2015 Canadian Election 18 Ukrainians in China 26 Kharkivskiy Pravopys 28 CUPP in Third Decade CUPP 2015 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 2015 – Issue 1 CUPP NEWSLETTER National University of Kyiv- Mohyla Academy 1615-2015: History of a Vision, Inspiration and Legacy ................................... 3 Greetings to National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy from CUPP ............................................. 5 CUPP Interns ................................ 7 Canadian Federal Election Campaign: An Outsider's Observations from the Inside .......................................... 18 Updates on CUPP Alumni ......... 20 What I see ................................... 25 CUPP 2015 Interns (12 students from universities in Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Greetings to CUPP .................... 25 Odesa, Sumy, Belgium, China, France, Netherlands, Poland). Preserving Traditions: Ukrainians in China ................... 26 Український правопис / History of CUPP experience from which generations of Харківський правопис ........... 28 Canadian, American and West Euro- On July 16, 1990, the Ukrainian Par- pean students have benefited. On the Ґерта Мюллер: лірики liament adopted the Declaration of basis of academic excellence, know- Sovereignty, which declared that Par- проти кремлинів ...................... 30 ledge of the English or French and liament recognized the need to build Ukrainian languages, and an interest CUPP 2014 Interns observe the Ukrainian state based on the Rule in the Westminster Parliament model elections in Maine, USA ............ 33 of Law. On August 24, 1991, the Ukrai- of government, university students nian Parliament adopted the Declara- from Ukrainian and foreign universi- "Taras Shevchenko – Why tion of Independence, which the citi- ties, can apply for a CUPP internship Does He Matter Today" ............. 37 zens of Ukraine endorsed in the program. It is hoped that CUPP will referendum of December 1, 1991. Also The post-Soviet space without contribute to the education of future in 1991, Canadians celebrated the leaders of Ukraine. frozen conflicts – what would Centennial of Ukrainian group immi- have to change? ........................ 38 In this, its 25th year of operation, the gration to Canada. To mark the Cen- CUPP program welcomes twelve uni- The Canada-Ukraine tennial, organizations planned pro- versity students who attend universi- Parliamentary Program ............. 41 grams and projects to celebrate this ties in Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, milestone in Canada's history. Sumy, Belgium, China, France, Neth- The Top Ten Effective Election The Chair of Ukrainian Studies Foun- erlands, Poland. They will complete a Strategies that Canada Has and dation of Toronto commemorated the two-month elections campaign obser- Ukraine Does Not....................... 46 Centennial, by establishing the Cana- vation program, during which they will da-Ukraine Parliamentary Program work and observe the election cam- CUPP 2015 Election Campaign (CUPP) for university students from paigns of three of Canada's political Internship Facts ......................... 48 Ukraine. CUPP gives Ukrainian stu- parties. The next traditional CUPP dents an opportunity to work and study program will take place in the Spring Contact Us in the Canadian Parliament, and gain of 2016. Chair of Ukrainian Studies Foundation 620 Spadina Avenue People who worked on this issue of the Newsletter: Olya Spytsia, Toronto, Ontario, Lucy Hicks, Artur Nadiev, Nina Hawrylow, Angelina Nikolaichuk, Canada M5S 2H4 Andriy Panasenko, Pavlo Shopin. Tel.: (416) 234-9111 Cover Design: by Oleksandr Guzenko, CUPP 2015. Fax: (416) 234-9114 Layout: Basilian Press. Printed: Bassilian Press, Toronto. www.KATEDRA.org 2 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM CUPP 2015 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 CUPP in Third Decade National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy 1615-2015: History of a Vision, Inspiration and Legacy Petro Mohyla was a well-traveled as those originally donated. sumed into the Russian Empire. academic and sophisticated reli- Mohyla reformed Orthodox educa- Emperor Nicholas I closed Kyiv gious leader when he arrived in tion, imitating the model provided Mohyla Academy in 1817. As the Kyiv during the first decade of the by the Jesuit school (collegium). Russian Empire collapsed, Soviet 17th century. The curriculum established by Mo- forces assumed power in Ukraine, Born into Moldavian aristocracy, hyla emphasized fluency in Latin, and in the 1920s authorities confis- he witnessed the dramatic effects the international language of schol- cated the academy’s vacant loca- of the Reformation and the Coun- arship, jurisprudence and political tion in Podil, establishing a naval ter-Reformation on European soci- life. This brought openness toward training school. eties. Medieval notions had been Western thought, and through Ci- After 70 years of Soviet occupa- shattered, replaced by Renais- ceronian rhetoric emphasized criti- tion, with the advent of Ukraine’s sance ideals that emphasized the cal thinking and individual devel- independence, the doors to Kyiv idea of a recoverable past, the eth- opment. Mohyla Academy opened once ical values of classical thinkers, Many other languages were also again. With a decree of Ukraine’s neo-Latin education, as well as a taught at the Mohylanian establish- Parliament, the university re- learned piety. Mohyla brought the ment. With personal funds, Mohyla opened in September 1991. values of the new Europe with him established a prolific publishing The vision for the new university to Kyiv by reforming the Orthodox house that included translations of was rooted in the passionate belief confraternity school system. European publications. that education was the key to From a family of Ruthenian nobles, Kyiv Mohyla Academy became one Ukraine’s future, and that only by Halshka Hulevychivna (Yelyzaveta of the largest centers of scholar- transforming the educational sys- Hulevychivna) obtained a lifelong ship in Eastern Europe. From tem would the new nation have a appreciation of education from the among the academy’s graduates chance to become a democracy scholars who taught her at the fam- came many of Ukraine’s leaders. with a vibrant civil society. The stra- ily’s estate in Volyn. After coming Hetmans Ivan Mazepa, Pylyp Or- tegic goal was to promote reforms to Kyiv in 1608, she joined a colle- lyk, Pavlo Polobutok, Ivan Skoro- in Ukraine’s system of higher edu- gial network of the educated and padskiy, and Ivan Samoylovych cation and provide an education at the wealthy to financially strength- were among the graduates, along the highest order of excellence. en the Orthodox confraternity with architect Ivan Hryhorovych- Degrees from National University school system, which served Ru- Barskiy, composers Artem Vedel of Kyiv Mohyla Academy (NaUK- thenian city dwellers and their and Maksym Berezovskiy, philoso- MA) were to be on par with those growing merchant class. pher Hryhoriy Skorovoda and from the best universities in the As archimandrite (abbot) of the Ky- scholar Mykhailo Lomonosov. More world. NaUKMA was to be a mod- ivan Caves Monastery, Petro Mo- than 2,000 students were enrolled ern university to educate modern hyla combined the monastery during the early 18th century. leaders of Ukraine. school together with the urban con- The growth of the academy came In 1991, with a close circle of dedi- fraternity school on land and build- during a period of increasing politi- cated colleagues who shared the ings donated by Halshka Hulevy- cal tension - pressure from Poland same vision, Dr. Vyacheslav Bryuk- chivna in the Podil, one of the from the west, an increasingly ag- hovetsky began the work of build- oldest districts of Kyiv. The gift from gressive stance of Russian czars ing such a university. The task be- Hulevychivna and the tradition of from the north, and the rising pow- fore Bryukhovetsky was similar to innovation in education established er of the Ottoman Empire from the the one that confronted Mohyla by Mohyla formed the founding south – all of whom vied for Ukrai- four centuries earlier - the need to legacy of the modern National Uni- nian lands. With the destruction of transform society by transforming versity of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, the Zaporzhian Sich in 1775 by education. Rejecting Soviet mod- still located on the same grounds Russian armies, Ukraine was sub- els, NaUKMA was established CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM 3 CUPP in Third Decade CUPP 2015 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 along the university models and Ukraine’s history, culture, lan- such as business, law, and journal- standards of North America and guage, and religious and ethical ism, humanities, economics re- Europe. traditions form the foundation for ceiving top rankings. The first class of undergraduates the study of current challenges in The university’s alumni hold lead- was admitted on August 24, 1992, the economic, technological, inno- ing positions throughout the na- during the first-year anniversary of vative sectors. But that is not suffi- tion. After the formation of a new Ukraine’s independence. Then in cient. Reforms for rule of law, government in Ukraine in 2014, June 1996, 151 graduates received equality of opportunity, the dignity three ministers and four deputy the university’s first degrees. of every individual and a sense of ministers of the Cabinet of Minis- Within two decades, the student united purpose are criteria that ters were from Kyiv Mohyla Acad- body has grown from several hun- measure the future of a nation as emy, many more alumni were dred young people to more than