Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association! rainian Weekly Vol. Llll No. 6 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1985 25 cents Congressmen urge humane treatment CSCE nominates lights activists for political prisoners' families for 1985 Nobel Peace Prize WASHINGTON - Ninety year earlier. His father was sentenced in congressmen have co-signed a letter late 1974 to 10 years' labor camp and urging Soviet leader Konstantin exile. Chernenko to provide "more humane In the January 29 letter, the treatment" for members of two families congressmen cited recent reports that incarcerated for their political activities. authorities had interrupted The families- are Ukrainian human- correspondence between the Kovalevs rights activist Mykola Rudenko and his and banned visits between Mr. Kovalev wife, Raisa, and political prisoners Ivan and his wife. Kovalev. his wife. Tatiana Osipova. and They also urged that visits and his father. Sergei Kovalev, who is in correspondence be resumed between exile. Mr. Rudenko and his wife, and that Mr. Rudenko. 63, was a founding both families be given "proper medical member in 1976 of the Ukrainian attention." According to the letter, Ms. Helsinki Group, which was established Osipova and Sergei Kovalev are "in to monitor Soviet compliance with the need of hospitali?ation." Helsinki Accords on human rights and security in Europe. In 1978 he was The congressmen said they had Nominees for the 1985 information indicating that the two sentenced tasever+years-inalaber-eamp - Nobel Peace Prize: (clock­ and five years' internal exile, which he is families were "not being treated in wise from top left) My­ now serving in Gorno-Altayskaya accordance with the spirit of the kola Rudenko of the Autonomous Oblast. His ivife 45. wat Helsinki Accords or in conformity with Ukrainian Helsinki Group; sentenced in 1981 to five years in a labor Svjvict law." Yuri Orlov and Anatoly camp and five years' internal exile, and Among those signing the letter were Shcharansky, Moscow is imprisoned in Mordovian labor camp Reps. Dante Fasccll (D-F!a), chairman Helsinki Group; Viktoras No. 3-4. of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Petkus. Lithuanian Hel­ Both the younger Mr Kovalev -and Mary Rose Oakar (D-Ohio), Marcy sinki Group; Merab Kos- his wife were members of the Moscow Kaptur (D-Ohio), Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.). tava, Georgian Helsinki Helsinki Group, which reportedly Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.), Bill Green Group. disbanded in 1982 after only two aging (R-N.Y.). Benjamin Gilman (R-N.Y). members were left free. Mr. Kovalev Bruce Morrison (D-Conrf.), Joseph was sentenced in 1981 to five years in a Addabbo (D-N.Y.). Peter Kostmayer WASHINGTON Congressional 39 Helsinki monitors arc serving a total labor camp and five years in exile, while (D-Pa.), Joe Moakley (D-Mass.) and members of the Commission on Se­ of 348 years of imprisonment for their his wife received the same sentence a Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.). curity and Cooperation in Europe, human-rights work. Tragically, two known as the Helsinki Commission, on Ukrainian Helsinki Group members. Januarv 31 announced their nomination Yuriy Lytvyn and Oleksiy Tykhy, died Archbishop-Metropolitan Andrew Metiuk of six imprisoned Soviet human-rh?')ts in a labor camp in 1984." activists for the 1985 Nobel Peace Pn/.e. (Continued on page 11) These six activists are: Yuri Orlov of Canadian Orthodox Church dies and Anatoly Shcharansky of the Mos­ cow Helsinki Group; Mykola Rudenko WINNIPEG - Archbishop-Metro­ Eduard Arutunyan, of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group: politan Andrew Metiuk of the Ukrai­ Viktoras Petkus of the Lithuanian nian Orthodox Church of Canada died Helsinki monitor, Helsinki Group; Eduard Arutunyan of here Saturdav, February 2, at the age of the Armenian Helsinki Group: and 87. Merab Kostava of the Georgian Hel­ dead of cancer Metropolitan Andrew was admitted sinki Group. WASHINGTON Eduard to St. Boniface Hospital in December, Several days after announcing the Arutunyan, a founding member of only a few days before the celebrations nomination, the CSCE learned that Mr. an Armenian citizens' group to of his 60th anniversary of priesthood Arutunyan had died in late 1984. Mr. promote Soviet implementation of and 25th anniversary of episcopal Aruiunyan's nomination for the Nobel the 1975 Helsinki Accords on human service. Peace Prize was then withdrawn since rights and security, died of cancer The metropolitan was born Hryhoriy only living persons are eligible. late last year in Yerevan, the Metiuk on January 3. 1898. in For the last six years, the Congres­ Armenian capital, according to Terebin, Ukraine. In 1920. he graduated sional members of the Helsinki Com­ information received last week by the from the Theological Seminary in mission have nominated various lead­ Commission on Security and Vilnius, Lithuania, and received his ing imprisoned Soviet and East Euro­ Cooperation in Europe. master's from the Theological Univer­ pean human-rights activists for the The 58-year-old economist sity of Warsaw in 1929. He was or­ Nobel Peace Prize. In 1983. Lech succumbed to lung and skin cancer in dained a priest in 1924 in Warsaw after Walesa, leader of Solidarity, a com­ late November or early December marrying Ludmyla Hrushko. In 1924- mission nominee, won the prize. 1984. 45 he did pastoral work for the Ukrai­ Mr. Arutunyan was one of six nian Orthodox Church in Poland. In their nomination letter this year. the commissioners noted that the six Soviet human-rights activists He came to Canada from Ukraine in nominees were imprisoned by the nominated by the CSCE for the 1985 1948 as a priest and settled first in Soviet government after they "publicly Nobel Peace Prize. The CSCE Winnipeg. In 1958 he uas appointed to and peacefully advocated fulfillment of announced that it was withdrawing serve as administrator of the Western the human-rights pledges of the 1975 his name because only living persons Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Helsinki Final Act." (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 4) Archbishop-Metropolitan Andrew The commissioners noted: "Todav. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, L98b Nojj Soviets: Nekipelov has phobia JERSEY CITY. N.J. - The wife of imprisoned Soviet author Viktor Chronicle of Nekipelov was recently told by officials at Chistopol Prison that her the Catholic Church husband had been moved to a psychiatric facility because he suffered from "oncophobin," an in Ukraine irrational fear of tumors, reported USSR News Brief. The 56-year-old human-rights activist, who has a growing tumor on /7ie following excerpts are from Issue Christians so everything he is doing his neck, was probably moved to the No. 2 of the Chronicle of the Catholic adheres to the letter of the law. On Kazan Special Psychiatric Hospital Church in Ukraine, an underground Sunday. February 7, a lecturer from for an examination, although his publication which made its appearance Kiev gave a lecture on an "international exact whereabouts could not in January 1984 hut has only recently topic" in the labor camp. Part of the immediately be confirmed. reached the West. Thus far. eight issues lecture was devoted to the subject of Mr. Nekipelov was sentenced in have made their way out of Ukraine. using prisoners for military duty in the 1980 to seven years in a labor camp The Chronicle is published in samvydav event of a war. This was not the first and five years' internal exile for his form by the Initiative Croup for the lecture on this subject. In November activities with the Moscow Helsinki Defense of Believers and the Church, 1983, a lecturer named Havrylenko Group, set up by human-rights which was founded in I9H2 to promote talked about the same thing, but in activists to monitor Soviet the legalization of the Ukrainian greater detail. In part he discussed the compliance with the 1975 Helsinki Catholic Church, which has been fact that China is a threat to the USSR. Accords. Viktor Nekipelov outlawed since 1946. The following " According to the latest Reports that Mr. Nekipelov was translation was prepared for Radio information, the Ukrainian Catholic suffering from a tumor first filtered author's neck was believed to be Free Europe I Radio Liberty by Mart a Maria Trykur. has been transferred out of the Soviet Union last fall. It malignant, but the report could not D. -Olynyk. from the women's labor camp of was reported that the growth on the be substantiated. Dobrovody to the Dnipropetrovske Notifications Special Psychiatric Hospital for examination. Within two weeks her " On February 16, 1984, the local husband, M. Trykur, was also, Political prisoner rearrested in Kiev head of the volunteer militia, a teacher transferred there. JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Klym During the 1950s, Mr. Semeniuk of military affairs at the high school in Prof. Blokhina and the doctor- Semeniuk, a former political was imprisoned in the notorious the village of Dolgoe, Ivan Babianets murderer A. Kabunnikov conducted prisoner, was arrested in Kiev late Dubrovlag penal complex, a series of came in the night to the apartment of a the examination. At one time last year and charged with writing an corrective labor camps in Mordovia member of the Initiative Group, the Kabunnikov participated in the murder appeal to the world's workers, where conditions were especially chairman of the Central Committee of of N. Sorokin. according to information obtained harsh. In September or October Ukrainian Catholics. Yosyp Terclia. e The Ukrainian Catholic, Fedir by USSR News Brief, a Munich- 1969, Mr. Semeniuk was reportedly Babianets was in a drunken state. Vyrsta, was transferred from labor based publication on persecution in transferred to Vladimir Prison, some He began by saying all sorts of camp VL 315/48 to the Dnipropetrov­ the Soviet Union.