INSIDE: ^ Yeltsin decree reveals neo-imperial ambitions - page 2. - World Junior Hockey Championship - page 3. e Photo report: Christmas in Kyiv - page 9. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIV No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1996 S1.25/S2 in Ukraine Rddio Canada International Defense ministers witness demolition of missile silo in Ukraine by Borys Klymenko the first two, one a training site and the other a functioning to cease broadcasts in March Special to The Ukrainian Weekly silo, were destroyed earlier as technology was under development for further destruction of Ukraine's nuclear by Andrij Wynnyckyj KYIV — The defense ministers of Ukraine and missile silos. Russia, and the defense secretary of the United States U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry and Russian TORONTO — In a move met by widespread disap­ traveled to Pervomaiske, 250 kilometers south of the proval, the state-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Defense Minister Pavel Grachev had arrived in Ukraine Ukrainian capital, on January 5 to witness the destruc­ on January 3 for talks with their Ukrainian counterpart, announced on December 12, 1995, that the last day of tion of an ICBM missile silo — one of 130 that are to be operations for this country's global short-wave and Defense Minister Valeriy Shmarov. The three held meet­ destroyed by November of 1998 in accordance with pro­ ings among themselves and later met with President satellite radio service, Radio Canada International, visions of the START I disarmament treaty. would be March 31, 1996. The silo was actually the third destroyed by Ukraine; (Continued on page 13) Under pressure from sharply reduced federal appropria­ tions, CBC President Perrin Beatty has presided over the latest round of drastic cuts to the national television and radio service, with job losses projected in the hundreds. Mainstream newspapers and journals in Canada, including the Globe and Mail, Montreal's Le Devoir, the Toronto Star and the Financial Post, have carried editorials in support of RCI. Havn^ caimht л іпсі of the move in advance, on Dccemhci I 1, 199S. 'kiaiman Canadian Congiess I t;^ 'Л лі "')ch Ron,j' Ї ^ fuOd Oif a Wll^l Of protest V ;vdK-- to СапсО.а \ РМІІІЄ I J І І ,ei fCtni Cnreiien, /-ІМПЧ Mll'bV a. ti - Vrllei. s ! u,i!tp; ^ Г Pn 'cn.jr,. ,0 ' JUJ І '. 0 ( ^ Ivh , мііа' ^ ' '4u, IV civ'r viies^ o' La'KXU Via -О ^i Л"я\ і ^ -, \' \іл ч) оИе! м ihc w.y of piod- ,".h, 4^'vites v^O technology cinnot be о /a estimated, ^аїіісічсny in a nation fUkiamoJ w' ich offers Canada ^cdi 'liaise potential." Viaf.c, S/kambara. president oj UCC's Toronto branch, (Continued on page 4) Stranded sailors homesick in Honolulu by Roman Woronowycz JERSEY CITY, N.J. - For 24 sailors stuck in the United States aboard a debilitated merchant vessel from Odessa registered with the Black Sea Shipping Co. (Blasco), home for the holidays was a dream that did not come true. The ship, the 17,000-ton-Grigoriy Kozinstev, has been marooned in port in Honolulu since September 23, 1995, when it was towed to the tropical paradise after its main engine broke down four days earlier, 350 nautical miles northeast of the Hawaiian Islands. It has not been bliss for the mariners, who ran short of food and money long ago and now survive through the generosity of fellow sailors at the sea­ port, who have rounded up and delivered truck- loads of supplies — clothes, canned food, water, cigarettes and at least 12 turkeys, courtesy of marine-oriented firms such as Hawaii Tug and Barge, Hawaii Pilots, Seaiand Enterprise and Jardine Shipping Agencies, reported The Los Angeles Times on December 11. The Japanese firm, Marubeni Co., which owns the cargo — 13,000 tons of smelly and highly combustible ground anchovy fish meal — also has taken responsibility for feeding the sailors and maintaining basic on-board operations. The seamen have wandered the streets of the port with no money, reeking of the foul-smelling lYefrem Lukatsky cargo and unable to get a proper shower or air con- U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry, Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev and Ukrainian Defense (Continued on page 12) Minister Valeriy Shmarov (respectively, third, fourth and fifth from left) stand at the crater of a demolished ICBM silo in Pervomaiske, Ukraine. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1996 No. 2 ANALYSIS: Decree by Boris Yeltsin reveals Russian imperial ambitions Ukrainian-Russian oil talks continue on January 9, Russian and Western agen­ by Volodymyr Zviglyanich economic relations in the post-Soviet cies reported. Mr. Primakov, 66, is a space via the creation of political regimes MOSCOW — Russian oil supplies to President Boris Yeltsin on September Middle Eastern expert. He has served as friendly to Russia. the Czech Republic and Slovakia are still director of the Soviet and then Russian 14, 1995, issued an edict declaring a pro­ suspended pending negotiations between gram aimed at restoration of the Russian The ways and means foreign intelligence services since Russia and Ukraine over transit fees September 1991, when Soviet President Empire on the territory thus far known as through Ukraine, Interfax reported on How does Russia intend to attain these Mikhail Gorbachev appointed him to the the Commonwealth of Independent January 9. Oil supplies were halted at the goals? In the economic sphere, there position. Before 1991, Mr. Primakov States. The program is titled "The beginning of the year after Ukraine would be an expansion of the CIS served as a foreign policy adviser to then- Strategic Course of Russia Toward States announced it was increasing the price for Customs Union through the involvement President Gorbachev, often serving as an of the CIS." It consists of several chap­ pumping one ton of oil through 100 kilo­ of members of the CIS Economic Union advance man in the preparation of summit ters that reflect Russia's hierarchy of meters of its territory by 10 percent to (Ukraine is an associate member of the meetings with Western leaders. He is strategic priorities on the territory of the S5.20. Ukraine's State Committee for Oil former USSR. Economic Union). Russia plans also to notorious for his role in Mr. Gorbachev's integrate national economic systems with and Gas said that 39 Russian enterprises The very fact that this document February 1991 efforts to mediate the the help of the Inter-Parliamentary and joint ventures have concluded agree­ appeared on the eve of parliamentary and Persian Gulf crisis, in which Mr. Assembly of the CIS. This assembly is a ments with Ukraine to pump 7 million presidential elections in Russia reflects Primakov tried to make use of his long­ murky organization created by one-time tons of oil through the Druzhba pipeline important tendencies in Russia's foreign at the new rate. But under an agreement standing acquaintance with Iraqi dictator speaker of the Russian Parliament, policy toward "the near abroad." on fuel and energy signed in October Saddam Hussein. From 1985-89, Mr. Ruslan Khasbulatov, with the aim of 1994, transit tariffs can be changed only Primakov was director of the Institute for Neo-imperial ambitions uniting supporters of the USSR's restora­ by agreement reached at government World Economy and International tion and creating opposition to President Numerous perspectives on the prob­ level. Ukraine's State Committee for Oil Relations and one of the architects of Mr. Yeltsin. For these attempts the Russian lem of Russia's relationship to the CIS and Gas has sent a letter to its Russian Gorbachev's "new thinking." Western Parliament was forceably dissolved by have periodically come from various counterpart expressing its willingness to reaction to Mr. Primakov's appointment Mr. Yeltsin in October 1993, and Mr. presidential and quasi-presidential think- negotiate the issue. (OMRI Daily Digest) has been muted but Vladimir Lukin, Khasbulatov wound up in the famous tanks in Russia. chairman of the Russian Duma's Lefortovo Prison. Their primary goal, however, was to Ukraine signs agreement with Serbia International Affairs Committee, wel­ Now the very same idea is supported check public reaction rather than to serve comed it, saying "he understands what by President Yeltsin himself. Does this BELGRADE — Agreements on cultur­ as guidelines for practical actions. Russia's real priorities are," while inde­ mean that its opponents are now expect­ al and economic cooperation were signed In contrast to these studies, pendent foreign policy analyst Andrei ed in Lefortovo? Edict No. 940 leaves between Serbia and Ukraine following a Presidential Edict No. 940 is a program Kortunov described Mr. Primakov as them some hope. The model of "multi- four-day visit by a Ukrainian delegation to of official actions and contains directives speed integration" (a euphemism for the Serbia, Serbian television reported on (Continued on page 7) for state institutions such as the Foreign restoration of a "single and undivided" December 26, 1995. The agreement on Ministry and the Ministry on empire) is not obligatory. But the attitude economic cooperation calls for joint Cooperation with Countries of the CIS. of Russia's partners to this model will investments and developing trade relations The document refrains from theoretical determine the volume of its economic, between the countries. The cultural agree­ Sevastopil site reflections on the subject of "Russia in a political and military assistance to them. ment was directed at cooperation between Constellation of Equals" and dots all the The edict envisages an enhancement the universities in Banja Luka — which is "i's" by barring from the text the mere of action movie of the Payments Union with the aim of on Bosnian Serb territory — and mention of "independence" and "equali­ using the ruble as a "reserve" currency.