CHUMACHENKO, KATHERINE: Files, 1988-1989 – REAGAN LIBRARY COLLECTIONS

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CHUMACHENKO, KATHERINE: Files, 1988-1989

Office of Public Liaison: Associate Director (Eastern European groups)

Katherine Chumachenko served on the White House staff for the last seven months of Ronald Reagan’s presidency (June 1988-January 1989). In her work, she utilized many files and documents created or maintained by her predecessors, Jack Burgess and Linas Kojelis, as Eastern European liaison. Many of these earlier materials were incorporated into Chumachenko’s files. Chumachenko’s collection also includes material created by Rita Bureika, who served under Kojelis and Chumachenko from July 1986- October 1988. The Library has separated the work product of Kojelis and Burgess from this collection.

Chumachenko was born in Chicago in 1961, to Ukrainian parents who had left the Soviet Union five years earlier. She grew up in Chicago’s large Ukrainian-American community. Chumachenko was active in Ukrainian and human rights organizations starting in high school, holding leadership positions in several such groups prior to joining the Reagan White House. She received a degree in international economics from Georgetown University in 1982, attended Harvard University’s Ukrainian Summer Program in 1985, and received an M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 1986. She then served in the Department of State, under the Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, until March 1988.

Following her time in the Reagan White House, Chumachenko worked in the Treasury Department, and as an economist for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. After Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Chumachenko moved to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev and took a position with KPMG, an international accounting firm. She co-founded the US-Ukraine Foundation, which translated laws and texts for use by the Ukrainian government. In 2005, she became a Ukrainian citizen.

Chumachenko married Ukrainian politician Viktor Yushchenko in 1998. He went on to serve as Prime Minister of Ukraine from 1999 to 2001, and was elected the country’s President in 2004.

SERIES I: SUBJECT FILE

OA 18287

ABM Treaty

Afghanistan - I

Afghanistan - II

American Indians

American Security Council

Angola

Antibolshevik Bloc of Nations

Armenian (1)(2)

Arms Reduction Clippings - START

Baltic

Baltic Freedom Day 1988

[Baltic Independence Letters & Petitions, December 1988] (1)-(6)

[Letters Urging Presidential Action on Baltic Independence, December 1988] (1)-(3)

Baltic States

Captive Nations - Background

Captive Nations Week 1988

Central Europe

Cuba

Czech-Americans (1)-(5)

Czech-American Issues (1)(2)

Czechoslovakian

Defense - I

Defense - II

Defense Budget

[Defense-Foreign Policy Lists – Name Lists] (1)-(4)

Defense List

Derevinski

Estonian

Estonian-Americans

Estonian-American Issues (1)(2)

Ethnic: Economic Status

[Name Lists – Ethnic Groups] (1)-(6)

Frostburg State University 1988

Grenada

Helsinki Human Rights Day 1988

Holocaust

Human Rights (1)(2)

Human Rights Advocates

Human Rights Day 1988 (1)-(6)

Human Rights Day Lists

Hungarian-Americans (1)-(3)

Hungarians

Hungarian Issues (1)-(5)

Hungary (1)-(3)

Institute on Religion and Democracy

Jamestown Foundation

Jefferson Education Foundation

Korean Vets Proclamation

Latvia

Latvian-American Issues

Latvian Americans

Lithuania - I (1)-(3)

Lithuania - II

Lithuanian American Issues

Lithuanian American Community (1)-(8)

Lithuanian

Macedonia [1988 Annual Convention]

Makar Trial

Mazewski, Aloysius

Messages

Millennium

Moscow Summit

Moscow Summit 1988 (1)-(9)

National Forum Foundation

Nicaragua - II

Office of Special Investigations Active File

Poland and the International Monetary Fund

Polish

Polish [Polish American Heritage Month 1988]

Polish American Congress (1)(2)

Polish-American Issues (1)-(4)

Polish Americans

Polish Sanctions

POTUS Messages

Presidential Medal of Freedom (re: Ambassador Rowny)

Religious USSR

Republican Convention

Resumes - I

Resumes - II

Religious Intolerance – General

Romania - I

Romania - II

Rules and Regulations

Russian-American Issues

Russian-Americans - I

Russian-Americans - I: St. Sergius School

Russian-Americans - I: "White" Russians

Russian Americans - II

Scandinavians

Schedule Proposals

Slavic [Slavic-American Culture Week 1988]

Slovak American Issues (1)(2)

OA 18288

South Africa (1)-(7)

Soviet Hare Krishnas

Soviet Human Rights

Soviet Issues

State Dinner

State Dinners

Strategic Defense Initiative - I

Strategic Defense Initiative - II

Strategic Defense Initiative - Clippings

Sverstiuk

Ukraine

Ukrainian-American Issues (1)-(4)

Ukrainian Catholics

Ukrainian Issues (1)-(7)

Ukrainian Millennium

Ukrainian [Presidential Message 11/25/1988]

Ukrainian/Russian Millenniums of Christianity

Ukrainian Weekly

United Nations

USSR

USSR – Religion (1)(2)

USSR: Religion / Human Rights

Voice of America/Board for International Broadcasting Outreach

SERIES II: EVENTS FILE

OA 18288 (Continued)

Lithuanian Youth Association 02/05/1988

Polish American Congress 06/08/1988

Chao Swearing-in 06/17/1988

Foreign/Defense/Ethnic OPL Events: July Dec. 1988

Captive Nations 07/13/1988

Vice President - Captive Nations [Week] 07/20/1988

Knights of Lithuania 07/30/1988

South Africa Briefing 08/03/1988

Hungarian Briefing 08/05/1988

Polish Scouting Organization 08/19/1988

Foreign Affairs Network 09/16/1988

World Affairs Council of Philadelphia 09/29/1988

American University Washington Seminar 10/12/1988

Baltic Conference 10/14/1988

Latvian-American Briefing 10/21/1988

Latvian Conference 10/21/1988

Human Rights Day POTUS 12/08/1988 (1)(2)

Jefferson Education Foundation 12/09/1988

Russians [Photo Op 12/19/1988]

Armenian Presidential 12/22/1988

Memos of 1989 Events

SERIES III: CORRESPONDENCE

OA 18288 (Continued)

Correspondence 06/18/1988-07/12/1988

Correspondence 07/13/1988-07/17/1988

Correspondence 07/18/1988-07/25/1988

Chron In

Chron Out