INSIDE: • Diaspora marks Ukraine's fourth anniversary of independenc — page 5. © Using the Internet to reach Ukrainians in Moscow — page 6. ® Another season at Soyuzivka comes to a close — centerfold. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIII No. 37 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1995 $1.25/$2 in Ukraine Canada names new ambassador to Ukraine Parliament begins fall session; by Christopher Guly for East Africa with the Canadian Interna­ tional Development Agency (CIDA), budget, constitution on agenda OTTAWA - By Christmas, Canada which is now responsible for allocating will have a new ambassador to Ukraine. assistance to Ukraine. From 1987 to 1991, by Khristiim Lew Parliament as early as November. Career diplomat Christopher Westdal he was director general of Foreign Kyyiv Press Bureau Mr. Moroz devoted much of his 20- was named Canada's second ambassador minute address to.the difficulties faced Affairs' International Organizations KYYIV - Ukraine's Parliament con­ to Ukraine on August 23. He succeeds Bureau. by Ukrainian citizens as the country Francois Mathys, who served in Kyyiv vened after a two-month recess on transforms its economy and what Last year, Mr. Westdal was named September 5 to resolve some of Ukraine's for the past three years. Mr. Mathys has Canada's ambassador for disarmament. Parliament, working with the govern­ been reassigned to Norway and Iceland. most pressing issues: the program of the ment, must do to alleviate them. Meanwhile, Nancy Stiles, who headed new government, the approval of the state He noted that in the month of July, 46 Born in Swan River Valley, Manitoba, Foreign Affairs' Bureau of Assistance budget for 1996, the passage of a new percent of apartment dwellers did not pay on September 13, 1947, Ambassador for Central and Eastern Europe, has been Ukrainian Constitution and the creation of for their water, gas and heat. Of those, 60 Westdale obtained a bachelor's degree in named Canada's ambassador to Brazil. a court system. percent had not paid for their utilities for political science from St. John's College From 1989 to 1992, she served as high Parliament Chairman Oleksander Moroz two months or more. 'What will happen in Winnipeg (now part of the University commissioner to Sri Lanka. of Manitoba) and his master's in busi­ opened the work of the fourth session with when the tariff on natural gas is raised in In Kyyiv, Ambassador Westdal will be ness administration in public policy from the admonition that "inconsistency and con­ September?" he queried. joined by Emil Baran, who will leave his tradiction in the legislative process lead to flie University of Manitoba. The negative impact of this transitional job as vice-president for the Center for legal nihilism, the loss of state control over His diplomatic experience dates back to period can be remedied only by the execu­ Central and Eastern Europe at the Canadian the tax system, the strengthening of a shad­ 1970, when he served as an economic advi- tive branch, he said, which should "deci­ Bureau for International Education. A for­ ow economy, bureaucratic anarchy and the sively create and strengthen the legislative mer CIDA colleague, Mr. Baran assumes criminalization of the economy," while the foundation." Throughout his address, Mr. For more on Ambassador-designate responsibility for Canadian technical assis­ newly rested people's deputies exchanged Westdal, see page 4, Moroz reiterated the need to closely coop­ tance to Ukraine at the embassy, while pleasantries on the floor of the chamber. erate with the Cabinet of Ministers in all another ex-patriate Manitoban, former Mr. Moroz pointed to the fact that the spheres of the legislative process. $or for the University of Toronto in Dar-es- Canadian Charge d'Affaires Nestor Ga- fourth session of Parliament will conduct its The Cabinet of Ministers was scheduled Salaam, Tanzania. Three years later, Mr. yowsky, has retired and returned to Ottawa. work within the framework of the constitu­ to review the program of Ukraine's new Westdal joined Canada's foreign service. Currently studying Ukrainian in tional accord reached between the president government on September 7. Mr. Moroz His assignments have Included posts in Ottawa, Ambassador Westdal met with and the legislative body in the spring. said Parliament could then begin reviewing New Delhi and, from 1982 to 1985, he members of the Ukrainian Canadian com­ The Parliament chairman criticized the the new program as early as September 19. served as Canada's high commissioner to munity at the Embassy in Kyyiv on accord for not clearly delineating the divi­ Mr. Moroz called on all 405 deputies Bangladesh and ambassador to Burma. August 24, Ukraine's Independence Day. sion of powers between the executive and (one-quarter of whom were absent from the From 1991 to 1993, Ambassador Westdal The Ukrainian Canadian Professional and legislative branches. Legislative activity morning session) to work toward passing was given the highly sensitive job of repre­ Business Association of Ottawa is hosting is the prerogative of Parliament, he said, legislation on the creation of a senting Canada in Pretoria, South Africa, a reception in honor of the ambassador- and the constitutional accord has Constitutional Court, Procuracy General, when that country was still under sanctions designate and his wife, Sheila Hayes, on strengthened the president's ability to judicial-legal reform, the election of peo­ from Canada and most Western countries. November 25 at the National Press Club issue decrees, which has created a "paral­ ple's deputies and a parliamentary Control He has also held senior positions with in Ottawa. lel system of legislation." Chamber, which, among other things, Foreign Affairs in Canada. Mr. Westdal is expected to take up He called for the swift preparation of a Mr. Westdal served as regional director residence in Kyyiv in early December. draft Constitution, to be reviewed by (Continued on page 2) The rebirth of education in Ukraine: Ostrih Collegium opens its doors by Taras Zakydalsky OSTRIH, Ukraine -- The opening of the Ostrih Higher Collegium on August 26 was marked with grand ceremonies suited to the histor­ ical occasion. The event is the first step towards establishing Ostrih as an important educational center and restoring its 16th century rep­ utation as the "Volhynian Athens." The collegium identifies itself with the traditions of the Ostrih Academy, the cradle of Ukrainian learning and culture in the modem period. The Ostrih Academy was founded in 1576 by Prince Konstantyn Ostrozky to serve as a bastion of Ukrainian Orthodoxy. A circle of scholars such as Herasym Smotrytsky, Cyril Lucaris and Jan Latos was gathered by Prince Ostrozky to revise liturgical books, write polemical tracts in defense of the Orthodox faith, produce an improved version of the Bible, known as the Ostrih Bible (1581), and educate an intellectual elite of a European standard. Most of the works prepared by these scholars were published in Ostrih, at the printing press established by Ivan Fedorovych in 1578. Among the academy's graduates were political leaders such as Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, illustrious scholars such as Meletiy Smotrytsky, and poets such as Damian Nalyvaiko. As Ostrih's educational role diminished after Prince Ostrozky's death, its traditions were continued by the Kyyiv-Mohyla Collegium. (Continued on page 4) Rector Ihor Pasichnyk, Pro-rector of the Collegium Vasyl Vasylyshyn and President of the Kyyiv- Taras Zakydalsky is currently lecturing at the University of Mohyla Academy Vyacheslav Briukhovetsky plant a tree to mark the inauguration of the Ostrih Kyyiv-Mohyla Academy. Higher Collegium on August 26; THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1995 No. 37 Chernihiv adopts Western-style zoning NEW YORK - On May 24 Chernihiv land adjacent to a monastery, the City became the first city in new Ukraine to Council commissioned the master plan, adopt Western-style zoning to guide its which the new zoning will henceforth Government outlaws UNA Rifkind said Britain is ready to uphold future development, reported PADCO, Inc. implement. Ukraine's eventual membership in the Chernihiv's City Council voted 32-1 to Drafters of the new zoning were heart­ KYYIV — The registration of the Council of Europe and that it supports enact new land use regulations, capping a ened by the enthusiastic participation of Ukrainian National Assembly (UNA), enhanced economic cooperation with all yearlong joint effort by its Architecture 150 Ukrainian planning officials in a zon­ which has three members in Parliament, has European institutions. (OMRI Daily been annulled, Justice Ministry spokes­ Department, the United States Agency for ing conference held in Chernihiv in late Digest) woman Olena Shustyk told Reuters on International Development (USAID) and July. Participants included the chief archi­ September 6. 'The registration of the UNA Transdniester marks "Independence Day" PADCO Inc., a Washington-based plan­ tects of 70 Ukrainian cities and 40 repre­ was illegal and will be investigated. ning and consulting firm. sentatives of independent architecture and Today's decision means any activity by this TIRASPOL, Transdniester Republic — The new zoning allows different but design institutes. They attended formal pre­ group in Ukraine will be considered ille­ The government of the breakaway compatible uses for each parcel of land in sentations by several speakers, including gal," Ms. Shustyk said. The UNA's para­ Transdniester Republic organized meetings the city. The zoning directly implements Vladimir Gusakov, minister of architecture military adjunct, the Ukrainian National marking the fifth anniversary of the region's Chernihiv's 1992 master plan, which and urban development; and Bill Valletta, a Self-Defence Organization (UNSO) has break with Moldova. Igor Smirnov, presi­ provides guidelines for future growth, New York attorney who took part in devel­ sent volunteers to Transdniester, Georgia dent of the Transdniester Republic, said the limits building height to nine stories, oping the new zoning resolution.