www.ukrweekly.com InsIde: • Candidate profile: Viktor Yanukovych – page 3. • Italian scholar speaks about the Holodomor – page 4. • John Demjanjuk Jr. on the Germans’ house of cards – page 8. THEPublished U by theKRA Ukrainian NationalIN AssociationIAN Inc., a fraternal Wnon-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXXVII No.52 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2009 $1/$2 in Ukraine Plast members in United States Physician fights real estate raiders receive Bethlehem Peace Light seeking Kyiv hospital’s territory by Zenon Zawada Kyiv Press Bureau KYIV – Dr. Vadym Berezovskyi served as the flight surgeon for Ukrainian astronaut Leonid Kadenyuk in 1997 for the STS-87 space shuttle mission in Houston. He earned the State Prize of Ukraine in 2000 for developing Col. Kadenyuk’s preparation regimen after the data in Kyiv was lost to Moscow. Local police officers couldn’t care less about those distinctions, allowing black- jacketed thugs, hired by real estate raid- ers, to intimidate and repeatedly beat Dr. George Kuzmowycz Berezovskyi for attempting to defend the Members of the “Ti Scho Hrebli Rvut” sorority of Plast with Austrian Air represen- lands of the Bohomolets Institute and neighboring Oleksandrivska Hospital tatives at Our Lady of the Skies Chapel at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Zenon Zawada from illegal construction. by Marta Kuzmowycz local radio station ORF in Linz, Austria, “We don’t have politicians – we have Dr. Vadym Berezovskyi, flight surgeon for astronaut Leonid Kadenyuk, is was part of the charitable relief mission businessmen who sit in the Verkhovna fighting real estate raiders from build- NEW YORK – Representatives of called Light into Darkness that benefited Rada and the Kyiv City Council,” Dr. Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization ing on the territory of Kyiv’s historic needy children in Austria and abroad. (Continued on page 9) Oleksandrivska Hospital. joined American and Latvian scouts at a Since then, each year a child from Linz is ceremony at John F. Kennedy flown to Bethlehem to retrieve the Peace International Airport to welcome the Light from the place of Jesus Christ’s arrival of the Bethlehem Peace Light in birth. The flame is then flown back to Bahriany Foundation donates the United States. Vienna and distributed throughout Flown here from Vienna on December Europe. 4 courtesy of Austrian Air, the Peace This initiative has grown into a world- $2,000 to archives project Light was presented to U.S.-based scouts wide movement and is a scouting initia- PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Bahriany issues of the children’s magazine at the airport’s Our Lady of the Skies tive. This is the 23rd year that scouts and Foundation Inc., based in Arlington Veselka (1954-1995), both published by Chapel. guides from various countries are partici- Heights, Ill., has donated $2,000 toward Svoboda Press. Several scouting groups were in atten- pating in the distribution of the Peace the ongoing digital archives project of The Weekly’s website also includes dance at this ceremony – among them, Light. The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda. the two-volume compilation of the most Boy Scouts of America, Girls Scouts of Plast in Ukraine has been part of this The foundation’s treasurer, Alex significant stories published from 1933 America, Latvian scouts and members of movement for 12 years. In the past, Plast Konowal, noted in a letter addressed to through 2000 titled “The Ukrainian Plast’s “Ti, Scho Hrebli Rvut” sorority. scouts would meet Polish scouts at the the Ukrainian National Association that Weekly 2000” and the collection of arti- After a brief but very moving ceremo- border to receive the flame and then dis- the Bahriany Foundation wanted to sup- cles chronicling Ukraine’s drive toward ny at the chapel, the Bethlehem Peace tribute it throughout Ukraine. More port the digitization of the UNA’s publi- independent statehood and the first 10 Light is now being distributed throughout recently Plast members have taken to rid- cations, Svoboda, The Ukrainian Weekly years of its independence titled “Ukraine the United States by scouts. Plast mem- ing their bikes in relays throughout and the annual UNA Almanacs. Lives!” bers are actively engaged in this program Ukraine to share the light with other At present, visitors to Svoboda’s web- and making efforts to share the Bethlehem Supporters of archives project “plastuny” and anyone who stops them site (www.svoboda-news.com), can read Peace Light via their local chapters. along the way. People line the streets in all issues released since 1986, plus issues Previous donors to the Svoboda/The The Peace Light of Bethlehem pro- from 1893 and 1894. Most of the issues Ukrainian Weekly digitization project gram dates back over 24 years, when (Continued on page 21) are in DjVu format. Issues for the years were: the Shevchenko Scientific Society, 2008 and 2009 in are in Flash format, U.S.A. ($15,000), Self Reliance New which is easily viewable on virtually any York Federal Credit Union ($50,000), the computer, and PDF format, which is suit- Heritage Foundation of 1st Security able for downloads. Savings Bank ($5,000), Selfreliance On The Weekly’s website (www. Ukrainian American Federal Credit ukrweekly.com) readers will find all Union ($10,000) and a donor who issues published since the newspaper’s wished to remain anonymous ($10,000). founding in 1933 in PDF format. Copies Svoboda and The Weekly are seeking of these issues in the Flash format, which additional donors for this project. are best suited for on-screen reading, are Contributions may be sent to: Svoboda/ under development. The Ukrainian Weekly, 2200 Route 10, Currently, UNA Almanacs for years P.O. Box 280, Parsippany, NJ 07054. 1903, 1915, 1996-2008, and Veselka for Donations are tax-deductible and checks years 1954-1965 and 1994 are available may be made out to the Ukrainian for reading online National Foundation (the Ukrainian Eventually, all issues of Svoboda, National Association’s charitable arm), Marta Kuzmowycz which began publication in 1893, will with the notation “Digital Archives Members of the Newark Plast branch during a ceremony at St. John the Baptist be available online, along with UNA Project.” For information readers may Ukrainian Catholic Church in Whippany, N.J., at which the Bethlehem Peace Almanacs (published since 1903) and call 973-292-9800, ext. 3049. Light was shared with local pastors and other branches of Plast. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2009 No. 52 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFS Yushchenko’s foreign policy agenda Christmas tree lit in Kyiv Challenges to a Wider Europe” in Kyiv on by Taras Kuzio honestly with you, Mr. President. It often December 17. Mr. Yeliseyev said he is plan- KYIV – Ukraine’s main Christmas tree Eurasia Daily Monitor seems to us that commitments on reform ning to publish a collection of arguments are only partly implemented and words was lit in Kyiv on Saturday, December 19. presented by EU representatives regarding Viktor Yushchenko has trailed badly in are not always accompanied by action. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko the obstacles to Ukraine’s EU membership. opinion polls in the last year with ratings Reforms are the only way to establish sta- participated in the Christmas tree-lighting “I want to show the great imagination of of less than 5 percent, but has benefitted bility, and build closer ties with the EU” ceremony. In his speech on the occasion, our European partners, aimed at fencing off from the collapse of Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s (Ukrayinska Pravda, December 4). the president wished prosperity and success Ukraine and preventing it from restoring election campaign (rankings of candidates During President Yushchenko’s five to the Ukrainian state. (Ukrinform) our European historical justice. We’ve in 2008-2009: www.uceps.org/ukr/poll. years in office there have been four gov- Yushchenko, Europarliament leader meet already been in our European home,” he php?poll_id=91). Mr. Yushchenko is now ernments, three of which have been said. Commenting on Ukraine’s relations the main “Orange” competitor to Yulia “Orange.” Mr. Yushchenko has had good KYIV – European integration is a key with NATO, Mr. Yeliseyev said that it is Tymoshenko in western Ukraine (Eurasia relations with only one of the four gov- strategy for Ukraine, the way to develop an already necessary to stop “any talk of Daily Monitor, October 16, November 3, ernments and with only one of the three independent and democratic European state, whether Ukraine will join NATO or not.” 16, 20). Orange governments led by Yurii and a stimulus for domestic reforms, He said that the decision to grant NATO In foreign policy terms, Mr. Yekhanurov in 2005-2006. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko membership to Ukraine in future had been Yushchenko is a different candidate than 2. The successful implementation of said at a tête-à-tête meeting with European taken at the Bucharest summit and that the he was five years ago, when he presented trans-Atlantic integration requires an Parliament President Jerzy Buzek in Kyiv door to NATO is open for Ukraine. “We himself as a centrist (patriotic) politician understanding of the interconnection on December 21. Mr. Yushchenko high- have clear guarantees and we should meet to broaden the appeal of national demo- between domestic and foreign policies, lighted the results of the Ukraine-European only our domestic commitments,” he under- crats like himself beyond their western which Mr. Yushchenko has never under- Union summit in Kyiv on December 4 and scored. (Ukrinform) Ukrainian heartland (Ukrayinska Pravda, stood. The consequences have been a the course of talks on an association agree- November 24). This strategy won Mr. domination of rhetoric over substance, as ment between Ukraine and the EU. “We Ukraine is donor to U.N.