"UKRAINE REPORT"
In-Depth Ukrainian News and Analysis
"The Art of Ukrainian History, Culture, Arts, Business, Religion,
Sports, Government, and Politics, in Ukraine and Around the World"
WEEKEND EDITION
Saturday-Sunday, February 28-29, 2004
"UKRAINE REPORT" Year 2004, Number 33
U.S.-UKRAINE FOUNDATION (USUF)
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS)
morganw@patriot.net, ArtUkraine.com@starpower.net
Kyiv, Ukraine and Washington, D.C., February 28-29, 2004
INDEX OF ARTICLES
1. UKRAINE POSTS 9.3 PERCENT GDP GROWTH IN 2003
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 28 Feb 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Feb 28, 2004
2. CONFLICT WITH UKRAINE OVER REJECTED STEEL TENDER
TAKES SECOND STEP, UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT REACTS
Polish News Bulletin; Warsaw, Poland, Feb 27, 2004
3. STEEL TENDER DECISION TO REJECT UKRAINIAN COMPANY'S
BID MAY SPOIL POLAND'S RELATIONS WITH UKRAINE
Polish News Bulletin; Warsaw, Poland, Feb 27, 2004
4.MONEY-LAUNDERING ALL-CLEAR BASED ON DEAL WITH RUSSIA
"The one thing that is clear is that the Russians only make
concessions if they get something back in return. The question is: what?"
By Knyazhanskyy, Den, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian 27 Feb 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Feb 27, 2004
5. CRIME RING TRAFFICKING WOMEN TO NIGHTCLUBS IN
LUXEMBOURG SMASHED IN UKRAINE
ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow, Russia, in Russian, 28 Feb 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Feb 28, 2004
6. UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER SAYS HE FAVORS DIRECT
ELECTION OF REGIONAL GOVERNORS VS. APPOINTED BY
PRESIDENT IN A SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT
"INSIDE UKRAINE," Kyiv, Ukraine, February 28, 2004
7. SECOND COLLECTION OF VASYL KRYCHEVSKY
ARTISTIC WORKS DONATED TO UKRAINIAN MUSEUMS BY
KRYCHEVSKY'S FAMILY IN VENEZUELA ARRIVE IN KYIV
Opening of Exhibit, "Return of a Master"
By E. Morgan Williams, Publisher
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS)
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, February 24, 2004
8. "AFTER THE PASSION"
OP-ED By Lubomyr Luciuk, Kingston Whig-Standard
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, February 26, 2004
9. UKRAINIAN ELECTION LAW VOTE SLATED FOR TUESDAY
Specifically designed to deny Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc a place in future Rada
INSIDE UKRAINE, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 28, 2004
10. UKRAINE'S ONLY PRIVATE ZOO IN CRIMEAN RESORT OF
YALTA OFFERS ANIMALS HOPE
Halfway Up A Crimean Mountain is the "Fairy Tale Zoo"
By Helen Fawkes, BBC Kiev correspondent, Kyiv, Ukraine
BBC NEWS, BBC, UK, February 19, 2004
11. "CRIMEA: UKRAINE'S PRIDE AND JOY, OR A BURDEN?"
OP-ED, By Ihor Losiv, Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 26, 2004
12. "KUCHMAGATE, ACT III"
ENDNOTE: By Taras Kuzio, RFE/RL Newsline,
Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, 27 February 2004
13. 5,000 COPIES OF ANTI-MEDVEDCHUK BOOK
WERE DESTROYED IN BRODY BY UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS
www.Glavred.info, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 27, 2004
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 33: ARTICLE NUMBER ONE
Politics and Governance, Building a Strong, Democratic Ukraine
http://www.artukraine.com/buildukraine/index.htm
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1. UKRAINE POSTS 9.3 PERCENT GDP GROWTH IN 2003
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 28 Feb 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Feb 28, 2004
Kiev, 28 February: According to the most recent calculations, GDP grew by
9.3 per cent in 2003, Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance
Minister Mykola Azarov announced at an extended meeting of the Cabinet of
Ministers today. Earlier, the State Statistics Committee had reported that
GDP grew by 8.5 per cent.
1-A. UKRAINIAN CABINET SATISFIED WITH ECONOMY IN 2003
ICTV television, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 28 Feb 04
BBC Monitoring Service,UK, in English, Saturday, Feb 28, 2004
[Presenter] Today, the Cabinet of Ministers at its extended meeting summed
up the government's performance and the socioeconomic development of
Ukraine in 2003. Prime Minister [Viktor] Yanukovych believes that economic
figures for last year are rather satisfying. Investment grew by 28 per cent
and Ukraine was removed from the Financial Action Task Force's "blacklist".
The government achieved positive results because it cooperated with the
majority in parliament. I am glad that we today joined our forces as the
government and parliament and that we share responsibility for political
reform, the prime minister said.
[Yanukovych] Today, we don't have the fear of reform we used to have.
Changes have begun and we see that they bring positive results. But we
should not play too much regarding these issues, as it were. [Audio and
video available. Please send queries to kiev.bbcm@mon.bbc.co.uk]
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 33: ARTICLE NUMBER TWO
Check Out the News Media for the Latest News From and About Ukraine
Daily News Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/newsgallery.htm
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2. CONFLICT WITH UKRAINE OVER REJECTED STEEL TENDER
TAKES SECOND STEP, UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT REACTS
Polish News Bulletin; Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Feb 27, 2004
The Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma surprised everyone on Wednesday
by suggesting that the Caspian oil supplies to Poland through the
Odessa-Brody pipeline may be threatened. However, the first signs of
diplomatic tension came earlier, when Kuchma ordered the Ukrainian
government to look into the tender to privatise the Polish Huta Czestochowa
steel plant - a tender lost by the Ukrainian bidder Donbas which claims the
choice of London -based LNM was unfair.
In a press conference on Wednesday Kuchma said that if Poland is to receive
Caspian oil it must first build a pipeline from Brody to Plock. He hinted,
however, that there was a different option - the Caspian oil could be
transported to Europe though an existing pipeline in Slovakia.
Ukraine's president also criticised the idea of using trains until the
Brody-Plock stretch is built, which is contrary to earlier agreements
between Poland and Ukraine and the announcements of the Ukrainian Minister
of Energy. (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 33: ARTICLE NUMBER THREE
Major Articles About What is Going on in Ukraine
Current Events Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/events/index.htm
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3. STEEL TENDER DECISION TO REJECT UKRAINIAN COMPANY'S
BID MAY SPOIL POLAND'S RELATIONS WITH UKRAINE
Polish News Bulletin; Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Feb 27, 2004
Poland is on the verge of a diplomatic clash with Ukraine as President
Leonid Kuchma has ordered the government in Kiev to look into the
privatisation of the HS Czestochowa (HSC) steel plant. Kuchma's decision
comes as a result of the HSC privatisation tender lost by the Ukrainian
bidder Donbas, and won by London-based LNM.
According to a Ukrainian political expert Kosti Bondarenko, the choice of
LNM was purely political as Donbas had been recommended by the tender
commission. Bondarenko says that Donbas's rejection should lead both
countries to revise their mutual relations. "It was not a Ukrainian company
that suffered, but the whole of Ukraine," says Bondarenko.
A trade councillor in the Ukrainian Embassy in Warsaw, Dmytro Zavtura, also
thinks Donbas's loss may harm Polish-Ukrainian relations. On Monday, the
Deputy Treasury Minister, Andrzej Szarawarski, explained LNM's offer was
better because it offered a greater chance for co-operation with the PHS
steel holding. (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 33: ARTICLE NUMBER FOUR
Exciting Opportunities in Ukraine for Travel and Tourism
Travel and Tourism Gallery: http://www.ArtUkraine.com/tourgallery.htm
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4. MONEY-LAUNDERING ALL-CLEAR BASED ON DEAL WITH RUSSIA
"The one thing that is clear is that the Russians only make
concessions if they get something back in return. The questions is what?
By Knyazhanskyy, Den, Kiev, in Ukrainian 27 Feb 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Feb 27, 2004
The meeting of the FATF [Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering] is
winding up in Paris today, and an official announcement is expected that
Ukraine has been dropped from the "blacklist" of countries that do not
cooperate with this international organization in combating the laundering
of "dirty" money. [Ukrainian] President Leonid Kuchma announced this good
news for our country on Wednesday [25 February - see UT1, Kiev, in Ukrainian
1300 gmt 25 Feb 04].
Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said that Ukraine and the FATF would
continue to fight money laundering together. The prime minister said that,
although the government has yet to receive the official document, he was
satisfied with the FATF decision to drop Ukraine from the "blacklist" and
expressed the intention to continue bringing legislation into line with its
requirements.
The FATF decision on Ukraine also received a positive response in the
business sphere, of course. At work here are both technical factors
(speeding up client payments with foreign bank accounts) and considerations
of public image (the country will become more attractive for foreign
investment and foreign correspondent-banks will not regard Ukrainian banks
warily).
The positive FATF decision did not come easy to Ukraine, according to a
source close to the Ukrainian delegation. On the eve of the discussion of
the Ukrainian question by the European monitoring group of the FATF, which
prepared the decisions of the meeting, the head of the Russian delegation
told his Ukrainian colleagues informally (using a completely invented
pretext) that he would not support Ukraine's removal from the "blacklist".
This news (the Russian representatives had earlier said they would support
Ukraine) made the "Ukrainian colony" in Paris and everyone following the
FATF procedure in Kiev "sit up and pay attention".
A few people here in Kiev didn't sleep all night. The head of the Ukrainian
delegation, First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Mykola Azarov,
phoned Moscow... [original ellipses] One can surmise that the "blacklist"
was compiled in Kiev when the speaker of the Russian Duma, Boris Gryzlov,
arrived proposing a deal that would allow Ukraine and Russia to ratify the
Single Economic Space agreement [common market between Russia, Ukraine,
Belarus and Kazakhstan].
How the "deal" approach to resolving problems in Ukrainian-Russian relations
will work out is still hard to say. The one thing that is clear is that the
Russians only make concessions if they get something back in return. The
question is: what? (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 33: ARTICLE NUMBER FIVE
The Story of Ukraine's Long and Rich Culture
Ukrainian Culture Gallery: http://www.ArtUkraine.com/cultgallery.htm
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5. CRIME RING TRAFFICKING WOMEN TO NIGHTCLUBS IN
LUXEMBOURG SMASHED IN UKRAINE
ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow, Russia, in Russian, 28 Feb 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Feb 28, 2004
LVIV -28 February: A crime ring that has been selling girls to nightclubs in
Luxembourg has been uncovered in Odessa, the press service of the Odessa
Region directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported today.
According to preliminary information, recruiters have hired more than 100
girls from different parts of the country. Officially the girls were offered
jobs of striptease dancers at Luxembourg nightclubs, but no dancing
expertise or knowledge of a foreign language was required as a mandatory
condition. As only five Ukrainians have been given nightclub jobs in
Luxembourg, special services are conducting an investigation and are
searching for the others.
More than 400,000 Ukrainian women are currently being held abroad in sex
slavery, ITAR-TASS has learnt from the deputy rector for scholarly research
at the institute of law of the Odessa university of the interior, Oleksandr
Dolzhenkov. Women are normally trafficked abroad illegally, supposedly for
work or marriage in western Europe or the Middle East. A slave owner makes
tens of thousands of dollars a year on each girl. Ukrainian women are priced
at 5,000-25,000 dollars when they are sold into slavery.
[SBU agents have recently secured the release of four Ukrainian women from
sex slavery in West Africa, see Inter TV, Kiev, in Russian 1800 gmt 25 Feb
04.] (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT-2005, No. 32: ARTICLE NUMBER SIX
The Gencidal Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933, HOLODOMOR
Genocide Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/index.htm
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6.UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER SAYS HE FAVORS DIRECT ELECTION
OF REGIONAL GOVERNORS VS. APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT
IN A SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT
"INSIDE UKRAINE," Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, February 28, 2004
Inside Ukraine, Feb. 28 - During a Friday visit for ceremonies to honor the
65th anniversary of the establishment of Zaporizhya as a separate region,
Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said in the regional center, "It is high
time to make it possible to elect leadership of the regions by direct
popular vote."
The remark was taken as a show of Yanukovych support for replacing the
current system in which heads of regional state administrations are
appointed by the president with one in which regional heads are elected by
the voters of the region.
The announcement was seen as rather unusual since the currently proposed
constitutional amendments that are expected to be adopted in the next one to
two months would transfer appointment of regional heads and other principal
regional officials from the president to the prime minister.
Some analysts believe Yanukovych's statement represented an attempt to
provide himself with a fallback position in case his campaign for the
presidency is unsuccessful. In that case, he could return to his power base
in Donetsk where he would be regarded as a shoo-in for election as regional
administration head.
Others believe the statement was simply a populist campaign tactic, designed
to gain votes in his fight against his main rival in the presidential race,
Viktor Yushchenko.
No matter what Yanukovych's intent might have been, it was another matter in
which his campaign statements put clear light between his proposed policies
and those of President Leonid Kuchma who has been a firm believer in keeping
the appointment of regional and district heads firmly in his own hands.
Also on Saturday, former president Leonid Kravchuk said that the most
probable candidate to run in the presidential election would be Yanukovych.
As regards a future prime minister, Kravchuk named NBU head Serhiy Tyhypko,
former Prime Minister Anatoliy Kinakh, and current Presidential
Administration head Viktor Medvedchuk. Kravchuk evaluated Medvedchuk
as the most skilled candidate but claimed that his appointment would depend
on consolidation of the majority after the presidential election. (END)
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The appointment of the 25 regional governors by the
president of Ukraine, rather than having them directly elected by the people
in each region, has been a major flaw in the structure of the Ukrainian
democratic government that was set up after independence in 1991. This
major mistake needs to be corrected as soon as possible. Governors, in a
democratic, non-monopolistic society, should report to the people and not
to any president or parliament. Power should be diffused, not concentrated
in the hands of one official or one governmental body, as too much power
corrupts automatically.
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 32: ARTICLE NUMBER SEVEN
Ukraine's History and the Long Struggle for Independence
Historical Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/histgallery.htm
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7. SECOND COLLECTION OF VASYL KRYCHEVSKY
ARTISTIC WORKS DONATED TO UKRAINIAN MUSEUMS BY
KRYCHEVSKY'S FAMILY IN VENEZUELA ARRIVE IN KYIV
Opening of Exhibit, "Return of a Master"
By E. Morgan Williams, Publisher
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS)
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, February 24, 2004
KYIV - The official opening of the exhibition, "Return of a Master,"
featuring the second collection of artistic works by the famous Ukrainian
artist Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky which were returned to Ukraine by the
Krychevsky family in Venezuela was held on Friday, February 20, 2004 at
5:00 pm in the National Museum of Books and Printing of Ukraine, located
in the Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra complex in Kyiv, Ukraine.
A ceremony took place at the opening of the exhibit "Return of a Master"
where more than one hundred expert artworks, previously unknown to the
Ukrainian audience, by Krychevsky were displayed for the first time in
Ukraine.
This is a second collection of works of Vasyl Krychevsky that was donated
to museums in Ukraine by the artist's family with the support of the
international investment company SigmaBleyzer.
The exhibition ceremony was organized by the State Service for Control over
Transfer of Art to Ukraine, the Museum of Books and Printing of Ukraine,
and SigmaBleyzer. It was attended by representatives of various Ukrainian
governmental organizations, numerous artists and art experts,
representatives of Ukrainian museums, and persons representing the
international diplomatic and business community.
The donated collection consists of some one hundred and forty works,
including ornamental patterns, sketches, graphic arts, oil and watercolor
paintings, and photographs from the family archive held in Caracas,
Venezuela, where the artist's family resides. The works will be distributed
among several Ukrainian museums, according to the wishes of Halyna V.
Krychevska-Linde, the artist's daughter.
In May 2003 the first collection of more than three hundred items was
transferred to Ukraine with a support of SigmaBleyzer and the charitable
fund DAAR. Oksana Linde, a granddaughter of Vasyl Krychevsky, came to
Ukraine for the first time in May of 2003, fifty years after her artist
grandfather died, and brought the priceless gift of artworks with her. The
works were donated to six museums in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, and Kaniv.
The exhibition will be open for a general public until February 29, 2004 in
the Museum of Books and Printing of Ukraine located at Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra.
Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky (1873-1952) was an outstanding Ukrainian
architect, graphic artist, illustrator, theatre and cinema designer, scholar
and researcher of the Ukrainian national folk art. He was a founder of the
Ukrainian Academy of Arts, and taught as a college professor in Kyiv,
Myrhorod, Lviv, and other places in Ukraine.
The creative heritage of Vasyl Krychevsky includes hundreds of pictures,
sketches, book covers, dozens of house designs (such as the City Council
Building in Poltava and the Shevchenko Memorial Museum in Kaniv), and a
number of movie sets, which include the classics - "Zvenigora", "Sorochinsky
Fair", and "Boryslav laughs".
Vasyl H. Krychevsky is considered to be the founder of the current Ukrainian
national symbols. It was he who made the sketches of the large and the small
Ukrainian emblem (trident) and national currency notes (Hryvna) on request
of Mykhailo Grushevsky immediately after the close of World War I. He was
a well known scholar - one of the founders and educators of the Ukrainian
Academy of Art, where a new generation of Ukrainian artists was formed.
The art of Vasyl Krychevsky is constantly reflected in the ornamental and
household art - his designs were used for production crockery, carpets,
embroideries and furniture. He also was considered as a founder of the
Ukrainian publishing graphics in 20th century. The art master derived
much of his inspiration from the spiritual and cultural heritage of the
Ukrainian people, especially those lived on the land and in the Ukrainian
village.
The very large and many-sided private collection of Vasyl Krychevsky's
works and Ukrainian folk art, held by the artist, was mainly destroyed in
Kyiv on February 7, 1918 during the Civil war in Russia. The collection was
stored in the home of Mykhailo Grushevsky, the head of the Ukrainian
government at the time. Grushevsky's home was destroyed by the invading
Red Army.
When Vasyl Krychevsky and his family left Ukraine during WWII some
additional artworks and items from his personal collection were stolen,
lost and or destroyed.
Before 2003 the largest collection of artworks of Vasyl Krychevsky (over
three hundred pieces) was held by the Ukrainian Museum in New York City.
The artworks were mostly collected and donated to the museum by Vasyl
Krychevsky's stepson from his second marriage.
Oksana Linde, Krychevsky's granddaughter, first contacted me three
years ago through our website, www.ArtUkraine.com. She told us about her
family's wish to honor the legacy of Vasyl Krychevsky and their interest in
returning artistic works to Ukraine. We then contacted Natasha and Michael
Bleyzer of Houston, Texas who came to the United States from Kharkiv,
Ukraine, the area of Ukraine where Vasyl Krychevsky grew up and worked.
The Bleyzer's then started working closely with Oksana Linde and have been
very instrumental in supporting the all the work necessary to have the
collections of Krychedvsky's works prepared, delivered, exhibited, and
donated to several museums in Ukraine, through their international
investment company, SigmaBleyzer. (END) (ARTUIS)
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NOTE ABOUT LINKS: To read more about Vasyl Krychevsky and to
see photographs of some of his artistic works go to the following links:
(1) http://www.artukraine.com/exhibitions/artists/krych_ex3.htm
(2) www.artukraine.com/exhibitions/artists/krych_ex2.htm
(3) www.artukraine.com/exhibitions/artists/krych_ex.htm
(4) www.artukraine.com/exhibitions/artists/vhk_ex.htm
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 33: ARTICLE NUMBER EIGHT
The Rich History of Ukrainian Art, Music, Psyanka, Folk-Art
Arts Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/artgallery.htm
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8. "AFTER THE PASSION"
OP-ED By Lubomyr Luciuk, Kingston Whig-Standard
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Thursday, February 26, 2004
Who killed Christ? The Hebrews? The Romans? All of us? Some, none, all
of the above?
I have no idea. Let Biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers muse
over such mysteries.
Did Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ, provoke pogroms? No.
Is Mel Gibson an anti-Semite? No. He knows Nazis murdered millions of
Jews and others.
Yet there's the rub. Mr Gibson hasn't forgotten the many millions of
non-Jewish Holocaust victims and those of other crimes against humanity. In
the March issue of Reader's Digest he says: "The Second World War killed
tens of millions of people. Some of them were Jews in concentration camps.
Many people lost their lives. In Ukraine several million starved to death
between 1932 and 1933. During the last century 20 million people died in the
Soviet Union."
For such sentiments he is pilloried.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles,
while claiming no desire to engage "in competitive martyrdom," wanting only
"historical truth" to be known, nevertheless rejected any comparison between
his people's suffering and others. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach went further,
denouncing any equation of the "horrible casualties of war with a government
program of genocide." Abraham Foxman, of the Anti-Defamation League, was
blunter: "[I]t was ignorant...it's insensitive. And...he doesn't get that
either. He doesn't begin to understand the difference between dying in a
famine and people being cremated solely for what they are."
Verily, it is Mr Foxman and friends who are in need of sensitivity training
and history lessons. Lacking their chutzpah I will not venture an opinion as
to whether being starved to death is worse than being murdered by poison
gas. On matters of unnatural mortality, however, these gentlemen would do
well to learn that more Ukrainians were liquidated during the politically
engineered Great Famine in Soviet Ukraine than all the Jews killed in the
Second World War.
They were the chosen in a Stalinist terror campaign directed against the
Ukrainian peasantry. And it was the Ukrainian nation that suffered the
greatest loss of life during the Second World War, concluded the
distinguished British historian, Professor Norman Davies.
Today we do, and should, remember the Six Million. Yet we tend to forget the
Twenty Million, a conservative estimate of victims of Soviet tyranny, about
whom Martin Amis wrote in Koba the Dread. Some scourged him for that.
What is troubling about the anti-Passion polemicists is that, beneath the
cacophony, their agenda was not to stop Gibson's film from being shown (they
couldn't), nor even to cripple its box office success (the controversy they
stoked guarantees good fortune). The fount of this campaign is instead
rooted in trying to get the rest of us to agree that the Jewish people's
suffering was "unique" and that Christians, in particular, must feel guilt
and atone for what "we" did to "them" over many centuries past.
While I disagree with any concept of blood libel, I do insist these men
remain free to believe whatever they want and even to preach it, as long as
the line between legitimate criticism and hate mongering is not violated.
Close to that edge some have already crept. Still I champion freedom of
speech over censoring that right - theirs, Mel's, and mine.
I also want them to understand something. As a Catholic, and a Canadian-born
son of Ukrainian political refugees, I was raised believing all victims of
evil must be hallowed. Those who persecute the innocent must be exposed and
punished. How a people were slaughtered, or what the intent was of any
regime, Left or Right, that orchestrated genocide, matters less.
Neither my parents, priests, nor teachers ever said that a particular group
of martyrs were somehow more deserving of memory than others. No one
counseled us to elevate the millions of Ukrainians murdered by the Nazis and
the Soviets above others who endured similar horrors. I do concede that I do
not know as much as I should about the many tribes, peoples and nations who
suffered mass murder before, during and after the 20th century, in Europe,
Africa, Asia, and elsewhere, at least not in comparison to what I know about
what happened to my own. However the Christian spirit that should inform my
behaviour obliges me to pray for all victims, without preference.
Still I am only human, and, like most of us, flawed. Whether that is a
metaphysical consequence of Original Sin or just a reflection of a basic
orneriness that is all too human I have no clue. So it is hard to resist
that most satanic of sentiments, the desire to take an eye for an eye. In
retort to those who want to impel me to accept that the shed blood of their
innocents is somehow more important than the spilled blood of mine I lust to
roar: "No! More of mine died in a year than all of yours in six, and mine
mean more to me and mine than all of yours!" But those are un-Christian
thoughts.
When provoked into harbouring them I know of only one refuge, prayerful
reflection on words spoken by another Rabbi during His Passion, just before
His death. Jesus, the Christ, said: "Father, forgive them; they know not
what they do." I can try. (END) (ARTUIS)
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Professor Lubomyr Luciuk was once an altar boy at St. Michael's Ukrainian
Catholic Parish, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 33: ARTICLE NUMBER NINE
The Art of Private Voluntary Organizations in Supporting Ukraine
Support Ukraine Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/uasupport/index.htm
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9. UKRAINIAN ELECTION LAW VOTE SLATED FOR TUESDAY
Specifically designed to deny Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc a place in future Rada
"INSIDE UKRAINE," Kyiv, Ukraine, February 28, 2004
Inside Ukraine-Feb 28 - Stepan Havrysh, coordinator of the pro-presidential
majority in Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, said in a Saturday
press briefing that the Rada would attempt on Tuesday to pass the proposed
parliamentary election bill.
He also announced that an amended version of the bill to be voted contains
changes in the mechanism of determining the threshold for vote percentages
to determine proportional representation.
The new version includes a requirement that an individual party would have
to get 3 percent of the national popular vote in order to qualify for any
representation in the Rada. This requirement had already been widely
discussed publicly and is a compromise between majority district incumbents
that wanted a 1 percent threshold and the Communists and Socialist parties
that wanted no change in the current 4 percent threshold.
However, the new version also contains a new provision that would require
that blocs composed of smaller parties would have to gain 6 percent of the
national popular vote to qualify for representation.
The new requirement is believed to have been specifically designed to deny
the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc any place in a future Rada since the YTB is the
only Rada group that would be subject to the 6 percent requirement. (END)
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10 UKRAINE'S ONLY PRIVATE ZOO IN CRIMEAN RESORT OF
YALTA OFFERS ANIMALS HOPE
Halfway Up A Crimean Mountain is the "Fairy Tale Zoo"
By Helen Fawkes, BBC Kiev correspondent, Kyiv, Ukraine
BBC NEWS, World Europe, BBC, UK, February 19, 2004
YALTA - Raj the tiger has a nasty glint in his eye. He guards bloody slabs
of meat and snarls at families who walk past his small wire cage.
Zookeeper Oleg Zubkov, a former Soviet Navy officer, wants to talk to
the latest addition to his zoo which specialises in helping dangerous or
abandoned animals. Oleg rescued three condemned tigers which were
supposed to be put down.
One of them killed a circus trainer during a rehearsal in Southern Ukraine
and all of them are considered dangerous. The tigers have been put in
separate cages.
We go to see Raj as the other two are sulking in their shelters. As soon as
the door is opened, Raj slips a paw around Oleg's leg and pulls it into his
mouth.
Oleg struggles free, he isn't injured or even angry that an animal he has
rescued has just tried to attack him. "I feel a duty to save these animals,
anyway Raj is just hungry," he says.
ALCOHOLIC APE
The tiger's new home is the only private zoo in Ukraine, located halfway up
a mountain in the Crimean resort of Yalta. It is run by Oleg, but he was not
supposed to become a zookeeper.
When Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union he trained to be a navy
officer but he became disillusioned with the USSR around the time of
"perestroika" - Mikhail Gorbachev's reform process. He set up a company
selling jumpers in Kiev but he and his family fled south after the Chernobyl
nuclear disaster.
"There's a good boy John," Oleg says, trying to reassure an anxious-looking
monkey. Now sober, John is a reformed alcoholic. John climbs out of its box
which has been painted like a dolls house, walks across his cage and holds
Oleg's outstretched hand. "He used to be owned by a local restaurant where
he was forced to drink vodka, cognac and beer from a glass to entertain
customers," Oleg says.
Like John, many of the animals at the Yalta Zoo have been rescued. "A lot of
circuses and zoos have suffered since the end of the Soviet Union; the
government stopped giving them any money," says Oleg.
SHORT STAFFED
Gosha the camel was found living on a beach in the Crimea after his circus
owners went bust and dumped all the animals they could not sell. Now Gosha
has a small fenced-off area at the top of the zoo with a view of a zebra and
two lamas. For the zoos and circuses that still operate it is a struggle to
survive. "Many of them can't even afford to feed their animals," says Oleg.
There are more than 500 animals at Yalta Zoo. Lions, leopards and tigers are
the most expensive, costing a total of $250 (£132) a day to keep - that's
two and a half times the average monthly salary. Ticket sales alone pay for
the running of the zoo. To cut costs, Oleg and his family live in a metal
hut inside the zoo. Natasha Lishtovanaya is one of eight workers here; this
size of zoo in Europe would normally have 50 people.
"It's difficult getting rid of bad habits from animals that used to be in
circuses or restaurants as their owners have often been quite cruel to
them," she says.
All over the zoo, New Age music can be heard from loud speakers "to calm
the animals". Oleg's approach to animals is unconventional and very hands
on.
FAIRY TALE
One of the lions used to be allowed to run around the zoo after closing
time, until he died recently.
Like most people in the Crimea, Oleg is ethnic Russian. Among the 100,000
visitors they get each year, Oleg has noticed a rise in the so-called novy
Russians - 'New Russians' - who have got rich after the end of the Soviet
Union.
"Most people like the rabbits the best, but the New Russians prefer the
tigers because of their killer instinct," he says. To buy the land, Oleg
sold everything he owned, but he admits it is not quite up to European
standards.
"Most of the zoos in Ukraine can't be compared to those in the west.
We've got a lot to do to achieve perfection." Most animals live in small
wire cages but Oleg is gradually phasing them out.
Inside one of the new pens, a kangaroo basks in the February sun. This is
one of the warmest parts of Ukraine and the scenery is spectacular. Above
the zoo are snow-capped mountains and below is the Black Sea.
Yalta Zoo is also known as the Fairy Tale Zoo, named after a nearby valley
with the same name. But for many, like Raj the tiger, it's not so much a
fairytale ending as a last chance - without it a lot of these animals would
have died. (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 33: ARTICLE NUMBER ELEVEN
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11. "CRIMEA: UKRAINE'S PRIDE AND JOY, OR A BURDEN?"
OP-ED, By Ihor Losiv, Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 26, 2004
By leaving Crimean Ukrainians to the mercy of fate, Kyiv significantly
limited its influence in the autonomous republic.
Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, vacationing in Crimea and impressed by its
vistas, called the peninsula a medal on the earth's chest. Now, as we mark
the 50th anniversary of Crimea's becoming part of the Ukrainian Soviet
republic, eventually to become part of independent Ukraine, we should
reflect on what Crimea means for Ukraine, and vice versa.
You can hardly find another territory in Ukraine where so many
civilizations, cultures and nations took turns in power. A powerful magnet,
Crimea attracted Greeks, Scythians, Sarmats, Goths, Slavs, Turks and Italian
Genoans. The Crimean-Tatar nation has for centuries been developing out of
this ethnic conglomerate.
After 1917, an autonomous Soviet Republic within the Russian Soviet
Federation was founded in Crimea.
After the deportation of the Tatars in 1944, by order of Stalin, Molotov and
Beria, the peninsula turned from a blossoming land into a desert. The local
agricultural system was completely destroyed. Russians who were
systematically brought there were unable to farm in Crimea's conditions. By
the way, most of Crimea's population consists of people who came to the
peninsula after 1944.
Crimea had to be revived. Party officials decided to do so at Ukraine's
expense, given that Ukrainians had a reputation for being industrious and
experienced farmers, and that Crimea was territorially close to Ukraine and
the Dnipro's water resources.
The procedure for passing Crimea over to the Ukrainian republic was
completed in a perfectly legal way. The parliament of the Russian Federation
applied to the parliament of the Ukrainian republic requesting that it
accept Crimea into its territory. Kyiv agreed.
It's worth mentioning that no protests took place, and no discontent about
the change manifested itself among either the Russian or Ukrainian
populations.
When Russian separatists call this 1954 event into question today, they
argue that there was no referendum. But it wasn't the legal practice of the
USSR to hold referendums. In 1926, without any referendum, the Russian
and Ukrainian republics' territory was divided, with Ukraine losing at least
70,000 square kilometers (three times more than Crimea itself!) of its
ethnic lands to Russia, on which Ukrainians totaled between 60 to 90
percent of the population.
Often, identification of the ethnic makeup on these frontier territories was
done like so: A Chekist (secret policeman) would come in, put a Mauser on
the table and blandly ask the host "Are you Russian or Petlura's?" The
Ukrainian cities of Tahanrih and Shakhty were incorporated into Russia by a
resolution of Communist Party officials.
After 1954, Ukraine invested heavily in Crimea to revive its agriculture,
resort infrastructure, transportation system and communications
technologies. The Northern Crimean canal that brought water to the dry
Crimean soil was built.
Crimea evidently still needs Ukraine as a significant economic player.
That's what all serious people on the peninsula understand. Crimean Tatars
realize that, with all their pretensions, Ukrainian authorities treat their
problems much more conscientiously than Russia would. The events in
Chechnya perfectly demonstrate the Russian style of handling complicated
interethnic conflicts.
Russians in Crimea, whether consciously or not, give due credit for the fact
that, for the last 12 very hard years, Ukraine has managed not to allow any
bloody ethnic conflicts in such a geopolitically and ethnically troubled
region as Crimea. Crimea's population is now 58 percent Russian, 27
percent Ukrainian and 12 percent Crimean Tatar.
But it should be recalled that, in the independence referendum in 1991, 54
percent of Crimeans said "yes" to Ukrainian independence, including 57
percent in the old Soviet navy city of Sevastopol. Seventy-eight percent of
sailors and officers in the then-Soviet navy voted for it.
It should be stated that Crimean separatism, unlike that of Prydnistrovia,
Abkhazia and Northern Ossetia, is assisted mainly from outside Ukraine. If
Moscow stops feeding the numerous pro-Russian organizations in Crimea, and
local anti-Ukrainian publications, we would be able to forget about Crimean
separatism. On Feb. 19 of this year, fewer than 200 persons turned out to
protest Crimea's Ukrainian status. The weak reaction of the native Russian
press and the pro-Russian press in Crimea helped account for that. There was
no powerful impulse from Moscow.
Since returning to their motherland, most Crimean Tatars have taken a
distinctly pro-Ukrainian stance, which of course annoys Russian chauvinists.
However, Tatars are disappointed that Kyiv, in its attempt to flirt with
Moscow, often takes its cue too much from pro-Russian forces.
Kyiv simply doesn't promote the Ukrainian community's interests in Crimea.
There are three times as many Crimean Tatar schools on the peninsula than
there are Ukrainian ones. Crimean Ukrainians are the world's mostly
forgotten and neglected Ukrainian Diaspora.
By leaving Crimean Ukrainians to the mercy of fate, Kyiv significantly
limited its influence in the autonomous republic. Crimea is the key to the
whole country. It's Ukraine's chance to control the south, its Black Sea
coast and its status as a ocean-faring country.
Crimea represents Ukraine's political role in the Black Sea and
Mediterranean Sea basins; it's the country's sole guarantee of territorial
stability. Ukraine needs Crimea no less that Crimea needs Ukraine. Crimea
is a true medal on Ukraine's chest, a heavy medal that it has to bear,
despite its weight. (END) (ARTUIS)
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Ihor Losiv teaches at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and is
science editor of the journal Sea Power. Translated by Valentyna Kolesnyk.
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 33: ARTICLE NUMBER TWELVE
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12. "KUCHMAGATE, ACT III"
ENDNOTE: By Taras Kuzio
RFE/RL Newsline, Volume 8, Number 38, Part II
Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, 27 February 2004
The series of scandals collectively known as Kuchmagate first erupted in
November 2000 when Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz released excerpts
from audio recordings made in President Leonid Kuchma's office by
presidential security service officer Mykola Melnychenko. In September 2002,
Kuchmagate-2 began when the U.S. government announced that the FBI had
confirmed that the Melnychenko tapes revealed that Kuchma authorized the
sale of Kolchuga radar systems to Iraq in July 2000.
Kuchmagate-3 began a day before Kuchma's 19 February visit to Germany, where
he met with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. One day before Kuchma arrived in
Germany, Valeriy Kravchenko, an officer of the Security Service (SBU)
assigned to the Ukrainian Embassy in Berlin, visited the offices of Deutsche
Welle and gave an interview in which he claimed he had refused to obey
orders sent by SBU headquarters demanding that he follow parliamentary
deputies, especially from the opposition, and even government ministers when
they visited Germany. Kravchenko said the latest orders he received demanded
that he monitor preparations for an upcoming Our Ukraine forum in Kyiv that
was being assisted by people in Germany.
Kravchenko said he refused to obey these purported orders because under the
2001 law on intelligence, the SBU has no right to meddle in politics or spy
on the opposition. President Kuchma oversees control over the "power
ministries" and was therefore likely aware of these "illegal" orders,
according to Kravchenko.
Kravchenko told Deutsche Welle he complained to SBU headquarters, but was
informed by his superiors that "it was none of my business and that I must
obey the orders from the center." Kravchenko said he ignored the orders, and
after he was replaced on 16 February by another SBU officer he decided to go
public. Kravchenko showed the orders to Deutsche Welle, which said they
appeared to be official SBU documents. He has offered the documents to the
Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office and parliament's human rights
ombudsman.
Our Ukraine deputy Mykola Tomenko brought some of the documents
to Ukraine on 26 February, after having met with Kravchenko in Germany the
day before. In his Deutsche Welle interview, Kravchenko said responsibility
for the orders lies with SBU Chairman Ihor Smeshko and the head of the SBU
directorate on intelligence, Oleh Synyanskyy. SBU Chairman Smeshko is
reportedly aligned with the Social Democratic Party-united led by Viktor
Medvedchuk.
The SBU and Kuchma were obviously taken off guard by Kravchenko breaking
ranks with the SBU and publicizing these purported orders. Kuchma, who has
been isolated in the West since the previous Kuchmagate episodes and who may
have been hoping to use the Berlin visit to present a reformed image of
himself, was visibly angered when the issue dominated his press conference
with Schroeder at the end of his visit.
The SBU has issued a statement claiming that Kravchenko's allegations are
"absurd in nature" and denying that the SBU has ever issued any such order
or undertaken any actions, "including political meddling, that are banned
according to Ukrainian laws." Kuchma also ridiculed the idea that the
Ukrainian authorities, including the SBU, would attempt to shadow the
opposition. "This is absolutely absurd," Kuchma said at the press
conference.
However, it is notable that the Ukrainian authorities denied all of the
allegations that surfaced during the first and second acts of Kuchmagate,
and those denials were then contradicted by the revival of Soviet-era
jamming of Western radio stations that broadcast the allegations. In the
wake of the latest scandal, Deutsche Welle's Ukrainian FM rebroadcaster,
Radio Kontynent, issued a statement claiming that the station was jammed on
19 February through the use of "methods that were used in Soviet times" when
it aired Kravchenko's interview.
Kravchenko's allegations, if true, would not come as a surprise. Western
NGOs working in Ukraine have claimed that they are routinely followed by the
SBU. The International Republican Institute told the "Kyiv Post" in January
that its staff believed they were being tailed as they traveled around
Ukraine and suspected their telephones were tapped. During elections,
Ukrainian drivers and interpreters used by foreign OSCE observers, who are
officially invited to Ukraine, are regularly questioned as to whom the
observers meet and what they talk about. Western intelligence services have
also noticed that SBU officers working out of embassies abroad have begun to
collect information on members of the Ukrainian diaspora who make a habit of
criticizing the present leadership in Ukraine.
Since Kuchma was re-elected in 1999, Ukrainian oppositionists and former
diplomats have also complained that they are followed by the SBU and their
telephones are tapped. Parliamentary deputies have found listening devices
in their offices. When Ukrainian parliamentarians went to Prague to meet
Melnychenko in late 2000, they were followed and upon returning to Ukraine
their video interview was destroyed by Customs, even though their official
status exempted them from undergoing customs control.
Prior to, and during, mass anti-Kuchma demonstrations in 2000-03 the
opposition and student members were regularly approached, warned, and
interrogated by the SBU and Interior Ministry. Kravchenko told Deutsche
Welle that all state institutions are being used to "compromise the
opposition and to obtain information about it."
Bohdan Sokolovskyi, a former adviser to the Ukrainian embassies in the
United States and Germany, partially confirmed Kravchenko's allegations in
an interview with "Ukrayinska Pravda." He said that while serving as a
diplomat in those countries, he was followed by individuals he believes were
SBU agents. Sokolovskyi characterized Kravchenko, whom he knew while
serving in Germany, as "without doubt a conscientious and patriotically
inclined Ukrainian citizen." After this interview he was released from his
duties by the Foreign Ministry.
Ironically, the latest development in the Kuchmagate saga coincides with the
purported promulgation on 18 February of an as-yet-unpublished presidential
decree that Kuchma has described as ensuring the "de-KGB-ization" of
Ukrainian state structures through the removal of SBU officers. This step,
according to Kuchma, will contribute to the process of democratization in
Ukraine.
It is, however, widely believed to be routine practice for such decrees to
be ignored or even countermanded by secret instructions (such as the
"temnyky" through which the presidential administration controls state and
private television coverage) or Soviet-style "telephone law." The scale of
the deception can be seen when secret instructions issued by the
presidential administration to undermine the opposition or media freedom are
leaked. Only after complaints are made are decrees issued to investigate the
very same infringements that the leaked instructions ordered. If
Kravchenko's claims pan out, he has revealed the degree of legal nihilism
that pervades the very top of the Ukrainian leadership. (END) (ARTUIS)
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Taras Kuzio is a resident fellow at the Center for Russian and East European
studies and adjunct professor at the University of Toronto's Department of
Political Science.
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 33: ARTICLE NUMBER THIRTEEN
Politics and Governance, Building a Strong, Democratic Ukraine
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13. 5,000 COPIES OF ANTI-MEDVEDCHUK BOOK
WERE DESTROYED IN BRODY BY UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS
www.Glavred.info, Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, February 27, 2004
KYIV - 5,000 copies of books about Kuchma's chief of staff Viktor
Medvedchuk by former MP Dmytro Chobit, activist of the Batkivschyna party
were incinerated by unidentified persons in Brody (Lviv region).
The Batkivschyna party states that at 4:00 two unidentified persons set fire
to the garage, where 5,000 copies of books entitled "Narcissus" and "Time of
a Mean Power" were kept. Moreover the attackers beat the guards of the
garage cooperative and set Chobit's car on fire.
The party considers that the action against Chobit's is but one part of a
scenario of the authorities against the opposition. Batkivschyna demands
from the General Prosecutor's Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs and the
Security Service of Ukraine to conduct an investigation into the incident
for the purpose of uncovering the executors and clients of the arson.
In 2002 the Prosecutor-General's Office launched a criminal against Dmytro
Chobit, alleging his interference into Medvedchuk's private life. Viktor
Medvedchuk is chief of Presidential Administration and leaders of the
Socialist Democratic Party (united). (END) (ARTUIS
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