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HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXXVI No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 $1/$2 in Ukraine UPA photos, safely hidden Tymoshenko government’s first success: for decades, found in loft a revised version of the 2008 budget by Zenon Zawada would force the new government to work Kyiv Press Bureau with the 2007 budget. “If we don’t pass the law on the state KYIV – Within two weeks of coming budget by the fiscal year’s end, we will to power, the Yulia Tymoshenko govern- practically undermine the entire system of ment achieved its first success by passing social standards,” Mr. Yatsenyuk warned. a revised version of the 2008 state budget The coalition’s leaders rolled up their well before the New Year’s Eve deadline. sleeves, consulted, debated, made amend- Coalition leaders touted their plan as ments and held a deciding vote drawing more generous in social spending than support from all 227 deputies of the what was offered by the preceding gov- Democratic Forces Coalition, as well as ernment of Viktor Yanukovych, including eight votes from the Communist Party of higher pensions, wages and scholarships, Ukraine. and the return of lost savings. The victory drew raucous cheers from “I believe that we took one more step the coalition deputies and shouts of so that the people again began believing “Shame” directed toward Volodymyr in the state,” Ms. Tymoshenko said after Lytvyn, leader of the eponymous bloc the budget was passed at about 9 p.m. on which declined to support the document, December 28, 2007, three days ahead of despite affirming it in its first reading ear- deadline. lier that day. The budget plans revenues of $42.6 Afterwards, the Communist Party’s billion (U.S.) and $46.0 billion in expen- Among a group of UPA soldiers are Voskresintsi natives Stepan Hutsuliak and leadership threatened to evict those ditures, amounting to a total deficit of Vasyl Serbeniuk (seated from left). deputies who voted in favor. (Leonid $3.4 billion, or about 2.1 percent of the Grach, whose card cast a vote in favor, gross domestic product (GDP). by Larysa Marchuk “I know all this precisely because in offered the excuse that he was in After the Tymoshenko government 1937 I joined the OUN as a young Symferopol the entire week, including the Kyiv Press Bureau came to power on December 18, 2007, woman and had the nickname ‘Sosna’ day of the vote.) Verkhovna Rada Chair Speaker Arseniy VOSKRESINTSI, Ukraine – For more (Pine Tree),” Ms. Zhulynska said. She The opposition Party of the Regions of than 60 years, Paraska Hutsuliak hid 34 Yatsenyuk expressed concern that the photographs in the loft of her home in (Continued on page 9) budget wouldn’t be passed in time, which (Continued on page 15) this Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast town. A secret operative for the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Ms. Hutsuliak toiled in Siberian Ukrainians celebrate lives of contemporary leaders labor camps, returned to her native vil- by Zenon Zawada lage and lived there until her death, Kyiv Press Bureau never telling anyone about the hidden pictures. KYIV – The year 2007 marked the The old house came into the owner- anniversaries of four contemporary ship of Andrii Myhaliuk and his family Ukrainian legends who fought the and, when fixing his roof, he came upon oppression of Soviet Communism and the paper bundle by chance. led Ukraine to independence. “The photographs were very well pre- First imprisoned for 18 months for served,” 34-year-old Mr. Myhaliuk said. writing “Lykho z Rozumu” (published in “Obviously, Paraska constantly moni- the West as “The Chornovil Papers”), a tored them, because the newspaper in portrait of persecuted Shestydesiatnyky which they were wrapped was from the (activists of the 1960s), the late 1970s.” Vyacheslav Chornovil joined the Noticing soldiers in the photos and not Ukrainian Helsinki Group and eventually knowing who they were, Mr. Myhaliuk led the Rukh movement that achieved set off on a fact-finding mission, taking Ukrainian independence. the pictures to the village’s oldest resi- Suffering seven years in a Siberian dent, 86-year-old Hanna Zhulynska. labor camp during the 1980s for writing She was very surprised to see insur- “Ethnocide of Ukrainians in the USSR” gents in the pictures and asked Mr. among other works, Stepan Khmara was Myhaliuk where he found them. Ms. arrested on November 17, 1990, igniting Zhulynska recognized fellow villager mass protests that fueled the Ukrainian Stepan Hutsuliak, the brother of Paraska. independence movement. In fact, several members of the Having spent more than half his adult Hutsuliak family served in the Ukrainian life, or 33 years, in Soviet prisons for his Press Office of Ukraine’s President Insurgent Army (UPA), including the activity as a rights advocate, Hero of A scene from the unveiling in August 2006 of the monument to Vyacheslav father, son Stepan and daughters Maria Ukraine Lev Lukianenko celebrated his Chornovil on Hrushevsky Street in Kyiv. and Paraska, she explained. 80th birthday on August 24, a date per- Paraska was the only Hutsuliak to sur- haps fated to be Ukrainian Independence – Ukrainian National Self-Defense whether at ceremonious evenings in the vive the war, Ms. Zhulynska added. The Day. (UNA-UNSO), a nationalist political nation’s capital or, in Mr. Lukianenko’s NKVD first arrested her in 1939, but Spending 22 years in Soviet prisons, party that combated authoritarianism case, on the parliamentary campaign trail Paraska fled, hid and served in the where the beatings permanently dam- after independence. in rural Ukraine. underground resistance during the war, aged his legs, the late Anatolii Lupynis The birthdays of these four men were she said. formed the Ukrainian National Assembly commemorated in different ways, (Continued on page 8) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 No. 1 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS

A bittersweet homecoming Putin: Russia becoming stronger ($42.6 billion U.S.) and expenditures at 235.43 billion hrv ($46.6 billion U.S.). The for Crimea’s Tatars MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin document comprises the budget itself and said in his annual New Year’s address to the over 100 amendments regarding taxation by Volodymyr Prytula of Crimean Tatars on the peninsula. nation on December 31, 2007, that it was and social legislation. The government the support, trust and efforts of ordinary RFE/RL On the contrary, authorities adopted explained that the budget deficit of nearly legislation tightening rules for returnees Russians that made possible “everything 105 billion hrv made the amendments nec- SYMFEROPOL, Ukraine – In the seeking to obtain a passport and housing that we have done together with you during essary. (RFE/RL Newsline) main mosque of Crimea’s capital, in Crimea. Those who were able to find the past eight years” of his two-term presi- Symferopol, relatives pray for the soul of housing were rarely granted residence dency, kremlin.ru reported. He stressed that OU-PSD: budget fulfills promises Idriz Efendi. They say Efendi, an ethnic “we have not only restored the territorial permits, which in turn prevented them KYIV – As Verkhovna Rada Chairman Tatar, died poor but happy to have spent integrity of Russia, but once again we are from finding work. Like Mr. Efendi, who Arseniy Yatsenyuk explained before the the last years of his life in his ancestral able to feel we are a united people. And all attempted to return home in the 1960s, voting, the law on the national budget homeland, Crimea. these years we worked together to preserve large numbers of Crimean Tatars were passed on December 28, 2007, was pro- His father, Jelal Efendi, was not so for- our country, to transform it into a modern, eventually deported back to Central Asia. posed with changes made by the tunate. Soviet authorities did not permit free and strong state able to provide its citi- Mr. Chubarov says the decree only Parliament’s Budgetary Committee. him to resettle in Crimea – now part of zens with a comfortable life.” Mr. Putin strengthened their determination to return According OU-PSD faction chair Ukraine – after he was deported to remote argued that “we have seen how, from year to their native country. Viacheslav Kyrylenko, the coalition has ful- Uzbekistan. to year, Russia has been gaining in strength. “They understood that the problem of filled its promise to voters. Due to the The Efendis’ story is all too common. ... How our economy has been growing. their return depended on the mass charac- adopted budget, irrespective of whom the In May 1944 Soviet authorities rounded ter of the Crimean Tatar national move- How new opportunities have been opening people voted for, they will have enhanced up Crimea’s 190,000 Tatars and loaded ment and the unity of their movement,” up for the people.” He noted that “we have them onto freight trains bound for Central pensions, salaries, scholarships, military he says. “I think that was the main result not managed to do everything. But I am maintenances and other payments. He said Asia, mainly for Uzbekistan. of that decree for Crimean Tatars.” quite certain that the road the people have This collective punishment was the coalition has made many concessions to It wasn’t until perestroika in the late chosen for Russia is the right road and that the opposition and stressed that social guar- ordered by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, 1980s that Crimea opened its door wide it will lead us to success. We have every- who accused the entire Crimean Tatar antees were secured. Summing up the par- for Crimean Tatars. thing [needed] to achieve our goal – our liamentary session Mr. Yatsenyuk said the population of collaborating with Nazi But like Crimean political analyst great history, colossal resources, courage, budget would be amended. He slated the Germany in World War II. Mykola Semena, many accuse Moscow and the industriousness and intellectual next session of the Parliament for January The 1944 deportation remains a painful of turning its back on Crimean Tatars potential of our great nation.” The daily 15 and said March will see a new redaction chapter in the history of Crimean Tatars. after the Soviet collapse. Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on of the budget. (Ukrinform) Almost half of the deportees are estimat- “International problems should be set- December 29 that several highly decorated ed to have died during the journey or tled by countries who are connected with senior military commanders have proposed PRU explains opposition to budget shortly afterward. these problems,” Mr. Semena says. “In that Mr. Putin be awarded the Hero of On September 5, 1967, Soviet authori- this case, the Crimean Tatar issue should Russia order for his achievements as presi- KYIV – The parliamentary faction of the ties issued a decree exonerating Crimean be settled by Russia. When it comes to dent. The commanders noted that “from opposition Party of the Regions announced Tatars from alleged wrongdoing. The rights and legal obligations, Russia pro- 1985 to 2000, our presidents only disgraced it would reject the 2008 national budget, faction member Mykola Prysiazhniuk said. decree allowed thousands of Tatars claims itself the Soviet Union’s heir. But us by selling out the country’s interests or According to Mr. Prysiazhniuk, the main deported to seek repatriation to Crimea. when it comes to responsibilities, to help- through their ridiculous personal behavior. obstacles to supporting the proposed budget ing other countries solve problems, Whenever they got ready for a trip, we Continuing discrimination were non-implementation of election Russia distances itself and declares this is prayed that they would not disgrace our pledges, particularly, as regards transfer to Forty years later, however, many Tatars an internal problem of such or such coun- country once again.” (RFE/RL Newsline) remain outside their homeland or contin- try.” contract service in the military, and the ue to face discrimination at home. Rada adopts 2008 budget unbalanced budget of social benefits. No celebrations Refat Chubarov is the deputy head of (Ukrinform) KYIV – The 450-seat Verkhovna Rada the Mejlis, the legislative body created Today, Crimea is home to some on December 28, 2007, passed the draft President decrees Constitutional Council after the Soviet collapse to represent 300,000 Tatars. budget for 2008, Ukrainian media reported. Crimean Tatars. Soviet authorities, he The Ukrainian government over the KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor The bill was supported by 227 coalition said, never had any genuine intention of past decade has been allocating some $10 Yushchenko issued a decree on the creation giving redress to Crimean Tatars. million annually to help Tatars resettle in lawmakers from the Yulia Tymoshenko of National Constitutional Council, “The growth of the Crimean Tatar Crimea. Half of them have been allocated Bloc and the Our Ukraine – People’s Self- RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service reported on movement in the 1960s, external aspects plots of land. But Crimean Tatars say they Defense bloc, as well as eight lawmakers December 27, 2007. The goal of the council of Soviet foreign policy of that time, the are still struggling to find their place in from the Communist Party. The Party of the is to prepare a new version of the impending 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian society. Regions and the Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc Constitution of Ukraine or amendments to October Revolution, but above all the Many of them say they continue to factions did not attend the vote. The docu- pressure exerted by Crimean Tatars, face discrimination and higher unemploy- ment projects revenues at 215.36 billion hrv (Continued on page 14) forced Soviet authorities to pretend they ment than Crimea’s Slavic majority popu- were solving the Crimean Tatar problem,” lation. he said. 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The author- e-mail: [email protected] ities in Kyiv and the Crimean capital of (Continued on page 20) No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 3 NEWS ANALYSIS: U.S. magazine marks Putin’s ‘grand bargain’ by Robert Coalson obscenely so. But the poor are doing better tion is stagnant. During Mr. Putin’s second Recently a Kremlin-connected business- RFE/RL Newsline too: workers’ salaries have more than dou- term, old state-dominated monopolies have man told Kommersant how the siloviki, led bled since 2003,” writes Time. grown and new ones have been created, by the deputy head of the presidential The December 19, 2007, announcement Although Time argues that this economic increasing the opacity of the economy and administration, Igor Sechin, are raiding that Time magazine has named Russian miracle is “partly a result” of high global placing a premium on political ties and lucrative private businesses by making them President Vladimir Putin its person of the energy prices, it would be more accurate to cronyism over sound management and offers they can’t refuse. “This isn’t raiding,” year will come as little surprise to most say that Mr. Putin has been phenomenally innovation. he said. “We don’t take over enterprises – Russians. lucky that throughout his presidency rev- Time writes that Mr. Putin established we minimize their market value using vari- “They say that Putin is the most success- enues have flowed in at rates several times stability through authoritarian domestic ous means. As a rule, these are voluntary- ful figure of the 20th century,” academic greater than the most optimistic projections policies. “His government has shut down compulsory means. But, as a rule, people Leonid Polyakov told a roundtable in of 2000. His greatest achievement in this TV stations and newspapers, jailed busi- understand where we are coming from.” September. “I would pose the issue more regard has been that he bullied the Yeltsin- nessmen whose wealth and influence chal- Former Duma Deputy Anatoly Yermolin, broadly: Who in history has been more suc- era oligarchs into accepting “new rules of lenged the Kremlin’s hold on power, himself a retired Federal Security Service cessful than him? Who accumulated such a the game,” which included diverting most defanged opposition political parties and (FSB) colonel, told Novoye Vremya earlier potential of confidence after being in power of the profits from high energy prices into arrested those who confront his rule,” the this month: “Putin is not fighting against just eight years?” the government’s Stabilization Fund. That magazine’s appraisal notes. corruption. He is using it to control the Or, as former First Deputy Duma fund now contains some $150 billion – Kremlin-connected political analyst country.” He added that “the genius of Speaker Lyubov Sliska put it more succinct- even after being used, as Time notes, to pay Sergei Markov perhaps put it better during a Putin’s management of the country is that ly in May: “Putin is our everything.” off Russia’s astronomical foreign debt. conference in August: “The personality of the president and his team have turned the The newsweekly’s editors are careful to Mr. Putin’s other achievement in this Vladimir Putin is more important to society main weakness of Russian state manage- note that the distinction “is not and never regard has been that he placed capable than institutions of state.” Or, to quote ment – corruption – into its greatest has been an honor.” “It is not an endorse- economists, including Finance Minister Central Election Commission Chairman strength.” ment,” they continue. “It is not a popularity Aleksei Kudrin and former Economic Vladimir Churov, “Can Putin really be During his interview with Mr. Putin, contest. At its best, it is a clear-eyed recog- Development and Trade Minister German wrong?” Time’s correspondent asked about the cor- nition of the world as it is and of the most Gref, in charge of these assets, which so far A key result of Mr. Putin’s draconian ruption problem and received a “testy” powerful individuals and forces shaping has prevented them from being pillaged. In domestic policies has been the elimination response from the president. “If you are so that world – for better or worse.” They cor- recent months, however, Mr. Gref has been of all oversight and a consequent flourish- confident, then I presume you know the rectly note that Putin’s achievements have removed from the Cabinet and Mr. Kudrin ing of corruption. To take one example, a names and the systems and the tools. ... come “at significant cost to the principles has come under fierce attack from the study in October found that the country Write to us,” Mr. Putin said. In a country and ideas that free nations prize” and that it “siloviki” – people with ties to the military loses some $40 billion a year just on state is far from clear whether “he proves to be a and security services – in Putin’s inner cir- purchases. (Continued on page 16) reformer or an autocrat who takes Russia cle. back to an era of repression.” In February the Stabilization Fund is to And perusing the magazine’s list of also- be split into two new funds and the battle to rans, including former U.S. Vice-President spend those billions will be fierce, possibly Quotable notes Al Gore and British author J. K. Rowling, it to the point of rocking the “stability” for “… The United States somehow decided that part of the political elite in is hard to argue that Mr. Putin does not which President Putin traded Russia’s free- Ukraine is pro-American and part is pro-Russian, and they decided to support the deserve the recognition. doms. ones they consider pro-American, the so-called Orange coalition. Well, O.K., In its appraisal of President Putin, Time Many observers have argued that the you decided to support them. Do as you please, although we don’t believe it’s argues that he has brought Russia out of the energy-price windfall has encouraged right. Of course, they have people with different outlooks there and with differ- chaos of the 1990s to a new stability from Russia to put off major reforms and invest- ent political tastes, but as I’ve already mentioned, if a politician wants to be pop- which most Russians are benefiting. “In his ments that are needed to create truly stable ular, he or she must protect the national interests first of all, be Ukrainian nation- eight years as president, he has guided his economic development. In the early years alists in the good sense of this word. And they are. They are not pro-Russians. nation through a remarkable transforma- of his presidency, Mr. Putin pushed through They are not pro-Europeans. They are not pro-Americans. They are all pro- tion,” the article contends. liberal and much-hailed tax and customs Ukrainians, but somehow Americans divided them all into pro- this or that. We “He has restored stability and a sense of codes and rationalized many Soviet-era eco- believe that is a mistake. Let them settle their issues themselves. pride among citizens who, after years of nomic policies. But in recent years there has “Everything that’s been done there is unconstitutional, which has created dis- Soviet stagnation, rode the heartbreaking been little to boast of. trust among various political groups and citizens, thus undermining Ukraine’s roller coaster of raised and dashed expecta- The so-called national projects to sovereignty, territorial integrity and economy. That’s what the United States has tions when [Soviet leader Mikhail] improve agriculture, housing, education and done and is doing in Ukraine and in Georgia. What we say is, leave them alone, Gorbachev and then [Russian President health care (projects that have been over- without choosing sides. When everyone saw that destabilization was under way Boris] Yeltsin were in charge. A basket case seen by Mr. Putin’s anointed successor, First in Ukraine, they tried to force Russia to subsidize the Ukrainian economy at our in the 1990s, Russia’s economy has grown Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev) expense. an average of 7 percent a year for the past have yielded few results and have been “… the situation prevailing there is very dangerous in my view. Everything five years. The country has paid off a for- attacked as bottomless money pits. must be done to consolidate society, consolidate the country. Strategically, it eign debt that once neared $200 billion. Although energy exports account for more would be right that the pro-Russian, pro-Western groups would unite and think Russia’s rich have gotten richer, often than half of Russia’s state revenues, produc- about the future of their own country and create such a power structure that would only further consolidate the nation rather than divide it among the Westerners, Southerners or Easterners, or whatever. What is happening now is a movement toward further destruction, which is a pity because Ukraine is very Putin discusses his future close to us and because almost half of the population have either friends or rela- RFE/RL Newsline and during the restructuring of an entire tives in Russia. There are 17 million ethnic Russians there, officially. Almost 100 political system, dealing with such issues percent of the people consider Russian as their mother tongue. …” NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia – Asked is more difficult, because unfortunately by Time reporters on December 12, – Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview conducted on December there is no reaction from civil society to 2007, about his possible future as prime 12, 2007, by Time magazine, which named him Person of the Year for 2007. this. ... We have not worked out a system minister, President Vladimir Putin that encourages social control of the stressed that he has no plans to hold on to activities of public institutions.” his presidential powers, kremlin.ru “Question: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin today [December 19, 2007] In related news, when asked in reported on December 19, 2007. in his interview with Time magazine accused the United States in destroying Moscow on December 20, 2007, about He said that if appointed prime minis- what – destroying Ukraine by dividing its people into pro-Russian and pro- the newsweekly’s decision to name Mr. ter, “I intend to carry out only the duties Western sides and by supporting the so-called Orange Revolution forces. Do of prime minister as defined by the Putin Person of the Year, Dmitry you have any comments on that? Constitution and the law, and to solve Medvedev, presidential candidate, current economic and social problems – Gazprom chairman and first deputy Tom Casey, deputy spokesman, U.S. State Department: “Well, the United roads, housing, education – the things prime minister, said “this is fully States position consistently has been to support the Ukrainian people and their that concern the average citizen most of deserved.” desire to have a stronger and more transparent and open democracy. The all. But the key political, administrative, He added that Mr. Putin “has done a Ukrainian people, of course, make the choices as to who[m] they elect for presi- personnel, defense and international pre- lot for our country, and with his coming dent or for Parliament. rogatives do and must remain, of course, to power, Russia’s authority in the inter- “We noted yesterday and we’re pleased to see that now, sometime after the with the presidency.” national arena grew substantially election, Ukraine does now have a new government, and we look forward to He added that he is in no hurry to be stronger. People became proud of the fact working with it. We certainly would hope and expect that Ukraine would have called a “national leader,” saying that he that, in their pockets, they were carrying good relations not only with the United States and with countries in Western feels more like a beast of burden. Russian passports, and if this is the Europe, but with Russia as well. Mr. Putin said of opposition leader assessment that an authoritative foreign “I think it’s everyone’s expectation that Russia, as a neighbor and as a close Garry Kasparov that “a person who publication gives [to Putin], then I agree trading partner, will have relations that are positive and productive with Ukraine, works for an international audience can with it.” and we certainly want to see that happen.” never be a leader in his own country.” Newsru.com noted in its headline for Mr. Putin stated bluntly that “our the story on President Putin and Time – excerpt from the daily press briefing at the U.S. Department of State, attempts to control corruption have been that the magazine once gave the same December 19, 2007. unsuccessful. ... In a transitional economy distinction to Adolf Hitler. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 No. 1 Ukaine’s oldest resident, OBITUARY: Archbishop Vsevolod of the UOC-U.S.A., 80 Hryhorii Nestor, dies SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. – Archbishop Vsevolod, eparch of the Western Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. and titular hierarch of in 117th year of his life Skopelos of the Holy Ecumenical Patriarchate of by Larysa Marchuk Constantinople, died on December 16 at the age of 80, fol- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly lowing a serious illness. He had been released only recently from rehabilitation STARYI YARYCHIV, LVIV OBLAST – to participate in the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Officially the oldest resident of Ukraine and unoffi- his episcopal consecration and his 80th birthday. That cel- cially the oldest man in the world, Hryhorii Nestor ebration took place at the Cathedral of St. Volodymyr in died the night of December 14, 2007, during the Chicago, in the presence of his brother Ukrainian Orthodox 117th year of his life. hierarchs, his family from the United States and Ukraine, He was buried in the village cemetery of Staryi and his spiritual children, the clergy and faithful of the Yarychiv in the Kamianko-Buzskyi District of the Western Eparchy, which he served as eparch since 1997. Lviv Oblast. Vsevolod Kolomijcew-Majdanski, son of Protopresbyter “Our grandfather Hryhorii was a light and good Wasylij and Panimatka Maria Kolomijcew-Majdanski, was person,” said Oksana Savchuk, his grandniece and born in Kalisz, Poland, on December 10, 1927. Along with caretaker. “He never said anything bad about anyone his parents and his sister, Ilaria, Vsevolod Majdanski lived and never got angry,” she said. “He attended church in Kalisz until 1945, when the family fled the approaching his whole life. He memorized psalms every day and Soviet army, which was very harsh toward Ukrainian cler- prayed. He ate everything that was served. He had a gymen and their families. hard life, but lived it lightly. He didn’t harbor hate Fortunately, the exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in towards anyone.” Western Europe at the time was Metropolitan Seraphim, who On his birthday last year, Mr. Nestor was awarded provided letters of safe transit for the Orthodox clergy in a certificate for being the oldest resident of Ukraine Poland fleeing the Soviets. The Majdanski family was able to by the Guinness Book of Records, and he was visited escape under such protection and departed Poland, originally by journalists from Japan, Canada, Germany and the headed to Luxemburg on a journey that lasted from January Russian Federation. through May 1945 and eventually settling in Germany. Archbishop Vsevolod (1927-2007). He drank champagne, ate mandarins, sang Young Vsevolod Majdanski received his elementary and Ukrainians songs and joyfully posed for pictures. secondary education in Poland; he began his studies in the- In 1997 Bishop Vsevolod was appointed as the ruling “Our Ukrainian was a competitor to become the ology at the Warsaw Orthodox Theological Seminary, hierarch of the Western Eparchy of the UOC-U.S.A. with planet’s oldest resident,” said Ihor Pidchebii, a repre- completing them at the Dillingen Theological University in his episcopal see in Chicago. He was elevated to the rank sentative of the Guinness Book of Records of Germany. In 1949 Ukrainian Orthodox parishes in of archbishop, first by the Sobor of the Ukrainian Ukraine who led the effort to gather the necessary Australia were being organized and the faithful wrote to Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. and formally elected to the documents. several priests located in Germany, Protopresbyter Wasylij dytychs Holy Orthodoxy in 2000 by the Holy and Sacred One item was still missing: a copy of the parish being one of them. He agreed, and the entire Majdanski Synod of Constantinople. registry from the church village of Monastyrets family emigrated to Australia to serve the spiritual needs of Since his episcopal consecration, Archbishop Vsevolod where Mr. Nestor was born in 1891, Mr. Pidchebii the faithful in Sydney and other cities. Vsevolod was active in the ecumenical dialogue between the said. Majdanski continued his higher education at Sydney and Orthodox and Catholic Churches and in other ecumenical “Except we couldn’t find this document because Melbourne universities in Australia. dialogues. In 1999 “We are All Brothers,” a collection of Monastyrets is in the Jaroslaw district, which is cur- The family’s ultimate dream was to move to the United his writings and speeches, was published; a second volume rently in Poland, and the church where Mr. Nestor States, where a large Ukrainian community had developed was published in 2006. He helped initiate and organize the was baptized was already destroyed before the war,” following the end of World War II. In 1952 Panimatka Orientale Lumen conferences in Washington, which have he said. “The (local) archives didn’t save the parish Maria Majdanski died, never realizing this dream. In 1955, met annually since 1997. He was a plenary speaker and led registry in those times. Yet I believe he was the plan- however, both Ilaria and Vsevolod Majdanski received many of the prayer services at these ecumenical meetings. et’s oldest resident.” opportunities to emigrate to the United States. Ilaria He was a founder and was the Orthodox co-patron of the The world’s oldest person is still considered to be Majdanski received her visa and left for the United States, Society of St. John Chrysostom and co-founder of the 115-year-old Emiliano Mercado del Torro of Puerto but Vsevolod Majdanski remained in Australia to complete Kyivan Church Study Group. Rico. his undergraduate education. Having done so, he and his Archbishop Vsevolod also served as a representative of Mr. Nestor was born in a family of many children. father also moved to the U.S. and took up residence in the the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the ongoing dialogue with As a boy, he worked hard and led cattle to pasture. center of the Ukrainian community in New York City. the Roman Catholic Church and has participated in numer- He remained a cow herder all his life. Vsevolod Majdanski began his graduate studies at ous ecumenical conferences. He was chosen to represent He was an inch short of 5 feet tall, which is why Yeshiva University in the city. He graduated in 1964 and the Ecumenical Patriarch at the Jerusalem Conference of he wasn’t drafted into the Polish or Austrian armies. was appointed to the medical faculty of Einstein College as Science and Religion and at the Milan Conference of Inter- In the Monastyrets Narodnyi Dim (National a psychotherapist specializing in family and youth therapy. Church Relations, and was a member of the official patri- Home), Mr. Nestor loved to perform in shows, He received his field practice working with families at the archal delegation to Rome for the Feast Day of Ss. Peter remembering many of the songs into his old age. Jewish Family Service and also in group therapy, working and Paul in the Jubilee Year of 2000. He was received in He sang in Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, German with institutionalized youth at the Jewish Board of several private audiences by the late Pope John Paul II and and even English. When she was in her 20s, Mr. Guardians. He was then appointed as principal associate in Pope Benedict XVI. He represented the Ukrainian Nestor’s sister traveled to Chicago to work and medicine at the Medical School of Yeshiva University. Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. in continued discussions taught her brother American songs upon returning Protopresbyter Wasylij died in 1961, which brought his with the various factions of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in home. The sister and brother performed at “ver- son more intimately into the life of the Ukrainian Orthodox Ukraine throughout the last 10 years of his life. chornytsi” (old-fashioned parties for young people) Church. In 1985 the call of the Lord became stronger in his The archbishop was fluent in several European lan- together at the Narodnyi Dim. life; he was called to service in the Ukrainian Orthodox guages. He was a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Mr. Nestor died a bachelor, convinced that he Church in America – Ecumenical Patriarchate of Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Social Workers would not have lived so long had he married even Constantinople by Metropolitan Andrew (Kuschak), who (diplomate in clinical psychotherapy). In March 2003 once. Through his last days, Mr. Nestor joked, “The headed the Church. He ordained Vsevolod Majdanski to President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine awarded Archbishop mother hasn’t been born yet who would raise a the holy priesthood in 1985. He served at the metropoli- Vsevolod the Order of Merit third degree for his efforts to daughter to be my wife.” tan’s side for two years and was elevated to the rank of achieve Orthodox Christian unity in Ukraine, contributions After he endured the Famine and lost his home archimandrite in 1987. to inter-confessional relations and charitable activity. and cattle, he was resettled from his native Metropolitan Andrew fell asleep in the Lord that year President Viktor Yuschenko recently presented the arch- Monastyrets to Staryi Yarychiv. and the archimandrite was chosen to become his successor. bishop with the Order of Merit second degree in honor of He was consecrated bishop – with the blessing of “Hryhorii always told us that God gave people his 80th birthday. Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Dimitrios I – on everything, even difficulties and calamity, but it’s Archbishop Vsevolod sponsored several theology students September 27, 1987, at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox necessary to know how to survive them,” Ms. from Ukraine in pursuing graduate education in theology in Cathedral, New York, by Archbishop Iakovos, Metropolitan Savchuk said. “I think that was his recipe for a long Greece and other countries. He was a member of the Council Silas, Bishop Athenagoras and Bishop Phillip. life.” of Bishops and Metropolitan Council of the UOC-U.S.A. and From 1987 through 1996, Bishop Vsevolod served as Before going to sleep the night of December 14, particularly enjoyed spending time with the youth of the prime hierarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in 2007, Mr. Nestor prayed and sang psalms as usual. Church – especially during the St. Thomas Sunday America. He developed a closer relationship with the hier- He didn’t wake up, gently leaving this world with his Pilgrimage at South Bound Brook each year and at the Junior archs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. and love for God. Ukrainian Orthodox League’s annual U.S. conventions. was supportive of the invitation by the Ecumenical He fell seriously ill only a few months ago. He was well Patriarchate of Constantinople for the UOC-U.S.A. to enough to leave the hospital to participate in the Chicago Need a back issue? come under the omophorion of the Patriarchate. Following celebration of his 80th birthday and the 20th anniversary of the acceptance of this invitation, Bishop Vsevolod and the his episcopal consecration on December 9, 2007. The strain If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian hierarchs of the UOC-U.S.A., having been strongly urged Weekly, send $2 per copy of the difficult treatments for his illness, however, proved to to do so by the Sobors of both jurisdictions, became res- be too much for his heart and he fell asleep peacefully in (first-class postage included) to: olute in their desire and efforts to reach the long-dreamed- the Lord on the evening of December 16, 2007. Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, of goal of finally uniting the two jurisdictions. This unifi- He is survived by his sister, Ilaria, of San Diego; her 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. cation took place at the Metropolia Center of the UOC- U.S.A. in South Bound Brook, N.J., in November 1996. (Continued on page 17) No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 5

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COMMENTARY THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Vladimir Putin: president and tsar To remember the Holodomor “His final year as Russia’s president has been his most successful yet. At home, he by Viktor Yushchenko Ukrainian peasantry. It was part of a secured his political future. Abroad, he expanded his vast – if not always benign – campaign to crush Ukraine’s national influence on global affairs,” writes the newsmagazine Time. The following article was published in identity and its desire for self-determina- By now everybody knows that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been named Vidomosti on November 30, 2007. The tion. Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2007. After all, his steely visage looks out English-language text was forwarded to As Stalin put it a few years earlier: from Time’s cover on countless newsstands around the globe. The Ukrainian Weekly on December 26 “There is no powerful national move- The magazine notes that its distinction “is not and never has been an honor. It is not by Ukraine’s Consulate General in ment without the peasant army ... in an endorsement. It is not a popularity contest. At its best, it is a clear-eyed recognition Toronto. essence, the national question is a peas- of the world as it is and of the most powerful individuals shaping that world – for bet- ant question.” In seeking to reverse the ter or for worse.” Indeed, Hitler and Stalin were each named persons of the year Seventy-five years ago the Ukrainian policy of “Ukrainianization” that promot- (Stalin twice). Thus, Time explains, Mr. Putin was chosen for the distinction, because, people fell victim to a crime of unimag- ed limited cultural and political autono- “At significant cost to the principles and ideas that free nations prize, he has per- inable horror. Usually referred to in the my during the 1920s, Stalin decided to formed an extraordinary feat of leadership in imposing stability on a nation that has West as the Great Famine or the Terror target the peasantry, representing as it did rarely known it and brought Russia back to the table of world power.” Tellingly, the Famine, it is known to Ukrainians as the 80 percent of the population. His solution magazine titles one of its cover stories on Mr. Putin “A Tsar is Born.” Holodomor. It was a state-organized pro- to the national question in Ukraine was The president/tsar is powerful now and, it is worth pointing out, Mr. Putin will gram of mass starvation that in 1932- remain powerful even after he leaves the presidency as he assumes the role of Russia’s 1933 killed an estimated 7 million to 10 prime minister. Therefore, he is poised to be on the world stage for years to come. million Ukrainians, including up to a Beloved though he may be by the Russian people, Mr. Putin is seen quite different- third of the nation’s children. “Our only wish is for ly by the people and leaders of other former Soviet republics, perhaps chief among With grotesque understatement, the them Ukraine. And for good reason. The Russian president has interfered in Ukraine’s Soviet authorities dismissed this event as this crime [the elections, has tried to pressure Ukraine through gas pricing and has spoken derisively, a “bad harvest.” Their intention was to exonerate themselves of responsibility to say the least, of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. Though he says he does not want Holodomor] to be and suppress knowledge of both the Ukraine to become part of Russia, he does speak of “economic integration.” And, as human causes and human consequences Time itself comments, he wants “free rein ... to exert influence over Russia’s former understood for what it of this tragedy. That is reason enough for Soviet neighbors.” us to pause and remember. truly was. … an act of He is quoted as expressing concern for what is happening in Ukraine. In his inter- During the long decades of Soviet rule view with Time, Mr. Putin accuses the U.S. of destroying Ukraine, by deciding “that it was dangerous for Ukrainians to dis- genocide. ... A world part of the political elite in Ukraine is pro-American and part is pro-Russian, and they cuss their greatest national trauma. To decided to support the ones they consider pro-American, the so-called Orange coali- talk of the Holodomor was a crime that indulges histori- tion.” He goes on to charge that the U.S. is responsible for “undermining Ukraine’s against the state, while the memoirs of cal amnesia or falsifi- sovereignty, territorial integrity and economy,” adding, “That’s what the United States eyewitnesses and the accounts of histori- has done and is doing in Ukraine and in Georgia.” ans like Robert Conquest and the late cation is condemned to In addition, Mr. Putin voices concern for his brother Ukrainians and Russians in James Mace were banned as anti-Soviet Ukraine, noting, “Ukraine is very close to us” and “half of the population has either propaganda. Yet each Ukrainian family repeat its worst mis- friends or relatives in Russia.” He speaks of the 17 million Russians “officially” who knew from bitter personal memory the live in Ukraine, and then lapses into huge hyperbole when he adds “Almost 100 per- enormity of what had happened. They takes.” cent of the people consider Russian as their mother tongue.” also knew that it had been inflicted on Such words of “concern” from Vladimir Vladimirovich about Ukraine’s develop- them deliberately to punish Ukraine and ment are quite worrisome, coming from the mouth of a leader who sees Stalin as a destroy the basis of its nationhood. Russian hero, who considers the break-up of the Soviet Union a tragedy… It is to honor the victims and serve the mass murder through starvation. cause of historical truth that independent Stalin’s cruel methods included the Ukraine is today working to promote allocation of astronomic grain requisition greater understanding and recognition of quotas that were impossible to meet and Jan the Holodomor, both at home and which left nothing for the local popula- Turning the pages back... abroad. tion to eat. When the quotas were We are not doing so out of a desire for missed, armed units were sent in. revenge or to make a partisan political Toward the end of 1932 entire villages 12 Last year the coalition government of the Party of the point. We know that the Russian people and regions were turned into a system of Regions, the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Socialist were among Stalin’s foremost victims. isolated starvation ghettos called “black 2007 Party of Ukraine, led by Viktor Yanukovych, voted on January Apportioning blame to their living boards.” Throughout this period, the 12, 2007, to increase the authority of the prime minister and that descendents is the last thing on our Soviet Union continued to export grain of the Cabinet of Ministers at the expense of the Ukrainian pres- minds. Our only wish is for this crime to to the West and even used grain to pro- idency, The Ukrainian Weekly reported. be understood for what it truly was. That duce alcohol. By early 1933 the Soviet The coalition government passed the bill “On the Cabinet of Ministers” without is why the Ukrainian Parliament last year leadership decided to radically reinforce accepting any of the 42 amendments proposed by the president. The vote overrode a passed a law recognizing the Holodomor the blockade of Ukrainian villages. presidential veto with support from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, with a total of 366 votes. as an act of genocide and why I am ask- Eventually, the whole territory of In exchange for her bloc’s votes, Ms. Tymoshenko ensured the coalition’s support for ing our friends and allies to endorse that Ukraine was surrounded by armed a law that established the first official opposition, gaining chairmanship of 12 parliamen- position. A world that indulges historical forces, turning the entire country into a tary committee chairs and the first vice-chairmanships of all other committees. A notable amnesia or falsification is condemned to vast death camp. accomplishment for Ms. Tymoshenko was the imperative mandate law, which allows the repeat its worst mistakes. The specifically national motive local leadership of political parties or blocs to dismiss from city councils those deputies Genocide is a highly charged term, behind Stalin’s treatment of Ukraine was who abandoned the party or bloc they represented during elections. and there are those who still dispute its also evident in the terror campaign that Political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko, chairman of the Penta Center for Applied applicability in the case of Ukraine. It is, targeted the institutions and individuals Political Research, said that as a result of voting with the coalition, Ms. Tymoshenko therefore, worth looking at how the 1948 that sustained the cultural and public life exacerbated the conflict between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister United Nations Genocide Convention of the Ukrainian nation. Waves of purges Yanukovych, in hope that the president would be forced to dismiss the government and legally defines the issue. It describes engulfed academic institutions, literary hold pre-term elections or attempt to cancel the January 1, 2007, constitutional reforms. genocide as “acts committed with intent journals, publishing houses and theaters. Some of the powers once reserved for the president included control of government- to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, Victims included the Ukrainian Academy owned monopolies and enterprises, and the selection of the defense and foreign affairs ethnical, racial or religious group” of Science, the editorial board of the ministers. including “deliberately inflicting on the Soviet Ukrainian Encyclopedia, the Most significant was the restriction on presidential authority, which requires that the group conditions of life, calculated to Ukrainian Orthodox Church and, ulti- prime minister, as well as the minister responsible for its execution, sign each presidential bring about its physical destruction in mately, the Communist Party of Ukraine. decree. If neither approves the bill, they can return the decree to the president with an whole or in part.” The Holodomor falls This was a systematic campaign against explanation. The president also lost the ability to reject nominees for defense and foreign squarely within the terms of this defini- the Ukrainian nation, its history, culture, affairs ministers, and if the president does not approve them in 15 days, Parliament tion. Significantly, that was also the opin- language and way of life. appoints them regardless. ion of Raphael Lemkin, the legal scholar The Holodomor was an act of geno- Just two days prior to the vote, President Yushchenko invited Prime Minister who conceived the Genocide cide designed to suppress the Ukrainian Yanukovych and Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksander Moroz to the Presidential Convention. nation. The fact that it failed and Ukraine Secretariat to begin the new year in cooperation, leaving past conflicts behind. There is now a wealth of historical today exists as a proud and independent According to Mr. Yushchenko, during the meeting Mr. Yanukovych agreed to work with material detailing the specific features of nation does not make this crime less the Ukrainian president in drafting the Cabinet of Ministers law. Mr. Yushchenko vowed Stalin’s forced collectivization and Terror grave and devastating. Nor does it acquit he would not sign the law and forwarded it to the Constitutional Court for review, confi- Famine policies against Ukraine. Other us of the moral responsibility to dent that the law would be nullified for violating the Constitution of Ukraine. parts of the Soviet Union suffered terri- acknowledge what was done. On the bly as well. But in the minds of the 75th anniversary, we owe it to the vic- Source: “Cabinet’s authority enhanced at the president’s expense,” by Zenon Zawada, Soviet leadership there was a dual pur- tims of the Holodomor and other geno- The Ukrainian Weekly, January 21, 2007. pose in persecuting and starving the cides to be truthful in facing our past. No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 7

IN THE PRESS Faces and Places Yulia Tymoshenko’s comeback by Myron B. Kuropas “Return of the Orange princess; Ukraine bloc, Ms. Tymoshenko had Yulia Tymoshenko wins a second enough seats to push out the Party of the chance,” The Economist, December 19: Regions. But it took two months for her to form a coalition. Nerves were further Third Rome up and running “...Ukraine has been cited by the frayed on December 11, when the elec- Kremlin as an example of democratic tronic voting system failed to register In a Ukrainian Weekly column titled Outside of Russia (ROCOR) recognized turbulence to be avoided. Russian televi- two votes for Ms. Tymoshenko. But on “Third Rome Resurgent,” appearing on Russia’s jurisdiction over itself by signing sion has gloated over Ukraine’s chaotic December 18 the Parliament at last April 24, 2005, I wrote: “As Secretary of an Act of Canonical Community with the politics, pointing up the advantages of backed Ms. Tymoshenko, by a one-vote State Condoleezza Rice prepares to travel to Moscow Patriarchate. Some ROCOR Russia’s stable system, in which deci- margin. Russia to raise U.S. concerns over Russia’s parishes have retained their independence, sions are taken by the Kremlin and rub- “The good news is that Ukraine has failing ‘democracy,’ President Vladimir writes Mr. Preobrazhensky, but “many ber-stamped by the Duma. Ukraine’s pol- proved itself to be a genuine democracy, Putin must be laughing up his sleeve.” thousands of Russian Americans and their itics have been messy ever since the with a fierce competition for power and Now that Mr. Putin enjoys world renown children are now nourished in the spirit of Orange Revolution of late 2004, when now a functioning opposition. … as Time’s Person of the Year, he has more to loyalty to authoritarian Russia ... KGB- Viktor Yushchenko became president. “…to be credible, Ms. Tymoshenko laugh about, especially since his party’s backed priests with Russian passports are “Yet for all the disillusion in the must tame her populist instincts. In a recent overwhelming electoral victory. replacing local clergy. Their churches have Orange camp, Ukrainians gave it one presidential election she will be judged “Mr. Putin, a former KGB officer, knows become insidious fronts for Russian state more chance in the parliamentary elec- on her record as prime minister. If the his people,” I wrote in 2005. “He knows the interests ...” concludes Mr. Preobrazhensky. tion on September 30. Ms. Tymoshenko’s Orange coalition fails to modernize and three historic instruments of the Russian If this is true in the United States, it is even party did well, taking votes from the reform Ukraine, it would betray those identity, the ruling troika of autocracy, more true in Ukraine where the Russian Party of the Regions led by Viktor who three years ago helped stage the orthodoxy and “narodnichestvo.’ ” These Orthodox Church dominates. Yanukovych, the outgoing prime minis- Orange Revolution in the snow of Kiev dominant ideals have become stronger President Putin’s greatest triumph has ter. With the pro-Yushchenko Our [sic]. … since 2005 and our history-challenged, been in the restoration of Russian chauvin- clueless State Department and pundit-class ism. As in czarist and Soviet times, Russian are scratching their heads wondering what history is being rewritten in glorious phras- LETTER TO THE EDITOR happened. Answer? Third Rome is resur- es and words. The Kremlin recently organ- gent, still. ized a conference for history teachers at idea never caught on, because every Since the founding of Muscovy in 1147, which Mr. Putin promoted “A Modern Accounting for Ukraine’s nation thinks of its security. Peace is Russia has nurtured expansionist ambitions. History of Russia, 1945-2006,” a new stu- achieved through nuclear deterrence. These aspirations were given messianic dent textbook. He told participants that relinquished nuclear arms Several observations: Why did the license in 1510 when Russian monk while Russian history has a few problemat- Rada change its mind along with Filofeii, recalling the collapse of Rome and ic pages, Russia’s history is no worse than Dear Editor: President Kravchuk? The Ukrainian Constantinople as Christian capitals, wrote that of other nations. The text teaches that president was willing to give up the tsar’s son: “Two Romes have fallen. while the Soviet Union was not a democra- Now that a breath of fresh air has Ukraine’s nuclear arsenal if the U.S. The third stands. And there will not be a cy, “it was an example for millions of peo- returned to Ukraine, I ask that Prime would guarantee its defense. President fourth.” It is this imperialistic concept of ple around the world of the best and fairest Minister Yulia Tymoshenko do an Clinton emphatically said no. However, Moscow as the third and final Rome, sus- society.” Ukraine’s Orange Revolution is accounting of Ukraine relinquishing its the destruction of the nuclear arsenal tained by Russian autocracy, orthodoxy and explained as an American-inspired plot in nuclear weapons in the 1990s during the proceeded. Why? narodnichestvo (Russian chauvinism) that which supporters of pro-Russian Viktor Kravchuk presidency. Ukraine was to receive enriched urani- has been Russia’s raison d’etre for cen- Yanukovych “were stripped of their victo- Back then I was flipping the channels um so that it could operate its nuclear turies. ry.” The goal is for Russia’s new generation on my TV and I stumbled upon Secretary facilities. Is that being done in accor- In a December 17, 2007, U.S. News and to become Russian patriots and feel pride in of State James Baker, the former secre- dance with the agreements signed? The World Report editorial titled “Has Russia the accomplishments of the Russian people. tary of the treasury under the Reagan new prime minister mentioned a while Left the West?” Mortimer B. Zuckerman “We can’t allow anyone to impose a sense administration. He was addressing a ago that Ukraine needs to build a lot blames President Geoge W. Bush for the of guilt on us,” President Putin reminded large audience and said that the greatest more nuclear reactors in order to meet its “loss.” Hello! Russia never left the West, his audience to thundering applause. threat in the world was newly liberated energy requirements and rely less on Mr. Zuckerman, because it was never “in Compare the Russian approach to Ukraine. Why? Because, it had an enor- Russian energy. the West.” And why was Russia “lost”? national history with that of the United mous arsenal of nuclear weapons and Now the Bush administration is intent Insensitivity! In the future, writes Mr. States where leftist elementary and second- that posed a threat to the world. on building a missile defense system in Zuckerman, “we are going to have to be ary school texts such Howard Zinn’s “A Naturally, I was stunned at these hos- the former Czechoslovakia. The former much more alert to Russians’ fears that the People’s History of the United States” dom- tile comments. Yes, the USSR posed a missile sites in Ukraine could have been West desires to subjugate them, much more inate. They reject American patriotism as threat to the world because it had nuclear used for this. Where was the U.S. fore- sensitive to Russian interests. “triumphalism” and America’s “crimes” – weapons aimed at America. But, Ukraine sight? Accommodation, not confrontation, is the slavery, resettlement of Indians, Japanese being a threat to the world? My final concern is: Where does the name of the game.” Oh yeah! That internment camps, the Ku Klux Klan, Well, Ukraine gave up its nuclear money trail lead? The agreement was to approach worked marvelously during the “McCarthyism” – receive more coverage defense because it was coerced by the have reprocessed fuel provided by the Cold War. than the accomplishments of Robert E. Lee, Americans and, of course, by the U.S. and Russia, along with monetary Under President Putin, Muscovite autoc- Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Russians. Moscow was the most insistent considerations. What I want to know is racy reigns supreme. Russians accept it, Douglas MacArthur and Ronald Reagan. that Ukraine give up its nuclear weapons. what happened to all the monies that even celebrate it. Writes Mary Dejevsky, a Moral equivalence is the mantra of the Cold At first the Verkhovna Rada stubborn- were part of this deal? British expert on Russia: “Putin has earned War. Prof. Zinn portrays America’s found- ly refused to give up the nuclear arsenal, his popularity by bringing Russians what Prime Minister Tymoshenko indeed ing fathers, for example, as grubbing capi- but in the end it succumbed to the pres- they most craved, a more predictable and has a daunting task and many issues on talists who led a revolution to protect their sure from Moscow and Washington. Bill comfortable life...” Given a choice between her plate for resolution. But I hope that ill-gained fortunes. Clinton came to Kyiv, but he would meet freedom and stability, Russians prefer a tsar she performs a total accounting as it Far worse are certain American univer- with Leonid Kravchuk only at the air- who brings steadiness and firmness into relates to Ukraine’s nuclear weaponry. sity courses that reinforce the ignorance of port. President Kravchuk agreed to the their lives. As we’ve noticed in Ukraine, And, by the way, the Gongadze case incoming high school students with courses total nuclear disarmament of Ukraine. freedom can be unpredictable. should finally be resolved and the people such as “Imperialism in American History” There was a movement for Ukraine to Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy was the rule involved in this crime should be brought (U.S. bad, world good), “Movements in dispose of its nuclear weapons, but that during Soviet times. Now it’s religious to justice. Social Justice” (socialism good, capitalism was not based on a security rationale but Orthodoxy once again with the Moscow bad), “Speaking Out” (abortion, marriage on a movement for eventual worldwide Bohdan Pylypiw Patriarch returning to the glory days of for whomever to whomever good) etc. With elimination of all nuclear weapons. That Randolph, N.J. tsarism. Both in tsarist and Soviet times, the Moscow Patriarchate (MP) was a tool, a the emergence of speech codes on most col- Russification vehicle as it were, of an impe- lege and university campuses, education We welcome your opinion rialist Moscow. In an article titled “Putin’s has been replaced by indoctrination. Today we have a privileged class in the The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters to the editor and commentaries on a variety Espionage Church,” former KGB Lt. Col. Konstantin Preobrazhensky writes that United States, primarily academics, media of topics of concern to the Ukrainian American and Ukrainian Canadian communities. pundits, certain corporate CEOs, authors Opinions expressed by columnists, commentators and letter-writers are their own and Patriarch Aleksei II told him “that he does not consider his collaboration with the and Congressional leaders whose view of do not necessarily reflect the opinions of either The Weekly editorial staff or its pub- the future includes a diminished United lisher, the Ukrainian National Association. KGB something shameful, and has no intentions of repenting it... The complete States of America. Please keep all of this in Letters should be typed and signed (anonymous letters are not published). Letters are mind as you focus on the 2008 national accepted also via e-mail at [email protected]. The daytime phone number and address absence of repentance lays down a bridge for future cooperation of the MP and the elections. Happy New Year to you and of the letter-writer must be given for verification purposes. Please note that a daytime yours! phone number is essential in order for editors to contact letter-writers regarding clarifica- KGB today,” explains Mr. Preobrazhensky. tions or questions. The imperialist role of the MP has now Please note: THE LENGTH OF LETTERS CANNOT EXCEED 500 WORDS. extended to the United States. On May 17, Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is 2007, the Russian Orthodox Church [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 No. 1 Ukrainians celebrate... (Continued from page 1) Vyacheslav Chornovil – born December 24, 1937, in the village of Erky, Cherkasy Oblast; died March 25, 1999. On Christmas Eve, the 900-plus seats in the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in Kyiv were filled to commemorate what would have been Chornovil’s 70th birthday. Guests included the primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate, Patriarch Filaret, People’s Rukh of Ukraine Chair Borys Tarasyuk and fellow Soviet-era dissidents Bohdan and Mykhailo Horyn, among many oth- ers. President Viktor Yushchenko issued a decree to commemorate the occasion, and the nation’s leaders ceremoniously placed flower wreaths that morning at a Roma Hadzewycz monument to Chornovil on Hrushevsky Hero of Ukraine Vyacheslav Chornovil, Zenon Zawada Street in central Kyiv. the 70th anniversary of whose birth Ukrainian political legend Stepan Khmara celebrated his 70th birthday at an Remembering Chornovil before the was observed on December 24, 2007. October 12, 2007, gathering at the Ukrainian Home in Kyiv. evening audience, fellow Soviet dissident and Armenian national activist Paruir since Chornovil’s death are a leaked Khmara said he understood perfectly the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and its Airikian said his colleague is a hero to video interview and anonymous letters of well that one could break his own head principal legal adviser. But his anti- Armenians and Georgians as well. police officials in which they admit their instead – which was the unfortunate fate Soviet activities began the late 1950s, “He’s not only yours,” Mr. Airikian involvement. of many others. when serving as a Communist propagan- said, his words drawing applause. “I am aware that the procurator gener- “But it wasn’t possible not to do it,” da officer, Mr. Lukianenko became out- “Forgive me please, but you don’t fully al and the minister of internal affairs he said. “To take up that cross, that mes- raged at the Soviet collectivist policies appreciate the man. He is an activist of achieved significant progress in investi- sage, that idea held by our ancestors for he witnessed in the Lviv Oblast. international significance.” gating this matter,” Mr. Tarasyuk told a thousands of years: to take ownership of He was first arrested in January 1961 If not for Chornovil, Soviet Premier December 24, 2007, press conference. “I this land, to fight for it and to defend it. for co-authoring the draft constitution of Mikhail Gorbachev would have succeed- am aware the tracks of those committing Because God gave us this beautiful land, the Ukrainian Workers’ and Peasants’ ed in his vision of a renewed, democra- this crime were investigated, but unfortu- among the best parcels on earth.” Union. The government charged him tized Communist Ukraine, he said. nately the tracks are ‘being lost,’ as typi- Among the guests at the birthday cele- with “anti-Soviet agitation and propa- Chornovil was born in a Cherkasy cally happens here in Ukraine. But the bration was Mr. Khmara’s daughter ganda,” “anti-Soviet organization” and Oblast village and pursued journalism crime’s agents are known.” Solomea, who lives with her family in treason, the latter of which carried a studies at Shevchenko State University In 2000 Chornovil was named a Hero Canada. death sentence that was commuted to 15 in Kyiv. of Ukraine by President Yushchenko in “My father instilled in me a love for years. In 1977 he was arrested and sen- When he arrived in Lviv in 1960 to recognition of his contributions to the Ukraine from the cradle, probably from tenced by Soviet authorities to 10 years’ gather material for a dissertation, national rebirth of Ukraine and his when the latest issue of the Ukrayinskyi labor camp and five years’ exile for the Bohdan Horyn said Chornovil stood on staunch advocacy of the country’s inde- Visnyk (the underground publication articles he wrote and circulated in the the crossroads of whether to continue his pendent statehood. Ukrainian Herald) was being transferred samvydav (underground publications). academic work or pursue a career in the under my baby’s mattress,” she told the After Ukraine’s independence, Mr. Communist Party. But by 1963 the Stepan Khmara – born October 12, audience. “That Ukrainian spirit, love, Lukianenko became a leader of the national-cultural underground movement 1937, in the village of Bobiatyn, Lviv upbringing and study of the country’s Ukrainian Republican Party, served as swept him in, Mr. Horyn told a press Oblast. true history was then consciously Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada and conference. More than 1,000 family, friends and strengthened.” was elected as a national deputy to By 1964, he was already being reject- colleagues attended a festive 70th birth- Mr. Khmara was among the most per- Parliament four times. He was awarded a ed from Kyiv institutes for his views and day celebration at the Ukrainian Home secuted dissidents during the Rukh inde- doctoral degree in law from the ties to the Shestydesiatnyky. The next on October 12, 2007, paying tribute to pendence movement, having his parlia- University of Alberta in Edmonton. year, Chornovil received three months’ Mr. Khmara’s legendary life. mentary deputy’s immunity stripped by Mr. Lukianenko isn’t currently serving in the Verkhovna Rada, choosing instead hard labor for refusing to testify against Representing President Yushchenko, authorities. He was the first deputy to to devote his time to further research and the Horyn brothers. Maryna Stavniichuk awarded Mr. support the student hunger strikes, offer- writing. He leads the Holodomor Like Winston Churchill, Chornovil’s Khmara with the fifth degree of the ing a 13-day effort of his own. Researchers Association in Ukraine. main calling in life wasn’t politics but Order of Yaroslav Mudryi, the highest Mr. Khmara even took shelter in the In April 2005, Mr. Lukianenko journalism, which he performed with rank of that honor. Horodetskyi Street office of this newspa- received Ukraine’s highest honor, the genius, said Mr. Horyn. Besides his political allies within the per’s Kyiv Press Bureau as Soviet title of Hero of Ukraine, from President Chornovil was a constant source of Ukrainian People’s Party, including Yurii authorities pursued him in 1991. On one Yushchenko. energy that infected those around him, Kostenko and Ivan Zayets, among those occasion, he fled authorities by leaping the Ukrainian nation as a whole and congratulating Mr. Khmara was a repre- more than 15 feet off the bureau’s bal- Anatolii Lupynis – born July 21, beyond, he said. sentative sent by Viktor Chernomyrdin, cony into a small patch of woods. 1937, in the village of Novooleksan- “In any situation, this power station the Russian Federation’s ambassador to Mr. Khmara has been elected to drivka, Donetsk Oblast; died was constantly active,” Mr. Horyn said. Ukraine. Parliament four times and currently rep- February 5, 2000. “He didn’t know how to rest. I have the “I share the view of those who believe resents the Our Ukraine – People’s Self- Though hardly recognized by the impression that when he slept, he kept that you reached this day as a respected Defense faction. Ukrainian government, Lupynis never thinking and creating, and it would all Ukrainian and as an ardent politician sought to change Ukraine by working surface later.” who has many complicated and impor- Lev Lukianenko – born August 24, through the establishment. That energy and passion for Ukraine tant places to work in the government 1927, in the village of Khrypivka, Lupynis was a revolutionary through- was reviled by Soviet authorities, who and the Verkhovna Rada,” the ambassa- Chernihiv Oblast. out his life. sought to destroy him. Chornovil spent dor wrote. “I wish you robust health, To commemorate his 80 years of life, Even after his death in 2000, the spirit happiness and an active long life.” Mr. Lukianenko visited Horodnia, the 14 years in labor camps and exile for of his radicalism continued to challenge As his tongue-in-cheek response, Mr. district center for his native village in the “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda” the authoritarian establishment as his Khmara offered, “I’m glad that I’m not Chernihiv Oblast. and on false criminal charges. UNA-UNSO nationalist movement was forgotten in the Russian Embassy,” A politician to the bone, Mr. Once Ukraine regained its independ- leading the Ukraine Without Kuchma adding that joining the North Atlantic Lukianenko spent most of his birthday ence in 1991, he ran unsuccessfully for rebellion on the capital’s streets in the Treaty Organization (NATO) is needed campaigning for the Yulia Tymoshenko president in the country’s first presiden- winter of 2001. not only by Ukraine but the Russian Bloc, which he joined in December 2001 tial election; he was elected twice to the Lupynis’ contempt for the Soviet sys- Federation too. when merging his Ukrainian Republic Verkhovna Rada of independent Ukraine. tem was likely gained from his parents, In fact, Mr. Khmara spent the early Party. The Ukrainian government has yet to who were forced from their native vil- conclude its re-investigation of part of the observance meandering on That afternoon he was joined by Ms. lage of Satanivka in the Cherkasy Oblast Chornovil’s death on March 25, 1999, stage for at least a half hour and sharing Tymoshenko when visiting the Kyiv during the Stalinist repressions. They believed by his colleagues and fellow his political views and memories of what Oblast village of Khotiv, where his later fled Siberian labor camps and in dissidents to have been a murder hatched seemed like a David-vs.-Goliath struggle daughter currently lives. search of work, settled in the Donbas by former President Leonid Kuchma. As against Communist tyranny. Once again, the passionate politicians region, where their son was born. Chornovil was retuning to Kyiv on a He recollected what his colleagues used the visit as a campaign stop to urge It wasn’t long after beginning his uni- highway at night, a truck performed a U- told him 30 years ago when he was in the their supporters to vote for their bloc in versity studies in Kyiv that Lupynis turn and collided with his vehicle, killing midst of his struggle. “Stepan, what are the September parliamentary elections. would become a vicious thorn in the side the political activist. you doing? You won’t tear down a wall Mr. Lukianenko, a lawyer, was a Among the evidence to have emerged with your head,” they told him. Mr. founding member in November 1976 of (Continued on page 9) No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 9

Zenon Zawada Veteran journalist Natalia Chanhuli and Ukrainian National Assembly – Zenon Zawada Ukrainian Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO) leader Ihor Mazur-Topolia led a commemo- Hero of Ukraine Lev Lukianenko marked his 80th birthday on August 24, 2007. ration of the seventh anniversary of the death of party founder Anatolii Lupynis at a February 5, 2007, event held at the Writers’ Union Building in Kyiv. rallied the people. They wanted to Ukrainians celebrate... destroy him.” “The man was illegally incarcerated for panakhyda (memorial service) at the (Continued from page 8) After serving the 10-year sentence, 10 years without due process, and as a Stritenska Chapel at Lviv Square in Kyiv, of the Soviet tyranny. Not even 20 years Lupynis regained his ability to walk with healthy person was dragged through after which they visited his grave. In the old, he was arrested for organizing stu- the help of crutches and began studies at mental asylums in an attempt to break evening, they held a commemoration at dent meetings in October 1956 and sen- an agricultural academy. him.” the Writers’ Union Building in Kyiv. But his revolutionary spirit wouldn’t tenced to six years’ imprisonment. He was among the founding members “For the first year, we couldn’t even rest. On May 22, 1971, Lupynis was of the Zelenyi Svit (Green World) envi- talk about him not being there,” said During his first year of incarceration, arrested by the KGB for reading an anti- ronmental group and the People’s Front Natalia Chanhuli, a veteran journalist. he organized a prisoners’ strike, increas- government poem at the Taras of Ukraine, which later became the “We spoke the whole time about a living ing his prison sentence to 10 years. Shevchenko monument in Kyiv. People’s Rukh of Ukraine. person. He was simply a mystical person Tortured by authorities, his legs suffered Spending another 12 years in psychi- Recognizing the need for a radical clearly.” paralysis that would plague him through- atric hospitals and prisons, Mr. Lupynis force to fight the Soviet government, Lupynis was so selflessly devoted to out his life. proved his spiritual and physical Lupynis launched the Ukrainian Inter- Ukraine that he never owned any private “The authorities crippled him because resilience and stubbornly returned to the Party Assembly, which evolved into property, except his grave at Baikove they feared his presence in prison,” said underground resistance upon his release. UNA-UNSO. Cemetery in Kyiv, Ms. Chanhuli said. Myroslava Kapitanova, a colleague of “He was a healthy person and that was UNA-UNSO members commemorated UNA-UNSO is currently leading an Lupynis who currently resides in written in his medical records,” said Ihor the seventh anniversary of Lupynis’ effort to name a street in Kyiv in his Brooklyn, N.Y. “He was a leader who Mazur-Topolia, an UNA-UNSO leader. death on February 5, 2007, with a honor.

UPA soldiers Vasyl Serbeniuk (left), Stepan Hutsuliak (second from left), both of UPA Kolomyia District Commander Petro Serbeniuk leads insurgents at a training Voskresintsi, with two other unidentified soliders. camp.

Zhulynska said, wiping away tears. aunt took him to a meadow so that his could visit the children’s recreation camp UPA photos... For her own UPA service, Ms. father could observe him from afar. He Artek. I genuinely believed them, but (Continued from page 1) Zhulynska was sent to Siberian prisons wasn’t shown his father, who died in was later rejected because I am a was promoted to “stanychna” (local and was later forced to work as a lumber- 1947. Banderite’s son.” leader) when UPA was formed in 1943. jack. “I endured everything,” she said. Myroslav’s uncles Vasyl and Oleksa To recognize the heroes, Mr. Myhaliuk Ms. Zhulynska was responsible for “Do any descendants of the also perished during their UPA service. gave all 34 photographs to Mykhailo collecting and preserving grain. Serbeniuks live in Voskresintsi?” Mr. “Do you recognize anyone in these Andrusiak, the director of the Roman “People brought grits, flour and sugar Myhaliuk asked Ms. Zhulynska, who pictures?” Mr. Myhaliuk asked, showing Shukhevych Publishing House of to me, and I transported the rations under replied that indeed, Petro Serbeniuk’s son him the photos. Kolomyia. water to wherever the leadership Myroslav does. “Oh God, where did you get them?” “I am preparing to print the third vol- ordered,” she said. Thanking Ms. Zhulynska for her good Myroslav said excitedly. “Those are ume of the OUN-UPA history in the Ms. Zhulynska examined the photo- memory, Mr. Myhaliuk visited the resi- insurgents from our village. There’s my Prykarpattia and Hutsulschyna regions,” graphs with interest, though she didn’t dence of Myroslav Serbeniuk. father, and that’s Uncle Vasyl.” The said Mr. Andrusiak, a writer. “These pho- know many of the insurgents. She did “I don’t remember my father because I Serbeniuk brothers were mentioned as tographs of the insurgents will be pub- recognize Petro and Vasyl Serbeniuk. never saw him,” he said. “My mother heroes in a history published about the lished there, and Ukrainians will know Petro, nicknamed “Dyr,” led the was arrested and transported to Siberia UPA in the Prykarpattia and their heroes.” OUN’s leadership in Kolomyia, while when I was 11 months old. She managed Hutsulschyna, he said. The photographs found in Paraska Vasyl had the nickname “Moroz” (Frost). to pass me through a window to my aunt, “And I lived my whole life in fear,” Hutsuliak’s hiding place will eventually “What brave insurgents our Serbeniuks who raised me.” Myroslav said. “I was an excellent stu- be preserved at the OUN-UPA Center for were, and they both died,” Ms. When Myroslav was 2 years old his dent in school, and I was promised that I Historical Research in Lviv. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 No. 1 Surma bookstore welcomes third-generation owner by Helen Smindak business set up in 1913 by the elder Myron Surmach and two partners on First Avenue NEW YORK – Walking in to the Surma near Seventh Street. Book and Music Store on East Seventh When his partners turned their attention Street is akin to entering a magic wonder- to other occupations in 1918, Mr. Surmach land of Ukrainian arts and crafts. opened his own Sitch Bazaar at 34 E. A small bell tinkles cheerfully as you Seventh St. As the shop evolved into a step across the doormat, welcoming you to book and music store, he relocated it to a a Ukrainian general store that exudes a larger space on Avenue A, then known as friendly country atmosphere. Your wonder- the Ukrainian Broadway of New York City, ing eyes behold bolts of white linen fabric, and renamed it the Surma Book and Music rolls of richly hued brocade ribbons, strik- Store. ing kylyms draped over a long wood rod hung from the ceiling, display cases Aptly named stocked with hand-embroidered blouses, vests and bags. For Ukrainian sensibilities, the store was There are shelves filled with stacks of aptly named: it stood for the surma CDs, cassettes and DVDs, and more (shawm), an oboe-type wind instrument shelves holding ornamented porcelain ware made of wood and known from the prince- and intricately carved wood plates and ly period of the Kyivan State, and the name boxes. A wall-hung display of amber, coral Surmach (surma player). and bead jewelry beckons closer inspec- In 1934 the Surma Book and Music tion. The center island staggers under a Store began to serve customers at its pres- load of greeting cards. ent location at 11 E Seventh St., near Third To the left, wide shelves hold a collection Avenue. of books and periodicals; nearby, glowing Born in 1893 in the western Ukrainian Markian Surmach at Surma. icons show reverential images. A glass dis- village of Ruzhantsi, Myron Surmach came rior, complete with icons, ritual towels and play case near the entrance contains baskets to the United States in 1910 at the age of a make-believe clay oven replete with filled with hundreds of those marvels of 17. After spending some frustrating years hand-painted regional motifs. Ukrainian folk artistry, colorfully decorated of factory work and coal mining in Wilkes- Easter eggs. Decorating supplies and kits Barre, Pa., he came to New York to find a Modernizing the business are within reach behind the counter. better life. He worked as a restaurant dish- The upper walls of the high-ceilinged washer and sold Ukrainian books door-to- Now that he has had a year’s time to room are adorned with antique objects that door, among other tedious jobs, meanwhile accustom himself to the intricacies of the fetch curious, and admiring, glances – a attending English classes at the Ukrainian store’s operation, Markian Surmach says multi-stringed bandura, an ancient folk National Home. he plans to update and modernize some string instrument called a lira (hurdy- Once the store at 11 E. Seventh St. was aspects of the business. gurdy), wooden cooking implements, an firmly established, Mr. Surmach, an enter- Though he prefers not to deviate too old wooden washboard. Farm tools – a prising and gregarious gentleman, added much from methods and policies already in long-handled scythe and a crescent-shaped other activities to his daily routine. He pro- place, he aims to add music and video com- sickle – hark back to the agricultural duced a Ukrainian radio program in New ponents to the Surma website. He says he propensities of the Ukrainian people. York and began to raise bees on his two- wants to “make things more efficient, like a Standing behind the counter at the back acre farm in Saddle River, N.J., adding new cash register; there are things behind of the shop is the genial new proprietor of pure Ukrainian honey and beeswax to the the scenes that need to be updated to make Surma’s (as the shop is familiarly known), store’s merchandise. The Ukrainian shop the business part of the 21st century.” Markian Surmach, the third generation of and the apiary became well known and, The young Mr. Surmach says the incen- the Surmach family to run this East Village along with photographs of their owner, tive for undertaking his new position is emporium. were featured in numerous newspapers and largely a way of learning and discovering Like his grandfather, Myron Surmach, magazines. the richness of his heritage: “I’ve been who founded the store in 1918, and his Myron Surmach Jr., a U.S. Navy veter- away a long time, so in many ways I’m Myron Surmach behind the counter at father, Myron Surmach Jr., who managed an, showed a special flair for merchandis- discovering many things about the culture Surma. the store from 1958 to 2003, Markian ing when he took over the reins in the late and myself for the first time.” Surmach is applying himself to the busi- 1950s. Responding to the influx of post- He believes the skills he acquired during ness of supplying Ukrainian books and war Ukrainian immigrants, he developed 15 years of running his own web develop- periodicals, art objects and crafts supplies the shop’s folk ambiance by importing ment and marketing business in Denver to all who wish to preserve their Ukrainian embroidered and woven goods from the have given him the ability to deal with the heritage, who admire Ukrainian folk arts or Carpathian Mountain region of Eastern demands of his new occupation. A 1968 want to learn the how-to’s of Ukrainian Europe – blouses from Ukraine and graduate of New York University’s Tisch crafts. Romania, and embroidered ritual towels School of the Arts, with a Bachelor of Fine The Surma Book and Music Store forms and woven kylyms from Ukraine. Arts degree in film and television, he a link to the past, a time when the East Tapping in to the 1960s hippie interest in worked in Denver’s corporate video world Village was the center of Ukrainian com- Bohemian attire, he offered high-quality for five years before striking out on his merce, culture and community life in New goods rooted in old traditions and displayed own. York City. Early immigrants who arrived them fashionably. Mannequins were used He sees Surma as a unique business in from Ukraine, needing household goods for to show off folk costumes; a wood-staved the context of New York City, with its very their new homes, bought washing barrel served as a display stand for folded fashionable stores and five-star institutions, machines and phonographs as well as kylyms and ritual cloths. The staid business like the new hotel going up on the Bowery newspapers and books in their native office located behind the checkout counter – “everything’s changing fast, and yet the Myron Surmach Jr. at Surma. tongue at shops like the Sitch Bazaar, a was turned into a bright Hutsul home inte- store remains.” artist Yaroslava Surmach Mills, helped out “The retro aspects of this business make it unique,” he said. “We’re offering tradi- while attending Cooper Union; her artistic tional goods and supplies that are dwindling designs and illustrations appear on many of in the Old World, where Ukrainians are the store’s greeting cards and in illustrated relinquishing old ways and customs and cards that spell out recipes for Christmas becoming more and more modernized.” Eve dishes. During this busy holiday season, he is The store’s 90th anniversary begins this engaged in filling orders for ground poppy- month. Although plans to celebrate the his- seed, wheat grains and honey for the ritual toric event have not been set, one thing is Christmas Eve dish known as kutia, and sure: Mr. Surmach is determined to pre- dried mushrooms to be used in varenyky serve the integrity and the basic values and holubtsi fillings. Local residents come established by his predecessors for the in to pick up supplies, while out-of-town Ukrainian shop on Seventh Street. customers place orders by phone, mail and In a community that has seen better days e-mail. and more prosperous times, the Surma In the day-to-day running of the shop, Mr. Surmach has the able assistance of Book and Music Store has endured and Stephanie Czerepanyn, a longtime Surma flourished, a testament to Surmach entre- employee. His mother, Magda Surmach, preneurship, perseverance and hard work. who ran the store for a few years after her *** husband’s death, comes in to lend a hand once or twice a week. For further information, call 212-477- Back in the shop’s early days, his aunt, 0729 or check the website surma.com. No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 11 Maryland state senator aims to become first Ukrainian American congressman by Bohdan D. Shandor Dr. Harris’ candidacy to unseat Rep. Harris and the late Dr. Zoltan Harris, an Gilchrest but is actively campaigning anesthesiologist. The candidate’s mother, ANNAPOLIS, Md. – In a bruising pri- together with his wife, Kendall, on Dr. who emigrated to the United States in mary campaign battle in Maryland’s 1st Harris’ behalf. As the first Republican 1950, hails from the village of Bodnariw Congressional District, State Sen. Andy elected to the governorship in over 40 near Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, where Harris said he has his sights set “on years, Mr. Ehrlich is the most respected her father, Julian Koczerzuk, was a vil- becoming the first Ukrainian American in and widely admired Republican in the lage priest. After coming to the United the United States Congress.” state. States, the Rev. Koczerzuk served for The Republican primary contest to be The former governor is considered by many years as a priest at St. John the held on February 12 in the Chesapeake many to be the Republican Party in Baptist Church in Newark, N.J. Bay state pits Dr. Harris, a physician Maryland. In announcing his endorse- Trained as a physician, Dr. Harris whose mother is from Ukraine, against ment last month, Mr. Ehrlich credited Dr. received his undergraduate and graduate nine-term incumbent Wayne Gilchrest. Harris’ intelligence, service in Annapolis degrees from Johns Hopkins University The contest has generated national media and skills as a party builder as reasons in Baltimore. In addition to his M.D. attention, including an appearance by Dr. for supporting the state senator. diploma, he holds a master’s in health Harris on Fox News and an editorial in According to the former governor, Dr. policy and management – a degree that the Washington Times, because it match- Harris “served well in combating the cul- has come in handy in his work on the es up Dr. Harris, a popular State Senator ture of spend and tax.” Maryland State Senate’s Health since 1998, against a Republican con- In an interview with the Capitol News Subcommittee and Joint Committee on gressman, who is seen by many as way- Service, Mr. Ehrlich, who also served in Health Care Delivery and Financing. He ward and outspoken. Congress, was quoted as saying: also maintains a full-time practice as a In a December 12, 2007, editorial The “Nobody controls Andy Harris. He nationally recognized anesthesiologist at Washington Times endorsed Mr. Harris comes from my old congressional dis- Dr. Andy Harris the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he is for Congress, noting that “he is clearly trict. We’re friends. We share a lot of the an associate professor of anesthesiology the strongest conservative leader in the same supporters.” campaign funding at a rate of 3.7 to 1 and critical care medicine. February 12 Republican primary.” The list of Harris supporters grew through the third quarter. According to When asked what he would do if he When asked about his prospects for longer in late October with the addition the Capitol News Service, “the total is becomes the first Ukrainian American in the nomination, Dr. Harris responded of Jim Perdue, chairman of the well- the highest in the nation among chal- the U.S. Congress, the ex-Navy com- confidently, “I know I’m going to win known Perdue Poultry concern and son lengers.” mander who served on a hospital ship the nomination and the general election of the late founder of the company that Regardless of who the nominee is, during Desert Storm, pauses for a and be the first Ukrainian American in bears his name, Frank Perdue. According most political pundits expect the ultimate moment. “You know what I would do” the United States Congress.” to the Associated Press, Mr. Perdue host- Republican candidate to carry the 1st he replies as he grins and stretches his The National Republican Congres- ed a private fund-raising event for Dr. Congressional District because of its his- lanky 6-foot-4 frame, “I would get my sional Committee, which oversees Harris in Ocean City, Md. torical voting pattern. The district voted closest Ukrainian friends together and Congressional campaigns, is taking a The chances of Dr. Harris winning the overwhelmingly for Mr. Bush in both sing the loudest rendition of ‘Mnohaya neutral position on the race. This is a far primary are increasingly brighter with 2000 and 2004, with the president gar- Lita’ that you have ever heard.” cry from previous primaries when Mr. Mr. Ehrlich’s endorsement and the con- nering 62 percent of the vote in his re- Anyone wishing to obtain more infor- Gilchrest was endorsed by the national tinuing support of the Club for Growth, a election. Consequently, Congressional mation regarding Dr. Harris and his cam- party leadership, including President national political action group that cham- Quarterly presently rates the district as paign is invited to visit his website, George W. Bush in 2002. pions conservative fiscal policy. With “safe” for Republicans. AndyHarris08.com or to write to: Andy In a surprising move, former Maryland that combined support, Dr. Harris has Andrew P. Harris, born in 1957 in Harris for Congress, P.O. Box 1527, Gov. Robert Ehrlich not only endorsed managed to outraise the incumbent in New York, is the son of Irene Koczerzuk Annapolis, MD 21404.

Ukrainian poet from New York travels to India for literary festival NEW YORK – Vasyl Makhno, a public to interact with writers of national Ukrainian poet from New York, recently and international renown. traveled to India for the International Local news media reported on the fes- Literary Festival held as part of the tival and the writers participating in it. Calicut International Book Fair that took Dr. Makhno was the subject of a place on November 1-10, 2007. November 5, 2007, story in the Indian Several of Dr. Makhno’s works, trans- Express that was headlined “A prophet of lated into the local language, Malayalam, pristine philosophy.” Dr. Makhno told the were published in the anthology released author of the article, T. V. Sarngadharan, for the festival. The poet also appeared at that “A poet has no obligation whatsoev- the festival with a reading of his works in er to anyone,” explaining that the only Ukrainian, as well as in English transla- obligation is to language. tion. In addition, Dr. Makhno, a poet, trans- The festival was held in the city of lator and essayist, said he had the oppor- Kozhikode (known also by its English tunity to spend time with fellow writers name as Calicut), a city in the southern from around the globe, from places as far- Indian state of Kerala. The International flung as Poland and India. Dr. Makhno Literary Festival’s goal is to allow the underlined his great gratitude to the

Reproduction of a story about poet Vasyl Makhno printed in Malayalam.

Shevchenko Scientific Society for making written in Ukraine, and half in the United possible his trip to India, where he was States. presented as a writer from Ukraine. In 2004 Dr. Makhno published a new Born in Chortiv, in the Ternopil region collection of poems titled “38 Virshiv pro of Ukraine, Dr. Makhno defended his Niu York i Descho Iinshe” (38 Poems doctoral dissertation on the topic “The about New York and Some Other Artistic World of Bohdan-Ihor Things). Literary scholar and critic Antonych.” He began traveling abroad in Michael M. Naydan wrote in The the late 1990s and taught at the renowned Weekly: “Vasyl Makhno’s deliberately Jagiellonian University in Krakow, elliptical poems about the ‘multicultural Poland. In 2000 he moved to New York, cornucopia’ that is New York comprise where he continues to write and is an fragments of thought, experience and active member of the Shevchenko time captured by a brooding wanderer Scientific Society. He often appears at lit- groping to discover his new habitat. His erary readings and other special cultural latest collection of poetry … marks a dra- events in the New York area. matic shift in space for the poet to the He considers “Plavnyk Ryby” (The urban landscapes of Brooklyn and Fish’s Fin), which was published in Manhattan. America serves as the vessel Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno at a poetry reading in India with his Malayalam Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, in 2002, his that gives the poet shelter following his translator. “most transitional book” as half of it was journey across the Atlantic.” 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 No. 1 No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 13 Metropolitan Sulyk Scholarship established at Boston College by Peter T. Woloschuk Deanna Rakowsky, welcomed everyone in English and Ukrainian, and also urged them BOSTON – On the Feast of the to attend a performance of the Syzokryli Immaculate Conception, Saturday, Ukrainian dance ensemble from New York December 8, 2007, more than 200 students, that the society is sponsoring in January to parents, faculty, administrators and mem- benefit the newly established scholarship bers of the local Ukrainian community fund. She then called on Mrs. Devonshire filled St. Mary’s Chapel at Boston College to speak. to celebrate the feast day and the end of the Mrs. Devonshire talked about the impor- semester, and to mark the establishment of tance of education and recalled her own the Metropolitan Stephen S. Sulyk days at Boston College Law School. She Ukrainian Scholarship Fund at Boston said that, other than her cousin the archbish- College. op, she was the first person in her immedi- A pontifical divine liturgy in the ate family to receive an advanced degree Ukrainian rite was concelebrated by and that it had made a significant difference Metropolitan Emeritus Sulyk of in her life. She expressed hope that Philadelphia, the Rev. Yaroslav Nalysnyk of Ukrainian students coming to Boston Boston, the Rev. James Morris of Salem, College would also benefit in a similar way. Mass., the Rev. Michael Moisin of the She was followed by Dr. Lubomyr At the reception from left: the Rev. Michael Moisin, the Rev. Yaroslav Nalysnyk, Romanian Catholic mission of Greater Hajda, associate director of the Harvard Boston, and the Rev. Deacon Prof. Michael Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk, the Rev. Roman Tarnavsky, the Rev. Deacon Prof. Ukrainian Research Institute, who recalled Michael Connolly, the Rev. James Morris and Lidia Boyduy Shandor Devonshire. Connolly of Boston College. The Rev. his own days as an undergraduate at Boston Roman Tarnavsky of St. Andrew Ukrainian College and confessed he never thought that Orthodox Church of Boston was also in he would see a Ukrainian student group at attendance. the school because when he went to BC he The liturgy was co-sponsored by the uni- was the only Ukrainian on the campus. That versity’s Ukrainian Student Society and the fact was so unusual that the school newspa- Slavic and Eastern languages department. per wrote a major feature article on him as a In his homily Archbishop Sulyk thanked Ukrainian student. He went on to say that his cousin Lidia Boyduy Shandor the scholarship established by Mrs. Devonshire of Chicago for endowing the Devonshire was an important gesture for scholarship in his name and said “this the future of Ukraine and Ukrainian schol- scholarship makes it possible for young arship. men and women, Catholic, Orthodox as Prof. Connolly then spoke and said that well as non-Christians, from Ukraine to the school hoped to begin offering courses come here to Boston College and receive in the Ukrainian language and culture in the higher education. They have suffered for not too distant future. long decades under atheistic communism Father Nalysnyk brought the formal cer- and were deprived of any religious educa- emony to a close with a prayer. tion. Now they have an opportunity, having In addition to members of the Ukrainian started their education at the Ukrainian community of Greater Boston there were Catholic University in the city of Lviv, to participants from Salem and Fall River in come here to this school and enjoy the high Massachusetts, Manchester, N. H., caliber of Western education.” Woonsocket, R.I., New York and New At the altar from left: the Rev. Michael Moisin, the Rev. James Morris, Metropoli- “In our present highly secularized Jersey in attendance. world,” Archbishop Sulyk continued, “espe- tan Stephen Sulyk and the Rev. Yaroslav Nalysnyk. cially in Europe, it is very important that young Christian people avail themselves of an education in schools such as this one. Such an education must view life in its University of Alberta honors totality. It is not enough to limit this educa- tion to primary catechism nor to the summa donors Peter and Doris Kule of St. Thomas, but a living, vibrant faith embracing all science and all aspects of EDMONTON, Alberta – The Peter and research overlaps a great deal with folklore. life.” Doris Kule Center for Ukrainian and We are excited about pulling together more A reception/buffet again hosted by the Canadian Folklore (Kule Folklore Center) and building on this strength.” university’s Ukrainian Student Society and in the Faculty of Arts and the Canadian Dr. Nahachewsky said he expects the the Slavic and Eastern languages depart- Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) at the expansion to be popular with students. ment followed the liturgy in the university’s University of Alberta on Friday, December “We’ve been offering an undergraduate Irish Room, which was decorated for 14, 2007, celebrated the support of longtime class in general folklore for over six years Christmas and featured an all-Ukrainian donors, Drs. Peter and Doris Kule, with the now, and it’s always packed. Folklore, the menu, a brief speaking program and a pres- unveiling of a portrait of the philanthropists. study of unofficial culture, connects with entation of Ukrainian “koliady” (carols) by The event was held at the Timms Center people in a very direct way,” he observed. the Christ the King Ukrainian Catholic and commemorated a recent gift of $1 mil- For the past five years, the Kules have Choir of Boston under the direction of Igor lion to CIUS for the establishment of the been ardent and dedicated supporters of Kowal. Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Center at Ukrainian folklore studies. They had previ- Members of the student club acted as CIUS. ously donated $3 million to the folklore hosts and as masters and mistresses of cere- During the event, the Kules also made a program. The monies established the Kule mony. Archbishop Sulyk said the blessing Deanna Rakowsky, president of BC’s new $1 million pledge to the Kule Folklore Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography, currently and then the society’s president, sophomore Ukrainian Student Society. Center. The Faculty of Arts will match the occupied by Natalie Kononenko. They pledge by establishing a new French folk- have been used to support Folklorica, the lorist position. Journal of the Slavic and East European The two Kule centers will work together Folklore Association, and the leading peri- on selected projects, but the new center at odical in Slavic folklore. CIUS will focus on Ukrainian Canadian The Kule Endowment has brought in history and literature, as opposed to visiting speakers from around the world, Ukrainian folklore. including Michael Taft, head of the Folklife Andriy Nahachewsky, director of the Division of the United States Library of Peter and Doris Kule Center for Ukrainian Congress; Lubow Wolynetz, the folk arts and Canadian Folklore/Huculak Chair in curator of The Ukrainian Museum in New Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography, said he York; Oleksandra Britsyna, the former is thrilled with the Kules’ support of the deputy director of the Rylsky Folklore center’s expansion into other areas of Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Canadian folklore. “We started out as a Sciences; Bohdan Klymasz, retired Ukrainian-specific program, and we’ll Ukrainian specialist at the Museum of always have that as our core strength, but Civilization; and Mykhailo Koval, a kobzar we also see a real interest in exploring folk- from Ukraine, among others. lore generally,” he commented. “Folklore It has helped fund teaching materials for allows us to see our local experiences as the Ukrainian bilingual program, already very expressive, yet so connected to tradi- tested in the Edmonton schools and soon to tion at the same time. Throughout the cam- Lidia Boyduy Shandor Devonshire speaks. pus, there are a number of professors whose (Continued on page 20) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 No. 1

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The shadow Cabinet com- prises Finance Minister Mykola Azarov, (973) 292-9800, ext 3040. Economy Minister Iryna Akimova, Defense EC to evaluate damage Minister Oleksander Kuzmuk, Internal KYIV – The European Commission said Affairs Minister Mykola Dzhyha, Fuel and on December 19, 2007, that it intends to Energy Minister Yurii Boiko, Coal Industry evaluate at its own expense the environ- HOUSING Minister Serhii Tulub, Transport and mental impact of oil and sulfur leakage as a Communications Minister Vasyl Kozak, result of a series of shipwrecks in the Kerch Labor and Social Policy Minister Mykhailo Strait on November 11, 2007. This was stat- Papiyev, Education and Culture Minister ed by director of the EC’s assistance pro- Dmytro Tabachnyk, Foreign Affairs grams, Remi Duflot. 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March. respected and appreciated. I want them to Though the government had no chance Tymoshenko government’s... Among the budget’s most prominent work here at home for their own country, of fulfilling the Tymoshenko Bloc’s cam- (Continued from page 1) features are a 40 percent increase ($2 bil- so that Ukrainian golden heads return paign promise of repaying the $120 bil- Ukraine (PRU) and the Lytvyn Bloc did- lion U.S.) in pension payments, a 37 per- from the [world’s] Silicon Valleys to their lion in bank deposits lost during the 1991- n’t vote at all. PRU national deputy cent increase in government health and native land and work for Ukraine.” 1995 hyperinflation, it did earmark $4 bil- medical spending and a 250 percent The 2008 budget doubles government lion to seemingly boost that process – 10 Yaroslav Sukhyi pointed out that only 197 increase in residential-utility service spending on the arts, culture and times more than any prior budget. coalition deputies were in the session hall, spending, according to government fig- Ukrainian-language publishing. “Our goal “I was told thousands of times that accusing the majority coalition of falsify- ures. is to leave the zone of cultural misery and executing this program is absolutely ing the vote. Average government wages will create a territory of high culture and the impossible,” Ms. Tymoshenko said in her Indeed, cards were cast for absent increase 30 percent during the year, and arts in Ukraine,” Ms. Tymoshenko said, address. “They said this process of deputies, including 76-year-old Ivan highly qualified government workers will referring to November 30, 2007, emer- returning savings has to be extended over Spodarenko, who is recovering from a have wage increases of between 40 and gency meeting of Ukraine’s cultural and 50 years and must reduce the sum pay- stroke. 65 percent. intellectual elite that declared Ukraine a ment by five times. This isn’t our The Lytvyn Bloc, meanwhile, opposed Certain doctors and surgeons will have “zone of cultural misery.” approach, and I assure you today that this the budget because it didn’t extend the a 45 percent increase in wages, certain Stipends for institute and university program is possible to execute and we’ll moratorium on agricultural land sales teachers will have a 45 percent boost, and students will increase between $53 and execute it.” beyond January 1, among other gripes. “a chief librarian, who has long been for- $74 per month. Ms. Tymoshenko accused the In fact, the budget does call for an gotten, will receive a 65 percent salary Ms. Tymoshenko even borrowed the Yanukovych government of intentionally extension of the agricultural land sale increase,” Ms. Tymoshenko said of the PRU’s generous campaign promise of driving Naftohaz, the state-owned natural moratorium, Mr. Yatsenyuk said. The budget. paying parents $10,000 for every third gas and oil transit monopoly, toward prime minister also expressed support for The 2008 budget increases government newborn child (The Tymoshenko Bloc bankruptcy in order for the Ukrainian extending the moratorium “until we cre- spending for the sciences by $200 million. had promised only $5,000). Parents of a government to lose control. She promised ate normal legislation to secure this “Savings can’t be made at the expense first newborn will receive $2,424 and to re-finance it and defend it from “artifi- process and build a normal market.” of science,” Ms. Tymoshenko said in a $5,000 for the second. cial bankruptcies.” After the vote, Mr. Yatsenyuk assured nationwide address. “That’s a crime To prepare for the Euro-2012 soccer “To the fullest extent, we are starting those dissatisfied with the budget’s provi- against the future. I don’t want our talent- championships, the 2008 budget will to renew the state’s energy security, which sions that the Parliament would examine ed academics and scientists to think of spend $2.3 billion on improving roads, a was brought to ruin in recent years,” she and pass an amended 2008 budget in how to flee to somewhere they are 60 percent budget increase. underscored.

from the Nazi invasion, he headed an anti- that requires presidential candidates to have Ruslan, which still has no analogues in the NEWSBRIEFS Soviet guerilla movement. (Ukrinform) lived in the country for at least 10 years. Mr. world. The first Ruslan took off on (Continued from page 14) Chornovil remembered in Kyiv Bukovsky’s supporters note that neither December 24, 1982, from the Sviatoshyn Ohryzko reacts to Russian statements Boris Yeltsin nor Vladimir Putin had lived airport near Kyiv. The aircraft was designed KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko on for 10 years in the Russian Federation at the Antonov Aeronautical Scientific and KYIV – Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs December 24, 2007, took part in a ceremo- before they became president, since the Technical Facility and was put on a batch Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko said on ny of laying flowers at the monument to country was only formed in 1991. Third, the production at the AviaStar plant and Kyiv December 21, 2007, that he believes that outstanding national activist Vyacheslav CEC disputes Mr. Bukovsky’s claim that his State-run Aircraft Plant Aviant. The airplane the latest statements by the Russian authori- Chornovil in Kyiv. The event was attended profession is “writer.” (RFE/RL Newsline) set 21 world records, including in ties with regard to Ukraine are accounted by Mr. Chornovil’s widow Atena Pashko, weightlifting (over 170 tons at a height of for by internal political processes in Russia. Ruslan marks 25th anniversary Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, First 10,750 meters) and flying range (more than The minister also noted that Ukraine does- Vice-Prime Minister Oleksander KYIV – The Ukrainian aircraft industry 20,000 kilometers). Ruslan is the only air- n’t want any external forces to divide the Turchynov, Vice-Prime Minister Ivan is marking the 25th anniversary of the first craft in the world capable of carrying car- Ukrainian people and to sow discord among Vasiunyk, Foreign Affairs Minister experimental flight of the heady-duty ramp goes weighing 150 tons and as large as 36 Ukraine’s regions. Mr. Ohryzko said Volodymyr Ohryzko, Defense Minister Ukraine sees relations with Russia as prag- Yurii Yekhanurov and Internal Affairs airplane Antonov-124, known as the meters long. (Ukrinform) matic, equal, predictable and free from ide- Minister Yurii Lutsenko, as well as other ological bias, as well as those of a partner- national and local government officials. ship based on generally accepted principles (Ukrinform) of international law. “No integration plans of Ukraine can be fulfilled without normal Chornovil monument in Khmelnytskyi relations with the Russian Federation,” the KYIV – A monument to one of the lead- minister said, describing the recent state- ers of the human rights movement in ments coming from Russia with regard to Ukraine, Vyacheslav Chornovil, was Ukraine as “isolated.” On December 14, unveiled on December 24, 2007, in 2007, the Foreign Affairs Ministry of the Khmelnytskyi to mark the 70th anniversary Russian Federation disseminated a state- of the late politician’s birth. Mr. Chornovil ment expressing concern about “anti- was persecuted by the Soviet authorities for Russian manifestations” in Ukraine. On his political convictions in defense of December 18, 2007, Russian President human and national right. He became a key Vladimir Putin sent a missive to his leader of the Rukh movement of Ukraine in Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko 1989 and was elected its chairman in 1992. suggesting that existing disputes between Defeated in the presidential race in 1991, he the two countries were caused by Ukraine’s served Ukraine as a national deputy in position. Speaking to Time magazine, 1994-1998. He was killed in a suspicious which recently selected him as person of the car crash on March 25, 1999, shortly before year for 2007, Mr. Putin claimed that the the new presidential elections. In 2000 Mr. United States has split Ukraine by artificial- Chornovil was posthumously granted the ly dividing it into “pro-Russian” and “pro- title of Hero of Ukraine. Monuments to Mr. American” forces and providing support for Chornovil exist in several other cities, the latter. (Ukrinform) including Kyiv. (Ukrinform) Ukraine’s population: 46.5 million Bukovsky’s candidacy rejected KYIV – Ukraine’s population keeps MOSCOW – The Supreme Court of declining, reported the State Committee on Russia on December 28, 2007, rejected an Statistics. The population of Ukraine cur- appeal by Soviet-era dissident Vladimir rently stands at 46,490,000. The ratio of Bukovsky against a Central Election births to deaths in Ukraine was 1 to 2 in Commission (CEC) decision barring him 2007. The 2002 census reported a popula- from participating in the March presidential tion of 48 million in Ukraine. (Ukrinform) election, RFE/RL’s Russian Service report- Lviv monument to honor Shukhevych ed the same day. Mr. Bukovsky’s lawyer said that he will appeal the decision to the KYIV – A monument to the commander- Supreme Court’s presidium. The court did in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army not give a reason for rejecting the appeal. (UPA), Roman Shukhevych, will be erected According to Mr. Bukovsky’s lawyer, the in the center of Lviv, the Lviv region’s CEC’s decision not to allow Mr. Bukovsky Stepan Bandera Center for National Revival to run for president is based on three points. reported. Shukhevych, one of the leaders of First, the CEC claims it has an Internal the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Affairs Ministry document attesting that Mr. (OUN), led the UPA in 1943-1950. The Bukovsky has British citizenship. Mr. OUN and the UPA fought for the independ- Bukovsky, however, claims merely to have ence of Ukraine from both the Nazi and the permanent-resident status there. Second, the Soviet regimes. After Ukraine was liberated CEC cited a provision of the election law 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 No. 1 UAV post honors New Jersey credit union Sacramento Ukrainians CLIFTON, N.J. – At its recent Christmas party, Post 17 of the Ukrainian remember genocidal American Veterans, honored the Self Reliance (NJ) Federal Credit Union, pre- senting a recognition plaque to Jaroslaw Holodomor of 1932-1933 Fedun, the credit union’s president. by Alex Kachmar The award was presented by Post Commander Jim Fedorko to the credit SACRAMENTO, Calif. – It started with union for its continued financial support the Ukrainian flag flying at half-mast and a that allowed the post to send packages lit candle in the window. At 6 p.m. the peo- filled with Ukrainian morsels to Ukrainian ple, including many teenagers, gathered at American soldiers serving in Iraq and the Carmichael Public Library to learn Afghanistan. Some packages were also more about the 1932-1933 genocidal sent to Ukrainian American military per- Famine in Ukraine. sonnel who are now serving stateside. The program was opened by Prof. Yuri Self Reliance (NJ), which is based in Oliynyk, president of the Ukrainian Clifton and has a branch in Passaic, has Heritage Club of Northern California, who always supported various activities spon- spoke of the reasons for the Holodomor. sored by Post 17, Mr. Fedorko noted. “The A presentation on how the Soviet gov- credit union, and the Ukrainian National ernment perpetrated the Holodomor was Home in Passaic, rose to the occasion and delivered by Dr. Luba Jova, a native of helped us financially to accomplish the New York City whose grandmother sur- project” of sending packages to U.S. vived the Famine and informed her grand- troops. Ukrainian American Veterans Post 17 Commander Jim Fedorko (left) presents a daughter about it. Ms. Jova is a former Accepting the award on behalf of the recognition plaque to Jaroslaw Fedun, president of Self Reliance (NJ) Federal member of Americans for Human Rights in credit union. Mr. Fedun said, “Community Credit Union. Ukraine which worked toward establish- projects of this kind will receive future ment of the U.S. Commission on the credit union help.” Fedun. Mr. Fedun noted the irony that, packages to Ukrainian American military Ukraine Famine. Dr. Jova’s vision for the Mr. Fedun, who is extremely supportive while many in the Ukrainian American members in all branches of service. future is a monument commemorating the of the U.S. military, its soldiers and the community do not belong to credit unions The Post 17 Care Package Committee is victims of the Holodomor erected in American mission in Iraq and Afghanistan, – erroneously thinking that a credit union constantly searching for eligible personnel Sacramento, state capitol of California. revealed that a nephew of his was recently cannot match commercial banks in services to receive packages. If readers know of any Following Dr. Jova’s presentation, wounded in Iraq. offered – their organizations often turn to serviceman or servicewoman of Ukrainian “Ballad About the Year 1933” was sung, During the Christmas dinner, Post 17 Ukrainian credit unions for support. descent who is on active duty, they are with the accompaniment of bandura, by Ola members were able to exchange views on As of December 1, 2007, Ukrainian asked to contact Post Commander Fedorko Herasymenko-Oliynyk, Honored National Ukrainian community activities with Mr. American Veterans Post 17 has sent 21 at 512-887-5613. Artist of Ukraine. Next, Leontiy Taube, a Fourth Wave immigrant to the Sacramento area and a former soldier in the Ukrainian Insurgent Ukrainian “Osela” at Round Lake, Ill., to be sold Army (UPA), which fought against Nazi Germany and the USSR, delivered a heart- by Wasyl Mirutenko The UACA has until March 1 to sell the an ideal day trip within an hour’s drive of rending plea for Ukrainians not to forget property. If a suitable Ukrainian buyer is most of the metropolitan Chicago area. about this heinous crime against Ukrainians CHICAGO – A membership meeting of not found by this date, the Osela will be The facility has a long history of com- by Soviet authorities. the Ukrainian American Cooperative listed with a real estate agent and sold on munity service. During the 1950s and Halyna Lorczak, a Ukrainian born in Association (UACA) was held on the open market to the highest bidder. 1960s the campground flourished as a Belgium, recited an ode about a Ukrainian December 1, 2007, to discuss the future of Interested persons may call this writer, a weekly retreat for many Ukrainians. mother and her family struggling during the the campground commonly known as the member of the UACA advisory team, at During the 1970s and 1980s, Osela Holodomor to survive. Fedir Shwetz, a “Osela” at Round Lake, Ill. A recommen- 773-983-8407 or e-mail him at became a sports mecca for volleyball play- Fourth Wave immigrant to Sacramento dation was made and voted upon to sell the [email protected]. ers and water sports enthusiasts alike. area, recited a couple of poems about property due to fiscal constraints. The Osela was founded in February By the 1990s, when much of the area Ukrainians suffering under Soviet domina- The UACA then decided to approach 1951 as a recreational retreat for was transformed into suburban Chicago, the Ukrainian community to find a suitable tion. Ukrainians. The lakefront location in the camp served as a weekend retreat for Father Petro Kozar of St. Andrew buyer for this lakefront beach property, Round Lake Park has ample beach area, new immigrants seeking a nearby private with the objective being to keep the Osela Ukrainian Catholic Church in Sacramento and the property is secluded. The Lake facility. Recently a soccer field was blessed the “kutia” for the people present to in Ukrainian hands with new energy and County Health Department has concluded added, which allowed Osela to become the partake of in the old Ukrainian tradition of ideas. This could be a church, scouting that Round Lake’s water quality is better home field for both the Lions and commemorating loved ones who have group, social organization, sports club or a than many of the other lakes in Lake Ukrainian Connections Soccer Clubs. passed on. There also was a candle-lighting private party. All Ukrainian offers will be County. More importantly, the drive time For more informration about the Osela ceremony involving all present in com- seriously considered, the UACA noted. and access to major highways allows for readers may log on to www.07i.us/OSELA. memorating the Holodomor. Ukraine was represented at the com- memoration by Consul-General in San Francisco Mykola Tochytskyi. The diplo- mat thanked the organizers of the event for their well-done job and asked all to inform the world about the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933.

U.S. magazine... (Continued from page 3) with no independent law enforcement agen- cies and no legislative oversight, one that has virtually no independent media and no functioning NGOs, finding out “the names and the systems and the tools” is no easy task. Although it is no “honor,” “endorse- ment” or “popularity contest,” Mr. Putin has clearly earned the distinction of Person of the Year. But it remains to be seen if he really has carried out a “grand bargain” of freedom for stability. The freedoms are gone, but the promised stability – as the country’s current political transition sug- gests – seems far from certain. To use ana- lyst Mr. Markov’s phrase: Can a country where “the personality of Vladimir Putin is more important to society than institutions of state” really ultimately be stable? No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 17 Lehighton company donates walkers to Ukrainian school by Al Zagofsky dren in the U.S.; they are more likely to be used by sen- iors who are under 5 feet in height. LEHIGTON, Pa. – When the Lehighton Rotary Club On November 28, 2007, Mr. Thomas’ company was learned about the need for walkers at a crippled chil- recognized by the Rotary Club of Lehighton for its gift. dren’s school in Ukraine, they lucked out when they For several years the Rotary Club of Lehighton, the contacted Health Solutions Inc. of Lehighton, Pa. Not Rotary International Foundation, the Kobzar Society and only did the company have the walkers in stock, but a Rotary club in Western Ukraine worked together to they were willing to donate them. help the school. Michael Graham of Health Solutions received a tele- Two years ago, Mr. Hanas, the founder of the Kobzar phone call from Orest Hanas of the Lehighton Rotary Society and a Rotarian, visited a school in Boryslav to Club. “He asked for a quote for walkers,” said Mr. assist in the installation of computer equipment donated Graham. “And when I told him what they would cost, he by the organizations. The computer-learning center is thought our quote was higher than he could afford.” Mr. now fully operational and has been successful in teach- Graham wanted to work with him and asked him why he ing the children computer technology. needed several walkers. The Ukrainian school for crippled children is relative- After learning that the walkers were to be a gift to a ly unique as it was created during the Communist period Ukrainian school for crippled children, Mr. Graham – a time when the government position was not to checked with the office manager (his wife), Donna acknowledge the existence of such children. There were Graham, and the owner, Chuck Thomas. Then they no government programs assisting the children or their asked the employees, Bob Metz, Bill Newton, Floyd parents. Koehler Jr., Tyler Zucchiatti and George Fritz, and it Twenty years ago, Myroslawa Hewkan, grandmother was agreed that eight walkers – five junior and three of a crippled boy in Lviv, became the first activist in the adult size – would be donated. Soviet Union to draw attention to the plight of neglected “The children of Eastern Europe are near and dear to crippled children. my heart,” said Mr. Thomas, whose adopted 16-year-old Disregarding government edicts prohibiting such daughter, Laura, was born in Romania. actions, she sat on the steps of the Kremlin – in the mid- After learning that children in Romanian orphanages dle of winter for weeks – reading her poetry, which could be adopted by Americans, Mr. Thomas went to described the appalling and inhumane treatment of the Romania and met with the Romanian woman who crippled children. “I am in possession of one of her Chuck Thomas (left), owner of Health Solutions Inc. fought the Communist and post-Communist govern- poems,” said Mr. Hanas. “It is so sad and powerful that I of Lehighton, was honored by president Ed Fox (cen- ments to have a place for the children. He continues to could not finish reading it when I first saw it.” ter) and Orest Hanas of the Rotary Club of Lehighton meet with her when she comes to the U.S. for pharma- Against all odds, she succeeded in convincing the for a donation of child-size and adult-size walkers for ceutical items and contributions to sustain the program. Soviet government to establish a live-in, special-care crippled children at a Ukrainian school. Ukraine is just north of Romania and the economies school in Boryslav, western Ukraine. The Rotary and of both countries are very poor,” Mr. Thomas explained. Kobzar Society established a computer-learning center paid a visit to the school and brought six new comput- “It’s not that expensive to do something that is helpful.” there, and now the eight walkers donated by Health ers. The company’s walkers are in two sizes and are Solutions have been sent to the school. The Rotary Club and the Kobzar Society are now adjustable. The junior size is for children from age 3 to The computer-learning center has been featured by asking for donations of shoes, warm clothing and the time they are 5 feet tall. Mr. Thomas believes these the Voice of America as an example of how Americans crutches for the children at the school in Boryslav. For will be used by children who have polio or nutritional can connect with the rest of the world. Recently a repre- information readers may contact Mr. Hanas at diseases. These walkers are infrequently used by chil- sentative of First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko of Ukraine [email protected]. Yatsenyuk to visit Canada Jobs available for immigrants Kyiv Press Bureau Yatsenyuk told the Ukrayina Moloda daily newspaper. in the Scranton, Pa., area KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman Among those hosting the Yatsenyuk Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on January 3 family will be Ed Stelmach, Alberta’s PHILADELPHIA – St. Andrew dants, software analysts, hairstylists and that he will spend Ukrainian Christmas premier, who is of Ukrainian descent. Ukrainian Church of Scranton, Pa., is electronics technicians. visiting Alberta, Canada, with his fami- Mr. Stelmach’s grandfather emigrat- seeking to help immigrants with in-status These positions all require basic ly on a personal trip. ed from the Lviv Oblast and estab- visas find work and settle in this clean English skills. Some employers are will- “There’s a big Ukrainian diaspora lished the family homestead outside and safe area, reported the Philadelphia- ing to provide sponsorship leading to there, and we are going to where the Andrew, Alberta, where Mr. Yatsenyuk based United Ukrainian American Relief permanent labor certification, the first Ukrainians settled – Alberta,” Mr. is likely to visit. Committee. UUARC noted. An extensive study of jobs has identi- For information readers may contact fied the following as being available on a William Hubiak, 1459 Chestnut Ridge Archbishop Vsevolod... ly have requested that donations be made consistent basis: truck drivers, mechan- Road, Upper Black Edy, PA 18972; tele- in Archbishop Vsevolod’s memory to any ics, cooks, carpenters/masons, phone, 610-982-5051; e-mail,whubi- (Continued from page 4) of the following charities, or to one of an nurses/medical technicians, home atten- [email protected]. children – Juliana Krejer; Deana Krejer- individual’s choice: Ukrainian Orthodox Mush, with her husband, Mark, and their Church of the U.S.A. Education and children, Blade and Conall; and Christina History Complex; Ukrainian Orthodox Krejer; as well as several family mem- Church of the U.S.A. Orphanage bers in Ukraine. Adoption Program; Symon Petliura In lieu of flowers the Church and fami- Library Renovation and Memorial, Paris. 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 No. 1 No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 19 A Brooklyn chef delights in creating gourmet borsch by Helen Smindak managing editor of the center’s Philanthropy News Digest. Organic vegeta- NEW YORK – Borsch, the national bles and beef bones from organically raised soup of Ukraine, is a mildly tart vegetable beef come from the Garden of Eden co-op soup with beets predominating, made with near her home in Park Slope. a rich meat stock base. As described in Until Kurowycky Meats on First Avenue Savella Stechishin’s popular cookbook closed its doors, she purchased the store’s “Traditional Ukrainian Cookery,” it comes thick smoked pork chops and Ukrainian in several varieties, such as meatless borsch bacon for her borsch – “if you asked for it, for Lent. The true old-country style borsch, they gave you the end that has the string, according to the author, has a good chunk making it easy to fish out of the soup.” of meat, usually pork, cooking in it together Regretfully, she says she must find a new with the vegetables. source that can supply the meat she likes to Emily Robbins, a graduate of Cornell use and “the excellent kabanosy and University and the Nightingale-Bamford kovbasa they sold.” School in New York City, has raised The owner of Prospect Wines in Park borsch-making to a new level, combining Slope always suggests the perfect wine to time-honored methods with unconventional go with a specific borsch. “I just bring in a ideas to create a gourmet borsch that her jar of borsch, she takes a sniff, and immedi- family and friends declare has no equal. ately knows which wine will go with it,” She uses smoked duck breast in addition Ms. Robbins says. to other meats, as well as a medley of veg- The borsch maven says she acquired her etables and such unusual borsch ingredients as dark fruit jam and a product she interest in cooking with imagination and describes as liquid smoke – bottled distilled minute detail from her father, James H. smoke obtained from a smokehouse. Emily Robbins gets ready to prepare borsch. Robbins, a retired Lipton Co. sales execu- Cooking borsch is a consuming passion, tive and a food and wine connoisseur, and although she has other extracurricular activ- The borsch simmers on the stove until Slope apartment – usually in February or her grandmother, the late Valentina Prosen, ities – decorating pysanky, spinning and the meat and vegetables are cooked, at March, since she considers a hearty soup who “never made anything ordinary; every- dyeing sheep’s wool and using the yarn to which point dark fruit jam (usually black- like borsch a winter food – she sets a long thing she cooked was really something spe- knit gift items for friends, gardening and berry), dark fruit vinegar (such as cherry or dining table with two 10-candle cande- cial.” Her artistic leanings came from her singing in the alto section of the community pomegranate balsamic), liquid smoke, salt labras purchased at an Ikea emporium. To late mother, who was an illustrator for chorus Riverside Choral Society. and pepper are added as needed. accommodate a group of 12 friends or as Seventeen magazine before she joined the Decorating pysanky has been an impor- Ms. Robbins prepares her own beet many as 30 fellow members from the Brownstone Studio as director of its studio tant pastime for Ms. Robbins since age 7, kvas, a fermented liquid used for tartness, Riverside Choral Society, living room fur- catalogue. when she and her mother attended a deco- placing a piece of stale pumpernickel bread niture is banished to other areas of the In a quest to learn whether the borsch rating workshop at The Ukrainian Museum. at the bottom of a soup pot and covering it apartment. served elsewhere is “as good as my Her expertise now brings invitations from with peeled, raw, thinly-sliced organic This year she is celebrating Ukrainian borsch,” Ms. Robbins has sampled borsch The Ukrainian Museum and the Brooklyn beets. The concoction is covered with Christmas Eve with a small group of at the Veselka restaurant in the East Village Museum to conduct worshops during the boiled water and cooled to lukewarm; the friends, with the first course to begin when and the midtown Firebird restaurant (which Easter season. pot is covered and the kvas is allowed to the first star is spotted in the sky. touts “Ukrainian borscht” in its menu). She “I’m half Ukrainian, so I didn’t grow up rest. She peeks in every few days to check Traditional Ukrainian dishes served during has visited the little-known Ukrainian cafe with a lot of Ukrainian traditions, but I if the fermentation is going well. When the the 12-course meal include kutia (albeit a in the basement of St. George’s Rectory on make pysanky and borsch – they’re both liquid tastes rich, sweet and sour, it is gourmet version), a vegetarian borsch, East Seventh Street, and has made a trip to iconic to Ukrainian culture,” Ms. Robbins poured off the solids into glass jars, and holubtsi with a rice-mushroom filling, Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach area to taste says. placed in the darkest and coolest part of her three kinds of fish – herring, broiled fish restaurant-style borsch in this For the past 10 years, she’s been experi- refrigerator until needed. Kvas, she firmly and a smoked fish platter – medivnyk, a Ukrainian/Russian/Jewish enclave. menting with the process of cooking borsch believes, gives her borsch the ruby red fruit cake called tsvibak, and a compote of Among dining spots she has yet to (she spells it borscht “because that’s the color she admires. dried fruits made with apple cider and explore is the East Village Restaurant at the way most people spell it”) and has come up She also makes her own beef and chick- lemon peel. Whimsically, three American Ukrainian National Home. with her own way of preparing this en broths, preparing them up to two weeks dishes, like a green salad with roasted She is eager to try out a recipe for yellow Ukrainian favorite. Basing her cooking on before the final cooking of the borsch, and beets and mushrooms in vinaigrette, are beet borsch given to her by a friend, who borsch recipes found in Ms. Stechishin’s saves them in the freezer. counted in to make up the customary 12 received it from Hollywood Trident cookbook, which she inherited from her courses. Foundation chairman Peter Borisow, sug- A week of preparation gesting it for a Thanksgiving dinner soup mother, Nina Prosen Robbins, she has tried East Village shopping to make borsch exciting by adding “all sorts Cooking borsch à la Emily Robbins calls course. of things, like dried mushrooms and liquid for a weeklong period of preparation. Shopping for ingredients is one of the Meanwhile, she continues to cook smoke.” Considering that borsch always tastes better pleasures of cooking borsch, Ms. Robbins borsch her way and looks forward to visit- She is now an expert at cooking borsch on the second day, she gives her borsch says. She finds fresh produce at the Union ing Ukraine sometime in the near future to as she is at decorating pysanky. She likes to time “for the flavors to marry” by refriger- Square outdoor market, located close to the compare her borsch to “the real thing” in prepare different kinds of borsch – meatless ating it for five days, then reheating it slow- Foundation Center, where she works as her maternal grandparents’ homeland. borsch, borsch with chicken, and traditional ly and tasting. Freshly chopped dill and any Ukrainian borsch made with meat and a extra seasonings she feels are needed are cornucopia of vegetables, sometimes serv- stirred in to give the borsch a ing all three at one meal. Each year she “meat/smoke/tart/sweet/garlic/beet/earthy THREE RESOLUTIONS comes up with a different recipe for tradi- balance.” tional borsch that’s delicious and nutritious, If the weather allows, she puts the FOR THE NEW YEAR: with its own distinctive flavor. borsch out on the deck overnight during the “My borsch changes from year to year, five-day blending period to “cure” it. The 1. Stay on top of the news. and every year the recipe changes a little borsch is reheated before it is served to bit, since I try to make borsch light and eager diners. 2. Read The Ukrainian Weekly. healthy,” she explains. Last winter, her “Borscht 2007,” a gour- Before she begins cooking, she takes a met borsch that’s a meal in itself, was 3. 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Acting Internal Affairs Minister Crimean Tatars... Mykhailo Kornienko noted that there are (Continued from page 2) still over 80 land plots in Crimea “which developers who build resorts in the area. should be vacated because they were ille- Tatars believe that many of these con- gally grabbed.” struction projects are illegal, and that the The prosecutor for Crimea, Viktor local authorities are corrupt and work in Shemchuk, who is loyal to President cahoots with developers. Yushchenko and Our Ukraine, said that police actions at Ay-Petri were unprofes- On November 1, 2007, several hun- sional, but he conceded that Tatars had dred Tatars clashed with representatives occupied the plot illegally. of a construction company in The leader of Crimea’s radical Russian Symferopol. The company said Tatars Bloc, Oleg Rodivilov, speaking to had seized its construction site and built Congratulations Segodnya, accused Mr. Yushchenko and houses there illegally. Tatars said that the his party of covering up what he company only “claimed” to own the plot described as illegal land grabs by Tatars. Maria Piatka and that they wanted to protect their Tatar protesters, meanwhile, set up a property from demolition. Police appar- on your 90th Birthday, Jan 8th. tent city in downtown Symferopol, ently did not interfere, and nobody was demanding that the Crimean police seriously injured or detained. should be dismissed and punished for the We wish you health and happiness A more serious conflict broke out on Ay-Petri incident and that the arrested November 6, 2007, when police repatriates should be freed. The Tatars destroyed a Crimean Tatar café and sev- promised an open-ended protest. Daughter Theresa with husband Alex eral unfinished buildings at Mount Ay- Granddaughter Karen with husband Ray Petri. About 1,000 riot police clashed Sources: UNIAN, November 1; Channel Grandson Steven with some 500 Tatars who tried to pre- 5, November 6, 10; Interfax-Ukraine, vent the demolition. Police say they Great grandchildren Ryan and Jason November 7, 8; Segodnya, November 10; obeyed a court order, but Tatars insist Zerkalo Nedeli, November 11. that only one of the destroyed sites was Mnohaya Lita! illegal. Police arrested 18 repatriates for resistance; four more repatriates were Crimean Tatars end rallies hospitalized, including one with a gun- shot wound. A video of the clash, which in downtown Symferopol was shown on TV channels nationwide, prompted accusations of police brutality. Ukrinform Police said that the Tatars had pre- KYIV – Supporters of the Mejlis of pared Molotov cocktails and threatened the Crimean Tatar people started disman- to set fire to a liquefied gas cylinder. The tling the tent camp in downtown Tatars denied this and accused the police Symferopol that was erected on of brutally beating and shooting unarmed November 8, 2007, to protest against the people at Ay-Petri. policies of Crimean authorities and The Crimean Mejlis ruled to establish actions of law enforcement bodies Tatar militia units to protect Tatar proper- against Crimean Tatars. ty across Crimea, but Mr. Dzhemilev per- The Mejlis statement said the decision sonally vetoed this move, fearing it to end the protest action since Monday would only escalate the conflict. was passed to confirm the “invariability Speaking on Ukrainian TV, however, Mr. of the position” of the Mejlis “that all Dzhemilev made it clear that this was problems can and must be settled through only a gesture of goodwill, one that can a dialogue of all interested parties.” be reversed. He said that he did not see Refat Chubarov, deputy chair of the why it would be illegal for Tatars to set Mejlis, commented on the decision to up their own militia when the local Slav suspend the protest rally and dismantle militia units have been active in the area the tents, saying that the further decisions for years. on resuming the picket will be taken pro- The party of Ukrainian President ceeding from the Cabinet’s activities. “If Viktor Yushchenko, Our Ukraine, which the assault and battery on Crimean Tatars has historically supported the Tatars, occurs elsewhere, as it did on Mount Ay- reacted to the incidents by accusing the Petri, the protests will be resumed.” Crimean authorities of provoking ethnic On November 6, 2007, unauthorized conflict. “It is the Crimean authorities’ buildings of the Crimean Tatars were discriminatory attitude toward repatriated demolished atop Mount Ay-Petri. Crimean Tatars” and “selective applica- Crimean authorities said this was done tion of law” that creates conflicts, Our based upon a ruling by the Crimean eco- Ukraine said in a statement. nomic court. The Crimean Tatars claim Ukraine’s Internal Affairs Ministry, the ruling concerned only one plot, but which is controlled by Our Ukraine’s that seven to eight buildings were demol- rivals from the Party of the Regions, said ished. Twenty-eight Tatars were detained that the police acted lawfully at Ay-Petri. for resistance to police.

the development of the “Ukrainian Kules honored ... Weddings” exhibit featured at the 2007 (Continued from page 13) Toronto Ukrainian Festival. be available across Canada. *** The Kule Endowment supports the research and travel of graduate students and The University of Alberta in Edmonton has attracted students from around the is one of the top 100 teaching and research world, including Ukraine, the United States universities in the world, serving some and Turkey, in addition to Canada. Kule 37,000 students with more than 11,000 fac- monies have allowed the establishment of a ulty and staff. Founded a century ago, the new post-doctoral research position which university has an annual budget in excess of should be filled next year. Their funds as $1 billion and attracts more than $480 mil- well as monies from other folklore support- lion in external research funding. It offers ers, including Erast Huculak and the Wasyl close to 400 undergraduate, graduate and and Anna Kuryliw family have been used in professional programs in 18 faculties. Tired of second-hand news? Read The Weekly to get the news first hand, as reported and prepared by our experienced team of editors and correspondents. No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 21 COMMUNITY CHRONICLE: Minneapolis honors St. Nicholas by Dr. Michael J Kozak tor, Dmytro Tataryn, his wife, Helen, the teachers and parents, the program was MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Veneration presented by the children, students of the of St. Nicholas came to Ukraine from School of Ukrainian Studies. It was Byzantium with the Christian faith. In the directed by Lesya Hutsal, Volodymyra Ukrainian rite, devotion to St. Nicholas is Kramarzcuk, Kateryna Dyachuk and the very deep; Ukrainians honor him as school choir director, Yuri Ivan. though he were a native saint. Many The following children took part in the churches were erected in his honor in program: Sofia and Taras Hutsal, Dina Ukraine and in countries wherever and Lidia Krykun, Natalka and Sophia Ukrainian people settled. Medvetski, Kiefer Miskiw, Julianna, St. Nicholas is venerated for his charity Leeza and Tauras Pawluk, Mika Pedro, and generosity to the poor, as a defender Michael and Nykola Phillipi, Quin of all the afflicted, as well as the guardian Ramos, Hadley and Jefferson Slocum, of children and orphans. Often in Aleksa and Taras Tataryn, Halia, Nazar Ukrainian homes one will see an icon of and Olha Voronchak, as well as a former St. Nicholas displayed on the wall. student, Stanley Miskiw. Traditional programs are staged annually All the children beautifully sang for children in honor of this special saint, Ukrainian songs honoring St. Nicholas. at which time they receive presents. The piano solos by Michael and Nykola Following this tradition, at St. Phillipi and Sophia Hutsal, as well as Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Parish, songs sung by the trio of Denise, Aleksa Schoolchildren (and some adults) of Minneapolis with St. Nicholas. where Father Canon Michael Stelmach is and Taras Tataryn and the trio of Maria, pastor, a program to honor St. Nicholas Halia and Olha Voronchak added variety Taras Tataryn and a modern dance solo juice prepared by the mothers of the per- was held in the school auditorium on to the program of Christmas music. Flute by Mika Pedro. formers. At the closing of the program, Sunday, December 9, 2007, after the solos were performed by Aleksa Tataryn Members of the audience enjoyed a all the children received gifts from St. divine liturgy. Thanks to the school direc- and Lidia Krykun, a clarinet solo by brunch of soup, salad, sweets, coffee and Nicholas. ORTHODONTIST Dr. Daniel A. 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Europe’s Carpathian Mountain region The Lviv-based band’s appearance at when the Lviv-based folk band Burdon the University of Alberta complements and performs several concerts in the New Year. reinforces the university’s strong ties with Most of the group’s appearances will be Lviv, especially with Ivan Franko at the University of Alberta here in University. Two years ago the University Edmonton. The band is scheduled to per- of Alberta inaugurated a student exchange form at Convocation Hall on January 29 (at 7:30 p.m.), and will be featured at the final program with Ivan Franko University and gala International Week concert on there has been much ongoing collaboration February 1 at Myer Horowitz Theater among scholars from the two institutions in (7:30 p.m.). The group is also to appear at Ukrainian studies, education and in chem- other International Week-sponsored events, istry. The Ukrainian Language and including at a Ukrainian folk dance work- Literature Program offers an annual shop, and will meet with students and pro- “Ukrainian through its Living Culture” fessors. International Week, held annually summer school course in Lviv. to raise awareness about global issues, is As the province of Alberta and the Lviv sponsored by the University of Alberta Oblast government have signed a memo- International. randum of understanding, the folk band’s Other scheduled appearances in Alberta appearance in Alberta is an activity that include concerts on January 30 (7:30 p.m.) reinforces the relationship between these at the Nancy Appleby Theatre in Athabasca two regions. and in Calgary on February 2 (5 p.m.) at The ensemble’s visit to North America the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is being organized by the University of Parish Hall. The group also will hold a Alberta’s Canadian Institute of Ukrainian workshop/recital at the Banff Center for Studies (CIUS). In this undertaking, CIUS the Arts Music and Sound Building on has received support from the vice-presi- February 4 (4:30 p.m). dent (research), Wirth Institute for Austrian Following its stay in Alberta, the group The folk band Burdon of Lviv. and Central European Studies, Ukrainian will appear in concert with the Rozmai Language and Literature Program, Alberta Ukrainian Dance Company in Winnipeg tional folk music of Eastern and Central first containing Carpathian repertoire (“Re: Foundation for the Arts, University of on February 8 at Jubilee Place (7:30 p.m.). Europe, especially the Carpathian Karpatia”) and the second of Christmas Alberta International, Ukrainian Canadian Formed in 2002, Burdon has developed Mountain region, which is known as a carols (“Vam Koliadochka”). The band also Benevolent Society of Edmonton, and the a strong following and won critical acclaim kaleidoscope of nations and ethnic groups. plays Nordic and other European folk Peter and Doris Kule Center for Ukrainian for its world-music interpretations of tradi- In 2006 the group released two CDs: the music. Burdon has appeared at many folk and Canadian Folklore. Yara Arts Group to present Ukrainian poetry “In a Different Light” NEW YORK – Yara Arts Group and the has now organized the “In a Different Many musicians will appear throughout Ukrainian Institute of America will present Light” festival. the festival. They include: Julian Kytasty “In a Different Light: Ukrainian Poetry – Twenty visual artists are to to create with Mike Andrec and Bandura-New York, Translations, Interpretations and installations inspired by Ukrainian poems Christine Nora, Odarka Polanskyj and Revisions” on January 18-19. The two-day translated by Ms. Tkacz and Ms. Phipps. Marusia Sonevytska. Shigeko Suga will festival of poetry will include an art exhibit, Participating artists include: Anya Farion, present a dance in response to a Ukrainian performances of poetry by Yara actors, a Annette Friedman, Roman Hrab, Petro poem. concert by Mariana Sadovska and readings Hrytsyk, Peter Ihnat, Olena Karasyuk, Olga The art exhibit will open on Friday, by poets. Maryschuk, Svitlana Matviyenko, January 18, at 8 p.m. Music, poetry and All the events will take place at the Margaret Morton, Kateryna Nemyra, dance will fill the three floors of the man- Ukrainian Institute of America at 2 E. 79th Andrea Odezynska, Oksana Prokopenko, sion. The evening will include a wine and St. at Fifth Avenue in New York City. Joel Schlemowitz, Marko Shuhan, Ilyona cheese reception with the artists. For over 18 years Virlana Tkacz and Sochynsky, Mariya Tarassishina, Marybeth The art exhibit will be open to the public Wanda Phipps have been translating Ward and Sofia Zielyk. the following afternoon at 1-5 p.m. Ukrainian poetry and ritual songs. These The artists have chosen to work with Mariana Sadovska will also conduct work- translations have formed the core of the poems by contemporary Ukrainian poets, shops in traditional Ukrainian singing. original theater pieces and performances such as Serhiy Zhadan, Oksana Zabuzhko, A special gala at 8 p.m., Saturday, that Yara Arts Group has created at La Mykola Vorobyov, Ludmila Taran, Neda January 19, will feature Yara actors per- MaMa Experimental Theater, Harvard Nezhdana, Vasyl Holoborodko, as well as forming Ukrainian poetry in their signature Ukrainian Summer Institute and The poets from the 1920s such as Pavlo style, interweaving the original text with its Ukrainian Museum, as well as in Ukraine. Tychyna and Volodymyr Svidzinsky, and translation, so that the two languages seem To celebrate this monumental work Yara ritual songs. to be speaking to each other. Askold Melnyczuk, Bob Holman, Kristina Alexander Khantaev Lucenko, Vasyl Makhno, Christine Mariana Sadovska, who will sing at Turczyn and Ms. Phipps will read their Yara’s “In a Different Light” poetry own works. The evening will conclude festival. with a concert by Ms. Sadovska. Afterwards, food artist Olesia Lew will with Yara was recognized this fall by UKRAINIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA introduce the audience to dishes inspired President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine, LOOKING FOR NEW MEMBERS by poems. who awarded her the title of Honored Yara’s Artistic Director Virlana Tkacz IF YOU ARE A PHYSICIAN, DENTIST, OR OTHER HEALTH PROFESSIONAL Artist of Ukraine. said; “The magnificence of our literary and “In a Different Light” is the 14th major EITHER PRACTICING OR TRAINING, HERE’S YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN oral traditions is overlooked today in our YOUR COLLEAGUES IN NORTH AMERICA’S PREMIER ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. cultural event Yara has presented at the communities because it is no longer acces- Ukrainian Institute of America. The group FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE WRITE TO: sible to most members. We need to restore is a resident company at the internationally UKRAINIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA the power of the word, preserve the content acclaimed La MaMa Experimental Theater 2247 W. CHICAGO AVENUE of our poems, songs and incantations, if in New York. The group creates original CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60622 these are to have deep meaning for the gen- theatre pieces that celebrate the cultures of TELEPHONE: 773-278-6262 erations of Ukrainian Americans to come. the East, especially Ukraine. OR FAX YOUR REQUEST TO 773-278-6962 Yara’s performances are structured to give Ukrainian poetry a voice in a form that can Tickets for “In a Different Light” are NAME: ______be enjoyed by Ukrainian-speakers, as well available for each event at the door; ticket prices: $15; Saturday, $25; both evenings, ADDRESS: ______as people who speak little or no Ukrainian. We believe it is important that our commu- $30. CITY: ______nity events become inclusive, welcoming Participants of Mariana Sadovska’s STATE: ______ZIP: ______DAYTIME PHONE: ______non-Ukrainian family members, as well as singing workshop must pre-register with our neighbors, to the bounty of our culture.” Yara. For further information call Yara The importance of Ms. Tkacz’s work 212-475-6474 or e-mail [email protected]. No. 1 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 23 OUT AND ABOUT

January 12 Malanka, with music by Vorony and January 19 Ukrainian Christmas Eve Dinner, Ukrainian Mississauga, ON Zahrava, Ukrainian Youth Association, Lehighton, PA Homestead, 215-235-3709 Mississauga Convention Center, www.cym.org/ca/malanka/2008/index.asp January 19 Malanka, St. Demetrius Ukrainian Carteret, NJ Orthodox Cathedral and St. Mary January 12 Malanka, featuring music by Halychany, Ukrainian Catholic Church, St. Demetrius Hartford, CT Ukrainian National Home of Hartford Inc., Community Center, 732-541-5452 860-563-4072 January 19 Malanka, featuring music by Hrim, January 12 Malanka, Assumption of the Virgin Mary Jenkintown, PA Ukrainian American Youth Association, Ottawa Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral hall, 613- Ukrainian Educational and Cultural 722-7075 or 613-728-0856 Center, 215-870-3408 or 215-990-8146 January 13 “A (Songlines) Globalfest Showcase” January 24 Lecture by Andrey Kurkov, “Ukrainian New York featuring Chango Spasiuk, Marlin Room, Washington Literature and Ukrainian Politics: Which Webster Hall, www.globalfest-ny.org or 866-448-7849 One is More Dynamic?” Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, January 18 Lecture by Taras Kuzio, “Ukraine’s EU 202-691-4000 Ottawa Aspirations: Is Ukraine in the Membership Queue?” Carleton University, Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to 613-520-2600 ext. 1179 or events advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome www.carelton.ca/ces submissions from all our readers; please send e-mail to mdubas@ukrweek- ly.com. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors and as January 19 Malanka, with music by Zolota Bulava, space allows; photos will be considered. Please note: items will be printed a Washington Ukrainian Association of Washington maximum of two times each. Metropolitan Area, Georgetown University, 301-854-2062

January 19 New Jersey Devils Alumni vs the Ukrainian West Orange, NJ Kozaks hockey fund-raiser, Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey and the Children of Chornobyl Relief and Development Fund, Richard J. Codey Arena, 973-590-8026

January 19 Debutante Banquet and Ball, Ukrainian Chicago Medical Association of North America, Ritz Carlton Hotel, 312-282-7017 or [email protected]

Devils alumni to play Kozaks in hockey match-up for charity WEST ORANGE, N.J. – Hockey pros Tickets can be picked up in advance at from the New Jersey Devils Alumni are Hockey Fundraiser Committee offices at scheduled to team up against the the UACCNJ, 60 North Jefferson Road, Ukrainian Kozaks of New York on Whippany, NJ. January 19 in a hockey game to raise CCRDF is approaching its 20th year funds for two New Jersey charities - the of providing life-saving humanitarian aid Children of Chornobyl Relief and to tens of thousands of ill children in Development Fund (CCRDF) and the Ukraine. Established in the aftermath of Ukrainian American Cultural Center of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the New Jersey (UACCNJ). CCRDF has sent 32 airlifts and 16 sea The puck drops at 2 p.m. at the Richard shipments filled with medical supplies J. Codey Arena (formerly the South and equipment to Ukraine. More than Mountain Arena), located at 560 $55 million of medical assistance has Northfield Ave., inside the South Mountain been delivered to 24 partner hospitals Reservation in West Orange, N.J. throughout Ukraine. CCRDF’s present Olympic Gold Medalist Viktor objective is to strengthen the Women’s Petrenko, a longtime supporter of and Children’s Health Initiative in the CCRDF, will take to the ice in a special fields of neonatology, perinatalogy, infant performance for the fund-raiser. cardiac surgery and pediatric oncology. New Jersey Devils players Patrik The UACCNJ, which opened its doors Elias, Bruce Driver, Rob Skrlac, Ken in November 2006, is an expansive cen- Daneyko, Glen “Chico” Resch and other ter established to facilitate the develop- teammates are scheduled to also appear ment of the Ukrainian American commu- to support the charities. nity in New Jersey, as well as promote Tickets are $50, $25, $20 and $10 and the rich cultural heritage of Ukraine can be reserved by calling 973-590-8026. among all residents of the tri-state area Gold and silver tickets have assigned and to ensure that this rich heritage con- seating; general seating is on a first-come tinues to be enjoyed by future genera- basis. Payment is by check or cash only. tions. MAY WE HELP YOU? To reach The Ukrainian Weekly call (973) 292-9800, and dial the appropriate extension (as listed below). Editorial – 3049, 3088; Production – 3063, 3069; Administration – 3041; Advertising – 3040; Subscriptions – 3042 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2008 No. 1

Yara Arts Group and the Ukrainian Institute of America present PREVIEW OF EVENTS Friday, January 11 Olesia Lew inspired by poems. The event takes place at 8 p.m. at the Ukrainian NEW YORK: The Center for Traditional Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St. at Fifth Music and Dance, Ukrainian Wave and Ave. Tickets at the door are $25. For infor- The Ukrainian Museum present “A mation call Yara, 212-475-6474, e-mail Ukrainian Christmas and New Year’s [email protected]. or log on to Concert, with Cheres and Friends,” at 7 www.brama.com/yara. p.m. at the museum, 222 E. Sixth St. (between Second and Third avenues). The IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT WEST ORANGE, N.J.: acoustic folk group Cheres, led by Andriy The Children of Milavsky, joins the Holubka Dancers, Chornobyl Relief and Development Fund New York’s Promin Vocal Ensemble and (CCRDF) in conjunction with the New York Bandura Ensemble musicians Ukrainian American Cultural Center of performing Christmas songs (koliadky) New Jersey (UACCNJ) is hosting a hock- and New Year carols (schedrivky), moun- ey fund-raiser at the Richard J. Codey Ukrainian poetry: tain tunes, and the traditional “koza” or Arena (formerly South Mountain Arena) at goat dance symbolizing winter’s passage 2 p.m. Come and witness the exciting translations, into spring. Tickets $15 (discounts avail- match-up of the New Jersey Devils Alumni vs. the Ukrainian Kozaks, and see interpretations able). For reservations/information call 212-228-0110. Olympic Gold Medalist Viktor Petrenko and revisions perform as a special guest. The participa- Friday, January 18 tion of Patrik Elias, a current Devils play- NEW YORK: “In a Different Light – er, and more of his teammates, is antici- pated. Tickets are selling for $50, $25, $20 Friday, January 18 Ukrainian Poetry Translations, Interpretations and Revisions: Art Exhibit and $10. Stop by the UACCNJ or call 8:00 PM – Opening of the exhibit: Twenty visual artists react to Ukrainian poetry: Opening” will present the works of 20 973-590-8026. Anya Farion, Annette Friedman, Roman Hrab, Petro Hrycyk, Peter Ihnat, Olena artists invited by the Yara Arts Group to Karasyuk, Olga Maryschuk, Svitlana Matviyenko, Margaret Morton, Kateryna visually interpret Ukrainian poetry. Artists CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Medical Nemyra, Andrea Odezynska, Oksanan Prokopenko, Joel Schlemowitz, Marko featured: Anya Farion, Annette Friedman, Association of North America, Illinois Shuhan, Ilyona Sochynska, Mariya Tarassishina, Marybeth Ward and Sofia Zielyk. Roman Hrab, Petro Hrycyk, Peter Ihnat, Chapter, requests the honor of your com- Reading by Christine Turczyn, music by Julian Kytasty with Bandura- New York, Olena Karasyuk, Olga Maryschuk, pany at the traditional banquet and ball Odarka Polanskyj and Marusia Sonevytska. Svitlana Matviyenko, Margaret Morton, with presentation of the 2008 debutantes Kateryna Nemyra, Andrea Odezynska, in the Grand Ballroom at the Ritz Carlton Saturday, January 19 Oksana Prokopenko, Joel Schlemowitz, Hotel. Cocktails are at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. Evening attire is required. 1:00 – 5:00 PM Art exhibit. Singing workshops with Mariana Sadovska (pre-regis- Marko Shuhan, Ilyona Sochynska, Marybeth Ward and Sofia Zielyk. There Participation is limited to guests age 17 ter with Yara). will also be readings by poets, music and and over. Only guests with a prepaid ticket 8:00 PM – Gala performances – performances of poetry by Yara actors, readings dance pieces in the installations, as well as may view the presentation of debutantes. by poets Bob Holman, Kristina Lucenko, Askold Melnyczuk, Vasyl Makhno, a reception with artists. Tickets at door are Tickets to the banquet and ball are $150 Wanda Phipps and a concert by Mariana Sadovska and others, as well as food by $15. The event takes place at the per person; ball only, $40 per person. All Olesia Lew inspired by poems. Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. 79th proceeds from this year’s ball will be St. at Fifth Ave., beginning at 8 p.m. For donated to the Foundation of the January 18-19, 2008 tickets Friday $15, Saturday $25, both evenings $30 information call Yara, 212-475-6474, e- Ukrainian Medical Association of North America. A special room rate of $175 has Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th St at Fifth Ave NYC mail [email protected] or log on to www.brama.com/yara. been arranged for those interested in stay- www.brama.com/yara Yara Arts Group (212) 475-6474 ing at the Ritz-Carlton during the Saturday, January 19 UMANA debutante ball. In order to obtain NEW YORK: Yara Arts Group will pres- the discounted rate, reservations must be ent a vocal workshop in Ukrainian folk made before January 1, 2008. Please refer singing with Mariana Sadovska. Ms. to the “Ukrainian Medical Association” Sadovska has traveled through the when making your reservations; tele- Polissia, Poltava, Hutsul and Lemko phone, 312-266-1000. For information call regions of Ukraine, collecting songs and Katia Hrynewycz, 312-282-7017, or e- stories, and documenting rituals. Discover mail [email protected]. the folk voice in you. Enjoy traditional harmony singing, learn the ancient songs. CARTERET, N.J.: St. Demetrius You do not have to be able to read Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral and St. Ukrainian or music to participate. You Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church are co- must pre-register, as space is limited. For sponsoring a Malanka, which will be held time and place of workshops call Yara, at the St. Demetrius Community Center, 212-475-6474, or e-mail 681 Roosevelt Ave. Music will be by Fata [email protected]. Morgana. Tickets are $50, which includes admission, choice of sirloin beef or stuffed NEW YORK: “In a Different Light – capon dinner, open bar, midnight hors Ukrainian Poetry Translations, d’oeuvres and a champagne toast. Interpretations and Revisions: Gala (Outside liquor is prohibited.) The St. Performances” will present performances Demetrius Center is located just blocks of poetry by Yara actors of Ukrainian from Exit 12 of the New Jersey Turnpike. poetry and translations by Virlana Tkacz Doors open at 6 p.m.; dinner will be and Wanda Phipps, readings by poets Bob served at 7 p.m.; music begins at 8:30 p.m. Holman, Kristina Lucenko, Askold For tickets and table reservations call Melnyczuk, Vasyl Makhno and Ms. Peter Prociuk, 732-541-5452. Tickets will Phipps, and a concert by Mariana not be sold at the door. Deadline for tick- Sadovska and others, as well as food by ets is January 14.

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