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...Ukrainian nationalist movement needed a Betsy Ross, it certainly found one in Orest Kaledin. On a stroll through Lvov (pop. 860,000), the largest city in the Western Ukraine, the biologist turned flagmaker points to five new yellow-and-blue national banners flapping from the town hall. They are his and his wife's handiwork, says Kaledin with pride. He dreams of designing uniforms and ensigns for a revived Ukrainian army. Pointing out a friend on the street -- a scrawny person of decidedly unmilitary bearing -- he explains confidentially that the young man is destined to become "one of our generals...
Anyone for a game of musical chairs? Shortly after Vladimir Ivashko, 58, was elected chairman of the Ukrainian parliament last month, he stepped down as first secretary of the republic's Communist Party. Then, two weeks ago, he abruptly resigned from his post in Kiev and won the key job of deputy to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Moscow and shares his moderate views. But it was highly significant that the delegates bypassed Filaret, a hard-liner who had served as acting head of the church since the death last month of Patriarch Pimen. Leader of the Kiev diocese since 1966, Filaret is more of a Ukrainian chauvinist than is Vladimir and, according to dissident priest Gleb Yakunin, is seen as "a KGB puppet." He was third in the bishops' vote...
...Hartje will have to adjust to a lot more than just different hockey styles. He will arrive in Kiev in July speaking neither Russian nor Ukrainian, the city's official languages...
Hartje will become the first North American--Canadian or U.S. citizen--ever to play hockey professionally in the Soviet Union. The Anoka, Minn. native will skate for Sokol-Kiev in the Soviet Elite League for the Ukrainian team's 1990-91 season...