www.ukrweekly.com UkrainiaPUBLISHED BY THE UKRAINIAN NATIONALn. AssocmiO WeeN ІМЄ.. A FRATERNAL NON-PROFIkT ASSOCIATIO їN vol. LXXXVIII No. 16 ТНЕШрІ^ЄЕШ Шт. APRtt. 19, is ,25 cents о Suslensky, UNA'ws discuss Has гамі Шк-;: by George Zarycky 2^THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 19, i98i^^. 'No. 16 Helsinki Watch urges Kampelman Smoioskyp recommends actions to raise Osipova case, others t0 helP political prisoners BALTIMORE - The Smoioskykyp The informative packet on Mr. Stus NEW YORK - The U.S. Helsinki Group, whose colleagues are already Ukrainian information Service hahas can be obtained from Smoioskyp or Watch Committee, in an April 3 letter serving a total of 47 years of labor camp issued information suggesting actionons from АІ committee member Johanna to Ambassador Max Kampelman urged and exile sentences, should be tried to be taken on behalf of the followinring Michalenko, АІ-33, 839 Temperance that he raise at the Madrid Conference during the Madrid Conference." political prisoners and human-right;hts St., Saskatoon, Sask., Canada, S7N the trial of Helsinki monitor Tatiana "it is no less disturbing," the letter activists: Oksana Meshko, vasyl Stu;tus ON2. Osipova and last month's sentencing of continued, "that the Rumanian and volodymyr Sichko. volodymyr Sichko seven Rumanian Baptists. Ambassador government, which has been pressing Kampelman heads the U.S. delegation Oksana Meshko that Bucharest be the site of the next Letters and telegrams should be sent to the conference which is reviewing Helsinki review conference, at this very n to to the rector of Kiev State University: compliance with the Helsinki Accords. time has summarily sentenced seven Smoioskyp urges that, in addition to esty SSSR (USSR); Ukrainska SSR(Ukrai- in the letter, signed by Robert L. Rumanian Baptists simply because they the addresses designated by Amnesty on nian SSR); Kievsky Derzhavny Univer– Ber,nstein, chairman of the U.S. Hel– wish to practice their religious faith. international, letters of appeal on the sytet im. T. H. Shevchenka; Kiev; vul. sinki Watch Committe, Orville H. These actions, as well as the numerous behalf of Oksana Meshko be sent to the )ital volodymyrska, 64; Rektorovi. Tele– Schell, vice-chairman, and Jeri Laber, other arrests and trials carried out since physicians at the psychiatric hospital her phone: 7-044-21-02-33. executive director, the committee the start of the Madrid proceedings last where she was confined because of her voiced "shock and distress that a seventh dissenting activities. September, demonstrate an unmis– Uk– Copies of four documents which were member of the Moscow Helsinki Watch - takable disregard for the Helsinki Send letters to: SSSR (USSR): Uk– 103; circulated in the samvydav and have principles and an absence of good will rainska SSR; Kiev; vul. Frunze 103; ak. recently reached the West relating the that cause us great alarm." Psyhonevrolohichna Likarnia im. ak. , N. plight of the Sichko family and and K6B changes tactics Ms. Osipova, a 32-year-old computer Pavlova; Doktory Е. Yastreb, N. including statements by volodymyr programmer, was sentenced on April 2 verhun, and L. Charochkin. Sichko, are available in Ukrainian and to five years in a labor camp and five in against religious dissent vasyl Stus English, and may can be obtained from exile, and charged with "anti-Soviet ORANGE. Calif. - in recent weeks Smoioskyp, P.O. Box 561, Ellicott City, agitation and propaganda." Her activi– Keston College has received a number of ntly Md. 21043. A recent photo of volo– ty as a member of the Moscow Helsinki The case of vasyl Stus is currently reports from the USSR which appear to being handled by two chaptersi ooff dymyr Sichko is also available upon indicate that Soviet authorities arc Group figured prominently in the prosecution. Amnesty international in Saskatoonion, request. considering a change in tactics against Sask., and West Germany. The Saska;ka– religious dissidents and such bodies as According to Ms. Osipova's hus– toon branch has prepared a packet, of Student and youth organizations are the Christian Committee lor the De– 0 band, lvan Kovalev, the court proce– informative materials on Mr. Stustus , especially urged to take action on behalf fense of Believers' Rights. edings were marked by breaches of which includes samples of letters anan(jd' of 20-year-old volodymyr, asking for These reports advise that several procedure. Ms. Osipova was not ready-to-mail cards on his behalfalf . his release and the possibility of emigra– religious dissidents who have recanted permitted to defend herself against the tion to the West for the purpose of are visiting priests and lay activists in an charges, and the judge interrupted her it is suggested that petitions bbe be sent'to the chairman of the Supreme effort to persuade them to refrain from final plea and left the courtroom. circulated to collect signatures espe;pe– Court of the Ukrainian SSR: SSSR sending any appeals or information cially among writers, on behalf of Mr. According to reports issued by the Mr. (USSR); Ukrainska SSR; Kiev; vul. about violations of believers' rights to Stus, and that telegrams and letters be Society for the Study of Religion under і be Chekistiv 4; verkhovny Sud Ukr. SSR; the West. The reason being advanced is sent and phone calls be made to the Communism, an affiliate of Keston the Predsidnykovi. Telephone: 7-044-20- that the authorities have undertaken to appropriate authorities. deal with any such violations them– College in England, the seven Ru– 23-04. selves and it is therefore no longer manian Baptists — Emil Dumitru, necessary to enlist support from abroad. Soloman Sidey, Gabriel Culea, Manea Sci-fi magazine writes about Berdnyk A group headed by Felix Karelin and and Dumitru Stancu, Petre varvara and lonel Prejban — were arrested on viadimir Prilutsky (who writes under NEW YORK - The case of Ole)les from the socialist realism style of the pen-name "ibragimov") are on the March 25. Six of them, excluding Mr. Berdnyk, Ukrainian dissident andІ aa writing and, in 1976 he was co-founder point of issuing a samizdat journal Prejban, had declared hunger strikes in well-known futurist writer, was ththe of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, which has been sanctioned by the KGB. support of their families' applications to subject of a brief article in the Apripril formed to monitor Soviet compliance (Messrs. Karelin and Prilutsky-lbra– emigrate. Mr. Prejban is a member of issue of Starlog, a science fictioon with the 1975 Helsinki agr-eement. gimov both gave evidence against the Rumanian Christian Committee for magazine, which reprinted the piecесeе Orthodox priest Father Gleb Yakunin the Defense of Religious Freedom and from Furture Life. Following a period of police harass– at his trial last August.) had been– traveling and speaking in Rumanian churches. ment and sporadic detention, Mr. This new samizdat journal is titled ne Mr. Berdnyk, the magazine informed Berdnyk was arrested in Kiev in 1979 "Mnogaya Leta" ("Many Years"), s its readers, "is well known among hih's and charged with anti-Soviet agitation which is also a song of salutation sung utn Patriarchal association contemporaries, and among the youth and propaganda. On December 21 of on such occasions as services of inter- 1 of Ukraine, both for his more than 3300 that year he was sentenced to six years cession. Keston noted that the editorial n s meets in Buffalo science fiction works, and for hi's in a strict-regime camp and another policy seems clear from articles written espousal of Ukrainian nationalism.m " three in exile. by Messrs. Karelin and Prilutsky– BUFFALO, N.Y. - Nearly 100 delegates from throughout the United lbragimov: Mr. Karelin sets out to The main part of the article dealt witvith At the conclusion of the article, justify the persecution to believers in States and a number from Rome, including a representative of Patriarch Mr. Berdnyk's political activism and! hihiss Starlog asked its readers and all con– USSR "from a biblical standpoint."and persecution by Soviet authoritiesies.. cerned to write letters on Mr. Berdnyk's Mr. Prilutsky attacks an article written Josyf Slipyj, took part in the ninth convention of the Ukrainian Patriar– behalf to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly once by Father Gleb Yakunin about The 54-year-old science fiction auau–– Dobrynin. Embassy of the USSR, 1125 Tsar Nicholas 11, whose canonization is chal Association in the United States thor was expelled from the Writersers' ' 16th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. advocated by some Russians. held here on April 4 and 5 at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church Union of Ukraine in 1972 for deviatin:ing 20036. and the Ukrainian American Civic Anti-Communist group Center, reported the Buffalo Evening News. in a resolution passed by the dele- slates annual convention gates, the convention urged the leader- NEW YORK - The World Anti- ship of the Roman Catholic Church to Ukrainian Weekly Communist Action Front (WACAF), "support the plea of Ukrainian Catho– in a joint effort with the Captive Nations lics and all believers in the USSR," FOUNDED 1933 Committee of New York, will hold its adding that "international organiza– Ukrainian weekly newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Association inc.. a annual international convention here at tions and the (Reagan) administration fraternal non profit association, at 30 Montgomery St.. Jersey City. N.J. 07302. the Summit Hotel on Saturday, April must be more concerned about the 25. implementation by the Soviet govern– Telephone: Registration is scheduled to run from ment of the commitment in the area of 9 to 10 a.m. at the hotel, which is on human rights and religious freedom," Svoboda (201) 434 0237. 434-0807 UNA (201) 451-2200 Lexington Avenue at 51st Street.