www.ukrweekly.com Vol. LXI No. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1993 50 cents Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Claim ОП Sevastopil condemned moves closer toward patriarchate as Russian 'act of aggression' by Marta Kolomayets Catholic church stood at this location at by Marta Kolomayets Deputies of the Russian Federation can­ Kyyiv Press Bureau the beginning of this century, but was Kyyiv Press Bureau cel their resolution, which is capable of destroyed by the Stalin regime in 1932. shaking the solid foundation of the cen­ KYYIV — The Ukrainian Greek- Cardinal Lubachivsky will also bless the KYYIV — Ukrainian tlawmakers turies-old history of brotherly relations Catholic Church is moving toward being future site of a chapel at Smirnova condemned the Russian Parliament's between the Ukrainian and Russian peo­ recognized as a patriarchal Church, said Lastochkina Street (also in that area). ples," said the one-page resolution a leading Church official on Thursday claim to the Black Sea port city of The blessings of the new sites are an adopted by Parliament. afternoon, July 15. Sevastopil, labeling the action "an especially festive occasion because aggressive political act against Ukraine." Ukraine's President Leonid "Today, our Ukrainian Greek- Ukrainian Greek-Catholics, who Meeting at an emergency session on Kravchuk, Prime Minister Leonid Catholic Church, with its canonically according to the church's press center Wednesday, July 14, Ukraine's Supreme Kuchma, Foreign Minister Anatoliy recognized major archbishop, already number 30,000 in Kyyiv, have not yet Council, by a vote of 316-3, adopted a Zlenko and Defense Minister has all the rights of a patriarchal Church. been granted use of a church for their. resolution responding to the Russian Konstantyn Morozov, among others, The only thing we are still waiting for is spiritual needs. claim. It was the lates in a series of condemned the Russian action as "a the declaration of the title of patriarch," During the 45-minute press confer­ denunciations by Ukrainian leaders gross violation of principles of interna­ said Msgr. Ivan Dacko, the newly ence, the Rev. Dacko said that since the issued since Friday, July 9, when the tional law." However, many political appointed chancellor of the Patriarchal arrival of the head of the Ukrainian Russian Parliament passed a resolution analysts see the Russian Parliament's act Curia, during a press conference in Greek-Catholic Church in Lviv 18 Kyyiv on the eve of groundbreaking cer­ declaring Sevastopil a Russian city. as reflecting not only the heightened ten­ months ago, the Church has undergone sions between Ukraine and Russia, but emonies for the first Greek-Catholic "The Supreme Council of Ukraine "a period of inner restructuring and sta­ as a domestic Russian dispute gone out sobor in this capital city. bilization." proposes that the Supreme Council of Russia and the Congress of People's (Continued on page 3) Although it is impossible to tell when He said that on Monday, July 12, the such a decision will be made by the Holy decisions of the Synod of Bishops of the See, the Rev. Dacko added that the fact Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, held "that new canonical eparchies have been in Lviv on May 16-31 of this year, were Ukraine seeks UN. intervention created, a permanent Synod exists and a announced simultaneously in Lviv and Patriarchal Curia has been formed are in Rome. KYYIV — Ukraine will ask the as Russian territory and told Ukraine to very concrete steps in this direction." The Synod created four new eparchies United Nation's Security Council to remove its troops. President Boris The press conference on July 15 was for Ukraine, adding to the three existing examine the Russian Parliament's claim Yeltsin and Russia's Foreign Ministry held in the midst of a busy week for the eparchies of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivske and to Sevastopil, a Foreign Ministry official have disowned the resolution. Ukraine Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Mukachevo. The new eparchies are: announced on July 13. Reuters reported has denounced it as illegal. which will conclude with Cardinal Ternopil, Kolomyia-Chernivtsi, Zboriv that Ihor Kharchenko, head of the min­ Reuters further said that about 2,000 Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky's arrival in and Sambir-Drohobych. istry's political analysis department, said pro-Russian demonstrators gathered in Kyyiv on Friday, July 16. The new ordinaries (eparchs) are: at a news conference that Ukraine would the port city on Monday to support the He is scheduled to bless the site of the Bishop Mykhailo Sapryha (Ternopil); submit the request under U.N. rules con­ move by the Russian Parliament, whose future Ukrainian Greek-Catholic cathe­ the Rev. Mykhailo Koltyn (Zboriv); cerning actions that "threaten interna­ chairman, Ruslan Khasbulatov, is a dral in the city's center on Sunday, July Bishop Pavlo Vasylyk (Kolomyia- tional peace and security." He added, staunch opponent of Yeltsin-led reform 18. It will be located at Velyka Chernivtsi) and Bishop Julian 'This is an unprecedented step, which attempts. Protest leaders called a Zhytomyrska Street near the Lviv Voronovsky (Sambir-Drohobych). has made Ukraine a target of territorial "People's Congress" for Friday to elect Square and not far from St. Sophia In addition, the synod created a claims at official levels." alternative bodies to the city's leader­ Cathedral. Russia's Parliament voted virtually ship, which opposes the Russian According to historians, a Greek- (Continued on page 3) unanimously last week to claim the port Parliament's decision. Meanwhile, more and more countries are lining up against the Russian Canadian professionals focus on 'new world agenda'Parliamen t move, reported Radio Liberty. Great Britain expressed its sup­ port for Ukraine's right to Sevastopil on by Christopher Guly alongside Ukrainians to convert their The Ukrainian government has also July 12 when Britain's ambassador to Special to The Ukrainian Weekly advice into government policy." clamped down on its international bor­ Ukraine handed Ukraine's Foreign ders to implement currency control, said Dr. Viktor Pynzenyk, Ukraine's Minister Anatoliy Zlenko a note from Dr. Pynzenyk. WINNIPEG — There are as many deputy prime minister for economic the British government describing the But, citing five different types of opportunities in Ukraine as there are reform, speaking through an English- Russian Parliament's claim on Crimean economies operating in Ukraine today entries in Winnipeg's Yellow Pages, said language interpreter, agreed that the city as "irresponsible," according to a — including the black market, theft from Nestor Gayowsky, Ukraine's representa­ "Soviet mentality remains the main Ukrainian TV report. The note reported­ the state, barter, hard currency and the tive to the European Bank for roadblock to privatization." However, he ly said "there can be no question as to state-run economy — Mr. Gayowsky Reconstruction and Development, at a said that 19,000 plots of land have been Ukraine's sovereignty over Sevastopil, said Ukraine requires "expert" adminis­ recent Canadian-Ukrainian trade confer­ privatized since Ukraine declared its just as there can be no question about the trators and bureaucrats to ensure ence held here in early July. independence two years ago. principles of the territorial integrity rec­ Ukrainian government policy is prac­ The four-day meeting focusing on ognized by the CSCE. Dr. Pynzenyk explained that despite ticed. "Ukraine: The New World Agenda" was Ukraine's current monthly 35 percent "Ukraine is the most lawless, law- That same day a Basapress report said part of the biennial convention of the inflation index, which is approaching the abiding state I've ever lived in," Ukraine's ambassador to Moldova, Ukrainian Canadian Professional and international definition of hyperinflation explained Mr. Gayowsky, who served as Vitally Boyko, has "expressed confi­ Business Federation. (50 percent), Prime Minister Leonid a Canadian diplomat in Italy and the dence that Moldova's president, Kuchma's government is also dedicated Mr. Gayowsky, Canada's first consul Scandinavian countries. "But even Parliament and government will take a to centralizing the country's budget. general to Ukraine, said although though they are going through rough stand" regarding the Sevastopil fiasco. Ukraine "hasn't done an effective job in "We want to transfer control from economic times, their ingenuity in main- The ambassador was to meet Moldovan marketing itself...what is needed is not local oblasts to the federal government," First Deputy Prime Minister Ion Botnaru advice, but a commitment to work he told delegates. (Continued on page 8) to discuss the issue. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1993 No. 29 Ivan Honchar, renowned sculptor, Newsbriefs painter, ethnographer, dead at 82 on Ukraine JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Ivan Honchar, a renowned sculptor, painter Kravchuk: referendum unconstitutional an RFE/RL report of July 7. Delegations and ethnographer, died on June 18, in from both sides met here July 6 to dis­ Kyyiv. He was 82. KYYIV — President Leonid cuss details of the pact, which has been Bom January 27, 1911, in the village Kravchuk has called the September 28 under discussion for more than a year. of Lypianka in Chyhyryn county of the referendum unconstitutional and said he Russia's chief negotiator, Yuri Dubinin, Kyyiv gubernia, he studied at the Kyyiv would not necessarily abide by its said the treaty will include all aspects of Industrial Arts School (1927-1930), and results, but denied that he had demanded Ukrainian-Russian relations that have the Kyyiv Institute of Agrochemistry the vote be cancelled, reported an emerged in the post-Soviet period. The and Soil Sciences (1931-1936). RFE/RL correspondent on July 14. need for such an accord was reaffirmed . He began sculpting in the 1930s, pro­ Reuters had reported the day before that at the recent Kravchuk-Yeltsin summit.