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Over 25 Years CUPP Speakers, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Ambassadors to Canada & ...... 3

CUPP Alumni Serving in Ukraine'e Government, NGOs ...... 5

Ukraine's Students on Parliament Hill...... 10

CUPP 2016 Interns ...... 12 Photo from Ukrainian Offce of the President. L to R: Myroshnychenko (CUPP 2001) – Head of Professional Government Initiative of Ukraine, Yuri Kushnir Bilingualism, Language (CUPP 1998) – Head of CUPP Alumni Association, Andriy Pyvovarsky (CUPP Issue in Canada and 1999) – Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Volodymyr Omelyan (CUPP 1999) Ukraine: Why is French – Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine. not Russian ...... 35 History of CUPP which gives Ukrainian students an op- portunity to work and in the Ca- Self-Respect, Speaking On July 16, 1990, the Ukrainian Par- nadian Parliament, and gain experi- Ukrainian and Creating liament adopted the Declaration of ence from which generations of Canadian, American and West Euro- a Better Future...... 44 Sovereignty, which declared that Par- liament recognized the need to build pean students have benefted. On the the Ukrainian state based on the Rule basis of academic excellence, know- Farewell Dinner 2012 of Law. ledge of the English or French and Ukrainian languages, and an interest Speech ...... 48 On August 24, 1991, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the Declaration of in the Westminster Parliament model Independence, which the citizens of of government, university students In Poltava During the War Ukraine endorsed in the referendum from Ukrainian and foreign universi- ties, can apply for a CUPP internship of 2014/2015 ...... 49 of December 1, 1991. Also in 1991, Canadians celebrated the Centennial program. It is hoped that CUPP will of Ukrainian group immigration to Ca- contribute to the education of future CUPP 2010 Walking Tour nada. To mark the Centennial, organi- leaders of Ukraine. In this, its 25th year of operation, the of Parliament Hill ...... 50 zations planned programs and proj- ects to celebrate this milestone in CUPP program welcomes thirty-three Canada's history. university students who attend univer- The Chair of Ukrainian Studies Foun- sities in Bratislava, Dnipropetrovs'k, dation of Toronto commemorated the Edinburgh, Krakow, , , Munich, Centennial, by establishing the Cana- Mykolaiv, , , Vinnytsia, da-Ukraine Parliamentary Program and Zaporizhia. The next traditional Contact Us (CUPP) for university students. CUPP CUPP program will take place in the Autumn of 2017. Chair of Ukrainian is a parliamentary internship program, Studies Foundation 620 Spadina Avenue People who worked on this issue of the Newsletter: Olya Spytsia, Toronto, Ontario, Oleh Shemetov, Lucy Hicks, Iryna Grechko, Ihor Bardyn. Canada M5S 2H4 Tel.: (416) 234-9111 Cover Design: by Andrei Bezruchonak, CUPP 2012 Alumnus, and Lecturer Fax: (416) 234-9114 at Belarusian State University, Minsk, . www.KATEDRA.org Layout: Basilian Press. Printed: Bassilian Press, Toronto.

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Over 25 Years CUPP Interns Have Met Canadian and Ukrainian Government Offcials: Speakers of the House of Commons, Prime Ministers, Presidents, Ambassadors

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CUPP Alumni Serving in Ukraine's Government, NGO's

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Ukraine's Students on Parliament Hill

By Ihor BARDYN Founder and Director of Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program

in the House of Commons came fused my entry to Lukianivska pris- about during my visit to Kyiv in on, stating that Amnesty had no 1990. On November 17, 1990, legal standing in Ukraine. In the Stepan Khmara, a member of the course of my investigation and Ukrainian Parliament was arrested Khmara’s subsequent trial, I be- Ukraine was well represented on and charged with “exceeding of came painfully aware of the cor- Parliament Hill, for 25 years. For a authority or offcial powers” after rupt and dysfunctional judicial sys- quarter century, some of Ukraine’s an incident involving a KGB colo- tem and the inept soviet parlia- best and brightest university stu- nel Igor Grygoriev. mentary system. dents have come to the House of On November 28, Khmara ap- I submitted several reports to Am- Commons to complete internships pealed to Amnesty International in nesty from Kyiv, and Khmara was from three to twelve months, in the London UK, to come to his de- adopted Amnesty’s “Prisoner of offces of Members of Parliament fense. Ukraine had not ratifed the Conscience”, for a second time. In (MPs). First Optional Protocol to the Inter- 1991, at Amnesty’s request, I re- At the opening of the Spring or Fall national Covenant on Civil and Po- turned to Kyiv for Khmara’s trial. sessions, MPs return to Parliament litical Rights, and therefore Khma- This provided me with the opportu- Hill to debate, pass laws and de- ra could not lodge his complaint to nity to observe the operation of a cide how taxes are spent, to help the United Nations. soviet trial. run Canada. Khmara was Amnesty’s “Prisoner Background The Ukrainian students, after they of Conscience” during the Brezh- The was in the dying receive their parliamentary passes nev era while he served in penal days of its existence. On July 19, and offcially become interns to camps 35 and 36, near Perm, in 1990 the Ukrainian Parliament Parliament, follow the MPs to learn the Ural Mountains from 1980 to adopted the “Declaration of Sover- about the Canadian system of gov- 1987. In 1980 he was imprisoned eignty”, in which they declared that ernment. By working in the heart by the Soviet regime for his out- Parliament recognized the need to of Canada’s government, the in- spoken criticism of the corruption build the Ukrainian state based on terns acquire an interest in public and abuse committed by the Com- the Rule of Law. Copious copies of service and inadvertently become munist Party of the Soviet Union. this Declaration were printed and lobbyists for their homeland. They In 1990 he turned to Amnesty once distributed. I received several cop- carry out this last mentioned task again. In 1990 Khmara was arrest- ies, autographed by members of through their daily exchanges with ed for his outspoken criticism of parliament. The parliamentarians the MPs and their staffs, by shar- the Communist system and his de- eagerly presented these declara- ing information about life back mand of independence for tions to foreigners, no doubt, see- home, and by sharing their pride Ukraine. ing this an achievement. And mini- and aspirations for their homeland. Amnesty’s London Headquarters mally it was. They seemed to Through these exchanges Ukraine asked me to travel to Kyiv and in- understand that the soviet system and its people become more famil- vestigate the charges against of government was a sham and iar to Canada’s parliamentarians. Khmara and submit a report. I was in need of a complete over- For MPs CUPP has become a travelled to Kyiv, with the assist- haul. The idea for the internship learning resource. For the interns, ance of Canadian Friends of Rukh began to take shape. CUPP provides practical experi- and interviewed the offcials in the Khmara was released from Prison ence of how Canadians govern Offce of the Prosecutor General, on Easter weekend of 1991 but themselves. members of parliament, Khmara’s was re-arrested on July 18. I ar- Idea for Canada-Ukraine lawyers, government offcials and rived in Kyiv that day with my son, Parliamentary Program Khmara with the use of a record- to be met at the airport by Khma- The idea for an internship program ing machine, as the authorities re- ra’s daughter and lawyers, who in-

10 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 CUPP in Third Decade formed me of the brutal circum- power for a short while. In Kyiv, the and the idea of bringing this age stances of Khmara’s, re-arrest that Ukrainian Parliament adopted the group to Parliament Hill, to ob- same day, at the Hotel Ukraina. Declaration of Independence and serve the operation of Canadian My hotel reservation was in this the people approved it by the ref- Parliament, warts and all, was con- very same hotel. We were told to erendum of December 1, 1991. frmed. seek another hotel, because the The events in Kyiv called for a win- Back home Canada observed & Hotel Ukraina needed to be dow of opportunity be opened to celebrated the centennial of group cleansed of the bloodshed in the the citizens of Ukraine, who were settlement of Canada. As Vice- hallways. The circumstances of interested on observing a parlia- President of the Ukrainian Canadi- Khmara’s re-arrest were brutal and ment at work, a government ac- an Congress – Centennial Com- criminal. Innocent people who countable to its citizens and the mission established by Prime were guarding Khmara were beat- normal operation of a society. But Minister Brian Mulroney, I pro- en and maimed, with no possibility a window of opportunity for posed the internship program as a of defending themselves from the whom? centennial project and Canada’s Special Forces sent to the hotel. The elites and leaders while well gift to Ukraine. The Centennial The trial turned out to be a show meaning were battle-weary from Commission endorsed the project trial or simply a show and was a years of opposition to the Soviet but did not allocate funds, to make painful experience to observe. Dai- regime. They were not equipped to it happen. I conducted a short and ly, Khmara was transported from steer the country out of the soviet intense fundraising drive among Lukianivska prison to the court- quagmire of corruption, dysfunc- friends and members of the Ukrain- room. Well before his arrival in tionality and absence of leader- ian National Federation of Canada court a crowd gathered outside the ship. The transformation of Ukraine and fell just short of raising 1 mil- courtroom and chanted slogans from a colonial mind-set to an in- lion dollars. Enough to get the pro- for the judges to be put on trial and dependent state would take time. gram started. And in the Fall of Khmara released. This type of con- Democracy, its seeding and taking 1991, the frst 3 Ukrainian students duct would not have been tolerat- root would take time. Before leav- arrived on Parliament Hill for the ed before, but the Soviet Union ing Ukraine I traveled to Lviv to inaugural Canada-Ukraine Parlia- was imploding and only inside and speak to students at the University mentary Program (CUPP), in the behind thick walls were the author- of Lviv and thereafter at Taras 3rd Session of the 34th Parliament ities in control. Outside the open Shevchenko University in Kyiv, of Canada, since Confederation. z spaces were being taken over by the people. The KGB colonel who sat trium- phantly to the side of the court- CUPP 2010 Alumni Bohdan Bolonnyy, room, interrupted proceedings Andrii Kril, Kirill Korzh whenever he was moved to do so, and Ilya Symonenko as if the he was the custodian of climbed Mt. Kiliman- the courtroom. The prosecutor de- jaro, in Tanzania,to ferred to the colonel and allowed raise funds foror- him to loudly read into the court phaned children suffering as the result record the evidence as to the of the on-going events of the altercation between Russia initiated war himself and Khmara. While acting on Ukraine. The as the unbiased presenter of the fundraising drive was truth, the colonel hurled insults at successful and humanitarian aid was Khmara and his supporters. The delivered to Druzh- panel of 3 judges sat with heads kivskyy Orphanage for bowed, like minor props or manne- children with mental quins in the spectacle. disorders, as well as In August the attempted coup Mariupol state or- d’état attempt by Communist Party phanage in Donetsk region. members, in Moscow failed and Mikhail Gorbachev continued in

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Viktoria BARBANIUK Born in: Ivankiv, Ukraine Hometown: Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine Alexandra and Irene Sukniarsky 2016 CUPP Schol- arship recipient 2016 Intern to Bob Saroya, MP for Markham–Union- ville, Ontario Marta BASYSTIUK National University of Kyiv, Born in: Ternopil, Ukraine Ukraine (est. 1834) Institute of International Rela- Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine tions, Bachelor of International Relations with hon- Dr. Taras Fecycz 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient ours. Motto of University: “Utility, Honour and Glory”. Intern to Bob Bratina, MP for Hamilton East–Stoney University of Wrocław, (est. 1702) Faculty of Creek, Ontario Social Science, International Student Exchange Mas- Central European University, Hungary (est. 1991) ter’s program “International Relations”. Department of Legal Studies, Master of Laws in Inter- Foreign languages: English, Russian, French (ba- national Business Law. Motto of University: “Feed sic), Polish (basic). your mind. Find your passion”. Last book read: Ayn Rand “The Fountainhead”. National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Можна все Ukraine (est. 1615) Faculty of Law, Master of Law. на світі вибирати, сину, / Вибрати не можна тільки Motto of University: “Time is running, Academy is eter- Батьківщину" – Василь Симоненко. nal”. Favourite quote by foreign author: “The future de- Foreign languages: English, French, Russian. pends on what you do today” – Mahatma Gandhi. Last book read: John Grisham “The Litigators”. Favourite musical recordings: Barbara Streisand Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Сьогодні усе “The Way We Were”, Okean Elzy "Така як ти" (The для тебе – / Озера, гаї, степи. / І жити спішити girl like you). треба, / Кохати спішити треба – / Гляди ж не Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: проспи!" – Василь Симоненко. Kamianets-Podilskyi Fortress (Кам’янець-Поділь- Favourite quote by Foreign author: “Do what you ська фортеця). Ukrainian poetess can, with what you have, where you are” – Theodore called the majestic fortress of Kamianets-Podilskyi Roosevelt. built in the early 14th century “a fower on the stone”. Favourite musical recording: Bon Jovi “It's My This “fower” of striking beauty has been amazing eve- Life”. ryone who has had a chance to see it for over seven Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: centuries now. Harmonically inscribed in fabulous Market Square (Ploshcha Rynok) in Lviv, which landscape and enclosed in the river loop, the medie- represents various developments of architectural ide- val fortress is one of the most interesting and beautiful as of many artists. It should be noted that all these historical monuments included in the seven wonders ideas have a precise commonality – a permanent har- of Ukraine. What is unique about this powerful defen- mony. Despite the fact that many buildings at the sive complex, which is preserved until now signifcant- square are different and unique, they are united by a

12 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 CUPP in Third Decade single idea. To be more specifc, all buildings at the 1407, after a severe fre, it was rebuilt. Despite sever- Ploshcha Rynok convey the feeling of peace, opti- al fres, the complex kept rising in prosperity. In the mism, confdence, and humanism of the European 18th century, it was decided to replace the church with Renaissance. a new one as it was about to fall apart. In 1749, a cor- nerstone was laid for the present-day Baroque church. In 1865, a bell tower was added to the complex. In 1885-1914, a controversial renovation of the facade and interior was carried out. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the church was given to the Ukrain- ian Greek Catholic Church and now serves as a par- ish church.

Daria BATALOVA Born in: Vinnytsia, Ukraine Hometown: Vinnytsia, Ukraine Atamanchuk Family 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipi- ent 2016 Intern to Christine Moore, MP for Abitibi–Té- miscamingue, Quebec National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (est. Volodymyr BORIAK 1615) Faculty of Social Sciences and Social Technol- Born in: Kyiv, Ukraine ogies. Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky Vinnytsia State Pedagogi- Ramon Hnatyshyn 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipi- cal University (est. 1912) Faculty of Foreign Lan- ent guages. 2016 Intern to Julie Dzerowicz, MP for Davenport, 2011-2012 Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Pro- Ontario gram alumna. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (est. Foreign languages: English, Russian, German (in- 1834) Faculty of Law, Master’s program “Human termediate). Rights”. Last read book: Moises Naim “The End of Power”. National University “ Law Acad- Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: “Живе той, emy of Ukraine” (est. 1804) Faculty of Law, Special- хто не живе для себе, хто для других виборює жит- ist of Law. тя.” Василь Симоненко. Kyiv University of Law under the National Acade- Favourite quote by foreign author: “People who are my of Sciences of Ukraine (est. 1995) Faculty of crazy enough to think they can change the world are Law, Bachelor of Law. the ones who do” – Steve Jobs. Foreign languages: English, Russian, German (ba- My favourite musical recording: Okean Elzy “Я не sic). здамся без бою”. Last book read: George Orwell “1984”. Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: I Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: “Я взагалі-то fnd the Dominican Church and Monastery located не космополіт, але я зрозумів тут таку річ: насправді in Lviv’s Old Town one of the most outstanding exam- простір не поділяється на свій або чужий, простір ples of the rich . The original буває або вільний, або контрольований” – Сергій wooden church was constructed in the 13th century Жадан. under the Dominican Order. After it had burnt down, a Favourite quote by Foreign author: "The stupidest new Gothic church was built on the site and later in questions of all were asked by Mollie, the white mare.

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The very frst question she asked Snowball was: "Will читься тоді, коли світло в очах є" – Григорій Ско- there still be sugar after the Rebellion?" – George Or- ворода. well. Favourite quote by Foreign author: “The biggest Favourite musical recording: John Lennon “Imag- adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your ine”. dreams” – Oprah Winfrey. Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Favourite musical recording: Kvitka Cisyk “Я піду в Askania-Nova is a sanctuary located in Kherson Ob- далекі гори”. last, founded in 1874 by Friedrich von Falz-Fein. Now- Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: adays the reserve consists of the acclimatization zoo, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Fortress ( Білгород-Дністров- arboretum and virgin steppe sanctuary, and has total ська фортеця), also well known as the Akkerman For- area of 825 sq. km. In addition to local species, it hosts tress (Аккерманська фортеця), is an impressive ostriches, bisons, antelopes, wild horses, llamas, ze- monument of history and architecture located in Bil- bras and many bird species. More than 200 species of horod-Dnistrovskyi, Odesa Oblast. Nowadays the rare plants were brought from different parts of the Akkerman Fortress is the best preserved medieval world and planted in the dendrological garden. Anoth- fortifcation facility in Ukraine. It was developed in the er 800, 16 species of which are listed in the Red Book 13th-15th centuries on the ruins of the ancient town of of Ukraine, have been preserved in their primary natu- Tyras for the purpose of protecting the town from the ral form. Askania-Nova is also well known for housing constant invasions of its enemies. It is the largest sur- a big group of Przewalski's horses. Interestingly viving fortress in the country, which has managed to enough, the sanctuary includes a small town and sev- preserve its outstanding grandeur through the centu- eral villages with a total population of 10,000 people. ries. The fortress also amazes with its size: the total length of its walls is over two kilometres; the total area is over 9 hectares.

Alina BUGAR Born in: Oleksandriia, Ukraine Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine Sofya-Roksolana GOT Alexander and Irene Hordienko 2016 CUPP Scho- Born in: Lviv, Ukraine larship recipient Hometown: Lviv, Ukraine 2016 Intern to Mark Warawa, MP for Langley–Alder- Walter Surma Tarnopolsky 2016 CUPP Scholarship grove, British Columbia recipient Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (est. 2016 Intern to James Maloney, MP for Etobicoke- 1834) Institute of International Relations, Master’s Lakeshore, Ontario program “International Relations”. Motto of University: Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University “Utility, Honor and Glory”. (est. 1784), Dental Faculty, PhD program in prosthetic Foreign languages: English, Russian, French (ba- dentistry. sic). National (est. 1661) Last book read: Bohdan Hawrylyshyn “Towards More Faculty of Foreign Languages, Department of Ger- Effective Societies: Road Maps to the Future”. man Language and Literature (Distant Learning). Mot- Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Світло ба- to of University: Educated Citizens – Glory of the

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Motherland. 2007-2008 Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Pro- gram alumna, Virginia, United States. Foreign languages: English, German, Russian, French (basic). Last book read: Vincent Van Gogh “The Letters”. Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "І все на світі треба пережити. / І кожен фініш - це, по суті, старт. / І наперед не треба ворожити, / і за минулим пла- кати не варт" – Ліна Костенко. "Нам треба жити кожним / днем. Не ждать омріяної / дати. Горіть Iryna GRECHKO сьогоднішнім / вогнем, / Бо «потім» може й не Born in: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine настати" – Ліна Костенко. Hometown: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine Favourite quote by Foreign author: “Only those Dopomoha Ukraini Foundation 2016 CUPP Schol- who go too far can possibly fnd out how far one can arship recipient go” – T. S. Eliot. 2016 Intern to Jamie Schmale, MP for Haliburton– Favourite musical recording: Плач Єремії "Вона" Kawartha Lakes–Brock, Ontario (Plach Yeremiyi “Vona”). National Mining University of Ukraine (est. 1899) Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Linguis- (Ворохта) is an urban-type settlement lo- tics. Motto of University: “National Mining University – cated in the and is part of Moving with the Times”. Yaremche Municipality. It lies within the Carpathian Foreign Languages: English, Russian, German (basic). National Nature Park and the ethnographic Hutsul Last book read: Nikolai Gogol “Taras Bulba”. area. The town is surrounded by mount peaks such Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Ніхто нам не as Mahora, Makivka, etc. There are churches in Vo- збудує держави, коли ми її самі не збудуємо, і ніхто rokhta which are the best examples of the 17th-cen- з нас не зробить нації, коли ми самі нацією не схо- tury Hutsul wooden folk architecture. Vorokhta also чемо бути" – В'ячеслав Липинський, “If we want a has a famous viaduct from the Austrian times, a large better Ukraine for our future, then we would better get stone arch railroad bridge, which connects the two involved” – Walt Lastewka. banks of the River. Underneath there is a high- Favourite quote by foreign author: “Twenty years way Yaremche–. The bridge was built in from now you will be more disappointed by the things 1895 during the construction of the railway Stanislav that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so (Ivano-Frankivsk)–Yaremche–Vorokhta–Rakhiv. Its throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbour, length reaches 130 meters with the central span be- catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, ing 25 meters wide. The arch bridge in Vorokhta is Discover” – Mark Twain. considered one of the longest stone railway bridges in Favourite musical recordings: Coldplay “Paradise”, Europe. Океан Ельзи "На небі", Noel Gallagher (Oasis) “Won- derwall” and “Whatever”, Ludovico Einaudi “Fly”. Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Holy Mountains Lavra or Sviatohirsk Cave Monas- tery is a monastery situated on top of a chalk peak in Sviatohisk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. The frst written mention of the monastery dates from 1627, although Sigismund von Herberstein had alluded to the Holy Mountains area as early as 1526. The monastery’s name comes from these surrounding mountains and it is thought likely that the frst monks settled the area in the 15th century. Today it is a major Orthodox Chris- tian monastery and forms the centrepiece of the Svia- ti Hory National Nature Park. The monastery was pro- claimed a lavra in 2004 and is unique for being partly built of chalk.

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Evelina IBRAIMOVA Mariia IHNATOVA Born in: Yalta, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Born in: Duliby, Raion, , Ukraine Ukraine Hometown: Lviv, Ukraine Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine Mazurenko Family 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipi- William and Antonina Bazylewich 2016 CUPP ent Scholarship recipient 2016 Intern to Jim Eglinski, MP for Yellowhead, Al- 2016 Intern to The Hon. Jason Kenney, MP for Cal- berta gary Midnapore, Alberta Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (est. (est. 1661) Law Faculty, LL.B., Master’s program “Jus- 1834) Institute of International Relations, Master's tice and Judicial Administration”. Motto of University: program “International Relations”ю Motto of Universi- “Patriae decori civibus educandis” (Educated citizens ty: “Utilitas Honour et Gloria” (Корисність, честь та – Glory of the Motherland). слава; Utility, Honour and Glory). Petro Sahaidachnyi Military Academy (est. 1899) Foreign languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG), Military Psychology. French (basic). Motto of University: “Honour, Ukraine, Courage”. Last book read: Julio Cortбzar “Rayuela”. Foreign languages: English, Polish (basic). Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: “Where one Last book read: J. D. Salinger “The Catcher in the sees a puddle, another sees stars” (Один бачить Rye”. калюжу, другий – зорі) – Олександр Довженко. Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Живе той, Favourite quote by foreign author: “Whatever you хто не живе для себе, хто для других виборює жит- are, be a good one” – Abraham Lincoln. тя" – Василь Симоненко. Favourite musical recording: Bill Withers “Lovely Favourite quote by Foreign author: “Now is the Day”. most important moment of your life, not yesterday, not Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: tomorrow” – David Desrosiers (Simple Plan bass play- Khan's Palace of Bakhchysaray is a masterpiece of er). Crimean Tatar architecture. It was built in the 16th Favourite musical recording: Superchick “It’s On”. century, during the Ottoman rule. A number of famous Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: architects participated in its construction, including St. George's Cathedral in Lviv is a baroque-rococo those of Ottoman, Persian, and Italian origin. The cathedral, the third manifestation of a church since the combination of styles, variety of symbols used for dec- 13th century. Its prominence has repeatedly made it a oration of the palace refects the multicultural nature target for invaders and vandals. The cathedral also of the Crimean Tatar nation. holds a predominant position in the Ukrainian religious and cultural terms. During the 19th and 20th centu- ries, the cathedral served as the mother church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Designed by archi- tect Bernard Meretyn and sculptor Johann Georg Pin- sel, St. George's Cathedral refects both Western in- fuences and the traditions of Ukrainian church construction. An expressive statue of St George the dragon-slayer by Pinsel stands in the attic. Pinsel's hands also created the stony images of St. Leo, the

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Pope and St. Athanasius who stand on guard over the ми) is an architectural masterpiece by church portal "warning with their stern look about their Vladyslav Horodetsky, built in 1901. Initially construct- readiness to fght against anyone not showing enough ed as a residence building for the architect himself, venerability." In contrast, the architecture of the court- the outstanding house eventually became a presiden- yard has a more soothing effect on visitors. tial residence for offcial and diplomatic ceremonies. The building derives its popular name from the ornate decorations depicting exotic animals and hunting scenes, which were sculpted by Italian architect Emilio Sala as Horodetsky was a passionate hunter. Horo- detsky's unique architectural style earned him praise as the Antoni Gaudi of Kyiv.

Halyna KAPLAN Born in: Kyiv, Ukraine Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine Myroslawa and John Yaremko 2016 CUPP Scholar- ship recipient 2016 Intern to Michael Levitt, MP for York Centre, Ontario Svitlana KISILOVA örebro University (est. 1977) School of Humanities, Born in: Svaliava, , Ukraine Education and Social Sciences, MA in Global Journal- Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine ism. Sen. Raynell Andreychuk 2016 CUPP Scholarship Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (est. recipient 1834) Institute of Journalism. Motto of University: 2016 Intern to Ben Lobb, MP for Huron–Bruce, On- “Корисність, честь та слава” (Utility, Honour and Glo- tario ry; Utilitas Honour et Gloria). National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (est. University of Connecticut (est. 1881) College of Lib- 1615) Faculty of Social Science, Master of Sociology eral Arts and Sciences, UNESCO Leadership Training with honours. Motto of University: “Tempus fugit, Program. Academia sempiterna” (Час плинний, Академія віч- Visby Scholarship recipient, Sweden. на). Foreign languages: English, Russian, French (ba- Foreign languages: English, Russian, German (ba- sic), Swedish (intermediate). sic). Last book read: Donna Tartt “The Goldfnch”. Last book read: Volodymyr Ermolenko “Close ac- Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Вкраїна – це quaintance”. море. Воно червоне. Хто сам – потоне, в гурті – Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Ліпше вмер- переборе" – Лазар Баранович. ти біжучи, ніж жити гниючи" – Іван Багряний. Favourite quote by foreign author: “I have no spe- Favourite quote by Foreign author: “Be the change cial talent. I am only passionately curious” – Albert that you wish to see in the world” – Mahatma Gandhi Einstein. Favourite musical recording: Океан Ельзи "Коли тобі Favourite music recording: Dakha Brakha “Special- важко". ly for you”, Oleh Skrypka “Vesna”. Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral is one of in Kyiv (Будинок з химера- the most beautiful Gothic buildings in Kyiv. The cathe-

CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM 17 CUPP in Third Decade CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 dral was designed by Kyiv architects Vladyslav Horo- Favourite musical recording: Yann Tiersen “Comp- detsky and Emilio Sala from 1899-1909. Fanciful chi- tine d'un autre été: L'Après-Midi”. meras, griffns and mysterious predatory salamanders Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: are located on the grand temple. Scary creatures are Castle (Підгорецький замок) is a residen- supporting the balconies of the building and small liz- tial castle-fortress located in the village of Pidhirtsi 80 ards are hiding in the deepest cracks of the cathedral. kilometers east of Lviv. It was constructed by Guil- Near the entrance you can see high statues of saints, laume Le Vasseur de Beauplan between 1635-1640 and just above it – a Gothic rose-shaped window. St. by order of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's Grand Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral is located at 77 Crown Stanisław Koniecpolski, on the site of Velyka Street. Today the building is shared the older fortress. At the time the castle belonged to between the Ukrainian Roman Catholic Church and Polish Crown and was regarded as the most valuable the National House of Organ and Chamber Music. of palace-garden complexes in the eastern border- lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Bogdan KIT Born in: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine Hometown: Zbarazh, Ukraine Cathy Obal 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient Volodymyr KOBRIN 2016 Intern to Harold Albrecht, MP for Kitchener– Born in: Lutsk, Conestoga, Ontario Ukraine Institute of International Relations, Taras Shev- Hometown: Lutsk, chenko National University of Kyiv (est. 1834) De- Ukraine partment of International Law. Motto of University: Humeniuk Family 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient “Utilitas honor et Gloria” (Корисність, Честь та 2016 Intern to Cathay Wagantall, MP for Yorkton– Слава). Melville, Saskatchewan Foreign languages: English, Italian, Russian. University of Economics in Bratislava (est. 1940). Last Ukrainian author read: Vasyl Shkliar ”Zalysh- Faculty of International Relations, Master’s degree in enets, Chornyi Voron“. International Management. Last foreign author read: Retnowati Abdulgani- National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Knapp "Soeharto: The Life and Legacy of Indonesia's Polytechnic Institute” (est. 1898) Faculty of Man- Second President”. agement and Marketing, Master’s degree in Interna- Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: “Україна – не tional Economics. бідна країна, вона просто пограбована” (Ukraine is Lutsk National Technical University (est. 1966) not a poor country, it is just robbed) – Роман Business Faculty, Bachelor’s degree in International Скрипін. Economics. Favourite quote by foreign author: “There is nothing Lublin University of Technology, Poland (est. 1953) noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobil- Erasmus exchange program. ity is being superior to your former self” – Ernest Hem- Lehigh University (est. 1865) Global Village for Fu- ingway. ture Leaders of Business and Industry program (full

18 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 CUPP in Third Decade tuition scholarship). Foreign languages: English, Polish, Slovak, Ger- man. Last Ukrainian author read: Lina Kostenko “Notes of a Ukrainian madman”. Last foreign author read: Khaled Hosseini “A Thou- sand Splendid Suns”. Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: “Немає нічого страшнішого за необмежену владу в руках обме- женої людини” (There is nothing worse than unlimit- ed power in the hands of a limited man) – Василь Симоненко. Sviatoslav KOKHAN Favourite quote by foreign author: “Our lives begin Born in: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine to end the day we become silent about things that Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine matter” – Martin Luther King Jr. Vasyl Kereliuk 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient Favourite musical recordings: Океан Ельзи "Вста- 2016 Intern to The Hon. MaryAnn Mihychuk, MP for вай", Скрябін "Сам собі країна". Kildonan–St. Paul, Manitoba Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: National University of Academy (est. 1576) Swallow's Nest (Lastivchyne Hnizdo) is a monument Faculty of International Relations. Motto of University: of architecture and history, located atop of 40-meter “Сучасна освіта через досвід століть“ (Contempo- cliff in a small settlement called Haspra in the Crimea. rary education through the wisdom of ages). The castle begins its history at the end of the 19th Foreign languages: English, Russian. century when a wooden cottage was built to treat a Last Ukrainian author read: Дмитро Ярош “Нація і Russian general wounded in the Russo-Turkish War. Революція” (Dmytro Yarosh “The Nation and Revolu- It was a place of solitude and peace as only the sky tion”). and the sea were visible from the windows. The ge- Last foreign author read: Gabriel Garcia Marquez neral called this place "Castle of Love". In 1911, Bar- “Love in the time of Cholera”. on von Steingel, a Baltic German noble, acquired the Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "І тільки тих timber cottage and within a year had it replaced with поважають мільйони, хто поважає мільйони "я" – the current building called “Swallow’s Nest”. Today the Василь Симоненко (“And only those are respected by castle is the offcial architectural monument of the 20th millions, who respect the millions of “I” – Vasyl Symo- century. Owing to its important status, it is considered nenko). a symbol of the Crimea's southern coast. Favourite quote by foreign author: Nelson Mandela “After climbing a great hill, one only fnds that there are many more hills to climb”. Favourite music recording: Matisyahu “One Day”. Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Independence Monument in Kyiv is a monumental Ukrainian Baroque and Empire style column located on Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) in Kyiv. It was built in 2001 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the independence of Ukraine. Atop the column, there is a woman (Berehynia) raising a guil- der-rose branch above her head. The height of the monument is 61 meters.

Oleksiy Kovalenko – CUPP Alumni, Chair of International Students' Theatre Festival "Catharsis" during festival days, Kyiv, Ukraine.

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dents and suppress any resistance. The fort was de- signed by Archduke Maximilian of -Este as an innovative type of fortifcation. The building is current- ly in private hands and hosts the Citadel Inn Hotel & Resort.

Nazar KOMNATSKYY Born in: Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine Hometown: Lviv, Ukraine Malanchuk Family 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient 2016 Intern to Shannon Stubbs, MP for Lakeland, Al- berta University of (est.1816) Faculty of Journal- ism and Political Science, Institute of International Re- lations, Undergraduate Program in International Rela- tions. University of Kent (est. 1965) School of Politics and Khrystyna KOSHULYNSKA International Relations. Motto of University: “Cui ser- Born in: , Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine vire regnare est”. Hometown: Lviv, Ukraine Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (est. 1661) Christina Bardyn 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient Faculty of International Relations, Undergraduate Pro- 2016 Intern to Julie Dabrusin, MP for Toronto–Dan- gram in International Business. Motto of University: forth, Ontario “Patriae decori civibus educandis”. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (est.1661) Foreign languages: English, Polish, Russian, Arabic Faculty of linguistics, MA degree in Ukrainian lan- (basic), German (basic). guage. Motto of University: “Patriae Decori Civibus Last book read: Henry Kissinger “World Order”. Educandis” (Освічені громадяни – окраса батьків- Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Дух, що тіло щини; Educated Citizens – Glory of the Motherland). рве до бою/Рве за поступ, щастя й волю/ – Він живе, Catholic University (est. 1929) Humanities faculty. він ще не вмер: – Іван Франко. BA degree in History. Motto of University: “Nosce te Favourite quote by foreign author: “Vision without ipsum” (Пізнай себе; Know Thyself). action is just a dream. Action without vision just pass- University of Oldenburg (est.1973) Faculty of Slavic es the time. Vision with action can change the world” studies, Exchange program. Motto of University: “Of- – Joel A. Barker. fen für neue Wege” (Open for new ways). Favourite musical recording: Denez Prigent & Lisa Foreign languages: English, German, Polish, Rus- Gerrard "Gortoz A Ran – J'Attends". sian. Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Last book read: Ray Bradbery “Fahrenheit 451”. Fort II of Lviv Citadel is a blockhouse built by the Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Хто знає, Austrian government in 1850-1856 in a troublesome чого чекає, і вміє чекати, до того все приходить time for the multinational Austro-Hungarian Empire, вчасно. Бо немає більшої влади, ніж твоє серце. which was threatened by territorial disintegration be- Себто влада над собою" (Who knows what to expect cause of permanent internal revolts. The tower is the and could wait, to him everything arrives on time. best example of military architecture of the onset of There is no greater power than your heart. That is the the 19th century in Europe. Fort II was built with pur- power over yourself) – М. Дочинець. pose of defending the eastern passage to the Lviv Ci- Favourite quote by foreign author: Who controls tadel. To ensure its future security, the Austrian govern- the past controls the future: who controls the present ment ordered to build a citadel in each province’s controls the past – George Orwell. capital city that would impose fear upon local resi- Favourite musical recording: Квітка Цісик “Ой,

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верше, мій верше”. важко”. Outstanding landmark of architecture in Ukraine: Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Jesuit Church in Lviv was originally built in the early Fortress was recognized as one of the Sev- 1600s in the early Baroque style. It is also known as en Wonders of Ukraine. Located near the city of Kho- the Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church as it served tyn in Oblast, it is a renowned piece of ar- as the garrison church for the city. It was closed by the chitecture and a popular tourist attraction. The history Soviets in 1946. Used as a book depository, it suffered of the fortress goes back to the 10th century, the times from neglect during this period. It was reopened in of Kyivan Rus. Initially it served as a border fortifca- 2011 as a parish church to the community. Albeit not tion. Later on, after the famous in being a museum, it is open to visitors who enjoy the 1621, the Turks turned the fortress into a powerful and sight and feel of the tombstones of some local notable inaccessible bastion in the 18th century. Now the divi- people and many old frescoes and murals. The church sions of the fortress serve as the place for historical has recently undergone a renovation. exhibitions, festivals, and historical reenactment.

Olha KOTLYARSKA Kvitoslava KROTIUK Born in: Kremenets, Ukraine Born in: Kyiv, Ukraine. Hometown: Kremenets, Ukraine Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine Edward Schreyer 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient Senator Paul Yuzyk 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipi- 2016 Intern to Ted Falk, MP for Provencher, Manito- ent ba 2016 Intern to David Yurdiga, MP for Fort McMurray– National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (est. Cold Lake, Alberta 1615) Faculty of Law. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (est. Foreign languages: English, Polish, Russian. 1834) Faculty of Law. Motto of university: “Utilitas, Last book read: Anthony Doerr “All the Light We Can- Honor et Gloria”. not See”. Humboldt University of Berlin (est. 1810) Certifcate Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Не оплакуй in Mediation and Negotiations. Motto of University: ні мрій, ні згадок, загуби своїм прикростям лік. Щас- “Universitas litterarum”. тя треба – на всяк випадок. Сили треба – на цілий 2009-2010 Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Pro- вік" – Ліна Костенко. gram alumna. Favourite quote by Foreign author: “In the midst of Foreign languages: English, Spanish, Turkish (ba- winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible sum- sic), Russian. mer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no Last book read: William Ury, Roger Fisher and Bruce matter how hard the world pushes against me, within Patton "Getting to YES". me, there’s something stronger – something better, Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Віддай pushing right back” – Albert Camus. людині крихітку себе. За це душа поповнюється Favourite musical recording: Okean Elzy “Коли тобі світлом" – Ліна Костенко.

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Favourite quote by foreign author: “A leader is best Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Подався до- when people barely know he exists, when his work is ганяти без усякої надії наздогнати, але сміливі зав- done, his aim fulflled, they will say: we did it our- жди мають щастя" – Іван Багряний. selves” – Lao Tzu, “The noblest pleasure is the joy of Favourite quote by Foreign author: “If the number understanding” – Leonardo da Vinci. of your dreams is bigger than the number of your Favourite musical recording: Marvin Gaye & Tammi achievements you are still young” – Shimon Peres. Terrell “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”. Favourite musical recording: Bon Jovi “It’s my life”. Outstanding Landmark or Architecture in Ukraine: Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Lubart's Castle is the most prominent landmark of Chornohora (Чорногора), which literally means Black Lutsk. Built in 14th century, it was the seat of Prince Mountain, is the highest mountain unit of the Ukraini- Liubartas – the then-ruler of Galicia-. For cen- an Carpathians. The length of the massif is 40 kilome- turies Lubart's castle served not only as a fortifed tres; it contains a 20-kilometre-long section whose av- structure, but also as a place of worship for both Or- erage elevation is 2000 metres. Millions of years ago, thodox and Catholic Christians and occasionally even the main ridge of what is now Chornohora and Svy- as a court. St. Ioann's church, the remnants of which dovets was sawn in half by headward erosion of the are still present in Lubart's Castle, is believed to be Black Tisa River. Centuries ago, the valley of Black the oldest church in Lutsk. The castle looks out to the Tisa served as an entrance to the Pannonian Plain for beautiful River. Nowadays the Lubart's Castle is many nomad tribes coming from the steppes of Eura- a prominent sightseeing spot for both locals and tou- sia, including those who had founded the Kingdom of rists, hosting festivals and other cultural events. Hungary about a millennium before. Looking at Chor- nohora from the valley of the Black Tisa, the frst im- pressive mountain in sight, which may appear to be the highest summit in these mountains, is the 2,020 metres high mountain of Petros. Farther to the east, the actual highest summit, Hoverla at 2061 metres, can be seen.

Roman LOZYNSKYY Born in: Lviv, Ukraine Hometown: Lviv, Ukraine Michael Starr 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient 2016 Intern to Borys Wrzesnewskij, MP for Etobi- coke Centre, Ontario Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine (est. 1661) Faculty of Philosophy, Bachelor of Political Oksana MATIIASH Science. Born in: Ternopil, Ukraine Ukrainian Catholic University (est. 1929) School of Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine Public Management, Master’s program in Public Ad- Volodymyr Hrynyk 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipi- ministration. ent Foreign languages: English, German, Russian, 2016 Intern to Colin Carrie, MP for Oshawa, Ontario Polish (basic). Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (est. Last book read: Clayton Christensen “How will you 1834) Institute of International Relations, Department measure your life”. of International Law, Master’s Program. Motto of Uni- versity: “Utilitas honor et Gloria” (Корисність, честь

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та слава). Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (est. 1661) Foreign languages: English, Polish, French, Rus- Faculty of Economics, PhD Program “Accounting and sian. Auditing”, MA in Accounting and Auditing, BA in Eco- Last Ukrainian author read: Yuri Horlis-Horskyi nomics and Entrepreneurship. Motto of University: “Kholodnyi Yar”. “Patriae decori civibus educandis“. Last foreign author read: Lee Kuan Ye “Hard Truths Lviv Business School of Ukrainian Catholic Uni- to Keep Singapore Going”. versity (est. 2008) Certifcate Program “Good Gov- Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "А ви думали, ernance”. Motto of University: “Growing Companies що Україна так просто. Україна – це супер. Україна by Growing People”. – це ексклюзив. По ній пройшли всі катки історії. На European Forum Alpbach Scholarship recipient ній відпрацьовані всі види випробувань. Вона загар- Swiss Foreign Department of Foreign Affairs тована найвищим гартом. В умовах сучасного світу Scholarship recipient їй немає ціни" – Ліна Костенко. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland Scholarship Favourite quote by foreign author: “Strive not to be recipient a success, but rather to be of value” – Albert Einstein Lviv Regional Government Scholarship recipient Favourite musical recording: Ludovico Einaudi Foreign languages: English, German, Polish, Rus- “Primavera”. sian. Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Last book read: Erich Maria Remarque “All Quiet on Lake (Озеро Синевир), the largest lake in the Western Front”. the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains located in Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: “Think global- Zakarpattia Oblast. According to scientists, it was ly, act locally” (Мисли глобально, дій локально) – formed about ten thousand years ago. There is a very Богдан Гаврилишин. small island in the middle of the lake with an area of a Favourite quote by Foreign author: “Success is not few square meters called the Sea Eye. In 2008, the fnal, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue lake was recognized one of the Seven Natural that counts” – Winston Churchill. Wonders of Ukraine. Swimming, fshing and camping Favourite musical recording: Pikkardiyska Tertsiya at the lake is prohibited as it is a part of the Synevyr “Starenkyi Tramway” (Old Tram), Muse “Undisclosed National Nature Park. Desires”. Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Maksym Zaliznyak Millennial Oak, being 1100 years old, is one of the oldest trees in Ukraine. It grows by the village of Buda, Chyhyryn Raion in Cold Ravine (Kholodnyy Yar) in the heart of Ukraine – Cherkasy Oblast. The oak was named in honour of the main leader of the Koliyivshchyna National Liberation Up- rising, Maksym Zaliznyak. Those were Bohdan Khmel- nytsky, Severyn Nalyvaiko, Pavlo Pavliuk and Taras Shevchenko who hid from the sun under the crown of the oak. Today the Maksym Zaliznyak Oak is on the top ten list of ancient trees in Europe: with the height of 30 meters and the girth of trunk of 9 meters.

Yaroslav MELEKH Born in: Lviv, Ukraine Hometown: Lviv, Ukraine Mazurenko Family 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipi- ent 2016 Intern to Arif Virani, Parkdale–High Park, On- tario

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of the dome and bell tower were damaged. The church has a shape of a cross and combines the features of Balkan and Armenian architecture, which is typical for Galician architecture of that period. The church is still functioning.

Levko ORSHYNSKY Born in: Lviv, Ukraine Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine Emil Telizyn 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient 2016 Intern to Julie Dzerowicz, MP for Davenport– Toronto, Ontario National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (est. 1615) Faculty of Social Sciences and Social Technol- ogies. Foreign languages: English, Russian. Marko ORSHYNSKY Last book read: Nelson Mandela “Long walk to Free- Born in: Lviv, Ukraine dom”. Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Людина – John Sopinka 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient це обов’язок, а не титул (народився – і вже люди- 2016 Intern to Linda Duncan, MP for Edmonton – на). Людина – твориться, самонароджується. Влас- Strathcona, Alberta не, хто Ти є поки що? Кавалок глини сирової, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (est. пластичної. Бери цей кавалок у обидві жмені і мни 1615) Faculty of Social Sciences and Social Technol- – доти, поки з нього не вийде щось тверде, окрес- ogies. лене, перем’яте. Уяви, що Бог, який творить людей, Foreign languages: English, Russian, German (ba- то Ти є сам. Ти є Бог. Отож, як Бог самого себе, sic). мни свою глину в руках, поки не відчуєш під мозоля- Last book read: Max Weber “The Protestant Ethic ми кремінь. Для цього в Тебе найкращий час – Тво- and the Spirit of Capitalism”. рися ж!" – Василь Стус. Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Не дивіться Favourite quote by foreign author: “We don’t get a на Україну, як на землю своїх батьків. Дивіться на chance to do that many things, and everyone should неї, як на землю своїх дітей. І тоді прийдуть зміни" be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, – Святослав Вакарчук. and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to Favourite quote by foreign author: “It is hard to fail, do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It but it is worse never to have tried to succeed” – Theo- better be worth it” – Steve Jobs. dore Roosevelt. Favourite musical recording: DakhaBrakha “Spe- Favourite musical recording: Гайдамаки "Під cially for you”. Облачком" (Haydamaky “Pid Oblachkom”). Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Outstanding Landmark or Architecture in Ukraine: Church of St. Nicholas in Lviv is an architectural NaUKMA Old Academic Building, also called the monument of national importance, one of the oldest Mazepa Building, was constructed in 1704 under the temples of the city situated at 28 patronage of Hetman . Its frst architect Street. The temple was most probably built between was Johan-Gotfrid Shed Gottfried Johann Schдdel. 1264 and 1340. A document from 1292 to provide Following the fre of 1811, it was rebuilt under the su- Prince Lev the church land may indicate one of the pervision of Andriy Melensky. Two foors were added possible completion dates. The church does not keep to the building. Nowadays it is a part of National Uni- its original appearance since it was repaired twice af- versity of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and is used as the ter the fres of 1623 and 1800 when the roof shingles Research Library and NaUKMA Doctoral School.

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Ukraine. Many are modern recreations of traditional designs, including a recreation by Oksana Bilous and Zoya Stashuk of the Skarzhynska collection, but there is also a fne collection of older pysanky from Ivano- Frankivsk Oblast that dates from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Bozhena OVCHARENKO Born in: , Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine John & Julia Stashuk 2016 CUPP Scholarship recip- ient 2016 Intern to Cheryl Gallant, MP for Renfrew–Nip- issing–Pembroke, Ontario Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (est. 1834) Institute of Philology, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English, German), Master’s pro- gram “Translation and Interpreting Studies”. National Linguistic University of Kyiv (est. 1948) Faculty of Translation and Interpreting Studies (Eng- Oleh SHEMETOV lish, German), Bachelor of Translation and Interpret- Born in: Kharkiv, Ukraine ing Studies with honours. Current city: Krakуw, Poland Foreign languages: English, German, French, Rus- East-West Foundation 2016 CUPP Scholarship re- sian, Spanish (basic), Polish (basic). cipient Last book read: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “Cita- 2016 Intern to The Hon. Chrystia Freeland, MP for delle”. University–Rosedale, Ontario Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Я нічого не James & Louise Temerty 2011 Scholarship recipient боюся. Я боюся тільки причетності до ідіотів" – Ліна 2011 Intern to Nathan Cullen, MP for Skeena–Bulk- Костенко. ley Valley, British Columbia Favourite quote by foreign author: “Get action. University of Vienna, Austria (est. 1365) Depart- Seize the moment” – Teddy. ment of History, Joint Master’s course in "Global Stud- Favourite musical recording: Pink Floyd “Wish You ies – A European perspective", MA with honours. Were Here”. University of Wrocław, Poland (est. 1705) Institute Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: of International Studies, Joint Master’s course in "Glo- Museum, built in 2000, is one of the most bal Studies – A European perspective", MA with hon- famous museums in Ukraine and the only of its kind in ours. the world. Located in Kolomyia, a city in the western California State University, Dominguez Hills, Uni- part of Ukraine about 45 miles from Chernivtsi, the ted States (est. 1960) Department of Political Scien- museum has become the signature attraction of the ce, Global Undergraduate Exchange Program, Inter- city. It is of such an odd character that many travelers national Relations. often visit Kolomyia specifcally for the Pysanka Mu- Vasyl Karazin National University of Kharkiv, seum. The novelty of the building and collection is typ- Ukraine (est. 1804) School of History, Department of ically the draw, but examining the traditional folk art Modern and Contemporary History, Bachelor of His- featured on these Ukrainian Easter eggs is an excel- tory with honours. lent way to learn about the culture and history of 2012-2014 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship recipient Ukraine. The museum currently possesses a collec- 2009-2010 Global Undergraduate Exchange (Glo- tion of over 10,000 pysanky. The permanent collection bal UGRAD) Fellowship recipient includes pysanky from the majority of the oblasts of Foreign languages: English, Polish, German.

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Last book read: Mykola Khvylovy “Valdshnepy”. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (est. 1661) Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Коли люди- Faculty of Culture and Arts, Master‘s program “Cultur- на не встане з колін, то вона не далеко зможе прой- al Studies”. ти" – Іван Драч. Foreign languages: English, German, Polish, Rus- Favourite quote by Foreign author: “And so, my fel- sian. low Americans: ask not what your country can do for Last book read: Павло Ар’є "Баба Пріся". you, ask what you can do for your country“ – John F. Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Пізнай Kennedy. себе!" (Know thyself!) – Григорій Сковорода. Favourite musical recording: Johnny Cash “God's Favourite quote by Foreign author: “Knowledge is Gonna Cut You Down“. power” – Francis Bacon. Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Favourite musical recording: Pavlo Hunka and Sharivka Estate in Sharivka, a small village in Kharkiv friends “Galicians I. The Art Songs”. Oblast located about 45 miles west of downtown Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Kharkiv. It is a beautiful architectural complex founded City of Lviv (Львів) is one of the most beautiful and at the beginning of the 19th century by landowner majestic cities in Ukraine serving as its visiting card. Olkhovskyi. At the end of the century, it was purchased The city is abundant in architectural landmarks, muse- by wealthy sugar manufacturer Leopold Koenig. Hav- ums, theatres, colleges, world-class cultural institu- ing expanded considerably, the estate reached its f- tions including a philharmonic orchestra and the fa- nal dimensions by the dawn of the 20th century. Dur- mous Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet. The historic ing the Soviet times, a specialized clinic for consump- city centre is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. tive patients was located on the estate. In 2008, it was granted the status of national architectural monument comprising a scenic landscape park, a palace, and many other buildings and orchards.

Olena SKLIAR Born in: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine Hometown: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine Josef and Maria Siecinsky 2016 CUPP Scholarship Veronika SKIP recipient Born in: Zhovkva, Ukraine 2016 Intern to Dean Allison, MP for Niagara West– Hometown: Zhovkva, Ukraine Glanbrook, Ontario Daria Telizyn 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient Oles Honchar National University of Dnipropetro- 2016 Intern to James Bezan, MP for Selkirk–Inter- vsk, Ukraine (est. 1918) Faculty of Ukrainian and lake, Manitoba Foreign Philology and Study of Art. Motto of the Uni- Ukrainian Free University, Munich, (est. versity: “Docendo Discimus”. 1921) Faculty of Philisophy, Cultural Studies. Foreign languages: English, Russian, German (ba- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany sic). (est. 1472) Faculty of Philisophy, Master’s program Last book read: John Updike “The Centaur”. “Cultural Studies”. Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "На світі той

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наймудріший, хто найдужче любить життя" – Ва- на шанс, бо це – ваші великі часи" – Ярослав Гри- силь Симоненко. цак. Favourite quote by Foreign author: “Be the change Favourite quote by Foreign author: “What torments that you wish to see in the world“ – Mahatma Gandhi me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is Favourite musical recording: Scorpions “Moment the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart mur- Of Glory“. dered. Only the Spirit, if it breathe upon the clay, can Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: create Man” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet (Львівський на- Favourite musical recording: Myroslav Skoryk “Me- ціональний академічний театр опери та балету імені lodiya”. Соломії Крушельницької) is considered a symbol of Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Lviv and is rightfully called one of the most beautiful St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Roman Catholic places in Ukraine. World-famous names have per- Church is a Neo-Gothic building located in my native formed on its stage, including Solomiya Krushelnyts- town of Chortkiv. The church was built early in the last ka, renowned Ukrainian opera singer, whose name century on the site of the cathedral, which had stood the theatre has been bearing since 2000. The building there since 1610. The project by architect Jan Sas Zu- is richly decorated and combines several different ar- brzycki provided the defense complex of the Domini- chitectural styles. Its façade is crowned with three can monastery and included a church, which was re- statues symbolizing Glory, Poetry and Music. built shortly before the First World War. During the years of the Soviet occupation, the church was closed, and only in 1989 it was transferred to the Dominican community. Today the Dominican church is one of the most beautiful Neo-Gothic buildings in Ukraine. The lower part of the temple is built of stone, the upper – of red brick. Inside there are carved beautiful statues of saints and a copy of the well-known icon of the Holy Rosary.

Liliia SLOBODIAN Born in: Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine Anna Mazurenko 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient 2016 Intern to The Hon. Chrystia Freeland, MP for University–Rosedale, Ontario National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (est. 1615) Faculty of Law. Foreign languages: English, Polish, Russian. Last book read: Dr. Bohdan Hawrylyshyn “A Ukrai- nian Wherever”. Olga SPYTSIA Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Ви чітко Born in: Mykolaiv, Ukraine знаєте, чого ви не хочете, але не знаєте, чого хоче- Hometown: Mykolaiv, Ukraine те. Це наслідок нашого часу. Ми зараз проживаємо Tetiana Mackiw 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient велику кризу – це криза втрати безпеки, криза еко- 2016 Intern to Robert Sopuck, MP for Dauphin–Swan логічна, криза нерівності. Але дивімося на цю кризу River–Neepawa, Manitoba як на шанс, і передусім ви дивіться на цю кризу як John & Julia Stashuk 2015 Scholarship recipient

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Intern to The Hon. Chrystia Freeland, MP for Univer- 2016 Intern to The Hon. MaryAnn Mihychuk, MP for sity–Rosedale, Ontario Kildonan–St. Paul, Manitoba Petro Mohyla State University (est. 1996) University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (est. 1451) Faculty of Foreign Languages, MA with honours. Centre for Russian, Central and East European Stud- Troy University (est. 1887) Faculty of Journalism and ies, Master’s program “International Masters in Rus- Communication. sian, Central and East European Studies”. Motto of 2010-2011 Global Undergraduate Exchange (Glob- University: “Via, Veritas, Vita” (the Way, the Truth, the al UGRAD) Fellowship recipient. Life). Foreign languages: English, German, Spanish. University of Turku, Finland (est. 1920), Faculty of Last book read: Dale Carnegie “How to Stop Worry- Humanities, Master’s program “Master of Arts in Baltic ing and Start Living”. Sea Region Studies”. Motto of University: “From a free Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Живе той, people to free science and learning”. хто не живе для себе, хто для других виборює Jagiellonian University, Poland (est. 1364) Centre життя" – Василь Симоненко. for European Studies. Motto of University: “Plus ratio Favourite quote by foreign author: “The two most quam vis” (“Let reason prevail over force”). important days in your life are the day you are born Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and the day you fnd out why” – Mark Twain. Ukraine (est. 1834) Faculty of Philosophy, Depart- Favourite musical recording: Metallica “The Unfor- ment of Political Science, Master’s degree in Political given II”, Sting “Shape of My Heart”. Science with honours, Bachelor’s degree in Political Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Science with honours. Motto of University: “Utilitas, Regional Landscape Park of Kinburn Foreland Honor et Gloria” (Utility, Honor and Glory). (also known as the Kinburn Spit) is a nature reserve Erasmus Mundus Scholarship recipient peninsula in Ochakiv Raion of Mykolaiv Oblast at the Foreign languages: English, Polish, German (basic), Black Sea coast. Established on the area of 17,890 Spanish (basic). hectares – including 5,631 hectares of water – by a Last book read: A. Wilson “The Unex- decision of the Mykolaiv Oblast Council, it is a unique pected Nation”. natural complex of the Lower- sands consisting Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: “Contra Spem of mosaics of sandy steppes, artifcial pine plantations Spero!” – Lesya Ukrainka. and a variety of wetlands. The Kindburn Foreland is a Favourite quote by foreign author: “Experience is pearl of the Ukrainian seaside and one of the best the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test frst places in Ukraine to spend hot summer days away and the lesson afterward” – Oscar Wilde. from civilization. Favourite musical recording: Okean Elzy “Не твоя війна” (The War Is Not Yours). Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Independence Square (Maydan Nezalezhnosti) in Kyiv is the most signifcant point of Ukraine. Although the square does not represent an architectural mas- terpiece with its chaotically eclectic style, it has al- ready proved its name twice in history of independent Ukraine: when it became the scene for the Orange Revolution (2004) and the Revolution of Dignity (No- vember 2013–February 2014). Since the 2014 Revo- lution, the square has gained even more meaning, now serving as an open space memorial for the “Heav- enly Hundred” – those who were murdered or went missing in their fght against the regime. Through its history, the landmark has changed several names: from the initial name Khreshchatytska Square in the mid-19th century, when it was founded, and later Oleksandra SUPRUN Dumska to the Soviet square, Kalinin square, and Oc- Born in: Kyiv, Ukraine tober Revolution Square (renamed in 1977, when the Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine monument for Vladimir Lenin was erected there). The Michael Starr 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient

28 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 CUPP in Third Decade frst Revolution on the square was the Student Revo- roque style in the 18th century while the interior re- lution on Granite (1990), which consequently led to mained in its original Byzantine style. Today, the St. Ukraine’s independence and, hence, gifted the place Michael's monastic complex includes, along with the with its modern name “Independence Square”. rebuilt cathedral, a refectory with the Church of St. John the Divine and a bell tower created in the 18th century. The church became the most honoured reli- gious monument among the residents of Kyiv.

Dmytro TKACHUK Born in: Kyiv, Ukraine Hometown: Kyiv, Ukraine Lucy Hicks 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient 2016 Intern to The Hon. Jason Kenney, MP for Cal- Roksolana TURKOVSKA gary Midnapore, Alberta Born in: , Lviv Oblast, Ukraine National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (est. Hometown: Zhydachiv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine 1615) Faculty of Law. Motto of University: “Tempus fu- Andriy Panasenko (CUPP 1998 Alumnus) 2016 git, Academia sempiterna” (Time is running, Academy CUPP Scholarship recipient is eternal). 2016 Intern to Bev Shipley, MP for Lambton–Kent– Foreign languages: English, Russian. Middlesex, Ontario and Larry Maguire, MP for Bran- Last book read: Hermann Hesse “The Glass Bead don–Souris, Manitoba Game”. National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "Лови летючу Ukraine (est. 1615) Faculty of Law. Motto of Univer- мить життя! Чаруйсь, хмелій, впивайся. І серед мрій sity: “Tempus fugit, Academia sempiterna (Time is і забуття, В розкошах закохайся" – Олександр running, Academy is eternal). Олесь. Jagiellonian University, Poland (est. 1364) Faculty Favourite quote by Foreign author: “Instead of go- of Law and Administration. Motto of University: “Plus ing to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, Ratio Quam Vis” (Let reason prevail). and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really Foreign languages: English, Polish, Russian. wish to learn” – Lev Tolstoy. Last book read: Daniel Keyes “Flowers for Alger- Favourite musical recording: The Cinematic Or- non”. chestra “Arrival of the Birds”. Favourite quote by Ukrainian author: "В сміливих Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: щастя завжди є" – Іван Багряний, "Ті держави Saint Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery (Михай- здатні стати великими, у яких великі малі люди" – лівський Золотоверхий монастир). The sky-blue St. О. Довженко. Michael's Cathedral, with its fabulously shining domes, Favourite quote by Foreign author: “Try not to be- is one of the most beautiful and important Orthodox come a man of success, but rather try to become a temples in Ukraine. Originally erected in the Middle man of value” – Albert Einstein, “If you want to be hap- Ages, the exterior was rebuilt in the Ukrainian Ba- py, be” – Leo Tolstoy.

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Favourite musical recording: Alt-J “Taro”. stryzha". Outstanding landmark or architecture in Ukraine: Favourite quote by a Ukrainian author: “Хоч де б Island or one of the seven wonders of ми були, хоч яких висот сягали, завжди будуть з Ukraine is well known as the largest island on the Dni- нами сни про наше дитинство, про наші початки і pro River, which now is a part of the city of Zaporizhia. витоки. Власне ми не володіємо нічим, окрім скар- According to one of the versions, it was the ancient бів, успадкованих від свого минулого, рідної землі, Slavonic god Khorse who gave its name to the island. дитинства, і все наше подальше життя – то тільки At the end of the 15th century, built a strong- доповнення до потаємної недоторканості коренів” hold here and called the island the Freedom Island (No matter where we are and no matter how success- because there was no violence and everyone felt safe ful we become, there’ll always be dreams about our and free. In the 1550s, Prince Dmytro Vyshnevetsky childhood, our beginnings and cradles. Actually, we built a stronghold known as Zaporizka Sich and until have nothing except treasures inherited from the past, 1775, when Catherine II destroyed it, the Sich played native land, childhood and all our life is our addition to an important defensive role against foreign invaders. inmost integrity of the roots) – Pavlo Zahrebelnyi. The Khortytsia Island is unique with its special fora Favourite quote by foreign author: “Do what you and fauna, a big number of animals listed in the Red can with what you have where you are.” (Theodor Book of Ukraine. Nowadays, Khortytsia is a Ukrainian Roosevelt), “The only way to deal with an unfree world historical and cultural reserve. is to become so absolutely free that your very exist- ence is an act of rebellion” – Albert Camus. Favourite musical recording: 10 years “Beautiful”, Coldplay “Scientist”. Outstanding landmark or architecture of Ukraine: My native city, Zaporizhia, has an outstanding history. A lot of people know about the Khortytsia Island, and its enchanting beauty, but even more forget about the majestic 700-year old Zaporizhia Oak Tree. This is a place, where the Cossacks wrote a letter to a Turkish Sultan and Bohdan Khmelnytsky gathered his troops before the Independence War in 1649.The oak tree used to be strong and magnifcent just like the Cos- sacks used to be. Nowadays, the only branch of a tree which is alive, symbolizes the hope and the need to revive the ancient glory of this holy land. The Zapori- zhia Oak tree is a place that will always be of utmost importance to me, because my mother grew up there, Anna ZAVIZON when the tree was all green and of strong character, Born in: Zaporizhia, Ukraine and because I grew up there, with the hope that our Hometown: Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine land will bring back its former splendor. This tree is the Emil Telizyn 2016 CUPP Scholarship recipient heart of my native land, which has to be cherished. 2016 Intern to The Hon. Peter Kent, MP for Thornhill, Ontario Oles Honchar National University of Dnipropet- rovsk (est. 1918) Department of Ukrainian and For- eign Philology and Arts (English language and litera- ture), Bachelor of English Philology with honours; Master’s program in English Philology; Faculty of Law (Jurisdiction, Bachelor’s program). Motto of Universi- ty: “Docendo discimus” (Навчаючи навчаємось; By teaching we learn). Foreign languages: English, German, Spanish (ba- sic), Russian. Last book read: Volodymyr Danylenko "Son iz dz'oba

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Language Issue in Canada and Ukraine: Why is French not Russian

Oleh SHEMETOV University of Vienna, Austria; University of Wroclaw, Poland; California State University, Dominguez Hills, United States; Vasyl Karazin National University of Kharkiv, Ukraine Intern to The Hon. Chrystia Freeland, MP for University–Rosedale, Ontario East-West Foundation 2016 CUPP Scholarship reciepient

"There must be a long-term national consensus on languages. The countries that do not achieve such consensus have a tendency to break up." Derek Fraser, Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine in 1998-2001

Dear reader, even though I cannot based on that thesis and to write per the 2011 census data, there be sure if you attended the Model the article you are now reading. were 21.3% of native French Ukraine Conference in Ottawa on The question itself was relevant, speakers in Canada as opposed 16 October 2013, I want you to but I could not help overlooking the to 56.9% of Anglophones. Similar- know that this was the time and trend back home in Ukraine that ly, the last Ukrainian census taken place when Dr. Roman Petryshyn, we Ukrainians, were as if coma- in 2001, found that 29.6% percent Director of the Ukrainian Resource tosely lured into paralleling Rus- of the population considered Rus- and Development Centre at the sian with French, when comparing sian their mother tongue while MacEwan University, delivered an the language issue of Ukraine to 67.5% declared it to be Ukrainian. excellent presentation on the off- that of Canada. Moreover, we were Besides, there is Crimea, the only cial language policies in Canada being persuaded that the only cor- Ukrainian region where Russian and Ukraine. The point he made rect answer to the Dr. Petryshyn's speakers hold an outright majority was that the key to making a mod- question was an affrmative one. of 79.1%. According to the Crime- ern Ukrainian lies in keeping There seemed to be no alternative an Constitution, Russian enjoys Ukraine unilingual on the national approach. My suspicion grew as I offcial status alongside Ukrainian level, bilingual on the regional lev- was coming to a realization that and Crimean Tatar, but in practice el and trilingual on the individual the people setting such a tone for dominates overwhelmingly both level. While I took a great delight the language discourse were any- the public and private discourse on in listening to his speech and thing but ardent adherents of the peninsula. There is Québec, would claim the conclusions he Ukrainian independence and na- the only Canadian province where drew are still relevant today, what tional revival. The people, who did the majority of the population resonated in my mind was the not share a grain of Western val- speaks French. The provincial question he posed at the begin- ues, were passionately idealizing Charter of the French Language ning – "Would the increase of sta- the Western practices of bilingual- defnes French as the sole offcial tus and prestige for Russian by ism, especially those of Canada. language of the province. making it an offcial national state There was defnitely something Whereas Statistics Canada de- language in Ukraine, like French wrong with this premise. So I be- fnes “mother tongue” as the frst has been in Canada – lead to gan my own research. language learned at home in child- greater national harmony?" This Demographics. Indeed, the offcial hood and still understood by the question imprinted itself in my demographic data suggest a person at the time the data was mind so strongly that I went on to straightforward, yet, hasty, as we collected, the term has no defni- produce a master's thesis on the will see later, conclusion: Ukraini- tion in the Statistics Service of language rights in Canada and an clearly compares to English, Ukraine. This ambiguity makes it a Ukraine, to publish a monograph Russian compares to French. As diffcult task to establish the actual

CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM 35 CUPP in Third Decade CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 must separate along this border... I do not know how long we could sustain: one side is pulling left, the other to the right; there is no de- cent life, twenty years – total de- crepitude. Maybe, let us break up? Maybe, let us live like formerly the two Germanys?" Host of the most watched TV channel of western Ukraine Ostap Drozdov shared his opinion live, "I see Ukraine as a typical communal . The mutual non-acceptance of mentali- Mother tongue in Ukraine and Canada, 2001. ties is so deep that it is able to get on in one country only thanks to numbers of speakers of Ukrainian knowledge of Ukrainian (69%). the absence of everyday contact and Russian. Dominique Arel, Even more interestingly, a nation- between them. The easterners Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the wide Gallup poll taken in 2008 re- come to the West and westerners University of Ottawa, suggests that vealed that 83% of Ukrainians pre- come to the East as guests, as "a characteristic feature of Ukraine ferred to take the survey in tourists, as if to another country... is that it is divided into two, approx- Russian, and only 17% in Ukraini- The more the East and West get to imately equal numerically linguistic an. know each other, the stronger the groups – Ukrainian speakers and Separatism. Going back to the is- sense of fundamental otherness Russian speakers". Indeed, there sue of separatism and the parallel and incompatibility will get... Differ- is considerable evidence of a much between Crimea and Québec, one ent worldviews, different civiliza- larger and cul- fact often goes unmentioned. Until tions, different experiences... One tural presence in Ukraine that the recently, separatism in the pre- must not reconcile, but regulate offcial demographic data would dominantly Ukrainian-speaking re- these two worlds apart... Antago- suggest. The opinion poll conduct- gion of Galicia was no less strong nists cannot get along together in ed in 2013 puts even more doubts than in Crimea and Donbas. This one communal apartment, they on the dominance of Ukrainian. especially was the case during the cannot and they do not have to". The question was "What language presidency of . The most reckless Galician "Euro- is it easier for you to communicate The idea of separatism in western peans", whether consciously or in?" and the results are presented Ukraine was promoted by a not, have insisted on voluntarily in the graph below. number of intellectuals, writers and losing southern and eastern re- poets, mostly natives of Galicia. gions, which, in their opinion, Yuri Andrukhovych, famous writer would facilitate the integration of and poet, suggested giving Crimea the rest of Ukraine with the EU. As and Donbas a chance for self-de- we can see, the motives of the se- termination. His main argument cessionists in Québec and Galicia was that the Ukrainian idea, lan- have many similar features. guage and culture were having dif- To their credit, Galicians did pro- fculty in spreading there. That is mote the Ukrainian cause in the why these regions should be ex- Austro-Hungarian Empire, fought cluded from Ukraine. Writer and lit- for Ukrainian independence in the erary critic Yuriy Vynnychuk ranks of the Sichovi Striltsi and ...... claimed, "The South-East has to UPA during both world wars, re- secede from Ukraine". He paid due Another survey demonstrated that spectively; they kept the idea of an respect to what he considered the the standard of knowledge of Rus- independent Ukraine alive in the great civilizing mission of , sian (free conversational language, West, kept it alive in their hearts of "Only where there were Poles, writing and reading) in Ukraine is Ukrainians under the Soviet occu- and tradition higher (76%) than the standard of pation. They went on to save the were preserved, and probably, we independent Ukraine from the

36 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 CUPP in Third Decade Moscow deathly embrace by giv- can Revolution, the English-speak- and taxation, which also provoked ing their votes to the pro-European ing population of the Saint the infux of Russian peasants political forces and by occupying Lawrence River Valley was for the from the neighbouring areas. Be- the streets of Kyiv in 2004. Was most part made up of servicemen, sides, some voluntarily Ukraine under Yanukovych what bureaucrats and some merchants. moved to central and western they had been fghting for? Was it The Scottish and Irish Catholic Ukraine: persecuted clergymen what they deserved? Some ex- peasants who immigrated to Can- and dissidents, defecting nobility perts claim, if there had been no ada merged with the local French and gentry, students, runaway Euromaidan, in the worst-case speakers. As quickly as a couple serfs and simply adventurers. Most scenario, the nation would have of generations later it was hard to of them would be assimilated, es- had a civil war, but this time in the distinguish them from the locals: pecially in the areas controlled by western regions. "There would they were well assimilated into the the Cossacks. There is no doubt have been a very unstable situa- French-speaking community in about the Ukrainian-language en- tion in the right-bank Ukraine and terms of both language and cus- vironment existing within the Za- the west. There could have started toms. Even today many French- porizhian Sich. As per Dmytro a disintegration of the land, only in speaking Canadians have Scottish Yavornytsky, knowledge of Ukrai- other regions," Vadym Karasiov, and Irish surnames. The demo- nian was one of the major require- Ukrainian political scientist, be- graphic and language situation in ments to join it. The reign of Peter lieves. Fortunately, Galicians did Canada shifted dramatically after I and Catherine II saw the frst off- not yield to the separatist moods, the American Revolution when cial bans of Ukrainian. In 1775, the but joined the rest of Ukrainians on Canada received a huge number Russians destroyed the Zaporizhi- the barricades of the Euromaidan of loyalists from the rebellious Unit- an Sich and virtually fnalized the and later in the trenches of Don- ed States, those who kept fdelity subjugation of Ukraine. The lan- bas. However, in the light of the to the British Crown and did not guage situation started to change new government's pitiable progress recognize the new nation. Numer- accordingly. in the economic and humanitarian ous, belonging to the "superior" Naming. At the beginning, Canadi- policy, high infation, impoverish- strata, neither were they eager to an and French were interchange- ment of ordinary people, crawling adapt to the "conquered" French- able as synonyms in North Ameri- Russifcation of the media, mass speaking Canadian nation. ca. Even in the frst half of the 19th culture and public life, growing Kyivan Rus, the medieval loose century, for Major-General Sir sense of despair that shedding of federation of East Slavic tribes, Isaac Brock, a British Army offcer the Galician blood on the Euro- was a proto-Ukrainian rather than and administrator, and his contem- maidan and in Donbas may have a proto-Russian state. Northern poraries, "Canadian meant French- been in vain, there is no guarantee tribes like Viatichians and Slovian- speaking. English speakers were that separatism will not return to ians played only a marginal role in the English or British." As men- Galicia. the history of Rus. The Russians, tioned above, medieval Rus had Colonization. Although the French or Muscovites as they were known very little in common with modern- were not autochthonous to Cana- back then, appeared in Ukraine in day Russia. Before Ivan IV the Ter- da, they were the frst Europeans the 14th century, but their number rible self-proclaimed himself "Tsar to colonize it. They founded their was insignifcant. Those were for and Grand Duke of all Rus", what frst permanent settlement in 1605 the most part diplomats, clergy- today is called Russia had always and settled predominantly in the men, and merchants. The frst tan- been referred to throughout Eu- Saint Lawrence River Valley and gible wave of emigration from Mus- rope as Muscovy. Instead, those Acadia establishing so-called New covy commenced when the region were the ancestors of the modern . Having lost in the Seven of Sloboda Ukraine in the north- inhabitants of Belarus, Ukraine Years' War, according to the Trea- east came under the Muscovite and Lithuania who were called ty of Paris in 1763, France ceded rule in the mid-16th century. Main- Russians, or more correctly, Ru- its possessions in Canada to the ly the Zaporizhian Cossacks, peas- sians or Rusyns. As Peter I started victorious British. However, the ants, and clergy escaping the op- his reign, Muscovites basically f- French population would still be in pressive rule of the Polish nobility, nalized the theft of the ethnonyms majority in what now constitutes colonized it. In Sloboda Ukraine, "Rus" and "Russian" from their im- the province of Québec and neigh- they were granted numerous liber- mediate western neighbours. bouring areas. Up until the Ameri- ties with regard to self-government Appeasement and assimilation of

CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM 37 CUPP in Third Decade CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 local elites. The new rulers of Can- requisite of access to upward so- to three. In 1927, Ontario Premier ada, or "conquerors", as they cial mobility, started to spread Howard Ferguson, seeking sup- would often be described by their within the Ukrainian elite, be asso- port of Louis-Alexandre Taschere- French Canadian contemporaries, ciated with universalism, progress au, his opposite number from Qué- be it said that, through the Québec and high culture whilst Ukrainian, bec, in his struggle against the Act of 1774, retained and protect- the language of underprivileged federal government, set up a com- ed most of the property, religious, peasants and serfs, became a mission to investigate the use of political, social, and cultural rights symbol of rural backwardness. If a French in Ontario. Regulation 17 of the French-speaking habitants, Ukrainian wanted to grow socially, was soon replaced by a compro- guaranteed their right to practice sooner or later he or she had to mise system based on its recom- the Catholic faith and to use the start "speaking normally". mendations. In spite of the repeal French civil law that later evolved Linguistic and national oppression, of Regulation 17, not before 1968 into the unique Québec law. This assimilation. Since "the Conquest" did the province relax its anti- piece of legislation benefted al- until the introduction of the policy French policy and amended the most exclusively the landowners of offcial bilingualism in the midst Education Act to give local boards and priests. However, as the pub- of the 20th century, the French lan- of education a broadened discre- lic administration was now under guage in Canada in general and in tion to establish French-language the British control and the British Québec in particular had been time schools. Dozens of French-speak- occupied the key positions in trade and again exposed to danger of ing communities in Western Cana- and industry, English was gradual- extinction. Although the legal pro- da, e.g. Plamondon, Alberta, suc- ly turning into the language of "the tection of English and French was cumbed to a combination of racial rich, successful and educated". rooted in Section 133 of the 1867 hostility, government indifference, More on the personal level, British North America Act which al- local apathy and the sheer weight French-speakers would derogato- lowed for the use of both languag- of a dominant English-speaking rily be called "frogs" and ordered es in parliamentary debates and culture. And so, due to absence of to "speak white". court proceedings, as well as in French schooling, heavy Anglici- In Muscovy and later in the Rus- the printing and publication of laws zation of education, public and sian Empire, loyalty to the Russian by the Parliament of Canada and business life, a great variety of dis- Orthodox Church in Moscow and the Legislature of Québec, French tinct French dialects, including loyalty to the Russian language was still absent from various unique Newfoundland French, are have become identifers of state spheres of communication. To now either extinct or moribund. unity. English historian Andrew name several oppressive actions, Overall, the number and propor- Wilson writes that Russia offered in 1755-1764, during the Seven tion of native French speakers has the Ukrainian elite "assimilation in- Years' War, the French-speaking been slowly, but persistently, de- stead of discrimination". Well, the Acadians were deported to other clining, especially outside Québec. truth is it offered both. The attrac- British colonies, later on many set- On the contrary, the share of An- tiveness of the imperial career in- tled in Louisiana where ultimately glophones has been increasing, deed proved to be decisive for the gave up French and switched to even after the introduction of off- military, secular and church elites English. After the British North cial bilingualism by the Liberal gov- of Ukraine. After the Treaty of America Act had established the ernment of Pierre Trudeau. Pereiaslav, imperial institutions bit provincial responsibility over edu- Upon the conclusion of the March by bit replaced the Ukrainian gov- cation, the corresponding provin- Articles in 1658, the Muscovite erning authorities. The decrees of cial educational acts, with the only troops and accompanying service- Russian tsars, such as the Charter exceptions of Ontario and Québec, men poured into Ukraine on a for the Rights, Freedoms, and Priv- banned the use of French as a me- mass scale. As the subjugation of ileges of the Noble Russian Gen- dium of instruction in the system of Ukraine began, the oppression of try of 1785, equalized the loyal public schools. Some additionally its language and culture followed Ukrainian aristocracy in rights with abolished the provision of fnancial almost concurrently. Through al- their Russian counterparts. Com- support to Catholic French-speak- most 350 years of the Russian rule bined with the brutal coercion, ing schools. In 1912, the Ontario over Ukraine, the Russian govern- those measures ensured fealty of Ministry of Education issued Reg- ment enacted 479 circulars, ukas- Ukraine to its Russian lord. Rus- ulation 17, which largely limited es, orders to prohibit or severely sian, which was a mandatory pre- teaching in French to grades one limit the use of Ukrainian. Among

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Клюб, плян... Ukrainian as spelled and spoken in Kharkiv in the 1920s, the then center of the Ukrainian national revival. Symbolically, at the outset of the Stalin's purges, the building on the left was converted into the Theater of Russian Drama. the most notorious anti-Ukrainian versity of Vienna tells that the First etc. the Soviet system, in addition initiatives the Valuev Circular of World War triggered a new up- to applying all these "classic" 1863 surely must be mentioned. swing of the national movement, methods, introduced interference Not only did it forbid a large por- of the Ukrainian language and cul- into the structure of the Ukrainian tion of the publications in Ukraini- ture, but this surge was short-lived language by prohibiting certain an language, but voiced the cor- and ultimately gave way to the re- words, syntactic constructions, nerstone idea of the Russian policy pression that culminated in the grammatical forms, spelling, and towards Ukrainians and their lan- Holodomor of 1932-1933 when the orthoepic standards, while promot- guage – "no separate Little Rus- leading national intellectuals were ing others patterned on Russian or sian language ever existed, does arrested or exterminated and sev- directly transplanted from Rus- not exist and could not exist" – the eral million peasants were starved sian… The contamination was to idea that Russian imperialism had to death. After the Stalin era, the affect not only speakers of Ukrain- been nurturing since the coloniza- population of Ukraine was still in- ian, but the language per se in its tion of Ukraine, the idea it would creasingly Russifed through Rus- intrinsic structure." stick to for centuries to come. The sian language education, Russian- One-sidedness. In Canada, while Russian chauvinist thought would language media and the prevalent both languages, English and go on to develop the legend of the use of Russian in the public affairs. French, enjoy formal equality, Eng- triune Russian nation that consist- George Shevelov of Columbia Uni- lish still dominates the public life in ed of three branches, Great (Rus- versity, a native of Kharkiv, defned Ottawa, Toronto, Saskatoon, Van- sia proper), Little (Ukraine) and the language policy of the Soviet couver, and often even in Mon- White (Belarus). government towards Ukraine in tréal. More and more French Ca- The Soviet Union continued the the following words: "…banning nadians become fuent in English tradition and came up with the idea the Ukrainian language from pub- whereas Anglophones do not feel of the "Soviet people". Russifca- lic use, entirely or selectively; im- the need to learn French. Quite of- tion would advance under the posing the state language on ten even positions or areas desig- guise of promotion of international- speakers of Ukrainian through ed- nated bilingual are not such. ism. Whereas Russian became ucation, cultural developments, French Canadian communities are synonymous to international, non- career opportunities, territorial re- fading away en mass in Alberta, Russian was often regarded as settlement; settlement of the ruling Manitoba, Nova Scotia and even nationalist. Michael Moser of Uni- nationality on Ukrainian territory, around bilingual Ottawa. Only 7

CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM 39 CUPP in Third Decade CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 per cent of Anglophones living out- speaking cities only in Québec and dustry, leading mass media are side Québec are bilingual in French western Ukraine, respectively. In dominated by English, Francoph- and English. In Québec, 37 per the historically French Canadian ones outside Québec fnd them- cent of Francophones speak both and Ukrainian-speaking regions, selves at risk of gradual, but irre- languages. Bilingualism has been French and Ukrainian can still be versible assimilation. Similarly, increasing primarily among Fran- heard in the countryside, whereas there is an unequal ratio of Rus- cophones. Today the probability the cities are likely to be dominat- sian and Ukrainian in the domains that a Francophone would speak ed by English and Russian, re- of mass information and entertain- English is fve times higher than to spectively. In the past and since ment, which is caused not that hear an Anglophone speak the 2000s, French speakers have much by the demand for such French. immigrated to Toronto, Ottawa, Al- products by Russian speakers, but According to the 2001 Ukrainian berta and other English-speaking by the vast media market of Rus- Census, in the regions where the areas. Ukrainian speakers have sia which penetrates into those of majority indicated Ukrainian as been leaving their villages and the former Soviet Union without a mother tongue, the percentage of moving to Russian-speaking cities, single thought of meeting the those fuent in Russian was signif- western Ukrainians have been im- needs of non-Russian speakers. cantly higher than the other way migrating eastwards to the indus- Some statistics to illustrate the sit- around. It is characteristic for most trialized regions. Both Anglophone uation in Ukraine in 2014: only Ukrainian speakers to switch the and Russian colonizers preferred 55% of books were printed in language code, to shift from moth- to settle in urban areas. The hot Ukrainian, newspapers – 29.5%, er tongue to the language of inter- political debate on language issue magazines – 9.9%, the share of locutor. Quite the contrary, Rus- was a refection of everyday reality Ukrainian in prime time on TV was sian speakers are much more which many Québécois and 30% versus Russian – 40%, stable and overwhelmingly re- Ukrainians faced. White-collar po- among the songs played by the spond in Russian regardless of the sitions were almost entirely occu- most popular radio stations only language they are addressed in, pied by Anglophones and Russo- 5% were in Ukrainian, 37% of be it Russian or Ukrainian (98.2% phones whilst Francophones and Ukrainian restaurants did not have and 95.3%, respectively). This Ukrainian speakers clearly domi- a menu in Ukrainian, 47% did not may serve as a proof of the deep- nated among blue-collar workers. serve in Ukrainian. rooted inferiority complex as such "There was only one French Affrmative action. The new lan- a shift is not necessary since al- speaker in the offce where my fa- guage policy after the Quiet Revo- most all of those who live in ther worked. He was a security lution in Quйbec and on the feder- Ukraine at least understand both guard", remembered Edward Kow- al level, the last years of the Soviet languages. alski, a son of a Polish immigrant rule in Ukraine and following years Migration patterns. The settlement who lived in Montréal, the largest of independence took the form of and migration patterns of Anglo- city of Québec and second largest an affrmative action towards Fran- phone Canadians and Russian in Canada. That was a typical pic- cophones and Ukrainian speakers, speakers in Ukraine, Francophone ture for the city in the 1950s-1970s. respectively, not towards Anglo- Canadians and Ukrainian-speak- Edward himself could barely speak and Russophones, which sort of ing population of Ukrainian also French. Like the majority of the im- gives an idea of which languages demonstrate striking similarities. migrant children, he went to the had a disadvantageous position. They all fall within the centre-pe- English school. The parents did Complaints. There are much more riphery models and neo-Marxist not want their child to grow into "a complaints in relation to language development theory. second-rate person". The social is- rights coming from Francophones In both countries, the people have sue closely interwove with the lan- in Canada and Ukrainian speakers migrated and settled actively over guage and national issue. in Ukraine. According to the Cana- the past 400 years. English have Mass media, pop culture. Taking dian federal Commissioner of Off- come to dominate the urban life in into account the considerable lin- cial Languages, on average over Canada; Russian has occupied guistic and cultural infuence of 90% of the admissible complaints the same position in most Ukraini- English-speaking provinces and come from Francophones. In light an cities. One can fnd homogene- such a powerful neighbour as the of absence of any offcial statistics ous Francophone and Ukrainian- U.S., where television, cinema in- of the similar kind in Ukraine, the

40 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 CUPP in Third Decade author of this article studied 844 3 complaints a day. a greater or lower degree of inten- most relevant, as suggested by Neighbours. Both Canada and sity. Except for a short period of the Integrated State Register of Ukraine have neighbours, U.S. Ukrainization in the 1920-1930s, Court Decisions, unique court and Russian Federation, respec- the Russian government never judgements which mentioned the tively, whose populations and made concessions to the Ukraini- language legislation. Judgements economies are many times great- an speakers. Ukrainian was the regarding language rights account- er. Both countries understand that second most widely spoken lan- ed for 281 of them, the rest being knowing the neighbour's language guage of the and procedural technical judgements; is important to advancing their then the USSR. However, there incomplete or irrelevant texts. 207 trade relations. No surprise, Eng- were no discussions about bilin- or nearly 74% of the judgements lish and Russian play an important gualism in Russia, nor that Ukrain- were on the alleged breaches of role in the business life of Canada ian could be the only offcial lan- the language rights of Ukrainian and Ukraine. Both being middle guage in Ukraine, which it fnally speakers, 71 decisions or 25% range powers in the global securi- became in 1989. The United were directed against the deeds ty and trading systems, Canada States, Great Britain, or France which, according to the claimants, and Ukraine are obliged to com- never intervened in the language that way or another posed a viola- promise and dialogue with their or nation-building policies of inde- tion of the rights of Russian speak- neighbours. pendent Canada, the only excep- ers. The remaining 1% concerned Whereas English is used as lingua tion, perhaps, being the controver- the language rights of the speak- franca in the Western world, Rus- sial address of Charles de Gaulle ers of other languages. As regards sian performs the same function in at the Montréal City Hall in 1967. the complaints from the second the post-Soviet world. In fact, the Since 1991, the Russian Federa- category, almost all of them, with a North-Atlantic trading space is re- tion has consistently criticized the few exceptions were appeals to garded as one. The post-Soviet Ukrainian language policies and the decisions of the state inspec- market, with low or zero tariffs, var- forced its own vision of them onto tions to impose fnes on business- ious bilateral and multilateral free the Ukrainian government. Cana- es or private entrepreneurs who trade agreements constitute one da's neighbours do not have lan- did not supply their Russian adver- relatively homogeneous entity. guage-based territorial claims to tisement with Ukrainian transla- Since the Euromaidan, the trade Canada. Russia annexed the Cri- tion, marketed goods without ap- with Russia has been falling, but mea, occupied Donbas and would propriate Ukrainian marking, banks as of October 2015, Russia is still not miss a chance to seize the rest which refused to issue statements the largest single trading partner of Ukraine if it only got one. in Ukrainian, offcial institutions of Ukraine, accounting for 12.8% International law expert, former which did not agree with the court of its exports and 20% of its im- ambassador in Benelux countries, decisions to respect the language ports. The English-speaking Unit- Britain and Ireland, representative rights of Ukrainian speakers. ed States is Canada's top supplier of Ukraine in EU and NATO, former Speaking about exceptions, there of merchandise imports, responsi- judge of the International Criminal were only three of them – com- ble for over half of all imports into Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia plaints of the direct private nature: Canada. The U.S. share is even Prof. Volodymyr Vasylenko ex- regarding the lack of drug instruc- greater as an export destination, pressed an opinion, "Since the tions in Russian, the lack of Rus- accounting for nearly three quar- very frst days of Ukrainian inde- sian-language secondary educa- ters of Canada's merchandise ex- pendence Russia has insisted that tion a school, the lack of ports. Ukraine adopt Russian as its sec- Russian-dubbed movies. To say it The key difference between the ond offcial language. Why so? Be- again, only 3 against 207. To put it neighbours of Canada and Ukraine cause Russia considers Russian a into perspective, in December is that neither the British adminis- geopolitical weapon, advancement 2014, PrivatBank, the largest com- tration nor modern Britain or the of the Russian world. There is no mercial bank in Ukraine, following U.S. ever claimed that there was room for an independent Ukraine a number of lawsuits, started a no French or French Canadian na- in this world."Canada and Quйbec campaign to collect complaints tion. Nor did they deny the fact of decided to protect French even about the lack of Ukrainian servic- the existence of a distinct French though there was no geopolitical es and would receive on average language. Russia always did it with threat from the United States or

CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM 41 CUPP in Third Decade CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 any other country that would use es in French. Most provinces and under Yushchenko was abolished English as a geopolitical weapon. territories have offces to oversee by Yanukovych and remains abol- What now? The Quiet Revolution the proper protection of the lan- ished. The anti-Russifcation effort brought about the changes in the guage rights of the speakers of is fueled exclusively by social ac- language situation in Canada, both both offcial languages, to work to- tivism alone. on the federal and provincial level, wards the decrease of their viola- Sociolinguist Larysa Masenko ultimately making French the off- tion. warns that having no policy in cial language of Québec, one of Roughly speaking, the language place to protect Ukrainian and the the two offcial languages of the policy of independent Ukraine is rights of its speakers benefts the province of New Brunswick and marked by the absence of a lan- dominant language, Russian. Odd- nationally of all Canada, as well as guage policy. Even after the Euro- ly enough, Canada protected enjoying wide rights and privileges maidan, the language issue has French when it was in danger and locally in its other regions. From largely been put on hold. Only a thus saved the national unity. 1963 onwards one could observe couple of positive changes has Ukraine is protecting Russian while the strengthening of the position of been brought about in the new not Russian, but Ukrainian, its French as the offcial language ef- Law "On the higher education" namesake language, needs sup- fectively used in practice, as well which made Ukrainian once again port, further Russifcation may be as the realization of measures the medium of instruction at a source of instability and only aimed at the promotion of bilin- Ukrainian universities, and in the serve Russia's interests. gualism in all felds. The policy of Bill taking effect on 1 May 2016 It does matter what language we offcial bilingualism has overcome "On the civil service" which obliges speak. Much has been written and a long and winding road. A lot of the civil servants to know and use said about whether it matters mistakes were made en route, yet Ukrainian while performing their whether Ukraine speaks Ukrainian it eventually yielded signifcant duties. However, the controversial or Russian. In the era of globaliza- success. The achievements of bi- Yanukovych-era Law "On the prin- tion and mass migration, what lingualism are absolute. The ciples of the state language poli- makes a Pole, a Turk, a Ghanaian French Canadians no longer need cy", a subject of relentless criticism and a Vietnamese, none of whom to translate the offcial documents of both the Western institutions has a single drop of the German into English or vice versa. They such as the OSCE High Commis- blood, but who were born and could easily be served in their sioner on National Minorities, Ven- raised, let us say, in the suburbs of mother tongue anywhere in ice Commission and Freedom Berlin, German? Is it not the lan- Québec, in the federal public insti- House, and the Ukrainian civil so- guage? What defnes Franco-Ca- tutions and by Crown corporations, ciety organizations, the very law nadians and Anglo-Canadians? Is receive provincial and local gov- that provoked the Language Maid- it not the language? Who benefts ernment services in certain other an protests in 2012, suppressed fnancially when Ukrainians watch regions throughout Canada. by Yanukovych with the riot police TV shows and listen to the music Should their language rights be vi- and tear gas, remains in force. produced in Russia, read books olated, there is always an effective Yanukovych scrapped practically written in Russia, or surf the Rus- mechanism to restore them, in- all the meagre achievements of sian websites on the web? If na- cluding but not limited to the com- the Yushchenko era and they still tional identity is empty words for plaints to the Offcial Languages remain scrapped. In Ukraine, there us, if we do not care about losing Commissioner in Ottawa and Of- does not exist and has never exist- money to someone who is our big- fce québécois de la langue ed a specialized institution with the gest enemy, how are we going to franзaise in Montréal. Most impor- sole mandate to inspect the state survive? Do we care at all about tantly, both the Canadian and of protection of language rights, your security? Is not the percent- Québec society obtained long-ex- whether of speakers of Ukrainian age of those who regret the col- pected stability and peace. Every or Russian, develop initiatives for lapse of the Soviet Union 2 times Canadian province except British their improvement, neither on the higher among the Russian-speak- Columbia and Newfoundland and local nor on the national level. The ing Ukrainians than among their Labrador has implemented meas- Department of Language and Eth- Ukrainian-speaking fellow citi- ures to recognize the offcial lan- no national Policy that functioned zens? According to Rating Group guages or the provision of servic- within the Secretariat of President Ukraine, it is. Are not those who

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Self-Respect, Speaking Ukrainian and Creating a Better Future

Bohdan VITVITSKY US Department of Justice, New Jersey, USA

Delivered at the banquet celebrat- that is to say, an oppressed group location, size and natural resourc- ing the 20th anniversary of the - they do not behave as though es. Today, however, the standard Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the they realized that they now have a of living in Singapore, Taiwan or University of Toronto and the 10th state. Finland is much, much higher than anniversary of the Canada-Ukraine A prominent Polish commentator, it is in Russia or China. Parliamentary Program. Toronto. Tomasz Jastrun, wrote the follow- As Michael Porter, a Harvard Uni- October 28, 2000. ing after returning from a trip to versity Business School professor, I am pleased to be with you at this Kyiv: "The Ukrainians are so over- has explained: "A nation's wealth celebration of the 20th anniversary whelmed by the thought that they is [now] principally of its own col- of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies have nothing, that they have not lective choosing. Location, natural and the 10th anniversary of the noticed that they have freedom, resources and even military might Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary that everything is in their hands. are no longer decisive. Instead, Program. I have prepared my re- But for them, empty hands is noth- how a nation and its citizens marks principally for our guests ing. They are waiting for someone choose to organize and manage from Ukraine, but I trust that all of to put something into their hands. the economy, the institutions they you will fnd something of interest But empty hands do not have to put in place and the types of in- in them. What I would like to do be a curse - they can also be an vestments they individually and this evening is to invite you to join opportunity." collectively choose to make will me in giving some thought to why, Observation No. 2: A 10-year-old determine national prosperity." at this point in history, we Ukraini- Ukrainian American boy is traveling You may be sitting there and think- ans are the way we are, why we throughout Europe for the frst time ing to yourselves, OK, we know think the way we do and why we with his father. After several days that we Ukrainians seem immobi- do some of the things we do. In or- in Kyiv, he scratches his head and lized by our own lack of confdence der to do this, I am going to ask asks his father: "Tatu, why is it that about our being able to bring about you to refect upon three different when we were in Paris, the French any change; many of us speak sets of observations. all spoke French, when we were in Russian rather than Ukrainian; Observation No. 1: A number of Prague, the Czechs all spoke and, all of us may now be living in foreign intellectuals who have Czech, when we were in Krakow, a new era in which, in contrast to traveled in Ukraine during the last the Poles all spoke Polish, but here the way things have always been, several years have remarked on in Kyiv, most Ukrainians seem to if people collectively choose to the strong sense of political apa- be speaking Russian?" make wise decisions as regards thy, inertia and passivity that one Observation No. 3: During the last the organization of government feels in Ukraine - the apparent decade, since the end of the Cold and the economy, it may be possi- conviction that many contempo- War, the disintegration of the Sovi- ble to live in a prosperous, well-or- rary Ukrainians seem to have that et empire, and the extraordinary dered country. But what, if any, is nothing can be done to change explosion in the use of computers the relationship among these three things, and that there's no point in and the Internet, the world has un- sets of observations? even trying to change things. dergone dramatic changes. One of Let me suggest some to you. Let Let me give you a couple of exam- the most important of these is that, me begin with the issue of lan- ples. During a private conversa- as never before, nations today can guage. Why is it that, nine years tion, a Russian ethnographer told choose to become prosperous. after independence, so many of us his Ukrainian friend that the trou- For many centuries the power and speak Russian? Why is it that so ble with Ukrainians is that they still wealth of a nation depended upon many seem to continue to think think they are a national minority, things beyond its control, such as that it doesn't make much differ-

44 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 CUPP in Third Decade ence what language we speak? in Ukraine? Is it because we were direct your attention to two exam- Why is it that so many seem to told and taught that Ukrainian was ples that should convince you, have accepted the view, long pro- somehow inferior to Russian? Is it once and for all, that a normal na- pounded by our Russian friends, because we were told that some- tion does not trade its own lan- that "eto vsio ravno" whether it is how Russian was a more univer- guage in for another one, for the Russian or Ukrainian that is spo- sal language, and Ukrainian a lo- same reason that a normal human ken in Ukraine? cal language? being does not trade his or her But perhaps we ought to begin Is it because when some of us mother in for another one, just be- with the more elementary question spoke Ukrainian in Ukraine, we cause the other one is younger or of whether it is really true that it were told by our Russian friends better looking or richer. doesn't make any difference "gavarite cheloviecheskim What is today the Czech Republic whether we speak Ukrainian or yazykom"? was until the end of a Russian. Stop and think for a minute. Does part of the Austro-Hungarian Em- Ladies and gentlemen, young it make any kind of sense to say pire. For a long time in Prague and brothers and sisters from Ukraine, that one language is superior to in the other Czech cities, German it matters a great deal whether we another? How can the language of was the language of prestige spo- speak Ukrainian or Russian. Why? my nation be superior or inferior to ken by most. German was the lan- Well, to begin with, it is normal for the language of your nation? It's guage of Goethe, Schiller, Kant, people to speak their own lan- something like saying that a child Hegel and so on. Kafka, a native guage. As even the 10-year-old should recognize a mother not on of Prague, wrote in German, not boy about whom I spoke could not the basis of who gave that child Czech. Czech was considered the help but notice, in Paris the French birth but on the basis of which language of Czech peasants and speak French, in Prague the woman is the youngest or most was held in great contempt. Czechs speak Czech, in Warsaw beautiful or the wealthiest. Lan- Yet, the patriotic among the Czechs and Krakow the Poles speak guages are not interchangeable as resolved to speak Czech instead Polish, and, of course, in Moscow if they were nails or screws. Each of German, so that when Czecho- and St. Petersburg, the Russians language has imbedded in it a par- Slovakia came into existence at speak Russian. ticular view of the world, a certain the end of World War I, most peo- Furthermore, is there any Russian set of cognitive values and atti- ple in Prague spoke Czech, not in Moscow or St. Petersburg who tudes. Some poets have suggest- German. Why is it that what was thinks that it would be "vsio ravno" ed that a language is or refects a obvious to the Czechs as to what if Russians spoke Russian or some nation's soul. How is it that we should be done has not been obvi- other language? I don't think so. have allowed the Russians to con- ous to us today? A more telling ex- The Russians worship their lan- vince us to be indifferent to our ample is provided by the use of guage. Are there any Poles who own language? Hebrew in Israel. When Israel be- think it would be "vsio ravno" if Some of you may still be uncon- came an independent state in Poles spoke Polish or some other vinced. You may be thinking that 1948, it contained some 700,000 language? I don't think so either. the Ukrainian situation is different. to 800,000 Jews. They spoke vari- The Poles also worship their own You may be thinking that it is, of ous languages, among them Yid- language. Are there any French- course, true that the Russians, dish and English. Yet, even before men who think it would be "vsio both under the tsars and the Sovi- independence, they had all agreed ravno" if the French spoke French ets, artifcially constrained the use that Hebrew should become their or some other language? If any of and perhaps the development of offcial language. What is remark- you know anything about the the Ukrainian language, and that able is that at the beginning of the French, you know that the answer this may have been a crime of im- 20th century Hebrew was a dead is obviously not. perialism, but today, the fact of the language. That is, no one, except How is it, then, that we Ukrainians matter is that Russian has a larger for the rabbis who used it in reli- were fooled into thinking that of all vocabulary or a more modern vo- gious ceremonies, spoke it. of the peoples in the world and all cabulary and, therefore, perhaps it Nonetheless, the future Israelis of the languages in the world, it really isn't so bad if Ukrainians use decided that it should be Hebrew - only was "vsio ravno" whether Russian. not English, not German and not Ukrainian or Russian was spoken If you're still thinking that, let me French - that should be the offcial

CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM 45 CUPP in Third Decade CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 and everyday language of Israel. in some inferior medium, and so If, like the frst Israelis who em- And so they adopted Hebrew, on. braced Hebrew, we had immedi- modernized it, developed a termi- Second, we allowed ourselves to ately embraced Ukrainian, we nology for all branches of knowl- internalize the inferiority complex would have done so because we edge, and it became the normally that the Russians have been feed- would have exhibited the same functioning language of the Israe- ing us for decades reaching into kind of self-respect and self-conf- lis in all spheres of life. And not just centuries. How else can one un- dence regarding who we are and the Israelis. A week ago I was in derstand how it is possible for us why what is ours must be cher- Miami and I heard advertisements Ukrainians to voluntarily speak the ished. If we had the same self-re- on the radio for Hebrew lessons. language of those who for centu- spect and self-confdence that the The advertisements said, come ries have tried to make us disap- frst Israelis had, we would not now and learn the language of the Jew- pear? Those who for decades be overwhelmed by the thought ish people, come learn the lan- reaching into centuries have treat- that we have nothing, that we are guage of the Jewish soul. ed us with contempt? Those who powerless, that nothing can be If it was obvious to 700,000 or have murdered or caused the mur- done and that nothing can be 800,000 Jews in Israel that they der of millions of our countrymen changed. should revive a dead language, and women? Those who even to I have thus far suggested to you modernize it and adopt it for off- his day deny that we are a nation? how the Ukrainian language use cial and daily use because it was Those who to this day cannot bring issue may have a connection to the language of their people, the themselves to create a single pro- the current mood of social and po- language of their ancestors, why gram of Ukrainian studies at a sin- litical helplessness in Ukraine to- hasn't it been obvious to tens of gle one of their many universities? day. Let me now suggest to you millions of us Ukrainians that And those who lied to us and how those two issues may relate Ukrainian should be our lan- taught us to lie to ourselves, about to the third observation that I spoke guage? our history, about who our heroes about earlier, namely, the observa- Let me suggest at least two rea- really were, who we really were, tion that we may today be living in sons. First, one of the greatest tri- and so on? a very different world from the one umphs of Russian cultural and in- Our failure to understand that we that existed for centuries, because tellectual imperialism was to should be speaking Ukrainian and in this world countries may have a convince us that what was normal why it is obvious that we should be much greater opportunity to for others was abnormal for us doing so is a refection of a lack of choose national prosperity and Ukrainians, and that it was OK that national self-respect. This lack of well-being. what was abnormal for others was self-respect and self-confdence is It is always harmful to lack national normal in Ukraine. important because it breeds in us self-respect and self-confdence, The normal desire for at least the national passivity and inertia because such a state of affairs some Ukrainians simply to be that I spoke about at the beginning twists and contorts the national Ukrainian was denounced as a of my address to you, this inability psyche and may lead to wrong manifestation of "Ukrainian partic- to understand that independence choices and actions. But if we are ularism." What would, in the rest of is an opportunity, an opportunity to indeed living in a new era, and I the world, be considered a normal begin building and creating a nor- think that we are, an era in which it interest in one's own history was, mal country, normal politically, cul- is possible to choose national in Ukraine, treated as some sort of turally and economically. Am I sug- prosperity and well-being, then a subversion. What would, in the gesting to you that if we all begin lack of self-respect and self-conf- rest of the world, be considered a to speak Ukrainian rather than dence is positively fatal. normal desire to develop one's Russian, everything would magi- Our own lack of self respect and own culture was, in Ukraine, treat- cally become OK? That the econo- self confdence will be a self-fulfll- ed as a manifestation of bourgeois my would instantly revive? That ing prophecy. Since we are con- nationalism. What would, in the foreign investments would pour in? fused about who we are, we lack rest of the world, be considered a Of course not. Language is not national self-confdence. Because normal desire to speak, read and some magic talisman. But it does we lack national self-confdence, write in one's own language was, serve as a kind of barometer of na- we are convinced that we are pow- in Ukraine, treated as an exercise tional mental health. erless to change things. Because

46 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 CUPP in Third Decade we don't even try to change any- graduated from gymnasiums sons, such as Ivan Franko, to trav- thing, nothing is changed, except spoke fve or six languages, there el and study in Vienna and so on. by others for their beneft. And be- was never any doubt among any The point of speaking to you about cause nothing is changed, that fur- of them that Ukrainian was their the Halychany was simply to re- ther confrms our conviction that primary and mother tongue. mind you that it is possible for nothing can be changed and that The Halychany of the frst half of Ukrainians to possess full national we are powerless to effect the 20th century disagreed with self-respect and self-confdence change. one another about various issues; under all kinds of diffcult circum- Ask yourselves, how and why was they fought with one another and stances. it possible for 700,000 to 800,000 in some extreme instances, they Ladies and gentlemen, young Israelis to build such a strong state even killed each other for political brothers and sisters, let me begin on a dessert while surrounded by reasons. There were among them to conclude by reminding you tens of millions of enemies? There socialists, democrats and national- about what two of our most pre- are many answers to this question, ists. But the one remarkable fea- cious Ukrainian geniuses tried to but I would suggest to you that the ture that they all shared in com- teach us. The frst quotation re- most important of them was and is mon was the fercely held belief lates directly to our discussion a very strong sense of Jewish self- that they could make a difference. about language: respect and self-confdence. And boy, did they ever make a dif- Uchitesia braty moyi, Is it possible for Ukrainians to de- ference! They made a difference dumaite, chytaite, velop a similar kind of national self- at the beginning of the 20th centu- I chuzhomu nauchaites respect and self-confdence? Let ry by forging voting and political Svoho ne tsuraites me suggest to you that in the re- coalitions with Jews in the Austro- cent past, there once lived a tribe Hungarian Parliament; by forming That means, ladies and gentle- of Ukrainians that in fact pos- the Sichovi Striltsi [Ukrainian Sich men, having the self-respect to sessed a full complement of na- Rifemen] to fght for Ukrainian in- speak our own language. tional self-respect and self-conf- dependence; by forming the OUN Taras Shevchenko also tried to dence. That tribe was called [Organization of Ukrainian Nation- teach us that: Halychany. They lived in what are alists] to fght Polish domination; Strashno vpasty u kaidany, today the three oblasts of Lviv, by forming the UPA [Ukrainian In- Umyrat v nevoli, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil. The surgent Army] to fght the Soviets A sche hirshe - spaty, spaty, people about whom I am speaking and Nazis; by revitalizing the North I spaty na voli ... lived between the end of the 19th American diaspora and helping to But isn't that exactly what we are century and the frst half of the keep the idea of an independent doing today when we become par- 20th century. Ukraine alive - even at a time when alyzed by our own lack of self-con- The people about whom I am everyone in the United States and fdence and self-respect, by our speaking were a comparatively Canada told them that there was lack of conviction that we can small tribe and, except for a small no such thing as Ukraine, that it make a difference? intelligentsia, most of them were was all Russia. And lastly, Ivan Franko tried to peasants and most of them were I have not spoken to you about the teach us that: poor. Yet, despite all this, and de- Halychany of the frst half of the spite having lost a war for Haly- last century in order to draw invidi- Kozhnyi dumaj scho na tobi chyna to Poland at the end of ous or critical comparisons be- Milioniv stan stoiit World War I, and despite having to tween them and us today. No, that Shcho za doliu milioniv live during the Great Depression, was not the point at all. The Haly- Mayesh daty ty odvit. and despite having to survive two chany were the way they were be- Ladies and gentlemen, young years of Soviet occupation, three cause of a whole host of political brothers and sisters. Those of us years of Nazi occupation and then and historical circumstances, such who are here today are among the a second Soviet occupation, they as the luck they had in living in the privileged, in terms of education, were full of national self-respect comparatively progressive and en- in terms of what we've had an op- and self-confdence. They knew lightened Austro-Hungarian em- portunity to see, learn and experi- that they were Ukrainians, and pire, the luck they had in it being ence. We all have an obligation to even though some of them who possible for some of their brightest apply that privilege towards some

CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM 47 CUPP in Third Decade CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 good. them proud of us. Let's go out and they can reach for the sky. Ladies Ladies and gentlemen, young make the kind of difference that and gentlemen, let's not let our brothers and sisters, let's take will make our children and grand- roots rot away from neglect. It is what Taras Shevchenko and Ivan children proud of us. not "vsio ravno." And, ladies and Franko – two of the wisest and An Italian American priest named gentlemen, let's not be afraid to most wonderful teachers that any Father Gino Baroni once made a reach for the Ukrainian sky no mat- nation has ever been fortunate to very important observation. He ter how temporarily cloudy or over- have – have tried to teach us, and said that the two most valuable cast it may sometimes seem to let's go out and make a difference. things we can teach our children be. z Let's go out and make the two of are that they have roots and that

Farewell Dinner 2012 Speech

Andrei ZAVIALOV Specialist Degree in Region Studies, Irkutsk State University Currently the 1st year student of the Master Programme "European Studies", University of Latvia 2012 Intern to Peggy Nash, MP for Parkdale–High Park, Ontario 2012 Anne Mazurenko Scholarship recipient

на ті курси (порядку 6-8 осіб – спілкуйтеся українською, роз- У цей день, в день української щорічно), але це вже щось. Ми вивайте її, бороніть її, бо мова – писемності та мови, я до вас виписуємо підручники з України, це наш чинник, це те, що відріз- звертатимусь українською мо- з міста Львова, з Інституту зі няє нас від інших, це те, навколо вою, друзі. Для мене, як для зв’язків з діаспорою при Львів- чого справді можуть українці людини, для якої рідною є ро- ській політехніці. Але я отримую гуртуватися та може Україна бу- сійська мова, сьогодні важливо від того моральне задоволення – дуватися. І це дуже важливо – донести повідомлення з закли- що я даю людям можливість спілкуватися українською. Навіть ком зберігати українську мову. Я, доторкнутися до України, трішки якщо у вас російськомовне ото- як єдиний викладач української зрозуміти, що таке – Україна. Я чення в Україні – українською не мови в місті Іркутську, закликаю дуже радий, що у нас є люди, які буде шкідливо поговорити хоча б вас – бережіть її, розвивайте її, хочуть дізнатися, хто вони є, просто для тренування. Я завжди спілкуйтесь нею. Я почав вчити хочуть навчити мову своїх бабусь як приїжджаю в Україну – то українську в 14 років, самостійно, та дідусів, бо вчать її просто для розмовляю з місцевими меш- у нас в родині тільки прабабуся себе, бо подобається. канцями українською мовою, і трішки спілкується українською. Також під час Канадсько-Україн- байдуже мені якою мовою вони Може мене потягнуло в той час ської Парламентарної Програми мені відповідають. Це такий мій до рідних коренів чи що, я не в побутових розмовах я спілку- принцип – якщо я в Україні – то знаю. Але я абсолютно не шко- юсь зі всіма українською мовою, виключно українською. Звісно, дую про те, що я її навчив та крім наших грузинських друзів – там, у нас, в далекому Сибіру ні- спілкуюся нею зі всіма вами. Я з ними російською. Тут, в Канаді, яких перешкод проти української викладаю українську вже третій я взагалі мало спілкуюся росій- не робиться і мені завжди є з ким рік поспіль, мені зараз 22 роки, і ською, навіть незважаючи на те, нею поговорити, з певними людь- курси української в нашому місті що деякі наші хлопці та дівчата з ми з нашого Українського куль- проводяться безкоштовно. Це України спілкуються зі мною ро- турного центру. Але іноді нахли- таке своєрідне волонтерство. сійською. І я не кажу, що це по- нає нестерпне бажання чути та Мені цікаво вчити людей україн- гано, бо я поважаю свою рідну розмовляти українською. Ви, на- ській. Хай у нас і небагато ходить мову. Я просто звертаюсь до вас певно, це зрозумієте, коли або

48 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 CUPP in Third Decade мігруєте кудись, або поїдете в доторкнутися до західного світу, шиться зі мною на все моє по- довготривалу подорож чи на подивитися, як люди живуть тут. дальше життя. Пане Ігорю, дуже навчання. Один мій друг з Києва Надзвичайно важливо те, що Ви важливо продовжувати програму якось мені сказав: «Ти знаєш, робите – Ви даєте молоді мо- і після 2015 р., бо йде дуже ці- Андрію, це дуже дивно, і це жливість подивитися на те, як каве нове покоління, і там є теж прикольно, що москаль заохочує можна жити, як можна будувати над чим працювати. Я бажаю українців спілкуватися українсь- стосунки між людьми, будувати Вам здоров'я, щастя, всіляких кою. Це вже просто щось». А суспільний устрій, будувати до- успіхів та любові – Многая літа! одна моя знайома з Москви по- бробут. Після цього досвіду, я Коментар: в 2013-2014 навчаль- чувши, як я розмовляю україн- думаю, що ми всі зрозуміємо, ному році до нас прийшла ре- ською, сказала (даю переклад з яким чином можна навести лад у кордна кількість бажаючих вчити російської на українську): «Я себе вдома, у себе в місті, у себе українську – аж 56 осіб. Звісно, жодного слова не зрозуміла з то- в країні. Бо не треба вигадувати далеко не всі дійшли до кінця. го, що ти сказав, але яка ж гарна велосипед знову, треба просто Але це вже для нас своєрідна українська мова, так би і слухала подивитися, як він робиться, і планка. Детальніше тут: http:// її все своє життя». зробити велосипед для себе, та- www.ukrros.info/analitika/detail. Пане Ігорю, я дуже Вам вдячний, кий, щоб тобі було зручно на php?ID=4066 z що Ви мені дали можливість ньому їхати. Цей досвід зали-

In Poltava During the War of 2014/2015

Artur NADIIEV Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China 2015 Yuri & Oksana Fedyna Scholarship recipient

As the separatists are temporally the true attitudes of people to the occupying my hometown, I had to new reality of Ukraine. And even look for a new home, during my now, as the new ceasefre agree- Ukrainian tanks and soldiers. One three months’ break from my stud- ment was signed in Minsk I realize of my friends quit her well-paid job ies in China. that the people do not trust the Eu- to become a volunteer and help I came to Poltava, where my fami- ropean leaders nor of course Pu- the border troops with clothes, ly had already fed from our home tin. food, medicine and equipment. in Oblast. I arrived at the I see that people here in Poltava The war is also taking place in the beginning of December. It seemed understand that Ukraine needs cultural realm. Some people who like people did not care much them as much as they need would be bilingual in their daily life, about what was happening in the Ukraine. As my host family in have now switched to Ukrainian East. People seemed to go about Poltava is Evangelical Christians, only. Many cars, windows and their everyday life with work, most of my interactions with local house roofs are decorated with school and meeting friends for cof- people have been within the local Ukrainian fags. It is a small step fee. Some of my new friends were Evangelical community. During towards an important revival of in doubt if the war was really hap- Christmas, one of the churches Ukrainian culture. pening in the East. Others seemed went caroling, to raise money for These are some of the changes indifferent to events in the East. I the ATO needs. I attended a youth that I have noticed among average thought that the Ukrainian saying meeting where the Christian youth Ukrainians in Poltava. Even though “Моя хата з краю – нічого не of Poltava discussed what it means people want peace, they are get- знаю” (roughly translated as “My to be a patriot and how they can ting involved in the war to defend house is distant– I know nothing practically get involved in bringing their country, to the extent they about it.”) was a fair description of peace to Ukraine. Another Evan- can. They cherish Ukraine’s inde- the mood in Poltava. gelical group of women initiated z But as time went on I began to see making camoufage coating for pendence.

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CUPP 2010 Walking Tour of Parliament Hill in Ottawa

Kateryna LYSENKO Sevastopol Technical University Intern to Hon. Maria Minna, MP, Ontario 2010 Michael Starr Scholarship recipient

Mykhaylo PALAHITSKYY University of Vienna, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Intern to Gerald Keddy, MP, Nova Scotia 2010 Christina Bardyn Scholarship recipient

The buildings on Parliament Hill Block was Michael Star (Starchev- pression of stability, reliability and are a mirror of past events in Ca- skyy), whose parents emigrated to safety. A similar impression is cre- nadian history. The architectural Canada from Halychyna. ated by the current Central Bank styles show Canadian linkages to Let’s begin our excursion by walk- of Canada which was built in Art Europe as Canada formed part of ing along the Wellington Street. Deco style, and which combines the British Empire for decades. We This street was named after the modern and classical architectural invite you to join our walking tour English Duke Wellington and mem- styles. The same style is repre- on Parliament Hill. ber of the British Parliament, who sented in the Supreme Court edi- On September 19 all 23 CUPP In- initiated the construction of the fce, which is situated on the Otta- terns met Borys Gengalo for an af- Rideau Canal for military defense wa riverside and completes the ternoon walking tour of Parliament of Ottawa. On the both sides of complex of Parliamentary build- Hill. Borys Gengalo is a Canadian this street there are monuments of ings. Two statues in front of the historian of Ukrainian origin and two Canadian heroes, who lived in Supreme Court symbolize Veritas good friend of the CUPP Program. different eras and sacrifced their (Truth) and Justitia (Justice). It is He is a member of the Ukrainian lives for others. The Galahads- worth to note that John Sopinka Canadian Professional and Busi- monument is dedicated to a young was the frst Canadian puisne jus- ness Association of Ottawa and Canadian journalist Albert Harper, tice on the Supreme Court of Can- each year meets Ukrainian stu- who before jumping into the Otta- ada of Ukrainian ancestry. He was dents in order to acquaint them wa River to save a drowning called a patron of the CUPP Program in with the past and present of life out Galahad's famous words "If I whose honour a Scholarship is around Parliament. Parliament lose myself, I save myself". Albert named. Justice Sopinka died in Hill is the seat of government and Harper and the girl drowned in the 1997 and two years after his death of the most important government river but the monuments reminds a new courthouse in downtown buildings. There are other govern- Canadians of his heroic action Hamilton was named in his hon- ment buildings spread through the Close to this monument there is our. city of Ottawa. Parliament Hill is a another sculpture of a Canadian To make the long story shorter, we symbolic place dominated by the hero – Terry Fox, who had one leg would like to admit that walking on Centre Block Tower and clock. amputated due to cancer, who be- the Parliament Hill with Borys Gen- Parliament's Centre Block houses gan a marathon run from the At- galo brought us deeper under- the Prime Minister's offces, and lantic to the Pacifc Oceans to raise standing of the Canadian history some MPs offces. Centre Block is money for cancer-stricken people. and politics. It was a great intro- surrounded by the Supreme Court Walking ahead you will notice the duction into our internship and stay Building, East and West Blocks, grand building of Banque de Mon- in Ottawa. z the Royal Mint Building and other tréal, which was built at the begin- important structures and many his- ning of the XX century during f- toric monuments to historic Cana- nancial crisis. The Beaux-Arts style dian heroes and citizens. The frst of this Bank served to gain peo- Cabinet Minister of Ukrainian herit- ple’s trust in the Canadian banking age whose offce was in Centre system. The façade makes an im-

50 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM CUPP 2016 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1 CUPP in Third Decade

Mini CUPP'11 Reunion in Frank- furt am Main, Jan17, 2016. From left to right: Oksana Dekhtiarova (CUPP 2011&2013), Oleksand Ulianov (CUPP 2011), Anatolii Dzeman (CUPP 2011).

From left: Maryna Rabinovych (CUPP'13, Odesa), Kateryna Latysh (CUPP'13, Kharkiv), Lilia Ibadova (CUPP'10, Kharkiv).

PGI, CUPP Alumni, Kyiv, 2016-02-11. PGI, CUPP Alumni, Kyiv, 2016-02-11. International Students' Theatre Festival "Catharsis", staging of the "Christmas Carol" play by Charles Dickens. Director: Oleksiy Kovalenko (CUPP Alumni). L to R: Spirit of Marley, Per- forming Arts (Kyiv, Ukraine).

International Students' Theatre Festival International Students' "Catharsis", staging of the "Solaris" play by Theatre Festival "Catharsis", Stanislaw Lem. Director: Oleksiy Kovalenko staging of the "Ifmeda in (CUPP Alumni). Stage of Taras Shevchenko Aulis" play by Euripides. National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. Director: Oleksiy Kovalenko (CUPP Alumni). Concert Hall of Taras Shevchenko National PGI, CUPP Alumni, Kyiv, 2016-02-11. University of Kyiv, Ukraine.

International Students' Theatre Festival "Cathar- sis". Director of Italian Institute of Culture in Kyiv Mr. Nicola Franco Baloni greeting participants and guests of the festival. L to R: Nicola Franco Baloni, Oleksiy Kovalenko. Concert Hall of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.

CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM 51 CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM 2016 UNIVERSITIES CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM 2016 UNIVERSITIES

California State Carl von Ossietzky University Central European University, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Humboldt University of Institute of International Relations University, USA of Oldenburg, Germany Budapest, Hungary Medical University Berlin, Germany of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Ivan Franko National Jagiellonian University, Kharkiv National Kyiv National Linguistic Kyiv University Lehigh University, University of Lviv Poland University University of Law USA

Lublin University Ludwig Maximilian University Lutsk National Lviv Business School of National Mining University National Technical University of of Technology, Poland of Munich, Germany Technical University Ukrainian Catholic University of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”

National University National University Oles Honchar National Orebro University, Petro Mohyla Black Sea Petro Sahaidachny Taras Shevchenko of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy of Ostroh Academy University of Dnipropetrovsk Sweden State University, Mykolaiv Military Academy National University of Kyiv

Troy University, Ukrainian Catholic Ukrainian Free University, University of University of Economics University of Glasgow, University of Kent, USA University, Lviv Munich, Germany Connecticut, USA in Bratislava, Slovakia United Kingdom United Kingdom

University of Turku, University of Vienna, University of Warsaw, University of Wroclaw, Vinnytsia State Yaroslav the Wise National Finland Austria Poland Poland Pedagogical University Law Academy, Kharkiv