"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT"
An International Newsletter
In-Depth Ukrainian News, Analysis, and Commentary
"The Art of Ukrainian History, Culture, Arts, Business, Religion,
Sports, Government, and Politics, in Ukraine and Around the World"
TV NEWS IN UKRAINE DOMINATED BY THE AUTHORITIES
Viktor Yanukovych by far the leader in positive news
Viktor Yushchenko by far the leader in negative or ironic news
"Media experts say presidential candidate/PM Viktor Yanukovych
dominated the Ukraine market in television news in May, June, July,
August and September, 2004. According to the results, 9.8% of the
news was dedicated to the Our Ukraine coalition's leader and presidential
candidate Viktor Yuschenko while 9.3% was dedicated to Parliament
Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn. At the same time, one in every three news
reports about Yuschenko was negative or ironic. "Yuschenko is the leader
in terms of negative or ironic representation on the leading Ukrainian
television channels," the report on the monitoring states." [article nine]
"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" Year 04, Number 190
[Report sent yesterday was numbered 188, should have been #189]
The Action Ukraine Coalition (AUC), Washington, D.C.
Ukrainian Federation of America (UFA), Huntingdon Valley, PA
morganw@patriot.net, ArtUkraine.com@starpower.net (ARTUIS)
Washington, D.C.; Kyiv, Ukraine, WEDNESDAY, October 13, 2004
-----INDEX OF ARTICLES-----
"Major International News Headlines and Articles"
1. BOEING SENIOR VP PICKERING FORECASTS STEPPING UP
COOPERATION WITH UKRAINE UNDER SEA LAUNCH PROGRAM
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tues, October 12, 2004
2. KRAFT FOODS UKRAINE BEGINS CONSTRUCTION OF
COFFEE PACKAGING FACTORY IN KYIV REGION
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tue, October 12, 2004
3. KRAFT FOODS UKRAINE FORECASTS RISE IN PRICES
FOR CHOCOLATE GOODS BY 5% IN 2005
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tue, October 12, 2004
4. BANKERS PETROLEUM IN CANADA TO INVEST UP TO US$15
MILLION FOR STAKE IN TRANSEURO'S UKRAINE PROJECT
CP, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Tuesday, Oct 12, 2004
5. WORLDWIDE GRAIN AND FEED TRADE ASSOCIATION (GAFTA)
OPENS CIS REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE IN KYIV, UKRAINE
AgriMarket.Info, APK-Inform Information Service
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct 12, 2004
6. ELEVEN EU STATES URGE STRONGER TIES WITH UKRAINE
EU Business, Brussels, Belgium, Monday, 11 October 2004
7. POLISH PARLIAMENTARIANS, NGO'S LOBBING IN EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT FOR UKRAINE
The EU is not speaking out on Ukrainian matters as firmly and as clearly
as is expected by Poland. Also present was Ukraine MP Oleh Rybachuk.
Source: PAP news agency, Warsaw, Poland, in Polish, 2 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tuesday, October 12, 2004
8. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE YANUKOVYCH
PROMISES TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRAVEL TO RUSSIA
Tells authorities to control prices, meeting of law enforcement officers
Source: One Plus One TV, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 12 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tuesday, October 12, 2004
9. MEDIA EXPERTS SAY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE/PM VIKTOR
YANUKOVYCH DOMINATES THE MARKET IN TELEVISION
NEWS IN MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 2004
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, October 12, 2004
10.UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
PRESENTS PACKAGE OF FIVE DRAFT SOCIAL DECREES
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 12 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tuesday, Oct 12, 2004
11. MP OLEKSANDR ZINCHENKO SAYS MAIN THREAT TO
NATIONAL SECURITY ARE ACTIONS BY THE GOVERNMENT AND
POLITICAL FORCES THAT RULE PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION
Press service of Victor Yushchenko's central headquarters
Our Ukraine Website, www.razom.org.ua, Kyiv, Wed, Oct 13, 2004
12. "PUTIN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION USED TO INFLUENCE
UKRAINE'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION"
Kuchma and Yanukovych already celebrating with Putin
COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS: by Vladimir Socor
Eurasia Daily Monitor, Volume 1, Issue 103
The Jamestown Foundation, Washington, D.C., Tue, Oct 12, 2004
13. "THE KREMLIN GOES FOR YANUKOVYCH"
COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS: by Jan Maksymiuk
RFE/RL Belarus and Ukraine Report, Vol. 6, No. 37
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
Prague, Czech Republic, Tuesday, 12 October 2004
14. "VETERANS' FURY OVER THE PILLAGE OF CRIMEA'S
BLOODIED BATTLEFIELDS IN UKRAINE"
Charge of the Light Brigade war relics illegally dug up and sold
By Jeremy Page in Sebastopol and David Lister
TimesOnLine, London, UK, Tuesday, October 12, 2004
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1. BOEING SENIOR VP PICKERING FORECASTS STEPPING UP
COOPERATION WITH UKRAINE UNDER SEA LAUNCH PROGRAM
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tues, October 12, 2004
KYIV - Senior Vice President of the US-based Boeing corporation
Thomas Pickering forecasts stepping up of cooperation with Ukraine
within the framework of the Sea Launch international program, which
will bring incomes of USD 80-100 million to Ukraine in the nearest
several years.
Ihor Storozhuk, Press secretary of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada,
informed about this with reference to the meeting of Volodymyr Lytvyn
with Pickering and US Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst.
Pickering confirmed interest of the US in the Sea Launch program and
forecasted a large number of launches within the framework of this project
in the nearest years. "...(Participation in the project), by the way, will
bring from USD 80 to 100 million to Ukraine," Storozhuk cites Pickering.
According to Storozhuk, the main aim of this meeting and the visit of
Pickering to Ukraine is establishment of even more intensive commercial
cooperation of the Boeing corporation with the Ukrainian companies.
"We hope for the opportunities of growth of commercial activity in Ukraine
and in cooperation with Ukraine," Storozhuk cites Pickering.
In particular, according to Storozhuk, constriction of a new Boeing aircraft
requires certain spare parts that are produced by the Ukrainian enterprises.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, President Leonid Kuchma and Pickering
on October 12 have also discussed Ukrainian-American relations and
prospects for cooperation in the airspace and aviation sectors.
Sea Launch participants include the Dnipropetrovsk-based Pivdennyi
machine-building plant named after Makarov (Pivdenmash) and the State
Pivdenne Design Bureau (an owner of 15% of the shares in Sea Launch),
the Boeing Commercial Space Company (Seattle, USA), which has 40%
of the shares in the program, Russia's Energiya aerospace corporation
(Korolyov, Russia), with a 25% stake, and the British-Norwegian Kvaerner
Group (20%). Zenit-2 orbiter launch vehicle, which was developed by the
Pivdennyi State Design Bureau (Dnipropetrovsk), on June 29 put into orbit
the tele-communication satellite Telstar-18 that was manufactured by the
American company Space System/Loral (SSL). -30-
[The Action Ukraine Monitoring Service - Kyiv]
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FOOTNOTE: Boeing Senior VP Thomas Pickering also met with
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko to address Ukrainian-
American cooperation in the airspace and aviation sectors. On Monday
Pickering met with President Leonid Kuchma. [Editor]
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NOTICE: The Action Ukraine Report sent yesterday, in the late afternoon
Washington time, was numbered 188. It should have been numbered 189.
The lead article was about Dr. Henry Kissinger speaking in Ukraine.
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2. KRAFT FOODS UKRAINE BEGINS CONSTRUCTION OF
COFFEE PACKAGING FACTORY IN KYIV REGION
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tue, October 12, 2004
KYIV - Kraft Foods Ukraine company has started building a coffee
packaging factory in the village of Stari Petrivtsi, Vyshhorod district of
Kyiv region. Management board chairman Yurii Lohush [George
Logush] announced this at a press conference. The construction began
in early September and is to be over in the first quarter of 2005.
"We will open it before spring," Lohush said. Kraft Foods Ukraine is
going to pack instant coffee in glass jars, and later it will be packing
ground coffee. "The capacities will be enough for a long time on the
market," Lohush answered the question of Ukrainian News about
capacities of the new factory. He refused to disclose the invested sum.
Kraft Foods Ukraine owns the Trostianets chocolate factory Ukraina
(Sumy region) and a potato chips factory in Stari Petrivtsi.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Kraft Foods Ukraine sells Jacobs,
Maxwell House and Carte Noir coffee brands on the Ukrainian market,
and produces Korona and Milka chocolate bars, Siesta chocolate stick,
Zustrich and Reverans candies, and other chocolate products at its
factory in Trostianets.
Lux chips and Cherezos Snacks are the products of its potato chips
factory. Kraft Foods Ukraine is a sub-unit of the Kraft Foods Company,
the second largest food producer in the world. -30- (The Action Ukraine
Report Monitoring Service - Kyiv)
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3. KRAFT FOODS UKRAINE FORECASTS RISE IN PRICES
FOR CHOCOLATE GOODS BY 5% IN 2005
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tue, October 12, 2004
KYIV -- Kraft Foods Ukraine company, which owns the Trostianets-
based chocolate factory Ukraina (Sumy region), forecasts that the
Ukrainian market for chocolate will see a 5% growth in prices for
chocolate goods in 2005. Management board chairman Yurii Lohush
[George Logush] announced this at a press conference.
In his words, during the next 12 months growth in prices is forecasted
at 5% due to constant growth in the prices of cocoa beans and cocoa
butter. "We have a complete cycle with respect to reprocessing cocoa
beans...This will affect us less...This will mainly affect those
enterprises, which are buying cocoa butter," said Lohush.
Lohush also noted that a trend is being observed in recent times that is
tilted towards reduction in demand for sweets that are sold by weight
with parallel growth in demand for chocolate and chocolate sticks.
As Ukrainian News has reported, Kraft Foods Ukraine launched
production of the 3Bit chocolate bar in late May at its chocolate factory
in Trostianets, and prior to this the company had imported the 3Bit
chocolate bars from its Lithuanian factory.
Kraft Foods Ukraine had upgraded its Siesta brand of waffle bars early
in the year by changing its weight and ingredients (it began producing bars
weighing 30 and 41 grams instead of bars weighing 20, 40, and 54 grams,
increased the percentage of chocolate in the product, and improved the
quality of the waffle sheets used in it).
Kraft Foods Ukraine produces Korona and Milka chocolate bars, Siesta
chocolate stick, Zustrich and Reverans candies, and other chocolate
products at its factory in Trostianets.
The segment of chocolate bars among the main segments of the
confectionery sector (chocolate sheet, sweets in boxes and chocolate
bars) is developing very strongly, and the market for this product will
grow more than 10% annually. The Kraft Foods Ukraine company
controls nearly 50% of the market for chocolate in Ukraine.
Kraft Foods Ukraine is a division of the Kraft Foods company, which
is the second largest producer of food products in the world.
Specialists estimate the annual size of the confectionery market at 1
million ton; specialists put the annual size of the chocolate market at
40,000-45,000 tons. -30- [Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service]
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4. BANKERS PETROLEUM IN CANADA TO INVEST UP TO
US$15 MILLION FOR STAKE IN TRANSEURO'S UKRAINE PROJECT
CP, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Tue Oct 12, 2004
CALGARY (CP) - Bankers Petroleum Ltd. has agreed to invest up to $15
million US in a subsidiary of Transeuro Energy Corp. which is developing an
oil and natural gas project on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
The funding, to be completed in stages within 18 months, will earn Bankers
an 80 per cent holding in the Transeuro operating subsidiary which owns a
72 per cent interest in the Kerch development.
The initial $2.5 million US is to be advanced after a 60-day due-diligence
period, Bankers said Tuesday, adding that it will immediately take control
of the subsidiary's board. Bankers will be the operator of the Crimean
properties, using Transeuro's field personnel.
In addition, Bankers will buy one-quarter of a $4-million-Cdn issue of
new shares by Transeuro, formerly Indusmin Energy Corp. The Kerch
project covers six oil, gas and condensate fields totalling 339 square
kilometres in the Crimean Peninsula.
Transeuro (TSXV:TSU) will use the proceeds of its private placement of
units - priced at 60 cents each and consisting of one share and half a share
purchase warrant - to fund additional Crimean project acquisitions and for
working capital.
For Bankers (TSXV:BNK), the Ukraine acquisition adds to its "strategy of
creating a diverse portfolio of oil and gas assets in and around the
European region with early production, with low geological risk, and with
opportunities to quickly increase and develop production from the large
reserves we acquire." -30- (The Action Ukraine Monitoring Service)
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5. GRAIN AND FEED TRADE ASSOCIATION (GAFTA) OPENS CIS
REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE IN KYIV, UKRAINE
AgriMarket.Info, APK-Inform Information Service
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Tue, Oct 12, 2004
KYIV - The Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA) [London] is
opening its CIS representative office in Kiev, General Director of the
Ukrainian Grain Association (UZA) Volodymyr Klimenko told APK-
Inform on Monday. The Ukrainian Grain Association is providing
assistance to GAFTA in opening the office.
"One of the main goals of GAFTA is to provide for civilised grain trade in
the CIS countries. Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan are playing increasingly
important role on the world grain market", Klimenko said. He said
GAFTA was going to attract into the Association new members, which
are the players on local grain markets. One of the main issues to which
the new representative office will direct its activities in the nearest time
is organisation of GAFTA Conference in Kiev, to be held in April 2005
in Kiev.
Klimenko said that the idea of opening the office came into life at a joint
sitting of GAFTA and UZA during the grain conference in 2003 and was
later approved by all the members of both organisations. "The accom-
modation [for the new office] is ready, the legal issues have been solved.
The office will be opened January 1", he said.
He said that while Ukrainian Grain Association was helping grain traders
protect their interest on Ukrainian internal market, GAFTA would be
providing assistance in development of civilised trade with other
countries. -30- (http://www.agrimarket.info) (TAURMS)
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FOOTNOTE: The Grain and Feed Trade Association is the only
worldwide trade association for the grain and feed industry. The
organization has been operating for many years and its headquarters
office is in London, UK with a second office in Beijing, China. The
association's website can be found at: http://www.gafta.com. [Editor]
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6. ELEVEN EU STATES URGE STRONGER TIES WITH UKRAINE
EU Business, Brussels, Belgium, Mon, 11 October 2004
BRUSSELS - Eleven European Union countries have called for stronger
relations with Ukraine and underscored the need for a more uniform EU
policy towards Russia, a diplomatic source said.
The nations from the north and east of the 25-nation bloc who met here
late Sunday agreed on "the need to develop contacts with Ukraine" and
that pro-European political forces in the country should be strengthened,
the source said.
Participants included the three Baltic states -- Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania -- northern EU members Denmark, Finland and Sweden, and
the four Visegrad Group countries of Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland
and Slovakia, plus Austria. The Visegrad Group is a political, cultural and
educational forum, set up in 1991.
Some countries were represented by their foreign ministers such as Poland
whose delegation was led by Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, a Polish diplomat
said. The talks which took the form of an informal dinner ahead of an EU
foreign ministers' meeting here Monday also agreed it necessary to give a
"European perspective to Ukraine" so that it moves closer to the EU.
And some countries called for a better common policy among EU states
on Russia, a source said. A number of participants said the "EU has not
been so good in having a common view on Russia", according to the source.
The next EU-Russia summit is scheduled to take place on November 11 in
The Hague. Link: http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/041011075219.kfbo9emg
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7. POLISH PARLIAMENTARIANS, NGO'S LOBBING IN EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT FOR UKRAINE
The EU is not speaking out on Ukrainian matters as firmly and as clearly
as is expected by Poland. Also present was Ukraine MP Oleh Rybachuk.
Source: PAP news agency, Warsaw, Poland, in Polish, 2 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tue, October 12, 2004
BRUSSELS - The presidential elections in Ukraine are an opportunity
for a change in the Ukrainian policy course and the EU cannot remain
indifferent in the face of this, Polish MEPs and representatives of
non-governmental organizations argued in Brussels on Tuesday
[12 October].
"The EU cannot remain indifferent in the face of the elections in Ukraine
and it must not be afraid of adopting a stance in the case of any
irregularities, because it is on the results of these elections that the
future of relations between Ukraine and the EU depends," said Jakub
Boratynski of the Batory Foundation, which was one of the organizers
of the debate.
The Batory Foundation, together with the International Relations Centre
[CSM] and Strategic Studies Institute [ISS], with which two Polish
MEPs are associated, Janusz Onyszkiewicz (of the Freedom Union -
UW) and Bogdan Klich (of the Civic Platform - PO), presented a report
on the situation inside Ukraine in the context of the elections that are
planned for 31 October. It states clearly that these elections are an
opportunity for a change in the course of Ukrainian policy.
"We would all like Ukraine to confirm its European aspirations,"
Onyszkiewicz said. In his view, both NATO entry and EU entry are aims
that are being questioned by the present prime minister of Ukraine, Viktor
Yanukovych, who is running in the elections. "I think that the option that
is being proposed by Yanukovych, that is closer cooperation with Russia
in the framework of a single economic area, precludes the possibility of
closer ties with the EU," he added.
Unfortunately, according to the Polish participants in the debate, the EU
is not speaking out on Ukrainian matters as firmly and as clearly as is
expected by Poland.
"Most of the deputies in the European Parliament treat Ukraine as being
like some Zanzibar in Eastern Europe. The intention of this meeting is to
present recommendations that MEPs can take advantage of when an official
European Parliament report is written," PAP was told by Bogdan Klich. "So
that they be able to adopt an appropriate stance," Onyszkiewicz added.
The participants in the debate spoke several times about the infringement
of standards during the election campaign in Ukraine. "These elections are
not being conducted in accordance with standards. Over and above issues
of criminality, such as various killings and the poisoning of (opposition
candidate Viktor) Yushchenko, access to the media is being hindered
and the entire state apparatus is acting in support of one candidate,"
Onyszkiewicz stated.
He also said that even if the elections take place "without reservations in
the sense of the counting of the vote", the question will arise of whether
or not to recognize them. Here the EU has a task before it.
"It is important to react to all manifestations of the breaking of the
democratic principles of elections," Klich said. In his view, before it
publishes its report the European Parliament should issue a resolution
immediately after the completion of the elections in Ukraine.
Around 50 people took part in the debate organized at the headquarters
of the European Parliament, mostly MEPs. Also present was Oleh
Rybachuk, a collaborator of Viktor Yushchenko. No representative of
Viktor Yanukovych took advantage of an invitation.
The commitment of the Poles to Ukrainian matters was acknowledged by
Charles Tannock, a British MEP from the European People's Party. "The
subject matter of Ukraine has appeared very strongly in the European
Parliament with the entry of Poland into the EU," he said.
Tannock is to be one of the European Parliament observers during the
course of the elections in Ukraine. Filip Adwent (of the League of Polish
Families - LPR) and Marek Siwiec (of the Democratic Left Alliance -
SLD) will also be travelling to Kiev. The latter was selected on Monday
[11 October] as the head of the EU delegation for relations with Ukraine.
[The Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service -Kyiv)
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8. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE YANUKOVYCH
PROMISES TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRAVEL TO RUSSIA
Tells authorities to control prices, meeting of law enforcement officers
Source: One Plus One TV, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 12 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tue, October 12, 2004
KIEV - [Presenter] Ukraine and Russia have agreed to cancel a decision
under which only bearers of foreign passports will be allowed to cross the
border, a simplified procedure for crossing the Ukrainian-Russian border
will be put in place early next year and a joint group of experts is
currently drafting necessary documents, [Ukrainian] Prime Minister Viktor
Yanukovych has said. Today was a second day of his visit to Kharkiv
Region. Let us recall that Yanukovych discussed this with his Russian
counterpart in Moscow last week.
[Correspondent] Viktor Yanukovych started the second day of his visit to
Kharkiv Region at the Ukrainian-Russian border. At the Hoptivka border
checkpoint, the prime minister was shown plans for constructing an
international airport. The two bordering regions, Kharkiv and [Russia's]
Belgorod, are planning to construct it on the border between the two states.
Yanukovych liked the project and ordered relevant paperwork to be
prepared. Also there, Yanukovych told border guards that he thought the
current procedure of crossing the border was complicated and often
humiliating for citizens, and that it had to be simplified.
[Yanukovych] Joint Russian-Ukrainian groups are currently working to
work these documents and this procedure out. Probably, in the near future
[changes tack] I would like us to work out this simplified regime this year,
and work in 2005 according to the option you have worked out.
[Correspondent] After Hoptivka, the prime minister paid a visit to the
museum and tomb of Hryhoriy Skovoroda. The world-famous philosopher
lived in this house during the years immediately before his death. He is
buried nearby.
Outside the museum, Skovorodynivka residents were awaiting the prime
minister. Talking to them, Yanukovych declared war on price increases,
which he thinks are baseless. Fraudulent businessmen are taking advantage
of the fact that people have more money after wages and pensions have
been raised, he said.
[Yanukovych] I am addressing Yevhen Petrovych [Kushnaryov, Kharkiv
Region governor] and the local authorities. As they say, don't look [a gift
horse] in the mouth. Deal with profitability and margins. You have all the
levers of influence. Whatever assistance you need, I will provide it to you.
I am demanding this. I will convene a meeting of law-enforcement officers
this Thursday [14 October] and task them with finding out in all the regions
what the grounds were and why they started to raise wages. [Passage
omitted: Yanukovych presents computers to a local school, praised
by locals] -30- [The Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service -Kyiv]
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9. MEDIA EXPERTS SAY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE/PM VIKTOR
YANUKOVYCH DOMINATES THE MARKET IN TELEVISION
NEWS IN MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tue, October 12, 2004
KYIV - Experts with the Ukrainian Press Academy and the Ukrainian
Academy of Science's Sociology Institute have said that presidential
candidate/Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych was the most frequently
mentioned politician in television news programs in September.
The experts based their judgment on the result of the relevant news
analyses conducted by the Ukrainian Press Academy and the Ukrainian
Academy of Science's Sociology Institute, a text of which Ukrainian
News obtained.
As was the case in August, Yanukovych was the most frequently
mentioned politician in September, ahead of President Leonid Kuchma.
According to the results of the monitoring, 20.2% of all political news
was about Yanukovych while 15.7% was about Kuchma.
According to the results, 9.8% of news was dedicated to the Our
Ukraine coalition's leader and presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko
while 9.3% was dedicated to Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn.
At the same time, one in every three news report about Yuschenko was
negative or ironic.
"Yushchenko is the leader in terms of negative or ironic representation on
the leading Ukrainian television channels," the report on the monitoring
states.
Yanukovych's sound bites in television news programs totaled 654 seconds
in September. Yushchenko's sound bites totaled 19 seconds in September
(there was none during the first week of the month). The experts monitored
48 news bulletins (763 news reports) television stations during the
September 6-11 period.
The analyzed the TSN news program on the 1+1 television station,
Podrobnosti on the Inter television station, news programs on the UT-1
television station, Reporter on the Novyi Kanal television station, Fakty on
the ICTV television station, Vikna on the STB television station, Sobytia
on the TRK Ukraina television station, and Chas on the Channel 5 television
station.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, experts with the Ukrainian Press
Academy and the Ukrainian Academy of Science's Sociology Institute also
named Yanukovych as the most frequently mentioned politician in television
news bulletins in August. According to them, 22.8% of all the political news
reports in August were about Yanukovych.
Experts with the Ukrainian Press Academy and the Ukrainian Academy of
Science's Sociology Institute also named Yanukovych as the most frequently
mentioned politician in television news bulletins in the June-July period.
Experts with the Ukrainian Press Academy and the Ukrainian Academy of
Science's Sociology Institute named Kuchma and Yanukovych as the most
frequently mentioned politicians in television news bulletins in May. -30-
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10.UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
PRESENTS PACKAGE OF FIVE DRAFT SOCIAL DECREES
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 12 Oct 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tue, Oct 12, 2004
KIEV --- Presidential candidate and [opposition] Our Ukraine bloc
leader Viktor Yushchenko today initialed five draft decrees, which he
promises to sign immediately after he is elected president.
The FIRST draft decree "On priority measures to enhance the social
security of Ukrainian citizens" foresees the establishment in 2005 of a new
subsistence minimum of 423 hryvnyas [about 80 dollars] (the current level
is 382 hryvnyas), the candidate's central headquarters reports.
According to the decree, the legally defined minimum wage and pension
cannot be lower than the subsistence minimum (the minimum wage is
currently 237 hryvnyas).
The SECOND draft decree "On urgent measures to ensure the return of
citizens' lost (devalued) savings" foresees a substantial increase in the
corresponding payments in 2005. It also foresees inclusion in the budget
of additional funds that were not received from privatization of important
enterprises in 2004 and the use of these funds to compensate the lost
savings. In particular, this refers to such plants as Kryvorizhstal
[steelworks which was sold to tycoons Rinat Akhmetov and Viktor
Pinchuk in a controversial tender in June for a price said to be lower than
other bidders were offering].
The decree also foresees that unplanned budget revenues and 50 per cent
of proceeds from privatization will go towards these purposes. In addition,
under the decree, the state will acknowledge the lost savings as state debt
that must be returned to people.
The draft decree [three] "On increasing the one-time benefit for the birth
of children" foresees increasing this benefit more than 10-fold. The size
of this benefit will be calculated on the basis of the new increased
subsistence minimum and will be 8,460 hryvnyas (now 725 hryvnyas).
The decree [four] "On criteria for assessment of the activity of heads of
local administrations" foresees that one of the criteria for this will be
the number of jobs created in the region. Among the other criteria
according to which the activity of local administrations will be judged
are the rate of growth of people's real incomes, birth and death rates,
average life expectancy, trends in migration, rates of growth in industrial
and agricultural output, volumes of internal and external investment in the
economy. The decree also foresees that the heads of local administrations
will report quarterly on these indicators, on the basis of which Yushchenko
plans to take personnel decisions.
These four decrees make up a so-called social package. In addition [five],
Yushchenko plans to sign a decree "On reducing the term of military
service", which foresees reducing the term from 18 months to one year, and
to nine months for graduates of educational institutions. The decree also
foresees that the Ukrainian army will be entirely professional from 2010. It
is stated that the decree will apply to those young persons who are called
up this autumn. -30- [The Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service]
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11. MP OLEKSANDR ZINCHENKO SAYS MAIN THREAT TO
NATIONAL SECURITY ARE ACTIONS BY THE GOVERNMENT AND
POLITICAL FORCES THAT RULE PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION
Press service of Victor Yushchenko's central headquarters
Our Ukraine Website www.razom.org.ua, Kyiv, Wed, Oct 13, 2004
KYIV - Oleksandr Zinchenko, the vice speaker of the Verkhovna Rada,
the head of Victor Yushchenko's election campaign, is "ready to come to
the session of The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
(NSDCU) and provide facts that prove that the main threat to national
security is caused by the actions of the executive government and of
political forces that officially rule the Presidential Administration and
Yanukovych's headquarters as well as by some parties of the so-called
parliamentary-government coalition."
"If the president," continued Zinchenko, "wanted to be known as a person
that ensured the peaceful transfer of power, he still has time to reverse
some dangerous tendencies."
Zinchenko reminded that Yushchenko has been demanding that NSDCU
react to some events connected to the electoral campaign for a long time.
Moreover, representatives of his team and he have already turned to the
offices of Prosecutor General, MIA, and SSU on similar issues. "Neither
of those institutions has reacted to our appeals properly and we are not
surprised because the country needs to be defended from some of the
members of NSDCU," said Zinchenko. Zinchenko provided plenty of
evidence to his words in an open letter to NSDCU.
"The most dangerous," he thinks, "are the actions of the government and
of the pro-government pawn-politicos that raise the threat of conflicts in
the spheres of ethnic and interdenominational relations, that rouse
international hostilities, language and interdenominational intolerance."
Zinchenko accused Yanukovych's team of "using an egg that hit its candidate
for provoking enmities between Eastern and Western Ukraine, for inflating
the mythical nationalist threat."
"Over the last few weeks," declared Zinchenko, "other events that prove
that Victor Yanukovych and his team are attempting to bring to the center
of social attention topics that aim to undermine the existing balanced
policies in the spheres of language and faith have also taken place, which
may lead to unforeseen consequences and to sudden escalation relations
between language and religious groups."
Zinchenko warned UT-1, "Inter," and "1+1" television channels that broad-
cast political advertisement of the "subsidiary candidates that rouses
ethnic, racial, and religious enmities" about the responsibility they bear.
"Thus," Zinchenko thinks, "the channels are violating the Constitution, law,
and licensing conditions."
Oleksandr Zinchenko demands "detailed information concerning the
re-deployment of troops, supposedly connected to the holiday parade on
28 October, and about widespread assignments to Kyiv for members of
MIA from various oblasts, particularly from Donetsk."
Moreover, according to Zinchenko, "representatives of various regional
organized crime groups are being sent to Kyiv in order to block the CEC
on 31 October along with masked law-enforcers or to engage in hooligan
actions in the name of Yushchenko's supporters. The same militia-criminal
groups are also planning provocations for rallies in support of Yushchenko,
planned for October 16 and 23."
"For provoking threats to national security or for being indulgent with
those that cause those threats," Oleksandr Zinchenko suggests that
President Kuchma dismiss the headships of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and the Security Service of Ukraine, the president's chief of staff, as well
as submit a petition to the Verkhovna Rada for dismissing the Prosecutor
General. -30- [The Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service -Kyiv]
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12. "PUTIN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION USED TO INFLUENCE
UKRAINE'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION"
Kuchma and Yanukovych already celebrating with Putin
COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS by Vladimir Socor
Eurasia Daily Monitor, Volume 1, Issue 103
The Jamestown Foundation, Washington, D.C., Tue, Oct 12, 2004
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov
received their Ukrainian counterparts, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor
Yanukovych, on October 9 at the Novo-Ogarevo residence near Moscow.
Ostensibly a private affair to celebrate Putin's birthday, it was used for
Putin's ringing public endorsement of Yanukovych's candidacy in Ukraine's
October 31 presidential election.
Televised coverage of the meeting targeted primarily the Russia-oriented
electorate in populous eastern Ukraine, demonstrating the Kremlin's support
for the Kuchma-Yanukovych presidential succession scenario (which
Kremlin operatives have helped devise against the most popular candidate,
Viktor Yushchenko). Putin kissed the Ukrainian president, then the anointed
successor, declaring, "Russia is not indifferent to the choice that the
people of Ukraine will make . . . We particularly treasure all that
President Kuchma has done in laying the basis for the development of
Russian-Ukrainian relations. The future of relations depends on how
Ukraine's leadership will build its policy toward Russia."
Speaking to journalists during the meeting, Yanukovych reaffirmed that
introducing dual Ukrainian-Russian citizenship in Ukraine and official
status for the Russian language are among the goals in his party's program
and in his own program as presidential candidate. Yanukovych has also
come out for a policy of non-alignment, which would reverse Ukraine's
current course toward eventual NATO membership.
Similarly, Ukraine's goal of joining the World Trade Organization is now
being superseded by an orientation toward Russia. Yanukovych and
Fradkov announced that a common Russian-Ukrainian stance on the terms
of joining the WTO would be worked out by December, "taking into
account the requirements of forming the Single Economic Space [SES,
Russia-Ukraine-Belarus-Kazakhstan] and a Russia-Ukraine free trade
zone [space]." Fradkov continued vaguely and somewhat ominously,
"We need to protect ourselves against dishonest competition from third
parties."
These stated intentions need not be taken entirely at face value. An
existing, decade-old Russia-Ukraine free trade agreement has been
eviscerated by unilateral Russian exemptions for major product goods,
prompting Ukraine at times to retaliate within its limited resources.
Removal of those exemptions is a long-standing Ukrainian demand at
summits with Russia. Even the October 9 love fest conformed to the
attern in this regard. Significantly, Yanukovych alone raised that issue
publicly, calling for an agreement to be finalized by December on lifting
such exemptions.
While boasting of a spectacular 35-37% growth in trade turnover,
Yanukovych did not clarify whether the figure applied to Ukraine's trade
with Russia, with the SES countries, or with CIS countries; he was also
vague about the period of reference (Russian Television Channel One,
RTR Russia TV, Itar-Tass, Interfax, Ukrainian Television Channel One,
October 9).
Russian authorities at various levels are aiding Yanukovych's presidential
bid. On October 8 in Moscow, the authorities helped sponsor a congress of
ethnic Ukrainian associations in Russia, which called on Ukrainian citizens
residing in Russia to vote for Yanukovych. However, some influential ethnic
Ukrainian societies in Russia boycotted the congress and afterward issued a
statement distancing themselves from it. On October 9 Yulia Tymoshenko,
one of the main Ukrainian opposition leaders, rebutted corruption
accusations leveled against her publicly by Russia's Main Military
Prosecutor's Office.
That Office had recently announced that a Moscow court has issued an arrest
warrant against Tymoshenko and asked Interpol to place her on the
international wanted list for declining to answer a subpoena from Moscow.
Bribery charges against her, dating from the 1990s, were never proven and
were part of a corruption scandal in Russia's Defense Ministry at that time.
Tymoshenko told an October 9 electoral rally that the sudden resurrection of
those charges was a purely political move, arranged in Moscow by Kuchma's
presidential administration chief Viktor Medvedchuk to damage the Ukrainian
opposition's campaign (UNIAN, Interfax, October 8, 9).
Kremlin endorsement of favored Ukrainian candidates and "parties of power"
has been a routine feature of Ukraine's elections since 1994. In this
presidential election, however, the situation differs from those precedents
in at least two key respects. First, the Kremlin and the incumbent Ukrainian
president have prepared a scenario envisaging the handover of power to a
designated successor, so as to thwart the free and fair election of a
Ukrainian president -- in this case Yushchenko.
Second, Moscow and its supporters in Ukraine are capitalizing on frustration
with the continuing failure by the European Union, WTO, and NATO to signal
clearly that their doors are open to Ukraine. The lack of such signals has
weakened the Western-oriented elements in the governing establishment and
now reduces the chances of Ukraine's pro-Western opposition in the electoral
campaign. (http://www.jamestown.org) -30- [TAURMS - Wash)
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FOOTNOTE: Vladimir Socor, a senior fellow and long-time senior analyst
with the Jamestown Foundation, formerly a senior research analyst with
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, is a specialist in the non-
Russian former republics of the USSR, CIS affairs and ethnic conflicts.
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13. "THE KREMLIN GOES FOR YANUKOVYCH"
COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS: By Jan Maksymiuk
RFE/RL Belarus and Ukraine Report, Vol. 6, No. 37
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
Prague, Czech Republic, Tuesday, 12 October 2004
PRAGUE, Czech Republic ---Last week Ukrainian Prime Minister
Viktor Yanukovych conducted his presidential election campaign in
Moscow. On 8 October Yanukovych attended a forum of Russia's
Ukrainian diaspora in Moscow, and the following day he and Ukrainian
President Leonid Kuchma met with Russian President Vladimir Putin for
a well-publicized celebration of Putin's 52nd birthday. Both
meetings were intended to unambiguously suggest to both Russian and
Ukrainian television viewers that the Kremlin's sympathy in the
31 October presidential ballot in Ukraine is with Yanukovych and no
one else.
The Ukrainian diaspora congress in Moscow on 8 October was
attended by more than 1,200 delegates from Ukrainian organizations in
the Russian Federation. According to a 2002 census, there are nearly
3 million Ukrainians in Russia. It is not clear how many of them have
Ukrainian citizenship and may vote in the Ukrainian elections on 31
October. But some signals suggest that it is a considerable number,
and votes from Russia's Ukrainians may even be decisive for the
anticipated tight race between Yanukovych and his main rival, Viktor
Yushchenko. Ukrainian media reported in mid-September that more
than 560,000 Ukrainian citizens living in Russia signed Yanukovych's
presidential-candidate support lists.
Yanukovych told cheering delegates at the congress what they
wanted to hear from him; namely, that he will seek to give Russian
the official-language status in Ukraine and introduce dual
citizenship. Yanukovych also promised that Ukraine under his
leadership will not join NATO, even if Kyiv will continue to
develop cooperation with the alliance.
The congress adopted a resolution urging Ukrainian citizens
both in Russia and Ukraine to support Yanukovych as the only
presidential candidate who is able "to unite our country and society"
as well as one who "guarantees the maintenance of Ukraine's
economic growth" [and] "good-neighborly relations with Russia." The
congress -- which was attended by top Russian officials, including
Federation Council Chairman Sergei Mironov, Duma Deputy Chairman
Sergei Baburin, presidential-administration chief Dmitrii Medvedev,
and Moscow Mayor Yurii Luzhkov -- was widely publicized by
Russian and Ukrainian media.
The following day, before meeting with Putin, Yanukovych and
his Russian counterpart Mikhail Fradkov worked on an economic
component of the Kremlin's election support for the Ukrainian
prime minister. In August, Moscow already made a significant
concession to Kyiv by agreeing to cancel the value-added tax (VAT)
on oil and gas exports to Ukraine. As of 1 January, VAT on Russian
oil and gas exports will be collected according to the country-of-
destination principle, which will contribute some $800 million
annually to Ukraine's budget.
Fradkov reportedly promised Yanukovych that both countries
will soon sign a schedule for removing any restrictions on mutual
free trade. Fradkov specified that "soon" means "after the Ukrainian
presidential elections," thus hinting that such an accord hinges on
their results. In particular, Russia is reportedly ready to lift
quotas on Ukrainian exports of sugar as of 2007 and alcohol as of
2012.
In addition, Fradkov and Yanukovych reportedly agreed to
introduce "simplified regulations" for crossing the Ukrainian-Russian
border by their citizens as of 1 January. It is not clear what such a
simplification may mean in practice, especially as in the wake of the
hostage tragedy in Beslan, Moscow signaled that those regulations
will be tightened and, as of 2005, all CIS citizens will be allowed
into the Russian Federation only with foreign-travel passports.
However, the main display of the Kremlin's benevolence
toward Yanukovych was reserved for the evening of 9 October, when
he and Kuchma met with Putin in the Russian president's residence in
Novo-Ogarevo near Moscow. "We will respect any choice by the
Ukrainian people but, of course, we are not indifferent to it,"
"Vremya novostei" quoted Putin as saying. And Putin elaborated on
which choice by the Ukrainian people would be closer to his heart.
"The people of Ukraine should decide whether positive tendencies are
consolidated in economic development," Putin said. "All that was laid
down by President Kuchma [served as] the foundation for the
development of Russian-Ukrainian relations. It is especially dear to
us. The future of Russian-Ukrainian relations will depend on how the
Ukrainian leadership builds its course [toward Russia]."
"Kommersant-Daily" reported that during the meeting with the
Russian president, Yanukovych, in violation of protocol and for
apparent media purposes, sat next to Putin rather than opposite him.
"The sum does not change if its items change their places," Kuchma
commented on the situation. "I hope so," Putin responded. "Mr. Putin
wanted to say that Ukraine will not lose anything...if Mr. Yanukovych
becomes its president," the daily explained this exchange in an
article titled "Tuning a Successor." -30-
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NOTE: The "RFE/RL Belarus and Ukraine Report" is prepared by Jan
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by "RFE/RL Newsline" and RFE/RL's broadcast services. It is
distributed every Tuesday. Direct comments to Jan Maksymiuk at
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14. "VETERANS' FURY OVER THE PILLAGE OF CRIMEA'S
BLOODIED BATTLEFIELDS IN UKRAINE"
Charge of the Light Brigade war relics illegally dug up and sold
By Jeremy Page in Sebastopol and David Lister
TimesOnLine, London, UK, Tuesday, October 12, 2004
SEBASTOPOL, Crimea, Ukraine - ARMY veterans expressed outrage
yesterday at the discovery by The Times of an increasingly lucrative trade
in relics plundered from one of the most famous battlefields in British
military history. Just two weeks before the 150th anniversary of the Charge
of the Light Brigade, the Royal British Legion expressed deep concern at
the plunder of relics from that site which are then sold illegally to
foreign tourists and collectors for up to $400 (£225) an item.
Other Crimean war battlefields, and sometimes even the graves of more
than 20,000 British troops killed in that conflict, are also being pillaged,
The Times has discovered. “However old the graves may be, any soldier,
whatever nationality, deserves to rest undisturbed on the battlefield where
he has fallen,” said Jeremy Lillies, spokesman for the Royal British Legion.
“It’s a terrible thing if that is happening, and the fact that the 150th
anniversary is coming up makes it especially poignant,” said Captain Gary
Locker, regimental secretary of the Light Dragoons which incorporates the
old 13th Light Dragoons who were at the forefront of the charge. “It’s like
all battlefields. We expect them to be left in perpetuity.”
To the passing visitor, the Valley of Death could not look more peaceful.
Vineyards and wild flowers cover the ground where the Light Brigade
charged into the mouth of hell. A passenger train rattles gently between the
hills from which the Russian cannons volleyed and thundered on the 600.
But 150 years after the slaughter immortalised by Alfred Lord Tennyson,
this tranquil spot has become a new battleground between local authorities,
historians, collectors and veterans over the treasure trove of relics lying
beneath the sandy soil.
Thousands of regimental badges and buttons, belt buckles and bayonets
were buried alongside the estimated 750,000 soldiers killed when British,
French, Italian and Turkish troops fought the Russians for control of this
Black Sea peninsula.
Excavating the relics is, in theory, restricted to a handful of licensed
local collectors. Taking them out of the country is technically illegal. In
reality unlicensed locals with metal detectors continue to dig for relics
from the siege of Sebastopol and the battles of Alma, Balaklava and
Inkerman.
“The British buy the most,” says Zina, who runs a stall outside the
Panorama Museum in Sevastopol. “I don’t know how they take them
out of the country, but I imagine they smuggle them in their luggage.”
Zina, who asked to be identified only by her first name, openly displays a
selection of regimental buttons, coins, bullets and tobacco pipes that she
says were sold to her by local children. The more expensive memorabilia —
belt buckles, cap badges and rare buttons — are sold behind closed doors.
The problem is that Ukrainian Customs and police lack the resources and
the inclination to crack down on the trade. And foreign buyers have no way
to check whether a relic was unearthed by accident in the foundations of a
new house, or looted from a grave.
“I’ve seen incidents of graves having been robbed,” said Patrick Mercer,
the Tory MP for Newark and a Crimean War historian. “Most of the dead
were not buried in cemeteries, but in shallow graves.” Alan Rooney, the
managing director of Midas Tours, which runs battlefield trips to the
region, says that the Ukrainians are merely “catching up”.
“They’re new to the game of battlefield tourism because Sebastopol was a
closed city ten years ago. I’ve heard of graves being plundered but maybe
this is all more visible at the moment because they’re so aware of the 150th
anniversary.”
Some foreign collectors argue that they are simply retrieving national
property, but local historians say that the relics should be used to boost
Crimea’s fledgeling tourist industry. Pavel Lyashuk, a curator of the
Panorama Museum, has opened an exhibition of relics, including crockery,
domino pieces, a Schweppes soda water bottle, a can of Fortnum and
Mason boiled beef, and a French sardine tin.
“There is no war in this exhibition — only the lives of the people who lived
on both sides,” Mr Lyashuk explains. “These relics illustrate the lives of
the average people.” He says that in Soviet times there was no market for
the relics, and only children used to collect them. But soon after the
Soviet Union’s collapse, the first foreign collectors arrived. A hat badge
would go for about £2.80, a gold sovereign for £28.
Prices have soared as many of the rarer items have been dug up and taken
overseas. Under the law, licensed excavators must offer finds to the museum.
But it cannot compete with prices on the open market. A rare gilt button can
fetch up to $50. A bayonet might sell for $100. And a Royal Marine cap
badge — one of the rarest — could go for as much as $400.
“Picking up a musket ball off the ground is legitimate, I think,” said Mr
Mercer. “But you have to draw a line at robbing the country blind.” -30-
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THE CONFLICT
The Charge of the Light Brigade took place on October 15, 1854, during
the Crimean War. Britain, France and Turkey declared war on Russia after
her 1854 invasion of Dubroja in Romania. The allies wanted to stop Russian
encroachment into the Ottoman Empire
The charge took place during the battle at Balaclava, which lies near
Sebastopol. Lord Lucan gave the order to Lord Cardigan to lead a British
charge down from the nearby causeway heights, to where the Russians were
taking British guns. The result was a massacre. Nearly 400 of the 673 men
who charged down the valley were killed or captured. 500 horses died
British and Russians were moved by the heroism of the British soldiers.
General Liprandi told his English PoWs: “You are noble fellows.” In England,
Tennyson’s poem immortalised “the noble 600” -30- (TAURMS-Kyiv)
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