The Ukrainian Weekly 2005, No.37

www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: •A look at the divisions in Ukraine’s leadership — page 3. • Plast campground in Ohio celebrates 40th anniversary — page 10. • And the winner of the Narbut Prize in philately is... — centerfold. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIII HE No.KRAINIAN 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine U.S. lifts sanctions Yushchenko sacks Tymoshenko and Cabinet of Ministers T U by Zenon Zawada “IW am convinced the moment has arrived when my col- on Ukraine’s exports Kyiv Press Bureau leagues have lost their team spirit and faith,” Mr. Yushchenko by Andrew Nynka said. “This is painful because these people are still my KYIV – In an unprecedented move by a Ukrainian presi- friends.” PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The United States dent, Viktor Yushchenko sacked his entire Cabinet of By firing his government, Mr. Yushchenko has swept out of has lifted a $75 million sanction on Ministers and top government officials, including arch rivals office all those who most supported him during the Orange Ukrainian exports, the Office of the U.S. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and National Security and Revolution. Trade Representative announced on August Defense Council Secretary Petro Poroshenko. Political experts hailed Mr. Yushchenko’s bold decision to 31. The move is the result of legislation Mr. Yushchenko announced the firings on September 8 just clear the Cabinet of its irreconcilable squabbles, but also passed recently by Ukraine that improves as high-ranking officials, first among them presidential chief expressed deep concern about the president’s desire to carry the protection of intellectual property rights of staff Oleksander Zinchenko, submitted resignations while out reforms and continue the spirit of the Orange Revolution. and has been billed as a boon to President citing widespread corruption in his government. He said he As Ms. Tymoshenko’s replacement, Mr. Yushchenko tapped Viktor Yushchenko’s government. made his decision because his appointees were failing to work On July 6 the Verkhovna Rada passed a together and cooperate on behalf of the Ukrainian people. (Continued on page 4) law that made the piracy of intellectual property illegal. The new law, which went into force on August 2, is meant to strength- en Ukraine’s licensing regime and enforce- ment efforts to stem the illegal production and trade of compact discs and DVDs. Reaction from the United States to passage of Ukraine’s new law protecting intellectual property came quickly. “I commend Ukrainian President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko for their personal involvement in securing passage of these amendments, which is expected to improve Ukraine’s protection of intellectual property rights,” said U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman on August 31. In a statement released the same day, Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry praised Oleksander Zinchenko Petro Poroshenko Yulia Tymoshenko Yurii Yekhanurov the lifting of the sanctions, which it said is proof that the country is moving closer toward joining the World Trade Organization. The move by the Office of the U.S. by Zenon Zawada years, university officials said. Trade Representative “recognized the Ukrainian Catholic University expands its campus in Lviv The campus’ other main structure, the nearby 59,200- Ukrainian government’s effort to safe- Kyiv Press Bureau square-foot Faculty of Theology and Philosophy building and guard intellectual property, to bring LVIV – Four years ago, Frenchman Didier Rance stood at a library, will open its doors in January 2006, said Dr. Jeffrey Ukrainian legislation in line with interna- 42-acre site in suburban Lviv with the Rev. Bohdan Prach, the Wills, UCU vice-rector. tional standards, and is a sign of Ukraine’s rector of what was called Lviv Seminary at the time. Several monastic orders, including the Studite Fathers and progress on the way toward completion of “There were mainly goats and grass,” said Mr. Rance, pres- the Redemptorist Fathers, will build places of study for their the talks on WTO entry,” the Foreign ident of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) in France. “But he students during the next decade, he said. Affairs Ministry statement said. “It is a said in four years, we’ll have a seminary open here. It was a UCU Rector Father Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., said the grow- remarkable event on the eve of Ukrainian dream, of course.” ing university can become a leading European theological President Viktor Yushchenko’s visit to the On August 28, Mr. Rance revisited the former pasture with center. U.S.A.” 21 of his fellow countrymen to admire the dream of “There is enormous potential, with the closing of theologi- The move is seen widely as a first major Ukrainians and non-Ukrainians realized: the 123,785-square- cal faculties in Western Europe and with the old-fashioned step toward Ukraine’s membership in the foot Holy Spirit Seminary and Church of the Holy Spirit. approach to academic theology to the east and to the north of World Trade Organization. In addition, in “As a Frenchman, I can only be impressed by the growth of us, for Lviv to become a leading European theological center order to become a member of the WTO, the Church, the youth and the number of seminarians,” said during the next 10 years,” Father Gudziak said. Ukraine must shed its status as a Jackson- Jacques Ouvrier, 74, a retired aerospace employee who made The fall semester began on September 1, but the academy’s Vanik country, a status that the U.S. significant financial donations to the construction. approximately 260 seminarians won’t be able to live in the Congress had placed on the Soviet Union Mr. Ouvrier was among more than 1,000 Christians and 14 new seminary until government inspectors give approval, Dr. for its failure to allow citizens to emigrate Ukrainian Catholic bishops who worshipped at a divine litur- Prach said. freely. gy, led by Archbishop Major of Kyiv-Halych Lubomyr Husar, Ever since the Theological Academy was reopened in In December 2001 the U.S. imposed to bless the seminary and consecrate the church. 1990, seminarians had been living in derelict, cramped build- sanctions on $75 million worth of metals, “There will come a time when we will have all the neces- ings in Rudno, a village on Lviv’s outskirts. footwear and other goods from Ukraine in sary space and structures, and we will have everything to lead To mark the completion of the new center, Catholics led a pro- retaliation for the continued violation of a church life,” Cardinal Husar said in his sermon. “But the cession on August 27 from the old seminary building on intellectual property, most notably of most important thing is that we never try to do anything with- Kopernik (Copernicus) Street to the Khutorivka Street campus. music compact discs and optical media out holy God.” They prayed at both locations. products. The Holy Spirit Seminary and Church of the Holy Spirit At the time, U.S. officials contended that form the architectural and social focal point of the Ukrainian The new accommodations Ukraine was the largest producer and Catholic University’s (UCU) ever-expanding Center of The two-story Holy Spirit Seminary has the shape of a exporter of pirated media in Europe. Theological Education and Formation campus on Khutorivka closed half-circle, forming a large central courtyard where the Ukrainian piracy of intellectual property Street. five-domed Church of the Holy Spirit can accommodate copyrights is believed to have cost the U.S. The center is a milestone in Ukraine’s higher educational about 200 worshippers. recording industry more than $200 million system, making the UCU the largest theological institution of All the center’s buildings have a façade of white plaster annually in lost revenue, U.S. trade offi- higher education in the country. The center was western cials said. Ukraine’s largest construction project during the last four (Continued on page 8) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2005 No. 37 ANALYSIS Polls: Yushchenko government NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Ukraine to help hurricane victims Internal Affairs Ministry.” Meanwhile, Mykola Martynenko said later the same is gradually losing popularity KYIV – The Cabinet of Ministers of day that he will sue Mr. Zinchenko for Ukraine has adopted a resolution to allo- “mendacious and deliberately discrediting” by Jan Maksymiuk weekly in its August 24-September 2 cate 1 million hrv ($200,000 U.S.) as relief allegations. (RFE/RL Newsline) RFE/RL Newsline issue, the Razumkov Center found in for the areas in the United States affected August that for the first time since the by hurricane Katrina. The money will be President convenes security meeting A survey by the Razumkov Center Orange Revolution more Ukrainians think used to buy medicines and other necessi- KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko polling agency conducted on August 5- that things in the country are going in the ties. Humanitarian relief cargoes are to be chaired an eight-hour meeting of the 12 confirmed what was signaled earlier wrong direction rather than the right one: delivered to the United States by super- National Security and Defense Council by other Ukrainian pollsters – namely, 43 percent versus 33 percent. In April the heavy Ruslan transport planes. (Ukrinform) (NSDC) in Kyiv on September 6, that the new government of President analogous indicators in a similar poll were Zinchenko resigns in protest Ukrainian media reported. The meeting, Viktor Yushchenko is gradually losing its fairly upbeat: 23 percent versus 54 percent. attended by high-ranking state officials, popularity, following its installation in Moreover, the number of respondents KYIV – Oleksander Zinchenko, the followed the resignation of Oleksander February on a nationwide wave of enthu- who think that the country’s economic siasm incited by the November- Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, stepped Zinchenko, chief of the presidential staff, situation under the Yushchenko govern- December 2004 Orange Revolution.

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