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The Ukrainian Weekly 1995 INSIDE: • The public perception of economic reform in Ukraine — page 2. • Urbana conference spotlights minorities and diaspora — page 10. • Ukrainian stars on Broadway — page 1 1. 30 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIII No. 30 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 23, 1995 $1.25/$2in Ukraine UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH V0L0DYMYR DIES OBITUARY: Former political prisonerRio t police and mourners clash by Khristina Lew Citing sources close to the Cabinet of was elected UOC patriarch in 1993 Kyyiv Press Bureau ministers, Respublika reported on July 19 that President Leonid Kuchma, who was in JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Patriarch KYYIV - Riot police and participants Belarus at the time of the patriarchal funer­ Volodymyr (Vasyl Romaniuk), a politi­ of the funeral procession bearing the al, was contacted there regarding permis­ cal prisoner persecuted for his religious body of the late Patriarch Volodymyr sion for burial of the primate's earthly Romaniuk, head of the Ukrainian beliefs during decades of Soviet repres­ remains at St. Sophia Cathedral. Orthodox Church - Kyyiv Patriarchate, sion who later went on to be elected pri­ Respublika reported that the president did violently clashed twice on July 18. mate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church not grant permission. One member of the Ukrainian National —Kyyiv Patriarchate, died in Kyyiv on Metropolitan Filaret told a press con­ Assembly - Ukrainian National Self- Friday, July 14. He was 69 years old. ference on July 19 that neither Baikiv Defense Organization, a paramilitary The patriarch's secretary, the Rev. Cemetery nor St Volodymyr Cathedral, group, was killed during a confrontation Borys, told Reuters that the cause of death the seat of the UOC - KP, are appropri­ with Berkut forces, a special detachment of was a heart attack, his third in recent years. ate places to bury the patriarch. government police, in front of the main gate Patriarch Volodymyr, (the name he "Religious are never buried at Baikiv to St. Sophia Cathedral. Five members of chose for himself when he was conse­ Cemetery, and St. Volodymyr Cathedral is the UNA-UNSO requiring medical atten­ crated a hierarch of the Church in 1990), situated above communication cables and tion remain detained by authorities. was a Ukrainian Orthodox priest and underground sidewalks. We asked for per­ Over 3,000 mourners in the peaceful member of the Ukrainian Helsinki mission to bury the patriarch at St. Sophia, funeral procession of Patriarch Group. He emigrated to Canada in 1988 and we were denied. I said that this is unac­ Volodymyr clashed with riot police, first and returned to Ukraine in 1990 to serve ceptable to our Church. By not allowing us at the intersection of Shevchenko the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox to bury Patriarch Volodymyr at St. Sophia, Boulevard and Volodymyr Street, and Church headed by the late Patriarch the government has indicated that it does later at St. Sophia Square. Mstyslav. He was consecrated bishop of not recognize the role of the Ukrainian At issue was the clergy and faithful's Uzhhorod and Vynohradiv. Orthodox Church - Kyyiv Patriarchate or wish to bury the remains of their patriarch In 1992, when the Ukrainian the role of the patriarch," Metropolitan at St. Sophia Cathedral, despite the deci­ Autocephalous Orthodox Church merged Filaret said. with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church sion by the Presidium of the Cabinet of headed by Metropolitan Filaret, he was Ministers that Patriarch Volodymyr be (Continued on page 4) consecrated archbishop of Lviv and interred at either Baikiv Cemetery, near the Sokal, and later became metropolitan of grave of the first president of Ukraine, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, or on the grounds Chernihiv and Sumy, and a member of of St. Volodymyr Cathedral. A makeshift Renowned writer the Church's Holy Sobor (Council). grave was dug in the sidewalk next to the Following the death in June 1993 of main gates of St. Sophia, and the patri­ Patriarch Mstyslav, Volodymyr was elect­ arch's body, despite the violence, was safe­ Honchar dead at 77 ed in October of that year as the first patri­ ly interred there at 10:30 p.m. by Khristina Lew arch of the newly created Ukrainian Orthodox Church — Kyyiv Patriarchate. On the morning of the funeral, the Kyyiv Press Bureau synod of the UOC - KP and a governmen­ "Patriarch Volodymyr's main goal was KYYIV - Renowned Ukrainian writer to free the Ukrainian Church from tal committee on burial, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shpek, were still Oles Honchar died in Kyyiv on July 14 after a long illness. He was 77. Funeral (Continued on page 3) Patriarch Volodymyr negotiating on a site for interment. services took place in the Ukrainian cap­ ital on July 17. Thousands of mourners attended the Ukrainian peacekeepers in Zepa used as human shieldswak e held in the auditorium of the Cabinet of Ministers building, where Ukraine's by Khristina Lew emphasized. "As of 7 a.m. on July 18, all keepers. Two Ukrainian peacekeepers were leadership - President Leonid Kuchma, Kyyiv Press Bureau communications with our contingent in taken hostage and the commander reported- Parliament Chairman Oleksander Moroz Zepa were severed." He confirmed that ly beaten. In addition to the Ukrainian and Prime Minister Yevhen Marchuk - KYYIV - Ukrainian peacekeepers in for all practical purposes Zepa had fallen troops, the peacekeeping force in Gorazde stood behind the flower-strewn casket. the U.N.-designated "safe area" of Zepa that morning, but that Ukraine has no includes 320 British soldiers. are being used as a human shield by both Mr. Honchar's casket was escorted to plans to withdraw its troops from the for­ A meeting of the "Contact Group" - the Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian govern­ Kyyiv's Baikiv Cemetery by the mer Yugoslavia. the United States, France, Britain, ment troops, a Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ukrainian Honor Guard. The funeral The 79 Ukrainian peacekeepers in Germany and Russia - and representa­ Ministry official said on July 18. procession was met at the gravesite by Zepa abandoned seven of the nine obser­ tives of the United Nations and NATO Prime Minister Marchuk, Metropolitan In Goradze, the second of the two vation posts, Lt. Col. Gary Coward, a command is scheduled for July 21 in Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox remaining enclaves in eastern Bosnia, the United Nations spokesman, reported on London. On the agenda is the future of Church - Kyyiv Patriarchate, Kyyiv Ukrainian commander of 80 troops was July 18. One observation post remains the U.N. peacekeeping force in the for­ Mayor Leonid Kosakivsky, people's taken hostage by Bosnian government ringed by Bosnian Serb mines, leaving mer Yugoslavia and possible actions in deputies, writers and over 500 mourners. troops on July 17. Bosnian government only one in the hands of the Ukrainian the event that Bosnian Serbs capture For many, Oles Honchar was a sym­ forces threatened to kill the commander troops. According to Mr. Yelchenko, Gorazde. The foreign and defense minis­ bol of Ukrainian consciousness. His best if the peacekeepers did not hand over the some of the weapons had been captured ters of Ukraine, Canada, Italy, Spain and known work, the novel "Sobor" (The government's cache of weapons, said by the Bosnian Serbs. the Netherlands have been invited to par­ Cathedral, 1968), was officially censured Volodymyr Yelchenko, head of the min- ticipate. The New York Times reported on July and subsequently removed from circula­ istry's International Organizations 18 that Bosnian government troops in Ukraine has had peacekeeping troops tion. Department. Gorazde, fearing an attack, allegedly seized in the former Yugoslavia since July He was among the first in Ukrainian The situation in Zepa and Goradze at gunpoint all weapons, food, money and 1992. Twelve Ukrainians have been remains extremely tense, Mr. Yelchenko personal effects from the Ukrainian peace­ killed and more than 50 wounded. (Continued on page 3) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 23, 1995 No. 30 ANALYSIS: The public perception of economic reform in Ukraine Kozyrev: "CIS is no worse than NATO" undertaking an excavation at the site of by Volodymyr Zviglyanich ments in a purely industrial enterprise that the now destroyed Cathedral of the functions according to technological ratio­ MOSCOW — In a series of public PART I Assumption. Fifty faithful along with the nality. speeches, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei monastery's archimandrite confronted It is common knowledge that during The privatization schemes recently Kozyrev emphasized the importance of the the diggers and asked them to halt their its first three years of independence proposed in Russia made no effort to CIS in Russian foreign policy, Segodnya work. When the archaeologists refused, Ukraine did not initiate real economic reduce hidden unemployment. On paper, reported on July 7. Speaking before a an argument ensued, which quickly dis­ reforms. Russia's policies were used as a they simply transformed state property meeting of Russian ambassadors to the integrated into fisticuffs. Militia halted basis for comparison, and there was into the property of "workers' collec­ CIS states, Mr. Kozyrev criticized both the fight, but not before several archaeol­ unanimous agreement that Moscow had tives." In reality, this property was given Western countries and Russian opposition ogists were injured. (Respublika) moved much further. to the administration of each enterprise, politicians for underestimating the poten­
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