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Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych Introduces New Ukrainian Cabinet INSIDE:• U.S. State Department releases human rights report — page 3. • Glaucoma center celebrates inaugural year in California — page 9. • Interview: Ukrainian scholars comment on Ukraine’s 15th anniversary — 11. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIV HE KRAINIANNo. 33 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine New government announces measures PrimeT Minister UViktor Yanukovych W to improve relations with Russia introduces new Ukrainian cabinet by Zenon Zawada by Zenon Zawada ing situations which emerged with Russia Kyiv Press Bureau Kyiv Press Bureau in the last year-and-a-half. We will exam- ine to what extent these things are well- KYIV – Prime Minister Viktor KYIV – Pro-Russian politicians took grounded and how much they impede our Yanukovych introduced his Cabinet of control of Ukraine’s key government relations in general,” he said. Ministers on August 4, just minutes after posts and announced measures to As his symbolic first foreign trip, Mr. the Verkhovna Rada affirmed his nomi- improve ties with the Russian Federation Yanukovych announced on August 10 nation. after the Verkhovna Rada voted August 4 that he will travel to Moscow between Of its 24 members, at least nine to affirm Viktor Yanukovych as August 15 and August 17 to visit Russian belong to the Party of the Regions, at Ukraine’s prime minister. Federation President Vladimir Putin. least five belong to the Our Ukraine fac- While Ukrainian President Viktor Mr. Putin called Mr. Yushchenko, and tion and two represent the Socialist Party Yushchenko has portrayed the new gov- then later Mr. Yanukovych, to congratu- of Ukraine. ernment as a diverse body in which polit- late them on their ability to find compro- Though Yurii Yekhanurov will step ical forces made compromises, Party of mise and end Ukraine’s political crisis. down to become a National Deputy in the Regions leaders made clear that reaf- Among Mr. Yanukovych’s top priori- the Verkhovna Rada, eight of his minis- firming Ukraine’s relations with the ties in Moscow will be to possibly rene- ters will remain in place. Russian Federation was a priority not up gotiate Ukraine’s national gas agree- Prime Minister and Party of the for concession. Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych, 56, ments with Russia so that they are trans- Without doubt, Ukrainians can count parent and meet international norms, he returned to Ukraine’s top leadership post on a warming of relations with the after losing it during his failed presiden- said. Russian Federation, said Mykola Azarov, He was confident that he would obtain tial campaign in 2004, during which the who has returned as Ukraine’s First Vice Ukrainian Supreme Court ruled his gov- the “optimal price” for natural gas on Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. behalf of Ukrainians. ernment falsified the presidential elec- AP/Efrem Lukatsky “We will have to untangle those knots tions. “We won’t be working [any]more for Viktor Yanukovych enters the which were artificially tied in the previ- Prior to serving as former president any nation, only Ukraine,” Mr. Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv on Friday, ous governments, particularly in 2005,” Leonid Kuchma’s prime minister for two Yanukovych said. “Our politics won’t be August 4, shortly after he was voted Mr. Azarov said in an August 8 state- years starting in November 2002, Mr. pro-Russian, or pro-Western.” prime minister. ment. Yanukovych served as the Donetsk “We will begin to examine all conflict- (Continued on page 12) Oblast administration chair (governor) for more than five years. Mr. Kluiyev built his career in the Mr. Yanukovych was born in mines and factories of Donetsk, where he Yenakiyeve, a town in the Donetsk was born and spent his whole life. Renowned Ukrainian dissident, oblast, and spent most of his time work- Upon Ukrainian independence, Mr. ing in the Donetsk Oblast. He has close Kluiyev became president of an industri- ties to Rynat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s al enterprise named Promkomservis, and activist Nadiia Svitlychna dies then general director of Ukrpidshypnyk. wealthiest magnate. PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Nadiia poet, literary critic, human rights Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian First Vice Prime Minister/Minister of Svitlychna, a renowned Ukrainian activist, dissident and literary move- Issues Dmytro Tabachnyk, 42, is a long- Finance Mykola Azarov, 58, of the Party political activist, former Soviet politi- ment leader Ivan Svitlychny, and was time associate and close ally of Mr. of the Regions, managed to recapture the cal prisoner, dissident and the promi- well-known for her involvement in the Kuchma. Mr. Tabachnyk, of the Party of two Cabinet positions he held simultane- nent figure in the Ukrainian Helsinki dissemination of “samvydav” litera- the Regions, chaired the former presi- ously while serving in Mr. Kuchma’s Group, died in her home in New Jersey ture with “Shestydesiatnyky” authors dent’s 1994 presidential campaign when government since November 2002. on Monday, August 7, after a pro- Lina Kostenko, Vasyl Stus, Vasyl he was only 30 years old. During this tenure, Mr. Azarov created longed illness. She was 69. Symonenko and others. After his victory, Mr. Kuchma and implemented Ukraine’s notoriously Ms. Svitlychna was the sister of Ms. Svitlychna was the prominent appointed Mr. Tabachnyk presidential ineffective taxation system, which is figure in the Ukrainian Helsinki responsible for much of the corruption administration chair, a post he held until Group’s External Representation, that plagues the Ukrainian economy, said December 1996, during which time which published the Herald of Ivan Lozowy, president of the Kyiv- numerous embarrassing scandals erupt- Repression, that was distributed in based Institute of Statehood and ed. Mr. Tabachnyk was born in Kyiv. Ukraine (1980-1985). She edited a Democracy, which is exclusively Gains in promoting the Ukrainian lan- pamphlet on Yurii Lytvyn (1980), a financed by Ukrainian business dona- guage and culture made by outgoing Ukrainian political prisoner, helped tions. minister Viacheslav Kyrylenko may be publish an edition of Vasyl Stus’ Born in the town of Kaluga in the rolled back by Mr. Tabachnyk, who has poetry (1986) and was a laureate of Russian Federation, Mr. Azarov spent revealed his disdain for both, Mr. the Taras Shevchenko prize in litera- most of his life there and doesn’t speak Lozowy said. ture. Ms. Svitlychna participated in the Ukrainian language. Before entering Vice Prime Minister for Construction, decolonization rallies and demonstra- politics, Mr. Azarov was a Moscow-edu- Architecture and Residential-Communal tions in the West, speaking to a cated geologist. Management Volodymyr Rybak is a crowd of over 8,000 at a 1978 rally Vice Prime Minister for Fuel and Donetsk native. Rybak, 59, is a new- in front of the USSR’s United Energy Issues Andrii Kliuyev, 42, who is comer to the Cabinet of Ministers. Nations Mission in New York. That also returning to the Cabinet after serv- Mr. Rybak served as Donetsk’s mayor same year she spoke at the third ing alongside Mr. Yanukovych in between September 1993 and April World Conference of Free Ukrainians October 2002, is a Party of the Regions 2002, the years during which the city’s on the dissident movement in member. businessmen battled each other for con- Ukraine, stressing to youths and During the falsified elections of 2004, trol of the oblast’s wealth. Mr. Kluiyev led Mr. Yanukovych’s organizations the importance of unity Entering the Verkhovna Rada under among Ukrainians. underground election campaign, hatching the Party of the Regions ballot in 2002, fraudulent schemes and dirty tricks, Mr. Nadiia Svitlychna (Continued on page 8) Lozowy said. (Continued on page 10) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2006 No. 33 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Yushchenko ends crisis, Ukrainian premier to visit Moscow Yushchenko, UNIAN reported. Mrs. Vitrenko said the signed document is tan- but Orange legacy in doubt KYIV – Foreign Minister Borys tamount to “an act of betrayal of the Tarasyuk told journalists in Kyiv on Orthodox-Slavic civilization.” According by Jan Maksymiuk writing this article, two things are already August 8 that newly appointed Prime to Mrs. Vitrenko, even though the decla- RFE/RL Newsline clear. First, the Communist Party of Minister Viktor Yanukovych will visit ration of national unity is an unconstitu- August 3 Ukraine, which proposed Mr. Moscow this month to meet with his tional document, it has “tied the hands” Yanukovych as a candidate for prime Russian counterpart, Mikhail Fradkov, at of the Party of the Regions, the Socialist In the early hours of August 3, minister jointly with the Party of the a session of the intergovernmental com- Party, and the Communist Party, which Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko at Regions and the Socialist Party, refused mission for economic cooperation, now must do what Mr. Yushchenko last put an end to the country’s four-month to sign the declaration. This means the Interfax-Ukraine reported. Speaking later wants them to do. Mrs. Vitrenko added political stalemate with a painful political Communists will drop out of the Anti- the same day on television, Mr. Tarasyuk that by signing this document, the Party concession. In a live televised address, Mr. Crisis Coalition formed last month after said Mr. Yanukovych’s talks in Moscow, of the Regions, the Socialist Party, and Yushchenko named Viktor Yanukovych, the Orange coalition of Our Ukraine, the among other topics, will include the price the Communist Party have betrayed their the head of the pro-Russia Party of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, and the Socialist of gas imported by Ukraine from Russia. electorates. (RFE/RL Newsline) Regions and Mr. Yushchenko’s main rival Party notoriously failed to agree on a new Mr. Tarasyuk also revealed that Mr.
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