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INSIDE: • Ukraine’s scouts now part of world scouting movement — page 4. • Tony Blair speaks at Yalta European Strategy summit — page 10. • Sports, and more sports — pages 19-21.

THEPublished U byKRAINIAN the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVI No. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 $1/$2 in Ukraine Single Center party Verkhovna Rada recesses for summer without passing budget holds first convention Tymoshenko government survives no-confidence vote KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada tion that has reached 30 per- by Danylo Peleschuk adjourned for the summer on Friday, July cent. Kyiv Press Bureau 11, without passing a state budget for The prime minister, how- 2008. Proposed budgets submitted by the ever, claimed that inflation KYIV – Ukraine’s newest political Cabinet of Ministers and the president has begun to slow and she party held its inaugural convention were both rejected by the Rada, with the recently in hopes of establishing itself accused the Yushchenko government’s version obtaining 216 votes team of blocking anti-infla- publicly as a strong base of support for out of the 226 needed for passage and the Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko’s tion measures she has pro- president’s draft receiving only 58 votes. posed. re-election – but only amid doubts of its Commenting on the Parliament’s fail- future on the political landscape. The vote for the no-con- ure to pass a budget, Verkhovna Rada fidence measure was Although aimed at potentially replac- Chairman Arseniy Yatsenyuk stated, ing the fledgling Our Ukraine People’s 174-32, with one abstention “This will have unbelievably negative Union (OUPU) and the Our Ukraine – and 49 deputies not voting. consequences for the economy in gener- People’s Self-Defense (OU-PSD) bloc, Voting to dismiss the al.” Single Center lacks any serious political Tymoshenko government Both drafts of the state budget were leverage in its infancy to do so, said were 172 members of the sent for revision to the Parliament’s Serhiy Taran, director of the International PRU, who were joined by Budget Committee, with 250 national Democracy Institute in Kyiv. deputies supporting the move. two deputies from the Our “The Single Center party has shown Mr. Yatsenyuk suggested that if drafts Ukraine – People’s Self- that it exists not only as a project, but as are combined into one document, an Defense (OU-PSD) bloc, Official Website of Ukraine’s Government a small political force,” said Mr. Taran. extraordinary meeting of the Verkhovna Viktor Topolov and Yurii Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the Rada on “But it’s unrealistic at this point for it to Rada might be then convened. “If there But, both members of the July 11, when a vote of no-confidence in her gov- carry the president to a re-election. are 150 signatures for holding a meeting newly created Single Center ernment failed. There’s no solid electoral base for it yet.” and 226 votes in the hall, I will convene party. More than 2,000 delegates attended an extraordinary session,” he said. Prior to the vote on the no-confidence ignored, Mr. Lytvyn said, “We are tearing the July 12 convention, held at the Otherwise, the Rada is due to reconvene motion, the government presented a report up the country with the absence of serious Ukraina National Arts Palace in Kyiv, only in September. on its work. Volodymyr Lytvyn, leader of talk … about the current situation.” and elected National Deputy Ihor Kril of Also on the last day of its session the eponymous faction, commented that the OU-PSD as the new party’s leader. In the days after the Parliament began before the summer recess, the govern- “there was neither a report nor an objec- Members also voted unanimously on its summer recess, President Viktor ment of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko tive analysis of the situation.” adopting a political platform that pro- Yushchenko stressed the need to hold a survived a no-confidence vote in the He said that all who heard and saw motes matching Ukraine’s standard of special meeting of the Verkhovna Rada on Verkhovna Rada. The vote was proposed what was taking place in the Parliament’s living to that of Europe’s, ensuring fur- July 21-25 to consider amendments to the by the opposition Party of the Regions session hall, “observed a settling of ther democratic development, and creat- national budget for 2008. Presidential (PRU), which argued that the government accounts.” Noting that the health issues, (Continued on page 17) must be held accountable for rising infla- society’s malaise and other problems were (Continued on page 4)

Thousands attend Soyuzivka festival Yalta European Strategy summit attracts Western elite, experts by Zenon Zawada President Mikheil Saakashvili, former Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Prime Minister Tony Blair, former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, for- YALTA – What began with political mer Polish President Alexander hacks and policy wonks mulling Kwasniewski and former Slovak Prime Ukraine’s Euro-integration potential has Minister Mikulas Dzurinda. evolved in the past five years into a styl- The YES summit is hosted and ish affair for members of the Western financed by businessman Victor Pinchuk, elite and their experts to discuss global who has emerged as Ukraine’s ambassa- issues along Yalta’s breezy shores every dor to Europe’s wealthy and political summer. elite in hosting them for an annual cele- Lawmakers, bankers and businessmen bration of politics by day, and fine dining attending the fifth Yalta European and dancing by night. Strategy (YES) summit, held at the his- As a result of his public efforts, Mr. toric Livadia Palace on July 10-12, were Pinchuk has become Ukraine’s most visi- just as fixated on the global financial cri- ble and well-known philanthropist bil- sis and the European Union’s problems lionaire, launching numerous cultural, as Ukraine’s Euro-integration progress. educational and medical charity activities Russ Chelak Among those in attendance was former KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Some 5,000 people attended Soyuzivka’s second annual through the Victor Pinchuk Fund. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl The YES summit began on the eve of Ukrainian Cultural Festival on July 10-13, enjoying performances by singers, Rove, who decided to skip out on his a House Judiciary Subcommittee’s hear- dancers, musicians and comedians, as well as vendors’ and food courts, plus subpoena to testify before Congress on ing that requested Mr. Rove to testify dances, a varenyky-eating competition, a “Guitar Hero” contest and a special chil- July 11, opting to bask in Yalta’s sun and about the firing of federal prosecutors dren’s program. Above, a close-up of dancers from the Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky sea breeze and share his insider view on and selective prosecution of Democratic Dance Workshop as they perform on the festival stage. Detailed reports on the the U.S. presidential election this year. festivities will appear in upcoming issues of The Ukrainian Weekly. Also attending were Georgian (Continued on page 10) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 No. 29 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS

Tymoshenko defies Yushchenko Hoverlia vandalism suspect detained strengthen Ukraine’s positions on the Maltese tourism market, and tourist on oil and gas exploration KYIV – Russian police detained a exchanges with Malta. At the start of the Ukrainian citizen in Russia who is sus- meeting, Ukrainian President Viktor pected in the vandalism of Ukraine’s state by Pavel Korduban menting on the Vanco dispute (Associated Yushchenko said that in their private talks symbols on Mount Hoverlia back on Press, June 5). he and President Edward Fenech Adami Eurasia Daily Monitor October 19, 2007, a representative from Prime Minister Tymoshenko’s right- of Malta paid special attention to the the press service of the Ivano-Frankivsk Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko hand man, First Vice Prime Minister aspects of Ukraine’s European integration Oblast Procurator’s Office said on July ordered the government of Prime Oleksander Turchynov, challenged Mr. and dwelled on Malta’s involvement in 14. Russian police detained a resident of Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to allow the Gutierrez on the same day, saying that international efforts to recognize the Sumy region who is a member of the U.S. company Vanco to proceed with its the Cabinet was right to revoke Vanco’s Holodomor 1932-1933 as genocide of Eurasian Youth Union (EYU); extradition oil and gas exploration project in the license. Mr. Turchynov said that a special Ukrainian people. (Ukrinform) to Ukraine is being considered. Two Ukrainian part of the Black Sea. Visiting government commission he had chaired Russian citizens were also put on the Taras Shevchenko in Malta? U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos had confirmed that Vanco should be ban- international wanted list in connection Gutierrez also warned that the continuing ished from the Black Sea. “In spite of the with this case. In 2007 the Eurasian Youth KYIV – Ukraine is studying the possi- dispute over the project could damage pressure exerted on the government,” he Union said its representatives had bility of unveiling a monument to Taras Ukraine’s international reputation. said, “the deposits of the Black Sea and destroyed Ukraine’s state symbols on Shevchenko in Malta, President Viktor Ms. Tymoshenko, however, continues the Sea of Azov stay under state control.” Mount Hoverlia. The Security Service of Yushchenko told journalists on July 9. He to insist that the decisions made by her Mr. Turchynov also blamed “corrupt offi- Ukraine said that Ukrainian citizen noted that in several years the Ukrainians predecessor, the government of Prime cials” for devising schemes “aimed at will be marking the 200th anniversary of Leonid Savin, who has been a permanent Minister Viktor Yanukovych, to issue a embezzling this country’s strategic Shevchenko’s birth. Mr. Yushchenko said resident of Moscow since March and is a license to Vanco and conclude a produc- resources” (UNIAN, June 5). he and Maltese President Edward Fenech leading figure in the EYU, as well as tion-sharing agreement (PSA) were ille- Because the government refused to Adami came to an agreement to look at Russian citizens Aleksandr Bovdunov gal. She has defied all of President restore the PSA, President Yushchenko the possibility of erecting a Shevchenko and Valeriy Mantrov, participated in this Yushchenko’s orders. issued a decree on June 18 suspending monument in Malta. In addition, Mr. act of vandalism. International Eurasian The Texas-based Vanco Energy won the government’s May 21 decision to Yushchenko proposed that Ukraine will Movement leader Aleksandr Dugin and withdraw from the PSA with Vanco unveil a monument to any leader of the an international tender in 2006 and was EYU leader Pavel Zarifulin were then Prykerchenska. Mr. Yushchenko warned Maltese people or a renowned cultural supposed to explore the five-square-mile declared personae non-gratae in Ukraine. that Vanco might sue the government in activist. (Ukrinform) Prykerchenska field off the southeast (Ukrinform) coast of Crimea. Vanco Prykerchenska, a international courts to seek billions of Maltese president is honored subsidiary of Vanco, was deprived of the dollars in damages and that other foreign President orders Hoverlia plaque license on April 25, and the Tymoshenko companies might freeze their projects in KYIV – Ukrainian President Viktor KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko government unilaterally withdrew from the Ukrainian part of the Black Sea Yushchenko on July 9 presented the on July 10 ordered the installation on the respective PSA on May 21. Ms. (Interfax-Ukraine, June 18). Order of Yaroslav the Wise, first degree, Mount Hoverlia, Ukraine’s highest peak, Tymoshenko said that the interests of The government, however, is standing to the president of Malta, Edward Fenech of a memorial plaque symbolizing Ukrainian energy companies and possibly its ground. Its special commission on Adami. The Maltese president was award- Ukrainian statehood. Hoverlia is located of Russia’s Gazprom were behind the PSAs, chaired by Mr. Turchynov, defend- ed the order for his prominent contribu- in the Carpathian Mountains in western deal. She also accused Mr. Yushchenko ed the decision to withdraw from the PSA tion to the development of Ukraine-Malta Ukraine. (Ukrinform) of lobbying for Vanco. with Vanco, saying that it was in line relations. Mr. Adami, in turn, decorated with the law and “national interests” Mr. Yushchenko and one of the Ukraine, Malta sign agreements Mr. Yushchenko with Malta’s National Ukrainian companies concerned, Group (www.proua.com, June 19). Order of Merit for his significant contri- DF of billionaire Dmytro Firtash, denied Environment Minister Heorhii KYIV – Ukraine and Malta on July 9 bution to maintaining friendly relations the accusations. Ukraine’s National Filipchuk announced on June 20 that a signed intergovernmental agreements on between the Ukrainian and Maltese Security and Defense Council (NSDC) total of 156 licenses issued to explore combating organized crime and coopera- nations and deepening bilateral coopera- decided that Ms. Tymoshenko should Ukraine’s mineral resources should be tion in tourism. The agreement on com- tion. (Ukrinform) return to square one. revoked, as they either had been issued bating organized crime aims to strengthen Mr. Yushchenko upheld the NSDC’s illegally or were not used efficiently. He bilateral cooperation between the law Western oblasts support Patriarchate decision on June 4 and ordered the gov- said that 73 of them had already been enforcement authorities to prevent, detect, revoked, including the one issued to LVIV – The oblast councils of Ivano- ernment to restore Vanco’s license and investigate and solve crimes, particularly Frankivsk, Ternopil and Lviv prepared a start talks with Vanco to settle the dis- Vanco (Interfax-Ukraine, June 20). Also, through the exchange of information and 49 pro-government national deputies of joint appeal to Pope Benedict XVI pute. He also instructed the Security contacts at all levels. The goal of the tour- Parliament officially asked the requesting that he grant a Patriarchate to Service of Ukraine to determine what had ism cooperation agreement is to enhance Constitutional Court to rule whether pres- prompted the Cabinet to revoke the a bilateral partnership in tourism, (Continued on page 14) idential decrees favoring Vanco were in license (www.glavred.info, www.korre- line with the Constitution (Ukrayinski spondent.net, June 4). Novyny, June 19). The U.S. government expressed its Asked to comment on the Vanco dis- FOUNDED 1933 concern through Secretary Gutierrez, who pute at a briefing on June 25, Ms. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY visited Kyiv on June 5. “Every time there Tymoshenko described the PSA with is a contract, that is an opportunity to Vanco as “RosUkrEnergo number 2,” An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., demonstrate to the world that contracts a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 3 NEWS ANALYSIS: Tymoshenko Cabinet survives no-confidence vote by Pavel Korduban to proceed with the motion, but he backed support the anti-NATO protests that the said that her opponents wanted to get rid Eurasia Daily Monitor down when the PRU threatened him with Communists launched several weeks ago of her government in order to set up a new dismissal. On July 8 the YTB started to in southern Ukraine, where the Sea Breeze ruling coalition on the basis of the PRU The opposition in Ukraine’s Parliament block the Parliamentary rostrum physical- international military exercise was under and OU-PSD. She suggested that neither has failed to oust the government of Prime ly in order to prevent the vote, holding a way (Segodnya, July 11). the Communists nor the Lytvyn Bloc were Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Only 174 vigil in the session hall (Channel 5, July Several informed commentators, how- interested in a new coalition “of the presi- deputies in the 450-seat chamber voted in 8-10). ever, alleged that Ms. Tymoshenko had dent and Yanukovych” (ICTV, July 13). favor of a no-confidence motion against Mr. Yanukovych predicted that a no- reached some kind of agreement with the She also blamed Mr. Yushchenko for her on July 11. This was far short of the confidence motion would be backed by Ukrainian-Russian businessman the Rada’s failure to amend the state bud- 226 votes needed. more than 226 votes. He expected that the Konstantin Grigorishin, who is believed to get on July 11 (Channel 5, July 12). Summer vacation started for Parliament two smallest caucuses in Parliament, the be among the main sponsors of the Raisa Bohatyriova, the secretary of the on the same day. This means that Ms. Communist Party and the Volodymyr Communists (Segodnya, July 11; National Security and Defense Council, Tymoshenko stays until at least September, Lytvyn Bloc, and dissenters from OU-PSD Ukrayinska Pravda, July 12). predicted a new attempt to dismiss Ms. when Parliament will reconvene. would contribute to the PRU’s initiative to Segodnya, a newspaper linked to Rinat Tymoshenko in the fall. She said that the This was a victory against the odds for oust Prime Minister Tymoshenko Akhmetov, the richest man in the PRU no-confidence vote had not been thor- Prime Minister Tymoshenko. She no lon- (UNIAN, July 10). and in Ukraine, accused Mr. Yanukovych oughly prepared by Ms. Tymoshenko’s ger has the support of a majority in Something went wrong for the PRU on of undermining the effort to oust the prime opponents, but she forecast that “in Parliament after two deputies left the July 10, however, when the Lytvyn Bloc minister. According to Segodnya, Mr. September there will be a trend toward coalition of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc Yanukovych torpedoed talks with the finding some compromise among the par- (YTB) and President Viktor Yushchenko’s suggested postponing the no-confidence Communists when he learned that ties that are not in the majority and orga- Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense vote until September or October. The (OU-PSD) bloc. Communists started to hesitate, and the President Yushchenko’s team, which he nizing a vote of no-confidence again” Nor does she enjoy the backing of Mr. YTB unexpectedly stopped its blockade of viewed as a potential ally, would not back (Interfax-Ukraine, July 11). Yushchenko or those ministers who repre- the rostrum (Segodnya, July 11). him for prime minister once Ms. Ms. Bohatyriova’s prediction can be sent OU-PSD in her government. The PRU senior member Mykola Azarov, a Tymoshenko was out. Segodnya suggested interpreted as a threat. She acts as a bridge president is unhappy with her economic former finance minister, explaining the that the PRU should stop “exchanging the between President Yushchenko and the policy, and he apparently views her as a reasons for the motion in a speech to the principles that it declares for secret agree- PRU, as she is simultaneously a member probable rival in a presidential election Rada on July 11, criticized the ments with the Orange,” apparently mean- of the Yushchenko team and one of the campaign that should start in 2009. Tymoshenko government mainly for ing Mr. Yushchenko (Segodnya, July 13). leaders of the PRU. Nevertheless, the opposition turned out to record-high inflation. He said that Ms. Tymoshenko feels more than confi- be even weaker than the Tymoshenko gov- Ukrainians had to pay 50 percent more for dent now, and she apparently holds Mr. The article above is reprinted from ernment. eggs and 80 percent more for vegetable oil Yushchenko at least partially responsible Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission The Party of Regions (PRU), which is in May than a year before (Ukrayinska for the attempt to oust her. Commenting from its publisher, the Jamestown headed by erstwhile presidential contender Pravda, July 12). Those figures left the on the abortive no-confidence motion, she Foundation, www.jamestown.org. and former Prime Minister Viktor majority of Parliament unimpressed. Yanukovych, has been insisting on a no- The no-confidence motion was backed confidence vote ever since the pro-govern- only by 172 deputies from PRU plus two ment majority in the Verkhovna Rada dissenters from OU-PSD. ceased to exist last month. Leonid Hrach, one of the Communist OSCE holds summer camps in Ukraine Rada Chairman Arseniy Yatsenyuk, leaders, said that his party refused to sup- who belongs to OU-PSD, initially refused port the PRU because the PRU did not for children at risk of being trafficked OSCE ager for the ILO-IPEC in Ukraine. “Many of these vulnerable children lack life KHERSON, Ukraine – The first sum- skills, and feel apathetic and pessimistic mer camp for Ukrainian children at risk OSCE fosters police, NGO cooperation about their prospects on the labor market. of being trafficked or forced to work on This puts them at a high risk of being the street ended in the city of Kherson on trafficked or forced into child labor.” in Ukraine on anti-trafficking measures June 29. The weeklong initiative, organized by The summer camp is part of a large- OSCE investigations and helping people whose the Organization for Security and scale, direct action program implemented rights have been violated. Much of their by the office of the OSCE Project KHMELNYTSKY, Ukraine – The Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), office of work is carried out in close contact with Coordinator and ILO-IPEC that began at Office of the OSCE Project Coordinator in the Project Coordinator in Ukraine, and public authorities and civil society groups. the end of May and concludes in Ukraine of the Organization for Security the International Labor Organization’s “The precinct police inspectors’ service November. and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has International Program on the Elimination is ideally positioned to play a key role with- Under the program, some 700 children launched a series of training courses for of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC), brought in the national referral mechanism for vic- from the Donetsk and Kherson regions local precinct police inspectors on combat- together 50 children between the ages of tims of trafficking – they work in local will receive counseling on issues includ- ing human trafficking, with the first session 12 and 17 for life-skills training, psycho- communities and are most likely to come in ing human trafficking, domestic violence, starting in Khmelnytsky in western Ukraine social counseling, career guidance and contact with potential and possible victims alcohol abuse, HIV/AIDS and risks of on July 16. recreational activities. of trafficking,” added Mr. Kopaj. early employment. The series of 72 training and networking “Children, especially those at orphan- “The cooperation between anti-traffick- In addition, they will take part in train- meetings for up to 1,800 police officers will ages, are extremely vulnerable to human ing NGOs and community-level police will ing sessions to develop teamwork, as take place in 12 regions of Ukraine through trafficking,” said Ambassador Lubomir help rank-and-file precinct police officers well as conflict prevention and resolution October. The meetings will provide training Kopaj, OSCE project coordinator in understand the problem and strengthen their skills. Special focus will be put on look- opportunities for local officers and facilitate Ukraine. “Our project will provide these outreach work. We have developed a spe- ing for jobs, writing resumes and han- their cooperation with anti-trafficking non- children not only with counseling on traf- cialized training program for this branch of dling job interviews. governmental organizations to prevent traf- ficking-related issues, but with the skills the Ukrainian police force in order to The OSCE Action Plan to Combat ficking as well as to identify and refer traf- necessary to ensure their smooth transi- ensure their inclusion in the national anti- Trafficking in Human Beings calls for ficked persons. tion into post-institutional life.” trafficking effort,” he explained. taking measures to reach vulnerable “Through this cooperative effort with the “Currently there are over 100,000 chil- During the first stage of the project, groups and to raise their awareness about Internal Affairs Ministry, the OSCE is dren in Ukrainian orphanages,” said which is implemented in partnership with Tetyana Minenko, national program man- trafficking. assisting Ukraine to fulfill its commitments the Internal Affairs Ministry, the OSCE as reflected in the OSCE Action Plan to office also conducted one-day training Combat Trafficking in Human Beings,” courses for the heads of regional and dis- said Ambassador Lubomir Kopaj, OSCE trict Precinct Police Inspectors Services. Holodomor will not be on agenda project coordinator in Ukraine. The training sessions are funded by the The course targets precinct police Danish Foreign Ministry as part of the inspectors, who work to prevent crime in Danish Program Against Human of United Nations General Assembly local communities through raising public Trafficking in Eastern and South Eastern Interfax Ukraine The U.N. General Assembly, how- awareness, assisting with the criminal Europe. ever, backed a proposal not to put the KYIV – The United Nations General Famine issue on the agenda. Assembly has refused to put the ques- “We believe it would be a disservice tion of the Ukrainian Famine of to the memories of hundreds of thou- Wherever you are, 1932-1933 on the agenda of its current sands of people who died of hunger in session. The decision was taken during other countries and regions of the for- The Ukrainian Weekly can be there with you the assembly’s plenary meeting on mer Soviet Union to raise this issue at Friday, July 11. the U.N. in relation to only one of the Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry regions that suffered,” Russia’s perma- Check out THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY online at for a long time had called on the United nent representative to the United www.ukrweekly.com Nations to recognize the Holodomor as Nations, Vitaliy Churkin, said on July genocide against the Ukrainian people. 11. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 No. 29 Ukraine’s national scout organization joins world scouting movement by Tyrssa Korduba Federation, Georgia, Moldova and Kazakhstan. PARSIPPANY, N.J – The National At the conference in South Korea, Organization of Scouts of Ukraine which took place July 14-18, delegates of (NOSU) was admitted as a member of the NOSU were able to make contacts with World Organization of the Scout other scouting groups, vote for the loca- Movement (WOSM) on July 1. NOSU tion of the next jamboree, and plan joint was admitted along with the National leadership programs with other groups. Association of Cambodian Scouts, the Delegates from Ukraine also attended Association of Scouts of Montenegro and regional meetings for both Europe and the Scouts of Syria, raising WOSM mem- Eurasia. bership to 160 organizations. The delegation from NOSU included The organizations, along with four members of Plast from Ukraine and Kazakhstan’s national scout organization, two members of SPOK. In addition, the Organization of the Scout Movement Volodymyr Bazarko, head of the World of Kazakhstan, which received approval in Plast Bulava, Plast Ukrainian Scouting January, received official membership cer- Organization’s international governing tificates on July 14 at WOSM’s World council, attended as a guest. Scouting Conference in Jeju, South Korea. NOSU was co-founded by the three Following the official initiation of largest scouting groups in Ukraine: Plast Plast Ukraine NOSU – which includes the Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, estab- Representatives of the National Organization of Scouts of Ukraine at the World Ukrainian Scouting Organization in lished in Lviv in 1911; SPOK (Spilka Scouting Conference in South Korea. Ukraine, the Ukrainian national anthem Pionerskoy Orhanizatsii Kyieva or Pioneer was played for the first time at a World Movement Organization of Kyiv), a rejected by WOSM. Plast, which offers a The council, which is not yet fully Scouting Conference. Russian-language civic youth organiza- Ukrainian-language program, also was formed, also includes Deputy Chairman By being admitted to WOSM, NOSU tion; and the Sich children’s association. rejected by WOSM because it allegedly Valeriy Tansiura, a member of SPOK. has become the official scouting organiza- According to an official release from inadequately represented Ukraine’s Speaking with The Ukrainian Weekly, tion of Ukraine. NOSU is now a member WOSM, NOSU offers three levels of Russian-speaking constituency. Chief Scout (Nachalnyi Plastun) Lubomyr of the 6th Scouting Region – Eurasia – scouting for males and females: cubs (age The rejection prompted Plast to seek Romankiw of Plast assured the scouting which was founded in 1991 after the fall 6-10), scouts (age 11 -16) and rovers (age an alliance with SPOK in the creation of organization’s members that joining the of the Soviet Union. The Eurasian 16-24). However, it is not clear if all of the umbrella organization, NOSU. Plast NOSU umbrella organization “in no way Regional Scout Center, Krasnokamenka, NOSU’s member-organizations offer those also invited Sich, a group that fosters stopped us from being Plast.” Dr. has long been located within the borders same levels. Kozak traditions and originates in the Romankiw anticipates no impact on the of Ukraine, just outside of Yalta, Crimea. The groups joined together when it Volyn region of Ukraine, to join the alli- global Plast community, saying, “I can became clear that none of the individual Other members of this region include ance. reassure [the Plast community] because scout associations could join the interna- scouting organizations from the Russian The NOSU comprises 40 percent Plast the Ukrainian Plast movement has taken tional organization on its own. SPOK, members, 40 percent SPOK members and an attitude in Ukraine that they are Plast Tyrssa Korduba is a summer intern at which, according to observers prefers to 20 percent Sich members, as dual enroll- The Ukrainian Weekly’s editorial offices be known to by its acronym to disassoci- primarily.” ment in NOSU and its founding organiza- The scouting situation in Ukraine is in Parsippany, N.J. ate itself from its Leninist roots, was tions is allowed. The organization has similar to that in Hungary, according to nearly 2,500 members, already owns sev- Dr. Romankiw. There, the WOSM umbrel- eral campsites and hopes to incorporate la scouting organization, Magyar other scouting organizations into this Kule Folklore Center hosts national movement. Cserkészszövetség, does not impede the On March 27 of this year NOSU held other scouting organizations, that, like its first congress, at which a constitution Plast, have diaspora participants. two ethnologists from Lviv was ratified. NOSU has the full support of According to Dr. Romankiw, the only the Ukrainian government; it registered impact of a WOSM umbrella organization EDMONTON, Alberta – The Peter and the development and preservation of with the Ministry of Justice in November is a positive one, allowing scouts to attend Doris Kule Center for Ukrainian and Ukrainian cultural identity and explained 2007. world jamborees and make international Canadian Folklore (Kule Folklore Center) how this could be developed through closer The chairman of the national council of contacts through WOSM. at the University of Alberta and the governmental partnerships with cultural NOSU is Levko Zakharchyshyn, a Plast President Viktor Yushchenko, an hon- Shevchenko Scientific Society in Canada organizations. member, who has expressed great hopes orary member of Plast, has lent his sup- –Western Branch on June 5 hosted Roman The public lectures were attended by for what the organization will mean for port and approval to the scouting move- Chmelyk, vice-director, and Prof. Stepan Ukraine on the Plast Ukraine website. ment in Ukraine in the Presidential Pavljuk, director, of the Institute of According to Mr. Zakharchyshyn, scout- Decree No. 279/2008, in which he hailed Ethnology from Lviv. ing fosters the development of noteworthy Plast and scouting as promoting morality, Mr. Chmelyk and Dr. Pavljuk were in leaders who might one day lead a more a healthy lifestyle and love of one’s western Canada on a research trip with the European Ukraine. native land. Alberta-Ukraine Genealogical Project, a project that helps Ukrainians in Alberta and Canada trace their family roots in Ukraine. voting for the dismissal of the Cabinet of They agreed to speak at two public lectures Vekhovna Rada... Ministers on July 11. about their expertise in the field of ethnolo- gy. (Continued from page 1) Meanwhile, opening a government Mr. Chmelyk spoke at the University of Secretariat Deputy Chair Andrii meeting on July 16, Prime Minister Alberta about the vast collection of ethno- Honcharuk said at a briefing on July 16 Tymoshenko congratulated the Cabinet of graphic items in Lviv’s Museum of that the Parliament’s Budget Committee Ministers on receiving a vote of confi- Ethnology. It has been accumulating arti- should draft a single document based on dence from the Verkhovna Rada. “I want facts since the 1800s – especially clothing, the budgets proposed by the president and to congratulate the ministers on a vote of ceramics and posters from various provinc- the government. confidence. We proved to the public and the Verkhovna Rada that the government es of Ukraine and all across Europe. He Dr. Stepan Pavljuk (left) and Roman A day earlier, Prime Minister spoke about rare collections of pysanky Tymoshenko said the Rada might hold an is confidently working and has the sup- Chmelyk of Lviv’s Institute of port of the Verkhovna Rada,” Ms. and other objects the museum houses, and Ethnology. extraordinary session to pass amendments he emphasized the need to preserve materi- to the budget. She said that to do this a Tymoshenko said. al heritage for future generations. many members of the Ukrainian communi- compromise should be reached with the Commenting on the fragile state of the Prof. Pavljuk developed a presentation ty in Edmonton as well as persons affiliated factions not represented in the majority majority coalition in Ukraine, Geoffrey at the Edmonton Plast Hall about with the University of Alberta. coalition. Smith, strategist at the Renaissance “Contemporary Ethnic Process in Ukraine.” The Kule Folklore Center and the The Tymoshenko bloc is collecting sig- Capital investment bank in Kyiv, told the He spoke about the need for the Ukrainian Institute of Ethnology in Lviv currently natures of national deputies calling for a Associated Press that the government’s government to pay increased attention to cooperate to preserve cultural information. special session of Parliament; 150 signa- survival of the no-confidence vote “just tures are needed. gets them through the summer, that’s all.” As regards the no-confidence vote He added, “The coalition is effectively against the Cabinet of Minister, National dead in any case.” MAY WE HELP YOU? 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Young UNA’ers

Sophia and Ariadna Stockert, daughters of Thomas and Odarka Polanskyj Alexander and Izabelle Polanskyj, children of Bohdan A. and Mimi Polanskyj of Stockert of Millburn, N.J. are new members of UNA Branch 88. They were Glen Ridge, N.J., are new members of UNA Branch 88. They were enrolled by enrolled by their grandparents, Bohdan S. and Maria Polanskyj. their grandparents Bohdan S. and Maria Polanskyj.

Maxwell Ilkiwskyj, son of Michael and Sofia Maria Mychalczak, daughter of Tiffany Ilkiwskyj of Orchard Park, Dr. Borys Mychalczak and Miriasia Cassandra and Madeline Polanskyj, daughters of Peter and Stacey Polanskyj of N.Y., is a new member of UNA Branch (Chudio) Mychalczak of New York, is a Montclair, N.J., are new members of UNA Branch 88. They were enrolled by 360. He was enrolled by his great aunt new member of UNA Branch 269. She their grandparents Bohdan S. and Maria Polanskyj. Nadia Marc. was enrolled by her parents.

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IN THE PRESS THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SOS for VOA Ukrainian The late Sen. Jesse Helms “The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth.” Those and the case of Myroslav Medvid were the words uttered by William Harlan Hale in the first broadcast (in German) of Voice of America on February 24, 1942. “The Jesse Helms You Should cigarettes. In 1949, December 12, to be exact, VOA began transmitting in the Ukrainian lan- Remember,” by Marc Thiessen (chief “Despite Helms’s efforts, the ship was guage. At its peak, Ukrainian radio programs were broadcast five hours a day, telling White House speechwriter, was Foreign allowed to leave for the Soviet Union the truth to millions of Ukrainians subjugated by the Soviets. Today, VOA continues Relations Committee spokesman for with the Ukrainian sailor aboard. to inform the people of Ukraine with radio and TV programs, as well as via the Sen. Jesse Helms from 1995 to 2001), Myroslav Medvid was not heard from Internet. Its radio programming, however, is down to only an hour a day. The Washington Post, July 7: again until 15 years later, when he came Most recently we learned that the Ukrainian radio programs of Voice of America – to Washington to visit the man who if the Broadcasting Board of Governors has its way – will be no more as of September “With the passing of Sen. Jesse Helms fought so hard for his freedom. I was 30. (The Ukrainian radio is not the only one threatened, as radio broadcasts to Russia, [on July 4], the media have demonstrated working at the time on Helms’s Foreign Bosnia, Macedonia and Serbia and others also are on the chopping block.) one final time that they never fully under- Relations Committee staff and witnessed The decision was made by the BBG, the agency responsible for all U.S. gov- stood the power or impact of this great this emotional meeting. Yes, Medvid told ernment and government-sponsored, non-military, international broadcasting, man. Consider, for example, The Post’s Helms, he had been trying to escape – such as VOA and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. VOA staffers were informed obituary of Helms; here are some things that was why he joined the Merchant of the decision at the beginning of this month by Director Danforth Austin; sev- you would not learn about his life and Marine in the first place. When he was eral days later, they received notice of a “buyout opportunity” related to “poten- legacy by reading it: returned to the Soviet Union, he said, he tial reductions” and learned that this “opportunity” has to be acted on before “…What made Helms stand out was was incarcerated in a mental hospital for August 1. Inexplicably, no official announcement has yet been made of the com- his willingness to stand up for his beliefs the criminally insane. The KGB tried to ing demise of VOA Ukrainian radio. before they were widely held – even if it drug him, but a sympathetic nurse inject- VOA Ukrainian radio has been falling victim to budget realities and the Bush meant challenging those closest to him. ed the drugs into his mattress. Eventually administration’s decision to use its dollars elsewhere. The BBG, which is appointed by In 1985, his dear friend Ronald Reagan he was released; today he is a parish the president and confirmed by the Senate, wants increased funding for Alhurra TV was preparing for his first summit with and Radio Sawa, whose Arabic broadcasts are aimed at the Middle East in order to Mikhail Gorbachev when a Ukrainian priest in his native village in Ukraine. create a more positive image of the United States. But, the latest cuts announced to the sailor named Myroslav Medvid twice “In the course of dozens of interroga- VOA staff run directly counter to what the U.S. Congress has said: that no cuts are to jumped off a Soviet ship into the tions, he told Helms, ‘the KGB didn’t be made to the foreign language radios of Voice of America. The BBG had proposed Mississippi River seeking political asy- fulfill its desire about what they wanted cuts in the Fiscal Year 2008 budget, but Congress reversed them; and, the budget lum. The Soviets insisted that Medvid to do with me. They were afraid of some- passed for FY 2009 kept funding intact for these radios. had accidentally fallen off – twice. The thing,’ he said, ‘and now I know what One can’t help but notice that the way this is being done is, well, sneaky: the BBG State Department did not want an inter- they were afraid of.’ They were afraid of is trying to present a fait accompli, similar to what it did in 2007 when it declared that national incident on the eve of the sum- Jesse Helms. VOA Ukrainian’s morning radio show would go off the air. Then, the announcement mit. But Helms believed it was wrong to “President Bush had it right when he was made on January 3, 2007, that the show of January 5, 2007, would be its last. send a man back behind the Iron Curtain said on Friday that ‘from Central America A year and a half later, here we go again. – no matter the cost to superpower diplo- to Central Europe and beyond, people The power to save VOA Ukrainian radio lies with the Congress. macy. He tried to block the ship’s depar- remember: In the dark days when the If enough people make their voices heard to say that VOA Ukrainian radio is crucial ture by requiring the sailor to appear forces of tyranny seemed on the rise, to the further development of Ukraine – especially as it seeks to integrate with Euro- before the Senate Agriculture Committee, Jesse Helms took their side.’ This is the Atlantic institutions – perhaps Congress will stand up to the BBG. But time is short: which he chaired then – and he had the Jesse Helms that Myroslav Medvid Congress is headed for summer recess, VOA staffers must indicate whether they accept subpoena delivered to the ship’s unwit- remembers. Unfortunately, it was not the buyouts by August 1, and VOA Ukrainian radio’s last day will be September 30. ting captain in a carton of North Carolina Jesse Helms written about this weekend.” According to the BBG its mission is: “To promote and sustain freedom and democracy by broadcasting accurate and objective news and information about the United States and the world to audiences overseas.” Will the U.S. pull the FOR THE RECORD plug on VOA Ukrainian, which has honorably served the interests of the United States – as well as those of information-needy Ukraine – for nearly 60 years? Will this trusted source of information become extinct just as Ukraine prepares to become a part of Europe and moves toward membership in NATO? Without Ukrainian community’s statement VOA’s Ukrainian radio, will all of Ukraine’s people get the message the U.S. is sending about democracy and civil society? to N.J. panel on immigrant policy

Following is a statement on behalf of to help us arrange for work visas for such Ukrainian Americans presented at the men and women, who are a significant July Turning the pages back... last public hearing of the New Jersey factor in caring for our elderly, our lame, Governor’s Blue Ribbon Panel on but have no care themselves. Immigrant Policy, which took place on The most innocent members of our 20 Two years ago, on July 20, 2006, in an effort to avoid pre-term June 11 at – at New Jersey City community are our children, some who parliamentary elections, President Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor University in Jersey City, N.J. It was pre- were born here, others who were brought 2006 Yanukovych, who was nominated as prime minister by the sented by Camilla Huk, a member of the here as minors. The decision to come to Parliament on July 18, 2006, met to discuss the possibility that panel. our state is often a well-meaning inten- Our Ukraine would join the Anti-Crisis Coalition. tion on the part of their parents, who In keeping with the goal of avoiding pre-term elections, the The Ukrainian American community would like them to have an opportunity coalition, which included the Socialist Party of Ukraine, the Communist Party of Ukraine is very pleased with the work of the state to learn and succeed in their future and the Party of the Regions, invited members of Our Ukraine and the Yulia Tymoshenko attorney general and law enforcement endeavors. These children can make sig- Bloc (YTB) to chair various parliamentary committees with the understanding that they agencies in our State, as they relate to the nificant contributions to all of our futures. should not obstruct the coalition’s political agenda. efforts of locating and freeing women Yet, if their parents are undocumented, In response to the offer, Ms. Tymoshenko, leader of the eponymous bloc, who wished to from Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, their path to education is cut off, even if remain in the opposition, said: “We don’t need to divide up positions. We need to save who are often brought to the United they are academic achievers. We ask for Ukraine. Oleksander Turchynov [who was offered the vice-chairmanship of the Parliament] States under false pretenses. As you prob- no exceptions, but to allow these children will bring more benefit working in the committee halls rather than sitting like a mannequin ably know, then they are literally to continue their education, in the state, in the presidium.” enslaved in prostitution. The State of with in-state tuition. As they have per- Our Ukraine, on the other hand, may end up taking its committee chairmanships and New Jersey has made significant progress formed well academically, and have the working in tandem with the Anti-Crisis Coalition without formally joining it, she said. “This in freeing these human beings and the wherewithal to succeed, to contribute, we would mean surrendering those principles for which people rose up at the barricades, Ms. state prosecutors have worked diligently should allow them that chance. They Tymoshenko said. “For 10 or so positions, they’d actually be surrendering Ukraine.” to bring those who coerced these women should not be punished for the actions of The YTB, with 125 deputies, refused to participate in parliamentary sessions until July to justice. For this and continued efforts their parents. 25, 2006, when the president had to decide whether to accept Mr. Yanukovych’s candidacy in this regard, we are grateful. The fourth issue that concerns our or dismiss Parliament. Ms. Tymoshenko called on Ukrainian patriots to prevent Mr. Our community is also concerned Yanukovych from becoming prime minister. community is the frequent remission to about those women who often come to deportation centers of immigrants who The Parliament needs a two-thirds majority to function before new elections must be the state to work as caregivers. They held. The YTB was looking to team up with Our Ukraine to get the necessary 151 deputies may actually be in the process of submit- often work seven days a week, without ting legal briefs for stays, for extensions. to resign their mandates and thereby force Parliament’s dismissal. any health care, or protection under the Dr. Serhii Taran, chair of the Kyiv-based Socio-Vymir Center for Sociological and Some of these were caught as passengers law, often intimidated and frightened, during stops for minor infractions. They Political Research, said, “Ukrainian politics has a crisis for one reason – personalities and they have no alternative but to serve as were immediately remanded to the depor- ambitions rather than policies and agendas.” demanded by their employers, as the tation centers, without benefit of right to return to their native land at this point in counsel, or the right to appear in court to Source: “Anti-Crisis Coalition nominates Yanukovych for PM,” by Zenon Zawada, The time would make it impossible for them Ukrainian Weekly, July 23, 2006. to support their families. We ask the state (Continued on page 17) No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 7 PERSPECTIVES Faces and Places by Myron B. Kuropas BY ANDREW FEDYNSKY The past: foundation for the future Capo di tutti capi In 2009 Ukrainians commemorate the ure, he broke with his ostensible friend The world’s crime syndicates have mandeered the judiciary, the police, the mili- 350th anniversary of a military victory – Tsar Peter and allied with Sweden’s King become more sophisticated, entrepreneurial tary, the security services and industry… in the Battle of Konotop – and the 300th of a Charles XII in a bid for independence. The and multi-faceted. So writes Misha Glenny short, the central mechanisms of state… as defeat – the Battle of Poltava. The com- alliance ended in disaster at the Battle of in “McMafia: A Journey Through the Global vital assistants in the amassing of wealth and memorations are as much about politics Poltava, from that point on, Sweden faded Criminal Underworld.” power by a federation of regionally based today as they are about history: both go to into obscurity, while Russia became a The Soviet collapse, combined with the cliques.” the heart of Ukraine’s relationship with world power. For Russians, Mazepa’s liberalization of international financial and The Ukrainian experience was “unprece- Russia, and nothing is more political than name has become synonymous with trea- commodity markets, and the growing inabil- dented,” believes Mr. Glenny. “Even in that. son, mentioned only in Orthodox liturgies, ity or reticence of some nations to police Russia under Yeltsin, when the influence of Links between Russia and Ukraine go his soul condemned on a daily basis. their own government, has given birth to the oligarchs over the Kremlin was at its back a thousand years when Kyiv was the Ukrainians, on the other hand, see him as a criminal consortiums that have “sought out highest, a certain distance existed between center of power and culture in Rus’, the hero, his image displayed on the 10 hrv overseas partners and markets to develop political and economic process, not to men- empire that encompassed European Russia, banknote. industries that were every bit as cosmopoli- tion personal ambition. But at the turn of the Belarus and, of course, Ukraine. In the After Poltava, Ukraine lost all sem- tan as Shell, Nike or McDonalds.” millennium, the oligarchs and government 13th century, Rus’ succumbed to the blance of sovereignty. By the middle of the Having interviewed criminals, police and became one in Ukraine, fused together by Mongols, its various components going 1700s, the nation existed basically at an government officials throughout the world, the adamantine bonding property of the their separate ways, with Ukraine eventu- oral-tribal level, its national consciousness including Ukraine, Mr. Glenny, a graduate SBU, the post-independence KGB.” ally being absorbed into the Polish- kept alive by strolling minstrels – kobzars. of Prague’s Charles University and According to Mr. Omelchenko, “It was a Lithuanian Commonwealth. Reflecting on the catastrophe from the per- England’s Bristol University, writes with period in which the state was converted into Centuries passed with no historical spective of 200 years, Ukraine’s national authority. a criminal political mafia. The political sys- milestones until 1648, when a minor poet Taras Shevchenko, assuming the Every nation, it seems, has its own crimi- tem and the state institutions were under Kozak officer, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, voice of Mother Ukraine herself, con- nal specialty and peculiar gang structure. Kuchma’s control in order to secure absolute raised a revolt against Poland over a per- demned Khmelnytsky for Pereyaslav in Nigeria, as some Americans have learned power, an authoritarian regime that could sonal injustice and, to his amazement, the harshest terms: “…had I known, I’d the hard way, is the home of financial scam- exploit its power for the boundless enrich- ended up leading a national revolution. “I have strangled you in the cradle.” mers who offer incredible “deals” on the ment of Kuchma’s family and those oli- am a small and insignificant man, but by If anything, Ukraine’s relationship with Internet. The Yukuza crime syndicate in garchs closest to him. To achieve these the will of God I have become the inde- Russia in the 20th Century was even Japan acts as a privatized police force and a goals, he and his closest circles didn’t shy pendent ruler of Rus.’ ” Today, an equestri- worse: multiple famines, genocide, massa- self-contained judicial system as well. away from using any method, including the an statue of Hetman Khmelnytsky stands cre of the creative class, the Hitler-Stalin Colombia has FARC. Brazil is the home of dirtiest ones, even physical assault of the at the center of St. Sophia Square in Pact, World War II, Russification. None of Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), most violent kind.” Ukraine’s capital, 100 meters from the these would have happened if Vyhovsky described by Mr. Glenny as “one of the larg- Describing the Gongadze beheading, Mr. cathedral that Prince Yaroslav the Wise had been able to capitalize on his military est, most unpredictable and most dangerous Glenny mentions the Melnychenko tapes, victory over Russia; if Charles and Mazepa built a thousand years ago. organized crime syndicates in the world.” which revealed the coarseness of Ukraine’s had prevailed at Poltava... if only. Within a half mile or so, there’s another Bulgarian mobsters deal in human traffick- president, whose foul-mouthed vulgarity is For the past 17 years, Ukraine has been monument to Khmelnytsky’s legacy: a ing, heroin and arms smuggling. legendary. “A simple cultural transfer and independent and unlike Russia, free. Under huge titanium arch. It commemorates the Israel was once a haven for Jewish crimi- you could be listening to a clip from Vladimir Putin, Russia appeared to find 300th anniversary of the military agree- nals, contends Mr. Glenny. Soviet Jews who ‘Goodfellas’ or ‘The Sopranos.’ The lan- that threatening and worked to reverse the ment aimed against Poland that the hetman took out Israeli citizenship included the so- guage reveals utter contempt for state insti- clock, trying to force Ukraine back into its signed with Russia at Pereyaslav. Some called “Seven Stars” – Vladimir Rabinovich, tutions… Kuchma and his cronies had find it significant that you have to go sphere of influence, even as Ukraine (from Ukraine), Mikhail Chorny, Semyon seized the state and now wielded power and downhill from St. Sophia Square to see it. worked to join NATO and the European Mogilevich (wanted by the FBI), Boris money beyond the comprehension of most The commemoration in 1954 was huge: Union to avoid Russian domination. A key Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Grigory of Ukraine’s… inhabitants. For Kuchma and not only a monument, but also parades, element in that campaign is the return of Luchansky and Alexander Gentelev, (a his pals the state was nothing more than a concerts, an opera, literature and, most truth to Ukraine’s history and restoring the Gentile who has since been extradited). mechanism to facilitate their person aggran- portentously, the transfer of Crimea from good name of national heroes who had Prostitution, money laundering and drugs dizement.” the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist been condemned for resisting Russian rule. are the major activities of Israel’s under- And where is Ukraine in the post-Kuch- Republic to Soviet Ukraine. This year President Yushchenko direct- world. ma era? Read Zenon Zawada’s informative Russians see Pereyaslav as reunification ed the Cabinet of Ministers to celebrate the Moscow is a “breathtaking Babylon of with Ukraine. For Ukrainians, it was a 350th anniversary of Ukraine’s victory guns, money, violence,” writes Mr. Glenny. reporting and commentary in the July 6 colossal blunder that gave Russia control over Russia at the Battle of Konotop Under President Boris Yeltsin, Russia issue of The Ukrainian Weekly and weep. over their country. That’s certainly how (Presidential Decree No. 207/2008). Last became the “Wild East.” Controls disap- With a fortune worth $31 billion, the rich- Khmelnytsky’s top aide, Ivan Vyhovsky, year he directed the commemoration of the peared and everything collapsed. “Within a est man in Europe today is 41-year-old Rinat saw it and, immediately upon succeeding 300th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava matter of four years, a group of several hun- Akhmetov, a Ukrainian “businessman.” Khmelnytsky as hetman in 1657, began with a broad-based program to honor dred fabulously wealthy men and women Ukraine has 23 billionaires, almost all undoing the agreement with the Treaty of Mazepa while studying the battle’s geopo- had evolved while an inner clique of mega- friends or associates of Mr. Kuchma. All are Hadiach with Poland whereby Ukraine litical significance and the lessons to be billionaires formed a cortex that exercised politically connected. The second richest would become a third partner in the Polish- drawn (Presidential Decree No. 955/2007). ever-more decisive political influence over man in Ukraine is Viktor Pinchuk, Mr. Lithuanian Commonwealth with a separate Earlier this year, Mr. Yushchenko honored President Yeltsin,” he notes. Oligarchs ran Kuchma’s son-in-law. The top 10 billion- military, courts, treasury and equal consid- Mazepa by attending a prayer service and the country. Trading on their government aires got rich not by creating wealth, but by eration for the Orthodox faith. laying a wreath at the hetman’s grave. contacts, they were able to purchase Siberian pilfering Ukraine’s natural resources. Writes Russia responded by invading with an Same events, different perspective – oil for a dollar a barrel, for example, and sell Mr. Zawada: “They made their billions in army of more than 100,000. They were Konotop: a Ukrainian victory, a Russian it for $30 in the West. “This process of Ukraine by taking advantage of the anarchy crushed at Konotop, northeast of Kyiv, by defeat; Poltava: a Russian victory, a enrichment was quite simply the grandest and corruption to seize control of some of Vyhovsky’s army of 60,000 Kozaks and Ukrainian defeat; Mazepa: traitor to larceny in history,” concludes Mr. Glenny. the nation’s most valuable assets.” Many 40,000 Polish and Tatar allies. More than Russia, hero to Ukraine. That’s the stark Russian oligarchs and organized crime billionaires aren’t ethnic Ukrainians; some 30,000 Russians were killed in one of the divide between Russian and Ukrainian were intimately linked. The critical transfer don’t even live in Ukraine; others “demon- worst military defeats in the country’s his- perspectives on their mutual history. The of the state’s financial assets into the oli- strate little affinity or concern for anything tory. same divide defines the Holodomor, the garchs’ pockets took place in the first half of Ukrainian.” Two billionaires are financing a Tragically, Vyhovsky failed to capitalize Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the Ukrainian the 1990s through the newly corrupted Holocaust museum, for example, while on his victory. Anti-Polish sentiment in language, etc. Working to restore Ukraine’s banks. Fearing loss of power and treasure, shunning Holodomor remembrance efforts. Ukraine remained strong, and the Tsar’s history, over Russia’s vehement objec- most oligarchs settled quietly into Vladimir Most members of Ukraine’s Parliament agents used those to steer opinion against tions. Putin’s Russia. are rich. Many are millionaires, immune by Vyhovsky, even as they maintained mili- President Yushchenko is investing enor- Ukraine’s corruption is even more expan- law (a law which they themselves have tary garrisons in key Ukrainian cities. mous political capital to reverse centuries sive than Russia’s. According to Hryhorii passed) from criminal prosecution. Rebellion against his pro-Polish policy of historiography that assumes Russia and Omelchenko, the national deputy who heads Meanwhile, the average Ukrainian makes spread and, ultimately, Vyhovsky was Ukraine are “fraternal partners” that belong parliamentary investigations into organized $366 a month. forced to surrender his office in 1659. together. It’s a strategy that earns him no crime, “Ukraine’s chief capo was none other While President Viktor Yushchenko trav- Ukrainians remember the period that shortage of enemies both in Russia and at than the president himself, Leonid els the world, Ukraine’s rich get richer, her followed as “The Ruin.” Finally after a home. If he succeeds, he will have set Danilovych Kuchma.” President Kuchma poor get poorer. Time for another electoral generation, Hetman Ivan Mazepa Ukraine on a different historical course was once crime boss of crime bosses, “capo revolution. Purge Ukraine of its scurrilous (1687-1709) stabilized Ukraine’s chaotic that will change the country’s destiny as di tutto capi.” parliamentary hooligans and the nation will politics and launched a massive public few have ever done before. The murdered journalist Heorhii prosper! works program, emphasizing churches and Gongadze “had begun to pry open the lid of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Astonishingly, Andrew Fedynsky’s e-mail address Kuchma’s maggot-infested administration,” Myron Kuropas’s e-mail address is: at the age of 70 and 22 years into his ten- is [email protected]. writes Mr. Glenny. “Its members had com- [email protected]. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 No. 29

NEWS AND VIEWS Moving Ukraine forward means moving its economy forward by Morgan Williams ness organization since he became a lead- Working with business industry, NGO Euro-2012 – the greatest travel and tour- ing player in the new government. and government leaders, USUBC has ism opportunity in its history – bringing The highest priority for Ukraine in 2008 Mr. Nemyria is one of a group of well- become the largest private business mem- the country’s air safety law up to interna- is to implement the critical legal and regu- educated and reform-minded ministers bership organization outside Ukraine that tional standards is essential. Additional latory reforms necessary to increase the who have become the vital center of the focuses on Ukraine. huge investments in infrastructure must size of economy, promote domestic and new government of Yulia Tymoshenko. The USUBC is now a strong voice, be planned and implementation started in international investment, create tens of Educated both in Ukraine and the United working together with other business orga- 2008. thousands of new jobs, build the private States, he has in his short tenure led the nizations, for the implementation of wealth creation capacity, and integrate negotiations that solved an impasse with reforms in Ukraine that will allow the • Intellectual property rights: If Ukraine into the world business and eco- the European Commission over WTO domestic and international business com- Ukraine is to become a true partner in nomic system. accession issues related to Ukraine’s pen- munity to expand. The partial solution of international trade, then it must deal hon- Moving Ukraine forward in the next chant for export duties. the value-added tax (VAT) refund issue is a estly and effectively with intellectual few years means moving the economy for- As Mr. Nemyria pointed out at the recent example of private business organi- property rights. This includes the whole ward. January 31 USUBC meeting, WTO acces- zations and the two governments working spectrum in the IT area, genetics (seeds, Ukraine’s recent accession to the World sion is just a precursor to the next, and together. etc.), crop protection supplies and phar- Trade Organization (WTO) is a major step perhaps even more important trade mea- maceuticals. forward, but only one of the many steps VAT tax refund reform sure for Ukraine – the negotiation of a needed for Ukraine to continue building Ukraine-EU Free Trade Agreement. The failure of previous governments to • National Bank of Ukraine: The an independent, strong, prosperous, demo- Mr. Nemyria said that preparations had tackle the VAT refund problem had National Bank of Ukraine is widely cratic nation for its citizens and take its already been made for the beginning of allowed government indebtedness to bal- regarded as having some of the most rightful place in the community of nations. negotiations. He cautioned USUBC mem- loon to well over 1 billion hrv, long over- restrictive and least reformed procedures The United States-Ukraine Business bers that negotiation of the free trade due to companies with export operations in of any central bank in the former Soviet Council (USUBC), since it was founded in agreement is likely to take a minimum of Ukraine. Union. Serious regulatory reform is 1995 in Washington, has worked to sup- at least two years, but that Ukraine must The figures ranged from a few million essential for business, industry and pri- port the development of Ukraine’s private begin the process now. hryvni for some companies to one major business sector and especially Ukraine’s vate interests. Contract with investors exporter that reportedly owed over $100 WTO bid. million. The USUBC looks forward to Ukraine’s • Regulation 31: The government’s The vice prime minister emphasized VAT refund failure had crippled some notorious Regulation 31 and other barri- WTO membership as a major benefit not what the government is calling the company operations to the point that only for companies already doing business ers to private energy development must “Tymoshenko Transparency Initiative investment decisions favorable to Ukraine be reformed as a precursor to any serious in Ukraine but also as a strong attraction (TTI)” and its “Contract With Investors.” had been delayed and in some cases, aban- effort toward attracting the major energy for additional domestic and international Mr. Nemyria said that as a part of TTI, he doned. exploration investments that are needed if direct investments. We congratulate will head the Government Committee for Within a matter of weeks after the Ukraine makes progress toward energy Ukraine on this major achievement. European and International Integration. “If Tymoshenko government took office, the independence. On January 31 of this year, Ukraine’s we’re serious about going global, we have prime minister and minister of finance Vice Prime Minister Hryhorij Nemyria, to be predictable, reliable and credible announced at a January 24 meeting with • Customs service: The Ukrainian addressed over 75 USUBC members and partners,” he noted. the business community in Kyiv that a new guests at a meeting in Kyiv. This was Mr. USUBC member-companies appreciate customs service is considered one of the round of refunds would be made soon. most inefficient and corrupt parts of the Nemyria’s first presentation before a busi- the positive actions the new government Just as important, there was an has already made and believe the serious entire government structure and must announcement that the process would be undergo top-to-bottom reform. Morgan Williams is director, govern- and effective implementation of the TTI operated very transparently and the prac- ment affairs, at the Washington office of and the “Contract with Investors” would tice of giving refunds first to those who • Joint stock company law: A mod- SigmaBleyzer Private Equity Investment allow the business community to expand would accept heavily discounted payments Group and serves as president of the their operations and investments in ern, internationally accepted law on joint or engaged in corruption would be aban- stock companies needs to be passed by U.S.-Ukraine Business Council. He has Ukraine. doned. worked on issues related to the economic The international business community the Parliament. Within a matter of days several USUBC development of Ukraine since 1993. The is very optimistic about Ukraine’s future. members reported they had received settle- • New legal code for business: Much article above appeared recently in the This is evident in the fact USUBC has ments that were as high as 80 million hrv of Ukraine’s business and civil code is Kyiv-based magazine Welcome to been able to triple its membership in the in one case. If the government now fol- largely unchanged from Soviet times and Ukraine. past 18 months. lows through and operates the VAT refund requires urgent reformation. program in compliance with international

standards, they will have gone a long way • Corporate raidership, legal envi- toward solving one of the business com- ronment: Corporate raidership and other Appeal to the Ukrainian community: munities’ major problems. [Note: legal issues are a huge problem since the Additional VAT refund payments fol- lowed.] legal and court system do not work effec- Honoring the past for a better future tively and are subject to corruption.

The Ukrainian Canadian Research Holodomor survivors. The information Additional areas USUBC business • Government reorganization: and Documentation Center, in coopera- we collect will be used for educational- members are working on include the fol- Massive government reorganization must tion with the National Holodomor lowing: academic purposes and for the raising take place to improve the capacity to Commemoration Committee Ukrainian of awareness about the Holodomor, in Canadian Congress is assembling a • Overseas Private Investment plan, make decisions and implement both the Canadian and international actions needed for reform. register of survivors and victims of the communities. With your help, we will Corporation: Every Ukrainian govern- Holodomor in connection with the 75th ensure that the tragedy of the ment since 1999 has made promises and anniversary of this great tragedy. then failed to follow-up with the actions • Inflation: Inflation is too high and is Holodomor will be remembered by a terrible burden. Inflation must be We appeal to all survivors and fami- future generations. needed to resolve a small claim that could lies of survivors or victims, who cur- have allowed the U.S. government’s brought under control through means We ask you to contact the following other than direct and indirect government rently reside or have resided in Canada people: Overseas Private Investment Corporation to contact us. If you or somebody in (OPIC) to provide hundreds of millions of price controls. Increased foreign direct • Orest Zakydalsky, Ukrainian your family lived through the dollars in political risk insurance, loan investments and the privatization of more Canadian Research and Documentation Holodomor in Ukraine and then immi- guarantees and investment funds. This is government assets are needed for eco- Centre, 620 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, grated to Canada, we ask you to contact one of the greatest missed opportunities nomic stability. ON M5S 2H4; telephone 416-966-1819 the Documentation Center or the since Ukraine’s independence, and it needs *** Ukrainian Canadian Congress with the or 416-769-0662 (home); to be resolved now. following information: name, date of • Iryna Mycak, chair, National Government actions for the past two In reciting the successes and challeng- birth, place of birth, place of residence Holodomor Commemoration years to severely restrict the export of agri- es, USUBC expresses its gratitude to the during the Holodomor, place of resi- Committee, Ukrainian Canadian cultural commodities have cost Ukraine U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, William B. dence in Canada and information about Congress; telephone, 416-243-2372; hundreds of millions of dollars. These Taylor, Jr., and the U.S. Embassy staff for written memoirs. e-mail, [email protected]. unnecessary controls need to be removed. their outstanding work to support an In connection with the assembly of We sincerely thank you for your Private markets should be allowed to work improved private business environment. this register, the Documentation Center cooperation, for the benefit of Ukraine. Work by the business sector, in coop- is planning to conduct interviews with – Orest Zakydalsky, Iryna Mycak eration with the governments of Ukraine • Land privatization: Land privatiza- and the United States, must continue and tion, particularly agricultural land, is a crit- produce real results to move Ukraine’s ical area. Certainly, some safeguards must economic growth forward. Assisting in To subscribe to The Ukrainian Weekly: call 973-292-9800 x 3042. be adopted, but this thorny problem can the development of Ukraine’s private eco- and must be solved. nomic and business system is USUBC’s • Euro-2012: As Ukraine approaches No. 1 priority. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 9 INTERVIEW: Arjakovsky reflects on Christianity in Ukraine by Matthew Rarey nize who was the first in the region; with How does the Institute all recognizing that the first on the ecumen- of Ecumenical Studies CHICAGO – He is a unique man at a ical level was the Pope of Rome. serve this effort? unique place: an Orthodox Frenchman of Concomitantly, this recognition had to be The Institute of Ukrainian and Russian ancestry who gave affirmed in a way that didn’t disturb the Ecumenical Studies was up a promising career in the French diplo- unity of the churches. The second principle created after the Orange matic corps to teach at the only Catholic was that the universal Church was to be Revolution to prove that institution of higher learning on the territo- grounded on the dogmas of faith pro- unity is possible in Ukraine. ry of the former Soviet Union. nounced at the seven ecumenical councils. For 10 days in May, Prof. Antoine Pope Benedict XVI says we must return In fact, the Orange Arjakovsky of the Ukrainian Catholic to these two principles of the first millenni- Revolution itself was a rev- University (UCU) embarked on a whirl- um. And the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic olution of the spirit, illus- wind tour of the United States and Canada. Church, given its history and religious trating an ecumenism of He traveled from Lviv to promote the uni- nature – it’s an Orthodox Church that life: Orthodox from the versity among Catholic and Orthodox lay decided in the 16th century to re-enter into east, Catholics from the and religious leaders in the diaspora com- communion with Rome – is uniquely situ- west and people of all faiths munity and beyond. ated to help heal the divisions between coming together to pray to Prof. Arjakovsky, who holds a Ph.D. in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity. avert civil war. history and is director of UCU’s Institute of Unity seems easier to Ecumenical Studies, also delivered a lec- What role should ecumenism play in achieve in times of suffer- ture on Orthodox Christianity at Columbia Ukraine? ing. Indeed, in the Gulag University. During his two-day stop in Ukraine was divided in history between there were many cases in Chicago, he took time from his busy sched- the [Orthodox, Russian-influenced] east which Catholics and ule to speak with Matthew Rarey, commu- and the west [strongly Greek-Catholic, Orthodox prayed divine lit- nications director of the Ukrainian Catholic alternately ruled by Poland and the Austro- urgy together. When people Education Foundation. Hungarian Empire]. Achieving understand- suffered together, they didn’t see what divided them. The What brings you to America, Prof. ing among Ukrainian Christians will allow most important thing was to Arjakovsky? Ukrainians to rediscover their identity, lib- erated from historical divisions: pluralistic, have Eucharist together. I am pleased to return to America to but united. At our Institute of spread the good news about the Ukrainian Under the Soviet regime, we didn’t have Ecumenical Studies, we take Catholic University. The last time I jour- the opportunity to discuss ecumenism. In a faithful approach to neyed here was last spring. Once again, I the free Ukraine of today, ecumenism will Christianity. We give our Prof. Antoine Arjakovsky come as the guest of the Ukrainian Catholic help guarantee the unity of the nation. students a theological and Education Foundation, which does so much spiritual education which helps them face the Institute of Ecumenical Studies? What is the main challenge to achiev- to support our work in Ukraine. ing this unity? life’s existential questions. [The IES, which Yes. I am pleased to report that, com- You are at the forefront of the ecu- has about 40 students at any one time, mencing this fall, the IES will be offering a It is important to remind ourselves what menical movement in Ukraine. What, offers a master’s degree in ecumenism.] worldwide distance learning master’s Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky so often exactly, is ecumenism? Their training prepares them for the real degree program in ecumenical studies – the said: Christ is one. Unfortunately, there is a world – not only as scholars, but as teach- first such program in existence anywhere. Ecumenism is Greek for universality or darkness which seeks to thwart people from ers of Christian ethics in Ukrainian schools; We hope this will continue on a worldwide catholicity. It is a movement that dates from living practically in unity. And it is impos- as journalists, especially journalists special- basis what we call the “ecumenism of the beginnings of the Church in the desire sible to achieve unity among Christians izing in religious matters; and as social love,” a vision of unity that emphasizes to achieve unity among the local churches. unless each individual person first achieves workers addressing various problems in common prayer, friendship and cooperation You see, the Church in the first millenni- a unity with God: a conversion of the heart. Ukrainian society. across confessions and levels of Church um was united by two principles. First, that So ecumenism is, first of all, a very indi- each of the local Churches should recog- vidual and spiritual endeavor. Are there any new developments at (Continued on page 22)

Changes in Ukrainian religious landscape discussed at HUSI Seminar by Peter T. Woloschuk the way for religious education to be inte- has developed the most tolerant legal and tion, to “Christian” counseling, to biblically grated into all levels of state education, political climate toward minority religious based psychotherapy. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In the second Prof. Wanner noted. The legislation claimed communities and foreign religious organi- Hundreds of Ukrainian missionaries of its series of summer seminars, the that the establishment of religiously orient- zations, allowing them to establish a formi- travel throughout Russia and the former Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute host- ed schools would not only teach the stan- dable religious presence and even use the Soviet bloc annually to evangelize, and ed a lecture on June 26 by Catherine dard educational disciplines, but also stress country as a religious base for missionizing they are also in touch with Churches in Wanner, associate professor of history, the basics of religious values. Religious the former USSR, central and eastern Asia, Western Europe and the United States. anthropology, and religious studies at instruction would give Ukraine not only western and eastern Europe, and even the They possess the cultural capital to effec- Pennsylvania State University at Harvard’s educated and aware but also highly moral United States. tively witness to former Soviet citizens and Center for Government and International and spiritual citizens who would further the In her presentation, which utilized a they have been able to circumvent hostile Studies. spiritual revival of the Ukrainian nation. Power Point presentation, Prof. Wanner state policies in these countries, Prof. Prof. Wanner’s talk, “Blending Sacred Of all the former Soviet states, Ukraine explained that Soviet Ukraine accounted Wanner said. and Secular Concerns: Changes in the for almost three-quarters of the She then looked at the social ministries Religious Landscape in Ukraine Today” formal religious activity in the and missionizing activities of two of the gave an overview of the current religious USSR even though it only rep- largest and most active Ukrainian-based situation in Ukraine and then concentrated resented 18 percent of the popu- transnational mega-churches as representa- on two charismatic Pentacostal “mega- tive of the movement and examined their churches” – the Blessed Kingdom of God lation. More than half of all Protestant evangelicals (some 1 impact within Ukraine and throughout for People of all Nations, or the Embassy Eurasia and the world. of God, and Hillsong, which have a com- million people) were located in Ukraine. Although half of them Both Churches operate globally and not bined membership of almost 50,000 – as only seek to save souls from a communist indicative of what is happening. emigrated to Western Europe and the United States after inde- atheist worldview in the east but from Prof. Wanner pointed out that a commit- humanistic secularism in the west. The ment to religious pluralism was incorporat- pendence, the remainder were able to work with foreign reli- missionizing activities of these Churches in ed into the idea of Ukrainian statehood the west gives them the finances not only right from the beginning to accommodate gious organizations to make Ukraine a center of evangelical to sustain themselves but to support mis- the various traditional Orthodox and Greek- sionaries and social outreach initiatives. By Catholic Churches. She also explained how publishing, seminary training and missionary recruiting that doing so they make Ukraine the central small bureaucratic concessions by the node of all of their activities and they help Ukrainian government in the religious sec- aims to serve all of Eurasia. Ukraine is now home to more link Ukraine and its eastern missions to tor have consistently demonstrated an Europe, the West, and a global network of atmosphere conducive to developing reli- than 3 million Protes-tants. Kyiv alone has four Baptist and three religious organizations. gious institutions. These concessions Both Churches stress charitable outreach included eliminating the requirement for Pentacostal seminaries, all of and social service provision, as well as per- foreigners to have visas and allowing of which offer Internet-based dis- sonal moral transformation, and these religious organizations to establish accred- tance learning programs, usually impulses serve to chisel away at Soviet ited educational institutions on all levels in Russian, that provide clerical secularism. They are media savvy and they from nursery school through university. training and instruction in a use all forms of media to spread their mes- In 2006 the Verkhovna Rada even Vsevolod Petriv variety of forms of lay leader- passed a piece of legislation which paved Prof. Catherine Wanner ship, ranging from choral direc- (Continued on page 17) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 No. 29 Speaking at YES, Tony Blair says globalization is key political battle by Zenon Zawada Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, to the YES who see the center of gravity of political since the launch of YES in 2004 towards Special to The Ukrainian Weekly summit in 2007. and economic power moving east, and it EU integration, Mr. Blair said, citing the In giving Mr. Blair a tour of the histor- worries them.” 2005 EU-Ukraine Action Plan, the 2007 YALTA – In the first visit of a British ic Livadia Palace where the YES summit Therefore, Europe is faced with “what Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, prime minister to Yalta since Winston is held annually, Mr. Pinchuk pointed out I call the choice between open versus and the 2008 free trade agreement negoti- Churchill in 1945, Tony Blair said the the table where Churchill, Roosevelt and closed,” Mr. Blair said. “Faced with these ations led by Peter Mandelson, the British key political battles in this century will Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin carved up challenges and threats, do we open up in EU commissioner for trade. be fought by those who support global- Europe, setting the stage for the Cold War hope, or do we shut down in fear? Do we He said he expects Ukraine will ization against those opposed. that would dominate global politics for take refuge in our own national boundar- achieve its New Enhanced Agreement by “Globalization is something driven by nearly half a century. ies, in our own familiarities, in our own the end of this year, or in early 2009. people,” Mr. Blair said in his July 12 In his remarks, Mr. Blair said global- comfort zones, or do we decide that we Ukraine’s ultimate EU accession will address to the Yalta European Strategy ization will be necessary because com- will embrace these changes and open up depend on the actions and attitudes of its (YES), the annual summit in which top mon problems shared by many nations towards them?” government and citizens, Mr. Blair Ukrainian policy-makers and representa- will have to be addressed jointly, as they Open societies will embrace globaliza- added. tives of the global elite discuss Ukraine’s can’t be solved independently. tion, Mr. Blair said, while closed societies “If Ukraine is open to reforming, com- European integration. “So, if you want to deal with energy will oppose it. petitive, transparent, if it does that, and “It’s people who are making the choic- security or climate change or global ter- A recent example of resistance to glo- it’s showing, already actually, that it is a es that are opening up the world in this rorism or financial crisis, in the end these balization was the June 12 decision of the good ally, then it will force itself on the way, and therefore it won’t be resisted in issues can’t be resolved except by nations Irish to reject the Treaty of Lisbon which agenda of Europe because it will make the end. There may be a major battle working together, in fact cooperating is supposed to replace the European sense for Europe, as well as for Ukraine,” around resisting it, there will be periods together across traditional national Constitution that was rejected by the he said. of ebbs and flows, but in the end, it is boundaries, forming alliances and strate- French and the Dutch in recent years. Following his address, the former inevitable that it continues,” he said. gic partnerships,” he said. In Mr. Blair’s view, the Treaty of British prime minister met with 20 stu- Mr. Blair served as British prime min- Europe will have to unite to compete Lisbon would make decision-making dents of Mr. Pinchuk’s Kyiv School of ister for 10 years until June 2007, when with a China that is surging in power and more effective. Economics and Zavtra.ua program attend- he was pressured by the Labor Party to influence, he added. Mentioning China, Opposition to EU consolidation reveals ing the YES summit. resign amidst numerous campaign finance Mr. Blair referred to a satirical painting, the reluctance of Europeans to further Mr. Blair shared his vision of a “new scandals in which he became the first displayed at this year’s YES summit, by a expansion, which will affect Ukraine’s political world order no longer based on serving prime minister to be questioned Chinese artist that depicts Mao Zedong ability to join, Mr. Blair said. YES the traditional divisions of left and right, in a criminal inquiry. seated at the center of the famous portrait declared its goal of enabling Ukraine to but looking at open and closed communi- Mr. Blair’s popularity also declined of the Yalta Conference in 1945, and join by 2020. ties,” said YES Board Chairman Stephen because of his firm support for U.S. shows the U.S. President Franklin “Whether Ukraine becomes a member Byers, a British member of Parliament President George W. Bush and the Iraq Roosevelt glaring at him in shock. of the EU or not will in part be determined who served in Blair’s Cabinet as trans- war. In just the last five years, Mr. Blair by agreements, by negotiations and by the portation minister. YES host and financer Victor Pinchuk said he believes China has become the clauses that are going to make up the “For Ukraine, it’s important I think, as beamed with excitement when introduc- leading power in Africa. “Personally, I accession, the negotiation,” Mr. Blair we look forward, that we recognize the ing Mr. Blair, one year after he brought believe the rise of China is an opportunity noted. “It will depend in part on the mood realities of this new world order, but actu- Bill Clinton the first U.S. president to and we should embrace it,” Mr. Blair of the European Union at the time.” ally seeing it, as Tony Blair said, as an visit the Crimean resort city since said. “However, I think there are many Ukraine has taken significant steps opportunity, and not as a threat,” he said.

Organization (NATO), having a strong sion in the U.S., and rising food and com- family dynasty. Yalta European... relationship with the European Union modity prices in developing countries. To Among the original YES board mem- (Continued from page 1) (EU) and expanding U.S.-Ukrainian free increase their profit, banks in the U.S. bers, Jean-Pierre Saltiel has links to the political opponents. trade. and the developed world softened their Rothschild dynasty, having served as for- Robert Luskin, Mr. Rove’s lawyer, He also favors “ways to restrain risk standards, lending more without mer president of Rothschild Conseil claimed he didn’t have to testify because Russia,” such as removing it from the supervision, Mr. Stauss-Kahn noted. International. Mr. Saltiel is assisting executive privilege provides immunity Group of 8, an organization of the world’s While the most powerful world econo- Ukraine’s current free trade agreement from compelled congressional testimony biggest economic powers, “unlikely to mies used to be the least risky, “it’s no negotiations with the EU, YES Board and prosecution. Judiciary Committee happen, but indicative of the mindset he longer possible to say that the strongest Chairman Stephen Byers told The Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) and has.” economy in the world is the least risky,” Weekly. Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) had threat- Both Sen. McCain and Democratic he noted. To cope with the financial crisis, In addressing YES, President ened to hold Mr. Rove in contempt. presidential candidate Sen. Barack nations must either adopt an approach of Saakashvili of Georgia touted the accom- Though YES staffers scheduled a July Obama wrote articles outlining their for- weak globalization or strong globalization. plishments of his government, including 12 press briefing with Mr. Rove, it was eign policy for Foreign Affairs, published Mr. Strauss-Kahn commended the July more than 11 percent gross domestic subsequently cancelled. After informing by the Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. 4 National Bank of Ukraine decision to product growth (GDP) expected this year, The Weekly he was invited to the YES Rove said. allow the hryvnia to float against the U.S. $3 billion in foreign direct investment summit that day, Mr. Rove declined to Sen. McCain’s article has seven terms dollar 4 percent higher or lower than the expected this year, and a poverty rate answer further questions, referring any that Sen. Obama’s article lacked: official exchange rate of 4.85 hrv per dol- declining from 50 percent to 17 percent. inquiries to the YES event staff. Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, Lithuania, lar. He said the violent protests of That morning, Mr. Rove offered his Balkans, WTO and the Black Sea. Another prominent banker in atten- November 2007 were led by those views in a discussion, “The Russian and The political discussion was led by dance was Klaus Mangold, chair of the Georgians accustomed to corruption and U.S. Elections: What is their influence on Richard Haass, president of the New supervisory board of banking and invest- resistant to his government’s attempts to Ukraine and Europe?” York-based Council on Foreign Relations, ment giant Rothschild Europe, founded democratize society and establish the rule Republican presidential candidate John the leading foreign policy institute in the by the Rothschild international banking of law. McCain is very skeptical and worried West that has historically set and deter- about a resurgent Russia and its leader- mined the agenda for Europe and the ship, Mr. Rove said. “When he thinks of U.S. Russian leadership, he thinks of three International elite bankers were amply things – K.G.B.,” he said. represented at YES, most prominent (Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the among them Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Russian Federation government has the French Socialist who became manag- replaced the K.G.B. with the F.S.B., or ing director of the International Monetary the Federal Security Service). Fund (IMF) in September 2007. Sen. McCain is a strong supporter of He declared the world is currently Ukraine joining the Membership Action enduring its first crisis of the 21st centu- Plan (MAP) of the North Atlantic Treaty ry, caused by the lack of lending supervi-

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Newly released film documents UPA in Zakerzonnia region by Oksana Zakydalsky members as murderers, bandits and Nazis of armed units with a – and such propaganda was widely dis- well-developed leadership TORONTO – A newly released seminated in Poland through schools, structure; that it was not Ukrainian language film “Vohon i Zbroya: feature films and novels. engaged in the slaughter UPA na Zakerzonni” (Fire and Arms: The At the same time, Ukrainians in Poland of Poles but protected the UPA in Zakerzonnia) tells the story of the had a very fragmented idea of the UPA – Ukrainian population Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the mostly subjective and based on emotional from the Polish under- years 1944 to 1947 in the lands known as criteria. ground, the armed units Zakerzonnia – the territories west of the of the NKVD and the Curzon Line that were inhabited by The producers of the new film felt they had to deal with both tendencies. Polish army; that it was Ukrainians and, after 1947, were incorpo- not an army installed by rated into Communist Poland and from The new film includes testimonies of participants of the struggle – from line foreign powers, but an which all Ukrainians were forcibly reset- armed resistance move- tled to other regions of Poland. soldiers to the last commander of the UPA, Vasyl Kuk – and features former ment that engaged all the At the film’s premiere in Toronto on lands of Zakerzonnia and members of the underground administra- May 25, the director of the film, all levels of society. tion of the Organization of Ukrainian Myroslav Ivanyk, said “Vohon i Zbroya” “We are offering this Nationalists (OUN) and its support per- is the first cinematic attempt to present film to the judgment of the the story of the UPA in Zakerzonnia from sonnel. audience with the full real- a Ukrainian perspective. Most presenta- Scholars from Poland, Canada and the ization that it will not ful- tions of this story up to now, he said, United States provide the historical back- fill all of its expectations,” have been told from the perception of ground of the events described. The film Mr. Ivanyk said. “But such “our neighbors.” contains archival photographs and film is the fate of all pioneering Because of the post-war situation in footage, as well as footage made today at works which have to pro- Poland, the history of Ukrainians in the relevant locations. vide an overarching pic- Poland is replete with disinformation that The UPA in Zakerzonnia sprang from ture. We expect that future has only recently been challenged. The spontaneous units of self-defense and films will avoid the mis- UPA was demonized – portrayed its evolved into a military organization in takes we have made and several stages: self defense show the topic from a new Oksana Zakydalsky of the population against perspective.” The film’s director, Myroslav Ivanyk. the armed Polish under- “The struggle and sac- ground in 1944-1945; rifice of the soldiers of the UPA in Swystun became the head of the initiative bloody battles with the Zakerzonnia are worthy of more than one committee for the film and was put in Germans, the forces of the film,” he added. charge of publicity and fund-raising. NKVD and the regular The idea for this film was born in 2006 Mr. Ivanyk, who headed the film com- Polish army in 1946-1947; when the Canadian Association mittee, said, “We wanted to show the armed resistance against Zakerzonnia marked the 60th anniversary world the truth – that the UPA defended the deportation of of Akcja Wisla – the Polish operation of the population against its destruction and Ukrainians of Zakerzonnia the forcible resettlement of Ukrainians its deportation from their ancestral to the USSR and to the from Zakerzonnia. Mykola Zawerucha- home.” former German lands in western Poland. These stages of the organization and activities of the UPA are depicted in Holodomor torch arrives in Stockholm the film. Other topics cov- Ukrinform Ukrainian diaspora organizations, includ- ered include relations ing the Union of Ukrainian Women of STOCKHOLM, Sweden – The between Ukrainians and Scandinavia and Dzherelo Children and Poles, the attitude of Holodomor Remembrance Torch arrived Youth Organization, as well as the Lemkos to the under- from Great Britain in Stockholm on July ground insurgency, the 7 for a two-day commemoration of the Ukrainian Embassy to Sweden. role of women and the 75th anniversary of the Famine-Genocide In attendance were members of the position of the Ukrainian of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. Ukrainian diasporas in Sweden, Finland, Catholic Church. The torch was passed from Ukrainian Norway and Denmark. The film shows and Ambassador to Great Britain Ihor A public prayer service was held by seeks to prove that the Kharchenko to Stepan Adamenko, a the Rev. Myroslav Kotiv at the A poster announcing the Toronto premiere of “Fire UPA in Zakerzonnia was Holodomor eyewitness living in Sweden. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in and Arms: The UPA in Zakerzonnia.” not a gang but consisted The event was organized by several Stockholm. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 No. 29 Ukrainian translation of Dante’s ‘Inferno’ presented at UIMA by Orysia Antonovych guished speakers and pianists as those who appeared at the first presentation of the CHICAGO – When the Ukrainian book in Detroit. They were: Lubomyr Institute of Modern Art in Chicago pre- Hewko, who spoke about Mr. Kozak; pared for the presentation of Bohdan Natalia Hewko, who read Prof. Lonchyna’s Lonchyna’s Ukrainian translation of Dante lectures on Dante which he presented at Alighieri’s “Inferno,” little did it suspect the Ukrainian Catholic University in the great surprise that awaited it. Rome; the pianists Maria Hordynska To set the stage for the program, artist Holian and Maria Lonchyna Lisowsky, Lialia Kuchma and Stanislaw Grezdo, who performed Vasyl Vytvytsky’s Sonatina curator of the permanent collection, creat- for Piano; and Dr. Paul Dzul, who unfortu- ed a background with 10-foot banners nately was stranded at the Detroit airport showing enlarged figures of George and whose paper on Prof. Bohdan I. Kozak’s illustration of Virgil leading Lonchyna was read by Dr. Vasyl Dante through the first circle of hell, Lonchyna. In attendance was Orysia where they meet the great poets of all time Lonchyna, who was witness to the birth of – Homer, Ovid, Horace and Lucan. her husband’s long-awaited Ukrainian translation. Bohdan Lonchyna was born January 2, 1917, in Lviv. He was a pedagogue, a Catholic activist who was also involved in the cultural life of the Ukrainian commu- nity. He studied Western European and Romance languages and completed his studies in 1942 with a doctorate in philos- ophy. In 1944 he married Orysia Chaykovska, a teacher of mathematics. In 1948 they emigrated to the United States. Orysia Lonchyna addresses the gathering at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. They had five children: Maria, Natalia, Vassyl, Taras, who became a priest, and Hlib, who became a bishop. Bohdan Lonchyna first worked in Stamford, Conn., in the chancery of the relief committee. Then, in 1949, he accept- ed the position of head of the modern lan- guages department at the College in Steubenville, Ohio. In 1959 he moved to Detroit, where he continued his pedagogi- Prof. Bohdan Lonchyna (1917-1985). cal work at the University of Detroit as professor of French language and litera- Mr. Kozak’s original illustrations of ture. Dante’s “Inferno” were also on display. Since 1965, he was a professor of the Such images as that of Minos, the dread and Ukrainian Catholic University in Rome. semi-bestial judge of the dead, or Geryon, He authored many articles, books and the monster of fraud or Cerberus, the raven- translations such as “La Chanson de ous three-headed dog of Hell tearing the Roland,” “El Cantar de Mio Cid” and the gluttons with his teeth and claws set the first part of Dante’s “La Divina mood for the evening’s program. Commedia” – “Inferno.” Prof. Lonchyna Dante’s “Inferno” is the story of human- died on September 27, 1985. ity’s journey through the unending torment The illustrations to the “Inferno” were UIMA President Orysia Cardoso concludes the program. of Hell in its search for Paradise. The a result of a collaboration between Prof. “Inferno” is the first of three parts of Lonchyna and the artist George Kozak. for Creative Studies in Detroit and became Ukraine’s consul general in Chicago, Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” The universal Dr. Nicholas Sawycky, chairman of the Art art instructor in the art of stained-glass observed that he could see in Dante’s aspects of this poetic masterpiece of the Committee at UIMA, elaborated on Mr. window making and interior church “Inferno” aspects of Ukraine’s political Middle Ages, which deals with questions Kozak’s technique, color range, style and design. Besides working as a designer for and social situation. He noted that Ukraine of good and evil make the book timeless. strong sense of composition. Drawn on 15 General Motors, he painted church interi- must go through its own purgatory to The Ukrainian version, translated from cm by 38 cm cardboard in ink, chalk and ors with his father and, every summer, cleanse itself from corruption. Italian by Bohdan I. Lonchyna, is beautiful acrylic paint, the illustrations fascinate the together with his father and brother Yulia Komar, a graduate of the to look at and easy to read because of its viewer with their intensity and tonal depth. Yarema, exhibited his art work at the Ukrainian Catholic University who now large format. It is also easy to understand George (Yurii) Kozak was born Ukrainian center in Hunter, N.Y., and in works for the Ukrainian Catholic because of the informative notes that follow December 14, 1933, in Stryi, Lviv Oblast. many major cities in the United States and Education Foundation in Chicago, each canto. This is indeed a very handsome His father, Edward was the renowned Canada. expressed her appreciation for this new edition, which was published in 2007 by the painter and humorist. After World War II, His stained glass windows in St. publication. Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. the Kozak family moved to the United Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church in The great surprise of the evening was The institute was pleased to have had States and settled in Detroit. George com- Warren, Mich., his monumental painting the stunning announcement by Orysia the opportunity to invite the same distin- pleted his art studies in 1956 at the Center of the “Baptism of Ukraine-Rus’” com- Lonchyna that she is donating the entire missioned by the collection of George Kozak’s 23 original Canadian-Ukrainian Art illustrations of the “Inferno” to the Foundation in Toronto and Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. the illustrations for the Enthusiastic applause from the audience, “Inferno” are only a few heartfelt thanks from Orysia Cardoso, the examples of his great tal- president of the Institute, and bouquets of ent. Because of his untime- roses concluded the program, which was ly death in 2001, four of followed by a very lively reception. George Kozak’s illustra- The Ukrainian American Federal Credit tions for the “Inferno” Union, Selfreliance, was acknowledged were left unfinished. for its continued support of the institute’s At the end of the pro- cultural programs. gram, three Chicago resi- Five framed illustrations from the dents – Maria Klymchak, “Inferno” will remain on the “highlight Mykhailo Klymchak and wall” that features the institute’s special Olena Smolynets – gave a collections and the rest of the illustrations, dramatic reading of on movable panels, will be available for excerpts from the poem. viewing upon request by calling the They began with Dante’s UIMA at 773-227-5522 . entrance into the Dark The book may be purchased for $35 Wood of Error, where he from the Ukrainian Institute of Modern had strayed from the True Art, 2320 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL Way in his search for 60622; telephone, 773- 227-5522. All the Two of the art works by George Kozak that illustrate Bohdan Lonchyna’s Ukrainian-language Divine Illumination. proceeds will go to the Ukrainian Catholic translation of Dante’s “Inferno.” Vasyl Korzachenko, University. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 13 Plast’s Vovcha Tropa campground kicks off another active season by Natalka Salek its annual counselor training course for those youths who want to work with EAST CHATHAM, N.Y. – The Vovcha “novatstvo” (cub scouts age 7 -11). Fifty- Tropa campground of Plast Ukrainian four trainees from up and down the East Scouting Organization in East Chatham, Coast, the Midwest and Montreal partici- N.Y., has been busy. Since May the pated in an intensive 10-day program led 365-acre property has played host to a by seasoned Plast educators Motria number of scouting groups celebrating Watters of Philadelphia and Myron various events. Now, regular summer Dytiuk of Albany, N.Y. camps are in full swing in this corner of The counselors-in-training had the New York state bordering Massachusetts. pleasure of interfacing with the Polish On Memorial Day weekend, approxi- scouting group Harcerzi of Clark, N.J., mately 50 people – members of the who are first-time campers at Vovcha camp’s operating committee plus their Tropa. A group of 25 boys and 22 girls families and friends – descended on the set up two separate camps and focused on site to start preparing for the upcoming a true living-in-nature experience. This camp season. included constructing their own bed Entire families worked side by side, frames from scratch, as well as cooking mending tents to tip-top shape, sweeping all their meals over an open fire. The out campers’ barracks and beautifying the group was extremely impressive and will grounds with an abundance of planted be eagerly welcomed back next year. flowers. The beautiful weather and the Rounding out the active June 21 week- hearty, gourmet-style meals prepared by end were the annual reunion of the Petro Bokalo Oleksa Chernichenko resulted in a highly Burlaky fraternity – both senior and Participants of the camps for “yunaky.” productive and enjoyable weekend. young adult members – from the U.S. Fraternity weekend was in full swing and Canada, as well as the arrival of a on May 30-June 1 at Vovcha Tropa. In a volunteer crew of Chornomortsi who show of brotherhood, two Plast fraterni- pitched 45 tents in preparation for the ties of young adults – the Burlaky and the upcoming three-week Plast camps. Khmelnychenky – decided to combine Finally, on July 5, Vovcha Tropa’s their semi-annual reunion and to plan beautiful sunny meadows and lush forests several collaborative initiatives. welcomed new and returning Plast camp- Just down the hill, the Chornomortsi, ers for the 55th summer season of camps. yet another Plast fraternity, performed There are over 300 campers and coun- maintenance on their fleet of boats and selors taking part in five camps: camps boating equipment, which are housed at for girls and boys age 7-11 led, respec- Vovcha Tropa, in preparation for their tively, by Lydia Mulyk and Alex Drabyk; annual “Morskyi Tabir,” or sea scouting camps for pre-teens and teenagers under camp, which is held in early August. the guidance of Roxanna Kobziar and A real up-tick in activity occurred dur- Paul Jarymowycz; and a special camp for ing the weekend beginning June 21. The older teens age 15 and up headed by U.S. National Plast Command conducted Stefan Stawnychy.

The leaders of the camp for “yunachky.”

A view of the joint opening ceremonies of all the camps.

Some of the “novacky” and their counselors.

Plast campers attend Sunday liturgy. Polish scouts, or Harcerzi, at Vovcha Tropa. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 No. 29

Ukraine’s armed forces of the U.N. mis- NEWSBRIEFS sion in Liberia. After arriving in Ukraine CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS (Continued from page 2) and undergoing quarantine on June the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church 18-30, he was given a holiday, following TO PLACE YOUR AD CALL MARIA OSCISLAWSKI, (973) 292-9800 x 3040 (UGCC). The joint draft appeal stresses which he was to return to his military that the Church of the Byzantine Rite has unit. On June 26, after feeling ill, Sgt. SERVICES the second largest number of faithful in Terletskyi was hospitalized. (Ukrinform) Ukraine and is prepared to be recognized PricewaterhouseCoopers now in Lviv as a patriarchal Church. According to the authors of the document, the granting of KYIV – The international audit com- this status would be crucial for the future pany PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has activity of UGCC and the development opened an office in Lviv, the company’s of Ukrainian statehood. Four years ago press service reported. “The decision to 150 Ukrainian deputies forwarded a simi- open an office in Lviv was obvious for lar appeal to the previous pope, John Paul us, and we had a number of convincing II. Patriarchal status would mean inde- reasons,” Managing Partner of pendent administrative government. PricewaterhouseCoopers Ukraine Boris RENTALS However, many experts fear a UGCC Krasnianskyi said. He said the company Patriarchate would lead to a split between hopes for quick development of the west- the UGCC and Orthodox Churches. On ern region of Ukraine, thanks to its prox- the other hand, some believe that a imity to the European Union and the level UGCC Patriarchate can promote unifica- of foreign investment. “We already have tion of the Orthodox and Greek-Catholics a significant number of clients ordering in Ukraine and could lead to the estab- services of PwC in this part of the coun- lishment of a single Church in the coun- try and [their number] will only grow fol- try. Religious expert Andrii Yurash, noted lowing Ukraine’s accession to the World that the problem is not intra-Catholic but Trade Organization, [the signing of] an FOR SALE inter-confessional. “The question of granting the UGCC patriarchal status will agreement on a free trade area with the provoke resistance on the part of the EU and an expected investment boom Russian Orthodox Church, which claims linked to the holding of the Euro-2012 a unique role and domination in Ukraine,” European Football Championship,” Mr. he said. (Religious Information Service Krasnianskyi said. The company also has offices in Kyiv and Donetsk. (Ukrinform) MERCHANDISE of Ukraine) Vatican envoy on Patriarchate Yushchenko in Switzerland LVIV – The prefect of the Sacred KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko on July 10 left for Switzerland to undergo FOR SALE BY OWNER Congregation for the Oriental Churches, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, arrived in a planned medical examination and Lviv on July 10. Upon visiting St. George review of treatment to eliminate dioxin Cathedral, he held a press conference in from his body. He was to stay for two the metropolitan’s residence. Journalists days at the Geneva University mostly raised questions about the Dermatology Hospital. According to Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Greek- president’s private physician, Dr. Catholic Church (UGCC) and the beatifi- Rostyslav Valikhnovskyi, physicians and cation of Metropolitan Andrey medical experts expect the president’s Sheptytsky. Regarding the UGCC full recovery. (Ukrinform) Patriarchate, the Vatican diplomat stressed that this question is solely within 60 percent of westerners for NATO the competence of the pope and that in LVIV – If a nationwide referendum on solving it one should take into account NATO accession were carried out in the “the consequences of the proclamation of near future, almost 60 percent of the Lviv the Patriarchate in the ecumenical sense.” OPPORTUNITY region’s residents would support such a (Religious Information Service of move and only 16.7 percent would be Ukraine) against. These are results of a survey car- 900th anniversary of St. Michael’s ried out in June by the Socioinform Ukrainian Center for Studying Public KYIV – The National Opera House of Opinion Research. Some 1,200 respon- Ukraine in Kyiv was the venue on July dents age 18 and up participated in the 10 for the celebration of the 900th anni- polling. The chairman of the Western versary of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Analytical Group, Orest Drul, said that Monastery. It was attended by Patriarch Halychyna residents were also asked Filaret (Denysenko), head of the about Ukraine joining the European Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Union. EU membership was supported EARN EXTRA INCOME! Patriarchate, bishops, and many clergy by two-thirds of the region’s residents, and believers from all over Ukraine. The Ukrainian Weekly is looking while only 11.5 percent were against it. Statements from President Viktor The same number of respondents sup- for advertising sales agents. Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia ported NATO membership for Ukraine if For additional information contact Tymoshenko were read. The president that were a precondition for Ukraine’s Maria Oscislawski, Advertising noted: “I thank everyone who contributed membership in the EU. Mr. Drul noted Manager, The Ukrainian Weekly, to the rebuilding of St. Michael’s Church. that a reduction in the level of support for (973) 292-9800, ext 3040. I thank all of you who deliver the word NATO accession has recently been PROFESSIONALS of the Lord to the nation, to the heart of each person. I cordially greet everyone observed. He commented that this was on occasion of the 900th anniversary of “an emotional trend” related to events at St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery. the Bucharest Summit, when the question This holy monastery personifies the his- of Ukraine’s Membership Action Plan toric fate of Ukraine itself. Despite all was postponed for consideration to obstacles and calamities, despite all ene- December, thus disappointing those mies, it has been revived from ruins to Ukrainians who support NATO member- life.” (Religious Information Service of ship for their country. (Ukrinform) Ukraine) GDP growth of 5.4 percent in June Peacekeeper dies of malaria KYIV – Ukraine’s gross domestic KYIV – Ihor Terletskyi, a Ukrainian product (GDP) grew by 5.4 percent in contractual soldier who participated in June year-over-year, to 81.373 billion the United Nations peacekeeping mission hrv, according to the State Statistics WANT IMPACT? in Liberia from November 2007 until Committee. In January-June, the GDP increased by 6.3 percent year-on-year, to Run your advertisement here, June of this year, has died of malaria, according to a July 14 release by the 429.456 billion hrv. The largest GDP in The Ukrainian Weekly’s press service of the Ukrainian Defense growth was registered in trade (14.8 per- CLASSIFIEDS section. Ministry. Sgt. Terletskyi served in the cent), manufacturing (8.9 percent), and 56th separate helicopter detachment of transport (8.4 percent). (Ukrinform) No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 15

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Holodomor Torch comes to Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH – The Holodomor Following the passing of the torch, remembrance torch reached Pittsburgh on Pittsburgh City Councilman Dan Deasy May 14 during its worldwide tour to pro- read a proclamation, declaring May 27, mote awareness of the Famine-Genocide 2008, as Ukrainian Genocide Remembrance of 1932-1933. The Ukrainian community Day in Pittsburgh. His proclamation was gathered at the City-County Building on followed by an announcement by Dr. Mary Grant Street in Downtown Pittsburgh to Esther van Shura, on behalf of Allegheny receive the torch and mark the 75th anni- County Executive Dan Onorato, that the versary of the Holodomor. day of remembrance was to be observed The program, organized by Marika countywide. Zaliszczuk, began with remarks by Clergy from both the local Ukrainian Michael Komichak, a local Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox radio personality. The torch was then Churches were present. The Very Rev. passed from Gregory Repa, a Holodomor George Hnatko led prayers in both survivor, to students Bohdan Mykhailiv English and Ukrainian in memory of the and Natalia Rozum, symbolic of the pass- victims. The ceremonies were concluded Representatives of the Ukrainian American community in Pittsburgh, along with ing of the memory from generation to with the singing of “Vichnaya Pamiat” their Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox clergy, receive the Holodomor generation. (Eternal Memory). Remembrance Torch.

Ukrainian Canadians meet at SOUP Club WINNIPEG – A group of Canadian seniors of Ukrainian descent regularly gather in Winnipeg as a fraternal club called the Sons of Ukrainian Pioneers Club. Though not bound by any official constitution or by-laws, club members meet monthly to exchange stories and share a bowl of borsch. The club boasts a membership of over 70 members, most of whom belong to other conventional Ukrainian organizations. In 2004, the club erected a bronze plaque in Kildonan Park in Winnipeg as a tribute to the “thousands of Ukrainian immi- grants who were invited by the government of Canada to accept ‘free-lands’ in Western Canada.” The plaque goes on to recount the hardships Ukrainian pioneers faced while shaping western Canada, including an inhospitable environment and internment by the Canadian government during the first world war. The plaque notes: “Well done. You have contributed to the J. Moskalyk growth and fabric of Canada.” Representatives of the SOUP Club gathered around the plaque in 2007 during a special tribute event to The SOUP Club welcomes inquiries from prospective Ukrainian Canadian pioneers. members – call 204-389-2278 or e-mail [email protected].

Harvard students visit USS Bataan Graduates honored by Parma cathedral

Vsevolod Petriv BOSTON – For the second year in a row the U.S. Navy invited students from the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI) to attend a pre-Fourth of July open PARMA, Ohio – High school graduates of St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox house and reception aboard the USS Bataan (LHD-5), a multipurpose amphibious Cathedral, Parma, Ohio, were honored by the parish on Sunday, June 8. assault ship, which came to Boston for the holiday from its home port in Virginia. Following the divine liturgy, each graduate received an Orthodox Study Bible as a The ship is 844 feet long and has a beam of 106 feet. Interestingly, both the com- gift from the parish’s Senior Ukrainian Orthodox League chapter. Graduating altar manding officer and the chief intelligence officer of the USS Bataan had Ukrainian servers received plaques from the parish recognizing their service as altar boys. grandmothers. Seen in the photo above (from left) are: Frederick Schultz (HUSI Seen above (from left) are: the Rev. John Nakonachny (pastor); Kevin Kustich, alumnus); Capt. Mark Scovill, executive officer; Andriy Yatsiv (HUSI student from Ryan Sima, Emily Kominko, John Harasyn, Daniel Moysaenko and Father Deacon Lviv); Olena Loboyko (HUSI student from Morshyn, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine); Capt. Ihor Mahlay. Richard P. Snyder, commanding officer; U.S. Army Maj. Geoffrey Wright (HUSI student) and his wife, Friederike; Timothy Cameron (naval officer candidate); and Yaroslav Martsinkiv (HUSI student from Ternopil, Ukraine). – Peter T. Woloschuk Need a back issue? If you’d like to obtain a back issue of The Ukrainian Weekly, send $2 per copy (first-class postage included) to: Administration, The Ukrainian Weekly, Visit our archive on the Internet at: http://www.ukrweekly.com/ 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 No. 29 No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 17

from their superiors to align with the pro- Single Center party... presidential party. “There’s going to be a (Continued from page 1) situation soon in which officials will be ing a widespread middle class. told to either join the president, or be left But pundits and politicians alike have out on their own,” said Mr. Taran. been criticizing what many perceive is At the convention, Single Center Single Center’s essential re-imaging as a underscored its staunch support for pro-presidential party, without any politi- President Yushchenko, thereby advertis- cal platform or ideals that differentiate it ing itself as a new alternative to OU-PSD, from earlier failed attempts at political but stopping short of declaring itself as a makeovers, such as OU-PSD. surefire replacement for the current pro- “If [Single Center] is created at the presidential party. expense of [OUPU], the president and the “Single Center is a party capable of democratic forces stand nothing to gain,” determining a strategy for Ukraine’s said Boris Tarasyuk, leader of People’s development, elaborating necessary deci- Rukh of Ukraine party at a recent press sions and ensuring their fulfillment,” Mr. conference in Rivne. “It is just a repack- Kril said at the convention. “We support aging.” the course of incumbent President Viktor Additionally, various news sources Yushchenko.” have reported that the Presidential The newly formed party also said it Secretariat issued orders to oblast state wants to battle what it perceives as a pre- administration chairs (also known as gov- mature, cutthroat race for the presidency, ernors) to pressure regional officials in other parties to join Single Center, or face which has resulted in the recent govern- threats of dismissal, according to Mr. mental infighting that has thus far notori- Tarasyuk. Viktor Baloha, chair of the ously plagued Ukrainian politics. Single Presidential Secretariat, is one of Single Center also stands for a presidential-par- Center’s key members, along with five liamentary form of government, which it oblast governors and numerous city may- plans to guarantee through a rewording ors. of the current Constitution, as well as a Although it’s unclear whether oblast revamping of the electoral system by officials will be coerced into joining holding parliamentary elections through Single Center, Mr. Taran notes that they an open-list, proportional majority sys- will at least face some indirect pressure tem.

Changes... church, Alexander Dzjuba, has said that he would like to see an Orange Revolution in (Continued from page 9) Russia. sage. They have their own printing houses Prof. Wanner then pointed out that and they also own their own television sta- “Ukrainians have embarked on their own tions and production houses, which turn out ‘civilizing mission’ to their former colo- both cd’s and dvd’s, Prof. Wanner related. nizer, to Europe, to the U.S., to Eurasia The Embassy of God was founded in and elsewhere. Just as local Ukrainian 1994 by a Nigerian self-taught pastor and congregations furnish missionaries who now has 38 churches in Ukraine, as well travel the world to witness, they also tie as18 abroad including five in the United St these local congregations into global ates, four in Russia, two each in Belarus, organizations, thereby bringing the world Germany and Holland, and congregations to Ukraine.” in the United Arab Emirates and India. Its “All of this activity has multiple rami- missionizing strategy centers on drug and fications,” Prof. Wanner concluded. “It alcohol rehabilitation and faith healing, and pressures traditional religious denomina- more than half of its adherents and pastors tions in Eurasia and Europe to become are former addicts. more activist, and it challenges the his- Hillsong was founded in Australia. It toric patterns of church-state interdepen- also stresses charitable outreach, which dence and self-limiting outreach. It forces encompasses more than half of its mem- state governments to re-evaluate their bership. It is youth-oriented and its three social activities by assuming moral weekend youth services regularly attract responsibility for care and outreach and more than 6,000 young people. Music is by fighting against secularizing tenden- an essential component of the ministry cies. And, finally, it questions discourses and the church sponsors a series of of developments and serves to displace Saturday night Christian rock concerts the role of secular NGOs [non govern- call Vybukh (explosion). The church is mental organizations] in providing relief seriously trying to reach out to all and guidance.” 100,000 orphans in state care in the coun- Prof. Wanner is the author of try and is also participating in a program “Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians to help Ugandan children. and Global Evangelism” (Cornell Both Churches stand for social change University Press, 2007), which was award- and actively supported the Orange ed the American Association for Ukrainian Revolution. More than 4,000 members of Studies 2006-2007 prize for best book, and the Embassy of God were on the “Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Independence Square (the “maidan”) every Post-Soviet Ukraine” (Pennsylvania State day and the Ukrainian pastor of its Moscow University Press, 1998).

tered in these centers. Often, despite the Ukrainian community's... Geneva Conventions, they are separated (Continued from page 6) at various facilities. Surely, we should defend themselves. We beg that this right follow the U.N. Charter, the [Universal] should be recognized, the right to due Declaration of Human Rights. process, to legal representation, before The Ukrainian American community anyone is remanded to a deportation cen- stands ready to act as an ombudsman to ter. Today, we have several families scat- these detainees, if they need assistance.

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Boxing dictions for medal counts for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing next • Wladimir Klitschko (51-3, 45 KO) month. China will win 88 medals; the sent American Tony Thompson (31-2, 19 United States, 87; Russia, 79 medals. KO) to the canvas with a right hook at 98 Ukraine will rank 12th with 23 medals. A seconds into the 11th round in Hamburg, total of 248 athletes from Ukraine are Germany, on July 12 and defended his expected to compete in Beijing. President IBF, IBO and WBO heavyweight titles. Viktor Yushchenko is scheduled to attend Klitschko led on the scorecards all night the raising of the Ukrainian flag at the and took several shots from the south- Olympic village on August 7 and will paw, but maintained his composure and attend the opening ceremony of the worked Thompson with heavy right hand Ukrainian house on August 8. The shots. Klitschko’s next fight is likely Ukrainian flag will be carried at the against Alexander Povetkin, the IBF opening ceremonies by champion swim- mandatory challenger, who fights Taurus mer Yana Klochkova. Sylkes on July 19. Otherwise it could be • Olya Melen, an award-winning envi- a bout against loudmouth cruiserweight ronmental legal activist, delivered the David Haye, who holds four belts in that Olympic torch from the island of Hainan weight class. to mainland China on May 6. Other • Vitali Klitschko, the former Kyiv Ukrainian participants included Illya mayoral candidate and WBC heavy- Yemets, Savik Shuster, Oleksiy Barash weight “champion emeritus” (35-2, 34 and Raisa Kravchenko, with each bearer KO), on July 13 announced his return to running 400 meters. the ring in a bout against Samuel Peter Golf (30-1, 23 KO) on October 11 in Berlin. Getty Images Klitschko, who will be 37 later this Dale Hawerchuk, a hockey hall of month, has been kept out of the ring due Wladimir Klitschko’s right hand connects with Tony Thompson on July 12 in fame member, is to be the honored guest to injury. Hamburg, Germany. at the third annual Ukrainian • The Klitschko Brothers’ Charitable kick shootout, which Shakhtar won 5-3. en’s team won the silver medal. Independence Day golf tournament at Foundation with Coca-Cola Ukraine, as Tennis Track and field Royal Woodbine Golf and Country Club part of the “Call Friends – Let’s Play in Toronto on August 19. The tournament Together” project, have opened a new • As of July 13 Olena Bondarenko • Maksym Mazuryk won the silver is sponsored by the Canada-Ukraine sports facility in Kirovohrad, Ukraine. ranks 28th in the Women’s Tennis medal in pole vault at the DKB-ISTAF Chamber of Commerce. The facility offers young athletes a place Association ratings. Among the top-100 international competion, held in Berlin, Mountaineering to play basketball, ping-pong and other players are: Kateryna Bondarenko, in Germany, on June 1. Yulia Krevsun won sports. 46th place, Maria Korytseva in 60th the silver medal in the 800-meter race. • Ihor Parchevsky and his team of • Cruiserweight Vitaliy Rusal (21-0, place, Tatiana Perebiynis in 75th place • Tetiana Liakhovych set a new Ukrainian mountain climbers planted the 15 KO) defeated Laszlo Hubert (14-2, 7 and Yulia Vakulenko in 84th place. national record for Ukraine in javelin Ukrainian flag on June 11 on the summit KO) of Hungary to win the IBO Inter- • Oksana Lyubtsova of Ukraine and throwing with 63.23 meters at the of Mount McKinley (Denali), Alaska’s Continental title on July 5 at the Tornado Irina Kuzmina of Latvia defeated Irina Ukrainian Athletics Championships in highest peak. The feat was part of the in the Ring boxing tournament at the Buryachok of Ukraine and Patricia Mayr Kyiv. Natalia Pohrybniak ran the initiative by Holos Ukrainy newspaper Sports Palace in Odesa. of Austria (6-4, 4-6, 10-7) for the wom- 100-meter race in 11.28 seconds and beat “Ukrainian Flag on the World’s Highest • The Ukrainian team won seven med- en’s doubles title at the 2008 International the Olympic time requirement of 11.31 Peaks.” Parchevsky’s team, including als at the European Junior Boxing Tennis Federation tournament on July 13 seconds. Antonia Yefremova won the Yuriy Kravchuk and Oleksandr Scherba, Championships in Plovid, Bulgaria, on held in Rome, Tavere, and Remo, Italy. 400-meter race in 51.17 seconds, beating have climbed Mount Elbrus (18,510 feet) July 1. Pavlo Ishchenko (52 kg) defeated • Ukraine’s women’s Olympic tennis the Olympic time requirement of 51.55 in the Caucasus Mountains, Mont Blanc Dimitar Kratsev of Bulgaria to win the team was announced on July 3; it com- seconds. in the French Alps, (15,781 feet), gold medal; Oleksander Pilipenko (60 prises Olena Bondarenko, Tetiana • Denys Yurchenko won the silver Kilimanjaro (19,341 feet) in Tanzania, kg) defeated Norburt Orsola to win the Perebiynis and Mariya Korytseva. medal and Maksym Mazuryk won the Africa, Mount Cook (12,316 feet) in gold medal; Roman Chubey (over 80 kg) Kateryna Bondarenko is the default sub- bronze medal, both in the pole vault Australia and Aconcagua Mountain won the silver medal. Bronze medals stitute for singles, but will compete in event, at the ninth Golden Spike Grand (22,841 feet) in Argentina. were won by Ruslan Struk (50 kg), doubles with her sister Olena. The other Prix as part of the IAAF World Athletics • On June 20 Serhiy Beshkov, who Viacheslav Prokopchuk (57 kg) and players will form the other duet for dou- Tour in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on June climbed Mount Everest three times, left Dmytro Cherniak (54 kg). bles. 12. Sergey Demidyuk won the bronze in Ukraine to climb Broad Peak, Hidden • Denys Poyatsyka (91 kg) defeated • Kateryna Bondarenko defeated the 110-meter hurdles. Peak and Gasherbrum 2 in the Karakoram Russia’s Yevgeny Romanov on June 10 Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium (7-6, 3-6, • Iryna Lishchynska won the gold Mountain Range in Pakistan. Joining and won the gold medal at the first AIBA 7-6) at the World Tennis Association’s medal in the 1,500-meter race at the 26th Beshkov is Ihor Sverhun. Beshkov will President Cup in Taipei, Taiwan. Oleksiy DFS Classic in Birmingham, England, on Atelismo Madrid on July 5 in Madrid. be the first to climb all three peaks if he Syvko won the bronze medal in the over June 15 to win her first singles title. Yevgeniya Snihur won the silver medal succeeds. 91 kg division. Fencing in the 100-meter hurdle race. Weightlifting Soccer • Sergey Demidyuk won the silver Andriy Pohrebniak, 20, won the medal in the 110-meter hurdles at the Viktor Tetsov (125 kg), Volodymyr Shakhtar Donetsk defeated Dynamo bronze medal at the European fencing IAAF Golden Gala in Rome on July 11. Biruk (100 kg), Dmytro Cumakov (90 Kyiv for the 2008 Ukrainian Super Cup championships in Kyiv on July 5. The Yulia Kversun won the bronze medal in kg), Dmytro Semenenko (82.5 kg), on July 16. The game was tied at full competition attracted 395 competitors the 800-meter race. Tetyana Varlamova (over 90 kg), time and was determined by a penalty from 38 countries. The Ukrainian wom- • Iryna Lishchynska won the silver Ielizaveta Ivanova (82.5 kg), Olena medal in the 1,500-meter race at the Kozlova (75 kg), Maksym Masyuk (67.5 IAAF Grand Prix in Athenson July 13. kg), Tetyana Akhmamyetyeva (60 kg), Oleksandr Liyvoy (60 kg), Iryna Vanco Chairman Gene Van Dyke has Chess Baburova (48 kg) and Kateryna Tymoshenko defies... said that the Prykerchenska field explora- Klymenko (52 kg) won gold medals at (Continued from page 2) tion could be delayed by some 10 years if Daria Tkachenko defeated Tamara the European Junior Powerlifting Tansikkuzhyna of Russia on June 22 at referring to the gas trader co-owned by the dispute continued. He said that only Championships on June 10-14 in an international women’s chess tourna- Gazprom and Mr. Firtash that she has one company in the world, which works Mariupol, Donetsk. Anton Dubrowski ment in Ufa, Russia. been struggling to remove from Ukraine in partnership with Vanco, can supply the (over 125 kg), Mykola Barannik (67.5 since her appointment as prime minister equipment necessary for drawing 3D Olympics kg), and Liudmyla Bakal (44 kg), won maps of the field, without which proper in December 2007. silver, and Oleksandr Bogdanov (110 exploration is impossible because of the “All illegally issued licenses have been • Pricewaterhouse Cooper Audit kg), Vsevolod Yevstropov (82.5 kg) and, great depths involved. Vanco Company on June 24 announced its pre- Anton Kvasha (60 kg) won bronze. cancelled. Ukraine, on the basis of a Prykerchenska confirmed its readiness to unanimous decision made by the Cabinet, adhere fully to the PSA conditions. It said has withdrawn from these, in my opinion, that it was ready to invest about $250 criminal and murky agreements,” said million in the project by 2010 (www.liga. Frustrated by poor postal delivery Ms. Tymoshenko. She also warned net, June 26). against “conspiracy aimed at destroying of your newspaper? the government plan to put an end to the The article above is reprinted from high-scale international scam involving Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission Check out THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY online at the Black Sea shelf” (Channel 5, June from its publisher, the Jamestown www.ukrweekly.com 25). Foundation, www.jamestown.org. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 No. 29

Ukrainian pro soccer update by Ihor Stelmach Shevchenko, a.k.a. “Sheva,” simply a super striker PART I against the French club Lens and In European soccer, where he is England’s Arsenal (a penalty kick), lead- renowned as one of the world’s best strik- ing Dynamo to the top of their grouping. ers, some call him “Sheva,” others refer to Then in the quarterfinals of Champions him as the “Eastern Wind,” while a few League play in 1998-1999, Sheva man- have labeled No. 7 as the “White aged three goals in two matches against Ronaldo.” This great soccer star’s birth Real Madrid and another goal in that loss name is actually Andriy Mykolayovich to Bayern Munich. There was no doubt Shevchenko. He is currently still an active the Ukrainian striker could, well, strike. member of England’s Chelsea Football After five phenomenal seasons with Club, despite all sorts of rumors he is Dynamo, it was time for new, bigger chal- unwanted in Chelsea or on his way back lenges. to Italy. Shevchenko is also the captain A.C. Milan and top player for the national team of Ukraine. The move to Milan came on July 1, In his formative years as a youngster 1999, for an astronomical $25 million Shevchenko first pursued competitive transfer fee, a new Milan record transac- boxing in the Ukrainian junior league. tion. Sheva moved to Milan to be greeted When this initial athletic pursuit was hin- as the Italian club’s new “Marco Van dered by size restrictions, the lad was Basten” (A.C. Milan’s greatest player). pushed into football (soccer), a sport in A.C. Milan coach Alberto Zaccheroni was which he almost immediately took to with afforded the generous gift of a young startling skill and ability. striker definitely at the top of his game, a Shevchenko’s professional soccer potential goal-scoring machine. The career began with Dynamo Kyiv, where 23-year-old Ukrainian would go on to be he won five league titles plus two national mentioned in the same breath with the cups in the late 1990’s. In 1999 Sheva likes of Thierry Henry, Adriano and signed with Italy’s A.C. Milan during Ronaldinho. which he won one Serie A title, one Union Shevchenko made his Series A debut a of European Football Association (UEFA) AP memorable one, scoring a goal in a 2-2 Champions League crown, a European Andriy Shevchenko is embraced by a team offi cial after Ukraine’s 4-0 win over draw with Leece on Aug. 28, 1999. It Super Cup, an Italian Cup and even one Saudi Arabia during the 2006 World Cup. foreshadowed the rest of his inaugural Italian Super Cup. This was all topped off Series A season, as Andriy went on to by the distinguished honor of being named achievement was a pair of Ian Rush’s lar on Dynamo Kyiv in 1995-1996, but become the top goal scorer in the league European Footballer of the Year in 2004. shoes, presented by the famous Liverpool the club was banned from the Champions with 24 league goals in 32 games. This While playing for Ukraine’s national (England) player himself. In an August League by a UEFA ruling. More bad luck was the first time a non-Italian player won team, Shevchenko has tallied over 30 1991 competition, Andriy Shevchenko’s came in the next year when Shevchenko the scoring title in his first year. In 1999 international goals in some 70 matches. team won the last USSR junior champion- endured a meniscus problem prior to the and 2000 he finished third in the France Young Andriy Shevchenko was born ship – a national tournament for boys who preliminary round and his club was elimi- Football European player of the year September 29, 1976, in the Kyiv regional were born in the year 1976. The youngster nated. award voting. village of Yagotyn. He then lived in the who started playing football as a defensive Too much underperforming and losing Back in his native homeland, neighboring village of Dvirkivschina for specialist had now graduated to become a led to the return of legendary coach Valeri Shevchenko’s old mentor Lobanovsky some three years. In 1979 there was took over as coach of Ukraine’s national another short-distanced relocation to the gifted goal scorer. Lobanovsky, who had led Dynamo Kyiv to much international success in the years team in March of 2000. The hiring carried newly-constructed Obolon housing dis- Dynamo Kyiv with it a mandate of getting Ukraine qual- trict in Kyiv. He began kicking a soccer of 1975 and 1986. Adapting to A promotion to Dynamo Kyiv 2 (the Lobanovsky’s coaching strategies and ified to play in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. ball in elementary school and his first It did not take much persuasion for Sheva organized team was a youth squad formed club’s second team) was earned by young training regimens meant instant success Shevchenko in the spring of 1992. At this for Shevchenko and his club. Andriy cap- to join Ukraine’s World Cup quest. He by the housing association. When only a gave it his all, stepping up to score 10 nine-year old tournament participant, higher level he was now coached by tured the league again next season with Wolodymyr Onishenko. During his sec- Dynamo, tallying 6 goals in 20 matches. goals in the various qualifying matches, Shevchenko caught the professional eye only to have Ukraine not qualify follow- of Dynamo scout Alexander Shpakov. In ond year with Dynamo 2 (1993-1994) Even greater production followed in the Shevchenko notched top-scoring honors 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 seasons. A ing a playoff loss to Germany. no time at all the young Shevchenko was Shevchenko went on to tally 34 goals off to train with the Dynamo Kyiv juniors. with 12 goals, leading his club to their first-half (that’s first half of a game) hat second consecutive league title. He also trick (3 goals) against Barcelona in a in 51 matches, then 17 goals in 38 match- (Interestingly enough, Shevchenko once es in total competitions with A.C. Milan failed a soccer ball dribbling test for gain- made his first appearance, though a very Champions League match, where Dynamo brief one, on the first team roster. In a tele- shocked the highly-talented Spanish squad over the next two seasons. The high- ing entrance to a sports school in Kyiv.) priced striker was producing, but Milan vised international junior game between 4-0, was the indisputable highlight of At first Sheva’s parents were not too could not break through to the top. This Ukraine and Holland on April 26, 1994, 1997-1998. Overall Sheva totaled 19 goals pleased with this sudden change in career started new rumors, as other European with a large European viewership, in 23 league matches, another 6 goals in development. Shevchenko’s father, clubs expressed interest in having the Shevchenko scored a goal in a 2-2 tie 10 Champions League matches. The Mykola, preferred his son to follow dad’s Ukrainian kick-start their offensive games. while putting on a series of spectacular 1998-1999 season saw Sheva score 28 lead and pursue the military upon finish- The Italian sports gazette Tuttosport ball control moves. The young prodigy goals in total matches, including a league- ing the school system. There was also the released a story in 2001 that Real Madrid certainly did not disappoint on such a leading 18 goals. His goal-scoring prow- constant cross-city travel in Kyiv for soc- was offering some $90 million for grand stage. Sheva made his international ess led Dynamo into the semi-finals of the cer training with the Dynamo juniors Shevchenko’s services. This rumor was Under-21 debut in a match versus Slovenia Champions League that year, prior to academy. Despite his parents’ reserva- supposedly put to rest when Shevchenko in October 1994 and his senior team debut being bested by Bayern Munich. tions, Shevchenko received much person- scored against Real in a November 2002 on November 8, 1994, against rival How good was he and what role did he al support from Shpakov, and the pursuit Champions League match. Shakhtar Donetsk in the 54th minute when play in his team’s success? Consider that of soccer was adopted in earnest. Many went on to claim the very goal he substituted for Mikheil Jishkariani. Dynamo won the Ukrainian league each The April 1986 Chornobyl nuclear against Real Madrid was the turning point Still another noteworthy debut was his of the five years Shevchenko was with the disaster disrupted his soccer development in Milan’s comeback to greatness in first action in the Champions League, club. Rising through the soccer ranks, for a period of time. Shevchenko’s village league play. Two other critical goals may when on November 23, 1994, at Spartak starting from the watchful eye of scout was affected by the tragic disaster and this have also contributed to the Italian club’s Moscow, Shevchenko substituted in for Alexander Shpakov, all the way to the led to his family’s abandonment of their turn around, both coming off Serhiy Rebrov in the 57th minute. A cou- detailed professional tutelage of manager home to escape the after-effects. For two Shevchenko’s foot. There was the goal in ple of first goals: initial league goal was Valeri Lobanovsky, Andriy Shevchenko months the Shevchenko family temporari- the semi-final match-up against Inter on December 1, 1994, in a 4-2 victory had become one of the club’s most emi- ly resided on the Black Sea coast. When Milan and the match-winning penalty kick over Dnipro; first Champions League goal nent and masterful players. The European all was safe, Andriy returned to Kyiv and in the May 2003 final against Manchester was against Bayern Munich in a 4-1 loss soccer world had taken notice. to his benefactor, Mr. Shpakov. He trained United. In the Man-U tilt, still tied up on December 7, 1994. By 1998-1999 the young Ukrainian diligently and soon became one of the after an extra-time period, the outcome On March 25, 1995, Shevchenko start- was indeed gaining much notice by all of soccer academy’s top students. was left on Shevchenko’s shoulders. ed in his first international match against the major European soccer organizations. In 1990 Shevchenko played for the When his turn came up, Sheva coolly Dynamo Kyiv under-14 squad in the Ian Croatia, but his first international goal was It was rumored his franchise player price kicked in the decisive winner in the penal- Rush Cup in Wales, young Andriy was the scored during a March 1996 friendly tag was nearing $20 million, especially tournament’s top scorer. His prize for this match against Turkey. He became a regu- when he scored a goal in each game (Continued on page 21) No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 21 Ottawa Ukraina Royals aim to advance to premier division PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Andriy Shevchenko, Serhiy Rebrov, Oleh Blokhin, these are the names chanted by thousands of soccer fans in Ukraine. But in Ottawa, Walter Usyk, Sergey Kovalenkov and Andriy Popowych are the names on the lips of Ukrainian soc- cer fans. These are just a few of the names that are part of Ottawa Ukraina Royals, the first all-Ukrainian soccer team in Ottawa. The team was founded in 2005 by 25 year-old Marc Lapointe Denysewych, whose career included being the all- time leading goal scorer in the history of Carleton University, a four-time All- Ontario University All-Star and a one- time All-Canadian University All-Star. After learning of a heart condition just The all-Ukrainian Ottawa Ukraina Royals 2008 summer soccer team. weeks after forming the all-Ukrainian team, Mr. Lapointe now serves as the experience and skill – from those who team’s head coach. are new to the sport to university-level The Ukrainian club competes in the all stars – but all belong to one big Ottawa Carleton Soccer League, which family. includes five divisions: the premier “We train hard, fight hard for each league, and the first, second, third and other and play to win,” Mr. Lapointe fourth divisions. When a new club is said of the team. “Since the creation of added to the league, they begin in the the team, Ukraina [Royals] had been fourth division and play their way to labeled as an unworthy underdog oppo- the top. At the conclusion of each sea- nent by many of the teams, until they son, the top two teams in each division see us take to the field.” advance to the next higher tier, while “The players, the fans, the coaches the last two teams drop to the tier and the community coming together below. are a big reason for Ottawa Ukraina’s The goal of the Royals – who after just two seasons of play compete in the success,” explained Mr. Lapointe. third division – is to advance to the Eight weeks into the season, the premier division to establish the club team has seven wins, no losses and as one of the best teams in the city. The zero ties in the third division. In cup club has a coaching staff of two and 23 play, the Ottawa Ukraina Royals won players who range in age from 17 to their first match on June 21 against St. 47. All come from a Ukrainian back- Anthony 1-0, but on July 6 suffered a ground, as is part of the eligibility 3-1 loss to Capital United, the best soc- requirement for membership and the cer club in the premier league. main purpose of its founding – a The Ottawa Ukraina Royals’ summer Ukrainian club for Ukrainians. season league games are played on These membership requirements Wednesdays until August 27, and their have presented recruiting difficulties schedule and match results can be for the club. The team is composed of found by visiting www.ottawaukraina. players from varying backgrounds of com. The Ottawa Ukraina Royals maintain their undefeated season through sacrifice.

claimed as one of the top 125 greatest liv- net. inspired performance. Shevchenko... ing football players by an authority on the Back in the summer of 2004, the The 2005-2006 football season saw (Continued from page 20) subject, the great Pele himself. Later that European soccer rumor mill heated up Sheva top the team in goal scoring with 19 ty shoot-out. year, former president of Ukraine, Leonid once again when it was leaked the owner Serie A goals in 28 games. He was the Winning the Champions League and Kuchma, bestowed the title “Hero of of Chelsea, Roman Abramovich, offered major component of A.C. Milan’s offense, the Italian Cup in 2002-2003 allowed Ukraine” on the deserving soccer star. To the record amount of 50 million British acting as captain whenever teammate Milan to withstand the build-up of discon- top it all off, Shevchenko joined Oleg pounds (approximately $97 million) and Paolo Maldini was out of the lineup. Milan tent from the two prior seasons. Blokhin and Igor Belanov as a Ukrainian striker Herman Crespo to A.C. Milan in a ended the season in second place behind Shevchenko did not produce goals at the winner of the France Football European swap for Andriy Shevchenko. Reportedly Juventus. The personal accomplishments high rate of prior campaigns, tallying a Player of the Year Award, a.k.a. European Milan declined the offer, but then perhaps continued as Andriy passed the legendary mere five times in 24 games. The star Footballer of the Year. Andriy dedicated substantiated the rumored deal by taking A.C. Milan No. 10, Gianni Rivera, the scored less, yet the team won more. Of the ultimate soccer player’s award to his Crespo on loan. Not to be denied, club’s new No. 2 all-time leading scorer. course it was up to “Sheva” to net the final fellow countrymen of Ukraine. Abramovich purportedly returned with a This same year Shevchenko scored nine winner. Andriy became the first Ukrainian- On the personal front, Shevchenko mar- second proposal, upping his record offer goals in 12 total matches in the Champions born soccer player to win the Champions ried American model Kristen Pazik, whom to 85 million British pounds (approxi- League, rewriting the history book in the League. he had met at a fashion show after party, mately $165 million) for the Ukrainian process. In late November 2005, the sec- In a demonstration of patriotic thanks, in a Washington ceremony which took star, this time also kicking in a record ond phase of the Champions League group place on a golf course in 2004. Three and 225,000 British pounds weekly salary. Shevchenko returned to Kyiv with the stage match against Fenerbahce, Andriy one-half months later, Sheva became a Milan once again refused the Chelsea Champions League trophy to express his scored all four goals as Milan beat the father when bride Kristen gave birth to offer. respectful thanks to coach Lobanovsky Turkish squad 4-0. He became only the and his adoring Ukrainian fans. His coun- Jordan Andriy Shevchenko. The couple Shevchenko received the “Golden fifth player to ever score four goals in a trymen would learn to cheer for their named their son Jordan after NBA super- Foot” in August 2005, the World Champions League match. Milan lost to native son, the soccer star. star Michael Jordan. Champions Club magazine and No. 1 Barcelona in the semi-finals. The 2003-2004 season was an instant The goals and titles kept on coming. Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello replay for both the striker and his squad, The 2004-2005 season started in high Sport’s award for best soccer player in the He continued his rise up A.C. Milan’s this time the player and his team were hit- octane as Shevchenko netted another hat- world as voted online by the public. career team scoring totals when he scored ting on all cylinders. For already the sec- trick in the Italian Super Cup against Back on the national scene, it was good two goals in a 5-0 win versus Treviso at ond time in his young career he was the Lazio. A.C. Milan went on to finish sec- news on September 3, 2005, when Ukraine the San Siro in February 2006. Goals No. league’s top scorer with 24 goals in 32 ond in the league standings, helped in finally qualified for the 2006 FIFA World 164 and 165 got him within shouting dis- matches. A.C. Milan went on to win the great measure by Andriy’s production of Cup. In the past three qualifying attempts tance of Milan’s all-time goal scorer, Serie A title for the first time in four years. 17 goals. In 10 additional Champions the upstart Ukrainians had been eliminated Swedish forward Gunmar Nordahl, who Two additional goals by Shevchenko League matches he added another six in play-offs by Croatia (1997), Slovenia topped the list with 221 goals in his seven meant the European Super Cup was goals. All of the good fortune and tri- (1999) and Germany (2001). With the years with the club in the mid 1950’s. The Milan’s in a victory over Porto, their sec- umphs of the campaign were somewhat arrival of a new national team coach, Oleg conclusion of the 2005-2006 season saw ond trophy that season. This on top of a disqualified in the League final, however, Blokhin, came a victorious finish ahead of Shevchenko sneaking up on Real Madrid three-goal hat-trick over close rival Roma. when the 3-3 draw with Liverpool finished Greece, Turkey, Denmark, Albania, striker Raul Gonzalez, the leader of the The successes of 2004 continued for up after extra time, going into penalty Georgia and Kazakhstan. Shevchenko led Champions League all-time scoring list. Shevchenko both professionally and per- shots. The English team gained the victory the way individually with six of the 18 Sheva was up to 52 total European Cup sonally. March 2004 saw Shevchenko pro- when Shevchenko’s shot went wide of the goals as he spearheaded his team’s goals. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 No. 29 Music and Art Center of Greene County presents diverse program JEWETT, N.Y. – The “Music at the Leontovych String Quartet, has per- performances by an acclaimed actress from curator Lubow Wolynetz (August 4-8); Grazhda” Chamber Music Society will formed in the major concert halls of North Ukraine and a series of folk art courses. bead-stringing “gerdany” with Anastasia present violinists Oleksander Abayev and and South America, Europe and the Far The fiery folk ensemble Cheres launched Berezovsky (August 4-8). Nazariy Pylatyuk, violist Borys Deviatov, East. He is a member of the Lumina String the 26th MACGC season on July 12. The The new addition to the series in cultural cellist Natalia Khoma and pianist Quartet and the New York Chamber July 19 Grazhda Benefit Concert featured tradition is a workshop devoted to Volodymyr Vynnytsky in concert on Symphony, and is principal violist of the Mr. Pylatyuk, an up-and-coming violinist Ukrainian ritual baking (July 28-30). Saturday, July 26. They will perform Bachanalia Chamber Orchestra. from Ukraine. Master bakers Larysa Zielyk and Slava Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F-minor and Ms. Khoma performs at Grazhda regu- On August 16 Taras Kulish, acclaimed Stasiuk will instruct participants in the art Schmann’s piano quartet in E-flat major for larly. She has played at several prestigious bass-baritone and artistic director of the of baking “paska,” “kolach,” as well as the the first time on the Grazhda stage. international cello competitions, including Green Mountain Opera Festival in Vermont, famed wedding bread – “korovai.” Mr. Abayev has performed solo appear- Pablo Casals (Budapest, 1980), will sing a recital accompanied by Mr. For youngsters age 4-9 there will be a ances as well as with chamber music Markneukirchen (1987), Belgrade (1990) Vynnytsky at the piano, performing the fun-filled two-week course in Ukrainian ensembles on the stages of various concert and Tchaikovsky (Moscow, 1990). Ms. works of Faure, Mozart and Lysenko, folk singing (July 28-August 8) conduct- halls in New York, Boston and Khoma is professor of cello at the College among others. ed by opera singer Anna Bachynsky, Washington. He participates in numerous of Charleston. The season will end on August 30 with a which culminates in a children’s recital music festivals in the U.S. and overseas. The artistic director of Music and Art piano recital of works by Beethoven, Ravel on August 8. Mr. Abayev is professor of violin at Center of Greene County, Volodymyr and Lysenko, presented by Ukrainian-born Founded in 1983 by the Ukrainian Adelphi University and concertmaster of Vynnytsky is a brilliant pianist in great concert pianist Valentina Lisitsa. American composer and musicologist Ihor Westchester Chamber Orchestra and demand as a recitalist and soloist with Theater buffs will enjoy actress Halyna Sonevytsky, the Music and Art Center of Bachanalia Soloists. chamber ensembles and symphony orches- Stefanova’s performances (even if they Greene County is recognized in the region Mr. Pylatyuk, this year’s winner of the tras all over the world. He is a laureate of don’t understand Ukrainian) in a play as well as on the Ukrainian cultural scene second prize at the International Lysenko the Long-Thibaud International Piano about the relationship between Ukraine’s as the foremost organization featuring Competition in Kyiv, concertizes widely Competition in Paris (1983). famous bard Taras Shevchenko and the classical chamber music concerts per- in many European countries, including The Chamber Music Concert begins at 8 princess Repnina (August 2), Oksana formed by nationally and internationally Poland, Germany, Norway, Sweden and p.m. The Grazhda concert hall is located on Zabuzhko’s novel “Field Studies in renowned artists. his native Ukraine and he performs fre- Route 23A in Jewett, N.Y. (adjacent to the Ukrainian Sex” (August 3), and two stage General information, profiles of the per- quently with the Lviv Philharmonic Ukrainian Church) Tickets are $15; $12.00 pieces based on the letters and poetry of formers, schedule updates and membership Orchestra and the Academic Chamber for senior citizens and members. For addi- Vasyl Stus (August 9). information are available on-line at www. Orchestra Lviv Virtuosos. Mr. Pylatyuk tional information and reservations, readers The MACGC also offers one-week folk GrazhdaMusicandArt.org. For concert made his U.S. debut on July 9 at the may call 518-989-6479. art courses: ceramics and “pysanky” information call Natalia Sonevytsky at Grazhda Benefit Concert. This year’s programs at the Music and (Ukrainian Easter eggs) with instructor and 518-989-6479; to register for courses call Mr. Deviatov, a graduate of the Lviv Art Center of Greene County (MACGC) artist Sofika Zielyk (July 28-August 1); Sofika Zielyk, at 212-533-6419 or Conservatory and a long-time member of include five concerts, three monodrama embroidery with the Ukrainian Museum 518-989-6218.

tyrs of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic autocephalous Church. That will help paci- Ecumenical Social Week on the theme of Arjakovsky reflects... Church gave. fy relations between the Moscow and the goodness of patriotism versus the Constantinople Patriarchates. If we can destructiveness of nationalism. The (Continued from page 9) The Ukrainian Catholic University is show unity is possible peacefully, this Ukrainian Cooperative Movement offers a hierarchy. unique by the simple fact that it is the would be a great example for those seeking Christian social vision which promotes an As Pope Benedict XVI recently said, only Catholic institution of higher learn- Christian unity beyond Ukraine. alternative to capitalism and socialism. It “The Ukrainian Catholic University can, ing on the territory of the former Soviet More generally, UCU plays an important should provide a long-term model of devel- without a doubt, provide important support Union. But does it play a unique role? role in Ukraine because it is a place of opment for Ukraine. for ecumenical activities.” What we are Indeed! UCU plays a unique role in integrity and moral values, completely free Toward this end, the participation of doing is something beautiful. It’s not just Ukraine because, first of all, it is the only of corruption. It is a wonderful model for members of the Ukrainian Diaspora in me. We have lots of angels supporting us. place where we can learn ecumenism. And higher education in Ukraine. The personal Ecumenical Social Week is invaluable. Your maternal grandfather was an Lviv is what I like to call “ground zero” for friendship between the people of UCU and They can present to the people of Ukraine Orthodox priest, Father Dimitry ecumenism, because it is considered a place the new minister of education, Ivan their own model for success, namely how Klepinin. He died in a Nazi concentra- of division between East and West, between Vakarchuk, is a concrete example of that they re-created here in the New World tion camp after being arrested for help- Orthodoxy and Catholicism. Our ecumeni- integrity – inspiration inspiring new intel- strong communities based on Christian val- ing Jews in France during the second cal mission is to show that, on the contrary, lectual ideas. He was instrumental in help- ues, patience, long-term planning, prayer world war. The Patriarchate of there is unity here: a desire of Christians ing convince the Ukrainian government to and trust. These are all illustrated in the Constantinople declared Father Dimitry among all denominations to heal the divi- recognize theology as a legitimate academ- credit union phenomenon, which can pro- a saint in 2004. Is this a cause of joy for sions of the past. ic discipline at UCU, which is the only vide for Ukraine a wonderful example for school in Ukraine to offer degrees in theol- economic development, just like “It’s a you? Of particular importance is the inter- Orthodox dialogue that takes place here ogy to laymen. Soon ecumenical studies Wonderful Life,” one my favorite American Yes, it is a cause of great joy. And I want among Ukraine’s three Orthodox jurisdic- will be a state-recognized discipline also. films! to share this joy with UCU because here tions. We speak with everybody. If we suc- During your visit to the United States What role does the Ukrainian the spirit of this witness is continued: the ceed in helping these three come together, and Canada, you have been talking a lot Catholic Education Foundation serve in witness that my grandfather and the mar- we show it’s possible to create a Ukrainian about a big event UCU and the IES are the life of the Ukrainian Catholic organizing: Ecumenical Social Week. University? Please explain. The UCEF is vital to the survival and My pleasure! Ecumenical Social Week continued success of UCU. It does wonder- (June 9-15) will be an important week for ful work raising funds for UCU and pro- us, with lots of media present to dissemi- moting our university, not only within the nate throughout Ukraine the goodness of a Ukrainian American community but to model of ecumenism in action—an ecu- non-Ukrainians as well. It plays an espe- menism operating in very practical ways cially critical role in financing UCU and all for the benefit of society. of its institutes, including the IES. For Specifically, we are gathering represen- example, the UCEF organized and paid for tatives from all the Christian Churches in my trip to America. Lviv: Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant, [UCEF fund-raising events for UCU are all with the blessings of their respective scheduled for Cleveland on October 26, hierarchs. Why? In order to propose ways New York City on November 2, Chicago to work with the approximately 40 social on November 9 and Detroit on November organizations in Lviv participating in 16.] Ecumenical Social Week. These organiza- *** tions are addressing various social prob- lems: children of the streets, addicts, and so The UCEF raises about half of UCU’s forth. In short, we will be joining ecumeni- annual operating budget of approximately cal cooperation with social action for the $2.5 million. One of the effects of this betterment of Lviv in particular, Ukraine in assistance is to provide scholarships to wor- general. thy students, allowing them to get a first- Already we are planning another rate education they otherwise might not be Ecumenical Social Week for later this year able to afford. Of every dollar the UCEF in Kyiv… spends, more than 84 cents goes to its char- One of the week’s keynote events will itable programs, ranking the UCEF among be the Conference on the Ukrainian the most efficient and effective charities in Cooperative Movement. This movement the nation. To learn more about the UCEF, has its roots in the 1930s, when readers may call 773-235-8462 or visit Metropolitan Sheptytsky convened the first www.ucef.org. No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008 23 OUT AND ABOUT

July 24 Literary evening with Volodymyr Dibrova, Osher Marin Jewish Cambridge, MA “Andriyivkyi Uzviz (Andrew’s Way),” Harvard Community Center, 415-292-1233 www.sfjff.org University, 617-495-4053 August 4 Lecture by David Marples, “Current Perceptions of July 26 Concert featuring the Music at the Grazhda Cambridge, MA the OUN and UPA in Ukraine: The Dilemmas of Jewett, NY Chamber Ensemble, Music and Art Center of History and Memory,” Harvard University, Greene County, 212-674-6569 or 518-989-6479 617-495-4053

July 27 Pub night, featuring Chris Hillman and Herb August 4-8 Workshop on Ukrainian embroidery, with Lubov Whippany, NJ Pedersen, Ukrainian American Cultural Center of Jewett, NY Wolynec, Music and Art Center of Greene County, New Jersey, 973-585-7175 212-674-6569 or 518-989-6479

July 27 Ukrainian Seminary Day, St. Nicholas Picnic Grove, August 4-8 Workshop on bead-stringing (gerdany), with Minersville, PA 570-874-1101 Jewett, NY Anastasia Berezovsky, Music and Art Center of Greene County, 212-674-6569 or 518-989-6479 July 28 Seminar by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, “Ukraine’s Cambridge, MA Anti-Imperial choice: The Case of Leonid August 4-8 Workshop on Ukrainian ritual breads, with Larysa Pervomaiskyi,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 Jewett, NY Zielyk and Slava Stasiuk, Music and Art Center of Greene County, 212-674-6569 or 518-989-6479 July 28-August 1 Workshop on Ukrainian ceramics and pysanky, with Jewett, NY Sofika Zielyk, Music and Art Center of Greene August 5 Film screening, “Spell Your Name” by Sergey County, 212-674-6569 or 518-989-6479 San Francisco Bukovsky, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, CineArts, 650-493-3456 www.sfjff.org July 30 Film presentation by Virko Baley, a film about Cambridge, MA Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, Harvard Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Please send e-mail University, 617-495-4053 to [email protected].

July 31 Film presentation by Yuri Shevchuk, “Ukraine: A Cambridge, MA View from the West,” Harvard University, 617-495-4053 Want to see

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS Sunday, August 3 the Belfer Case Study Room (S-020) of the Soyuzivka’s Datebook CGIS Building South at 7 p.m. The South UNIONDALE, N .Y.: The annual picnic of Building of the Center for Government and St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church July 20 - 25 – Heritage Camp August 2 – Zabava with Svitanok International Studies is located at 1730 will take place at the parish center, 226 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138. For session 2 Uniondale Ave., at 1-6 p.m. The admission August 3 - 16 – Roma Pryma more information contact HURI at price – $15 for adults, $10 for students age 617-495-4053 or log on to http://www.huri. July 20 - 26 – Sitch Sports Camp Bohachevsky Dance Camp session 2 13-18, $5 for children age 7-12; free for harvard.edu/calendar.html. session 1 children under 7 – includes a meal, soft August 9 – Exhibit: Rem drinks and all activities. Ukrainian and Friday, August 22 July 20 - August 2 – Roma Pryma Bahautdyn – paintings American selections will be on the menu. A WILDWOOD CREST, N.J.: The Bohachevsky Dance Camp 1; cash bar will be available. Also featured Khmelnychenky Plast fraternity is sponsor- recital Saturday, August 2 August 9 – Zabava with Tempo will be music and raffles. For information ing an all-ages dance at the Wildwood Crest call 516-485-0775. Pier Recreation Center, across the street from July 27 - August 2 – Sitch Sports August 9 – Crowning of Miss Monday, August 4 the Pan Am Hotel. Doors open at 7 p.m. with Camp session 2 Soyuzivka 2009 at midnight dance music at 7-8 p.m. The “Party Ptashat” CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard kids’ dance will be held at 8-9:30 p.m. host- Ukrainian Summer Institute will host a July 26 – Exhibit: Ducia August 9 -16 – Club Suzie-Q Week – ed by MC Bratchyk Levko. The teen “Club seminar by David Marples, professor of Crest” “vechirka” will begin at 10 p.m. Hanushevska – ceramics 25th Anniversary history and classics at the University of Admission: kids and students, $5; adults age Alberta. His talk is titled “Current 23 and over, $10. Proceeds go toward Plast July 26 – Zabava with Na Zdorovya August 15 – Pete & Vlod at the Tiki Perceptions of the OUN [Organization of camps; donations will be accepted. For infor- Bar Ukrainian Nationalists] and UPA [Ukrainian mation and suggestions, contact Adrian July 27 - 31 – Adoptive Ukrainian Insurgent Army] in Ukraine: The Dilemmas Horodecky, [email protected], or log on Children and Parents Heritage August 16 – Roma Pryma of History and Memory” and will be held in to www.xmel.org. Camp session co-sponsored by Bohachevsky Dance Camp 2 Ukrainian Embassy recital – 2 p.m.

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