"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT - AUR"
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"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT - AUR" - Number 528
Mr. E. Morgan Williams, Publisher and Editor
morganw@patriot.net, ArtUkraine.com@starpower.net
Washington, D.C. and Kyiv, Ukraine, FRIDAY, July 22, 2005

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"Major International News Headlines and Articles"

1. JAPAN AND UKRAINE AGREE ON UN AND WTO ISSUES
Ukraine co-sponsors G-4's UN resolution
Kyodo News Service, Tokyo, Japan, Thu, Jul 21, 2005

2. JAPAN, UKRAINE LEADERS CALL FOR UN REFORM,
INCREASED BILATERAL TRADE, INVESTMENT IN UKRAINE
Japan supports accession of Ukraine to the World Trade Organization
Associated Press (AP), Tokyo, Japan, Thu, July 21, 2005 .

3. PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO SEEKS CORPORATE INVESTORS
FOR UKRAINE, SAYS JAPAN'S INVESTMENT IN UKRAINE IS TOO SMALL
Ruslana Moskalenko reporting from Tokyo
ICTV television, Kiev, in Ukrainian 1645 gmt 21 Jul 05
BBC Monitoring Service. UK, in English, Thu, Jul 21, 2005

4. PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE AND JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER SIGN
JOINT STATEMENT ON NEW PARTNERSHIP IN 21ST CENTURY
Ukrinform, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thu, July 21, 2005

5. PRESIDENT VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO STATES NEED TO DRAFT
CONCEPT OF STOCK MARKET IN UKRAINE
Ukrinform, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thu, July 21, 2005

6. UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO LOOKS INTO LOCAL
TRADITIONS OF BEEKEEPING IN JAPAN
Yushchenko has been keen on beekeeping since childhood
Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thu, July 21, 2005

7. THE END OF "COLORED REVOLUTIONS" AND "STAGLUTION"
In Ukraine, the "Orange Revolution" appears to have been
completely squeezed of its once inspiring appeal
OPINION: By Peter Lavelle
RIA Novosti Political Commentator
RIA Novosti, Moscow, Russia, Wed, July 20, 2005

8. UKRAINIANS LAMENT SLOW PACE OF CHANGE
Victor Yuschenko's supporters are hanging on to their president - for now
By Christiane Hoffmann (dc), Deutsche Welle
Bonn, Germany, Wed, July 20, 2005

9. FIVE CORE PRINCIPLES FOR THE WORLD'S REFORMERS
OP-ED: By Mikheil Saakashvili, Financial Times
London, UK, Thursday, May 26, 2005

10. AEROSVIT TAKES DELIVERY OF IT'S 12TH BOEING 737
Aerosvit is Ukraine's largest commercial air carrier
Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thu, July 21, 2005

11. UKRAINIAN PM SETS GOVERNORS TASKS, PROMISES SUPPORT
Zynchenko, state secretary of the Ukrainian president, also attends
Ukrayina TV, Donetsk, in Russian 1800 gmt 21 Jul 05
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thu, July 21, 2005

12. UKRAINIAN-ISRAELI ECONOMIC AGREEMENT SIGNED
Arutz Sheve, IsraelNationalNews.com
Beit El, Israel, Wed, 20 Jul 2005

13. SENIOR UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS URGED TO PROMOTE LOW-COST
AND NO-COST WAYS TO SAVE ENERGY IN INDUSTRY,
TRANSPORTATION, AND HOMES AS AN
ALTERNATIVE TO COSTLY GAS AND OIL IMPORTS
Ukrainian-American Environmental Association
Rivne, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 20, 2005

14. UKRAINIAN TYCOON ACCUSES NEW GOVT OF PURSUING HIM
Associated Press (AP), Kiev, Ukraine, Thu, July 21, 2005

15. SECRET TAPES COULD BLAME EX-PRESIDENT OVER KILLING
By Natasha Lisova in Kiev, The Scotsman
Scotland's National Newspaper Online
Edinburgh/Glasgow, Scotland, Thu, July 21, 2005

16. UKRAINIAN OLGA KAPRANOVA TAKES GOLD, SILVER AND
BRONZE AT RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS COMPETITION
CP, Duisberg, Germany, Thu, July 21, 2005

17. SVETLANA ZAKHAROVA: ABANDONING HERSELF TO DANCE
A Young Ballerina Learns to Walk Through Open Doors
Svetlana is now a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow
She lived in Lutsk, Ukraine, began her training at the Kiev ballet school
By Gia Kourlas, The New York Times
New York, NY, Thursday, July 21, 2005
International Herald Tribune (IHT), Europe, Fri, July 22, 2005

18. LECTURE: "BANDITS, SLAVES, AND 'FAIRY TALE' REVOLUTION:
CITIZENSHIP PRACTICES IN UKRAINIAN SCHOOLS BEFORE
AND AFTER THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS"
Monday, August 1, Harvard University
Lecture by Anna Fournier
Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July 21, 2005

19. SECOND NO-TILL AGRICULTURE 2005 CONFERENCE
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, August 17-20, 2005
Neonila Martyniuk, Agro-Soyuz Farm
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
The Action Ukraine Report (AUR), No. 528
Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, July 22, 2005

20. RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH RETURNS ICON TOP KAZAN
Says there is broad proselytizing by the Roman Catholic Church
on the territory of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan
Associated Press (AP), Moscow, Russia, Thu, July 21, 2005

21. TOYS BOUND FOR UKRAINE FROM AUSTRALIA
Bayside Bulletin/Redland Times
Cleveland, Queensland, Australia, Friday, 22 July 2005

22. LVIV - CITY OF MANY ARCHITECTURAL STYLES,
COFFEE HOUSES AND ANCIENT SPIRITS
By Oles Ilchenko: Reflections on the City of Lviv
Serhiy Tarasov: Photographs of Lviv
Welcome to Ukraine magazine,
Kyiv, Ukraine, Issue 2 (33), 2005
The Action Ukraine Report (AUR), #528
Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, July 22, 2005
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1. JAPAN AND UKRAINE AGREE ON UN AND WTO ISSUES
Ukraine co-sponsors G-4's UN resolution

Kyodo News Service, Tokyo, Japan, Thu, Jul 21, 2005

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Ukrainian
President Viktor Yushchenko agreed Thursday to enhance cooperation
to realize the expansion of the U.N. Security Council, the two leaders said.

Koizumi and Yushchenko, after their meeting in Tokyo, expressed
determination that their countries work together for "the expansion of both
the permanent and nonpermanent membership of the U.N. Security Council
as cosponsors" of a U.N. resolution to that end.

Brazil, Germany, India and Japan compiled the reform resolution and
presented it to the U.N. General Assembly earlier this month. Ukraine was
one of 23 cosponsoring countries.

The four countries calling themselves the Group of Four want to enlarge the
Security Council with six new permanent members and four additional
nonpermanent members. They envisage that one of the four new non-
permanent members will represent Eastern Europe.

Koizumi told a joint press conference after the talks, "I thanked the
president for the country's cosponsoring" the G-4's resolution.
Yushchenko said, "Ukraine is ready to be a good partner of Japan in East
Asia and Europe."

He also reiterated that his country backs Japan's bid to win a permanent
Security Council seat and that "its economic power is commensurate with
the status" in a lecture he gave earlier in the day.

Earlier Thursday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk told Japanese
Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura in a meeting that Ukraine will extend
"active support as an informal leader" of Eastern European countries so that
the reform resolution will clear the General Assembly.

Koizumi and Yushchenko also "welcomed" the conclusion of bilateral
negotiations between Japan and Ukraine needed for Ukraine's accession
to the World Trade Organization. Ukraine is one of the countries seeking to
join the WTO by the end of this year.

A country that wants to become a WTO member needs to conclude bilateral
negotiations with WTO members over trade issues as well as multilateral
accession talks at the WTO headquarters.

Koizumi and Yushchenko agreed that the six-party talks on North Korea's
nuclear ambitions "should lead to the complete dismantling of North Korea's
nuclear program subject to credible international verification."

The six-party talks involving China, Japan, North and South Korea, Russia
and the United States are to resume Tuesday after a 13-month hiatus.
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2. JAPAN, UKRAINE LEADERS CALL FOR UN REFORM,
INCREASED BILATERAL TRADE, INVESTMENT IN UKRAINE
Japan supports accession of Ukraine to the World Trade Organization

Associated Press (AP), Tokyo, Japan, Thu, July 21, 2005 .

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Ukrainian
President Viktor Yushchenko pledged to cooperate on issues including
U.N. reform and trade that would bring more high-profile international roles
for both countries.

In a joint statement released after their meeting, the two leaders expressed
support for reforming the U.N. into a more representative world body,
including expanding the Security Council to include a permanent seat for
Japan and an additional non-permanent seat for an Eastern European
country. They said such changes would help strengthen the U.N.'s
"effectiveness, credibility and legitimacy."

Japan also expressed support for the early accession of Ukraine to the
World Trade Organization. The two countries have concluded bilateral
negotiations - a necessary step the Eastern European country needs to
take with WTO members in its bid to join the trade body.

They also pledged to deepen bilateral trade by improving the investment
environment in the Ukraine for businesses in Japan, the world's
second-largest economy.

Both Japan and Ukraine have sent troops to Iraq, and the two leaders
expressed appreciation for each other's efforts toward the country's
reconstruction, saying that security in Iraq and the Mideast is
indispensable for the peace and stability of the world.

Japan has about 500 troops on a non-combat, humanitarian mission in
southern Iraq helping to rebuild infrastructure. Ukraine has begun a phased
pullout of a 1,650-person contingent helping provide security and train
Iraqi security forces that is expected to be completed by the end of the
year.

Yushchenko, who is on a four-day trip in Japan, is set to meet with Emperor
Akihito on Friday and visit Hiroshima's atomic bomb memorial before
leaving on Saturday, according to Japan's Foreign Ministry.

Yushchenko came to power after last year's Orange Revolution with promises
to improve the standard of living and strengthen the rule of law in Ukraine.
He also is seeking to create a bigger role for Ukraine in the international
community. -30- [The Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service]
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3. PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO SEEKS CORPORATE INVESTORS
FOR UKRAINE, SAYS JAPAN'S INVESTMENT IN UKRAINE IS TOO SMALL

Ruslana Moskalenko reporting from Tokyo
ICTV television, Kiev, in Ukrainian 1645 gmt 21 Jul 05
BBC Monitoring Service. UK, in English, Thu, Jul 21, 2005

KIEV - [Presenter] It looks like the President Viktor Yushchenko may succeed
in bringing 1bn dollars in investments from Japan, as he planned. Japanese
corporations are ready to invest money in our economy, but they are waiting
for stability.

Ukraine and Japan have already signed a protocol on access to markets for
goods and services, which will help us join the WTO. Our special
correspondent Ruslana Moskalenko reports on other agreements from Tokyo.

[Correspondent] President Viktor Yushchenko's visit to Japan is taking place
under the sign of arranging economic cooperation. Kiev was hoping for a lot
from the negotiations in Tokyo. The first success was the signing of a
protocol on mutual access to markets for goods and services, which will help
Ukraine join the WTO.

Today Yushchenko and Prime Minister Koizumi formed a bilateral government
commission for developing cooperation.

[Junichiro Koizumi, in Japanese overlaid with Ukrainian translation] I
intend to make the maximum effort to improve cooperation between Ukraine
and Japan. Ukraine has vast potential to develop and flourish, and we will
strengthen cooperation not just bilaterally but on the international arena.

[Yushchenko] We emerged from these negotiations convinced of the
prospects for Ukrainian-Japanese relations. We would like especially to
emphasize that Ukraine is ready to become a dependable partner for Japan
in Central Europe.

[Correspondent] It is beneficial for Ukraine both politically and
economically to have such a strong partner in the Pacific region. The
investment presence of the second largest market economy is still too small.
President Yushchenko hopes that this visit will bring more than 1bn dollars
in investment.

But it is not clear yet when this will happen. Japanese corporations are
interested in investing in our market but they are waiting for transparent
policies and stability.

Today the Japan Bank for International Cooperation confirmed its intention
to provide a five year loan worth 50 million dollars in Japanese yen for
export of Japanese goods to Ukraine. [Passage omitted: delegation visits
Tokyo stock exchange] -30-
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4. PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE AND JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER SIGN
JOINT STATEMENT ON NEW PARTNERSHIP IN 21ST CENTURY

Ukrinform, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thu, July 21, 2005

KYIV - A number of matters of bipartite and international cooperation was
discussed at a meeting between President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime
Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan, the presidential press service told
Ukrinform. In particular, the host side thanked Ukraine for its support of a
plan for reforming UN and the UN Security Council.

The meeting touched on combating international terrorism and bipartite
cooperation, particularly in the trade-economic sphere. The parties stated
their belief that credit - financial and investment cooperation between
Ukraine and Japan may be significantly enhanced.

The sides reached an agreement on establishment of a bipartite
intergovernmental commission, to be chaired by the Foreign Ministers of
Japan and Ukraine. The commission will be aimed at determining priority
spheres of cooperation.

As Viktor Yushchenko noted, Ukraine is interested in Japan's support of
ecological projects and in cooperation within the framework of the Kyoto
Protocol.

President Yushchenko also stated Ukraine's interestedness in Japan's
investing the space sphere and the aviation construction industry.
The President invited the Japanese Prime Minister to visit Ukraine in 2006's
first half, proposing to simultaneously hold a session of the commission,
with a view of discussing priority bipartite projects.

The parties analyzed the political situation in Japan and in Ukraine. The
Ukrainian Head of State told his interlocutor about the processes, which are
underway in Ukraine after the orange revolution. In turn, the Japanese Prime
Minster told the Ukrainian President about the postal reform in Japan.

The parties expressed their common opinions on minimization of state
interference in business and industry.

As President Yushchenko said in a statement for the press, the negotiations
were held in a "warm and fruitful atmosphere". As the President stressed,
Ukraine is ready to become Japan's distinctive partner in Central Europe and
on the international arena. As Viktor Yushchenko emphasized, Ukraine and
Japan attach much attention to cooperation in bipartite innovative projects,
particularly, in the space sphere, exploration of peaceful atom, aviation-
and shipbuilding.

According to him, negotiations are close to complete soon on production of
a new Ukrainian satellite based on Japanese developments. The President
said it is only the beginning of cooperation in the space branch.

In his turn, Junichiro Koizumi promised to further promote Ukraine in
forwarding different projects and in process of democratization of the
society.

President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi signed a
joint statement on new partnership in the 21st century between Ukraine and
Japan. Ukrainian Minister for Economics Serhiy Teryokhin and the Japanese
Deputy Foreign Minister signed a bipartite protocol on access to markets of
goods and services, which approaches Ukraine to integration with the WTO.

According to the President, the document reflects "new bases for bipartite
cooperation for the near years".

The Ukrainian President conveyed a World War II flag to the Prime Minister,
which belonged to a Japanese soldier and was preserved at the Great
Patriotic War Museum in Ukraine. -30-
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5. PRESIDENT VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO STATES NEED TO DRAFT
CONCEPT OF STOCK MARKET IN UKRAINE

Ukrinform, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thu, July 21, 2005

KYIV - President Viktor Yushchenko visited the Tokyo Stock Exchange during
his official visit to Japan, the presidential press service told Ukrinform.
The Ukrainian delegation got familiar with the process of on-line market
auction and had a talk with Stock Exchange President Takuo Tsurushima
and Senior Managing Director Sadoa Yoshino.

Answering journalists' question, President Yushchenko said that taking into
consideration weak development of stock exchange in Ukraine, a concept
of the fund market and its infrastructure should be drafted first. With this
regard, Ukraine may refer to Japanese assistance, the Head of State
believes.

According to Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine's topical challenge is to mobilize
those 20 to 30 bn. USD, which, according to expert estimates, the population
possesses. The annual growth of bank investments amounts to 50 percent in
hryvnias and 17 percent in dollars, which fact testifies to citizens' lack
of confidence in banks. According to the President, this money is more
profitable to attract to the stock exchange, as it "offers more
opportunities for investments".

The issue of stock exchange is topical from the angle of continuation of
privatization process in Ukraine, too. Answering questions by journalists,
what is a secret of the Japanese financial - economic success in his
opinion, the President attributed it to efficient mobilization of capitals.

During his tour of the Tokyo Stock Exchange the President was
accompanied by First Vice Prime Minister Anatoliy Kinakh, Economics
Minister Serhiy Terekhin, Transportation and Communication Minister
Yevhen Chervonenko, presidential first aide Oleksandr Tretyakov, First
Deputy Secretary of State Oleksandr Motsyk, Ukrainian Ambassador to
Japan Yuriy Kostenko and UkrExImBank Governor Viktor Kapustin. -30-
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6. UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO LOOKS INTO LOCAL
TRADITIONS OF BEEKEEPING IN JAPAN
Yushchenko has been keen on beekeeping since childhood

Ukrainian News Agency, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thu, July 21, 2005

KYIV - President Viktor Yuschenko, who is keen on beekeeping, has
familiarized himself with local traditions of this trade in Japan. The press
service of the President informed Ukrainian News about this.

"The head of state visited the genetic research laboratory in the university
(of Tamagawa in Tokyo) of the research institute of beekeeping, where he
familiarized with Japanese traditions of this sector," the statement reads.

Yuschenko also met with dean of Tamagawa University Yoshiaki Obara.
They have discussed opportunities for student exchange. Yuschenko
emphasized that people in Ukraine are very keen on Japanese language
and culture now. The President and dean exchanged opinions about
traditions of the Ukrainian and Japanese peoples.

According to the President's biography posted on his personal website,
Yuschenko has been keen on beekeeping since childhood, and several
generations of his family kept their own apiary. According to the
information from his personal website, Yuschenko has 80 beehives, both
modern and antique ones from different regions of Ukraine at his summer
cottage near Kyiv. The President keeps his bees personally.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Yuschenko left for official visit to
Japan on July 19, and he will stay there until July 24. -30--
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7. THE END OF "COLORED REVOLUTIONS" AND "STAGLUTION"
In Ukraine, the "Orange Revolution" appears to have been
completely squeezed of its once inspiring appeal

Neither Yushchenko nor Tymoshenko have tackled what the "Orange
Revolution" was supposed to change: state meddling in the economy
instead of reform, endemic bureaucratic corruption, arbitrary application
of the law, and petty politicians juggling for power to secure their rent-
seeking status.

OPINION: By Peter Lavelle
RIA Novosti Political Commentator
RIA Novosti, Moscow, Russia, Wed, July 20, 2005

MOSCOW - Western punditry cannot accept that a "colored revolution"
in Russia is very unlikely.

This is probably partly due to the general built-in media bias against
Russia and a very specific bias against Vladimir Putin's Kremlin, as well
as local Russian spin-doctors and journalists weaving the most incredible
scenarios of gloom and doom. In the meantime, it would appear the recent
"colored revolutions" are undergoing "staglution."

There should be more focus on the prospect that "colored revolution" or
Western-styled "rent-a-crowd" regime changes have run their course in the
post-Soviet space. This is not to say that many people in former Soviet
republics have abandoned hopes for a more democratic future.

Rather, it should be remembered that a number of regimes have taken
precautions against outside funding, training, and agitation. Add to this
the possible disillusionment with the results Georgia, Ukraine, and - to
some extent - Kyrgyzstan have achieved since their "colored revolutions."

One could go as far as to claim the "colored revolutions" are experiencing
post-revolution "staglution" (stagnating revolution) and may not serve as
examples for others to emulate or outsiders to fund.

In Ukraine, the "Orange Revolution" appears to have been completely
squeezed of its once inspiring appeal. Former political allies, President
Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko are in a
competitive political embrace, each waiting for the other to submit or be
defeated.

Yushchenko, with an eye on the March 2006 parliamentary elections, has
focused on defeating his political opponents by political means.

Yushchenko's approach to the economy has been very general, primarily
concerned with assuring fiscal and monetary stability, creating a favorable
investment climate and building solid foundations for sustainable growth. In
short, Yushchenko can be described as an economic liberal supporting a
laissez-faire approach.

Tymoshenko is very different. Judging by her public statements,
Tymoshenko supports strong state intervention in the economy and a
statist economic policy. While Yushchenko uses political means to deal
with his enemies, Tymoshenko is attempting to exert economic and
financial control over political opponents through tough state regulation.

Her call to revisit past privatizations and even possible renationalization
of numerous formerly state-owned firms has not only shaken business
confidence, but has also alarmed minority shareholders in former state
firms. Potential foreign investors have also questioned Tymoshenko's
intentions.

Neither Yushchenko nor Tymoshenko have tackled what the "Orange
Revolution" was supposed to change: state meddling in the economy
instead of reform, endemic bureaucratic corruption, arbitrary application
of the law, and petty politicians juggling for power to secure their rent-
seeking status.

Both may face the ire of voters for their lack of progress and "politics as
usual" approach in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

While Georgia's bout with "staglution" is similar to Ukraine's economic
and reform problems, it has been dramatic in terms of its inability to
institutionalize the democratic ethos of the "Rose Revolution."

One of the first things Saakashvili did when he came to power was to
change a remarkably modern constitution (established in 1995). He
amended the constitution to create a "super-presidential" system,
eliminating checks and balances and concentrating powers in the
executive branch.

Media freedoms have eroded since the "Rose Revolution" - particularly
television. Of the six private TV networks operating in Tbilisi before the
revolution, only four have survived. Of those four, one belongs to the
brother of the president's national security adviser, while another is in
the possession of the defense minister's best friend. A new independent
network has been refused a transmission license. Investigative reporting
has basically died and been replaced with political reporting pliant to
government sensitivities.

In April, the legislature passed laws to approve central and district
election commissions with presidential appointees, without any
representation for opposition groups.

Saakashvili has publicly said - without a bat of an eye - parties that
disagree with him on issues such as the presence of foreign troops in
Georgia or membership in the European Union, which he supports, should
be "outlawed." How can this politician realistically - even rationally -
claim to be an international leader of democracy when he is not democratic
at home and does not have a solid track record of economic reform?

It is too early to meaningfully comment whether Kyrgyzstan is undergoing
"staglution" - it may even be worth doubting if a revolution actually
occurred in this Central Asian country with the departure of former
President Askar Akayev. Kurmanbek Bakiyev was overwhelmingly elected
president in a free and fair vote, but the state institutions have remained
the same.

The unholy alliance of drugs and religious agitators present the new
president with the enormous task of creating economic opportunity in his
impoverished country. As long as the volatile Fergana Valley remains the
transit route for Afghan drug lords and Islamic fundamentalists, Kyrgyzstan
will face uncertainty and instability.

Those looking for a "colored revolution" in Russia should consider the
impact of such in Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. Each country is
experiencing some form of "staglution." Each faces many of the same
issues and problems before their respective "colored revolution."

It should be expected that many governments in the post-Soviet space have
learned some of the lessons of "colored revolutions" - "rent-a-crowd" street
demonstrations can change governments, but not a country's problems. Until
the leaderships of Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan demonstrate they can
overcome "staglution," the next "colored revolution" will probably remain on
hold. -30-
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Post-Soviet space and "staglution" July 20, 2005
By Peter Lavelle, plavelle@untimely-thoughts.com,
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8. UKRAINIANS LAMENT SLOW PACE OF CHANGE
Yuschenko's supporters are hanging on to their president -- for now

By Christiane Hoffmann (dc), Deutsche Welle
Bonn, Germany, Wed, July 20, 2005

KIEV - Six months after the Orange Revolution ushered in a new govern-
ment in Ukraine, progress on the goals of greater political and economic
stability has been slow, as has the forging of closer ties with the EU.

On Tuesday, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana met with
Ukrainian leaders in Kiev to discuss economic and security issues. Solana
also had the task of explaining the consequences of the French and Dutch
"no" votes on the EU constitution to President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime
Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Following the peaceful Orange Revolution, Ukraine's new pro-Western
government made EU membership a major policy goal. But now, the mood
in Kiev is anything but euphoric as the realization dawns that, six months
ago, the EU promised more than it is ready to deliver.

Instead of a quick association with eventual membership, Ukraine is now
likely to get just closer cooperation. President Yushchenko can only hope
that Ukrainians are prepared to be patient.

FIGHTING OVER REFORMS

The country's relationship with the EU is not the only problem dogging the
fledgling new democracy. On the domestic front, the governing alliance,
Nasha Ukraina, is at loggerheads over the right way to introduce reforms.
Tymoshenko wants a radical break with the old regime and has proposed
reversing the privatization of industries undertaken by ex-communist
president Leonid Kutschma, arguing that Kutschma's cronies used the
opportunity to line their pockets.

However, the pro-business wing of Yushchenko's party and the current chief
of the country's National Security Council, Petro Poroshenko, want to limit
the revisions to just a few key industries. Ralf Wachsmuth has been
following developments for the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Germany:

"It is characteristic for this government that they fight like cats and
dogs," said Ralf Wachsmuth, who follows developments in Ukraine for
Germany's Konrad Adenauer Foundation. "The alliance itself is divided and
some sort of unifying force is nowhere in sight. Even the opposition isn't
doing its job."

BUSINESS LEADERS UNEASY

Economic growth in Ukraine has dropped from 12 percent a year ago to just
over one percent this year. Exports have declined and the business community
is nervous about the direction the government is going. To combat rampant
corruption, the government has scrapped the special economic zones set up
by the old regime for the Kutschma clan.

But, as Ferdinand Pavel of the German Institute for Economic Research in
Berlin points out, there has been such a terrible outcry from investors,
both domestic and foreign, who were depending on the promised tax breaks,
that Yushchenko has dropped the plan

"Businesses are having trouble seeing a perspective and understanding how
the government plans to proceed. The government has failed to give them the
support they need to invest," Pavel said.

So far, the disappointment has been limited to the business community. The
public still supports Yushchenko, but that could change in the months to
come. Parliamentary elections are scheduled for next spring and a winter
filled with rising energy prices, tense relations with Russia and economic
stagnation could prove to be more than Ukraine can bear. -30-
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9. FIVE CORE PRINCIPLES FOR THE WORLD'S REFORMERS

OP-ED: By Mikheil Saakashvili, Financial Times
London, UK, Thursday, May 26, 2005

Dramatic changes are sweeping across the area that was once the Soviet
Union. It is clear that, after the revolutionary changes in Tbilisi, Kiev
and Bishkek, the old status quo is gone forever. Kleptocratic ways of
governing are obsolete, autocratic rulers cannot ignore popular moods and
people are uniting to demand freedom.

Today marks Georgia's Independence Day and 18 months after the Rose
Revolution we have learnt some important truths: first and foremost that it
is much easier to make a revolution than it is to transform a failed state
into a well-performing democracy.

We inherited a dysfunctional state administration. An immediate donation of
several million dollars by the United Nations Development Programme made
a critical difference. We dramatically increased the salaries of 200 tax
collectors and a select group of anti-corruption investigators, leading to
significantly increased tax collection.

We quadrupled our budget and now pay every civil servant a decent salary.
Having despaired after many months of attempts at reforming our thoroughly
corrupt police, we decided to fire all 15,000 officers and recruit an
entirely new force. We equipped the reformed service like any other modern
European police force and increased salaries 10-fold. This surgery resulted
in a quick and complete recovery of Georgia's law enforcement capacity. The
new police force has a 95 per cent approval rating and Georgians now see
the police as protectors rather than predators.

We undertook significant reforms in other sectors. We are currently in the
process of abolishing most licence and permit requirements to empower
investors and entrepreneurs. We defied International Monetary Fund advice
and dramatically lowered our tax rates. But we achieved our goal: overall
tax revenues increased.

My fellow reformers and I learnt from our own mistakes when we tried to
reform the failed government of Eduard Shevardnadze from the inside. We
also learnt from the mistakes and successes of eastern European reformers
- from Poland to Estonia to Serbia.

Economic "shock therapy" works and is indeed the only way to move from a
criminal economy to a market economy. Dwelling on the injustices of Soviet
brutality is not a substitute for membership of Nato and the European Union.
Tragically, the greatest threat to a young democracy comes not from external
enemies but from the crime and corruption that flourished under decades of
communist occupation.

There are core principles that all reformers - present and aspiring - should
heed. First, the window of opportunity for democratic reform is very narrow
and will not stay open indefinitely. Every reformer should know that the
race for the future is won by the swift. Something that was easily possible
immediately after a revolution becomes much harder after just a few months,
even with a legislative majority and broad popular support.

Second, reform has to be comprehensive. One cannot reform parts of the
state structure and retain the old order in others. Reforming the economy
without addressing law enforcement will result in failure. Reform must be a
continuous process uninterrupted by pauses. This approach needs a vision
of a country's destination and a systematic plan to get there.

Third, the people are the best ally of the reformers. In principle, there
should not be such a thing as unpopular reform; rather there are reformers
who often fail to explain their programmes and to link them to the long-term
public interest. Reformers will have little chance to succeed if they
alienate key constituencies. Public debate over reforms is thus central to
their success. The more open a society and the more transparent a
government, the greater the chances for ultimate success.

Fourth, reformers must build free institutions that will endure long beyond
their term in office. A free democratic state is about far more than
elections or personalities. It is about building the institutional
foundations that preserve individual and economic freedom, sustain the
rule of law and protect all elements of society.

Finally, reformers should not count on keeping society permanently happy.
They should accept that, sooner or later, their constituents will be
disappointed with them and they will be voted out of office. Reformers must
seek long-term change, not short-term political gratification. It is not the
eternal gratitude of society to which we aspire but lasting results. The
ultimate prize for every reformer is the transformed society they leave
behind. -30-
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The writer is President of Georgia
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10. AEROSVIT TAKES DELIVERY OF IT'S 12TH BOEING 737
Aerosvit is Ukraine's largest commercial air carrier

Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thu, July 21, 2005

KYIV - Ukrainian airline AeroSvit has received its 12th Boeing 737, the
company's press service told Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday. The airplane
was purchased on operational leasing from the world leader in leasing
transactions - International Leasing Finance Corporation (ILFC), which
has been the airline's partner since 2000, the company said.

The aircraft is the fifth Boeing 737-400 in AeroSvit's fleet. The company
purchased a similar Boeing in May.

According to the press service, in July-August AeroSvit is increasing the
number of its flights to many regular directions, including Kyiv-Simferopol
flights, Kyiv-Athens (Greece), Kyiv-Tel Aviv (Israel) and Kyiv-Cairo
(Egypt). It is also planned to boost the number of charter flights to
Turkey, Bulgaria, Croatia and Greece. -30-
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11. UKRAINIAN PM SETS GOVERNORS TASKS, PROMISES SUPPORT
Zynchenko, state secretary of the Ukrainian president, also attends

Ukrayina TV, Donetsk, in Russian 1800 gmt 21 Jul 05
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Thu, July 21, 2005

DONETSK - [Presenter] A new phase of effective and harmonious cooperation
between the local and central branches of power has begun in Ukraine, thinks
Ukraine's prime minister, who today chaired a cabinet meeting involving
governors. Yuliya Tymoshenko highlighted several priority tasks and called
on those present not to divide victories and defeats into local and state
ones.

[Correspondent] Yuliya Tymoshenko proposed an end to blaming the
previous authorities. The new leadership has already been at the wheel for
six months, so from now on successes and failures belong exclusively to the
current authorities. The premier proposed taking down photos in offices of
the country's leaders wearing orange scarves and replace them with graphs
of the pace of social development.

She called this meeting significant, and proposed holding sessions like this
regularly and sometimes away from Kiev - without pomp and show. Regional
leaders complained about the lack of opportunity to talk to members of
government.

[Anatoliy Matviyenko, captioned as chairman of the Autonomous Republic of
Crimea's council of ministers, in Ukrainian] We have lots of problems with
everyday contacts with ministers. Thankfully I don't experience such
problems, but I know there are lots of people who have serious complaints.
We can go for weeks without being able to find ministers.

[Correspondent] Yuliya Tymoshenko promised that from now on ministers
will respond to signals from the regions much more quickly, and gave
corresponding instructions to the ministers. Having heard the governor's
speeches, she highlighted a number of priority tasks: manufacturing, roads
and housing loans.

The one-stop-shop way of registering new businesses promised by the
president from June has not yet come into being, it was said at the meeting.
The state secretary stated, and the premier requested.

[Oleksandr Zynchenko, captioned as state secretary of the Ukrainian
president, in Ukrainian] What I have in mind is - we talked about
registering businesses today - the one-stop shop, those who reported that
one-stop shop has been opened - this is a fiction. The one-stop shop has not
started working in the way it should. The deadline ran out two months ago.

[Tymoshenko, in Ukrainian] I ask you to do just two things. First, open a
regional agency for work with investors. This will in effect be a regional
branch of our central investment agency. It would work constantly with
investors and open up all paths to them. Second, set up the simplified
business-registration system and make the procedure for getting land for
doing business absolutely transparent and easy.

[Correspondent] The problem of reforming tariffs for housing and utilities
charges is still a sticky one. How they are set and where the money goes
remains a mystery. For example, the price of a cubic metre of water can
differ by almost 100 per cent in different regions. Yuliya Tymoshenko called
on the governors to refrain from raising them.

[Tymoshenko, in Ukrainian] I ask you not to rush to raise housing and
utilities charges until you have worked out the nature of costs and how the
money is used.

[Correspondent] Also, she advised the governors not to be shy in getting rid
of weak officials and promised her support in doing so. She instructed the
governors to send proposals for personnel changes in the regions within a
week. -30- [The Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service]
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12. UKRAINIAN-ISRAELI ECONOMIC AGREEMENT SIGNED

Arutz Sheve, IsraelNationalNews.com
Beit El, Israel, Wed, 20 Jul 2005

An agreement for economic cooperation has been signed between
the Ukrainian Industrialists and Entrepreneurs League and the Ukrainian
Union of Trade Offices, on the one hand,and the Israeli Industrialists
Association and the Israel Export Institute, on the other.

The president of the Ukrainian Industrialists and Entrepreneurs League
is Lev Levayev, the international businessman known for his extensive
interests in Israeli real estate through the Africa-Israel corporation.

The sides to the agreement will encourage economic cooperation
between Ukraine and Israel, and will facilitate joint projects by the
signatory organizations. Some aspects of the agreed upon cooperation
involve the sharing of economic information and research related to
trade in the two states, as well as encouraging economic and business
exchanges and delegations between Israel and Ukraine. -30-
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LINK: http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=86198
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13. SENIOR UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS URGED TO PROMOTE LOW-COST
AND NO-COST WAYS TO SAVE ENERGY IN INDUSTRY,
TRANSPORTATION, AND HOMES AS AN
ALTERNATIVE TO COSTLY GAS AND OIL IMPORTS

Ukrainian-American Environmental Association
Rivne, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 20, 2005

RIVNE, UKRAINE -- In a letter sent today to senior Ukrainian
government officials, the Ukrainian-American Environmental Association
(UAEA) urged the creation of a public education program to promote
simple low- and no-cost ways for businesses, motorists, and homeowners
to save energy.

UAEA stressed that "recent energy price hikes, supplies disruptions,
projections of potential shortages, and energy-related trade disputes
underscore the risks to Ukraine's economy and national security posed
by its heavy reliance on imported natural gas and oil."

However, inasmuch as "Ukraine uses four or five times as much energy
per unit of gross national product as does the United States and as
much as ten times as does the European Union, there are ample
opportunities throughout the economy to reduce energy waste. . [In
fact.] there are many energy-savings measures that can be acted on and
implemented very quickly and at very low cost by industry, businesses,
local governments, car and truck drivers, home owners, and farmers.
These measures could yield significant savings in oil and natural gas
use."

Citing the experience of the United States, the letter noted that
"public education programs designed, implemented, and promoted by
its city, state, and national governments as well as by non-governmental
groups (e.g., businesses, utilities, consumer organizations) can
rapidly curb energy consumption at very low cost and with little
disruption to the economy or to citizens' health and safety as well as
save money for energy users..

"These programs have included simple tasks such as urging people to
turn off lights and appliances like TVs when not in use, suggesting
ways to make doors and windows less drafty, or offering suggestions to
motorists on how to drive while using less fuel. Similarly,
common-sense energy conservation advice offered to schools, hospitals,
stores, and industries has helped reduce energy demand anywhere from
10 - 30 percent."

UAEA accordingly recommended that "a public education program be
developed that encourages citizens, drivers, businesses, and others to
act now on simple, low-cost and no-cost ways to safely reduce their
energy use and save themselves money."

Along with its letter, UAEA included a small sampling of simple
energy-saving ideas that could be included as part of a broader public
education campaign and offered to provide a more extensive listing of
ideas and information sources. -30-
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NOTE: For the full text of the letter sent to Ukrainian officials and
the large list of sample energy-saving ideas contact:
Taras Lychuk, Co-Director, Ken Bossong, Co-Director
UKRAINIAN-AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION
U.S.A. Mailing Address: 8606 Greenwood Avenue, #2;
Takoma Park, MD 20912, +1 (301) 588-4741
Ukraine Mailing Address: 11 Strutynska Street, #18;
Rivne, Ukraine 33003, +38 (067) 750 5192
e-mail: ua_ea@yahoo.com; URL: http://www.ua-ea.org
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14. UKRAINIAN TYCOON ACCUSES NEW GOVT OF PURSUING HIM

Associated Press (AP), Kiev, Ukraine, Thu, July 21, 2005

KIEV - Lawyers for Ukrainian tycoon Rinat Akhmetov accused the government
Thursday of investigating his businesses and pursuing him as punishment for
the support he gave the losing candidate in last year's presidential
election.

Akhmetov, a coal and steel magnate and Ukraine's wealthiest man, has faced
increasing pressure in a government investigation of both him and his
businesses since Viktor Yushchenko came to the presidency in January. His
Washington D.C.-based lawyers called the investigations "constant attacks,"
and said they were political.

Police summoned Akhmetov for questioning Monday about an alleged 1988
assassination attempt against a man identified as Sergei Chernyshyov.
Akhmetov failed to show up; his company said he was abroad and insisted
the summons was not mandatory.

"The use of false evidence by authorities and attempts to put pressure on
political opponents is a phenomenon that should have disappeared from
Ukraine many years ago," the lawyer's statement said.

Akhmetov's lawyers said they had a sworn statement from Chernyshyov
saying he had told police when questioned two weeks ago that Akhmetov
had not participated in the attack and that he had never met the Donetsk-
based tycoon and had no links with any of Akhmetov's businesses.

"This indicates that police authorities are acting on a political order and
not trying to solve a serious crime," Akhmetov's lawyers said.
The Interior Ministry could not immediately be reached for comment.

Based in the eastern city of Donetsk, Akhmetov was a supporter of losing
presidential candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, in last year's election.
Yanukovych, who also hailed from Donetsk, lost to Yushchenko after a bitter
election race that saw tens of thousands of Ukrainians massing in the
streets in protests that came to be known as the Orange Revolution.

Yushchenko's government is also investigating Akhmetov's businesses, and
has regained control over a steel mill that was bought last year by Akhmetov
and the son-in-law of former President Leonid Kuchma in a highly criticized
privatization deal.

Akhmetov and Pinchuk have been fighting to hold onto the mill. But on
Thursday they lost another appeal when Ukraine's High Economic Court
upheld a lower court's decision that the mill's privatization was illegal.

The consortium has filed a separate challenge with the European Court of
Human Rights. The tycoon's lawyers said they would claim that the
government's seizure of the mill was carried out "as an answer" to
Akhmetov's politics. Officials have said Kryvorizhstal would be resold this
fall. -30- [The Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service]
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15. SECRET TAPES COULD BLAME EX-PRESIDENT OVER KILLING

By Natasha Lisova in Kiev, The Scotsman
Scotland's National Newspaper Online
Edinburgh/Glasgow, Scotland, Thu, July 21, 2005

UKRAINE'S security agency is analysing secret tape recordings that could
implicate Leonid Kuchma, the former president, in the murder of an
investigative journalist. Oleksandr Turchinov, the security service chief,
spoke of the "dirty things" said on the tapes and said that if they proved
genuine it would be "useful" for investigators.

Analysis of the tapes - the first officially conducted by Ukrainian
authorities - could be complete within a month, he added.

The recordings, made by a former bodyguard of the ex-president, contain
a voice that sounds like Mr Kuchma's ordering aides to deal with Heorhiy
Gongadze, an internet journalist who was investigating high-level
corruption. Mr Gongadze was kidnapped in September 2000 and his
headless body was found a month later. Mr Kuchma has denied any
involvement in Mr Gongadze's death, which sparked mass protests.

The recordings, which the bodyguard had sneaked out of Ukraine, were
returned via intermediaries earlier this year at the new government's
request. The bodyguard, Mykola Melnichenko, has been given political
asylum in the United States.

Mr Turchinov said that the security service had 700 hours of tapes, but was
concentrating only on the 20 to 30 minutes on which Mr Kuchma's alleged
voice is heard discussing Mr Gongadze.

The security service had asked the US Federal Bureau of Investigation to
check the tapes' authenticity, he said. US investigators have said the tapes
had not been tampered with. If the tapes are found to be authentic, Mr
Turchinov said a court would decide whether they could be used as
evidence.

In March, two former police officials were charged with murder in connection
with Mr Gongadze's death. Another former police official suspected of
involvement remains under orders not to leave Kiev, and a fourth, Oleksiy
Pukach, is being sought on an international warrant.

However, a key witness, Yuriy Kravchenko, the former interior minister,
committed suicide this year, just hours before he was to be questioned
about Mr Gongadze's slaying. Mr Kuchma, who has also been called in for
questioning, has said he answered all questions and has nothing to hide.

Mr Kuchma's decade in power ended in January. His favoured successor,
Viktor Yanukovych, was defeated by Viktor Yushchenko in last year's
election battle that saw tens of thousands take to the streets during
protests known as the Orange Revolution. -30-
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http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1659212005
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16. UKRAINIAN OLGA KAPRANOVA TAKES GOLD, SILVER AND
BRONZE AT RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS COMPETITION

CP, Duisberg, Germany, Thu, July 21, 2005

DUISBURG - Russians and Ukrainians scooped up 11 of the 12 medals
in the rhythmic gymnastics competition finals which concluded Thursday
at the 2005 World Games.

Olga Kapranova of Russia won gold medals in ball and clubs while Anna
Bessanova of Ukraine won gold on rope, silver in ball and bronze in ribbon.
Vera Sesina of Russia took gold in ribbon, silver in rope and bronze in
ball. -30-
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17. SVETLANA ZAKHAROVA: ABANDONING HERSELF TO DANCE
A Young Ballerina Learns to Walk Through Open Doors

Svetlana is now a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow
She lived in Lutsk, Ukraine, began her training at the Kiev ballet school

By Gia Kourlas, The New York Times
New York, NY, Thursday, July 21, 2005
International Herald Tribune (IHT), Europe, Fri, July 22, 2005

When Svetlana Zakharova was 10, her mother took her to an audition at a
Kiev [Ukraine] ballet school. Ms. Zakharova wanted none of it. She had no
taste for ballet, positive or negative; her dread had more to do with the
prospect of leaving her family, who lived in Lutsk, a town in western
Ukraine.

"I remember that there were so many kids; they were all nervous and so
were their parents," she recalled through an interpreter at the Metropolitan
Opera House. "I said to my mom: 'I don't want to live in a dormitory; I want
to live with my family. That's why even if they will accept me in the
school, I won't be studying here.' My mom said, 'Just try to get through the
competition first.' "

By the time Ms. Zakharova reached the final round, she fell in love, if not
with ballet itself, then at least with the idea of what it might be like to
be a ballerina. "There were girls and boys who were already students there,
and they were so beautiful," she said. "I decided that I really liked it
very much. Finally, when I was accepted, my mom asked me, 'So would
you stay and study there?' I told her, 'Yes!' "

Ms. Zakharova, now 26 and a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, which
is based in Moscow, is a remarkable onstage force. For the company's
engagement tonight at the Metropolitan Opera House, she will perform Kitri
in "Don Quixote" opposite Andrei Uvarov - one of her favorite partners - and
Aspicia in "The Pharaoh's Daughter" with Nikolai Tsiskaridze next Thursday
and Saturday evenings.

For seven years, Ms. Zakharova was the brilliant young face of the Kirov
Ballet, in St. Petersburg, where she spent one year in the corps before
being promoted to principal dancer; in 2003, she surprised the dance world
by defecting to the Bolshoi. "Maybe I just wanted to change many things in
my life," she explained.

"It was very difficult for me to leave the Maryinsky. I grew up there. But
kids, at a certain point, have to leave their families, build their own home
and find their own views."

Naturally supple, with long legs and a luxurious line, Ms. Zakharova
possesses the kind of onstage beauty that practically leaves you woozy.
With waist-length dark hair framing an alabaster face, she's just as radiant
in person, but she's also a bit of a clown.

After a photographer reminded her to stand up straight, she giggled and
slumped to a grotesque extreme, eerily resembling a drawing by the artist
and balletomane Edward Gorey, who might have used one of his favorite
words to describe her - "zippy."

Ms. Zakharov began her training with Valeria Sulegina in Kiev. "We worked
all the time," Ms. Zakharova recalled. "At 13, 14 - when all you want to do
is go outside to play - she was holding us down. We were all terrified by
her, but we all loved her."

When Ms. Zakharova turned 15, she entered the Vaganova Prix young dancers
competition in St. Petersburg and was awarded second prize. Afterward, she
was invited to continue her training at the Vaganova Academy, where she
remained for a year before joining the Kirov.

"Right away, I started working with a great coach, Olga Moiseyeva," she
said. "Now, at the Bolshoi Theater, I work with Lyudmila Semenyaka. They
are very much alike. They both pay attention to an actor's ability and
talent, not only technique."

Ms. Zakharova first met Ms. Semenyaka, who also danced first with the Kirov
and then the Bolshoi, by chance; she needed a coach for a guest appearance
in Moscow. Ever since, Ms. Semenyaka has taught Ms. Zakharova much,
including how to fill the Bolshoi stage, which is much larger than what she
was used to. "During rehearsals, she teaches me not to dance just for the
mirror in front of me," Ms. Zakharova explained, "but where to look at each
moment."

For all her innate ability, however, Ms. Zakharova has been criticized for
doing too much; while her footwork is bracingly sharp, she is so flexible
that when she unfolds her leg in a fluid extension to the side, she has been
known to graze her ear. Yet Ms. Zakharova is not a vulgar dancer; there's
something instinctively casual, even naïve about her performance style.

"People reject things that are new, especially in the ballet," she said.
"Standards of beauty change through the ages. I try to push it out of my
mind. Why should ballet be as it was 20 years ago? Of course you can lift
your leg, but you can also put it up very, very beautifully. As people like
to say in ballet jargon, 'make it tasty.' "

If, as critics and fans have remarked, she has undergone a transformation -
she calls it her "Bolshoi transition" - Ms. Zakharova credits it to a fresh
sense of abandon in her movement. "I think that I feel more free," she said.
"In the Maryinsky Theater, for some reason, it is decided that there is this
sort of canon, that there are these rules. It should only be that way, but
sometimes that way doesn't look so good anymore. Dancing in Moscow
gives me more possibilities."

She also finds that the pace of Moscow, where she lives with her retired
parents and older brother, is more suited to her personality. "Everything
happens in every moment, starting with the productions I dance and ending
with the friends I have made," she said. "And all those things together are
very precious to me."

She has a boyfriend, who is Russian, not a dancer and, she adds with a
laugh, "never will be." But it has never been Ms. Zakharova's style to
socialize with dancers outside of the theater. "It's very rare in the ballet
world when you have close relations," she said. "They say that ballet people
do" - she makes quotation marks with her hands - " 'love' each other."

Ms. Zakharova has learned that in ballet, success is connected to power. "A
very important moment in my professional career came when I was invited to
the Paris Opera," she said. "I was 21 or 22. It is now my fourth season
performing there. That was the moment when I became a world star. I
became independent. It was like my name, my brand.

Now, if I don't like something, I can reject it. I can choose a partner with
whom I want to dance, I can choose the repertory. So this is like growing up
inside myself and growing up with my parts as well."

In looking back at her career, she also knows that she owes much to Igor
Zelensky, the Russian dancer who was her main partner at the Kirov; even
when he was already a star, he invited her to dance with him at gala
showcases. "Maybe thanks to him, the world found out about me, too," she
said. "He opened a little window. Because when I got to Paris, the door was
open." -30- [The Action Ukraine Report Monitoring Service]
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PHOTOS: Svetlana Zakharova, a former Kirov principal dancer, is among the
Bolshoi Ballet members performing at the Metropolitan Opera House. (Pascal
Perich for The New York Times); Svetlana Zakharova backstage at the
Metropolitan Opera House. (Pascal Perish for The New York Times) LINK:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/21/arts/dance/21svet.html?
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18. LECTURE: "BANDITS, SLAVES, AND 'FAIRY TALE' REVOLUTION:
CITIZENSHIP PRACTICES IN UKRAINIAN SCHOOLS BEFORE
AND AFTER THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS"
Monday, August 1, Harvard University

Lecture by Anna Fournier
Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July 21, 2005

CAMBRIDGE - The Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute presents a
lecture by Anna Fournier, Department of Anthropology, John Hopkins
University entitled: "Bandits, Slaves, and the 'Fairy Tale' Revolution:
Citizenship Practices in Ukrainian Schools Before and After the 2004
Presidential Elections"

The lecture is based on a year of ethnographic fieldwork in Ukraine and
will deal with citizenship education in Ukrainian high schools. The author
takes the relation of slaves to bandits as a key metaphor for the relation
of the people to their government during the 2004 presidential elections,
arguing that the Orange Revolution aimed at transcending this relation in
favor of a new kind of citizenship.

An analysis of power relations in schools reveals how students contest
the pedagogical notion of the - obedient citizen - by locating their agency
between the repertoires of the -bandit -and the -slave-, thereby negotiating
compliance, freedom and excess in the school setting.

DATE: Monday, August 1, 2005
PLACE: Harvard University, Harvard Hall Room 201,
TIME: 7:30-9:30 pm

For more information: Tel. 617-495-4053; Fax 617-495-8097
huri@fas.harvard.edu; http://www.huri.harvard.edu/husi_spevents.html
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19. SECOND NO-TILL AGRICULTURE 2005 CONFERENCE
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, August 17-20, 2005

Neonila Martyniuk, Agro-Soyuz Farm
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
The Action Ukraine Report (AUR), No. 528
Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, July 22, 2005

DNIPROPETROVSK - The Second No-Till Agriculture Conference will
be held on the Agro-Soyuz Farm near Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine on
Wednesday, August 17 through Saturday, August 20. The target
audience for the Conference are agricultural crop producers from
Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan and other interested parties.

Tye topics and invited speakers for the Second No-Till Agriculture
Conference, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, August 17-20, 2005 are:

(1) NO-TILL: What Have We Learned on the Canadian Prairies -
Potential Influence of Crop Residues on Crop Emergence -----
Guy Lafond, Senior Research Scientist
Indian Head Research Farm, Indian Head, Saskatchewan CANADA

(2) The Importance of Soil Biological Activity in No Till Cropping
Systems ------ Dirceu Gassen, Technical Manager
No-Till Farmers' Cooperative Cooplantio, BRAZIL

(3) Inceasing Precipitation Use Efficiency via No-Till & Appropriate
Rotations -----
Gary Peterson, Professor and Head, Department of Soil and Crop
Sciences; Colorado State University Ft. Collins, Colorado U.S.A.

(4) Tillage Effects on Soils, Crops, Ecosystem Water Infiltration into
Soil ----- Rolf Derpsch, No-Tillage Consultant, Asuncion, Paraguay

(5) Systems Approach to Crop Rotation -----
Matt Hagny, No-Tillage Consultant, Editor Leading Edge
Wichita, Kansas U.S.A.

(6) Nutrient Considerations -----
Cynthia Grant, Senior Research Scientist
Brandon Research Station, Brandon, Manitoba CANADA

(7) A Systematic Approach to Perennial Weed Management -----
Randy Anderson, Weed Ecologist
USDA ARS, Brookings, South Dakota U.S.A.

(8) Tillage-induced Effects and Soil Carbon Sequestration -----
Don Reicosky, Soil Research Scientist
USDA ARS, Morris, Minnesota U.S.A.

(9) Cover Crops & Crop Rotation in Different Cropping Systems -----
Ademir Calegari, Soil Researcher
IAPAR, Agronomic Institute of Paraná, BRAZIL

(10) No-Till Economics- Profitability Drivers in the High Plains -----
Terry Kastens, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics
Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas U.S.A.
Kevin Dhuyvetter, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics
Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas U.S.A.

(11) The Agro-Soyuz Experience in Adoption of A Systems Approach
to No Till (economics, logistics) -----
Volodymyr Khorishko, Director of Agro-Soyuz
Edvard Romankov, Director of AgroTechnology Division, Agro-Soyuz
Dnipropetrovsk, UKRAINE

(12) Logistics -----
Mikhail Horsch, President Horsch Machinen, Schwandorf, Germany

(13) Managing Soil Compaction in a No-Till System -----
Rohan Rainbow, Executive & Scientific Officer, South Australian
No-Till Farmers Association (SANTFA), Clare, South Australia

(14) No-Till Seeding Equipment -----
Paul Jasa, Extension Engineer, Univ of Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska

For further information about the Second No-Till Agriculture
Conference contact Neonila Martyniuk, Agro-Soyuz Farm,
Mobile telephone: 3 8 050 362 4469, nila@agro.dp.ua.
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20. RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH RETURNS ICON TOP KAZAN
Says there is broad proselytizing by the Roman Catholic Church
on the territory of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan

Associated Press (AP), Moscow, Russia, Thu, July 21, 2005

MOSCOW - The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated the
return of a religious icon from the Vatican Thursday, but reiterated
criticism of the Roman Catholic church.

With thousands of faithful massed in Kazan, Patriarch Alexy II led a
colorful ceremony and turned over to the city's church authorities the
Mother of God of Kazan icon - which was returned to Russia last summer
in a goodwill gesture.

Pope John Paul II had hoped to carry the icon to Russia himself and
accomplish his dream of traveling to the mostly Orthodox Christian country,
but Alexy said a papal visit could not be based on returning the icon - a
copy of the original 16th century work.

Alexy reiterated Thursday that no pope can visit Russia until ties improve,
and again accused Roman Catholics of proselytizing in traditionally
Orthodox Christian lands, Russian news agencies reported.

"I have not ruled out and do not rule out a visit by the pope to Russia, but
under certain conditions," the ITAR-Tass news agency quoted Alexy as
saying at a news conference. "Today we are witnessing broad proselytizing
by the Roman Catholic Church on the territory of Russia, Ukraine and
Kazakhstan."

The Our Lady of Kazan icon is said to have healed the sick and help Russian
armies repulse invaders, and thousands gathered to see the copy that Alexy
held high. It is to be kept in a monastery in the Volga River city. "It's
just a joy to see it, a great joy," onlooker Tatyana Kuvshinova, tears in
her eyes, told Russia's Channel One television.

The tone of the ceremonies seemed to contrast with Alexy's words last year
when he referred to the icon as "one of many copies" and said its return
could under no circumstances serve as the reason for a visit by John Paul.

John Paul's successor, Pope Benedict XVI, has made improving relations
among Christians and healing the 1,000-year-old rift with the Orthodox a
"fundamental" priority of his papacy.

The Russian Orthodox Church, which claims two-thirds of the country's
population of 143 million as well as millions in neighboring countries as
followers, is the largest in the Orthodox world. -30-
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FOOTNOTE: No one could ever accuse Alexy II of supporting the
concepts of freedom of religion and separation of church and state.
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21. TOYS BOUND FOR UKRAINE FROM AUSTRALIA
Bags of repaired, pre-loved toys for a Kiev, Ukraine, orphanage,
are being taken by North Stradbroke Island man, Arthur Bath.
"I'm recycled like these toys," he laughed.

Bayside Bulletin/Redland Times
Cleveland, Queensland, Australia, Friday, 22 July 2005

North Stradbroke Island retiree, Arthur Bath, is a bloke who literally gives
the shirt off his back to strangers. Flying to the Ukraine for the ninth
time, not only will Arthur leave about 100 toys for orphans, he will donate
his own clothes packed for the trip because the Ukrainians "are so poor".

When Victoria Point based toy repairers, Fran and Don Craig, heard the
retired Seventh Day Adventist minister was visiting an orphanage in the
Ukrainian capital, Kiev, they told Arthur "we'll fix you up".

The couple washed and repaired more than 100 pre-loved toys, however
costly air luggage limits prevented Arthur from taking more.

With help from a team including school teachers and nurses, Arthur will hold
seminars on health, Christianity and how to quit smoking.

Australians were well received by Ukrainians, with one woman, in her 90s,
fashioning a champagne cork into a boot, complete with a flap resembling
the sole coming away, for Arthur.

"I love it. I love the people, they are so wonderful," said Arthur, who will
return from his five-week-long trip on August 29.

"Instead of making fishing my life, I want to have a feeling that I'm (doing
something) worthwhile." -30-
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22. LVIV - CITY OF MANY ARCHITECTURAL STYLES,
COFFEE HOUSES AND ANCIENT SPIRITS

By Oles Ilchenko: Reflections on the City of Lviv
Serhiy Tarasov: Photographs of Lviv
Welcome to Ukraine magazine
Kyiv, Ukraine, Issue 2 (33), 2005
The Action Ukraine Report (AUR), #528
Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, July 22, 2005

Once, the king of the Lands of Halych and Volyn named Danylo, went on
a tour of his possessions, accompanied by his son Lev. When they were
crossing the Poltva River, the king looked around and exclaimed in
admiration, "My son, look at that hill! It would be a shame not to build a
castle on it, and a town around it! And then I would name it after you, and
give it to you as a present!"

This is what one of the popular legends says about the foundation of Lviv,
one of the major cities of Ukraine, and one of the most beautiful too.

THE CHARM OF LVIV ----------

Among the cities of Ukraine Lviv stands out as a place of impressive
architectural landmarks of many architectural styles and epochs. But it is
not so much the architecture that makes it special - it is the atmosphere,
the aura of the city that distinguishes it from any other place. It would be
hard to give a rational explanation of what creates this atmosphere, even
if all the possible contributions to it are enumerated.

You have to take a walk through the narrow and twisting streets of Lviv,
to feel the old cobble stones beneath your feet, to breathe the air of the
city, to see what in the medieval and Renaissance times used to be the
quarters of Italian, Jewish and Armenian traders and merchants, to start
feeling that special charm that Lviv exudes.

To add to the first impressions, it would be worthwhile to spend some time
in the quiet of an old Polish church, to listen to the choir singing in an
old Ukrainian Orthodox church, to have a cup of excellent coffee in one of
the Lviv coffeehouses, famous for the excellence of coffee, to visit the
Lychakiv cemetery famous for its tombs and monuments which are
veritable works of art, to talk to and socialize with people, and witness
their gallantry, and civility.

In its long history Lviv has seen many wars and many invaders - Tartars,
Poles, Lithuanians, Turks, Austrians and others tried to establish their
rule over Lviv. Attempts were made to destroy the Ukrainian spirit in the
city. Even its name was changed to hide its Ukrainian roots - Leopolis,
Levensburg, Lemberg, Lvuv, L'vov, but it obstinately remained Lviv.

When the Ukrainian lands in which Lviv was a major city were under the
domination of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, it was made the official
regional centre of the provinces of Halytsiya and Lodomeria. When between
the First and Second World Wars, Lviv and the lands around it were part of
Poland, the city was a major cultural centre, known for its bohemian style
of life.

Lviv's culture absorbed many influences; many religions co-existed in Lviv
peacefully in the atmosphere of religious tolerance. Gothic cathedrals,
Renaissance palazzos, buildings in the Sezession style or in ascetic
modernistic constructivist style create a rich visual feast.

"The very sky above the city, the stars that shine on it, inspire the
people who live here to look for and create beauty. There is no trade or
skill that cannot be developed here," wrote a seventeenth-century
chronicler, Bartolomiy Zymorovych.

It was in Lviv that the first Ukrainian newspaper, Gazette de Leopol, began
to be published in 1776. Lviv was a place that inspired the creativeness of
Ukrainian and Polish artists, scholars and writers.

Ivan Franko, the prominent Ukrainian author of the late nineteenth-early
twentieth century; Adam Mickiewisz, one of the best Polish poets of the
nineteenth century; Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the author whose works
described human behaviour which later was given the name of "masochism";
Rudolf Weigle, the scientist who created the anti-typhus vaccine;
Sholem-Aleichem, the classic of Jewish literature in Yidish; Stanislav
Lyudkevych, the remarkable composer, Stanislaw Lem, the Polish
science-fiction writer of wide fame; Mykhailo Hrushevsky, the historian and
first president of the Ukrainian People's Republic - all of them were either
born or lived in Lviv.

THE PLACE THAT BELONGS TO LEV ----------

Archaeological evidence and chronicles suggest that the first settlements
in the territory of the present-day city of Lviv date to the eleventh
century.
There may be some truth in the legend, with which we began our story, too.
Under Danylo, a castle was built which later developed into a city.

The word "Lviv" does mean "the place that belongs to Lev." In its turn, the
word "lev" in Ukrainian is not only a man's name but also "the lion." No
wonder that are many representations of the lion to be found in Lviv.

The city prospered in the thirteenth and in the first half of the fourteenth
centuries but the wars and fires of the second half of the fourteenth
century wiped out all of the city's architectural landmarks of the earlier
times.

Judging by the churches that existed in Lviv in the fourteenth century - at
least two catholic churches, two Armenian churches and a dozen or more
Orthodox churches, the population of Lviv was rather mixed, but the
Orthodox Christians predominated.

The later chronicles say that there were Armenian, Polish, German,
Hungarian, Tartar, Jewish, Rumanian, and Italian communities in Lviv. There
was even a small Arabic ("Saracens") community there. But the Ukrainian
were always in majority.

In the medieval times Lviv was famous for its jewellers, craftsmen,
blacksmiths and weapon makers. Their products were taken to be sold as
far in the east as in Moscow, and as far in the west as in Venice. The
earliest craftsmen's guild is known to have existed in the late fourteenth
century. In fact, it was not an all-male guild - several of its members were
women.

The wares produced in Lviv and Lviv's craftsmen were well known in Kyiv
and Warsaw. The local school of painting, in spite of south European
influences, was easily distinguishable for its many original futures. Over
the centuries, Lviv accumulated a lot of art treasures which now can be
seen in its many museums.

When Yury II (Boleslav Mazovetsky), ruler of Lviv, the last from the dynasty
of Romanovychy in Halychyna, died in 1340, the Polish King Casimir III
included Lviv into his dominions. By 1387, the whole of Halychyna was in
the Polish hands. The fire of 1381 destroyed most of Lviv's wooden houses.

But the city rose from the ashes again, already in stone. By the
mid-fifteenth century Lviv became a well-fortified place, with powerful
defensive walls and towers. Church and housing construction boomed.

The early sixteenth century saw the beginning of book printing in Lviv. Ivan
Fedorovych, the printer who fled from Moscow where his cultural innovations
had met with the stiff conservative opposition, set up shop in Lviv, and two
of the books he printed in 1574, Apostol, and Bukvar (ABC book) are extant.
Since then, book printing and publishing has been a flourishing business in
Lviv.

Another fire, in 1527, did a lot of damage to Lviv, but at the same time it
ushered in a new era in Lviv's architecture. Renaissance and Baroque
became the successive and dominant styles.

The central square of the city, Rynok, was established as a market place
where traders and merchants from the whole of Europe and from many
Asian countries sold, bought and exchanged goods. The emergence of the
first parks and gardens in Lviv also dates from the late sixteenth century.

COFFEE IN LVIV ----------

The 1620s were marked by a series of epidemics which took a big toll in
human life. A devastating fire of 1623 destroyed more than twelve hundred
houses and great many churches. In 1672, Lviv was besieged by the troops
of the Turkish Sultan Mohamed IV, and in the early eighteenth century, the
city was captured by the troops of the Swedish King Charles XII.

Fires, epidermis and invasions dealt heavy blows to Lviv which began to
lose its political and economic significance. In 1772, as a result of the
partition of Poland, Lviv emerged as the centre of the Austrian provinces
of Galicia and Lodomeria. The Austrian rule brought not only Austrian
authorities and bureaucrats but also new styles in life and architecture.
Rococo and then classicism were in vogue. The city went through a major
reconstruction, which, unfortunately, led to the demolition of many
architectural landmarks of the earlier times.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, Lviv began its ascent to
becoming one of the most prosperous cities in Eastern Europe, a transit
centre of active trade with Viena, Odesa, Warsaw and other cities. By the
end of the nineteenth century it had a population of 160, 000 people, a
considerable number of whom were well-to-do.

Rich mansions were built, parks were laid out; coffeehouses and knaipy (a
specific Lviv combination of a restaurant and a club) mushroomed. The
knaipy proprietors, waiters and attendants knew their patrons by name,
and the other way round, the patrons addressed everybody by name too,
and felt themselves at home.

The small restaurants and coffeehouses became part of the Lviv scene,
contributing to the creation of "the Lviv spirit" which has been living in
the city ever since.

The early decades of the twentieth century with the First World War, the
revolutions, the collapse of the three empires - Russian, Austro-Hungarian
and German - were a most turbulent time for Europe, a time of great
political and social upheavals, and Lviv was sucked into this maelstrom too.

After a short period of Ukrainian independence [after WWI] , the eastern
Ukraine was overrun by the Russian Bolsheviks, and western Ukraine, Lviv
included, once again became part of Poland.

NEW TIMES ----------

In 1939, after the partition of Poland between Nazi Germany and the Soviet
Union, Lviv and the whole of western Ukraine were included into the Soviet
Union. Soviet-Nazi friendship proved to be short-lived and the war that
followed did not spare Lviv.

The war and the Soviet secret police after the war decimated the population
of Lviv. The KGB was remorseless and tireless in hunting down, arresting,
imprisoning or executing "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists." But despite all
the efforts to suppress the very spirit of Lviv, it survived, and the people
of Lviv were in the first ranks of those who started the national-liberation
movement of the late nineteen-eighties.

After the demise of the Soviet Union and with the emergence of independent
Ukraine, Lviv began to revive as a cultural centre, a city of coffeehouses
and intellectual life. Bu it is a slow revival. About 830 thousand people
now live in Lviv, with about 200 thousand visiting it everyday.

The central part of Lviv was put on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.
Much is being done to make Lviv once again a prosperous city. When there
is a hope, there is a future.

Meanwhile, Lviv coffeehouses continue to make excellent coffee which you
sip, reading a book or a newspaper, discussing hot political or intellectual
issues, waiting out the rain, watching the stream of passers-by filing past,
waiting for a date, or daydreaming. -30-
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Check the article it includes several great color photographs.
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