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INDEX OF ARTICLES
1. BORIS TARASYUK: UKRAINE, MOLDOVA, BELORUS AND THE
COUNTRIES OF SOUTHERN CAUCASUS HAVE TO BECOME
INTEGRAL PART OF A WIDER EUROPE
Press Service of the People's Rukh of Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 19, 2004
2. PARLIAMENT AND COURT TAKE ACTIONS TOWARDS
CLARIFYING UKRAINE'S MUDDLED SITUATION ON ELECTIONS
Inside Ukraine Newsletter, Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 22, 2004
3. WESTERN NIS ENTERPRISE FUND SELLS ITS STAKE IN LEADING
FACADE CERAMIC BRICK MANUFACTURER IN UKRAINE
Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF), Kyiv, Ukraine, March 11, 2004
4. FORMER NATIONAL BANK OF UKRAINE CHIEF BANKER VIKTOR
YUSHCHENKO CRITICIZES CURRENT HEAD SERHIY TYHIPKO
FOR POLITICIZING THE OFFICE AND THE NBU
www.PRAVDA.com.ua, Kyiv, Ukraine, March 18, 2004
5. UKRAINE'S PENSION FUND BUDGET GROWS IN SIZE
BUT NOT IN TRANSPARENCY
Inside Ukraine Newsletter, Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 22, 2004
6. FURNITURE PRODUCTION IN UKRAINE IN 2004 T0 GO UP
BY 26-30% ACCORDING TO INDUSTRIAL POLICY MINISTRY
Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, March 17, 2004
7. SURVEY REVEALS PUBLIC ATTITUDES IN UKRAINE
By Jan Maksymiuk, RFE/RL Newsline, Prague, Czech, Mar 18, 2004
8. PYSANKY - THE ANCIENT ART OF EGG DECORATING
Dell Kasinskas, pysanky artist/instructor for the past 34 years
By: Jay Nowakowski, Correspondent
CTValleyNews.com, Bristol, Connecticut, Thursday, March 18, 2004
9. "EGGS THE UKRAINE WAY"
Colorado residents learn ancient technique
Story by Roxye Arellano, Greeley Tribune
Greeley, Colorado, March 21, 2004
10. GENOCIDE: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SAYS VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN IS AS GREAT AN EVIL AS TERRORISM
The International Committee of the Red Cross says hundreds of thousands
of women were systematically raped during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Alex Duval Smith, The Independent
London, United Kingdom; Mar 06, 2004
11. JUDGE APPROVES $20M ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SETTLEMENT
France and Russia are among 15 countries that have recognized the
genocide. The United States has not made such a declaration.
Associated Press, Friday, February 20, 2004
12. GENOCIDE: "AN ACTIVIST HUNGRY FOR HUMANITY"
LUNCH WITH THE FT, SAMANTHA POWER
By Paige Williams, Financial Times
London, UK, March 13/March 14, 2004, W3
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 45: ARTICLE NUMBER ONE
Politics and Governance, Building a Strong, Democratic Ukraine
http://www.artukraine.com/buildukraine/index.htm
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1. BORIS TARASYUK: UKRAINE, MOLDOVA, BELORUS AND THE
COUNTRIES OF SOUTHERN CAUCASUS HAVE TO BECOME
INTEGRAL PART OF A WIDER EUROPE
Press Service of the People's Rukh of Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine, March 19, 2004
KYIV - A conference of prime ministers from the countries of Central and
Southern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and the Baltic republics,
dedicated to the expansion of the European Union was held on March 17-18 in
Bratislava. The director of the Institute of Euro-Atlantic cooperation, the
head of the Verkhovna Rada committee on European integration Boris Tarasyuk
addressed the assembled during the meeting of the leaders of non-government
organizations.
In his speech, he outlined the new vision of the agenda of the expanded
Europe and the challenges that had arisen before it and the new independent
states as well as touched on the the issue of security in the Black-Sea
region and in the Balkans.
Boris Tarasyuk particularly noted: "Ukraine, Moldova, Belorus, and the
countries of southern Caucasus have to become integral parts of the wider
Europe."
The people's deputy is convinced that problems in trans-Atlantic relations
between EU and USA cause serious problems for the unity of the wider Europe
within EU as well as within NATO. Tarasyuk expressed support for developing
closer relations and an effective mechanism for consultation between EU and
NATO in the areas of security and foreign policy.
"The European Union and NATO have to conduct pro-active policies instead of
"the policy of responding" towards the countries in transition while OSCE
and the Council of Europe have to pay special attention to ethnic relations
in the countries of the region," noted Boris Tarasyuk.
He is convinced: "EU and NATO need to pay more attention towards the
so-called "frozen conflicts" in Prydnistrovie region, Abkhazia, and Nagirniy
Karabakh. It is also necessary to raise the level of responsibility for
resolving those conflicts by the countries involved."
Speaking on Ukrainian issues, Boris Tarasyuk stressed that the upcoming
presidential elections will be determining not only for Ukraine but also for
European stability and security. "The future of Ukraine's European and
Euro-Atlantic integration depends on whether the presidential elections in
Ukraine are held in accordance with the Constitution and European
standards."
"Ukraine and Ukrainian government must fulfill their obligations while EU
has to provide it with clear prospects of membership," noted the
parliamentarian, talking about relations between Ukraine and EU. (END)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 45: ARTICLE NUMBER TWO
Politics and Governance, Building a Strong, Democratic Ukraine
http://www.artukraine.com/buildukraine/index.htm
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2. PARLIAMENT AND COURT TAKE ACTIONS TOWARDS
CLARIFYING UKRAINE'S MUDDLED SITUATION ON ELECTIONS
Inside Ukraine Newsletter, Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 22, 2004
KYIV - Action by Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, and the
Constitutional Court this week have gone a long way toward clarifying
Ukraine's muddled situation on elections. Taken together, the actions taken
this week combined with a favorable vote of 300 or more parliament members
could settle almost all unresolved issues and make it possible for a July 1
campaign kickoff to occur under considerably more settled conditions.
First, the Verkhovna Rada passed the resolution on the date of the
presidential election. This event, or to be more precise the first round of
the elections, is scheduled for Sunday, October 31, 2004. The second round,
if the first one does not choose an absolute winner in the presidential
race, is due to take place two weeks later, i.e., on November 14.
Also this week the parliament adopted in the first reading a draft of the
bill on the presidential election procedures. Several novel changes
distinguish the new requirements from those in force previously. The
pre-election campaign is abridged from 180 to 120 days, thus starting the
presidential campaign officially on July 1, rather than on May 1, as
authorized under the existing statute. Presidential candidates may be
nominated by parties or blocs or may even be self-nominated.
To obtain official registration, each candidate would be required to collect
500,000 supporting signatures of voters at least in the two thirds of
Ukrainian regions, with at least 20,000 in each oblast or Crimea and cities
of Kyiv and Sevastopol. At the same time each candidate would have to post
Hr 500,000 as an election deposit.
In order to keep down frivolous candidacies, the election deposit would be
returned only to those candidates who received the support of at least 7
percent of the vote. No candidate for president may spend more that Hr 10.25
million on his or her campaign. However, in the case of a run-off, the two
top candidates may spend an additional Hr 3 million each in the short
run-off period.
Fund raising by presidential candidates would be restricted to money
contributions of no more than Hr 5,125 from a physical entity with no
contributions from legal entities. Foreigners and stateless persons are not
allowed to contribute to the election funds. Representatives of all
registered presidential candidates would be included into all district
election commissions, with a maximum of two representatives from each
candidate.
Presidential election ballots are to be numbered throughout the entire
country and all ballot boxes will be transparent so as to make it easier to
avoid ballot box stuffing, allegedly a common procedure in previous
presidential elections. Another important provision specifies equal access
of all registered candidates to national TV debates.
On Thursday, March 18, the Constitutional Court announced the text of its
judgment on the election-related constitutional amendments that previously
were approved by the Rada in the first reading. The court found the
amendments not in disagreement with the Constitution with a vote of 13 in
favor and only three nays.
Thus, the court has removed all judicial obstacles to the final approval of
the amendments, requiring a constitutional majority of at least 300 members
of the Rada.
Most lawmakers and analysts believe that a conclusive positive vote could be
reached easily on the constitutional amendments, except for the aggravated
situation arising from major disagreements in regards to the
all-proportional election bill for the Rada.
The Communists and Socialists, whose support is considered the key to
reaching the 300-vote constitutional majority vote on the amendments, claim
that will not vote for the amendments until such time as the
all-proportional election law has been passed. However, in spite of the
previous approval of election law in the first reading, the future of the
bill's provisions calling for strictly proportionality is open to doubt.
Many deputies elected in majority districts remain skeptical that this new
election framework will leave them enough room for maneuvering in the Rada
elections in 2006.
At present various modifications of the proportional election law are being
hammered out in the Rada's backrooms but no deal is yet in sight. This is
one of the main reasons that the parliament has decided to add one plenary
week more to its March schedule. This additional legislative time may make
it possible to finally decide the terms and conditions of this fall's
presidential election. (END) (ARTUIS)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 45: ARTICLE NUMBER THREE
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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3. WESTERN NIS ENTERPRISE FUND SELLS ITS STAKE IN LEADING
FACADE CERAMIC BRICK MANUFACTURER IN UKRAINE
Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF)
Kyiv, Ukraine, March 11, 2004
Kyiv, Ukraine - On March 11, 2004, Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF)
completed the sale of its 100% stake in Slobozhanska Budivelna Keramika
(SBK), the leading façade ceramic brick manufacturer in Ukraine, to
Raiffeisen Investment AG of Austria (RIAG), along with MARA
Beteiligungsverwaltungs GmbH (a holding company of RIAG). This represents a
strong exit for the private equity firm, with an exit multiple of some two
and a half times the equity money invested.
WNISEF is proud of this exit and this company for several key reasons:
Ø The sale of SBK is one of the largest private equity exits in
Ukraine. This transaction, valued at $13.5 million, is symbolic of the
increasing sophistication and maturity of the Ukrainian market. In
addition, this success further strengthens WNISEF's leadership position in
the market and enhances our reputation as a value-added investor for
potential investees.
Ø The innovative leveraged re-capitalization conducted with the support
of Raiffeisenbank Ukraine (RBUA) as part of this divestment was the first of
its kind and has set the benchmark for further use of leveraged buy-outs in
Ukraine.
Ø SBK's success is evidence of WNISEF's ability to take a company
through a major transition from early development through market leadership.
This is due to WNISEF's focus on excellence in management, corporate
governance and transparency. In the course of WNISEF's ownership, SBK not
only created a highly reputable branded construction material in a niche
market, but also dominated that market.
SBK reported net revenues in excess of $8.1 million in 2003. The Company
produces premium façade ceramic bricks in over 40 decorative shapes and 4
colors, and is one of the most recognized brand names in the Ukrainian
construction materials industry. SBK operates two modern production
facilities in Ukraine.
Commenting on the successful divestment, President and CEO of WNISEF Natalie
A. Jaresko said, "SBK has been a successful investment for WNISEF and we are
very pleased to be able to earn an attractive return in line with
expectations. SBK has made outstanding progress in the marketplace over the
past few years and will certainly continue to do so. It has been a pleasure
to work with its management."
WNISEF (www.wnisef.org) is the region's leading private equity fund that
invests in small- and medium-sized private enterprises in Ukraine and
Moldova.
WNISEF's seeks to identify and invest in securities of private enterprises
with outstanding growth potential and the ability to build competitive
advantages in the marketplace. WNISEF provides its portfolio companies with
capital and the necessary management tools to evolve from entrepreneurial
ventures into professionally managed companies. Since inception, the
cumulative investment commitment of WNISEF totals $85.5 million to 27
companies in Ukraine and Moldova, employing over 15,000 people.
RIAG (www.riag.at) is an investment banking subsidiary of the Raiffeisen
Banking Group, which is focused on M&A, corporate finance, and privatization
transactions in the Central and Eastern European regions. In this
transaction, RIAG and its holding company MARA Beteiligungsverwaltungs GmbH
are acting as financial investors, and expect to continue building on the
successful business development accomplished to date by WNISEF.
Raiffeisen Investment AG is represented in Ukraine by Raiffeisen Investment
Ukraine Ltd. (RIU) a 100% subsidiary of RIAG which is known on the market as
a leading local equity house providing brokerage and M&A/Privatization
advisory services as part of an integrated range of banking services
provided by Raiffeisen Banking Group.
Raiffeisenbank Ukraine (www.raiffeisenbank.com.ua) is a 100% subsidiary of
Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich Aktiengesellschaft, Vienna, Austria. RBUA
is a fully licensed commercial bank with the right to offer to its resident
and non-resident clients a complete range of banking products for domestic
and cross-border operations in both Ukrainian Hryvnas and foreign
currencies. As a subsidiary of one of the leading Austrian banks, RBUA
provides quick, efficient and professional Western-standard services at
competitive prices combined with a special expertise of the local market.
In this transaction, FinPoint LLC, an independent investment-banking firm
represented in Ukraine by Sergey Budkin, advised WNISEF. FinPoint LLC
assisted WNISEF in the planning and execution of a divestment strategy that
enabled WNISEF to widen the circle of potential buyers and evaluate multiple
offers from prominent international and domestic investors.
For additional information, please contact:
Andrew Petriwsky, Investment Manager
Western NIS Enterprise Fund; Phone : +380 44 490 5580,
Fax : +380 44 490 5589; e-mail: apetriwsky@wnisefk.com
Viacheslav Yakymuk, Managing Director
Raiffeisen Investment Ukraine; Phone: +380 44 290 6899,
Fax: +380 44 490 6897; e-mail: riu@riu.kiev.ua
Dr. Wolfgang Putschek, Director
Raiffeisen Investment AG; Phone: +431 710 54 00,
Fax: +431 710 54 0039; e-mail: w.putschek@riag.at
Igor Frantskevych, Chairman of the Board
Raiffeisenbank Ukraine; Phone : +380 44 490 0500
Fax : +380 44 490 0501; mail: infobox.rbu@rbu-kiev.raiffeisen.at
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 45: ARTICLE NUMBER FOUR
Major Articles About What is Going on in Ukraine
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4. FORMER NATIONAL BANK OF UKRAINE CHIEF BANKER VIKTOR
YUSHCHENKO CRITICIZES CURRENT HEAD SERHIY TYHIPKO
FOR POLITICIZING THE OFFICE AND THE NBU
www.PRAVDA.com.ua, Kyiv, Ukraine, March 18, 2004
KYIV - Our Ukraine's leader Viktor Yushchenko criticized the current head
of the central bank, NBU, Serhiy Tyhipko for politicizing his office. In an
interview to the Profil magazine, Yushchenko accused the NBU of trying to
"play a role of a political institution" and linked the situation to
Tyhipko's personal stance.
In the lawmaker's opinion, Tyhipko defies the legislation on the central
bank, which he heads, by remaining a leader of own party Labor Ukraine.
According to the law, he said, a chief banker must "keep his or her
political sympathies outside the bank's walls and can not be a member or,
particularly, head a party."
Yushchenko, who has headed the NBU in his time, says Tyhipko's party
affiliation damages Ukraine's national interests. Yushchenko also severely
criticized today's performance of the NBU: "It is quite obvious that
Ukraine's banking system does not answer the needs of the economy. It should
more effectively protect investors, including the investors of commercial
banks."
"The level that was achieved five years ago," he believes, "is not adequate
today. It must be increased. The investor should be more protected. Because
prosperity of the financial system depends on the investor, a natural
person," Yushchenko says. (END) (ARTUIS)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 45: ARTICLE NUMBER FIVE
Exciting Opportunities in Ukraine for Travel and Tourism
Travel and Tourism Gallery: http://www.ArtUkraine.com/tourgallery.htm
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5. UKRAINE'S PENSION FUND BUDGET GROWS IN SIZE
BUT NOT IN TRANSPARENCY
Inside Ukraine Newsletter, Kyiv, Ukraine, March 22, 2004
KYIV - Discussions at the time the Cabinet of Ministers recently validated
the Pension Fund's budget for 2004 showed that Fund operations this year
will amount to Hr 31.5 billion, an almost 25 percent increase compared with
last year.
Many observers are trying to reconcile the Fund's rapid growth in overall
operations with its expected increase in average pensions during the year,
expected to be about 12 percent.
For those outside government interested in knowing more about Fund
activities, the road to clarity seems to be tortuous at best. As of this
date, Fund financial activities do not seem to have been either audited or
checked by other state institutions and have not been reported to the public
in open.
However, as the best many sources can determine the Fund's operations at
present, Hr 4.9 billion is expected to go this year into areas that raise
the most questions, one such are being overhead for management. The other
area that is of great interest to many Pension Fund watchers is the rather
mysterious and tightly guarded funding of pensions for the so-called
"merited" pensioners, who seem to be mostly former Communist Party and state
officials. (END) (ARTUIS)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 45: ARTICLE NUMBER SIX
The Story of Ukraine's Long and Rich Culture
Ukrainian Culture Gallery: http://www.ArtUkraine.com/cultgallery.htm
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6. FURNITURE PRODUCTION IN UKRAINE IN 2004 T0 GO UP
BY 26-30% ACCORDING TO INDUSTRIAL POLICY MINISTRY
Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, March 17, 2004
KYIV - Production of furniture in Ukraine in 2004 will increase by 26-30%
thanks to big investment, improvement of the quality of products and the
growth of export, Ukrainian First Deputy Industrial Policy Minister Mykola
Ivaschenko forecasts.
"Positive tendencies have been seen in the past years in wood processing
overall, and in furniture industry in particular. There is stable growth.
Quality and value indicators are improving, export is growing. If such
tendency pertains, we can resolutely say: this field will not only be
revived, but will become competitive in the near 2-3 years," he told the
Business World Week program at the First National TV Channel of Ukraine.
Ivaschenko forecasts that in 2006 furniture industry by its production will
exceed indicators of 1991 - the best year before the collapse of the Soviet
Union.
He said that in 2003 the furniture industry attracted nearly $100 million of
foreign investment, which speaks of its better conduciveness to investments.
"The same tendency is kept in 2004. Both in the east and the west (of
Ukraine, Interfax note) there is retrofitting and upgrade of the existing
facilities, construction of new facilities," he added.
Ivaschenko also said that thanks to the governmental measures the prices for
furniture this year will remain stable. He noted that at present Ukraine has
8,800 producers of furniture, including only 530 medium and big ones.
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 45: ARTICLE NUMBER SEVEN
The Genocidal Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933, HOLODOMOR
Genocide Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/index.htm
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7. SURVEY REVEALS PUBLIC ATTITUDES IN UKRAINE
By Jan Maksymiuk, RFE/RL Newsline, Prague, Czech, Mar 18, 2004
The Washington-based International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
(http://www.ifes.org) has recently presented an interesting and
thought-provoking report called "Attitudes and Expectations: Public Opinion
in Ukraine 2003," authored by Rakesh Sharma and Nathan Van Dusen. In
particular, the report includes findings from a survey carried out by IFES
in Ukraine among 1,265 respondents on 10-19 September and covering a wide
range of issues related to Ukraine's progress toward a more democratic
state. It was the 12th survey of this kind in Ukraine by IFES, which
established its presence in Kyiv in 1994. The 2003 survey and report were
made possible through a grant from the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID).
The report, which provides a plethora of tables with survey findings,
examines public attitudes and expectations in the following areas:
confidence in government and judicial institutions, corruption, political
and economic reform, interest in politics, attitudes toward political
parties and nongovernmental organizations, contacts with local officials,
and perceptions of media. It also provides a summary of regional and social
variations of political attitudes in Ukraine.
The survey found that the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians are either
very dissatisfied (47 percent) or somewhat dissatisfied (38 percent) with
the overall situation in the country. The current economic situation in
Ukraine is assessed as bad or somewhat bad by 86 percent of respondents,
while only 9 percent rate it as good.
IFES says its surveys since 2000 have shown a consistent preference for a
market-driven economy over a centrally planned one. In 2003, 31 percent
said they prefer a market economy, 21 percent a centrally planned economy,
and 30 percent chose a neutral point in between. However, there are still
large objections to privatization of key industries and sectors in Ukraine.
The privatization of the electricity sector is opposed by 65 percent of
Ukrainians, the coal industry by 59 percent, and collective farms by 45
percent.
Corruption is perceived as a major problem. A considerable majority of
Ukrainians believes that that corruption is very serious or somewhat
serious problem in hospitals (85 percent), the police (83 percent),
universities (79 percent), courts (74 percent), customs authorities (67
percent), and tax authorities (66 percent).
Asked to choose five from a list of 10 statements or terms representing the
meaning of democracy, respondents primarily pointed to human rights (66
percent), "everyone has work" (60 percent), "retirees are looked after by
the state (55 percent), and "no official corruption" (48 percent). IFES
registered a marked increase in the percentage of Ukrainians who say that
Ukraine is not a democracy: 47 percent in 2001, 53 percent in 2002, and 64
percent in 2003.
One of the IFES findings is revealing in the context of the ongoing
constitutional reform in Ukraine: 62 percent of Ukrainians are unaware of
the existence of a bill, or bills, mandating constitutional amendments that
would change the balance of power between the presidency and parliament,
while a minority of 38 percent are aware of the issue.
The president is the least trusted among those institutions about which
respondents were asked: 70 percent said they have little or no confidence
in President Leonid Kuchma.
Only 23 percent of respondents say they support a specific political party,
down from 31 percent in the 2002 survey. Of them, 30 percent support the
Communist Party, 22 percent the Our Ukraine bloc, 10 percent the Social
Democratic Party, 3 percent the Greens of Ukraine, 3 percent the Socialist
Party, 2 percent the Popular Rukh, and 2 percent the Yuliya Tymoshenko
Bloc. The survey found that 16 percent of Ukrainians belong to trade unions.
Only 20 percent of Ukrainians are aware of the activities of NGOs in their
communities, but this represents a significant increase compared with 12
percent in 2002.
For the first time in its surveys in Ukraine, IFES registered that more
Ukrainians than not say that they have a great deal or fair amount of
information on both political and economic developments (58 percent on
politics; 48 percent on economy). Television, particularly private
stations, is the major source of news and information for most Ukrainians.
Respondents listed the following media outlets as their primary information
sources: Inter (33 percent), 1+1 Channel (23 percent), Ukrainian newspapers
(5 percent), UT-1 (5 percent), UT-2 (3 percent), UR-1 (5 percent), ORT (3
percent), New Channel (2 percent), and local television stations (2
percent).
The media are mostly rated positively by Ukrainians: 7 percent of
respondents have a great deal of confidence in the media, 54 percent have a
fair amount, 20 percent do not have too much confidence, and 6 percent have
no confidence at all. Ukrainians also perceive journalism as a risky
profession: 68 percent think it is dangerous for journalists to report the
news objectively, while 20 percent feel that journalists are safe in doing
that. (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 45: ARTICLE NUMBER EIGHT
Ukraine's History and the Long Struggle for Independence
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8. PYSANKY - THE ANCIENT ART OF EGG DECORATING
Dell Kasinskas, pysanky artist/instructor for the past 34 years
By: Jay Nowakowski, Correspondent
CTValleyNews.com, Bristol, Connecticut, Thursday, March 18, 2004
FARMINGTON, CT - Pysanky is a Ukrainian word that has become synonymous
with the art of decorating eggs, particularly Easter eggs. "It comes from
the verb to write and has evolved to mean the decorated Easter egg," said
Dell Kasinskas, a pysanky artist/instructor of the past 34 years.
Kasinskas held a workshop in the art of pysanky at Our Lady of Calvary
Retreat Center in Farmington on Thursday evening, March 11. About 20 or so
individuals attended.
The hands-on workshop started with a brief history of the art form.
Kasinskas explained how she painstakingly shops for just the right eggs to
be decorated. The ideal eggs are of a uniform white color without any
blemishes, bumps, cracks or irregularities. The eggs are not cooked as this
enhances the ability of the colors to adhere to the shell. The yolk and the
white of the egg simply dehydrate over time.
After her presentation, the hands-on section of the program began. Each of
the participants received the necessary tools to create their own special
"masterpiece." Pysanky artists work with a tool called a kistka, which is
used to apply hot wax to the egg. The egg is then dyed and the process is
repeated.
The final step is the removal of all the wax by heating a small section of
egg at a time. When the wax liquefies it is rubbed off with a clean soft
cloth. The process displays the colors underneath.
"At one time, all natural dyes were used such as onion skins or beets," said
Kasinskas. "Now most of the dyes are chemical dyes. I've been making
pysanky all theses years and I still enjoy it because I keep finding new
patterns."
But the simple art has a deeper meaning as well.
"For me there is the spiritual aspect too," said Kasinskas. "The egg
represents the potential for new life and renewal. It represents, in a way,
going from the darkness of winter to the light and new life of spring. And
then there is the special mother-daughter bond that I have had since I was a
child. I did this with my mother and also with my daughter before she passed
on. Whenever I do pysanky it reminds me of the time I spent with my mother
and my sisters and then later on with my daughter."
"It is very relaxing and creative," said Kate Kaplan of Canton. "I like the
social aspects of doing something like this in a group. It is sort of what I
imagine quilting would be like."
"I'm 100 percent Ukrainian," said Barbara Hein of Canton. "My ancestors came
from Ukraine and I came today because I wanted to learn more about how they
made those beautiful eggs.
"I have a grater appreciation of all the stages involved. Now I can tell you
that it takes a lot of patience, a steady hand and good eyesight," she said
as she carefully crafted her own design.
"What I love to see is the delight people have in creating something," said
Sister Ann Rodgers, a member of the Our Lady of Calvary community. "This is
something they can take back home with them and look on it with pride and
enjoyment from time to time. "And for people who believe in God, we know
that he takes the same delight in looking at us," she said.
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 45: ARTICLE NUMBER NINE
The Rich History of Ukrainian Art, Music, Pysanka, Folk-Art
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9. "EGGS THE UKRAINE WAY"
Eaton, Greeley, Colorado residents learn ancient technique
Story by Roxye Arellano, Greeley Tribune
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Greeley, Colorado, March 21, 2004
When Linnea Sudduth and Lindsey Riggle planned a day together during
spring break, it included working on a school project, checking out a
few books and painting Ukrainian Easter eggs [psyanky].
"We did this last year, and we really liked it," said Lindsey, 16, of
Eaton.
"Yeah, we're both pretty heavily involved in the library, so it's fun
to create stuff like this."
On Thursday, the girls and about 15 other Eaton and Greeley residents
[Colorado] spent the afternoon at the Eaton Public Library learning how
to paint Easter eggs the way Ukrainians have for thousands of years.
"They have pretty intricate lines," said Lou Preston of Greeley. "I
feel like I'm getting cross-eyed looking at them."
Although Preston is skilled in wooden egg crafts, Thursday was the
second time she's picked up a wax pen called a kistka to design an
egg.
"I've carved eggs before," she said. "But these are a lot more
fragile than the wooden ones I'm used to."
While most of the American Easter egg traditions call for boiling the
eggs and soaking them in colored dye, the Ukrainians work on uncooked
eggs.
"This is so opposite of what you would think," said librarian Georgia
Inloes. "The insides harden with time."
As Inloes walked in and out of the crowd of busy egg decorators, she
made one thing clear.
"We have no experts here," she said with a laugh. "I had to re-read
the books just to make sure how to do it again."
After the eggs are drawn on with a pencil, the details that are meant
to be white are covered with beeswax. Then the egg sits in dye with
the lightest color. The process is done several times until the
darkest colored is used to completely cover the egg. After the egg is
dyed for the last time, the wax is melted off with a candle and wiped
so the different colors show.
According to author Ann Stalcup, who wrote "Ukrainian Egg Decoration:
A Holiday Tradition," the tradition dates back to 4,000 B.C. The egg
decoration process is called pysanky, and it is said that the more
eggs a person or family decorates before Easter, the more they will
ward off evil.
And while Preston and friends, Roxie Kersbergen of Eaton and Rod
Croissant of Greeley, sat around admiring each other's eggs, they
remembered a few things from last year's experience.
"This is really strong dye," Kersbergen said with a chuckle. "Last
year, I had multicolored hands for weeks. This year, I brought
gloves."
For Lindsey and Linnea, the dye wasn't the problem. Deciding what to
choose as a pattern was.
"I read in a book the women would decorate the eggs in secret so
nobody would steal the family designs," Lindsey said while tracing
her flower design with wax. "I thought that was pretty cool."
"I'm not worried about design," said Linnea while she was covering
her egg in wax triangles. "I just want mine to have all sorts of
colors. Color is good."
WHO TO CALL
High school students or adults who are interested in decorating
Ukrainian Easter eggs should call 454-2189 and ask for Georgia at the
Eaton Public Library [Colorado] for more information on when the next
session will be.
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10. GENOCIDE: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SAYS VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN IS AS GREAT AN EVIL AS TERRORISM
The International Committee of the Red Cross says hundreds of thousands
of women were systematically raped during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Alex Duval Smith, The Independent
London, United Kingdom; Mar 06, 2004
LONDON - VIOLENCE AGAINST girls and women should be added to
the list of evils -guns, terrorism, discrimination and torture - that
curtail freedom across the world, Amnesty International suggested yesterday.
Launching one of its most ambitious campaigns, the human rights group said
one in three women in the world has been beaten or coerced into sex in her
lifetime and that, in Britain, one in four women experiences violence at the
hands of her male partner.
Three days before International Women's Day, the organisation, which is
based in Britain, has drawn together all forms of abuse for the first time -
from the British woman beaten by her partner to the Sierra Leonean child
abducted by rebels to become a sex slave.
Speaking in London, Amnesty International's secretary general, Irene Khan,
said: "Violence against women is a human rights atrocity. From the
battlefield to the bedroom, women are at risk. Governments are failing to
address the real `terror' of our world that millions of women face every
day.'' She said violence against women was a "cancer" eating away at the
core of every society. But Amnesty's 122-page report, It's In Our Hands -
stop violence against women, says domestic violence in Europe claims more
lives and causes more ill-health than cigarettes or road accidents.
The report says 70 per cent of the world's female murder victims are killed
by their partners and two million girls under 15 are introduced into the sex
market every year. Amnesty says domestic violence, rape as a strategy of
war, female genital mutilation, dowry killings, "honour crimes" and
infanticide continue to exist on a huge scale, and in all cases governments
and justice systems trivialise their importance and impact.
Ms Khan said Amnesty would begin its work among its own 1.5 million
supporters. Footnotes in the report suggest the organisation has decided to
canvass the views of its members with a view to adopting a policy on the
circumstances in which it should consider abortion to be acceptable.
The report describes a wide range of sexual abuses such as the experience of
a Zimbabwean lesbian whose family allegedly locked her in a room and brought
an older man to her every day to "correct" her sexual orientation. "They did
this to me every day until I was pregnant so I would be forced to marry
him," said the woman.
Amnesty criticises a US policy, in force since 2001, which restricts aid to
countries with family planning programmes and legalised abortion. In at
least four countries - Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia and Romania - the policy has
reportedly led to healthcare cuts and has restricted efforts to inform
people about HIV.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says hundreds of thousands of
women were systematically raped during the 1994 Rwandan genocide and many
contracted HIV. In many countries where rape is or has been used as a weapon
of war - in Africa, Afghanistan or Bosnia-Herzegovina - girls who have been
raped are shunned by their families and condemned to poverty because they
are deemed unworthy of marriage.
When wars are over, violence continues; a US army study shows the incidence
of "severe aggression" against spouses is three times as high in army
families as in civilian ones.
In South Africa, which has high rates of HIV and where many girls' first
experience of sex is by force, 54,000 cases of rape and attempted rape were
reported in 2002. The scale of the problem becomes clearer when you consider
that in a country like Britain - where talking about rape is less of a
stigma than in most African cultures - it is estimated that only one in five
cases is reported.
Amnesty is critical of aid workers - including United Nations workers who
abuse their authority in refugee camps - and says the human rights movement
itself, including Amnesty, has been "slow to come to the defence of women
[because] it has taken a long time to overcome the false division between
violations in the public and private sphere".
The report describes UN peace-keepers in Kosovo who frequent prostitutes,
and criticises disarmament and demobilisation programmes for failing to
address the damage suffered by girls and women.
Amnesty says women made great progress in the fight for equality and freedom
from violence in the 1970s but that, since 1980, "cultural, religious and
ethnic movements in many parts of the world have made organised efforts to
reverse this progress and to reassert apparently traditional roles". On 11
March 2002, 15 girls in Mecca were burnt to death at their school after
religious police prevented them from leaving a burning building because they
were not wearing headscarves.
Despite recording a regression in sex equality, the human rights group
praises several initiatives around the world that have put women at the
centre of efforts to improve societies. Amnesty quotes an initiative in Sri
Lanka in which a female sub-committee was created early last year to ensure
gender issues were not ignored in the country's peace talks. In Cambodia and
India women have created local mediation bodies that help settle domestic
disputes. In Brazil, special "women's desks" have been set up in police
stations.
The African Union adopted a treaty on the human rights of women last year
and the international war crimes courts for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
have convicted perpetrators of rape and those who forced women into sexual
slavery. Several countries, including Canada and the US, have granted asylum
to women who had been sexually harassed or discriminated against.
Celebrities have also joined the battle by speaking out. Charlize Theron,
who won the best actress Oscar last Sunday for her role in Monster, grew up
in rural South Africa watching her alcoholic father beat her mother. In 1991
Charlize's mother, Gerda, killed her father, Charles, with a shotgun. A
court found that Mrs Theron had acted in self-defence. In 2001, when
Theron's Hollywood career was beginning to take off, she told her story in a
three-minute television clip which she offered to South African television
for broadcast, and in which she urged women to come forward and report
crimes of assault and rape.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
United States: A woman is raped every 90 seconds; four women die each
day as a result of violence in the family
Chile: Only 3 per cent of raped women report the attack
Mexico: Around Juarez at least 370 women have been murdered in the past
10 years
Russia: 14,000 domestic violence deaths per year
Britain: Two women are killed a week in family violence; a call to emergency
services every minute. 14,000 recorded rapes in 2003 (8 per cent up)
Egypt: 97 per cent of married women aged 15 to 49 had female genital
mutilation
India: Approximately 15,000 dowry deaths a year
Pakistan: At least a thousand women a year die in "honour" killings
China: Ratio of newborn girls to boys 100:119; biological norm is 100:103
Sierra Leone: More than half of all women suffered sexual violence during
the 1999 conflict [Source: Amnesty International] (END) (ARTUIS)
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11. JUDGE APPROVES $20M ARMENAIN GENOCIDE SETTLEMENT
France and Russia are among 15 countries that have recognized the genocide.
The United States has not made such a declaration.
Associated Press, Friday, February 20, 2004
LOS ANGELES - A judge approved a $20 million settlement in a class action
lawsuit between New York Life Insurance Co. and the descendants of Armenians
killed nearly 90 years ago in the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder on Thursday granted preliminary
approval of the settlement for unpaid death benefits. About $11 million will
be set aside for potential claims by heirs of some 2,400 policyholders, $3
million will go to nine Armenian charitable organizations and the rest will
pay attorneys' fees and administrative costs.
Snyder set a July 30 court date to hear any objections from plaintiffs, who
may opt out of the settlement. After that date, a Web site will be available
for those seeking money from New York Life for unpaid policies. The company
also will advertise in major newspapers alerting people to the settlement,
said the plaintiffs' attorney, Brian Kabateck.
Armenians have asserted that 1.5 million people were executed between 1915
and 1923 by Turkish authorities who accused them of helping the invading
Russian army during World War I.
Turkey rejected the genocide claim and said Armenians were killed in civil
unrest during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. France and Russia are
among 15 countries that have recognized the genocide. The United States has
not made such a declaration. (END) (ARTUIS)
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12. . GENOCIDE: "AN ACTIVIST HUNGRY FOR HUMANITY"
FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE -
LUNCH WITH THE FT, SAMANTHA POWER
By Paige Williams, Financial Times
London, UK, March 13/March 14, 2004, W3
One of Samantha Power's favourite lunch spots is a place off Harvard Square
in Cambridge, Massachusetts called Casablanca. Decorated with 20ft murals of
the movie, Bogart and Bergman gaze with melancholy at diners digging into
their seared cod and mixed greens.
The theme has echoes of Hitler and of Hollywood, which resonate because
Power's seminal writings on war and human rights have made her a celebrity
favoured by the American left.
Heads turn as she strides past Bogey and Bergman and slides into a
banquette. Power seems not to notice. She is so focused that I'm a little
surprised she has not come dressed like a distracted professor (she lectures
in public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government). She
wears a stylish leather coat, black slacks and a starched, striped muslin
shirt with a silver and turquoise necklace. Long and lean, she has intense
blue eyes and voluminous auburn hair. With a fedora she might look a little
like Bergman, but with freckles.
She is equally distinguished in accomplishment. Over-achievement is "de
rigueur" in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but rarely does it come so globally at
the age of 33. In her best-selling book of 2002, "A Problem from Hell:
America and the Age of Genocide," Power chronicled the role of the US in the
history of genocide. The book criticises America's record of passivity in
the face of international slaughter and has become required reading for
anyone hoping to strengthen US foreign policy on human rights.
Power pushes the issue as founding executive director of the Carr Centre for
Human Rights at Harvard, where her obsessive tendencies have not gone
unnoticed. (When she was working on the book she would crank the heat
up to 80 deg F during the day so she could stay warm while she worked
late into the night.)
Yet lately, to her dismay, she has been at risk of being interpreted as a
bit more hawk than dove - of being appropriated to justify President George
W. Bush's war in Iraq. She cringes at the idea.
"But, wait - food," Power says. "Let's get that out of the way."
She opens the menu. She is fond of the bluefish, but what she calls the
"chicken roll" suddenly looks good: grilled, lemon-marinated chicken on a
homemade pitta roll with feta. It comes with mixed greens in lemon
vinaigrette. The bluefish cake, on the other hand, is made with shallots,
creamy mustard and parsley.
"What do you think?" Power, ever the reporter, asks the server - who says
she would go for the bluefish, but it doesn't come with mixed greens.
Power orders the chicken and hands over the menu.
"No wait," she says. "You know what? I'll have the bluefish and the mixed
greens." No appetiser? No wine?
"Diet Coke," Power says, yawning. "Wine would put me right to sleep. I was
up until 3am." This makes her smile, almost shyly, and Power is not a shy
woman.
Upon graduating from Yale University she went as a freelance reporter to
cover the war in Bosnia. When her articles for The Boston Globe and The
Washington Post failed to prompt a satisfactory US response, she decided to
obtain a law degree in the hope of answering a question: why does the US
consistently do so little to prevent genocide (Bosnia, Iraq, Cambodia, the
Holocaust, Armenia)? After graduating from Harvard Law School she decided
to answer the question and went into a mode that friends describe as "all
genocide, all the time".
She spent six years researching and writing the book, which was rejected by
almost every leading publishing house in Manhattan, before becoming the
first acquisition of Basic Books editor Vanessa Mobley. This publishing
upstart pushed it into print and on to win several of the biggest prizes in
US literature, including the Pulitzer.
As Power takes a fork to her mixed greens, she says she has just agreed a
new two-book deal with Mobley and Henry Holt and Company of New York.
One book involves the lessons of German philosopher Hannah Arendt, the other
the consequences of amnesia in US foreign policy. Neither is likely to
trigger the rightwing appropriation that Power is experiencing with the
genocide book, which will probably be a relief.
"It causes me great discomfort when my book is read in its most narrow
sense, which is that, 'The United States should intervene militarily when it
feels like it'," she says. She puts down her fork. "I mean, the book is the
furthest thing from a plea for American military intervention, and certainly
for unilateral military intervention on a whim or on a subjective set of
excuses and justifications. It's not even about genocide. It's about are we
injecting concern for foreign life, for human life, into our foreign policy
as a matter of course and not as a fluke matter of convergence with national
interests? And the answer remains no." Up comes the fork again.
Power has a husky voice that every now and then reveals a flicker of her
native Dublin. She moved to the US when she was nine and credits her mother
and stepfather (her father died when she was very young) with an
intellectually supportive and stimulating childhood.
"My mother is epic," she says. "She played at Wimbledon, she has a PhD in
biochemistry, she's a kidney transplant doctor, and she's hilarious - she's
taking film classes and patching people up and running the New York
marathon. Epic, truly. And also a great friend."
Power is hyper-articulate, and unhesitant in her delivery, which gives me a
chance to work on the grilled pear salad. She is also fiercely accommodating
of the tape recorder under her nose and doesn't knock it over once, even
though she speaks with her hands: twisting and turning as though wringing
out a point, this one being that the US should have intervened in Iraq not
last year but in 1987-88, when Saddam Hussein's regime was exterminating an
estimated 100,000 Kurds.
"I think the narrow read on my book is, 'Intervene when there is badness on
the face of the earth, and if you can't get (UN) Security Council support,
well, so what?'
"Having experienced a little of war in Bosnia, it is so awful that it really
is something one should employ as an absolute last resort, and my criteria
for military intervention - with a strong preference for multilateral
intervention - is an immediate threat of large-scale loss of life. That's a
standard that would have been met in Iraq in 1988, but wasn't in 2003."
The grilled bluefish came on hot oval plates with squiggled ribbons of fried
onion. "Oh, could we have some bread, too, please?" Power asks. "Some of
that good sesame bread? But wait, there was one other point I wanted to
make.
"The war in Iraq very plainly was not about Saddam's genocide against the
Kurds and human rights. It was about a perception of Saddam as a threat to
very traditional American security interests. Now the so-called [WMD]
security threat has been exposed as exaggerated, at best, and concocted, at
worst, the only argument this administration has left for having gone to war
is the human rights-democratisation-genocide argument. So they have an awful
lot invested in trying to make Iraq a more humane place."
The fork comes up and starts taking apart the bluefish. The sesame bread
arrives, but Power ignores it. In fact, lunch seems incidental to her.
"A paradox is that I would hope I was a poster child for the integration of
consideration of human rights into American foreign policy, and for the
recognition that American interests will best be advanced if we do this,"
she says.
Other than her close friend Doris Kearns Goodwin, the historian, Power is
the only person I've met who can speak at such length while barely coming up
for air.
She says it's critical for the US to win back some credibility, "and not be
the bull in the china shop".
"Can this administration restore America's credibility?" I ask.
"No," Power says. "I don't think so."
The dessert menu arrives, but she decides not to open it. She doesn't even
care for a coffee. "We're still going to have special interests no matter
who's the president," she says. "We're still going to have a reluctance to
subject ourselves to international law that we feel we're above. The
unfortunate part of the relationship about human rights and security is that
now we view the welfare of foreign citizens as valuable and relevant only in
so far as it advances our security."
Power is sliding out of the banquette and into her leather coat. She has a
student's paper to read before their 2.30 pm meeting, which was two minutes
ago.
Later, long after Casablanca has closed, I stop by the Nieman Foundation for
Journalism at Harvard and run into someone who says of Power, "She's
brilliant, just brilliant. But it's such a lost cause."
"How's that?" I ask.
"Surely she doesn't think it will ever end: man's inhumanity to man."
Probably not. But unlike most of us, that is unlikely to stop Power trying.
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