"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT"
In-Depth Ukrainian News, Analysis, and Commentary
"The Art of Ukrainian History, Culture, Arts, Business, Religion,
Sports, Government, and Politics, in Ukraine and Around the World"
"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" Year 04, Number 101
Action Ukraine Coalition (AUC), Washington, D.C.
Ukrainian Federation of America (UFA), Huntingdon Valley, PA
morganw@patriot.net, ArtUkraine.com@starpower.net
Washington, D.C.; Kyiv, Ukraine, TUESDAY, June 22, 2004
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"Major International News Headlines and Articles"
1. RUSSIA SHOULD LIMIT UKRAINIAN IMPORTS OF STEEL
"The winner of the tender acquired Kryvorizhstal at an unfairly low price,"
Moscow Times, Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 22, 2004
2. PRESIDENT LEONID KUCHMA WOULD DO WELL BY TAKING
CARE OF HIS ENTIRE UKRAINIAN FAMILY, NOT JUST HIS
SON-IN-LAW
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Ukraine has an excellent opportunity to bolster foreign capital investment
By George Mischenko, Middletown, NJ
Financial Times, London, UK, Friday, Jun 18, 2004
3. UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT DOUBLES THE REWARDS
FOR 2004 OLYMPIC MEDAL WINNERS IN ATHENS
AP Online, Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Jun 18, 2004
4. POLISH GLASS MANUFACTURER ABOUT TO COMPLETE
UKRAINIAN INVESTMENT IN SLAWUTA GLASS WORKS
Polish News Bulletin, Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Jun 21, 2004
5. UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS BATTLE TO GET RUSSIAN
POP MUSIC HITS OFF BUSES IN WESTERN UKRAINE
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow,
The Independent, London, UK, Monday, 21 June 2004
6. PORK CHOC ON THE MENU IN UKRAINE
By Helen Fawkes, BBC, Ukraine
BBC NEWS, UK, Monday, June 21, 2004
7. ELECTION OF UKRAINIAN SPEAKER LYTVYN AS AGRARIAN
PARTY HEAD SEEN AS "BLOW TO OTHER PLAYERS
"The Saga About the Brother-Farmers"
COMMENTARY By Ivan Slavuta
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, Ukraine, in Russian 15 Jun 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Friday, Jun 18, 2004
8. PRESSURE PILES ON UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT KUCHMA AFTER
LEAKS REVEAL ATTEMPTS TO CLOVER UP KILLING
Askold Krushelnycky in Kiev, The Independent, London, UK, Sat, Jun 19, 2004
9. UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE SCEPTICAL ABOUT
GONGADZE REVELATIONS IN UK PAPER
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, in Ukrainian 21 Jun 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Monday, Jun 21, 2004
10. UKRAINIAN WITNESS IN GONGADZE MURDER CASE DIED
OF INJURIES WHILE BEING HELD IN DETENTION
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 21 Jun 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Monday, Jun 21, 2004
11. TRAVEL NEWS AND ANALYSIS: VISITING UKRAINE
One of the real joys of exploring Ukraine was the feeling of being
somewhere properly foreign - three hours from Gatwick
By Cath Urquhart, Travel Editor, Times, London, UK, June 19, 2004
12. UKRAINE: CHARGE OF THE HOLIDAY BRIGADE
Crimea is fascinating for those interested in military history, but
its appeal does not end there. Cath Urquhart explores the area's key sites
By Cath Urquhart, Travel Editor, London Times
London, UK, Saturday, June 19, 2004
13. THE GREAT UKRAINIAN FROM OKLAHOMA, OR "THE
VERKHOVNA RADA BASEMENTS"
Ihor Siundiukov, The Day Weekly Digest in English, Kyiv, June 14, 2004
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1. RUSSIA SHOULD LIMIT UKRAINIAN IMPORTS OF STEEL
"The winner of the tender acquired Kryvorizhstal at an unfairly low price,"
Moscow Times, Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 22, 2004
MOSCOW - Bloomberg Yevrazholding Group, Russia's largest steel
producer, said Monday that Russia should limit Ukrainian imports of the
metal after losing a bid to buy the country's biggest steel mill to a
relative of President Leonid Kuchma.
Ukraine sold 93 percent of Kryvorizhstal for $800 million to Kuchma's
son-in-law after rejecting foreign bidders who had offered more money
because they had not produced 1 million tons of coke in the country in the
past three years.
"The winner of the tender acquired Kryvorizhstal at an unfairly low price,"
Moscow-based Yevrazholding said in an e-mailed statement. "This outcome
allows the consortium to sell products at artificially low prices."
Yevrazholding said it bid 2 billion hryvnas ($375 million) above the $800
million winning bid. LNM Group, the world's second-biggest steelmaker, and
U.S. Steel Corp., the biggest in the United States, had offered $1.5 billion
for the stake in Kryvorizhstal and $1.2 billion in future investments.
Severstal, Russia's third-biggest steel producer, offered $1.2 billion and
Arcelor, the world's largest steelmaker, had said it might join Severstal as
a minority partner.
Investytsiyno-Metalurhichnyi Soyuz, a company set up by Viktor Pinchuk,
Kuchma's son-in-law, and Ukrainian businessman Renat Akhmetov, has
paid the government for the stake, increasing Ukraine's revenue from selling
state assets to 5.3 billion hryvnas ($1 billion) this year.
Yevrazholding has three steel mills, all in Siberia, which account for about
a fifth of Russia's steel production. The closely held company plans to
raise total output by 1.4 percent this year to 14 million tons.
Yevrazholding has said it plans to buy an Asian steel processing plant to
avoid import quotas and tariffs. (END)
LINK: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/06/22/043.html
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2. PRESIDENT LEONID KUCHMA WOULD DO WELL BY TAKING
CARE OF HIS ENTIRE UKRAINIAN FAMILY, NOT JUST HIS
SON-IN-LAW
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Ukraine has an excellent opportunity to bolster foreign capital investment
By George Mischenko, Middletown, NJ
Financial Times, London, UK, Friday, Jun 18, 2004
>From Mr George Mischenko.
Sir, Ukraine's government has an excellent opportunity to bolster
much-needed foreign capital investment. Investment in Ukraine by either US
Steel or LNM ("Ukraine's steel deal: Kiev must reconsider its murky
privatisation", June 16) will surely bring state-of-the-art technology and
know-how to Kryvorizhstal Steel that is already in place in industrialised
nations and even in some developing country economies.
This investment would secure the viability of the steel mill and its
employees and would encourage other foreign investment in Ukraine.
Ukraine's politicians must place the wellbeing of its people and its economy
first, not the wellbeing of the very few who are manipulating the sale of
Kryvorizhstal. President Leonid Kuchma would do well by taking care of
his entire Ukrainian family, not just his son-in-law.
George Mischenko, Middletown, NJ, US (Former Vice President and
General Manager, Co-Steel Raritan) (END)
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3. UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT DOUBLES THE REWARDS
FOR 2004 OLYMPIC MEDAL WINNERS IN ATHENS
AP Online, Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Jun 18, 2004
KIEV - Hoping to boost the national team's performance at the 2004 Olympics,
Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych on Friday announced the
government will pay double what it offered four years ago for winning medals
in Athens, Greece.
Ukrainian athletes will receive US$100,000 for each gold medal, US$70,000
for a silver medal and US $50,000 for a bronze, while coaches will receive
half those amounts, said Yanukovych, who also heads Ukraine's Olympic
Committee. Yanukovych said the idea has been endorsed by the Ukraine Olympic
Committee.
"It's a good step ... (the) government is doing a lot for our Olympic team,"
said Ludmila Kolomiets, a former member of Ukraine's Olympic handball team.
At the Sydney Olympics four years ago, the Ukrainian team garnered three
gold, 10 silver and 10 bronze medals. Winners received US$50,000 for a gold
medal, US$30,000 for a silver and US$20,000 for a bronze. (END)
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4. POLISH GLASS MANUFACTURER ABOUT TO COMPLETE
UKRAINIAN INVESTMENT IN SLAWUTA GLASS WORKS
Polish News Bulletin, Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Jun 21, 2004
WARSAW - Krosno, a glass manufacturer, is close to completing an agreement
to invest in Ukrainian glass-works Slawuta. Jan Kurkus, Krosno's president,
admits that negotiations with the Ukrainian partner on buying Slawuta shares
from its workers have been delayed. Nevertheless, insists Kurkus, the deal
is to be struck and Krosno will take a 60-percent stake in the Ukrainian
glass-works.
In addition, the Krossglass glass fibre manufacturer owned by Krosno is to
be transformed into a joint-stock company in the following weeks. However,
the stock exchange debut of Krossglass, originally planned for the beginning
of next year, will be delayed. Kurkus explains that the company must first
be restructured in order to increase its market value. Despite the shares
issue, Krosno is to remain in control of Krossglass. "Krosno will have a
decisive influence on Krossglass in the long run," said Kurkus. (END)
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5. UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS BATTLE TO GET RUSSIAN
POP MUSIC HITS OFF BUSES IN WESTERN UKRAINE
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow,
The Independent, London, UK, 21 June 2004
A bizarre language war reminiscent of France's struggle to keep the English
language at bay has broken out in Ukraine where nationalist politicians fear
that their culture and language are under threat from tacky Russian pop
songs.
Sick of hearing the language of their former imperial master blaring out
from tinny stereos on public transport, politicians want to introduce a
blanket ban on Russian pop music being played on buses.
The initiative is being pushed by politicians in Lviv in western Ukraine, a
stronghold of Ukrainian culture and language, and has angered passengers
and bus drivers alike who deem it to be cultural and linguistic fascism.
The controversial law would come into force next year if approved and could
also be extended to ban Russian-language music in bars and restaurants.
Its first target, however, is the buses. Although Russian pop songs are not
allowed to be played on official public buses in the city, it flourishes on
hundreds of private minibuses which ferry people all over town.
Under the new law, drivers will be stripped of their licences to operate if
they are discovered to be entertaining their passengers with Russian pop
music. Vasyl Shelook, of Lviv city council, says the idea is to de-Russify
Ukrainian life. "Lviv is the most Ukrainian city in the country and if we
don't preserve our Ukrainian language we will lose our identity, so we must
force people somehow to speak our native language," he told the BBC. "Our
Ukrainian culture is under threat. Russian is everywhere. We want to keep it
out of public life."
Russian is to Ukrainian nationalists what the English language is to French
purists - a dangerous foreign invader that threatens to dilute and destroy
centuries of linguistic and cultural tradition. The issue is particularly
sensitive because when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union its official
language was Russian.
Independent since 1991, Ukraine is now trying to reverse that trend, but the
Russian language has put down deep roots in Ukraine. Between a half and
two-thirds of the country's population of 50 million speak Russian and a
quarter are ethnic Russians. Russian is particularly prevalent in the east
of the country and in the Crimea.
Although Ukrainian has supplanted Russian in many spheres of life in the
last 13 years, the language of Tolstoy still flourishes on TV and radio, in
the written press and on the internet.
This is not the first time Ukrainian nationalists have tried to legislate it
out of existence. Earlier this year officials from the national TV regulator
tried to introduce a ban on Russian-language TV broadcasts, but had to
step back from the brink after an outcry from Moscow and from
Russian-speakers in Ukraine.
Officials said they wanted "to save the Ukrainian language from extinction",
but had to be content with moves to scale back the proportion of
Russian-language content on TV. Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine's President, said
a ban would have been unconstitutional. (END)
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6. PORK CHOC ON THE MENU IN UKRAINE
By Helen Fawkes, BBC, Ukraine
BBC NEWS, UK, Monday, June 21, 2004
Dasha prods the 's' shaped chocolate bar in front of her. You can
understand why she's in no rush to eat it - the Ukrainian student has just
been served pork fat covered in chocolate.
"It's salty on the inside and very sweet on the outside. It's unusual yes,
but it's completely disgusting," says Dasha Khabarova.
Forget deep-fried Mars bar. One of the unhealthiest snacks in the world
can now be found in Ukraine.
For years people here have loved pork fat, known as salo. Normally, small
slices of the white fat are eaten with black bread, raw garlic and vodka.
But this new twist is designed to appeal to Ukraine's love of all things
fatty.
EUROVISION FAN
For the equivalent of £1 you can now get four small sticks of salo covered
in chocolate at Kiev's poshest Ukrainian restaurant. "Our head chef likes to
experiment so now we have this new creation." says Roman Novitski, the
manager of Tsarske Selo restaurant. "It's turned out quite well, and most
people seem to like it."
After Ukraine's victory at the Eurovision song contest, Kiev is gearing up
to welcome thousands of visitors from Europe. Chocolate salo is likely to
be one of the dishes they are offered especially as Ruslana, Ukraine's
winning entry is a fan of it.
And you can also get hold of the sweet salo-nicknamed Ukraine's Snickers -
in Ruslana's home city of Lviv in Western Ukraine. "I love it as it's
unusual. I was given the first serving of Lviv's chocolate salo. Perhaps
they were testing my bravery, but I ate it and I'm still alive!" Ruslana
laughs.
But the chocolaty pork fat should come with a health warning, according to
Dr Svetlana Fus from the Kiev Medical Research Centre. "It's the worst
combination you could have. I think that people should steer clear of the
Ukrainian Snickers."
The former Soviet republic already has one of the highest death rates from
heart disease in Europe. "Young girl, come and try my tasty salo, it's super
salo," Katya Feschenko shouts to me. Katya is the salo queen at Kiev's
busy Bessarabska Market.
Slabs of white fat sit next to spare ribs and hunks of bacon on her stall.
"Ukrainians love salo. It comes from villages so it has a good flavour. It's
very tasty," says Katya, who has been selling salo for the last 20 years.
And now that salo comes with a chocolate coating it could become even more
popular. LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3825221.stm
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The Genocidal Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933, HOLODOMOR
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7. ELECTION OF UKRAINIAN SPEAKER LYTVYN AS AGRARIAN
PARTY HEAD SEEN AS "BLOW TO OTHER PLAYERS
"The Saga About the Brother-Farmers"
COMMENTARY By Ivan Slavuta
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, Ukraine, in Russian 15 Jun 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Friday, Jun 18, 2004
The election of Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn as head of
the Agrarian Party is a setback to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and his
Donetsk group, a web site has said. This development puts an end to
Yanukovych's hopes of gaining control of the party, the web site said.
According to it, influential Working Ukraine MP Tetyana Zasukha has also
been sidelined, preventing any possible rapprochement between the Agrarian
Party and Working Ukraine.
The following is an excerpt from the article by Ivan Slavuta entitled "The
saga about the brother-farmers", posted on the opposition-minded Ukrayinska
Pravda web site on 16 June; subheadings have been inserted editorially:
The parliamentary sitting on Tuesday [22 June] will reveal speaker Volodymyr
Lytvyn's real role and importance in parliament. [Lytvyn was elected head of
the Agrarian Party of Ukraine on 9 June.] [Passage omitted: around 40 MPs
are expected to rally round Lytvyn]
In actual fact, the idea of inviting Lytvyn to a "sealed pod" of like-minded
Agrarians arose last year when differences between the "sponsors" and the
"ideologists" of the party, who have always been at loggerheads, got worse.
It looked like even President [Leonid] Kuchma had been annoyed by the
"mice-and-frogs wars" [apparently, reference to an ancient Greek poem] of
the party functionaries. It was not without reason that he, commenting on
Lytvyn's appointment, not only wished him "God speed", but could not
restrain himself by adding: "Because all that chaos in the Agrarian Party...
[ellipsis as published]" and then stopped short before generalizing that
"during that time so many changes had taken place (in the party)".
Indeed, Kuchma, more than anyone else, would know about the furtive
internal struggle for the office of head of the Agrarian Party and
encroachments on this diverse structure from outside. Each potential
leader or influential sponsor from a neighbouring party has by hook or
by crook tried to approach Kuchma to have the issue resolved to
their advantage.
DONETSK GROUP, WORKING UKRAINE SIDELINED
First, it looked as if they had agreed to completely hand over this
nomenclatural structure to the control of the Donetsk group [linked to Prime
Minister Viktor Yanukovych]. In October 2003, Yanukovych not only insisted
on replacing [Agrarian Party leader] Mykhaylo Hladiy with [Deputy Prime
Minister] Ivan Kyrylenko, but started to form regional headquarters out of
the Agrarian Party's district activists. But suddenly other people fly off
with the president to Baden-Baden [where Kuchma went on holiday at end of
2003 - beginning of 2004] and come back with new agreements.
Some reports said that it was not by accident that Mykola Soroka, the
chairman of the Rivne Region state administration, proposed from the
presidium that Ivan Kyrylenko and [working Ukraine MP] Tetyana Zasukha
should be elected straightaway as Lytvyn's first deputies at the first stage
of the [party's] sixth congress. It was as though it had been decided to
leave them in the leadership in keeping with tradition. But why was Zasukha,
who up to now had not appeared at Agrarian meetings, and is not in the
faction, was suddenly planted next to the deputy prime minister? Because
that was what was decided in Baden-Baden and that was where she was
promised the chair of head of the party. They did not know that Lytvyn
would eventually agree [to become Agrarian Party leader].
The Agrarians' war against Zasukha was a bitter one, because everyone
realized that with her arrival the party could not be independent, because
Zasukha herself is not independent. She belongs to the Working Ukraine
faction, and therefore comes under the sphere of influence of [its leader
and National Bank of Ukraine chairman] Serhiy Tyhypko. The opponents
were also "firing back" strongly.
It was not by accident that in spring Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Kyrylenko
was having problems with his "dark past". Six years after the privatization
of certain buildings in Dnipropetrovsk, the regional prosecutor's office
suddenly found out that they were handed over to private ownership illegally
when [former Ukrainian Prime Minister] Pavlo Lazarenko was in office. It was
discovered that Kyrylenko had given permission for these operations.
So Zasukha's appearance in the congress presidium should be seen not so much
as a guarantee of her future strong friendship with Lytvyn (although this is
not ruled out either), as bowing to the Baden-Baden agreements.
One must give one's due to Mykhaylo Hladiy, who managed to stay as the only
deputy, putting Soroka's proposal to the vote in the correct procedure,
which "nipped it in the bud". Because who would be in favour of Zasukha and
Kyrylenko if the presidium had hitherto proposed postponing such an
important decision to the second stage of the congress? Thanks to this,
Lytvyn will be able to resolve staffing issues personally.
RELATIONS BETWEEN LYTVYN, YANUKOVYCH "STRAINED"
It will be more difficult for him to smooth over relations with the Donetsk
group, which not only ignored the congress in a demonstrative way, but did
everything to prevent other regional delegates from appearing.
It was precisely on 9 June, the day of the congress, that the prime minister
decided to hold an agrarian conference in Vinnytsya Region, to which he
prudently took Viktor Slauta, who is an MP, a member of the [party's]
political executive committee, the head of the Donetsk Region branch of the
Agrarian Party and also minister of agrarian policy. All the heads of the
regional agricultural directorates and deputy governors in charge of the
agro-industrial complex, many of whom are Agrarian Party members, went
together with Yanukovych and Slauta to sugar refineries rather than Kiev.
Of course, there can be no question of any merger between the Regions of
Ukraine and the Agrarian Party factions, on which the Donetsk group were
actively working, now that Lytvyn is in the ranks of the People's Agrarian
Party. The best they could hope for would be support for Yanukovych as a
single candidate at the presidential election, but not very active support
at that. In a word, learning from the well-known historian of the beginning
of the 20th century, Vyacheslav Lipinskyy, who unsuccessfully put forward
the idea of a party of brother-farmers, Lytvyn upset the plans of many
serious politicians.
It was not by accident that [propresidential] United Social Democratic Party
faction member Hennadiy Rudenko, who carries an Agrarian Party ticket,
recently called on parliament to consider redistributing parliamentary
committees and changing the parliamentary leadership, since "the
[progovernment] parliamentary majority has pledged its commitment to and
responsibility for the processes which occur in society. But today not a
single member of the presidium of the Supreme Council [parliament] is among
the ranks of the majority, and 80 per cent of the committees are under the
control of opposition forces."
It is not likely that this slogan will be realized, but the speaker has work
to do if he wants to gather his "brother-farmers" together into a single,
able-bodied flock. (END)
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8. PRESSURE PILES ON UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT KUCHMA AFTER
LEAKS REVEAL ATTEMPTS TO CLOVER UP KILLING
Askold Krushelnycky in Kiev, The Independent, London, UK, Sat, Jun 19, 2004
LEAKED CONFIDENTIAL documents prove senior government officials
have tried to wreck investigations into the murder of a Ukrainian
journalist, allegedly killed on the orders of the country's President, and
that the cover-up involved the killing of a key witness while in custody.
The revelations will put further pressure on the Ukrainian President, Leonid
Kuchma, after a committee investigating the murder in September 2000 of the
anti-government journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, this week recommended criminal
proceedings against him. Opposition deputies have also registered their
intention to impeach the President.
"The committee has established the fact that the key organiser of illegal
activities in the Gongadze case was the President of Ukraine," said Hryhoriy
Omelchenko, a member of the opposition Our Ukraine party.
Gongadze, founder of an internet newspaper which accused Mr Kuchma and his
close associates of corruption, was abducted on a street in the capital,
Kiev. His headless corpse was discovered weeks later in woods outside the
city.
Accusations of government involvement in the murder were brushed off for
months, until a former bodyguard of Mr Kuchma fled the Ukraine and revealed
he had secretly recorded hundreds of hours of the President's private
conversations, including excerpts where an infuriated Mr Kuchma is
apparently heard ordering that Gongadze be "taken care of". The recordings
have been examined and accepted as authentic by independent experts.
Mr Kuchma maintains they are fakes and denies he ordered Gongadze's killing.
But many people have long been convinced that the murder was ordered by the
President or close associates, but proof has always been lacking. However,
leaked confidential documents in the possession of The Independent clearly
indicate obstruction of the case at the highest levels. The documents
include a secret autopsy on the body of a key witness who died in custody,
showing he was injected with a drug called Thiopental.
They have been passed to The Independent by serving members of the Ukrainian
law-enforcement authorities who are dismayed that their investigations,
which pointed to high-level involvement in the murder, have been suppressed.
The whistleblowers say the country's previous prosecutor-general, Svyatoslav
Piskun, was close to bringing charges in the case when he was removed from
his post last autumn. They say Mr Piskun's replacement, Hennadiy Vasilyev,
appointed by Mr Kuchma, announced previous investigations had unearthed
nothing and began to stifle further investigations.
He released from custody a top-ranking police official who the prosecutor-
general's office was certain had destroyed important documents in the case
and had possibly played a key role in organising the murder.
Many of the confidential documents are witness statements collected by
investigators for the prosecutor-general's office. The people who handed
them over say they fear that Mr Vasilyev may destroy the files as part of a
cover-up process. They say they received threats during their investigations
and fear for their own safety and that of their families if their identities
are made public.
The documents show that Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVS) undercover police
teams carried out surveillance on Gongadze for weeks until the time of his
abduction on the orders of one of its top generals, Oleksiy Pukach. He in
turn would have received his orders from the minister in charge of the MVS
at the time, Yuriy Kravchenko, one of Mr Kuchma's closest associates.
One of the agents, Volodymyr Yaroshenko, said that about 25 people were
involved in the surveillance teams, which used cars equipped with five sets
of number plates. He and other agents state General Pukach ordered them to
lie to investigators by saying there had been no operation against Gongadze.
Another agent, Hryhoriy Serhienko, said the surveillance was ordered by Mr
Pukach and continued until Gongadze's disappearance on 16 September 2000.
Mr Serhienko says on that day, General Pukach told him to forget that there
had been any surveillance operation against Gongadze and to also forget he
had ever heard of the journalist.
Mr Serhienko said that an MVS agent, Oleksander Muzyka, from the police
department fighting organised crime, infiltrated a powerful Kyiv crime
family led by a man called Kisil. Mr Serhienko believes the final
surveillance team watched Gongadze being abducted or themselves handed
over the journalist to Kisil gang members, including Mr Myzyka, who
murdered Gongadze.
Another MVS officer, Serhiy Chemenko, told investigators that the
surveillance operation stopped on 17 September 2000, without any
explanation. After news emerged about Gongadze's abduction and death,
he and other MVS officers suspected their own organisation was involved
in the sinister events.
An MVS captain, Vitaly Hordienko, said the surveillance, known in MVS
jargon as an "Uliana," included gathering information about the layout of
Gongadze's apartment and routes of approach and departure the journalist
used. Mr Hordienko says records concerning the surveillance began
disappearing within hours of Gongadze's abduction.
MVS staff, including a senior official, Anatoly Osypenko, and General
Pukach's office manager, Lyudmyla Levchenko, said the general ordered the
destruction, contrary to regulations, of records logging the names of teams
watching Gongadze.
The Independent has copies of interrogations of a former senior MVS officer,
Ihor Honcharov, who was in custody last year for working with racketeers. He
also said the abduction and murder were by gangsters controlled by Kisil at
the bidding of the MVS. He said Mr Kravchenko ordered Gongadze's killing on
behalf of the President.
In his statements, he repeatedly expresses his fear he will be murdered and
that the killing will be portrayed as suicide or illness. Only weeks later,
on 1 August 2003, he died. The official version was that he died of illness
and was quickly cremated.
But the autopsy and tests performed for the government by six experts shows
Honcharov was injected withThiopental, which the experts said probably led
to death. Doctors have told The Independent that there would have been no
legitimate medical reason to use the drug.
General Pukach was arrested on 23 October 2003 by prosecutor-general Piskun.
Mr Piskun was removed from his post by Mr Kuchma on 29 October and replaced
by Mr Vasylyev. General Pukach was released from custody the next month. A
few months later, the gang leader, Kisil, was injured when his car was blown
up by a bomb.
Allegations of his involvement in the murder led to Mr Kuchma being shunned
by Western countries. The President has been partly rehabilitated by America
and Britain because Ukraine provides a large contingent of troops in Iraq.
Desperately eager for political rehabilitation, Mr Kuchma has been rewarded
with an invitation to attend a Nato summit in Istanbul later this month.
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9. UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE SCEPTICAL ABOUT
GONGADZE REVELATIONS IN UK PAPER
Ukrayinska Pravda web site, Kiev, in Ukrainian 21 Jun 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Monday, Jun 21, 2004
A representative of the Prosecutor-General's Office has reacted sceptically
to new information about the unsolved murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze
in 2000 published in a British newspaper. In an article in The Independent
on 19 June, Askold Krushelnytsky wrote that witness statements leaked by
unidentified law enforcers investigating the Gongadze case pointed to
top-level involvement in the killing. The sources were quoted as saying that
their efforts were being stymied by top officials including
Prosecutor-General Hennadiy Vasylyev, and that his predecessor, Svyatoslav
Piskun, had been close to bringing charges in the case before he was
dismissed last October.
The following is the text of a report by Ukrainian Ukrayinska Pravda web
site on 21 June:
The Prosecutor-General's Office rejects allegations in the British newspaper
The Independent that Prosecutor-General Hennadiy Vasylyev is obstructing
the investigation of the Gongadze case.
"Neither the Prosecutor-General's Office nor the Interior Ministry have
received official documents or requests from individuals involved in the
investigation (of the Gongadze affair) saying that they have been obstructed
in carrying out their duties," the head of the press-service of the
Prosecutor-General's Office, Serhiy Rudenko, said at a news conference in
Kiev [on 21 June].
He was sceptical about the article in The Independent: "We are very dubious
about (publications) with quotations from anonymous sources, or from
mythical employees of law enforcement bodies." However, Rudenko said
that the Prosecutor-General's Office still wants to study the original
article.
In response to a follow-up question, Rudenko did not rule out that the
Prosecutor-General's Office may not react to the article in any way: "I
cannot say whether the article will be looked into. If the investigator sees
new information that needs to be checked then he will do so."
Rudenko said that the Gongadze affair "is being thoroughly investigated, it
has not been closed, and the membership of the investigating group has not
been changed".
Asked about Interior Ministry General Oleksiy Pukach, who was accused of
destroying documents about the Gongadze case, Rudenko said: "If there had
been any proof of the guilt of this individual, then the appropriate
investigative procedures would have been taken against him."
[Pukach was arrested on 23 October on suspicion of destroying documents
indicating that Gongadze was under police surveillance before he disappeared
in September 2000. Prosecutor-General Svyatoslav Piskun was dismissed on 29
October. President Leonid Kuchma nominated Vasylyev to replace him on 3
November and his candidacy was approved by parliament on 18 November.
Pukach was released from detention on 5 November. Charges against him
were dropped on 23 April.]
Rudenko was not able to say what Pukach or [Oleksandr] Muzyka, an officer
in the department for fighting organized crime who the Independent said
infiltrated [Volodymyr] Kysil's gang and was involved in the killing of
Gongadze, are doing at this moment. [Kysil, a Kyiv district councillor, is
alleged to be a gangland boss. His men allegedly helped a gang of rogue
policemen abduct Gongadze.]
"We are not keeping these individuals under surveillance. People do whatever
they think they should," Rudenko said.
The Independent on 19 June published leaked information from the Gongadze
case materials. It quoted the interrogations of a group of police officers
who were following Gongadze. They said that the surveillance was ordered by
the head of the Interior Ministry's criminal intelligence department,
Oleksiy Pukach, and Interior Minister [Yuriy] Kravchenko. It also quoted the
interrogation of Ihor Honcharov, who said that Gongadze had been killed on
the order of Kravchenko, who was acting on behalf of President Leonid
Kuchma.
[Honcharov, a former police officer accused of being the ringleader of a
criminal gang, died in police custody on 1 August 2003. The article stated
that an autopsy and tests conducted for the government by six experts showed
that he had been injected with Thiopental, a drug that the experts concluded
probably caused his death. Rudenko also said today that Honcharov died as a
result of injuries inflicted by guards at the remand centre where he was
being held and that his death was being investigated - see Interfax-Ukraine
news agency, Kiev, in Russian 1002 gmt 21 Jun 04.] (END)
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10. UKRAINIAN WITNESS IN GONGADZE MURDER CASE DIED
OF INJURIES WHILE BEING HELD IN DETENTION
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, Kiev, in Russian, 21 Jun 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Monday, Jun 21, 2004
KIEV - The death of Ihor Honcharov [a witness in the murder case of
opposition journalist Heorhiy Gongadze], the head of the organized crime
gang dubbed the "band of werewolves [police officers alleged to have
kidnapped hostages for the ransom money]" in the press, was caused by a blow
to the spine inflicted by officers of Remand Centre No 13, where he was
being held in detention. The Prosecutor-General's Office has opened a
criminal case into this. The head of the press service of the
Prosecutor-General's Office, Serhiy Rudenko, announced this at a briefing in
Kiev on Monday [21 June].
"On 13 May the Prosecutor-General's Office of Ukraine opened a criminal case
into officers at Remand Centre No 13 exceeding their authority and
inflicting deliberate bodily harm that led to the death of Honcharov (known
from the "werewolves" case) [on 1 August 2003], indicating the commission
of a crime defined in article 365 section 2 and article 121 section 2 of the
Ukrainian Criminal Code," said Rudenko.
He said a pre-trial check of the facts in the death of Honcharov and the
results of a forensic investigation carried out by experts of the Main
Office of Forensic Expertise showed that the cause of death was a blow to
the spine inflicted while in detention in the remand centre.
Rudenko said that an investigator for especially important cases at the
Prosecutor-General's Office has been appointed to head a field investigation
group into the case. "Investigations are under way to find out how Honcharov
received the injuries that led to his death. A decision in accordance with
current legislation will be taken on the basis of the evidence gathered," he
said. [passage omitted: background to Honcharov case]
The head of the press service of the Prosecutor-General's Office commented
on an article published in the Saturday edition of the British newspaper The
Independent, which included excerpts from the evidence of police officers in
the case of the murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze. He said there is no
basis for the statements made in the article. He again repeated that the
Gongadze murder case is being "actively investigated" and that the
composition of the investigative group has not been changed.
Rudenko also said that checking the statements made in the newspaper was
a "matter for the investigator". In addition he said there were no official
documents or reports confirming the use of pressure during the
investigation. (END)
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11. TRAVEL NEWS AND ANALYSIS: VISITING UKRAINE
One of the real joys of exploring Ukraine was the feeling of being
somewhere properly foreign - three hours from Gatwick
By Cath Urquhart, Travel Editor, Times, London, UK, June 19, 2004
BEFORE I visited Ukraine to research my article on Crimea (page 5), I
knew little about it besides the contrasting nuggets of information that
Chernobyl is in Ukraine, and that this year the country won the Eurovision
Song Contest.
Online research was of limited help. The website for Kiev's best hotel, the
Premier Palace, lists "ten misconceptions" about Ukraine, clearly things
that have irritated hotel staff over the years. The national anthem is not
gloomy, it points out, ostriches do not live in Ukraine, and nor do Eskimos,
thank you very much. Well, that clears that up, then.
What I wasn't expecting, given that until 1991 Ukraine was part of the
Soviet Union, was to find a people who are far jollier and more welcoming
than their dour recent history might suggest.
I spent a Sunday in glorious spring sunshine exploring Kiev, the capital, as
several events coincided to give a carnival atmosphere. I began at the
colourfully decorated St Vladimir's Cathedral where, because it was
Pentecost, hundreds of Ukrainian Orthodox worshippers were waiting for
the arrival of the priest before the 10am service.
A fun run, free rock concerts in the main squares, and a big football match
between Dynamo Kiev and the eastern city of Donetsk added to the city's
festival feeling as I visited other key sights, the cathedrals of St
Mikhayil (which is painted a lovely sky blue) and St Sophia (dark green),
both with gleaming golden domes. The latter is now a museum but St Mikhayil'
s is a living church and was packed with worshippers and blackcassocked
priests.
There was a real buzz along the steep, winding Andreyevsky Spusk, where
market stalls sell everything from tatty Lenin posters to household goods. I
bagged an outdoor table at a French café, Svitlytsya, and enjoyed a
perfectly quaffable Ukrainian chardonnay and an excellent omelette in the
sunshine as I watched the crowds of shoppers.
Earlier I had taken the overnight train from Simferopol to Kiev. Expecting a
bumpy night in a crowded carriage, I was delighted to find myself in a
comfortable, two-person compartment with clean bed linen, snacks on the
table and a smiling attendant offering early morning tea.
Best of all, there was a TV in every compartment, showing Troy. It might
have been dubbed into Ukrainian, but Brad Pitt in a skirt looks good in any
language.
I don't mean to sound so surprised that I enjoyed my visit, but as so few
tourists visit Ukraine from Britain I had rather expected that travelling
around would be hard work - as I found it to be in Russia in the early
1990s. But it wasn't at all. In fact one of the real joys of exploring
Ukraine was the feeling of being somewhere properly foreign - encountering
neither Western tour groups nor know-all backpackers, and having to use sign
language and phrasebook to make myself understood - just three hours from
Gatwick. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4161-1148829,00.html
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12. UKRAINE: CHARGE OF THE HOLIDAY BRIGADE
Crimean War of 1854-56.
By Cath Urquhart, Travel Editor, London Times
London, UK, Saturday, June 19, 2004
"THE whole line of the enemy belched forth, from thirty iron mouths, a flood
of smoke and flame, through which hissed the deadly balls. Their flight was
marked by instant gaps in our ranks, by dead men and horses, by steeds
flying wounded or riderless across the plain."
As I read these words aloud, I gazed out over the valley where, 150 years
ago, some 400 British cavalrymen were slaughtered during the Charge of the
Light Brigade. It was hard to square the description by William Howard
Russell, correspondent for "The Times", with the scene before me.
I stood on the edge of a field bright with poppies, daisies and wild peas,
which sloped down to a well-tended vineyard, and beyond that the white
buildings of the village of Pervomaika. In front of me, an elderly man
cropped the grass with a scythe, and a goat rootled around for food.
Visitors with an interest in military history are expected to head to Crimea
this autumn for the anniversary of some of the key events of the Crimean
War of 1854-56.
But it's not just military enthusiasts who will enjoy a visit to this
diamond-shaped peninsula at the bottom of Ukraine, the country which
gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. I based myself in the
Black Sea resort of Yalta, some 90 minutes' drive from the battlefield
sites. Yalta has its fair share of unattractive concrete block architecture,
but the wooded hills behind the town are spectacular, and the jagged
coastline is very picturesque.
My hotel, the Vremena Goda, was basic but clean and had friendly staff, and
I found decent meals at Yalta's many waterfront restaurants - filled
pancakes, fried chicken, kebabs and salads, plus the very acceptable Obolon
beer. Prices are low and the outdoor tables offer a great opportunity for
people-watching: Yalta's passegiata is conducted as enthusiastically as
anywhere in Italy, with families stopping to buy ice-creams or hop on some
of the waterside fairground rides.
Crimea has a delightful Mediterranean climate, and the numerous cypress
trees on the slopes above Yalta add to the impression of a Greek landscape.
Yalta isn't over- endowed with tourist attractions, but it's interesting to
tour the well-signed (in English) Livadia Palace, where Stalin, Roosevelt
and Churchill attended the Yalta Conference in February, 1945.
It's also worth joining one of the organised tours of Yalta's Massandra
Winery, where you are taken deep into the massive cellars that were bricked
up during the Second World War to hide wine from the Germans. Now some
of these excellent, mostly sweet dessert wines can fetch thousands of pounds
at auction. Visitors are treated to generous samples of nine varieties in a
tasting at the end of the tour.
You need to hire a guide to make the most of a visit to Massandra, as the
tours are delivered in Russian, and a good guide is also essential for
exploring the battlefield sites.
Mine, Natasha Delvig, proved to be very knowledgeable as she walked us
around the rolling green fields and vineyards by the River Alma where the
British and French defeated the Russians in the Battle of Alma (September
20, 1854); and the rocky terrain of the Battle of Inkerman in which the
Russians tried unsuccessfully to capture British positions and so relieve
the siege of Sevastopol (November 5).
But it is the Battle of Balaklava which is the most notorious event of the
war for us, and whose battle sites most fuelled my imagination.
Today Balaklava is a pretty, peaceful port lined with pavement cafés and a
dive centre. But in 1854 it was the British military base, and the Russians
were desperate to capture it. October 25, 1854, dawned fair and William
Howard Russell, who was the world's first war correspondent, bagged a
ringside seat for the expected battle, near the British commander, Lord
Raglan, up on the Sapoun Heights north of the town.
Two of that day's encounters have entered the language. In the first, the
Russians advanced, capturing Turkish guns along the way, and came across
a shallow hill behind which the 93rd Highlanders were lying in wait, out of
sight and lined up only two men deep. Russell recorded: "The Russians . . .
in one grand line dashed at the Highlanders. The ground flies beneath their
horses' feet; gathering speed at every stride, they dash on towards that
thin red streak topped with a line of steel."
The "thin red streak" became known in Victorian England as the "thin red
line", and the bravery of the Highlanders in repulsing this attack became
renowned. Later we visited the field where it all happened, another bucolic
poppy-strewn meadow just outside Balaklava. But to share the overview of
Raglan and Russell, we had to drive up to the Sapoun Heights.
>From this dramatic escarpment, the terrain was laid out in front of me
exactly as Raglan would have seen it - the small hills where the Russians
massed to the left and in front, and Balaklava to the right. In the second
of the famous encounters of that morning, the Light Brigade went down the
wrong valley, towards the Russians and disaster rather than towards
Balaklava. Historians are still debating whether this was because Raglan
sent them in the wrong direction, or because his orders were misinterpreted
by his minions.
But Russell did not try to cover up the disaster - or other shortcomings of
the British Army, such as the appalling living conditions for the troops and
the failures of leadership. His dispatches, and his private letters to the
Editor of "The Times", helped turn public opinion so powerfully that he can
claim much of the credit for the fall of the Aberdeen Government in 1855.
I left the Sapoun Heights feeling that such an excellent vantage point must
be the best way to get a sense of how the battles panned out. But I was to
be surprised. In nearby Sevastopol, I was entranced by the Panorama, an
extraordinary 360-degree representation of the siege of the city, based on
the events of June 6, 1855, when the French unsuccessfully stormed the
Russian stronghold on Mount Malakhov.
Painted by Russian artist Franz Rubo in 1901-4, the Panorama is housed in
a circular building, purpose-built to contain the gigantic canvas, 14m high
and 115m in circumference. In front of the painting is a wide tableau made
of wood and papier-mâché, depicting the soldiers' trenches, complete with
cannon balls, sandbags, even lines of filthy washing. The detail is superb,
the tableau blending seamlessly into the vibrant painted canvas: it lacks
only a soundtrack of cannon fire to help visitors, who stand in the centre
of the room to imagine themselves in the heat of battle.
I was a little surprised not to encounter other British or French visitors
during my visit. Ms Delvig was also surprised. "We had many tourists from
Britain before September 11. Events in Iraq also affected us. We have
several tours planned for this autumn - but we did not have any war tours
this month (May)," she said.
Perhaps would-be visitors wrongly thought Ukraine is still unreconstructedly
Soviet in its approach to hospitality. It's not: it's a very friendly place.
But it was distinctly less wonderful for the British and other soldiers
sent there 150 years ago, and this autumn offers a timely opportunity to
visit and discover their stories.
NEED TO KNOW
Getting there: Cath Urquhart and photographer Doug McKinlay travelled with
Regent Holidays (0117-921 1711, www.regent-holidays.co.uk), which offers a
week in Ukraine (five nights in Yalta and two in Kiev) from £695pp, based on
two sharing. This includes flights from Gatwick, arrival transfers and B&B
hotel accommodation.
Visas: UK tourists visiting Ukraine need a visa, which costs £25 plus a £10
handling fee, payable by postal order. Details: 0906 5503550 (£1/min),
www.ukrainianembassy.org.uk.
Other operators: Midas Tours (01747 825499, www.midastours.co.uk) and
Holt's Battlefield Tours (01293 455300, www.battletours.co.uk) offer Crimean
War anniversary tours this autumn.
Anniversary events: In Ukraine: September 10, unveiling of new war memorial
to British Troops in Sevastopol; September 20, commemoration of the Battle
of Alma on the battlefield; October 25, ceremony on the battlefield at
Balaklava by regiments descended from those that fought in 1854 and attended
by Lord Cardigan.
In London: October 23-24, weekend of special events and activities to
commemorate the Battle of Balaklava, at The National Army Museum (020-7730
0717, www.national-army-museum.ac.uk), Royal Hospital Rd, London SW3.
Exhibition: "A Most Dangerous Undertaking - The British Army in Crimea
1854-56," until March at The National Army Museum, entry free.
Reading: Take a copy of the dispatches of William Howard Russell, for
example as quoted in the excellent "Crimea" (Trevor Royle, Abacus, £14.99)
to read aloud in situ: it brings to life the scenes you are looking at.
"Ukraine" (Bradt, £13.95). "The Collected Poems, Alfred Lord Tennyson"
(Wordsworth, £3.99).
Website: www.crimeanwar.org
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13. THE GREAT UKRAINIAN FROM OKLAHOMA, OR "THE
VERKHOVNA RADA BASEMENTS"
Ihor Siundiukov, The Day Weekly Digest in English, Kyiv, June 14, 2004
Born in the western US state of Oklahoma, James Mace dedicated his whole
life to Ukraine. He became the Great Ukrainian of American origin, one who
was not just a well-known and talented historian. He had a unique ability to
feel human pain and suffering, and he helped Ukrainians feel that they were
"somebodies" (provided they wanted this to be done). So on this mournful
fortieth day after his death, when the magnitude of this figure stands out
far more clearly and you are more keenly aware of the loss that Ukraine has
suffered, it is natural to raise the question of naming a street or a
journalism prize after him.
Meanwhile, a roundtable at The Day's editorial office, dedicated to the
memory of this outstanding historian, journalist, and public figure, raised
a number of other, no less serious, questions. Is it not a crime, according
to Roman Krutsyk, chair of the Kyiv branch of the Vasyl Stus All-Ukrainian
Organization Memorial, that 300 unique videocassettes of interviews with
people who lived through the 1932-1933 manmade famine were demagnetized in
the basements of Verkhovna Rada (James Mace and his colleagues had given
these cassettes to parliament leaders back in 1993, so a considerable
proportion of them must have had irreparable damage inflicted on them).
Who will answer for this? Why are researchers being denied access to these
unique materials? Why is the President's edict on creating a Holodomor
research center being ignored? How can we solve the problem of establishing
the Manmade Famine Museum, monuments to millions of the dead, a related
foundation, and a research center? What should be done to duly venerate the
memory of James Mace?
Those who are seeking to resolve these and other problems were recently
guests of The Day: the writer Natalia Dziubenko-Mace, James Mace's widow;
E. Morgan Williams (USA), chair of the Manmade Famine in Ukraine program
committee and exhibition; Professor Stanislav Kulchytsky, a well-known
historian; Yevhen Proniuk, chairman of the All-Ukrainian Association of
Political Prisoners and Repressed Persons; Dr. Oleh Bily, Institute of
Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; and Roman Krutsyk.
More details about the ideas and proposals that were put forward during the
roundtable discussion will be featured in an upcoming issue of The Day.
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NOTE: "DR. JAMES E. MACE MEMORIAL HOLODOMOR FUND"
A special "Dr. James E. Mace Memorial Holodomor Fund" has been
established by the Ukrainian Federation of America (UFA), Zenia Chernyk;
Chairperson and Vera Andryczuk, President.
Donations to the "Dr. James E. Mace Memorial Holodomor Fund" can
be made by making out a check or other financial instrument to the
Ukrainian Federation of America, in U.S. dollars, designating the donation
for the "Dr. James E. Mace Memorial Holodomor Fund," and mailing the
check to: Zenia Chernyk, Chairperson, Ukrainian Federation of America
(UFA), 930 Henrietta Avenue, Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania 19006-8502.
Your financial support is needed to continue the important work about the
Ukrainian genocidal famine of 1932-1933, the Holodomor.
For additional information about the special "Dr. James E. Mace
Memorial Holodomor Fund" and the recent meetings in Kyiv with Mrs.
Natalia Dziubenko-Mace and other holodomor scholars, commemoration
leaders, and The Day to establish specific programs in honor of Dr. James E.
Mace, please contact E. Morgan Williams, morganw@patriot.net. (END)
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