INSIDE: • Belarus: the nature of the dictatorship — page 2. • Analysis of U.S. aid to NIS — page 3. • Ukrainians in Yellowknife? Yes! — page 5. HE KRAINI A N EEKLY T PublishedU by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profitW association Vol. LXV No. 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1997 $1.25/$2 in Ukraine Frustrated with stalled reforms, Kuchma says CIS summit heralds Pynzenyk offers his resignation new era in relations among members by Roman Woronowycz tax reform package prompted Mr. by Roman Woronowycz of State Council, even though he has Kyiv Press Bureau Pynzenyk’s action. He explained that Mr. Kyiv Press Bureau served five terms already in a position Pynzenyk’s economic program would that was meant to be a rotating chair. KYIV — Vice Prime Minister of the only work if the tax package and the bud- KYIV — President Leonid Kuchma President Kuchma said that, for one Economy Viktor Pynzenyk, who has get were passed. “We will now see further heralded a new era in relations between more year, Mr. Yeltsin was the right attempted to cajole and drag Ukraine stagnation and the work done toward members of the Commonwealth of man for the job. toward a free market economy, tendered macro-economic stabilization could be in Independent States after his return from “I think we saw a new and different his resignation on April 2, apparently vain,” he noted. the CIS summit held in Moscow on Yeltsin,” said Mr. Kuchma. “Over the frustrated with his inability to move the President Leonid Kuchma did not March 28. He also announced that last months he has had more time to ana- process forward. immediately announce whether he would Russian President Boris Yeltsin had lyze to what extent the world has “I believe that Mr. Pynzenyk resigned accept the resignation of his captain on agreed to visit Kyiv in May or June for changed, and that one country, using because he saw that he could not adequate- economic reforms at such a crucial time the signing of a treaty on friendship and whatever force, cannot control change in ly and fully influence the work of reform,” in the process. cooperation. the world today.” said Tamara Kutsai, the vice prime minis- Mr. Pynzenyk’s baby, the tax reform The president, speaking in Kyiv on Mr. Kuchma said Ukraine still is not ter’s press secretary, who emphasized to package, which he hoped would prompt March 31, said the meeting of 12 leaders ready to agree to the Concept of The Weekly that Mr. Pynzenyk’s had not businesses to come out of the gray econ- of countries that were once part of the Integrated Economic Development, yet released an official statement. omy and would finally stimulate invest- Soviet Union was an unparalleled suc- which was signed by most CIS members cess. “Every country got what it wanted,” Ihor Hryniv, Mr. Pynzenyk’s aide, ment and economic recovery in Ukraine, in January of this year, but that it was not explained that the failure of the Verkhovna has been languishing in the Verkhovna said Mr. Kuchma. against partial integration. “Our primary What each country received individu- Rada to pass either the 1997 budget or a Rada since the end of last year. concern will always be the national inter- ally is not clear. However, the leaders Mr. Pynzenyk’s belief in a strict mon- ests of Ukraine. I repeat that it is not agreed to continue to work toward some etary policy coordinated with the important for us to be involved [in the kind of economic cooperation, the level National Bank of Ukraine has stemmed CIS] 100 percent,” explained Mr. of which is yet to be defined. They U.S. ambassador to NATO inflation in Ukraine (the March inflation Kuchma. signed papers on developing transporta- figure is 0.1). But he had stated several During the three-hour closed session tion routes and customs controls among speaks on pact with Kyiv times that without tax reforms and a bal- of the summit on March 28, Russian their countries, the formation of joint anced budget the economy would not President Yeltsin made a surprising financial-industrial groups and on the by Roman Woronowycz begin to move upward. acknowledgment to assuage fears that defense of borders. Verkhovna Rada National Deputy the CIS is merely a vehicle for further- Kyiv Press Bureau They also agreed that Russian Vadym Hetman, a proponent of Mr. ing Russian interests, which undoubted- KYIV — The United States ambassador President Yeltsin should serve one more to NATO all but confirmed on April 1 that (Continued on page 7) term as the chairman of the CIS Heads (Continued on page 7) although Ukraine and NATO are working towards an agreement on cooperation, it will not have legal standing. “I do not think that one should call it Potichnyj Collection documents insurgency in Ukraine ‘just’ a political document,” explained Ambassador Robert Hunter at America by Marta Dyczok 70,000 troops were regularly used of bringing the materials to Canada, House in Kyiv at the conclusion of a two- Special to The Ukrainian Weekly against the Ukrainian underground, and including Ottawa’s former ambassador that western Ukraine was considered a to Ukraine, François Mathys, and day trip to Ukraine. “It will be signed by TORONTO — A diagram of the President [Leonid] Kuchma, by President war zone and treated as an occupied ter- Ukrainian-born Toronto businessman hideout where Gen. Taras Chuprynka, ritory long after the end of World War II. Petro Jacyk. [Bill] Clinton, by the General-Secretary of commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian “In my opinion, the story should not Mr. Jacyk endowed the University of NATO [Javier Solana] and by the other 15 Insurgent Army (UPA), was ambushed end here,” Prof. Potichnyj said. “The Toronto’s Central and East European leaders of NATO members. It will be a and killed is now available for viewing collection should be added to, expand- Resource Center where the Potichnyj very powerful signal of Ukraine’s general at the University of Toronto Library. It ed and improved, and I think that it will Collection is housed. At the official membership in the European family. It is one of over 250,000 documents in act as a magnet for other similar materi- opening Mr. Jacyk noted, “The only will give much more than a legal docu- the newly opened Potichnyj Collection als, especially since now we are going way that we can preserve our culture, ment could.” on Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency He explained that even now Ukraine as preserve our heritage, is in institutions in Ukraine at the Petro Jacyk Central through a serious assessment of the a member of the Partnership for Peace has which have the possibility to exist for and East European Resource Center. Soviet system, especially the period of representation both at NATO headquarters many years and are professionally The largest collection of its kind in the Cold War,” the Hamilton-based and the central command post in Brussels, maintained.” The patron was particular- North America, it holds materials from scholar added. that it has the ability to consult with NATO ly pleased to see the sketches of the Soviet, Polish, German, U.S. and The original Soviet documents, closed on defense matters, regularly participates UPA bunkers on display, commenting Ukrainian underground archives on to researchers until the collapse of the in NATO joint military exercises and is that as a young man he was one of insurgency and counter-insurgency in Soviet Union, are now in Moscow in the being encouraged to develop NATO-like many who built the hideouts. Ukraine during the years 1941-1954. archival repository of Russia’s Ministry military standards. of Internal Affairs. They were taken to Prof. Robert Johnson, director of the Ambassador Hunter, who said he had The energetic Peter J. Potichnyj, pro- Center for Russian and East European fessor emeritus at McMaster the Russian capital after Ukraine declared come to Ukraine because “it was impor- independence in 1991. At the insistence Studies at the University of Toronto, tant to visit [the country] during discus- University, spent over three years com- praised the Potichnyj Collection as an piling the documents. During the offi- of the Ukrainian government, a microfilm sion on the NATO-Ukraine relationship,” copy was made; it has since been deposit- important building block of the univer- cial opening of the collection on March sity’s resource base. During the official said everyone’s expectation is that the ed in Kyiv, in the Central State Archive 18, he commented, “This is a unique opening of the collection Prof. Johnson formal signing will take place at the of Government Organizations (formerly collection, and it is my expectation that said, “This extraordinary collection sets Madrid Conference of NATO scheduled the Central State Archive of the October after it is properly processed, it will an agenda for a whole future generation for July 8-9. Revolution). He also confirmed that, no matter serve the scholarly community well.” of scholars.” what Russia thinks, several Central For Western researchers, the most Now another microfilm copy has The Poti chnyj Collection is divided European countries will be invited to interesting materials will likely prove to been made and brought to Toronto. into two large groupings: insurgency join NATO. He downplayed Moscow’s be those drawn from Soviet sources. Prof. Potichnyj thanked a number of They show that in 1944-1945 over individuals for expediting the process (Continued on page 5) (Continued on page 5) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1997 No. 14 NEWS ANALYSIS Belarus: the nature of the dictatorship Cabinet reshuffle to resume in Ukraine? Yeltsin and Belarusian President by David R.