Ukrainian

KIEV, Ukraine -- The television station named 5th Channel found a new source of programming last month that attracted a new, larger audience, including the president of Ukraine, Leonid D. Kuchma. Until the country's disputed presidential run-off election, the 5th Channel was ranked 13th in the country's television ratings. But the morning after the vote, as thousands of protesters flooded the streets of central Kiev, the station began live broadcasts of the demonstrations. Its broadcasts continued for the next 200 hours and became the voice of the opposition.

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine approached a political stalemate yesterday as preliminary vote counts of the presidential runoff election indicated that Prime Minister Viktor F. Yanukovich had won the race, but international observers described widespread voting abuses and the opposition candidate forcefully refused to accept official results. With more than 98 percent of ballots counted, the government tally gave Yanukovich 49.57 percent of the vote to 46.57 percent for Viktor A. Yushchenko, whose supporters turned out by the thousands in Independence Square here, claiming the election had been rigged and vowing to demonstrate until results were released reflecting the will of the people.

One day last July, Mary Stanton was waiting for a Mass to begin at Baltimore's Cathedral of Mary Our Queen when a little boy ran up and hugged her. His name was John Gaver, then 8 years old, the youngest of five Ukrainian orphans adopted by Barbara Gaver, a Mount Washington child and family counselor. Stanton, a religion teacher, became fast friends with the Gaver family. So when it came time for Stanton's sophomore classes at Mount de Sales Academy, a girls school in Catonsville, to do a Lenten service project, she suggested raising money for the orphanage where John and his sister, Lana, had lived in squalid conditions.

On March 18, 2004 MYCHAJLO of Curtis Bay, beloved husband of the late Maria Olha Choma (nee Diwnycz), devoted father of Roman I. Choma and the late Oleh (Al) Z. Choma, loving grandfather of Kateryna and Heather. The family will receive friends at the family owned and operated Mc CULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME P.A., 237 E. Patapsco Avenue (Brooklyn) on Friday from 6 to 9 P.M., where services will begin on Saturday at 8:30 A.M. with Procession to Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Church for a 9 A.M. Mass of Christian Burial.

MOSCOW - Opposition politicians armed with sirens and megaphones blocked all action in Ukraine's parliament for the fourth consecutive day yesterday in a tense standoff over constitutional reforms that would phase out general elections for president and instead charge parliament with selecting a head of state. Calling the proposal an attempt by Ukraine's ruling powers to hold on to control of the country, opposition leaders physically blocked access to the rostrum in parliament and threatened to launch public protests over the reform measure, adopted by voice vote.

NEW YORK - Mark von Hagen, a Columbia University history professor hired by The New York Times to assess the coverage of one of its correspondents in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, said Wednesday that the 1932 Pulitzer Prize the reporter received should be rescinded because of his "lack of balance" in covering Stalin's government. The Pulitzer Board had told the Times that it received complaints, many from Ukrainian-Americans, that Walter Duranty should be punished for failing to report on a famine that killed millions of Ukrainians.

On September 6, 2003, WOLODMYRA (nee Bodnaruk), beloved wife of the late Petro Wojotowycz. Loving aunt of Jaroslawa, Oleh, Neala and Nadia Bendiuk, George and Natalie Oryshkewych and family, Larisa and Roman Popadiuk and Family, Maria and Lubmyr Iwaskiw, Vitali and Taiana Didoushvski, Maria Fedynsky and Family. Also survived by many loving family members and friends in the Ukraine and in the United States. Visitation was held at the family owned and operated McCULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 237 E. Patapsco Ave. (Brooklyn)

Under a sky that resembled the blue in the Ukrainian flag, thousands of people milled about Patterson Park yesterday for the final day of the city's 27th annual Ukrainian Festival. Visitors tried Ukrainian fare including varenyky - boiled potato-, sauerkraut- or cheese-filled dumplings (a baked variant is called a perogi) - and holubutsi, cabbage rolls stuffed with meat, rice and onions. Liquid refreshment included Obolon, Ukraine's most popular Pilsner beer, and medivka, a homemade honey liqueur.

In recent years, productions of Fiddler on the Roof at Chesapeake Music Hall have featured David Reynolds' imposing take on Tevye the Dairyman, the Ukrainian Jew perched so precariously between religious tradition and onrushing modernity in pre-Revolutionary Russia. But the multitalented Reynolds is no longer a Music Hall regular, and the prize role has been passed to Alan Hoffman, the theater's new lead player, who has made his mark in productions such as A Christmas Carol, Funny Girl and Copacabana.

Maureen O'Neill was a 10-year-old in Youngstown, Ohio, when she made her first Ukrainian Easter egg by drawing a geometric design in wax on an egg and dipping it into richly colored dyes. Every Easter since then the 33-year-old Hampden resident yearned to make the labor-intensive eggs again, but was unable to find someone to teach her. "Every year I thought there's got to be some church where little old ladies are sitting there doing Ukrainian Easter eggs," she said. On Saturday, O'Neill sat in a Highlandtown storefront, painstakingly dotting designs on a white egg with melted beeswax, and dipping the egg again and again into jars of brilliant red, yellow and orange liquid.