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UKRAINIAN WORLD CONGRESS №
5
(45) – May, 2007
UWC
AUTUMN EXECUTIVE MEETING RESCHEDULED
In connection with the upcoming Ukrainian Canadian Congress convention scheduled for October 20, 2007, the Autumn UWC Executive meeting is being rescheduled for October 27, 2007, 9:30 AM in Toronto. Originally, the meeting was to convene in New York City. The change of venue is due to financial considerations.
The 60th anniversary commemorative program began in the morning on
Friday, April 27, 2007 in Warsaw with a joint prayer service in the
Presidential Palace hosted by Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski and
Ukraine’s President Victor Yushchenko and a joint statement. That same
day in the evening, the Union of Ukrainians in Poland commenced the
Ukrainian community’s program in Przemysl with a books and publications
exhibit at the South Eastern Scientific Institute and the showing of
three short documentary films at the Ukrainian National Home. The next
day was devoted to a scholarly historical conference entitled, Akcja
“Wisla” in the context of wartime and post war deportations,” with the
participation of Ukrainian and Polish scholars and intellectuals and
the presentation of a collection of documents on the history of the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Poland. Sunday’s program consisted
of a Patriarchal Divine Liturgy at the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
and services in the Ukrainian Orthodox church, a two-mile procession to
the Ukrainian military cemetery in Pikulice and a Panakhyda at the
cemetery, a press conference, a Requiem concert and a film
presentation. In addition to the Polish-Ukrainian community throughout
Poland, national and local Polish officials, Polish and Ukrainian mass
media, His Beatitude Patriarch Lubomyr Husar, a sizable contingent of
governmental and community representatives from Lviv oblast, UWC
President Askold S. Lozynskyj participated in the program accompanied
by Ukrainian World Coordinating Council Chair and Deputy Chair Dmytro
Pavlychko and Mykhajlo Ratushny and European Congress of Ukrainians
Chair Jaroszlava Hartyanyi.
On April 26, 2007, the Kyiv City Council voted to rename Urycky Street
in the center of Kyiv, Mytropolyt Vasyl Lypkivsky Street. The Ukrainian
World Congress was most instrumental in this effort with direct
communications and personal meetings at Kyiv’s City Hall. The matter
was initiated by the Ukrainian Orthodox Brotherhood from Northport,
Florida in January 2003 but received a negative response from Deputy
Mayor M. Poshyvanov. In April 2004 the Brotherhood repeated its request
in a letter to Mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko and again in August 2005. In
February 2006, a member of the Kyiv Commission on street naming and
site designation, Serhij Bilokin informed the Brotherhood that the
Commission had decided unanimously on January 25, 2006 to recommend the
renaming. Unfortunately, recommendations by city commissions are
non-binding on the Kyiv City Administration or the Kyiv City Council.
No further action was taken until the Brotherhood asked the UWC to take
on this project and the UWC sent its first letter in December 2006 to
current Mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovecky. The letter was followed up
with personal communications and meetings in Kyiv with various deputy
mayors, committee chairs and fraction leaders. Finally all the
fractions in the Kyiv City Council in whole or part except the
Socialists agreed to support the proposal and it was placed on the Kyiv
City Council agenda for April 26, 2007. Mytropolyt Vasyl Lypkivskyj,
one of the founders and the Primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous
Orthodox Church lived on the subject street in Kyiv and served as
pastor of the Solomenska parish nearby beginning in 1905. On May 9,
1919 he celebrated the first Ukrainian-language Mass in the
Mykhaylivsky Sobor in Kyiv for which he was defrocked by the Russian
Church. In 1921 he was elected Mytropolyt of the Ukrainian
Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Persecuted by the Soviets, he was
arrested in 1938 and executed. Moisei Urycky was a Ukrainian born
secret police activist in Petrograd during the revolution.
In the course of proceedings involving renaming, UWC President Askold
S. Lozynskyj met with among others, Deputy Mayor Wolodymyr Holovach who
proposed that the UWC compile a list of streets in Kyiv for renaming in
future Kyiv City Council action. The UWC intends to pursue this
proposal.
The UWC will hold its 40TH anniversary celebratory program in New York
City at the Ukrainian National Home on Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 5
PM. The date and venue will coincide with the First World Congress of
Free Ukrainians (WCFU), which convened in New York City November 12-19,
1967. Renowned Soviet and Ukrainian poet and political activist Dmytro
Pavlycko will speak on how the WCFU was viewed in the USSR by the
Soviet regime and the dissident movement. Additional remarks will be
made by several delegates to that first congress and a film on the
history of the WCFU/UWC will be shown.
Our central national organization in Serbia informs us that the Fourth
Festival of Ukrainian Culture will take place in Novyj Sad, Serbia from
June 25 to July 1, 2007. The festival’s participants include Ukrainian
ensembles from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Hungary. The festival will
highlight the renowned Ukrainian choir named after Hryhorij Verjovka
from Kyiv. For additional information please contact Myroslav Hochak of
the National Ukrainian Council at: unr@neobee.net.
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