www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE:• Interview with Bishop Lubomyr Husar — page 3. • U.S. Embassy commercial officer on Ukraine’s potential — page 5. • Photo essay: tough times for Donetsk miners — 11. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIV HE No.KRAINIAN 42 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1996 EEKLY$1.25/$2 in Ukraine T UUkrainian Catholics mark 400th anniversaryW of union with Rome Bishop Husar granted by Roman Woronowycz The Union of Brest (Berestia) was pro- Ukrainian Church. The agreement recog- Kyiv Press Bureau claimed on October 16, 1596, between nized the pope as head of the Church but extraordinary powers as the Ruthenian (Ukrainian-Belarusian) allowed Ukrainians to retain their Eastern LVIV — More than 30,000 people rite traditions. jammed Freedom Square in Lviv on Orthodox Church of what was then the The crowd that came to celebrate the October 13 to hear the divine liturgy as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Lubachivsky’s auxiliary anniversary filled the square from the Lviv Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church celebrat- the Church of Rome. The move was by Roman Woronowycz Opera House back to the Taras ed the 400th anniversary of the reunion spurred by the Turkish conquest of the Kyiv Press Bureau Shevchenko monument, and spilled onto between a portion of the Ukrainian Patriarchy of Constantinople in 1453, the Shevchenko Street. A giant stage with an KYIV — The World Synod of Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic creation of the Moscow Patriarchate in Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek- Church. 1589 and internal strife within the (Continued on page 4) Catholic Church (UGCC) meeting in Lviv, made the first move toward naming a successor to the ailing head of the Church on October 14. They bestowed upon Bishop Lubomyr Husar of the Kyiv-Vyshhorod Exarchate extraor- dinary powers and assigned him the title of auxiliary bishop to the arch- bishop-major of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, a decision that was confirmed by the Vatican. Many in the Ukrainian Greek- Catholic Church’s laity have thought it only a matter of time until Bishop Husar was asked to take charge of the Church. Cardinal Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, major archbishop of the Church, who is 82 years old, has been ailing and has kept a low profile for the last three years. During cele- brations of the 400th anniversary of the Union of Brest (Berestia), which took place a week before the Synod of Bishops, he failed to appear at Roman Woronowycz many of the events. Most notable was his absence at the October 13 Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, Archbishop Michael Bzdel and other hierarchs celebrate liturgy in Lviv’s Freedom Square. archepiscopal divine liturgy in Freedom Square. The announcement by the Synod was not a surprise. All during the Leadership Conference reviews five years of Ukraine’s independence celebratory week murmurs abound- by Yaro Bihun foundations dealing with Ukraine. cy, the hryvnia, in September, when the ed that Bishop Husar, who took the Special to The Ukrainian Weekly About 300 persons from throughout monthly inflation was down to 2 percent. reigns of the newly created Kyiv- the United States and Canada attended “There is much hard work still to be Vyshhorod Exarchate in June, WASHINGTON – Ukraine’s accom- the three-day event, which was co-spon- done,” he said “But Ukraine does not would soon climb the next step plishments and shortcomings during the sored by the Embassy of Ukraine, the face the challenge alone.” The Clinton first five years of its independence came towards succession. He is seen by U.S.-Ukraine Foundation and the administration has joined in supporting under review at the 1996 annual many as the heir-apparent to Ukrainian Medical Association of North Ukraine by calling on the international Leadership Conference of The Washington Cardinal Lubachivsky. America. community to secure $1.9 billion in cash What powers Bishop Husar’s Group, and the many speakers and expert commitments in 1996, and “has gone panelists gave the country a mixed report Undersecretary Talbott set a positive new post confers upon him is still tone in a major foreign policy address beyond the mandates of Congress to pro- murky, however. The appointment card: high marks in the area of geostrategic vide Ukraine with $330 million in bilat- relations, domestic politics, democratiza- outlining the Clinton administration’s does not make him the acting head assessment of Ukraine’s accomplish- eral grants and $860 million in trade and of the Church or give him any right tion and human rights; marked improve- investment credits.” ment in economic reforms; but lagging far ments and of Washington’s relationship to succession. with Ukraine. “We’ve done it and we’ll keep on It does, however, give him high behind in energy and health care. Listening to his speech preceding a doing it...because it is in our own visibility and authority. Archbishop The conference, held October 11-13, reception at the Ukrainian Embassy, in nation’s interest to see an independent, Stephen Sulyk, metropolitan of the heard from President Bill Clinton’s point addition to conference participants, were the secure, democratic Ukraine survive, suc- Ukrainian Catholic Church in the man on relations with the new independent ambassadors of Azerbaijan, Georgia, ceed and prosper,” Mr. Talbott said. United States, told The Weekly that states Undersecretary of State Strobe Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Uzbekistan Speaking about Ukraine’s relationship Bishop Husar now has “almost all Talbott; former U.S. representative to the as well as the director of the Central with NATO and Europe, Mr. Talbott quot- the powers of the Church; he has United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick, who Intelligence Agency, John Deutch. ed Secretary of State Warren Christopher’s the power to call synods, to preside spoke on behalf of President Clinton’s statement that “a critical goal of the New Mr. Talbott cited the various steps over them and to approve their Republican presidential challenger Robert Atlantic Community is to achieve Ukrainians took in building a strong decisions.” Dole; Ukrainian Supreme Court Judge Ukraine’s integration with Europe.” As a Orysia Potupa, director of the Oleksandr Volkov; and some 20 other nation, from the declaration of indepen- “vigorous” participant in the Partnership UGCC press service, said Bishop experts representing the U.S. and Ukrainian dence to the passage of a new Constitution for Peace program, Ukraine “is already governments, the World Bank, the in June, and in reforming its economy, cooperating closely” with NATO, but only (Continued on page 15) International Monetary Fund, academic which went from a period of hyperinfla- institutions, think-tanks, corporations and tion to the introduction of its new curren- (Continued on page 7) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1996 No. 42 Lviv Theological Academy: NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS transforming dreams into reality Miners’ union leaders sentenced duce 5 percent of Ukraine’s electricity. During this month’s meeting in Paris LUHANSK — Petro Kyt and between Ukrainian and G-7 experts, Mykhailo Skrynsky, leaders of the Ukraine promised to close one of the two Independent Miners’ Union, were sen- reactors in return for an 118 million ecu tenced in Luhansk for organizing an ille- ($147 million U.S.) grant allotted to start- gal strike in July to protest unpaid back ing the process of shutting down the plant. wages, UNIAN reported on October 10. The G-7 pledged a total of $3.1 billion in The labor leaders were given prison aid to Ukraine for shutting down terms of two and a half and three years, Chornobyl by 2000. (OMRI Daily Digest) respectively, for disturbing the public peace and disrupting traffic. Their attor- New Crimean speaker visits Kyiv neys plan to appeal to the Supreme Court. The miners’ union has claimed the KYIV — In his first consultations with charges are part of a government cam- Ukrainian leaders in Kyiv since his paign to suppress the independent labor appointment as chairman of the Crimean movement. (OMRI Daily Digest) Parliament, Vasyl Kyseliov discussed the draft Crimean Constitution, the regional Ukraine reacts to Lebed claim budget, taxes and the ongoing resettlement of previously deported ethnic groups in the KYIV — Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry region, Radio Ukraine reported on October criticized a recent open letter from 16. Mr. Kyseliov met with President Aleksandr Lebed published by the Black Leonid Kuchma, Parliament Chairman Dr. Borys Gudziak (right), vice-rector of the Lviv Theological Academy, with Prof. Sea Fleet’s newspaper, Flag Rodiny, in Oleksander Moroz and Prime Minister Jeffrey Wills (left) and a student, Oleh Behen. which the Russian Security Council secre- Pavlo Lazarenko. He agreed to encourage tary claimed Sevastopol had never been the Crimean Parliament to take construc- by Marta Baziuk seems due in equal parts to Dr. officially handed over to Ukraine and never tive steps toward a resolution of conflicts Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Gudziak’s practical long-term planning legally lost its Russian status. Mr. Lebed over these issues between Kyiv and and his inspired vision. Jeffrey Wills, an said Russia should take a stronger position Simferopil. (OMRI Daily Digest) LVIV – With no campus, no books, no associate professor of classics and chair- on the Black Sea Fleet and over Sevastopol faculty and no funding, the founders of man of the Religious Studies Program at as its base. Ukrainian Foreign Minister National-democrats help Chechens the Lviv Theological Academy had little Hennadii Udovenko said Kyiv will be the University of Wisconsin, remembers KYIV — A publishing house in Lviv besides their admirable goals: to re-intro- meeting Dr. Gudziak in 1983 when they guided by a statement by Russian Deputy duce theology as a scholarly discipline in Foreign Minister Sergii Krylov, who refut- has just printed Chechen leader Zelimkhan were both graduate students at Harvard Yandarbiev’s new book, “Chechnya: The Ukraine, and to extend to religious and University.