www.ukrweekly.com 1NS1DE: - Eurovision visitors to Kyiv are impressed - page 8. - Уагепуку eating champion crowned in New York - page 11. - Ukrainians in the world of sports: an overview - centerfold. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association vol. LXXIII No. 22 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 Si;S2 in Ukraine Yushchenko shows signs of impatience Kyiv hosts Eurovision finals with his prime minister after fuel crisis Greece's entry wins song contest by Zenon Zawada principles and that the government could Kyiv Press Bureau no longer resort to such tactics. The decree re-established a market-oriented KYiv - President viktor Yushchenko environment in Ukraine's oil-refining reportedly lost his patience with Prime industry. Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and suggest– According to the confidant, when the ed that she resign during a high-level May 21 meeting began, Ms. Tymoshenko conference with Russian oil executives immediately told those present that she on May 19. disagreed with the first part of the presi– Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, Ukraine's weekly dent's order, in which he said the govem– analytical newspaper, confirmed with ment's response to the crisis was not "four conference participants" the details market-oriented. of the conflict as revealed by a trusted At this point, the president reportedly confidant of Ms. Tymoshenko. apologized to the Russian oil executives According to Ms. Tymoshenko's that the Ukrainian government did not anonymous confidant, in his alleged allow them to conduct business. emotional outburst, the president also That's when he reportedly made the said that "Ukraine's government is the remark about Ukraine's government worst in Europe and he regrets selecting being the worst in Europe and that he Ms. Tymoshenko to her position." regretted appointing Ms. Tymoshenko. The president's remarks came as he He then reportedly suggested that she AP7Mykola Lazarenko, Pool tried to resolve a fuel crisis in which Ms. join the Social Democratic Party - President viktor Yuschenko applauds as the winner of the 2005 Eurovision Song Tymoshenko accused Russian oil execu– United (SDPU) and resign. Contest, Helena Paparizou of Greece, holds the trophy and a special Ukrainian tives of artificially inflating prices, as The remarks were not serious, said award he presented after the finale. much as 10 to 15 percent in recent Petro Miroshnykov, chair of the gasoline months, in order to destabilize the inde– company Alians-Ukraina. by Zenon Zawada the Eurovision Song Contest finals - the pendent-minded Yushchenko govern– "The phrase really did come up, that if Kyiv Press Bureau first time Ukraine hosted the event. ment. something doesn't please you, you can Ruslana's victory at last year's compe– in response, Mr. Yushchenko issued a resign," Mr. Miroshnykov told Channel KYiv - More than 150 million televi– tition in istanbul brought Eurovision to presidential decree on May 18 stating 5, Ukraine's 24-hour news channel, dur– sion viewers worldwide set their eyes on Kyiv, which was able to demonstrate to that the prime minister's decision to Kyiv's Sports Palace on Saturday night, Europe that it could organize and execute implement price controls violated market (Continued on page 10) May 21, to watch the 50th anniversary of a show of high standards and quality. Helena Paparizou, a Swedish citizen who is an ethnic Greek, emerged as the Cardinal Husar speaks on eve of Permanent Synod's meeting in Canada winner after performing in English her song, "My Number One," as Greece's by Christopher Guly Constantinople and the world's most sen– concept that allows for unity in multiplic– official representative in the contest. Special to The Ukrainian Weekly ior Orthodox patriarch, warned that the ity. Communion establishes unity but The political and economic significance establishment of a Kyiv-based Ukrainian allows people to be themselves, to of hosting Eurovision just months after the OTTAWA - While the Ukrainian Catholic Patriarchate would risk a break observe their own traditions," said Orange Revolution proved far more signif– Catholic Church is "on the right road" in ecumenical relations between the Cardinal Husar, a Ukrainian Studite icant to Ukrainians, and particularly their toward being granted a Patriarchate, Orthodox communion and the vatican. monk who in 1977 was secretly ordained government leaders, than the music itself. achieving Catholic-Orthodox unity will But Cardinal Husar said the creation a bishop in Rome by the late Cardinal "The festival's concept, which we pro- require a "more imaginative" approach, of a Patriarchate would not give the Josyf Slipyj (who used the title of patri– posed, depended on the fact that this according to the leader of the estimated 6 arch). wasn't just a song competition, but million Ukrainian Catholics around the Ukrainian Catholic Church "something "if you look at it theologically, we all above all, a European presentation of world. extraordinary" based on "merit" or in recognition of the years of suffering the are Orthodox and Catholic at the same Ukraine," said Mykola Tomenko, vice- in an exclusive, 45-minute telephone Church endured after being forced under- time - it's simply where you put the prime minister of humanitarian affairs, interview with The Weekly on the eve of ground by the Soviets. accent," he added. after the final's conclusion. a historic May 22 to 29 meeting of the "it is a natural form of existence," While "there is a general desire on the in front of an international audience of Ukrainian Catholic Church's Permanent part of the people" of Ukraine for nearly 9,000 spectators, singers and rock Synod in Winnipeg, Cardinal Lubomyr explained the white-bearded, five-foot– 10, Lviv-born major archbishop. Catholic-Orthodox unity, achieving it has bands from 24 nations competed in the Husar said that though he didn't know been bogged down in "politics" and the final round on May 21 in the annual cele– when the Holy See would formally give However, Cardinal Husar who is often repetition of past "stereotypes without an bration of European pop music, with tra– him the title "patriarch," he said the referred to as "patriarch," also rejected effort to see things anew," Cardinal ditional, ethnic elements mixed in by the Church is "going in that direction." the idea of a Patriarchate as an all-or- Husar explained. Mediterranean and Slavic performers. The "difficulty," he explained, comes nothing proposition. "There are those who say, Tf we have "The general attitude has been that Eurovision fanatics began descending from two groups opposed to a Ukrainian upon the Sports Palace hours before the it, we'll survive; if we don't have it, we everything will be all right if everybody Catholic Patriarchate. event, either draping their nation's flags will not survive.' it is not that way. The comes to us. That's a very one-sided ecu– "Within the Church, there are fears around their shoulders or waving them Church has survived and it simply wants menism that has been exercised - or at that such a Patriarchate could separate us fiercely. a tPatriarchatel within the bounds of its least has been seen to be - by a great from the fCatholicJ Church. And then Organizers covered the Sports Palace tradition - EandJ within the concept of many people within and without the there are also ecumenical considerations. Catholic Church," he continued. "Maybe in green netting and its awning featured ECatholicJ communion." There is much opposition on the part of what we need is a more imaginative the show's logo alongside advertise– some Orthodox neighbors," said 72-year- Embracing that notion of communion approach and not be afraid to take some ments for Nemiroff vodka and Kyivstar old Cardinal Husar, who is officially could also lead to Catholic-Orthodox actions together." telecommunications. known as the major archbishop of Lviv unity, said the cardinal, who has been This week's meeting of the Ukrainian Delegations took turns holding mini-ral– for Ukrainians. head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church Catholic Church's Permanent Synod lies on the Sports Palace's steps, chanting Last year, Ecumenical Patriarch since January 2001. "in Ukrainian, it's Bartholomew, the archbishop of what we call 'soprechashtia' - a basic (Continued on page 16) (Continued on page 8) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 29,2005 No. 22 ANALYSIS Kyiv divided on how far Leaders commemorate Bykivnia's victims and the monopolization of the fuel market caused the current fuel crisis, UT1 report– KYiv - President viktor Yushchenko, ed. Mr. Yushchenko on May 18 signed into to go with reprivatization members of the Cabinet of Ministers, and law a government-sponsored bill abolish– by Taras Kuzio tigation into the privatization deals of the delegations of the Ukrainian ing import duties on gasoline and diesel Eurasia Daily Monitor 1990s. Both Ms. Semeniuk and Ms. Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) that the verkhovna Rada passed the previ– Tymoshenko have hinted that and the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic and ous day. Mr. Yushchenko also declared that Foreign investors are showing more Kryvorizhstal, which oligarchs viktor Roman Catholic Churches attended a "for once and forever no one will regulate interest in Ukraine since the Orange Pinchuk and Rynat Akhmetov purchased memorial service in the Bykivnia Forest, prices using administrative methods in Revolution took place. Nevertheless, for a third of its real price in June 2004, near Kyiv, where more than 100,000 vic– Ukraine," warning that such a policy sends they remain cautious because of uncer– should remain in state hands. tims of Stalin's terror are buried. Clergy of an "unhealthy signal" to internal and exter– tainties surrounding the threat of re-pri– The Yushchenko team faces divisions the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv nal markets.