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The Ukrainian Weekly 2002-15.Pdf INSIDE:• More election results and analyses — pages 2-5. • Ukrainian Catholic University’s founding documents signed — page 11. • Lviv’s art nouveau on exhibit in New York City — page 15. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXX HE KRAINIANNo. 15 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2002 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine TheT tale of Microsoft’s UPro-Kuchma bloc claims to haveW 180 seats in Rada by Roman Woronowycz has 115 seats at present, is that everything is Chairman Ivan Pliusch, who was re-elected Kyiv Press Bureau subject to change until after the Verkhovna as an independent and remains close to the new Ukrainian software, Rada begins its work next month. leaders of both political groups, said on KYIV – Volodymyr Lytvyn announced National Deputy Roman Bezsmertnyi, a April 5 that he expects Our Ukraine and For on April 9 that he had received assurances leading figure in the bloc, said on April 10 a United Ukraine to form a “right-centrist” and a little prodding from 145 national deputies elected in sin- that, while his group was talking with all the reported Interfax-Ukraine. gle-mandate districts that they would join political entities that crossed the 4 percent “If they reach mutual understanding, it by Roman Woronowycz the For a United Ukraine Bloc, which threshold and obtained parliamentary seats, will be for the benefit of Ukraine and its Kyiv Press Bureau would allow it to take the lead in the any discussions about coalition building and Parliament,” explained Mr. Pliusch. process of forming a majority in the new KYIV – The Microsoft Corp. forming a majority are premature. He said Parliament. However, three days later, National released a Ukrainian version of its that while certain figures are placing the Mr. Lytvyn, who is the chairman of the Deputy Dmytro Tabachnyk, a member of new Microsoft Office XP software accent on how to obtain the required num- bloc as well as President Leonid Kuchma’s the For a United Ukraine Bloc and a former package on March 12, making it the ber of seats to obtain control over the chief of staff, said the new members would chief of staff for President Kuchma, said the first computer software on the market Parliament, his bloc is looking for ideologi- give his bloc, which had won 35 seats in talks between the pro-presidential bloc and available in the Ukrainian language. cally sound partners. by-party voting, 180 seats in the Verkhovna Mr. Yushchenko’s bloc were not going well. While Microsoft officially noted “The first step in any such discussions Rada – 46 shy of a majority. President Kuchma has not expressed any that it was responding to specific needs to be agreement on a common pro- “We will lead the effort to successfully particular predilection for a specific compo- market demand in developing the gram,” explained Mr. Bezsmertnyi. form a majority,” said Mr. Lytvyn. sition of a parliamentary majority – product, the company downplayed Some members of the Our Ukraine Bloc the fact that it was also a response to For a United Ukraine was one of six although he has said he would not support a said on April 10 that a coalition between specific force placed upon it by sev- political organizations that received at least coalition that included opposition forces. their group and the For a United Ukraine eral concerns. 4 percent support from Ukraine’s electorate Speaking at the same political event at Bloc is impossible, because of extensive The Ukrainian-language software in parliamentary elections held on March which Mr. Lytvyn made his declaration, Mr. antagonisms between leading personalities emerged only after the Ministry of 31. Although the 12 percent given the bloc Kuchma said, however, that he would in each group and contradictions in their Education exerted pressure on put it only third among the six top vote-get- actively support the formation of a perma- Microsoft to develop a Ukrainian ters – after the Our Ukraine Bloc, which fundamental approach to government. One nent majority in Parliament that was cen- version of its basic software pro- received 23.6 percent of the vote, and the of Our Ukraine’s members, Valerii tered on the For a United Ukraine Bloc. He grams for use in its schools. In turn, Communist Party, which took 20 percent – Asadchev, called Mr. Lytvyn’s bloc repre- reiterated that he would allow such a major- the Ukrainian government action the fact that it is the pro-presidential party sentatives of “an authoritarian regime.” (Continued on page 4) came only after the Shevchenko and has a disproportionate amount of However, former Verkhovna Rada Scientific Society used its influences Ukraine’s most powerful individuals, has and contacts to put the heat on them. allowed it to take center stage as the first Nonetheless, the computer giant strategies are employed in the development used the March 12 event to hype its of the new Verkhovna Rada. contribution to the language develop- The 145 new members all come from Ukraine’s parliamentary elections: ment of Ukraine by noting that finally single-mandate districts, where they suc- there are words for the various com- cessfully ran for office either as members of the popular vote for parties/blocs puter commands and software termi- the For a United Ukraine political bloc Party/bloc Vote % nology in the Ukrainian language. apart from the party slate or as independ- 1. Our Ukraine 6,062,077 23.55 “If word usage is developing, it ents who now have revealed their willing- 2. Communist Party 5,151,893 20.01 means the language is alive,” ness to work within the bloc. 3. For a United Ukraine 3,040,459 11.81 explained Olga Dergunova, the direc- Mr.Lytvyn, who spoke at a meeting of 4. Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc 1,865,476 7.24 tor of the CIS office of Microsoft, at his political organization, listed three 5. Socialist Party of Ukraine 1,773,060 6.88 a press conference at the National “axiomatic” positions in regard to the for- 6. Social Democratic Party (United) 1,614,828 6.27 Academy of Sciences in Kyiv. mation of a future majority that have come 7. Natalia Vitrenko Bloc 829,627 3.22 She added that her company con- about as a result of his bloc’s successful 8. Women for the Future 544,245 2.11 siders the introduction of the soft- recruitment effort: no majority could be 9. Winter Crop Generation Team 519,674 2.01 ware a noteworthy achievment for formed without the participation of For a 10. Reformed Communist Party 360,727 1.40 her company. United Ukraine; the political bloc should 11. Party of Greens of Ukraine 335,821 1.30 “The appearance of a software act as an initiator and coordinator of parlia- 12. Yabluko Party 297,627 1.15 program in yet another national lan- mentary coalition talks; and the majority 13. Unity Election bloc 276,886 1.07 guage is a big day for Microsoft as must be formed on a platform of market- 14. Democratic Party/Democratic Union 226,870 0.88 well as for that country,” said Ms. orientation, democratic reforms and 15. New Generation Party 199,531 0.77 Dergunova. European integration. 16. Russian Bloc 188,756 0.73 Microsoft will provide users If in fact true, Mr. Lytvyn’s claim that 17. ZUBR Bloc (For Ukraine, Belarus and Russia) 111,585 0.43 Ukrainian language versions of its For a United Ukraine had more than 18. Communist Party of Workers and Peasants 106,510 0.41 Office XP in the “professional” or quadrupled the number of seats it would 19. Agrarian Party of Ukraine 99,279 0.38 “small business” versions, which will hold in the next Parliament would require 20. Party for the Rehabilitation of the Seriously Ill 90,863 0.35 allow them to interface with the Word that some 79 of 93 candidates who success- 21. All-Ukrainian Party of Workers 88,344 0.34 2002, Excel 2002, Outlook 2002 and fully ran as non-aligned independents in 22. All-Ukrainian Christian Party 74,681 0.29 PowerPoint 2002 programs. The single-mandate districts had decided to join 23. Social Democratic Party of Ukraine 68,510 0.26 small business version will also have his party of power. That figure could also 24. National Movement of Ukraine (Rukh splinter) 41,499 0.16 Publisher 2002. However, thus far include several single-mandate district win- 25. Bloc Against All 29,388 0.11 only the Word and Outlook programs ners who had changed party or bloc alle- 26. Ukrainian Naval Party 28,813 0.11 are in the Ukrainian-language. giance in recent days. 27. Party of Depositors and Social Protection 27,395 0.10 The programs also contain word Our Ukraine, the political bloc that 28. New Force Party 26,824 0.10 correction and orthographic correction received the most electoral votes in the by- features for Ukrainian, along with a 29. Christian Movement 23,489 0.09 party voting and had been expected to hold Ukrainian directory of synonyms. 30. Justice All-Ukrainian Leftist Association 21,877 0.08 the most seats in the Parliament, refrained Ms. Dergunova said that, in 31. Ukrainian National Assembly 11,816 0.04 from commenting on Mr. Lytvyn’s asser- 32. All-Ukrainian New World Association 10,946 0.04 (Continued on page 5) tion. The official stance of Our Ukraine, 33. Reformed Liberal Party 8,492 0.03 which is headed by Viktor Yushchenko and 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2002 No.
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