by Andrew Nynka

NEW YORK – The Ukrainian CongressCommittee of America, with the support ofdiaspora and U.S. government representa-tives, announced plans to build a memorialin Washington to the victims of the 1932-1933 Great Famine. UCCA PresidentMichael Sawkiw Jr. made the announce-ment at a press conference here onNovember 16 after approximately 3,500Ukrainians, as well as Cardinal and MajorArchbishop Lubomyr Husar, primate ofthe Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, andother Ukrainian Catholic and OrthodoxChurch hierarchs gathered for the fourthannual ecumenical requiem service offeredfor the victims of the Great Famine at St.Patrick’s Cathedral.

Mr. Sawkiw made the announcement atthe UCCA headquarters on Second Avenuebefore a gathering of nearly 50 people. Hesaid: “It gives me great pleasure to standbefore you today and announce the fulfill-ment of a joint initiative with Rep. SanderLevin of Michigan and the UkrainianCongress Committee of America to intro-duce House Resolution 5289, which allo-cates a plot of land in Washington, D.C.,whereby the Ukrainian community willerect a monument to the victims ofUkrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933.”

Mr. Sawkiw said that a plan to build themonument was in the earliest stage ofdevelopment and that more details aboutthe proposed monument would emergefollowing passage of the congressionalbill.

UCCA representatives said, however,that details on who would design thememorial, as well as what it would look

like, would likely be decided by a competi-tion of artists, architects or other interestedindividuals. The details of such a competi-tion also are not yet known.

Askold Lozynskyj, president of theUkrainian World Congress, the leadingumbrella organization of the Ukrainiandiaspora, said he and his organization fullysupport the initiative to build a monumentto victims of the Famine and said it wouldserve two very important functions. First,the monument would educate people whowere unaware of the Great Famine, saidMr. Lozynskyj, adding that the Westernworld was largely to blame for a lack ofinformation on the Famine-Genocide and amonument in Washington would be a steptowards ensuring that more people learnabout the forced starvation of Ukrainiansby Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.

Second, Mr. Lozynskyj said, it is impor-tant not only for people to know the GreatFamine occurred, but to understand why ithappened. He stressed that the memorialwould characterize the Great Famine of1932-1933 as a Soviet government policyaimed at the “deliberate and systematic”destruction of the Ukrainian people andnot, as some have stated, the result of natu-ral causes, the UWC president said.

Mr. Lozynskyj added that, to date, onlythe United States has recognized the GreatFamine through a 1988 commission estab-lished by the U.S. Congress which calledthe Great Famine a genocide againstUkrainians. UCCA officials said that,despite that recognition, the memorial inWashington would be only the secondmemorial to the Great Famine on publicland in the United States.

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by Roman WoronowyczKyiv Press Bureau

KYIV – Viktor Yanu-kovych took the reins ofUkraine’s 10th governmentsince independence onNovember 21 after receivingsolid support for his appoint-ment as prime minister froma recently formed and previ-ously untested pro-presiden-tial parliamentary majority.

Mr. Yanukovych, 52, chair-man of the Donetsk Oblast,which is Ukraine’s most pop-ulous oblast and until earlierthis year was a bedrock ofCommunist support, receiveda solid majority of 234 votes –almost entirely from the pro-presidential parliamentarymajority. While the four fac-tions that remain in oppositionto the policies of PresidentLeonid Kuchma stood on thesidelines in solidarity againstthe appointment as they hadannounced they would – only

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Viktor Yanukovych at the Verkhovna Rada afterhe was approved as Ukraine’s new prime minister.

two of their lawmakers supported the vote– the parliamentary majority voted in una-nimity in support of the new prime minis-ter.

“I understand that the government andthe Parliament need to work very effec-tively,” stated Mr. Yanukovych after thevote. “The number that appeared on thescreen, however, shows that a true majori-ty exists and there is support for it in theParliament. For this reason, I have greathope that the new government togetherwith the Parliament will do what is neededfor the country.”

With eight more votes than the required226 needed for a majority, Mr.Yanukovych should have a small amount

of latitude in passing legislation in aParliament that will remain fractious, ifonly because the parliamentary majorityconsists of a large number of businessmenwith competing interests.

And while he did not receive the 250-plus votes that Verkhovna Rada ChairmanVolodymyr Lytvyn had predicted earlier inthe week, it was, nonetheless, a victory forhim and those political leaders who havepushed for a parliamentary majority,which includes President Kuchma whonominated Mr. Yanukovych on November16.

President Kuchma’s press secretary,Olena Hromnytska, said after the vote that

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by Roman WoronowyczKyiv Press Bureau

KYIV – Ukraine’s President LeonidKuchma prepared to fly to Prague onNovember 21 for the NATO summit, evenas Brussels officials maintained that, whilethey could not ban his presence, his absencewould make for smoother proceedings.

“Our position is that it wouldn’t be smartfor President Kuchma to come to Prague,”explained NATO official Yves Broder onNovember 18, according to Holos Ukrainy.

Ukraine was put in a difficult situationon October 30 when the North AtlanticCouncil of NATO announced that it had

downgraded a long-planned Ukraine-NATOCouncil meeting from the summit level tothe foreign ministerial level over allegationsthat Ukraine’s president had authorized thesale of anti-aircraft systems to Iraq. In theoriginally planned summit scenario, the 19NATO state leaders would have sat withPresident Kuchma to discuss Ukraine’sfuture with the alliance.

NATO officials have also indicated thatif the Ukrainian president takes part in theEuro-Atlantic Partnership Council round-table, the meeting of the 44 countries thatbelong to the Partnership for Peace

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PM-designate meets with Rada caucuses

KYIV – Donetsk Oblast ChairmanViktor Yanukovych, who was appointedprime minister by President LeonidKuchma last week, began meeting parlia-mentary caucuses on November 19,ahead of an expected vote on his approvalin the Verkhovna Rada on November 21,international and Ukrainian news agen-cies reported. “I see my role as stabilizingthe work of the government and develop-ing cooperation with the Parliament. Weneed stability. Everyone is sick of insta-bility,” Reuters quoted Mr. Yanukovychas saying. The People’s Power, AgrarianParty, Social Democratic Party-Unitedand European Choice parliamentarygroups have reportedly decided to supportMr. Yanukovych. The Donetsk leader wasproposed for the post by the Ukraine’sRegions parliamentary caucus. The cur-rent line-up in the Verkhovna Rada is asfollows: Our Ukraine (110 deputies),Communists (61), Labor Ukraine-Partyof Entrepreneurs and Industrialists (42),Social Democratic Party-United (39),Ukraine’s Regions (37), Socialists (21),Democratic Initiatives (22), EuropeanChoice (20), Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc(18), National Democratic Party (16),Agrarians (16), People’s Power (16),People’s Choice (15). There are also 16non-aligned deputies in the 449-strongVerkhovna Rada. (RFE/RL Newsline)Kinakh denied plans to step down

KYIV – Ukrainian Prime MinisterAnatolii Kinakh rejected on November12 speculation that he has handed in hisresignation, according to Interfax. “In asituation of tremendous ordeals, there ismore need for stability than ever,” thenews agency quoted him as saying. “Suchdestabilization would affect every aspectof life in Ukraine, from international con-fidence in the country to its economy,”Mr. Kinakh said, adding, “I am personallyresponsible for the activities of the state,and I haven’t written any letters of resig-nation.” The prime minister told reportershe “firmly controls the government [andis] trying to maintain its efficiency” as theyear comes to a close and the budget isbeing drafted. (RFE/RL Newsline)Donetsk leader to be tapped as PM

KYIV – President Leonid Kuchmaintends to nominate Donetsk OblastChairman Viktor Yanukovych as a candi-date for prime minister, a source close tothe presidential administration toldInterfax on November 14. The sourceindicated the president will hold finalconsultations with caucus leaders and the

parliamentary majority groups onNovember 15. A measure to dismiss thecurrent government has already been pre-pared, and President Kuchma willannounce his decision on November 15,the source suggested, adding thatPresident Kuchma intends to submit Mr.Yanukovych’s candidacy to the legisla-ture soon to allow for a vote onNovember 21. Ukraine’s parliamentarymajority has proposed four candidates forprime minister, including Mr.Yanukovych, current Prime MinisterAnatolii Kinakh, First Deputy PrimeMinister Oleh Dubyna, and State TaxAdministration Chairman MykolaAzarov. (RFE/RL Newsline)Kuchma plans to attend NATO summit

KYIV – Yevhen Marchuk of Ukraine’sNational Security and Defense Counciltold Interfax on November 16 thatPresident Leonid Kuchma will attend theNATO summit in Prague despite NATO’sdecision to hold a meeting of theUkraine-NATO Commission at the for-eign ministers’ level. Mr. Marchuk saidPresident Kuchma will attend a session ofNATO’s 46-member Euro-AtlanticPartnership Council (EAPC), whileForeign Affairs Minister Anatolii Zlenkowill represent Ukraine in bilateral talkswith the alliance. Kuchma spokeswomanOlena Hromnytska declined to commenton the report, while press officials at theNational Security and Defense Councilsaid they can neither confirm nor denythe news, Reuters reported. NATOwarned that President Kuchma will not bewelcome at the summit after Washingtonsaid it believes the Ukrainian presidentapproved the sale of a Kolchuha early-warning radar system to Iraq. “PresidentKuchma did not receive a personal invita-tion to come to the EAPC summit inPrague, but Ukraine, like any other EAPCcountry, has an invitation to come toPrague and is expected to be in Prague,”NATO spokesman Yves Brodeur toldRFE/RL on November 18. (RFE/RLNewsline)U.S.: NATO trip up to Kuchma

WASHINGTON – Reuters onNovember 18 quoted a U.S. StateDepartment official as saying that it isup to Ukrainian President LeonidKuchma to decide whether to go toPrague for a NATO summit to which heis not invited. “In the end ... the decisionfor President Kuchma to travel to Pragueis for President Kuchma and theUkrainian government to take,” the offi-

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by Jan MaksymiukRFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report

Two scandalous political developmentshave burst onto the international agendaprior to the NATO summit in Prague onNovember 21-22. The first concerns theCzech Republic’s denial of a visa toBelarusian President AlyaksandrLukashenka, effectively preventing himfrom coming to the country to participate ina sitting of the Euro-Atlantic PartnershipCouncil (EAPC). The second is NATO’sdecision to hold a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission at the summit at theforeign-minister level in an apparentattempt to prevent Ukrainian PresidentLeonid Kuchma from coming to Prague.

While Mr. Lukashenka will definitelynot appear in Prague, Mr. Kuchma has pre-ferred to keep NATO in suspense until thevery last moment. According to whatappear to be deliberately unconfirmedmedia reports from Ukraine, ForeignAffairs Minister Anatolii Zlenko will cometo Prague at the head of a Ukrainian delega-tion to the NATO-Ukraine Commissiontalks, while President Kuchma is consider-ing leading another delegation to a sessionof the 46-member EAPC.

It is no wonder that media always seeksensational and spicy aspects of any event,irrespective of how serious or historicallymomentous that event might be. Therefore,their focus on the turmoil caused byPresidents Lukashenka and Kuchma in thecontext of the Prague summit is understand-able. But it is also true that, in general per-ception, the NATO summit in Prague –which is expected to extend NATO mem-bership invitations to as many as sevenpost-Communist states and has beenlabeled in advance a historic event – lacksthe momentousness it would have had ifNATO membership had been offered tothose seven Central and Eastern Europeanstates 10 years ago.

The past decade has greatly blurred theCold War division line in Europe, while theSeptember 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on theUnited States have radically redefined theNorth Atlantic Alliance’s military goals andpriorities. In fact, the upcoming expansionof NATO seems to be a political moverather than a military one, while the militaryconsequences of this step might more great-ly affect other parts of the globe thanEurope itself.

As in the case of the three CentralEuropean states (Poland, the CzechRepublic and Hungary) that were admittedto NATO in March 1999, it will take yearsbefore the next group of new members –Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia,Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria – are ableto make a palpable contribution to NATO’s“firepower.” This aspect of NATO enlarge-

ment is obviously understood by NATOplanners and strategists, and it has alsospawned a great deal of ironic commentaryin Russia as well as in the United States,which now seems to uphold NATO’s mili-tary reliability completely with its ownefforts.

However, the political significance of thecurrent NATO expansion should not beunderestimated. In actual fact, the inclusionof these seven new countries into NATO isin reward for the progress they madetoward shaking off their “Eurasian” politi-cal legacy and acquiring new, “Euro-Atlantic” identities. It is also a clear sign ofhow greatly the realm of democracy andpolitical stability in Europe has expandedsince the breakdown of communism inEurope in 1989, including headway intowhat was formerly known as the SovietUnion.

For the countries that were admitted toNATO in 1999 or are to be admitted in thesecond wave following the Prague summit,NATO membership is firm evidence thatthey belong to the West. Their future mem-bership in the European Union will onlyconfirm and seal this eventuality.

“We are convinced that fundamentalhuman rights and freedoms are not beingprotected and respected in Belarus, and thatis one of the basic values upon which theEuro-Atlantic alliance was founded,” CzechForeign Minister Cyril Svoboda said in jus-tifying the visa denial to PresidentLukashenka.

Few would deny that human rights inBelarus are abused, freedom of speech issuppressed and political choices are limited.Similar accusations, however, can justly bemade with regard to some regimes in post-Soviet Central Asia that will be representedby their leaders at the Prague summit. Doesthis mean Lukashenka is correct in claimingthe West resorts to “double standards” inassessing the level of democracy in Belarusin comparison with post-Soviet CentralAsian countries? To a certain degree, yes.

But it also should be taken into accountthat none of NATO’s “partners for peace” inCentral Asia has been suspected, as hasBelarus, of rendering military assistance toSaddam Hussein’s regime and training Iraqianti-aircraft gunners who could conceivablybe asked to down NATO aircraft.

It seems that NATO applied a similarrationale in not inviting Ukraine’s presidentto Prague. The record of human rights abus-es and suppression of media under the ruleof Mr. Kuchma actually puts him on parwith Mr. Lukashenka. But here, too, thedecisive reason for snubbing the Ukrainianleader appeared to be the U.S. allegationthat President Kuchma approved the sale ofan early-warning radar system to Iraq –potentially putting the lives of NATO pilotsat risk through the work of another NATO“partner for peace.”

On the other hand, if Mr. Kuchma choos-

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“Our position is that it would not be desirable for President Kuchma to cometo Prague, and that position remains unchanged. We have not invited theUkrainian president to take part in the session of the Euro-Atlantic PartnershipCouncil. ...Not only that, but NATO Secretary-General George Robertson recent-ly spoke to Leonid Kuchma by telephone and told him directly that it would bebetter if he did not come to Prague.”

– NATO spokesman Yves Brodeur, speaking on November 16 with the ITAR-TASS news agency as he was queried about the Ukrainian president’s attendanceat the Prague summit.

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Program, there is a possibility that manyworld leaders would not attend in response.The meeting of the Euro-AtlanticPartnership Council and the NATO-UkraineCouncil were expected to be the center ofattention of the second day of the two-dayNATO summit on November 21-22 inPrague.

The meeting of the 19 state leaders ofNATO was the scheduled main event of thesummit’s first day. Seven new NATO mem-bers, all former Communist countries, werescheduled to be welcomed into NATO thatday.

Mr. Broder explained that while the pres-ident of a member-state of the Euro-AtlanticPartnership Council had the right to headthe state delegation – and NATO would donothing to stop Mr. Kuchma’s visit –nonetheless, “in our circles there exist cer-tain matters of etiquette.”

The United States initiated the fury thatcurrently surrounds Ukraine and its presi-dent when it accused Mr. Kuchma onSeptember 25 of giving authorization for anillegal transfer of an anti-aircraft radar sys-tem to Iraq in circumvention of UnitedNation sanctions. On November 18 the U.S.said that while it is up to Ukraine’s leader-ship to decide whether Mr. Kuchma wouldattend the Prague summit, U.S. PresidentGeorge W. Bush has no intention of meeting

with the Ukrainian president.Mr. Kuchma and Ukraine’s state leader-

ship have vehemently and repeatedly deniedany involvement in the sale of Kolchuhaanti-aircraft systems to Iraq, which the Westhas deemed particularly dangerous to U.S.and British pilots protecting a no-fly zoneover Iraq because the systems do not emitan identifiable radar signal. Washington saidthat it has a recording it deems authentic inwhich Mr. Kuchma gives the go-ahead tohis director of military export to sell aKolchuha to Baghdad via a Jordanian mid-dleman.

After the accusations were leveled,Ukraine invited a special U.S.-British teamof experts to enter the country and conduct athorough investigation into Kolchuha manu-facturing and sales procedures, and toreview the country’s arms export-controlsystem. While the experts did not find anyconcrete evidence of the sale of Kolchuhasystems to Iraq, they decided that Ukrainehad not proven its innocence in the matterand that Ukrainian officials had not been asforthcoming and transparent as they couldhave been.

Ukraine initially delayed an announce-ment on its participation in the foreign min-isterial meeting with NATO, explaining thatit needed assurances that the gatheringwould not become a Ukraine-bashing con-test and that the aims of the conference asoriginally planned would be met.

NATO and the United States responded

by making overt calls for the need to main-tain a close dialogue with Kyiv and to moveforward on a new plan of Ukraine-NATOrelations to supplant the original Ukraine-NATO Charter on a Special Partnershipsigned in Spain in 1997. The action planassociated with the original charter endsnext month.

U.S. Assistant Deputy Secretary of StateSteven Pifer traveled to Ukraine in the firstweek of November to convince ForeignAffairs Minister Anatolii Zlenko that it wasin the best interests of Ukraine to move for-ward on a new general action plan and aspecific plan for 2003, to which the sideshad already agreed.

The action plan – in many ways similarto the exhaustive and demanding member-ship action plan that countries invited to joinNATO are required to complete – wouldprovide a specific path for Ukraine’s even-tual integration into the defense alliance.

A Foreign Affairs Ministry press releasereported that U.S. Secretary of State ColinPowell contacted Foreign Minister Zlenkoby telephone on November 15 to expresshis personal interest in seeing Mr. Zlenko atthe NATO summit. Later that same day,NATO Secretary General George Robertsonreportedly spoke with Mr. Zlenko to expressthe same, according to the website of theMinistry of Foreign Affairs.

Meanwhile, President Kuchma held apress briefing on November 15 to announcethat a Ukrainian delegation would go to

Prague only if he attends the Euro-AtlanticPartnership Council meeting, again sharpen-ing a situation that diplomatic effortsseemed to be diffusing.

“If the President does not go to theEAPC, nobody will,” explained Mr.Kuchma.

Mr. Kuchma explained, however, that thefinal decision would remain with Ukraine’sNational Security and Defense Council. Thematter was resolved when the council meton November 16 and officially sanctionedUkraine’s attendance at the NATO summit,and President Kuchma’s participation ashead of the delegation.

In another signal that the United Statesand NATO are mending fences withUkraine, although perhaps not with its pres-ident, Oleh Zarubynskyi, the leader ofUkraine’s permanent delegation to NATO’sParliamentary Assembly, said he hadreceived assurances from NATO SecretaryGeneral Robertson that Ukraine stands agood chance of being in the third wave ofcountries to be offered NATO membership,which is currently scheduled to take place in2006.

Speaking at a press conference in Kyiv,Mr. Zarubynskyi, who had just returnedfrom the NATO Parliamentary Assembly inIstanbul, said Mr. Robertson had told himthat the doors to NATO would be open toUkraine after the Prague summit, although“the stairs to that door could become steep-er.”

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by Maryna MakhnonosSpecial to The Ukrainian Weekly

KYIV – Ukrainian journalists and aninternational media rights organizationsounded new alarms this week about pressfreedom in Ukraine following the allegedsuicide of a popular news agency’s director,which is the third high-profile journalistdeath over two years in this country.

Robert Menard, head of ReportersWithout Borders, said police suspicion thatdirector of the Ukrainski Novyny newsagency Mykhailo Kolomiyets committedsuicide was a “hasty conclusion,” accordingto the Institute of Mass Information, theofficial representative of Mr. Menard’sgroup in Ukraine.

The IMI website reported that, in a letterto Ukraine’s top prosecutor, SviatoslavPiskun, on November 19, Mr. Menard pro-posed cooperation in investigating the jour-nalist’s death, including the involvement ofFrench forensic experts.

Meanwhile, Mr. Kolomiyets’ family andcolleagues demanded that ProcuratorGeneral Piskun open a criminal investiga-tion and that an autopsy be conducted.

“To the mind of Mr. Kolomiyets’ rela-tives and friends, he had no reasons for sui-cide as he was a stable and strong-willedperson,” the news agency’s journalists saidin a statement on November 20.

They have previously said that the dis-appearance could “result from UkrainskiNovyny’s independent news policy that isfree from censorship and unrestricted inreporting political and economic news.”

Interfax reported that Ukraine’s Leagueof Economic Journalists said on November19 that “one of several believable reasonsfor the disappearance was his (Mr.Kolomiyets’) professional activity; we don’tbelieve it was suicide.”

Mr. Kolomiyets abruptly stopped work-ing on October 21. Ukrainian police saidthey confirmed that he arrived in theBelarusian capital, Miensk, on October 23.His friend Liubov Ruban called the agencywhen she heard reports that Mr. Kolomiyetswas missing and told reporters that he saidhe left “due to physiological problems,”according to Ukrainski Novyny.

According to the news agency’s state-ment, Ms. Ruban said her last conversation

with the journalist was late on October 28when he “said farewell,” and his cellphonewas later switched off.

Mr. Kolomiyets also made a phone callto his mother that same day. His family dis-puted police reports that the journalist hadbeen in contact with them several timesbefore October 28, saying they had notheard from him since he disappeared.

Belarusian police said that on October30 they found the body of an unknown manhanging from a tree in a forest close to thetown of Molodechno, some 80 kilometers(50 miles) from Miensk, the UkrainianNews reported. They buried the body onNovember 11 and later recovered it on therequest of Ukrainian investigators. Relativeson November 20 identified the body as thatof Mr. Kolomiyets.

Both Belarusian and Ukrainian policesuspected suicide, saying no signs of violentdeath were evident.

Mr. Kolomiyets’ staff questioned numer-ous gaps in the case, asking why Belarusianpolice buried the body while their Ukrainiancolleagues were searching for the journalist.They also criticized police reports that thejournalist’s death was a suicide, calling it arush to render a judgment before the factswere known.

Mr. Kolomiyets, 44, created UkrainskiNovyny (Ukrainian News) in 1997 andowned half its shares. The agency had start-ed to report on politics in recent months inaddition to its economic newswire.

The Kolomiyets case is the third death intwo years of a well-known journalist fromUkraine. In 2000, Internet newsletter editorHeorhii Gongadze disappeared and hisheadless body was later found in woodsoutside Kyiv. TV company director IhorAleksandrov was beaten to death in theDonetsk region in 2001. Both crimesremain unsolved.

Opposition groups have accusedPresident Leonid Kuchma of involvementin Mr. Gongadze’s killing, basing theirclaims on audio recordings of the presi-dent’s conversations with top aides made bya former presidential security officer. Mr.Kuchma strongly denied the charges andordered measures to improve journalists’safety and provide the authorities’ assis-tance in their work.

Third high-profile Ukrainian journalist found dead

NEW YORK – The Committee toProtect Journalists has called onUkrainian and Belarusian authorities to“investigate Mykhailo Kolomiyets’ deaththoroughly and to consider all possiblemotives.”

A body suspected to be that of Mr.Kolomiyets, director of the UkrainskiNovyny news agency, was found onOctober 30 hanging from a tree in a for-est in northwestern Belarus.

However, several journalists atUkrainski Novyny (Ukrainian News) fearthat Mr. Kolomiyets could have been tar-geted because of the agency’s independ-ent reporting. No specific incidents orreports were cited.

“We are saddened by this tragic dis-covery,” said Ann Cooper, executivedirector of the Committee to ProtectJournalists (CPJ).

In recent years, CPJ noted, Ukrainehas gained notoriety as a dangerousplace for journalists, most notably withthe murders of Heorhii Gongadze andIhor Aleksandrov.

Mr. Gongadze was editor of theInternet news site Ukrainska Pravda(www.pravda.com.ua), where he oftenreported on alleged high-level govern-

ment corruption in Ukraine. He disap-peared on September 16, 2000, after sev-eral weeks of harassment by police offi-cials.

In early November 2000, a headlesscorpse believed to be that of Mr.Gongadze was discovered in a forest out-side Kyiv. Audiotapes have linkedPresident Leonid Kuchma to the journal-ists’ disappearance, but Mr. Kuchma hasdenied involvement in the crime.

Mr. Aleksandrov, director of the inde-pendent television company Tor, which isbased in Slaviansk, eastern Ukraine, inJuly 2001 was beaten to death with base-ball bats as he entered Tor’s offices.

A homeless man, accused of the mur-der was acquitted in May for lack ofevidence and died of a heart attack twomonths later. According to recent newsreports cited by CPJ, an investigationinto Mr. Aleksandrov’s murder may bereopened.

The Committee to Protect Journalistsis a New York-based, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to thedefense of press freedom worldwide. Formore information about press conditionsin Ukraine, readers may log on towww.cpj.org.

Committee to Protect Journalistsseeks invesigation into Kolomiyets’ death

Embassy of the United StatesKYIV – An American Studies and

Language Center officially opened onNovember 14 at Odesa NationalMechnikov University. The center isstocked with more than 200 books andmaterials for English language teachers,including classroom textbooks, a wide vari-ety of resource books and videotapes onlanguage teaching methodology, linguistics,American studies and American literature.

It is one of the few lending centers inUkraine that offers books and materialsthat are specifically designed to meet theneeds of English language teachers. Thecenter is open to all university and sec-

ondary school English language teachersin the Odesa region. Funds for the centercame from the English Language Fellowprogram of the U.S. State Department.

Participating in the opening ceremonywere Patricia Sullivan, the U.S. Embassy’sregional English language officer, andIryna Kolegaeva, chair of the EnglishStylistics/Lexicology Department. Ms.Sullivan thanked the university for sup-porting English language teachers in theOdesa region and also expressed gratitudeto the senior English language fellow inOdesa, Kitty Johnson, who worked withMs. Kolegaeva to find and prepare the sitefor the center and supply it.

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Dues And Premiums From Members:Dues From Members $ 126,959.19 113,771.24 169,402.71 116,375.83 103,972.55 146,051.11 115,279.01 104,100.15 120,898.38Annuity Premiums From Members 52,850.00 26,574.51 141,299.24 210,730.21 60,925.00 49,500.00 149,010.10 62,043.03 274,677.75Universal Life Premium 14,087.69 8,055.03 14,829.51 8,953.59 10,565.38 22,373.04 12,415.78 9,859.37 10,173.68Reinsurance Premiums Paid 0.00 -556.76 -9,892.42 -2,404.20 -10,988.56 -1,091.64 58.34 -678.83 -487.46

$ 193,896.88 147,844.02 315,639.04 333,655.43 164,474.37 216,832.51 276,763.23 175,323.72 405,262.35

Investment Income:Banks $ 872.96 80.06 127.59 779.39 240.36 87.00 689.38 234.91 226.44Bonds 201,211.56 307,272.67 397,097.84 198,061.25 194,892.98 255,119.76 184,008.61 284,902.14 362,414.25Certificate Loans 20.62 1,181.90 1,662.81 1,884.87 2,218.13 1,109.23 1,197.61 885.73 800.91Mortgage Loans 36,969.33 28,605.27 38,218.13 36,788.08 33,014.56 37,837.87 32,502.95 30,424.59 32,292.78Real Estate 31,038.69 15,929.89 14,045.72 37,952.63 110,898.15 181,164.79 300,403.91 230,982.08 164,776.12Short Term Investments 611.35 628.33 652.30 677.54 243.88 1,796.60 2,349.07 736.28 2,667.29Stocks 21,445.63 14,019.47 14,227.91 33,025.25 12,303.82 16,676.85 30,724.81 27,656.16 33,803.88Urban Renewal Corporation 17,333.00 17,333.00 17,333.00 17,333.00 17,333.00 17,333.00 17,333.00 17,333.00 15,708.00

$ 309,503.14 385,050.59 483,365.30 326,502.01 371,144.88 511,125.10 569,209.34 593,154.89 612,689.67

Net Profit(Loss) On Bonds And Stocks Sold Or Bonds Matured $ 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Official Publications Income $ 81,482.59 102,996.38 125,991.20 81,893.24 109,605.55 72,212.34 88,018.55 78,680.93 91,169.31

Miscellaneous:

Donations To Fraternal Fund -68.00 -446.17 -471.00 -5,625.56 0.00 0.00 -657.47 -500.00 1,167.62Donations To Fund For The Rebirth Of Ukraine 10,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Due to Ukr Nat'l Foundation 0.00 0.00 60.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 31.16 -31.16 0.00Exchange Account-UNURC 1,988.20 -149,768.18 244,457.80 107,173.70 -3,350.32 1,855.20 1,966.32 250,806.79 -371,061.42Branch dues payable -5,435.73 410.76 478.66 447.19 481.96 482.13 387.97 355.38 378.43Unallocated funds 5,362.84 -3,845.57 764.94 1,307.89 -895.36 -2,152.35 -912.88 4,614.48 -4,256.35Transfer To Orphans Fund 715.00 -500.00 0.00 -3,923.32 0.00 0.00 4,423.32 -1,060.48 3,923.32

12,562.31 -154,149.16 245,290.40 99,379.90 -3,763.72 184.98 5,238.42 254,185.01 -369,848.40Total Increases In Ledger Assets $ 597,444.92 481,741.83 1,170,285.94 841,430.58 641,461.08 800,354.93 939,229.54 1,101,344.55 739,272.93

DECREASES IN LEDGER ASSETS

Paid To Or For Members:Death Benefits $ 88,704.00 129,698.00 82,668.00 97,092.00 86,657.00 70,037.00 54,146.00 55,332.00 95,976.00Endowments Matured 64,894.00 39,837.00 59,119.00 79,967.00 46,465.00 41,914.00 105,620.88 58,353.00 74,862.00Annuity Benefits And Partial Withdrawals 78,822.97 12,029.62 19,751.09 236,267.61 67,369.70 17,818.12 29,288.01 79,529.77 86,343.63Cash Surrenders 34,004.43 29,849.31 27,730.70 31,398.51 41,705.05 25,038.48 27,324.66 53,849.68 52,970.94Universal Life Withdrawals 347.97 824.37 3,151.82 831.65 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Interest On Death Benefits 169.50 681.18 146.63 141.12 477.68 17.16 85.00 104.26 217.66Fraternal Benefits 0.00 0.00 26,160.57 0.00 0.00 28,396.85 0.00 0.00 19,919.77Dividend Accumulations 1,919.56 2,012.72 1,815.51 1,939.48 1,073.78 1,803.68 2,850.29 1,644.20 4,918.96

$ 268,862.43 214,932.20 220,543.32 447,637.37 243,748.21 185,025.29 219,314.84 248,812.91 335,208.96Commissions, Rewards And Refund Of Expenses:

Commissions And Overrides On Universal Life 469.17 672.92 469.37 940.98 362.47 478.14 387.25 3 5 5 . 6 7 84.39Refund of Branch Secretaries Expenses andReward To Organizers -149.83 10,124.10 9,486.85 15,994.49 8,245.31 9,462.78 10,928.63 16 ,803 .56 14,195.07Reward To Special Organizers 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 600.00 1,950.00 0.00 0 .00 0.00

$ 319.34 10,797.02 9,956.22 16,935.47 9,207.78 11,890.92 11,315.88 17,159.23 14,279.46

General Expenses And Fraternal Payments:Actuarial And Statistical Expenses 10,260.00 386.00 33,030.00 12,635.00 42,941.57 46,650.70 0.00 16,138.00 8,605.00Advertising 868.10 1,201.80 561.80 2,909.63 5,271.80 2,231.80 1,158.10 2,056.80 2,617.86Auditing Committee Expenses 502.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,576.10 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Bank Charges 525.27 519.71 529.01 1,225.55 546.32 765.04 462.27 931.67 651.31Bank Charges For Custodian Account 3,096.72 0.00 1,420.95 3,077.65 0.00 1,265.05 2,375.96 0.00 0.00Books And Periodicals 686.51 290.44 37.79 2,243.90 1,710.81 0.00 738.95 0.00 0.00Depreciation Of E.D.P. Equipment 0.00 0.00 7,300.00 0.00 0.00 7,300.00 0.00 0.00 7,300.00Depreciation Of Printing Plant 0.00 0.00 2,300.00 0.00 0.00 2,300.00 0.00 0.00 2,300.00Depreciation Of Real Estate 0.00 0.00 21,900.00 0.00 0.00 21,900.00 0.00 0.00 21,900.00Donations 0.00 200.00 3,000.00 0.00 2,400.00 3,000.00 0.00 1,500.00 804.97Dues To Fraternal Congresses 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 452.00 3,374.60 65.00 0.00Employee Benefit Plan 42,875.15 49,767.85 17,993.21 33,930.04 27,705.76 -45,008.12 48,604.35 34,413.59 1,993.26Expenses Of Annual Sessions 1,407.36 0.00 0.00 0.00 480.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Field Conferences 0.00 1,286.03 4,586.25 3,688.51 1,604.00 261.50 0.00 1,098.25 10,464.39Fraternal Activities 200.00 50.00 412.00 0.00 105.00 0.00 0.00 2,437.10 0.00General Office Maintenance 3,552.46 836.12 399.49 652.99 467.54 1,465.30 3,512.07 2,328.12 1,477.37Indigent Benefits Disbursed 0.00 0.00 398.05 0.35 49.91 0.00 970.46 200.00 100.00Insurance-General 3,492.68 1,139.67 526.67 526.67 46,326.67 4,729.00 0.00 3,250.80 0.00Investment Expense 2,775.00 -244.00 -28.00 2,500.00 -100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Legal Expenses-General 0.00 4,367.18 10,983.75 11,794.39 9,564.85 5,057.75 13,053.75 10,538.20 2,086.48Medical Examiner's Fee 2,000.00 0.00 0.00 2,000.00 0.00 0.00 2,000.00 0.00 0.00Medical Inspections 602.11 650.18 428.63 833.66 1,034.29 457.73 308.87 113.22 427.65Operating Expense of Canadian Office 0.00 0.00 0.00 3,982.54 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Postage 3,150.28 5,180.07 5,602.76 197.27 6,152.45 5,386.75 2,369.79 10.42 328.91Printing and Stationery 3,023.51 3,238.62 3,312.55 533.21 3,463.07 1,004.90 3,974.68 1,366.56 6,491.56Professional Fees 0.00 78.00 1,264.70 0.00 0.00 28,309.18 1,183.53 0.00 4,316.00Rent 20,931.04 20,931.04 20,931.04 20,931.04 20,931.04 20,931.04 20,931.04 20,931.04 20,931.04Rental Of Equipment And Services 5,839.10 3,055.92 4,330.29 3,764.70 2,448.24 2,661.27 5,348.61 3,032.82 2,687.05Salaries Of Executive Officers 15,515.87 15,515.87 15,515.87 15,515.87 15,515.87 15,515.87 21,944.52 25,961.52 19,807.68Salaries Of Office Employees 46,290.38 47,715.73 69,683.94 46,999.36 51,984.88 48,078.82 46,344.30 63,613.22 42,475.91Scholarships 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 -200.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Telephone 2,895.90 -20.70 5,459.65 3,341.40 3,246.37 -4,041.09 3,556.76 1,884.19 1,542.21Transfer Account -16,203.12 14,081.51 2,121.61 1,516.37 -22.58 -1,378.47 -75,000.00 -1,060.48 66,113.44Traveling Expenses-General 48.50 0.00 49.10 40.50 0.00 0.00 161.40 197.50 721.90Youth Sports Activities 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 500.00 595.78

$ 154,334.82 170,227.04 234,151.11 174,840.60 245,203.96 169,296.02 107,374.01 191,507.54 226,739.77

Taxes, Licenses And Fees:$ 0.00 2,915.21 0.00 0.00 0.00 5,443.71 0.00 0.00 0.00

Taxes-Canadian Premium, Investment and Business Taxes 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2,530.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Insurance Department Fees 226.25 16,595.57 1,744.98 2,744.31 2,595.98 280.96 452.00 21.00 1,150.00Taxes-Federal, State And City On Employee Wages 14,242.64 6,742.29 8,851.47 6,430.29 6,378.44 5,965.18 5,520.54 8,373.15 5,144.12

$ 14,468.89 26,253.07 10,596.45 9,174.60 8,974.42 14,219.85 5,972.54 8,394.15 6,294.12

Loss On Bonds, Stocks and Foreclosed Properties $ 0.00 0.00 9,504.50 0.00 0.00 500.59 0.00 0.00 34,922.95

Real Estate $ 108,492.69 69,156.53 76,822.56 88,895.77 112,435.08 211,062.62 341,479.27 397,028.44 112,079.81

Official Publications Expenses $ 89,500.69 115,475.74 133,852.12 100,026.23 90,881.20 163,786.92 84,940.98 119,283.43 133,025.45

Miscellaneous:Convention Expenses $ 0.00 0.00 5,659.63 17,362.12 84,608.81 54,319.44 5,954.29 19,852.35 1,381.39Certificate Loans Adjustments 0.00 0.00 -259.52 80.74 1.78 -993.25 160.00 0.00 0.00Due To Broker 0.00 0.00 -100,000.00 100,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Due From Ukrainian National Foundation, Inc.Reserve For Unpresented Checks 130.19 0.00 3,432.20 5,853.24 9,183.86 4,142.51 372.79 1,000.00 6,000.32Trust Fund Disbursed 0.00 407.08 3,659.62 0.00 0.00 0.00 4,423.32 1,705.26 12,350.83

$ 130.19 407.08 -87,508.07 123,296.10 93,794.45 57,468.70 10,910.40 22,557.61 19,732.54Total Decreases In Ledger Assets $ 636,109.05 607,248.68 607,918.21 960,806.14 804,245.10 813,250.91 781,307.92 1,004,743.31 882,283.06

Increase(Decrease) In Ledger Assets During The Period $ -38,664.13 -125,506.85 562,367.73 -119,375.56 -162,784.02 -12,895.98 157,921.62 96,601.24 -143,010.13

Amount Of Ledger Assets At The Beginning Of The Month 65,738,982.66 65,700,318.53 65,574,811.68 66,137,179.41 66,017,803.85 65,855,019.83 65,842,123.85 66,000,045.47 66,096,646.71

Amount Of Ledger Assets At The End Of The Month $ 65 ,700 ,318 .53 65 ,574 ,811 .68 66 ,137 ,179 .41 66 ,017 ,803 .85 65 ,855 ,019 .83 65 ,842 ,123 .85 66 ,000 ,045 .47 66 ,096 ,646 .71 65 ,953 ,636 .58

SUMMARY OF LEDGER ASSETSJanuary 31, February 28, March 31, April 30, May 31, June 30, July 30, August 31, September 30,

2 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 2

Cash $ 417,660.41 279,486.42 632,162.84 1,247,155.83 660,614.76 429,941.17 1,100,183.47 805,546.41 1,924,128.43Short Term Investments 435,000.91 554,961.17 461,932.77 60,419.45 1,164,242.21 1,089,616.73 787,652.98 1,512,415.09 74,276.05Bonds 46,407,704.38 45,907,562.57 45,905,369.28 45,405,118.11 44,781,854.82 45,153,512.65 45,142,129.67 44,841,995.47 45,404,627.83Mortgage Loans 5,832,623.75 5,811,539.52 5,904,016.09 6,075,502.59 5,917,044.49 5,871,797.07 5,671,764.65 5,637,096.38 5,618,235.16Certificate Loan 292,380.91 292,687.87 293,485.55 288,521.09 290,176.77 286,347.36 287,405.83 287,553.28 292,048.06Real Estate 2,783,408.37 2,783,598.98 2,761,698.98 2,761,698.98 2,761,698.98 2,741,121.07 2,741,121.07 2,741,336.44 2,719,436.44Printing Plant & E.D.P. Equipment 126,166.18 126,166.18 116,566.18 117,440.08 117,440.08 107,840.08 107,840.08 108,755.92 99,155.92Stocks 6,100,822.58 6,514,257.93 6,757,396.68 6,757,396.68 6,857,396.68 6,857,396.68 6,857,396.68 6,857,396.68 6,817,177.65Loan to D.H.-U.N.A Housing Corp. 104,551.04 104,551.04 104,551.04 104,551.04 104,551.04 104,551.04 104,551.04 104,551.04 104,551.04Loan To U.N.U.R.C. 3,200,000.00 3,200,000.00 3,200,000.00 3,200,000.00 3,200,000.00 3,200,000.00 3,200,000.00 3,200,000.00 2,900,000.00Total $ 65 ,700 ,318 .53 65 ,574 ,811 .68 66 ,137 ,179 .41 66 ,017 ,803 .85 65 ,855 ,019 .83 65 ,842 ,123 .85 66 ,000 ,045 .47 66 ,096 ,646 .71 65 ,953 ,636 .58

ROMA LISOVICHTreasurer

Report of Ukrainian National Association Financial DepartmentReconciliation of Ledger Assets

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2002 5No. 47

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

UNA Auditing Committee conductsfirst post-convention review of operations

The resolution below was inadvertent-ly omitted from the list of resolutions for-warded by the UNA for publication inThe Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda. Theresolution was presented by theResolutions Committee (after the propos-al was submitted by the Plast Caucus)and adopted by delegates to the 35thRegular UNA Convention held on May24-28 in Chicago. It should haveappeared as the first item under theheading “Resolutions Committee.”

We, the delegates call on the newUNA leadership in the strongest possibleterms to do their utmost – and then some– to assure that Soyuzivka remains aUNA asset and one of the best fraternalbenefits the society has to offer its mem-

bers.We call on our new president and new

officers, auditors and advisors to keepour beloved Catskill Mountains resorteither wholly owned by the UNA or atthe very least to limit any partnership thatmay be needed to save and invigorateSoyuzivka, to ones that will involveorganizations or investors from theworld-wide Ukrainian community.

We also remind our leaders that theUNA remains a Ukrainian Communityorganization and that one essential aspectof its functions and responsibilities is therearing of our children in the Ukrainianculture and traditions and that Soyuzivkahas been where that socialization processbegins, specifically in the children’scamps held there.

UNA Convention resolutionregarding Soyuzivka resort

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PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The three-member Auditing Committee elected at the 35thRegular Convention of the Ukrainian National Association began its first post-con-vention review of the operations of the UNA and its subsidiaries on Tuesday,November 19, at the UNA Corporate Headquarters. Seen above (from left) are:Alexander Serafyn, Zenon Holubec (chairman) and Yaroslav Zaviysky.

RECORDING DEPARTMENTMEMBERSHIP REPORT – OCTOBER 2002

Christine E. Kozak, National Secretary

Juvenile Adult ADD TotalTotal Active Members – 9/2002 6,224 13,028 2,852 22,104Total Inactive Members –9/2002 7,522 16,626 0 24,148Total Members – 9/2002 13,746 29,654 2,852 46,252

ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP

Gains in 10/2002New members 11 21 0 32New members UL 0 0 0 0Reinstated 3 13 5 21

Total Gains: 14 34 5 53Losses in 10/2002

Died 1 32 0 33Cash surrender 10 15 0 25Endowment matured 10 34 0 44Fully paid-up 12 24 0 36Reduced paid-up 0 0 0 0Extended Insurance 8 35 0 43Certificates lapsed (active) 6 3 15 24Certificate terminated 0 2 4 6

Total Losses 47 144 19 210Total Active Members – 10/2002 6,191 12,918 2,838 21,947

INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP

Gains in 10/2002

Paid-up 12 24 0 36Reduced paid up 0 0 0 0Extended insurance 8 34 0 42

Total Gains 20 58 0 78Losses in 10/2002

* Died 2 48 0 50* Cash surrender 4 12 0 16Pure endowment matured 2 2 0 4Reinstated to active 3 13 0 16Certificates lapsed (inactive) 2 7 0 9

Total Losses 13 82 0 95Total Inactive Members – 10/2002 7,529 16,602 0 24,131

TOTAL MEMBERSHIP – 10/2002 13,720 29,520 2,838 46,078

(* Paid up and reduced paid up policies)

Mission StatementThe Ukrainian National Association exists:

nn to promote the principles of fraternalism; nn to preserve the Ukrainian, Ukrainian American and Ukrainian Canadian

heritage and culture; and nn to provide quality financial services and products to its members.

As a fraternal insurance society, the Ukrainian National Association reinvestsits earnings for the benefit of its members and the Ukrainian community.

Roma Hadzewycz

THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 20026 No. 47

The Ukrainian community is now commemorating the 69thanniversary of the Great Famine of 1932-1933, in whichsome 7 million to 10 million perished. Twenty years ago, thispaper published a series of columns – based on reports from

Svoboda and, later, The Ukrainian Weekly (which began publication in October 1933)– that was aimed at reminding and informing readers of this genocide.

On November 29, 1932, Svoboda reported that the Communists were not particu-larly worried about the famine in the Soviet Union. The Communist press reported the“surprising lack of foodstuffs in the Soviet Union.” The Communists added that thepeasantry should be taught what is good and profitable by force. However, the Soviet

Nov.

291932

Turning the pages back...

Verkhovna Rada Second Vice-Chairman Oleksander Zinchenko was absolutelycorrect when he told a press conference on November 18 that prime minister-desig-nate Viktor Yanukovych, who would be confirmed by the Parliament three days later,should not be unfairly labeled because in his youth he had been convicted of robberyand assault.

He was right in stating that: “You have to consider his age at the time and the factthat he had been an orphan since the age of 4.” In addition, Mr. Zinchenko very prop-erly queried whether a person has the right to make up for past mistakes with currentdeeds? The obvious answer to that is, of course.

With that established, let us move to a much later period of Mr. Yanukovych’sactivities – to consider whether it is possible that the chairman of the Donetsk Oblast,a post to which Mr. Yanukovych was appointed in May 1997, had such a charismatic,pervasive and convincing hold over the electorate of the Donbas region that he man-aged to bring a full-scale turnaround and overwhelming support for the pro-presiden-tial forces in the March parliamentary elections using only fair and transparent demo-cratic methods?

What had previously been a Communist stronghold lost its red coloration so sud-denly and with so little prior warning that few believe the elections in Donetsk wereeven close to free and fair. The region, after all, has seen little economic improvementor any sort of change to suggest that the tide had turned against the Communists whowon it handily both in the 1999 presidential race and in the 1998 parliamentary elec-tions. It remains relatively poor, with tiny, odd specks of prosperity scattered about –most notably in the Donetsk city center and the areas where the political and econom-ic clan that rules the region has its bases.

While Mr. Yanukovych cannot be charged with unlawful activity in the Marchelections until there is concrete proof that he violated specific laws, there are few herewho believe he is a reformist democrat. This bull of a man, noted for his straightfor-ward and intimidating manner, is a political manager of the old Soviet school. Hebelieves in getting things done. As he explained in a speech to the Verkhovna Radajust prior to his confirmation vote on November 21, democracy is not an end in itself,but simply a way to achieve results.

“Democracy is an effective management technique, not a tool that results in theweakening of state power,” explained Mr. Yanukovych.

The Donetsk Oblast chairman has seen his stock rise quickly as Ukraine has con-tinued to descend into a mire of controversy and political instability. In Ukraine’sParliament, many see his ascending star as a counterbalance to the power currentlywielded by President Kuchma’s chief of staff, Viktor Medvedchuk. As they explain it,the president has always felt better when he has had the two strongest elements inUkraine’s galaxy of competing oligarchic political and business interests under hiscontrol. He is most comfortable when they are in juxtaposition to one another withhim as the middleman. You could call it a variation on the Machiavellian philosophyof “divide and conquer.”

Others believe the president has decided to mold the 51-year-old Mr. Yanukovych,who has been associated with Mr. Kuchma since he himself was prime minister in1992, as his successor. These political observers explain that Mr. Kuchma has decidedthat this longtime political ally is the one person he can fully trust to ensure him apeaceful retirement, much as Russian President Boris Yeltsin picked Vladimir Putin togive him peace of mind in his golden years.

There is also a third school of thought that suggests that the president has decidedthere is no talking with Mr. Yushchenko about assuming any sort of leading positionin government because the former prime minister’s close ties to the West, where thepresident has been effectively isolated, make him untrustworthy. For this reason, anychance that Mr. Yushchenko and Mr. Yanukovych might find a political consensus fora new parliamentary majority had to be destroyed by giving the latter the reins of gov-ernment and the former a swift kick.

At this juncture, it is difficult to determine what the new prime minister, Ukraine’s10th in the last 12 years, will become – another Pavlo Lazarenko, with whom compar-isons already have been made, or a reformer in the mold of Mr. Yushchenko, withwhom he nearly formed a political partnership. Yet, it is not too early to consider thatMr. Yanukovych’s murky record on free and fair elections and his close ties to myste-rious businessman Renat Akhmetov, the 36-year-old billionaire who has acted as aWizard of Oz-like figure in the resurgence of the so-called “Donetsk Clan,” make himanother in a line of Ukrainian political leaders whose motives and aspirations are opento question. Current indications are that he will not make a serious attempt to bringconsensus to Ukrainian politics and, more importantly, will not promote transparenteconomic reform.

We state this with full understanding that the indiscretions of youth can be forgiven,but with concern that the indiscretions of adulthood cannot. Furthermore, what is goodfor Mr. Kuchma, is not necessarily good for Ukraine.

Yanukovych takes the reinsTHE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY

by the Rev. Bohdan Lukie

So many of our glorious Ukrainianinstitutions have sprung from a smallseedling, have spread their roots into theinner fabric of our society and have growninto mighty oaks, providing both nourish-ment and life for future generations.

In 1939 a dedicated group ofUkrainians in Newark, N.J. gathered their20 children together and under the guid-ance of the Basilian Sisters created St.John the Baptist Ukrainian CatholicSchool. With the growing moral andfinancial support of the Ukrainian com-munity, this seedling quickly sprang upand flourished with over 100 childrenenrolled by 1947.

God continued to abundantly blessthis newly created educational institutionwith numerous children of the newUkrainian immigrants arriving in the late1940s. A vision of our own UkrainianCatholic school guided the early pioneersto create a new structure in 1953 and by1960 the school flourished beyond allimagination with over 500 childrenreceiving an excellent academic educa-tion, and ethnic and cultural formation.Graduating classes of 45 students andkindergarten classes of 35 little onesbecame the annual norm.

However, in the course of time, evenmighty oaks became aged and cease togrow. With the shifting of the Ukrainianpopulation from the Newark vicinity togreener pastures beyond the reach of theschool, St. John’s school unhappily wit-nessed an ever-diminishing enrollment.Many and varied attempts were made toreverse this unfortunate trend and for abrief moment with the new Fourth Waveof immigrants, the school again, againstall odds, began to flourish. However,even this burst of renewed energy wasshort-lived.

In the past 15 years, other Ukrainiancommunities in Philadelphia, Jersey Cityand Elizabeth, N.J., to mention a few,were forced to acknowledge that theycould no longer fulfill their mandate and

reluctantly closed the doors of their onceillustrious Ukrainian educational institu-tions.

In recent years, St John’s in Newark,the alma mater of thousands of success-ful Ukrainian graduates, has struggledvaliantly against all odds to maintain andsolidify its future. Generations ofUkrainians have personally sacrificedmuch time and energy; they have con-tributed financially beyond their meansto ensure that St. John’s School wouldstand strong and tall.

However, from all appearances, StJohn’s, as a proud educational institution,for various and obvious reasons, has alsosadly run its humble course. Even themighty oak, with time, age and lack ofnourishment, begins to crumble and dies.Student enrollment has drastically dimin-ished. Graduating classes of eight or 10,kindergarten classes of six or seven, andthe student enrollment of 80 now hasbecome the unfortunate norm. To beviable St. John’s School must boast of astudent population of 130 and this dream,at this juncture of history, seems unat-tainable.

Loyal and generous alumni of St.John’s, determined that their alma materwould not become part of AmericanUkrainian history, have stepped forwardrecently to bolster the finances with theirgenerous donations, but even this is sadlyinsufficient to ensure its future.

In the past five years, St. John’s Parishalone has contributed over $600,000 tomaintain and support its UkrainianCatholic school, but the parish, whichannually discloses all its financial state-ments, has basically depleted its mone-tary resources and cannot support its“glistening gem” for another year with-out the possibility of bankruptcy.

All interested parents, all parishionersand especially all alumni are invited to ageneral informational meeting onSunday, December 15 after the 9:30 a.m.divine liturgy to discuss, to propose andto implement constructive and positivesolutions to ensure the future of St. Johnthe Baptist Ukrainian Catholic schoolbeyond the 2002-2003 academic year.

If you have been part of St. John’spast, please be part of its future.

Newark parish ponders futureof financially strapped school

NEWS AND VIEWS

The Rev. Bohdan Lukie is pastor of St.John the Baptist Ukrainian CatholicChurch in Newark, N.J.

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Major news stories from Ukraine havenot been pleasant. In September, tens ofthousands took to the streets in the largestdemonstrations since independence. Theprotests featured a coalition of strange bed-fellows marching in thick columns, sharplydelineated by their respective colors:Communists with their red banners, cen-trists under the blue and yellow of Ukraineand on the fringes of the crowd, a sliver ofnationalists waving red and black flags.

United under the slogan of “Ukrainewithout Kuchma,” the protesters accusedthe president of corruption, abuse of officeand election tampering. The most seriouscharges concern his alleged involvement inthe killing of investigative journalistHeorhii Gongadze and now, in defiance of aU.N. arms embargo, the sale of anadvanced radar system to Iraq. As proof,Mr. Kuchma’s critics cite secret tape record-ings on which he is heard ordering the elim-ination of Mr. Gongadze and approving theIraq deal. In response, President Kuchmaacknowledges that, indeed, it is his voice onthe tapes, but he denies their authenticity,denouncing them as fakes assembled bydisinformation experts and then leaked todiscredit him. (It doesn’t help his cause thatMr. Kuchma orders restrictions on pressfreedom. Never mind that PresidentVladimir Putin does the same in Russia.)

In the West, media reaction to all this hasbeen blistering: “Rogue Merchants,” oneeditorial trumpeted. “U.S. Plans to ShunUkraine President over Radar,” anotherheadline read. A prominent columnistadvises President George W. Bush to “callfor a unified effort of NATO’s 19 member-nations to single out Mr. Kuchma for diplo-matic isolation.”

The controversy in Ukraine is alsoreflected in the pages of The UkrainianWeekly. Well-meaning readers adviseUkrainian Americans to rally support forPresident Kuchma. Others, equally well-meaning, campaign for his removal.

As for me, I don’t know what to make ofit. It’s all so redolent of the by-gone Sovietera: hidden microphones, murders, armsdeals, mysterious auto accidents, harass-ment of the media, conspiracies...You readthe accusations and the denials and wonder:Who’s telling the truth? What is the truth?Who gains? Who loses? Who’s behind allthis? From a distance of 10,000 miles, Ican’t pretend to sort it all out.

Instead, I fall back on my mother’sadvice from an earlier and far worse era inUkraine of mass arrests, censorship and sti-fling repression. The best politics, she said,is raising children to respect and love theheritage of their ancestors.

So it’s in that spirit that I drove toColumbus during the first week ofNovember to help with Cleveland’sKashtan Dance Group, the featured act atan international festival there. For 25 yearsnow, David Woznak, Mark Komichak andothers have been teaching children fromage 5 to adults, moving them through theranks of the Kashtan School of Dance untilthey’re ready for the stage, with all theapplause and praise that follow. In a nicetouch, the 20-year-old, Columbus-basedCultural Association of Ohio, headed byMaria Gordon, treated the 40 or so childrento dinner after the show.

Further south in Cincinnati, the SisterCity Project between that city and Kharkiv,coordinated by Helen Mess, is now in its14th year. Over that period, more than2,000 citizens of both cities have participat-ed in exchanges, including business classes

for young entrepreneurs from Kharkiv,taught by Cincinnati University’s Dr. LewMelnyk.

At Ohio State University, American kidslearn Ukrainian history and culture in theclass that Dr. George Kalbouss has beenteaching for the past four years. OSU alsohas a demonstration project in Ukraine’sKhmelnytsky Oblast, spearheaded by BradBeeler from the School of Agriculture.

In Cleveland where I’m from, we alsohave exchange programs with Ukraine. TheCuyahoga County Health Department isengaged in a partnership designed to helpthe Lviv Oblast develop a family medicinepractice. Coordinator Barbara Gallowayenjoys telling stories about her trips to Lvivand the reaction she gets as an AfricanAmerican, when she tosses off greetings inUkrainian. A highlight of each exchange isa trip to the Ukrainian Museum Archivesfor a reception with the community. Dr. IhorZachary, head of the local chapter of theUkrainian Medical Association of NorthAmerica, invariably extends a greeting, andVasyl Liscynesky, the head of GreaterCleveland’s United UkrainianOrganizations, gives his standard speechabout how thrilled he is to work with guestsfrom Ukraine. He means it.

In Bowling Green and Toledo, AlBaldwin and others at the Great LakesConsortium work with the Catholic Church,academic institutions and other entities inUkraine to organize classes, exchanges andsmall-scale entrepreneurial projects.

I list all these people, not because they’refamous but because they do good work, asdo so many others in Ohio: physicians likeGeorge Jaskiw, who chairs the parents’committee for the Ridna Shkola Ukrainian-language school and Mark Bey who headsup Plast; retired Army Maj. OlehHolowatyj, the head of Cleveland’s SUMBranch; and attorney Oleh Mahlay, directorof the Ukrainian Bandura Chorus. Still oth-ers make pyrohy on Fridays to benefit thechurch, tend bar at a carnival or sweep upafter a zabava.

The innovative projects, the volun-teerism and enthusiasm that I see aroundme in Ohio, exist elsewhere in the UnitedStates, Canada, Ukraine, etc. Just leafthrough the pages of The Ukrainian Weeklyand Svoboda, if you don’t believe me.People contributing their energies are thefoundation of our communities. In the finalanalysis, they provide the political strengthfor Ukraine’s struggle to remain independ-ent and to become prosperous.

The columnist who denounced PresidentKuchma, also made a point of urging con-tinued support for the Ukrainian people.Amen to that. Their vote in 1991 for free-dom, independence and democracychanged history, transforming their owncountry, as well as those of their neighborsinto something vastly better. Greed, corrup-tion and murky conspiracy must not beallowed to frustrate their legitimate aspira-tions.

I believe – know – that the underlyingstrength of Ukrainians, reflected in myriadactivities, will see them through this era,just as it has in the past. So, if you’re driv-ing a child to Ukie School, to Plast or SUM,to dance class or to church on Sunday, ifyou’re welcoming guests from Ukraine orsimply preparing borshch for ChristmasEve – whatever – add yourself to the list ofUkraine’s political assets – those irreplace-able people whose energies are essential toa better future.

Politics Ukrainian-style in 2002

PERSPECTIVESBY ANDREW FEDYNSKY

Dear Editor:Andrew Nynka’s article on the status

of Verkhovyna Resort and the UACFboard left a few items that could use fur-ther explanation. The reason that thereare two boards that claim legitimacy canbe traced to events surrounding the May20, 2001, meeting.

At this time we were three weeksfrom losing Verkhovyna unless we cameup with the money. Stephan Kapczakcame to the meeting with an agreementfrom Jeffersonville bank in Monticello togive us a $750,000 mortgage, but wewere still short after all costs were cov-ered. He had spoken to various boardmembers about putting in their own per-sonal funds to make up the difference. Inaddition, the board members would needto sign loan guarantees for the mortgage.He proposed that these individuals, all ofwhom were present board members,would make up the new board of direc-tors of UACF beginning at the closing onJune 7. After a short discussion this pro-posal was approved unanimously.

Dr. Woroch, who was not present atthe meeting due to illness, gave me twovotes by proxy (his and his wifeOksana’s) and instructed me to vote forthe proposal. Dr. Woroch had alreadytaken out a $68,000 emergency loan,using his house in Philadelphia as collat-eral, to put money into a court-appointedescrow account, so he was the first per-son to make up the new board.

The controversy exists because mem-bers of the board who were unwilling toput up personal funds for the closingattempted to re-establish their member-ship on the new board by denying thatsuch a vote took place. Denying whathappened at this meeting has turned intoa he-said/she-said scenario, except forone undeniable fact. Three members ofthe plaintiffs who are pressing this law-suit were present at the closing where theexact make-up of the board was listed inthe closing documents. AntonFilimonchuk, in fact, signed these docu-ments. In the closing documents he is notlisted as a board member because herefused to sign the loan guarantee. It isironic that he is claiming that a legaldocument that he signed is in fact illegal.In these documents Mr. Kapczak is listedas President and Dr. Stephan Woroch islisted as CEO. Dr. Woroch remainedCEO until, in a letter dated December12, 2001, he officially stated that becauseof illness he is passing on all his respon-sibilities for the running of Verkhovynaresort to Mr. Kapczak.

After Dr. Woroch’s death, his familyturned to the present board of the UACFto pay off Dr. Woroch’s loan which Mr.Kapczak did by taking out a personalloan of his own. To my knowledge Mr.Filimonchuk’s board never made anyattempt to pay off this loan.

One may question the motivation ofthe plaintiffs in this suit. What do four80-year-old individuals hope to accom-plish? Since they do not have muchchance of winning the court case, theironly victory can come from putting pres-sure on the board by eroding public sup-port. Whatever the outcome of this law-suit, there will be no winners since theexistence of the suit has already hurt theUACF financially by making fund-rais-ing difficult and putting Verkhovyna in aprecarious financial situation. Even ifMr. Filimonchuk should win by havingthe closing declared illegal, he opens thedoor to David Willner, who had an

Further explanationregarding the UACF

agreement to buy Verkhovyna from theUkrainian Fraternal Association, toreclaim his right to buy the resort.

The full story of Verkhovyna is trulytragic and in many ways parallels thestory of Ukraine itself; first Verkhovynais almost sold off to foreigners, then it ispillaged by this group, and finally,because of internal division, it onceagain is in danger of being lost.

Oleh KolodiyMaplewood, N.J.

The letter writer is vice-president ofthe Ukrainian American CulturalFoundation.

Dear Editor:Why should Dr. Myron Kuropas apol-

ogize for telling the truth? Alla LehkyHeretz (Letter to the Editor, November10) admits that the majority of people inpresent-day Ukraine still live in fearbecause their tormentors remain inpower.

Well, who put those tormentors inpower, but the majority of Ukrainianpeople who still believe in the ideologyof communism and who still worshipStalin as a savior and benefactor of theSlavic people?

Far from being a hero, Koba was acloset fascist/socialist who should havebeen shot for treason (under Section 52of the Soviet Criminal Code).

Yet no one in the Soviet Union had thecourage to charge and arrest him due tothat very same “all-encompassing fear”of which Ms. Heretz speaks.

It seems many Ukrainians preferredsilent survivorship and complacencywithin a Communist union, and that verycomplacency, after decades, translatedinto complicity with the status quo. Lestshe forget, both of independent Ukraine’spresidents, Leonid Kravchuk and LeonidKuchma were high-level Communistapparatchiks and Ukraine’s courts havejust recently legalized the CommunistParty. So what’s there to apologize for?

It was Ukrainian NKVD Gen. PavelSudoplatov with his Jewish andUkrainian henchmen who murdered Col.Yevhen Konovalets and others onStalin’s orders.

I, too, wrote to Morley Safer andresented being called “genetically anti-semitic,” but what surprised me the mostwas how our precious American govern-ment stood by Mr. Safer’s absurd slan-der. Dr. Kuropas slandered no one; hemerely told the Ukrainian diaspora that itcannot profess to have a free independ-ent Ukraine when it is run by the sametyrants that ran it previously.

I agree with Ms. Heretz that many ofus suffered in silence and continue tosuffer, being deprived by Ukraine ofproperties nationalized, both under theSoviet and Ukrainian systems.

Finally, many native Ukrainians todaystill think of us diasporans as traitors and“nationalistic bandits.”

Andrew M. Senkowsky, D.D.S.Van Etten, N.Y.

Why apologizefor telling the truth?

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by Miriam Bates

WASHINGTON – The U.S.-UkraineFoundation has distributed its first scholar-ship awards, totaling $2,100, to students inUkraine for the 2002-2003 school year.

The foundation’s Maryniuk andKovaluk Scholarship Funds support highereducation in Ukraine, and the first scholar-ships were recently provided to 13 talentedUkrainian students.

The funds are made possible throughthe assistance of the U.S.-UkraineFoundation (USUF), a non-profit organiza-tion based in Washington that facilitatesdemocratic development and encouragesfree market reform in Ukraine.

Maryniuk Scholarship FundAndrew and Luba Maryniuk, along

with sons Jerry and George, establishedthe Maryniuk Scholarship Fund inDecember 2001 to help deserving studentsfrom Zheldets, Lviv Oblast, continue post-secondary school studies.

The Maryniuk Scholarship Fund award-ed its first scholarships at a ceremony atUSUF’s Lviv office. Students OleksandraMarko, Halyna Mazurkevych, BohdanaPajtra and Nelya Storozhuk each received$300. Attendees also included PetroMavko, USUF’s representative in Lviv,Oksana Vynnytska, honorary consul ofCanada, Hanna Pajtra, the director of thesecondary school in Zheldets, and parentsof the awardees.

Ms. Vynnytska spoke about the value ofsupporting talented young people in thepursuit of their education and the impactthis kind of assistance can have in creatinga better life for the next generation inUkraine. She also read a congratulatoryletter from the Maryniuk family to the stu-dents and their parents, expressing thedeep hope that one day the students wouldbecome “leaders of Ukraine, and profes-sionally competent women, who under-

stand their role in developing an independ-ent Ukraine in all areas of knowledge.”

Mrs. Pajtra spoke about Iryna andAndrew Maryniuk, calling them patriots oftheir “little homeland” of Zheldets, whounderstand the real needs and care deeplyabout the fate of the villagers. In additionto the Maryniuk Scholarship Fund, itshould be noted that the Maryniuks havebeen steadily helping foster greater interestin education in Zheldets in other ways.They have supported the high school bydonating and financing reconditioned com-puters through the Kobzar Society ofPennsylvania and have purchased sub-scriptions to Svoboda for the students ofthe school.

Mrs. Pajtra also underscored the fund’spositive influence on other students, eventhose in neighboring villages, in encourag-ing them toward greater academic achieve-ment.

Upon receiving their awards, the stu-dents made it clear that they understoodthe responsibility they felt it placed onthem. Nelya Storozhuk and Ms. Pajtra areboth students at the Ivan Franko NationalUniversity of Lviv in economics and phi-losophy, respectively. Lesya Marko isstudying at the Law College at NationalUniversity of Lviv and HalyaMazurkevych attends the PedagogicalCollege in Brody.

Students and parents expressed theirgratitude for the opportunity they had beenoffered to pursue higher studies – some-thing often beyond the means of villagechildren. More than anything, they under-scored that the scholarships offered themhope.

Kovaluk Scholarship FundThe Kovaluk Scholarship Fund was

established in December 2000 by the fami-ly of Melania Denys Kovaluk to encouragestudents from the village of Zabolotits,Lviv Oblast, to continue their education on

Maryniuk and Kovaluk scholarships awarded to students in Ukrainethe university level.

The first Kovaluk scholarships wereawarded to nine students at a ceremony atthe high school in Zabolotivts with mem-bers of the students’ families and theKovaluk family looking on.

The nine award recipients are OlehShalvira, Andrij Petrylak, Svitlana Opoka,Natalia Shynkar, Jaroslav Baran, OlhaVintoniv, Iryna Denys, Lesia Popovychand Natalia Vajda. Each received $100(528 hrv). Also present were, IrynaDemchuk, representing the CanadaUkraine Foundation, and Vitalij Lesiuk ofthe U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, both fromthe Lviv offices of their respective organi-zations.

Each of the students who received thecash award is enrolled in an institute ofhigher education in Ukraine. These includethe Lviv Polytechnic National University,the Agricultural Technical Institute in

Berezhany, the Drohobych StatePedagogical University, the TernopilAcademy of National Economy, the LvivAcademy of Commerce, the Kherson StatePedagogical University, the UkrainianState Institute of Forestry in Lviv and theIvan Franko National University of Lviv.

The Kovaluk Scholarship Fund is joint-ly administered by USUF and the CanadaUkraine Foundation of Winnepeg.

Additional donations to the KovalukScholarship Fund and the MaryniukScholarship Fund are welcome. Pleaseindicate the appropriate fund when sendinga check to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation,733 15th St. NW – Suite 1026,Washington, DC 20005.

Questions to the foundation can bedirected to: telephone, (202) 347-4264;fax, (202) 347-4267, e-mail:usuf@usukraine.org; homepage,www.usukraine.org.

MIENSK – Two representatives ofinternational organizations who are ofUkrainian origin have just completedtheir assignments in Miensk, Belarus,and have been reassigned to new posts.

Sergiy Kulyk, the World Bank’sCountry Office Manager for Belarus forthe last three and a half years, is takingup a new position at his organization’sheadquarters in Washington as the pro-gram coordinator for Ukraine, Belarusand Moldova.

Mr. Kulyk, was born in westernUkraine and, before joining the WorldBank, represented Ukraine inWashington as a diplomat. He has been aprominent and respected figure inBelarus who has provided advice and

guidance on economic matters with elo-quence and tact.

The other official is Bohdan Nahaylo,who has headed the office of the UnitedNations High Commissioner forRefugees in Belarus since 1999. He hasbeen appointed UNHCR’s Representativein Baku, Azerbaijan.

Mr. Nahaylo was born and educated inthe United Kingdom. After working forAmesty International in London, andthen pursuing a career as a writer, analystand journalist, including for RadioLiberty/Radio Free Europe in Munich, hejoined UNHCR in 1994 and initiallyworked at its Geneva headquarters as asenior policy adviser on the CIS coun-tries.

Representatives of international organizationsreassigned to new posts in U.S., Azerbaijan

Sergiy Kulyk (standing, left) and Bohdan Nahaylo (standing, right) with CarlDagenhart (seated, left), Belarus Project Manager, International FinanceCoorporation, and Neil Buhne, the United Nations resident coordinator in

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Mr. Sawkiw added, “the UCCA hasbeen working diligently on the issue ofconstructing a monument to the victims ofthe Ukrainian Famine-Genocide and I amextremely pleased to announce that ourefforts have come to fruition.”

The UCCA president said that theunveiling of the new monument, plannedfor 2008, would commemorate the 75th

anniversary of the Great Famine. The costof building the memorial, Mr. Sawkiwsaid, would rest on the UkrainianAmerican diaspora.

In a letter read to the group assembledin St. Patrick’s Cathedral from the sur-rounding New York metropolitan area,including New Jersey, Connecticut andPennsylvia, President George W. Bush senthis greetings and said he joins “the peopleof Ukraine and Ukrainian Americans inremembering the victims of this horrific

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The president also said: “Today, theUnited States continues to assist a free andindependent Ukraine in constructing itsdemocratic structures, instituting a free-market economy and full respect forhuman rights. Such efforts will helpensure that no such atrocity as the Famineof 1932-1933, will ever befall theUkrainian nation again.”

In his remarks at St. Patrick’sCathedral, Cardinal Husar, the keynotespeaker for the commemoration, under-lined the purpose of gathering to com-memorate the Famine. “We are assembledin this church to pray and reflect in prayer-ful spirit about this terrible past and itsconsequences today.” The cardinal addedthat, moving forward, “we should dedicateourselves to greatness, to beauty, to love.”

Gov. George Pataki of New York, Reps.Levin (D-Mich.) and Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), as well as the Consul General ofUkraine in Chicago Borys Bazylevsky,sent messages that were read during thepress conference. Their statements com-memorated the 69th anniversary of theGreat-Famine and supported the UCCAinitiative to build a Washington memorial.Rep. Levin, the main sponsor of H.R.5289, said, “It is important that we remem-ber their [the victims of the famine] livesand their deaths, and work to ensure thatfood is never again used as a weapon.”

Rep. Kaptur also expressed her strongsupport for a Famine memorial inWashington. “This year, however, we not

only look back and grieve the victims, butglance into the future,” Rep. Kaptur said.

“We need to ensure that the memory ofthe Ukrainian Famine-Genocide lives onand warns future generations againstallowing oppressive regimes to rule overany nation,” Rep. Kaptur said.

“I am honored to add my support to theconstruction of a monument inWashington, D.C., to the victims of theUkraine Famine-Genocide. It reminds usof the history, helps us educate the genera-tions to come and serves as a dailyreminder of the despicable deeds ofoppressive regimes,” Rep. Kaptur added.

Also taking part in the commemorationwere Cardinal Edward Egan, archbishop ofNew York, Archbishop Antony of theUkrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A.,Bishop Basil Losten of the StamfordEparchy of the Ukrainian Catholic Church,Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United StatesKostyantyn Gryshchenko, Ukraine’sPermanent Representative to the UnitedNations Ambassador Valeriy Kuchinskyand Consul General of Ukraine in NewYork Serhiy Pohoreltzev.

Responses to the requiem service weresung by the Dumka Chorus of New York.

Statements made during the press con-ference by Ambassadors Gryshchenko andKuchinsky, Consul Pohoreltzev, andCardinal Husar all supported the UCCA’sinitiative to build a Famine memorial.

Pictured following a press conference at UCCA headquarters are (from left) Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Ambassador Kostyantyn Gryshchenko and Ambassador Valeriy Kuchinsky.Cardinal Lubomyr Husar (far right) addresses approximately 3,500 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

the president was very happy with “thewell-coordinated work of the new parlia-mentary majority.”

The vote came after intensive discus-sions between Mr. Yanukovych and thevarious parliamentary factions of theVerkhovna Rada who met with him sepa-rately over the course of the four days priorto the vote.

In remarks before the parliamentary ses-sion hall prior to the vote, Mr. Yanukovychsaid his aim in taking the reins of the gov-ernment was to continue government andeconomic reform, including finally devel-oping and passing a new tax code.

“The point is not simply decentraliza-tion of authority, but also the empower-ment of the regions,” explained Mr.Yanukovych.

He added that where Ukraine lackedfinancial resources it needed to utilize itsintellectual capacity “to be innovative inour approach to problem solving.”

After the vote, National DeputyOleksander Moroz, who is chairman of theSocialist Party and along with NationalDeputy Yulia Tymoshenko is a leader ofthe Kuchma opposition, dismissed Mr.Yanukovych’s hopeful words and voiceddeep concern over what his leadership ofthe government would bring.

“The Donetsk region is a microcosm ofUkraine, and Yanukovych is a Kuchma fig-ure at that level,” said Mr. Moroz.

Mr. Yanukovych replaces AnatoliiKinakh, who headed the Ukrainian govern-ment since May 2001. While few believedthat Mr. Kinakh would last long in his postafter the new parliamentary majority wasformed in June, the longer no changes ingovernment occurred the stronger his posi-tion appeared as presidential electionsloomed ever closer.

Early contenders for the post of primeminister, which President Kuchma hadoriginally hoped the parliamentary majori-ty would find the consensus to propose onits own, were Mr. Kinakh, Mr.Yanukovych, Mykola Azarov, director of

the State Tax Administration and NationalDeputy Serhii Tyhypko, leader of theLabor Ukraine faction in Parliament.

However, extended political discussionsbetween Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Ukrainepolitical bloc and the Party of Regions,where Mr. Yanukovych is a leading mem-ber, over uniting political forces in theParliament resulted in the first public state-ments in the press about a month ago thatPresident Kuchma would look for a con-sensus among the parliamentary majorityto appoint the Donetsk Oblast chairman asthe new prime minister. Many in the pro-presidential camp were concerned that aunion between Messrs. Yanukovych andYushchenko could have led to the dissolu-tion of the fragile parliamentary majority.

In announcing his dismissal of Mr.Kinakh on November 16, PresidentKuchma said that Mr. Kinakh had failed tofind ways to generate more revenue for thegovernment to increase wages and pen-sions, and provide accessible medical care.Mr. Kinakh had not been able to move along overdue tax code to the parliamentary

floor and more recently had problems ingetting a budget for 2003 approved. Ingeneral, Mr. Kinakh was considered anefficient but soft-handed leader.

Mr. Yanukovych, a burly man with arobust personality and a domineering atti-tude, is given accolades for puttingDonetsk back on the economic map ofUkraine and strengthening its political tieswith Kyiv after the assassination ofNational Deputy Yevhen Scherban in 1996and the decimation of the political and eco-nomic clan he led. Mr. Yanukovychreplaced Mr. Scherban’s relative,Volodymyr Scherban, as Donetsk Oblastchairman in May 1997.

He was criticized by both the left andright fringes of Ukraine’s political estab-lishment for keeping a tight rein over polit-ical campaigning and the election processin the Donetsk region in the March 31 par-liamentary elections. As a result, theCommunist Party was defeated in Donetskfor the first time ever in what previouslyhad been a Communist haven of politicalsupport.

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THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2002 11No. 47

by Dr. Orest Kozicky

ELLENVILLE, N.Y. – The UkrainianAmerican Youth Association (SUM) heldits 23rd triennial congress on November2-3, at the SUM resort (oselia) inEllenville, N.Y.

Yurij Nakoneczny, the recently electedpresident of the international executiveboard of the Ukrainian YouthAssociation and outgoing president ofthe Ukrainian American YouthAssociation opened the Congress bygreeting the 116 delegates representingthe following SUM branches: New York,Yonkers, Binghamton, Rochester,Buffalo and Goshen, N.Y.; Newark-Irvington, Passaic, Jersey City andWhippany, N.J.; Hartford, Conn.;Boston; Chicago and Pallatine, Ill.;Baltimore, Philadelphia and Cleveland-Parma, as well as representatives of theU.S. national board of SUM.

The following individuals were elect-ed to the congress presidium: MykolaHryczkowian, chairman; JaroslawPalylyk and Olga Kusen, vice-chairs;and Luba Zalyvaj and ChristineBartosewicz, secretaries.

Members of the executive board, theAuditing Committee and GrievanceCommittee presented reports of theirwork over the past three years, afterwhich they fielded questions from thedelegates before proceeding to a discus-sion forum. The congress adopted pro-posals, generated by individual workinggroups of delegates, that will guide thefuture activities of the UkrainianAmerican Youth Association.

On Saturday evening November 2, abanquet was held for which GenyaKuzmowycz Blahy served as the masterof ceremonies. The Rev. Ihor Midzak,representing the Ukrainian CatholicArcheparchy of Stamford opened thebanquet with a prayer and the Rev.Roman Mirchuk gave the main ceremo-nial speech which invigorated the dele-gates and guests. Both clergymen wereraised within the ranks of SUM.

Entertainment was provided by theYunist Ukrainian dance ensemble fromYonkers. On Sunday morning, afterattending liturgy delegates held a cere-monial gathering commemorating theindependence movement of November1918.

The congress elected the followingslate for the national executive board:Bohdan Harhaj, president; MyroslavShmigel, executive vice-president; LydiaMykytyn, coordinator of eastern branch-es; Christine Wereszczak, coordinator of

Ukrainian American Youth Association holds its 23rd congress in U.S.

The U.S. national executive board of SUM for 2002-2005.

western branches; Iryna Liber, secretary;Roman Kozicky, financial director;Andrij Bihun, “bulavnyi,” Lesia Cebrij-Rago, head of the EducationalCommittee; Ihor Diaczun, coordinatorof “druzhynnyky” (young adult SUMmembers); Kornel Wasylyk, culturaldirector; Myron Prymak, sports coordi-nator; Orest Kozicky, public relationsand press secretary; ZorianaKovbasniuk, coordinator of aid toUkrainians; Peter Kosciolek, executivedirector of the SUM resort; and Mr.Nakoneczny, Mr. Blahy, WolodymyrWyrsta and Dania Nauholnyk-Lavro,members at large.

The congress elected the foIlowingAuditing Committee: Stefan Zurawsky,chair Yurij Fedorijchuk and YurijMykytyn, members; Olga Kusen andHalia Turyk, alternates.

Elected to the Grievance Committeewere: Bohdanna Pochoday, chair; IvanKobasa and Andrij Kosowsky, members;Maria Piatka and Adrian Blanarowicz,alternates.

The congress honored the Chicagobranch (oseredok) for its exemplarywork over the past three years with theexecutive board’s Exemplary OseredokFlag. The congress also presented Dr.Kozicky with the SUM DistinguishedMember Award for his years of serviceon the national and local levels.

Newly elected president Harhaj closedthe Congress by extending his gratitudeand calling upon all to continue theirefforts on behalf of Ukrainian youth andin helping Ukraine.

Delegates of the 23rd congress of the Ukrainian American Youth Association.

GLEN ROCK, N.J. – Ukrainian Giftof Life Inc., (UGL) has launchedOperation Cardio Observation andTraining (OpCOT), a training programintended to expand its effort to advancepediatric cardiology in Ukraine.

Dr. Lyubomyr Solovey, the first fellowto participate in this program, is observertraining at the Cardiac Intensive CareUnit of Children’s Hospital ofPhiladelphia, a leader in pediatric care inAmerica, under the supervision of Dr. GilWernovsky, medical director. The visit-ing fellow graduated from the MedicalAcademy in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1994with an honor diploma and fulfilled hisresidency requirements at LvivCardiological Center in anesthesiologyand intensive care, where he continues topractice.

Dr. Solovey recently addressed thePennsylvania Chapter of the Ukrainian

Medical Association of North America(UMANA) and extolled the importanceand benefits of this UGOL program. “InUkraine, you do not see the quantity andvariety of complex cases as I did in thisshort period. Even as Ukraine begins tocatch up in technology through theefforts of organizations like UkrainianGift of Life, which procure much-neededand usable capital equipment items, it isstill behind on the experiential level,” heexplained.

He continued to describe how thisopportunity at Children’s Hospital ofPhiladelphia has enhanced his skills andexposed him to a high level of compe-tence and team management. Dr. Soloveyreviewed for his fellow physicians someof the cases at the hospital that he hasbeen able to follow from admission andhow he is now able to anticipate proce-dural direction in complex cases. He

expressed his desire to bring that experi-ence back with him to Ukraine and theother physicians at his hospital. He con-cluded with an explanation of how theseskills will be applied during surgeriesmade possible in Ukraine through UGL’sOperation Child Cardio Care program(OCCC).

He went on to explain that there arenot sufficient disposable funds for healthcare in Ukraine. “OCCC has increasedthe number of children’s surgeries thatcan be performed at the LvivCardiological Center, as well as providedan opportunity for the entire surgical andpost-operative team to refine their exten-sive skills.” UGL coordinates efforts ofindividuals and organizations to sponsora specific child’s surgery through pur-chase of the necessary consumables,which cost approximately $1,000.

Donors are provided with correspon-

dence and photographs from the surgicalcandidate’s family, forming a bond withthe child. Dr. Vasyl Salak, president ofthe UMANA Chapter and chair of themeeting, introduced George Kuzma,president of Ukrainian Gift of Life. Mr.Kuzma expressed the gratitude of theUGL trustees and board to those whomake these programs possible. He firstthanked Dr. Wernovsky and his staff atChildren’s Hospital for their outreach inthis venture. He then acknowledgedTheodore Kurman, director of the UGLtraining program, who in turn, thankedthe Rev. Frank Estocin, pastor of St.Vladimir’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church,its president, Ed Zetick, and the entireparish for joining in the launch of thisproject, welcoming Dr. Solovey and pro-viding housing and support for him. Dr.Solovey’s two-month training program

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THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 200212 No. 47

by Natalia A. Feduschak

KYIV – Serhei Platonov sits serenelyat a table, a Roman-era death maskencased in glass behind him.

“When you get to my age, you beginto think about what you’ll leave behind,”said Mr. Platonov, giving his head abackward nod.

At 66, Mr. Platonov is a man on a mis-sion. He hopes to establish a museum inKyiv that would become synonymouswith the city itself, much like the Louvreis associated with Paris or TheMetropolitan Museum of Art with NewYork. As the heart of the collection, Mr.Platonov has offered his own acquisitionsof antiquities and rarities, many of whichcome from Ukraine and number in theseveral thousands.

As the idea of a museum wins increas-ing support from the public, Mr. Platonovis emerging as a new type of cultural fig-ure in Kyiv – a philanthropist who fol-lows in the tradition of individuals whoare willing to open their pocketbooks andhearts to leave the city a legacy.

As Ukraine begins to shed layers ofSoviet rule that affected all aspects of

life, Kyiv’s culture is slowly beginning tocome into its own. Even as many citizenseke out a living, the arts, literature andtheater are undergoing a rebirth. If twoyears ago most people didn’t give culturea second thought, today it has becomeone of the most vibrant aspects ofUkrainian society.

This new Ukrainian culture is a mix-ture of old and new, a mingling of thetraditional, some Soviet leftovers and onethat increasingly has a European flair.

Although people like Mr. Platonov arestill a rarity, he is the next link in a longlegacy of Kyiv philanthropists. The sugarmagnate Brodskyi family helped estab-lish educational institutions, hospitalsand Jewish institutions, including Kyiv’sfamed Brodskyi synagogue in the citycenter. The Tarnavsky and Khanenkofamilies left their imprint in the arts withthe donation of a gallery to the city. TheTereshenkos promoted political causesand built enterprises.

Mr. Platonov did not start out with adream of establishing a museum in Kyiv.A prominent businessman, Mr. Platonovhas spent most of his life collectingantiquities and other rarities, many ofwhich come from Ukraine. He recentlydonated a significant part of his collec-tion to Ukraine’s history museum. Therest he would like to house in the newmuseum where people like himself alsocould display their collections.

“This is the culmination of my workand efforts to have [antiquities] stay inUkraine rather than go abroad,” said Mr.Platonov. “The important thing is therehas been so much negative information

RENAISSANCE OF KYIV: Cultural activities, and fashion, in the spotlightabout Ukraine. This museum couldchange some minds. There is a betterway to promote the nation.”

Kyiv residents have already been ableto view some of Mr. Platonov’s collec-tion at the Kyiv Pecherska Lavra in anexhibit titled “For You, Ukraine,” whichrecently closed. Part of the collection willnow be shown at St. Sophia Cathedral.

The exhibit included countless piecesof pottery from the Trypillian period,glasswork, ornaments from the ancientGreeks who settled the south of Ukraineand Crimea, as well as coins and metalsonce belonging to Kyivan Rus’ kings andKozak leaders.

What makes the collection so specialis that some of the pieces have very fewanalogues in the world, including aTrypillian child’s toy shaped like awagon and adorned with yin and yangsymbols, or ritual jewelry belonging tothe Sarmatians, a people who once inhab-ited Ukraine.

“These people are in our blood,” saidMr. Platonov. “These are old civilizationsthat people don’t know about.”

What Mr. Platonov has learned overthe years is that, judging from the manyceremonial ornaments he has seen –many of which are made out of gold –the people who inhabited Ukraine hadtheir economic needs met.

“What the jewelry says to me is thatany people who could think about thesethings weren’t struggling to survive,” hesaid. “You cannot say this was just a cul-ture, it was a real civilization. Ukraine wasat the crossroads of all trade routes. All thecultures left their imprint on Ukraine.”

That cultural imprint continues to thisday. Fashion in particular has become acenter point.

Fashion in the limelightThe stereotypical Western image of

Ukrainian women is that of paper-thin,drop-dead beautiful vixen, clad in skin-tight jeans and lacy shirts. While thatdoes define many young women whoparade the capital city’s central boule-vard, the Khreschatyk, designer Mrs.Babenko said an increasing number ofher clients want something new in theclothes they wear.

“There is a drive for individualism,”said Anna Babenko, 35, one of Ukraine’stop designers, who has designed clothingfor some of the country’s leading televi-sion personalities, politicians and busi-nesswomen. Although mass fashion doesdominate, gone are the days of the drabSoviet look. The Ukrainian taste leanstoward southern Europe, particularly Italy,with vibrant colors becoming the norm.

For those who have money, designerslike Ms. Babenko are called on to createsomething special for a specific occasion.

Ms. Babenko’s boutique, located onVelyka Zhytomyrska Street nearMykhailivska Ploscha, reflects this newtaste of the Ukrainian woman. With lacecovering silk and fabrics that look likeUkrainian embroidery flowing into theconstraints of a business suit, her clothesare a mingling of Italy, the Victorian ageand India.

Like many of her colleagues, Ms.Babenko has also begun to understandthe importance of philanthropy and howthose involved in cultural life can helppromote important social causes. Earlierthis November she joined the country’sleading designers in a benefit fashionshow to raise funds to purchase equip-ment for early detection of breast cancer.Ukrainian women have one of Europe’shighest breast cancer rates.

“This is an illness that could touchanyone,” said Ms. Babenko. “This typeof project is something new for us, so wewanted to participate.”

A rebirth of the artsMeanwhile, as the economy continues

to improve, audiences are beginning toreturn to the theater after a lackluster fewyears. Actors are regularly featured innewspapers and magazines. While somemay be from Russia, the focus is increas-ingly on Ukrainian or international stars.

But theater has had to compete withWestern-made films, which draw a muchyounger audience that is willing to pay tosee popular movies. Ukrainians, howev-er, are beginning to talk about how theywant theater – and the domestic movieindustry – to develop in the future.Because many theater companies don’thave the funds to produce new shows,some artists are taking the initiativethemselves to woo audiences with newapproaches.

Mariana Sadovska and Victoria Hannaare a Ukrainian and Jewish artist duowho made their first theatrical appear-ances together in Kyiv and the westernUkrainian city of Lviv. Combiningancient Yiddish and Ukrainian lore, thewomen have created a new look andsound that has won widespread praiseand interest here.

Their program touches on themesimportant to each culture, such as reli-gion, love and marriage. A recent per-formance in Kyiv offered a medley ofsong and performance in Yiddish andUkrainian that gave theater-goers a con-nection with cultures past and a promisethat these cultures will live on in thefuture.

“It’s important to show these two cul-tures together,” said Ms. Sadovska, whois originally from Lviv and now lives inGermany. Kyiv’s Jewish communityharks back to the ninth century and thushas long been part of the Ukrainian land-scape.

“Young Israelis aren’t so much intothe Yiddish, ‘shtetl’ culture,” said Ms.Hanna, who lives in Jerusalem and visit-ed Ukraine for the first time this year.“But I feel this land, I have a memoryhere. Maybe we have some knowledge[of Ukraine] in our genes.”

Marta Bohachevska Chomiak, whoruns the U.S. government-fundedFulbright program in Ukraine, said manyof the changes taking place in the culturalarena are positive.

“I see lots of hope,” said Dr.Bohachevska Chomiak, whose programhas sent more than 250 Ukrainian stu-dents to study in the United States. “It’simportant for Ukraine to recognize that itis not any different than a country emerg-ing from a colonial experience.”

Andrei Kurkov is a writer whodescribes the new Ukraine that is emerg-ing from its colonial past. PerhapsUkraine’s best known writer on the inter-national scene, he has gained a wide fol-lowing in Europe and is now makinginroads in the U.S.

Mr. Kurkov’s recent work, “Death andthe Penguin,” is a hilarious if thought-provoking look at how one individualcan easily get caught in the web of cor-ruption and banditry after the fall of theSoviet Union. Set in Kyiv, Mr. Kurkov’sbook evokes images of the city’s passingseasons and juxtaposes these with howindividuals themselves change and adaptto a new society.

“Everything that is absurd, I take tothe next level of absurdity,” Mr. Kurkovsaid of his work.

What makes Mr. Kurkov particularlynoteworthy here is that he is the productof two worlds: an ethnic Russian, he wasborn in St. Petersburg, but spent most ofhis life in Kyiv.

Designer Anna Babenko is creating fashion chic for Ukraine’s new woman.

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Natalia A. Feduschak

Natalia A. Feduschak is a freelancejournalist who has written for TheWashington Times, The Denver Post, TheWall Street Journal and other U.S.- andCanada-based publications. She dividesher time between the United States andUkraine. She is also a former staffer ofThe Ukrainian Weekly (1985-1987). Thisarticle is the fourth in a series on the“Renaissance of Kyiv.”

Soccer• Dynamo Kyiv’s 2-1 loss to Italian soc-

cer powerhouse Juventus on the final nightof first-round Champions League play elim-inated the Ukrainian team from the Unionof European Football Association’s (UEFA)championship tournament.

The UEFA Champions League is consid-ered the most prestigious club competitionof top European teams. Each national asso-ciation’s domestic champion earns a spot tocompete for the overall club championshipof Europe. The number of clubs that can beentered by a national association and theirentry point in the competition depends onthe association’s position in UEFA’s rankinglist.

Dynamo went into the Juventus matchon November 13 with two wins, two lossesand one draw, needing a win to put the clubthrough to the next round. Instead, theUkrainians finished third in the four-teamgroup and did not qualify to go on.Ice hockey

Ukrainian National Hockey League vet-eran Dave Andreychuk scored his 250thcareer power-play goal to beat PhilEsposito’s NHL record during a 4-2 winover the San Jose Sharks in Tampa, Fla., onNovember 15. The Tampa Bay Lightningcaptain has 599 goals over all, one short ofbecoming the 14th player to reach the 600mark.Chess

• Twelve-year-old Ukrainian SerhiyKarjakin became the youngest person toachieve the rank of grand master during theSudak Tournament in Ukraine on August 2-12, The New York Times reported onSeptember 15. Karjakin was 12 years andexactly 7 months old when he attained therank. Before Karjakin, the youngest grandmaster was Bu Xiangzhi of China at age 13years, 10 months and 13 days. FellowUkrainian and International ChessFederation (FIDE) world champion RuslanPonomaryov became a grand master whenhe was 14 years and 17 days old, whileworld-renowned grand master Bobby

Fischer accomplished the feat when he was15 years, 6 months and 1 day old.

The youngster, Karjakin, was also one ofPonomaryov’s official trainers during theall-Ukrainian FIDE championship betweenPonomaryov and Vasyl Ivanchuk of Lviv onJanuary 23 in Moscow. Ponomaryov wenton to beat Ivanchuk, becoming the youngestplayer ever – and the first Ukrainian – towin the world championship.Track and field

• Ukrainian Olena Krasovska (teamEurope) took fourth place in the women’s100-meter hurdle event on September 21 atthe International Association of AthleticsFederations (IAAF) ninth World Cup onSeptember 20-21 in Madrid, finishing in13.07 seconds. Gail Devers of the UnitedStates took first place with a time of 12.65,while Bridgete Foster of Jamaica (teamAmericas) took second place with a time of12.82. Spaniard Glory Alozie’s time of12.95 gave her third place.

In the women’s shot put IrinaKorzhanenko of Russia threw 66 feet, 3 1/4inches to beat out Yumileidi Cumba ofCuba (team Americas) who threw 62-9 1/2.Astrid Kumbernuss of Germany threw 62-81/2 for third place, while Ukrainian VitaPavlysh (team Europe) threw 62-6 1/2 forfourth place.

On the men’s side, Ukrainian YuriiBilonoh took the No. 5 spot in the men’sshot put with a throw of 65-2 3/4. AdamNelson of the United States took first placewith a throw of 68-3. He was followed byJustin Anlezark of Austria (team Oceana),who threw 68-1 3/4, and Ralph Bartels ofGermany, who took third place with a throwof 67-9 3/4.

Participating athletes at the IAAF’sWorld Cup are grouped into regional teamsin order to “increase solidarity among ath-letes around the world, and to strengthen theties of friendship between them,” as well asto “stimulate the development of athletics inthe various continents of the world, espe-cially those less technically developed,while guaranteeing that athletes from thosecountries get their chance to compete,” theIAAF website explained.

• At the 18th IAAF Grand Prix in Parison September 14, Andriy Skvaruk ofUkraine threw 250 feet, 2 inches for seventhplace in the men’s hammer throw. He wasfollowed by teammate Oleksander Krykun,who threw 249-3 for eighth place. KojiMurofushi of Japan took first place, with athrow of 266-2. Adrian Annus of Hungarythrew 262-6 for second place while BalazsKiss of Hungary threw 261-7 for the thirdspot.

In the men’s shot put, American AdamNelson threw 70-1/4 feet to take first place.Yurii Bilonoh of Ukraine threw 68-1/2 forsecond place, and Milan Haborak ofSlovakia threw 66-11 1/4 for third place.

In the women’s 100-meter hurdles OlenaKrasovska of Ukraine finished in 13.34 sec-onds to take the eighth spot. Gail Devers ofthe United States took first in 12.51, whileBridgette Foster of Jamaica took secondplace, finishing in 12.62. AmericanAnjanette Kirkland took the third spot, alsowith a time of 12.62.

• Ukrainian Zhanna Pintusevich-Blocktook second place at the Yokohama Supertrack and field competition in Yokohama,Japan, on September 16 in the women’s200-meter sprint with a time of 23.32 sec-onds. She finished behind SusanthikaJayasinghe of Sri Lanka, who finished in22.91, but ahead of Italy’s ManuelaLevorato, who took third with a time of23.51.

In the women’s shot put Ukrainian VitaPavlysh took the top spot with a throw of62 feet, 7 1/4 inches. NadezhdaOstapchuk of Belarus took second placewith a throw of 58-2, and Chinatsu Moriof Japan took third place with a throw of54-2 1/2.

Andriy Skvaruk of Ukraine took fifthplace in the men’s hammer throw with adistance of 240 feet 1 inch. HungariansBalazs Kiss and Tibor Gecsek of Hungarytook first and second places, respectively.Kiss’s throw of 265-0 and Gecsek’s throwof 250-4 beat Koji Murofushi of Japan,whose throw of 246-10 earned him thirdplace.

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• World Boxing Association (WBA) titleholder Vitalii Klitschko will defend hischampionship belt against Larry “TheLegend” Donald in Dortmund, Germany,on November 23. The match is scheduledtwo weeks prior to Vitalii’s brotherVladimir’s fifth World BoxingOrganization (WBO) title defense againstJameel McCline in Las Vegas on December7 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.[Editor’s note: Klitschko is the spellingused by the two boxers. Previously we hadused the spelling “Klychko”]

According to the November 18 issue ofSports Illustrated, which featured an articleon the brothers Klitschko titled “The BruiseBrothers,” Vitalii’s duel with “The Legend”is being regarded as a preparation bout for ahighly anticipated title fight with LennoxLewis, tentatively scheduled for early 2003.A World Boxing Council (WBC) title boutbetween Vitalii Klitschko and LennoxLewis was confirmed recently by Lewiscoach, Emanuel Steward, during a ceremo-ny in Los Angeles, according to the boxingwebsite www.secondsout.com.

Lewis, who holds the WBC belt and haslost only two of his 43 professional outings,has, according to sources in the boxingworld, apparently begun with the mentalpreparations for a match-up with VitaliiKlitschko. “Vitalii will be the greatest chal-lenge so far in Lennox’s career,” saidSteward. He added that the 31-year-oldVitalii is even more talented than most box-ing pundits already rate him. “I am a bigfan of both Klitschkos. Vitalii and Vladimirare presently the only fighters who can giveLennox a run for his money. Lennox mustfirst prove his worth against Vitalii, andthen he can concentrate on fightingVladimir,” said Steward, who intends to beringside for Vitalii’s fight against LarryDonald.

According to Sports Illustrated,TommyBrooks, who trained both Mike Tyson andEvander Holyfield said, that although hedoes not see Vitalii beating Lewis, wereVladimir to box Lewis, the Ukrainianwould “clean Lennox’s clock.” The SI arti-cle also spoke highly of the intelligence ofboth brothers, saying: “[Vitalii] Klitschkoappears to be more accomplished thanLewis, having hung in with former world[chess] champ Garry Kasparov for 31moves during a 2001 exhibition. This yearhe played both Vladimir Kramnik andDeep Fritz – the reigning human and com-puter champs, respectively – to draws.”

• According to American coach RonnyShields, who was inducted into the WorldBoxing Hall of Fame recently and named“Trainer of the Year 2002” by that sameorganization, the Klitschkos are the bestboxers in the heavyweight boxing divi-sion. Shields, who worked with formerchampion Holyfield and titleholdersPernell Whitaker, John Molina andMeldrick Taylor, also prepared Tyson forhis match with British WBC championLewis.

“I know them all. I’ve seen them all.Either I’ve coached them myself or I’vewatched them box. But against theKlitschkos, especially Vladimir, none ofthem stand as much as a chance,” saidShields in an interview in Los Angeles onOctober 31, according to www.eastsidebox-ing.com.

“Vladimir is so big and so strong. He isso intelligent. And he is still so young. It’sabsolutely incredible. He and his brotherseem like stars from another planet,” ravedthe top-flight trainer. Shields watched ring-side as Vladimir defended his WBO titleagainst Ray Mercer in June in Atlantic City,N.J.

Reproduction of Sports Illustrated’s layout of a major article about the Klitschko brothers which appeared in the magazine’s November 18 issue. (Photo of Klitschkos by Bob Martin)

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cial said. “The United States has noplans for any high-level meeting withKuchma in Prague. Nevertheless, weremain committed to a broad robust rela-tionship with Ukraine and a strongNATO-Ukraine relationship.” Accordingto Czech news agency CTK, CzechPremier Vladimir Spidla told journalistson November 18 that his country willgrant an entry visa to Kuchma, whoreportedly applied earlier the same day.(RFE/RL Newsline)Kuchma wraps up China visit

BEIJING – President Leonid Kuchmaon November 19 wound up his four-dayvisit to China, ITAR-TASS reported.According to the Ukrainian Embassy inBeijing, the visit resulted in “laying downthe foundation for strategic partnership”between China and Ukraine. PresidentKuchma met with Chinese PresidentJiang Zemin, Parliament Chairman LiPeng, Deputy Prime Minister forEconomic Affairs Li Lanquing andDefense Minister Chi Haotian. Theembassy said Ukraine regards China “asits key political and trade partner in theAsia-Pacific region.” The sides reported-ly examined the possibility of deliveringAN-140 planes from Ukraine to Chinaand prospects for boosting cooperation inaircraft building. The two countriessigned an intergovernmental agreementon the protection of intellectual-propertyrights, a protocol on cooperation in air-craft building, and a joint declaration onthe results of talks in which Chinaexpresses a readiness “to render Ukraineactive support for its admission to theWorld Trade Organization.” (RFE/RLNewsline) Judge opens new case against Kuchma

KYIV – Kyiv Appeals Court JudgeYurii Vasylenko has opened a criminalinvestigation against President LeonidKuchma over the latter’s failure to signinto law within a prescribed period twobills passed by the Verkhovna Rada,Interfax and the Associated Press report-ed on November 13. One of the bills inquestion deals with the activities of theCabinet of Ministers and the other withthe creation of ad hoc parliamentary com-missions of inquiry. Judge Vasylenko’smove followed accusations by oppositionlawmakers that President Kuchma delib-erately failed to perform his officialduties and enact the bills in order to pre-vent the legislature from extending con-trol over the executive branch. Lastmonth, Judge Vasylenko opened a caseagainst the president in connection withcharges by opposition lawmakers that heviolated 11 articles of the Criminal Code.Among the violations is his allegedinvolvement in the sale of military tech-nology to Iraq and the murder of journal-ist Heorhii Gongadze. (RFE/RLNewsline)Duma approves Cyrillic-only bill

MOSCOW – The Russian Duma onNovember 15 passed in its second andthird readings an amendment to the lawon the languages of the peoples of theRussian Federation, newsru.com andother Russian news agencies reported.The amendment would mandate that theCyrillic alphabet serve as the basis forthe written languages of all peoples ofthe federation. The use of any otheralphabet would have to be approved by aspecial federal law in each case, Interfaxreported. Deputy Fandes Safiullin(Russian Regions), who represents a dis-trict in Tatarstan, spoke out against the

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A man who says he cannot imaginehimself living any place else other thanKyiv, Mr. Kurkov said: “I am aUkrainian of Russian origin.”

That statement indicates perhaps oneof the most profound cultural changestaking place here: many people, regard-less of their ethnicity, are coming to seethemselves not just as Ukrainian in citi-zenship but also in spirit. Many locals,like Mr. Platonov and Ms. Babenko, mayfind it easier to express themselves inRussian, but they consider themselves tobe true Ukrainian patriots.

The next challenge, according toFulbright director Dr. Chomiak, is to pro-mote the use of Ukrainian in television

and in mass culture. “I’m all for shlock culture,” she said.

“That’s how you popularize the lan-guage.”

Even the business world is embracingaspects of Ukrainian culture to promotetheir endeavors. XXI Century, a privatelyheld investment company, has looked tothe past to decorate the three high-endrestaurants it owns and manages in Kyiv.The decor and food are Ukrainian, andmany pieces of pottery and interiordesign were culled from Ukrainian vil-lages. The company also has plans tounveil a chain of Ukrainian fast-foodrestaurants, with exteriors that willresemble a Ukrainian village house.

“This,” said company president LeoPartskhaladze, “is something that isours.”

(Continued from page 12)Renaissance of Kyiv...

by Vladyslav Verstiuk

CHERNIHIV – The international con-ference, “Ukraine-Russia: A Dialogue ofHistoriographies” was held on August23-25 in Chernihiv, a city whose monu-ments and history are reminiscent of the1,000-year history of Ukraine-Rus’.

The conference was initiated and co-sponsored by the Kowalsky Program forthe Study of Eastern Ukraine at theCanadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies(Edmonton) and the Institute of EuropeanStudies of the National Academy ofSciences of Ukraine (Kyiv). Othersinvolved in sponsoring or organizing theconference include the ViacheslavLypynsky East European ResearchInstitute (Philadelphia), the TarasShevchenko State PedagogicalUniversity (Chernihiv) and the SiverianInstitute of Regional Studies (Chernihiv).

About 30 historians from Ukraine,Russia, the United States and Canadaparticipated in the conference.

Conference organizers attempted toachieve a proportional representation ofRussian historians, as one of the aims ofthe conference was to understand recentdevelopments in both Ukrainian andRussian historiographies, which 10 yearsago had embarked on the path of post-Soviet transformation. Organizers did notseek to reconcile prevailing views of theirrespective historiographies, nor agree onany joint methodological approaches orconclusions. Rather, the aims were to dis-cuss achievements in the historical schol-arship of the respective countries and tounderstand diverging views in assessingthe same historical events.

Zenon Kohut, Igor Danilevskii,Volodymyr Rychka and Oleksii Tolochkoexamined problems in the historiographyof Kyivan Rus’ while Natalia Iakovenko,Tetiana Iakovleva and Serhii Plokhy dis-cussed Ukrainian-Russian relations in the17th-18th centuries. Roman Senkus,

A dialogue of historiographies takes place at conference in Chernihiv

Vladyslav Verstiuk is deputy head ofthe Institute of European Studies,National Academy of Sciences ofUkraine.

will soon come to an end and he willreturn to Ukraine, his wife, 12-year-oldson and his work.

In response to a question from thefloor, Mr. Kuzma closed with the words:“If we wait until the hospitals in Ukrainecan process all the pending children’scases, it would be generations beforeUkraine becomes self-sufficient in thisarea. Our plan is that Dr. Solovey, the

student, will become teacher to his peers,and they to their peers.”

Everyone in attendance was given avideo produced by television stationWB11 about UGL’s history and mission,titled “Journey to Heal a Child’s Heart.”Mr. Kuzma suggested that if anyonewanted more information about any ofUGL’s programs, desired additionalcopies of the video or wished to make acontribution to support the organization’sefforts, they can write to: Ukrainian Giftof Life, 233 Rock Road; Glen Rock, NJ07452.

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bill, saying that “national alphabets can-not be made uniform” and “there is noprecedent [for such a bill] in the world.”Last year Tatarstan officially adopted analphabet based on Latin script. (RFE/RLNewsline)Countries impose ban on Lukashenka

PRAGUE – Fourteen of the 15European Union states on November 19imposed a travel ban on BelarusianPresident Alyaksandr Lukashenka andseven other senior officials to protesthuman rights abuses in Belarus, interna-tional news agencies reported. Portugal,which currently holds the OSCE presi-dency, did not joint the ban, arguing theEU needs a more flexible policy withregard to Belarus. “We don’t agree withthe political timing of the initiative,” the

Associated Press quoted PortugueseForeign Minister Antonio Martins daCruz as saying. Portugal is to organize anOSCE ministerial meeting in Porto onDecember 6-7 and wants to keep itsoptions with regard to Belarus open.Belapan reported on November 20 thatthe travel ban, apart from Lukashenka,extends to presidential administrationchief Ural Latypau, Prime MinisterHenadz Navitski, Defense MinisterLeanid Maltsau, Internal Affairs MinisterUladzimir Navumau, Foreign AffairsMinister Mikhail Khvastou, JusticeMinister Viktar Halavanau, and KGBchief Leanid Yeryn. “There will naturallybe reciprocal measures; the ForeignMinistry will tackle this issue if need be,but in any case Belarus will respect itselfand will not copy such mean steps,”President Lukashenka’s spokeswoman,Natallya Pyatkevich, told RFE/RL’sBelarusian Service. (RFE/RL Newsline)

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Oleksander Kukharuk and Aleksei Millergave papers on Ukraine in the RussianEmpire.

The complex topic of the 1917 revolu-tionary period was examined by JaroslawPelenski, Lev Protasov and VladyslavVerstiuk. Papers on the Stalinist repres-sive-penal system of the 1920s and1930s, delivered by Oleksandr Lysenkoand Vladimir Nevezhin, stimulated greatinterest and led to a lively discussion.Georgii Kasianov, Nikita Petrov andYurii Shapoval discussed topics related tothe second world war. Among others whoparticipated in discussions were theChernihiv scholars Volodymyr Boiko,Dmytro Hryn, Tetiana Demchenko andVolodymyr Kovalenko.

At the plenary session, chaired byFrank Sysyn, it became clear thatUkrainian and Russian historians werefaced over the last years with a numberof difficult tasks, such as breaking thestereotypes of Soviet historiography,overcoming class-based approaches tohistory writing, de-linking historical writ-ing and Communist ideology, and accept-ing national paradigms in writing history.

During conference sessions, it becameevident that much had been accom-

plished in working on these tasks overthe past decade. Importantly, the devel-opment of national Ukrainian andRussian historiographies was begun, theexistence of which is a precondition forcreating the possibility of comprehensiveand equal dialogue between Ukrainianand Russian scholars, including construc-tive discussions and the exchange ofinformation and production.

The presentation of Volume 8 of theEnglish edition of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s“History of Ukraine-Rus’,” prepared bythe CIUS’s Peter Jacyk Center forUkrainian Historical Research, and theseventh issue of Ukrainskyi HumanitarnyiOhliad, a leading journal of historians inUkraine, was held toward the end of theconference.

The conference was a noted event inthe scholarly and cultural life ofChernihiv. Oleksandr Kovalenko, deputyhead of the Chernihiv OblastAdministration, conveyed greetings toconference participants at the conferenceopening. The conference proceedingswere covered by the city’s radio, televi-sion and press, while the sessions werewell-attended by lecturers and students ofChernihiv’s institutions of higher learning.

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One of the most up-to-date methods of propaganda adopted by the Soviet govern-ment has been the organization of carefully shepherded tours of the “Soviet Paradise.”The tours usually start in London and proceed by sea to Leningrad, and after visitingLeningrad and Moscow a trip is made to Nizhnyi-Novgorod (now to be renamedGorky) and Ukraine. These trips have appealed to intellectual sentimentalists and oth-ers with little knowledge of life and human affairs. They are shown what the Sovietgovernment intends to show them, they are naturally shown the best, and they comeback and usually report what the Soviet government intends them to report. Some ofthem have never set foot in Russia to make their reports which are simply abstracts ofSoviet official statements, which they just as easily could have read at home inEngland.

But in spite of that, the reports of certain tourists, who for the most part set off witha bias in favor of the Soviet system, present a very gloomy picture of the failure of theSoviet authorities. The Soviet press in September reported that a group of journalistsrecently visited Russia on a 30-day trip and mentioned the following names: HamiltonFyfe, representing Reynolds, Jules Mencken of the Economist, Kingsley Martin, edi-tor of the New Statesman and Nation, Emrys Hughes of Forward, Ian MacDonald ofthe Yorkshire Post, Hubert Griffith, H.W. Smith, foreign editor of the News-Chronicle, F. Yeats-Brown of the Spectator.

From the above-mentioned list it will be seen that most of these gentlemen havebeen carefully selected on account of their socialistic tendencies.

We have awaited with interest the reaction of these gentlemen to the charms ofSoviet Russia. Nearly all have now written their impressions and without exception,they provide a damning indictment of conditions in Soviet Russia, more especially inthe great agricultural area of Ukraine.

In its October 8, 1932, issue, the Economist wrote: “Peasants are said to be com-plaining more and more openly. During August, a decree was passed penalizing theftof corn from the fields with death; and even during our short stay the decree was exe-cuted. Nevertheless stealing continues, and one traveler returning from the relativelyprosperous Crimea reported a grim encounter with hungry peasants, who were keptfrom molesting his party only because it was armed.”

Source: “The Great Famine (Part XI, November 1932),” The Ukrainian Weekly,May 1, 1983, Vol. LI, No. 18.

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by George Hrycelak, M.D.

WARREN, Mich. – The Board ofDirectors of the National Office of theUkrainian Medical Association of NorthAmerica (UMANA) held its regular meet-ing on Saturday, October 12 at theUkrainian Cultural Center in Warren, Mich.The UMANA Michigan Chapter president,Renata Juzych-Kucyj, D.D.S., continuedthe longstanding tradition of hosting theboard at the locale of one of the organiza-tion’s 18 chapters active in the United Statesand Canada.

UMANA President and Chairman IhorVoyevidka, M.D. opened the proceedingswith a warm thank-you to the chapter for itshospitality. Members present at the deliber-ations included President-elect BohdanIwanetz, M.D., Treasurer Andrij Iwach,M.D., Archivist Maria Hrycelak, M.D.,World Federation of Ukrainian MedicalAssociations (WFUMA) Liaison RoxolanaHorbowyj, M.D., Editor-in-Chief PavloDzul, M.D., Membership Director LarissaIwanetz, Michigan Chapter PresidentRenata Juzych-Kucyj, D.D.S., and chapterofficers Boris Leheta, M.D., Andrew Dzul,M.D., Mark Juzych, M.D. and ZirkaKalynych, M.D. Roman Worobec, Ph.D.,was present by invitation.

The board resolved a number of routinehousekeeping issues, including setting upthe proposed budget for 2003, and heardreports from relevant officers and commit-tee heads on the positive and expanding sta-tus of the association. Of particular interestis the growth of membership. Since the lastboard of directors meeting in April, 22 newmembers have applied – half of those com-ing from the New York Metro Chapter as aresult of its concerted recruitment drive.

One of the major actions taken was theorderly transfer of responsibility of the posi-tion of editor-in-chief of the Journal of the

Ukrainian Medical Association(JUMANA). Dr. Dzul has capably editedthe JUMANA for 35 years, with dedicationand zeal unequaled in recent memory ofUMANA. Reaching a point of contentmentin his editorial mission, Dr. Dzul requestedUMANA President Voyevidka to appoint anew editor-in-chief to take over the publish-ing responsibilities. In accordance withUMANA By-laws, Dr. Voyevidka searchedfor and found an appropriate nominee forthis position, Roman B. Worobec, Ph.D.Dr. Worobec was invited to appear beforethe board, presenting his views andapproaches to the editorship.

Dr. Worobec, who received his doctoraldegree in microbiology/immunology fromTulane University in New Orleans, is a bio-medical information specialist at the Libraryof Congress. His position includes analysis,evaluation and management of English-andforeign-language biomedical information,including recruitment and management ofteams of Ph.D. scientists for medical infor-mation assessment and/or translation proj-ects. He is the on-call consultant forMedical Sciences and Ukraine to theCongressional Staff via the CongressionalResearch Service Directory of SubjectExperts.

Dr. Worobec has oversight responsibilityfor accurate and timely responses to con-gressional requests for biomedical and relat-ed information, Medical Sciences andBiotechnology Team, Library of Congress.He is a consultant to the Life SciencesResearch Office, Federation of AmericanSocieties of Experimental Biology,Bethesda, Md.

In a gesture of collaboration and solidari-ty, Dr. Worobec asked Dr. Dzul to stay on asemeritus editor-in-chief, and they haveagreed to cooperate on a transitional issueof JUMANA due out next year. The boardunanimously approved the nominee for the

UMANA National Office appoints new editor-in-chief

UMANA Editors Pavlo Dzul, M.D., emeritus editor-in-chief (left) and Roman Worobec, Ph.D., newly appointed editor-in-chief.

position of editor-in chief.UMANA also confirmed its commitment

to stand by the World Federation ofUkrainian Medical Associations (WFUMA)as it undergoes the legally complex processof transitioning leadership from corporateheadquarters in the United States toUkraine. WFUMA-UMANA liaison Dr.Horbowyj updated the Board on the impor-tance of mutual cooperation and joint align-ment. She stressed that UMANA wasinstrumental in setting up the originalWFUMA in the 1980s, and remains an inte-gral part of this international organization.

The board affirmed that the 37thScientific Convention and the 30thAssembly of Delegates planning process iswell under way, with high expectations for asuccessful conference on June 18-22, 2003,in Chicago.

The proceedings concluded with a state-ment of support for the Ukrainian AmericanBirth Defects Program, under the directionof W. Wertelecky, M.D., at the University ofSouth Alabama. Their simple and innova-tive program called “Wheat FlourFortification Initiative” can save the lives ofmany children affected with neural tubedefects, and is a worthwhile project withachievable, demonstrable results.

On Saturday evening the MichiganChapter of UMANA met with the board ofdirectors over a pleasant dinner at theDetroit Athletic Club, followed by anevening at the opera enjoying the openingnight of “Il Trovatore.”

The next board of directors meeting isscheduled for Saturday, February 8, 2003,in Chicago.

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by Al Kachkowski

SASKATOON – “Ukraine Day in thePark,” Saskatoon’s newest annual sum-mer festival, was staged August 24-25 bythe Ukrainian Canadian Congress,Saskatoon Branch. The outdoor portiontook place on Saturday on the huge out-door stage in the park immediately southof Saskatoon’s landmark hotel, the DeltaBessborough, in front of an audience ofmore than 1,000 people. Twenty per-forming groups from Saskatoon, Reginaand Prince Albert provided a dynamicprogram of entertainment.

The day began with an ecumenicalMoleben prayer service held at 11 a.m. atthe Kiwanis band stand adjacent to thefestival site. Bishop Michael Wiwcharand the Rt. Rev. Dr. Vladimir Mudri rep-resented the Ukrainian Catholic Churchand officiated with the Rev. TarasMakowsky and the Very Rev. BohdanDemczuk of the Ukrainian OrthodoxChurch. Responses were sung by cantorsand a choir consisting of members ofboth Churches led by Stan Chepyha. AlKachkowski read the epistle.

The flag of Ukraine was raised by twoyouths, Larissa Makuch and CraigZaichkowsky. The flag-raising contin-gent also included Eugene Krenosky,UCC-SPC president; Lenore Swystunrepresenting the Saskatoon City Council:and Paul Bunka, UCC-Saskatoon Branchpresident. All present then sang theUkrainian national anthem “Shche neVmerla Ukraina.”

Activities then moved to the festivalsite where participants enjoyed food andbeverage service supplied by vendorsrepresenting various Ukrainian organiza-tions. Cultural displays and childrens’activities attracted interest as everyonewaited for the concert to start at 2 p.m.

Master of Ceremonies George Hupkaand Lesia Sorkokan-Normand opened thestage program by welcoming everyonepresent and outlined the significance ofthe day conducted in conjunction with the11th anniversary of the independence ofUkraine. They then called EugeneKrenosky of Regina, to bring greetings.Mr. Krenosky commended the organizersof the event and commented on thenature of the event, which so appropriate-ly showcases Ukrainian culture through-out the province of Saskatchewan.

He presented Paul Bunka with a checkfrom the UCC-SPC representing moniesreceived from the Ukrainian CanadianFoundation of Taras Shevchenko in sup-port of Ukraine Day in the Park. Mr.Bunka spoke briefly, thanking Mr.Krenosky and welcoming all festival par-ticipants to the stage performance.

The four-hour stage show that followedwas opened and closed by the PavlychenkoFolklorique Ensemble, the LastiwkaUkrainian Orthodox Choir and Orchestraand the Yevshan Ukrainian Folk BalletEnsemble. Other groups performing were:Tavria and Zapovit Dancers of Regina;Barveenok Dancers, singers Veseli Holosyand Veselka of Prince Albert; DemyanProkopchuk and Marko Baran, piano andtrumpet duet; Larissa and Tania Makuch,bandura duet; Alexandra Hartshorn, tsym-baly; Nahachewsky Family, violins andguitar; and the Tut i Tam instrumentalensemble. The following Saskatoon dancegroups also performed: Vesnianka,Rushnychok, Sonechko, Ukrainian DanceSchool and Zuravel, and the SaskatoonSchool of Dance.

“Ukraine Day in the Park” is Saskatoon’s newest festival

The balloon launch during Saskatoon’s “Ukraine Day in the Park.”

Although the day was extremely warm,the public was able to watch the entertain-ment in relative comfort in their lawnchairs and in the shade of the large treesin the park. The beer garden also providedan excellent vantage point and was well-shaded. A colorful atmosphere was pro-vided by the array of tents, yellow andblue streamers and red “kalyna” (bal-loons) in the trees. The comfortable andbeautiful surroundings overlooking theSouth Saskatchewan River resulted in apleasant and relaxing day for all present.

The cultural display included large,free-standing informational panels withtexts, maps and illustrations aboutUkraine and Ukrainians mounted byHarry Ewaschuk. Authors DannyEvanishen and Larry Warwaruk promot-ed their books, and this marked the firstpublic display of Mr. Warwaruk’s newbook “Andrei and the Snow Walker.”

At 6:30 p.m. the stage filled with the200 performers and other young peoplepresent for the much-anticipated balloonlaunch. Approximately 500 blue-and-yel-low helium-filled balloons were releasedas the recorded rendition of “Ukraino”by Taras Petrynenko filled the air withsoul-stirring patriotic music and SerhijKoroliuk waved the blue and gold flagfrom the roof of the stage.

The evening concluded with dancingto music provided by two live bands, theSkylarks and Zvook.

A lengthy report on the day’s activitieswas provided by Global Television thesame evening.

Event chairman, Slawko Kindrachuksummed up the festival this way: ”Thisfamily event is designed to share therichness and diversity of the Ukrainianculture with the general public ofSaskatoon and beyond. Ukraine Day inthe Park is one of many summer eventsin Saskatoon that appeals to residentsand visitors alike.”

Fund-raising luncheonA charity fund-raising luncheon took

place on Sunday at the Ukrainian

Orthodox Auditorium at 1 p.m.The program began with the singing of

“O Canada” by the 120 attendees. MCNadia Prokopchuk made the openingremarks and introduced the head table.

A special guest in attendance wasDavid Forbes, member of theSaskatchewan Legislative Assembly forSaskatoon-Idylwyld. In his greetings Mr.Forbes quoted statistics from Ukraineregarding the state of its people. There aremany people, especially children, who arein great need for assistance because ade-quate government programs do not exist,he noted.

During the luncheon, musical inter-ludes were provided by CarissaKlopoushak on violin and Marko Baranon piano.

Stefan Franko and Emilia Panamaroffeach made an appeal for donations tohelp the needy children in Ukraine.

Special presentations were made byrepresentatives of Ukrainian summercamps. Jennifer Lynchuk presentedCaritas Ukraine with a package of prayerbracelets made by campers of St.Volodymyr Camp. The bracelets are to begiven to children in orphanages inUkraine. Laurissa Fedusiak presented“Project Liubov” friendship bracelets

made by the children of Green GroveCamp, also for orphans in Ukraine.

Ms. Klopoushak described a projectcompleted this summer by theUkrainian Cultural and LanguageImmersion Program at Mohyla Institute.The students used the proceeds fromseveral of their concerts to purchase astereo music system for an orphanage inUkraine.

Sister Theodosia SSJ was the guestspeaker. Born and raised in Edmonton,she is currently the administrator of St.Joseph’s home in Saskatoon. In herdynamic presentation she described thedesperate plight of the poor in Ukraine,especially the very young and the veryold. Sister Theodosia described the poor-est children who are no longer in theorphanages but in the streets. These arechildren who are abandoned by their par-ents and have nowhere to go; they arenow the neediest in Ukraine, she under-scored.

The program ended with the singing ofthe Ukrainian national anthem.

A total of $3,500 in proceeds anddonations was divided between “ProjectLiubov” and Caritas Ukraine to aid chil-dren in Ukraine.

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EAST HANOVER, N.J. – Fifty-six women who belong tosuch organizations as the Ukrainian National Women’sLeague of America, Plast Ukrainian ScoutingOrganization and the Ukrainian American YouthAssociation (SUM), as well as other Ukrainian groups,joined together on Friday, October 25, for the first LadiesNight Out here at the Ramada Inn and ConferenceCenter. The group came for a night of good food, goodconversation, fellowship and fun, as well as to raisefunds for the Ukrainian American Cultural Foundation,which is responsible for the ongoing transformation of theVerkhovyna resort in Glen Spey, N.Y. The womenenjoyed the evening, which was organized by SlawkaHordynsky of Springfield, N.J., and hosted by OrestFedash, executive general manager of the Ramada. Allagreed that such informal get-togethers, which are opento all women who are part of the Ukrainian community,are not only a pleasure to attend, but also can be used tosupport other worthwhile institutions, such as theSoyuzivka resort, and diverse community causes.

– Petrusia Paslawsky

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BOSTON – Dr. Paul J. Moroz hasrecently accepted a position as a clinicalfellow in the Department of PediatricOrthopedic Surgery at Harvard MedicalSchool in Boston, Mass. Dr. Moroz’s sub-specialty interest is surgery of the pedi-atric spine and his fellowship appointmentis at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Moroz graduated from McMasterUniversity in Hamilton, Ontario, with aB.Sc. in biology and psychology and anM.Sc. degree in epidemiology. He thencompleted his M.D. degree at theUniversity of Calgary in Alberta, follow-ing this with a residency in orthopedicsurgery at McMaster University.

Dr. Moroz then spent a year as a clini-cal scholar and trauma team leader at theHamilton General Hospital, a Level Itrauma center. For the last several yearshe has been in private orthopedic prac-tice in Owen Sound, Ontario, where hewas also an assistant clinical professor ofsurgery at McMaster University’s Schoolof Medicine. During his time there Dr.Moroz became the youngest surgeon toever become chief of surgery at theGrey-Bruce Regional Health Center.

Dr. Moroz was an active member ofPlast in Hamilton, Ontario and spentmany summers at the Novyi Sokil camp-ground near Buffalo, N.Y., both as par-

ticipant and counselor. He is married toDr. Clare Schnurr, M.D., and their threechildren, Sonia, Anna and Nicholas haveattended “Tabir Ptashat” (Plast’s campprogram for preschoolers) at Novyi Sokilin recent summers.

Dr. Moroz is the youngest son ofZenovia and the late Vasyl Moroz, P.Eng.of Hamilton.

Dr. Moroz is a member of UkrainianNational Association Branch 438.

NOTES ON PEOPLENOTES ON PEOPLE

Physician acceptsposition in Boston

Dr. Paul Moroz

Notes on People is a feature geared toward reporting on the achievements of mem-bers of the Ukrainian National Association. All submissions should be concise due tospace limitations and must include the person’s UNA branch number. Items will bepublished as soon as possible after their receipt, when space permits.

es to come to Prague in defiance of NATOhints that he is not welcome, it seemsunlikely that he will be denied a Czech visathe way that Mr. Lukashenka was. Like it ornot, it was under Kuchma’s rule thatUkraine has asked for and been granted aplace in the waiting room of Europe. Thisfact alone arguably grants the Ukrainian

president the right to somewhat differenttreatment by European leaders than thatafforded Belarus’head of state.

Ukraine has essentially found the path itmust pursue, with or without Mr. Kuchma.Under Mr. Lukashenka, Belarus has failedto find a place within any alignment, defy-ing through its actions both political expedi-ency and common sense. Most likely, theWest has come to the conclusion that lifewill be much simpler if it ignores Belarus’current leader.

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Figure skating• The Ukrainian ice dance team of

Olena Hrushyna and Ruslan Honcharovtook the gold medal at the 2002 MasterCard Skate Canada International inQuebec City, on October 31-November 3.They finished ahead of Canadians Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon, whotook second place, and Svetlana Kulikovaand Arseni Markov of Russia, who wonthird place.

In the pairs competition UkrainiansTetiana Chuvayeva and DmytroPalamarchuk finished in ninth place.Russia’s Tatiana Totmianina and MaximMarinin took the top spot while China’sQing Pang and Jian Tong finished in secondplace. Canadians Anabelle Langlois andPatrice Archetto took third place.

In the women’s competition SashaCohen, who participated last year in a char-ity ice show benefiting the Children ofChornobyl Relief Fund with formerUkrainian Olympian Viktor Petrenko, tookfirst place. Ms. Cohen’s mother isUkrainian. Japan’s Fumie Suguri capturedsecond place, while Russia’s ViktoriaVolchkova took third.

• Only two weeks later Cohen addedanother victory to her resume by taking theLalique Trophy in Paris on November 16.Ukrainian Elena Liashenko came in fourthplace, just missing bronze medalist AlisaDrei of Finland, while Japan’s Yoshie Ondatook the silver medal.

Also at the Lalique competition, theUkrainian ice dance team of Hrushyna andHoncharov, for the second time in twoweeks, took first place in the ice dancecompetition, beating the French team ofIsabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder.Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto of theUnited States took third place in the event.

Ukrainians Tetiana Chuvayeva andDmytro Palamarchuk took another ninthplace finish. Tatiana Totmianina andMaxim Marinin of Russia finished first inthe pairs event, while the French couple ofSarah Abitbol and Stephane Bernadis tooksecond place. China’s Qing Pang and JianTong took the third spot.Swimming

• Ukrainian Yana Klochkova took fourgold medals and two bronze at the FINASwimming World Cup 2002 in Rio deJaneiro on November 17. In the 400-meterfreestyle Klochkova was beaten byAmerican Rachel Komisarz, who finishedin 4 minutes and 7.66 seconds to take thegold medal. China’s Hua Chen also beatKlochkova with a time of 4:08.65. The 19-year-old Klochkova finished in 4:10.53,earning the bronze medal.

In the 800-meter freestyle Klochkova’stime of 8:33.73 avenged her earlier loss toChen and Komisarz and gave her the goldmedal. Chen finished in 8:36.38 to take thesilver, and Komisarz finished in 8:38.12,good enough for the bronze.

In the 200-meter backstroke Klochkovaagain took a bronze medal with a time of2:11.23. She finished behind silver medalistPamela Hanson of the United States,2:09.64, and gold medalist CharleneWittstock of South Africa, 2:08.98.

Klochkova captured another gold medalin the 200-meter butterfly by only .34 sec-onds, beating South Africa’s AmandaLoots, who took the silver medal with atime of 2:09.38. Komisarz’s time of 2:11.11was not far behind, but good enough onlyfor the bronze medal.

Klochkova’s third gold medal came inthe 200-meter individual medley. Her timeof 2:11.23 beat silver medalist AmandaBeard of the United States, who finished in2:12.44. Beard’s teammate Rose Gabrielletook the bronze medal with a time of2:13.63.

Klochkova rounded out her World Cupperformance with a gold medal in the 400-meter individual medley by finishing theevent in 4:36.94. She beat Argentina’sGeorgina Bardach, whose time of 4:38.49gave her the silver medal, and Brazil’sJoanna Maranhao, whose time of 4:42.27gave her the bronze.Climbing

• Ukrainians took a gold and silvermedal at the seventh X (Extreme) Games,held in Philadelphia on August 17. MaximStenkovy took the gold medal in the men’sspeed climbing competition, ascending theroute in a new world record time of 9.71seconds. Alexandre Pechekhonov took thesilver medal, and Serguei Sinitsyn took thebronze.

In the women’s speed climbing competi-tion, Ukrainian Olha Zakharova took thesilver medal behind Tori Allen. EttiHendrawati took the bronze medal, whileUkrainian Elena Repko took fourth place inthe event. Baseball

The September 28 issue of The StarTribune of Minnesota carried an articleon Ukrainian Canadian Corey Koskie,who currently plays for Major LeagueBaseball’s Minnesota Twins. The 29-year-old Koskie, born in Anola,Manitoba, began his Major League careerin 1998 and holds a career batting aver-age of .284, according to Major LeagueBaseball’s official website. During the2001 season the third baseman ledMinnesota in runs (100), runs batted in(103), total bases (274), walks (68) andslugging percentage (.488). He placedsecond among his teammates in hits(155), doubles (37), home runs (26) andstolen bases (27). Koskie, in fact, becamethe first third baseman in AmericanLeague history to record at least 100runs, 25 homers, 100 RBIs and 25 stolenbases in a single season.Rowing

Yevhenia Andreyeva and NataliaRyzhkova of Ukraine took fourth place inthe women’s heavyweight coxless pairsevent at the 2002 FISA World RowingChampionships in Seville, Spain, onSeptember 15-22 with a time of 7 minutes,2.62 seconds. Georgeta Andrunache andViorica Susanu of Romania won first placewith a time of 6:53.80. The second-placeteam of Jacqueline Cook and Karen Clarkof Canada finished in 6:57.08, and thethird-place Belarusian team of YuliyaBichnyk and Natallia Helakh finished in6:59.21.

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Monday, December 2

CHICAGO: A “Friends of Radiology inUkraine” meeting will be held in RoomE262, McCormick Place, at 11:30 a.m.-1p.m. as part of the annual meeting of theRadiological Society of North America.Invited Ukrainian faculty includesAssociation of Radiologists of UkraineVice-President Volodymyr Rohozhyn,M.D., director, Radiological Center,Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences;and RSNA International Young AcademicRoman Kostrytsia, M.D.. Ongoing collabo-rative efforts between Ukrainian andWestern radiologists, including participa-tion in the Ukrainian Congress ofRadiology (October 27-30, 2003, in Kyiv)will be discussed. A Thanksgiving dinnerfor the Ukrainian radiology community willbe held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center,2247 W. Chicago Ave., at 7-10 p.m.Meeting and dinner are open to all RSNAattendees. For more infomation e-mail:baranetsky@pol.net or go to theRSNA website: http://rsna2002.rsna.org.EDMONTON: The Canadian Institute ofUkrainian Studies (CIUS) is holding a lectureby Dr. Olena Boriak, Institute of Art Studies,Folklore and Ethnology, National Academyof Sciences, on “The Midwife in UkrainianTraditional Culture: Ritual, Folklore,Mythology.” The talk is co-sponsored by theHuculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture andEthnography and will be held in HeritageLounge, Athabasca Hall, University ofAlberta at 3:30 p.m. For more informationcontact: CIUS, 450 Athabasca Hall,University of Alberta, Edmonton, AlbertaT6G 2E8; telephone, (780) 492-6857; fax,(780) 492-4967; e-mail, cius@ualberta.ca;website, www.ualberta.ca/cius. December 7-8

NEW BRITAIN, Conn.: The YevshanUkrainian Vocal Ensemble under the direc-tion of Alexander Kuzma will present a pro-gram of Ukrainian and Western EuropeanChristmas music in a joint concert with therenowned Chorale Connecticut under thedirection of Dorothy Barnhardt. The uniquetwin concerts titled “An Old WorldChristmas” will take place on Saturday,December 7, at First Congregational Churchin Meriden at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday,December 8, at 3 p.m. at Welte Auditoriumon the campus of Central Connecticut StateUniversity in New Britain. Tickets: $15 inadvance; $18 at the door; free admission forchildren under age 12. The program willinclude works by Bortniansky, Liudkevych,Avdievsky and Stetsenko, as well asPraetorius, Randall Thompson, John Carterand Max Biebl. For the finale the combinedchoir of 80 voices will perform Bortniansky’sChristmas concerto “Glory to God in theHighest” and Thompson’s “Aleluia.” For

tickets call Stefan Norton, (860) 666-4800, orIhor Stasiuk, (860) 621-0661.Sunday, December 8

PASSAIC, N.J.: All are invited to “TheUkrainian Mall” bazaar being sponsored bythe Ukrainian Center, 240 Hope Ave. Over25 vendors will be selling merchandise intime for Christmas shopping. Also, dine withfamily and friends at the Kozak Café, locatedon the second floor; the menu featuresvarenyky, holubtsi, kovbasa, kapusta, fli-achky and borsch. Admission free; doorsopen at 8 a.m.YONKERS, N.Y.: Ukrainian NationalWomen’s League of America Branch 30 willhold its annual Christmas Bazaar at St.Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church,Shonnard Place and North Broadway, at 9a.m.-noon. This is an opportunity to purchaseceramics, prints, hand-painted ornaments,crafts, Christmas cards and baked goods.Among artists whose work will be for saleare: Marta Anna, Slava Gerulak, IrkaDmyterko, Halyna Slaboduh and SerhijLukianenko. For more information call (203)975-8388.Saturday-Sunday, December 14-15

PHILADELPHIA: The UkrainianEducational and Cultural Center is holdingtheir annual Christmas Bazaar at 700 CedarRoad in Jenkintown, Pa., at 9 a.m.-6 p.m.There will be many vendors sellingUkrainian crafts, Christmas ornaments,pysanky, paintings, jewelry, music record-ings, books and much more. As always, thekitchen will be serving a superb meal consist-ing of borsch, varenyky, holubtsi, kapustaand kovbasa; food may be purchased to takehome for the holidays. Also, baked goodswill be available along with all the necessaryingredients for uzvar and kuttia. It’s a perfectoccasion to buy all your holiday gifts. Fordirections and information, visit the UECCwebsite at www.ukrainiancenterphila.org.Sunday, December 15

FOX CHASE MANOR, Pa.: The Sisters ofSt. Basil, in conjunction with the priests of thePhiladelphia Deanery of the UkrainianCatholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia, presentan “Advent Afternoon of Recollection,” onthe topic “The Spirit of Christmas.” The Rev.Robert Hitchens, director of Evangelizationfor the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy ofPhiladelphia and chaplain for the Sisters of St.Basil, will present the program. In preparationfor the coming feast of the Nativity, confes-sion will be provided at 3:45 p.m. Donation:$25; register by December 6. Please makechecks payable in the amount of $25 to:Sisters of St. Basil the Great, 710 Fox ChaseRoad, Fox Chase Manor, PA 19046. For addi-tional information call (215) 342-8381.

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Soyuzivka. The name is known worldwide. Ukrainiansfrom near and far have journeyed to this unique place,drawn there by the 450-acre resort’s natural beauty, ofcourse, but mostly by its Ukrainianism. For Soyuzivka hasa Ukrainian heart and soul. It is a venue for Ukrainian arts,for Ukrainian entertainment, as well as for Ukrainian edu-cation and Ukrainian sports. It is a meeting place forUkrainian friends of all ages.

Ukrainian National Association historian Dr. Myron B.Kuropas noted that it all began at the 1950 UNAConvention, when a recommendation was passed to pur-chase property for a UNA seniors’ center within two years.In response, UNA officers visited various sites in NewJersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

The land that today is the resort of the UNA once wasthe Foord Sanitarium, located off the Minnewaska Trail inthe Shawangunk Mountains, near the town of Kerhonkson,N.Y., in the Catskill region of upstate New York. This par-ticular property was selected because, as Daniel Slobodianrecalled, “It was reminiscent of Ukraine.” The property waspurchased by the UNA, a fraternal benefit life insurancesociety, for $72,000; later, adjoining property was pur-chased to expand the resort. This “little piece of Ukraine,”

as Walter Kwas lovingly called it, was to become a meccafor Ukrainians. (Mr. Kwas, an immigrant from Ukraine,and Mr. Slobodian, an American-born Ukrainian, were theco-managers of the resort in its early years; Mr. Kwas con-tinued as the sole manager for decades afterwards.)

A year later, on July 4-5, 1953, came the formal dedica-tion ceremonies of Soyuzivka, by then billed as a year-round mountain resort and a home for the aged. Eagerlyanticipated by the Ukrainian community, nearly 2,000UNA members and friends traveled from all over the east-ern United States by car and charter bus to attend the two-day festivities, which consisted of formal dinners, concertsand a field liturgy on Sunday morning. The guests also tookfull advantage of Soyuzivka’s tennis and volleyball courts,and found time to relax by swimming and sunbathing atSoyuzivka’s pool. Dmytro Halychyn, supreme president ofthe UNA, delivered a brief but stirring talk. “OurSoyuzivka,” he said, “represents a fragment of enslavedUkraine transplanted here upon the American soil.”

In subsequent years, thousands visited the resort, return-ing year after year like migrating birds returning home.

Five decades later, the words of Soyuzivka’s office man-ager, Sonia Semanyshyn, demonstrate the key role of this

community institution. “Soyuzivka gave the young people aplace to learn about their culture, religion and heritage, towork, to expand their social graces. Besides working atSoyuzivka, a young Ukrainian could attend one of the myr-iad camps and courses available during the summermonths,” she commented.

For many Soyuzivka was the place where they experi-enced their first Ukrainian community involvement, forothers it was where they maintained their Ukrainian con-nection. Soyuzivka was where many met future spousesand where their organizations held meetings, conferencesand social gatherings. And all were, and are, welcome here.

Now, as Soyuzivka marks its 50th anniversary, newlyelected UNA President Stefan Kaczaraj recently noted in aspecial message that a plan for the renewal of Soyuzivka isto be presented to the Ukrainian community. The goal is toenable this priceless resort to flourish so that it can continueto serve our community for years to come, so that new gen-erations could share in the memories that have alreadybecome a cherished part of the lives of so many Ukrainianswho came before them.

Mnohaya lita, Soyuzivka! Long may you shine as a gemof our community.

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Memories of cherished people, places and points in time: (clockwise, beginning with photo ontop left) the legendary Walter Kwas, longtime Soyuzivka manager, with the equally legendaryChemney in 1987; members of the 1989 Soyuzivka dining room staff gathered for the traditionalgroup photo; the path to the Veselka terrace, which overlooks the Shawangunk Mountains, in a1998 photo; participants and instructors at the popular Tennis Camp of 1983.

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Memories of camps and courses at Soyuzivka: (clockwise, beginningwith photo on top left) a group of boys from the 1984 Children’s Camp;girls of the “Lysychky” troop at the 2002 Chemney Camp; preschoolersen route to an activity at Plast’s “Tabir Ptashat” in 1998; “BratchykAndriy” tells a tale to children at the 2000 “Tabir Ptashat”; young artistsperform during the 1990 Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky Dance Camp; par-ticipants and instructors at the 1979 Ukrainian Cultural Courses.

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Memories of Soyuzivka regulars: (clockwise,beginning with photo on top left) the Soyuzivka“orchestra” of 1984 led by Vlodko Krul; MissSoyuzivka 1973 Christina Towpasz; formerprogram director Anya Dydyk-Petrenko, withher husband, Jurij, in the early 1990s; “It’s Nowor Never” – the 1998 slogan of the effort to pre-serve Soyuzivka; Miss Soyuzivka 1977 AnnetteCharuk (second from left) and her runners-upwith Walter Kwas; volunteers prep blue andyellow balloons for Ukrainian IndependenceDay 1992; resort summer staffers, among themcurrent manager John A. Flis (standing), in aphoto from the late 1970s.

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Memories of sports: (clockwise, beginning with photo on top left) athletes at a 1975 volleyballtournament; an intense game of volleyball in 1983; young swimmers with some of their trophiesin the late 1980s; a young tennis star of the 1970s with Zenon Snylyk (left); a training sessionduring the 1991 Tennis Camp; Archbishop-Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk of the UkrainianCatholic Church in the U.S.A. with Plast’s winning team of swimmers in 1981.

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Photos in this special supplement by: George Wirt, ZenonSnylyk, Roman Holiat, Ihor Dlaboha, Roma Hadzewycz,Marta Kolomayets, Natalia Feduschak, Khristina Lew,Roman Iwasiwka, Andrew Wowk and many others(unknown) whose photos today are part of the photoarchives of The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda.

Memories of performances: (clockwise, beginning with photo on top left) the Fata Morgana band performs during an afternoon concert in 1992;a special 1993 performance by Hrono, featuring lead singer Tetyana Horobets; Taras Petrynenko, leader of Hrono, in 1993; girls of the HominStepiv bandurist ensemble in concert in 1990; the audience enjoys the music of a 1992 afternoon performance on the Veselka terrace; a buddingmusician tries out the drums in 1996; a Ukrainian folk dance presentation in 1998 by Vohon of Edmonton.

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Memories of special moments: (clockwise, beginning with photo on top left) a late 1960s slumber party during the Jersey City, N.J., Plastbranch’s annual November trip to Soyuzivka; meeting up with friends during Labor Day weekend 1988; Edmonton’s Vohnetz dance troupe posesfor a group photo in 1999 after rehearsal; actors Jack Palance (center) and Mike Mazurki (third from left) with fans and Soyuzivka regulars in1966 during UNA Day; National Deputy Les Taniuk enjoys the outdoor evening concert celebrating Ukrainian Independence Day 1992; newly-weds Ken and Myrosia Wanio in the 1970s.

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TherThere’s no place like Soyuzivka! e’s no place like Soyuzivka! çÂχ ÚçÂχ ÚÓ flÍ Ì‡ ëÓ˛Á¥‚ˆ¥!Ó flÍ Ì‡ ëÓ˛Á¥‚ˆ¥!

Memories of conferences, gatherings and reunions: (clockwise, beginning with photo on top left) the 2002 Summit of Ukrainian AmericanOrganizations; Ukrainian National Association executives and the Svoboda editor-in-chief during the 1978 annual meeting of the Supreme Assembly;UNA Seniors at their 2001 conference next to the gazebo funded by the organization; hikers at Soyuzivka’s waterfalls during the late fall of 1999; asocial gathering/conference of the Chornomortsi fraternity of Plast during the early 1980s; professors at the teachers’ seminar held in 1980.

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50Whether it’s a conference, a family reunion, a wedding or a christening, Soyuzivka makes

an excellent venue and a gracious host for the events that matter to you.

And, why not join us for the holidays? Celebrations of Thanksgiving, Christmas and the

New Year become extra special when you share them with family and friends at

Soyuzivka.

Need a weekend getaway, a vacation, or a summer camp for your children? Soyuzivka,

located in the scenic Shawangunk Mountains of upstate New York is just the ticket.

Remember: There’s no place like Soyuzivka!

For information and/or reservations contact:Soyuzivka – Ukrainian National Association Estate

Foordmore RoadKerhonkson, NY 12446

telephone: 845-626-5641fax: 845-626-4638e-mail: sqss@aol.com

website: www.soyuzivka.com

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