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"UKRAINE REPORT 2003"
"The Art of Ukrainian History, Culture, Arts, Business, Religion,
Sports, Government, and Politics, in Ukraine and Around the World"

"UKRAINE REPORT 2003," Number 107
U.S.-UKRAINE FOUNDATION (USUF)
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS)
Washington, D.C., Kyiv, Ukraine, morganw@patriot.net
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2003

INDEX OF ARTICLES:

1. UKRAINE REMEMBERS THE MILLIONS WHO DIED
IN THE GENOCIDAL FAMINE OF 1932-1933
Thousands of Candles Light up St. Michael's Cathedral Square in the Evening
E. Morgan Williams, Senior Advisor, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation
Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, November 22, 2003

2. UKRAINE MARKS SOVIET-ERA FAMINE THAT KILLED
MILLIONS AMID INCREASED AWARENESS OF THE DEATHS
San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California
By Anna Melnichuk, Associated Press Writer
Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, November 22, 2003

3. UKRAINE MARKS GREAT FAMINE ANNIVERSARY
By Yaroslav Lukov, BBC News Online
Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, November 22, 2003

4. MARKA UKRAINY ISSUES NEW HOLODOMOR STAMP
E. Morgan Williams, Senior Advisor, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation
Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, November 21, 2003

5. PULITZER PRIZE BOARD DECIDES NOT TO REVOKE
WALTER DURANTY'S 1932 PULITZER PRIZE
Pulitzer Prize Board [complete statement]
Statement on Walter Duranty's 1932 Prize
New York, New York, Friday, Nov. 21, 2003

6. PULITZER PRIZE COMMITTEE SHELTERS "THE GREATEST LIAR"
Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA)
Toronto/Calgary/Vancouver, Canada, November 21, 2003

7. UKRAINIAN STATE LEADERSHIP PLACED FLOWERS AT
MEMORIAL MONUMENT TO VICTIMS OF HOLODOMOR IN KYIV
UNIAN, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 22, 2003

8. NEARLY TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE PARTICIPATED IN
"LIGHT A CANDLE" ACTION, INITIATED BY "OUR UKRAINE"
IN KYIV IN MEMORY OF HOLODOMOR VICTIMS
UNIAN, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 22, 2003

9. PRESIDENT KUCHMA URGES UKRAINIANS TO COMMEMORATE
THOSE WHO IN 1930'S WERE DEPRIVED OF RIGHT TO LIVE BY
FAMINE, COLLECTIVIZATION, STALIN TORTURE CHAMBERS,
OR EXECUTIONS
Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 22, 2003

10. BOOKS ON UKRAINIAN CULTURAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE
BY RODOVID PRESS
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS)
Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, November 22, 2003
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 107: ARTICLE NUMBER ONE
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1. UKRAINE REMEMBERS THE MILLIONS WHO DIED
IN THE GENOCIDAL FAMINE OF 1932-1933
Thousands of Candles Light up St. Michael's Cathedral Square in the Evening

E. Morgan Williams, Senior Advisor
U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF)
Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, November 22, 2003

KYIV, Ukraine....Thousands of candles in small red, green, blue and
white lanterns lit up the entire great square in front of St. Michael's
Cathedral in the center of Kyiv on Saturday evening to honor the memory
of the millions of Ukrainians who were murdered in the genocidal famine,
of 1932-1933 called holodomor meaning death by terror, starvation,
and famine.

The candles were placed in St. Michael's Square starting at the
small Holodomor Monument located next to the wall of the Cathedral
and then spreading out all across the square. The candles were placed
in the square by individual citizens, most of whom came to honor
relatives who lost their lives in the genocidal famine, holodomor, created
by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his communist government.

As darkness settled upon Kyiv and with Ukrainian sacred music playing
in the background the square suddenly became a very special place where
people could come and reflect, pay tribute and shed tears in remembrance
of their many loved ones that were lost in one of the most tragic events in
human history.

The sight at St. Michael's Square was most amazing and spectacular to
witness but the mood was somber, reflective, quite and very emotional for
the thousands of Ukrainians who came and placed a candle on the Square
Saturday evening.

Former Prime Minister Victor Yushchenko, his wife Katya and two
children, and many of their friends were seen placing candles on the Square
in memory of family members lost in the famine.

The placing of thousands of candles on St. Michael's Square in memory
of the holodomor victims was an historic first but it was reported that
this will become an annual event that will be expanded until 25,000 candles
light the entire distance from St. Michael's Cathedral to St. Sophia
Cathedral. At the height of the famine in the spring of 1933 historians
believe 25,000 thousand Ukrainians died every day.

Earlier in the day, member of parliament and leader of the Nasha Ukraina
(Our Ukraine) party, Viktor Yushchenko and his wife led a procession
of 2,000 Ukrainians from St. Sophia Cathedral to St. Michael's Cathedral
Square where a special commemorative service was held with Ukraine's
religious and governmental leaders. People came from all 25 of Ukraine's
regions to participate in the holodomor procession.

At the morning commemorative service Yushchenko spoke about his
grandfather and the others who lived in the village where he grew up
that died in the genocidal famine of 1932-1933. Political leader Yushchenko
said it is very important not to lose the memory of the many terrible
mistakes of the past that cost the lives of so many Ukrainians and caused
such destruction to the Ukrainian culture and nation.

Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine Andrew Robinson spoke on behalf
of the tens of thousands of Canadian citizens who have Ukrainian heritage
about the millions who died in the holodomor tragedy and the tragic
effect the holodomor had upon the Ukrainian nation.

Ukraine's religious leaders spoke of the evil of the holodomor and the
destruction of so many lives during the tragic time. Thousands of
religious leaders were murdered during the 1930's and 7,000 churches
across Soviet Ukraine were completely destroyed during this time.

On Friday evening Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine Andrew Robinson,
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst, Ukrainian political leader Viktor
Yushchenko, his wife Katya and two children also with several hundred
other guests from Ukraine's political, religious and cultural community
attended the opening of the "Ukrainian Genocidal Famine (Holodomor)
1932-1933 70th Anniversary Commemoration Art Exhibition "To the
Dead, and the Living and the Unborn," at the Ukrainian House (former
Lenin museum) located on Kyiv's main street Khreschatyk.

The Holodomor Art Exhibition features over 100 works of art related
to the political famines in Ukraine in 1921-1923 and in 1932-1933 which
were created by various artists from 1921 through 2003. This was
the largest exhibition of it kind ever held featuring such a wide range
of historical holodomor art pieces. The exhibition will be open every
day through Saturday, November 29th.

A complete color catalog of the exhibition will be published in 2004 and
special traveling holodomor exhibitions will be created for distribution
in Ukraine and around the world. The holodomor art exhibition work is
sponsored by The Public Committee for Commemoration of Victims of
Holodomor in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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2. UKRAINE MARKS SOVIET-ERA FAMINE THAT KILLED
MILLIONS AMID INCREASED AWARENESS OF THE DEATHS

San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California
By Anna Melnichuk, Associated Press Writer
Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, November 22, 2003

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Increased international recognition of a forced famine
that killed up to 10 million Ukrainians brought bittersweet relief Saturday
to elderly survivors marking the 70th anniversary of a dark chapter in the
history of Soviet communism.

Gathering at a cathedral in the now independent Ukraine, survivors recalled
their desperation during a famine historians say was provoked by Soviet
dictator Josef Stalin as part of his campaign to force peasants to give up
their land and join collective farms.

"This year is of particular significance for Ukraine, because the world has
recognized the crime against the Ukrainian people," said E. Morgan Williams,
senior adviser of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation.

Two weeks ago, some 30 countries signed a joint statement to commemorate the
memory of the millions of men, women and children who suffered because of
the "cruel actions and policies of the totalitarian regime in the former
Soviet Union." The U.N. statement became the first, significant
international recognition of the famine, which was denied by the Soviets for
decades.

Marking the day set by the government as an annual memorial for the famine,
some 2,000 people gathered at the golden-domed St. Michael Cathedral in
the capital Kiev to light candles at a memorial dedicated to the victims,
estimated at between 7 and 10 million.

Dozens of elderly survivors, many leaning on crutches, were helped by
younger relatives as they shuffled under flags with black ribbons and the
cathedral's bells chimed in mourning.

"My grandfather cut and dried loafs of bread and hid them in sacks to his
dying day many years after the famine," said Lidia Kolysnichenko, 67, from
the village of Irpin near Kiev.

Historians say that Stalin deliberately provoked the famine by having
harvests taken out of Ukraine and having secret police confiscate whatever
scarce grain reserves farmers tried to hide.

Even according to the most conservative figures, some 25,000 people died
every day in Ukraine, or 17 people every minute, in 1933. Cases of
cannibalism were widespread.

"Our neighbor killed his wife, dismembered her body and was seen to make
soup of her," said 82-year old Volodymyr Pianov, his hand trembling. "It was
not the only case when people ate each other in our village."

His village of Kriuchki in the eastern Kharkiv region, one of area's most
devastated by the famine, died out almost entirely.

Earlier this year, Ukraine declassified more than 1,000 files documenting
the famine, and Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma signed a law establishing
a day of remembrance for famine victims.

In a related development, the Pulitzer Prize Board said Friday it would not
revoke a prize awarded in 1932 to a reporter for The New York Times who
was accused of deliberately ignoring the famine in Ukraine to preserve his
access to Stalin.

The Pulitzer board said there was not clear evidence of deliberate
deception.

Walter Duranty covered the Soviet Union for the Times from 1922 to 1941,
earning acclaim for an exclusive 1929 interview with Stalin. Duranty was
later criticized for reporting the Communist line rather than the facts.

The board's decision was immediately criticized by Ukrainian groups, who
sent more than 15,000 letters and postcards to the Pulitzer committee
demanding the prize be withdrawn.

"We certainly will continue to press for revocation," said Victoria Hubska
of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America." "Duranty misled
international community. The lie should be punished." (END)(ARTUIS)
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3. UKRAINE MARKS GREAT FAMINE ANNIVERSARY

By Yaroslav Lukov, BBC News Online
Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, November 22, 2003

Ukrainians around the world are marking the 70th anniversary of the great
famine, which they describe as the genocide against the nation.

Historians estimate that some seven million people died during the 1932-33
famine, which Ukrainians say was deliberately started by the then Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin.

Under his policy of forced collectivisation of agriculture, farmers in
Ukraine - known as the "bread basket" of the USSR - were stripped of all
their produce, leaving millions of people with virtually no food to survive.

Yet one of the darkest chapter in Ukraine's recent history, remains largely
unknown to the world, and the commemorations have already been
overshadowed by controversy.

On Friday, the Pulitzer Prize board said it would not revoke its 1932 prize
awarded to a New York Times reporter accused of ignoring what Ukrainians
call the man-made famine.

And earlier this month, a United Nations' declaration - while recognising
the famine as Ukraine's national tragedy - did not include the word
"genocide" - to the great dismay of Ukraine which lobbied hard for the
inclusion of the term.

Brutal reality

The week-long commemorations of what Ukrainians call Holodomor -
meaning murder by hunger - began with a series of sombre exhibitions around
the world.

A quarter of Ukraine's population was wiped out in just two years

In Ukraine's capital, Kiev, some 2,000 people - among them dozens of the
famine survivors - gathered in St Michael's Cathedral to light candles at a
memorial to the victims.

In London, the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain presented grim
exhibits from the 1930s.

The horrors of the two years which wiped out about a quarter of the
population of Ukraine and one third of its children are revealed by rare
photographs which had been smuggled out of the former Soviet Union.

The pictures of emaciated corpses are reminiscent of scenes from Nazi
concentration camps.

On display in London also are newspapers, documents and Soviet posters,
portraying a happy - "fatherly" - face of the dictator Stalin.

Earlier this month, another exhibition opened at the UN headquarters in New
York, with Ukraine's UN Ambassador Valeriy Kuchinsky urging the
international community to "avoid similar catastrophes in the future".

UN Under Secretary General for Communications and Publication Shashi
Tharoor said the 1932-33 famine "ranks with the worst atrocities of our
time".

Cannibalism

The whole extent of horrors during Holodomor was kept under closed lid in
the former Soviet Union.

Farmers' produce was forcefully collected by the state

The truth began to emerge slowly only after Ukraine gained its independence
in 1991, and it was only earlier this year when more than 1,000 documents
relating to the famine were declassified.

According to some figures, about 25,000 people died every day in Ukraine in

1933, and there were widespread cases of cannibalism.

"Our neighbour killed his wife, dismembered her body and was seen to make
soup of her," 82-year-old Volodymyr Pianov was quoted as saying by the
Associated Press news agency.

I myself remember to this day my shock and horror - even total disbelief -
when my grandmother told me how children and babies had been eaten alive
during the famine when everyone was just desperate to find any food.

Sometimes children would just disappear without any trace, but many
villagers knew what really was happening, my late grandmother said.

She only began speaking to me about those terrible times in the late 1980s,
telling me that she had been lucky to survive the famine in central Ukraine.

Controversial prize

But even now, little is still known about the famine outside Ukraine, and
the commemorations have already been marked by some controversy.

Stalin forced farmers to give up their land and join collective farms

The decision by the Pulitzer committee not to revoke its 1932 Prize to the
late Walter Duranty - the New York Times correspondent in Moscow at the
time - was met with outrage by Ukrainian groups.

Duranty has been accused of distorting the truth about the USSR and covering
up news about the famine in Ukraine in order to preserve his access to
Stalin.

"The Pulitzer Prize committee must review their standards of journalistic
integrity," President of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Michael
Sawkiw said.

A number of Ukrainian organisations sent the committee more than 15,000
letters demanding that the prize be revoked and Mr Sawkiw said his group
would continue to press for action.

While acknowledging that Duranty's award-winning work in 1931 - before the
famine - "falls seriously short" if "measured by today's standards", the
Pulitzer committee defended its decision not to revoke the prize.

"The board determined that there was not clear and convincing evidence of
deliberate deception," the committee said in a statement.

"Revoking a prize 71 years after it was awarded under different
circumstances, when all principals are dead and unable to respond, would be
a momentous step," the statement added. (END)(ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 107: ARTICLE NUMBER FOUR
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4. MARKA UKRAINY ISSUES NEW HOLODOMOR STAMP

E. Morgan Williams, Senior Advisor
U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF)
Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, November 21, 2003

Kyiv, Ukraine........Marka Ukrainy, the stamp publishing company
of the Ukraine postal service, Ukrposhta, issued a new holodomor
stamp on Friday, November 21, in memory of 70th anniversary of
the millions of victims of the death and terror by famine in Ukraine
in 1932-1933.

The official day of commemoration of the genocidal famine and
political repressions in Ukraine is the fourth Saturday of November
which this year falls on November 22nd.

The new stamp features an old style white stone cross with the facial
image of a starving child in the center of the cross. To the left of
the cross are the dates 1932-1933 in red letters with a few heads of
wheat.

On the right of the cross is the word Ukraina in white letters. At the
bottom of the cross in black letters is the word "holodomor" which
in Ukrainian means to kill by hunger, or torture with hunger and terror.

The first holodomor stamp was issued by Ukrposhta in 1993, the
60th anniversary of the genocidal famine in Ukraine. That stamp
featured a image of the holodomor monument erected in 1993 on
the square of St. Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv. 1993 was the first year
there was any large scale, highly visible recognition of the 1932-1933
genocidal famine in Ukraine.

Such information was not allowed publicly or officially in Soviet
Ukraine until the late 1980's. The first large commemoration activities
took place in 1993 after Ukraine declared its independence in August
of 1991 and the Soviet Union collapsed.

The holodomor stamp issued today was the second version of the
2003 stamp. The first version featured a family of five famine victims.
After information became available that the photograph on the stamp
was of a Russian family taken during the Soviet famine in 1921 Marka
Ukrainy decided to redesign the holodomor stamp.

Information about ordering the new holodomor stamp can be found
on the Marka Ukrainy website at: http://www.stamp.kiev.ua. (END)
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 107: ARTICLE NUMBER FIVE
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5. PULITZER PRIZE BOARD DECIDES NOT TO REVOKE
WALTER DURANTY'S 1932 PULITZER PRIZE

PULITZER PRIZE BOARD [complete statement]
Statement on Walter Duranty's 1932 Prize
New York, New York, Friday, Nov. 21, 2003

After more than six months of study and deliberation, the Pulitzer Prize
Board has decided it will not revoke the foreign reporting prize
awarded in 1932 to Walter Duranty of The New York Times.

In recent months, much attention has been paid to Mr. Duranty's
dispatches regarding the famine in the Soviet Union in 1932-1933,
which have been criticized as gravely defective. However, a Pulitzer
Prize for reporting is awarded not for the author's body of work or
for the author's character but for the specific pieces entered in the
competition.

Therefore, the Board focused its attention on the 13 articles that
actually won the prize, articles written and published during 1931. [A
complete list of the articles, with dates and headlines, is attached.]

In its review of the 13 articles, the Board determined that Mr.
Duranty's 1931 work, measured by today's standards for foreign reporting,
falls seriously short. In that regard, the Board's view is similar to that
of The New York Times itself and of some scholars who have examined his
1931 reports. However, the Board concluded that there was not clear and
convincing evidence of deliberate deception, the relevant standard in
this case. Revoking a prize 71 years after it was awarded under different
circumstances, when all principals are dead and unable to respond, would
be a momentous step and therefore would have to rise to that threshold.

The famine of 1932-1933 was horrific and has not received the
international attention it deserves. By its decision, the Board in no way
wishes to diminish the gravity of that loss. The Board extends its sympathy
to Ukrainians and others in the United States and throughout the
world who still mourn the suffering and deaths brought on by Josef
Stalin.

Sig Gissler, administrator
Pulitzer Prizes
Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Phone: 212-854-7327; Fax: 212-854-3342
sig138@columbia.edu; www.columbia.edu/~sg138
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WALTER DURANTY'S 13 ARTICLES IN 1931 SUBMITTED FOR
1932 PULITZER PRIZE

Eleven-part series in The New York Times
Duranty 1: 6/14/1931
"Red Russia of Today Ruled by Stalinism, Not Communism"

Duranty 2: 6/16/1931
"Socialism First Aim in Soviet's Program; Trade Gains Second"

Duranty 3: 6/18/1931
"Stalinism Shelves World Revolt Idea; To Win Russia First"

Duranty 4: 6/19/1931
"Industrial Success Emboldens Soviet in New World Policy"

Duranty 5: 6/20/1931
"Trade Equilibrium is New Soviet Goal"

Duranty 6: 6/22/1931
"Soviet Fixes Opinion by Widest Control"

Duranty 7: 6/23/1931
"Soviet Censorship Hurts Russia Most"

Duranty 8: 6/24/1931
"Stalinism Smashes Foes in Marx's Name"

Duranty 9: 6/25/1931
"Red Army is Held No Menace to Peace"

Duranty 10: 6/26/1931
"Stalinism Solving Minorities Problem"

Duranty 11: 6/27/1931
"Stalinism's Mark is Party Discipline"

Two articles in The New York Times magazine

Duranty 12: 3/29/1931
"The Russian Looks at the World"

Duranty 13: 12/20/1931
"Stalin's Russia Is An Echo of Iron Ivan's"
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The www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS) thanks Tamara
Gallo of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) office in
New York for forwarding us the complete Pulitzer Prize Board statement.
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 107: ARTICLE NUMBER SIX
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6. PULITZER PRIZE COMMITTEE SHELTERS "THE GREATEST LIAR"

Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA)
Toronto/Calgary/Vancouver, Canada, November 21, 2003

Responding to the announcement made today by the Pulitzer Prize
Committee, which decided not to revoke the award won by Walter Duranty of
The New York Times for what is now widely recognized as his mendacious
reporting about events in the Soviet Union during the early 1930s, Dr
Lubomyr Luciuk, of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said:

" Walter Duranty knowingly covered up the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in
Soviet Ukraine. Many millions were murdered during this politically
engineered famine, arguably one of the greatest acts of genocide in 20th
century Europe. It is a documented fact that Duranty was Stalin's apologist,
a shill for the Soviets before, during and after 1932-1933.

For the Pulitzer Prize Committee to render this tartuffish decision and
announce it on the eve of the fourth Saturday in November, a day officially
set aside in Ukraine for national mourning, is base. All who hold a Pulitzer
Prize should think about whether what was once the most prestigious
distinction in journalism still is. Duranty's Prize soils all Pulitzer
Prizes.

We have done what we could to hallow the memory of the many millions
whom Stalin and his minions starved. We have tried to expose the greatest of
the famine deniers, whom a contemporary, the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge,
described as "the greatest liar of any journalist I have ever met." Our
objectives were achieved, internationally.

We also prayed the Pulitzer Prize Committee would do the decent thing
and revoke Duranty's ill-got award on the 70th anniversary of the
Terror-Famine. They were granted a unique chance to champion truth. Instead
they have rallied around a liar and by so doing have further slighted the
sufferings of millions of innocents. They will be remembered by history for
what they have done today. As for Duranty, he will no doubt be pleased to be
in their company."

The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association initiated the
international campaign to have Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize revoked or
returned. UCCLA still expects that The New York Times will return Duranty's
Pulitzer. (END) (ARTUIS)
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For More Information please go to the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties
Association, www.uccla.ca or contact UCCLA's director of research, Dr
Lubomyr Luciuk, at (613) 546-8364
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 107: ARTICLE NUMBER SEVEN
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7. UKRAINIAN STATE LEADERSHIP PLACED FLOWERS AT
MEMORIAL MONUMENT TO VICTIMS OF HOLODOMOR IN KYIV

UNIAN, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 22, 2003

Kyiv. November 22. UNIAN. Ukrainian Supreme Rada chairman Volodymyr
Lytvyn and Prime-Minister of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych have participated
in a ceremony of flower laying to the Memorial of holodomor Victims at the
Mykhaylivska Square in Kyiv. In addition, they laid flowers to the memorial
on behalf of President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma (who is in hospital after
surgery now).

According to an UNIAN correspondent, Kyiv Mayor Oleksander Omelchenko,
MPs, members of the Cabinet of Ministers, public figures have also
participated in the ceremony in memory of the victims of the Ukrainian
holodomor (famine) during 1932-1933. (END)(ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 107: ARTICLE NUMBER EIGHT
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8. NEARLY TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE PARTICIPATED IN
"LIGHT A CANDLE" ACTION, INITIATED BY "OUR UKRAINE"
IN KYIV IN MEMORY OF HOLODOMOR VICTIMS

UNIAN, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 22, 2003

Kyiv. November 22. UNIAN. "Light a Candle" action, initiated by "Our
Ukraine" block, has taken place at the Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv near the
Memorial to Holodomor Victims. Nearly 2 thousand people participated in the
action.

According to an UNIAN correspondent, the action has taken place on the
fourth Saturday of November, appointed by a President's resolution the Day
of Memory of the victims of Ukrainian famines.

Representatives of all regions of Ukraine, among who were the witnesses of
the Holodomor, and also representatives of the diplomatic corps, registered
in Ukraine, participated in the action.

Parliamentarians Victor Yushchenko, Ivan Plyushch, Yuri Kostenko, Victor
Pinzenyk, Borys Tarasyuk, Volodymyr Stretovych, Ivan Zayets, Lilia
Hryhorovych, Yuri Klochkovsky, and others have been present at the ceremony
in memory of Holodomor victims. (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT 2003, No. 107: ARTICLE NUMBER NINE
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9. PRESIDENT KUCHMA URGES UKRAINIANS TO COMMEMORATE
THOSE WHO IN 1930'S WERE DEPRIVED OF RIGHT TO LIVE BY
FAMINE, COLLECTIVIZATION, STALIN TORTURE CHAMBERS,
OR EXECUTIONS

Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, November 22, 2003

Kyiv, November 22 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma
urged Ukrainians to commemorate those who in 1930s "were deprived of the
right to live by the famine, collectivization, Stalin torture chambers,
executions."

"Let the free, independent and powerful state of Ukraine that we, their
descendents, have re-built be a monument to them," says his address to the
mourning night event on occasion of the 70th anniversary of the famine of
1932-1933 in Ukraine and to the citizens, the presidential press service
reported.

"In the period between the world wars Ukraine suffered another war aimed
against the peaceful Ukrainian village," he says and proceeds "Owners of the
world's richest black soils were doomed to die of starvation. The sentence
was passed only because they loved the land of their ancestors" and came to
this world "to grow their daily bread on this land."

"Heavy starvation was the apogee of mass repressions in Ukraine, it had all
the signs of natural catastrophe. Its demographic, social and economic,
historic and cultural, psychological consequences are still felt by out
people. We asserts - and the world is with us - this was a catastrophe of
planetary scale," his address reads.

Kuchma noted "the truth on these events became the common knowledge of
international publicity only in the years of Ukraine's independence. In
fact, the famine has been recognized today as a tragedy of humankind. The
true words were said from a high rostrum of the UN. Nearly 30 countries of
the world have passed a joint statement, thus expressing solidarity with out
nation and understanding of the reasons and consequences of this
catastrophe."

In the face of millions of victims, he stressed, "we have to continue
informing the international publicity of the bitter truth about this
unexampled in the world history famine so that the United Nations can give
an appropriate appraisal of the tragedy, intentions and villainy of those
who planned and organized it." (END)(ARTUIS)
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10. BOOKS ON UKRAINIAN CULTURAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE
BY RODOVID PRESS

www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS)
Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, November 22, 2003

KYIV.........RODOVID PRESS specializes in publications on the cultural
history and heritage of Ukraine. Included are albums, monographs,
calendars, and a special Art Series. Most of their outstanding recent
publications are in at least two languages: separate editions of Ukrainian
and English or French.

Rodovid's latest book is "Painted Wood, Naive Art from the Ukrainian
Village" by Lidia Orel, Ethnographer, Kyiv, Ukraine. This book is a
worthy continuation of the series of art albums, catalogues and scholarly
works on Ukrainian cultural history that Rodovid Press has brought out
over the past few years. This album is illustrated with lavish floral and
geometrical paintings created by untrained peasant artists for village
homes.
They paint on chests, icons, window shutters, and wooden tableware.

Decorative painting on wood is a unique feature in the history of naive
peasant art. This tradition has been documented in descriptions and in
artifacts collected in villages. Painted framed houses, hope chests,
cradles, bowls, etc., were used as everyday objects of material culture
well into the beginning of the 20th century. Icons and paintings on wood
continued to be made for a longer period of time.

Rodovid works cooperatively with authors and partners in specific projects
and are always interested in acquiring new texts. Please contact them to
discuss ideas concerning your publishing project.

For a list of ROVODID's most recent publications on Ukrainian art, please go
to the webpage www.rodovid.net/ukrainian_art_books.html.

Most of these publications are an excellent gift for Christmas. RODOVID
offers a special 10% Christmas season discount on orders over $150.

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