The Ukrainian Weekly 1995, No.34

www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: • Ukraine's labor force and unemployment — page 2. • Natalie Jaresko: economics officer finds her dream in Ukraine — page 3. • Victor Malarek teaches investigative journalism in Ukraine — page 8. Published by the Ukrainian national Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIII No. 34 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1995 $1.25/$2 In Ukraine Filaret reiicts Ukrainian Ш¥§ шіивііГ leips «pare for І у II mm І^вкп^ї І *Ц* її SH- *** fe І $ P v ІЖЙСИІТЙЙ ;- fff^ % Ьл'вИ* by Kbristlna Lew followed by a pecceiul procession al 11 Kyyiv Press Bureau a.m. *o St. Sophia Cainedrai. CARROLLTON, Ga. — KYYIV - The Ukrainian government The procession "will take the form of This quiet southern city, sur on August 16 proposed three sites to re- a Christian procession and a demonstra rounded by Georgia pines bury the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox tion" and be composed of two parts, said rooted in the fabled Georgia Church - Kyyiv Patriarchate one week Mr. Tsymbaliuk. "Clergy will lead the red clay, seems about as far before UOC-KP faithful are scheduled to procession, followed by a procession of removed from anything commemorate the 40th day of Patriarch people's deputies," he said. At St. Sophia Ukrainian as one could get. Volodymyr's death with a peaceful pro Cathedral, a funeral service will be con By mid-summer of next year cession to St. Sophia Cathedral. ducted, followed by a rally. Though there has been speculation it will be the hub for a IIK^^ According to the vice-chairman of the rl ; about President Leonid Kuchma's partic Ukrainian Olympic contin TRAINING $S lay committee organizing 40th day com gent bent on mining the gold ipation in the memorial services, it is memorations, however, no re-burial is known that he is on vacation in the of the 1996 Olympic Games in qualifying competition in Savannah, scheduled for August 23. "We are plan Atlanta, one hour's ride east. Crimea through August 24. approximately 300 miles east on the ning a purely peaceful procession, fol Representatives of the organizing com Although banners line Carrollton Atlantic coast. lowed by a political meeting," Viktor mittee and the UOC-KP, in the presence city streets welcoming the Olympic The 80 visitors from Ukraine Tsymbaliuk told a press conference on of Ukraine's procurator general, were athletes, besides the town's movers included the athletes, coaches and August 16. scheduled to receive written permission to and shakers most residents seem associated trainers, physicians and The government has approved the conduct 40th day commemorations from unaware that next year an influx of support staff, as well as a group of Vydubytsky Monastery (11th-18th cen the Kyyiv City Administration at 5 p.m. Ukrainians will occur. Or that researchers from the Institute of tury), the St. Michael's Golden-Dome on August 16. Carrollton will play host to several of Physical Culture in Kyyiv here to Cathedral (12th century) and the St. On August 18-20, the organizing com- the biggest names in Olympic sports: study how the athletes respond to the Feodosiy Pechersky Church as sites for Bubka, Taimazov, Kravets. warmer climate and different sur the re-burial of Patriarch Volodymyr. (Continued on page 17) "I don't really keep track of what's roundings. Another option, according to Deputy going on," said Robert Daughtry, a Anatoliy Pucey, weightlifting team Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs student who is an employee at a local physician, said the teams are very Ivan Kuras, is for the body of the late restaurant. "...What did you say, focused. "Our main goal here is to patriarch to remain were it is. Karbovanets falls; Albanians?" train, to get used to the environment. Mr. Kuras told a press conference By My 19, 1996, when the Games We really haven't seen much, just that, according to Metropolitan Filaret of begin, Mr. Daughtry should be famil some of Carrollton and a quick excur the UOC-KP, the body of Patriarch NBU intervenes iar with the name and the team, sion to Atlanta to see the facilities Volodymyr is in fact buried within the KYYIV — The value of the karbo because between 175 and 200 there." confines of the St. Sophia Cathedral vanets fell from 152,000 to 167,700 to $1 Ukrainian athletes will be in town complex, as earlier the boundaries of the (U.S.) on the National Bank's Interbank along with scores of trainers, adminis Organizing the effort complex were wider than they are now. Currency Exchange in the past week, trators, interpreters and journalists Laryssa Barabash-Temple, United "Things could remain as they are: noted the Open Media Research Institute, This, ostensibly, will also bring a States representative of the National Patriarch Volodymyr is buried at the citing a Ukrainian Television report of stream of tourists. For now, however, Olympic Committee of Ukraine walls of St. Sophia Cathedral," the news August 14. On the black market, it the town maintains its slow southern (NOC-Ukraine) has been the driving agency Interfax-Ukraine quoted the plunged to a record low of 200,000 kbv pace. You can walk the city's main force in coordinating Ukraine's partic deputy prime minister as saying. to$l. thoroughfare and see barely a dozen ipation in the Games with the Atlanta Metropolitan Filaret told a press con Officials blamed the devaluation on people on the street on a Saturday Committee for the Olympic Games, ference the following day that the sites panic-buying of dollars by enterprises afternoon. which is organizing the pre-Olympic proposed by the government are "unac and individuals following the govern Ukraine's Olympic team, which is trials as well as the Games them ceptable for re-burial." ment's announcement that monetary still being shaped by the coaches and selves. The body of the late patriarch was reform and the introduction of a new ten in qualifying trials, first began arriving She said she sees her work as organi buried in the sidewalk of St. Sophia der, the hryvnia, are imminent. The in this town of 18,000 in late June. zational and financial, although it seems Square on July 18 after riot police violent National Bank of Ukraine moved quickly They are here to train, to generally to include every aspect of bringing a ly clashed with participants of Patriarch to buy up karbovantsi in an effort to sta acclimate themselves to the hot, humid Ukrainian team to the 1996 Olympics, Volodymyr's funeral procession. bilize the falling provisional currency, Georgia weather, and to compete in including providing transportation, According to the lay committee orga Ukrainian Television and a Radio Liberty pre-Olympic qualifying events. housing, equipment, training and prac nizing the August 23 commemorations, correspondent reported on August 15. Sixteen Ukrainian sports federations tice venues for the athletes, and devel 137 people, including 25 clerics, were The move caused the tender to rise slight will send teams here before the pre- oping a network of sponsors, contribu injured in the confrontation. Government ly from the previous day's record low of Olympic events are completed in mid- tors and fund-raisers to ease the finan figures site only 59, 42 of whom are 167,700 kbv to 167,000 to $1. November cial load on the NOC-Ukraine. She is members of the Berkut special forces. Bank Chairman Viktor Yushchenko Bob Watkins, landscape director at involved also in setting up a ticket sales According to the Ukrainian National said the central bank would continue its the college where the Ukrainians are network for Ukraine. Assembly-Ukrainian National Self- intervention for three to four days to sup staying, said the athletes have kept a Ms. Temple, who has fund-raising Defense Organization (UNA-UNSO), port the karbovanets, which has been rela low profile. "We see the signs about the and organizational experience in there were two fatalities on July 18; tively stable over the past half year due to Ukrainians being here, but most people working with the arts in Atlanta, however, no names were released. the government's tight fiscal and monetary really haven't seen much of them." became involved with the Ukrainian The organizing committee, which has policies. Deputy Prime Minister Anatoliy The latest detachments, the Olympic effort after being contacted been registering those injured in the July Kinakh told Ukrainian Television that the wrestling, weightlifting and synchro by Minister of Sports and Youth 18 confrontation, plans to publish the government and National Bank would not allow the karbovanets to decline below the nized swimming delegations, were Valeriy Borzov, who had obtained her names of the injured in a "White Book" level of 180,000 to $1 as agreed with the staying at the West Georgia College name from his contacts in the on the events of "Black Tuesday." International Monetary Fund. He said that campus, the Olympic team's home Ukrainian-American community. Commemorations of the 40th day of base in Carrollton, the week of July Patriarch Volodymyr's death are sched while a devaluation was inevitable, the 30, while yachters were preparing for (Continued on page 10) uled to begin with a requiem service at sudden plunge of the karbovantes this 8:30 a.m. at St. Volodymyr Cathedral, week was unexpected. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1995 No. 34 The labor force and unemployment in Ukraine's economy: an analysis Ethnic Ukrainians majority in military who do not approve of the Russian and by Volodymyr Zviglyanich 50 percent of the unemployed are work Ukrainian presidents' position on the ers between age 28 and retirement age KYYIV — Ethnic Ukrainians now con PARTI Black Sea Fleet." The telegram also said (i.e., 55 for women and age 60 for men).

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