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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"

"GENOCIDE: RWANDA AND BEYOND: How Did 'Never Again'
Become Just Words? Why did Washington do nothing? It was not our
finest hour -- and we need, 10 years later, to admit it....

But there is one underlying constant: the failure of the world to recognize
and confront the evil that is occurring, and to deny it the chance to
unleash its full fury. This is both a failure of will and a failure of
courage -- a deliberate shrinking from a reality too horrifying to
contemplate, but one that can only be changed if it is, in fact, deeply
contemplated, faced directly and stared down....

But one thing is certain: There will be other Bosnias and Rwandas and
Afghanistans -- as well as, regrettably, terrorism -- in our lives. How we
respond to them will determine not only the fate of millions, but our own
future as Americans and the kind of world we live in." [article thirteen]

"ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" Year 2004, Number 54
Action Ukraine Coalition (AUC), Washington, D.C.
morganw@patriot.net, ArtUkraine.com@starpower.net
Washington, D.C.; Kyiv, Ukraine, MONDAY, April 5, 2004

INDEX OF ARTICLES

1.UKRAINE DID NOT NEED MILITARY PRESENCE IN IRAQ, HEAD OF
UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT'S NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE
AP Online, Kiev, Ukraine, Apr 04, 2004

2. HUGE ALL-UKRAINIAN REFORM MEETING IN KYIV EMPHASIZES
STRONG ANTI-YUSHCHENKO, PRO-KUCHMA THEME
Inside Ukraine Newsletter, Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 5, 2004

3. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT SEES SCHEMING BEHIND CRIMEAN
ETHNIC CONFLICT, HISTORICAL JUSTICE SHOULD BE RESTORED
ICTV television, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 3 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 03, 2004

4. YUSHCHENKO SAYS EUROPEAN INTEGRATION USED ONLY FOR
POLITICAL MANIPULATIONS BY THE GOVERNMENT
"Our Ukraine" Press, www.razom.org.ua, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 2, 2004

5. CREATING AN ATMOSPHERE FOR SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH
Carnegie Paper Links Small Enterprises to Healthy Economies,
Says Lowering Taxes for Small Businesses is Key for Development
"Small Enterprises and Economic Policy," Anders Aslund and Simpon Johnson
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), Wash, D.C., Apr 1, 2004

6. TURKISH PREMIER RETURNS FROM UKRAINE VIEWS POLITICAL,
ECONOMIC, COMMERCIAL AND CULTURAL TIES
Anatolia News Agency, Ankara, Turkey, April 4, 2004

7. SOROS ACCUSES UKRAINIAN TV CHANNEL OF DEFAMATION
ICTV television, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 04, 2004

8. GEORGE SOROS BELIEVES FUND CAN HELP BEAT
GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION IN GEORGIA
Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 3, 2004

9. UKRAINE AGREES TO EU ENLARGEMENT DEAL
Deutsche Welle, Berlin, Germany, March 31, 2003

10. PYSANKY: SYMBOL OF SPRING FROM UKRAINE
Romeoville, Illinois Annual Egg-Decorating Workshop
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, April 4, 2004

11. PYSANKY: SOME EASTER TRADITIONS PREDATE CHRIST BIRTH
By Alison Hawkes, Bucks County Courier Times
Levittown, Pennsylvania, Sunday, April 4, 2004

12. UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS "SABOTAGING" ODESSA-BRODY
PIPELINE PROJECT ACCORDING TO NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
"Will Oil Make it from Odessa to Brody?"
By Ihor Demyanchuk, Svoboda, Kiev, in Ukrainian 30 Mar 04, p 3
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 03, 2004

13. GENOCIDE: RWANDA AND BEYOND
How Did 'Never Again' Become Just Words?
Why did Washington do nothing?
It was not our finest hour -- and we need, 10 years later, to admit it.
OP-ED: By Richard Holbrooke, former US Ambassador to the UN
The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Sunday, April 4, 2004; Page B02
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 54 ARTICLE NUMBER ONE
Politics and Governance, Building a Strong, Democratic Ukraine
http://www.artukraine.com/buildukraine/index.htm
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1. UKRAINE DID NOT NEED MILITARY PRESENCE IN IRAQ, HEAD OF
UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT'S NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE

AP Online, Kiev, Ukraine, Apr 04, 2004

KIEV - A senior lawmaker criticized the Ukrainian government for deploying a
1,650-strong military contingent in Iraq, but said that there were no plans
to withdraw the troops, according to an interview published Sunday.

"We will not pull them out soon ... but it is absolutely clear to me that we
did not need a military presence in Iraq," Georgy Krychkov, the head of the
Ukrainian parliament's National Defense Committee, said in an interview with
Kiev's weekly Kievski Telegraf.

Echoing fears that after recent attacks in Spain and Uzbekistan, Ukraine
might the target of Islamic militants, Krychkov said that "not only have we
sent our soldiers into the very hell where they risk their lives ... we
exposed ourselves to terrorists."

He also sharply criticized the parliament's leadership loyal to President
Leonid Kuchma for deploying troops in Iraq "in exchange for U.S. backing."
The Communist and Socialist parliamentary factions have led calls for the
troops to be withdrawn.

Ukraine opposed the U.S.-led intervention against Iraq but now has the
third-largest non-American contingent there. Ukrainian soldiers are under
Polish command in southern Iraq. Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed.

Earlier this month, the Foreign Ministry has said Ukraine wasn't going to
withdraw its troops but Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich also expressed
concern over their deployment. (av/mb) (END)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 54 ARTICLE NUMBER TWO
Politics and Governance, Building a Strong, Democratic Ukraine
http://www.artukraine.com/buildukraine/index.htm
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2. HUGE ALL-UKRAINIAN REFORM MEETING IN KYIV EMPHASIZES
STRONG ANTI-YUSHCHENKO, PRO-KUCHMA THEME

Inside Ukraine Newsletter, Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 5, 2004

KYIV- A huge All-Ukrainian rally of supporters of President Leonid Kuchma's
constitutional reform initiative, held Friday in Kyiv's giant National
Palace of Culture, heard an address delivered personally by the president
that left most observers convinced that Kuchma's main aims remain unchanged,
i.e. to block at all costs the candidacy of former Prime Minister Viktor
Yushchenko and to maintain the powers of his rule, either directly or
indirectly.

Over 3,000 delegates to the All-Ukrainian Civil Forum, made up mostly of
regional and district officials and Kuchma activists from all Ukrainian
oblasts and cities listened as the president launched a sharp verbal attack
on the rightist opposition, criticized a ".bureaucracy unable to reshape
itself," promised to maintain stability at all costs, and extolled the
virtues of the proposed political reforms as "a fundamental dismantling of
the nomenklatura-administrative system." Observers could not escape the
irony that Kuchma's words were delivered to some of the most prominent of
the so-called "nomenklatura-administrative system."

Many found it interesting that there was no discussion of the nature of the
reforms by either the president or other speakers, only promises to finalize
the reforms by all means.

Neither was there any mention of the fact that two earlier versions of the
reforms had been rejected and that the debate still rages even now in the
Verkhovna Rada about the final form of the constitutional amendments that
must be voted by a constitutional majority of 300 Rada members in order to
come into effect.

What is absolutely clear is that the presidential administration and the
pro-presidential majority in the Rada are utterly intent on keeping in place
the strong powers that the ruling clique has built up in the ten years of
Kuchma's presidency. The Rada majority, while quite sure that maintaining
current powers is essential, is less certain about the continuation in
office of the current president.

Kuchma's words and actions in recent weeks leave most observers in little
doubt that the president has come to the conclusion that he and only he is
able to adequately rule the country. With the Constitutional Court ruling in
December that said that Kuchma could run for a third term based on the fact
that he had only been elected once since the constitution was adopted, an
increasing number of Rada members and analysts think the president's
protestations of a lack of interest in a third term ring hollow.

However, it is recent inquiries from the president to the Constitutional
Court that raise the most questions as to presidential intentions. The
questions posed by the president require the court to give specific answers
to questions as to how and under what circumstances it might be possible for
the president to dissolve the parliament. The constitutional article setting
forth the president's powers in regard to the dissolution question are
subject to a wide variety of interpretations.

Among the opposition in the parliament, there is an increasing belief that
the president has - or at least believes he has - powers that may easily be
brought into force to dissolve parliament and to then rule by decree for an
undetermined period. Some of the more skeptical observers believe that what
the president has in mind is a prolonged period of presidential rule, based
on assertions that only in this way would it be possible to maintain
political and financial stability.

With a Constitutional Court that is largely compliant with presidential
wishes, a parliamentary majority in the Rada that identifies its own
political and financial interests closely with the sitting president and a
power elite in the regions that has been molded by years of acquiescence to
the presidential will, the outlook for turning the rule of Ukraine in a
humanizing direction seems more bleak with each passing day. (END)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 54: ARTICLE NUMBER THREE
Check Out the News Media for the Latest News From and About Ukraine
Daily News Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/newsgallery.htm
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3. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT SEES SCHEMING BEHIND CRIMEAN
ETHNIC CONFLICT, HISTORICAL JUSTICE SHOULD BE RESTORED

ICTV television, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 3 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 03, 2004

KIEV - [Presenter] Historical justice should be restored in Crimea and land
should be returned to the Crimean Tatar people, [Ukrainian President] Leonid
Kuchma stated today. The president is paying a one-day visit to Crimea.

[Correspondent] The Crimean conflict [between Crimean Tatars and local Slav
population over land sharing] is being fuelled deliberately - in order to
undermine the holiday season, President Leonid Kuchma is convinced. Today he
met the head of the [Crimean Tatar assembly] Majlis, Mustafa Dzhemilyov, and
other Crimean Tatar politicians to discuss preparations for the 60th
anniversary of the deportation of Crimean Tatars [by Stalin], which is to be
commemorated on a state level.

[Kuchma] I am convinced that no-one will succeed in playing the Crimean
Tatar card under any circumstances. There are people willing to do this both
inside Ukraine, including Crimea, and outside, to great regret. Some take
advantage of this to stop people coming here for holidays. In all our
actions, we should demonstrate that we are capable of solving our internal
problems ourselves.

[Correspondent] Leonid Kuchma also took part in the ceremony to consecrate a
monument to Apostle St Andrew and the main temple of St Vladimir's Cathedral
at the Khersones national reserve [in Sevastopol]. [Passage omitted:
background to church restoration] [Audio and video available. Please send
queries to kiev.bbcm@mon.bbc.co.uk] (END)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 54: ARTICLE NUMBER FOUR
Major Articles About What is Going on in Ukraine
Current Events Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/events/index.htm
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4. YUSHCHENKO SAYS EUROPEAN INTEGRATION USED ONLY FOR
POLITICAL MANIPULATIONS BY THE GOVERNMENT

"Our Ukraine" Press, www.razom.org.ua, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 2, 2004

KYIV - "Ukraine will gain membership in the European Union because our
country is a European nation," stated the leader of "Our Ukraine" Victor
Yushchenko during an interview with foreign journalists, commenting on
suspension of negotiations between the European Union and Ukraine.

He said that it was only natural because "Ukraine can never become a member
of the European Union with the principles that are being forced on the
country by the current government since such model of development is
unacceptable for democrats."

Victor Yushchenko insists that Ukraine's membership in the EU depends, first
of all, on Kyiv and not Brussels. "The time when Ukraine becomes an EU
member depends on Kyiv's political will, on implementing European standards,
democratization of the society, making Ukrainian legislation compliant with
European standards," stated Yushchenko.

He stressed that Poland, Ukraine's closest neighbor, will become a member of
the European Union in a month. "Ukraine has missed this train because
Ukrainian government has never really considered the topic of integration,"
stated the Leader of "Our Ukraine." "This claim is further supported by the

initiatives of political reform, fiscal and financial systems, and the
situation in mass media.

Unfortunately, European integration was used only for political
manipulations by the government," remarked Victor Yushchenko. He stressed
that "Our Ukraine" insists on developing a clear programme of European
integration for Ukraine because it is in the interests of our country. The
leader of "Our Ukraine" is convinced that, when the government in Ukraine is
changed, the process of European integration will speed up. (END)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 54: ARTICLE NUMBER FIVE
Exciting Opportunities in Ukraine for Travel and Tourism
Travel and Tourism Gallery: http://www.ArtUkraine.com/tourgallery.htm
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5. CREATING AN ATMOSPHERE FOR SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH
Carnegie Paper Links Small Enterprises to Healthy Economies,
Says Lowering Taxes for Small Businesses is Key for Development

"Small Enterprises and Economic Policy"
By Anders Aslund and Simpon Johnson
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
Washington, D.C., April 1, 2004

WASHINGTON - Small enterprises are of critical importance to the functioning
of an economy and thus economic development, write Anders Åslund and
Simon Johnson in a new Carnegie Paper entitled "Small Enterprises and
Economic Policy."

However, much of the world's economic production is very small scale: one
or two people operating "under the radar" as individuals rather than as an
organized business. Åslund and Johnson believe it is primarily the risk of
expropriation by government and powerful individuals that constrains
entrepreneurial investment and causes business people to stay very small
scale and completely unofficial in many countries.

To foster economic growth, countries must therefore persuade people to
invest, employ others, and then pay taxes. The question, then, is how can
this be encouraged in countries where there are weak institutions, i.e., no
rule of law, a weak judiciary and less-than-ideal laws?

This Carnegie paper suggests that, at least for former communist countries,
the right way to begin strengthening institutions is by lowering the
barriers to entry for new small businesses and reducing the costs of running
these firms by switching to a simple, low, lump-sum tax. This lump-sum tax
would combine taxation, regulation, and property rights together.

Lower taxes will have a positive direct effect on strengthening the small
business sector and an additional indirect benefit of lowering regulatory
burdens and corruption. Former communist countries that have implemented
such taxes have quickly created a large small-scale business sector.

ACCESS "Small Enterprises and Economic Policy" at www.ceip.org/pubs.
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Anders Åslund is director of the Russian and Eurasian Program of the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Simon Johnson is an associate
professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. [Contact: Maura Keaney, 202-939-2372, mkeaney@ceip.org]
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 54: ARTICLE NUMBER SIX
The Story of Ukraine's Long and Rich Culture
Ukrainian Culture Gallery: http://www.ArtUkraine.com/cultgallery.htm
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6. TURKISH PREMIER RETURNS FROM UKRAINE VIEWS POLITICAL,
ECONOMIC, COMMERCIAL AND CULTURAL TIES

Anatolia News Agency, Ankara, Turkey, April 4, 2004

ANKARA - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that they had held
comprehensive talks during their official visit to Ukraine about cooperation
opportunities between Turkey and Ukraine in the Black Sea.

Holding a press conference at Ankara's Esenboga Airport after his arrival
from Ukraine late on Saturday [3 April], Prime Minister Erdogan said:
"During our official visit to Ukraine, bilateral political, economic,
commercial and cultural relations between Turkey and Ukraine, and both
regional and international developments were taken up in detail. We also
held comprehensive talks on cooperation opportunities between our countries
in the Black Sea which we consider a sea of peace and friendship."

"Besides Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine, we met President
Leonid Kuchma and Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn. I believe that these
meetings will enable us to take important steps for the future of the
bilateral relations between Turkey and Ukraine," he stressed.

Recalling that they had attended the Turkish-Ukrainian Business Council
meeting, Prime Minister Erdogan said: "The current trade volume between
Turkey and Ukraine is about 1.8bn US dollars. We discussed measures to be
taken to increase our trade volume up to 5bn US dollars."

Prime Minister Erdogan recalled that he had also paid a visit to the
autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Noting that they had signed a comprehensive and joint action plan in order
to further improve the bilateral relations between Turkey and Ukraine in
every field, Prime Minister Erdogan said: "The action plan envisages
development of cooperation in efforts to strengthen security, peace and
stability in the Black Sea region, and in fight against terrorism and
organized crimes.

It also includes multilateral cooperation in construction services,
agriculture, transportation, the European Union (EU), NATO, environment,
science and technology." Stressing that there were many Turkish contractors
making business both in Ukraine and Crimea, Prime Minister Erdogan told
reporters that they had also signed a protocol for Turkish Eximbank's loan
of 20m US dollars.

Noting that they had exchanged documents of approval for judicial
cooperation between the two countries, Prime Minister Erdogan said that the
issue of fight against human smuggling was high on their agenda.

"We aim to further improve our bilateral relations with Ukraine in every
field since we have good relations and cooperation with Ukraine under
regional structures such as the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) and
the Blackseafor. Also, Ukraine is a country of importance in regard to its
contributions to stability and security of both our region and Europe. I
believe that our visit to Ukraine would further deepen our friendly
relations with this country," he told reporters.

Emphasizing that high-level visits between Turkey and Ukraine would help
efforts to accelerate the bilateral relations, Prime Minister Erdogan added:
"Besides mutual investments, our countries can make joint investments in the
third countries, especially in Iraq."
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 54: ARTICLE NUMBER SEVEN
Politics and Governance, Building a Strong, Democratic Ukraine
http://www.artukraine.com/buildukraine/index.htm
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7. SOROS ACCUSES UKRAINIAN TV CHANNEL OF DEFAMATION

ICTV television, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 04, 2004

KIEV - The US financier and philanthropist George Soros has accused the
privately owned Ukrainian TV channel One Plus One of spreading "outright
lies" about him. Speaking during a pre-recorded 40-minute talk show
"Dokladno" [In Detail] broadcast on 4 April by another Ukrainian channel,
ICTV, Soros said he was a victim of an alleged smear campaign which he said
had been organized by the presidential administration ahead of his visit to
Ukraine last week.

Soros criticized the so-called "temnyky" - instructions allegedly sent out
by the presidential administration telling TV channels what news to cover
and how to spin it in the government's favour. Soros singled out for special
criticism One Plus One's "Prote" commentary show, which he described as
"five minutes' hate". The show is broadcast daily after the channel's main
evening news bulletin, and is often critical of the opposition.

Soros also said that one of the show's regular presenters, Dmytro
Korchynskyy, was the leader of the radical group Brotherhood (Bratstvo),
whose members threw packets of mayonnaise at the philanthropist during an
event in Kiev on 31 March. The group has assumed responsibility for the
attack.

SMEAR CAMPAIGN

Soros earlier accused the head of the Ukrainian presidential administration,
Viktor Medvedchuk, of orchestrating the alleged media campaign against him.
He raised the issue during his meeting with Kuchma on 31 March. He said that
Kuchma denied any knowledge of the temnyky. There have been no comments from
the presidential administration.

In the days preceding the visit, Ukraine's two leading private TV channels,
One Plus One and Inter, as well as the state-owned UT-1 television carried
comments by analysts and politicians critical of Soros. The commentators
accused the philanthropist, who is a prominent critic of the Ukrainian
government and supporter of democratic reform in Ukraine, of meddling in
other countries' internal affairs.

TEMNYKY

Two leading Ukrainian media figures took part in the chat show along with
Soros - Yuliya Mostova, the chief editor of the independent weekly Zerkalo
Nedeli, and Oleksandr Tkachenko, the president of Novyy Kanal TV channel.

Mostova said that all the country's main TV channels are controlled by two
individuals, though they are not necessarily owned by them. She said that
UT-1, One Plus One and Inter are controlled by Medvedchuk's team and follow
the "temnyky" closely. Meanwhile, ICTV, Novyy Kanal and STB are linked to
influential MP, businessman and the president's son-in-law Viktor Pinchuk,
and are more independent.

Tkachenko, however, denied that Novyy Kanal had any links to Pinchuk.
Mostova praised ICTV for airing a talk show with Soros, indicating that the
appearance of figures critical of the government was a rare occurrence on
most Ukrainian TV channels.

The talk show also focused on the development of open society in Ukraine,
media freedom, aid projects sponsored by Soros in the country, and Kiev's
relations with Russia and the European Union. No further processing of the
programme is planned. (END)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 54: ARTICLE NUMBER EIGHT
The Genocidal Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933, HOLODOMOR
Genocide Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/index.htm
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8. GEORGE SOROS BELIEVES FUND CAN HELP BEAT
GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION IN GEORGIA

Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 3, 2004

KYIV- Prominent American financier and philanthropist George Soros
has said he believes a special fund that has been set up in Georgia at his
initiative can improve the corruption situation in that country.

In an interview published in the Saturday issue of the Ukrainian weekly
Mirror of the Week, Soros said he really believes the attempt to set up
proper conditions for government officials is a step towards eradicating
corruption.

As was reported earlier, the development and reform fund was set up
with Soros's participation in March to provide additional monthly
allowances of $1,500 for the president and other top officials and
$1,200 for the ministers and prosecutor general. The general extra
salary budget for the Georgian government officials is expected to
amount to $2 million.

Soros argued that if a top official receives a salary of $1,500, this
would make it possible to invite a skilled specialist to the post and
demand that he perform his duties conscientiously. If a road police
officer earns $150, measures can be taken so that he cannot extort
money from teamsters, Soros said.

Moreover, if road police officers wear badges indicating their names,
those engaged in bribes would be easier to uncover and dismiss from
their jobs to replace them with more honest ones, he said.

As for prospects for establishing a similar fund in Ukraine, Soros
noted that Georgia passed a corresponding legislation, which Ukraine
could do as well.

Describing the current situation in Georgia, the American philanthropist
said he believes authoritarian rule cannot be established in that country.
He admitted that when only one political force is represented in
parliament, this poses some danger, but there are people in civil society
who are committed to the ideals of democracy and who will control the
authorities. (END)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 54: ARTICLE NUMBER NINE
Ukraine's History and the Long Struggle for Independence
Historical Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/histgallery.htm
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9. UKRAINE AGREES TO EU ENLARGEMENT DEAL

Deutsche Welle, Berlin, Germany, March 31, 2003

BERLIN - Ahead of Moscow, Kiev has said it will include the 10 new EU member
states in a cooperation agreement it has with the European Union.

Ukraine has agreed to extend a bilateral agreement with the EU to cover the
10 new members joining the bloc on May 1. According to Ukrainian and EU
officials, the deal was provisionally signed by both sides on Tuesday.

The European Commission has been demanding the automatic extension of the
political and cooperation agreement, which forms the legal basis of
bilateral relations, to cover the new member states.

Ukraine, however, has asked for compensation for the enlargement of the EU,
which it says will hurt trade. Both sides have said discussions on Ukraine's
concerns will continue, while the European Commission has been playing down
the link between the talks and the full endorsement of the agreement. With
Russia continuing to press for concessions before signing a similar
agreement, Ukraine is keen to point out its apparently cooperative stance.
Kiev wants to see talks continue on steel quotas, anti-dumping and tariffs
on pipe products. (EUobserver.com) (END)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 54: ARTICLE NUMBER TEN
The Rich History of Ukrainian Art, Music, Pysanka, Folk-Art
Arts Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/artgallery.htm
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10. PYSANKY: SYMBOL OF SPRING FROM UKRAINE
Romeoville, Illinois Annual Egg-Decorating Workshop

Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Sunday, April 4, 2004

ROMEOVILLE, Illinois -- Lenore Ryan was a teenager when she first saw
pysanky being made in Chicago.

"I thought it was just wonderful and I wanted to learn how to make them
myself. But then I married and had a family to take care of, so I never got
the chance to do that," she said.

It took 75 years, but last week Ryan, along with her daughter, granddaughter
and great-grandchildren, crafted her first intricately decorated Ukrainian
Easter egg, known as pysanky, at Romeoville's Fountaindale Public Library's
annual egg-decorating workshop.

After watching a film about the history and techniques of pysanky-making,
about two dozen participants lit their candles, picked up their raw eggs and
began alternately dying them and painting them with beeswax using hot metal
scribes.

"It's a little like cake decorating, except that you can't fix your
mistakes," said Nancy Ebbers of Bolingbrook. "It's great for teaching
patience."

Some people, like Bolingbrook resident Cindy Bohac, concentrated on
reproducing the stars, rosettes, flowers and other traditional symbols found
on the decorated eggs both before and after Christianity reached Ukraine.

"It's a nice family afternoon, and we keep the eggs we make and display them
at Easter," she said. Other egg artists put a decidedly non-traditional spin
on their creations, drawing everything from swords to polka dots to
free-form whorls.

And some people just enjoyed getting the feel of laying thin strands of
liquid wax onto the fragile eggshells. "I have no clue what design I'm
doing," Jennifer Dillon of Romeoville cheerfully admitted. "I'm just drawing
lines and hoping they'll turn out to be something when I'm done. It's hard
to draw straight lines, but it is fun."

After alternately drawing design details on eggs and plunking them into dye
baths, participants eagerly held their eggs to the flames, wiped off the
melted wax and revealed their finished creations in all their multicolored
splendor.

"I think I'll be keeping my day job," Bohac quipped. "But this is good
enough to put on display with the others."

Though few workshop participants are of Ukrainian descent, they come each
year because they are attracted to the beauty and symbolism of the
millennia-old art form, said teacher Wendy Birkemeier, coordinator of
children's services for the library district.

"Pysanky are about renewal and the coming of spring," she explained. "The
original designs featured sun symbols, flowers, wheat and farm animals.
Christianity added the cross and the fish to celebrate Easter. It's the
perfect way to mark the end of a long winter." (END)
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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 54: ARTICLE NUMBER ELEVEN
The Rich History of Ukrainian Art, Music, Pysanka, Folk-Art
Arts Gallery: http://www.artukraine.com/artgallery.htm
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11. PYSANKY: SOME EASTER TRADITIONS PREDATE BIRTH OF CHRIST

By Alison Hawkes, Bucks County Courier Times
Levittown, Pennsylvania, www.PhillyBurbs.com, Sunday, April 4, 2004

JENKINTOWN, PA - For Orysia Hewka, Easter time brings moments of
intense consternation over an egg.

In the Ukrainian tradition, hand-colored eggs are the springtime ticket to
good health, prosperity and many children. Such priceless qualities deserve
one's unbounded attention.

For Hewka, she used 24 hours, in two-hour increments, to create a turkey
egg with intricate patterns of ancient designs by dribbling it with hot wax.

"I can appreciate ... when you have a big ostrich egg how long it will
take," said Hewka, the executive director of the Ukrainian Educational and
Cultural Center in Jenkintown.

The center puts on classes in Bucks County on the art form of pysanky,
meaning "to write." The tradition dates back to 2000 B.C., well before
Christianity reached this land, in the heart of Eastern Europe.

Now it's become tied to Easter, itself a holiday that mixes pagan
celebrations of spring into the weightier commemoration of Jesus'
resurrection. Bunnies and chicks are linked to the rebirth of spring.

Traditions abound during this season.

The waving of palm branches the Sunday before Easter is taken directly from
the Gospel when Christ walked by adoring crowds as he entered Jerusalem
before the Passion.

"Palms were a sign of royalty," said the Rev. Bernard Andracchio of Christ
the King Church in Tullytown. "They were putting the branches at his feet
and hailing him as king."

Christian churches have reenacted the procession for centuries. At Christ
the King Church, on Palm Sunday, the congregation walks around the church
with 4-foot-long fronds and sings praises to the Lord, Andracchio said.

Braiding palm fronds into crosses is an extension of the tradition, he said.

And then there's chocolates and candies in all shapes and sizes, a staple of
all holidays. Pam Roberts of Gabe's Candy and Nut House in Bensalem,
dresses up her goodies to give them a special Easter flare.

Using chocolate molds, she makes 4-foot-long crosses adorned with flowers.
Her Last Supper bars are in demand locally and afar.

"When we first got into this, we were hesitant to make this because eating
the apostles didn't seem like a good idea," she said.

She said she doesn't know how Easter and chocolate became linked. But it's
good for business, she added.
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12. UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS "SABOTAGING" ODESSA-BRODY
PIPELINE PROJECT ACCORDING TO NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

"Will Oil Make it from Odessa to Brody?"
By Ihor Demyanchuk, Svoboda, Kiev, in Ukrainian 30 Mar 04, p 3
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 03, 2004

KIEV - The Ukrainian deputy prime minister for fuel and energy, Andriy
Klyuyev, is looking for funds to complete the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline
project, an independent Ukrainian newspaper has said. Ukrainian officials in
charge of managing Ukraine's pipelines have been "sabotaging" the project,
while the money allocated for its implementation has been squandered, the
paper said.

The following is the text of the article by Ihor Demyanchuk, entitled "Will
oil make it from Odessa to Brody?", published by the Ukrainian newspaper
Svoboda on 30 March; subheadings have been inserted editorially:

Although there is still no oil, the matter is getting started. The dismissal
of [former Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Serhiy] Yermilov could hinder,
but should not stop, the process: all the members of the government voted in
a "patriotic fit" in February for the resolution on using the Odessa-Brody
oil pipeline. (By the way, the fuel and energy minister was rid of not so
much for his protecting the pipeline against the Russians as for coal: he
had planned to curtail state subsidies for coke coal, which go to middlemen
in metallurgy, not to miners.) In March Deputy Prime Minister [in charge of
energy] Andriy Klyuyev made several steps in the direction of Brody.

He held talks in Strasbourg with the leadership of the European Commission
and the general director of transport and energy. Vice President of the
European Commission [Loyola de] Palacio expressed her readiness to assist in
activating the pipeline as quickly as possible: organizing consultations
with representatives of Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and the
European Commission, as well as helping receive funds from the European
Investment Bank, the EBRD [European Bank for Reconstruction and Development]
and other financial institutions. Money - that is serious and convincing.
The Ukrainian government cannot find it to fill the pipeline with
technological oil; credits are also needed to complete building the pipe to
[the Polish town of] Plock.

In Astana on 17 March, Klyuyev agreed with Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
[Daniyal] Akhmetov (no relations to [the influential Ukrainian tycoon Renat
Akhmetov] of Donetsk!) to sign an agreement in April to supply oil to
Ukrainian oil refineries (more exactly, the oil refineries which are located
in Ukraine) and to transport Kazakh oil across Ukrainian territory.
Moreover, the Kazakh side will provide commercial conditions for 2m t of oil
a year to be transported across the route Odessa-Brody to Europe.

That is not much, taking into account the capacity of the pipeline at 9 to
14.5m tonnes, but there is one other thing. There are agreements with
Polish, Slovak and Czech oil refineries. A Ukrainian-Polish working group,
which determines routes for transporting oil in steel tanks, sets tariffs
and deals with technological issues, continues its work. The pipeline from
Brody to Plock is being developed and should be on line in three years.

BARRIERS TO USING PIPELINE

But barriers to pumping oil from Odessa to Brody are still significant.
Using the pipeline in reverse [from Brody to Odessa to deliver Russian oil
to the Black Sea coast for exports] lost any economic sense it had when in
November 2003 the Mykolayivska pumping station on the Kremenchuk-Snihurivka
section of the Prydniprovskyy main oil pipelines systems.

This increased the throughput capacity to the Pivdennyy oil terminal
[outside Odessa] by 5m t, after which the Prydniprovskyy system can pump an
additional 9m t of oil to the terminal. This is shorter and cheaper than
using Brody-Odessa (Pivdennyy) in reverse. Still, the Russians are counting
on this [reverse use] with the goal of blocking the optimal route to Europe
for competitive Caspian oil.

Their interests are being lobbied not so much by domestic tycoons as by
bureaucrats. It should be noted that the least Russian capital is in the
Russianized Donetsk Region, because there they have their own big financial
industrial group. Without excessive noise the "Kievites" [the business group
of presidential chief of staff Viktor Medvedchuk and his business partner
Hryhoriy Surkis] made another run on [Russian businessman Konstantin]
Grigorishin, who has shares in the Ukrainian energy sector.

The financial industrial groups are defending their own interests (of
course, this is not Ukrainian patriotism, rather a love for "one's own" and
"one's own must be protected", as [Ukrainian President Leonid] Kuchma
teaches).

In the meantime, bureaucrats who are entrusted with managing state property
are not defending state interests that way. The head of [the Ukrainian
national oil and gas company] Naftohaz Ukrayiny, Yuriy Boyko, and the
general director of [the Ukrainian national oil transport company]
Ukrtransnafta, Stanislav Vasylenko let loose the experiment of pumping
portions of two different sorts of oil after each other through the Druzhba
oil pipeline (a technology needed for the Odessa-Brody project); they did
nothing to fill the pipeline. This cannot be explained as anything other
than an attempt to play into the hands of the Russians.

Relations between Ukrtransnafta and the Russian Transneft [oil transport
company] have changed: earlier, the Ukrainian company made agreement with
individual transporters, but now Transneft has become the single monopolist
operator of the Ukrainian oil transport system.

Not long ago management of the Pivdennyy oil terminal was lost as well, its
operator as of the beginning of the year is the (?Collide Ltd.) company,
which was registered in 2003 in the British Virgin Islands and whose
authorized capital is all of six dollars. The company instituted a loading
tariff of 14 dollars a tonne, but the price was lowered to six dollars after
owners and traders put up a fuss. About half of the 6-dollar tariff is taken
by our state [of Ukraine].

The offshore middleman, having invested a mere six dollars, is managing the
facility which cost Ukraine 100 million times more! Neither the
Prosecutor-General's Office, the government, the president nor [the
propresidential newspaper] Kiyesvkiye Vedomosti (sprung forth from the same
Virgin Islands) reacted to this fact. Although losing control over this
terminal [means] not only losses but the hazard of blocking the Odessa-Brody
project.

PROJECT "SABOTAGED"

Now the main problem is filling the pipeline with technological oil. The
government has announced that there is no money, and this is not surprising,
since the presidential campaign requires significant outlays. Boyko and
Vasylenko are sabotaging this problem. According to Yermilov, the tax
administration returned VAT to Naftohaz a year ago. These funds were to be
used to buy technological oil. (For the refunded VAT and the Naftohaz debt
to Ukrtransnafta, 75 per cent of the needed technological oil for
Odessa-Brody could have been bought. The rest of the 18-20m dollars was not
an issue for activating the project even in March. But the money refunded
has been successfully thwarted and not a single tonne of oil was purchased",
Yermilov said.

The government wants to find the money by offering the pipelines as a
concession. There are several interested parties: the Russian company TNK
(which can whereby solve the reverse problem), the American Chevron-Texaco,
Caspian area companies and the Enerhiya concern (which is controlled by
businessmen from Donetsk, in particular, by Prosecutor-General Henadiy
Vasylyev). On this topic, MP Oleksandr Hudyma believes that if one is
already going to give someone the pipeline which could lay "golden eggs",
then one must clearly formulate the conditions on the direction of its use,
restrictions on privatization and on investment and payments.

The pipeline is to begin operating in the first quarter of 2004. For this to
happen in the first half year, not only do the obstacles have to be removed,
but the saboteurs must be dealt with too. (END
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13. GENOCIDE: RWANDA AND BEYOND

How Did 'Never Again' Become Just Words?
Why did Washington do nothing?
It was not our finest hour -- and we need, 10 years later, to admit it.

OP-ED: By Richard Holbrooke, former US Ambassador to the UN
The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Sunday, April 4, 2004; Page B02

Last December I stood on a nearly finished terrace outside Kigali, the
capital of Rwanda, and gazed out over a field that held the remains of some
250,000 victims of the worst genocide since World War II. The scene was
vastly different from what I had seen on my first visit four years earlier.

Then, this same site had been nothing but a tract of mud thickly planted
with crooked wooden crosses. Survivors of Rwanda's genocide had talked to
us, sorrowfully, recalling April 1994 and their desperate pleas to the
United Nations peacekeeping force not to withdraw, not to allow the murders
that were about to take place.

Now the muddy field is green, and slopes gently toward the river, the same
river where the bodies were once piled several feet deep. In the small
museum, photographs and rows of skulls -- eerily reminiscent of the Tuol
Sleng prison in Cambodia -- chill the visitor into stunned, stricken
silence.

What happened in Rwanda -- as in Auschwitz, Babi Yar, Tuol Sleng and
Srebrenica -- cannot be fully explained in words. It is unfathomable on so
many levels, a horror we want to convince ourselves is beyond human
capacity, despite all the evidence of history. Indeed, this week, on the
10th anniversary of the genocide, the memorial that has been built on that
Rwandan killing field will be dedicated, and dignitaries will come from all
over the world and vow, just as they did after Auschwitz, never to let it
happen again.

The catchphrase for the Rwandas and Bosnias of the world, as with the
Holocaust itself, is always the same: Never again. Yet time after time, it
does happen again. Of course, the specific circumstances always differ; each
time they are described as unique. Each time we are told of "ancient tribal"
or "ethnic" hatreds; each time there is international "compassion fatigue";
each time there is a demand for an "exit strategy" rather than a "success
strategy." [ED: Including the genocide in Ukraine in 1932-1933]

But there is one underlying constant: the failure of the world to recognize
and confront the evil that is occurring, and to deny it the chance to
unleash its full fury. This is both a failure of will and a failure of
courage -- a deliberate shrinking from a reality too horrifying to
contemplate, but one that can only be changed if it is, in fact, deeply
contemplated, faced directly and stared down.

The lesson of each genocide is the same: The killing really takes off only
after the murderers see that the world, and especially the United States, is
not going to care or react. That was the lesson of Bosnia, of East Timor, of
Angola and of Rwanda. More recently, it was the lesson of Liberia, where the
killing and destruction last summer could have been ended earlier if the
Bush administration had sent U.S. Marines, waiting on ships just off the
coast, into Monrovia. But it didn't, and once again, an avoidable tragedy
continued, with 12-year-old child soldiers slaughtering innocents in the
streets.

Yes, what happened in Rwanda is difficult to explain. But as living
witnesses, we must try. Let me start with the unavoidable truth: Rwanda's
genocide, or at least much of it, might have been avoided had the world
acted. But as the slaughter started, and after the gruesome killing of 10
U.N. peacekeepers from Belgium, the U.N. Security Council instructed its
undermanned and overwhelmed peacekeeping forces in Rwanda to withdraw,
ignoring the U.N. commander's request for reinforcements. Some Tutsi who saw
clearly what would happen famously wrote a letter that included the line,
"We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families."

At least 800,000 people were slaughtered in about three months, a faster
rate of killing than even during the Holocaust. The international media, to
the extent that it covered the event at all, reported it primarily as an
outbreak of crazed African tribal butchery. Of course, this coverage, with
its racist subtext, was not true. The genocide was planned, and the deaths
were almost all those of one ethnic group, the Tutsis. Lists of victims had
been drawn up well in advance and broadcast on the radio, name by name,
even license plate by license plate.

Had the Security Council agreed to the U.N. commander's request and sent
more troops, I believe, as do most other observers, that at least half the
deaths, if not more, could have been prevented. Instead, when the United
Nations withdrew, the genocide exploded.

But -- I must stress this point -- the U.N. withdrawal was not determined by
something abstract called "the United Nations." That organization is nothing
more than the sum of its members. And in this case, this meant the 15
members of the Security Council; above all, the five permanent members --
the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia and China -- and, even more
centrally, the United States, France and Britain. It was not "the U.N." --
that tall building on New York's East River, overflowing with diplomatic
talk -- that decided to pull out. No. It was the leading nations of the
world, speaking through their ambassadors in New York.

I write today as a private citizen, but also as a former member of President
Bill Clinton's Cabinet, who was proud and honored to serve in his
administration. As ambassador to Germany in April 1994, I was involved in
different issues, but I share President Clinton's publicly stated
acknowledgment that what happened here was in part an American failure. As
he said when he made the first of two visits to Kigali on March 25, 1998,
"It may seem strange to you here . . . but all over the world there were
people like me sitting in offices, day after day after day, who did not
fully appreciate the depth and the speed with which you were being engulfed
by this unimaginable terror."

Details matter here. On April 15, 1994, in the Security Council, the United
States demanded a full U.N. withdrawal. We even opposed helping other
nations who might have intervened, and deleted the use of the word
"genocide" from the U.N.'s statements. In fact, only the French did
intervene eventually, in a limited way. Had we shown a willingness to
airlift even a relatively small contingent of American troops into Rwanda,
others would have definitely followed, and the Security Council would have
passed the necessary authorizing resolutions. Our troops were in Germany,
ready and available. The U.S. Air Force knew the area and its airfields well
from its relief operations.

Why did Washington do nothing? The answer lies primarily in events outside
Rwanda. The United States was reeling from the "Black Hawk Down" disaster in
Somalia only six months earlier. American troops had just left that country;
Congress would have opposed any new American intervention in Africa. The
United Nations was discredited by its actions regarding Bosnia and Somalia;
it had lost its will under a confused and beleaguered secretary-general.
Bosnia itself was at the height of a war that seemed far worse (although in
the end its death toll was a "mere" 300,000) and was receiving much more
media attention.

Inside the administration, and in a Congress that was virtually isolationist
in regard to Africa, there was no stomach for even a limited intervention --
and who could assure the American public, so much more skeptical of
intervention in 1994 than since 9/11, that it really would be limited? It
was not our finest hour -- and we need, 10 years later, to admit it.

So Rwanda fell to its near-death. Then, and only then, did the rest of the
world realize the historic enormity of what had happened. It took the
actions of the Tutsi military commander, Paul Kagame, to finally stop the
genocide -- and today, he is the president of Rwanda. Since then, progress
has been made in reconciliation between Hutus and Tutsis, but the danger, in
both Rwanda and neighboring Burundi, is far from gone.

Will it always take a 9/11 to mobilize our nation? No one can doubt now that
action in Afghanistan against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden before 9/11
would have been justified and might even have thwarted the horrors at home.
But such action would not have had much support in the United States before
Sept. 11, 2001. Perhaps 9/11 will be seen as a wake-up call for actions that
go beyond the war on terrorism. But our failure to act in Liberia last year
was a depressing reminder that "Never again" is more a slogan than a policy
for our nation.

It is not easy to solve one of the nation's, and the world's, most complex
questions: when and how to intervene in situations that do not involve our
immediate national security. Each crisis of the post-Cold War era tells a
different story. Bosnia and East Timor were, after appallingly slow starts,
relative successes; that is, the wars are over -- with no American or NATO
casualties. Kosovo and Afghanistan are still works in progress. Iraq is
unique, and, at present, an increasingly ominous mess. Liberia and Angola
and Sierra Leone are improving, though not yet enough. Sudan remains a
tragedy.

But one thing is certain: There will be other Bosnias and Rwandas and
Afghanistans -- as well as, regrettably, terrorism -- in our lives. How we
respond to them will determine not only the fate of millions, but our own
future as Americans and the kind of world we live in.

We must learn from the errors that allowed Rwanda to take place. Let us pray
that there truly never will be a need for yet another memorial, somewhere as
yet undetermined, to remember another horror that has not yet occurred.
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Richard Holbrooke is former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. This
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in Rwanda . [Author's e-mail: rholbrooke@perseusllc.com] (END)
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