LETTER TO THE EDITOR (05/27/01)

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Weekly essential to our survival

Dear Editor:

Recently had the pleasure of receiving your April 15 issue. From the front page to the back (yes, the "Events" mentioned were cool, too), a superlative display of journalism.

RomanWoronowycz's coverage of the PACE decision/adoption of the Criminal Code/Kyiv's threatened archeological treasures; the RFE/RL interview with the lamest duck in the world of democracy; Oksana Zakydalsky's coverage of the Venice Biennale controversy; the contending screeds concerning the changeover to a corporate-style board of directors for the UNA; UCCLA/UCC initiatives - all excellent.

I could list more, but it would merely read like the list of the table of contents that everyone could peruse on your website.

Ukrainian journalism, as many of us in the community know, is imperiled on both sides of the ocean: here in the diaspora, by publishers with a narrow, short-term vision; in Ukraine, by murderous thugs who would drag the country north of the Black Sea back to the indisputably bad-old-days of "Soviet Ukraine."

The Ukrainian Weekly is, and always has been, a bastion of the kind of reporting that is essential to our identity and, even, our survival.

Kudos on a job well done!

Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj
Toronto

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