www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: e Ukrainian Navy's media center in Sevastopil - page 2. в Detroit and Lviv schools expand academic cooperation - page 3. в A homecoming for Canada's new bishop - page 7. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIV No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1996 S1.25/S2 in Ukraine Saskatoon bishop consecrated CIS heads of state meet; in his home parish in Winnipeg Ukraine resists integration by Frank Guly and Christopher Guly Basilian who himself was elevated to the by Danylo Yanevsky ation of CIS peacekeeping forces. Special to The Ukrainian Weekly episcopacy last March. Bishop Special to The Ukrainian Weekly President Leonid Kuchma said Yakymyshyn replaced Edmonton Bishop Ukraine did not participate in discussions WINNIPEG - More than 750 people Myron Daciuk, who died on January 14. KYIV - The CIS Council of Heads of crowded into St. Nicholas Ukrainian about CIS symbols since Ukraine is not a Illness prevented the attendance of State met in Moscow on January 19 with Catholic Church, located in the North End signatory of the CIS Charter and is only Archbishop-Metropolitan emeritus Maxim Ukraine resisting pressures for further inte­ district of Winnipeg, to attend the episco­ an associate member of that body. Herrnaniuk, who recently underwent hip gration with former Soviet republics. pal ordination of the Rev. Cornelius John Ukraine also did not participate in dis­ surgery, and Archbishop Carlo Curis, The CIS summit adopted a flag and Pasichny as the Saskatoon Eparchy's new cussions on joint military formations or apostolic pro-nuncio to Canada, from emblem of the Commonwealth of bishop on January 17. the customs union, as Ukraine has cho­ attending. Originally, Archbishop Curis Independent States. The emblem features Selecting the church as the site for the was scheduled to read the Holy See's offi­ white stylized figures on a blue back­ sen not to participate in such structures. ceremony was significant, since the 68- cial appointment of the Rev. Pasichny's ground, their arms extending upward; the Commenting on the CIS summit, Mr. year-old Basilian priest not only served elevation to the episcopacy. Metropolitan flag is blue and white. Kuchma said: "The CIS today has a signifi­ as its pastor for the past decade, but was Bzdel handled those duties instead. Summit participants also agreed to cant role as a consultative council. At such baptized there as a child. In preparation of his episcopal ordina­ establish a CIS Council of Internal meetings one can present many questions The last time Winnipeggers witnessed tion, the Rev. Pasichny encircled the Affairs Ministers, on the model of the and, in some manner, receive answers." He a consecration was in 1993, when altar, kissing it at its four corners. councils of foreign ministers and defense noted that the fundamental principle that Canadian Archbishop-Metropolitan Kneeling before his three consecrators, ministers, and to collectively guarantee Michael Bzdel and Australia's Bishop Saskatoon's third Ukrainian Catholic peace on the territory of the CIS via cre­ (Continued on page 6) Peter Stasiuk - both members of the bishop received his evangelic ministry as Redeinptorist community - were a gospel book was placed atop his head. ordained bishops in the city's Ss. Each bishop in attendance then placed Vladimir and Olga Cathedral his hands on his head, as a sign of the Canadian government pursues During this most recent ceremony, the apostolic succession of bishops in the very Rev. Isidore Dziadyk, provincial Church. superior of the Canadian province of the deportation option for war crimes As Bishop Pasichny was vested in his Order of St. Basil the Great (Basilian episopal garb, including the upper cassock by Andrij Wynnyckyj expedited matters. David Vienneau, the Fathers), and the Rev. Joseph Pidskalny, (ryason), pectoral image of Mary (panagia) Toronto Star's Ottawa bureau chief, the new pastor of St. Nick's, escorted the TORONTO - Canada's Justice and and mantle, the choir sang the Greek greet­ wrote on January 23 that efforts initiated Rev. Pasichny into St. Nicholas Church. Immigration ministries are seeking to ing "Axios" ("He is worthy"). last year to strip three men of their citi­ There, Metropolitan Bzdel welcomed deport two more individuals suspected of Among the other hierarchs, clergy and zenship "are bogged down before the them to begin the official consecration. war crimes. According to the Toronto religious in attendance were Archbishop courts," while another potential depor­ Bishop Pasichny's three consecrators Star's January 23 issue, the government tee's case "is tied up in legal wrangling." Francis Spence of Kingston, Ontario, has informed one Canadian citizen and included the metropolitan, his predeces­ who also serves as president of the One of the men accused in May 1995 sor Bishop Basil Filevich (who served one permanent resident that proceedings was Johann Dueck. Mr. Dueck faces alle­ Canadian Conference of Catholic have been initiated against them. the diocese since 1983) and Bishop Bishops; Latin-rite Archbishops Leonard gations that he participated in the killing Severian Yakymyshyn of New Jim Mathieson, acting director of the of civilians and prisoners of war as the Westminster, British Columbia, a fellow (Continued on page 11) country's federal war crimes unit at the deputy chief of German police in eastern Ministry of Justice, refused to elaborate. Ukraine in 1941-1943. "They fthe two casesj are not at the point Instead of formally charging him with where we can release any details of the these offenses, the government has chosen situation," he told the Star. to have him expelled on the grounds he Although the official said the two new concealed his service in the German police suspects have 30 days to challenge the when applying for entry into Canada. government's notice in court, he declined The Ukrainian Canadian Congress and to say when it was originally served, and the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties against whom. Association continue to voice their opposi­ Officials from the Justice Ministry did tion to the use of deportation proceedings. not return The Weekly's calls. John B. Gregorovich, chairman of the In 1987, the federal government passed UCCLA, said Canada is the only country a law allowing for a "made in Canada" in the world to have adopted an aggres­ solution - prosecutions in the country's sive and permanent statute on prosecut­ courts of war crimes committed elsewhere. ing war criminals from any conflict and In 1994, the first case under the law ended any time caught within its borders, but is in an acquittal upheld by a Supreme Court now fudging its "moral responsibility." decision that critics said made obtaining He called difficulties in deporting convictions difficult. accused criminals such as Mr. Dueck In January 1995, Canada's present "ironic," adding that "the government's Liberal government decided to depart from quick fix is proving anything but." the policy of its predecessor. It was Mr. Gregorovich reaffirmed the announced that the ministries of Justice and UCCLA's belief that war criminals caught Immigration would act in concert to seek to in Canada, no matter what their back­ strip accused individuals of their citizen­ ground, when or where their crimes were ship or other status, and deport them. In committed, should be prosecuted to the April and May 1995, papers were filed at full extent of the country's criminal law. the Federal Court in Ottawa, accusing four UCC President Oleh Romaniw's reac­ individuals of concealing their Nazi past tion was terse. "We have always opposed (Andrew Sikorsky when applying for citizenship, grounds for and will continue to oppose the use of Bishop Cornelius Pasichny (left) accepts his mitre from Metropolitan Michael denaturalization and deportation. administrative measures to deal with Bzdel as Bishops Severian Yakymyshyn and Basil Filevich look on. This approach does not appear to have criminal matters," Mr. Romaniw said. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1996 No. 4 Ukraine's Navy, despite difficulties, forges ahead with media center Confusion over Black Sea Fleet command get for deep cuts in spending on educa­ by Khristina Lew tion, scientific research, health and social KYIV — Ukrainian President Leonid SEVASTOPIL - Wooden planks cov­ welfare programs, Ukrainian Radio Kuchma says Black Sea Fleet commander reported on January 17. The current draft ering a muddy ditch serve as the walkway Admiral Eduard Baltin has been fired, but to the former dormitory on top of the hill, slashes expenditures on research from 1.7 the admiral says this is news to him. At a percent to .076 percent of GDP and edu­ now home to the Ukrainian Navy's televi­ January 18 press conference Mr. Kuchma sion and radio center, Breeze. cation from 10 percent to 6.5 percent of said he and Russian President Boris GDP. The allocation for the country's Inside, a dimly lit hallway lined with Yeltsin dismissed Admiral Baltin. On boxes and rolls of carpeting connects school system would not be sufficient to January 19 Radio Ukraine quoted Adm. cover teachers' wages and student rooms in various stages of reconstruction. Baltin as saying that the only word he A makeshift studio is decorated with furni­ stipends. The government still owes tril­ heard about his status was from the ture donated by the Ivano-Frankivske City lions of karbovantsi in back wages and Ukrainian mass media. ITAR-TASS Council. In the corner stands a Photon TV stipends since autumn. The draft budget donated by the Kyiv City Council. reported that neither the Russian Defense also foresees a 4 percent cut in social Ministry, the Russian naval command nor Local Sevastopil firms donated the spending and would finance only 31 per­ the Black Sea Fleet headquarters has cent of the basic needs of Ukraine's state- insulation that will soundproof the walls received any official documents on the of Breeze's radio station.