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Fragile Coalition in Ukraine Threatened by Resignations of Two National INSIDE: • Holodomor torch relay in North America — pages 4-5. • The Lions Club and Lviv’s famous lions — page 9. • Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus has a new conductor — page 17. HE KRAINIAN EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXXVI No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2008 $1/$2 in Ukraine Pryma-Bohachevsky Dance Academy Fragile coalition in Ukraine threatened holds grand opening at Soyuzivka by resignations of two national deputies by Zenon Zawada The Democratic Forces Coalition is Special to The Ukrainian Weekly held together by 227-vote majority and should it collapse, President Viktor KYIV – Ukraine’s fragile pro-Western Yushchenko could dismiss Parliament and coalition government suffered its biggest call pre-term elections (as he did last year) threat of collapse on June 6 when two if a new majority coalition isn’t formed. lawmakers representing its two factions The Cabinet of Ministers led by Ms. declared they were abandoning it. Tymoshenko would dissolve itself if its Yurii But of the Our Ukraine – People’s parliamentary coalition collapses. Self-Defense bloc and Ihor Rybakov of The resignations were seen by political the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc submitted observers as carefully engineered by the their resignation statements to Verkhovna Presidential Secretariat, led by Viktor Rada Chair Arseniy Yatsenyuk, leading Baloha, as an attempt to either weaken him to declare, “a certain betrayal has Prime Minister Tymoshenko’s political occurred within the coalition.” strength or undermine her coalition gov- Attempts to sabotage the coalition were ernment. inevitable in the fierce conflict between The Our Ukraine – People’s Self President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Defense bloc and its faction in Parliament, Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, which started has been slowly disintegrating in the last once the prime minister took power in late few months, split between the pro-presi- December 2007 and has grown progres- dential Single Center (Yedynyi Tsentr) sively worse. and those who support the Tymoshenko Oksana Trytjak Rather than ruining the coalition, how- Bloc, including the People’s Self-Defense Five Miss Soyuzivkas, Ania Bohachevsky-Lonkevych, Ksenia Hentisz, Alana ever, the resignations have only resulted in party. Lenec (2008), Dianna Shmerykowsky and Lydia Kulbida at the grand the latest mess in the Ukrainian govern- As a result of the ongoing war between opening celebration of the Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky Dance Academy. ment, in which the rules and regulations Ms. Tymoshenko and Mr. Yushchenko, are not yet clearly defined in relations the president’s enemies have repeatedly within and between governing structures. KERHONKSON, N.Y. – Over 150 yielded his duties to the Revs. George accused him and his Single Center allies While the loss of two critical votes people gathered here at Soyuzivka on Bazylevsky of the Ukrainian Orthodox of undermining the coalition. means the coalition can’t pass the legisla- Church and Volodymyr Piso of the Therefore, to portray the resignations as Saturday, May 24, as the Ukrainian tion it wants with the minimum majority Ukrainian Catholic Church, who offered not orchestrated by the Presidential National Foundation Inc. and the of 226 votes in Parliament, the coalition’s prayers of thanksgiving and blessed the Secretariat, observers said the two Soyuzivka Heritage Center honored the leaders argued it still exists because new dance academy. deputies who submitted their resignations memory of Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky, a deputies must resign from the factions that world-renowned prima ballerina, chore- Ania Bohachevsky-Lonkevych, daugh- don’t belong to Single Center, since it is ter of Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky and compose a coalition, not from the coali- important for Messrs. Yushchenko and ographer and teacher of Ukrainian dance, tion itself. with the grand opening of the Roma director of the dance academy, and Roma Baloha to not get blamed for undermining “What took place has no legal conse- the coalition. Pryma-Bohachevsky Dance Academy. Lonkevych, granddaughter of Roma quences for the government,” said Ivan “If Baloha and Yushchenko have the The opening ceremonies were officiat- Pryma-Bohachevsky, officially opened the academy with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Kyrylenko, a deputy of the Yulia goal of destroying the coalition, they want ed by Stefan Kaczaraj, president of the A plaque that marks the opening of the Tymoshenko Bloc. “Until, God forbid, to do it using other people’s hands, with- Ukrainian National Association (UNA), dance academy reads: “The Ukrainian pre-term elections are called and a new out assuming responsibility,” said political who welcomed guests to the opening of coalition is formed, our government will the dance academy. Mr. Kaczaraj then (Continued on page 10) work.” (Continued on page 19) Single Center party poised to replace Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine by Zenon Zawada bleak, according to recent polls. Minister of Internal Affairs Yurii Lutsenko. Special to The Ukrainian Weekly “Our goal is the 2010 election, which we should The bloc’s new name (Our Ukraine – People’s Self- approach in a strong and mobilized way,” current OUPU Defense) and imagery (a clenched fist against a red KYIV – After the dismal performance of the Our leader Ihor Kril said at a party conference in Kiovohrad backdrop) didn’t boost support for the president’s poli- Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense bloc in the Kyiv City on June 7. tics, but at the same time prevented an expected decline Council election, President Viktor Yushchenko and his Although Single Center is expected to advocate a dif- in votes. allies have accelerated their efforts to abandon Our ferent program than Our Ukraine’s attempts to imple- Our Ukraine earned 14 percent of votes in the 2007 Ukraine and replace it with a new pro-presidential ment national-democratic social policies and free market parliamentary election, the same as in March 2006. political force. economic policies, its political agenda remains unformed Since the formation of the coalition government in The Single Center (Yedynyi Tsentr) party will hold a and unclear, said Yurii Sytoriuk, a Kyiv political insider. late December 2007, the OU-PSD bloc, which consists convention on July 12. Among those seen as its potential “A reformatting of the political spectrum by the presi- of nine political parties, has gradually disintegrated into leaders are Presidential Secretariat Chair Viktor Baloha, dent is taking place,” he said. “The president won’t win warring interests divided between those who support the Verkhovna Rada Chair Arseniy Yatsenyuk and National the elections at this point, so he is re-arranging his sup- president and Single Center, and those who support the Security and Defense Council Secretary Raisa port. He no longer associates with Our Ukraine, which Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, among them the People’s Self- Bohatyriova. doesn’t make sense anymore.” Defense party. The creators of Single Center are hoping it will Single Center isn’t the first attempt by Mr. In fact, Messrs. Yushchenko and Baloha have warred replace the Our Ukraine People’s Union (OUPU) party Yushchenko and his allies to redefine themselves and with the leadership of People’s Self-Defense, namely and the Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense (OU-PSD) repackage their political agenda. Mr. Lutsenko and mega-millionaire businessman Davyd bloc as a political vehicle that will give Mr. Yushchenko For the September 2007 parliamentary election, the Zhvania. renewed prospects for re-election in the 2010 presidential Our Ukraine bloc retooled its image when uniting with a race. The president’s re-election chances are currently newly created People’s Self-Defense party led by (Continued on page 19) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2008 No. 24 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Will Prime Minister Tymoshenko obey Edmonton Consulate to open in June Viktor Yanukovych said at a June 5 meet- ing of the opposition government that the the National Security and Defense Council? KYIV – Ukraine’s Consulate General democratic coalition no longer exists. “It in Edmonton will open in June, Ukrainian exists on paper only. And it puts on a by Pavel Korduban courts. President Viktor Yushchenko said during brave face and raises second-hand issues his state visit to Canada. Currently, Eurasia Daily Monitor The PGO appealed on May 17 against in the Parliament. Meanwhile, the plenary the Environment Ministry’s revocation of Ukraine has an Embassy in Ottawa and a session week is coming to an end, while The government of Ukrainian Prime Vanco Prykerchenska’s license. This Consulate General in Toronto. the government did not report on a com- Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will have to means that the ministry has to repeal its (Ukrinform) prehensive anti-inflation program. They revise its decision to banish the U.S. decision. This, however, has not yet hap- Coal miners found alive aim to put it off until the recess, go on company Vanco from the oil and gas pened. On the contrary, on May 21 the leave and let the people continue to fields in the Ukrainian part of the Black Tymoshenko government unilaterally ter- KYIV – According to a governmental endure an aggravating situation,” Mr. Sea. The Ukrainian Procurator General’s minated the production-sharing deal with commission working at the Karl Marx Yanukovych stressed. (Ukrinform) Office (PGO) has ordered the govern- Vanco. mine in Yenakieve, Donetsk Oblast, 21 ment to restore Vanco’s license to devel- Ms. Tymoshenko said that her govern- coal miners were found alive June 9 at the Two deputies withdraw from coalition op the fields, and the National Security ment would defeat “any kamikaze who depth of 875 meters after an explosion KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada secre- and Defense Council (NSDC) called on sues” in international courts. First occurred at a depth of 1,000 meters at 5 tariat on June 6 received written state- the Cabinet to repeal its order annulling Deputy Prime Minister Oleksander a.m.
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