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The Ukrainian Weekly 1994 1NS1DE: ^ voter turnout in repeat parliamentary elections - page 3. " Committee focuses on retrieving Ukraine's cultural treasures - page 3. o. ^ Mykhailo Chereshniovsky dead at 83 - page 5. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association vol. LXII No. 31 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY ЗІ , 1994 75 cents international Monetary Fund Repeat elections succeed in filling to assist Ukraine's recovery only 20 Parliament seats out of 112 by Marta Kolomayets Foreign Affairs. by Marta Kolomayets in Washington. Kyylv Press Bureau Sounding invigorated and optimistic, Kyyiv Press Bureau 9 Odessa region: Yuriy Kruk; deputy Mr. Camdessus said he was impressed minister of transportation. KYYiv - The international Monetary with the Ukrainian leadership and its KYYiv - Only 20 deputies were elect– 9 Kharkiv region: volodymyr Fund will work together with the Ukrainian commitment to reform. He said that Mr. ed on Sunday, July 24, in the latest round Semynozhenko, an academic and direc– of voting to fill 112 vacant seats in the 450- government to help this country recover Kuchma showed him a document outlin– tor of a research institute. from a sagging economy, said Michel seat Ukrainian Supreme Council, reported 9 ing key issues he wants to tackle to move Khmelnytsky region: viktor Camdessus, 1MF managing director, during the Central Electoral Commission. ahead with economic reform. Semenchuk, a director of a trading orga– a visit to Kyyiv on Wednesday, July 27. Commission officials said that many Although Mr. Kuchma has not yet dis– nization. "We have now a clear window of of the parliamentary races were unable to 9 opportunity for action. We cannot miss closed his economic program, Mr. produce a winner because of low voter Cherkasy region: vadym Hetman, it," Mr. Camdessus told reporters on Camdessus mentioned five key points dis– turnout. According to the Law on former director of the National Bank of cussed during their meeting. These include: Ukraine. Wednesday evening, after an intensive 9 Elections, 50 percent of the electorate day of meetings with President Leonid stabilization of the economy, must take part in the vote and a candi– Once again, voter turnout was lowest 9 liberalization of prices, in the capital city of Kyyiv, where only Kuchma, Prime Minister vitaliy Masol 9 date must receive 50 percent of the vote and National Bank Chairman viktor structural changes necessary for to be declared a winner. 29 percent of the electorate came out to Yushchenko. Mr. Camdessus was also enterprises to be more productive and to Run-off elections have been scheduled vote, it must be noted that this was the compete efficiently, fifth time in five months that people scheduled to meet with Supreme Council 9 for Sunday, August 7, in 45 constituen– Chairman Oleksander Moroz on social measures to protect the popu– cies, where the two top vote-getters will went to the polls this year. And for Thursday, July 28. lace from the harshness of transition, face each other, while 47 districts will Kyyivans, where none of the vacant 19 9 gathering international aid to support seats were filled, it won't be the last. "We feel that we are at the beginning of begin the electoral process all over again these changes. For the record, the only oblast that something difficult, but something promis– in November, because elections in their ing, the beginning of something impor– The 1MF director said that during the constituencies were declared invalid. now has elected its full slate of deputies tant," said the managing director, the first next two months experts from his organi– The 20 new legislators will not make is ivano-Frankivske. 1MF official to visit the Ukrainian capital. zation will work with Ukrainian govern– much of a difference in this current ment officials to help them deal with Parliament, which elected 338 deputies "1 believe the recent democratic elec– such problems as the inflation rate, this spring, and it may not be until early tions in Ukraine have given a clear which they want reduced to single-digit 1995 that the Ukrainian Parliament can Al Gore is expression of the need of the Ukrainian figures, and to look for ways to decrease boast a full house. people for action, urgent action to recre– the budget deficit and design a monetary Sixteen of the new deputies are not Kyyiv bound ate conditions of prosperity in this coun– policy that would bring Ukraine out of its affiliated with any party; one represents try," Mr. Camdessus told reporters at a the Party for the Economic Rebirth of the by Marta Kolomayets press conference at the Ministry of (Continued on page 14) Crimea, (volodymyr Yekhudin); one Kyyiv Press Bureau represents the Party for the Democratic Rebirth of Ukraine (Oleksander Yemets, KYYiv - U.S. vice-President Al elected in Lviv); one represents the Gore Jr. will meet with Ukrainian Kuchma makes first appointments Labor Party in Dnipropetrovske President Leonid Kuchma on (viacheslav Tiutin) and one represents Tuesday, August 2, in Kyyiv, the by Marta Kolomayets do not believe there will be sweeping the Communist Party in that same city Foreign Ministry here disclosed on Kyyiv Press Bureau changes in the Cabinet of Ministers, (Petro Ovcharenko). Wednesday, July 27. President Kuchma has already filled four Mr. Gore was invited to Ukraine KYYiv - President Leonid Kuchma However, the Communist Party, positions during his first week in office. which already has 145 seats in the by newly elected President Kuchma assumed the responsibilities of supreme Prime Minister vitaliy Masol, whose and will arrive in Kyyiv on Tuesday commander of the Armed Forces of Parliament, did not significantly increase position seems to be secure at least for its presence in the current Parliament. afternoon from Warsaw, where he Ukraine, in accordance with the the near future, told interfax-Ukraine last will attend 50th anniversary com– Ukrainian Constitution and the law con– Among the elected are: week, that "in general, the formation of 9 vinnytsia region: Anatoliy Yukhym– memorations of the Warsaw upris– cerning the armed forces of Ukraine, on the Cabinet is over." ing on August 1. Friday, July 22. in addition, since his chuk, an assistant director of a regional Mr. Kuchma has already named state administration; and ivan Amkovy, an The visit to Kyyiv, labeled an offi– inauguration on Tuesday, July 19, he has Уаіегіу Pustovoytenko, 47, the head of his cial working visit by the Ukrainian slowly begun assembling his team, assistant director of the State Committee presidential campaign team as the minister government, will include meetings appointing advisers and ministers to vari– on Material Resources. of the Cabinet. Mr. Pustovoytenko held 9 with President Kuchma, Supreme ous posts. Dnipropetrovske region: viktor this same position in 1993, when Mr. Hladush, deputy minister of foreign eco– Council Speaker Oleksander Moroz Among his first acts as president of Kuchma was prime minister. nomic relations in Ukraine; ivan Mahda, and members of the Parliament. Ukraine, Mr. Kuchma named Dmytro A one-time member of the Communist deputy minister of energy of Ukraine; Mr. Gore will also attend a cere– Tabachnyk, 31, as secretary of the presi– Party of Ukraine, he was elected deputy and Pavlo Lazarenko, head of the monial event in Kyyiv, but the site dential administration, also known as to the Supreme Council in 1990 from region's council. has yet to be confirmed. He is sched– chief of staff. Mr. Tabachnyk was one of 9 Dnipropetrovske, where he was mayor in Donetske region: Hennadiy vasyliev, uled to give a press conference before Mr. Kuchma's top advisors during his regional procurator-general; viktor he leaves for the U.S. on August 2. presidential campaign. 1991-1993. By training, he is an engi– neer. Formerly, this position was held by Shevchenko, general director of a metal According to unconfirmed reports, He also worked with Mr. Kuchma in ivan Dotsenko. business; Stanislav Yanko, deputy direc– Mr. Gore will extend an invitation to the capacity of press secretary of the President Kuchma also appointed tor of the State Coal Committee; and President Kuchma to visit Cabinet of Ministers while Mr. Kuchma valentyn Nedryhailo, deputy minister of Washington in August. Mr. Kuchma was prime minister in 1992-1993. When Mykola Shulha to be the minister of a newly created department, the Ministry internal affairs of Ukraine. was in Washington last spring, and Mr. Kuchma submitted his resignation, 9 Zhytomyr region: Serhiy Melnyk, met with Mr. Gore. Mr. Tabachnyk also left his post. of Nationalities issues, immigration and Cults. Mr. Shulha, who took over as min– head of a collective farm; and ivan Mr. Moroz was scheduled to leave Mr. Tabachnyk, a graduate of Kyyiv ister of nationalities issues and immigra– Kostruba, financial director of the region's for the United States on August 1, for State University, is a historian by train– state administration. a visit organized by the Congressional tion earlier this year, will now preside 9 ing and has worked at the institute of over a ministry that not only supervises Luhanske region: Yuli Yoffe, former Research Service. That trip has now History in Ukraine's capital city. vice-premiere of Ukraine and the ex- been postponed. Although some government officials (Continued on page 14) trade adviser at the Ukrainian Embassy THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY ЗІ , 1994 No. 31 ANALYSlS: Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine's second president Solzhenitsyn renews imperialist blather to win a parliamentary majority in the byTarasKuzio (as laid down in the re-adopted May next elections. (RFE7RL Daily Report) 1992 Crimean Constitution). Mr. MOSCOW— Speaking on Russian Confounding all the opinion polls and Meshkov pointed to the Russian– Television on July 22, the writer Alexander Moroz meets with Russian counterparts predictions in Ukraine and in the West, Tatarstan treaty as a model.
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