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Shmarov Defamation Case Halted As Language Becomes the Issue INSIDE:• Ukraine as a beacon of security — page 2. • IMF resumes loan program for Ukraine — page 3. • Reflections on Archbishop-Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk — page 4. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIV HE KRAINIANNo. 20 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1996 EEKLY$1.25/$2 in Ukraine President hopes new constitution ShmarovT defamationU case halted W will mark independence anniversary as language becomes the issue by Marta Kolomayets until May 23, because Mr. Karpenko by Marta Kolomayets — the fifth anniversary of Ukraine’s Kyiv Press Bureau objected to the fact that the summons he Kyiv Press Bureau independence — he did not specify an received and the documents submitted to exact date for the referendum. KYIV – The case of Ukrainian the court were in Russian, while KYIV — President Leonid Kuchma Political observers note that it would Defense Minister Valeriy Shmarov vs. Ukrainian law stipulates that “all court would like to celebrate Ukraine’s fifth be prudent for Ukraine to adopt a new the daily newspaper Vechirniy Kyiv proceedings should be in the Ukrainian anniversary with a new constitution, constitution before presidential elections (Evening Kyiv) and its editor-in-chief language, or in the language of the Presidential Chief of Staff Dmytro in Russia, slated for June 16. Some Vitaliy Karpenko went to trial on May majority of the population in the region.” Tabachnyk told foreign journalists at a national democratic deputies argue that a 12, at Kyiv’s Shevchenko raion court- The proceedings chaired by Judge Z. press briefing on May 16. constitution must be in place in Ukraine, house – for 15 minutes. Antonyshyn began at 10 a.m. on Sunday The best way to adopt Ukraine’s new just in case of a victory by Gennadiy Minister Shmarov has accused the morning, with Serhiy Hayduk, assistant constitution would be by referendum, he Zyuganov, the Communist candidate popular newspaper of defamation of to the defense minister, representing Mr. added, saying that a fundamental law who now leads in the polls. The election character (in Ukrainian, the charge reads Shmarov at the proceedings (Minister adopted by a national referendum would of a Communist leader may well “violation of the honor and dignity of the Shmarov did not attend). have the highest level of legitimacy and increase tensions in Ukrainian-Russian minister”) in a series of articles written People’s Deputy Vasyl Kostytsky, ensure the participation of the majority relations and could conceivably slow by Mr. Karpenko earlier this year. In his who is a lawyer by profession, represent- of Ukraine’s citizens in a process that down reforms in Ukraine. summons, Mr. Shmarov also seeks 2 bil- ed the Vechirniy Kyiv newspaper, while would further underscore the country’s Also, analysts agree that if a referen- lion karbovantsi in damages (approxi- attorney Viktor Nikazakov represented political stability. dum is not called by the end of June, it is mately $10,000 U.S.). Mr. Karpenko in the proceedings. Although Mr. Tabachnyk made it unlikely that enough voters will come to But no sooner had the trial started than clear that President Kuchma wants to see the polls in Ukraine to endorse a consti- the judge postponed the proceedings (Continued on page 3) a new constitution adopted by August 24 tution during the months of July and August, because most are out in the fields planting crops or vacationing at their dachas. 1,000 attend funeral for Metropolitan Hermaniuk Mr. Tabachnyk told reporters that an by Frank Guly and Christopher Guly litan-emeritus Hermaniuk had ordained 2 at Ss. Vladimir and Olga Cathedral in ad hoc committee for finalizing the draft constitution, which has members repre- WINNIPEG – France’s Ukrainian to the episcopacy, said his former Winnipeg – where Metropolitan Hermaniuk himself was consecrated 45 years ago. senting all factions in the Parliament — Catholic Bishop Michael Hrynchyshyn Ukrainian-rite Redemptorist colleague’s Canada’s first Ukrainian Catholic met- only the Communists have refused to remembered Archbishop Maxim life’s reward would be to be “promoted ropolitan, who retired in late 1992, died take part in the work — has completed Hermaniuk as a “highly cultured, well-bred to glory in heaven.” in Winnipeg on May 3. He was 84. 80 percent of the work on the new con- man who was a scholar of the highest The Paris-based bishop delivered the Born in Nove Selo in western Ukraine stitution. He characterized the process of order.” eulogy at an evening prayer service in compromise and consolidation as “suffi- Bishop Hrynchyshyn, whom Metropo- memory of Archbishop Hermaniuk on May (Continued on page 4) ciently successful.” The ad hoc committee’s chairman, Mykhailo Syrota (Center faction), told reporters on May 15 that 70 percent of the articles have been adopted by con- sensus, while about 15 percent of the articles have not gained the support of only one or two factions. Oleksander Lavrynovych, who repre- sents the Rukh faction on the ad hoc committee, told Interfax-Ukraine that the representatives of the Communist faction “are deliberately trying to impede the constitutional process, taking part only in meetings of procedure and then walking out of the important meetings.” [The ad hoc committee was formed on a proportional basis: two representatives of each faction and six representatives from the Communist faction, the largest in Parliament with 89 members.] The presidential chief of staff, who served on the Constitutional Committee that drafted this document, took the opportunity on May 16 to criticize Parliament Chairman Oleksander Moroz, calling him one of the main obstacles to passing a new constitution. “Nonetheless, we should see a com- pleted finalized draft by Monday, May 20,” Mr. Tabachnyk added. The draft will then be proposed to the Parliament Andrew Sikorsky for a vote. Bishop Lubomyr Husar of the Exarchate of Kyiv-Vyshhorod — with Bishop-designate Stefan Soroka of the Winnipeg President Kuchma told Interfax- Archeparchy behind him — places soil from Ukraine in Archbishop-Metropolitan Emeritus Maxim Hermaniuk’s casket in Ukraine on May 13 that he is confident Winnipeg’s Ss. Vladimir and Olga Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral. (Continued on page 3) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1996 No. 20 Independent Ukraine: a beacon NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS of security in Central Europe? Kuchma issues decree on wages new furniture and other perks until all by David R. Marples own adherence to the post-war borders wages and pensions owed to workers in was obtained under duress. Its signing of KYIV — Ukrainian President Leonid Recent attempts at further integration state-owned industries, teachers and physi- the Helsinki Act in 1975, which recon- Kuchma issued a decree on May 12 aimed cians are paid. Minister of the Economy between countries of the Commonwealth firmed the present borders, has likewise at ensuring timely payment of wages, pen- of Independent States and the Russian Vasyl Hureyev said the government owes been denounced. sions and stipends by the government and $951 million in up to four months of back Duma’s mid-March 1996 renunciation of Its main disputes are with Ukraine and state-owned enterprises, Ukrainian the 1991 Belaya Vezha accords ending wages. He blamed a continuing decline in can be divided into two areas: 1) Television reported. The decree stipulates industrial output, unpaid taxes and the the Soviet Union have been counterbal- Bessarabia and Northern Bukovyna, seized that ministers as well as enterprise man- anced by the proposed expansion of temporary suspension of credits by the by Stalin in June 1940 and reannexed to agers will be fired if they fail to pay International Monetary Fund last month. NATO eastward to include states in the Soviet Union after World War II; salaries on time. In another decree, Mr. Europe that have embraced democracy Meanwhile, up to 1,000 coal miners though Bessarabia had been part of the old Kuchma ordered the State Committee on blocked railroad tracks in western Ukraine since 1989, such as Hungary and Poland. Russian empire, there was no viable Television and Radio to launch, within 10 Both developments leave Ukraine calling for an end to coal imports from premise for the grabbing of Bukovyna; 2) days, regular broadcasts featuring discus- neighboring Poland and prompt payment increasingly isolated in Central Europe, the tiny Zmiynyi (Serpent) Island on the sion on the basic draft law by members of and, despite official denials to the con- of back wages, Western agencies reported. Black Sea, a continental shelf linked to the the Constitutional Committee, national (OMRI Daily Digest) trary, it appears to have taken on the role Romanian mainland. and local lawmakers, government offi- of a buffer state between two military- It is reported that the area around the cials, legal experts and representatives of TV officials Kulyk, Savenko sacked security alliances. civic organizations, Ukrainian Radio island possesses about one-third of KYIV — The Ukrainian Parliament Ukraine, ruled by President Leonid Ukraine’s potential oil reserves, and some reported. Mr. Kuchma also issued a Kuchma since the summer of 1994, is decree establishing a national athletic voted to dismiss the state television and 25 percent of natural gas deposits. Since radio’s top two officials for alleged cor- trying to preserve a delicate balance in its Ukraine’s main disadvantage in its dealings training institution to support Ukraine’s relations with Russia and the CIS coun- Olympic and international sports training ruption, Reuters and Radio Rosiyi report- with Russia is its energy deficit, the island ed on May 13. The head of the tries, while moving demonstrably closer has assumed much more than strategic sig- program. Financial support will come to the United States as a strategic partner. from the Kyiv-based Republican Stadium Parliament’s Committee on Mass Media nificance.
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