Vol. LXI No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1993 50 cents Redemptonst bishops ordained Deputy Premier Yukhnovsky quits for fwo disparate continents as Socialists, democrats ciasii by Marta Kolomayets "They want to strip them of their Kyyiv Press Bureau powers because these are the people who are fighting the mafia in Ukraine KYYIV — Ukrainian President today," said Dmytro Chobit, a deputy Leonid Kravchuk relieved First Deputy from western Ukraine. Prime Minister Ihor Yukhnovsky of his Although Dr. Yukhnovsky has said duties on Wednesday evening, March he is irritated by the slow pace of 17, after a tumultuous day in the U- (Continued on page 2) krainian Parliament during which Socialists and democrats clashed. The decree came only hours after Dr. Socialists target Yukhnovsky offered his resignation from the Parliament, preferring to reform deputies remain a deputy with a mandate rather than one of highest ranking officials in a As The Weekly was going to press, shaky government that comes under the RespubHka press agency re­ review on May I. ported that the Socialist majority in The presidential decree stated that Parliament was demanding that the Dr. Yukhnovsky was relieved of his following ministers and presidential government duties to take another post, advisers turn in their mandates as reported Ukrainian Television. It has people's deputies: been rumored in government circles Ivan Herts, minister of foreign that he will be named to head the U- economic relations;Vasyl Yevtukhov, krainian Academy of Sciences and that deputy prime minister; Oleksander Vasyl Yevtukhov, deputy prime minister Yemeiianov, member of the Academy of industry and construction, will be of Sciences of Ukraine and economic named in his place. policymaker; Oleksander Yemets, In a power struggle between the con­ political adviser td the president; servative majority in Parliament and Arkadiy Yershov, minister of social the reform-minded government. Social­ guarantees; Yuliy Yoffe, deputy ist deputies on March 17 demanded that prime minister; Yuriy Kostenko, the Cabinet of Ministers, officials work­ minister of the environment; Viktor ing for the presidential administration Pynzenyk, deputy prime minister and diplomats who are also elected and minister of the economy; Vasyl deputies turn over their mandates. The Rudenko, presidential adviser on Socialists argued that they cannot per­ territorial matters; Yuriy Serbin form effectively in two simultaneously minister of construction and archi­ lAndrew Sikorsky held positions. tecture; and Hryhoriy Khomenko, Metropolitan Mkhae! Вжсіе! (right) and Bishop Peter Stasiiik, the Ukrainian However, some democratic deputies secretary of the president's admini­ Catholic Church's two newest prelates, bless the congregation in Winnipeg's Ss. saw other reasons for this maneuver by stration. Vladimir and Olga Cathedral. Socialist forces. by Christopher Guly the country's first Ukrainian Catholic eparch. New Ukraine ponders future WINNIPEG — History blended Manitoba-born Bishop Stasiuk suc­ powerfully with a strong sense of a new ceeds 78-year-old Ivan Prasko as bishop era as. Canada's first. Canadian-born for the 25,000 Ukrainian Catholics in during its second congress Ukrainian Catholic archbishop-metro­ Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. by Мшіш Kolomayets the political party he chairs, the Party politan and Manitoba's first native More than 1,200 people crammed Kyyiv Press Bureau for the Democratic Rebirth of Ukraine. bishop were consecrated together at Ss. into the North End cathedral on a The congress, attended by more than Vladimir and Olga Cathedral in Winni­ blustery late winter afternoon to attend KYYIV — Emerging amorphous, but 300 delegates representing 22 regions, peg on March 9. the three-hour-45-minute ceremony. intact, the union New Ukraine conclud­ amended its charter, restructured its Archbishop-Metropolitan Michael Thirty-two Ukrainian- and Latin-rite ed its two-day congress at Kyyiv's trade leadership organs and created a coordi­ Bzdel, 62, and Bishop Peter Stasiuk, 49, bishops, and more than 150 priests from union building on Sunday, March 14. nating council. This council will include became the first two Ukrainian Catholic around the world concelebrated thQ The second congress of this coalition, one representative from every region bishops to receive joint ordination in pontifical divine liturgy. — which unites liberal democrats and (regional council); one representative recent memory. Saskatchewan-born Among them were Ottawa's Archbi­ social democrats, as well as businessmen from every collective, including political Archbishop Bzdel succeeds Archbishop- shop Marcel Gervais, president of the and politicians, in large part from U- parties and business organizations (col­ Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk, 81, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bi­ kraine's central regions — however, lective membership council); five de­ as head of the 49,000-member Manito­ shops; Archbishop Leonard Wall of iaiied to produce not only a singular puties from Parliament (parliamentary ba Archeparchy and, as metropoHtan Winnipeg; Archbishop Antoine Ha- leader, but also a viable economic pro­ faction); and the chairman of the becomes the titular head of Canada's cauit of the citv's^Prancophone St. gram to propel Ukraine out of its experts' council. The experts' council 200,000 Ukrainian Catholics. Boniface Archdiocese and Toronto's current crisis. will include advisers and consultants in Although not the largest eparchy in controversial Ukrainian Catholic Bi­ Reform-minded Deputy Volodymyr the spheres of economics, law, etc. Canada, Winnipeg holds the arche- shop Isidore Borecky. buenko 01 Kharkiv resigned as leader of Only the chairman of the regional parchial see for historic reasons. In 1912 Ironically, Bishop Borecky's em- New Ukraine, explaining that he wants council was elected during the congress. Bishop Nykyta Budka settled here as (Contlniied on page 8) to devote more time to the activities of (Continued on page 2) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1993 No. 12 Background: the genesis of New Ukraine Newsbriefs by Dmytro Filipchenko 1992, a faction headed by the par­ liamentarian Volodymyr Filenko on Ukraine KYYIV — The history of the civic emerged. It included the members of і and political coalition New Ukraine the PDRU, as well as those of the so- ; began late in 1991. A group of called "lesser'' parties, the constitu­ • IVANO-FRANKIVSKE — The difficult to estimate the value of the leading figures of the Party for the tional democrats, the liberal de­ director and other senior officials of an civilian production in former military Democratic Rebirth of Ukraine mocrats and both social democratic oil refinery in Nadvirna, about 30 miles plants. The report cited statistics to the I (PDRU) decided to establish an all- parties. It was this faction that made south of here, were arrested after being effect that 70 percent of defense orders Ukrainian organization that would open opposition to the Fokin gov­ accused of illegally exporting $11.5 were cut and that there was a threefold \ draw upon all democratic forces, ernment part of New Ukraine's million in petroleum products to Pet- increase in civilian production by the і including those directors of state platform at the coalition's conven­ rox, a Swedish company. Their names military. Ostankino focused on a fac­ : industrial enterprises and private tion in June 1992. It also initiated the were not mentioned. Ukraine's general tory in Kharkiv that turned out tanks in і commercial concerns who were dis- referendum drive for the dissolution procuracy is conducting an investiga­ the past but now concentrates on i satisfied with the policies of Prime of the Supreme Council. tion. (Post-Postup). tracked transporters. These are to be Minister Vitold Fokin's government. A new era in the coalition's acti­ shipped to Russia as partial payment This group also sought the atten­ vities began after a member, Leonid • KYYIV — According to an U- for oil shipments. On March 12, Iz- tion of the two chief executives, the Kuchma, was appointed prime mi­ krinform report of March 9, municipal vestiya reported that Ukraine intends to president and prime minister, in nister. The support of many entre­ authorities in Chernivtsi have turned to convert its TU-95 bombers, inherited I order to lobby for the adoption of preneurs and enterprise directors karate experts to help collect fares from from the Soviet strategic wing, into I crucial social and economic mea- shifted to the government, but this dodgers on the city's buses. The martial aircraft for U.N. environmental mo­ I sures. also coincided with the democratic artists, all volunteers, were taken on nitoring missions. These planes come under the provisions of the START The various approaches to coope- referendum movement's failure to after an increasing number of attacks on gather the 3 million signatures in bus inspectors trying to enforce pay­ Treaty, subject to Ukrainian ratification. I ration with the president's adminis- However, the treaty makes no mention f tration and other government circles time. ment were reported. The Ukrinform I he resulting drop in leverage and item noted that "it is an indisputable of conversion, and new provisions І produced an internal differentiation might have to be negotiated. (RFE/ RL within New Ukraine. In the spring of fact that order on the public transport (Continued on page 19) system has improved." (The Washing­ Daily Report) ton Times) national democratic forces and the • MUNICH — A recent issue of the New Ukraine... forces that New Ukraine comprises, Mr. • KYYIV — Early indications are German weekly Der Spiegel quoted Filenko said: "Unfortunately, many (Continued from page 1) that Ukraine's parliamentarians are President Leonid Kravchuk's esti­ influential political forces in Ukraine taking a dim view of the START mation that plans to resettle ethnic He is Volodymyr Kafarsky, a business­ today do not see, or do not want to see, man from Ivano-Frankivske. Other Treaty. On March II, Pravda Ukrainy Germans formerly expelled from U- the close mutual relationship we should and other newspapers carried reports kraine have failed.