not only for in-depth coverage of return to past exploitation of Ukraine by Patriarch Filaret (and the Rev. Dimitri - Mstyslav forcefully maintained this posi- developments in the Ukrainian Orthodox hierarchs of Moscow, Constantinople or who was beaten with a pipe in the most tion from the day he was elected patriarch Church of the United States of America Rome. recent attack on April 30,1999) and to have of Ukraine through the day he reposed. The (UOC7U.S.A.) but also for its increasing The Orthodox and Greek-Catholic laity seen the tremendous work the Church is letterhead that was utilized by Patriarch coverage of religious issues in general. in the diaspora are beginning to play an doing. The patriarch spends much of his Mstyslav throughout his reign clearly indi- This is an important subject, because reli- increasingly significant role in this process time leading the faithful in the various cates that he considered himself to be patri- gion is being used more and more as a tool of change. Brought up in the Western tradi- divine worship services, as well as instruct- arch of Ukraine and metropolitan of the of geopolitical manipulation that impacts tions of individual action and responsibili- ing 300-plus seminarians. Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S .A. us all in a significant way. ty, they are not blindly obedient to Church We met several of these fine young in statements issued October 20 and 25, it is important also to your readers, hierarchy. They understand that Church men. We also had the distinct pleasure of 1992, Patriarch Mstyslav denounced the because such manipulations by foreign affairs are too important to all of us to be meeting another bishop of the Kyiv unification of some hierarchs of the religious potentates are usually directed left to bishops alone. Patriarchate - a man who had spent a Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church against Ukrainian national interests. For Perhaps Alexander Pryshlak, addressing decade in Siberia due to his love of free- in Ukraine (UOAC) with then Metropolitan example, Moscow's patriarch recently Patriarch Filaret on behalf of the Ukrainian dom. These brothers and sisters of the Filaret and another hierarch of the Moscow rejected a meeting with the Pope John Paul Patriarchal Society of the U.S.A., summed UOC-KP deserve and have my respect. І Patriarchate in Ukraine into a new entity 11 on the following grounds: "How can one it up best. Referring to the ideal of the late will not turn my back on them - or called the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - speak of sisterly relations (with Rome) Patriarch Josyf Slipyj in creating one, uni- worse, join in the attack on them. Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP). This was a when in western Ukraine, on the wave of fied Ukrainian Church, he stated: "This Before Ukraine gained independence, unification effected by Metropolitan Filaret nationalism, parishioners are being thrown will require tolerance, yet we all live with Patriarch Filaret was one of the highest- with the cooperation and coercion of the out of churches, priests beaten up and holy the idea of the unity of all the Ukrainian ranking bishops in the Russian Orthodox Ukrainian government in June 1992. The places are desecrated?" (AOL News, Churches." Church, indeed, he was one of only three fact that this unification was not accepted November 20, 1999). This is the same Yes, tolerance and striving for unity candidates for the leadership of the was evidenced during the funeral of patriarch who on November 12 blessed the should be the guiding words in our reli- Moscow Patriarchate itself. Therefore, his Patriarch Mstyslav in June 1993. His funer- genocide in Chechnya: "The Russian gious life. renunciation of the Russian Orthodox Orthodox Church supports the anti-terrorist Church and its Communist ties and imme- al was attended by delegations from both ihor Lysyj aims that the Russian state authorities have diate move to the newly resurrected the UAOC and the UOC-KP in the persons Austin, Texas of Archbishop Petro (UAOC) and Bishop set before the army and the law enforce- Ukrainian Orthodox Church was a severe Roman (UOC-KP), each proclaiming his to ment" (Russian Orthodox News). blow to Moscow. True to form, Moscow be the legitimate successor jurisdiction to Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv was quoted independent Church went on the attack, beginning with charac- the Church of Patriarch Mstyslav. recently in The Ukrainian Weekly: "Today ter assassination of the patriarch, then the The unification of our Church in the the Kyiv Patriarchate is surrounded by ene- deceptive name-change of its Church in Uni:ed States with any ecclesiastical body mies from all sides. Earlier we had only in Ukraine threat to many Ukraine, and, most recently, with physical in Ukraine has never been proposed at any one enemy - Moscow. Now we have Dear Editor: violence. meeting of the Council of Bishops, Moscow, Constantinople and Bound Patriarch Filaret is first and foremost a Thank you to The Ukrainian Weekly for Metropolitan Council or Sobor of our Brook." The patriarch, of course, is right, bishop of the Holy Orthodox Church, con- the recent article about Patriarch Filaret's Church since the rebirth of the Ukrainian and his list of enemies is by no means tinually "rightly dividing the word of Autocephalous Orthodox Church in complete. pastoral visit to his parishes in America and (Christ's) truth." He certainly is not per- Ukraine. Therefore, we reject Patriarch in a way none of this should be surpris- also for the interesting article about the law- fect. However, he has repented and even Filaret's claim that the entire diaspora lies ing, since the concept of a strong, inde- suit filed against the faithful by one of the has suffered personal physical attacks on under his jurisdiction. We further deplore pendent and united Ukrainian Church in South Bound Brook bishops. The Orthodox several occasions due to the threat he and his interference in the life of our Church one of the largest of Christian nation's con- Church in Ukraine is certainly undergoing a the Ukrainian Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) here in the United States, Canada, Western trary to the strategic interests of foreign great deal of assault as it struggles to gain pose to the still-very-much-alive Soviet Europe and Australia7New Zealand, just as religious potentates. They have effectively its independence. For example, in recent Church. the Permanent Conference of Ukrainian used religious issues as a tool of divisive- years it has suffered the attack by the Ukraine finally is free, it is only a matter Orthodox Bishops beyond the Borders of ness and subjugation of Ukrainians since Berkut special forces during the late of time before the Ukrainian Orthodox Ukraine did in 1998 (Ukrainian Orthodox the 16th century. So, after all that success, Patriarch vblodymyr's funeral procession Church is also free. in July 1995; the notorious insult to all Word-vol. 5, May-June 1998). why change now? Nicholas Zabrodsky Ukrainians by the ecumenical patriarch of The bishops, clergy and faithful of the Perhaps we should pay attention to what Lansing, Mich. Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. Roma Hayda, in addressing Patriarch Constantinople on September 24, 1997, have supported the rebirth of the Church in Filaret of Kyiv on behalf of the Ukrainian's when he met with the Moscow patriarch on The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters Ukraine by word and deed to an unheard of National Women's League of America, Ukrainian soil and proclaimed that the only to the editor. Letters should be typed (dou- extent since 1989, including various institu- stated at a recent reception in Connecticut: Ukrainian Orthodox Church that Constantinople recognizes is the one that is ble-spaced) and signed; they must be origi- tions of the Kyiv Patriarchate since its "We must remember that the culture we nals, not photocopies. loyal to Moscow; the attack on Archbishop inception. Patriarch Filaret has never sustain is rooted in Kyivan Christian tradi- The daytime phone number and address declined any of the assistance we provided. tion, belonging to an age before our Adrian and a small group of Ukrainian of the letter-writer must be given for verifi- His current divisive actions "in gratitude" Churches were separate. We need to Orthodox faithful - including children - by cation purposes. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2000 No.3 Economic characteristics of households of persons of Ukrainian ancestry in Chicago CONCLUSION There were some differences in the household structure for householders introduction TABLE 7. - NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDERS AMONG UKRAlNlANS lN THE CHlCAGO speaking Ukrainian and those who speak METROPOLlTAN AREA, BY AGE AND SEx, 1990. in this section we will present infor- another language at home, but only for mation about the composition and struc- family household types; the percent dis- Numbers Percentages ture of Ukrainian households and house- tribution of non-family household types Age Males Females Total Males Females Total І holders in the Chicago Metropolitan was similar for both language groups. Area, based on data from the 1990 cen- Among family households, the percent- 15-24 171 369 540 31.7 68.3 100.0 sus of population and housing. Topics to age of households with married couples 25 - 39 3,048 . 2,562 5,610 54.3 45.7 100.0 be discussed are: household income, was somewhat lower for householders 40 - 64 3,459 3,282 6,741 51.3 48.7 100.0 tenure status of the housing (owned or speaking Ukrainian than for those speak- 65 -f 2,571 2,892 5,463 47.1 52.9 100.0 rented), value of the house, mortgage ing another language, although in both status (first and second) and monthly cases this type made up more than half Total 9,249 9,105 18,354 50.4 49.6 100.0 mortgage payments. These variables will of all the households. be examined by the following character- in both language groups the percent of Source: 1990 U.S. Census 5 Percent Public Use Sample Tape. istics of the householder: age, language spoken at home (Ukrainian or other), TABLE 8. - TYPES OF HOUSEHOLDS AMONMONG UKRAINIANUKRAlNlANS IlN THEE CHICAGCHlCAGO METROPOLITAMETROPOLlTAN AREA, BY LANGUAGE U.S.- or foreign-born, and year of immi- gration to the United States. SPOKEN AT HOME 1990. Before we present the results, it is Ukrainians by language spoken at home important to clarify the concepts of household and householder according to Numbers Percentages the definitions used by the U.S. Bureau Type of household Ukrainian Other Total Ukrainian Other Total of the Census. A household "includes all Family: married couple 2,958 8,004 10,962 54.6 61.9 59.7 the persons who occupy a housing unit, Family: M householder 210 345 555 3.9 2.7 3.0 which is a house, an apartment, a mobile home, a group home or an occupied sin- Family: F householder 660 837 1,497 12.2 6.5 8.2 gle room." A householder is (in most Non-family: M alone 408 969 1 ,377 7.5 7.5 7.5 cases) the person (or one of the persons) Non-family: M not alone 192 477 669 3.5 3.7 3.6 in whose name the home is owned, being Non-family: F alone 870 2,103 2,973 16.1 16.3 16.2 bought or rented. Non-family: F not alone 120 201 321 2.2 1.6 1.7 Characteristics of householders TOTAL 5,418 12,936 18,354 100.0 100.0 100.0 and household structure There were about 18,350 household- Source: 1990 U.S. Census 5 Percent Publiclie UseUse SampleSample Tape.Tape. ers of Ukrainian ancestry in Chicago in 1990, with slightly more males than females (Table 7). There were significant female householders was significantly The median income of all Ukrainians Comparing households where variations in the number of males and higher than the percent of male house- was about 340,600, compared with a Ukrainian was spoken with those where females among different age groups. For holders. However, if the householder median of 335,918 for the total Chicago it was not, Ukrainian speaking house- example, there were many more female spoke Ukrainian, the percentage of population. Households where Ukrainian holds had more members in the lower than male householders age 15-24, 68 female householders was much higher was not spoken had, on the average, income categories and fewer members in percent and 32 percent, respectively. than of male householders, 12 percent higher median income than households the higher income categories, in other There were also more female than male and 4 percent, respectively; if the house- were Ukrainian was spoken, 342,175 and words, in Ukrainian-speaking households householders age 65 years or more, but holder did not speak Ukrainian at home, 336,751, respectively, it is important to the percentages for lower income cate- the difference was much smaller corn- the respective percentages were 6.5 per- note that households with a Ukrainian- gories tended to be higher than for the pared with the 15-24 age group, in the cent and 3 percent. The relative sizes of speaking householder tend to have older other group, while for higher income cat- other two age groups the percentage of the different categories of non-family members than households with a non- egories the pattern was reversed. male householders was somewhat higher households were similar for the two lan- Ukrainian-speaking householder and Specifically, for households with than the percentage of females. guage groups; it did not make a differ- probably more of them are retired, and incomes under 350,000 per year the per- en.ee if the householder spoke Ukrainian this may account at least in part for the Table 8 presents types of households centages were higher for Ukrainian or not. higher average income of the non- separated by language spoken at home. speakers than for non-Ukrainian speak- We can conclude that the great majori- Ukrainian-speaking households. Households are classified according to ers, while for households with incomes ty of Ukrainian households in Chicago the sex of the householder and the pres- Comparing the income distribution of of 350,000 or higher, the percentages had a married couple, and that in both ence (or absence) of relatives. Two types the total Chicago population and all were higher for the other language group. types of households, family or non-fami- of households are distinguished: family Ukrainians, we see that Ukrainians had a ly, the percent of households with a Home ownership status, households and non-family households. much lower percentage in the under female householder was significantly value of home and mortgage A family household has a householder 310,000 category, and had proportionate- higher than the percent with male house- living with one or more persons related ly more households in the higher income Among all Ukrainians in Chicago, holders. The number of females living to him7her by birth, marriage or adop- brackets. Close to 10 percent of only about 26 percent were renters, and alone was more than twice as high as the tion. The householder and all persons in Ukrainian households had yearly income the other 74 percent were homeowners. number of males living alone. Among the household related to him^her are fam- 3100,000 or higher, compared with 6 per- family households with a Ukrainian ily members. A non-family household cent of the total Chicago population. (Continued on page 9) householder, there were three times as has a householder living alone or with many females householders as male non-relatives only. householders (660 and 210, respective- TABLE 9. - PERCENT D1STR1BUT10N OF HOUSEHOLD 1NCOME FOR TOTAL Of all the households, almost 60 per- ly). if the householder spoke Ukrainian, cent were family households with a mar- CHICAGO POPULATION AND FOR UKRAINIANS BY UKRAINIAN SPOKEN AT the percent of family households with a ried couple. Among family households HOME, 1990. female householder was about twice as without a married couple, there were Total Chicago Ukrainians high as the percent for non-Ukrainian about two and a half as many with by language at home householders. female householders than with male Household income MSA Population' Total Ukrainian Total householders, 8 percent and 3 percent, Household income Si 0,000 12.6 7.4 7.4 7.4 respectively. Among non-family house- 810,000-19,999 13.7 12.3 15.8 10.9 holds there were also more female The household income data refers to householders than males householders, the yearly income of all members of the 320,000-29,999 14.8 15.3 16.4 14.8 household for year 1989, as the census 18 percent and 11 percent, respectively. 330,000-39,999 14.6 14.3 15.1 13.9 was taken on April 1, 1990. Table 9 is A significant number of householders the only table that presents data for the 340,000-49,999 12.5 12.8 11.8 13.3 were living alone: 1,377, or 7.5 percent, total population in the Chicago males; and 2,973, or 16 percent, females. 350,000-74,999 9.6 19.9 17.7 20.8 Metropolitan Area. The intent is to place 375,000-99,999 16.1 8.4 7.8 8.7 the Ukrainian ancestry population within Oleh Wolowyna is owner and president the context of the total population of S100,000-149,999 3.9 6.2 5.1 6.7 of the counsulting firm informed Chicago. However, as explained in the 13150,000 -ь 2.2 3.4 2.9 3.5 Decisions inc., in Chapel Hill, N.C. He note in Table 9, and elaborated in more TOTAL 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 has worked as a consultant in the inter- detail in the note at the end of the article, Median income 335,918 340,600 336,751 342,175 national development field (population these data should be interpreted with and health) for more than 20 years. He caution. The total Chicago population " important Note: The figures for the Chicago MSA correspond to a larger area than has also done extensive demographic refers to the Chicago Metropolitan the figures for Ukrainians (see footnote at the end of the article). They are for illustra- and sociological analysis of Ukrainians Statistical Area (MSA), while the data tive purposes only. in the United States and Canada, as well for Ukrainians is for the Chicago as demographic analysis of the situation Metropolitan Area (MA), which is a Source: 1990 U.S. Census 5 Percent Public Use Sample Tape. in Ukraine. somewhat smaller area. No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY I6, 2000 9

Economic characteristics... TABLE 10. - HOME OWNERSH1P7RENT STATUS OF UKRA1N1AN HOUSEHOLDS 1N CH1CAGO, BY LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT (Continued from page 8) HOME AND lMMlGRATlON WAvE OF HOUSEHOLDER, 1990. About 30 percent had their house free Language Foreign-born by period of immigration and clear, while about 44 percent had a spoken home mortgage, if we compare Ukrainian- Tenure status Total Ukrainians Ukrainian Other U.S.-born 1987-1990 1960-1986 1950-1959 Pre-1959 speaking and other language households, the percent of homeowners was very Homeowners 73.6 75.2 73.0 73.2 56.7 72.8 72.2 82.7 similar for the two groups, 75 percent with mortgage 58.8 53.2 61.0 60.8 68.1 49.6 54.3 57.1 and 73 percent, respectively, and the per- owned free and clear 41.2 46.3 39.0 39.2 31.9 50.4 45.7 42.9 centages with a mortgage were also simi- Renters 26.4 24.8 27.0 26.8 43.3 27.2 27.8 17.3 lar, 35 percent for Ukrainian speakers and 38 percent for the Other group. TOTAL 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Another way to look at homeowners without mortgages is to take as a base Source: 1990 U.S. Census 5 Percent Public Use Sample Tape. the total number of homeowners, and to calculate the percentages with and with- TABLE 11. - PROPERTY vALUE FOR UKRAlNlANS lN CHlCAGO, BY AGE AND lMMlGRATlON WAvE, 1990. out mortgages (Table 10). For all Ukrainians, about 41 percent had their Age groups immigration period' house free and clear; for Ukrainian value in 1,000s Total 15-39 40-64 65ч- U.S.-born 1960-1986 1950-1959 Pre-1950 speakers this percentage was 46 percent and for the other group it was 39 per- 10-49 4.2 6.4 5.8 4.4 5.8 6.9 4.2 5.4 cent. 50-74 14.2 10.0 14.8 24.0 14.1 24.9 14.2 25.6 Among U.S.-born Ukrainians, 73 per- 75-99 14.2 15.1 15.6 18.5 15.1 10.6 14.2 27.6 cent were homeowners, and 61 percent 100-149 36.8 34.2 30.5 28.0 31.7 33.3 36.8 19.8 of them had a mortgage. Foreign-born are designated by period of immigration. 150-199 12.8 15.4 18.9 9.9 16.2 14.6 12.8 11.5 Home ownership was lowest among the 200-399 14.9 14.3 13.0 10.8 13.1 9.7 14.9 7.0 most recent immigrants with 57 percent, 400-f 2.9 4.6 1.4 4.4 4.0 2.9 3.1 and highest among the pre-World War П immigrants with 83 percent. The percent- TOTAL 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 ages for the other two immigration Median value $137,500 S137,500 S137,500 S137,500 S112,500 S112,500 S137,500 895,500 waves were 73 and 72 percent, respec- tively. As expected, the most recent "The latest immigration wave, 1987-1990, was excluded because there were too few cases in the sample. immigrants had a high percentage of Source: 1990 U.S. Census 5 Percent Public Use Sample Tape. renters (43 percent), and the pre-1950 immigrants had the lowest percent of renters with 17 percent. TABLE 12. - MONTHLY MORTGAGE PAYMENTS OF UKRAlNlANS lN CHlCAGO, BY AGE AND LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT Among homeowners, the highest per- HOME, 1990. centage having the house free and clear (50 percent) was found among immi- Age groups Language spoken at home grants arriving between 1960 and 1986. Mortgage (monthly) Total 15-39 40-64 65-н Ukrainian Other The lowest percentage, as expected, was S100-299 9.6 6.3 11.3 10.9 10.9 9.0 found among the most recent immigrants S300-399 7.8 9.8 7.8 5.4 7.4 8.0 with 32 percent, in general, among all homeowners half or more of all S400-499 12.4 12.4 10.6 14.8 9.2 13.5 Ukrainians, U.S.-born or foreign-born, S500-599 10.6 12.1 9.5 10.3 12.8 9.7 had mortgages on their homes. S600-699 11.6 9.4 14.3 10.1 14.8 10.4 The median value of a home was 5.2 Si37,500 for all Ukrainians, and this fig- S700-799 8.4 11.9 5.6 8.6 9.6 ure was the same for all three age groups S800-899 9.3 8.4 11.2 7.8 7.2 10.1 (Table 11). very few houses had a value S900-999 9.7 9.9 9.9 9.2 8.5 10.2 of under S50,000, and about one-third S1,000-1,499 11.3 11.0 11.8 11.2 14.0 10.4 were in the S100,000-S 149,000 range. For all Ukrainians only 3 percent of the S1,500-1,999 5.5 4.0 5.7 6.9 4.2 6.0 houses had a value of S400,000 or more, S2,000-2,500 3.8 4.8 2.3 4.8 5.8 3.1 and this percentage was about 4-5 per- TOTAL 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 cent for the younger and older age Median value $663 Ф650 S663 $660 S650 Ф677 j groups, and 1.4 percent for the middle age group. Source: 1990 U.S. Census 5 Percent Public Use Sample Tape. The value of homes among immi- grants varied significantly, it was highest for the DPs with a median value of payments by age was, in general, rela- most of the payments for householders ties, yearly cost of water and electricity, Si37,500, and lowest for the pre-World tively small. At the lower end, Si00 to aged 65 or more were under S300 a family composition by type of relatives, War 11 immigrants with a median value S299 per month, the percentages varied month. For the other two age groups only family composition by ages of members, of S95,000. The percent distribution of between 6 and 11 percent, while at the 20 percent paid under Si00 a month, and etc. This information has not yet been home values was similar for the 1960- higher end, S2,000 to S2,500 per month, for householders aged 25-34, about 32 analyzed. 1986 and 1950-1959 immigration waves. the percentages varied between 2 and 5 percent had monthly payments of S500 or A more systematic and in-depth analy- Both had small percentages of low-value percent. For mortgage payments in the more. sis of this data could be useful for our homes, and more than one-third had other ranges the percentages were on the financial institutions, both at the national homes in the S100,000 to S149,999 Summary and conclusions average around 10 for each value range. and at regional levels. This type of infor- range. For the pre-World War 11 immi- Differences by language spoken at home We have presented here a brief mation is used regularly by businesses to grants the home values were tilted status were also relatively small for the overview of some economic characteris- quantify their markets and develop mar- towards the lower end; more than half different payment categories. keting strategies, but data focused on an were in the S50,000 to 99,000 range. tics of Ukrainian households in Chicago. Of all the homeowners with a mort- We documented the number and types of ethnic group like the Ukrainians is usual- However, about 3 percent had homes ly not available. valued at S400,000 or more. gage, about 18.5 percent had a second these households, and their economic mortgage, and this percentage was about potential in terms of income, house own- The year 2000 census will provide the Median monthly mortgage payments opportunity for updating this informa- were in the neighborhood of S660, and 20 percent for householders under age 64 ership and value of the house. This analy- years of age, and 14.5 percent for house- sis was refined by language spoken at tion, and will give us for the first time a did not vary much by age and language nationwide picture of the recent immi- spoken at home status (Table 12). The holders aged 65 or older. The median home status and by U.S. and foreign sta- monthly payment of the second mortgage tus (further desegregated by year of grants from Ukraine. Detailed data on lowest median value, S650 per month, Ukrainians will be available about three was S305. it was S350 for householders immigration). A fairly detailed analysis was for younger householders (age 15 to years after the census is taken (April 1, age 25-39, S336 for the 40-64 age group of mortgages held by the homeowners 39), and for householders speaking 2000). and S275 for homeowners age 65 years also was presented. The analysis shows Ukrainian at home. The highest value, in the meantime, a comprehensive or more. an economically vibrant community, with S677 per moth, was for householders not analysis of the 1990 data would provide a Monthly payments varied between S50 significant differences among specific speaking Ukrainian at home. useful benchmark for estimating trends and Si,171 (see Table 13 on page 10). market segments. For all Ukrainians monthly mortgage and changes in the last decade. For all Ukrainians about 44 percent had Besides a more detailed elaboration of payments were fairly evenly distributed NOTE: The definitions of the some of the topics discussed here, census among the different value ranges, with monthly payments of under S300, and Metropolitan Areas (MAs) used in this data also provides information on other about 8 to 12 percent for payments about one-fourth paid S300-S399 per paper are the Primary Metropolitan between Si00 and Si,499. About 9 per- month. Only 3.4 percent paid more than topics like: monthly rent, number of bed- Statistical Areas (PMSAs), as defined by cent had mortgages of Si,500 or more Si,000 a month for their second mort- rooms, year structure built, house insur- per month. The variation of mortgage gage. Among the different age groups, ance cost, plumbing and kitchen facili- (Continued on page 10) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2000 No.3 BOOK REVIEW: A photodocumentary of Chicago's Ukrainians "Generations: A Documentary of Ukrainians in Chicago," by irene Antonovych (oral histories) and Lialia Kuchma (photo-portraits). Chicago: Ekran Magazine, 1999.

by Myroslaw By tz A landmark chronicle bom of the ideas of the late Adam Antonovych (1908-1992), longtime publisher of Ekran Magazine, "Generations" preserves the Ukrainian cul- tural life in Chicago in striking elegance. The subjects of the many photos and anec- dotes represent four full generations of immigrants and American-born Ukrainians. Their stories transform the abstract history of Ukrainian immigration into quite person- al and affective realities. These first-hand accounts, some of the Great Famine, others of the long voyage to America, and still others of the "New Ukraine" in the Chicago diaspora, are testa- ments to the thriving culture of the illinois metropolis. "Generations" is essentially a celebration of life, an extreme life marked by the brutal hardships and glee, the pits of disheartenment and the highs of hope. The opening pages offer an opportunity for nostalgia and a wealth of background information relevant to Ukrainians not only in Chicago, but throughout the diaspora. A photograph of Mr. Antonovych is placed next to a letter sent to him by former Two pages from "Generations: A Documentary of Ukrainians in Chicago," featuring photos by Lialia Kuchma. Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, who appreciates and lauds the activist's many worded and comes straight from her heart to These interviews all highlight important which they are depicted, tell the tale with years of selfless work and concern for the reader's. aspects of the many lives that share such effectiveness and humanity that the Ukrainians in Chicago. Dr. Kuropas notes that "this documentary unspeakably extreme experiences, ones that reader is compelled to honor all Ukrainians Five essays illuminate the goals of project sponsored by the Ukrainian National make the bond between Ukrainians of all with a moment of emotional silence. "Generations" and the processes by which Museum is ... a momentous and welcome backgrounds that much closer. For information on this book - the result these goals have been attained. Each undertaking. Combined with the written But the book's major feature is the treas- of a broader oral history project that was painstaking step was obviously quite word, the art, photographs and videotaped ury of photographs of Chicago's supported by grants from the illinois impressive to the creators; the very result is interviews with living witnesses will enrich Ukrainians. As noted by the book's editors, Humanities Council, National Endowment testament to that fact. the cultural tapestry of Chicago's Ukrainian richly ethnic Chicago boasts 20,000 people for the Humanities, illinois General The many dimensions of the book's rele- community." of Ukrainian descent, many of whom live in Assebmly, illinois Arts Council, 1st Security vance and historicity are outlined in the Sections of excerpts from interviews the neighborhood known as the Ukrainian Federal Savings Bank and Selfreliance essays by such eminent guest consultants as appear occasionally, with such headers as village. All done in portrait style, the pho- Ukrainian Federal Credit Union, among oth- Emma Kowalenko, an independent histori- "Growing Up in Ukraine," "Coming to tos capture precisely the title of the book, ers - write to: Generations Project, 2232 W. an; Dr. Myron B. Kuropas, immigration America," and "Transitions." Diverse sub- "Generations," as many of the shots are of Chicago Ave., Chicago, 1L 60622. historian; Dr. Daria Markus, associate edi- jects are dealt with, from "Mixed children, parents and grandparents. A copy of this photographic documen- tor of the Encyclopedia of the Ukrainian Marriages" to "Faith," from "The Terror- Furthermore, while the essays, anecdotes tary may be obtained by contacting Orysia Diaspora; irene Antonovych, the project Famine" and "Forced Labor Camps" to and declarations all contribute to the under- Antonovych at (773) 489-2722, or writing director; and Lialia Kuchma, the photogra- "Life in America" and "Financial standing of the Ukrainian story, each indi- to the above address. The cost of the book pher, whose exposition is exceptionally institutions: Supporting the Community." vidual's eyes, as well as the surroundings in is S23, including shipping and handling.

of the Bergen-Passaic, Bridgeport- Economic characteristics... Milford, Danbury, Jersey City, (Continued from page 9) Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, BOOK NOTE: iker" in English the U.S. Bureau of the Census for 1990. Monmouth-Ocean, Nassau-Suffolk, PARS1PPANY, N.J. - Translated by These are somewhat smaller areas than Newark, Norwalk, Orange Co. and Maxim Tarnawsky and published by Mosty the Metropolitan Statistical Areas Stamford PMSAs are excluded). Publishers, "Weekdays and Sundays" is a 9 (MSAs) encompassing larger urban areas Philadelphia: Burlington, Camden, compilation of 1 van Kemytsky's satiric and that often cross state lines. The five MAs Gloucester, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, comic feuilletons that portray Ukrainian life discussed here are defined by urban areas Montgomery and Philadelphia counties in the 20th century. in the following counties: (Trenton, vineland-Millville-Bridgeton Mr. Kemytsky's stories reflect his com- m Chicago: Cook, Du Page and and Wilmington PMSAs are excluded). passion for humanity through his earnest 9 McHenry counties (adjacent parts of the Pittsburgh: Allegheny, Fayette, representations of rural and city life during Aurora-Elgin, Gary-Hammond, Joliet, Washington and Westmoreland counties the difficult years before the second world Kenosha and Lake Co. PMSAs are (Beaver Co. PMSA is excluded). war, while simultaneously evoking a chuck- excluded). 9 Detroit: Lapear, Livingston, le from the reader with silly anecdotes col- ^ New York: Bronx, Kings, New York, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair and ored with local dialect. His story writing Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland Wayne counties (Ann Arbor PMSA is continues with the tragi-comic Ukrainian and Westchester counties (adjacent parts excluded). epic in Displaced Persons camps, later telling of the passage to America. His final Ukrainian folklore depicts life in new settle- TABLE 13. - SECOND MORTGAGES OF UKRAlNlANS lN CHlCAGO, BY AGE, 1990. ments in North America. Many of Mr. Kemytsky's tales are Age groups satirical, yet they possess a benevolent Second mortgage (monthly) Total 25-39 40-64 65ч- purpose: the author once said he hoped to І S50-199 23.3 20.4 20.4 34.9 "chase the sorrow from at least one S200-299 20.7 15.1 20.4 31.3 anguished heart or to bring a calm smile to someone's lips." S300-399 24.0 16.4 38.1 7.2 Mr. Kemytsky, who died in 1984 in New him as "iker," for his warm humor and S400-499 14.9 15.8 16.7 9.7 York, was the author of several Ukrainian Ukrainian sentiments. S500-999 13.7 28.3 16.9 books and countless humorous articles that The 192-page book is illustrated by S1,000-f 3.4 4.0 4.4 appeared in Ukrainian newspapers and jour- Edward Kozak, with a cover design by TOTAL 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 nals, as well as the play write of several dra- Bohdan Tytla. The book may be ordered from: Mosty Publishers, 6509 Lawnton Median S305 S350 S336 S275 matic works staged by Ukrainian theatrical troupes. He was a very popular Ukrainian Ave., Philadelphia, PA, 19126-3745. The Source: 1990 U.S. Census 5 Percent Public Use Sample Tape. writer in the United States, and was very book's price is S20, including shipping and much appreciated by his fans, who knew handling. No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY ie, 2000 11 Kyiv's Center for Contemporary Art struggles to survive by Oksana Zakydalsky in the public and grab the attention of the media to give Special to The Ukrainian Weekly the center a higher profile. The first such blockbuster was the exhibit this past fall of the German artist Joseph KYiv - Established five years ago, the Center for Beuys (1921-1986) that the center organized with the Contemporary Art (CCA) in Kyiv is the only professional cooperation of the Goethe institute in Kyiv. art institution in Ukraine which deals with contemporary More recently the CCA hosted a joint project of two of art. "Today, after five years of existence, we have no the creators and leaders of conceptual art - the American competitors," said Yuri Onuch, the director of CCA. Joseph Kosuth and Dnipropetrovsk-born ilya Kabakov. "This is not a compliment; it is just a fact," he added. Mr. Kabakov worked in Moscow in the 1970s and Located in a building of the National University of 1980s and moved to the United States in 1989; his works Kyiv-Mohyla Academy on Skovoroda Street, the CCA is have rarely appeared in the former USSR. He has been a Soros-funded institution, part of a network of 20 similar chosen as one of the top 10 living contemporary artists by centers throughout Eastern and Central Europe and the magazine ARTnews (December 1999 issue). The which, together with all such centers, now faces a new exhibit - called "The Corridor of Two Banalities" - was challenge. originally held in 1994 at the Ujazdowski Castle Center Businessman-philanthropist George Soros has for Contemporary Art in Warsaw and was spectacularly announced that his role as the chief sponsor of these art successful. However, for viewers in former Soviet coun- centers is ending and that the time has come for the vari- tries, conceptualism has remained largely undiscovered. ous communities, national and local, to take over spon- The Kabakov-Kosuth project consists of two rows of sorship. Understanding that a sudden cessation of funding tables facing each other and provides a commentary on would be a death sentence for the CCA in Kyiv, the life in the two different countries. international Renaissance Foundation has agreed to give it so-called "bridge support:" it will continue to fund the in Kabakov's case it is the USSR. He places elements center up to the year 2002, but the funding will decrease of official Soviet iconography - familiar to generations - by one-third each year and terminate in 2002. on his tables, together with actual denunciations and "To guarantee its further existence, alternative funding accusations concerning trivial things written by people formulas for the center must be developed during the next living in a single communal apartment. Such a juxtaposi- two years. The center will have to cease being a generous tion alludes to the abyss between the ideal of Homo conveyor which passes money from New York on to the Sovieticus and the behavior of some members of this Ukrainian art community. We will have to find sponsors ideal. and partners for our work and projects," said Mr. Onuch. The other side of the row of tables is Kosuth's The objectives of the center include the exhibiting, American territory - a cool, grey table surface of tasteful- study and support of contemporary art in Ukraine and the ly silkscreened words of great men: politicians, writers, presentation of Ukrainian contemporary art international- historical figures. After a while, one sees that the words ly. The program of the CCA, in the last two years, has often contradict each other. been ambitious and extensive. There have been group According to Mr. Kosuth, both he and Mr. Kabakov exhibits of Ukrainian contemporary art and of art from work within a context and in this case it is the reality of Europe; solo exhibits of vasyl Bazhai (Lviv), Andrii two worlds that have, between them, a line of division as Yuri Onuch well as something in common: man, words and ideals. Sahaidakovskyi (Lviv), Taras Polataiko (Canada) and Museum. LOT Polish Airlines and Austrian Airlines also others, in October of this year, Mr. Onuch took a show of The exhibit was held up at the Polish-Ukrainian border where - in spite of papers from the Ministry of Culture provided support to the Kabakov-Kosuth exhibit. the works of Oleh Holosii and Mr. Sahaidakovskyi to The center is also beginning to acquire sponsorship France as part of the Days of Ukrainian Culture in Paris. indicating that the shipment was an art exhibit - customs demanded duty on the importation of 120 used tables and from the private sector: the general manager for Sony CCA also sponsors lectures, workshops, and research Overseas has said that the "CCA - the most important would not release the goods until the money was paid. and documentation of contemporary art and supports art contemporary art institution in Ukraine - utilizes in its The exhibit was installed just in time for the opening, projects. Recently, the CCA held a three-day conference, programming a lot of new technologies and we at Sony attended by Mr. Kosuth, on December 3. "visual Art of the 1980s-90's in the Context of the Overseas are proud to be the sponsor of many innovative The CCA has been successful in persuading the Andy Culture of the 20th Century," to which over 40 speakers art projects created at CCA." Warhol Museum of Pittsburgh to send a Warhol exhibit to had been invited - many from outside Ukraine, including Thus, there are promising signals that the CCA is grad- Kyiv this spring; this will be the first time that the Austria, Poland, Macedonia, Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg, ually carving out a reputation as a contemporary Carpatho-Rusyn's works have been given a show in Armenia, and Australia, ihor Holubetzky, former director European-type art institution. One can only hope that it is Ukraine. of the Power Plant (an artists' center) in Toronto, now able to get the kind of support among society that is stan- Gradually, the center is building up a roster of sponsors curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, dard in other European countries. and partners, preparing for the day when Mr. Soros stops was one of the speakers. information on CCA projects and exhibits can be paying the bills. Mr. Onuch is aware that the CCA's program will have found on its website at http:77www.cca.kiev.uaA to be scaled down in the future, but how much can be For example, the Canadian Embassy helped in bring- given up while maintaining the transparent and democrat- ing the Polataiko show to Kyiv, and the Canadian consul, ic nature of the institution? Ukraine provides an unfriend- Marvin Wodinsky, has said that "the center occupies a ly environment for sponsorships, he noted, and it is not unique and necessary position at the cutting edge of the New majority coalition... easy to get the attention of potential sponsors or partners. Ukrainian cultural community." (Continued from page 1) A few spectacular events, bringing an international The U.S. Embassy assisted with the Kabakov-Kosuth that Ukraine needs a parliamentary majority coalition to dimension to the center, are being staged in order to bring project and arranged the discussions with the Warhol effectively move on reforms and government reorganiza- tion. initial efforts were made by faction leaders Mykhailo Syrota of the Workers faction, viktor Pynzenyk of the Reforms-Congress faction and Yulia Tymoshenko of the Fatherland faction, which over a one-month period expand- ed to include today's coalition. Ms. Tymoshenko emphasized that in developing a con- sensus for a coalition, political ideology was never a part of the formula that the group was trying to advance. "We never took it upon ourselves to develop a single ideology - that would have been quite impossible," said Ms. Tymoshenko. Mr. Kravchuk, however, said he believes that a sound ideological base exists to unite the 11 factions and the 241 members of the coalition. "We can say that we stand on the ideology of democracy, state-building, independence and the need to make the Parliament effective," explained Mr. Kravchuk. Whether the coalition can withstand the pressures that will mount if it succeeds in implementing its program, including the internal stresses that will develop when the battle to select a new Parliament leadership begins, is yet to be tested. Mr. Pynzenyk said the coalition's future is uncertain, given the stormy history of the verkhovna Rada and its national deputies, and the weak ideological bond that links the group. "What we have here is an agreement to work to reach compromise agreements on important issues. There are many interests at work here, it is to be seen whether we can "The Corridor of Two Banalities" exhibit at the Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv. maintain this," said Mr. Pynzenyk. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY ie, 2000 N0.3 Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization celebrates 10th anniversary in Ukraine by Oksana Zakydalsky KYiv - Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its revival in Ukraine, Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization held its sixth general meeting on November 19-21, 1999, for the first time in Kyi v. With over 9,000 members and branches in every oblast, Plast has become the strongest and most respected youth organization in Ukraine. The general meeting ended the two-year term of office of the National Executive headed by Andrii Harmatii. The main issues in the 1997-1999 period had been regionaliza- tion, the gradual shift to Kyiv as the center of national activity and the effort to join the World Organization of the Scouting Movement (WOSM). Because of the growth in membership and the spread of branches throughout Ukraine, a regional structure was implemented and the following 11 regions were created (their oblasts are shown in brackets): Kyiv; East (Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv); Northeast (Chernihiv, Sumy); North (Rivne, volyn, Zhytomyr); West (Lviv, Zakarpattia); Carpathian (ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi); Podillia (Ternopil, vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi); South (Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson); Center (Kirovohrad, Poltava, Cherkasy); and Crimea. Regional councils were set up to aid new and emerging Plast groups on their territory and maintain contact with the National Executive. in March 1998 a seminar-workshop for regional repre- sentatives was held and a comprehensive program of regional training seminars begun, culminating in the pub- lication of a "Plast Regions" handbook. Over 20 branches І Bohdan Yacyshyn were created in the East, North and Crimea regions in the last two years period and the growth in national member- Plast Day held in Kyiv on independence Day, August 24,1999 ship was mostly due to these new branches. now that the organization is Kyiv-based. lined in the WOSM constitution; hence, its constitution The success of the devolution of responsibilities from The efforts of Plast to join the WOSM have encoun- implied that Plast did not consider membership in the the center to the regions was evident in the fact that the tered some rough waters. Besides Plast, there are other, world body as essential to its goals. On the other hand, 103 delegates to the 1999 general meeting came from albeit locally based, scouting-type organizations Mr Skrebtsov said, the world body determined that the all regions of Ukraine - about 30 percent of them from throughout Ukraine, in 1998, on the initiative of Plast, constitution of Scouts of Ukraine meets the WOSM's eastern and southern Ukraine. (The total number of par- the principles of a federative scouting organization for requirements for membership. ticipants at the meeting, including guests, was 156.) Ukraine were agreed upon by several such organiza- The Plast Ukraine leadership considers Scouts of in order to establish personal contact with personnel of tions, but this federative structure was not accepted by Ukraine to be an ephemeral organization, without any sta- the regions and obtain input on the development of Plast the World Scout Bureau, which is WOSM's secretariat ble membership or program; furthermore, it has not yet in an all-Ukrainian context, several members of the and can make recommendations on membership. been registered with the Ukrainian government as a nation- National Executive undertook a program of visits to the The bureau claimed that Ukraine apparently lacked eth- al organization - such registration requires membership in regions, particularly to the east and Crimea. The vice- nic or religious diversity to make a federative organization 13 of 25 oblasts). president responsible for internal affairs estimated that he necessary, instead, the Scout Bureau encouraged the in its report to the general meeting, the National had travelled 120,000 kilometers during 1998799. founding of a new organization, Scouts of Ukraine. This Executive maintained that the World Scout Bureau, for With Plast achieving a truly national dimension, a organization had its inaugural conference in May 1999 reasons that are political rather than substantial, does not gradual shift of its operations center from Lviv to Kyiv where 25 delegates represented a membership of 796. want Plast to be admitted into WOSM as the scouting was begun with the aim of eventually establishing the Since then the Scout Bureau has been promoting this organization of Ukraine, in spite of this, Plast is committed national headquarters in Kyiv. The National Executive organization as Ukraine's potential member of the WOSM. to WOSM membership and in the last two years took part has opened an office in central Kyiv (just off At the Plast general meeting a bombshell relating to in international scouting events such as the European jam- independence Square) and a Plast Center at the National WOSM membership was dropped by Boris Skrebtsov, the borees in Slovakia (1998) and Poland (1999) and the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (thanks to assis- president of Scouts of Ukraine, who was attending as a World Jamboree in Chile (1998-1999). tance from the Canada-funded Civil Society Project). guest. He read a statement from WOSM which said that Mr. Harmatii's report to the meeting acknowledged in order to acquaint Kyiv with Plast, a Plast Day was the world body did not consider the constitution of Plast the assistance of Plast diaspora organizations to the held this summer in the capital on independence Day. in Ukraine to be acceptable for an organization that aspired to revival of the organization in Ukraine. The rapid growth the past, because Plast lacked a solid Kyiv presence, its WOSM membership. The Plast constitution was said to be of Plast Ukraine is attributable to diaspora organizations relations with government agencies had been sporadic "limiting" because it presented the aim of the organization who passed on the Plast ideology, methodology and and Plast did not take advantage of all the existing as being self-development within a "patriotic" context. programs, which had been both preserved and devel- opportunities to gain government support. Contacts with The WOSM also claimed that the Plast constitution oped by Plast organizations around the world. government offices will be pursued more aggressively made no reference to scouting or to the principles out- "But now the time has come when Plast in Ukraine has to help diaspora Plast organizations maintain an active relationship with their fatherland through the organization of joint events; Ukraine must nurture Plast 4 unity among Ukrainian youth around the world," Mr. ч . "-іл-Л,., -, Harmatii said. During the past two years such joint Ґ events and exchanges were organized with Plast organi- x LUTSK" rfcivNR s zations in Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, u, Canada, Argentina, Poland and the United States. 07 ) 2^ Some existing problems were highlighted by Mr " " ZHYT^YR-lj^S, f- y-f ^ KHARKIV "Ч^--Л Harmatii. As the organization grows in both numbers l і ^^ ф i^S^^JERNOPI L v and territory, the lack of paid professional staff as well l ч хс T -^o ^CKHM^LNYTSKVT ' . as sufficient support staff is becoming more burden- ЛіФ? Rt t POLTAV^ CISHUIV f ^ 5 fcKREygrfCHUK ^WRODONET^ some. There is no stable financial base to make realistic ^ZHM^Rp^jf^4L.^ J4 ^ ( ( CHERKASY ФЛ-^ ^i planning possible. The efforts to establish a resource v^ ^RAMATORSK ^ v 7^.^^^SVTTLOVODSK' center in Lviv, with a regional network, were derailed a ^CHlfe^^Л ^ i^Uv^4 JNlPROPETROvSK " -^ J year ago when the Lviv premises were burglarized and IVANO-FRANKIVSK^ ^ ' лІІЬ'N t if'"'' Іw ^ KIROVOHRAD S ^ JT DONETSK. ' all the technical equipment stolen. .^J CHERNIVTSI ^ '--jyOZNESENSM Ч^г^ . Js KRYVYI RIH ^-,. The report of the National Council (Kraiova Rada)., Wsv 4 S ^.-^.r^J s Г which summarized and evaluated the work of the organ- ^ ф m - j ization in the past two years, began with the words: ^ ^) J^Py "The period 1998-1999 was marked by the disappear- flxA^Jb WODESA ^ ance of confrontational politics within the organization, both on a group and a personal level. Plast remains the strongest scouting organization in Ukraine, the largest youth organization of its type in Ukraine." The report noted that the increase in membership was due mainly to the emergence of new branches rather than the growth of old ones, which seem to have stabilized with respect to their size. This was largely due to the Map showing locations of Plast branches in Ukraine. (Continued on page 13) No. З THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY ІЄ, 2000 13 Plast Ukrainian Scouting... World scouting: a regional vision (Continued from page 12) harsh economic conditions that forced many good and for former Soviet countries idealistic leaders to leave Plast and devote more time to earning their daily bread. TORONTO - The "1996799 Triennial Report, Commenting on the work of the National Executive, World Scout Committee, World Organization of the National Council made the point that the range of the Scout Movement" shows that the WOSM is responsibilities on the national level was becoming agressively pursuing the organization of scouting unrealistic. Although, to support the executive, there is a. activities in the countries of the former Soviet secretariat with an average paid staff of four, in the last Union according to its own vision. two years 14 people had passed through it. According to in 1997 the WOSM set up the Eurasia Region, the National Council, this shows there is a need to which is to serve the 12 countries of the develop a greater commitment to the job by giving the Commonwealth of independent States. The head- staff some decision-making powers. quarters of this region are on Ukraine's territory, On another point, the National Council stated that in Yalta-Gurzuf, Crimea. Russian has been made having separate female and male national leadership for the working language, and eight scouting manu- the youth and children's branches ("yunatstvo" and als and handbooks already have been published - "novatstvo") had been counterproductive, as many of all in Russian. A quarterly periodical, also in the responsibilities overlapped across gender lines, Russian, is printed in the branch office in resulting in unnecessary conflicts. Moscow. The report (available at www.world- The National Council report concluded that the great- scoutshop.org) states that "the regional office will est achievement of Plast in the last 10 years has been regularly translate WOSM documents into leadership training: "it is no exaggeration to say that no Russian." The executive director of this region is other organization in Ukraine has such a large number Dr. Alexander Bondar, who has moved to Crimea of volunteers who continuously and, most importantly, with suitable qualifications, work with children and from Moscow. youth. This is indeed a priceless treasure which Plast The five national scouting organizations that must continue to support and develop." have already been accepted as members in the The general meeting also revised the Plast Ukraine World Organization of the Scout Movement - Constitution partly to adhere to new legal criteria and Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and partly to revamp the organizational structure to meet the Tajikistan have been designated by the WOSM as needs of a large national organization, in the new con- " Oksana Zakydalsky the founding members of the Eurasia Region, it is stitution, the National Council will set general policy Tatar plastunky from Crimea presented Tatar dances this regional office that is now advising the and be the governing body of the organization between at the Plast general meeting. From left are: Ava WOSM on possible member-organizations. general meetings. The National Executive (Kraiova Bekirova, Elvina Yakubova and Anira Bekirova. Thus far, Plast in Ukraine has not been able to Starshyna) assumes executive and staff functions and is benefit from many of the services of this regional accountable to the National Council. Members of the mature and functioning national organization with a office, as the official language of Ukraine and the executive can be salaried staff. A funding committee program that has proved to be sustainable, even in the working language in Plast is Ukrainian. Plast responsible for financial control has been created. The harsh economic conditions of contemporary Ukraine. Ukraine has to publish its own manuals or rely on new constitution also addresses some concerns raised in 1990 Plast had not yet reached beyond its traditional Plast diaspora organizations to provide the neces- by the World Scout Bureau in that it makes a more western Ukrainian homeland; almost all of the 58 partici- sary literature. direct reference to scouting principles. pants at that meeting came from Lviv, ivano-Frankivsk At the 1999 general meeting a new edition of The general meeting ended with the election of offi- and Ternopil. This time, some of the most active delegates the Ukrainian translation of Lord Baden-Powell's cers: Levko Zakharchyshyn (Lviv) was elected head of were from the east and the south - among whom were "Scouting for Boys," published by Plast Ukraine, the National Council; Andrii Harmatii (Lviv), head of the three young Tatar "plastunky" from Crimea. was introduced. As its basic manual Plast Ukraine National Executive, and Bohdan Heneha (Lviv) chairman At the same time, growth has not weakened continu- will now be using the "Plast Handbook" (Plastovyi of the auditing committee. Several members from the ity; many faces were the same as nine years ago: both Dovidnyk - also in Ukrainian) recently published new regions, e.g. Halyna Kashyrina from Crimea and Mr. Zakharchyshyn and Mr. Heneha had played major by the Conference of Plast Organizations; 2,000 Serhii Lytenko from the Eastern Region, were proposed roles at Morshyn; the outgoing head of the National copies have been made available to Ukraine at for national posts but that meant they would have had to Council and member of the new one, Bohdan Hasiuk, nominal cost. As well, a special second printing of give up their regional responsibilities. They chose to stay had also been among the leaders in Morshyn. 3,500 copies of the "Plast Handbook" has been at their regional positions, where they believe they are One can conclude that today Plast Ukraine is a well- issued especially for Ukraine thanks to the fund- most needed at present. established organization that is successfully meeting the raising efforts of Plast in Canada and the support This writer had attended the organizing national con- challenges of both development and stability, it is ready of Scouts Canada. ference of Plast in Morshyn in October 1990 (see The to assume a leading role among Plast organizations Ukrainian Weekly, November 25, 1990). At that time І around the world and, according to its leadership, is the - Oksana Zakydalsky described Plast as an "organization in an embryonic only scouting organization that deserves to represent stage." Nine years later, Plast Ukraine is a major, Ukraine in the world scout movement.

Oksana Zakydalsky Delegates to the sixth Plast general meeting, Kyiv, November 19-21,1999. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 16,2000 N0.3 Two major grants fund Manor's

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Go, Greg) that retained the original melody attributed to the legendary songstress Marusia Churai. Lawrence, however, preferred the light approach, and his witty text bears little connection with the original song of tragic love. Published in 1939 in New York, this song was recorded the following year by a very young and pretty singer gifted with a sultry mezzo voice who billed herself Dinah Shore. She sold almost 1 million dies and launched her career. Ukrainian themes, continued Glenn Miller and the Andrews Sisters followed with their versions of this hit, Following the wonderful reaction to Op. 18. At that time the younger Mozart labeled "vbca-Dance." the first concert at the Ukrainian institute was competing with analogous variations in a letter to Franz Liszt, Richard of America centering on European music based on Ukrainian material penned by Wagner lavished a supreme compliment: with Ukrainian influences, Mykola Suk, Beethoven and Weber. "When 1 first read your 'Mazeppa' artistic director of the Music at the in the early part of the 20th century orchestral score, it took my breath away; institute (МАТІ) series, began planning a American composer Sidney Homer wrote І pitied the poor horse ..." Liszt, the con- sequel. More than a year in the making, "The Cossack" (Kozak), Op. 5, for his summate romantic was captivated for the program will present several rare wife Louise, then leading soprano at the decades by Byron's and Hugo's verses Early printing of Jack Lawrence's scores that have recently come to light. Metropolitan Opera. Published by the depicting Ukraine's last great Kozak, adaptation of "Oy Ne Khody Hrytsiu," Works by gifted, albeit lesser-known, prestigious G. Schirmer in both German Hetman 1 van Mazepa, and produced sev- New York: Leo Feist, 1940. composers, as well as by great masters and English, with the text derived by eral instrumental masterpieces on this will be showcased. H.G. Chapman from happy Ukrainian heroic theme. For the composer, howev- viacheslav Paskhalov "the reason for this Czech composer David Popper wrote tunes, the music was Homer's own and er, the wild horse ride served only as a preference is clear; it lies in the closeness extraordinarily idiomatic cello music in decidedly modern for American song- symbolic backdrop on which Liszt of Ukrainian melodies to the European the late 19th century, which remained for writing of 1910. its rhythm recalls immortalized the intrinsic superiority of musical system." (See his study "Russian decades in the international repertoire. "Kozachok" dances. good over evil and showed the triumph Themes in Beethoven," Moscow, 1972.) His "Fantasia on Ukrainian Songs," Op. Another rarity, the "Two Songs of of genius against all odds. 43, is a welcome find, it is well-crafted Little Russia" in an English version by Count Andriy (Andreas) Rozumovsky, in its theme; the six variations and a spir- Harold Flammer, was arranged by the patron of the arts and son of the last Kozak The scores of F.x. Mozart, Homer, ited finale are intended for an accom- eminent violinist Efram Zimbalist for hetman of Ukraine, had at his disposal in Zimbalist and Lawrence to be presented plished soloist. lyric soprano and also was published by vienna at the dawn of the 19th century a by МАТІ come from this writer's collec- Franz xaver Mozart, the younger son Schirmer in 1916. The setting easily sumptuous palace, complete with one of tion. The works of Mozart and Popper of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was dedi- combines the somber "Wind Song" with the best string quartets of the day, which are being performed for the first time in cated to organizing music education in the brighter "The Neighbor's White premiered the latest chamber music. New York. western Ukraine in the first decades of House" tune heard in the Mozart piece, Among the count's closest friends was From tough Kozaks and thundering the 19th century. The folk tunes this vir- and was made famous in antique record- Beethoven, who dedicated his hoofs, through viennese elegances to hits tuoso pianist absorbed came directly ings by Met Opera stars Alma Gluck and Symphonies No. 5 and 6 and Three String of Manhattan, Ukraine's soul, as reflected from the musical population he came to Adamo Didur. Quartets, Op. 59, to Rozumovsky out of in Western music, will be presented at the know so well. The humorous "U Susida One hit song favored by American gratitude for the noble patronage. The institute on January 22 at 8 p.m. by Khata Bila" (The Neighbor's White Gl's during World War П was Jack quartets incorporated Ukrainian (some- Wendy Waller, soprano; Juliana Osinchuk House) was featured in his "Ukrainian Lawrence's "Yes, My Darling Daughter." times mislabeled as Russian) folksongs, and Serhiy Kryvonos, pianists; Natalia variations" for piano (1820) mistitled by This was an adaptation of the famous which the master preferred to Russian Khoma, cellist; and the Laurentian String a Milan publisher as "Air Russe Yariee," ballad "Oy Ne Khody Hrytsiu" (Don't ones. According to Russian scholar Quartet.

Briukhovetsky visits Chicago Kost Hrechak

88, of lrvington, NJ, died on January 5, 2000 after an active life as a businessman.

Born in Dolina, Ukraine, he came to the United States in 1949, where he developed his sales career and became deeply involved in the Ukrainian community, in 1951 he married Helen Dobushak. Kost participated in many ethnic events and was an active member of St. John's Ukrainian Catholic Church parish council, Self-Reliance Association, and the United Ukrainian War veterans of America.

Upon his retirement from Saks Fifth Avenue he pursued many community projects, including the extensive collection and maintenance of the archives of early Ukrainian war heroes. Kost is survived by his wife, Helen, and his son, Dr. Andrew. His immedi- ate family in the United States includes his sister, Eugenia Pleskaczewski (Lexington, NY), a niece, Dr. Orysia Karapinka (Pittsburgh, PA), two nephews, Dr. George Karapinka (Morgantown, Wv) and Dr. Walter Dobushak (Kerhonkson, NY). His family in Ukraine includes his sister, Olha Piven, and many closer and distant relatives, as well as other relatives in the United States and Canada.

The funeral was held on Monday, January 10, at St. John's Ukrainian Catholic Church, Newark, NJ, with the burial at St. Andrew's Cemetery, South Bound Brook, NJ. CH1CAGO - Dr. viacheslav Briukhovetsky (second from right), president of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NUKMA), visited Chicago on November 22, 1999. The purpose of his trip to the United States was to discuss agreements with the Eurasia Foundation, as well as to finalize plans for student exchanges with American universities. Members of the Ukrainian Language DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS Society of Chicago met with Dr. Briukhovetsky to present four scholarships for stu- dents from rural areas in Ukraine who wish to study Ukrainian language, literature to be published in The Ukrainian Weekly - in the Ukrainian or culture at NUKMA in Kyiv, or its branches in Ostrih or Mykolaiv. Dr. or English language - are accepted by mail, courier, fax, phone or e-mail. Briukhovetsky discussed the financial needs of the university to maintain and fur- Deadline: Tuesday noon before the newspaper's date of issue. ther develop its programs and appealed for donations from the Ukrainian diaspo (The Weekly goes to press early Friday mornings.) ra. Donations to the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy are tax- deductible (lRS No. 23-269-7509), and checks should be sent to: The Mohyla Rate: S7.50 per column-inch. Academy Society inc., 26 Bedford Road, Somerset, NJ 08873. information should be addressed to the attention of the Advertising Department and sent to: The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 (NB: please do not include post office box if sending via courier), Parsippany, N.J. 07054; fax, (973) 644-9510; telephone, (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040; THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY e-mail, staffsukrweekly.com. visit our archive on the internet at: http:77www.ukrweekly.com7 Please include the daytime phone number of a contact person. 16 THE UKRAiNJAN WEEKLY SUNDAY; JANUARYЛ6, 2000 No.3

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MIKHAIL GUSMAN, M.D. Ukrainian village Corp. President Stephen Wichar presents a check for S6,000 internal Medicine for immaculate Conception schools to the Yery Rev. Roberto Lukavei. has joined their practice at WARREN, Mich. - For 15 consecutive those responsible for the finest and most 6360 Rt. 209 years, the Ukrainian village Corporation's productive neonatal clinic (currently Kerhonkson, New York positive achievements have been recog- Ukraine's referral center) in Ukraine. nized by the Ukrainian community in in their remarks, the two specialists pro- (Next to Candlelight inn Restaurant) Detroit. filed a problem of salmonella infection "Our commitment to housing for elderly which had been rampant in Ukraine. One of the most immediate needs for the LOCH New Patients Welcome Ukrainians has been legendary in many Ukrainian communities, even in Ukraine," appeared to be the acquisition of steam office Hours: MONDAY-FRIDAY 9 am - 5 pm said Stephen Wichar, president since 1986. sterilizers to control such infections, in view of the urgency of the matter. UvCorp. (914) 626-7119 "in tandem with senior housing," he con- tinued, "we have also enjoyed 15 seasons officials purchased two sterilizers. A S6,000 of successful activities. Not a single flop in check was formally presented to Dr. this incredible continuity," he added. Ezhutachan and Ms. Newman. On November 21, 1999, an enthusiastic The very Rev. Roberto Lukavei OSBM group of more than 200 people attended a was invited to deliver the invocation. Then, gala celebration here the village Banquet as the popular Ukrainian song ensemble Center marking the success of the organiza- Zoloti Dzvony (Golden Bells) sang a EASTERN EC0N0M1ST tion since its founding in 1984. Thanksgiving hymn, toasts were offered to Olga Dubrivny-Solovey provided musi- all guests and dinner was served. THE SOURCE FOR WORKlNG AND lNvESTlNG lN UKRAlNE cal entertainment on her keyboard. Guests After dinner, introductions and acknowl- were treated to a "hospitality table" pre- edgments were made by the master of cere- UKRAINE'S FIRST BUSINESS pared by the Olena Teliha Chapter of the monies. Mary v. Beck, former Detroit Ukrainian National Women's League of councilwoman, and newly re-elected AND America. Warren Councilman Michael Chupa were A majority of attendees wore Ukrainian recognized along with Dr. William INVESTMENT WEEKLY attire, adding to the atmosphere created by Do whan, a noted oncology researcher and the surroundings of Ukrainian music and professor from Houston. art. Officials representing the Future Credit We are in our fifth year of publishing the weekly EASTERN ECONOMlST. in the packed banquet hall, Justine Union were on hand to celebrate and to EE DAlLY. a daily newswire via the internet, and DlNlNG OUT lN КУІУ. Malaniak-Nelligan, first vice-president of accept recognition of the credit union's TEL. (773) 278-86627FAx (773) 278-4051 the committee, called the assembly to order unrelenting support of the Ukrainian and offered welcoming remarks. Her suc- village Corp. in Kyiv: (38044) 224.49.58 A Special Recognition Award was e-mail: matlid^interaccess.com cessor, Stefania Dub, followed with a wel- coming speech in Ukrainian. bestowed on residents who became Mr. Wichar was then called upon to villagers in 1984, 15 years ago, including assume the duties of maister of ceremonies. Mary iwasiuk, Olga Kinal, iwanna After thanking the audience for a wonder- Kuczer, Eva Lechno, Roma Niedzwiecki and Anna Terleski. ful turnout, Mr. Wichar spoke briefly of the numerous accomplishments of the village John Stoiko was invited to speak about residents, as well as the ways in which they the Anastasia volker Remembrance distinguished themselves within the com- Project. Mr. Stoiko recalled briefly that Ms. volker, who served as UvCorp. president munity. until 1986, was a key component and The Lviv Oblast Clinical Hospital leader of the "Residency for Elderly (LOCH) Project was recognized as the Ukrainians" movement in Detroit in the charity that benefited most from the village early 1950s and '60s. Her persistent con- residents' generous donations. The village cern for this mission yielded support and has been the only Ukrainian organization in endorsements from the community, which Michigan to furnish financial grants for the ultimately resulted in a federal loan. LOCH endeavor. Mr. Wichar honored Dr. After her death on December 23, 1997, Sudhakar Ezhutachan, divisional head of the board of directors decided to honor Ms. neonatology at Henry Ford Hospital, and volker. Mr. Stoiko, a UvCorp. director, We are looking to expand our advertising clientele for the Ukrainian National Association's publications, Christine Newman, a neonatal specialist was appointed to head the coordination of The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda. also practicing at Henry Ford, who both have made numerous visits to Lviv, as (Continued on page 19) if you are a self-motivated, hard-working and bright individual, you can supplement your income by referring customers to our advertising department. Your earnings will be based on the amount of advertising you attract to our pages. Need a back issued if you'd like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, For details please write or call: UNA Publications, Advertising Department, send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054; (973) 292-9800. 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 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Arjev-ТУ channel Young Ukrainian journalists... Fitcych - inter ТУ channel Warren's Ukrainian... (Continued from page 6) Takhmazov - inter ТУ channel (Continued from page 16) Prytula - interfax-Ukraine news agency allegiance to existing authorities it can count on the state's mate- the Уоікег Remembrance Project. rial support, thus allowing the former to cast aside all fears about Skachko - freelance journalist in an intensive search for an artist who Rakhmanin - Zerkalo Nedeli newspaper (Mirror of the Week) the uncertainty of future existence. As a result, Ukrainian mass could develop a portrait from photographs, Gorchinskaya - Kiev Post English-language newspaper media do not even dare to publish an alternative or opposing Mr. Stoiko found Andrij Pikush, renowned Hmyrjanska - BBC radio opinion on certain issues. in Ukraine and currently living in Canada. Shevchenko - Уікпа-News STv Such a situation was obviously present during the recent presi- Mr. Stoiko commissioned him to do the Lozovy - TSN Novyny (TSN news "1-Й "channel) dential elections fin October 1999J, when the press and ТУ portrait that was unveiled for the audience Shust - radio Lux played a "killer" role of moral destruction of the opponents to by Messrs. Stoiko and Wichar. Kharchuk - freelance journalist incumbent President Leonid Kuchma. Millions of dollars were A mission statement for the immaculate Kliujeva - ТУ station JUTAR spent on persecuting and discrediting the president's rival. Conception School System states that its Gasjuk - freelance journalist Pressure on national and local mass media reached unprecedent- purpose is to provide students with the Doschatov - freelance ТУ journalist ed levels. highest academic education, Ukrainian Gorkovenko - visti-News Уікпа-ТУ ("Windows" ТУ news) State and so-called "independent" publications were under religious instruction and instruction in Zakaliuzhny - Ukrainske Slovo newspaper (Ukrainian Word) total control, rather, censored, with regard to informational con- Ukrainian language, history and culture. ІС Chlynchak - Segodnia newspaper (Today) tent and materials, which has led to self-censorship among jour- High School was cited in 1999 as an out- vblska - Radio Svoboda (Radio Liberty) nalists. As a result, the notion of journalism as a profession has standing American high school by U.S. Gutcul - Robitnycha Gazeta newspaper (Worker's Newspaper) become defunct in Ukraine. Journalists, who do not accept such News Sc World Report. Solovjova - UN1AN news agency The Уегу Rev. Lukavei, pastor of "rules of the game" and cannot serve such a system, do not have Jakubenko - unemployed journalist an opportunity to grow professionally and are forced to look for immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Savostina - Уікпа-News STv Church, was called to the rostrum to other jobs in order to earn a living. Koroliuk - Holos Ukrainy newspaper (Уоісе of Ukraine) Therefore, we journalists of Ukraine, express our resolute expound on education in Ukrainian schools. Petrishin - Уікпа-News STv "1 am proud and happy to have initiated a protest and appeal to the world community to show its attitude Lavreniuk - Holos Ukrainy newspaper (Уоісе of Ukraine) revival of the ІС school board, the basic towards the curtailing of democratic processes in Ukraine, the Meniajlo - Radio Svoboda (Radio Liberty) administrative arm," began the Rev. evidence of which is the strangulation of the freedom of speech Dushko - Posrednik weekly (Mediator) Lukavei. He went on to review 40 years of and information in our state, and to speak in support of our con- Jurchuk - Moneymaker magazine academic excellence, outstanding faculty, stitutional and professional rights. Linchevsky - Radio Svoboda (Radio Liberty) scholarships and parental involvement in if Western political circles ignore these problems, the present Hazan - Уікпа-News STv both the elementary and secondary schools. situation will lead to the establishment of an authoritarian regime, Kudrin - UN1AR news agency The audience applauded heartily as Mr. which under the slogans of democracy will destroy civil society, Soroka - inter ТУ channel Wichar presented a UvCorp. check for creating the foundation for unpredictable developments in Tcvetkova - Уеспігпі visti newspaper (Evening News) S6,000 to the immaculate Conception Central Europe. Prytula - Radio Svoboda (Radio Liberty) schools. Lappo - interfax-Ukraine news agency Signed by: The concluding act for the afternoon Shmatkov - interfax-Ukraine news agency was a 15th anniversary musical special by Gongadze - freelance journalist Teplova - internews-Ukraine the Zoloti Dzvony under the direction of Latko - Samostiina Ukraina newspaper (independent Ukraine) Goncharenko - Continent radio Ms. Dubrivny-Solovey. 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Zinovjeva-TSN Novyny (TSN news "1-4-1" Channel) Rudenko - Radio Svoboda (Radio Liberty) Lukavei, the Zoloti Dzvony closed another Chornaja - Kievskiie viedomosti (Kyiv News) newspaper Koroliuk - Express-inform newspaper Ukrainian village event with a perform- Horban - freelance journalist Melnichuk - freelance journalist ance of "Mnohaya Lita." w^^w^^^^ YEVSHAN - ЄВШАН World's Largest Ukrainian Book 8c Music Catalogue For your free copy today, please call шШШшшШшшшШШшШШШ 1-800-265-9858 Music - Books - videos - Gift items - Travel Guides Stationary - Computer Supplies and much more! www.yevshan.com ^^^^ш^ШЯІЯшШ^ШшШШИиШшШ^^^^^Л

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can see "a dark cloud" on the horizon Newsbriefs which "Lithuania will have to remove if it LVIV EXPRESS SERVICES (Continued from page 2) wants to find its niche among democracies of this world." After a stormy discussion an item to be financed from a budgetary with Prosecutor General Kazys Pednycia, OKSANA 1NTERNAT10NAL surplus. (RFE7RL Newsline) 1111 East Elizabeth Ave. Rep. Lantos said, "1 am very disappointed Linden, New Jersey 07036 Natural gas deposits are discovered with the meeting." Mr. Pednycia said he (908) 925-0717 complained to Rep. Lantos about a lack of SYMFEROPOL - A new site of natural assistance from the U.S. Justice gas deposits was discovered in the Azov т^ттш-жїБІЛОРУСІЮ. РОСІЮ, ПОЛЬЩУ. ЕСТОНІЮ ПШИШІД. ЛАТВІЮ, ЛИТВУ, СЛОВАКІЮІ Department in gathering admissible evi- Sea. it has been projected that 300,000 dence against war criminals, in September КОРАБЛЕМ ЛІТАКОМ ЛОЛЯРИ ЕЛЕКТРОНІКА cubic meters per day can be extracted from 1999 Mr. Pednycia had expressed similar 2-3 тижні this 460-meter-deep site. (Eastern frustrations about the U.S. Justice Economist) Department's special investigator Eli Rosenbaum during the trial of war crimes MJH^JO фунтів мін. 10 фунтів Ukraine hot affected by Y2K bug 22Q В suspect Aleksandras Lileikis. (RFE7RL ІРИСКОРЕНА ДОСТАВА ЛІТАКОВИХ ПАКУНКІВ KYiv - As of January 4, no emergency Newsline) до Зажідної України situations connected to the Y2K bug were В, ПРАВКА recorded in Ukraine, stated the Emergency Lukashenka accused of anti-Semitism І ҐХо; 0 іилВ.шми Д Ministry. The situation in organizations and M1ENSK - The head of the World itfSW І KJ ' ДДМДЯШ КОМЕРЦІЙНИХ institutions is stable, in addition, no mal- Association of Belarusian Jewry, Yakov Г functions were reported at the Chornobyl Goodman, and the head of the Human ^И? У OFF ИІШІШМІІ ВАНТАЖІВ plant or other nuclear power plants in t Rights Center vyasna, Ales Byalatski, said ^S^ з Іди^купоіїЬм Є ШИРОКИЙ ВИБІР ПАКУНКІВ ВІД S88 ДО Щ8Ukraine . According to the final report of in Miensk on January 4 that Belarusian SA^END PACKAGES ТО US'THROUGH UPS'CALL FOR UPS LABELS: 1-80d-9-OKSANA the group's operations, no emergency President Alyaksandr Lukashenka is anti- events associated with the Y2K problem Semitic, the Associated Press reported. occurred in Ukraine, including in the bank- They also appealed to the israeli govern- ing sector, tax, customs and pension servic- ment to avoid official contacts with him es. The National Bank of Ukraine reported during his current trip to Bethlehem. Mr. that all banking institutions in the country Goodman said the Belarusian government established communication on January 4 has refused to set up Jewish schools, help Collage with the NBU. No Y2K malfunctions were maintain Jewish cemeteries and historic recorded. Banking system clients will be monuments, or create memorials to Musical ensemble from Lviv, Ukraine able to conduct transactions in normal fash- Belarusian Holocaust victims. He also ion starting January 5. (Eastern Economist) expressed "bewilderment" over President Halyna Zhuk - violoncello Y2K problem in Ukraine exaggerated Lukashenka's planned meetings with Sofia Soloviy - soprano israeli President Ezer Weizman and parlia- Serhiy Lutsenko - flute KYiv - American special services mentary deputies. Mr. Goodman noted that Yuriy voityns'kiy - violin acknowledged that they overestimated only 28,000 Jews live in Belarus today, Pavlo Zavialov - alto Y2K problems for Ukraine and Russia, compared with 112,000 in 1989. "Jews are Khrystyna Huzil' - vocals stated Deputy Defense Secretary John voting with their feet against the policy Hamr. He added that both countries, which pursued by Alyaksandr Lukashenka," were among those considered to be most RFE7RL's Belarusian Service quoted him affected by the Y2K bug, actually pos- as saying. (RFE7RL Newsline) Concert Tour m the United States sessed more non-automatic systems than expected. (Eastern Economist) Yuschenko kills previous draft laws

Sunday, January 2,2000. 1:30 p.m. Friday, January 21,2000. 6:30 p.m. First Kharkiv baby wins apartment KYiv - Prime Minister viktor St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church St. Michael's Ukrainian Parish Yuschenko has withdrawn 161 draft laws 719SandfordAve. 2401 Eastern Ave. KHARKiv - The first baby born on Newark, NJ Baltimore, MD submitted to the verkhovna Rada by the (973)371-1356 (410)558-0403 January 1 in Kharkiv at 12:05 a.m. will Cabinet of former Prime Minister valerii receive an apartment and a gold bar from Pustovoitenko, interfax reported on Sunday, January 23,2000. 1:30 p.m. the city's administration. All other babies Sunday, January 9,2000. 3:00 p.rr Ukrainian Orthodox Center January 5. Cabinet Secretary viktor Ukrainian National Home Sisterhood Hall born January 1 will receive gold bars. Lysytskyi said the "lion's share" of the bills 961 WethersfieldAve. Main Street Twenty-eight babies were born that day in will not be changed in any essential way Hartford, CT South Bound Brook, NJ Kharkiv, which is a higher than average since the new prime minister will follow (860) 296-5702 (732) 356-0090 (Exit 10, Route 287, next to St. Andrew Church) number. (Eastern Economist) "the strategy of reforms" that was defined by President Leonid Kuchma in October Washers for new year mothers Saturday,January 15,2000. 6:00 p.m. Thursday, January 27,2000. 7:00 p.m. 1994. "The point is to accelerate, deepen Annunciation of the Blessed virgin Mary Church St. Michael Orthodox Church 1206 valley Road 3026 Hikes Lane CHERN1 vTSl -The mothers of the first and strengthen some reform parameters, to ElkinsPark,PA 19027-3035 Louisville, KY 40220-2017 babies born in the new year will be receive implement in a more consistent way what (215)635-1627 (502) 454-3378 washing machines from the city mayor's was determined several years ago," Mr. (near Philadelphia) Lysytskyi noted. (RFE7RL Newsline) Friday, January 28,2000. 7:00 p.m. office. (Eastern Economist) Michigan State University Sunday, January 16,2000. 1:30 p.m. Ann Arbor, Ml 33 million support referendum proposal Another Rukh party is registered Ukrainian Hall 16 Twin Ave. Saturday, January 29,2000. 5:00 p.m. KYiv - Citing the Democratic Union KYiv - The Ministry of Justice has reg- Spring valley, NY immaculate Conception School Party, interfax reported on January 10 that istered the Ukrainian Popular Rukh (914) 735-9261 (William Szozda) 29500 Westbrook Ave. (near Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church) Warren, Ml Ukraine's 218 initiative groups have col- (Ukrainskyi Narodnyi Rukh), a party con- (810)574-2480 lected nearly 3.3 million signatures in sup- sisting of Yurii Kostenko's faction in the port of a nationwide referendum on original Rukh, interfax reported on January Thursday, January 20,2000. 6:30 p.rr Sunday, January 30,2000. 2:00 p.m. changes to the Constitution. The groups are 5. it is the 90th political party registered in Ukrainian National Home Ukrainian Cultural Center of Sts volodymyr 8L Olha 140 Second Ave. 2247 W.Chicago Ave. proposing to ask questions on giving the Ukraine. According to its activists, the New York, NY 10003 Chicago, 1L 60622 president the right to disband the party has 20,300 members in all regions of (212)529-6287 (312)384-6400 Parliament, creating a bicameral legisla- the country. The other Rukh faction, led by ture, lifting national deputies' immunity Hennadii Udovenko, is registered under the and adopting the Constitution by a nation- name Popular Rukh of Ukraine (Narodnyi wide referendum. At least 3 million signa- Rukh Ukrainy). (RFE7RL Newsline) rures are needed to launch a referendum in The Weekly's collection of materials about the Famine Ukraine as a popular initiative. (RFE7RL Ukraine's Eurobonds gain, then fall Newsline) KYiv - in the two weeks following the The Ukrainian Weekly's official website contains the largest collection of mate- US. congressman discusses war crimes approval of reform-oriented viktor rials on the internet dedicated to the Great Famine of 19324933 in Ukraine. Yuschenko as prime minister, Ukraine's Located at www.ukrweekly.com, the special section includes a chronology of viLNlUS - U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D- Eurobonds gained some 18 percent in Calif.) arrived in vilnius on January 3 for value. However, Moody's has lowered the Famine years, eyewitness accounts, editorials, media reports, stories about meetings with various Lithuanian officials Ukraine's rating for long-term foreign cur- observances of the Famine's 50th anniversary in 1983, scholarly articles, inter- to discuss the country's policies on prose- rency commitments from B3 to Caal. views with journalists who reported on the Famine, transcripts of testimony on cuting suspected war criminals. While Rep. According to Moody's, the lower rating Lantos praised the creation of a commis- was caused by the Ukrainian government's the Famine commission bill ultimately passed by the U.S. Congress, texts of sion in Lithuania to assess crimes commit- plans to renegotiate the terms of foreign statements before the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine, references and ted during the Soviet and Nazi occupations debt repayments due this year. As a result other documentation, as well as the full text of The Ukrainian Weekly's special and applauded a proposed legal amend- of this move, Ukrainian Eurobonds lost ment to allow trials in absentia, he also issue on the Great Famine published on March 20,1983, The section is com- some 15 percent in value. Ukraine's urged Lithuanians to be persistent and vigi- Finance Ministry said the government has pletely searchable. lant in prosecuting war crimes. He said that taken no decision on restructuring if Lithuania does not deal with the issue, he Eurobond payments. (RFE7RL Newsline) No. з THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 16,2000 23 Шшіїтп Шїт іяяМ^ Ш

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Saturday, January 22 У their choice at Duquesne University. MAJLANKA Selections from Ukraine are featured regular- NEW YORK: "Bread with Honey: A featuring ly in the Tamburitzans' production; many tal- Performance of Dance and Music" will be ented dancers, singers, violinists, accordion- presented at The Bridge for Dance, featuring ists, clarinetists and other folk instrumental- Золота Булава choreography by Katja Pylyshenko Kolcio ists of Ukrainian heritage have proudly per- and music by Julian Kytasty and Alex formed with the ensemble over its 63-year Montreal, Canada Kytasty. The concert, with performances on history. For more information, or to schedule Saturday, January 22, and Friday, January 28, an audition, call (412) 396-5185, fax (412) SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 2000 will take place at 8:30 p.m. at The Bridge for 396-5583, e-mail pudlak(g)duq2.cc.duq.edu, 9:00 p.m. - 11111 Dance, 2726 Broadway; (between 104th and or visit the Tamburitzans website at 105th streets); third floor, (1,9 train to 103rd www.duq.eduATamburitzans to download an Street or 2, 3 to 96th Street). Tickets: S10. St. George's Church Hall application, if travel to Pittsburgh is not pos- For reservations call (212) 924-0077. For 301 West Main St., New Britain, CT sible, a 15-minute video showcasing the information call Ms. Kolcio, (212) 873-2494. applicant's talents may be submitted. Tickets: TUSCON, Ariz.: The Ukrainian American Deadline for all submissions is February 1. S20- Adult ^Ab- Student (under 18) Society of Tuscon, together with the Russian Saturday, February 12 and Slavic department of the University of Arizona, will present the annual "Malanka" - WH1TE PLA1NS, N.Y.: The Ukrainian PUB N1GHT! a New Year's party according to the Julian American Youth Association (SUM) will calendar - at 6:30-11 p.m. at the University hold its annual debutante ball at the Crowne FRIDAY, JANUARY 28,2000 of Arizona Student Union Building in the Plaza Hotel in White Plains, N.Y Cocktails Senior Ballroom. Tickets are S30 for adults will be served at 6:30-7:30 p.m., with dinner featuring and S15 for full-time students. Reservations to follow. Formal presentation of debutantes are required and tickets must be purchased by and escorts will be at 9:30 p.m. Guests will January 18. For reservations call (520) 296- dance to the sounds of Zolota Bulava from VORONY 0085 or (520) 531-0787. Music for dancing ^ Montreal. The ball committee consists of will be provided by the Troika Band. All Jaroslaw Palylyk, Alexandra Palylyk and profits will be donated to the Children of Syracuse, NY Lydia Mykytyn. For information call Mr. U" Chornobyl Relief Fund. Palylyk, (203) 262-6860. UKRAINIAN NATIONAL HOME Wednesday-Thursday, February 2-3 DETROlT: The Ukrainian Engineers 961 Wethersfield Ave., Hartford, CT P1TTSBURGH: The Duquesne University Society of America (Detroit chapter) cordial - Tamburitzans will audition talent for the ly invites all members and guests to the 2000 8:00 p.m. -11111 2000-2001 performing season. Graduating winter ball and debutante presentation at the high school seniors and current college Ukrainian Cultural Center, 26601 Ryan Road For tickets, table reservations, directions or more information undergraduates with dance, vocal or musical in Warren. There will be live entertainment, please contact talent may audition for a spot in the ensem- courtesy of Zabava from Canada; open bar POSTWAR HOTMAlL.COM ble, which presents the music, songs and through dinner. Dinner tickets: S55, adults, dances of Eastern Europe and neighboring S45, retirees; dance only: S25, adults, 315, Chris lwanik OR Bohdan Platocz cultures. The Tamburitzans perform from students to age 21. Girls interested in being (860) 667-9317 (860) 225-9700 coast to coast, averaging 80 shows per sea- debutantes should contact Oksana, (810) son, which runs from mid-August through Sponsored by POSTAvA UKRAlNlAN YOUTH GROUP of New Britain, CT 268-1207, by January 31. For tickets or table May. Successful auditionees will receive sub- reservations, contact Ksenia Kozak, (734) stantial scholarship aid to study in the field of 913-4793.

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