The Ukrainian Weekly 1995, No.3

INSIDE: • Ukraine expands ties with South America — page 2. • Leonid Kravchuk to visit U.S. - page 3. • Interview with director of Kyyiv Theater on Podol — page 9. *3

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Kravchuk launches civic organization Detroit resident seeks to block to promote consolidation in Ukraine CBS ownership of local station

by Marta Kolomayets Kyyiv Press Bureau

KYYIV - A new civic organization, Poroziiminnia (Mutual Understanding), was launched on Wednesday, January 11, by former Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk with the aim of consolidating forces in Ukraine that advocate a strong independent state, democratic transformations and economic reforms.

"Ukraine is in danger," declared Mr. Kravchuk during a 90-minute press conference at the Writers' Union building in Kyyiv, expressing concern that some segments of society in Ukraine today are calling for the renewal of the Soviet Union, while others are pushing for a federative state, with some regions clamoring for closer ties with Russia. "Our domestic situation is very complicated both economically and politically," he said.

"We have made no steps toward consolidation. Ї would even say that we've taken a step back in the process," continued the man who served as Ukraine's president from December 1991 through July 1994 and who now serves as a deputy in the Supreme Council representing the Ternopil region.

"Today we have to unite the democrats and the patriots in order to build a strong state," said Mr. Kravchuk, 61, for

mer ideology chief of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

He joins an initiative group of 54 people from the Ukrainian Parliament, and civic and political leaders, including Petro Sheyko, Pavlo Movchan, Mykola Zhulynsky, Volodymyr Muliava, Mykola Horbal, Volodymyr Chervoniy, Mykhailo Horyn, Yuriy Badzio, who hope to create the All-Ukrainian Association Porozuminnia. Its' main goals are:

• to aid in the realization of well-thought out economic and political reforms that will serve the interests of the individual and society as a whole;

• to stand in opposition to political forces whose activities are aimed at the destruction of the Ukrainian state;

• to oppose any attempts to transform the CIS into a state structure and to ensure that Ukraine does not stray off a course that guarantees sovereignty and independence;

• to promote mutual understanding between the various branches of power and insist on a clear division of powers;

• to help strengthen Ukraine's security system by strengthening its armed forces and to effectively utilize its military-defense complex and its nuclear energy.

Consolidating the Ukrainian people

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Chechen council seeks mediation by Kravchuk, Carter, Kazakh leader


KYYIV - Former President Leonid Kravchuk told journalists on Wednesday, January 11, that he has been invited by the Chechen national coordinating council, Maslaat, to help settle the armed conflict in that region of the Russian Federation.

Mr. Kravchuk was invited to intervene along with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and prominent Kazakh author Olzhas Suleimenov; both Messrs. Kravchuk and Suleimenov have given their consent to serve as mediators. It is not known if Mr. Carter has accepted, but Mr. Kravchuk said that he hoped to talk to the U.S. leader, who has been effective in mediating talks in North Korea, Haiti and Bosnia over the past several months, during his visit to the U.S. this month.

"We must do everything possible for the world to know the real tragedy of the Chechen people. Innocent people, civilians, are dying every day," he noted.

The Ukrainian leader said he thinks the events in Chechnya "are not accidental." He added, "This is real implementation of the new Russian policy, the restoration of a united and indivisible Russia, one that is resuming its expan

sionist aspirations." He called the conflict in Chechnya a

defeat for the Russian leadership and its policies.

Parliamentary deputy Mykhailo Ratushny, a member of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, who last week returned from Shali, on the outskirts of Grozny, told journalists at a press conference on Monday, January 9, that "the Russians are eliminating the Chechens as a nation." He also told the press that his delegation visited the regions of Petropavliovsk, where ethnic Ukrainians have lived for two centuries. "It is the civilian population that suffers first at the hands of the Russians," he added.

He and his delegation, which brought humanitarian aid to civilians in the breakaway region that declared its independence from Russia in 1991, saw "the bodies of hundreds of Russian soldiers on the streets." Mr. Ratushny said the Russians refused even to call a truce for the Chechens to bury the dead.

"The events in Chechnya will lead to Russia's collapse," he said, adding that Russia has proven that it wants to remain an imperialist state.


by Roman Woronowycz JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A Ukrainian

American has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to disallow CBS a broadcasting license in the Detroit viewing area, the second action filed against the network by Ukrainians.

Alexander Serafyn, a resident of Troy, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, is asking the FCC not to approve CBS ownership of a television station in the Detroit area based on the airing of a piece titled "The Ugly Face of Freedom," which was shown on its longtime hit news program "60 Minutes" on October 23, 1994. The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America previously filed a personal attack complaint with the FCC for presenting the same piece. That complaint is currently pending.

The broadcast has stirred up a hornet's nest of anger and protest within the Ukrainian community and has resulted in numerous public demonstrations and thousands of angry letters to CBS and its advertisers. So far the network giant has refused to retract or apologize for its story.

Mr. Serafyn, a retired Ford Motor Co. executive, states in his petition that the news program "distorted facts, quoted speakers out of context and unfairly translated words from Ukrainian into English, all in an effort to support the program's false conclusion." The conclusion, which has most inflamed Ukrainian American sentiment, suggests that Ukrainians are "genetically anti-Semitic." His petition states that the granting of a license to CBS for these reasons would not be in " 'the public interest, convenience and necessity' and should be denied."

"I've always been active in my community and felt it was my responsibility to defend my good name and the good name of the Ukrainian people against the inaccurate and biased CBS report, "The Ugly Face of Freedom," Mr. Serafyn told The Weekly through his attorney.

Mr. Serafyn's petition states that CBS failed to meet its public interest obligation by standing behind a story that so obviously distorted the truth about current Jewish-Ukrainian relations in Ukraine.

"When they said, no, we think it (the piece) is fine. I think from that point on our complaint springs," said Mr. Serafyn's attorney, Arthur Belendiuk. "We are saying it is not fine, and we told you it is not fine, and we showed you why it is not fine. And you're saying, hey, we don't care, we're going to stand by that programming."

One of the implications of CBS broadcasting "The Ugly Face of Freedom" stated in the petition is that the network was more concerned with sensationalism and ratings than with an accurate portrayal of the subject matter.

Mr. Belendiuk, a communications expert who once worked at the FCC, said that, although the petition questions the

over-all quality of CBS programming, it is based specifically on the "60 Minutes" program. "You can't just make stuff up out of whole cloth, broadcast it and then, when people point that out to you, say, well, we don't care; we're going to stand by our story; we're not going to take that back and, by the way, get ready for the rerun season. When you do that, I think you're playing fast and loose with your right to be a licensee."

Mr. Belendiuk also noted that a retraction by CBS at this point may not undo the damage done, although such an effort would be welcomed. "Mr. Serafyn was smeared by that report — he and every other Ukrainian. CBS, by taking that smear back, I don't know that it's going to completely compensate the Ukrainian community," explained Mr. Belendiuk. "At least it would be a step in the right direction, a recognition on the part of CBS that we can't go around picking on the Ukrainian community because they are there, they are an easy target and they won't do anything."

The broadcasting company is awaiting FCC approval to buy WGPR, a local television station recently acquired by CBS. The purchase of a local television station by a network is of itself unusual; most networks use local affiliates to broadcast their programming. CBS's old affiliate,WJBK, was purchased last year by the aggressive Fox Broadcasting Network, one of many such moves by owner Rupert Murdoch that shook the broadcasting world in 1994.

The move left the network in the awkward position of not having a local broadcast outlet in a top-10 market. The proposed purchase of WGPR, an ultra-high frequency (UHF) station owned by African Americans, did not relieve its problems. A group of African Americans has also petitioned the FCC not to allow the CBS license until the network can ensure the African American community that it will have access for black-oriented programming. The petition by Mr. Serafyn just throws another log into the fire.

The broadcasting company, which refused to comment on the petition or the "60 Minutes" story, has asked the FCC for an extension until January 17 to respond to Mr. Serafyn's petition. CBS's attorney, Howard Jaekel, said the petition is without merit, but would not expound further.

Mr. Belendiuk said Mr. Serafyn would consider a settlement, where CBS agrees not to rebroadcast "The Ugly Face of Freedom" and withdraw the original airing, the manner of which could be negotiated. If not, then the former Ford executive is committed to the battle, which would include an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals should the FCC render a decision unsatisfactory to him.

"What Mr. Serafyn hopes for," said his attorney, "is what every Ukrainian wants — their self-respect back."

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Ukraine expands diplomatic ties with South American countries


KYYIV - Ukraine began 1995 by expanding its foreign contacts, as a government delegation, chaired by First Deputy Foreign Minister Borys Tarasiuk, established ties on the South American continent, visiting Brazil, Argentina and Chile on January 1-7.

Mr. Tarasiuk served as President Leonid Kuchma's special envoy at inaugural ceremonies for Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso on January 1, and took this opportunity to meet with Argentinean President Carlos Menem in Brasilia.

Mr. Tarasiuk extended official letters of invitation to the foreign ministers of all three countries, who are expected to visit Ukraine during the first half of 1995. Official invitations were also extended for President Kuchma to visit Argentina and Brazil in the latter part of 1995.

"The experiences of these South American countries - in both economic and political reforms - are similar to those under way in Ukraine," Mr. Tarasiuk told journalists at a weekly briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, January 10. "We should study them closely," he said, adding that today their gross domestic product is over $700 billion (U.S.).

Significant interest in Ukraine was expressed by the three countries' governments and private sectors, added the Ukrainian diplomat, who met on January 5-6 not only with Chilean President Eduardo Frei Ruiz Tagle, but also with investors in Santiago who are looking for opportunities in Europe.

Today, Chile is one of the biggest investors in the South American region,

providing over $6 billion (U.S.) and hoping to venture into Europe.

Economic and trade agreements are already being prepared by the Chilean and Ukrainian governments, and a delegation of Chilean experts on economic reform and investment is scheduled to visit Ukraine in the near future to offer advice on how to revitalize a bankrupt economy. Chilean government officials underscored the close relationship its Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations has developed with the Economics Ministry and its investment agency in order to encourage private and public sector ventures.

In Buenos Aires, Mr. Tarasiuk met with representatives of Argentina's National Congress, who expressed an interest in parliamentary exchanges and invited Boris Oliynyk, the head of the Parliament's Foreign Relations Committee, to visit Argentina.

In the course of the visit, the Ukrainian deputy foreign minister also signed an agreement on partnership and cooperation, which will allow for greater contacts and more cooperation between Ukraine and Argentina in various international organizations.

Meeting with Argentina's Economics Minister V. Cavallo, who orchestrated his country's reforms for economic stabilization, Mr. Tarasiuk was told that Ukraine is a prospective European partner for trade and investment for South American countries. Plans were made for businessmen to visit Ukraine in the near future.

A most interesting discussion ensued when Mr. Tarasiuk met with Argentina's National Commission on Space Research


President attempts to revamp administration and security council

by Taras Kuzio

LONDON — The second president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, has revamped both the presidential administration and the National Security Council (NSC). They plus the Parliament constitute the three most important ruling organs of Ukraine.

The role of the presidential administration and the NSC are likely to take over the most important functions of running Ukraine if President Kuchma has his way. During the first week of December 1994, the president submitted a draft law on powers to Parliament that would effectively confine the Parliament to purely legislative functions, while the president would run Ukraine through his administration and the NSC, which would have a direct executive chain of command to localities via the Council of the Regions. The law 'On Power' would ensure a division of authority in Ukraine between the legislative and executive branches before a new constitution is adopted. If the left-wing bloc in the Parliament blocks the draft law, President Kuchma has vowed to take it to a referendum.

The newly revamped presidential administration has a greater number of directorates (or departments) as well as a more coherent and better functioning system of aides and consultants. Presidential counselors, respectable members of acad-emia and the business community play a role similar to that of the Presidential

Taras Kuzio is editor of Ukraine Business Review based in London.

Duma created by President Leonid Kravchuk in early 1992. President Kuchma, unlike his predecessor, is reportedly more willing to listen to and accept the advice of his staff and advisers.

The NSC has an expanded membership and a new official status under the president. The importance attached by President Kuchma to national security questions can be gauged from the appointment of Yevhen Marchuk, former chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine and reportedly one of Ukraine's brightest strategists, to the post of first deputy prime minister with responsibility for security affairs. Mr. Marchuk has since headed negotiations over the Black Sea Fleet and, in his additional capacity as the president's representative in the Crimea, dealt with the problems of that peninsula as well.

Previously the NSC existed in legal semi-limbo, having been created by the decree of former President Kravchuk. The NSC Secretariat has two new departments: strategic planning and coordination, as well as information and analysis. The National Institute of Strategic Studies, previously regarded as a presidential think-tank, is now under the auspices of the NSC Secretariat. The NSC's inter-departmental committees are still in the process of formation.

All in all, these reforms by President Kuchma are likely to make Ukraine more governable, and create better discipline and order among the government's branches of powers. This, in turn, will ensure the implementation of economic reform, which is indispensable for Ukraine's survival.

Support for independence still strong

KYYIV — In an annual survey taken by the International Sociological Institute, 64 percent of Ukrainians polled said they continue to favor their country's independence, Ukrainian Television News reported on January 9. This represents an 8 percent increase over the previous December but is much lower than the more than 90 percent who voted for an independent Ukrainian state in a referendum on December 1, 1991, the institute's director, Volodymyr Khmelko, said. Extreme left political groups, led by the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), are collecting signatures for a petition, mostly in the more Russified eastern regions of the country, to hold a referendum on the re-establishment of the former Soviet Union. (OMRI Daily Digest)

Masol supports further farm credits

KYYIV — During a tour of collective farms in the Chernihiv Oblast, Prime Minister Vitaliy Masol told farm workers he believes the cash-strapped Ukrainian government should continue to subsidize the still mostly state-owned agricultural sector, as well as private farmers, and bail out any potential bankruptcies, Ukrainian Television News reported on January 9. His statements contradict President Leonid Kuchma's plans to radically overhaul the beleaguered state financing system for the farm sector and push ahead with privatization of farms and related industry. (OMRI Daily Digest)

President Kuchma visits Georgia

KYYIV — President Leonid Kuchma arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia on an official visit, reported Ukrainian Radio on January 9. Mr. Kuchma met with Georgian Parliament Chairman Eduard Shevardnadze and signed a series of documents on socioeconomic relations, trade and coordination of activities in international affairs. Presidential Chief of Staff Dmytro Tabachnyk said the meeting signaled a new strategic partnership between Georgia and Ukraine. (OMRI Daily Digest)

Student leader criticizes government

KYYIV — Yuriy Zubko, head of the Ukrainian Student Union, called the recent firing of Mykhailo Poplavsky from his post as rector of the Kyyiv State Institute of Culture unlawful. Mr. Zubko said on January 9 that he is surprised at the "total inactivity of the president of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers, who have done absolutely nothing in

response to the demands of the citizenry, creative cooperatives, student organizations and the collective of the institute that order be brought to the Ministry of Culture." (Respublika)

Moscow hired Kharkivites for Chechnya

KYYIV — Prior to the beginning of the military conflict in Chechnya, the Russian Counterintelligence Service (FSK) recruited mercenaries on Ukrainian territory to support the "Chechen opposition," reported the Ukrainian National Assembly press center on January 9. In Kharkiv Oblast alone, some 100 to 150 citizens of Ukraine, primarily former military personnel, were recruited by the FSK. One of the primary recruiting centers was the city of Kupianske. According to unconfirmed reports, a large number of these mercenaries' bodies have been returned to Ukraine. (Respublika)

New deputy prime minister for agriculture

KYYIV — President Leonid Kuchma appointed Petro Sabluk, head of the Ukrainian Institute for Agrarian Economics, as first deputy prime minister in charge of agriculture, reported Reuters on January 10. Ukraine has two other deputy prime ministers, one for economic reform and the other for national security. The Kuchma administration has repeatedly claimed that market-oriented reforms in the agricultural sector will be a priority in its 1995 economic reform plan. (OMRI Daily Digest)

Aslund says reform on right track

KYYIV — Anders Aslund, a prominent Swedish economist who is advising the Ukrainian government on policy matters, told an RFE/RL special correspondent on January 11, that the current government is "on the right track" with economic reforms and its prospects for success are "very promising." Mr. Aslund told a gathering at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington that in the last 18 months, Ukraine has undergone "an extraordinary transformation from the worst-case situation to the leader" among most former Soviet republics in the area of reform. He said breakthroughs can be expected in the next few months, as Ukraine stands on the threshold of real change. While Ukraine succeeded in cutting its 1994 budget deficit to 8 percent of its GDP, it will need aid from the international community to meet its 1995 target deficit of 4


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Leonid Kravchuk to visit U.S. NEW YORK - Former President

Leonid Kravchuk will visit the U.S. and Canada during January and February. He will do a series of lectures to benefit the Harriman Institute's Ukrainian Studies Program and the Foundat ion for an Independent and Democratic Ukraine.

The visit is sponsored by Columbia University's Harriman Institute and co-sponsored by the Ukrainian American Professionals and Businesspersons Association of New York and New Jersey.

The lecture series will commence with President Kravchuk ' s appearance at Columbia's Low Library Rotunda on Tuesday, January 17, at 7 p.m., where he will be introduced by Columbia's president, George Rupp.

After that, President Kravchuk will travel to Washington, where he will appear before the public on Friday, January 20. Subsequent stops will be in Philadelphia, on Saturday, January 21; Pittsburgh on Sunday, January 22; Detroit, Mich., on Monday, January 23; Chicago on Friday, January 27; Rochester on Saturday, January 26; and in Buffalo on Monday, January 30. He is also scheduled to visit

Yale University in New Haven, Conn., the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affair in Minneapolish, Minn. The former president will then move on to Canada. Events are scheduled in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa.

For more information, please contact: Prof. Yuriy Tarnawsky, the Harriman Institute, for the New York City visit (212-854-4623/666-3481 fax); Lydia Chopivsky Benson, Federation of Ukrainian American Business and Professionals Association, for date confirmation and details for other cities (202-955-3990/955-3996 fax); or Zenon Babiuk, for President Kravchuk's plans (212-484-7700/484-7130 fax).

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council and the Coordinating Committee to Aid Ukraine noted in a statement released January 4 that they had "attempted to co-sponsor former President Kravchuk's visit. However, his itinerary had been determined earlier. The UCC, UACC and the CCAU urge the Ukrainian American community to actively participate in all community meetings/ events with the former president."

Smith to chair Helsinki Commission; pledges hearing on Chechnya crisis

Civil liberties group announces campaign for historical markers

TORONTO - The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, a non-partisan, independent and non-profit organization whose aim is to negotiate an acknowledgment and redress agreement with the Government of Canada for the unjust and unwarranted internment of Ukrainian Canadians as "enemy aliens" during World War I, has begun a new campaign to place historical markers at many of these Canadian internment camp sites.

Efforts to commemorate the internment operations began on August 4, 1994, when the association unveiled the first such marker at the site of Canada's first permanent internment camp, Fort Henry, near Kingston, Ontar io . Negotiations are now under way with Parks Canada to develop similar historical panels at the Cave and Basin site in Banff National Park.

The association's executive has also decided that, regardless of Ottawa's position on the restitution of the internee's confiscated wealth, historical markers should be placed at some selected sites,

even if this must be done using limited community resources.

Accordingly, the UCCLA has initiated a Historical Plaque Campaign. Each professionally prepared, bronze, trilingual, free-standing historical marker will cost approximately $2,000 to produce. The association aims to first erect markers at the Kapuskasing internment camp site in Ontario and at the Spirit Lake internment camp site, in Quebec. Later, depending on the generosity of the community, plaques will be placed in other provinces.

All funds collected for this campaign will be used only for the purpose of placing these historical markers, and all donations will be acknowledged in writing. Periodic reports will be circulated to the Ukrainian press to keep supporters informed of the campaign's results.

Checks or money orders made payable to the UCCLA-His tor ica l Marker Campaign should be mailed directly to: Ukrainian Canadian Civil Libert ies Association, Suite 96A, 2140 Bloor St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M68 1M8.

UCCA appeal regarding Chechnya The latest events in Chechnya evoke much anxiety and alarm. Under the pre

text of defending its territorial integrity, Russia grossly violates the human rights of the Chechen population. International agreements prescribe that neither side involved in a police action or war may cause intentional physical harm to civilian populations. In Chechnya, however, innocent civilians have suffered physical harm and even death, not as a result of cross-fire, but directly victimized by Russian aggression. Even orphanages have become targets of Russian bombs.

The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America refrains from commenting on the issue of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, in light of bilateral and trilateral agreements signed by Russia with both Ukraine and the United States. Nevertheless we are cognizant of the fact that the Chechens are a distinct nation, which finds itself within the borders of the Russian Federation as a result of enslavement by Russian imperialism. While not addressing the issue of Chechen independence, as human beings, we dare not remain silent while Russian troops murder innocents, including women and children.

Therefore, we appeal to our government to act in concert with the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United Nations in demanding that Russia allow international monitoring of the conflict in Chechnya. The U.S. government should make abundantly clear to President Boris Yeltsin and other Russian leaders that U.S. and worldwide economic support is contingent upon respect for human rights on the territory of the Russian Federation.

With profound concern, we request that President Bill Clinton and the House and Senate leadership demonstrate to Russia our total commitment to the defense of human rights, wherever they may be violated.

January 10 Ukrainian Congress Committee of America

WASHINGTON - Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on January 9 named Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.) chairman of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), commonly referred to as the Helsinki Commission.

"The critical work of the Helsinki Commission in the areas of human rights and military security has become even more important, as we witness the continuing instability in Eastern Europe and the countr ies of the former Soviet Union," Rep. Smith commented. "As a senior Republ ican on the House International Relations committee, I have a longterm record with these issues, and I look forward to providing continued leadership on these matters as the chairman of the Helsinki Commission."

Rep. Smith has served as a member of the Hels inki Commiss ion since his appointment in 1983, and is now the most senior member on the panel from either party in the U.S . House of Representa t ives . The commiss ion includes nine members from the House, nine from the Senate, and one representative each from the Departments of State, Commerce and Defense.

Created by Congress in 1976, the commission is responsible for monitoring and encouraging compliance with the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, now known as the Organizat ion on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a document signed in Helsinki, Finland, on August 1, 1975, by the leaders of 33 European countries, the U.S. and Canada. Each of the former Soviet republics has subsequently joined OSCE, bringing the number of participating states to 53. The Helsinki Accords and subsequent documents signed by member-states set the standard for human rights, rule of law and military security of the participating states, and established a framework for member-states to engage in dialogue on these issues.

Rep. Smith, an outspoken critic of the

Rep. Christopher H. Smith

current human rights conditions in many of the OSCE member-states, said the commission's first task will be to address the bloody conflict in Chechnya, where the Russian military continues its efforts to crush an independence movement.

"We will convene a Congressional hearing early next week to take a close look at this abominable situation," Rep. Smith said. "Whatever one thinks about self-determination and its possible consequences, the massive killing of non-combatants and innocent civilians being carried out by the Russian military in the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic is a gross violation of human rights and the Helsinki principles."

Rep. Smith appealed to President Boris Yeltsin to end the conflict. "Thousands of innocent civilians, including many children, have lost their lives in the indiscriminate shelling and bombing. I urge the Russian government to stop this killing."

In addition to the crisis in Chechnya, Rep. Smith stated that the Helsinki Commission will move quickly to address other critical issues, including the conflicts in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as religious liberty issues throughout the OSCE member-states.

Plast being revitalized in Poland According to Mr. Tyma, Plast in Poland

is very different than in North America. "Ukrainians are fairly scattered throughout Poland, and we lack [the] stability that several large centers of Ukraine population would give to us," he said. The number of members of Plast in Poland fluctuates greatly. "The highest was 240 people, while now there are roughly 150," said Mr. Tyma. "The number changes because we do not have stable large centers such as Toronto, Philadelphia or something similar. A small Plast group in Komancza (in the southeastern, Lemko, region of Poland) disappeared when the person in charge left the village to go study in Lublin. This situation has been repeated many times."

Another problem faced by Plast in Poland has been the lack of properly trained leaders. Mr. Tyma said that since its inception several members of Polish Plast have gone to training camps in the United States, Canada and Ukraine and the situation has improved greatly, adding that these instructors will be organizing a training camp in Poland in the near future.

On the relations between Plast and the Polish scouting organization, the Harcerze, Mr. Tyma said that nothing could be better. "When Plast first started, the Harcerze helped us out. They let us use their camps, helped us get organized." Mr. Tyma said Plast members were invited by the Harcerze to attend the International Scouting Jamboree together.

by Nestor Gula

TORONTO - The Ukrainian scouting organization, Plast, is slowly re-establishing a foothold in Poland.

Plast was active in Poland between the two world wars when western Ukraine was under Polish control.

Petro Tyma, 28, is the head of the Plast National Executive in Poland. Recently, he was in North America, attending the World Conference of Ukrainian Plast Organizations, which was held in East Hanover, N.J. He came to Toronto, to establish contacts with Plast in Canada and to visit some old friends who emigrated from Poland to Canada. In Poland he works as the executive assistant to Miroslaw Czech, currently the only Ukrainian member of the Polish Parliament, the Sejm.

Mr. Tyma is one of the main forces behind the reformation of Plast in Poland. The official founding meetings of Plast in Poland took place in Gdansk in May 1990, and the first Plast camps in Poland took place in July of that year.

In an interview with this reporter during his recent stay in Toronto, Mr. Tyma said two forces were responsible for recreating Plast in Poland. "Ukrainians students in Gdansk, where I was studying, joined with Father Marko from Wegoszwo (in the Mazury region of Poland) to form Plast."


Defense Department recognizes Ukrainian language specialty

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The growing importance of Ukraine and its language were much in evidence when, on November 9, 1994, the Department of Defense authorized the addition of Ukrainian to the list of languages eligible for special incentive pay to service-members of the United States Armed Forces. All four branches of the services (Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps) have included Ukrainian on their lists of languages for Foreign Language Proficiency Pay (FLPP), although the Navy will activate its version of the Ukrainian FLPP only in October and the Marine Corps will implement a limited version. Where previously FLPP for Ukrainian language ability was granted only on a case-by-case basis to those assigned duties directly involving Ukraine, now it is available on a regular, everyday basis.

At present, there is no armed services data base of servicemembers' Ukrainian language skills and the policy heretofore had been to select personnel for assignment to projects involving the use of Ukrainian on the basis of a Russian language qualification database. Therefore, wide participation by Ukrainian American servicemembers in the Ukrainian FLPP program could effectively result in the creation of a new data base of servicemembers with Ukrainian language skills.

The benefits of FLPP

FLPP is a monthly incentive paid to eligible and qualified servicemembers possessing foreign language proficiency to encourage the acquisition, maintenance and improvement of foreign language skills vital to national defense.

Servicemembers may receive up to $100 a month for Ukrainian language capability. The amount of additional pay is determined by the level of proficiency as determined by the Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) in Ukrainian. This test must be taken annually to maintain qualification and eligibility for FLPP.

Although all four service branches have or will shortly institute Ukrainian FLPP, the eligibility criteria for this program vary from service to service. Following is a summary of each service's FLPP eligibility requirements:

United States Army:

All enlisted / noncommissioned officers in Special Forces Career Management; Field 18, all special forces warrant officers 180A; all soldiers with Primary Military Occupational Skill (PMOS) 96F, 97В, 97Е, 98G or 98Z; warrant officer MOS 350A, 351 A, 351C, 35IE, 352C and 352G; all commissioned officers with branch code 18 or functional area 48 and assigned to or performing in that position; all soldiers assigned to and performing military duties in a position requiring the requisite language. Servicemembers must have a qualifying DLPT proficiency rating. See your military personnel / finance office.

United States Air Force:

All airmen in the active Air Force or Air Force Reserve who qualify for FLPP and who maintain required proficiency level are eligible for FLPP. They must be career airmen unless assigned to a language designated position (LDP). Servicemembers must have qualifying and current DLPT proficiency rating. See your military / finance office.

United States Navy:

All personnel designated as Cryptologic Technician with Interpretive (CTI) rating, possessing a foreign language Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) code; personnel other than those in the CTI rating serving in billets identified as having foreign language requirements such as : 161X, 744X, 163X, NEC 9520, Special Warfare personnel and others. Servicemembers must have qualifying and current DLPT proficiency rating (effective 1 Oct. 95). See your military / finance office.

United States Marine Corps:

FLPP is authorized only to marines performing military duties in a position requiring Ukrainian language and only for the duration of that duty. Servicemembers must have qualifying and current DLPT proficiency rating. See your military personnel / finance office.

Servicemembers should apply

In a letter dated September 8, 1994,


Detroit Graduates honor artist as 1994 Ukrainian of the Year

OBITUARY. Theodore Вагап, 83, Canadian iconographer

by Christopher Guly

OTTAWA - Theodore Baran, a Ukrainian Canadian church artist and iconographer who filled 70 churches in six Canadian provinces with his work, died in Saskatoon of cancer of the colon on January 3. He was 83.

Born in Yanchyn, Ukraine, on May 13, 1911, Mr. Baran studied law at Kazimierz University in Lviv, before switching to ecclesiastical art studies at the Studite Monastery in Univ.

He taught art at Polish and Hebrew schools in Bibrka, Ukraine during World War II. From 1946 to 1949, he, his wife Anna Maria (Kowcz), and their three children (they had two more), lived in a refugee camp in Germany until they moved to Saskatoon.

There Mr. Baran began to paint and specialize in church icons, which ended up in Ukrainian Catholic churches from Sydney,

Nova Scotia, to Richmond, British Columbia, including his own parish, St. George's Cathedral in Saskatoon.

Two of his works, icons of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, are part of the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa permanent collection.

An active member of the Ukrainian Canadian community, Mr. Baran served as president of the Ukrainian Catholic Council of Canada, and greeted Pope John Paul II when the Pontiff visited Winnipeg in the fall of 1984.

His son, Emil, 54, said that Mr. Baran was in the process of completing a history of the Ukrainian Catholic Brotherhood in Saskatoon, in which he remained active throughout his life, before he fell ill six months ago.

Among the family Mr. Baran leaves behind is his wife of 55 years.

The funeral took place in Saskatoon on January 5.

Maestro Mychajlo Dmytrenko is flanked by the Very Rev. Maxim Kobasuk, OSBM (left) and Ukrainian Graduates' president, Dr. Rosalie Kapustij (right).

by Rosalie Waskul Kapustij

WARREN, Mich. - Mykhailo Dmytrenko, 86, famed Ukrainian artist and iconographer, best known for his painting of the interiors of many Catholic and Orthodox Churches, was feted as the 1994 Ukrainian of the Year at the 55th gala anniversary celebration of the Ukrainian Graduates of Detroit and Windsor. This event, which is held annually to award scholarships to outstanding students as well as to honor a Ukrainian of the Year, took place on Sunday, November 27, 1994, at the Ukrainian Cultural Center.

More than 120 people came, especially, to pay tribute to Mr. Dmytrenko; to honor him for his contributions to Ukrainian life as well as to the world of art. It was a particularly jubilant evening as it closely coincided with Mr. Dmytrenko's birthday (November 9, 1908), which was also celebrated at the banquet.

The evening's festivities were opened by host Oleh Cieply, a member of the execut ive board of the Ukrainian Graduates and also the treasurer of the organization. In his remarks Mr. Cieply noted that while we often honor Ukrainian government officials, politicians, popular entertainers, and community activists, it is seldom that we fete someone from the arts. "But when we do honor an artist," he remarked, "we select the very best. Mr. Dmytrenko, as it happens, is one of the greatest Ukrainian painters living today."

Mr. Cieply, who also served as master of ceremonies for the banquet, went on to introduce the guests seated on the dais with the honoree. These were: the Rev. Bernard Panczuk, pastor of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church in Warren, Mich.; Dr. Myron Kapustij, chairman of the Ukrainian of the Year Committee; the Most Rev. Alexander Bykowetz, a bishop of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the United States; the Very Rev. Eugene Halytsky, pastor of Ss. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church in Windsor, Ontario, whose son, Myron, was one of the e v e n i n g ' s scholarship rec ip ien ts ; , Stephen M. Wichar, Sr., Ukrainian community activist and 1965 Ukrainian of the year; the Rev. Sebastian Sabol, associate pastor of St. Josaphat parish, whose former church, St. Pope Eugene in Bedford, Ohio had its interior painted by Mr. Dmytrenko; Dr. Rosalie Kapustij, president of the Ukrainian Graduates' of

Detroit and Windsor; and the Very Rev. Maxim Kobasuk, pastor of Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Church in Hamtramck, Mich., who delivered the invocation and benediction.

Other distinguished guests at the banquet included Orest Dmytrenko, son of the honoree; Mary V. Beck, former president of the Detroit City Council and a very dear friend of the artist; Volodomyr Mayorchak, iconographer and artist from Lviv, currently a protege of Mr. Dmytrenko; Lydia Kolodchyn, the Detroit regional president


Kuropas speaks on immigration to United States

by Roman G. Golash

CHICAGO - On December 11, 1994,over 80 people listened to Dr. Myron Kuropas discuss the various waves of Ukrainian immigration to the United States emphasizing the newest, fourth wave.

Dr. Kuropas gave a historical perspective as well as an excellent comparison of these successive migrations. He noted that each new wave added vigor and vitality to the community, but in some instances the members of the earlier group would resent the new arrivals, based on perceptions of who is a better Ukrainian.

Today, since Ukraine is free, some people want the newly arrived Ukrainians to go home and build a "free" Ukraine. However, Dr. Kuropas emphasized that both Ukraine and the communities in the United States benefit. The exchange is positive, as new members of the community bring new ideas and approaches. Also, contact with Ukraine continues and expands through the newly arrived.

The session was sponsored by the Ukrainian Assistance Committee (UAC) of Chicago, a group comprising newly arrived emigres and Ukrainian Americans dedicated to helping people adjust to a life in the United States.

Dr. Ihor Maliniak, president, asked the community for support since the influx of Ukrainians will no doubt continue. For more information on the UAC, call Roman G. Golash, (708) 885-0208.


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and Technology, as the Argentineans expressed an interest in establishing contacts with the Ukrainian Space Agency and developing a bilateral high-tech relationship.

In the Argentinean capital of Buenos Aires, Mr. Tarasiuk and his delegation were also hosted by the Ukra in ian Embassy, where they were able to meet with the Ukrainian diaspora of this South American country, which numbers over 300,000.

No less gracious was Mr. Tarasiuk's

meeting with the Ukrainian diaspora of Brazil, which exceeds 500,000. For this reason, he noted, President Kuchma was especially pleased that the Federative Republic of Brazil has announced it will open an embassy in Kyyiv. Mr. Tarasiuk noted that Ukraine would take reciprocal action in the near future.

"Despite the vast distances between Ukraine and these South American countries, I see great potential for partnership and the desire for more cooperation that will serve the interests of our countries," wrote President Kuchma in letters delivered by Minister Tarasiuk to the presidents of Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

Corporate sponsors express concern over CBS broadcast

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and reaching a mutual understanding among the patriotic forces of society in the struggle against separatism, federalism, as well as linguistic and cultural divisiveness in Ukraine will lead to the strengthening of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, states the civic organization's platform.

Although at tempts to consol idate Ukraine 's national democratic forces have been made in the past, via the formation of such organizat ions as the Congress of National Democratic Forces (1992) and the Democratic Coalition Ukraina (1994), Mr. Kravchuk told journalists that so many political parties with similar ideas had sprung up in the past few years that people were disoriented as to where they should belong.

Mr. Badzio added, that "This caused many to be politically inactive... Today we'd like to reach out to those people who don't belong anywhere, but who do care about Ukraine's fate," he said.

"Today, our enemies are those who infringe on the independence of Ukraine, those who take advantage of Ukraine's current economic situation," said Mr. Kravchuk.

When asked what President Leonid Kuchma's reaction might be to the formation of such an association, Mr. Kravchuk said he didn't think Porozuminnia would come as any surprise to Mr. Kuchma. "There is no greater concern for him right now than to protect the state. At this point, our objectives are the same. I am sure he

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to 5 percent. Mr. Aslund said he believes Ukraine can reach agreement with IMF officials by late January for a stand-by loan of around $1.3 billion. But he noted more funds will have to come from the United States, the European Union, Japan and most impor tan t ly , from Russia, Ukraine's chief creditor. (OMRI Daily Digest)

Editor's note — OMRI stands for the Open Media Research Institute, the successor to the Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Research Institute. OMRI is based in Prague, and has as its mission the provision of information about Eastern and Central Europe through a broad publication program, the maintenance and presentation of the RFE / RL archives, previously stored at that organization's headquarters in Munich, and the training of analysts and journalists from within the region. The OMRI Daily Digest, published Monday through Friday except holidays., continues the role played by the RFE/RL Daily Report. It provides coverage of Eastern and Central European event? in a manner similar to its forerunner. Among OMRI staff is former Weekly assistant editor Chrystyna Lapychak.

will welcome this initiative," added Mr. Kravchuk.

When asked why he did not form a new party as a political base, as some observers speculate that Mr. Kravchuk will run for president again in 1998, Mr. Kravchuk said he was not yet ready for such a step. He did not, however, rule out the possibility that this may happen in the future.

He also told journalists that it was high time to start doing something for Ukraine's rebirth, instead of pointing fingers at who is at fault for its economic collapse and political crises.

It was unclear what form Porozuminnia's activity would take and where its funding would come from, but organizers of the newly formed group said these questions were to be addressed at later meetings.

"Everybody finds money for organizations they start. We will also," said Mr. Kravchuk confidently.

The organizers did note that one of their priorities would be the creation of a press center, so that they could get the word out about their organization to the Ukrainian people.

"We also need to tell our people what is happening in Ukraine today; what the Ukrainian-Russian agreement consists of, what the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea wants," said Mr. Sheyko, who is not aligned with any party and who serves as a deputy in the Ukrainian Parliament and belongs to the Center faction. "We live in an information vacuum," Mr. Sheyko added.

Membership in the civic association is open to all who fit the following criteria: citizens of Ukraine, or Ukrainians who live beyond its borders, who are over 16 years of age, and who have submitted a letter of intent to join to the organizing committee or branch offices of Porozuminnia. The committee is located on the Khreshchatyk, Building 48-B, Apt. 6; its phone numbers are (044) 220-93-43, or 228-07-72.

Mr. Kravchuk is to depart for the United States this weekend. "This was something planned a while back," said Mr. Kravchuk. "I want to tell people in America about the situation in our country from my point of view," he explained.

Ukrainian National Information Service

WASHINGTON - Five major corporate advertisers have contacted CBS to express concerns about sponsoring a segment of C B S ' s "60 M i n u t e s " that impugned Ukrainians as "genetically anti-Semitic." The October 23 segment on anti-Semitism in Ukraine was titled "The Ugly Face of Freedom."

Since the broadcast, the chief rabbi of Ukra ine has jo ined with Ukra in ian American groups and the Ukrainian government in assail ing the program as unfair, defamatory and not representative of positive developments for Jews and other ethnic minorities in Ukraine.

The corporate sponsors of the show that have expressed their concerns to CBS are: Allstate Insurance Co., United Parcel Service, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. and Wal-Mart Stores.

Their action was prompted by correspondence from Askold S. Lozynskyj, pres ident of the New York-based Ukra in ian Congress Commit tee of America (UCCA), which described the "60 Minu tes" segment as "blatant ly defamatory, attainting] new levels of journalistic irresponsibility and...maliciously racist." Mr. Lozynskyj urged the sponsors to contact CBS with their concerns about sponsor ing "racis t hate broadcasting."

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. responded: "extremely straightforward discussions have now been held with key personnel at the highest levels of CBS and with our advertising agency." Goodyear added that "we...have strongly empha

sized that. . . in the future, we cannot afford to be associated with news programming that is any less than totally accurate, unbiased and fair..."

Allstate Insurance Co. wrote: "we certainly regret the circumstances which have prompted you to contact Allstate...Allstate does not promote or support racist hate broadcasting and regrets any perceived association."

A sixth sponsor of the show, General Motors Corp., told Mr. Lozynskyj: "we share your disgust at the characterization on the program."

Another sponsor, Merill Lynch, wrote that, in light of the criticism of the show, "we will review the fairness and accuracy of [the networks ' ] coverage when evaluating our 1995 advertising."

The UCCA plans to continue providing information about the show to corporate sponsors of "60 Minutes."

Following the broadcast, Yaakov Dov Bleich, chief rabbi of Ukraine, one of the program's central characters, protested to CBS that he was quoted out of context and that the show "did not convey the true state of affairs in Ukraine ." He praised Ukraine for having the best record of all former Soviet republics for treatment of Jews and other minorities. Another rabbi, David Lincoln of the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York, wrote CBS that, contrary to the broadcast , Ukraine is a haven for Jews and that "no good can come from distortions such as those portrayed in your program."

A formal complaint by the UCCA about the show is pending before the FCC.

Ottawa symposium focuses on Metropolitan Sheptytsky

OTTAWA - Prof. Jaroslav Pelikan, the world-renowned scholar and author, Sterling Professor of History at Yale Univers i ty and Pres ident of the Amer ican Academy of Arts and Sciences, was the keynote speaker at a symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the passing into eternal life of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. The sympos ium was sponsored by the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at the Faculty of Theology of St. Paul University, Ottawa.

The first session of the symposium was held on Thursday afternoon, November 17, 1994. Three jun ior Sheptytsky special is ts offered their papers: the Rev. Prof. Peter Galadza,

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Although he noted that the Chechen leadership has not called on the representatives of other nationalities to take part in the armed conflict, he did report that volunteers, including Ukrainians, are fighting on the side of the Chechen people.

He emphasized that these people - he did not specify how many there are, but would only say that there were not many - are volunteers and not mercenaries.

Al though R u s s i a ' s Radio Mayak reported on January 11 that Ukrainian ultra-nationalists were fighting on the side of President Dzhokhar Dudayev, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry Press Center demanded that the station retract the report immediately, saying that they did not have such official information.

Earlier, the Ukrainian Parliament had reacted to the events in Chechnya by sending a protest, signed by 105 lawmakers, to the Russian Duma. The Parliament also appealed to the United Nations General Assembly to review the situation.

But Mr. Kravchuk said he doubted that Ukraine, or any other CIS state, would raise the issue of Chechnya at the United Nations. "There are a lot of problems that would prevent the Ukrainian president from doing this," he added.

In Mr. Kravchuk ' s view, there is potential for separatism in many countries, including Ukraine. Therefore, he added, with the Crimea in our backyard, we must be very careful in our declarations as a state. He stated that if he were president today, he would be careful not to make public declarations about the Chechen situation.

"The Liturgical Activity of Metropolitan Andrey"; the Rev. Dr. Andriy Chirovsky, Kule Professor, "Metropolitan Andrey on Prayer and the Wisdom of God"; Dr. Andrii Krawchuk, "Metropolitan Andrey and Social-Ethical Questions During the German Occupation." All these papers were delivered in English. The session was held in the university amphitheater.

After a dinner break, at 7 p.m. a memorial panakhyda service for Metropolitan Sheptytsky was celebrated in the university seminary chapel. The responses were sung beautifully by the choir of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine, under the direction of Slava Shewciv.

Dr. Pelikan delivered the keynote address at 7:30 p.m. in the main university amphi theater . His theme was "Sheptytsky, Soloviev and Strossmayer: Three Slavic Apost les of Chris t ian Unity." Many professors and students filled the hall along with members of the Ukrainian community and others from beyond the university. Two weeks earlier the Sheptytsky Institute had co-sponsored similar learned conferences at universities in the Ukrainian cities of Kyyiv and Lviv.

All of the lectures of the Ottawa symposium will be published in a special issue of Logos, the scholarly journal of the Sheptytsky Institute. The three papers from the afternoon session are already available for purchase in either audio or videotape format. For further information please contact: The Sheptytsky Institute, St. Paul University, 223 Main St., Ottawa, Ontario K1S 1C4; (613) 236-1393 x2332; fax, (613) 782-3026


THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY

Brutality in Chechnya As Russia continued to pound Chechnya, leaders and opinion makers around

the globe spoke out against human rights violations, the killing of civilians and the bombing of population centers in the breakaway region that declared its independence from Russia way back in autumn of 1991. The Chechen crisis has now awakened the world, prompting questions about Russia's motives and the "democratic" leadership of President Boris Yeltsin.

Yegor Gaidar, former prime minister of Russia, wrote in The Washington Times on January 9: "The bloody debacle unfolding in Chechnya is not a surprise. It is the inevitable result of the general switch of Russian policy, evident from the beginning of 1994, back toward an imperial mentality."

Yelena Bonner, the well-known human rights activist and wife of the late Andrei Sakharov, wrote in that same paper on January 7: "All the democratic ideals Russian President Boris Yeltsin has proclaimed in the past have been betrayed by his military assault on Chechnya. With this act, Mr. Yeltsin has crossed a Rubicon that will turn Russia back into a police state."

Sergei Kovalyov, a former Soviet dissident who now heads the Russian commission on human rights — one of many democrats who feel betrayed by their president — last week called on Mr. Yeltsin to break ties with his hawkish colleagues and "put an end to this insane massacre and blood-stained lies."

Zbigniew Brzezinski, writing in The Washington Post on January 8, severely criticized U.S. reaction, or rather non-reaction, to the brutal treatment of the Chechen people: "...when helpless Chechens are being blasted to smithereens because they dared to reach out for independence, America is not only indifferent but its official spokesmen have joined the oppressors in actually vilifying the victims and justifying the oppression."

After weeks of hedging and statements affirming that Chechnya is Russia's internal affair, then offering criticism of President Yeltsin's bombing of civilian targets, the Clinton administration took a somewhat stronger stand on January 11. The U.S. now says that Moscow is violating international agreements by failing to notify other countries about its large-scale troop movements into Chechnya.

Reaction from some in Congress was much stronger. Rep. Christopher Smith, the new chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), so aptly noted: "the eradication of a people and its territory is not an internal matter." Sen. Jesse Helms, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, suggested if President Yeltsin "can't control his people in terms of killing women and children and other innocent people," the U.S. would be right to hold up aid to Russia.

The ramifications of the Chechnya conflict go well beyond the borders of Russia, however. The former defense minister of Ukraine, Kostiantyn Morozov, argued in a New York Times op-ed piece on January 5 that "Russia's ambitions are based on its politicians' modest desire to assume the powers of the former Soviet Union." Furthermore, President Yeltsin's policy on using force to "bring order to the country" is based on "a long tradition in Russia and the Soviet Union," Mr. Morozov noted. That is why, he said, "As long as the West concedes to Moscow's paramount authority in its part of the world, Russia will have a mandate to seek restoration of its empire. This threatens to undermine Ukraine's future as a democracy."

Thus, it is imperative that the West, including Russia's partner in this new world order, take a clear stand on the developments in Chechnya. The Clinton administration's latest statement on Russian violation of international accords via its military actions in Chechnya is not enough. It's time to tell it like it is. President Yeltsin cannot be allowed to think he has the green light to do whatever it takes to keep the Russian Federation whole — or worse, to do as he pleases in the Russian sphere of influence. The Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (formerly known as the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe) must be allowed to send observers into Chechnya. And, Russia must be pressed to accept outside mediators, if that's what it takes, to put an end to this bloody conflict that has long ago overstepped the bounds of what may be called an "internal matter."

IN THE PRESS

Ringing some wrong alarm bells regarding Jewish life in Ukraine

Turning the pages back...

Vasyl Podolynsky, an activist priest of the Greek-Catholic Church in Galicia, was born in Bilych, near Sambir, on January 15, 1815. As a student at the Theological Seminary in Lviv, he

joined the underground (anti-imperial) Polish Union of Sons of the Homeland.

After his ordination in 1843 he served as a parish priest in the Przemysl (Peremyshl) area. During the uprising of 1848, Podolynsky published a brochure titled "Slowo Przestrogi" (A Word of Warning), in which he analyzed the political sentiments of Galicia's Ukrainians, focusing on the reasons for the population's varying pro-Austrian, pro-Polish and pro-Russian orientations.

In this brochure, Podolynsky championed the use of Ukrainian as a separate language, and gave a thorough grounding for the idea of an independent, united Ukrainian state. The publication proved hugely influential, in that it helped the founders of the Supreme Ruthenian Council (Holovna Ruska Rada) to crystallize its ideals as a body seeking to represent Ukrainian Galicians who sought autonomy or independence.

Podolynsky was arrested later in 1848 by the Austro-Hungarian authorities as he was traveling to join a revolutionary group in Hungary. After the revolution he was persecuted by the Catholic hierarchy. In 1852, he was sent to serve as a pastor in Maniv (in eastern Poland, about 30 miles west of Sambir), where he established an elementary school. He died in 1876 in his home in Bilych.

Source: "Podolynsky, Vasyl," Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 3 (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1993).

by Martin J. Plax

There is a common maxim, often expressed but not always true, that generals are always fighting the last war. It warns that those who interpret the present as merely a repeat of the past will almost certainly inaccurately respond to the present situation and create conditions for repeating the past they'd hoped to escape.

This mistake accounts for the outbreak of the many civil wars in the post-Cold War world. Economic and political stability rest on people interpreting the world in economic terms. But people who see the world in terms of an unreconciled conflict between present and past are likely to believe that economic calculations are secondary, if not entirely beside the point. That's why the American government, in addition to aiding in the development of viable economies in many new countries, is also joining in efforts by leaders in those countries to reconcile their present with their past.

For example , several years ago, President George Bush sent representation ( including Cleve land ' s Taras Szmagala) to the Ukrainian government's commemora t ion of the massacre of Ukrainian Jews and Christians at Babyn Yar. More recently, President Bill Clinton publicly acknowledged the monumental suffering of millions of people in Eastern and Central Europe during World War II and noted that the Allied victory depended strongly on the Soviet army. Such reconciliations are important politically.

But not every American is sensitive to what reconciliation between past and present actually requires. In some instances, they not only fail to deal honestly with the present by selectively remembering the past, but they spread a false alarm and encourage responses that contribute to decreasing chances of reconciliation.

For example, on a segment of the October 23 edit ion of "60 Minu tes" called "The Ugly Face of Democracy," reporter Morley Safer claimed that there is a serious threat to Jews living in western Ukraine. The report suggested that American Jews should mobilize efforts to evacuate them immediately. But the most prominent Ukrainian Jew to appear in the report denied the validity of the claim.

The report opened with film of a small group of xenophobic (and openly anti-Semitic) ultranationalists in the city of Lviv (the Ukrainian spelling), with the response by the chief rabbi of Ukraine, Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, saying "They want the Jews out." But as the program continued, it wasn't at all clear that the rabbi's remark was limited to that group and not the entire Ukrainian nation.

But the program did more. With footage of a church service, men praying and unspecified marchers passing on the screen, Safer's voice stated: "The church and the government have tried to ease people's fears, suggesting that things are not as serious as they might appear; that Ukrainians, despite the allegations, are not generically [sic - the actual word used was genetically - ed.] anti-Semitic. But to a Jew living here, or to one who only remembers the place with horror, such statements are little comfort among the flickering torches of Lvov" (the non-Ukrainian name).

The report concluded with Simon

Martin J. Plax is Cleveland area director of the American Jewish Committee. This article was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer in December 10,1994.

Wiesenthal, who doesn't live in Ukraine, saying, "They have not changed."

Rabbi Bleich, who does live in Ukraine, d idn ' t agree with either Safer or Wiesenthal. On seeing a videotape of the show, he wrote to CBS reminding it that while he acknowledged the hostile group, he had spent most of the interview describing how Jewish life in Ukraine was reviving and how the Ukrainian government was actively supporting that revival.

(This was exactly what he had said to both Cleveland's Ukrainian and Jewish communities when he was here as my guest last November.)

In an interview published in The Ukrainian Weekly, (a national Ukrainian American newspaper) Rabbi Bleich said Ukraine was a society in transition toward democracy and that he was optimistic the government would respond to the antidemocratic element more forcefully as it became more stable and economically viable.

"60 Minutes" also "revealed" that certain streets in Lviv were being renamed after Ukrainian nationalist heroes, men who inspired resistance to the rule of outsiders: to Polish kings, and to both Soviet and Nazi regimes.

But one group's heroes are sometimes another group's villains. In each case, the men in question are associated in the minds of many Jews with periods of chaos and civil war, when large numbers of Ukrainian Jews were murdered. "60 Minutes" interpreted the change in street names as a further sign of danger to Jews. Again Rabbi Bleich didn't agree. "This is not really a concern the way they made it out to be," he said.

The rabbi's positive and calm comments stand in sharp contrast to Safer's provocative, not to say, prejudicial, reference to the allegation of genetic anti-Semit ism among Ukra in ians . We in Cleveland were particularly struck by the contrast between this report and the balanced and sensitive treatment of the Demjanjuk case written by Plain Dealer reporters Michele Lesie and Bill Sloat.

Fortunately, Ukrainians and Jews have protested this abusive use of language and have joined in an effort to correct the errors in the program. As Americans we all recognize that the United States has a major stake in the stability of democratically inclined governments, and that we must do all we can to overcome the chaotic effects of this false alarm.

Others struggling to reconcile some of our issues might keep in mind that:

• While there is increasing availability of information through the mass media, that information may not be a completely unifying force.

• There are people in every society who hate p lura l ism, or what is now called diversity. But even though diversity isn't universally valued, it is universally a fact.

• Pluralism, or diversity, anywhere including Cleveland, can be held as a value only when everyone acknowledges that for any specific past event, there may be at least two true and accurate accounts of the way those events were experienced.

• Those who deny memories of others will never be able to fully reconcile their own past with the present.

• Those who distort the present by assuming that nothing has changed from the past will increase the possibility that they might relive the past from which they had hoped to escape.


LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Concerned about depiction by CBS Dear Editor:

As a Ukrainian American, I am deeply concerned about the portrayal of Ukraine on the October 23 episode of "60 Minutes." During the show, Ukrainians were portrayed as "genetically anti-Semitic" and "uneducated peasants, deeply superstitious." These terrible stereotypes were presented as fact by "60 Minutes" reporter Morley Safer. Interviews since the story was aired have uncovered that a number of statements were severely taken out of context. I am outraged by the use of such flimsy journalism to defame the Ukrainian people in such an irresponsible manner.

Not only was the story damaging to Ukrainians, it comes at a time when U.S. - Ukrainian relations are improving. I was honored to attend the state dinner held at the White House during the visit of President Kuchma. There have been only a few such formal dinners hosted by President Clinton, and it is encouraging that Ukraine was given one of them. There is no doubt that in just a short time, our two nations have become much closer. It is my deep hope that this important relationship will continue to improve despite the "60 Minutes" story.

To express my concern, I placed the enclosed statement in the Congressional Record. I have also sent a letter to CBS outlining these concerns and demanding an apology. Television is a powerful medium, and it must be used judiciously. "60 Minutes" has done a disservice to both the Ukrainian and Jewish communities, and should retract such a shabby presentation.

David E. Bonior Washington

The writer, a member of the House of Representative for the 10th District of Michigan, sent the letter below to Laurence Tisch, president, chairman and CEO of CBS, Inc.

Dear Mr. Tisch:

I am writing to express my deep concern about a recent "60 Minutes" story purporting to explore anti-Semitism in Ukraine that aired on October 23, 1994. Morley Safer portrayed Ukrainians as "genetically anti-Semitic" and "uneducated peasants, deeply superstitious." Interviews since the story aired have revealed that a number of the statements used in the show were severely taken out of context. I am appalled that CBS and "60 Minutes" would use such flimsy journalism to defame an entire nation and its people.

Such gross s tereotyping does not belong on a show with such a fine tradition as "60 Minutes." Unfortunately, anti-Semitism does exist in Ukraine, as it exists in the United States and in many parts of the world. However , the Ukrainian government is taking steps to fight it. None of these efforts were even mentioned in the story.

At this time it is imperative that we help the force of tolerance and openness in Ukraine. Such an inflammatory story will only serve to increase tension. Perhaps Martin Plax from the American Jewish Committee in Cleveland best characterized the story: "Those who distort the present by assuring nothing has changed from the past will increase the possibility that they might relive the past from which they had hoped to escape."

"60 Minutes" has done a disservice to both the Jewish and Ukrainian communities. At the very least, an apology and retraction are in order.

facts and Places by Myron B. Kuropas

ACTION ITEM On Friday, January 6, The New York Times published a story headlined "Out of

Ukraine's Torment, a Jewish Flowering," for which correspondent Jane Perlez interviewed the chief rabbi of Ukraine, Yaakov Bleich.

The article noted: "By any measure, there has been a lively revival of Judaism since Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The Jewish day school in Kiev has grown from 40 students three years ago to 600, and the rabbi says this makes it the largest Jewish school in eastern Europe. There are 11 other Jewish schools across the country. Fifty synagogues are open, compared with 12 in 1990." It goes on to describe the official attitude toward religion in Ukraine, noting that "the government has gone out of its way to emphasize reconciliation with Jews."

The article gives Ukrainians an excellent opportunity to continue the campaign for a retraction by CBS of its defamatory segment titled "The Ugly Face of Freedom."

Ukrainian community members should: 1. Send "60 Minutes" sponsors copies of The New York Times story, contrasting it

with the allegations in the CBS program. 2. Send The New York Times letters praising its objective reporting and contrasting

the newspaper's treatment of the Jewish life in Ukraine with that of CBS. 3. Send CBS letters with copies of the New York Times article, asking whether the

network still stands by its story when this newspaper of record paints a starkly different picture of Ukraine.

— Submitted by the Ukrainian Heritage Defense Committee.

In November, New Jersey State Sen. Peter In verso (Republican, 14th District) introduced Bill S-1590, and State Assemblyman Joseph Yuhas (Democrat, 15th District) introduced Bill A-2290. Passage of these two bills and signature by Gov. Christine Todd Whitman would grant members of the Ukrainian American Veterans (UAV) organization the privilege of obtaining courtesy license plates for their autos from the N.J. Division of Motor Vehicles.

The courtesy plate would depict the UAV emblem along with the identification "Ukrainian American Veteran" across the bottom of the plate. Passage of this legislation would pave the way for other Ukrainian organizations to secure their own courtesy plates for members.

New Jersey residents are urged to write to their state representatives to seek their support and also ask them to sign on as "co-sponsors" of Senate Bill S-1590 and Assembly Bill A-2290. You may find the names of your district's representatives by calling the N.J. State Office of Legislative Services, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., at (800) 792-8630.

Please send copies of any letters sent to: Ukrainian American Veterans, P.O. Box 13, Windsor, NJ 08561.

For more information, you may call the UAV at (609) 394-4824 (George Miziuk), or (201) 762-2827 (Andrew Keybida).

-Submitted by George A. Miziuk, NJ. state commander, UAV.

What is happening to Patrick Buchanan? First he writes that "Yeltsin and Russian

Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev are among the best friends the U.S. has ever had in Moscow." Don't expand NATO, he warns. "What vital U.S. interest is there in Eastern Europe?... Some of our active duty Cold Warriors want to go even further and bring the Baltic republics and Ukraine into NATO," complains Mr. Buchanan.

"This would put 10 million Russians (now Ukrainian citizens) inside NATO," he continues, "move NATO as far east of Moscow as Hitler 's Panzers got, and leave Russian Kaliningrad... isolated and surrounded behind NATO lines. This is a prescription for a NATO-Russia clash, as soon as the nationalists come to power."

Concludes Mr. Buchanan: "Only one nation today has the power to destroy us, Russia. But with the Soviet Empire dissolved, and Leninism a dead creed, Russia and America have no direct conflict of vital interests. None. Unless we contrive to make her so, Russia is not America's enemy... If there is one nation on Earth, and one people, with whom we have a vital interest in maintaining peace and cordiality, it is the Russian people..."

"America calls the Russia-Chechnya conflict an internal affair," Mr. Buchanan writes on another day. "What do we say if the Crimea, his tor ical ly Russian, secedes from Ukraine, and the 10 million Russ ian-speaking Slavs in eastern Ukraine demand to go home to Mother Russia? U.S. foreign policy is paralyzed because we are confounded. With the old iron Cold War yardstick gone, we have no hard, sure measure by which to judge. Who is right here, and whom should we cheer? Whom support?"

"Look homeward, America!" concludes Mr. Buchanan. "With the multinational empires torn apart, are the multinational nations next? Will Russia, India, South Africa and America follow Yugoslavia?"

U.S. foreign policy may be confounded, but so is Mr. Buchanan. He suffers from a bad case of "FDRism," the delusion, first articulated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, that Russia and the Russians are similar to America and the Americans.

The truth is that America and Russia are as different as night and day. Russia is still a multinational empire. We are not. Russia has never had a democratic government. We have a democratic tradition that is over 200 years old. Historically, Russia was, is, and will continue to be an expansionist state that knows no borders. The United States stopped expanding almost a century ago. Following the second world war, Russia extended its frontiers by force of arms. The United States divested itself of its overseas ter r i tor ies . Russia , as "Generalissimo" Boris Yeltsin is proving even as I write, has a tradition of brutalizing the nations it has conquered. With the possible exception of our Native Americans, whose land we stole, and the Afro-Americans, who were brought to America involuntarily, every "nation" within our borders wants to be here. And they ' r e still coming. The poli t ical rhetoric of Jesse Jackson notwithstanding, the world knows we treat our minorities fairly.

Mr. Buchanan is fearful that Russian nationalists may soon be in power. Who does he think is in power now?

Leninism may be dead but we should never forget that Russian imperialism did

not begin with Lenin. As Nicholas Berdyaev has pointed out so eloquently in "The Origins of Russian Communism," Soviet imperialism was merely a latter day extension of the Russian messianic idea of Moscow the Third Rome.

And the Third Rome ideal lives on. In a superb article by Yo'av Karny titled "The 300 Years War: For Chechnya, Russian Imperialism is Never in the Past," we learn that the Chechens have suffered Russian scourging for centuries. "Few people on the Russian land mass," writes Mr. Karny, "have been victimized more often... The Chechens have badly erred in not sufficiently presenting their case to the West, for the plight of Chechnya is no more Russia's 'internal affair' than Kuwait was Saddam's. Chechnya is a colony, fully deserving decolonization."

Whom do we cheer, asks Mr. Buchanan. Whom support? Can there be any doubt? We cheer and support those people Americans have always supported, the underdogs, the Chechens who, even after 300 years of Russian savageness, are still up for the struggle. What is to be our post-Soviet yardstick? What it should always have been. Justice!

Another FDRism that has apparently overtaken Mr. Buchanan's good sense is the belief that the United States and Russia can become allies in policing the world. As Prof. John Lamberton Harper points out in "American Visions of Europe," (1994) FDR, a superficial dilettante, had a similar vision. He was perfectly willing to leave the policing of Europe in the hands of a weakened Great Britain and an expansionist Russia. In his book "FDR and Stalin: A Not So Grand Alliance" (1993), Prof. Amos Perlmutter emphasizes that the world suffered massively as a result of FDR's monstrous ignorance.

Mr. Buchanan writes that the only nation that can destroy us is Russia, Nonsense. If a far more powerful Russia didn't destroy the United States in the past, a gutted Russia won't do it now.

Mr. Buchanan bel ieves that the Crimea is "historically Russian." Wrong again. Settled by the ancient Greeks and Romans, overrun by the Tatars, conquered by the Turks, the Crimea was not annexed by Russia until 1783. Claiming their collaboration with the Nazis, Stalin deported the local Tatar population in 1945. In 1954, the Crimea was "presented" to Ukraine in commemoration of the Treaty of Pereyaslav. Today the Crimea is no more Russian than it is Ukrainian. The Crimea belongs to the Tatars who have lived there the longest.

And if the 10 million Russians in Ukraine want to return to Mother Russia, I say "God speed." They all began as uninvited guests anyway.

In his book "Russian Frontiers: From Muscovy to Khrushchev" (1963) , Congressman William G. Bray (R-Ind.) wrote: "When can we begin to negotiate with Russia as we do with responsible nat ions? The answer is clear. When Russia becomes a responsible nation treating her word and treaties as sacred, when she becomes a nation that does not consider a weaker nation fair prey... That time...will not arrive until the people within the Russian empire establish a government that departs from Russia's centuries-old goal of conquest."

Thirty years later, that 's still very good advice.


COMMENTARY: On poet /critic Bilotserkivets' bold claims for Ukrainian culture by Andrij Wynnyckyj

NEW YORK — Natalia Bilotserkivets' literary criticism and social commentary are generally more robust and artful than her poetry, and happily, the audience that came to an evening with the Sumy region's woman of letters at the Shevchenko Scientific Society in mid-December got liberal doses of both."

Ms. Bilotserkivets was one of the youngest writers (at 22) to be accepted into the Writers' Union of Ukraine. Her works include the collections "Balada pro Neskorenykh" (Ballad of the Unvanquished, 1976), "Pidzemnyi Vohon" (Underground Fire, 1984) and "Lystopad" (November, 1989). Her critical essays have appeared in the country's prestigious literary periodicals such as Literaturna Ukraina, Vsesvit and Suchasnist. Thanks to the efforts of Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps, her works appeared in English translation in the Boston-based journal AGNI.

She was invited to speak about contemporary poetry in Ukraine, as she is seen as a member of the latest wave of versifiers the country seems to continually unleash, for good or ill. Very graciously, if accurately, she excused herself from the company of innovators and groundbreakers, such as the increasingly celebrated Bu-Ba-Bu group of poets.

She also had a few unkind words for fellow word-smiths (both poets turned parliamentarians) Ivan Drach and Dmytro Pavlychko who, she said, have been writing poorly recently. Then again, as any student of Ivan Franko's verse will attest, involvement in politics seems to blunt the Muse if not sour her completely.

Ms. Bilotserkivets had more serious matters in mind. She addressed the sense of malaise and misdirection in Ukrainian culture, which seemed to revive and flourish as the Soviet Union disintegrated, but has now begun to sputter because of the crushing economic adversity

faced by the country. Another factor the critic pointed out was the chaos brought on by total freedom — an urge by artists to explore (or rather, revisit) everything that had been done for decades in Italy, France and North America.

However, she reserved the strongest opprobrium for the country's timid self-image, a knuckling under to the identification of artists and writers as "Russians." A prime candidate for revised identity is Kazimir Malevych, she said, but then cast her net wider to draw in Ukrainian Jews such as Marc Chagall. The critic claimed that Ukraine is a rich cultural space that needs to be recognized around the world for what it is and for what its natives have contributed (no matter what their ethnic background).

Ms. Bilotserkivets enjoined the diaspora, well-placed at the doorstep of influential museums and publishing houses, to advertise the achievements of Ukrainians. She also stressed that the traditional Ukrainian artistic taxonomy was also in need of revision. For example, the critic asserted, painters such as Bilokur and Prymachenko are not "folk artists," but "masters of the modern naive." By way of appropriate signifiers shalt thou enter the kingdom of global cultural recognition, it appears.

This line of thought propelled Ms. Bilotserkivets to her most challenging assertion, that language is not the primary determinant for the expression of a territory/country's culture. The critic made her argument boldly, pointing to the example of Nikolai Gogol, whose cultural voice was distinctly Ukrainian, and yet, since he wrote in Russian, also served as that literature's most enduring influence. She then struck out for truly international ground, citing the experience of Franz Kafka, a Jew living in the Czech capital of Prague and writing in German.

When challenged with the example of Myrna Kostash, a Ukrainian Canadian writer who considers

herself unable to add to the Ukrainian canon because she writes in English, Ms. Bilotserkivets conceded that individuals carve out their identity as they see fit. But she countered that what Ms. Kostash writes is informed by her background, and we should not be afraid to claim it for Ukrainian culture. She also urged her listeners to "reach wider" and said that Ukraine was finally in a position to benefit from its location, culturally and otherwise, "na mezhakh" (on the borderline).

The evening proceeded along in counterpoint, as Ms. Bilotserkivets switched her hats from those of a critic to poet, with readings from her long-published and more recent work.

Ms. Bilotserkivets has long been an urbane battler of provincialism, and her poem "Ne Pomremo v Paryzhi" (We won't die in Paris), which she read, poignantly gives voice to the distress felt in a cultural milieu cut off from the City of Lights, the world's cultural Mecca and the main beacon of Europe. Her efforts in this regard echo those of the Western-oriented Neoclassicists from the 1910s-1920s, but her lyricism is, in the opinion of this writer, wan.

In her exploration of motifs such as wife beating, Picasso's youth, and the trauma of Chornobyl, she is nevertheless decidedly modern and current. It is the latter topic that reveals the poet at her most engaged. Ms. Tkacz and Phipps of the La Mama-ETC-based Yara group chose a cycle of poems devoted to the catastrophe to translate into English, and the evening benefited considerably from having Ms. Tkacz on hand. The Ukrainian text, somewhat lacking in directness and vigor, was given a wrenching power by the terse translation and emotional rendering by the New York-based writer-director.

As Samuel Beckett said to an insistent admirer of his plays in English [he composed them in French], "You're right, they lose something in the original."

Osinchuk continues activity in Alaska The cultural scene in Lviv: JERSEY CITY, N.J.: Pianist Juliana

Osinchuk, who relocated to Anchorage from New York City in 1992, has joined the musical group Augustine's Artists as co-director.

Since its founding in 1988 by flutist Terry Kallenberg, the group has earned a reputation for its innovative chamber concert series, exciting guest artists, as well as educational programs and international exchanges.

As co-director of the group, Dr. Osinchuk is credited with having generated the impetus to resume the group's season of concerts in Anchorage and Homer.

In concert recitals at the Wilda Marston Theater in Anchorage, Dr. Osinchuk premiered the performance of works by 20th century Ukrainian composers Borys Liatoshynsky (Ballade, Op. 24), and Ivan Karabyts' (Six Preludes, 1976).

Apart from mainstream classical music, which has a prominent spot in the group's repertoire, the concert program

has premiered new works, including works by Anchorage composer Alan Schmits, Russian modernist Edison Denisov and American Lukas Foss, Azerbaijani composer Fikret Amirov, and Ukrainian American Jack Delano.

Cellist Natalia Khoma will be Augustine's Artists' guest for three performances and master classes in January.

Dr. Osinchuk's close collaboration with Ms. Kallenberg, apart from conceit performances, encompasses teaching and travel. Both musicians are interested in expanding the group's guest exchange programs, which since 1991, at the initiative of Ms. Kallenberg, have been undertaken with Russia.

In their reviews, music critics for 1993-1994 season have commended the initiative of Augustine's Artists and the energized teamwork of Ms. Kallenberg and Dr. Osinchuk in bringing wonderful and unfamiliar repertoire to the music audience at large.

hotbed of cultural creativity

"Anna Yaroslavna" in Kyyiv JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Preparations

for the staging and production of Antin Rudnytsky's opera "Anna Yaroslavna" are currendy under way in Ukraine, with the premiere slated for the beginning of this year, according to Maria Sokil-Rudnytsky who received offcial notification from Anatoliy Mokrenko, director of the Taras Shevchenko National Academic Opera Theater and Ballet in Kyyiv.

The three-act opera by Mr. Rudnytsky, with libretto by Leonid Poltava, premiered in New York at Carnegie Hall on May 24, 1969, on the ocassion of the 75th jubilee anniversary of the Ukrainian National Association.

The Kyyiv production entails the collaboration of the following: Ivan Hamkalo, director and conductor; Michel Volkovytsky, stage/artistic director; Levko Kolodub, musical score; and O. Barvinsky, conductor.

Appearing in lead roles will be: V. Pyvovarov, Prince Yaroslav Mudryi, grand prince of Rus'-Ukraine; L. Zabiliasta, Princess Anna Yaroslavna; O. Vostriakov, Boyaryn Ihor; I. Ponomarenko, Henry I, King of France; L. Yurchenko, Countess Louise Montmorancy; I. Cherney, the cardinal of Paris; and M. Khorunhyi, servant.

Mr. Volkovytsky's collaboration in the production is particularly valued since, after its premiere in Ukraine, he has expressed the desire to stage "Anna Yaroslavna" in France. Mr. Volkovytsky, a Frenchman of Ukrainian origin residing in France, has offered his services in the production without remuneration.

The U.S. production in 1969 featured Antin Rudnytsky, director and conductor and leading cast members: baritone Leo Reynarovych, mezzo-soprano Alicia Andreadis, bass baritone Andriy Dobriansky, and soprano Marta Kokolska.

by Mark Andryczyk

Throughoui Ukrainian history, the city of Lviv has been a hotbed of cultural creativity and a center of new ideas in art, music and writing. In the years since Ukraine achieved independence, Lviv has experienced a cultural rebirth.

Newfound freedoms have given artists the opportunity to bring out ideas that remained dormant for a long time. The chaotic and ever-changing conditions of post-Communist Eastern Europe undoubtedly fuel the creativity of these artists and provide them with the energy to act upon it.

What is unique about the contemporary avant-garde cultural community in Lviv is its unity. Artists, musicians, poets and interested parties hop from smoky cafe to smokier cafe to discuss new ideas and organize cultural events. The results of all this coffee drinking are original, ambitious events that interweave the various creative branches: Lviv musicians use poems by local poets as texts for their songs, poets use Lviv artists to illustrate their books, and artists often have local bands playing at their openings.

The cohesiveness of the Lviv cultural community can largely be attributed to the creative genius of Bu-Ba-Bu, a trio of poets formed in 1985, consisting of Yuriy Andrukhovych, Viktor Neborak and Oleksander Irvanets. The group represents a post-modern Ukrainian poetic movement that offers carnivalized interpretations of everyday life. They have been responsible for stimulating and bringing to fruition projects that were once far-fetched ideas. The combination of creative, talented people interacting in a dynamic environment has give rise to happenings that are unique and daring, while reinforcing Lviv's reputation as a leader in cutting-edge Ukrainian culture.

A recent example of modern cultural

Mark Andryczyk of Norristown, Pa., spent much of the last year in Lviv.

revival is a series of concerts that took place in Lviv between October 1993 and May 1994, grouped under the title "Reberytatsiya." Loosely inspired by the historic reburial of the remains of Patriarch Josyf Slipyj from Rome to Lviv, the word "reberytatsia" is a neologism created by Bu-Ba-Bu that refers to the reburial and consequent spiritual awakening of someone or something.

Bu-Ba-Bu's Mr. Neborak and concert promoter Oleksander Bohutsky wished to address the symbolism of this event and relate it to contemporary Lviv culture. The idea was to unearth and take into their own hands the scattered music scene in Lviv and present it to the public before reburying it, this time in their own Lviv underground.

The first concert took place at the Lviv Philharmonic in October 1993, and featured all six bands that were to take part in the Reberytatsiya. Posters advertising the event dotted the city and, despite the usual bureaucratic hassles that one encounters in organizing anything in Ukraine, the show was a success.

The six bands - Mertviy Piven, G-G, Nebo Rock, Plach Yeremiyi, Pamiatka Arkhitektury and the Neborak Rock Band -played to a packed house with many more fans standing outside listening on the street.

A highlight of the show was the energetic set of Plach Yeremiyi, which commanded the crowd's attention throughout its set despite blowing three amplifiers on stage. The show also featured the debut of Nebo Rock, an avant-garde, experimental/jazz ensemble featuring members from all six groups and fronted by Mr. Neborak.

During the winter months of 1994-1994, the Reberytatsiya continued with the six bands performing solo concerts at various, often bizarre, locations in Lviv. Among these shows was a concert held



Kyyiv's Theater on Podol performs "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the 1994 Edinburgh Theater Festival.

INTERVIEW: Director Vitally Malakhov of the Theater on Podol by Irena Kowal

KYY1V — In late August I picked up the Financial Times (perhaps the most influential newspaper in the world) and read theater critic Alastair Macauley's review of a performance at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival:

"On the fringe, from 10:15 till 12:30 a.m., the Ukrainian Theatre on Podol is giving its Tago' (Othello retold) at the Infirmary Street Swim Center. Desdemona does a length of breaststroke to elope with Othello, lago is forever chucking people and props into the water, Othello and other characters go for a swim at regular intervals...The action is completely fluent. I always wanted to know what would happen next, and/or how it would happen. Othello (white, without make-up) is dignified and yet always outshadowed by the towering, inscrutable, plausible lago. Desdemona is innocent, spontaneous, unintelligent, a natural victim. At the end, both lago and Othello are placed under arrest, on the jetty that projects out into the pool, for their crimes; lago reveals all and handcuffs himself to Othello; and Othello, having learnt how he has been duped, calmly stabs himself. His body falls back into the pool, pulling in lago after it. The lights fall on lago trying desperately to keep the dead Othello afloat."

Out of over 1,200 acting troupes and 1,600 performances at this summer's Edinburgh Theatre Festival, Theatre on Podol's productions, "lago" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream," were singled out as two of the most striking and original events in some 60 critical reviews.

Consider critic Nicola Barker's review in The Observer: "In the Ukrainian production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' the bard has never sounded so sweet and downright sensual. Dressed in pale silver duvets with cod-pieces and plastic body-parts, the cast bounced and flounced, joked and romanced, writhed and wrestled until they'd yanked this play into an almost unrecognizable shape. It was like looking into a bottomless sea and catching, unexpectedly, a glimpse of the ocean bed."

What was appreciated most was the Ukrainian theater's boldness, its freshness of interpretation, "absolutely unencumbered with Western reservations about machismo and its implications," as one critic put it. Here was Anatoly Khostikoev as lago, "radiating ruthless animal energy like a furnace." Instead of yielding to the convention of a pat happy ending in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the company picked up on the streak of ambivalent cruelty, capricious desire, and a world out of joint. "It was so full of wit, flair, wickedness and the true spirit of the thing, that Shakespeare himself could only have been delighted by it," was how Scotland on Sunday applauded it.

This writer interviewed Theatre on Podol's director Vitaliy Malakhov in Kyyiv.

*** What is your reaction to your the

ater's remarkable success at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival and the critic's ovations?

"I'm very grateful to all the newspapers and critics who paid attention to us in Edinburgh. Not to downplay my role or the role of the actors in this success, but to a large degree, the credit must go to Kyyiv's Karpenko Karyi Theatre Institute, where most of the actors trained. What was important for me was that the Ukrainian theater was raised to the level of European theater. The idea that Ukrainians came in sharavary and were exotic was deflated. For Ukrainians it's not a great honor to be exotic.

This is your theater's second

straight year at the festival. How do you coordinate the complex financial and technical aspects of your trip for your 22-member group?

We had some vital experience touring Britain prior to coming to the festival. We are indebted to Ukraine's Ministry of Culture, Kyyiv's City Administration and to private companies like Ukraine International Airlines and British Rail for sponsoring us. As for individual sponsors, they are too numerous to mention here.

What is significant is that people in Ukraine want to open Ukraine to the world. Whereas previously, Moscow made the decisions regarding who would represent the former Soviet Union, now Ukraine is making its own decisions. I was proud of the fact that at the festival there was one group from Russia performing a seven-hour version of "Oresteia" and three theaters from Ukraine: the religious theater Voskresenia from Lviv, Liudmila Limar from the Drama and Comedy Theater in Kyyiv performing Shevchenko's "The Witch" (Vidma) and Theatre on Podol.

You took a big risk going to Edinburgh with two Shakespeare plays. What influenced your decision?

Last year at the festival, critic Michael Billikton from The Guardian reviewed us. He recommended that we choose a play from the English repertoire which the public knew. So we looked at out own repertoire and decided on "Midsummer," which we had already played to Ukrainian audiences in Donetske, Poltava, Odessa and other cities.

How did you prepare for a public that doesn't understand the language?

The question was posed to me many times in Edinburgh. From last year's experience we knew that the viewer needed a strong incentive to come and see a particular performance. The idea to stage "lago" in a pool came to me and Volodymyr Karashevskiy, the play's artistic director, from the very setting of Othello. The first act takes place in Venice, the second in Cyprus, where Othello, the admiral is leading his fleet to battle with the Turks. We were inspired to make use of water as a Mediterranean setting, as a metaphor of sensuality, vulnerability. Water is the sym

bol of life. Some of the critics compared Desdemona and Othello to two dolphins in their natural habitat. The only character who doesn't touch the water throughout the play is lago. He is simply a man who prefers not to get his feet wet. Only when lago is manacled to Othello, who stabs himself and throws himself into the water, is he pulled in after him.

The old Victorian pool with its massive columns where we performed became a fantastic venue for our ideas. With the appropriate lighting design the viewer was sitting not at a pool but in the theater.

One critic commented that Othello was characterized not as a good man but as a weak one. This vulnerable man gives in to the shrewd and clever lago who destroys him. Was that your interpretation?

I think that the best theatrical production is one that has multiple interpretations. One story I read in a Kyyiv newspaper influenced my reading of the play. A lieutenant returned home to Kyyiv from Bosnia and shot his wife, children, then threw himself out of a window. How does one define a strong or weak Othello? Othello is a military leader, he is used to giving orders. Yet, he is also able to delude himself. His last act, nevertheless, demonstrates his immeasurable nobility.

Your theater has been staging "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for 15 years. How has your interpretation of the play evolved?

In Edinburgh we presented our fifth version of the play. We changed the music, the costumes, so that the production stayed fresh and contemporary. For us the play is foremost about art and love which is always very close to art. Love and art are part of the same erotic energy, both unexplainable, explosive, analogous to dreaming and awakening. In this production, we wanted the various aspects of love, including the buffoonery, the absurdity, to play themselves out on stage.

One observation is that Shakespeare in the West has become overly sophisticated, that the essential savagery and despair of Shakespeare's world has been lost. Do you think that your origi

nal interpretation of Shakespeare so admired in Edinburgh might stem from not being part of that tired establishment?

Someone once said that one cannot be original deliberately. It just doesn't work. If in our theater we have discovered another dimension of Shakespeare, it wasn't through any effort to be outlandish. I look to Shakespeare as I would to a contemporary playwright. In our theater we work first and foremost to satisfy ourselves. If we see that our "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is successful in Odessa and Dnipropetrovske and it pleases the public in Edinburgh, then the Scots are very similar to Ukrainians.

What was your reaction to the other theaters taking part in the festival?

We didn't have much time to see much since we only had three days off. I was fortunate to have seen Venedikt Erofeyev's play "Moscow Stations" which was, without parallel, a shattering psychological experience. I also had the chance to see the wonderful ballet from Miami.

Are you planning to go back to Edinburgh next year?

We have been invited back by the city's mayor to stage "Macbeth." However, it will be difficult. This year people came to see a "provincial" troupe and were surprised. Next year they will expect another standard altogether. This year we have entered another category of theater, thanks to the reviewers. We will have to decide whether to go for it or perhaps take a year off. However, once you've been to Edinburgh, it's difficult to stay away.

One more question. What do you think is the role of theater in Ukraine today?

Theater is part of a healthy society. However, we need not ЬеДп a hurry to define Ukrainian theater. It was a great tragedy when the Stanislavski method was pronounced the only true socialist-realist system. Today a lot of new directors are coming up through the ranks creating new forms which are beneficial to theater in Ukraine. In the theater we have the experience of living someone else's life, of living many lives. We heighten our awareness of what it means to be alive.

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NEW RELEASES: Yevshan adds 11 new recordings

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The Yevshan Corp. of Montreal recently added 11 new titles to its music catalogue, featuring everything from the Ukrainian National Guard Orchestra to longtime North American favorites like Ron Canute and Burya and the up-and-coming, Montreal-based Burlaky.

The Ukrainian National Guard Orchestra, whose new musical issue goes by the same title, is Kyyiv's foremost brass and woodwind orchestra, at par with the finest such bands in the world. This release includes both Ukrainian and Western selections.

Mr. Cahute is featured in two new recordings, one with his long-standing cohorts, Burya, in a live performance titled "Burya Plugged In, Live in Edmonton." The other one is a selection of Ukrainian folk dances compiled with the choreographer of the Vatra Canadian dance company titled "Vatra: Traditional Ukrainian Folk Dance."

Folk dance and song are the themes of several other Yevshan releases. The singing ensemble Ridni Naspivy has issued an assemblage of material carefully selected from the choreographed repertoire of the Teren dance ensemble of Kyyiv. The tape is titled "Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection."

Some consider the Ukrainian National Orchestra of Folk Instruments the best such ensemble in Ukraine today. Its newest release, "Melodies of Ukraine," encompasses the whole spectrum of styles of tradional Ukrainian folk music. The talented musicians and folk music soloists, who are based in Kyyiv, play a wide range of instruments including the bandura, sopilka, tsymbaly, drymba and violin.

The Volyn Ukrainian Folk Choir, a four-voiced mixed choir, sings traditional songs from, where else, the Volyn region of Ukraine. So what's the name of the release? Not surprisingly, "The Volyn Folk Choir." Included are such memorable musical melodies as "Na Ivana Kupala," "Vystupaly Kozachenky" and "Hylia, Hylia, Shi Husy."

The Hayda Ensemble supplies more folk music, but of the Carpathian region of Ukraine. Its new release, "Carpathian Melodies," includes Hutsul, Bukovynian, Gypsy and Moldovan traditional music. The group has traveled through Europe,

including recent concerts in France and Germany.

Yet another group producing famous folk arrangements has released a collection of the most famous of Ukrainian Christmas music, while throwing in a Western carol, too. The Hoosli Ukrainian Folk Ensemble of Winnipeg has produced numerous religious and traditional albums in the 25 years of its existence. Its latest Christmas release, titled "Raduysia Zemle," includes several Ukrainian standards such as "Boh Predvichny" and "Shchedrivka" and the Western classic "The Little Drummer Boy," too.

Other new releases by Yevshan, which has promoted Ukrainian music since 1973 and now also produces and promotes videocassettes, sheet music and publications, among other items, include popular Ukrainian contemporary music from both sides of the Atlantic.

In Montreal, the Burlaky, a favorite party and wedding band among young people, has released its first album, "Burlaky." Enjoy popular Ukrainian folk songs in traditional instrumentation, including "Cheremshyna," "Chervona Ruta" and "Teche Voda Kalamutna."

Krajany is a popular folk ensemble from Ukraine, which has toured the North Atlantic coast aboard the cruise ship the Gruziya. Selections from this release, titled "Nad Dniprovskym Krayem," consist mainly of material of the most popular Ukrainian folk songs, reminiscent of the style of the Kobza ensemble.

Finally, Sylvan Koltyk and His Orchestra, which was nominated for a Grammy award this year in the area of international music, has produced a superb album of favorite Ukrainian party tunes. Included are such popular standards as "Dva Kolory," "Rushnychok," "Tsyhanochka" and "Bandura."

All releases are available on cassette tape or CD, except for Krajany, Vatra and Ridni Naspivy, which are only available on cassette. Cassettes are $9.98 (U.S.); CDs, $14.95. To order call toll-free 1-800-265-9858 or fax (514) 630-9960 (for credit card orders); or send check or money order to: Yevshan, Box 235, Beaconsfield, Canada, H9W 5T8 (make check payable to Yevshan Inc.). For more information call (514) 630-

Among the artists featured in Yevshan's latest catalogue are: (from left) Sylvan Koltyk and His Orchestra, the Hayda Ensemble, and Vatra with Ron Cahute.

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No. 3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1995 11

BC Lions capture Grey Cup Les Browne's football fantasy came

true in the 82nd Grey Cup. Browne will retire with three Grey Cup rings as CFL champion, along with the league record for pass interceptions.

The cornerback for British Columbia earned another ring when his Lions responded to the challenge of stopping the potent Baltimore trio of quarterback Tracy Ham, running back Mike Pringle and slot-back Chris Armstrong to win 26-23. It kept Baltimore from becoming the first U.S. entry to win the CFL championship.

Pringle and Armstrong, who combined for 34 touchdowns in league play, were kept out of the end zone. Ham got in once, but he also fumbled at the B.C. 1-yard line in the fourth quarter, with Tony Collier recovering for the Lions.

B.C. won on a last-play field goal by Lui Passagl ia from 38 yards after Browne and the B.C. defense held Baltimore inside its own 10-yard line in the final minute.

Collier will replace Browne at the left corner in the B.C. secondary next season, as Browne ends an 11-year CFL career with a record 87 interceptions in league play.

"After Lui missed that one field goal, we knew we could stop Baltimore and get the ball back, just like the Edmonton game," Browne said. "It's so sweet. We came through one more time."

B.C. lived a charmed existence in the playoffs, winning by one point in Edmonton on Passaglia's field goal and by one point in Calgary on a last-play touchdown by Darren Flutie (CFL MVP Doug Flutie's little brother).

"I love it - 11 years - what a way to go out," Browne shouted as he was mobbed by fans while trying to reach the B.C. dressing room. "This is the way I wanted it to end."

Passaglia missed a 37-yard field goal at tempt with 70 seconds left, and Charles Anthony ran the ball out of the end zone to the Baltimore 2-yard line.

B.C. held Pringle to two yards before Ham threw an incomplete pass under a heavy rush. Baltimore punted, and the Lions got the ball again at the Baltimore 34 with 28 seconds left.

After two short rushes into the middle, Passaglia booted the decisive field goal, a kick that may bring an end to his 19-year career. Passaglia is the league's career leading scorer and may finally retire at age 40.

"I want to sit down, talk about it and see where this league's going," Passaglia said. "If my leg comes around, I'll make a decision before training camp."

Baltimore got touchdowns from Ham on a 1-yard rollout and by cornerback Karl Anthony on a 36-yard lateral from Alvin Walton, after an interception by the Baltimore middle linebacker.

Donald Igwebuike kicked three field goals for Baltimore.

Passaglia accounted for 14 points on four field goals and two conversions. He also was part of a fake field goal which resulted in a 17-yard gain by Darren Flutie, leading to a 1-yard touchdown run by quarterback Danny McManus.

McManus replaced injured starter Kent Austin late in the first half and engineered a second-half comeback after the Lions trailed 20-10.

CFL playoffs

Eastern Division Semifinal Baltimore 34, Toronto 15 Winnipeg 26, Ottawa 16

Western Division Semifinal British Columbia 24, Edmonton 23 Calgary 36, Saskatchewan 3 Eastern Division Final Baltimore 14, Winnipeg 12 Western Division Final British Columbia 37, Calgary 36 Grey Cup Championship British Columbia 26, Baltimore 23

WHAT'S NEWS: Business sense is the CFL's specialty. Teams operate under a salary cap of $2.5 million. One star player on each team, such as Calgary quarterback Doug Flutie, is exempt. The rest of the 37-man active roster, plus two inactive players and the practice squad of five to 10, must fit under the cap. The NFL, with a 53-man roster and five-man practice squad, has a cap of $34.2 million.

So, a CFL team can make a go of it with 12,000 to 15,000 season ticket holders, especially with corporate sponsorship and a favorable stadium lease. Some Canadian teams are given money generated from government-run sports betting. (In 1993, the Province of Alberta subsidized the Calgary Stampeders with $950,000 in lottery funds.)

ALSO: The CFL and its players association are discussing a proposal to cut the number of Canadians on Canadian-based teams from 20 to 10 by 1997, according to a published report. The Vancouver Province said a proposed three-year agreement would reduce the mandatory Canadian content to 15 in 1995, 12 in 1996 and 10 in 1997. There would be five Canadians on the practice roster at all times, while teams would be allowed to start an unlimited number of

imports (players from U.S. colleges and NFL rejects). This obviously would mean more football jobs for Americans in the CFL at the expense of probably a few Ukrainian Canadians.

AND: We sadly announce the resignation of Ukrainian John Michaluk from the dual posts of president and CEO of the Hamilton Tiger Cats. Since assuming these duties in late August of 1992, Michaluk's Ti-Cats posted 11-7, 6-12 and 4-14 records. The resignation was made public midway through the recently completed regular season. It was widely speculated Michaluk's resignation was not voluntary, but requested by the club's board of directors as the first step of a major overhaul.

Terminology of the CFL

Import - a player who played foofball outside of Canada (usually college) and who did not play football in Canada prior to his 17th birthday.

Non-import - a player who has spent a total of five of his first 15 years in Canada, or who has never played football outside of Canada.

Game roster - consists of 14 imports, 20 non-imports, three quarterbacks and two reserves

Reserve list - players not dressed for a game (limit of two players)

Specialty teams player - if dressing 14 imports, one must be designated a specialty teams player who is used on a restricted basis

Injured list - an injured player may be placed on injured players list for a minimum of 30 days.

CFL prof i les Bruce Boyko Fullback - Saskatchewan Roughriders Non- impor t - Western Michigan

University -6 '1" , 220 lbs. - Born March 2, 1967,

Hamilton, Ontario Years in CFL: five; years with

Saskatchewan: five Acquired: Selected in second Round

(ninth over all) in 1990 CFL College Draft 1993 Season: Career year...dressed for

18 games...started 15 at fullback...gained 72 yards rushing on 20 carries...career best 10 carries for 24 yards against Lions on September 25...caught 30 passes for 299 yards and two TD's...grabbed career high five receptions at B.C. September 25 and October 31 at Toronto...scored first CFL receiving TD. October 1 vs. Lions...was also longest reception of career 28 yards... recorded 13 special team tackles , fourth best on the squad...had team high five special team tackles at B.C. on July 9...also had fumble return for 54 yards...returned two kickoffs for 1 yard...

1992: Played in 17 games...finished third in the CFL with 27 special team tackles . . .has one reception for 19 yards..'.also one fumble recovery and 2 kickoff returns-

Career: Led Riders and tied for third in CFL with 27 special team tackles in '91...played in all 18 games...started at slotback for injured Ray Elgaard on October 6, 1991 vs. Ottawa...finished season with five catches for 44 yards...in rookie season recorded 18 catches for 259 yards while playing in all 8 games. . . s tar ted at s lotback in four games...made first CFL start in Ottawa September 9, 1990...recorded 23 tackles on Rider special teams...blocked first Rider punt in 1990 against Winnipeg on September 2...

College: Three-year starter at Western Michigan. . .one of W M U ' s best receivers...four-year letterman...career stats: 106 receptions for 1306 yards and eight TDs...as a senior, caught 26 passes for 293 yds. (11.3 avg.) and one TD...had streak of 23 consecutive games with at least one reception during his career with


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WASHINGTON - At the annual awards ceremony recently held in the Great Hall at the Department of Justice in Washington, United States Attorney General Janet Reno bestowed upon Bohdan Vitvitsky the Justice Department's highest honor: a Director's Award for Superior Performance by an Assistant U.S. Attorney.

Mr. Vitvitsky is an assistant U.S. attorney in the Frauds Division in the District of New Jersey. He received a 1994 Director's Award along with Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Ernst for their successful three-month prosecution of four men who were the masterminds of a multi-national fraud scheme that netted over $22 million between 1990 and 1993. The defendants in United States v. Voigt were found guilty of 50 counts of conspiracy, money laundering and wire fraud. They included a graduate in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a lawyer from Chicago and a businessman from Pittsburgh.

The defendants operated what they claimed to be a centuries-old European trust named the European American Money Fund Trust that was supposed to have billions of dollars in assets and that was supposed to have a relationship with the Vatican and the Knights of Malta. The "trust" was run out of Geneva, Switzerland, and Linwood, N.J., and defendants made money in one of two ways: by taking in advance fees ranging

from $50,000 to $500,000 for multi-million dollar loans they claimed to be able to offer, and by selling investments they called "master collateral commitments" for between $3.5 and $4.5 million. The defendants did not deliver a single loan, and "master collateral commitments" turned out to be non-existent investments. Victims included many small- and medium-sized businesses in the United States, as well as persons or entities in Mexico, Great Britain and Germany. The Moscow City Council lost $4.37 million.

The awards ceremony began with the presentation of colors by the Joint Armed Services Color Guard followed by the playing of the national anthem by the President's United States Marine Band Brass Quintet. The assembled, who included Director's Award winners and their families, were then addressed by Attorney General Reno and Carol DiBattiste, director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, each of whom welcomed the award winners, congratulated them for their outstanding achievements and reflected on the critical importance of the work of the Department of Justice in maintaining the rule of law in a free society.

Following their remarks, Attorney General Reno, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick and Director DiBattiste called each award recipient forward to receive his or her award. When Mr. Vitvitsky was called to receive his award, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Faith S. Hochberg, joined Attorney General Reno and the other high-ranking officials of the department to add her personal congratulations to him.

During an awards ceremony at the Justice Department from left are: U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Faith S. Hochberg, Attorney General Janet Reno, Bohdan Vitvitsky, Director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys Carol

DiBattiste and Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick.

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Zyla celebrates 75th birthday

LUBBOCK, Texas - Both Ukrainians and other citizens of North America have reason to pause and celebrate the birth of Wolodymyr T. Zyla, for he marked his 75th birthday in 1994.

Dr. Zyla has made major contributions to Ukraine and for Ukrainians in the Americas during his lifetime. Not only did he develop a still vital Comparative Literature Symposium Project at Texas Tech University, but he also fostered the study of the Ukrainian language and literature by his extensive publications concerning various languages and literatures of the Western world. Among his many and notable recognitions is his Knighthood of the Order of St. Gregory

the Great, bestowed upon him by Pope John Paul II.

Dr. Zyla is author of seven books and numerous articles concerning Ukrainian literature and the study of names in Ukrainian, English and German, the co-translator of Ivan Zilyns'kyj's "A Phonetic Description of the Ukrainian Language" (1979), and the editor of "Tvorchist Yara Slavutycha" (1978). He was, in addition, a professor at Texas Tech University for many years.

Born in Zbarazh, Ukraine, on June 25, 1919, Dr. Zyla lived there until 1941 with his mother and stepfather. He completed the gymnasium and first year of law before 1939. The turbulent events of World War II finally resulted in the young Zyla, then 22 years old, leaving Ukraine in 1941. He spent four years as a



Detroit Graduates... (Continued from page 4)

of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America; and Jurij Brezden, prominent Detroit area artist.

The opening address was given by Dr. Kapustij, who spoke about Mr. Dmytrenko's monumental and magnificent accomplishments in the realm of art. She stated that aside from the religious aspect of his work, which includes murals, mosaic, icons, stained glass windows, and paintings, Mr. Dmytrenko's work also embodies, as well, Ukrainian scenes, still-life paintings, and, most especially, portraits. (To-date he has completed over 500 portraits.) The artist's creativity, she observed, seems to be boundless.

Dr. Kapustij continued by saying that she had marveled at Mr. Dmytrenko's paintings and icons at Immaculate Conception Church since she was a child. Later, living on the East Coast and attending St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in Manhattan, she was again enveloped by Mr. Dmytrenko's beautiful paintings and icons. And it was there, of course, that she would gaze wondrously at his sublime iconostas is.

Dr. Kapustij described Mr. Dmytrenko as a truly gifted artist and commented that

"it is truly an extraordinary man who would use his great gift for the glory of God." Dr. Kapustij concluded her address by thanking Mr. Dmytrenko for making her world -through his art - a more beautiful place.

Before presenting the 1994 Ukrainian of the Year plaque, the chairman of the Ukrainian of the Year Committee, Dr. Myron Kapustij, called upon the Very Rev. Bernard Panczuk, OSBM, to introduce the honoree.

The Rev. Panczuk, in his address, spoke glowingly about Mr. Dmytrenko, focusing on the artist from the humanistic viewpoint. The Rev. Panczuk recalled a time when he walked into church and, looking up, saw that the dome was crumbling. When Mr. Dmytrenko was contacted he said, "I knew that that was going to occur sometime." After the dome was repaired, Mr. Dmytrenko easily repaired the damaged paintings.

Following Rev. Panczuk's address, a very moving tribute to Mr. Dmytrenko was given by Bishop Alexander Bykowetz. The bishop, speaking in Ukrainian, described the artist not only as a great painter and iconographer, but also as an honorable, humane and humble human being. "He belongs in the circle of truly great Ukrainians, that is, with the likes of Taras Schevchenko," exclaimed the bishop.

Thunderous applause greeted Mr. Dmytrenko as Dr. Myron Kapustij presented him with the Ukrainian of the Year plaque. At that poignant moment, Dr. Kapustij recalled that when he first informed the artist [that he had been selected as the 1994 honoree], Mr. Dmytrenko asked, "Do you really think I deserve this award?" In his acceptance speech, Mr. Dmytrenko profusely thanked the Ukrainian Graduates for the award and the tributes paid to him that evening.

He spoke of the beginnings of his "religious period" upon which he embarked when, after World War II, he emigrated to Canada and then the United States. Specifically, he expressed his unending gratitude to mitered archpriest, the Very Rev. Monsignor Stephen V. Knapp. In 1960, Monsignor Knapp gave Mr. Dmytrenko his first significant commission, that of painting Immaculate Conception's interior, and designing and crafting its iconostasis. From that time, Mr. Dmytrenko continued, his career escalated rapidly. And when Monsignor Knapp became pastor of Ss. Constantine and Helena in Minneapolis, he once again commissioned Mr. Dmytrenko to adorn his church with his artistry .

Due to illness, Monsignor Knapp was unable to attend the banquet. This was most

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At the conclusion of the honoree's acceptance speech, Christina Kapustij and Christine Cieply surprised the maestro with a birthday torte and a bouquet of beautiful yellow roses. Mr. Dmytrenko was at first stunned and then thrilled by it all!

Besides honoring Mr. Dmytrenko as their 40th Ukrainian of the Year, the Ukrainian Graduates also feted eight outstanding students from the Detroit and Windsor areas. Ralph Blacklock, chairman of the Scholarship Committee, presented scholarships to Myron Halitsky, Christian Iwasko, Anna Marzotto, Natalia Raffo, Derek Renaud, Peter Maziak, Sonia Regenbogen, and Bohdan Sawka.

Ms. Iwasko, son of Harry and Joan Iwasko, longtime members the Ukrainian Graduates, received the first Michael Wichorek Memorial Scholarship. Before receiving his award, Ms. Iwasko gave a short speech about Mr. Wichorek and his work in the Ukrainian community. He remarked how proud he was to be receiving this scholarship.

Bohdan Sawka, son of Bohdan and Sophia Sawka, also members of the Ukrainian Graduates, was the recipient of the Elizabeth Lyshak Memorial Scholarship. Anna Marzotto, daughter of members Tito and Serafina Marzotto, read an abbreviated text of her award winning essay.

After the program everyone danced to the music of the New Generation Band. And Mr. Dmytrenko autographed his book of paintings, a good number of which he kindly donated to the Ukrainian Graduates' Scholarship Fund. "What a party!" one of the guests exclaimed about the Ukrainian Graduates' 55th anniversary celebration.

Canadian Football... (Continued from page 11)

Broncos...as a junior, was named Honorable Mention All-MAC for his 44 receptions, 483 yds. and four TD's...

Bruce's Bio: Majored in physical education at WMU...in 1985 voted MVP at Westmount High...three-year team captain... 1984 Westmount's Athlete of the Year...traveled province as part of the Riders' Team Health program in 1992, 1993 and 1994...Nickname is "Bronco"... makes Regina his off-season home... presently enrolled in the University of Regina's Education Program...

Dwayne Dmytryshyn Slotback - Calgary Stampeders Non-import - University of

Saskatchewan - #28 6'1", 210 lbs. - Born July, 11, 1971,

Saskatoon, Sask. Years in CFL: two; years with

Calgary: two Acquired: Selected in third Round

(21st over all) in 1993 Canadian College Draft

1993 Season: Played in only one game...was activated for October 18 game in Toronto due to injury to Greg Frers...played as a backup to free safety Greg Knox...spent the rest of the season on practice roster... selected by Stamps in third round of '93 CFL college draft...pick obtained by sending former first- round selection Duane Fords to Winnipeg...

College: Led the Canada West Conference in receptions with 39 in 1992...was named a Canada West All-Star and a CIAU Second Team All Canadian...played four years with the USask. Huskies and totalled 25 games, scoring 19 touchdowns, rushing for 932 yards, and catching 68 passes for 1176 yards...also had 791 kickoff return yards...a member of the 1990 Vanier Cup winning Huskies...switched from tailback to slotback for the 1992 season...

No.3 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1995 13

The cultural scene... (Continued from page 8)

at the Lviv Circus by Mertviy Piven. This concert coincided with the release of the group's new album, "Underground Zoo," and also featured readings by poet Yuriy Andrukhovych. Mertviy Piven often takes Mr. Andrukhovych's poems as texts for its songs, and "Underground Zoo" is a theme album based on a series of his poems.

The final show of the Reberytatsiya was held on May 9, 1994. This date was also the 100th anniversary of the Bu-Ba-Bu (when added together, the ages of the poets equal 100). A two-day affair, the anniversary celebration consisted of a concert with bands performing songs based on Bu-Ba-Bu poems on the first night, and an evening of poetry reading on the second.

The concert portion featured all six bands of the Reberytatsiya as well as performances by musicians such as Viktor Morozov, who was among the first musicians to use Bu-Ba-Bu writings in his songs. This ambitious four-hour concert offered many first-time collaborations among the bands that, when successful, were truly memorable.

The evening of poetry, held in the Zankovetska Lviv Drama Theater, was hosted by Mr. Morozov and featured the three members of Bu-Ba-Bu reciting their poems, sometimes accompanied by music. Afterwards, Mr. Morozov, in sarcastic, game-show-host mode, presented the poets with questions from the audience. The results were insightful, inspir-

Correction In the article "National minorities in

Ukraine: an emerging success story" (January 1) by Orest Deychakiwsky, a production error resulted in publication of an incomplete paragraph. The complete text of that paragraph is as follows:

Romanians in Ukraine, residing mostly in Chernivtsi Oblast, are making significant progress in their cultural and political development, although there have been allegations about restrictions, forcefully denied by Ukrainian authorities. At the same time, calls from political figures in Romania for the restitution to Romania of territories lost under the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact generate understandable nervousness in Ukraine.

ing and often hilarious. Attending a cultural event in Lviv

organized by the "bohema" (as the art community calls itself), one cannot help but come away impressed and inspired by the time and creativity involved in putting on such an event. The relatively small size of Lviv allows this community to pull off ideas that would not have been possible in a larger city.

Two examples of this are the Vy Vykh I and VyVykh II festivals held in 1990 and 1992, respectively. During both of these three-day art-and-music festivals, the bohema had the whole city, including the Lviv Opera Theater and the city trolley, at its disposal. They took advantage of this opportunity and put on two now-legendary festivals.

The youth of Lviv are increasingly more supportive of the local culture, as new bands with diverse sounds seem to pop up every day. They realize that they are witnessing something truly special and are appreciative of it. These are exciting, uncertain times in Ukraine, and it is refreshing to see young Ukrainians tapping into this energy and creating an atmosphere that is at once a by-product of their environment and serves to define it.

Defense Department... (Continued from page 4)

President Bill Clinton suggested to the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council (UACC) that Ukrainian American service-members can play an increasingly important role in both United States projects in Ukraine and in the enhancement of democracy in Ukraine. As U.S.-Ukrainian military cooperation and contacts increase, so does the need for U.S. personnel with Ukrainian language abilities. Participation in the FLPP is one way, immediately available, for servicemembers of Ukrainian heritage to contribute towards the positive development of U.S.-Ukrainian military cooperation.

The first step for Ukrainian American servicemembers to participate in current and future U.S. projects in Ukraine is to certify their knowledge through the Ukrainian DLPT and to ensure that their language proficiency rating is accurately recorded in both service personnel records and service data bases.

For further information call Sgt. Maj. Daniel Zahody at (408) 644-0618.

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Works by Liuboslav Hutsaliuk on exhibit in New York gailery

NEW YORK - Liuboslav Hutsaliuk, the Paris-and New York-based Ukrainian artist, will be giving an exhibit of his oils, watercolors, drawings and lithographs at the Ukrainian Artists Association Gallery, 132 Second Ave., in New York City.

The show is sponsored by the New York City chapter of the Brotherhood of Veterans of the 1st Division of the Ukrainian National Army, of which the artist is a member. This will be his first one-man New York City show since his critically acclaimed exhibit at the Toyamaya Gallery (West 57th Street) in 1990.

Works on exhibition will range from those created in the late 1960s through Mr. Hutsaliuk's most recent works, and will include oil landscapes and still-lifes, pen-and-ink drawings, lithographs and prints, most based on his travel and work in France. These will include a series of two-color woodcuts of Paris, which are in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale, the French national gallery, in Paris.

The exhibit will open on Sunday, January 22, at 1 p.m., and will run through Sunday, January 29 (closed Mondays).

A Paris street scene by Liuboslav Hutsaliuk (pen and ink, 1970).

Detroit area center awards scholarships Since its inception in 1987, the

Ukrainian American Center Foundation has provided scholarships to Michigan students of Ukrainian descent and stipends to organizations that promote cultural and educational activities in the Ukrainian community.

In 1994 the foundation wanted to reach out to distant Ukrainians to inform them of the scholarship program and give talented students an opportunity in their quest for higher education. The foundation received 100 requests for scholarship applications from all over the state. Requests came from as for north as Mackinaw and as far west as Grand Rapids. Thirty-nine applicants returned their applications, with 25 completing all the requirements. The applicants were required to write essays on "Ukrainian Nuclear Arms Negotiations."

Financial grants were received by: Wayne State University, School of Business Administration, and the Ukrainian MBA Students Program, the Lviv Institute of Management at Ivan Franko Lviv State University.

by Waladomyr Marfey

HAZEL PARK, Mich. — The Ukrainian American Center Inc. held its 79th anniversary awards banquet at the Stephenson Haus Banquet facilities on October 2, 1994, with over 170 persons attending.

Master of ceremonies Dr. Mark T. Murphy, a student of the Ukrainian language and its culture, had the audience's full attention as he compared the United States of America to a rainbow. He said "When you gaze upon the rainbow we call the United States of America, you do not see its beauty in the fact that the colors have run together as one. In fact you marvel at the beauty of each color in the rainbow, for it is the individuality of the colors, not their ability to blend as one that we celebrate."

Entertainment at the banquet was provided by musician Ihor Wachnowski from Ukraine.

The Very Rev. Bernard Panczuk, pastor of St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church in Warren, gave the invocation.

Zyla celebrates... (Continued from page 12)

prisoner of war. He met Irene Bagan in June 1945, and they married on November 21, 1945.

Mr. Zyla, his wife, and Swiatoslawa, their daughter, left Europe for Brazil. They moved to Canada (where their son, Lubomyr, was born) and then to the United States (where Romanna was born). Mr. Zyla earned both a master of arts and a Ph.D. in Slavic philology from the Ukrainian Free University in Munich.

Dr. Zyla's force as a teacher and scholar enabled him to develop the

Annual Comparative Literature Symposium at Texas Tech University. During his 10 years as its director, he brought many renowned scholars, such as Cleanth Brooks, Norman Sherry, Anna Balakian and others to the campus.

The facts about Dr. Zyla's life do not reveal what is most important about him. Neither all of the books that he has written, nor all of the students whom he has taught, nor all of his efforts on behalf of Ukraine reveal his quiet dignity, his inner strength, his perseverance in the face of adversity, or his love of his countries, his family, and his fellow man.

Dr. Wolodymyr T. Zyla is a member of UNA Branch 25.

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PREVIEW OF EVENTS Saturday, January 21 NEW BRITAIN, Conn.: The Ukrainian youth of St. Josaphat's Ukrainain Catholic Church and St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church is holding a New Year's malanka at the Ukrainian American Citizens Club on Oak Street. There will be a buffet dinner at 6 p.m., followed by dancing to the music of Exprompt of Harford, Conn., starting at 8 p.m. Tickets (price includes dinner): $25, adults; $20, students; dance only: $15, adults; $10, students. For tickets or information call Stephen, (203) 666-4800, or, Chris, (203) 667-0316.

CHICAGO: The Friends of the Consulate General of Ukraine in Chicago — Club 500 invites the community to a banquet honoring Ukraine's ambassador to the United States, Dr. Yuri Shcherbak, to be held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 2247 W. Chicago Ave., at 6:30 pjn. Tickets: $40. For reservations call (312) 342-2029 or (312) 489-1339.

Sunday, January 22 PHOENIX, Ariz.: A reception and banquet commemorating the January 22, 1918, declaration of independence of the Ukrainian National Republic will be held at the Ukrainian Community Center, 730 W. Elm St., at 1 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Pheonix branch of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. Tickets: $10; $5, students. Keynote speakers are Daria Horodetchkyj, of Rohatyn, Ukraine, and Patience Hunt work of Phoenix. For additional information contact Michael Dydyk, (602) 948-2683.

NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. invites the public to a lecture by Dr. Iaroslav Isaievych, president, International Association of Ukrainian Studies, who will speak on "Ukrainian-Polish Relations in Contemporary Historiography." The lecture will be held at the academy, 206 W. 100th St., at 2 p.m. For information call (212) 222-1866.

Thurdsay, January 26 PHOENIX: Ukrainian film director Oles Yanchuk will preview his film in progress, "Attentat" (Assassination), about the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the assassination of Stepan Bandera, at the Ukrainian Community Center, 730 W. Elm St., at 7 p.m. The event is sponsored by the local branch of me Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. Tickets: $10. For information contact Patience Huntwork, (602) 253-3623. Saturday, January 28 NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of America series "Music at the Institute" presents a concert of works by Borys Liatoshynsky in honor of the centenary of the composer's tirth. Taking part in the concert program are Juliana Osinchuk, piano; Oksana Kxovytska, soprano; Oleh Krysa, violin; Tatiana Tchekina, piano; Mykola Suk, paino; and Natalia Khoma, cello. The concert will be held at the institute, 2 E. 79th St., at 8 p.m. Donation: $20.

Sunday, January 29 CLIFTON, N.J.: St. Mary Protectress Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 73 Washington Ave., will celebrate the 40th anniversary of priesthood and 15 years of service to the parish of the Very Rev. Michael Zemlachenko. The liturgy will be celebrated by the Rev. Zemlachenko and Archbishop Antony of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., at 9:30 a.m. A banquet will follow at The Excelsior, Route 46, Saddle Brook, N.J., at 1 p.m. Donations: $30. For tickets or information call Dr. Silvia Bilobron, (201) 472-7654, or Mr. Pasicznyk, (201) 595-7531, by January 22, EAST HANOVER, N.J.: Ukrainian American Veterans of the New Jersey State Department will participate in a conference concerning veterans' benefits with the Allied Council of New Jersey Veteran Organizations at the Ramada Inn, Route 10, 9 a.m.-noon. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen will address the gathering at 10 a.m. Veterans are asked to attend in uniform; the

public is welcome. Interested persons should call Daniel Harkins, (908) 247-3509. Tuesday, January 31 KENMORE, N.Y.: A banquet honoring the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, hosted by the Buffalo Group — Ukrainian American Business and Professional Association, will be held at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church Hall, 3275 Elmwood Ave. Cocktails are at 6:30 p.m.; dinner — 7 p.m. Tickets: $25 in advance; $35 at the door. Tickets are available at the following: Franklin's Printing, 2118 George Urban Blvd., Depew, N.Y.; Interport Travel Service, 227 Lombard St., Buffalo, N.Y.; Ukrainian Home Dnipro Federal Credit Union, 562 Genesee St., Buffalo, N.Y.; and Kenmore Prescription Center, 2890 Elmwood Ave., Kenmore, N.Y. President Kravchuk will also give a luncheon presentation centered on academic exchanges at the University Inn and Conference Center, 2401 N. Forest Road, Amherst, N.Y., at noon. Donation: $25; $20, students. The event is hosted by the Council for International Visitors. For reservations call (716) 823-2578.

Wednesday, February 1 BUFALLO: The Buffalo Group — Ukrainian American Business and Professional Association will host a farewell breakfast for former President Leonid Kravchuk at the Dnipro Ukrainian Home, 562 Genesee St., at 8 a.m. By reservation only; call (716) 856-4476.

Thursday, February 2 TORONTO: The Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto is holding a lecture, as part of its seminar series, by Dr. Stella Hryniuk, departments of history and Slavic studies, University of Manitoba, titled "A World Lost Forever: Eastern Galicia in 19th Century Photographs." The lecture will be held in the Board Room, Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 43 Queen's Park Crescent E., 4-6 p.m.

Saturday, February 4 NEW YORK: The Slavic Heritage Council of America presents "The European Folk Festival," at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, 65th Street and Broadway, at 7:30 p.m. The program will feature the Busilek Bulgarian Folk Dance Company, New World Sword Team, Norwegian Folk Dance Society of New York City, Baryn-Ya Russian Dance Ensemble, Polish American Folk Dance Company, Limbora Slovak Folk Ensemble, Dukati Serbian Folklore Ensemble and the Promin Ukrainian Vocal Ensemble. Tickets: $20; $15, senior citizens and children under 12. Tickets are available at the box office, Arka and Surma.

WASHINGTON: The Ukrainian Association of Washington is sponsoring a Winter Festival Dance '95, at the Crowne Plaza Holiday Inn, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Md., 9 p.m.-l a.m. Dancing will be to music by the Ukrainian Souvenir. Tickets, in advance by January 27, are $30 per person; after January 27 and at the door, $40 per person. Tickets may be purchased by writing to: Ukrainian Association of Washington, P.O. Box 14084, Washington, DC 20044-4084. For additional information call Stephen Rapawy, (301) 770-6911, or John A. Kun, (703) 941-4958.

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NEW YORK: The foreign language department of the School of Continuing Education at New York University has announced the following courses in Ukrainian for spring 1995: Elementary Ukrainian I, X25.9451,12 sessions: February 6-May 8; Mondays, 6:10-8:05 p.m.; fee: $360. Intensive Elementary Ukrainian II, X25.9410, 12 sessions: February 11-May 6; Saturdays, 1:20-4:15 p.m.; fee: $490. Ukrainian Conversation for Beginners, X25.9410, 12 sessions: February 9-May 4; Thursdays, 6:10-8:05 p.m.; fee, $360. For additional information or for a copy of the current bulletin call (212) 998-7030.

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