INSIDE: • National Security Council officials meet with CEEC – page 3. • Recalling a community triumph from 1984 – page 9. • Red Cross reunites siblings separated since WW II – page 13. THEPublished U byKRAINIAN the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVII No.42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2009 $1/$2 in Ukraine Anonymous donor gives grant Petro Poroshenko is Ukraine’s of $10,000 to archives project new minister of foreign affairs by Zenon Zawada PARSIPPANY, N.J. – A donor who digital archives project that will allow Kyiv Press Bureau wishes to remain anonymous recently visitors to the newspapers’ websites to sent a grant of $10,000 to support the view stories laid out on pages just as they KYIV – Business magnate Petro ongoing project to digitize the archives of appeared through the years in the printed Poroshenko became Ukraine’s foreign The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda, the versions of Svoboda and The Ukrainian affairs minister on October 9 after two official newspapers of the Ukrainian Weekly. Parliament upheld the president’s nomi- National Association. Status of digitization nation with 240 votes, sealing a long- The donor stated: “Before the Internet sought arrangement between the embat- and its World Wide Web, Svoboda was At present, visitors to Svoboda’s web- tled political forces. the premier Ukrainian-language news site (www.svoboda-news.com), can read “He was the single candidate for whom source in the world. And both Svoboda all issues released since 1986, plus issues we were able to reach a compromise,” and The Ukrainian Weekly have been from 1893 and 1894. At this stage, most Kseniya Lyapina, an Our Ukraine nation- the primary chroniclers of Ukrainian poli- of the issues are in DjVu format. Issues al deputy and presidential ally, told the tics and culture and of our Ukrainian for the years 2008 and 2009 in are in Inter television network. “Poroshenko community life in North America from Flash format, which is easily viewable on demonstrated an ability to reach agree- 1893 to today. This unique treasure trove virtually any computer, and PDF format, ments with friends and opponents alike of historical news, commentary and anal- which is suitable for downloads. In the during the last year.” ysis, with our community’s financial sup- future all 23,000-plus issues of Svoboda His candidacy was supported by a port, can now be accessible in electronic will be available in PDF format. In the majority of the national deputies of the form to everyone in the world – not only meantime, readers can read select front Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense, Yulia Zenon Zawada directly at the two electronic archive web- pages of issues from 1918 reflecting the Tymoshenko and Volodymyr Lytvyn Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s new for- sites but also, and probably more impor- events of World War I on the territory of blocs and rejected by the pro-Russian eign affairs minister. tantly, through Internet search engines Ukraine. forces, with the exception of two votes. such as Google.” On The Weekly’s website (www. Ukraine was without a foreign affairs free trade zone and the EU association The donor also noted: “Those of us ukrweekly.com) readers will find all minister for more than seven months. Mr. (agreement),” said Volodymyr Horbach, a who grew up in the 1950s and ‘60s will issues published since the newspaper’s Poroshenko’s candidacy was viewed by political analyst at the Institute for also appreciate revisiting the archived founding in 1933 in PDF format. Copies observers as a critical step in getting the Euroatlantic Cooperation, which is pages of that precious children’s journal of these issues in the Flash format, which nation’s foreign policy in order – particu- financed by Western funds. Veselka and especially its many ongoing are best suited for on-screen reading, are larly in preparation for the December 4 “The prime minister and president features such as the comic strip ‘Bohuta- under development. Ukraine-European Union Summit in already stated the negotiations needed to Bahatyr.’” Eventually, all issues of Svoboda, Kyiv. be concluded by December 4, which is The newspapers’ editor-in-chief, Roma which began publication in 1893, will be “His main task is to complete negotia- pseudo technically impossible. But Hadzewycz, thanked the anonymous tions between Ukraine and the EU on the Poroshenko will try and put the appropri- donor for helping to bring to fruition the (Continued on page 10) ate tasks before Parliament. Signing the association agreement is a symbolic suc- cess which can be later used to boost his image,” Mr. Horbach added. Yushchenko fails to act on naming Bandera Hero of Ukraine President Yushchenko chose the by Zenon Zawada 44-year-old Mr. Poroshenko, a native of Kyiv Press Bureau Bolhrad, Odesa Oblast, as his nominee after not being able to muster support for KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko his March nomination of Oleh Shamshur, decided not to posthumously award a career diplomat currently serving as Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S. While (OUN) leader Stepan Bandera the Hero the Tymoshenko Bloc offered support as of Ukraine award on two key occasions, early as March, the Lytvyn Bloc held as demanded by the Svoboda All- back. Ukrainian Union, Ukraine’s leading Meanwhile Mr. Poroshenko played a nationalist political party. critical role in financing the Lytvyn Bloc, October 15 marked the 50th anniversary enabling it to qualify for Parliament in of Bandera’s assassination in Munich, the 2007 elections, according to political Germany, by KGB agent Bohdan observers, including Dr. Taras Kuzio of Stashynsky. October 14, the Feast Day of St. Carleton University in Ottawa. Mary the Protectress, marked the 67th anni- Mr. Poroshenko has also been able to versary of the founding of the Ukrainian mend fences with Ms. Tymoshenko since Insurgent Army (UPA), which Bandera’s their conflict during her first term as OUN played a significant role in creating. prime minister in 2005, when a frustrated Both dates offered an opportunity to President Yushchenko dismissed them bestow the nation’s most prestigious both as they constantly locked horns. Zenon Zawada honor on Bandera before the end of As National Security and Defense President Yushchenko’s current presiden- Svoboda nationalists march on St. Sophia Square in Kyiv on October 14 to honor Council chair, Mr. Poroshenko was com- tial term, which is expected to be his last. the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and demand that President Viktor Yushchenko peting with Ms. Tymoshenko for govern- “The completion of your presidential bestow the Hero of Ukraine honor upon Stepan Bandera, leader of the ment influence, resentful that Mr. term is approaching and you, Mr. Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Yushchenko gave her the prime minister- President, have a last chance to honor in a ship instead of him, observers said. proper way the Ukrainian insurgents who pants, and recognize the leader of this strations at the Presidential Secretariat “I think the Foreign Affairs Ministry fought for Ukraine’s state independence struggle, Stepan Bandera,” said an this week. and foreign policy is the course that is against Muscovites, Germans, Poles, October 5 statement to the president Hungarians, Romanians and other occu- issued by Svoboda, which held demon- (Continued on page 10) (Continued on page 4) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2009 No. 42 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Time to de-mothball Documents on demolition of churches Poroshenko on information wars KYIV – The Security Service of KYIV – Newly appointed Foreign Affairs the Budapest Memorandum Ukraine (known by its Ukrainian acro- Minister Petro Poroshenko, who was intro- by Vladimir Socor Kyiv Post, September 10, 11). nym as SBU) has handed over archive duced to Ukraine’s diplomatic corps on documents regarding the Soviet Union’s Eurasia Daily Monitor Ukrainians are particularly concerned October 13, said he is planning to change about Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s demolition of churches in Ukraine to the the situation in the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s A representative group of Ukraine’s cul- latest initiatives, two of which are singled leaders of Ukrainian Orthodox Church, information policies, as “sometimes we feel tural elite has alerted Western governments out in the intelligentsia’s appeal. One is the RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service reported on that an information war is being waged and public opinion to Russia’s mounting amending of Russia’s Law on Defense to October 8. SBU chief Valentyn against Ukraine, and we’re losing it.” He threats against Ukrainian independence. create a wide range of possibilities for Nalyvaichenko told journalists that the added, “There’s no doubt that today we’ll Alarmed by Moscow’s latest moves, the sig- Russia unilaterally to use military force documents were about the destruction of offer new approaches in information work, natories of the appeal are also concerned by beyond its borders, at short notice and at the Orthodox churches in the Sumy, because the globalization process is making the failure of Western governments to president’s full discretion. Chernihiv and Kharkiv oblasts. According foreign policies transparent, and the ink has respond by using existing mechanisms. The The Russian Duma adopted these amend- to him, the churches were either com- hardly dried on any document when experts appeal, published in the Ukrainian media ments on September 9, creating a wide pletely demolished or turned into depots, and journalists are trying to comment on it. (UNIAN, Kyiv Post, September 10, 11), has range of potential casus belli situations that cultural centers or sports halls. He said Such attention to the activities of diplomats passed unnoticed by Western media and the Russia reserves the right unilaterally to the property inside the churches “consid- demands high professionalism from us and governments to which it is addressed.