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Score one for Ukraine Kuchma sends envoy to restive Crimea by Marta Kolomayets this peninsula, an object of strained October. However, because Mr. Kyyiv Press Bureau relations between Ukraine and Meshkov backed off so quickly, it Dynamo beats Russia over the last two years. The seems that his power base was too KYYiv - Ukrainian President president has not been given back weak to go through with his plans. Leonid Kuchma dispatched his spe– any powers in the last few days, but , 3-2 cial envoy, Deputy Prime Minister parliamentary leaders have gotten Symferopil politics Yevhen Marchuk, to the Crimea on back to work to discuss the region's President Kuchma has refused to by Marta Kolomayets Thursday, September 15, to mediate catastrophic economic situation. Kyyiv Press Bureau between the two feuding power bases take sides in the political dispute The Ukrainian president, who has — Crimean President Yuriy Meshkov and has urged both branches of the met with both sides, has warned he KYYiv — Ukraine scored a victory in Ukrainian- and the Crimean Parliament, chaired Crimea's government to reach a will not tolerate violence and has Russian relations as Kyyiv's Dynamo defeated by Sergei Tsekov — in the restive "civilized solution." in a statement proposed that the Crimean Moscow's Spartak 3-2 in a European Champions peninsula in Ukraine's south. issued by his press service on League soccer match held Wednesday evening, Parliament and president annul all Monday, September 12, Mr. Brewing tensions between the September 14, here at the Republican Stadium. controversial legislation of the last Kuchma said that "the conflict legislative and executive branches in This is the first time the two teams have met in week and begin immediate talks should be resolved within the frame- Symferopil flared on Sunday morn– Kyyiv since Ukraine proclaimed its independence mediated by a team from Ukraine's work of the Constitution of Ukraine, ing, September 11, when Crimean in 1991. central government. through a reasonable compromise." President Meshkov disbanded Over 90,500 spectators watched as Kyyiv played President Meshkov's actions on Mr. Kuchma's statements of neu– Parliament, claiming power for him– an aggressive game and came from behind (Spartak Sunday, September 11, could have trality have been strong; however, self in this pro-Russian separatist was winning 2-0 after the first 45 minutes of play) in been regarded as a maneuver remi– Mr. Meshkov has tried to claim that region. His actions were in retalia– the second half to win this first game in the UEFA niscent of Boris Yeltsin's dissolu– tion for the Crimean Parliament's Champions League group matches for the 1994-1995 tion of the Russian Parliament last (Continued on page 4) season, it should be noted that play concentrated vote on Wednesday, September 7, around the Moscow goal, and the Ukrainians had five which stripped him of his presiden– times as many shots on goal as the Moscow team. tial powers. As The Weekly was going to press on Thursday afternoon, September 15, the 4 in return, the Crimean Parliament Streets were void of any signs of life on Ukrainian Supreme Council, beginning its second session of work, voted 303-5 to accused him of staging a coup and Wednesday evening, and the city police worked cancel the Sevasiopil City Council's decision declaring Sevastopil a Russian city. overtime as throngs of fans made their way on continued its business, holding its Deputies of the City Council had voted on August 23 to give the city "Russian sta– public transportation to the stadium for the 9:30 assembly session in the general tus," however, this claim was not supported by the Russian Parliament. The p.m. game, (it started late in order to accommodate procurator's office around the cor– Ukrainian Parliament, which returned from summer recess on September 15, put European viewing audiences who were able to see ner from the Parliament building. this question on its list of priorities and overwhelmingly voted to overturn the it live on television during prime time.) By Wednesday, September 14, Sevastopil City Councils decision. The stadium was almost filled to capacity (it Mr. Meshkov had allowed the This is not the first time the issue of Sevastopil has been raised since the seats 100,000), and most of the sections looked deputies back into Parliament, but disintegration of the , in December 1992 the Russian Parliament like a sea of blue and yellow, as spectators waved the struggle over which government laid claims to the city, the home port of the Black Sea Fleet. But since then, a national flags and began doing the "wave." The branch has more power continues on new Parliament has been elected and it has not touched the issue. trend was contagious, and before the game had even started, the whole stadium was "waving" and chanting "Kyyiv, Kyyiv, Dynamo, Dynamo." People who live more than six kilometers from the 'Yalta ІГ policy reflected in administration's moves center said they heard the cheering through their national interest and power politics open windows. WASHINGTON (UNAW) - As Chairman Eduard Shevardnadze is acceptable to the U.S., as long as invited Russia to Georgia but did Although many sports fans may argue that poli– reported last week, it appears that vital U.S. interests are not adversely not mention Russia's actions to tics should be kept out of sports, this game seemed "the is prepared to impacted..." destabilize Georgia or the pressure to do more to instill pride in Ukrainians than any accept an expanded Russian sphere of to which Mr. Shevardnadze had event since the euphoria felt in December 1991, influence." The Washington Times According to the story, the policy been subjected. when Ukrainians voted for independence. report was based on the contents of a papers states that the United States Tackling Ambassador Albright's "Everyone likes to be a winner, but winning State Department policy paper circu– does not object to Russia pursuing argument that accepting Russians as against Moscow makes the victory even sweeter," lating within the department. its foreign policy goals "within the peacekeepers is the only pragmatic commented a colleague who was among the spec– The paper was sent to Secretary confines" of international law and policy, Danish Broadcasting said: "1 tators at the game. of State Warren Christopher in July "absent a clear and present danger would like to ask you if we are not Dynamo and Moscow's Spartak have always after it cleared the White House. of resurgent Russian imperialism." being too pragmatic?" The question– been fierce rivals on the playing field, but for many According to the Times, "some cyn– The paper also notes that the United er went on to point out that the prin– spectators this was more than a soccer game. Some ics at State are calling the paper States and Russia share a goal of ciples of the U.N. stipulating that waved biue-and-yellow flags, some wore blue-and– 'Yalta 11,' but others say the Clinton maintaining stability. those involved should not act as yeilow T-shirts, some just chanted enthusiastically. administration is outlining a prag– The legitimacy of this story was peacekeepers were being violated. matic approach to Moscow." supported by U.S. Ambassador to After the victory, the crowds, feeling euphoric Ms. Albright reiterated the pragmat– The Times quotes an official the United Nation Madeleine and inspired, took to the streets, and chanted ic aspects of Russian peacekeeping. reading from the paper: "it is under- Albright's speech in Moscow on "Dynamo — the Champions." it was way past in her speech, Ms. Albright stood that a Russian sphere of influ– September 6. in the speech, midnight before the streets of Kyyiv returned to equated the United States and ence is being recognized with Ambassador Albright gave a green the calm of indian summer. Russia, noting they are "two huge Europe extending to the eastern bor– light for Russian "peacekeeping" on Dynamo and Spartak are both in Group В of the continental powers which are really der of Poland, leaving the Baltics the territory of the former Soviet UEFA matches, along with Bayern Munchen and nations of nations." When ques– somewhat up for grabs..." it goes on Union. Stating that the United Paris Saint Germain. The teams play each other tioned about that comparison, Ms. to state: "What differentiates this at– Nations is unable to tackle addition– twice, once on home turf and once away, until Albright stated, "we are not, either first disturbing picture from the al peacekeeping activities such as December. (There are 16 teams in four groups.) we or Russia, are not homogenous Cold War is the de-ideologization of required in Georgia, Ms. Albright Quarter-finals and semi-finals will be played early people. What is different is that 1, as Russian foreign policy," meaning stated that "we did, in fact, create a next year, and the final match for the Champion a Czech-born American, do not that Russia is not committed to mandate that put that peacekeeping Clubs' Cup will be held in May. claim Denver as my own territory communism and world revolution. force into the field and at the same Dynamo's next game will be against Bavaria in and want my own airline. But here, Munich on September 28. The official continued, quoting: time created the United Nations "Russian foreign policy based on mission." She also mentioned that (Continued on page 8) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,1994 No. 38 ANALYSlS: A look at the factions in Ukraine's new Supreme Council by Danylo Yanevsky also has a viewpoint different from the part with the fact that, during Mr. An analysis of media reports by mem– Eastern Economist Communists. Kravchuk's presidency, this western bers of this faction, of their voting record region was allowed to conduct an eco– during the first parliamentary session and Yednist and the inter-Regional Group KYYiv - The limited yet irreversible nomic experiment at the key border point of conversations with other deputies, political restructuring of Ukrainian soci– Two other influential factions, Yednist of Chop, in practice, this meant the oppor– shows that, as a whole, Center members ety that has been taking place step-by- and the inter-Regional Deputies Group, tunity to introduce foreign commercial are against the president's political course. step also resulted in a restructuring of the were formally established by non-party ties, which were beyond the control of They can form the core of the parliamen– Supreme Council elected in the spring. deputies from the eastern regions of the Kyyiv functionaries, in Ukraine this tary opposition along these lines. As of May 27, the elected deputies creat– country. always brings huge profits, unseen to the ed nine officially registered factions: Derzhavnist - Statehood Yednist includes leaders from the rest of the world. Communists of Ukraine for Social Justice largest non-state commercial entities, For the most part, the Center faction is The Derzhavnist faction, or at least and Power of the People, 86; Socialist directors of mines, local administrators, not so much a political formation as a some of its members, make up another Faction, 25; Agrarians of Ukraine Group, top government officials and former lobby, its members, who share business part of this opposition, its most active 33; Yednist Group, 26; inter-Regional President Kravchuk's administrators. The ties, participate in political activity exclu– and influential activists, especially mem– Deputies Group, 27; Center Group, 38; majority were elected in Kharkiv, sively in order to protect these interests, bers of the Ukrainian Republic Party in Reform Group, 27; National Rukh Dnipropetrovske, Zaporizhzhia and taking full advantage of their unique the previous political epoch, bravely sup- Faction, 27; Derzhavnist Group, 26; Donetske oblasts, and they include Oleh right to parliamentary immunity. No law ported President Kravchuk's every action undeclared, 23. Taranov, president of JSC Ukrainian enforcement body can start investiga– and decision. They made up the "irrecon– The July 24 and August 7 rounds of Siberian investment Corp. and chairman tions, lay criminal charges or file suit cilable opposition" to the government elections resulted in significant changes of the Economic Policy and against the carrier of this immunity — headed by Prime Minister Kuchma. to this list. While the newly elected Administration Committee; valeriy even if, say, this person had participated This position was based on their belief deputies — five Communists, one Babych, president of the JSC Ukrainian in the rape of a teenager, open terrorism, Agrarian, one Rukh member — will Financial Group; viktor Suslov, former or drug trafficking. (Continued on page 12) obviously join their existing correspond– advisor to the premier and chairman of ing party factions, the question of joining the Banking and Finance Committee. one or another faction or creating a new The inter-Regional Deputies Group faction remains open until the beginning was established by those deputies who on of the second parliamentary session on the eve of parliamentary elections September 15 for the 49 independent announced their support Mr. Kuchma's deputies, and one each from the Cholera reported in the Crimea the former Ukrainian KGB, which con– political course. Until his election as Democratic Rebirth Party, the Party for cerned itself with the activities of the president, he was the actual leader of this Economic Rebirth of the Crimea and the SYMFEROP1L - A cholera outbreak country's citizens, the SBU was primari– faction. With the exception of the former Labor Congress. centered on Symferopil, with 21 people ly concerned with fighting organized vice-premier, valentyn Landyk, there are striken and another 65 carrying the dis– Of these factions, only, four — the crime and stabilizing the economy by no well-known political leaders within ease, was reported by the international Communist, Socialist, Agrarian and Rukh' rooting out white-collar economic the group. media on September 13. in an effort to - are established along party lines. offenses, it was noted that since 1991 the Three members of the inter-Regional stop the disease, some 22 schools have Nevertheless, for political reasons, sever– SBU has investigated more than 1,300 Deputies Group are simultaneously been closed and two special hospitals deal– al Communist Party members were "dele- economic crimes, including corruption in members of the Yednist faction. This ing with cholera cases have been set up. gated" to the Socialist and Agrarian fac– lower-ranking ministries and among top once again illustrates that at least some of The outbreak has been attributed by the tions, because the temporary regulation bank officials. (RFE7RL Daily Report) the members of both factions profess the director of epidemic control in Ukraine's approved in 1990 set the minimum num– same ideology. This ideology may be Ministry of Health to contaminated drink– ber of deputies needed to create a parlia– Ukraine, Poland discuss satellite briefly described as: a multi-faceted ing water. (RFE7RL Daily Report) mentary faction at 21. Since, according to economy, significant strengthening of the WARSAW - Poland and Ukraine calculations of the international state's regulatory role in all spheres of More on Crimean assassinations have discussed a joint project to launch a Foundation for Electoral System (1FES), public and economic life, and an over-all communications satellite in 1997 that only 14 Socialists and 18 Agrarians were political orientation towards tighter inte– SYMFEROP1L - According to alle– would become a part of the European elected to the current Supreme Council, gration into C1S structures, especially gations by Crimean Deputy volodymyr satellite system Eutelsat. The project, the Communists decided to politically with Russia. Shevlov, the assassinations of politicians undertaken for the purpose of improving "assist" those parties. and leading officials in the Crimea had not communications systems in Poland, The Centrists been ordered by organized criminal gangs Ukraine and neighboring countries, The Left and the Presidium but by political activists in the Crimea Formally, the members of the Center would involve cooperation in the sharing who represent the Russian population As a result, the leaders of these parlia– faction have no party affiliation. of advanced aerospace technology, there, in speaking to reporters on mentary factions have also had the for– However, a glance at the official list of Ukraine's forte, and in financing the con– September 6, Mr. Shevlov did not identify mal opportunity to join the Supreme faction members testifies that it is made struction of the satellite. (UP1) the offenders publicly but said he had sub– Council Presidium. Like the Parliament up of nearly all the highly placed elected mitted a report to the head of the Supreme Death toll in mine blast rises itself, this body is run by Socialist officials from the Kravchuk period who Council of the Crimea and the interior Speaker Oleksander Moroz and Agrarian were personally obligated to him for their KYYiv — Six more miners injured in Ministry. (RFE7RL Daily Report) First Deputy Speaker Oleksander former or present positions. the September 3 gas explosion at the Tkachenko. According to the existing These include: former Speaker ivan ТУ profiles Ukrainian Security Service Slavianoserbska mine near Luhanske Constitution, this body calls parliamen– Pliushch and his first deputy, vasyl have died of their injuries, raising the tary meetings, organizes the preparatory Durdynets; the former and curent pre– KYYiv - The Security Service of death toll to 30, according to a report of work for Supreme Council sessions, mier, vice-premiers, ministers, commit– Ukraine (SBU), created when Ukraine September 11. A commission headed by implements control according to the tee chairs from the previous Supreme gained independence in 1991, was fea– Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Dyuba Constitution, organizes the preparation Council Yukhym Zviahilsky, Mykola tured in a report on September 6 by has concluded that the explosion was and execution of referenda, and has the Zhulynsky, Roman Shpek, Anatoliy Ukrainian Television. 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AJC's Project Ukraine Delegation visits the Drohobych area and views Brody's Garden of Stone The American Jewish Committee's thundering small-town compromise was four-year Project Ukraine entered Phase arrived at: the Polish choir led by Dr. 11 with a 10-day trip to Ukraine on July Shreyer would sing Ukrainian songs — 24-August 1. Following is a continuation "We always have," he muttered under his of the series of articles being written by breath after debate was concluded. With a Andrij Wynnyckyj, staff writer!editor of grandfatherly irony, he would also whis– The Ukrainian Weekly, who participated per corrections in grammar to himself as in that journey. Prosvita activists held forth about the importance of Ukrainian. by Andrij Wynnyckyj Mr. Roth commended all present for their forthrightness, and underscored that PART 11 the ability to talk about the problems they The expedition came face to face on face is the root of solutions, because once July 26 with a fascinating microcosm of the problems are articulated, the more "pri– multi-ethnic Ukrainian society at a cross- vate and public pain are shared, the more roads: a town meeting in Drohobych, an the various communities will be united in ancient salt mining town that became the their concerns and be better able to deal focus of the early stages of the 19th cen– with them." Mr. Roth said that voluntary tury oil boom in Galicia, now with a associations in society, with practice, can reduced economic significance but rich become very adept at solving problems cultural heritage. Myroslav Marynovych, without government involvement. the Drohobych-born former dissident He concluded by reminding the and current head of Amnesty assembly that communities that are ready international in Ukraine, introduced the to resolve issues openly are attractive ^y^romar r^T^"mif^^^fSfWi delegation to the assembly. His sister because they evince an inner strength, a : 4 Natalia Marynovych, a teacher in a local capability to deal with the issues they '' - - "" шт,^т^щ0і- -^--^–-ь North American-style foreign language face, and he encouraged Mayor Yuriy ra?K^XfWK! school, served as a superlative two-way Datsiuk, also in attendance, to hold such т щ interpreter for the proceedings. meetings regularly. As no resident will tire of telling you, Ф^ п0^в'і рк During the luncheon held for the кщщщш?чщ^-ощщ Drohobych is also the birthplace of group, Dr. Shreyer, an Auschwitz sur– Yuriy Kotermak Drohobych. The quin– vivor, confided that he had been given quecentennial of his death (February 4, offers to emigrate and teach in Germany, гс^ттттШ 1494, in KrakowJ was commemorated particularly in the wake of various іщтщ^з^пШ this year. He was Ukraine's first doctor Schulz jubilee celebrations held in of medicine, who taught astronomy and Drohobych, but refused to live among Фл?ХШ^п йачапгЛ?г medicine at the University of Bologna in those who had tormented him and killed tat Ч-^ 1,^1 рГфщ^ ., ;іЬтйШ: f 1; -^?їчЛ the 15th century. his family. Far from harboring any ani– The main players in this fascinating mus for his Ukrainian neighbors, he ШШіРгтпт І?Шійя drama were Lev Mazur, president of the seemed to cluck indulgently over them, Detail of a headstone of a local shipping merchant. Brody, whose population was local Jewish Society; Dr. Alfred Shreyer, like a cultural mother hen. 64 percent Jewish in 1900, was formerly near the border of the Russian and the Jewish president of the Polish Mr. Mazur and Dr. Shreyer's assistant, Austro-Hungarian empires, and an important commercial center until railways Society, a literary scholar, professor of Mr. Goldberg, who was also the curator of sent it into decline. music at the local conservatory and last the district's ethnographic treasures, then living student of the world-renowned led the group to the impressive but sadly The old scholar's enthusiasm picked up with volumes of beautiful literature that Polish-Jewish writer, Bruno Schulz, who crumbling and bare . Maurice as he showed the group the school where flowed from him." lived and worked in Drohobych until he Weiss, a rabbi and Bruno Schulz's last liv– Bruno Schulz had taught him drawing. Mr. Goldberg then took the group to was shot by an SS official in 1942; the ing relative, offered a prayer. "Every day he would lean against an easel one of three surviving Lemko wooden Rev. Mykhailo Bachynsky of the Dr. Shreyer then led the group on a tour and improvise a new story for us. Ukrainian Orthodox Church (his Greek- churches in Ukraine, edifices once preva– of Drohobych's tree-lined avenues, once Unfortunately, none of us thought to write lent in the Carpathians. This one, St. Catholic counterpart was curiously populated by sugar and oil barons and pep– any of them down — none of us knew George's, had been transported from its absent); members of the local Prosvita pered with , which were now stenography, and of course there were no educational society; a local Rukh repre– only fodder for litanies about desecration. tape recorders back then. Our ears rang (Continued on page 14) sentative; iryna Senyk, the former pris– oner of conscience and now president of the local chapter of the Ukrainian Women's Association (Soyuz Ukrainok). Mr. Mazur, gravelly voiced and plain- spoken, painted a poignant picture of a shrunken Jewish community staggering under the overwhelming load of a patri– mony that was finally being returned to it. Recently, one of the largest syna– gogues in Ukraine (used as a furniture warehouse under the Soviet regime since the war) was returned, handed over to a population that dropped from 17,000 prior to the second world war, to 300 at present. He said to restore the cavernous shrine would cost in the neighborhood of S500,000. With a touching stoicism, he shrugged that it was unlikely any assis– tance would be forthcoming from abroad. He conceded that it was impractical for the local Jewish community to have taken on the onerous responsibility of its upkeep, but that it had no choice: if it was offered to them, they had to take it. Then followed an appeal for under- standing from the Orthodox priest whose father and grandfather had been Greek- Catholics prior to the Soviet regime. An interesting give and take ensued between all present on the new primacy of the and the necessity of patriotic feeling among local Poles and for the newly independent state. A A field of nine-foot headstones of the Jewish cemetery near Brody. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER ie, 1994 No. 38 Ambassador Bilorus gets warm send-off from Washingtonians by Yaro Bihun Today, Ukraine's 45 diplomats and staff work in a S4 million Embassy building WASH1NGTON - Ambassador Oleh complex in Washington's historic Bilorus got a warm send-off on Georgetown region overlooking the September 8 from the Washington Potomac River. Ukrainian American community as he concluded his tour of duty as Ukraine's ihor Gawdiak, president of Ukraine first ambassador to the United States. 2000, an organization originally founded to help Rukh that later broadened in The envoy returned to Kyyiv on scope to help Ukraine's democratization September 12. His replacement has not process, said Ukrainian Americans will yet been announced, but one is expected remember Dr. Bilorus's accomplish– to arrive before President Leonid ments with "great satisfaction." He noted Kuchma visits Washington in November. that the ambassador, during the short An estimated 150 Washingtonians span of two years, was one of the key came to the Ukrainian Embassy in players in developing the existing friend– Georgetown for the farewell reception ly U.S.-Ukrainian relations. for the ambassador and his wife, Laryssa, which was sponsored by The Mr. Gawdiak said Ukrainian Washington Group, the Ukrainian Americans are especially grateful for the Association of Washington and Ukraine hospitable atmosphere he created for 2000. them in the Ukrainian Embassy. And, in The presidents of the three groups and bidding him farewell, he expressed the other representatives praised Dr. Bilorus hope of the Ukrainian American commu– for helping build strong and friendly ties nity that Ukraine will remain indepen– TWG vice-President Andrew Bihun (left) proposes a toast to Ambassador Oleh between Ukraine and the United States dent, secure, economically prosperous Bilorus and his wife, Laryssa. and for working closely with the and a truly democratic country. Ukrainian American community. Steven Rapawy, who heads the said Dr. Bilorus will long be remembered Laryssa Chopivsky, who recently The Washington Group vice– Ukrainian Association of Washington, the for the role he played in Ukrainian histo– launched The Washington Group's President Andrew Bihun opened the area's oldest organization, thanked Dr. ry. Cultural Fund, expressed the organiza– evening by noting that the Ukrainian Bilorus for a job that he characterized as "You have served your country with tion's gratitude for the cooperation and American community was celebrating being "extremely well done." Mr. Rapawy grace and with skill, with courage and assistance it received from the Ukrainian "not the ending but the beginning of an said that in attending numerous U.S. gov– with honesty, and with professionalism," Embassy. era" and rejoicing about what ernment conferences, he noted a positive he said. "You have been a most gracious "The world judges nations by their Ambassador Bilorus and his staff accom– change in the views of official Washington host to us, your adopted community. We culture, and, unfortunately, Ukraine's plished during his two-and-a-half-year during Dr. Bilorus's tenure, even though, thank you sincerely for your hospitality culture has been obscured from the world tenure. he admitted, U.S. assistance remains and generosity." for too long," she said. The TWG When Dr. Bilorus came to Washington "more promises than concrete aid." Mr. Babiak presented Dr. Bilorus with Cultural Fund is seeking to remedy that in April 1992, the Embassy consisted of Mykola Babiak, president of The a plaque recognizing his achievements situation, and the Ukrainian Embassy, two diplomats who worked in a rental Washington Group, the largest Ukrainian and bestowing on him lifetime honorary she said, has helped lay a solid founda– suite in a downtown office building. American association of professionals, membership in The Washington Group. tion for this endeavor.

by ethnic Russians, who make up about two-thirds of the Kuchma sends envoy... region's 2.7 million residents. A park ranger (Continued from page 1) Meanwhile, back in Kyyiv he has the Ukrainian president's support in his actions. makes a difference On the other hand, Mr. Tsekov has wanted Ukrainian author– The chairman of Ukraine's Parliament, Oleksander Moroz, ities to denounce Mr. Meshkov. "it doesn't take much just for has condemned actions in the Crimea as unconstitutional and WASHINGTON - John them to say that the actions of the president of the Crimea are has said that a solution to the conflict has to be found based on Lockwood is a GS 5 National Park unconstitutional," he explained. But Mr. Kuchma has pointed Ukrainian laws and the Constitution of Ukraine. Ranger in the U.S. National Park out that "both sides bear responsibility for events." "if we want to fight for constitutional powers, for democra– Service. For four years now Mr. President Kuchma has urged both sides to go to the "zero cy, then this has to be done by democratic and legal methods," Lockwood has made sure that option," the way things were 10 days ago, and according to his he said during a news conference on Tuesday, September 13. Ukrainian translations of materials chief of staff, Dmytro Tabachnyk, "the president does not sup- Mr. Moroz said a parliamentary committee would begin relating to the Jefferson, Lincoln port, has never supported and cannot support" any of the parties studying the situation on the peninsula next week. and Washington memorials as well in the Crimean conflict. "Meshkov figured that if he dissolved the Crimean Some political analysts in Kyyiv view this as an attempt to buy Parliament, Ukrainian army divisions would intervene. That, time on the part of President Kuchma, who wants to come up with in turn, would give him reason to ask for help from Russian a peaceful resolution to the conflict, and by all means avoid any forces stationed in the Crimea, and then armed conflict bloodshed. between Ukraine and Russia would begin, something like Mr. Kuchma enjoyed popularity during his presidential cam– Karabakh, or other hot spots," explained Mykola Porovsky, a paign on the peninsula because he had advocated closer ties deputy who heads the Committee of the Crimea with Ukraine. with Moscow. However, President Kuchma is adamant that the "in my opinion, the most rational solution to this situation Crimea should remain a part of Ukraine. is to dissolve the Crimean Parliament, impeach the Crimean Earlier this year, it seemed that the Crimean peninsula had president, liquidate Crimean autonomy and in its place form a started a separatist campaign, and in May Mr. Meshkov and the few national-regional districts, representing, for example, the Parliament brought the Crimea to the brink of civil war by Crimean Tatars with their base in Bakhchysaray, the Russians adopting a constitution Kyyiv viewed as a declaration of inde– with their base in Symferopil or Yalta, the Ukrainians in the pendence. They backed down after threats from the central gov– northern Crimea, as well as bases for Greeks, Armenians and ernment in Kyyiv. other national minorities that live in the Crimea," he said. Both the Crimean president and the Parliament had been in A Crimean Parliament would then be formed comprising agreement on closer ties with Moscow, but Mr. Meshkov fell out of favor with deputies over his appointments of Moscow representatives of these nationalities. specialists to key Cabinet posts, including that of prime minis– "The Rukh position is to dissolve the Crimean Parliament ter, and the Parliament accused him of allowing Moscow busi– and introduce presidential rule, and 1 mean President Kuchma's ness interests to profit from economic reforms. rule, not Yuriy Meshkov's rule," said Les Taniuk, a deputy John Lockwood from Lviv. Exacerbating the political situation "1 see the Crimean Parliament at fault here; it was not able to as the Shevchenko Monument that "All this will do is weaken the already political situation in unite the forces in the Crimea and respect the laws of Ukraine," stands on 22nd and P streets NW in the Crimea," lawmaker Leonid Grach told the Associated Press, he added. Washington are on hand at the Mall it was a "stupid move," he said. "The conflict between the legislative and executive branches for the visitors to the capital city of in the post-Soviet era has become a tradition," Romazan the U.S. Over the past year, Crimean politics have been dominated by mafia business and political killings. Abdulatipov, the deputy chairman of Russia's Council of These translations are available This year marks the 40th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev's Federation, told interfax, commenting on the Crimean develop– from the information booths at the ments. monuments free of charge. All one "gift" of the Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR on the occasion of "The problem is that the situation is approximately the same must do is ask. Mr. Lockwood, who the 300th anniversary of the "reunification" of Ukraine with in all the big and small post-Soviet states. The mentality of the is on duty at one of the monuments Russia. daily, goes the extra mile. When he Since Ukraine became independent, some pro-Russian forces leaders and the citizens has stayed the same. The leaders all recognizes that a visiting group or have been displeased with the Crimea as Ukrainian territory and want to be'first party secretaries.' " have wanted to reunite it with Russia. The peninsula, which was "Our countries have not gotten to the point of developing a (Continued on page 14) home to the Crimean Tatars, who were forcibly deported in democratic culture of inter-relations between the branches of 1944 by Stalin for alleged Nazi collaboration, is now dominated power," he explained. 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OB1TUARY: Stefania Halychyn, Ukrainian Heritage Foundation wife of former UNA president receives $l ,OOO UNA donation JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Stefania social services organization as well as CLEvELAND - The Ukrainian Former UYL-NA officers and mem– Halychyn, nee Perestiuk, wife of long- secretary and president of the Kultura National Association presented a check bers are urged to search their storage time Ukrainian National Association UNA Branch 475. Upon her husband's of S 1,000 to the Ukrainian Heritage areas and retrieve any UYL-NA pho– President Dmytro Halychyn, who served untimely death in 1961, Mrs. Halychyn Foundation to support its latest project. tographs, publications, convention pro- in that capacity from 1950 to 1961, died served as co-founder, with Dr. Roman The Ukrainian Museum and Archives, grams, etc. There is a special need for in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 22. Holiat, of the Dmytro Halychyn UNA located in Cleveland, will be the reposi– items pertaining to the league's early Mrs. Halychyn was born February 22, Branch 19. tory of the archives and memorabilia of years, noted Mr. Woloshyn. 1913, in the village of Hnylne, Ternopil in 1979 Mrs. Halychyn left Manhattan both the Ukrainian Youth League of it is extremely important to identify Oblast, western Ukraine. She graduated and moved permanently to Puerto Rico. North America and the foundation. the material as to the date, location and from the Gymnasium of the Sisters of St. Mrs. Halychyn lived alone in Puerto The check was presented to Gene event. Photos especially must be identi– Basil the Great in Lviv and emigrated to Rico and has no survivors. Her body, Woloshyn, foundation president, by fied in that manner and should include the United States in 1937. was cremated and shipped to Taras Szmagala, former UNA supreme the names of the people in photographs. Mrs. Halychyn was active in where funeral services were held at the auditor, at a meeting of the UYL-NA Please send all material to: Andrew Ukrainian community life, with special Peter Jarema Funeral Home on Memorabilia Committee in Cleveland. Fedynsky, director, The Ukrainian involvement in work aiding the third September 16, with a funeral liturgy at Committee members include Mr. Museum and Archives, 1202 Kenilworth emigration of Ukrainians after World St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church Szmagala, Judge Andrew Boyko, Helen Ave., Cleveland, OH 44113. if you have War 11. on September 17, followed by intern– Shipka, Steve Zenczak, Elaine Woloshyn any questions, please call Mr. Woloshyn, She was the founder and longtime ment next to her husband at Cavalry and Genevieve Zerebniak. (216)757-4712. president of the Ukrainian Gold Cross Cemetery. New Jersey districts announce celebration of UNA centennial JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Members of must be purchased in advance. the UNA district committees of New Entertainment will feature the sounds Jersey finalized plans for the celebration of Lviviany, a new and talented group of of the 100th anniversary of the Ukrainian musicians from Ukraine who have per– National Association. formed during the summer at Soyuzivka, The September 6 meeting was called much to the delight of the many vaca– to order by the banquet chairman, Walter tioners at the famous resort. Bilyk, who welcomed 12 committee Special invitations have been mailed members. Discussions were held on the to all secretaries, members of the UNA type of entertainment and food to be family and leaders of Ukrainian organi– served at the anniversary event. zations in New Jersey. Talks also centered on the selection of For further information and UNA members who have respectfully banquetYtable reservations please contact served the UNA in various capacities and the following UNA activists in New who will be awarded certificates of merit Jersey: Walter Bilyk, (201) 795-0628; and7or plaques during the banquet. Michael Zacharko, (201) 725-8062; John The ceremonial dinner will be held at Chomko, (201) 472-0989; Marcanthony the Ukrainian National Home, 90 Fleet Datzkiwsky, (201) 375-1214; or Andrew St., Jersey City, on Sunday, October 16, Keybida, (201) 762-2827. Reservation at 3 p.m. Tickets are S30 per person and deadline is October 12. Former UNA Supreme Auditor Taras Szmagala (left) presents a UNA donation to Gene Woloshyn of the Ukrainian Heritage Foundation. Pittsburgh District Committee meets; Convention Committee's efforts cited The Ukrainian National Association: PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh extent of only 39 percent. She thanked UNA District Committee met at the recently elected Advisor Diakiwsky for useful phone numbers Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel on Saturday, seven new members enrolled into September 10, to discuss some urgent Branch 161, and other organizers as and addresses matters, including organizing efforts for well, namely: Eli Matiash of Branch 120 1994. for six members, and Nick Drapala of Five local branches were represented Branch 96 and John Holowaty of Branch 53 for four members each. Six by their officers. Also present were the UNA Home Office Svoboda Ukrainian Daily district committee officers, as well as other branches had organized one to Ulana M. Diachuk, UNA president, Nick three members each. 30 Montgomery St. (third floor) 30 Montgomery St. (mezzanine) Diakiwsky, newly elected advisor, and The president congratulated Mr. Jersey City, NJ 07302 Jersey City, NJ 07302 Michael Komichak, head of the Diakiwsky for obtaining an insurance (201)451-2200 (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 Pittsburgh Convention Committee. agent's license, which will permit him to President Diachuk opened the meeting sign up more members for higher insur– by stating that in the spring the district ance amounts. She urged all secretaries to had not held its annual meeting due to follow his example and to do so this year severe winter weather and pre-conven– because next year's licensing require– UNA Washington Office The Ukrainian Weekly tion preparations. ments will be much more stringent. 400 N. Capitol St. NW - Suite 859 30 Montgomery St. (mezzanine) She thanked Mr. Komichak for the Mrs. Diachuk also asked the secre– Washington, DC 20001 Jersey City, NJ 07302 tremendous amount of work and effort taries for help in soliciting subscriptions expended by him and his committee in to UNA publications, The Ukrainian (202) 347-UNAW (201)434-0237 order to make the UNA Convention in Weekly and Svoboda, as well as to plan FAX (202) 347-8631 Pittsburgh a memorable one. She noted fraternal activities, especially to com– that, prior to the district committee meet– memorate the UNA centennial. ing, the UNA had hosted the Convention The president stated that the UNA had Committee members at a luncheon, at paid S865,000 in dividends and granted UNA Estate Soyuzivka which time she extended thanks. almost Si00,000 as scholarships to needy rfj^ in reviewing the organizing results students during 1994. Foordemoore Road (2оЮаі for the first seven months of this year, The latter part of the meeting was Kerhonkson, NY 12446 Mrs. Diachuk expressed her disappoint– devoted to questions and answers, and to (914)626-5641 ment that the district'sannual organizing a discussion of problems in the district's ^ІйУ^ quota of 90 members was attained to the branches. Ni^ і 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER ie, 1994 No. 38 Traveling to Ukraine THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Ripped off in the Wild East by Andrij Wynnyckyj opined that the previous Soviet issue had The dangers of 'Yalta 11' been bilingually Russian and English; that Recently, a policy paper apparently being circulated in the State Department On a Wednesday morning in late July, the first Ukrainian issue was printed in no has been making headlines and has drawn the ire of East European Americans. As my editor informed me that 1 had an discernible language, and that its individ– reported by The Washington Times in its "Embassy Row" column of September opportunity to travel ta Ukraine with rep– ual forms were as unique as snowflakes.J 6, "The United States is prepared to accept an expanded Russian sphere of influ– resentatives of the United States Jewish Having managed to get this far with– ence, including to some extent the Baltics, as long as it respects international law and Ukrainian communities. out taking off my Skovoroda sack as it and Washington's interests 'are not adversely affected.' " After a massive readjustment in mental bobbed inches from my chin, 1 was then According to the newspaper's sources, the paper says the U.S. would not object geography (1 had a ticket for home, stricken by a fatal case of hubris. to Russia pursuing its foreign policy goals within the "confines of international Canada, for that Thursday night), things An elderly man of indeterminate origin law" and "absent a clear and present danger of resurgent Russian imperialism." began auspiciously. І bought a visa, shift– (West? East? coming? going?) became All of this, of course, has critics crying foul and charging that what is happening ed around my New York-Toronto flight, loudly concerned that "they" would take is that the U.S. and Russia are once again dividing Europe into spheres of influ– hastily did laundry, borrowed a suit-shirt- his wedding band away: "Look, right here ence, effecting a "Yalta її" agreement. The first Yalta agreement, readers will tie, bought a travel pouch for passport- it says they will, and in Warsaw 1 was told recall from their history books, left Eastern Europe in the Soviet sphere of influ– ticket-money, packed away a laptop com– they would." He waved the customs form ence, thus resulting in the Sovietization of Eastern Europe and in the Cold War. puter for a tryout in rough conditions, and at me, the translator of a language he (The Encyclopedia of Ukraine notes that "Soviet historians viewed the Yalta con– bought a converter to "Europeanize" this spoke perfectly well, so 1 sat down on a ference of February 1945 as the greatest success of Soviet foreign policy."! electrical gear. Packed. bench beside him to explain a document Questioned at a regularly scheduled State Department briefing for the news That Saturday, 1 made my taxi wait with which we were probably equally media, a department spokesman said: "if there is such a paper, no one, includ– long enough for the dispatcher to phone a familiar, in retrospect, who knows? ing Undersecretary fPeterJ Tarnoff, claims authorship. ... no one can find a couple of times to hurry me into the Maybe he was the set-up man. record of a document that would bear any resemblance to the one that's idling cab. Nevertheless, 1 uncharacteris– Sitting was uncomfortable. referred to ..." Regarding any link between the report and American policy, the tically made it to JFK international with І took off my bag and put it, pockets spokesman denied "any thinking similar to the types of views that have been plenty of time to spare. against backrest, on the padded bench. І characterized in this column." As the rest of the group arrived, we all turned to the old man. But, while the State Department disingenuously denies the very existence of checked in at the Lot Airlines desk for the Estimated window of opportunity: 30 this policy paper, U.S. officials are busy articulating questionable U.S. policy on New York-Warsaw-Lviv flight. Lviv's to 45 seconds. Russian power on the territory of the former USSR. Speaking in Moscow, the nameless airport (along with air- І turned my back away from the quiet– U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, characterized port in Kyyiv) is the crucible that most air ed old man, hefted my bag onto my Russian "peacekeeping" in Georgia, a territory where it has been a not-too-dis– travelers to Ukraine must endure. The full shoulder, joined the line-up on the steps interested party, as the only pragmatic policy, given that the U.N. simply cannot weight of that fact was to hit the pit of my to a narrow corridor leading to the immi– handle the many peacekeeping operations currently required around the globe. stomach in about 18 hours. gration windows, and moved to fish the At the same time as existence of the "Yalta 11" policy is being reported and This is a spot on my body slightly to pouch out of the pocket... which gaped the U.S. is conceding Russia's special rights in its corner of the world, the State the right and below the place (my left open like a gutted trout. Department is reorganizing its European Bureau to reflect what it believes is the armpit) where 1 should have been wear– " " fexpletive deleted!, І new world order. And, here, perhaps is the most definite clue that a policy shift is ing my travel pouch, under a buttoned thought, and began flapping about like a taking place. One of the bureaus will be charged with overseeing the area once shirt, instead, it was in a mid-size zip– gull with a broken wing and stripped part of the USSR, the other will cover the rest of Europe. pered pocket of my carry-on black bag, vocal chords. Money gone. Passport-cum– Sen. Jesse Helms questioned the propriety of "lump(ing) all of the countries from which, people who know me know, visa gone. Return airline ticket gone. of the former Soviet Union into the same bureau — in essence recreating the І am inseparable. The customs police human 1 apologet– territorial integrity of the former Soviet Union." it is one of my few prized possessions ically but frantically pushed up to was Sen. Dennis DeConcini noted in a congressional statement, "Ї find puzzling and — a roomy three-pocket traveling bag sympathetic, not rude — another disconcerting recent reports that the United States is prepared to accept an expand– that converts to a knapsack. І call it my momentous change in the history of ed Russian sphere of influence. ...this cannot help but send the wrong signal to "Skovoroda sack," after the 18th century Ukrainian "borderliness." Unfortunately, those in Russia who still have not abandoned the goal of recreation of the empire. wandering philosopher-poet Hryhoriy this did little to improve my situation. Equally important, it sends the wrong message ... to those new independent states Skovorda (the baroque period's pious Told about my problem, he said: less than eager to once again come under Russia's wing." Policy statements, he Jack Kerouac). Because of some obscure "podyvitsia shche raz" (look again), and added, "must not be perceived as even a tacit green light to Russian neo-imperial– principle of physics, as my Skovoroda stayed at his post. ism.... Both words and deeds are important in making clear to the world the United sack is loaded with more things, it carries At this point, my thoughts and move– States commitment to the independence of the former Soviet republics." higher on my person, in this case, it was ments became less and less linear. As І The Clinton administration's apparent willingness to sacrifice part of Europe to stuffed with the laptop and various other quaked there, speechless, the border the Russian sphere can only be characterized as dangerous — dangerous to the invaluable necessities, and so the pouch– guard kept repeating the irritating new independent states in the region and, ultimately, dangerous to the United in-pocket was riding on a strap about a mantra, "У nas takoho ne buvalo" (This States and world stability. And that must be understood by the U.S. government. foot under my nose. So much for cold just doesn't happen around here). comfort, now for the hot agony. Thefts don't happen in Lviv. Right, Alighting from the bucking bi-motor and there are no earthquakes in San used to connect Warszawa and Lviv (aka Francisco, no fires in Buffalo, and Pat Lwow-Lvov-Leopolis-Lemberg), we were Robertson supports gays in the military. bused to the holding-pen masquerading as While we're at it, there are no pickpock– the airport's waiting area, whence there ets in Paris or New York either. were two exits: one towards the gauntlet Lviv, even before the Communists took of customs and immigration officials, and over and made the trains run late, was the other, locked, out onto the tarmac. notorious as the playground of "batiary," a These doors were unlocked and our arriv– playful name for thieves and thugs. They John Demjanjuk arrived in the United States as a free man ing group was let in. always did have a certain flair, which on September 22, 1993, aboard a regularly scheduled El Al Overmastered by a bizarre Samaritan flight, the only direct connection from Tel Aviv to the U.S. made it easier for the locals to speak of urge to help my fellow travelers, 1 carried them jokingly. Most Galicians or Galician Amid tight security, Mr. Demjanjuk, family members and supporters, all clad in another passenger's bag in addition to expatriates will endearingly refer to their bullet-proof vests, arrived just after dawn at John F. Kennedy international Airport. two of my own, and then allowed myself kids as "batiary." The group was immediately whisked off to a waiting private airplane chartered to take to be pressed into service as a translator This does not mean that if you speak them to an undisclosed location, which turned out to be a small county airport in of the newly issued unilingual Ukrainian "western Ukrainian" fluently, as Stalin's Medina, Ohio, some 25 miles south of Cleveland. From there the former U.S. citizen customs declaration forms. spook Sudoplatov bragged he can in his was taken to a hideaway where his son-in-law Ed Nishnic said he would be reunited fThis marks a new epoch in the coun– recent memoirs, you won't get taken. with his family and then have an opportunity to "decompress" and taste the freedom try's customs forms. When it began i'm he had been denied for so many years. not sure. However, a fellow traveller (Continued on page 10) Speaking to reporters after the Cessna had taxied out, Mr. Nishnic said Mr. Demjanjuk was "grateful to be home," and would now await the decision of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, which was reviewing the U.S. government's conduct of the persecution of Mr. Demjanjuk amid allegations that the evidence.exonerating the for– UNR Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine mer Cleveland autoworker had been withheld. The Home Office of the Ukrainian National it was at JFK international Airport more than seven years earlier, on February 27, Association reports that, as of September 13, the frater– 1986, that Mr. Demjanjuk had been put on an El Al flight bound for israel after a U.S. с nal organization's newly established Fund for the court had ordered his extradition. He was found guilty in April 1988 of Nazi war і ^^М(^мй ^ Rebirth of Ukraine has received 18,167 checks from its crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against members with donations totalling $463,966.41 The con– a persecuted people. His successful appeal to israel's Supreme Court of that verdict tributions include individual members' donations, as and the resultant death sentence lasted more than five years. Po well as returns of members' dividend checks and inter– John Demjanjuk was acquitted on July 29, 1993, of the Nazi war crimes committed est payments on promissory notes. by "ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka and, seven and a half weeks later, after several Please make checks payable to: UNA Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine. (Continued on page 12) No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,1994 7 OP1N10N: Ukrainian nationhood and the dilemmas of the diaspora Dr. (BohdanJ vitvitsky, a lawyer, writer and lecturer who holds a Ph.D. in philoso– involved a variety of highly visible core and in Ukraine, we should not waste pre– phy... in 1991 ... in Kyyiv and Lviv met with Ukrainian college students who were programs at Columbia's expense. cious and limited Ukrainian American frustrated by the useless material they were being taught... "1 met very bright students For example, the Harriman institute resources to educate American diplomats, close to despair over their perceived lack of opportunities to fully develop their intel– offers a certificate that combines the study military analysts, academics and busi– lectual skills ... There is a critical need to provide Ukrainian students with opportuni– of mining and of OS affairs, a topic criti– nesspersons with reference to Ukraine. tiesfor exposure to the West... and, in general, to experience non-Marxist and prefer- cal to the future of the Donbas region in America can afford to and, in fact, is ably English-language study in a normal academic environment. " eastern Ukraine. Yet no one from Ukraine beginning to educate itself. Rather we has come forth to take advantage of this should seek ways to channel our academic - The Ukrainian Weekly, August 16,1992. existing program. Similarly, no one has contributions in a way that would help by B. A. Oryshkevich Ukrainian studies such as the one at succeeded in identifying or nominating a Ukrainian citizens at leading American Columbia and at the same time to qualified Ukrainian journalist for the pres– universities in areas other than Ukrainian CONCLUSION increase the endowments of such insti– tigious Harvard-based Nieman Fellowship studies. Whenever possible we should for Journalists. Yet Ukrainian Americans, endow educational institutions in Ukraine The collapse of the Ukrainian econo– tutes as that at Harvard. including Harvard academicians, continu– or assist students from Ukraine in their my, the return of Soviet-era politicians, Such concern is warranted at a time ously lament poor media coverage of studies at home or abroad. the inconclusive elections, and the chron– when not only has Ukraine become Ukraine. ic political crisis in the Crimea have independent but also when, because of At the same time we should recognize Remarkably, at the same time as it has intensified the gloom about Ukraine. Ukraine's economic collapse, Ukrainian the primacy of English and the facts that solicited funds from the Ukrainian The building of an independent, prosper– investment in education and in research leading American universities are verita– American community, Columbia has ous, democratic and successful Ukraine has fallen to unprecedented lows. ble centers of excellence, that they pos– apparently accepted just one federally has stalled. We should divert our resources to benefit sess remarkable educational resources, funded Muskie Fellowship Program for At the same time Ukraine has attracted projects other than Ukrainian studies at elite that they possess expertise in a wide the benefit of Ukraine, perhaps because increased academic attention both here in American universities. Our small contribu– range of disciplines vital to Ukraine, that of the partial waiver of tuition it requires the United States and abroad. tions will have little impact on the visibility they attract students from all over the from the participating university. Other Columbia University has launched a of or interest in Ukraine on these and other world, and that they possess well-devel– universities such as Cornell, New York Ukrainian Studies Program with the hope campuses. Rather, events in Ukraine will oped technology transfer capabilities. University and Northwestern with small of endowing a chair for Ukrainian stud– define the visibility and image of Ukraine. We should also recognize that Ukraine Slavic programs have accepted several ies, new courses and conferences. Thus, Furthermore, Harvard's endowment grew desperately needs home-grown, Western Muskie Fellows for the benefit of Columbia hopes to produce scholarly by S660 million from mid-1992 to mid- educated human intellectual capital capa– Ukraine and the C1S. studies on a wide variety of issues, to 1993. Columbia's endowment grew by ble of building democratic and economi– develop a range of projects relating to the Si63 million during a period of extreme Hence, in our relations with well- cally literate institutions at home and of Russian-Ukrainian encounter, and to belt-tightening. Harvard's annual budget, endowed universities we should seek to representing its interests abroad. Ukraine fund researchAravel stipends for like that of several other major universities, be financially literate, taking advantage has no leadership class experienced in Columbia faculty and students. was well over a billion dollars last year, its of extant non-Ukrainian funds, develop– running a complex nation-state that is not interest income from its S6 billion endow– Columbia University has reached out ing creative win-win approaches with our only in keen economic competition with ment was about S240 million, by conserva– recently to the Ukrainian community to academic partners, contributing money the old and new countries of Eurasia, but tive estimates. generate funds for this endeavor. As a where it will have the most impact and is also in need of advanced technological result, the Friends of Columbia At the same time the total annual applying well-thought-out pressure only and economic investment from abroad. University Ukrainian Studies (FOCUUS) research and development expenditures as a very last resort. Above all, we Ukraine does not possess a social sci– recently hosted a lavish banquet in Low for all of Ukraine will amount to just should realize that only by breaking out ence-oriented talent pool capable of con– Library on the Columbia campus. S200 million for the year of 1994, falling of the siege mentality of Ukrainian stud– structing an enlightened and energetic At the same time, the Harvard from S400 million in 1993. The total ies will we be able to begin the acquisi– vision that would serve both its eastern Ukrainian Research institute has expand– budget of the Ukrainian Academy of tion of the total range of skills so vital for industrial Russified region and western ed its activities to include seminars to Sciences is currently just S10 million per Ukraine's survival and eventual prosperi– agricultural Ukrainian oblasts. Ukraine provide background information on year. Most Ukrainian universities and ty, to expand the influence of Ukrainian does not even possess some of the most research institutes could not afford to pay Ukrainian current events to American interests on major university campuses basic technical skills necessary to run its military and diplomatic analysts and to their staffs and had to close regularly last and to actually help Ukraine. businessmen, it has continued to offer winter for lack of heating oil. At a time of stretched resources here (Continued on page 13) Ukrainian studies courses, to attract sum– Given a highly favorable currency mer students from Ukraine interested in exchange rate and such dire conditions, studying Ukrainian subjects in America, even Si million would generously endow and to host occasional high-profile several chairs of Ukrainian or other stud– TAKING STOCK OF OUR COMMUNITY ies at major universities in eastern and forums involving viPs from Ukraine. in an effort to ascertain our communities' assets, The Ukrainian Weekly is asking southern Ukraine. Such programs, undoubtedly, will Ukrainian organizations in the United States and Canada, as well as in other countries, train a handful of Americans in At the same time both Harvard and to fill out this form and send it to the address given below. Ukrainian affairs so that American mili– Columbia are undergoing highly success– tary, diplomatic and business dealings ful billion-dollar-plus capital fund drives. Name of organization: with Ukraine will be conducted more At the time of the emergence of Ukraine as intelligently than in the past. But a major European state, these universities Location: Ukrainian studies will always remain could afford or perhaps even should Date founded: devote a very small fraction of these new largely in the realm of exotica, unless PurposeAjoals: Ukraine turns into another tragic funds to the study of Ukraine and of other Yugoslavia. Even Russian studies and major new countries of the "new world other Eastern European subjects remain order." Nevertheless, Ukrainian studies remain within the confines of post-Soviet relative exotica — token studies ignored Accomplishments: by most. With the decline of Russia and studies at Columbia's Harriman institute the rise of Southeast Asia, the Slavic and largely in both physical and relative world will undoubtedly remain in the intellectual isolation at Harvard. intellectual periphery of leading it should be noted that the Harriman Number of current members:.. institute (formerly of Soviet Studies) American universities for some time to Age group encompassed: come. (Even so, America's interests in reputedly possesses an endowment of Officers: Ukraine will always be secondary to S20 million of which S3 million could those in Russia.) Furthermore, regional rightfully belong to the study of Ukraine studies approaches will continue to iso– now that the Soviet Union has dissolved. late the Slavic world from the rest of Thus, the endowment for a chair of Mailing address: academia, thus perpetuating the some– Ukrainian studies already exists at what outdated and simplistic perspective Columbia University — at least in theo– of two Europes rather than one. ry. Yet Columbia, with willing Ukrainian American allies, has launched a drive for For anyone who has studied or taught us to fund such a chair. Contact person and daytime phone number: at Columbia or Harvard, such marginal– At the same time Columbia, Harvard Newsletters, other publications: ization of Ukrainian and now Russian and other American universities possess Affiliations with other organizations, both Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian: studies remains all too clear. Hence we endowments for scholarships, fellow- should be concerned by enthusiastic but ships, grants and travel monies that poorly thought out Ukrainian American Ukrainians from Ukraine have not yet efforts to endow still other centers of taken advantage of for a variety of rea– Comments: sons. A few Estonian alumni of B. A. Oryshkevich is a physician and Columbia University have managed to founder of the Ukrainian Student identify and obtain hundreds of thou– Association in the U.S.A. (USAfUSA), an sands of dollars in scholarships and organization that seeks to establish an grants for the benefit of Estonian nation– Please fill out, clip and mail to: The Ukrainian Weekly, Editorial Offices, active network of students from Ukraine als. These have not been limited to so- 30 Montgomery St, Jersey City, NJ 07302. studying in the United States. called regional or ethnic studies, but have 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,1994 ^^^ No. 38 Orphan Aid Society assists young Ukrainian composer, poet

by Khristina Lew States and organized his medical treat– He was orphaned at the age of 3, which the Orphan Aid Society belongs. ment. when his father, journalist Leonid Kloc, The society found Jaroslav's plight par– DOUGLASTON, N.Y. - Twelve- One of 180 Ukrainian children spon– died in prison while serving a three-year ticularly wrenching and arranged for his year-old Jaroslav Kloc bounds down the sored by Americans for S15 a month term for writing about the Ukrainian medical treatment in the U.S. stairs to greet a visitor, offering a warm through the Orphan Aid Society, famine of 1933. His mother left her job (in May, Mrs. Yowyk traveled to handshake before seating himself at the Jaroslav, an aspiring composer, poet as a school teacher to teach Jaroslav Ukraine at her own expense to observe piano to play a recent composition. The and journalist, was treated by Dr. how to read and walk. how funds and donated clothing were melody to his original score, "The William Selezinka at the Low vision Newspaper headlines were Jaroslav's being delivered to sponsored children in Ukrainian insurgent Army's Retreat Services of the Bethesda Eye institute at primer when he learned to read at the 11 Ukrainian cities: Kyyiv, , from Ukraine," is melancholy, but he St. Louis University School of age of 4. Mrs. Kloc said she could not Mykolayiv, Poltava, Kovel, Lviv, ivano– immediately follows it up with another Medicine in late July. Having deter– bring herself to place him in a school Frankivske, , Luhanske, Kharkiv composition, "Pan 1 van's Tales of the mined that surgery could not correct for handicapped children; instead she and . She reports that aid is Ukrainian insurgent Army," which is Jaroslav's vision, Dr. Selezinka instead "taught him about the world at home." being delivered correctly and that mem– lively and strong. outfitted the boy with a pair of telescop– "He doesn't know my face," she said, bers of the 1UWO are requiring potential "Pan ivan," or ivan Yowyk, the ic eyeglasses and a special reading "but he can see colors, hear breathing, candidates to present a parent's death Ukrainian boy's American sponsor, lamp. feel the weight of someone's step. This certificate and supply a guardian's name spent an evening detailing the history of is how he can tell who is in the room." in order to qualify.) the partisan army for the young boy, Jaroslav's plight When Mrs. Kloc enrolled Jaroslav in Today Jaroslav manages to read for whose 3 percent vision makes reading Born blind in the far reaches of Kyyiv a local Skvyra school in order to expose several minutes at a time with his new virtually impossible. Based on Mr. Oblast, in the city of Skvyra, Jaroslav's him to children his own age, few people reading lens. But Dr. Selezinka advised Yowyk's descriptions Jaroslav corn- condition was diagnosed as cataracts. An knew how poorly he really could see. Mrs. Yowyk that in order to monitor the posed the two scores. operation at the age of 2 afforded him "Meeting Jaroslav for the first time, boy's condition, he must have a special "He is a genius," said Maria Yowyk, only 3 percent vision, and despite 10 most doctors assume he has 30 to 40 instrument that measures eye pressure. head of the two-year-old Orphan Aid years of visiting hospital after hospital percent vision," she said proudly. Thus the Orphan Aid Society has Society that sponsored Jaroslav and his throughout Ukraine, his vision was never Mrs. Kloc is determined not to let launched a special fund-raising drive to mother Taissa Kloc's visit to the United corrected beyond the 3 percent. poverty or Jaroslav's lack of vision collect the S5,000 needed to purchase impede his natural talents for compos– an eye pressure monitor. ing music and poetry. When Jaroslav Fund-raisers at which Jaroslav either exhibited an ear for music at a young performs on the piano or recites his origi– age, he was given violin lessons. He nal poetry have been held at Soyuzivka, taught himself to play the piano at the the SUM-A resort in Ellenville, N.Y., in age of 6 on a dilapidated instrument that Glen Cove, N.Y., and in Hempstead, has since, literally, fallen apart. N.Y. if enough money can be raised, the He has won numerous composing monitor will accompany Jaroslav when competitions on the oblast and national he returns to Ukraine at the end of levels, most recently taking first place for September and kept permanently at the composition in the All-Ukrainian Festival Eye Microsurgery institute in Kyyiv. "it in Odessa, sponsored by the Ukrainian will be a monitor donated to the children's organization, the Union of Microsurgery institute in my name," Ukrainian Pioneer Organizations. His Jaroslav said proudly. articles have appeared in local newspa– Tax-deductible donations for the pur- pers, and a selection of his original poetry chase of the eye pressure monitor are was published in a collecion of Kyyiv being accepted at Self Reliance Credit poets titled "vitryla" (Sails). Union in New York, Account No. 19384-000 (checks payable to Orphan Orphan Aid Society helps Aid Society7J. Kloc). For more informa– Jaroslav was identified as a candidate tion about the Orphan Aid Society, con- for the Orphan Aid Society by members tact Maria Yowyk, 129 Ridge Road, of the international Ukrainian Women's Douglaston, NY 11363; (718) 423- Jaroslav Kloc plays an original composition. Organization, headed by Maria Drach, to 4966.

State Department reorganization, Clinton's statement Symposium will focus 'Yalta ІГ policy... and preferential trade treatment for Russia are like (Continued from page 1) pieces in a puzzle, and the emerging picture is a new on internment operations what the problem is that there is this sense now that eth– Russian empire and the division of Europe into two nic identity requires borders." camps. While the dividing line is further east than at Yalta, the results will be the same since Poland, TORONTO - The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties in a related development, it was learned that the State , Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Romania and Association is holding a symposium, "Coming to Terms: Department will be splitting its European Bureau into Bulgaria have been denied the protection of NATO." Redress for Canada's First National internment two bureaus, one that would handle the area of the for– Operations," in Banff National Park, at The Whyte mer Soviet Union exclusively and the other the rest of Mr. iwanciw went on to state that "Ukraine is once Museum of the Canadian Rockies on Saturday, October 1. Europe. During a Foreign Relations Committee hearing, again dispensable in big power politics. Obviously, the Clinton administration has not learned the lessons of The event is being organized by the Ukrainian Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) asked Assistant Secretary of history: when the United States sells out its principles Canadian Civil Liberties Association, a non-partisan, State Richard Holbrooke: "is it advisable for the United and other people, the American people also suffer. Yalta independent and non-profit organization mandated to States to lump all of the countries of the former Soviet negotiate a Ukrainian Canadian redress settlement Union into the same bureau — in essence recreating the І resulted in Americans paying trillions of dollars in agreement with the government of Canada. territorial integrity of the former Soviet Union?" taxes to defend against the Soviet Union and the loss of Representatives from all five political parties repre– Mr. Holbrooke responded: "1 support Secretary American lives in Korea and vietnam. History is about sented in the House of Commons and in the Senate of Christopher's proposal to create this new bureau as part to repeat itself, if Yalta 11 becomes policy, we and our Canada will be participating officially in the proceedings, of the ongoing reorganization of the State Department to children will be forced to live through another cold war. outlining their respective political parties' positions on meet the foreign policy priorities established by the it is ironic that less than five months prior to the 50th the Ukrainian Canadian community's requests for an president and the secretary of state. His proposal reflects anniversary of Yalta, the administration is unveiling acknowledgment that Canada's first national internment the priority that the president and the Congress have Yalta 11 and selling out the freedom and independence operations were unwarranted and unjust. The proceedings given this element of our post-Cold War policy. By cre– of millions of people." will be published and there will be a media conference ating the new bureau, we are not in any way suggesting in a press release, the Polish American Congress immediately following the symposium. that the recreation of the Soviet Union or a greater (РАС) stated that The Washington Times article "has Delegates and invited guests will also participate in a Russia is inevitable, or that we would accept it." sent shock waves through the ethnic American commu– commemorative service at the Castle Mountain site and These actions follow President Bill Clinton's July nity, whose members have not forgotten the brutal see the documentary film, "Freedom Had A Price," comment that former Soviet republics may reunite if lessons of history following World War H." РАС which portrays the Ukrainian Canadian experience dur– their peoples wish to do so. President Edward Moskal said: "We do not want to see ing Canada's first national internment operations. The it was also learned that the administration plans to a repetition of this tragic history (Yalta) today. That is occasion is also being used for the national launch of a exempt Russia from the provisions of the Jackson-Уапік why we ask all concerned ethnic groups to, with one book titled, "Righting an injustice: The Debate over amendment, which denies most favored nation (MFN) voice, tell the Clinton administration: No more Yalta." Redress for Canada's First National internment trade status to states that do not allow free emigration. At a September 14 meeting, the Central and East Operations," which documents the Ukrainian Canadian Other Central and East European nations, such as European Coalition agreed to send a letter to all mem– community's 10-year struggle for redress. Ukraine, Poland and Hungary, will still be subject to the bers of Congress urging that they speak out against the For more information contact: Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, provisions of Jackson-Уапік. Clinton administration's Yalta 11 policy and send letters Ph.D., director of research, UCCLA; (613) 546-8364; "The administration can deny that a Yalta H agree– to the president stressing their opposition. Coalition fax: (613) 546-2312, or Borys Sydoruk, Calgary Office, ment is in the making," stated UNA Washington Office members also agreed to urge their grass-roots to contact UCCLA, (403) 251-5594; fax: (403) 277-9673. Director Eugene iwanciw, "but the policy paper, the members of Congress about this issue. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,1994 9 Focus on education: Canadian educators share their expertise by Oksana Wynnyckyj had taken part in the Lviv courses last year, assisted in the preparatory work. ODESSA — For the second summer, a This year's courses included one for group of Canadian educators volunteered principals and school administrators, to share their professional expertise with offered by Andrij Melnyk, a high school their colleagues in Ukraine. Seven principal and instructor at the Ontario Canadians traveled to Odessa to conduct institute for Studies in Education two-week intensive professional develop– (University of Toronto). "Teaching History ment courses on July 25 to August 5. The in the Senior Grades" was conducted by trip was co-sponsored by the institute for valentina Kuryliw, a highschool teacher in the Professional Development of Teachers Toronto, who also has experience in history (Toronto) and the institute for Teacher curriculum development. Development (Odessa). "Teaching Ukrainian in Russian- The institute for the Professional Language Schools" was intended for teach– Development of Teachers was estab– ers who teach the Ukrainian language in lished two years ago under the auspices schools where all other subjects are taught of the World Council of Ukrainians with in Russian. Course instructors were iroida the aim of facilitating contacts between Lawryshyn and Oksana Wynnyckyj. educators in Ukraine and other countries. Two courses for primary teachers The institute's director is Nadia Luciw, (grades 1-4), which were very successful principal with the Ontario Dufferin-Peel last year, were repeated: "Teaching Separate School Board and adjunct pro– Language Arts in Primary Grades" and fessor at York University, Toronto. "Teaching Social and Environmental Last year, the institute organized its first Studies in Primary Grades." They were Canadian educators in Odessa Oksana Wynnyckyj, valentina Kuryliw, iroida teacher development courses in Lviv, taught by Miroslawa Werbowy-Onuch Lawryshyn, Mirka Werbowy-Onuch, Nadia Luciw, Halyna Dytyniak and Andrij which were attended by 125 educators and Halyna Dytyniak, both elementary Melnyk, with Lviv colleagues Yera Shumylo and Hanna Bayovska. from all over Ukraine. This year, all but school teachers. one of the Canadian lecturers returned to in addition to the Canadian educators, participant at the end of the program, She also commented on the helping atti– Ukraine. There were 115 participants, 90 vera Shumylo, a teacher, and Hanna such group work as a system of instruc– tude that developed during the session, as from Odessa and the oblast, and the rest Bayovska, a vice-principal, both from tion was enthusiastically endorsed. teachers who knew Ukrainian well from nine other as well Lviv, who have been teaching and devel– The language of instruction and commu– helped those with a weaker grasp of the as from Riga, Latvia, and the Trans- oping primary curricula along lines simi– nication was Ukrainian. At the beginning, language with their assignments. Dniester region. The Odessa organizer was lar to those of their Canadian colleagues, several teachers opposed the use of Ms. Luciw said she found among the Leonid Fursenko, director of the institute came to Odessa as instructor-assistants. Ukrainian, preferring Russian. They were teachers in Odessa a greater degree of for Teacher Development; Svitliana Ms. Luciw commented, "We feel it is informed that not only was this not possible enthusiasm and receptiveness to ideas Melnyk, a school principal in Odessa who very important to expand the number of our as a matter of principle, it was not practi– than had been the case in Lviv. So readily institute volunteers, in particular, we are cally feasible as none of the lecturers from was the prepared material absorbed that interested in new members from Ukraine." Canada could speak or understand Russian. some of the lecturers had to provide addi– Oksana Wynnyckyj, a Canadian who Class sizes varied from 15 to 25 par– After three days, most of the participants tional material in their courses. There was now lives in Lviv, has a Ph.D. in modern ticipants, while class work took up six were speaking (and doing their assign– much less anxiety about "What will the languages from the University of hours per day. The courses were conduct– ments) in Ukrainian, while by the end of inspector think?" This can be attributed to Toronto. Since 1992 she has been active ed through group discussions, which pro– the first week, all were using Ukrainian. the fact that in Odessa under the Soviet in training teachers of primary grades. moted the exchange of ideas but were At the end of the course, many com– regime the atmosphere was more liberal She has been a participant in the pro- new to the teachers from Ukraine, who mented on the positive aspect of using and more open than in western Ukraine. grams organized by the institute for the are used to formal lectures. However, on only Ukrainian. One teacher wrote, "1 have The region was not subjected to the kind Professional Development of Teachers. the evaluation forms completed by each begun to think in Ukrainian, something of persecutions and repressions suffered which 1 have never done before. This was by those in western Ukraine when the a wonderful opportunity to immerse Soviet system was imposed after the war. A look at Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi myself in the Ukrainian language." The economic crisis in Ukraine is defi– Comparing the Odessa session to last nitely affecting education, Ms. Luciw year's Lviv courses, Ms. Luciw raised pointed out. Although last year in Lviv Ukrainian language - unifying or dividing? some interesting points. Although the expenses of the course participants arrangements for holding the Odessa from outside Lviv were covered by the by Oksana Wynnyckyj ture. As a result, we are able to know courses had been going on for a full year, Lviv School Board, in Odessa there were about the traditions of many peoples." the participants did not know that the lec– problems in finding teachers places to BILHOROD-DNISTROVSKYI, Through the centuries, the ruling Ukraine — Approximately two hours' turers were to be from the West, or that stay and they had to cover their own elites of the lands along the Black Sea the language of instruction was going to costs. The fact that few participants came drive from the city of Odessa lies a changed many times: there were the town by the name of Bilhorod- be Ukrainian and, of course, they were from outside of Odessa Oblast can be Greeks, the Mongols, the Moldavians, unprepared for the intensive nature of the attributed partly to the costs involved. Dnistrovskyi. Not far from this town, on the Lithuanians, the Russians and now courses and assignments, and the full Funding for the courses in Ukraine the banks of the Black Sea surrounded the Ukrainians. Their descendants stayed days of work. Getting information is a was obtained by the Toronto-based on three sides by water, stands a fortress - in some instances intermarrying, in constant problem in Ukraine. institute for Professional Development of by the same name, it dates from the others maintaining a neighborly but sep– 12th century. Settlements in this region arate existence. With each change, their Ms. Luciw pointed out that the fact Teachers from the Canadian government, are recorded as far back as the second ancestors adapted to new state regula– that not a single person dropped out after the World Council of Ukrainians and the century B.C. tions, all the while maintaining that learning of the conditions under which Canadian Friends of Rukh (Toronto Walking along the streets of the pre– which was uniquely theirs. Today, they the courses would be conducted shows branch). Plans are currently under way sent-day town, one notices faces with are once again prepared to adapt. that, presented with a challenge, for similar courses to be held in Lviv in Ukraine's educators will respond eagerly. July-August 1995. Turkish and Mongolian features, as well Lukeria, a Moldovan by nationality, as the facial characteristics common to expressed it this way: "1 teach in a western Slavic peoples. These people Moldovan school. We live in Ukraine are neither tourists nor recent immi– but, until recently, we paid no atten– grants — they are the result of Soviet tion to the learning of Ukrainian. The policies on mixing nationalities. They present situation has made it necessary call themselves Romanian, Moldovan, for us to learn Ukrainian. As teachers, Bulgarian, Gagauzian, Hungarian and we know that we will all have to learn Ukrainian. Their ancestors may have Ukrainian. However, first we need to included, in addition to the above, prepare ourselves and only then can Lithuanians, Greeks, Romans, Tatars, we start teaching the children." Turks and Mongols. Zoya, a teacher who claims Ukrainian Olena, a teacher who participated in nationality, married a Moldovan. Today, a course 1 recently taught in Odessa, Zoya, her husband and their three chil– explained her situation: "1 am from the dren (bilingual speakers of Ukrainian Tarutynskyi region. The village where and Moldovan), live in a village where І live is situated on the banks of the the language of communication is river Chaha. it is small and quite pic– Moldovan. Zoya explains, "This year І turesque with many orchards and vine- will be teaching in a school where the yards. There are people of many language of instruction is Moldovan. All nationalities in this village. They are the subjects are taught in Moldovan friendly and hard-working. Every nationality has its own history and cul– (Continued on page 10) Halyna Dytyniak conducts a class in Odessa. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER ie, 1994 No. 38 Ripped off... finally managed to enter the international KOBASNIUK TRAVEL INC. no-go zone that was the waiting room, in (Continued from page 6) tow he had a member of the Security 157Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003-5765 Service of Ukraine or SBU (formerly a They will mug you and rip you off no (212)254-8779 regional branch of the same old KGB, now matter what language you speak, although (800) 535-5587 Yera Kowbasniuk-Shumeyko, President Established 1920 renamed to suit the newly independent they might do it with a little more convic– state), and this man did take my statement tion if Russian is your code of choice. — he had me write it out and sign it. BBU BBU BBU BBU BBU BBU Maybe that's why the ethnic-Muscovite initially, 1 thought Mr. vozniak might population in the city (not just the mafiosi, have missed his calling, because his ques– as in other centers) has taken to owning tions were considerably more insightful and large convincing-looking dogs. BED 8c BREAKFAST UKRA1NE probing than those of the uniformed crew. But 1 digress. Meanwhile, back in the Turns out they had more exciting things from S20.00 per night airport's waiting room, a group of on their minds. Apparently, when Mr. Price for one or two persons Canadians must have sensed something vozniak first arrived at their offices, the familiar in my demeanor, and offered to Lviv and Kyyiv SBU boys were in an uproar because a stand guard over my stuff while 1 shifted member of their anti-racketeering and cor– Breakfast included on all homestays my panic into overdrive. І insisted that ruption squad had come to work just an Please write or telephone for reservations the border guard leave his post inside and hour earlier and shot at two superiors, seri– come out to have a look. ously wounding one, then committed sui– Other Services Available: Once dislodged, instead of scanning the cide. Never a dull moment in the Wild East. - Airport Pick-up - UkrainianTEnglish speaking guide e Railroad Tickets crowd for a pirate with nerves of steel, he in the end, Mr. vozniak's efficiency, - Chaufferred Cars - Theatre Tickets led me through an absurd scrutiny of the resolve and resourcefulness got me seats and benches and floor. After at least across the border and to my destination, three full minutes of this hilarity, the doors with a police document allowing me into to the tarmac were opened and the crowd the country. in the waiting room surged out to the plane in the ensuing days, my passport and Looking for a good investment? bound for Warsaw. traveling pouch, minus the money, An even more ludicrous "search" turned up in the Warsaw airport chapel. Consider the UNA's Flexible Life Plan. through the room and my bags then Thanks to an affidavit from The ensued. A militiaman arrived to take my Weekly's Kyyiv correspondent and the statement, which he didn't write down. efforts of the ever-helpful vice-Consul We offer: At this point, the "v nas takoho" chant Maria Rudensky at the U.S. Embassy, І progressively grew into a maddening got a new set of papers with an expiry chorus sung by a trio consisting of the 0 date in the next century. - 7.00 7o current interest rate guaranteed for one year newly arrived cop, the waiting-room About the incident itself, speculation ran attendant and the saleswoman at the rampant among each of our hosts who - Low risk duty-free kiosk7bar7newspaper stand. learned of the incident as our stay in Luckily, 1 was talked out of some ill- Ukraine progressed. Most suggested this - Guaranteed minimum interest rate of 5.0007o placed chivalry by members of my group. was an inside job, or at least one winked at Me: "You go ahead to the hotel, Г11 be for a share in the take. Many fingered the all right." - Tax free death benefit to your beneficiaiy border guard, saying he might have deliber– Group: "You're about as all right as ately allowed the perpetrator to get away. George Wallace at a Black Panther party. They wouldn't speculate about the old man. - Tax deferred accumulations We stick together, please be quiet now." in the aftermath of cases like this, The plane was held briefly. Later, І there are two kinds of people: those who - Possible ability to access cash values without learned this was not in order to search it are mortally embarrassed about having or its occupants for the missing loot and current taxation been plucked like a pullet and refuse to documents, but because Lviv and talk about it; and those like this writer Warsaw were debating the issue of who who know no shame and view their sta– wanted me least. tus as an idiot "mark" (victim of a con or For more information about the UNA's Flexible Life Plan Lviv: "No passport means no visa. He theft) as an opportunity to derive morals contact the UNA's Financial Services Department at: can't get in, so we're sending him back." from the story and wax wise. Warsaw: "No documents? We don't So then, a word from the wise guy 1-800-253-9862 nationally want him either, you keep him." (with apologies to William Burroughs): The man from whom 1 learned this ver– 9 or 215-821-5800 in Eastern Pennsylvania. Put on your traveling belt7pouch at sion of events, and my savior in this situa– home, not on the way. tion, arrived at long last. Taras vozniak, one of our group's contacts in Ukraine, (Continued on page 11) INTERNATIONAL is learning Ukrainian, and in September DC-based, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of democracy Ukrainian language... she will be teaching it. worldwide, seeks candidates to fill two positions in its Ukraine office. (Continued from page 9) During the course, there were numer– ous opportunities to exchange ideas and (using Latin script). The Ukrainian lan– Program Director - Plan, manage and administer political and legislative training opinions, inevitably, discussion returned program in Ukraine. Position requires minimum 3-5 years of legislative guage, or rather Ukrainian for communica– to issues of learning Ukrainian and the background, campaign, and grass-roots political organization experience. Strong tion, will be introduced for the first time region's multi-national past. On the part communications skills are a must, international travel experience and language from grades two to 11." Zoya will be their of the teachers, there is an acceptance proficiency are a plus. teacher. that Ukrainian will become the language And then there is Nina, the teacher Program Coordinator - Coordinate political and legislative training activities in of communication between the various who is Russian by nationality, born in peoples of Ukraine. However, the gener– Ukraine. Position requires strong management and organizational skills. the far eastern regions of Russia and Legislative or campaign experience a plus. Fluency in Ukrainian is required. al consensus is that attempts to replace married to a Bulgarian. Before marriage, the other languages used in this mulit– her husband-to-be and she communicat– Maiiyfax resume to: ethnic region with Ukrainian and, to K. Campbell ed in Russian. After marriage, Nina set- enforce Ukrainian culture by teaching 1212 New York Avenue, NW 0900 tied in a Bulgarian-speaking village in and practicing it in schools where it is Washington, DC 20005 Ukraine and learned to read, write and not rooted in tradition, will result in Fax: (202) 408-9462 speak Bulgarian. She raised her sons to resentment. speak Russian and Bulgarian. Today, she visiting Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi is like visiting a microcosm of Ukraine's Black Sea coast. The people who live here draw their identity from many different KYYIV or LVIV ART-hCRAFT of nationalities that have contributed to the RT AIRFARE ONLY CARPATHIAN MTS region's history. This is the multi-nation– StP al face of Ukraine. from S599 aiWland 8 dys fr ^899 Language can serve to either unify or scope KYYiv,ODESSA divide. Here on the Black Sea coast CLUB Suzie-Q attempts to enforce the Ukrainian lan– tRcroeL -i– HELSINKI FRANKIVSK,LVIV,KIEV guage and culture may yet serve to est 1967 divide. However, as the teachers have allincl12dysS 1399all incl 12 dys Ф1 49 9 come to realize, knowledge of Ukrainian For information Owners of Hotel ROXOLANA for communication between the various 201 378-8998 nationalities may support a symbolic Reservations only (Western Ukraine - lvanoFranklvskl Call for Autumn Brochures!! the only deluxe hotel under USA Management 800 242-7267 state unity. No. 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,1994 11

either has enough resources for both, in a group, this is demand action firmly. This doesn't mean that you have Ripped off... easier and less of a strain. to indulge your impulse to order the locals to dismantle a 9 (Continued from page 10) Cultivate contacts in Ukraine who know how to deal departing plane down to the last rivet, but don't be a with the authorities and are not cowed by them. This con- doormat, it's not your fault that their society has bred a 9 Keep two copies of your passport identification page: tact person should come to meet you at the airport. Such den of thieves and their police seem incapable of creating one on the trip in your luggage, away from your travel people are a rare commodity that has no monetary value an atmosphere in which authority is separate from crimi– pouch; one at home or somewhere where a friend can be — you can't pay or bribe anyone for it. They can be fami– nality (a struggle around the globe entire, we know). contacted by consular and other authorities. ly, friends, officials, regular citizens — but they don't pop 9 Lastly, paranoid is polite, if you don't want to 9 Keep two copies of your visa page in a similar up out of the blue, you or someone else have to know cause a scene, don't have a reason to. Stay alert, though arrangement. them beforehand. not fearful or needlessly confrontational (both draw m Travel with another, with the understanding that 9 if something does happen, resist the temptation to attention). You, not others, the less careful or more feel that your newfound identity as a victim is a burden obvious targets, are the way thieves make their living. on everyone. Get mad (as courteously as you can), And have a great time in the Wild Eastern Lands.

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THE WASHINGTON GROUP 1994 LEADERSH1P CONFERENCE Celebrating TWG's Tenth Anniversary Building a Global Ukrainian Community

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The concert America, will be held at Northwest Saturday, September 24 Art Center of Greene County, N.Y. will take place at the Community Theater, Presbyterian Church, 4300 Northside Dr. Suggested donation: S20, senior citizens and 100 South St., at 7:30 p.m. There will be a NW (corner of Northside and W. Conway), TRENTON, N.J.: The Ukrainian students: S10. Seats may be reserved by reception immediately following the concert 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Featured will be an exhibit of Community Committee of the Greater sending a check payable to: Ukrainian on the lawn in front of the Town Hall to cel– Ukrainian artifacts and a pysanka-making Trenton area invites the public to a celebra– Association of Washington inc., (recital), ebrate the opening of the festival and the workshop. Fee: S25, includes lecture and kit. tion of the third anniversary of the indepen– 12004 Old Bridge Road, Rockville, MD Community Theater. Tickets for the concert: For information call (404) 475-1084. dence of Ukraine, to be held 6 p.m. at St. 20862; or by calling L. Rapawy, (301) 770- S35, S55, S75 and S100; tickets for recep– George Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 839 6911. Parking is available on M Street tion: S35. Tickets are available at the SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J.: The Yardville-Allentown Road, Yardville, N.J. (between 16th and 17th streets). Community Theatre Box Office, Ukrainian Cultural Center, jointly with the The program will include remarks by Prof. Wednesday-Friday, 6-9 p.m.; Saturday and Central New Jersey Branch of the National Taras Hunczak on "Three Years of indepen– Tuesday, September 27 Sunday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tickets are also Fund for Aid to Ukraine invite the public to dence"; a performance by the Syzokryli W1NN1PEG: The screening of the feature- available through Ticket Master, (201) 507- a fall dinner7dance, to be held at the center, Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Roma Pryma– documentary — "Freedom Had A Price," 8900. For additional information call (201) starting at 6:30 p.m. Featured will be music Bohachevsky, choreographer; and vocalist directed by award-winning filmmaker Yurij 993-1331. by Fata Morgana. Tickets (in advance): S30; Anatoliy Panchishnyy, Andriy Yagnich, S20, students with 1.D. Tickets may be Luhovy of Montreal, will be held at the Saturday, October 1 accompaniment. For more information con- Winnipeg Art Gallery Auditorium at 7:30 ordered by contacting: Damian Gecha, (908) tact Natalia Posewa, (609) 259-2763. p.m. Tickets: S10. The film deals with PHILADELPHIA: The Philadelphia UNA 755-8156; the Rev. lvan Lyshyk, (908) 356- Sunday, September 25 Canada's internment operation (1914-1920) District Committee invites the public to the 5706; or, George Mischenko, (908) 671- of Ukrainian immigrants as "enemy aliens" centennial celebrations of the Ukrainian 1914. Proceeds from ticket sales to benefit BALT1MORE: St. Michael's Ukrainian during World War 1. The event is sponsored National Association with a jubilee banquet the Fund to Aid Ukraine. Catholic Church, 2401 Eastern Ave., will to be held at the Ukrainian Educational and by the National Film Board of Canada- Sunday, October 9 host its annual picnic featuring music and Winnipeg Regional Office, the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 700 Cedar Road, starting 6 traditional food as well as games for chil– Professional and Business Club of Winnipeg p.m. Keynote speaker at the banquet will NEW YORK: A jubilee concert celebrating dren. For additional information contact the and the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational be UNA President Ulana Diachuk, with Dr. the 90th birthday of Mykola Kolessa, Rev. Michlick, (410) 675-7557. Center on the 80th anniversary year of the Bohdan Hnatiuk officiating at the opening renowned Ukrainian composer and conduc– Monday, September 26 establishment of the first internment camps and Stepan Hawrysz, acting as master of tor, founder of the Ukrainian school of con- in Canada. Don Haig, the executive produc– ceremonies. The artistic program will fea– ducting, will be held at Weill Recital Hall, WASH1NGTON: The Ukrainian er of the National Film Board of Canada, ture the Kozak Ukrainian Folk Ensemble, Carnegie Hall, 154 W. 57 St., at 2 p.m. Association of Washington and Ukraine and Mr. Luhovy will be present at the pre– under the direction of Paula Duda Lusiw, Participating will be: Maria Krushelnytska 2000 invite the public to the concert "New miere. Net proceeds from the screening will and the Haydamaky Male vocal Ensemble, (piano), Oksana Krovytska (soprano), Faces, New voices from Lviv, Ukraine" to go to help defray the cost of the S300,000 under the direction of ihor Kusznir, with Kharytyna Kolessa (violoncello), Bohdan be held at The Sumner Museum, 17 and M production. Tickets may be obtained in Alexandra Rudyj Penkalskyj, accompanist. Kaskiv (violin) and Halyna Kolessa (viola). streets NW, at 7 p.m. The concert program advance at the Kalyna Bookstore, 952 Main There will be a presentation of honorary includes arias by Gounod, Mozart, Rossini, St., the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational certificates to merited UNA leaders by Mr. (Continued on page 15)

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