"UKRAINE REPORT"
In-Depth Ukrainian News and Analysis
"The Art of Ukrainian History, Culture, Arts, Business, Religion,
Sports, Government, and Politics, in Ukraine and Around the World"
"UKRAINE REPORT" Year 2004, Number 25
U.S.-UKRAINE FOUNDATION (USUF)
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS)
morganw@patriot.net, ArtUkraine.com@starpower.net
Kyiv, Ukraine and Washington, D.C., Sunday, February 15, 2004
INDEX OF ARTICLES
1. GREAT PROSPECTS FOR POLAND AND UKRAINE
Polish News Bulletin, Warsaw, Poland, Feb 13, 2004
2. 'PRAGMATIC' EUROPEAN UNION DODGES REQUEST TO
CLARIFY UKRAINE'S PROSPECTS FOR MEMBERSHIP
FEATURE ARTICLES: By Ahto Lobjakas
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, 13 February 2004
3. MOODY'S SAYS UKRAINE COULD IMPROVE CREDIT RATING
IF IT ACCELERATED STRUCTURAL REFORMS
Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 13, 2004
4. NARODNE MYSTETSTVO, UKRAINIAN FOLK ART MAGAZINE
Year 2003, Issue 3-4 Just Now Published, Hot off the Press
By E. Morgan Williams, Publisher and Editor
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS)
Kyiv, Ukraine and Washington, D.C, February 14, 2004
5. PUBLIC EDUCATION IN UKRAINE ABOUT THE
FAMINE-GENOCIDE OF 1932-1933: WHO'S IN CHARGE?
The HOLODOMOR (Death by Forced Starvation)
COMMENTARY by Marta Kolomayets, Kyiv, Ukraine
The Ukrainian Weekly, The Ukrainian National Association
Parsippany, New Jersey, Sunday, December 14, 2003, Pg. 7, 16
6. HIV/AIDS: UKRAINE SLAMS GLOBAL FUND FOR CUTTING
OFF HIV/AIDS SUPPORT
Agence France Presse, Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb 13, 2004
7. UKRAINE TARGETS ROAD MAYHEM, WELCOME TO THE WORLD
OF UKRAINIAN MOTORING, OR HOW TO BE KING OF THE ROAD
BBC Monitoring Research, UK, in English 12 Feb 04
8. NEW LINK AIMS TO BRING UKRAINIAN TO LIFE FOR STUDENTS
LINK: http://www.oomroom.ca
Jodie Sinnema, The Edmonton Journal
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Thursday, February 12, 2004
9. FRESCOS FROM ST. MYKHAILIVSKY OF THE GOLDEN DOMES
TO BE RETURNED TO KYIV FROM MUSEUMS IN RUSSIA
By Kenneth Morton, Kyiv Post Staff Writer, Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 12, 2004
10. UKRAINIAN PANAS VASLIOVYCH FEDENKO (1893-1981):
RETURNING FROM HISTORICAL LIMBO
He published with Isaak Mazepa, "Famine in Ukraine" in 1923 in Berlin.
By Natalia Astapenko, Senior Research Associate
National Museum of Ukrainian History, Kyiv, Ukraine
The Day Weekly Digest in English, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tues, Feb 10, 2004
11. "UKRAINIANS ABOUT FAMINE 1932-1933"
New Book: Three Hundred Eleven Personal Interviews, Famine 32-33.
By E. Morgan Williams, Senior Advisor
U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF)
Washington, D.C., Friday, February 13, 2004
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 25: ARTICLE NUMBER ONE
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1. GREAT PROSPECTS FOR POLAND AND UKRAINE
Polish News Bulletin, Warsaw, Poland, Feb 13, 2004
WARSAW....Following a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart yesterday,
President Aleksander Kwasniewski said that next week would see meetings
between specialists from both countries to discuss common economic projects,
including, the Odessa-Brody pipeline, the energy network and the system of
duties to be introduced after Poland's accession to the EU.
Aleksander Kwasniewski also confirmed that President Leonid Kuczma had
agreed to continue co-operation between Polish and Ukrainian troops in Iraq.
As far as the Odessa-Brody pipeline is concerned, both Presidents agreed to
examine the possibility of creating an international consortium to complete
the project to extend the pipeline from Brody to Plock.
"Ahead of us lie great opportunities, there is also a will to seize them, so
lets get to work," said Kuczma. Ukraine's decision to pump Caspian oil
through the Odessa-Brody pipeline will allow Poland to diversify its energy
sources and become less dependent on Russia. (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 25: ARTICLE NUMBER TWO
Daily News Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/newsgallery.htm
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2. 'PRAGMATIC' EUROPEAN UNION DODGES REQUEST TO
CLARIFY UKRAINE'S PROSPECTS FOR MEMBERSHIP
FEATURE ARTICLES: By Ahto Lobjakas
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, 13 February 2004
Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Shamshur, now in Brussels, has failed
to win a pledge from the European Union to clarify Kyiv's prospects for
membership. At a conference at a Brussels think tank this morning, at least
one future EU member -- Poland -- backed Kyiv's EU bid. But the bloc's
enlargement commissioner, Guenter Verheugen, said that although the "door
remains open" for Ukraine, the lack of even basic reforms precludes any
stronger statements of support.
Brussels, 13 February 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Ukraine's deputy foreign minister
went to considerable lengths to argue his country has adopted a more
pragmatic, EU-centric stance.
Speaking at a conference organized by the Brussels-based Center for European
Policy Studies, Oleg Shamshur said the inclusion of Ukraine in the EU's "New
Neighborhood" program amounts to little more than a "perennial exercise"
allowing countries to inch closer toward the EU without ever actually
entering.
"We [have] also made it known that we cannot allow Ukraine to become a
sort of accumulator, a staying ground for illegal migrants transiting
through its territory to Western Europe." Ukraine, he said, needs more.
"While asking for the clear elaboration of a clear, long-term EU vision
toward Ukraine, we have been hearing that, at present, the union is too
preoccupied with the enlargement and the problems it entails. Moreover, [a
number] of EU figures seem to believe that Ukraine might be satisfied with a
place [in] the 'ring of friends' that the EU wishes to establish on its
eastern and southern periphery," Shamshur said.
Shamshur said Ukraine understands it needs to demonstrate progress in
democratic and economic reforms. But, he added, such progress was difficult
without a clear indication of Kyiv's EU membership prospects.
Shamshur's plea won support from Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Jan
Truszczynski.
"We, of course, understand and have always understood the sensitivities
within the European Union [on further enlargement]. But we also know from
our own experience that having a prospect [of membership] -- even a distant
one, even a conditional one -- could be vitally important to mobilize
resolve and will, and generate efforts to pursue difficult reforms to
complete such reforms, and to move consistently toward the long-term goals,"
Truszczynski said.
Truszczynski then said Poland would like to see Ukraine's current
Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with the EU upgraded to an
"association agreement," potentially leading to candidate status.
The EU's enlargement commissioner, Guenter Verheugen, flanking the Ukrainian
and Polish ministers, said that although a membership perspective could be
an important incentive for reform, it is too early to extend it to Ukraine.
"The message that I can send today [is] that we have started, now, a very
realistic and pragmatic approach, and I repeated what I have said -- that it
depends on the political willingness and preparedness of Ukraine, how far we
can go and how much time we will need to meet our objectives. I repeated
what I have said in my [earlier] presentation -- the process is a process
with an open end. So we're not closing doors. We're not telling Ukraine
you're too ambitious. [But] we cannot make promises today," Verheugen said.
Verheugen said the EU acknowledges Ukraine as a "key European country"
that belongs to Europe and has an important contribution to make to the
continent's security.
However, the commissioner went on to say that Ukraine is still struggling
with even the most basic of reforms. He cited grave concerns over the
situation of fundamental rights, democracy, rule of law, and media freedom.
Verheugen said there is "not only room, but also a strong need for
improvement."
Verheugen said this year's presidential elections in Ukraine will be a key
test, alluding to the parliament's recent attempts to change the
constitution in ways critics say would benefit Ukrainian President Leonid
Kuchma and his allies.
"Let me stress that the year 2004 will see important events here. And I
guess that the way Ukraine will conduct the coming elections this year will
be a kind of benchmark, and we will watch it very, very closely. And I shall
not hide the fact that I'm deeply concerned after the tumultuous situations
which we've seen in the [parliament] in Kyiv in December [2003] and in
January," Verheugen said.
EU-Ukrainian relations face two key challenges in the short and medium term.
Although Brussels is expected to approve an action plan in June for
bilateral relations that pledges Kyiv closer ties and more aid, much will
depend on how Ukraine handles the bloc's present enlargement.
Like Russia, Ukraine rejects EU claims that enlargement will boost trade,
arguing it needs compensation and a number of exemptions from EU quotas,
tariffs, and standards. Although Shamshur today said Ukraine is not
interested in raising the issue to the level of confrontation, he did not
confirm that Kyiv will extend its PCA with the EU to the 10 new member
states by 1 May.
The second major issue for the EU is Ukraine's cooperation on curbing
illegal immigration. The EU has long pushed for Kyiv to sign a readmission
agreement for illegal immigrants, arguing it would help Ukraine secure a
more flexible application of the Schengen visa regime to its citizens.
Shamshur today said Ukraine considers such an agreement feasible only if
Russia and Belarus join it as well.
"Ukraine can only confirm its readiness to work with the EU on the
readmission agreement. At the same time, we [have] also made it known that
we cannot allow Ukraine to become a sort of accumulator, a staying ground
for illegal migrants transiting through its territory to Western Europe. In
this respect, we think we should be approaching and looking at a package
approach in the sense of forwarding our initiative of creating a common
readmission space in Europe, which would involve agreements on readmission
[with the] EU, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia," Shamshur said.
Verheugen did not appear to find that a likely proposal, saying Belarus
lacks "everything" to enforce it and that Russia remains "not very happy"
about the whole idea.
In other fields, Verheugen said, the EU is looking for cooperation on
trans-border crime, common border management, transport, energy, and
research. Shamshur, in turn, stressed Ukraine's interest in participating in
EU police and military missions in the Balkans and elsewhere.
He said Ukraine is also keen on moving ahead with talks on establishing a
free trade area with the EU. But Verheugen said this remains impossible as
long as Ukraine is not a member of the World Trade Organization. (END)
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 25: ARTICLE NUMBER THREE
Travel and Tourism Gallery: http://www.ArtUkraine.com/tourgallery.htm
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3. MOODY'S SAYS UKRAINE COULD IMPROVE CREDIT RATING
IF IT ACCELERATED STRUCTURAL REFORMS
Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, February 13, 2004
Kyiv. (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukraine's international credit rating would come
under upward pressure if structural reforms were accelerated and specific
improvements were achieved in the areas of taxes, especially value-added tax
(VAT) refunds, elimination of VAT exemptions, and in the energy and banking
sectors, says a report by Moody's Investors Service, published on Thursday.
"Major political, legal, and bureaucratic hurdles remain to be cleared
before a more rapid pace of reform and microeconomic restructuring can take
hold," says Moody's analyst Jonathan Schiffer.
The report also says that Ukraine's foreign-currency country ceiling for
debt is B1, with a B2 ceiling for foreign-currency bank deposits, which
reflects a substantial pickup in economic growth, steady macroeconomic
policies, and a manageable level of debt.
Earlier reports said that in November, Moody's upgraded Ukraine's
foreign-currency country ceiling to B1 from B2, the rating of foreign-
currency bank deposits to B2 from B3, and the government's bonds to B1
from B2.
Ukraine's first deputy prime minister and finance minister, Nikolai Azarov,
has stated on many occasions that Ukraine's sovereign ratings are
understated. He told representatives of Moody's of his position in December,
2003. (END) ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 25: ARTICLE NUMBER FOUR
Build Ukraine Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/buildukraine/index.htm
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4. NARODNE MYSTETSTVO, UKRAINIAN FOLK ART MAGAZINE
Year 2003, Issue 3-4 Just Now Published, Hot off the Press
By E. Morgan Williams, Publisher and Editor
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS)
Kyiv, Ukraine and Washington, D.C, February 14, 2004
KYIV...The outstanding magazine, Narodne Mystetstvo, is published
by the National Union of Folk Art Masters of Ukraine in Ukrainian
and has many, many color photographs and has short English summaries
of the articles.
The latest issue of the magazine, Year 2003, Issue 3-4, has just been
published, The cover of the new issue shows a boy from the Mykulychyn
Village, Ivano-Frankivsk Region in national costume. The photo is
by Iryna Sviontek.
To take a look at the cover of the magazine and read the table of
contents in English click on:
COVER, CLICK ON LINK AND SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE:
http://www.artukraine.com/primitive/artmagazine.htm
TABLE OF CONTENTS, 2003, ISSUE 3-4:
http://www.artukraine.com/primitive/artmagazinep7.htm#anch13
This is the thirteenth issue of the magazine since it began in 1997. All
thirteen issues are still available but not for long as the first few issues
are in very short supply.
The National Union of Folk Art Masters of Ukraine is working to increase
the circulation of their magazine. If they can do this they plan to publish
more than just two times a year as in the past.
If you have any questions about the folk art magazine, Narodne Mystetstvo,
or need further information please contact: morganw@patriot.net,
202 437 4707 (USA). (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 25: ARTICLE NUMBER FIVE
Ukrainian Culture Gallery: http://www.ArtUkraine.com/cultgallery.htm
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5. PUBLIC EDUCATION IN UKRAINE ABOUT THE
FAMINE-GENOCIDE OF 1932-1933: WHO'S IN CHARGE?
The HOLODOMOR (Death by Forced Starvation)
COMMENTARY by Marta Kolomayets, Kyiv, Ukraine
The Ukrainian Weekly, The Ukrainian National Association
Parsippany, New Jersey, Sunday, December 14, 2003, Pg. 7, 16
Seventy years after the fact, there are still people in Ukraine who either
deny or don't know that their countrymen were tortured to death by the
artificially created famine in 1932-33, according to a survey published in
Den, a daily Ukrainian newspaper on November 22.
The public opinion poll, conducted by the Kyiv Institute of Sociology and
the sociology faculty at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy,
surveyed 2020 Ukrainian citizens, over the age of 18. When asked, which
statement best reflects your own thoughts, 40 percent responded that the
famine in Ukraine in the 1930s was a genocide of the Soviet regime against
the Ukrainian people; 25 percent said that the famine was a result of the
Soviet regime and its actions, directed not only at Ukrainian peasantry, but
at peasants from other Soviet republics; 10 percent of the respondents said
the famine was due to natural conditions, and not the result of authorities'
actions, and 13 percent said that they do not know anything about the famine
in Ukraine in the 1930s. Twelve percent of those surveyed found the
question difficult to answer.
Granted, during Soviet times most people in the Ukrainian SSR could not
speak about this tragedy and only after Ukraine became independent could
these eyewitnesses alleviate their pain and begin to tell their stories. But
the fear that was instilled in them during communist times made it difficult
for many to relate their stories and thus revisit the horrors they endured.
In the West, a new campaign to let the world know about the famine-genocide
of 1932-33 began in the early 1980s, on the occasion of the Great Famine's
50th anniversary, when more than 15,000 Ukrainians marched past the Soviet
Embassy in Washington, D.C. to protest this terror by starvation.
[LINKS: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/wash_rally2.htm,
http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/wash_rally.htm]
Although some attempts were made in the 1950s by the Ukrainian diaspora
to highlight the atrocities of the Bolshevik regime, it was not until the
1980s and the formation of the U.S. Commission on the Ukrainian Famine
that some light was shed on these dark pages in the history of the Ukrainian
people. [LINK: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/comfind.htm]
I come from a family that suffered because of these Stalinist repressions.
In the Poltava region, the land of chornozem, (black earth) my great
grandparents died during the winter of 1933, my father's aunts and cousins
succumbed to death by starvation and the reason that I am on this earth
today is because my grandfather [Ivan Kolomayets] saved his wife and
two sons from a similar fate by escaping to the big city, Dnipropetrovsk.
Despite this family history, I learned about this "deep dark secret" only in
the 1980s, from my grandfather's memoirs, written in the 1960s, and
published by Suchasnist in the 1980s, long after he had died. (This year
those memoirs were published in Ukraine as a separate book of
remembrance, "Holodomor: the Memoirs of One Family.")
[LINK: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/kolomayets_ivan.htm]
To this day, I remember my grandmother's eyes swelling up with tears as she
remembered how she tried to save her family. She died in 1987, never
having said more than a few words about the holodomor (literally, death
by forced starvation).
But today, Ukrainians must know about the famine, they must speak out about
it. It must become part of the national consciousness. Ukrainians must know
their history, must learn from their history if they want to be emerge as a
strong, proud and dignified people on the map of the world. I cannot
imagine a single Armenian who knows nothing about the Ottoman Empire's
massacre of Armenians, or one Jew who will not condemn the atrocities of
Hitler's regime.
Yet, today, in Ukraine, we still have historians who are be Stalin's
apologists, who bicker over the reasons for the famine and quibble over
whether 7 or 10 million peasants died from hunger in the 1930s. We still
have communists who, in May, at a special session the Verkhovna Rada held
to remember the victims of the 1932-33 famine, insisted that the famine was
brought on by a bad harvest.
[LINK: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/fam_hearing6.htm]
And unfortunately, we have a Ukrainian government that seems ambivalent
about the past, seems to say the right things, but does little to educate
its people about their own history and shies away from contact with its
citizens.
Case in point: Although President Leonid Kuchma, has decreed that every
year, the fourth Saturday of November will be a day of commemoration for the
victims of the 1932-33 famine, there has been no government-sponsored public
awareness campaign to get this message out to 48 million Ukrainians. There
is no museum to honor the victims of this tragedy and the small monument
erected in 1993, (it's actually been called a marker, rather than a
monument) in memory of those who died 60 years earlier, does not reflect the
magnitude of this Ukrainian holocaust. And there are no textbooks, media
programs or information services that can provide such materials.
[LINK: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/perevalsky.htm]
Over 2,500 people came to honor the memory of those who perished in 1932-33,
at a famine memorial service, organized by Victor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine
bloc on Saturday, November 22. The campaign, called "Light a Candle" was a
noble effort and the leaders of this bloc brought together Ukrainians from
every region of the country to mourn their brethren. But these numbers
represent just a small fraction of the number who perished. Newly released
figures from declassified Soviet archives show that about 25,000 people died
every day in Ukraine in 1933 (or 17 people every minute).
[LINKS: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/ukraine_rememb.htm,
http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/ukraine_rememb2.htm.
http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/lukov.htm]
Unfortunately, on Saturday [November 22, 2003], members of the Ukrainian
government, including Prime Minister Victor Yanukovych and Rada Chairman
Volodymyr Lytvyn were not there with the people. (President Kuchma is
currently in the hospital, recuperating from abdominal surgery.) They did
come to lay wreaths at the famine memorial before the service, but they did
not stay to honor the memory of those who died, did not stay to condemn
the actions of the government of the past.
To be fair, the Ukrainian government did sponsor a 40-minute memorial
concert - by invitation only -- at the National Opera House on November 22,
but the government committee to commemorate the 70th anniversary
commemorations, formed 10 months ago and headed by Mr. Yanukovych,
met only once this year - on November 19.
[LINK: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/org_committee.htm]
The lack of Ukrainian government involvement and understanding of such
commemorations is worrisome and distressing.
Indeed, it is a great honor that the Ambassadors of both the United States
and Canada took time out of their busy schedules to visit an art exhibit in
Kyiv's Ukrainian House, titled "To the Dead, and the Living and the Unborn,"
on Friday evening, November 21. The exhibit featured over 100 works of art
related to the political famines in Ukraine in 1921-22 and 1932-33. It was
collected by E. Morgan Williams, a senior adviser to the US-Ukraine
Foundation, who has no blood connection to Ukraine, but over the past decade
has become a loyal friend and passionate supporter of Ukrainian culture and
history. [LINKS: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/nov_ex.htm
http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/nov_ex3.htm,
http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/nov_ex5.htm.]
It is stimulating to see Dr. James Mace, who has spent more than 20 years
researching collectivization in the 1930s, continue promoting the cause of
recognizing the famine as genocide against the Ukrainian people by the
Communist regime. Dr. Mace, who also has no Ukrainian blood, but is now
married to a Ukrainian poet and scholar, lives and works in Ukraine,
inspiring students to look into Ukraine's past. [There are many articles
by Dr. Mace about the genocidal famine in Ukraine posted at the
following link: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/index.htm.]
It is refreshing to see Fulbright scholars, such as Natalia Feduschak,
guest-lecture to journalism students at Kyiv State University, raising
awareness about the famine of 1932-33. Her second-year university students
will be reading books about the famine and finding survivors to talk to
about what happened in Ukraine in the year that the United States recognized
the Soviet Union.
And, it is encouraging that the Ukrainian diaspora is still going strong
with its public awareness campaign in the West; the diaspora can still get
people out to commemorate and honor a cause we should never forget.
And although it is disappointing that Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize was
not revoked, the effort was valiant and we should be proud of that campaign
and the fruits it bore: a greater awareness of the Famine-Genocide and its
deniers. [LINK: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/duranty59.htm]
Seventy years after this crime against humanity and in the 13th year of
Ukrainian independence, Ukrainians are only beginning to learn the truth
about this horrific crime.
Questions arise: who is responsible for making the truth known? Who will
tell Ukrainians what really happened in 1932-33? Who will provide them with
the facts? And who will teach them about their past so it is not repeated?
In five years, Ukrainians will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Great
Famine: it is my hope that in Ukraine 10 million people will come out to
light a candle to honor every innocent victim who died in this genocide.But
that all depends on Ukraine's political will and commitment to its history.
[The Ukrainian Weekly Archive: www.ukrweekly.com]
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NOTE: The web links found in the article above were added by the
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS). They were
not part of the original article.
Marta Kolomayets, the granddaughter of Ivan Kolomayets, is a
Ukrainian-American who lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. She have been
very active for many years regarding Ukrainian issues in the USA and in
Ukraine, as a journalist, and as an senior executive of private voluntary
organizations (PVO's) whose programs are working to assist in the
economic and civil society development of Ukraine.
Marta and her family were responsible for the re-publication of her
grandfather's book in Ukraine in 2003. She is presently translating her
grandfather's book from Ukrainian into English. Marta is an active member
of the "Public Committee for the Commemoration of the Victims of the
HOLODOMOR," in Kyiv, Ukraine. [Source: www.ArtUkraine.com
Information Service (ARTUIS), Kyiv, Ukraine and Washington, D.C.,
Morgan Williams, Publisher and Editor]
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UKRAINE REPORT-2005, No. 25: ARTICLE NUMBER SIX
Genocide Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/index.htm
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6. HIV/AIDS: UKRAINE SLAMS GLOBAL FUND FOR CUTTING
OFF HIV/AIDS SUPPORT
Agence France Presse, Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb 13, 2004
KIEV (AFP) - Ukraine slammed the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis
and Malaria for cutting off funding to three AIDS organizations here for
alleged inefficiency.
The government said it would provide four million dollars (3.1 million
euros) to provide care to 2,000 adults and 100 children with AIDS. Ukraine
has an estimated 62,000 people with AIDS or the HIV virus that causes the
disease.
The global fund said, however, that fewer than 60 people were receiving AIDS
treatment. It said that it has disbursed 7.5 million dollars, but that only
740,000 dollars of this had actually been spent.
The fund announced January 30 that it was halting its contributions because
Ukraine "lags substantially behind its targets to prevent the spread of HIV
(news - web sites) and provide treatment to people living with the virus.
The fund, a public-private partnership that has disbursed more than 2
billion dollars in assistance, has approved three grants totaling more than
25 million dollars to Ukraine, but these are given subject to performance.
It said it was halting payments to give Ukraine "the opportunity to address
concerns of slow implementation, management and governance issues." The
deputy health minister, Olha Lapuchenko, said the allegations were "baseless
and partial."
The government said the cut affects national programs run by the health
ministry, by a non-government AIDS program and by the UN development
program.
Lapuchenko said Ukraine would return to the global fund the money it has not
yet spent, and said she hoped that a compromise could be found to enable to
the financing to resume. (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 25: ARTICLE NUMBER SEVEN
Historical Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/histgallery.htm
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7. UKRAINE TARGETS ROAD MAYHEM, WELCOME TO THE WORLD
OF UKRAINIAN MOTORING, OR HOW TO BE KING OF THE ROAD
BBC Monitoring Research, UK, in English 12 Feb 04
KM gives you total immunity, EO works only in the east and 777 looks cool
but doesn't really mean anything.
Complicated? Welcome to the world of Ukrainian motoring, where what looks
like a meaningless string of numbers and letters on your car's number plate
can make you the king of the road.
A complicated system of "privileged" number plates, semi-official permits
and unspoken rules puts well-connected motorists effectively above the law -
but not for much longer, the Ukrainian media hope.
It is this system, much hated by ordinary road users, that experts say is
partly to blame for the 7,000 deaths on Ukraine's roads last year. And it is
this system that President Leonid Kuchma has taken steps to dismantle - with
some important omissions.
MAGIC NUMBERS
A recent survey conducted by the investigative web site Ukraina Kriminalnya
confirmed what ordinary Ukrainian motorists knew all too well. Ukraine's
numerous and fearsome traffic cops regularly turn a blind eye to offenders
whose cars proudly display the "proper" number plate.
The degree of immunity to the depredations of the traffic police depends on
the potency of the magic combinations.
The three most powerful two-letter codes belong to the presidential
administration, parliament and the cabinet of ministers - but wealthy
individuals may also apply.
Their luxurious limos are regularly observed driving away scot-free after
jumping red lights or hurtling at through central Kiev a 100mph, while
traffic cops stand idly by. The blue number plates on the cars of
law-enforcement agencies are almost as good.
Less powerful codes are dished out unofficially by the motoring authorities.
Some work only in their home regions and guard against punishment for minor
offences, others are nearly as effective as the "government" combinations.
There is also a wide range of various permits and certificates on offer,
telling the traffic cops - on behalf of one authority or another - to mind
their own business.
And well-connected people who have no time to waste on traffic jams can pay
up to 10,000 dollars - strictly unofficially - for a permit to install blue
and red beacons used by the police and the emergency services, according to
Ukraina Kriminalnaya.
OPEN SECRET
Although most of this chicanery is utterly illegal, the system of car
privileges is an open secret in Ukraine.
A recent advertisement extolling the virtues of mobile phones featured -
only half-jokingly - a traffic cop pulling over a speeding sports car. The
incident is promptly resolved after a call from the young driver to his
well-connected father.
Ukraine's state-owned UT1 TV channel recently showed an angry President
Kuchma fulminating over the mayhem on the country's roads. "Look at all
those flashing beacons on the roads, look at all those number plates! They
just wave some piece of paper when they're pulled over, and off they go! And
it's the government that introduced all these things!"
The campaign against car privileges has so far resulted in a large number of
special road patrols depriving wealthy car owners of their ill-gotten
flashing beacons. The government has also promised to end the much-loathed
practice of halting traffic on major roads when some bigwig whizzes past to
his dacha outside Kiev.
But although most of the existing special number plates are heading for the
scrap heap, the alluring idea of magic numbers is far from dead. The
president may have abolished the old privileged letter codes, but he has
also introduced a new one - for a narrower circle of the ruling elite.
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8. NEW LINK AIMS TO BRING UKRAINIAN TO LIFE FOR STUDENTS
LINK: http://www.oomroom.ca
Jodie Sinnema, The Edmonton Journal
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Thursday, February 12, 2004
EDMONTON - For the past few weeks, Marko Laschuk and his family have
been chatting up a storm in Ukrainian, practising before they head to
Vancouver to visit Marko's grandparents.
Starting Friday, 11-year-old Marko will be able to practise even more by
logging on to a new website where he can read books written in Ukrainian,
listen to people from Ukraine speak the language and chat with other
Canadian students about their Ukrainian heritage and traditions.
The website, www.oomroom.ca, is the first of its kind in Canada and provides
resources -- encyclopedias, dictionaries, audio clips, worksheets, lesson
plans, games, books and graphics of Shumka dancers -- to bilingual students
and teachers, who are largely concentrated in the Prairie provinces.
The "oom" in oomroom is the phonetic pronunciation of a Ukrainian word
meaning brain or intellect.
"The Ukrainian community, as a whole, is a tight-knit community, but they're
spread out," said Kim Robinson, the project manager of the website created
by the Ukrainian Knowledge Internet Portal Consortium Association based at
the University of Alberta.
"This website brings the Ukrainian community together. Students in
Vegreville or Smoky Lake will see that there are kids like them in Toronto."
In Alberta, 1,037 students are enrolled in Ukrainian bilingual programs and
another 372 take individual language courses, according to statistics
gathered by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the U of A.
Half of those -- 521 students -- go to Edmonton Catholic schools, making
Ukrainian the strongest bilingual program in the Catholic district.
"There's this huge push in language learning, which is wonderful," Robinson
said. That push will get stronger starting in 2006, when all Grade 4
students will be required to study one of seven second languages, one being
Ukrainian.
Robinson said the Ukrainian website will help develop language learning
across Canada and will be particularly helpful to parents who send their
kids to Ukrainian school, yet don't speak a word of the language themselves
and have no idea how to help their children with homework. Chat rooms will
link parents up so that fluent mothers can give their advice. Robinson said
the interactive nature of the site encourages parents to become engaged in
their children's education.
The chat rooms may also be used in the future to link classrooms in Ukraine
with classrooms in Edmonton, creating a global community and twinned
schools.
"For the Ukrainian language community, there is very little available on
line," Robinson said. Teachers, who often get lost on the Net searching for
appropriate sites, now have one site for all their resources. Instead of
ordering books from overseas, teachers can download Ukrainian books.
"For kids, it's exciting, especially the ones whose parents are making them
take (the language)," Robinson said. "It's new and innovative."
Magdalene Koziak, in Grade 6 with Marko at St. Martin elementary, likes the
website. "If I learn Ukrainian, then I'm not going to forget my background
so that Ukrainian doesn't become a dead language." (END) (ARTUIS)
[jsinnema@thejournal.canwest.com]
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 25: ARTICLE NUMBER NINE
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9. FRESCOS FROM ST. MYKHAILIVSKY OF THE GOLDEN DOMES
TO BE RETURNED TO KYIV FROM MUSEUMS IN RUSSIA
By Kenneth Morton, Kyiv Post Staff Writer,
Kyiv Post, Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 12, 2004
The Russian Ministry of Culture has announced that 11 fragments of fresco,
originally from Kyiv's Monastery of St. Mykhailivsky of the Golden Domes and
currently in St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, will be returned to Ukraine.
The frescos are among the most important surviving examples of the art of
pre-Mongol Kyivan Rus, and their return has long been a goal of Ukrainian
art historians and nationalists.
Four fragments previously in the Hermitage were returned in February 2001,
and are now in the museum attached to the monastery. However, several
fragments remain in Russia, in the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the
Pushkin Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, and a museum in Novgorod.
Les Taniuk, a former member of Rukh and now head of the Parliamentary
Committee on Cultural and Spiritual Affairs, said of the frescos' return:
"There are still a lot of objects in Russia that should be returned to
Ukraine. They still have a lot of Cossack items, for example Cossack flags
and coats of arms, as well as a lot of archives from the Stalinist and
post-Stalinist period. It's hard for researchers to write our history
without these archives."
The frescos, which date from the 12th century, spent their first seven
hundred years in the monastery - one of Kyiv's oldest - relatively
undisturbed. The cathedral, known as the Mykhailivsky Zolotoverkhy Sobor
in Ukrainian, was built by the Kyivan Prince Svyatopolk Iziaslavich in the
early 12th century as the main cathedral of the royal monastery.
Its interior decorations, including the frescos, were considered to be among
the highest achievements of the art of Kyivan Rus. The outside of the
cathedral was rebuilt in the 17th century, but the frescos were never
significantly altered.
The cathedral, like many other Christian monuments, was demolished by the
Soviet authorities, in 1936, as part of an uncompleted plan to replace the
medieval center of Kyiv's upper town with a new administrative centre. The
frescos were removed before the demolition, and placed in Kyiv museums.
Three frescos were transported to Moscow in 1936 under unknown
circumstances, and in 1938 five pieces were taken to an exhibition in the
Tretyakov Gallery and have never been returned.
During the Second World War, the remaining frescos were looted by the
German occupying forces, and taken first to Krakow and then to the castle of
Hochstadt. After the war they were returned to the Soviet Union by the
administration of the U.S. Occupation Zone of Germany. But, like many other
looted treasures, they ended up in Russia, whether as a result of simple
confusion or of deliberate policy. Only half of them came back to Kyiv. The
others were taken to Novgorod and Leningrad.
The Mykhailivsky cathedral was rebuilt in 1998, the first building to be
completed in a government-sponsored program of reconstruction of destroyed
ancient monuments. That program was criticized by art historians and
archeologists for its nationalist emphasis. The cathedral now belongs to the
Kyiv Patriarchate.
The reconstruction of the cathedral prompted calls for the return of the
frescos, and the case was raised in a UNESCO committee dealing with
displaced cultural treasures.
Two art historians, Serhy Kot, head of the Research Center on the Return and
Restoration of Cultural Heritage, and his colleague, Yury Korenyuk, began to
work towards having the frescos returned in 1998. Four frescos were returned
in 2001.
Some pieces will remain in Russian museums even after the 11 frescos have
been returned, but Kot and Korenyuk are optimistic that they will eventually
be brought back to Kyiv.
"I believe that eventually all the 26 pieces from Mykhailivsky Cathedral
will return to Ukraine no matter what time it takes and what the political
situation between two countries is," Kot said. At press time, neither the
Mykhailivsky Cathedral or the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture could give
details of exactly when the frescos will be returned. [With additional files
from Viktoria Barchenko.] (END) (ARTUIS)
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UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 25: ARTICLE NUMBER TEN
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10. UKRAINIAN PANAS VASLIOVYCH FEDENKO (1893-1981):
RETURNING FROM HISTORICAL LIMBO
He published with Isaak Mazepa, "Famine in Ukraine" in 1923 in Berlin.
By Natalia Astapenko, Senior Research Associate
National Museum of Ukrainian History
The Day Weekly Digest in English
Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Ukrainian history is full of prominent personalities forgotten,
unfortunately, by their compatriots for some objective reasons. The National
Museum of Ukrainian History (2, Volodymyrska St., Kyiv) hosted the other day
a soiree in memory of Panas Vasyliovych Fedenko (1893 - 1981), an
outstanding political figure of Ukraine, member of the Ukrainian Central
Rada, historian, and political journalist.
Paying tribute to Panas Fedenko, the audience marked, with deep respect, his
invaluable contribution to the Ukrainian socialist movement in the first
half of the twentieth century, and the preservation of Ukrainian historical
and cultural traditions. In the presence of representatives of Kyiv's major
museums and researchers of Ukrainian history, Ministry of Foreign Affair of
Ukraine functionaries handed over some pieces of Panas Fedenko's creative
heritage, until recently carefully kept by his daughter-in-law Nina Fedenko,
to the National Museum of Ukrainian History.
Among the materials transferred are researches on the
early-twentieth-century Ukrainian political movement; monographs dedicated
to the memory of Isaak Mazepa, his closest friend and political
comrade-in-arms, former premier of the Ukrainian People's Republic;
historical novels; etc.
Panas Vasyliovych Fedenko was born December 13, 1893, into an eight-child
peasant family. The Fedenkos had lived for some time at a farmstead near the
village Veseli Terny, Katerynoslav province (now Kirovohrad oblast). Then,
to enable their children to receive a good education, the parents decided to
move to the above-mentioned village, where there were two schools.
As Panas Fedenko proved to be a diligent and apt pupil, he was transferred,
on his teachers' advice, to a grammar school in Aleksandriya, which he
successfully graduated from in 1913. Later that year he was enrolled in the
Petersburg Institute of History and Philology. He dreamed of teaching the
Ukrainian language and history at the school of his native Veseli Terny.
The wide spread of socialist ideas in the early twentieth century played a
major role in shaping the outlook of our hero, a future rural schoolteacher.
In 1915, while in Petersburg, he joined the Ukrainian Social Democratic
Labor Party (USDRP), an underground organization until February 1917.
At the same time, he was increasingly taking up journalism. Panas Fedenko
wrote a series of political articles, contributing to the journals Nashe
zhyttia (Our Life) and Ukrainskaya zhizn (Ukrainain Life), the former being
published by Volodymyr Vynnychenko and the latter by Symon Petliura in
Moscow.
After the 1917 February Revolution and the downfall of the autocracy, Panas
Fedenko returned to his native Katerynoslav province in Ukraine. Once in his
homeland, he began, together with other like-minded people, to achieve his
lifelong dream to establish the first Ukrainian-medium grammar school
(gymnasium) in Veseli Terny. When this school was established, Fedenko
taught the English language, literature, and history in it for a certain
period of time.
Some time later, the Ukrainian Central Rada appointed Panas Fedenko officer
in charge of political education and organization of the masses in
Verkhniedniprovsky district, Katerynoslav province. A congress of this
district's peasants elected him delegate to the Ukrainian Central Rada, in
which he worked until the 1918 coup in Kyiv, when Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky
took power.
Active political work forced Fedenko to move to Katerynoslav, where he, as a
USDRP member, participated in publishing Nasha sprava (Our Cause), the
party's official organ. Working there, he met and became a lifelong friend
of Isaak Mazepa. He simultaneously taught at the Katerynoslav Teacher
Training
Institute.
In January 1919, Panas Fedenko and Isaak Mazepa were elected delegates to
the VI USDRP and Ukraine's Labor Congress in Kyiv. Fedenko proposed
resolutions that laid the groundwork for the Law on Government and the Labor
Congress Universal (Decree - Ed.) that approved the reunification of the
Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) and the Western Ukrainian People's
Republic (ZUNR) on January 28, 1919.
As Mazepa became head of the UNR government, Fedenko was appointed
one of the political commissars of the Ukrainian Army (at the age of 25
only!).
He also took part in drawing up the Declaration of the UNR Government
approved in Chortoryi, Volyn, and then participated in the First Winter
Military Expedition of December 6, 1919 - May 6, 1920.
The advance of the Bolshevik army into Ukraine forced Fedenko to move to
Lviv and then to Poland. In March 1921 the UNR government in exile, in which
Panas Fedenko represented USDRP, began to function in Tarnow. In Poland,
too, he began to publish the journals Vilna Ukrayina (Free Ukraine) and
Sotsialistychna dumka (Socialist Thought). As the Polish administration took
an extremely negative attitude toward all things Ukrainian, Panas Fedenko
and Isaak Mazepa went to Germany after some time.
In Berlin, Fedenko presented a report to the Ukrainian embassy on the
situation in Ukraine after the Bolsheviks had come to power. He published
The Ukrainian National Liberation Struggle and, in collaboration with Isaak
Mazepa, Famine in Ukraine in 1923 in Berlin.
>From 1923 to 1945 Panas Fedenko resided in Prague, Czechoslovakia, combining
political work with academic research. In 1923 Fedenko successfully defended
a doctoral dissertation at Prague Free University's school of philosophy.
>From the next year on, he taught at the Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian High
Pedagogical Institute, where he soon became a department chair and, some
time later, dean of the history school. In 1932 he was awarded an associate
professorship at the Ukrainian Free University.
Attending Prague's academic libraries and archives, Panas Fedenko got access
to sources that helped him explore Cossack-period Ukrainian history. All his
historical researches were highly appreciated by the leading historians of
the time. It is at that period that Fedenko published his first fundamental
studies of the early-20th-century Ukrainian political history, including the
book Ukrainian Social Movement in the Twentieth Century (1933).
The Soviet system would not leave its emigre adversaries alone. The trial of
the imaginary Ukrainian Liberation Union in Kharkiv in 1930 also mentioned
the names of Panas Fedenko and Isaak Mazepa. In response to this show of
hypocrisy on the part of the Bolshevik power, Fedenko published an open
letter in the Lviv-based newspaper Dilo, in which he exposed the crimes of
the Stalinist totalitarian system against the Ukrainian intelligentsia.
After World War Two, Panas Fedenko settled in Germany. He continued his
political work and participated in the Ukrainian National Council's
proceedings. In 1951 he published the book Ukraine's Freedom Struggle, in
which he, as a direct participant, tried to shed light on the national
liberation struggle in the first half of the twentieth century.
The Ukrainian political movement, extremely active in the 1900s-1940s, then
took a certain downturn: it became passive and essentially boiled down to
plain demagogy and bickering among diverse political parties, associations,
and groups. Of course, this disappointed Panas Fedenko very much. After
Isaak Mazepa's death in March 1952, he abandoned politics and plunged into
research.
Having moved to London, Panas Fedenko began to publish the newspaper
Nashe slovo (Our Word). Some time later he published at the same place
his books The Ukrainian Movement in the Twentieth Century and Isaak
Mazepa as Fighter for Ukraine's Freedom (written in memory of his comrade).
He also brought out works of fiction, such as Non-Fatal Glory (under the
pen name of Vasyl Tyrsa) and Amor Patrial.
In 1959 Panas Fedenko was invited back to Germany to work at the
Munich-based Institute for Research on the USSR. In his final years he
conducted research the evolution of the USSR's communist regime and
published a number of works, including Marxist and Bolshevik Theories of
the Nationalities Question, Old and New Socialism, and The New History
of the USSR.
Panas Fedenko died in Munich in 1981. He was an individual who
dashed like a meteor across the dark sky of our twentieth-century history
and was an example of self-denying service to Ukraine.
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EDITOR: We are looking for a copy of the book "Famine in Ukraine"
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Isaak Mazepa in 1923 in Berlin. If anyone has any information about this
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11. "UKRAINIANS ABOUT FAMINE 1932-1933"
NEW BOOK: Three Hundred Eleven Personal Interviews, Famine 32-33.
By E. Morgan Williams, Senior Advisor
U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF)
Washington, D.C., Friday, February 13, 2004
KYIV.........A new book of personal stories by those who survived the
HOLODOMOR (famine terror, death by famine) in Ukraine in 1932-1933,
compiled by Prof. Vasyl Sokil, was published by the Lviv Ethnology Institute
of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine in December
2003. The hardback book is in Ukrainian and has 231 pages.
The book contains three hundred eleven personal stories. All the sources are
authentic and the personal stories are published for the first time.
The collection of stories is for the purpose of calling public attention to
the hunger disaster of 1932 and 1933 in Ukraine. The documents in this book
were recorded by Prof. Vasyl Sokil during 1995-2003 in thirteen
administrative regions of central, eastern, northern and southern Ukraine.
The events are presented in chronological and thematic order.
The book includes an introductory note and different scientific reference
materials. The book consists of interviews that are not edited, they are as
the people spoke with all the dialectic words.
The book is in the Ukrainian language with summaries of the main themes in
English, German and French. The book also has four photographs of famine
monuments and six photographs of people who were interviewed.
CONTENTS
Holodomor Has Ceased Tolling, Vasyl Sokil/5
CHAPTER 1: Collectivization/19
CHAPTER 2: Attacks, Robberies and Destruction/43
CHAPTER 3: Rescue, Survival of People/75
CHAPTER 4: Dying Out of People/135
INDEXES/188
1. Index by names of people who gave the information/188
2. Index by names of places where information was obtained/191
3. Index by location where events took place/193
4. Index by chronology of records/196
5. Index of main themes/197
6. Index of main themes/203 (English)
7. Index of main themes/210 (German)
8. Index of main themes/217 (French)
9. Alphabetical index/224
10. Glossary/229
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