by Yaro BihunSpecial to The Ukrainian Weekly

WASHINGTON – The National PressClub honored two Ukrainian women atits annual awards dinner here on July 18.

The two – Olena Prytula, who co-founded Ukraine’s leading Internet news-paper Ukrayinska Pravda, and NataliaDmytruk, a sign-language news inter-preter on Ukraine’s UT-1 television net-work – were named this year’s interna-tional recipients of the prestigious JohnAubuchon Freedom of the Press Award.

They were among 32 journalists hon-ored with the National Press Club’s 2005awards for their work in various aspectsof their profession.

Ms. Prytula’s fellow co-founder ofUkrayinska Pravda, Heorhii Gongadze,was murdered five years ago, and secrettape recordings of conversations in thenPresident Leonid Kuchma’s office sug-gested official complicity in the crime.

“It took a lot of guts (for her) to con-tinue after his disappearance, in the faceof very strong pressures from the previ-ous political regime,” the judges noted intheir decision. “The online newspaperwas for a very long time the main sourceof non-governmental news and made adefinite contribution to the country’sdemocratic turnaround.”

That turnaround, now known world-wide as the Orange Revolution, whichgave Ukraine a new administration head-ed by President Viktor Yushchenko, alsoput a spotlight on Ms. Dmytruk’s role inthe process. While sign-language inter-preting the news about the November 21,2004, presidential election results, shestaged her own silent protest on the state-run UT-1 TV by signing to her viewersnot to believe what was being said abouta Viktor Yanukovych victory.

“Our president is Yushchenko,” shesigned. “Don’t believe what they say.They are lying.”

With neither honoree present at theJuly 18 dinner to receive the award, itwas accepted by the press secretary ofthe Ukrainian Embassy, Iryna Bezverkha,for forwarding to the recipients. Chargéd’Affaires Sergiy Korsunsky read a mes-sage from President Yushchenko for theoccasion stressing the importance of anindependent media for democracy.

His administration is “resolutely andconsistently” striving to strengthendemocracy and the rule of law inUkraine, the president said, adding thatensuring freedom of speech and of thepress “is our immediate and key task.”

Mr. Korsunsky also presented thepresident of the National Press Club withan orange scarf, imprinted with theOrange Revolution motto: “Yushchenko– Tak” (yes). This was the second time inthree months that Ms. Dmytruk wasbeing honored in Washington. In April,Vital Voices Global Partnership, anorganization dedicated to increasing thewomens’ rights and leadership rolesworldwide, honored her and otherUkrainian women for their role in theOrange Revolution.

The domestic winners of the JohnAubuchon Freedom of the Press Awardwere Matthew Cooper of Time magazineand Judith Miller of The New York Times,who, when the awards were firstannounced in early June, were facing pos-sible imprisonment for refusing to revealconfidential sources to investigators of thepossible disclosure by White House offi-cials of the identity of a covert CIA opera-tive and wife of a critic of the administra-tion’s Iraq war policy. Since then, Mr.Cooper has testified before a grand jury;Ms. Miller has not and is now in detention.

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DONETSK – It was during her workon a folklore project in the rural LuhanskOblast that Iryna Mahrytska beganencountering survivors of the Holodomor,the Great Famine of 1932-1933.

Though her class had focused on doc-umenting the customs, rituals, historyand songs of Luhansk villagers,inevitably the subject of the Holodomorcame up with the oldest residents.

“When we listened to their stories, wecouldn’t hold back our tears,” Ms.Mahrytska said. “These were sad storiesabout collectivization and dekurkuliza-tion, the result of which was theHolodomor.” (A kurkul was a Sovietterm for a wealthy peasant.)

From these interviews, she compiledseveral articles published in Kyiv maga-zines in 2004. However, she felt it wasn’tenough to merely document the accountsand wanted to do more.

At the urging of Oleskii Danylo, wholed the Yushchenko presidential cam-paign in Luhansk, Ms. Mahrytska and acameraman organized a 10-day trip tovisit 65 villages to videotape eyewitnesstestimonies.

“When we visited northern LuhanskOblast, they told of horrific things,” Ms.Mahrytska said. “Entire villages died out,people were swollen and starving, chil-dren were dying, dead people were lyingon the road and people didn’t even havethe strength to bury them.”

Ms. Mahrytska’s initiative is a rareexample of those Ukrainians determinedto record the few remaining first-handaccounts of the genocidal Famine.

Survivors who can recall memories ofthe political catastrophe must be at least77 years old, or born in 1928, and thereare fewer of them with each passing year.

First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko hassaid that the Ukraine 3000 Foundationwill continue its work on the UkrainianFamine-Genocide by sponsoring a mas-sive collection of witness testimoniessimilar to Steven Spielberg’s Survivorsof the Shoah Visual History Foundation(www.vhf.org).

However, thus far only a documentaryfilm produced by Ukraine’s TonisTelekanal network is under way as partof the foundation’s “Lessons in History:Famine 1933” project.

In April, the documentary’s producers

Luhansk researcher is determinedto record Famine survivors’ accounts

by Yana SedovaKyiv Press Bureau

KYIV – Yellow (Zhovta) Pora hasreleased a second blacklist that focuses onregional politicians, rectors and business-men that continue to hold power in Ukraine.

At a July 18 press conference, ZhovtaPora’s political council announced thenew blacklist and said lawbreakers mustgo to jail if justice is to prevail.

The regional list serves to update thepolitical party’s first blacklist released inApril, with the goal of continuouslyadding names whenever another case ofcorruption emerges.

“We continue the process of purifyingUkrainian society,” said Yaroslav Poharskyi,a member of Zhovta Pora’s political council.“Our mission is to hold the Ukrainian gov-ernment responsible for its activity.”

The main goal of the regional blacklistis to gather reliable information aboutillegal acts of officials representing allbranches of local government. ZhovtaPora claims that it doesn’t want to huntanybody, but considers this step “a roadsign for law-enforcement bodies.”

The first blacklist included 20 well-known political figures and businessmenof Ukraine. Many of them were implicat-ed in violations during the presidentialelections last year.

Andrii Yusov, a Zhovta Pora politicalcouncil member, claimed that 12 people on

the list are now on trial and some havealready left their positions, including RuslanBodelan, the former mayor of Odesa.

On Pora’s website, there is an applica-tion with the proposal, “Add your candi-date to the blacklist.”

Any citizen or organization can askZhovta Pora for help in case their rightsare violated. An appeal should containthe relevant articles of the Constitution,or those laws broken, as well as any factsin the matter.

“We do not work with anonymous let-ters,” Mr. Yusov said. “Only if we canfind out the names of accusers will weaccept an appeal.”

Next, a special commission of legalexperts analyzes the set of facts.

“We cooperate with law-enforcementorganizations and have enough lawyersand economists to offer expertise in everysingle case,” said Mykhailo Pushkarenko,the head of the project. “The 15 membersof the political council vote whether toput a lawbreaker on the list or not.”

Pora rejects accusations that it ischasing allies of the former governmentor trying to usurp the role of law-enforce-ment authorities.

“Our opponents and people recordedon the list continually charge that ourblacklist is a tool for political repres-sion,” Mr.Yusov said. “But none of them

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INSIDE:• Controversial video game targets Halychyna and its people — page 3.• Trends in contemporary migration from Ukraine — page 9.• Summer reading: two debut novels by Ukrainian authors — page 13.

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Yushchenko abolishes traffic police...

KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenkoinformed a meeting with the Internal AffairsMinistry leadership in Kyiv on July 18 ofhis decision to dissolve, effective immedi-ately, the ministry’s traffic-patrol depart-ment, which is known in Ukraine under theacronym DAI (State Vehicle Inspection),Ukrainian media reported. The DAIremains an inefficient and corrupt service,Mr. Yushchenko said. “I have warned theministers three times – if DAI [officers]continue hiding in bushes [to ambush carsin speed traps], there will be no DAI in thiscountry,” he said, according to Interfax-Ukraine. “You have discredited this service.That is why I have decided there will be noDAI in Ukraine as of today. I expect a draftdirective to be prepared on this issue withinthe next 24 hours.” Internal Affairs MinisterYurii Lutsenko commented on Channel 5later the same day that the president’s orderdid not come as a surprise to him, but Mr.Lutsenko added that he had not expectedsuch “radical steps.” Mr. Lutsenko vowedto present within a week a project to con-vert DAI into a new, “European-style” serv-ice. Ukraine’s DAI employed some 23,000people in 2004. (RFE/RL Newsline)... to replace regional police chiefs

KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenkosaid at the same meeting with the InternalAffairs Ministry leadership on July 18that it is necessary to change allUkrainian regional police chiefs in orderto counteract corruption and enhance effi-ciency of law enforcement, Interfax-Ukraine reported. “With a new personnelwe will have hope that the work inregions will improve,” Mr. Yushchenkosaid. “If we begin fighting corruptionfrom the beginning, we should fullyreplace people representing the discredit-ed part of the police.” The president notedthat oblast police directorates employinvestigators who use torture and takebribes. He criticized the police-directoratechiefs in the Lviv and Volyn oblasts andasked them to step down. Internal AffairsMinister Yurii Lutsenko announced afterthe meeting that he will sack the regionalpolice chiefs in the Lviv, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk and Cherkasy oblasts, as wellas the head of the transport police inOdesa and the chief of the Internal AffairsMinistry’s Department for Fighting

Narcotics. (RFE/RL Newsline)SBU to examine Melnychenko tapes

KYIV – Security Service of Ukraine(SBU) chief Oleksander Turchynov toldjournalists in Kyiv on July 20 that theSBU will examine recordings made byformer presidential bodyguard MykolaMelnychenko in the office of formerPresident Leonid Kuchma, Interfax-Ukraine reported. Mr. Turchynov said thatwithin a month the SBU will scrutinize upto one hour of recordings related to thekilling of Internet journalist HeorhiiGongadze in 2000. “A preliminary exami-nation of these materials has shown thatthe recordings were made in the office ofex-President Leonid Kuchma and that themain persona on these recordings is citi-zen Kuchma,” Mr. Turchynov said. Headded that a simultaneous examination ofthe recordings will be made by the U.S.FBI. (RFE/RL Newsline)EU to help tighten border

KYIV – The European Union’s HighCommissioner for Common Foreign andSecurity Policy Javier Solana discussedEU-Ukraine relations with President ViktorYushchenko and other high-rankingUkrainian officials in Kyiv on July 19,Ukrainian and international news agenciesreported. Mr. Solana said in Kyiv that hebelieves Ukraine will soon be recognizedas a market economy. Mr. Solana alsopromised President Yushchenko that theEU will help Ukraine thwart smugglingthrough the Transdniestrian stretch of theUkraine-Moldova border. In a letter fromEuropean Commission President JoseManuel Barroso that Mr. Solana brought toKyiv, Brussels obliged itself to send a“fact-finding mission to review the situa-tion in the border area itself and prepareour engagement.” Mr. Yushchenko andMoldova’s President Vladimir Voroninasked the EU in June for help in establish-ing more effective customs controls andsurveillance on the Transdniester section oftheir common border. (RFE/RL Newsline)Ukraine scraps visas for Japanese

KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenkohas issued a decree to cancel visa formal-ities as of August 1 for Japanese citizens

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by Taras KuzioEurasia Daily Monitor

Ukraine responded to the July 7 terror-ist attacks in London by expanding pre-ventive measures to combat potential ter-rorists. With Ukraine contributing thefourth-largest contingent of troops inIraq, the Ukrainian government under-standably fears that terrorists could targetKyiv and its metro system. The terroristattacks in Madrid and London have beenlinked to the Spanish and British deploy-ments in Iraq. Spain withdrew its troopsafter terrorist attacks on the eve of theMarch 2004 parliamentary electionsreturned the Socialists to power.

The Ukrainian Internal AffairsMinistry ordered the special forces unitsguarding strategically important facilitiesto be on heightened alert. PresidentViktor Yushchenko also made changes inthe composition of the Anti-Crisis Centerthat he heads (Interfax-Ukraine, July 13).The center was created in November2002 to coordinate executive responsesto national crises.

Mr. Yushchenko’s decision to retainthe Anti-Crisis Center came as a surprise,as many government bodies have beenclosed or merged recently to avoid dupli-cation. Most of the center’s membersalso sit on the National Security andDefense Council. Both bodies includethe president and prime minister; theemergencies, defense, transport, fuel andenergy, internal affairs, and foreignaffairs ministers; as well as chairmen ofthe Border Service, Security Service, andState Protection Service.

The new Anti-Terrorist CoordinationCenter created within the Ministry ofTransport and Communications couldalso overlap (Interfax-Ukraine, July 11).Headed by Deputy Minister of TransportMykola Hodiyenko, this center will coor-dinate its activities with the SecurityService’s Anti-Terrorist Center.

Under President Leonid Kuchma,Ukraine contributed the largest contingentof non-NATO-member troops to Iraqafter Saddam Hussein was removed frompower in spring 2003. The troops are sta-tioned in the Polish sector and are notbelieved to be a potential al-Qaeda target.

While Mr. Yushchenko believes thatthe Ukrainian troops have shown them-selves “to be true professionals and patri-ots,” (Channel 5, August 10, 2004), othercoalition members do not share this opin-ion. During military skirmishes last year,Ukrainian troops reportedly retreated andU.S. and British troops had to be calledin to regain control over the area.

Corruption is a major problem. Maj.-Gen. Serhii Savchenko, commander ofUkrainian forces in Iraq, was arrested inFebruary at Kyiv’s Boryspil Airport,when he and other officers were caught“escorting” coffins containing $300,000in cash (Ukrayinska Pravda, June 13).The practice of transporting contraband(i.e. narcotics, cash, etc.) in coffins,rather than the remains of soldiers, has along history going back to the Sovietinvasion of Afghanistan.

The Iraq deployment never became amajor issue in Ukraine’s 2004 presiden-

tial election (see Eurasia Daily MonitorMay 12, 14, 2004) for two reasons. First,foreign policy in general never became anelection issue. Only 7 percent ofUkrainians saw East-West relations as anelection issue (Politychnyi PortretUkrainy, No. 29, 2004). Second, theKuchma regime was afraid to raise theIraqi issue, as they had themselves dis-patched troops in 2003 when heir appar-ent Viktor Yanukovych was prime minis-ter. Polls during the 2004 election showedthat three-quarters of Ukrainians opposedthe presence of their troops in Iraq.

The irony of the 2004 election wasthat the candidate castigated as an“American lackey,” Mr. Yushchenko,was the one who supported the with-drawal of Ukrainian troops from Iraq.The Yushchenko camp feared thatPresident Kuchma and Prime MinisterYanukovych would use Ukrainian troopsin Iraq to curry favor with the UnitedStates during the election year. The planworked to a degree; while censoringauthoritarian trends in Ukraine, theUnited States also refrained from criticiz-ing Mr. Kuchma too forcefully. As onecommentary summed it up: “The purposeof the policy of camouflaged guaranteesis to keep Ukrainian troops in Iraq”(Zerkalo Nedeli/Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, April30). Although Washington preferred a

Yushchenko victory, it could have donebusiness with Mr. Yanukovych (BusinessWeek, November 8, 2004).

After his victory, Mr. Yushchenko andhis allies accused the United States of hold-ing its tongue until the first round of theUkrainian election (October 31) and theU.S. presidential election (November 2) hadended. Yet, prior to these critical dates, theUkrainian elections had witnessed numer-ous dirty tricks, including the poisoning ofMr. Yushchenko and a bomb threat.

President Kuchma upstaged Mr.Yushchenko by ordering the withdrawal ofUkrainian troops on January 11, only threeweeks before Mr. Yushchenko’s inaugura-tion and two weeks after his eventual elec-tion on December 26 (see Eurasia DailyMonitor, January 14). Mr. Kuchma alsosought to play to the public mood aftereight Ukrainian soldiers died in the firstweek of January in an explosion insideIraq (Financial Times, January 11).

Ukraine’s defense minister at the time,Oleksander Kuzmuk, announced thatUkraine would withdraw one battalion inMarch-April and the remainder by thesummer. President Yushchenko has re-negotiated this timeline to the end of theyear in the spirit of renewed relationswith the United States after he metPresident George W. Bush at NATO inFebruary and in Washington in April (seeEurasia Daily Monitor, April 4 and 7).

U.S.-Ukraine relations are unlikely todecline as a consequence of Ukraine with-drawing its troops by the end of 2005. Asmall Ukrainian contingent will remain totrain Iraqi National Guardsmen. UnlikeSpain, which hastily withdrew its largecontingent of troops without consultations,Mr. Yushchenko has sought to alleviatefears that he would not take into accountAmerican and Polish sensitivities. Mr.Yushchenko’s main strategic aim is toremove Ukraine’s troops from Iraq aheadof the March 2006 parliamentary election,and thereby remove one issue on whichthe Communist or centrist oppositioncould attack his election coalition.Washington seems only too happy to assistPresident Yushchenko on this score.

Kyiv’s role in Iraq may make it vulnerable to terrorist attacks

ANALYSIS

Dr. Taras Kuzio is visiting professor atthe Elliot School of International Affairs,George Washington University. The articleabove, which originally appeared in TheJamestown Foundation’s Eurasia DailyMonitor, is reprinted here with permissionfrom the foundation (www.jamestown.org).

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LONDON – Yevhenia Tymo-shenko, Prime Minister YuliaTymoshenko’s daughter, will wedrocker Sean Carr in Yorkshire,England, on November 2, accordingto The Times online (www.timeson-line.co.uk.).

The two met in a bar in Egypt,after which Ms. Tymoshenko coaxedMr. Carr’s number from a friend ofhis. Ms. Tymoshenko contacted Mr.Carr on her return to London andthey met at a biker festival.

Ms. Tymoshenko, 25, studied atthe London School of Economics,while Mr. Carr, 36, had a marketstall in Leeds where he worked as acobbler and key cutter.

Five months into Ms. Tymoshenkoand Mr. Carr’s relationship, he visitedUkraine, at the height of the OrangeRevolution. One day into his trip Mr.Carr stood on the same stage onwhich Prime Minister Tymoshenkocalled for President Leonid Kuchma’sresignation.

Mr. Carr eventually closed hismarket stall and moved to Ukraine,where he now plays in a heavy-metal band called Death ValleyScreamers.

The Times reported that PrimeMinister Tymoshenko said of herfuture son-in-law, “He is an excellentperson.” Though Mr. Carr was scaredof Prime Minister Tymoshenko atfirst, now he calls her “Mama.”

PM’s daughterto wed rockerfrom Britain

by Zenon ZawadaKyiv Press Bureau

KYIV – It’s 2008, and pro-Russiancandidate Serhii Hryshkov has wonUkraine’s presidential election.

The western oblasts, however, refuseto accept the Hryshkov victory, believinghe has sold out to the Russians.

Your job as a Russian Special Forces(Spetsnaz) commander is to storm andsubdue the rebelling towns, search anddestroy the rebel army bases and taketheir leaders as prisoners.

“Operatsiya Halychyna,” a computergame in which the goal is to kill westernUkrainians while subduing Halychyna inthe process, has entered Ukraine’s videogame market, drawing outrage frompolitical leaders who have called for itsremoval from store shelves.

“We are deeply convinced that thosewho modified this game should be foundand punished in accordance with interna-tional legislation,” said DmytroSvystkov, the assistant director of thepress service of the Ministry of ForeignAffairs.

The game is a pirated modification of“Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: DesertSiege,” a licensed computer game pro-duced by French video-game makerUbisoft Entertainment and released in2001. “Operatsiya Halychyna” has beenselling for about three weeks at $6 pergame.

A Moscow-based company created thegame, Yevhenii Mykhaylok told theUkrayinska Pravda news portal, and theyhave instructed him not to disclose theiridentity.

Mr. Mykhaylok is manager ofNeogame, which had been selling“Operatsiya Halychyna” through itsonline catalogue. Sales skyrocketed once

the controversy broke, Mr. Mykhayloktold Ukrayinska Pravda.

However, “Operatsiya Halychyna”was no longer available onwww.neogame.com.ua by the time thisarticle was published.

Though he declined to name thegame’s creators, it’s quite possible Mr.Mykhaylok won’t have much of a choicewhen government investigators comeknocking.

Verkhovna Rada National DeputiesAndrii Shkil and Oleh Tiahnybok, both ofthe Lviv Oblast, have asked that SecurityService of Ukraine (SBU) chiefOleksander Turchynov, ProcuratorGeneral Sviatoslav Piskun and ForeignAffairs Minister Borys Tarasyuk doeverything possible to ban the game andbring to justice those responsible for cre-ating it.

“I want the SBU to establish who, theprocurator general to bring these peopleto justice and the Ministry of ForeignAffairs to direct a note of protest as to theattempt to inflame Ukrainian-Russianhostilities,” Mr. Shkil said.

“Operatsiya Halychyna” has the poten-tial of negatively affecting Ukrainian-Russian relations and igniting interna-tional tensions, Mr. Shkil said.

“It’s apparent to me that this game,which has come from an unknownsource, has an anti-Ukrainian characterand an obvious political subtext,” Mr.Shkil said.

“Operatsiya Halychyna’s” suddenappearance on the Ukrainian marketplacesignals that Russian politicians havebegun a propaganda war leading up to theMarch 26 parliamentary elections, Mr.Tiahnybok said.

“This information war has as its goalto call into doubt Ukraine’s territorialwholeness and inviolability, and is geared

toward dividing Ukraine and degradingUkrainians’ national honor and dignity,”Mr. Tiahnybok said.

Its appearance indicates that “pro-Russian forces are trying to take revenge,and the game itself is an attack by theseforces on Ukraine’s psychology in order toaccustom Ukrainians to the idea of theinevitability of Ukraine’s occupation,”added Mr. Tiahnybok, who also asked thatUkrainian police investigate how the gamecame onto the market in the first place.

He added that the game is politicalinterference in Ukraine’s internal affairsand encroachment on Ukraine’s nationalsovereignty, which Ukrainian authoritiesshould recognize as criminal acts.

Pirated modifications of licensed videogames are very common in Ukraine.Often, the scenery and the strategy of agame are unchanged. Instead, authors canmodify things such as the game’s themeand weaponry.

It was apparent that “OperatsiyaHalychyna” was a modification becausethe creators had neglected to alter thedesert scenery, including palm trees thatwere clearly uncharacteristic ofHalychyna’s environment.

As part of the game’s hatched politicalscenario, it’s not Russia that unilaterallydecided to send special forces intoHalychyna.

Instead, it’s the newly electedUkrainian government that turns toRussia for help in “restoring Ukraine’sterritorial wholeness” and establishingcontrol over the unruly Halychany (resi-dents of Halychyna).

President-elect Hryshkov represents theparty, Slavic Brotherhood and, upon elec-tion, breaks off all talks with the NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Therebels name themselves the UkrainianInsurgent Army (UPA) and receive mili-

tary instruction from American instructorsat specialized camps.

In addition to www.neogame.com.ua,several other Ukrainian websites wereselling “Operatsiya Halychyna.”

However, most have pulled the gameoff their sites because of the controversy.

The www.petrovka.ua site pulled thegame after numerous gamers voiced theiroutrage.

However, “Operatsiya Halychyna” isstill widely available at Kyiv’s Petrivkamarket, where software, music andDVDs are widely bought and sold. It alsohad wide distribution in Russian cities,according to various Ukrainian newsreports.

Several clues about the game indicatethat Russians created it. Firstly, the cre-ators assume that Ukraine’s next presi-dential elections are in 2008 because theyoccur every four years in Russia.

However, Ukraine’s presidential elec-tions occur every five years and, there-fore, 2009 would have been the correctyear.

Another hint is that the Ukrainianforces in the game base their defense inLviv’s City Administration building.However, only two Ukrainian cities,Kyiv and Sevastopol, have such build-ings, unlike Russia, where every city hasan administration building.

The Russian news wire Itar-Tass hadreported earlier that the Lviv Oblast StateAdministration and the Lviv Oblast Rada(council) declared that they want thegames banned.

However, the press service directors ofboth oblast government bodies said nei-ther the administration nor the councilhad issued such declarations. Instead, itwas Ukraine’s Ministry of ForeignAffairs that called for the government topull the game off store shelves.

Controversial video game’s goal: to subdue Halychyna and kill western Ukrainians

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Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko with herdaughter, Yevhenia.

Sean Carr of the band Death Valley Screamers.

Organization for Securityand Cooperation in Europe

KYIV – Finding a comprehensivesolution to the major threat to healthand the environment posed by thetoxic missile fuel component, com-monly known as melange, was thefocus of a joint workshop held inKyiv by the Organization forSecurity and Cooperation in Europe(OSCE) and NATO.

During the three-day workshop,which ended on July 8, experts andrepresentatives of countries facing thisproblem – Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine,Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan andKazakhstan – shared information on itsextent and on the best technologicallyand environmentally sound solutions.

Melange is a highly unstable mis-sile fuel component that was used forrockets and guided missiles in theformer Soviet Union. It is a verycomplex chemical substance whosecomponents are extremely reactive,volatile and highly toxic. Thus, iturgently requires neutralization.

After the USSR’s collapse, largestocks were left on the territory of itsformer republics. Many OSCE orNATO partner countries are unable tosolve this problem alone due to thelack of necessary technical, materialand financial resources. Therefore,international assistance is urgentlyneeded.

“Melange disposal is a priority forus,” said Ukraine’s Vice Minister ofDefense Volodymyr Tereshchenko, as

he opened the workshop.Dr. Chris De Wispelaere from the

NATO Public Diplomacy Divisionsaid: “Bringing together so many spe-cialists in melange in such a veryshort period of time illustrates thatOSCE and NATO can indeed effi-ciently work together. I expect thatthis workshop will lead to a concretejoint OSCE-NATO work plan thatwill substantially contribute tomelange conversion in all countriesfacing this threat to the environment.”

During the workshop, a NATOMaintenance and Supply Agency(NAMSA) request for proposals forthe provision of a mobile melangedisposal plant was presented, andseveral companies discussed the besttechnologies available.

The head of the OSCE Office inYerevan, Ambassador VladimirPryakhin, presented an OSCE-ledproject in Armenia to convert approxi-mately 875 tons of melange into liquidfertilizer, which could be used as amanagement model for other regions.

The Environment and SecurityInitiative, or ENVSEC (a partnershipof the United Nations EnvironmentProgramme [UNEP], the UnitedNations Development Programme[UNDP], NATO and the OSCE totackle environmental risks to humansecurity) was also presented as amodel of inter-agency co-operationthat could bring donors’ attention toremediate this hazardous militarylegacy.

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PHILADELPHIA – The Ukrainian community of thegreater Philadelphia area announces the establishmentof President Viktor Yushchenko Welcome Committee,an ad hoc organization comprising over 40 localUkrainian organizations and institutions. The committeewas organized to help assist the Philadelphia LibertyMedal Committee with the upcoming September visit toPhiladelphia of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.

President Yushchenko has been invited by thePhiladelphia Foundation to accept the prestigiousLiberty Medal. The Liberty Medal award and theaccompanying $100,000 will be presented by thePhiladelphia Liberty Medal Committee. PresidentYushchenko has been chosen as the recipient of theLiberty Medal for his, “leadership and vision in pursuitof liberty of conscience or freedom from oppression,ignorance or deprivation.”

The President Yushchenko Welcome Committee isworking closely with the Philadelphia Liberty MedalCommittee, and will assist the Committee when neces-sary to make the visit of the president of Ukraine amemorable and successful event.

The leadership of the President YushchenkoWelcome Committee includes: Ulana Mazurkevich,president; Ihor Kushnir, Boris Zacharchuk and NataliaPazuniak, vice-presidents; Petro Kluk and Petro Hursky,secretaries; and Larysa Didash, treasurer. The commit-tee will update the Ukrainian community when newinformation becomes available.

Yushchenko welcome committeeestablished by Philadelphians

set out on a tour of 10 oblasts in Ukraine and video-recorded the eyewitness accounts of 40 survivors, saidOleksii Kopetko, programs coordinator for the Ukraine3000 Foundation.

Tonis plans to broadcast this first portion of the filmin September as a way of introducing the subject to theUkrainian public.

The film’s second half will handle the Holodomorfrom a more historical, academic perspective, Mr.Kopetko said, answering the questions of what hap-pened, how did it happened and who was responsible.

While a film is a step in the right direction, the record-ings of 40 survivors pales in comparison to the nearly52,000 testimonies the Shoah project was able to record.

According to BBC News, Mr. Spielberg himselfestablished and financed the Survivors of the ShoahVisual History Foundation with a $60 million profit heearned from his movie “Schindler’s List.”

Shoah project interviewers and videographersreceived extensive training, and the average testimonywas two hours and 30 minutes, according to theSurvivors of the Shoah website. The testimonies arealso catalogued and indexed in a sophisticated systemfor research and educational purposes.

Beyond financial constraints, Ukrainians face muchlarger obstacles than those recording Holocaust-sur-vivor testimonies, Mr. Kopetko said.

He figured that at least 80 percent of the archivedmaterials on the Holodomor were destroyed or removedfrom Ukraine, he said. Also, most of the official reportsand documents written by the Communist Party werelost during World War II or intentionally destroyed.

In addition, there is the fact that Holodomor sur-vivors are older than the Holocaust survivors.

Time was lost in recording testimonies during theindifferent presidency of Leonid Kuchma. Only in Aprildid a Ukrainian president finally take action when Mr.Yushchenko wrote an official letter to all oblast chair-

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men, asking them to compile a list of people who livedup to the year 1932.

“So we have a lot less to work with,” Mr. Kopetkosaid. “We’re doing what we can with the support of thefoundation.”

The Tonis crew producing the film thus far has notcollaborated with Ms. Mahrytska. She said she wants tomake some editorial contributions to her 17 hours ofvideotape and hasn’t yet shared her work with anyone.

Luhansk was among the Ukrainian oblasts to sufferthe worst from the Holodomor – the Soviet Communistskilled a quarter of the oblast’s population, according toMs. Mahrytska’s research.

While southern Luhansk is industrialized andRussified, the oblast’s northern half is mostly rural.Villagers there have retained their Ukrainian languageand culture.

Ms. Mahrytska came to the conclusion thatHolodomor survivors in Luhansk’s southern half did not

suffer as much as the northern villagers because theywere not farmers and villagers.

Residents of northern Luhansk recalled people withstomachs swollen from hunger, but not to the extent thatthey were starving to death – she said. The industrial-ized cities were left with food to survive on.

Villagers and farmers didn’t want to take part in collec-tivization, which is why Joseph Stalin had targeted thesehard-working, independent-minded people for death.

“The Soviet authorities, meaning the Communists,stole from the people their seeds and food and led them todeath, not just families, but entire villages,” she said.

In certain regions, survivors described how entireneighboring villages died off as a direct result of graincollectivization. To commemorate a destroyed village,villagers even planted black flags.

During the Holodomor, people tried fleeing to theDonbas because mine workers were at least able toreceive food for their labor.

Survivors “showed us cemeteries of mass graves,”Ms. Mahrytska said, referring to the village of Proyizhivof the Staropilskyi region where 364 people died.

“Almost half the population of the village died off,”she continued. “Hard-working people who spent theirwhole lives making bread with their hands were forcedto starve to death.”

Ms. Mahrytska said her journalistic work providesfurther proof that the Holodomor was indeed an orches-trated genocide against the Ukrainian people.

Those Holodmor survivors who lived near the borderwith Russia described how they took their families’embroidered shirts and ritual cloths to the neighboringRussian oblasts to trade for bread, a little bit of seed andpotatoes.

“However, there was nothing here,” Ms. Mahrytskasaid. “So one can make the conclusion that this was agenocide of Ukrainians who were a people that in gen-eral, did not want to join the kolhosps” (collectivefarms).

When she decided it was imperative to record andvideotape Holodomor survivors in the Luhansk Oblastas soon as possible, Ms. Mahrytska appealed to theoblast authorities but received no response.

It wasn’t until Mr. Danylo demonstrated an interest inher work and even provided the transportation, professionalcameraman and videotaping equipment that Ms. Mahrytskawas able to embark on her 65-village expedition.

She said she now needs an experienced person tohelp her edit 17 hours of witness testimony and create adocumentary film.

In addition to the survivors, Ms. Mahrytska alsoobtained interviews from local historians and archivistswho were able to describe the Holodomor based ontheir research, and knowledge of documents.

“Without learning our history, we can’t lead a future indignity,” Ms. Mahrytska said. “It’s worth learning from theJews who have learned about their Holocaust, and we needto learn so that our children will not allow similar things.”

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2005 5No. 30

by Oksana TrytjakUNA National Organizer

KERHONKSON, N.Y. – OnWednesday, June 29, the weather atSoyuzivka was hot and muggy, and itwas raining cats and dogs. I walked intothe Main House of Soyuzivka to findmore than 30 Tennis Camp participants,between the ages of 10 and 18, huddledin front of the television, immersed inthe tennis playoffs.

Lying next to them on the floor andscattered around on the chairs were theirracquets and a couple of stray lime greentennis balls that had managed to make itto safety underneath the couches. Underbetter weather conditions, these camperswould have had their racquets in handand would have occupied every availableinch of Soyuzivka’s six tennis courts.

For a second it reminded me of thelast time I had come up to Soyuzivkawhen my own children attended camp.The first time they had ever played ten-nis was on the courts at Soyuzivka andwhen I came up for the weekend tocheck on their progress and make surethey still had all their little fingers andtoes intact, I was very impressed with thescene. There they were on the courts, lis-tening carefully to the advice of theircoaches and only occasionally acting upwith their friends or serving balls toinvisible players in the trees.

I reminded myself that the tenniscampers watching television that daywere probably taking a much-neededbreak from a fun but challenging athleticregimen headed by none other than thecoach himself, George Sawchak. Mr.Sawchak, who was one of the foundingorganizers of Soyuzivka’s Tennis Campback in the 1960s along with the lateZenon Snylyk, encourages, challengesand coaches our young players to thisvery day.

Over the past 38 years close to 2,000tennis players have received tennis

Soyuzivka’s Tennis Camp: a snapshot of a rainy day’s activities

THE UNA: 111YEARS OF SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

Do you know why Do you know why we’re so happy?we’re so happy?

Our parents and grandparents invested in our future by purchasing an endowment and life insurance policy foreach of us from the Ukrainian National Association, Inc.They purchased prepaid policies on account of the lowpremium rate for our age group. If you’d like to besmiling like us, please have your parents or grandpar-ents call the UNA at 1-800-253-9862. They will be happy to assist you!

With Tennis Camp participants are Petrusia Sawchak and George Sawchak, (back row, first and second from left);UNA President Stefan Kaczaraj (back row, fifth from left); and Soyuzivka Manager Nestor Paslawsky, Yuri Kucina

and Olya Czerkas (back row, from right).

Dance lessons – at Tennis Camp!

coaching at Soyuzivka and have benefit-ed from Mr. Sawchak’s dedication to thesport and his enjoyment of working withUkrainian youth.

Petrusia Sawchak, his wife and thecamp coordinator, spends most of hertime during the busy summer season pro-moting and managing the camp.

And then there’s Olya Czerkas, or“General Mon” as she is so lovinglycalled by most of the campers, who fliesin from St. Petersburg, Fla. For manyyears Ms. Czerkas supervised manyother Soyuzivka summer camps, but nowshe is concentrating on helping the tenniscamp.

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summer camps, has had along history and enjoys aloyal following as manyof its attendees returnyear after year. This year,several former campersreturned as camp coun-selors, including TanyaSkvirska, ChristopherBenoit, John Puhalla andMarco Czerkas.

Yuri Kucina, a profes-sional tennis instructorfrom Los Angeles, spenthours with the campershelping to improve theirskills and tweak theirgame.

So what are coun-selors to do with morethan 30 anxious camperswith only tennis on theirminds? As I continued towatch the campersenjoying tennis on tele-vision, the counselorswalked in and started tochant what was appar-ently a familiar phrase“one-two-three and aone-two-three.” All of asudden, music came onover the loudspeakersand the campers were

instructed to find their partners.What I assumed was going to be some

tennis-related activity, turned out to benothing of the kind. By the looks on their

faces and the riotous laughter, I could tellthat the tennis partners were ready totrade their racquets for dancing shoes anddance the night away!

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 20056 No. 30

Sixteen years ago, a roundtable meeting on the issue ofUkrainian national symbols brought together representativesof the Kyiv’s democratic movements and the Supreme Sovietof the Ukrainian SSR and other officials of the Communist

Party of Ukraine took place on July 28, 1989, at the offices of the Soviet PeaceCommittee in Kyiv, reported the London-based Ukrainian Press Agency.

Represented were the Ukrainian National-Democratic League (UNDL), the PopularMovement of Ukraine for Perebudova (Rukh) and the independent journal UkrainianTime (Ukrainskyi Chas). The officials included representatives of the UkrainianSupreme Soviet, Ukrainian Minister of Justice Volodymyr Zaichuk, several historiansand a representative of the Kyiv city committee of the Communist Party.

The UNDL presented a list of four demands to the republican leadership: ensure anobjective explanation in the mass media of the history of Ukrainian national symbols,such as the blue-and-yellow flag and the trident; warn journalists that the use of slan-

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Turning the pages back...

In the half decade since Ukrainian journalist Heorhii Gongadze was brutallymurdered for reporting critically on former President Leonid Kuchma’s rulingregime, little has come to light in terms of a resolution to the case.

The July 6 issue of Jane’s Intelligence Digest rightly wrote that “the electionof pro-Western reformer Viktor Yushchenko as president of Ukraine on January23 raised hopes that the investigation into the murder of opposition journalistGeorgiy [sic] Gongadze would be resolved. However, there is mounting concernthat the probe is being obstructed, with potentially serious implications forUkraine’s foreign relations.”

This case, still open and unresolved after nearly five years, can potentiallyhurt President Yushchenko’s international credibility, just as it helped isolate for-mer President Leonid Kuchma. Domestically, it has left Ukrainians wonderingwhether promises made during the Orange Revolution to usher in a new moralgovernment will ever come to fruition.

Mr. Yushchenko pledged publicly over six months ago to bring those responsi-ble for Mr. Gongadze’s murder to justice, and he has repeated that pledge on sev-eral other occasions.

Asked by foreign journalists about the Gongadze case, Mr. Yushchenko saidon November 18, 2004, according to the International Federation of Journalists:“I give you my word that all the high-profile cases closed by Kuchma will berevisited, commissions will be appointed and we will carry out full-scale investi-gations.”

Progress in the case since the presidential inauguration, however, has beenslow. This newspaper reported that Mr. Yushchenko announced on March 1 thattwo police officers were arrested for their direct role in the Gongadze murder,though the president acknowledged that those responsible for giving the orderhad not yet been found.

Since then, sadly, little of substance has been accomplished and numerousUkrainian media reports have speculated that Mr. Gongadze’s killers remain atlarge in Ukraine, perhaps still working in prominent positions in the government.

The case has been remarkably complicated and the motives of nearly every-one involved have been eerily obscure. There are indications that members ofgovernment may have been connected to Mr. Gongadze’s disappearance. Andthere is evidence that highly placed government officials – including members ofParliament, the Security Service and the Procurator General’s Office – may haveobstructed investigations into the case.

According to Mr. Gongadze’s mother, Lesia, who this month spoke withKyiv’s The Day (Den) newspaper, officials in Mr. Yushchenko’s governmenthave offered to pay her and Mr. Gongadze’s widow, Myroslava, if the two agreedto drop any future complaints against the state regarding the case.

“Myroslava was offered 100,000 euros to waive all her grievances againstUkraine,” Lesia Gongadze told The Day on July 19. “It was meant as a bribe, sothat she would keep silent. If it were a court ruling rather than Prime Minister[Yulia] Tymoshenko’s offer, she would consider the possibility.”

That the current Ukrainian government has offered money to silence Mr.Gongadze’s family is particularly troubling, considering that this administrationtook office saying that honesty, morality and transparency should be hallmarksof the new Ukrainian government.

Making any significant headway in this atmosphere has been difficult, and ithas left many Ukrainians with little hope that the case will ever be solved. BothMyroslava and Lesia Gongadze have suggested recently that those who orderedthe murder will never be brought to justice, and, indeed, it seems the publicagrees with them.

Internationally, the case has become a litmus test of sorts, showing the degreeto which Ukraine has progressed along the path to becoming a transparentEuropean state. In fact, various international bodies – among them theCommittee to Protect Journalists, the International Federation of Journalists andthe Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe – have all watched theinvestigation closely, believing that its completion would mark a turning pointfor Ukraine.

Unfortunately, little in this regard has been accomplished. If Ukraine is tomake progress toward becoming an accepted member of the European and worldcommunities its government must ensure that the investigation brings Mr.Gongadze’s killers, and those who ordered his abduction, to justice.

The Gongadze caseTHE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY

by Alexander Kuzma

ODESA – On May 26 and again onJune 21, representatives of the Childrenof Chornobyl Relief Fund visited areahospitals and government officials inOdessa to assess the critical health careneeds of the region, and to plan a newhospital partnership program to improvematernal and children’s health.

With the help of contacts made by theU.S.-Ukraine Foundation and TetianaGerasiutenko of Brooklyn, N.Y., thefund’s representatives were was able tomeet with high-level officials in theregional government and medical com-munity. Dr. Zenon Matkiwsky, the chair-man and co-founder of the Children ofChornobyl Relief Fund, and AlexanderKuzma, the fund’s executive director,met with the newly appointed chairmanof the oblast, Vasyl Tsushko, and OdesaMayor Eduard Hurvits, as well as mem-bers of the regional health ministry andlocal experts on women’s and children’shealth.

Local community leaders such asAppellate Judge Anatolii Luniachenkoand Dr. Alexander Zelinskyi asked thefund to expand its humanitarian efforts toinclude modernization of the Odesa CityMaternity Hospital No. 5, where thou-sands of mothers deliver their babieseach year in outdated delivery rooms inoften primitive conditions.

In 2001, the fund established a modelneonatal intensive care unit at the OdesaRegional Children’s Hospital (RCH)with the help of Olympic and worldchampion and Odesa native ViktorPetrenko. Over two nights, internationalskating stars from around the world per-formed in a charity gala performance thatraised over $120,000 to purchase neona-tal respirators, pulse oxymeters, infantwarmers and other essential technology.

Within six months of the fund-raiser,the fund had completely refurbished thehospital’s neonatal ward and installedstate-of-the-art equipment that has helpedto save the lives of low birth-weightbabies and newborns suffering from res-piratory distress and other severe compli-cations. Since then, scores of childrenhave benefited from this new technology.The fund also delivered three ambu-lances donated by American MedicalResponse. These vehicles have helpedthe Odesa hospital staff to rescue chil-

dren from remote villages in Ukraine’slargest geographic province.

More recently, under the leadership ofChief Doctor Oleksander Liman, theOdesa RCH has established a cardiacsurgery program. This is only the fourthcenter in Ukraine that can perform open-heart surgery on young children withcongenital heart defects. In its first year,the surgical unit performed 50 successfuloperations on such children. After itsmost recent “Viktory for Kids” skatingbenefit, the Children of Chornobyl ReliefFund was able to purchase a cardiacultrasound that will help cardiologistsand surgeons more accurately diagnoseheart defects and reduce the risk of com-plications or errors.

In his interview with local press and inmeetings with Messrs. Tsushko andHurvits, Dr. Matkiwsky stressed theimportance of securing a greater commit-ment from local businesses and govern-ment agencies to upgrade conditions atOdessa Maternity Hospital No. 5. “Thehealth of mothers and children is first ofall the responsibility of the entire com-munity,” said Dr. Matkiwsky. “ViktorPetrenko has set a strong example forothers to follow. The neonatal unit creat-ed in his honor shows what can be donein a relatively short period of time whenpeople make a serious commitment toimproving community health.”

Mayor Hurvits and Chairman Tsushkoboth pledged their support for the initia-tive. When he served as a national deputyin Ukraine’s Parliament, Mr. Tsushkoplayed a leading role in appropriatingfunds for a children’s cardiac surgerycenter in Kyiv. He was appalled to learnthat the Odesa Regional Children’sHospital did not have a back-up electricgenerator and promised to install suchequipment to ensure that children under-going surgery or recovering in the inten-sive care unit would not be at risk duringpower outages.

Mr. Hurvits was a leading supporter ofPresident Viktor Yushchenko during theOrange Revolution last winter. Themayor promised to mobilize reputablecommunity leaders and philanthropists toshow the very best aspects of Odesa’scommunity spirit.

In June several Odesa businessmen,including Yaroslav Diablo of the Lasunia

Children of Chornobyl Relief Fundassesses Odesa’s health care needs

NEWS AND VIEWS

Dr. Oleksander Liman, chief doctor of the Odesa Regional Hospital, and Dr.Zenon Matkiwsky of the Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund examine one of three

ambulances donated by American Medical Response and delivered by the fund.

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derous phrases against national symbols will not be tolerated; introduce into the leg-islative agenda of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR the question of a reviewof the law of June 5, 1981, which prohibits the public display of any national symbolsother than official symbols; and conduct scholarly research and a broad public discus-sion, and secure passage by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR of a well-founded law regarding the display of national symbols, as well as halt all acts ofrepression against private individuals who display national symbols.

While the officials present reacted positively to the first two proposals made by theUNDL and Justice Minister Zaichuk even assured the activists, “Don’t anticipate anydecree that would prohibit Ukrainian national symbols,” a heated discussion tookplace over the third and fourth demands. In response to these demands, Mr. Zaichukwas quoted as having said: “As long as there is a law, the militia will function inaccordance with the law, thereby viewing the public display of national symbols as adisruption of public order and resorting to appropriate means.”

As a result, members of the UNDL held a daylong hunger strike the next day toprotest such “lawlessness common for a totalitarian regime” and violations of rightnational self-determination. The protest was held in front of the Supreme Sovietbuilding with some 30 individuals taking part. The UNDL activists were also support-ed by hundreds of Kyiv residents, the local Ukrainian Helsinki Union branch andmembers of Rukh, who gathered around the protesters.

The local militia and a special forces unit attempted to break up the gathering, beat-ing up and detaining over a dozen people. Determined to put a stop to continuedharassment of individuals displaying national symbols, the demonstrators declaredthat they would continue their hunger strike.

Source: “Meeting, hunger strike in capital focus on Ukraine’s national symbols,”The Ukrainian Weekly, August 6, 1989, Vol. LVII, No. 32.

Dairy Corp. stepped forward to offertheir support. The Children of ChornobylRelief Fund is also negotiating withWestern companies such as Amway tocontribute funds and products to helpimprove health conditions in Odesa.

The health crisis in Odesa has reachedgrave proportions in recent years, as theport city has become a major center ofthe AIDS epidemic in Ukraine. Localhealth officials have developed a curricu-lum to educate high school students onthe threat of AIDS and outreach pro-grams are now reaching 70 percent of theschool-age population. Many of thesmaller villages and towns in theprovince, such as Ananiv and Ismail, suf-fer from very high infant and maternal

mortality rates, tuberculosis and otherinfectious diseases.

Since 1989, the Children of ChornobylRelief Fund has delivered over $51 mil-lion worth of humanitarian aid and med-ical equipment to hospitals in 14 regionsof Ukraine. The fund’s medical aidefforts have led to sharp reductions ininfant mortality in several of its partnerhospitals.

This year, the fund is also expandingits efforts with major deliveries of hospi-tal equipment to Chernihiv, Zhytomyr,Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv andChernivtsi.

Tax-deductible donations may be sentto Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund,272 Old Short Hills Road, Short Hills, NJ07078. Volunteers are urged to call (973)376-5140 or to visit the fund’s website atwww.childrenofchornobyl.org.

The things we do...The things we do...by Orysia Paszczak Tracz

I did it twice, and hope to do it againthis year. The last two Augusts, after bid-ding farewell to my tour groups at theLviv Airport, I stayed behind for a weekon my own. Not that I didn’t enjoy beingthe mother hen for the group for 16 days,but during that time there is no extramoment for anything else.

With this extra time, I had no plans otherthan to meet with a few people and to seethe city. And oh, did I see it! Each time, fora whole week, I wandered the streets andloved it. I reveled, I luxuriated, I wallowedin the pleasure of being in Lviv.

The first time, I stayed with a family onIvan Franko Street, near Stryiskyi Park.This was an old Austrian-era building, withvery high ceilings and windows, and aninteresting courtyard. It was a 10-minutewalk to the center of the city. I would leavearound 10 a.m., walk toward town, past thesmall Stryiskyi market of flower and pro-duce vendors, cross onto the small pictur-esque Hrushevsky Street, and wind up atShevchenko Boulevard. ProspektNezalezhnosti/Independence Plaza is justfurther down. Around 7-8 p.m., if I had noother plans, I would walk back “home.”

Last year, I stayed with a family on theoutskirts of the city on Vyhovsky Street,nearer the airport, and close to thePivdennyi Bazar (an enormous indoor andoutdoor shopping mall) and BAM [translit-erated as VAM], the big supermarket. Itwas way too far to walk downtown, so thistime, I would take the “marshrutka,” ormini-bus, to the center. For 1 hrv, it is aneducational and entertaining ride. You getto see the neighborhoods and the people.

And you can stop a marshrutka practi-cally anywhere. While they do have reg-ular stops, you can also just raise yourarm about waist-high, pointing yourindex finger down, indicating you wanthim to stop here. If you get in via theback door, you pass your hryvnia downby other passengers. If there is change tobe had from a larger bill, it will find itsway back to you.

A treat I will remember for a long timeis getting on the marshrutka on August24, Independence Day 2004. As I settleddown, I noticed the song on the radio. Itwas Kvitka – our Kvitka – Kvitka Cisyk,singing “Ya pidu v daleki hory”! She wasfollowed by Ruslana and Sophia Rotaru.

Lviv is fascinating. No wonder itsinhabitants are so fiercely patriotic –fanatical, even – about their city. I don’tblame them one bit. This spring, Lviv cel-ebrated its 749th anniversary – seven anda half centuries. For North Americans,where something a few hundred years oldis “ancient,” this can be mind-numbing.But in Lviv, in Ukraine and in Europe ingeneral, old really means old.

If you’re walking through the PloshchaRynok (City Hall Square), the Ratush, andare surrounded by the town buildings fromthe 16-18th centuries (a UNESCO HeritageSite), or are passing the Arsenal from the1400s, or walk down Virmenska Vulytsia(Armenian Street – possibly the oldest inthe city, from the mid-1200s) – or enter anyof the old churches – you can’t help but besurrounded by antiquity, culture, history andheritage. And it’s all so normal, so natural.

Once I arrived downtown, I’d pick up afew newspapers and decide where to stopfor coffee. What a problem! Either Veronika(on Shevchenko), a pastry shop and restau-rant to die for, or the Viennese Cafe onProspekt Nezalezhnosti, where eventually

you will run into everyone and anyone youknow from Winnipeg to Manhattan andKolomyia – the coffee shops and restau-rants of Lviv are truly delightful.

One favorite is U Pani Steftsi, on themain boulevard, near the bookstore build-ing (ah, the bookstores ... but that’s anoth-er story) and across from the Khudozhnykgallery and gift shop. Pani Steftsia servesdelicious Ukrainian cuisine, inexpensive-ly, in a beautiful Ukrainian village-styledecor. The serving staff is dressed in ele-gant Ukrainian costumes. Halia, one ofthe waitresses, is drop-dead gorgeous – atrue Ukrainian beauty. But be sure to bethere early in the afternoon, because theyoften run out of some favorites byevening. Another lovely Ukrainian-stylerestaurant is Oselia, on Hnatiuk Street.You’re eating in a folk museum!

There is beauty, elegance and historyat every step. The doorways, courtyardgates, windows with their window boxes,store signs and monuments all have suchfascinating architectural and artisticdetails. One building on the corner ofIvano Franko and Hrushevsky streets hasstylized sunflowers in the stone ornamen-tation around the main entrance. TheUkrainian touches are part of the archi-tecture of many periods.

Through the courtyard gates onVirmenska Vulytsia, you can glimpse sunlithanging kylyms on the balconies in the sur-rounding chiaroscuro. The old and usedbook market on Ivan Fedorov Square,appropriately surrounds the imposing statueof the 16th century first printer of Ukraine.For something completely different, there’sToronto Pizza on Bohdan Lepky Street.

The history is there not only in themonuments and the various historical,cultural and architectural plaques on par-ticular buildings (in the whole country, itseems every building, street and eventree has some significance). The streetand other place names tell you how oldthe place really is.

Vysokyi Zamok (the high castle orfortress) really is just that, the highestspot in the city where a fortress oncestood (recently the Lviv City Councilvoted down the mayor’s grand plans torebuild the fortress). Nyzkyi Zamok (thelow castle or fortress) no longer remains,but the name does, in a city square whereit used to be. The Valova (rampart) andPidvalna (at the rampart) streets tell youwhere those ramparts actually were backin the 1200-1300s, and some stone wallsand tunnels remain to remind you.

Around the Ratush (city hall), a districtthat is a UNESCO Heritage Site, the streetnames remain from the beginning of thecity, telling of the early merchants and resi-dents of the area: Serbska (Serbian), Ruska(Rus’), Halytska (Halych) and, now,Staroyevreiska (Old Jewish). This last onewas originally called Starozhydivska, butbecause of the implication – in Russian, notUkrainian – that “zhyd” is a pejorative term,the logically convoluted post-Soviet politi-cally correct term won out. In general, theold Polish street names have remained, butRussian ones have not. And, to the conster-nation of the Russians, Dudaev Streetremains, the first one named in honor of thefallen Chechen freedom fighter.

The names of shops, taverns andrestaurants are quite descriptive, especial-ly the ones beginning with “pid” (under,or at), meaning under the sign or statue of:

Wandering the streets of Lviv

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WASHINGTON – Starting July 18,programs produced by Radio FreeEurope/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL)Ukrainian Service, known locally as“Radio Svoboda,” are once again beingdistributed nationwide in Ukraine.

Radio Svoboda’s partner in the ven-ture is Nashe Radio, one of Ukraine’spre-eminent radio networks with 29 FMtransmitters covering all of the majorpopulation centers in Ukraine.

Under the terms of the partnership,four specially prepared five-minuteRadio Svoboda news analysis programswill be broadcast by Nashe Radio at2:30, 3:30, 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. local time.

RFE/RL President Thomas A. Dineenthusiastically welcomed the agreement,in a letter sent to Nashe Radio GeneralManager Bogdan Kozachenko on July 5.Mr. Dine wrote, “Our partnership withNashe Radio represents an importantmoment for Radio Free Europe/RadioLiberty – with this joint venture we willdefine a new kind of radio programmingand format for Radio Liberty’s UkrainianService. My colleagues and I are alreadypreparing to meet this challenge withrigor and enthusiasm.”

Nashe Radio (http://www.nasheradio.ua/)programming is entertainment-oriented,focused on Ukrainian- and Russian-lan-guage pop music with a significant newscomponent in the Ukrainian language. In

order to add a new dimension to NasheRadio’s news and information program-ming, a dedicated team of Radio Svobodabroadcasters based in Nashe Radio’s studiosin Kyiv will produce the four program seg-ments every Monday through Friday.

The programs, which will develop asingle theme throughout the day, willaddress a wide range of topics onUkrainian themes that cover all aspectsof life of interest and concern to NasheRadio listeners, according to RFE/RLAssociate Director of Broadcasting FrankWilliams.

RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service broad-casts nearly seven hours of programminga day Monday through Friday, and threehours every Saturday and Sunday, withprograms produced in Prague and theservice’s Kyiv Bureau and transmitted tolisteners via shortwave, satellite and AMand FM signals provided by local affili-ate stations in Ukraine. UkrainianService programming is also availablevia the Internet, at the service’s website,www.radiosvoboda.org, and atwww.rferl.org.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is aprivate, international communicationsservice to Central, Eastern andSoutheastern Europe; the Caucasus; andCentral and Southwestern Asia funded bythe U.S. Congress through theBroadcasting Board of Governors.

RFE/RL’s Ukrainian broadcasts to be carried nationwide in Ukraine

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 20058 No. 30

Dear Editor:I commend The Ukrainian Weekly for

its editorial “Where is our synergy?”(July 10) for gently chiding theUkrainian American community for itssluggish response to the example set bythe successful 1999 Joint Conferences ofUkrainian American Organizations. Theoriginal event was a result of the vision,sheer will, and rock-solid determinationof one individual, Dr. Roman Goy. Sincethen, few have come forward to matchhis zeal. As mentioned in your editorial,“it was an exciting time for our commu-nity, a time when we looked forward to amore effective hromada with a brightfuture.” You suggest that it might betime for another Joint Conferencesevent, asking “where has our synergygone?” Let us support this suggestion,and urge our current community leadersto seriously accept this proposal.However, I submit that our synergy res-onates and our hromada’s futuresparkles.

Consider the following examples.May 2000 – The Washington Group(TWG) in Baltimore tours the ScythianGold exhibit with the Ukrainian MedicalAssociation of North America(UMANA). July 2000 – the UkrainianGold Cross Chapter 12 partners withUMANA to distribute first aid manualsto children’s camps. October 2001 –UMANA joins the Ukrainian Businessand Professional Group of NorthernCalifornia for “Ukrainian Weekend.”March 2002 – the Ukrainian Engineers’Society of America (UESA) organizes asuccessful Summit of UkrainianOrganizations at Soyuzivka. May 2003 –the Ukrainian Educational and CulturalCenter in Philadelphia holds anHIV/AIDS Awareness Forum supportedby Miss Universe Justine Pasek andUMANA. May 2003 – the UkrainianInstitute of America, UMANA, theUkrainian Women’s Fund and commer-cial companies present a fashion show tosupport women’s health in Ukraine.February 2004 – in New York, theShevchenko Scientific Society andUMANA discuss medical practice andeducation in Ukraine and the U.S. June2004 – TWG Leadership Conference inWashington includes UESA, UMANA,UNWLA and UABA. September 2004 –The Ukrainian American Bar Association(UABA) hosts a joint conference withUMANA in Miami.

How about lately? UMANA has justconcluded a major scientific conferencein Edmonton, encompassing health careprofessionals from the U.S., Canada andUkraine, including Ukraine’s Minister ofHealth. Embraced in the conferenceactivities were representatives of localCanadian industry, arts and crafts, cultur-al museums, churches and area profes-sionals and universities. Plans are afootfor the 2007 biennial conference with theinvolvement of perhaps even more com-munity and professional groups.

Ukrainian American organizations arelearning. They continue to strive formore collaboration, and the results show.Perhaps the time is ripe for anothermega-event.

A future editorial might read, “How’sthat for synergy!”

George Hrycelak, M.D.Chicago

The letter-writer is executive directorof UMANA.

Community groupsdo utilize synergy

Dear Editor:I’m responding to the column written

by Taras Szmagala Jr. in the June 5 issueof The Ukrainian Weekly titled “Wheredo we go from here?”

Mr. Szmagala provided a brief historyof the UNA but failed to mention someimportant factors regarding UNA mem-bership and its 25-year decline. Foryears, there were many reasons to belongto the Ukrainian National Association. Inthe past, members received annual divi-dend checks and community organiza-tions were given financial support.Although the UNA continues to providesubsidies for Soyuzivka, Svoboda andThe Ukrainian Weekly, membership ben-efits such as the dividend checks anddonations to Ukrainian organizations hasbeen eliminated by the past leadership. Ibelieve decisions such as these have con-tributed to the UNA’s decline in mem-bership.

For many years, leading up to themid-1990s, the Ukrainian NationalAssociation donated millions of dollarsto other Ukrainian organizations. Plast,SUM, ODUM, Ukrainian museums andother community organizations receivedfinancial donations on an annual basis.The amount of the donations was decid-ed by the UNA Supreme Assembly,(today known as the General Assembly)whose members were elected by dele-gates to the UNA conventions every fouryears. These donations created an incen-tive for members of other communityorganizations to join the UNA becausethe better the UNA’s financial statuswas, the larger the donation would be totheir organization. The UNA was able torepresent the community because thesecommunity organizations had their ownUNA branches and sent delegates to theconvention to elect members to theSupreme Assembly. For example, Plastmembers in Chicago would join theUNA Plast Branch. Members of thelocal Ukrainian soccer team, Lions, hadtheir own UNA branch. The UNA actedas a national insurance version of a localUkrainian credit union because theygave back money to the community justlike the credit unions do now. Bothmajor Ukrainian political factions alsohad their own UNA branches andworked to influence the direction of thecommunity.

However, once these donations startedto be pared back and reduced, the incen-tive for being a member also wasreduced. In 1995, nearly all donations tocommunity organizations were eliminat-ed. In 1997, the UNA ExecutiveCommittee, without getting approvalfrom the UNA General Assembly, decid-ed to completely eliminate the dividend.Not surprisingly, the UNA suffered largedeclines in membership after these twoactions. How many people would staymembers of a Ukrainian credit union ifthey stopped donating money to thecommunity?

Mr. Szmagala was completely off themark with the statement “I firmly believethat the decline of our association is notthe fault of its leadership, either currentor former.” There are many members ofthe UNA who may try and rewrite UNAhistory, but the facts are the facts.

I do agree that the current leadershipcan’t be blamed for the past decline inmembership and financial issues that arefacing the organization because theyhave been leading the organization foronly three years. In fact, we have seen

Where does UNAgo from here?

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some positives come out of this adminis-tration. If anyone has been to Soyuzivkaover the past couple of years, you cansee the dramatic and positive changesthat have taken place. Led by UNATreasurer Roma Lisovich, Soyuzivka hasseen many positive steps and is a greatvacation destination. Soyuzivka alonecan demonstrate what a difference lead-ership can make.

The problem with what Mr. Szmagalawrote is that he implies that there wasnothing that the leadership could havedone to avoid current UNA problems.Well, Ukrainians are not the only groupthat has a fraternal benefit society. Thereare dozens of fraternals out there just likethe UNA. There is the Polish NationalAlliance, Sons of Norway, Sons of Italyand Greek Catholic Union among others.Some organizations are doing better thanothers. But the common theme has beenleadership. In the early 1990s, the PolishNational Alliance had a healthy surplus,just like the UNA. However, the latePresident Eddie Moskal convinced thePNA to purchase a couple of local banksthat would cater to the needs of the localPolish community, which was growingdue to the new immigration. Today, thePolish National Alliance is financiallysound because the leadership thoughtstrategically and looked toward thefuture.

What did the UNA leadership do dur-ing the 1990s to increase membership?The UNA General Assembly, at thedirection of the UNA president, spentmany hours arguing about a missionstatement and by-laws changes. TheUNA has a terrific brand story that hasnot been marketed effectively. Instead ofworking on a marketing program andpromoting our history and obviousstrengths, they wasted our time on a mis-sion statement that just stated the obvi-ous. The by-laws changes also were anunnecessary diversion from what theytruly needed to be focusing on. For thepast three conventions, UNA delegatesdebated by-laws changes and otherinsignificant issues. Was there any timeleft to discuss a marketing strategy orhow to increase membership? Was thereany time left to discuss why the organi-zation was losing hundreds of members ayear? The leadership did not want to dis-cuss the membership issue because itwould have highlighted their failures.Therefore, they created these distrac-tions.

So what does the future hold? Notenough has been done by the UNA tomarket itself to the new wave ofUkrainians. In the past, the leadership ofthe UNA explained that the burst inmembership in the 1950s was due to thethird immigration wave that came overafter World War II. However, thousandsof new immigrants have come to theU.S. and Canada since 1991. Has theUNA mounted any large-scale effort toenroll them as members? The only wordsof wisdom that ever came from the UNAleadership in the 1990s were that the sec-retaries needed to enroll more members.

Meanwhile, other Ukrainian financialinstitutions have had a different strategy.In 1998 the Ukrainian American FederalCredit Union in Chicago sponsored freelunches and seminars to explain the ben-efits of belonging to the local Ukrainiancredit union. Hundreds of members ofthe Fourth Wave attended these lunchesas they were introduced to the localUkrainian credit union. The UAFCU wasable to enroll many new members.

In order for the UNA to succeed, acoordinated effort to enroll the FourthWave of Ukrainian immigrants mustcome from the UNA Executive commit-

tee. This marketing strategy needs to bedifferent than the campaign to enrollAmerican-born Ukrainians. We can’t justuse the same marketing strategy in boththe Ukrainian and English languages.

The UNA also needs to invest moneyinto recruiting members of the FourthWave to become UNA representatives.It’s not enough to tell the current localUNA representatives to put together atalk over coffee at the local church aboutthe benefits of UNA membership. Weneed to recruit the Fourth Wave withintheir own groups. This immigrationneeds the UNA more than the previousone. Many of them work part-time or atodd jobs that don’t offer life insurance asa benefit. We owe it to past generationsof hard working UNA’ers to make acoordinated push to enroll this new gen-eration of Ukrainian Americans.

The UNA has been in trouble before,especially during the Great Depressionof the 1930s. Leadership, not missionstatement changes, made the difference.Our membership rolls during that diffi-cult decade almost doubled. It was dur-ing the 1930s that the UNA gave birth toThe Ukrainian Weekly, helped establishthe Ukrainian Youth League of NorthAmerica (UYLNA), was involved in theconstruction of the Ukrainian Pavilion atthe Chicago World’s Fair, and publishedan almanac of Ukrainian communitiesthroughout North America that is still amarvel to behold. History has much toteach us.

Stefko M. KuropasSchaumburg, Ill.

The letter-writer served as a UNAadvisor in 1994-1998 and as UNA vice-president in 1998-2002.

Dear Editor:Father Ivan Kaszczak’s response (June

26) to my letter to the editor (June 12)does point out the difficulty in obtainingverifiable data on Ukrainian married andcelibate clergy in the U.S. and worldwide.

Nevertheless, as explained in theCatholic Encyclopedia (“Greek Catholicsin America”) the papal decrees “EaSemper” (1907) and “Cum Data Fuerit”(1929) insist on a celibate clergy forGreek Catholics. These decrees led todefections in the U.S. to the OrthodoxChurch.

These two decrees have never beenrescinded or amended; yet, consistentenforcement appears to be a complicatedmatter.

Alec Danylevich, M.D.Worcester, Mass.

More on celibacyand Catholic Church

We welcome your opinionThe Ukrainian Weekly welcomes letters

to the editor and commentaries on a varietyof topics of concern to the UkrainianAmerican and Ukrainian Canadian com-munities. Opinions expressed by colum-nists, commentators and letter-writers aretheir own and do not necessarily reflect theopinions of either The Weekly editorialstaff or its publisher, the UkrainianNational Association.

Letters should be typed and signed(anonymous letters are not published).Letters are accepted also via e-mail atstaff@ukrweekly.com. The daytime phonenumber and address of the letter-writer mustbe given for verification purposes. Pleasenote that a daytime phone number is essen-tial in order for editors to contact letter-writ-ers regarding clarifications or questions.

Abroad.”1 On May 24, Kyiv’s Ukrainian News Agency,on announcing the creation of a national agency to han-dle migration-related matters, reported that “Accordingto various data, the number of Ukrainians presentlyworking abroad ranges from 5 million to 7 million.”2

Whether it is 5 million or 7 million, either figure, ifan accurate reflection of the current volume of out-migration from Ukraine, would suggest a movementthat already has surpassed the scale of the exodus thattook effect at the turn of the 20th century.3

According to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, by 1989the estimated number of Ukrainians and their descen-dants living outside of the political boundaries of Ukrainewas 14,464,000. Most of them were inhabitants of neigh-boring countries (Russia, Moldova, Belarus, Poland,etc.), but a significant number – about 2.5 million –dwelled in the Americas and close to 1.5 million otherswere residing in the non-Russian parts of Soviet Asia,especially in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The estimatednumber of Ukrainians in Western Europe – less than100,000 – was small by comparison;4 that community, inless than two decades, is now a number of times larger.

“Every fifth able-bodied Ukrainian,” declared NinaKarpachova, the ombudsman for Ukraine, in a speech inthe Ukrainian Parliament in 2003 on the matter of rights ofUkrainians abroad, “is working abroad at present.” Therewere approximately 1 million Ukrainians working inRussia alone in 2002, according to an estimate of theUkrainian Embassy in Moscow. According to Ukraine’sMinistry of Foreign Affairs, other countries receiving illegaland legal Ukrainian immigrants included the following:

Poland: 300,000Italy: 200,000Czech Republic: 100,000-200,000Portugal: 140,000-150,000Spain: 100,000Turkey: 35,000United States: 20,000Statistics on emigration-related matters also are

maintained by the Ukrainian Ministry of Labor andSocial Policy, which indicate that in the first half of2002 Ukrainians were engaged in temporary employ-ment in the following countries, too:

Greece: 7,249Cyprus: 2,914Liberia: 2,266United Kingdom: 1,287United Arab Emirates: 703Germany: 551However, the figures provided by the Ukrainian

Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, according to Ms.Karpachova, do “not reflect the real situation with labormigration from Ukraine.” She suggests that “at least 5million Ukrainian citizens work abroad every yeardepending on the season.”5

In May 2005, Vice Minister for Foreign AffairsValentyn Nalyvaichenko offered the following figuresand explanations: from 1 million to 1.2 millionUkrainians work in Russia “at the time the work force isin high demand there”; from 220,000 to 230,000 workin Portugal, “of [whom], 200,000 have legal employ-ment”; and from 120,000 to 130,000 work in Spain,“50,000 on [a] legal basis.” Last year, he added,“around 50,000 Ukrainians received five-year multi-entry visas to the United States.”

He added that the total number of Ukrainians work-ing abroad could be as many as 5 million, but consid-

ered other estimates presented during the time of thepresidential elections of 2004 to be too high. “Most ofthe people considered to be Ukrainian nationals livingin Australia,” he said by way of example, “were in factethnic Ukrainians with Australian passports.”6

Countries that lie under the Southern Cross have notbeen totally overlooked by this most recent wave ofUkrainian emigrants. Thousands of Ukrainians, mostlyon temporary resident visas, have been moving toArgentina. According to the Argentine NationalDirection of Migrations (Dirrección Nacional deMigraciones), in the period 1990-2000 a total of 9,879permits for temporary residence and another 587 forpermanent residence in Argentina were granted toUkrainian nationals.7 Although not an insignificantnumber, Argentina, a country that in 1870-1950received millions of immigrants from overseas andneighboring countries, had expressed a willingness inthe early 1990s to admit hundreds of thousands of set-tlers from Eastern Europe. Canada’s Globe and Mailreported on April 17, 1992: “In a bid to forge strongerties with the European Community, which is having dif-ficulty in absorbing migrants from the collapsingeconomies of the former Soviet blocs, [ArgentinePresident] Mr. Menem has offered to accept as many as300,000 refugees from such countries as Russia,Yugoslavia and Ukraine.” However, the Globe and Mailpointed out that there was a catch: Argentina wouldaccept the immigrants, but the plan was that “Europe[would] not only supply the bodies” but in addition

figure, he pointed out, “in relation to its total popula-tion,” was “much higher than that of Italy and Spain,”and among European Union countries, “only compara-ble with Germany, France and Luxembourg.”10

For that country of 10 million, which traditionally losesmore population to emigration than receives it throughimmigration, Ukrainians form a novel major immigrantcommunity that is not Portuguese-speaking. A substantialproportion of the Ukrainian immigrants, regardless oftheir former occupations in Ukraine, are engaged as labor-ers in various construction projects across the country.

“We work 12 hours a day,” one immigrant, describedas a trained engineer, told Tobias Schultz, reporting inEuroViews. “It is a lot, but I don’t have a family to gohome to here, so I don’t mind too much.” The Portuguesegovernment would be happy for many of these newcom-ers to stay, it seems, for it has steadily been legalizingtheir status in the country. “The people of Ukraine arepopular in Portugal,” Constanca Urbano de Sousa, a sen-ior adviser on immigration at the Ministry of InternalAffairs, is quoted as saying. “They are very often highlyskilled, they are more than properly motivated to work,they don’t complain and they don’t cause problems ofany kind, besides they learn the language very fast.”11

Meanwhile, the first signs of organized life can bediscerned. Mr. de Quieroz reported that four periodicalscatered to immigrants from Eastern Europe in Portugal:Slovo (40 pp.; press run of 16,000 copies), Bereg,Imigrante and Maiak Portugalii. All four are publishedin Russian. “Because the Russian language was the onlyone that readers had in common,” Vitalii Serebriakov,described as the director of Slovo, explained to Mr. deQuieroz, “We should satisfy the interests of all.” It wasadded that the language also was “easily accessible toSerbs, Montenegrins, Bulgarians and Macedonians.”12

An article titled “Immigrants Request an Agreementbetween Ukraine and Portugal” that was published in2003 by the High Commission for Immigration andEthnic Minorities (Alto Comissariado para a ImigraçaoMinorias Etnicas) mentioned two groups associatedwith the appeal: the Sobor Association of UkrainianImmigrants (Associaçao dos Imigrantes UcranianosSobor) and the Bereg Social Movement forEnlightenment and Information (Movimento Social parao Esclarecimento e Informaçao Bereg).13

The signs of organized life extend also to spiritual care.In January Bartholomew I, the ecumenical patriarch ofConstantinople, appointed Ukrainian-born Ilariion Rudnykthe auxiliary bishop to Archbishop Epiphanios, theOrthodox metropolitan of Portugal and Spain. The news

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by Serge Cipko

Recent reports concerning emigration from Ukrainehave asserted that as many as 7 million citizens of thatcountry currently are residing outside of its frontiers. Itwas this figure that a national deputy presented duringan interview that discussed a draft bill delineating a“Concept of a National Policy Regarding Ukrainians

Contemporary international migration from Ukraine: trends and patterns

1 “Kuchma Signs Watered-down Law on UkrainiansAbroad,” The Ukrainian Weekly, April 18, 2004.

2 “Foreign Affairs Ministry Initiating Creation of SingleMigration Organ,” Ukrainian News Agency, May 24, 2005(http://www.ukranews.com).

3 See V. Kubijovyc and V. Markus, “Emigration” inEncyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 1, ed. Volodymyr Kubijovyc(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), which notes thatin the 20 years before World War I 2 million Ukrainians fromeastern Ukraine moved to Asia, while about another half amillion from western Ukraine left for overseas destinations inthe same period.

4 See V. Kubijovyc et al., “Ukrainians,” in Encyclopedia ofUkraine, Vol. 5, ed. Danylo Husar Struk (Toronto: Universityof Toronto Press, 1993), 460.

5 “Every Fifth Able-Bodied Ukrainian Is Working Abroadat Present,” Interfax Ukrainian News, April 2, 2003.

6 “Five Million Ukrainians Worked Abroad in Year 2004,”Ukrainian News Agency, May 24, 2005.

7 See Ezequiel Texidó, “El Acuerdo Bilateral Celebradoentre Argentina y Ucrania,” in Eduardo Geronimi, LorenzoCachón, and Ezequiel Texidó, “Acuerdos Bilaterales deMigración de Mano de Obra: Estudios de Casos” (Geneva:Sector de la Protección Social, Programa de MigracionesInternacionales, Oficina Internacional de Trabajo, 2004), 135.

8 Michael Soltys, “A Different Kind of Multinational:Ukrainian Immigrants to Argentina,” athttp://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/3hweb/ukraine.htm.

9 Correio da Manha, May 5, 2005.10 Mario de Queiroz, “Las Múltiples Voces de la

Inmigración. Periodismo en Portugal,” at http://www.aulain-tercultural.org/article.php3?id_article=158.

11 Tobias Schultz, “Welcome to Portugal – Especially ifYou are Ukrainian” at http://manila.djh.dk/portugal/.

12 Mario de Queiroz, “Las Múltiples Voces de laInmigración.”

13 See “Imigrantes Pedem Acordo entre Ucrânia e Portugal”at http://www.acime.gov.pt/modules.php?name= News&file=arti-cle&sid=243. In the course of research for this article, it has notbeen possible to obtain hard data for any of the countries con-cerning the age, occupations, male-female ratio, religious affilia-tion or ethnicity of the immigrants from Ukraine.

Serge Cipko, Ph.D., teaches as an assistant adjunctprofessor in the department of history and classics,University of Alberta, and is the author of a forthcom-ing book on Ukrainians in Argentina to be published bythe Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.

The number of Ukrainianspresently working abroadis reported to range from 5million to 7 million.

In 2004 there were 66,000legal Ukrainian immi-grants in Portugal, whichmade them the secondlargest group after the77,000 Brazilians in thiscategory. As far as illegalimmigrants are con-cerned, immigrants’ asso-ciations estimated thattheir numbers in 2003 fellbetween 120,000 and150,000, “the majority ofthem Ukrainians.”

would “have to supply Argentina with up to $20,000(U.S.) for each immigrant.” The response of the EC tothe idea was described as “lukewarm,” and the schemenever materialized.

Notwithstanding this, the more than 10,000 Ukrainianswho entered Argentina during the 1990s represented forthe era a noteworthy influx. “The Ukrainian community isone of the few immigrant communities here which is notslowly dying out,” wrote Michael Soltys in the BuenosAires Herald in September 1998, adding “in the last threeyears some 4,000 Ukrainians have entered the countrywith work permits and the first arrivals are already beingnaturalized.” Many more would come, he continued, “butthey all have to pass the filter of the Argentine Consulatein Kyiv, which keeps the flow to a trickle.”8

The flow seems to trickle less to Argentina’s neigh-bor, Brazil, where the several-hundred-thousand-strongUkrainian community traces it roots largely to the firstwave of immigration at the turn of the 20th century, but,as the figures presented above show, a strong migratorymovement has been directed to the former metropolis ofPortugal.

In May this year Lisbon’s Correio da Manha reportedthat in 2004 there were 66,000 legal Ukrainian immi-grants in Portugal, which made them the second largestgroup after the 77,000 Brazilians in this category.9 Asfar as illegal immigrants are concerned, immigrants’associations estimated that their in 2003 fell between120,000 and 150,000, “the majority of themUkrainians,” reported journalist Mario de Quieroz.

To put these numbers in perspective, Mr. de Queirozalso noted that the total number of immigrants inPortugal, legal and illegal, was close to 600,000. That

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was welcomed by Ukrainian Orthodox in South America. Thus, on January 28, the eparch of the Ukrainian

Orthodox Church in South America, Jeremiah ofAspendos, wrote to Patriarch Bartholomew to express hisdelight with the appointment and to offer any necessaryassistance. “Our eparchy in South America celebrates thedivine liturgy and the holy services in Ukrainian,Portuguese and Spanish,” he told the ecumenical patri-arch in Constantinople, and “has a strong link with theSpanish and Portuguese culture.” The eparchy based inCuritiba, Brazil, was, he said, “at your disposal to cooper-ate with the new bishop in everything we can.”14

The Ukrainian Catholic Church also has a presence inPortugal, and there are indications that the Ukrainiancommunity in Brazil has been lending a hand. Accordingto a recent e-mail communication from Father JaimeValus, there currently are two Ukrainian Catholic priestsfrom Brazil serving in Portugal, Fathers D. Colecha andMário Zavirski, both of whom are based in Lisbon.

In an article titled “A Mass of the Byzantine Rite,” thenewspaper Jornal O Catanheirense reported that onFebruary 7, 2004, a service “directed at the Ukrainiancommunity of our religion” in Castanheira de Pera (asmall town about 80 kilometers from Coimbra) was cele-brated by Father Josafat (Andrii) Koval. He was accom-panied, the report continued, by Father Delmar Barreiros,described as the director of the Pastoral Service forImmigrants (Pastoral das Migraçaes) with whom theimmigrants could discuss such matters as legalization oftheir status in Portugal and the “exercising of citizen-ship.”15 The Ukrainian Catholic priest had been quotedthe month before by the Correio da Manha in a storyabout a victim of an accident in Cantanhede, whose fami-ly could not raise the necessary funds to transfer hiscorpse to Ukraine; local inhabitants were pitching in.16

In the other Iberian country, Spain, a bilateral agree-ment with Ukraine “on temporary migration ofUkrainian citizens to Spain for employment with theaim of simplifying employment procedures” has beenplanned for the near future.17 It was estimated that thenumber of Ukrainians in the country was similar to thatin Portugal, though Spain has nearly four times the pop-ulation of its neighbor. The Embassy of Ukraine inSpain (homepage: http://www.embucrania.org.es/) lists10 Ukrainian associations in that Iberian country.

In Greece, where “as a rule, Ukrainian citizens areengaged in the private sector as nurses of the elderly,domestics, and dancers in restaurants and cafes,” the legal-ization process was facilitated by the enactment of a lawon aliens in May 2001. The law stipulates “the granting ofresidence permits to those illegal migrants who resided onthe territory of Greece not less than two years before thelaw came into effect.” It had followed “meetings with ...Greek MPs as well as managers of relevant ministries andagencies [to discuss] the complex migration situation in thecountry ... in particular the lot of Ukrainian womenmigrants as potential victims in the sex industry.”

Efforts to start a periodical in Ukrainian in Greececan be traced to 1998. “In January a group ofUkrainians in Athens began publishing a semimonthlynewspaper in Ukrainian and Greek, the Visnyk, to servethe needs of the Ukrainian community,” said a report onUkrainians in Greece in The Ukrainian Weekly.18

In Italy, where the Ukrainian “women mainly care forthe elderly and children, work as office cleaners, domes-

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Ukraine may not be a mem-ber of the EU, but many ofits citizens, it could be said,are already there, livingand working in any num-ber of its member-states.

14 “Mensagens de Dom Jeremias/Ferens/Bispo deAspendos” at http://www.ecclesia.com.br/eparquia/men-sagens_pastorais/mensagens_d_jeremias.htm.

15 Jornal O Catanheirense, February 29, 2004.16 “Solidariedade – Peditório em Cantanhede: População

Ajuda família Imigrante,” Correio da Manha January 27, 2004.Henadii Rohovets, the consul of Ukraine in Portugal, is quotedthere as stating that “25 percent of the deceased immigrants(147 in 2003) are not transferred to their country of origin.”

17 Ukrainian News Service, May 24, 2005.18 The Rev. Ken Nowakowski, “Ukrainian Liturgy

Celebrated in Greece,” The Ukrainian Weekly, July 12, 1998.19 See “Status of Observance of Ukrainian Migrant

Workers’ Rights in the Receiving Countries” athttp://www.ombudsman.kiev.ua/S_Report1/gl2_5.htm.

20 See “Ukrainians in Italy Celebrate Easter,” athttp://www.ucef.org/news/020517.html.

21 See “Ukrainians in Italy Establish Christian Society, DiscussImmigrant Problems,” at http://www.risu.org.ua/eng/news/arti-cle;2473/.

22 “Status of Observance of Ukrainian Migrant Workers’Rights in the Receiving Countries.”

23 “TUC Report Reveals Grim Exploitation ofUkrainians,” The Guardian, March 9, 2004.

24 “Behind the Golden Doors, the Sad and Lonely Death ofa Porter Trapped in a Life of Squalor.” The Guardian, January1, 2004. Newcomers from Ukraine in England are featured inthe fiction novel by Marina Lewycka, “A Short History ofTractors in Ukrainian: A Novel” (Penguin/Viking), whichmade the shortlist for the 2005 Orange Prize and won theBollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. Foran excellent review of the book by Myroslav Shkandrij, see“Wheels within Wheels: A Family is Turned Upside Down bythe Arrival of a Femme Fatale from the Old Country,” TheFinancial Times, March 12, 2005.

25 “Every Fifth Able-Bodied Ukrainian is Working Abroadat Present.”

tics, in bars and the like” and “quite a few of the men areengaged in the private sector as well as on constructionsites and in agriculture,” the matter of rights ofUkrainians in the country has been the subject of ongo-ing discussion between the Ukrainian and Italian govern-ments with one stumbling block reported along the waybeing the failure to sign “a treaty on readmission.”19

Ukrainian Catholic clergy and seminarians have longbeen centered in Rome, and in May 2002 a reported

and suffering a sad lonely death.” As detectives wereinvestigating how the 47-year-old Ukrainian had died,his death, the newspaper said, “put the spotlight on theemployees who inhabit a shadowy world behind thescenes in upmarket restaurants and hotels.”24

It is clear from the foregoing discussion and the statis-tics presented that Western Europe has been emerging asan important site of contemporary Ukrainian immigra-tion. The region as a whole is second only to Russia,which Ukrainian government officials, as noted, havesaid is the foremost destination for citizens who workabroad. In 2002 the All-Russian census counted2,943,471 Ukrainians in the Russian Federation – fewerthan the last Soviet census of 1989 had reported (4.4million). Yet that country receives the most Ukrainianvisitors. Ms. Karpachova has noted that more Ukrainiansvisited Russia in 2002 than any other country – 6.1 mil-lion compared with 4.2 million for Poland.25

Further afield, it remains to be seen how manyUkrainians will stay in the countries of Western Europethey now inhabit and how many will return or perhapsmove on to other countries across the Atlantic Ocean.However, a trend that has emerged is that as Ukraine’sown population declines, the Ukrainian diaspora,whether in communities such as the one in the UnitedKingdom or in the southern hemisphere in Argentina,has steadily been enlarging. Ultimately, the figure of 7million Ukrainian citizens living abroad is a highlyquestionable one, but it is less disputable that the num-ber, temporarily or permanently, outside the countryruns not in the hundreds of thousands but in the mil-lions. Ukraine may not be a member of the EU, butmany of its citizens, it could be said, are already there,living and working in any number of its member-states.

5,000 Ukrainians gathered in the capital city to attend aUkrainian Catholic Easter divine liturgy that was cele-brated by Bishop Ivan Choma and 10 other priests inthe Church of St. Sophia. In addition, “Ukrainians inmore than 40 other Italian cities were able to celebrateEaster in their own language and rite.”20

A year later, in November 2003, representatives of 24Ukrainian communities in Italy met to establish theChristian Society of Ukrainians in Italy and discussproblems of concern to immigrants.21

The website http://www.geocities.com/ukrainskadias-pora/ lists Ukrainian organizations and press in a num-ber of countries in Europe. The list includes theUkrainian press in such well-established communitiesas the one in the United Kingdom, where the number ofUkrainian visitors in recent years has steadily beenincreasing. In that country, during the period of 2000 tothe first half of 2002, “the U.K. Embassy in Ukraineinformed that 8,825 persons visited ... for education, 40for medical treatment, 963 for employment, and 8,627for agricultural work.”22

However, other estimates of this diverse group haverun higher.

For example, Stepan Shakhno, described as “aUkrainian student and chairman of the European YouthParliament in west Ukraine” who spent several monthsin the summer of 2003 interviewing and gathering dataon Ukrainians in the U.K. for a trade union congressreport on their work conditions, told the Guardian news-paper that “estimates put the number of Ukrainiansworking in London as high as 40,000, with possibly upto 100,000 Ukrainians in the U.K. as a whole.”23

The same newspaper again drew attention to condi-tions faced by Ukrainians by reporting the death of aUkrainian porter who had been “secretly living in a tinyalcove behind rubbish skips” in the “sub-basement” ofthe Cafè Royal. More than a century after it had beenbuilt, “the rich and famous continue to flock” there “toeat, drink, dance and be merry,” the newspaper said.“But it emerged yesterday [December 31, 2003],” itcontinued, “that while the likes of Sean Connery, ClintEastwood and the newly knighted England rugby coachClive Woodward were attending glittering functions,several floors beneath them a porter from the [sic]Ukraine was eking out a rather less glamorous existence

BOSTON – The Ukrainian Congress Committee ofAmerica, Boston Chapter, sponsored a presentationabout the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide for teachers gath-ered at the Northeast Regional Conference on the SocialStudies held at the Boston Plaza Hotel on March 14-17.

The presentation, which was offered as a special 70-minute session geared to teachers of high school andcollege/university, took place on March 15. TheNortheast Regional Conference encompasses the statesof Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine,Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.

The speakers included two local priests, FatherYaroslav Nalysnyk and Father Roman Tarnawsky; aFamine eyewitness, Anna Raniuk; and Dr. LubomyrHayda of Harvard University. The presentation alsoincluded the documentary “Harvest of Despair.” It isnoteworthy that Mrs. Raniuk has visited numerousschools to speak about the Famine and her life, andthat students have shown a great deal of interest inwhat she has to say as a survivor of this genocide.

UCCA members Nick Geba, Mike Hotz and Maria

Walzer were present, as was Michael Boluch, anattorney, who represented the Ukrainian AmericanVeterans.

At the conclusion of the presentation, the BostonUCCA gave the teachers a booklet that contained copiesof a selection of testimonies from the three-volumereport of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine FamineCommission (with the notation that the full report shouldbe available at major public libraries), a bibliography ofbooks they could use to seek out more information, web-sites that have information about the Famine, and a copyof a proclamation on the Ukrainian Genocide issued in2004 by Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

A copy of a Newsweek article stating that Stalin hadmurdered about 20 million people also was part of thepackage. The article notes: “In the shadow of a centuryof unspeakable atrocities, from the 20 million killed inStalin’s purges and the gulag, to Hitler’s exterminationof 6 million Jews and the 1.7 million lives snuffed out

Boston UCCA promotes awareness of Ukrainian Famine-Genocide

Anna Raniuk, a survivor of the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933, with Sen. Edward Kennedy. (Continued on page 14)

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2005 11No. 30

by Steven Howansky and Andriy Khomyk

ELLENVILLE, N.Y. – The annualLemko Vatra in the U.S. blazed for thefifth year in a row on June 24-26, here atthe resort of the Ukrainian AmericanYouth Organization Inc. (SUM). Eachyear, this vatra blazes amid a constella-tion of others around the world – inLemkivschyna, Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbiaand Canada – where fate has dispersedLemkos from their never-forgottenhomeland.

The Organization for the Defense ofLemkivschyna (known by the acronymOOL) conducted this festival in order toshow participants at least a small portionof original Lemko culture and traditions.

At the official opening of the Vatra,the “starosta” (or traditional villageelder) Vasyl Harhaj welcomed all thosepresent, and invited on stage such lead-ers of the Ukrainian Lemko communityas: Ivan Fil, representative of the WorldFederation of Ukrainian Lemkos;Anastazja Krawczuk, deputy editor ofthe newspaper Nashe Slovo; BohdanHarhaj, head of SUM; StevenHowansky, head of the Lemko ResearchFoundation; Stefan Zhurawski, head ofthe Committee for the Building of theLemko Chapel; Zenon Halkowycz, headof the OOL; and the heads of variousOOL branches.

Leading the traditional ritual of light-ing the Vatra bonfire were Messrs.Halkowycz and Howansky, as well as

OOL branch representatives IvanZavada, Stefan Kosciolek and MichaelChalupa, while a choir of singers fromthe United States, Canada and Ukraine,under the direction of Alla Kutsewycz,performed the Lemko hymn, “HoryNashi Karpaty.”

In his welcome, Mr. Halkowyczunderlined both the importance of con-ducting the annual Lemko Vatra and thehistorical meaning of the fifth Vatra,saying, “On this Sunday will take placethe blessing of the Lemko chapel dedi-cated to the memory of victims of AkcjaWisla – victims whom we should notforget.” (Akcja Wisla was a campaignconducted by the Polish government in1947 that forcibly resettled approxi-mately 150,000 Ukrainians from south-eastern Poland.)

Sunday, June 26, will go into theannals of OOL and SUM, as well as intothe history of the entire Ukrainian dias-pora in the U.S., as the day on whichArchbishop Antony of the UkrainianOrthodox Church and Bishop BasilLosten of the Ukrainian Catholic Churchblessed the newly built St. Michael theArchangel Chapel, constructed at theSUM resort in Lemko style as a memori-al to the victims of Akcja Wisla.

On a beautiful Sunday morning, theheads of OOL and SUM, carrying flags,met near the entrance of the Ellenvilleresort and, together with the spiritualleaders of Ukrainian Churches, walked tothe field where the new chapel stands.

Bishop Losten delivered a speech ded-

Newly constructed Lemko chapel blessed during fifth annual Lemko Vatra

Members of the Organization for the Defense of Lemkivschyna light the Vatra bonfire.

Bishop Losten delivers prayers before the chapel blessing ceremony in the presence of Archbishop Antony (second from left) and attending clergy.

A view of the newly constructed St. Michael the Archangel Chapel.

icated to St. Michael the Archangel, whois the patron saint of SUM and the city ofKyiv. Afterwards he and ArchbishopAntony endorsed a statement blessingthe chapel.

This was followed by a liturgy, con-ducted by Bishop Losten and, at his side,Fathers Ivan Bura, Ihor Mydziak,Bohdan Danylo, Yaroslav Kostyk,Volodymyr Piso and BohdanKudleychuk. Sitting with ArchbishopAntony in places of honor before thechapel were Fathers Yuriy Bazylevskiyand Daniel Zelinsky. The Akollada choirfrom Philadelphia, sang during the litur-gy. Afterwards, Archbishop Antony alsodelivered a spiritual speech, and thechurch hymn, “Bozhe Velykyi Yedynyi”concluded the blessing ceremony.

Throughout the Vatra, the sizeableUkrainian Lemko community from theUnited States, Canada, Ukraine, Polandand other corners of the world, was alsotreated to a concert program, led by mis-tress and master of ceremonies AnnaPregner and Stepan Sheryliv. A stream ofLemko songs flowed.

There were tears of nostalgia in theeyes of those born in verdantLemkivschyna, flashes of joy on thefaces of festival guests, and shouts of“bravo” accompanying the performancesof the artists – professionals and ama-teurs, singers and dancers, grey-haired

and young – who, with sincere heartsand souls, had responded to the invita-tion of the festival organizers. Therewere so many artists that it is not possi-ble to name them all in a short article.

Lviv-born artist Anna Cheberenchyk,known as “Anytchka,” (whose parentsfrom the village of Owczary inLemkivschyna were relocated to SovietUkraine in the World War II period)began her performance with the song,“Tam na Lemkovyni.” Now residing inCalifornia, she came to brighten thehearts of viewers at the Lemko Vatra inthe U.S.A. for the second year in a row.

The Metelytsia quartet, Mriya thedance group from Passaic, N.J., the sis-ters Lida and Gabriella Oros, RomanTsymbala, Hurt Suziria and Vika fromTernopil, also performed, as did localhumorists Peter Wislocky and Ivan Gres,the dancers and singers of the groupObriyi, Lviviany and many other artists.

And, from Saturday evening to theearly hours of the morning, participantsdanced to the music of the Halychanyband and the Karpaty quartet.

The program on Sunday continued inthe large hall of SUM’s main building,where Vatra participants listened withinterest to the keynote speech of NasheSlovo Deputy Editor Krawczuk titled,“The Situation of Ukrainians in Polandfrom Resettlement until Today.”

Following this speech, a short wel-come was also given to the UkrainianVice-Minister of Agricultural Policy IvanDemchak, whose father was from theLemko village of Brunary.

As has become a Lemko Vatra tradi-tion, following the concert program, allparticipants of the festival also had theopportunity to taste a piece of roast pig.And for those who preferred otherUkrainian dishes, there was no lack ofvarenyky, kovbasa with kapusta and hotborsch.

At the end of the Vatra, Anytchkatogether with all of the musicians per-formed the Lemko song, “Oy VersheMii, Vershe.” As a thank you for theirparticipation, the artists received a fifthAnnual Lemko Vatra T-shirt as a sou-venir from the Vatra organizing commit-tee. Following words of thanks for all ofthe organizers of the festival, the admin-istration of the SUM resort, volunteersand participants, the festival came to aclose.

“Do pobachennia za rik” (Until nextyear), read the sign above the SUMresort exit, inviting all to the sixth annualLemko Vatra, which is planned for June23-25, 2006.

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 200512 No. 30

SSPPOORTSRTSLLIINENEBoxing

World Boxing Council HeavyweightChampion Vitalii Klitschko will face thewinner of the August 13 Hasim Rahman-Monte Barrett bout. The fight has not yetbeen scheduled but it is planned to takeplace later this year.

The Hasim Rahman-Monte Barrettfight has been billed as an interim WBCheavyweight title bout, as the winner ofthat fight will face Klitschko.

Rahman, a former champion, andBarrett will fight on August 13 inChicago. WBC President Jose Sulaimansaid Klitschko must then meet the winnerof that bout.

A letter from the WBC dated July 14was sent to Klitschko, the managementteams of Rahman and Barrett and DonKing Productions. The letter said thatKlitschko, as WBC champion, will get 65percent of the purse, while either Rahmanor Barrett will get 35 percent.

“Whoever I fight next, I will beready. I will not be rooting for eitherRahman or Barrett, but Rahman hasbeen talking so much and saying somany bad things about me, I think Iwould love to personally shut him uponce and for all,’’ Klitschko told theAssociated Press.

The Ukrainian boxer was injuredrecently and criticized for not returningto the ring sooner. Klitschko addressedhis detractors and said he was ready toprove himself.

“There has been a lot of criticismagainst me lately, but now that I amhealthy and able to fight, and know whenmy next fight will be, I am keen to goforward and show the critics and espe-cially my fans who the real heavyweightchampion of the world is,” Klitschkosaid.

Meanwhile, Klitschko’s youngerbrother, Volodymyr, lost a bid to be rec-ognized as the mandatory challenger toInternational Boxing Federation champi-on Chris Byrd.

Volodymyr, who was dropped to theNo. 4 spot in the May IBF rankings, suedfor breach of contract. DaVarrylWilliamson, who was beaten byKlitschko in their only meeting, movedinto the No. 3 spot. The No. 1 and No. 2slots in the IBF are currently vacant,leaving Williamson scheduled to fightByrd next month.

Klitschko’s attorneys asked U.S.District Judge William Martini to stop theWilliamson-Byrd match. They allegedthat Williamson promoter Don King hadinfluenced the IBF to gain the higherranking for his fighter.

According to the Associated Press,Klitschko (44-3) offered no evidence ofwrongdoing on the part of King.Klitschko’s attorneys relied on commen-tary by boxing analyst Max Kellerman,who speculated that the only explanationfor the switch in the rankings had to bethe result of King’s influence.

The WBC and WBA also had

Williamson ahead of Klitschko in theirrespective May rankings.

But after hearing two days of argu-ments, Judge Martini denied the requestin an opinion filed on July 12 in Newark,N.J. Klitschko attorney Ronald A.DiNicola told the AP that his client isconsidering an appeal.

Ratings chairman Daryl Peoples saidin an affidavit filed by the IBF thatWilliamson moved ahead of Klitschkobased on their records, level of competi-tion and activity. Both Klitschko and the36-year-old Williamson (22-3) fought inApril, with Williamson knocking outranked boxer Derrick Johnson.Meanwhile, Klitschko defeated unrankedEliseo Castillo.

King denied any improprieties, the APreported.World Masters Games

Athletes from Ukraine are scheduledto compete at the sixth World MastersGames in Edmonton. The 2005 games,which are sanctioned by the InternationalMasters Games Association (IMGA), arebilled as the largest international multi-sport event of its kind, attracting 16,000elite and recreational athletes who willcompete in 27 sporting events and 41 dif-ferent disciplines.

The games, which are open to peopleof all skill levels, though an age mini-mum of 30 is typical for most sports, willrun from July 22 to July 31. Sports inthis year’s games include: athletics, icehockey, squash, badminton, lawn bowl-ing, swimming, baseball, orienteering,synchronized swimming, basketball, row-ing, table tennis, bowling, rugby, tennis,canoe/kayaking, shooting, triathlon,cycling, soccer, beach volleyball, diving,softball (fast and slow pitch), indoor vol-leyball, golf and weightlifting.

Ukraine will have 12 athletes compet-ing in track and field events, 15 athletescompeting in canoe/kayak events, oneathlete competing in orienteering, 17 ath-letes competing in rugby, 19 athletescompeting in soccer, two athletes com-peting in swimming, 11 athletes compet-ing in volleyball and six athletes compet-ing in weightlifting.

The IMGA awards the right to host thegames every four years. Edmonton 2005,however, is the exception to this rule. TheIMGA wanted to change the cycle of thisevent so it no longer coincides with othermajor multi-sport events such as theOlympics or Commonwealth Games.Following Edmonton, the games willonce again revert to a four-year planningschedule.

Canada hosted the inaugural games in1985, with over 8,000 athletes competingin 22 different sports. The games wereheld in Denmark in 1989, Australia in1994, the United States in 1998 andAustralia again in 2002, where the eventgrew to involve almost 25,000 athletes.

Among other reasons, the WorldMasters Games were created with avision to promote the philosophy of

“sport for life,” and “motivate a goal-ori-ented, long-term attitude toward sportand physical fitness.”Track and field

Ukraine’s Denys Yurchenko took firstplace in the men’s pole vault at a GrandPrix event in Prague, Czech Republic, onJune 27. His vault of 5.72 meters beatGermany’s Danny Ecker, whose vault of5.67 meters took second place. DaichiSawano of Japan took third place with avault of 5.62 meters.

Maryna Maydanova of Ukraine tookthird place in the women’s 200-meterrace, finishing with a time of 23.09 sec-onds. Brazil’s Aparecida Moura Lucimartook first place with a time of 23 seconds,while Ghana’s Vida Anim took secondplace with a time of 23.03. Ukraine’sAnzhela Kravchenko did not finish therace.

In the women’s discus, OlenaAntonova of Ukraine took third placewith a throw of 62.32 meters, while VeraPospisilova-Cechlová of the CzechRepublic took first place with a throw of66.81 meters. Cuba’s Yania Ferrales tooksecond place with a throw of 64.52meters.

Oksana Zubkovska of Ukraine tookeighth place in the women’s long jumpwith a distance of 6.46 meters, whileCuba’s Yargelis Savigne took first placewith a jump of 6.71 meters. AlinaMilitaru of Romania took second placewith a jump of 6.63 meters, and TündeVaszi of Hungary took third with a jumpof 6.61 meters.

Meanwhile, Ivan Heshko of Ukrainetook fifth place in the men’s 1,500 metersat an International Association ofAthletics Federations (IAAF) event inParis Saint-Denis, France, on July 1.Heshko finished the race in 3 minutesand 32.13 seconds, while Kenya’s DanielKipchircir Komen took first place with atime of 3:30.01. Bernard Lagat of theUnited States took second place with atime of 3:30.64, and Mehdi Baala ofFrance took third with a time of 3:30.80.

Ukraine’s Andriy Sokolovskyy tooksixth place in the men’s high jump, clear-ing a height of 2.24 meters, while StefanHolm of Sweden took first place with ajump of 2.32 meters. Jaroslav Bába ofthe Czech Republic took second placewith a jump of 2.30 meters, and YaroslavRybakov of Russia took third with ajump of 2.30 meters.

Tetiana Tereschuk-Antipova took sixthplace in the women’s 400 meter hurdles,finishing the race in 55.40 seconds. Theevent was won by Lashinda Demus of theUnited States with a time of 53.85. AnnaJesien of Poland took second place with atime of 53.96, while Jana Pittman ofAustralia took third with a time of 54.15.Swimming

Ukrainian Olympic gold medalist YanaKlochkova has returned to competitionafter taking a break from the sport, the

Los Angeles Times reported.Most recently, Klochkova won the

200-meter individual medley and the400-meter individual medley events atthe 2004 Athens Olympics. She also wonboth events at the 2000 Games inSydney.

After the 2004 Olympics, Klochkovaleft competitive swimming. It was thelongest break the young Ukrainian hastaken in her career. During that time shebrushed up on her English and visitedsuch tourist attractions as Disneyland,Universal Studios and Magic Mountain,while living in southern California forseven months, the Los Angeles Timesreported.

However, over the last five weeks,Klochkova has trained with theNadadores Swim Club of Mission Viejo,Calif. “I think she just wanted to take adeep breath and enjoy herself,”Nadadores Coach Bill Rose told the AP.

“It’s going to take a while to get backinto competing shape,” Klochkova said.“I should be ready in about six months.”

Besides the Olympic golds, she haswon also 10 titles at the swimming worldchampionships and was awarded theHero of Ukraine, the country’s highestaward. “She has strength and size. Shealso has a competitive spirit. She’s a trueathlete,” Rose said of the 22-year-old, 6-foot, 2-inch Klochkova.

Klochkova will head back to Ukrainein August, reuniting with Nina Kozhukh,her longtime coach, and preparing for theWorld University Games in Turkey.

Klochkova already has her eyes set onthe 2008 Olympics in Beijing. If shemedals there, she would become the thirdfemale swimmer to accomplish the feat,joining Australia’s Dawn Fraser andHungary’s Kristina Egerszegi.

“I think I can do it, but it gets moredifficult every time,” Klochkova said.“It’s easier for the younger swimmersbecause they’re more powerful. But theolder swimmers have the experience.”

Olympic gold medalist LennyKrayzelburg – whose family immigratedto the United States from Ukraine in1989 – recently plunged $100,000 of hisearnings from motivational speaking andproduct endorsements back into the sport.He has also spent time and money toreopen pools at a community center inLos Angeles.

Krayzelburg won three gold medals atthe 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia,and another last year in Athens.

The facility is the wellspring of hisfuture, the site of the first LennyKrayzelburg Swim School, which waschristened July 6. Krayzelburg has notswum a lap since November 2004, whenhe had surgery on his left shoulder for thethird time in five years. He has retreatedfrom competition but has not officiallyretired from it.

Krayzelburg and his wife, Irina, whomhe met on a blind date in New York andmarried in March, are expecting twindaughters in October.

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THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2005 13No. 30

BOOK NOTES: Summer readingby Oksana Zakydalsky

The authors of two novels published this year, oneBritish, the other American, have some things in common.Both authors have “day jobs” and for both these are debutnovels. Marina Lewycka, author of “A Short History ofTractors in Ukrainian,” is a lecturer in media and publicaffairs at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK while

Alexander Motyl, author of “Whiskey Priest,” is a profes-sor of political science at Rutgers University – Newark, aswell as a painter. (In the space of three days, April 14-16,Prof. Motyl delivered a paper at the Association for theStudy of Nationalities Conference at Columbia, had a pres-entation of his book and opened an exhibit of his paintingsat the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York).

Both novels have contemporary Ukrainian themes.Ms. Lewycka’s book deals with the attempts of a bomb-shell from Ternopil to get residence status in Britain bymarrying an elderly widower, while “Whiskey Priest” isset in the sordid milieu of former KGB spies-turned-hitmen for the mafia, money laundering, grant moneyembezzlement and the international sex trade.

Marina Lewycka’s story takes place inthe town of Peterborough in the BritishMidlands, where Nikolai Majevskyi hasinformed his younger daughter, Nadia,that he is planning to marry Valentina, avoluptuous 36-year-old Ukrainian with a14-year-old son, whose temporary visa isabout to run out. Nikolai (in Nadia’swords) turns into an “84-year-old teenag-er” besotted with the sexpot andobsessed with rescuing a destituteUkrainian.

Nikolai and his recently deceased wifehad been Ostarbeiters (slave laborers) inGermany during World War II andarrived in Britain in 1946 with daughterVera. Nadia, born in the U.K., has grownup to be the exact opposite of herUkrainian-born older sister. She is a left-wing sociology lecturer who dresses inclothes bought at Oxfam, (a second-handstore), while Vera has become a Gucci-wearing capitalist society woman whomarried rich, although is now divorced.Their conflicting personalities had keptthem apart, but a disagreement aboutmoney left by their mother has them notspeaking to each other. But, confrontedby a common threat, they gang up onValentina and try to persuade their fatherthat she is out to con him.

Valentina is alternately ridiculous andthreatening. She bullies and coaxes theold man to give her money and over-whelms him with explicit demands. Shewants a new life in the West – “a goodlife, with a good job, good money, a nicecar – absolutely no Lada, no Skoda – agood education for her son – must beOxford/Cambridge, nothing less.”Valentina is a splendid comic creation,her “mongrel language” invective issometimes very funny – “you she-cat-dog-vixen-flesh-eating-witch” – althoughmany of her tirades can’t be quoted in afamily newspaper.

As the story evolves, Nadia softens andbegins to understand Valentina’s vulnera-bility and sees her as a woman who hasnever grown up or learned to look afterherself. Their common cause forces thesisters to become more cordial with eachother and prompts Nadia to piece togetherthe truth about her family’s past.Underlying the family story are the darkmemories of 20th century Ukraine –Famine, Stalin’s purges, the Nazi occupa-tion, Ostarbeiters, refugees and the hor-rors of Soviet existence culminating in asordid tale in the German labor campwhen little Vera steals cigarettes and iscaught. Although Nadia persists in dig-ging up the past, Vera is a reluctant story-teller; her attitude is “what’s over is over.”

Nikolai, who worked as an engineer ina Luhansk tractor factory before the war,has begun writing a treatise on the histo-

A tale of different generationsand emigrations from Ukraine

“A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian,” by Marina Lewycka. New York: ThePenguin Press, New York, 2005. 294 pp.

Although having a good smattering ofsocial satire as well, the genre of AlexanderMotyl’s novel is the hard-hitting crimestory, more specifically, the pulp fictionnovels of Spillane and Chandler, albeit setin the sordid post-Soviet milieu andimbued with the professor’s inside track onits academic moochers.

“Whiskey Priest” opens in Vienna – theborder town on the front lines of the ColdWar (a war whose echo runs through thestory). Several mentions of a “fetish forthe color orange” place the story some-time in 2004. The reader is immediatelyplunged into a violent scenario as, one byone, three American academics attendingan international conference are violentlydispatched: one dies in a cable car acci-dent, the second falls off a ferris wheeland the third is stabbed with a stiletto.They are part of a quartet of academicsinvolved in a $10 million, partly USAID-funded project on building civil society.

Due to a stroke of luck, the fourth aca-demic and leader of the group – IgorBazarov – escapes a similar fate andbecomes a fugitive from the killer. He isan American citizen, a Russian nationalborn in Odesa who emigrated to the U.S.in the 1970s by marrying a Jew. Toescape his pursuer, he flees from Viennato Kyiv then to Lviv, on the way relyingon help from a network of former col-leagues and friends from his Soviet days.

The perpetrator of the murders is oneAnatoly Filatov, currently a member ofthe Russian FSB, at the same time carry-ing out orders of the Russian mafia.Formerly a KGB killer who specializedin assassinations, he is the “whiskeypriest” of the title. As the author explains,this is a priest who has lost his faith butstill continues with the rituals. “I fill thechalice with whiskey because I know thatthe wine will never become God’s blood.I drink from it because the ritual contin-ues. And I drink from it, still, eagerly andthirstily, because the ritual is all there is,because nothing else exists,” says Filatov.

He pursues Bazarov from Vienna to Kyivto Lviv, relying on his former KGB net-work, commenting on what has not reallychanged in Ukraine since Soviet times. “Mycountry was the Soviet Union. I am a Sovietman with no home.” Filatov joined theKGB to fight enemies of communism –“they won, we lost, I am a whiskey priestand a hit man for the mafia – killing used tobe a sacramental rite. Now it is my onlyhold on life. It makes this life bearable, tol-erable and indeed possible. At the sametime, killing has become pointless,” he says.

The third main character is one JaneSweet, Mickey Spillane fan and culturalattaché at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, whois given the job of investigating the murderof the three Americans. American-born, neéIvanka Svit, she is the daughter of post-warémigrés to the U.S., steeped in the refugeehistory of her family, who escapes the com-munity into a diplomatic career. Sheremembers her parents and grandmotheralways talking about “the war” – her par-ents and baba spoke only of life back home,continued to live in a world that no longer

A crime story and social satireset in the post-Soviet milieu

“Whiskey Priest,” by Alexander J. Motyl. New York: Universe Inc., 2005. 143 pp.

ry of tractors and that book becomes histouchstone of sanity. When occupiedwith his writing, he seems to live onanother planet, almost a caricature of anexpatriate East European mad scientist(in North America he would be a card-carrying member of the ShevchenkoScientific Society). The long quotes fromhis book become somewhat tedious (thisdevice of parallel texts never works forme: I skipped most of the science fictionin Margaret Atwood’s “The BlindAssassin” and skimmed the found poemsin A.S. Byatt’s “Possession”).

As the sisters battle Valentina, thestory gets complicated. When her visa isrefused because the immigration investi-gator does not believe “a real marriage”has taken place, Valentina thwarts thesisters’ attempt at having the marriageannulled. Immigration tribunals, divorceproceedings, the appearance ofValentina’s first husband in the U.K., apregnancy with confusing paternity pro-duce “a plot that is really a vehicle forsocial satire, some good jokes and anoverdose of slapstick. It adds up to aclever, touching story.” (The Telegraph)

There are some minor irritants in thebook: the main character is called, alter-nately, Nadia and Nadezhda – not likelyin a Ukrainian-speaking family; thefather’s name is rendered as Nikolaiinstead of the Ukrainian Mykola andplace names are given transliterationsfrom the Russian. There are occasionalcultural lapses: when describing the wed-ding of the grandmother in Ukraine in anOrthodox cathedral, the writer says: “herbrother gave her away” (in the Orthodoxmarriage ceremony the bride and groomcome to church together).

existed and referred to their Long Islandneighbors as “foreigners.”

Jane has the opportunity to actuallysee the world they left behind but it is, ofcourse, not that world at all. Her feelingsof ambiguity regarding her homelandstay with her continuously “... theirmemories are not mine, but I have mem-ories of their memories. Does that makethis place my home?” The heroic pasthas become the sordid present. Whiletracking Bazarov many things in Ukraineseem familiar to her. “I thought I neverknew these things. But obviously I didknow them. And now, I can’t helpremembering them – even though I don’tremember ever knowing them.”

The author provides satirical insightsinto the academic milieu, particularly thecurrent “democratization of the post-Soviet space” scene, which has given sec-ond wind to both displaced Soviet special-ists (“I do Sovietology – or post-Sovietology, as we call it now”) and émi-gré academics. When Jane goes to theVienna conference to get information onthe three murdered professors, she notesthat “Everybody hated them not becausethey were sons of bitches but because theyopenly acted like sons of bitches; that’swhere academics draw the line.” Prof.Motyl portrays the academics as sociallygauche – one licks the dribbling hummusoff his tie – and involved in bizarreresearch projects such as “gender construc-tion among the S&M crowd in Russia.”

Jane does discover the true nature ofthe quartet’s project “to empower womenand build civil society” by setting upwomen’s institutes throughout Europeand the Middle East and she eventuallymeets Filatov in Lviv. Presenting himselfas a Russian filmmaker, he charms herand after getting her drunk ... you get thepicture. Anyone who has read MickeySpillane – and can substitute hero MikeHammer with a disillusioned UkrainianAmerican female diplomat – will proba-bly guess the ending. Prof. Motyl doesnot disappoint.

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(A note on Mickey Spillane: Spillane’sbooks were the “under the covers” read-ing of my junior high school days in the1950s. My non-English reading Ukrainianparents were not aware of “unsuitable lit-erature,” but Spillane’s paperbacks hadrather lurid covers, which meant they hadto be kept out of sight. By making Sweeta Spillane fan, Prof. Motyl both empha-sizes the 1950s crime story antecedents ofhis novel and brings in suggestions ofSpillane’s gritty urban settings whichwere not unlike those of Soviet Ukraine,which Filatov still sees around him.)

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on the killing fields of Pol Pot’s Cambodia,researchers are seeking answers to a ques-tion as urgent as it is profound: if we allhave the capacity for evil, why does itbecome a reality in only some?”

About 100 copies of this brief infor-mation packet were distributed.

Also distributed were copies of “TheForced Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933:Curriculum and Resource Guide forEducators,” which was prepared by Dr.Myron B. Kuropas and made availableby the Ukrainian National Association.

A copy of the materials was sent to Sen.Edward Kennedy, who responded with aletter in which he noted: “Thank you forcontacting my office regarding the inclu-sion of the Ukrainian Genocide into theMassachusetts history curriculum. Ibelieve that it is very important for stu-dents to be aware of such important histor-ical events such as this tragedy. Therefore,I have forwarded your information to theMassachusetts Department of Education.”

The Boston Chapter of the UCCA isnow making copies of its booklet avail-able to the public for $3 (to cover photo-copying costs). Checks should be madepayable to the UCCA Boston Chapterand orders sent to: Maria Walzer, 11Green Valley Road, Medway, MA 02053.

Ms. Walzer, who is vice-president ofthe UCCA’s Boston Chapter, noted thatthe information can be used by readers toapproach their local high schools to urgethem to include the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide as part of their social studiescurriculum.

She added: “For the future of our chil-dren, our grandchildren and those to come,we as Ukrainians have got to make surethat history tells the truth, and that thefacts about this atrocity are not hidden.”

(Continued from page 10)Boston UCCA...

BUDD LAKE, N.J. – The erection ofa headstone on the grave of notedUkrainian writer Vasyl Barka, who isburied at St. Andrew UkrainianOrthodox cemetery in South BoundBrook, N.J., has been delayed.

According to Anton Filimonchuk,who is leading fund-raising efforts forthe memorial, the Gray-Parker FuneralHome in Port Jervis, N.Y., informed himin a letter dated July 18 that the comple-tion of the headstone was delayedbecause the company with which theorder was placed has gone out of busi-ness. A new company has been foundand the design for the headstone hasbeen forwarded to it.

The dedication of the memorial wasoriginally slated to take place on July 16.A new date has not yet been set. For fur-ther information readers may contact Mr.Filimonchuk at (973) 691-1342.

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Memorial services will be held Saturday, July 30, 2005, at 2 p.m., at the NorthTexas Airstream Community, 200 Walnut Hill Avenue in Hillsboro, TX 76645.Contact Paul at pprokop@wowway.com or Carol atmystitchniche@yahoo.com for more information.

Bohdan “Bob” Prokop was born to Maria Kulhawec and OleksandrProkop on February 9, 1926, outside of Pyskorowice in western Ukraine.

He has lived in Ukraine, Poland, Germany and Australia. For the past 40years he had lived in the United States. Bob was known for his honor,work ethic, integrity, quick sense of humor, love for playing golf and bridge.

Professionally, Bob received his undergraduate degree in mechanicalengineering, (Sydney University) and MBA from Wayne State University.He was awarded the Professional Engineer designation in Philadelphia,Pa. He finished his career as vice president/chief engineer of Hayes Axlein Seminole, Okla. Bob has several patents in his name.

Survivors include his wife, Carol; sons, Mark, Roman and Pavlo and theirmother Lada (Detroit, MI). Stepchildren include Nicole Barton, DianeMack and John Delaporte Jr. Grandchildren include Evan Prokop,Ashley Wagner, James David Wagner and Shelby Barton. The familywould like to thank the North Texas Airstream Community of Hillsboro forall their love and support and the Hospice of The Heart in Whitney fortheir unending care.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Bob’s name to www.lustgar-denfoundation.org (foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research) and theRose Foundation in honor of Robert Prokop at the National Foundation ofCancer Research (www.nfcr.org).

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Pid Zolotym Olenem (under the goldenstag), Pid Levom (under the lion), PidSviatym Dukhom (under the Holy Ghost).

The various guilds (bratstva) of earlycenturies are also remembered on thestreets where they were established:Drukarska (printers), Shevska (shoemak-ers), and Teatralna (theater). As to theimages of lions in this City of Leo, thereare probably thousands, as statues, basreliefs on doorways, wrought iron signs,on billboards and in art in general.

On Independence Plaza, the parkstretching about five blocks from the operato Shevchenko Boulevard, old men playchess and checkers, mostly in concentratedsilence. But every so often a sudden cheergoes up as someone wins. The plaza at theelegant Taras Shevchenko monument is ameeting and gathering place. The verymoving bronze “wave” next to him tellsthe history of Ukraine on one side, and thetragic and victorious history of the 20thcentury on the other. “I’ll meet you atShevchenko,” is a common phrase.

On Sunday afternoons into evening, agroup of mostly older folks gathers here forsinging. A crowd forming a huge concen-

tric circle sings its heart out, and it sings theold folk songs as well as the patriotic songsfrom the two wars. They also sing thesongs of exile in Siberia and formerlysecret patriotic songs of resistance andimprisonment from the late 1940s and1950s. I enjoy listening and joining inbecause, except for the latter, I know thesesongs from my childhood in New Jersey. Igrew up with them. It is interesting that theyouth of Ukraine in general no longerknow these songs – or folk songs in gener-al. They grew up on the “estrada” – popsongs (at least these include Ivasiuk’ssongs, and now Ruslana has popularizedthe folk stuff in a modern way).

The bases of the Shevchenko statue, aswell as the shrine to the Mother of God andthe Mickiewicz statue further on are usual-ly covered with bouquets of fresh flowersby the end of the summer weekends.Traditionally, brides leave their bouquetsthere as part of the wedding ceremonies.

I look forward to the serendipity thathappens in Ukraine. In 2003, as I walkeddown one street, I noticed in a window aposter announcing the launch of a newbook by Iryna Senyk (“MetelykSpomyniv”). It would be held the next dayat the Museum of Ethnography. When Iarrived, I was floored at the number of

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people there – and not only regular mem-bers of the community, but the “smetanka”(cream of the crop) of Ukrainian cultural,political and former dissident society.

It was a pleasure to see many guestsfrom this side of the ocean, including a rep-resentative of this newspaper, clergy fromthe U.S. and Canada, and the HonoraryCanadian Consul, Dr. Oksana Wynnyckyj.The generous sponsors of the book, Mr.and Mrs. Oleh Iwanusiw of Toronto werealso present. It was an elegant, culturedevent, and I was pleased so many formerpolitical prisoners were now able to enjoythe fruit of their former tortuous lives.

In August of 2004, I participated in theglorious celebration of Independence Day.In the afternoon there was a concert in thePark Kultury (Amusement Park), withvarious ethnic groups of Lviv bringinggreetings and performing. Lviv residentsof Belarusian, Greek, Armenian, Jewishand Tatar backgrounds sang and danced.

The Belarusian choir was especiallyapplauded when they ended their segmentwith “Nalyvaimo, Brattia” in Ukrainian.The lyrics of the song and the choir’senthusiasm were welcomed by the audi-ence. One could only think of the sad fateof their countrymen in Belarus. It wasstrange that the Armenian and Tatarspokesmen brought greetings on thisUkrainian Independence Day in Russian.

And, while their performance wasapplauded well later, it did not go over

too well with the audience that when therepresentatives of the Jewish communitywere introduced to bring greetings, noone came out on stage to do so.

The mistress of ceremonies was anelegant woman from the Greek commu-nity who spoke fluent Ukrainian. Andthat community was represented by a tal-ented Ukrainian young lady, IlonaKuchynska, who sang a number of songsin fluent Greek.

On the evening of Independence Day, Iwent down to the opera, joining thousandsof revelers to see Ruslana and other win-ners of Eurovision. I did see and hear her,and from where I stood in the massivecrowd, she was about 2 inches tall. It wassuch a joyous, enthusiastic yet peacefulgathering of so many people of all ages,many in embroidered shirts and blouses.

The best serendipity happened in2003, on Horodotska Street, right behindthe opera. As I turned onto that block,there in living color, on an enormous bill-board, was a Kozak holding a mug ofLvivske pyvo (Lviv beer). He was thespitting image of Slavko Nowytski, yes,our Slavko. True, it was the Slavko of adecade or two back, but the very sameone. And his daughter Tusia was rightnext to me as I gaped at “his” face.

I’ll be back this August, this time wan-dering the streets of both Lviv and Kyiv.Maybe I’ll run into one of you, dear read-ers. I hope so.

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visiting Ukraine for no more than 90days, Interfax-Ukraine reported on July19. Earlier this year, Kyiv made similarmoves toward citizens of the EuropeanUnion, Switzerland and the UnitedStates. (RFE/RL Newsline)UGCC may assist beatification efforts

LVIV – The beatification process forPope John Paul II began on June 28 atthe Vatican. It was then that CardinalCamillo Ruini, vicar of the diocese ofRome, signed a decree on the start of theofficial gathering of materials and evi-dence for John Paul II’s beatification andcanonization. According to a pressrelease of July 6 from the press service ofthe head of the Ukrainian Greek-CatholicChurch (UGCC), the Church has not yetstarted gathering such evidence, but isprepared to do so after a request from theCongregation for the Causes of Saints ora postulator for the cause. In explainingthis issue at a recent press conference,Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, head of theUGCC, said, among other things: “OurChurch will certainly take part in thisprocess if we receive an official addressor request from the Congregation for theCauses of Saints of the Apostolic See ora postulator. We turn to our faithful toprovide evidence, telling of instances ofmiraculous healing with Pope John PaulII’s intercession. So far, we have notreceived such information, and thereforewe are not [yet] gathering evidence.” Theprimate hastened to stress that shouldanybody send such evidence, the UGCCwill not fail to transfer it to a postulator.However it has not yet initiated thisprocess on its own. (ReligiousInformation Service of Ukraine)

Desiatynna Church excavations begin

KYIV – The mayor of Kyiv has orderedthe commencement of archaeological exca-vations and research on the foundations ofKyiv’s historic Church of the Tithes(Desiatynna Tserkva). A fence was placedaround the area because of this. Those whooppose the church’s reconstruction inter-preted the fence as a sign that the recon-struction has started and took sections of itapart. They were sent to theShevchenkivske district police station andpunished for hooliganism. “The city gov-ernment is carrying out the president’swish: to determine whether it is realistic torebuild the legendary church. Severalchurches had stood on the fundament,destroyed in different times. ... We have tounderstand what to reconstruct. As far asI’m concerned, the Church of the Tithesshould not be reconstructed, since nobodyknows its original appearance. But, Irepeat, that is why archaelogical excava-tions are being conducted,” saidOleksander Bystrushkin, head of the MainAdministration for Cultural Affairs of theKyiv City Administration. President ViktorYushchenko’s proposal to reconstruct thehistoric Desiatynna Church has divided theKyiv public. Some, like Vice PrimeMinister Mykola Tomenko, think construc-tion should not start, at least not until broadpublic debates have taken place. Others,however, including the KyivAdministration, support the idea.(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)President visits electorally hostile region

DONETSK – President ViktorYushchenko on July 15 visited the pre-dominantly Russian-speaking city ofDonetsk, where he met with regionalauthorities and businessmen, Ukrainian

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news agencies reported. In the 2004 presi-dential election, nearly 94 percent of vot-ers in the Donetsk Oblast supported hisrival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.Mr. Yushchenko slammed the Donetskauthorities for not being “moral” and forrestoring “clannish relationships” in poli-tics. “I have come to help you rather thanoppress you, I am not advocating any spe-cial private interests of mine,” Mr.Yushchenko said. “I will come to Donetskfor a third, fourth, fifth or 10th time. I willnot play games with anyone. I will for-give, but I will make people obey the law– that small group of people who have notunderstood that yet.” (RFE/RL Newsline)Police urged to speak Ukrainian

KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenkoon July 18 instructed the Internal AffairsMinistry leadership to use only Ukrainianwhile performing official duties, Interfax-Ukraine reported. “You are state officials,you are being paid to serve the state inboth substance and form,” Mr.Yushchenko said. “You, as the lawenforcers, should abide by the law on lan-guage, which stipulates that a state offi-cial should speak the Ukrainian language,even if brokenly.” (RFE/RL Newsline)Cabinet lists privatization priorities

KYIV – The Ukrainian Cabinet ofMinisters has published a list of 33 com-panies whose privatization is a priority,UNIAN reported on July 15. Most notableon the list are the Odesa Portside Plant,the Severodonetsk Azot Association, theNikopol Southern Pipe Plant, and theKryvyi Rih Ore Enrichment Combine.(RFE/RL Newsline)Gazprom settles gas controversy

KYIV – Russia’s gas monopoly,Gazprom, has signed an agreement withUkraine’s gas company, NaftohazUkrainy, and the gas-transport companyRosUkrEnergo, ending a recent disputewith Kyiv over the fate of 7.8 billioncubic meters of Russian gas in Ukrainianstorage facilities, Ukrainian news agen-cies reported. Under the agreement,Naftohaz Ukrainy will receive 2.55 bil-lion cubic meters of gas as partial pay-ment for transit of Russian gas acrossUkraine in 2005, with the remainingamount to be delivered to RosUkrEnergoduring 2005-2006. In June Gazpromcharged that 7.8 billion cubic meters ofRussian gas had disappeared fromUkraine. (RFE/RL Newsline)Yushchenko in very good health

KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenkois in “very good” health, according to hisSwiss doctor. On July 18 Dr. Jean Sauratof the University Hospital of Geneva saidthe dioxin with which he was poisonedlast year is now leaving Mr.Yushchenko’s system through his skin.The dioxin poisoning has resulted in hisface being pockmarked and discolored.“The Associated Press quoted Dr. Sauratas explaining: “His external appearancedoesn’t reflect on the health of his inter-nal organs.” Dr. Saurat and his colleague,biochemist Olier Sorg, started treatingMr. Yushchenko in December and theUkrainian leader has made three visits tosee them, said the president’s spokes-woman, Iryna Heraschenko. The twohave also come to Ukraine three times,she said, adding that Mr. Yushchenkohimself is paying for the treatment. TheAP reported that Dr. Saurat said the treat-ment was aimed at getting the dioxin outof Mr. Yushchenko’s system as quicklyas possible, but he said the process “goeson for years.” (Associated Press)

Transdniester leader backs Kyiv’s plan

KYIV – Ukrainian President ViktorYushchenko met with Igor Smirnov,leader of Moldova’s breakaway region ofTransdniester, in Ukraine on July 14,Interfax-Ukraine, UNIAN and ITAR-TASS reported, citing Ukrainian presi-dential sources. Messrs. Yushchenko andSmirnov agreed to coordinate their activi-ties toward implementing the plan to set-tle the Transdniester conflict that was pro-posed by the Ukrainian president in April.Mr. Yushchenko’s plan, in particular, callsfor holding democratic elections inTransdniester under international moni-toring. Both politicians also agreed toinvite representatives of the EuropeanUnion and the United States to take partin negotiations between Chisinau andTiraspol, which have so far been brokeredby Russia, Ukraine, and the Organizationfor Security and Cooperation in Europe(OSCE). Messrs. Yushchenko andSmirnov also decided to set up a workinggroup to formulate criteria for democra-tizing Transdniester and ensure a trans-parent electoral process there. Moreover,the sides reportedly consented to the pos-sibility of EU monitoring of theTransdniester stretch of the Ukraine-Moldova border. (RFE/RL Newsline)Rada chair, Cabinet in war of words

KYIV – Verkhovna Rada ChairmanVolodymyr Lytvyn said on July 13 thatthe Cabinet’s statement earlier the sameday alleging that the parliamentary lead-ership staged a “provocation” the previ-ous week has an “impudent character,”the Ukrayinska Pravda website(http://www2.pravda.com.ua) reported.Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’sCabinet charged that the parliamentaryleadership conspired with oppositionlawmakers to reject some of the bills pro-posed by the government to facilitateUkraine’s access to the World TradeOrganization. “I talked with the presidenttwice today and we agreed that it is nec-essary for us to find a common lan-guage,” Mr. Lytvyn said. Interfax-Ukraine quoted President ViktorYushchenko as saying the same day thathe wants the Parliament to create a pro-government majority by September.Meanwhile, Vice Prime Minister MykolaTomenko said on the Era television chan-nel on July 14 that Mr. Lytvyn, jointlywith former government officials, desta-bilizes the Verkhovna Rada and discred-its the new authorities, according toInterfax-Ukraine. (RFE/RL Newsline)Government, Rada urged to make peace

KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenkoon July 14 called on Prime Minister YuliaTymoshenko and Verkhovna RadaChairman Volodymyr Lytvyn to reach amutual understanding for the sake of polit-ical stability in the country, Interfax-Ukraine reported. Mr. Yushchenko wasreferring to acrimonious statements thatthe two have exchanged following the pre-vious week’s tumultuous votes on a pack-age of bills needed by Ukraine to join theWorld Trade Organization. “We’ve livedthrough an uneasy six months, and obvi-ously the government and the Parliamenthave became tired of one another. A timeout is needed to have some rest,” PresidentYushchenko said, adding the two sidesshould stop commenting on each other.(RFE/RL Newsline)Yushchenko comments on economic zones

VIENNA – President ViktorYushchenko told a business forum inVienna on July 13 that the government’sdecision in March to abolish 24 specialeconomic zones, which enjoyed specialtaxation and customs benefits, was a mis-take, Interfax-Ukraine reported. Mr.

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government will complete the analysis ofeach individual free economic zone inorder to implement a compensation mech-anism. He also said he cannot rule out thata number of free economic zones can berestored, but only after individual businessprojects in the former zones are reviewed.“Out of the 500 projects we had, only 15corresponded to the initial concept, but onthe other hand every [free economic zone]has decent investors as well as frauds,”Mr. Yushchenko noted. “When Parliamentabolished the economic zones, I think itwas a mistake, because honest businesseswere put in new and unexpected condi-tions, which changed the whole nature oftheir business.” (RFE/RL Newsline)President earned $4,660 in June

KYIV – Presidential spokeswomanIryna Herashchenko revealed to journal-ists on July 14 that Viktor Yushchenko’spresidential salary in June amounted to23,567 hrv ($4,660), which is 40 percentmore than the prime minister’s salary thatsame month, Interfax-Ukraine reported.(RFE/RL Newsline)Moscow comments on Tuzla

MOSCOW – Russia’s ForeignMinistry officially expressed its dissatis-faction on July 13 at the statement by itsUkrainian counterpart released the daybefore that Moscow recognizes Kyiv’sjurisdiction over the disputed island ofTuzla in the Azov Sea, RIA-Novosti andother media reported. “Russia considersthe legal status of Tuzla to be undeter-mined, while presently it’s under thejurisdiction of Ukraine,” the ForeignMinistry statement said. Kyiv has pro-

posed that both countries define theirstate borders in the Azov Sea and KerchStrait and insists that the demarcation lineshould follow the former Soviet adminis-trative border. But RIA-Novosti quotedthe Foreign Ministry statement as saying,“The Russian side believes that accordingto Soviet law there was not and could notbe such a border.” (RFE/RL Newsline)Activists cite “Orange plague”

MOSCOW – Members of the opposi-tion youth movement Oborona (Defense)and the pro-presidential youth movementNashi (Ours) are again at loggerheads,this time in Tver Oblast, RFE/RL’sRussian Service reported on July 13. At acamp on Lake Seliger, some 3,000youths are attending a two-week programorganized by Nashi, consisting of lec-tures on politics and economics, discus-sion clubs, and sports and tourist activi-ties. Three members of Oborona infiltrat-ed the proceedings. One of them toldRFE/RL that Nashi leader VasiliiYakemenko led one master class, tellingcampers that the West has sent certainpeople to Russia to recruit young adultsunder the guise of English-languagecourses. These young people are thensent abroad to study in camps financedby the State Department where a thou-sand people or so are taught to conductrevolutions. In response to this effort,Nashi, according to Oborona activist IgorYakovlev, is forming special brigades ofsoccer fans to extinguish the “Orangeplague,” a reference to Ukraine’s OrangeRevolution. Nashi press secretary IvanMostovich denied that such brigades arebeing formed and suggested that thestory was fabricated. (RFE/RL Newsline)

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EAST CHATHAM, N.Y. – The brightrays of the summer sun peeked throughthreatening rain clouds and shone downbenevolently upon campers, counselors,parents and guests as they gathered onSaturday, July 9, to commence the 53rdyear of camps at Vovcha Tropa.

Opening ceremonies took place on thevast sports field, where many of thecampers anxiously looked around to spotfriends from past years, while parentsbreathed a sigh of relief that once again,or perhaps for the first time, their chil-dren were unpacked and ready to begintheir three-week odyssey into the magicaland mystical world of Plast camp life.

This year Vovcha Tropa is hosting 354campers, ranging in ages from 7 to 17,with a staff of 80 dedicated counselors tocare for them. There is also a support staffof 25 maintaining the infirmary, office,facilities and, of course, the camp kitchen.

The organizer of the camps is theRegional Camp Committee (known by itsUkrainian acronym as OTK) of VovchaTropa led by Yurij Huk for the past 12years. “Komendanty” (directors of individ-ual camps) this year are Tania Huk, PavloMulyk, Ada Helbig, Pavlo Jarymowycz,Laryssa Hud and Lida Moczula.

Campers and counselors were alsohappy to welcome four counselors fromUkraine who will share their knowledgeand experience with Ukrainian Americanyouths and Plast leaders. This is especial-ly important this year when all campshave as their designated slogan “Togetherwe are many and we will not be over-come” and the Orange Revolution figuresprominently in many camp activities.

On Sunday, July 10, the sun shonebrightly as the campers attended divineliturgy celebrated by the Rev. IvanKaszczak, Plast chaplain. Father Ivan, aformer camper at Vovcha Tropa, in a veryage-appropriate way, spoke to the childrenabout their responsibilities as good Plastmembers and the opportunities availableto them at camp. He wished them a won-derful and memorable camping season.

The blessing of the newly constructedpavilion followed the liturgy. The pavil-ion is a result of the fund-raising cam-paign led by Andrij Kozak and the gener-ous donations made by institutions, fami-lies and friends of Vovcha Tropa.

Under the direction of Petro Bokalo,the pavilion was constructed in recordtime, is aesthetically pleasing and largeenough to accommodate all the campers.

It is the OTK’s hope that the pavilionwill be the center of many future gather-ings for campers and other groupsthroughout the year at Vovcha Tropa.

After the blessing of the pavilion, thecampers returned to their separate camp-sites to begin in earnest their camp life.All were looking forward to parents’weekend – the traditional “Den Plastuna”– that takes place July 23-24 so that theycan proudly share their experiences withtheir parents.

53rd year of summer camps begins at Plast’s Vovcha Tropa in upstate New York

Campers inside Vovcha Tropa’s newly constructed pavilion during its blessing by the Rev. Ivan Kaszczak.

In the story “Ukrainian Festive WalnutTorte wins ‘Mom’s Best Cake’ contest”(July 3), the last name of Paul and HelenEwasko was misspelled as Ewashko (thespelling was correct in the caption). Itshould have been noted that the Ewaskosare from Glenburn Township, a suburbof Scranton, Pa.

In the obituary for Luba Halibey (June26), the current name of Jersey CityState College, where she completed hermaster’s degree was cited incorrectly.The college today is known as NewJersey City University.

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ever sued us. So these people are afraidof a frank public and legal dialogue.”

Among those listed are governmentofficials, including those who held orhold posts in the Cabinet of Ministers,among them the current justice minister,Roman Zvarych.

Exactly 51 officials and businessmenare on the updated blacklist, which canbe viewed at www.pora.org.ua. Besidesnames and posts, the list contains a gen-eral entry about the alleged crime.However, the formula is the same withalmost every entry – “abuse of power.”

Zhovta Pora’s leaders asserted its“uncompromising position” concerningcorrupt former and current officials, irre-spective of their party affiliation or rela-tions with new government.

“The representatives of the new govern-ment conduct themselves in the same wayas their predecessors,” Mr. Yusov said,without mentioning any particular name.“They are often guilty of the same crimes.”

Among the most recognizable namesalready blacklisted in April are SerhiiKivalov, the former chair of the CentralElection Committee; Viktor Skopenko, therector of the Taras Shevchenko NationalUniversity in Kyiv; Hennadii Vasyliev, theformer procurator general; Vasyl Kremen,the former minister of education; ViktorMedvedchuk, the former chair of thePresident’s Administration; and Ihor Bakai,the former chair of the State Office ofPresidential Administrative Affairs, whofled to Russia (Mr. Bakai was detainedthere but released within several hours).

Zhovta Pora’s activists want to hand theblacklist to President Viktor Yushchenko inAugust and expect he will react by fulfilling

his presidential duty as guarantor of theConstitution and Ukraine’s laws.

The political party insists that Mr.Yushchenko keep the promises he gave onthe “maidan” (Independence Square) andif he fails to keep them by a Septemberdeadline, the Zhovta Pora activists prom-ised to use more assertive forms ofprotest, such as strikes and tent cities.

“We want the procurator general[Sviatoslav Piskun], the Security Serviceof Ukraine chief [Oleksander Turchynov]and the minister of internal affairs [YuriiLutsenko] to start their day lookingthrough our blacklist,” Mr. Poharskyi said.

However, Mr. Lutsenko said that hisInternal Affairs Ministry’s blacklists areeven lengthier than that of Zhovta Pora.

“We already brought legal actionagainst many blacklisted people,” Mr.Lutsenko said. “Some have been prose-cuted. So far, Pora lags behind.”

Zhovta Pora is a registered political partythat split from Chorna Pora, which wantedto remain a political, grassroots organization.

After declaring itself a political party,Zhovta Pora fought with the JusticeMinistry to register itself in time for theMarch 2006 parliamentary elections.

Minister Zvarych declined to registerPora because he claimed the group hadlisted fictitious names of party members,addresses and even a made-up village.

In turn, Zhovta Pora accused Mr. Zvarychof playing politics via his denial with thepurpose of limiting parties that could siphonvotes away from the Our Ukraine People’sUnion in the 2006 elections.

On June 27 the Pechersk City Court inKyiv ruled that the Justice Ministry mustregister Zhovta Pora as a political partywith the date of registration being beforeMarch 26, 2005, thus making the party eli-gible to run in the March 2006 elections.

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AUSTIN, Texas – Craig AndrijWilson, son of Chrystia Wynnyk andGrant Wilson, and grandson of OstapWynnyk, graduated as the valedictorianof his class at Lake Travis High School,which is rated as one of the Top 10 Texaspublic schools for academic curriculum.

He is also a National Merit Finalistwho was awarded a National MeritScholarship. Only 2,500 of the 1.3 mil-lion students that compete in theNational Merit Scholarship Program’scompetition are awarded this honor.

Craig has become a legend on theTexas University Interscholastic League(UIL) circuit. He is the 2004 and 2005State Computer Science Champion. TheTexas UIL offers the most comprehen-sive academic competitive program inthe nation. More than 500,000 studentsin Texas compete in the UIL academiccontests. Craig is second in the state inscience and sixth in math for 2005.

Craig is part of a very elite group of stu-dents – 0.4 percent of all students worldwide– who enter science fairs and make it to theIntel International Science and EngineeringFair (ISEF) as finalists. He won a collegescholarship from the American Associationof Artificial Intelligence at ISEF 2004Portland with his computer science projecton “Artificial Intelligence and Genetic

Algorithms.” Many of ISEF’s finalists go onto become Nobel Prize laureates.

Craig chose the Engineering HonorsResearch Program at the University ofTexas at Austin, a top 10 engineeringschool. He will major in electrical andcomputer engineering. He has alsoamassed an impressive list of scholarships:National Merit Scholarship Corporation,Texas State Legislature Valedictorian,University of Texas at Austin College ofEngineering Honors Research, UTNational Merit Scholar, Emerson Electric,ISEF American Association of ArtificialIntelligence, Univision/Toyota, LakeTravis School District Scholar, LakeTravis Education and Texas UniversityInterscholastic League Foundation.

In addition to earning a multitude ofacademic accomplishments Craig hasplayed on his high school varsity tennisteam for four years. Each year he hasbeen named to the Texas All State TennisAcademic Team. He has played line onesingles and doubles at district and region-al championships. Craig co-founded theComputer and League of Nations clubs athis school. He is also a member of theNational Honor Society tutor team and apast state competitor in the DestinationImagination engineering competitions.

Craig is also an active member of theAustin Ukrainian American Club. Heenjoys computers, reading, tennis, hang-ing out with his brother and friends, andhis latest interest – the electric guitar.

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HAINES FALLS, N.Y. – TarasSchumylowych will exhibit his paintings“U.S. Coast Guard Boston Light Station,1716” and “U.S. Coast Guard SteppingStone Light Station, 1877-1944” (bothtempera) at the 58th annual group exhibi-tion sponsored by the Twilight ParkArtists.

The exhibit, which usually features theworks of about 70 artists, will be held onSaturday, August 13, and Sunday, August14, in the Twilight Park Clubhouse inHaines Falls, N.Y., where the first suchexhibit was held in August 1947.

Mr. Schumylowych first exhibited atthis show in 1968.

A children’s art show also is includedin this annual exhibition and will take

place in the Clubhouse Tea Room. Threeof Mr. Schumylowych’s grandchildren,Xenia, Justin and Larissa, will displaytheir new paintings.

This will be Xenia’s second yearexhibiting with the adult artists. Lastyear, her first with the adults, she soldone of her two paintings, titled “A BleakDay in the City.” This year, she willshow “Escape to Lake Tahoe” and“Minekill Falls,” both acrylic.

Still exhibiting in the children’s divi-sion, Justin will show his “Waterhole inthe Mountains” and “Secret Meadow,”while Larissa will display “WatermelonDelight” and “The Circle of Life,” all intempera.

The exhibit opens to the public with awine reception on Saturday at 5-7 p.m.and continues through Sunday, at 1-5p.m. An artist demonstration is plannedfor Sunday at 3-4 p.m.

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Friday-Saturday, July 29-30

BOSTON: St. Andrew UkrainianOrthodox Church located at 24Orchardhill Road, Jamaica Plain, Mass.,will host lectures at the church hall givenby Father Harry Linsinbigler. On July 29he will discuss “Orthodoxy in the ModernWorld” and on July 30 he will talk about“What it Means to be an OrthodoxChristian.” All are welcome. Readers maycall (508) 755-1884 with any questions. Saturday, August 6

HUNTER, N.Y.: “Music at the Grazhda”presents soprano Oksana Krovytska in aprogram of opera arias by Verdi, Cilea,Puccini and Luigi Rossi as well asUkrainian songs in arrangements by V.Yorysh, P. Boichenko, L. Kaufmann,Mykola Lysenko and Borys Liatoshynsky.Ms. Krovytska has been acclaimed at NewYork City Opera for the past 10 years in theleading roles of such operas as “Turandot,”“Carmen,” “Don Giovanni,” “La Bohème,”“La Traviata,” “La Rondine,” “Prince Igor”and “Madama Butterfly,” and has gainedinternational recognition through such rolesas Katya Kabanova (L’Opéra de Montréal,San Francisco Opera), Margherita and Elenain Boito’s “Mefistofele” (Casals Festival,Puerto Rico), Elvira in “Ernani” (SantiagoOpera, Chile), Marguerite in “Faust” (Operade Bellas Artes, Mexico), Marie inSmetana’s “Bartered Bride” (L’Opéra deMonte Carlo) and Renate in Prokofiev’s“Fiery Angel” (Bolshoi Opera, Moscow).Venue: Grazhda, Route 23 A. Time: 8 p.m.Tickets available at the door for $15; $12for members and seniors; free for students.General information is available online atw w w. G r a z h d a M u s i c a n d A r t . o r g .Information is also available by calling(518) 263-4335 (July 13-September 3).Friday-Sunday, August 12-14

WARREN, Mich.: The 19th annualUkrainian Sunflower Festival, which willbe held at 26401 St. Josaphat Drive, isamong the most popular and largest ethnicsummer festivals in Michigan, attracting25,000 people every year. The festival willtake place on August 12 at 5 p.m.-midnight,

August 13 at noon- midnight and August 14at noon-10:30 p.m. This three day-eventwill feature amusement rides, traditionalUkrainian food, ethnic dancing in tradition-al costumes, plus exhibitions and demon-strations of Ukrainian folk crafts, especiallyembroidery and ceramics. Festival enter-tainment includes performances by theUkraina, Echoes of Ukraine and Barvinokdance ensembles, and music by Ukrainianbands, including Dunai and Ephyra, andFoghat, an American band. The parishes oftwo Detroit-area Ukrainian Catholicchurches, Immaculate Conception Churchin Hamtramck, and St. Josaphat Parish inWarren, began the festival during the 1980sto bring Ukrainian communities together,and to share the beauty and importance ofthe Ukrainian heritage, culture and tradi-tions with other Americans. The UkrainianSunflower Festival raises funds in supportof Immaculate Conception UkrainianCatholic Schools located in Warren. Formore information call Andrew Zeleney,(586) 427-7795, or visit the festival websiteat http://www.sunflowerfestival.org/.Friday, August 26

WILDWOOD CREST, N.J.: TheKhmelnychenky Plast fraternity is spon-soring an all-ages dance at the WildwoodCrest Pier Recreation Center, across thestreet from the Pan Am Hotel. Last yearover 500 beach-goers partied at the“Return of the Khmeli” zabava – the eventof “Ukrainian Week” in Wildwood Crest.This year doors will open earlier, at 7 p.m.Children’s activities: 7 p.m.-8 p.m.; chil-dren’s dance 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m.; youth“vechirka” 10 p.m.-? There will be a char-ity raffle at 9:30 p.m., sponsored by theSpartanky Plast fraternity. Live music willbe provided by Luna from 8 p.m. to mid-night; CD dance mixes welcome at mid-night. Admission: free for children age 6and under; $3 for children age 7-12; $5 forstudents age 13-22; $10 for adults 23 andover. Proceeds go toward the VovchaTropa Plast camp’s improvement fund. Forinformation and/or suggestions contacteither Adrian Horodecky at adrian@telli-gys.com or Joanne Iwaskiw atjiwaskiw@pirnie.com.

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SSooyyuuzziivvkkaa’’ss DDaatteebbooookkJuly 23, 2005Zabava with Oberehy, 10 pm

July 24-July 29, 2005Chemney Day Camp – Session #2,

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July 24-July 30, 2005Discovery Camp – Session #3,

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July 27, 2005Hutsul Night featuring Olya Fryz &

Vidlunnia with Olga Barabash-Turgineva

July 29, 2005Hutsul Night featuring Olya Fryz &

Vidlunnia with Olga Barabash-Turgineva

July 29-31, 2005“A day in the life of a UPA Partisan

Soldier” eventJuly 30-31, 2005UPA Exhibit in libraryJuly 31-August 5, 2005Scuba Course for ages 12 and upAugust 1-5, 2005Golf WeekAugust 5, 2005Cabaret Show with Ron Cahute &

companyAugust 5-6, 2005Exhibit - Dycia Hanushevsky’s

ceramic artAugust 5-7, 2005Sports Jamboree WeekendAugust 6, 2005Afternoon Barabolya Show with

Ron Cahute and company, followed by entertainment by the band Hrim; Saturday Zabava with Burya on Veselka Patio and DJ in Veselka Hall

August 7, 2005UNWLA Day and Sunday concertAugust 7-20, 2005Traditional Ukrainian Folk

Dance CampAugust 12, 2005Tiki Bar Entertainment featuring

Vidlunnia with Olga Barabash-Turgineva

August 13, 2005Miss Soyuzivka Weekend

and Zabava with Tempo

August 19, 2005Tiki Bar Entertainment featuring

Zuki & friend, 10 pm

August 19-20, 2005Exhibit - Kozak family paintingsAugust 20, 2005Dance Camp Performance

and Zabava with Fata MorganaAugust 27, 2005WeddingZabava with Halychany, 10 pm

September 2-5, 2005Labor Day FestivitiesSept. 2, Tiki Bar Entertainment

featuring Luna, 10 pmSept. 3, Tiki Bar Entertainment with

the band Hrim, 2 pm; USCAK Tennis Tournament (through Sept. 5); Concert featuring KashtanDance Ensemble from Cleveland,8 pm; Zabava with Luna and Fata Morgana, 10 pm

Sept. 4, Tiki Bar Entertainment featuring Stefan Stawnychy, 2 pm;Concert featuring Kashtan Dance Ensemble from Cleveland, 1 pm; Zabava with Fata Morgana, 10 pm

September 9-11, 2005Saltzburg Reunion

September 11-15, 2005Regensburg Reunion

September 14-16, 2005Landshut Reunion

September 17, 2005Lynee Richel Anniversary/

Wedding Reception

September 17-19, 2005Mittenwald Reunion

September 21-23, 2005Bayreuth Gymnasium Reunion

September 22-24, 2005UNAAssembly and District Meeting

September 24-25, 2005Plast Sorority Rada - Pershi StezhiPlast Sorority Rada - Chornomorski

Khvyli

September 29-October 3, 2005Ukrainian American Vet Convention

September 30, 2005KLK Weekend - General Meeting

and BanquetSeptember 30-October 1, 2005Plast Sorority Rada - SpartankyOctober 2, 2005UNWLA LuncheonOctober 3-6, 2005Stamford Clergy DaysOctober 8, 2005Wedding

October 15, 2005Wedding

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