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ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXII No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 $2.00 Donetsk, Luhansk vote Ukrainian National Association holds 38th Convention being sabotaged on eve of election by Zenon Zawada KYIV – As expected, Ukraine’s pro- Russian forces have launched efforts to sabotage the May 25 presidential elec- tion. Yet they’ve only been successful in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Armed fighters have taken over half of the 12 district election commissions (DEC) in the Luhansk Oblast, prevent- ing their functioning, reported the Central Election Commission. In the Donetsk Oblast , they’ve taken over six of 22 DECs, with five under threat of Matthew Dubas being captured. UNA General Assembly members and delegates to the 38th Regular Convention of the Ukrainian National Association. Kidnappings have occurred of DEC chairs in the Donetsk and Luhansk by Matthew Dubas sessions of various committees make rec- – Slavko Tysiak, Eugene Serba and Dr. oblasts, whose residents have been ter- ommendations on what steps should be Wasyl Szeremeta – was also re-elected by rorized for weeks by armed pro-Rus- KERHONKSON – N.Y. – Scores of dele- taken in the future by the UNA, and the del- acclamation following the primary election sian separatists. Law enforcement gates gathered for the Ukrainian National egates elect a slate of candidates for the results. authorities said they subverted terror- Association’s 38th Regular Convention held General Assembly posts for the next four- The UNA Convention elected 11 advisors ist attacks planned for Kyiv and Odesa. at the Soyuzivka Heritage Center on May year term. to the General Assembly: Nicholas Fil (New Communists have acted in 15-18. This year marks the 120th anniversa- Re-elected by acclamation, following over- York), Ewhen Osidacz (Quebec), Andrij Szul Dnipropetrovsk to spoil the vote. ry of the UNA’s founding in 1894 in whelming support in the primary round of (New York), Andrij Gavdanovich (New “Today [Communist Party Chair Shamokin, Pa., and its publications, Svoboda elections, the six-member Executive Jersey), Gloria Horbaty (Connecticut), Maya Petro] Symonenko and company have and The Ukrainian Weekly, have served to Committee officers remain: President Stefan Lew (New York), Julian Pishko (Minnesota), exceeded all bounds,” reported Borys inform the Ukrainian community for more Kaczaraj, First Vice-President Michael Lubov Streletsky (Pennsylvania), Luba Filatov, the deputy chair of the oblast than 120 years and 80 years, respectively. Koziupa, Second Vice-President Eugene Poniatyszyn Keske (California), Bohdanna state administration. “They want to The convention is the highest decision- Oscislawski, Director for Canada Myron Puzyk (Connecticut) and Maria Luba undermine the elections and steal our making body of the UNA and meets on a Groch, National Secretary Christine Kozak Walchuk (New Jersey). New to the assembly country. Right now, a mass exodus of quadrennial basis. The delegates discuss and Treasurer Roma Lisovich. Commies from election commissions the previous four years’ work, break-out The three-member Auditing Committee (Continued on page 4) has begun in Dnipropetrovsk region.” Despite the trouble, which was widely anticipated, the elections are expected to occur in most of Ukraine’s oblasts, with Donetsk and Luhansk UCCA meets with prime minister to discuss presidential election under question. More than 70 percent UCCA of polled Ukrainians said they will par- ticipate in the vote, which will be moni- KYIV – The Ukrainian Congress tored by more than 2,780 international Committee of America (UCCA), the repre- observers. sentative organization of the over 1 million “It’s necessary to hold elections in Americans of Ukrainian descent, is fielding all the country’s oblasts, without a delegation of international election exception,” Prime Minister Arseniy observers to monitor the May 25 presiden- Yatsenyuk told a government meeting tial elections in Ukraine. on May 19. “We are conscious of the On May 20 the UCCA, represented by difficulties of holding an election cam- Executive Vice-President Andrew Futey, paign in certain places. But such places who is also a co-chair of the UCCA are few, and they won’t influence the International Election Observation Mission, result of the elections. Ukraine will met with Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy hold legitimate elections and a legiti- Yatsenyuk. They were joined by represen- mate, legally elected president will tatives of the Ukrainian World Congress emerge in Ukraine.” and its International Election Observation To ensure the elections are held Mission chaired by Judge Bohdan A. Futey. despite conditions resembling war- During this critical presidential election, time, Ukraine’s Parliament on May 15 the UCCA will be coordinating its observer approved legislation that gives DECs mission with the Ukrainian World and precinct election commissions Congress delegation and other non-govern- Seen during their meeting in Kyiv, are: UCCA Executive Vice-President Andrew mental organizations. Futey (far left); Ukrainian World Congress International Election Observation (Continued on page 13) Mission Chair Bohdan A. Futey (middle left) and Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy (Continued on page 14) Yatsenyuk (middle right). 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 No. 21

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Ukraine’s east: Political factions Akhmetov organizes peaceful protest determination.” The press service of the Mejlis, the Crimean Tatars’ main representa- DONETSK – A peaceful protest against tive body, said a resolution was adopted call- and the presidential election pro-Russian separatists initiated by ing for “territorial autonomy” for the com- Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, was munity, Tatar representatives in the Crimean world, international sanctions, and collapse held in Donetsk on May 20. Some 400 activ- by Vladimir Socor government, and “an end to discrimination of Donbas’s steel, machine-building and ists dressed in the jerseys of Akhmetov’s Eurasia Daily Monitor against and the repression of the Tatars of chemical industries. He called for adminis- Shakhtar Donetsk soccer team gathered in Crimea.” There was a heavy police presence The Party of Regions and affiliated oli- trative “decentralization in a united the Donbas-Arena sports stadium in down- in Simferopol, with two loud military heli- garchs remain the most influential political Ukraine” (Kyiv Post, May 14). town Donetsk after many large industrial copters flying low over the rally. Earlier in force in Ukraine’s east for the time being. Nevertheless, Mr. Akhmetov was key to facilities in the region set off sirens at noon the day, dozens of people gathered at a However, the party is pressured on multi- nominating “federalization” proponent to mark the start of the protest. ple fronts in the run-up to Ukraine’s May Mykhailo Dobkin, former Kharkiv governor, Automobiles in Donetsk beeped their horns memorial near Symferopol’s railway station, 25 presidential election. as the Party of Regions candidate in the May to express solidarity with people protesting the deportation point for thousands of Removed from the government in Kyiv, 25 presidential election. Mr. Dobkin’s politi- against pro-Russian separatists, who in Tatars sent into internal exile. Several hun- attacked by Moscow’s state media (these cal ratings are relatively low. Apparently, the April proclaimed the Ukrainian region the dred people also marched in Kyiv. Speaking denigrate oligarchs in the neighboring coun- calculation is (or was at the time of nomina- “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR). On the to journalists in the Ukrainian capital, try only), and challenged by Russia’s armed tion) that Mr. Dobkin would draw enough stadium screen a video was shown of a May Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev proxies on the ground, the Party of Regions is votes to legitimize the election’s first round 19 televised statement by Mr. Akhmetov in said, “This year, the situation [of Tatars in splitting into a number of formal and infor- in eastern Ukraine, but not enough to which he called on Donetsk residents to Crimea] is almost the same as it used to be mal factions. This process further compli- advance to the second round, thereby avoid- take part in daily protests against the sepa- during the Soviet regime.” Mr. Dzhemilev is cates the pre-existing, already complex fac- ing the danger of an east-west polarized ratists, saying that ”people are tired of living banned by de facto Russian authorities in tional landscape in this party (hardly differ- runoff (Interfax-Ukraine, March 29). in fear and terror.” In his video statement, Crimea from returning to the peninsula. ent from other major Ukrainian political par- Oleksandr Yefremov is generally deemed Mr. Akhmetov warned that the actions of Tens of thousands usually gather for a rally ties in this regard). The factions of the Party the most influential politician in the the pro-Kremlin separatists, who have marking the day on May 18, 1944, when of Regions are attached in significant mea- Luhansk Oblast. Mr. Yefremov combines the seized administrative buildings in towns Soviet authorities began deporting Crimean sure to territorial bases in Ukraine’s east. posts of Party of Regions leader in that and cities across Ukraine’s east, would lead Tatars to Central Asia. Many of the 200,000 The businessmen Rinat Akhmetov and oblast and the party’s floor leader in the to “genocide.” He said the rebels had done deportees died on their way into exile. But Dmytro Firtash, each controlling a faction Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv. Mr. Yefremov sup- nothing for the region but were instead the Mejlis announced that the rally had been of the Party of Regions, facilitated the ported a short-lived attempt at federaliza- engaging in “banditry and looting.” Mr. called off and that “no mass rallies will take regime change in Kyiv by switching to the tion at the Severodonetsk congress in Akhmetov, who has some 300,000 employ- place in the center of Symferopol” on May side of the Maidan’s politicians at the deci- Luhansk in December 2004, in response to ees on his payroll, called on his employees 18, and called instead for Tatars to gather at sive moment. That move enabled the new Viktor Yushchenko’s victory in the re-run of to stage peaceful protests at their workplac- religious centers and other locations . The government to obtain a parliamentary the second round of that presidential elec- es. One of the leaders of rebels in Donetsk, move came a day after the de facto authori- majority and even a constitutional majority tion. Mr. Yefremov seems to have remained Denis Pushilin, threatened to nationalize Mr. ties in Crimea, annexed by Russia in March, on some crucial decisions. Arithmetically, passive during the ongoing turmoil in Akhmetov’s assets over his refusal to pay banned all public gatherings until June 6. the government and the acting president Donbas. Unlike Mr. Akhmetov and the other taxes to the DNR. Mr. Akhmetov, whose for- Pro-Moscow Crimean leader Sergei survive thanks to those additional votes in Donetsk-based leaders, Mr. Yefremov tune is estimated at $12 billion, operates a Aksyonov cited violence in southeast the Verkhovna Rada. argues that the Donetsk and Luhansk “ref- vast industrial empire in the eastern region Ukraine as the reason for his decision to ban Mr. Akhmetov went on record multiple erendums,” albeit unlawful, cannot simply known as Donbas. “Across all of Donbas, the rally. Refat Chubarov, chairman of the times supporting “Ukraine’s unity” and be ignored, but should instead spur Kyiv to there are millions ready to join in,” he said. Mejlis, described the decree as an “inhuman “Donbas within Ukraine,” as opposed to negotiate “with all sides” in the Donbas Ukrainian Internal Affairs Minister Arsen act.” (RFE/RL, with reporting by ITAR-TASS, “federalization.” Following the Donetsk and (Ukrinform, May 14). Avakov expressed support via Facebook for Interfax, and UNIAN) Luhansk “referendums,” Mr. Akhmetov Party of Regions National Deputies Mr. Akhmetov’s move, warning “haters” that warned in a videotaped statement that Sergey Tigipko and Oleg Tsariov entered “it’s too late.” He said that “the people’s UWC urges Ukrainians to vote seceding as “people’s republics” or joining power and energy will sweep trash better TORONTO – The Ukrainian World Russia would result in isolation from the (Continued on page 16) than any [antiterrorism officers].” (RFE/RL Congress (UWC) has called for all Ukrainian Ukrainian Service) citizens living in Ukraine and the diaspora Crimean Tatars recall 1944 deportation to express their will in electing the next president of Ukraine on May 25, taking SYMFEROPOL – Tatars in Crimea are advantage of an integral component of The cost to Ukraine of Crimea’s annexation commemorating 70 years since their depor- democratic society – the right to vote. tation by Soviet leader Josef Stalin. On the gas, and it aimed to double production by “Today, it is critical for every Ukrainian citi- by Maksym Bugriy outskirts of Crimea’s capital, Symferopol, at zen to understand the decisive role of this Eurasia Daily Monitor 2015 (http://chernomorneftegaz.com/ least 10,000 people participated in a rally on index.php/ru/investoram). The company’s May 18, carrying placards calling for “self- (Continued on page 12) The Ukrainian government has appar- value could thus be estimated at a figure ently understated its possible economic close to $1 billion based on its projected losses caused by Russia’s annexation of the output over the time span of 15 years. Crimean peninsula. According to a recent In addition to the resources being FOUNDED 1933 valuation by the Ukrainian Ministry of exploited by Chornomornaftogaz, Ukraine The Ukrainian Weekly Environment and Natural Resources, lost several other abundant gas and oil Russia seized an estimated 127 billion hrv fields that the Ukrainian government had An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., ($10 billion U.S.) of assets in Crimea, which offered up for Production Sharing a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. included both natural resources and busi- Agreement (PSA)-type concessions. 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by Vladimir Socor known choices are: former Kharkiv “federalization” stance has split the tradi- bility in the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Eurasia Daily Monitor Governor Mykhailo Dobkin, official candi- tional Dobkin-Kernes tandem in Kharkiv. Zaporizhia, Kherson, Mykolayiv and Odesa date of the Party of Regions in the upcoming Wounded in a retaliatory attempt on his life, oblasts. Inroads made by pro-Russia PART I presidential election; Verkhovna Rada and hospitalized temporarily in Israel, Mr. groups in two major cities, Kharkiv and Deputy Oleg Tsariov, leader of the “South- Kernes describes his current stance as that Odesa, have been halted and reversed in President Vladimir Putin and Russian East Movement,” launched on April 16 with of a “patriot of Ukraine” (UNIAN, May 10). April and early May, respectively. diplomacy have recently invented the con- Moscow’s support; and Pavel Gubarev, self- On May 2 in Odesa, almost 50 lives were Conversely, Russia has turned the Donetsk cept of “Southeastern Ukraine” as a would- proclaimed “people’s governor” in the lost in clashes between pro-Russia and pro- and Luhansk oblasts (Donbas) into a the- be political entity. Moscow promotes this Donetsk Oblast. These were the choices that Ukraine groups. The latter seem clearly to ater of political-military conflict against idea as part of its project to dismantle the Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei outnumber the former in Odesa, amid the Ukraine’s statehood (see EDM, May 14). Ukrainian state through “federalization.” Lavrov named during the negotiation of the general passivity of most of the populace Although the Maidan protest movement Following the overthrow of then-presi- ill-fated Geneva Statement and afterward and a complete default on the part of police. removed the Party of Regions forcibly from dent Viktor Yanukovych by the Kyiv Maidan (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, April 30, May 1). The deadly May 2 clashes showed that the government in Kyiv, the new govern- protest movement on February 22, Russia Mr. Dobkin, a proponent of “federaliza- semi-anarchic vigilantism, rather than pro- ment of Maidan politicians moved quickly annexed Crimea from Ukraine outright, tion,” is merely a “technical” candidate in Russia sentiment, has become a factor of to work with substantial elements of the then started its push to “federalize” conti- the presidential election. Power brokers in instability in this Ukrainian coastal city. former ruling party toward stabilizing nental Ukraine. The Kremlin hopes to the Party of Regions who oppose federal- Dnipropetrovsk’s billionaire governor, Ukraine’s eastern and southern oblasts. extort Ukrainian compliance and interna- ization, such as Rinat Akhmetov, picked Mr. Igor Kolomoisky, is undoubtedly the most Local “oligarchs” and parts of the adminis- tional acquiescence with this project under Dobkin because of his low rating, ensuring effective factor of stability in Ukraine’s trative-economic nomenklatura, long asso- the threat of tearing the Donbas away from a presidential runoff without an “eastern” south-east. Mr. Kolomoisky acts as a ciated with the Party of Regions, buttressed Ukraine by force. candidate, thus paving the way for a candi- staunch as well as confident opponent of stability and loyalty to the state in these “Southeastern Ukraine” covers the date from central Ukraine, such as Petro the Kremlin’s policies toward Ukraine. His Ukrainian oblasts (see EDM, March 6). The Donbas (Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts) and Poroshenko, to win the presidency. Mr. administration has essentially taken over government in Kyiv relies on those what Mr. Putin recently described as Tsariov, whose stance leans toward Russian many of the responsibilities of the dysfunc- entrenched power brokers to serve as “Novorossiya” (a tsarist-era designation, nationalism, has all along been a marginal tional Ukrainian central authorities. Mr. heads of provincial administrations (“gov- roughly coinciding with six southeastern element in the Party of Regions, and is cur- Kolomoisky’s political influence is now ernors”) or to support Kyiv’s own political oblasts of today’s Ukraine). In his April 17 rently a fugitive from Kyiv. And Mr. Gubarev spreading beyond Dnipropetrovsk. His appointees as governors in these oblasts. phone-in dialogue with citizens of Russia, is an upstart activist straight off the street, nominee Ihor Palytsia (former CEO of an oil The Party of Regions, long dominant in Mr. Putin staked out a potential irredentist representing a new brand of political mili- refinery within Mr. Kolomoisky’s holding) these parts of Ukraine (and still the single claim to “Novorossiya,” describing it as a tant that Moscow currently promotes has been appointed governor of Odesa in largest party in Ukraine’s post-Maidan part of the “Russian world.” Sharply ques- against the traditional elite of the Party of the wake of the May 2 clashes there Parliament), is compellingly interested in tioning the legitimacy of Ukraine’s sover- Regions in the Donbas. (Ukrayinska Pravda, May 12). the preservation of Ukraine’s territorial eignty there, Mr. Putin nevertheless offered What Moscow bills as “Southeastern Thus far, the Kremlin has failed to assem- integrity. This it does not regard as a to broker a political settlement between Ukraine” is far from constituting a single ble a political team in support of the “feder- national-Ukrainian project (the party southeastern Ukraine and the rest of political entity, however. Pro-Russia and alization” agenda in “Southeastern Ukraine.” remains largely a-national) but rather as a Ukraine, clearly alluding to “federalization” pro-“federalization” groups seem weak and While Moscow claims to speak for that means to protect the vested business and (Interfax, April 17, 18). lacking popular support in most oblasts of putative entity, Moscow’s political allies political interests associated with the Party Moscow builds its case on three fraudu- the south and east. Local pro-Ukraine forc- there lack the credentials or the authority to of Regions. lent premises. First, that southeastern es have successfully contained or rolled speak for that part of Ukraine, and they con- With its electorate and economic base Ukraine is a single entity, whose interests back the influence of pro-Russia groups in trol nothing there. At this stage, after almost heavily concentrated in Ukraine’s south supposedly conflict with those of the govern- most southern and eastern oblasts thus far. three months of pro-“federalization” efforts, and east, the Party of Regions and associat- ment in Kyiv (or the rest of Ukraine). Second, Donetsk and Luhansk form a special case Moscow’s only effective political allies are ed interest groups have no future under that Russia should act as protector of south- by dint of Russia’s cross-border intrusion, the chieftains of local armed groups in Russia’s influence in a “federalized” eastern Ukraine’s interests through the “fed- as well as local circumstances. Donetsk and Luhansk. Ukraine. Larger Russian oligarchs would, in eralization” of Ukraine. And third, that it is “Oligarchs” and traditional power bro- PART II that case, displace those of Ukraine’s east. up to Moscow to designate southeastern kers in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and The Kremlin is already campaigning for a Ukraine’s representatives and have them Mykolayiv oblasts have crucially helped the Political forces supportive of Ukraine’s new brand of Greater Russia-minded activ- seated opposite the Ukrainian government ineffective central government and local unity hold the upper hand in six oblasts ists to displace the Party of Regions. The to negotiate a “federal” constitution for pro-Ukraine forces to stabilize the situation. that Moscow seeks to carve out as “Novorossiya” project threatens Ukrainian Ukraine, with Russia in a supervisory role. In Kharkiv, for example, that city mayor “Southeastern Ukraine” or split off as national interests and the Donbas captains Thus far, however, Moscow has failed to Hennadii Kernes’s switch to the pro-govern- “Novorossiya.” Following the chaotic of industry equally. Russia’s proxy warfare designate any credible representatives of a ment side has made a significant difference regime change in Kyiv, pro-Ukraine forces putative “Southeastern Ukraine.” Moscow’s for stability. Ex-Governor Dobkin’s pro- coalesced locally to maintain or restore sta- (Continued on page 14)

• In “Nationalism is exactly what Ukraine needs” what the evidence can bear. Ukraine has never existed (New Republic, May 13) columnist Anne Applebaum, in history, goes the claim, or if it has, only as part of a author of “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, MUST READS Russian empire. Ukrainians do not exist as a people; at 1944-1956” and “Gulag: A History,” writes about the most they are Little Russians. But if Ukraine and misperceptions of what a “Ukrainian nationalist” is, not- the image you want it to have. …Ukrainians need more of Ukrainians do not exist, then neither does Europe or ing that, “Like any other stereotype, this one will be this kind of inspiration, not less – moments like last New Europeans. If Ukraine disappears from history, then so related to some historical realities,” while leaving out Year’s Eve, when more than 100,000 Ukrainians sang the does the site of the greatest crimes of both the Nazi and “some other historical realities.” She explains that the national anthem at midnight on the Maidan. They need Stalinist regimes. If Ukraine has no past, then Hitler stereotype of the Ukrainian nationalist “leaves out the more occasions when they can shout, ‘Slava Ukraini – never tried to make an empire, and Stalin never exer- enlightened nationalist Mykhailo Hrushevsky, for exam- Heroyam slava’ – ‘Glory to Ukraine, glory to its heroes’… cised terror by hunger.” ple, who wrote the first histories of Ukraine and chaired And then of course they need to translate that emotion “People who criticize only the Ukrainian right often Ukraine’s short-lived independent parliament in 1917 into laws, institutions, a decent court system and police fail to notice two very important things. The first is that and 1918, before Ukraine’s defeat and incorporation into training academies. If they don’t, then their country will the revolution in Ukraine came from the left. It was a the USSR. Above all, it leaves out the story of what actual- once again cease to exist.” mass movement of the kind Europeans and Americans ly happened to the vast majority of Ukrainian national- To read the entire article, see http://www.newrepublic. now know only from the history books. Its enemy was an ists in the 20th century: They became prominent targets com/article/117505/ukraines-only-hope-nationalism. authoritarian kleptocrat, and its central program was of purges, artificial famines and deportations. Between 3 social justice and the rule of law. It was initiated by a and 5 million Ukrainian peasants were deliberately • In “The battle in Ukraine means everything” journalist of Afghan background, its first two mortal starved to death in 1932 and 1933 because Joseph Stalin (New Republic, May 11) Timothy Snyder, Housum casualties were an Armenian and a Belarusian, and it feared the power of rural nationalism. After they were Professor of History at Yale University and the author of was supported by the Muslim Crimean Tatar community wiped out, Russians, deported from elsewhere in the “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin,” writes as well as many Ukrainian Jews. A Jewish Red Army vet- USSR, were sometimes sent to live in their empty villages about how fascism is “on the rise in Russia, a country eran was among those killed in the sniper massacre. in order to complete the process of cultural genocide. …” that organizes its historical politics around the Soviet Multiple Israel Defense Forces veterans fought for free- She continues: “By 1990, when the Soviet Union was victory in that war.” The noted historian says: “The plu- dom in Ukraine,” Prof. Snyder writes. “This is the second beginning to break apart, the widespread result was not, ralist revolution in Ukraine came as a shocking defeat thing that goes unnoticed: The authoritarian right in therefore, a Ukraine awash with textbook nationalists to Moscow, and Moscow has delivered in return an Russia is infinitely more dangerous than the authoritari- marching in parades, but a nation filled with people who assault on European history. Even as Europeans follow an right in Ukraine. It is in power, for one thing. It has no had no national identity whatsoever. …with no wide- with alarm or fascination the spread of Russian special meaningful rivals, for another. It does not have to accom- spread sense of national allegiance and no public spirit, forces from Crimea through Donetsk and Luhansk, modate itself to domestic elections or international it was difficult to make democracy work.” Ms. Vladimir Putin’s propagandists seek to draw Europeans expectations, for a third. …” Applebaum argues that nationalism can “inspire you so into an alternative reality, an account of history rather To read the full text see: http://www.newrepublic. that you try to improve your country, to help it live up to different from what most Ukrainians think, or indeed com/article/117692/fascism-returns-ukraine. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 No. 21

THE 38th CONVENTION OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Th e UNA General Assembly for 2014-2018

OFFICE/CANDIDATE PRIMARY FINAL Here are the complete results of OFFICE/CANDIDATE PRIMARY FINAL both the primary elections and the PRESIDENT ADVISORS final balloting for offices on the UNA Stefan Kaczaraj 71 ACCLAMATION Nicholas Fil 66 58 General Assembly. The names of candi- Andrij Szul 65 57 dates for office appear in the first col- 1st VICE-PRESIDENT Ewhen Osidacz 64 57 umn; the results of the primary (voters Michael Koziupa 69 ACCLAMATION could write in the names of their nomi- Roma Lisovich 1 Andrij Gavdanovich 62 54 Maya Lew 61 51 nees) appear in the second column; 2nd VICE-PRESIDENT and the final election results are in the Gloria Horbaty 50 53 Eugene Oscislawski 69 ACCLAMATION third column. Olya Czerkas 58 43 Lubov Streletsky 1 After the results of the primary were Bohdana Puzyk 58 47 announced, nominees could accept or DIRECTOR FOR CANADA Luba Poniatyszyn Keske 55 47 decline to run; no more than three can- Myron Groch 64 ACCLAMATION Julian Pishko 55 51 didates for each position could run in Ewhen Osidacz 4 Luba Walchuk 51 45 the final election (i.e., three candidates NATIONAL SECRETARY Lubov Streletsky 50 49 could run for each of the six executive Christine Kozak 71 ACCLAMATION Stephanie Hawryluk 27 41 officers’ positions, nine persons could Bohdan Doboszczak 2 run for the three auditors’ slots; and 33 TREASURER Martha Lysko 1 could run for the 11 advisors’ posi- Roma Lisovich 69 ACCLAMATION Lubov Shumylo 1 tions). Michael Koziupa 1 The names of those elected to office Walter Kozicky 1 appear in bold. Officers who ran unop- AUDITORS Oksana Lopatynsky 1 posed in the final election were elected Slavko Tysiak 70 ACCLAMATION by acclamation. The new General Eugene Serba 70 ACCLAMATION Written in as nominees for advisors, but ineligible to run Assembly begins its term on July 1. Wasyl Szeremeta 70 ACCLAMATION because they were members of the Election Committee: Julian Pishko 1 Michael Bohdan and Christine Harasymczuk.

UNA honors longtime branch secretaries The following UNA branch secretaries were honored at the 38th Regular UNA Convention for 50 or more years of service to the Ukrainian National Association. Branch 356 Oleksa Prodywus 62 years Branch 173 Peter Serba 60 years Branch 362 Fedir Petryk 55 years Branch 139 Petro Pytel 54 years Branch 267 Gloria Tolopka 52 years

Roma Hadzewycz The chairman of the Election Committee, Dr. Andrew Hrechak, announces the final voting results. cultural, religious and social spheres. In the UNA’s UNA holds... next four years, keep this in mind in shaping our work,” he added. (Continued from page 1) An invocation was offered by the Rev. Dr. Ivan are: Mr. Gavdanovich, Mr. Pishko, Ms. Puzyk and Kaszczak, pastor of Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Ms. Walchuk. Church in Kerhonkson, N.Y. Following the singing The official opening ceremonies on Thursday of the Easter hymn “Christ is Risen,” the Rev. morning, May 15, which are traditionally held at Kaszczak petitioned for God to “grant wisdom and Roma Hadzewycz the Taras Shevchenko monument on Soyuzivka courage in our discussions at this convention.” Awards for over 50 years of service are presented by National grounds, were held in the Veselka Hall due to rain. Bohdan Doboszczak, representing the Secretary Christine E. Kozak to Fedir Petryk, with his daughter The ceremony included a color guard by mem- Credentials Committee, presented its report that Luba Walchuk, in the photo above, accepting in his honor; and to 54 delegates had been officially registered for the Peter Serba, seen below with his son, Auditor Eugene Serba. bers of the Ukrainian American Veterans and the singing of the American, Ukrainian and Canadian 38th UNA Convention. national anthems by Swiatoslava Kaczaraj. During the opening session the convention elected its co-chairmen, Raymond Komichak and In his opening remarks, President Kaczaraj Roman Hawryluk, to direct the proceedings in noted that this was the third consecutive time that Ukrainian and English according to the UNA the UNA convention was held at Soyuzivka. Mr. By-Laws and Roberts Rules of Order. Dr. Andrij Kaczaraj noted: “I see many familiar faces, smiling Szul was appointed as parliamentarian. The secre- faces, as the UNA celebrates its longtime service to taries recording the minutes of the convention in Ukrainians and Ukraine, especially in these trou- English and Ukrainian were Irene Jarosewich and bling times facing Ukraine. In those 120 years the Nina Bilchuk, in addition the convention was UNA has worked for the good of its members and video recorded by Vlodko Artymyshyn. the Ukrainian community at large. Our work con- The Elections Committee, Committee on tinues as do opportunities for new perspectives.” Petitions, Secretaries Committee, Resolutions “The Maidan revolution in Ukraine and the Committee, Press Committee and Sergeant of new elections are such an opportunity where our Arms were elected by the convention delegates. strength should be used to support the rebirth of Ukraine, not only its political development, but in (Continued on page 5) No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 5

THE 38th CONVENTION OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Roma Hadzewycz Convention co-chairs Roman Hawryluk (left) and Raymond Komichak (second from Honorary Member of the UNA General Assembly Ulana Diachuk administers the right) with their wives, Advisor Stephanie Hawryluk (second from left) and Jaroslava oath of office to the new General Assembly. Komichak, a convention delegate.

Hawryluk, Nicholas Fil, Nick Diakiwsky; Svoboda and founder of the Ukrainian home, and the brief session heard reports UNA holds... Most Insurance Sold: Lubov Streletsky, National Association. from committees. The complete election Eugene Oscislawski; Most Members During the four days of sessions, partici- results were presented by the Election (Continued from page 4) Signed Up: Mr. Oscislawski and Ms. pants enjoyed a variety of events, including Committee, resolutions were voted on, and Elected prior to the convention were the Streletsky; Most Annuities: Steven Woch a Ukrainian-themed dinner, an evening recommendations were made by delegates Credentials Committee, Committee on and Oksana Stanko. sing-along with Stan Kosiw on accordion, a of the convention. The convention closed Revision of By-Laws and Finance Following break-out sessions of the concert featuring members of the Toronto with a statement by Mr. Kaczaraj and the Committee. committees, which included delegates as Bandurist Capella under the direction of Dr. singing of the Ukrainian national anthem. The convention heard reports from the well as members of the outgoing General Victor Mishalow with a meet-and-greet The committee for the 38th UNA UNA executive officers, auditors and advi- Assembly, reports were heard from the with the performers after the concert, and Convention – Stefanie Hawryluk, Roman sors, as well as the editor-in-chief of Secretaries Committee, Finance Committee, the convention banquet. Hawryluk, Gloria Horbaty, Bohdanna Puzyk, Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly, Roma Petitions Committee and Resolutions At the convention banquet, Mr. Kaczaraj Sonia Semanyshyn, Nestor Paslawsky Hadzewycz. Nestor Paslawsky, general man- Committee. delivered the keynote address after Ms. (Soyuzivka manager) and Oksana Trytjak ager of Soyuzivka, reported on its activities. Presentations were made by: Oksana Kaczaraj, with accompaniment by Dr. Szul (committee chair) – were instrumental in Following the reports, UNA National Stanko on “Customer Service,” by Yuriy on piano, sang the anthem of the UNA. The the convention’s success. Secretary Kozak recognized the UNA’s top Symczyk on “Life Insurance” and by Ms. banquet’s entertainment was provided by Soyuzivka has hosted the UNA conven- performers. Top UNA Sellers: George Lisovich on “UNA Moving Forward.” Mr. Kosiw on keyboard and accordion. tion three consecutive times, and its staff, Fedorijczuk, Lubov Shumylov; Natalia When the rains cleared on Saturday, Members of the new General Assembly including Mr. Paslawsky (general manager), Shuya, Alice Olenczuk, Joseph Chabon members of the General Assembly laid a were officially sworn in during the banquet. assistant manager Stefko Drabyk and chef (posthumously), and Joyce Kotch (posthu- wreath of flowers at the monument to the On Sunday, many delegates had to Andrij Sonevytsky, ensured that each guest mously); UNA Branch Builders: Stephania Rev. Hryhory Hrushka, first editor of depart for flights early or had long drives had a memorable experience.

Roma Hadzewycz During the swearing-in ceremony (from left) are: Auditors Eugene Serba, Wasyl Szeremeta and Slavko Tysiak, Treasurer Roma Lisovich, National Secretary Christine E. Kozak, Director for Canada Myron Groch, Second Vice-President Eugene Oscislawski, First Vice-President Michael Koziupa and President Stefan Kaczaraj. Mission Statement The Ukrainian National Association exists: to promote the principles of fraternalism;• to preserve the Ukrainian, Ukrainian• American and Ukrainian Canadian heritage and culture; and to provide quality financial services• and products to its members. As a fraternal insurance society, the Ukrainian National Association rein- Roman Hawryluk vests its earnings for the benefit of its UNA Home Office employees and editors at the convention: (from left) Petro Chasto, Valentina Kaploun, Stephan Welhasch, members and the Ukrainian community. Oksana Stanko, Matthew Dubas, Roma Hadzewycz, Maria Drich, Nina Bilchuk and Yuriy Symczyk. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 No. 21

The Ukrainian Weekly FOR THE RECORD: Kerry’s statement on Crimean Tatar deportation of 1944 The UNA’s 38th Convention Following is the text of the statement by ted today in Crimea is long and grows longer The 38th Regular Convention of the Ukrainian National Association, our commu- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on the with each passing week. Murder, beatings, nity’s largest, oldest and strongest fraternal organization, was held on May 15-18 occasion of the 70th anniversary of the and the kidnapping of Crimean Tatars and with 54 delegates from UNA branches across the United States and Canada, plus 18 Crimean Tatar deportation. The statement others have become standard fare. Local members and one honorary member of the General Assembly participating. The was released on May 16. “authorities” announced that Crimean quadrennial regular convention (as differentiated from extraordinary conventions Tatars will have to vacate their property and that may be called when needed) is the highest decision-making body of the UNA. The 70th anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s give up their land. Crimean Tatars have been The 2014 convention celebrated two major jubilees: the 120th anniversary of the forcible deportation of more than 230,000 assaulted for speaking their language, and founding of the UNA back in 1894, and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ukraine’s Crimean Tatars from their homeland in Tatar community leader Mustafa Dzhemilev bard, Taras Shevchenko, in 1814. The UNA long ago chose Shevchenko, whose immor- Crimea weighs especially on our minds has been banned from returning to his tal words inspired and awakened the Ukrainian nation, as its patron. Thus, it was fitting today. home in Crimea for five years. Thousands of for the convention to mark these two anniversaries synchronously. In the background, The suffering caused by this mass expul- Tatars and others have fled their homes in of course, there were two other milestones significant for the UNA and its members: sion is almost inexpressible. Those who Crimea, fearful for their safety. Those who the 120th and 80th anniversaries (both occurring in 2013) of the UNA’s two newspa- survived the horrific transit to Central Asia, remain face a future of repression, discrimi- pers, Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly – a combined 200 years of service. the Urals and Siberia faced hunger, disease nation, censorship, limits on freedom of In opening the convention, President Stefan Kaczaraj stated: “We, members of the and repression on arrival. Nearly half of peaceful assembly and association, and the great UNA family, should stand shoulder to shoulder and work jointly to improve and develop our Ukrainian National Association so that it may have as great and glo- those deported, mostly women and chil- criminalization of dissent. rious a future as its 120-year-old history. …It is important for us to discuss our dren, perished between 1944 and 1947. We commemorate the tragedy of 1944 achievements, our goals, our problems and our projects in an engaged, thorough and Many Crimean Tatars and their descen- with heavy hearts, even as we stand in soli- collegial manner.” And that the delegates strove to do. Over four days of discussions, dants remain in exile today. darity with Crimean Tatars today against a debates and brainstorming during convention sessions and committee meetings, the For many Crimean Tatars, these abuses new threat to their community. We reaffirm delegates – who had sacrificed their personal time in order to attend the convention are still fresh in their minds and Russia’s our support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and – reviewed the UNA’s activity and looked ahead to the next four-year term of office occupation and illegal attempt to annex territorial integrity, and our deep commit- and beyond. In so doing, they gave back to this most valuable community organiza- Crimea has reopened old wounds. ment to the human rights of all citizens of tion in which they firmly believe. The list of human rights abuses commit- Ukraine, including those in Crimea. Significantly, as noted by Advisor Lubov Streletsky, the number of Fourth Wave delegates at this convention grew to five; at the 2010 convention there were only two delegates from this growing segment of the Ukrainian community in North BACKGROUND America. Also noteworthy is the fact that of the 11 advisors elected to serve on the General Assembly four are newcomers. What’s more, they hail from or represent branches in diverse states: Connecticut, New Jersey, Minnesota and Pennsylvania. Indeed, as the newly elected advisor from Minnesota pointed out, the General The Crimean Tatars’ tragic past Assembly once again has a representative from the Midwest, along with representa- tives from the east and west coasts. by David Marples and David F. Duke War of 1854-1856, a further 230,000 The convention resolutions and recommendations reflected the delegates’ deepest Tatars migrated. By the end of the 19th respect for this organization and their desire to see it flourish and serve generations The Crimean Tatars have sometimes century, the Tatars’ population was to come. Resolutions ranged from those dealing with UNA matters, such continued been overlooked during the recent events reduced to about one-third of what it had poor postal delivery of the UNA’s newspapers and reports on the finances of the in Crimea that have resulted from Russia’s been prior to Russian annexation. Ukrainian Cultural Festival at Soyuzivka, to those addressing the current crisis in decision to send military forces onto the By 1917, at the time of the fall of the Ukraine, with the delegates expressing trepidation about the country’s democratic peninsula, allegedly to protect local tsarist regime in Russia, Tatars made up future and directing UNA officers to continue being involved in all efforts to promote Russians. While ethnic Russians comprise a about a quarter of the population of U.S. and Canadian bilateral relations with Ukraine. In recommendations offered at the majority of the population today, the Crimea. Beginning the late 19th century, convention, delegates also: noted the importance of UNA branches and the need to Tatars’ association with the region is there had been a significant national awak- revitalize branches when they are deemed to be inactive; encouraged UNA General lengthy and complex: they regard it as their ening among the Tatars in a movement led Assembly members to place paid greetings in Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly for ancestral homeland, albeit one with a by Ismail Bey Gaspirali, who combined sup- Christmas and Easter and thus stay in touch with the community while supporting lengthy and often tragic past. port for the Russian government with a the UNA’s publications; urged that more customer-focused management be imple- The Tatars originated with the Golden program to establish Tatar national identi- mented at Soyuzivka; suggested that Soyuzivka’s assistant manager, who has great Horde, which overran Crimea in the mid- ty. Brought to a halt by the reaction that fol- potential, be provided with professional training in hotel management; and proposed 13th century. Settling there, they displaced lowed the 1905 Russian Revolution, the that a permanent display of UNA history be installed at Soyuzivka. the mainly Slavic population and ruled movement revived with the Young Tatar Noting the positive outcome of the four days of deliberations, the UNA’s newly re- through local governors, paying lip service nationalists, who were considerably more elected president pledged: “In the next four years we will all work hard to achieve all to the Tatar khans based in the city of Saray radical in their goals. the goals and aims of this 38th Convention.” Hear, hear! on the lower sections of the Volga River. In May 1917, with Russia suffering By the late 14th century, the Tatar khans major defeats on the Eastern Front, nation- were seeking independence, a quest alist exiles returned to their homeland and brought to a sudden halt by the arrival of proclaimed an autonomous state. In the Ottoman Turks in the 1470s, though October they founded the Crimean May Turning the pages back... the Turks permitted the Tatars some Democratic Republic, but within a few autonomy over the following 300 years. months Bolshevik forces eliminated it. Last year, on May 25, 2013, Vladimir Andreev, Russia’s consul Crimean Tatars took part in an active slave Before long Crimea descended into anar- general in Symferopol, Crimea, resigned from his post following trade, based mainly on Slavic farm commu- chy, with a variety of armies operating on 25 protests against his offensive and defamatory statements on the nities, one that incensed several Russian its territory in the developing Russian Civil 2013 May 18,1944, deportation of Crimean Tatars. rulers. War. Mr. Andreev’s statement was in response to Ahtem The situation changed as a result of the Once the war ended in favor of the Seidablaev’s film “Haytarma” (Return), the first film ever made waning power of the Ottoman Empire Bolsheviks, Lenin introduced a new formu- by a Crimean Tatar filmmaker, which premiered on May 17, 2013. The film depicts the life through the 18th century and the growing lation: the Crimean Autonomous Socialist of Amet Han Sultan, a well-known World War II-era Soviet pilot and twice hero of the strength and assertiveness of the Russian Republic within the Russian Soviet Soviet Union, against the background of the mass deportation of Tatars from Crimea. Empire over the same time period. Under Federative Socialist Republic, allowing sig- Mr. Andreev advised a delegation of Russian World War II officers against attending the Catherine the Great in 1771, Russian troops nificant rights for the Tatars. Though the film screening because, in his words, “The film did not reflect the mass betrayal of the arrived in Crimea and the Ottoman gover- first years of this state were catastrophic, Crimean Tatar people during the Great Patriotic War.” All but one of the Russian veterans nor departed in haste. The following year marked by starvation and mass deaths, in abstained from the film. saw Russia’s establishment of an indepen- the 1920s the Tatars enjoyed a period of Mr. Andreev made similar statements on Crimean television channel ATR and its pro- dent Crimean Khanate under its supervi- national and cultural revival. gram “Gravitation.” When the reporter rebuked Mr. Andreev for humiliating the national sion, an arrangement confirmed by the That situation changed after Stalin took dignity of Crimean Tatars on television, Mr. Andreev responded: “Did I say something new, 1774 Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji, by which control over the USSR and began to Russify something that people did not know? Everything I said today is the official truth. The truth Crimea formally gained independence from the peninsula. The Tatars were forced to needs to be known. The topic of this film should not have been the Great Patriotic War; it the Ottoman Empire. This “supervision” use the Cyrillic alphabet, Tatar literature is the theme of betrayal.” heralded three more Russian invasions was declared to be anti-Soviet, and the On May 19, 2013, a large group of Crimean Tatars picketed in front of the Russian over the following decade. NKVD removed Tatar political leaders, Consulate in Symferopol, demanding that Mr. Andreev resign from his post and leave Ultimately in 1783, Russia carried out writers and scientists in the purges of Crimea as soon as possible. Speaking in front of the Crimean Parliament, Refat Chubarov, the complete annexation of Crimea. By 1936-1938. head of the Kurultai-Rukh faction in the Crimean Parliament and first-deputy of the 1790, some 300,000 Tatars had left the When the German-Soviet war began, at Crimean Tatar Mejlis, said that Mr. Andreev needed to refresh his memory by reviewing peninsula and resettled in Turkey. The which time the Tatars made up around 20 the historical facts regarding the illegality of the Crimean Tatar deportation in May 1944. Russian government forced many of those percent of the population (Russians com- Mr. Chubarov called his fellow parliamentarians for more protests at the Russian who remained to leave their coastal homes (Continued on page 13) and move to the interior. After the Crimean (Continued on page 18) No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 7

AKHMETOV SPEAKS A happy Donbas in a united Ukraine PERSPECTIVES by Andrew Fedynsky The following text is from an interview Kyiv has all powers, while regions develop with Rinat Akhmetov broadcast on May 14 on the leftovers. I am strongly convinced on the TRK Ukraine Channel. The text was that this way has already run out of steam released by Jock Mendoza-Wilson, director of and is not right for the future. international and investor relations at Scenario 2: Donetsk People’s Republic. To a friend: Evhen Palka System Capital Management, which is Nobody in the world will recognize it. owned by Mr. Akhmetov. However, our economy is based on coal, For half a year now, the world has 6, soldiers on either side of the barbed wire focused on Ukraine. It’s been all-consum- sang Ukrainian carols together and then steel, energy, heavy engineering, chemical ing. I get dozens of e-mails every day; went back to killing each other the following Today the situation in Donbas is industry, agriculture and all the business friends I haven’t heard from in years write; day. How can this be, people asked? The extremely difficult. The region has been areas related to them. We will face huge national media lead with news from answer: because Ukrainians didn’t have a gripped by fear. People are closing stores sanctions and will not be able to sell or pro- Ukraine; local media call for comments; country of their own. Evhen offered his and offices and leaving cities. People are duce. It will result in suspended produc- congressmen and senators reach out to our father, Ivan, as a role model: a member of being shot and killed in streets. tion, unemployment and poverty. community. People are signing up to be the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen in 1918 who This is a disaster for our land. We are liv- Scenario 3: Joining Russia. I strongly election observers. Leaders visit Kyiv. sacrificed for independence and freedom, ing in disaster. believe that neither Russia nor Donbas None of this just happened. Millions contributing to something greater than him- But I want Donbas and every citizen of needs it. And neither Russia nor Donbas devoted hours, months, years, their entire self. That certainly described Evhen. our region to be happy. And what is happi- will win from it. We will face huge sanc- lives for Ukraine’s cultural, religious and He was born in Ukraine in 1936, so he ness? Happiness is when you live in peace. tions and again will not be able to sell or political institutions to help put the country experienced the horrors of both Nazism and Happiness is when you feel secure. make our products. It will result in an eco- at the center of the world’s agenda. One of Communism as a boy before fleeing West Happiness is when the economy is nomic downturn, unemployment and pov- those was Evhen Palka who passed away with his parents to escape Soviet terror. He strong, when new jobs are being created, erty. on May 5. He was 78. You probably didn’t went through the Displaced Persons camps when people have good employment, good And Scenario 4, the only right way, in know him if you’re not from Cleveland but in Germany and then steamed across the salary and a good life. my view, is to amend the Constitution and if you are, you almost certainly did. Atlantic to America, where he served in the Happiness is when we are respected; decentralize government. It is when Kyiv Hundreds came to his wake and funeral, U.S. Army, followed by college in Cleveland when people honor our heritage, our histo- gives authority to the regions. It is when including a U.S. Army honor guard. and an engineering job. He married a beauti- ry and our language, as well as our holi- regional governments are not appointed Evhen and his wife, Vera, it seemed, were ful and remarkable woman, and together days, traditions and our ambitions for mak- but elected. And it is when local authorities at every Ukrainian event. Fridays, he pasted they raised two remarkable daughters. ing life better. are responsible to the people for the pres- pyrohy at St. Andrew Ukrainian Catholic Did I mention he was a terrific golfer? I How can we achieve it? I believe there ent and future. Church for the weekly sale to benefit the was paired with him at a fund-raiser. He are four scenarios. I strongly believe that Donbas can be parish, where he sang in the choir. Every apologized for some so-so placement shots. Scenario 1: Everything remains as it is. happy only in the united Ukraine. weekend in the spring and summer, He’d learned to play, he said, to help him Cleveland’s Plast scout leader Zenon Holubec move up in his company, but since he’d recalled, Mr. Palka was at the Pysanyi Kamin retired his game had eroded. “Uh-huh,” I (PK) camp where he was an electrician said, as I headed for the woods, looking for when you needed one, and also a carpenter, my ball. Evhen went to help, but to no avail. The voice of Donbas will sound stronger a plumber, a landscaper, a chef. St. Andrew’s I took a penalty; he sank his putt for par. pastor, the Rev. Ihor Kasian remembered The golf outing – which he helped orga- The statement below by Rinat Akhmetov feed people on guns nor can you ever build calling the Rev. John Nakonachny at St. nize – was a fund-raiser for Ukrainian was posted on the SCM website on May 21. a strong economy without good jobs and Vladimir Orthodox Cathedral to borrow youth, his passion: whether that meant set- salaries. tents for a parish festival. Father John ting up summer camps, giving a talk at the First of all, I wish to express my deep And in spite of everything, the voice of agreed, on one condition: that Mr. Palka take UMA or organizing Shevchenko commemo- charge – he knew they would be properly gratitude to everyone who took part in the Donbas has sounded and will sound stron- rative concerts. His reward? The proud handled and promptly returned. United Voice of Donbas action. ger! look on his face when his three grand- Ukrainian Organizations of Ohio President I know that many more wanted to join Many ask what is next. Fight, fight and daughters, reciting Shevchenko, played the Marta Liscynesky-Kelleher described Mr. but were intimidated by pistols and fight again for your happiness, your present roles of “Three Spirits.” Over the years, Palka’s tireless work as a board member. directly or through his tireless grunt work, machine guns. Cars were smashed… In and your future! Bishop John Bura remembered Mr. Palka as short, they acted as savages. he influenced the lives of thousands of one of the first to welcome him to dinner young people. But I am deeply certain that you cannot (Continued on page 18) after he’d been named to head the Parma He went in for major cardiac surgery, Eparchy. George Jaskiw, director of risky at his age, and ended up in intensive Cleveland’s Ridna Shkola Saturday School, care, even as events in Ukraine were LETTER TO THE EDITOR recounted how for decades Mr. Palka orga- unfolding. Father Ihor visited Evhen regu- nized the annual Shevchenko festivity fea- larly, administering the blessed sacrament. military force to prevent a war that could turing local youth groups. As he recounts, even on his death bed Mr. escalate into a nuclear holocaust. One of the half dozen priests at the requi- Palka asked for updates on Ukraine. That em cited a Ukrainian proverb that there are Ukraine and Ukrainians Now, it is worth recalling that Ukrainian was so Evhen – he understood that Ukraine no irreplaceable people, but amended it to lives have been given in support of United is an ongoing project and even in his final exclude Mr. Palka. Evhen, he said, was betrayed once again Nations-sanctioned military peacekeeping hours remained engaged. uniquely irreplaceable. I understand the spir- Dear Editor: activities and in all NATO-led operations as There are Evhen Palkas in every commu- it with which that was said. He was address- in Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan and anti-pira- nity: people who make things happen, who Here is my comment on Paul Goble’s arti- ing Evhen’s family and a community that was educate and inspire young people, who cle “Betrayal of Ukraine in Geneva ‘worse cy actions off the coast of Somalia. But not only in mourning but also coming to build and maintain the institutions that than Munich,’ says Illiaronov” (April 27). NATO, with arsenals of nuclear weapons terms with a new reality: the permanent define the community. With their diligence, Yes, Ukraine and the Ukrainians have that could be used as a deterrent against absence of a quiet giant – a dynamo who selflessness, attention to detail and willing- been betrayed once again, like so many aggressive acts by greedy war-mongering worked constantly without expectation of ness to take on whatever task, they play a times before over the centuries. Yet, countries, will not defend Ukraine as a praise or reward. But irreplaceable? No. As vital role connecting the broader communi- Ukraine and the Ukrainians should be laud- return favor because Ukraine is not a mem- French President Charles DeGaulle ber. And, given the agreement at Geneva remarked, “The cemeteries of the world are ty with Ukraine itself, which the world now ed for their heroic efforts to keep peace in sees as critical to a civilized future. Evhen the world and their efforts to avoid a nucle- signed by the interim Ukrainian govern- filled with irreplaceable people.” And he’s ment, Ukraine will never become a mem- right – although Evhen Palka the man, is Palka was always there for the church, the ar war. They surrendered the world’s third school, the museum, Plast camp, the com- largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in 1994 ber of NATO. indeed irreplaceable to his family and friends, Without a nuclear deterrent, Ukraine is others in the community will stand in for munity’s political outreach. Sadly, the man and signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation so many of us in Cleveland knew and came Treaty. Under that treaty, certain countries defenseless and has been betrayed. So, go him, only it’ll probably take half a dozen peo- ahead, Ukraine, become a part of Russia to depend on has passed away. As Father could have nuclear weapons, but were sup- ple to do so. PK’s going to need a new electri- again. Nobody will miss another 10 million Ihor said, all of us have been orphaned. posed to get rid of them over time. cian, a plumber, a carpenter, etc. Evhen could or so Ukrainian lives from a future In the past half year, my wife, Chrystia, Decades have gone by and they still have do it all; fortunately, he was not alone. Holodomor, a planned and executed program He understood he was part of a world- and I, like millions of others, obsessively not gotten rid of those weapons. of genocide this time in retaliation for peace- wide Ukrainian community and, with typical followed the Euro-Maidan and engaged in The very country to which Ukraine sur- ful demonstrations on the Maidan against a modesty, embraced his role in the long, com- events to support it. We also celebrated rendered its nuclear weapons, namely regime that had been elected on the promise plex, often tragic narrative of his people’s Christmas, the New Year, Easter, and Russia, has kept its nuclear arsenal and has that Ukraine would become an associate history. More than once, he met young peo- attended a couple of sad funerals, a gradua- become an aggressive conqueror of member of the European Union and then ple at the Ukrainian Museum-Archives tion, a wedding and, best of all, a joyous Ukraine’s Autonomous Republic of Crimea, changed its political course to become a (UMA) and described how young christening of our nephew’s daughter, and threatens to take over other Ukrainian Sophia, now a year old. Life goes on. corrupt puppet of the Russian Federation. Ukrainians, partitioned between Russia and lands, perhaps even all of Ukraine. In Austria 100 years ago, were inducted into response, the Ukrainians are not defending Stan Humenuk the respective armies of the two empires in Andrew Fedynsky’s e-mail address is their territorial integrity vigorously with Calgary, Alberta World War I; how on Christmas Eve, January [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 No. 21 GENERATION UKE

Edited and compiled by Matthew Dubas Toronto’s Lemon Bucket Orkestra launches Lemonchiki Project in Ukraine TORONTO – The Lemon Bucket Orkestra get low, cover your face, back off. When the protesters, he put together a team of inter- citizens on the streets and in concerts, and (LBO), a “Balkan-Klezmer-Gypsy-Punk Berkut tear-gassed the people of Lyiv in national musicians, artists, web designers, encouraging them to share and explore Super Band” based in Toronto, has February 2014, Mariia and I carried milk to social media specialists and photo journal- their own perspectives on this topic in launched a new side project on April 10, the front lines for the Maidan Self-Defense ists who would be interested in going back peaceful and creative ways.” dubbed “Lemonchiki Project.” The project units to soothe their throats. We ducked to Ukraine to collaborate with Ukrainian The Lemonchiki Project has an online is led by the band’s leader, Mark Marczyk, bricks and stun grenades, rubbed the inside counterparts. blog that fans can follow, where Mr. who collaborated with musicians in of surgical masks with lemon and handed Other members of the team in Ukraine Marczyk and other band members share Ukraine on an international repertoire of them out to those without scarves or bala- include Misha Kachalov (fiddle), Martin their experiences and the experiences of songs about revolution, war and peace. clavas. When we ran out of masks, we stuck Neaga (cello), Marta Iwanek (photojournal- Ukrainians via photos, videos and journal Four of the LBO members – Mr. Marczyk lemon wedges right in their mouths, ist) and Andrij Voytyuk (drums). entries (http://www.lemonchikiproject. (writer, violinist/vocals), Eli Richards though we didn’t dare wipe the poison Musicians from Canada, Ukraine, Russia, com). (trombone), Oskar Lambarri (savage drum) tears from their eyes or our own. Romania, Mexico and France will feature The Lemonchiki Project has a Canadian and Tangi Ropars (accordion) – are set to “Of course it got worse. It shouldn’t be of songs from each of these countries, as well sister group headed by Toronto artist and return after the May 25 presidential elec- course for it to get worse than this, but it as Ireland, Argentina, Jamaica and the Kosa Kolektiv creator Oksana Hawrylak. tions in Ukraine. was and it did. ‘At least they won’t suffocate United States. The tour, with dates from “We’re interested to see the contrast,” said The project came about when Mr. in this country anymore,’ some would say April 29 to May 30, is based in Kyiv, and will Ms. Hawrylak, “and the similarities.” Marczyk and Ukrainian ethnomusicologist of the Heavenly [Brigade], holding in real include a dozen cities across Ukraine, Tentatively collaborating on the Canadian and singer Mariia Kudriavtseva were in tears, spitting out sucked-dry yellow smiles. beginning in Kyiv and with stops in project are Anna Maxymiw (writer), Carlos Kyiv in January-February, where they wit- “After this, we created the Lemonchiki Kryvorivne, Lviv, Legedzine, Odesa, Garate (photographer), Juash Singh (LBO nessed firsthand the extraordinary situa- Project – a collective of musicians and art- Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Luhansk, percussionist and web and social media tion in the protest camps on the Maidan. ists from all over the world. We’ll go to Kharkiv, Poltava, Kyiv (again) and Chernihiv. director), Stephania Woloshyn (designer/ When riot police started throwing tear gas, streets littered with sucked-dry yellow “We want to explore their untold stories dancer), James McKie (multi-instrumental- the two musicians carried milk and surgical smiles, sing songs of revolution in languag- of the extraordinary people and personali- ist, LBO violinist) and Richard Keith (writ- masks smeared with lemon to the front- es familiar and strange, listen to and share ties on the ground floor of the revolution, er). line protesters – hence the name stories of war and of peace. We’re going to who risked their lives to take action and Lemon Bucket Orkestra, which was “Lemonchiki” which means little lemons in cities and towns across Ukraine, as well as stand up for what they believe in,” said Mr. nominated this year for a Juno Award in Ukrainian and Russian. looking in our own backyards to soothe our Marczyk in a statement. “We’re not pro- Canada, remains active in Toronto during On the Lemonchiki Project website throats and heal our hearts, though we Ukrainian extremists or pro-Putin provoca- the absence of its four members. The band (www.lemonchikiproject.com), Mr. wouldn’t dare to wipe to poison tears from teurs; we’re pro-people and we want to will launch a coast-to-coast Canadian sum- Marczyk explains: your eyes or our own.” show our support.” mer tour beginning in early June, with “Anyone who has been a part of a protest When Mr. Marczyk returned to Canada “It’s not only about singing songs of war details to be announced. For more informa- that the government decides to crack down following the events of February 18-20 on and revolution,” explained Ms. tion, readers may visit www.lemonbucket. on knows the toxic fog that forces you to the Maidan, when snipers opened fire on Kudriavtseva, “but about engaging ordinary com. Ukrainians protest throughout Spivakov concert tour PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Roman Torgovitsky, how easy it is to lose the spirit of freedom er bouquets. At the request of concert orga- bewilderment. An unidentified man in a Ph.D., a 2008 alumnus of Harvard and start turning into a police state – some- nizer Maestro Artist Management, Harvard Harvard T-shirt and jeans approached Mr. University, on May 17 left a letter and some thing that we can so clearly observe in Police prevented yellow and blue flowers Spivakov for an autograph, extended his flowers that were the color of the Ukrainian modern Russia. from entering Sanders Theater, because Harvard hat and said, “I want to thank you, flag (blue and yellow) for Harvard “I tried to inquire about the reason for blue and yellow are the colors of the for expressing your national position by President Gilpin Faust. such an unusual order, but when the police Ukrainian flag. signing the petition.” Mr. Spivakov then put This was in response to events that officers noticed a lone yellow flower – More than 50 protesters picketed Mr. his hand on the protester’s back and tried unfolded on May 11 during a concert fea- among dozens of other flowers of many col- Spivakov’s stance at Sanders Theater, but to knock him off balance. A security guard turing Russian violinist and conductor ors – in my bouquet he became even more Dr. Torgovitsky took it one step further. He removed the protester as the audience Vladimir Spivakov and his Moscow Virtuosi persistent. got onstage, gave a short speech in front of cheered. Chamber Orchestra at Sander Theater on “As a Harvard alumnus, I found this inci- the tuxedo-clad orchestra and stood eye-to- As The Cambridge Day reported on May the campus of Harvard University. dent completely surreal – I could never have eye with Mr. Spivakov himself. His case was 14, at that point, audience member Simona Mr. Spivakov signed a letter approving of imagined that Harvard police would be stop- dismissed on Monday, May 12, and the Asinovski asked her aunt, “I’m confused, Russian aggression against Ukraine, specifi- ping me from bringing flowers, of any color, arrest report by Officer Josiah Christian are we applauding that he was thrown off cally praising Russia’s illegal annexation of to a concert hall. This would have been com- contains discrepancies when compared to stage? So we are saying we don’t support Crimea. Mr. Spivakov’s actions have pletely a matter of course in modern Russia, video footage of the concert filmed by Putin?” sparked similar protests at Lincoln Center but in the United States at Harvard?” Gennadiy Berezutskiy. “I’m not sure,” the aunt replied replied, in New York on May 18 and other venues Marc Levy in his report on the incident In the video (https://www.youtube. “Simona, I think it was a sarcastic protest.” where he performed, including in for the Cambridge Day newspaper, noted: com/watch?v=wstnYeY9jkU), Mr. Spivakov Since the concert at Harvard, many pro- Vancouver on May 6 at the Chan Center and “You know you’re treading in tragically approaches Dr. Torgovitsky, who took a testers have foregone the flowers and sim- on May 9 at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto. compromised territory when you have step back as the conductor advanced. Mr. ply dress in blue and yellow as a sign of sol- The tour concluded its U.S. and Canada police at the door confiscating certain col- Spivakov gets to within inches of Dr. idarity with Ukrainians. dates on May 18, and the tour continues on ors of flowers from paying concertgoers.” Torgovitsky, touches the protester – putting Commenting on the protests, Maria May 26 to various cities in Russia and one “We learned that organizers have his hand on his back and patting him and Tyutyunik, a Boston area resident told The concert in Rome (May 27). The final date instructed ushers and police to take away then exerting enough force to cause a brief Harvard Crimson newspaper’s Dev Patel on announced for the tour is June 22 in blue and yellow flowers from the members unsteadiness in Dr. Torgovitsky. May 11 (with an update on May 13), “We Kaliningrad, Russia. of the audience – a rather disturbing move “He was ready to fight. A couple of musi- wanted to make sure that he regrets this at Dr. Torgovitsky, 38, wrote in his letter to which turned Spivakov’s concert into an cians came up and held his hands back,” Dr. least somehow and that the people are Dr. Faust: anti-Ukrainian event,” Harvard protest co- Torgovitsky said in an interview with The aware that this is not just a famous musi- “Today, I am sending you a bouquet of organizer Dmitry Smelyanskiy said. More Harvard Crimson. Nearly 45 seconds into cian, but someone who supports Putin.” these beautiful yellow and blue flowers as a than 2,000 signatures have been added to the video, it is only then that Officer For a complete copy of Dr. Torgovitsky’s token of my appreciation for the great tra- petitions to cancel the concerts. Christian is seen walking on stage to arrest letter, readers can visit http://www.cam- dition of open discussion and inquiry that Dr. Torgovitsky was arrested on May 11 Dr. Torgovitsky. bridgeday.com/2014/05/18/harvard- Harvard has been nurturing for years. I am at Sanders Theater, where Harvard Police Near the end of the performance a simi- treads-tragically-compromised-ground- also sending these flowers as a reminder of were instructing people to surrender flow- lar incident on stage left the audience in in-response-to-spivakov-protest/.

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by Maria Kulczycky CHICAGO – The shaded violet, caught in a shaft of bright light, exhibits beauty that had escaped notice. And a very talented teacher, at a small religious school in an ethnic enclave near Chicago’s city center, is now more appreciated for scaling a rigorous, prestigious competition. That happened on May 8, when Melissa Talaber Matwyshyn, the seventh-grade teacher at St. Nicholas Cathedral School in the Ukrainian Village, was notified that she is a winner of the 2014 Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Education. St. Nicholas is a 75-year-old elementary school that has met the challenges of changing population, shrink ing enrollment, rising costs and aging facilities head-on. It has endured because it has the devotion and loyalty of faculty, community, parents and students. And, as Ms. Talaber Matwyshyn demonstrates, its focus on “Excellence in Education” is unrelenting. “Being a Golden Apple winner is no small feat,” observed school principal Dr. Susan Kurland. “Melissa

Talaber Matwyshyn is a joy to behold as a teacher. She Henry Fajardo inspires others.” ABC-TV reporter Theresa Gutierrez suprises Melissa Talaber Matwyshyn in her seventh grade classroom with the Ms. Talaber Matwyshyn has taught seventh grade and news that she is a winner of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching in Illinois. science for five years at St. Nicholas. In addition to inspiring students in the classroom, she Outside the school, she is an ambassador at the Field in many ways. engages on many fronts in and out of the school. She sup- Museum, a Next Generation science teacher leader in coop- “Science used to be the area where my son struggled. ports the annual science fair, which has a record of sending eration with Loyola University and a lead teacher at a sum- Soon after his first interaction with Ms. Talaber junior scientists to successfully compete in city and state mer science enrichment program sponsored by the Big Matwyshyn, he announced that science is his favorite sub- competitions; the winter market, which welcomes local Shoulders Foundation. She has a bachelor’s degree in biol- ject. Ms. Talaber Matwyshyn has changed a regular class- farmers and artisans to offer their wares; and the garden ogy and chemistry, and a master’s degree in education room into a mini-lab, brought supplies and materials for club, which constructed two flower beds and filled them from the University of Illinois at Chicago. hands-on experiments, arranged seating to encourage with perennial local blooms to create an inviting green Golden Apple is a nonprofit organization that works to teamwork and discussions, but most importantly, was able space. identify Illinois teachers, such as Ms. Talaber Matwyshyn, to use the natural curiosity of a 9-year-old child and funnel who exemplify the highest standards and practices of the it toward learning science and math concepts in the most teaching profession. This is the 29th year of the highly interactive and exciting way,” parent Lana Tymouch noted acclaimed recognition program. Last May, 620 teachers in her comments supporting the application. were nominated for the competition. Of the 272 who com- Nicholas Saber, 16, a junior at Fenwick High School, was pleted applications, a committee of 90 experts chose 32 interested in science when he came to Ms. Talaber- finalists. From this group, 10 winners were chosen, Ms. Matwyshyn’s class in seventh grade. Her enthusiasm and Talaber Matwyshyn among them. As part of this process, imagination made science exciting, he explained. In an the finalists were observed in their classrooms, and the experiment mixing corn starch and water called Ooblec, selection committee conducted interviews with the teach- students created solutions of varying viscosity, able to be ers, colleagues, supervisors, students and parents. shaped into objects or thinned into liquid. Golden Apple winners receive a tuition-free spring quar- “We imagined we were astronauts in a planet made of ter sabbatical at Northwestern University, a cash award and Ooblec and designed robots to navigate it,” he recalled. lifetime membership in the Golden Apple Academy of Nicholas won first place that year in the science fair for a Education, which gives them an opportunity to develop and project on hydroponics. He plans to take science courses all support programs that will make teachers more effective. four years in high school, rather than the required two. “I am honored and privileged to be able to share my love In addition to religious instruction, St. Nicholas students and passion for science and teaching with the students at receive a well-rounded education. They are encouraged to St. Nicholas Cathedral School. I am proud to be part of the compete in geography bees, arts competitions, sports tour- team that brings excellence in education to St. Nicholas,” naments and essay contests. They study multiple languag- said Ms. Talaber Matwyshyn. es, perform at assemblies, stage holiday programs and “Ms. Talaber Matwyshyn is a major catalyst for school plays, and learn the traditions of diverse cultures. The transformation. She creates opportunities for students and experience is both disciplined and nurturing. The school staff to shine as team players,” noted Dr. Kurland. “She prides itself on its record of students moving on to seamlessly integrates the needs of students and uses her Chicago’s elite high schools. The Very Rev. Bohdan Nalysnyk, rector of St. Nicholas abilities to analyze trends, drive instruction and foster best To learn more about the school’s programs, faculty and Cathedral, congratulates Melissa Talaber Matwyshyn, as her husband, Paul, a graduate of St. Nicholas practices.” students, readers may visit the website www.stnickschica- Cathedral School, observes. As a teacher, Ms. Talaber Matwyshyn inspires students go.org or look for the school on Facebook and YouTube. Subscribe to Only $90 The Ukrainian Weekly Please contact Subscription Dept. $80 for UNA members [email protected] Tel.: 973-292-9800 ext. 3040

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there was no “firm evidence” of a pullback. abyss.” (RFE/RL, with reporting by Reuters, Parliament is clearly abandoning the con- NEWSBRIEFS He added that this was the third time Putin the Associated Press and ITAR-TASS) cept of state-controlled media and intro- has announced a troop withdrawal from the ducing international standards of public (Continued from page 2) Ukrainian border. Mr. Rasmussen said a Biden issues warning to Russia pullout would be an “extremely important election and every individual vote for the BUCHAREST – U.S. Vice President Joe “Broadcasters funded by the public must step to de-escalation” of the crisis in service broadcasting,” Dunja Mijatović said. future of the country, and to not succumb Biden has warned Moscow against under- serve the public and not the political lead- Ukraine. White House spokesman Jay to Russia’s pressure aimed at frightening mining the upcoming Ukrainian presidential ership.” She added, “The new public broad- Carney said the United States had seen Ukrainian voters and disrupting this election. Speaking in Bucharest alongside casting company will now need to set the “some indications of activity on the border” Presidential election. The UWC deems the Romanian President Traian Basescu on May standards of independence, pluralism and but added it was “too early” to conclude that election of the president of Ukraine to be 21, Mr. Biden said that “we must be resolute” professional standards for all media in a withdrawal was under way. Mr. Putin, an internal Ukrainian matter which must in enforcing sanctions against Moscow and Ukraine.” The law, published on May 14, speaking in Shanghai at a security summit, be decided exclusively by the citizens of that tougher measures could come if the May was passed by the Verkhovna Rada in April. said those who hadn’t seen signs of a pullout 25 polls are undermined. Mr. Biden also reit- It envisions that all state-run television and Ukraine,” the Ukrainian Wold Congress “should look better.” He added that if the noted in a statement released on May 16. erated NATO’s Article 5 commitments, say- radio companies, including regional and weather was clear, Western countries ing that Russia’s aggression in Crimea, less world services, shall be transformed into The UWC is deploying over 230 interna- should be able to see the withdrawal via sat- tional observers from 22 countries to mon- than 350 kilometers from alliance member joint entities under the control of civil soci- ellite photos. NATO estimates Russia has Romania’s borders, shows why it is still ety. The law establishes the priority of the itor this presidential election. UWC some 40,000 troops near Ukraine. (RFE/RL, President Eugene Czolij commented: “The needed. The vice-president thanked public interests over commercial and polit- with reporting by Reuters, the Associated Romania for increasing its defense budget to ical ones. It outlines legal and institutional Ukrainian World Congress calls for all Press and ITAR-TASS) Ukrainian citizens in and outside Ukraine 2 percent of its gross domestic product. Mr. frameworks to protect the independence to participate in the election of a President “National Dialogue” continues Biden also said work is on track to open a and accountability of public service broad- U.S. antimissile shield in Deveselu, Romania, casting. It also rules that the national bud- of Ukraine who could unite the entire coun- KYIV – Ukrainian officials on May 21 try and unwaveringly focus on strengthen- next year. Mr. Basescu thanked Mr. Biden for get will finance public broadcasting by pro- held “national dialogue” talks in the south- the quick U.S. reaction to the Ukrainian crisis viding at least 0.2 percent of its previous ing its independence, territorial integrity ern city of Mykolayiv aimed at ending a and continued development.” (UWC) by supplementing the U.S. Air Force presence year’s fund, while advertising shall not pro-Russian separatist insurgency in east- in the region, saying that this would “dis- exceed 5 percent of the hourly airtime. Ms. Russia says troop withdrawal under way ern Ukraine. The first two rounds of talks courage the appetite shown by Russia to res- made no tangible progress and did not urrect the Soviet Union.” Since Crimea was made during a review of the law’s draft PRAGUE – Russia’s Defense Ministry says include any representatives from the two annexed, NATO has dispatched AWACS sur- madeMijatović by her noted Office that in 2013 recommendations were taken into its troops massed along the Ukrainian bor- self-declared “people’s republics” that were veillance planes over Poland and Romania, account by the Rada deputies. (OSCE) der are packing up and moving to train sta- proclaimed in the Donetsk and Luhansk sent warships to the Baltic and Black seas, tions and airfields as they return to perma- regions by pro-Russian separatists. Chloroform found in Odesa building and deployed U.S. Army troops in Poland, nent bases. President Vladimir Putin said on Skirmishes between Ukrainian forces and Romania, and the Baltic states. “This is proof KYIV – A Ukrainian official said that 32 May 21 he ordered the troop withdrawal to separatist gunmen have occurred in recent that the U.S. is respecting its word,” President pro-Russian rebels who died in Odesa on help create “favorable conditions” for the days, particularly around the eastern city of Basescu said. (RFE/RL) May 2 might have been poisoned with chlo- May 25 Ukrainian presidential election. Sloviansk, a rebel stronghold. Acting roform before dying in a fire. The chief of Ukrainian officials say Russian troops have Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov Canada on business travel to Russia Ukraine’s General Investigative Directorate, moved at least 10 kilometers away from visited the outskirts of the city – which is Vitaliy Sakal, told reporters on May 19 that Ukraine’s border. But Kyiv could not confirm encircled by Ukrainian troops – on May 21. OTTAWA – Canada’s Minister of chloroform had been found by investiga- Moscow’s claims of a full withdrawal. NATO He said people in eastern Ukraine were International Trade Ed Fast on May 14 made tors in the Trade Unions Building in Odesa. Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen beginning to “understand that the separat- the following statement regarding business Inhaling the substance causes breathing said on a visit to Sarajevo on May 21 that ist terrorists are leading the region to the travel to Russia on the margins of International Trade Day 2014, organized by failure. Mr. Sakal added that Ukrainian the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. investigators had contacted the Israeli “Canada is determined to support Ukraine Embassy, asking for professional experts to and will continue to work with our allies and investigate any traces of the chemical in the like-minded countries to apply pressure that building. Thirty-two people were found will further isolate Russia economically and dead in the building, many of them with TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL Walter Honcharyk (973) 292-9800 x3040 politically, until the Putin regime clearly burns, on May 2 after the building was or e-mail [email protected] demonstrates its respect for Ukraine’s sover- engulfed in flames during clashes between eignty and territorial integrity. We encourage pro-Russian rebels and pro-Ukrainian soc- cer fans. In total, 48 people were killed and SERVICES PROFESSIONALS Canadian senior business executives to refrain from attending high-profile events in some 250 were injured during the May 2 Russia such as the St. Petersburg clashes in Odesa. (RFE/RL, based on International Economic Forum, the reporting from UNIAN and Interfax) Innoprom and the World Petroleum EBRD: Ukraine crisis hurts Eastern Europe Congress.” This statement followed Minister Fast’s remarks during the annual Ministerial WARSAW – The European Bank for Council Meeting of the Organization for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Economic Co-operation and Development says Ukraine’s crisis is having a negative (OECD) in Paris the previous week, when he impact not only on the Ukrainian and stated that Canada will not support Russia’s Russian economies, but also across much of accession to the OECD. (Foreign Affairs, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. In Trade and Development Canada) Warsaw on May 14-15, at the bank’s annual board meeting, EBRD economists forecast Two Putin allies avoid sanctions that Ukraine will slump into deep recession OTTAWA – Canada did not impose sanc- this year and that sanctions against Russia tions on two key allies of Russian President over its role in the Ukraine crisis will contrib- Vladimir Putin because the pair had ute to economic stagnation there. But the Canadian business interests, reported EBRD also is downgrading its growth fore- Reuters, citing “sources familiar with the casts for Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, matter.” Canada has imposed sanctions on Azerbaijan and Georgia. The bank says that’s more than 80 Russian and Ukrainian offi- because the geopolitical situation is making cials and businesses, compared to about 60 foreign investment in the region appear risk- ier and also is reducing the demand for FOR RENT by the United States. 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pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. oblasts were kidnapped and released. NEWSBRIEFS He told journalists that Kyiv wanted to Donetsk, Luhansk... A kidnapped Luhansk official didn’t present evidence that Russia is attempting show up for work afterwards, said (Continued from page 12) (Continued from page 1) to escalate the conflict and disrupt the May Oleksandr Chernenko, the head of the cent for 2014 and 2015 due to lower 25 presidential election. Ministry spokes- (PECs) more flexibility in their ability to Committee of Voters of Ukraine, an election regional export demand in connection with man Bohdan Senk said eight troops died conduct the vote. observing organization also financed by the Ukraine-Russia crisis. The EBRD was and 17 were injured overnight when sepa- Such flexibility includes the ability to the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. ratists attacked a Ukrainian checkpoint founded to help ex-Soviet bloc countries move the location of DEC meetings beyond “They are detained, pressured psychologi- about 20 kilometers south of separatist- make the transition to free-market econo- their territory, to receive voter lists closer to cally to refrain from participating in orga- controlled Donetsk, in the Volnovakha area. mies and democracy. (RFE/RL) election day and to notify voters of their nizing the elections, and then they’re However, the Associated Press reported inclusion on voter lists closer to election day. released,” Mr. Chernenko noted. that 11 Ukrainian troops were killed and Miners enter fray in eastern Ukraine Perhaps the most important part of the If the government fails to provide more 30 injured in the attack on the checkpoint legislation consists of 24-hour protection security to Luhansk election officials, only PRAGUE – Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s in the village of Blahodatne, near of DECs and State Voter Registry organs its northern regions controlled by the richest man with a fortune estimated at Volnovakha. Mr. Senk said one Ukrainian within 10 days of the election, as well as Ukrainian army will be able to conduct the more than $11 billion, wields huge clout in soldier also died during clashes with sepa- vote, Bohdan Bondarenko, a local CVU law- the Donbas. Last week his Metinvest compa- ratists in the neighboring Luhansk region. enhanced protection for transporting docu- yer, said on May 19. ny, one of the most powerful in the region, The Russian Defense Ministry, meanwhile, ments between election commissions. dispatched miners and metalworkers to the said on May 22 that several trains carrying “These changes are all too relevant, par- More than 2,500 Russian soldiers from city of Mariupol to restore order after weapons and planeloads of troops have left ticularly in ensuring the safety of the elec- Chechnya are already on the oblast’s territory, bloody clashes between Ukrainian troops the Belgorod, Bryansk and Rostov regions tion process in the Luhansk and Donetsk he said, adding, “I can’t imagine how they’ll and rebels. The workers helped dislodge along the border with Ukraine as part of a oblasts,” reported Opora, an election moni- transport the trucks with voting ballots.” pro-Russian insurgents from the city hall massive military pullout. NATO chief toring organization financed by the Charles Destabilization efforts on the eve of elec- and clear away barricades surrounding the Anders Fogh Rasmussen, speaking in Stewart Mott Foundation. “In these regions, tions extended beyond eastern Ukraine. building. They now patrol the city alongside Montenegro on May 22, said that limited incidents of intimidation, threats and even The SBU deactivated a car bomb in central police. Far from all Donbas miners pledge Russian troop movements near the border armed attacks on the buildings of DECs and Odesa on May 18, SBU Chairman Valentyn blind allegiance to Mr. Akhmetov, however, with Ukraine “may suggest” preparations commission members have been occurring Nalyvaichenko announced the next day. and many say they feel a world apart from for a withdrawal. He added, “If we see any more often.” He also cited the arrest of eight Kyiv and its pro-European protests that trig- meaningful, comprehensive and verifiable The security measures, enhanced to Ukrainian citizens who planned to disrupt gered the political crisis in Ukraine last fall. withdrawal, I would be the first to welcome more than one police officer and the the elections in Kyiv; they were found to be But the coal and mining industry employs it.” (RFE/RL, based on reporting by involvement of the Security Service of in possession of seven automatic rifles and about half a million people in eastern Reuters, Interfax, Agence France-Presse Ukraine (SBU) when necessary, thus far 4.4 pounds of explosives. Ukraine. Just weeks after Russia’s annexa- and the Associated Press) have not been able to neutralize the pro- But the organization of the elections tion of Crimea, the prospect of losing their Russian militant. Their sabotage includes themselves has occurred largely without a CEOs cancel attendance at business forum livelihoods if separatists were to succeed in locking buildings where polling stations hitch, Opora reported. The organization bringing the region into Moscow’s fold is PRAGUE – In a demonstration against are located, as well as stealing documents. pointed to an absence of conflict, as well as spurring industrial workers to rally against Russia’s annexation of Crimea and Only 26 percent of Donetsk Oblast PECs organized PEC nominations and document the insurgents. “The vast majority of miners Moscow’s role in the Ukrainian crisis, the received voter lists, while only 16 percent processing by DEC members. are against separatists,” claims Mykhailo leaders of dozens of major international in the Luhansk Oblast received them, “However, the exception has been the Volynets, who heads Ukraine’s companies have cancelled their attendance reported the Central Election Commission problems with Donetsk and Luhansk dis- Confederation of Independent Trade Unions at a three-day international business forum on May 19. tricts since the destabilization of the elec- (KVPU). “They understand that they will that opened in St. Petersburg on May 22. In Besides taking over commissions and tion process by armed separatists didn’t lose their jobs.” The KVPU, along with five Germany, the chief executives of Deutsche blocking their work, armed fighters have allow for forming PECs in an organized way other trade unions, issued a statement on Bank, the engineering giant Siemens, and also been pressuring commission mem- in the periods required by legislation,” said May 19 urging all workers across eastern the energy firm E.ON confirmed on May 21 bers to quit. As of May 20, at least three Oleksandr Kliuzhev, an Opora elections Ukraine to join forces against the rebels. that their CEOs will not participate in the DEC chairs from the Donetsk and Luhansk analyst. They firmly condemned militants’ attempt annual event this year. They are joining to block all railway deliveries in and out of executives from three dozen other interna- the Donetsk region, with the exception of tional firms that have turned down invita- goods bound for Russia. “This outrageous tions to the St. Petersburg International fact confirms that separatists are forgetting Economic Forum, where Russian President themselves,” the statement said. “Such Vladimir Putin is scheduled to be the key- actions will definitely lead to the worsening note speaker on May 23. The U.S. govern- of the living conditions of people in eastern ment had appealed to American executives parts of Ukraine and an economic collapse to cancel their attendance. German of the entire country.” (Claire Bigg of RFE/ Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office said her RL, with contributions from RFE/RL’s government met on May 19 with German Russian and Ukrainian services) business leaders to discuss the govern-

Kyiv reacts to new deadly violence ment’s position on the Ukraine crisis ahead ДілимосяДілимося сумною сумною вісткою ,ві щосткою , що of the Russian forum. Ms. Merkel’s office Ділимося сумною вісткою, що KYIV – Prime Minister Arseniy said it did not make any recommendations 22 березня22 березня 2014 року 201 4 року 22 березня 2014 року Yatsenyuk on May 22 called for an emer- on whether German business leaders у місті Воу містіррен ,Во Мічіґанррен, Мічіґан gency meeting of the U.N. Security Council should attend. (RFE/RL, based on report- у місті Воррен, Мічіґан відійшоввідійшов на Вічну на Ватру Вічну Ватру after at least nine members of Ukraine’s ing by Reuters, the Associated Press, відійшов на Вічну Ватру security forces were killed in clashes with Interfax and ITAR-TASS) св. п. св. п. . . . св. .п . Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry con- пл сенплКерівництвасен Керівництва пл. сен . Керівництва Turning... ducted talks with Vladimir Likhachev of the Russian Embassy in Ukraine. Mr. Likhachev (Continued from page 6) ВсеволодВсеволод Гнатчук Гнатчук acknowledged that Mr. Andreev’s speech Всеволод Гнатчук Consulate in Symferopol on May 23, 2013, was incorrect and without proper sensitivi- demanding for Mr. Andreev’s resignation. ty to the issue of deportation. Mr. Andreev Лицар ОрденуЛицар ОрденуЛисячого Лисячого Хвоста Хвоста officially resigned from his post the follow- Лицар Ордену Лисячого Хвоста Mr. Chubarov indicated the need to inform ЛісовийЛісовий Архидідько Архидідько Джіп Джіп the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), and ing day, but remained unapologetic about Лісовий Архидідько Джіп his choice of words and was critical of the representatives of the Ukrainian president in Crimea to make sure that they under- lack of support from Russia’s Foreign НародивсяНародився 24 лютого 24 1937 лютого р. в Коломи1937 р. вї. Коломиї. Affairs Ministry. Народився 24 лютого 1937 р. в Коломиї. stand the severity of this development. Mr. Andreev’s response hailed the Soviet Sergei Tsekov, chairperson the Russian Community of Crimea, who held regional gov- ВисловлюємоВисловлюємо наші найщирі нашій найщиріші співчутгяйші співчутгяйого любій його любій role in stopping the advance of Nazism and Висловлюємо наші найщирійші співчутгя його любій ernment positions as chairman of the дружині дружиніХристині ,Христині дочці Оксані, дочці, синовіОксані , Миронусинові і Мирону і noted that the Crimean Tatars had betrayed дружині Христині, дочці Оксані, синові Мирону і the Soviets for fighting alongside the Nazis Permanent Commission on Culture of the невістці невістціМарті, та Марті внукам, та Даниловівнукам ,Данилові Ліді, Ліні, Ліді та , Ліні та Crimean Supreme Council, deputy of the невістці Марті, та внукам Данилові, Ліді, Ліні та against the Soviet Union, adding that films МаксимовіМаксимові, як також, ближчійяк також та ближчій дальшій та родинідальшій. родині. about World War II should be produced in Crimean Parliament and vice-president of the Максимові, як також ближчій та дальшій родині. Russia in order to be truly objective. Crimean republican branch of the Russian The Crimean Tatars protested on May Unity political party, recognized Mr. Andreev, 23-24, 2013, in front of the Russian Consulate prior to his departure, as an “Honorary ’ ! ’ ! Member of the Russian Community of Crimea.” Вічна ЙомуВічна ПамЙому ятьПам’ !ять in Symferopol, carrying banners that read, Вічна Йому Пам ять “Descendants of NKVD! Get out of our coun- Source: “Russian consul general to Crimea try.” The 24-hour protest included such slo- resigns following offensive comments,” by ІІІ Курінь УСПІІІ Курінь і УПС УСП Лісові і УПС Чорти Лісові Чорти gans: “Luggage, train station, Moscow!” and Idil P. Izmirli (Eurasian Daily Monitor), The ІІІ Курінь УСП і УПС Лісові Чорти “Amet Han – hero! Andreev – coward!” Ukrainian Weekly, June 16, 2013. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 No. 21

sion “referendums” under the pro-Russia (http://invest-crimea.gov.ua/news_body. Political power... forces’ guns (see EDM, May 8, 12, 14). The cost to Ukraine... php?news_id=381). Crimean natural Some of the party’s own voters turned out resource reserves also include 1.4 million (Continued from page 3) (Continued from page 2) in numbers higher than expected for those hectares of land owned by the Ukrainian in Ukraine’s east seeks to destroy the author- “referendums” (Interfax-Ukraine, UNIAN, the value of these reserves could be per- government (http://invest-crimea.gov.ua/, ity of the central government and that of May 11-15). haps roughly estimated at $40 billion. accessed April 13). The estimated value of the local nomenklatura at the same time. In the short term at least, those “referen- Notably, DTEK – a company owned by this land, assuming a price of $700 per Opposed on the whole to “federaliza- dums” and inconclusive “anti-terror opera- Ukraine’s richest businessman, Rinat hectare, could be around $1 billion. A valu- tion,” the Party of Regions and affiliated tions” have unnerved the Party of Regions Akhmetov – has a stake in Vanco ation of natural reserves that promote business interests are calling instead for parliamentary caucus in Kyiv and several of Prykerchenska via its subsidiary DTEK Oil Crimea’s tourism potential, as well as state- administrative and financial decentraliza- its political leaders in the Donbas. and Gas (http://www.dtek.com/en/our- owned tourism facilities on the peninsula, tion in Ukraine’s east and south. The On May 15, Mykola Levchenko (a young operations/associated-companies/vanco#. could also technically be undertaken. Ukrainian government is drafting similar and rising leader, who was backing U0hDovl_scE). Previously, Vanco Russia’s annexation of Crimea also proposals (not only for the east and south, Ukraine’s unity in April in Donetsk) led a Prykerchenska’s U.S. Partner, Van Dyke means a significant loss of transportation but on a country-wide basis). Under both walkout of Party of Regions and Energy Company, sold a controlling inter- sector infrastructure for Ukraine. Notably, sets of proposals, Ukraine’s oblasts would Communist deputies from the Parliament est in Vanco Exploration to Russian Lukoil, Symferopol International Airport is the elect their governors and district-level in Kyiv. On behalf of his party (and joined but retaining a substantial stake (http:// third busiest in Ukraine, having served 1.2 executives, and would retain the tax pro- by Communist leader Petro Symonenko on www.vandyke-energy.com/oil-and-gas- million passengers in 2013 (http://www. ceeds for the local budgets. that party’s behalf), Mr. Levchenko operations, accessed April 11, 2013). Vanco sobytiya.info/news/14/38229). The net- While consensus seems fully attainable demanded an immediate end to the gov- Prykerchenska is still formally a party to work of Crimean motor roads is also in rel- on that basis (see EDM, February 19), con- ernment’s “anti-terror” operations against the PSA entered in 2006 with Ukrainian atively good condition. Moreover, the trans- tention looms over the status of the pro-Russia armed groups, and “peace nego- authorities, later revoked by then-Prime portation sector includes airspace routes Russian language. In parliament and in the tiations” with (presumably) their leaders. Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s government leased to international airlines flying over eastern oblasts, the Party of Regions calls On May 14, at the inaugural session of in 2008 and reinstated under then-Presi- Crimea. The overflight fees they had to pay for upgrading the constitutional status of roundtable talks moderated by the dent Viktor Yanukovych’s administration in to the Ukrainian aviation authorities may the Russian language to that of a state lan- Organization for Security and Cooperation February 2014 (http://forbes.ua/ now be lost. guage alongside Ukrainian. The present in Europe (OSCE), the billionaire business- news/1347492-kabmin-vozobnovil- Finally, in the maritime sector, a passen- government in Kyiv might split and fall man Vadym Novinsky spoke out in that soglashenie-s-vanco). ger sea port in Yalta provides high tourism over this issue, but the Party of Regions same vein, apparently intimidated by the Another important PSA – regarding the potential to Ukraine, whereas, cargo ports regards this issue as vital to its electoral ongoing events in the Donbas. Mr. Novinsky Skifske deep-water natural gas deposit – in Kerch, Feodosiya and Yevpatoriya reflect fortunes in Ukraine’s east. is an influential figure in the Mykolayiv was negotiated by the Ukrainian govern- significant losses in Ukraine’s international During the month of April, the Party of Oblast, but was elected to Ukraine’s ment with a consortium led by trade potential. Additionally, Kyiv is losing Regions’ organizations in the Donetsk and Parliament from the single-mandate con- ExxonMobil. The consortium also included possible substantial cargo port facilities in Luhansk oblasts adopted resolutions sup- stituency of Sevastopol (Ukrinform, Royal Dutch Shell and Romania’s OMV Sevastopol, where the company Avlita – porting Ukraine’s unity (as opposed to fed- Ukrayinska Pravda, May 14-16). Petrom. With an investment outlay of some part of Rinat Akhmetov’s SCM holding – eralization), calling for decentralization Moscow lacks any credible or reliable $12 billion, the project could unfold to had plans to expand the seaport to service and state-language status for the Russian political allies in Ukraine’s east and south. extract output from 200 bcm of natural gas about 8 million tons of commodities cargo language as conditions for unity. The party It relies, instead, on coercion and armed reserves over 50 years. The value of these per year (http://www.avlita.com/upk/ promotes this agenda in the Parliament in violence to disrupt Ukraine’s presidential reserves could be $30 billion or even high- rule). It should be noted that, until now, the Kyiv. It contradicts Russia’s project to “fed- election, and then to contest the election’s er. For now, ExxonMobil has put its offshore state-owned ports in Crimea were mostly eralize” Ukraine (indeed it should blunt legitimacy. activities in Ukraine on hold (Reuters, controlled by Ukrainian oligarchs, includ- that project) and it conflicts head-on with March 7), and the company is dependent ing former President Yanukovych’s son the secessionist program of Russia’s prox- The article above is reprinted from on Russia because of its participation in a Oleksandr (http://www.theinsider.ua/rus/ ies in the Donbas. The Party of Regions Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from larger natural gas project with Russian business/524edefdbc67e/). organizations in that part of Ukraine its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, Rosneft in the Arctic. ExxonMobil risks los- Clearly, the Ukrainian government will opposed the holding of the May 11 seces- www.jamestown.org. ing this opportunity if it refuses to work need to develop a restitution strategy to re- with Gazprom on exploiting the Skifske claim the ownership of its lucrative field. Crimean assets from Russia by taking its Other estimated natural gas resources, case before international courts. Such an including newly discovered methane approach, and its associated prolonged hydrates in the Black Sea, amount to 1.5 legal process, would also serve to increase trillion cubic meters, while the oil resourc- the costs to Russia for “owning” Crimea es are around 1 billion tons. Overall, the and possibly deter Moscow from further deep-water gas reserves that are supposed intrusion into southeastern Ukraine. But to legally belong to Ukraine are estimated there is a risk that the Ukrainian govern- at 4 trillion to 13 trillion cubic meters, ment, which is currently operating in according to Ukrainian government data “emergency” mode, might not find the (http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/ resources to pursue such an expensive, Energy-Voices/2014/0321/With-Crimea- drawn-out legal strategy. annexation-Putin-expands-oil-and-gas- empire). The article above is reprinted from Apart from oil and gas, Crimea offers Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from some of the highest potential in Ukraine to its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, build and operate solar power stations www.jamestown.org.

as observers. UCCA meets... Prime Minister Yatsenyuk thanked the representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora (Continued from page 1) for their continued support and significant During the meeting, the UCCA informed contribution to the observation process. He the prime minister that it is fielding a dele- stressed that in this critical period, and gation of over 222 international election even with the conflict in some areas of east- observers. The UCCA observers will be ern Ukraine, the Ukrainian government deployed to every region of Ukraine to would ensure the proper organization of monitor the election process, the opening the election of the president that is to take of polling stations, voting, the counting of place this Sunday. He also reported on the ballots and the tabulation of results at all efforts made by law enforcement authori- levels. UCCA observers will also be moni- ties to provide secure conditions for the toring the elections at Ukrainian diplomatic elections throughout Ukraine. missions in the United States. The UCCA mission will assess the entire Andrew Futey also discussed the UCCA’s election process in terms of its fulfillment recent efforts and communications with of international standards for democratic the U.S. Congress, and the Obama adminis- elections set by the Organization for tration. He noted that congressional staff- Security and Cooperation in Europe and ers are members of the UCCA mission and other entities, as well as national legisla- that the UCCA’s Washington office, the tion. Co-chairing the international election Ukrainian National Information Service observer mission along with Mr. Futey is (UNIS), was working closely with the dele- UCCA President Tamara Olexy; the UCCA’s gation of the U.S. Senate and House of chief long-term observer is Reno Representatives that is arriving in Ukraine Domenico. No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 15

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Razom roundtable held at Shevchenko Scientific Society by Tetyana Dzhula NEW YORK – The Shevchenko Scientific Society welcomed the group Razom for a roundtable to discuss the role of Ukrainians abroad during Ukraine’s current crisis. The event took place at the society’s headquarters on Fourth Avenue in New York on Saturday, April 5, giving all an opportunity to attend and see Razom intro- duce itself to the public. The audience was able heard about the work the group has been doing since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine, its accomplishments and future projects. The Shevchenko Scientific Society – founded in Lviv in 1873 and New York in 1948 – has a special role in the life of the Ukrainian diaspora: it organizes and spon- sors scholarly conferences, hosts public lec- Vasyl Lopukh tures and poetry readings, provides Lyuba Shipovich (at the podium), president and founder of Razom, with (seated from left) Olya Yarychkivska, Ivanna Bilych, Yuri Brunets and Mariya Soroka. research grants for scholars and stipends encouragement that anyone concerned ent its organization and work to the mem- for students, publishes scholarly works, could give. bers of the Shevchenko Society and the provides information on institutions of Since its inception at the end of 2013 on public. higher learning. It does all this while the initiative of half a dozen dedicated The members of Razom are young pro- remaining dedicated to its main goal, which patriots, Razom has quickly grown into a fessionals who have been working tireless- is to promote Ukrainian studies. global network of volunteers engaged in ly since the beginning of the crisis in So it didn’t come as a surprise that the fund-raising, media campaigning, investi- Ukraine and are devoted to ensuring a bet- society and the newly established non- gating corrupt activities, and working with ter future for Ukraine. profit organization Razom, united by their government representatives and human More information about Razom can be love for Ukraine, felt the need to have this rights organizations. The group was very found at www.razomforukaine.org and on roundtable. enthusiastic about the possibility to pres- its Facebook page. Razom is just a few months old. It was born out of the desire and need to stand together with the people of Ukraine in their pursuit of a democratic, just and free soci- ety. Its founders and future members met Congressman Chris Gibson meets at protests supporting Ukraine that were held in several cities on the East Coast. One with Ukrainian constituents Karina Tarnawska speaks at the round- thing was evident to everyone: Ukraine table. needed all the support, assistance and A Chornobyl exhibit on Earth Day in Florida

Marianne Hawryluk Rep. Chris Gibson meets with constituents.

by Nadia N.S. Maczaj Union was the major geopolitical disaster of the century.” The congressman said he KERHONKSON, N.Y. – On April 15, 2014, feels that Mr. Putin can be deterred with a Congressman Chris Gibson (R-N.Y.) met firm show of strength and resolve. with a group of his constituents at Holy The congressman also spoke of the need Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church here on for the president and the leadership in April 15 to update them on the U.S. govern- Washington to clearly and unequivocally ment’s response to the crisis in Ukraine. present the situation in Ukraine to the About 50 members of the local Ukrainian American people, something that has not John Susla community came out to hear the happened to date. He noted that the mili- Congressman and to ask questions. tary actions by Russia in Crimea were ille- OSPREY, Fla. – Earth Day was celebrated on Sunday, April 27, here at Oscar gal and must be punished, and that eco- Rep. Gibson opened by explaining that Sherer State Park, and among the many interesting exhibits dealing with con- nomic sanctions used against those who the United States must have the will and servation and the protection of Mother Earth was an information booth about are creating the crisis will only be effective the capability to show its strength in the the Chornobyl nuclear disaster that occurred in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. It was if developed with full cooperation from our presented by the Ukrainian American community of Southwest Florida, under the world. He stated that the “reset” created European allies. direction of Nellia Lechman and Dr. Bohdan Bodnaruk. Members of the Branch several years ago in the U.S. relationship After his remarks, the congressman wel- 56 of Ukrainian National Women’s League of America and the Ukrainian com- with Russia was a mistake – one that let comed questions from the audience. Ivan munity at large shared information about the Chornobyl disaster and its brutal down our friends and allies in Eastern Lechicky questioned the Congressman aftereffects, as well as about current events in Ukraine, since the visitors were Europe. Rep. Gibson pointed out that about his voting record against military aid well aware of the political crisis in Ukraine. Seen above (from left) are: Tom Russian President Vladimir Putin showed to Ukraine. The Congressman explained Houseman, Lida Houseman, Slava Maluk, Alexandra Popel, Areta Baranowskyj, his intentions of reviving Russian control that he could not support such aid unless Dr. George Baranowskyj and Dr. Bodnaruk. over its neighbors years ago, when he com- – Vira Bodnaruk mented that the “collapse of the Soviet (Continued on page 16) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 No. 21

Ukraine’s east... BOOK NOTE: A story of the Holodomor for younger readers (Continued from page 2) “Eevahn: Child of the Holodomor,” by Eugenia Maleschok Powers. the presidential election as self-nominated Canada: Antecedent Publishers, 2013. 168 pp. ISBN: 978-0-9917734-0-4. candidates. Both had risen to prominence in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast; Along with many scholarly works published to commemorate the 80th but they lost that territorial base to the bil- anniversary of the Holodomor, we find one aimed at younger readers – lionaire governor Igor Kolomoisky, who is “Eevahn, Child of the Holodomor,” by Eugenia Maleschok powers, who is currently forming the most influential donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book to orphanag- power center in Ukraine’s southeast (now es in Ukraine. reaching beyond Dnipropetrovsk itself). The book is based on stories the author remembers hearing from her The Party of Regions has expelled Messrs. grandfather, himself a refugee from the Holodomor. Set in 1932 near Kyiv, Tigipko and Tsariov for their refusal to “Eevahn” tells the story of a 10-year old boy trying to escape the ravages of back Mr. Dobkin’s presidential candidacy the rising Holodomor after his family’s farm was burned to the ground by (Interfax-Ukraine, April 7). Stalin’s men. While Mr. Tigipko shows serious interest Eevahn is forced to separate from his mother and his beloved cat, and in a successful presidential election being travel with a small group making its way down the Dnipro via boat, float- held, Mr. Tsariov is helping Russia’s effort ing by night and hiding on shore by day. The author’s vivid descriptions of to disrupt the presidential election. On the changing Ukrainian landscape and the group’s adventures, along with April 17, Moscow announced the launching her many colorful illustrations, make for an engaging reading experience. of the “South-East” movement in Ukraine, Readers wishing to purchase this book may contact the author at euge- headed by Mr. Tsariov and calling for “fed- [email protected] or Box 68009 Blakely, Hamilton, ON L8M 1L0, eralization” based on “Novorossiya.” Mr. Canada, or visit www.antecedentpublishers.com. Tsariov seems to have disappeared from Ms. Powers is a second-generation Ukrainian Canadian, born and raised Kyiv, but he appears on Russian television. in Saskatchewan. A classically trained pianist, she was the first coordina- To disrupt the presidential election, Mr. tor of the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. She has been a free- Tsariov has called on all candidates from lance writer for the past decade, and divides her time between homes in the east and south to drop out of the race, Ontario and Saskatchewan. so as to minimize turnout and help Moscow to contest the election’s legitimacy. For their part, Russia’s paramilitary proxies in Donetsk and Luhansk are now trying to seize polling stations in order to prevent the election from being held. Public opinion polls in Ukraine’s east and south, conducted variously in the final months of 2013 and the first months of 2014, show sizeable majorities favoring Ukraine’s unity, an overwhelming lack of interest in “federalization” and only small minorities in favor of secession or acces- sion to Russia. Such findings are common to the surveys conducted by leading Ukrainian and international organizations in the recent months (as part of Ukraine- wide surveys) in Ukraine’s east and south. However, the situation there is developing dynamically. The impact of Russia’s tele- vised propaganda may increase with unceasing repetition not countered by Kyiv. If the government’s anti-terrorist operation keeps faltering, and/or if Kyiv politicians offer yet more spectacles of infighting after the election, the loss of confidence in the government will translate into higher levels of support for Russia’s political projects in Ukraine’s east.

The article above is reprinted from Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, www.jamestown.org. Congressman... (Continued from page 15) its mission was clearly defined and focused. Oksana Bihun asked him to explain the par- ticulars of possible sanctions, Paul Maczaj asked what side China would take in a con- frontation between the U.S. and Russia, and Petro Kosciolek asked about possible sanc- tions and/or a ban on broadcasts by RT (www.rt.com), a Russian news source that produces blatant propaganda against Ukraine. The Rev. Ivan Kaszczak, pastor of Holy Trinity Church, reminded the Congressman that once again, the Ukrainian Catholic Church is being perse- cuted in Ukraine by Russia. After addressing the many questions and comments from the audience, Rep. Gibson and his wife spent some time infor- mally meeting with those present. They were introduced to 10-year-old Paul Mysak, whose grandmother lives in Ukraine. Paul had written to the congress- man about his concern for his homeland and the congressman had replied with a hand-written card. No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 17 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 No. 21 Ukrainian language immersion course Philatelic exhibition will mark for adults to be held in Saskatchewan Taras Shevchenko bicentennial by Wsevolod Sokolyk TORONTO – The Ukrainian Collectibles Society (Toronto) is hosting a philatelic, numismatic and collectibles exhibition on Sunday, June 8, in Toronto at the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Community Center, 482 Horner Ave. Exhibition hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The show promises to be one of the most exciting ever, featuring outstanding Ukrainian philatelic material, including exhibits commemorating the 200th anni- versary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko. As well, there will be exhibits of bank notes, coins, medals, postcards and autographs. At the show, a “personalized” Canada Participants of the 2013 Adult Ukrainian Language Immersion Course held in Post stamp commemorating the 200th Canora, Saskatchewan. anniversary of Shevchenkow’s birth will be available. The stamp design features a por- CANORA, Saskatchewan – The Adult Further information about the venue and trait of the Ukrainian bard by Windsor art- Ukrainian Language Immersion Course facilities are available at www.aulic.ca. ist John Jaciw. Mr. Jaciw is a renowned (AULIC), an educational program initiated in The registration fee for the four-day medal and coin designer who has won 2001, enables participating students to weekend (August 7 - 10) is $185 per partic- domestic and international competitions learn about Ukrainian language and culture. ipant if received prior to July 7 and $200 for coins, tokens and medals. The regular program is offered over a thereafter. The fee for the entire eight-day The Shevchenko stamps may be used for The Taras Shevchenko stamp design by four-day period with an eight-day extended extended program (to August 14) is $310 if mailing in Canada or retained as a souvenir. course option for those wanting to further received by July 7 and $325 thereafter. John Jaciw that will be available at the Limited-edition first-day covers with a upcoming philatelic, numismatic and col- enhance their language skills. The regular Room, board and all printed materials are complimentary design will also be avail- lectibles exhibition in Toronto. program will run from August 7 to 10, and included in the fee. Accommodations will able. A special Canada Post cancel will be the extended program will carry on to be made for those wishing to bring their available during the show. the genius of Shevchenko at 3 p.m. August 14. The extended program will be own campers or tents. World-renowned bandurist Victor For more information readers may offered if there are sufficient registrants. Those interested in learning more about Mishalow will perform works to celebrate e-mail [email protected]. During the first four days, three levels of AULIC 2014 may contact any member of the language instruction will be offered: begin- organizing committee: Katerina Nakutnyy, ner, intermediate and advanced. The 306-585-7054; Wayne Hydeman, 306-545- extended four-day program will allow for a 2003; Ken Mazur, 306-789-4062; or Tony But that bunch of imposters terrorizing more intense Ukrainian language immer- Harras, 306-586-6805. Information is also The voice of Donbas... Donbas… I believe they will be kicked out of here very soon. sion environment and is dedicated to inter- available by e-mailing [email protected] (Continued from page 7) mediate and advanced level participants AULIC is sponsored by the Ukrainian If some of you believe that they are lead- who wish to build on their knowledge of Canadian Professional and Business I believe that the Donetsk People’s ing us to success, this is a mistake. It is a the Ukrainian language. Association of Regina and the Ukrainian Republic is deceiving the people of Donbas. huge mistake. They are leading to collapse, AULIC’s success is based primarily on Orthodox Men’s Association of Regina. They are imposters who have taken the poverty and hunger. Through their actions quality language instruction supplemented Financial assistance has been provided by entire Donbas hostage and are terrorizing it. they are killing Donbas, not protecting it. with a culturally enriched program. The Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Who are they? What are those people? I wanted to tell my fellow countrymen organizing committee ensures that the Saskatchewan Provincial Council and Where did those “geniuses” come from? again – I am always straight with you. Only instructors selected for the camp are Regina Branch, Saskatchewan Lotteries, What were they yesterday? They have not time will show who was right and who was skilled Ukrainian teachers. Saskatchewan Organization of Heritage created a single job. not; who said the truth, and who lied; who AULIC is held at Trident Camp, located Languages, The Ukrainian Canadian I have served and will continue to serve made a mistake and was under delusion. 25 kilometers north of Canora, Foundation of Taras Shevchenko and the the people of Donbas. The people of We, the Donbas, and the DPR have dif- Saskatchewan, at the Crystal Lake resort. SUS Foundation. Donbas are in my heart forever! ferent roads to go!

1654 Treaty of Pereyaslav, formed against erable following Ukraine’s declaration of the Crimean presidency. The Crimean... the Poles. The “gift” had little impact on sovereignty six months earlier. The Tatars make up one of three major politics prior to Ukrainian independence in Yet in December 1991, 54.1 percent of ethnic groups on the peninsula and by far (Continued from page 6) 1991. Crimean residents also supported the inde- the most visible. Though the history of prised almost 50 percent, Ukrainians 13.7 Over the following decades, the Tatars pendence of Ukraine in the national refer- Crimea is complex, both the Tatars and percent), some Tatar leaders were not tried in vain to return. In 1967, the USSR endum, a figure that suggests general satis- Ukraine are significant actors and today averse to the German-Romanian occupa- Supreme Soviet issued a law that acknowl- faction with that situation even among eth- they have common interests. About 75 per- tion. But the collaboration should be seen edged the deportations were unjustified by nic Russians. Russian President Boris cent of basic provisions and 85 percent of in perspective. One historian has calculated being extended to the entire population Yeltsin stated unequivocally in December electricity there derive from mainland that about 20,000 Tatars served in subunits rather than being restricted only to the 1991 that only Ukraine could decide the Ukraine. Under Ukrainian rule, Tatars have of the occupation forces – a figure that rep- alleged collaborators. But by the end of the question of Crimea. regained their autonomous status. resented only about 10 percent of their following year, only 148 Tatar families had Under independent Ukraine, the situa- Moreover, the experience and legacy of prewar population. returned. In 1986, Tatar leader Mustafa tion reached crisis point as early as April Russian control remains for many Tatars a In April 1944, when the Red Army Dzhemilev was released from a gulag camp 1992, when the Presidium of the Crimean bitter one of trampling upon their cultural recaptured Crimea, Stalin and his NKVD in Magadan, having served 15 years in Parliament resolved to hold a referendum beliefs and language, deportations and gen- chief Lavrentii Beria decided that the Tatars camps and internal exile. on independence the following August. In eral lack of recognition of their territorial must be punished for their collaboration. In July 1987, former Foreign Minister mid-May it declared its independence from rights. Tatars have been active in protests in The NKVD arrested and deported over Andrey Gromyko headed a commission Ukraine. The Russian Federation also recent years. Most have been concerned 150,000 Tatars to Uzbekistan and other authorized by Mikhail Gorbachev to investi- demanded talks, while the Russian with their status on the peninsula rather regions by July 1, 1944. The final figure may gate Tatar grievances. In June 1988 it Parliament and mayor of Moscow both than in Ukraine. They should not be forgot- have been as high as 228,500. Perhaps 20 rejected demands to restore Crimean declared that the port of Sevastopol, the ten or overlooked during the current crisis. percent of the deportees died en route. A autonomy. By now, with the development base of the Black Sea Fleet, was a Russian law issued in June 1946 confirmed that the of glasnost, the protests only grew more city. David Marples and David F. Duke are his- Crimean Autonomous Republic had been raucous. Andrei Sakharov, the scientist and The Ukrainian Parliament responded tory professors at, respectively, the abolished and Crimea’s status reduced to a former dissident, was among those who quickly to proclaim the declaration of inde- University of Alberta and Acadia University. region of Russia. adopted the Tatar cause. pendence invalid. It eliminated a further The article above is reprinted from the The current imbroglio dates from 1954, In January 1991, the Crimean attempt to inflame the situation after the blog “Current Politics in Ukraine” (http:// when at the behest of Nikita Khrushchev, Parliament held a referendum on the future election of President Yury Meshkov in ukraineanalysis.wordpress.com/) created by Russia presented Crimea to Ukraine (then status of the region, in which more than 80 1994, the head of the “Russian bloc.” Mr. the Stasiuk Program, a program of the the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) as a percent voted to restore autonomous sta- Meshkov had revived the concept of a refer- Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at gift to commemorate 300 years of Russian- tus. Ethnic Russians backed the motion endum, but the Kyiv government once the University of Alberta. It was originally Ukrainian friendship, dating back to the because they felt that autonomy was pref- again stepped in and eventually abolished posted on March 2. No. 21 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 19

May 27 Panel discussion, “Poland/Ukraine 2014,” The Kosciuszko June 6 Golf tournament fund-raiser, Friends of Ukrainian Village New York Foundation, www.thekf.org/events/upcoming_events or Sherwood Park, AB Society, Broadmoor Golf Course, [email protected] (rsvp only) www.friendsukrainianvillage.com

May 28 Book presentation, “Nebesna Sotnia,” collection of poems June 6-7 Holodomor Workshop for Graduate Students and Early Ottawa of the Euro-Maidan, proceeds benefit the Fallen Heroes Toronto Career Scholars, Holodomor Research and Education of the Maidan Families Fund with support from the Consortium, [email protected] Buduchnist Credit Union, St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Shrine hall, 613-723-1673 or June 7 Golf tournament and banquet, Ukrainian American Sports Ambler, PA Center – Tryzub, Limekiln Golf Club, www.tryzub.org www.st-john-baptist-shrine.ca June 7 Ukrainian School graduation dance, Ottawa School of May 29-June 1 Performance, “50 Heartbreaks and I’m Still in Love with Ottawa Ukrainian Studies, Museum of Science and Technology, Bellingham, WA YOUkraine,” with Jenna Bean Veatch and Nadia 613-739-9185 Tarnawsky, Firehouse Performing Arts Center, www.brownpapertickets.com June 7 End-of-year-concert, “Finale 2014,” Kashtan School of Cleveland Ukrainian Dance, St. Ignatius High School Breen Center for May 31 Book presentation by Kristina Lew, “100 Nahirny the Performing Arts, 440-728-4483 or www.kashtan.org Philadelphia Churches: The Churches of Vasyl Nahirny,” Ukrainian League of Philadelphia, 215-840-7841 June 7-8 Calgary Ukrainian Festival, Acadia Recreation Complex, Calgary, AB www.calgaryukrainianfestival.ca or June 1 Lemko Genealogy Workshop, with Mike Buryk, [email protected] Stamford, CT Organization of the Defense of Lemkivshchyna, Ukrainian Museum and Library, 347-992-9038 or June 11-13 Conference, “States, People, Languages: A Comparative Cambridge, MA Political History of Ukrainian, 1863-2013,” Harvard [email protected] University, 617-495-3549

June 1 Religious Education Class, Immaculate Conception June 13-15 Yonkers Ukrainian Festival, Ukrainian American Youth Hillside, NJ Ukrainian Catholic Church, 973-599-9381 or Yonkers, NY Association, St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church, www.byzcath.org/immaculateconception www.yonkersukrainianfestival.org

June 1 Book presentation by Serhii Plokhy, “The Last Empire: June 13-July 27 Art exhibit, “Morris Barazani: Shoots Straight, 1948- New York The Final Days of the Soviet Union,” The Ukrainian Chicago 2014,” Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 773-227-5522 Museum, www.ukrainianmuseum.org or 212-228-0110 June 15 Father’s Day Ukrainian Fest, featuring stage show, soccer June 3 Lecture by Tommaso Piffer, “The Allies, the European Horsham, PA tournament regional finals and dance, Tryzubivka – Ukrainian Stanford, CA Resistance and the Origins of the Cold War in Europe,” American Sports Center, 215-362-5331 or [email protected] www.creees.stanford.edu or [email protected] Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events June 5-July 3 Art exhibit, “Faces of Ukraine 1950-1980, Highlights of advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions New York The Jurii Maniichuk and Rose Brady Collection,” from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors Ukrainian Institute of America, 212-288-8660 and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2014 No. 21

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Thursday-Sunday, May 29-June 1 family history, available archives and online BELLINGHAM, Wash.: “50 Heartbreaks and resources, and tips for finding living rela- I’m Still in Love with YOUkraine,” a deeply tives. The workshop will be conducted by moving two-woman dance-theater show Mike Buryk, who has 35 years of experience about heartbreak and Ukrainian history by with genealogical research in southeast Jenna Bean Veatch and Nadia Tarnawsky, Poland. Cost: $20 per participant. To regis- will be performed in Bellingham, Wash. The ter online, go to http://www.lemko-ool. show, which premiered last fall in Seattle com/genealogy_workshop.html. The work- and New Orleans – wowing audiences in shop is organized by the Organization for both cities – weaves together a collage of the Defense of Lemkivshchyna and the kitschy dances set to 1960s break-up songs, Lemko Research Foundation. For more mournful Ukrainian ballads, whimsical stop- information call 347-992-9038. action animation, old family photographs, delightful paintings by Susannah Anderson, NEW YORK: Join us at 2 p.m. when Serhii and gruesome history lessons to tell Plokhy, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Tarnawsky’s family history, the gripping tale Ukrainian History at Harvard University, will of a family in Ukraine split apart by World present his new book “The Last Empire; The War II. Performances will take place at the Final Days of the Soviet Union.” In his review Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 for The Wall Street Journal, Tom Nagorski Harris Ave. in Fairhaven, Bellingham, Wash. says “Serhii Plokhy’s …book [is] jammed Tickets can be purchased at www.brownpa- with uncanny parallels to the present day…. pertickets.com. [L]osing Ukraine was unfathomable, ‘a nightmare scenario,’ as [Boris] Yeltsin put Sunday, June 1 it.” Books will be available in the gift shop. STAMFORD, Conn.: Uncover your roots at a Admission (includes reception and gallery “Lemko Genealogy Workshop” at noon-2:30 access): $15; $10 for museum members and p.m. on the premises of the Ukrainian seniors; $5 for students. Tickets are avail- Museum and Library of Stamford, 161 able at www.ukrainianmuseum.org or by Glenbrook Road, Stamford, CT 06902. The calling 212-228-0110. The Ukrainian workshop will include how to research your Museum is located at 222 E. Sixth St.

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