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Political extremism in Ukraine Russia to pursue assertive foreign policy be of an independent and assertive nature
by Bohdan Nahaylo explained, because the latter could and if Russian democrats fail to achieve
'"become a friendly power to Ukraine, MOSCOW— in a speech to leaders of it, they will be swept away by a wave of
PARTH while Armenia is more in Moscow's Russia's intelligence Service, reported by aggressive nationalism." He continued
sphere of influence." Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Friday, April 29, that "the U.S. does not have the capacity
The move toward fascism President Boris Yeltsin once again to rule alone. Russia...retains the inherent
Asked about the present situation in
There was a further disturbing trend. Ukraine, he compared it to "what hap– emphasized Moscow's intention to pur-
characteristics of a great power."
Although the UNA and the DSU had pened in Germany in 1933 and in France sue a more assertive foreign policy vis-a-
(RFE7RL Daily Report)
been ultra-nationalist organizations from when General de Gaulle came to power." vis both the West and the nations of the
the very outset, during 1993 they The "most valuable experience" for the "near abroad." On the former count, Mr. Ukraine to receive aid from EU, U.S.
became more extreme and chauvinistic. UNSO, he said, "is that of Lenin and his Yeltsin said Russia must henceforth dis–
The UNA had increasingly come under tinguish between partnership and K Y Y i v – Ukraine plans to sign an
comrades in 1917." As for the figures most
the ideological influence of the admired by "the UNSO. fighters," Mr. attempts to dominate Russia and to agreement on partnership and coopera–
Ukrainian Nationalist Union's integral impose upon Moscow "actions that run tion with the European Union (EU) in
Korchynsky replied that they were "first of
counter to Russia's interests." June, interfax reported on Tuesday, May
nationalists, with Mr. Korchynsky estab– all Mao Zedong and Benito Mussolini."10
lishing himself as the organization's The DSU, whose main ideologist and He dismissed Western concerns that 3. The agreement would give Ukrainian
leading ideologist. Owning several leader is currently Roman Koval (who Russia's assertiveness towards the states goods more access to West European
newspapers, including Ukrainski Obriyi with Mr. Khmara once led the radical of the former Soviet Union represented a markets. This follows EU plans at a
(Ukrainian Horizons) and Zamkova wing of the URP before they left that form of neo-imperialism and emphasized meeting on April 27 to extend a 100 mil-
Hora (Castle Hill), both published in party in May 1992), however, has gone that Russia viewed these nations as areas lion Ecu aid package to Ukraine.
Kyyiv, and Holos Natsiyi (voice of the even further and adopted a blatantly ras– of vital interest and would step up its Ukrainian television reported that on
Nation), published in Lviv, the UNA had cist and fascist tone. Last fall its newspa– efforts to promote their integration with May 3 an economic delegation from the
the means to propagate its ultra-national– per Neskorena Natsiya (Unvanquished Russia. President Yeltsin also claimed United States, led by National Security
ist message. Nation) - published in Kyyiv and edited that forces within both the states of the Council official Nicholas Burns, was to
At the ninth session of the UNA, held by among others, Messrs. Koval, former USSR and in the West are using meet with officials from Ukraine's
in Kyyiv in July 1993, the organization Shcherbatiuk and Yavorsky - carried a the neo-imperialism charge to sharpen Ministry of Economy in Kyyiv. Discus–
proclaimed itself "the only luminous declaration setting out the aims of this tensions between Russia and its neigh– sions are to focus on working out the
bors. He said Russia would vigorously details of a S350 million aid package
protect the interests of Russians living in offered by the U.S. during President
the former Soviet republics. Leonid Kravchuk's visit to the U.S. in
Although the Ukrainian National Assembly Finally, Mr. Yeltsin suggested that "at March of this year. (RFE7RL Daily Report)
a time when military budgets are being
and State independence for Ukraine (DSU) cut," the role of the Foreign intelligence Ukraine deactivates most SS-24 missiles
Service as a guarantor of Russian security
KYYiv– Ukraine has taken off rnili–
had been ultra-nationalist organizations would increase. (RFE7RL Daily Report)
tary alert nearly all of its 46 SS-24 strate–
Kozyrev writes on Russian foreign policy gic missiles in a major step towards total
front the very outset, during 1993 they became nuclear disarmament, according to
MOSCOW— Russian Foreign Defense Ministry officials. "The process
more extreme and chauvinistic. Minister Andrei Kozyrev has reportedly of deactivation is nearly complete. The
stated in the latest issue of Foreign nuclear warheads have been removed and
Affairs that "a firm and sometimes the flight patterns have been depro–
aggressive policy of defending one's grammed," Defense Ministry spokesman
thing that Ukraine had given birth to in organization, membership of which is national interests is not incompatible Anatoliy Murakhovsky told Reuters. Each
the second half of the 20th century" and, limited to Ukrainians. fwith the WestJ," according to Agence SS-24, the most powerful missile in the
denouncing other Ukrainian political par- Opposing "American-style democracy" France Presse on Sunday, May 1.
ties as corrupt arid speculators, depicted and "liberalism, socialism and commu– "Russian foreign policy inevitably has to (Continued on page 3)
itself as the nation's savior. "All power nism," it called for a "Ukrainian state
to the UNA" was the meeting's slogan. ruled by Ukrainians" in which there
Mr. Korchynsky told the assembly that would be order and discipline. Ukraine
the organization wanted to see a powerful
Ukrainian nation that would be able to
was to be a "mighty" and "nuclear" state,
and therefore the DSU opposed disarma–
Chornobyl operates despite protests
speak to Russia and the United States in ment and military conversion. Advocating JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - On April 26, According to current Ukrainian govern–
the kind of language that "the U.S. speaks "Ukraine for Ukrainians," the statement 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chornobyl ment estimates, more than 8,000 people
today to Traq and Serbia." Another speak– also came out against mixed marriages power station exploded. The explosion died fighting the reactor blaze and clean–
er, the head of the UNA in Lviv, Andriy and the inflow of non-Ukrainians into the and fire released a cloud of highly ing up the disaster site, an estimate much
Shkil, warned in Nietzschean (and country, and it declared: "We are for radioactive fallout and debris throughout higher than the official Soviet figure of
Dontsovian) terms about the coming "ter– returning Russians and Jews to their his– Europe. Belarus, northern Ukraine and 31 dead in the course of "liquidating the
rible dawn" of the "Ukrainian gods." 8 torical fatherland."11 The same issue western Russia were hardest hit. consequences."
The latest version of the UNA'S pro- quipped on its front page that "Ukraine Upwards of 100,000 people were evacu– Today, eight years after being the site
gram declares the organization's opposi– urgently needs an Adolph visarionovych ated from their homes throughout the of the world's worst nuclear accident to
tion to the existing order and its intention Pinochetenko."12 three ex-Soviet republics. Many of these date, the Chornobyl power station contin–
to achieve power, mainly by extra-parlia– At the end of 1993 Messrs. Kandyba were never ta return to the villages and
mentary means. The UNA wants a strong ues to churn out electricity for energy-
and Koval appear to have had a falling out, towns they called home. The company starved Ukraine.
Ukraine, with nuclear weapons, a mod– with the former leaving the DSU to form town of Prypiat, which once housed sev–
ernized half-million strong Ukrainian The eighth anniversary of the
the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists eral thousand Chornobyl employees and
army and a thriving military-industrial in Ukraine (OUNvU). Mr. Koval and his their families, now stands abandoned. (Continued on page 15)
complex; Kyyiv is envisaged as becom– supporters retained control of the DSU's
ing "a new geopolitical center"; and newspaper but changed its name to
Ukraine is to extend its influence over Nezboryma Natsiya (Undefeatable
neighboring regions where there was, or
still is, a large ethnic Ukrainian presence
Nation). The first issue of newspaper
under its new tittle carried the slogan
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Acknowledging that he had come to Ukrainski Obriyi, No. 1, 1994. The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA:
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that, had it not been for the former Holos Natsiyi has published similar
Russian Parliament's "foolish" stand on calls for racial purity, for Ukraine to be ruled
by Ukrainians, and for the "deportation" of Postmaster, send address Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz
the Crimea, the UNSO "alone could have
"persons of Armenian, Jewish, Gypsy and changes to: Associate editor: Marta Kolomayets
sent more fighters" than had gathered to other nationalities who do not live perma– The Ukrainian Weekly Assistant editor: Khristina Lew
defend the White House in October 1993 nently in Ukraine, but are found here with the P.O. Box 346 Staff writersXeditors: Roman Woronowycz (Kyyiv)
against President Boris Yeltsin's forces. aim of creating economic chaos and specula– Jersey City, N.J. 07303 Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj
He also stated cryptically that the UNSO tion." See, for example, Yu. Ridkoborod,
had "received some practical experience "Who is to Blame?" Holos Natsiyi, No. 23 The Ukrainian Weekly, May 8,1994, No. 19, vol. LXll
in Azerbaijan and the Balkans." The (July), 1993. Copyright (g) 1994 The Ukrainian Weekly
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UNSO's sided with Azerbaijan, he Neskorena Natsiya, No. 14, 1993.
No. 1 9 ^ T H E UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 8 , 1 9 9 4 ^ з
astern Europe True. І think we've both grown up. We've gone through
the last 15 years together, and we've found a common place
alists." in that scene he's encouraging her, putting his where we can shake hands, so to speak, in a sense, 1 guess І
arm around her, while with other people he adopts the expected the book to be a bit more controversial and that's
stance of a hard-hitting "objective" journalist. why 1 suspect they might be misreading me.
І can't comment on the documentary because 1 haven't Then again, there's the third camp that did misread the
seen it yet. However, whatever his faults, in both his book book, and who are still misreading me in general. They see
and in a recent interview published in the Canadian Forum, me as a third-generation Ukrainian who still fails to "get it"
lgnatieff is much more subtle about this issue. in terms of the experience of the post-war wave of immigra–
He acknowledges that his trip to Ukraine was an tion. They still begrudge me my hostility to the right. People
encounter with his own prejudices and his own chauvinism. still see me as an unregenerate leftist and feminist who
He also allows a grudging acknowledgment of the necessity grudgingly accepted certain things but is not one of them.
of Ukrainian nationalism as an expression of liberation That's not necessarily a misperception is it?
from violence and fear. So it would appear that he is much
more interesting as a writer than as a television personality. No, you're right. But 1 still get letters saying that "Fm
tired of you dumping on nationalists," and that kind of thing.
Are you moving in a different direction than lgnatieff
is on the subject of nationalism? What kind of reactions have you had from other East
European communities, besides Ukrainians?
Over all, his take on nationalism is fascinating to me
because Fm trying to work all of this out myself. І think There have been all sorts of reactions from some of the
we're arriving at the same point from very different posi– communities, some direct, some 1 hear about third-hand. A
tions. He starts as an internationalist qua Great Russian, couple of Hungarians have said to me that their country is
while my perspective starts from "All of Baba's Children," the "great present absence." Although the book doesn't
which concerns a very particular and local history, and concern itself with non-Slavic countries, Hungary is a kind
through "Bloodlines" gradually evolves to a national histo– of ghostly presence, because it does border on all of the
ry, then beyond that to a Slavic history in Europe, and then countries that do have a section devoted to them.
from there to an inter-imperial history. There are some anecdotes about Hungary, but that's not
І think he's moving down to the local and beginning to the point. The book is intended as a Slavic chronicle and
understand what is happening on the ground with specific Hungary doesn't properly belong, it is a Slavic journey, and
people who are tied to and passionate about their "place." І suppose the principal country that is absent is Russia, but І
Where we are meeting, and why i'm not prepared to throw figure it can take care of itself.
him out, is on his idea of "civic nationalism." This is hardly That's a provocation, of course, but there are many peo–
original to either of us, of course. ple writing about Russia, and 1 liked the idea of dealing
The more 1 think about the agony of Yugoslavia, the with all of these smaller Slavic cultures, initially, 1 wanted tive that 1 was constructing to issue this historical "apolo–
anxiety over multiculturalism in Canada and the challenge to write more about Greece because 1 saw all kinds of con– gia," or "mea culpa," or what have you.
of nationalism in Quebec and so on, the more i ' m con– nections between Greek and Ukrainian culture, and wanted
to get into that, but that got dropped. So things Ukrainian are taken up in 1947-1948 in
vinced that the only kind of belonging that will relieve us of connection with Operation Wisla and the later years of
inter-community violence and ethnic violence is a collec– in a more serious vein, there was some criticism from the
the Ukrainian resistance.
tive commitment to certain public institutions that have Polish community in Montreal that the book was hard on
been built across these divisions. Poles, and that 1 had fingered them as ethnic cleansers of Right. A historical survey of Ukrainian–Jewish relations
in other words, the institutions of a civic society, to which Ukrainians. But that wasn't my phrase, that was a reviewer was not going to get into the book.
you can belong by reason and right of acknowledging them, that described the "Polish ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians." But you did deal with Ukrainian Kozaks.
if you agree that the rule of law is important, say. Anybody They also claimed that 1 was disproportionately hostile
to the Polish self-image than 1 was of Czech or Yugoslav І felt that the Khmelnytsky period was removed enough
can subscribe to that, it's an inclusive system of belonging.
self-images. There's probably something in that, 1 admit. to take a look at what happened without inflaming every–
But some of these institutions have been the instru– This was born out of the passion that was aroused when І body's feelings about the war, about Demjanjuk, about war
ment of oppression for certain people, so how are these was confronted with Polish hostility to Ukraine or Polish criminals, and so on.
"civic societies" to rid themselves of totalitarian, or sentimentalization of Ukraine, because of my profound І wrote several versions of that section about the Kozaks,
racist, or class baggage? admiration for what they had done in the Solidarity move– and 1 was finally persuaded by my editor to cut it right back to
Fair enough, but when 1 speak of a civic society in this ment. So 1 felt it as a kind of betrayal when Poles of my gen– its present length — two and a half pages, or whatever. Even
sense, 1 mean a "post-modern" society that has already eration didn't reciprocate my sense of solidarity with them. at six or seven pages, it seriously skewed the tone of the chap–
passed through a period of nationalism. Of course, in the That came up in the case of the Czechs, with the difficul– ter. it became too obvious that 1 was stepping outside of my
case of countries of the former Yugoslavia, let alone those ty in forming associations with the 1968 movement, but the literary voice in order to "give instruction to my readers."
of the USSR, who are we to deny these people the right to latter were less hostile to the West than the Poles were to So 1 went along with this much shortened version of
enjoy their right to self govern? Ukrainians. what happened between Jews and Ukrainians in 1648.
І see us living in very different historical epochs at the A Croatian Slovene acquaintance of mine was deeply Nevertheless, 1 remained nervous about how the Jewish
same time, but 1 think 1 can be critical of certain tendencies offended by it. І treated this quite seriously. He felt that І community would respond to it and... Nothing's happened!
within these emergent countries that make it impossible to paid insufficient attention to his people and focused overly Whether they're reading the book or not is another ques–
arrive at a civic consensus under which all groups live har– on Serbia. This is true, 1 traveled mostly in Serbia. tion, but friends of mine who are Jewish and whom 1 asked
moniously. But my friend claimed that my references to his country specifically to read the passages in question responded to
Of course, F m very proud of independent Ukraine and were very dismissive and subject to various stereotypes say that they had no problems with them, it didn't cause
its insistence on being a state of those who live on its terri– emanating from World War П, that 1 hadn't done my read– their alarm bells to go off. Nevertheless, 1 do feel that there
tory. They resisted the temptation to make it an ethnic state ing and research into them. All of this is true, and 1 suppose is an element of defensiveness in my position.
of Ukrainians and a bunch of ancillary minorities. Fm very І would feel the same thing if someone went to Russia and You do rip through the Kozaks with an eye to
proud of that because 1 think it's the only way. took a day trip into Ukraine and dismissed it with a series
demythologize them somewhat, don't you?
Some social critics in Western Europe have come around of stereotypical observations.
to the notion that a nation need not be seen as a bourgeois My defense of what Fve done is that it isn't a general Well, they're not unlike the characters who show up
construct that served at a certain point of class alignment history or a general travelogue. throughout Balkan history, and everyone's history for that
and is now outdated, but can be seen as a place where an Perhaps you have to retract the claim to it being a matter, as brigands, cut-throats, outlaws and the like, who
individual can live in order to resist the globalization of cul– pan-Slavic commentary then. visit depredation on the surrounding communities.
ture. So the argument goes that we rid ourselves of our What 1 give is actually a translation of Shevchenko, and
national identity at our own peril, because we leave our– Well, it was a very personal journey and 1 went for the stripped of their romantic poetic context, their actions come off
things that 1 found deeply resonant for all kinds of reasons. as not very poetic. Even in the edition 1 was given years ago,
selves naked to this "global Disneyland."
І wasn't all that attracted by Croatian nationalism, it's true. as a kid, the illustrations depict scenes of horrific violence.
My friend f fellow Canadian writer! Brian Fawcett said
Now in the case of Slovenia, since 1 was on a quest to find
we were all thrilled to live in the global village until we Perhaps they're not Slavs, but Jews are also a "great
my own resonance, 1 just didn't find their anxiety to be disas–
found out it was located in the global Disneyland. absence" in your book.
sociated from Slavic confederation and wanting to draw clos–
What reaction have Ukrainians had to "Bloodlines"? er to italy, or Germany, or Austria, sympathetic. Then again, in the whole book?
that doesn't mean that it isn't interesting or praiseworthy as a
Rather little actually. Perhaps it's because, as Fve said, Maybe 1 missed something. Jews are an integral part
Western European orientation, it just didn't strike any chords
it's not about them to the same extent as "All of Baba's of European culture, even Slavic culture. After all, it
for me, and that's reflected in the book.
Children" was. Perhaps it's because it's a more literary take was a big deal for Europe that one wing of a political
І also expected to get more of a response from Jews.
on the issues, less confrontational. system decided to define itself as ethnically German and
This did come, but in only one review, a book review in
At any rate, the reaction that has come through has come then tried to rope everybody else into beating up on a
Now magazine (Toronto-based, roughly comparable to The
in three camps. The first, is: "Wow, Myrna, you've never particular race. Poland, Ukraine and Czecho-Slovakia
village voicej.
written so well, i t ' s very m o v i n g . " Another i s : were three countries Nazi Germany occupied.
On the whole, the reviewer admired the book but said І
"Congratulations, you fallen daughter, you've come back That doesn't mean that any particular group or nation
had a selective historical memory because 1 didn't mention
into the fold. Fd read 'All of Baba's Children,' which made should be identified with the Nazi killing machine, but
that Ukrainians had collaborated in the destruction of the
me absolutely livid, but you've seen the error of your both the physical destruction of a majority of European
Jews with the SS.
ways." Some people have literally come up to me and taken Jewry and its psychic aftermath have left a burning hole
it's true, 1 don't say that. І don't say a lot of things. І
me by the hand, which is kind of puzzling, because 1 sus– in European history and culture. Your book, too.
don't say much about Ukraine in the second world war. І
pect that it might stem from a misreading of the book.
didn't want to get into that because 1 feared it would over- Well, 1 had to think about this when deciding my strate–
Well, you do say complimentary things about the whelm my book. І knew that if 1 embarked on that topic, І
Ukrainian state. Besides, it might also have to do with an would have to step outside and probably distort the narra– (Continued on page 11)
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6. July 19 - August 2 Lviv . U?.hoiod - Drohobych - TcrnopiUPochayiv - Olesko - Kyyiv - Kaniv - Bila Tzerkv;J AIR UKRAINF "realistically speaking, we have 3,500-4,000
7. Augusl 2 - August Kyyiv ' Kaniv ^ Poltava ' Keshetylivka ' Bila Tzcrkva ' Baiuxyn - Feofania AIR UKRAINE UNA members in Ukraine." vysokyi Zamok
ИММІДгіИІИІЯМгі.І:ЦІИ,ЦЦвИ ЩЩШЗЗЯШШШ (Lviv), February 16, 1993.
Kyyiv - SymTcropol - Yalta - Odessa - Kherson - Khortycia - Zaporizzhia - Dpiprope ,k A1R UKRA1NF 15
8. August 21 - Sepi ч See Aleksandr Burakovsky, "Anti-
9. September 6 - Sept 20 Lviv " Frankivsk - Karpaty ^ Olesko - TcmopiUPochayiv ' Kyyiv - Kaniv Fcofania AIR UKRAINF Semitism in Ukraine," Express-analysis,
10. September 20 Осі Л Lviv - Frankivsk - Kolomyya - 1 )rohobych7Nahujevychi - Kyyiv - Kaniv . Feofania AIR UKRAINF April 1993, Eintkait (Kiev?), No. 1, 1993.
1 1. October 4 - Oct 18 Lviv - TcrnopiiyPochayiv - Frankivsk - Kolomyya - Kyyiv - Kaniv AIR UKRAINF 16
See Hrabovsky, 'The UNA-UNSO:'
12. October 18 - Novembe Lviv - Frankivsk - Yaremcha - TernopilX"Pochayiv - Kyyiv - Kaniv - Bila Tzerkva 17
А І R І І K R А І N І
Ukrainian Television, February 14.
13. November 12 - Nov 21 Lviv (14 days) SOLOM1A OPERA FESTivAL Lviv (14 days) AIR UKRAINF 18
UNlAN-Novyny, April 4.
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Thursday, May 12
JENK1NTOWN, Pa.: The Ukrainian Co-op PREVIEW OF EVENTS by mezzo-soprano Helena Waverchuck, with
Maria Dolnycky, piano accompanist, featur–
ing a program of works by Brahms, Barber, v
Nursery School open house will be held at Rachmaninoff, Faure, Stetsenko, Meitus,
lizing various print-making techniques by a ister, call (201) 267-1722.
the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Chyshko, Boyarsky, and Maiboroda will be
group of 11 artists from Lviv will open at the
Center, 700 Cedar Road, 10-11 a.m. Parents SASKATOON: The Ukrainian Museum of
gallery of the Ukrainian Artists Association, held at Ecole de Musique vincent d'lndy,
will be able to register prospective students Canada, 910 Spadina Crescent E., is hosting
136 Second Ave., fourth floor, at 1 p.m. 628 Chemin de la Cote Ste. Catherine, at 8
for the 1994-1995 academic year. Children the launch of two books (in English) by
Mykhailo Barabash, lecture at the 1 van Trush p.m. Tickets: Si5. The recital is sponsored
must be two-and-a-half years old by Danny Evanishen: "The Raspberry Hut and
institute of Applied Arts, Lviv, and a partici– by the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and
September 1, in order to be registered for the Other Ukrainian Folk Tales" and "Уиіко
pating artist, will be present at the opening. Business Association of Montreal. For addi–
weekly curriculum and 3 years old by Yurko, The first Generation," a collection of
Among featured artists are Borys Drobotiuk, tional information, call Symon Kouklewsky,
September 1, in order to register for the hilarious short stories about pioneer life. The
Yosyp Kuzyshyn, Bohdan Musievsky, (514)727-7682.
Saturday curriculum. For further informa– launching will take place with a presentation
Dmytro Paruta, vasyl Semeniuk, ihor
tion, contact Marta Chajkowsky, (215) 886- by Mr. Evanishen at 2 p.m., followed with a Wednesday, May 18
Kopchuka and Nadia Kaplush. The exhibit
3656. reception. Mr. Evanishen was born in
will be opened by Liubart Lishchynsky. The SUDBURY, Ontario: The Ukrainian Seniors'
Saskatoon and attended the University of
Saturday, May 14 exhibit runs through May 22. Gallery hours: Center, 30 Notre Dame, is pleased to announce
Saskatchewan, studying drama and educa–
Tuesday-Friday, 6-8 p.m.; Saturday and the visit of the governor general of Canada,
NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Sunday, noon-6 p.m. tion. He has spent years traveling and work–
Society is holding a lecture by Oleksandr ing at many jobs, including teaching in Ramon John Hnatyshyn, for the official open–
Burakovsky, member, Ukrainian Writers' TOMS R1VER, N.J.: Ukrainian Catholics of Australia and New Zealand, editing and pub– ing of the Hnatyshyn Park, initiated by the
Union and Ukrainian chapter of the PEN– central New Jersey will celebrate the blessing lishing a newspaper and fighting forest fires Ukrainian community in Sudbury to com–
Club, and former chairman, Rukh and dedication of the parish center and chapel in the Yukon, fixing yachts on the Spanish memorate the centennial of the arrival of
Nationalities Council, who will address the at St. Stephen Ukrainian Catholic Church, island of ibiza, repairing volkswagens in Ukrainians to Canada in 1891. Following this
topic "inter-Ethnic Relations in Ukraine, 1344 White Oak Bottom Road. Metropolitan Nigeria, operating a movie theater on Salt event, the governor general will visit the
particularly, Jewish-Ukrainian Relations." Archbishop Stephen Sulyk will bless the cor– Spring island as well as tending bar in Ukrainian Seniors' Center, which is adjacent
The presentation will be held at the society's nerstone prior to the divine liturgy at 10 a.m. Canada, Spain and New Zealand. Mr. to the park, where there will be a small recep–
building, 63 Fourth Ave., at 5 p.m. Following a brief reception at St. Stephen's, Evanishan will be in Saskatoon May 13-17. tion in his honor.
parishioners, guests and clergy of the North Saturday, May 21
NEW YORK: The Ukrainian American Jersey Deanery will attend a banquet celebra– SASKATOON, Sask.: Opening of "Baba's
Professionals and Business Persons tion at 2 p.m. at The Castle in Lakewood. A Garden," recent works by Toronto artist
NEW YORK: The Ukrainian institute of
Association of New York-New Jersey is concert program will feature pianist Martha Kathy Nicholaichuk. A public reception will
America, the Shevchenko Scientific Society
sponsoring a presentation by film director Cybyk. Children from Ukrainian Assumption be held May 15, 3-5 p.m., with the artist pre–
and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and
Oles Yanchuk, ("Famine '33"), to be held at School of Perth Amboy will perform sent. in "Baba's Garden," Ms. Nicholaichuk
Sciences in the U.S. are holding an evening
the building of the Ukrainian Congress Ukrainian dances. For additional information uses cartoon drawing and illustration in a
in commemoration of the late Sviatoslav
Committee of America and The Ukrainian call (908) 341-7711. Dinner reservations personal exploration of family historical
Hordynsky, artist, poet, art historian and
Museum, 203 Second Ave., second floor, at should be made by May 8. events. Ms. Nicholaichuk, an audio-visual
iconographer. Taking part in program are
7 p.m. Mr. Yanchuk will speak on Ukrainian designer at the Ontario Science Center,
Prof. Leonid Rudnytzky and Bohdan Pevny,
history and cinematography. Wine reception MORR1STOWN, N.J.: The Morris County Toronto, has two documentary films to her
who will speak, respectively, of Mr.
will follow. Admission: members, S8; non- Art Association is holding a pastel painting credit. The exhibit runs through June 26.
Hordynsky's literary and artistic legacy.
members, S10; students, 5. workshop by Christine Holowchak-Debarry
Monday, May 16 Participating in the cultural part of the pro-
to be held at the Macculloch Hall Historical gram are Daria Karanowych, piano;
EAST HANOvER, N.J.: The New York
Museum. For further information and to reg– OUTREMONT, Quebec: A recital of songs Yaroslav Hnatiuk, baritone; and Olia
Metropolitan chapter of the Ukrainian
Medical Association of North America Shuhan, recitation. The event will be held at
(UMANA) will hold a dinner reception to the institute, 2 E. 79th Street, at 7 p.m.
PREviEW OF EVENTS, a listing of Ukrainian community events open to
welcome "Physicians from Ukraine," recipi–
ents of the Soros Foundation Grant for post- the public, is a service provided free of charge by The Ukrainian Weekly to EAST NORW1CH, N . Y . : Christine
graduate medical training in the U.S., to be the Ukrainian community. To have an event listed in this column, please send Holowchak-Debarry is scheduled to present a
held at the Ramada Hotel and Conference information (type of event, date, time, place, admission, sponsor, etc.) - typed pastel painting workshop for the Pastel Society
Center, Route 10 Westbound, at 7 p.m. and in the English language — along with the phone number of a person who of America at the Chelsea Center, Nassau
Donation: S25, (includes buffet dinner). County Office of Cultural Development,
may be reached during daytime hours for additional information, to: Preview Northern Boulevard, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Ms.
Sunday, May 15 of Events, The Ukrainian Weekly, 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. Debarry's pastels will be part of an ongoing
NEW YORK: An exhibit of graphic art uti– 07302. exhibit at the center on May 2-27. To register
for the workshop, call (201) 564-9373.
BOSTON: Ukrainian American
veterans Post 31 is holding a Spring
dance to be held at St. Andrew's
Ukrainian Orthodox Church Hall, 24
Orchard Hill Road, Jamaica Plain, 7:30
SELF REL1ANCE (NEWARK, NJ) p.m., in celebration of the blessing of the
FEDERAL CRED1T UNlON post's new flag. Admission (includes
734 SANDFORD AvENUE, NEWARK, NJ 07106 buffet): Si5, singles, S25, couples. Music
will be by Hryc and Stepan. For more
Tel (201) 373-7839 Fax (201) 373-8812 information, call Walter Michajliw,
(617) 323-6253.