www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE:• Ukrainian communities mark 65th anniversary of the Great Famine — pages 4-5. • Ukraine presents program for developing relations with NATO — page 6. • News in the realms of theater and music — pages 14-15. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXVI HE No.KRAINIAN 49 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1998 EEKLY$1.25/$2 in Ukraine Ukraine’sT fourthU ambassador Ukraine commemoratesW National Day to Canada presents credentials of Remembrance of Famine Victims by Christopher Guly was one of four new ambassadors (along by Roman Woronowycz that at a very minimum 3.5 million peo- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly with envoys from Turkey, the Philippines Kyiv Press Bureau ple perished within the administrative and Azerbaijan) representing their coun- borders of the Ukrainian SSR. He OTTAWA – Ukraine’s fourth ambas- tries in Canada to attend the hourlong, KYIV – Ukraine officially commemo- explained that the number grows consid- sador to Canada since Ukraine declared highly ceremonial diplomatic introducto- rated the 65th anniversary of the Great erably when the many Ukrainian victims independence in 1991 presented his let- ry event at Government House. Famine of 1932-1933 on November 28, in the Kuban region and in Kazakstan are ters of credence to Governor General Ambassador Khandogiy attended his two days after President Leonid Kuchma added. Roméo LeBlanc at Rideau Hall in official presentation to Canada with a issued a presidential decree proclaiming Mr. Smolii stated that officially the Ottawa on the morning of December 3. delegation that included his wife, the fourth Saturday of each November as Soviet Union hushed up the genocide and Volodymyr Khandogiy, who served as Natalia, and son, Maxym. As they National Day of Remembrance of portrayed any references to it as anti- Ukraine’s vice minister of foreign affairs entered the ballroom they were greeted Famine Victims. Soviet propaganda “worthy of incarcera- for the past three years, was named by Mr. LeBlanc, who represents the A program at the Kyiv National tion in a concentration camp.” ambassador to Ottawa on October 22. He queen and constitutional head of state. Philharmonic Hall honoring the millions World governments ignored rumors Mr. Khandogiy was also formally intro- who perished as a result of an artificial and the world knew little about the duced to Jim Wright, director general of famine imposed on the territories of east- forced starvation and genocide of mil- the Central, East and South Europe ern Ukraine by Soviet leader Joseph lions of Ukrainians engineered by Soviet New poll results suggest Bureau of the Department of Foreign Stalin beginning in 1932 featured a musi- leaders to force the peasantry onto col- Affairs and International Trade, who rep- cal program by Ukraine’s National lective farms and under Soviet servitude, resented the Canadian government. Symphony, preceded by an address by even as reporters such as Malcolm strong showing by Moroz After Ukraine’s new ambassador Vice Prime Minister Valerii Smolii. Muggeridge of the Manchester Guardian by Roman Woronowycz introduced his family and members of “That the famine was artificially attempted to focus attention on the man- Kyiv Press Bureau his staff, including Second Secretary induced is a historical fact,” said Mr. made tragedy. Smolii. He called the holocaust part of KYIV — If presidential elections Taras Malushevsky, who worked with However, as Mr. Smolii explained, the new ambassador in the Ukrainian the “deliberate criminal policies of the others did not forget what happened, were held today, Oleksander Moroz, the Communist regime.” former chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Foreign Affairs Ministry, Mr. Khandogiy especially the Ukrainian diaspora, whom met privately with the governor general. He said that although no specific fig- he thanked for keeping the memory alive. would win the presidency in a second ure has been established for the number round run-off with the incumbent, Also attending the event were Nestor “Ukrainians abroad consistently rang Gayowsky, who served as Canada’s first of men, women and children who died the bell,” said Mr. Smolii. “Even those Leonid Kuchma, according to a survey during two years of genocide by the released by the International Institute of (Continued on page 12) Stalin regime, documented proof exists (Continued on page 13) Sociology (IIS) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Ukraine’s presidential elections, scheduled for the last weekend in Patriarch Filaret concludes pastoral visit to U.S. October 1999, are still nearly a year off, but most experts agree that the presiden- by Irene Jarosewich with the patriarch went well, that the tial election season began last month. patriarch was impressed with the The IIS poll, which questioned 1,587 PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Patriarch Consistory and grounds, and that all Ukrainians age 17 and older in 115 vil- Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox prayed at the crypt of Patriarch Mstyslav. lages, towns and cities in all of the coun- Church – Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) He noted that the Consistory had extend- try’s regions on their political and eco- traveled to New Jersey, Florida, Illinois, ed an invitation to Patriarch Dmytrii. nomic viewpoints, also determined that Ohio, Michigan and New York during his After his visit to South Bound Brook Ukrainians are less satisfied with their U.S. visit from October 23 through on October 23, Patriarch Filaret traveled lives than in 1996, when optimism November 15. The patriarch was on a on October 24 to the Parish of St. regarding economic and political change pastoral visit to his parishes in the U.S., Nicholas in Cooper City, Fla., and then as well as to raise funds for the renova- reached a peak. on October 30 to the Parish of St. Sophia tion of UOC-KP buildings in Ukraine. In the poll, 11.6 percent of respon- in Chicago. The two parishes are among However, in a last-minute change of dents gave the nod to President Kuchma the four in the U.S. that have left the plans, immediately upon his arrival the when asked for whom they would vote in UOC-U.S.A. to join the Kyiv patriarch met with hierarchs of the a field of seven presidential candidates, Patriarchate. Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the compared to merely 9.7 percent for Mr. On November 6, Patriarch Filaret U.S.A. at the Consistory in South Bound Moroz. However, when the candidate traveled to Cleveland, where he visited Brook, N.J. field was narrowed to a run-off situation the other two parishes that joined the The hierarchs of the UOC-U.S.A. had between Messrs. Kuchma and Moroz, Kyiv Patriarchate, St. Stephen Church of extended an invitation to the patriarch the former chairman of the Parliament the Millennium in Brunswick, Ohio, and shortly after the conclusion of the took 25.5 percent of the vote compared Holy Trinity in North Royalton, Ohio. Church’s Sobor on October 18. A motion to 21.5 for the current president. had been approved at the Sobor asking The patriarch continued on to Detroit, National Deputy Natalia Vitrenko, the that the Church hierarchs meet with where he was a hosted by the Parish of leader of the Progressive Socialist Party Patriarch Filaret and Patriarch Dmytrii of St. Andrew, and then returned to New whose controversial and bombastic pop- the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Jersey, where he was jointly hosted by ulism has earned her a small but loyal Church in Ukraine with the intention that the parishes of St. Mary Protectress and neo-Communist following in Ukraine, the Church hierarchs in the U.S. maintain Holy Ascension in Clifton. On received a surprising 9 percent vote of a dialogue with the two Ukrainian November 14 he was the guest of honor support as a potential presidential candi- Orthodox hierarchs from Ukraine. at the opening of the Woskob art collec- date. Ms. Vitrenko’s standing has grown Shortly after the meeting with tion at the Ukrainian Institute of America by a third since September, when she Patriarch Filaret, the Rev. William in New York City and returned to was supported by only 6 percent of Efrem Lukatsky Diakiw, vice-president of the UOC- Ukraine on November 15. Ukrainians. U.S.A. Consistory stated that the meeting (Continued on page 13) Patriarch Filaret (Continued on page 12) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1998 No. 49 NEWS ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Tarasyuk meets with Mandela deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, labor min- Ukraine’s lack of direction jeopardizes reform ister, social policies minister and vice by Christopher Walker While Russia’s difficulties loom large KYIV – Foreign Affairs Minister Borys prime minister before being appointed to RFE/RL Newsline on Ukraine’s eastern border, a more con- Tarasyuk arrived in South Africa on a the presidential administration. (Eastern structive example is provided by Poland state visit on November 22 at the invita- Economist) Seven years into its post-Soviet expe- to the West. Poland’s success did not tion of South African Foreign Minister rience as an independent state, Ukraine come easily. The economic recovery that Alfred Nzo. Mr. Tarasyuk’s first official Reform party wants Yuschenko to run has distinguished itself as much by what began in 1992 was preceded by nearly visit to the African continent is seen as an it has avoided as by what it has accom- three years of economic suffering and important step toward better Ukrainian- KYIV – The Reformy i Poriadok plished. social dislocation. South African relations. Mr. Tarasyuk met