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"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" Year 2004, Number 63
Action Ukraine Coalition (AUC), Washington, D.C.
morganw@patriot.net, ArtUkraine.com@starpower.net
Washington, D.C.; Kyiv, Ukraine, WEDNESDAY, April 21, 2004
INDEX OF ARTICLES
1. OUR UKRAINE LEADER YUSHCHENKO MEETS WITH PRESIDENT
KUCHMA ON CONTROVERSIAL MUKACHEVE MAYORAL ELECTION
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 20 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004
2. WESTERN UKRAINIAN ELECTION BALLOTS AND OFFICIALS
"MISSING" RELATED TO MUKACHEVE MAYORAL ELECTION
Continued acts of provocation and violence
ICTV television, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 20 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service,UK, in English, Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004
3. OSCE/ODIHR CONCERNED ABOUT ATTACK ON POLLING
STATION DURING UKRAINIAN MAYORAL ELECTION
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, April 20, 2004
4. MAYORAL ELECTION IN WESTERN UKRAINE SPARKS CONCERN
By Tom Warner in Mukachevo, Ukraine
Financial Times, London, UK, Monday, April 19 2004
5. TWO MEMBERS OF UKRAINE'S PARLIAMENT QUIT THE
PRO-PRESIDENTIAL COALITION OVER POLICY DISAGREEMENTS
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 20 Apr 04
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian 7 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004
6. RUSSIA, UKRAINE PARLIAMENTS VOTE ON BILATERAL TREATIES
Yulia Tymoshenko said lawmakers approved "the surrender of the Kerch Strait"
Also ratified agreement creating a free trade zone
Associated Press, Moscow, Russia, April 20, 2004
7. RUSSIAN EXPERT DETAILS IMPLICATIONS OF NEW RUSSIAN-
UKRAINIAN AGREEMENTS ON BORDER AND MARITIME ISSUES
Single economic space, border treaty, use of Sea of Azov, Kerch Strait
Radio Mayak, Moscow, Russia in Russian, 20 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 20, 2004
8. RUSSIA SHOULD NOT HAVE RATIFIED ACCORDS WITH UKRAINE
SAYS RUSSIA'S MOTHERLAND FACTION LEADER
Ekho Moskvy radio, Moscow, Russia, in Russian, 20 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004
9. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER STRESS NEED TO
PASS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS TO PUT AN END TO THE
POST-SOVIET ERA IN UKRAINE
TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 20 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 20, 2004
10. UKRAINE INSISTS ON A CLEAR ANSWER ON FREE MARKET
ECONOMY STATUS BEFORE MAY UKRAINE-EU COUNCIL MEETING
Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 20, 2004
11. NATO CHIEF SAYS UKRAINE FACES MORE WORK
BEFORE ISTANBUL SUMMIT THIS SUMMER
One Plus One TV, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 9 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 19, 2004
12. US DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE RICHARD ARMITAGE
DISAGREES WITH NEW YORK TIMES' CHARACTERIZATION OF
UKRAINIAN TROOPS IN IRAQ
By Luba Shara, Ukrayinska Pravda, Washington D.C., April 19, 2004
13. UKRAINE DISAPPOINTED AT US COMPENSATION
REFUSAL OVER UKRAINIAN CAMERAMAN KILLED IN IRAQ
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 20 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 20, 2004
14. HEIGHT A PAIN FOR UKRAINE'S 'GULLIVER'
Leonid Stadnik is already 8 feet, 4 inches tall
Associated Press, April 19, 2004, Podoliantsi, Ukraine
15. WOSKOB PRIVATE COLLECTION OF UKRAINIAN ART
By E. Morgan Williams, Editor, The Action Ukraine Report
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, April 21, 2004
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Politics and Governance, Building a Strong, Democratic Ukraine
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1. OUR UKRAINE LEADER YUSHCHENKO MEETS WITH PRESIDENT
KUCHMA ON CONTROVERSIAL MUKACHEVE MAYORAL ELECTION
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 20 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 20, 2004
Popular opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has met President Leonid Kuchma
to demand the dismissal of the interior minister, the president's chief of
staff and a regional governor over what he described as gross violations
during a mayoral election in Mukacheve. During a two-hour meeting with the
president, Yushchenko said he had documentary proof that his party's
candidate had been robbed of a landslide victory in the election on 18
April.
The opposition has also accused the authorities of instigating violent
attacks on polling stations and election observers. Yushchenko believes the
president was being kept in the dark about the true state of affairs in the
Transcarpathian Region city by his chief of staff Viktor Medvedchuk, whose
United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine backed the winning candidate.
The following is the text of report by the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN:
KIEV - Today representatives of [centre-right opposition bloc] Our Ukraine
told President Leonid Kuchma the truth about events in Mukacheve.
[Our Ukraine leader] Viktor Yushchenko's press secretary, Iryna
Herashchenko, told UNIAN that Yushchenko met Kuchma today.
The meeting, which lasted for two hours, was also attended by the MPs Petro
Oliynyk, Mykola Polishchuk, Yuriy Pavlenko and Yevhen Chervonenko, and
the parliament's human rights ombudsman Nina Karpachova.
The meeting with the president took place at the initiative of Our Ukraine.
The main goal of the meeting was to give the president objective information
about events in Mukacheve. Yushchenko and the bloc's representatives are
convinced that the president is receiving one-sided and tendentious
information from the chief of the presidential administration (Viktor
Medvedchuk - UNIAN).
Herashchenko said that Our Ukraine representatives had reported numerous
violations that occurred during the Mukacheve mayor election and showed
Kuchma copies of polling station records.
She said that Kuchma was also informed about violations of legislation at
polling stations and cases of Mukacheve residents being persecuted for their
political views. The main goal of the meeting was to seek opportunities for
restoring legality and the rule of law in Mukacheve and to uphold human
rights.
Yushchenko and the Our Ukraine deputies said that the meeting proceeded in a
constructive manner. Yushchenko said during the discussion that legal facts
demonstrated that [Our Ukraine MP] Viktor Baloha had won the Mukacheve
mayoral election. The polling station commissions' records show that 19,385
people voted for Baloha (5,500 more than voted for USDPU candidate Ernst
Nuser, whom the territorial electoral commission pronounced the winner -
UNIAN). The deputies showed Kuchma the copies of the protocols.
The results of exit polls conducted among Mukacheve voters leaving the
polling stations were also presented at the meeting. (According to these
polls, which were conducted by various sociological services and NGOs,
Baloha won the election. UNIAN)
Herashchenko said that Yushchenko told Kuchma that Our Ukraine is demanding
that parliament consider this issue immediately with reports from the
leaders of the special parliamentary commission [set up to monitor the
Mukacheve mayoral election and headed by deputy speaker Oleksandr
Zinchenko], the heads of relevant parliament committees, the heads of the
Interior Ministry, the Security Service of Ukraine [SBU], and the
prosecution service, and the ombudsman.
In addition, Yushchenko said that Our Ukraine would demand the immediate
dismissal of Medvedchuk, Interior Minister Mykola Bilokon, the head of the
Transcarpathian Region department of the Interior Ministry, and
Transcarpathian regional administration head Ivan Rizak.
Yushchenko said that such a step was fully justified, since these officials
were negligent in carrying out their duties, and were disgracing Ukraine,
the Ukrainian people and the president himself. The Our Ukraine
representatives expressed the hope that the president accepted their
position, Herashchenko said.
[The opposition web site Ukrainska Pravda on 20 April quoted Yushchenko
as saying after the meeting that Rizak had "after 1800 [on 18 April], once
it
was too late for ballot stuffing, given the illegal order to start
manipulating the records". He also said that Bilokon had been "on the side
of the bandits from first to last". Yushchenko reported that Kuchma was
"surprised, since he was unaware of many details".
The 1+1 TV channel reported on 20 April that Kuchma had instructed
Prosecutor General Henadiy Vasylyev to investigate together with the SBU the
alleged violations during the Mukacheve mayoral elections reported by the
Our Ukraine deputies, including the beating of deputies, the disappearance
of election documents, the unjustified dismissal of state employees and the
illegal actions of law enforcement agencies. Vasylyev should report his
findings by 1 May.] [Please send queries to kiev.bbcm@mon.bbc.co.uk]
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2. WESTERN UKRAINIAN ELECTION BALLOTS AND OFFICIALS
"MISSING" RELATED TO MUKACHEVE MAYORAL ELECTION
Continued acts of provocation and violence
ICTV television, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 20 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service,UK, in English, Apr 20, 2004
KIEV - [Presenter] There have been continued acts of provocation and
violence related to the Mukacheve mayoral election. More people were beaten
up, ballot papers were stolen and a criminal atmosphere is in the air.
A special parliamentary commission headed by deputy speaker Oleksandr
Zinchenko, which arrived to look into the situation, found that the ballot
papers and election records had been stolen, and a guard of the city council
where they were kept had been beaten up.
The head of the territorial election commission, Yuriy Peresta, who
yesterday announced [propresidential] United Social Democratic Party
candidate Ernest Nuser as the election winner, went missing.
The minutes of a city council meeting which supposedly swore Nuser in
yesterday are also missing.
The OSCE diplomatically voiced its shock at what happened during the
Mukacheve election. Its observers saw a polling station being ransacked.
This afternoon, an unplanned rally started in Mukacheve, where [opposition
bloc] Our Ukraine supporters said that [Our Ukraine candidate] Viktor
Baloha's victory had been stolen using criminal methods.
[Correspondent] At midnight, all ballot papers and election records
disappeared from the Mukacheve territorial electoral commission. In the
morning, an elderly electoral commission guard, who had been beaten up, said
that unidentified individuals had broken into the building at night and
ransacked it. Another unidentified individual had the police who were
guarding the commission withdrawn.
The Transcarpathian Region prosecutor, Volodymyr Lemak, said that the
offenders are being searched for.
[Lemak] A criminal case has been opened, there has been an inspection, and a
search has been mounted. Various possibilities are being checked. We are
working to find those responsible for this crime.
[Correspondent] Supporters of Ernest Nuser and Viktor Baloha are accusing
each other of ordinary theft.
[Volodymyr Shepekin, captioned as United Social Democratic Party MP, in
Russian] A force needs this which wants to achieve political fame using
residents of this tiny town. I think that this is pure politics. I don't
think it's elections.
[Correspondent] Late last night at the city council, Ernest Nuser was sworn
in in front of 30 council members and started performing his functions as
city mayor.
The new mayor's opponents have called his swearing-in illegitimate and said
that Nuser was an impostor.
[Viktor Baloha, captioned as MP] They don't have any material proving that
Nuser was sworn in. [Parliamentary] committee heads noted this yesterday.
[Correspondent] The special parliamentary commission headed by Oleksandr
Zinchenko spent the whole day working in Mukacheve. However, the
parliamentarians were unable to meet any members of the territorial
electoral commission. After the 18 April night, almost all of the commission
went missing.
[Ivan Ivancho, captioned as Our Ukraine MP] We only found three out of 15.
The rest, including the head of the territorial commission, are nowhere to
be found. The city police chief has just reported that they disappeared.
They are not at home, and nobody knows anything about them. However, the
police have not received any requests to find them.
[Correspondent] Today, the parliamentarians tried to restore election
results based on reports by heads of polling-station electoral commissions
and copies of records supplied by almost all of polling stations, made by
MPs. Tomorrow morning, the Zinchenko commission findings will be made public
in parliament.
[The opposition has accused the authorities of rigging the election, as
several MPs were reportedly beaten up and polling stations were attacked -
see Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian 0623 gmt 19 Apr 04.
On 20 July 2003, the Mukacheve mayoral election was won by Our Ukraine
candidate Vasyl Petyovka. However, Ernest Nuser demanded that the election
be cancelled. On 29 December, President Leonid Kuchma appointed a
propresidential party member as acting Mukacheve mayor.] [Audio and video
available. Please send queries to kiev.bbcm@mon.bbc.co.uk] (END)
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3. OSCE/ODIHR CONCERNED ABOUT ATTACK ON POLLING
STATION DURING UKRAINIAN MAYORAL ELECTION
PRESS RELEASE
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)
Warsaw, Poland, April 20, 2004
WARSAW, 20 April 2004 - The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and
Human Rights has expressed concern today about polling station disruptions
that took place during Sunday's mayoral election in the town of Mukachevo,
south-western Ukraine.
Although the OSCE/ODIHR did not deploy an observation mission, two members
of the ODIHR Election Section were present for polling day, as part of an
effort to more closely follow the election process in Ukraine, prior to the
presidential election later this year.
"Of deep concern was an attack on a polling station in Mukachevo by
unidentified persons at the end of the vote count, which occurred in the
presence of the OSCE/ODIHR representatives," said Gerald Mitchell, Head
of the OSCE/ODIHR Election Section.
"This blatant attempt to disrupt the election proceedings is an attack on
the very foundations of the democratic process," he added.
"It threatened to compromise the rights of the some 1,600 Ukrainian citizens
discharging their civil responsibilities in a distinguished manner at the
polling station in question. All the perpetrators of this and other reported
assaults should be held accountable without delay."
On election day, the OSCE/ODIHR representatives witnessed intimidation,
including an unusually large police presence and unidentified persons
loitering in and around polling stations. They were also concerned by a
physical assault against a on observer by unidentified persons, without
apparent intervention by the police, which resulted in his hospitalization.
In addition, the secrecy of the vote may have been compromised in some
polling stations during Sunday's mayoral election.
All these violations serve to underline the importance which the OSCE/ODIHR
attaches to the presence of domestic non-partisan observers to enhance
transparency, accountability and confidence at all stages of the election
process. Furthermore, recent election legislation bars such persons from
observing, and thus discriminates against citizens of Ukraine in contrast to
the rights of international observers.
The OSCE/ODIHR will continue to follow election related developments in
Ukraine in advance of the 31 October presidential election. (END)
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THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 63: ARTICLE NUMBER FOUR
Major Articles About What is Going on in Ukraine
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4. MAYORAL ELECTION IN WESTERN UKRAINE SPARKS CONCERN
By Tom Warner in Mukachevo, Ukraine
Financial Times, London, UK, Monday, April 19 2004
MUKACHEVO - Violence and widely disparate vote counts in a mayoral election
in western Ukraine have heightened concerns about a slide towards
authoritarianism as the country's long-serving president, Leonid Kuchma,
prepares to step down in the autumn.
As the votes were being counted on Sunday night, members of parliament who
had come from Kiev to observe the election faced off against large groups of
aggressive young men, described by locals as well-known gangsters.
Moving from polling station to polling station in groups of 20 to 40, the
young men broke through glass doors, beat election observers and attempted -
without success - to steal the packets of original ballots. A few of the
outnumbered police who guarded the stations were also beaten, while most
stood aside.
An observer mission from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in
Europe, which was inside a polling station during one of the attacks, said
all the perpetrators should be held accountable without delay.
"This blatant attempt to disrupt the election proceedings is an attack on
the very foundations of the democratic process", said Gerald Mitchell, who
headed the OSCE mission.
Some 80 members of Ukraine parliament, almost one-fifth of the legislature,
had come to monitor the election in Mukachevo, a provincial city of about
100,000 that has become a symbolic battleground in the run-up to a
presidential election this autumn.
Mr Kuchma last week gave his backing in the presidential race to his prime
minister, Viktor Yanukovich, a centrist with strong ties to the coal and
steel industries. He is expected to face Viktor Yushchenko, a pro-western
liberal who heads a large opposition bloc in parliament.
The Mukachevo election, which as of Monday evening still had no official
winner, pitted Ernest Nuser, a candidate backed by Mr Kuchma, against Viktor
Baloha, a member of Mr Yushchenko's parliamentary bloc.
"This was a dress rehearsal for the presidential election. The little town
of Mukachevo became a polygon where all kinds of black political
technologies were tested," said Taras Stetskiv, another deputy in Mr
Yushchenko's group.
Mr Stetskiv said the gangsters were trying to help Mr Kuchma's candidate win
by targeting the stations where the opposition won by large margins. Another
group of high-ranking parliamentarians is expected to arrive in Mukachevo on
Wednesday to try to sort out the wide gap between vote tallies from
Mukachevo's 36 polling stations and figures given by Mukachevo's election
commission.
The head of the commission announced at about 3am Monday morning that Mr
Nuser was the apparent winner based on its nearly complete preliminary
tally, which gave him about 50 per cent more votes than Mr Baloha.
However, a count based on the tallies published by 35 of the city's 36
polling stations showed Mr Baloha winning by a margin of more than 40 per
cent over Mr Nuser, while an exit poll showed Mr Baloha winning by a margin
of two to one.
None of the election commissions members were available for comment on
Monday, and officials at the Mukachevo mayor's office declined comment.
A non-government organisation that functioned as Mr Nuser's campaign
headquarters also declined comment. A previous mayoral election in Mukachevo
last year was cancelled after a cousin of Mr Baloha's was initially declared
the winner.
Prior to the repeat vote, Mr Kuchma disbanded Mukachevo's courts and
election commissions and appointed new ones dominated by his allies.
Mr Yushchenko's group was refused seats on the commissions. Arguments
erupted during vote-counting in several polling stations when observers were
not allowed to stand close enough to see if votes were being counted
accurately. (END)
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Exciting Opportunities in Ukraine: Travel and Tourism Gallery
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5. TWO MEMBERS OF UKRAINE'S PARLIAMENT QUIT THE
PRO-PRESIDENTIAL COALITION OVER POLICY DISAGREEMENTS
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 20 Apr 04
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian 7 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004
KIEV - Two Ukrainian parliament members have quit the propresidential
coalition in the legislature over policy disagreements, the UNIAN news
agency reported on 20 April.
Serhiy Bychkov of the Working Ukraine faction and Volodymyr Sivkovych of the
Regions of Ukraine announced the move amid growing speculation in the media
that several other MPs may soon leave the loose propresidential grouping
that has a narrow majority in Ukraine's parliament and form an independent
faction.
Bychkov announced he was leaving Working Ukraine over what he described as
government pressure and intimidation in the run-up to the 8 April vote on
the controversial government-backed constitutional reform bill. Bychkov
refused to support the bill, which would transfer most of the president's
powers to parliament ahead of the October presidential election. The bill
was defeated by a narrow margin.
Speaking in an interview with UNIAN, Bychkov said there were "attempts to
intimidate the MPs". He refused to specify where the alleged threats were
coming from, but made an attack against the presidential administration,
whose chief Viktor Medvedchuk is considered to be the architect of the
proposed reform. The MP described the presidential administration as a
"patronage structure that has taken over the powers of the Cabinet of
Ministers".
The second MP, Volodymyr Sivkovych told UNIAN he was leaving the
pro-government coalition in protest against the reported beating of several
opposition MPs during the mayoral election in the town of Mukacheve. The
opposition says the election, in which a pro-government candidate has
claimed victory, was marred by violent attacks on polling stations, beatings
of election observers and fabrication of the results.
"The MPs were not just beaten up - they were deliberately humiliated,"
Syvkovych told UNIAN. "I believe that under such circumstances I should not
remain in the [pro-government] parliamentary majority." Syvkovych was one of
several pro-government coalition members who broke ranks on the
constitutional reform bill on 8 April.
UNIAN has also quoted Working Ukraine MPs Yuliy Ioffe as saying that six
other members of his faction may soon quit.
Sivkovych and Bychkov were among the 26 MPs who on 6 April announced the
creation of the informal group Civic Stance in parliament. The group, which
includes several MPs of the opposition Our Ukraine bloc, pro-government
coalition members and independent MPs said its aim was to foster dialogue
between the pro-presidential coalition and the opposition factions. Civic
Stance member Vasyl Havrylyuk said the group could be transformed into an
independent faction, Ukrayinska Pravda web site reported on 7 April. (END)
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The Story of Ukraine's Long and Rich Culture
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6. RUSSIA, UKRAINE PARLIAMENTS VOTE ON BILATERAL TREATIES
Yulia Tymoshenko said lawmakers approved "the surrender of the Kerch Strait"
Also ratified agreement creating a free trade zone
Associated Press, Moscow, Russia, April 20, 2004
MOSCOW (AP)--The Russian and Ukrainian governments asked their nations'
parliaments to simultaneously ratify two key bilateral agreements on
Tuesday, trying to put behind them a border dispute that chilled relations
between the two.
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada voted 352-16 to ratify the treaty on the state
border between Russia and Ukraine , and later overcame opposition to a
second agreement on cooperation in the use of the Azov Sea and Kerch Strait,
approving ratification in a 274-59 vote.
Its Russian counterpart, the State Duma, scheduled its votes for later in
the day after turning down an opposition attempt to take the treaties off
the agenda to protest Ukraine's recent move to require all Ukrainian
television and radio stations to broadcast only in Ukrainian rather than
Russian.
After hours of debate, the Ukrainian parliament also voted 265-60 to ratify
an agreement creating a free trade zone between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and
Kazakhstan. The Duma was also expected to vote on the agreement, which
Ukrainian critics said would hurt their country's economy and infringe on
its sovereignty.
Russia and Ukraine were long locked in a dispute over the Azov Sea, which
has busy shipping routes, rich fishing grounds and prospective oil fields.
The conflict was exacerbated last fall, when Russia started building a dike
from the Russian mainland to Ukraine 's Tuzla Island, located in the Kerch
Strait linking the Black and the Azov Seas.
Ukraine deployed its troops to the island to prevent what many Ukrainian
politicians called a Russian attempt to annex the tiny island and seize
control of the Kerch Strait. Russian officials said they wanted to prevent
erosion.
Following tense high-level talks, Russia stopped construction about 100
meters from Tuzla, but demanded that Ukraine withdraw its border guards from
the island. Ukraine drew Moscow's ire by building up its presence on Tuzla
instead.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kuchma
signed a framework agreement to share the Azov Sea waters equally in
December.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told lawmakers Tuesday that it was in
Moscow's interest to ratify the border agreement, as well as the treaty on
cooperation in the Azov Sea and Kerch Strait.
"The key thing about the treaty is that it envisages that the Azov Sea and
the Kerch Strait will be used together," he said. "As to judicial
delimitations of the Azov Sea and on how to agree on the use of the Kerch
Strait...we'll need to establish the delimitation line. The talks on this
are under way now."
After the second vote in the Ukrainian parliament, opposition party leader
Yulia Tymoshenko said lawmakers had approved "the surrender of the Kerch
Strait" to Russia. Tymoshenko's party and another westward-leaning
opposition group, Our Ukraine , are wary of Russian intentions and voted
against ratification. (END)
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THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 63: ARTICLE NUMBER SEVEN
The Genocidal Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933, HOLODOMOR
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7. RUSSIAN EXPERT DETAILS IMPLICATIONS OF NEW RUSSIAN-
UKRAINIAN AGREEMENTS ON BORDER AND MARITIME ISSUES
Single economic space, border treaty, use of Sea of Azov, Kerch Strait
Radio Mayak, Moscow, Russia in Russian, 20 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 20, 2004
MOSCOW - [Presenter] We can now talk to Sergey Markov, the director
of the Institute for Political Research, about the significance of the
documents ratified in the Ukrainian parliament and the Russian State Duma
[an agreement on the single economic space, a border treaty and a treaty on
the joint use of Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait].
All three of these documents are without doubt beneficial for both Ukraine
and Russia. But which are most significant for our country and which for
Ukraine?
[Markov] The most beneficial for us is the document about the joint use of
the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait. The point is that under this document,
we are given the possibility in the future of participating in the
regulation of shipping passing through the Kerch Strait. A lot of vessels
pass through these waterways on their way to our ports, and it is a conduit
of intensive economic activity, linking our economy with the economies of
the European and Arab world.
Apart from anything else, joint use means that without our permission
vessels of NATO countries and other states that we find it desirable to
exclude will never be able to pass into the Sea of Azov or Kerch Strait. It
cannot be ruled out that in five or six years Ukraine will join NATO, when
this problem will become rather serious.
Ukraine benefits most from the law on delimiting the border. The point is
that Ukraine, which is striving for cooperation with the EU and NATO, needs
to solve this problem it has with Russia as soon as possible. Because it
cannot join NATO if there are any border disputes or conflicts. [Passage
omitted]
And as far as cooperation with EU is concerned, Ukraine needs to have a
stricter border on its eastern side. That is not the border with the EU, but
the other side. So Ukraine is seeking to have a more precise and strict
border with Russia.
The accord on the single economic space is an extremely abstract document.
And it is not clear how it will develop. It is more than likely that it will
share the fate of the CIS. I mean that there will be hundreds of agreements
which are not implemented, because the real political interests of the
states remain in conflict with each other. But it also has the chance to
evolve gradually into something like the EU at one of its earlier stages,
when it was still called a single common market, in the 1960s. [Passage
omitted] (END)
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THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 63: ARTICLE NUMBER EIGHT
Ukraine's History and the Long Struggle for Independence
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8. RUSSIA SHOULD NOT HAVE RATIFIED ACCORDS WITH UKRAINE
SAYS RUSSIA'S MOTHERLAND FACTION LEADER
Ekho Moskvy radio, Moscow, Russia, in Russian, 20 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004
MOSCOW - [Presenter] The State Duma today ratified the treaty on the state
border with Ukraine. [Passage omitted] A treaty on cooperation in the use of
the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait was also ratified today. [Passage
omitted]
Incidentally, not everybody in the State Duma agreed with the need to ratify
these documents. Thus, Dmitriy Rogozin, leader of the Motherland faction,
said in an interview to Ekho Moskvy radio that this was a concession on
Russia's part.
[Rogozin] We considered that even the very discussion of these issues was
inappropriate in conditions where Ukraine's state bodies are today proposing
to remove the Russian language from usage in the mass media in Ukraine.
Generally speaking, this is a kind of spitting [on us] that everybody should
be feeling.
In this connection we could not, of course, even take part in the discussion
of these issues, and the Motherland faction, when there was an attempt to
extend the voting and to stop the discussion, the Motherland faction left
the sessions hall, and let that be a signal to Ukrainian nationalists that
integration is undoubtedly extremely important, but our Ukrainian colleagues
should behave in accordance with general rules and their international
obligations.
They are obliged to respect the rights of national-cultural associations and
national minorities, while the Russians, of whom there are 12m in Ukraine,
are not even a minority. They are an indigenous people, just like the
Ukrainians.
[Presenter] In Rogozin's view, the Russian language should be a state
language in Ukraine, not to mention the fact that it should be used freely
in the mass media. (END)
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THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 63: ARTICLE NUMBER NINE
The Rich History of Ukrainian Art, Music, Pysanka, Folk-Art
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9. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER STRESS NEED TO
PASS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS TO PUT AN END TO THE
POST-SOVIET ERA IN UKRAINE
TV 5 Kanal, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 20 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 20, 2004
KIEV - [Presenter] Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has described raising
GDP by more than twofold over the next decade as a strategic economic goal.
He was speaking at a conference on economic strategy till the year 2015.
For his part, President [Leonid] Kuchma assessed the Ukrainian economic
model as one of the most effective in the post-Soviet area. The president
and the prime minister also said they were convinced political reform would
carry on.
[Yanukovych] I am sure that the misfire during the last vote on
constitutional amendments in parliament will eventually have no long-term
effect.
[Kuchma] Political reform should put an end to the post-Soviet era in
Ukraine, should pave the way for deeper democracy in society, and should
speed up European integration processes. [Audio and video available. Please
send queries to kiev.bbcm@mon.bbc.co.uk] (END)
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THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 63: ARTICLE NUMBER TEN
Politics and Governance, Building a Strong, Democratic Ukraine
http://www.artukraine.com/buildukraine/index.htm
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10. UKRAINE INSISTS ON A CLEAR ANSWER ON FREE MARKET
ECONOMY STATUS BEFORE MAY UKRAINE-EU COUNCIL MEETING
Interfax-Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 20, 2004
KYIV - Ukraine insists on a clear answer from the European Union on whether
it will be granted free market economy status before the Ukraine-EU Council
meeting on May 18, Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said at a
meeting with his Dutch counterpart Jan Peter Balkenende in Kyiv Monday.
"The European Union isn't making any demands on Ukraine, but the issue's not
being solved. We hope that during the Netherlands' presidency of the EU
[beginning from the latter half of 2004], this problem will come as close as
possible to being resolved," the Cabinet of Ministers press service quoted
Yanukovych as saying.
The Ukrainian Premier supported EU enlargement, which he said would be
positive for Ukraine in the mid- and long-terms, and promote the integration
processes.
Balkenende promised that he would raise the question of dubbing Ukraine a
free market economy country with EU leaders, and help answer it.
The signing of a Joint action program for 2004-2006 between the two
countries' governments will promote the further development of bilateral
relations in the economic sector, the Dutch Premier said.
Yanukovych and Balkenende praised Ukrainian-Netherlands bilateral economic
cooperation, but said there was still room for improvement.
In 2003, trade turnover between Ukraine and the Netherlands rose 47 percent
($266 million) to reach $827 million.
By trade volume with Ukraine, the Netherlands ranks 4th among 15 EU
countries, after Germany, Italy and Great Britain. The total sum of Dutch
investment by January 1, 2004 was $464 million. (END)
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Politics and Governance, Building a Strong, Democratic Ukraine
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11. NATO CHIEF SAYS UKRAINE FACES MORE WORK
BEFORE ISTANBUL SUMMIT THIS SUMMER
One Plus One TV, Kiev, in Ukrainian, 9 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 19, 2004
KIEV - The NATO secretary-general was received in Kiev today. Jaap de Hoop
Scheffer, the new NATO secretary-general, has been in his position for three
months already. This is his first visit to Ukraine. He was assured in Kiev
that Ukraine still wants to join NATO. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer noted Ukraine's
positive steps on the road to Euro-Atlantic integration.
He said that the main task of his visit to Ukraine was to show his personal,
and on behalf of the alliance, I quote, commitment to the idea of strategic
partnership with Ukraine. [Passage omitted: Scheffer's arrival in Kiev.]
[Correspondent] Ukraine was more interested in this summer, when another
NATO summit is to take place in Istanbul. At the summit, Kiev expects
serious NATO steps towards integration. However, it is still unknown how
high the level of the meeting between NATO and Ukraine in Istanbul will be.
The higher the level, the higher the chance to draw nearer the time when
Ukraine becomes a NATO member.
[Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, in Dutch fading to Ukrainian translation] I think
that Ukraine and NATO could create conditions that will enable Ukraine to
participate in that forum at the highest level. Of course, Ukraine must do
some work. For its part, NATO also must do some work.
[Correspondent] Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych reported to the
secretary-general about Ukraine's steps on the road to NATO. Ukraine has
allocated 20 per cent more money for military reform, aiming to reach NATO
standards, he said. Next year, army reform expenditures will be increased by
another 30 per cent.
The last Ukrainian official Scheffer met today, Ukrainian President Leonid
Kuchma, reiterated once more that Ukraine's intention to join NATO had not
changed.
[Kuchma] You know our decision. It was not easy for us from the political
viewpoint. But we are going to the logical end and are working to achieve
the goal as hard as we can. NATO probably was and is the main collective
security structure not only in Europe but in the whole world.
[Correspondent] The secretary-general left Ukraine in the evening. Before
that, answering a question if Russia can influence the approval of the
documents which are to make it easier for NATO troops to enter the Ukrainian
territory, the secretary-general said that the cooperation between Ukraine
and NATO depended only on them and their will. (END)
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THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT-2004, No. 63: ARTICLE NUMBER TWELVE
Check Out the News Media for the Latest News From and About Ukraine
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12. US DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE RICHARD ARMITAGE
DISAGREES WITH NEW YORK TIMES' CHARACTERIZATION OF
UKRAINIAN TROOPS IN IRAQ
By Luba Shara, Ukrayinska Pravda, Washington D.C., April 19, 2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State does
not agree that Ukrainian troops in Iraq are "ill-prepared . and seem to need
protection themselves".
He stated that during a meeting with journalists from the coalition
countries held at the US State Department in Washington, DC.
Commenting on the New York Times' editorial of April 11 on "ill-prepared
troops who form the contributions of places like Ukraine and Bulgaria seem
to need protection themselves" Armitage said:
"I know that Ukrainian forces have stood up in the difficult circumstances,
they had one valiant soldier who was killed in recent fighting for which we
all expressed our condolences including Secretary Powell phone call to his
counterpart (Hryshchenko).
"I was able in my recent visit to Kiev to be very clear how much we
appreciate these activities," said Armitage.
"We all know these are not danger free. Iraq remains the danger place. So I
would find the valor of Ukrainian troops is quite significant", said the
Deputy Secretary.
According to the Washington Post article a Russian InterEnergoService
company has a billion dollar worth contract with the Iraqi energy ministry
in spite of the absence of Russian peacekeeping troops in Iraq.
Responding to the question why wasn't a single Ukrainian company awarded a
contract for rebuilding Iraq, despite Ukraine's participation in the
coalition Armitage said:
"I don't think that the people of Ukraine, the government of Ukraine made a
decision to join the coalition and to put their young men and women in the
harm's way in order to win contracts. I don't think that's appropriate and I
don't think that was what motivated the government," said Armitage.
"By saying that Ukraine has certainly, as I know, has not won a prime
contract yet. But it is certainly eligible, as I understand, for
subcontracts. I just don't know their status. If skills set fits, Ukrainian
companies should be awarded the contact," he explained.
This meeting with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has been one in
a series of events organized by the US State Department to explain the
American position regarding Iraq.
Relations with coalition countries have become a special priority for the
United States after the newly elected government of Spain a made decision to
withdraw its troops from Iraq, considering the readiness of the parliaments
of the coalition countries to repeat such a step.
Besides the Ukrayinska Pravda's Washington correspondent, this press meeting
with Armitage was attended by six other journalists from Australia, South
Korea, Czech Republic, Hungary and two Arabic newspapers. (END)
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13. UKRAINE DISAPPOINTED AT US COMPENSATION
REFUSAL OVER UKRAINIAN CAMERAMAN KILLED IN IRAQ
UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 20 Apr 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Apr 20, 2004
KIEV- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Ukraine has expressed its
disappointment at the decision of the American side not to pay compensation
to the family of a Ukrainian journalist, Reuter employee Taras Protsyuk, who
died a year ago in Iraq. The head of the MFA press service, Markiyan
Lubkivskyy, reported this at a briefing today.
The UNIAN correspondent reports that he said: "We are very sorry that the
arguments presented to the American side were not taken into consideration
by them". Lubkivskyy added that the Ukrainian side hopes the USA "will
change its position and take a fair decision".
On 16 April, at a conference in Washington dedicated to US policy concerning
Ukraine, Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Pifer of the US Bureau of
European and Eurasian Affairs, indicated that the American side had carried
out an investigation into the incident and reported its results to the
Ukrainian authorities. "Concerning the compensation, we deeply sympathize
with the family, however we have decided not to pay the compensation", Pifer
said.
As is known, the TV cameraman Taras Protsyuk was killed in Baghdad on 8
April 2003 when the Hotel "Palestine" (where the journalists lived) was
fired on by American soldiers. (END)
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14. HEIGHT A PAIN FOR UKRAINE'S 'GULLIVER'
Leonid Stadnik is already 8 feet, 4 inches tall
Associated Press, April 19, 2004, Podoliantsi, Ukraine
PODOLIANTSI, Ukraine - At age 33, Leonid Stadnik wishes he would
stop growing. He's already 8 feet, 4 inches. Recent measurements show that
Stadnik is already 7 inches taller than Radhouane Charbib of Tunisia, listed
by the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest living man.
He's also gaining on the 8-11 Robert Wadlow, the tallest man in history. Yet
for Stadnik, the prospect of becoming a record-holder would be little
comfort.
"My two-year-old suit's sleeves and pants are now 30 centimeters (12
inches) shorter than I need,'' said Stadnik. "My height is God's punishment.
My life has no sense.''
Stadnik's height keeps him confined to this tiny village 130 miles west of
the capital, Kiev. "Taking a public bus for me is the same as getting into
a car's trunk for a normal person,'' he said.
Stadnik's unusual growth began after a brain operation at age 14, which is
believed to have stimulated his pituitary gland. Since then, life just keeps
getting harder.
Although he once was able to work as a veterinarian at a cattle farm, he had
to quit three years ago after his feet were frostbitten because he wasn't
able to afford proper shoes for his 17-inch feet.
This month, he finally got a good pair, paid for by some local businessmen.
Their $200 cost was the equivalent of about seven months' worth of the tiny
pension that Stadnik receives in the economically struggling country.
Stadnik sleeps on two beds joined lengthwise and moves in a crouch through
the small one-story house that he shares with his mother Halyna.
His weight of about 440 pounds aggravates a recently broken leg, and he
suffers from constant knee pain.
Despite his aches, he tries to keep himself busy with the usual routine of
country life. He works in the garden, tends the family's cows and pigs, and
helps neighbors with their animals. To relax, he cultivates exotic plants
and pampers his tiny, blue and yellow pet parakeet with his huge hands.
Bronyslav, a neighbor who refused to give his last name, described Stadnik
as the "most unselfish, diligent man of a pure soul.''
His friends, in turn, treat him with the same sort of soft good humor.
They're trying to organize a trip for him to the Carpathian Mountains to
show him that ``there's something in the world taller than you,'' Bronyslav
said. (END)
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Exciting Opportunities in Ukraine: Travel and Tourism Gallery
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15. WOSKOB PRIVATE COLLECTION OF UKRAINIAN ART
By E. Morgan Williams, Editor, The Action Ukraine Report
Washington, D.C., April 21, 2004
STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania....Sixty outstanding artworks from the
Helen Woskob private collection of Ukrainian art are now on exhibition at
the Woskob Family Gallery in the Penn State Downtown Theater Center
in State College, Pennsylvania. The artworks will be on display through
Monday, May 31, 2004. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday
from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
The major exhibition of Ukrainian Art includes a wide variety of painting
styles and subject matters. The collection includes paintings, artwork,
graphics, wood carvings and metal relief by such artists as: Alexander
Archipenko, Rem Bahautdyn, Ivan Baldukha, Valentyna Bystriakova,
Jacques Hnizdovsky, Oleksa Hryshchenko, Alexander Ivakhnenko,
Serhiy Karpenko, Kateryna Korniychuk, Yuriy Kucherenko, Mykola
Kumanovsky, Mykola Malynka, Roxanne Naydan, Mykola Storozhenko,
Victor Zaretsky, Rostyslav Zviagintsev, Olena Zviagintseva, Svitlana
Novhorodska-Kucherenko, Mykola Muliarets and Ruslan Kutnyak.
The Penn State Downtown Theatre Center is located at the corner of
Beaver Avenue and Allen Street, http://www.downtownstatecollege.com.
The mountains of central Pennsylvania are beautiful this time of year and
we suggest a trip to State College to see the art exhibition, the mountains
and Penn State University would be most rewarding. (END)
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