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46 November 16, 1997 INSIDE: • Ukrainian community life in Russia — page 3. • Veterans’ Day/Remembrance Day features, reports on Ukrainian-American • Military Association, Ukrainian American Veterans — pages 8-11. HE KRAINI A N EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXV No. 46 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1997 $1.25/$2 in Ukraine UNA General Assembly holds October Revolution Day marked by clashes by Roman Woronowycz With more than 80,000 people taking pre-convention annual meeting Kyiv Press Bureau part in various demonstrations and com- memorations throughout Ukraine, some to by Roma Hadzewycz gates (who must ratify any changes by a KYIV — Nationalists and Communists commemorate the Bolshevik October two-thirds majority); clashed in Lviv on November 7 during KERHONKSON, N.Y. — The Revolution and others the slaughter of thou- • adopted a budget for 1998 of demonstrations and rallies on the 80th sands of Ukrainians during the 1930s in Ukrainian National Association’s General $10,774,000 in income and $11,024,000 anniversary of the October Revolution. Assembly met here at the UNA estate, what is called the Fusilladed Renaissance in expenses; Five people were injured and five others Soyuzivka, on November 6-8 for its annual (Rozstriliane Vidrodzhennia), the violence • confirmed the Executive Committee’s have been arrested. meeting — its last before the regular con- in Lviv was relatively minor. However, it acceptance of a request made by Treasurer The violence began when some 300 vention of the largest Ukrainian fraternal caused an outcry from Communists in the Alexander Blahitka for a leave of absence Communists and Socialists veered away Verkhovna Rada, who refused to register benefit society, which is scheduled to take for medical reasons, effective immediately place in May of next year in Toronto. from a protest route approved by city for the November 11 Parliament session through June 30, 1998. authorities, which was to take them to the and demanded an inquiry into the events by During its three days of deliberations, The General Assembly also adopted a the UNA General Assembly, the highest Monument of Glory, and instead made their Ukraine’s Procurator General’s Office and mission statement of the Ukrainian way to the Ivan Franko monument, accord- dismissal of the mayor of Lviv. decision-making body of the UNA National Association that underlines the between its quadrennial conventions, ing to Interfax-Ukraine. They were attacked National Deputy Petro Symonenko, principles enumerated in the UNA’s there by scores of youths, members of the leader of the Communist Party, told the leg- took the following actions: charter and renews the fraternal commit- • examined and approved merger Social-National Party who had gathered islature, “An anti-Communist campaign is ments made therein. The mission state- there for their own commemoration – this unfolding, it is part of the election strug- agreements with the Ukrainian National ment is designed to serve as both a short- one to Ukrainian cultural figures shot dur- gle.” He blamed the Kuchma government Aid Association and the Ukrainian ened version and an updated restatement ing the Stalin purges of the 1930s. The five for the Lviv violence and said that “the Fraternal Association, which will be pre- of the organizational purposes delineated injured people, who received cuts and government has officially embarked on a sented for final approval to the UNA in the UNA charter. convention; bruises, were leftist demonstrators, includ- path of dictatorship, and aids the Social- Present at the annual session were: Nationalists in committing their outrages.” • discussed and approved several pro- President Ulana Diachuk, Vice-President ing the leader of the Lviv city Communist posed amendments to the UNA By-Laws Party, Oleksander Holub. The arrested He demanded that a special parliamentary that will be presented to convention dele- (Continued on page 4) belonged to the Social-National Party. commission be appointed to investigate the incident and others he alleges have occurred in western Ukrainian cities in the last months. UNA blesses new headquarters in Parsippany Acting Procurator General Oleh Lytvak has agreed to investigate only the specific by Roma Hadzewycz incident in Lviv. He explained that the Verkhovna Rada has more than once PARSIPPANY, N.J. —More than 160 per- attempted to draw his office into what he sons helped the Ukrainian National Association celebrate the blessing of its new (Continued on page 16) headquarters building in this Morris County town on Sunday, November 9. The rite was conducted by clergy of the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox Verkhovna Rada Churches: the Rev. Marian Struc, pastor of Ss. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church in approves members Jersey City, N.J. (home to the UNA’s former headquarters); the Rev. Oleh Hucul, pastor of Holy Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox Church in of Election Commission Maplewood, N.J.; and the Rev. Myron Stasiw, a by Roman Woronowycz UNA advisor who is pastor of Holy Protectress Ukrainian Catholic Church in Toronto. Kyiv Press Bureau The blessing took place in the two-story build- KYIV — Another threat to ing’s spacious atrium, with the guests gathered Verkhovna Rada elections proceeding in the atrium and on a balcony overlooking the normally was overcome on November 12 ground floor. when the Verkhovna Rada finally After blessing the atrium, the priests head- approved a sufficient number of mem- ed upstairs, where they blessed the offices of bers to the Central Election Commission the Ukrainian National Association, Svoboda to allow it to begin its work. and The Ukrainian Weekly. Last week the Ukrainian Parliament Among the guests were representatives of twice rejected all but six of President many Ukrainian community organizations, as Leonid Kuchma’s nominees, even after well as district and branch officers from the meetings had been held between the presi- tri-state New York, New Jersey and dent’s representatives and Verkhovna Rada Connecticut region, including the chairpersons faction leaders in the hope that the mem- of the New York, Northern New Jersey and bers would be elected quickly. On New Haven district committees, respectively, November 12 five additional candidates Barbara Bachynsky, Eugene Oscislawski and were approved, for a total of 11 members, Ihor Hayda. Also present were the two hon- which still leaves the CEC four short of a orary chairmen of the Northern New Jersey full complement of 15 members. District Committee, Walter Bilyk and John Without an election commission, the law Chomko, and the vice-chairman of the New on elections passed in September could not York District, Yuri Kostiw. have been fully implemented. Only the The organizations represented included the Roma Hadzewycz commission has the right to realign the 450 current electoral districts into the 225 (Continued on page 7) Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox clergy bless the new UNA headquarters. (Continued on page 18) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1997 No. 46 Peace Channel exercises held on Black Sea U.S. ambassador to Ukraine confirmed October 28 150 parishes of the UAOC under the Lviv metropolia also agreed to WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate join the UOC-KP for the same reason. late on November 6 confirmed more ( R e s p u b l i k a ) than two dozen new U.S. ambassadors to international organizations and foreign Ukraine admits executions countries. Among them was Steven Pifer, who was named ambassador to KYIV — The Ukrainian Ministry of Ukraine. (Congressional News Service) Internal Affairs acknowledged to the Council of Europe on November 7 that 1814, 1917 - it’s all the same Kyiv has executed 13 convicted criminals this year, despite public assurances from SYMFEROPOL — Confused school- senior Ukrainian officials that all such children in Crimea think that Napoleon or actions have been halted. But the Internal Adolf Hitler led the 1917 Russian Affairs Ministry is reported to have now Revolution. The children showed a lack of issued orders suspending all executions. knowledge about Lenin that in some peri- Only China exceeds Ukraine in number of ods of Soviet history would have been sui- executions this year. (RFE/RL Newsline, cidal. About 150 pupils took part in the poll, Eastern Economist) local journalists reported on November 10. Less than 50 percent knew that the Russian New center to attract foreign investment Revolution led by Lenin took place 80 years ago, and one in 10 did not know who KYIV — Head of the South Korean started it. Twenty percent of final-year stu- Daewoo group Kim Woo-Choong and dents said “kommuniaky” — a derogatory Kyiv City Administrator Oleksander word for Communists rather like “com- Omelchenko marked the beginning of con- mies” — organized it. A few fifth-grade struction of the International Business students said Napoleon, Hitler or Joseph Center (IBC) in Kyiv’s central Stalin was behind the revolt. Some guessed Bessarabskyi district in a stone-laying cere- its date as 1814. Less than 50 percent of the mony on November 6. The Kyiv City younger group, age 10-11, approved of Administration owns 49 percent of the Lenin. Of the older group of 16- and 17- complex, Daewoo owns 51 percent. year-olds, one-fifth wrote that the revolu- Daewoo will invest approximately $280 tion did no good and only 7 percent judged million in construction of the IBC. This is Lenin a “great historical figure.” The find- the biggest foreign investment to date for ings highlighted a generation gap in the for- Kyiv. The IBC will cover 16,500 square mer Soviet Union: older people were out in meters and will include 5,000 square meters force last week to mark the revolution’s of office space, 10,000 square meters for a 80th anniversary. (Reuters) stock exchange, 20,000 square meters for apartments, as well as 15,000 square meters Compromise urged for democrats for a shopping complex.
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