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The Ukrainian Weekly 2007, No.23 www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: • The late Jack Palance remembered in his hometown — page 4. • Tryzub’s soccer tournament attracts 128 teams — page 9. • Three books about the Orange Revolution — page 13. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXXV No. 23 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2007 $1/$2 in Ukraine Borys Wrzesnewskyj introduces bill Compromise on pre-term elections is reached, on Holodomor in Canadian Parliament but two sides disagree whether Rada is in session OTTAWA – Liberal Member of by Zenon Zawada Mr. Moroz of violating the May 27 com- Parliament Borys Wrzesnewskyj Kyiv Press Bureau promise. (Etobicoke Center, Ontario) introduced a “The impression is gained that some Private Member’s Bill on June 5 calling KYIV – The May 27 compromise want to drag us into conflict in order to for a national day of remembrance of the reached between Ukraine’s battling fac- save their positions and the immunity of Ukrainian Famine-Genocide. tions hasn’t extinguished the country’s certain politicians,” Mr. Yushchenko The purpose of the bill is to establish political crisis, as coalition leaders insisted said. “Ukrainian society and our interna- the fourth Saturday in November as a Ukraine’s Parliament is still in session tional partners should know who isn’t day of remembrance for the estimated 7 while President Viktor Yushchenko assert- adhering to agreements, which creates million to 10 million Ukrainians who ed it is dissolved. obstacles in resolving the situation.” died a horrifying and slow death from On June 2 the Yulia Tymoshenko and On June 5 President Yushchenko starvation in 1932-1933 during the Our Ukraine blocs held congresses, after signed his third decree establishing pre- famine, which was master-minded, which their leaders announced 169 term parliamentary elections, this time organized and carried out by the Soviet deputies were voluntarily surrendering for the previously agreed upon regime under Stalin. The bill was sec- their mandates. The Tymoshenko Bloc September 30 date, which was based on onded by MP Inky Mark (Dauphin-Swan confiscated an additional 26 mandates the successful surrender of more than River-Marquette, Manitoba). from deputies who it said violated fac- one-third of deputies’ mandates. “This inadequately known historic tion discipline. This basis conforms to the Ukrainian tragedy inflicted a deep and lasting scar That was supposed to satisfy the com- Constitution’s imperative condition and on the national psyche of Ukraine and promise clause calling for one-third of the May 27 compromise agreement, the Ukrainians. The Famine-Genocide was the deputies’ corps to resign, thereby dis- president said. Thus, it ensures the cessa- an attempt to crush the longing for free- MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj solving the parliament of the fifth convo- tion of activity of the Rada’s fifth convo- dom and to erase all aspirations for an from oppression, freedom from human cation, but Prime Minister Viktor cation. independent Ukrainian state,” Mr. degradation and freedom from personal Yanukovych and Verkhovna Rada Chair The decree charged the Central Wrzesnewskyj said. destruction in Canada. In Canada’s wide Oleksander Moroz maintain the Election Commission (CEC) with organ- In his remarks introducing the bill, the open spaces, they found freedom and Parliament is still legitimate. izing and conducting the elections in MP further noted: “Many Ukrainian- helped to not only settle our country’s “There is no basis to announce the Canadians are the descendents of sur- accordance with the Constitution and prairies, but in our urban centers they Parliament is unauthorized on this day,” parliamentary election laws. vivors of the Famine-Genocide, as well helped build a multicultural Canada.” Mr. Moroz wrote in a letter to Kyiv’s as the descendents of refugees from the After the president issued the decree, “By enacting this legislation and diplomatic corps a day after Mr. Prime Minister Yanukovych disregarded it, communist atrocities of the Soviet Yushchenko invited dozens of ambassa- Union. These settlers found freedom (Continued on page 4) maintaining the Parliament was still legiti- dors to the Presidental Secretariat to con- mate. vince them the Parliament is illegitimate. Signaling his interest in engaging in “Furthermore, the president is not delay tactics, the prime minister suggested Ukrainian presidential adviser endowed by the Constitution with the the coalition may submit the decree to the right to establish the fact of a Constitutional Court for review, potential- Parliament’s incomplete validity,” Mr. prohibited from entering Russia Moroz noted. (Continued on page 4) The ongoing quarrel demostrates that by Zenon Zawada Last June, the Security Service of coalition leaders, particularly Mr. Moroz Kyiv Press Bureau Ukraine declared Mr. Dugin persona and the Socialist Party of Ukraine, may non-grata for interfering with the nation’s still be attempting to postpone or derail KYIV – The Russian Federation pro- internal affairs and encroaching upon its pre-term parliamentary elections, despite hibited Mykola Zhulynskyi, chair of the integrity, and forbade him from entering agreeing to the May 27 compromise. National Council on Cultural and Ukraine’s territory until June 2011, The Socialists are especially against Spiritual Issues, from entering the coun- spokeswoman Marina Ostapenko con- elections, because they are unlikely to try June 5 to visit his brother-in-law’s firmed. win the necessary 3 percent of votes to grave with his family. Mr. Dugin and Russian State Duma gain parliamentary seats. Authorities deported them without cit- Deputy Konstantin Zatulin were banned While Our Ukraine Parliamentary ing any reason, but the Russian from Ukraine after participating in the Faction Chair Viacheslav Kyrylenko and Federation’s ambassador to Ukraine, anti-NATO protests in May 2006. Yulia Tymoshenko were confident that Viktor Chernomyrdin, confirmed on June At a June 6 press conference, Ms. Mr. Moroz had more than the necessary 6 that it was a response to the Ukrainian Ostapenko said the Ukrainian govern- 151 letters from deputies surrendering government’s decision to prohibit ment has always provided clear and spe- their mandates, Mr. Moroz claimed that Russian political activist Aleksandr cific legal justifications when prohibiting some were not signed by the deputies Dugin from entering Ukraine. foreigners. themselves. Other deputies wrote that Mr. Dugin, who leads the In contrast, the Russian Federation they planned on recalling their letters, he International Eurasian Movement, was government cited no violation of Russian claimed. held and deported from the Symferopol laws in prohibiting Dr. Zhulynskyi, a pres- Mr. Moroz also said he wants the airport on June 5 en route to the first idential adviser, from entering its territory. Constitutional Court and Central Election annual Russian Word International Dr. Zhulynskyi said he believes the Commission to review the legality of the Festival. Russian Federation had drafted a list of decisions reached by the opposition fac- “We proposed ceasing these prohibi- Ukrainian patriots to bar from its territo- tions at their June 2 congresses. tive measures, except for bandits and ter- ry during the Orange Revolution. After such statements, Mr. Yushchenko rorists of course,” Ambassador Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs – in his address to the Kyiv ambassador Sergei Lavrov acknowledged on June 7 Chernomyrdin said. “But why are we pro- corps, at which U.S. Ambassador to Zenon Zawada hibiting normal people? That’s how we’ll that his government has indeed compiled Ukraine William Taylor and Russian Volodymyr Shapoval, the new chair- be – tooth for a tooth? Unless the Ukraine a blacklist of Ukrainians prohibited from Federation Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor man of Ukraine’s Central Election side quiets itself, that will be the result.” entering the country. Chernomyrdin were present – accused Commission. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2007 No. 23 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Civil-military relations dominate Rada paves way for early polls clear whether the Verkhovna Rada elect- ed in March 2006 has now ceased to political crisis in Ukraine KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada on June exist following the withdrawal of the 1 approved a package of bills needed to pro-presidential parties. Prime Minister by Taras Kuzio two days later he dispatched internal troops stage early parliamentary elections on Yanukovych told journalists on June 3 Eurasia Daily Monitor to the capital, a move confirmed by the September 30, as agreed by President that he will urge legislators to continue NSDC. On May 27 Yushchenko ridiculed Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister working. “The Ukrainian Constitution Ukraine’s spring 2007 political crisis was the claim that he had ordered them to Kyiv, the first occasion in Ukraine’s history that Viktor Yanukovych and Verkhovna Rada provides for the continuation of work of claiming that the MVS troops were sent to Chairman Oleksander Moroz last month, the branches of power,” Mr. Yanukovych brought the country to the brink of blood- keep order at the Donetsk Shakhtar-Kyiv shed on three separate fronts. National Ukrainian and international news agen- added. (RFE/RL Newsline) Dynamo soccer match and for the holiday cies reported. Among other measures, Security and Defense Council (NSDC) weekend. Deputy Secretary Oleksander Turchynov lawmakers amended the election law, Early elections decreed for September
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