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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXI HE No.KRAINIAN 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine U.S. seeks to rebuild relationship with Kyiv DemonstratorsT Uin Kyiv protest W in the aftermath of the Kolchuha impasse possible U.S. military action in Iraq by Roman Woronowycz The various speakers, including by Yaro Bihun Kolchuha affair, Mr. Pifer said Washington Kyiv Press Bureau Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko Special to The Ukrainian Weekly is convinced that President Kuchma and Progressive Socialist leader Natalia authorized the transfer of the Kolchuha KYIV – Nearly 2,000 Vitrenko demanded that the United WASHINGTON – The United States system to Iraq but cannot prove that it marched in Kyiv on February 15 as part of Nations recognize the United States as a will not allow the Kolchuha impasse to put actually happened. worldwide demonstrations to protest possi- terrorist state and insist on its de-milita- U.S.-Ukrainian relations into a “deep Ukraine’s ambassador to the United ble U.S. military intervention in Iraq. rization. They called on the U.N. Security freeze” as it seeks to rebuild the relation- States, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, who was About 300 demonstrators also gathered in Council to resist pressure by the Bush ship after what a senior State Department present at the briefing, presented the Symferopol, located on the Crimean administration for a war resolution and to official described as “the most difficult and Ukrainian position: “Essentially we don’t Peninsula. resolve the Iraq crisis by peaceful means. complex period” since Ukraine regained see how they can be in Iraq, or how they The marches were part of a series of They also exhorted Ukraine’s leadership to independence in 1991. could have been sent there, when we know anti-war rallies held in major world capi- break diplomatic ties with Washington. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for where all of them are,” he said. tals in which millions of people took part. Ms. Vitrenko, bombastic as ever, told European and Eurasian Affairs Steven Among the review’s conclusions was In London some 900,000 peace activists the crowd that only the U.S. wanted war Pifer said that after a three-month funda- that Ukraine “still matters” to the United and anti-globalists gathered on the streets, against Iraq. “Today there are Marches for mental review of U.S. relations with States, Mr. Pifer said, and that it’s impor- while the U.S. saw the largest anti-war Peace on all continents. No one wants ban- Ukraine, the administration decided “to, tant that Ukraine succeed in developing as demonstrations in Washington, New York dit law,” exclaimed Ms. Vitrenko, waving basically, disagree” with Kyiv on whether a stable, democratic country, with a strong and San Francisco since the Vietnam era. a Ukrainian Kozak mace (bulava), a sym- Ukraine sold a Kolchuha air defense sys- market economy and increasing links with Kyiv also saw plenty of young anti- bol of authority. tem to Iraq, as is alleged, or not. Europe and trans-Atlantic institutions. To globalists and peace activists costumed in The former lawmaker said she would “I don’t think we’re going to be able to that end, he said, Washington is deter- skeleton outfits and caricature masks of present the mace to Iraqi President find a way where we can come in the near mined to stay engaged, to help it reform its U.S. President George W. Bush, as has Saddam Hussein when she visits Baghdad future to a common view as to what hap- economy, improve its investment climate, become their tradition. They began gather- in a few days. (The week of February 17 pened with regard to Kolchuha,” he said join the World Trade Organization and ing at noon for a “Rock Against War” con- she traveled to Iraq as part of a delegation during a seminar at the Center for Strategic take the necessary steps to have the cert held prior to the demonstration. But led by Russian Communist Party leader and International Studies here February 13. money-laundering sanctions imposed by even on a frosty Saturday afternoon, old- Gennadii Zyuganov). “So maybe that’s an issue we put in a box the international Financial Action Task time Communists came out in even larger Meanwhile Communist Party Chairman and we kind of leave it aside,” he said. Force lifted. (FATF announced it was lift- numbers to fly their red banners and chant Symonenko said that not only those gath- Ambassador Pifer, who prior to his cur- ing its sanctions on the following day.) anti-American slogans. ered for the demonstration, but all of rent assignment served for two years as “We’re also going to engage more The protesters, representing up to 35 Ukraine stands united against a war in ambassador to Ukraine, discussed some of actively with the broad political spectrum” mostly nondescript political parties, but Iraq. the conclusions of the policy review, in Ukraine, he said, explaining that this also including members of several Arab An opinion poll released by the respect- which was completed in mid-January. and Kurd groups, gathered in European ed Razumkov Center for Economic and Explaining the U.S. position on the (Continued on page 5) Square for the beginning of the Ukrainian Political Studies the previous week seemed “March of Peace.” Wearing stickers that to support Mr. Symonenko’s words. It read “No Blood for Oil” and waving plac- found that 73 percent of Ukrainians did not Ukraine and Poland agree on liberal visa policies ards bearing messages such as stated, support a war against Iraq. “U.S.-Evil Empire” and “No War Against There were those in Kyiv, however, by Roman Woronowycz sible duration of such an agreement, he Iraq,” they first walked down the who demonstrated that same day in sup- Khreschatyk before proceeding uptown to Kyiv Press Bureau admitted that the situation would become port of the contrary viewpoint and more uncertain in a few years, when the United States Embassy, where they KYIV – Ukraine agreed on February held a rally. (Continued on page 8) Poland became eligible for inclusion in 13 to a cost-free visa regime for its citi- the Schengen Accord. zens who will travel to Poland after it That agreement allows unlimited, visa- enters the European Union next year. In free travel among several country-signato- return, Ukraine said it would allow Poles ries within the EU and would force Poland to continue entering the country freely, to develop a much stricter visa regime without the need for an official permit. with Ukraine. The Polish ambassador The proposal, put forward by Polish diplomatically put the problem on the President Aleksander Kwasniewski after back burner by explaining that no specific extensive discussion on the subject with date had been set for accession to the European Union leaders, came during a Schengen Accord and perhaps by the time meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Poland joined there would be no need to Leonid Kuchma, in the Ukrainian village show visas at the Ukrainian-Polish border. of Huta, located near Ivano-Frankivsk. The two presidents also seemed to Poland is required under its obligations resolve a heated historic debate that has as a future member-state of the European raged on both sides of the border regard- Union to develop visa regimes and strict ing the deadly battles between Poles and border controls with all neighboring Ukrainians in the Volyn region of countries that are not EU members. Ukraine in 1943. Messrs. Kwasniewski The two sides offered backslapping and and Kuchma issued a joint statement in upbeat appraisals of their agreement, with which they agreed that all the victims of President Kuchma stating that the decision the tragic events that occurred in Volyn was “Mr. Kwasniewski’s personal achieve- should be commemorated. The docu- ment,” according to Interfax-Ukraine. ment also noted that commemorations Nonetheless, an assessment by Polish of the 60th anniversary of the tragic Ambassador to Ukraine Marek events must pave the way for overcom- Ziolkowski was a bit more reserved. ing disagreements between Ukrainians AP/Efrem Lukatsky Asked by journalists during a Kyiv press and Poles on their common history. Demonstrators in Kyiv protest the possible U.S.-led war against Iraq. conference a few days later about the pos- (Continued on page 4) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 No. 8

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Does Ukraine now return NEWSBRIEFS FATF withdraws call for sanctions have suggested that President Kuchma recently adopted a more pro-Washington to younger-brother status? PARIS – The Financial Action Task stance with regard to Iraq. (RFE/RL Force on Money Laundering (FATF) has Newsline) by Taras Kuzio of States, the first non-Russian to hold decided to withdraw the recommendation RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report this position. Although the position is of countermeasures against Ukraine for Leftists protest possible war on Iraq supposed to be rotated among CIS lead- that country’s insufficient efforts to com- The well-known American Sovieto- ers each year according to the Russian bat money laundering, the FATF website KYIV – Some 1,500 Kyiv residents on logist John Armstrong wrote that in the alphabet, it has always been held by (http://www1.oecd.org/fatf/) reported on February 15 took part in a “March for post-Stalin era Ukrainians became Russia. February 14. The Paris-based interna- Peace” organized by the Progressive Russia’s “younger brothers” (John A. On the eve of the CIS summit, tional organization said its move was Social Party of Ukraine, the Communist Armstrong, “The Soviet Bureaucratic Ukraine’s Ambassador to Russia Mykola prompted by Ukraine’s recent enactment Party of Ukraine, the Green Party, the Elite: A Case Study of the Ukrainian Biloblotskyi said in an interview in of “comprehensive anti-money-launder- Russian Bloc and other groups to protest Apparatus,” New York, Praeger, 1959.) Nezavisimaya Gazeta that the Year of ing legislation.” The FATF added, how- a possible U.S. military action in Iraq, As “younger brothers,” Ukrainians Russia in Ukraine should be used by both ever, that Ukraine will remain on its list Interfax reported. Some 300 people held would migrate and follow Russians into countries to “strengthen their cooperation of “non-cooperative countries and territo- a similar protest in Symferopol that same different regions of the USSR, such as in the international arena in the political, ries” until Kyiv has efficiently imple- day. (RFE/RL Newsline) Kazakstan, Moldova, Estonia and Latvia, economic and humanities spheres.” Mr. mented this legislation. (RFE/RL Warsaw, Kyiv agree on visa regime ... where they would help entrench Soviet Biloblotskyi added that, “We are moving Newsline) power. Soviet historiography had pro- together in one direction; true, one of us IVANO-FRANKIVSK – Polish moted the view that Kyiv Rus’ was the quicker and the other slower.” Washington seeks Kyiv’s help in Gulf President Aleksander Kwasniewski on common “cradle of the three fraternal This ignores the fact that Ukraine and KYIV – U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine February 13 offered Ukrainians visas at Slavs.” The ultimate goal of the new Russia have incompatible goals towards Carlos Pascual told journalists in Kyiv no fee under a new border regime that Homo Sovieticus was understood as a NATO – only Ukraine seeks member- on February 18 that he delivered a note will be introduced on July 1, in line with return to this once mythical unity in Kyiv ship. Russia’s Ambassador to Ukraine European Union demands, Ukrainian and Rus’. from the U.S. government to President Viktor Chernomyrdin was perplexed as Polish news media reported. “The Polish Ukrainian Russian relations are now Leonid Kuchma and Foreign Affairs to why Ukraine desires NATO member- side announces that it will introduce the returning to many of these ideological Minister Anatolii Zlenko inquiring about ship: “What does it [Ukraine] want to most liberal visa regime for Ukrainian positions, as encapsulated in the slogan the possibility of sending a Ukrainian receive in exchange? We have no idea.” citizens while meeting the demands of “To Europe With Russia!” The newly antinuclear-, anti-biological-, and anti- Thus, Ukraine and Russia are obviously the European Union and the Schengen opened Year of Russia in Ukraine web- chemical-warfare (NBC) battalion to the not moving together towards NATO in agreement. It will include free visas for site is captioned “From common origins Persian Gulf, Interfax reported. The tandem. Ukrainians,” said a joint statement issued to common goals.” diplomat noted that such a unit need not Acceptance of a “younger brother” after President Kwasniewski’s talks with Events last week at the hastily organ- take part in any military operations and status was forthcoming only after Russia his Ukrainian counterpart, Leonid ized and poorly attended CIS summit in could be put into action only in the event finally recognized Ukraine’s sovereignty Kuchma, in Ivano-Frankivsk, western Kyiv confirm that the Soviet-era mindset that weapons of mass destruction are and territorial integrity. At the CIS sum- Ukraine, earlier the same day. Speaking of a “younger brother” is still entrenched used in any possible conflict. Mr. mit, Ukraine and Russia signed a treaty to journalists after the talks, President in Ukraine’s ruling elites. On January 29, Kuchma has recently signaled that on the state border between the states. Kuchma said Polish citizens will not Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma was Ukraine might contribute an NBC unit to According to President Kuchma, this need visas to visit Ukraine after July 1. elected head of the CIS Council of Heads a United Nations-authorized mission tar- should end all speculation about “A joint decision on the visa regime geting Iraq. (RFE/RL Newsline) “Russia’s imperial ambitions.” between our countries – free Polish visas Dr. Taras Kuzio is a resident fellow at The treaty refers only to their 2,063- Kuchma wants cooperation with U.S. for Ukrainian citizens and a visa-free the Center for Russian and East regime for Polish citizens – is the Polish (Continued on page 14) European Studies, University of Toronto. KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma on president’s personal achievement, I want February 17 met with U.S. Ambassador to emphasize this,” Mr. Kuchma noted. Carlos Pascual, UNIAN reported, quot- (RFE/RL Newsline) ing the presidential press service. The Will Kuchma be given ‘amnesty’? meeting marked the first time that the ... commemoration of 1943 events U.S. ambassador has met with Mr. IVANO-FRANKIVSK – President by Jan Maksymiuk ation basis for calculating tax obligations Kuchma since the Kolchuha allegations Aleksander Kwasniewski and Leonid RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report for future periods. The information con- surfaced. “We are interested in broad Kuchma also decided that Poland and tained in the declaration of incomes sub- cooperation with the United States,” In its February 8-14 edition, Zerkalo ject to amnesty is state property [sic] and Ukraine will organize – in Volyn, north- Nedeli reviewed the draft bill “On Social President Kuchma said. “The program of western Ukraine – a joint commemora- may not be made public.” our cooperation is undergoing changes – and Legal Guarantees for the President of This article also stipulates that the tion of the massacre of Poles by Ukraine after the Termination of it has become more realistic,” he added. right to tax amnesty does not extend to Ukrainian nationalists in 1943. Mr. [Presidential] Powers” that was recently “Ukraine is extremely worried about the assets defined as illegal by the 1997 Kuchma spoke in favor of clarifying all registered with the Verkhovna Rada by situation around Iraq. We understand that international convention on money laun- the circumstances of the tragedy. National Deputy Serhiy Kivalov, whom there are serious reasons to suspect the dering and that such a right may be “Crimes against humanity cannot be jus- the daily called a “man from the presi- Iraqi regime of hiding mass-destruction granted to the president only once. tified. Let it be the last such ‘celebration’ dential entourage.” Mr. Kivalov leads the weapons,” Mr. Kuchma noted. “Ukraine in our relations,” PAP quoted Mr. Sea Party of Ukraine and is the rector of Zerkalo Nedeli commented that giving is ready to take part in a U.N. mission on immunity to President Leonid Kuchma Kuchma as saying. The joint statement the Odesa State Juridical Academy. the territory of countries neighboring stresses that it is “extremely essential to The draft bill, which reportedly con- and his capital is not a bad idea, since Iraq by assigning to the U.N. authority an Mr. Kuchma might have abandoned his make the commemoration of the anniver- sists of nine articles, proposes that the anti-chemical, anti-bacteriological and sary [of the 1943 massacre] a significant state should provide retired presidents purported plans to install a successor that anti-nuclear battalion,” the Ukrainian with a “dacha,” car, bodyguards, the right could provide him with such immunity in leader pledged. Some Ukrainian media (Continued on page 15) to medical treatment in governmental the future. 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by Yaro Bihun free press that’s open to all political per- leadership and I think the U.S. continues Special to The Ukrainian Weekly suasions is necessary for meaningful to have the same goals for Ukraine that it elections. ... has had for the last decade – to see it WASHINGTON – The worsening I think [the Kolchuha issue] is going fully integrated into the Euro-Atlantic state of relations between Ukraine and to be resolved, but it’s done great dam- community. This means a state that is the United States has been the subject of age. There is no question about that... democratic and respects human rights much discussion here in recent weeks. There’s a distinction made between the and the rule of law. While visiting here at the end of January actions of leaders and the people, as a Virtually everyone, including many Ukraine’s Minister of the Economy whole, and the nation. And that distinc- Ukrainian officials – although some only Valerii Khoroshkovskyi spoke about a privately – acknowledge that Ukraine is “cooling” in the relationship; a week principally responsible for the poor state later a former prime minister who is now of U.S.-Ukrainian relations. People who leader of an opposition bloc in the I’m a believer in active work on U.S.-Ukrainian relations in our Verkhovna Rada, Viktor Yushchenko, diplomacy ... at the top executive branch and in Congress are called it a “crisis”; and a week after that frustrated, for understandable reasons, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State [administration] levels but I don’t get the sense that most have Steven Pifer characterized it as “most ... there’s not the inter- given up on Ukraine – at least for the difficult and complex.” time being. ... Mr. Pifer gave the official U.S. assess- change that there What we, the United States, can do, ment of the relationship on February 13 should be. however, is continue to think in the long- during an appearance at the Center for term: that means work with those forces Yaro Bihun Strategic and International Studies (see – and they do exist – in the Ukrainian William Green Miller story on page 1). And Ukraine’s ambas- government who genuinely understand sador to the United States, Kostyantyn that Ukraine’s future lies in the West and Gryshchenko is expected to present his tion is extremely important. We, as Americans, as American policy, are are willing to work to that end, even if government’s view at a forum organized constrained by Kuchma and his oligarch by The Washington Group on February solidly behind the people of Ukraine and the Ukrainian nation. That hasn’t cronies. It also means keeping up the 26. pressure on Ukraine to live up to its To get a broader, non-official view of changed since 1991. ... I’m a believer in active diplomacy, international human rights and democra- how the relationship was doing, The cy commitments ... [and doing] what we Ukrainian Weekly asked six Washington- that there is no substitute for getting to know your counterparts in other coun- can to ensure that there is a level playing area experts with an interest in how U.S.- field in the run-up to next year’s presi- Ukraine relations develop to give an tries ... Certainly on the military side it’s as active as it can possibly be, and on dential elections. ... We should also, very assessment from their various – political, importantly, continue our assistance pro- human rights, economic, diaspora and many, [high] and lower levels. But at the top [administration] levels, no, there’s grams in areas such as civil society democracy-building – points of view. development, independent media, small • William Green Miller served as U.S. not the interchange that there should be. If there are problems, they should be dis- and medium business, local reform and ambassador to Ukraine from 1993 to military assistance programs. 1998 and now is senior fellow at the cussed; if there are grievances, they should be aired – and face-to-face. I Ultimately, however, the ball is in Woodrow Wilson Center for Ukraine’s court. I think an excellent International Scholars. don’t see any alternative to settling prob- lems than talking these things out, partic- blueprint for Ukraine is to make real • Orest Deychakiwsky is staff advisor efforts to implement the NATO-Ukraine at the U.S. Commission on Security and ularly when between nations that are such friends as Ukraine and the United Action Plan, which not only talks about Cooperation in Europe, which keeps an the military reform necessary for eye on Ukraine’s human rights record States. ... I think that the policy of Russia Ukraine to become a NATO member, but and democratization process; also about democratic values and princi- Orest Deychakiwsky • Kempton Jenkins is president of the [toward Ukraine] has not changed. From the beginning Ukraine is a key element ples that will help Ukraine strengthen Ukraine-U.S. Business Council, a lobby- internally. ing group of major American investors in in its so-called near-abroad policy, that is, to have close, friendly relations. And Ukraine should be taking all these Ukraine. steps to become part of the Euro-Atlantic • Michael Sawkiw Jr. is president of we support that, but not at the expense, in any sense, of Ukraine’s integrity as an community not just for the sake of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of strengthening U.S.-Ukrainian relations, America; for many years he served as independent, sovereign nation. And it’s only natural that there be close and con- but, first and foremost, because it is in director of UCCA’s Ukrainian National Ukraine’s national interests to do so. A Information Service in Washington. siderable trade ties and cultural ties between Russia and Ukraine, but this democratic, prosperous Ukraine in which • Ihor Gawdiak is president of the human rights and the rule of law are Ukrainian American Coordinating should not in any way diminish the necessity to have trade and commerce paramount is the best guarantee that Council and a longtime activist on behalf and cultural ties with the West. And that I Ukraine will remain an independent of Ukraine in the Washington area think is Ukraine’s fundamental policy, state. • Stephen Nix is regional program Kempton Jenkins and it’s something that we fully support. director for Eurasia at the International Orest Deychakiwsky Republican Institute, which conducts American corporations are having programs aimed at building a democrat- With respect to the leadership of banner years, partially reflecting the ic, civil society in Ukraine. incredible explosion of Ukrainian agri- Following are excerpts of their com- Ukraine and in particular with President [Leonid] Kuchma and the presidential culture, which is quickly restoring its ments. reputation as a breadbasket. They started William Green Miller having good years at around 2000, as the reforms started to kick in, but in the last U.S.-Ukrainian relations are at a very A democratic, prosper- year business conditions have improved Kempton Jenkins difficult stage, but the long-term relation- considerably and the prospects are that ship remains sound, because the leaders ous Ukraine in which they are going to continue to improve. ... of both countries and, I think, those human rights and the Basically, the Ukrainian economy is now ... the growing Russian informed people in both countries rule of law are para- in very solid shape. ... believe that a strong relationship is in I have no American companies, with influence ... of the mar- both countries’ national interest. mount is the best guar- one or two exceptions, that are experi- ketplace in Ukraine is The leadership in Ukraine is chang- antee that Ukraine encing difficulties... The age-old com- ing; one generation is already passing, mercial disputes, which involved mostly an inevitable product will remain an inde- and the next presidential election will small American investors who were of our public ostraciz- bring a new president, probably on the pendent state. fleeced when they went in by their part- new wave of the new democratic majori- ners – some of those problems have been ing of the Ukrainian ty that appeared in the last parliamentary resolved. ... elections. Obviously, Ukrainian membership in government. Ukraine’s present government has said administration – I would characterize the WTO would regularize a lot of that it wants to be a full member in relations as highly problematic. The rea- things. It would probably produce imme- NATO, the European Union, the World sons include the Kolchuha affair, diate graduation from the Jackson-Vanik commercial code was passed in January, Trade Organization – all Euro-Atlantic Gongadze, constraints on media, high- Amendment ... [and] market-economy and it’s a good one, and as far as law is organizations. The key political premise level, pervasive corruption, and inconsis- status, which Ukraine is more qualified concerned, it takes care of the problem. in being a partner is, of course, to have tent or non-existent movement on politi- to have than Russia. ... But it hasn’t been implemented yet. ... truly empowered democratic institutions. cal and economic reforms. How can you On the Ukrainian side, they’re focus- In my own judgment, the growing And that’s the agenda for the next sever- trust a leadership that has violated your ing on another tax reform bill which will Russian influence – some people would al years. Clearly there needs to be reform trust – and not just once or twice? resolve a lot of irritations that investors say domination – of the marketplace in in the area of freedom of expression; a Ukraine, thankfully, is more than its see with the tax structure. ... The new (Continued on page 4) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 No. 8

Stephen Nix Stalinist state in the world right now. And The sense that I get from our meetings we don’t seem to have any trouble deal- with State Department officials, and the Ukraine-U.S. relations... There is no doubt that the relationship (Continued from page 3) ing with the mayor of Newark, N.J. ... message that we get from them about My feeling is that the human rights how the administration feels is that until has endured some difficult times as of conditions in Ukraine are getting better; President Kuchma is no longer in office, late. But IRI’s work, which is democratic protests are held; people don’t get killed the relations will remain at this level, at development, has really been unaffected. and they aren’t being sent to gulags. They this very cool, cool level between IRI is an independent, non-governmental may get arrested, but they get arrested Ukraine and the United States. ... organization, so we do not represent the U.S. government. And I think that that right in front of the White House. I think We are very, very concerned in the has assisted us during this difficult time we need to be, as President [George W.] United States, especially those of us who when communication between the U.S. Bush said in his inaugural address, some- represent the Ukrainian American com- and Ukrainian governments has not been what more humble as we exercise our munity often before Congress and the as frequent as we hoped it would be. We unprecedented power in the world. administration, because it is much more hope that the relationship will improve Michael Sawkiw Jr. difficult now to persuade [them] that it is and we’ve seen signs that the two gov- extremely important that the United States ernments are increasing the level of com- The “cooling-off” of U.S.-Ukraine and Ukraine continue to have relations, to munication. ... relations in the past year is of tremendous have talks, that Ukraine remains strategi- concern to the Ukrainian-American com- cally a crucial country in Eastern Europe. munity. To a community that has labored The other thing that concerns us – the to bring the country of Ukraine to the whole Ukrainian community – is that ... communication forefront of U.S. politics in the past because of the poor U.S.-Ukraine relations decades, the recent Ukrainian delegation there is a clear tendency on the part of the between the U.S. and on economic matters that visited Kuchma administration to tilt toward Ukrainian govern- Russia. In spite of all the pronouncements Yaro Bihun about how Ukraine is firmly committed to ments has not been as Michael Sawkiw Jr. its path toward Europe, the actual actions frequent as we hoped ... an open dialogue is in Ukraine seem to show otherwise. it would be. essential to sustained We – those who represent the Ukrainian community in the United States relations with Ukraine, – have a great problem in energizing the which must continue community. ... How do you persuade the We’re continuing to run various pro- on all levels based on Ukrainian community, which had really grams in the oblasts, including one for different expectations of an independent newly elected members of city councils the same standards Ukraine, to still lobby the U.S. govern- – training them in various things like accorded other coun- ment, to lobby their congressman, to work how to set up a press office, a constituen- on behalf of Ukraine. It does not mean cy office, how to communicate with con- tries ... that we should stop. I think that it’s very stituents and train staff to deal with important that we shouldn’t stop. ... administrative tasks. In other words, I think the administration is acquiesc- we’re trying to strengthen the ability of ing to [Russia’s closer ties with Ukraine]. locally elected council members to repre- Washington brings a fresh new perspec- I think the administration doesn’t care. sent the people who reside in their dis- tive to a continued dialogue with Ukraine. There is the very important element of trict. ... In fact, our friends in Congress, the administration working with Russia At the same time, what the U.S. gov- whether in the form of the Congressional because of Iraq, because of the terrorism, ernment has consistently said, from a Ukrainian Caucus or members of the and so Russia is a priority, and Ukraine democratization standpoint, is that an Senate, understand the depth of the rela- has been definitely shoved into second or independent media is important, as is the tions between the United States and third place. ... ability for political parties to operate Ukraine, and have attempted to use vari- We understand that as U.S.-Ukrainian freely and independently, and other non- Ihor Gawdiak ous means to promote continued econom- relations worsen or remain at this stage governmental organizations, civil society ic, political and societal reform in Ukraine. that this still may continue, and therefore organizations, being able to register and It is through their efforts that Ukraine it is in the interest of the Ukrainian implement their activities freely and has remained on the radar screen during American community to work to without undue interference. Those are this “cooling off” period through various improve the relations between Ukraine important things in terms of democrati- legislation such as PNTR [Permanent and the United States in the hope to zation, and those are areas where we Normal Trade Relations] status for reverse what we perceive as a closer think that the Ukrainian government Ukraine, increased foreign assistance lev- move toward Russia. could be helpful. els to Ukraine, the Foreign Leadership Program and others. All of these measures indicate that Ukraine is a strategic partner dential residence, which is located just of the United States that must not be for- Ukraine and Poland... outside of Huta not far from the Polish gotten, but brought to work together for (Continued from page 1) border, Mr. Kuchma said that while the the betterment of U.S-Ukrainian relations. Some Polish scholars maintain that historical record must be set straight, The Ukrainian Congress Committee members of the fledgling Ukrainian relations between Ukraine and Poland of America maintains that an open dia- Insurgent Army (UPA) massacred up to must remain warm. logue is essential to sustained relations 80,000 expatriate Poles who were living “Whatever should appear to be the with Ukraine, which must continue on all in the Volyn region at the time in opera- truth about those events, it should not levels based on the same standards tions in 1943, while Ukrainian historians hamper the current friendly relations accorded other countries as well. maintain that the UPA battled with a between our two countries,” explained Ihor Gawdiak Polish nationalist underground force, the President Kuchma. Armija Krajowa, which was attempting to In a move to foster better relations and From my point of view, [U.S.- retain Polish control over the area. more understanding, the two sides also Stephen Nix Ukrainian relations] are worse then they Around 20,000 Ukrainians are thought to agreed to a proposal put forward by have been for a long time, certainly have perished as a result of the fighting. President Kuchma that Ukraine and Ukraine is an inevitable product of our much worse than they were in the Many historians state that German forces Poland imitate what he called the suc- public ostracizing of the Ukrainian gov- Clinton administration period. ... They’re encouraged and Soviet partisan forces cessful Russian-Ukrainian effort and ernment. I don’t think you can have the still OK in the U.S. Defense Department provoked the bloodletting, which at times develop a Year of Poland in Ukraine pro- U.S. government and the U.S. ambassa- and Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, and occurred to settle old scores. gram to be held in 2004. Poland will dor denouncing the Ukrainian govern- there’s some progress in the economic During a press conference after the respond with a Year of Ukraine in Poland ment on the Gongadze case – all based field, but otherwise, they are very bad, one-day meeting in his Synia Hora presi- program in 2005. on the Melnychenko tapes – and all and I don’t really see them, in the politi- series of things, and not have that have a cal sense, improving in the next 10 years. chilling effect on Western investment. At the same time, knowing the Russians as I Quotable notes do, it serves as catnip to them; they’re ... because of the poor just thrilled. The more we talk about U.S.-Ukraine relations “Why did [Russian President Vladimir] Putin elect [Ukrainian President Gongadze, the more business they get. ... Leonid] Kuchma as head of the Council of Heads of State? First, to cover I hold no brief for President Kuchma; I there is a clear tenden- Russian economic, informational and spiritual expansion with regard to Ukraine. am abhorred by the treatment that some cy on the part of the Second, to cast doubt in the West on Ukraine’s policy of European choice. Third, journalists have had in Ukraine and I’m to finally ruin GUUAM. To what will Kuchma apply his energy – developing the distressed by corruption when it appears. Kuchma administra- CIS or GUUAM – while being in the post of CIS leader?” But it goes on all over. We’re doing busi- tion to tilt toward ness with Turkmenistan, in fact we’re – Our Ukraine National Deputy Ivan Zayets in an interview with RFE/RL’s using some of their air bases – with Russia. Ukrainian Service on January 30. pleasure. And that’s got to be the biggest No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 5

Rep. Weldon blames Washington, as well as Kyiv, for mistakes in bilateral relations by Roman Woronowycz ments, but we have no evidence. That is House and the State Department on poli- American constituencies or with specific Kyiv Press Bureau why we are asking for cooperation on cy matters and sat with Mr. Weldon at interest in Ukraine, said he had traveled military proliferation,” said Rep. the press conference, attempted to dull to Ukraine to get a better handle on the KYIV – U.S. Congressman Curt Weldon, adding, “there have been mis- the bite of the congressman’s remarks. mood within the country. Weldon (R-Pa.) during a brief visit to takes made on both sides.” Mr. Pascual interjected that he did not “I have been troubled by our relation- Kyiv asserted on February 19 that In commentary uncharacteristic for a believe the U.S. line on the Kolchuha ship in the last few months,” explained Ukraine did not sell Kolchuha air defense U.S. politician, Rep. Weldon went out of scandal differed from what Rep. Weldon Rep. Weldon. “Actions by both countries systems to Iraq in contravention of his way to note that the legislative had stated. have caused our relations to become United Nations sanctions. He blamed branch was on par with the executive “We have established that the much cooler. As a result, there may be Washington, as well as Kyiv, for making branch in the U.S. Constitution, while Kolchuha issue remains an open ques- those here who believe that the U.S. has mistakes that inflamed the situation and remaining quite separate. However, he tion. We cannot prove that a transfer has lost interest in Ukraine. I can tell you said it was time to move past the contro- also stressed that his views did not nec- taken place and cannot prove it did not that we in the Congress want close rela- versy and begin a re-warming of rela- essarily reflect the thinking of either the take place,” said Ambassador Pascual. tions with Ukraine.” tions. White House or the State Department. The U.S. envoy agreed with Rep. After meeting with the Ukrainian Rep. Weldon also announced that he The congressman, who met with Weldon that Washington could not con- president, Prime Minister Viktor had laid the groundwork for a larger dia- President Leonid Kuchma in Kyiv, side- tinue to force the issue, however. “We Yanukovych, Chairman of the logue between the two countries on mili- stepped a direct question on whether he need to move forward,” he stated. Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Lytvyn and tary non-proliferation and export con- would support a meeting between the Both Ambassador Pascual and Rep. several government ministers, Rep. trols. Ukrainian president and U.S. President Weldon applauded Ukraine’s positive Weldon said he could report back to Speaking in unambiguous language at George W. Bush. response to a diplomatic request from the President Bush and his fellow legislators a press conference at the end of his two- “I cannot speak for the president of United States to provide non-combat mil- that “what I have heard makes me very day visit, the well-respected vice-chair- the Unites States or the secretary of state itary support in the form of a battalion optimistic.” man of the House Armed Services – that is their decision to make,” said specializing in neutralization of the after- The congressman announced that he Committee and co-chairman of the Rep. Weldon. affects of nuclear, chemical and biologi- had spoken with Ukrainian leaders about Congressional Ukrainian Caucus in the The remarks seemed to be a criticism cal attacks. Mr. Pascual emphasized that developing better cooperation between Congress stated that allegations that of repeated statements from White House Ukraine would not be asked to take part the Verkhovna Rada and the U.S. Ukraine was involved in the illegal representatives over the last weeks that in battlefield operations and its forces Congress. The first step along that path transfer of the anti-aircraft radar com- official meetings between U.S. and would remain outside Iraq unless needed. would be a legislative exchange to begin plexes had not stood up to scrutiny. Ukrainian officials would not take place Mr. Weldon, chairman of the this May with a group of U.S. represen- “We have no evidence that military at the highest levels of state authority. Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, the tatives traveling to Kyiv, followed later equipment was transferred anywhere. U.S. Ambassador Carlos Pascual, who body that consists of members of There may have been reports and com- speaks officially for both the White Congress with concentrated Ukrainian (Continued on page 12)

Ukraine’s entry into NATO. “Russians are U.S. seeks to rebuild... beginning to understand that NATO has (Continued from page 1) changed and this is not the threat that they means talking with, not just the govern- might have expected 10 years ago,” ment, but with the entire political spectrum Ambassador Pifer said. “In fact, people within the Verkhovna Rada, with key polit- argue that the Russian-Polish relationship, ical and societal leaders, and working with on a bilateral basis, is actually improved to non-governmental organizations. a significant degree since Poland entered The U.S. government has also set for into the alliance.” itself the specific goal of doing what it can Mr. Pifer did not indicate that there was to try and help create “the conditions for a any particular concern on the part of level playing field” for the next presiden- Washington over the recent development tial election in Ukraine. Asked whether, in of closer ties between Kyiv and Moscow. In the past, Ukraine has tried to maintain a the course of rebuilding U.S.-Ukrainian balance in its relations with Russia and the ties, the U.S. administration would consid- West, he said. “That balance has been dis- er, in the foreseeable future, a high-level rupted in the course of the last year, and meeting, such as between President we see some signs that there is a desire to George W. Bush and President Kuchma or reinstate that balance, which we think between Vice-President Dick Cheney and makes perfectly good sense for Ukraine. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine can have strong, growing, deepen- Ambassador Pifer said that it would be ing relationship with the United States and better “to build up some traction” first. with Europe, while at the same time hav- “You don’t want to jump to the top right ing good relations with Moscow. The two away,” he said. are not incompatible,” he said. He noted that there had been some fair- While the Kolchuha issue is having a ly high level contacts in recent months: negative effect on Ukraine’s relationship there was a meeting between the defense with the United States, the “active consid- ministers in Washington; Secretary of State eration” the Kyiv government is giving to Colin Powell had “a couple of phone con- deploying a chemical and biological versations” with Foreign Affairs Minister defense unit to the coalition in the Persian Anatolii Zlenko; and Vice Prime Minister Gulf area is viewed as a “potentially a pos- Ambassador Steven Pifer speaks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mykola Azarov was scheduled to visit here itive sign,” Mr. Pifer said. in January but canceled. “We also look to and hope Ukraine will Congress to make that happen,” he said. States was preoccupied with the nuclear When former Prime Minister Viktor make the right statements in how it talks Later, however, in response to a ques- question, neglecting other aspects of the Yushchenko, who is now thought to be the about Iraq, and that means making the tion about the U.S.-Ukrainian dispute over relationship. leading opposition contender in the next point that the onus, the burden, is on the import of American poultry products, The second three-year period, until presidential election, visited Washington in Saddam Hussein to disarm in an open and he indicated that this issue may have 1997, was one of “really broad engage- the first week of February, he met with verifiable way,” he said. “I also think that “other ramifications,” such as derailing the ment” on many fronts, including economic Vice-President Cheney and Deputy this is the sort of thing that, if we look at it, Jackson-Vanik effort. He recalled what reform, significant U.S. assistance, high- Secretary of State Richard Armitage. obviously from the point of view of the happened last year to the effort to get level contacts, the establishment of the Despite the skepticism heard recently White House and the U.S. government, Russia from under Jackson-Vanik when Kuchma-Gore Binational Commission and from NATO members about Ukraine’s there’s a lot of tension going on to the Iraq Russia banned U.S. poultry imports just as Ukraine’s strategic partnerships with chances of joining the alliance, he said, the question, and this is the sort of cooperation Congress was getting ready to end the NATO and the United States. United States supports the country’s even- that I think can help us to change the restrictions. Difficulties started to accumulate in the tual entry into NATO, “provided that dynamic of the bilateral relationship. “And all of a sudden we have 76 sena- third period, between 1998 and 1999, Ukraine is prepared to take the steps that People will take notice if Ukraine makes tors unhappy with us,” Mr. Pifer said. “If when there was a slowdown in economic are needed in terms of defense reform, this sort of contribution.” you’re going to choose a product to ban reforms and a growing number of “missed political reform and economic reform to Ambassador Pifer reiterated the admin- from the United States to antagonize as opportunities.” make it a qualified candidate for member- istration’s position that the Jackson-Vanik many congressmen as possible,” he And the last two years, Ambassador ship.” Ukraine has taken a “rhetorical Amendment trade restrictions should no explained, “you can’t do much better than Pifer said, saw worsening problems in the step” in that direction, Mr. Pifer said, “but longer apply to Ukraine, since it has met poultry,” which is produced in 38 states. area of democratic reforms, which includ- the question is, has Ukraine taken real its requirements for a number of years con- Reviewing the history of the develop- ed election irregularities and the still- actions that begin to thicken its ties to cerning immigration and religious free- ment of U.S.-Ukrainian relations, unsolved murder of journalist Heorhii Europe?” dom, especially with respect to the Jewish Ambassador Pifer said it can be divided Gongadze, and in arms proliferation, at The U.S. official downplayed the possi- population. “It’s something that we believe into four distinct periods: In the first, first arms transfers to Macedonia and later bility that Russia may react negatively to is overdue. We now have to work with which lasted until 1993-1994, the United the alleged Kolchuha sale to Iraq. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 No. 8

COMMENTARY THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY A repulsive celebration On the 132nd anniversary

February 17 marked the 85th anniversary of the birth of Volodymyr Scherbytsky of Lesia Ukrainka’s birth (1918-1990), former chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR and by Helena Lysyj Melnitchenko The lyrical and romantic poem former first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine. His name is synonymous and Eugene Melnitchenko “Rusalka,” written when she was 15 and with repressions and Russification in Ukraine as those were the hallmarks of his criticized by her mother for being “old- repugnant and retrograde regime. Between 1972 and 1989, when Scherbytsky was the The question often arises in literary cir- fashioned,” owes a debt to Shevchenko. first secretary of the CPU, Ukraine was subjected to the most severe repressions since cles and how much greater a writer or a The poem, a tale of love and betrayal (and the Stalin regime. It was during this period also that Soviet authorities attempted to poet would have become, had he or she perhaps feminist revenge) was inspired by cover up the truth about the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. During Scherbytsky’s tenure, lived longer. Had the legends of water nymphs who lure a Ukraine was often referred to as the Soviet Communists’ last preserve, and he was (1814-1862) lived longer than his 47 faithless lover to his death. In reviewing described as a “mastodon” – so profoundly entrenched was the stagnation in Ukraine. years, would he have become even greater her first book of poems, “On Wings of In accordance with a document signed and graced with an official seal by Ukraine’s than he is? (1856-1916) died Song,” Franko wrote that “[Since Vice Prime Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk, the anniversary date was to be marked in at 60, and the sheer volume of his works Shevchenko] ... Ukraine has not heard Kyiv by a press conference, special features in the state’s mass media outlets, place- was considerably greater than such vigorous and vibrant messages as ment of flowers and wreaths at Scherbytsky’s gravesite, a documentary exhibit, and a Shevchenko’s. In Lesia Ukrainka’s case come from the lips of this fragile, invalid lecture and concert dedicated to “Scherbytsky and his epoch.” Similar activities and (1871-1913), there is no question that, events were to be held in other cities. In addition, steps were to be taken to prepare girl.” were she healthy and had not died at age Lesia’s poems were inspired by nature, materials for a book of memoirs about Scherbytsky and a documentary film about his 42, her contribution and influence on life. Still to come: erection of memorials and the renaming of streets in his honor. her pensive, watery Polissia, her love for Ukrainian literature would have been Ukraine, freedom and justice, and her In one of the memoirs written on the occasion of the anniversary, Scherbytsky was immense. lauded this past week by his colleague Valentyna Shevchenko, a former member of scholarship. The love of her country is pal- Like Franko, she did not plow the same pable throughout her work. Although she the Politburo of the Communist Party of Ukraine and a former chair of the Presidium fields as did the lesser writers who fol- of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, as a leader who cared for children and was delicate and sick, her poems portray lowed Shevchenko. She had the courage power and strength. Courage and strength established summer camps, recreational facilities, medical complexes, schools and to be original. libraries for them. But it was this very same Scherbytsky who let Ukraine’s children also defined her as a writer and a woman. Unlike Shevchenko and Franko, whose Racked with pain, she continued to write. march down the streets of Kyiv in the annual May Day parade in 1986 – just days beginnings were modest, Larysa Kosach after the explosion at Chornobyl – exposing them to dangerous radiation while contin- At the age of 35 she married Klyment had the advantage of the nurturing of her Kvitka, an ethnomusicologist. Faced with uing the horrifying cover-up of the accident’s deadly ramifications. talent by her cultured family. Her father, An unauthorized memoir published in Ukrainska Pravda and written by former death, she dared to live. Petro Kosach, was an enlightened Always innovative, she introduced the human rights activist Volodymyr Malynkovych (see Svoboda, February 21, for a landowner in the Polissia region of Volyn, reprint of the article) provides recollections of Scherbytsky that are, shall we say, dramatic genre of poetry to Ukrainian lit- and her mother, the sister of the great erature. Although in most of her dramatic somewhat different. According to Mr. Malynkovych, Scherbytsky came to power scholar and political thinker, Mykhailo because he pledged to deal with the dissidents in Ukraine and to always follow poetry she drew her inspirations from the Drahomanov, wrote under the nom de ancient world and the persecution of early instructions from the Kremlin. And he kept his word. During Scherbytsky’s tenure in plume of . Ukraine, leading national and human rights activists such as Vasyl Stus, Vyacheslav Christians (The Possessed, Cassandra, Under the direction of her mother and Rufnus and Priscilla), her thinly veiled Chornovil, Ivan Svitlychny, Nadia Svitlychna, Ivan Dzyuba, Yevhen Sverstiuk, her uncle, Lesia studied the best of what Semen Gluzman – and many, many others – were sentenced to long terms of impris- dramas dealt with issues facing Ukrainians Ukrainian and European literature had to at that time. Her plays were not widely onment in the Soviet gulag, followed by terms of “internal exile” – that is, terms offer and was heavily influenced by Ivan beyond the borders of Ukraine, in the far reaches of the USSR. Their arrests were fol- staged, probably because they were too Kotliarevsky and Shevchenko. She recog- intellectual and foreign to the average lowed by those of Ukraine’s courageous Helsinki monitors. nized her debt to Shevchenko in her hom- An unreconstructed Communist and Soviet, and a Brezhnevite holdover, reader. Some of her critics suggested that age “Na Rokovyny Shevchenka,” (On Scherbytsky fought to the end against glasnost and perebudova. His repressions con- her work was laudable, but difficult to Shevchenko’s Anniversary). Among for- tinued into 1988 and 1989 as his regime attempted to halt mass demonstrations by the understand. eign writers, she was influenced by the populace of Ukraine. He railed against Rukh, the Popular Movement of Ukraine for Unlike Shevchenko who was widely work of the German poet Heinrich Heine Perebudova, making it clear that the Communist Party in Ukraine regarded it, along translated, she was not, and the transla- (1797-1856). with the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, as it main opponents. Ultimately, the movement tions into English lack the lyric quality and Illness struck this promising young for national renewal in Ukraine proved stronger than Scherbytsky’s regime. Several fire of her poems. Reading her both in woman at a young age, first tuberculosis in months later he was “retired,” and Rukh held its founding congress in Kyiv. Ukrainian and in English, we see the diffi- her hands, then her legs and finally in her The Ukrainian Republican Party, among whose members are former Soviet politi- culty; the two languages and the poetic cal prisoners and Helsinki monitors, reacted most strongly to the announced 85th lungs. Like Shevchenko, who spent most images are not compatible. anniversary commemorations, holding a press conference and issuing a statement that of his life outside Ukraine in prisons or in She finished what is considered her emphasized: “We cannot see these efforts to honor the memory of V. Scherbytsky, exile, she could write only at irregular best work “Lisova Pisnia” (Forest Song) approved by the Vice Prime Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk, as nothing other than anoth- intervals and spent a good portion of her two years before her death, “in a state er attempt to inculcate Ukrainians with the ideology of inferiority and dependence on life seeking medical help in Berlin, Rome, bordering on delirium,” she wrote. In imperial Moscow which V. Scherbytsky faithfully served all his life.” the Caucasus and Egypt. Lesia had a won- this fairy drama in three acts, she returns Reading with disbelief and dismay about this repulsive anniversary officially being derful facility for languages and read and to her native Polissia. Her superb stage marked in Ukraine, we can only wonder what the “celebration” of Scherbytsky’s lega- spoke several, including German, Italian, notes take the reader through spring, cy means for the future of Ukraine. Greek, Spanish and English. Many of her summer, autumn and winter. poems, like Shevchenko’s, reflect her An exquisite work, the tragic love yearning for Ukraine, particularly her story of the peasant Lukash and the for- dreamy and storied Polissia. Her travels est nymph, Mavka, “Lisova Pisnia” Feb. had a positive effect on her writing, as Turning the pages back... they exposed her to the wider world. (Continued on page 19) Indeed, she can be considered the most 28 cosmopolitan of Ukrainian writers. She lived at a difficult time, a period of 1982 In February 1982, the Harvard Ukrainian Studies Fund report- oppression and Russification. All printing ed that, in his new book “FDR, 1882-1945: A Centenary in the was prohibited Remembrance,” Joseph Alsop called the famine of 1932-1933 in by the tsar. From her earliest years, Lesia Ukraine a “terrible truth” that was concealed from the West. knew what her mission in life should be Viking Press published the 256-page, illustrated volume to commemorate the 100th and pursued it with passion despite her ill- anniversary of the birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United ness. Her first poem, “Nadia” (Hope), was States. As Washington correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, Mr. Alsop knew written when she was only 9. Roosevelt, who was also his distant relative. “Ni doli, ni voli u mene nema/Ostalasya According to a story originating from Harvard’s USF that appeared in The Ukrainian tilky nadia odna”(Neither fortune, nor Weekly on February 28, 1982, Mr. Alsop writes that in 1933 William Stoneman, then in freedom have I/Hope alone remains), she Moscow as a correspondent for the old Chicago Daily News, had contrived to go to wrote, speaking with great empathy for Ukraine and send out an accurate account of what was happening there. The Soviets there- her aunt, exiled for her political views. upon facilitated the trip to Ukraine of Walter Duranty, correspondent of The New York Her mother sent her poems to , Times. Mr. Duranty later reported that he saw no horrors there. This “Duranty cover-up,” as where the conditions under the Austro- Mr. Alsop calls it, succeeded so well that afterwards no one told how 5 million Ukrainians Hungarian Empire were more relaxed. died in the famine Stalin had artificially created. Lesia was only 12 and already had a pseu- From 1974 to 1978, it should be noted, Mr. Alsop was chairman of the Visiting donym, Lesia Ukrainka, when her poems Committee to the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard. The committee, which includes first saw the light of day in print. American and Ukrainian scholars, community leaders and businessmen, reports to Harvard University on the work of the institute. Helene Lysyj Melnitchenko and Eugene Melnitchenko are writers from Owings, Source: “FDR commemorative volume calls 1930s famine ‘terrible truth,’ ” The Md., who are completing a novel about Snow-covered monument to Lesia Ukrainian Weekly, February 28, 1982, Vol. L, No. 9. immigrants’ struggle in American society. Ukrainka at the Soyuzivka resort. No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Faces and Places perform surgery, etc. We have reached a time when we need to get some perma- by Myron B. Kuropas Thanks for Fill’s nent quality equipment, such as a micro- thoughtful letter scope. Dear Editor: Ukraine has a population of nearly 50 million. Generally, medical care is avail- I wish to express my gratitude to able mainly in the major cities, such as Father Michael Fill for his thoughtful let- Kyiv or Odesa. Travel to these cities New Europe, old Soviets ter (January 26) in response to Myron from the site we selected (Ivano- While Belgium, France and Germany With 60 percent of its foreign trade Kuropas’ column “War on Christmas.” Frankivsk) is difficult because few peo- are fast receding into the internationally dependent on Russia, Moldova, headed by He convincingly shows the difference ple have cars and train travel takes irrelevant column, a new Europe is emerg- Vladimir Voronin, is firmly in Russia’s grip. between the meaning of the external and approximately 15 hours each way. This ing that promises to bring new vigor, under- The Communist Party of Moldova over- internal professions of the Christian is a major burden to the sick and partial- standing and clarity to a weary continent whelmingly dominated the parliamentary faith, and how we should be focused on ly sighted diabetic or glaucoma patient. too long dominated by the weak, the lame elections of 2001. Today Moldova is con- Christ’s deeper messages. Both the medical care for the inhabi- and the indifferent. sidered the poorest country in Europe. Though President Eduard Shevardnadze The founding fathers were very clear, tants and the medical training of physi- Eight Western European countries have continues to be viewed favorably in the on the one hand, about the government cians and nurses is spotty. The reasons pledged their support of security ties with West, Georgia is plagued by unemployment, not establishing any religion, and on the for this state of medical care are lack of the U.S. while 10 East European countries – cronyism and corruption. International other, that the government would not money for equipment and supplies, and a Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, observers monitoring the 2000 presidential interfere with the right of anyone to system of graft that deprives the average Lithuania, Macedonian, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia – the so-called “Vilnius Ten,” elections noticed widespread irregularities. express his belief in whatever religion he citizen of the meager resources available. have decided to join the pro-America club. The most totalitarian of the former wishes. In this environment, it is exceedingly dif- “This is only the beginning,” Estonia’s Soviet republics is Turkmenistan, whose At the time the Constitution was writ- ficult to accomplish the ordinary goals of former prime minister, Mart Laar, declared. leader, Sapamurad Niyazov, was voted ten, most of the citizens were Christian, medical care. “Central Europeans and others won’t stand president-for-life by his rubber-stamp so it must have been tempting to declare We have been able to access the oph- French-style anti-Americanism.” Parliament in 1999. The personality cult that the United States would be a thalmology department at an army hospi- The statement issued by the Vilnius Ten that President Niyazov has instituted in his Christian country. In their wisdom the tal in Ivano-Frankivsk which has become was unambiguous and concise. “Our coun- nation is breath-taking. Cities, an after- Constitution’s framers did not. Since a civilian facility. We have obtained an tries understand the dangers posed by tyran- shave, even a meteor now bear his name. then, our country has opened its arms to ocutome system, which is a device that is ny and the special responsibility of democ- Statues of the leader have popped up like the world and has welcomed people of used to treat diabetic eyes that have hem- orrhaged or produced traction retinal racies to defend our shared values.” mushrooms throughout the republic. Even many beliefs, as well of those who are And where is Ukraine in this picture? the months of the year have been renamed non-believers, and those words continue detachments. The chief of ophthalmic services from this hospital has twice Leonid Kuchma has just been elected chair by order of the president. April, for exam- to hold all this diversity together. of the Commonwealth of Independent ple, was named after his mother. I am forever grateful that my parents been brought to the United States for focused training in use of the ocutome States (CIS), a kind of mini- Kazakstan is a mixed success story. Its were among those welcomed here in the system. However, the ocutome system in with ambitions to become a maxi-Soviet rich oil and mineral resources and a liberal- early part of the last century, and that Ivano-Frankivsk is incomplete at this Union. If you hear a loud sucking sound, ized economy that encourages Western they were free to celebrate in our old and time since it requires a good ophthalmic it’s Ukraine being pulled into Russian investment, provides Kazakstan with the dear Ukrainian way. operating microscope. President Vladimir’s Putin’s big black hole. potential for becoming one of Central Yes, Christmas customs are beautiful: With an ophthalmic operating micro- Who are Ukraine’s new partners on the Asia’s richest countries. Unfortunately, the creches, carols, stars, wreaths, lights, scope, one can also perform trabeculec- international stage? First and foremost there Kazakstan’s president is Nursultan trees, “Sviat Vechori,” and solemn litur- tomy procedures as a treatment for glau- is “Big Brother” Russia, always concerned Nazarbayev, a man who has led the republic gies. All these things should be glorious- coma. This procedure circumvents the about “Little Brother” Ukraine. Russia will since Soviet times. In 2002 he interfered ly and gratefully celebrated in the reliance on medical treatment, which is never be whole again without Ukraine, say with the independent media, arrested oppo- churches and homes of the faithful. The unreliable in this region because the Russian leaders. Can closer ties with Russia sition leaders and made it virtually impossi- schools, the city squares and public patients cannot afford the ophthalmic lead to greater democratization in Ukraine? ble for new political parties to emerge. places have been paid for by all our citi- drops and they reach a stage where the Hardly. According to Russian Duma mem- What has Ukraine to gain from its move zens, through our system of taxation. drops no longer provide the relief neces- ber Gregory Yavlinsky: “What we have in into a new neighborhood? Little. What has Each and every one of these contributing sary. Russia today is artificial, sham democracy.” Mr. Kuchma to gain? Much. He himself has citizens with their many and various Statistically, patients that succumb to Another charter member of the CIS is indicated that he feels more comfortable beliefs, is entitled to be free of any diabetic ocular complications have a life Belarus, headed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka with his old Soviet-era buddies than he does imposed celebration – no matter how expectancy of approximately six years, since 1994. A model Soviet-style leader, with Western leaders who are always mak- beautiful and meaningful it may be to due to kidney or other organ failure. At President Lukashenka was supposed to step ing demands on him, such as economic some other citizen. present, these patients have no treatment down after new elections in 1999, but a reform, a transparent political and economic rigged referendum allowed him to cancel system, a free press and a clampdown on Stephanie Sydoriak and are relegated to sit in a chair in the the elections and remain in power. corruption. With a little over a year left in Los Alamos, N.M. corner of one of the rooms in their two- room family apartments. Opposition to Mr. Lukashenka has office, Mr. Kuchma doesn’t need the grief It is the objective of this project to decreased, especially since opposition lead- that continued association with Western delay onset of blindness in order to ame- ers in Belarus have a way of disappearing. ideals presents. Ukraine’s anti-Western oli- liorate the suffering and improve the After curtailing and bullying campaigning garchs support him, and his financial future Eye Project quality of life for these patients, and to by opposition parities, President is secure. His son-in-law has been named allow them to remain productive rather Lukashenka was re-elected in 2001. one of the 10 richest men in all of Europe. seeks support than become a burden on society. Armenia, headed by Robert Kocharian, With no real incentive to change, Dear Editor: This project is under the auspices of also is a CIS member. While not quite as President Kuchma can ride out the remain- ruthless as Mr. Lukashenka, President ing months of his tenure by playing the The Ukrainian Eye Project is appeal- Aid for Ukraine. It is a 501 (a), 509 (a) Kocharian’s style of government remains Russia card and cultivating the oligarchs ing to you for donations. This project (1), and 170 (b)(l) (A) (vi) organization. Tax ID No. 36 3851149. largely authoritarian. who made him what he is. Mr. Kuchma’s was started in 1992 after the break-up of Then there is Kyrgyzstan, headed by comments about his desire to improve rela- the USSR. We have made eight humani- William Selezinka, M.D. Askar Akayev, a Communist-era appa- tions with the U.S. are just so much blather. tarian missions to Ukraine to help, teach, San Diego, Calif. ratchik re-elected in 2000 by a large margin It is important to note, however, that the amid allegations of voter fraud. Ukrainian Parliament has never ratified the Tajikistan’s president is Imomali CIS charter so, technically, Ukraine is not a Rakhmonov, another Soviet-style leader. member. At the same, moreover, Mr. Following independence, the Tajiks experi- Kuchma’s opposition has not been cowed. The Weekly’s 2002 articles now available online enced a civil war as the Communist-domi- Demonstrations are promised for the near PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The full texts newspaper since its founding in 1933. future. And Ukrainians as a whole are still of the 2002 issues of The Ukrainian It also contains information about The nated government fought off both Islamic fundamentalists and forces organized by a largely pro-Western. Dr. Taras Kuzio Weekly are now available online at Weekly, its staffers and its books, as informs us that a recent poll conducted by www.ukrweekly.com, the newspaper’s well as details about subscribing and democratic opposition. The fall of the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan brought the Washington-based Pew Research Center official website. The new addition was advertising. found that Ukrainians held more favorable unveiled, as has become tradition, on In addition, excerpts of the top news some respite from Islamist raids. Azerbaijan, headed by Haydar Aliyev, is views of Americans than did Poles, the anniversary of the founding of the stories published each week during the Bulgarians, Czechs, Russians and Slovaks. Ukrainian National Association, pub- current year are available. All sections perhaps the most progressive of the former Soviet republics. Its pro-Western stance A truly free, open and productive lisher of The Ukrainian Weekly. of the site are searchable. The site is Ukraine is a work in progress. Mr. Kuchma, The 52 issues published in 2002 maintained by the newspaper’s pro- combined with careful management of its resources has made Azerbaijan one of the the oligarchs who support him and Mr. include 1,715 articles. The site now duction and editorial staffs; Serge Putin have plans for Ukraine’s 2004 elec- contains 12,830 full-text articles. Polishchuk is the webmaster. most attractive of the oil-rich Caspian republics for foreign investors. Even the tions that will strengthen their power base. Opened in August 1998, The Because The Weekly provides this Let’s hope the opposition also has plans. Weekly’s official website is dedicated archival website as a community serv- International Monetary Fund has given high to archival materials published in the ice, access to all of the articles is free. marks to a republic that some believe has accomplished one of the most successful Myron Kuropas’ e-mail address is: economic transformations ever. [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 No. 8

Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S. visits UOC Metropolia Center by Hieromonk Daniel SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. – Ambassador Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Ukraine’s envoy to the United States, visit- ed the Metropolia Center of St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle, on the weekend of January 18-19 to familiarize himself with Ukrainian Orthodox Church life in this country. Ambassador Gryshchenko and his wife, Natalia, arrived in the afternoon of January 18 and first met privately with Archbishop Antony in his Consistory office. The archbishop greeted the ambassador on behalf of Metropolitan Constantine and Archbishop Vsevolod, and all the clergy and faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., and expressed joy at this first visit. The ambassador was informed about the history and current life of the Metropolia and the development of the Metropolia Center, founded by Metropolitans John and Mstyslav 53 years ago. Ambassador Gryshchenko commented on current ecclesiastical life in Ukraine, stating that it is much like the political life At the Metropolia Center (from left) are: Ambassador Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Natalia Gryschenko, Archbishop Antony, of the nation at this moment – chaotic and Protopresbyter William Diakiw, Hieromonk Daniel, Natalia Holub and Myroslava Shcherbatyuk. divided. He offered assurances that the Ukrainian government continues in its presidents of the Church’s central organiza- Ukrainian National Rada in Exile, the grave staff as they carry out that work. desire to see the Church united and speak- tions, Daria Pishko of the Ukrainian of Boris Martos, prime minister of Ukraine; All present were invited to the ing with one voice in its ministry to the Orthodox League and Nadia Mirchuk of the grave of Gen. Petro Grigorenko of the Sisterhood Hall next to the Memorial nation and the faithful. the United Ukrainian Orthodox Sisterhoods Ukrainian Helsinki Group; and the final Church for an opportunity to meet with Archbishop Antony presented the (Michael Heretz of St. Andrew Society was resting places of several other prominent Ambassador Gryshchenko, who spoke ambassador with a gift of several church unable to participate until Sunday due to Ukrainian literary, cultural and political briefly about the current life of Ukraine and publications, including the five-volume his- prior commitments) – led the ambassador leaders. assured his listeners that this life will con- tory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by on a tour of the center through St. Sophia The ambassador, his wife and Embassy tinue to improve. He invited the faithful to Prof. Ivan Vlasovsky, the annual Church Seminary/Ukrainian Orthodox Church staff, Natalia Holub, cultural attaché, and visit Ukraine frequently to see for them- Calendar and the Ukrainian Orthodox Library, St. Andrew Memorial Church and Myroslava Shcherbatiuk, second secretary, selves how life in every aspect has Word. A copy of the icon commissioned the Fisher House. brought flowers for each of the graves and improved and to make their own judgments especially for the celebration of the 2,000th A memorial service was conducted in memorials visited. about it. He graciously responded to several anniversary of the Nativity of Our Lord was the crypt of Patriarch Mstyslav. Prayers Following a visit and tour of the Fisher questions from the faithful and departed for also presented to the ambassador, who in were said at the grave of Metropolitan House hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Skocypec, a visit to the Ukrainian Cultural Center and return presented the archbishop with two John; the United Ukrainian Orthodox the group returned to the Memorial Church the Ukrainian Orthodox Museum located publications from Ukraine – “Ukrainian Sisterhoods memorial to the women and for the Compline Service on the Eve of there. Folk Icons from the Land of Shevchenko” children who perished in the genocidal Jordan – the Epiphany/Baptism of the Lord. The entourage expressed admiration for and “Holy Kyiv.” Famine of 1932-1933; the main cemetery A special Epiphany Eve meal, prepared by the Ukrainian Cultural Center and museum Following this meeting, Archbishop cross commemorating all those who gave St. Mary Sisterhood, followed with all those and pride that significant artifacts of Antony, accompanied by members of the their lives in defense of the freedom of who worshipped during the services in Ukrainian history have been so well pre- Consistory – the Very Rev. William Diakiw, Ukraine; the Ukrainian Insurgent Army attendance. served and protected by the UOC-U.S.A. vice-president; Emil Skocypec, (UPA) subdivision of the cemetery; the On Sunday morning – the Great Feast of Strong support was expressed for the suc- treasurer;Dr. George Krywolap and the graves of the three presidents of the the Baptism of the Lord – the Memorial cessful completion of the Historical and Church was overflowing with worshippers. Educational Complex, which would allow Archbishop Antony warmly welcomed for the exhibition of the entire museum col- Ambassador Gryshchenko, and his lection rather than the 20 percent currently entourage on behalf of the Council of on display. Bishops and the entire UOC-U.S.A. and Following this visit, Archbishop Antony offered his prayers that all the work of the hosted Ambassador Gryshchenko, his wife Embassy of Ukraine in the U.S. will be and staff at a luncheon with Consistory most beneficial to Ukrainians in Ukraine members, staff and the leaders of Church and beyond its borders and that God’s bless- organizations prior to their return to the ings be bestowed upon the envoy and his Embassy in Washington.

the United States and its effort to lead an Demonstrators... anti-terrorism military initiative against (Continued from page 1) Iraq. expressed their unqualified support for In Symferopol the Communist Party of the Crimea organized an anti-war rally that U.S. military intervention in Iraq to neu- included about 50 students of Arabic ori- tralize the Iraqi strongman. gin, according to an Interfax-Ukraine The group, most of them members of report. Ten days earlier, Symferopol city the quasi-military organization Bratstvo officials had rejected an application for an (Brotherhood), gathered in the Podil dis- anti-war rally submitted by the political trict of Kyiv and marched toward the party, so the protest was held as a meeting downtown area and inevitable confronta- between city residents and Leonid Grach, tion with the anti-war demonstrators, regional lawmaker and Communist leader according to state militia, who quickly dis- in the Crimean Parliament. banded the procession for not being sanc- Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma tioned by local authorities. They also has stated repeatedly that the country arrested 19 young protesters for carrying would not support a unilateral act by the weapons, which police identified as wood- United States in beginning a war against en sticks. Iraq, but would go along with a U.N. reso- A few days later, more moderate lution sanctioning force against the Middle Ukrainians also voiced their support for East country. Mr. Kuchma has also said the United States. On February 19, up to that Kyiv is ready to provide a support bat- 100 members of the national democratic talion of anti-nuclear, anti-biological and youth organization, Youth – the Hope of anti-chemical weapons specialists should Ukraine, staged a rally in front of the U.S. the United Nations approve military Embassy in Kyiv to express solidarity with action. No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 9 Shevchenko Society hosts literary evening of Yuriy Tarnawsky by Dr. Orest Popovych of poetry, 10 books of prose and seven plays. His writ- ings are bilingual. In the case of poetry, he usually com- NEW YORK – It is no surprise that a co-founder of poses the first version in Ukrainian, followed by its the New York Group of Ukrainian writers would attract English variant (he does not refer to them as “transla- an enthusiastic audience to one of his literary nights in tions”). In the case of prose, that order is reversed. this city. On January 25 they came to the Shevchenko As part of the evening’s program, Mr. Tarnawsky Scientific Society (NTSh) building to hear the latest offered excerpts from the second volume of his collect- works by Yuriy Tarnawsky, the well-known poet, pro- ed poems titled “Yikh Nemaye” (They Don’t Exist), and saist, playwright and translator. from his book of prose “Ne Znayu” (I Don’t Know), An expert introduction by Vasyl Makhno, himself a both published in Kyiv by Rodovid in 1999 and 2000, prominent poet, provided the background for this pres- respectively. entation. “I would compare the works of Mr. Tarnawsky Recently, one of his collections was published in to a Mexican cactus, which blooms with exotic flowers, Polish in a translation by Tadeusz Karabowicz titled while its fruit possesses a mild taste of alcohol,” intoned “Oto Jak Zdrowiej?” (Lublin: Prymat, 2002). Selections the fellow poet. He then harked back to the late 1950s, from the Polish edition were read by the poet’s wife, recalling the contributions of the “rebellious” New York Karina. Group, which has generated many new artistic ideas in Subsequently Dr. Tarnawsky read from his English Ukrainian literature, thus bringing it into line with the translation of poetry by the Ukrainian poet Volodymyr modern trends in world literature. Tsybulko from the collection “Angels in a Pyramid.” Prof. Makhno referred to Dr. Tarnawsky as a particu- The program concluded with the short story “Lenin’s larly ardent champion of radical change in Ukrainian Brain,” a humorous phantasy from Mr. Tarnawsky’s col- émigré literature, one who drew upon the cross-currents lection “Short Tails,” originally written in English and of the prevailing artistic movements of the second half of read by the author in its Ukrainian variant. (“Lenin’s the 20th century, such as the beat culture of North Brain” appeared in the November 2002 issue of the lit- America, the poetry of Latin America as well as the erary journal Krytyka, which is published in Kyiv.) European forays into existentialism as represented by Mr. Tarnawsky is a member of the Fiction Collective Sartre and Camus. He went on to note that early on, with society of American avant-garde writers and of the Yuriy Tarnawsky with his wife, Karina, who read the collection “Life in the City,” which came out in 1956, Writers’ Union of Ukraine. He holds a Ph.D. in linguis- selections from the poet’s collection “Yak Ya Mr. Tarnawsky also made his mark as an urban poet. tics and is a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Vyduzhuyu,” which came out in Polish translation To date Mr. Tarnawsky has published 19 collections Society. “Oto Jak Zdrowiej” in 2002.

Kuzio speaks in New Jersey on Ukraine’s course and its future by Roma Hadzewycz tration tend to do well in business. Speaking of a post-Kuchma Ukraine, EAST HANOVER, N.J. – Dr. Taras the analyst said that a Yeltsin-Putin type Kuzio, whose analyses of political devel- of succession as occurred in Russia is not opments in Ukraine are published by a possible in Ukraine under the current cir- variety of news media and scholarly cumstances. Fully 70 percent of the pub- sources, including Radio Free lic, he explained, believe President Europe/Radio Liberty (a source exten- Leonid Kuchma should resign. Indeed, sively used by The Ukrainian Weekly), the president is so unpopular that “any- spoke on the topic “Whither Ukraine? one designated by Kuchma as his succes- West or East? Democratic or sor finds his political career ending.” Authoritarian?” on February 1 here at the Ramada Hotel. At the same time, President Kuchma The presentation was sponsored by “is hedging his bets,” seeking some sort the Ukrainian American Professionals of immunity once he is out of office and and Businesspersons Association of New “cementing his closeness with Russia” to York and New Jersey, whose president, that end. Dr. Kuzio said he believes that Leonard Mazur, introduced the guest is one reason Mr. Kuchma took on the speaker, noting that he is the author of role of chairman of the CIS Council of countless articles and several books Heads of State – even though he himself about contemporary Ukraine. had said that the Commonwealth of Dr. Kuzio, who is originally from Independent States is a joke. England, is a resident fellow at the As far as political culture is con- Center for Russian and East European Roma Hadzewycz cerned, Dr. Kuzio described Ukraine as a mixture of Eurasian and East-Central Studies and adjunct professor of the Dr. Taras Kuzio is flanked by Leonard Mazur (right), president, and Dr. Bohdan department of political science at the European cultures and, thus, in many Vitvitsky, vice-president, of the Ukrainian American Professionals and ways it is the scene of a “clash of civi- University of Toronto. He also happens Businesspersons Association of New York and New Jersey. to teach Canada’s only political science lizations” to use the term coined by course on post-Soviet Ukraine. Samuel Huntington. Ukraine today is the Dr. Kuzio’s talk covered topics rang- and in the spring it is pro-Western. said Ukraine actually has great anti-cor- site of a battle of East-Central European ing from foreign affairs and political cul- He went on to note that the political ruption laws. The problem is that there is tendencies versus what the speaker ture to corruption and Ukraine’s presi- spectrum in Ukraine also is confusing. no rule of law so these laws are not called “neo-Soviet” culture. Thus, he dential elections in 2004. The names of parties, he pointed out, enforced. In fact, he continued, corruption concluded, “the issue today is what kind Speaking of the oftentimes puzzling rarely have anything to do with their ide- is allowed for those who are loyal to the of Ukraine is being built.” foreign policy pursued by Ukraine, he ology; for example, Social Democrats are administration. Those who fall out of line At the conclusion of his remarks, Dr. cited the old joke that Kyiv’s policy is sea- hardly social democrats, and Greens do learn all too quickly that “Ukraine is a Kuzio answered questions on diverse sonal: in the winter it is pro-Russian due to not promote environmental interests. blackmail state,” he said. That is why, he topics posed by members of the overflow the country’s need for energy resources; On the issue of corruption, Dr. Kuzio said, friends of the presidential adminis- audience in attendance. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY PRESS FUND: A SPECIAL REPORT Oleksa Breslawec Potomac, Md. TO SUBSCRIBE $85.00 John Husiak New York, N.Y. Matthew Stremba Dulles, Va. $ 5.00 Send $55 $50.00 Motria Myszczatyn Fort Collins, Colo. Victor Fedorowich Yorkton, Sask. Steve and Betty Towner Levittown, N.Y. ($45 if you are a member John Kark San Diego, Calif. Total $370.00 of the UNA) to: $45.00 Lee and Lesia Cady Phoenix, Ariz. ... AND A SPECIAL THANK-YOU The Ukrainian Weekly These donations to The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund were received dur- $25.00 Subscription Department Larissa Hogan Marinette, Wis. ing the month of January along with payments for “Ukraine Lives!” (The list does not include other donations to The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund Mykola Hoshovsky Sunnyside, N.Y. 2200 Route 10 Anna Piedilato Piscataway, N.J. received separately.) Serge Polishchuk Jersey City, N.J. A huge thank-you to our many contributors for this wonderful response to our book! P.O. Box 280 $10.00 Please note: The Ukrainian Weekly Press Fund is the sole fund dedicated Parsippany, NJ 07054 Oleh Balaziuk West Easton, Pa. exclusively to supporting the work of this publication. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 No. 8

University of Toronto Press publishes three books by Magocsi by Oksana Zakydalsky Ukrainian Studies, University of Carpathian Rus where the self-ascription University in his biographical entry, the Toronto) and Ivan Pop (born in Czecho- of eastern Slavs underwent a significant book jacket describes him as a “retired TORONTO – At the end of 2002, the Slovakia and now living in the Czech change from Rusyn to Ukrainian. professor of history at Moscow State University of Toronto Press published Republic). Although one would like to “get on University.” three books by Prof. Paul Robert The introduction states that “this is with it,” accept that there exists an entity Magocsi. One of the books – the Prof. Magocsi has pointed out that the first encyclopedia to deal with the “Rusyn” and use the encyclopedia to “in a book such as this, there are facts, “Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and learn more about them, the book’s per- Culture,” co-edited by Prof. Magocsi and interpretation of facts and tone” and sistent labeling – Rusyn national orienta- admitted that there is a difference in tone Prof. Ivan Pop – is a new venture and the tion, Russian national orientation, culmination of a five-year effort. The in the entries signed by him and those Ukrainian national orientation – makes signed by Prof. Pop, but he explained large size book has 1,070 alphabetically this hard to do. Thus a person born in the arranged entries and, although there is no that Prof. Pop is a distinguished diplo- territory that has been designated matic historian on the 20th century and index, there are 1,400 cross references in Carpathian Rus is not described as alphabetical arrangement with the main familiar with the archives and “does Ukrainian (even if that was what he bring to light certain aspects of a story entries, which is handy for the reader called himself) but as being of who does not have to flip back and forth that in general terms is known to “Ukrainian national orientation.” The Ukrainian readers but that has a part that between two lists. term of designation Ukrainian is used for they have not heard of. Every historical More than half of the entries are biog- persons or groups that originate outside tradition has its own mythology. And it raphies of individuals, but Prof. Magocsi Carpathian Rus, obscuring the fact that a becomes a question of how much should explained that “the work is not an ency- large number of persons coming from clopedia of Rusyns, but an encyclopedia Carpathian Rus or living there (particu- an encyclopedia be at the same type of about Rusyn history and culture and so larly in the interwar period) called them- tone without the specific interpretive the criterion for inclusion was not that a selves Ukrainian. statements of the author. All the entries person was of Rusyn descent, but rather “Ukrainian national orientation” is are signed. All entries are the responsi- that a person has made a contribution to used for Stepan Rosokha and Vasyl bility of the author.” Rusyn historical or cultural develop- Grendzha-Donsky, while Avhustyn It is what Prof. Magocsi calls “the ment.” Voloshyn is labeled a “supporter of tone” of the Pop-authored articles that Other entries cover a variety of topics Ukrainian national orientation.” will bother the Ukrainian reader. It some- – organizations, political parties, publica- Although Ivan Franko is called a times reminds one of “the tone” encoun- tions, historical terms, etc. There are also Ukrainian, Volodymyr Kubiiovych is a tered in Soviet writings on Ukrainian a dozen thematic entries such as archeol- Galician-Ukrainian (referred to as history topics, including the use of ogy, architecture, historiography, history, Volodymyr Mykhailovych, something a Soviet phraseology. language, etc. However, there are no Prof. Paul Robert Magocsi Galician would not call himself). In the entry on the Carpathian Sich, entries or even cross referencing on Prof. Magocsi pointed out, “This book Mr. Pop writes, “Following the example some topics one would expect to find in historical past and culture of Rusyns in is not written for Ukrainians nor is it (Continued on page 16) such a reference work, for example all countries where they live. It is intend- written as an alternative for a Ukrainian entries on Canada, USA or Religion. ed to serve as a reference tool for spe- or for that matter a Russian understand- Although the encyclopedia involved cialists in Carpatho-Rusyn studies and ing of this part of the world, but rather 17 authors and 24 advisors in nine coun- for those in need of introductory infor- from the perspective of this world itself. tries, about 90 percent of the entries were mation about one of the many peoples Much of what one sees in this book is FOR THE RECORD: written by three authors, all historians – who live in central and eastern Europe ... how Rusyns themselves perceived them- Bogdan Horbal (born in Poland, living in Because the Rusyns are and have been a selves. If it coincides or differs from how the United States since 1990), Prof. stateless people ... the first problem faced others perceive them – Ukrainians being RemarksFollowing by are Frank remarks Sysyn by Dr. Magocsi, (who holds the Chair of by the editors of this encyclopedia was to only one of the groups looking at them Frank E. Sysyn, Peter Jacyk define the subject and its parameters.” from the outside – then so be it. There is Program for the Study of Ukraine, In a paper on the encyclopedia pre- no active attempt to either deny or ques- on the publication of the book “The sented last spring to the American tion or undermine how others may look Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Association for the Advancement of at this part of the world.” Galicia as Ukraine’s Piedmont” At a glance: Slavic Studies (AAASS), Prof. Throughout the Encyclopedia delivered at the University of Magocsi’s answer to “who are the “Ukrainianism” is seen as something Toronto Press book launch of Prof. books by Magocsi Rusyns” was that “the criterion for deter- imposed, either by the nationalists from Robert Magocsi’s books. Below is information on recently mining who was a Rusyn in these settle- Galicia in the inter-war period or the published books by Paul R. Magocsi. ments was self-ascription, namely per- post-war Communist regime which For the past quarter century, Bob sons who answered on decennial census- incorporated Carpathian Rus into Soviet Magocsi has contributed greatly to • “Encyclopedia of Rusyn es (1900, 1910, 1920) that their mother Ukraine. From the entry on Ukrainians: the study of the group known in the History and Culture,” by Paul tongue or their nationality was Rusyn.” “Students from Subcarpathian Rus 19th-century as the of Robert Magocsi and Ivan Pop, edi- In the introduction to the encyclope- attending schools in Prague were also Austrian Galicia and the Kingdom tors. Toronto: University of Toronto dia, Prof. Magocsi writes, “This is the ‘transformed’ [quotes used in the origi- of Hungary, the speakers of various Press, 2002, 816 pp, 10 black-and- first such volume about a people called nal] into Ukrainians as a result of propa- western Ukrainian dialects. With white maps $95 (cloth). by various names – Rusyns, Ruthenians, ganda undertaken by the numerous this statement, I have brought to the See article above. Carpatho-Ukrainians, Russians, Lemkos Ukrainian émigré organizations.” fore some of my conceptual and ter- • “Historical Atlas of Central – the encyclopedia uses the term ‘Rusyn’ When one wants to familiarize one- minological differences with Bob Europe,” by Paul Robert Magocsi. to cover all of the above names of people self with a new reference-type of book, it that go back over 30 years to when Toronto: University of Toronto living in or coming from the territory is natural for the reader to turn to entries he was a graduate student and I an Press, 2002 (published in the U.S. defined as Carpathian Rus – territory on topics he is familiar with in order to undergraduate at Princeton. by the University of Washington inhabited by East Slavs along the south- get a feel for the approach adopted in the As I turned to “The Roots of Press), 288 pp, 109 color maps, $50 ern and in part northern slopes of the work. In spite of the fact that Prof. Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as (paper). Eastern Carpathians.” According to pres- Magocsi has said that the encyclopedia Ukraine’s Piedmont,” I found some Revised and expanded edition of ent-day boundaries, the territory is divid- was “not written for Ukrainians,” the of these resurfaced. I would have the “Historical Atlas of East Central ed among Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine and Ukrainian reader will turn to the preferred Ukrainian identity or Europe” published by the University Romania – the Lemko Region in Poland, Ukrainian topics, if only because he can national consciousness to the nation- of Washington Press as part of a 10- the Presov Region in Slovakia, put them into some sort of familiar con- alism in the title, but then national- volume “History of East-Central Subcarpathian Rus (Zakarpatska Oblast) text. ism, like nation, has so many mean- Europe.” It was reprinted several in Ukraine, and the Maramures Region Many of the entries on such ings and uses in English. I find the times and this edition, following the in Romania. Ukrainian-related topics were authored statement on the back of the dust enormous political changes that Thus, it becomes quite confusing to by the book’s co-editor, Prof. Pop (born jacket that a century ago Ukrainians occurred in the region, contains 22 pin down who exactly are the Rusyns. In in 1938), who has a biographical entry in in most Ukrainian lands “considered new maps and 11 additional chapters. his review of Prof. Magocsi’s seminal the encyclopedia which states that he is a themselves a branch of the Russians • “The Roots of Ukrainian work on Carpatho-Rusyn history, “The historian, professor and editor of “Rusyn and their speech merely corrupted Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine’s Shaping of National Identity,” historian national orientation” and says that he dialects of Russian or in some cases Piedmont,” by Paul Robert Magocsi. Ivan Lysiak Rudnytsky criticized Prof. spent the greater part of his working Polish” far too categorical. But then Toronto: University of Toronto Magocsi’s selection of the term Rusyn to years (1963-1992) in Moscow at the such differences are the lifeblood of Press, 2002, 240 pp, $50 (cloth). be synonymous with “Ruthenian,” as Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies of academic discussion and they have Contains 10 essays, eight of “Ruthenian” was a wider term and was the Soviet Academy of Sciences. After a never stopped me from profiting which were previously published, the commonly used name in English to two-year stay at the Institute of from Bob’s writings. mostly in the 1980s. The other two describe East Slavic inhabitants of the Carpathian Studies in Uzhhorod (1992- As I read “The Roots of essays include a general historical Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and 1994), his biography says that he was Ukrainian Nationalism,” contain- survey of Galicia and a revised ver- Ukrainian subjects of the Habsburg asked to leave because he lobbied for a ing so many of the articles I have sion of a framework for understand- Empire. Prof. Rudnytsky also pointed federal structure for the Ukrainian state. valued in earlier publications, I ing the Ukrainian national revival in out that Prof. Magocsi ignored the He has lived in the Czech Republic since the 19th century. dynamics of the post World War I nation- 1994. Although there is no mention of (Continued on page 17) building process in the region of any association with Moscow State No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 11

DATELINE NEW YORK: A trip to a reborn capital city by Helen Smindak

Have you visited Kyiv lately? There’s a simple way to do it: just mosey on over to Fifth Avenue and 79th Street in Manhattan and view the wondrous sights of Ukraine’s newly revitalized capital city through the wonders of color photography, TV, radio and video. Step through the metal-laced glass doors of the Ukrainian Institute of America, walk a few feet into the foyer, click your heels twice, and you’re in Kyiv – a city reborn. Here’s a panoramic view of St. Sophia Square and St. Michael’s Square, the grand urban space between St. Sophia and St. Michael cathedrals that’s traditionally used for festivals and national celebrations, grander now with the recent reconstruction of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Sobor and the monument to St. Olha. And here is the mag- nificent St. Sophia Cathedral, the oldest extant church in Ukraine, built in 1037 during the reign of Yaroslav the Wise. As you move through the institute’s halls and salons, guide book in hand, look at the images of churches that have been restored (St. Andrew Church, one of the best examples of late Baroque-Rococo interpretation in Kyiv) or are being rebuilt (Rizdvo Khrysta, or Nativity of Christ Church). Note the diversity of religions in Kyiv, exempli- fied in a series of photos showing Lutheran, Moslem, Roman Catholic, Jewish and Ukrainian Orthodox houses of worship. There’s a monument to Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem, born in Kyiv as Sholom Nachumovych, and a plaque on the building where Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir spent her childhood. The main railroad station, the “vokzal,” has been restored and its new modern South Terminal is airy and spacious. The subway network, the Kyiv Metro, has sever- al new stations, one lined with mosaic portraits of the early rulers of Kyivan-Rus’, and impressively long escalators, The church and bell tower of the Dormition Cathedral and Great Lavra Bell Tower of the Kyiv-Pecherska since most of the Kyiv subway system was built very deep Lavra are seen in this photo, provided courtesy of Kyiv Mayor Oleksander Omelchenko’s office, that is part underground. of the UIA’s exhibit on the “Renaissance of Kyiv.” Walk along Kyiv’s newly widened main boulevard, the Khreschatyk, where utility and communication lines have and an interplay of light. Some of the oils are painted in Canada in 1994, and made his debut with American Ballet been buried underground, street lighting has been predominantly green or red variations. Theater in 1995. Last year he was appointed artistic direc- improved and seating furniture has been installed. Born in Lviv in 1923, Mr. Hutsaliuk studied at New tor and principal dancer of the ballet ensemble of the Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosty), bisected York’s Cooper Union School of Art. Soon after graduating Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. by the Khreschatyk, underwent a major reconstruction in he went to Paris, where he had his first exhibits. His work • For dance buffs interested in the career of Kyiv-born 2001-2002 and is the site of a new monument to Ukrainian has been shown in solo and group shows in France, the ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950), enshrined as independence. United States, Canada, Italy and Japan, and his paintings the greatest dancer and one of the most innovative chore- And so on and on – new or revitalized cultural institu- and prints are in many American and European museums ographers of the 20th century, there’s an exhibit at Lincoln tions such as Philharmonic Hall, the home of the Kyiv and private collections. Center that should fill the bill. More than 250 artifacts, Philharmonic, banks, commercial buildings, schools and • The work of New York-based artist Yuri Masnyj, a assembled from the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the academies, hotels, private residences and dining establish- Cooper Union graduate, is included in a new Los Angeles New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, as well ments. And, of course, the historic Golden Gates (now exhibition “International Paper: Drawings by Emerging as from the library’s music and theater collections, are on under restoration) and the National Museum of Ukrainian Artists,” featuring contemporary drawings and works on view at the library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center Fine Arts, which will soon have a new addition and a new paper. at 40 Lincoln Plaza until May 3. major entrance. The exhibit, which runs through April 27 at UCLA The realm of film Sit down and enjoy the video showing Kyiv 10 years Hammer Museum, shows seven works by Mr. Masnyj. An ago, Kyiv under construction and Kyiv today, and reflect eighth work, a computer animation, was accomplished in • Film writer and director Lisa Cholodenko of New on all the changes that have occurred in Ukraine’s capital collaboration with his brother Victor, a film editor and York has completed her second movie, “Laurel Canyon,” city. Take a look at the product commercials on the TV motion graphics specialist, and Borys Jarymovych, who starring Frances McDormand and Christian Bale. The film, monitor. Before you depart, note the models of Antonov works in motion graphics. The Masnyj brothers are the to be released by Sony Classics this year, is about a free- airplanes (made in Ukraine) hovering above the stairwell, sons of Natalka and Paul Masnyj of Philadelphia. wheeling mother and her conservative son, and cost about and browse through the Kyiv Yellow Pages, first published During the exhibit opening on January 26, Yuri Masnyj $5 million to make. in 1992. was one of three artists who gave talks about their works Ms. Cholodenko, 37, figured it wouldn’t be hard to raise In keeping with an exhibit touting a fresh look and new and answered visitors’ questions. Mr. Masnyj’s panoramic funds to make another movie because her first film, “High vitality, the Ukrainian Institute of America was spruced up drawings and digital videos, embracing the genres of por- Art,” a low-budget 1998 movie starring Ally Sheedy, was a beforehand and exudes a crisp demeanor inside and out. traiture, still life and landscape, are invented worlds popu- modest commercial and critical success. “But nobody The limestone pinnacles atop the 1899 Fletcher mansion lated by a variety of objects that have been displaced from would put up the money,” she told New York Times writer are gleaming; inside, handsome wood beams and panels their normal surroundings and arranged in sprawling interi- Dana Kennedy during an interview concerning the difficul- shine. The walls of the main salon on the second floor, or tableaux. Dancers of renown ties faced by women who want to write and direct films. refreshed with a tint of pale green paint, reflect the build- • The Kirk Douglas-Michael Douglas-Cameron ing’s European elegance. Douglas movie we told you about recently has been given The neo-French Gothic house was recently described in • Vladimir Malakhov, a principal artist of American a permanent name, “All in the Family” (its working title The New York Times by Christopher Gray as “one of the Ballet Theater and principal guest artist of the Vienna State was “A Few Good Years”). The movie, scheduled to be touchstone works of the architect Charles P. H. Gilbert, Opera, appeared with premier ballet dancers José Manuel released in April, includes scenes shot at the Ukrainian who ... designed mansions for the leading families of New Carreno, Angel Corella and Ethan Steifel in the hourlong Institute of America. York.” PBS performance documentary “Dance in America: Born • Making its Hollywood film debut, woodcut artist The Renaissance of Kyiv exhibition, assembled by To Be Wild” (The Leading Men of American Ballet Jacques Hnizdovsky’s print “The Sheep,” can be seen in Ulana Baczynskyj, Zwen Goy and Roman Goy, will Theater) on February 4. As the documentary explored the the highly popular, Oscar-nominated film “The Hours,” remain at the institute to the end of March. It is open daily, dancers’ personal backgrounds and formal training, Mr. starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman. except holidays, from noon to 6 p.m. To schedule group Malakhov, 35, re-enacted the train ride he took as a 10- The print is seen in the film on the wall of Meryl Streep’s tours, contact Ms. Baczynskyj or Ms. Goy at (212) 288- year-old when his mother sent him from their home in kitchen. 8660 or e-mail [email protected]. Bon voyage! Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, to Moscow to study at the Bolshoi Art in many phases Stephanie Hnizdovsky, Mr. Hnizdovsky’s widow, says Ballet Academy. she was contacted by the production company of “The The stories were framed around the dancers rehearsing a Hours” through the Lumley Cazalet Gallery in London two • An added attraction at the Ukrainian Institute is a lush work created for them by Mark Morris. The show conclud- years ago, requesting the use of the Jacques exhibit of work by New York artist Luboslav Hutsaliuk – ed with a performance of the seven-minute piece, set to the Hnizdovsky/Lumley Cazalet exhibition poster (1969). As oil paintings reflecting several decades of this artist’s work. Fourth Movement of Schumann’s Piano Quintet, Op. 44. copyright owner, she gladly gave permission to use the The beautifully framed paintings, on view in the first-floor Mr. Malakhov, who began his dance training at age 4 in poster in “The Hours.” library, include impressionistic cityscapes of Paris and Kryvyi Rih, is noted for his impossibly high leaps, silent • Jonathan Safran Foer’s hilarious first novel, New York that exude an optimistic mood, with the compo- landings and melting “tour en l’air.” He joined the Vienna sition built on subtle nuances of greys, yellows and pinks State Opera Ballet in 1992 and the National Ballet of (Continued on page 13) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 No. 8

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(Sweetpea Press). Since the divorce, the Dateline... former Rochester, N.Y., salesgirl has (Continued from page 11) hyphenated her name and added an extra “n” to Goldman. “Everything Is Illuminated,” will be made Described in The New York Times by into a movie, and locations for film shoots interviewer Robin Finn as “an Armani- are presently being scouted in Ukraine by clad, Ukrainian-girl-made-good” who director Liev Schreiber. It will be interest- owns an 1885 town house and an 18th ing to see how the novel, focusing on a century London manse, plus period young Ukrainian travel guide who trans- antiques worth $5 million, Ms. Hladun- The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America lates Ukrainian into strict dictionary Goldmann has plans to film a history of English as he escorts Mr. Foer to his Jewish sorrowfully regrets to inform the Ukrainian community that Ukraine this summer with help from a ancestors’ village, is translated to the movie close friend, George Carey, the British screen. documentarian. • Sholom Aleichem’s Tevye the • Virlana Tkacz, Sayan Zhambalov and Dairyman of the fictional village of Wanda Phipps have co-authored a book Anatevka in Ukraine, familiar to us in the describing a fascinating ritual of the Broadway musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” Buryats, an indigenous people who live is coming to your TV screen in a made-for- Mykhailo Shpontak near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia. TV movie and is also returning to Published by Parabola Press of New York, Broadway. On television, “Wonderful “Shanar: Dedication Ritual of a Buryat World of Disney” will present stage and Shaman in Siberia,” gives a detailed, inti- passed away on February 14, 2003. screen actor Victor Garber as Tevye in mate account of the ritual known as Shanar, “Fiddler”; shooting will take place in used to initiate, dedicate and celebrate the Prague. A revival of the musical will open A longtime member of the UCCA Executive Board, treasurer calling of a shaman ( priest). A book-sign- of the UCCA, and the former head of the United Committee on the Great White Way in the fall with ing event will be held at Tibet House on actor Alfred Molino starring as Tevye, a March 6. of Ukrainian Organizations in New York (the UCCA role made famous by Topol and Zero The book has been lauded for its rich Mostel. branch), Mykhailo Shpontak was an active member of the Reading matter collection of photographs, new translations of Buryat myths and chants, and insightful Ukrainian American community and contributed signifi- narrative description. Ms. Tkacz, founder cantly to its life. His arduous and persistent work allowed • Bond – James Bond – is agent 007 the and director of the Yara Arts Group at La the UCCA to dedicate its many years of service to creation of British author Ian Fleming, who Mama Experimental Theater, and her co- based the main character in his Bond books authors have been translating Buryat poetry Ukrainians in the United States and assist those in Ukraine. on British agent Sidney Riley. A BBC into English since 1996. Their translations, The UCCA expresses its heartfelt condolences to the report recently disclosed that Riley’s real performed at the La Mama Experimental Shpontak family. His name and work will stay in our memo- name was Shlomo Rosenblum, that he was Theatre and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s born in Kherson and spent his early years Church in New York, have been published ry and our prayers forever. in Odesa. Andrew Cook, researching the by Agni Review, Terra Nova, Two Lines history of Britain’s special services, and Shaman’s Drums. declares that documents and photographs • Writer Cathy Horyn reminisces about ETERNAL MEMORY! prove that Rosenblum comes from the two grandmothers in her story “The Ukrainian branch of the Rosenblum family Granny Dress,” which appeared in The that lived in Kherson. New York Times magazine on February 16, On behalf of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America • Vera Hladun-Goldmann, whose 1998 but says she gained comfort from her divorce court coup granted her an equal grandmother Anna – “a woman of enor- Executive and National Board share of her husband’s $84 million fortune mous energy, who at one point owned a bar (the first time a 50-50 split was achieved in in Cleveland and spent her Saturdays serv- a New York divorce court), tells all about ing up borscht at the Ukrainian workers her life with Robert L. Goldman, the chief hall.” executive of the Congress Financial Corp., in her book “Separate Ways: Relationships, Helen Smindak’s e-mail address is Divorce, and Independence of Mind” [email protected].

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a reflection of authoritarian trends evi- Does Ukraine... dent inside Russia. (Continued from page 2) Legal niceties did not prevent Mr. Kuchma from becoming the head of the kilometer land border, as both sides still disagree about the Sea of Azov. Ukraine CIS. Ukraine is not legally a member of demands that the shelf and water be the CIS because it never ratified the CIS divided, while Russia believes it should Charter. Ukraine is only a “participant remain as a joint “internal lake.” country” of the CIS. (Some have referred Delimitation of the border has been tak- to this as “associate member” status, but ing place since 1998, but Russia has such a status does not exist in CIS docu- SOYUZIVKA remained opposed to its eventual demar- ments.) cation. What factors, other than returning to SUMMER CAMP SCHEDULES Besides the border treaty, the two the status of a “younger brother,” are sides signed other documents on cooper- behind Mr. Kuchma’s election? According to National Deputy Mykola Tabir Ptashat, Session #1- June 22- 29, 2003 ation between their border troops, culture ministries, youth groups and information Tomenko, a member of the Our Ukraine agencies. Russian Minister of Culture bloc, Mr. Kuchma sees the new CIS posi- Tabir Ptashat, Session #2- June 29- July 6, 2003 tion as an escape mechanism in case he Rooms still available in Uzhorod and Odessa Mikhail Shvydkoi said in Kyiv that the Year of Russia in Ukraine will “preserve calls early presidential elections. Heading the CIS would provide Mr. Kuchma with Tennis Camp- June 21- July 3, 2003 and enrich” the “close cultural coopera- tion between our peoples,” adding that, psychological, moral and financial sup- port after he steps down and seeks immu- Children's Camp- July 6-July 19, 2003 “There is a great need for Russian actors, films, and music in Ukraine, and for nity from prosecution. Russia has given up the position of Chemney Camp, Session #1- July 13-18, 2003 Ukrainian ones in Russia.” Ukraine already has no shortage of imported head of the CIS for the first time with a view to cementing expanding ties, such Chemney Camp, Session #2- July 20-25, 2003 Russian folk and pop culture, books, and media publications. In Russia no such as those between Gazprom and Naftohaz Ukrainian equivalents are to be found, Ukrainy through the Russian-Ukrainian Sports Camp- July 20-27, 2003 gas consortium. The consortium provides Dates still tentative- may become a 2 week program even after the Year of Ukraine in Russia has ended. unprecedented access to funds that can be laundered abroad and then rechan- Scuba Diver Course- August 3-8, 2003 Ukraine is ready, President Kuchma said, to “open its doors to representatives neled back to Ukraine and Russia for use as election slush funds. Dance Camp- August 10-23, 2003 of Russian culture, science and busi- ness.” This reflects the growing support Russia continues to pressure Ukraine Labor Day Week- August 25- September 1, 2003 from Mr. Kuchma and pro-presidential to join the Eurasian Economic Rooms still available in Uzhorod and Odessa oligarchs of Russian investment in Community (EEC) that brings together Ukraine’s economy. Presidents Putin and six CIS states. According to Mr. Putin, Kuchma referred to their joint transitions Ukraine’s membership would allow the To Reserve Call: (845) 626-5641, ext 141 from the same state as a reason for close creation of the long-held Ukrainian goal 216 Foordmore Road h P. O. Box 529 h Kerhonkson, NY 12446 cooperation. “We are strengthening insti- of a free-trade regime with Russia. As the (845) 626-5641h Fax (845) 626-4638 tutions of democracy and civil society,” Russian president argued, with Ukraine a Email- [email protected] h Website- www.Soyuzivka.com Mr. Putin said. In reality, Russia’s influ- member of the EEC, “We shall then be ence on democratization processes in able to eliminate a number of obstacles Ukraine and other CIS states is negative, and problems.” No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 15

which he denied the artificial nature of proposed restrictions on journalists and out prior agreement with religious organ- NEWSBRIEFS the 1932-1933 famine and blamed it on television personalities, who would be izations,” Mr. Bondarenko stressed. The (Continued from page 2) disastrous weather conditions and poor able to use otherwise prohibited language current law “On Freedom of Conscience step toward overcoming divergences in harvests in the two previous years. if it is “an integral part of an artistic con- and Religious Organizations” was passed understanding mutual history.” The com- (RFE/RL Newsline) cept.” (RFE/RL Newsline) 11 years ago. Many new normative acts, in particular, the Constitution of memoration is slated for July. (RFE/RL Symonenko against single candidate Part of Christ’s cross to travel to Ukraine Newsline) Ukraine, have been adopted since then. Ukraine has joined a number of interna- KYIV – Communist Party leader Petro LVIV – Orthodox Patriarch Irynei of Poland seeks apology for 1943 massacre tional agreements and conventions Symonenko told journalists in Kyiv on Jerusalem and Metropolitan Volodymyr which call for certain amendments to the February 18 that “the idea of putting for- Sabodan, head of the Ukrainian WARSAW – Marek Siwiec, head of law on religion. These include granting ward a single candidate from the opposi- Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate the National Security Bureau, said on the Church the status of a legal entity, tion forces in the future presidential elec- (UOC-MP), decided that a part of what February 13 that Poland expects the return of religious property to tion is fallacious,” the UNIAN news they call “the life-giving cross of Jesus Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma to churches and communities, religious service reported. According to Mr. Christ” will come to Kyiv from issue an official apology for crimes com- instruction in public schools and higher Symonenko, both Our Ukraine and the Jerusalem. The Cross of Jesus Christ is mitted by Ukrainian nationalists against educational institutions, protection from Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc are “bourgeois preserved in the Church of the Nativity Poles in 1943 in Volyn in northwestern “new destructive cults” and prevention parties” that represent “rightist-bourgeois of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem, where it Ukraine, Polish Radio reported. Mr. of terrorist or business activities by and nationalist-bourgeois forces” in was found in 326. Today, the two sides Siwiec added that Poland will not pres- organizations that disguise themselves as Ukraine. “One needs to take a realistic are negotiating on the date when the relic sure Ukraine for such an apology. He religious groups. (Religious Information look at things: It’s impossible to propose will arrive in Ukraine. The news was recalled that Polish President Aleksander Service of Ukraine) Kwasniewski had apologized to the a single candidate from such different reported by the press service of the Ukrainians for Akcja Wisla (Operation forces,” Mr. Symonenko said. (RFE/RL UOC-MP on February 4. (Religious BP to invest $6.75 B in oil sector Vistula), during which Ukrainians were Newsline) Information Service of Ukraine) MOSCOW – British Petroleum and the forced by Polish communist authorities Churches may become legal entities to resettle to Polish territories regained Birthrate up for first time in 15 years Russian financial-industrial concerns Alfa Group and Access/Renova have from Germany after War World II. Mr. KYIV – The birthrate in Ukraine in LVIV – Viktor Bondarenko, head of announced the biggest business partner- Siwiec noted that apologies with regard 2002 grew by 3 percent, Interfax reported the National Committee on Religious ship in Russia’s post-Communist history, to those crimes should be treated sepa- on February 12, quoting the Justice Matters of Ukraine, announced at a press RTR and other Russian news agencies rately. “For us an apology will be a very Ministry. The birthrate in Ukraine had conference on February 4 that “the time reported on February 12. The partners natural and honest thing to do. The initia- fallen consistently since 1987. has come for the Church … to receive tive is to be taken by Ukraine, though,” will create a new company that will Nevertheless, there were nearly twice as the status of a legal entity.” He also Mr. Siwiec said. According to Polish merge all the oil-sector assets of the three many deaths as births in the country last spoke about the problems connected sources, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army participants on the territory of Russia and year (754,915 versus 392,524). (RFE/RL with a new edition of the law “On (UPA) massacred 60,000 to 70,000 Ukraine. According to the deal, 50 per- Newsline) Freedom of Conscience and Religious Polish civilians in Volyn in 1943. Organizations.” According to Mr. cent of the still-unnamed new company (RFE/RL Newsline) Russia passes law on state language Bondarenko, “the time has come for the will belong to BP, and 50 percent will Church as a social institution to receive belong to the Russian partners. Alfa EDITOR’S NOTE: According to MOSCOW – Russian State Duma the status of a legal entity, because the Group and Access/Renova control oil “Ukraine: A History” by Dr. Orest deputies on February 5 passed the law on Soviet practice of considering the state majors Tyumen Oil Company (TNK) and Subtelny (University of Toronto Press, Russian as a state language in its third and religious community as two different Sidanko. The new company will be the 1988, 1994, 2000), during the years and final reading, Russian news agencies parties still remains.” In addition, he third-largest player in the Russian oil sec- 1942-1945 “both Ukrainian and Polish reported. The vote was 248 in favor, with emphasized that making improvements tor, following Yukos and LUKoil. BP will armed units engaged in wholesale 37 against and one abstention, the to legislation should be a continuous invest $3 billion in cash and $3.75 billion slaughter, bringing to a bloody climax RosBalt news service reported. The law process and reflect the state of religious in BP shares in the venture. Alfa Group the hatred that had been increasing is designed to strengthen the right of citi- life and Church-state relations in CEO Mikhail Fridman said the deal between the two peoples for genera- zens to use Russian as the state language. Ukraine. He also noted that all propos- would not have been possible without the tions.” The historian writes: “... It prohibits the use of foreign words or als, remarks and claims from religious support of the Russian government. He Ukrainian integral nationalists were expressions that have Russian-language organizations have been taken into con- said the new company will serve as “a determined to drive the Poles (many of equivalents in public documents or in sideration in the new edition of the law. locomotive to pull the Russian economy,” whom were colonists from the inter-war civil, criminal or administrative court “We would never take the liberty of nns.ru reported. Speaking to reporters period) out of areas where Ukrainians proceedings, the agency reported. The restricting the rights of religious organi- during his trip to Paris, President were a majority. For its part, the Polish Moscow Times reported earlier that since zations in the area of religious freedom Vladimir Putin said the deal demonstrates nationalist underground army, the the Duma approved the bill in its first in defiance of the Constitution or, for the growing attractiveness of the Russian Armija Krajowa (AK), was just as deter- reading last June, deputies have eased instance, introduce new provisions with- economy. (RFE/RL Newsline) mined to retain control of lands that had been part of the Polish state. The result was a murderous struggle – often COMMUNITY CHRONICLE encouraged by the Germans and pro- voked by Soviet partisans – between Ukrainian and Polish forces for territory and to settle old scores.” Parma Cathedral blesses traditional ice cross on Epiphany Rada discusses 1932-1933 Famine KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on February 12 held a hearing devoted to the catastrophic Famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933, which claimed millions of lives, Ukrainian media reported. Parliament Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn called for compiling a list of all victims of the famine and erecting a monument to them in Kyiv. Parliamentary Human Rights Committee head Hennadii Udovenko said the committee recom- mends that the Verkhovna Rada address the United Nations with a request to rec- ognize the Great Famine as a genocide perpetrated against the Ukrainian nation by the Communist regime. Vice Prime Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk concurred, saying recognition of the Famine as an act of genocide will be of “principal sig- nificance for the stabilization of socio- economic relations in Ukraine.” According to the artukraine.com website, Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko addressed the legislature with the most “controversial” speech, in

Insure and be sure. PARMA, Ohio – Clergy and faithful of St. Vladimir’s Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral blessed the traditional cross of ice that Join the UNA! was erected in front of the Cathedral for the Feast of Epiphany, January 19. The ice cross, which is over 8 feet tall, is con- structed annually by men of the parish led by three generations of the Dobronos Family. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 No. 8

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Chornomortsi and friends hold 28th annual ski clinic HUNTER, N.Y. – The Plast frater- nity of Chornomortsi held its 28th annual ski clinic here on January 22-26. The ski outing is organ- ized by “Hetman” Erko Palydowycz and Orest Fedash. For nearly three decades, the group has gotten together to ski, fraternize, tell tall tales, enjoy good food and benefit from ski pointers from former world down- hill champion Carl Plattner. The get-together traditionally takes place just before the annual ski races organized by the Carpathian Ski Club (KLK). Races this year will be held March 8 at Ski Windham in Windham, N.Y. with an awards dinner that night at Hunter Mountain.

Indeed, through the essays gathered Remarks by... here and his bibliographic work, Bob (Continued from page 10) Magocsi has contributed greatly to the was reminded of the many strengths of transformation of studies on Austrian Bob’s contributions to the field. He has Galicia and its Ukrainians from an exotic been an assiduous bibliographer and field with little literature in English to the researcher, as his article on resources to hot topic it has become at international Ukrainian studies in Vienna, listing so scholarly conferences. Now, of course, many journals he has microfilmed for we have the benefit of new research in the U. of T., reminds us. In an age where western Ukraine and the opening of the many academics cloak their findings in libraries and archives that have allowed a abstruse verbiage, he writes with clarity new generation of historians to pursue 30% ÁÌËÊÍË and persuasiveness. Without resorting to many of the topics Bob develops in this cliches about counterfactual and alterna- volume, some of which has appeared in ̇ ˆÂðÍ‚Ë tive history, he has long studied neglect- Ukrainian. ed phenomena, above all the Russophile At the same time, the importance of Ú‡ movement and what he sees as an old the Galician oblasts in achieving Ruthenian orientation, so well represent- Ukrainian independence and in the politi- Óð„‡Ì¥Á‡ˆ¥ª ed in the articles assembled. Long cal life of contemporary Ukraine has before Anderson’s imagined communi- interested many political scientists and a ties, Bob Magocsi carefully examined wider circle of readers in the region. All will be pleased to see Bob’s essays col- At Makar’s we carry a wide selection of Ukrainian emblems, as well as religious medals. the world of Galician Ukrainians’ ideas You will also find a variety of fine jewelry, including domestic 14kt gold items and 18 kt gold and self-conceptions and how they were lected and joined by newly written gener- imported from Europe. If you’re looking for something special, we have unique engagement transmitted to mass movements. In this al discussions of Galicia, presenting its rings and custom-made wedding bands. Our appraisals are done on the premises. volume he shows such processes in his multicultural world and its development Ukrainian Creations, 10201 Little Creek Rd., Charlotte, NC 28227 discussions of the language question and down to the present. I congratulate the by examination of the Kachkovskyi author and University of Toronto Press íÂl.: (704) 573-9108 society. on this important accomplishment.

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to provide a chemical-protection battal- Will Kuchma... ion for a possible United Nations-sanc- (Continued from page 2) tioned mission “on the territory of coun- tries neighboring Iraq.” Ukraine press service. Mr. Yushchenko SOYUZIVKA Grani also noted that U.S. officials said the goal of such guarantees would be have recently fallen silent on the two to “return Ukraine to a path of democrat- issues that not so long ago seemed to be ic development.” of utmost importance for Washington in PACKAGES “Most likely, it is necessary to make a 216 Foordmore Road • P. O. Box 529 its relations with the official Kyiv: the Kerhonkson, NY 12446 • (845) 626-5641 • fax (845) 626-4638 political decision on guarantees for the Kolchuha sale allegations and the investi- e-mail - [email protected] • website - www.Soyuzivka.com president in order to prevent the past gation into the death of Mr. Gongadze. from obscuring [our] attention to the According to the weekly, the new geopo- future,” Yushchenko said. “I agree that litical expediency has forced Washington Frolic in the Snow at Soyuzivka! this topic is becoming more and more to put these issues in a box and seek urgent. The general background on the “amnesty” for President Kuchma for any Cross-Country Ski Package eve of the presidential election [in 2004] unseemly deeds that he may have done or $72 per person/double occupancy is certainly comprehensible – everybody • 3 days/ 2 nights accommodations at Soyuzivka authorized. is tired on both sides and waiting for It is also strange, Grani opined, that • Daily breakfast changes.” • Minnewaska Cross-Country Ski Trail tickets -- 1-day pass the Financial Action Task Force on The weekly “Grani,” which is linked Money Laundering (FATF) withdrew its • Boxed lunch (for 1-day excursion) to the Socialist Party of Oleksander • Free ice skating on the new ice skating rink call for international financial sanctions Moroz, made more far-reaching conclu- against Ukraine just two months after it Price includes taxes and gratuities. Transportation not included. sions on February 17 by suggesting that was officially voiced. “Grani” said no Jacuzzi Suite is an additional $10 per person. the issue of “amnesty” for Mr. Kuchma serious measures could be taken by inter- Ski rental, lessons and additional meals available at additional cost. upon his departure – not only with regard national financial institutions within this Valid Winter 2003. For trail conditions call: (845) 255-0752. to his purportedly undeclared capital but time to discover whether Ukrainian also to other issues, including the banks and individuals were actually Kolchuha scandal and the killing of jour- involved in money-laundering opera- Hudson Valley Biking Getaway nalist Heorhii Gongadze – might have tions, let alone to prevent them. $139 per person/double occupancy been raised initially by Washington, According to The Weekly, the FATF • 3 days/ 2 nights accommodations at Soyuzivka which is reportedly interested in drawing withdrew its recommendation of sanc- • Daily breakfast Ukraine into an anti-Iraq coalition, espe- tions against Ukraine under pressure • Bike tour w/Table Rock Tours – guided 1/2-day trip with cially in view of the current opposition of from the administration of U.S. President bike, helmet and expert guide Germany, France and Russia to U.S. mil- George W. Bush, which is reportedly • Boxed lunch (for 1 day excursion) itary action against Baghdad. seeking to repair relations with President Price includes taxes and gratuities. Jacuzzi Suite is an additional $10 per person. To support its conclusions, Grani Kuchma in the face of the Iraq crisis. Self-Guided Tour Package available with rental equipment, pointed to the recent change of Kuchma’s Grani concluded its article on starting at $97 per person based on double occupancy. tone with regard to the Iraq problem. The “amnesty” for Mr. Kuchma with a half- Bike rack rental and additional meals available at additional cost. weekly stressed that in a joint statement mocking and half-serious assertion that Valid through 5/31/03. after last week’s meeting between now, given this new turn in U.S. policies President Kuchma and Polish President vis-á-vis Mr. Kuchma, the Ukrainian Aleksander Kwasniewski both politicians president will not need any legislative To reserve call: (845) 626-5641, ext 141 said they are going “to take specific “amnesties” and guarantees of immunity measures to resolve the Iraq crisis.” The because he can easily provide for such weekly quoted President Kuchma’s state- guarantees himself by arranging his re- ment last week about Ukraine’s readiness election for a third term. No. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 19 Film about Roman Shukhevych to be screened at Tiburon festival

NEW YORK – The feature film, “The honor and duty, to lead the fight to deliver Undefeated,” depicting the life of Gen. his people from the savageries of both the Roman Shukhevych of the Ukrainian Nazis and the Soviets. Insurgent Army (UPA), will be screened Producer and director Oles Yanchuk, at the Tiburon International Film Festival. hailed by both the New York Times and The festival, which will take place on Time magazine for his heart-wrenching March 14-20, is celebrating its second film, “Famine’ 33,” delivers an interna- year and has become one of the fastest tionally renowned team of filmmakers growing festivals in the world. Under the and artists to bring the story of slogan “Understanding the World through Shukhevych to the screen. Against the Film,” this year’s festival will be showing backdrop of an underground war, Mr. over 175 films from 40 countries. Yanchuk explores the complex character “The Undefeated” will be shown on of Shukhevych, his childhood revulsion at Sunday, March 16 at 8:45 p.m. at the ethnic discrimination, his love of music Playhouse Theater, 40 Main St., Tiburon, and his genius in combat. Calif. For further information please call Filmed on location in the Carpathian the film festival, (415) 381-4123. Mountains, and the cites of Odesa, Kyiv “The Undefeated” is the true story of and Lviv “The Undefeated” is filled with Gen. Shukhevych (portrayed by Gregory action and suspense. It is a personal story Hlady), a genteel family man forced by of faith and commitment and, ultimately, brutal circumstance and his own sense of the victory of freedom over tyranny. PREVIEW OF EVENTS

(Continued from page 20) Shevchenko,” a lecture by Myroslava CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Institute of Mudrak, associate professor of the history Modern Art presents the third concert of of art at the Ohio State University. Prof. its 2002-2003 classical music series (12th Mudrak will address the poet’s “other” season), featuring duo-pianists Valentyna creative life as an accomplished painter in Lysytsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff. The pro- the tsarist academy of St. Petersburg. The gram will include works by Debussy, public lecture will be held at the Upper Poulenc, Ravel and Milhaud. The concert Arlington Public Library, 2800 Tremont will take place at the institute, 2320 W. Road, at 3 p.m. Free admission. For more Chicago Ave., at 2 p.m. information call Arcadia Melnyk, (614) 246-4600. Saturday and Sunday, March 15 and 16

Sunday, March 9 SAN FRANCISCO: The Chamber Chorus of the University of California OLD TOWN ALEXANDRIA, Va.: The under the direction of Marika Kuzma will Leontovych String Quartet, with pianist Tatiana Tchekina will appear in concert in perform a concert of sacred music includ- a program of works by Beethoven, ing works by Heinrich Schütz, Benjamin Skoryk, Prokofiev and Ginastera, at 3 p.m. Britten, and Arvo Pärt, as well as chant at The Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St. A and choral music from the Byzantine tra- reception for the artists will follow the dition by Bortniansky, Rakhmaninov, and program. Suggested donation: $15. The Stravinsky on Saturday March 15 in Hertz concert is presented by The Washington Hall on the Berkeley campus, starting at 8 Group Cultural Fund under the patronage p.m. For additional information call (510) of the Embassy of Ukraine, as part of their 642-4864. The concert will also be held on 2002-2003 Music Series. For more infor- Sunday, March 16 at Grace Cathedral in mation, contact Laryssa Courtney, (202) San Francisco, at 3 p.m. For additional 363-3964. information call (415) 749-6355.

Need a back issue? On the 132nd... If you’d like to obtain a back issue of (Continued from page 6) The Ukrainian Weekly, send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: explores the relationship between man Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, and nature, between domesticity and 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. freedom. In order to please Lukash and his mother, Mavka tries to become a hard-working peasant girl. With stunning psychological insight, the author knows that this spells the death knell of Lukash’s love. Mavka tries to be some- thing she isn’t and loses both herself and Lukash. He marries the coarse Kylyna, and his household falls on hard times. The play ends with Lukash sitting alone near the ruins of his house until thick snow obliterates him. Lesia Ukrainka, born on February 26, 1871, in Zviahel, Polissia, died in a health clinic near Tiflis in the Caucasus, on August 1, 1913 – a flame too soon extinguished. Her remains were brought to Kyiv. We can only speculate on what places she would have gone in her poetry, what her impact on Ukrainian and world liter- ature could have been. Although consid- ered one of the literary triumvirate with Shevchenko and Franko, she deserves more study, more enjoyment. A child prodigy, her imagination, her erudition, her lyrical voice continued to grow throughout her life. Her plays cry out to be staged. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 No. 8

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Friday, February 28 and 10th streets), at 5 p.m. For more infor- ÑÑÖççàâÖççàâ íÄÄÅßêÅßê mation call (212) 254-5130. NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Art and ◊èíÄòÄí èêà èãÄëíß“ Literary Club and the New York Bandura NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Medical Ensemble present the second concert in Association of North America, New York ‰Îfl ‰¥ÚÂÈ ‚¥‰ 4 ‰Ó 6 ðÓÍ¥‚, flÍ¥ ‚ÓÎÓ‰¥˛Ú¸ (ðÓÁÛÏ¥˛Ú¸ ¥ „Ó‚ÓðflÚ¸) the 2003 season of the Bandura Metropolitan Chapter, in cooperation with ÛÍð‡ªÌÒ¸ÍÓ˛ ÏÓ‚Ó˛. Downtown series, “The Bandurist’s the Self Reliance Association of American • ÑËÚË̇ ÏÛÒËÚ¸ χÚË Á‡Í¥Ì˜ÂÌËı 4 ðÓÍË ÊËÚÚfl ‰Ó 31-„Ó ÒÂðÔÌfl 2003 ð. ÇËÈÌflÚÍ¥‚ ÌÂχπ. Tunebook,” featuring re-creations and Ukrainians, New York Branch, will hold a • ÑËÚË̇ ÏÛÒËÚ¸ χÚË ÛÒ¥ ÔðËÔË̥҇ ˘ÂÔÎÂÌÌfl. reinterpretations of traditional bandura community based medical lecture featur- • ÑËÚË̇, fl͇ ÒÍ·· á‡fl‚Û ÇÒÚÛÔÛ ‰Ó ÌÓ‚‡ˆÚ‚‡, Ì ÏÓÊ ·ð‡ÚË Û˜‡ÒÚË ‚ Ú‡·Óð‡ı ‰Îfl ÔÚ‡¯‡Ú. classics by Mike Andrec and Julian ing Dr. Lionel Ivashkiv who will speak on 퇷¥ð ‚¥‰·Û‰ÂÚ¸Òfl ̇ ëéûáßÇñß Û ‰‚Óı „ðÛÔ‡ı: Kytasty (bandura), Paul Brantley (cello), the topic “Arthritis and Rheumatism.” The Matt Hannafin (percussion). Donation: event will take place at 98 Second Ave., at ‚¥‰ 22 ‰Ó 29 ˜Âð‚Ìfl 2003 ð., Ú‡ ‚¥‰ 29 ˜Âð‚Ìfl ‰Ó 6 ÎËÔÌfl 2003 ð. $10; reception with the artists to follow. 2 p.m. Admission, free; refreshments will The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. at be served. For further information call Dr. éèãÄíÄ áÄ èéÅìí çÄ ëéûáßÇñß: Á‡ ·‡Ú¸Í‡, ‡·Ó Ï‡Ú¥ð ¥ Á‡ Ó‰ÌÛ ‰ËÚËÌÛ $121.00 ‰ÂÌÌÓ, the Mayana Gallery, 136 Second Ave., Ihor Magun, (516) 766-5147. ˘Ó ‚Íβ˜‡π ÒÌ¥‰‡ÌÍË Ú‡ ‚˜Âð¥. Ç ˆ¥ÌÛ π ‚Ê ‚Íβ˜ÂÌ¥ ÔÓ‰‡ÚÍË È Ó·ÒÎÛ„‡. ᇠÍÓÊÌÛ fourth floor. On view in the gallery: the ‰Ó‰‡ÚÍÓ‚Û ‰ËÚËÌÛ ÓÔ·ڇ $12.50 ‰ÂÌÌÓ. ÑðÛ„‡ ‰ÓðÓÒ· ÓÒÓ·‡ Ô·ÚËÚ¸ ڥθÍË Á‡ exhibit “Transformations.” For more Monday, March 3 ı‡ð˜Û‚‡ÌÌfl. óÎÂÌË ìçëÓ˛ÁÛ Ó‰ÂðÊÛ˛Ú¸ 10% ÁÌËÊÍË. á‡ÏÓ‚ÎÂÌÌfl Í¥ÏÌ‡Ú ¥Á $50.00 information call (212) 995-2640, visit the Á‡‚‰‡ÚÍÛ ‚ËÒË·ÚË Ì‡ ‡‰ðÂÒÛ: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard website http://www.brama.com/mayana, Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) will or e-mail [email protected]. Bandura íÄÄÅßêÅßê èíÄÄòÄòÄí host a lecture by Serhii Plokhy, associate performances are made possible by the director of the Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian National Association Estate New York State Council on the Arts. P.O. Box 529, Kerhonkson, NY 12446 • (845) 626-5641 Ukrainian Historical Research, Edmonton, DETROIT: The Ukrainian Graduates of and visiting professor of history, Harvard • 퇷ÓðÓ‚‡ ÓÔ·ڇ: — $85.00 ¥ $5.00 ðÂπÒÚð‡ˆ¥ÈÌ (ÌÂÁ‚ÓðÓÚÌÂ); ÓÔ·ڇ Á‡ ‰‚‡ Detroit and Windsor are delighted to University, who will speak on the topic ÚËÊÌ¥ 175.00 ‰ÓÎ. announce that the campaign for the “Class Versus Nation: Historical • á„ÓÎÓ¯ÂÌÌfl ¥ Ú‡·ÓðÓ‚Û ÓÔ·ÚÛ (˜ÂÍ ‚ËÔËÒ‡ÌËÈ Ì‡ Plast — Pershi Stezhi) ̇‰ÒË·ÚË restoration of the Ukrainian Heritage Narratives in Soviet Ukraine, 1924-1934.” ‰Ó: Room at Wayne State University is near- The lecture will take place at 4-6 p.m. in Mrs. Oksana Komanowsky, 544 Quail Ct., Blue Bell, PA 19422. ing completion. Individuals who have con- the institute’s Seminar Room, 1583 Tel. (215) 641-0519. tributed $1,000 or more will be listed on a Massachusetts Ave. Directions can be • ê˜Â̈¸ Á„ÓÎÓ¯Â̸: èÂ𯇠„ðÛÔ‡: 24 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl 2003 ð. bronze plaque in the Ukrainian Heritage found on the HURI website, ÑðÛ„‡ „ðÛÔ‡: 31 ·ÂðÂÁÌfl 2003 ð. Room. The deadline for donations to the www.huri.harvard.edu., or by calling the • óËÒÎÓ Û˜‡ÒÌËÍ¥‚ Ó·ÏÂÊÂÌÂ. fund is Friday, February 28. For additional institute, (617) 495-4053 for more infor- information with regard to donations con- mation. äÄêíÄ áÉéãéòÖççü çÄ íÄÅßê èíÄòÄí- 2003 tact Stephen Wichar at 39182 Aynesley Fridays, March 7, 14, 21 and 28 Drive, Clinton Township, MI 48038; tele- ßÏ’fl ¥ Ôð¥Á‚ˢ ‰ËÚËÌË ...... phone, (586) 286-6490; or Olga Solovey, WOONSOCKET, R.I.: The Lenten ÔÓ-ÛÍð‡ªÌÒ¸ÍË ¥ ÔÓ-‡Ì„Î¥ÈÒ¸ÍË (313) 274-6319. The formal dedication of Kitchen, sponsored annually by the чڇ ̇ðÓ‰ÊÂÌÌfl ...... the newly restored room will be held May Ladies’ Sodality of St. Michael’s ĉðÂÒ‡...... 4 in Manoogian Hall, Room 297, at 1 Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 77 Harris p.m., followed by a reception in the Ave., will begin Friday, March 7. The íÂÎÂÙÓÌ...... General Lectures Building, Italian kitchen will continue every Friday during Heritage Room, (until 4 p.m.). K K the month of March at 3-6 p.m. The most- ‚¥‰ 22 ‰Ó 29 ˜Âð‚Ìfl 2003 ð. ‚¥‰ 29 ˜Âð‚Ìfl ‰Ó 6 ÎËÔÌfl 2003 ð. ly meatless menu includes varenyky, fried Saturday, March 1 ÇÂ΢Ë̇ Ú‡·ÓðÓ‚Óª ÒÓðÓ˜ËÌÍË ‰ËÚËÌË: K 6-8, K 10-12, K 14-16. pyrohy, holubtsi, borscht and cabbage NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific soup; desserts are also available. The K K á‡ÎÛ˜Û˛ ˜ÂÍ Ì‡ ÒÛÏÛ $...... êÂÁÂð‚Û˛ Í¥Ï̇ÚÛ Ì‡ ëÓ˛Á¥‚ˆ¥ Society is sponsoring a joint presentation parish hall will be set up for customers by Dr. Viacheslav Briukhovetsky, rector of who would like to eat in. Take out service ...... the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla and call-in orders are also available. ßÏ’fl ¥ Ôð¥Á‚Ë˘Â Ï‡ÚÂð¥ (ÔÓ‰‡ÚË ‰¥‚Ә Ôð¥Á‚ˢÂ) Academy, and Larysa Briukhovetsky, edi- Saturday, March 8 ᇂ‚‡„Ë...... tor-in-chief of the journal Kino-Teatr, who will talk on the role of the National COLUMBUS, Ohio: The Ukrainian ...... University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Cultural Association of Ohio presents ...... the socio-cultural revival of Ukraine. The “Symbolic Systems in the Art of Taras presentations will be held at the society 襉ÔËÒ ·‡Ú¸Í‡ ‡·Ó χÚÂð¥ building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth (Continued on page 19)

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