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ub її shed by the Ukrainian National Association inc.. a fraternal non-profit association rainian Weekly vol. LVIII No. 23 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 10,1990 50 cents Orthodox Church Synod Ulana Diachuk elected UNA supreme president proclaims Mstyslav manager and chief accountant of the Convention creates UNA. Messrs. Sochan and Blahitka and patriarch of Ukraine Ukraine aid fund Mrs. Paschen were all elected by accla– mation, when it became evident, after K1EV - The Holy Synod of the by Roma Hadzewycz Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox the results of the primaries were an– Church - the first such gathering since nounced, that they were running for the destruction of that Church by the BALT1MORE - Ulana Diachuk, their respective positions unopposed. Soviet government in 1930 — establish– the Ukrainian National Association's Re-elected to the Supreme Auditing ed a Patriarchate and proclaimed supreme treasurer since 1972 (four and Committee were: Anatole Doroshenko Metropolitan Mstyslav Skrypnyk. a half terms), became the first woman and Stepan Hawrysz. Also voted to patriarch of the UAOC on Wednesday, ever elected supreme president of that serve as auditors were former supreme June 6, reported the press center of the fraternal organization as its 32nd advisors William Pastuszek, Wasyl All-Ukrainian Sobor of the UAOC. Regular Convention concluded here on Didiuk and Taras Szmagala. Friday, June 1. The two-day synod (June 5 and 6) Seven incumbents and seven new- officially proclaimed the full indepen– Also elected as UNA supreme officers comers were elected supreme advisors. dence of the Church from the Moscow were: Nestor Olesnycky, supreme vice- Re-elected were: Tekla Moroz, Eugene Patriarchate, declaring, "We are the president; John Hewryk, supreme di– iwanciw, Alex Chudolij, Andrew Jula, independent Church of the independent rector for Canada; Gloria Paschen, Andrew Keybida, Helen Olek Scott and nation." supreme vice-presidentess; Walter So– Walter Kwas. Although Metropolitan Mstyslav chan, supreme secretary; and Alex– First-time advisors are: Roma Had– had planned to be at this first all- ander Blahitka, supreme treasurer. zewycz, Anya Dydyk-Petrenko, Anne Ukrainian sobor of the UAOC, he was Messrs. Olesnycky and Blahitka are Remick, Walter Korchynsky, Wasyl denied a visa by the Soviet government. newcomers to the Supreme Executive Liscynesky, Paul Dorozynsky and Despite the efforts of several deputies of Committee, Mr. Olesnycky had pre– vasyl Luchkiw. the Ukrainian SSR, and the interven– viously served as a UNA supreme Blliii^^^^^^^^^^^^^HPadzewycz (For complete election results, see tion of Leonid Kravchuk, the ideology auditor, chairing the Auditing Commit– Supreme President-elect Ulana Dia– chart on page 4.) (Continued on page 11) tee, while Mr. Blahitka was building chuk. (Continued on page 4) Journalist's notebook: Ukraine's first steps toward democracy Communist boss lvashko With this article, The Weekly begins a by Marta Kolomayets document 1 memorized during history series on Ukraine today written by and civics class in grammar school, is elected chairman associate editor Marta Kolomayets, KlEv - Perhaps because 1 was born many years ago: who traveled to Ukraine in May with a and raised "in the land of the free and "We hold these truths to be self- of Supreme Soviet Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund the home of the brave," 1 have never evident, that all men are created equal, by Yaroslav Trofimov fully appreciated the freedoms guaran– delegation that brought medical sup- that they are endowed by their Creator Rukh Press international plies and technology, and vitamins for teed by our democratic, pluralistic with certain unalienable rights, that the victims of the 1986 nuclear accident society. among these are life, liberty and the KlEv - Ukrainian Communist that devastated parts of Ukraine and its However, 1 have always held tremen– pursuit of happiness. That to secure Party chief volodymyr lvashko was neighbors to the north, Byelorussia and dous respect for the principles outlined these rights, governments are instituted elected chairman of the Ukrainian Russia. in the Declaration of independence, a (Continued on page 10) Supreme Soviet on June 4, getting 60 percent of the votes with more than 100 deputies from the opposition's Demo– cratic Bloc boycotting the elections. The opposition claimed that the chief of a political party cannot simulta– neously head the state, in an emotional move the deputies brought to the presidium's table stacks of paper sheets containing hundreds of thousands of signatures against Mr. ivashko's elec– tion. A right to make a statement on this issue was refused to the Democratic Bloc, and the microphones and live radio and Tv coverage were cut off. The opposition deputies had to use mega- phones inside the Parliament hall to read out the document. Mr. lvashko was one of four remain– ing candidates: viadimir Hryniov, a Kharkiv deputy of the Communist Party's Democratic Platform; ivan Saliy, the progressive Communist Party chief of Kiev's Podil district; and Prof, ihor Yukhnovsky, an academician and Kolomayets Communist Party member from Lviv A general view of the session of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR on Monday, May 21. The deputies in the foreground backed by the Democratic Bloc. are from Lviv. (For more photos, see photo report on page 3.) (Continued on page 11) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 10,1990 No. 23 A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY CSCE meeting in Copenhagen to be stage for Ukrainians voice of separatism making by O. Andriewsky director of the Human Rights Commis– World Congress of Free Ukrainians sion of the WCFU and a long-time itself heard in Ukraine veteran of these Helsinki meetings, will TORONTO - On June 5, a four- also serve as coordinator of the entire by Dr. David Marples Russia was denounced, and a film that week meeting on the human dimension Ukrainian delegation. Radio Liberty Research was shown depicted the struggle of the of the Helsinki process began inCopen– Zaporozhian Kozaks against the Turks. hagen, Denmark. Governments from 35 Background information in the post-election atmosphere in in terms of policies adopted, the countries involved in the Helsinki whjch approximately one quarter of the Ukrainian Republican Party has appa– process, known as the Conference on The democratic changes sweeping seats Щthe Ukrainian Supreme Soviet rently been more cautious than may Security and Cooperation in Europe Eastern Europe promise to make the are held by members of the Democratic have been expected given the acknow– (CSCE), will discuss a variety of human Copenhagen Conference on the Human Bloc, the voice of separatism is making ledged euphoria at the congress. Like its rights issues, including minority rights, Dimension a historic meeting. For the itself heard, especially in the three predecessor, it adheres to the Universal freedom of religion, and freedom of first time since the Helsinki process was western oblasts of Ukraine: Lviv, Ter– Declaration of Human Rights em- expression. initiated 13 years ago, Czechoslovakia, nopil and ivano-Frankivske. braced by the United Nations, the Ukraine will be represented in Co– Hungary, and Poland will officially There have been a variety of manifes– struggle for a free market, a multi-party penhagen by Yevhen Proniuk, people's send non-Communist delegations to the tations, some of which are spontaneous system, the decentralization and de- deputy to the Kiev City Council, and human rights conference. Moreover, like the so-called "Hyde Park Corner" monopolization of production, free– Oles Shevchenko, people's deputy to many Western governments are looking meetings in Lviv's main square, where it dom of speech and assembly. the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine. Both to the Helsinki process as a framework is planned to erect a monument to the The real difference, however, lies in men have been active in the Ukrainian for confirming the changes that have Ukrainian bard, Taras Shevchenko; the party's unequivocal and longstand– Helsinki Union and are members of already taken place and resolving and some of which are regarded by the ing opposition to the Communist Party Rukh. Mr. Proniuk is also head of the continuing problems. party and other authorities as more and in its growing acceptance of what Tovarystvo Represovanykh, (Society of According to Joe Clark, the Cana– sinister, such as the growing veneration might be termed the nationalistic histo– the Repressed), an organization of dian minister of state for external of the wartime leader of the militant rical traditions of both the Ukrainian several hundred former Ukrainian affairs, who spoke in Toronto on wing of the Organization of Ukrainian state, and, particularly, of western political prisoners who are seeking to Saturday, May 26, the CSCE is be– Nationalists (OUN), Stepan Bandera. Ukraine, which was annexed from have their convictions annulled and coming central to the new European The newly elected governments of the Poland by the Soviet Union only in their civic rights fully reinstated. Travel architecture. Canada will seek to make three oblasts all have a majority of non- September 1939, and then only for a and hotel expenses for Mr. Proniuk and the CSCE "the preferred forum for Communists in the leadership and have brief 18 months before the German Mr. Shevchenko have been paid for by comprehensive discussions" of political, called for boycotting certain Soviet invasion, before becoming the scene of a the Toronto branch of Canadian economic, security and human rights laws, full political sovereignty for long and bitter guerrilla warfare be– Friends of Rukh. issues. Ukraine, the removal of foreign' troops tween between Ukrainian insurgents Ukrainians from the West will also be from Ukrainian soil and the creation of indeed, one of the main topics of the and the Red Army, it is this tradition taking part in the Copenhagen confe– Copenhagen conference is likely to be a national army, in short, they might be that has begun to form the backbone of rence.