Inside: l International probe: missile from Russia shot down MH17 – page 3 l 75th anniversary of the Babyn Yar executions – page 3 l Patriarch Sviatoslav consecrates UCU’s university church – page 8

ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXIV No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 $2.00 Rising national pride noted in Ukraine XXII Congress of Ukrainians in the face of Russian military aggression in America held in Hartford by Mark Raczkiewycz told The Ukrainian Weekly in an e-mailed note. “Someone who breaks into your KYIV – Last week Ukraine’s Parliament, house and kills your family at night, and the Verkhovna Rada, voted not to recognize then pretends it never happened.” elections to Russia’s State Duma because Protecting Russian speakers outside the Crimea was an election district. country’s borders has been a constant Urging the international community to theme that Russia’s president, Vladimir follow suit, a strong majority of 264 law- Putin, has often invoked for intervention. makers called the vote on the illegally Pro-Russian protests erupted in Crimea fol- annexed territory “illegitimate,” concluding lowing the Euro-Maidan Revolution when that the entire election was thus invalid. the Verkhovna Rada on February 23, 2014, It underscored rising feelings of national repealed a language law adopted two years pride in the face of military aggression, an earlier that had given Russian special status. economic embargo and persistent informa- Exposed mostly to biased Russian media tional warfare waged by Russia. Across the and, at times, propaganda, the peninsula’s city, car owners have attached adhesive ethnic Russian population unjustifiably and decals of Ukrainian embroidery on their ostensibly feared repression. Then on March vehicles, T-shirts adorned with Ukraine’s 1, 2014, Russia’s Parliament – two days after national symbol, the trident, are frequently armed men with unmarked military fatigues worn, and the Ukrainian language is heard took over key government buildings on the more often on Kyiv’s streets. peninsula – authorized Mr. Putin to use mili- Patriotism also transcends linguistic and tary force to “protect… Russian citizens, our Irene Rejent Saviano ethnic lines. Many Russian-language speak- fellow countrymen and the personnel of the The newly elected president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, ers with pro-Ukrainian views have changed military contingent… deployed on the terri- Andriy Futey. their attitudes towards their belligerent tory of Ukraine.” UCCA changes to the organization’s by-laws, northeastern neighbor, once considered a In fact, the Russian speakers with whom received greetings from two presidential brotherly nation. The Ukrainian Weekly spoke said they feel HARTFORD, Conn. – The XXII Congress candidates, and charted a course forward Katya Gorchinskaya, CEO of the comfortable speaking their native language of Ukrainians in America, held at the over the next four years and beyond for the Hromadske TV network and a Russian speak- Ukrainian National Home in Hartford, and can easily access Russian-language lit- organized Ukrainian diaspora in the United er, said her views have changed since Russia Conn., over the weekend of September erature and other media. States. invaded Crimea in late February 2014. 23-25, elected Andriy Futey as president of “I don’t need protection, thank you very Over 80 registered delegates followed in “I had a very neutral view of Russia prior the Ukrainian Congress Committee of to the war… now they are an enemy,” she (Continued on page 8) America (UCCA), ratified over two dozen (Continued on page 4)

The audacity of Nadiya Savchenko: former prisoner speaks in Washington

by Melinda Haring understand he has no chance of keeping any of the Atlantic Council Ukrainian prisoners currently being held – illegally – by him,” said Ms. Savchenko. WASHINGTON – “Russian propaganda made the mis- Since her release, she has thrown herself into her new take of using me as an example, and I just became too duties as a parliamentarian, running on energy drinks, ciga- expensive for them. I am a person who never gives up,” rettes and little sleep. Before being captured by Russian- said Nadiya Savchenko, a former prisoner of war, current backed separatists, Ms. Savchenko was a pilot and creature of member of Ukraine’s Parliament, and one of the country’s the army. She now favors tailored vests and smart boots, most popular politicians, on September 22. answers questions about other politicians diplomatically and Three days earlier, the Atlantic Council gave Ms. exudes a sense of urgency. Savchenko its Freedom Award in New York City. The award While Ms. Savchenko was held in prison, she gained had been bestowed in 2015 and accepted by her sister near mythical status; some compared her to Joan of Arc. Vera while Ms. Savchenko was being held in a Russian pris- When she returned to Ukraine, she was suddenly the most on on trumped-up charges. She was released on May 25 popular politician in the country. Initially, she did not hesi- and arrived in Kyiv to a hero’s welcome. tate to criticize anyone and refused to bow and scrape to In a wide-ranging discussion at the Atlantic Council in the political establishment. Washington, the pilot-turned-politician urged the internation- At the Atlantic Council, Ms. Savchenko exhibited some of al community to fight to free every single Ukrainian locked up her trademark audacity. She reminded the audience that she in Russia. “I was not the only prisoner in a Russian jail. I doesn’t represent a particular constituency but rather all of would like you to continue this struggle to support my col- Ukraine, which gives her the freedom to pursue big issues. leagues who are still there,” Ms. Savchenko said. According to Her experience in the army and in a Russian jail gives her a the Let My People Go Campaign, there are at least 28 Yaro Bihun unique vantage point. “I’m the only deputy who has experi- Nadiya Savchenko, former Ukrainian military pilot and Ukrainian political prisoners behind bars in Russia. enced Russian aggression first hand,” she said, adding that now a member of the Verkhovna Rada, discusses her Bringing attention to the fate of Ukraine’s prisoners has experience as a prisoner of war in Russia and her views she’s also one of the only people who really knows what’s been a persistent theme since her release, and she has on the situation in Ukraine and its relationship with going on in the army and what needs to be reformed. urged President Petro Poroshenko to focus on the issue. “It Russia at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington is important for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to on September 22. (Continued on page 11) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 No. 40

COMMENTARY

Those attacking Ukrainian archives 75th anniversary of Babyn Yar than two years after Russia seized and ille- KYIV – Ukraine is marking the 75th gally annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, should improve their own research anniversary of the World War II-era mass Crimea’s pro-Russian Supreme Court execution of 33,771 Jews at the Babyn Yar branded the Mejlis as an extremist organi- by Andriy Kohut munization in fact opened access to former ravine with official remembrances at the zation and officially banned it. The Mejlis Soviet and KGB archives for foreign and killing site on the outskirts of Kyiv. The had been legalized by the Ukrainian gov- On May 2, Foreign Policy magazine pub- Ukrainian researchers. In 2015, many his- commemoration on September 29 will be ernment in 1999. Crimea’s indigenous lished an article by Josh Cohen, a former torians and political scientists worked in attended by world leaders; Ukrainian Tatars make up about 12 percent of employee of the U.S. State Department, titled the archives of the SBU, including 42 for- President Petro Poroshenko is hosting the Crimea’s population of 2.5 million people. “The Historian Whitewashing Ukraine’s eign researchers; 26 researchers worked events. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who Many Crimean Tatars fled the territory Past” (http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/ there during the first four months of 2016, had been on a state visit to Ukraine, had to after it was seized by Russian military forc- 02/the-historian-whitewashing-ukraines- including two vocal critics of the de-com- return to Israel on September 28 following es in February 2014 and illegally annexed past-volodymyr-viatrovych/). Although Mr. munization process. These researchers the death of Israeli statesman Shimon by Moscow in March 2014. Crimean Tatars Cohen’s criticism of Ukraine’s archives open have come from Canada, the United Peres. The September 29-30 slaughter of who have remained in the occupied territo- access policies are a mixture of slander, Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, the three Baltic Jewish men, women, and children at the ry complain of harassment and enforced speculation and unfounded fears, Foreign states, Moldova and, importantly, Russia. In Babyn Yar ravine in 1941 was an early disappearances under the Moscow-backed Policy magazine never responded to my let- addition, the SBU archives participates in example of the industrial-scale murder the authorities there. Russia has been severely ters and did not explain why they would not joint research projects with six countries: Nazis would employ in their quest to anni- criticized by international rights groups publish my response which is given below. Poland, the Czech Republic, France, hilate the Jews. Overall, up to 100,000 more and Western governments for its treatment Germany, the United States and Israel. people were executed at Babyn Yar during of the Turkic-speaking Muslim minority The historian alleged to have cleansed Unfortunately, none of those American, the Nazi occupation of Kyiv. Ukrainian since the annexation. (RFE/RL, with Ukraine’s past of undesirable episodes is European or Russian researchers who have Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman on reporting by Interfax and TASS) Dr. Volodymyr Viatrovych, head of the worked in the SBU archives were referred September 29 called on all Ukrainians to Ukrainian Institute of National House OKs lethal weapons for Ukraine to in Mr. Cohen’s article. never forget the victims of Babyn Yar. Remembrance (UINM). The timing of the In demonizing Dr. Viatrovych, Mr. Cohen “There were Jews, Roma people, Soviet WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of article coincided with a series of articles also ascribes to him sole authorship of the prisoners of war, and fighters of the Representatives has backed legislation that that were published arguing that, even if Ukrainian laws on de-commmunization. In Ukrainian liberation movement among de-communization is to be expected, this is calls for supplying Ukraine with lethal doing so, Mr. Cohen has obviously never those executed by firing squads,” Mr. not the right place and the right time and is weaponry in its fight against Russia and heard about the “Open Archives” program Groysman wrote on his Facebook page. “We not being run by the best people. separatists in the eastern Donbas region. active since 2010 and resulting in many remember each of them.” Ukraine has been Mr. Cohen’s article is short on facts and large-scale projects from roundtables to marking the 75th anniversary of the massa- evidence. Mr. Cohen claims the UINM has voice vote on September 21, is the latest conferences and discussions. These cre with a weeklong observance during already received millions of documents effortТhe bill, by whichUkraine’s passed staunchest unanimously supporters by a numerous activities established a platform which the Verkhovna Rada held three hours from the former Soviet archives, when in in Washington to bolster its military forces. not only for historians such as Dr. reality this is not the case because the of hearings. Among the speakers were Kyiv has repeatedly requested from Viatrovych, but also for many other archive is just being launched. Moreover, Ukraine’s chief rabbi, Yaakov Dov Bleich, as Washington more advanced weaponry – researchers who were focused on develop- Mr. Cohen writes that the archives were well as parliamentary deputies and political such as Javelin anti-tank missiles – to aid its ing efficient mechanisms to open the “handed in” to Dr. Viatrovych, which is not dignitaries. Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman of fight against separatists. But President the case because the State Archival Service archives on Soviet repression to the gener- Kyiv’s Brodski Synagogue blew the tradi- Barack Obama’s administration has resist- of Ukraine is the government body that has al public. One of the results of this program tional shofar horn on the podium in a mark ed, fearing it would escalate the fighting. authority over the archives whose head is is the Digital Archive that currently pres- of respect for the mostly Jewish victims. Instead, the administration has limited its Tatyana Baranova and subordinated to the ents over 23,000 documents that are freely (RFE/RL, with reporting by RFE/RL’s supplies to things like flak jackets, night- Ministry of Justice of Ukraine (not the available online. Another product of coop- Ukrainian Service, AFP, Interfax and TASS) vision goggles and radar that helps locate eration with experts from the Reanimation UINM headed by Dr. Viatrovych). Court upholds ban on Tatars’ Mejlis where mortars are fired from. The legisla- Dr. Viatrovych, who is a well-known his- Packet of Reforms (RPR) was a law on tion, which goes to the U.S. Senate for con- torian, held the position of director of the open access to archives. Such legislation is MOSCOW – Russia’s Supreme Court has sideration, also aims to increase funding to archives of Security Service of Ukraine subject to thorough expert analysis and a upheld a decision by a Moscow-backed counter Russian propaganda. (RFE/RL) (SBU) until 2010 and, importantly, he was compliance test for different groups of Crimean court to ban the Mejlis, the self- Dnipro mourns two police officers the first person who ensured an equal and interest. governing body of Crimean Tatars in the unhindered access to documents of the for- Mr. Cohen does not attempt to be objec- occupied Ukrainian territory. The Mejlis’ DNIPRO, Ukraine – The city of Dnipro mer Soviet regime and performed the tive in balancing the comments from those lawyer Kirill Koroteyev said the September (formerly known as Dnipropetrovsk) in invaluable preparatory work necessary for who are critical with those who are sup- 29 ruling by the Russian court will be eastern Ukraine is observing a day of making them publicly accessible. When portive of the archives and de-communiza- appealed at the European Court of Human Viktor Yanukovych was elected president tion; instead he cites only critics. Mr. Cohen Rights in Strasbourg. On April 26, more (Continued on page 14) in 2010, the new head of SBU that he should have at the very least found more appointed overturned the previous policy reputable critics and then balanced these of permitting open access to archives, with Ukrainian or foreign researchers who exerted pressure and launched criminal have worked with the archives and have he krainian eekly FOUNDED 1933 cases against historians studying Soviet not faced any alleged problems of “censor- T U W repression and Ukraine’s national libera- ship,” the “whitewashing of archives” or the An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., tion movements. notorious “rewriting of history.” Dr. Taras a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 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by Rikard Jozwiak when it will be completed. He added that Ukrainian city of Luhansk and into Russia. told a news conference that the probe’s RFE/RL he thinks there is a “realistic chance” that An earlier report by the Dutch Safety findings showed that it was “biased and those responsible for the tragedy will be Board, a separate agency, also concluded politically motivated.” NIEUWEGEIN, The Netherlands – An prosecuted, although the venue for such a that MH17 was downed by a Buk fired from “Arbitrarily assigning blame and dream- international criminal investigation into the prosecution remains undetermined. separatist-controlled territory. ing up the desired results has become the MH17 tragedy in eastern Ukraine in 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot Hans de Borst, who lost his 17-year-old norm for our Western colleagues,” Ms. has determined the Malaysian Airlines pas- down on July 17, 2014, over Ukrainian air- daughter Elsemiek in the MH17 tragedy, Zakharova said. senger jet was shot down by a Buk anti-air- space while flying from Amsterdam to told journalists in Nieuwegein ahead of the Ahead of the report’s release, Russia craft missile fired from separatist-con- Kuala Lumpur. All 298 passengers and JIT presentation on September 28 that he tried to offer other explanations. On trolled territory in Ukraine. crew on board perished. was confident in the team’s findings. September 26, the Russian Defense Ministry The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) fur- “On basis of the criminal investigation, “All kinds of proof. Telephone taps, even released what it claimed was new radar evi- ther determined that the missile system we can conclude that Flight MH17 was new raw material, radars. American infor- dence showing the jet was downed by a was brought into Ukraine from Russia downed on July 17, 2014, by a rocket of the mation, classified information which missile shot from territory held by shortly before the tragedy and then smug- 9-M-83-38 series, fired from a Buk trailer, they’re not allowed to bring in the open Ukrainian troops. This claim contradicted gled back to Russia shortly afterward. and that this Buk trailer came from the ter- here. Witnesses... all kinds,” he said. “So I Moscow’s previous assertion that it had Presenting the JIT’s interim findings on ritory of the Russian Federation and have a lot of faith in this.” radar evidence showing that a Ukrainian September 28, the team’s head, Fred returned to the territory of the Russian Ukraine, whose eastern Donbas region air force fighter jet was to blame. Westerbeke, said the investigation had ruled Federation after the launch,” Wilbert remains largely under control of Russia- A representative of the self-proclaimed out all other possible explanations for MH17’s Pualissen, the head of the Dutch police backed separatists, welcomed the findings. separatist organization in Donetsk, Eduard crash, which killed all 298 people on board. investigation, told the press conference. “All other possible causes of this horrible Basurin, told Interfax that his forces had Mr. Westerbeke, who is also the The JIT showed an elaborate 10-minute tragedy were considered and rejected during “no such air-defense systems” and could Netherlands’ chief prosecutor, added that animation interlaced with photographs and the course of the criminal investigation,” the not have downed MH17. the JIT could not currently reveal all of its videos taken in July 2014 that showed the Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement. In July 2015, Russia used its U.N. findings for fear of hampering its criminal Buk system being brought into Ukraine and “This puts an end to all of Russia’s attempts to Security Council veto to block a resolution investigations. However, the investigation arriving near the town of Snizhne. It further discredit activities of the Joint Investigation aimed at creating an international MH17 has identified about 100 people who are presented audio and photographic evidence Team and conclusions by spreading distort- tribunal, saying that doing so would be being looked at further. that a missile was launched. Then the same ed or fabricated information.” “counterproductive.” Mr. Westerbeke said it is unknown how Buk unit, with only three missiles, was In Moscow, Russian Foreign Affairs long the JIT investigation will continue or traced moving by night back through the Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Continued on page 4)

FOR THE RECORD Our Shoah: Marking the 75th anniversary of the executions of Jews in Babyn Yar Following is the text of the speech, titled Thousands remain nameless, forgotten. Jews who marched to their executions their history of Eastern Europe, in the history of as given above, that was delivered by Bishop The Holocaust is a tragedy, a Shoah, a own neighbors and acquaintances. the world, so that such a tragedy may never Borys Gudziak on September 27 at the Catastrophe in human history. Ukraine In fact, Babyn Yar is our common history. be repeated. So that hatred may never Verkhovna Rada. The speaker is bishop of the became one of its main arenas. Along with It is the history of all Ukraine, not only of the become a guiding spirit for politics, deadly Eparchy in Paris for Ukrainian Catholics in Auschwitz, the symbol of death in the gas Jewish people. They were after all Kyivans, ideologies and homicidal passion. France, Benelux and Switzerland, as well as chamber, Babyn Yar has become a symbol Lvivites, Odessans, Vinnytsians. In almost What conclusions are to be drawn for president of the Ukrainian Catholic of the brutal execution by shooting. every city and town in Ukraine, there is a those of us who consider ourselves University in Lviv. Babyn Yar is a tragedy for all humanity, “yar,” a ravine, a ditch in front of which peo- Christian? Our conclusions based on the because in it human dignity was trampled ple were executed only because they were Gospel seem absurd to some, scandalous to “There are matters, there are tragedies, and the ultimate value of human life was Jews. Victims of the Holocaust on Ukrainian others, because “we preach Christ the whose enormity renders words powerless, negated. Myroslav Marynovych called lands numbered over a million Jews. Most Crucified One,” a God who suffers to save. about which silence is in fact more elo- Babyn Yar another place of the Great Fall of Ukrainian Jews died not in distant concen- We preach the Cross, but do we live it? This quent.” Half a century ago, in 1966, on the man. Through the killing of the innocent, tration camps; they were shot at the walls of question is paramount today (September 25th anniversary of the massacres in Babyn evil was articulated and fully manifested, so their cities, close to their homes. 14/27) as we celebrate the feast of the Yar, these were the intuitions of the dissi- that we could repent and begin to protect Along with Ivan Dzyuba in 1966, we are Exaltation of the Cross. The answer hum- dent Ivan Dzyuba, one of the most promi- human life and human dignity, always and silent – and cannot remain so. We must bles and even shames us. Modernity shows nent Ukrainian intellectuals of our time. everywhere. recover the names of the victims and that often we hardly live it at all. As he later admitted, this address, relevant Babyn Yar is the tip of an iceberg of trag- return their memory to their descendants, Not all Ukrainian sacrifices and suffering still today, was impromptu, a spontaneous edies that followed one after another. to us all. We must remember together. are recognized by the world. But this does response to the pain, fear and perplexity Between 1932 and 1947, residents of Sometimes it seems that Jews commemo- not mean that we should not respect the which Dzyuba saw in the eyes of those who Ukraine experienced a numbing list of rate “their” Shoah, and Ukrainians begin to sacrifices of others. We Christians are had gathered for this anniversary. For many catastrophes: the Holodomor, the remember “their” Holodomor. We forget called to look truth in the eye, admit histor- of them, the war, its terror, the preceding Holocaust, starvation of imprisoned sol- that this is our shared history – our ical facts, including our transgressions, and Holodomor and the unspeakable diers of the Soviet Army, the Volyn massa- Catastrophe, our Holodomor, our Volyn, our open up to the pain of others, not waiting Catastrophe – the Shoah that befell the Jews cre of Poles, the deportation of Crimean Wisla and our Crimean Tatar deportation. for the other to act first. This is a hard para- in Ukraine were lived memories. Maybe, they Tatars, the ethnic cleaning of Ukrainians We must recognize when Ukrainians dox of our faith derived from the radical themselves witnessed how on September through the operation “Wisla” and the were offenders. Such cases were, unfortu- and paradoxical example of our Savior, who 28-29, 1941, more than 30,000 Jews were led other atrocities before, during and after nately, not few in number. At the same time, urged his followers to love their enemies to be shot – their neighbors, fellow Kyivans. World War II. No other land experienced we cannot forget about the role of the many and to forgive those who have wronged Subsequently, in Babyn Yar thousands of such pervasive evil, such intense hatred. Ukrainian righteous ones, who risked them. This is not a strategy for instant Ukrainian patriots, Roma and representatives The historian Timothy Snyder put Ukraine everything to save the life and dignity of results. Yet, in this world, both beautiful of other nationalities were executed. in the heart of the “bloodlands,” calling it Jews. Eminent among the righteous is and fallen, this is a strategy that can lead to The stark blackness of hatred among the most dangerous territory at that time Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, the truth, reconciliation and mutual love. peoples, countries and the specter of ideol- on the whole planet for human life. Greek-Catholic archbishop of Lviv. There Our commemorations will be futile if ogy, be it Nazi brown or Communist red, For decades, the history of Babyn Yar, were also righteous ones on a simple, they do not lead us to truth, reconciliation negating the God-given dignity of human like the history of the Holodomor, was everyday level, such as both of my grand- and love: a truth about God, people and the beings should rouse us all, move us, force hushed up and ignored, cancelled from the mothers who delivered food to Jews hiding world; reconciliation not with evil, but in us to break out of our callous, sometimes, chronicles. A terrifying symbol of this per- from the Nazis. He and they serve for us as what is good, in respect, and love between sordid and shameful frame of reference – fidious camouflage was the Kurenivka trag- an example and a source of hope. The fact brothers and sisters created in the image also in this Rada. edy of 1961. To erase the memory of Babyn that we take pride in our righteous ones and likeness of God (Gn 1, 26). The quest After 75 years, there are few alive today Yar, literarily cover it geographically, Soviet argues that their behavior, stance and cour- for truth, reconciliation and fraternal love is who remember, but the memory lives on. authorities perpetrated a landslide that age should become ours. full of antinomy, contradictions that lead us For example about the family from Sophia buried more than a thousand innocent The events of the 20th century are a from the logic of “either/or” to the wisdom Street: Lahodskyj, Hersh Khayimovych, age lives. This pattern was repeated. The Nazis trauma for our people that we must and of “both/and.” Human evil and sin is a black 56; Lahodska, Anna Leybivna, age 56; destroyed Jews physically, and the can overcome. We are called to live fully, to opaque enigma, and God’s sacredness and Lahodskyj, Zynoviy Hershevych, age 31; Communists obliterated their memory. The leave behind the syndrome of trauma and our salvation in Him – a mystery and sacra- Lahodska-Brahinska, Rozaliya Hershivna, latter were so successful, that today many victimization, to which we are once again ment. Let us strive for this sacrament, age 29; Brahinska, Beba Semenivna, age 6; think that Jews with their rich millennial driven by Vladimir Putin, the war in the despite the efforts of the Enemy of Brahinskyj, Eduard Semenovych, age 5. spirituality, culture and social life were East, and the perverse populism today Humankind. In God, truth, reconciliation The ages and names reveal family rela- never in Ukraine, that they were not our fel- spreading through countries and conti- and love win in both the heavenly Kingdom tions. This is only one of the families whose low countrymen, that our grandmothers nents. It is necessary to include Babyn Yar and here, on Earth, and on this Ukrainian members’ names have reached us. and grandfathers did not recognize in the in our history and our consciousness, in the land as well. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 No. 40

Irene Rejent Saviano Delegates at the XXII Congress of Ukrainians in America held in Hartford, Conn. Ukrainian Catholics in America, the At the UCCA congress, he pressed the case on the millions of dollars and thousands of XXII Congress... Ukrainian National Credit Union for the presidential candidacy of Secretary hours of volunteerism donated in the U.S. (Continued from page 1) Association, the United Ukrainian Clinton and also offered his personal con- to aid Ukraine throughout the Revolution American Relief Committee, the Ukrainian viction that Ukraine, as a friend and ally to of Dignity and to support Ukraine’s defend- the footsteps of their predecessors who American Youth Association, New the United States, deserves additional sup- ers against Russian military aggression, the had gathered on 21 previous occasions Ukrainian Wave, the Organization for the port in the form of lethal defensive weap- panel featured two UCCA Executive Board over the past 76 years. Ukrainian commu- Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine, the ons. He said he hoped to see a President members, Dr. Larissa Kyj (UUARC) and Mr. nity leaders traveled from across New York, Women’s Association for the Defense of Clinton visit Ukraine for the fifth time early Sawkiw, director of the Ukrainian National Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Four Freedoms for Ukraine, and a repre- in her presidency, standing on the Maidan Information Service, and Vasili Rukhadze of Michigan, Massachusetts and Illinois. In sentative from the Illinois Division of the Nezalezhnosty (Independence Square), as the Georgian Association in the USA. addition to the leaders of individual local Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. a powerful symbol of the United States’ The second panel – “Hromada 2040” – chapters of the UCCA, the body of delegates Delegates to the congress arrived on resolve to support its friend and ally. was yet another interesting mix of voices was also made up of representatives of Friday evening for informal greetings and Mr. Burns finished his remarks by deliv- that led everyone present towards envision- notable organizations such as the United discussions at the Ukrainian National Home. ering a personal message from Secretary ing the Ukrainian diaspora in the coming Ukrainian American Relief Committee As the seat of the Greater Hartford Council of Clinton to the delegates that was distribut- decades. Roma Hadzewycz, editor-in-chief of (UUARC), the Ukrainian National Ukrainian American Organizations, the ed to all attendees. The message hailed the newspapers Svoboda and The Ukrainian Association, the Providence Association of National Home has been a center of the Ukrainian Americans as an important part Weekly, moderated the discussion presented Ukrainian Catholics in America, the Ukrainian community in the area for half a of “the fabric of our country” and empha- by Andrea Chalupa, award-winning author Ukrainian American Youth Association, century. Throughout the weekend of meet- sized that the United States “must continue and founder of the Digital Maidan activist New Ukrainian Wave, the Organization for ings and events, many delegates remarked to stand with the Ukrainian people as they platform; George Mykytyn, chairman of the Defense of Lemkivshchyna, the Society of at the pleasant welcome they felt from the continue their struggle in support of liberty Ukrainian American Youth Association; Ayla Veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, area’s Ukrainian community, as well as how and democracy.” Bakkalli, U.S. representative of the Mejlis of the Federation of Ukrainian Student familiar the surroundings felt given the prox- A greeting to the congress came also from Indigenous Crimean Tatar people of Organizations of America, the Ukrainian imity of the Ukrainian National Home to the independent Republican candidate for presi- Ukraine; and Myroslava Rozdolska, presi- Free University Foundation, the Ukrainian local credit union, Ukrainian businesses and dent Evan McMullin, who pledged to “fully dent of New Ukrainian Wave. Freedom Foundation, the Organization for the church. support the independence, sovereignty and On Saturday evening, the delegates were the Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine, Prior to the commencement of the first territorial integrity of Ukraine” and to “work joined by local community leaders at a gala as well as the Women’s Association for the plenary session on Saturday morning, the to ensure all territories illegally annexed or banquet celebrating Ukraine’s 25th anni- Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine. assembled delegates welcomed R. Nicholas occupied by Russia are restored.” versary of independence. In addition to Representatives of several Ukrainian feder- Burns, a high-level political surrogate for The first plenary session began with the performances by the Yevshan Ukrainian al credit unions were also leading voices in the presidential campaign of Hillary election of the presidium. Elected as con- Vocal Ensemble under the direction of Alex the discussions, including those from Clinton. Mr. Burns currently serves on the gress chair was a longtime community Kuzma and the Zolotyj Promin Ukrainian Yonkers, N.Y., Clifton, Passaic and Foreign Affairs Policy Board at the U.S. leader and head of the UCCA’s Philadelphia Dance Ensemble under the direction of Whippany, N.J., Detroit and New York City. Department of State, and previously served branch, Eugene Luciw. Deputy chairs were Orlando and Larisa Pagan, and the choir Also elected to lead the UCCA were as undersecretary of state for political Oleh Dekajlo of Long Island and Kenneth Lanka Halychanka, the over 200 banquet National Council Chair Stefan Kaczaraj, affairs, U.S. ambassador to NATO, ambassa- Wanio of New Jersey. Ms. Duplak of New attendees were treated to two keynote Executive Vice-President Michael Sawkiw dor to Greece, a member of the National Jersey and Peter Krutiak of Illinois took addresses. Ambassador Popadiuk dis- Jr., Executive Secretary Marie Duplak and Security Council at the White House, where minutes as Ukrainian-language and cussed at length the transformation he has Treasurer Myron Kolinsky. he was senior director for Russia, Ukraine English-language secretaries, respectively. personally witnessed both in Ukraine and The rest of the Executive Board will be and Eurasia Affairs and special assistant to The congress also presented two for- within the Ukrainian diaspora in the 25 named at the first gathering of the National President Bill Clinton and director for ward-thinking panel discussions on years since Ukraine’s re-establishment of Council of Ukrainian Organizations in Soviet affairs in the administration of Saturday afternoon, featuring a mix of per- independence. Ukraine’s Ambassador to December, including the UCCA Educational President George H.W. Bush. spectives from voices within and outside the U.S. Valeriy Chaly hailed the work of Council representative, the director of the Mr. Burns was invited by former the organizations present at the Congress. Ukrainians in the United States, especially Ukrainian National Fund, and appointed Secretary of State Clinton to her bilateral The first discussion – “Support Ukraine” that of the UCCA leadership, which representatives from the following organi- meeting with President Petro Poroshenko – was moderated by the first U.S. ambassa- zations: the Providence Association of at the United Nations earlier in the week. dor to Ukraine, Roman Popadiuk. Focusing (Continued on page 5)

during its two-year investigation and had The JIT has been working with the conference was a lie,” he noted. “In the first International... received “partial answers to some of them.” British-based open-source research group press conference, [the Russians] said there The JIT includes representatives of the Bellingcat, which has used social media was a jet three to five kilometers away, and (Continued from page 3) countries most affected by the tragedy – the posts to track the movement of a Buk mis- in the recent one they said there was noth- Shortly before the JIT press conference, Netherlands, Australia, Malaysia and sile unit from near the Russian city of Kursk ing anyway near it. So, you know, the Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Belgium working in cooperation with to the Ukrainian village of Snizhne in the Russians are going to try very hard to not to Peskov told journalists in Moscow that the Ukraine. Its purpose is to develop evidence days before the MH17 downing and to admit responsibility for this.” international investigation must take the that could be used in criminal prosecutions track the same units return to Russia “latest information” into account. in any of those countries. immediately afterward. With reporting by The Guardian, Interfax, “The data are unambiguous,” Mr. Peskov In Washington, the U.S. State Department “Obviously, the Russians are doing TASS and the BBC. said. “If there had been a missile, then it could said the findings corroborated U.S. conclu- everything they can to undermine this Copyright 2016, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted have been launched from other territory.” sions made just days after the jet crashed. press conference,” Bellingcat founder and with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ A JIT official said Russia had not provid- “This announcement is another step director Eliot Higgins told RFE/RL in Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, ed this information to its investigators and toward bringing to justice those responsi- Nieuwegein on September 28. Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see it had not been evaluated. Westerbeke said ble for this outrageous attack,” State “They released this radar data. You http://www.rferl.org/a/mh17-criminal- the JIT had made “several requests” for Department spokesman John Kirby said in know, it was ridiculous really because they probe-russia-buk-ukraine-jit/28018109. information from the Russian government a statement. managed to prove that their previous press html). No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 5

XXII Congress... (Continued from page 4) Ukraine’s leaders understand is what enables this diaspora community to advo- cate for aid to Ukraine in ways that many other countries cannot. The banquet was also addressed by two Democratic legislators who represent Connecticut in Congress: Rep. John Larson, who was in attendance, and Sen. Chris Murphy, who appeared via video along with Ukrainian National Deputy Nadiya Savchenko. The final event of the evening was the presentation of the Shevchenko Freedom

Award, UCCA’s highest honor. Recipients Embassy of Ukraine in the U.S.A. Irene Rejent Saviano who were in attendance to receive the Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. Valeriy Outgoing UCCA President Tamara Irene Rejent Saviano award that evening included the long-time Chaly presents the Order of Princess Olexy introduces R. Nicholas Burns, rep- The first U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, director of the UCCA’s Washington office, Olha to Roma Hadzewycz, editor-in-chief resenting the presidential campaign of Roman Popadiuk, delivers a keynote UNIS, and a former UCCA president, Mr. of The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda. Hillary Clinton. address at the congressional banquet. Sawkiw. Also receiving the award were Dr. Hadzewycz honored with the Shevchenko Kyj, longtime director of the United Freedom Award, but she was further sur- Ukrainian American Relief Committee, as prised when Ambassador Chaly finished well as Ms. Duplak, long-time UCCA execu- his remarks by calling her up to receive a tive secretary, distinguished editor, business commendation from President Poroshenko owner and former president of the for her “contribution to strengthening the Organization for Defense of Lemkivshchyna. international authority of Ukraine, popu- The family of Markian Paslawsky, the larization of its historical heritage and only Ukrainian American to have given his modern achievements.” life in defense of Ukraine against Russia’s Officially awarded the Order of Princess most recent invasion, accepted the award in Olha (third degree) by presidential decree his name, adding to the many posthumous in August 2015 in recognition of her work honors bestowed on this hero, including in leading The Ukrainian Weekly, Ms. Ukraine’s Order of Danylo Halytsky, a Hadzewycz’s schedule had not allowed her memorial gravestone and plaque at the his- to receive the honor until that moment. toric Askold’s Tomb in Kyiv, the Iron Plast Thanks to the efforts of Ambassador Chaly, Cross – Plast’s highest honor for individuals and the opportunity that the XXII Congress fighting in defense of Ukraine, and the nam- afforded, the honor was bestowed in the ing of both a school and a military rehabili- presence of over 200 Ukrainian American Irene Rejent Saviano tation center in Ukraine in his honor. civic, cultural and religious leaders – the Recipients of the Taras Shevchenko Freedom Award flanked by UCCA officers (from The final recipient of the Shevchenko very same audience that relies on The left): UCCA President Tamara Olexy, Roma Hadzewycz, Marie Duplak, Michael Freedom Award was doubly awarded that Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda to be the Sawkiw Jr., Dr. Larissa Kyj and UCCA Executive Vice-President Andriy Futey. evening. Not only was Editor-in-Chief voice of the community.

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WINDOW ON EURASIA The Ukrainian Weekly Ukraine’s Paralympic team shines DPR and LPR prepare for annexation The Ukrainian Weekly congratulates Ukraine’s 2016 Paralympic Team on its third-place finish at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games! This year, Ukraine was repre- of Russia, says intelligence offi cer sented by 172 athletes in 15 sports and collected 117 medals (41 gold, 37 silver and by Paul Goble “republics” have introduced “patriotic edu- 39 bronze). First place was won by China (239 medals), followed by Great Britain in cation” courses in the schools and orga- second place (147 medals), and the United States (115 medals) in fourth place. Moscow continues to insist that it recog- nized Soviet-style Pioneer organizations. To better understand the Ukrainian team’s accomplishment, one must examine nizes the Donbas as part of Ukraine and And they have organized military train- the 20-year journey that Ukraine’s Paralympic program has undergone since it will seek its return to Kyiv’s control, but its ing schools in the two oblasts, places which began competing under the Ukrainian banner at the Summer Paralympic Games in agents in the unrecognized Donetsk and did not have such institutions in the past. 1996 in Atlanta, Ga. (Previously, Ukrainian Paralympic athletes competed under the Luhansk “people’s republics” (DPR and All of these things, Mr. Gusarov says, are Soviet Union in 1988 and under the Unified Team in 1992.) LPR) are setting up special camps expand- intended to prepare the Russian-occupied In 1996, the team was represented by 30 athletes and finished in 44th place with ing patriotic instruction in the schools to area to become part of the Russian seven medals. In 2000 in Sydney, Ukraine finished in 35th place (37 medals), and prepare the young there for the annexation Federation. “There is no doubt of that,” he then in 2004 in Athens, Ukraine finished in sixth place (90 athletes, 55 medals). In of the region by Russia, according to says, given what Moscow is doing in 2008 in Beijing (74 medals) and 2012 in London (84 medals), Ukraine finished in Vyachesav Gusarov. Moldova’s Transdniestr region. fourth place. Mr. Gusarov, a reserve officer of This is all part of Vladimir Putin’s plan to Notably absent this year was the Russian Paralympic team, which was banned for Ukraine’s intelligence service and an expert state-sponsored doping. The Kremlin and Russia’s athletes could not help but watch extend Russian influence and control in the Information Resistance Group, as Ukraine’s athletes were given a chance to shine. This was in contrast to the regu- across the entire former Soviet and former lar Olympic Games this year, where only the Russian athletics team was banned from describes this system in a September 28 Warsaw Pact space – something that repre- competing due to positive doping results. The Kremlin philosophy of “might makes interview with Kyiv’s Apostrophe news sents a threat to all the countries in these right” was proven wrong once again, as Russia’s athletes (some in professional agency (apostrophe.ua/article/poli- regions. Ukraine might at some point sports) continue to be investigated and forcibly stripped of medals and titles won tics/2016-09-28/voyna-na-donbasse-v- become a leader that could unite these while samples test positive for banned substances. dnr-i-lnr-detey-svozyat-v-voennyie- countries in an anti-Russian coalition. But Ukraine’s Paralympic athletes returned this year from Rio to a hero’s welcome lagerya/7438). for the present, it is too weak to do so. with hundreds greeting them upon arrival at Boryspil Airport in Kyiv with flowers, Both the DPR and the LPR, he says, orga- In other comments, Mr. Gusarov says signs and gifts. (Video of their arrival can be viewed via YouTube at https://www. nized youth camps this past summer and that it is “not a very correct idea” to talk youtube.com/watch?v=GdbfzCmdFzE#t=129.) also sent young people from there to other about Ukraine liberating Russian-occupied This is in contrast to the Soviet legacy of viewing people with physical or mental camps in Russia. In addition, the two Crimea by military means. Ukraine isn’t disabilities as a marginalized group of society. The welcome that these athletes ready for this, and Russia has created “a returned to demonstrates the change in attitude that is ongoing in Ukraine, marking Paul Goble is a long-time specialist on quite serious military sector that would be Ukraine’s growth as a more inclusive society closely mirroring Western ideals. ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia able to ensure serious resistance to any Indeed, Valeriy Sushkevych, a national deputy in the Verkhovna Rada and presi- who has served in various capacities in the Ukrainian move.” dent of the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine (also known in Ukraine as the U.S. State Department, the Central What makes Mr. Gusarov’s observations National Committee of Sports for the Disabled of Ukraine), who himself is wheel- Intelligence Agency and the International about the DPR and LPR actions with chair-bound, spoke at Boryspil Airport and underscored the role that Paralympians Broadcasting Bureau, as well as at the Voice respect to young people there significant is serve in highlighting the needs of the disabled and for equality in society. These of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio that they suggest Moscow is taking a long- Paralympians and their achievements are an example for all of Ukraine, not just the Liberty and the Carnegie Endowment for term view and is creating a cadre of people disabled, he said. International Peace. The article above is who can be either a foundation for Russian Also notable in the Paralympic team’s achievement is how the team was able to reprinted with permission from his blog expansion or a Moscow-organized fifth col- overcome the challenges of training and preparing a team while the country is called “Window on Eurasia” (http://windo- umn should the Kremlin in fact hand the defending itself against Russia-led aggression in the east of Ukraine and Russia’s woneurasia2.blogspot.com/). Donbas back to Kyiv’s control. occupation of Crimea. Ukraine’s success can also be attributed to the global commu- nity’s commitment to sanctions against Russia, just as the International Paralympic Committee banned Russia from competing at the Games in Rio. This year, as was the case in 2012, the bulk of Ukraine’s medals (75 medals – 25 gold, 24 silver, 26 bronze) came from its swimmers. Swimmer Maksym Krypak – Eastern Europe arming itself because among Ukraine’s top multi-medalists and a debutant at the Paralympic Games – won five gold and three silver medals, and Yelyzaveta Mereshko won four gold medals and one bronze in swimming. Ukraine’s athletics division collected the second-high- “no one wants to be the next Ukraine” est number of medals at 19 – four gold, eight silver and seven bronze. by Paul Goble security and not just consumers who rely Other sports in which Ukraine medaled included canoeing, cycling, seven-a-side on others, including NATO and the United soccer (football), judo, powerlifting, rowing, shooting, table tennis and wheelchair In what many are calling “the Putin States, whatever some Western politicians fencing. In addition, Ukraine competed admirably in such sports as sitting volleyball, effect,” countries across Eastern Europe, may say. And, it is an indication of just how triathlon, archery and goalball. including even Belarus, nominally Russia’s frightened they are that the Kremlin leader, Ukraine is set to compete at the upcoming 2018 Winter Paralympic Games in closest ally, are now arming themselves even however bogged down he may be in Pyeong Chang, South Korea. Historically, Ukraine has performed better during the when they have to cut social welfare spend- Ukraine, appears to them as a continuing summer Games than in the winter, and Ukraine will have a chance to shine once ing because, in the words of one commenta- existential threat. again at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. Congratulations to the team for its tor, “no one wants to be the next Ukraine.” accomplishments in 2016 and best of luck in the future! This sacrifice makes them producers of (Continued on page 12)

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COMMENTARY From a Canadian Angle In memory of Gongadze, Sheremet by Oksana Bashuk Hepburn and all slain journalists

by Halya Coynash In March 2008, three former police offi- cers – Valentin Kostenko, Mykola Protasov Traditional remembrance events on the and Oleksandr Popovych – were found The next huge challenge anniversary of journalist Heorhii guilty of abducting and killing Gongadze. Gongadze’s abduction and subsequent Mr. Protasov was sentenced to 13 years, the Challenges are something Ukrainians about the evils of its Russo-Communist murder are especially poignant this year as other two got 12-year sentences. settling in Canada, and around the world, empire escaped from behind the Iron they come just two months after the killing Their superior – ex-police general know well. Curtin. It hid the oppression by cultivating in Kyiv of Pavel Sheremet, the renowned Oleksy Pukach went into hiding, but was Some 125 years ago it was the challenge an image of success based on sports and Belarusian journalist and former prisoner arrested in July 2009. In January 2016, the of being among the first non-traditional cultural excellence. The regime smeared of conscience. Ukraine’s media unions and Court of Appeal in Kyiv upheld Mr. Pukach’s (Anglo Celtic or French) groups to settle in anyone and anything exposing its oppres- other organizations have called on their life sentence almost four years after the ini- Canada. Landing here was as foreign then sive reality as “fascist and “bourgeoise pro- colleagues to join in honoring their memo- tial sentence had been passed, and well as landing on the moon would be today; paganda.” It was so effective that even ry and that of all journalists who were over 15 years after the killing. then, it was without the NASA support. today Russia’s president uses the fascist killed while carrying out their work. The entire Pukach trial had been The settlers were assigned plots at the label to discredit opponents. There is hopefully no reason to suspect extremely long and all behind closed doors end of the railway track and dumped to The name-calling did not deter any officials or higher in Ukraine of involve- despite protests within Ukraine and abroad fend for themselves. There was no housing, Canadians of Ukrainian heritage. They no schools or hospitals, not even roads. The knew first-hand and from the coded letters ment in Sheremet’s killing, or of unwilling- given the very serious grounds for suspect- settlers had only what they brought: pre- trickling across the Atlantic about the das- ness to carry out a proper investigation. ing that Gongadze’s killing had been cious seeds for cultivating the new land, tardly reality of living under Russia’s dicta- There does not, however, seem to be any ordered by people in high positions. their language and ways, plus a determina- torship. They compared it with the good major progress in finding his killer. The investigators had found (controver- tion to succeed. democratic governance offered in Canada Sheremet, who was just 44, had resigned sially) that Mr. Pukach carried out the mur- They endured. By the time World War II and supported the dissidents in Ukraine from Russian ORT two years earlier in pro- der on instructions from Yuriy Kravchenko, came along, they had grown into the fifth who wanted the same. test at the virulent warmongering propa- then minister of internal affairs, who is offi- largest Canadian ethnic group and trans- As a result, over 90 percent of Ukrainians ganda against Ukraine. He was living per- cially recorded as having committed sui- formed the virgin prairies into Canada’s voted for independence in 1991. The Soviet manently in Kyiv, together with his partner cide (with two gunshot wounds to the economic powerhouse. With the war came Union collapsed; some 300 million people and owner of Ukrayinska Pravda, Olena head) in early 2005. Prytula. another huge challenge. were liberated. But the enemy was not In his final words to the court, Mr. Gongadze was a co-founder of Mad Hitler had invaded Poland, which at sleeping. Former apparatchiks enriched Pukach said that Messrs. Kuchma and Ukrayinska Pravda, who wrote hard-hitting that time incorporated Ukraine’s Halychyna. themselves by grabbing state assets to Lytvyn, who for some time during the trial reports during the presidency of Leonid Nearly 1.2 million enlisted in the Canadian become the world’s new billionaires with had been parliamentary speaker, should Kuchma which had by then become Armed Forces; over one-third were of multiple passports. “Let them have human have been on trial with him. He said he had increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of Ukrainian descent. The war was won but rights,” they snickered at attempts to estab- tried to tell all the truth, but that nobody independent media. He was abducted by the other mad man – Stalin – dropped the lish better lives for Ukrainians via assistance had wanted to hear. police officers on September 16, 2000, and Iron Curtin. Behind it lay Ukraine and his programs from democracies like Canada, his headless body was later found in a for- At the time, Valentina Telychenko, the terror: persecution, execution, exile to the “we’ll take everything else.” est near Kyiv. lawyer representing Gongadze’s widow, Gulag and the widespread loss of human For President Vladimir Putin, perhaps On this anniversary, as on all others, Myroslava Gongadze, told Ukrayinska rights. The entire Soviet Union become a the richest oligarch of all, building democra- there are calls within Ukraine and abroad Pravda that she was delighted the accusa- gigantic concentration camp, its evils hid- cy at home and peace abroad is not enough. for those who ordered his killing to be tions had finally been heard by journalists. den by official state silence. He considers democracy weak, a messy way identified and held to answer. The calls are Unlike her, they had signed no undertaking The post-war refugees had first-hand of governing compared to the order and correct, but the chances of this ever hap- to keep the court proceedings secret. She knowledge of the dangers of dictatorships. obedience of a dictatorship. He views neigh- pening seem minuscule. asserts that in his pre-trial and court testi- In Canada, they combined it with the knowl- boring democracies as a threat to Soviet-like The reasons have probably been clear mony, Mr. Pukach repeatedly spoke of edge of good democratic governance gained colonialism, which is very profitable to from very early on. Two months after Messrs. Kuchma and Lytvyn, about where by their Canadian brethren. Together, they Moscow when proxies like Viktor Gongadze’s disappearance, a cassette made and when he met with Mr. Lytvyn, however turned their attention to politics. Yanukovych, Ukraine’s former president, do by Mykola Melnychenko, one of President that had never been used in the “investiga- Domestically, they pushed for social jus- as they’re told and pay for the privilege. Kuchma’s guards, was made public. If genu- tion” into who ordered the murder. tice legislation, establishing unemployment By invading sovereign Georgia and ine, and it is widely assumed to be so, this This investigation is, in theory, still con- insurance, health reforms, the multicultural Ukraine, Mr. Putin trampled international incriminates Mr. Kuchma, as well as the tinuing. policy, repatriating Canada’s Constitution law and committed murder. His deceit head of his administration, Volodymyr Much was made in early 2011 when and carving human rights into the under the guise of peace and ceasefires – in Lytvyn. They have always denied any criminal proceedings were initiated against Canadian Charter of Rights, copied widely Ukraine and in Syria – has turned millions involvement, as, of course, anybody in their Mr. Kuchma over the Gongadze case. around the world. Michael Starr, Yaroslav into refugees and corpses. Now, Russia is a position would. President Viktor Yanukovych was already Rudnyckyj, Paul Yuzyk, Ray Hnatyshyn, Roy threat to the entire free world as it aims After the Orange Revolution, Viktor under heavy criticism for violations of Romanow, Ed Stelmach were trailblazers in beyond controlling Ukraine. Mr. Putin is Yushchenko promised a real investigation press freedom, as well as selective justice, politics. John Sopinka became the first determined to rule what is referred to in into the Gongadze murder. This never hap- and his people tried to tout the criminal Ukrainian Canadian Supreme Court justice, Russia as “normal” people: white Christian pened, and in 2006 Mr. Yushchenko even proceedings as proof that it was Mr. Joseph Romanow – the first Ukrainian nations of the world. Primarily, this means awarded a state honor to Mykhailo Yanukovych, not his predecessor Mr. Canadian general and Walter (Lubomyr) dominating the European Union and dis- Potebenko, the former prosecutor general Yushchenko, who was willing to reveal the Zyla – the first diplomat. placing the United States as a global leader. who had effectively blocked any investiga- The women were impressive as well. Dr. There’s a mad wolf in sheepskin at our tion at the time. (Continued on page 14) Sylvia Fedoruk was instrumental in devel- door. oping the cobalt treatment for cancer and Yet some in the West appease him. became the lieutenant governor of Those who know Russia better, however, LETTER TO THE EDITOR Saskatchewan. Astronaut Dr. Roberta must make it clear: law and lawlessness Bondar, entertainers like Juliette, Luba Goy cannot co-exist. A world run by his stan- place among 76 countries. and Kathryn Wynnick, Sen. Raynelle dards means ours must be destroyed. It takes trainers, facilities, dedicated par- Andreychuk, Deputy Ministers Oryssia This is today’s challenge for Ukrainian Bravo to Ukraine’s ticipants, funds and especially determina- Lennie and Mary Komarynsky became Canadians: to ensure that the democratic Paralympians tion to achieve such outstanding results on models to follow and surpass. rather than despotic worldview sets the the international stage. This achievement In international politics, the challenge path for the next 125 years. Dear Editor: gives hope to future Ukrainian Paralympians. was more complex. The Soviet Union was, Oksana Bashuk Hepburn may be con- Wow! Someone is doing something right Maybe Ukraine’s politicians should take for many, a friendly ally. To boot, the tacted at [email protected]. in Ukraine – one Ukrainian program is defi- their example and try to discipline them- Kremlin made sure that little information nitely succeeding. It is fantastic and selves to run their country as the Ukrainian astounding what Ukrainian Paralympians Paralympians do on the world scene. accomplished in Rio. I wish them well and offer congratula- tions to everyone involved in the Opinions in The Ukrainian Weekly Out of the 76 countries winning medals, Opinions expressed by columnists, commentators and l Ukrainian Paralympians won 117, coming Paralympic program. in third place, while beating such power- Slava Ukraini! Slava to Ukraine’s etter-writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect houses as Germany, France, Italy and the Paralympians! the opinions of either The Weekly editorial staff or its publisher, U.S.A. Back in 2012, Paralympians from Jerry Zinycz the Ukrainian National Association. Ukraine won 84 medals, attaining sixth Venice, Fla. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 No. 40

Patriarch Sviatoslav consecrates UCU’s Holy Wisdom of God Church

UCU During the consecration ceremonies of the University Church of the Holy Wisdom of Bishop Borys Gudziak during the consecration of the new church on the campus of God, Patriarch Sviatoslav presents a patriarchal honor to the church’s architect, Ivan the Ukrainian Catholic University. Bereznicki.

UCU world. The ramps between the churches invite spiritual Also participating in the ceremonies connected with the companions to a liturgical procession “from glory to glory.” consecration of the church were: Liliya Hrynevch, LVIV – In Lviv on September 11, the primate of the “I think it is important that we ask ourselves to whom Ukraine’s minister of education and science; Oleksandr Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav, con- this church is dedicated, who is that wisdom which we Hanushchyn, head of the Lviv Oblast Council; Lviv Mayor secrated the unique, three-section University Church of the want to worship in this holy church. If someone thinks that Andriy Sadovyy; Oleh Syniutka, head of the Lviv Oblast Holy Wisdom of God, which is located on the territory of this wisdom is the capacity of you and me to be wise, he is Administration; as well as clergy of the UGCC, and teachers, the Ukrainian Catholic University’s new campus. mistaken. If someone thinks that this wisdom is the capaci- students and benefactors of UCU. The University Church of the Holy Wisdom of God is a ty of the human being to be wise, great, successful, modern Ms. Hrynevych was a senator of the university, and she special shrine for Ukraine. It is three churches at once: The and knowing, he is mistaken. For if we worship all these commented on its rapid development: “As minister I want to testify that UCU is a leading institution in the non-gov- Crypt of the Lord’s Tomb, the Lower Church of St. Clement things, you and I would worship idols. And so we state, we ernment area, which is both very popular and demanding. I, Pope of Rome, and the main University Church of the emphasize, that this church is the Church of the Holy Young people with the highest entrance exam scores come Holy Wisdom of God with the pastoral center. Wisdom of God,” stated Patriarch Sviatoslav in his sermon. here. For us today this is a source of valuable ideas and aca- The architecture of the church presents the main He noted that his hope for teachers and students is that demic honesty. I hope the university will flourish, and I moments of salvation history and calls visitors to a pilgrim- this church will become the most important “classroom” of age through the sacraments to a joyful mission in the the university, in which great wisdom can be attained. (Continued on page 22)

his three children age 10 to 2 in Russian, Ukrainian and Rising national pride... English by designating specific days to each language at home. (Continued from page 1) Speaking in fluent English, he maintains that Ukrainian much,” Ms. Gorchinskaya said. “I have felt elements of dis- should be the official language, however. crimination. But I know that Ukrainian speakers some- “I was really stressed with our previous government, the times get the same treatment in Ukraine. My working lan- officials who weren’t able to speak the Ukrainian language. guage is Ukrainian at the moment, and I am perfectly I mean the Yanukovych administration, including [Viktor] alright with that too.” Yanukovych himself,” he said. Public opinion surveys have consistently and historically Mr. Moskalenko compared Russia to a “bully” who found that economic welfare, access to justice, corruption “punched Ukraine in the back” when it was in a weakened and quality health care are greater concerns than other position following the Euro-Maidan Revolution. issues like language and religion. Public opinion polls show similar views regarding Oleksandr Moskalenko, the head of an information tech- national identity and language. nology department at Ukraine’s largest telecommunica- A nationwide study on identity conducted in June by the tions company, Ukrtelecom, thinks language is an issue Kyiv-based Razumkov Center found that 56 percent of that politicians use to disenfranchise Ukrainians. respondents think Ukrainian should be the only official lan- “It’s continuously advertised by some powers for whom guage, with Russian and other minority languages used in it is convenient to use during elections,” he told The everyday life. Ukrainian Weekly while laughing. “They say there are The same study found that 68 percent of the public is ‘Ukrainian Nazis’ who will not let you speak Russian at all.” proud to be Ukrainian – 12 percent more than in 2005. And A native Russian speaker who only began learning 93 percent consider Ukraine to be their homeland. Ukrainian in the seventh grade, Mr. Moskalenko, 34, raises Russia’s aggression has done much to unite the country and ignite feelings of national pride, according to Maxym Zhukovets, the director of photography for a local televi- sion station. The 33-year-old media professional now stands when Mark Raczkiewycz he hears Ukraine’s national anthem, something he hadn’t Decals of Ukrainian embroidery attached to passenger noticed doing before. vehicles are in vogue these days as patriotism is on the “I’ve become more of a Ukrainian patriot and feel we’re rise amid persistent Russian military aggression. on the right path,” Mr. Zhukovets said. Events during the Euro-Maidan Revolution and in the “But one must learn to respect all Ukrainians regardless Donbas war zone have “strongly consolidated the people,” of language or other features,” he said. he added. “We immediately saw who is who after such Mr. Zhukovets also downplayed the significance of lan- events. I believe that through pain, blood and tears every- guage in Ukraine. thing is crystalizing and that’s positive. But it’s bad that this “A large number of people fighting in the east in the so- has come at such a [high] price.” called anti-terrorist operation zone speak Russian while Apart from respecting one’s country or its national sym- defending the lives of peaceful civilians in this country to bols, mutual respect also is a defining factor for this diverse the best of their ability, while dying each day no matter nation. Alex Mazuka, chief editor of the Russian-language what language they speak,” he said. Novosti Donbassa news website, said civic duty is important. For Ms. Gorchinskaya, her identity is tied to the coun- In an e-mailed note, he said being Ukrainian means try’s growth as a nation. being a “citizen of Ukraine and I have no other form of “I am a Ukrainian with very strong feelings for my identity except for this – I wasn’t a citizen of the USSR.” nation and a huge desire for and personal investment into Now based in Sloviansk in the Donetsk Oblast after this country’s success,” she said. “I just happen to have Courtesy of Hromadske TV being forced to flee his native city of Donetsk, Mr. Mazuka been born into a Russian-speaking family with a massive Katya Gorchinskaya, CEO of Hromadske TV network. also emphasized tolerance. complex history.” No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 9 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 No. 40

Our community celebrates Ukrainian Independence Day 2016

UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J.

by Yuriy Symczyk UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. – On August 21, the Ukrainian com- munity of Union Township, N.J., and surrounding areas com- memorated the 25th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence with the reading of a proclamation and flag-raising ceremony outside the Municipal Building. Unlike any other city or town in the United States, Union Township raises 30 Ukrainian flags in its town center and a ban- ner reminding all passers-by that August 24 is Ukrainian Independence Day. The main speaker of this year’s event was Dr. Walter Zaryckyj, executive director of the Center for U.S.-Ukrainian Relations. Remarks were also made by Union Township Mayor Manuel Figueiredo, Committeewoman Michele Delisfort and the Consul Inside Town Hall (from left) are: Union Township Committeewoman Michele S. Delisfort; Mayor Manuel Figueiredo; Consul General Igor Sybiga; Yuriy Symczyk, chairman, Ukrainian Independence Day Committee of Union Township; and Dr. Walter Zaryckyj, executive director, Center for U.S.-Ukrainian Relations. General of Ukraine in New York, Igor Sybiga, who attended with his family and delivered words of inspi- ration while welcoming the many Ukrainian Americans in Town Hall. A luncheon and celebratory program featuring the Iskra Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and the ensemble Udech followed at the Ukrainian Community Center in nearby Irvington, N.J. The Union Township Ukrainian Independence Day Committee thanked all of its spon- sors and specifically its main sponsor, Selfreliance Ukrainian Americans and friends gathered for a group photo in front of Town Hall in Union Township, N.J. Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union.

WARREN, Mich.

by Ulana Ohar-Kushner WARREN, Mich. – Ukrainians in Metropolitan Detroit celebrated the 25th anniversary of Ukrainian indepen- dence with a prayer service for Ukraine and its people led by both Catholic and Orthodox priests, a keynote address assessing the progress Ukraine has made during its first 25 years of independence by Prof. Alexander Motyl and a celebratory concert by local talent, followed by a banquet and dance. The event was bittersweet, as it was hard to celebrate with Vladimir Putin’s continued occupation of Crimea and Russia’s unrelenting terrorist activities in eastern Ukraine. However, in his address, Prof. Alexander Motyl pointed out that many political pundits did not believe Ukraine would maintain its democracy for this long – and it has. In fact, he pointed out, in the last two years since Maidan and the Revolution of Dignity, Ukraine has stood up on the world stage and shown its resolve and commitment to freedom, self-determination and the rule of law. According to Prof. Motyl, “more has been accomplished in the last two years than in the entire 23 preceding Maidan.” Thus, we should take heart in those accomplish- Dr. Mark Juzych (center) receives an award for his surgical treatment of Dmytro, a young man who lost his eye ments and look to a better future. during the Euro-Maidan in February 2014. Also in the photo are Vera Andrushkiw (right), mistress of ceremonies, The gala celebration of Ukrainian Independence Day, and Dr. Olena Danyluk, president of the Ukrainian American Civic Committee. organized by the Ukrainian-American Civic Committee of Metropolitan Detroit, was held on August 27 at the Association (ODUM) placed a wreath and lit a candle in featured vocalists Khrystyna Bezckosta, Irynka Ukrainian Cultural Center in Warren, Mich. memory of those who gave their lives for Ukrainian inde- Lapshynska, Tetyana Bedrus and Yuriy Marshtupa. Mr. The planning committee included: Vera Andrushkiw, pendence. Michigan State Rep. Martin Howrylak presented Marshtupa dedicated his performance to the memory of Olena Danylyuk, Ruslana Pronko, Valentyna Shayda, Gov. Rick Snyder’s proclamation. the Rostenkos and the Shumylos for their very important Elizabeth Symonenko, Tetyana Bedrus, Roman Los, Roma On the occasion of the 25th anniversary the Ukrainian input and care in changing them from “Soviet people into Dyhdalo, Vera Petrusha, Halya Pytiak, Mykhailo Diachun, community honored local benefactors who gave gener- Ukrainian patriots.” The role of various individuals in the Matthew Wroblewski, Marie Zarycky-Cherviovskiy, Ulana ously of their professional skills and time, and opened up struggle for Ukraine’s independence cannot be overesti- Ohar-Kushner, Walter Kozar, Kateryna Tkachuk, Larissa their hearts to two of Ukraine’s wounded warriors: Dr. mated. Ghiso, Bohdan Korduba, Zirka Clark-Zubar and Olga Carlos Ramirez of St. John Macomb Hospital, Dr. Mark The ensemble Vyshyvanka, under the direction of Iryna Meyer. Juzych and the team at the Kresge Eye Institute, as well as Svytka, performed two choral pieces by Ukrainian com- Commander Wroblewski of Post 101 led Ukrainian Dr. Zoryana Klepach, Dr. Nadia Juzych and Tetyana Bedrus, posers. Milia and Tania Smyk entertained with “Bandura American Veterans in the ceremonial presentation of col- who opened their homes and welcomed Andrij and Conversation;” and Oleksander Hedeon, Andriy Shturko ors. Jarema Cisaruk sang the American national anthem Dmytro into their families. and Roman Zhylych, three students of Ukrainian Music and Tetyana Bedrus led the Ukrainian national hymn with Dr. Motyl, professor at Rutgers University, Ukrainian- Institute, performed piano renditions. piano accompaniment by Halyna Yalovenko. American historian, political scientist and author, gave the Proceeds from this event will be sent to Viktoria Ms. Andrushkiw welcomed the guests, which included keynote address: “25 Years After Independence: Ukraine’s Voronovych to enable the International Alliance for representatives from Sen. Gary Peters, Rep. Sander Levin Achievements and Strategic Goals.” His fluid bilingual pre- Fraternal Asstance to continue its support for volunteer and Rep. Brenda Lawrence. Children from Plast Ukrainian sentation was lauded by the audience. fighter battalions in the line of fire by delivering clothing, Scouting Organization and the Ukrainian Democratic Youth The address was followed by a celebratory concert that shoes, food, water, medical supplies and humanitarian aid. No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 11

Our community celebrates Ukrainian Independence Day 2016

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.

by Irene Badiak ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Epiphany of our Lord Ukrainian Catholic Church in St. Petersburg, Fla., commemorated the 25th anniversary of Ukrainian independence on Sunday, August 28, with a liturgy, plaque blessing, concert and refreshments. The day began with a liturgy celebrated by the Rev. Roman Badiak, which included a homily given by Pastor Bohdan Malski from the local Ukrainian Baptist Church. Afterwards, the congregation walked in procession from the church to the parish center for the blessing of a com- memorative plaque in memory of the Heavenly Brigade and those who gave their lives for the freedom and inde- pendence of Ukraine. Everyone lit a candle and placed it before the plaque before proceeding into the parish hall, where the celebration continued. The Ukrainian American Veterans, Post #40 of North Port, Fla., formed the color guard. The master of ceremo- nies, Orest Dudiak, introduced the numerous guests, including the military representatives from Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Lithuania, Georgia and Canada, who are stationed with the coalition forces at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. He also introduced Olya Czerkas and Andrij Slywka three representatives from Ukraine: Cols. Olexander The procession from Epiphany of our Lord Ukrainian Catholic Church to the parish center. Zhytryk, Svitlana Boiko and Yaroslav Cholovskyi. The church choir, directed by Nadia Sawa, sang “Plyve which moved the audience. A contemporary flair was Ukraina Tse My,” which included joyous participation by Kacha,” “Molytva za Ukrayinu,” and “Zaspivaymo Pisniu za added by the guitar singing of Samuil Yukhimchuk from the audience. The program ended with a sumptious buffet Ukrayinu.” Three young girls, Anastasia Zhytryk, Natalka New Life Ukrainian Baptist Church. provided by the kitchen staff and delicious culinary treats Slywka and Deenna Slywka, recited heart-rendering poems The festivities ended with the singing of “Ukraina Tse Ty, made by the parishioners.

A memorial plaque in memory of the Heavenly Brigade and known and unknown The final song, “Ukraina Tse Ty,” is sung by the church choir with Ukrainian military heroes of Ukrainian independence is unveiled. representatives joining in.

she said. Introducing autonomy and self- The audacity... government for eastern Ukraine alone is “wrong,” she said. “You should introduce it (Continued from page 1) for the whole country.” Ms. Savchenko said that the Ukrainian When Ms. Savchenko offered to negoti- government will “evolve” only if the people ate with the Russian-backed separatist push for it. “Nothing is going to happen in leaders in eastern Ukraine, she was criti- Ukraine if the Ukrainian people don’t exert cized as naïve because such talks might pressure,” she said. enhance the status of those figures. When asked about the current govern- Whatever one thinks of Ms. Savchenko’s ment’s performance, she used the word statements on reconciliation in eastern Ukraine, there’s no denying that this while difficult to translate, it means the unlikely politician has raw talent. She government“nedopratsiovuyut”(недопрацьовують); does not “work to the end” or answered questions without notes or paus- “far enough.” But Ms. Savchenko backed es. Her folksy style – there’s no Ukrainian away from criticizing more pointedly idiom she doesn’t know – and piercing “until I myself have made more of a contri- blue-eyed gaze give her a serious but bution.” approachable air. She is quick to smile and She hit the expected talking points on crack a joke. Melinda Haring the war in eastern Ukraine, urging a renew- “Every person has potential to change Paula J. Dobriansky (left), an Atlantic Council board director, introduces Nadiya al of European Union sanctions and thank- Savchenko (center) at an Atlantic Council event in Washington on September 22. On things,” Ms. Savchenko said – a good ing the United States for its support. And the right is Ms. Savchenko’s interpreter, Alexei Sobchenko. reminder to Kyiv’s political establishment she made the case for targeted sanctions and to all of us. against kleptocrats in Russia. If you freeze idea of restoring the territories of the Ms. Savchenko has ideas about how to their assets, they will pressure Mr. Putin, USSR,” she said. “Russia will never stop bring peace to Ukraine as well. While the Melinda Haring is the editor of the she said, because fear and money drive the until its regime is changed, and that’s not Minsk II ceasefire agreement “isn’t a bad UkraineAlert at the Atlantic Council. She regime. “The Kremlin is guided by a sick going to happen anytime soon.” idea, it’s a completely unrealistic approach,” tweets @melindaharing. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 No. 40

Alexander Motyl’s latest novel “Ardor (or How would-be Nobel Prize Winner C. Milosz enjoyed the high life with low life in Italy, hobnobbed with a Viktor Yanukovych look-alike, and met his Muse on the rooftop of the Duomo,” by Alexander J. Motyl. Brownsville, Texas: Anaphora Literary Press, 2016. Paperback, 130 pp. $20. ISBN-10: 1681142430.

Alexander Motyl’s latest novel, “Ardor” has just appeared with Anaphora Literary Press. A political, social and intellectual satire, “Ardor” pokes fun at the overblown preten- sions of professors, poets, journalists, poli- cy-makers, businesspeople and foundation officers, and features none other than Viktor Yanukovych as one of its central characters. The hero of the novel is Chester Milosz, a very minor American poet who teaches at a very minor American college and aspires to win the Nobel Prize. One day, Milosz receives an invitation to a meeting of global witted arrogance, boorishness and chutz- high-flyers at the Otto Nabokov pah. In that sense, Yanukovych is a stand-in Foundation’s Ardor Haus estate in for a whole class of highly influential peo- Caravaggio, Italy. The organizers are Dickey ple who walk the streets of New York, Lemon, a British billionaire who made his London and Paris as much as they crawl in fortune in hamster bedding, and Joe Zsasz, the sewers of Kyiv, Donetsk and Luhansk.” an ex-communist functionary-turned-inter- “By the way,” adds the author, “many of national consultant. The participants are a the characters, dialogues, and scenes were sundry collection of businesspeople, poli- drawn from life. The stupidity ‘Ardor’ cy-makers, journalists and academics exposes is real, not imagined.” involved in shady dealings with a corrupt Prof. Motyl is a writer, painter and pro- Eastern European president who closely fessor. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize in resembles Viktor Yanukovych. 2008 and 2013, he is the author of eight Chester decides to go in the hope that a novels, “Whiskey Priest,” “Who Killed trip to northern Italy will help overcome Andrei Warhol,” “Flippancy,” “The Jew Who his writer’s block. While at Ardor Haus, he Was Ukrainian,” “My Orchidia,” “Sweet experiences cultural misunderstandings, Snow,” “Fall River” and “Vovochka,” and a comic misadventures, near-encounters collection of poetry, “Vanishing Points.” with inspiration and three earthquakes. It His artwork has been shown in solo and eventually dawns on Chester that he’s been group shows in New York City, Philadelphia confused with the Polish Nobel Prize win- and Toronto and is part of the permanent collection of two museums. Prof. Motyl ence is an elaborate scam centered on teaches at Rutgers University-Newark and Yanukovych.ner, Czesław Miłosz,After a and major that earthquake the confer- is the author of six academic books and destroys Caravaggio, Chester finds his numerous articles. Muse on the rooftop of the Duomo in Milan. Prof. Motyl will be presenting “Ardor” as “Like all satires,” says Prof. Motyl, well as his newly published collection of “ ‘Ardor’ isn’t just trying to be funny. It’s poetry, “Vanishing Points,” at the Ukrainian actually a commentary on the absurdly Educational and Cultural Center in overblown pretensions, hypocrisy, crimi- Jenkintown, Pa., on Sunday, October 9, and nality, venality, and stupidity of most global at The Ukrainian Museum in New York on elites. Yanukovych is feted, cheered and Saturday, October 15. admired by the characters populating the “Ardor” is available on Amazon and novel, not despite, but because of his dim- Barnes and Noble.

Russia is now a major threat. It has Eastern Europe... increased defense spending, as has Slovakia for the same reasons (defensenews.com/ (Continued from page 6) articles/e-europe-boosts-defense-spend- Some of the increases these countries ing-armament-programs-amid-russia-con- are making in their defense structures are cern). usefully surveyed today by the Belsat news The three Baltic countries have agency (belsat.eu/ru/news/effekt-putina- increased the size of their forces and their strany-vostochnoy-evropy-rashiryayut- spending on defense. Estonia plans to armii-i-pokupayut-oruzhiye/). spend over the next four years more than Poland has done perhaps more than Belarus does. Latvia is raising its defense anyone else, beefing up its territorial spending to 2 percent of GDP. And defense and increasing the size of its mili- Lithuania is forming special forces and a tary, including the development of a system trilateral force with Poland and Ukraine. of reserves modeled on the U.S. National The Scandinavian countries are also Guard, and plans to purchase new weapons increasing their defense capacity and links systems in the coming years (poland.pl/ with NATO. politics/home/new-territorial-defence- Estonia, Belarus and Ukraine have force-poland/). retained the draft, and Latvia is thinking The Czech Republic, Belsat says, has about restoring it in order to guarantee a moved in “the very same direction,” sufficiently large defense force. Finland has approving a security and foreign policy a draft, and Sweden is now debating restor- strategy based on the proposition that ing obligatory military service. No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 13 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 No. 40

committee voted for visa liberalization for Court partially upholds sanctions challenged and the case is ongoing. (RFE/ Georgia. Berlin had refused to support the RL, with reporting by Reuters) NEWSBRIEFS LUXEMBOURG – A European court has measures before the summer, citing a spike (Continued from page 2) partially upheld sanctions imposed on of crimes allegedly committed by Kyiv to host Champions League final Ukraine’s ousted former president, Viktor mourning on September 26 to honor two Georgians in Germany. The committee also Yanukovych, his son Oleksandr, and the for- KYIV – The 2018 Champions League traffic police officers killed in the line of voted in favor of similar move for Kosovo mer head of the presidential administra- soccer final will be held in Kyiv, Europe’s duty in the city the previous day. Officials but it opted against opening negotiations tion, Andriy Klyuyev. The three challenged soccer governing body has announced, said the two police officers were shot dead with the EU member states until Pristina the European Union’s sanctions on charges despite concerns over the conflict in east- by a former police officer on September 25. has fulfilled all criteria, including solving a of embezzlement and financial wrongdoing ern Ukraine. “Ukraine will host the UEFA Police say they detained the alleged gun- border dispute with Montenegro and fight- that meant losing access to their funds held Champions League final on May 26, 2018,” man, Oleksandr Puhachov, hours later in a ing organized crime. (RFE/RL) in European banks. The European Union’s said UEFA’s executive committee in a state- hospital, where he was undergoing surgery General Court “confirms the freezing of ment on September 15. Ukraine, which was in connection with a gunshot wound he Ukraine files complaint with WTO funds imposed for the period from March co-host of the 2012 Euro with Poland, sub- apparently suffered during the shooting. KYIV – Ukraine has filed a complaint at mitted its official bid to stage the final at Investigators say the incident took place 6, 2015, until March 6, 2016,” the court said the World Trade Organization (WTO) to in a September 15 statement. The three Kyiv’s 70,000-seat Olympic Stadium earlier when the traffic police officers stopped challenge Russia over restrictions on freight this year. The final will be held only a few Puhachov’s vehicle for an alleged traffic Ukrainians can appeal against the ruling to transit. “This is a yet another step taken to the EU’s top court. However, the three weeks before Russia stages the World Cup. violation. Mr. Puhachov then opened fire defend Ukraine’s rights within the WTO There are concerns over security, with when the police officers tried to identify Ukrainians won their challenge to the sanc- against opaque and discriminatory restric- Ukrainian government forces locked in a him, police officials said. Mr. Puhachov, a tions for the March 2014 to March 2015 tions by the Russian Federation,” Ukraine’s deadly conflict with pro-Russia separatists former officer of the Internal Affairs period because EU governments did not First Deputy Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv in eastern Ukraine. Another worry is Ministry’s Tornado special police unit, was provide enough proof, the court also said. said in a September 15 statement. In its Ukraine’s track record on racism, with wanted on suspicion of kidnapping, creat- The statement said the European Council UEFA having fined and imposed a three- ing an organized criminal group and sexual complaint, seen by Reuters, Kyiv accuses provided more proof for the extension of match stadium ban on Dynamo Kyiv after abuse. Investigators said on September 26 Moscow of breaking WTO rules by singling sanctions for the following period, allowing racist behavior by its fans. Estonia’s capital, that Mr. Puhachov has denied the allega- out Ukraine with trade-restrictive measures them to stand. The EU has extended the tions. (RFE/RL, based on reporting by – such as requiring Ukrainian trucks to use sanctions until March 2017, which the two UNIAN and Ukrinform.ua) identification seals and to move in convoy – Yanukovyches and Mr. Klyuyev have also (Continued on page 15) and by putting restrictions on Ukrainian Vote on visa liberalization in October drivers entering Russia from Belarus. BRATISLAVA – European Parliament Ukraine says its trade to countries in Central public held the traditional remembrance President Martin Schulz says he hopes the and Eastern Asia and the Caucasus region In memory... gathering on Friday evening on had fallen by 35.1 percent in the first half of Independence Square. The event is taking bloc will vote on visa liberalization for (Continued from page 7) Ukraine in October. Mr. Schulz, speaking at 2016 compared to the same months of place, as in the last two years, under the a European Union summit in Bratislava on 2015. By the end of this year Ukraine will truth about the Gongadze killing. Within shadow of war. During the remembrance, September 16, said that before the have lost about $400 million worth of months, however, the Constitutional Court the names were read out of 61 journalists European Parliament can vote on the issue, exports to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, it had obligingly ruled that evidence could who had died in the course of their work, it must be approved by the parliamentary says. Kyiv’s request for consultations marks not be used that had not been legitimately as well as those of a number of journalists, civil-liberties committee in a vote sched- the first step in the WTO dispute system. obtained by an investigative body. The including six foreign correspondents, killed uled for September 29. Ukraine, Georgia, The parties have 60 days to resolve the dis- stand that evidence illegally obtained can- in the Donbas. Kosovo, and Turkey are all seeking visa lib- pute. After that, the WTO can create a panel not be used may well be justified in many eralization to the EU’s Schengen zone this of experts to review the case. (RFE/RL, situations. Here, however, it eliminated the This commentary above was published by year. Earlier that month, the civil-liberties based on reporting by AFP and Reuters) Melnychenko tape which, if authentic, the Kharkiv Human rights Protection Group clearly contained vital information. on September 16 (see http://khpg.org/ Journalists and other members of the index.php?id=1473981642).

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the country’s Oscar selection process back NEWSBRIEFS in 2014. The scandal resulted in Ukraine missing the submission deadline for the (Continued from page 14) 2016 Academy Awards. “The films submit- Tallinn, will host the UEFA Super Cup final ted for consideration of Oscar committee on August 18, 2018. (RFE/RL, based on were different, but all of them demonstrate reporting by AFP and DPA) the development of Ukrainian film industry, both technically and aesthetically. Each of Ukraine’s candidate for Oscar them was worthy of representing Ukraine KYIV – “Ukrainian Sheriffs,” a documen- in the fight for Oscar, so it was obviously not tary directed by Roman Bondarchuk, was easy to make the choice,” said Philip Illienko, selected as the Ukrainian entry for the Best the head of national filmmakers’ union. The Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy world premiere of “Ukrainian Sheriffs” took Awards. The film was selected by Ukraine’s place in November 2015, when the film was св. п. new Oscar committee, which was approved presented at the prestigious International by The U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam ГАЛИНА М. БАЛАБАН and Sciences last month. The Oscar commit- and was awarded the Special Jury Prize. tee has been reformed after a scandal over (Ukraine Today) 26.ІІ.1938 – 29.VIII.2016

reunified Germany would not be part of a Turning... compromise with the Soviets in its Ділимось сумною вісткою, що attempts to annex the Baltic states, as the (Continued from page 6) 29 серпня 2016 року відійшла Baltics were in the midst of independence From the signing of the unification trea- movements from the Soviet Union and as у вічність наша дорога Галина. ty, five states in the east, Brandenbrug, Moscow threatened retaliation with mili- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, tary force. Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, became part In 2015, Russia had raised the issue of У глибокому смутку залишилися: of the Federal Republic of Germany. The declaring the reunification of Germany as signing of the treaty also marked the shift illegal, and has made comparisons between муж - Богдан of Germany’s capital from Bonn to Berlin, German reunification and Russia’s annexa- сестра - Маріяна Ковалич з родиною although Bonn served as the seat of gov- tion (or “reunification” as Moscow refers to ernment until 1999. it) of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. братова - Анастазія Балабан з родиною In 1991, a year after the treaty was ближча і дальша родина та друзі. signed, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 Sources: “Parliament greets German uni- and many observers saw the reunification fication,” by Mary Mycio (Rukh Press of Germany as marking the end of the Cold International), The Ukrainian Weekly, Похоронні відправи відбулися War. The U.S. noted that its recognition of a October 7, 1990. (Wikipedia) в церкві св. Андрея і на цвинтарі св. Духа у Hamptonburgh, NY.

Rostyslaw Ratycz Вічна Їй пам’ять! 1930-2016 Edison, NJ – Rostyslaw Ratycz peacefully passed on September 23rd at the age of 86; he is survived by his wife Helen and their children: Nadia, Roman with wife Olesia and children Mykola and Anya, Christina, Natalia Czernyk with husband Ihor and children Julianna, Katherine and John, and extended family in the US, Canada and Ukraine. Rostyslaw Ratycz was born January 19, 1930 in Rohatyn, Ukraine, grew up and was educated in Berezhany until 1944, when his family left for Bayreuth, Germany where he attended middle/ З глибоким смутком повідомляємо high school known as «Gymnasia» at the displaced persons camp. His друзів і громаду, що з волі Всевишнього, family immigrated to the United States in 1949 when he was 19 years old 21 липня 2016 року в Торонто, Канада and settled in Edison, NJ. відійшла у вічність Rostyslaw enlisted and served on active duty as Corporal in the US Army Corps of Engineers from 1952-1954, honorably discharged from the св. п. US Army Reserve in 1960. He returned to complete his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Rostyslaw ІРЕНА РОМАНА НОСИК Ratycz was a dedicated, lifetime electrical engineer, working in aerospace, мисткиня, маляр for Bendix/Allied Signal, now Honeywell. Ірена закінчила студії мистецтва в Інзбруцькому Університеті He married Helen Hyra in 1966 and they were blessed with 4 children. та у відомого мистця Т. Кірхмаєра в Австрії. Rostyslaw continued to serve his community by teaching at the Ukrainian Saturday school and as a leader in Plast Ukrainian Scouting New Brunswick Брала участь у виставках в Европі, Америці і Канаді. branch. He continued to maintain ties with his friends from the Bayreuth У Канаді продовжувала студії в Toronto College of Art Gymnasia, serving on or chairing the committee for their annual reunions. і працювала на біологічному Факультеті Торонтонського Університету як науковий маляр (Science Artist) He was also very involved in the Ukrainian community, primarily in the New Brunswick, NJ area as he and his parents were founding members of з любов’ю пращають: the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian parish, and established Маріка Голіната і Таїса Богданська Plast branches in Elizabeth, then in New Brunswick, NJ. Rostyslaw was a Микола і Маріон Голінаті з родиною Charter member of Cpl. Roman G. Lazar Post 40 of the Ukrainian American Зеновія Денека (Носик) Veterans (UAV) in North Port, FL. Орест і Ірина Денека з родиною After retirement, Rostyslaw spent time with family, friends, and Роман Денека grandchildren in NJ and friends in Florida. Юрій і Марійка Носик з родиною Людмила і Юрій Шанта в імені друзів Visitation will be on Friday, September 30, 2016, from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. with the «Panakhyda» at 7:30 pm at the Flynn and Son/Koyen Funeral В сороковий день відбулися відправи Home, 319 Amboy Ave. Metuchen, NJ 08840 в Торонто, Вініпеґу, Нюарку і Лондоні. Funeral services will be conducted on Saturday, October 1, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. at The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Похорон відбудеться Church, 80 Livingston Ave. New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Interment will в суботу, 15 жовтня 2016 року, о год. 9-ій ранку follow in St. Peter’s Cemetery, New Brunswick. в церкві св. Івана Хрестителя, Newark, NJ а відтак на цвинтарі св. Андрія, South Bound Brook, NJ. The family will be collecting memorial contributions to be made in Rostyslaw’s memory to “Plast USO” Ukrainian Scouting Organization and Нехай спокійно спочиває в Бозі. “UESA” Ukrainian Engineers Society of America scholarship fund. Please mail donations to c/o Ratycz at 159 Vineyard Road, Edison, NJ 08817. Вічна Їй пам’ять! 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 No. 40 “Memory Books of Lemkivshchyna 1944-1946”: the back story by Michael Buryk and Justin Houser University. He helped me in editing the book, especially with territorial division, As the Soviet regime took over southeast- summary tables, quantitative data, etc. He ern Poland and western Ukraine in 1944, it handled all of the technical editing of the implemented a plan to ethnically homoge- book. The hardest thing was to edit and nize these regions and to eradicate wide- publish the first volume, which was printed spread Ukrainian patriotic sentiment. They in 2015. The second volume was the larg- drew a border based on the World War I-era est, so the work took much time, but we Curzon Line, dividing the new Polish already had an incentive – it was necessary People’s Republic from the Ukrainian Soviet to continue what we had begun. Socialist Republic. All Ukrainians and Poles Moreover, I wanted to record and immor- living on the “wrong” side of the line were talize all of Lemkivshchyna, every person, slated for deportation to the other side. every Lemko, because my soul ached for Despite glowing propaganda about life in the each of them. While the second volume was Soviet Union, initially few Ukrainians relocat- being published (it was completed in spring ed. The authorities then implemented 2016), my son and I gradually completed increasingly violent tactics to coerce resettle- the third and final volume. At the end of ment (Operation Rzeszow). Nearly 500,000 June 2016, I got it to the printers and I have Ukrainians were thus resettled from Poland already received the first proof copies of the to the Soviet Union in 1944-1946, including Justin Houser book. And the publication is anticipated in tens of thousands of Lemkos. When the Andriy Khomyk of LRF (second from left) promotes the “Memory Books of the fall of 2016. So, the years of 2013-2016 Soviet Union refused to take more, the Lemkivschyna” and other Lemko-related publications. were three years of continuous work. Three remaining 150,000 Ukrainians were reset- volumes of “Memory Books of tled to the northern and western territories ry assistant and as a director of a boarding (P. Handiak), and thanks to their letters to the Lemkivshchyna 1944-1946.” house. However, neither my education nor archive management I managed to obtain Are you pleased with how the books “The Memory Books of Lemkivshchyna my professional work was the reason why I permission to work in the reading room turned out? When do you think the last of1944-1946” Poland in Akcja(Knyha Wisła Pamiati in 1947. Lemkivshch­ yny started to research Lemkivshchyna. I was and make copies. By that time I was already volume will be available? 1944-1946), authored by Dr. Yaroslava Galyk born and grew up in a family of Lemkos a member of the board of the All-Ukrainian and published with the support of the who had been deported from Poland to the Association Lemkivshchyna. Now, since the book is completed, I even Lemko Research Foundation in the U.S.A. Ukrainian SSR in 1945. My parents and my Since I live in the town of Yaremche, cannot believe that I managed to do this, (LRF) and LRF’s president, Andriy Khomyk, entire large family are Lemkos. which is 200 kilometers away from Lviv, it and relatively quickly at that, considering contain the names of those Lemkos who My father, Ivan Danylovych Halyk was not easy to get to the State Archives of that it was such a large volume of work. were deported to Ukraine between 1944 (Galyk), was from Kryzhivka, and my moth- the Lviv Oblast and I had to hire an assis- And, of course, I thank God for giving me and 1946. They are listed according to their er, Stefania Petrivna Repela-Halyk, was tant for photocopying (we also had to get the strength and intellect to implement this original villages of residence. The records the necessary permit for him). Father Dr. really great project. I also thank all the peo- contain their full names (with patronyms), Roman Shafran, who serves as priest of the ple who contributed a word, some work or year of birth, family relationships within fromthe resort Roztoka town of Wielka Krynica. (gmina Throughout Łabowa, my Church of St. Anna in Lviv and my cousin, some advice to this project. households, and the Ukrainian oblast to countyentire life Nowosądecki), I carried my whichMom’s is touching not far from sto- gave me great spiritual support. But I am especially grateful to the Lemko which they were resettled. Dr. Galyk ries about Lemkivshchyna in my heart. But In addition to these difficulties, there was Research Foundation in the U.S.A. and per- obtained these important lists from the orig- it was forbidden to write about such things a problem with the archival books them- sonally to Andriy Khomyk, who genuinely inal resettlement documents presently locat- during the Soviet era. Only at a mature age, selves, many pages of which had been embraced this project of mine, when I sub- ed in the State Archives of the Lviv Oblast. when my parents had already passed away, destroyed by water, torn or erased. The lists mitted it for consideration to the founda- Mike Buryk interviewed Dr. Galyk by did I realize that I could, and must, describe were written in illegible handwriting, in tion in late 2014. Mr. Khomyk enthusiasti- e-mail in August of 2016 about her project. the tragedy of my family and my people. Russian and phonetically, relying on the pro- cally believed in my idea, and as a result I Her responses detail the great challenge In 2009 I published my first book, nunciations of Lemkos whose language was gained financial support for the publication she undertook to produce this invaluable “Lemkivshchyna is the Land of Our not understandable for the scribes. This is of the book. I also thank him for the won- Ukrainian Lemko genealogical resource. Ancestors.” Later I started writing imagina- why it was very difficult to make out the derful foreword to the book in which he These volumes will be most useful to any- tive literature books, but the subject of surnames. We had to turn to the train lists managed to convey the essence of my work. one trying to uncover the trail of their Lemkos did not leave me. I was researching or alphabetical lists to restore the destroyed Lemko ancestors who left for Ukraine in the genealogy of my grandmother, Teodora surnames and even entire families. Also, What do you think your next project the period between 1944 and 1946. They Dziubinska, from Wierchomla Wielka and because these documents are used to issue will be after the Memory Books of are indeed a written testament for all these came across the archival volumes contain- certificates of resettlement, the archive staff Lemkivshchyna? families who were violently uprooted from ing lists of the Ukrainian families evicted in might have the books in use and we had to I have many plans for the future. It their ancestral lands. 1944-1946. This was how the idea came to wait a long time for them, and experience would be good to make an alphabetical * * * me to create the “Memory Books of the dissatisfaction of the archive staff. Also, index so that the readers could use these What is your professional and educa- Lemkivshchyna 1944-1946.” the result was a huge volume of material, books more easily. But this task would be tion background and what motivated And now I have become interested in which we had to sort according to adminis- very mundane. I would like to write an you to research and write the “Memory how various influences (religious, political, trative units, type into the computer and artistic work (perhaps a novel) with dia- Books of Lemkivshchyna?” Were you or migratory, etc.) on the life and conscious- proofread, and finally create an electronic logues in the Lemko language (dialect), so your parents Lemkos? If they were not, ness of Lemkos developed in the period version of the book and get it to the printers. that the reader could enter a Lemko house what interested you in writing about between the first and second world wars. But now the work is completed and the and family, stay there with Lemkos, and the Lemkos? I’ve already started to write a novel about third volume is being published. sense the soul of this wonderful, sincere, this. Now I have to continue it. But it I graduated from the Ivano-Frankivsk How long did it take to research and hard-working people. But this will be requires study and an understanding of write each volume of the book? Did you another chapter. Medical College and Chernivtsi State that period in Lemkivshchyna.” University, Department of Biology. I worked do all the research yourself? But the “Memory Books of as a nurse, massage therapist, biology and Did you put together the information Lemkivshchyna 1944-1946” seems like it is When in 2013 the idea of the creation of my duty to all Lemkos; this is our entire chemistry teacher, guide, medical laborato- in the State Archives of the Lviv Oblast? the “Memory Books” of the Lemkos arose, I How easy or difficult was it working Lemkovyna in a list of names. These people, consulted with various researchers, looked whether still living or in the other world, with the archives on this project? Did for assistance or support, wrote appeals to you need special permission? are yet all together in our native land, all Lemkos and non-Lemkos on the Internet the Lemko people, each of them in his vil- To study the history of my family, for and at various festivals, but no one believed lage or town, near his own house and quite a while I sent inquiries to the archives that such a voluminous work could actually field… they remain at home. in Poltava (where my mother’s family was be completed. I consulted even with the late resettled), Kyiv and Lviv. And I found out Ivan Krasovsky. But he could not help me Mike Buryk is a Ukrainian American writ- that all the materials of the resettlement, either. Then I turned to the young Lemkos er and speaker whose research focuses on including those regarding the relocation of from our family. At first, they helped me Lemko and Ukrainian genealogy. He is a the Lemkos in 1944-1946, based on the with typing on the computer. But they made founding member of Nashi Predky, a agreement between the Polish Committee many mistakes because of their ignorance Ukrainian genealogy and family history of National Liberation and the government of Lemko names and so on. The corrections group. Readers may contact him at michael. of the Ukrainian SSR on September 9, 1944, took me too much time. So my son, Andriy [email protected]. were transferred from Kyiv to the State Homyn, who grew up among Lemkos in the Justin Houser is a fourth-generation Archive of the Lviv Oblast. The archives resettlement collective farm village of Ukrainian American who has a passion for were already open, but I still needed per- Ternovytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, where historical and genealogical research and mission to work with the archival books. he went to visit my mother every summer, regularly presents on the topic. He is also a Another important barrier was photo- became my best assistant. member of the Nashi Predky steering com- copying the materials – I had to pay a fee. By education my son is a socio-econom- mittee. He may be contacted at jkhouser84@ Then I appealed to the Lviv Oblast ic-geographer (in the Department of Social gmail.com. “Memory Books of Lemkivshchyna” by Organization Lemkivshchyna (S. Maykovych) and Economic Geography), and a graduate Copyright (c) 2016 by Michael J. Buryk Dr. Yaroslava Galyk. and the Lemko Research Foundation in Lviv from the T. H. Shevchenko Kyiv National and Justin Houser. All rights reserved. No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 17 18 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 No. 40 USCAK holds fi ft h annual beach volleyball tournament by Walter Syzonenko WILDWOOD CREST, N.J. – The fifth annu- al Ukrainian Sports Federation of U.S.A. and Canada (USCAK) National Beach Volleyball Tournament was held on a sunny but windy Friday, August 26. The tournament was held during “Ukrainian Week” on the beach behind the Pan American Hotel. Organized and hosted by Lys Sports Academy of Whippany, N.J., the tournament was sponsored by Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Credit Union and Ukrainian Selfreliance Federal Credit Union of Philadelphia. Registration began bright and early on Friday morning at a tent decorated with the sponsors’ banners. In order to participate, teams needed to be affiliated with USCAK member clubs, such as Chornomorska Sitch, Lys Sports Academy, Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, Tryzub or the Christine Syzonenko Ukrainian American Youth Association. 2016 USCAK Beach Volleyball Champions “Sets on the Beach” (third to sixth from left) and 2016 USCAK Beach Volleyball Eight teams registered for the tournament. Finalists “Babushkas” (second to fifth from right) with USCAK tournament organizers. The tournament began at 10 a.m. with opening ceremonies. The national anthems and “USC Diaspora.” The teams registered The semifinals were held by pairing the the Beach” and “Babushkas.” It is interest- of Canada, Ukraine and the United States in Division B were: “The Flamingos,” “The first-place team of Division A, “Sets on the ing to note that the “Babushkas” from were played. Roman Bulawski, the tourna- Landsharks,” “Babushkas” and “The Beach,” against the second-place team of Toronto were made up of two young sons, ment director, welcomed the players and Leftovers.” The play format was round-rob- Division B, “The Flamingos.” “Sets on the Lukash Darewych (age 13) and Christian described general rules. Mr. Bulawski then in within the two divisions. At the end of Beach” won both games and advanced to Petrenko (age 14), playing with their introduced Walter Syzonenko, director of round-robin play, the teams were ranked the final. In the other semifinal match, the fathers, Roman Darewycz and Taras beach volleyball for USCAK and president within each division by the number of wins first-place team of Division B, “Babushkas,” Petrenko. The boys’ level of play and their of Lys SA, and Myron Bytz, USCAK presi- and losses, with the top two teams qualify- played the second-place team of Division A, competitive performance set the tone for dent, who officially opened the tourna- ing for the semi-finals. The top two teams “Sitch Bananas.” The “Babushkas” won both future generations of USCAK beach volley- ment, encouraging participants to play in Division A were “Sets on the Beach” and games against “Sitch Bananas” to advance ball tournaments. their best, and especially, to have fun. “Sitch Bananas”; the two top teams of to the final. A supportive crowd gathered to watch The teams registered in Division A were: Division B were “Babushkas” and “The The final was held between two very the final, with spectators anticipating a “AARP,” “Sitch Bananas,” “Sets on the Beach” Flamingos.” competitive and talented teams, “Sets on hotly contested match. The final match was exciting, with a high caliber of play and excellent displays of sportsmanship. All games in the final were very close; in the end “Sets on the Beach” prevailed to become 2016 USCAK Beach Volleyball Champions. After the final match, the tournament tro- phy was presented to “Sets on the Beach,” consisting of Marko Bobriwnyk (UAYA Hartford), Alex Syzonenko (Lys SA), Paul deVassal (Tryzub) and Nick Kobryn (from Manhattan). The winner of the tournament’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) award – and a new volleyball – was Marko Bobriwnyk. The tournament was pronounced a Tournament organizers with sponsor (from left): Roman Tournament organizers with sponsor (from left): Walter great success by all involved, and plans are Bulawski, tournament organizer; Walter Syzonenko, USCAK Syzonenko, USCAK director of beach volleyball; Roman director of beach volleyball; Myron Bytz, USCAK president; Stelmach, Ukrainian Selfreliance Federal Credit Union of already being made for next year’s event. Michael Koziupa, Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Philadelphia; Myron Bytz, USCAK president; Roman For more information, readers can visit Credit Union. Bulawski, tournament organizer. www.uscak.org. Golf tournament benefi ts UAYA campground in Ellenville by Andrij Horbachevsky ACCORD, N.Y. – The Ukrainian American Youth Association (UAYA) held its annual golf tournament on July 23 at the beau- tiful Rondout Golf Club in Accord, N.Y. The golf club offered gorgeous vistas of the surrounding Catskills and, although weather was quite hot that day, a gentle breeze kept all the golfers in good spirits. Fifty-eight golfers teed off at mid-day for an 18-hole scram- ble-format tournament. The general sponsor of the tourna- ment was SUMA Federal Credit Union of Yonkers, N.Y., which provided each player with a goody bag of golf balls, tees, water bottles and towels. After a fun afternoon on the links, all the participants were invited back to the nearby UAYA camp- ground (“oselia”) for a buffet reception and awards ceremony. The winning foursome of Alex Popovich, Walter Wilczak, Steve Nahorniak and Michael Gudzy was warmly greeted by fellow golfers. The tournament committee co-chairmen, Peter Kolinsky, Peter Drobenko and Andrij Horbachevsky, thanked all the T-sign sponsors, as well as Billy Krawec of Yonkers Miasarnia who sponsored the catered reception. All proceeds from the tournament are earmarked for capi- tal improvements for the UAYA oselia. Located on Route 209 in Ellenville, N.Y., oselia has been a center for UAYA camps and family recreation for over 60 years and offers a wide range of Andrij Horbachevsky cultural, educational and sporting activities throughout the At the post-tournament get-together (from left) are: Peter Kolinsky (co-chairman), the winning foursome of spring and summer. Alex Popovich, Walter Wilczak, Steve Nahorniak and Michael Gudzy, and Peter Drobenko (co-chairman). No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 19

Petrusia Sawchak During the presentation of trophies (from left) are: UNA Treasurer Petrusia Sawchak Roma Lisovich, men’s finalist Mykola Stroynick, USCAK Tennis UNA Treasurer Roma Lisovich (left) and USCAK Committee member Ivan Durbak (right) with Director George Sawchak, men’s winner Marko Krasij and USCAK (from left) men’s 45 finalist Steve Sosiak, men’s 55 and 65 finalist George Petrykevych, winner in Tennis Committee member Ivan Durbak. men’s 35 and 45 Nick Nalywayko, and winner in both the men’s 55 and 65, Yaroslav Sydorak. 61st USCAK National Tennis Championships held at Soyuzivka

by Petrusia Sawchak KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Blessed with ideal weather for tennis, sunny skies, pleasant temperatures and no wind, the Ukrainian Sports Federation of the USA and Canada (known by its Ukrainian-based acronym USCAK) held its 61st National Tennis Championships at the Soyuzivka Heritage Center during Labor Day weekend. Players represented 11 states. Tennis enthusiasts gathered above the courts to watch their favorites battle their opponents as strands of music filtered from the Tiki Deck. Continuing a so-called tradition between these two contenders in the men’s division, Marko Krasij (Texas) defeated Mykola Stroynick (New York) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 in three sets, which lasted for four grueling hours and 10 minutes – the longest match ever played during the Labor Day Tournament. The two players have been alternating win- ners for the past six years: Stroynick in 2015, Krasij in 2014, Stroynick in 2013, Petrusia Sawchak Krasij in 2012 and Stroynick in 2011. Participants of USCAK’s 61st Tennis Tournament at Soyuzivka. In the women’s division, Lesia Bilak Schinnerer (Pennsylvania), six-time champi- for more than a century with life insurance, held on the deck of the swimming pool on Nick Nalywayko, Jr. (New Jersey) in a close on and mother of two young sons who also endowments and annuities. The Soyuzivka Saturday, September 3. After the formal three setter, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5; and in the second competed in the tournament, beat Anastazija Heritage Center was also a proud supporter presentations of the Ukrainian and round Pavlo Busko (New Jersey) eliminated (Nastya) Koval (Ohio), a college student of this tournament. Both the UNA and American national anthems, George Dmytro Pidvysockyj (New Hampshire) 2-6, from Cleveland, by the score 6-3, 6-2. Soyuzivka were among the original found- (Yurko) Sawchak, USCAK tennis director, 6-2, 6-3. In the quarter-finals Stroynick All the winners and finalists were award- ers of this tournament since its inception in officially greeted all the players, organizers bested Alex Dale (Pennsylvania), who had a ed substantial monetary stipends from the the 1950s. and dignitaries to this event. He also nice win, 6-4, 6-4, over Yuriy Pereyaslavskiy Winner Automotive Group Inc., and Winner- Krasij was also awarded the Roman thanked all the sponsors for their support (New York); in the second round Stroynick Ukraine, whose owner, John Hynansky, was Rakoczy Trophy. Mr. Rakoczy was one of the throughout the years. eliminated Paul de Vassal (Pennsylvania), a frequent guest and tennis player at original organizers of this tournament and USCAK President Myron Bytz and who beat Chris Bula (Florida) 6-2, 6-2. Soyuzivka years ago and has been funding USCAK tennis director for many years (he Roman Hirniak, newly elected mayor of Before defeating Koval, Schinnerer beat the tournament for more than 30 years. was inducted into the Ukrainian Sports Hall Randolph, N.J., also welcomed the players newcomer Mary Berezowsky (New York) They also received trophies funded by of Fame on September 17 at the Ukrainian and thanked parents for bringing their chil- 6-1. 6-3, and Koval overcame Catherine the Ukrainian National Association (UNA), American Cultural Center of New Jersey). dren to this event. Popow (Delaware) 6-4, 6-0. a fraternal organization that has been serv- The opening ceremonies for both the Getting to the finals, Krasij eliminated In the girls’ group, Anna Popow beat sis- ing the Ukrainian community unyieldingly swimming and tennis championships were Marko Gural (New York), who had defeated ters Ivanna Voloshchak (New Jersey) 6-1, 6-3 and Natalia Voloshchak 6-1, 6-0. Voloshchak won over Daria Gural (New York) 6-4, 6-0. Gural was the feed-in winner. Many of the men played in more than one group because they enjoy the competi- tion this provides. In the men’s 35, Mykola (Nick) Nalywayko retained his title by defeating Dmytro Pidvysockyi 6-4, 6-3, and in the semi-finals Bohdan Kucyna (New Jersey) 6-2, 6-2, while Pidvysockyj beat Steve Sosiak 6-4, 6-2. In the men’s 45, round robin, Nalywayko took first with Steve Sosiak taking second. In the men’s 55 (played after the men’s 65), Yaroslav Sydorak (California) beat his arch-rival George Petrykevych (Connecticut) in a highly competitive match consisting of three match tie-breaks 6-10, 10-5, 10-7. Getting to the finals, Sydorak defeated David Pronchick (Massachusetts) Petrusia Sawchak Marusia Durbak 6-2, 6-1, and Petrykevych bested Walter The women’s trophy winner Lesia Bilak Schinnerer The Mary Dushnyck Trophy for Good Sportsmanship is awarded to Dziwak (New Jersey) 6-0, 6-0. receives a stipend from Winner-Ukraine and a UNA tro- Natalia Voloshchak, who is congratulated by Petrusia Sawchak and phy from Ivan Durbak. Ivan Durbak. (Continued on page 23) 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 No. 40

Ukrainian FCU awards $13,750 in undergraduate scholarships

by Alex Oryshkevych ROCHESTER, NY – Ukrainian Federal Credit Union (UFCU) through its Ukrainian-American Community Foundation Inc., awarded 21 scholarships this year totaling $13,750. The scholarship awards ranging from $1,000 to $250 included four named scholarships – the Roman Kucil Memorial Scholarship, the Wasyl and Anna Diaczenko Memorial Scholarship and the Ukrainian Civic Center of Rochester Merit Award. The scholarships were based on the applicants’ academic achievements, extra- curricular activities and involvement in their respective UFCU common bond com- munities. Applicants were also required to participate in the UFCU Products and Services survey and write an essay about Valeriy Guy what needs to change in the hearts, minds Ukrainian Federal Credit Union Board of Directors, Scholarship Committee and scholarship recipients (with branch managers and actions of ordinary Ukrainians to representing recipients who could not attend): (top row, from left) Semen Vladyka, Victor Bandriwsky, Martin Savka, Nazariy achieve a sovereign and democratic Tokarchuk, Taras Nazarevych, Mikhail Mikhaylov, Sophia Kenn, Tanya Dashkevich, Roman Kshysyak; (middle row) Volodymyr Ukraine after 25 years of independence. Otvarukhin, Wasyl Kornylo, Oleg Lebedko, Yaroslav Fatyak, Yaroslav Kirik, Barbara Tymoc-Gutierrez, Richard Harris, Tamara Ukrainian FCU, headquartered in Denysenko, Dr. Evhen Lylak, Wolodymyr Pylyshenko; (bottom row) Nadia Hayduke, Lyubov Stefantsiv, Nadia Tratch, Dr. Rochester, N.Y., has been supporting the Christine Hoshowsky, Inessa Koval, Iryna Hrynyk, Meghan Flanigen, Yelena Mikhaylova, Natalie Lebedko and Ivanna Vorobets. student members’ educational aspirations since the 1970s and since 1999 has award- ed over $200,000 in scholarships. This fall for the first time, the UAC Foundation will offer four $1,000 Graduate Scholarships – two UFCU Scholarships and two Ukrainian Centennial Scholarships made possible through the generous dona- tion of Dr. Christine Hoshowsky, president of the Rochester Ukrainian Group (RUG). For more information about this new grad- uate scholarship initiative, the 2017 under- graduate program and UAC Foundation, readers may visit www.rufcu.org/scholar- ship.php. Ukrainian FCU has 12 branches nation- wide with more than 20,000 members. Since 1953, UFCU has helped its members achieve financial success by providing them with the highest level of personalized service.

Those attacking... (Continued from page 2) It remains unclear why a reputable American publication would publish a sub- jective and poorly researched article such as that by Mr. Cohen who obviously collect- ed “facts” to match a prejudged critical con- clusion. Mr. Cohen’s article is an example of the manipulation of facts, hyperbole and outright false assertions that should have been brought into question by the editors during the publication process. Towards the end of his article Mr. Cohen claims that Ukrainians should try to over- come the “dark parts of our past” if they seek to integrate into Europe. We agree, but he fails to understand how this has been a long drawn-out process over many decades even for advanced democracies, with coun- tries such as France and Britain only com- ing to terms with their brutal colonial past in recent years. It has taken more than half a century for Irish-British reconciliation, for example. One important manner in which Ukrainians are facing up to their history is by permitting open access to the hidden pages of the past found in the Soviet archives that has led to fruitful research, publications and the growth of discussions. De-communization, similar to de-Nazifica- tion in post-World War II Germany, is cen- tral to countries that have experienced totalitarian dictatorships in overcoming their historical past and assisting in their democratization. No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 21 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 No. 40 Conference on genealogy to be held in N.J. at Ukrainian Historical and Educational Center

by Natalia Honcharenko events have in the past attracted attendees tures of the languages encountered in Genealogy (DNA) Tools” by Ms. Morehead, from as far away as Virginia, Ohio and Eastern European research, and attendees and “UAGenealogy: Discovering Online SOMERSET, N.J. – On November 4-5, the California. will work through the translations of sam- Genealogy Resources” by Michelle Nashi Predky – Our Ancestors Family This year’s conference will be held at the ple documents. Chubenko. History Group at the Ukrainian Historical Ukrainian Cultural Center located at 135 In the afternoon, participants will be Registrants for the conference will have and Educational Center of New Jersey will Davidson Ave. in Somerset, NJ 08873, and able to choose from talks on either the the option of signing up for an additional hold its third annual fall conference: speakers will include nationally known “basics” or “technology” tracks. The basics session on Friday evening from a choice of “Research Essentials: Combining the Basics experts in Eastern European genealogy. For track will include talks on “U.S. Alien three options: a hands-on Cyrillic handwrit- with 21st Century Technology.” the first time, the conference will include Registration Files” by Shellee Morehead, ing workshop, a presentation on genetic The Nashi Predky initiative began in dual-track afternoon presentations, as well “How to Locate Those Elusive Military genealogy titled “Which Autosomal DNA 2014 with a goal to help Ukrainians, as a choice of optional sessions on the pre- Records for Ancestors who Served in the test is right for you?” or an appointment Lemkos, Boykos, Rusyns, Jews with ceding evening. Austro-Hungarian Army” by Carl with a language expert for personal assis- Ukrainian roots and others in the U.S. learn The main day of the conference will be Kotlarchik, and “Finding Uncle Frank: tance with document translation. Space is about their own family histories, collect on Saturday, November 5, with two morn- Confirming the Identity of a U.S. Soldier extremely limited for both the workshop stories and documents about their immi- ing sessions. In “I Found my Village! Now Buried Under the Wrong Name” by Ms. and the translation service. grant ancestors, get advice on preserving What?” Julie Szczepankiewicz will suggest Szczepankiewicz. The technology track fea- For full details on the program, speakers, family records, and offer workshops on resources and strategies to help research- tures three presentations for those venue and registration, readers may visit how to trace lineages in American, ers find their ancestral village. “Now I researchers wanting to add tools to their the conference website at www. Ukrainian and Polish archives. It is the most Found It! What Does It Say?,” a linguistic genealogy toolbox: “Using Polish Language NashiPredky.org/conference. To register by active, if not the only active, group of this overview by Prof. Jonathan Shea will exam- Websites for Genealogical Research in phone or for more information, call 732- kind in the United States, and Nashi Predky ine various phonetic and grammatical fea- Galicia (Halychyna)” by Prof. Shea, “Genetic 356-0132. Documentary “Second Chance” to premiere in Vancouver MML Inc. Media about the future of orphans once they are released. MONTREAL – The documentary film “Second Chance” opens a discussion of “Second Chance” by Montreal filmmaker Ukraine’s social fabric and the lack of con- Adriana Luhovy will have its Vancouver cern for underprivileged elements of soci- premiere on Sunday, October 23. The pub- ety, especially before the fall of USSR. lic screening is organized by the Ukrainian The film captures the impact of volun- Studies Foundation of British Columbia and teerism, and its importance to a communi- the Ukrainian Women’s Association of ty’s ongoing success. Canada, Lesia Ukrainka Branch, of The film is in English with Ukrainian Vancouver. heard throughout the film. Subtitles are The documentary tells the touching used to keep the feel and authenticity of the story of orphan children in Ukraine and language spoken between the Ukrainian Ukrainian Canadian youth volunteering to Canadian volunteers and the orphan chil- help make a difference in their lives. dren. Volunteers from across Canada are chosen Ms. Luhovy noted, “This was a difficult by Toronto’s Help Us Help The Children film to make emotionally, to hear the sto- (HUHTC), who organize specialized camp ries of unwanted children and the many programs in the Carpathian Mountains for obstacles they had to overcome in their orphans. University volunteer workers personal lives. It took time to gain their bring their background, skills and training confidence and trust to share their experi- MML Inc. Media gained over many years attending ences. Hopefully, I captured their resil- Director Adriana Luhovy (left) with orphan children in Ukraine. Ukrainian school and youth organizations ience and determination for a better in Canada. tomorrow.” “Second Chance” is Ms. Luhovy’s first The film will be shown in Vancouver at “Second Chance” was filmed on site, The documentary was made possible documentary film release. She is a graduate Holy Trinity Auditorium, 154 E. 10th Ave. interviewing the many participants. It with the assistance of Sylvie Monette, The of communications studies at Montreal’s Admission is by donation; light refresh- closely follows how orphan children slowly Ukrainian Studies Foundation of British Concordia University and of Vancouver ments will be served. gain trust, bond with their counselors and Columbia, The Shevchenko Foundation, Film School; she has worked for New York’s For future showings of the documentary push on with the challenges they face. The Caisse Desjardins Ukrainienne de Montreal, Advancing Human Rights and has volun- “Second Chance” readers may contact col- documentary interweaves the state of Ukrainian National Federation – Montreal teered for many years in Ukraine, working [email protected] or visit www. orphanages in Ukraine and raises concerns branch, MML Inc. and others. closely with HUHTC and orphan children. adrianaluhovy.com.

University Church of the Holy Wisdom of Patriarch... God becomes a reflection of God’s glory here on earth. We pray that Our Heavenly (Continued from page 8) Father give us good health and plentiful express great gratitude to all UCU’s build- spiritual gifts for the service of the Church ers. For the university is marching ahead, a and the Ukrainian people,” Patriarch great future lies ahead. May the whole Sviatoslav said. country experience the development of this As part of the ceremonies on September university.” 11 there was a spiritual evening, “Let us On the occasion of the celebration the know the world in order to know God,” dur- head of the UGCC thanked all who worked, ing which national artists together with UCU dreamed of and built this holy church. He students explored the theme of the “wis- expressed special gratitude to the presi- dom-quality” of the newly built University dent of the university, Bishop Borys Church of the Holy Wisdom of God. Gudziak, and the rector of UCU, Father The concert program included theatrical Bohdan Prach, Ph.D. He also granted a performances by national artists and UCU patriarchal honor to the church’s architect, students, as well as spiritual music. The Ivan Bereznicki. Hlas and Eteria choirs performed, in addi- On the occasion of the celebration, the tion to a string quartet directed by Oksana patriarch of the UGCC also blessed com- Turnko, Natalka Polovynka and the Irmos memorative markers honoring the found- Studio, and singer Oksana Mukha. ers and benefactors who donated to the The University Church of the Holy building of the church. Wisdom of God is seen as the spiritual core “May the All-Merciful Lord award you all around which will revolve the academic for your dedicated work and spiritual and spiritual and liturgical life of the uni- accompaniment in the building of this versity. This is a unique church that is a church. I hope that you will continue and symbol of unity and an incarnation of the complete all further work so that the Wisdom of God. No. 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 23

October 3 Presentation by Sviatlana Shiells, “Illia Repin Unknown: October 14-15 Scholarly conference, “Ukrainian Studies in Canada: Cambridge, MA Ukrainism, Japonisme and More,” Harvard University, Edmonton, AB Texts and Contexts,” University of Alberta, www.ualberta.ca www.huri.harvard.edu October 14-15 Art exhibit, featuring works by Christine Zelinsky, Christina October 5, 12, 19, 26 Ukrainian embroidery workshop, St. John the Baptist Jenkintown, PA Oddo, Daria Medynska, Kania Novak and Petrykivka works, Ottawa Ukrainian Catholic Shrine, 613-731-1870 Ukrainian National Women’s League of America – Branch 67, Ukrainian Community Foundation of Philadelphia, Ukrainian October 6 Presentation by Mykola Riabchuk, “Examined by War: Educational and Cultural Center, 215-663-1764 Stanford, CA New Bonds and Old Cleavages in Post-Maidan Ukrainian Society,” Stanford University, October 15 Ukrainian American Veterans convention banquet, http://creees.stanford.edu or 650-725-2563 Chicago Ukrainian Cultural Center, 847-639-8425

October 6 Panel discussion, “Ukraine: Foreign Policy and October 15 Vyshyvanka, Ukrainian Embroidery Dance, Holy Jenkintown, PA Humanitarian Efforts,” Manor College, 215-885-2360 Cheektowaga, NY Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 716-662-3532 ext. 230 or www.manor.edu/ukr October 15 Flea Market, St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church, October 6 Presentation by Andriy Kohut, “Opening the KGB Scranton, PA 570-963-1580 Cambridge, MA Archive: The Case of Ukraine,” Harvard University, www.huri.harvard.edu October 15 Harvest Festival, St. Mary Ukrainian Orthodox Church, New Britain, CT 860-229-3833 or 860-677-2138 October 7 Concert with violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv, Embassy Of Washington Ukraine, http;//usa.mfa.gov.ua/ua or 202-349-2963 October 15 Book presentation by Alexander Motyl, “Ardor: Or How New York would-be Nobel Prize winner C. Milosz enjoyed the high October 7-9 Columbus Cup soccer tournament, Ukrainian American life with low life in Italy, hobnobbed with a Viktor Horsham, PA Sports Center Tryzub, www.tryzub.org Yanukovych look-alike, and met His Muse on the rooftop of the Duomo,” and “Vanishing Points,” The Ukrainian Museum, October 7 through Art exhibit, “Axiom,” featuring works by Frank Connet, 212-228-0110 or www.ukrainianmuseum.org December 4 Lialia Kuchma and Anne McGinn, Ukrainian Institute of Chicago Modern Art, www.uima-chicago.org or 773-227-5522 October 16 20th anniversary concert, Iskra Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Convent Station, College of St. Elizabeth, Dolan Performance Hall, October 8 Lecture by Volodymyr Kulyk, “Ukraine’s Russian NJ [email protected] or 201-317-8518 New York Speakers: Evolution of Identity,” Shevchenko Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 October 16 90th anniversary, St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Philadelphia Cathedral, Philmont Country Club, 215-725-8985 or October 8-9 Concert by Vesnivka, Ukrainian women’s vocal www.stvladimirsphilla.org Washington ensemble, Ukrainian Catholic Shrine of the Holy Family, [email protected] Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events October 13-16 69th national convention, Ukrainian American Veterans, advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Chicago Four Points Sheraton Chicago O’Hare Airport, from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors [email protected] or www.uavets.org and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

USCAK Tennis Committee, and UNA 61st USCAK... Treasurer Roma Lisovich also congratulat- ed everyone. (Continued from page 19) Natalia Voloshchak was awarded the In the men’s 65, Sydorak defeated Mary Dushnyck Sportsmanship Trophy Petrykevych 4-6, 6-2, 11-9 retaining his determined by the USCAK Tennis title. Getting to the finals, Sydorak eliminat- Committee. Mr. Sawchak explained that ed Orest Wasyluk (Florida) 6-2, 6-3, and Mrs. Dushnyck, past supreme vice-presi- Petrykevych took Dziwak 6-1, 6-1. dentess of the UNA, was also a very popular The junior boys played in two groups. In and devoted participant who made many the older group, Pavlo Busko (New Jersey) contributions for many years to this tennis overcame last year’s winner, Marko Gural, tournament beginning in 1956. 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. In the younger group Kase The following memorial trophies were Schinnerer beat Danylo Sosiak 6-0, 6-2, and established but not all presented: Roman also Alexander Shevchouk (Pennsylvania); Rakoczy Trophies to the men’s and women’s and Sosiak bested Erik Schinnerer 6-3, 6-3. winners; men’s – Bohdan Rak Trophy; wom- Erik Shinnerer won the feed-in. en’s – Constantine Ben Trophy; and the Closing ceremonies were held after all men’s 55 and over – Dr. Petro Charuk Trophy. the matches were concluded. Mr. Sawchak Ms. Lisovich thanked all the players for thanked all the players for their participa- their participation and invited everyone to tion, and the sponsors of the tournament: return again next year to keep up the tradi- Mr. Hynansky (Winner Group), the UNA tion. She also congratulated Mr. Sawchak and Soyuzivka for their loyal support. He on receiving recognition and a plaque from also thanked USCAK Tennis Committee the UNA during the Soyuzivka Tennis member Ivan Durbak for his assistance. Camp’s closing banquet in June for his 50 Absent this year was George Hrabec who years of service and dedication to that regretted that he could not attend. camp. Lastly, Ms. Lisovich asked everyone All the winners and finalists received to continue their loyal support of Soyuzivka their stipends and trophies from the and the Ukrainian National Association. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 No. 40

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Saturday, October 8 included): $15; members and seniors, $10; NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific students, $5. The Ukrainian Museum is Society invites all to a lecture on “Ukraine’s located at 222 E. Sixth St.; telephone, 212- Russian-speakers: Evolution of Identity” by 228-0110; website, www.ukrainianmuse- Dr. Volodymyr Kulyk, the leading scholar at um.org. the I.F. Kuras Ukrainian Institute of Political and Ethno-National Research, National NEW BRITAIN, Conn.: A Ukrainian Harvest Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, who is a Festival will be held 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St guest lecturer at Yale University. The event Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 54 will take place at the society’s building, 63 Winter St. (behind Newbrite Plaza). Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th Featured will be our famous bread, nut and streets) at 5 p.m. For additional information, poppyseed rolls, a giant tag sale, Christmas call 212-254-5130. decorations, jewelry, pastry, holubtsi, vare- nyky, borshch and a Ukrainian kitchen. New Saturday-Sunday October 8-9 this year will be collector costumed bears WASHINGTON: Vesnivka, Canada’s and dolls. There is parking behind the renowned Ukrainian women’s choir, will church. For information call 860-229-3833 perform religious, folk and popular or 860-677-2138. Ukrainian choral selections on Saturday eve- Sunday, October 16 ning at 7 p.m. (a reception to follow) and will sing the responses to the divine liturgy PHILADELPHIA: Philadelphia-area on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at the Ukrainian Ukrainians will gather in celebration as St. Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family, Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral 4250 Harewood Road NE, Washington, DC marks the 90th anniversary of its founding. 20017. Since its founding in 1965, Vesnivka The church edifice at its current location, has become a powerful voice in the world of 6740 N. Fifth St., Philadelphia, PA 19126, choral music, recording and presenting the will observe the 50th anniversary of its con- Ukrainian choral heritage to audiences in secration in 1966. An archpastoral liturgy Canada and abroad. Admission: $25 for will be celebrated by Metropolitan Antony adults, $10 for students with ID. For addi- and Bishop Daniel at 9:30 a.m. A banquet tional information contact lakurylas@veri- with entertainment will follow at the zon.net. Philmont Country Club, 301 Tomlinson Road, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, at 1:30 Thursday-Saturday, October 13-15 p.m. For more information go to http:// CHICAGO: The Ukrainian American www.stvladimirsphila.org/anniversary. Veterans’ 69th annual convention, hosted by html. For banquet reservations call Vera, UAV Post 32, will take place in Chicago. The 215-725-8985. banquet and dance on Saturday, October 15, Sunday, October 23 is at 6 p.m. at the Ukrainian Cultural Center. For more info call Commander Peter Bencak VANCOUVER, British Columbia: The at 773-578-6868, e-mail pbencak@sbcglob- Vancouver premiere of the documentary al.net or visit the UAV website at uwww. film “Second Chance” by Montreal filmmak- uavets.org. er Adriana Luhovy will take place at Holy Trinity Auditorium, 154 E. 10th Ave. This is Saturday, October 15 a moving and uplifting story of how NEW YORK: At 7 p.m. at The Ukrainian orphaned children in Ukraine attending Museum, Alexander Motyl will present his camps sponsored by Help Us Help the latest novel, “Ardor: Or How Would-Be Children (HUHTC) with Ukrainian Canadian Nobel Prize Winner C. Milosz Enjoyed the youth volunteers learn to push on with the High Life with Low Life in Italy, Hobnobbed challenges they face. The screening is hosted with a Viktor Yanukovych Look-Alike, and by the Ukrainian Studies Foundation of Met His Muse on the Rooftop of the Duomo” British Columbia and the Ukrainian (Alternative Book Press) and his collection Women’s Association of Canada, Lesia of poetry, “Vanishing Points” (Kelsay Press), Ukrainka Branch, Vancouver. Admission is “a journey from Vienna to New York by donation. Light refreshments will be through history with a literary vision and served. For more information e-mail usfbc@ poetic rhythm.” Admission (light reception gmail.com. Everyone is welcome!

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