INSIDE: •A Ukrainian American’s role in Iraq as interim minister of irrigation — page 4. • Vitali Klitschko defeats Kirk Johnson with TKO — page 11. • A pilgrimage to Sandarmokh and the Solovets Islands — centerfold.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXI HE No.KRAINIAN 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine TuzlaT still in theU news, as Ukraine Kuchma dismissesW top energy official; announces it will dig a channel opponents allege Russian influence by Roman Woronowycz two countries before Russia’s President by Roman Woronowycz which remains bereft of crude; the organ- Kyiv Press Bureau Vladimir Putin ordered construction halt- Kyiv Press Bureau ization of Ukraine’s participation of a ed at the end of October. Russia began natural gas consortium with Russia and KYIV – Ukraine announced on building the dike, ostensibly to protect KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma Germany, a deal that has not yet been December 8 that it would dig a channel in property on its northern shore that was dismissed Ukraine’s top government offi- signed; and oversight of Ukraine’s elec- the Kerch Strait near the island of Tuzla, eroding, without first informing Ukraine, cial in the energy sector on December 5 – tricity grid. the sliver of Ukrainian territory that in contravention of specific language in a less than a day after a visit by Russia’s Some political pundits say Mr. Haiduk received international attention recently 1994 agreement on use of the Kerch influential energy czar Anatolii Chubais. was dismissed after Mr. Chubais met after Russia began construction of a dike Strait requiring it to do so. Some politicians have tied the firing to President Kuchma in Kyiv on December in September to link it to its land. When Moscow failed to respond to the visit. 4 and convinced Ukraine’s state leader to The decision came as the two coun- two Ukrainian diplomatic notes and While opponents of the government allow the Russian state-owned firm he tries continued talks to finally delimit the failed to halt the building project in said that Vice Prime Minister Viktor heads, Unified Energy Systems, to pur- Azov Sea as well as the Kerch Strait. response to Kyiv’s demands, Ukraine Haiduk got the boot, along with Energy chase a stake in 10 Ukrainian regional Russia would like to see the two bodies threatened to turn to the United Nations Minister Serhii Yermilov, a close associ- electrical suppliers. Mr. Chubais also of water remain commonly held without Security Council to resolve the dispute. ate, who was fired on December 9, signed an accord giving UES the right to a specifically drawn border, while Russia answered by questioning because he had not toed the political line purchase Ukrainian electricity for use in Ukraine is demanding that the two sides Ukraine’s right to the island, historically expected of him, Prime Minister Viktor Russia. agree on a boundary in accordance with a part of Russia before it was gifted by Yanukovych called the dismissal a result National Deputy Oleksander Hudyma, international standards. the Soviet Union to Ukraine along with of Mr. Haiduk’s inability to achieve head of the parliamentary subcommittee Ukraine’s Minister of Transport the Crimean Peninsula in 1954. results in clearing up major issues that on the natural gas industry, said on Heorhii Kirpa, who announced the chan- The controversy threatened to become have throttled development of the sector. December 8 that Mr. Haiduk’s dismissal nel-building project, said it was devel- violent after Ukraine sent border troops “The fuel and energy complex in the was specifically a result of his lack of oped to save the island from erosion to defend its territory and blocked the country has accumulated many problems, support for the UES initiative, which caused by the Russian dike and to relieve pathway of the approaching stone and which were not being solved as quickly effectively would give Russia ownership shipping congestion as well. sand wall with pontoon bridges. The cri- and as consistently as needed,” noted Mr. of a large part of Ukraine’s electrical “First, it will take the pressure [of ero- sis was defused only after President Yanukovych on December 6 through his grid. sion] off Tuzla because it will redirect Kuchma aborted a state visit to Brazil spokesman, Taras Avrakhov. “The discussions that occurred with currents away from the island and, sec- and returned to Ukraine, where he imme- Mr. Haiduk’s portfolio included Chubais, that’s the real reason for the fir- ond, it will give the Kerch Strait a sec- responsibility for overseeing the develop- ond shipping lane and reduce the large (Continued on page 3) ment of the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline, (Continued on page 3) amount of traffic that runs along the sin- gle deep channel we have right now,” explained Mr. Kirpa. Mr. Kirpa spoke after a meeting with Patriarch Filaret notes progress in raising public awareness of Famine-Genocide Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma, by Roman Woronowycz event organized by his Church, no one who gave presidential approval for the project. Kyiv Press Bureau from the UOC-MP, which is part of the Russian Orthodox Church, showed for “I briefed the president and he KYIV – Patriarch Filaret Denysenko, approved the proposals on the need to this year’s commemoration. head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – He said he also was disappointed that continue the shipping lane between Tuzla Kyiv Patriarchate, said on December 10 no government officials attended the and the [dike] to connect it to the Black that he was satisfied with the progress prayer service that he led in concelebra- Sea,” Mr. Kirpa said. made in raising the level of awareness of tion with Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, head He noted that the construction project the Great Famine across the globe and would require some 680 to 780 meters of the extent of the commemorations that of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, digging on the south side of the island to occurred in Ukraine on the 70th anniver- before the Great Famine Memorial in a depth of 5 meters. The new channel sary since the man-made tragedy. central Kyiv, located on St. Michael’s would be designated for shallow-hulled In an exclusive interview with The Square at the foot of the belltower of St. vessels and would be part of a project Weekly, the head of 19 million faithful in Michael’s Golden-Domed Cathedral. that had already been in development, Ukraine noted that, while he couldn’t The 70th anniversary tribute to the 7 which the transport minister said met all state that the Ukrainian nation had com- million to 10 million Ukrainians, mostly international norms and regulations. memorated the tragedy in unity, aware- Orthodox faithful, who perished as a It would allow smaller ships to avoid ness in the affected regions – the eastern result of a policy of mass starvation to the heavily traveled single shipping and southern oblasts – was much higher bring the Ukrainian farmer to his knees channel currently in use, which runs and the tributes offered much more wide- and into collective farms, officially took through the center of the Kerch Strait spread at the local and regional levels. place on November 22. In 1998 President north of Tuzla island, by allowing shal- “The broadness and the depth of the Leonid Kuchma had declared the fourth Saturday of November as Remembrance low-hulled ships to circumvent the main commemorations was much more exten- Patriarch Filaret channel by traveling down the eastern sive,” said Patriarch Filaret, who hails Day of the Victims of Famines, side of Tuzla and then cutting back south from the eastern region of Donetsk. Repressions and Forced Migrations. religious policy among the various con- of the island. Patriarch Filaret emphasized that some Ukrainian state and government lead- fessions of Ukraine in a way that seemed No less important is the fact that the backtracking had occurred in the last ers held a separate wreath-laying ceremo- to favor the Moscow-controlled Church. new channel would effectively create a decade, since the 60th anniversary obser- ny an hour prior to the beginning of the “Although the government officially divide between the island and the dike vations, particularly the fractured way in prayer service this year, mostly because calls for a single, united All-Ukrainian that Russia constructed in September and which the political and religious elements the prayer service was co-organized by Church, unofficially it supports the UOC- October, which today reaches to less than of society had marked the tragedy this the Our Ukraine political bloc, which MP,” explained the head of the UOC-KP. 100 meters from the island’s shore. year. stands in political opposition to Ukraine’s He said that the UOC-MP did not have The dike, which Russian and The Ukrainian religious leader current leadership. an official representative at this year’s com- Ukrainian authorities refer to as a dam, explained that while the Ukrainian Patriarch Filaret noted that the coun- memorations of the Great Famine because caused an uproar in Ukraine and an Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate try’s leaders have an unproclaimed bias exchange of sharp rhetoric between the had sent a representative in 1993 to the in favor of the UOC-MP, and decided (Continued on page 3) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 No. 50

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Ukrainian authorities tighten NEWSBRIEFS Rada OKs new peacekeeping mission that the country’s industrial output increased by 15.5 percent year-on-year in their grip on the Internet KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada voted 234- January-November, Interfax reported. 145 on December 9 to endorse President (RFE/RL Newsline) by Taras Kuzio responded to this request. Leonid Kuchma’s motion to send a peace- RFE/RL Media Matters When the government began its cam- keeping contingent of 350 troops, 14 heli- Russian energy giant expands to Ukraine copters and 20 civilian personnel to Liberia, paign to wrest control of the “ua” domain KYIV – Anatolii Chubais, head of The Ukrainian government is making from Hostmaster, the company’s director, Interfax reported. The peacekeepers are to moves to take control of the local be deployed in Liberia by May. The United Russia’s Unified Energy Systems (known Boris Mostovoi, was quoted in The by the Russian-based acronym of EES), Internet in the run-up to the country’s Moscow Times as saying, “This is an Nations will reportedly pay $1.5 million per October 2004 presidential elections. month to Kyiv to compensate for the cost of said in Kyiv on December 4 that EES has extremely incompetent and clumsy move reached a deal with the Ukrainian groups First, the government is attempting to by the authorities that shows their low the deployment. The Communist Party, the seize control of the “ua” domain, which Socialist Party, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc Energy Standard and Interpipe on buying level of professionalism and blatant dis- stakes in one fully and nine partly priva- has been managed by the private compa- regard for legislation.” and a part of the Our Ukraine bloc voted tized Ukrainian regional electricity dis- ny Hostmaster since 2001. Prior to that, If the “ua” domain finally passes from against the move. Defections from Our tributors, Ukrainian and international the “ua” domain was managed by Hostmaster, it will almost certainly end Ukraine reportedly helped the pro-presiden- news agencies reported. Mr. Chubais said Ukrainian Internet enthusiasts. An up being managed by a new organization tial majority to approve the motion, which Ukraine’s Prime Minister Viktor October 27 press release from the French controlled by the SBU: the Ukrainian was rejected on two previous occasions. Yanukovych informed him that Ukraine NGO Reporters Without Borders warned Space Information Center. This new (RFE/RL Newsline) is planning to renew privatization in the of attempts by the Security Service of body ostensibly aims to unite the govern- World Bank approves loan of $250 M energy sector next year and provide Ukraine (SBU) to take control of Internet ment and private ISPs, with each side equal conditions for all bidders. operations in the country. controlling 50 percent of the organiza- WASHINGTON – The World Bank’s However, the Ukrainian presidential On July 22, the government issued a tion. However, not all Internet providers board of executive directors on December press service commented more cautious- directive titled “On The Administration have yet agreed to join the Ukrainian 9 endorsed a $250 million loan to Ukraine ly on Mr. Chubais’ visit to Kyiv, saying of the ‘Ua’ Domain.” That same day, the Space Information Center. to support specific achievements in the President Leonid Kuchma told Mr. government filed suit against The SBU’s involvement naturally has government’s structural-reform program, Chubais that Ukraine is not yet ready to Hostmaster to seize control over the analysts concerned because it – like the “ua” domain. After winning a positive Interfax reported, quoting a World Bank discuss the issue of selling further stakes Internal Affairs Ministry – has increas- court ruling over the summer, the gov- press release. The World Bank said the in regional power companies, Interfax ingly resumed its Soviet-era role of mon- ernment appealed to the Internet facility, called the Second Programmatic reported. EES reportedly owns 33.3 per- itoring the political opposition. The role Corporation for Assigned Names and Adjustment Loan, “is focused on five the- cent of shares in the newly created of these agencies has traditionally been Numbers (ICANN), the international matic areas: financial discipline, regulation, Ukrainian-Russian power holding. The to protect those in power, and analysts organization in control of assigning property rights, public sector accountabili- financial details of the deal have not been argue that placing the Ukrainian Internet domains, to approve the transfer of con- ty, and management of social and environ- made public. (RFE/RL Newsline) in the SBU’s hands is tantamount to trol over “ua.” ICANN has not yet mental risks,” according to the press handing it over to the executive branch. release. Its specific aims include improving Kyiv to buy grain from U.S., Canada Second, the SBU, backed by the gov- tax collection; eliminating favorable elec- Dr. Taras Kuzio is a resident fellow at ernment, is attempting to strengthen its tricity tariffs to businesses and business KYIV – Ukrainian Vice Prime the Center for Russian and East sectors; legislating a solution to debt that Minister Ivan Kyrylenko told journalists European Studies, University of Toronto. (Continued on page 10) accrues in the energy sector and launching on December 4 that Ukraine is planning a tender for the sale of state-owned elec- to import 1 million tons of milling grain tricity distributors; enacting a law to unify in January-July 2004, mostly from the procedures regarding land and real-estate United States and Canada, Interfax Will advertising in Ukrainian ownership; and reducing the number of tax reported. Mr. Kyrylenko said Ukraine exemptions. The first such targeted loan has to abandon the CIS grain markets in promote the language? was issued by the World Bank in favor of world markets due to Russia’s September 2001. (RFE/RL Newsline) and Kazakstan’s intentions to limit grain by Askold Krushelnycky Mr. Bazeliuk also said he believes the exports. The government estimates RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report law is discriminatory, principally against Helicopter unit headed for Iraq Ukraine’s grain shortage – brought about Russian speakers, and is a breach of by a poor harvest this year – at 3.5 million Last month the Ukrainian Parliament human rights. KYIV – Ukraine will send a squadron of tons. Ukraine has already imported 1.9 adopted a law stipulating that all advertis- “Let’s say I travel from Ukraine to six helicopters to Iraq in February to sup- million tons of grain this year and expects ing – in newspapers, on billboards, and on Germany where there are many Germans port its military contingent in that country, to import 600 million tons more by the end television and radio – should be in the of Russian origin. I place an ad, counting Interfax reported, quoting Petro Shuliak, of December. (RFE/RL Newsline) Ukrainian language. The law forbids on the fact that it will be read by Russian commander of the Ukrainian ground advertising in any other language and is emigrants to Germany. That’s normal, troops. Mr. Shuliak said there is no need Will Kuchma be allowed to run again? punishable by a fine of four times the cost for the government to ask the Verkhovna isn’t it? But if a German or Briton or a KYIV – The Constitutional Court of of the advertisement. Czech wanted to place an ad [in a Rada for approval of this military dispatch. Critics of the new law say advertisers He recalled that the Verkhovna Rada has Ukraine has begun considering whether Ukrainian newspaper], they could do so President Leonid Kuchma may run for will not want to advertise only in only in Ukrainian in accordance with the already agreed to send 1,800 troops to Ukrainian because they won’t be able to assist the U.S.-led stabilization effort, while president in 2004, Interfax reported. Mr. new law. Therefore, from a purely human- Kuchma was elected president in 1994 reach the audiences they are targeting. itarian point of view, this is discrimination there are already 1,656 Ukrainian service- Aleksander Bazeliuk leads the Slavic men in Iraq. (RFE/RL Newsline) and re-elected in 1999, but under differ- – firstly, against the Russian language, ent constitutions. The Constitution prom- Party, based in the eastern city of Donetsk, and secondly, against all other languages,” which seeks closer ties with Russia. He Major industrial growth reported ulgated in 1996 forbids an individual Mr. Bazeliuk said. from serving more than two terms in a says the new law could ruin many Many Russian-language publications KYIV – The Ukrainian State Statistics Russian-language newspapers, since have thus far ignored the new law. 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reaffirmations continued into the week- Kuchma dismisses... end. On December 7, Russian (Continued from page 1) Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor In unity there is strength... ing of Haiduk,” explained Mr. Hudyma. Chernomyrdin noted that not only was a deal still in the works, but that “prepara- Below is the text of a statement civil advocate for the Ukrainian com- “His position and that of Energy Minister from the Ukrainian Congress munity in the United States, as well as Yermilov not to allow Chubais into tions are almost finished.” The way in which Russia had pushed Committee of America regarding the assist our brethren in Ukraine. Ukraine’s electrical energy market Ukrainian National Association’s We warmly welcome the UNA’s caused the Russian financial-industrial to utilize the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline also had not sat well with Mr. Haiduk. announcement that it was restoring its decision to reunite with the UCCA and group led by [Russian President relationship with the UCCA. hope that other Ukrainian organizations Vladimir] Putin and Chubais to demand He had come out in support of continuing to have crude oil flow through the Odesa- will follow its lead. This uniting step in the firing.” The Ukrainian Congress Committee of Brody pipeline in the manner originally the Ukrainian community will serve as But Mr. Haiduk had also opposed America (UCCA) warmly welcomes the intended – from the Caspian Sea to an example for Ukraine in the crucial Russian policy toward the Odesa-Brody initiative of the Ukrainian National Poland – and not in reverse fashion, as presidential pre-election campaign peri- pipeline and the development of a natural Association (UNA) to restore its mem- Russia’s TNK-BP oil company wanted. od. Thus, this American step towards gas consortium with Russia. Other politi- bership in the UCCA, thus strengthening Mr. Haiduk noted during his final unity proves most significant when cians laid the blame for his dismissal on our central umbrella representative organ- Ukraine stands at the crossroads: to con- press conference as vice prime minister ization. Unification of the Ukrainian these positions. tinue building a true democracy or slip that contrary to claims that Ukraine could American community is one of the prin- National Deputy Yulia Tymoshenko back into an authoritarian system. not find a multinational company willing cipal tasks of the UCCA. Only through said that, in addition to these matters, Mr. Having common goals, including the to commit to moving Caspian crude to unity and mutual cooperation will we be Haiduk also had insisted that President unification of our community organiza- Europe through the Odesa-Brody able to continue implementing the Kuchma veto several amendments to the tions, will make our work much more pipeline, Chevron, in a joint venture with dreams of our forefathers and maintain a law on the energy sector that some law- effective and allow us to achieve better the government of Kazakstan, had strong vibrant community. Having come makers had gotten through the expressed such a desire. results for the greater good of the Parliament for their own financial bene- to the United States for a variety of rea- The vice prime minister for energy sons, our forefathers struggled to preserve Ukrainian American community. fit, inasmuch as the changes would allow explained that Chevron had confirmed to The UCCA is certain that our com- for some financial operations in the our language, culture and history, while him that it was ready to commit to mov- aspiring to achieve independence for bined efforts will produce even more industry to return to the shadows. ing oil from the Caspian region to its tangible results for the benefit of the Mr. Haiduk criticized the gas consor- Ukraine. We are fortunate to be living in a refineries in Germany. He said the multi- time when Ukraine has restored its inde- Ukrainian community and Ukraine. tium initiative during a press conference national company had also told him it We are pleased that the community on December 5, held hours before he was pendence, but the state-building process was ready to reverse its own oil pipeline, requires all our efforts. has put unification in the forefront – fired. He stated that he saw no benefit which currently runs from Ingolstadt, let us achieve this goal! that the consortium could give Ukraine, a Before us now are many new impor- Germany, to the Czech towns of Kralupy tant tasks and challenges. In our com- conclusion he said he had drawn based and finally Litvinov in order to connect munity, we must continue teaching the On behalf of the Executive Board on reports by independent consultants. with the Druzhba pipeline and the Odesa- younger generations the roots of our of the UCCA: Those analyses, he said, showed that giv- Brody transport structure. ancestors, the Ukrainian language, and ing a concession to Russia in the gas Michael Sawkiw, Jr. Chargé d’Affaires Yergali Buligenov instill an awareness of our culture and transport system was inexpedient President of Kazakstan’s Embassy in Ukraine told traditions of our nation. Together, we because the cost of the value and the The Weekly on December 9 that in fact have to continue helping Ukraine re- necessity for Ukraine to do so was not Marie Duplak such a decision was made during a meet- establish a democratic polity and mar- Executive Secretary clear. ing in Kyiv on July 17. Kazakstan has a ket economy. Only through coopera- “The question of a consortium to man- 20 percent stake in the Caspian Sea joint tive means will we remain a vibrant December 8, 2003 age the existing gas transport system in venture with Chevron. Ukraine has been removed from the Mr. Buligenov also noted that at the agenda,” announced Mr. Haiduk and then same meeting Kazakstan had expressed who did not want to name the political fig- added, “Can’t we deal with the manage- its willingness to finance the completion Patriarch Filaret... ures responsible for pressuring the UAOC ment? Is the gas transport system in such of the Brody-Plotsk portion of the (Continued from page 1) head to abandon negotiations. bad shape?” pipeline should economic and technical the Russian Orthodox Church and the The head of the UOC-KP said that The statement was followed within underpinnings show such a project to be Russian government continued to down- because the UAOC has splintered again, hours by a whole slew of reaffirmations feasible. Poland and Ukraine have said play the significance and even the fact of he sees little hope for the future of that by representatives from both countries the only matter holding back the begin- the Great Famine, especially lately, when particular Church. He noted that many that negotiations on the development of ning of construction, which Warsaw sup- the tragedy that Stalin and his henchman UAOC parishes in Dnipropetrovsk and the consortium were not dead in the ports in principle, is funding. had inflicted on the Ukrainian nation had Vinnytsia oblasts had gone over to the water, as Mr. Haiduk had proposed, but Mr. Buligenov told The Weekly become better known around the world. UOC-KP, even without their respective were in fact continuing. Kazakstan never received a response to “Inasmuch as Russia does not want to bishops following suit. In Symferopol, Prime Minister its July proposal. “We never received any recognize that there was a murderous Turning to the situation between the Yanukovych rejected Mr. Haiduk’s asser- documents showing either the technical famine, much less accept that it was Kyiv Patriarchate and the rival Moscow tion as “simply the opinion of experts,” or the economic requirements to do the genocide and a catastrophe for the Patriarchate, the UOC-KP leader said he reported Interfax-Ukraine. In Russia, project,” explained Mr. Buligenov. Ukrainian nation, and inasmuch as the did not believe that any type of consoli- Serhii Kuprianov, chief executive officer On December 10, President Kuchma UOC-MP is part of the Russian Orthodox dation with the UOC-MP could come any of the Russian natural gas giant appointed Andrii Kliuyev to replace Mr. Church, I believe that the ROC simply time soon. Gazprom, said the firm had received no Haiduk. Mr. Kliuyev was a lawmaker in did not allow its Ukrainian brethren to “It is more a political question than a official word of Ukraine’s withdrawal the Verkhovna Rada, where he chaired take part in any actions that made Russia religious question. Russia will not let go from negotiations. The corrections and the Committee on Fuel and Energy. out to be responsible,” explained the of the UOC-MP,” explained Patriarch Ukrainian patriarch. Filaret. “No single document will reunite Patriarch Filaret expressed the view that the two Churches. It could only happen seven-kilometer-long, one-kilometer- perhaps the greatest result of the 70th through an evolution. It could happen Tuzla still in the news... wide piece of land to lose 100 square anniversary tributes was the increased level gradually with individual parishes join- meters daily. Announcing the project, Mr. (Continued from page 1) of awareness around the globe as a result of ing the UOC-KP.” Kirpa said that by creating the channel, diately traveled to Tuzla and stated that a concerted effort by Ukrainians in the Finally, assessing the state of relations water levels would fall and soil erosion he would not concede the territory to homeland and abroad. He emphasized the with the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, would cease. Russia. The same day President Putin significance of the United Nations statement the UOC-KP leader said they are good. Meanwhile, Ukrainian and Russian ordered construction halted. on the Great Famine and explained that, However, he called the chances of the While the dike-building project diplomats have continued to meet to find while the international body had not gone so Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox remains suspended, local government agreement on how to divide the Azov Sea far as to describe the calamity visited upon Churches ever uniting – a thought officials from Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, and the Kerch Strait. Ukraine’s Vice the Ukrainian nation in 1932-1933 as geno- expressed by UGCC Cardinal Husar – who oversaw the operation, have stated Minister of Foreign Affairs Oleksander cide, it did at least call it a national tragedy “nearly impossible.” Cardinal Husar has that they remain committed to restarting Motsyk said on December 8 that talks that led to the murder of millions perpetrated talked of the need to eventually reunite and it. Ukraine, however, has said it will four days earlier between the two sides in by the Soviet leadership. return to the Roman Catholic Church, with never allow the dike to reach the island. Kyiv had given reason to hope that dis- Turning to the matter of the fractured which Constantinople broke in 1054. Recently it announced that a permanent agreement could be overcome. Mr. status of the Orthodox Church in “To talk of the chance of establishing an border station, manned by 50 troops, had Motsyk said a new round of talks would Ukraine, Patriarch Filaret said he all-Ukrainian ‘Pomisna’ Christian Church been developed on the island. be held after Christmas. believes that political forces supporting is muddying the waters because there are Nonetheless, Ukrainian scientists and “We understand that Russia’s interest the UOC-MP had caused the breakdown several Christian confessions in Ukraine, political leaders have said that the priori- must be taken into account. We need to of negotiations on a union with the including Protestants,” explained Patriarch ty for the island was to stop the heavy proceed from the fact that Russia’s wish- Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Filaret. “This however, could occur with erosion of the island’s shores, which for- es as to fishing rights and shipping must Church, after an initial agreement in prin- the Greek-Catholic Church if the Orthodox mer Minister of Defense Oleksander be considered,” explained Mr. Motsyk. ciple was reached between the two Church of Ukraine first achieved reunion, Kuzmuk had predicted, even as the con- The Ukrainian diplomat also noted Ukrainian confessions and signed in the but only if both parties agreed to return to troversy was escalating, would lead to that Russia, which had earlier questioned presence of Ecumenical Patriarch the situation as it stood in the 16th century, the island being washed away. the deployment of border troops on Bartholomew in Constantinople. before the Union of Brest” (by which a The dike as it stands now, has redirect- Tuzla, had not protested Ukraine’s deci- “That agreement was never implement- portion of Ukrainian Orthodox bishops ed water currents in a fashion that envi- sion to develop a permanent post on the ed and Archbishop Mefodii halted any and their faithful declared their allegiance ronmental experts estimate is causing the island. further talks,” explained Patriarch Filaret, to the Church of Rome.) 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 No. 50 Engineer speaks on his assignment in Iraq as interim minister of irrigation by Ivan Durbak Arabs. Dr. Stakhiv further explained in detail how much of the $87 billion recent- NEW YORK – Dr. Eugene Z. Stakhiv, ly approved by Congress had been chief of the Planning, Policy and Special planned out early this year, well before his Studies Division of the U.S. Army Corps arrival in Iraq. The evening finished with of Engineers’ Institute for Water informal and convivial discussions over Resources (IWR), and recent interim min- food and drinks. ister and senior advisor to Iraq’s Ministry In addition to his stint in Iraq, Dr. of Irrigation, delivered a presentation on Stakhiv also has extensive international “Water Resource Management: Theory experience serving as senior advisor to the and Practice in the Iraqi Reconstruction water Ministries of Bangladesh, Ukraine, Project” to a packed audience on October Armenia and the Aral Sea Basin countries, 28 at the Ukrainian Engineers’ Society of with over 30 years’ experience in regional New York City lecture series at the and river basin planning, reservoir opera- Ukrainian Institute of America. tions studies, ecosystem restoration stud- As interim minister in Iraq from April ies, climate change and climate variability through August, Dr. Stakhiv was responsi- studies. He has served as study manager ble for managing 18,000 employees, 11 for several large comprehensive river state-owned companies and five state basin studies and metropolitan water sup- commissions. This included responsibility ply studies, including Washington and for 10 major dams, 22 large barrages, 271 New York City, and currently co-directs a pumping stations; generation of 2,500 five-year $20 million effort of the Lake megawatts of hydropower; providing irri- Ontario-St. Lawrence Study Board. gation water for 9 million acres, and deliv- Dr. Stakhiv has a doctorate in water ering water to all of the larger municipali- resource systems engineering from Johns ties in Iraq. Hopkins University, has authored over 100 Dr. Eugene Z. Stakhiv (right) in Iraq with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. In his informative and entertaining lec- published papers, and is a member of the ture with over 200 colorful slides, Dr. Ukrainian Engineers’ Society of America. Stakhiv began with a lively treatise on This was the first in a series of engi- ancient hydraulic systems in Iraq going neering and scientific lectures presented back to the Iridu civilization in 5,000 by the Ukrainian Engineers’ Society of B.C., followed by a comprehensive New York City during the 2003-2004 overview of the vast water resource sys- year. (The next lecture will be held on tem in Iraq. December 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the Ukrainian He then detailed the chronology and Institute of America on the topic of planning efforts leading to his arrival in “Product Assurance – Reliability Iraq on April 25, his work with Engineering and Quality Control.” The Ambassador Paul Bremer, and the strate- speaker will Bohdan Kramarchuk, gic initiatives to repair all hydraulic and Manager, Product Assurance and irrigation resources in Iraq, as well as Performance Management, ITT AVION- reconstruction of many looted office ICS.) buildings in Baghdad and over 100 district The Ukrainian Engineers’ Society of offices, and emergency security for and America (UESA) is an association of replacement of pumps, generators and technical/scientific professionals and stu- dam safety repairs, and all warehouses. dents, including engineers, scientists, Other highlights included the 100,000- architects and businesspeople. Its mission man irrigation jobs program and the fasci- is to help advance members’ professions, nating restoration of the huge southern foster interest in technical and economic marshes of Iraq. In his slides and dia- issues in Ukraine, and provide a social grams, Dr. Stakhiv focused in particular and professional network of mutual sup- on the intricate engineering challenges of port. To learn more about UESA, readers the marsh restoration projects, together may visit the website at www.uesa.org or Dr. Zenon Stakhiv poses against the backdrop of the Republican Palace, one of with the political and cultural complexi- write to UESA, 2 E. 79th St., New York, Saddam Hussein’s many palaces. The palace is topped by four three-story-high ties of working daily with the Marsh NY 10021. busts of Hussein (two of which are seen above); those busts are now being removed. Correction Canadian professionals/businesspersons honor Romanow Due to a technical error in the produc- by Roman Nazarewycz Roy McMurtry. from which individuals such as Justice tion process, a segment of two paragraphs The president of the Toronto UCPBA, Walter Tarnopolsky; former Timothy TORONTO – Roy Romanow, former in the news story about the Shevchenko Roman Nazarewycz, presented the award Eaton Memorial Church Pastor Stanford Scientific Society’s symposium on the premier of Saskatchewan, received the to Mr. Romanow and paid tribute to Mr. Lucyk; Justice Kenneth Lysyk of the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 in Fifth President’s Award from the Romanow’s roots in Saskatchewan and Supreme Court of British Columbia; Ukraine (November 30) was omitted. The Ukrainian Canadian Professional and his continuous association with the Chief Justice Edward Bayda of the paragraphs should have read: Business Association (UCPBA) of Ukrainian Canadian community in Supreme Court of Saskatchewan; Sen. Toronto on November 5. “The scheme involved the decimation Saskatoon. Paul Yuzyk; activist Bohdan Panchuk; Previous recipients are Gerald through Famine of Ukraine’s peasant popu- Mr. Bardyn, past president of the Lt. Gov. Sylvia Fedoruk; Lt. Gov. Fedchun, past CEO of ITT Canada; lation, which represented the bulwark of the Toronto association and a previous recip- Stephan Worobec; Supreme Court Businessman Edward Topornicki, Ukrainian nation. This was followed, how- ient of the President’s Award spoke about Justice John Sopinka; Timofiy President of the Topper Group of compa- ever, by the liquidation of the leadership of the history of the President’s Award, and Pavlechenko; Governor General Ramon nies; James Temerty, CEO of Northland several of the recipients. He said in part: Hnatyshyn; John Stechishin; Savelia the Communist Party of Ukraine and much Power; and Ihor Walter Bardyn, of the patriotic intelligentsia. Significantly, “I would like to take a slightly different Stechishin; Mary Tkachuk; Konstantyn Councillor of St. Paul University. The approach in paying tribute to our guest of Andrusyshyn; Brig. Gen. Joseph the mass murder was accompanied by an President’s Award, titled “The Sower,” is assault on the Ukrainian language as well. honor, and to pay tribute to the place Romanow; Jazz Pianist, John Stech; Sen. awarded by the Ukrainian Canadian from which the speaker has come.” Raynell Andreychuk; Dmytro You didn’t have to change the Ukrainian Professional and Business Association of orthography to help collectivization, com- “Over the years, I have heard from Cipywnyk; Leon Kossar of Toronto’s Toronto to individuals who have made a Albertans that the early Ukrainian settlers Caravan fame; Volodymyr Kossar; our mented Dr. Mace. Not coincidentally, the significant contribution to Canada. who were dumped in the Winnipeg rail own Wasyl Kereliuk; and tonight’s chair, engineered Famine was extended also to “The Sower” was designed by Oleh yards, at the turn of the previous century, Christine Cherneskey; and, of course, the Kuban region of Russia, which at the Lesiuk, a graduate of the Lviv Academy and made their way in a wide, more or our honored guest, Roy Romanow, claim time was 80 percent Ukrainian-speaking, of Art and produced by Myroslav Trutiak less diagonal, line across Manitoba, their roots. And this is just the tip of the where it was accompanied by the prohibi- of MST Bronze Ltd. of Toronto. Saskatchewan and into Alberta, state that iceberg of a number of very articulate, tion of the Ukrainian language in print, Mr. Romanow, a former premier of some of the best of these settlers made thoughtful and pleasant people who have schools and administrative offices. Saskatchewan and chairman of the Royal their way into Alberta and this is where come from the heartland of the “The Famine-Genocide and its cover-up Commission on Medicare, was a member the strength of the community lies. And Ukrainian community in Canada from in the USSR until the late 1980s accom- of the group dubbed by the media as the maybe there is some truth to this conclu- Saskatchewan.” plished the de-Ukrainization of Ukraine, the “Tuque and Uke Show,” which resolved sion. Mr. Bardyn’s remarks received a evidence of which is plentiful today. It led the impasse over the repatriation of the “But there is a more compelling body standing ovation in tribute not only to to the anomaly where today patriotic Canadian Constitution from Great of information that attests to the fact that the guest of honor but to the long list of Ukrainians are a minority in their own Britain. The “Tuque and Uke Show” the group of Ukrainian settlers who outstanding Canadians of Ukrainian her- country. Thus, it was genocide against the group was composed of Mr. Romanow, stopped at the half way point, in itage who have made a lasting and per- Ukrainian people, concluded Dr. Mace.” Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Justice Saskatchewan, created a community manent contribution to Canada. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 5 OBITUARY: Maria Cisyk, 58, Chicago Business/Professional Group pianist, music teacher, consultant hosts delegation of journalists from Ukraine by Khristina Lew by Theodora Turula able to compare the methodology of news gathering, newspaper editing, print- METUCHEN, N.J. – Maria Cisyk of CHICAGO – The Chicago Business ing and distribution. They also visited Ridgefield, Conn., pianist, teacher, per- and Professional Group on November 1 Polish, Spanish and Ukrainian ethnic formance coach and performing arts hosted a panel discussion for a group of newspaper offices. One of the more ben- medicine consultant, lost her 15-year 10 print journalists from western Ukraine eficial visits was at The Daily Herald, a battle with breast cancer at Danbury who were visiting Chicago as part of a daily newspaper with an extensive circu- Hospital on December 6. She was 58. U.S. State Department Community lation in the suburbs of metropolitan Ms. Cisyk was born on August 18, Connections study tour. Chicago. Here they spent the entire day, 1945, in a displaced persons camp near The evening was moderated by observing the process of putting out the Bayreuth, Germany, and immigrated to Mariyka Klymchak, assistant director of paper from start to finish. the United States when she was 4 years the Ukrainian National Museum of During the panel discussion the jour- old. Chicago. Also in attendance were Marion nalists shared their views of the current Her father, Wolodymyr Cisyk, a virtu- Reich and Peggy Parfenoff, representing situation in Ukraine from their perspec- oso violinist, was her first music teacher the International Visitors Center of tive, spoke of the problems faced by the at their home in Queens, N.Y. She later Chicago (IVCC). media and addressed the issue of inde- studied at Manhattan’s High School of Anna Shaleva, member of the board of pendent vs. state press. They were from Performing Arts and Juilliard the Chicago Group, greeted participants various newspapers, from small town Preparatory College and graduated from and introduced the panelists. Peggy weekly publications to the competing the Juilliard School. As an undergradu- Parfenoff, executive director of the daily newspapers of Lviv. The readership ate, she was a student of M. Munz and IVCC, explained the work of the center, of newspapers was on the rise, they Rosinna Lhevine and as such could trace which in the past decade has hosted a reported. The daily newspapers of Lviv her musical lineage directly to Franz number of groups and individual visitors have somewhat different viewpoints, and Lizst. from Ukraine, among them students, people often purchase more than one Ms. Cisyk also held post-graduate Maria Cisyk medical professionals and entrepreneurs. publication. degrees from both Yale University and The Community Connections program With regard to the difference between Juilliard, where she was a teaching fel- of her most popular lecture-recitals places visitors with home hosts, provid- publicly and privately owned press, and low in music history and literature, and included “The Color Theories and Music ing for a more in-depth experience. Most their ability to provide unbiased news materials of music. of Scriabin,” researched and first per- of the journalists were housed with reporting, the comment was that in reali- A dedicated educator, Ms. Cisyk was a formed during her time at Yale Ukrainian families. Several of the home ty no press was entirely “free.” The jour- former director of the Preparatory and University; “From Bach to Schoenberg: hosts in attendance talked of the experi- nalists believed that all were equally bal- Extension Divisions of the San Francisco Passion and Reason Through the ence, describing it as very satisfying and anced in their presentation of the news, Conservatory and served at various times Centuries,” given at Vassar College in not burdensome, and recommending that and differentiated between news and edi- on the faculties of Juilliard, Yale, the 1999; and “The Impressionist Aesthetic others volunteer share their homes with torial opinion. With regard to their State University of New York at in Music and Art,” the subject of a 1997 future Community Connections visitors. reporting of political campaigns, they Binghamton, New York University, Lone lecture-recital at The Metropolitan Participants of the study tour were: stated that any political candidate was Mountain College and Western Museum of Art in Manhattan. from Lviv: Andrij Bilous, general direc- welcome to purchase space, if they Connecticut State University. She is survived by her daughters, tor and chief editor of Postup; Oleh wished to have more extensive coverage For the past 25 years Ms. Cisyk Alexandra and Samantha Merley; Jeffrey Stetsyshyn, deputy chief of the sociopo- than the newspaper’s editors were willing actively maintained private teaching stu- litical department of Express; Olha Baker, her companion of 20 years; her to provide for free. dios in the Carnegie Hall Building in Yatsenko, journalist with Lvivska brother-in-law, Edward Rakowicz; her For the most part it was the small- Manhattan, and at her home in Hazeta; Oleksandra Kharchenko, journal- nephew, Edward Wolodymyr Rakowicz; town newspapers that were funded by Ridgefield, Conn. ist with Vysokyi Zamok; from her uncle, Wasyl Lew, with his wife, their local governments. They admitted An active soloist and chamber artist, Drohobych – Nataliya Mykytyak, head Oksana; and cousins: Maria Cisyk; there would be a problem if they pub- Ms. Cisyk performed by invitation both of the sociopolitical department of lished negative stories about the officials abroad, for example in Kyiv and Lviv, Khristina Lew, with her husband Adrian Halytska Zoria; from Stryi – Rostyslav Gawdiak, and their son, Gregory; Olesia who supported them, but there were no and in numerous cities in the United Turchyn, head of the news department of constraints on printing unbiased stories States, including Chicago, Detroit, Lew, with her husband Peter Hausler, Homin Voli; Volodymyr Pavlenko, chief and their daughter, Zozulka; Ruta Lew; about national politicians. They could, Cleveland, Boston, Washington, editor of Ridne Pole; from Sambir – for example, criticize a member of the Baltimore and Hartford, Conn., and quite and Maya Lew. Taras Bohovych, journalist with Vysokyi A memorial service was scheduled to Verkhovna Rada, but not their village frequently in New York City. Zamok; from Truskavets – Lyubomyr mayor. In 1993 she appeared in recital at the be held in Ridgefield, Conn., on Polyvka, chief editor of Dzerelo December 14. In lieu of flowers, dona- A remark from the audience about the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium at the Truskavtsia; from Sokal – Oksana Prots, problems faced by travelers negotiating United Nations. tions may be made to Because Life is deputy editor of Holos Z-Nad Buhu. Beautiful, a breast cancer awareness pro- customs at the Lviv airport led to a She also accompanied her sister, A daylong tour of the Ukrainian lengthy discussion of bribe-taking and gram that is purchasing mammography Kvitka Cisyk, on the popular singer’s Village neighborhood, organized by giving, the role of the news media in equipment for Ukraine. Checks may be two albums of Ukrainian folk songs, Daria Yarosevych, and the evening dis- publicizing societal and political prob- made out to Public Education “Kvitka” (1980) and “Kvitka Two cussion at the institute capped a three- lems, and changes needed to make International, account No. 101303-000, Colors” (1989). week study tour in Chicago. The journal- Ukraine an attractive destination for dias- Ms. Cisyk was in demand by profes- and mailed to Self-Reliance Ukrainian ists met with their Chicago counterparts pora Ukrainians and other travelers. sional teaching associations as a lecture- Federal Credit Union, 2332 W. Chicago at daily newspapers and news bureaus, The journalists were asked to com- recitalist in piano pedagogy, piano litera- Ave., Chicago, IL 60622. Please note on examined the relationship between the ture and performing arts medicine. Some the check “in memory of Maria Cisyk.” press and governmental bodies, and were (Continued on page 24) Plast Newark presents $100,000 check toward Ukrainian Cultural Center WHIPPANY, N.J. – The Newark Branch of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization on December 4 pre- sented a check of $100,000 towards the Ukrainian Cultural Center that is to be built here in northern New Jersey, in affiliation with St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church. Groundbreaking is scheduled for the spring of 2004. The funds were allocated out of the Plast branch’s own building fund to demonstrate local Plast members’ commitment to the project, which is being constructed as part of a larger complex that will also include a new church as well as a rectory and belltower. The check was presented at a special gathering by members of the Plast Newark executive board (“stany- chna starshyna”) and council (“stanychna rada”) to the pastor of St. John’s, the Very Rev. Archpriest Roman Mirchuk, and Orest Kucyna and Ihor Lodziuk, parish trustees and members of the Building Committee. This tangible expression of support is seen by the branch and its members as an investment in the future Members of the Newark Plast Branch’s executive and council present a check for $100,000 toward the build- ing fund of the Ukrainian Cultural Center that is to be constructed in Whippany, N.J. Representing the parish (Continued on page 24) and the Building Committee are: the Very Rev. Archpriest Roman Mirchuk, Orest Kucyna and Ihor Lodziuk. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 No. 50

REACTION TO PULITZER BOARD’S DECISION THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Fried onions ... and holiday thoughts Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association Below is the statement made by Dr. November, a day officially set aside in Many of our readers will probably remember the 1991 movie with the unusual Lubomyr Luciuk, research director of the Ukraine for national mourning, is base. All title of “Fried Green Tomatoes.” What brought the movie to mind was a recent Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties who hold a Pulitzer Prize should think experience with fried onions. Yes, fried onions. (This is not a typographical error, Association, in response to the announce- about whether what was once the most though these do occasionally slip into any publication...) Or more specifically, ment on November 21 by the Pulitzer Prize prestigious distinction in journalism still is. fried onions of the Ukrainian variety. Part of the story of “Fried Green Tomatoes” Board, which decided not to revoke the Duranty’s Prize soils all Pulitzer Prizes. dealt with the friendships and bonds created between women. In the case of our award won by Walter Duranty of The New We have done what we could to hallow Ukrainian fried onions, however, there was so much more at work besides bond- York Times for his reports about events in the memory of the many millions whom ing (though the women certainly did bond, and they had a lot of fun). the Soviet Union during the early 1930s. Stalin and his minions starved. We have Perhaps we should stop right here to explain. The fried onions to which we are The UCCLA initiated the international tried to expose the greatest of the famine referring are those prepared on one night of the week to support the work of the campaign to have Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize deniers, whom a contemporary, the jour- varenyky-makers who come later in the week to make the filling for varenyky and revoked or returned, and the organization nalist Malcolm Muggeridge, described as then dexterously insert that filling into the varenyky dough. Thus, the fried onions continues to maintain that The New York “the greatest liar of any journalist I have are only one small portion of the large, and we do mean large, task at hand, con- Times should return Duranty’s Pulitzer. ever met.” Our objectives were achieved, sidering the sheer numbers of varenyky produced by this crew of volunteers. internationally. These fried onions, and the peeled potatoes, and the ultimately filled Walter Duranty knowingly covered up We also prayed the Pulitzer Prize varenyky, are in many cases the proverbial foundation of our community life – the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Committee would do the decent thing and the stuff upon which our churches and schools were built, upon which they con- Ukraine. Many millions were murdered revoke Duranty’s ill-got award on the 70th tinue to exist and flourish. Even today, those varenyky sales play a huge part in during this politically engineered famine, anniversary of the Terror-Famine. They raising funds for our parishes, national homes, community organizations, etc. arguably one of the greatest acts of geno- were granted a unique chance to champion Around these parts, the local parish has a Christmas bazaar, not unlike others cide in 20th century Europe. It is a docu- truth. Instead they have rallied around a across North America, which takes advance orders for traditional Ukrainian mented fact that Duranty was Stalin’s liar and by so doing have further slighted foods of the Christmas season. Though the varenyky and holubtsi are available apologist, a shill for the Soviets before, the sufferings of millions of innocents. throughout the year, the weeks in December are particularly busy, as the orders during and after 1932-1933. They will be remembered by history for are particularly large. The orders come not only from parishioners but from For the Pulitzer Prize Committee to ren- what they have done today. As for locals who have been purchasing the products for years. In fact, many of them der this tartuffish decision and announce it Duranty, he will no doubt be pleased to be stop by the parish hall on Saturdays and Sundays during the year to purchase the on the eve of the fourth Saturday in in their company. varenyky and holubtsi made by the parish’s dedicated and experienced team of volunteers. (When you have a craving for varenyky, nothing else will do!) On “tsybulia night,” as we quickly dubbed our encounter, the group consisted of a dentist who completed her dental studies in both Ukraine and the United Ukrainian National Women’s League of America States, a high-powered legal secretary, a designer, a grandmother and an editor. On other nights it was a lawyer, a teacher in training, several homemakers – well Below is the text of a letter sent on Soviet government), chose to ignore such you get the picture. Everyone’s involved. And it’s not only women, mind you. December 2 to the Pulitzer Prize Board by cruel realities and chose instead to mini- So, why are we writing about fried onions before Christmas? Well, since the Ukrainian National Women’s League of mize and or even blatantly lie about what Christmas is the time to remember all the people who make a difference in our America. he witnessed. We can only imagine what lives, it is worth remembering also all the community volunteers out there who self-serving motives prompted these lies, make our Ukrainian “hromada” function. We refer to the varenyky makers, of The Ukrainian National Women’s and we are dismayed that the Pulitzer Prize course, but also to the countless other volunteers, ranging from youth counselors League of America was founded in New Committee has chosen to condone them. to the folks who collect admission at our community events, from those who York City in 1925. It is the oldest and The committee claims that the Pulitzer man phone-a-thons to those who organize fund-raisers, and so on. Keep them in largest women’s organization in the United Prize was awarded to Mr. Duranty for arti- your thoughts, give them a well-deserved thank-you, and, whenever possible, States, and an organization that comprises cles and reports written at other times and give them a hand. There are so many little ways each of us can help our hroma- thousands of women who are proud to be on other themes and that it is for his excel- da. Remember: anyone can do fried onions... Americans and also proud of their lent reports on these other themes that the Ukrainian heritage. Pulitzer Prize was awarded. To this we can Seventy years ago, members of our only reply that a journalist’s work must be organization worked tirelessly to assist the judged in its entirety and that a journalist victims of one of the worst genocides per- who covers up the genocide of millions of Dec. petrated during the 20th century. They also innocent people deserves contempt rather Turning the pages back... worked tirelessly to inform the world of the than recognition. multifarious evil of a Soviet regime intent The committee’s decision not to revoke 15 on the destruction of Ukrainians through the Pulitzer Prize awarded to this Stalinist starvation. Their efforts were aided by puppet is inexcusable. It is an affront to Seven years ago, on December 15, 1996, The Ukrainian courageous and honorable journalists like every reporter and journalist who honors 1996 Weekly reported that the Russian Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament, on December 5 passed a reso- Malcolm Muggeridge and Gareth Jones; the profession by writing the truth. It is an lution that questioned the status of the city of Sevastopol in they were impeded by cowards like Walter injustice that defames American ideals and Crimea: “unilateral actions by the Ukrainian side aimed at severing from Russia a part of Duranty who conspired with Soviet author- mocks the U.S. Bill of Rights by implying her territory are not only illegal from any viewpoint of international law, but are detri- ities to hide the truth from the world. that freedom of the press means freedom to mental to Russia’s security.” Today, members of the Ukrainian lie, freedom to ignore the truth and freedom Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada responded the next day with a resolution of its own and the National Women’s League of America are to avoid responsibility. introduction of a bill on the removal of foreign troops from Ukrainian soil. The Verkhovna appalled at the decision of the Pulitzer Above all, your decision shows a callous Rada voted 227 to 38 with 11 abstentions to bring to the floor a bill on “the withdrawal of Prize Committee not to revoke the Pulitzer disregard for the victims of the Great foreign troops from Ukraine’s territory, which called for the removal of all foreign troops, Prize awarded to Mr. Duranty. We believe Famine. It was the work of people like except for those invited by the government by the year 2000.” It also voted to declare that it is our obligation to express our anger and Walter Duranty that permitted the Soviet the Federation Council vote was “a claim on the territorial integrity of Ukraine” and that disappointment at this decision and to regime to slaughter millions with impunity, “the status of Sevastopol cannot be changed; it has been and remains Ukrainian territory.” appeal to the Committee to reconsider a shielded from public outrage by the lies of Our Kyiv correspondent Roman Woronowycz reported: “For weeks the Russian Duma, decision we view as an egregious error in stooges who were more concerned with the lower house, had been simmering with disenchantment that the Black Sea Fleet would judgment. enhancing their own image by cultivating leave the city of Sevastopol, located in the Crimean autonomous region of Ukraine, with Recently opened archives in Moscow relationships with the Soviet elite. We are an agreement between the executive branches of both governments seemingly near at and Kyiv give ample evidence of the Great deeply saddened that you have chosen to hand. It had passed the first reading of a resolution that would have brought the city under Famine in Ukraine, as well as ample evi- protect this image rather than to expose Mr. the budgetary responsibility of the Duma and officially declared it a Russian city.” The dence of Mr. Duranty’s lack of journalistic Duranty for what he truly was, a man who vote on that measure was delayed, but the Duma did pass a resolution stating that talks on integrity. These archives show that more lacked the courage and integrity to tell the divvying up the fleet must be halted, which President Boris Yeltsin vetoed. than 7 million and possibly as many as 10 world the truth and a man who disgraced a The Federation Council resolution stated that firmness in upholding national interests million, Ukrainians died during the noble profession. and adherence to law would help in “defending and strengthening Russian statehood.” It Famine, which was artificially engineered The decision that was made does credit said that actions by Ukraine “hamper the development of good neighborly and mutually by Soviet authorities. These archives also to no one. In defending the indefensible beneficial relations between the two fraternal peoples and are detrimental to the interna- show that Mr. Duranty’s reports to The you have degraded the Pulitzer Prize and tional prestige of the two countries.” The proposal to issue a statement on the status of New York Times about conditions in made it a meaningless trophy that stands Sevastopol was initiated by the powerful mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, who had Ukraine were deliberately and callously for nothing. We urge you to take the moral declared in October that Sevastopol is and will be a Russian city. misleading. high ground in this matter, to have the At a regular press briefing at Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 10, The genocide of 1932-1933 was so well courage to admit that an error was made, ministry spokesperson Yurii Sergeyev said the status of the city is not negotiable. engineered that Soviet authorities ordered and to revoke a prize that should never “Ukraine’s territorial integrity has been recognized by all nations, and none – except for that dogs and other household pets be have been awarded. certain political circles in Russia – calls it into question,” said Mr. Sergeyev. slaughtered so that after all grain and live- stock had been confiscated, the people Respectfully yours, Source: “Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada takes action against Russian claims to would have nothing at all to eat. Mr. Iryna Kurowyckyj, President Sevastopol,” by Roman Woronowycz, Kyiv Press Bureau, The Ukrainian Weekly, Duranty, who visited Ukraine during this Ukrainian National Women’s League December 15, 1996, Vol. LXIV, No. 50. heinous time (with the blessing of the of America, Inc. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 7

REACTION TO PULITZER BOARD’S DECISION COMMENTARY Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Following is the statement of the denied the existence of the Famine- Who’s in charge of public education Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Genocide in Ukraine, but maligned those on the Pulitzer Prize Board’s decision not who had the courage to speak out against the inSeventy Ukraine years after theabout fact, there the are theirFamine-Genocide? history if they want to emerge as a to revoke Walter Duranty’s prize. Stalinist government and inform the world still people in Ukraine who either deny strong, proud and dignified people on the of its unfathomable crimes. On Friday, November 21, the Pulitzer or don’t know that their countrymen map of the world. I cannot imagine a sin- The UCCA plans to actively continue the were tortured to death by the artificially gle Armenian who knows nothing about Prize Board decided not to revoke the campaign to revoke Duranty’s Pulitzer Pulitzer Prize received by The New York created Famine of 1932-1933, according the Ottoman Empire’s massacre of Prize. We will continue to inform the to a survey published in Den, a daily Armenians, or one Jew who will not con- Times correspondent Walter Duranty for a American people about the despicable cruel- series of reports from the Soviet Union Ukrainian newspaper on November 22. demn the atrocities of Hitler’s regime. ty with which Stalin murdered the Ukrainian The public opinion poll, conducted by Yet, today, in Ukraine we still have regarding the Five-Year Plan, which The people and attempted to cover up the atroci- New York Times published in 1931. As the the Kyiv Institute of Sociology and the historians who are Stalin’s apologists, ties, with Duranty’s and The New York Sociology Faculty at the National who bicker over the reasons for the largest Ukrainian representative organiza- Times’ compliance. To honor the memory of tion in the United States, the Ukrainian University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, famine and quibble over whether 7 mil- the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide victims, we surveyed 2020 Ukrainian citizens over lion or 10 million peasants died from Congress Committee of America is affront- will not stop until the truth is recognized and ed by the decision of the Pulitzer Prize the age of 18. When asked which state- hunger in the 1930s. We still have Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize is revoked. We will ment best reflects your own thoughts, 40 Communists who in May, at a special Board, which not only sullies the current continue our work to expose the double Pulitzer Prize Board members, but also percent responded that the Famine in session the Verkhovna Rada held to standards employed by both the Pulitzer diminishes the honor of those who have Ukraine in the 1930s was a genocide of member the victims of the 1932-1933 Prize Board and The New York Times and received this prestigious award. the Soviet regime against the Ukrainian famine insisted that the famine was strive to clear the name of the prestigious The UCCA conducted a yearlong cam- people; 25 percent said the Famine was a brought on by a bad harvest. award, which is presently marred by its paign to prove to the Pulitzer Prize Board result of the Soviet regime and its And unfortunately, we have a association with Duranty. and The New York Times that Duranty was actions, directed not only at Ukrainian Ukrainian government that seems We urge the Pulitzer Prize Board not to deliberately fraudulent in his articles as peasantry, but at peasants from other ambivalent about the past. It seems to say attested by Duranty himself in 1931, where- compromise its own integrity and review its Soviet republics; 10 percent of the the right things, but does little to educate by admitting that in an agreement between journalistic ethical standards, for it was the respondents said the Famine was due to its people about their own history and Soviet authorities and The New York Times, prize’s founder, Joseph Pulitzer, who covet- natural conditions, and not the result of shies away from contact with its citizens. “his official dispatches always reflect the ed journalism in the “highest moral and authorities’ actions, and 13 percent said Case in point: Although President intellectual” standards. Furthermore, we official opinion of the Soviet regime and not that they do not know anything about the Leonid Kuchma has decreed that every urge The New York Times to root out its his own.” In our opinion, the evidence pro- Famine in Ukraine in the 1930s. Twelve year the fourth Saturday of November culture of deception, which has extended vided to the Pulitzer Committee and The percent of those surveyed found the will be a day of commemoration for the from Duranty’s 1931 writings to Jayson New York Times verifying Duranty’s fabri- question difficult to answer. victims of the 1932-1933 famine, there Blair’s 2003 reports. We urge all Ukrainians cations was clear and more than sufficient to Granted, during Soviet times most has been no government-sponsored pub- in the United States to actively continue the revoke the prize. people in the Ukrainian SSR could not lic awareness campaign to get this mes- campaign against the Pulitzer Prize Board In fact, since the Pulitzer Prize is speak about this tragedy, and only after sage out to 48 million Ukrainians. There and The New York Times. It is our collec- renowned for upholding a standard of excel- Ukraine became independent could these is no museum to honor the victims of this tive duty to correct this historical injustice lence in journalism, the Pulitzer Prize Board eyewitnesses alleviate their pain and tragedy. The small monument erected in and honor the memory of the Famine- falls short of its commitments to journalistic begin to tell their stories. But the fear 1993, (it’s actually been called a marker, Genocide victims by disallowing the integrity and ethics when it surmises that that was instilled in them during rather than a monument) in memory of Pulitzer Prize Board and The New York Duranty’s articles “fall seriously short” of Communist times made it difficult for those who died 60 years earlier, does not Times to include Walter Duranty among its standards used in journalism today. The many to relate their stories and thus reflect the magnitude of this Ukrainian honored. lives of as many as 10 million Ukrainians revisit the horrors they endured. holocaust. And there are no textbooks, and Duranty’s own admission of knowledge On behalf of the Executive Board In the West, a new campaign to let the media programs or information services about the Famine-Genocide in private con- of the UCCA: world know about the Famine-Genocide that can provide such materials. versations with British diplomats are enough of 1932-1933 began in the early 1980s – Over 2,500 people came to honor the reason to revoke the Pulitzer Prize awarded Michael Sawkiw Jr., President on the occasion of the Great Famine’s memory of those who perished in 1932- to an immoral journalist who not only Marie Duplak, Executive Secretary 50th anniversary – when more than 1933, at a Famine memorial service, 15,000 Ukrainians marched past the organized by Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Soviet Embassy in Washington, to Ukraine bloc on Saturday, November 22. FOR THE RECORD: Congressional Ukrainian Caucus protest this terror by starvation. Although The campaign, called “Light a Candle,” some attempts were made in the 1950s was a noble effort and the leaders of this by the Ukrainian diaspora to highlight bloc brought together Ukrainians from takes a stand on Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize the atrocities of the Bolshevik regime, it every region of the country to mourn Below is the text of a letter sent on revered. was not until the 1980s and the formation their brethren. But these numbers repre- November 19 by the leadership of the This year marks the 70th anniversary of of the U.S. Commission on the Ukrainian sent just a small fraction of the number Congressional Ukrainian Caucus to the the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932- Famine that some light was shed on these who perished. Newly released figures administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, Sig 1933. A few weeks ago, the United States dark pages in the history of the Ukrainian from declassified Soviet archives show Gissler. House of Representatives passed H. Res. people. that about 25,000 people died every day 356 commemorating the tragedy inflicted I come from a family that suffered in Ukraine in 1933 (or 17 people every Dear Mr. Gissler: upon the Ukrainian nation by the brutal because of these Stalinist repressions. In minute). As the bipartisan co-chairs of the policies of the Soviet government and the Poltava region, the land of Unfortunately, on Saturday, members Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, we are Joseph Stalin. The resolution unequivocally “chornozem” (black earth) my great- of the Ukrainian government, including writing to you to urge the Pulitzer Prize stated, “Whereas many Western observers grandparents died during the winter of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and Board to revoke the prize received by The with first-hand knowledge of the Famine, 1933, and my father’s aunts and cousins Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn, were New York Times correspondent Walter including New York Times correspondent succumbed to death by starvation. The not there with the people. (President Duranty in 1932. Walter Duranty, who was awarded a reason that I am on this earth today is Kuchma is currently in the hospital, recu- Reputable academicians and other corre- Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his reporting from because my grandfather saved his wife perating from abdominal surgery.) They spondents have disputed the set of stories the Soviet Union, knowingly and deliber- and two sons from a similar fate by did come to lay wreaths at the Famine on the Soviet Five-Year Plan, which ulti- ately falsified their reports to cover up and escaping to the big city, Dnipropetrovsk. memorial before the service, but they did mately won Mr. Duranty his Pulitzer Prize, refute evidence of the famine in order to Despite this family history, I learned not stay to honor the memory of those as Soviet propaganda. Later in his career. suppress criticism of the Soviet regime.” about this “deep dark secret” only in the who died; they did not stay to condemn Mr. Duranty’s biased reports and half-truths In this commemorative year of the 1980s from my grandfather’s memoirs, the actions of the government of the past. enabled the Soviet government to cover up Ukrainian Famine-Genocide, the Congres- written in the 1960s and published by To be fair, the Ukrainian government a devastating crime, the Famine-Genocide sional Ukrainian Caucus appeals to the Suchasnist in the 1980s – long after he did sponsor a 40-minute memorial con- of 1932-1933, which took the lives of near- Board of the Pulitzer Prizes to revoke had died. (This year those memoirs were cert – by invitation only – at the National ly a quarter of Ukraine’s rural population in Walter Duranty’s prize. Such an act would published in Ukraine as a separate book Opera House on November 22, but the the years of bountiful crops. demonstrate that journalistic ethics and of remembrance, “Holodomor: The government committee to commemorate In an independent report prepared by integrity are inherent facets of the Pulitzer Memoirs of One Family.”) To this day I the 70th anniversary commemorations, Prof. Mark von Hagen of Columbia Prize and that the truth, even after so many remember my grandmother’s eyes formed 10 months ago and headed by University’s Harriman Institute, Prof. von decades, may not be concealed. welling up with tears as she remembered Mr. Yanukovych, met only once this Thank you for your attention to this Hagen concluded that, “It (Mr. Duranty’s how she tried to save her family. She year, on November 19. matter. Pulitzer Prize) should be rescinded for the died in 1987, never having said more The lack of Ukrainian government integrity of the Pulitzer Prize itself and for Sander Levin than a few words about the “Holodomor” involvement and understanding of such anybody who gets it in the future and for Member of Congress (literally, death by forced starvation). commemorations is worrisome and dis- The New York Times, too.” The fact that But today Ukrainians must know Curt Weldon tressing. Mr. Duranty’s name continues to be associ- about the Famine; they must speak out Member of Congress Indeed, it is a great honor that the ated with the Pulitzer Prize diminishes the about it. It must become part of the ambassadors of both the United States weight of this award and challenges the Marcy Kaptur national consciousness. Ukrainians must very principles on which it is based and Member of Congress know their history and must learn from (Continued on page 16) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 No. 50

THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAMINE-GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE Commission on the Ukraine Famine was Philadelphia established in 1986 its purpose was to gather all available information on the by Ulana Mazurkevich Famine and submit a report to Congress. PHILADELPHIA – On Sunday, The final report, which was adopted by November 16, the golden-domed Congress, states “The Famine which Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the occurred in Ukraine and took millions of Immaculate Conception hosted a beauti- lives was the result of deliberate policies of ful solemn concert and panakhyda the government of the Soviet Union. This (memorial service) to commemorate the man-made famine, the report stated, is 70th anniversary of the Ukrainian truly an act of genocide by the Soviet gov- Famine. Close to 2,000 attended the ernment against the Ukrainian people.” commemoration. The Ukrainian Composers Ensemble, The program began with the mournful under the musical directorship of Thomas tolling of the cathedral’s bells. During the Hrynkiw, performed a moving tribute to tolling of the bells, students from the the victims of the Famine. Ihor Shwec on Ukrainian Saturday school, dressed in the violin, Nestor Cybriwky on cello and Ukrainian embroidered blouses and carry- Toma Hrynkiw on piano played Petro ing white candles with black ribbons, pro- Hlushkow’s composition in memory of ceeded down the aisles of the cathedral. Taras Shevchenko. Their performance The candle-bearers were followed by stu- was interspersed with readings of short dents carrying a symbolic wreath of sheafs testimonies of the survivors of the Famine by the students of the Ukrainian school. of wheat and thorns. The wreath and can- Children bearing candles participate in the procession. dles were placed in front of the iconostas. After each reading a candle was lit. The combined youth school choir, Tenor Bohdan Chaplynsky filled the under the directorship of Maria cathedral with a stirring rendition of Kaminska, proceeded to the front of the Schubert’s “Ave Maria” and Verdi’s cathedral and raised their voices in song, “Requiem.” Roksolana Harasymowych singing “Our Father” and Taras accompanied on the piano. Petrynenko’s song “Ukraina.” The Ukrainian male choir Prometheus, Metropolitan Stefan Soroka welcomed almost 50 voices strong, under the musi- the assembled, noting that he was pleased cal directorship of Nestor Kyzymyshyn to see the pastors of the Ukrainian did a stirring rendition of Bortniansky’s Evangelical-Baptist Church and the repre- “How Great is God” and “We Fly to Your sentatives of the American Jewish com- Patronage.” The final musical composi- munity who joined this commemoration. tion was Artemowsky’s “Lord of Heaven The metropolitan said: “Much of the and Earth.” Bohdan Chaplynsky sang the world chose to remain passive or ignorant moving solo, accompanied by Halia of the man-made Famine in Ukraine Mazurok-Reh. while it was occuring, resulting in the The commemorative concert conclud- horrific deaths of over 7 million ... “when ed with everyone joining in singing the we chose to be passive in response to religious hymn “O God, Great and injustices, then we effectively help Eternal.” oppressive regimes succeed ... we are Following the concert an ecumenical called to be a living consciense of those memorial prayer service for the more than 7 who have suffered from such injustices.” million victims of the Famine-Genocide Hierarchs seated during the observances: (from left) Metropolitan Stefan The First Ukrainian Evangelical and was celebrated by Metropolitan-Archbishop Soroka, Archbishop Antony, Archbishop Stephen Sulyk, Bishop Michael Baptist Choir composed of male and Soroka, Archbishop Antony from the Kuchmiak and Bishop Walter Paska. female voices under the baton of Borys Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A., Voyevoda, accompanied on the piano by Archbishop Stephen Sulyk, Bishops al genocides are listed, the 1932-1933 geno- Oksana Schklar, rendered three liturgical Michael Kuchmiak and Walter Paska, and Montreal cide in Ukraine is not among them. hymns: Lysenko’s “Great Eternal God,” many Catholic and Orthodox clergy. During The last speaker was Frank Chalk, a pro- Bortniansky’s “Angel of God” and the panakhyda flag-bearers from the youth by Marta D. Olynyk fessor in the department of history and co- Ipolit’s “Praise the Name of the Lord.” organizations Plast and SUM stood guard. MONTREAL – The Montreal book director of the Montreal Institute for The president of the Commemoration The commemorative services in the launch of “Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Committee and former public member of cathedral were preceded by a campaign 1932-1933. Western Archives, Testimonies Concordia University. He discussed the dif- the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine launched by the committee to bring and New Research,” edited by Wsewolod ferences between the terms “genocide” and Famine, Ulana Mazurkevich, acknowl- awareness of the Famine-Genocide to the W. Isajiw, and published by the Toronto- “crime against humanity,” and mentioned edged the survivors of the Holodomor and general public. The result was the airing based Ukrainian Canadian Research and that the man who is acclaimed as the coiner said that their memory will live on forev- of the documentary film on the Famine, Documentation Center, took place on of the term “genocide” was a Jew born in er. Ms. Mazurkevich stated that when the “Harvest of Despair,” in the tri-state area. Monday, November 10, at the Faculty tsarist Russia, in the village of Bezvodne, Lounge of Concordia University. now in Belarus. (On November 13 Prof. ing the Famine-Genocide. Prof. Roman Serbyn, who recently retired Chalk was one of the speakers at a session Regina Following the presentation the atten- from the History Department of the entitled “Famine as a Weapon and Lessons dees, in respect and memory of the mil- University of Quebec at Montreal, opened for Prevention: Genocide, Atrocities and REGINA, Saskatchewan – The lions of Famine victims, sang “Vichnaya the event with a few introductory remarks Ethnic Cleansing,” during the Washington evening of Sunday, November 23, in Pamiat” (Eternal Memory). about the book. This latest publication on the conference on “The Ukrainian Man-Made Regina was bitterly cold, eerily appropri- Sen. Raynell Andreychuk next spoke, Famine-Genocide is a collection of papers, Famine of 1932-1933.”) ate for the observance of the 70th recapping some of the historical as well all but two of which were originally present- The book launch, which was sponsored anniversary of the forced Famine- as the successful efforts of getting the ed as papers at a conference held in 1990. by the Montreal Institute for Genocide Genocide in Ukraine. The observance Canadian Senate to pass a resolution call- Some of the articles in this volume analyze Studies at Concordia University, the organized by the UCC-Regina Branch ing on the government of Canada, among the reports on the Famine found in the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Montreal and its member-organizations was held at other things, to recognize the 1932-1933 archives of three Western governments: branch, and the McGill and Concordia the Ukrainian National Federation Hall Great Famine in Ukraine as genocide. As Germany, Italy, and Great Britain. The book Ukrainian students’ clubs, would have been and attended by over 120 people, many she completed her address, the crowd also contains “Testimonies from Kyiv.” a resounding success but for the very low of whom were painfully aware of the spontaneously rose and gave her a stand- Prof. Serbyn then introduced Dr. Kurt attendance. Including the three speakers, 1932-1933 horrors in Ukraine. Others ing ovation. Jonassohn, a professor in the department of there were only 10 people in the lecture attended to learn more about Stalin’s The evening wrapped up with the sociology and co-director of the Montreal room, among them a representative from the atrocities aimed at forcing collectiviza- attendees lingering for a lengthy period Institute for Genocide Studies (MIGS) at Canadian Polish Congress in Montreal. Not tion and stamping out Ukrainian nation- and discussing the 1932-1933 events. No Concordia University, who urged a single student, either from Concordia or alism, while some were hearing about the food was served, just coffee, in respect researchers of the Ukrainian Famine- McGill universities was present. Famine-Genocide for the first time. for the millions who perished as a result Genocide to make survivors’ testimonies The book launch is one of a series of Vera Feduschak, past president of the of Stalin and his collaborators’. available in English. Dr. Jonassohn said that events taking place in Montreal to mark the UCC-Regina Branch, opened the Earlier in the day memorial services MIGS, founded in 1986 and based in the 70th anniversary of the Famine-Genocide. evening’s program by welcoming every- were held at Regina’s Ukrainian Catholic departments of history and sociology, would Also part of the commemorations were a one and recounting a brief overview of and Orthodox Churches. During the past publish any short or long (20 to 200 pages) screening of the award-winning documen- the Famine and its emotional impact on several weeks parishioners and others English translations of eyewitness reports on tary film “Harvest of Despair” at McGill her personally. This was followed by an were encouraged to bring food items in the Ukrainian Famine on its website University, and a commemorative commu- opening prayer and a presentation by Ed memory of the victims as donations to (www.migs.concordia.ca). Surprisingly, a nity service and concert held at the Lysyk on the historical events surround- the Regina and District Food Bank. visit to this site revealed that although sever- Ukrainian Youth Center. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 9

THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAMINE-GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE Ukrainian political utopia, that of and blessed by Metropolitan Stefan Munich Ukrainian national communism. Moscow Cherry Hill Soroka, Bishop Walter Paska, and the decimated the Communist Party pastor, the Very Rev. John Ciurpita. by Mykola Danchuk (Bolshevik) of Ukraine. Regular mem- by Olga Prychka Parish children, dressed in Ukrainian MUNICH – Germany commemorated bers of the party, as well as cadres, were CHERRY HILL, N.J. – On November blouses and shirts, placed a memorial the 70th anniversary of the Ukrainian purged and liquidated. Key Ukrainian 16, parishioners of St. Michael’s wreath at the foot of the mohyla and Famine. Dr. Ivan Myhul, dean of the Communists, who attempted to imple- Ukrainian Catholic Church in Cherry white carnations were strewn alongside. Faculty of Government and Political ment the by then discredited policy of Hill, N.J., celebrated the 80th anniversary After the blessing and prayers, Olga Economy, opened the solemn occasion Ukrainization, committed suicide. The of the founding of the parish in Camden, Prychka read an original poem, and the and introduced the key note speaker, Dr. speaker reminded those present of the N.J. Additionally, the parish commemo- choir sang “Vichnaya Pamiat.” Then Mykola Shafowal. reaction to the Famine outside of the rated the 70th anniversary of the parishioners and visitors gathered for Dr. Shafowal’s discourse, titled “The USSR – or as was the case more often, Holodomor. A commemorative “mohyla” refreshments in the parish hall. Year 1933,” presented the Famine- the lack of it. (burial mound) planted with periwinkle This project was a joint endeavor of Genocide in a broad perspective of Dr. Shafowal pointed out that it would was constructed on the church grounds. St. Michael’s Parish and the Committee events which occurred that very year be too easy, but erroneous, to place the The mohyla was unveiled, dedicated to Aid Ukraine. simultaneously in Soviet and western entire blame of the Great-Famine on Ukraine. The UFU Registrar underlined Stalin, and his personality. The true cul- that all nations of the world have crucial prit, he argued, is the Russian messianic breaking points in their history. If for imperial idea, of which Stalinism was but Americans the year is 1776, for the a variant. French 1789, and the Italians 1870, indis- In his concluding statement Dr. putably, for the Ukrainian nation, 1933 is Shafowal read moving statements and a crucial date. recollections of witnesses and survivors Dr. Shafowal stressed that, despite a of the Famine. Finally, the speaker quot- good harvest in 1932, forced requisition ed Mother Theresa of Calcutta who said of foodstuffs and grain by the Soviet the worst suffering that humans can regime contributed to massive deaths. endure is hunger or famine. One out of every five Ukrainians per- The commemoration of the Famine- ished during the first five months of Genocide was held in the main hall of 1933. UFU, and was well attended by Furthermore, asserted Dr. Shafowal, Ukrainians, Germans and Ukrainians of 1933 also signaled the death of a specific the Jewish faith.

branch, prepared a montage of poems Whippany that were read by Steven Rizzo, Christopher Rizzo, Andrew Rago, Adam by Antin Bilanych Metropolitan Stefan Soroka, Bishop Walter Paska and the Rev. John Ciurpita Klymko, Roman Kovbasniuk and officiate at the dedication of the memorial to Famine victims. WHIPPANY, N.J. – On November 15, Mykola Kucyna. From this montage a bus organized by the Ukrainian came the words “We are, we were, and Congress Committee of America, Morris we will be!” – the program’s theme. The Weekly’s collection of materials about the Famine County Branch, and paid for by The local singing quartet Samotsvit – Selfreliance Ukrainian American Federal Oksana Telepko, Zoryana Kovbasniuk, The Ukrainian Weekly’s official website contains the largest collection of materials Credit Union, traveled to St. Patrick Orest Kucyna and Michael Koziupa (the on the Internet dedicated to the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. Cathedral for solemn observances of the latter also accompanied the group on the Located at www.ukrweekly.com, the special section is completely searchable. 70th anniversary of the Famine-Genocide accordion – then took the stage. Ms. of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. Telepko started with a stirring reading of “We are, we were and we will be!” a poem, “Ne domyslyv Bohdan” by V. was the theme of the program commem- Kryshchenko. Then the quartet sang two orating the “Holodomor” the following melodies “Zibralysia vsi burlaky” and day, November 16, at St. John the Baptist “Nema hirsh nikomu, yak tii syrotyni,” Ukrainian Catholic Church hall in and the ladies performed a beautiful duet On the evening of Whippany, N.J. Gregory and Zuzana “Chorna rillia izorana.” All the songs Hywel, and Zoryana Kovbasniuk, special were Ukrainian national songs. events representative for the Whippany The main speaker was George UCCA Branch, decorated the stage. Kurylko, who was a boy of 10 in The program started with youth from Poltavschyna, Ukraine, in 1933. He and Saturday, May 8, 2004 the Newark Branch of Plast Ukrainian his family were deported to northern Scouting Organization reading a section Russia and lived through the Famine of the poem “Ne druham” by Yakiv years. His personal recollections of the Hudemchuk. Nusia Denysyk, special years of Stalin’s terror truly moved the affairs representative of the Plast Newark audience. The Friends of branch, helped prepare the performers, The stage portion of the program Deanna and Andrea Shypailo, and Paul ended with everyone in the hall standing Hadzewycz. and singing the prayer “Bozhe Velykyi.” Columbia University Next on the program came the A showing of the film “Holod 33” by Ukrainian American Youth Association Oles Yanchuk, which depicted the life Ukrainian Studies II (SUM), Whippany Branch. Lesia Cebrij and death of one family during the Rago, counselor and president of the Holodomor, followed the program. ("FOCUUS II")

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10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 No. 50 Ukrainian authorities... (Continued from page 2) ability to monitor and control Internet traffic. These WeddingsWeddings && EngagementsEngagements efforts seem to be following along the lines of similar legislation adopted in Russia in 1995 and 1998 that cre- ated the System for Operational-Investigative Activities (SORM) that has since permitted the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to monitor the Internet. Under the laws, all ISPs must install SORM equipment that enables the FSB to monitor e-mail and Internet traffic. On July 17, the Ukrainian State Telecommunications Committee requested that all telecoms and ISPs install similar equipment to monitor Internet traffic. This request, however, has not been implemented because the legislation requiring compliance has not yet been adopted by Parliament. The government submitted a bill to parliament in July titled “On Activity in the field of Information Technology.” According to the bill, its goal is to “ensure the legal regulation of the national component of global information systems, including the Internet.” The bill has been condemned by opposition deputies, who sug- Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Jakowiw of Jewett, N.Y., are gested it should be renamed the law “On the Struggle proud to announce the engagement of their daugh- Against Internet Media.” The parliamentary Freedom of ter, Switlana Jakowiw, to Jeffrey E. Breigle, son of Speech and Information Committee, headed by opposi- Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Breigle of Windham, N.Y. tion Our Ukraine member Mykola Tomenko, rejected the government’s bill as an assault on media freedoms Switlana is a 1992 graduate of Windham-Ashland- and an infringement on existing Ukrainian laws guaran- Jewett Central School and a 2000 graduate of teeing freedom of speech. Maria College with an Associate’s Degree in The Ukrainian Internet Association, which unites six Nursing. She is currently employed as a registered Kyiv-based ISPs, condemned what it described as ille- nurse at Capital Cardiology Associated Transfer gal government attempts to monitor Internet traffic. It demanded that “infringements of the [Universal] Center in Albany, N.Y. Richard and Marta Legeckis Declaration of Human Rights” be immediately halted. and Dr. Jaroslaw and Marta Jarymovych The government’s latest efforts are occurring against Jeffrey is a 1986 graduate of Windham-Ashland- take great pleasure in announcing the background of preparations for what appears to be Jewett Central School and a 1988 graduate of the marriage of their children, the country’s most-contested presidential election ever. SUNY Cobleskill with an Associate’s Degree in Vanessa Elena Legeckis The authorities already control most electronic and Landscape Development. In addition, he is also a and Alexander Stefan Jarymovych, print-media outlets through the financial control of the 1992 graduate of New York State Ranger School at on October 4, 2003. state and pro-presidential oligarchs and through admin- Wanakena with an Associate’s Degree in Forestry istration-issued “temnyky,” which journalists obey out Tech and Resource Management. He is currently The ceremony took place at the Ukrainian of fear of losing their jobs. employed as a New York State Forest Ranger. Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity The Internet remains one of the last bastions of media in Kerhonkson, N.Y., followed by a reception freedom in Ukraine, and it has grown fivefold since A June 2004 wedding is planned. Both are currently at the UNA resort Soyuzivka. 1999. In 2001-2002, during the height of the so-called Kuchmagate crisis, Internet use grew by 30 to 40 per- living in the Windham area and plan to continue to cent, with an average monthly growth of 5 to 10 per- live in the Windham area after the wedding. Rumor has it that a great time was had by all. cent. A 2002 brams.com survey funded by the NGO Ukrainian Information Community Fund predicted that Internet use will increase by 50 to 100 percent this year. Estimates put the number of Internet users in Ukraine at up to 10 percent of the population. Government sta- tistics usually underestimate Internet usage, which is not surprising in a country where as much as one-half of all economic activity remains in the shadows. A March survey by the private pollster GfK-USM found 3.1 mil- lion “active Internet users” – about 6.4 percent of the population. The same survey also found that 9 percent of Ukrainians (4.32 million people) have access to the Internet. A July poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) similarly found that 3.2 million Ukrainians use the Internet. Among the urban popula- tion, the figure is between 9 percent and 15 percent. Among urban Internet users, the largest numbers can be found in western and central Ukraine (16 to 17 per- cent), where civil society is the most well developed, and the opposition is strongest. In eastern Ukraine, where there is greater public apathy, Internet usage is only 6 to 9 percent. This is somewhat surprising, as eastern Ukraine is generally wealthier than the western Wowk Photography regions. The Internet is used most frequently by young peo- The Best Man was William Platosz, friend of the groom. ple, who also tend to sympathize with the opposition. Christina Jancew of Clifton, New Jersey, and Christopher Groomsmen were Bohdan Platosz, brother-in-law of the The KIIS poll found that the highest number of users Richard Iwanik of Newington, Connecticut, were united in groom, Vasil Jancew Jr., brother of the bride, Stefan Pawlak, comes from the 18-29 age group (23 percent). This marriage on September 27, 2003, at St. Josaphat Ukrainian Raphael Kogan, Andrew Pawlak, Keith Snyder, Alexander compares to only 7 percent and 1 percent, respectively, Catholic Church in New Britain, Connecticut. Reverend Sokolsky, all friends of the groom, and Benjamin Haberern, for those age 30-49 and over 60. Stefan Bereza of New Britain, Connecticut, Reverend Andrij cousin of the groom. The Ring Bearer was Samuel Haberern, The differences in Internet usage by age group will, Figol of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Very Reverend cousin and godson of the groom. Marijan Procyk of Buffalo, New York, all officiated at the in turn, be reflected in the political domain. The ceremony. The reception was held at the St. George Greek Hall in New Communists, whose typical members are pensioners, Britain, Connecticut. Providing music for the reception were have few Internet users among their supporters, while Christina is the daughter of Vasil Jancew Sr. of Clifton, New Zolota Bulava of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Vorony of Viktor Yushchenko’s center-right Our Ukraine and the Jersey, and of the late Jaroslawa Jancew. Christopher is the Syracuse, New York, and special guests Burlaky, originally populist Yulia Tymoshenko bloc boast the largest num- son of Richard and Olga Iwanik of Newington, Connecticut. from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ber of web-savvy backers. The authorities first began to try to take control of the Attending the bride was Maid of Honor Natalia Czuczak, The couple now resides in Farmington, Connecticut in the “ua” domain in 2001 after the Internet received a popu- friend of the bride. Bridesmaids were Patricia Platosz, sister Village of Unionville. larity boost during the Kuchmagate crisis, which was of the groom, Christina Andruch, MaryAnn Znak, Renata sparked by the murder of popular Internet journalist Posnachiwsky, Larysa Yurcheniuk, Orysia Czebiniak, The couple wishes to express a special thank you to all of Heorhii Gongadze. The Internet went on to play a major Elizabeth Kobylecky and Oleksandra Kobylecky, all friends their friends who were able to join them from near and far, role in the March 2002 parliamentary election cam- of the bride. The flower girl was Natalie Reid, goddaughter and who helped make this one of the most memorable events paigns and, based on its popularity, seems set to play an of the bride. of their lives. even more important role in the October 2004 presiden- tial poll. Unless the SBU has its way, that is. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 11

Vitalib yK Romanlitsc Kernitskihko b attersn otK foughtirk since Jo hJunen s21,o whenn t ohe tookse ton up possible rematch with WBC champ Lewis and Andrew Nynka World Boxing Council heavyweight title- holder Lennox Lewis. He appeared well NEW YORK – Using only two rounds prepared for the fight with Johnson. and a combination of punishing punches, “I was prepared to be world champion Vitali Klitschko knocked out Canadian on June 21 (against Lewis) and I was 100 Kirk Johnson in front of 10,823 screaming percent ready for this fight,” Klitschko fans at Madison Square Garden on said. December 6. The Ukrainian so thoroughly The win made Klitschko the official No. routed Johnson that many people in the 1 heavyweight challenger for the WBC world of boxing now see the 6-foot-8-inch belt, and it also appears to prove that his heavyweight as the man to beat. performance this past summer against “All the good things came together on Lewis was no fluke. There has been some Saturday and multiplied. I was very well recent speculation that a rematch between prepared. And I wanted to prove to the Lewis and Klitschko could net the aging world that I am the best heavyweight. I am 38-year-old British boxer nearly $20 mil- not afraid of anybody,” Klitschko said after lion, although the Lewis camp has hinted the fight. that Lewis might retire prior to a rematch. “He was the better man tonight,” said “Hello, Lennox. I know you saw this Johnson during a post-fight press confer- fight,” Klitschko said in the ring immedi- ence. “I had a sluggish night against a guy ately after the fight, addressing the HBO you can’t afford to have a sluggish night camera. “You’re a great heavyweight against. He stuck to his game plan and I champion, but I can beat you.” came off my game plan.” Lewis won their previous fight after a Klitschko, a stand-up European-style ringside doctor stopped the bout after six fighter not known for dancing in the ring, rounds because of a major cut above hammered Johnson with a series of calcu- Klitschko’s eye. Klitschko was leading on lated lefts and rights throughout the fight. all three judges’ scorecards at the time. Johnson survived the first round, but hit HBO commentator Larry Merchant said the canvas with 45 seconds left in the sec- after the Johnson fight that Klitschko “har- ond round. After a standing eight count pooned the whale,” referring to Johnson’s from referee Arthur Mercante Jr., Johnson 260-pound overweight physique, and Dino resumed the fight with blood coming from Duva, Johnson’s promoter, said his mouth. Klitschko’s performance would “give Klitschko then pushed the Canadian Lennox Lewis motivation to fight Vitali.” onto the ropes with a series of strong left Klitschko, who landed 55 punches to jabs and a shot to Johnson’s belly. Johnson’s nine, had much of the crowd’s Johnson tried to retreat and covered his support behind him. “I was surprised and head with his hands while the chant of really glad when I entered the hall and saw Andrew Nynka “Klitschko, Klitschko” echoed in the that they all supported me. Many of the Head referee Arthur Mercante Jr. (left) raises Vitali Klitschko’s arms, officially Garden. Klitschko pounced on the over- fans had come all the way from Germany, proclaiming him the winner of the December 6 bout against Kirk Johnson. matched Johnson and, with six seconds left Ukraine and Russia. It was wonderful to in the second round, sent a final straight have them all united at the place where ence, where the controversial heavyweight throw big, giant punches at him.” right to the jaw, knocking Johnson out to Ali, Frazier and all the others made boxing boxer Mike Tyson also made a rather Klitschko, who later entered the press end the fight. history,” Klitschko said. strange appearance, Johnson addressed his conference, approached Johnson from The crowd, filled with yellow “Go Klitschko was originally scheduled to performance in the ring. “I’m not making behind and put his arms around the seated Vitali!” and “Dr. Iron Fists” t-shirts, waved fight Lewis on December 6, but the Briton excuses – he beat me fair and square. But I Johnson. He told the Canadian he was large Ukrainian flags and chanted backed out of the fight and the WBC helped him beat me because I did every- sorry and Johnson replied, “Don’t worry. Klitschko’s name before the fight began decided to have an official elimination thing he wanted me to do – stand there and It’s just business.” and “Ukraina” as the second round started, contest instead. Lewis said he wasn’t ready and then erupted when Johnson was to fight again this year and needed time to dropped to the mat. think about whether he would ever fight Klitschko’s younger brother Volodymyr, again. Klitschko needed an opponent for who, as usual, was in his older brother’s the December 6 fight and he took what corner during the fight, ran out to the cen- many regarded as a tough one in the once- ter of the ring to congratulate Vitali when beaten Johnson. the fight was waved to a close. Vitali “To fight a nobody would be a step climbed the ropes at each of the four cor- back,” Klitschko said. ners of the ring and blew kisses and ges- If Lewis choses to retire, Klitschko tured a thank you to the crowd. could potentially fight Corrie Sanders, who Johnson, from North Preston, Nova beat Vitali’s younger brother Volodymyr Scotia, had lost only once previously and earlier this year, for the vacant title. was a top contender coming into the bout Former heavyweight champion George with Klitschko, but the Ukrainian never let Foreman weighed in on the likelihood of a him get into the fight. Johnson appeared Klitschko-Lewis rematch, saying: “If tentative and hardly landed a punch as Lewis does not sense the money at stake, Klitschko pursued him relentlessly around then he must be sent to a psychiatrist right the ring. Johnson’s only previous defeat away. He must face the challenge to go came at the hands of John Ruiz during a down as one of the greatest champs in World Boxing Association title fight. boxing history.” Klitschko (33-2-0, 32 knockouts) had Speaking at the post-fight press confer- Vitali Klitschko celebrates his victory in the ring with the mayor of Kyiv, Oleksander Omelchenko.

Klitschko supporters hold a large Ukrainian flag while, in the background, A group of fans, who chartered a bus from northern New Jersey to Madison smaller flags are scattered throughout the arena. Square Garden, support Vitali Klitschko with “Go Vitali!” t-shirts. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 No. 50 Slobodyanik’s students to perform recital marking 100th anniversary of Horowitz’s birth MONTCLAIR, N.J. – The students of Mr. Slobodyanik’s tutelage. with Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow in which time he has performed abroad renowned concert pianist Alexander The students will perform works of Soloists and at Carnegie Hall with the and won several competitions, of which Slobodyanik will perform a recital cele- Scarlatti, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, New York Pops Orchestra. one led to a performance with the brating the 100th anniversary of the birth Stravinsky and Bizet-Horowitz. The After being awarded a special prize Toronto Symphony. of legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz recital will be held on Wednesday, (1999) in the Horowitz International Ms. Von Goetz and Mr. Berkofsky will (who was born in Kyiv in 1904 and died December 17, at 8 p.m. in the recital hall Piano Competition in Kyiv, Mr. both graduate from Juilliard in May 2004 in New York in 1989). The concert will of the McEachern Music Building at Shleyenkov came to the United States to as well as from a special performance be presented by the music department of Montclair State University. Admission to study with Mr. Slobodyanik. This program at Montclair State University. Montclair State University (MSU), where the concert is free. November he performed at NJPAC with Mr. Shleynekov is working towards a Mr. Slobodyanik serves on the faculty. Ms. Von Goetz has been studying with the New Jersey Symphony as the winner graduate degree at MSU. Performing will be Amanda Von Goetz, Mr. Slobodyanik since age 12. She was of the 2003 NJSO Young Artists A specially commissioned portrait of Daniel Shleyenkov and Michael the youngest winner, at barely, 14, of the Competition. Vladimir Horowitz by Ukrainian artist Berkofsky – star pupils who have New Jersey Symphony Young Artist Mr. Berkofsky has been working with Yuri Tchary from Lviv will be displayed achieved major accomplishment under Competition in 1996. She has performed Mr. Slobodyanik for the last three years at the concert.

Ukrainian pioneer and potter recognized in newly revised book SASKATOON – In December the new depression and early 1940s. The book revised edition of the book “Made in also captures other innovations and the Saskatchewan: Peter Rupchan, Ukrainian humor of this unique pioneering spirit. It Pioneer and Potter” by award-winning is this stalwart character and his adven- author Judith Silverthorne was launched. turous experiences that the author, Ms. This exciting biography highlights the Silverthorne brings to life in this remark- innovative, eccentric and industrious able portrayal of his life. nature of one of Saskatchewan’s first The book, “Made in Saskatchewan: prominent potters. Peter Rupchan, Ukrainian Pioneer and Rupchan was more than just another Potter” features the world of Rupchan pioneer trying to survive the hardships (1882-1944) as he struggled to find local and personal tragedies of early settle- ment. Considered a folk hero by some, clay, build his kilns, and capture wind by others a genius in his own time, power for grinding his clay and glazes to Rupchan worked his clay with a passion, produce his valuable art. fulfilled a dream and left behind a mean- The book’s author was recently hon- ingful historical legacy. ored with the Saskatchewan Book Award Rupchan established his pottery works for Children’s Literature. She is a two- just north of the northeastern time recipient of this award, and has sev- Saskatchewan community of Usherville. eral books to her credit. She has also From there he traveled extensively, sell- written various articles for ing and bartering his wares during the Saskatchewan’s weekly newspapers. A historic photo shows Peter Rupchan at work. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 13 “Tapestries” exhibit featuring works by Lialia Kuchma on view in Chicago

“# 135 Red” (42 by 49 inches), 2003. “Grove (My Father’s Orchard)” (96 inches high by 36 inches/22 inches/42 inches),1997. CHICAGO – An exhibit by Chicago Illinois at Champaign, Ms. Kuchma sub- The transition toward tapestry began photography, have provided an on”going artist Lialia Kuchma, titled “Tapestries,” sequently focused on printmaking and in 1975 and has been the primary medi- counterpoint. opened at the Chicago Cultural Center did independent studies at the School of um through which Ms. Kuchma has fol- Ms. Kuchma’s tapestries and photo- on November 22 as part of three new the Art Institute of Chicago and with lowed her muse – creating dynamic graphs have been extensively exhibited, exhibitions at the prestigious Michigan masters of calligraphy and Ukrainian images, both abstract and figurative, in both nationally and abroad. This year the Avenue Galleries. The exhibit, organized wood inlay. vivid color. Other art forms, in particular (Continued on page 16) by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, will be on view through January 25, 2004. An opening reception was held on November 21 and a gallery talk with the artist took place on December 4. Recent oils by Anatole Kolomayets on exhibit The Chicago Cultural Center exhibit CHICAGO – The Ukrainian National of Kyiv, on the occasion of the artist’s Son Andrij and daughter, well-known presents a sample of Ms. Kuchma’ s sty- Museum (UNM) held an exhibit of 50th anniversary of creative professional- correspondent Marta Kolomayets, deliv- listically diverse tapestries. recent oil paintings of Anatole ism since finishing his formal training. ered the congratulations personally. Experimenting with brilliant and con- Kolomayets on November 7-22 at its trasting colors, Ms. Kuchma’s sensual newly expanded exhibition hall on treatment of her medium results in stun- Superior Street in Chicago’s Ukrainian ning abstract and expressionistic works, Village. An enthusiastic crowd of over while still remaining true to the history 300 art lovers filled the space to capacity of the art form in its technical aspects. on opening night, viewing Mr. Ms. Kuchma offers the following con- Kolomayets’ works and listening to the ceptualization of her work: artist explain his philosophy and “The slow mechanical generation of a approach to the creative process. tapestry piece allows for contemplation Mr. Kolomayets infuses his oils with and the unconscious arrangement of energetic swaths of modern and vibrant ideas that often begin to shape the next colors, focusing his energy on acute work. The fugal aspects of line and color angles suggesting cubist influence. He and the animate hand reach deep into the does not shy from experimenting with evolvement of the physical texture of the form: soft, delicate lines intersect with natural elements of the wool and cotton emphatic spheres and curves. All of the integrating in the final mechanical lines harmonize in a resonant whole, process at the loom. The emotive aspects imparting an almost tactile sensation to pour and burst in color in contradiction the visual experience. to the logic of the line. The figurative Anatole Kolomayets was born in seeks a form in the object world and the Ukraine in 1927. He received his training abstract the inherent projection of organ- at St. Luke’s Institute (1948-1952) and ization/chaos from cells of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1952- experience/relationships in conflict, love, 1953), both in Liege, Belgium. Since fear and consolation. coming to the United States in 1953, he “To confront the logic of the line with has resided in Chicago. More than 400 of the pulse of color. the artist’s works are in numerous private “To confront the reason of color with collections and galleries in Argentina, the pulse of the line. Australia, Belgium, England, France, the “In their formality and in their ontol- United States, and Canada as well as ogy they are what has not been and what Ukraine. is.” Mr. Kolomayets has had one-man Also featured at the Center are two exhibits in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, other exhibits by Chicago photographers Washington, Philadelphia, Toronto, New Larry Snider and Sarah Faust titled, York, Los Angeles and Denver. This is respectively, “A World Away: his 33rd individual exhibition. Photographs by Larry Snider” (11/15/03- Mr. Kolomayets is one of the co- 1/18/04) and “Sarah Faust: Bodies founders of the Ukrainian artists’ group Beheld” (11/22/03-1/25/04). “Monolith,” which came into existence The Chicago Cultural Center is locat- in Chicago in 1954. His works have ed at 78 E. Washington St; telephone, been reviewed in various magazines and (312) 744-6630; website, www.chicago- journals, among them Suchasnist and culturalcenter.org. Admission is free. Ukraina. *** During the opening night formalities, Mr. Kolomayets received a written com- Born in Ukraine, Ms. Kuchma was mendation from the Ukrainian Ministry raised in the Ukrainian Village section of of Culture and personal congratulations Chicago. A graduate of the University of from National Deputy Viktor Yushchenko “Cellist,” (oil). 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 No. 50 A pilgrimage to Sandarmokh and the Solovets Islands The Solovets Islands – a group of Sandarmokh, referred to in NKVD files forebears perished in the Gulag (the Medvezhiegorsk in Karelia. Their investi- islands in the White Sea that are part of as “the habitual site for executions,” was Russian acronym for Glavnoe Upravlenie gations have served to fill in one of the the Arkhangelsk oblast in northwestern first opened for visitation in 1997. The Lagerei, or main camp administration), blackest of the so-called “blank pages” of Russia – consist of three large islands: first “Days of Remembrance” were held an Orthodox priest, a film director, as recent history – the uncovering of over Solovets, Bolshoi Muksalma, and Anzersky, that year at Sandarmokh and the Solovets well as several students – in all, not more 9,000 victims of mass executions whose as well as several smaller ones. Islands at the initiative of the St. than 50 people. I was the only Ukrainian remains were found in 150 mass graves. The archipelago, defined by an inordi- Petersburg Memorial Society. on the trip from abroad; last year, Among the victims were 1,111 Solovets nate beauty and variety of landscapes Beniamin Trokhymenko, who resides in internees who were transported from the * ** has, unfortunately, another association, the United States, undertook the trip island in 1937 whose fate had remained albeit one not widely known — as a for- Nadia Svitlychna is a philologist, for- upon learning in 1998 that his father, the unkown for decades. mer penal colony dating back to tsarist mer political prisoner and human-rights noted philologist Mykola Trokhymenko, Having access to documents of the St. times and, more recently, as “one of the activist and member of the External was executed at Sandarmokh. Petersburg KGB archives, the St. cruelest concentration camps of the era Representation of the Helsinki Group. It fell to Vasyl Ovsienko, former polit- Petersburg Memorial was able to procure of Communist rule.”1 Upon renouncing her Soviet citizenship, ical prisoner and recipient of the Vasyl lists of the Solovets internees who were Subsequent to the breakdown of the she was finally granted permission to Stus Award, as a veteran of Solovets executed at Sandarmokh. Among the exe- Soviet Union in 1991 and the emergence of emigrate to the United States in 1978. trips, to organize as well as bring some cuted were some 300 Ukrainians. the new independent states, a degree of Ms. Svitlychna undertook a trip or, more kind of order to the disparate group, With access to original documents and access to original documents of the Soviet properly, a pilgrimage this past summer which varied in age as well as interests, previously restricted materials, a three-vol- secret police and to previously restricted to Sandarmokh and the Solovets Islands and needless to say, in terms of personali- ume scholarly documentary publication materials became possible, providing new as part of a group that set out from Kyiv ties. titled “Ostannia Adresa. Do 60-Richchia revelations about Stalin’s crimes and the to take part in the Days of Remembrance Heeding Mr. Ovsienko’s instructions and Solovetskoyi Trahedii” (The Last Address: political terror of the early 1930s. for the victims of political terror and advice, we took with us, apart from person- On the 60th Anniversary of the Tragedy on Accordingly, the circumstances behind repression of the Stalin era. al belongings and necessities, the follow- the Solovets Islands), came out in Kyiv in the mass killings of 1,111 Solovets Since coming to the United States in ing: a national flag of Ukraine, a flag of the 1997-1999. internees – including some 300 members of 1978, Ms. Svitlychna has worked for the Our Ukraine party, as well as smaller flags, Subsequently, a series of documentary the Ukrainian intelligentsia, who were Ukrainian service of Radio Liberty until icons, candles, bread, boughs of guelder films was produced, but these films are rela- transported under prison convoy from the her retirement and also as editor-in-chief rose, or “kalyna” (used in parts of Ukraine tively seldom screened in Ukraine due to main island in 1937 – was finally ascer- of Vira (Faith), a quarterly publication of as a national symbol) and earth from the generally unsupportive government policies. tained, six decades later, in 1997. the United Ukrainian Orthodox gravesites of the more recent victims of Then again, it is difficult to account for A three-volume scholarly documentary Sisterhoods based in New Jersey. political repression who have been laid to the apparent indifference on the part of the publication titled “Ostannia adresa. Do Ms. Svitlychna gave an illustrated rest in Kyiv’s Baikove Cemetery. We also Ukrainian diaspora to the appearance of 60-richchia solovetskoi trahedii” (The Last presentation about her journey at the took with us publications pertaining to this these documents. Address. Toward the 60th Anniversary of New York-based Ukrainian Academy of particular stage of Ukrainian history, as Among other publications that have the Tragedy on the Solovets Islands), that Arts and Sciences in the U.S. on well as the latest publication of Memorial come out since “The Last Address” are came out in Kyiv in 1997-1999, contains November 2; an account of her journey to present to the Ukrainian community of such works as “Ukrainski Solovky,” an details of the executions of the prisoners at appeared in Vira (No. 4, 2003). Karelia and for the museums of the region. overview co-authored by Dmytro the Sandarmokh woods, some 19 kilome- Ms. Svitlychna’s account for The The aim of our journey was to take part Viedienev and Serhii Shevchenko, which ters outside of Medvezhiegorsk in Karelia. Weekly follows, in translation by Ika in the Days of Remembrance for the vic- was published in Kyiv in 2001, and Casanova. tims of Stalin’s terror and political repres- “Rubaly Lis…” (They Were Cutting Down sion. The Days of Remembrance came into 1 Dr. Yuri Shapoval, leading authority on by Nadia Svitlychna the Forest…) a memoir by Larysa the history of Communist rule in Ukraine and being on the initiative of the St. Petersburg Krushelnytska, which came out in Lviv in head of the Center for Historical and Political A 10-day bus trip to the far north, organ- Memorial Society. They are held annually 2001; the title is a reference to a novel by Studies at the Institute of Political and ized by the Our Ukraine political bloc was on August 5 at Sandarmokh and on August the author’s grandfather titled “Rubayut Ethnonational Studies at the National undertaken on the morning of August 2 7 on Solovets. Lis” (They are Cutting Down the Forest). Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, in a from the Podil district in Kyiv’s city center The very name “Solovets” (or lecture delivered in July 2001 on the invitation In continuing with my account of this by a diverse group of people who came “Solovky” as the archipelago is commonly year’s expedition to Sandarmokh and the of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies together, setting out on a journey to com- referred to in Ukrainian) has been indelibly at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Solovets Islands, I will limit myself to memorate the victims of Communist terror ingrained in the general consciousness, not the Days of Remembrance, and any rele- Dr. Shapoval is the author and co- and political repression. Among those only of Ukrainians but of all the peoples of vant background information. I will not author of many publications based on assembled were the Rev. Valerii Kopiika of the former Soviet republics, as being syn- dwell on the first three days of our trip, archival documents of the Soviet secret the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox onymous with imprisonment and the ruth- apart from noting that this part of the police known successively as the Cheka, Church and the Rev. Volodymyr Cherpak lessness of the Stalinist system. journey entailed stops in St. Petersburg GPU, NKVD and KGB, as well as other of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv It was only six years ago – thanks to the and Petrozavodsk, as well as meetings at the Communist Party organs. He is co- Patriarchate, who concelebrated a moleben efforts of the late Benyamin Yofe, head of Consulate General of Ukraine and with the author, with V. Prystaiko and V. service at the Church of St. Mary the the St. Petersburg Memorial (after whom Ukrainian community in Karelia, the latter Zolotariov, of the book “ChK-GPU- Protectress, asking for God’s blessing on the chapter is now named) and Yuri as represented by the Kalyna Ukrainian NKVD v Ukraine: Osoby, Fakty, the participants of the journey. Dmytriev, president of the Socio-Juridical Association. Dokumenty” (The Cheka-GPU-NKVD The group comprised members of the Academy for the Defense of the Republic We started our trip on the morning of in Ukraine: Personalities, Facts, Vasyl Stus Ukrainian Memorial Society, of Karelia – that light was shed on what Documents), which came out in 1997. several journalists, six people whose happened at the Sandarmokh woods near (Continued on page 15)

Vladyslav Charuta The inner court of the Transfiguration of Christ the Saviour Stavropigian Monastery in Solovets. The cathedral (on the right), which constitutes the principal part of the monastery complex, was built in 1558-1567 under the tenure of Hegumen Fylyp Kolychev, with Ihnatii Savka of Novgorod, as architect. The monastery served as a camp for political prisoners in the 1930s on the archipelago that has come to be known as “one of the cruelest concentration camps of the era of Communist rule.” No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 15

STON), a man by the name of Eichman, prisoner Yevhen Sverstiuk. Subsequently, A pilgrimage... received an order to draw up a list for exe- two additional panakhyda services were (Continued from page 14) cuting 1,850 prisoners. Included in the lists said on the main island of Solovets. Solovets Islands: August 5. Upon arriving in Medvezhiegorsk, were the 1,111 Solovets internees whose The pilgrimage to the at once hallowed we were struck by the beauty of the Karelian names have become known today. and damned Solovets archipelago pertinent data landscape – the majesty of Lake Onezk, the An NKVD captain by the name of deserves a separate retelling. I will limit Mykhail Matveyev almost single-handedly myself to relating what created the Kivach Waterfall on the Suna River, the rich- The following information is shot the prisoners using a pistol at the strongest impression. Foremost was an ness of vegetation, the rugged rock forma- from the entry for Solovets Islands Sandarmokh woods during a span of five unfathomably overwhelming sense of tions. in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine. At 11 a.m., we set out for the days. After the first day of this slaughter, contrast – a most jarring dissonance occa- sioned by, on the one hand, the visible Sandarmokh woods, traveling along a 19- which took place on October 27, 1973, the A penal colony in the White Sea, traces of the former “vale of suffering and kilometer stretch of road, heading in the executions had to be postponed until Arkhangelsk Oblast … the islands despair,” and, on the other, the richness direction of Povenets. The buses dropped us November 1 due to an ambush on the con- are largely covered with forest and and beauty of the natural landscape – off at the entrance to the woods-cemetery. voy by the sentenced prisoners in an many lakes and swamps; the climate reinforced, in turn, by the inordinate Upon approaching the site, the first thing attempt to escape. is cold and damp. beauty of such architectural landmarks as one sees is a boulder with a bas-relief and The transport of subsequent groups of A major outpost of Russian the 16th century monastery of the the inscription – “Do Not Kill One Another.” prisoners from the transit prison to the final monastic life in the far north by the Stavropigian Order and its monumental A little further, there is a rock from Solovets, destination, the so-called “final address,” end of the 16th century and later, a towers, which during the 1930s had with an affixed plate which states that 1,111 i.e., place of execution in southern Karelia, site for a strategic fortress, the served as a camp for political prisoners; people who were held as prisoners in was perfected soon enough: henceforth, the islands were used by the tsars as a and the Church of the Ascension on Solovets were executed at this site in 1937 prisoners were stripped to their underwear prison or place of banishment for Siekirnaya Hill, illuminated by the on October 27 and November 1, 2, 3 and 4. and bound in pairs. political and religious offenders until Solovets lighthouse, which formerly The reason that August 5 has been desig- Capt. Matveyev (born in 1892) lived to a 1903, but there were seldom more served as a place for solitary confinement. nated as a Day of Remembrance at ripe old age. Initially, he was given official than a few dozen prisoners at one The iconostases, where the “parashas,” Sandarmokh has the following explanation. recognition for his part in the executions time. or toilet buckets, were customarily placed, On July 2, 1937, the Central Committee of during the 20th anniversary celebrations of Among Ukrainians to have been have already been restored. The writings the All-Union Communist Party (of bolshe- the October Revolution; later, he was sen- interned there in the 18th century tenced on criminal charges, without possi- and markings on the church walls have were … some of Hetman Ivan viks) (CC AUCP[b]) passed a resolution been, for the most part, removed and paint- concerning “anti-Soviet elements” which, bility of rehabilitation. He lived until the Mazepa’s supporters after 1709; age of 81 and died a natural death. ed over, although occasionally one can still Archimandrite H. Odorsky and in effect, served as the doctrinal basis for discern the names of prisoners on some of the Great Terror. For the Solovets contingent of Protopriest I. Rohachevsky (1712); internees, the previously mentioned the walls. And, there is still a peephole in Petro Kalnyshevsky, the last kish The resolution required all CP secre- the dilapidated doors of a now once-again taries on the oblast, regional [krai] and Eichman selected members of the intelli- otaman of the New Sich (1776- gentsia of practically all the nationalities active church. 1801); and Yu. Andruzky, a member republic levels, as well state security agents Another very strong impression was at the NKVD to organize, within five days, that comprised the USSR. Among the of the Cyril and Methodius imprisoned were some 300 Ukrainians. made during a visit to the prison cell of the Brotherhood (1850-1854). special troikas that were to come up with last kish (central administrative body of the quotas designating the number of people Their numbers included such prominent Most of the monks evacuated the figures as the neoclassicist poet and critic Zaporozhian Sich) otaman of the islands after the Russian Revolution, who were to be executed or sent into exile. Zaporozhian Sitch, Petro Kalnyshevsky Mykola Zerov; the founder and director and in 1923 the Bolsheviks estab- This nefarious resolution was enacted on (1765-1775) – the first “Ukrainianizer” of of the famed Berezil Theater Les Kurbas; lished the Solovets Special-Purpose August 5, 1937, in accordance with Order Solovets. Russian Empress Catherine II, playwright Mykola Kulish; the historians Camp there, modeled on prisoner-of- No. 00447. The operation was to be in having ordered the abolition of the Matvii Yavorsky and Serhii Hrushevsky war camps. Later it became part of effect for four months. In actual fact, the Zaporozhian Host (1775), had (the latter, the brother of Mykhailo the Northern Special-Purpose Camp operation continued through November 15, Kalnyshevsky imprisoned in a cell beneath Hrushevsky), Minister of Education of Complex, and still later, Section 1937, in accordance with a decision taken the tower of the Solovets kremlin, or the Ukrainian National Republic Anton Eight of the White Sea-Baltic Camp by the CC AUCP(b). The implementation fortress, from which he was freed 25 years Krushelnytsky and his sons, Ostap and Complex. In 1937 the camp on the of said resolution constituted the most mas- later by decree of Tsar Alexander I. After his Bohdan (other members of the family Solovets Islands was renamed the sive purge carried out by the Kremlin lead- release, Kalnyshevsky became a monk at perished in other camps); writer and crit- Solovets Special Purpose Prison of ership in the history of the Soviet Union. the age of 110; he died two years later, on ic Hryhorii Epik; the writers Oleksa the Main Administration of State The work of the troikas encompassed all October 30, 1803, on the island of Solovets. Blyzko, Valerian Pidmohylnyi, Valerian Security of the USSR. sectors of the population: the kurkuls, or Although access to Kalnyshevsky’s Polischuk, Mykhailo Semenko, Oleksa For most of the 1920s the regime rich peasants, so-called “criminals,” “count- cell is off limits to laymen, a number of Slisarenko, Marko Voronyi, Mykhailo in the camp was relatively mild, and er-revolutionaries” of various hues, “guerril- people from our group were able to gain Yalovyi; (the writer Yevhen Pluzhnyk, the number of prisoners relatively la/resistance fighters,” “tserkovnyky” (reli- access to this sacred site for Ukrainians. one of the finest Ukrainian poets of the small. With the onset of the Stalinist gious believers), “spies,” “Trotskyites,” We adorned the cell with branches of “dyversanty” (subverters), “shkidnyky” 1920s, did not live to be executed; he terror, however, the Solovets Islands died of tuberculosis in a prison hospital); guelder rose, lit the candles we had (those who disturb public order from the brought, set out the bread and said a were packed with prisoners living in system’s point of view) and “bourgeois and Catholic priests, among them, the severe conditions, subjected to cold, Rev. P. Weigel, who was sent by the prayer to the singing of the Kyiv kobzar nationalists” – among the latter, the (bard) Taras Kompanychenko and, hunger, punishment cells and beat- Ukrainian intelligentsia which, according to Vatican to assess the persecution of ings. In 1931-1933 many prisoners believers in the USSR. among others, Iryna Atamaniuk, Ivan Stalin, “did not deserve to be trusted.” Kushnir and Oles Obertas. were sent to work on the White Sea Canal. The quotas were set according to two *** It is worth noting that among this categories: Category I – execution; year’s group of travelers to Solovets was Late in 1938 the prisoners were Category II – imprisonment; the ratio of For this year’s observances of the Days a substantial number of young people, transferred from the Solovets Islands executions to imprisonment was 3 to 1. of Remembrance, which are held under the including some 10 journalists. Again, this to other camps, and the islands Reports of over-fulfilling the quotas start- aegis of the St. Petersburg Memorial, peo- is a topic for a separate account. became a naval base. ed coming in from the “lower echelons,” ple arrived from a variety of places, among Upon our return to Ukraine, small Ukrainians in the camp in the fostering, in turn, a sense of competition them, Finland, Poland, Russia, Belarus and conifers from the Solovets Island were mid-1920s were primarily endemic to the socialist order, soon to be Great Britain as well as from various parts transplanted in Kyiv’s Baikove Cemetery Petliurists, anti-bolshvik insurgents, followed by requests to increase the quotas, of Karelia. The Ukrainian contingent was at the gravesites of the most recent and clergymen. During dekulakiza- especially with regard to Category I. the most numerous, but, unfortunately, Ukrainian political dissidents and prison- tion and collectivization in 1928- Thus, Israel Leplevsky, a People’s without any official representation. Even ers (associated with the human-rights 1933 masses of Ukrainian peasants Commissar at the Ministry of Internal those Ukrainian national deputies to the movement in the mid-1960s through the were exiled to the islands; among Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Verkhovna Rada who had signed up for the 1980s): Yurii Lytvyn (1934-1984), partic- them were 325 peasants arrested for Republic, called for an increase in quotas trip, did not show up. So, our group was a ipant in the Ukrainian nationalist move- cannibalism during the man-made on three occasions, and the newly appoint- bit discomfited when listening to such rep- ment and active in the production of famine of 1932-1933. Arrests in the ed People’s Commissar Aleksandr resentatives as the general consul of samvydav literature and poetry; teacher early 1930s, following the trial of the Uspensky, submitted two such requests. Poland, a deputy of the Russian Duma, and and founding member of the Ukrainian Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, Moscow did not disappoint them. government representatives of Finland. Helsinki Group Oleksa Tykhyi (1927- brought much of the non- In the course of 15 months of this cam- Serving as spokesmen for our group 1984); a leading poet of the ’60s genera- Communist Ukrainian intellectual paign – with no due process (i.e., without were Mr. Ovsienko, Valentyna tion and literary critic Vasyl Stus (1938- elite to the camp, as well as thou- legal investigation, defense or trial), and, Bovsunivska and Stanislav Volkov – the 1985); and noted literary critic Ivan sands of activists of the Ukrainian for the most part, in the absence of the latter two, descendants of the victims of Svitlychny (1929-1992). Also placed at Autocephalous Orthodox Church. In accused – 681,692 death sentences were the Great Terror who perished in the cemetery was earth from the symbol- 1933 Ukrainian Communists also issued on the basis of the lists drawn up. Solovets. As part of the commemoration, ic resting places of Kish Otaman Petro began to fill the camps. The sentences were carried out immedi- Antonina Lystopad from Krasnodon read Kalnyshevsky (1690-1803) and the writer From 1924 until 1930 (perhaps ately – in the spirit of Lenin’s exhortation her poem, titled “Solovetskyi Rekviem” Yevhen Pluzhnyk (1898-1936), and longer) the Solovets camp had its to be exemplary in one’s ruthlessness, to (The Solovets Requiem). The Rev. stones from the sites of execution in own journal, Solovetskie Ostrova. shoot without any idiotic muddling or lack Volodymyr Cherpak of the Ukrainian Solovets and Sandarmokh. After conditions in the Solovets of resolve. Orthodox Church–Kyiv Patriarchate said Recently, an unofficial association camp became known in the West, With the passage of the aforementioned a panakhyda (memorial service) at the called Ukrainski Solovky (Ukrainian the Soviets released a propaganda resolution, purges were also conducted in site of the wooden cross, the work of Solovets) was founded in Ukraine, with film, “Solovki,” which did not pres- the concentration camps. Thus, the head of Mykola Malyshko, which was brought to Mr. Ovsienko as general coordinator for ent a true account of life in the prison the special-regimen camp in Solovets Sandarmokh in 1997 by the Ukrainian lit- camp. (Russian acronym, SLON, subsequently, erary critic and former Soviet political (Continued on page 17) 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 No. 50 Who’s in charge... 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editors the day before yesterday, and Will advertising... we’ve been doing our own monitoring, (Continued from page 2) looking at whether the volume of adver- tors, these are the two which spend the tising has decreased. And what the editors most money in the Ukrainian market – have said and what the results have shown they always, and I emphasize always, is that the volume of advertising remains at the same level that it was. So there has worked in the Ukrainian language and been no visible decrease in the level or gained great results and success, and amount of advertising,” Mr. Hunder nobody saw any problems in that,” Mr. explained. Kovtonenko said. Ironically, one newspaper that fears it Andriy Hunder is the head of publicity may be critically wounded by the new for one of Ukraine’s largest mobile-phone rules is the Kyiv Post – Ukraine’s largest operators, UMC. He also believes adver- English-language newspaper and widely tising in the Ukrainian language is effec- acknowledged as its best. The Kyiv Post tive and has helped UMC reach a large relies on ads in English for its mainly for- number of people. “Really, from day one, eign audience of business people, diplo- all of our advertising has been in mats, and visitors. Ukrainian, so the law has had no major The State Committee for Technical influence on the company, as we were Regulation and Consumer Rights, which advertising in Ukrainian anyway. So will enforce the new law, says its effect on there’s been no major change, and espe- other foreign media such as English-lan- cially all our outdoor advertising was in guage publications was unforeseen and Ukrainian in all regions of Ukraine, so I that they will try to ensure there are no can’t see any drastic changes in our adverse consequences for them. approach to advertising,” Mr. Hunder Many people believe the new measure said. is aimed specifically at curtailing the use Mr. Hunder added that he believes pre- of Russian. Ukrainian is predominant only dictions that the new regulation will bring in the western part of the country. ruin to Russian-language publications are But those who want to see the wrong. Ukrainian language more widely “I was speaking to a number of senior entrenched dismiss claims that Russian is being unfairly treated or edged out. Before going into advertising, Mr. Kovtonenko worked in the propaganda department of Rukh, which spearheaded Ukraine’s drive for independence. He is still involved in politics and says that it is the Ukrainian language that is in danger of being swamped by a mass of Russian- language media. “There should be a fuss in Ukraine not because ads are to be in Ukrainian but that today all 20 of Kyiv’s radio stations are Russian-language and all the songs they play are Russian, thus breaching Ukrainian laws,” Mr. Kovtonenko said. “The Russian press wants to exclude the Ukrainian language completely and is doing that in a shameless way. The new owners of the television stations also con- duct themselves in a shameless way and don’t want to allow the Ukrainian lan- guage on the air. That’s happening for one simple reason: in the last four years the Ukrainian government has allowed the sale of media outlets and only 3 percent of those have been left in Ukrainian control. Today, the majority of the owners of the new media – television, radio, or print – are Russians or their vassals in Ukraine. It’s obvious they’re never going to toler- ate the Ukrainian language.” Mr. Kovtonenko charged that what he calls the attack on the Ukrainian language is Russian government policy. Last month the Ukrainian government condemned a statement by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Eleonora Mitrofanova that one of Moscow’s foreign policy goals is to get official status for the Russian language in former Soviet republics. But the Ukrainian government is con- scious that the language issue is a danger- ously volatile one in Ukraine and is tread- ing warily and emphasizing that change will be gradual. Last month the Education Ministry announced plans to increase the number of schools where Ukrainian will be the language of instruction in areas where Ukrainians are currently a minority. In southern and eastern parts of the country, around 75 percent of schools teach in Russian, while in Crimea only four out of 640 schools teach in Ukrainian. In October President Leonid Kuchma went to Crimea to lay the foundation stone for the first Ukrainian-language col- lege on the peninsula, where the majority of the population is ethnic Russian. He said the introduction of teaching in the Ukrainian language in Russian-speaking regions “must not be revolutionary” but rather “gradual and evolutionary.” No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 21

Ukrainian American Veterans Ukrainian American Youth Association (CYM) Passaic Oseredok present scholarships for 2003 Wishes to express thanks to all volunteers, prize donors and the following indi- YONKERS, N.Y. – The Ukrainian students from accredited trade schools or viduals and corporate sponsors for their generous contributions to our inaugural American Veterans (UAV) every year, institutions that have degree programs CYM’s FALL GOLF CLASSIC held at the Emerson Golf Club in Emerson, New award scholarships to college students are eligible. Additionally, students may Jersey, on October 25, 2003: who are descendants of Ukrainian reapply for the scholarship fund. American veterans. The monetary The Ukrainian American Veterans Ukrainian Center, Inc. – Passaic, NJ awards are given to recipients in the Fall have received donations to make the Organization For The Defense of Lemkivshchyna, Branch 3 – Passaic, NJ after the UAV National Convention dur- scholarship project a reality. 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Plast’s Orlykiada competition focuses on achievementsby Larissa Oprysko of movieUkrainian “Chicago” to the storywomen of a bandura getting passed down through the ages and KERHONKSON, N.Y. – “Woman as along with it the history it carried. Protectress (“Berehynia”) of the Ukrainian The third and final portion is a showing Nation and Culture” was the theme of the of projects or exhibits that each group cre- 42nd Annual Plast Orlykiada sponsored by ates and assembles at home. The Newark the Orlykivtsi, one of Plast’s fraternal organ- girls created several issues of “Chas” (Time) izations. magazine portraying famous Ukrainian Participants from as far away as Toronto and Maryland gathered at Soyuzivka on women on each cover while the Newark November 8-9 to dazzle the audience with boys chose to focus on Ukrainian women in their knowledge of the topic. combat. Other elaborate and original pieces Each year Plast youths from across the told the story of Ukraine’s influential U.S. and Canada come to take part in the females, the daily lives of Ukrainian challenge. This year, over 100 youth mem- women, and the idea that behind every man bers divided into 18 groups, participated in is a great woman. the competition. A hefty packet of materials Overall, Orlykiada gives these youths a was sent to each group ahead of time in chance to meet with other Plast members order to help them prepare for the event. and engage in friendly competition. The out- The competition is divided into three come was as follows: third place – the boys parts: a question-and-answer session, a per- from Toronto and the girls from New York; formance and the presentation of an exhibit. second place – boys from New York and the In the first section, participants must girls from Philadelphia; and first place – the answer questions in front of all their peers boys from Chicago and the girls from and a panel of judges. This portion of the Newark. competition has changed somewhat over the Participants expressd their eagerness to last few years. Groups have two minutes to get a start on next year’s theme “The prepare their answer to one question chosen Ukrainian Calendar.” at random. Afterwards, the participants A separate competition, the selection of a impress the judges with additional material “hetman” and “hetmanivna,” traditionally CARDIOLOGIST prepared ahead of time on a particular aspect takes place early Saturday evening and PETRO LENCHUR, MD, FACC of the theme. Sunday afternoon. Each group can elect to The second part of the competition send one individual to take part in this com- Board Certified: Cardiovascular Diseases requires each group to perform a skit lasting mendable challenge. Participants gather in a and Interventional Cardiology no longer than eight minutes. This portion is room in front of a group of judges where * Coronary Stenting * Stress Testing they are asked to discuss their ideas on vari- known for its creative and often humorous * Balloon Angioplasties * Echocardiography performances in which participants demon- ous topics about Orlykiada and Plast. On the * Cardiac Catheterization * Preventative Cardiology strate their ability to act while relaying a vast following morning they briefly answer ques- amount of information about the topic. This tions in front of the entire audience as their Locations: West Orange/Livingston and Staten Island year’s showing was no exception as the group members cheer them on. 782 Northfield Avenue 1432 Hylan Boulevard groups tried to outdo one another. This year’s hetman was Taras Kshyk of West Orange, NJ 07052 Staten Island, NY 10305 Toronto, and Roksolana Zalytska of Performances included everything from a (973) 731-9200 song and dance number reminiscent of the Philadelphia was the new hetmanivna. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 No. 50

in motion that will affect not only our- Plast Newark... selves, but also future generations of (Continued from page 5) Ukrainians” as its goal is “to perpetuate of both this branch of Plast Ukrainian and nurture the Ukrainian spiritual and Scouting Organization and the local cultural heritage in Northern New Jersey.” Ukrainian community. In addition, the “To accomplish this, we must attract branch’s executive board has applied for and support all forms of Ukrainian cul- membership in the Ukrainian Cultural tural, spiritual, educational, fraternal and Center. athletic programs, in addition to building The Cultural Center has already set the required facilities to sustain the needs aside a room in the center to be used of the community,” he continued. “The exclusively by Plast as their local head- plan to make our vision a reality is differ- quarters, or “domivka” and, once the ent and unprecedented, requiring bold center is completed, Plast Newark – action, trust and faith in each other.” which encompasses a large membership “Plast, its leadership and its member- in Morris County, N.J. – plans to hold the ship, have made that leap in faith, and by vast majority of its activities in the cen- their bold action joined in establishing ter’s facilities. the destiny of the Ukrainian hromada in George Shypailo, president of the our community,” Mr. Kucyna under- “George, stop worrying! At our age life Newark Plast Branch, commented: “Plast scored. insurance is cheap!” has not had a real home since the old Announcing the Plast presentation to ‘domivka’ located in Newark was sold in his parish during Sunday liturgy, Father Yes. I know Natalie, but do my parents? the late 1980s. All of us are looking for- Mirchuk noted that “miracles do happen” ward to finally having a home where we and said that the hand of St. Nicholas the The UNA can help you worry less. can conduct our activities and build a Wonderworker, whose feast day is now Call for details 1-800-253-9862. feeling of family and pride.” Newark’s being celebrated, can be seen in this act. young Plast members currently hold The pastor also noted several smaller meetings at St. John’s Church hall. donations made in recent days by young Speaking on behalf of the Ukrainian members of the local branches of Plast Cultural Center’s Building Committee, of and the Ukrainian American Youth which he is vice-chairman, Mr. Kucyna Association (SUM), whose good deeds said that “a vision and plan have been set he cited as examples to be emulated.

confirmed that they did, indeed, report on Chicago Business... the various humanitarian efforts funded (Continued from page 5) by the Ukrainian diaspora. This was con- ment on their visits to the various sidered important, as it confirmed the extensive influence and input of Ukrainian Village institutions. They Ukrainians abroad into the economy of expressed their surprise at the number of Ukraine. organizations that developed in the past Ms. Shaleva closed the evening’s pro- 50 years and continue to thrive. They gram, thanking participants and inviting commended the Ukrainian diaspora for guests to attend upcoming events of the maintaining the heritage, culture and lan- Chicago Business and Professional guage and for its willingness to help in Group. Activities planned for 2004 the rebuilding of Ukraine. In response to include a meeting with former U.S. another audience question, the journalists Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual.

“They were enthralled by Kupava’s Cincinnati-Kharkiv... voices, by their vocal mastery,” said del- (Continued from page 19) egation member Viktor Rud, head of Kharkiv delegation traveled to Chicago. Kharkiv’s International Department. Kupava – Yuliya Kurochka and sisters The Ukrainian Consulate held a reception Olena and Tetyana Slyusarenko – per- in their honor, attended by representa- form traditional Ukrainian folk songs, tives of Chicago’s Ukrainian National accompanying themselves on banduras. Museum and the Ukrainian community. To book Kupava during the planned tour, When Kupava sang at the reception, the contact Kharkiv’s International Department, audience suggested a performing tour of e-mail, [email protected], tele- Ukrainian communities in the United phone 380-577-15-33-39 or 380-577-00- States and Canada. 33-97, or fax, 380-577-00-33-79.

HE KRAINIAN EEKLY VisitT ourU archive on theW Internet at: http://www.ukrweekly.com/ No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 25 Houston celebrates Slavic heritage HOUSTON – On Sunday, October 19, the 40th annual St. Cyril and Methodius Day Festival was held in Houston. The festival is the oldest ethnic festival in Houston and allows for the Slavic com- munities to celebrate the heritage of Cyril and Methodius. Houston’s Croatian, Czech, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, and Ukrainian communities were this year’s celebrants. The festival began with the Slavic communities jointly celebrating mass. The celebration continued with cultural and religious displays, traditional foods and refreshments, entertainment consist- ing of traditional music, song, and dance, and concluded with the much anticipated Polka contest! Ukrainian participation in this year’s festival was a joint effort of the Ukrainian American Cultural Club of Houston (UACCH), Ukrainian National Womens League of American Branch 118 (UNWLA), Ukrainian Youth Houston’s Ukrainian Princess for 2003: Dancers of Houston, and Protection of Olha Seniw. the Mother of God (Pokrova) Ukrainian Catholic Church. She is a ninth grade honors student in the The UACCH was the sponsoring Aldine Independent School District who Ukrainian organization, with the participates in numerous scholastic and UNWLA operating the food booth, athletic extracurricular activities. Olha, Pokrova operating the cultural and reli- along with her parents, sisters and grand- gious booth, and the dancers providing parents, is a parishioner of Pokrova. She the Ukrainian portion of the entertain- is also a student in Houston’s Ridna ment. Additionally, the cultural booth Shkola. was enhanced by the contributions of In the Polka Contest, Roman and Daria Myndiuk. Helena Cherwonogrodzky placed sec- In keeping with the tradition of the ond. festival, each community selected its fes- The festival was a success, particular- tival princess. The selected Ukrainian ly its Ukrainian portion, due to the com- Princess for 2003 was Olha Seniw, the mitment and teamwork exhibited by all daughter of Bohdan and Halia Seniw. organizations and individuals.

26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 No. 50 UKEUKELLODEONODEON FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

Newark Plast’s girls earn first place at Orlykiada by Lida Doll informative songs in Ukrainian about individual Ukrainian heroines. NEWARK, N.J. – Orlykiada is Later, each team presented and one of the highlights of the Plast cal- explained their projects to a panel endar of events, and this year’s was of judges. My team chose the topic as exciting as ever. A history compe- of “Ukrainian Women’s tition sponsored by the Plast frater- Extraordinary Achievements,” nity/sorority Orlykivtsi, Orlykiada which were presented in Time mag- attracted 134 participants from azine’s “Woman of the Year” for- cities all over the U.S. and Canada, mat. Other projects had a range of such as Denver, Cleveland, and topics, from art to embroidery. Montreal, who came not only for the Orlykiada is not all work, howev- competition, but also to see old er. Everybody had a great time at friends and make new ones. the dance on Saturday night. This year seven girls represented We girls from Newark were the 20th Kurin (unit) in Newark: rewarded for our efforts by winning Andrea Lebed, Talia Temnycky, first place overall at the closing Olenka Borkowsky, Deanna Kochan, ceremony on Sunday morning. Liana Buniak, Katria Misilo and I. The girls of the 20th Kurin of Newark at Orlykiada with their “zviazkova,” We thank our extremely helpful We all had a fantastic time, espe- Christine Kochan. counselors, Lisa Milanych, Larysa cially because we won first place The Orlykiada competition is and articulation of the subject – all Nycz, and especially Christine overall in the girls’ division. Kochan for all their guidance and According to tradition, the annu- composed of three parts: an oral in Ukrainian. support. al competition takes place in examination, a visual project and a The other two parts of the competi- Orlykiada was a wonderful and November at the beautiful short skit. The oral competition tion took place in the afternoon. educational experience, and we Ukrainian resort Soyuzivka. This took place on Saturday morning, Each team performed an eight- cannot wait to do it all over again year’s historical theme was and consisted of a question-and- minute skit based on the theme. We next year. Ukrainian women as preservers and answer segment and a reading seg- won first place in the skit competi- protectors of the Ukrainian heritage ment. The teams were awarded tion for the quality of our skit, which See story on page 23 for more throughout the ages. points based on their knowledge included several humorous yet about the 2003 Orlykiada.

Passaic’s youngest “plastuny” collect gifts for kids in Ukraine PASSAIC, N.J. – cles and bars of soap that look like mittens, scarves and gloves one year, cessful, and the children experience a “Novatstvo” (kids age 6- Christmas ornaments. and school supplies the next. Each real sense of the giving spirit of 10) and “ptashata” In the past, the children collected year this event is more and more suc- Christmas. (preschoolers) of the Passaic branch of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organ- ization continue their tradi- tion of decorating Christ- mas trees with a good deed in mind. For the past three years, the children have adorned two trees with items that are donated to orphanages in Ukraine after the holiday season. This year the chil- dren collected toiletry items such as shampoo, soap, toothpaste, tooth- brushes, combs, brushes, bandaids and towels. The two trees, which are displayed in the St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic School auditorium, are overflowing with tooth- brushes that look like ici- The littlest members of the Plast in Passaic, N.J., in front of the Christmas trees they decorated with gifts for children in Ukraine. No. 50 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 27 Houston dancers perform at international festival Rochester troupe dances in D.C. area HOUSTON – The Ukrainian ple the tasty foods and enjoy the Dancers of Houston performed on entertainment that was provided by November 8, at the annual the Croatian Dancers, the International Food Extravaganza, at International Folk Dancers, the the St. Maximillian Kolbe Catholic Irish Dancers and The Ukrainian Church in Houston. The food Dancers of Houston. extravaganza was chaired by Ralph The Ukrainian Dancers of Subotich and the St. Maximillian Houston have been performing for Kolbe church fellowship. Church three years under the direction of parishioners prepared a wide array Martha Noukas at various of ethnic dishes from around the Ukrainian community events and world, and all were invited to sam- festivals in the Houston area.

Members of the Yevshan Ensemble of Rochester, N.Y., with (from left) Volodymyr Yatsenkivskyi, Yaroslav Illitch and Pavlo Tertytskyi of the Embassy of Ukraine following their performance at the first annual Ukrainian Festival in the Washington area.

WASHINGTON – The Yevshan Representing the Ukrainian Ukrainian Dance Ensemble from Embassy was Volodymyr Rochester, N.Y., was invited on Yatsenkivsky, minister counselor, September 13-14 to perform at the deputy chief of mission and chargé first annual Ukrainian Festival in d’affaires; Pavlo Tertytskyi, air the Washington area at St. Andrew attache and assistant defense Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral. attaché; and Lt. Gen. Yaroslav The festival was sponsored by Illitch, commander of the Ukrainian the Embassy of Ukraine. air force. Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, ambassa- As the performance began, the The Ukrainian Dancers of Houston, seen above with Msgr. Milan Kleas, are: dor of Ukraine to the United States, sky cleared and the sun shone (boys, kneeling from left to right) Andrij Lytvynchuk, Michael Uschak, was to officially open the cere- brightly on the festival-goers and Constantine Noukas, Kostya Lytvynchuk, Serhei Gavchak and Dmytro Skikun. monies but was recalled back to performers. The Yevshan Dancers (girls, from left) Nina Seniw, Anna Bobrovnyk, Sarah Uschak, Hannah Ukraine. put on a wonderful performance Uschak, Juliana Noukas, Olha Seniw and Marika Bobrovnyk. In the midst of a downpour, the both days and received great festival ceremonies began at noon applause from the crowd. They OUR NEXT ISSUE: To make it into our next issue, dated with a brief liturgy and blessing have been invited to return for next January 18, 2004, please send in your materials by January 12. from Bishop Anthony. year’s festival.

Mishanyna December is the month during which children of all ages celebrate the Feast St. Nicholas is also honored in many songs. ICONS of the saint used to Day of SAINT NICHOLAS the WONDERWORKER. The FEAST day falls on be found in just about every Ukrainian home and they are prominently December 5 according to the Gregorian calendar (the new-style calendar) and displayed in churches. on December 19 according to the Julian calendar (the old-style calendar). Now, just in case you’re confused, St. Nicholas, unlike Santa Claus, has M S E L C A R I M S A I N T C nothing to do with CHRISTMAS. (It’s just that his feast day happens to occur right before Christmas.) In accordance with Ukrainian TRADITION, P I L L O W S A B M U D S A D St. Nicholas brings gifts to children, placing them under their PILLOWS, K A P O H S I B H C R A R O R on the eve of his feast day. That probably is one reason he is one of the most popular and BELOVED saints. O X P L I I D R O N I E Z W I But the real reason for his popularity and the fact that he is so revered L R R D L D Y S U N K L D O S is that St. Nicholas was known for his charity, especially toward children. According to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, stories of MIRACLES associat- N O I T I D A R T R A Y U B T ed with him were spread throughout Europe. A H N E M O R N O T S R I T M St. Nicholas was BISHOP of MYRA, which today is located in Turkey, in the 4th century. However, little more is known about his LIFE. J I C A A Y I W E I U C Y V A However, we do know, from the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, that the cult of K R E M F C R L D R O U G T S St. Nicholas was probably introduced in Ukraine in the 11th CENTURY by Metropolitan Yefrem, who is believed to be the author of a manuscript O R K A H E S A I N I O A I A on the saint’s miracles. A church was built in KYIV in honor of St. Nicholas during the reign of PRINCE IHOR in the 10th century. F I R O D Y A N S W O R D O M The encyclopedia also tells us that the Ukrainian CHURCH encouraged E L L N A O D S I D E E D S E the writing and performances of little PLAYS dedicated to St. Nicholas, in which the angels and devils play a prominent role. (How many of you, A A O L O C E N T U R Y O F L dear readers, have seen or participated in such plays?) The theme of the S W P O B E L O V E D R I O F plays is GOOD DEEDS and, thus, children were encouraged to do good for others. T O C H U R C H O L Y L A K E 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2003 No. 50

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