Inside: l Conclusion of interview with Alexander Motyl – page 3 l HURI series on Ukraine and the 1917 revolution – page 7 l Chicago welcomes Women’s Bandura Ensemble – page 16

ThePublished U by thekrainian Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationeekly Vol. LXXXV No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2017 $2.00 Canada faces Moscow’s wrath Ukraine’s health care system after enactment of Magnitsky law to get comprehensive overhaul by Christopher Guly On October 17, Bill S-226, the Justice for Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law), unanimously OTTAWA – As Canada’s Magnitsky law passed the Canadian Senate and took effect came into effect, the man closely connected the following day after receiving the to its namesake who campaigned for the required royal assent. legislation has found himself further target- The law – presented as a private mem- ed by Russia. Reacting to the bill, Russia’s ber’s bill by Ukrainian Canadian parliamen- Embassy in Canada called it a “hostile tarians Raynell Andreychuk in the Senate move” and promised “reciprocal counter- and James Bezan in the House of Commons measures”; President Vladimir Putin com- – was also unanimously endorsed in the mented that “This is just used to blow up lower house in early October. more anti-Russian hysteria.” Bill S-226 will allow the Canadian govern- Bill Browder, the Chicago-born, London- ment to freeze the assets and impose travel based financier who hired Sergei Magnitsky bans against foreign nationals “responsible as the lawyer and accountant for his now- for, or complicit in, significant acts of corrup- former Moscow-based Hermitage Capital tion and gross violations of internationally Management hedge fund in 2005, recently recognized human rights,” according to a had his visa revoked (and later reinstated) statement by Sen. Andreychuk, a Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine by the U.S. Department of Homeland Conservative who represents Saskatchewan Acting Health Minister Ulana Suprun reacts in Ukraine’s Parliament on October 19 Security after the Russian government in the upper house and who introduced the after reforms she has pushed to overhaul the nation’s health care system were passed placed his name on Interpol’s wanted list. legislation in the Senate last year. by the legislature. It’s the fifth time the Kremlin has tried to “What this law does is that it creates a use Interpol as a way to arrest Mr. Browder, certain amount of credibility and momen- by Mark Raczkiewycz Up to 8 percent of the nation’s economy who was sentenced to nine years in prison tum for Magnitsky sanctions worldwide is spent on health care – or 80 billion hrv KYIV – Ukraine adopted a crucial legisla- by a Russian court after being tried and con- that didn’t exist before Canada joined into ($3 billion U.S.), according to data provided tive health care package on October 19 that victed in absentia for tax evasion in 2013. the fray,” said Mr. Browder, who testified by the Health Ministry spokesperson. And is designed to improve the health of its peo- In a phone interview from London, Mr. before the Senate and House foreign affairs Health Minister Suprun, a physician born, ple and remove Europe’s largest country Browder told The Ukrainian Weekly that he committees in support of the law. He also reared and trained in the United States, from the list of nations that have the considers Moscow’s latest move against had successfully lobbied the U.S. Congress says that 136,000 Ukrainians die yearly – him to be “a badge of honor” and “a direct world’s highest death rates. It is the first lives a normally functioning medical sys- response” to Canada’s new Magnitsky law. (Continued on page 18) comprehensive change to the country’s tem would save. Soviet-era health care system since Ukraine With 15.6 deaths per 1,000 people, gained independence in 1991. Ukraine last year had the third highest The ailing state-run system will, as of death rate in the world after South Africa January 1, 2018, see “money follow the and Russia, according to the WHO. Crimean Tatar leaders are freed patient,” according to Health Ministry spokesperson Mariana Zbanatska, instead of Deputies’ immunity, anti-graft court since it occupied and seized control of Crimean Desk, having funds being allocated based on the Parliament pushed last week to elimi- Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service Soviet-era method of counting hospital beds. nate immunity from prosecution for Kremlin critics say that Russia has tar- “This will improve how the overall health national deputies. The bill passed in the Crimean Tatar leaders Akhtem geted Crimean Tatars and others who care system operates, provide better access first of two readings after which it was sent Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov, who were sen- opposed Moscow’s takeover of the Black to treatment and introduce standardized to the Constitutional Court for review as is tenced to prison by Russian courts on the Sea peninsula, which followed the ouster pricing for services throughout the country,” required by law because it makes changes occupied peninsula in September, were of Moscow-friendly Ukrainian President she told The Ukrainian Weekly by phone. to the nation’s highest legal document. released from custody on October 25 and Viktor Yanukovych by throngs of protest- The measures essentially follow how the President Petro Poroshenko also sub- arrived in Turkey, Ukrainian officials, leg- ers in Kyiv. United Kingdom finances its health care mitted his draft law for the establishment islators and lawyers said. Mr. Chiygoz was convicted of organiz- system and was backed in its original con- of an anti-corruption court – a key require- Ukraine’s First Deputy Minister of ing an illegal demonstration and sen- ception by the World Health Organization ment of the International Monetary Fund Information Policy Emine Dzheppar told tenced to eight years in prison on and the Group of Seven industrialized for further disbursements to Kyiv – to the RFE/RL about their release. Mustafa September 11 after what Amnesty democracies. Verkhovna Rada. Numerous times in the Dzhemilev, the veteran Crimean Tatar lead- International called a “sham trial.” However, Health Minister Ulana Suprun past two weeks he has voiced hopes to er who is now a Ukrainian lawmaker, also Mr. Umerov was convicted of separat- and her team subsequently lamented that have the parallel anti-graft judicial body told RFE/RL that the two men had been ism on September 27 after a trial that “vested interests” struck out certain accords created by year’s end. freed from Russian custody in Crimea and Human Rights Watch called “ruthless during the reform bill’s final adoption. were on their way to Turkey. They were retaliation” for his opposition to Moscow’s Namely, the option of co-payment for certain War casualties, cyberattacks expected to arrive in Kyiv on October 27. takeover of the peninsula. He was sen- services and “international protocols” that Alleged Russian cyberattacks yet again “Two more hostages – two political tenced to two years in a type of peniten- were penned to update outdated proce- struck Ukraine on October 24. This time prisoners – have obtained freedom,” tiary called a colony settlement. dures when a patient visits a hospital. they paralyzed operations at the Odesa Nikolai Polozov, a lawyer for Mr. Chiygoz, Mr. Polozov told RFE/RL that all Still, a National Health Care Agency will International Airport and electronic ticket- said on Facebook. charges against Messrs. Chiygoz and exist to control quality and determine how ing system of Kyiv’s subway, the country’s Rights groups and Western govern- Umerov have been dropped. medical services are paid in a system that is largest. ments have condemned the convictions, “Their release became possible thanks supposed to be free, in accordance with the Moscow denied any involvement in the calling their trials part of a campaign of Constitution of Ukraine, but currently forces attack. pressure and abuse conducted by Russia (Continued on page 13) patients to pay even for the most basic of ser- vices to save their lives, Ms. Zbanatska said. (Continued on page 18) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2017 No. 44

ANALYSIS

Putin hosts another Valdai to draw Kyiv moves to extradite Saakashvili October 20 from Penal Colony No. 10 in the southern Russian city of Novorossiysk, Former Georgian President Mikheil where she was sentenced on charges of attention away from Russia’s stagnation Saakashvili has called upon his supporters propagating extremism and separatism Lavrov put the blame for the deadlock in in Ukraine to protect him from Ukrainian online. Ms. Polyudova said upon her release by Pavel K. Baev President Petro Poroshenko. “Poroshenko advancing the non-proliferation agenda that she will continue to engage in political Eurasia Daily Monitor wants to extradite me,” Mr. Saakashvili said squarely on the U.S. Congress, which, activities after a short period of rest. Ms. in a statement broadcast on the NewsOne The annual meeting of the Valdai discus- according to him, has worked itself into a Polyudova conducted several hunger television outlet on October 24. “I ask Kyiv sion club provides a unique opportunity for “Russophobic rage.” But in fact, it is Russia’s strikes at the penal colony to protest condi- residents and all other honest people for many Western experts to “meet” with massive program of modernization of its tions there. She was charged in 2014 for protection.” Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Vladimir Putin. This year, the nuclear arsenal that directly undermines Internet posts in which she criticized the Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko Kremlin sought to build up expectations by Moscow’s proclaimed commitment to non- Russian government’s illegal annexation of announced that the country’s migration divulging that Mr. Putin was working on a proliferation (Kommersant, October 21; Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and the service had rejected Mr. Saakashvili’s appli- draft of a particularly important speech Nezavisimaya Gazeta, October 19). Kremlin’s support for separatists in eastern cation for refugee status. “As a result, he is (RIA Novosti, October 13). Mr. Putin’s paucity in conceptualizing Ukraine. The Moscow-based Memorial now a stateless person and there are no However, the Russian president’s perfor- the dynamics of global affairs stands in Human Rights Center designated Ms. special obstacles excluding him from mance turned out to be distinguished only stark contrast with the rich supply of new Polyudova as a political prisoner. (RFE/RL, deportation or extradition,” Mr. Lutsenko by his demonstrative lack of interest in the assumptions and guidelines coming out of based on reporting by Grani.ru and said. Mr. Saakashvili’s lawyer, Pavlo proceedings (Kommersant, October 20). He the 19th Congress of the Communist Party, Kommersant) recycled a number of clichéd observations in Beijing (Rosbalt, October 20). The orga- Bohomazov, told Russia’s RIA Novosti that about the growing challenges to the global nizers of the Valdai show were aware of the his client has not received a rejection from Nonproliferation group meets in Kyiv order, stated that the United Nations needed greater resonance of Chinese President (as the migration authorities. Mr. Saakashvili is reforms on the basis of broad consensus well as Secretary General) Xi Jinping’s wanted in Georgia on suspicion of trying to The United States and Ukraine held a and expressed a preference for gradual evo- opening speech, but hoped that Mr. Putin organize a coup there, allegations he Nonproliferation Working Group Meeting lution rather than revolution (Nezavisimaya would nevertheless deliver one of his denies. In 2015, Mr. Poroshenko appointed in Kyiv on October 24. The regularly held Gazeta, October 19). The absence of any trademark surprises (Russiancouncil.ru, Mr. Saakashvili as governor of Odesa meeting is one of several exchanges the meaningful content would have been note- October 20). None happened, and Mr. Oblast. He surrendered his Georgian citi- United States and Ukraine hold each year worthy were it not so typical of the way Mr. Putin’s grievance-filled speech illustrated zenship in order to take the post. In to strengthen bilateral cooperation to Putin has behaved for months, in the course the undeniable difference between a November 2016, however, Mr. Saakashvili address the threat posed by the prolifera- of his yet-to-be-announced campaign for a declining Russia and a China firmly set to resigned, saying that his reform efforts had tion of weapons of mass destruction and fourth term as president of the Russian continue going strong. It has also become been blocked by Poroshenko’s allies. In their means of delivery, advanced conven- Federation (New Times, October 20). apparent that, with all the talk about the June of this year, Mr. Poroshenko revoked tional weapons and sensitive dual-use The clearest impression coming out of two countries’ strategic partnership, the Mr. Saakashvili’s Ukrainian citizenship, say- technologies. Interagency experts from Mr. Putin’s three-hour-long Valdai appear- Kremlin actually has no clue about what is ing that he had withheld information dur- both sides met to discuss a range of non- ance was his disappointment in and anxi- happening in Beijing (Kommersant, ing the application procedure. Mr. proliferation, counterproliferation and ety about Russia’s relations with the United October 19). Saakashvili re-entered Ukraine in strategic trade control challenges, and how States. He blamed the U.S. for fostering Experts speculate about the growing September, even though his Ukrainian the countries can best cooperate to chaos in the Middle East, complained about similarity in the style of leadership of these passport was invalid. Mr. Lutsenko said on address those challenges. In light of the insufficient attention being paid in two authoritarian rulers, but it is clear that October 24 that Kyiv was preparing to growing threat from North Korea’s nuclear Washington to Moscow’s interests, and Mr. Xi’s fierce campaign against corruption expel 20 Georgian supporters of Mr. and ballistic missile program, this meeting hinted that the U.S. administration was too remains foreign and utterly incomprehen- Saakashvili who have set up tents for a put special emphasis on promoting effec- rude to North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong-un sible for Putin’s highly corrupt court ‘round-the-clock protest outside Ukraine’s tive and robust implementation of strategic (Gazeta.ru, October 19). (Vedomosti, October 15). Parliament. He said the men had received trade controls and all relevant U.N. Security Furthermore, he suggested Europe was Messrs. Putin and Xi both seek to posi- residence permits under false pretenses Council resolutions. (U.S. Department of following the United States’ lead too loyally tion themselves as experienced and wise and were now planning a “forcible seizure State) and argued that U.S. sanctions against statesmen, steering their respective states of power.” (RFE/RL, with reporting by Russia were aimed at carving out a niche in through the turbulent currents of global Meduza, RIA Novosti, and DPA) Odesa mayor’s home, office are raided the European Union market for U.S. lique- affairs (Republic.ru, October 20). The latter Ukrainian anti-corruption investigators fied natural gas (LNG) producers (RBC, builds this image on an impressive list of Pro-Ukrainian Russian activist released have raided the home and office of the October 19). achievements, from his trademark Belt and A Russian activist imprisoned for mayor of the Black Sea port city of Odesa, Characteristically, he refrained from any Road Initiative to China’s sustained eco- Internet posts criticizing Russia’s interfer- who is at the center of an embezzlement criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump nomic growth; whereas, the former boasts ence in Ukraine has been released from a probe. The National Anti-Corruption and refused to follow up when such critical about Russia’s “victory” in Syria and prom- penal colony after serving her two-year opinions were ventured by certain Valdai ises economic revival, even if official data sentence. Darya Polyudova was released on (Continued on page 12) experts (New Times, October 20). He stuck describes deepening stagnation (Rosbalt, to the flat denials of any Russian interfer- October 20). ence in the 2016 U.S. elections and Mr. Xi has found a way to make himself expressed his apparent expectations that an indispensable partner for Mr. Trump in the investigations in Washington would isolating the maverick North Korean dicta- The Ukrainian Weekly FOUNDED 1933 blow over sooner or later, finally making it tor, while Mr. Putin has positioned himself possible for Mr. Trump to return to the ini- as the main antagonist to U.S. leadership on An English-language newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., tial plan of striking a deal with Moscow. the international arena and the champion a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 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INTERVIEW Prof. Alexander Motyl on Ukraine’s struggle with survival

by Mark Raczkiewycz the utopias that people want. They usually fail and then there’s violence in the process. CONCLUSION Evolutionary change step-by-step shows historically KYIV – Rutgers University-Newark political science pro- that reforms can make the difference. Look at the U.S. It fessor Alexander Motyl is known for swimming against the had one of the most corrupt legal systems at the end of the tide when it comes to speaking about post-Maidan Ukraine. 19th century. The U.S. system is hardly all that perfect, but All is not lost and not everything is “doom and gloom,” his it has made significant changes. writings and observations often say. Look at the candidates for the Ukrainian Supreme Court, On October 13, the professor, novelist and poet spoke with the 120 or so justices. That’s a major transformation. They The Ukrainian Weekly via an online messenger service, just were vetted, they were chosen, and the vast majority, like five days before political opposition groups, including one led 80 percent, seem to be good apples. That is astounding. by Mikheil Saakashvili, former Georgian president and ex- Typically, Ukrainians, and critics of the government focus Odesa Oblast governor, staged a rally in Kyiv’s government on the 20 percent. district to call for the creation of a separate anti-graft court, Was Ukraine betrayed by the West in terms of giving election reform to make ballots open to the public and the up its nuclear arms and the Budapest Memorandum? stripping of immunity from prosecution for members of Aleksandr Chekmenev Will Ukraine succeed? Parliament. Prof. Motyl makes the case for “evolutionary,” not “revolutionary” change. Prof. Alexander Motyl When it came to nuclear weapons in the early 1990s, the West had no idea what Ukraine was, and wasn’t terribly After earning his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1984, and setting up golf courses or something like that. There Prof. Motyl embarked on an academic and teaching career. concerned about Ukraine. The Budapest Memorandum are legitimate auctions and tenders, there are ways to do that’s a little different. The West didn’t make a promise to The Ukrainian American has earned a reputation for having this. You need safeguards in place. You could certainly keep expertise on “Ukraine, Russia and the USSR,” according to rush to Ukraine’s defense, but it did say it had security the Russians out. Sure, there is a fear of foreigners and this guarantees and that suggested that the West would be in the World Affairs Journal. His most recent book is “Ukraine feeling of it being “our” land. Every prosperous society has vs. Russia: Revolution, Democracy, and War” (2017). some way actively involved in defending Ukraine. a viable land market. You’ve just got to do it. One could argue that the West’s response to Russia’s The following interview was edited and condensed for If Ukraine waits until it has strong rule of law and strong clarity and space. This is the conclusion of the two-part Q&A. aggression has been vigorous. The sanctions: pretty good local communities, then it will wait another 50 years. You stuff. The recent sanctions under Trump are even more In a recent YouTube video in which you appeared, have to make bold changes even when the conditions aren’t severe. Ukraine for the first time in 26 years is on the policy you said that nobody really wants to go back to the absolutely right. Then you adjust to the circumstances. agenda of most Western countries. It’s a positive place on times of Viktor Yanukovych and live in that atmo- Now is the good time because you have a reformist gov- the agenda. Ukraine is no longer perceived as just a problem. sphere again. When people see Yanukovych on TV ernment, although a little lackluster. So, in general, I’m not that unhappy; I could imagine better nowadays, he looks like a dinosaur to many... Why not just start certain institutions from scratch and far worse things and I’m glad they’re not taking place. Will Ukraine make it? The problem is if you ask people would you want to live like an anti-corruption court if the system is rotten to the core? My sense is that the historical perspective is useful. I’m under Yanukovych, the problem is if you read a lot analyses optimistic, I’ve been so since 1991 when I wrote an essay by Ukrainians of Poroshenko, I’m struck by the fact how I’m not opposed to having parallel institutions like the on whether Ukraine will survive until 1994, or something much people are saying that he’s building an authoritarian anti-graft court. It looks like Poroshenko is on board with like that. I think it will. regime, that there is no difference between him and that. But this notion that this system is rotten to the core Within five to 10 years, I think it will be a different coun- Yanukovych. That it’s essentially a return to the times of and can’t be fixed… all of history militates against that. try. It will be still democratic but more consolidated so. It Yanukovych. If these people seriously mean this, essential- The weight of world history suggests that it’s not true. will significantly be more prosperous. I think the GDP will ly what they’re saying is that Yanukovych wasn’t all that Deeply corrupt countries have become and can become grow. I don’t think Russia will take it over. bad. Essentially you’re saying that Ukrainians are stupid less deeply corrupt. That happens. The lesson of revolu- because after all this bloodshed, after all these changes, tionary change is that it never works. It doesn’t bring about (Continued on page 9) nothing has changed. Then you’ve gone full circle? I don’t happen to think that Poroshenko is anywhere close to Yanukovych. What people are forgetting is that every president in every democratic country, especially in the run-up to the elections, will always try to amass more Poroshenko vows push to create authority and power. Look at the U.S. Look at prime minis- ters in Canada, in Germany. anti-corruption court by year’s end Poroshenko is acting like a European. RFE/RL ception index. As a historian, do you think that institutions are still Mr. Poroshenko’s critics have accused him of deliber- so weak that Poroshenko can’t make these high-profile Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has vowed to ately delaying the court’s creation in the past to preserve prosecutions? It is a “catch and release” judicial sys- push for legislation creating an anti-corruption court by the current political order. tem. Nobody high up has answered for the Maidan kill- the end of the year, in an apparent response to demands He has previously said that no special judiciary body ings, for example. from Western allies as well as protesters camped out- aimed at tackling state corruption could be set up until So, oligarchs or criminal types, they get arrested, they flee side Parliament in Kyiv. 2020. the country, and in effect what’s happened is that these odi- Speaking while meeting with a border security unit in But Mr. Poroshenko apparently reconsidered the ous individuals who have been ruining the country have Kyiv late on October 20, Mr. Poroshenko said he was issue after thousands of protesters rallied outside the been forced to flee the country. Personally, I prefer to see reaffirming his support for a key institutional change he Verkhovna Rada on October 17, demanding the court’s them behind bars, but I’ll settle for them leaving the country. promised when elected president after the ouster of creation as well as the passage of a law stripping mem- Clearly, this is partly a function of the inefficiencies of the Russia-backed former President Viktor Yanukovych. bers of Parliament of their immunity from prosecution. Ukrainian judicial system. This may be a function of The move comes amid the first sustained wave of oppo- In televised remarks on October 20, Mr. Poroshenko Poroshenko looking the other way. We don’t know that, but sition protests in Kyiv since Mr. Yanukovych was ousted called the activists who organized the protests “provoca- it’s certainly possible. I could see why, because it’s not just during Ukraine’s 2014 pro-Western street protests. teurs” and said they wanted “to destabilize the situation his rule that depends on the goodwill of the economic and Mr. Poroshenko said he had already included money in Ukraine.” political powers that be. Presidents need the support of the for an anti-corruption court in next year’s draft budget. The protests were initially called by Mikheil political and economic elites. Since Ukraine’s economic elites “This testifies to the state leadership’s firm commitment Saakashvili, a one-time Poroshenko ally turned critic who are to a large extent corrupt, you have no alternative. Is he to launching this vitally important judicial body next was formerly president of Georgia and governor of Odesa doing enough? Probably not. Could he do more, absolutely. year,” he said. Oblast. But many of the Ukrainian opposition’s political This focus on the top 20 evil-doers is missing the point. “The way I see and plan it, the timeline for the new leaders have also joined the protests. This is typical of the Ukrainian scene. If you start putting court’s creation foresees the president’s signature on an The protesters proclaimed a “small victory” last week people in jail or start hanging them on the Maidan, and anti-corruption law by the end of the year,” he added. when Kyiv lawmakers agreed to proceed with two bills that’s what people would want, they want to see payback. Mr. Poroshenko urged lawmakers of all parties to help that would eliminate their immunity from prosecution. They’re not interested in justice or the rule of law. Payback is draft the court legislation, and said it should take into The measures were sent to the Constitutional Court for meaningless. Things haven’t changed in getting agricultural consideration recommendations made by the Council of review and cannot be introduced before 2018. land sold or the big state-owned enterprises. That’s where Europe’s Venice Commission. Lawmakers did not act on anti-corruption court legis- Ukraine should focus its energy, but none of that is sexy. Protest groups and leaders of the European Union and lation before recessing this week, and they are not due But that won’t address the problem of corruption International Monetary Fund (IMF), which have demanded to convene again until November 7. because there are bad circumstances in place that induce the anti-corruption reforms, did not immediately respond. people to do bad things. The IMF has called the establishment of an anti-cor- With reporting by AFP and Interfax. What’s left to do? Privatizing the big state-owned ruption court a “benchmark” of Ukraine’s progress Copyright 2017, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted with the per- assets and creating a viable agricultural land market. toward Western legal standards, and has said it would mission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 How much of this is politicized? help ease the release of loans in the future. Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington DC 20036; www.rferl. Ukraine last year ranked 131st out of 176 countries org (see https://www.rferl.org/a/poroshenko-vows-push- There are serious concerns. You want to do it right in rated by Transparency International’s corruption per- create-anticorruption-court-by-yearend/28807413.html). the sense that you get people coming in buying all the stuff 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2017 No. 44

Ukrainian World Congress president concludes working visit to Moldova TORONTO – Ukrainian World Congress parade marking the 26th anniversary of President Eugene Czolij traveled on Ukraine’s independence in Kyiv on August 24. September 3-4, on the invitation of the Mr. Czolij also expressed gratitude to Society of Ukrainian Culture in Moldova, on representatives of Moldovan governing a working visit to Chisinau. authorities for hosting nearly 300 orphaned During his meetings in the Moldovan children of soldiers from Ukraine’s war-torn capital, the UWC president expressed grati- region at summer camps in Moldova. tude to Moldova’s governing authorities for Mr. Czolij raised the issue of establishing their support of Ukraine, primarily on the parliamentary quotas for representatives of restoration and preservation of its territori- the Ukrainian minority in the Moldovan al integrity, and called for them to continue Parliament, highlighting the fact that the such support of Ukraine. Ukrainian community is the largest ethno- Mr. Czolij particularly thanked Moldova for cultural group in Moldova. co-authoring U.N. General Assembly The UWC president discussed providing Resolution 68/262 on “Territorial integrity of the Ukrainian community with facilities for Ukraine,” which was adopted on March 27, organizing cultural-educational and themat- 2014. He also cited the participation of ic events within the scope of the Bureau of Moldovan armed forces in the military Inter-Ethnic Relations of Moldova, and

At the Taras Shevchenko monument in Chisinau, Moldova (from left) are: Maryna Iaroshevych, Eugene Czolij, Oleksandr Maystrenko and Stanislav Bryzhatiuk. granting the necessary authorization that Ascension of the Blessed Virgin, visited would enable the construction of a Taras Shevchenko High School, and partici- Ukrainian Greek-Catholic church in Moldova. pated in wreath-laying ceremonies at the In addition, he called on the Parliament monuments to the famed Ukrainian poet of Moldova to ratify the European Charter Taras Shevchenko (1814-1864) and Stefan for Regional or Minority Languages of the cel Mare, ruler of Moldavia in 1457-1504. Council of Europe, and to further the devel- During his meetings, the UWC president opment of Ukrainian-language mass media was accompanied by the president of the and the network of Ukrainian schools in Society of Ukrainian Culture in Moldova, Moldova with intensive Ukrainian language Oleksandr Maystrenko; an adviser to the instruction. Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of In the framework of his visit, Mr. Czolij Moldova, Volodymyr Boyechko; and the met with the Ukrainian community in director of the UWC Mission to Ukraine’s Ambassador to Moldova Ivan Hnatyshyn (second from right) with (from Chisinau, attended divine liturgy at the International Organizations in Brussels, left) Maryna Iaroshevych, Eugene Czolij and Oleksandr Maystrenko. Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Parish of the Maryna Iaroshevych. UCC holds annual general meeting in Vancouver Vancouver to host this year’s AGM,” stated Canadian Armed Forces’ Joint Task Force- Canada’s defense minister Natalie Jatskevich, president of the UCC Ukraine has trained more than 5,580 addresses Ukrainian community British Columbia Provincial Council and Ukrainian soldiers in over 140 courses. On UCC Vancouver Branch. “Thank you to all my most recent trip to Lviv I saw the ways the delegates who attended for a lively, the soldiers from Ukraine and Canada are UCC vibrant and substantive discussion.” benefitting from the knowledge and experi- VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The On Saturday, October 14, the UCC ence from each other. It is tremendous to Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) held its National Leadership Dinner, dedicated to the see.” He added, “We are cautiously optimistic annual general meeting and a meeting of its Canada-Ukraine Partnership and the UCC about a potential peacekeeping mission in board of directors on October 13 through Leadership Awards, was held. Ms. Jatskevich Ukraine, if there is the right mandate, and if October 15 in Vancouver, British Columbia. greeted the guests of the dinner on behalf of Ukraine has a strong voice to ensure its Community leaders and executive mem- Vancouver’s Ukrainian community. The needs are met – and that is very critical – bers from across the country gathered to guests at the dinner honored Ukraine’s men that Ukraine’s needs are met.” discuss the progress on UCC priorities set at and women in uniform on the occasion of UCC National President Paul Grod pre- the XXV Triennial Congress of Ukrainian the Day of the Defender of Ukraine. sented Minister Sajjan with a “vyshyvanka,” Canadians last year. Over 40 delegates from The keynote address was delivered by a Ukrainian embroidered shirt, in apprecia- member organizations, provincial councils Canada’s Minister of National Defense tion for his strong commitment to support- and local branches attended. Dialogue and Harjit S. Sajjan. Guests of honor included: ing Ukraine. debate were focused around the three broad Bruce Ralston, British Columbia’s minister UCC National Leadership Awards were pillars guiding the work of the UCC: develop- of jobs, trade and technology; Ambassador presented to: Ann Kvitka Kozak, director of UCC ing the Ukrainian Canadian community; cel- Andrii Veselovskyi, Ukraine’s consul gener- the Svitanok Chorus; Gladys Andreas, founder Ukrainian Canadian Congress National ebrating and advancing the Ukrainian al in Toronto; and Mir Huculak, Ukraine’s and first president of the B.C. Ukrainian President Paul Grod presents a Ukrainian Canadian identity; and supporting Ukraine. honorary consul in Vancouver. embroidered shirt to Canada’s National “It was a pleasure for our community in Minister Sajjan noted: “As of September 1, (Continued on page 9) Defense Minister Harjit S. Sajjan.

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WINDOW ON EURASIA The Ukrainian Weekly Improving Ukraine’s health Lithuanians erect signs next to Soviet memorials Back in August of last year, Dr. Ulana Suprun was appointed Ukraine’s acting min- noting they do not correspond to historical truth ister of health. This Ukrainian American physician was well-known to our readers, foremost as the person behind Patriot Defence, the organization that has provided by Paul Goble (zinios.lt/lzinios/Gimtasis-krastas/prie- combat lifesaver training to Ukraine’s soldiers and NATO-standard individual first paminklu-sovietu-kariams-specialios-len- aid kits for the battlefield. She hit the ground running and soon proclaimed her Across the former Soviet empire, non- teles/252739). revamped ministry’s intention to reform Ukraine’s Soviet-era health care system. Russians have been taking down the Soviet- Lieuvos Zinios reports that this decision On October 19, acting Minister Suprun scored a major victory when the era statues that Moscow had imposed on of the local authorities was not coordinated Verkhovna Rada, with 240 votes for, approved a comprehensive health care package them. The Baltic countries did so in 1991. with Vilnius. Instead, Dalius Mikelenis, an that promises to advance the health of Ukraine’s people and improve how the health Ukraine recently eliminated all Lenin stat- official of the Birzai municipality, said that care system operates. It’s also a reform that is seen by the West as further evidence ues, and now Poland is being sharply criti- the town took the decision on its own of Ukraine’s movement toward the European Union and away from Russia. cized by the Russian government for elimi- because “we feel that we are making a con- A week after the health care legislation was passed, Ukraine’s Finance Minister nating monuments to the Red Army. tribution to the promotion of historical Oleksandr Danyluk announced that a 12 percent increase in health spending is But now a district in Lithuania has come truth and consider that we have done so.” planned for next year and that there would be more increases because this reform is up with a clever strategy, one that moves He said the reason Vilnius had turned a government priority. Dr. Suprun commented to The New York Times: “The minis- between the Scylla of leaving these monu- them down was because Lithuania and the try of finance is one of our biggest supporters. They’re big supporters of what we’re ments and their messages in place and the Russian Federation have certain agree- doing because they’re finally going to be able to follow the money all the way down Charybdis of taking them down and being ments about the maintenance of military to a patient. Whereas now we hand money out to hospitals and we don’t really know attacked by Moscow or by others who cemeteries, and he suggested that it is even what is done with it at that point.” decry the destruction of something they possible the Lithuanian government will Indeed, under the new system, “money will follow the patient,” Health Ministry view as part of the historical record. take action against the municipality for this spokesperson Marian Zbanatska told our correspondent in Kyiv. “This will improve At a cemetery in a district in northern step. how the overall health care system operates, provide better access to treatment and Lithuania, local officials have not taken But the municipality’s idea has much to introduce standardized pricing for services throughout the country.” Under a new down the monuments Moscow erected recommend it in the case of other Soviet National Health Care Agency, hospitals will be paid for the number of patients they near the graves of Red Army soldiers but statues that don’t fall under bilateral agree- treat, not for the number of beds they have; doctors who treat more patients will see rather put up new signs indicating that “the ments. And, in fact, it is not entirely new: a concomitant rise in their earnings. That is a radical change because, as The ideological inscriptions of the Soviet period just before Estonia moved the Soviet Financial Times noted: “Currently a large share of health care funding is inefficiently do not correspond to historical truth” “Bronze Soldier” from downtown Tallinn to spent and pocketed by vested interests along layers of bureaucracy, leaving few a military cemetery in 2007, some in that resources for care and medical professionals’ salaries. Patients are often forced to Paul Goble is a long-time specialist on country had proposed a similar strategy. make illegal cash payments to underpaid doctors.” ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia Instead of tearing down or moving the President Petro Poroshenko met with Acting Minister Suprun on the day of the who has served in various capacities in the statue, they suggested erecting new statues historic vote and said: “I congratulate you on this important result on the track of U.S. State Department, the Central around the Soviet one, memorials to all reforms, which is coupled with the reform of education, coupled with the pension those Estonians and others who were vic- reform.” Dr. Suprun replied: “This is the first step, and there is much to be done. We Intelligence Agency and the International tims of the Red Army and Soviet occupation, will work with you and the government to implement the necessary changes. Rural Broadcasting Bureau, as well as at the Voice including those killed in Estonia or deport- medicine, telemedicine will go hand in hand with the medical reform. ...The reforms of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio ed to Siberia. Such a step, these people felt, in medicine will also be of an anti-corruption nature …the system is changing and it Liberty and the Carnegie Endowment for would do more to promote an understand- will be transparent and fair.” International Peace. The article above is ing of the past than any other move. The Ukrainian World Congress welcomed the reform’s adoption, noting that it reprinted with permission from his blog “fundamentally changes the health care system and kick starts a series of changes to called “Window on Eurasia” (http://windo- Perhaps others will pick up on these health care in Ukraine… that will guarantee equal access to medical aid and standard woneurasia2.blogspot.com/). Baltic initiatives now and in the future. health care services for all citizens.” For our part, we can sincerely echo the words of Ukrainian Congress Committee of America President Andriy Futey, who was present in the Rada at the time the law THE DAILY VERTICAL was passed and stated: “By adopting health care reform, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada is addressing the demands of the people of Ukraine who bravely stood on the Euro- Maidan in hopes of a better future.” Sobchak says the unsayable

by Brian Whitmore Sobchak will be prosecuted for separatism RFE/RL or extremism. It’s also unlikely that such Turning the pages back... positions will win her many votes. Oct. Crimea is Ukrainian territory. Full stop. And those taking a cynical view of her Russia violated international law when candidacy will be quick to point out that Fifty years ago, on October 28, 1967, Sen. Paul Yuzyk of it annexed the peninsula. Ms. Sobchak is playing the role of Kremlin Canada delivered an address at a commemorative banquet on And the Ukrainian film director Oleh foil and patsy to a tee; that she is being the 28 the 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian National Revolution. The Sentsov – a resident of Crimea who publicly perfect caricature of a liberal opponent to 1967 event, held at the Sheraton Carlton Hotel, was sponsored by the Washington Metropolitan Branch of the Ukrainian Congress opposed the annexation and was subse- Vladimir Putin. Committee of America. quently imprisoned for “terrorism” – is a But this all misses an important point. Sen. Yuzyk began: “Fifty years ago in March 1917, the tsarist regime of the vast Russian political prisoner who should be released. By saying these true but forbidden facts Empire, the largest continental empire in the world, came crumbling down before the Saying any of these things – or even openly, plainly and publicly, Ms. Sobchak – forces of revolution. This downfall and ignominious end of Russian tsarism was inevitable, reposting or liking such remarks on social who, by the way, has more than 1.6 million for it had been the bulwark of autocracy, Russian imperialism and colonialism, oppression media – could get most Russians prosecuted Twitter followers – is making them a legiti- and reaction, appropriately called the ‘prison of nations,’ which was the very negation of for supporting separatism and extremism. mate part of the public discourse. freedom, democracy, national self-determination and justice, the principles which charac- But Ksenia Sobchak said all of them; and And that is long overdue. terized the Western world and civilization.” she said them live and on camera in her first Sen. Yuzyk recalled the actions of Ukrainian regiments from Volyn and Izmayil, who press conference as a presidential candidate. Copyright 2017, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted with were called to disperse a crowd of protesters in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) by firing into In a separate interview, Ms. Sobchak also the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio the crowd. The regiments refused and instead fraternized with the protesters, who were said that Kremlin aide Vladislav Surkov Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington demonstrating against the failure of the Russian Empire to maintain livable standards “has blood on his hands” for his role in DC 20036; www.rferl.org (see https://www. while maintaining a disorganized military campaign fighting on the side of the allies in the Russia’s intervention in the Donbas. rferl.org/a/daily-vertical-transcript-sobchak- first world war, which resulted in high casualties for the tsar’s army of conscripts. It is, of course, highly unlikely that Ms. crimea-sentsov/28814758.html). Two days after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, Sen. Yuzyk explained, Ukrainians took the first step towards liberation. On March 17, the Society of Ukrainian Progressives, hav- ing the support of prominent intellectuals, called into being the Ukrainian Central Rada, OPINIONS the nucleus of a Parliament. One month later, the Rada convened the All-Ukrainian National Congress in Kyiv and demanded autonomy from the Russian Provisional The Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters to the editor and commen- Government. Petrograd instantly rejected the demand. taries on a variety of topics of concern to the Ukrainian American and On June 23, 1917, Sen. Yuzyk continued, the Rada proclaimed the freedom of Ukraine within a Russian federation and declared itself to be the government. This revolutionary Ukrainian Canadian communities, as well as the Ukrainian diaspora. act inspired other peoples within the former Russian Empire to take matters into their Opinions expressed by columnists, commentators and letter-writers own hands. are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of either The A congress of non-Russian people convened in Kyiv on September 21-28, 1917, and- Weekly editorial staff or its publisher, the Ukrainian National demanded “a reconstruction of the empire into a federation of autonomous republics.” Association. (Continued on page 13) No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2017 7 Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute presents series titled ‘Ukraine in the Flames of the 1917 Revolution’

by Peter T. Woloschuk CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In 1917, exactly 100 years ago, World War I was raging on for a third, brutal year. On the western front, it had devolved into a static, almost motion- less trench warfare, in which neither the Germans nor the French, British and their allies had the ability or the momentum to move forward and overcome the opposing forces. It was war by a very slow process of attrition. On the eastern front, the situation HURI was different. The Russian Empire had field- Anne Applebaum Prof. Andrea Graziosi Dr. Yuri Shevchuk Mikhail Akulov ed an army of several million soldiers along a front that stretched from the Baltic to the claimed by the invaders and within months “As Putin tries to reclaim Russia’s global even in Russia proper; the St. Petersburg dif- Black Sea, and it did so without having its provisional capital was set up in Kharkiv. status and power with regular ‘reintegration fering from the Moscow, or the Siberian either the industry or the infrastructure to War dragged on for four years, and, projects’ once again, Ukraine figures promi- one,” Prof. Graziosi notes. In fact, there were fully meet the needs of the front or of the although the Ukrainian government even nently in these plans,” Prof. Plokhy empha- many Octobers throughout the length and civilian population scattered throughout the allied itself with Poland, at one point the sizes. “That’s why they’re prepared to fight, breath of the Russian Empire. What hap- vast empire that stretched across seven Soviet armies almost reached the gates of that’s why they’re prepared to really put on pened in Finland and the Baltic countries time zones. Warsaw. By 1922 the Bolsheviks had suc- the line their relations with the West as a differed from what happened in Ukraine, And, beginning with the spring of that ceeded in taking over Ukraine, even though whole. It was the case in 1917, and unfortu- Central Asia and Siberia. “And it was seen, year, the problems of the empire began to there were still sporadic uprisings, and nately, this is the case a hundred years later.” understood and lived differently in the cities, spiral out of control. The German and made it one of the four founding republics To commemorate this turning point in in the trenches, among workers, peasants, Austrian armies not only stopped the of the new Soviet Union. Ukrainian history, the Ukrainian Research peasants, soldiers, and intellectuals.” advance of the Russian armies but began Although under the Bolsheviks and Institute at Harvard University has orga- “These multiple 1917s were immediate- their own advance and took over Poland, all Soviets, Ukrainians experienced the hor- nized a series of events examining the revo- ly present in the minds and writings of con- of Galicia and part of the Baltic seacoast. rors of communism, collectivization, fam- lution and its consequences for and in temporaries, and they continued to live, Finland was in revolt, and the major nation- ine, de-nationalization, deportation and Ukraine. The series, which will be presented grow and differentiate in the following alities throughout the empire, particularly colonization to the point of becoming sec- throughout the semester, offers a fresh look decades, both within and without , in major Ukraine, were restive. ond-class citizens in their own country, “the at one of the most significant turning points political, intellectual, and historiographical In the cities, food shortages were devel- genie of independence was now out of the in Ukrainian history by some major interna- interpretations,” he explains. After 1991 oping because the country’s infrastructure imperial bottle, and no force on earth could tional scholars under the title “Ukraine in the and the break-up of the Soviet Union, this was severely overextended. Workers were put it back,” as noted historian and director Flames of the 1917 Revolution.” At the same multiplicity of “1917s” impacted the suc- underpaid, and living conditions were squal- of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute time, HURI also collaborated with Harvard’s cessor states. Prof. Graziosi will conclude id. Protests broke out, strikes followed. All (HURI) Serhii Plokhy, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian by looking at how this impacts their rela- sorts of groups and political parties vied for Professor of Ukrainian History, writes in his Studies on several talks, as well as a confer- tions not only with the West but with other power. To deepen the strife and confusion, book “Lost Kingdom.” And the legacy of the ence on the Russian Revolution, which was major countries on the rim of the former the Germans even transported some 1917 events endures. co-organized by Prof. Plokhy and includes Soviet Union, such as India and China. Communist leaders, including Vladimir “Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, a talks on Ukraine. The following were earlier presentations Lenin from Zurich to St. Petersburg, in the number of researchers have combed its Among the HURI series presentations in the series. hope of creating utter confusion and taking national archives trying to construct an his- are the following: Russia out of the war. torical narrative with instrumental support the movie “Arsenal: Ukrainian Revolution Following an increasing series of upheav- from the Ukrainian Research Institute,” noted Ukrainian State and the Russian Portrayed• Wednesday, by a October Counterrevolutionary” 18, a screening of als, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, ending more journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Counterrevolution,”• Monday, October by30, Mikhail 4:15 p.m., Akulov, “The (1929) directed by Alexander Dovzhenko. than 300 years of rule by the Romanov Anne Applebaum points out. “Many of them, 2017 Mihaychuk Fellow at HURI. The presentation and discussion were led dynasty and placing responsibility for gover- including myself, have also specifically Dr. Akulov will look at the Hetmanate of by Dr. Yuri Shevchuk, lecturer in the nance in the hands of a provisional govern- looked at the figures for the Holodomor.” Pavlo Skoropadsky and point out that, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia ment led by Alexander Kerensky. However, “Though Russia views any discussion of although he is seen as one of the champions University. The dual goals of the movie were within a few months, the Bolsheviks, led by the Holodomor as a threat, an understand- of the national cause of Ukraine and tireless- to solidify Dovzhenko’s place in the new Lenin, managed to overthrow Kerensky, ing of its history can inform our under- ly fought the Bolshevik onslaught from Soviet reality and ostensibly “to celebrate and seize control and begin to impose commu- standing of Russia today. It is important to Russia throughout his time in office, his glorify the Bolshevik occupation of Ukraine, nism on the country. remember that the Russian state that exists vision for the future was flawed and prob- to present it as the will of the Ukrainian pro- In Ukraine, the Central Rada had been now has decided to see itself as the inheri- lematic for most Ukrainians of the time, as it letariat and a historical inevitability,” Dr. formed in reaction to the ongoing events in tor of this legacy – and it didn’t have to,” Ms. still is today. As hetman, Skoropadsky clear- Shevchuk noted. However, “the message of the empire and in November 1917 it pro- Applebaum says. “Memories of the Famine ly developed a vision of Ukraine as part of a the film often undermines the legitimacy of claimed the Ukrainian National Republic in underlie much of the current tension united Russia and actively took steps to the revolutionary conquest of Ukraine by response to the Bolshevik coup in St. between Russia and Ukraine. [Vladimir] work for its restoration. Dr. Akulov will posing the question of whether the Bolshevik Petersburg, by then Petrograd, and it man- Putin, like his predecessors, particularly point out that Skoropadsky’s ultimate deci- victory was worth the horrific and enormous aged to avoid an attempt at a similar Stalin, sees Ukraine as something that sion to lead Ukraine into a coalition with the suffering it caused the people.” Bolshevik coup in Kyiv. Timid at first, the could destabilize Russia.” anti-Bolshevik pro-imperial White move- Rada stressed that it only wanted autono- Now a century later, Ukraine’s drive for ment triggered the anti-Hetmanate uprising “Holodomor Reconsidered: The Bolshevik my for Ukraine and that there was to be a independence and self-determination is that led to his unforeseen downfall. Revolution• Monday, and Octoberthe Ukrainian 23, 4:15Famine,” p.m., a restructuring of the empire on a federal again facing acid tests. The Orange talk by Anne Applebaum. basis. However, events moved fast and in Revolution, the Euro-Maidan, Crimea, the “Rethinking the 1917 Revolution,” by Andrea The journalist and Pulitzer Prize- Graziosi,• Monday, professor November of history, 6, University 4:15 p.m., of January 1918 the Rada issued the Fourth ongoing war in the Donetsk and Luhansk winning author discussed the findings of Naples Federico II, and associate of HURI. Universal, a complete declaration of oblasts in the east, and even the changes in her new book “Red Harvest: Stalin’s War on Prof. Graziosi will look at the “many Ukraine’s independence. the language laws giving preferential treat- Ukraine” that the main cause for the 1917s behind the traditional February vs. This triggered an almost immediate ment to Ukrainian in education and media Holodomor was Stalin’s fear of Ukraine’s October, Reds vs. Whites ‘pairs’ ” that have reaction from the Russian communist state highlight the people’s determination to self-identity and drive for independence, come to form the canon of Western histori- and an invasion from both the north and reject subjugation by Russia and embrace which had been unleashed during World ography. “In fact, ‘the October’ was plural, the east. A communist Ukraine was pro- their own vision for Ukraine. War I and never successfully put to rest by any Russian government since that time. Yes, there were crop failures in the Soviet Union in 1932-1933 caused by collectiviza- tion and peasant unwillingness to follow the will of the Soviet government, but in Ukraine it was different. There, the govern- ment deliberately deprived the populace of all foodstuffs and surrounded the country- side by troops in such a way that escape was made impossible. Within six months almost 4 million Ukrainians died simply because they were Ukrainians. The mes- sage was clear to Ukrainians: conform. Laws were passed that made mentioning the Holodomor a crime. Russians were Pavlo Skoropadsky (front, center) is seen in this photo from the A demonstration near the Kyiv Duma during the summer of 1917 brought in to fill in population gaps. Efforts George Grentham Bain Collection in the Library of Congress. is seen in this photo from the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. to Russify the country proceeded apace. 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2017 No. 44 No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2017 9

Plokhy on “The Future of the Past”

“The Future of the Past: New Perspectives on Ukrainian History,” edited by Serhii Plokhy, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2017. 516 pp. ISBN: 978- 7932650167. $29.95 (paperback). UCC Ukraine’s defense against overt Russian Ukrainian Canadian Congress provincial council presidents (from left): Oksana aggression is the latest international crisis Bondarchuk (Manitoba), Olesia Luciw-Andryjowycz (Alberta), Mary Ann Trischuk (Saskatchewan), Gregory Kowryha (UCC Quebec vice-president, representing UCC in East-West relations, which are at their Quebec President Halyna Holowka), Anna Kuprieieva (Ontario) and Natalie lowest level since the end of the Cold War. Jatskewich (British Columbia). History itself has become a battleground in Russia-Ukraine relations. Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec) Can history and historical narratives be UCC holds... and presidents of local branches presented blamed for what has happened in the the activities of their bodies and discussed (Continued from page 4) region, or can they show the path to peace successes and challenges with the delegates. and reconciliation, helping to integrate the Cultural Festival; and Vitaliy Kubatskyy, Chairs of committees established to history of the region in the broader founder of Ukrainian Media Society implement the resolutions adopted at the European context? (Vancouver) and Ukrainian Vancouver, an most recent triennial congress, presented Essays collected in “The Future of the independent online newspaper. reports on their work. The AGM also heard Past: New Perspectives on Ukrainian reports from the UCC board of auditors, the UCC leadership meets History,” edited by Serhii Plokhy, addresses UCC Charitable and Educational Trust, and these questions, rethinking the meaning of On Friday, October 14, the weekend the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Ukrainian history by venturing outside began with an executive committee priori- Taras Shevchenko. boundaries established by the national par- ty-setting session, followed by a joint meet- Following the adjournment of the AGM, del- adigm, and demonstrating how research on ing of the UCC national executive and pro- egates and Vancouver community members the history of Ukraine can benefit from University of New York), Faith Hillis vincial council presidents, and a meeting of participated in two interactive workshops: both regional and global perspectives. (University of Chicago), Heather Coleman the UCC board of directors. “Digital Communications and Social Media,” This latest book shows how the study of (University of Alberta), Zenon E. Kohut The board then held a discussion led by led by UCC Executive Committee Member Ukraine’s past enhances our understanding (University of Alberta) and Dr. Plokhy Ambassador Veselovskyi and UCC National Cassian Soltykevych and National Youth of Europe, Eurasia and the world – past, (Harvard University). This section takes a President Grod on Canada’s role in sup- Coordinator Connor Moen; and “Community present and future. look at the role of religion, post-Soviet porting Ukraine in the context of Russia’s Advocacy and Government Relations,” led by Broken into four groups, the essays begin Cossack studies, as well as regional cultural UCC Executive Committee Member Markian war of aggression against Ukraine. with “Towards a New Narrative” with sub- variations and their historical significance in Shwec and UCC CEO Michalchyshyn. The UCC annual general meeting was con- missions by Alfred J. Reiber (University of the face of regional nationalism. Mapping the vened the next day. Reports were delivered On Sunday morning, following a moleben Pennsylvania), Lilya Berezhnaya (University history of the Holodomor is also examined. by President Grod, CEO Ihor Michalchyshyn, service, the board of directors reconvened to of Munster), and Oleksii Tolochko and The fourth section, “Representations of and outgoing Treasurer Walter Dlugosh. discuss community programs and humani- Georgiy Kasianov (National Academy of the Past,” includes works by Marta Dyczok Delegates thanked Mr. Dlugosh for his years tarian efforts in Ukraine, as well as potential Sciences of Ukraine). Their writings bring (University of Western Ontario), Volodymyr of dedicated and conscientious service as opportunities for cooperation with the gov- into focus the scholarly challenges facing Kravchenko (University of Alberta), Tatiana UCC national treasurer, and welcomed ernment of Canada on community-led proj- Tairova-Yakovleva (St. Petersburg State Romana Latenko, who was recently appoint- ects in Ukraine. The discussions were led by Ukrainian studies in post-1991 Ukraine and University) and Paul Robert Magocsi ed UCC treasurer by the board. Paul Migus, UCC director of government in the diaspora, from the classroom to the (University of Toronto). These writings The UCC’s six provincial council presi- relations and John Holuk, chair of the UCC university lecture hall, and the risks in writ- highlight the role of memory and media in dents (British Columbia, Alberta, Ukraine Appeal. ing a new history of Ukraine. The second section, titled “The Transitional shaping history, as well as the perpetuation Turn,” includes writings by Andrea Graziosi of Soviet myths, and the struggles of teach- (Universita di Napoli Federico II), George O. ing Ukrainian history in Russia and in Liber (University of Alabama at Birmingham), North America. Mark von Hagen (Arizona State University), Dr. Plokhy is the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Hiroaki Kuromiya (Indiana University), Steven Professor of Ukrainian History in the depart- Seegel (University of Northern Colorado), ment of history and is director of the Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Other University) and Mayhill C. Fowler (Stetson books by Dr. Plokhy that have been pub- University). This section examines Ukraine lished by Harvard University Press include in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to “Poltava 1709: The Battle and the Myth” post-World War II, noting the changes (2012) and “Tsars and Cossacks: A study in within Ukraine during occupational rule Iconography” (2003). In 2015 he was the from the colonialism of the tsarist Russian recipient of the Antonovych Prize for his Empire to the Bolsheviks and the Soviet research on Ukrainian studies. Union, as well as the role that Ukraine plays Readers may obtain copies at booksell- in the global context. ers and online retailers. More information The third section, “The Return of the and copies may be purchased by visiting Region,” features submissions by Larry Wolff the link http://www.hup.harvard.edu/cat- (New York University), Iryna Vushko (City alog.php?isbn=9781932650167/.

You got Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia. Prof. Alexander Motyl... Today the geopolitics of Ukraine’s situa- tion is different. It still has a hostile neigh- (Continued from page 3) bor in Russia and it will remain that way, or There’s a significant difference of Ukraine at least unfriendly, in the foreseeable today and Ukraine of the past. If you look at future. But Ukraine is no longer trapped the Bohdan Khmelnytsky-led Kozak rebellion between two warring parties and, to its in the 17th century, they were caught good fortune, the countries to the west of between three countries that were fighting Ukraine, geopolitically they are more or each other: the Poles, Russians and Turks. less supportive of Ukraine. And the Ukrainians were right in the middle. If And Ukraine is in a position and has you look at Ukraine and its independence enjoyed this position for the past 25 years. I efforts in 1917-1919, it’s the same thing. think Ukraine can manage the Russian threat There’s Ukraine, and to the left, there’s the for the time being. The bigger fear for me is Poles, the Germans, the Austrians. To the right that maybe in five, 10, 15 years from now, it’s there’s the White Russians, the Red Russians, possible that Russia will collapse. If civil war or the whole place was just a mess. If you look at possible war breaks out in Russia, then I’m the independence efforts of OUN-UPA [the fearful for Ukraine. I think that it will survive Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and but it will again be inundated by warring par- the Ukrainian Insurgent Army], same thing. ties. That could be a very dangerous scenario. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2017 No. 44

Yurii Sytyi Frontal and lateral elevations of Ivan Mazepa’s palace in Honcharivka, a suburb of Excavations of the 17th-18th century dwellings of the Kozaks and burghers in the for- Baturyn before 1708. (Hypothetical reconstruction by Volodymyr Mezentsev, computer mer Baturyn fortress. graphic by Serhii Dmytriienko.) Excavations at Baturyn in 2016-2017: ceramic decorations of the hetman’s palaces and offices

by Volodymyr Mezentsev In 1708, in alliance with Sweden, Mazepa led a revolt for architecture of the Hetmanate. the liberation of central Ukraine from increasing Russian While excavating the remnants of Honcharivka’s villa in Special to The Ukrainian Weekly domination. In retaliation, tsarist forces, aided by a traitor, 1995-2013, many fragments of such rosettes were found. The war and economic problems in Ukraine have compli- broke into the Baturyn fortress, looted and burned down These plate-like ceramic details have a semi-spherical cen- cated, but not ended, the annual excavations conducted by the hetman capital, and annihilated its Kozak garrison, as tral part and flat circular rims. Their convex facing is orna- the Canada-Ukraine archaeological expedition in the town of well as all the residents – from 11,000 to 14,000 mented with relief rosettes, i.e., stylized flowers of various Baturyn, Chernihiv Oblast, since 2001. This is thanks largely Ukrainians in total. By the order of Tsar Peter I, the com- patterns, and covered by the white, yellow, green, tur- to the sponsors of the Baturyn historical and archaeological plete destruction and depopulation of Mazepa’s capital quoise, and light or dark blue enamel. project: the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) served as a demonstration of the severe price to pay for In 2017, this writer and the graphic artist Serhii at the University of Alberta, the Pontifical Institute of disloyalty to the tsar’s authority. His intent was to terrify Dmytriienko of Chernihiv examined numerous photos of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS) at the University of Toronto and and demoralise all of Ukraine. the unearthed rosette fragments and prepared hypotheti- the Ucrainica Research Institute in Toronto. Prof. Zenon Half a century later, Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovsky (1750- cal color reconstructions of six types of intact rosettes Kohut, a distinguished historian of the Hetman state and for- 1764) privatized and rebuilt Baturyn, and renewed its sta- using computer graphic techniques. Each type has its own mer director of CIUS, serves as the academic adviser of this tus as the capital of the Hetmanate. Although in 1764 the specific relief flower or geometric ornament and predomi- undertaking. Orest Steciw, the managing director of the Russian Empire abolished this Kozak realm, he continued nantly three or four subtypes with variations of color glaz- national executive of the League of Ukrainian Canadians, is to reconstruct and repopulate the town, and promoted its ing, up to 21 subtypes altogether. the president of the Ucrainica Research Institute. economic growth until his death in 1803. After this last These details were nailed to the frieze of entablature in The W. K. Lypynsky East European Research Institute upsurge, the former hetman capital fell into decline, but it row alternating different types or subtypes. According to the Inc. in Philadelphia awarded a generous grant for the is being revitalized in independent Ukraine. author’s reconstruction of the Honcharivka palace’s exterior, archaeological investigations of early modern Baturyn in Since 2009, following the reconstruction of the impres- these friezes on each of its three stories were decorated with 2016-2017. In 2005-2017, the Chernihiv Oblast State sive fortress citadel, the hetmans’ palaces, the state trea- rosettes of various diameters, ranging from 30 to 40 centi- Administration also contributed annual subsidies for the sury house, the court hall and churches, as well as the meters. Mr. Dmytriienko has estimated that approximately excavations in the town. establishment of several modern museums of antiquities, 264 rosettes were mounted on the palace’s façades. In 2016, nearly 70 students and archaeologists from the Baturyn has become a popular tourist attraction. Over the Specialists have pointed to the high technical and artistic universities of Chernihiv, Hlukhiv and Sumy were involved past three years, the influx of visitors to the town’s muse- level of the heating stove tiles or “kakhli”, the rosettes, and the in the Baturyn excavations. This past summer, the archaeo- ums and historical sites from Ukraine and abroad has slabs bearing Mazepa’s coat of arms from the Honcharivka logical expedition there decreased to 50 members due to increased, reaching up to 150,000 sightseers in 2016. palace. They recognize them as valuable pieces of Ukrainian the absence of students from Sumy. The expedition was Excavations in Honcharivka baroque architectural majolica. The rosettes represented headed by archaeologist Yurii Sytyi of Chernihiv National one of the most numerous and typologically diverse cate- University. Archaeologist Dr. Volodymyr Mezentsev (CIUS, In 2016-2017, archaeologists continued their excavations gories of the ceramic embellishment of this edifice. Toronto) is the Canadian executive director of the Baturyn in Honcharivka, the suburb of Baturyn. In the late 1690s, My conclusions regarding the ornamentation of the project. The notable historian of Ukraine-Rus’, Prof. Martin Mazepa constructed his principal residence there – an Honcharivka palace by six types and from 16 to 21 sub- Dimnik (PIMS), has also collaborated in this research. imposing brick palace (20 by 14.5 meters) with three stories types of rosettes with a palette of six colors of enamel com- and an attic. In 1708, Russian troops plundered and burned Baturyn then and now plement the results of earlier research on the application this outstanding piece of Ukrainian architecture. there of seven to nine patterns of floor pavements or inlays In 1625, during Polish rule over the Chernihiv-Siversk An analysis of the data from excavations of the with glazed and terracotta tiles, about 30 kinds of fine land, the Baturyn castle, the nucleus of the emerging town, Honcharivka palace’s debris and written sources, along glazed multicolored stove tiles, and two versions of terra- was founded. Subsequently, a sizeable and sturdy fortress with a 1744 drawing of its ruins, have allowed researchers cotta and glazed heraldic plaques. These findings attest to was constructed around the castle. It became the political, to establish the design and decoration of this structure. At the exceptionally refined, expensive and diversified ceram- military and administrative capital of the Kozak state in Mazepa’s behest, his main residence was likely built and ic adornment of Mazepa’s main residence in Baturyn. 1669. Baturyn flourished and reached the peak of its urban adorned primarily in the style of the mature Central I contend that the method of decorating the façades of development during the reign of Hetman Ivan Mazepa European baroque. However, my research has shown that this structure with ceramic rosettes was borrowed from (1687-1709), who was the best known and most respected the embellishment of this palace’s façades with glazed Kyivan ecclesiastical architecture between 1696 and 1700. in the West of all the Ukrainian hetmans. ceramic rosettes represented a distinctive attribute of the This corresponds with Mr. Sytyi’s assertion about the production of all the ceramic ornamental details of the Honcharivka pal- ace, including the rosettes, stove and floor tiles, and heraldic slabs by experienced arti- sans, or “kakhliari,” whom the hetman sum- moned from Kyiv. Undoubtedly, they made these ware from local clay while in Baturyn. Yet these masters could have brought with them the carved wooden molds that they employed to fashion rosettes for some con- temporaneous churches in Kyiv. In the 17th-18th centuries, in keeping with the Kyivan model, and possibly with the involvement of Kyivan craftsmen, sever- al monastic churches in the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Poltava regions were also embellished with ceramic rosettes. In fact, the Volodymyr Mezentsev Honcharivka palace was the only known Fragment of a stove tile painted with multi-col- residential building in Ukraine that was Volodymyr Mezentsev ored enamel, presumably a local Baturyn prod- ornamented with ceramic rosettes (exclud- Tiles with glazed painting in the Dutch style from the adornment of the stoves of uct from Rozumovsky’s era, from the 2007 Rozumovsky’s buildings, from the Baturyn National Preserve. excavations in the citadel. (Continued on page 11) No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2017 11

Excavations at Baturyn... (Continued from page 10) ing the later imitations on the dwellings or “kamianytsi” of the Kozak era). Thus, the exclusive application of this specific method of adorning churches of the leading Kyivan architectural school for finishing Mazepa’s palace in Baturyn shows the unique nature and national flavor of the structure. By its three-story design, highly artistic glazed ceramic poly- chrome revetments, and unusual combination of Western and Ukrainian baroque ornamentations the principal het- man residence stood out among the secular buildings of the Kozak state. In 2017, archaeologists partly excavated the foundation of some hitherto unknown destroyed brick structure at Mazepa’s manor in Honcharivka. Its investigation and iden- tification will be completed next summer. Remnants of dwellings, artifacts The 2016 excavations in the former fortress and the southern suburb of Baturyn discovered the remnants of wooden dwellings of the burghers and Kozaks, 11 silver and copper Polish and Russian coins, three fragments of copper rings, four copper buttons, four bronze and brass clasps, and six decorative appliqués from Kozak leather Volodymyr Mezentsev belts, saber-knots and horse harnesses, the fragment of a The 17th century fortress citadel of Baturyn with the Resurrection Church and the earliest hetman residence with- bronze saber hilt guard, four lead musket bullets, four flint in the bailey. Reconstructed on the basis of archaeological research in 2008. pieces from flint-lock rifles, an iron horse stirrup, a lead seal and a ceramic game chip of the 17th-18th centuries. glazed predominantly cobalt and white, but occasionally Baturyn outskirts. He argues that the majority of the 25 Last year, in the southern suburb, a 17th-century bronze brown, green, yellow and beige. These tiles boast of skillful buried inhabitants of the 17th-18th centuries exhumed in neck cross was unearthed. It bears the relief of a three- realistic and stylized drawings of people in 18th century the Teplivka suburb in 2005 were victims of the 1708 barred Golgotha cross with the symbols of the Passion of European dress, flowers and landscapes of early modern Russian attack on the hetman capital. Archaeologists Christ on both sides. In the fortress, a carved stone mold Western European cities and ports with sailboats, as well uncovered there the skeletons of children, men and women for casting neck crosses was also found. Mr. Sytyi has main- as sophisticated plant and geometric ornaments, all execut- of various ages – members of several families. tained that these items were manufactured in Baturyn ed in the late baroque Dutch style. In a southern suburb, in 2006, they excavated the before its destruction in 1708. Rozumovsky likely imported the best and most expensive remains of a child inside a timber structure that was In 2016-2017, the expedition continued excavating the tiles glazed cobalt and white from Holland for finishing the burned in 1708. In previous years, in several parts of site of the household of Judge General Vasyl Kochubei heating stoves and fireplaces at his ambitious palatial resi- Baturyn, archaeologists also uncovered human remains (after 1700) in the town’s western end. After 1750, dences and offices of the hetman administration. He could buried near or amidst the ruins of burned dwellings of the Rozumovsky owned this manor and commissioned three have also used some cheaper imitations of the fashionable 17th or early 18th centuries. Mr. Sytyi has positively identi- wooden edifices there. In Mr. Sytyi’s view, these served as Dutch tiles, which were manufactured in Russia from the fied these buried residents as casualties of Tsar Peter’s offices for the hetman’s administration, which were dis- early 18th century and possibly locally in Baturyn since punitive action. mantled in the 19th century. 1750. Conceivably, the flat tiles glazed brown, green, yellow In 2017, in Honcharivka, our expedition investigated the Archaeologists have uncovered some portions of brick and beige of Rozumovsky’s era that have been found in remnants of a wooden dwelling of the early 18th century foundations, which supported the timber walls of two of Baturyn represent Ukrainian ware. In their paintings, some that was burned together with the neighboring Mazepa Rozumovsky’s buildings. The heating stoves (“hruba”) influences of the style, images, and ornaments of Dutch villa in 1708. Inside this structure, an iron cannon ball from there were faced with artistic ceramic tiles. Last summer, glazed ceramics along with its national folk interpretations the artillery shelling of the town that year was found. two fragments of narrow tiles from the second part of the in the multi-colored enamel techniques are visible. The 2016 excavations in Baturyn have yielded several 18th century were unearthed there. They feature elaborate Last year, in the fortress, for the first time in Baturyn, rare and significant artifacts for the study of the ceramic floral motifs executed in dark-blue enamel on white and archaeologists found a remarkable tiny porcelain figure of decorations of residential and administrative buildings of yellow backgrounds. a gentlemen in 18th century European clothing. This statu- the hetman capital as well as the culture and lifestyle of the In 2016, within the fortress, archaeologists unearthed half ette was masterly fashioned in a realistic manner, although hetmans, Kozak officers, gentry and burghers there. New of a small rectangular flat ceramic stove tile that was glazed without small details, and painted in blue, red, apple-green, archaeological data have also advanced our knowledge cobalt blue and white, and bears the images of a house and gold, dark-bronze and black colors. I believe that it was a about the local manufacturing of metal ornaments, neck large flower in a baroque Dutch style. Stove tiles of the same product of the porcelain factory in Meissen, Saxony, and crosses, arms and accoutrements of the hetman’s Kozaks shape, size, coloring and manner of glazed painting from the was brought to Baturyn during Rozumovsky’s time. The and their horses, and the architectural majolica in the second half of the 18th century have been found in a consid- figurine could have stood on display in the house of either town, as well as its trade imports and artistic influences erable number in Kyiv and Nizhyn, and in Rozumovsky’s a Kozak officer (“starshyna”), member of the gentry (“shl- from Western Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. The buildings in Baturyn. At the museum in his Baturyn palace, iakhta”) or a well-to-do burgher, and served as a child’s toy. review of findings from the graves excavated by our expe- five intact analogous stove tiles are on display. They feature These finds of valuable German porcelain sculpture and dition in the suburbs has provided archaeological evidence depictions of early modern Western European country hous- Dutch-style glazed ceramic stove tiles provide insight into of the killing of entire families during the extermination of es, towers, stylized birds and flowers. the European commercial and cultural connections of the population of Mazepa’s capital. Perhaps these narrow and small rectangular tiles dis- Baturyn, as well as the Westernization and prosperity of its The recent detailed examination of its history and antiq- covered at Baturyn in 2016 were applied as decorative elite during the last town’s vibrancy under Rozumovsky. uities is presented in the richly illustrated Ukrainian- horizontal bands and cornices between rows of larger tiles language booklet “Arkheolohichni Doslidy Baturyna 2016 Excavations of cemeteries revetting heating stoves of Dutch design. Representative Roku. Keramichni Ozdoby Palatsu Ivana Mazepy” finds of such sizeable tiles from Rozumovsky’s buildings in Mr. Sytyi published an important article this year about (“Archaeological Research of Baturyn in 2016. Ceramic Baturyn are exhibited in his palace-museum. They are the excavations by our expedition of the cemeteries in the Decorations of Ivan Mazepa’s Palace” Toronto: Homin Ukrainy, 2017, 32 pp. in Ukrainian, 75 color illustrations). This publication is available for purchase for $10 from the office of the national executive of the League of Ukrainian Canadians in Toronto (telephone, 416-516-8223; e-mail, [email protected]) and through the CIUS Press in Edmonton (telephone, 780-492-2973; e-mail, [email protected]; web address, http://www.ciuspress.com/catalogue/histo- ry/361/arhaieologheichni-deoslidei-baturina-2016-r). Funding the explorations Next summer, archaeologists will renew their field explorations in Baturyn. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian govern- ment, burdened with heavy military expenses, will likely suspend its funding of this scholarly project from 2018 onwards. In a time of peace, the benevolent support of the Baturyn research by Ukrainians in the United States and Yurii Sytyi Canada was very important, and in the present situation it Yurii Sytyi Fragments of small ceramic will keep this project alive. Yurii Sytyi Half of a large glazed ceramic stove tile depict- stove tiles from the second part The most generous patrons of the study of Baturyn are An 18th century German por- ing a man and a floral ornament in the late of 18th century with glazed the late poetess Volodymyra Wasylyszyn and her husband, celain statuette found in the baroque Dutch style, from Rozumovsky’s pal- images in the Dutch style, from Baturyn fortress in 2016. ace-museum in Baturyn. the 2016 excavations in Baturyn. (Continued on page 13) 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2017 No. 44

stopped by tower security guards shortly decades.” Ms. Lungescu said that efforts are of wealthy people and officials in Ukraine, NEWSBRIEFS after the banner was unfurled. The protest- “under way to ensure that the NATO com- Russia, and other former Soviet republics ers were not arrested since the area is con- mand structure remains robust, agile, and often avoid punishment for misdeeds or (Continued from page 2) sidered public space. Mr. Sentsov was fit for purpose.” The alliance’s command crimes partly due to widespread corrup- Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) said the search- arrested in Crimea in 2014, following its structure is to be discussed at a meeting of tion. (RFE/RL, with reporting by UNIAN, es were conducted on October 23 at the illegal annexation by Russia. A Russian NATO defense ministers next month. Pravda.ua, and 112 Ukrayina TV) premises of Odesa Mayor Hennadiy court in 2015 convicted him and co-defen- NATO’s relations with Russia are at their Trukhanov and his associates. Odesa dant Oleksandr Kolchenko of planning to lowest since the Cold War over the conflict Ukraine detains Kazakh blogger authorities are suspected of embezzling commit terrorist acts. Both men deny the in Ukraine. (RFE/RL, with reporting by A Kazakh blogger who fled to Ukraine funds from contracts assigned for repairing accusations. Mr. Sentsov is currently serv- AFP) after criticizing President Nursultan a highway and approving loans meant to ing a 20-year term in a Russian prison, Parubiy seeks probe into Kharkiv accident Nazarbaev’s government has been ordered help refurbish the local airport but which while Mr. Kolchenko is serving a 10-year held in custody amid fears she could be vanished. “Since detectives are also check- term. Western governments and rights Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy extradited, her lawyer says. Zhanar Akhmet ing the possibility of the Odesa mayor’s organizations have called for Sentsov and Parubiy has called on law enforcement was detained in Kyiv on October 21, based involvement in these criminal offenses, the Kolchenko to be released, and the Russian authorities to “immediately and objectively on a Kazakh arrest warrant that accuses searches are being held at his home and Memorial human rights center considers investigate” a deadly traffic accident in the her of fraud, and was ordered held for 18 office,” NABU said in a statement. In com- both men political prisoners. Ms. Alyokhina eastern city of Kharkiv. Mr. Parubiy on days on October 24, attorney Vladyslav ments to RFE/RL, Mr. Trukhanov con- is currently touring with a play about three October 19 urged police to “bring the per- Hryshchenko said. Mr. Hryshchenko said firmed that his office was searched by artists in prison, one of whom is Mr. son responsible... to justice,” a day after a that Ms. Akhmet announced a hunger NABU agents. However, he denied that his Sentsov. (RFE/RL, with reporting by AP) woman reported to be the stepdaughter of strike after the Kyivo-Sviatoshyn District home was also raided. The raids came Report: NATO insufficiently ready a wealthy businessman plowed the car she Court ruling was pronounced. Kyiv regional nearly a week after the start of anti-govern- was driving into a crowd of pedestrians, police spokesman Mykola Zhukovych said ment rallies in Kyiv, which are currently NATO would not be able to rebuff a killing six people. Internal Affairs Minister earlier that Ms. Akhmet might be placed being spearheaded by Mikheil Saakashvili – potential Russian attack on its eastern Arsen Avakov said that the suspect was under arrest while Ukrainian authorities the former Georgian president who flank, according to an internal report cited arrested. Five people, including a pregnant consider Kazakhstan’s request for her became governor of Odesa Oblast in on October 20 by German weekly Der woman, were hospitalized with severe inju- extradition. Ms. Akhmet fled Kazakhstan in February 2015. Mr. Saakashvili accused Mr. Spiegel. The paper, titled “Progress Report ries, Mr. Avakov wrote on Facebook. March with her 9-year-old son, saying she Trukhanov of being one of Odesa’s corrup- on the Strengthened Deterrence and Kharkiv regional police spokeswoman feared for her safety if she remained in the tion bosses and pledged to bring him to jus- Defense Capability of the Alliance,” pointed Olena Barannyk identified the suspect as Central Asian country. She told RFE/RL she tice, but eventually became frustrated to significant deficiencies. “NATO’s ability 20-year-old Olena Zaytseva, adding that a decided to flee when she learned from about his inability to tackle bribery and to logistically support rapid reinforcement criminal investigation into possible driving- sources that she could face charges of resigned last year. (RFE/RL, with reporting in the strongly expanded territory of the safety violations was launched. According “organizing an illegal group” that uses the by RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service and AFP) European commander’s area of responsi- to Ms. Barannyk, Ms. Zaytseva drove her Internet to advocate self-immolation. Ms. bility has atrophied since the end of the Pussy Riot protests Sentsov imprisonment Lexus SUV into the pedestrians after it col- Akhmet previously faced a series of court Cold War,” Der Spiegel quoted the report as lided at high speed with another car, whose hearings in Almaty for alleged legal viola- Members of the Russian performance- saying. Even the strengthening of the NATO driver is being questioned as a witness in tions, including jaywalking, that she consid- art collective Pussy Riot have carried out a Response Force (NRF) has failed to ensure the case. The identity of that driver was not ered to be harassment by Kazakh authori- protest in support of jailed Ukrainian film- that it could “react rapidly and – if neces- disclosed. Local media reports say Ms. ties. She says all of the accusations against maker Oleh Sentsov at Trump Tower in sary – sustainably,” it said. The report cited Zaytseva is a stepdaughter of a successful her have been politically motivated retalia- New York City. On October 24, Pussy Riot a downsized command structure since the Kharkiv businessman, Vasyl Zaytsev, and tion for her writing. (RFE/RL, based on member Maria Alyokhina posted on social fall of communism as one of the paramount the Lexus was registered to him. Relatives reporting by Hromadske and UNIAN) media photographs and video of three elements that has undermined the alli- masked women unfurling a large banner ance’s defense capabilities, Der Spiegel with the slogan “Free Sentsov” inside the quoted the report as saying. NATO spokes- skyscraper that is owned by U.S. President woman Oana Lungescu declined to com- Donald Trump and is where he lived before ment on the German magazine report but moving to the White House in January. 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the Russian Soviet regime undermined and ager), the Prometheus Foundation (Maria Turning... conquered these freedom-loving nations, Excavations... Szkambara, president), the Ukrainian thus restoring the most powerful colonial Credit Union (Taras Pidzamecky, CEO), the (Continued from page 6) (Continued from page 11) empire known in the history of mankind.” Golden Lion Restaurant (Anna Kisil, owner) Petrograd again rejected the demands for Sen. Yuzyk suggested that had the artist Roman Wasylyszyn (Philadelphia), and the Healing Source Integrative autonomy for the republics. Western powers recognized and supported Andrew Maleckyj and Motria Kyzycz (New Pharmacy (Omelan and Zenia Chabursky, The Bolsheviks seized power on Ukraine as an independent republic at its York), Alexandra Zolobecky-Misiong owners) in Toronto. November 7, 1917, and with it the Russian inception, this would have prevented the (Livonia, Mich.), and Dr. George Iwanchyshyn Continued support for archaeological Revolution began, which resulted in the expansion of Bolshevik Russia into a Soviet and Dr. Wilhelmina Degroot (Toronto). investigations in Baturyn and the publica- Rada’s Third Universal on November 20, Russian Empire. In 2016-2017, the archaeological tion of their findings by Ukrainian organi- that proclaimed a democratic Ukrainian Sen. Yuzyk summarized: “The Ukrainian research on the hetman capital and the zations, foundations, companies and pri- National Republic. nation has shed the blood of her finest sons preparation of related publications were vate benefactors in the U.S. and Canada will A Fourth Universal was issued on January and daughters for her freedom and democ- supported with donations by the Canadian be most welcome. They are kindly invited 22, 1918, wherein the Rada proclaimed racy and is still carrying on a relentless contributors to the Ukrainian Studies Fund to send their checks with donations to: Stan Ukraine an independent and sovereign struggle against the totalitarian Soviet Inc. at Harvard University, the Ukrainian Kamski, Treasurer, Pontifical Institute of republic, the consummation of the liberation Russian imperialism. If the United Nations History and Educational Center in Mediaeval Studies, 59 Queen’s Park Cr. E., revolution and in keeping with the self-deter- declaration that ‘all peoples have an Somerset, N.J. (Natalia Honcharenko, direc- Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 2C4. Please mination of nations set forth by President inalienable right to complete freedom, the tor), the National Executive of the League of make your checks payable to: Pontifical Woodrow Wilson, Sen. Yuzyk added. exercise of their sovereignty and the integ- Ukrainian Canadians (Roman Medyk, presi- Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Memo: Gradually, Ukraine and the other repub- rity of their national territory’ applies dent), the League of Ukrainian Canadians – Baturyn Project). The institute will issue lics that declared independence in those equally as well to people in Africa and Asia Toronto branch (Borys Mykhaylets, presi- official tax receipts to all American and early days following the collapse of the without historical statehood, then surely it dent), the League of Ukrainian Women in Canadian donors, and they will be grateful- Russian Empire were subverted and con- must apply to the civilized Ukrainian nation Canada – Toronto branch (Halyna Vynnyk, ly acknowledged in related publications quered by the Red Army under totalitarian of 45 million people with a historical state- president), the Kniahynia Olha Branch of and public presentations. rule, “not much different from the autocrat- hood and having already exercised her the Ukrainian Women’s Association of For more information about the Baturyn ic tsarist regime,” Sen. Yuzyk noted. “The right to self-determination by the Act of Canada (Natalia Jemetz, president), the project, readers may contact Dr. Mezentsev National Liberation Revolution, which January 22, 1918.” Buduchnist Credit Union (Oksana Prociuk, in Toronto at 416-766-1408 or e-mail brought into existence many independent Source: “The three revolutions of fifty CEO, and Chrystyna Bidiak, personnel man- [email protected]. states, received no support from the years ago,” by Sen. Paul Yuzyk, The Western democratic powers; as a result, Ukrainian Weekly, November 4, 1967. З великим жалем повідомляємо, що 18 жовтня 2017 року chairmen of the Mejlis, the Crimean Tatar відійшов від нас у вічність на 85-му році життя Crimean Tatar... self-governing body, which Russian author- ities deemed extremist and outlawed in св. п. (Continued from page 1) what rights groups and Western govern- to the support of those who are not indif- ments said was part of a persistent cam- Юрій Орестович Клюфас ferent to political prisoners, who are not paign of oppression targeting Crimean Залишив у великому смутку: indifferent to Crimean Tatars,” Mr. Polozov Tatars and other citizens who opposed said. He said the releases were the result of Moscow’s takeover. дружину, доню Наталію (Нату) з родиною, внука Максима, “huge judicial, diplomatic and political Mr. Umerov, who suffers from diabetes сина Романа, брата Константина (Кока) з родиною, work” by Mr. Dzhemilev, Turkish President and Parkinson’s disease, was confined to a та ближчу і дальшу родину в США, Канаді та Україні. Recep Tayyip Erdogan and others. psychiatric hospital in August 2016, a deci- “Neither Akhtem Chiygoz nor Ilmi sion condemned by Human Rights Watch Замість квітів просимо складати пожертви на Plast Inc. - Siromanci. Umerov asked for clemency or amnesty,” as “an egregious violation of his rights.” Частина зібраних фондів буде передана на сиротинець у Львові. Mr. Polozov said. “They are heroes of the In March, the European Parliament Чеки просимо висилати на: J. Kozak, 366 Pheasant Dr., Huntingdon Crimean Tatar people – Ukrainian political called on Russia to free more than 30 Valley, PA 19006. prisoners for whom moral principles and Ukrainian citizens it said were in prison or conscience are more important than their other conditions of restricted freedom in Нехай з Богом спочиває. own liberty. They are not people one can Russia, Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine Вічна Йому пам’ять! force to go on bended knee and ask for that are controlled by Russia-backed sepa- mercy from the Russian state.” ratists. Most of them remain in custody. In a Facebook post, Mr. Poroshenko In his Facebook post, Mr. Poroshenko thanked the president of Turkey for his role said he would seek the release of all in the release of Messrs. Chiygoz and Ukrainians held by Russia. “This issue will Umerov, which came within weeks after remain as one of the urgent ones in my President Erdogan met with Russian talks with the world’s leaders,” he said, President Vladimir Putin in Ankara in late vowing to continue what he called “the September and with President Poroshenko joint fight for liberation of all Ukrainian citi- in Kyiv on October 9. zens and their return home.” At a joint news conference with Mr. Ділимося сумною вісткою з родиною і приятелями, Poroshenko during his visit to Kyiv, Mr. With reporting by Merhat Sharipzhan. що в п’ятницю, 6 жовтня 2017 року, по короткій недузі Copyright 2017, RFE/RL Inc. Reprinted Erdogan had stressed that Turkey consid- відійшов у вічність на 95-му році життя ers Crimea part of Ukraine and will contin- with the permission of Radio Free Europe/ наший найдорожчий ue to pay close attention to the plight of the Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Crimean Tatars, a Turkic-speaking, mostly Washington DC 20036; www.rferl.org (for Батько і Стрийко Muslim minority whose members were the complete text see https://www.rferl. largely opposed to the Russian takeover. org/a/ukraine-crimea-tatar-leaders-chi- св. п. Messrs. Umerov and Chiygoz are deputy ygoz-umerov-released/28815211.html). ВОЛОДИМИР КОСТЮК нар. у Львові, Україна. global dynamics offer Russia little chance to Putin hosts... sink quietly into the quagmire of Putinism. У глибокому смутку залишилися: The unchangeable leader has to respond to (Continued from page 2) new challenges – from tightening U.S. sanc- син - РОМАН з дружиною МЕРЕЛІН tions to terrorist attacks – and his ill-con- Ukraine’s Crimea and largely shrugged off братова - СТЕФАНІЯ КОСТЮК, (Україна) the murder of opposition politician Boris sidered responses could make him the Nemtsov. most dangerous maverick in the world. братаниці - ІРИНА СЕРДІЙ з чоловіком АНАТОЛІЄМ, (Україна) Mr. Putin has become entirely predict- able in keeping Russia on the steady course The article above is reprinted from - МАРІЯ і ЮРІЙ КАМША з дітьми, (Ореґон, США) of decline, and he counts on broad public Eurasia Daily Monitor with permission from ближча і дальша родина в Україні і Польщі. consent to keep his hand on the wheel. This its publisher, the Jamestown Foundation, “harmony,” however, is set to be broken as www.jamestown.org. 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COMMUNITY CHRONICLE Hillside parish honors Yankees legend on the 100th anniversary of his birth by Joe Shatynski Berra shared a very personal side of the strong friendship that Yogi Berra and Rizzuto had. HILLSIDE, N.J. – New York Yankees legend and 57-year “They were both good men who cared about people and resident of Hillside, N.J., Phil Rizzuto (a.k.a. The Scooter), showed over and over again that physical stature is no would have been 100 years old on September 25. Sixty indication of the size of a person’s heart. They are both years ago, in 1957, Rizzuto was one of the early benefac- remembered as much for their goodness off the field as tors of the building fund of Immaculate Conception they are for their greatness on it, and for that reason, Phil’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Hillside – despite having no legacy, like my Dad’s, ain’t over yet,” the letter read. ties to the parish other than being a resident of the town. Just as the organist played “Ave Maria” in Yankee To honor Rizzuto and to show appreciation of his past Stadium after Rizzuto died, one of the young parishioners generosity, on Sunday, September 24, the Hillside parish of Immaculate Conception performed a beautiful rendition offered the liturgy intentions for him. on the flute in honor of Rizzuto. Immediately after the liturgy, Ann Pettigrew, president Parishioner Michael Szpyhulsky closed the celebration of the Hillside Historical Society, gave a captivating speech by thanking Rizzuto for his generosity and, more impor- about Rizzuto’s storied life and her own personal accounts tantly, for bringing parishioners and non-parishioners of having known the baseball great and his wife, Cora, very together in church 60 years after his gift to the parish. well. She also brought several memorabilia to church from the Phil Rizzuto Exhibit collection housed in the Woodruff House of the Hillside Historical Society, of which Rizzuto was an active and dedicated member. Some of the outstanding career achievements of Rizzuto St. Vladimir Cathedral that Ms. Pettigrew mentioned: named the American recognizes altar servers Ann Pettigrew, president of the Hillside Historical Society, provides an overview of Phil Rizzuto’s achieve- ments and her personal experiences with the baseball great and his wife, Cora. League’s Most Valued Player (MVP) in 1950; played in nine World Series over his 13-year career with the Yankees, winning seven of those; considered the best Yankees short- stop in history prior to Derek Jeter; elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1994; had his No. 10 retired in Monument Park of Yankee Stadium in 1985; was radio and television announcer for the Yankees for 40 years. The guest speaker described Rizzuto personally as “a very humble, sweet, unassuming, endearing gentleman who also had a great sense of humor. He was able to take a joke, as well.” She also mentioned that he was “very gener- ous – mostly quietly” including raising over $2 million through his celebrity golf tournament and the Rizzuto fam- ily for St. Joseph’s School for the Blind in Jersey City, N.J., a Catholic institution founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. The parish was also blessed to have received a personal letter from Larry Berra (Yogi Berra’s son) written specifi- PARMA, Ohio – On Sunday, September 17, St. Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Parma, Ohio, joyfully A young parishioner plays “Ave Maria” on the flute in cally for the September 24 gathering at the church. In his honor of the 100th anniversary of Phil Rizzuto’s birth. letter, which was read by parishioner Joe Shatynski, Mr. continued the tradition of welcoming new altar boys at the altar. Following special prayers and vesting in their robes, they were presented with icons from the parish’s senior chapter of the Ukrainian Orthodox League, as well as certificates of recognition of their first day as altar Razom panel discusses innovation in Ukraine servers. Pictured above (from left) are: Landon Mroczka, Kyrylo Mahlay and Tyler Widmor. Graduating altar serv- ers were honored for their years of service with plaques of recognition. Pictured below are: Michael Parfejewiec, Matthew Greaves and Severyn Kushmeliuk. Also pic- tured are Father John Nakonachny, pastor, and Father Michael Hontaruk, assistant pastor. St. Vladimir cur- rently has 15 altar servers who regularly serve at the two Sunday divine liturgies.

Bohdan Pechenyak NEW YORK – Razom hosted a lively panel discussion on contemporary Ukraine on Saturday, September 23, moder- ated by Dasha Ozimko (left) with (from left) Andrii Suslenko, a participant of the RAF Journalism Fellowship at the United Nations; Daria Sipigina of Pennsylvania State University; Luke Tomycz, M.D.; Mariya Soroka, Razom co- founder and president; and Igor Gudz, entrepreneur. The panelists shared their experiences of innovation in Ukraine in the fields of journalism, cultural diplomacy, medicine, civic engagement, and manufacturing backpacks and selling them globally. The event was part of the annual meeting of the non-profit, volunteer organization, Razom, held in New York at Civic Hall in Manhattan. Over 100 people attended the gathering and heard updates regarding finances and highlights of past and present projects. Razom was established in 2014 to support the people of Ukraine in their continued quest for democracy, justice and human rights. For more information, visit razomforukraine.org. No. 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2017 15

COMMUNITY CHRONICLE UMANA foundation fosters medical education in 2017

by Maria Hrycelak CHICAGO – The UMANA Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization estab- lished to improve medical literacy and knowledge among Ukrainians worldwide. It is the educational and instructive arm of the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America (UMANA), awarding scholarships, sponsoring CPR classes and supporting educational conferences. Scholarship recipients of the UMANA Foundation (from left): William Buniak, Solomiya Grushchak, Michael Kochis, Victoria This 2017-2018 academic year, the Kuritza, Nazar Nebeluk and Peter Tylawsky. UMANA Foundation and its Dr. Walter and Olha Prokopiw Scholarship Fund has award- Each recipient receives $3,000 to defray descent who show promise and commit- ties by teaching them rock climbing. ed six scholarships, encouraging and sup- some of the expenses of medical or dental ment in their health care careers. porting students who have chosen a profes- school tuition. The cost of one year of medi- The following are this year’s scholar- year at the University of Illinois College of sion in the healing arts. Since 2007, the foun- cal education nears $50,000. Many stu- ships recipients. Medicine.• Victoria She Kuritza is a member will begin of the her communi second- dation has awarded 50 scholarships to dents incur large debts upon graduating. To ty health fair for underinsured sponsored deserving medical and dental students who help relieve the financial burden, the foun- student at New York Institute of Technology by the college. She mentors students at the are studying in the United States and Canada. dation seeks to assist students of Ukrainian – College• William of Osteopathic Buniak is a Medicine.third-year He medical has a medical school. She is long-time member of master’s degree in nutrition from Cornell Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization who University. An avid triathlete, he is interest- continues to be active in organizing camps ed in resistance training and weight main- for teen scouts. She is an active UMANA tenance. He was a lecturer at the 2015 Illinois member. UMANA conference on the topic of endur- ance sports nutrition. at Louisiana State School of Medicine M.D./ Ph.D.• Nazary program. Nebeluk His interest is a third-year in infectious student dis- medical student at Loyola Stritch School of ease allowed him to establish the Infectious Medicine• Solomiya near Grushchak Chicago. She is acontinues fourth-year to Disease Interest Group. His poster presenta- receive high honors grades in her classes. Her tion (treatment of ocular diseases in viral ill- interest in dermatology has prompted her to nesses) at Louisiana State Medical research do research work on melanomas, the most symposium won first place. He is now in the deadly skin cancer. She has presented classes Ph.D. part of his program-microbiology and at the local Ukrainian grammar school tries to stay active in Plast. through the “Sun Smarts” program, helping to educate the children about sun damage. at the New York University College of Dentistry.• Peter HeTylawsky is at the is atop third-year of his class student and student at Harvard Medical School. He is received an award for the highest GPA. He involved• Michael in KochisUkrainian is a third-yearlife through medical his helped write the curriculum for teaching Orthodox parish in Pennsylvania, where his middle school students about dental care. father is the pastor. He volunteers in He continues to remain active in the depressed neighborhoods, helping the Ukrainian American Youth Association. underprivileged. He mentors and encour- The UMANA Foundation-sponsored CPR course for Plast scouts in Seattle. ages youths with neuromuscular disabili- (Continued on page 18) Ukrainian American Veterans award scholarships for 2017

Ukrainian American Veterans Scholarship Awards recipients (from left): Alexander Geba, Deanna Marie Koski, Brandon Paul Hrycak, Anna Terrebetzky, Laryssa Natalie Horodysky, Lily Anne Lynch and Leticia Grace Rankin. YONKERS, N.Y. – The recipients of Ukrainian American stage/art history. She is the recipient of the UAV Ladies Award should fill out an application, send their college Veterans Scholarship Awards will be officially announced Auxiliary award of $400. transcript (unofficial copy), write an essay on one of the at the UAV’s 70th annual national convention in Yonkers, topics specified and e-mail a high-quality digital photo of N.Y., on November 2-4. State University – Chico and is majoring in computer infor- themselves. Applications are available on the UAV website, The UAV Scholarship Committee selects and awards mation• Brandon systems. Paul He Hrycak is the recipient (New Jersey) of the attends $400 award California from www.uavets.org, and all required information may be sub- scholarship money to matriculated undergraduate college UAV Post 40. mitted electronically. students. The purpose of the scholarship awards is to help To be eligible for a UAV scholarship, applicants must be students pay for books or school supplies. Students are is majoring in English-linguistics and rhetoric, and is a stu- descendants of or related to Ukrainian American Veterans. required to write an essay (400-500 words) about a current dent• Anna of the Terrebetzky Thomas Hunter (New Special York) attendsHonors Program.Hunter College, She is Applicants should be full-time undergraduate college stu- military or related topic. The topics for this year are: the war the recipient of a $300 award. dents in a degree program. Moreover, students attending on terrorism, human rights, negative effects of wars on accredited trade schools or institutions that have a degree American veterans, Russian aggression on sovereign coun- Gettysburg College and is majoring in international affairs program also are eligible. Students can apply while in their tries and Ukrainian-American veterans’ contributions to and• political Laryssa science. Natalie She Horodysky is the recipient (New of Jersey)a $300 award. attends senior year in high school; college attendance will be veri- America’s wars. Students can chose one of these five topics fied before the awards are given in the fall semester. for their essay. Other criteria considered for a scholarship of Rochester and is majoring in international relations. She Applications are accepted all-year around, and the dead- are academic achievement and extracurricular activities. received• Lily Annea $250 Lynch award. (New York) attends Nazareth College line for the upcoming academic year is August 31. Students This year, seven students applied and received scholar- may reapply for a scholarship award in subsequent years. ship awards. Canyon University and is majoring in elementary educa- Scholarship applications should be sent to UAV National tion.• LeticiaShe received Grace a $250 Rankin award. (California) attends Grand Scholarship Officer Nicholas Skirka, 109 Windsor Terrace, University and is majoring in business and marketing. He is the The scholarship committee has extended thanks to all Yonkers, N.Y., 10701. For additional information, e-mail recipient• Alexander of the Geba $500 (Massachusetts) award in memory attends of Michael Bridgewater Demchuk, State the students for participating and wished them a success- him at [email protected] or call 914-965-3707. who started the UAV Scholarship Fund in 1992-1993. ful school year. Thanks were also expressed to all who The UAV National Scholarship Committee includes: John donated to make the UAV scholarship awards a success. Tkachuk, Peter Olijarczyk, Maksym Makarczuk and Russel University and is majoring in production and design for Students interested in applying for the UAV Scholarship Olijarczyk. • Deanna Marie Koski (New York) attends Pace 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2017 No. 44 Chicago warmly welcomes Women’s Bandura Ensemble of North America by Kristina Zaluckyj Terenia Kytasty-Kuzma also sang a solo during “Remind Me, O Bandura” (Nahaday, CHICAGO – Most, if not all, Ukrainians are Banduro), composed by Hryhory Kytasty, familiar not only with the bandura, the who once directed the Ukrainian Bandurist Ukrainian national musical instrument of mul- Chorus. Ms. Kytasty-Kuzma is a direct tiple octave ranges and up to 68 strings, but descendant of Mr. Kytasty. She received a also the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus founded standing ovation for her performance from nearly a century ago. Now, in the post-femi- the Chicago crowd. nist era, exists the Women’s Bandura A special bandura arrangement of Ensemble of North America (WBENA). Leonard Cohen’s iconic “Alleluia,” prepared Comprising over 20 women, the WBENA by Ms. Zelinska, was incorporated into the held its Chicago debut performance at St. evening’s repertoire. The song was dedicat- Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral on ed to the millions of innocent victims of the September 30. Nearly 600 people attended Holodomor, the genocidal famine of 1932- and listened to the ensemble’s musical styl- 1933. Soloists during this song were ings. In true Ukrainian and Midwest fash- Veronika Chaplii, Christina Stasiuk ion, the Chicago crowd warmly welcomed Jamharian and Natalka Gil. the ensemble. These three soloists and the rest of the The two-year-old ensemble is co-direct- ensemble hail from the United States, ed by Oksana Rodak and Oksana Zelinska. Canada and Ukraine, and currently reside Volodymyr Duda Their concert featured classic Ukrainian in North America. All of the women discov- The Women’s Bandura Ensemble of North America performs in Chicago. selections, including “The Echo of the ered their talents and passion for music, ic to music performance and conducting. ics related to upcoming performances. Steppes” (Homin Stepiv), an instrumental singing and the bandura during their child- Many of the Toronto-based WBENA Together, they decide each concert’s music piece composed by Hryhory Kytasty, and hoods – some as early as age 7. layout. “To My Son” (Vyrostesh Ty, Synu), set to the Many of the women also learned to play ladies also perform with Zoloti Struny, poem by Vasyl Symonenko, as well as songs piano or violin either before or while devel- while many of the Chicago-based women The WBENA ladies practice in person arranged for bandura like the traditional oping their bandura skills. The youngest also perform regularly with Char-Zillya. just a few times a year and rehearse on a English ballad “Scarborough Fair.” members are still in high school and are 16 Despite being miles apart, the women of regional level regularly. Geographical chal- The concert opened with the prayer years old – the minimum age to be consid- Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Hartford, Conn., lenges aside, WBENA has already recorded “Beneath Thy Mercy” (Pid Tvoyu Mylist) ered for membership in the ensemble. New Paltz, N.Y., Pittsburgh, Toronto and and released an album highlighting its suc- composed by Dmytro Bortniansky, with Collectively and individually, ensemble other cities regularly discuss their outlook cessful performances from 2016. solo performed by ensemble member members have an extensive educational and goals, and the development of their Ensemble members’ common interest Lesya Klimchenko. Not only did Ms. and experiential background in both solo group with the help of modern technology. and passion for music, and specifically the Klimchenko solo, she also arranged this and ensemble performance. Approximately As president, Iryna Kytasty-Kuzma over- bandura, unites and bonds these ladies piece specifically for the ensemble along one-third of the women have studied at sees these discussions while working close- who hail from different generations. It is with Mykola Lysenko’s “Parting Song” (Koly music conservatories and schools of music, ly with the group’s two artistic directors these common strings that make this group Rozluchayutsia Dvoye). earning various levels of credentials specif- and artistic committee to determine specif- come together in succinct harmony. The WBENA ladies are encouraging the growth of this musical bond in the next up- and-coming generation of bandura enthusi- asts. Almost all of the women are cultivat- ing an interest in music through the bandu- ra by teaching aspiring musicians in their local communities. 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those suspected of having ties to terrorism. The Ukrainian Canadian Congress wel- Canada faces... “We want anyone who abuses to think comed the adoption of the Magnitsky law. twice before they do it,” said Sen. “Due to the hard work and efforts of so (Continued from page 1) Andreychuk. “We don’t want to be part of many parliamentarians and advocates, the to adopt the bipartisan Magnitsky Act that having corrupt officials, who gain money Magnitsky Act is now the law of the land,” President Barack Obama signed into law in inappropriately in another country and stated Paul Grod, national president of the 2012, which has resulted in sanctions abuse citizens to get that money, park that Ukrainian Canadian Congress. “Its adoption against 44 people. money in Canada.” will allow the government of Canada to The United Kingdom and Estonia are the The Globe and Mail recently reported move swiftly to implement sanctions only other countries with Magnitsky-style that Canada’s Magnitsky sanctions are against Russian individuals and organiza- legislation. expected to first target Russian and tions responsible for violations of interna- “America, while immensely powerful, is Venezuelan human-rights abusers. tional law and the rights of Ukrainian and seen as a lone superpower and there is a lot However, references to Russian abuse Russian citizens.” of anti-American sentiment around the cases figure prominently in the preamble to Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs world. But there’s no such thing as anti- S-226, starting with the case of Mr. Chrystia Freeland stated: “Canada has a Canadian sentiment,” said Mr. Browder, 53, Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison at strong reputation around the world as a who traces his Jewish ancestry to Russia, the age of 37 in 2009 after uncovering the country that holds clear and cherished where his late father Felix, a noted U.S. largest tax fraud in Russian history that democratic values and stands up for mathematician, was born in 1927. implicated police, judges, tax officials, bank- Lindbergh human rights. This new law, which has He believes that Canada is viewed globally ers and the Russian mafia in reclaiming $230 Bill Browder, who campaigned for received cross-partisan support in as “an honest broker and moral leader,” and million in taxes paid by Hermitage Capital. Magnitsky laws in both the United States Parliament, is a clear demonstration that said enacting a Magnitsky law is “a true his- Russian authorities conducted “no thor- and Canada. Canada takes any and all necessary mea- toric moment for human rights and Sergei ough, independent and objective investiga- cutors also claim he colluded with an agent sures to respond to gross violations of Magnitsky’s legacy, [which] dramatically tion” into Mr. Magnitsky’s death and his of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency, MI6, human rights and acts of significant foreign increases the probability that it goes viral in posthumous trial and conviction of tax eva- “to cause the death of S.L. Magnitsky,” by corruption.” terms of its adoption in other countries.” sion in Russia in 2013 “for the very fraud persuading Russian prison doctors to with- Following the House endorsement of Canada’s Magnitsky law builds on the he uncovered [that] constitute[s] a viola- hold care, according to a recent story in The S-226 on October 4, Russia’s Embassy in country’s tradition of defending human tion of the principles of fundamental justice New York Times. Ottawa had warned in a statement that, rights internationally, according to Sen. and the rule of law,” says the Canadian law. (Mr. Magnitsky was reportedly beaten “this hostile move, as well as any new anti- Andreychuk, a former judge and ambassa- The law also addresses Britain’s and tortured during the 358 days he spent Russian sanctions, will be met with resolve dor who represented Canada on the United Litvinenko Inquiry report last year, which in Moscow’s Butyrka remand prison, and reciprocal countermeasures.” Nations Commission on Human Rights, now found two Russian agents were responsible where he also suffered from pancreatitis That would likely only mean Moscow known as the U.N. Human Rights Council. for the assassination of Kremlin critic and a blocked gall bladder.) adding a few more names of Canadians “The Magnitsky bill stands on the side of Alexander Litvinenko “and that there was a Vladimir Putin has also weighed in on who would not be allowed to enter Russia – people who are, in their own countries, try- ‘strong possibility’ that they were acting on Canada’s new Magnitsky law. “and that’s the end of the story,” said Mr. ing to fight corruption and human-rights behalf of the Russian Federal Security At the recent annual Valdai international Browder. “Most parliamentarians I know abuses and advocate for democracy and the Services,” where Mr. Litvinenko worked as forum of policy experts in Sochi, the Russian who aren’t on the banned list feel hard rule of law,” she explained in an interview. an agent. president was asked by Pyotr Dutkiewicz, a done by that they haven’t been recognized.” Sen. Andreychuk said that, unlike in the S-226 also refers to the 2015 assassina- political science professor and former direc- His situation is far more serious. past, when Canada pushed other countries tion of Russian opposition politician Boris tor of what is now called the Institute of Mr. Browder worries about leaving the to force their citizens to adhere to interna- Nemtsov, and, as with the Magnitsky case, European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at United Kingdom, for fear of arrest – tional human-rights standards, the states that Russian authorities have not Ottawa’s Carleton University, about whether although he expects Interpol to lift the Magnitsky law enables the federal govern- conducted a proper investigation into his Mr. Putin was “worried about the conse- international warrant against him since it ment to directly censure foreign nationals murder. quences” of other countries following has four times previously rejected the who direct or participate in extrajudicial The Kremlin has expressed its displea- Canada in enacting Magnitsky-style laws. Kremlin’s request to obtain one. killings, torture or other gross human- sure with Canada’s Magnitsky law through- “These are all some very unconstructive This time, Moscow used a “diffusion” rights violations against people who seek out its legislative journey. That opposition political games,” replied the Russian presi- mechanism to unilaterally add Mr. “to expose illegal activity carried out by for- continued once it passed Parliament. dent, who accused Mr. Browder of “buying Browder’s name to the list without eign public officials” in those countries, as Russia’s Embassy in Ottawa tweeted that Russian company stock without any right requesting that Interpol post the notice. Bill S-226 reads. “in defiance of common sense S-226 is to do so” and transferring “hundreds of mil- “This may be the straw that broke the cam- Those found to be responsible for such hastily signed into law” and called it an lions of dollars” out of Russia to avoid pay- el’s back on the Russian government’s abili- violations will also end up on a watch list, “irrational act sponsored by fugitive fraud- ing taxes. ty to do this because it’s such a clear and much like the names-directories Canada ster & tax evader and Russia-haters,” taking Sen. Andreychuk – who with Mr. Bezan open abuse of the process,” he explained. maintains for people identified as threats a swipe at Mr. Browder, who faces new alle- is among 13 Canadian lawmakers and offi- But Mr. Browder fears for his life. to international peace and security, and gations of tax fraud in Russia, where prose- cials banned from entering Russia in retali- “They’re out to get me – seriously,” he said ation for Canadian sanctions imposed on it in reference to the Putin-led Russian following its annexation of Crimea in 2014 assault against him. war started, one of which was set off by an – said that “one has to ask the Russian gov- Mr. Browder, who will be in Ottawa with Ukraine’s health... unmanned aerial vehicle, and these were ernment why are they so nervous” about members of Mr. Magnitsky’s family on classified as acts of sabotage on the part of November 1, doubts that he will ever again (Continued from page 1) Canada’s Magnitsky law. Moscow. “Certainly, they have something to set foot on Russian soil. As in July, ransomware was used, Fighting in the easternmost region of the account for to their own people on “If I return to Russia, I will be put in jail according to Ukraine’s Computer Donbas, where Russia has waged war since Magnitsky, on Nemtsov, and the list goes immediately and probably killed – like Emergency Response Team. A bomb threat April 2014, escalated on October 24. Four on,” she noted. Sergei,” he said. at Kyiv’s main railway station on the same Ukrainian servicemen were killed, the day interrupted normal services. Defense Ministry reported. Nine Ukrainian On New Year’s Eve in 2016, the electricity solders have been killed there this month lators (AED). The staff is now more confi- grid of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast was hacked, (as of October 25) and 164 since the begin- UMANA... dent in dealing with potentially life-threat- also the suspected work of Russia, and early ning of the year. ening situations that might arise at the this year power went out in the northern sec- Due to four years of the Russian- (Continued from page 15) school. tion of Kyiv due to alleged Russian hacking. instigated war, Ukraine is home to the New student scholarship applications Organizations that would like to offer Bomb threats are a normal occurrence world’s ninth-largest population of inter- for the 2018-2019 academic year will be CPR and/or first aid classes, should consid- throughout Ukraine at key transportation nally displaced people, according to the posted on the UMANA website www. er applying to the UMANA Foundation for a and retail infrastructure sites; they too are Atlantic Council, an American policy center. umana.org in February 2018. grant to help offset course expenses. E-mail believed to be conducted by the Kremlin or Moscow’s war has caused more than The UMANA Foundation continues to [email protected] or call 773-278- its proxies. Explosions at four military arms 10,000 deaths and uprooted more than 1.6 enable camp counselors to learn cardio-pul- 6262 for more information. depots have also occurred since the Donbas million people from their homes. monary resuscitation (CPR) skills in prepa- In keeping with its mission to improve ration for unforeseen accidents and health- medical knowledge, the foundation sup- related events at Ukrainian summer youth ported the successful UMANA scientific con- The annual meeting of UNA Branch 42 camps. A dozen participants from Plast ference “Rehabilitation and Reintegration – Ukrainian Scouting Organization in Seattle, Helping Ukrainians Help Themselves” held in Passaic NJ will be held on Washington, recently completed the course. in Washington in June. Twenty speakers To date, the foundation has provided from the United States, Canada and Ukraine Sunday, November 12, 2017, at 1 pm training for over 520 camp counselors in focused on ways to advance the practice of at the Ukrainian Center, 240 Hope Ave., Passaic NJ. these basic life-support skills. By perform- rehabilitation medicine in Ukraine, and the ing simple procedures and following cer- interaction among professionals was pro- The meeting will include election of branch o cers and tain guidelines, it is possible to save lives ductive. (See The Weekly, until medical professionals arrive. To support any of the above projects or presentation of UNA products and services by UNA National This past August, the foundation spon- to donate to the UMANA Foundation read- Secretary, Yuriy Symczyk, and UNA Certi ed Annuity Specialist, sored training for 12 teachers at Chicago’s ers may visit www.razoo.com and search Stefko Woch. All members are encouraged to attend. 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October 30 Presentation by Mikhail Akulov, “1918: The Ukrainian November 5 Fund-raiser luncheon with Bishop Borys Gudziak and Cambridge, MA State and the Russian Counterrevolution,” Harvard New York Dr. Ulana Suprun, “A New Generation for a New University, www.huri.harvard.edu Ukraine,” Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, The St. Regis Hotel New York, 800-599-3671 or www.ucef.org November 2 Holodomor commemoration, Ukrainian National Lansing, MI Women’s League of America (Detroit Regional Council), November 5 Film screening, “Women of Maidan,” Ukrainian National Michigan State Capitol Rotunda, 586-757-5571 Chicago Museum, 312-421-8020

November 2-4 70th national convention, Ukrainian American Veterans, November 6 Presentation by Andrea Graziosi, “Rethinking the 1917 Yonkers, NY Royal Regency Hotel, Ukrainian Youth Center, Cambridge, MA Revolution,” Harvard University, www.huri.harvard.edu 914-589-4412 or 914-965-3707 November 7 Holodomor Memorial Observance, with genocide November 3 Painting and photography exhibit, featuring works by Washington briefing at the United States Congress, U.S. Committee Chicago Olha Fedoruk and Oksana Kami, Ukrainian National for Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Awareness, Museum, 312-421-8020 www.ukrainegenocide.com

November 4 Exhibit, “Shepherding Ukrainian Orthodox in a New Land: November 7 Book talk, “The Battle for Ukrainian: A Comparative Somerset, NJ The Metropolitans of the Church,” Ukrainian History and Cambridge, MA Perspective,” by Michael Flier, Andrea Graziosi, Education Center, 732-356-0132 or www.ukrhec.org Lubomyr Hajda, Harvard University, www.huri.harvard.edu

November 4 Presentation by Ola Hnatiuk, “Architects of the Polish- November 9 Film screening, “Recovery Room” by Adriana Luhovy, New York Ukrainian Discourse: Between the Wars,” Shevchenko Edmonton, AB Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex, Scientific Society, 212-254-5130 www.recoveryroomthemovie.com

November 4 Concert by Ephyra, Ukrainian Center, November 10-11 Conference, “UWC at 50 and Beyond: The Roadmap,” Passaic, NJ [email protected] or 773-930-7185 Toronto Ukrainian World Congress, The Old Mill, 416-323-3020 or www.uwc50.org November 4 Costume Ball, Ukrainian Federation of America, Jenkintown, PA Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, November 11 Ukrainian Harvest Dance to benefit Bridge of Hope, [email protected] Ottawa with music by Fiesta, Knights of Columbus – St. Vladimir the Great Council, St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic November 4 Film screening, “Recovery Room” by Andriana Luhovy, Shrine, 613-830-7787 Rochester, NY The Little Theater, www.recoveryroomthemovie.com November 11-12 37th annual Ukrainian AutumnFest, Epiphany of Our Lord November 4 47th dinner and dance, with presentation of Ukrainian of St. Petersburg, FL Ukrainian Catholic Church, Presto, PA the Year Award to Natalie Jaresko, Ukrainian [email protected] or 727-576-1001 Technological Society, The Club at Nevillewood, 412-835-8714 or [email protected] Entries in “Out and About” are listed free of charge. Priority is given to events November 4 Family Pub Night fund-raiser, Zorepad Ukrainian Dance advertised in The Ukrainian Weekly. However, we also welcome submissions Watervliet, NY Ensemble, Ukrainian American Citizens Club, from all our readers. Items will be published at the discretion of the editors 518-273-1357 or www.zorepaddance.com and as space allows. Please send e-mail to [email protected].

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Thursday, November 2 the Polish-Ukrainian Discourse Between the LANSING, Mich.: The Detroit Regional Wars” by Prof. Ola Hnatiuk (Warsaw Council of the Ukrainian National Women’s University/Kyiv-Mohyla Academy). Prof. League of America invites every Michigander Hnatiuk, a board member of the Ukrainian to the commemoration of the 85th anniver- PEN Club and a literary scholar and transla- sary of the Holodomor at the Michigan State tor, is a researcher of Ukrainian intellectual Capitol Rotunda, at the intersection of history of the 20th century. The event will Michigan and Capitol avenues in Lansing. take place at the society’s building, 63 The 11 a.m. program will feature a Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th PowerPoint presentation by Vera Andrushkiw, streets) at 5 p.m. For additional information president of the UNWLA Detroit Regional call 212-254-5130. Council; a bandura solo by Mykola Saturday-Sunday, November 11-12 Deychakiwsky; and a solo rendition of “Svicha” by Tetyana Bedrus. Attendance is ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.: The 37th annual particularly important at this time of numer- Ukrainian AutumnFest will be held at ous positive reviews of Anne Applebaum’s Epiphany of Our Lord Ukrainian Catholic book “The Red Famine.” The goal of organiz- Church at 434 90th Ave. N., St. Petersburg, ers is to underscore to Michigan Gov. Richard FL 33702 on Saturday from noon to 7 p.m. Snyder and the Michigan Legislature that the and on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Genocide Studies curriculum for Michigan festival will feature authentic Ukrainian food students must include the Ukrainian Famine (borshch, holubtsi, varenyky and potato of 1932-1933. For additional information pancakes all available for take-out), and free bus transportation to Lansing from Ukrainian beer, Ukrainian arts and crafts, St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church in vendors, church tours, children’s rides and Warren, call Marie Zarycky at 586-757-5571. games, music for dancing both days by Saturday, November 4 Cathy and the Lorelei Band, and dance per- formances by the Kalyna Ukrainian Dancers. SOMERSET, N.J.: In preparation for the 2018 A silent auction and raffle will be held on celebration of the 100th anniversary of Sunday. For information call 727-576-1001 Ukrainian Orthodoxy in the United States, or 727-576-0400, or e-mail john7119@hot- the Ukrainian History and Education Center mail.com. in Somerset, N.J., presents “Shepherding Ukrainian Orthodox in a New Land: The HAMTRAMCK, Mich.: The Ukrainian Metropolitans of the Church,” an exhibition American Archives and Museum of Detroit documenting the lives of the Church’s prime invites the community to celebrate the hierarchs, the historical and cultural con- texts in which they lived and worked, and grand opening of its new location at 4-7 p.m. their legacies through photographs, muse- on Saturday. There will be a ribbon cutting um artifacts, archival documents and audio at 5 p.m. with Hamtramck Mayor Karen recordings. The exhibit opens with a recep- Majewski joining in the celebration. Antique tion and gallery talk at 3:30 p.m. Additional ritual cloths and artwork from the museum information is available at www.ukrhec.org/ collection will be on display, and there will exhibits, by calling 732-356-0132 or e-mail- be an artist sale and reception. An open ing [email protected]. house will be held on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The events will take place at 9630 NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Joseph Campau Ave. For more information Society invites all to a lecture “Architects of call 313-366-9764.