INSIDE: l Why a free, stable, prosperous Ukraine still matters – page 6 l The town of the giant mosquito monument – page 7 l Pittsburgh dance troupe marks golden jubilee – page 13 THEPublished U by theKRAINIAN Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal W non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXXI No. 28 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2013 $1/$2 in Ukraine U.S.A.-Blue wins fifth international New chairman of CEC solidifies Ukrainian soccer tournament Yanukovych’s control, says opposition by Zenon Zawada KYIV – The Central Election Commission (CEC) on July 6 elected as its chairman Mykhailo Okhendovskyi, renowned for his role during the 2004 Orange Revolution for defending the CEC in the courts. He has remained on the CEC in the eight years since as a commissioner on the Party of Regions quota. Mr. Okhendovskyi replaced CEC Chair Volodymyr Shapoval, who was dismissed by Parliament two days earlier for reaching the state retirement age of 65. Mr. Shapoval was widely considered to be a relatively impartial chairman and his dismissal Christine Syzonenko wasn’t required, as many state officials International Ukrainian Football Tournament 2013 New York winners Team U.S.A.-Blue. serve beyond the retirement age. Though expecting the result, opposition KINGSTON, N.Y. – The United States Canada 6-2 in the third-place match, and leaders criticized Mr. Okhendovskyi’s elec- tion, alleging that this has already under- team, U.S.A.-Blue, won the fifth the Aussies notched their third third-place Yevgeniy Maloletka/UNIAN mined the fairness of the 2015 presidential International Ukrainian Football finish in three consecutive IUFTs. Australia The Central Election Commission voted on Tournament (IUFT) held June 30 through led the match with two goals, but the election. They also alleged that his election, July 6 to make Mykhailo Okhendovs kyi, July 6 in Kingston and Ellenville. Team Canadians answered back with two goals. and Mr. Shapoval’s dismissal, violated proce- a commissioner on the Party of Regions dural regulations and was therefore illegal. U.S.A.-Blue won the final match on July 6 at Daniel Sawalaga, IUFT founder and winner quota, the body’s chairman, drawing “The government confirmed without Dietz Stadium in Kingston, N.Y., with a 1-0 of the Golden Boot award for this year’s disapproval from the opposition. doubt that it’s trying to fulfill the election of win over U.S.A.-Red with a goal in the 15th tournament, scored his second and third President Viktor Yanukovych to a second ruling them as fraudulent, thus setting up minute by Ivan Kopytchak. Tournament goals of the match during the second half. term by any means,” said a statement the third round in which Viktor MVP Nazar Lopushnyak had the best Mr. Sawalaga, who led the tournament in released on July 6 by the Ukrainian Yushchenko was elected president. chance for U.S.A.-Red to equalize late in the goal scoring, had netted seven goals during Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR) led The CEC is the most critical state organ game, but Blue’s goalie, Chris Rizanow, was the tournament. by Vitali Klitschko. “Such a secret meeting during elections, being responsible for up to the task and held on for the shutout. The IUFT’s official opening ceremonies and vote for a new CEC head demonstrates enforcing election law and establishing This was the second time that the U.S. were held at the Soyuzivka Heritage Center the government has gained total control results. Its 15 members were selected team had won the tournament, and the in Kerhonkson, N.Y., on Sunday morning, over the CEC.” based on quotas assigned to parliamentary first time any team won two tournaments June 30, with a procession of the teams led During the Orange Revolution in factions in 2007. consecutively. Many of the players on the by flag-bearers and a welcome perfor- November 2004, Mr. Okhendovskyi served Mr. Okhendovskyi’s candidacy gained U.S.A.-Blue team were also on the U.S.A. mance by the Syzokryli Ukrainian Dance as the attorney for the CEC before Ukraine’s the support of 11 out of 14 voting commis- team that won the IUFT 2011 in Toronto. Supreme Court, which ruled on December In another first, Australia won against (Continued on page 12) 3, 2004, to cancel the second-round results, (Continued on page 18) Holodomor panel held during Canadian Slavists’ conference VICTORIA, British Columbia – New Holodomor of 1932-1933,” Dr. Klid noted farmers and lower-level officials, beginning Holodomor, and that this was an act of research on the Holodomor was accentuat- that the outbreak of famine in Ukraine was in the second half of 1932, and ordered the deliberate starvation. ed at this year’s conference of the Canadian widely known to Soviet officials by confiscation of all grain, including seed Mr. Makuch’s presentation on “Academic Association of Slavists (CAS) at the December 1931. He stressed that the grain held in collective farms – ostensibly to Aspects of the 1980s North American University of Victoria in Victoria, British Holodomor, which is generally considered fulfill the grain-procurement quotas. In Ukrainian Famine Awareness Campaign” Columbia, on June 1-3. to have taken place in 1932-1933, actually addition, fines were imposed and confisca- examined four efforts, all involving scholar- At the annual conference, at which schol- began in late 1931 and that it encompassed tions of other foodstuffs carried out. These ship, to increase knowledge about the ars and graduate students in Canada and two harvest years, those of 1931 and 1932. decisions and actions effectively aggravated Famine during its 50th anniversary. other countries present papers on new and Although it was becoming clear by the famine conditions, making it certain that by Perhaps the most critical for facilitating continuing research, Canadian Institute of middle of 1932 that a worse disaster was early 1933, when food stocks were com- the success of later ventures was the Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) scholars associat- looming, the top Soviet leadership, headed pletely depleted, mass starvation would Famine Research Project undertaken by the ed with the Toronto-based Holodomor by Joseph Stalin, generally dismissed evi- occur throughout the Ukrainian country- Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. It Research and Education Consortium orga- dence of the Famine and of the dire situa- side. benefited greatly from the work of its main nized a panel on “The Ukrainian Famine of tion in the country. Moreover, Stalin Dr. Klid’s accompanying PowerPoint pre- researcher, the late Dr. James Mace, and 1932-1933: Metamorphosis, Politics and expressed anger when Ukraine’s political sentation, which included excerpts from eventually led to the publication of Dr. Acknowledgement,” with presentations by leadership appealed for relief and reduction Soviet government and Communist Party Robert Conquest’s groundbreaking work on Bohdan Klid, Andrij Makuch and Serge of unrealistic state grain-procurement quo- documents, featuring correspondence the Famine, “Harvest of Sorrow.” The sec- Cipko. tas assigned to Ukraine. between Stalin and Lazar Kaganovich, sup- ond was the celebrated documentary film In the first paper presented at the June 1 Instead of taking remedial steps, the top ported his contention that a famine that “Harvest of Despair”, produced by a group panel, “The Metamorphosis of a Famine: Or, Soviet leadership in the Kremlin authorized began in late 1931 was transformed over How the Famine of 1931-1932 Became the repressive measures against Ukraine’s time into what Ukrainians have dubbed the (Continued on page 18) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2013 No. 28 ANALYSIS Boxing champion likely to challenge Sheptytsky’s beatification expected in 2015 Churches on Saturday, June 8. The statue stands next to the Ukrainian Institute, incumbent in 2015 presidential race LVIV – “In 2015 the Ukrainian Greek- which is affiliated with the Ukrainian Catholic Church commemorates the 150th Catholic University in Lviv. (Religious anniversary of the birth of Metropolitan Information Service of Ukraine) by Oleg Varfolomeyev second ahead of Batkivshchyna, the party Andrey (Sheptytsky). Therefore, I think, Eurasia Daily Monitor headed by Ms. Tymoshenko. that the process of his beatification will be Justice demanded for rape victim Mr. Klitschko claimed that his party completed by then. I expect that in two The world heavyweight boxing cham- would have fared better if other opposi- years we will be praising him as Blessed KYIV – About 1,000 residents of the pion Vitali Klitschko may become the tion parties had not campaigned against Metropolitan Andrey,” stated Patriarch Ukrainian village of Vradiyivka stormed the strongest challenger to the incumbent it (Interfax-Ukraine, September 6, 2012). Sviatoslav in answering a question from a local police department, demanding justice President Viktor Yanukovych in the presi- Mr. Klitschko was indeed attacked from journalist during the nationwide Ukrainian for a rape victim. A 29-year-old woman was dential election scheduled for early 2015, both sides: while Mr. Yanukovych’s Party pilgrimage to Stradch in the Lviv region. found after being sexually assaulted and recent opinion polls show. If his populari- of Regions and the Communists por- The beatification process for Metropolitan beaten on June 29 in the village in the ty stands the test of time, Ukraine may, for trayed him as too nationalist and too pro- Sheptytsky began in 1958. At the begin- southern oblast of Mykolayiv. Three sus- pects, including policemen, were later the first time, elect a president who Western, rivals from the opposition camp, ning of the process Cardinal Stefan apprehended. The protests erupted late on became popular long before he came into especially after his refusal to build a coali- Wyszynski from Poland twice sought to July 1 after one of the suspects, a police offi- politics, who is multilingual and decidedly tion with Batkivshchyna and the far-right end the process.