www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE:• Canada welcomes third ambassador from Ukraine — page 3. • Of miners, budgets and dinosaurs — page 9. • On the road to Atlanta: interview with Valeriy Borzov — page 11. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIV HE No.KRAINIAN 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1996 EEKLY$1.25/$2 in Ukraine KuchmaT completesU whirlwind working Wvisit to Washington by Khristina Lew WASHINGTON – In his second visit to the nation’s capital since taking office in July 1994, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma won assurances from President Bill Clinton of continued U.S. support for Ukraine’s economic reforms and up to $900 million in stand-by loans from the International Monetary Fund. The IMF, which increased the amount of money available in loans to Ukraine from $1.5 billion to $1.7 billion, will begin disbursing an available $900 million for 1996 when Ukraine’s Parliament passes a budget. The Parliament reviewed the budget in its first reading on February 16, and Ukrainian government officials expect it to be passed in April. Michael Camdessus, executive director of the IMF, told reporters after his meeting with Mr. Kuchma at the Mayflower Hotel on February 20 that when the Parliament passes the budget, the IMF also is “ready to negotiate a program with Ukraine over three years, to the end of the century.” President Kuchma’s private visit to Washington on February 20-22 at the invitation of Freedom House, the human-rights watchdog organization, can be characterized as moving past a general show of support from the United States and international financial institutions for Ukraine’s one-and-a-half-year-old radical economic reform program to discussions of concrete proposals and projects. Khristina Lew (Continued on page 16) Presidents Leonid Kuchma and Bill Clinton during their meeting at the White House. National democrats win Kuchma administration authors promote focus on Eurasia by Marta Kolomayets • Andriy Derkach, Serhiy Veretennikov and another round on issue Kyiv Press Bureau Andriy Yermolayev’s “The Present, Which Is Lasting Forever, Ukraine: Four Years of its Path” (237 pages of CIS parliamentary body KYIV – Well into its fifth year of independence, in Russian only, with plans for a Ukrainian-language recognized by more than 150 countries throughout version to be released this year). the world as a fledgling democracy committed to Mr. Hryniov is President Kuchma’s adviser on issues by Marta Kolomayets market reforms, it would seem that Ukraine has Kyiv Press Bureau of regional policy; while Mr. Vydrin, until December already begun to lay a foundation to secure a place 18, 1995, was a presidential adviser on domestic policy. KYIV – The plenary work of the Ukrainian for itself on the map of the Western world. Mr. Tabachnyk, the best-known name in this col- Parliament on February 21 created a feeling of deja-vu, Recently joining the ranks of the Council of lection of authors, is the most visible. A person who as democrats refused to register for the session until the Europe, gaining support from such institutions as the began his political career in 1992 as press secretary to issue of Ukraine’s accession to the Commonwealth of International Monetary Fund and forging partnerships then Prime Minister Kuchma, he helped manage Mr. Independent States Inter-Parliamentary Assembly was with member-countries of the G-7, Ukraine seems to Kuchma’s victorious presidential campaign. Perhaps taken off the agenda. have found a niche for itself among the European as a reward for his loyal service, Mr. Tabachnyk, 32, Events began unfolding much as they had in family of nations. And U.S. President Bill Clinton was named presidential chief of staff when Mr. November-December 1995, when the issue was first honored Ukraine’s historic roots during his May 1995 Kuchma took office in 1994. raised by left-wing forces in Parliament who demanded state visit to Kyiv, saluting it as “one of Europe’s old- Dr. Derkach is the deputy director of the Presidential that Ukraine – already a member of Council of Europe – est nations and youngest democracies.” Comptroller’s Office, while Messrs. Veretennikov and also join the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly. However, three recently published books – written Yermolayev both work in the information/analytical ser- National democratic forces scored a temporary victo- by high-level members of President Leonid vice of the presidential administration, the former as a ry in the late afternoon of Wednesday, February 21, as Kuchma’s administration – have sent out some alarm- director, the latter as a consultant. Parliament Chairman Oleksander Moroz submitted ing signals, as it appears these officials are aiming to “I imagine that if any staff members in Bill Clinton’s three proposals, none of which got enough votes to be construct a Russian authoritarian state in Ukraine administration were to write these kinds of books, they’d legally binding, and thus bought national-democrats with a focus not on Europe, but on Eurasia. be out of a job the next day. For that matter I can’t imag- more time to keep Ukraine out of the IPA. The content of the books is less distressing than the ine they would write such books, unless of course they Parliament did not begin its work until 5:15 p.m., just fact that the authors belong to President Kuchma’s were planning to retire,” said Petro Matiaszek, executive 45 minutes before the end of the daily session, as Mr. innermost circle, the men behind the administration’s director of the Council of Advisers to the Parliament. Moroz pleaded throughout the day to get deputies to policies, the spokesmen for Ukraine’s national inter- Indeed, in the United States, the new book register. National democrats, led by the Rukh, Reforms ests, the makers of the country’s image. “Primary Colors,” described as a roman á clef about and Statehood factions, boycotted the plenary meeting, The three books are: the 1992 presidential campaign in America, authored leaving only 246 deputies to work. Two-thirds of the • Volodymyr Hryniov’s “New Ukraine: How I See by “Anonymous,” has caused quite a stir and has 404-member Parliament, or 269, is needed for a vote to It,” (one book released in both Russian and Ukraine, many guessing who would pen such a book. George be valid. 99 pages in each language; Stephanopoulos, the senior White House adviser, said Mr. Moroz appealed to the Parliament to keep to its • Dmytro Vydrin and Dmytro Tabachnyk’s “Ukraine recently that the author was not necessarily out of the promise to return to the issue of IPA accession, as on the Threshold of the XXI Century, Political Aspect” Clinton campaign. If the person had been, he told The promised by faction leaders who back in December had [sic] (one book released in Ukrainian and in poor English, 125 pages in each language); and (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 16) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1996 No. 8 NEWS ANALYSIS: Yevgeny Primakov, NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS More than 3.5 million unemployed said it would take 30-35 months to finish greatby Volodymyr power Zviglyanich ambitions and Ukraine erdom”, for Russia’s sell-off to the West, the two reactors, which are supposed to and for Russia’s alleged failure to sup- KYIV — In Ukraine 3.6 million peo- replace the two still functioning at On January, 9 Boris Yeltsin nominated port the Serbs in Bosnia. This criticism, ple are now unemployed, according to Chornobyl. They would then need to go his chief spy master, Yevgeny Primakov, however, was caused mostly due to per- the President’s Committee on Social Re- through a lengthy process of testing. 66, a former journalist and academic, to sonal antipathy rather than essence. Pavel orientation and Labor Resources. The Minister Kostenko said he would lobby be Russia’s new foreign minister, signi- Grachev was criticized by the Duma with figure was cited by the committee’s fying the more assertive and nationalistic the G-7 to speed-up the allocation of the almost the same vigor, but nevertheless chairperson, Anatoliy Tatarenko, and stance the Kremlin has adopted toward $2.3 billion in loans promised for the survived; includes hidden unemployment. Western the West. Why did Andrei Kozyrev shutdown. (OMRI Daily Digest) 3) Mr. Kozyrev resigned only after regions of Ukraine have higher unem- resign, and what does the appointment of Mr. Yeltsin’s approval and after it ployment, whereas, the oblasts of Hundreds victims of harsh winter Primakov mean to the West and became clear that the Duma would be Chernihiv and Sumy have fewer unem- Ukraine? dominated by the “red-browns” – Mr. ployed. The numbers should continue to KYIV — Hundreds of people have Reasons for Kozyrev’s resignation. Kozyrev’s main opponents. Fearing that rise, according to the coordinating com- frozen to death in Ukraine’s parks, door- they would push forward their own can- mittee. (Respublika) ways and underground passages in the last Andrei Kozyrev, 44, son of a Soviet didate, Mr. Yeltsin decided to strike first few months in one of the coldest winters in career diplomat born in Brussels and and thus selected the head of foreign Workers protest with labor stoppage decades, officials said on February 20. The serving all his life in the Soviet and then intelligence, implying that the traditional national weather center has reported tem- KYIV — Workers in eight Ukrainian Russian Foreign Ministry, was the only piety of both the communists and nation- peratures reaching minus 13 degrees oblasts halted work for one hour on remaining member of the initial team of alists before the “organs” would help him Fahrenheit with heavy snows.