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www.ukrweekly.com frubHshed by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association rainian Weekly vol. LVIII No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2,1990 50 cents, Ukraine, Russia sign pact Khmara declares hunger strike faction of the democratic National as equal, sovereign states Public rallies Council in Ukraine's Parliament, was KlEv - Leaders of the Ukrainian sentatives of the Ukrainian government around deputy stripped of his parliamentary immunity and Russian republics on November 19 as well as of the democratic opposition by the Communist majority on signed a 10-year bilateral agreement in Parliament, the National Council. КІЕУ— Five Kiev residents were November 14, which cleared the way for covering political, economic, cultural Some 1,000 persons also were on hand, arrested between November 15 and his November 17 arrest. The former and other issues. carrying Ukrainian national flags and 21 in connection with the case of dentist from Chervonohrad in Lviv The chairmen of the Ukrainian and banners proclaiming brotherhood be– Ukrainian People's Deputy Stepan Oblast has been charged with abusing Russian Parliaments, respectively, tween the two sovereign states of Khmara, who began a new hunger the authority of his office under Article Leonid Kravchuk and Boris Yeltsin, Ukraine and Russia. strike in prison protesting his arrest for 166 of the Ukrainian SSR Criminal emphasized that the pact was an agree– The next day, Mr. Yeltsin and his a November 7 incident involving an Code. ment between two sovereign and equal entourage arrived at the Supreme officer of the interior Ministry forces, Mr. Khmara renewed a hunger strike states. Soviet building, where a meeting was reported the juridical department of the in Lukianivka Prison on November 26, Radio Liberty noted that the docu– held between parliamentary delegations Popular Movement of Ukraine, Rukh. which he had begun along with several ment pointedly omits any reference to a of the two republics. The five eyewitnesses to the incident, other deputies when he lost his im– union treaty or the USSR Constitu– At that time, approximately 150 Mykola Holovach, Leonid Berezansky, munity. According to his attorneys tions. persons picketed outside the Parliament Mykhailo Ratushny, Oleksiy Kovalchuk from Rukh, Yuriy Ayvazian and viktor The two presidents also issued a joint building, calling for friendship between and Oleh Batovkin, have been charged Nikazakov, Mr. Khmara's demands statement demanding that the sove– the two nations as well as the release of with robbing Col. ihor Hryhoriev of the are: reignty of the two republics be con– Ukrainian People's Deputy Stepan Kh– MvD of his personal belongings and ^ the resignation of Mykhailo sistently respected by the USSR Su– mara, arrested just a few days earlier, of serving as criminal accomplices Potebenko, the procurator of the U– preme Soviet, reported Roman Sol– apparently for assaulting an officer of under Articles 141 and 19, respectively, krainian SSR; chanyk, апь RL researcher. the Ministry of internal Affairs forces. of the Ukrainian SSR Criminal Code. ^ the release of all arrested witnesses; Mr. Yeltsin arrived in the Ukrainian (See story on page 1.) The accused reportedly disarmed Col. ^ the filing of criminal charges against capital city on November 18. He was Once negotiations between the two Hryhoriev in a pedestrian underpass on Col. Hryhoriev of the MvD for greeted at Borispil Airport by repre– (Continued on page 14) Kiev's Khreshchatyk after a woman who instigating this "provocation"; accused him of assaulting her ap– ^ his release and compensation for proached Mr. Khmara for help. the physical and тогаГ abuse, by Col. Baltic states protest CSCE exclusion Mr. Khmara, a leader of the radical (Continued on page 4) NEW YORK - The foreign mini– reported the New York-based Lithua– sters of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia nian information Center. protested their exclusion from the 34- "World War 11 has not ended for the Canadian attorney in Kiev as nation summit meeting in Paris on Baltic states," said Latvian Foreign November 21, declaring that the new Minister Janis Jurkans, adding that he world order would not be complete hoped the West would help the Soviet observer for Amnesty international until the Soviet Union ceases its illegal Union realize that the restoration of TORONTO - Toronto lawyer ihor Procuracy on November 26. occupation of the three Baltic states, Baltic independence was inevitable. Bardyn left for Kiev, the Ukrainian in his report Mr. Bardyn also noted At a press conference organized by capital, on November 24 to obtain first- that he had met with volodymyr Shev– iceland and Denmark, the foreign hand information regarding the arrest chenko, procurator of the City of Kiev, U.S., Canada ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithua– of Stepan Khmara, a member of the whose office reportedly issued the order nia thanked the countries who have Ukrainian Parliament, reported the for Mr. Khmara's arrest. Mr. Bardyn called on the Conference on Security Canadian Friends of Rukh, based here. requested in writing for permission to name consuls and Cooperation in Europe to grant Mr. Bardyn, a member of the inter- see Mr. Khmara in prison and for a observer status to the Baltic republics, a national Commission of Jurists and meeting with Mykhailo Potebenko, to Kiev proposal that has so far been vetoed by Canadian institute of international procurator of the Ukrainian SSR. KlEv - Ambassador Jack Mat- Moscow. Affairs, will be providing a report to No information was available at press lock, U.S. envoy to the Soviet Following the opening ceremony, the Amnesty international Canada and АІ time on the outcome of Mr. Bardyn's Union, and Leonid Kravchuk, Baltic ministers were banned from even headquarters in London. request. chairman of the Ukrainian SSR sitting in the conference hall because all Mr. Khmara was arrested on Novem– Ukrainian Canadian Congress Presi– Supreme Soviet, met in the Ukrai– CSCE decisions are based on consen– ber 17 by the militia on the grounds of dent Dr. Dmytro Cipiwnyk has written nian capital on November 19. sus, and the Soviets objected to their the Parliament building in Kiev. Several to Joe Clark, Canada's minister for The focus of their discussion, presence. From Lithuania, President members of Parliament witnessed the external affairs, urging the Canadian according to the Respublika news vytautus Landsbergis expressed his arrest and have formed a Parliamentary government to closely monitor Mr. service and the Ukrainian Press disappointment over the move, stating Defense Committee. Khmara's case. Agency, was the opening of a U.S. that the CSCE member-status buckled The Ukrainian SSR Supreme Soviet Erast Huculak, president of the Consulate in Kiev. to Soviet pressure. voted on November 14 to take away Mr. Canadian Friends of Rukh, stated upon Later that day, at the press center Foreign Ministers Lennart Meri of Khmara's parliamentary immunity, learning of Mr. Khmara's arrest, "U– of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Estonia, Algirdas Saudargas of Lithua– apparently to make his arrest possible in kraine is a signatory of the international Ambassador Matlock noted that the nia and Janis Jurkans of Latvia were relation to a November 7 incident Covenant on Civil and Political Rights consulate is expected to be opened in invited to the summit as "distinguished involving an officer of the interior and we hope that, in Khmara's case, the several weeks and that its opening is guests" of the French government. Ministry forces. spirit of the covenant is followed." being delayed only by problems of a in a statement issued from Paris, the Roger. Clark of Amnesty interna– Mr. Bardyn's report will also be technical nature. Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs tional's Ottawa office said: "We look forwarded to the Permanent Mission of Mr. Matlock also reported that the appealed to the CSCE member-states to forward to obtaining a report from Mr. the Ukrainian SSR to the United U.S. consul will be John Stepan– support the Baltic "quest for full mem– Bardyn as part of our investigation of Nations in New York. chuk, a Ukrainian American. bership." this case." As chairman of the Ukrainian Cana– A day earlier, it was announced in iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, in a' brief report faxed to Canada dian Congress Redress Commission, Toronto that Canada's consul-gene– the Holy See, Poland, Czechoslovakia from Kiev, Mr. Bardyn said he had met Mr. Bardyn initiated negotiations with ral to Ukraine will be a Ukrainian and Great Britain all voiced their with a chief investigator in the Khmara Prime Minister Brian Mulroney con– Canadian, Nestor Gayowsky. support for the Baltic states at the Paris case, Anatoliy Belik, head of theinvesti– cerning the internment of Ukrainians meeting. gative unit of the Ukrainian SSR's during World War 1. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2,1990 No. 48 A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Newsbriefs Coupons aimed at protecting from Ukraine consumer market in Ukraine 9 KlEv — The Ukrainian Supreme 9 KlEv — The Ukrainian govern– by Dr. David Marples produced have been exported outside Soviet approved a plan on November 3 ment, in an effort to improve the the Ukrainian and even the Soviet for Ukraine's "complete economic and profitability of certain agricultural The introduction of "consumer book- border. political independence" and will seek enterprises, has decided to raise the lets" containing coupons took effect on Matters have been exacerbated also membership in the international Mone– purchase prices of beef, pork and November 1 in Ukraine, and has al– by rumors about price rises to be tary Fund and other international poultry an average of 45, 60 and 50 ready elicited much debate. There was a introduced by the union government. agencies, according to a recent TASS percent, respectively, reported Radio consensus that some sort of measure Efforts to resolve this situation by report.
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