www.ukrweekly.com tfwr-C ^f -so co^e x<їв :P- Z03 Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association О -4 -4 3) o^o ож о ramian ї Vol. L No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1982 25 cents Moscow Helsinki Group disbands; cites arrests MOSCOW - The Moscow Helsinki left in the summer of 1980. Group, a group of Soviet citizens that The last statement of the Moscow monitored Soviet compliance with the Group also said that all or most mem­ human-rights provisions of the 1975 bers of Helsinki groups in the other four Helsinki Accords, announced on Sep­ Soviet republics are also in labor camps tember 8 that it was disbanding because or exile. of arrests and deportations, reported "In these circumstances, the group The New York Times. cannot fulfill the duties it assumed, and A document announcing the dissolu­ under the pressure of authorities is tion of the group was given to reporters obliged to terminate its work," the by Yelena Bonner, the wife of exiled statement concluded. physicist Andrei Sakharov, along with a The end of the group comes as a statement that authorities were prepar­ severe blow to the human-rights move­ ing to charge Sofia Kalistratova, a 75- ment, which has been all but decimated r-old lawyer, with slandering the by arrests and persecution. The move­ state. ment gained international attention in Ms. Bonner, Miss Kalistratova and 1966 with scattered protests over the Naum Meiman, a 70-year-old physicist, trials of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli were the last active members of the Daniel, and gathered momentum with group, which was formed on May 12, denunciation of the Soviet invasion of 1976, and was the spearhead of the Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the signing Petro Grigorenko Anatoly Htrcbenko Anitoly Shchirinsky TiltnaBowur Soviet human-rights movement. of th^Hebinkl agreement in.19.7JL- The Moscow Group, which led to Along with the Helsinki monitors, believers' rights, to protest abuses of protect the rights of invalids. the formation of other Hel­ other groups with more narrowly de­ psychiatry, to publicize the plight of The Soviet authorities reacted by sinki monitoring groups in Ukraine, fined goals were formed to protect Jews and other ethnic groups, and to (Continued on pate 3) Georgia, Armenia and Lithuania, issued statements reporting on rights viola­ tions, law abuses, trials of political activists and international affairs. Labor Day weekend draws thousands to Soyuzivka The last statement of the group carried the names of 16 members now by Malta Kolomayets were highlighted by the national tennis back to the Midwest without perform­ serving terms in labor camps or inter­ в tourney and the swim meet. The com­ ing. They were invited back by the nal exile, meaning assigned residence. KERHONKSON, N.Y. - Although petitions, sponsored by USCAK were management of Soyuzivka and they summer officially ends on September the 26th annual swimming and 27th obliged, although they had a busy They included Anatoly Shcharansky, 21, for most Ukrainians it came to a annual tennis championships, in which schedule that included a Sunday after­ who was sentenced in 1978 to a 13-year close during Labor Day weekend here over 150 athletes took part. noon program in Toronto. prison and labor-camp term on charges at Soyuzivka. Traditionally the transi­ For the third consecutive year, the Malvy, a quartet, performed all their of spying for the United States and Yuri tional period between the fun of summer Plast swimmers took home the giant songs, excluding one, as a trio. Their Orlov, another founding member who and the no-nonsense, back-to-work team championship trophy. The youth fourth member, Halya Lewun, spent the was sentenced in 1978 to a 12-year sentiment of autumn, this final long organization's victory was powered by summer at Soyuzivka as the vocalist labor-camp and exile term for "anti- weekend of summer provided an oppor­ the Kushnir threesome — Andria, with the house band. Soviet agitation and propaganda." tunity for Soyuzivka guests to relax, Maria and Hryhory - of the Jersey Other quartet members are Maria Others on the list included novelist dance, play some tennis and meet with City Plast branch. Hawryluk, coordinator and songwriter Viktor Nekipelov, arrested in 1979, old friends before the school year In tennis, which continued through of the group, Maria Banach and My- Vladimir Slepak, sentenced in 1978 to tension and the headaches at work Monday, the men's championship was rosia Basarab. Their musicians include five years' internal exile, Tatyana resumed. recaptured by Andrew Chaikovsky Pavlo Goncharoff, who writes some of Osipova, sentenced in 1981 to 10 years' The thousands who traveled to Soyu­ (Carpathian Ski Club, Hartford, Conn.). the music Malvy perform, Volodya labor camp and exile, writer Ana­ zivka wanted to make sure this last On the way to his fifth men's champ Goncharoff, Volodymyr Popowyczand toly Marchenko, who was sentenced in | weekend would last as long as possible; title, the 25-year-old Chaikovsky de­ Markian Lewun. The group performed 1981 to 10 years in a labor camp and and it was probably for this reason that feated Danylo Nahirny, 15, (Chorno- a variety show that included both five years' internal exile, and Malva the UNA estate was the site of many morska Sitch, Newark, N.J.) by a score modern and traditional Ukrainian Landa, a geologist. arrivals on Friday afternoon, Septem­ of 6-3, 2-6, 7-5. songs, a touch of comedy and the popular The last member of the group to be ber 3. - The women's title went to a new­ American song, "Fame," from the jailed was Ivan Kovalev, 27, who was By Friday evening, the Veselka pavil- comer to the women's division, 14-year movie of the same name. The threesome sentenced last April for "anti-Soviet lion dance floor was getting crowded, as Tania Sawchak of Tryzub, Philadel­ joked about being prepared for a agitation and propaganda." He is some folks stood around listening to the phia. She earned the title by trouncing tornado to strike again and proceeded married to Miss Osipova, and his sounds of Alex and Dorko, the former Olenka Matkiwsky, 16, (Sitch, Newark) to perform one of its own compositions, father, Sergei Kovalev, is currently Soyuzivka band, who spent most of in straight sets 6-0, 6^0. titled "Buria," (Storm), equipped with serving the seventh year of a 10-year their summer entertaining Ukrainian fFor details on the tennis and swimm­ lit candles and gas generators. labor-camp term. festival-goers. However,, most of the ing championships see stories on page fa In addition to group members in people, both young and old were not 4-1 They were greeted with applause, and Soviet detention, at least six others were satisfied just listening to Alex and The Saturday programbegan at 8:30 the program ended much too quickly either forced or allowed to emigrate. Dorko play — they joined in by dancing p.m. to a crowd that filled the audito­ with the group promising to return the These include founding members Gen. and clapping to the music. rium to capacity and lined the walls of following year. Petro Grigorenko, who Was also a Hundreds of guests and visitors of all the Veselka hall. Emceed by Anya By 10:30 p.m. the guests and visitors founding member of the Ukrainian ages danced until 2 a.m., and even at Dydyk, it featured the Malvy vocal- were impatient to start dancing to the Helsinki Group, Ludmilla Alekseeva, this hour nobody seemed to want to go instrumental ensemble from Chicago. sounds of Mria, also from Chicago, who now heads the Moscow Group's to sleep, except, of course, the athletes, Originally scheduled to perform at which played in the downstairs hall, and official representation abroad, Alexan­ the tennis players and swimmers who Soyuzivka in July, the group was pre­ Tempo which played on the Veselka der Ginzburg and Vitaly Rubin. had a long day of competition ahead of empted by a tornado that touched down patio. Dancing went on until 3 a.m., and Other members in exile include Yuri them on Saturday. .on Foordemoore Road. As a result, all even then the hundreds of people were Mnyukh and Yuri Yarym-Agayev, who Saturday morning and afternoon the power went out and the group went (Continued on page 5) , THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1982 No. 37 Dissident profile Christian army recruit murdered for refusing to take military oath Mykola Horbal: MUNICH, - A young Soviet had been murdered, evidence presented army recruit who was stabbed in court by the defense alleged ongoing victim of KGB frame-up to death last year in a Lenin­ tensions between the victim and Mr. grad military camp was killed by his Tursunov. The defense also said that major's chauffeur because his religious Mr. Druk was drunk at the time of the JERSEY CITY, NJ. - The case convictions would not let him take the attack. of Ukrainian dissident Mykola Hor­ military oath, according to sources Sources in the Soviet Union have bal, 42, exemplifies the Soviet go­ here. charged that the evidence about Mr. vernment's relatively recent tactic of Vasyl Druk, a Christian inductee, Druk's alleged drinking was introduced charging dissenters with criminal was stabbed repeatedly on August 13, to bring mitigating circumstances into rather than overtly political crimes. 1981 by Adkhan Tursunov, the major's the case. In fact, initial reports about Sentenced in 1980 to five years in a driver, who was later arrested and Mr.