AUGUST 24 – UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXXVI No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2018 $2.00 Ukrainian war veterans complete Ukrainians’ national pride deepens Canadian leg of bike ride for peace as country marks 27th Independence Day MONTREAL – On August 14, a team of its territory. Our team cycled 4,000 kilome- Ukrainian cyclists completed the Canadian ters in Canada and met with hundreds of leg of their 10,000-kilometer transconti- people across the continent. Canadians nental cycling tour to raise awareness support our goals, many of them biked about the need for peace in Ukraine. with us for peace,” said Chumak Way team The team of 10 cycling enthusiasts and leader Kostiantyn Samchuk, a veteran of war veterans, called “Chumak Way – Cycle the war in Ukraine’s eastern region. U.S. & Canada for Peace,” rides 100 to 200 The Canadian portion of the Chumak kilometers per day on its journey from the Way cycling tour started in Vancouver, Pacific to the Atlantic. One of the team’s slo- British Columbia, and went though the gans reads “10,000 km, 400 towns, 100 days.” Rocky Mountains to Calgary and Edmonton “Ukraine needs [the] help of countries like Canada in its efforts to protect peace on (Continued on page 14) Defense Ministry of Ukraine A Ukrainian soldier kisses the Ukraine national flag on the Khreshchatyk in Kyiv on August 20 during a rehearsal for a military parade to take place in the capital on August 24 for Ukrainian Independence Day. by Mark Raczkiewycz man, Kyrylo Rozumovsky, made their base of operations, another assembly is gathering. KYIV – Kozak regiments of old aren’t tri- Multiple award-winning singer Ruslana umphantly riding on horseback into a for- Lyzhychko is leading an array of artists to tress at the former Hetman state capital of mark National Flag Day for the second con- Baturyn in Chernihiv Oblast, 140 miles east secutive year on the eve of Ukraine’s of Kyiv, for the nation’s Flag Day celebration Independence Day. Titled, “Renaissance of on August 23. Independence,” the free concert’s purpose is In their place, where such nation-building to popularize a site that is lesser known in Misha Lytvynyuk Photography leaders of the Hetmanate as Demian The Chumak Way team in Ottawa with Ukraine’s Ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko. Mnohohrishny, Ivan Mazepa and the last het- (Continued on page 11) Orthodox Church of Canada marks its centennial with Sobor and gala banquet Compiled by Matthew Dubas who was seeking ownership. Some 154 del- egates from three Prairie provinces, led by PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Ukrainian 30 prominent lay leaders, decided that the Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC) on needs of the community would best be August 9-12 marked the centennial of its served by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church establishment on Canadian soil in established on Canadian soil, and it was Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, as it concurrently this meeting that is seen as the birthplace held its Extraordinary Sobor (national of the UOCC. council meeting). More than 190 clergy and Following divine liturgy on Thursday, an delegates were registered for the Sobor. All-Canada Clergy Conference was held at The four-day celebration began on the institute. Presentations were made by Thursday with a hierarchical divine liturgy Bishop Sotorios of the Greek Orthodox celebrated by Bishop Andriy of the Eastern Church of Canada and exarch of Canada for Eparchy at the Chapel of St. Petro Mohyla the Ecumenical Patriarchate (who delivered Institute, founded 102 years ago. Clergy, greetings from Ecumenical Patriarch under the direction of the Rev. Michael Bartholomew); Archbishop Job of Telmessos, Lomaszkiewicz, sang the responses. a personal representative of the Ecumenical The St. Petro Mohyla Institute played a Patriarchate at the World Council of major role in the founding of the UOCC, as Churches in Geneva; Archbishop Daniel of the first “confidential meeting” of Ukrainian the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. Orthodox faithful was held in Saskatoon on uocofusa.org (UOC-U.S.A.); and the Very Rev. Taras Udod, July 18-19, 1918. The meeting was held to From left: Bishop Ilarion (UOCC), Archbishop Job (Ecumenical Patriarchate), chancellor of the Consistory of the UOCC. defend the institute from efforts by Metropolitan Yurij (UOCC), Archbishop Daniel (UOC-U.S.A.) and Bishop Andriy Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Nykyta Budka, (UOCC), standing behind the hierarchs is Metropolitan emeritus Ivan (UOCC). (Continued on page 10) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2018 No. 34 ANALYSIS NATO summit puts Black Sea strategy On 100th day of Sentsov hunger strike city’s ancient fortress, known as the Kazan Kremlin. In London, a group of demonstra- Supporters of jailed Ukrainian filmmaker tors gathered outside Russia’s Embassy, on hold for another year Oleh Sentsov on August 21 marked the shouting, “Free Sentsov.” The PEN 100th day of his hunger strike with the Black Sea, using this space as a plat- International association of writers, which by Vladimir Socor renewed demands for Russia to release form for capturing energy markets along organized the rally, planned to deliver “mes- Eurasia Daily Monitor him. A vocal opponent of Russia’s 2014 two projected routes: Black Sea-Bulgaria- sages of support from all over the world” to takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, the Embassy and urge the Russian authori- Part II Serbia-Hungary-Austria, and/or Black Sea- Mr. Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years in Turkey-Greece-Italy. These will allow ties to ensure that Mr. Sentsov is allowed to The unfinished business that NATO’s prison after being convicted by a Russian receive them in the penal colony where he Brussels Summit left over in the Black Sea Russia to project its power from the Black court in 2015 of conspiring to commit ter- Sea into the Levant, to intimidate Turkey by is being incarcerated. And in the Czech region (see Part I, Eurasia Daily Monitor, rorist acts. The 42-year-old has been on a Republic, filmmakers said they were July 30) will need to be addressed at the outflanking that country from the southern hunger strike at a penal colony in front in Syria, or to support Kremlin- launching a rotating hunger strike in soli- Alliance’s upcoming meetings of defense Labytnangi in Russia’s northern region of darity with their Ukrainian colleague, with and foreign ministers in October and there- controlled companies trying elbow their Yamalo-Nenets since May. He is demanding way into eastern Mediterranean natural seven of them participating in the first rota- after (Nato.int, pars. 18, 22-25, 28-29, July that Russia release 64 Ukrainian citizens tion. “We’ll be on hunger strike for five days, 11). That unfinished business involves gas projects. Moscow aims, first, to become that he considers political prisoners. the strategic arbiter in the Black Sea, and from this morning until August 25,” Vit counterbalancing Russia in and around the Russian authorities are reluctant to free Mr. Janecek, a member of the Czech Association Black Sea, not only as a strategic objective in from that springboard to play a political- Sentsov, despite reports of a dramatic military arbiter’s role in the Levant. of Directors, Writers and Playwrights, told its own right, but also as a means to prevent decline in his health and pressure from the AFP news agency. “We’re launching this Moscow’s growing capacity for intimida- Russia from using the Black Sea to project Western governments and human rights initiative in the hope that other people will tion in the Black Sea, and lengthening reach its power beyond this region’s confines. groups, which have backed the film direc- join during the next five-day cycles until the beyond it, is still a rel- Russia is making tor’s contention that the charges against Sentsov case is resolved,” he added. And the atively manageable progress toward its him were politically motivated. On August French newspaper Le Monde carried a plea. problem at this stage. goal to turn much of Moscow welcomes 21, several dozen people demonstrated in (RFE/RL, with reporting by AFP, AP, RFE/ For now, NATO and the Black Sea’s mari- front of the Russian Embassy in Ukraine’s RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service, and RFE/RL’s the perception of the U.S. possess a time and air spaces capital, Kyiv, in support of the filmmaker. Russian Service) into Russian interior the Black Sea be- window of opportu- Some of the participants carried signs read- communication lines. nity to address this ing, “Free Sentsov” and “Stop [Russian RFE/RL questions ‘confession’ of blogger It was already coming a Russian- problem within the President Vladimir] Putin.” Meanwhile, Black Sea, before the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/ advancing toward dominated lake. Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry spokes- RL) says an alleged “confession” of spying that goal with classi- problem grows out of woman Maryana Betsa tweeted that Kyiv control both within by Ukrainian blogger and RFE/RL contrib- cal-conventional demands Mr. Sentsov’s immediate release. utor Stanislav Aseyev that aired on Russian and beyond the region. The possibilities for forces before having honed its “anti-access, “It is the 100th day of O. Sentsov’s hunger TV was “highly questionable” and demand- counteraction will keep narrowing, howev- area denial” (A2/AD) capabilities. Thus, in strike. It is a scary number. Human life is ed his immediate release from detention by er, if Russia continues its accumulation of 2008, Russia’s fleet sailed from Crimea to the highest value. We demand that the Moscow-backed separatists.