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Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXX HE KRAINIANNo. 27 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2002 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine T U 3,000 attendW inauguration in Lviv Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv enthrones of Ukrainian Catholic University by Roman Woronowycz added that “there must be a lively Bishop Stephen Bilak in Florida Kyiv Press Bureau exchange between the university and the community, which becomes the founda- LVIV – Toga-clad trumpeters, stu- tion for new ideas.” dents, scholars and diplomats joined Lviv Cardinal Husar emphasized the need residents and the Ukrainian Greek- for a Christian university in Ukraine as a Catholic Church (UGCC) to celebrate the center for Christian thought and of inauguration of the first Christian univer- Christian values. He called this the sity in Ukraine in the modern era when unique aspect of the new institution’s the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) work. was formally opened on June 29. “If a university is supposed to seek With a crowd of more than 3,000 Lviv truth, beauty and goodness beyond the residents watching on a sun-splayed façade of the obvious, then the university Saturday afternoon, UCU Vice-Rector that is being born today must uphold this Myroslav Marynovych, acting as master standard as well and search for these of ceremonies, read the proclamation that eternal values, but in addition it must do announced the inauguration of the so through the eyes of a Christian,” he UGCC’s new university in Ukraine. stated. Also seated on the stage erected before The head of the UGCC presented the famous Lviv Opera House on Lviv’s Rector Gudziak with a scholar’s toga, Freedom Square were Cardinal Lubomyr which the late Patriarch Josyf Slipyj, the Husar, UGCC archbishop major and the founder of St. Clement’s Ukrainian head of the Church who is also UCU Catholic University, located in Rome, chancellor; the newly appointed UCU had ordered made even before the doors rector, the Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak; of that institution opened. As Cardinal Archbishop Vsevolod of the Ukrainian Husar explained, it was symbolic of the Orthodox Church of the U.S.A.; the patriarch’s inability to see anything but Vatican’s papal nuncio to Ukraine, success in his endeavors. Archbishop Mykola Eterovic; ambassa- In his remarks, the Rev. Gudziak, who dors from Great Britain, Germany and had been unanimously elected to lead the France; as well as Lviv Mayor Lubomyr new university by the St. Clement Fund Buniak and rectors of several prominent that oversees the educational institution, Ukrainian universities. reviewed the century-long effort to estab- Cardinal Husar noted in his address lish a Ukrainian Catholic university in that the opening ceremony was purposely Lviv, and the vision of Metropolitan conducted very publicly. “Our university, Andrey Sheptytsky and determination of just as all universities, should not hide Patriarch Slipyj that led to its realization. behind the walls of its buildings, but He noted that seven of the Ukrainian must be close to the society it serves,” explained the primate of the UGCC, who (Continued on page 9) Patriarch Filaret with newly enthroned Bishop Stephen Bilak. COOPER CITY, Fla. – The Very body, will ordain the 83-year-old cler- Rev. Stephen Bilak, 83, was ordained ic, along with other bishops from a bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox America and Ukraine.” Church – Kyivan Patriarchate during a “This is an honor,” the church’s cur- pastoral visit to the United States of rent pastor, the Rev. Victor Poliarny, Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv and All Rus’- who succeeded the Rev. Bilak at St. Ukraine, the Church’s primate. Nicholas in 1999, told the Sun The Rev. Bilak, former pastor of St. Sentinel. “Whenever someone comes Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church from Ukraine, we feel super-good in Cooper City, Fla., was enthroned as about it.” a bishop of the UOC-KP on Sunday, Patriarch Filaret and his entourage May 19. Present at the ceremony, in were welcomed at the entrance to the addition to Patriarch Filaret, were church by the head of the parish com- Bishops Dymytrii and Alexander munity, Leonid Husak. Once inside the (Bykovetz). A banquet followed the church, they were greeted by the Rev. church services. Poliarny, who extended felicitations on James D. Davis, religion editor of behalf of Ukraine’s faithful children in the Sun Sentinel, wrote on May 19: the diaspora and called on all present “Father Stephen Bilak was happy as a to pray for the development of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and for husband and a pastor in Cooper City. God’s blessings for the Ukrainian And a retiree for three years. He never nation. expected to become a bishop. But a After the enthronement ceremony, bishop he will become today, when Bishop Stephen humbly addressed his several prelates ... welcome him as a fellow bishops, clergy and faithful, fellow shepherd. ... His Holiness Roman Woronowycz Patriarch Filaret, head of the Church (Continued on page 16) Cardinal Lubomyr Husar (left) presents a historic toga ordered by Patriarch Josyf to the Ukrainian Catholic University’s rector, the Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2002 No. 27 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Denial of Great Famine continues Russia, Ukraine agree on gas Ministry and the State Tax Administration held a joint session in Kyiv on June 27 at a decade after collapse of USSR KYIV – Meeting in Kyiv on July 1, which they pledged to combine their efforts Ukrainian First Vice Prime Minister Oleh in combating money laundering, the by Taras Kuzio 1990s, Ukrainian scholars redefined the Dubyna and Russian Vice Prime Minister UNIAN news service reported. Internal RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report famine as “genocide” or “terror-famine,” Viktor Khristenko signed a protocol agree- Affairs Minister Yurii Smirnov noted that and a monument was erected in central ment on Russian natural-gas transit via the problem of money laundering and out- In April and May, a curious and, at Kyiv. In September 1993, then-President Ukraine and use of Ukrainian underground flow of capital from Ukraine results from times, highly charged discussion raged Leonid Kravchuk called the death of one- gas-storage facilities, Interfax-Ukraine the fact that 50 percent of economic activity over the “Internet List H-Russia” on the fifth of Ukrainians “genocide.” In reported. According to the agreement, in the country takes place in the shadow 1932-1933 Great Famine in Ukraine that November 2001, on the Day of which is valid until 2003, Russian natural zone. State Tax Administration chief led to the deaths of anywhere from 5 mil- Remembrance for these crimes, President gas transiting Ukraine will amount to a total Mykola Azarov said that 356 offshore com- lion to 10 million people. The discussion Leonid Kuchma talked of “tens of mil- of 128.7 billion cubic meters, of which 110 panies own stakes ranging from 10 to 98 is curious in that it was taking place a lions” of Ukrainians who died in war, the billion are earmarked for Western Europe percent in “basic Ukrainian enterprises” in decade after the USSR collapsed and “famine-terror” and the gulag. and the rest for Moldova and Russia. The the power industries, as well as the metal- Ukraine established itself as an inde- American-born Prof. James Mace, Ukrainian state company Naftohaz Ukrainy lurgical and mining branches. A survey by pendent state. who formerly headed the Washington- will charge $1,093 per 1,000 cubic meters the State Tax Administration has shown that The continued denial in this discus- based U.S. Commission on the Ukraine per 100 kilometers of transit. Russia’s a majority of those offshore companies are sion of the artificiality of the 1932-1933 Famine in the 1980s and is currently at Gazprom will pay the transit costs by sub- not even registered as entities conducting famine in Ukraine reflects widespread the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla tracting them from gas sales to Ukraine, economic activities. (RFE/RL Newsline) double standards. Academy, wrote in 1995 that the famine charging $50 for 1,000 cubic meters in First, there is a strong refusal among was “the central question” for Ukrainian 2003, the same price charged in the first President speaks on Constitution Day academics and journalists to place Soviet history. Dr. Mace remains convinced that half of 2002. The difference will be paid in and Nazi crimes against humanity on the the famine was primarily directed at cash by Ukraine. The two countries also KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma said same level. The ideological preferences Ukrainians. After the U.S. commission reached agreement that Ukraine store 5 bil- in a solemn statement that the adoption of of some academics are allowed to inter- closed, Dr. Mace was unable to obtain lion cubic meters of Russian gas in 2002, the Ukrainian Constitution of Ukraine on fere with their scholarly research. How academic employment in the United and more in subsequent years. Russia is to June 28, 1996, was the most important else can we understand Western scholars States; his cards had “been marked” as a pay for the storage in cash, but the two sides event in the history of independent Ukraine, whose decadeslong infatuation with eco- “biased Ukrainian nationalist émigré.” did not disclose the price. Ukraine currently UNIAN reported. But he added that the nomic changes in the 1930s has included Many Western academics at that time, has 13 underground gas-storage facilities Constitution “already requires some trying to explain away Stalinist crimes and at present, continue to see studies of capable of storing 30 billion cubic meters.