INSIDE: • marks 120th anniversary of Sikorsky’s birth – page 3. • The case of John Demjanjuk – page 6. • “Strike! The Musical” on Winnipeg’s Main Street – page 13.

THEPublished U byKRAINIAN the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVII No.25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 $1/$2 in CCRDF gala raises $67,000 for neonatal Canadian government presents equipment at Chernivtsi children’s hospital inaugural Paul Yuzyk Award by Zenon Zawada her as an example for many of our fellow TORONTO – Philanthropist Kyiv Press Bureau citizens.” and former legislator Specifically, Dr. Storozhuk thanked John Yaremko became the first KYIV – More than $67,000 was raised CCRDF for its previous assistance in pro- recipient of the Paul Yuzyk Award by the Children of Chornobyl Relief and viding laparoscopic equipment to make for Multiculturalism presented by Development Fund (CCRDF), which held minimally invasive surgery possibly, Citizenship, Immigration and its Fourth Annual International arranging for American doctors to visit Multiculturalism Minister Jason Ambassadors Gala Fund Raiser on June 6 teach neonatal surgery techniques, and Kenney during a special ceremo- at the luxurious Hyatt Regency hotel in enabling two surgeons to study contem- ny at Roy Thomson Hall on June central Kyiv. porary surgery techniques in Germany. 12. The funds will be used to buy a neona- He estimated CCRDF raised $550,000 “During his 25 years of dedi- tology intensive care unit for the in aid for his hospital, including ultra- cation to the Ontario legislature, Chernivtsi City Children’s Clinical sound and endoscopic equipment. Mr. Yaremko was a strong advo- Hospital, which CCRDF estimates will Among those attending were cate for education, human rights save the lives of nearly 80 infants annual- Volodymyr Yavorivskyi, a national depu- and multiculturalism,” said ly. ty with the who Minister Kenney. “He is also “To collect the equipment and funds, has worked with CCRDF ever since its well-known for his philanthropic to register the cargo, to cross borders, and inception in 1990, as well as presidential activities, which includes the to undergo all necessary procedures is contender Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a native of 2002 creation of the John and Citizenship and Immigration Canada exceptionally troublesome work, and Chernivtsi, who was accompanied by his Mary A. Yaremko Program in Honoree John Yaremko (right) and Minister of therefore charity is work and we are very wife, Tereza. Multiculturalism and Human Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism thankful to the fund,” said Serhiy Rights at the University of Ukrainian rock star Sviatoslav Jason Kenney. Storozhuk, the head doctor at the Vakarchuk practiced his budding English Toronto’s Faculty of Law.” Chernivtsi children’s hospital. “But most skills, while venture capitalist and The Paul Yuzyk Award for “I commend Mr. Yaremko for personi- important is the moral and spiritual sup- Chicago native Natalie Jaresko provided Multiculturalism commemorates the late fying the ideals of Sen. Yuzyk and con- port and assistance that shows we aren’t for a humorous live auction as its exuber- Sen. Yuzyk’s pioneering legacy in the tributing to our diverse and vibrant alone in this world, that there are people ant host. areas of multiculturalism, diversity and Canadian society,” added Minister of Ukrainian descent who haven’t forgot- pluralism. A member of the Senate of Kenney. ten about their homeland and look after (Continued on page 9) Canada from February 1963 until his The Yuzyk Award honors an individual death in July 1986, he played a key role or organization that has demonstrated in the development and implementation excellence in promoting multiculturalism. of Canada’s multiculturalism policy. Sen. Yuzyk was known as the father of Economic crisis hits Ukraine’s oligarchs Mr. Yaremko was presented with the Multiculturalism and, in his maiden Lifetime Achievement Award for his speech in the Senate in 1964 titled as only four billionaires remain strong advocacy of education, human “Canada, A Multicultural Nation,” rights and multiculturalism, as well as his he pointed out that a third of Canadians by Zenon Zawada philanthropic activities. The award were neither French nor English nor Kyiv Bureau Press includes a $20,000 grant, which will be Aboriginal, but were in fact members of ethnic groups and that this made Canada a given to an eligible, registered not-for- KYIV – The bigger they are, the harder multicultural nation. In 1971, a policy of they fall. profit Canadian organization or associa- The global financial crisis devastated the tion of the recipient’s choice. (Continued on page 10) wealth of Ukraine’s oligarchs in just a single year, reducing the value of their assets to pre- Orange Revolution levels, according to the annual survey of the 50 wealthiest Ukrainians UNA advocates visit published by the Kyiv-based Korrespondent weekly magazine on June 12. by President Obama to Ukraine Now only four Ukrainian citizens are bil- lionaires – industrial tycoons Rinat President Barack Obama will soon set be especially valuable now, at a time of Akhmetov, Victor Pinchuk, Igor Kolomoisky out on his third European trip. Thus far, economic and political crises affecting the and Gennady Bogolyubov – compared to 24 unfortunately, he has not announced a country. It would serve to bolster estimated billionaires last year. visit to Ukraine, one of the United States’ Ukraine’s path toward Euro-Atlantic inte- “The global crisis brought Ukrainian Zenon Zawada strategic partners. gration and to reinforce its leaders’ resolve multi-millionaires down to earth from the Roman Lunin, founder of the Velyka Though President Obama has indicat- to continue necessary political reforms. heavens,” reported Korrespondent, which is Kyshenia supermarket chain, lost 92 per- ed through the State Department that he The Ukrainian National Association published in the by New cent of his wealth following the global supports Ukraine’s territorial integrity, strongly urges President Obama to visit York native Jed Sunden. “The crisis froze financial crisis, reducing his assets to $93 independence and sovereignty, a presi- Ukraine in order to demonstrate his bank lending and shut export markets.” million from an estimated $1.1 billion dential visit to Ukraine would be a tan- administration’s support of Ukraine, not- Indeed Ukraine’s banking industry was last year. gible demonstration of the new adminis- withstanding any “reset” of relations with devastated by the sharply reduced influx of tration’s support for this key country in . The UNA also encourages Western credit. Plunging prices and demand ing to the survey, conducted with Dragon Europe. It would also be seen as an Ukrainian Americans to contact the White for metal ravaged Ukraine’s export-oriented Capital, Ukraine’s leading investment bank. acknowledgement of the great progress House in support of a presidential trip to metallurgy and mining industries. In fact, Mr. Akhmetov has found room to that Ukraine has made in democratiza- Ukraine. Though the value of Mr. Akhmetov’s expand internationally in spite of the crisis, tion, and the role it plays in ensuring For the Executive Committee of the industrial empire was decimated by 69 per- scraping together an estimated $1 billion to peace and stability in the Central and Ukrainian National Association, cent, or $21 billion, he remains the wealthi- buy the West Virginia-based United Coal East European region. est oligarch in the former Soviet Union with A presidential visit to Ukraine would Stefan Kaczaraj, president an estimated wealth of $9.6 billion, accord- (Continued on page 5) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 No. 25 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS

Russia’s ideological crusade Envoy headed for Moscow, Kyiv of 1932-1933 is officially known as geno- cide in Ukraine, which launched a new KYIV – U.S. Special Envoy for investigation into the tragedy on May 25. continues against Ukraine Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar SBU chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said will travel to Russia, Ukraine and Sweden by Taras Kuzio Secretariat requested that the SBU investi- on June 4 that Russia’s cooperation in the on June 15-20, the U.S. Department of investigation is very important and that Eurasia Daily Monitor gate their activities to discover if they are State press service announced. During his the investigation is not aimed against coordinated “with foreign organizations of visit to Russia, he will meet with Russian According to an interview with an anti-Ukrainian orientation” (www.presi- Russia in any way. Mr. Nalyvaichenko Ukraine’s Ambassador to Russia Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and added that special investigations into the dent.gov.ua, April 22). The SBU appealed Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller to reinvigo- Konstantyn Gryshchenko, the country’s to the Justice Ministry to consider if there Holodomor are currently being conducted bilateral relationship with Russia has sunk rate the dialogue on energy. In Kyiv he is in all 17 of Ukraine’s regions. Many con- were grounds to revoke Rodina’s registra- scheduled to meet with Ukrainian Prime to its lowest level since the disintegration tion, based on among things, their link to sider the Famine to be an organized geno- of the Soviet Union, testimony to the Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Fuel and cide perpetrated against Ukraine by the organized crime and financing from Energy Minister Yurii Prodan to discuss Russian state control of the media and its abroad. The suspects have fled to Russia. Soviet leadership of the 1930s. Russian ideological crusade against Ukraine (www. energy issues and how to avoid future gas officials disagree and say the Famine also The conflict between the Sich and crises. Mr. Morningstar will also visit the profil-ua.com, June 6). The weekly Antifa NGOs is historically based; specifi- killed millions in central Russia, Siberia Glavred magazine on its May 20 front Swedish capital, Stockholm, as the coun- and Kazakhstan. (RFE/RL) cally the controversy surrounding the try is preparing to take over the presiden- cover declared: “Beware Ukrainophobia!” unveiling of a monument to Russian The Levada Center recently found that cy of the European Union in the second Yanukovych, Tymoshenko tops in poll Empress Catherine in Odesa in October half of 2009. (Ukrinform) 62 percent of Russians hold a negative 2007. KYIV – Party of Regions of Ukraine view of Ukraine with only the United Ambassador Gryshchenko pointed out Foreign ministers arrive in Ukraine (PRU) leader Viktor Yanukovych and States and Georgia being seen in a worse that, unlike the constant Russian interfer- Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB) leader light. At the same time, 91 percent of ence in Ukraine, Kyiv does not protest KYIV – The foreign ministers of Yulia Tymoshenko would receive an Ukrainians hold positive views of Russia, against Russian glorification of Tsar Peter Poland and Germany, respectively, equal number of votes if the presidential a reflection of media pluralism and the and Tsarina Catherine – even though both Radoslaw Sikorski and Frank-Walter election goes to a second round, accord- lack of state directed propaganda against are regarded very negatively in Ukraine. Steinmeier, were to arrive in Ukraine on ing to a survey on the election situation Russia. Analyzing these polls, the head of Ukrainian history equates both Russian June 17. Meetings were planned with and the ratings of political forces ahead the Center for Military-Political Research leaders as the destroyers of the Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, Verkhovna of the election campaign. The poll was in Kyiv summarized this relationship in autonomous Hetmanate in the late 18th Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn and conducted by the Kyiv-XXI Century his headline: “We like them, but they do century and the re-organization of representatives of the opposition. The Center for Political Studies on June 8-11. not like us” (www.pravda.com.ua, May 5). Ukrainian territories into gubernias, as Polish minister noted that negotiations in A total of 42.1 percent of respondents The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) well as the introduction of serfdom and the Kyiv would, in particular, touch upon said they would vote for Prime Minister is openly raising the question of the inten- banning of the . consequences of the world financial-eco- Tymoshenko, and 40.2 percent said they sification of Russian intelligence activities The Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry nomic crisis that has seriously affected were ready to support the opposition within Ukraine, and Russia’s return to assumes the right to condemn the unveil- Ukraine. In addition, the parties will dis- leader, Mr. Yanukovych. Some 7.2 per- Soviet KGB tactics. This concern was ing of monuments to historical figures in cuss ways to settle the political conflicts cent would vote against everybody, and expressed in SBU Chairman Valentyn Ukraine. For example, Ukraine will unveil in Ukraine. “This is our joint Polish- 10.5 percent were undecided. If Mr. Nalyvaychenko’s comment that the FSB, a monument to Kozak Hetman Ivan German gesture of solidarity with Yanukovych and the leader of the Front the Russian Federation’s successor to the Mazepa on Independence Day (August 24) Ukraine’s European aspirations in these for Change public initiative, Arseniy KGB, within the Black Sea Fleet should in his home region of Poltava on the occa- difficult times due to economic and politi- Yatsenyuk, go to the second round, 43.4 withdraw from Crimea (www.radiosvobo- sion of the 300th anniversary of the Battle cal considerations. We would like to pres- percent of Ukrainians would vote for the da, June 2). Mr. Nalyvaichenko explained of Poltava, where Ukrainian and Swedish ent a powerful political signal to the former, 32.6 percent for the latter, and 8.7 that one of the functions of the SBU was forces were defeated by Russia. Mazepa Ukrainians that Ukraine has friends in percent would vote against everybody. If counter-espionage, and that was why they has undergone rehabilitation as a hero in Europe, and also we want to add a practi- Mr. Yanukovych and President Viktor did not agree with the FSB being based in independent Ukraine, and his picture is cal meaning to our initiatives,” Mr. Yushchenko go to the second round, 15.7 the Fleet. displayed on the 10 hrv note. Sikorski underscored. (Ukrinform) percent would support Mr. Yushchenko, The main suspects of the murder in 56.6 percent would vote for Mr. The Russian Orthodox Church imposed Ukraine seeks Russian documents Odesa on April 17 of a student member of an “anathema” on Mazepa and he was Yanukovych, while 9.5 percent would the Ukrainian nationalist NGO Sich, condemned as a “traitor” to Russian- KYIV – The Security Service of vote against everybody, and 18.2 percent Maksym Chaika, belong to the Ukrainian unity by tsars and commissars Ukraine (SBU) has officially asked said they were undecided. (Ukrinform) Antifa(scist) NGO financed by the Russian Moscow to provide classified archival nationalist Rodina party. The Presidential (Continued on page 20) Venice Commission to examine documents on the Famine of the 1930s in Constitution Ukraine that killed millions, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service reported. 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Mariyka Pendzola, subscriptions e-mail: [email protected] Yulia Tymoshenko met with Russian Prime The almost 20 bcm in reserves which were (973) 292-9800, ext. 3042 Minister Vladimir Putin during the e-mail: [email protected] Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (Continued on page 20) No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 3 Kyiv marks 120th anniversary of aviation pioneer’s birth by Yuriy Borysov But it was the helicopter, which captured Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Sikorsky’s imagination ever since he was a teenager, that would bring his company the KYIV – While Igor Sikorsky was a greatest successes. 19-year-old student at Kyiv Polytechnic The company became a pioneer in heli- Institute in 1908, he learned of the American copter engineering, building the world’s first Wright brothers, who had just built the practical single main rotor helicopter in world’s first airplane. 1939 and launching the first mass produc- Little did he know that he would eventu- tion of helicopters four years later. The heli- ally launch among the world’s first aircraft copters were employed in World War II to manufacturing companies, in the U.S. of all rescue wounded soldiers. places. The Bolshevik Revolution forced By 1952 the S-55 was the first helicopter him to immigrate to the U.S. in 1919 after to cross the Atlantic Ocean and Sikorsky building the world’s first four-engine air- was producing the world’s best helicopters. plane and subsequent bombers for the tsar’s Sikorsky launched the first Black Hawk army. More than 400 engineers, students, offi- helicopter in 1974. cials and aviation admirers converged at the A May 13 Cabinet of Ministers resolution National Technical University of Kyiv created an organizing committee for com- Polytechnic Institute (KPI) on May 25 to memorations of Sikorsky’s birth, led by mark the 120th anniversary of Sikorsky’s Oleksander Zinchenko, general director of birth in Kyiv into a well-off family led by the National Space Agency of Ukraine and the regarded psychiatrist Ivan Sikorsky. former chair of the Presidential Secretariat “I’d like to thank Ukraine for giving under President Viktor Yushchenko. Sikorsky to us,” said Stanley Prusinski, the Admirers gathered at the university’s Sikorsky statue, built with students’ contri- Europe regional director of Sikorsky Yuriy Borysov butions and unveiled in May 2008, which is Aircraft Corp., currently among the world’s U.S. Embassy in Ukraine Military Attache Richard Anderson (center) addresses leaders in the design, manufacture and ser- situated in front of the Sikorsky Aviation and Astronautics wing of the university’s the May 25 commemoration of the 120-year anniversary of Igor Sikorsky’s birth vice of military and commercial helicopters, in Kyiv at the National Technical University of Kyiv Polytechnical Institute. He is museum, founded on April 27, 1991, and based in Stratford, Conn. accompanied by National Space Agency of Ukraine General Director Oleksander moved to KPI on May 14, 2008. It is the The legendary engineer founded Sikorsky Zinchenko (right) and university rector Mykhailo Zhurovskyi (left). Aero Engineering Corp. in 1923, building world’s first statue of Sikorsky. planes used by budding airline companies Among those in attendance were boxing Tabachnyk, KPI Rector Mykhailo Most were surprised to learn that such as Pan American and establishing champion Vitali Klitschko, Party of Regions Zhurovskyi, of the Military Attaché Richard Sikorsky wrote several religious books, world records within just 10 years. of Ukraine National Deputy Dmytro Anderson of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, being the grandson of a Russian Orthodox U.S. Air Force Attaché Mark Stacpoole of priest and devout believer. the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, Adviser Mr. Prusinski spoke about Sikorsky Yevgeny Pantelyev of the Russian Aircraft’s history and present-day activity as Federation Embassy in Ukraine and Mr. a world leader in the design, manufacture Prusinski. and repair of military and commercial heli- “I was a pilot for Sikorsky helicopter, and copters and fixed-wing aircraft, as well as I can say that you can feel safe in this civil helicopter operations. machine in any conditions,” Mr. Stacpoole The commemorative events were spon- said. “Thanks to the genius of this man, we sored by the Ukrainian telecommunicators always found a way home, even in very company Datagroup, the Kyiv-based IT firm dangerous situations. This is the most stable RGdata Ukrayina, the KPI Graduates machine in bad weather. I want to thank Association, the Center for Euro-Integration Sikorsky for each time we returned home, and Mr. Klitschko. and for those people we rescued.” The following day, Sergei Sikorsky and The guests viewed a photograph exhibit, company representatives visited Ukraine’s “The Man Who Joined Continents,” dedi- leading aircraft manufacturer – the state- cated to the S-42 series of 10 flying boats, owned Antonov Aviation Science and the world’s first intercontinental passenger Technical Complex in Kyiv, named in honor liners that provided regular flights over the of Oleg Antonov, the Russian aircraft engi- Atlantic and Pacific oceans. neer who founded the enterprise in 1952. Igor Sikorsky’s son, Sergei, donated 230 Mr. Antonov led the plant in developing items to the museum, including miniature dozens of legendary Soviet aircraft models. Yuriy Borysov helicopters constructed by Sikorsky, as well The company launched the An-225, the National Space Agency of Ukraine General Director Oleksander Zinchenko as the engineer’s drafts, blueprints, books world’s largest cargo aircraft, in 1988, four (right) and Mykhailo Zhurovskyi (center), the rector of the National Technical and photos. years after Antonov’s death. University of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, address more than 400 admirers of avia- The 84-year-old Sergei Sikorsky attended Sergei Sikorsky and his entourage also tion engineering pioneer Igor Sikorsky, who gathered at his statue at the univer- the May 25 ceremony but didn’t give a visited the grave of his grandparents at sity for the 120-year anniversary of his birth on May 25. speech. Kyiv’s prestigious Baikiv Cemetery, where The day’s events were capped off by a an Orthodox panckhyda was held. roundtable discussion moderated by Mr. The commemorative events were spon- Zinchenko, during which more than 400 sored by the Ukrainian telecommunications engineering students became acquainted company Datagroup, the Kyiv-based IT firm Helsinki Commission denounces with Sikorsky’s remarkable life and innova- RGdata Ukrayina, the KPI Graduates tions in a slideshow presentation presented Association, the Center for Euro-Integration 21st century authoritarian regimes by Dr. Zhurovskyi. and Mr. Klitschko. WASHINGTON – Sen. Benjamin L. tutions that allow all people who yearn for Cardin (D-Md.), chairman of the freedom the opportunity to participate in Commission on Security and Cooperation in their government. This is worth fighting Quotable notes Europe (Helsinki Commission), and Rep. for,” Sen. Cardin said. “We can be success- “…the facts are these: Russia, in open violation of the cease-fire deal Mr. Putin Alcee L. Hastings, co-chairman, on June 4 ful in our modern day fight against authori- made with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has never withdrawn its troops to pre- called on governments and non-governmen- tarianism only if government and non-gov- war positions. Instead it has reinforced its units in Georgia and has between 5,000 and tal organizations to work together to increase ernmental organizations work in concert 7,500 soldiers in the provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which Moscow now the rule of law, human rights reforms and with each other for the common goal of treats as independent states. There are frequent incidents in the border areas, and democracy in countries like Russia, Iran and freedom.” Russia recently refused to renew the mandate of an international observer mission that Venezuela, where freedom is increasingly Rep. Hastings added: “Setting a good had been deployed in and around South Ossetia. lacking. example will hardly be enough to get dicta- “If hostilities were renewed, Georgia wouldn’t have much chance to defend itself. The co-chairmen spoke at a conference tors in Iran or Venezuela to follow suit – but Its defense minister says that the country has not been able to replace much of the titled “Undermining Democracy: 21st it may help our credibility with those coun- equipment lost in the last war. … Century Authoritarians” organized by tries which might stand with us as allies in “Mr. Saakashvili’s best defense, of course, remains political support from the Freedom House, Radio Free Europe/Radio the effort to bring democracy to a greater United States, the European Union and NATO. So far, at least, White House rhetoric Liberty and Radio Free Asia. part of the world. If anti-democracy regimes in support of Georgian independence has remained firm. …But a peaceful summer in “Russia has regressed on many of the are going to work together – and it seems Georgia will also require firmness from Mr. Obama: He must leave no doubt that principles of democracy. We are not looking that they are – pro-democracy governments another Russian advance in Georgia would be devastating for U.S.-Russian relations.” for them to duplicate American institutions, have to work that much harder, and we must but they are failing to uphold the very insti- work together.” – “Another Summer in Georgia,” editorial, The Washington Post, June 4. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 No. 25 Thousands participate in St. Thomas Sunday pilgrimage PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Thousands of dor of Ukraine to the United Nations. Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholic faithful In his sermon, Bishop Daniel expanded attended the annual St. Thomas Sunday on the scars of Christ described in the pilgrimage and gravesite blessings day’s Gospel reading and how Christ’s (“Providna Nedillia”) at the Metropolia physical body and mystical body – the Center in South Bound Brook, N.J., on Church – has endured many scars, includ- April 25-26. ing Chornobyl and current events. Bishop The events began on Saturday with Daniel called on the faithful to be true divine liturgy celebrated by Archbishop witnesses of the Risen Lord. Antony and Bishop Daniel, assisted by After liturgy, a memorial service was area clergy, and commemorations made held at the large monumental cross, locat- for the departed souls buried on the ed in the center of the cemetery, especial- grounds at St. Andrew Cemetery. ly recalling the millions of Ukrainians Archbishop Metropolitan Constantine, who died as a result of the Soviet-ordered Archbishop Antony and Bishop Daniel Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933, victims celebrated Sunday morning’s divine litur- of the Chornobyl disaster of 1986, and all gy. A procession led from the Fisher who gave their lives for the freedom and House to St. Andrew Memorial Church independence of Ukraine and the United for the hierarchical greeting. Also in States of America. attendance was Yuriy Sergeyev, ambassa- Following the memorial service,

uocofusa.org Archbishop Antony, Metropolitian Constantine and Bishop Daniel lead memorial services on Sunday, April 26. Ambassador Sergeyev expressed his deep Cemetery. gratitude for those who perished and are Throughout both days of the pilgrim- now buried so far from their native land, age, a Ukrainian cultural exhibition and and noted that walking through the ceme- sale of crafts, food and artwork were held tery is like a trip through the pages of at the Ukrainian Cultural Center. Ukraine’s history. The event was a great success, made Gravesite services began at the crypt possible by the work of the Consistory of Patriarch Mstyslav I followed by ser- office and property management staff, the vices for the other hierarchs of the Cultural Center staff, the Memorial Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. Church choir and the members of the uocofusa.org and in the diaspora interred at St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox League. Clergy and faithful lead the heirarchical procession to St. Andrew Memorial Church for divine liturgy. Ukrainian Catholic U. blesses Special ceremony to mark 45th anniversary new wooden church for students of Shevchenko monument’s unveiling in D.C. Dear Fellow Citizens and Friends of Ukraine: On June 27, 1964, for- mer President Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated the monument to the prominent Ukrainian bard Taras Shevchenko, which is locat- ed in the U.S. capital at the intersection of 22nd and P St. NW. On Saturday, June 27, 2009, at 11 am, the Embassy of Ukraine will host a fes- tive event at the monument to mark its 45th anniversary. Representatives from the White House, Department The Rev. Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University (cen- of State, U.S. Congress, ter), speaks to those assembled outside the new student church of the Ukrainian Mayor’s Office, National Catholic University after the first divine liturgy held there. Park Service, as well as the Ukrainian American com- by Matthew Matuszak ries in order to encounter God.” munity are invited to partici- The traditional-style Ukrainian church pate. – A new wooden church on the will serve as a parish with a special empha- When Taras Shevchenko edge of Lviv’s Stryiskyi Park has been sis on the university population of Lviv, a and American actor Ira blessed as a student pastoral center of the city with more than 100,000 students. The Aldridge met in St. Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU). Lviv new church is located near dormitories of Petersburg 150 years ago, Archbishop Ihor Vozniak presided at the the Polytechnic University, Lviv’s largest they were attracted to one ceremony on May 2, which was followed institution of higher education, and it is on another as fighters against by the church’s inaugural divine liturgy. In the site of a planned new campus for the oppression and for freedom Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower unveils attendance were numerous bishops, priests, UCU, which will also include dormitories. in the United States and the monument to Taras Shevchenko. students and other laity, including local “Located on a major street and also very Ukraine. Today, the two political leaders. close to a number of dormitories, the new nations enjoy freedom and cooperation Please join use to celebrate this “We are setting things right after the church will be well-suited to serve as a cen- in full measure. It is also symbolic that memorable anniversary. In case of destruction carried out for many years dur- ter for outreach to students from state-run ing the Soviet regime,” said Archbishop the Ukrainian bard highly regarded rainy weather, the event will be kindly universities,” commented the Rev. Yuriy hosted by the Church of the Pilgrims, Vozniak in his sermon. “Majestic shrines in Shchurko, himself a graduate of Holy Spirit President George Washington as the which many prayers were said were taken father of the American nation and an just across the street from the memori- Seminary and the UCU, and now the head al. down, brick by brick. These were the house of the university’s Pastoral Department. example for democratic rulers in of the living God, and precious architectural Ukraine, this conviction being immor- Plans for activities to be organized by the Oleh Shamshur monuments. A church is a building where student center include retreats inside and talized in his poem carved on the side Ambassador of Ukraine the important meeting of God with people outside the city, a student pilgrimage and of the monument. Washington, D.C. takes place. It is an exceptional joy to build a church where people will come for centu- (Continued on page 9) No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 5 Korrespondent editor suggests too much attention on Holodomor amid economic crisis by Zenon Zawada about its own history.” and everyone needs to remember the Kyiv Press Bureau “When we are talking … in this case, I Holodomor. That’s for sure. But very many want to answer your trite question, to put it people believe, and I share this view, that KYIV – Among Ukraine’s most influ- nicely … about the Holodomor, I want to the president can’t spend 90 percent of his ential editors, Vitaliy Sych disturbed tell you one thing. At the time you were time on humanitarian catastrophes of the President Viktor Yushchenko when asking born, you couldn’t find a book that men- past, because soon there will be a humani- in a February 12 interview whether the tioned the deaths, the artificial deaths of tarian catastrophe of the present day and government has given too much funding ten million people. You didn’t see films, future. He needs to re-orient his priorities a and efforts towards recognizing the not one, not because you didn’t want to, little bit. This view exists and we asked the Holodomor, the Famine-Genocide that but because they didn’t exist.” president about it, but he didn’t like that killed of millions of Ukrainians. “If I had asked just five years ago, question very much. The chief editor of Korrespondent mag- ‘Have you seen at least one monument to If you were an ethnic Ukrainian, do azine, a weekly published in the Russian the victims of famine in Ukraine?,’ you you think would you have asked such a language in Kyiv, said the Ukrainian gov- would have had to respond, ‘No.’ Ten mil- question? ernment spent about $100 million to begin lion people were destroyed through artifi- establishing the Holodomor Victims cial hunger, and that is why it’s genocide What do you mean if I were an ethnic Memorial Complex in Kyiv in November of the Ukrainian people. And their great- Ukrainian? What am I in your view? 2008, while spending much less on AIDS grandchildren haven’t put up a monu- I don’t know. and tuberculosis prevention. ment.” “Maybe it would be worth spending “This whole discussion is similar to, if I am an ethnic Ukrainian! And my babt- more money on things that truly concern we were to say, our father has died, and we sia (grandma) told me the history, and all people, on social problems, rather than Zenon Zawada start discussing – ‘Is it necessary to put a the journalists who work for us all know things that could have been postponed, at Vitaliy Sych, chief editor of cross on his grave?’ Maybe we’ll save these histories. We live here and we had least, in a period of crisis?,” Mr. Sych Korrespondent, among Ukraine’s most some money on the fence … buys some many relatives who perished, but we don’t asked, drawing an angry, emotional popular weekly magazines, believes eggs, buy some kovbasa, buy some salo want to be reminded every day of a trage- response from the president. President Viktor Yushchenko spent too (pork fat)? That’s cynical.” dy of the past. There are many other issues Programs to combat AIDS and tubercu- much effort addressing the Holodomor that need to be addressed. It seems to me losis received about $1 million in funding during his presidency. At a June 11 press conference, The that everyone recognizes the Holodomor, at the start of his term, President Weekly asked Mr. Sych what motivated him that the scale was very large … Yushchenko started off saying, while their tion. I’m worried about it, frankly speak- to ask whether President Yushchenko is Everyone recognizes it? In Crimea? funding is now ten times higher. ing. I’m not addressing this to you now.” spending too much efforts on Holodomor In Donbas? “We are talking about our attitude to “I am convinced that a Western journal- recognition. your grandfather and great-grandfather, In Ukraine, everyone knows already. ist, well, a Jewish journalist for example, About half a year ago, you asked who were artificially murdered, and you would never ask this type of a question But it seems to me it’s not a matter the President Yushchenko whether he’s set- president should devote 90 percent of his are proposing now a deal to me, as presi- about the Holocaust, because he under- dent, that I accept your proposal to forget ting aside too much time on the time to. That’s ridiculous, simply ridicu- stands very well that we should never look about your grandfather,” the president Holodomor, as though there are more lous. at the tragedy of our people with the eyes important issues. Why did you ask him said. So the Ministry of Culture should be “I didn’t make such an offer,” Mr. Sych of a neighbor. We should always look at that? the tragedy of our father and grandfather designated, or an independent commis- responded. Yes, that was a few months ago. We can sion? “No, you just did that,” the president with our own eyes. This is your personal ask any questions we want. But I hear snapped back. “But you’ve made it into a autobiography, this is your history. The from very many people, including relatives You’re from America, Zenon, yes? future will grow from this history. I have bill. You’re naming figures that are seven- and simple acquaintances, who believe the Yes. fold removed from reality. One day we not seen a government that doesn’t talk Holodomor is not a priority for Ukraine. will have to throw away all this specula- about its own history, that isn’t concerned The Holodomor is a very important issue (Continued on page 17)

The global crisis also ruined Ukraine’s They are worth $206 million. Economic crisis... real estate industry, freezing bank loans that The 34-year-old Andrii Verevskyi also (Continued from page 1) builders depend on for financing projects minimized his damage from the crisis, los- Company, which was announced on May 1. and decimating both commercial and resi- ing only $269 million, or 38 percent of his The deal enabled Mr. Akhmetov’s dential property values through the country wealth. Metinvest Holding to become the first verti- by more than 50 percent. Mr. Verevskyi owns Kernel Group, cally integrated Ukrainian metallurgy com- Last year, Korrespondent and Dragon Ukraine’s largest vertically integrated agro- pany, capable of supplying its smelting Capital estimated the wealth of Ukraine’s industrial company which is the top seller of operations and coke production with its own biggest real estate developer, Lev sunflower oil and ranks among the biggest mined iron ore and coal. Partskhaladze, at $580 million. Ukrainian exporters of grain and sunflower Igor Kolomoisky (estimated wealth $2.3 His current estimated wealth couldn’t oil. billion) and Gennady Bogolyubov ($1.7 bil- qualify him for this year’s Top 50 list, He belongs to the Yulia Tymoshenko lion), partners and founders of the Privat falling below the $65 million owned by Bloc, alongside four other oligarchs. But Group business empire, also spent the year the 50th ranked businessman on Ukraine’s wealthiest overwhelmingly sup- expanding their holdings, acquiring a 10 Korrespondent’s list, Oleksander port the Party of Regions of Ukraine, which percent stake in Ukraine’s first publicly trad- Derkach. boasts 13 oligarchs. ed company on the London Stock Exchange, Roman Lunin, president of the Velyka Demonstrating the extent to which so plc. Kyshenia supermarket chain, lost 92 percent Yuriy Borysov much of Ukraine’s wealth is held in so few Already dominating Ukraine’s ferroalloys of his wealth, the most among the oligarchs. The global financial crash devastated the hands, nine of the Top 50 wealthiest market and monopolizing its manganese Meanwhile, RosUkrEnergo partner Dmytro wealth of Ukrainian oligarchs such as Ukrainian citizens control practically all the ores, Privat Group is launching a hostile bid Firtash lost 91 percent of his wealth and is Lev Partskhaladze, the Kyiv real estate nation’s raw materials – iron and manganese to take control of Ferrexpo and its Poltava no longer a billionaire, nor among the top 50 developer who lost most of his $580 mil- ores, coke, coal and anthracite. mining and processing plant, whose value wealthiest. lion in assets. Half the alcohol market is dominated by plunged 80 percent to $500 million in just Mr. Firtash is currently engaged in a legal Andrii Okhlopkov (estimated wealth $151 the last year. and public relations battle with Prime sectors minimized their losses. million), owner of the Soyuz-Viktan vodka In addition to having access to among Minister Yulia Tymoshenko for control over For example, Filia Zhebrivska joined the brand, and Yevhen Cherniak ($184 million), Europe’s largest iron ore deposits, Ferrexpo 11 billion cubic meters of natural gas sitting ranks of Ukraine’s wealthiest this year as a whose factories in Odesa and Zaporizhia Poltava Mining is a top producer and export- in Ukraine’s underground tanks. Ms. majority shareholder in Farmak, a Ukrainian produce wine, cognac and Khortytsia and er of iron ore pellets, a critical ingredient in Tymoshenko said this gas belongs to the pharmaceutical company that she controls Blagoff vodka. making steel. state, while Mr. Firtash insists the gas with her brother Pavlo Zhebrivskyi, a mem- Ukraine’s entire poultry market is domi- The shares of Ferrexpo are currently con- belongs to RosUkrEnergo. ber of parliament from the Our Ukraine- nated by two oligarchs – Yurii Kosiuk, trolled by the 35-year old Russian native More significantly, in her January gas People’s Self-Defense bloc. whose estimated wealth is $531 million, and and Ukrainian citizen Kostyantyn Zhevago, agreement reached with Russian Federation Her shares are estimated at $126 million. Yevhen Sigal, whose assets are worth $334 whose estimated wealth has been reduced to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Ms. Incidentally, Ms. Zhebrivska is the first million. $919 million, less than a fifth of last year’s Tymoshenko eliminated RosUkrEnergo woman to make the Top 50 Wealthiest Although some oligarchs rarely ever estimated $5.2 billion. from its role as an opaque intermediary in Ukrainians list since Korrespondent spend time in Ukraine (Mr. Kolomoisky “The speed of this year’s decline of the gas trade, suspected of siphoning hun- launched the survey four years ago. lives in Switzerland), others are willing to Ukrainian billionaires and millionaires was dreds of millions of dollars into private The oligarchs enjoying the best year were share their wealth with Europe’s poorest. twice as fast as the world average,” accounts. the Surkis brothers, who lost only 33 percent Korrespondent confirmed it was Victor Korrespondent reported. Hence Mr. Firtash lost his main source of of their wealth, or $103 million. Besides Pinchuk who helped free the 20 Ukrainian “At a time when the wealthiest income. owning the Dynamo Kyiv soccer club, sailors trapped aboard the Faina cargo ship Ukrainians grew poorer by an average of 75 While no industries were crash-proof, Hryhorii and Ihor Surkis have stakes in local captured by Somali pirates. percent in the last 12 months, the world’s some were more resilient than others. utilities (oblenergos) and a bank which was The ransom: $3.2 million. Mr. Pinchuk’s billionaires lost only an average of 23 per- Those businessmen invested in the agri- taken under government control for its insol- estimated loss from the global crisis: $6.6 cent in the value of their assets.” culture, food processing and pharmaceutical vency. billion. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 No. 25

NEWS AND VIEWS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY “…it’s already clear that this last big Nazi trial in Germany will be a deeply extraor- dinary one because it will for the first time put the foreign perpetrators in the spotlight The case of John Demjanjuk: test of world publicity. They are men who have until now received surprisingly little atten- tion – Ukrainian gendarmes and Latvian auxiliary police, Romanian soldiers or of our commitment to basic values Hungarian railway workers. Polish farmers, Dutch land registry officials, French may- ors, Norwegian ministers, Italian soldiers – they all took part in Germany’s by Andriy J. Semotiuk Ivan Grozny, also known as Ivan the Holocaust.” Terrible – grisly figure who was indeed “…without the foreign helpers, countless thousands or even millions of the approx- Any American accused of being an involved in the persecution of inmates in imately 6 million murdered Jews would have survived.” accessory to murder, that is to say accused the Nazi concentration camp at Treblinka. of being an accessory to one of the These accusations led to Mr. – excerpts from the article headlined “Hitler’s European Holocaust Helpers, most heinous crimes known to mankind, Demjanjuk’s extradition to Israel, where Spiegel Online, May 20. should be tried in U.S. courts under U.S. witness after witness identified criminal law, or if the crime occurred in Mr. Demjanjuk as Ivan the Terrible, another jurisdiction, be extradited accord- admitting no doubt that it was him. The Demjanjuk case revisited ing to international criminal procedure to Following his conviction in that state to be tried there. Until tried and the Israeli court, however, and during the John Demjanjuk has been sent abroad for the second time to face charges that he convicted, according to our precepts of process of Mr. Demjanjuk’s appeal, the was a guard at a Nazi death camp. News reports about the latest developments in the law, such a person must be presumed defense team located witnesses who knew 30-plus-year-old Demjanjuk case depict the aged former resident of a Cleveland sub- innocent. From the very outset of the case the real Ivan the Terrible and who signed urb as the No. 1 Nazi war criminal still unpunished. against John Demjanjuk, however, these sworn statements attesting to the fact that Mr. Demjanjuk was deported last month from the United States to Germany, where fundamental precepts have not been fol- Mr. Demjanjuk was not Ivan the he stands accused of being an accessory to the murder of no less than 29,000 Jews in lowed. Terrible. Included among these state- 1943 at the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp. According to the latest news from Germany, In fact, the Demjanjuk case has ments, according to those who worked on the trial could begin this fall, depending on the state of Mr. Demjanjuk’s health, and involved criminal allegations advanced the defense team, was a statement by the medical tests are still being conducted to determine whether Mr. Demjanjuk, 89, is against him through civil law procedures real Ivan the Terrible’s girlfriend, who even fit to stand trial. – a criminal case prosecuted as an immi- definitively swore Mr. Demjanjuk was In the meantime, the news media in Germany in particular, and elsewhere around gration matter. There was a reason for innocent of these charges. the globe, have picked up their reporting about the strange case of John Demjanjuk – this. The power of this evidence, as well as once thought to be the brutal “Ivan the Terrible” of Treblinka. He was found guilty and Prosecuting Demjanjuk in this way the reopening of the Demjanjuk case in sentenced to death in 1988 by a court in Israel for the crimes of the notorious Ivan; enabled those who seek his demise to the United States by the U.S. 6th Circuit then found to be a victim of mistaken identity after another man was positively identi- deport him from the United States by Court of Appeals while the Israeli appeal fied as that Ivan, resulting in the guilty verdict being overturned in 1993 by Israel’s meeting a lower test applied in immigra- was pending, forced the Israeli appellate Supreme Court. Mr. Demjanjuk was then allowed to return to the United States, and tion cases of showing that on a balance of court to conclude that a mistrial had taken his citizenship was restored. probabilities he misrepresented his back- place, that Mr. Demjanjuk was innocent But, the Office of Special Investigations at the U.S. Department of Justice was not ground when he immigrated to the United of the charges and allow him to return to done with Mr. Demjanjuk. In 1999 it again filed a case against him, this time saying States. Otherwise, they would have had to the United States. Mr. he had been a guard at Sobibor, Majdanek and Flossenberg. He was denaturalized, show his guilt in committing a crime Demjanjuk’s U.S. citizenship was again, in 2002, and ordered deported in 2005 – though it was not clear what country beyond reasonable doubt. However, now restored after a U.S. federal court found would take him in and what his ultimate fate would be. that the deed is done, they alleged that he the Office of Special Investigations had In this latest version of the case against Mr. Demjanjuk, he is depicted as a Nazi was found guilty of being a “Nazi war been guilty of prosecutorial misconduct guard at Sobibor. Significantly, the Israeli Supreme Court had ruled back in 1993 that criminal” when in fact all that has been for not revealing exculpatory evidence to Mr. Demjanjuk was cleared of all charges, including allegations that he served as a found is that he misrepresented his past the defense team that would have initially guard at other Nazi camps, and it rejected outright the option of ordering a new trial. when he entered the United States as an blocked the deportation of Mr. The court later rejected 10 appeals for a new war crimes trial for Mr. Demjanjuk. immigrant. Demjanjuk to Israel. Once again, the controversial Trawniki ID card – considered by many experts to be Anyone who knows the history After more than a decade of maintain- a forgery – is being cited as a key piece of evidence against Mr. Demjanjuk. of “Operation Keelhaul” following World ing that Mr. Demjanjuk was at one camp (Interestingly, the card lists Mr. Demjanjuk’s alleged service in Trawniki, Flossenberg War II – when refugees from displaced and was Ivan the Terrible, the prosecuto- and Sobibor, yet it was used in Israel, where the charges pertained to alleged service at persons camps were forcibly repatriated rial team now maintains that Mr. the Treblinka death camp.) It must be noted that the German weekly newsmagazine to the former Soviet Union, where some Demjanjuk was not there, but in another Spiegel, writing on August 2, 1993, traced the origins of the Trawniki ID and had con- were killed, others exiled and still others Nazi death camp, where he was cluded that it is an outright forgery. committed suicide – will understand why an accomplice to the murder of not just a Many years after Mr. Demjanjuk’s trial in Israel, Germany is apparently being Mr. Demjanjuk’s misrepresentations were few, but of no less than 29,000 victims. asked to try to do what the U.S. and Israel could not do: find John Demjanjuk guilty of not necessarily so black and white and Where was the evidence of the 29,000 Nazi war crimes. However, some observers, including commentators in Germany, are directly connected to Nazi atrocities as victims when he was being tried saying that the purpose of the German trial (if that comes to pass) is to teach the public some would have us believe. in Israel on the first round? Was it possi- about the Holocaust – not to try Mr. Demjanjuk. If that is the case, can this be consid- In short, the employment of this immi- ble for him to hide from his role in help- ered justice? gration procedure alone should have set ing to murder 29,000 camp inmates since The words of a judge involved in the Demjanjuk case here in the U.S. must be off alarm bells about what this case may the end of World War II, that is to say for recalled. Interviewed by the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz in November 1997, Judge mean for the principle of the rule of law almost 65 years, including hiding for the Gilbert Merritt, the federal judge who in 1985 ordered Mr. Demjanjuk’s extradition to and a fair and balanced judicial system in last 30 years when he was the target of a Israel, said: “Today we know that they – the OSI, the prosecution in the case and the the United States. But to really grasp the day-by-day campaign to convict him of State Department – lied through their teeth. Even then they knew without a doubt that significance of what happened in any kind of Nazi atrocity? Demjanjuk was not Ivan the Terrible, but they hid the information from us. I am sorry the Demjanjuk case we need to touch on Ironically a few years that I did not have the information at the time. If I did, we would never have ruled in some other basics. ago Germany passed a law setting a time favor of his extradition to Israel.” Judge Merritt said what happened in his courtroom Mr. Demjanjuk was never a Nazi. Nazis limitation on the prosecution of German was “nothing short of a witch hunt,” adding, “In retrospect, it reminds me of the witch were Germans, and they believed in the war criminals. Thus, Germans, who were trials in Salem, Mass., 300 years ago. The prosecution, counseled by the OSI, present- purity of the Aryan race. They had no time primarily the ones responsible for the ed documents and witnesses whose testimony was based on emotions and hysteria, for mere Slavs like Mr. Demjanjuk or other death camps, cannot be prosecuted, but but not hard evidence. To my regret, we believed them. This instance is a prime exam- races that were either to be liquidated or individuals from other countries like ple of how justice can be distorted.” driven into submission and used as ser- Mr. Demjanjuk can be. Will justice be distorted yet again? vants for the Third Reich. As a prisoner of What troubles me the most about this war captured by the Germans from the case is the silence of individuals and Red Army and allegedly put to work in the organizations ostensibly dedicated to June death camps, it can hardly be said that human rights and their failure to speak up Turning the pages back... Mr. Demjanjuk “volunteered” to be such a in support of Mr. Demjanjuk. For exam- guard. ple, I was a member of the American The more troubling aspect of this case, Civil Liberties Union, an organization 23 however, is that for over a decade those dedicated to the protection of the civil who sought to bring Mr. Demjanjuk to liberties of Americans, including protect- Five years ago, on June 23, 2004, the Parliamentary Assembly “justice” maintained that he was in fact 2004 of the Council of Europe (PACE) reacted negatively to word that ing the due process rights of individuals. the pro-presidential majority coalition in Ukraine’s Parliament had I asked them specifically to speak up in successfully moved an initial reading on that day of a new effort at Andriy J. Semotiuk is an attorney the Demjanjuk case and was met with constitutional reforms that would reduce the power of the president and transfer presidential practicing in the area of international silence. powers to the prime minister, and set up a system in which the Parliament chooses the presi- law specializing in immigration. He is a I understand very well that defending dent. member of the bars of California and someone accused of being a Nazi is a dif- The failed to pass the legislation originally introduced on April 8, 2004. New York in the United States, and ficult challenge in our society, but isn’t it On June 23, 2004, however, 276 national deputies approved the first draft of the proposed Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia in in precisely such circumstances that your constitutional reforms, just 24 votes shy of the necessary 300 votes for amendments to the Canada. A former United Nations corre- true dedication to your beliefs is Constitution. spondent stationed in New York, Mr. revealed? Semotiuk is currently a member of the (Continued on page 18) Los Angeles Press Club. (Continued on page 22) No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 7

NEWS AND VIEWS Why Obama can’t reset relations with Putin’s Russia by Alexander J. Motyl because it was run by a charismatic dictator “Dread Pultowa’s day” who legitimized his rule by appealing to, U.S. President Barack Obama wants to and manipulating, national pride and impe- Last year the Russian ambassador to following month. “reset” America’s relations with Russia, but rial glory. Mr. Putin’s Russia must behave Ukraine, Vladimir Chernomyrdin, On July 8 (according to the new calendar) the nature of the Russian regime won’t per- like post-Weimar Germany, because only announced that his government would take exactly 50 years after the Muscovite defeat mit much change. Mr. Obama can easily foreign policy aggressiveness can legitimize part in the $3 million restoration of a burial at Konotop – the Swedes tried to force a reject the style and correct the mistakes of his rule and the regime he has created. mound for Russian soldiers who had died at decisive battle. Vastly outnumbered and out- his predecessor, George W. Bush, but doing Ukraine holds a particularly important the battle of Poltava, where Tsar Peter I gunned, they were defeated in the greatest so will not alter the fact that Vladimir Putin’s place in Putin Russia’s Manichean view of defeated Swedish King Charles XII and his military disaster in Swedish history. Charles Russia must engage in imperialist rhetoric the world. Increasingly negative Russian ally Hetman Ivan Mazepa in 1709 (Russia and Mazepa escaped across the Dnipro and and pursue great-power aspirations in order attitudes toward Ukraine are the result partly InfoCentre, March 25, 2008). Meanwhile, a took refuge at Bendery, on Turkish territory. to legitimize itself. As long as Russia insists of manipulation by state-controlled media, “Citizens’ Committee for the Poltava was a turning point. The Swedish on imperial dominance over the former partly of deep-seated disdain for Ukrainian Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary empire, which had come to dominate north- Soviet states, U.S.-Russia relations can language and culture, and partly of anger at of the Insurrection for the Independence of ern Europe in the past century and a half, improve only marginally. Ukraine for having precipitated the USSR’s Ukraine under Ivan Mazepa and the Battle crumbled. Muscovy, the rising power in the Under Mr. Putin’s guidance, Russia has collapse and, thus, for having deprived of Poltava (1708-1709)” was formed (http:// East, became the Russian Empire. The moved decisively away from democracy. Russia of its historical and imperial legacy. www.mazepa.name/). Last May, the Interfax Ukrainian Kozak state gradually lost all its Democratic institutions are at best mori- In addition, Ukraine’s 2004 Orange News Agency (Moscow) reported that the rights and freedoms. One can only guess bund; the party of power, United Russia, Revolution challenged Mr. Putin’s fascistoid information and press department of the what a Swedish victory would have brought. controls politics; civil society and the press refashioning of Russia by suggesting that Russian Foreign Ministry had condemned Muscovy might have remained a marginal, are severely circumscribed; the “siloviki” — democracy was possible in post-Soviet con- Ukraine for plans to erect a monument in semi-barbaric principality. The Kozaks members of the military and secret police ditions. Ukraine’s movement in a distinctly Poltava to Mazepa and to establish a state might have seen their rights and privileges — dominate all ruling elites; the state con- pro-Western direction since then has been a award in his honor (Action Ukraine Report, restored, and developed into a prosperous trols key industries, especially in energy, slap in the face of Mr. Putin’s imperial ambi- quoting BBC Monitoring Service, May 15, client state of a commercial Protestant defense, mining and manufacturing; despite tions. 2009). Characterizing this as an attempt to empire. the election of Dmitry Medvedev as presi- Unsurprisingly, Mr. Putin openly ques- drag the Ukrainian people into “an unneces- Poltava had cultural resonances too. dent in the spring of 2008, Prime Minister tioned Ukraine’s sovereignty in his 2007 sary standoff with Russia,” the ministry criti- Among the survivors was a German oboeist Putin remains the undisputed “national lead- Time magazine interview, while leading cized “games with history, especially with named Johann Jacob Bach (the Swedes er,” and his image exudes vigor, youth and Russian politicians, such as Moscow Mayor nationalistic background,” and “trying to marched to trumpets and oboes, pipes and manliness; a variety of rabidly pro-Putin Yuri Luzhkov, and the Russian lower house, rewrite the common Russian-Ukrainian his- drums). Upon his enlistment in Arnstadt in youth groups — with Nashi as the most cel- the Duma, have repeatedly insisted that the tory.” Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Press 1704 his younger brother, a promising ebrated example — act as the vanguard of Crimea be returned to Russia, that Ukraine Service spokesman Vasyl Kyrylych retorted organist named Johann Sebastian, had writ- the leader; a growing mistrust of both inter- is persecuting its Russian minority and that that celebrations commemorating Mazepa ten a capriccio in B flat major “On the nal and external foreigners and a corre- Ukraine may be on the verge of collapse. were no one’s business but Ukraine’s Departure of a Beloved Brother” (BWV sponding glorification of Russia’s past Most recently, Mr. Putin expressed admira- (Action Ukraine Report, quoting Interfax 992). In his “Histoire de Charles XII” (1731) (including its criminal Stalinist period) and tion for the anti-Bolshevik Gen. Anton Ukraine, Kyiv, May 18, 2009). Voltaire noted Ukraine’s age-old desire for present are the official worldview. Denikin, for pursuing Russian imperial con- Should Ukrainians get excited about a liberty. In “Mazeppa” (1819), Byron Most important, the population over- trol over Ukraine in 1919. battle between two foreign monarchs that described “dread Pultowa’s day/When for- whelmingly supports Mr. Putin and the anti- The Kremlin’s anti-Ukrainian rhetoric is took place 300 years ago? Neither Mazepa tune left the royal Swede,” while Pushkin democratic changes he has introduced. virtually identical to that Russian policy- nor his Kozaks played a central role. The celebrated the victory (“Poltava,” 1828). These are the features of a populist makers have used with respect to Georgia Kozaks were, in fact, divided, with newly Among the musical works bearing the authoritarian state — one that has moved and all the former Soviet republics. All are elected Hetman Ivan Skoropadsky’s men on Hetman’s name are a symphonic poem by beyond simple repressive authoritarianism said to be unstable, and all are said to be the side of Muscovy. Like the Russians, the Liszt (1851) and an opera by Tchaikovsky and is well on the way to becoming fascist. violating the rights of Russians or Russian Swedes treated their Kozak allies shabbily, (1884). Unsurprisingly, post-Soviet Russia’s citizens. With such unreliable and repressive relegating them to digging trenches, where Was Mazepa a traitor? The Russian developmental path resembles that of post- neighbors, so the argument goes, Russia has they were easy prey for Russian snipers. Orthodox Church, headed by the Ukrainian World War I Germany. Both countries lost no choice but to intervene to help its aban- During the battle they guarded the baggage- Stepan Yavorsky, lost no time in proclaiming empires and experienced profound humilia- doned Russian brethren in the non-Russian train; afterwards, under the fifth clause of the an anathema. Over 30 years ago, Orest tion. Both countries then experienced states. Nazi Germany, not coincidentally, articles of capitulation, they were handed Subtelny argued that the Russian view of extreme economic hardship under the stew- used the exact same language and logic with over to the victors, who slaughtered most of Mazepa was based on the new concept of ardship of weak and corrupt democratic respect to the German populations in neigh- them on the spot. As for Mazepa, until about treason to the “all-Russian” state (and not regimes. Both countries blamed democracy boring states ostensibly in need of the Third a century ago even Ukrainian historians saw merely personal betrayal) introduced by and its internal and external supporters for Reich’s protection. Russia’s external mus- him in either a neutral or a negative light, as Peter I. Mazepa, by contrast, saw Peter and their ills. Both countries turned to hyper- cle-flexing is thus intrinsically related to the an opportunistic careerist loyal only to his the Kozaks as parties to a contract, in the nationalism, state glorification and strong- nature of its internal regime. Neo-imperialist class of Kozak officers and gentry, and European feudal tradition. Loyalty to the tsar man rule. and fascistoid politics always go together. through most of his life a faithful ally of the was exchanged for his protection and respect In both countries charismatic leaders Were the worsening of U.S.-Russian tsar. The notion that Mazepa was a Ukrainian for customary Kozak rights and privileges. seized power — by legitimate means, by the relations due only to President Bush’s poli- proto-nationalist is not taken seriously by Once Peter had breached the contract by way — and exploited popular willingness to cies, President Obama could easily fix most scholars. refusing military assistance, Mazepa consid- submit to domination to establish their dicta- things. But if U.S. relations with Russia The Great Northern War had begun with ered himself released from his obligations torial rule. Both Russian and German rulers worsened because of Mr. Putin’s transfor- a string of brilliant Swedish victories over and justified in forming an alliance with promptly engaged in muscle-flexing in their mation of Russia into an aggressively fascis- Denmark, Poland-Saxony and Muscovy. Charles. neighborhoods — to the applause of the toid state, then Mr. Obama can improve But in 1708-1709 Charles XII’s army spent Thus, Poltava not only retarded the Kozak majority of their populations — as attempts relations only at the margins — unless, of a miserable year and a half slogging through Host’s development toward Ukrainian state- to re-establish great-power status and to course, he’s willing to appease Moscow by the swamps and forests of Poland-Lithuania hood. It also confronted Mazepa’s European legitimize their strong-man rule. sanctifying Russia’s neo-imperial hegemony and Ukraine, harassed by the retreating conception of right and justice with the Nazi Germany had to be expansionist over its non-Russian neighbors. Inasmuch as Russians. Like Napoleon and Hitler, Charles authority of the Petrine Russian-Ukrainian such a move would destabilize Russia and was worn down by the Russians’ scorched- state. The recent volleys between the Alexander J. Motyl is a professor of its neighbors — and, thus, Europe — by earth policy, compounded by an unusually Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministries political science at Rutgers University- encouraging a hyperventilating Russian severe winter. suggest that both traditions remain very Newark. The article above is reprinted regime to engage in imperial overreach, no Meanwhile, Mazepa sought Muscovite much alive. with the author’s permission from the American president would willingly reset protection from a threatened invasion by *** policy and analysis blog “New relations to the point of mutually assured Polish King Stanislaw Leszczynski. When Atlanticist” that appears on the website debilitation. Mr. Putin’s Russia will have to Peter refused, Mazepa, long disgusted with Further reading: of the Atlantic Council (www.acus.org). experience its own Orange Revolution for a Peter’s onerous policies, turned to Charles Peter Englund, “The Battle that Shook The article is dated June 11. fundamental shift in relations to be possible. XII. Shocked and infuriated, in October Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian 1708 Peter sent Prince Menshikov to destroy Empire” (New York, 2003, translation and Mazepa’s capital of Baturyn, where he mas- adaptation of the original Swedish “Poltava,” sacred 14,000 inhabitants. 1988). Notice regarding letters to the editor In March 1709 Mazepa persuaded a few Orest Subtelny, “Mazepa, Peter I, and the thousand Zaporozhian Kozaks to join the Question of Treason,” Harvard Ukrainian Please note: Letters to the editor must include the complete mailing address and Swedes, but no major reinforcements or Studies Vol. II, No. 2 (June 1978), pp. daytime phone number of the letter-writer. Letters without such information allies were in the offing. In May the dimin- 158-83. will not be published. ished and demoralized Swedish army, run- ning short of supplies, besieged the Russian Andrew Sorokowski can be reached at garrison in Poltava. Peter’s army arrived the [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 No. 25 Luciuk underscores that advocacy must be informed by knowledge by Maria Kulczycky within the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko. The CHICAGO – Archival research dem- interest accruing on that principal is to be onstrates that Ukraine frequently suffered used for commemorative and educational in the political games of major powers, a programs dealing with the experiences of situation that continues to this day, said these communities during the first world Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, a Canadian-born war. professor of political geography in the He is currently working on identifying department of politics and economics at Canadian residents who have been mem- the Royal Military College of Canada in bers of the NKVD, SMERSH and the Kingston, Ontario. KGB and blocking their citizenship appli- Speaking at a program sponsored by cations, on the model of Jewish efforts in the Chicago Business and Professional the U.S. to deport individuals suspected Group in Chicago on March 28, Dr. of collaborating with the Nazis during Luciuk detailed the many instances in World War II. recent history when countries perceived “As a diaspora we have failed to bring as favorable turned their backs on Soviet criminals to justice,” Dr. Luciuk Ukrainian causes and held their stated. Ukrainian-heritage citizens in low regard Ukrainians generally have not been or treated them poorly. highly regarded by Anglo governments, “Western governments, though sympa- he noted. A special report from the thetic, looked for advantages for them- British Foreign Office of Economic selves and were prepared to sacrifice Interest in February 1930 disparaged Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk (second from left) with Chicago Group board members [Ukrainian issues] for their own political Ukrainians, commenting on their “artifi- (from left) Anna Shaleva, Anna Mostovych and Zenon Babij at his presentation interests,” he noted, adding that cial origins, no claim to racial destiny, a about the perception of Ukrainian issues by Western powers. Ukrainians need to be aware of this. collection of cross-bred scalawags.” Dr. Luciuk has been active in recent In July 1941, L.W. Hendin of the U.S. of these governments to take action. Dr. Luciuk explained. “Western powers years in marshalling the Ukrainian public State Department investigated the loyalty The Ukrainian National Council, a never really wanted an independent to advocacy. He was a key spokesperson of Ukrainian Americans, particularly Ukrainian Canadian group based in Ukraine.” in the drive to revoke the Pulitzer Prize members of the Ukrainian Congress Winnipeg, met with Ramsey MacDonald, As a diaspora, “We have to learn the awarded in the 1930s to The New York Committee of America. He described then British prime minister, to report that truth of how others see us,” he noted, and Times correspondent Walter Duranty who them as follows: a “small number in pro- more than 10 million had died as a result this perspective is crucial to developing was complicit denying the Famine of fessional classes, amateurish in their deal- of the brutal policies of Moscow. advocacy strategies. 1932-1933 in Ukraine. ings, quarrel with each other without suc- Canadian and British envoys also Dr. Luciuk also pointed out the impor- Dr. Luciuk was one of the leading cess, are less assimilated.” reported on the Famine to their superiors. tance of heritage in building a country champions of the Ukrainian Canadian An important example of the lack of Dr. Luciuk’s research in the archives of model. He cited the injunction of John community’s call upon the government of interest in Ukrainian issues was the the British Foreign Office is detailed in Buchanan, Lord Tweedsmuir, then gover- Canada to acknowledge what happened response of Western powers to news of his book “Anglo-American Perspectives nor general of Canada, speaking in to Ukrainians and other Europeans during the Holodomor. While the Ukrainian on the Ukrainian Question, 1938 -1951: A Winnipeg in 1936. “The strongest nations Canada’s first national internment opera- diaspora was aware from the beginning of Documentary Collection” (co-edited with on earth are made up of diverse ele- tions of 1914-1920. The campaign took the Great Famine occurring in Ukraine in B. S. Kordan, Limestone Press). ments,” Buchanan said. “Remember, you some 20 years and only last year resulted 1932-1933 and shared its information “We find documents in British archives will be better Canadians for being from their intelligence-gathering systems in the signing of a technical document with the Canadian, U.S. and British gov- Ukrainians.” that they knew about the Famine. In one that established a $10 million endowment ernments, there was reluctance on the part The Ukrainian Business and paper, the writer noted that it is quite pos- Professional Group of Chicago sponsors sible that as many as 10 million people networking events and seminars that fea- died in the Soviet Union. The British stood by because, in those days, states did ture a balanced discussion of issues per- not interfere in the internal business of taining to Ukraine, the Ukrainian diaspora others. They also did not want to make and the post-Soviet world. Members are the issue public because the Soviet gov- primarily Ukrainian American profession- ernment would resent it and their rela- als interested in establishing new personal tions with the Soviet government would and professional contacts while support- be threatened,” Dr. Luciuk explained. ing Ukraine’s economic development and There was also an indifference to the democratization. struggle for Ukrainian freedom. In San Recent speakers included Adrian Francisco in 1945, at the founding of Karatnycky, the Atlantic Council; Roman United Nations, the United States, Britain Kupchinsky, AZ East Group; Anne and Canada demonstrated that they were Applebaum, The Washington Post; and not “champions of liberation movements Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University. and would not commit support. The U.S. For additional information and a sched- State Department assured the British that ule of upcoming events, readers may their policy remains one of neutrality,” e-mail [email protected].

THANK YOU!

The Ukrainian National Association and Soyuzivka would like to expess our appreciation to the

BROOKLYN UKRAINIAN GROUP

for organizing clean-up weekend at Soyuzivka on Memorial Day weekend 2009.

Due to their efforts, the Lviv camp building is freshly painted and is ready for our children.

UNA Executive Committee & Soyuzivka Management No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 9

boxing gloves autographed by heavy- CCRDF gala... weight boxing champion Vitali Klitshcko (Continued from page 1) and two ringside tickets to the June 20 Ambassadors representing Turkey, boxing match between Wladimir Austria, Egypt, Georgia, Indonesia, Klitschko and Ruslan Chagaev in Kuwait, Lebanon, Mexico and Palestine Gelsenkirchen, Germany. extended their support and U.S. Charge Oleksander Bychkov and Elena d’Affairs James Pettit attended on behalf Datsiuk won the Klitschko tickets with of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William their $8,200 bid and will fly to the fight Taylor, Jr., who served as the honorary on Ukrainian International Airlines, chairman on the fund raiser’s board which donated two business class tickets. before completing his three-year term last Tereza Yatsenyuk competed for a por- month. table wine cabinet containing 30 bottles Money was raised through a silent auc- of Guliev wine, grown in the Odesa tion with prizes that included gift baskets region with French grapes, winning with donated by embassies, oil paintings, gift a $3,500 prize. Prior to the event, CCRDF held a press conference to inform the media of the certificates for local spas and vacation Kyiv lawyer James Hitch, a partner in purpose of the gala fundraiser – to raise funds to purchase live-saving medical packages. Baker and McKenzie, won a $4,000 equipment for the Chernivtsi City Children’s Clinical Hospital. Pictured at the The live auction consisted of three Tiffany nine-karat platinum gemstone press conference are (L-R): Verkhovna Rada Deputy Volodymyr Yavorivsky, lucrative prizes, the most valuable being ring. CCRDF Country Director Alexa Milanytch, U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires James Pettit, and Chief Doctor of the Chernivtsi City Children’s Clinical Hospital Serhiy Storozhuk.

Ten Ambassadors attended the 2009 Special Guest Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, CCRDF Gala Fundraiser supported lead singer of Okean Elzy, attended by Ambassadors to Ukraine, including Natalie Jaresko, the Gala’s live auction MC, with winner of the top prize of the the Gala Fundraiser and applauded Counsellor of Indonesia Mr. I Gusti auction Oleksandr Bychkov. Live auction top prize – Vitali Klitschko auto- the guests for their charitable spirit. Putu Giede. graphed boxing gloves, 2 gold circle tickets to the next Klitschko boxing match, and 2 business class tickets on Ukrainian International Airlines. Ukrainian Catholic U.... sonal monetary donation for the construc- tion of the church. The Ukrainian Weekly announces a special section (Continued from page 4) In his speech, Mr. Senyk emphasized that Bible study. “The center will meet the spiri- building a new church has great signifi- tual needs of the UCU community and stu- cance, inasmuch as society needs spiritual Congratulations, Graduates! dents of other educational institutions,” guidance to form new people who will work noted the Rev. Shchurko. “It will also be only for the good. Every year tens of thousands of students throughout North According to Mr. Sadovyi, the Ukrainian open to all those interested. In particular, it America receive undergraduate and graduate degrees at colleges will provide for the spiritual needs of those Catholic Church, and the UCU in particular, who live nearby.” play an important role in the life of the city, and universities, cresting a pinnacle of personal achievement. The new church is dedicated to the new so the new church and the atmosphere that martyrs of the Ukrainian Catholic Church the UCU creates in the city will be a ray of The Ukrainian Weekly’s special section – Congratulations, (UCC) who were declared “blessed” by light that will lead people on a good path. Graduates! – offers readers of The Ukrainian Weekly the oppor- Pope John Paul II during his trip to Ukraine The church was built at the request of tunity to place a note congratulating family members and dear Patriarch Lubomyr Husar, head of the UCC in June 2001. Among these martyrs were friends on their recent achievements. This annual section will be students and teachers of the pre-war Lviv and grand chancellor of the UCU. The Rev. Theological Academy the precursor of the Bohdan Prach, Ph.D., supervised the con- published on July 5, 2009. UCU. “No one did more than they did to struction. “We are starting the construction overcome the main challenges of the 20th of the whole complex of buildings of the To place an ad congratulating a recent graduate, century that the [UCC] found itself in,” said new UCU campus with the church,” please send us the following by June 22: the Rev. Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., rector of the explained the Rev. Prach. “And this is a UCU, during the ceremony blessing the clear manifestation of our approach: God is • your note of congratulations, in Ukrainian or English, church. first in all things, in our dreams, plans, and which should be no more than 50 words, including names; The Rev. Gudziak noted that the UCC in the realization of our intentions.” • in English, the full name of the graduate, the degree completed or had 2,400 priests before World War II, but On May 1, young men of Holy Spirit diploma received, along with the date it was presented, a list of awards 20 years later there were only 300, operating Seminary and students and staff of the and honors given the graduate, and the name and location of the school; underground. With God’s blessing, the Rev. Ukrainian Catholic University held a pro- • a photo of the graduate (optional); Gudziak added, the church is now blessed cession, bringing relics of the new blessed martyrs of the UCC from the UCU building • paymeny for the ad; with vocations and again there are some • your daytime phone number. 2,400 priests. He also noted a new trend of on Sventsitskyi Street to the new church. student churches, mentioning that also on After great vespers and a prayer service to May 2 a site was blessed on the campus of the Mother of God, a concert of spiritual The ad sizes for the greeting are a 1/8 page horizontal for $100 or a 1/4 the Polytechnic University for the future music was held. page ad for $180. Church of St. Oleksii that will minister to On May 3 the Rev. Gudziak celebrated students. the first Sunday liturgy in the church. Please make checks payable to The Ukrainian Weekly and mail along with above information to: The Rev. Gudziak took particular pride in *** the fact that the UCU’s new wooden church The Ukrainian Weekly – Congratulations, Graduates! was funded exclusively with funds from Further information about UCU (in 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280 local donors. “We need to stand up on our English and Ukrainian) is available on the Parsippany, NJ 07054 own two feet,” he added. university’s website at www.ucu.edu.ua. Attn. Maria Oscislawski Among those present for the ceremony Readers may also contact the Ukrainian were Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi and Catholic Education Foundation, 2247 W. Or e-mail: [email protected] Myroslav Senyk, head of the Lviv Oblast Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60622; telephone Council. At the end of the ceremony, Mr. 773-235-8462; e-mail, [email protected]; web- For further information, please call 973-292-9800 ext. 3040 Senyk received a certificate from site, www.ucef.org. The phone number of or visit www.ukrweekly.com Archbishop Vozniak in gratitude for his per- the UCEF in Canada is 416-239-2495. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 No. 25 Canadian government... (Continued from page 1) multiculturalism was announced by the government of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Mr. Yaremko was the first Ukrainian Canadian elected to the Ontario Legislature, where he served as a distin- guished member from 1951 until 1975. He was appointed to the Cabinet in 1958 and was Ontario’s first minister of citizenship (1961) and the province’s first solicitor general (1972-1974). He and his late wife, Myroslava, made many philanthropic gifts that reflect their wide range of interests. In 2002 the John and Mary Yaremko Program on Multiculturalism and Human Rights was established at the Faculty of Law of the with an endow- ment of $600,000. The program supports an annual forum that brings scholars and Sen. Paul Yuzyk in an undated file teachers to the law school to engage the photo. Citizenship and Immigration Canada community in vital discussion about the At the award ceremony (from left) are: Ted Yuzyk, Eve Duravetz, Vicki Karpiak, core concepts underlying Canadians’ tion to the needs of Ontarians of different Minister Jason Kenney and Vera Yuzyk. sense of themselves: pluralism, multicul- ethnic backgrounds for community ser- turalism, and inclusion. vices and long-term care. He served in Dr. Yuzyk was appointed to the Senate of Commission of the World Congress of In 2008, Mr. Yaremko pledged $50,000 the Cabinets of Premiers , Canada by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker Free Ukrainians (today known as the to the Library at the John Robarts and . on February 4, 1963. In his inaugural Ukrainian World Congress). University of Toronto to preserve and Throughout his life, Mr. Yaremko has speech, Sen. Yuzyk argued that Canada is a Sen. Yuzyk was known also as the top make broadly accessible retrospective been a devoted and constant supporter of multicultural nation that includes peoples Canadian executive officer of the library materials relating to Ukrainian the hopes and aspirations of the various from many different cultures, all of whom Ukrainian National Association. He was history, literature, language and culture ethno-cultural groups of Canada. contribute to Canadian society. elected a UNA vice-president in 1970; the According to Sen. Yuzyk, Canada through digitization. Paul Yuzyk (1913-1986) Canadian vice-president’s position was could succeed in building a strong nation later renamed supreme director for John Yaremko (1918- ) Born of Ukrainian immigrant parents through adherence to the principles of Canada. Sen. Yuzyk held the latter posi- John Yaremko was born in Welland, in 1913 near Estevan, Saskatchewan, Paul confederation, compromise and “unity in tion until his death in 1986, having been Ontario, in 1918. A graduate of the Yuzyk began his career as a teacher. After diversity.” He challenged the prevailing elected to it at four consecutive UNA University of Toronto’s Law Program, he enlisting in the Canadian army, he com- view that Canada was a bilingual and conventions. was the first Ukrainian Canadian to be pleted a Ph.D. in history at the University bicultural nation (in addition to Canada’s elected as a member of the Ontario of Minnesota. He subsequently taught native peoples). He argued that Canadian *** society also included Canadians who Legislature. Slavic studies and history at the Individuals from communities across were of neither British nor French In his 25 years of public service, Mr. University of Manitoba, where he fre- Canada can be nominated in one of two descent. He also predicted that Canada Yaremko was a strong advocate of educa- quently wrote on the Ukrainian immi- categories for the Paul Yuzyk Award for would become a role model for other tion, human rights and multiculturalism, grant experience and was active in uni- Multiculturalism. The Lifetime drawing the Ontario government’s atten- versity and civic life. nations faced with the challenge of inte- grating peoples of diverse faiths and cul- Achievement Award honors an individual tures. who has demonstrated lifelong dedication While in the Senate, he played an to the pursuit of promoting a strong mul- active role in the development and imple- ticultural society in Canada. The mentation of the Canadian government’s Outstanding Achievement Award recog- multiculturalism policy. He participated nizes an individual or group that has in various parliamentary committees and made a significant contribution to in delegations to the United Nations and Canadian multiculturalism within the last the Conference on Security and five years. Cooperation in Europe. Nominations for the 2010 Paul Yuzyk He was closely associated with various Award for Multiculturalism are currently cultural and human rights organizations, being accepted until March 2010. including as director of the Canadian For details on Sen. Yuzyk, Mr. Council of Christians and Jews and chair- Yaremko, the nomination process and eli- man of the Canadian Folk Arts Council. gibility requirements, readers may log on In addition, he chaired the Human Rights to www.cic.gc.ca/paulyuzyk.

University of Illinois announces Conference on Ukrainian Subjects URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The for all aspects of the conference: organiz- 26th Conference on Ukrainian Subjects at er and coordinator – Dmytro Shtohryn, the University of Illinois will be held in head of the Ukrainian Research Program the Illini Union, Room 314 on the at the University of Illinois; head of the Urbana-Champaign campus, on June Organizing Committee – Raisa Bratkiv, 24-27. head of the Foundation for the A keynote address will be delivered by Advancement of Ukrainian Studies at the Prof. Mark L. Von of the depart- University of Illinois; head of the ment of history at Arizona State Program Committee – Leonid Rudnytzky, University. LaSalle University; members – Assya The conference is being organized by Humesky, University of Michigan, Ann the Ukrainian Research Programs at the Arbor; Volodymyr Chumachenko, University of Illinois, within the frame- University of Illinois at Urbana- work of the Summer Research Laboratory Champaign; Taras Hunczak, Rutgers on Russia and East European Countries. University-Newark; Jaroslav Rozumnyj, Its main theme will be “Contemporary University of Manitoba; and Christine Ukraine: Challenges and Perspectives.” Sochocky, Toronto. The main sessions of the conference The conference is free and open to the will be devoted to the following topics: public. Presentations of papers at the con- “Ukraine and Russia,” “Ukraine and the ference will be in English and Ukrainian. Countries of the European Union,” All questions about the conference should “Ukraine and North America,” and be directed to Dr. Shtohryn: telephone, “Ukrainian Western Diaspora.” 217-356-9195; fax, 217-356-7982; The following persons are responsible e-mail, [email protected]. No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 11 American Ballet Theater presents Prokofiev’s “On the Dnieper” by Helen Smindak lage street, a square or the edge of the vil- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly lage. During the celebration of Olga’s NEW YORK – Sergei Prokofiev’s bal- betrothal, the villagers are seen in spirited let “On the Dnieper,” incorporating festivities, including a circle dance by the motifs from folk tunes he heard during men with their arms around each other’s his childhood in Ukraine, was presented shoulders in the manner of “Arkan” danc- early this month by the American Ballet ers. When Sergei comes upon the scene, Theatre during its 2009 Spring Season at he challenges Olga’s fiance and a brawl the Metropolitan Opera House. ensues, sending the guests scurrying The major work in ABT’s week-long home. Natalia, heartbroken at being for- Prokofiev Celebration, the ballet was saken by Sergei, nevertheless helps Olga intended to reveal – in the words of and Sergei escape to a life of happiness. ABT’s artistic director Kevin McKenzie – “a historic work by a great master.” Mixed reviews Prokofiev, a 20th-century Russian com- Reviews of “On the Dnieper” were poser, was born in April 1891 in the mixed. Lisa Reinhart of danceviewtimes Ukrainian farming village of Sontsivka in said “Alexei Ratmansky’s hotly anticipat- Bakhmut county, Katerynoslav gubernia. ed but disappointingly quaint ‘On the The program offered a triple bill of Dnieper’ reduced Prokofiev’s meaty Prokofiev works that included “On the music to pre-party nibbles.” Dance critic Dnieper,” “Desir,” a flamboyantly cos- Michael Popkin, on the other hand, tumed ballet of passion and romance, and described the ballet as “brilliant, the equal the Balanchine-choreographed work of any new work presented in New York “Prodigal Son,” highlighted by a sublime in a decade.” performance by Kyiv-born principal The New York Times’ Alastair dancer Irina Dvorovenko as the predatory Macaulay pointed out that Prokofiev’s Siren. Ms. Dvorovenko drew a rousing score often makes it hard for either narra- ovation from the audience and several tive or dance to build up steam, but curtain calls. admitted that Mr. Ratmansky’s gift was to The performance of “On the Dnieper” make the ballet’s psychological dances was thoroughly enjoyable, revealing the “classically beautiful.” special skills and virtuoso performances Leigh Witchel of the New York Post of the dancers of one of the world’s lead- thought the scenery was simple but gor- ing ballet companies. ABT is to be com- geous, and Valerie Gladstone of Art + mended for including the ballet in its Culture described the scenario as “a pic- spring repertoire and thus drawing atten- turesque set with flowering trees and a tion to the Dnipro as “a mighty Ukrainian full moon.” Deborah Jowitt of the Village river” (rendered as “Dnieper” based on Voice called the work “a beautiful ballet... translation from Russian.) a luminously tender, enigmatic folktale.” Gene Schiavone In 1930 Serge Lifar, balletmaster of the For ballet fans of Ukrainian ancestry, ABT principal dancer Irina Dvorovenko as the Siren in “Prodigal Son.” Paris Ballet, commissioned a score from however, the proceedings must have been like Tchaikovsky, Seroff and wore the fisherman-type hats and nipped- Prokofiev for the ballet “On the Dnieper” disappointing – there were no Ukrainian Rachmaninoff used Ukrainian tunes in-at-the-waist knee-length coats seen in (then known by its French name “Sur le melodies to be heard and no readily rec- almost exactly as they were sung by the the “Dnieper” ballet. Except for the prin- Borysthenes”), a contemporary work with ognizable Ukrainian setting or Ukrainian people, but modernists like Prokofiev go cipal female dancers, who were attired in a loose plot and a setting along the Dnipro costumes to be seen. River in Ukraine. Prokofiev and Lifar wild and haphazard with folk music, and snug-bodiced dresses with short peplums Prokofiev is known to have used the resulting material is unrecognizable.” over full skirts, most of the women wore provided the original libretto, Prokofiev Ukrainian folk tunes in many of his com- composed the music, and the ballet On the evening that I attended the bal- dark grey outfits, their drabness offset by positions, including “On the Dnieper,” let, a friend who is knowledgeable in all the bright orange lining of the skirts. (For received its world premiere in 1932. but his score does not reflect this practice. The story revolves around Sergei, a things Ukrainian, sitting next to me, costume sketches, go to www.abt.org/ Music bibliographer Roman Sawycky, an pointed out that the villagers’ costumes dnieper). young soldier who returns from the bat- American of Ukrainian descent, explains tlefield to his village on the banks of the were not entirely out of order, for men in this phenomenon as a modern twist on 20th century Ukrainian villages often Dnipro, his sweetheart Natalia, the village folk melodies. “Composers of older times (Continued on page 22) beauty Olga to whom he is attracted, and the man to whom she is betrothed (in the ABT , he is identified only as Olga’s fiance). In the News: and co-stars win Tonys A new ballet PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Fourteen- For the Prokofiev celebration, ABT year-old Kiril Kulish, one of the three commissioned its first resident artist, young stars of Elton John’s Broadway Alexei Ratmansky, former artistic direc- Musical “Billy Elliot,” won a Tony tor of the Bolshoi Ballet, to choreograph award on June 7 for best actor in a a new ballet to Prokofiev’s score. Mr. musical. Winning it jointly with the Ratmansky, who has said that he regards two other dancers who share the title the “Dnieper” music to be dramatically role, and Trent Kowalik, intense, conceived his ballet as abstract Mr. Kulish seemed to find it hard to but “possessed of a quality in line with believe they won. the nature of the original score.” Mr. Kulish cheerfully added during his The ABT production, touted as a world portion of the acceptance speech, “And premiere, is choreographed for 24 danc- we want to say to all the kids out there ers, four of whom portray the four main who might want to dance: never give up.” characters – Sergei, the soldier (danced The rare shared win, documented in by Jose Manuel Carreno), Natalia, his The Arts section of The New York former love (Hee Seo), Olga, his present Times on June 8, is one of 10 Tony love (Diana Vishneva), and Olga’s fiance Awards earned by “Billy Elliot,” a (Alexandre Hammoudi). Four secondary musical about a young boy pursuing his roles include Sergei’s mother (Nancy love of dance in an English mining Raffa), Olga’s mother (Susan Jones), town. The Times described the 63rd Olga’s father (Alexei Agoudine) and the annual as “unusually Anita and Steve Shevett father of Olga’s fiance (Roddy Doble). competitive this year because of the At the Tony Awards ceremonies (from left): Trent Kowalik, David Alvarez and The cast is completed by 16 corps mem- large number of strong Broadway pro- Kiril Kulish. bers performing as villagers. ductions,” making the teenagers’ win Simon Pastukh and Galina Solovyeva, even more significant. for recognizing and fostering his talent Panteleimon Kulish, the famous 19th a husband-and-wife team who have Introduced to readers of The Weekly and love of dance. In addition to accom- century folklorist, musician, writer and worked with Mr. Ratmansky at the in the March 1 issue, Mr. Kulish, a plishments in dancing, he is a concert translator. Bolshoi Ballet, designed the sets and cos- native of San Diego, continues to dedi- pianist and speaks Ukrainian, Russian, For more information about Kiril tumes. The simple scenario was com- cate his extraordinary dancing abilities English and Spanish. Kulish, readers may visit his website at posed of several blossoming cherry trees to Broadway for the time being. His mother, Raisa Kulish, a pianist, kirilkulish.com. and rows of picket fences rearranged by Mr. Kulish credits his sister, Beata, notes her family’s relation to – Tyrssa Korduba the corps to create scenes evoking a vil- 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 No. 25 No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 13 “Strike! The Musical” presented on Winnipeg’s Main Street By Tyrssa Korduba WINNIPEG, MANITOBA – On May 23 over 5,000 people gathered on Main Street in Winnipeg to witness one of the most poignant moments in Canadian his- tory – or at least a musical recreation of it. That day, Ukrainian Canadian lyricist and composer Danny Schur treated the public to a free-of-charge, abridged ver- sion of his most recent project, “Strike! The Musical,” based on the Generals Strike of 1919. Mr. Schur chose Main Street as the venue for his outdoor perfor- mance because it was the scene of the most violent protests of the strike, known as Bloody Saturday. The production featured a full-sized recreation of the streetcar overturned dur- ing the protests, mounted police on gal- loping horses and a single gunshot. Amidst all this excitement, the audience came away from the experience hailing the musical as not only aesthetically inter- esting but also as historically important. Mr. Schur, who called the planning of this event “a logistical nightmare,” seemed pleased that his hard work and months of planning this extravaganza ended in success. “The performance was just stunning for me. I saw people look- Winnipeg Premier ing on in wonder,” said Mr. Schur. A scene from “Strike! The Musical.” Since the musical’s debut in 2005, audiences and critics alike have hailed the most turbulent periods in Canadian histo- cal moment began its run on the Rainbow production as being an unlikely success. ry, the General Strike of 1919, dissatis- Stage at Kildonan Park in Winnipeg in After all, a union between music and a faction among the workers of Winnipeg 2005. In 2006 Mr. Schur took his musical strike that turned violent seems an was mounting. Returning veterans from to Saskatchewan, where it ran at the improbable combination. World War I found themselves disap- Persephone Theater in Saskatoon. Also Robert Enright of CBC Manitoba pointed with what awaited them after that year, he adapted the musical for a noted, “I just thought this is an unlikely years of sacrifice and hardship on the short mini-musical film, “Strike! The subject, in some ways, for a musical.” front. In addition, the socialist ideals of Mini Movie Musical,” which he also pre- Though after seeing it, he conceded, “I the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia the sented outdoors for the public in gotta say I found it […] charming.” year before were permeating the largely Winnipeg. Tom Ford of the Winnipeg Free Press unemployed workforce. A year later, in 2007, CBC radio said that with this musical, Mr. Schur In an attempt to secure better wages nationally broadcast “Strike! The “put the emotion back into one of the and working conditions, on May 1 and 2 Musical” for its listeners; later that same city’s most emotional happenings.” the building workers and metal workers, year the musical was published in book Karen Toole, also of the Winnipeg Free respectively, went on strike. They were form. This year, in addition to the out- Press, asserted that more than just being joined by the rest of Winnipeg’s work- door performance – which Mr. Schur an entertaining performance, “’Strike!’ force on May 15, when the Winnipeg described to The Weekly in an e-mail has [an] important message for humani- Trades and Labor Council called a gener- message as “Killer! Perfect weather, a ty.” She continued by saying the musical al strike. record-setting crowd of 6,000 and an Danny Schur. “really is about how racism restricts us all The tensions between a city unwilling ultra-symbolic, emotionally riveting per- to stereotypes and denies the fullness of to meet the workers’ demands and an agi- formance beyond compare” – the musical our humanity.” tated population came to a head on June will run for a limited engagement at the According to Mr. Schur, “The Bridge” Phyllis Reader, a past audience mem- 21, when the strikers took to the streets. CanWest Performing Arts Center at the was composed to commemorate 100 ber, stated, “It had everything you wanted Chaos and riots took over the city, as an Forks in Winnipeg from June 30 to years of Ukrainian settlement in Canada. in a musical. Tragedy, comedy, excellent angry mob overturned a city streetcar and August 5. Additionally, Mr. Schur has worked music, innovation and a great story with set it on fire. By the end of the day, The musical is also currently in pre- with just about every notable Ukrainian lots of real, tangible emotion.” which would come to be known as production for a full-length film adapta- Canadian artist, most notably Winnipeg’s “Strike! The Musical” has even earned Bloody Saturday, countless protestors tion. Filming is expected to begin next Alexis Kochan (of Paris to Kyiv fame). technical acclaim. Morley Walker of the were arrested and injured. Only Mike summer in Winnipeg. Despite all of theses successes, Mr. Winnipeg Free Press described the Mr. Sokolowski, having been mysteriously Schur told The Weekly that the May 23 The man behind the musical Schur’s creation as “mixing equal parts of shot, lost his life during the unrest of June performance “was the highlight of my ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ with ‘Les 21. The musical’s composer, producer and career, bar none.” Misérables,’” and added that of the 16 On June 26 organizers, fearing more co-writer, Mr. Schur, was born and raised For his hard work on the project, Mr. original songs in the production, “more violence, ended the strike. in Ethelbert, Manitoba, in Canada, about Schur, along with “Strike!” co-writer Mr. than a third of them could fairly be Feeding off this history, Mr. Schur cre- 240 miles north of Winnipeg. Mr. Schur, Chafe, has won the 2006 Kobzar Literary described as excellent.” ated a story around Mr. Sokolowski, a member of Holy Family Ukrainian Award, presented by the Ukrainian This unlikely blend of music and his- about whom very little is known. The plot Catholic Church in Winnipeg, told The Canadian Foundation of Taras tory, despite the extraordinary outcome, of this musical follows the fictionalized Weekly that his style and composition are Shevchenko, the 2007 Grant McEwan came about in an incredibly ordinary way. Mike, who lives with his godson, Stefan heavily influenced by the Ukrainian College Kostash Award and 2008 Roger According to Kevin Prokosh of the Dudar. The two immigrant laborers, Catholic liturgy. Charest Award. Mr. Schur has also been Winnipeg Free Press, Mr. Schur was at though of a common Ukrainian heritage, Before turning to musical theater, Mr. affectionately dubbed “Canada’s Andrew lunch with Nicholas Hirst, who was at the stand on opposite sides of the strike. Schur was jingle writer and musical talent Lloyd Webber.” time the editor of Winnipeg Free Press. It While the protagonist, Mike, dreams of manager, working with Chantal In the midst of all these ambitious proj- was then that Mr. Hirst suggested that Mr. an end to the strike, which he sees as a Kreviazuk (Sony), Tara-Lyn Hart (Sony), ects, Mr. Schur, along with wife Juliane Schur consider doing a musical about the threat to the wages that he is saving to McMaster & James (BMG) and Doc Schaible, a Canadian of German descent, General Strike of 1919. transport more family members from the Walker (Universal). finds time to raise his two children, who Agreeing with Mr. Hirst on the histori- Soviet Union, Stefan sees it as a realiza- His first large work, “Vlad of Kiev – cal importance of this event, Mr. Schur tion of the promises of social equality. An Oratorio” was composed in 1989 to speak Ukrainian, German, English and began to do a little research and found When Stefan falls for his next-door commemorate 1,000 years of Ukrainian French. Mr. Schur jokingly comments, that the only person killed on Bloody neighbor, the Jewish suffragette Rebecca, Christianity. He is also the composer of “The kids don’t listen in four languages.” Saturday, the climax of tensions during the sister of fictionalized labor leader the official theme song for the 1999 Pan For more information, readers may the strike, was a Ukrainian immigrant Moishe Almazoff, Mike fears that by Am Games, “Americas, Come & Play.” visit the musical’s website at www.strike- named Mike Sokolowski. Intrigued by drawing such attention to themselves, “Strike!” is not Mr. Schur’s first exper- musical.com. Readers may purchase tick- this story, Mr. Schur, with the help of co- both he and Stefan may be deported. iment in musical theater. His first show, ets to “Strike! The Musical” by following writer Rich Chafe, began writing his Thus, Mike eventually takes a stand “The Bridge,” about the struggle of young the link on the Strike! website; by visiting musical around the mysterious protester. against the strike, hoping to save his live- members of a Ukrainian Canadian rock https://tickets.mtyp.ca/ lihood. TheatreManager/104/online; or by calling Strike – a history band to reconcile their heritage with their The rest is history. success and future, ran briefly in 2000 at 204-942-8898. Tickets are $27 and $30 In the months leading up to one of the This musical adaptation of this histori- the Walker Theater in Winnipeg. (taxes and fees included). 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 No. 25 NEWSBRIEFS try. (RFE/RL) No info about new Russian envoy CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS (Continued from page 2) KYIV – Justice Minister Mykola KYIV – Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI (973) 292-9800 x 3040 Onischuk was invited to a meeting of the Affairs (MFA) does not have official OR E-MAIL [email protected] Venice Commission for Democracy information about Russia’s new ambassa- through Law on June 12-13 in Italy. The dor to Ukraine, MFA spokesman Vasyl commission was to consider the draft law Kyrylych told a June 15 briefing. Some SERVICES “On Making Amendments to the Ukrainian and Russian media have named Constitution of Ukraine,” prepared by three candidates for the post: the gover- President Viktor Yushchenko. In addition, nor of the Moscow region, Boris it was to discuss possible cooperation to Gromov; Russian Deputy Foreign improve legislation on the judicial system Minister Grigory Karasin; and Russia’s and status of judges, as well as on the Permanent Representative to NATO Procurator General’s Office. Ukraine was Dmitry Rogozin. Viktor Chernomyrdin to participate in consideration of issues was dismissed as Russia’s ambassador to regarding democratic transformations in Ukraine on June 11. (Ukrinform) Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Ukraine nationalizes three banks Macedonia, as well as concerning consti- KYIV – Ukrainian Prime Minister tutional changes in Japan, Luxemburg, Yulia Tymoshenko on June 11 announced and Uzbekistan. (Ukrinform) that the government will bail out three of Venice commission’s assessment five banks hit particularly hard by the financial crisis. The government is invest- KYIV – The Venice Commission, ing 9.5 billion hrv ($1.25 billion U.S.) in whose opinion the Verkhovna Rada of the three banks and will thereby own Ukraine takes into account when consid- about 84 percent of each bank. The new ering each draft of constitutional amend- management teams selected by the gov- ments, on June 12 gave a positive assess- ernment will take over the banks next ment to President Viktor Yushchenko’s week. The three banks involved are bill of constitutional amendments, Justice Rodovid (formerly owned by Ukrainian Minister Mykola Onischuk said in an pole-vaulting champion Serhii Bubka), PROFESSIONALS interview with the Kommersant-Ukraine Ukrhazbank (formerly owned by Vasyl newspaper. “Over the entire period of Horbal of the opposition Party of [Ukraine’s] independence, it was, in fact, Regions) and the Kyiv Bank. Ms. Jaroslaw Lemega the first time when the Venice Tymoshenko said that once the banks Architect & DesignBuild Contractor Commission had a positive view of a become viable, the government will sell Custom Residential & Commercial similar bill. The commission declared the its shares in the banks. The two other Design & Construction Service draft Constitution submitted by Viktor banks in negotiations with the govern- Tel 732 872 2512 Yushchenko as one that meets European ment about a possible bailout pulled out Serving all of New Jersey standards. Moreover, it was noted during of the talks, saying they found the gov- the discussion that this is one of the best ernment’s terms unacceptable. (RFE/RL) MERCHANDISE constitutional drafts ever submitted by Ukraine for consideration by the Venice What does deputy’s withdrawal mean? Commission,” he said. (Ukrinform) KYIV – The withdrawal of National Transport minister resigns Deputy Oleksander Omelchenko of Our Ukraine-People’s Self Defense from the KYIV – Transport Minister Josyf majority coalition could be grounds for the Vinskyi resigned on June 17, reportedly president to dissolve the Verkhovna Rada, over disagreements with Prime Minister said the deputy head of the Party of Regions Yulia Tymoshenko. Mr. Vinskyi posted a opposition faction, Oleksander Yefremov in statement on the ministry’s website in a June 11 interview. Since 37 deputies voted which he accused Ms. Tymoshenko of for the OU-PSD to join the coalition, with- blocking crucial infrastructure reforms and drawal of a signature under the coalition refusing to fund construction projects for agreement by at least one of them threatens the Euro 2012 soccer championship. His the existence of the coalition itself. “Thirty- resignation leaves the Cabinet of Ministers seven persons is the minimum number nec- without four ministers, including finance essary for taking such a decision,” he (Viktor Pynzenyk resigned in February), explained. In the case of Mr. Omelchenko’s defense (Yurii Yekhanurov was dismissed withdrawal, “a legal norm emerges that the by the Verkhovna Rada earlier this month) faction actually is not a part of the coalition and foreign affairs (Volodymyr Ohryzko today and the situation emerges that was dismissed by the Parliament in Yushchenko has a right to raise the issue of March). Ms. Tymoshenko accused Mr. the legitimacy of the coalition’s work and, Vinskyi of using 15 million hrv ($2 mil- naturally, the work of the Verkhovna Rada,” lion) in government funds to support his Mr. Yefremov commented. At the same preparations to run for the presidency of time, he noted that since not much time is Ukraine. Mr. Vinskyi denied that he plans left before the presidential election, the to run in the presidential election. He stat- president is unlikely to start any activities ed that the prime minister should focus on on this issue. Earlier, Mr. Omelchenko con- the economic crisis instead of her presi- firmed that he “wrote a statement that he is dential campaign. (Associated Press, Kyiv leaving the present coalition, and [Rada FOR RENT Press Bureau of The Ukrainian Weekly) Chair Volodymyr] Lytvyn registered it.” A President considers nominees for defense national deputy from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB), Valerii Pysarenko, expressed KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor his opinion that Mr. Omelchenko’s state- LvivRentals.com Yushchenko is considering two candi- ment about withdrawal from the coalition dates for the vacant defense minister’s would not have any legal consequences for Run your advertisement here, from $59 per night post, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service report- the coalition. The YTB, OU-PSD and the in The Ukrainian Weekly’s ed on June 11. National Security and Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc set up the coalition CLASSIFIEDS section. Defense Council Secretary Raisa on December 9, 2008. The three factions Bohatyriova and the chief of the armed have 248 deputies. (Ukrinform) OPPORTUNITY forces’ General Staff, Serhii Kyrychenko, are said to be in the running. Neither Demands for Kyiv mayor’s resignation EARN EXTRA INCOME! name has been submitted to Parliament. KYIV – Some 300 members of non- The Defense Ministry has traditionally governmental organizations (NGOs) and The Ukrainian Weekly is looking been headed by career military officers, business owners in Kyiv picketed the for advertising sales agents. but in recent years Mr. Yushchenko has Ukrainian Parliament on June 10 to selected civilians for the post, including demand the resignation of the capital’s For additional information contact the previous minister, Yurii Yekhanurov, Maria Oscislawski, Advertising controversial mayor, Leonid who was dismissed by Parliament on June Chernovetskyi. The Parliament was Manager, The Ukrainian Weekly, 5. If nominated and confirmed, Ms. scheduled to discuss the results of an (973) 292-9800, ext 3040. Bohatyriova would be the first female defense minister in a former Soviet coun- (Continued on page 15) No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 15

nications media in the pre-election period. NEWSBRIEFS National deputies instructed the govern- Experts suggest European Union appoint (Continued from page 14) ment to take measures to stop examina- investigation into alleged illegal activities tions of the mass media by relevant ser- by Mayor Chernovetskyi’s administration vices, executive power bodies and state a political troubleshooter for Ukraine establishments for the duration of the pre- on June 10, but the issue was not included RFE/RL have been previous attempts to broker a election campaign. In addition, the on the agenda. Mr. Chernovetskyi, 57, is political settlement by outsiders, includ- Parliament recommended that the State accused of graft and corruption, and of It has been just over a month since the ing by representatives of the European Tax Administration abolish scheduled using the city’s budget to fund his re- European Union attempted to draw six People’s Party. So ultimately, if the mass media examinations for the period election campaign. He was re-elected as post-Soviet neighbors – Belarus, Ukraine, Ukrainians don’t cooperate with or listen leading up to the presidential election. mayor in 2008. Protesters said they will Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan and to a mission, then so be it. But the evi- The National Council on TV and Radio continue their protest actions until Mr. Armenia – closer to its orbit with its dence is, I think, that they would. It cer- Broadcasting recommended that sched- Chernovetskyi steps down. The next day Eastern Partnership program. But a new tainly worked in 2004. uled examinations of TV and radio orga- the Verkhovna Rada asked President report by the European Council on But, of course, it has to be a mission nizations be abolished for the pre-election Viktor Yushchenko to suspend Leonid Foreign Relations blasts the EU for what with a high enough profile, led by a cur- campaign period. The Parliament has not Chernovetskyi from fulfilling his duties it calls its “complacent” and “long-term” rent or former politician with sufficient yet determined the date of the presidential as chairman of the Kyiv City State strategy in the region, and warns that prestige, and they have to arrive with election. (Ukrinform) Administration while the Parliament’s without fast action to engage the Eastern sticks and carrots. But Ukraine still needs interim investigation commission looks Moscow patriarch to visit Ukraine neighbors, Europe could risk another a package of economic assistance, most into violations of the Constitution and “August surprise” with Russia – in vitally. It needn’t necessarily be on the laws by officials of the Kyiv City Council KYIV – The patriarch of Moscow and Moldova, Ukraine, or once again in table, but Ukraine also has problems with and the Kyiv City State Administration. all Russia, Kirill, will visit Ukraine on Georgia. Andrew Wilson, a co-author of hosting the 2012 soccer tournament, and (RFE/RL, Ukrinform) July 27-Auugst 5, according to the press the report, spoke to RFE/RL correspon- of course it wants to build on the March service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church dent Ahto Lobjakas from London. Below agreement on upgrading its pipeline sys- Yushchenko postpones visit to Australia – Moscow Patriarchate. Patriarch Kirill is is an excerpt of the interview with Mr. tem. KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor expected to celebrate a divine liturgy at Wilson. the Kyiv Pecherska Lavra on July 28, as Yushchenko said that it is inexpedient to In your report, you suggest that the Copyright 2009, RFE/RL Inc. leave the country in connection with well as visit Crimea and the Ternopil, Reprinted with the permission of Radio Donetsk and other regions. (Ukrinform) EU appoint a political troubleshooter Ukraine’s financial and economic situa- for Ukraine. Is it possible that there is Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington DC tion. Thus, he has decided to postpone his Lviv rated as most livable city such a figure who could make a differ- 20036; www.rferl.org. The full interview state visit to Australia, his press secretary ence in Ukraine’s ongoing political cri- may be found at http://www.rferl.org/con- Iryna Vannykova said on June 11. She KYIV – Lviv is the winner of the third sis? said that the president pointed to the annual rating of Focus Magazine’s “55 tent/In_Crisis_Of_Multiple_Crises_Is_ absence of any work on the state budget Most Livable Cities in Ukraine.” Nobody can help the Ukrainians if they EU_Doing_Too_Little_To_Help_ for 2010. Meanwhile, the Australian According to the Focus rating, the first 10 don’t want to help themselves. There Eastern_Neighbors/1756112.html. Federation of Ukrainian Organizations cities in addition to Lviv include Kyiv, (AFUO) announced that all associated Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Yalta, events have been cancelled. With regard Kharkiv, Odesa, Illichivsk, Simferopol to the presidential dinner that was planned and Sevastopol. In all, 100 cities partici- for June 14, the AFUO said it will cover pated in the rating. (Ukrinform) the booking cancellation fee associated with this event and will refund the full Kyiv tops Ukraine’s tourist market cost of tickets. (Ukrinform, AFUO) KYIV – Turnover of Kyiv’s tourist PM paid no secret visit to Moscow companies exceeded 5 billion hrv last year, amounting to 65 percent of the total KYIV – The press secretary for income of the country’s tourist sector, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia reported the Delo newspaper. According Tymoshenko, Maryna Soroka, has denied to the State Service for Tourism and an article published in the Kommersant- Resorts, Crimea ranks the second in terms Ukraine newspaper on June 10 that the of incomes from tourism. Last year prime minister paid a secret visit to Moscow Crimean tourist firms earned about 1 bil- on June 9. “This is complete nonsense,” she lion hrv. This year tourist operators note a With great sorrow, we announce that said, adding that the appearance of similar drop in the tourist flow in Ukraine’s rumors is linked to the activity of “certain regions as well as in the capital. Lydia Sos Bulba young politicians running for the presiden- (Ukrinform) cy.” Ms. Soroka said that such forces were passed away on May 9, 2009. continuing to misinform the public in the An-148 presented at Paris air show context of the Presidential Secretariat’s KYIV – The An-148, a new-generation Funeral services were held on May 15, 2009, at St. Michael Ukrainian favorite subject, “Moscow’s hand.” She regional jet, is participating in the Le Catholic Church in Jenkintown, PA, followed by interment at the Saint said that Ms. Tymoshenko had worked late Bourget international air show in Paris, Mary Ukrainian Cemetery in Fox Chase, PA. in her office and left the government build- the press service of the Antonov Design ing after midnight. (Ukrinform) Bureau reported on June 15. The aircraft With deep sorrow Lydia Sos Bulba leaves behind her: Expert comments on amending is being presented by its developer, the Constitution Kyiv-based Antonov Design Bureau; its Daughters: Tania Vitvitsky with husband Andrew operator, AeroSvit Ukrainian Airlines; Ivanka Olesnycky with husband Nestor KYIV – The director of the National and its owner, the state enterprise Grandchildren: Ksenia Olsen with husband Scott, Institute for Strategic Studies, Yurii Leasingtechtrans. The Antonov Design Stephan Vitvitsky, Damian Olesnycky, Ruban, has said that amendments to the Bureau said this was not the first time Andrew Olesnycky with fiancée Constitution should be made prior to the that an An-148 demonstrated its capabili- Christina Baranetsky presidential election. “Amendments to ties at Le Bourget. In 2005 the plane par- Great-grandchildren: Nina and Nicholas Olsen the Constitution should be made prior to ticipated in the air show as a prototype the presidential election in order that the aircraft, while this year it is participating Brother: Ivan Sos, with wife Ulana people know what authority the head of as a passenger airliner already in opera- Stepsons: Oleh and Lyubomyr Serediak state elected by them will have, so that tion. Apart from the basic model of Nieces and Nephews: Yarema Sos, Renata Sos and Kathryn there will be not a tragic disappointment An-148 designed to transport 68 to 85 Hayda as there was after 2004, when they voted passengers, partners in the program will Eight grandnieces and nephews for a president with certain powers that present new projects drafted on its basis: changed following 2006,” he explained. the An-158 aircraft that seats 99 and the In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund has been established and donations said. According to Mr. Ruban, that would high-comfort An-168 airliner. may be made in her name to Sabre Foundation, 872 Massachusetts be the most democratic approach to the (Ukrinform) Avenue, Suite 2-1, Cambridge, MA, 02139. matter; however, the issue is to what extent the Verkhovna Rada is able to take Ukrainian sailors to visit San Diego such a step. Mr. Ruban called the election KYIV – A Ukrainian fleet delegation of the president by the Parliament unac- headed by the chief of staff and first dep- ceptable, adding that the system of uty commander of Ukrainian Naval national voting creates a certain system of Forces, Vice-Admiral Serhii Yeliseyev, DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS balances in the Ukrainian power. has left for the U.S. city of San Diego. (Ukrinform) Ukraine’s sailors will familiarize them- Deadline: Tuesday noon before the newspaper’s date of issue. Rada moves to protect mass media selves with the organization, program and Rate: $7.50 per column-inch. methods of training and professional Telephone, (973) 292-9800, ext. 3040; e-mail, [email protected]. KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on June development, career growth, as well as Please include the daytime phone number of a contact person. 10 adopted a resolution about ensuring the system of maintaining and training unhampered activity of the mass commu- U.S. Navy personnel. (Ukrinform) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 No. 25 No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 17 Chicago’s St. Nicholas Cathedral School graduates 14 students by Daria Hankewych Innocent Lotocky Scholarship Award. This award was established on September 12, CHICAGO – Sunday, June 7, was a 1993, to honor one student each year for memorable day in the life of the St. his or her excellence in scholarship, Nicholas Cathedral School family: it was Christian moral values and service. Miss commencement day for 14 young people. Nalysnyk was also awarded the Mykluz The overcast and rainy weather outside did Family Memorial Award. This award was not dampen the jubilant mood of the grad- established in memory of deceased mem- uates, their parents, or their teachers. bers of the Mykluz family and is given to The event began with a procession from one student each year who has achieved the school to St. Nicholas Cathedral. The the highest scholastic achievement. graduates were welcomed into the cathe- The salutatorian of the class of 2009, dral by the singing of the St. Nicholas School Choir under the direction of Irene Mr. Dankovych, received an award from Dychiy. The divine liturgy that followed Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal was celebrated by Bishop Richard Credit Union for his outstanding scholastic Seminack, the Very Rev. Bohdan Nalysnyk achievement. and the Rev. Volodymyr Hudzan. Several Mrs. Finiak also awarded the Principal’s young men served as altar boys, including Award to four students for their outstand- three seventh graders and two alumni of ing academic excellence. Honored were the school. Miss Nalysnyk, Mr. Dankovych, Anna- The graduates listened intently as Maria Bagan and Maryann Krasko. The Bishop Richard gave a sermon in which he Principal’s Award for outstanding academ- noted that there is much more to life than ic achievement was awarded to Neil Graduates of the Class of 2009 at St. Nicholas Cathedral School in Chicago, cele- what they have learned so far. He also Browne, Solomiya Chuyko, Emilia Saber, brate their achievements. asked them to make good use of the talents Tania Jarmola, Anthony Markese and given to them by God and to surround Khrystyna Vatseba. received their diplomas and a special ment ceremony by asking all present to themselves by people who are good The awards ceremony was followed by blessing from the bishop to the applause of rise and wish the graduates “Mnohaya Christians. a moving presentation by Mrs. Finiak and the entire audience. After all diplomas Lita” – many happy years. As the choir The commencement ceremony began the graduates. Mrs. Finiak thanked the par- were distributed, the graduates turned the sang, the graduates proudly marched out after the liturgy. All in attendance were ents of the graduates for their faith in yellow and blue tassels on their caps from of the cathedral. greeted by Daria Hankewych, the eighth Catholic education and specifically for the right side to the left as a symbol of As they leave St. Nicholas School, the grade teacher. The graduates rose and sending their children to St. Nicholas their graduation. graduates will enter some the best high recited a special prayer in which they con- School. She thanked them for their dedica- The ceremony came to a close as Ms. schools in the City of Chicago and beyond: tion and support of the school for many Hankewych called upon the valedictorian, six students will attend St. Ignatius College years. Each graduate presented his or her Miss Nalysnyk, daughter of the Very Rev. Preparatory, two will attend Gordon parents with a single red rose as the par- Bohdan and Liliya Nalysnyk, to bid a fond Technical, two will attend De La Salle ents rose and were applauded by all pres- farewell to the school, teachers and gradu- Institute, one will attend Trinity High ent. ates. Miss Nalysnyk thanked all the par- School, one will attend Phoenix Military The commencement continued with a ents for their support, the principal and Academy and one will attend Maine South short speech by Ms. Hankewych, who teachers for their hard work, and her fel- High School. One student, Khrystyna reminded the students of some of the les- low classmates for all of the wonderful Vatseba, was named a Daniel Murphy sons that they were taught in school that memories from her nine years at St. Foundation Scholar and will be attending would help them as they leave St. Nicholas. Williston Northampton School in Nicholas. These important lessons includ- Ms. Hankewych ended the commence- Massachusetts on a four-year scholarship. ed some famous quotes. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going,” “Wherever you go, go with all your heart,” “You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you,” “What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.” Since this class went on a field trip to Springfield, Ill., these quotes also included some wise sayings by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. Valedictorian Yuliana Nalysnyk con- Lincoln said, “Whatever you are, be a cludes the commencement ceremony. good one,” “Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of rec- secrated their bodies, souls and hearts to ognition,” and “Be sure to put your feet in Jesus Christ. the right place, then stand firm.” Ms. Hankewych called upon the Ms. Hankewych also spoke on behalf of Salutatorian of the class of 2009, Oleh all of the teachers at St. Nicholas School Dankovych, son of Oleksiy and Olga when she said that she was proud of the 14 Dankovych, to say a few words. He fine young people about to graduate. The thanked the teachers for their dedication teachers would love for all of them to and love. He spoke for all of his class- remain at St. Nicholas forever, but the mates when he said that in their hearts they Book of Ecclesiastes states that, “To every- would always love their first teachers. He thing there is a season…” It is time for wished his fellow graduates much luck in these students to move on and accomplish the future. great things as have hundreds of distin- The ceremony continued with the intro- guished St. Nicholas School alumni before duction of Maria Klysh-Finiak, principal them. of St. Nicholas School. Mrs. Finiak pre- The big moment finally arrived. Ms. sented special awards to some of the grad- Hankewych called upon Bishop Richard, uates. Yuliana Nalysnyk, valedictorian of the Rev. Nalysnyk and Mrs. Finiak for the the class of 2009, received the Bishop presentation of diplomas. The graduates

So who is supposed to raise this issue Korrespondent... so that Ukrainians were more conscious (Continued from page 5) that this was the intentional destruction Well, if you spoke with Ukrainians who of mostly ethnic Ukrainians? live here, who have Ukrainian passports In my view, the majority of Ukrainians and earn Ukrainian salaries [Editor’s Note: the average Ukrainian salary is $230 to know enough about the Holodomor. $240 a month], you would understand the Maybe it’s because I’m a journalist, maybe Holodomor is not the number one issue for I’ve often heard that the Holodomor was 90 percent of them at the moment. The the destruction of Ukrainians by the Soviet main issue is survival, the health of their system. I don’t know whether this topic families, and so forth … needs to be raised any further. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 No. 25 Ten debutantes introduced to Ukrainian community in Ohio INDEPENDENCE, Ohio – Ten debu- tantes were presented to the Ukrainian community on May 9 at the Double Tree Hotel in Independence, Ohio, by the Plast sorority “Buryverkhy.” One by one, the young women walked to center stage on the arms of their fathers to take their traditional bows before fami- ly and friends. In this way they symboli- cally joined the adult community. The debutantes and their escorts then performed a dance, choreographed by Andrea Komichak, which ended in a waltz with their escorts, followed by a dance with their fathers. The escorts then presented each debutante’s mother with a red rose before dancing with them. Every debutante was presented with an original woodcut depicting a traditional “Tree of Life” created by artist Daria Hulak Kulchytsky, a member of the Buryverkhy sorority of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization. The work of art served to remind the debutantes where they came from and to encourage them to remain in the community in the future, Ohio’s Ukrainian debutantes (from left): Christina Danylewycz. Andrew Radian, Nora Keleher, Adrian Laluk; Lesia and thus to assure the Ukrainian commu- Mahlay, Maksym Kostryk; Katrina McQuiggan, Dennis Holowaty; Lesia Mural, Eric Platt; Mariana Rokitska, Nick nity’s existence. Pylypiv; Chrisitna Migielicz, Osyp Belkairous; Viktoria Krislaty, Stephan Kolodij; Oksana Drozdowska, Michael Migielicz; Maria (Mitsia) Zachary, Victoria and Marta Bodnaruk, Dennis Torielli. Krajnc and Daria Jakubovvycz presented the debutantes. into the night to music provided by the Toronto. the Ukrainian community. They are all After dinner, dancing continued late famous Zahrava/Klooch orchestra from All the debutantes are very active in members of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization or the Ukrainian American Youth Association; all are graduates of Saturday Ukrainian schools; most dance in various Ukrainian dance ensembles; and many sing in various Ukrainian choirs. In addition, they participate in many activities at their high schools.

Turning the pages... (Continued from page 6) A statement issued by PACE on June 24, 2004, following a weeklong meeting with a Ukrainian delegation, stated that the organi- zation had reservations about continued attempts by certain forces within the Verkhovna Rada to force through changes to the Constitution only months before presi- dential elections were to be held. National Deputy Borys Oliinyk, head of the Ukrainian delegation at the PACE meet- ing, said at a press conference in Kyiv that PACE members stated they would take a very serious look at the situation in Ukraine during the organization’s autumn session. “It looks like we are going to have very serious problems in October,” Mr. Oliinyk said. Opposition members criticized the timing of the political reforms pursued by the forc- es supporting President Leonid Kuchma as an attempt to head off the chances of oppo- sition candidate Viktor Yushchenko in the elections on October 31, 2004. There was fear that a new president could cause a major upheaval in the country’s power struc- ture and leave many in power at that time vulnerable to criminal prosecution.

Source: “PACE expresses concern over Rada’s new move on constitutional reform,” by Roman Woronowycz, The Ukrainian Weekly, July 4, 2004.

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As the relentless Russian pressure on as an “artificial” entity with lands given to Russia and Ukraine... Naftohaz proceeds, Moscow appears intent Russia's ideological... it by Russia and the USSR. (Continued from page 2) on modifying the Ukraine-EU agreement on (Continued from page 2) The March 16 issue of Russian political in storage from 2008 were used in the first renovating the Ukrainian main gas trunk alike. The ongoing furor has led to a split scientist Gleb Pavlovsky’s Ruskyi Zhurnal quarter of 2009 to replace expensive imports pipeline. Russia not only wants to be includ- within the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was devoted to “Will Ukraine Lose its from Russia, and are now mostly depleted. ed in the project, but to play a decisive role (Moscow Patriarchate) with Metropolitan Sovereignty?” (www.russ.ru). In the first quarter of 2009, Naftohaz in its development. This is not only against Dmytruk, the head of the UOC’s foreign Ukraine’s former ambassador to the bought only 2.5 bcm of gas from Russia, the Ukraine-EU concept of making the relations, supporting the growing call to United States, Yuri Shcherbak, wrote a while the quantity envisaged by the annual Ukrainian pipeline a more reliable route for remove the Church’s anathema (www. lengthy analysis of the campaign conduct- supplies contract signed in January was 35 Russian gas, but provides further proof of pravda.com.ua, May 26). ed by senior Russian officials. Dr. Moscow’s intention to obtain ultimate con- bcm, or 8.75 bcm per quarter. Under this Russia’s new historiography incorpo- Shcherbak said he believes that the aim is trol over the pipeline, and further consoli- “take or pay contract,” Ukraine is obligated rates additional Russian chauvinists, such an “ideological-propaganda preparation of date its monopoly on gas transit routes to the to pay for the total quantity regardless of as White Army Gen. Anton Denikin. Prime a future operation for the seizure of the ter- EU for political purposes. whether it decides to receive it. Minister Vladimir Putin’s recent reference ritory of a sovereign state” (Den, May 26). The European Union’s response to the One of the Russian officials named by In order to pay for gas purchases in the Russian proposals has been cautious. to Denikin’s description of Russia and first quarter of 2009, Naftohaz was able to Ukraine as “great” and “little” Russia Dr. Shcherbak was the director of the According to statements made by European Institute for CIS Countries Konstantin obtain from Gazprom a prepayment for the Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso shows the degree to which these Russian entire gas transit fee for Russian gas transit- views of Ukraine remain deep seated. Mr. Zatulin, who recently called upon Russia following the Khabarovsk summit, the EU to see ethnic Russians in Ukraine “in the ing to Europe in 2009. This prepayment was is ready to discuss the Russian proposals Putin’s use of “little Russia” infuriated all same rank as the army, the fleet and used to pay Gazprom for delivered gas. concerning the rules for energy cooperation shades of Ukrainian opinion. As Ukrainian Church” (www.russkie.org). Mr. Zatulin Naftohaz also relied on the state budget and and take them into account, but it will only historians pointed out, Denikin hated was again denied entry to Ukraine at loans from state-owned banks, which the do so as part of the Energy Charter Treaty “Ukrainian separatism” more than he did government insisted on being lent to the review currently in progress. the Bolsheviks, and this was his undoing. Symferopol airport. The SBU spokesper- company in order to settle its debts with The ultimate reason behind these maneu- Denikin’s march on Moscow was foiled by son explained this by saying that Mr. Gazprom. vers, however, appears to be the Russian uprisings in Ukraine, where his forces ter- Zatulin remained on a list of Russians Gazprom can, under the terms of the insistence that the European Union accept rorized everything Ukrainian (www.unian. banned from entering Ukraine. More January contract, demand a penalty pay- its strategy of building the South Stream and net, May 28). importantly, “The stance of the SBU on ment from Naftohaz for $2 billion for the Nord Stream pipelines. By convincing the Memoirs published in the West after the this question is very tough: independent of first quarter of 2009 for gas it did not EU that Ukraine is an “unreliable” transit Russian revolution by white Russian émi- the citizenship and position held [of the receive. In addition, Naftohaz is obligated to route for Russian gas, the Kremlin gas grés described “Ukrainian separatism” as an person], there is no place in Ukraine for buy its existing bonds for $500 million in monopoly can sabotage the Nabucco pipe- “Austrian” plot against Russia. “Ukrainian separatists and extremists” (www.pravda. September, although this is unlikely to line; gain full control over gas transit routes separatism” in the 1990s evolved into a com.ua, June 6). occur. As the East Week Analytical to the EU and reduce Ukraine to subservi- “Western plot,” while two-thirds of Russians In their rush to “reset” the button with Newsletter concluded: “In the absence of ence to Moscow. in January 2005 believed that the Orange Russia after its invasion of Georgia and external financing, Naftohaz will be unable Revolution was an “American conspiracy” President Barack Obama’s election, to buy any gas to build up the necessary The article above is reprinted from (see the critical review of the new anti- Brussels and Washington have ignored reserves. If this indeed transpires, Europe Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from Ukrainian book “American Salo [pork fat]” Russia’s ideological crusade against might be faced with another major gas sup- its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, www.unian.net, May 29). Ukraine. They should heed the warning ply crisis by the autumn of 2009.” www.jamestown.org. These views of Ukraine’s “artificiality” from Ambassador Shcherbak, who believes and “fragility” remain deeply rooted with- Russia’s ultimate aim is to “destroy in the Russian mindset, and explain the Ukrainian statehood” (Den, May 26). state orchestrated campaign depicting Visit our archive online: Ukraine as a “failed state” that requires The article above is reprinted from international supervision. In his speech to Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission www.ukrweekly.com the NATO-Russia Council in Bucharest in from its publisher, the Jamestown April 2008. Mr. Putin described Ukraine Foundation, www.jamestown.org. No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 21 Young pianist from Ukraine wins in Dublin Works by Antonenko DUBLIN – On May 15 judges of the eighth AXA Dublin International Piano on exhibit at UIMA Competition announced the 2009 winner at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. The CHICAGO – The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art is top prize went to Alexej Gorlatch, a presenting a collection of works from artist Olga Antonenko. renowned 20-year-old pianist from Ukraine. Antonenko is likely best recognized at Chicago for her Mr. Gorlatch was presented with his prize, mural in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. a Tipperary Crystal trophy and a check for As the winner of a national mural contest in Ukraine, she 12,000 euro (about $16,750 U.S.), by the was awarded the opportunity to participate in the Mural president of Ireland, Mary McAleese, that Project at the International Terminal of Chicago O’Hare same night. Airport in 1993. Her mural, “Spring in Chicago,” remains Additionally, the first prize included var- on permanent display at the airport. ious concert engagements, including per- Ms. Antonenko was born in Kyiv in 1963; she continues formances at New York’s Carnegie Hall to reside in the Ukrainian capital. She is a graduate of the and London’s Wigmore Hall, valued at Kyiv Architectural, Civil Construction and Engineering 90,000 euro (about $125,720). Institute. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout Over the course of the two weeks of Ukraine, including several solo exhibitions at the Artinform competition, Mr. Gorlatch played almost gallery in Kyiv. two hours of music from memory and She also participated in the Exhibition of Young advanced through four rounds of competi- Ukrainian Artists in Canada in 1988 and in an exhibit at the tion judged by a panel of 13 judges from 10 Hungarian Cultural Center in Moscow in 1991. different countries. Judge and fellow pia- While in Chicago for the completion of her mural at nist John O’Conor hailed Mr. Gorlatch as O’Hare Airport, Ms. Antonenko was featured in a solo “a very exciting pianist of great distinc- exhibition at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in tion,” saying “I think he will be one of our May-June 1993. greatest winners yet.” Scenes of daily life in rural Ukraine are a recurrent theme This is not Mr. Gorlatch’s first accom- in Ms. Antonenko’s artwork. Her narratives appear dream- plishment on the international music scene. like, removed from commonplace; ethereal figures float in Among other prestigious wins, in 2006 he and out of the periphery, amidst a kaleidoscope of vivid col- won first place in the Hamamatsu ors and fluid shapes. These images permeate the wide range International Piano Competition in Japan, of media Ms. Antonenko employs, from wall paintings and the International August Everding watercolors, to batiks and textiles. Competition in and the Beethoven The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art is located at 2320 Competition Richard Laugs in , W. Chicago Ave. It is open to the public Wednesday through Germany. Alexej Gorlatch, winner of the AXA Dublin International Piano Sunday, noon-4 p.m. (admission: $5 suggested donation). He has been hailed as “remarkably tal- Competition, receives a crystal trophy from President Mary The UIMA was founded in 1971 by Dr. Achilles ented” by Vivien Schweitzer of The New McAleese of Ireland. Chreptowsky in the heart of Chicago’s Ukrainian Village. York Times, who said his 2007 perfor- Three storefronts were transformed into a viable museum mance at Carnegie Hall exhibited a “finesse and maturity with many international orchestras, including Japan’s serving the local community and the greater Chicago area that belied his youth.” NHK, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and Nagoya with an ongoing program of cultural exhibitions, literary Mr. Gorlatch was born in Kyiv in 1988 and since Philharmonic Orchestra; Germany’s Bochum Symphony events, film screenings and music recitals. 1991 has resided in Germany, where he is currently Orchestra, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonic Orchestra and For more information readers may log on to www.uima- attending the University of Music and Theater in the German Kammerphilarmonie; as well as the National chicago.org or call 773-227-5522. . Despite his young age, he has already played Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. The Antonenko exhibit is on view through July 26.

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Since 1894 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 No. 25 “Steppes: A Ukrainian Journey” slated for June 27 in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA – The Ukrainian accepted from Ukraine and the world- Zoia Hraur Korsun, Ph.D. Since then, Federation of America and the Voloshky wide Ukrainian diaspora. the troupe’s goal has been to develop Ukrainian Dance Ensemble will pro- Ruslana Lyzhychko has been called and maintain a dance company of the duce “Steppes: A Ukrainian Journey,” at a champion of humanitarian causes. highest standards. The Voloshky have the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia She committed herself to the fight earned renown for the vigor and on Saturday, June 27, at 6 pm. The pro- against human trafficking and vio- resplendence of its performances. The duction will spotlight the magnificence lence against women while defending Voloshky style is bold, powerful and of Ukrainian dance and other Ukrainian issues of child welfare. UNICEF has markedly sparkling athleticism; its performing arts. named her a good will ambassador of artistry and portrayal of Ukrainian Joining the Voloshky on stage will Ukraine. dance is testament to a vibrant and be virtuoso violinist Vasyl Popadiuk, The journey for Mr. Popadiuk from enduring culture steeped in rich histo- accompanied by his band, Papa Duke. Ukraine to Toronto has been one of ry. The ensemble is under the artistic The Voloshky will premiere new work, musical adventure, starting at Kyiv’s direction of Taras Lewyckyj. along with elaborate new Hutsul cos- Lysenko school for gifted children at Tickets are available at the box tumes. Preceding the performance, the the tender age of 7, and continuing at office, by calling Upstages at Steppes To Liberty Award will be pre- Ukraine’s national Tchaikovsky 215-569-9700 or by visiting www. sented in person to humanitarian and Conservatory of Music from age 18. princemusictheater.org. Eurovision 2004 winner Ruslana. After The name of Mr. Popadiuk’s band – This Steppes project has been sup- the performance, a reception will allow Papa Duke – is a play on his last name ported by the Pew Center for Arts and a limited number of audience members and the fact that he is considered by Heritage through Dance Advance, to meet both the award recipient and many to be the “duke” of gypsy vio- with additional funding from Dance/ the performers personally. lin. Papa Duke’s music is best USA Philadelphia’s Theater Rental The Steppes To Liberty Award hon- described as “Gypsy World Fusion” Subsidy program. Also supporting the ors individuals who have demonstrat- with classical, jazz, Latin and pop project are the Ukrainian Federation ed deep commitment to improving undertones. of America, Self-Reliance Federal Ukrainian cultural freedom and iden- The Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Credit Union – Philadelphia branch, tity. Nominees for this award are Ensemble was founded in 1972 by and Meest America. The Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

Ruslana Vasyl Popadiuk

tism of his people in 988 on the banks of that odd? That is because there is no evi- American Ballet... the Dnipro. In the mid-16th century to The case of... dence of his killing anyone. This is an (Continued from page 11) 1775, the military and political organiza- (Continued from page 6) accusation of guilt by association. It is The Dnipro, Ukraine’s largest river and tion of the Ukrainian Kozaks was cen- Mr. Demjanjuk may not have been a founded on the belief that anyone who one of the major rivers in Europe – the tered in the Zaporozhian Sich (fortified saint. However, we are not measuring was a guard at any Nazi camp was by that fourth longest after the Volga, Danube camp) “za porohamy” (beyond the rapids) him against the standard of perfection. very fact guilty of a war crime. and Ural rivers – begins in Russia, travels on the lower Dnipro. Let us remember that there are very few No allowance is made for the possibili- along the Belarus-Ukraine border, then Famous for its modern-day hydroelec- who have nothing to hide about their con- ty that such guards were not there of their flows southward for over 1,000 kilome- tric power stations and as an important duct in World War II. Let us remember own volition but forced to be there by ters through the center of Ukraine, bisect- source of iron ore along its water routes, the Allied blanket fire bombings threats to their families or other circum- stances. Mere presence was enough. ing its natural zones – forest, forest- the Dnipro is also the base of a highly of Dresden and Hamburg that many con- In this sense the Demjanjuk case is lit- steppe and steppe – interconnecting them fertile agricultural region. It is Ukraine’s sider war crimes. Let us remember the tle more than a Western show trial to and connecting them with the Black Sea. main artery and its main highway. roles played by Italy and Japan as allies reinvigorate the memory of the Holocaust The river has been closely bound up The river was immortalized for of Nazi Germany. Let us not forget that and the collateral damage to people like with the life of the Ukrainian people for Ukrainians in Shevchenko’s poignant the Soviet Union signed the Molotov- centuries. It was an important route in poem “Reve ta Stohne Dnipr Shyrokyi” Mr. Demjanjuk and others is negligible or Ribbentrop Pact to enable Hitler to invade even deserving as far as those who are medieval times as part of the Varangian (The Wide Dnipro Roars and Moans), Poland and carve it up with Stalin. Let us running this campaign are concerned. It is route between the Baltic Sea and describing an angry wind whipping its sur- remember the collaboration a show trial along the lines of what we Byzantium across the Black Sea. face, bending tall willows to the ground, of Vichy France. Let us consider the role saw in the former Soviet Union and Nazi Volodymyr the Great, grand prince of while a pale moon shines and screech owls of some 150,000 Jewish soldiers in the Germany previously. Kyiv from 980, oversaw the mass bap- call to each other in the valley. German army, including at least a dozen Those who seek to condemn the atroci- high-ranking officers of Jewish descent, ties of those regimes and who hold the as well as the role played by Jewish rule of law dear to their hearts owe it kapos, police and the Judenrat during the to Mr. Demjanjuk to rally to his defense. war. Let us remember that it was German I have very little in common with officers and German soldiers that gov- Patrick Buchanan otherwise, but he is the erned the death camps of Nazi Germany only prominent American commentator – not Ukrainians like Mr. Demjanjuk. who has spoken up about this witch hunt, While the world ignores such instances and I respect him for that. But where are of Nazi collaboration it watches in silence all the others? It appears they are not con- as prosecutors seek to pin the tail on the cerned that the Demjanjuk case demon- donkey in Mr. Demjanjuk’s case. strates that American courts can be politi- Why? cized and made to bow to the pressures of The reason is because this is not really expediency. It appears they are prepared about Mr. Demjanjuk as a camp guard at to accept that America cannot always be all. That is clear from the fact that he is relied on to be balanced and fair, and to accused of being an accessory to 29,000 protect the rights of its citizens and the deaths, but not of murdering anyone. Isn’t rule of law. No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 23 OUT AND ABOUT

June 26 Lecture by Serhii Kot, “Restitution of Looted July 11 Concert, violinist Eugene Fodor and pianist Washington Ukrainian Cultural Property,” Shevchenko Jewett, NY Volodymyr Vynnytsky, Grazhda Music and Art Scientific Society, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, Center of Greene County, 518-989-6479 240-205-1889 or 202-223-2228 July 11 60th anniversary banquet, Ukrainian American June 27 45th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko monument, Ellenville, NY Youth Association, UAYA Oselia, 845-647-7230 Washington Embassy of Ukraine, 22nd and P streets NW, [email protected] July 20-24 Ukrainian Arts Day Camp, Assumption of the June 27 Concert, “Steppes: A Ukrainian Journey,” featuring Ottawa Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Philadelphia Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Prince Music 613-841-9489 Theater, 215-569-9700 or www.princemusictheater.org July 24 One-person exhibit, “Of the Seasons” by Aniziya Lakewood, OH Karmazyn, featuring paintings, woodcut and mixed June 28 Ukrainian Festival and dinner, St. Anne Ukrainian media works, The Beck Center for the Arts, Warrington, PA Catholic Church, 215-343-3948 216-521-2540 or www.beckcenter.org

June 28 Film screening, “Bereza Kartuzka” by Yurij Luhovy, July 25 Fund-raiser concert, violinist Alexander Toronto St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral hall, Jewett, NY Brussilovsky, cellist Nataliya Khoma and pianist 416-603-3224 Volodymyr Vynnytsky, Grazhda Music and Art Center of Greene County, 518-989-6479 July 3-5 Independence Day weekend festivities, Bobrivka, North Colebrook, CT 860-883-1391, 203-932-4376 or July 31-August 2 Canada’s National Ukrainian Festival, Selo Ukraina www.bobriwka.org Dauphin, Manitoba (Ukrainian Village), 204-622-4600

July 3-5 Vegreville Pysanka Festival, Vegreville Cultural August 1 Piano recital by Juliana Osinchuk, Grazhda Music Vegreville, Alberta Association, Fair Grounds, 780-632-2777 Jewett, NY and Art Center of Greene County, 518-989-6479

July 4 Jubilee concert of works by Myroslav Skoryk, August 3-7 Pysanka workshop, with instruction by Sofika Jewett, NY featuring soprano Maria Stefiuk, Grazhda Music Jewett, NY Zielyk, Grazhda Music and Art Center of Greene and Art Center of Greene County, 518-989-6479 County, 518-989-6479

July 5-18 Teenage Conference, Ukrainian Orthodox Church August 3-7 Mommy and Me/Daddy and Me Camp, Ukrainian Emlenton, PA of the U.S.A., All Saints Camp, Emlenton, PA Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., All Saints Camp, www.uocyouth.org/UOCCP.html www.uocyouth.org/UOCCP.html or 412-279-1076 or 412-279-1076 Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to July 6-11 Dance day camp, Eurasia Dance Society, St. events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome Silver Spring, MD Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, submissions from all our readers. Items will be published at the discre- [email protected] or 202-841-8325 tion of the editors and as space allows. Please send e-mail to mdubas@ ukrweekly.com. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 2009 No. 25 PREVIEW OF EVENTS Saturday, June 27 (1934-1939). It is based on extensive Soyuzivka’s Datebook research, vintage stock shots and commen- PHILADELPHIA: The Voloshky Ukrainian taries by pre-eminent academics and eyewit- Dance Ensemble, in partnership with the ness testimonies. This year marks the 70th Ukrainian Federation of America, will pres- June 19-21 Wedding weekend Dance Workshop anniversary of the fall of Bereza Kartuzka. July 17-19 Ukrainian Cultural ent “Steppes: A Ukrainian Journey” at the Admission: $15 (with “perekuska”). All are June 21 UNA Father’s Day Festival celebrated Prince Music Theater, 1412 welcome. For information call 416- 603 Chestnut St., beginning at 6 p.m. The perfor- 3224. June 21-July 2 Tennis Camp July 19-24 Heritage Camp session 1 mance will feature Vasyl Popadiuk and his band Papa Duke on stage with the Voloshky, Friday-Sunday, July 3-5 which will showcase its new Hutsul cos- June 27 Private party July 19-25 Discovery Camp ELLENVILLE, N.J.: The Organization for tumes and choreography. Ruslana will be on the Defense of Lemko Western Ukraine, in stage to receive this year’s Steppes to Liberty coordination with the Ukrainian American June 27 USCAK Tennis July 25 Zabava with Oberehy, 10 pm Award for her humanitarian efforts. A “Meet Tournament Weekend Youth Association, invites all to a festival, the Stars” reception and wine-tasting will be the ninth Lemko Vatra (Bonfire) in the July 25-August 1 Sitch Sports Camp held right after the show for those purchas- U.S.A., at the UAYA grounds, 8853 Route June 28-July 5 Tabir Ptashat 1st Session 1 ing the limited number of VIP tickets. For 209, Ellenville, NY 12428. Dances will fea- session; Exploration Day Camp 1 tickets call 215-569-9700 or log on to www. ture Ukrainian Sensation on Friday, and July 26-31 Heritage Camp session 2 princemusictheater.org, Admission: $60 for Halychany and Udech on Saturday. Concerts July 3-4 Friday: Hrim Unplugged on performance; $200 for performance and are scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday the Tiki Deck July 26-August 8 Dance Camp ses- “Meet the Stars” reception. For additional at 5 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Performers Saturday: Zabava with Hrim, 10 pm sion 1 information visit www.voloshky.com. The will include: Ukrainian Colors Ensemble, sponsors are 501(c) (3) tax-exempt organiza- Anychka, Vasyl Popadiuk, Valeriy tions; proceeds benefit the artistic and cultur- Kyrychenko, Zolotyj Promin dance ensem- July 5-12 Tabir Ptashat 2nd session, July 31-August 1 Friday evening: al programs of the Voloshky Ukrainian Exploration Day Camp 2 Kagero on the Tiki Deck ble, Oros Sisters, Vika Gordieva, Pavlyshyn Dance Ensemble. Sisters, Passaic’s St. Nicholas Church Choir, Saturday: Film Festival, hosted by Dr. Sunday, June 28 School of Ballet, comedians and others. A July 11 Zabava with Fata Morgana, Yuri Shevchuk and the Columbia pig roast will begin on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. 10 pm Film Club; Zabava with Na TORONTO: A screening of the documenta- Other highlights: arts and crafts exhibitions, Zdorovya, 10 pm ry film “Bereza Kartuzka” (Ukrainian ver- Ukrainian cuisine, the Vatra Lighting July 5-18 Roma Pryma Bohachevsky sion) will take place in the St. Volodymyr (Saturday, 5 p.m.), the East Coast Cup Cathedral Hall, 400 Bathurst St., at noon, Soccer Tournament (Saturday, 10 a.m.) and organized by the Ukrainian Women’s pontifical divine liturgy (Sunday, 10 a.m.) Organization of Canada, Kniahynia Olha celebrated by Bishop Paul Chomnycky, Branch. Produced and directed by award- OSBM. For information e-mail VatraUSA@ winning Montreal filmmaker Yurij Luhovy, aol.com or [email protected], or call this is the first film to be made about the 973-772-3344, 203-762-5912 or Polish concentration camp Bereza Kartuzka 845-647-7230.

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