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The Ukrainian Weekly 2004, No.39 www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE:• Russian news media favor Yanukovych — page 3. • McCain, Holbrooke address conference in Washington — page 5. • Two Ukrainians among top winners in Operalia competition — page 13. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXII HE No.KRAINIAN 39 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2004 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine T UYushchenko victim of chemicalW poisoning UNA to participate by Roman Woronowycz Yushchenko presidential candidacy. Kyiv Press Bureau Mr. Yushchenko, puffy-faced, drooling and teary-eyed, made his first public KYIV – National Deputy Yuri inPARSIPPANY, UCCA N.J. congress – This weekend, appearance on September 18 after being Kostenko said on September 21 that the Friday through Sunday, September 24- released from a Viennese hospital, where presidential campaign team of Viktor 26, the Ukrainian National Association he had been treated for an acute and still Yushchenko had information that ricin will participate in the 19th Congress of mysterious case of chemical poisoning as Ukrainian Americans – the quadrennial was the chemical agent that nearly killed the presidential candidate. well as pancreatitis, colitis and gastritis, convention of the Ukrainian Congress all a result of the poisoning. Committee of America. “I would like to say that this is merely a portion of the information that we have The current leader in the race for the As readers may recall, at the 2003 presidential seat told a crowd of some annual UNA General Assembly meet- gathered,” explained Mr. Kostenko in an 15,000 supporters that he would not be ing held November 21-23, at interview broadcast on Radio Liberty. stopped in his quest to win the presiden- Soyuzivka, assembly members voted to Mr. Kostenko is chairman of the National restore the UNA’s decades-long rela- Party, which is a primary member of the cy, no matter what methods might still be tionship with the Ukrainian Congress Our Ukraine political bloc headed by used by those out to restrain him. Committee of America (UCCA) on the National Deputy Yushchenko. He is also “You will not poison us. You do not same basis and status as had been a member of the executive committee of have enough bullets and KamAZ trucks. established during its original member- the Power of the People coalition, the You cannot break us,” said Mr. ship. A UNA statement released after political organization spearheading the Yushchenko, his voice strong and unwa- this important vote noted: “It is our sin- cere hope that this step will serve as an incentive for others to seek common ground on which to build mutual coop- Ukraine’s defense minister is out Viktor Yushchenko speaks during a eration for the good of our community. rally in Kyiv after being released from For, let us remember, only with unity by Roman Woronowycz Mr. Kuchma explained that the move a Vienna hospital where he was treat- comes strength.” Kyiv Press Bureau came as a result of the defense minister’s failure to take control of massive ed for poisoning. The statement also underscored: KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma “Only from a position of strength and weapons storage problems in the country, announced on September 22 during a vering, although he did not look well. cooperation can we, as a community, including poor administration of the visit to a rocket fuel-reprocessing factory Throughout his speech he dabbed a have a powerful, united voice in the reprocessing of solid rocket fuel from that he had accepted the resignation of handkerchief to swollen eyes and partial- public arena. As such, the Ukrainian Ukraine’s now defunct nuclear arsenal. ly paralyzed lips that did not allow him National Association, mindful of the Minister of Defense Yevhen Marchuk. He noted that the issues surrounding “Today I said that I have accepted to speak or swallow properly. fact it represents a body of over the Pavlohrad plant were part of a larger Mr. Yushchenko told the rally, which 45,000 members of diverse and var- Marchuk’s resignation in connection with problem of ammunition disposal in the what is happening here,” Mr. Kuchma was simulcast to about a half million ied viewpoints, believes it is essential country, which included the explosions Ukrainians gathered in town and city to foster a cooperative and unifying said after meeting with officials of the that rocked the city of Melitopil on May plant, located in Pavlohrad, just outside centers throughout Ukraine, that “the spirit within our community.” bandit state authorities want one thing: to of Dnipropetrovsk. (Continued on page 11) continue to rule at all costs.” In an appearance that had been planned before the onset of the ordeal that nearly Tribute to Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky held in New York (Continued on page 8) by Helen Smindak Special to The Ukrainian Weekly NEW YORK – In a moving tribute to an unforgettable dance 24 candidates registered personality and her remarkable legacy, the Ukrainian Institute of America bestowed its first Lifetime Achievement Award on the late Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky on Sunday, September 12. for final presidential ballot The presentation took place at a festive luncheon in a setting ideally suited to the memory of a diva known for her gracious by Roman Woronowycz manners – the stately Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Kyiv Press Bureau Hotel in Park Avenue. Bouquets of deep red roses, evoking the KYIV – Ten minutes before a love and respect of students and admirers for the Ukrainian com- September 20 deadline was to pass, three munity’s “Pani Roma,” adorned tables throughout the room. final announced candidates for the post Invocations were offered by the Rev. Andriy Kulyk of All of president of Ukraine submitted the Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Rev. Bernard Panchuk 500,000 petition signatures required by of St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church. Ukrainian election law to continue in the Speakers cited Ms. Pryma-Bohachevsky for her dedication to process, which culminates with a general teaching Ukrainian folk dance and transmitting her love and know- election on October 31. ledge of Ukrainian dance traditions to thousands of young people in The three, Mykhailo Brodskyi, the diaspora. The former prima ballerina of the Innsbruck State Opera Mykola Rohozhynskyi and Mykola House in Vienna, who passed away in May following a serious ill- Hrabar, joined Serhii Komisarenko and ness, devoted 40 years to ballet and Ukrainian dance instruction – 25 Natalia Vitrenko, who also submitted of those as director of the Syzokryli Ukrainian Dancers of New York. As more than 400 guests looked on, UIA president Walter their petitions on the final day, to bring Nazarewicz presented a statuette of Ms. Pryma-Bohachevsky to her to 25 the number of candidates for the daughter, Ania Bohachevsky Lonkevych, and son, Boris post of president. Three days later the Bohachevsky, paying tribute to a woman “who helped to preserve, number was reduced to 24 when Vitalii Kononov withdrew from the race. (Continued on page 12) (Continued on page 8) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2004 No. 39 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Was there a second attempt Parliament continues to regroup... on September 21 that 15 lawmakers from the Democratic Initiatives – People’s Power on Viktor Yushchenko’s life? KYIV – Verkhovna Rada Chairman caucus have restored their membership in Volodymyr Lytvyn announced on the pro-government coalition, Interfax by Taras Kuzio Nevertheless, his heath failed to improve. September 22 that 17 lawmakers in the reported. The 15 lawmakers reportedly sus- Eurasia Daily Monitor On September 10, Mr. Yushchenko was Democratic Initiatives-People’s Power party pended their participation in the pro-govern- sent to Vienna to be consulted by Austrian have dissolved their group and formed a ment alliance in protest against the govern- On Saturday, September 18, opposition doctors at the Rudolfinerhaus clinic. new caucus called United Ukraine (Yedyna ment’s decision two weeks ago to pool state leader Viktor Yushchenko, the front-runner Eleven highly qualified Austrian doc- Ukraina), Interfax reported. The current stakes in the Halychyna and Ukrtatnafta oil in the October presidential elections, spoke tors diagnosed his illness as “acute pancre- division of deputies in the Ukrainian legisla- refineries with the basic capital of state-con- in front of 70,000 supporters in Kyiv upon atitis accompanied by interstitial edema- ture is: Our Ukraine, 100; Ukraine’s trolled oil company Ukrnafta. Last week, his return from Vienna. Mr. Yushchenko tous changes” (Interfax-Ukraine, Regions, 63; the Communist Party, 59; the President Leonid Kuchma revoked the deci- warned the authorities, “We will not be poi- September 17). The mortality rate from Social Democratic Party-United, 40; Labor sion, ordering that those stakes be pooled soned!” Bullets or KamAZ trucks would not this condition is 15 percent; when it is not Ukraine, 30; the Popular Agrarian Party, 21; with the basic capital of the state-run gas destroy those like himself, Mr. Yushchenko treated the mortality rate is as high as 80 the Socialist Party, 20; the Yulia company Naftohaz Ukrainy. Apart from the added, as many thousands more would fol- percent (UNIAN, September 17). The Tymoshenko Bloc, 19; the Soyuz group, 18; Democratic Initiatives – People’s Power low in the footsteps of Vadym Hetman (the Yushchenko team was quick to point out the National Democratic Party – Party of caucus, the pro-government parliamentary National Bank of Ukraine chairman mur- that an autopsy had diagnosed Our Entrepreneurs and Industrialists, 17; and the coalition has been abandoned by some 30 dered in 1998), Vyacheslav Chornovil (a Ukraine National Deputy Oleh Oleksenko, Center group, 16. Also on September 22, lawmakers from the Center and Popular nationalist killed in a mysterious car acci- who died in 2002, to have suffered from three lawmakers from the National Agrarian Party groups.
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