"ACTION 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"
"ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" Year 2004, Number 36
Action Ukraine Coalition (AUC), Washington, D.C.
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS)
morganw@patriot.net, ArtUkraine.com@starpower.net
Washington, D.C., THURSDAY, March 4, 2004
INDEX OF ARTICLES
1. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT KUCHMA SLAMS OPPOSITION'S
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM BILL
"I wonder if Our Ukraine received new instructions from abroad.."
UT1, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 2 Mar 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tuesday, Mar 02, 2004
2. UKRAINE POSTS HIGHEST INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT GROWTH IN
FORMER CIS FOR JANUARY 2004
Interfax, Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, 03.03.2004
3.UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT FAILS TO RATIFY WORLD BANK LOAN
TO ISSUE LAND PROPERTY CERTIFICATES AND LAND REGISTRY
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 3 Mar 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Mar 03, 2004
4. UKRAINE PROSECUTOR SAYS EX-PREMIER LOZARENKO
BEHIND KILLINGS OF MP'S SCHERBAN AND HETMAN
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Russian, Mar 2 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Mar 02, 2004
5. WRITERS IN THE STREET
By Prof. James Mace, Consultant to The Day
The Day Weekly Digest in English, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Mar 2, 2004
6. NEW RFE/RL AFFILIATE RAIDED BY UKRAINIAN AUTHORITIES
TRANSMITTERS CONFISCATED, OFFICE SEALED
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, March 3, 2004
7. UKRAINE RADIO CHIEF 'FORCED' TO FLEE FROM UKRAINE
Radio Kontynent Director Serhiy Sholokh's Life Threatened
BBC NEWS/Europe, UK, Wednesday, March 3, 2004
8. UKRAINE AUTHORITIES SHUT DOWN RADIO STATION
Began broadcasting U.S.-funded Radio Liberty's shortwave programming.
By Tim Vickery, Associated Press, Kiev, Ukraine, March 3, 2004
9. MOSCOW WARNS NATO AWAY FROM THE BALTICS
By Judy Dempsey, Financial Times, London, UK, Mar 01, 2004
10. MONTANA WOMAN'S EGG ART WILL BECOME PART OF
PERMANENT WHITE HOUSE COLLECTION
Libby Laird's Ukrainian Easter Eggs
Story by Donna Healy, Of The Gazette Staff, The Billings Gazette
Billings, Montana, Monday, March 1, 2004
11. PROGRAMMING BABIES: AMERICAN DISCOVERY WITH
ROOTS IN KHARKIV, UKRAINE
World's first Institute of Reproductive Genetics in Chicago, not Kharkiv
US Citizen Yury S. Verlynsky awarded Yaroslav the Wise Fifth Degree
By Petro Matviyenko, Kharkiv, The Day Weekly Digest in English
Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 2, 2004
12. TROJAN HORSE OF ARCHITECTURE
New statue by president of the Russian Academy of the Arts, honoring
Cossack Sotnyk Kharko, to be erected in the center of Kharkiv
By Petro Matviyenko, Kharkiv, The Day Weekly Digest in English
Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 2, 2004
13. FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
SAYS PRESIDENT BUSH GOES EASY ON PUTIN
By Steve Gutterman, Associated Press, Moscow, Russia, Thru, Mar. 4, 2004.
14. CHECHEN REPUBLIC OF ICHKERIA HAILS EUROPE FOR
RECOGNIZING 1944 DEPORTATION AS "AN ACT OF GENOCIDE"
Kavkaz-Tsentr news agency web site, in Russian, 27 Feb 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Feb 27, 2004
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 36: ARTICLE NUMBER ONE
Politics and Governance, Building a Strong, Democratic Ukraine
http://www.artukraine.com/buildukraine/index.htm
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1. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT KUCHMA SLAMS OPPOSITION'S
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM BILL
"I wonder if Our Ukraine received new instructions from abroad.."
UT1, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 2 Mar 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Mar 02, 2004
[Presenter] Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma today commented on a
constitutional reform bill proposed by the [opposition] Our Ukraine bloc. It
is aimed at impeding political reform, Kuchma said.
[Kuchma] I am glad that Our Ukraine has understood the necessity of
constitutional reform. Many times it tried to persuade us in Ukraine and
abroad that reform was completely untimely. Am I not mistaken? [addressing
his press secretary] I think that is right.
I wonder if Our Ukraine received new instructions from abroad that
constitutional reform should be carried out. I am asking why we should not
have carried out constitutional reform in two years. We began it two years
ahead of [presidential election due in October 2004].
And in several months ahead of [presidential election] such a possibility is
not ruled out. I see the only reason behind this - to impede the process,
nothing more. (END) (ARTUIS)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 36: 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. UKRAINE POSTS HIGHEST INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT GROWTH IN
FORMER CIS FOR JANUARY 2004
Interfax, Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, 03.03.2004
Moscow. (Interfax) - Ukraine posted the highest year-on- year industrial
output growth in the CIS in January 2004 at 16.1%, the CIS Interstate
Statistics Committee said Wednesday.
Production grew 14.4% in Georgia, 11.3% in Belarus, 8.9% in Moldova, 8.7% in
Kazakhstan, 7.5% in Russia, 4.7% in Tajikistan, 4% in Azerbaijan, and 2.2%
in Kyrgyzstan. Production dropped 8.9% in Armenia. The statistics committee
does not have figures for Turkmenistan or Uzbekistan.
GDP was up 9.9% in Azerbaijan, 9% in Ukraine, 8.2% in Belarus, 8.1% in
Tajikistan, 4.4% in Armenia, and 3.9% in Kyrgyzstan. Goods and services
production in Russia's core industries grew 7.6%.
Inflation was highest in Armenia at 2.5%. Inflation was 2% in Azerbaijan,
1.9% in Belarus, 1.8% in Russia, 1.5% in Moldova, 1.4% in Ukraine, 1% in
Kyrgyzstan, 0.7% in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, and 0.4% in Georgia.
Producers prices grew 4.2% in Russia, 3.9% in Belarus, 2.3% in Kazakhstan,
1.7% in Tajikistan, 1.6% in Ukraine, 1.3% in Azerbaijan, 1.1% in Armenia,
and 0.9% in Kyrgyzstan. In Georgia, producers prices slid 0.05%.
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 36: 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. UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT FAILS TO RATIFY WORLD BANK LOAN
TO ISSUE LAND PROPERTY CERTIFICATES AND LAND REGISTRY
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 3 Mar 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Mar 03, 2004
Kiev, 3 March: The Ukrainian parliament has failed to ratify the agreement
between Ukraine and the World Bank on a loan to issue of land property
certificates and develop a land registry in Ukraine.
Only 212 MPs supported the accord (226 votes needed). Communist MP
Volodymyr Levchenko said after the voting that he accidentally pushed the
wrong button and supported the ratification.
The agreement envisages that the World Bank lends 195.13m dollars to Ukraine
until 30 June 2012. Ukraine would pay a one-off fee of 1 per cent of the
loan and a fee on obligations worth three-quarters of a per cent of the
original loan sum. It was planned to pay interests on 15 January and 15 July
every year. [Passage omitted: Parliament ratifies accord with Lebanon.]
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 36: 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. UKRAINE PROSECUTOR SAYS EX-PREMIER LOZARENKO
BEHIND KILLINGS OF MP'S SCHERBAN AND HETMAN
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Russian, Mar 2 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Mar 02, 2004
Kiev, 2 March: The Prosecutor-General's Office of Ukraine officially
considers former prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko to be the organizer of the
killing of MPs Yevhen Shcherban and Vadym Hetman. Ukrainian
Prosecutor-General Hennadiy Vasylyev announced this on Tuesday
[2 March] at a news conference in Kiev.
He said the Prosecutor-General's Office has just completed its review of the
Lazarenko case. "There's no politics here, he's a pure criminal" he added.
"He must be punished under our laws," the prosecutor-general said.
Vasylyev said he could make no predictions about the case of Lazarenko in
the American courts [and therefore the chances of his extradition to
Ukraine]. A court hearing in San Francisco against the former prime minister
of Ukraine, Pavlo Lazarenko, is planned for 8 March. US prosecutors are
accusing Lazarenko of laundering 114m dollars through private US financial
institutions. He was released from detention in June 2003 for the duration
of the deposition of witness statements.
As reported earlier, the Luhansk Regional Court of Appeals last April
sentenced the killers of MPs Yevhen Shcherban and Vadym Hetman. The
latter was also head of the Ukrainian Interbank Currency Exchange.
Vadym Bolotskykh was sentenced to life imprisonment with the loss of
property for killing MP Yevhen Shcherban, and Serhiy Kulev received the same
sentence of killing the head of the Ukrainian Interbank Currency Exchange,
Vadym Hetman.
The defendants were members of a criminal gang active in Donetsk and Luhansk
regions [eastern Ukraine]. The leader of the gang, Yevhen Kushnyr, died in a
Donetsk solitary confinement cell.
Yevhen Shcherban MP was shot dead on 3 November 1996 at Donetsk airport
on his arrival from Moscow. The criminals fled the scene by car. Shcherban,
his wife and a mechanic died of their wounds. A flight engineer died in
hospital from a bullet wound to the neck.
The head of the Exchange Committee of the Ukrainian Interbank Currency
Exchange [title as received] and former head of the National Bank of Ukraine
[the central bank], Vadym Hetman MP, was killed in the lift of his block of
flats on 22 April 1998.
Lazarenko was head of the Ukrainian government in 1996-1997. Since 1999
he has been under investigation in the United States. If Lazarenko is found
guilty in the United States under point 31 of the accusation, he faces
imprisonment for a total of 370 years.
Lazarenko has been accused of financial misdealing and various other crimes
in Ukraine. He has already been found guilty of money laundering in
Switzerland, and a court in Geneva gave him an 18-month suspended sentence.
(END)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 36: 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. WRITERS IN THE STREET
By Prof. James Mace, Consultant to The Day
The Day Weekly Digest in English, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Mar 2, 2004
"In general, I don't know who I am anymore," said Pavlo Zahrebelny to a
crowd of about a thousand writers on Saturday in front of the Writers House
at 2 Bankova Street, while an unusual number of defenders of law and order
watched on in case the crowd, liberally seasoned with septuagenarians,
octogenarians, invalids, and even this writer's wife with a broken arm (she
is a member of the National Council of that organization) listened.
The former president of the Union of Writers, whose works have sold tens of
millions of copies in both Ukrainian and Russian, went on to explain that
someone might say he is not a writer, get some prosecutor to take up the
case, and some district court in the Sviatoshyn district of Kyiv might well
decide that he is not a writer and that his surname is not even Zahrebelny.
Why would an absolute majority of the members of the National Writers
Union of Ukraine, duly registered in the building that has no hall large
enough to hold them all, be out in the street listening to one of their
greatest and other no lesser stars of Ukrainian literature on a cloudy day
in February?
One Natalia Okulitenko, by all accounts a very nice lady with a bent for the
cosmic, whose works even few of her colleagues can say they have read, was
elected president of this organization by about eighty similarly obscure
authors, who gathered without the prior knowledge of most of her union
fellow-members but not without official sanction of certain state officials,
to become the new head of an organization that boasts a fine building right
down the street from the Presidential Administration and a few other assets
not without significance.
The same meeting elected a huge number of similarly unread writers to an
organization where they are also little known and proceeded to depose the
officers of that organization, who had earlier been elected according to
both the statute of that organization and the laws in force.
Then a district court in Sviatoshyn, a district as remote from the
organization's headquarters as the place where I live, found that Mrs.
Okulitenko's congress, officially recognized but unknown to most of the
membership of the organization for which it claimed to speak, was legitimate
and that the organization, to which most of the recognized writers of
Ukraine belong and have and expect to have their say, was not. The
distinguished Mr. Zahrebelny had a right to his doubts.
The call went out from the 600 members of the Kyiv organization, by far
the largest local of that trade union of those who wield the pen both for
their own time and posterity, that they should come to Kyiv and say their
piece. They did so. An absolute majority of the Lviv organization was there,
shoulder to shoulder with those from the Donbas - Ukrainian writers,
Russian writers, Jewish writers, all.
They by no means all agree on all things about their union's internal
governance, but they came to protect the integrity of what they feel is
theirs. A number of the lions of Ukrainian literature spoke. Many of those,
who have on occasion also rebelled against the things they saw as wrong
with the current organization, were also present.
They saw the whole thing as outside interference in what they considered
a family affair among writers, a fraternity of individualists in a lonely
profession, where one has to sit at one's desk and confront the blank page
one on one.
An absolute majority of the members responded to the call of the Kyiv
organization, and some of those who could not come for reasons of health
called me to find out what was happening. The meeting, denied any hall
because of administrative pressure, went outside the building that was too
small for them but an object of contention for those who have only contempt
for the Ukrainian word. The street is closed in any case, so nobody could be
accused of blocking traffic. The people's right to assemble was affirmed.
Let these words be taken as an adjunct to my official application for
membership in the National Union of Writers of Ukraine. I might not be the
best publicist in this country, but the issue is clear, and the supporting
letters of my application are on the way.
In times of trouble, it is our first obligation to support those who are
clearly in the right. All the nations of the Euro-Atlantic institutions have
one set of rights for all. This is what unites them. If they violate their
rights today, who will defend mine tomorrow? (END) (ARTUIS)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 36: 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. NEW RFE/RL AFFILIATE RAIDED BY UKRAINIAN AUTHORITIES
TRANSMITTERS CONFISCATED, OFFICE SEALED
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, March 3, 2004
PRAGUE - Ukrainian authorities today raided the offices of RFE/RL's
affiliate partner in Kyiv, Radio "Kontynent," confiscating the FM
broadcaster's transmission equipment, sealing the office and detaining three
people, including the station's chief engineer. The seizure was carried out
on the basis of an order issued to local law enforcement officials by the
Ukrainian State Center of Radio Frequencies (in Ukrainian,
"Ukrchastnotnaglyad"). The three detained individuals were later released.
RFE/RL President Thomas A. Dine condemned the attack on "Radio
Kontynent," saying: "We at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty are angry and
outraged by this blatant act in suppressing factual news and information
from a variety of high-quality journalists. Ukraine's name and its people
are badly damaged; the first freedom -- free expression -- is harmed. In
fact, after what happened today to Radio Kontynent, one can reasonably ask,
'Who's next?'"
"Kontynent," which also broadcasts programs by Voice of America, BBC
and Deutsche Welle on 100.9FM, added two hours of RFE/RL Ukrainian Service
programming to its schedule on February 27. This latest act again
eliminates RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service from the FM airwaves in the Ukrainian
capital.
RFE/RL Ukrainian programs were abruptly taken off the air on
February 17 in Kyiv and cities across Ukraine, as the Ukrainian FM Radio
Dovira network carried out its threat to end its five-year affiliate
relationship with RFE/RL. At the time, Dine called the Dovira move "a deeply
disturbing political development and serious setback to freedom of
expression in Ukraine."
In light of today's events, senior officials at RFE/RL are
expressing serious concerns about the evolving pattern of pressure applied
by Ukrainian authorities on independent media and freedom of speech as such.
Many RFE/RL affiliates have expressed concern that the penalty for carrying
Ukrainian Service programs on their airwaves may be to share the fate of
"Radio Kontynent".
Dine also expressed remorse on learning of the death of Heorhiy
Chechyk, General Director of the Poltava Radio and Television Company
"UTA" that owns FM broadcaster "Radio Poltava Plus". Chechyk died in an
automobile accident today, while on his way to Kyiv for a meeting with
RFE/RL officials to discuss affiliation opportunities.
RFE/RL is supervised by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the
federal agency that runs all U.S. international, nonmilitary broadcasting,
including the Voice of America. (END) (ARTUIS)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 36: ARTICLE NUMBER SEVEN
Ukraine's History and the Long Struggle for Independence
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7. UKRAINE RADIO CHIEF 'FORCED' TO FLEE FROM UKRAINE
Radio Kontynent Director Serhiy Sholokh's Life Threatened
BBC NEWS/Europe, UK, Wednesday, March 3, 2004
The head of a Ukrainian rebroadcaster of several Western-funded radio
stations has fled the country, saying he has received threats.
Serhiy Sholokh, director of independent Radio Kontynent in Kiev, said his
station came under pressure after it announced it would start rebroadcasting
US-funded Radio Liberty programmes.
Radio Kontynent was taken off the air on Wednesday, as police seized its
transmitter. The Ukrainian authorities said Kontynent had not been licensed
to broadcast in the popular FM band.
THREATS
Mr Sholokh said he was threatened by representatives of the United Social
Democratic Party, headed by presidential chief of staff Viktor Medvedchuk.
"They told me that if I started rebroadcasting Radio Liberty, that would be
the end of me and my station," Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted Mr
Sholokh as saying.
"If I agreed to co-operate with them without making this public, they said
everything would be all right." Mr Sholokh told the agency by phone he
had fled to an unspecified country and would return only if Ukrainian
President Leonid Kuchma guaranteed his personal safety.
JAMMED
Kontynent said in a press release on Wednesday that its programmes had been
jammed after it announced it would start rebroadcasting Radio Liberty. The
station has often come out in support of the Ukrainian opposition and
rebroadcast the BBC, Voice of America and Deutsche Welle.
Radio Liberty's previous FM partner in Kiev, Radio Dovira, cancelled their
rebroadcasting contract after its head was replaced with a supporter of Mr
Kuchma. Dovira said Radio Liberty broadcasts did not fit into its
programming format.
Authorities in Ukraine have been severely criticised by Western governments
and human rights groups. They accuse Mr Kuchma of stifling media freedom
in the former Soviet republic ahead of a presidential election due in
October. (END) (ARTUIS)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 36: ARTICLE NUMBER EIGHT
The Rich History of Ukrainian Art, Music, Pysanka, Folk-Art
Arts Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/artgallery.htm
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8. UKRAINE AUTHORITIES SHUT DOWN RADIO STATION
Began broadcasting U.S.-funded Radio Liberty's shortwave programming.
By Tim Vickery, Associated Press, Kiev, Ukraine, March 3, 2004
KIEV, Ukraine - Ukrainian authorities pulled a private station off the air
Wednesday, four days after it began broadcasting U.S.-funded Radio Liberty's
shortwave programming.
Radio Kontinent, a station sympathetic to Ukraine's political opposition,
started FM rebroadcasting of Radio Liberty - making it more accessible to
listeners - on Saturday.
Radio Kontinent claimed its broadcasts were jammed on Monday and Tuesday
and, on Wednesday, it said more than a dozen police arrested two station
employees and confiscated its transmitter.
Pavlo Slobodaniuk, deputy head of the Ukrainian Broadcasting Authority,
denied any confiscation, but said Kontinent was removed from the air for
"broadcasting without a license," the Interfax news agency reported.
Deputy technical director Oleksander Demidev, one of the two arrested
station employees, said that when he arrived to check on transmission
problems, "the transmitter was already out of the room and switched off
completely," Interfax said.
The move came two weeks after FM rebroadcasts of shortwave Radio Liberty
were canceled by a private Ukrainian radio station after it demanded format
changes, a move that led to claims of an official campaign to keep the
Prague-based station off the air.
Alexander Narodetsky, director of Radio Liberty's Ukrainian service, told
The Associated Press he believed Wednesday's action was part of a three-year
campaign by authorities to get his service off the air. "Today, the voice is
very strong and very clear, they will do everything to control everything,"
he said.
Kontinent general director Serhiy Sholokh said he would appeal to local
courts and the International Court for Human Rights. Kontinent also ran
programs by Voice of America, BBC, Deutsche Welle and Polish Radio.
Thomas Dine, the director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, denounced the
closure, calling it "a blatant act in suppressing factual news and
information ... Ukraine's name and its people are badly damaged."
The statement decried "the evolving pattern of pressure applied by Ukrainian
authorities on independent media and freedom of speech as such."
President Leonid Kuchma's administration has come under increasing criticism
from Western governments, human rights groups and journalists who accuse him
of muzzling the press.
Ukraine's media environment has been tense since the 2000 death of Heorhiy
Gongadze, an Internet journalist who crusaded against high-level corruption.
His decapitated body was found in a forest outside Kiev. Opposition groups
allege Kuchma was involved in Gongadze's killing, but Kuchma denies that.
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 36: ARTICLE NUMBER NINE
The Art of Private Voluntary Organizations in Supporting Ukraine
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9. MOSCOW WARNS NATO AWAY FROM THE BALTICS
By Judy Dempsey, Financial Times, London, UK, Mar 01, 2004
Russia has warned Nato it will not tolerate the US-led military alliance
stationing troops or equipment in the Baltic states once they join Nato next
month.
Sergei Yastrzhembsky, President Vladimir Putin's special foreign policy
envoy, who was at Nato's headquarters last Friday, told the FT it would be
"very negative" if the alliance had "any footprint regardless of the size"
in Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania.
"Nato should consider the national concerns of Russian policy," Mr
Yastrzhembsky said. "We understand a Nato footprint in Bulgaria or Romania
as bases for aviation in the fight against terrorism. It is difficult to see
the need for anti-terrorism actions in the Baltic states."
Mr Yastrzhembsky's views reflect a hardening of Russian foreign policy on a
wide range of issues, particularly compliance with the Conventional Armed
Forces in Europe Treaty, a cornerstone of European security. The CFE treaty
was designed to establish parity in significant conventional forces and
armaments from the Atlantic to the Urals.
It was first signed in Paris in 1990 and later updated at Istanbul in 1999
to take into account the end of the cold war, but Russia has yet to ratify
it. Sergei Ivanov, Russian defence minister, recently told a security
conference in Munich that Moscow would not ratify it in its present form, a
view repeated by Mr Yastrzhembsky.
Moscow has retained military bases in Georgia and in Trans Dnestr, a region
in Moldova controlled by Russian nationalists who are seeking autonomy from
Moldova.
Some Nato diplomats said Russia was trying to link Nato accession by the
Baltic states to its CFE obligations in the Caucasus. Russia, for example,
wants the Baltic states to be part of the CFE treaty, which would impose
limits on conventional weapons and Nato's movements.
Mr Yastrzhembsky said Russia had "already closed two bases in Georgia",
adding that it would soon start bilateral negotiations with Mikheil
Saakashvili, Georgia's new president.
If a deal were clinched, Mr Yastrzhembsky said Russia could complete its
withdrawal from Georgia in 11 years. Georgia wants the troops to leave
within three years. "Maybe we will find some time in between," he added.
He insisted no timetables for the withdrawals had been agreed at Istanbul,
while Nato officials said Russia had missed several deadlines set by
Istanbul. Mr Yastrzhembsky said redeployments could not take place since
Russia needed more money to "prepare a new infrastructure for the return
of the Russian troops".
During talks in Washington last week with Mr Saakashvili, George W. Bush, US
president, called on Russia "to honour the Istanbul commitment that made it
very clear that Russia would leave those places". (END) (ARTUIS)
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10. MONTANA WOMAN'S EGG ART WILL BECOME PART OF
PERMANENT WHITE HOUSE COLLECTION
Libby Laird's Ukrainian Easter Eggs
Story by Donna Healy, Photos by Larry Mayer
Of The Gazette Staff, The Billings Gazette
Billings, Montana, Monday, March 1, 2004
BILLINGS, Montana - Libby Laird's Ukrainian Easter eggs are no
longer as intricate as they once were, but they may be more precious.
In April, one of her eggs will represent the state of Montana in the annual
Easter egg display in the White House Visitors Center.
She's honored to have her egg join the White House's permanent collection.
She's far more grateful for the surgery that restored her eyesight.
In mid-September, Laird was startled by a request from the American Egg
Board to decorate an egg. The board, which contributes 7,200 eggs for the
White House Easter Egg Roll, has coordinated an annual egg-art display for
the past decade.
The eggs, one from each state and the District of Columbia, go on display in
the Visitors Center for five weeks, starting April 1. Afterward, they become
part of the White House permanent collection and will eventually be housed
in a presidential library's collection.
Laird, who works for an advertising agency in Billings, approached the
assignment with excitement and a bit of trepidation.
Since the 1970s, she has taught students to decorate the intricate Ukrainian
Easter eggs known as pysanky. But, two years ago, Laird lost her eyesight
from complications of diabetes. Aneurysms caused blood vessels in her eyes
to rupture and hemorrhage. Blood clouded her eyes like thick, dark oil.
"I was two-fingers blind. I couldn't see two fingers in front of my face. I
was white-cane blind for about six months," she said.
She went through six surgeries to restore her sight. Although her vision is
back to 20/50, scars left from those surgeries and prior surgeries have left
"holes" in her eyesight. A diabetic for 28 years, Laird has undergone 19 eye
surgeries, including two operations to remove cataracts.
With the help of a magnifying glass, she can still work on the Ukrainian
eggs, which use a wax-resist technique. A cone-shaped tool known as a kistka
funnels a thin line of melted wax onto the egg. Like batik on cloth, layers
of wax protect one color from the next color of dye.
On her White House egg, mountains rise to meet the blue skies of Big Sky
country. "I'm grateful every day I can see," Laird said. "And I'm grateful
every day I can see the mountains because I love the mountains."
"What I really wanted to do was use the Ukrainian style of decorating, but
making it truly Montanan by using Montana themes," she said.
If you go Libby Laird will teach a Ukrainian egg-painting class from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m. Saturday at McIntosh Art, 2507 Montana Ave [Billings].
Preregistration is required for the class, which costs $24. Call 252-2010.
A stylized Ukrainian deer grazes in a meadow because Montana is known as a
place where the deer and the antelope play. In Ukrainian designs, simple
cross-hatched lines represent Christ's crown of thorns. "I thought they
looked like barbed wire," Laird said.
Images of state symbols, including the meadowlark, the bitterroot flower and
the Ponderosa pine, made it onto the egg. But the fish are generic fish
rather than the state's cutthroat trout. By dyeing the fish red, she was
able to juxtapose dark and light colors to make the design stand out.
She pictured the Rimrocks to symbolize Billings and used feathers in the
center band to represent Montana's Indian tribes. Another traditional
Ukrainian symbol represents wheat.
Before producing the finished egg and shipping it to Washington, Laird
made eight prototypes. "I didn't keep all of them," she said.
The first egg's horizontal bands accentuated the wobbles caused by her
limited vision. She switched to vertical bands.
"I know that this egg isn't perfect," she said. "Some of the lines aren't as
straight as they could be, but looking through a magnifier doesn't help your
depth perception."
In Ukrainian tradition, time spent doing the eggs is considered an act of
prayer. "It's like being in touch with God, creatively," she said.
The invitation to decorate Montana's egg came with an invitation to visit
Washington for a special White House tour in conjunction with the exhibit's
opening.
For the past two years, the White House has featured pictures of the eggs on
its Web site. Last year's egg, showing a beaded Montana flag, was done by a
woman in Texas.
The American Egg Board apparently had difficulty locating a Montana egg
decorator, Laird said. The board's promotion coordinator tracked down Laird
by calling art-supply stores.
Since moving to Billings in 1998, Laird has taught classes on Ukrainian egg
decorating techniques through McIntosh Art and through her church, St.
Luke's Episcopal. (END) (ARTUIS)
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11. PROGRAMMING BABIES: AMERICAN DISCOVERY WITH
ROOTS IN KHARKIV, UKRAINE
World's first Institute of Reproductive Genetics in Chicago, not Kharkiv
US Citizen Yury S. Verlynsky awarded Yaroslav the Wise Fifth Degree
By Petro Matviyenko, Kharkiv; The Day Weekly Digest in English
Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 2, 2004
Last January President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine issued an edict on
conferring Order of Yaroslav the Wise Fifth Degree on US citizen Yury S.
Verlynsky, director of the Chicago- based Institute of Reproductive
Genetics, "for outstanding personal contribution to research in the area of
reproductive genetics and prevention of hereditary human genetic diseases as
well as for his long and fruitful scientific activity."
By cruel irony, the world's first Institute of Reproductive Genetics is
based precisely in Chicago instead of Kharkiv, Ukraine. For it is here that
S. Verlynsky studied and grew as a researcher. He is proud of having been a
disciple of the great Ukrainian scientist V. G. Shakhbazov, Meritorious
Scientist and Technologist of Ukraine, Meritorious Professor at Kharkiv's V.
N. Karazin National University, full member of the Higher Educational
Academy of Ukraine, and longtime chair of the university's Department of
Genetics.
MEDICAL EXAMINATION BEFORE CONCEPTION
The problem of reproductive genetics can be briefly defined as follows: can
the human intellect and art interfere in the sacrament of conception? The
first encouraging answer to this question was extracorporeal - artificial
in-vitro fertilization of the oocyte (egg cell) in the mid-1970s. This
scientific achievement has long been put to practical use.
Researching the genetic code of living beings opened a new page in tackling
this problem. It turned out that it is possible to decipher the living
organism's development program! This has already been done by US and
British geneticists.
It is only theoretically possible today to clone living beings and create
full-fledged organisms the way Lego toys are constructed. Practice shows
that cloned animals considerably lose out on viability to conceived
organisms.
Yet, a breakthrough has been made today in treating genetic diseases that
are preprogrammed well before the birth. What makes Verlynsky's discovery
significant is combination of the achievements of genetics which the
scientist studied in Kharkiv and those of medicine in artificial
fertilization and transplantation of the oocyte.
The gene of a hereditary disease emerges not always with a certain
probability. In other words, some egg cells carry the gene of a pathology
and others are quite healthy. Is this some genetic roulette? The scientist
discovered the way to win this roulette. It is possible to separate the
healthy oocytes form pathological ones at a very early stage of the
organism's development and implant the former into the mother's womb.
A few years ago Chicago doctors announced that a child was born, who
had been tested for hereditary cancer when he was still an embryo not
yet implanted into the uterus. The doctors helped the couple raise a healthy
boy.
"Two generations in the father's family had had a carcinogenic gene," Yury
Verlynsky told a Reuters correspondent at the time. "This was the first
couple genetically tested for the syndrome. As the father carried the gene,
a fertilized oocyte was tested. If the mother had had this gene, we would
have tested an unfertilized oocyte."
The Institute of Reproductive Genetics admits patients doomed by nature to
having genetically unhealthy children or not to know the joys of parenthood
at all. A woman, herself a geneticist, knew in advance she would fall victim
to Alzheimer's disease (senile dementia) at the age of forty. This ailment
usually develops in old age, if at all. Incidentally, former US President
Ronald Reagan is now suffering from it. But that lady was programmed to
contract the early form of the disease at the not nearly so advanced age of
forty
Verlynsky helped the patient. Her child will be quite healthy, although he w
ill in fact become an orphan even before he turns twenty. Today, the
Institute of Reproductive Genetics has branches all over the world,
including Russia (Tomsk, Saint Petersburg, Belarus (Minsk), and Ukraine
(Kyiv).
Like any other outstanding discovery, Dr. Verlynsky's method has drawn
mixed reviews. For example, it has raised concerns over whether it is
ethical for parents to be able to choose the best features of an unborn
child as well as over the possibility of abusing this method in order to
produce so-called preprogrammed babies.
Verlynsky himself also ponders the contradictory social consequences of his
discovery. His utterances also add fuel to the fire of debates. Consider
two: "We are not doing the Lord God's job, we are only helping Him," and
"In the twenty-first century, humanity will practice sex for satisfaction
only, while extracorporeal fertilization will serve the purposes of
reproduction."
[Q] WHY CHICAGO AND NOT KHARKIV?
Prof. V. G. Shakhbazov, Dr. Verlynsky's mentor, knows the answer very
well. "Prof. Shakhbazov, could you tell us about the Kharkiv period of your
illustrious disciple?"
"As far as I remember, Yury came from Tomsk, Siberia. He was admitted to
our university's Biology School in 1963 and graduated in 1968. In his fourth
year of studies he decided to major in genetics. It was still a relatively
new branch of biology in the Soviet Union. We all remembered the times when
it had been banned.
"I was then chair of the Genetics and Cytology Department. Seeing a divine
spark in the student, I did my best to help him develop. He was a very
gifted, hardworking, cheerful, and witty young man. On our advice, he began
to study for his Ph.D., with me as his scholarly supervisor. After
successfully working for four years, my doctoral student brilliantly
defended a dissertation on human cytology in 1972. Even at that time, in his
dissertation, he put emphasis on the practical, medical, application of
genetics."
[Q] "WHAT WAS THE FURTHER DESTINY OF YOUR FOLLOWER?"
"Naturally, he began working at a medical laboratory, one at the Kharkiv
Research Institute of Endocrinology and Hormones. Yet, Verlynsky's creative
mind prompted him to concentrate on reproductive genetics research, in which
he eventually achieved success. The practical result was the possibility of
overcoming genetic diseases and raising a healthy younger generation.
Verlynsky displayed plenty of youthful zeal to advance the idea of
establishing a specialized medico-genetic laboratory at the institute where
he worked. He kept me informed about all his steps, for the dissertation
supervisor is, naturally, the best person for a young scientist to turn to.
"As he found no positive response at the institute, we together drew up a
project of establishing a lab of this kind based at another research
institution or at our university. We were together received by oblast-level
public health officials. Still, medical personal chose not to support this
research. I remember quite a furious way those doctors (some of them are
now considered Kharkiv's leading medical luminaries) reacted to our
initiative.
It is difficult to say whether it was professional envy, misunderstanding or
rejection of genetics. Finding no support, Verlynsky decided to go abroad."
[Q] "In other words, the Institute of Reproductive Genetics might have been
established in Kharkiv rather than Chicago?"
"Yes, and ten or so years earlier. We did have a chance to overtake the US.
The proof of this is great interest in this problem and the emergence of a
large number of reproductive health clinics abroad and in the USSR. A clinic
of this type successfully functions in Kharkiv also, but they have taken
only the first steps of in-vitro fertilization. The outside world was doing
this as far back as in the early 1980s..."
"But perhaps this is enough? Maybe, the Americans have already gone too
far, choosing to help the Lord God do His job? What problems do genetic
discoveries, such as breaking the genetic code, entail?"
"Breaking the genetic code cannot in itself open the secrets of life. What
researchers have been able to do is read the sequence of the letters of this
text the way we are able to read the sequence of letters in a book written
in an unknown language. It is still very far to understanding their meaning.
Even if we understand some words in such a book, we will not grasp its
overall sense. The same applies to the genetic code. Thus research will be
still going on for decades. It is important, though, not to be too
self-confident and not to run ahead of time."
[Q] "But hasn't Verlynsky given the world a powerful instrument which the
official authorities might abuse?"
"It would be more exact to say that this instrument has been provided by
modern genetics as a whole and current gene engineering techniques. Yet,
Verlynsky's discovery provides for one of the most effective applications of
this instrument today. In my opinion, Verlynsky's discovery can still do
humanity much more good than evil. And it is, of course, unfortunate that an
individual who could have brought his fatherland so much acclaim has to do
this for a foreign state." (END) (ARTUIS)
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12. TROJAN HORSE OF ARCHITECTURE
New statue by president of the Russian Academy of the Arts,
honoring Cossack Sotnyk Kharko, to be erected in the center of Kharkiv
By Petro Matviyenko, Kharkiv, The Day Weekly Digest in English
Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 2, 2004
A ten-meter bronze horseman will be a monument to Cossack Sotnyk [Captain]
Kharko (aka Kharyton). According to legend, he built a fortress in the
seventeenth century and gave his name to the town and one of the local
rivers. Interestingly, the statue will be a jubilee present to Kharkiv from
its sponsors and personally from Zurab Tsereteli, meaning the project will
cost the city budget nothing.
Two weeks ago, Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of the
Arts, paid a visit to Kharkiv, meeting with Mayor Volodymyr Shumilkin,
deputies of the city council, and local architects. He and colleagues
discussed the site of the monument. Incidentally, it will be the first
horseman statue, as all the previous monuments represented standing figures,
except Prince Yaroslav the Wise on his throne (the statue was unveiled in
the mid-1990s, after the local Academy of Law was named for the ruler of
Kyiv Rus').
Finding the site for a monument immortalizing the founder of a city with 1.5
million population turned out a difficult task. The architects are
considering several options. After they agree on one. Zurab Tsereteli
(author of the statue on Poklonnaya Hill) to ascertain the statue's size.
Even now, however, it is know that it will be kept in the author's favorite
format: eight to ten meters.
The project is also a target of criticism, particularly by Kharkiv sculptor
Feliks Betleyemsky. In addition to censorial remarks concerning the artistic
aspect of the Russian present, he stresses above all that the city
authorities had previously announced a contest for the best monument
commemorating Kharkiv's jubilee. His project had won (an arch of triumph
that would cost the city budget over 7 billion hryvnias, for which the
fathers of the city had also been severely criticized by other sculptors,
specifically those who projects had been rejected).
He made a clay model, claiming to have spent UAH 220,000, for which
purpose he had sold his apartment. So when the city council agreed to
accept the present instead of building Betleyemsky's project, this was
considered a dishonorable act.
The Mayor of Kharkiv is gratified by an opportunity to save city budget
money and promises to recompense all of Feliks Betleyemsky's expenses.
Be that as it may, Kharkiv will receive a monument for its jubilee and it
might well become one of the city symbols. (END) (ARTUIS)
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13. FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
SAYS PRESIDENT BUSH GOES EASY ON PUTIN
By Steve Gutterman, Associated Press, Moscow, Russia, Thur, Mar. 4, 2004.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright criticized the current
American administration's Russia policy in an interview published Wednesday,
saying Washington is turning a blind eye to what she called President
Vladimir Putin's increasingly undemocratic behavior.
The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is going easy on the
leaders of Russia and other former Soviet republics because it has made help
in the war against terrorism and support for its actions in Iraq the key
criteria in its relations with other countries, Albright told Vedomosti.
"In the case of Russia, it is a readiness to give President Putin almost
complete freedom of action, closing its eyes to his increasingly
undemocratic treatment of his opponents, the media, Chechnya," Albright
was quoted as saying in the interview, which was conducted during a recent
visit to Ukraine.
U.S. criticism of Russia's policy in Chechnya, where Putin has ruled out
talks with rebels, has decreased since he expressed support for the war on
terrorism following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"I am sure that there are terrorists among the Chechens," said Albright, who
served under Bush's predecessor, Bill Clinton. "But not all Chechens are
terrorists, and I regret that not enough is being done to promote a
political settlement of the Chechen problem."
Albright did not discuss her concerns about democracy in Russia in detail.
Since Putin's election in 2000, independent television networks have been
shut or come under state control, and Russian liberals and Western observers
say the Kremlin has used its levers of power to influence the outcome of
elections.
Albright expressed concern over Putin's recent statement that the 1991
collapse of the Soviet Union was a "national tragedy," saying she was afraid
it reflected a view among some Russians that the other Soviet republics
should be under Moscow's control.
"It seems to me that an attempt is taking place to once again see the
[former republics] as, in essence, an integral part of some sort of Russian
state," she said.
Albright also criticized the Bush administration for its negative attitude
toward international treaties, saying she believes Russia's position on the
Kyoto Protocol, which it has refused to ratify, was influenced by Bush's
rejection of the pact aimed to curb global warming.
"It is very bad that Russia gets an opportunity to use the U.S. position as
a cover for undermining an important international treaty," she said. The
Kyoto Protocol needs Russia's ratification to take effect. (END)(ARTUIS)
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14. CHECHEN REPUBLIC OF ICHKERIA HAILS EUROPE FOR
RECOGNIZING 1944 DEPORTATION AS "AN ACT OF GENOCIDE"
Kavkaz-Tsentr news agency web site, in Russian, 27 Feb 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Feb 27, 2004
26 February: At its sitting on 26 February, the European Parliament for the
first time recognized the deportation of Chechens on 23 February 1944 as an
act of genocide. In this connection, the Foreign Ministry of the Chechen
Republic of Ichkeria [CRI] has issued a special statement:
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria warmly
welcomes the European Parliament's official recognition today of the
deportation of the Chechen nation of 1944 as "an act of genocide" and the
official request of the European Parliament to the European Commission and
the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the
European Union 'to study the Akhmadov plan' for a peaceful solution to the
Russian-Chechen conflict.
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
considers these decisions of the European Parliament as a serious historical
step on the way to achieving peace and justice for the much-suffering
Chechen people. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic of
Ichkeria thanks European parliamentarians for these commendable actions.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
congratulates the citizens of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria on this
historic day."
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14-2 POLAND RALLY DEMANDS END TO CHECHEN "GENOCIDE"
Chechenpress web site, Tbilisi, in Russian 26 Feb 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Feb 26, 2004
25 February: A rally to mark the 60th anniversary of the deportation of the
Chechen and Ingush peoples was held outside the Russian embassy in Warsaw
on 23 February. Representatives of the Chechen diaspora and Polish public
organizations, Polish political figures, writers, poets and journalists
attended the rally.
The head of the Poland-Chechnya committee, Adam Borowski, and MP Mariush
Kaminski were among them. The demonstrators demanded an end to the genocide
of the Chechen people, the withdrawal of occupying troops, the beginning of
talks with Chechen [rebel] President Aslan Maskhadov and the acceptance of
a plan on establishing provisional UN administration in Chechnya.
[Signed] Sayd-Ibragim Ampukayev, the Chechen information centre in Poland
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