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the topics on the agenda is the membership issue. Another topic is what the organization can do to support current members. The purpose of the National Board is to help the organization become better. The only way we can accomplish this work is to hear from members about what is going right and what isn't. Many of you have questions or suggestions or even complaints that need to be addressed. We want you to know that all of your ideas and concerns about the UNWLA are important, and we invite you to write them down and send them to us before the meeting. Your comments, positive or negative, will be read and discussed. You are im portant and so are your opinions, but if you do not share them with us, we cannot give them the attention they deserve. The Ukrainian National Women’s League of America is affiliated with many national and interna tional organizations. Among these are the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council, the World Forum of Ukrainians (a decision-making body founded by the World Congress of Ukrainians), the European Congress, the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations, and many other important organizations from around the world, including Ukraine. In this issue I would like to share with you some information about the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council (UWCC) and its work. As a member of the UWCC, I am regularly apprised by email about the or ganization's activities and programs and share this information with our organization's Executive Board. Of ten, I find that some of this news is worth sharing with our members and other readers of Our Life. A recent email I received merits such attention. The UWCC is currently making plans for the IV World Forum of Ukrainians to be held in August, 2005. The email also included information about the tragic death of Anatolij Kril, director of the Ukrainian chorus “Horlycia.” On April 1, 2004, Mr. Kril was brutally murdered in Vladyvostok, Russia. He died in the hospital, the circumstances of death virtually ignored by the Russian authorities until they were pressured by the president of the UWCC, M. Horen, who vehemently complained to Ukraine’s ambassador to Russia about this shameful event. This situation is now under investigation. Other news in the email was more encouraging. On April 6, 2004, the Ukrainian community in Ro mania unveiled a monument of Hetman Ivan Mazepa. In honor of the occasion, an international conference was held. Initiated by the Ukrainian Embassy in Romania, it was entitled “Ivan Mazepa in European History.” Annual ethnic festivals that have become a tradition in Eastern Europe and Ukrainian participants have made their presence known at these events. At a festival held in Novy Sad, Serbia, on June 19, 2004, 50 musical ensembles representing 13 ethnic groups performed. Among them were two Ukrainian groups. One was “Kolomyjka” from Sremska Mitrovycia and the other from a cultural group from the city of Kuly. This year the Ukrainian food booth was moved to a side street, away from the hub of the festival activities. When the Ukrainian group asked why they had been moved, it was explained that during the previous years that Ukrainians had their food booth in a central location, other ethnic food booths could not sell any food. Fortu nately, even though the booth was moved to a side street, business was brisk and the Ukrainian food sold well. On July 11, the first Ukrainian Festival was held in the Republic of Serbia and Chomohora. Music was provided by “Kalyna” and traditional Ukrainian food was featured at the event. The organizers felt that the best result of the Festival was that the Ukrainians did everything themselves. The Ukrainian World Coordinating Council also announced its plans for a program celebrating Ukrainian Independence Day on August 24. The program, entitled "Dobra Dola," was initiated to promote journalistic solidarity and to raise awareness about the publishing industry in Ukraine. Currently, there are 19,351 periodicals published in Ukraine; of these, only 3,864 are published in the Ukrainian language. Another UWCC initiative involves working to protect the millions of Ukrainians living in Russia and other former Soviet countries. According to the latest official data, there are 3 million Ukrainians living in Russia; unofficially, this number is as high as 10 million. The Russian Federation has not one Ukrainian school; only one school offers Ukrainian language as a part of its curriculum. Yet Russia demands that Ukraine should have a Russian school in every city, town, and village, and Ukraine complies. The inequity on this issue is beyond comprehension. As president of the UNWLA, as a Ukrainian American, and as a citizen of a country that works very hard to protect and support its ethnic minorities, I am appalled. Russia is a signatory of the United Nations Convention on Minorities, and it is time that it lived up to the obligations of this document. The UNWLA applauds the UWCC's important initiative on behalf of Ukrainian minorities. God speed your endeavors. 14 “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ВЕРЕСЕНЬ 2004 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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