The Weekly's role cited by correspondent

by Yaro Bihun

WASHINGTON - The Washington Post correspondent in Kyiv, James Rupert, says he considers The Ukrainian Weekly "a very important element of the Western press presence in Ukraine" and its Kyiv correspondent Marta Kolomayets "by far the most influential" of all foreign correspondents.

Speaking about his work in Ukraine during a January 19 forum sponsored jointly by the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and The Washington Group of Ukrainian American professionals, Mr. Rupert singled out The Weekly when talking about the various news organizations working in Kyiv.

"I always tell Marta Kolomayets, who's the correspondent for The Ukrainian Weekly, that of all the foreign correspondents in Kyiv, she is by far the most influential," he told the gathering.

"She laughs about this," he continued, "But, actually, back here in the States...there are very few of my readers who are going to get up in the morning after I've written a story about this or that going on in Ukraine and are going to leap to the phone to call their congressman. But within the Ukrainian American community, of course, that tendency is much greater, and they're reading very attentively The Ukrainian Weekly," he said.

"So I count that as a very important element of the Western press presence in Ukraine - The Ukrainian Weekly," Mr. Rupert noted.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, February 4, 1996, No. 5, Vol. LXIV

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